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Final Fantasy XIV Will Stay Open After Deadline, A Realm Reborn Alpha to Begin Soon
Previously we knew that the Final Fantasy XIV servers were to be shut down on November the 11th, ten days after the final save that will be carried over to A Realm Reborn.
Apparently during the latest poll 35.4% of respondents expressed the will to continue playing even past that date, despite the fact that further progression of their characters past November the 1st won't carry over to the revamped game.
Square Enix announced today that, due to that, the old servers of Final Fantasy XIV will reopen a few days after November the 11th, and will stay open through the migration process unless monthly logins drop below 30% (in which case they will be closed again). The final save will still happen on November the 1st.
Producer Naoki Yoshida also announced in his 36th Letter From the Producer that the alpha testing of A Realm Reborn is currently scheduled to begin at the end of October, with a focus on stress testing the new server coding and hardware configuration, and on providing feedback on the backbone of the new system.

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Attend Taste Of The Beach
Now in its 5th year, the annual Taste of the Beach Wine.Dine.Donate event once again delights South Walton with its three day extravaganza, November 2 – 4. This year's event features medal winning wines from prized vintners, top shelf liquor, exquisite food from renowned chefs, and artistic events, all within the picturesque ambiance of our beautiful Emerald Coast.
Taste of the Beach is a collaboration between the Walton Area Chamber of Commerce and the Destin Charity Wine Auction (DCWAF). Patrons can choose to attend any or all of the five individually-priced events to experience an impressive array of offerings, with the majority of proceeds from ticket sales and charity auction benefiting local charities that help to improve and enhance the lives of underprivileged and at-risk children in Northwest Florida. Over the years, this festival has raised more than $300K for Emerald Coast Children's Charities.
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Friday, November 2
Finz After Dark
Finz Beachside Grille 7pm-11pm
Experience the ultimate indulgence with exotic cuisine, flaming desserts, top shelf liquor, show mixologist and an unforgettable atmosphere never before experienced in this area! This event features Ketel One Vodka drinks poured through custom sculpted ice luges, A Cruzen and Beam Rum lounge area paired with fine cigars, Kahlua Station with flamboyant desserts, Beefeater Gin Station and Avion Tequila specialty drinks, just for starters! Enjoy live DJ, dancing under the stars and unlimited food, drinks and cigars in an ambiance unrivaled on the Emerald Coast!
Al Fresco Reserve Tasting In Ruskin Place
Ruskin Place, Seaside 6pm–8pm
In the picturesque town of Seaside amid the art galleries of Ruskin Place, guests will taste a range of highly allocated and reserve wines, dine on sushi and hors d'oeuvres prepared by noted local restaurateur and chef Jim Shirley, and enjoy live chamber music.
Saturday, November 3
Seeing Red Wine Festival on the streets of Seaside
1pm – 5pm, $120 per person
One of the largest events during Taste of The Beach, this picnic-style festival will take over the streets of Seaside, offering dozens of domestic and international red wines to sample while live music entertains a well as a full culinary pavilion!
See Seeing Red Wine Festival website for information about wine dinners and events happening in Seaside all week: Vitner Dinner at Bud & Alleys,
Sunday, November 4
Taste of The Beach & Charity Auction
Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa 2pm–5pm
Taste of The Beach concludes with a silent auction to benefit local childrens' charities. Guests may bid on fabulous prizes donated from the community and enjoy wine, cocktails and appetizers.
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Did you know that Tintin (the comic character) was based on a scout? Boy scouts all over the world are known for the adventurous outdoor activities that they partake. They participate in challenging activities and games that test their abilities in a fun way. Read on to find what activities they take part in. They are ranked based on their performance in these camps.
Camping is by far the most popular scouting activity. When camping, troops are left in the natural world on their own. They have limited resources. This challenge tests on their ability to work together as a team. It teaches the Boy Scout to rely on himself. Typical camps last anywhere between two and five days.
Adventures in the wilderness are always fun. This is where scouts go for a guided tour in remote locations. They have to trek for about a week. They participate in a wide array of outdoor activities that include hiking, rafting, and backpacking.
Day hikes – here, troops go hiking on rugged terrains. These hikes are usually no longer than a day or two.
Performing community projects – One of the scout's codes of conduct is that they live to help other people. In honor of this promise, they participate in humanitarian activities that include donating food to hunger stricken areas and building shelters. These projects take a full day.
Patrol activities – Patrols are the foundation of a scout's troop. Each patrol is made up of boys of a similar age group that has common interests. One patrol troop may choose to camp with the other patrols. Sometimes, patrols hike and camp on their own when the scoutmaster allows them. These patrols are useful in promoting leadership at a tender age.
Boy scouts' activities play a big role in teaching teamwork. Even if not all scouts participate in the competitive sports events, fellow members of the troop cheer them. The scout movement focuses on team building activities that promote responsibility and nurture self-esteem in a fun way.


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Following the successful publication of the 1st edition in 2009, the 2nd edition maintains its aim to provide an application-driven package of essential techniques in image processing and GIS, together with case studies for demonstration and guidance in remote sensing applications. Image Processing and GIS for Remote Sensing therefore has a "3 in 1" structure which pinpoints the intersection between these three individual disciplines and successfully draws them together in a balanced and comprehensive manner.
Image Processing and GIS for Remote Sensing conveys in-depth knowledge of image processing and GIS techniques in an accessible and comprehensive manner, with clear explanations and conceptual illustrations used throughout to enhance student learning. The understanding of key concepts is always emphasised with minimal assumption of prior mathematical experience.
Image Processing and GIS for Remote Sensing is heavily based on the authors' own research. Many of the author-designed image processing techniques are popular around the world. For instance, the SFIM technique has long been adopted by ASTRIUM for mass-production of their standard "Pan-sharpen" imagery data. The new edition also includes a completely new chapter on subpixel technology and new case studies, based on their recent research.
Overview of the book xi
Part I Image processing
1 Digital image and display 3
2 Point operations (contrast enhancement) 9
3 Algebraic operations (multi-image point operations) 21
4 Filtering and neighbourhood processing 35
5 RGB-IHS transformation 55
6 Image fusion techniques 69
7 Principal component analysis 77
8 Image classification 91
9 Image geometric operations 103
10 Introduction to interferometric synthetic aperture radar technique 113
Part II Geographical information systems
11 Sub-pixel technology and its applications 127
12 Geographical information systems 151
13 Data models and structures 155
14 Defining a coordinate space 177
15 Operations 191
16 Extracting information from point data: Geostatistics 211
17 Representing and exploiting surfaces 227
18 Decision support and uncertainty 247
Part III Remote sensing applications
19 Complex problems and multi-criterion evaluation 257
20 Image processing and GIS operation strategy 275
21 Thematic teaching case studies in SE Spain 293
22 Research case studies 335
Part IV Summary
23 Industrial case studies 389
24 Concluding remarks 419
Appendix A Imaging sensor systems and remote sensing satellites 427
Appendix B Online resources for information, software and data 441
References 443
Index 451
Jian Guo Liu received a Ph.D. in 1991 in remote sensing and image processing from Imperial College London, UK and an M.Sc. in 1982 in remote sensing and geology from China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China. He is a Reader in remote sensing in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London. His current research activities include: sub-pixel technology for image registration, DEM generation and change detection; image processing techniques for data fusion, filtering and InSAR; and GIS multi-data modelling for geohazard studies.
Philippa J. Mason completed a BSc in Geology at Southampton University in 1987, an MSc in Remote Sensing at University College London in 1993 and a PhD in 1998 at Imperial College London. She is a lecturer in remote sensing & GIS at Imperial College London and a consultant in geological remote sensing and image interpretation. Her research interests include the application of geospatial sciences to geohazards, tectonic geomorphology, spectral geology and mineral exploration.
Review of the first edition:
"The authors have described the key concepts and ideas with clarity and in a logical manner and have also included numerous relevant conceptual illustrations. The book contains twenty three chapters, all of which are well written."
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A first impression is something that will last a long time. Having a strong corporate brand or organization identity is important. Your corporate identity allows your audience to perceive you in certain ways. You can make your brand stand out from the crowd by portraying certain values or attributes. In fact, a well-written marketing strategy helps your business advertising and branding efforts. In essence, a great online presence highly depends on your overall business identity.
Ullaco Corp offers a variety of corporate branding and product branding, marketing strategies. From logo creation, letterheads, business cards, mobile-friendly website design, brochures/flyers and more. We can help you develop an impactful brand or marketing strategy. Not only do we focus on traditional brand strategies, but we also focus on online presence planning. Let's face it building a brand can be challenging. However, with our experience we can help alleviate this burden.
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A successful corporate identity strategy starts with understanding your target market and target audience. With that said, your business branding plan should be closely aligned with your organization's goals and objectives. Important to realize that we don't do the "Cookie-Cutter" approach with our clients. We know and understand that each organization is unique and should be treated that way.
What is Corporate Branding?
Corporate branding is seen as promoting a business brand rather than a product or service. Think of it this way; Coca Cola or Pepsi Co are ideal success stories of large organizations spending great amounts of time, money and effort in promoting the actual brand rather than the product. If someone mentions pop or a fizzy drink, most people will associate that with either Coca Cola or Pepsi. Overall, part of corporate branding is subliminally establishing a brand with thought and emotion.
In extreme cases, brand names are associated with a certain product or services. For example, Sharpie has been successfully marketed to North Americans to associate the brand name "Sharpie" as the go to word for a permanent marker. This allows a brand to become a house-hold name. In fact, another great example is Microsoft. In the mid to late 90's Microsoft has successfully got people to associate PC with any computer.
With all that said, corporate branding can make or break any small to large business. Perception is everything.
Why do you need Branding?
Branding is not just a logo design, it's the entire perception of a company's reputation and its offerings. Having a strong corporate branding strategy can increase the value of a company, acquire new customers, and provide employees with direction and motivation. Overall, the brand of a company also helps establish the culture of the business.
Your Corporate Identity says it all
Corporate branding exists to help you, as a small business or large enterprise, show your customers who you are, what you do, why you do it, and who you do it for. Your corporate branding represents what customers will expect from you and your company. By developing assets and a strategy that is consistent, you can create a strong brand presence and identity.
Corporate branding is something you should approach as early as you can. Establishing yourself with an identity and a strong organized front early on will benefit your company in the long run. Let our team at Ullaco help you create a strategy that will make your brand come alive. Contact us to get a free quote on our all-in-one premium solutions for web design, digital marketing, and corporate branding


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Today's mystery shows a cherub on a downtown building in red terra cotta. This is one of two that holds a banner saying the Germanic name of the building. This is in the "old world" section of downtown – any guesses?
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Plant Profiles
Gold Cone juniper
'Gold Cone' is the best exclamation point conifer for cold climates—as long as you "spiral" it with twine or wire, so heavy snow doesn't splay it open.
Growth is so dense that the interior of the bush is very shady, and full of brown and shaded-out needles.
With such a strong and satifying form—the cone is so narrow it's almost columnar—even small gaps into the interior are a blemish.
The spiral-tie is the way to keep the bush tight enough that the interior isn't exposed. The bush is protected from heavy snowload the moment the spiral-tie is in place.
The tie slowly disappears from view: the twine ages to light brown, new growth covers it, and also, because it's spiraling around such a steeply-growing plant, it soon slips downward just a bit, nestling deeper into the current foliage.
For a permanent spiral-tie, use wire instead. It's on my list for Spring.
Here's how Gold Cone juniper and Sky Pencil holly compare when faced with a blizzard.
Here's how successfully I'm pairing Gold Cone juniper with a sensational but tricky-to-establish vine, Dragon Lady crossvine.
Here's how to grow this colorful conifer:
Latin Name
Juniperus communis 'Gold Cone'
Common Name
'Gold Cone' juniper
Cupressaceae, the Cypress family.
What kind of plant is it?
Evergreen coniferous bush.
Zones 2 - 7.
Narrow, upright, and multi-stemmed.
Rate of Growth
Size in ten years
'Gold Cone' grows slowly but steadily. From a foot-tall youngster planted almost a decade ago, seven feet tall. Ultimately to about ten feet.
Never more than eighteen inches wide.
Dense and needly. The smooth and tight surface has an almost mossy uniformity.
Grown for
its habit: 'Gold Cone' is such a narrow cone that it's almost columnar.
its color: young needles are quite gold. The color calms down the rest of the year, but never slides all the way to plain green or plain blue. In Spring, then, this bush really is gold. The rest of the year? Gold-ish.
its hardiness: Gardening in the Yukon? In Novosibirsk? 'Gold Cone' can be on your must-plant list, too.
Flowering season
Juniperus communis flowers are not showy. The blue berries they mature to can be showy, but aren't reliably produced. The species is dioecious, so both male and female plants would be needed for berry formation on the females. 'Gold Cone' isn't sold (yet) by sex, so there's no guarantee either that you're buying the female necessary for the berries or a male that would be necessary for pollination. And even if you do, by chance, buy a female, it could easily happen that no male Juniperus communis are close enough to ensure pollination, either. As is typical for conifers, Juniperus communis is wind-pollinated.
Color combinations
'Gold Cone' is gold enough, at least in Spring, to quality as yellow. So use it cautiously around pink and red. It's a natural "flavor enhancer" for dark green, blue, white, and, of course, other yellows.
Partner plants
'Gold Cone' lends itself to inspired plantings by virtue of its narrow and not-too-tall habit, its dense and almost mossy foliage surface, and its pleasing and not-too-bright gold color.
Given that the plant requires full sun, and is so helpful in dry and poor-soil locations, partner plants will often need to be comfortable with the same rigors.
Exciting aesthetic attributes in partner plants would include large foliage, grassy or sword-like foliage, wide and mounding habit, and appealing Winter aspect either from broad-leaf evergreen foliage or a deciduous habit that reveals branches that are pleasingly arrayed.
For driest soil, sages, bayberry (if pruned to keep it low), yucca, kniphofia, ornamental grasses, and alliums.
For soil of average moisture, you could also consider broadleaved evergreens such as hollies, boxwood, and rhododendrons; iris; and huge-leaved seasonals like cannas. I've partnered with rice-paper plant, Tetrapanax papyrifera, which is just barely hardy as far north as Rhode Island.
I've also started training into my own 'Gold Cone' an unusual evergreen and vining raspberry, Rubus henryi var. bambusarum.
Where to use it in your garden
'Gold Cone' is a shrub to use as punctuation. Unless you're also comfortable with using multiple explanation points in your writing, you'll probably agree that 'Gold Cone' is too colorful to be planted as anything other than a solo. Because it's so hardy, and thrives even in shallow soils over ledge, or in a narrow crevasse between ledges, it's a great plant to use as a living promontory, projecting securely skyward from even the most exposed and precarious position.
'Gold Cone' is also very good at "stopping" a small hedge by being planted as its end-point. It's equally attractive planted in the middle of mixed plantings, where only the top third or half of the plant rises above its neighbors.
Full sun in soil that's well-drained and even dry, shallow, or gravelly.
How to handle it: The Basics
Juniperus communis is so tough and cold-tolerant. As long as you're not trying to grow it where it will be stressed by heat—see "Downsides" below—this species is bullet-proof. Plant in Spring or Fall; water well at planting, and then the plant is self-reliant.
Although 'Gold Cone' doesn't need pruning or watering or protection from any degree of severe wind or cold, it does need your help in withstanding heavy wet snow. The bush doesn't have a trunk; branches grow vertically from the base. If snow is wet enough and accumulates fast enough it can pile up on small twigs that do project out, pulling them outward to expose larger and larger twigs to even more accumulation—and so, gradually, pry the shrub wide open. The easiest long-term solution is to wrap the bush with wire (or twine, as I have), spiraling up to the top and then down again to the bottom. Wire is the permanent solution; the bush does not increase in width, so there's no danger of strangling it. New growth will hide the wire quickly.
How to handle it: Another option—or two?
Quirks or special cases
Juniperus communis does not thrive south of its native range. In eastern North America, this means that, south of Pennsylvania, grow Juniperus communis only at higher elevations. South of North Carolina, even that doesn't help. This is a species for climates with cold and snowy winters.
Juniperus communis is naturally variable, and with a world-wide distribution, a diversity of forms has been discovered. The species itself is almost never planted; chances are it's already growing in sunny spots in native growth near you already. The cultivars tend to be either prostrate, such as 'Green Carpet', or narrow and vertical, such as 'Gold Cone'. 'Compressa' is green, a third the size of 'Gold Cone', and even denser. There are few cultivars in the foundation-shrub size range, which is why J. chinensis tends to rule the juniper section at nurseries. J. communis will always be a specialty shrub, not a work-horse.
On-line and at retailers.
All Juniperus cultivars and species can be propagated by cuttings. Only the species come true from seed.
Native habitat
Juniperus communis has the largest native range of any woody plant, occuring naturally throughout the northern reaches of the Northern Hemisphere, in Europe, Asia, and North America. 'Gold Cone' originated in New Zealand.


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As a charity, our priority is children, not profit. Our goal is to find the best home for a young person and to support our foster carers to give them a safe and happy life.
All our foster carers have a dedicated supervising social worker. They'll give you one-to-one help and advice whenever you need it. You can also get in touch with us at any time of the day or night.
Our foster carers follow an annual training calendar. Sessions cover the essentials, like child safety and development, as well as policies and procedures.
We also run specialist training and explain some of the issues young people deal with, like bullying on social media and gang culture. You'll get ideas, resources and tools to help you.
These give you the chance to get together and meet people doing the same amazing thing.
Most of our services have a "buddy system" where new foster carers are paired up with more experienced people.
Our fostering ambassadors will also make sure your opinions are listened to.
We want you to know that you can afford to care for a child. Being a foster carer is skilled and dedicated work.
You'll get fees and expenses to support yourself and the children living with you. This means you can focus on caring without worrying about money.
All our foster carers are registered with The Fostering Network. This gives you access to support and offers.
You'll be able to use our Health Assured wellbeing package, and get discounts on lots of great brands.
Making happy memories is so important. We organise fun days out during the school holidays, giving you and the children you look after the chance to try something different.
As a charity, we will always put children's needs first.
Action for Children has been finding stable, loving homes for children for over 150 years.
We are proud to be a member of The Fairer Fostering Partnership, a group of charitable and not-for-profit fostering agencies across the UK.
Together, we look after over 2,000 children in care and advocate for their rights and wellbeing.
Join our family by getting in touch today.
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It is time to shed the remaining aftermath of the March fire and celebrate the rise of the YWCA! The YWCA Board of Directors invites YOU to an evening of Mardi Gras themed fun! Tickets are $50 per person and are still available by calling the YWCA at 330-823-1840. Check out those dinner choices prepared especially for Mardi Gras night! Thanks Alliance for all your support!
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Yesterday I had my first go at mozzarella using this recipe. Unfortunately the curds wouldn't set. I believe it's due to using tap water which is chlorinated and this stops the rennet from working.
If there is anything I cannot abide it is waste!
So what did I do?
Well I tried to scoop as much curd as I could out without too much whey but it was very small dots of curd. With this I tried to continue the heating and stretching part of the recipe with slight success. I ended up with a lumpy ball of what I have called Notzarella! It is bumpy and rough outside but almost smooth inside and it does hold together. Plus it tastes right. I put this in a container with some whey, served a bit with crackers last night and this morning sliced it on my morning toast and egg.
Then the remaining curds and whey I tipped into cheesecloth to strain and turned into a soft cheese with chives and black pepper. It worked out just fine!
I look forward to the next step in my cheese making journey which will be another go at mozzarella with tank water for the rennet and a hard cheese. In case you missed the recipe I made a soft white cheese last week.


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Living on the Mississippi is as good as it gets in Memphis. Residences overlooking the water get the best breezes in the city, world-class views of passing river traffic, and glorious sunsets.
This condo unit was one of two built in 1984 atop an existing three-story building with interior parking at the foot of Union Avenue. There is nothing between it and the harbor but Riverside Drive and the cobblestone landing.
The layout of this condo is unusually adept at orienting you to the outside. The interior is wrapped by 1,800 square feet of private deck — larger than many houses. The living and dining rooms and even both bedrooms have doors that permit direct outdoor circulation.
The first owner of this unit commissioned local woodworker Stephen Crump to build custom shoji screens for the living room, which has deck on three sides. The floor-to-ceiling screens are set into oak tracks and allow sun and views to be precisely modulated.
The dining room is two steps above the living room to provide better sightlines to the west. The deck steps up to the rear, staying level with the dining area and both bedrooms. The foyer has slate floors that are carried through to the wet bar and on into the kitchen.
Even though the kitchen has no exterior walls, a huge skylight fills it with natural light.
Counters are a richly colored granite, and all the appliances, including the stacked washer and dryer, are stainless-steel. Double wall ovens, a five-burner gas cooktop on the kitchen island, and a wine fridge at the wet bar make entertaining a breeze.
But that deck — oh, that deck! Wrapping part of the south and all of the west and north sides of the unit, it's certainly unique in scale for downtown living. It offers almost as much square footage as the whole residence and more than doubles the space available for entertaining. What could offer a better scenario for living on the river? •
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Things can only remain the same by changing. This is a twist on Heraclitus' famous saying, "You can't step in the same river twice."
It never occurred to me that when I became involved in the world of leadership development, that so much of my time would be taken up with issues of change.
As I reflect upon the people, projects and the years that have passed, it is change that has provided the context for the best lessons in leadership to be learned. Yet, it is resistance to change that continues to be a consistent response wherever I go.
Lying behind that resistance is a belief or a conviction that change is an aberration, and whatever is not change is the norm or even the goal.
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise… – Mark Twain in Eruption*
Lately, I've been thinking of change as being on a river in a boat. The river has its own mind. It will flow downward regardless of what I think. The only way to stop it is put up a huge wall. Yet, that creates a reservoir of water or change that waits to be released to continue its natural movement forward.
I see many leaders trying to build walls to hold back change. Their reasons are multitude. It could be to protect positions of prestige or power. It could be to preserve tradition. It could be from perceptions of what success and failure are that are no longer valid. For whatever reasons, to wall off change is not to be rid of change. Rather to contain change is to increase the pressure for change. The natural thrust for change because it has the ability to renew resources, to prune dead weight, remodel poorly designed structures and to carry us to new places in our life and work.
Change is greater than our ability to resist it. Like a great river it just keeps moving on.
So, what are we to do?
Let's think of ourselves in a boat floating on the river of change. We do have some choices.
For our boat to remain in a fixed spot on the river requires one of two things.
An enormous source of power to push continually against the downstream force of the river. That power can be the power of ideas, as an example.
The river could be leading to ever greater consolidation of businesses and leadership in an industry. To push against that river of sameness is to find power in the ideas of difference. How to differentiate ones business from all those others that exists. How to resist turning ones products and commodities into lowest cost commodities fit for the lowest common denominator customer. To push against that stream requires ideas and resources to sustain itself. If done well, our boat does not remain in one place, but goes up river to find a new more, more congenial tributary to journey down.
Or, to remain where we are, we need an anchor that is sunk deep into the shore with a long, heavy chain. This anchor and chain are the legacy structures and traditions that once had the power to resist the current, but possibly no longer. Now, only the structure remains as a monument to an earlier era of where the river was a dynamic environment for growth and experience.
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with. – Mark Twain, Roughing It*
In reality, our best choice is to see the river of change as a context for our life and work. Think of the great river boats that worked the Mississippi River in Mark Twain's day. As they pursued their course, life was lived and work conducted. The river of change became a place for purpose to be carried out, adapting to the shifting currents of the stream as we move with the stream and against it as our purpose determines.
Just like with a great river there is no standing still in our lives. No remaining in place. Instead what awaits on the river of change is discovery.
What do we discover? An unknown idea, an innovative approach, a new partnership, an untapped market and, ultimately, we discover what we are made of, our talent, our character, and our capacity for change.
I'm convinced that resistance to change has less to do with change itself, and more a reflection of a lack of self-confidence. In a quote attributed to Mark Twain, but not yet verified nor authenticated, he says,
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
If change is a river, it is a river to be explored and discoveries to be made. To live and to work on the river of change is where our opportunities for discovery and achievement are found. Resisting by being anchored to the shore only turns us into obstacles in the river's current, waiting for the day when a flood of change comes and sweeps us away. And none of us wish that disappoint to visit us.


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The Secretary of State's office reports Thursday that about 4.4 million ballots are waiting to be processed.
The figure includes more than 3.1 million vote-by-mail ballots and a million provisional ballots. Counties are still receiving ballots that were postmarked by Election Day.
The statewide update doesn't include populous San Diego County, which separately reports having 595,000 unprocessed ballots.
A record 19.4 million people registered to vote in the general election.
More than 10 million ballots have been counted. Adding another 5 million potentially valid ballots, the turnout could top 77 percent of registered voters.
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Buying a home may be the biggest investment many people will ever make. In the United States, achieving home ownership represents success and an improved quality of life for many people. Owning a home, or any property, however, comes with the added costs of a mortgage, insurance, maintenance and property taxes.
When calculating the total cost of home ownership, it's important to account for the expense of property and other local taxes, and to know you are getting the best services for the amount you pay. Property taxes pay for public education, libraries, transportation, road construction and maintenance, emergency services, parks and recreational facilities. While low taxes are appealing, excellent services are also important for maintaining quality of life and preserving real estate values.
Property taxes in Pennsylvania, as in most states, are determined county by county, and include county, municipal, and school district taxes. In Pennsylvania, homeowners are assessed property taxes that range from 1 to 2 percent of the assessed value of their residence, with an average effective tax rate of 1.55%. Tax assessors determine the tax burden for each property by assessing the value of the land and any buildings on the property. Pennsylvania uses a system called the mill levy for calculating property taxes, which assesses $1 in taxes for each $1,000 of property value.
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Education budgets are tight. In 2015, 91 percent of teachers used some of their own money to pay for supplies for their classrooms, and 38 percent used ONLY their own money (via The NPD Group).
Art supplies are among those classroom supplies teachers are reaching into their own pockets to purchase. There's a simple way you can help. Emily and Sculptor wines, two brands that already give portions of their proceeds to art in schools, have created a special "Art of Giving" campaign to support these dedicated teachers by underwriting their art supply expenses.
Emily and Sculptor wines have partnered exclusively at retail to offer these wines at very special holiday pricing and to support the "Art of Giving." During the month of November and December, Emily and Sculptor wines will DOUBLE the current portion of their profits dedicated to support the arts in local schools. Funds will be donated via The Emily Fund. The goal: reach $5000 donated!
It's that time of the year where you're going to need a few extra bottles of wine around for holiday parties, quick gifting and entertaining at home. Emily and Sculptor wines include varietals that fit any occasion and situation. Here's a little more about the wines:
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Emily Elizabeth Genzoli was a brilliant young artist and graphic designer who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 25. Endlessly optimistic in the face of adversity, her positive spirit inspired all who knew her as she accepted and dealt with her diagnosis. The Emily Fund was created as a tribute to her.
After her passing at age 33, her friends in the wine business wanted to find a way to remember her, and her love of children and art. We created Emily Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay and designated a portion of the profits to benefit a cause dear to her heart—that of art in schools.
Emily Cabernet Sauvignon has aromas and flavors of black fruit with a hint a black pepper spice. Rich chocolate and vanilla, a touch of toast from French Oak aging smooth tannins and a lingering finish give this wine classic Cabernet Sauvignon style.
Emily Chardonnay is elegant and refreshing, with a gentle touch, nice for easy, breezy Autumn days, not complicated, fun to drink. Juicy pear, green apple, pineapple, guava juice, and very thirst quenching!
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Just as "the sculptor" takes great pride in bringing out the creation from within, so too do Sculptor wines. Sculptor winemakers shape, mold and create artistry from our vineyards to the bottle, with precision and passion.
The Sculptor Calistoga Cabernet Sauvignon unfolds with alluring aromas of black cherry, cassis and French Plums bolstered by nuances of baker's spices, iris, fresh pipe tobacco and subtle toasty oak. The finish is harmonious with mouth-filling fruit.
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1.'Teen Mom 2? Stars Leah, Jenelle, Chelsea & Kailyn Get Matching Heart Tattoos! Cute or Tacky?
The four MTV stars were in LA over the weekend when they decided to get little red hearts inked on their wrists!
No turning back now! All four of the Teen Mom 2 stars — Leah Messer, Jenelle Evans,Chelsea Houska and Kailyn Lowry – decided to get matching ink in honor of their blossoming new friendships. What do you think of their tiny heart-shaped tattoos? Click here to read more
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Talk about an A-list outing! NPH and his too-cute twins met up with Elton and his son Zachary for another amazing play date — bodyguards in tow!
Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka have been open about their cool relationship with fellow new dads Elton John and David Furnish. Both sets of parents welcomed their kids via surrogates late last year and have been getting together every few weeks for baby play dates! We have to say though, this one looks DIVINE! Click here to read more
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The 14-year-old was spotted holding hands with his lady love Niki Berger while out with sister Paris, brother Blanket and cousins Jaafar and Jermajesty!
Wow, the late Michael Jackson's kids are growing up FAST! His oldest son Prince, 14, was spotted out and about with his girlfriend Niki Berger at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA yesterday, August 3. And the lovebirds weren't afraid to show a little PDA in front of Prince's famous family — siblings Paris, 13, and Blanket, 9, and cousins Jaafar, 15, and Jermagesty, 10! Click here to read more
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As a single mom of three girls, Denise is on the lookout for sexy single dads! Do you find them attractive, HollyMoms?
Denise Richards, who has two daughters Sam, 7, and Lola, 6, and recently adopted a baby girl Eloise Joni, says her dating life hasn't been so great, but that if she had it her way, a hot single dad would swoop in and knock her off her feet! Click here to read more
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Coach Michael J. Vendetti died on March 20th leaving behind a strong army of believers who will continue to carry his message and share his legacy. His wife, Joan, passed away in January 2012 after a lifetime struggle with Lupus. Coach V leaves three sons and their wives and seven granchildren. This space was a favorite for Vendetti and his accomplishments through the years. What made the Vendetti Era at Nichols College unique was that it will never be done again. It's that simple. The Vendetti Way should be the Nichols athletics way today. Be accountable, work hard, and leave your ego at the door. Let's continue with simply saying that Coach Vendetti was the "best." He shared his human condition with everyone who came into contact with him. He made life fun. Sure, there were ups and downs, twists and turns, peaks and valleys, but Coach Vendetti had a faith that was effective by the way he applied his beliefs to the daily grind and the way he treated people.
To some, Coach will be remembered only as a football coach because of his great accomplishments at Nichols College. Five New England Conference Championships in a span of seven years back in the seventies when Division 3 football was a select few and not watered down with every state school having a football program like it is today.But to anyone who really knew him, he was much more than a football coach. His physical presence got your attention from the start. An All American tackle at Boston University and a Leominster High School Hall of Famer, the 6' 4'' Vendetti didn't have to say much.First impressions are always a good measuring stick and humility became this giant of a man's way of life.
Vendetti was at his best when he delagated authority to those who deserved it. Coach never looked for credit, but he always gave it out. His assistant coaches and players came to believe in this way of being unselfish. He put you in your place in an understanding way. It was the perfect way to build any type of organization, let alone a football program. Give credit, rely on the people you believe in and success wil follow. Coach would say everyday, "let's practice to win." There's a big difference in practicing to win than playing to win. Winning was automatic on Saturdays after practicing for five days under Vendetti's watch. The pressure on game day wasn't even a thought after going through Vendetti's weeklong routine. Games were easy compared to practice. Vendetti's teams were always in better physical and mental shape than Saturday's opponent. Do your job within Vendetti's Way guranteed success. Organization, delegation, and a work ethic second to none were the ingredients of the championship Nichols College football teams of the seventies.
The supporting cast of loyal assistant coaches Ed Kunkel and Rene Langevin and the works of Bates Craver, Bruce Baker, and Paul K. Brown were important to Vendetti's system as were the expert scouting Vin Becker, Buddy Langevin, and Gerry Kunkel.
Hal Chalmers, then the athletic director, supported Vendetti's blue print for Nichols' success. Joan Vendetti and sons Michael, Mark, and Paul were all part of the "golden era" of the seventies and the greatest time ever at Nichols College.
The Vendetti's lived on campus next to the Chalmers and morning coffee was had at Bazzie's. If you wanted a hair cut, Mike Pio had a chair outside of Bazzie's and visited the campus on Thursday nights. After the victories on Saturdays, the Vendettis hosted the post game victory party. The key moment was when Channels 4, 5, and 7 flashed the Nichols football score on the television screen. It was a very special time for the Nichols community. The scouts would then present Vendetti with their report and work began for the upcoming week. Anybody involved in Vendetti's world during this great era in Nichols history shared in the hard-earned championships with pride.
Vendetti's moral compass was full of sincere compassion. He understood people and had a quick wit about him. He never shied away or apologized for his opinion about the things he knew and believed in. The former Bison Bowl on the Nichols campus was renamed the Michael J. Vendetti Field in 2004 and there is a special bench named "Vendetti's View" that overlooks Vendetti field and a place where Vendetti would sit during his retirement days to recall his memories of his many years at Nichols.
Vendetti has touched so many lives in a positive way and made Nichols College a proud place. He leaves a loyal army that will never forget its leader. Coach V was the best and until we meet again, may the sunshine on Joan and you forever.
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Should You Balance Your Tools?
The answer varies from process to process. Experience is the best guide.
Ask anyone who has ridden in a centrifuge. As rpm increases, centrifugal force increases even faster. In the same way, any unbalance in a spinning body—say, a milling cutter—generates more force as the body spins faster. In shops making the transition to high speed machining, thoughts quite often turn to tool balance. Should you balance your tools? A more balanced system of tool, toolholder, and spindle can net several advantages. These range from extended tool life and less downtime for spindle maintenance to tighter machining accuracy and better surface finish (see Figure 1).
But not every shop will realize these benefits, and others will find the cost too high. Tool balancing adds another step in the process—potentially several steps. It typically involves measuring the unbalance of a tool/toolholder assembly (on a tool balance machine), then reducing this unbalance by altering the tool—perhaps by machining it to remove mass, or by moving the counterweights in a balanceable toolholder. The often-iterative procedure can also involve checking the tool again, refining the previous adjustment, and so on until the balance target is achieved.
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There is also an inventory cost. Tool and toolholder are balanced as a single unit, so shops performing tool balancing must store and track balanced tool/toolholder assemblies.
In other words, tool balancing—like everything else—merits a cost-benefit analysis. And while new technology may affect the way balancing is performed and justified (see sidebar), the need to perform this analysis is unchanged.
There is no easy answer, says one balance authority. Whether or not to balance, and if so by how much, will vary not just from shop to shop, but from process to process. Take a close look at the application, he advises. Perform test cuts with balanced tools. Only these steps—not any rigid standard—can suggest what level of balancing the process needs.
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Mark Stover, manager of business development for Sandvik Coromant, has changed the way a variety of shops engaged in high speed machining think about tool balance. He does so through a presentation based on his company's balancing experience. He recently shared this argument.
A common mistake, he says, is to set a single numerical target for tool unbalance, and apply it broadly across many unrelated processes. Frequently the only result is to penalize these processes with an overly strict—and therefore overly time-consuming—balance requirement.
When is a balance requirement too strict? Mr. Stover gives two answers. One is when the requirement aims to hold the centrifugal force from unbalance to a value significantly lower than the force in the cut. After all, force is force. Why struggle to reduce the unbalance force if the machine will see a much larger repeating force from the cutting edges passing through the workpiece?
The other way the balance requirement can be too strict is when it fails to solve the unbalance problem. "Shops too often assume that balancing the tool will automatically solve any unbalance problem. This isn't necessarily so," Mr. Stover says.
In reality, tool balancing leaves several sources of process instability untouched. One of these is error in the fit between toolholder and spindle taper. "Don't assume you can just pull back, and the taper will line up the same way every time," Mr. Stover explains. There is often a measurable "play" in this clamp, and there also may be a chip or dirt inside the taper. The presence of any such contamination would create unbalance even if the tool, toolholder, and spindle were perfect in every other way.
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Mr. Stover cautions against another common mistake, applying a standard to tool balance that isn't right for the job. Tools for milling machines and machining centers, he points out, have little in common with turbine rotors.
Why does this matter? Because the ISO 1940-1 standard often used to set targets for tool and toolholder balance was written not for machine tools, but for rigid rotors—particularly those in power plant turbines.
ISO 1940-1 is the source of the "G class" many engineers will recognize. The lower the G-class number, the better the balance. Many shops, searching for an objective balancing yardstick, establish a G-class target. G2.5 is a commonly used value.
There are two problems with this. Both stem from the two equations at left. Equation 1 defines the maximum unbalance allowed by a given G class. It was derived from the definition of G itself. Equation 2, based on Newton's second law, gives the centrifugal force corresponding to this unbalance. Here is what the equations show:
First, G2.5 establishes a balance requirement that will be unduly aggressive for many processes. Take the case of a tool/toolholder assembly weighing 1 kg total, to be used at 12,000 rpm. Equation 1 shows that meeting G2.5 would mean balancing to within 2 g-mm. An aggressive balance? Go to Equation 2. The force corresponding to this maximum allowable unbalance is 3 N.
By comparison, the same tool is likely to see 100 N of cutting force even in a relatively shallow cut. Clearly, the 3 N requirement is therefore rather strict. Figure 2 illustrates the same point.
The second weakness of the ISO 1940-1 standard is that it doesn't behave the way tools behave. Take another look at Equation 1. The equation says that for a given G class, at a constant rpm, increasing the mass of the tool also increases the amount of allowable unbalance. In other words, the balance requirement—as defined by the G-class system—is less critical for a heavier tool.
This may give pause to anyone intimate with high speed machining. The balance requirement should be more critical for heavier tools, as Figure 3 suggests. The solid lines in this figure plot data gathered by Sandvik Coromant in an experiment where the unbalance in the tool was gradually increased until it reached the point where process quality suffered. The two curves mark the onset of this degradation. Together they show the effect of switching to a heavier tool, because the two tests they describe were identical except for tool mass.
Compare the trend of the solid lines to the trend of the dashed lines. These plot the unbalance a given G class will allow, as a function of speed, for the same two tool weights.
The trend of the real-life curves runs opposite to what the G-class system assumes. Instead of permitting more unbalance, heavier tools actually demand less. This disagreement suggests that tool balance targets won't be realistic if G classes are used to define them.
So what is a better measure of acceptable unbalance?
No single standard applied throughout the shop will do, Mr. Stover says. Experience, gained through experimentation, is the best guide. Balancing requirements are better evaluated one process at a time—so long as the process will be repeated enough to make some experimentation a worthwhile investment.
Step one is to evaluate whether balancing is warranted. Can the cutting force be determined? If so, compare that force to the one likely to result from an unbalanced tool. To estimate this, measure several tool/toolholder assemblies in search of a maximum realistic unbalance, then calculate the force corresponding to this using Equation 2 (above).
Mr. Stover offers this rule of thumb: So long as the total unbalance force is less than the cutting force, further balancing is unlikely to improve the process.
This rule can't decisively answer the question of whether to balance for at least two reasons. First, many processes will be exceptions. Those with very smooth surface finish requirements, as well as airframe production processes in the neighborhood of 50,000 rpm, will both require lower unbalance. Second, the amount of unbalance over and above tool unbalance can be difficult to pin down.
However, the rule does suggest that tool balancing probably is not justified when the tool unbalance force is far less than the force in the cut.
Instead, for many high speed machining processes, just aiming for good balance through proper tool selection is sufficient. This is largely a matter of attention to detail, Mr. Stover says. He gives these three tips:
- Buy quality tools and toolholders. Look for toolholders that have been premachined to remove unbalance.
- Favor tools that are as short and as lightweight as possible.
- Regularly inspect tools and toolholders for fatigue cracks and signs of distortion.
Following these steps can go a long way toward improving tool balance, whether or not a separate balancing step is part of the process.
The Right Balance
But where tool balancing is warranted, the next step is to determine how much unbalance is acceptable. There is no substitute for trial-and-error within the actual process, says Mr. Stover. The tool unbalance that the process can accept is determined by other aspects of the process itself. These include the forces in the cut, the balance condition of the machine, and the extent to which these two affect one another.
To find the right unbalance target, run the intended operation several times, using tools balanced to a variety of different values—say, from 20 g-mm on down. After each run, upgrade to a more balanced tool and repeat. The optimal balance is the point beyond which further improvements in tool balance fail to improve the accuracy or surface finish of the workpiece, or the point at which the process can easily hold the specified workpiece tolerances.
The key is to stay focused on the process. Don't aim for a G value or any other arbitrary balance target, he says. Instead, aim to achieve the most effective process possible. This involves weighing the costs of tool balancing against the benefits it can deliver, and striking the right balance between them.
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- Artist: Charles Reed
- Track: The Plan
- Producer: Pulse
- Album: Charles In Charge EP
When heading out for a night on the town, it's important that you have a specific plan in place; you wouldn't want anything to get in the way of the dancing, drinking and having a good time, right? Charles Reed knows this all to well, because on his latest single he is the man with The Plan. Producer Pulse mans the boards, crafting a layered, poppy beat with just a touch of electronic influence in the form of a quick beat breakdown in the middle of the track, over which Reed outlines his plan to pair up with a lady and making sure she has the perfect night. The Ohio crooner engages listeners with a breezy, catchy vocal performance, sure to make more than a few ladies adhere to his plan. Reed's latest project, the Charles In Charge EP currently doesn't have a drop date, but keep it locked to the Booth for all the latest.


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In my previous O365 post, I showed how you can make use of jQuery and jQuery UI to make a search refiner filter template that supports autocomplete on the "other" textbox shown in a multivalued dropdown. With that idea in mind, I imagined it would be pretty easy to use the same concept to create a filter template that shows a dropdown list with possible filter values. And it turns out it is pretty simple, so here are the steps. Read More
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[O365] Autocomplete on taxonomy refiners
For a customer project I'm on we're making use of search to surface pages stored in SharePoint Online. On a predefined search results page, refiners make it easier for users to get to the page they are searching for. Refiners are linked to managed search properties and those are linked to crawled properties. In this case, the field crawled is a managed metadata taxonomy field and the values of that field come from a metadata termset. The problem is that this termset is pretty big because it contains all of the countries worldwide. This is what the refiner looks like:
So what if a user is searching for 'Switzerland'? Hmmm. Well he or she could click 'Other Value' and type in what they are looking for. The problem here is that the value needs to exactly match the term and your user might not have a clue about the values in the termset. Countries is doable, but other labels might be harder to guess.
See how I typed in 'switzer' and SharePoint is now refining on that value. Items tagged with 'Switzerland' do not appear this way, our end-user is left in doubt. So wouldn't it be nice to have autocomplete on the textbox so the user is guided in their search? That's exactly what we proposed to our customer and what I will detail in this blog post.
[O365] SharePoint Content Search webpart is not being indexed
Thinking of a title for this post, I wanted to start with "Inconvenient" because that pretty much describes the essence. Inconveniently enough that trademark has already been claimed by an MVP you might know if you ever search for anything SharePoint related (shout out to Waldek!). Anyways, as inconvenient as this all is, let's get started. Read More
SP2013: back-up failing with "Have tried to perform backup/restore operation twice on all in-sync members"
I ran into an error with back-up procedures on SP2013. The error in the log file was:
FaultException: Management called failed with System.InvalidOperationException: 'Job failed: Have tried to perform backup/restore operation twice on all in-sync members in cluster SPe6b9ae739be3.0, but none succeeded. Last failure message: Microsoft.Ceres.SearchCore.Seeding.SnapshotTransferException: Could not send chunk ms\%default\gen.0000000000000309.state: Localpath: [0-700> to target BackupDirectoryTarget[directory=\\backupshare\spbr0001\I.0.0,validateTransfers=False]
at Microsoft.Ceres.SearchCore.Seeding.SnapshotSender.SendChunks(ISnapshot snapshot, ISeedSource source, ISeedTarget target, SeedStatus status, Func
1 checkAborted, Int32 targetFragIndex)1 updateProgress, Func
at Microsoft.Ceres.SearchCore.Seeding.SnapshotSender.FirstPhaseTransfer(ISeedSource source, ISeedTarget target, Action
1 shouldAbort)2 original)
at Microsoft.Ceres.SearchCore.Seeding.BackupWorker.BackupWork.DoFirstPhaseWork()' at at Microsoft.Ceres.SearchCore.IndexController.BackupService.ThrowOnFailure(JobStatus status)
at Microsoft.Ceres.SearchCore.IndexController.BackupService.ProgressFirstPhase(String handle)
at Microsoft.Ceres.SearchCore.IndexController.IndexControllerManagementAgent.WrapCall[T](Func
Searching for this, I found several explanations. They all have one thing in common: it is search related (pretty obvious) and means that search was unable to write to the back-up location.
I seems that search handles a part of the back-up procedure from within it's own processes. That is, the search service running on SharePoint servers. This means:
– Your search servers need to be able to access the share which is being used for the back-up.
– The service account running search needs to have permissions to write to that share.
– And there should be enough space left, but that's a no-brainer I hope.
In my case, the second bullet was where my problem was. I granted the service account for search permissions to the share (Full Control), which solved the error. Same is mentioned in this blogpost by Amol Meshe, but he wasn't sure on the answer.
SP2010: Aggregating tasks with search
Ok. This is quite a common scenario. You've got your SharePoint site setup which consist of multiple webs, maybe (probably) even multiple site collections. Your user is member of a handfull of sites and get's tasks assigned. You need your user to stay informed about the tasks he needs to perform. You've got a couple of options.
First, I would enable the "mail when task is assigned" option on your task list. This will notify the user a new task has been assigned. Also, with some workflows like approval / feedback request, you get automatic notifications when a task is due. Nice. But your users will start overlooking these mails, or just plain ignoring them. They start requesting an overview of all tasks assigned to them.
Now you've got multiple options. Waldek Mastykarz has got a nice post about using the Content Query Webpart to show info from subwebs. Works great, but the content query webpart is limited to the current site collection. Also, it's proven to be hard for novice users getting the XSL right.
So what about a cross site collection option which is easy to configure? There are a few options, third party solutions probably being the best. For instance, there's Lighting Tools with their conductor webpart, or Bamboo Solutions with a list rollup webpart (links are not sponsored by the way).
But wait! There's an out of the box options you might want to consider: search! Using the default webparts (you will need SharePoint Server or Search Server Express for this), you can quite easily list all tasks assigned to the current user. It does require a tiny little bit of coding. Let's get started!
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SP2010: Why are my list items not indexed?
Ok, so we struggled with a little problem which could be a big problem if you don't know where to look. Imagine you've got your site with a couple of lists, but list items aren't indexed by the search engine. What to do? This post is meant as a quick guide on stuff you should check.
- First of all, make sure you can search. That's kind of a different topic which involves checking if your search services are running, your service application is setup properly and there's a content source which points to your site. For instructions on how to setup search; read the f* manual.Ok, so from this point on, I'll assume search is working and you're able to find other stuff on your site. But the stuff you want to find, you cannot.
- At web level, there's an exclusion setting. Check Site Settings => Site Administration => Search and offline availability. You can exclude an entire site, and manage whether lists with fine-grained permissions are indexed or not.
- You can configure these things with powershell too if you want to. I'm saying this because there seems to be one more setting (the first one) which isn't shown in the GUI:
- SPWeb.AllowAutomaticASPXPageIndexing
- SPWeb.ASPXPageIndexMode
- SPWeb.NoCrawl
- At list level, you can also exclude a list from appearing in search results. Check that in your list settings.
- There's exclusion in the search service itself. Someone might have set up a rule which excludes your items. Perhaps not that likely, but still worth checking.
- And then for the one that caught me: hidden lists aren't indexed!If you hide a list (SPList.Hidden), the search indexer won't crawl it. That kind of makes sence. It would be kind of pointless to hide a list if people would then still be able to find it in search, right?I did read some articles mentioning that your list will still be indexed when it's already in the search index (so it's visible and indexed, and then you change it to be hidden). But I'm not sure if that's true, or why you would use that (resetting the index will mean it's then omitted from search).
- And finally, make sure your search crawl account can actually access the list. But when you've got access rules setup on web application level, even fine-grained permissions won't mess with that, so it's not that likely your crawl account won't have access.
I guess that's them. Should I remember some more, I'll add them. Or feel free to post more options in the comments and I'll include them in the post. Thanks!


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Lessons Matilda can teach us
Matilda The Musical is the story of an extraordinary little girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny. Here are 5 things that you can learn from Matilda Wormwood to change your own story:
'If it's not right, you have to put it right.'
Matilda shows us that if you 'sit around and let them get on top, you won't change a thing'.
'Nobody but me is going to change my story'
Only you have the power to change what happens in your life and to navigate the journey that you will take.
'The tiniest mite packs the mightiest sting'
One drop of water can cause a ripple in the ocean. Making just one small change has the potential to cause a big difference to your life, someone else's life or even the world.
'Even if you're little you can do a lot'
Size means nothing: everyone, no matter how big or small, is capable of making a big difference.
'Every day, starts with the tick of a clock.
All escapes, start with the click of a lock.'
Now is the time to make a change, not tomorrow.
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Diawara, 33, suffered a "serious sprain with a tear of the back cruciate ligament in his right knee", the club said on their website (www.om.net).
Diawara was already scheduled to miss Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final first leg against Bayern Munich because of suspension, but had been expected to play the return in Germany on April 3.
Senegal, dumped out of the last African Nations Cup in the first round with three defeats, have two World Cup qualification matches scheduled for June.
Marseille, who drew 1-1 with Nice, are eighth in Ligue 1.
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Are Christians Strange?
October 16th, 2015 by IGL Admin | | Posted in Mission Conversations
Has a friend or family member teased you about the Christian songs you sing or about how you pray? Sometimes our culture thinks those who follow Jesus are strange. Believers praying together, singing worship songs together and even living a moral lifestyle based on Christian values can seem funny, strange or even pitiful to some. And we are called to be counter cultural (Titus 2:11-14), but the question is: How will we respond when we are ridiculed because of Christ?
In South Asian culture, Christians are viewed much the same: strange and sometimes even out-of-touch with reality. But when Christians remain faithful to the Lord amidst slander, there is opportunity for changed lives. For Geeta, what she viewed as funny words and silly rituals, eventually changed her entire view of Christ.
"I had a bad view of Jesus. I thought he was just something silly that people placed their hope in. Someone told me that they were having a [prayer meeting]. And they invited me to [attend]. I thought that a prayer group was like getting together to sing the national anthem or something. But then I showed up and it was not at all like what I expected. While I was attending the prayer, everyone kept saying 'Hallelujah.' I thought that sounded so funny. So I sat in the back giggling to myself. I wanted to go back to the prayer meeting because I found it so funny. The next [prayer] meeting was one month away, and I was waiting for that Friday with excitement so that I could go and have a good laugh. When I went they kept saying 'Hallelujah' a lot. And as I was sitting there, I wasn't laughing anymore. I saw people crying and rejoicing as they prayed to the Lord. I wondered why they were doing this. I thought, 'These people are getting together to pray for the whole world, and even us.' After that [prayer meeting], I went home and told my husband that those Christian people are very good because they are praying for us. So I told my husband, 'Let us go and accept Jesus Christ.'"
Geeta's mockery did not deter the church women from praying for her. Instead they continued inviting Geeta to witness their personal relationship with their Lord, Creator and Redeemer. The good behavior of these women put Geeta to shame, as Peter says. Eventually, she could not resist the powerful witness of the believers in the prayer meeting and invited the Lord into her life. How will your good behavior in Christ persuade others to accept Him?
"But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame." (1 Peter 3:14-16)


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Monday, January 27, 2014
Record Breaking Drought in California at Odds with Fracking
Governor Jerry Brown of California declared a drought emergency as the state deals with its lowest water levels in its 153-year history. Although the Democratic governor of California, has a history of environmental advocacy including support for clean energy and carbon trading, he has also softened his stance on fracking, which is a tragic waste of water resources. (fracking uses between 2 and 10 million gallons of fresh water per well in its lifetime).
Last year saw the lowest levels of precipitation ever recorded in the state. The depressing record breaking drought in 2013 is expected to be eclipsed in 2014. The melting of the Sierra Nevada's winter snow provides much of the water that fills reservoirs downstream. With only 20 percent of normal snowpack, this does not bode well for water supplies in the forthcoming spring and summer.
Californians are encouraged to conserve water. The NRDC has a number of suggestions to reduce water consumption including fixing leaky faucets and toilets, reducing shower times and installing low flow showerheads and faucets, scraping food off of plates rather than rinsing them, using a dishwasher rather than washing by hand and planting a native garden that uses less water.
In addition to conservation, state water officials can enhance efforts in efficiency, recycling, groundwater management, and storm water capture.
Those in California can find out more about the sustainability of their water supply by entering their zip codes here.
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The Water for Good blog shares stories, impact, and water expertise from the Central African Republic
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As you may know, running a small business in the United States can be challenging. Now imagine running your business without access to clean water, especially a restaurant. This obstacle is something that Madina Fanette understands well.