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Are you searching for a commercial legal job that will challenge you? We have an opening for an ambitious Account Manager Legal at ZEDRA.
Do you want to develop yourself within a dynamic and international working environment? In which you can work independently and in a team with dedicated professionals? Then this might be your chance.
As an Account Manager Legal at ZEDRA you work for our international clients and are responsible for a large offer of legal services. You'll be part of an experienced and ambitious team of Financial and Legal Account Managers with the ambition to deliver the highest standards in the business.
The position
The successful candidate will feel responsible for serving the customers at the highest quality standards and will be open and transparent in the team and especially in all their compliance related activities.
Key duties and responsibilities will include:
- Onboarding of new clients;
- Maintaining the day-to-day affairs of a portfolio of client companies;
- Drafting of standard legal documents e.g. proxies, board and shareholders' resolutions, minutes of meetings and various agreements;
- Handling the appointment and resignation of managing and supervisory directors;
- Coordinating incorporations, share transfers and liquidations of client companies;
- Reviewing legal documents drafted by third parties;
- Maintaining and reviewing compliance files;
- Working in close cooperation with external accountants, tax advisors and notaries;
- Monitoring transactions of client companies and, if applicable, take appropriate actions e.g. by involving specialists for compliance, legal, accounting and tax;
- Convening and attending (client) board meetings and preparing minutes;
- Attending meetings with clients and advisors.
The Account Manger Legal will ensure that he/she delivers a high quality service to internal and external clients and will be required to liaise directly with other members of the business at all levels. The role holder will ensure he/she delivers on commitments to agreed deadlines and to a high standard.
Ensure that whilst carrying out his/her duties the role holder monitors risks against applicable policies and procedures to ensure risks are effectively managed.
About you
Professional Experience
The successful candidate will have 1-4 years of experience operating in a legal function, preferably in a law firm or a fiduciary services business. He/she will be able to communicate effectively with all levels of the business.
Personal Attributes
The successful candidate will put client service at the centre of everything he/she does, building relationships within the organization as well as with clients and their advisors. The candidate will be flexible and professional when working under time driven pressures and will have excellent prioritisation and time management skills. He/she will continually seek to improve business practices ensuring that best practice is shared.
Language Skills
He/she will be fluent in Dutch and English in word and in writing and will have strong verbal and written communication skills which are critical to the position.
Academic and Professional Qualifications
The role holder will have a Master Degree in Dutch law and will demonstrate a thorough understanding of Dutch corporate law.
The company
ZEDRA is an independent global specialist in trust, fiduciary, corporate and fund services. Based in key jurisdictions across Asia, Oceania, the Americas and Europe, the team of nearly 500 industry experts is dedicated to creating and delivering bespoke solutions to their client base which includes high-net-worth individuals and their families, international corporations, institutional investors and entrepreneurs.
The backbone of their business lies in the strong commitment and long track record of a highly experienced team, building trusted relationships and encouraging entrepreneurial spirit. They distinguish themselves by being innovative in a conservative environment, being transparent in what they do and striving for the highest quality of service.
"At ZEDRA we embrace an entrepreneurial spirit where employees are encouraged to see beyond their determined role and participate in a wide range of opportunities," says Astrud Lotz, Head of Human Resources. "We focus on providing a wide range of technical and practical support to all employees at every level".
ZEDRA recognises the need to develop and expand an employee's skill-set and encourages career growth, as well as supports a social culture too, with a local social event programme across each office that celebrates the companies' inclusive culture.
Astrud continues: "We firmly believe that people are our greatest asset, and that a happy and content workforce produces the best quality work and ideas which ultimately benefit our clients".
The offer
- A challenging and rewarding role in an international business;
- Opportunities for personal and professional career development;
- Great working environment, competitive salary and opportunities for educational support;
- Working in a dedicated professional team, renowned for its excellence.
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Licensed acupuncturist Dr. Rachel Tan is the owner and operator of Tan's Acupuncture and Herbs and a highly respected physician in both the U.S. and China. Her practical experience and extensive research set her apart from other area acupuncturists, while her firsthand understanding of disease, pain and suffering help her closely connect with her patients.
"I grew up in the Chinese countryside during the Cultural Revolution," Dr. Tan recalls. "I dealt with malnutrition, asthma and eczema. I was soaked inside out with the Chinese herbs my mother cooked for me, and the wild fresh herbs my grandmother picked and rubbed on me. I still remember the sensation when my father inserted the first acupuncture needle into me for asthma. I believe TCM cured my asthma and saved my life."
Dr. Tan repaid her family's care and concern by carrying on the healing tradition and studying at the Chengdu University of TCM, graduating in 1984. She studied and practiced both TCM and Western medicine in China for 10 years before moving to the U.S. and seeking her PhD. Dr. Tan seeks to continually enhance her education and her practice, and recently graduated from a two-year spiritual direction and retreat leadership program at the Journey Center in Santa Rosa, Calif.
In her practice, Dr. Tan strives to help her patients restore balance to their health through acupuncture as well as diet and exercise. Her holistic approach views health as a multi-layered entity, and she attempts to treat imbalances on a variety of levels: cellular, spiritual, universal. "Human beings are the most mysterious beings in the universe," Dr. Tan says. "I never get tired of learning more about them."
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This quarterly wine club features true luxury wines rated 93+ and finds California wines so exclusive that the club is limited to 500 members. You get collector-level access without the hassle of doing your own research. A lot of wines (and wine clubs) call themselves "super premium" but most of them fail to live up to the hype, this one does.


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The Apex European Hotel is situated in Edinburgh's West End. Conveniently located for a sightseeing tour, shopping spree or a business trip, it is perfect for a stop off on any occasion.
At Metro West End Restaurant there's an emphasis on fresh ingredients, sourced and prepared with care, and this can be tasted in each bite, which can be enjoyed at an excellent price when members call in advance with their tastecard.
Indulge in all manners of delicious dishes, from light to large. Those in a hurry can savour one of the scrumptious sandwiches, like the classic club, filled with sweet cured bacon and grilled chicken, and the delightful grilled toastie, stacked with beef tomatoes and Applewood Cheddar, or take their time with one of the hearty main courses.
A mere handful of the exemplary dishes available includes the tantalising fillet of cod, served with a bean rich casserole, the delectable chicken supreme, complete with chorizo and pan fried baby potatoes, and the rich butternut squash and tomato tagliatelle, adorned with pumpkin seeds and shaved Parmesan.
The front of house staff's discrete, personal service is everything you'd expect from an Apex hotel. But more than that, Metro West End has an unmistakable air of fun. After all, eating should always be relaxed and enjoyable.
Please Note: The tastecard discount is available on the a la carte menu only and cannot be used in conjunction with any other special offers. The tastecard discount cannot be used on rugby match days.


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Al-Barkaat Educational Society
Al-Barkaat Educational Soeity (ABES) aims to establish institutions for social, cultural, educational, moral, technical and societal uplift of the country.
The Society derives inspiration from the life and teachings of a galaxy of illustrious Sufis of Khanqah-e-Barkaatiya, Mahrehra Sharif, District Etah, Uttar Pradesh.
The society runs under the able guidance and leadership of its founder President Prof. S.M. Amin Qadri, Sajjada Nashin of Khanqah-e-Barkaatiya and Professor of Urdu in Aligarh Muslim University. The society also runs various Institution in Al-Barkaat Campus, like Al-Barkaat Public School +2 for Boys & Girls (Separate Section) with separate on campus hostel accommodation facilities. Al-Barkaat Institute of Management Studies (MBA), Al-Barkaat Play & Learn Centre, Al-Barkaat Jamia Hamdard Study Centre, Al-Barkaat Afternoon School (for Economically Weaker Section)
Al-Barkaat Institute of Education
Al-Barkaat Campus is spread over more than one lakh sq. yards of land, in the close vicinity of Aligarh Muslim University.
The vision of the Institute is to become an outstanding Centre of learning serving the needs of India and addressing the challenges in society.
– To be a centre of excellence through its academic research and quality education.
– To develop our students into well qualified teachers so that they can meet the challenges ahead with right types of skills and attitudes woven with social values and ethical standards.


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Build your vocabulary, feed the hungry...
19,217,193,830 grains donated at this point!
BUT..then I am off for two days - plus the weekend - and accompanying darlin' Nancy to Philadelphia, MS for a trade show....
Already made Friday evening dinner reservations for a real nice place...
Do they feel the need to have one star with a physical ailment each season? Last season, they had on the ex-Mrs. McCartney, Heather Mills, who has on e prosthetic leg. This year, they are having Marlee Matlin, who is legally deaf.
Along with Ms. Matlin, the competitors will be:
Priscilla Presley
Adam Carolla - former "Loveline" and "Man Show" host
Cristián de la Fuente - Former "CSI: Miami" lab tech
Shannon Elizabeth - who played the exchange student in "American Pie"
Steve Guttenberg
Mario - R&B singer ("Just a Friend")
Penn Jillette
Monica Seles
Jason Taylor - Miami Dolphins defensive end
Marissa Jaret Winokur - Tony winner for "Hairspray"
Kristi Yamaguchi - Olympic figure-skating champ
Made for a great freakin show... Evander had to cancel, but will be on next week...
OH and don't forget to go over and wish
a HAPPY BIRTHDAY
OK, we will give this a rock...found it over at Travis'
The Recipe For Vinny
3 parts Charm
2 parts Understanding
1 part Intensity
Splash of Ingenuity
Ummmm...you tell me...is that me?
Or is this?
The Recipe For Bond
3 parts Intellect
2 parts Inspiration
1 part Aspiration
Splash of Uniqueness
Shake vigorously
THE BEATLES...."All You Need Is Love"....
OH, and late Saturday or sometime Sunday, we are heading to The Apple Store...YUP...The iMac should be in our possession no later than next Monday....WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Looking for a perfect shading element for your windows? You can choose the Roman blinds. These are a special type of fabric blinds, on which the fabric is divided horizontally into equal strips by a framework. There are loops sewn on each strip through which woven string is threaded; the string is used for controlling the blinds.
What Makes The Roman Blinds Different From Other Types Of Blinds?
During the production of Roman blinds, strong emphasis is put on the selection of high quality materials and a perfect workmanship. High quality of implementation is characteristic also for the Roman blinds of large sizes.
Wide Range Of Use
Roman blinds are suitable both in a classical and modern interior. They can be recommended not only into a living room, where they will amaze your visitors with their elegant appearance, but also into a kitchen, where you will appreciate their functionality. Roman blinds can be installed in vertical windows as well as in windows of atypical shapes.
No More Rolling
Horizontal folds are typical for the Roman blinds. The surface of the blind is divided into several horizontal stripes that are equally wide. When you pull the blind up, it remains folded in the upper part of the window.
You Can Become The Designers Of Your Home
By selecting a suitable pattern and colour combinations, it is possible to adapt the Roman blinds to the smallest details of your interior. The fabrics are high quality ones, with excellent colour and shape fastness.
Like A New One Even After Years
The main advantage of Roman blinds is their easy maintenance. You can remove and wash the fabric very easily, or you can replace it with another fabric with a different design.
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Being available, and in general use is not quite the same thing.
It will be years before it is a generally available service, especially in Hotel/Motel/Restaurants.... etc
and it can be quite meaningless if your ISP only provides you with 10mbps now anyway.
and the article talking about it
https://gizmodo.com/wi-fi-6-is-coming-a ... 1829516258
a list of devices that will support WiFi-6
600 mbps on the local WiFi network? wow!
and 1.3gbps is coming too.
Even if you have no problems with download and upload speeds right now, Wi-Fi-6 is intended to fix some of the pain points that still exist: Trying to get decent WiFi in a crowded space, for example, or trying to connect 20 different devices to the same home router without the wireless performance falling off a cliff.


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While the latest version available is Wine 1.8.x, you can also install and test Wine 1.9.13(Dev), which is the under-development branch of Wine and brings the below changes:
- New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 47.
- More Shader Model 5 support in Direct3D.
- Unicode data updated to Unicode 9.0.0.
- Improvements to GDI paths and metafiles.
- More progress towards the Direct3D command stream.
- Joystick support improvements on Mac OS X.
- Various bug fixes.
In order to successfully install Wine 1.9 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and derivative systems like Linux Mint 17.x and Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, you need to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index, and install the wine-staging and winehq-staging packages:
Open terminal and insert command line...
|$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging
$ sudo apt-get install winehq-staging
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Many of you will recognize Mai Hoang, our latest Geek of the Week, as the energetic personality behind the Happy Go Techy Expo, a geeky craft fair and mobile application showcase held at the University of Washington earlier this year. But that's the just the beginning of her interests and activities. Continue reading for her answers to our questionnaire, including the best response we've seen yet to the question of the greatest game in history.
Name: Hello, my name is Mai Hoang.
Job, hobby and/or other geeky pursuit: Job: I'm the founder of a small web development and design company called, Happy Go Techy. I've worked for DocuSign, TheFunded.com, The Founder Institute, and CBS Interactive (CNET Networks) in the past.
Hobby: I started the Happy Go Techy Expo. The Happy Go Techy Expo in short is a craft fair for tech geeks. It's a fun filled day that showcases two things: 1) the best and most unique (often times handmade) tech gadget accessories and 2) fun consumer mobile applications built by startups.
Geeky Pursuits: On the side I run an eCommerce site that sells Vietnamese Coffee Kits called Happy Go Coffee. On the side side, I run a small etsy operation selling handmade iPad/Laptop/iPhone/Camera cases.
Coolest thing about what you do: I think it's great and very cool that I get to express myself creatively through design and technically through web development.
What does it mean to you to be a geek? Oh, to be a geek… being a geek is a thing of beauty. A geek is a person who embraces the things they love with passion and obsession (the good kind). You can't try to be a geek, you can't learn how to be a geek, it's just something you are and happen to be.
Geekiest thing(s) you've ever done, built, or worn (photos encouraged): This one is hard since I live and breath geekery… I make geeky crafts, love to bake cupcakes topped and decorated with geeky themes, have and collect the most extensive collection of Web 2.0 t-shirts, enjoy spray painting my laptop pink.
The geekiest thing I've worn/made was a Twitter Bird costume. Two Halloweens ago I was feeling really crafty! I decided I wanted to be Twitter bird and pretty much harassed my boyfriend into being an egg. I took so long making the costumes, by the time I was done Halloween was practically over.
Your best tip or trick for managing everyday work and life: Balance and self respect is the trick! That's not to say that work and life should always be 50/50. It's okay to teeter and totter overboard to one side or the other every now an then. When you start to feel demotivated or lethargic about one or the other you should instantly recognize that it's time to adjust something. Go ahead and be a workaholic just make sure sure you eat healthy and workout regularly to keep your mind strong. You know your own limits, respect yourself and the people in your life. Passion about work is not an excuse to abuse yourself and neglect the people you care about. Everything is connected.
Personally, I enjoy doing hot yoga during lunch time to break up the work day. I try to do this at least three times a week. Hot yoga three times a week and I feel invincible (all it took was 3 hours out of my entire week).
Mac, Windows or Linux? Mac please.
Kirk, Picard, Janeway or Sisko? Can't decide between Kirk or Picard. Let the Google decide: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=kirk&word2=picard
Transporter, Time Machine or Cloak of Invisibility? Time machine! I've dreamed of traveling into the future and back into time since I was a little girl. I'd talk to Friedrich Nietzsche first.
If someone gave me $1 million to launch a startup, I would … Build a time machine. Just kidding, one million's not enough! Real Answer: Revolutionize the shipping and handling industry, it's wasteful, inefficient, and expensive.
* I once waited in line for … Nsync concert tickets all night. So lame, I know. Please, go ahead and judge me.
Here's a geekier standing in line memory. As a kid I looked forward to black friday so much! I'd save up all my money go stand in line all night, at Best Buy or Circuit City to buy tech gadgets on the cheap. One year I bought a VHS tape rewinder for $1! What a deal.
* Your geek role models (And why?): I have many but two come to mind almost instantly.
Will you marry me, Richard Saul Wurman? (jk…sort of…ok, seriously jk!) Wow, what a great geek/man! He had a passion for making information understandable, and from that passion he's made the world a better place in such enlightening ways. It's impossible to leave TED.com unsatisfied or uninspired. Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world!
Vivienne Tam! I've been really inspired by her fashion design work in the tech world from the HP netback to the Square Reader. Goes to show how much further product design in technology can still go and how these two different industries actually go hand in hand. (photos attached)
Greatest Game In History: Tetherball!
Best Gadget Ever: I have some very fond memories of the Nintendo Gameboy.
First computer: I can't remember what the family computer was but the first computer I bought on my own was a white iBook off of Craigslist for $300. The next day I took it apart and spray painted it pink.
Current phone: HTC Inspire
Favorite app: FatBooth is so fun but I would die without the DropBox app, so DropBox!
Favorite hangout: Remedy Teas on Capitol Hill. Really great place to hang out with friends or get some good work done.
Favorite cause: Free internet for all! Seriously, this needs to happen.
Most important technology of 2011: This year has been all about the cloud.
Most important technology of 2015: I don't know and I kind of like that. I could venture a guess but technologies that are profound happen and manifest so quickly. Think back to four years ago, no such thing as an iPhone/Kindle/iPad. Who knows, maybe even an alien invasion bring sweeping changes to the technology landscape!
Words of advice for your fellow geeks: Somehow words of advice always sound so corny and cliche. It's also cliche to say something is cliche… so I'll stop with that and here it goes! Think of the world that you want to live in. Create, inspire, and evolve based off of that and you'll be a much happier person/geek.
Just "Make It so." -Picard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxHAZChcYU
Site(s): http://www.happygotechy.com // http://www.happygotechyexpo.com // http://www.happygocoffee.com // personal blog: http://www.happygomai.com
Twitter: @happygotechy / @missmai
Geek of the Week is a regular feature profiling the characters of the Pacific Northwest technology community. See the Geek of the Week archive for more.
Does someone you know deserve this distinguished honor? Send nominations to firstname.lastname@example.com.
[Geek of the Week photography by Annie Laurie Malarkey, firstname.lastname@example.com.]


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Your friends and family will think you docked your Formula at an Hawaiian luau when you wow them with this amazing tropical grilled dessert. So go ahead and break out the hula skirts, ukuleles and umbrella drinks as you savor the sunset, dockside on your Formula. The tantalizing aroma wafting from your grill will be sure to entice extra guests for dessert!
This dessert looks both elegant and exotic—and so easy to make! It's a natural to whip up while the grill is still hot. If you have a freezer on your Formula, a scoop of vanilla or coconut ice cream is the perfect complement.
Combine the butter, sugar,cinnamon and lemon juice. Spread glaze on both sides of pineapple slices. Scrape grill clean of any leftover meat bits. Place pineapple on grill and cook over medium heat for 5-10 minutes, turning once, until sugar mixture melts and pineapple is heated and tender.
Meanwhile, slice the pound cake and place on dessert plates. Top with grilled pineapple and sliced strawberries (or other seasonal fruit). Garnish with whipped cream or ice cream right before serving.
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I have cut down my weight from 133 kg to 98 kg but still struggling to get my tummy flat,,any add ons or suggestion guys?
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That's some serious weight loss. Be proud of yourself man! The stomach fat is last to go and judging from your statement, you need to lose more weight. Keep weight training to strengthen your core and abs.
Guys 1 more question, Can i take Creatine after my workout as i was still on my weight loose training, Does this help me in add on some strength?
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Distance 11.8 miles (on Strava but should be more like 9 based on our route) Total Time 7 hr 0 min Summit Elevation 14,421 feet Elevation Gain 4,268 feet Route Southwest Slopes via North Halfmoon Creek GPS Analysis Strava I usually try and hit one 14er each summer with the kids. Reagan somehow got it in her head when we … Read More
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For the prior 2 years, on the 4th of July holiday weekend, I have taken my kids on a mountain climbing adventure. We stuck to Mount Sherman for those. Its close. Its short. But its steep. But we nailed those. So this year, I was ready to diversify. And I felt like gambling on a successful summit. I wanted to … Read More
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Distance 4.65 miles Moving Time 4 hr 21 min Summit Elevation 14,036 feet Elevation Gain 2,397 feet Route Iowa Gulch GPS Analysis Garmin Connect With my successful ascent up this mountain last year with Sydney, I figured it was time to get Reagan into the club. She was hot then cold on the idea. But finally when the day arrived, … Read More


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Applying Workplace Organisational Techniques - Nottingham
Event Information:
Venue: Chamber's Office, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2020
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm
Available To: Members and Non Members
Member Price: £400.00+VAT
Non-Member Price: £480.00+VAT
Course programme in detail
5S is a practical methodology for organising any given workplace, especially a shared workplace, and more importantly keeping it that way. By application of the simple rule – 'a place for everything and everything in its place' it prevents non-value added time in searching for workplace items – a common and frustrating occurrence in most organisations.
The key objectives of 5S are a highly organised, clean, visual, and efficient workplace. 5S begins by deciding what should be kept, where it should be kept, and how it should be stored.
This decision making process is part of a team effort focused on the principles of standardisation incorporating process ownership in each employee.
Course Programme
- Background & History
- 5 Elements of 5S
- Benefits of 5S
- Waste
- Workplace observation
- Sort (Seiri)
- Set In Order (Seiton)
- Shine (Seiso)
- Standardize (Seiketsu)
- Sustain (Shitsuke) – Discipline
- 5S+1 (Incorporating Safety)
- Visual Factory
- How to implement 5S in any organisation
Course Outcomes
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For the month of December I purposefully chose not to publish many posts on my Blog. Quite frankly, I figured most everyone had enough to do preparing for Christmas. With making lists, checking them twice and doing all the multitude of items on these lists before Christmas, who would have time to squeeze in something I wrote? (By the way, whatever you were thinking as you read that last sentence keep your comments to yourself- I want to think you have missed my weekly posts!) Anyway, with all the extra time on my hands not devoted to writing I reminisced about Christmases past. Well, that got me to thinking and wondering about what other people's favorite childhood traditions of the season were and what they are today as grown-ups. So, I promptly sent out an email to all the guest authors on the Blog and posed these questions to them with the intention of sharing their responses on the Blog. For those that had the time to respond, I want to share their answers with you. Some even sent me pictures as well.
I have to admit I thought this would be a fun thing to do for the Blog. But, as with most things that happen, I got so much more than interesting info from each person. I got a wonderful glimpse into their personal lives that not only told me much more about who they are and what makes them tick but, I also got laughs at visualizing some of what they wrote, much to ponder from some of their thought provoking responses and to sum it up – I got a real sense of peace and joy reading their words. Read for yourself and I hope your heart is filled with joy and laughter as well.
Susan Muehl
My favorite childhood holiday memories and what the season now means to me as an adult seem to have blurred lines! As a child, I thought it was magic! It was all about our Christmas traditions. Before Christmas, our mother would take my twin sister and me to Santa Claus Land in Santa Claus, Indiana. That's where we got to speak to Santa about what we'd like for Christmas and ride the rides at the park. Also before Christmas we would get dressed up and go Christmas shopping in downtown Louisville with our mother and while there, we would view the department store windows decorated for the holidays. The days leading up to Christmas and the few days after were all about going out to visit friends and family, or they came to see us. My mother shared cookies and fudge she made. This is also when we would drive around looking at Christmas lights. Santa had a surprise he always left at our house ~ he would put a special gift on the beds of my sister and me. We shared a bedroom so whoever woke up first would wake the other and we'd feel around our beds in the dark for the gift which we could unwrap right then. Now as an adult many of the same traditions remain. When my daughter was little, Santa also left her a special gift in her bed each Christmas and it thrilled her as much as it did me when I was young. We established a new tradition in our family and it was choosing a name from the "giving tree" at a local department store and purchasing gifts for that child. My daughter enjoyed doing that each year ~ she loved trying to find a little girl who seemed a lot like her based on the gift requests. Nowadays, I still love to look at Christmas lights ~ the more lights the better! As a photographer, I've enjoyed photographing some of my favorite houses over the years and have a special photo album of "the best of the best" which comes out each Christmas. Spending time with my family and friends at Christmas time is still important to me. Everybody seems so much busier these days, but when we can take the time to visit, it's always special. I enjoy seeing everyone's homes decorated for the holidays and sharing mine, as well as sharing fudge (from my mother's recipe) and cookies I have made. The Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas morning gift opening with my husband, daughter and son-in-law is a special time each year which I always look forward to. I have never outgrown the magic of Christmas!
Patti Baron Schreiber
Wow! It's hard to pick just one favorite holiday memory from my childhood because my family was so steeped in traditions and they all centered on home. First came the decorating – it was the same decorations every year and they went in the same location but there was such comfort and joy in pulling the little elf out and setting him on the table or seeing the same ornaments nestled in their boxes, waiting to be hung on the tree. Christmas Eve began with me setting out a plate of homemade cookies and a glass of milk for Santa. Then came a visit to my Grandma Martha's house, where all of my Dad's brothers, sisters (7!), their spouses and children gathered in a very small space with the men drinking Blackberry Brandy and all of us eating Grandma's homemade bread. Magically, when we returned home, Santa had arrived! Piles of presents were under the tree – quickly placed there by Mom before we left for grandma's house while Dad and I impatiently waited in the car wondering what she could be doing in there. After the present opening, we were off to Midnight Mass followed by an open house for anyone who wanted to stop by for ham sandwiches, salads and a dessert buffet.
I have continued many of these same traditions with my own children when they were young and now that they are teenagers; it's fun to see which traditions are important to them. Decorating and cookie making are at the top of the list. This year we can hardly wait to make our special frosted cutout cookies, as we didn't get to eat any of the time and labor intensive treats last year. After making the dough, cutting them out, baking and decorating them (a two day affair), my oldest child decided her siblings were hogging the cookies so she hid the plastic bin in the oven. A short time later, flames erupted in the oven, smoke poured from the vents and the plastic had melted all over the oven and the cookies. I'm still missing the bottom oven rack which is covered in molded plastic but there's no doubt in my mind the memory of THAT moment will live on in our minds and give us some good laughs in the coming years.
Jennie Stockslager
When I think of Christmas as a child, I keenly remember making gifts (cigar boxes encrusted with elbow macaroni sprayed gold), wrapping gifts (proud that my mom trusted me) and making millions of cookies – all fun, all exciting. But I remember, too that at some point during my high school years, I was grateful that the fun and excitement were sustained much longer than usual in our home, all because two little brothers, Rich and Bill, were born when I was 11 and 14, respectively. The tinsel would have lost its shine for the three older siblings- myself, Chuck and Connie – but because we had two little ones in the house, we were swept into their vortex of believing, which was the best gift ever – and not to be repeated until I had children of my own.
As an adult, I can find myself so overwhelmed with the holidays that if I'm not careful, I start to think of all the decorating, buying, wrapping and addressing cards as a "part-time" job. At times like this, I recognize that I need to get "real". "Real" means getting quiet with myself for as little as five minutes – meditating, journaling, listening to Christmas music, sipping on a cup of chai tea, looking at the snow falling on the twinkle-lighted trees in our yard – anything that helps me remember the truth: I don't "have" to do anything; I "get" to do the things I choose. This reality brings me back to the present moment; it slows my mind down…and helps me once again see life as a child. All possibility. All magic. All a gift.
Lindsay Torry
Having been given the task of sharing my favorite holiday memory, I've spent the last couple of weeks racking my brain, going through them all mentally and changing my mind over and over again about which to share. I mean, there are just SO MANY! However, the answer came to me today as I was watching my children decorate gingerbread houses at my grandparents. My youngest daughter is only two years old, so we are in the really fun stage of exploring every aspect of the holiday season: introducing her to the decorations, lights, music, and that odd, robust old man in the red suit. Today at my grandparents' house I made a point of showing her one of my favorite Christmas decorations, an antique ceramic nativity set. Now I realize that just about every Christian household has at least one nativity set of some sort, but this one was special. Even as a small child I recognized its delicate beauty, with its soft warm colors and fragile elegance. But the thing that made this nativity unique was the baby Jesus. He wasn't fixed in the manger like in most modern nativities. No, this baby Jesus didn't make his presence known until Christmas morning! Every time we went to visit, I would go almost immediately to check his status, anxiously awaiting him in his absence, and always making sure he was there if Christmas had come already. I truly anticipated his arrival! Now, even as an adult, every year I go to admire the nativity and note his absence or presence.
Today was no different as I pointed out all of the figures of the set to my daughter. It occurred to me just how very cool this idea is: withholding the baby Jesus from the manger until the morning of his birthday celebration. What a fun way to anticipate his arrival and keep the focus on the true reason for the holiday season! As an adult, each year it has disgusted me a little more how ridiculously commercialized and really off base our society has allowed Christmas to become. It's more than a little ironic that a season originally about the spirit of giving has become more about getting the best deal and the biggest gifts. Today I was listening to a local radio station that plays all Christmas music during this time of year, and it dawned on me that of the 10 or so songs I had heard, not a single one mentioned Jesus. Sometimes it feels as though he's been lost in the hustle bustle, that so many people like to take advantage of the decorating, partying, and gift getting, yet don't ever get to the heart of the matter. Needless to say, after today's realization I will be searching out a nativity set with a removable baby Jesus for my own home! And I will look forward to sharing in the excitement of Jesus' arrival year after year with my own children and hopefully, one day, grandchildren!
Sammi Blake
After having thought about this for several weeks, it is still hard to zero in on what my favorite holiday memory is of when I was a child. And, as an adult thinking back, I realize that my favorite holiday traditions as a child are the same ones I have now. I still hold near and dear to my heart the traditions I had as a child. Four of them stick out in my mind though. I loved baking Christmas cookies, the annual punch-out chocolate Advent calendar, decorating the tree and riding around on Christmas Eve to see the luminaries.
Each year growing up we spent two solid days making and baking cookies. We made at least eight- dozen. I remember my mom and I both wearing our aprons. Every single year my mom would say the same thing to me and I learned to look forward to it. She would say, "You are the messiest baker I have ever known". Once we baked all the cookies we would wrap them up and give them as gifts to our neighbors and friends.
Our yearly Advent calendar took careful planning to figure out the days each of us kids got to pop a chocolate. As an adult, I still like getting one for my stepchildren to enjoy.
And, oh the Christmas tree! Every year our Christmas tree was decorated with ornaments we had made ourselves. The rest of the ornaments were from my mom's childhood. It was the most wonderful feeling pulling all the ornaments out of their boxes one by one. Each one we would stop and talk about. I can still hear the tingle of the old rusty bell that was my mother's when she was a child. Decorating the tree was wonderful and I remember we took such time and care into placing the ornaments on the tree. Now as an adult, I take the same joy, love and care in decorating our tree.
The luminaries were lit in neighborhoods near where we lived every Christmas Eve. After church and dinner we used to ride around as a family to see the lights. We would always turn Christmas music on the radio and we usually drove around in silence so that we could each reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. I especially loved going up and down the hills, as the brilliance from all the luminaries was truly majestic.
Christmas is a wonderful time of the year and I look forward to all that it brings.
Crystal Balzer
The Christmas Season as a child and even now as an adult brings me much joy! I love the smells, the decorations and even the shopping! Although now as a mother I must admit- my favorite part is creating memories and traditions for my children. Some of my favorite Christmas memories from my childhood would have to be spending Christmas Eve with my dad (my parents are divorced so this was a special time) and always opening my stocking last (I have carried this tradition on with my own children, after all, the stocking is the best part with each treasure wrapped- it is amazing what you can stuff inside a stocking). Now with a family of my own we have added a couple more traditions. We make reindeer food and spread it across the lawn on Christmas Eve so the reindeer know what house to stop at. We also have an Elf on the Shelf. The children named our elf, "Buddy Rudolph". He arrives each year on December 1st. He flies to Santa each night telling him how the kids have behaved and when he returns he hides in a different location. The children rush around in the morning to see who can find him first. I also have each child pick a gift and we donate it to the Toys For Tots Program. It is a joy to watch them choose a gift so carefully, each considering what another child their age would like. It is my hope that when they grow up they will remember the fun, simple traditions we have as a family and even carry them on in their own.
Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you have enjoyed these glimpses into Christmas memories and traditions. Now I wish for all of you the true peace and joy that comes with Christmas. See you next year!


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General Information on EAGLEPrint
Objectives / key messages
To elaborate a future-oriented conceptual solution that would support of a European information capacity for land monitoring built on existing or future national data sources.
The EAGLE concept …
- can be a useful framework for the integration of LC / LU information from various data sets in one single data model.
- is applicable on both national and EU level.
- is a vehicle for comparison and semantic translation between different LC/LU nomenclatures, and facilitates data exchange.
- is open to be implemented as a LC / LU data collection standard for national land monitoring initiatives.
- can be a coherent common data framework for several single Copernicus products (CLC, HRLs, Urban Atlas).
Who is EAGLE
Forming of the group
The EAGLE group is an open assembly of technical experts from different MS NRCs on land cover. Currently, the development of EAGLE concept and methodology is being funded by the EEA under the framework of Copernicus program. Initially, the group worked on a voluntary basis, not financed by any external budget, except the home institution seconding their experts to the working group meetings. The meetings were partly supported by FP7 geoland2, partly FP7 HELM which also has incorporated EAGLE as a task. From 2014, the EAGLE consortium has been funded by EEA for a number of Service Contracts to further develop the concept.
The core active members of EAGLE group are:
- Austria (represented by Gebhard Banko, UBA, Christoph Perger, FHWN)
- Czechia (represented by Tomas Soukup, GISAT)
- Finland (represented by Markus Törmä & Elise Järvenpää, SYKE)
- Germany (represented by Stephan Arnold, DESTATiS & Michael Bock, DLR)
- Hungary (represented by Barbara Kosztra & Gergely Maucha, FÖMI)
- The Netherlands (represented by Gerard Hazeu, Alterra)
- Norway (represented by Geir-Harald Strand, NFLI)
- Portugal (represented by Mário Caetano, DGTerritorio)
- Spain (represented by Nuria Valcarcel and Julián Delgado, IGN; César Martínez and Roger Milego, UAB; Emanuele Mancosu, UMA)
- Switzerland (represented by Charlotte Steinmeier, WSL)
- United Kingdom (represented by Geoff Smith, Specto Natura)
Within EAGLE an Editing Committee (B. Kosztra, N. Valcarcel, M. Bock, T. Soukup under lead of S. Arnold) was entrusted to collect the groups conceptual input and develop working material including the data model and its explanatory documentation. The European Topic Centre on Urban, Land and Soil system (ETC ULS) provides chair persons (Andreas Littkopf, Stefan Kleeschulte) to the working group respectively the consortium.
Connections with other committees and stakeholders
EAGLE tries to bring together the knowledge from the existing EU- and national land cover and land use classifications and initiatives. EAGLE members are also engaged in a broad range of European Land monitoring related activities:
- Several EAGLE members participate in the INSPIRE process as experts in the Thematic Working Groups for Land Cover (TWG LC) and Land Use (TWG LU), which resulted in a productive interchange of expertise concerning the trans-boundary context and the conceptual data modelling method with UML.
- Consultations with the CLC Technical Team (also active in EAGLE, lead by György Büttner) regarding the data model content and its compatibility to CLC are part of the process.
- Overlapping membership between EAGLE and the FP7 project "Harmonized European Land Monitoring" (HELM), which embraces a broader circle of the European MS land monitoring community, including many NRCs.
- Involvement in the validation of High Resolution Layers (HRLs) concept, which was elaborated under FP7 project geoland2.
- Contacts to GMES Initial Operations (GIO) staff in the field of administration and industry on national and European level are maintained on a regular basis.
- Experiences and best practices from already existing object-oriented and/or national bottom-up approaches or from those being under development have been brought together from predecessor projects. Some examples are: LCCS (FAO)/LCML (ISO Standard 19144-2), SIOSE (Spain), DLM-DE (Germany), LISA (Austria), AR50 (Norway), LCM (UK), SLICES (Finland).
EAGLE use cases and related projects
Documentation and Tools
For the documentation of the EAGLE concept with EAGLE Matrix and UML model, follow this link.
Publication on EAGLE
follow this link.
Meetings and Events
- Milan, ESA Living Planet Symposium, May 2019
- Copenhagen, GIO closing event: New horizonts for European and Global land monitoring, October 2015
- Lisbon, INSPIRE conference: EAGLE session, May 2015
- Copenhagen, EIONET NRC Meeting, October 2013
- Matera, EARSeL Symposium, June 2013
- Haifa, EAGLE meeting, March 2013
- Dublin, EAGLE concept presented to GMES WG of NFPs, March 2013
- Madrid, EAGLE meeting, November 2012
- Copenhagen, EAGLE concept presented to NRC and geoland 8 forum, October 2012
- Vienna, EAGLE meeting, July 2012
- Barcelona, joint meeting EAGLE – geoland2, May 2012
- Vienna, EAGLE meeting, October 2011
- Málaga, joint meeting EAGLE – geoland2, June 2011
- Frankfurt, joint meeting EAGLE – geoland2 – MS. MONINA, March 2011
- Copenhagen, EAGLE – Eionet Action Group for Land Monitoring in Europe, November 2010
- Lisbon, EAGLE – Eionet Action Group on data model for Land monitoring, March 2010
- Madrid, Object Oriented Data Modelling (OODM) Working Group, December 2009
- Bonn, joint meeting OODM Working Group and geoland2, November 2009


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For the next installments in my series about FTP clients, I will be taking a look at two FTP redirectors at the same time. In this specific blog post, I will focus on NetDrive (from Bdrive Inc.), whereas my previous post looked at WebDrive (from South River Technologies).
At the time of this blog's writing, NetDrive is a for-retail FTP client and redirector which is available from the following URL:
For this blog post I will be using NetDrive version 2.3.2.
NetDrive is different from many of the other FTP clients that I have reviewed because it is an Internet protocol redirector, meaning that it allows you to map drive letters to a variety of Internet repositories. When you install and open NetDrive, you are presented with the list of supported Internet protocols and repositories which you can use for mapping drives:
As you can see from the illustration above, NetDrive's list of support technologies is quite extensive: DropBox, Box.net, Google Drive, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Openstack Swift, FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV.
When you add a drive or configure the settings for one of the default drives, you are presented with a dialog box where you can enter the settings for the drive connection; note that there are very few settings for FTP connections:
As you add drives, the NetDrive user interface will display the drives and their current connection status:
As an added touch, NetDrive customizes its drive icons in Windows Explorer, so you can easily see the type of mapped drive for each connection:
I would love to take an in-depth look at all of the supported protocols in this review, but this series is about FTP clients, so I'll move on to the FTP-specific features that I normally review.
NetDrive 2.3 has built-in support for FTP over SSL (FTPS), although it only appears to support Explicit FTPS - and it does so in a confusing way. When you are editing the settings for an FTP drive connection, you need to check the box for SSL/TLS in order to enable FTPS. Unfortunately, when you do so, the dialog box will change the port to 990, which is the port number for Implicit FTPS; however, in my testing I could not get Implicit FTPS to work:
With the above information in mind, I needed to manually change the port number back to 21 in order to use Explicit FTPS with NetDrive:
True FTP hosts are not supported natively by NetDrive 2.3, and there are no settings which allow you to customize the login environment in order to work around this situation.
NetDrive 2.3's login settings allow you to specify the virtual host name as part of the user credentials by using syntax like "ftp.example.com|username" or "ftp.example.com\username", so you can use virtual FTP hosts with NetDrive 2.3.
This concludes my quick look at a few of the FTP features that are available with NetDrive 2.3, and here are the scorecard results:
That wraps things up for today's review of NetDrive 2.3. Your key take-aways should be: NetDrive has some nice features, and it supports a wide variety of protocols with a similar user experience; that being said, NetDrive has very few settings for drive connections, so its capabilities are somewhat limited.
For the next installments in my series about FTP clients, I will be taking a look at two FTP redirectors at the same time. In this specific blog post, I will focus on WebDrive (from South River Technologies), whereas my next post will look at NetDrive (from Bdrive Inc.).
At the time of this blog's writing, WebDrive is a for-retail FTP client and redirector which is available from the following URL:
For this blog post I will be using WebDrive version 12.10.4082.
Before I continue, I would like to begin with some background information: because of my ongoing blog series about FTP clients, one question that I have often been asked is, "Which FTP client do you use?" Usually I have to answer, "That depends." I know that my answer sounds non-committal, but to be honest - I have yet to find an FTP client that does everything that I want, although a few FTP clients have had enough features for me to use them quite often. And with that in mind, I need to point out that I purchased my first license for WebDrive over 12 years ago, and over the years I have periodically renewed my license for later versions. So to partially answer my earlier question - WebDrive is one of the FTP clients that I have used a lot.
That being said, WebDrive is different from many of the other FTP clients that I have reviewed because it is an Internet protocol redirector, meaning that it allows you to map drive letters to a variety of Internet-based repositories. (I'll discuss those various protocols and repositories shortly.)
When you install and open WebDrive, you are presented with a fairly empty user interface:
If you click the App Settings icon, you will be presented with a dialog box that offers dozens of customizable options:
When you click the New icon, you will be presented with a Site Wizard which lists the supported Internet protocols and repositories which you can use for mapping drives:
As you can see from the illustration above, WebDrive's list of support technologies is quite extensive: WebDAV, Secure WebDAV, FTP, Secure FTP, Google Drive, Amazon S3, SFTP, Dropbox, and FrontPage Server Extensions.
When you choose to create an FTP connection, WebDrive launches its Site Wizard, and the initial dialog box is pretty self-explanatory:
However, when you click the Advanced Settings button, you are presented once again with dozens of customizable settings for this specific connection:
As you continue to add sites with WebDrive, their connection types and current statuses are displayed in the user interface:
However, when you view your drives in Windows Explorer, even though network drives which are mapped through WebDrive are displayed with a different icon, you cannot tell the protocol type for mapped drives; this is one of the few times where NetDrive supported a feature that I really missed in WebDrive. (See my next blog entry for more information.)
WebDrive 12 supports command-line scripting, so if you find the features of the built-in Windows FTP client are somewhat limited, you can investigate scripting WebDrive:
WebDrive Command Line Parameters
WebDrive 12 has built-in support for FTP over SSL (FTPS), and it supports both Explicit and Implicit FTPS. To specify which type of encryption to use for FTPS, you need to choose the appropriate option from the Security Type drop-down menu in the FTP Settings for a site:
True FTP hosts are not supported natively by WebDrive 12, and there are no settings that I could find which would allow me to customize the login environment in order to work around this situation.
WebDrive 12's login settings allow you to specify the virtual host name as part of the user credentials by using syntax like "ftp.example.com|username" or "ftp.example.com\username", so you can use virtual FTP hosts with WebDrive 12.
This concludes my quick look at a few of the FTP features that are available with WebDrive 12, and here are the scorecard results:
That wraps things up for today's review of WebDrive 12. Your key take-aways should be: WebDrive is a powerful redirector with support for a wide variety of protocols. What's more, the WebDrive application and each individual connection contain dozens of options which allow you to customize the environment in hundreds of ways. As is the case with many of my reviews, I have barely presented a fraction of the capabilities that are available in WebDrive 12; you might want to try it out and experiment with all of its possibilities.
Note: This blog was originally posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/robert_mcmurray/
I get a lot of question about various configuration settings for the IIS FTP service, and most of the settings that I discuss with people can be configured through the FTP features in the IIS Manager. That being said, there are some useful configuration settings for the FTP service which I periodical send to people that have no user interface for setting them. With that in mind, I thought I would write a quick blog to point out a few of these obscure settings that I personally use the most-often or I send to other people.
I use this setting on all of my FTP servers because it seems a little more natural to me. Here's the scenario: the IIS FTP service supports two kinds of hostnames:
Real FTP hostnames are pretty straight-forward: an FTP client specifies the hostname with a HOST command when a user is connecting to the server. Once the IIS FTP service receives that command, the FTP service routes the FTP session to the correct FTP site.
That being said, the FTP HOST command is still rather new, so only a handful of FTP clients currently support it. Because of that, you can use FTP "virtual" hostnames with the IIS FTP service. By default that syntax uses the "vertical line" or "pipe" character to differentiate between the hostname and user name. For example:
When you are specifying your FTP credentials in your FTP client, you would enter your username like the preceding examples. While this syntax is valid for both the IIS FTP service and the underlying FTP protocol, it seems a little odd to most users (including me). With that in mind, we added a configuration setting for the FTP service that will allow you to use the more-familiar domain\username syntax like the following examples:
To enable this feature, use the following steps:
cd /d "%SystemRoot%\System32\Inetsrv" appcmd.exe set config -section:system.ftpServer/serverRuntime /hostNameSupport.useDomainNameAsHostName:"True" /commit:apphost net.exe stop FTPSVC net.exe start FTPSVC
More information about this feature is available in the IIS configuration reference at the following URL:
The FTP service caches user credentials for successfully-authenticated user sessions in order to help improve login performance, and I wrote the following detailed blog about this a couple of years ago:
Credential Caching in FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5
I don't want to re-post an old blog, but I have sent several people to that blog over the years, so I thought that it was worth mentioning here since it seems to be referenced quite often. The problem that people seem to run into the most is that their old password is still valid for FTP after they have changed it, and this is caused by the FTP service caching their user credentials.
This is especially annoying for me personally when I am working on a development computer where I am creating an authentication provider. Unless I disable credential caching on my development computer, I can never seem to get any work done. To resolve this issue, I disable credential caching for the FTP service by using the following steps:
cd /d "%SystemRoot%\System32\Inetsrv" appcmd.exe set config -section:system.ftpServer/caching /credentialsCache.enabled:"False" /commit:apphost net.exe stop FTPSVC net.exe start FTPSVC
The blog which I mentioned earlier goes into more detail about setting a custom timeout interval for credential caching instead of disabling the feature entirely, and all of the settings for FTP credential caching are in the IIS configuration reference at the following URLs:
FTP Client Certificate Authentication is an often-overlooked feature of the IIS FTP service, and I think that this is due to two reasons:
My second reason cannot be understated; I usually have to set up FTP Client Certificate Authentication once or twice a year in order to test various scenarios, and each time I do so I am reminded of just how difficult it can be to get everything right, and equally how easy it is to get something wrong.
Fortunately I took the time a couple of years ago to write a blog which documents everything that it takes to configure the FTP service, and I have used my notes in that blog several times. In complement to my blog on the subject, Vivek Kumbhar wrote an excellent blog series with additional steps to configure your Active Directory for certificate authentication. With that in mind, here are all of the requisite blog posts that you would need to set up this feature:
As I have mentioned before, configuring this feature is not for the faint-of-heart, but it can be very beneficial from a security standpoint.
For more information about the settings that are required for FTP Client Certificate Authentication, see the following articles in the IIS configuration reference:
That wraps it up for today's post. ;-]
I had an interesting question from a coworker today that I thought would make a great blog. Here's the scenario...
My coworker was using WebMatrix to create a website, although he could have been using Visual Studio and he would have run into the same problem. The problem he was seeing was that his application required HTTPS, but he was greeted with the following error message every time that he used Internet Explorer to browse to his development website at https://localhost:44300/:
When he clicked the link to Continue to this website, he could click on Certificate error in the address bar, which would inform him that the website was using an Untrusted certificate:
If he clicked View certificates, the Certificate dialog box informed him that the CA Root certificate was not trusted:
Since my coworker was using WebMatrix with IIS Express, which is the default development web server for WebMatrix and Visual Studio, all HTTPS communication was using the self-signed certificate from IIS Express. Since that certificate is self-signed, it is not trusted as if it was issued from a "Trusted Root Certification Authority," and therefore Internet Explorer (or any other security-conscious web browser) was doing the right thing by warning the end-user that they were using an untrusted certificate for HTTPS.
If you were seeing this error when browsing to an Internet website, this would be "A Very Bad Thing™", because you might be sending your confidential information to an untrusted website.
Fortunately this situation can be easily rectified, and there are two different approaches that you can use, and I will discuss both in the subsequent sections.
The easiest solution is to configure your user account to trust the self-signed certificate as though it were issued by a trusted root certificate authority. To do so, use the following steps:
A more-detailed approach is to configure your computer system to trust the IIS Express certificate, and you might want to do this if your computer is shared by several developers who log in with their individual accounts. To configure your computer to trust the IIS Express certificate, use the following steps:
Once you have completed all of the steps in one of the resolutions, you should use the following steps to test the installation of your IIS Express certificate as a trusted root certification authority:
This blog was a little longer than some of my past blogs, but it should provide you with the information you need to trust HTTPS-based websites that you are developing with IIS Express.
That wraps it up for today's blog post. ;-]
For this installment in my series about FTP clients, I want to take a look at BitKinex 3, which is an FTP client from Barad-Dur, LLC. For this blog I used BitKinex 3.2.3, and it is available from the following URL:
At the time of this blog post, BitKinex 3 is available for free, and it contains a bunch of features that make it an appealing FTP and WebDAV client.
When you open BitKinex 3, it shows four connection types (which it refers to as Data Sources): FTP, HTTP/WebDAV, SFTP/SSH, and My Computer. The main interface is analogous to what you would expect in a Site Manager with other FTP clients - you can define new data sources (connections) to FTP sites and websites:
Creating an FTP data source is pretty straight-forward, and there are a fair number of options that you can specify. What's more, data sources can have individual options specified, or they can inherit from a parent note.
Once a data source has connected, a child window will open and display the folder trees for your local and remote content. (Note: there are several options for customizing how each data source can be displayed.)
BitKinex 3 has support for command-line automation, which is pretty handy if you do a lot of scripting like I do. Documentation about automating BitKinex 3 from the command line is available on the BitKinex website at the following URL:
BitKinex Command Line Interface
That being said, the documentation is a bit sparse and there are few examples, so I didn't attempt anything ambitious from a command line during my testing.
BitKinex 3 has built-in support for FTP over SSL (FTPS) supports both Explicit and Implicit FTPS. To specify the FTPS mode, you need to choose the correct mode from the Security drop-down menu for your FTP data source.
Once you have established an FTPS connection through BitKinex 3, the user experience is the same as it is for a standard FTP connection.
True FTP hosts are not supported natively, and even though BitKinex 3 allows you to send a custom command after a data source has been opened, I could not find a way to send a custom command before sending user credentials, so true FTP hosts cannot be used.
BitKinex 3's login settings allow you to specify the virtual host name as part of the user credentials by using syntax like "ftp.example.com|username" or "ftp.example.com\username", so you can use virtual FTP hosts with BitKinex 3.
This concludes my quick look at a few of the FTP features that are available with BitKinex 3, and here are the scorecard results:
That wraps it up this blog - BitKinex 3 is pretty cool FTP client with a lot of options, and I think that my next plan of action is to try out the WebDAV features that are available in BitKinex 3. ;-)
For this installment in my series about FTP clients, I want to take a look at Beyond Compare 3 from Scooter Software. At its heart, Beyond Compare is a file/folder comparison tool, so it might seem an unlikely candidate for an FTP client, but it has a lot of great FTP features packed into it.
Note: For this blog I used Beyond Compare version 3.3.5.
Like many self-proclaimed computer geeks, over the years I have collected a lot of various utilities that perform specific actions that I need to take care of. Sometimes I discover these tools when Binging my way through the Internet, and other times they come highly recommended from other people. In this specific situation, Beyond Compare falls into the latter category - dozens of people had recommended Beyond Compare to me before I tried it out, and after falling in love with it I have recommended it to dozens of my friends. At the time I was using Microsoft WinDiff to compare files, which is still a great application to do simple comparisons, but Beyond Compare does so much more.
I could go on about Beyond Compare as a comparison tool, but that's really outside the scope of this blog since I am supposed to be talking about FTP features. Needless to say, if you're looking for a good comparison tool, you might want to download the trial edition of Beyond Compare 3 and give it a try.
That being said, let's get back to the business at hand. Beyond Compare 3 has a collection of FTP Profiles, which you can think of as analogous to a site manager in more traditional FTP clients.
Inside the FTP Profiles dialog, you can specify a wealth of connection options for remote FTP sites that you would expect to find in any other FTP client.
Once you have established an FTP connection through Beyond Compare 3, you can view your local files and the files in your remote FTP site side-by-side, and then you can perform comparisons, updates, merges, etc.
Beyond Compare 3 has built-in support for Explicit FTP over SSL (FTPS), which you specify when you are creating the FTP profile for a site.
Once you have established an Explicit FTPS connection through Beyond Compare 3, the user experience is the same as it is for a standard FTP connection.
That being said, at first glance Beyond Compare 3 did not appear to support Implicit FTPS. For me this was not a deal-breaker by any stretch of the imagination since Explicit FTPS is preferred. (Even though Implicit FTPS is supported by IIS7 through IIS8, it is really an outdated protocol.)
10 January 2013 Update: I heard from Craig Peterson at Scooter Software that Beyond Compare 3 does support Implicit FTPS, but it does so implicitly. (No pun intended. ;-]) When you connect using FTP over SSL on port 990, it will automatically use implicit FTPS.
Beyond Compare 3 has built-in support for the HOST command, so you can use true FTP host names when using Beyond Compare 3 to connect to FTP7 and FTP8 sites that are configured with host names. This feature is enabled by default, but if you needed to disable it for some reason, that feature can be accessed on the Connection tab of Beyond Compare 3's FTP Profiles dialog.
Beyond Compare 3's login settings allow you to specify the virtual host name as part of the user credentials by using syntax like "ftp.example.com|username" or "ftp.example.com\username", but since Beyond Compare 3 allows you to use true FTP hosts this is really a moot point. Just the same, there's nothing to stop you from disabling the HOST command for a connection and specifying an FTP virtual host as part of your username, although I'm not sure why you would want to do that.
This concludes our quick look at some of the FTP features that are available with Beyond Compare 3, and here are the scorecard results:
So there you have it - Beyond Compare 3 contains many of the features that would make up a great GUI-based FTP client with first-class support for all of the features that I have been examining in detail throughout my blog series about FTP clients. And as I have done with all of my blogs thus far, I included the following disclaimer in all of my preceding posts: there are a great number of additional features that Beyond Compare 3 provides - but once again I only focused on a few specific topic areas that apply to FTP7 and FTP8. For example, one particular feature that I might to experiment with in the future is Beyond Compare 3's support for FTP SSL Client Certificates. But I'll leave that for another day. ;-]
I had another great question from a customer the other day, and I thought that his question was the perfect impetus for me to write blog that explained the different modes of IIS Express.
The customer's issue was that he was trying to run IIS Express from a command-line by specifying the path to a folder and he wanted to use that with SSL. He couldn't find a way to accomplish that, so he asked Scott Hanselman if there was a switch that he was missing, and Scott sent him my way. In the meantime, he was copying one of the IIS Express template ApplicationHost.config files and configuring SSL by modifying the XML programmatically.
First of all, the short answer is that there isn't some form of "/https" switch for IIS Express that the customer was asking about.
But that being said, this seemed like a great occasion for me to explain a little bit of design architecture for IIS Express, which might help everyone understand a little bit about what's going on behind the scenes when you run IIS Express.
In case you weren't aware, there are actually two modes that you can use with IIS Express:
Having said that, I'll explain what both of those fancy titles actually mean, and how you can use IIS Express with SSL.
When you are using Personal Web Server Mode, one ApplicationHost.config file is created per user by default, (unless an alternate file is specified on the command-line), and by default that ApplicationHost.config file is kept in your "%UserProfile%\Documents\IISExpress\config" folder.
In this mode, websites are persistent like they are with the full version of IIS, and the template that is used to create the per-user ApplicationHost.config file is located at:
"%ProgramFiles%\IIS Express\config\templates\PersonalWebServer\ApplicationHost.config"
Note: When you are using Personal Web Server Mode, your default website is named "WebSite1".
The general syntax for Personal Web Server Mode is:
iisexpress.exe [/config:config-file] [/site:site-name] [/systray:true|false] [/siteid:site-id] [/userhome:user-home]
If you are using IIS Express from a command-line with no parameters, or you are using IIS Express with WebMatrix or Visual Studio, then you are using Personal Web Server Mode. You can use SSL by enabling HTTPS in either WebMatrix or Visual Studio, or you can modify your ApplicationHost.config file directly and add an HTTPS binding to a website.
When you are using "Application Server Mode," a temporary ApplicationHost.config file generated when IIS Express starts in the user's "%TEMP%\iisexpress" folder.
In this mode, sites are transient like they are with Cassini, and the template that is used to create the temporary ApplicationHost.config file is located at:
"%ProgramFiles%\IIS Express\AppServer\ApplicationHost.config"
Note: When you are using Application Server Mode, your default website is named "Development Web Site".
The general syntax for Application Server Mode is:
iisexpress.exe /path:app-path [/port:port-number] [/clr:clr-version] [/systray:true|false]
If you are using IIS Express from a command-line by specifying the path to a folder, then you are using Application Server Mode, and unfortunately you can't use SSL with this mode.
As I have already mentioned, if you are using Personal Web Server Mode, you can use SSL by enabling HTTPS in WebMatrix or Visual Studio if you are using either of those tools, or you can modify your ApplicationHost.config file directly and add an HTTPS binding to a website.
However, there is no way to specify HTTPS for Application Server Mode; but that being said, there are definitely workarounds that you can use.
Copying the template file like the customer was doing is a good place to start. But I need to state an important warning: you should never modify the actual template files that are installed with IIS Express! However, if you copy the template files somewhere else on your system, you can modify the copied files as much as you want.
If you are using IIS 8 Express, we've made it possible to use AppCmd.exe with any ApplicationHost.config file by using the "/apphostconfig" switch. So instead of modifying the XML directly, you can use AppCmd.exe to make your changes for you.
For example, the following batch file creates a temporary website and sets it up for use with HTTPS:
@echo offpushd "%~dp0"REM Create the website's folders.md %SystemDrive%\myhttpstempmd %SystemDrive%\myhttpstemp\wwwrootmd %SystemDrive%\myhttpstemp\configREM Copy the template configuration file.copy "%ProgramFiles%\IIS Express\AppServer\ApplicationHost.config" %SystemDrive%\myhttpstemp\configREM Configure the website's home directory."%ProgramFiles%\IIS Express\appcmd.exe" set config -section:system.ApplicationHost/sites /"[name='Development Web Site'].[path='/'].[path='/'].physicalPath:%SystemDrive%\myhttpstemp\wwwroot" /commit:apphost /apphostconfig:%SystemDrive%\myhttpstemp\config\ApplicationHost.configREM Configure the website for SSL."%ProgramFiles%\IIS Express\appcmd.exe" set config -section:system.ApplicationHost/sites /+"[name='Development Web Site'].bindings.[protocol='https',bindingInformation='127.0.0.1:8443:']" /commit:apphost /apphostconfig:%SystemDrive%\myhttpstemp\config\ApplicationHost.configREM Enable directory browsing so this example works without a home page."%ProgramFiles%\IIS Express\appcmd.exe" set config "Development Web Site" -section:system.webServer/directoryBrowse /enabled:"True" /commit:apphost /apphostconfig:%SystemDrive%\myhttpstemp\config\ApplicationHost.configREM Run the website with IIS Express."%ProgramFiles%\IIS Express\iisexpress.exe" /config:%SystemDrive%\myhttpstemp\config\ApplicationHost.config /siteid:1 /systray:falseREM Clean up the website folders.rd /q /s %SystemDrive%\myhttpstemppopd
As you can see in the above example, this is a little more involved than simply invoking Application Server Mode with a switch to enable HTTPS, but it's still very easy to do. The changes that we've made in IIS 8 Express make it easy to script Personal Web Server Mode in order to enable SSL for a temporary website.
I hope this information makes using the various IIS Express modes and SSL a little clearer, and you can get IIS 8 Express by following the link in the following blog post:
In this last appendix for my blog series about using SSL with IIS 6, I'll discuss processing a certificate request by using Windows 2003 Certificate Services. When you are running a certificate server for your network environment, you will need to physically issue the certificates that clients will request from your certificate server. There is a way that you can configure certificate services to automatically issue certificates, but I'd advise against that, unless you are only issuing certificates for testing purposes. If so, then you should read the Set the default action upon receipt of a certificate request topic on Microsoft's TechNet website.
That being said, the procedure to approve and issue a certificate is relatively easy; to do so, use the following steps:
That wraps up the last post in this blog series about using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with IIS 6.0, as well as some related information about using Windows 2003 Certificate Services. I hope this information helps administrators that have yet to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. ;-]
In this second appendix for my blog series about using SSL with IIS 6, I'm going to discuss obtaining the root certificate from Windows Server 2003 Certificate Services. By way of explanation, obtaining a root certificate is one of the most important steps for servers or clients that will use certificates that you issue. While this step is not necessary on the server where you installed Certificate Services, it is absolutely essential on your other servers or clients, because this step will allow those computers to trust your certificate server as a Certificate Authority (CA). Without that trust in place, you will either receive error messages or SSL simply won't work.
I've broken this process into two steps:
Note: If you were to bring up the properties for the root certificate, the certificate's icon should show an error; this is because the certificate has not been imported.
Before using any certificates that you issue on a computer, you need to install the Root Certificate. (This includes web servers and clients.)
Note: If you were to bring up the properties for the root certificate after you have installed it on your computer, you should see that the icon for the certificate no longer shows an error.
That's it for this post. In my next blog post, I'll discuss processing a certificate request.
I needed to take a short break from my blog series about using SSL with IIS 6 in order to work on some other projects, but I wanted to finish the series by giving you a few appendices that give you some additional details that you might want to know if you are using SSL with IIS 6.
In this first appendix, I'll discuss how to install Certificate Services for Windows Server 2003. Installing Certificate Services will allow you to have your own Certificate Authority (CA), and thereby you will be able to issue certificates for your organization. It should be noted that Internet clients that are not part of your organization will not inherently trust your certificates - you will need to export your Root CA certificate, which I will describe in a later appendix for this blog series.
There are four different configurations that you can choose from when you are installing Certificate Services:
Note: More information about these options is available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc756989.aspx
For this blog, I will discuss setting up a Stand-alone root CA.
That wraps up this blog post. In my next post I'll discuss obtaining the root certificate for your certificate server so you can install it on a client computer or an IIS server; this will allow other computers to trust the certificates that you issue.


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We went for a walk this morning, before the heat of the day. So I decided to post these photos right away, of the woods and waterfall (without water) and other such wonders -- a dozen photos. And I'm going to try for single word or phrase descriptions, just for fun. Lately I have been a bit verbose....
|en route
|dry creek bed
|still there
|deer tracks?
|lunch counters
|second version
|waterless, still big
Four photos by Rebecca, with thanks for taking a turn with my camera:
|faithful friend
|heading home


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Our Vision is that all seniors, persons with disabilities, and family caregivers residing in Coastal Georgia will have access to information and services that promote physical health, mental well-being and options for living that ensure personal dignity and individual choice.
The Coastal Area Agency on Aging (AAA), Coastal Georgia's advocate for seniors, was formed in 1973, as a department of the Coastal Regional Commission (CRC). We strive to develop a comprehensive, coordinated system of services which promotes the independence and well-being of older adults, those with disabilities and their caregivers, and to provide these individuals with information and access to needed services. We serve the coastal region, which includes Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long and McIntosh counties.
The coastal population is projected to increase by 32% between 2000 and 2015; 51% by the year 2030. Much of that growth is from the population age 65 and older. The total senior population (aged 60+) for Coastal Georgia has reached 103,235. By 2030, 1 out of every 5 Coastal residents will aged 65 and greater. The rapid growth of Coastal Georgia's aging population will significantly impact the aging services network and foster a climate for innovative ideas in programming and technology advancements to meet the growing needs of the elderly population.
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Thank God the Rapture didn't happen or we would've missed the season finale of SNL and it was a doozy! Sure, host Justin Timberlake has 2 movies to plug–Bad Teacher and Friends with Benefits–but Lady GaGa has the most anticipated album of the last decade to promote! Duh! And although I'm still very leery of the SNL writers and producer Lorne Michaels, they were wise to give GaGa the floor in 2 sketches, the digital short, and 2 off-the-wall musical performances. I've said the Nicki Minaj takeover of Jesse Eisenberg's episode was my favorite of the season, I take it back! Let's review in order, shall we?
First up, Timberlake reprised his "take it on down to (insert service)-ville!" sketch, this time promoting a liquor store in favor of Kristen Wiig's "teabagging" place and then who shows up? (unfortunately, the clip has not been posted to Hulu) moving on.
The Digital Short up next…Andy Samberg and Timberlake reprise their "Dick in a Box" and "Motherlover" characters for "3-Way (The Golden Rule)"…more GAGA!
Oh, and I almost forgot, in the first commercial break, a new Google Chrome spot premiered, starring GaGa and her scores of Little Monsters–very cool!
Up next, first musical performance…a little "Edge of Glory" with GaGa playing a lego-like 3D piano, then breaking into "Judas"…sweet!
I thought we probably wouldn't see GaGa anymore until her last performance, WRONG!…she challenged JT in a celebrity edition of "What's That Name?"
Hilarious!…and finally, GaGa brought back her egg from the Grammys for a little different interpretation of "Born This Way"…a head scratcher…I hope my sister wasn't watching.
So awesome, I pray the stores aren't sold out tomorrow…because I don't get off work until 4p…GAGA!


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MAR 21, WED: "Beijing vs Shanghai", an RASBJ panel discussion for Bookworm Litfest
MAR 21, WED: "BEIJING VERSUS SHANGHAI" in association with Bookworm Literary Festival
Please join us Mar. 21 for a panel discussion of BEIJING VERSUS SHANGHAI: WHO'S THE FAIREST OF THEM ALL? During March Beijing book-lovers gather for the Bookworm Literary Festival -- and this year the Royal Asiatic Society Beijing (RASBJ) has helped organize a festival event. Come hear prominent authors — all veteran China hands — debate which city is hot and which is not, and why, as China grabs the spotlight on the global stage. It's an age-old question, but we face new circumstances – politics, economic policies, tech development, even pollution patterns are changing. And with them the balance between these mega cities. To debate this thorny issue, join Paul French (City of Devils), James McGregor (No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers), and Jim Stent (China's Banking Transformation), withNewsweek's Melinda Liu as moderator. Organized by the Royal Asiatic Society Beijing for the Bookworm Literary Festival
WHAT: "Beijing Versus Shanghai: Who's the Fairest of Them All?", a panel discussion
WHEN: Mar. 21, Wednesday from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Florida investors buy Las Vegas shopping center for $20 million
The Las Vegas Review-Journal's Buck Wargo reports:
"In a sign of growing investment opportunities for well-positioned properties within the Las Vegas retail market, a Florida investment firm has entered the market for the first time and acquired a shopping center south of Summerlin.
The Sterling Organization, a private equity real estate investment firm based in Palm Beach, said it paid $20 million for Smith's Shopping Center, a 108,000-square-foot center anchored by Smith's Food & Drug at the northwest corner of South Fort Apache Road and West Flamingo Road. Kirkorian Enterprises previously owned the center.
"The fact that groups like ours are willing to invest in Las Vegas in 2015-2016 speaks volumes about how far the city has come over the past five years," said Brian Kosoy, managing principal and CEO of the Sterling Organization.
In this particular purchase, Kosoy added, however, the acquisition of Smith's Shopping Center wasn't necessarily about Las Vegas as much as the property itself."
Click here to read the story online at www.ReviewJournal.com.


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Homes in 98105 usually sell within 21 days, which is 15 days faster than King County's average and 9 days faster than the Seattle Metro average. The median price is $1,015,898, which is 243 percent higher than the Greater Seattle median price.
The one local zip code to show up in their Top 50 was 98105, which encompasses University District, Laurelhurst, Bryant, Windermere, and the eastern half of Wallingford.
The zip code actually makes for a rather healthy mix of markets, which probably is the reason it ranks to highly. You've got high-end luxury neighborhoods (Laurelhurst, Windermere) mixed with strong single-family home neighborhoods (Wallingford, Bryant) and a solid base of millennials (U District). Realtor.com says millennials make up 24 percent of homeowners in 98105 and that 24 percent of those millennial households make over six figures.


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