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masyallah watashiwa lupa dah SPM dah.
i think it's not late to wish SPM-ers a huge "ALL THE BEST!!"
ok, so let's go straight to the doas k. i pun doa for all you spm-ers, so in sha Allah, atas izin-Nya, everything will be ok =)
"Wahai Tuhanku, kurniakanlah kami kefahaman para Nabi dan hafazan para Rasul, serta ilham daripada para Malaikat yang hampir dengan-Mu, kurniakanlah kami kesihatan wahai Tuhan yang Maha Pengasih"
so ini saya bagi the Bahasa Melayu version of the doas and i asked a few ustaz already, they all said the same, it's ok to just know the meaning of the doa. it's ok to "bercakap" dengan Allah swt in malay or english or whatever language pun. Allah SWT Maha Mengetahui =)
oh and you can just use your own words pun masa doa. the doa i letak tu is like a guideline la of when and how to make a doa =)
i wish i can give you tips, tapi i havent been taken exams for 2 years, and i pun tengah nervous thinking about finals for my first sem masters ni. huhu..
so the best tip i can give is:
1. do your best, doa, tawakal and keep on improving.
itu je =)
i wasn't the brightest kid in school, but alhamdulillah i grew up ok.
alhamdulillah, rezeki Allah swt berikan, itu satu.
and because i wanted to ringan kan beban my parents, so with that in mind, i memang push myself. some people are blessed with good brain, and tak belajar pun still boleh score.
i'm not like that.
i memang kena pulun. usaha is my key to achieve.
so if you spm-ers are like me, yang tak begitu hebat tapi inginkan kehebatan, no shortcut to it.
work smart, give your best, doa and tawakal.
last last, atas izin Allah swt juga kita dapat achieve anything.
no matter what happens, be grateful!
kadang2 failures made us better than ever if we learn from the mistakes.
Allah swt lebih mengenali kita, bukan? be confident of yourself, and trust that for all the efforts that you've given, you will be rewarded, in sha Allah. kalau tak in A's, maybe in some other forms =)
percaya k?


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ASHS Membership
What does ASHS do?
ASHS is a Cooperative (more precisely an Industrial and Provident Society), which means that all members get the same amount of shares (100 x £1 shares). This means that all members own the company equally. The shares can't be bought and sold—so no-one can accumulate shares and take over the company. When a member leaves ASHS, their shares are dissolved but their value is kept by ASHS and not refunded. Full members get a share certificate after their application has been formally approved.
ASHS was set up to represent, coordinate and help the small-scale homegrown hardwood sawmills of Scotland.
ASHS markets Scottish hardwoods through, for example:
• this highly successful website
• displays at important events and shows
• articles and advertising in key publications
• leaflets and other publications
ASHS provides training for its members, for instance:
• cladding
• log grading and valuing
• Health and safety
• visits to other mills
• visits to hardwood industries in other countries
ASHS represents the sector:
• to the Forestry Commission
• to the Scottish Parliament
• in links with other groups
• to other forestry organisations
ASHS also helps its members to keep up to date with relevant developments, to get to know others in the industry and to share knowledge with them.
What does ASHS cost?
Full members buy a (non-refundable) share in the company when they join (currently £100) and pay an annual subscription starting in the second year.
Associate members pay £40 annual subscription starting in the first year (no shares).
Retired members pay £20 annual subscription starting in the first year.
How do I join?
Click JOIN ASHS. You can then simply fill in the appropriate online membership application form and click submit.
You will be required to register a direct debit mandate with GoCardless in order to pay your annual subscription.
GoCardless is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as an Authorised Payment Institution.
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- Rudd and costar Jennifer Aniston play George and Linda in "Wanderlust"
- Aniston thrives in her comedy zone and Rudd gets 10 times as crazy for a grateful nation
- Every actor who gets the joke shines, even when the story bumbles and bobbles its momentum
(CNN) -- Trust falls? Rap sessions? Giggle weed? I don't know what tools of the trade Paul Rudd and director David Wain share to dream up the kind of inspired nutso stuff Rudd has done in smart-funny-raunchy winners like "Wet Hot American Summer" and "Role Models." But whatever it is, the two are in a groove -- and backed up by some blissed-out creative co-conspirators -- "in Wanderlust."
The setup is sturdy. Rudd and costar Jennifer Aniston play George and Linda, sharp-edged Manhattanites who can barely afford their tiny living quarters -- known as a "micro-loft," in Realtor-speak -- even when George brings home a salary from his hated corporate job. (Linda, still looking for her career métier, fails to sell HBO on a super-depressing documentary about penguins with cancer.) Then George loses that hated job.
The broke couple needs to flee NYC. So they hit the road, resigned to accepting shelter and abuse from George's gloriously obnoxious "successful" brother down in Atlanta, a prize pig played to the snout by Wanderlust coscreenwriter/producer and fellow Wain regular Ken Marino ("Role Models").
But somewhere on the road south, George and Linda stumble upon a kind of hippie-dippy Brigadoon, a past-its-prime Shangri-la, an anachronistic macraméd commune called Elysium. The place preaches peace and free love and beverages made of twigs, and is populated by crackpots just charismatic enough to seduce a pair of BlackBerry addicts like George and Linda. None is more appealing — and full of crap -- than the alpha male called Seth, played with goofy gusto by Justin Theroux.
What happens in Elysium doesn't stay in Elysium: The alternative lifestyle begins to change the personality DNA of our essentially straight-arrow visitors. And that's exactly the sweet spot where Wain-ian comedy -- rooted in craziness that breaches the walls of "normal" -- lets Rudd shine. The actor is so clean-cut cute, yet so fearlessly capable of rolling in happy raunch.
'Downton Abbey': Top PBS rating since '09
Actually, every actor who gets the joke shines, even when the story occasionally bumbles and bobbles its momentum. (Ah, the shackles of the ho-hum happy romantic ending.) It's a thrill to see sexy Malin Akerman ("The Proposal"), "Six Feet Under's" peachy Lauren Ambrose, priceless Kathryn Hahn (so memorable an adversary for Rudd in "Our Idiot Brother"), and elder statesman Alan Alda bond over hippie clichés.
And, no small thing, it's a pleasure to see Aniston thrive in her comedy zone, secure in the knowledge that for every inch of propriety she's willing to cede, Paul Rudd is ready to get 10 times as crazy for a grateful nation. A-
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The next release of Sigil is shaping up nicely. There is so much going into it that the next release will be 0.6.0. Unfortunately, EPUB 3 will not be one of the features making it into 0.6.0. One major change coming will be a new BookView (BV) editor. Here is an unfinished preview of what it might look like.
This is only a concept preview of the new editor. One issue that needs to be resolved is the double tool bar. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to use the one in the BV pane or the global one in the window itself.


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Our dark rum candle is now available in a convenient travel votize size. Synthesized for a seductive, warm and exotic well-being aroma of traditional bay rum. Suitable for any environment or occasion, dark rum candle instantly creates a modern and inviting ambience. Its rich scent has top notes of bergamot and plum, middle notes of rum and leather, and base notes of amber-patchouli and vanilla.
2.35oz. / 67g
Dark Rum votive features our earth-friendly blend of beeswax, vegetable and soy waxes. This blend offers a cleaner and better burn.
*Use: Trim Wick To ¼â Prior To Each Lighting. Place On Safe Non-Flammable Surface. Container Will Get Hot. Keep Away From Drafts And Walls. Burn No More Than 2-3 Hours At A Time. Discontinue Use When ½â Of Wax Remains.
Caution: Never Leave Unattended. Burn Within Sight. Keep Away From Flammable Items.
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Sorry, no Super Monkey Ball Touch and Roll review yet.
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About The Game
The monkey madness returns with 10 worlds and over 50 new stages in the single player Challenge Mode.
Roll the monkey ball around with the stylus or Control Pad to reach your goal and unlock new worlds. Play straight through the worlds and stages from easy to hard, or go to Practice Mode to rehearse the levels you find the most difficult.
"Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll offers bite-sized gameplay that's perfect for handheld gaming," said Scott A. Steinberg, Vice President of Marketing, SEGA of America. "The Nintendo DS touch screen allows for fluid, pin-point control, making this an ideal platform for the series."
Those mad monkeys boast a total of six games in Party Mode for both single and multiplayer platforms. Challenge your friends to a Monkey Race or box your way to victory in Monkey Fight. And, nothing can be more satisfying than hitting a hole-in-one on Monkey Mini Golf or striking 'em down with Monkey Bowling. Exclusively for the DS system, are two brand new party games – Monkey Hockey and Monkey Wars – which will ensure that the monkey mayhem never stops!


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WPS Division Director of Operations wins Excellence in Public Service Award
WPS Division Director of Operations wins Excellence in Public Service Award
Fabian Armendariz, Division Director of Operations for the Wichita Public Schools, received the 2022 Excellence in Public Service Award from the Wichita Public Schools.
Now in its 34th year, the award recognizes employees from the City of Wichita, Sedgwick County and Wichita Public Schools who exhibit the highest standard of service on the job and through their volunteerism.
The winners each receive $2,500 from the DeVore Foundation.
Armendariz leads a division which oversees transportation, student nutrition, supply and the district's central print center.
Wendy Johnson, division director of Strategic Communications, who nominated Armendariz for the award, highlighted his vision and deep commitment to support students and staff when schools closed at the start of the pandemic.
"While we had a model for distribution thanks to the district's annual summer food program, the volume of distribution was unprecedented since eligibility was opened up to any child under the age of 18 in Wichita," Johnson said. "He and his team worked hard to push a system that wasn't designed for distribution at this scale."
Armendariz also supported the district's print services team who worked with district leaders to create a massive system of paper learning materials for distribution for PreK-12 students prior to the district's rollout of one-to-one technology for students. His commitment to the community has also been a defining characteristic.
Armendariz and his family immigrated to the U.S. when he was a child and he grew up in Salina. After high school, he came to Wichita and began working for the school district supporting parents and families in high-need communities. He has served as the voice of the district for our Spanish-speaking communities and continues to be an advocate for them. He has served in a variety of roles within the district for 22 years.
His community work includes fundraising for Alzheimer's Disease, which has had an impact on his husband's family, and with the Wichita River Festival, where he advocated for the festival to be more inclusive of Spanish-speaking residents.
For the past several years, he has served as a volunteer on the festival's operations committee. He took on more responsibilities within the festival, leading the food service function for all concert performers, helped select performers and was invited to join the festival's board of directors, where he has continued to advocate for inclusion based on culture, language and gender orientation.
Armendariz has also been recognized within the community professionally by the Wichita Business Journal as an influential young leader, with the Innovations in Business in Award by the Young Professionals of Wichita for the creative delivery of breakfast meals to students and was selected as a member of Leadership Wichita.
Click here to watch a video of the surprise presentation.
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Ledbury's future through its past
Ledbury and District Civic Society
Ledbury and District Civic Society exists to ensure Ledbury's heritage is at the heart of our present and future.
As a charitable trust we are a non-political organisation. Our allegiances are to Ledbury and the vital part its heritage plays.
If you would like to find out more about the Society, visit About the Society. You can also find out about our two buildings, Burgage Hall and Butcher Row House.
Ledbury is a busy market town in rural Herefordshire. It has a wealth of buildings of architectural importance and a lively cultural life. To find out more, visit About Ledbury.


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Surrendering their lives to God, they remain calm when they face trouble. It was during the week of Christ's sufferings that Forkorus Yaboisembut was found guilty of treason and sentenced to three years imprisonment. His wife, Beata Yaboisembut was at his side throughout the trial. Dressed in dark brown trousers and a blouse, she sat in the courtroom, calmly following the proceedings. She accepted the result with a feeling of relief.
'Bapak was always telling us to keep calm. We should not feel troubled and feel grateful that our children are already grown up and can understand what is going on. And please remember that this is the week of suffering and we must all think about the sufferings of our Lord.
Lord Jesus suffered much more than this for our sins. And you must be willing to accept my sentence, said Forkorus'. As a mother and as his wife, she expressed her belief in him.
She first met her husband when they were studying together at the Taruna Bakhti Waene College. They were among the first generation of students at the college and graduated in 1975.After graduating, they were both sent to isolated places in West Papua. Mama Beata was sent to Wamena and Forkorus was sent to Sarmi. In 1976, they decided to get married in Jayapura and after getting married, they each returned to their jobs. Mama Beata was given a job at the Oksibil YPPK primary school and worked there for three years. She was then sent to Sobron, after the kampung where she was working was attacked.
After her husband became active in the Papuan Customary Council (DAP), Mama Beata saw this as a huge responsibility that was to be borne by him.'Bapak is an Ondoafi, part of our tradition and enjoying the trust of the people. He is greatly respected and loved by the people, just like us, his wife and our children.'
He was the third of six siblings. His two brothers are not with him in Sobron. Forkorus also has two younger brothers and a sister who all live in Nabire.
After being elected as the Chairman of DAP, Beata realised that he no longer belonged just to her but belonged to all the Papuan people. 'This is why Bapak has always told his children to stand on their own feet.'
As his wife, she realised that his election as the chairman of DAP would have many consequences for herself and for their children which is why he has always stressed the importance of their living their own lives independently.
Fortunately, only two of their children are still studying at Cenderawasih University while their oldest daughter is an expert in civil technology, and the sons have completed their studies in architecture. 'The youngest is now at sixth grade while his older brother should have graduated last month on 15 March. But never mind, as Bapak is now on trial, his needs are our priority.' Her daughter's husband has to rely on the wage he earns as a teacher. As for her own husband, he has not been earning anything since last year.
'I was not there to see Bapak when he was arrested because I had just returned from Sobron.' She was preparing food for the [Third Papuan People's] Congress but before anyone could start eating, the security forces destroyed everything that they had prepared.
When she and the other women heard gunshots and saw tear gas bombs exploding, they ran to the mountains around the Zakeus Field. 'People can be arrested at any time and I was told never to get worried. On that day,' she said 'I tried to keep calm and to find my way home to Bapak so that I could be together with him at all of the court hearings while keeping calm.'
'Forkorus has always told our children to focus on their education and not to follow him on his chosen path. But the children are always deeply concerned about what is happening to him and they always accompany me when I visit him in prison. I know that they readily accept what is happening to their father. Maybe this is the path chosen by our Lord for this country of ours,' she said.
During the trial, Bapak stayed overnight at the lodgings of their daughter who lives in Waena. It is a small room, 3 x 4 meters, where the three of them slept. Their home in the kampung is being looked after by Mama. The youngest daughter frequently goes back and forth to visit their grandmother. Because their home in Sobron is 80 kilometres from Abepura, Mama decided to stay with her daughter so that it would be easier for her to visit her husband.
She said that during the time she has been attending the court hearings, neither she nor the children have experienced any terror or intimidation. 'And Bapak is always telling us to keep calm.'
She visits her husband three times a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. 'We are only given 15 minutes to sit together, side by side.
That is quite enough for me,' she says, 'because I know that the Lord is there with him.'
She is still busy teaching grade 1 and 2 children at the primary school in Sobron. When she visits her husband, she takes him food and clean clothes. 'As he is not alone in the prison, I always take food for the other prisoners as well.'
She says that her husband is not fussy about the food she brings, as long as she cooks it. She takes him porridge, vegetables and fish and on special occasions, she cooks him some meat. Ever since he has been in prison, Forkorus has never asked her to bring anything. 'In fact, when I meet him, he always has a present for me, as well as giving me his dirty clothes to be washed,' she said, with a laugh.
She can also visit him on Sundays but only to take part in a service together. She is not allowed to take anything except a Bible. They have services twice a day, once in the morning at 8am for the Protestants and once in the evening for the Catholics.
Mama always arrives at 7am to say prayers together with her husband.
Sometimes he asks her to stay for another prayer, after her visit to him has ended. so that she too can receive the body and blood of the Lord, Jesus Christ during the Holy Eucharist as she has continued to be a Catholic.
Mama Beata is the third of six brothers and sisters from Kampung Yuruf Keerom where the majority of the people are Catholics. In December, she will be 59 years old. Because of unsatisfactory conditions in the kampung, the people have been forced to move frequently. Only one of her sisters is still living in Yuruf while one of her brothers died in Vanimo. The two other brothers are living in Vanimo.
'Prayer is the source of our strength. Everything we achieve, all our happiness and sadness are part of our lives and my family leaves everything to the one who gives life, to the Lord God Creator of all,' she said, when she was asked what her future plans for her family were.
This is the first in a series of articles by Suara Perempuan Papua commissioned by TAPOL on the impact of the Papua conflict on women


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Global fragrance sales are making a comeback from their depressed levels in 2009 and the most recent holiday shopping season is expected to be a boom year for the fragrances market, says a recent industry report.
Although final sales numbers aren't released yet for the 2012 holiday shopping season, Companies & Markets noted in a recent report that every adult in Britain is expected to spend £17.59 on perfume gifts during the holiday shopping season. Scent sales are up 6% from the prior year, and a total of £790 million is expected to be spent in the U.K. during the festive season.
The report noted that Proctor & Gamble's James Bond 007 after-shave has been a huge seller and has already made it into the top 10 men's fragrances and is already outselling big brands like Paco Rabanne, Prada, and Armani. Also, Coty's Fame by Lady Gaga perfume has sold well and has already broken into the top 10 women's fragrances this season.
Also noteworthy, fragrance sales are bucking the trend of much lower retail sales in other areas. Traditionally a massive 54% of the total annual expenditure on perfume is on presents for loved ones during the holiday season, according to the report.
The global fragrances market was one of the beauty and personal care categories that suffered the most during the economic recession, with growth falling to a mere 3% in 2009. This was the result of consumers cutting back their expenditure by concentrating their spending on essentials. However, in the past two years fragrances have had a comeback; 2011 sales results reflected a 6% growth, which is the highest seen since 2006.
The report also noted that factors set to drive growth within the fragrances market include the growing trend towards consumer urbanization, higher spending propensity and the heightened importance on personal appearance and grooming. For example, the market was boosted in 2011 by strong growth in premium fragrances, which hold 54% of value and experienced an increase of almost $1.4 billion, largely boosted by North America growing by double digits for the first time in the past 15 years.


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When you start a new story, what's the first image you put?
You may start with a wide shot to establish what's going on, where are the characters and things like that, to keep the reader from getting lost right in the beginning.
However, aren't some stories just like that?
There you are, lost in all these sea of images, none really grabbing your eye, and probably you're wondering off into your own head, when suddenly one detail catches you, steer you into the right direction, and that's when the story starts.
Right there, lost, you hold tight to that little image that comforts you.
When you realize, the detail is part of a much bigger story, a more interesting and beautiful one.
And that's when she turns and looks at you.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
A beginning.
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Friday, August 25, 2006
Covering the past.
Old stuff, from 1997, when we were doing fanzines (or mini comics) in college. One of the funniest things was playing "cover artist". As far as interior art goes, we have been fairly traditional. Black and white, traditional inking, all that. Most covers were like that, but from time to time, we tried different approaches.
Differently from comic book pages, a cover can be a nice single image, can have no background and still look awesome, and can have all kinds of techniques without getting too distracted. It was all a matter of playing with the design of this single image, and playing was fun.
Changing angles, choosing if the image of the cover would or would not have something to do with the pages within, varying black and white with pencil tones or washes, all that made the process of the covers a great way to think about what you can achieve with your images.
It was on those covers that I really discovered I liked to draw girls so much.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Funny monkeys.
Vasilis Lolos is a funny monkey. If you check out his preview for PIRATES OF CONEY ISLAND, you'll see just how talented he is. Aside from that, he's greek, and he's funny.
I keep expecting his hair to turn into snakes, or fire bursting from his eyes, but so far ha just make silent jokes.
It's a strange feeling, being a funny monkey. I have my share of it, just by the way people ask me questions as if they were expecting some different answer than the ones they would give me.
I'm not really funny, just occasionally.
I'm just happy.
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Characters from life.
I love drawing from life. You can have the wildest imagination, but rarely you'll get as much diversity in terms of body language as by just looking and studies from real people.
Everybody moves differently.
In their own way, they move their hair, look to the side, smile. To take the "language" part of body language, you'll always learn new words when you study new people.
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Ba finished the cover for Casanova 7, which is the last cover of the first "season". It's really good, and it shows how much Ba has evolved during this past eight months of work. It will also bring back some elements from previous covers in order to convey this sense of closure of the first arc.
. . .
I'm almost done with the script for the next graphic novel. I have a deadline, which can help a lot in terms of getting stuff done, and I have to start thumbnailing if I want to finish all of it by November. The next months will certainly be busy, which just make them much more fun.
. . .
The character I did the previous drawing is the same one I'm doing the studies for, and it's for a new short story. I often think that short stories, if not only good to tell moments of life, area good way to put your characters to some good use until their bigger stories are ready. This certainly seems the case, and hopefully the short story in question will make it easier to create the world and the mood for what I have planned for the characters I'm creating.
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Monday, August 21, 2006
Characters that you love.
It's wonderful to create new characters, just like meeting new people, and yet with the same sense of silent recognition that we have when we meet old friends.
Some characters are visual and the most important thing is the way they look. Others are defined by the way they talk and by what they say. There are characters that look like many others, don't say anything special, but they are there for what they do, even if they only do one thing, and just once. If it's only one time, that was their time.
This year, I asked Terry Moore how he managed to do the same book for more than ten years, and he said:
"Create characters you love, and live with them."
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Gerard Way's Space Boy.
This is one of the drawings Gerard Way did for the Umbrella Academy proposal, attesting to his artistic skills. It sure helped Ba's choice to accept the job, since the proposal was so visual and with such moody images. It really made us dive into that strange new world, and that's really what the images should do.
Gerard talks a little bit more about this project at the Dark Horse website with editor Scott Allie. Check it out, as it helps see the guy as a comic-book writer instead of just the frontman of My Chemical Romance .
While you're at it, tell us what you think of the recent issue of Casanova, out today all over the US in fine comic book stores.
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Labels: collaborations, comics, umbrella academy
Monday, August 14, 2006
Snap tale.
This is the latest De:TALES review.
If you haven't really read our stuff before, I think you'll like this review, as it has this first look perspective. Hopefully, you'll feel the same way the reviewer, and then you'll want more. Obviously, after some time out into the world, every review from now on has the potential for more information about the stories, which can help get you into it, and it can tell you stuff better discovered on the actual comic book pages.
While you're at it, here's a 24Seven review as well. Expect more colored work from us on the not so far future, and expect it to look this good.
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Mad dog Casanova.
While Casanova 2 keeps selling strong, appearing at the first half of the top 300 comics for the month of July (See here the entire list), Casanova 3 comes out this wednesday, presenting yet another strange adventure of our strange spy.
Click here for a preview.
If there's something I always try to tell everybody who wants to do comics, it's this: you'll only do comics if you're doing comics. You only really learn what works and what doesn't when you're really doing a story, page after page, and everything have to work together. That's when you learn, and that's when you get better.
Bá is getting so much better just by working every month that now, more than ever, I know my statement was true.
I better finish this new script soon and get started on the pages, then.
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
The captain of the ship.
Today I finished another story for Boom Studios, for their next anthology project. It's only six pages, but it turned out much better than I expected. In fact, between all three stories I did for them, this is the one I liked the most, which is strange, considering it was the story I almost didn't make.
You never know what your work will look like before you really dive into it. You might discover a hidden pleasure after you start making the pages, and that pleasure will fuel your inspiration, your enthusiasm, and that will just show on the page on every panel.
My next project will be 76 pages long, IN COLOR, and it will probably fill a lot of my mind on the next three months. If all goes well, it will also result in more interesting texts around here.
Posted by Fábio Moon at 6:44 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
URSULA wants you.
It is always good to see something like our URSULA on the top five best selling graphic novels at Khepri.com last week. This is the good thing about TPs. They can live forever and be rediscovered again and again.
It was first published in Brazil, then in the U.S. and already in Italy.
If you haven't seen URSULA yet, here is your chance. After all, you are not going to live forever.
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Thursday, August 03, 2006
We have officially been back for more than a week. We also have gone back to our regular working mode, to our regular working hours and to our regular long days. Even if I think we got thinner after this year's San Diego Convention, I can't help but feel we got bigger as well.
Doing this only once a year, the convention is our only chance to see the people we met in previous years, and also is the only chance to meet new people. And this year we certainly did meet all the people we could, covering quite a wide range of our comic book world.
To all of you, thanks.
In special, thanks to Vasilis and Becky for being so much in love for comics. Thanks to Matt Fraction for making sure everybody knew Casanova is just awesome. Thanks for Christina and her Dark Horse crew for all the back-up help all over the con. Thanks to Brian from Khepri.com for being our rendevouz man. Thanks to Pam for being in the know. Thanks to Bruno for being there. Thanks to James Jean for being close to Jose Villarubia when I met him, so I could meet them both at the same time. We even met Gerard Way, the writer of the new project Ba's involved, and he was quite the nice guy. Thanks to Ivan and all his robots. The book looks beautiful.
Thanks to Bob Schreck, for being always so nice to everybody (us included).
Also, thanks to the Flight people. I didn't actually talked to many of them, and the ones I did, only briefly, but I just think they were the most happy and joyful booth at the convention, and that reflects in the comics they're making, and comic books really need optimistic people right now. Specially those doing good stuff.
A special thanks Mimi Rosenheim, from AiT/Planet Lar, who published our lovely Ursula the best way it could ever be published and has given us only love and support. And Larry, who's awesome!
Finally, thanks to Diana Schutz, for believing in us and making sure that we stood in the right path, which is the one that led us where we are now. I'm not really sure where we are exactly, but it feels good. It feels promising, and it feels like home.
Thanks to all of you who made this two brazilians feel welcomed in the strange outside world.
It's good to be back, and good comics awaits.
Illustration for a brazilian newpaper, by Fabio Moon.
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RIM is getting some positive government attention for the yet-to-be-released BlackBerry 10 platform.
Just months after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it would abandon its longstanding use of the BlackBerry system and give its employees iPhones instead, the agency has decided to give RIM another try.
ICE plans to begin testing the new BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 smartphones in early 2013, according to RIM. It will be among the first government organizations to pilot the new BlackBerry product.
High Stakes
The government agency has the potential help RIM achieve a turnaround. Running the pilot program amounts to an early vote of confidence for the platform, which is set for release in late January.
"ICE has been a valued BlackBerry customer for years, and our commitment to government agencies has influenced the development of the BlackBerry 10 platform," said RIM's Scott Totzke, SVP for BlackBerry security.
The pilot program will provide ICE workers with secure access to confidential information behind ICE's firewall, along with additional new services and improved delivery. It will also increase organizational productivity, according to RIM.
When ICE made its decision to transition to the iPhone, it conducted a review of the major platforms, including BlackBerry, iOS and Android. At the time of the comparison, however, ICE was looking at BlackBerry 7.
"ICE was saying they had relied on RIM for many years, but it became brutally clear that RIM wasn't meeting their requirements," Wayne Lam, senior analyst for wireless communications at IHS iSuppli told the E-Commerce Times. That was why the agency announced the move to Apple.
"Evaluating BlackBerry 10 is definitely a promising step for the BlackBerry platform," he noted. "It gives RIM an opportunity to showcase a product."
Security Trump Card
RIM was not specific about what additional services BlackBerry 10 promises, but the company did say that the platform has received FIPS 140-2 certification ahead of launch. FIPS 140-2 is a Federal Information Processing Standard that addresses security requirements for cryptographic modules.
When it conducted its review of BlackBerry 7, Android and iOS, ICE considered such traits as security, predictability and commercial viability. Security-wise, RIM was superior to the others even at the BlackBerry 7 platform level. However, it scored lower for predictability and commercial viability, as well as product uniformity.
"The decision to go with Apple was [based on] the fact that it could fill all three of these features," said Lam.
Security is one of the many qualities ICE evaluated; however, it is an important one for a government agency. The FIPS 140-2 compliance helps edge BlackBerry 10 back into the good graces of the government agency.
"BlackBerry has a better security story," Roger Kay, principal at Endpoint Technologies Associates, told the E-Commerce Times. "It would be strange if it weren't acceptable to ICE."
RIM has provided early support for its group of developers to populate the platform with apps on day one. It is likely that ICE staff and independent developers are already working on apps that will serve the agency.


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Every single Israeli soldier who crosses the border of 1967 is enforcing an illegal occupation, ethnical cleansing, genocide. They are without exception war criminals, and we must never forget their crimes. We must do everything possible to bring them before justice. Here are some officers of the IDF and other Israeli armed forces who are known to have murdered Palestinians, and contributed to or committed directly or indirectly acts which qualify as crimes of war, crimes against humanity, genocide, ethnic cleansing ... If you have pictures, documents or other verifiable information of these or other individuals belonging to the IDF which could help in securing arrest warrants against them in any jurisdiction, please contact me. I hope that these individuals will be on their way to The Hague sooner or later. NOTICE: Some of these pictures are taken from other websites. These pictures help to identify terrorists of US, German, English, French, etc. nationality who operate in the West Bank under assumed impunity. These pictures belong to their respective owners, and are used here for informative and educational purposes only. I claim no ownership over these pictures. Their use here is strictly non-commercial, and intended to help bring the persons depicted to justice. This applies equally to civilians and IDF military officers. UPDATE: Some of the individuals listed here were posted by persons unknown to me to the website israeliwarcriminals.zzl.org, which no longer exists. The list was sent me by several readers. Because of their participation in the Gaza massacre of 2008/2009, they are "persons of interest" and thus included here.
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Major General Ehud Udi Adam is a General in the Israeli War Forces and the former head of the Israeli terrorist Northern Command. As such he is the perpetrator of numerous crimes against humanity and acts of terrorism against defenceless civilians.
Maj Gen Udi Adam
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Doron Almog Born 1951. Almog had a son, Eran, who was born brain-damaged. Eran lived in a home for the disabled in Aleh in Israel. He passed away in February 2007. He lead the campaign to murder the Palestinians...
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Ron Ashrov
Colonel Ron Ashrov, a war criminal, participated in "Operation Cast Lead" in Gaza.
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Sarah Palin now weighing in on Tebow; Tebow says he wasn't expecting 'buzz' over Super Bowl ad
MOBILE, Ala. -- Former Gators quarterback Tim Tebow wants to make one thing perfectly clear. He's not changing for anybody or anything.
On Wednesday, Tebow said that he wasn't expecting news of his pro-life Super Bowl ad to create such a national buzz but he wouldn't consider changing the ad or removing it.
"I definitely didn't think it would have this much hype -- this much buzz -- but, you know, it's something I believe in and I'll stand up for it," Tebow said. "It's me and my mom showing love for each other and that's pretty much what it's about."
Women's rights groups have protested the ad, claiming in a press release that it divides American when sports should bring the country together. On Wednesday, former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin weighed in on Tim Tebow and his Super Bowl ad. LINK!
Tebow said on Wednesday that NFL executives have not asked him about the ad during one-on-one interviews. The former Florida Gators quarterback also said that if teams have a problem with him making taking a stand about an issue, then that's probably not a team that should draft him.
"I think if anything they like that I took a stand on what I believe and if they don't that's something that would hesitate them bringing me on then it probably wouldn't be a good fit for me in that first place because I'm never going to deny what I believe in and things like that just for a game," Tebow said.


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When the Department of Justice blessed the joint venture earlier this year between Comcast and General Electric — giving the cable company control over a major television station — the approval came with some caveats. Among them: Comcast cannot withhold NBC programming from online video-service providers, even if they compete with the cable giant's offerings.
The restrictions freed the two companies to complete their deal, more than a year after they announced the agreement in December 2009. Considered a vertical transaction (when companies along the same supply chain combine, such as a manufacturer acquiring a distributor), the Comcast-GE deal is evidence of the Obama Administration's apparent willingness to restructure rather than fight these types of partnerships, which raise antitrust concerns, according to antitrust lawyers.
"There is a greater openness to using creative and to some degree regulatory behavioral remedies to solve problems," says David Meyer, a partner at law firm Morrison Foerster who formerly worked in the DoJ's antitrust division. For example, the vertical merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster Entertainment was approved in January 2010 after Ticketmaster agreed to divest some assets and license its ticketing software, allaying worries that the original merger terms would have resulted in higher ticket prices.
In general, federal agencies appear to be paying more attention to vertical transactions over anticompetitive concerns, says Meyer. In particular, antitrust enforcers see red flags when a merger between two companies along the same supply chain could possibly affect a competitor's ability to access a key product, he adds.
One way to track this increase is through so-called second requests, when the DoJ and Federal Trade Commission ask for more information about a transaction. The agencies issued 46 second requests between October 2009 and September 2010, according to their latest joint report, issued last month. That represents 4.1% of the 1,166 transactions submitted to the agencies during their 2010 fiscal year (all types of M&A deals, not just vertical ones). By contrast, less than 3% of transactions received second requests between 2004 and 2008.
Although the risk of incurring one is small, the probes are costly and can delay a deal by four to eight months, says Joel Grosberg, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, who defends these deals before the FTC and DoJ.
Moreover, after all the negotiations and hand-wringing to get a merger to the announcement phase, companies want to avoid questioning by the government. "It's always desirable to anticipate the concerns and be prepared to address them up front," says Meyer.
New research suggests that companies look up and down their supply chain for possible acquisitions as a risk-management tool, not just as a way to expand the business. The study, conducted by finance professors Jon Garfinkel of the University of Iowa and Kristine Hankins of the University of Kentucky, looked at so-called merger waves between 1980 and 2006, when merger activity was high for certain industries following an economic shock. The researchers noticed that companies reduced their cash-flow volatility by making vertical integrations during these waves.
For that reason, Garfinkel believes, federal agencies should keep the advantages of vertical mergers in mind when raising concerns. The transactions can help a company "manage risk when cash flows are more volatile," he says. "If you don't [let companies] manage that risk well, you are making it difficult for firms to plan effectively, and you are potentially making it difficult for them to raise capital to invest and improve their productivity and perhaps even overall economic productivity."


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Ted used to be a simple farmer. But he just couldn't see himself being a farmer his whole life. He wanted more. So Ted decided to leave for the big city and finish school there. Once he was done with his education, he decided it's finally time to find a job somewhere. And he found one in a small town called Sunset Hills. He got a job as an assistant in the mayor's office. This is how Ted and Catherine met! Even though he tried to hide it, he was smitten the first time he laid eyes on her. Unfortunately for Ted, the mayor himself was Catherine's fiancé. And the mayor... well, the mayor had some very ambitious plans for Sunset Hills. Or better said, some very ambitious plans for himself...
-40 exciting levels to master
-Hundreds of Quests
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Large Flies and Food Safety
Large flies including houseflies, bottle/blow flies and flesh flies are also called "filth flies" because they breed in filth such as manure, human excreta, dumpsters, garbage, and decaying vegetation, causing a major food safety risk.
Large Flies and Food Safety
Your employees may be aware of food safety concerns related to the presence of cockroaches in the kitchen, but then simply dismiss a housefly buzzing around them as a nuisance as they shoo it away. Little do they realize that houseflies and other large flies also pose a serious food safety risk. Large flies including houseflies, bottle/blow flies and flesh flies are also called "filth flies" because they breed in filth such as manure, human excreta, dumpsters, garbage, and decaying vegetation. Large flies have enormous potential to transmit bacteria and other potentially pathogenic organisms directly to human food or food-contact surfaces.
Besides being a nuisance, large flies can present a serious food safety concern. Research has shown that house flies can harbor more than 200 pathogens, including types of foodborne illness-causing bacteria, such as Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, E. coli, and others. Their sticky feet and body hairs are ideal for collecting and holding bacteria. Because of this, even a single fly in your facility is a food safety risk. Large flies landing on solid food items will often regurgitate digestive enzymes onto the food surface to dissolve the food allowing the fly to suck it back up. Flies will also deposit fecal matter on resting surfaces, leaving risks of contamination wherever they go. Additionally, a fly that has been on filth such as garbage, decaying meat, feces, etc. — can pick up pathogens and carry them onto a clean surface or ready-to-eat food product. Large flies can jeopardize your brand and their presence could be an indicator of poor sanitation to an auditor or inspector. This can result in fines or even closure putting your brand at risk.


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Ojai Valley CERT is excited to announce the 4th Ojai Valley OK! Drill -- Wednesday, September 21st at 7PM. We will be handing out signs within the neighborhoods, Ojai Farmers Market, Schools, City Hall, Library.
What we're looking from residents (at 7PM on Sept 21) is:
-Post your OK Sign in a street-facing window or on your mailbox (below the door)
-Tune to AM 1610
-Review your Disaster Preparedness Plan
-Check on your neighbor
Stay tuned to more info as it happens.
Outcomes and Benefits of OK Drill (It's as easy as 1-2-3-4!)
Outcomes of the OK Drill
Residents will:
- Review their Disaster Plan and check their emergency supplies
- Tune into (if available) their local AM Emergency Radio stations for instructions
- Post their OK sign in a window facing a street or mailbox
Benefits of the OK Drill
- People taking personal responsibility for their own welfare through Planning and Preparation
- Creating Community by participating in an area-wide drill
- Leadership Development through establishing CERT Emergency Response Teams
This simple, yet dynamic, drill provides opportunities to create and enhance teamwork, communications and leadership. Ojai Valley CERT contributes the success of our organization's growth and development to the first Ojai OK Drill held on 9/17/08.
This is how we do it!
- Ojai Valley CERT (Ojai , CA) is inviting all CERT (and volunteer response) groups to join us for a coordinated drill on the third Wednesday of September at 7PM (your local time).
- Create OK Signs - Print OK Signs (on Letter Size, Yellow Paper) with applicable information on reverse side
- Distribute OK Signs - CERT members giving out within their neighborhood; Fire Dept visiting classrooms; Faith-based organizations; Libraries; City Hall; Farmers Markets, etc.
- Create Neighborhood Areas - Based on Volunteer Response Team Jurisdiction, divide city/town into areas (maximum of 9)
- Designate Neighborhood Area Command Post - Each Neighborhood Area has a command post with a Neighborhood Area Coordinator
- Further Divide Neighborhood Areas into NERTs - Based on CERT Volunteer residence and geography, subdivide into smaller areas (Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams)
- Designate Rendezvous Points - Each NERT has a specific rendezvous point with a Coordinator
- NERT Assignment - Assign each CERT member to a NERT
- Assign radio operators (ideally Ham Operator) -- Assign to each Neighborhood Area Coordinator and NERT Coordinator
- Search Areas Planned - Plan ahead search areas for each NERT
- Counting Begins - After teams rally at rendezvous point, count designated search area (Note: You have one hour to complete count)
- Communication of counts - NERT Coordinators Communicate to Neighborhood Area Coordinators
- Neighborhood Area Count - Area Coordinators tally NERT counts and communicate (via radio) to Command Center (Note: You should be complete by 8:30PM)
- Command Center tallies Neighborhood Counts - Command Center adds up totals from all Neighborhood Areas
- Command Center communicates to Ojai Valley CERT - Send email to email@example.com with organization, location and total count.
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Houck Sharing Pole Passion With Clients In WOC, Salisbury
OCEAN CITY – Pole Power Studio in West Ocean City resists the taboo when it comes to pole dancing, turning it into a new, fun and exciting way to shed pounds and tighten up, or a way to spend an evening out with the girls.
Owner Angela Houck is a wife and a mother of two who cut her hours in her nursing career to part-time when she decided to spend more time at home but was looking for a different way to get back in shape. That is when she came across Pole Fitness.
"I took a class over the bridge because there wasn't anything offered here on the Eastern Shore, and I fell in love with it," Houck said.
Houck had instructed fitness classes in her earlier years and found Pole Fitness as a way to keep herself interested in staying in shape.
"I wanted to share it with other women, and when I did people started asking where to take classes, so that is when I decided to open a studio," she said.
Houck opened Pole Power Studio in West Ocean City in 2007, followed by her second location in Salisbury in 2010.
"I tried to operate my studio and do nursing but it was a little bit much," Houck said. "I had resigned from the hospital and made Pole Fitness classes my main career. I absolutely love it. I love everything about it. I love meeting all the women and watching their transformation … that is the reward that comes from it … when they find out they actually can do it and master it, it is the most rewarding and exciting feeling."
Houck has found no trouble spreading the word on Pole Power Studio, as enthusiasm over the growing genre of fitness has continued to grow.
"Most women are hesitant to come through the door but once they have talked to someone who has been in the studio or has taken the class they are willing to give it a try," Houck said. "All the women that come through are so encouraging of one another, and cheer each other on. It is a very fun and supportive environment."
Houck's biggest challenge is addressing the perception that Pole Fitness is directly correlated to exotic dancing.
"Although there is a sexy side to pole, it is so much more than that," she said. "It is mind and body workout with a combination of dance, yoga, gymnastics and acrobatics, pretty much all of it. That is probably why I fell in love with it because I had tried every fitness genre there is and this is all of them together, and your body never gets bored because it is not the same type of movement over and over again. No matter what level you progress to its using your body in different directions against gravity, so there is always something that changes."
The Pole Fitness realm has grown significantly in recent years. Internationally it has become an accepted form of fitness and sponsored competitions are held every year. The U.S. held its first competition in 2009.
There are three categories of pole dance, starting with exotic dance, or entertainment.
"That is a very small part of what we do here," Houck explained.
Next is Pole Fitness, which most women are involved in.
"Pole Fitness is your average everyday lady, whether you want it in a private dance studio or for fitness and fun," Houck said.
The last category is Pole Sport, which is the competitive side and made up of men and women competing in the U.S. or internationally.
"In the Pole Fitness and Sport world there is incredible athleticism and strength, flexibility and creativity in dance, movement and costumes," she said.
Houck has made her rounds in pole competitions. She is a 2011 APFC Elite Finalist, 2011 Best Instructor and Best Studio for the East Coast by the International Pole Dance Magazine, 2nd Place in the 2012 Tri-State Pole Invitational Competition, and was named 2013 Greatest Around Ocean City for Best Fitness Instructor, Best Women Friendly Gym and Best Fitness Classes.
The Pole Sport Organization is divided into four regions — Atlantic, Central, Pacific and Southern. Houck recently returned from the Southern Pole Championships held June 5-6 in Miami where she competed in Championship Level 3 Senior and earned first place. Following the competition, Houck attended the fourth annual International Pole Convention.
"It is really cool thing to be a part of because it is everyone internationally that has made pole what it is," she said.
Pole Power Studio offers a variety of classes and private lessons. All students start in the beginner classes because pole is generally new to everyone. After learning the foundation moves and gaining strength and confidence, students begin to move through the different levels at their own pace.
"Our classes are for all women of all fitness levels, shape, size and ages, from all professions and all walks of life," Houck said. "No one, whether you're fit or not, comes into the studio with full experience. Everyone is in the same boat when they start, fit or not."
Pole Power Studio also offers private parties for any ladies night out event, such as a bachelorette party, birthdays or a mom's night out.
"Our classes are fun but parties are totally about fun," Houck said. "It is still a workout … we build a whole routine and perform it all together."
For information on Pole Power Studio and classes, private sessions, and parties, visit www.thepolepower.com or call 877-653-3482.


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We managed to make it to two parks this weekend and was surprised by a few things. There was the expected walls in Fantasyland and further progress on the new restaurant in Mexico, but wait until you see a couple of these pics.
Lot's more vertical construction visible in Mexico.
They've started to lay the floor for the exterior deck, which appears to be a lot bigger than we previously saw.
That's because some of the construction walls are down. I didn't capture it in this pic, but the interior floor is still dirt at this phase. That's a lot of outside seating.
One more pic before we leave EPCOT below the cut and then a whole lot of news from the Magic Kingdom
This perfume display in France has changed since the Flower and Garden festival opened. There used to be a knob you had to twist to get the smell to be released. That day, I watched guest after guest try to figure it out and fail. Now that knob is gone but I couldn't smell anything nor figure out how to get it to come out. Hmmm. Something is still not quite right. Plus some of the flower exhibits in this area were showing some wear and tear.
Today we entered the Magic Kingdom right after rope drop. Just inside the bag check area a generically costumed cast member was handing out park maps, but not to everyone. I walked up and asked for one and she said "Oh, you want a coupon?" Of course, I did. But I had no idea that's what it was at the time. I wonder what criteria she was told to use for handing them out.
20% discount for an early or late lunch was a pretty good deal. But I heard that Hollywood Studios had a buy-one, get-one free entree deal, which is potentially a better deal. We went to Columbia Harbor House right at opening and there were about 10 families there. All of us had the coupon. So if the goal is to drive early dining, I think it's working.
For the record, I want to see more of this thing. But if there is going to be a discount, a coupon that's randomly handed out at the gate shouldn't be required. Rather it should be open to everyone who dines during those times.
In Town Square, Exposition Hall has started its remodeling phase. That means one of my favorite places in the park is now gone. The little theater that showed a few early Disney cartoons was a cool respite from the sun and crowds. I hope something equivalent returns when it reopens.
As part of the construction this wheelchair ramp has been added. It's not perfectly themed, but I guess that's understandable if it's really temporary. If it's going to be here for a few months, it would be nice to see better themed hand rails added.
The expanded deck for the Fireworks dessert is open. I'm not impressed with some of the work. There is painted plywood in places, which looks bad. But the extra space will be nice and the new planters on the outside are good design. If they put hanging plants in them, it should have a wonderful look.
I'm posting this as my Merchandise find of the week. It's a great t-shirt design and could be worn to any Grateful Dead concert too.
If you hadn't heard the walls are up in Fantasyland. Get use to this for the next 2-3 years. We've lost the Pooh playground, Ariel meet and greet, and the new DVC location they had just finished building.
More walls.. at least the colors change every couple dozen meters.
And there is the inevitable stroller parking. This will be chaos in the summer.
Dumbo remains open for now.
as is all of Toon Town Fair.
I'm liking the quotes and Stanley is getting some great sponsorship value.
Pooh and Tigger have been moved to Toon Town Fair. Alas, the smoking section has not yet been moved. Please stop torturing the train riders and kids with the foul odor and move them somewhere away from everyone else.
I have to thank my son for discovering this. There is some construction going on across the train tracks from Fantasyland Station. Too early to tell what it is. It might must be parking for construction workers or a power substation, but it could be a new show building for an as yet un-announced attraction. Whatever it is, the backstage access road can be seen from across the area. Any ideas.
Tinker Bells treasures has added a new photo studio. This is getting a little too Knott's Berry Farm for me. I'm assuming there was a demand or they wouldn't have given up the valuable merchandise floor space. That said, no body was in line when I walked by.
Peter Pan is getting some facade work done. It just had a great sign upgrade a few years ago. But the facade did need some work. I wonder if they can fix up the queue some while they're at it. Add some interactive elements.
And that's our tour this week. I hope you liked it. Let me know if you have any questions about the state of the parks.


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"When I called the quitline a couple of months ago to break my two-pack-a-day habit, I felt really frustrated. I'd tried all the nicotine replacement therapies and different quit smoking medications with no success. To put it bluntly, nothing worked. One thing I hadn't really tried was getting together a strong support network and making a plan. During my first coaching session, I worked with my coach to map out specific strategies, like delaying the first cigarette I smoked in the morning. My quit plan also included being more open with the people around me about my decision to quit. I even began developing coping strategies like journaling and walking to handle anger and stress, my two biggest triggers for smoking. A month later, I'm off cigarettes and I don't miss them. I'd been a slave to those cancer sticks way too long. What a waste of time. I love breathing without hacking and coughing. I'm feeling better overall, and eating healthier by snacking on carrots and celery, along with lots of fruit and water. I'll do what I need to do to stay quit. My next goal is to support my daughters in quitting smoking!"


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BEIJING – Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC is set to release what could be the first Windows Phone 7 handset for mainland China, a move that will finally bring the Microsoft mobile OS to a key market.
The HTC Kaixuan, which means "triumphant return" in English, will be launched later this month, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. HTC is already accepting pre-orders for the device on its online store in China for 4,399 yuan (US$698).
Microsoft had said it expected its Windows Phone 7 mobile OS to launch in China during the first half of this year. Handset makers Nokia and ZTE also plan to release Windows Phone 7 smartphones in 2012.
In terms of hardware, the HTC Kaixuan appears to have the same technical specifications as HTC's other Windows Phone device, the HTC Titan. The HTC Kaixuan has a 4.7-inch (11.9 centimeters) touchscreen, 1.5 GHz processor, and an 8-megapixel rear facing camera.
HTC, however, said the Kaixuan is different in that its Windows Phone 7.5 OS has been localized for Chinese users. For instance, the Kaixuan comes installed with Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
Windows Phone 7 is however coming to China at a time when Google's Android OS is dominant, with a 56 percent share of the market in 2011, according to research firm Canalys.
Android's open source nature has been the big reason behind the success of the OS, said Canalys research director Nicole Peng. This has allowed Chinese companies and developers to build a strong ecosystem around Android, resulting in localized versions of the OS and apps specially built for average Chinese consumers, she added.
To compete with Android, Microsoft will need to develop the same kind of ecosystem for its Windows Phone 7 OS, which it so far lacks in China. "For Windows Phone 7, the biggest problem is the system is not localized enough," Peng said.
HTC is launching the Kaixuan after the company tripled its retail outlets in China to 2,000. The company, however, has only a 2.8 percent share of China's smartphone market, according to Canalys.
Nokia, Samsung, Huawei, Apple and Motorola in contrast are China's top five largest smartphone vendors, according to the research firm.


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A COLD war has broken out between two ice cream men in Blackburn.
Children and parents watched in horror as one seller, Zeheer Ramzan, smashed the window of the other's van with a tyre lever.
A second seller, Mohammed Mulla, then apparently rammed his van into the rear of the other.
The clash happened as the sellers refused to allow each other to scoop away their business in Palatine Road.
Residents captured the frosty scenes between Mr Whippy of Blackburn, and Mr Yummy of Tubzee in Halifax on video.
Witnesses who watched the apparent turf war said they were shocked at the street sellers 'unprofessional' antics.
Ahmed Chaka, 16, of Palatine Road, Blackburn, said: "My little sister came out to grab an ice cream and that's when it all just kicked off.
"One of the ice cream men was saying come and buy it from me, 'I'll sell it cheaper'. That's when the trouble started.
"They were swearing and everything. My little sister was upset. To be honest it all seemed very silly."
Fellow neighbour John Tighe, 55, said: "It all came down to a turf war.
"One was offering four, two scoop cones with a flake for £2 and the other said he would do them all for 10p cheaper.
"I couldn't believe it when Mr Yummy jumped out of his van and smashed Mr Whippy's window, you just don't expect that around here.
"The language they were using was very poor, especially as their chimes were going off and children were watching. If my children were still young I would definitely think twice about letting them go to the ice cream man alone now."
Father-of-four Mobeen Quizam filmed the incident on his mobile phone and then posted it to YouTube.
By yesterday evening more than 1,200 people had viewed the video.
Mr Quizam said: "I was just chilling out at home when I heard this commotion outside. When I looked two ice cream men were screaming at each other in the street.
"I didn't think it was very professional as they were swearing loudly at each other. Then one smashed a van window with a metal bar."
Police have now launched an investigation after receiving complaints from both ice cream sellers.
A police spokesman said: "We have been made aware of the incident in Palatine Road, Blackburn last Saturday at 6pm.
"We have now launched an investigation into the incident and an officer will be contacting both parties."
The driver of the Blackburn based Mr Whippy van, Mr Mulla, 42, of Langdon Brook Square, Audley yesterday confirmed he had been involved in the incident.
He said he felt his home grown business was being 'forced out of town' by the Halifax based company.
Mr Mulla, a father-of-three, said: "I have been having problems with this company for months. I have been established in Blackburn for 12 years and I am really popular with my customers.
"Over the last few months, this Mr Yummy, has been following me around, chiming outside the allotted times and muscling in on my patch.
"I don't sell powdered ice cream. We sell nothing but diary ice cream.
"I have complained to the council and the police. Hopefully now people will listen."
But Father-of-four Mr Ramzan, 32, from Halifax defended his actions.
He said: "I come all the way from Halifax just to make a living. I have tried to be reasonable and come up with a compromise but Mr Whippy is having none of it.
"This has been going on for months. Wherever I go in Blackburn he follows me. Surely the town is big enough for us both.
"On Saturday, I just felt threatened and at the end of my tether. I didn't mean to smash his window I just tapped it too hard."
Blackburn with Darwen Council issues licenses to all street vendors in the borough. They have now launched their own investigation into the incident.
A Blackburn with Darwen Council spokesman said: "We licence street traders. Anyone who sells goods from a stall or a vehicle in the borough needs to apply for a licence.
"We have several powers if we feel the terms of the licence has been breached including suspending it, revoking it or refusing to renew it.
"We aware of this incident between two licence traders and are investigating."
Fellow Blackburn ice cream seller Nadeem Naim said: "This is really unprofessional and it doesn't look good for the rest of us. Blackburn with Darwen Council should think more carefully about giving street selling licenses to out of town business men. We have enough people in Blackburn trying to make a living."
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Jim Dale Wins Grammy Award for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" AudioBook
Feb 11, 2008
At ceremonies before tonight's telecast, it was announced that Jim Dale won the Grammy Award in the category best "Spoken Word Album for Children" for his audio recording of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" written by J.K. Rowling. Congratulations Jim Dale!
If you have not yet heard Jim Dale's voice work for the Harry Potter audio books, be sure to check out these excerpts here from Random House.


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Monday, June 11, 2007
Mondays with Maida - Austrian Walnut Crescents
Page 228 in the old book / page 253 in the new book
Tender and buttery little cookies in a pleasing crescent shape - you'll get no complaints from me! Well, perhaps one teeny weeny quibble... they need a bit of salt. But these cookies are easy to like even without the salt.
The dough is slightly crumbly (and seemed to become more so as time passed), but still relatively easy to handle. The shaping takes a little time, but is quite doable. Maida tells you to roll the dough between your hands, but I found it easiest to first shape the dough with my fingertips into the shape you see at the top of the picture below - sort of like two back-to-back cones. This shape must then be thinned out and lengthened. You can do that either by rolling it between your hands, or by rolling it on a flat surface with both hands. I found that this second method was better for getting evenly tapered ends, but sometimes resulted in the cookie caving in. Fortunately, the dough can be easily pinched back into shape with your fingers. The final step is to bring the ends around to form a crescent shape.
Here's the panel...
Suzanne: "Yum! The taste reminded me of a similar cookie that's round with walnuts in them and is covered with powdered sugar. The Austrian Walnut Crescents didn't crumble when you ate them and were not as heavy as the round cookie. The crescent shape with the powdered sugar was attractive. I loved the walnut taste of the cookie. I could eat them all. Rating - 5.0"
Laura: "Yummy, tasty and crunchy... but just a little drier than I like. Rating - 3.0"
Denny: "A very nice little cookie, but a little bit on the bland side. Crunchy and tasty with a bit too much powdered sugar. Even with the -1 chocolate deficiency, I'd give them a 3.0. Rating - 3.0"
Terri: "These are outstanding! The walnuts are finely ground and the buttery flavor is delicious. These would be an excellent choice to serve with a chocolate type cookie Rating - 5.0"
Overall rating by the panel - 4.0
Next week - Sour Cream and Pecan Dreams
Nutrition Facts
Ghosts of cookies past
6 comments:
- santos. said...
i am completely amused by how this cookie is attributed to so many countries; it is just such a good dough everyone wants to take credit for it, i guess :)
love that photo of the ghosts! - June 11, 2007 9:54 AM
I'm so pleased you got such high ratings for this one. And here's a suggestion for chocolate-loving Denny: use a scale of 1 to 6. That way you've always factored in that minus one...I love the last photo you posted!
- June 11, 2007 4:00 PM
- Nupur said...
Oh, the ghost photo is gorgeous, Cathy! Your work is soooo neat. If I posted a photo of the kitchen counter when I'm making cookies...I shudder to think about it :)
- June 11, 2007 7:47 PM
- Cathy said...
Hi Santos! Very true - it's such a simple dough too. This one isn't as nutty as some... I remember my Mom's recipe had so many nuts the dough barely held together. Not sure which country that recipe hailed from :)
Hi Mari! Thanks! Oh well, Denny averages out and probably contributes to a more realistic score at times (I think sometimes cookie panelists are a little too generous with the 5's)
Hi Nupur! Thank you! Don't worry - that corner was cleared off just for the photo... it's not usually like that! - June 11, 2007 8:18 PM
- Amy said...
I love checking your blog every week.
- June 13, 2007 11:38 AM
- Cathy said...
Hi Amy - thanks, I'm glad to hear that!
- June 13, 2007 9:47 PM


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Commemorative Gifts
Invest in the Future of Parks
High-quality parks are essential for a healthy and vital community. Parks and trails in Prince George's County are used by millions of visitors each year. Commemorative gifts enhance and extend our park system to meet the needs of our growing community. Your gift in memory of an individual or honoring an important event beautifies parks, supports continued park development, and creates community links to our award-winning park system.
Support Your Parks
Individual donors, groups, and businesses are encouraged to honor a person or event; memorialize a family member or colleague; or celebrate a birthday, anniversary, or another special event through a commemorative gift to the Department of Parks and Recreation. All donors receive a dated certificate, a map recording the placement of the gift, and recognition with a tag or plaque.
Landscape specialists will provide a selection of native and durable trees for planting in selected parks sites from September through May. These include shade, evergreen, and flowering trees. Donations include the cost of a tree, a standard plaque, and maintenance for the life of the tree.
Commemorative Benches
Two styles of benches are offered including traditional wood and a bench made from recycled materials. Park staff can assist donors with styles, locations, and plaque design. Your donation includes the cost of a bench, plaque, and maintenance for the life of the bench. Prices vary by style.
Park Renovation & Amenities
Amenities including sculptures, interpretive signage, bike racks, drinking fountains, or other suitable items may be arranged on an individual basis with park staff. These projects vary in size, cost, and availability of sites. Requests will be handled individually and gifts will include item costs and maintenance fees. Your good stewardship of our parks and natural areas will provide a lasting legacy for future generations.
The donation of a tree, bench, or another amenity to The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission's park system does not constitute ownership of the item, the land upon which it is situated, or the surrounding lands. Department of Parks and Recreation staff can accept only those commemorative gifts that are in alignment with the Commission's organizational mission and purpose. The Commission reserves the right to determine the suitability of all commemorative gifts and donations and expressly reserves the right to refuse any donation or commemorative gift. The Commission, in its sole discretion, will determine whether to repair or replace any of the commemorative gift items that are damaged, stolen, or destroyed.
Kathy Archer
Commemorative Gifts CoordinatorPhone: 301-446-3344


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- Look for the Political Pulls baseballs signed by Barak Obama and John McClain.
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Visual Studio has never supported JavaScript the way it supported .NET languages such as C# or VB.NET. While the Visual Studio 11 Beta does not close the gap completely, it does add numerous features intended to make JavaScript development easier such as significantly enhanced Intellisense, debugging support, editor functionality, and more.
JavaScript IntelliSense has been expanded through a variety of new features. It is now ECMAScript 5 compliant and rebuilds automatically (no more Ctrl Shift J). Script tags for JavaScript files also load IntelliSense content from the referenced files. Additionally, developers can add implicit references to files for JavaScript through the Options menu. This gives project-wide IntelliSense support for the referenced JavaScript files. Developers can write their own descriptive signature information for JavaScript functions with IntelliSense signature overloading.
Debugging support for JavaScript has been extended to allow opening remote extension-less JavaScript files in the editor. Developers can set breakpoints on individual statements in addition to complete lines, allowing debugging of compressed JavaScript files. The Dom Explorer and JavaScript Console are also supported when debugging with IE.
The Visual Studio editor now handles outlining, brace matching, brace highlighting, and Go to Definition(F12) natively. Validation and color coding for Regular expressions are also supported.
For a detailed list of new JavaScript changes, see the Microsoft web development tools group blog.
ECMAScript 5 is the fifth version of the ECMAScript language specification. JavaScript is the most widely used implementation of the ECMAScript specification.
You can read more about the Visual Studio 11 Beta on this Microsoft blog, or go directly to the Visual Studio 11 Beta download site.


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Initiative 502 made possession of small quantities of marijuana legal for those 21 and older. But there was nothing in 502's rules and regulations that allowed for six pounds of weed wrapped in plastic wrap and coated in petroleum jelly – which police say is exactly what hotel staff discovered sitting outside an unoccupied room at the Four Seasons yesterday.
According to the Seattle Police Department:
The special teams from police and fire were called to the Four Seasons Hotel at 1st Avenue and Union Street just after 12:45 PM after staff found a lumpy package sealed in plastic wrap that was left outside of a vacant hotel room.
Hotel employees, concerned by the package's odd shape and unclear recipient, called police and fire officials, who opened the package and found six pounds of marijuana, covered several layers of packaging and petroleum jelly.
As you'd expect, police indicate that the pot was seized and will be slated for destruction. While it's legal for an adult to possess up to an ounce of weed in Washington, it's still illegal to have six pounds (and still gross to have six pounds smeared in vaseline).
Meanwhile, authorities assure us that, "Police do not believe the package was delivered by hotel room service."


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The former Pennsylvania Senator might be well-known on Capitol Hill, but his name more regularly produces blank stares in places like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, if recent polling is any guide. The likely Republican presidential candidate knows he needs to expand his name identification.
Santorum can only hope voters don't turn to Google, the world's most popular Internet search engine, to learn more about him.
Try it for yourself: Enter "Rick Santorum" into Google. In a fraction of a second you'll have hundreds of thousands of results. But two of the top four cite a graphic definition for a sexual neologism. In this case, the neologism is a reference to anal sex.
This, of course, is no accident.
Santorum himself sounded slightly defeated when asked about it recently.
"It's one guy. You know who it is. The Internet allows for this type of vulgarity to circulate. It's unfortunate that we have someone who obviously has some issues. But he has an opportunity to speak," Santorum told Roll Call.
Santorum's Google problem began in 2003, when gay sex-advice columnist Dan Savage sought to mock Santorum's comments on homosexuality. Then the third-most-powerful Republican in the Senate, Santorum told the Associated Press that April that gay sex could "undermine the fabric of our society." The interview touched on a Supreme Court case related to sexual privacy, and Santorum compared homosexual acts to allowing for "man on child, man on dog" relationships.
"And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does," he said at the time.
Savage soon created the website spreadingsantorum.com, tied to a contest in which he asked readers to submit definitions for the term "santorum."
It would be among the first "Google bombs" in the modern political era. Using extensive links to other sites, Savage soon ensured that the winning definition would be among the top search results. (The search yields even less flattering sites if users search for the Republican's last name alone.)
Those search results — not for the squeamish — have been the subject of viral Internet chatter for years. The nationally syndicated Savage inspired a coalition of gay activists and liberals from across the country to spread the term as widely as possible, creating a meme that helped now-Sen. Bob Casey (Pa.) unseat Santorum in 2006, and, ultimately, one that makes Santorum's presidential hopes laughable in some circles.
Will the typical Iowa caucus-goer be comfortable with the White House hopeful's explanation?
Roll Call asked Santorum why he didn't reach out to Google to try to remedy the problem. He said he never contacted the search giant directly, and his longtime consultant John Brabender dismissed the problem as a matter of free speech.
"There's still the First Amendment," Brabender said.
But Roll Call has learned that former staffers consulted technology experts years ago about their options. Ultimately, they found there was little they could do.
"You can bury anything on the Internet," said David Urban, a Santorum ally and former chief of staff for former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.). "But at what financial cost and at what political cost? You can bury a bad story. But how do you bury your own name?"
Well, anyone can buy Google ads tied to unfriendly searches, a tactic President Barack Obama's campaign used to combat myths about his citizenship and religion. But any skilled Web user could deploy the same method Savage used — getting thousands of bloggers to link to a more complimentary site and take it viral.
Urban suggested that Santorum could use the Google problem to his advantage.
"The site's completely gross. But I don't think it's a problem politically for Rick running for president. Quite the opposite," he said. "If you're Rick Santorum and you're making an argument that there's certain people that wish you ill, there's exhibit No. 1. You say: 'You want to see my battle scars? Google my name. You don't think I've been in the trenches for years? I've got the scars to prove it.'"
It's unclear whether Savage imagined his experiment would live on for nearly a decade. The website hasn't been updated since July 2004, but it remains a prominent search result in early 2011, just when Santorum is laying the groundwork for capturing the Republican nomination for president.
It's likely that Savage would be pleased. In a Jan. 15, 2004, column, he said it was "wonderful" that his santorum website "is now the first thing that comes up on Google after Sen. Santorum's own websites." In the column, Savage responded to a reader and encouraged the media to pick up the story: "My readers and I work like hell to appropriate Sen. Santorum's name, we succeed beyond our wildest dreams."
Savage did not respond to repeated interview requests, but he told Mother Jones last fall that now that Santorum is obviously a White House candidate, "I'm going to have to sic my flying monkeys on him."
Indeed, Santorum's views on homosexuality won't help him with gay voters, according to R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans.
Cooper declined to address the Google issue directly but said that "Sen. Santorum's messaging when it comes to one's sexual orientation is wrong and divisive for our nation and our party."
"In the 2010 election cycle, 31 percent of self-identified gay and lesbian voters chose to vote Republican," he continued. They "are part of the big tent that is going to help us win back the United States Senate and the White House next year. … Now is not the time for our party to get off message because of the personal viewpoints of certain politicians. Now is the time to focus on the critical matters at hand."
Denis Dison, a spokesman for the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, which helps openly gay candidates win elected office, accused Santorum of using the presidential nominating process to draw attention to his "outrageous" social views.
Santorum, meanwhile, suggested a double standard, especially in what appears to be a new era of civility in the wake of the Arizona shootings.
"It's just a sad commentary," he told Roll Call. "You want to talk about incivility. I don't know of anybody on the left who came to my defense for the incivility with respect to those things."
Urban called on liberal leaders to do just that.
"If somebody had a website up that maligned somebody who wasn't a white, Christian, conservative, male, Rachel Maddow's head would explode," he said. "Where's Rachel Maddow on this?"
Dison offered Santorum a suggestion: "I think that civility in politics is a fantastic goal. … Speaking from the LGBT community, we wish he would practice it."


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Microsoft Windows Server 2012, a significantly revamped server OS, launches Tuesday. Our hands-on look explores some of the worthwhile changes for enterprise IT.
September 4, 2012
8 Key Differences Between Windows 8 And Windows RT
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With Windows Server 2012 set to hit store shelves on September 4, it's officially time to dust off the Windows Server lab and start hacking through the final Server 2012 bits to see what the final product looks like. Historically, most IT managers have avoided new Windows server releases like the plague, at least for a year or two anyway. But the strategy of getting beta builds into the hands of many IT professionals early and often should pay dividends for Microsoft, because more enterprises are now comfortable deploying on or near day one. The release of Windows Server 2012 (previously codenamed Windows Server 8) promises no big surprises compared to the beta version, but some notable changes compared to its Microsoft predecessors.
While we probably won't see a flash mob of server admins breaking into Redmond on Tuesday to get a new copy of Windows Server 2012, there is reason to be excited about some of the cool improvements that made their way into the final product. In this piece, we'll kick into first gear to get a sense of how some of Server 2012's more interesting features drive. Later on, InformationWeek Labs will do a deeper exploration of each high impact feature to see where it shines, and where it doesn't. Take a look at three changes that make Server 2012 worth a look now: 1. Dynamic Access Control One of the largest data security and compliance challenges that all organizations have is getting a handle on the out-of-control proliferation of sensitive data on our corporate file systems. Larger organizations that have a lot to lose have generally deployed data loss prevention tools to tackle the problem. In Windows Server 2012, a new feature called Dynamic Access Control promises another route, presumably for groups that don't already have investments in another security tool to do the job. Here's how DAC works: The file server role in Server 2012 contains a beefed up version of the Windows File Classification Infrastructure (which was first introduced in Server 2008 R2). The Windows FCI allows you to continuously audit data stored on a file system using conditional expressions and take policy action accordingly. So for example, if an employee saved an excel spreadsheet on the network that contained social security data, you could configure a security policy that automatically applies certain permissions to the file. Or, you could configure a policy to automatically encrypt the document via Rights Management Server. Another choice would be to have a popup to appear telling the employee that saving the data to the network violates company policy. We found that DAC worked quite well in the lab, and our only gripe was that it was a bit cumbersome to set up. If you're testing this feature in your lab, you'll need a Server 2012 DC, you'll need to install the file server role, and if you want to automatically protect data using RMS, then you'll need to light up the right management server role. Broadly speaking, you need to first create a file classification rule that describes the data you're looking for and how to classify it once found. Then you must create a central access rule which describes what do when a match is found. Then you must create a central access policy and deploy that group policy object to the file server hosting the shared drive in order to enforce your central access rule. Dynamic Access Control is a really cool feature of Windows Server 2012, but it's not exactly plug and play to deploy. To be fair, any DLP package from any other vendor can be equally or even more difficult to deploy and manage. 2. Unified Remote Access Many of the remote access features in prior versions of Windows Server have been consolidated into the remote access server role in Server 2012, including a new and improved version of DirectAccess. One of the biggest disappointments with DirectAccess in Server 2008 R2 was the inflexible and complex deployment scenarios that you simply had to accept in order to make DirectAccess work. All things considered, the first incarnation of DirectAccess wasn't mature enough or an easy enough to manage to become a viable alternative to other remote access solutions. DirectAccess in Server 2012 is much easier to deploy. One of the most notable improvements is that you no longer need multiple DirectAccess servers in order for clients to access internal network resources; you can use network address translation (NAT) to route incoming connections through to a single DirectAccess server. There is also support for global server load balancing so Win8 clients can automatically connect to the closest network entry point. If you're using Windows 8 with DirectAccess in Server 2012, you'll also now have the ability to join a new machine to the domain without needing access to the internal network. In the lab, deploying DirectAccess is mostly wizard driven proposition in Server 2012. The default deployment option encourages you to deploy both DirectAccess and VPN in order to support non-Windows 7 or Windows 8 clients (and therein lies a drawback with DirectAccess). If you've already deployed a best of breed IPSec and or SSL VPN to support XP, MacOS, Linux, or mobile devices, then you should simply install DirectAccess only. All of the group policy objects required to make DirectAccess work are pushed out to Active Directory during the setup wizard, and as a result all clients that can support DirectAccess will have the policy pushed out to them. DirectAccess in Server 2012 doesn't require IPv6 per se, so your internal devices no longer need to be IPv6 enabled. In this scenario, the DirectAccess server will be your conduit to all of your IPv4 devices on the internal network. Using our Windows 8 client in the lab, we had no problem deploying a single DirectAccess server through NAT. The best part about using Windows 8 with Server 2012 DirectAccess is that you can use a self-signed certificate to encrypt the Kerberos exchange between the client and the DirectAccess server. Win7 clients accessing a Server 2012 DirectAccess server still need to use PKI. On the whole, DirectAccess is vastly improved in Server 2012. The drawback is, in order to realize many of those improvements, you need to deploy Windows 8 along with it. 3. Server Core I'll state up front that this is no reason to migrate to Server 2012, but I'm including this new feature here because it addresses a pet peeve of mine. In Windows Server 2008, selecting Server Core as an installation option was an all-or-nothing proposition. If you built a server core box and later regretted that decision, your only recourse was to rebuild the box. And conversely, if you built a full UI server and wanted to take advantage of the reduced attack surface and performance that you enjoy with Server Core, then you were equally out of luck. (If you're not familiar with Sever Core yet, it aims to help with private cloud chores. See what Microsoft has to say about the benefits, including your ability to increase density of VMs.) In Server 2012, the Server Core and full UI installation options are no longer an all or nothing proposition. That's good news for security conscious admins, because it makes the process of hardening a Windows server playing a critical server role much easier. In the lab, we built up a DHCP server that was also running the File and Storage Services role using the full UI option. The full UI server of course had the full shell loaded with 56 running services, using a PowerShell command to revert the server to a command line only version of the same server, we were able to shed 11 running services from the DHCP server, for a total of 45 running services. Security conscious admins could harden the OS even more, but as a quick hit security strategy, the ability to revert back and forth between Server Core and full UI is an enormously cool new option for server administrators. For more detail on what else has changed in Windows Server 2012, see my first look at the beta version, which details the server management and Hyper-V features, among others. Also, see Charles Babcock's look at Microsoft's addition of Azure management capabilities within Windows Server 2012, including the automated provisioning of virtual machines. This move amounts to white-labeling Azure, and and steps up the rivalry with VMware. Extending core virtualization concepts to storage, networking, I/O, and application delivery is changing the face of the modern data center. In the Pervasive Virtualization report, we discuss all these areas in the context of four main precepts of virtualization. (Free registration required.)
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According to this link I try to get intraday data of SAP listed at Xetra.
Intraday data with timestep of 1 second would be great. I do not understand parts of the command, I try
Now, first thing I ask myself: Why is there a date column (COLUMNS=DATE,CLOSE,HIGH,LOW,OPEN)? I mean, since this is intraday data of 5 days, there should be more rows per day than just one?
How can I get intraday data of SAP at Xetra of the last 10 years with this command?