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http://mmajunkie.com A five-fight main card is set for Strikeforce Challengers 16.
Officials today announced the Showtime-televised event, which takes place June 24 at the ShoWare Center in Kent, Wash.
As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) previously reported, the lightweight headliner pits James Terry (10-2 MMA, 5-1 SF) vs. Caros Fodor (8-2 MMA, 3-0 SF). In the co-headliner, Ryan Couture (2-0 MMA, 2-0 SF) meets fellow lightweight Matt Ricehouse (4-0 MMA, 1-0 SF).
"Washington has become a hotbed for mixed martial arts, and we're excited to head back to Kent with this exciting card featuring local stars Caros Fodor and Ryan Couture," Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker said. "Our Challengers events have delivered some outstanding fights, and we expect nothing less on June 24."
Also slated for the main card are light heavyweights Lorenz Larkin (10-0 MMA, 1-0 SF) vs. Gian Villante (7-2 MMA, 0-1 SF) and middleweights Antwain Britt (11-5 MMA, 1-2 SF) vs. Danillo Villefort (13-3 MMA, 0-0 SF).
Kicking off the night's broadcast is a 145-pound women's bout between Julia Budd (1-1 MMA, 1-1 SF) and Germaine de Randamie (2-1 MMA, 1-1 SF).
Strikeforce first visited Kent in 2009 for Strikeforce Challengers 2. The event drew 2,836 attendees for a $85,805 live gate.
For more on Strikeforce Challengers 16, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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|Buy Low, Sell Higher
I tend not to 'sell high' as my server has a few fairly high profile goldmakers who usually beat me to the best markets. I'm very casual in my gold making, especially now with all the distractions provided by Mists of Pandaria! Selling high is also a subjective thing - what is a high price to you may be an okay price for others or it may be seen as an extortionate price and gain you some troll mails.
I prefer to 'close the gap' in some markets, especially Trade Goods like herbs, ores & enchanting materials. I look for an item that has a fair few auctions listed at a spread of prices & look for the big gap in the item price. It's often possible to buy out the lower priced items & just relist them immediately at the price at the top of the gap. I guess you could say I 'buy low, sell higher' - it may only be a few gold here & there but it's a great way to build a little starter cash with pretty low risk.
|Buy Low, Sell Higher
Using the back button to get back to the summary list, I can quickly run through all the herbs in the list to see if there are any 'gaps' similar to that shown above (32s -> 1g 95s) & snatch any cheapies up too.
Now you do need to use your brain a bit here too - sometimes that top price is just stupid high & the apparent low priced items are actually at the correct price. By regularly scanning the Auction House with your Auction House addon, you will build a picture of average prices so hopefully you won't get caught out by those stupid high price items. If you're not sure of something, especially if it's a more expensive item than just a few herbs, don't forget you can check The Undermine Journal for your server. It will show you an average price & a graph of most recent prices - both of which will help you judge the local market price for your item(s).
The most important part of playing the Auction House is to use your own brain - it's great to read tips from blogs like this one but I can only speak for my own server, you have to apply the tips & tricks to your server & decide for yourself if you want to follow my methods or develop your own. The other part of playing the Auction House is time - it takes time to learn the trends & prices & peculiarities of your server but it also takes a whole chunk of time to reach the big numbers of gold. Be patient & don't forget that even a few extra gold here & there (as shown above) all adds up eventually.


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GM Foundation Unveils Education-Themed Float for America's Thanksgiving Parade
Float's theme - Education Fuels Tomorrow's Innovators - symbolizes commitment to invest in future of youth
Nov 13, 2012, 04:36 ET
DETROIT, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The General Motors Foundation today unveiled a new float it is sponsoring during America's Thanksgiving Parade®, An 86 Year Tradition, on Thursday, Nov. 22. With a theme of "Education Fuels Tomorrow's Innovators," the float showcases the Foundation's commitment to investing in America's youth – the next generation of innovators.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121113/DE11879 )
"Our new float is a celebration of the GM Foundation's many educational partnerships and our commitment to encourage more students to pursue studies of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) - areas critical to the future success of our nation," said Selim Bingol, GM vice president, Global Communications and Public Policy and the new chairman of the GM Foundation.
The float, designed and built by The Parade Company, is also a celebration of education in Detroit, specifically the United Way "Network of Excellence," created by the GM Foundation's $27.1 million commitment to seven Detroit-area high schools and administered in conjunction with United Way for Southeastern Michigan. The goal of the effort is to raise graduation rates by 30 percent over five years while supporting the leaders and innovators of tomorrow.
Representatives from the "Network of Excellence" high schools participated in the float unveiling, and members of the East Detroit Marching Band accompanied the float on its maiden journey along Atwater Street.
"This float is GM Foundation demonstrating its commitment to the youth and families of our community," said Michael J. Brennan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan president and CEO. "We are delighted by the forward-looking view of the work we are doing now to transform high schools throughout the tri-county region."
The float offers a futuristic scene with two students leaving high school and embarking on their futures. Arriving at a crossroads, the students find themselves presented with educational roads to take: Science Way, Math Lane, Engineering Road and Technology Drive. Each road provides examples of the opportunities that await them as STEM majors.
The float is 17 feet tall and 60 feet long. An animated robot controls the action on board and features a pneumatically powered head and mouth that move. The float also incorporates hydrogen and electric charging stations.
"We are delighted that the GM Foundation has chosen such an inspiring theme for their new float," said Tony Michaels, president and CEO, The Parade Company. "We are certain that parade goers will be entertained by both its theme and the intricate design."
The 86th America's Thanksgiving Parade®, one of the country's oldest and most-celebrated parades produced by The Parade Company, will step-off at Woodward Avenue and Mack on Thanksgiving Day and will end at Woodward Avenue and Congress in downtown Detroit. Congressman John Dingell and Debbie Dingell will serve as co-grand marshals for the two-hour parade.
About the GM Foundation
Since its inception in 1976, the GM Foundation has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to American charities, educational organizations and to disaster relief efforts worldwide. The GM Foundation focuses on supporting Education, Health and Human Services, Environment and Energy and Community Development initiatives, mainly in the communities where GM operates. Funding of the GM Foundation comes solely from GM. The last contribution to the GM Foundation was made in 2001. For more information, visit www.gm.com/gmfoundation.
About United Way for Southeastern Michigan
United Way for Southeastern Michigan mobilizes the caring power of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties to improve lives in measurable and lasting ways throughout the region. The organization is led by a diverse group of volunteers from business, labor, government, human services, education and the community. United Way provides opportunities to invest in the metropolitan Detroit community through its annual Campaign and is a leader in convening partners to impact local residents each year by increasing economic self-sufficiency, protecting children and youth at risk, strengthening families, empowering neighborhoods and communities, and promoting health and wellness. Additional information is available at www.liveunitedsem.org.
About The Parade Company
Founded in 1984, The Parade Company is a not-for-profit organization governed by the Michigan Thanksgiving Parade Foundation whose board of directors is comprised of key civic and corporate leaders in the greater Detroit region. The Parade Company is celebrating 86 years of Parade tradition in Detroit, which is broadcasted to over 140 markets and cities nationwide. The mission is to fund, create and execute the best family events in metro Detroit. The Parade Company staff, the board of directors and thousands of parade volunteers work year-round to bring a wide variety of magnificent events to the City of Detroit, each year, including the Target Fireworks, Fifth Third Turkey Trot and America's Thanksgiving Parade®. Visit www.theparade.org and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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A Twist On Tea And Cookies
Get recipes for Chocolate Chai Sandwich Cookies, Lemon Citrus 'Tea' Cookies and Chocolate-Mint Tea Crinkle Cookies.
As a child, I never appreciated the joy of tea. In fact, I never really had the chance, as my grandmother would say, "Children should not be drinking tea; it is not good for them." If it had been any other beverage, I would have fought with her, but I didn't care enough about tea. I did, however, outgrow that stage. I began to experiment with different teas and learn how to flavor tea with my real passion: spices.
About The Author
An engineer turned food writer, Monica Bhide writes about food and its effect on our lives. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Food & Wine, Prevention, Cooking Light, Health and Self. Her latest book is Modern Spice: Inspired Indian Flavors for the Contemporary Kitchen (Simon & Schuster). Read more at her website.
I recently interviewed chef Carla Hall, one of the co-hosts of The Chew, while sipping a mint tea in Washington, D.C. Her eyes lit up as she told me about her newly found passion for tea — not just drinking it, but cooking with it.
"After going to a Women Chefs & Restaurateurs tea seminar with Cynthia Gold [tea sommelier at L'Espalier in Boston], I was fascinated and hooked by how tea can be paired like wine. In the past, I had used various teas in bouquets garnis or flavor sachets in soups, rice and broths," she said. She said she realized she could use tea for baking. And baking is what Carla's company, Alchemy by Carla Hall, does terrifically well. They make sweet and savory petite cookies — "petite" as in the size of a peanut M&M.
The key to using tea in baking, she says, is to use premium teas with whole leaves and less filler.
Hall is not alone in her passion in using tea in cookies. Emeric Harney, a third-generation master tea blender in New York, says flavoring desserts with teas is gaining popularity fast. "I've seen people start to use matcha [powdered Japanese green tea] in whipped creams, spreading it between layers of crepes, making green tea mille-feuilles," he said. He advises using teas with strong inherent flavors when cooking. For flavoring cookies and desserts, he says teas such as Earl Grey and Paris (black currant, bergamot and vanilla) are great. He also suggests using matcha or powdered teas for flavoring oatmeal raisin cookies.
I talked to chefs in the Washington, D.C., area who also are cooking with tea. At Buzz Bakery in Virginia, "We serve an Earl Grey and sour cherry scone with lemon glaze that is so popular, we can't take it off the menu," said Tiffany MacIsaac, pastry chef of the Neighborhood Restaurant Group. Her favorite pairings: jasmine tea with milk chocolate and black tea with mousse.
Tea is not just being used to flavor cookies and pastries, however. Fabrice Leray, pastry chef at Washington, D.C.'s Plume at The Jefferson, pairs teas with fruits in desserts. "Pairings that work well are green tea with red fruits like cherries, raspberries and strawberries; chamomile tea with orange; and black tea with plum," he said. This year he created a matcha green tea parfait to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Japanese gift of cherry trees to the nation's capital.
So I have at last learned to fully appreciate tea — by thinking outside the cup.
Tips On Cooking And Serving With Tea
Chef Carla Hall recommends a few ways to flavor cookies with tea:
- Grind loose tea to powder and mix it with the flour. Be sure to grind the tea finely and sift out any large pieces, as these will not break down during the baking process.
- Substitute strongly brewed tea for wine or liqueur in the recipe. When brewing tea, be attentive and make it strong but do not overbrew, as this will make the dish bitter.
- Infuse tea into a wet ingredient. Loose tea or tea bags are both perfect for steeping flavor into cream and simple syrup.
To enjoy drinking a cup of tea with your cookies, Hall suggests these flavor compatibility pairings:
- Earl Grey, an astringent black tea flavored with the oil of the bergamot orange (a citrus fruit), with cranberry-orange oatmeal cookies
- Keemun, a roasted black tea with chocolate overtones (considered the Burgundy of teas), with chocolate chip cookies or chocolate crinkles
- Darjeeling, a light-bodied, musky, spicy tea, with strawberry linzer cookies
And for flavor contrast pairings, she suggests:
- Earl Grey with chocolate shortbread: Think how well orange plays against chocolate.
- Darker Oolong with ginger snaps: Smoky and nutty, Oolong offsets spice.
- Sencha with white chocolate–macadamia nut cookies: A Japanese green tea, sencha has subtle flavor that balances well with creamy textures and vanilla.
Chocolate Chai Sandwich Cookies
For added decadence, dip the entire cookie into melted chocolate and let it set in the fridge in this Carla Hall recipe.
Makes about 2 dozen 1-inch sandwich cookies
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Chai Ganache Filling
2 cups heavy cream
4 teaspoons loose chocolate chai (available at gourmet retailers and online on Amazon.com)
2 cups finely chopped dark or semisweet chocolate
In a small bowl, combine flour, cinnamon and salt.
In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Mix in vanilla extract.
With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture. Mix just until blended (do not overmix). Chill dough for at least an hour.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Roll out dough between two pieces of plastic wrap to 1/4-inch thick. Using a 1-inch round cutter or a cutter of your choice, cut out cookies. Place cookies 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Reroll and recut scraps.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes, until cookies are pale gold, not brown. Let stand for 2 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
While the cookies are baking, prepare the ganache. In a small pot, bring cream just to a boil. Stir in tea and reduce heat to low. Remove from heat. Steep tea in cream for 5 minutes.
Place chocolate in a stainless-steel bowl. Strain warm infused cream over chocolate. Stir until chocolate melts completely. Let cool until spreadable.
Line up cookies in pairs, flat bottoms facing up. Spoon 1/2 teaspoon of ganache onto each cookie. Sandwich two cookies together and squeeze gently, being careful not to break the cookies. Set aside until the ganache firms up completely, about 30 minutes.
Store in an airtight container.
Lemon Citrus 'Tea' Cookies
If you can find it, there are commercial lemon teas with lemon grass, which goes beautifully with butter and a hint of sugar in Carla Hall's simple lemon shortbread. Lemon grass can be course like straw, however, so be sure to sift the dry ingredients through a fine mesh strainer a couple of times after combining them. You can substitute other lemon teas for this recipe as well.
Makes about 3 dozen 2-inch cookies
2 cups all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons lemon herb or lemon ginger tea
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a small bowl, combine flour, tea and salt.
In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in lemon and vanilla extracts.
With the mixer on low, gradually add in flour mixture. Mix just until blended (do not overmix). Chill dough for at least 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Roll out dough between two pieces of plastic wrap to 1/4-inch thick. Using a 2-inch round cutter or cutter of your choice, cut out cookies. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Reroll and recut scraps.
Bake 12 to 13 minutes, until cookies are pale gold, not brown. Let stand for 2 minutes. Carefully transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Store in an airtight container, preferably between layers of waxed paper.
Chocolate-Mint Tea Crinkle Cookies
If you don't have mint tea, Earl Grey will do just fine. The bergamot, or hints of orange, with the chocolate is a comparable substitution for this recipe, says chef Carla Hall.
Makes about 2 dozen
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon premium mint tea or Earl Grey tea, finely ground
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted
2 medium eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon strongly brewed mint tea
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
1 cup confectioners' sugar
In a small bowl, stir together flour, granulated sugar, tea, baking powder and salt.
In a large mixing bowl, beat cocoa and butter until combined. Stir in eggs and vanilla. Gradually stir in flour mixture. Fold in chocolate chips. Chill dough for at least 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Roll dough into 1-inch balls and toss in powdered sugar. Place balls on the baking sheet. Bake until cookies are cracked slightly but soft in the middle if pressed lightly, about 10 minutes. Let stand for 10 minutes. Carefully transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Store in an airtight container.


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We offer this history of The Islander and past Island newspapers beginning in 1947. On Nov. 25, 1992, we published our first edition as The Islander Bystander.
Island news — since 1947.
Anna Maria Island's first newspaper was not a newspaper — at least according to the newspaper.
The Bradenton Beachcomber datelined its first issue Christmas 1947, announcing in a front-page story called "The World, The Flesh and The Devil" that "Bradenton Beach needs a newspaper like a long-distance swimmer needs a toilet. What is put in, must come out."
The tongue-in-cheek article continued, "Newspapers are unnecessary here … except when other perforated kinds of paper fail. Practically every inhabitant of Bradenton Beach is a news-hawk, a star reporter or a gossip columnist."
At that time, Bradenton Beach was the population center on the Island — where there were only about 900 people and 470 houses Islandwide. Anna Maria incorporated as a city in the 1920s, but the cities of Holmes Beach and Bradenton Beach were not yet incorporated.
"Everybody on the Island is informed of everything that happens about 35 seconds after the event.… There is no reason why a newspaper should exist on this Island, where every man is a leg-man and every woman a crusader.
"So we have decided to publish a newspaper without news. The Bradenton Beachcomber will contain only items of human interest.… In general, we will confine ourselves to generalizations about people and things — about the world, the flesh and the devil."
According to the late Jean Blassingame, who once shared her copy of the Beachcomber with us, Kersh insisted on writing the ads himself. She said, "I agreed to buy an ad for the tavern I owned on Bridge Street and asked him to come back the next day for the copy. 'Oh no,' he said. 'I write the ads."'
Of Blassingame's establishment, Kersh said, "Sunset Lounge: This is by no means a bad pub. We never saw the sun set in it, but it's well worth visiting. Mr. Jones is a friendly, fair-dealing sort of geezer, and the lady of the house is of remarkable beauty. It is possible to find peace and quiet there."
Kersh packed up his entourage and left his residence at the Gulf Park Hotel shortly after his first and only edition of The Beachcomber — never to be heard from on Anna Maria again, according to Blassingame. She said he was disgruntled by what he considered a general lack of hospitality from pub owners — toward his dog.
Indeed, he wrote an article "Floridian Bites Dog," which ended with "Until the Floridian anti-dog law is altered there must be some other, more tolerant part of the world for us. We intend to look for it, with our dog."
Enter the News
The first continuously published newspaper on Anna Maria Island, Anna Maria Key News, was started in 1949 by Ellen Brackin (later Ellen Marshall of Anna Maria) and Harriet Williams (later Harriet Blair of Sarasota).
When she came to the Island in 1947, Marshall was a war widow and stayed at Angler's Lodge on the bay. She became friends with Harriet and together they published the weekly newspaper. The Key News was an immediate success.
"We were young and had a lot of energy," said Marshall. "We soon became secretaries for all the organizations on the Island. Then we got the idea to produce a newspaper. I didn't know much about it but I was gifted with intestinal fortitude."
On the front page of the Sept. 7, 1950, issue, Marshall wrote how an unnamed hurricane flooded the Island, causing considerable damage. But she emphasized that the natives rose to the occasion.
Marshall took the Bradenton daily to task for reporting that "helpless residents were scared and grim and that rescuers from the mainland found barefoot women wandering around aimlessly."
In her put-down she wrote, "We must remember to wear white tie and tails during the next hurricane."
The major controversy on the Island in the early months of 1950 was whether Anna Maria Island should have several municipalities or be one community, the Key News reported.
The city of Anna Maria had incorporated in 1923 with Capt. W. "Mitch" Davis as mayor. But by 1950, in the wake of the post-World War II boom, sentiment had grown for the incorporation of the southern portion of the Island.
In strongly worded editorials, Marshall backed the cause of one Island, one city, "whether it's Bradenton Beach, Anna Maria or Gasparilla Gulch."
It was a losing battle.
On March 13, 1950, 61 of 75 mid-Island residents voted to incorporate and voted 49-12 for the new city to be named Holmes Beach with Halsey Tichenor Jr. the first mayor.
On Dec. 21, 1951, Bradenton Beach became a city by a vote of 84 to 56. Bernard Wagaman served as its first mayor.
News to Islander
The Anna Maria Key News ceased publishing on March 1, 1951.
Its successor in the newspaper trade on Anna Maria didn't last long, apparently lived unremarked and died unmourned. It was named The Island News and apparently only one copy survives. It is dated May 24, 1951. Longtime Island newsman Don Moore said, "If you've got a copy it's the only one I've ever heard of and may be worth a fortune as a collector's item."
Our copy was courtesy of Snooks Adams of Holmes Beach. Another copy we possess — only of the front page — is from the June 15, 1951 edition.
The paper lists Robert J. Holly as editor and T.L. Tripp as advertising manager, and notes Holmes Beach was enjoying the "biggest (building) boom in the history of the Island."
Holly's newspaper changed names from Your Island Newspaper to The Island News, but didn't last long either way. Tripp says Holly left the Island for St. Petersburg and may have stayed in the newspaper business, but didn't stay in touch.
"We met somehow and learning of my background in advertising, Holly asked, 'How good are you at collecting money?' I went around to see some merchants — there wasn't a lot of them — collected some money and sold some more ads, but as I recall it was very short-lived. I don't think it lasted more than year," Tripp said.
Indeed, on Nov. 15, 1951, the first edition of a new Island newspaper, The Islander, rolled off the presses. It was eight pages with no subscribers and no advertisers. Circulation was 500.
There was no bridge between Anna Maria Island and Longboat, and wouldn't be for another six years. The only way to drive to the mainland was via a rickety wooden bridge from Bradenton Beach to Cortez.
The way of life on the Island was summed up in a line under The Islander's nameplate, which proclaimed, "Where Life Is Peaceful … and Fishing Is Good."
Harry Varley was the founder, editor and publisher. Varley was no newcomer to the publishing business. Having been with a New York City advertising agency for years, he went on to become president of Schick Razor Co. before coming to Anna Maria.
Varley originally came from England and was known for his outspoken manner, weaving editorial comment with news stories.
In his 1971 Islander obituary, future editors Don Moore and Steve Kimball wrote, "To say he was well-liked would be only half true. To say he was disliked would be no closer to the truth.
"In the newspaper profession, it is axiomatic that an editor — if he is doing a good job — never will win any popularity contest. It also is said that the true gauge of an editor's worth is not necessarily the number of friends he has made, but the number and caliber of the enemies he has made.
"Harry Varley scored well on both sides of the ledger."
Varley's tenure at The Islander lasted eight years when in 1959 the paper was handed over to Judd Arnett. For five months, Arnett and his wife ran The Islander, then went back north where Arnett became a columnist for the Detroit Free Press.
Steve Kimball took over following Arnett's departure. Kimball bucked the popularity trend of editors and later became mayor of Anna Maria City.
As the Island grew, Kimball switched the focus of the Islander to providing hard news coverage of local events. He is credited with changing the printing process from letter press to offset printing.
Like Varley, Kimball voiced his opinions on subjects of importance to the community, but unlike Varley, Kimball limited his comments to the editorial page. It was a page that spoke with authority but did not try to drown out other points of view.
In the early 1960s, Don Moore joined the staff and in 1970 became the third editor and publisher after he and his wife, Roxanne, bought the paper.
A University of Florida School of Journalism graduate, Moore had innovative ideas and a "tell it like it is" style that would win the paper many awards.
Under Moore's guidance, The Islander expanded into the commercial printing business on Jan. 3, 1974. The plant not only produced The Islander, but several other small papers from around Florida.
The Islander won a number of Florida Press Association awards with Moore at the helm. By 1974, the paper garnered two national awards, something no other Florida weekly had accomplished.
Moore's younger brother Colin joined the paper in 1977 and became editor when Don Moore sold his publishing business, including The Islander, the Bayshore Banner and the printing operation in May 1980 to The New York Times.
Ed Warren was installed as publisher and in 1981, on the paper's 30th anniversary, he said, "After 30 years of progress, we're looking forward to a bright future and another 30 years of progress with our readers."
But that was not to be. In 1984, The Islander was again sold, and again it became a family-owned paper. Richard Ingham, owner of the Zephyrhills News, bought the paper and appointed his son Sky as publisher. Ingham eventually changed the paper's name to The Anna Maria Islander Press.
June Alder, a veteran reporter with the paper, succeeded Colin Moore as editor but left the position in May 1985 to return to her first love — reporting what she termed "the always fascinating news" on the Island.
Shirley Foor, a former Bradenton Herald managing editor, replaced Alder, with Dennis Ecklund later succeeding Foor as editor.
The Islander Press printed its final edition in on July 25, 1990.
Pat Copeland, then editor, said staffers were dismayed over the paper's demise.
"The saddest part was the loss of an Island institution," Copeland said. "It would have been the 40th anniversary year of The Islander."
Beachcoming again
In 1954, Bob and Gret'n Daughaday had started a "shopper" based in Holmes Beach and a local woman (grandmother of former Islander reporter Mark Ratliff) named it The Beachcomber in a write-in contest.
The Beachcomber was sold in 1976 to the Bradenton Shopping Guide and Bette Kissick managed the popular shopper from 1976 to 1990. They began printing on its trademark yellow newsprint in 1977, but never published Island news.
The Beachcomber was acquired along with a group of shoppers in 1988 by Westminister Publishing, which in turn eventually sold to TS Publications Inc., an affiliate of the Toronto Sun Publishing Company.
Meanwhile, Don Moore had returned to Anna Maria in January 1989 to launch a new weekly paper, The Island Sun, in direct competition with the languishing Islander Press.
Competition for advertising dollars from the Sun and Beachcomber were blamed for the demise of the Islander Press.
Within just a short time, Moore's staff and some investors were stunned by the sale of the eight-month-old Island Sun to TS Publications. Editor and publisher Don Moore made the agreement to sell his second Island publication in 1990 following a heart attack.
TS continued to publish The Island Sun along with a made-over Beachcomber, including entertainment news, for two years. They renamed it TGIF (Thank Goodness It's Friday) Beachcomber and inserted it weekly as a second section in the Sun.
In November 1992, TS Publications announced plans to transform its weekly newspapers, The Island Sun, TGIF Beachcomber, Longboat Times, Sarasota Times and two shoppers, Sarasota and Venice, into one regional paper, The Weekly.
With a predicted absence of Island news in The Weekly, advertising agency owner Bonner Presswood, operating MacBonner Inc. in Holmes Beach, seized the opportunity to launch a newspaper that would serve the needs of the Island community.
Presswood already operated a storefront for her agency in the Island Shopping Center, and agency staff members pooled their resources and began selling advertisements. Joy Courtney, a former Island Sun writer, signed on as the paper's first editor and the newspaper, named The Islander Bystander, managed to hit the streets with its first edition the same week that TS Publications converted its publications to The Weekly.
"We were 12 pages the first two weeks, then 16 pages, 20, 24 and so on, until we hit 40 pages during the first season — based on the volume of advertising. It happened so fast that we were all swept into perpetual motion," says Presswood.
The Islander Bystander staff had many contributors from an assortment of former Island papers including long-time cartoonist Jack Egan, June Alder, Pat Copeland, Paul Roat and Courtney, who stepped down from editor to school reporter when her business, Haley's Motel, demanded more time.
Presswood was an advertising sales representative at the former Islander newspaper in 1978. She went on to help launch Clubhouse magazine in Bradenton and Sarasota — now Sarasota magazine — and provided consulting to other start-up publications.
"When it was evident the Island Sun would cease publishing, I pooled the resources of everyone that could help generate the news from three cities, write about the people who live here and sell ads. All the while I sought to revive the spirit of the former Islander in The Islander Bystander," Presswood said.
"I followed Don Moore's news philosophy: If it doesn't happen on Anna Maria, or isn't about the Island and its people, it doesn't get printed. Adding to that, I devote a lot of the newspaper's energy to people and kids, particularly the elementary school and youth sports. Helping them helps us in the long run, to be a better newspaper for the community."
The Islander Bystander evolved, and lacking any copyright or name ownership for the former newspaper, the new Islander dropped its "Bystander" and became again, simply The Islander.
The Islander withstood two competitive challenges from the Island Free Press, February to October 1993, and from the short-lived Dolphin newspaper that folded in October 1995.
Anna Maria Island's premiere weekly newspaper — the newspaper of record for the Island communities and three city governments — maintains a circulation of 16,000, serving readers on Anna Maria Island, Longboat Key, Cortez and west Bradenton.
"I'd never have thought this would be possible when I worked for The Islander in the 1970s. I thought that paper would be around forever. But I'm happy to fill that void," said Presswood, who also dropped part of her name to become Bonner Joy.
The "new" Islander adopted a slogan for itself along the way, "the best news on Anna Maria Island."
The staff works hard at maintaining that image today, Joy said. "We have many awards from every year of publishing — since 1992 — from the Florida Press
Association to validate our credibility. Our awards have come primarily from news and editorial content, not fluff, and it's really something to be proud in of when considering our peers.
"We continue to strive to be the best possible newspaper."


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You don't have to look too far to find entrepreneurs that have had a tough time raising VC$. Despite the endless stream of funding announcements these days, most companies that want to raise VC, don't. This is due to a variety of reasons, but one of the biggest, is that venture capital is a very specific thing. It's not what all technology businesses should think of when they need capital.
It only really works for businesses with:
– High potential for escape velocity
– A large potential market
– A team capable of building a large company
Sounds easy, but most opportunities don't hit those criteria. This is why most VCs fund around 1% of the deals that they see. So, that means most people are not getting funded.
To help you judge whether VC is right for you, here are my completely subjective top 10 reasons why a business would not be VC fundable:
Services, not product: While some great startups were services companies before becoming product companies, you cannot (usually) raise $ for a services business. Why? Hard to scale without adding lots of bodies. VCs look for highly scalable products.
You are a sole founder: VCs much prefer investing in co-founders vs. solo founders. If you don't have a co-founder it will be tougher to raise $. And more importantly, it will be tougher to build your company.
You don't know any VCs: VCs get so many deals shown to them that they rely on a variety of filters to screen them out. One of the biggest is the source of the deal. If you are submitting your business plan to firstname.lastname@example.com, you're wasting your time. You need to either know the VCs your're pitching or have a very trusted referral into them.
You have no traction: This is a biggy. So many people come in and pitch VCs when they are just starting out. And while there are many funds that do seed, including ours, even seed VCs have a strong preference for investing in startups with some market validation and users already. Nothing gets VCs to move faster than traction.
You have outsourced development: This is a complete killer for me. As soon as I hear this, I try and end the meeting. Why would you outsource product development as a technology company? Would you invest in a law firm run by non-lawyers? Me neither. All tech companies need to have lots of geeks.
You serve a niche market: While I always encourage startups to focus on a specific niche to start, the product you are building must ultimately serve a broad market in order to be of interest to VCs. The more specific niche you address (even if's a big one), the more you need to raise capital from people and funds that understand that niche.
You don't know the market: If VCs know more about your target market than you do, you're in trouble.
You are disorganized: Speed is so important to tech startups. If you are slow to respond to due diligence requests that makes investors nervous. If you can't be completely on top of things when your company is small, how will you be better as your company grows?
You move slowly: This relates to the previous point a bit. While some VC deals come together very quickly (those deals usually have massive traction), most evolve over a few months. If your business is not making huge progress over those months, then you likely will not get funded.
You lack that founder magic: This is by far the #1 killer. While it's true that some of the biggest startup success (especially in direct to consumer companies) were run by 1st time founders, I'm pretty sure those founders had something special that made investors excited (or had traction). Mark Zuckerberg was a crazy developer (and had traction). Steve Jobs had an uncanny ability to place people inside his 'reality distortion field'.
Whatever your magic skill is, it has to translate into a superior ability to build product, team or customer base. And if investors can't see that, they will pass – always!


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December 17, 2011
December 15, 2011
December 14, 2011
Mark Carrigan at "Spotlight on Asexuality"
We're finally back on track with uploading videos from October's "Spotlight on Asexuality" event!
November 14, 2011
Olivier Cormier–Otaño at "Spotlight on Asexuality"
The first video from "Spotlight on Asexuality" is up on Youtube!
November 02, 2011
Photos from Spotlight on Asexuality
Photos from the Spotlight on Asexuality event are now available on the Asexuality Studies website.
Videos, audio podcasts and powerpoint slides will follow soon!
October 24, 2011
Technological experimentation is FUN
A little while back I wrote about my experiences planning a videoconference as part of what we believe to be the world's first international gathering of researchers in the new field of asexuality studies. With the event - organised by a shiny new research network - rapidly approaching, I can think about little else!
October 08, 2011
Asexuality: a spotlight on international research – Monday 24th October
In this event the new Mind the Research Gap group will aim to shine a spotlight on the emerging area of asexuality studies. Encompassing a range of disciplines (sociologists, psychologists, therapists) and topics, Spotlight on Asexuality Studies will be an open, friendly and participatory event intended to represent the diverse range of research being conducted on asexuality and breaking down boundaries between asexuality researchers and the asexual community. As well as bringing together researchers in the UK, we'll be using video conferencing software to allow researchers from around the world to present their work. The afternoon will conclude with an interactive workshop aiming to sketch out the issues which asexuality studies should address in the future.
The event will take place at the University of Warwick during Asexual Awareness Week. We realise that this isn't an easy place to get to, particularly on a Monday afternoon, even for those who live in the UK. We also realise that there are lots of people who will be interested around the world. Therefore we're doing our best to make the event as remotely accessible as we possibly can. At the very least this will involve recording the sessions as podcasts and posting them online. However we're hoping to be able to (a) film the sessions and put them on YouTube (b) live stream the event and allow people to ask questions and participate remotely. We're not sure if both of these are possible yet but as soon as we have confirmation we'll post information on here. Watch this space.
Mark Carrigan – Asexuality and sexual culture
CJ Chasin – Insiders and Outsider In Asexuality Research
Mercedes Pöll - Asexual Intimacies
Olivier Cormier-Otaño – Doing without: a therapist's findings
Mark Carrigan – What is Asexuality Studies? Sketching out a research agenda
(more speakers to be confirmed soon)
Registration is free and all are welcome. To register e-mail: email@example.com
Monday 24th October
1pm to 6pm
Wolfson Research Exchange
University LIbrary
University of Warwick
Organised by Mind the Research Gap
(Ruth Pearce, Lyndsey Moon, Mark Carrigan)


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Gramin Dak Sevak Result 2020, Post Office GDS Result 2020, ग्रामीण डाक सेवक All Postal Circle Results appost.in/gdsonline GDS Cut off Marks, India Post Gramin Dak Sevak Merit List PDF Download Link available online here check below links:
India Post GDS Result 2020 Date: Hey, Guys!! Have you applied for Post Office Recruitment recently released to fill up more than 20000 Gram Dak Sevak (ग्रामीण डाक सेवक) Vacancies? Are you looking to check out latest news on Post Office Gramin Dak Sevak Result 2020 Cut off Marks and Merit List of your Postal Circle?? Don't worry here are all the latest information on this blog. As per the latest update, Indian Postal Circle Result for GDS Vacancies has started releasing online State wise. Whenever GDS Results ready to release by Department of Posts (DoP), it will publish at the official website only. All those who want to download India Post GDS Merit List 2020 Circle wise can click on a direct link available below. We have updated complete details about India Post Gramin Dak Sevak Bharti Results for 23 postal circles in the following passages.
|« LATEST NEWS on Gramin Dak Sevak Post Office Results »
|CURRENT UPDATE: India Post GDS Online Result of Odisha (Cycle III – 2060 Posts) & Madhya Pradesh (Cycle II – 2834 Posts) has RELEASED. You can check your result from the link available below in a table showing state-wise merit list. Keep visiting our website to check updates on Gramin Dak Sevak Results of Rajasthan (3262 Posts), Tamil Nadu (3162 Posts), Assam (919 Posts) & Himachal Pradesh (634 Posts).
Quick Links
- 1 Gramin Dak Sevak Result 2020 2021 | Check All Postal Circle GDS Results Merit List @www.appost.in/gdsonline
- 1.1 India Post GDS Result 2020 Latest News
- 1.2 DOP Gramin Dak Sevak Results 2020 State wise
- 1.3 Indian Post Gramin Dak Sevak Bharti 2020 Result indiapost.gov.in
- 1.4 indiapost.gov.in Post Office GDS Selection List 2020
- 1.5 India Post ग्रामीण डाक सेवक रिजल्ट Merit List 2020 PDF
- 1.6 How to Download Post Office Gramin Dak Sevak Merit List 2020?
- 1.7 Postal Circle GDS Cut off Marks 2020
- 1.8 Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS) Result 2020
Gramin Dak Sevak Result 2020 2021 | Check All Postal Circle GDS Results Merit List @www.appost.in/gdsonline
In recent time, Indian Postal Department had released latest Employment News for 10th pass candidates to recruit them for massive job openings. The DOP recruitment notification published for more than 25000 GDS Jobs in 23 Circles, i.e. Andhra Pradesh Postal Circle Recruitment, Haryana Postal Circle, Maharashtra Postal Circle Recruitment, Punjab Postal Circle, Madhya Pradesh Postal Circle Recruitment, Delhi Postal Circle, Assam Postal Circle Recruitment, Himachal Postal Circle Recruitment, Gujarat Postal Circle Recruitment, Rajasthan Postal Circle Recruitment, Telangana Postal Circle Recruitment, Odisha Postal Circle Recruitment, CG Postal Circle Recruitment, Jharkhand Postal Circle Recruitment, Karnataka Postal Circle Recruitment, Tamilnadu Postal Circle Recruitment, WB Postal Circle Recruitment, Uttarakhand Postal Circle Recruitment, Bihar Postal Circle Recruitment, Uttar Pradesh Postal Circle Recruitment, Kerala Postal Circle Recruitment and North Eastern Postal Circle Recruitment.
The department invited eligible contestants for their selection to Dak Sevak posts under all the circles. In response to these notifications, eligible aspirants have come forward & applied their online applications. More than Lakhs of candidates have applied for GDS Vacancy and waiting for release of Post Office Results to know their status for document verification.
India Post GDS Result 2020 Latest News
IMPORTANT NOTE on ग्रामीण डाक सेवक रिजल्ट २०२०: Dear, Friends! As we know, you all are tired of waiting for your results ever since the registration process over. We can see your eager and anxiousness about knowing the latest details on India Post Office Gramin Dak Sevak Result of your State. As of now, we are not having any update or information regarding Merit List. We will do our level best to serve you latest updates here whenever available. Our team will keep trying to grab any useful information if they get from the DoP authorities. We can understand your anxiety but keep patience as all these Sarkari Results will release before November or December 2020 or January 2021. However, Hope for the BEST.
Candidates, you can Download & Check your DOP Gramin Dak Sevak Recruitment Result Circle wise from below provided links in the table. After downloading the GDS selection list, find out your Name and Registration Number available in it or not.
DOP Gramin Dak Sevak Results 2020 State wise
|Name of Postal Results
|Total Vacancies
|Status – Download Link
|Odisha Post Office GDS Result
|2060 (Cycle-3 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|4392 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|93 (new)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|1072 (old)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|MP Post Office GDS Result
|2834 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|2411 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Haryana Post Office GDS Results
|608 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|682 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Jammu & Kashmir Postal GDS Result
|442 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Uttarakhand Post Office GDS Result
|724 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|744 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|WB Post Office GDS Result
|2021 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|5778 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Rajasthan Post Office GDS Results
|3262 (Cycle-2 Posts)
|Releasing Soon
|1577 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|TN Post Office GDS Result
|3162 (Cycle-3 Posts)
|Releasing Soon
|4442 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|128 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|UP Post Office GDS Results
|3951 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|5314 (Cycle-1 Posts)
|Releasing Soon
|Assam Post Office GDS Result
|919 (Cycle-2 Posts)
|Releasing Soon
|467 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Maharashtra Post Office GDS Results
|3650 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
[Click here to CHECK Result]
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Kerala Post Office GDS Results
|2086 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|1193 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Bihar Post Office GDS Results
|1063 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|1471 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|TS Postal GDS Results
|970 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|1058 (new)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|127 (old)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|645 (cancelled)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Chhattisgarh Post Office GDS Results
|1799 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|2492 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|AP Post Office GDS Result
|2707 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|2286 (new)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|190 (old)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|1126 (cancelled)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Punjab Post Office GDS Results
|851 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|620 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Karnataka Post Office GDS Result
|2637 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|1048 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Gujarat Post Office GDS Result
|2510 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|1912 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Himachal Pradesh Post Office GDS Result
|634 (Cycle-3 Posts)
|Releasing Soon
|757 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|391 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Jharkhand Post Office GDS Results
|804 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|1236 (new)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|256 (old)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|Delhi Post Office GDS Result
|174 (Cycle-2 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|16 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|North East Post Office GDS Result
|748 (Cycle-1 Posts)
[Click here to CHECK Result]
|» Currently, the DoP has not confirmed a date for results declaration. It will be going to release the results state wise one by one on its online web portal. Hence, the aspirants who have applied applications for a job can visit this blog page regularly for time to time updates. Every candidate must know their Registration Number to search it from the selection list otherwise they can not be able to get their final selection status for a vacancy. This table will update after the release of a result of any state. You may visit the official web page through a quick link posted below and check out further more details on merit list or selection list.
|♦ Quick Link to Official Website ♦
CHECK India Post Office GDS Recruitment Result 2020 State wise
As per the selection process, there is no written examination or interview will be held by the department to select the eligible contestants. The Bhartiya Dak Vibhag GDS Bharti 2020 Selection List based on the applicants' academic merit secured in the 10th Standard Exam. For the appointment, selection is to be done through automatically generated Merit List as per rules based on total applications submitted. If aspirants get same marks in the 10th exam, then merit order would be as per DOB (higher age as merit), ST Female, SC Female, OBC Female, GEN Female, ST Male, SC Male, OBC Male, GEN Male, etc. Candidates will get more idea about the process of selection for DOP Gramin Dak Sevak Posts state wise just by referring the official notification through an online web portal.
Those who are searching that when India Post Final Merit List for Gramin Dak Sevak Recruitment released will get all their answers from this website very soon. We have attached a direct link to download state wise GDS Postal results here in this article. Kindly check out these Central Govt Jobs result date related all info from the below description. Also, take a print of ग्रामीण डाक सेवक मेरिट लिस्ट PDF file from here.
Indian Post Gramin Dak Sevak Bharti 2020 Result indiapost.gov.in
|♦ Indian Postal Circle Recruitment Result Details ♦
|Name of the Department:
|Department of Posts – India Post
|Kind of Page Details:
|Result, Merit List, Selection List and Cutoffs
|Name of the Post:
|Gramin Dak Sevak/ ग्रामीण डाक सेवक
|Number of the Vacancies:
|20000+ vacancies
|23 Postal Circle Names:
|Andhra Pradesh (AP), Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh (CG), Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh (HP), Jammu Kashmir (J&K), Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh (MP), Maharashtra, North Eastern, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu (TN), Uttar Pradesh (UP), Telangana, Uttarakhand and West Bengal (WB).
|Job Category:
|Central Government Jobs
|Job Placement:
|All Over India
|Selection Process:
|Based on Academic Merit of 10th class exam & DV
|GDS Result Release Date ⇒
|November/ December 2020 or January 2021
|Merit List Format:
|Portable Document Format (PDF)
|Cut off Marks:
|Release along with results
|Document Verification Schedule:
|To be notified by SMS or Email & Intimation Letter
|Official Website Link ⇒
|Available below to this article
|Official Email ID for Query:
|India Post Official Website:
|GDS Online Web Portal:
indiapost.gov.in Post Office GDS Selection List 2020
As we all here know to get these 10th pass jobs in post office department, more than expected candidates have applied within the registration dates. The Department of Post has almost completed registration process for all the states. DOP officials will take their time to declare Indian Post Office Gramin Dak Sevak Results 2020-21 at the official website (www.indiapost.gov.in). Whenever the result gets ready, the applicant will receive an SMS at the registered number on his provisional selection for next round. The DOP organization will recruit most eligible contestants based on satisfactory completion of verification and genuineness of all educational & other documents produced during the meeting.
Those who have applied can view Post Office GDS Result Status by inserting their Reference or Registration Number till the final results disclosed at the designated portal. Once the Bhartiya Dak Results announced and Gramin Dak Sevak 25,000 Posts filled, candidate can view their status from the official site. You can check Postal Circle Gramin Dak Sevak Selection List PDF that provides all details of the selected candidates. Also, DOP authority will upload all circle wise Postal Merit List at the online portal, i.e. www.appost.in/gdsonline.
India Post ग्रामीण डाक सेवक रिजल्ट Merit List 2020 PDF
As mentioned by the Indian Post Office Department, the selection structure of all Zone's results for Gramin Dak Sevak Vacancy is going to same. Only based on the marks obtained by all applicants in Class 10 Exam, the selection to be done by the authority. DOP is not going to grant extra marks for holding any Higher Educational Qualifications. The fretfulness and anticipation can be expected from the applied candidates, as they await their selection with this GDS Post Office Recruitment Result 2020. Those who have registered by generating Registration Number can check Bhartiya Gramin Dak Sevak Bharti Results of posts like Mail Packer, Packers, Mail Deliver (MD), Branch Post Master (BPM), and Mail Carrier (MC).
Since all the eligible contestants have applied their applications, they all are keenly awaiting the Online Gramin Dak Sevak Merit List PDF file to find their name and registration number from it. Along with Name and Registration Number, qualified applicants will also get other details like Division, Category, HO, SO, BO & 10th class examination percentage. Go through below for Direct Link to the Indian Post Office GDS Results 2019 2020 of Punjab, Haryana, Odisha, Bihar, AP, Telangana, MP, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Assam, Gujarat, Maharashtra, West Bengal and other States.
How to Download Post Office Gramin Dak Sevak Merit List 2020?
Candidates who have applied for these DOP jobs can visit the official website and check their result. The Indian Postal Merit List of Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS) Vacancy for All State Post Offices and Circles will be available here soon after published by the DoP officials. One thing every applicant need to keep in their mind that whenever they download the merit list, the details like Reference No., Registration No., Birth Date, etc. will be required. Here those who don't know how to download merit list from the official website can just follow the steps given below. All those names of the applicants are available in a Merit List means they have cracked the job and then further they will get a call for the document verification. Every applicant must note that the official site of DoP will be best viewed in Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 9.0 and above at 1024 x 768 resolution.
|♦ The Steps to Check/ Download Merit List PDF file are as follows ♦
|Step 01: Open the official website of India Post or www.appost.in/gdsonline URL link provided below.
Step 02: Navigate to the News section available on a home page.
Step 03: Now, click on a link named as "India Post Office Result of GDS Recruitment 2019 2020".
Step 04: As soon as you click the result link, a new page will display on your screen.
Step 05: Open your Postal Circle link to download the selection cum merit list PDF.
Step 06: In a login page, insert your Reference Number or Registration Number provided after completion of successful registration process.
Step 07: Just press the Submit button to generate the selection list.
Step 08: Finally, a PDF file of Merit List division wise will appear on your screen.
Step 09: Find out your Name along with Percentage, Registration Number, Post Name, Category, Division and other details from the Postal Circle Merit List PDF file.
Step 10: Also, download the result PDF page to your working device for further usage during document verification process.
Step 11: If possible, then also take a print of selection list for just a further reference purpose.
Step 12: Here we advise every candidate to keep the PDF of Merit List in a secure place after downloading it from the table placed above.
NOTE: Don't get nervous if you don't get your Name & Reg. Number in a selection list as there is much more DOP recruitment coming soon in upcoming months.
In the above table, we will update State wise Results of Gramin Dak Sevak Vacancies immediate after an official release by the higher authorities. Aspirants can visit the official site or this website for knowing a time to time news on this recruitment results. All the qualified applicants will have been directly appointed to the posts after their document verification completes successfully without any problem. The results can be known from this page itself only. Hope you guys have remembered your Registration Number and Post Name for which you applied application as these details will mention by the officials in a final list of selection. The authorities have not prepared Cut off marks as there is no written examination held by them in a selection process.
Postal Circle GDS Cut off Marks 2020
India Post Gramin Dak Sevak Cutoff Marks will be available here shortly as soon as decided and release by the DOP. Here Cut off Marks will be Category wise. Due to the heavy competition, the cutoff marks might be higher as far as our knowledge concert. The officials will fix cut off marks based on a total number of candidates applied for Gramin Dak Sevak Jobs during the submission dates. Through the cutoff score, the final merit/ selection list will be made by the organization. The Postal Dept will call qualified candidates for verification of original documents on scheduled dates one by one. All those applicants finding information for the release date of Indian Post Office GDS Merit List can keep viewing this website to get latest updates in upcoming days.
We are expecting that results might be revealed within this month. DOP (ग्रामीण डाक सेवक रिजल्ट) results will be made available only at the online portal. Contestants will receive notification through SMS about their result declaration date. If your name or registration number appears in the merit list, then you will be called to attend further process. To find out your all answers, just check out Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from the following table.
Frequently Asked Questions for GDS Result
|♦ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) / Questions and Answers (Q&A) ♦
|What are the details available in the Merit List of Selected Candidates?
|1) Division Name, 2) Head Office – HO Name, 3) Sub Office – SO Name, 4) Branch Office – BO Name, 5) Post Name, 6) Category, 7) Number of the Posts, 8) Registration Number and 9) Selected Candidates' Name with Percentage. Also, the post details for which results withheld will be available in the selection list of each circle along with Remark against each Division.
|When the Postal GDS Results in Assam, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu (TN), Odisha, Himachal Pradesh (HP) and other Circles going to declare by officials?
|It will release very soon one by one as of now the DOP authority is in a process for preparing merit list. Soon after an official declaration, you can check your circle result from this web page by going the links provided in the above table.
|How can we download the GDS Online Merit List State wise from this website once published by the DOP?
|We have placed a table in this page and from that table, candidates can easily download their Merit List/ Result. In the table, applicants will find results of all the postal circles one by one after being officially released by the Board.
|Sir, can you name us the States whose India Post GDS Cycle 2 Result has declared?
|The Gramin Dak Sevak Cycle-II Result of Madhya Pradesh Postal Circle (2834 Vacancies) on 25th Nov'20, Haryana Postal Circle (608 Vacancies) on 14th Oct'20, Jammu & Kashmir Postal Circle (442 Vacancies) on 29th Sept'20, Uttarakhand Postal Circle (724 Vacancies) on 15th Aug'20, West Bengal Postal Circle (2021 Vacancies) on 11th Aug'20, Uttar Pradesh Postal Circle (3951 Vacancies) on 10th June'20, Maharashtra Postal Circle (3650 Vacancies) on 01st April'20, Kerala Postal Circle (2086 Vacancies) on 05th Feb'20, Bihar Postal Circle (1063 Vacancies) on 29th Jan'20, Telangana Postal Circle (970 Vacancies) on 25th Jan'20, Chhattisgarh Postal Circle (1799 Vacancies) on 25th Jan'20, Andhra Pradesh Postal Circle (2707 Vacancies) on 24th Jan'20, Punjab Postal Circle (851 Vacancies) on 18th Dec'19, Karnataka Postal Circle (2637 Vacancies) on 03rd Dec'19, Gujarat Postal Circle (2510 vacancies) on 03rd Dec'19, HP Postal Circle (757 vacancies) on 05th Sept'19, Jharkhand Postal Circle (804 vacancies) on 05th Sept'19, Delhi Postal Circle (174 vacancies) on 05th Sept'19, Tamilnadu Postal Circle (4442 vacancies) on 22nd June'19 and Odisha Postal Circle (4392 vacancies) on 08th June'19 has already published while other states' results are in-process of release so don't worry.
|Hello, Sir! How many Circles Results of GDS Cycle-1 jobs released by the DoP till date?
|As of now, the India Post has declared GDS Results for West Bengal (WB) Postal Circle (5778 vacancies) on 21st Jan'20, Rajasthan Postal Circle (1577 vacancies) on 01st June'19, North East Postal Circle (748 vacancies) on 08th March'19, Haryana Postal Circle (682 vacancies) on 23rd Feb'19, Maharashtra Postal Circle (284 vacancies) on 27th Jan'19, Madhya Pradesh Postal Circle (2411 vacancies) on 06th Dec'18, Uttarakhand Postal Circle (744 vacancies) on 23rd Aug'18, Maharashtra Postal Circle (1789 vacancies) on 06th Aug'18, Andhra Pradesh Postal Circle (2286 vacancies) on 21st July'18, Telangana Postal Circle (1058 vacancies) on 25th May'18, Karnataka Postal Circle (1048 vacancies) on 07th April'18, Chhattisgarh Postal Circle (2492 vacancies) on 06th April'18, Bihar Postal Circle (1471 Vacancies) on 04th April'18, Jharkhand Postal Circle (1236 Vacancies) on 04th April'18, Kerala Postal Circle (1193 vacancies) on 26th March'18, Andhra Pradesh Postal Circle (190 vacancies) on 28th Feb'18, Odisha Postal Circle (93 vacancies) on 13th Feb'18, Telangana (TS) Postal Circle (127 vacancies) on 14th Feb'18, Punjab Postal Circle (620 vacancies) on 08th Feb'18, Haryana Postal Circle (438 vacancies) on 04th Feb'18, Gujarat Postal Circle (1912 vacancies) on 05th Jan'18, Tamil Nadu Postal Circle (128 Vacancies) on 22nd Dec'17, Himachal Pradesh Postal Circle (391 Vacancies) on 21st Dec'17, Jharkhand Postal Circle (256 vacancies) on 12th Dec'17, Assam Postal Circle (467 vacancies) on 07th Dec'17 & Delhi Postal Circle (16 vacancies) on 24th Nov'17.
|How do we know whenever our result of Gramin Dak Sevak Recruitment released?
|Don't worry as you will get SMS for your selection as GDS (BPM) in which circle you have applied. Selected contestants will get their result through the official website only. Also, we will upload the selection list here soon after it comes online on the website.
|What will be the next process after a release of India Post Result for Gramin Dak Sevak 2020?
|If you selected in the selection list, then you will be communicated through SMS or any other form of communication for next process. Selected aspirants will be called to appear for Document Verification by issuing the Intimation Letter. You will be appointed only after successful clearance of Document Verification process and acceptance by the respective Recruiting Authority only.
|How to recover the Registration Number, in case we have lost or forget before a release or after a release of our G.D.S. result?
|If you forget your registration number, then you have to submit your Name, DOB and Year of Passing 10th Class by following the process given in a homepage of the website.
|Plz, tell us the names of those States whose GDS Recruitment Cycle-II Process has completed successfully?
|Tamilnadu (TN) State, Odisha State, Rajasthan State, North East (NE) State, Andhra Pradesh (AP) State, Telangana (TS) State, Delhi, Assam State, Himachal Pradesh (HP) State, Jharkhand State, Gujarat State, Haryana State, Punjab State, Kerala State, Bihar State, Chhattisgarh (CG) State, Karnataka State, Maharashtra State, Uttarakhand (UK) State and Madhya Pradesh (MP) State.
|When is the application process for Cycle-3 vacancies in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar, Delhi, Karnataka, Gujarat, Kerala & other States likely to start by officials?
|Right now, the Department of Post (DoP) has started Cycle-III GDS Online Recruitment for Himachal Pradesh Postal Circle from 07th October to 06th November 2020. For the other states like Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Delhi, Karnataka, North East, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, etc. we can't say anything right now. The Candidates of these States should hope for the best.
|Sir, when the waiting list candidates result will be declared and how the DOP will fill the position for those candidates who are not attending document verification/ interview process or not joining their vacancy?
|In the selection process, if such situation occurs then higher authority will definitely publish a waiting list of applicants at the online web portal who miss out their name in final merit list. Also, you can contact authority by their email ID to get a clear solution of your question.
|Is there any cut off marks for GDS Recruitment released by the recruiting authority along with selection list?
|No, there is no any information related to GDS Cut off Marks revealed by officials after or before declaring the results at an official online portal. As there is no written test in the selection procedure, so there might not be cut off marks according to our views. However, those aspirants who scored more than 88% marks in their 10th Standard Exam, their chance for selection is much more than others.
|I have successfully registered for this vacancy. When will I get my result and selection list for document verification?
|At this moment, we can't say anything as DoP is working hard to announce the results on the right time. So, you can expect your result within two or three months only after completion of the application process.
|Are the rumours of this Bhartiya Dak Sevak recruitment process being cancelled by the DoP Department, Right or Wrong?
|No, it's not true. Please do not believe in any rumour. For right news about Bhartiya Dak Sevak Results, you can check this web page techufo.in or the official online web portal on a regular period.
|What is the next process for selected contestants whose name & registration number listed in a result pdf page?
|On the prescribed date, contestants will get an SMS on his provisional selection. However, the final appointment of contestants to be based on their satisfactory completion of verification of all educational & other documents presented to the recruiting authorities.
|Sir!! How can I contact the Department of Posts for result related queries?
|In case you have any query regarding results then mail it to email@example.com by mentioning your Full Name, Reg. ID Number and Circle Name. You can also contact through helpline number of your Circle which provided in the official web portal.
|How many States' Post Office Result of Gramin Dak Sevak been cancelled by officials?
|As per the official website, the GDS Result of Andhra Pradesh (AP) Postal Circle (1126 posts) and Telangana (TS) Postal Circle (645 posts) which was declared on 22nd Aug 2017 & 26th Aug 2017 respectively are Cancelled by the authority.
|What should I do if there is a lot of delay in accessing the official web page for downloading merit list?
|Ok, then do not worry as it depends on various factors like Internet Speed, a large number of candidates trying to download merit list, etc. So if you are not able to get the selection list immediately, then retry after a 10 to 15 minutes gap or during off-peak hours in the night.
|Does the Department of Posts make any Phone Calls or SMS to aspirants for depositing any money?
|DoP does not make any Phone Calls as well as SMS for such purpose. Aspirants should not disclose their Registration Number & Mobile Numbers and guarded against any unscrupulous Phone Calls.
|I have gone through the Results. Sir my Name has selected, but the Registration Number is not matching with it. Please guide how to proceed?
|Contact the India Post Office Department of your Postal Circle through Helpline Number or Email and get the solution as soon as possible. You will get State wise Help Desk Details from the GDS Online Engagement Portal link shared with this blog page.
|When & How will I get my India Post GDS Intimation Letter for Document Verification?
|The authority will issue Intimation Letter by Post around within 10-15 days after the declaration of results at the online portal.
About Document Verification Process: The DOP Department will announce Gramin Dak Sevak Document Verification Date only after a publication of the selection list. All the selected applicants must have to produce their Original Documents asked by officials at the time of document verification. If those qualified contestants couldn't able to present their original certificates during the DV process, then they are not considered as eligible for the vacancy. We will update DOP Gramin Dak Sevak Interview schedule here whenever available at the official online web portal. In the document verification process, the selected candidates need to present their 10th Examination Pass Certificate, Community Certificate, Computer Certificate and other necessary certificates asked by the selection department.
In case any candidate's documents found wrong as compared to those certificates submitted during a registration process, then his candidature will not be considered by the authorities. All those candidates who want Free Jobs Alert (फ्री जॉब्स अलर्ट) on Postal Job Openings state wise can follow us for all kind of latest stuff on a regular interval.
About India Post Office Department (भारतीय डाक): DOP is a Central Government Agency established 163 years ago on 01st April 1854. It is a Postal System belongs to the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. Right now in Sansad Marg, New Delhi, the head office of this organization located. By 1861, there were around 889 post offices handling nearly 43 million letters and over 4.5 million newspapers annually. In April 1959, they adopted the motto 'Service before Self' and also revised their logo in September 2008. By 2015, it had 1,54,939 post offices, of which 89.86% were in rural areas and 10.14% in urban areas. Across the country, DOP have 25,560 departmental Post Offices as well as 1,29,379 Gramin Dak Sevak, Branch Post Offices. Due to the presence in remote areas, they also involved in services like small savings banking and financial services. Post Independence, GOI have changed the structure of Indian Postal Department. Now, there are circle offices, regional offices, the superintendent's offices, head post offices, sub-post offices and branch offices under the Bhartiya Dak Vibhag. Through the official website, DOP also releases recruitment notification and hires most eligible candidates based on their ability as well as potential for the particular vacancy. Visit the official website if you are willing to catch further more details about Bhartiya Dak Vibhag in brief.
Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS) Result 2020
We hope all the candidates have checked their Gramin Dak Sevak Result 2020 GDS Merit List, Selection list and many other related details from this website. So if you are interested, then bookmark our website www.techufo.in to get further more updates about GDS Postal Result. The official DOP Merit List download link attached above. Contestants can check out their selection status just by a single click on the above URL link. Share your query in a comment segment below to discuss with our expert team and other candidates. Beware of Touts, Brokers and Job Racketeers as only your Merit can Fetch you the Post Office GDS Job. If you have liked this article, then share it on your social networking sites. Stay tuned to this web page for much more latest updated news on ग्रामीण डाक सेवक रिजल्ट/ मेरिट लिस्ट.


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On his blog today Vance Lucas has posted a method you can use to only get the properties of your class that are in the "public" scope.
PHP provides two built-in functions to retrieve properties of a given class – get_object_vars and get_class_vars. Both these functions behave the same exact way, one taking an object as a variable and the other taking a string class name. The tricky thing about the two functions is that they behave differently depending on the call scope, returning all of the class variables available within the called scope.
As a bit of a hack (in lower than PHP 5.3) he shows how to use the create_function function to create a small statement in a different scope that returns the only the variables seen from the "outside" - just the public ones. PHP 5.3 users can do it much more cleanly with closures. Code examples for both are included.


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It's nearly impossible to miss all the buzz surrounding the cloud in recent years. However, there's no clear consensus on what the cloud actually is; the definition changes depending on who you talk to. This confusion exists especially when referring to Microsoft SharePoint cloud services. SharePoint can be an organization's intranet, extranet, document-management environment, records-management space, or full external website. Combined with the complexity of the SharePoint Service application layer, a cloud service could mean many different things to many different people.
In its broadest definition, the cloud for SharePoint refers to a service that allows an external provider to host and manage SharePoint functionality. This provider typically handles much of the administration and maintenance of the environment. This approach provides significant incentives for many organizations -- particularly the promise of reduced overhead, a serious enticement when IT resources are consistently tasked to do more with less. At the same time, the cloud is no panacea and doesn't necessarily work for all organizations. The key to determining whether SharePoint in the cloud makes sense for your environment is first to understand how hosted SharePoint differs from an on-premises SharePoint deployment.
What Is the Cloud?
Ask 100 SharePoint administrators to define the cloud, and you'll likely get 100 answers. Although the catchphrase is used extensively across the industry, there is no one definition. There are many types of clouds, and various services offer cloud options, each of which differs slightly from the others.
For the most part, a cloud service is defined as an IT function that is housed, maintained, and (usually) administered by a third-party. The driver toward cloud services for most organizations revolves around the fact that most modern organizations prefer to focus on their core businesses rather than on the busywork of maintaining IT. This opinion is the guiding principle and main perceived benefit -- mainly, the ability to offload IT to a company that specializes in it -- of cloud environments.
Cloud services come in many shapes and forms: application clouds, infrastructure farms (both shared and dedicated), and private clouds. Each of these cloud options will be described in more detail in the following sections.
Application Clouds
An application cloud is one in which the application layer of the service is offered to users. For SharePoint, this means environments that offer SharePoint sites and their associated document libraries, lists, and other application-level functionality. These types of clouds do not allow any type of low-level, infrastructure-based functionality, such as configuration of service applications in SharePoint (with some exceptions). Typically the most limited type of cloud offering, application clouds are also often the most cost-effective. The economies of scale with this type of cloud allow for massive numbers of small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) to share the same physical hardware, reducing the total overall cost to each organization.
Several companies with SharePoint offerings can provide application clouds. These companies effectively allow you to host your SharePoint site or sites on their servers for a designated cost. This cost varies depending on the uptime requirements, level of support, amount of stored data, and provided services.
Microsoft provides one more well-known offering in this space, in the form of SharePoint Online, a component of Microsoft Office 365. Office 365 is Microsoft's application cloud offering and includes messaging functionality through Exchange Online, IM capabilities through Microsoft Lync, and the collaboration features of SharePoint Online. (See the sidebar "SharePoint Cloud Vendors" for a list of several third-party cloud providers.)
Figure 1 illustrates the various versions of Office 365, along with their typical list prices (subject to change). All plans include access to SharePoint Online, though some of the lower-level plans (e.g., the K1 and E1 plans) allow only read-only options for accessing content within SharePoint. The decision of which Office 365 plan to choose is complex and depends on the size of the organization, its messaging needs, the type of workers that it includes (i.e., knowledge worker versus kiosk worker) and whether the full Office suite of tools (e.g., Office Professional Plus) is already available or needs to be purchased. Organizations that are interested in purchasing Office 365 should check directly with Microsoft; costs can vary depending on your licensing situation and the particular geographic area in which your organization is based. Indeed, not all locations offer access to Office 365 or some of the other SharePoint cloud offerings.
Infrastructure and Private Clouds
Infrastructure cloud options differ from application clouds in that infrastructure clouds typically allow an organization's servers to be hosted and managed by a third-party but administered and provisioned by the organization. The customer's internal network often extends into the third-party cloud provider's network so that the servers within the private cloud can communicate directly with internal servers. This approach allows the full functionality that you'd expected from internal servers but has the cloud-based advantage of outsourcing the power, cooling, and rack-space requirements.
Private clouds are often created on virtualization platforms that allow for quick provisioning and de-provisioning and a flexible systems infrastructure. For example, private cloud providers might allow the customer to provision virtual servers; the provider simply bills back the customer for the processor time, storage, and memory used. This scenario is often useful for organizations that completely virtualize their SharePoint environments. Such an environment is a supported topology that Microsoft outlines as part of its Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP).
However, the setup does require special attention to the disk I/O, memory, and processor requirements of SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server.
The main advantage that infrastructure and private clouds provide is flexibility to build servers to you specifications, to configure your farms as you prefer, and to take advantage of all the functionality of SharePoint, without needing to physically manage the servers yourself. For example, customers can take advantage of the Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Service application to have SharePoint sites directly access data that's stored within business data repositories that are physically housed on internal database servers. (This arrangement includes scenarios such as a company that wants to display internal customer relationship management -- CRM -- or sales data in SharePoint sites.) This type of functionality is not readily available in the majority of application cloud models.
The disadvantage of private cloud models revolves around the need for customers to manage, maintain, patch, provision, and de-provision their servers as they would if the servers were stored internally. Much of the administration remains the same, aside from that required to maintain the virtual hosts that are stored at the virtual cloud provider.
From a migration perspective, however, infrastructure and private clouds offer the significant advantage of allowing out-of-the-box and traditional migration approaches. For example, site collections can be migrated directly via Windows PowerShell or the Stsadm tool, as opposed to requiring third-party tools.
Determining Cloud Requirements
Many factors can be overlooked during the process of determining whether to move to SharePoint cloud-based solutions. Cloud environments sometimes give administrators a false sense of completeness. For example, customers assume that the cloud provider will take care of everything. This is typically not the case, however, and many organizations still must put a significant amount of thought into how the new environment will look, how to categorize content, which type of authentication to use, and other crucial decisions.
Determine URL Strategy
A relatively minor but extremely important factor to consider for SharePoint is simply, what will the URL of the environment be? Some cloud solutions offer the ability to use a vanity URL, such as sharepoint.companyabc.com; others do not. For example, you might need to use a shared URL, such as customerx.sharedproviderabc.com. Current use of internal URLs to access SharePoint can further complicate the issue, particularly if content will be migrated to the cloud-based solution in phases. Determining what the URL will be and how to migrate content between URLs subsequently becomes a tricky task.
Some organizations deal with this issue by simply creating a landing page on the legacy environment, to direct clients to the appropriate site online. After all sites have been migrated, that landing page can then be changed to redirect content automatically. Certain application-layer intelligent systems, such as Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) or Threat Management Gateway (TMG), can also intercept and redirect specific paths within URLs.
Define Search Requirements
SharePoint Search is a crucial but often overlooked feature within both internal and cloud SharePoint environments. The ability to easily find the content a user is looking for can make or break a SharePoint environment, so you should put proper thought into the design of Search. However, putting SharePoint in the cloud complicates this equation, as not every SharePoint cloud provider allows the ability to provide for full search across the entire environment. In addition, a search service application in the cloud can rarely crawl and index internal content, so organizations might instead decide that search capabilities need to be kept internal.
You absolutely need to know the true search requirements of SharePoint, in advance of the migration. If, for example, enhanced Search using Microsoft FAST Search Server for SharePoint is required, then you might need an internal Search instance that in turn crawls the SharePoint cloud solution to provide federated search of both internal and external content.
Categorize Content
Proper information architecture and categorization of content is key to an organization's ability to locate required content. Unless a crucial document is tagged with the appropriate metadata, it becomes invisible and there will be a significant amount of duplication of content within the environment.
SharePoint in the cloud can also pose unique challenges in that you might not have access to the Managed Metadata Service application, which allows you to apply metadata tags consistently across multiple farms. If this application isn't provided, then finding a solution that allows you to properly tag content, especially during the migration process, becomes even more crucial.
Determine UI Requirements
Working on a consistent and attractive look and feel of the SharePoint environment is incredibly significant in improving end-user adoption. Users expect their collaboration environments to be easy to use, to be streamlined, and to have an appealing look.
The type of customization that is allowed with some cloud options -- particularly application cloud options -- might be subject to significant limitations. Some options allow customization with tools such as Microsoft SharePoint Designer, but others are completely locked down as far as what can be modified. It is important to define the requirements of the organization, in terms of UI customization, and to identify the cloud solutions that allow this level of customization.
Outline Security Requirements
The security of the target environment is a crucial part of the design, particularly when dealing with cloud deployments. By their very nature, these deployments are usually accessible to the entire Internet population. If the security of the source environment is tight and well-defined, then attempting to recreate the same security in the target environment might make sense, assuming that the same accounts or account names will be used in the cloud space. However, if the security is a mess to begin with, then restructuring security permissions during the migration might be a better option, even though it can lead to other access issues during the migration.
Define Authentication Requirements
An important question when determining whether to use a cloud service is, quite simply, which accounts will users use to log in? Determining which accounts to use and whether users will need to enter a username and password to access the system is a major decision that has significant long-term implications.
Bear in mind that not all cloud providers offer the option to authenticate to your own internal credentials. The noticeable exception is Office 365, which allows authentication options that use your own internal Active Directory (AD) environment and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0. This approach, which Figure 2 illustrates, requires federation between your internal AD environment and the cloud provider; in Office 365, this is accomplished by using AD FS. The result is that users don't need to authenticate twice to access the SharePoint environment, their mailboxes, or the Lync client.
Figure 2: Using internal AD accounts for cloud access
The alternative approach to authentication is to use the accounts that the cloud service provides, as Figure 3 shows. Cloud services typically provide this option, as does Office 365.
Figure 3: Using accounts provided by the cloud service
The obvious advantage to the AD FS option is single sign-on (SSO), but infrastructure and complexity are increased. Organizations should determine which strategy matches their requirements.
Migrating an On-Premises SharePoint Environment to a Cloud Offering
As I mentioned earlier, migrating to SharePoint in a cloud space has several limitations that can affect the migration process and limit the available options. In internal environments, an upgrade to SharePoint 2010 or a transfer of content from one farm to another supports many more options than migrating to the cloud supports. Therefore, identifying which methods are available and determining whether these methods provide the necessary capabilities is a crucial step.
Script Migration Process
For some cloud solutions, particularly infrastructure-based solutions, you might be able to use PowerShell to script the migration of SharePoint content. PowerShell allows you to backup individual site collections from one farm and restore them to another farm. Use the following syntax to perform a backup:
Backup-SPSite -Identity
-Path [-Force] [-NoSiteLock] [-UseSqlSnapshot] [-Verbose]
You can then use the Restore-SPSite cmdlet to drop that site collection into the target SharePoint farm. The big limitation to using this approach is that it is only as granular as the site collection itself and requires a level of administrative access (on the target farm) that SharePoint cloud solutions seldom provide.
Keep in mind that PowerShell supports an export option for content, allowing a more granular export of specific document libraries or subwebs from a site collection. The syntax for export is as follows:
Export-SPWeb -Identity
-Path [-ItemUrl ] [-IncludeUserSecurity] [-IncludeVersions] [-NoFileCompression] [-GradualDelete] [-Verbose]
The major limitation to using export commands is that they don't perform a full-fidelity extract of the contents. Indeed, export and import operations concern themselves only with content, so features such as workflows are lost during the move process. Therefore, using the Backup-SPSite cmdlet is preferable, if possible.
Using SharePoint Designer and Outlook 2010
An alternative approach to performing migration on a small scale with SharePoint is to use client tools such as SharePoint Designer or Microsoft Outlook 2010, which can be connected to both source and target SharePoint farms and used to manually transfer content between the environments. This scenario scales for very small environments only and doesn't work if there is a significant amount of content to transfer. The advantage to this approach, however, is that it can be used when administrative access to the back end is not provided. Another option is to use Explorer view and mapped drives to provide the ability to move content, although this approach doesn't scale very easily.
Third-Party Migration Tools
Aside from these two rather limited options, the only effective way to improve on SharePoint migration is to enlist the help of third-party tools. Each tool is different, so it is important to examine each tool's functionality and compare it to the business and technical needs of the migration.
Understand the Pros and Cons
Determining whether to move to a SharePoint cloud model is by no means a simple proposition. The lack of any built-in migration tools is simply one of the challenges. IT planners also need to consider the authentication options, the services that they will need, and whether security will be restructured in the process. In addition, you need to consider exactly which of the myriad types of cloud offerings to use. Understanding the pros and cons of each approach can help to streamline the decision process.
Sidebar: SharePoint Cloud Vendors
This article discusses using Microsoft as your cloud vendor. There are numerous third-party options as well, including -- but not limited to -- the following providers:


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Integration, regulation rev up automotive MEMS
Keywords:automotive? MEMS? CMOS?
In the 1990s, MEMS devices hit the mainstream as accelerometers for automotive airbag sensors. From there, MEMS devices went on to function as "drop" sensors in hard drives before finding myriad slots in CE controls. "Automotive is still a very big market [for MEMS], and one of the big applications is [still] the airbag sensor. We reckon there are three to 3.2 airbag sensors per vehicle," said Laurent Robin, market analyst for inertial sensors at market research company Yole Développement.
The MEMS market was worth about $8.7 billion in 2010, according to Yole; automotive MEMS claimed about $1.48 billion of that total, or 17 percent. The market is set to grow by 8 percent in value terms in 2011, Robin said; but the dollar growth figure, mitigated by strong downward price pressure of 5 to 20 percent per year, does not reflect the market's strong unit growth.
The main types of MEMS sensors in automotive use are pressure sensors, used in tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) designs; accelerometers, used in airbags; and gyroscopes, used for orientation and electronic stability control.
Although the number of cars produced each year is climbing, as is the number of electronic subsystems per car, the automotive MEMS market is largely driven by mandate and regulations, said Marco Ferraresi, automotive business development manager for STMicroelectronics.
The TPMS mandate, for example, was introduced in the U.S. in 2007; in the European Union, starting in 2012, all new passenger cars must be equipped with TPMS solutions that meet even tighter specifications than in the U.S., Ferraresi said. Japan is expected to adapt the EU legislation for its industry approximately one year after the European rollout, said Ferraresi, and South Korea is expected to introduce the legal requirement for TPMS in 2013.
"Airbags, which use accelerometers as part of a trigger, are standard in the U.S. and Europe but not in the BRIC countries," Ferraresi added. But "airbags are coming in Brazil and China" and are likely to be mandated in those countries eventually, presenting a growth opportunity for MEMS.
Meanwhile, demand is high in Brazil for subsystems that track stolen vehicles. The technology is GPS?based, but accelerometers are used for the wake?up function. The vehicle?tracking market also presents a medium?term opportunity for inertial sensors, including gyroscopes, Ferraresi said.
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