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Things to keep in mind when first seeking a job teaching English Overseas
If you have made up your mind that you want to look for an English teaching job and head overseas, then it is time to think about where you want to work, how much you want to earn or save and get the ball rolling.
Ready . . . Set . . . Go!
The 'where' and the 'how much' will be based on your qualifications, the area of the world where you wish to work and the availability of jobs there, as well as your personal financial goals.
Here a few other things to consider as well.
Do you need some training? Do you want to get some training (good for you!)? I would advise you to do it overseas, ideally in the country in which you want to teach and live.
There are food reasons for this. It is generally cheaper to do TEFL training overseas than in developed Western countries. If you add the living cost such as food and boarding during training, it will usually still be cheaper.
It will give you the chance to figure out if you would enjoy living overseas, because living overseas is completely different from traveling overseas.
Getting training abroad will give you the opportunity to mingle with and meet new people doing the same thing you want to do and the chance to network for good jobs.
Another advantage is that you will have the opportunity to do your teaching practice with students similar to those you will teach on the job. This may not be so important if you have a lot of experience already, but if you are a TEFL Newbie it will help you understand what is ahead.
I've taught EFL in four different countries and each country's students have their own unique way of speaking English, with different pronunciation and different grammar problems. Even experienced teachers take a while to get used to and to solve these language problems when changing countries.
The last advantage to consider is that you will get a good idea of what your students want, need, like and dislike. This too will vary from country to country.
In Thailand, for example, it is important to have some fun English games and activities related to your lesson, but in Saudi Arabia it would be a bad idea. There are huge cultural differences and ideas about education. It will be in your best interest to know these details before you have an interview or have to do a demonstration lesson.
In some countries it is common to require a demonstration lesson as part of the interview process, so you can just imagine how far ahead you'll be if you have done your training in that specific country. You will have an idea of what is going on and understand the common problems in the classroom. You'll be ahead of the other newbie-applicants.
The biggest benefit you will get from this will be to network and just getting the feel for your new possible home.
Recruiters? Useful or not?
There are different opinions about recruiters. Some people believe you find a much better deal negotiating on your own. Others believe that you should use a recruiter. Both ways are fine to me. I've done both.
I used a recruiter to find my first job. As a newbie, using a recruiter was very useful to me. I had a few problems but the recruiter got it all sorted out. It was helpful as I was not yet confident and had little knowledge about the business at that time.
The bad recruiters are out there too. They will not consider or care if you are a good fit for the school. They will just place you and get their fee from the school and say, "Bye bye".
It is important to do some research about your new school before going. Get in contact with and talk to the teachers already there. Find out if there are any problems – big or small, critical or minor – find out if they are happy and if not, why not?
Other issues
If you take some time to have a look at the other pages here at TEFL Newbie, you will see other issues to consider as well. We try to cover most of them so that you will know what to look for.
Before you make the big decision and sign a contract, consider:
What types of students do you want to teach? Are you interested in teaching corporate executives, resort staff, kindergarten/preschool or nursery students?
Should the job be in place before you go? This will depend on the specific country and your personal self-confidence. Some countries will hire almost exclusively from overseas and others frequently require that you be in the country for a personal interview to be considered for a job.
TED's Tips™ #1: If this is your first TEFL job, you might want to consider the countries that are "newbie friendly" and welcoming. It is known that the Middle East and Europe are difficult places to start and get your foot in the door.
Two of the easiest places to get started are definitely China and South Korea. In both cultures you will find that they have a lot of respect for teachers, they will hire from abroad and pay for or reimburse your airfare and accommodation.
Thailand is not just popular for the beaches, food and friendly people, the country is becoming more and more popular for new teachers, but it may not be one of the easiest places to work. You have to be in the country, to interview on the scene to get a job and you will pay your own airfare and accommodation. You'd earn about the same amount of money as China, but work more hours and get none of the benefits.


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Can someone help me figure out the kink in my network?
I have
Netgear wireless G router
Hackintosh desktop connected with ethernet cable
Win32 desktop, with lots of folders shared, an FTP server, and a VNC server connected with linksys wireless card
2 netbooks, connected wirelessly
I have lots of movies on the windows desktop I want to share.
Sometimes it connects fine, I can browse the SMB folders, connect and transfer with the FTP... and sometimes it just doesn't work at all... it always seems to have the same IP...
If I repair the network connection, it will usually work for a little... when it can't connect, the internet is still working fine on all computers.
I've completely disabled the windows firewall...
Any ideas?
Home network woes
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Yes a female one or more at max level
Yes a male one or more at max level
BOTH at max level
I have a male Belf tankadin and a female belf frost mage, both at 85 =p
I have 2 at max level. Would have more, but their racials are so terrible that the DPS loss isn't worth it even if its only like 1%.
Got 1 female and 1 male bloodelf at 90. They're not my mains though. I'm mostly playing my forsaken cause.. well you know, they rock!
2 Belf females.
2 troll males, 1 orc male, 1 orc female, 1 worgen male, 1 Draenei female, 1 Pandaren male, 1 UD male, 1 UD female....all slots taken.
I have 1, 2, 3, 4..... 7 gnomes. Am I insane?
Not even ONCE, NOT EVEN ONCE I stepped down to create a bloodelf, you can stay the belfiest of all.
"Why do we fight? To protect home and family, to preserve balance and bring harmony. For my kind the true question is, what is worth fighting for?"
All of my characters are belfs. I race changed my priest to a panda just so I wasn't 100% belf because I was tired of the same old thing. I miss it though. So yeah that was kind of a lame decision. I wish I just ignored everyone's criticism of belfs. If you like it you like it, don't let other's persuade you would be my advice. Now my poor priest is a damn panda lol. I guess another race change is in order but eh, doesn't seem worth the cost.
I have 3 max level belfs, and 2 servers full of belfs below max level that I intend to level when I am no longer sick of the game....so possibly never. But the intent is there dammit.
The only ever reason i would take a blood elf, it because their racial.
Made a belf paladin for fun the other day, I got to the part where you have to go speak to Garrosh to allow you into the horde, he called me a little girl (I play a male) so I just deleted it and never looked back. Most of my characters used to be undead with the exception of a tauren paladin, tauren druid and an orc shaman, I made my rogue and druid into trolls at the end of cata though! So you could say I used to be the undeadliest of undeads!
Got two level 90's, both Blood Elf female. Wish Blood Elves could be Shaman and I would level up a third one. Yeah yeah it doesn't make sense lore wise for Blood Elves to connect with the spirits of the world, but still... =/
Blood Elves, tha race fit for animetards.


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By Emma Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 16, 2009
In a celebration of Woodstock's 40th anniversary Saturday, more than 120 musicians, all of them too young to vote, rocked the Mall with music from a bygone era. They performed for eight hours just south of the Washington Monument, channeling stars including Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane and wearing costumes cribbed, perhaps, from their parents' closets: tie-dye shirts, bell-bottoms and fringed leather vests.
"We do tell the kids to look 'rock.' And we tell them when they don't look 'rock,' " said Jeff Bollettino, owner of three local branches of the Paul Green School of Rock Music, whose students were Saturday's performers. "They have to go out and find their own look."
Daniel Peters, 15, sang lead vocals on the first two songs of the morning, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly and Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Suzie Q." For help with his look -- a black bandanna tied around his forehead and a red T-shirt bearing Hendrix's likeness -- the Ashburn teen turned to his grandparents.
"They lived back in Woodstock times," he said. "Everything was real loose then and real laid-back."
Daniel's grandfather, Manuel Ybarra Jr., who traveled from California for the concert, described himself as an "old-school rocker" who played in a blues band during the 1960s and '70s.
Before the concert, he offered his grandson advice. "I said pray, work the audience and use the mic stand as an instrument," he said. "It's not what you play, but how you play it."
And during the show?
"I started crying," said Ybarra, 58. "You see these kids performing, they can appreciate true art. It's like a Picasso or a Van Gogh -- music never gets old."
Backstage, musicians ranging from 8 to 17 waited their turn to perform, guzzling water and flirting with each other. Silver Spring rocker Adam Brentini, 12, plucked his guitar, demonstrating how to hook a thumb over the fret as Hendrix did. And like Hendrix, he wore his shirt unbuttoned and his curly hair long.
"I want to cut the hair," said his mother, Jacqueline Gill-Brentini, echoing parents of a previous generation. "But I got to let it be."
The vibe was more suburban culture than counterculture. Parents, armed with coolers of cold drinks and plenty of sunscreen, sat in folding chairs under the bright blue sky or manned digital video cameras mounted on tripods.
"We never miss his performances," Darah Scott of Woodbridge said of her 15-year-old son, drummer Dakota Shea. Shea sported tight red pants and longish, feathered locks for a style faintly Mick Jaggeresque.
The music drew more than family. District resident Letitia Johnson, 50, paused on her way to an exercise class to dance to a rendition of Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train." And Sherry and Myron Olstein, who listened in the shade of trees, traveled from Falls Church for a taste of the past.
"I'm not necessarily a rock music fan," said Sherry Olstein, 67. "But I'd like to hear what someone would do with Janis Joplin."
The Olsteins were married in 1963. "The hippies were around. Communes sounded very interesting to us," Sherry Olstein said. "We felt a little bit of a tug, but we were a bit more established and were not ready to give that up."
The concert was an opportunity to experience a little of what they missed in 1969, minus the legendary traffic jams and biblical weather.
"We're not in the mud," she said, "and it's not raining!"
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'America's Got Talent' star to perform in Knight Club
On Friday, Sept. 27, Dani Shay, a versatile singer/songwriter/actress/speaker, will be performing at Alfred University (AU) at 8 p.m. in the Knight Club, Powell Campus Center. The event is open to the public and is free of charge.
Shay's first national appearance was in 2011 when she sang "What the Hell" on the sixth season of the television program "America's Got Talent." Her comedic songs and Justin Bieber look-a-like style won over audiences as she went on to appear on Oxygen network's "The Glee Project 2".
Shay uses softness and strength – pop melodies with punchy breakdowns – to deliver clever messages in a heartfelt way. Her latest music video, "One" was released in December 2012. "One" premiered with the Grammy-Award-winning band, FUN, and their LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning) organization, The Ally Coalition. Shay is currently touring with a pro-love, anti-bullying movement called the Be More Heroic campaign.
Shay's performance is brought to AU by the collaboration of three student organized clubs; Alfredian Dramatists, SAGE (Students Advocating Gender Equality), and Spectrum (gay/straight alliance).
For more information on Shay visit danishay.com, or e-mail email@example.com.
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The great thing about this is it is a scrub and a mask all in one. It is soothing from the oats yet stimulating from the brewers yeast and will regenerate and bring oxygen to your skin while tightening your pores. You will love how it brings a glow to your skin.
Recipe: 1/2 Cup
- 1/4 Cup Steel Cut Oats
- 2 Tablespoons Brewers Yeast
- 2 Tablespoons Cup Almonds
- 3 Drops Lavender Essential Oil
- 1 Drops Lemon Essential Oil
- Olive Oil and/or Honey (Optional)
Grind the almonds until coarsely ground in a food processor then add the oats pulse a few times then add the brewer's yeast and turn on then drop the lavender in while on until well combined.
Wash your face, neck and chest and add a little of the scrub/mask in your hand or small bowl and mix with a little water, oil and/or honey for extra moister and scrub in circular motions very lightly letting the scrub do the work then leave on for 15 – 20 minutes and rinse well.
* If you use honey make sure your face is wet with water or a hydrolsol otherwise it's to sticky to scrub.
*You will feel tingling from the brewers yeast, this is normal. It is bringing circulation to your skin.
Or you can apply this in the shower, first wash your face, neck, chest, arms and hands then gently scrub in circular motions and leave on while you wash your hair and body etc. rinse off.
Spray with a toner and apply a face oil or lotion to trap in the toner.
Use: 1 – 3 times a week
Skin Benefits:
Oat Powder – All skin types. Reduces the appearance of fine lines & wrinkles. Cleansing, softening, moisturizer, toning, protective to the skin, lifts away dead skin cells, helps fade age spots, smooths skin, protect the skin, helps minimize scars, make a paste for rashes & insect bites. Anti-Inflammatory, anti-oxidant & anti-itch.
Brewers Yeast – Great for mature, oily, or acne skin. Helps to clear problem skin, minimize brown spots, tighten pores, pull out Impurities, helps UV damage, stimulates blood flow, circulation & brightens complexion. Anti-bacterial. High in B Vitamins, Chromium & Selenium.
Almond Meal – All skin type. Cleansing, moisturizer, softening, smoothing, nourishing, lifts out impurities by unclogging pores, cleanses away dead skin cell & replenish skin oils. Anti-Inflammatory & antioxidant. High in vitamin E which is great for premature aging
Lavender Essential Oil – All skin types – balancing oil, meaning if you have dry skin it returns it to a normal state and the same goes for oily skin as it balance the sebum production, this is why it is used on all skin types. It reduces inflammation, soothing, healing and rejuvenating.
Olive oil – Penetrates deep into the skin. Dry, sensitive, wrinkles, itchy & inflamed. Soothing, very mild, attracts external moisture, cell regenerator & plumps the skin. Anti-aging, anti-Inflammatory & strong anti-oxidant qualities. Contains vitamins A, E, K, minerals & proteins.
Honey is extremely moisturizing and soothing to the skin as well as it is high in enzymes so it has a exfoliating effect. It is an antibacterial that is great for blemishes as well as with the antimicrobial, anti-fungal, and antiseptic properties. It is an anti-oxidant that helps slow down signs of aging and helps bring a youthful glow to your face.


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Environmental performance of coal-fired FBC, IEACR/75
Author(s): Mitsuru Takeshita
Ref: IEACR/75
First introduced in the 1970s, the attraction of coal-fired FBC technology has been its fuel flexibility, in situ SO2 control and inherently low NOx emissions. Over the last decade, AFBC has been rapidly scaled up to relatively large scale cogeneration plants and power plants (up to 250 MWe). PFBC and hybrid cycle PFBC have been developed as clean coal technologies with high thermal efficiencies. This report reviews the environmental performance in commercial coal fired AFBC as well as PFBC and hybrid PFBC. Environmental emissions of concern include SO2, NOx, N2O, particulates, trace elements, organic compounds and residues. Emissions control in FBC is comparable with that of PC fired plant and IGCC from the viewpoint of efficiency, reliability of operation and economics. The environmental performance of FBC has been greatly improved through the optimisation of operating parameters and the introduction of advanced designs such as those incorporating fly ash recirculation and SNCR. FBC can meet even the most stringent of current emission limits. Elevated N2O emissions and difficulties with the management of residues are the major disadvantages. N2O is recognised to have a role in ozone depletion in the stratosphere and is a potent greenhouse gas. One promising measure to reduce the N2O emissions by means of afterburning in the cyclone has recently been demonstrated in a pilot plant. Disposal of residues may increase the O&M cost, depending strongly on the coal sulphur content and site specific conditions.


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If there is one thing Stitch Kingdom is synonymous with, it's young women's fashion. So when a little birdie — or should we say raven? — offered to give us a sneak beak at the upcoming Maleficent Hot Topic exclusive collaboration, it was an offer we simply couldn't refuse. Our source — who would identify himself only as D — managed to pass along some leaked screenshots of pics of some of the upcoming fashion line inspired by the film and its iconic villain (Angelina Jolie) as well as the sleeping beauty herself, Aurora (Elle Fanning).
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Maleficent explores the untold story of Disney's most iconic villain from the classic Sleeping Beauty and the elements of her betrayal that ultimately turn her pure heart to stone. Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors over which she presides, Maleficent cruelly places an irrevocable curse upon the human king's newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Aurora is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy. Maleficent realizes that Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever.


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|Sun Java System Portal Server 6 2005Q4 Deployment Planning Guide
Chapter 3
Identifying and Evaluating Your Business and Technical Requirements
The first step in planning your deployment is identifying your Sun Java System Portal Server business and technical requirements.. You need to gather both business and technical requirements before you can address architecture and design issues.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Business Objectives
Your business requirements address your organization's problems and opportunities, and include such factors as:
To be useful in formulating design requirements, the business requirements must address detailed goals and objectives.
The business goals of your portal affect deployment decision. Understand your objectives. If you do not understand your business requirements, you can easily make erroneous assumptions that could affect the accuracy of your deployment estimates.
Use these questions to help you identify your business objectives:
- What are the business goals of this portal? (For example, do you want to enhance customer service? Increase employee productivity? Reduce the cost of doing business?)
- What kind of portal do you need? (For example, business-to-business, business-to-consumer , business-to-enterprise, or a hybrid?)
- Who is your target audience?
- What services or functions will the portal deliver to users?
- How will the target audience benefit from the portal?
- What are the priorities for the portal? (If you plan to deploy your portal in phases, identify priorities for each phase.)
(Optional) Use these questions to help identify your business objectives if you are deploying a secure portal:
- Do you need to increase employee productivity (by making your intranet applications and servers accessible over the Internet)?
- Do you need to provide secure access to your portal?
- Do you need to reduce cost of ownership of an existing Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution?
- Do you want employees to access intranet applications such as Citrix and pcAnywhere from the Internet?
- Do you want your employees to explore intranet servers or machines from the Internet?
- Who is your target audience (all portal users, employees, or customers)?
Technical Goals
Your technical requirement (often called functional requirement) discuss the details of your organization's system needs and desired results, and include such factors as:
The technical requirements define all functions required of an architecture and provide guidelines for how each component works and integrates to form an entire system. Your organization needs technical requirements to formulate the best design approaches and apply the appropriate technologies to accomplish the desired architectural solution for your portal.
The reasons you are offering your portal have a direct affect on how you implement your portal. You must define target population, performance standards, and other factors related to your goals.
Use these questions to help you identify the goals of your portal:
- What is your portal's biggest priority?
- What applications will the portal deliver?
- What is your target population?
- What performance standard is necessary?
- What transaction volume do you expect? What transaction volume do you expect during peak use?
- What response time is acceptable during peak use?
- What is the necesary level of concurrency? Concurrency is the number of users who can be connected at any given time?
- Should access to the portal be through intranet or Internet?
- Will your portal be deployed in one phase, or many phases? (Describe each phase and what will change from phase to phase.)
Mapping Portal Server Features to Your Business Needs
The previous sections posed questions to you about the various areas of the Portal Server system from a high-level perspective of business and technical needs. This section reviews specific technology features with the goal of determining which technologies are most important for your organization. Review these features while keeping in mind your organization's short-, mid-, and long-term plans.
Use the following sections and tables to assess the benefits of the listed features and determine their relative priority for your organization. This information will assist you in developing a deployment plan in a timely and cost effective manner.
In all likelihood, your Sun Java System sales representative has previously discussed these topics with you. Thus, this section serves as a review of that process.
Identity Management
Portal Server uses identity management to control many users spanning a variety of different roles across the organization and sometimes outside the organization while accessing content, applications and services. The challenges include: Who is using an application? In what capacity do users serve the organization or company? What do users need to do, and what should users be able to access? How can others help with the administrative work?
Table 3-1 shows the identity management features and their benefits.
Table 3-1 Identity Management Features and Benefits
Directory service
Portal Server uses Access Manager and Directory Server
Portal Server uses an LDAP directory for storing user profiles, roles, and identity information for the purpose of authentication, single sign-on (SSO), delegated administration, and personalization
Portal Server uses an open schema that can reside in a centralized user directory, thereby leveraging an enterprise or service provider's investment in the Access Manager and Directory Server products.
User, policy, and provisioning management
Access Manager enables you to manage many users spanning a variety of different roles across the organization and sometimes outside the organization while accessing content, applications, and services.
Provides a centralized identity management solution for storing and managing identity information, which is integrated with a policy solution to enforce access rights, greatly simplifying these challenges. Extends a common identity to handle new applications, enables applications to share administrative work, and simplifies tasks normally associated with building these services from scratch.
Consolidates management of users and applications. Personalizes content and service delivery. Simplifies and streamlines information and service access. Reduces costs associated with managing access and delivery.
Provides secure policy-based access to applications. Ensures secure access as portal deployments expand beyond employee LAN access.
Single sign-on (SSO)
Access Manager integrates user authentication and single sign-on through an SSO API. Once the user is authenticated, the SSO API takes over. Each time the authenticated user tries to access a protected page, the SSO API determines if the user has the permissions required based on their authentication credentials. If the user is valid, access to the page is given without additional authentication. If not, the user is prompted to authenticate again.
Enhances user productivity by providing a consistent, centralized mechanism to manage authentication and single sign-on, while enabling employees, partners and customers access to content, applications, and services.
Delegated administration
The Access Manager administration console provides role-based delegated administration capabilities to different kinds of administrators to manage organizations, users, policy, roles, channels, and Portal Desktop providers based on the given permissions.
Enables IT to delegate portal administrative duties to free up valuable IT resources and administration.
Provides single sign-on for aggregated applications to the portal.
Security is an important functionality in portals. Security can address many different needs within the portal, including authentication into the portal, encryption of the communications between the portal and the end user, and authorization of the content and applications to only users that are allowed access.
Table 3-2 shows the Sun Java System Portal Server Secure Remote Access (SRA) features and their benefits
Table 3-2 SRA Features and Benefits
Integrated security
Extranet or Virtual Private Network capabilities "on demand" while providing user, policy, and authentication services. The Gateway component provides the interface and security barrier between remote user sessions originating from the Internet, and your corporate intranet.
Extends an enterprise's content, applications, files, and services located behind firewalls to authorized suppliers, business partners, and employees.
To prevent denial of service attacks, you can use both internal and external DMZ-based Gateways.
SRA core
Users achieve remote access through four components:
This component has four parts:
- Gateway—Controls communication between the Portal Server and the various Gateway instances.
- NetFile—Enables remote access and operation of file systems and directories.
- Netlet—Ensures secure communication between the Netlet applet on the client browser, the Gateway, and the application servers.
- Proxylet—Redirects a URL to the Gateway.
Universal access
Enables web browser based universal access with no client software installation or maintenance necessary.
Simplifies the IT administration and maintenance overhead while dramatically reducing the time and cost of deployment
Netlet Proxy
Provides an optional component that extends the secure tunnel from the client, through the Gateway to the Netlet Proxy that resides in the intranet.
Restricts the number of open ports in a firewall between the demilitarized zone (DMZ) and the intranet.
Rewriter Proxy
Redirects HTTP requests to the Rewriter Proxy instead of directly to the destination host. The Rewriter Proxy in turn sends the request to the destination server.
Using the Rewriter Proxy enables secure HTTP traffic between the Gateway and intranet computers and offers two advantages:
- If a firewall exists between the Gateway and server, the firewall needs to open only two ports—one between the Gateway and the Rewriter Proxy, and another between the Gateway and the Portal Server.
- HTTP traffic is now secure between the Gateway and the intranet even if the destination server only supports HTTP protocol (no HTTPS).
Search Engine
The Search Engine service is used in the following channels:
Table 3-3 shows the Search features and their benefits.
Table 3-3 Search Features and Benefits
Search Engine
Enables the retrieval of documents based on criteria specified by the end user.
Saves users time by providing access to content.
Organizes documents into a hierarchy. This categorization is often referred to as taxonomy.
Provides a different view of documents that enables browsing and retrieval.
The Search Engine robot is an agent that crawls and indexes information across your intranet or the Internet.
Automatically searches and extracts links to resources, describes those resources, and puts the descriptions in the Search database (also called generation or indexing).
A forum for multiple threaded discussions.
Contents are individually searchable and importance rating are given for of all comments
Enables the user to track new or changed material in different areas of interest.
Discussions, search categories, and free-form searches (saved searches) can be tracked.
Personalization is the ability to deliver content based on selective criteria and offer services to a user.
Table 3-4 shows the personalization features and their benefits.
Table 3-4 Personalization Features and Benefits
Deliver content based on user's role
Portal Server includes the ability to automatically choose which applications users are able to access or to use, based on their role within the organization.
Increases employee productivity, improves customer relationships, and streamlines business relationships by providing quick and personalized access to content and services.
Enable users to customize content
Portal Server enables end users to choose what content they are interested in seeing. For example, users of a personal finance portal choose the stock quotes they would like to see when viewing their financial portfolio.
The information available in a portal is personalized for each individual. In addition, users can then customize this information further to their individual tastes. A portal puts control of the web experience in the hands of the people using the web, not the web site builders.
Aggregate and personalize content for multiple users
Portal Server enables an enterprise or service provider to aggregate and deliver personalized content to multiple communities of users simultaneously.
This enables a company to deploy multiple portals to multiple audiences from one product and manage them from a central management console. Also, new content and services can be added and delivered on demand without the need to restart Portal Server. All of this saves time and money, and ensures consistency in an IT organization.
Aggregation and Integration
One of the most important aspects of a portal is its ability to aggregate and integrate information, such as applications, services, and content. This functionality includes the ability to embed non-persistent information, such as stock quotes, through the portal, and to run applications within, or deliver them through, a portal.
Table 3-5 shows the aggregation and integration features and their benefits.
Table 3-5 Aggregation Features and Benefits
Aggregated information
The Portal Desktop provides the primary end-user interface for Portal Server and a mechanism for extensible content aggregation through the Provider Application Programming Interface (PAPI). The Portal Desktop includes a variety of providers that enable container hierarchy and the basic building blocks for building some types of channels.
Users no longer have to search for the information. Instead, the information finds them.
Consistent set of tools
Users get a set of tools like web-based email and calendaring software that follows them through their entire time at the company.
Users do not have to use one tool for one project, another tool for another location. Also, because these tools all work within the portal framework, the tools have a consistent look and feel and work similarly, reducing training time.
Portal Server provides control and access to data as a company-wide resource.
In many companies, data is seen as being owned by individual departments, instead of as a company-wide resource. The portal can act as a catalyst for breaking down these silos and making the data available in a controlled way to the people who need to use it. This broader, more immediate access can improve collaboration.
Portal Server enables you to use the Portal Desktop as the sole place for users to gain access to or launch applications and access data.
Iintegration with existing email, calendar, legacy, or web applications enables the portal to serve as a unified access point, enabling users—be that employees, partners, or customers—to access the information users need quickly and easily.
Understanding User Behaviors and Patterns
Study the people who will use your portal. Factors such as when users will use the portal and how users have used predecessor systems are keys to identifying your requirements. If your organization's experience cannot provide these patterns, you can study the experience of other organizations and estimate them.
Use these questions to help you understand users:
- How many end users will you have? What is the size of your target audience?
- Will users login to the portal at the same time each day? Will they use the portal at work or somewhere else?
- Are users in the same time zone or in different time zones?
- How long do you expect the typical user to be connected, or have a valid portal session open? What use statistics do you have for existing applications? Do you have web traffic analysis figures for an existing portal?
- How many visitor sessions, or number of single-visitor visits, are likely within a predefined period of time?
- Is portal use likely to increase over time? Or stay stable?
- How fast will your user base grow?
- How have your users used an application that the portal will deliver to them?
- What portal channels do you expect users to use regularly?
- What expectations about your portal content do your users have? How have users used predecessor web-based information or other resources that your portal will offer?


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Velvet Revolver is a Grammy Award-winning hard rock supergroup with three former members of Guns N' Roses - Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum - plus Scott Weiland, the former lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, and Dave Kushner of the 80s punk band Wasted Youth.
Velvet Revolver is everything the band's name suggests and much more. This is a modern rock with a sense of danger and beauty that's been missing for far too long. Their suitably explosive yet gorgeous debut effort Contraband marks the spot for a new beginning from a band of rock & roll brothers united by some legendary pasts and a suddenly brighter future.
"We're all looking for a rebirth here," explains the group's lead singer Scott Weiland. "We're seeking to get back that same feeling we had when we all first started making music--the sense of doing it for the pure joy of making music. Along the way, the whole idea that got us into this had been raped and sodomized. We were all in mourning of that and wondering if we could somehow get it back. As it turns out, the only way we could get it all back was to start it all new. Now we have that opportunity, and it's amazing. This music is just vicious, very aggressive and it forces you to lace your boots up and to get ready for the fight."
The idea behind Velvet Revolver remains a powerfully simple one. "There is no real concept to me," explains guitarist Slash. "We set out to make music we enjoy and can feel proud of playing--music that people we like will want to listen to. As soon as you start thinking beyond that--about wanting to keep up with the Joneses or about fitting in with somebody else's format--that's when you lose the map. So we've just done what we do, and tried to have a relaxed time doing it."
Everything you've heard about Velvet Revolver is true. This is the band that brings together three former members of one of rock's greatest groups Guns N' Roses--Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum--together with one of rock's most charismatic frontmen Scott Weiland, formerly of Stone Temple Pilots, and guitarist Dave Kushner, ex-Wasted Youth, Electric Love Hogs and Dave Navarro's band, among others.
While Velvet Revolver inevitably offers a few echoes of its members' illustrious pasts, their sound is defiantly forward-looking and truly fresh in all senses of that word. "Our music is very aggressive," says Duff. "There's always that 'F*ck you' element to it. That's all we know how to do. We can't play nice or play radio. Slash, Matt and I were always that way in Guns, and Scott and Dave are very like-minded. To me, this is the first dangerous band that's come around in a while--truly terrible. People are going to say, 'Oh a supergroup. These guys have everything.' And I can understand that, but we're not coming at this that way. We hope to bring some chaos back into the whole world of rock."
"This is the real deal," says Matt Sorum. "This is all of us firing on all cylinders."
Slash, McKagan, and Sorum came together to play a benefit/tribute for their friend and fellow musician Randy Castillo in 2002. The buzz of playing together again got the three thinking. "There was still something very powerful and intense between us," says Slash.
"That chemistry never went away," says McKagan.
Sensing enough time had lapsed since their less-than-pleasant departures from Guns N' Roses, the trio linked with Kushner--a high school friend of Slash's who had been playing with Duff in recent years. "He's our secret weapon," says Duff. "He plays amazing textures, and he can handle himself with Slash." After some false starts with other musicians, the four decided to try an unusually open call for a new frontperson.
Documented by VH1 cameras for an upcoming special, this process turned out to be long and sometimes painful. "We heard so many different singers, and every singer lent itself to a different vibe," Sorum recalls. Unfortunately, the vibes were usually not too good. "As soon as we heard the vocals that people were sending in, we knew we were in trouble," Sorum remembers. "And we knew we just couldn't put out some shabby rock tribute. It had to be something special."
As Dave Kushner remembers, "The experience was brutal. There was nothing fun about it except for the fact that I got to go and play with these guys five days a week. It was just really disheartening and frustrating at times. But in the end because of all the time we spent looking, we went a lot of different places musically. It seemed like we were killing time, but we were building the foundation."
Fortunately, as the Great Lead Singer search was going on, Duff was spending time socially with Weiland, then still with Stone Temple Pilots.
"I was sort of at the end of my rope, mentally and emotionally with STP at the time, though we've sort of made up since our last explosion," Weiland explains. "Duff told me he'd gotten together with Slash and Matt and that Dave Kushner was also playing. Now I've known Dave for years since he was in Electric Love Hogs, who I use to play on bills with when STP was known as Mighty Joe Young. And I was a huge Guns fan. Appetite For Destruction had the same impact on me as Never Mind The Bollocks by the Sex Pistols, Nirvana's Nevermind and Jane's Addiction's Nothing's Shocking. Appetite was one of those records that made me believe, that became my bible and taught me everything."
For Weiland, the idea of joining forces with this foursome proved enticing. Then when Slash dropped off a CD of some of the music the guys had been recording, Weiland was impressed. "There were like fifteen songs out of the sixty that I could wrap my head around," Scott recalls. "I thought if we went in that direction, we could turn into a five-headed beast which would be utterly lethal and indestructible."
With Weiland, the project became a living, breathing band. "This guy has lived," says Matt. "Because of where we've been as musicians--and the kind of frontman we were next to for all those years--it is pretty tough for any guy to step up immediately and be able to stand next to a guy like Slash or Duff. Those guys are rock stars in their right. To front this band, we needed someone who was above and beyond, and we got one."
"I was beginning to think there was no more great rock frontman," says McKagan.
Quickly the five got down to work. "We recorded the song for The Hulk ("Set Me Free"), but the only way to see if you can be a band is to do a gig," says Scott. "So we did a concert at the El Rey [in Los Angeles ] in June, and that answered every question. It was worth more than any time in the studio or hanging out. This was undeniable and the most sonically powerful thing I've ever been a part of. Singing 'It's So Easy' [from Appetite For Destruction] with those guys at the El Rey was amazing. When I wrote 'Sex Type Thing' [from STP's debut album], it was inspired by that little vocal of 'It's So Easy.'"
For Slash, "We were like a bunch of kids who just learned how to play the same chord together. That's what it's been like every time we've done something together. We're thrilled, like 'Hey, we wrote a song!' 'Hey, we played a gig!' Maybe that's why this has worked--because we're the opposite of jaded."
For all the valid will, launching Velvet Revolver hasn't always been easy, especially with the group's frontman publicly going through some personal turmoil of late. "This has been a pretty rough year for me," Scott admits. "The whole divorce thing pulled me through a keyhole emotionally, so I fell backward on a narcotic slide and had to pay the price. But these guys were there to catch my fall. This has been a gang. And it helps that they've all been through it themselves a million times, so there's no judgment there. They've all kicked dope, so it's not like I'm the lone junkie in the band, or I'm the only one who knows what it's like to kick a three-gram-a-day heroin habit. Through all the difficulties I've been through, they've all been there. That's more than I could ever ask for--more than I've ever experienced before."
'We went through a lot of stuff with Scott," Duff explains. "We got him to come up to the mountains, to Washington State, and he was learning martial arts and learning how to live a different way. Whatever happens, he has some more tools that he didn't have before."
"I feel like Scott is still struggling in certain areas, but that this is all meant to be," says Matt. "Down the line, our hopes are that with this high a positive influence--and his knowing where we've all been with the rock and roll indulgence--we will pull through this together."
Early in its evolution, the group released the song "Set Me Free" on The Hulk soundtrack and recorded a cover of Pink Floyd's "Money" for another movie, The Italian Job. When it came time to sign a deal and record their first album, the band chose RCA in part because of the interest of Chairman Clive Davis. "Clive flew out here and courted us, and he watched us rehearse along with his little posse," Slash remembers. "It was flattering because he's such an icon and he's been doing it for so long and can recognize something."
That decision made, it was time for Velvet Revolver to take aim and make their first album.
Contraband is a rock & roll song cycle with an eclectic streak and a sonic nerviness. It's a rock-hard headphones classic for a new generation, reflecting the players' influences from The Beatles to Refused, and for obvious reasons a little Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots too.
After sampling some producers, Velvet Revolver opted to go with Josh Abraham to co-produce the album with them. "Josh was very much for us a fresh face," says Matt. "We went out, and we tried other producers, and we tried the best of the old school, but we needed to go in a different direction. We needed a young, fresh collaborator with a modern element--whatever that is. We wanted to compete, and we wanted to be represented now."
"Who you work with is important, and Josh and the people we worked with on this album made things feel effortless," says Slash. "They made it feel like us."
"If we sounded slick, we're going to be some over-thirtysomething, over-produced super rock band," says Duff. "But this is just a rock band and the album had to grow just like we do when we play together live."
The music came into sharp focus when Weiland added his profound, intensely personal lyrics to the mix. "In a nutshell, this whole album for me is pretty much about the poisonous, toxic relationship that I had been in and the catastrophic effects my break-up and subsequent divorce has had on me," Scott explains. "It's complete honesty so if people relate, great."
Each song is about where I was at in the situation on that given day. As you can tell, some days I was dealing with it better than others. This is the most effort I've ever put into anything. I put as much effort into the first STP album, but now I know so much more."
With Contraband completed in the waning days of 2003, Velvet Revolver now looks forward to the album's spring 2004 release and walloping the road. "We can't wait," says Slash. "I'm just looking forward to fulfilling a touring thing that I never got to finish actually with Guns. That's what I love, but we never got to do a lot of stuff for reasons that still don't make sense to me. I just want to play."
"We'll go down in the gutter and play dirtbag clubs, and we'll play big stadiums," says Matt. "And that's the way we've always been. We're not precious."
But ultimately, Velvet Revolver isn't about firing at the past. It's about what these five men can do together in the future. "You know all the possibilities are there," says Slash. "And we don't want to miss them this time."
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Puppy Love by Lady-CompassionWatch
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Very beautiful work
Super work Jenny
Now you've done it - captured my heart with a puppy fractal!
very nice work
"Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I . " ~Don Juan Matus
Gosh, that was sweet of you to do! The note from wytunison mentions a transparent overlay effect - did you do that on this one?
Nice! The transparent overlay effect is really cool
very nicely done Jenny! great design
I LOVE this! It's so bright and cheerful and just what I need today. Thank you for creating and sharing it!
I usually don't like yellow as a color, but this is amazing! Very detailed
Thanks....it is hard to find good yellows to use for gradients....most times they are too greenish for my tastes.....but this (the puppy drawing) was perfection for colors


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|Fast facts on Nintendo DS
|Manufacturer: Nintendo
|Variants: Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo DSi XL (LL)
The Nintendo DS (ニンテンドーDS) (also know as iQue DS in China) is a dual screen handheld video game console released by Nintendo in 2004 as a successor to the Game Boy Advance line. It was succeeded by the Nintendo 3DS in early 2011.
The Nintendo DS is amongst Nintendo's most successful handheld consoles, despite facing competition throughout its lifespan by the PlayStation Portable, and in its latter years, a market increasingly drawn to iOS or Android smartphones and tablets. It is an evolution of the Game Boy Advance design, adding an extra two face buttons ( and ), a resistive touch screen, amongst the expected technical improvements and a microphone. It uses a similar clamshell design to the Game Boy Advance SP (complete with backlit screens), and despite initial scepticism at launch, the system went on to sell over 150 million units worldwide.
Several versions of the DS exist, the most prominent being the Nintendo DS Lite, a cost-reduced unit which launched in 2006 to coincide with an altered marketing strategy (also used by the Wii) to appeal to a wider audience of consumers. An updated DS, the Nintendo DSi launched in 2008, sporting minor upgrades, two cameras, and a new line of DSi-specific software (including physical DSi-only games, DSiWare games and DS games with DSi enhancements). The Nintendo DSi XL (DSi LL in Japan) is similar, but is designed for those with larger hands.
Sega were quick to lend their support to the Nintendo DS from day one, with Feel the Magic: XY/XX being sold as a launch title in the US and PAL regions. Super Monkey Ball: Touch & Roll and Sonic Rush also sold well on the system during its early years.
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The Samba-Bugzilla – Bug 866
man smb.conf server signing error in documentation
Last modified: 2005-08-24 10:18:54 UTC
server signing
Default: client signing = Disabled
Instead of client shall be server and maybe the value Disabled is also
copied from client signing and thus should be revised.
Fixed in CVS.
sorry for the same, cleaning up the database to prevent unecessary reopens of bugs.


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To better celebrate PTAs for implementing the National Standards for Family-School Partnerships, the Parent Involvement Schools of Excellence Certification has merged with the Phoebe Apperson Hearst-National PTA Excellence in Education Partnership Award to create three new levels of recognition.
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MaWhitefringed Beetle
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Common names: Whitefringed Beetle
Scientific name: Graphognathus leucoloma
Region: This Beetle is common to the southeastern United States.
Life cycle: This beetle overwinters as a larva or an egg in the soil and produces one generation each year.
Physical Description: This brown-gray beetle is about 1/2 inch long, has white hairs on its back, a short head/snout, and cannot fly. The eggs are coated with a very sticky substance and are laid in large groups and the base of plants. The yellowish white larva has no legs and is about 1/2 inch in length.
Feeding characteristics: The whitefringed grub lives in the soil and feeds on the roots of beans and a variety of other vegetables and ornamentals. The larva eats the tender outer root tissues and may sever the main root, causing the plant to turn yellow and limp, eventually killing them. It has acquired a taste for about 400 plants. The adult is less dangerous to the garden and are particularly fond of legumes.
Controls: Large-scale growers should not plant more than a quarter of there annual crop land in legumes, or plant the same land with legumes more than once in three to four years. On a smaller scale, the home gardener can control this pest more efficiently. Make sure you don't plant legumes together. Clean cultivation is the only effective organic control. Build the soil fertility so that the plant may become strong enough to fight off the beetles' attack.
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Genealogy Report: Ancestors of George Sebourn Shibley
Ancestors of George Sebourn Shibley
32.Henry Milton Shibley, born January 12, 1762 in Rensselaer County, NY; died April 03, 1853 in Charlestown, Montgomery County, NY.He was the son of 64. John Shibley and 65. Anne Wayman.He married 33. Elizabeth Shonts June 05, 1788 in Rensselaer County, NY.
33.Elizabeth Shonts, born October 18, 1767; died October 30, 1847 in Charlestown, Montgomery County, NY.She was the daughter of 66. Jeramiah Shonts and 67. Louisa Adams.
Notes for Henry Milton Shibley:
Henry Milton Shibley will was probated July 5, 1853 in Charleston, Montgomery County, NY
Henry M. Shibley is listed in the 1790 census for Albany County, NY.He was a Major in the
Revolutionary War but we cannot prove through the DAR
He originally settled in Montgomery
County, NY in 1792 at Rural Grove and founded the historic Shibley
homestead there.
Jacob Henry writes of his grandfather, that he was a quiet sort of man, sturdy and of a medium
Children of Henry Shibley and Elizabeth Shonts are:
|Daniel Shibley, born 1788; died 1788.
|John Shibley, born April 09, 1789 in East Greenbush, NY; died May 15, 1841 in Tunkhanock Creek, PA; married Sarah Roberts June 27, 1822; born 1801; died June 27, 1836.
| Notes for John Shibley:
John Shibley is listed as Lieutenant #1527 for Montgomery County, 26th regiment of infantry, East of Schoharie Creek.
John was the first to drop the double b.He settled in PA and lived most of his life there.
He drowned in the Tunkhanock Creek, PA.
| More About John Shibley:
Military service: Lieutenant
|Jeremiah Shibley, born May 08, 1791 in East Greenbush, NY; died April 03, 1793.
|Jacob B. Shibley, born July 12, 1793 in Montgomery County, NY; died October 12, 1872 in Ralls County, MO; married Elizabeth Parke December 25, 1814 in Montgomery County, NY.
|George R. Shibley, born March 18, 1795 in Montgomery County, NY; died May 31, 1870.
| Notes for George R. Shibley:
George R. Shibley, #2257 Ensign Montgomery County, 26th Regiment of infantry, East of Schoharie Creek
| More About George R. Shibley:
Burial: Shibley Cemetery, Charleston, NY
Fact 1 (2): Never married
Military service: Ensign
|Mahala Shibley, born June 08, 1797; died August 27, 1879 in NY.
| Notes for Mahala Shibley:
A spinster she never married.
Mahala made her home with her brother and also kept house for her
brother George, who was a bachelor.She was so gifted in making rare
and beautiful bedspreads and linens.All the materials of cotton, flax and
wool were grown on the homestead, spun, dyed and woven into the
beautiful designs.
| More About Mahala Shibley:
Burial: Shibley Cemetery, Charleston, NY
Fact 1 (2): Never married
|David Shibley, born September 04, 1799 in Rural Grove, Montgomery Cty, NY; died April 23, 1872 in NY; married (1) Dorothy Hamilton Schuyler; married (2) Clarissa McKinstrey February 14, 1821; born 1799; died February 13, 1855.
| More About David Shibley:
Burial: Shibley Cemetery, Charleston, NY
|Cyrena Shibley, born March 27, 1803; died May 21, 1889 in NY.
| Notes for Cyrena Shibley:
Spinster, never married also a skilled seamstress and created many
beautiful fabrics.
| More About Cyrena Shibley:
Burial: Shibley Cemetery, Charleston, NY
Fact 1 (2): Never married
|Henry Shibley2, born January 31, 1805 in Rural Grove, Montgomery Cty, NY; died October 05, 1895 in NY; married (1) Jane Frank November 14, 1832; born May 01, 1814; died November 26, 1847; married (2) Caroline Thorpe March 18, 1850; born April 17, 1812 in England (Royal Family of Stuart); died May 03, 1878.
|Samuel Potter Shibley, born December 05, 1806 in Nine Partners, Dutchess, NY; died September 24, 1895 in Shibleys Point, Adair Cty, MO; married Mary Seeley September 18, 1833 in Carlisle, Scoahrie County, NY; born April 04, 1812 in Schoharie, Carlisle, NY; died November 17, 1891.
| Notes for Samuel Potter Shibley:
Samuel was in the mercantile business with his brother George at Carlisle, NY
He helped to promote a seminary at Carlisle and became a stockholder and
director.In his efforts to promote this seminary he went to financial ruin.
He then took his family to Missouri and settled one mile west of Shibleys Point
in the year 1855 where he homesteaded land from the government and purchased
other tracts.He had brought with him apple seeds from NY and planted them and
grew one of the finest apple orchards in the country.He later became County Judge of
Adair County.He rendered a rare service in preventingtheft of county funds when the
salaries of judges were increases from $3 to $5 per day, he declinedthe increase
saying that $3 was sufficient!
| More About Samuel Potter Shibley:
Fact 1 (2): Adair County, Judge
| More About Mary Seeley:
AKA (Facts Pg): Polly
35.Sarah Woodworth, born February 22, 1771 in Saitie, Seitirate, Mass; died February 11, 1841 in Montgomery, NY.She was the daughter of 70. Lemuel Woodworth and 71. Elizabeth Hunt.
Notes for David Daniel Parke:
David Parke(1766-1845) had service in the Revolutionary War as well as his father, Smith Parke(1721-1807).Father and grand-father of Elizabeth Parke who married Jacob B. Shibley.
Further research has shown Joseph Parke (1677-1760) was in the Colonial Wars and
his father Nathanial Parke was granted land in Voluntown for his service in the earlier wars.
The Colonial wars are not very well documented in the history books, but they did say that there
were many quarrels among the nations that were trying to get possession of the New World.
The colonies were in a state of constant confusion.Sweden was driven from North America
when the Dutch captured its trading forts along the Delaware River in 1655.The Dutch, in
turn, lost their New Netherland colony to the English in 1664.The English renamed the colony
New York.England and France were now left to fight for control of the continent.From the beginning
there was trouble because both nations wanted control of the rich fur trade and possession of
the Atlantic fisheries.Wars began in 1689 and were fought off and on until 1763.
So Nathanials father, Thomas Parke, born in England in 1616, died in Connecticut in 1709.He
came to America with his father, Robert Parke, in 1630 with Governor Winthrop.Thomas was
in King Phillips War (1675)This war was provoked by the settlers beginning to spread out and take
land from the Indians.King Phillip led the Indians in an attack against the settlers in 1675-1676,
but they were all put down.Thomas wife was Dorothy Thompson, daughter of Alice(Freeman)
More About David Daniel Parke:
Military service: 1776, Revolutionary Service
Children of David Parke and Sarah Woodworth are:
|Philander Parke, born January 10, 1789; died December 1857; married unknown October 28, 1810.
|Martin Parke, born February 17, 1791; died May 27, 1851; married Dolly Campbell September 12, 1813.
|Elizabeth Parke, born 1793.
|James Parke, born June 08, 1793 in Luzerne County, PA; died April 12, 1797.
| Notes for James Parke:
This precious child was not yet 4 when he came to his death by running into
a stack of hewed timbers,he fell with his side on a sharp corner and an
abscess formed and ruptured inside and proved fatal.Just before he died
he could see the distress of his mother, and said I am better now see I can
walk again and as she studied him and held onto his clothes.He died a short
time later.His mothersuffered greatly from this sad loss.
|Lydia Parke, born September 09, 1795; died July 14, 1837; married Henry Shelp December 09, 1811.
| Notes for Henry Shelp:
Henry was an excellent farmer in good circumstances and they raised a large family
of beautiful and interesting children.
|Elizabeth Parke, born May 19, 1797 in Luzerne County, PA; died February 01, 1870 in Adair County, MO; married Jacob B. Shibley December 25, 1814 in Montgomery County, NY.
|David D. Parke, Jr, born December 20, 1799 in Luzerne County, PA; died June 09, 1824; married unknown June 09, 1822.
| Notes for David D. Parke, Jr:
It was frequently said that David was quite handsome and of more than ordinary good looks!
|David Parke, born January 21, 1800.
|Sarah Parke, born November 20, 1801; died October 30, 1874; married Prine November 28, 1822.
|Lemuel Woodworth Parke, born December 06, 1806; died May 09, 1882; married unknown November 28, 1822.
| Notes for Lemuel Woodworth Parke:
A small man and a thorough and successful business man, he accumulated a considerable
Fortune in the city of New York.
|Anne Mariah Parke, born September 26, 1808; married William Gulick May 08, 1824.
|Smith Arnold Parke, born December 08, 1814.


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Gabby Looking For Storming Finish
Gabby Agbonlahor is looking for an improvement in the points haul as Villa enter the final quarter of the season and says the aim is still to finish in the top half to the table.
The England Under-21 international said:
'Our main aim is to improve on last season because we finished poorly and if we can improve on that, then that's a plus. This is a chance to get a rest, but also a chance to keep the fitness levels and have a bit of team-bonding as well.'
Adding 'It's a strange time to have a break and to have three weeks without a game is weird really. But it's an opportunity to do some hard training and come back fresh for the Fulham game. (March 3) Hopefully, Fulham will be more tired than us when we play them because they've had a few games lately. All through the season we don't really feel tired in games because we get the right amount of rest during the week, but we do the right amount of work too.'
Although he admits being an ever present up to the last game when he was subbed has taken a strain.
'Before the Reading match I was a bit tired and felt as if I needed a rest. During the game I felt jaded and tired and I had pains in my ankles and calves and I think that's why I came off. It was still a surprise though - I turned around and when I saw the number 15, it felt weird really. The gaffer hadn't warned me it was coming, but I was expecting it at some point, because no one's expected to play every single minute of every game for the whole season.'
'As a player, you want to play, especially if you're doing well, but a three-week break can work in our favour for tired players because it might enable them to return fresher. It's surprised me to be as involved as I have this season, but as a young kid, that's your aim. If you get a chance, it means you're doing well and if the gaffer picks you every week, you don't want to abuse your position. I've got to repay his faith in me and do well by him for all the times he's picked me.'


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MACHIASPORT, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Forty-six employees at Downeast Correctional Facility in Machiasport are receiving pink slips, and state officials are closing the prison next month.
Downeast Correctional Facility has been on the chopping block before. A bill before the legislature this session sought to de-fund the facility, but it was unanimously rejected by lawmakers on the criminal justice committee. Yet Department of Corrections Commissioner Dr. Joseph Fitzpatrick said the facility was closing due to lack of funds.
"Funding to operate Downeast Correctional Facility will no longer be available as of June 10; therefore, the facility will be closing at that time," said Dr. Fitzpatrick in a statement.
"The people of Washington County are very disheartened by this news," said Senator Joyce Maker (R-Washington).
According to a statement from Senate Republicans, the state could be commuting the sentences of 75 prisoners.
"I don't know what's more disturbing, shutting down this facility against the will of the Legislature or potentially letting 75 prisoners, which is more than half of the prisoners currently housed there, walk free because there's no room for them in any other facility in Maine," Maker said.
The Department of Corrections statement did not say anything about commuting sentences; the 100 minimum-security and community-custody inmates currently at Downeast Correctional Center will be moved to other facilities by June 10th, according to Dr. Fitzpatrick.
Dr. Fitzpatrick said this closure is not a threat to public safety.
The Department of Corrections Commissioner later confirmed Friday that five educational positions at the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland would also be eliminated. Tom Farkas of MSEA says 7 positions are being eliminated at the South Portland facility. Whether or not further operations at that facility are in jeopardy is yet to be determined.
Senate Republicans have also questioned whether the governor has the legal authority to close the facility.
In a letter dated April 27, Chief Deputy Attorney General Linda Pistner said on the issue that, "The Governor cannot unilaterally amend statutes without violating the separation of powers provisions in article III of the Maine Constitution," the press release states.
An earlier version of this story reported 11 positions at Long Creek Youth Development Center would be eliminated. The Department of Corrections has confirmed that only five positions will be lost. Tom Farkas, Communications & Training Coordinator for the Maine State Employees Association, says 7 positions will be lost at the South Portland facility.


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Posted: August 2nd, 2017 | General
Aug 5th 2017
Come out and join us again this year for our famous Tour To Tanglewood Training Ride for Bike MS. Rider check in and free Chick-fil-A breakfast & refreshments start at 7:00am. Rider safety review is at 8:00am. Cue sheets will be provide and each route will be color coordinated with color arrows painted on the roads for easy navigation. The 50 mile route, 36 mile route, 27 mile route, and 10 mile route will roll out at 8:05am. We will have SAG and rest-stop support on the longer routes for your enjoyment. As always, we will have a huge store wide sale for you to stock up on all the great cycling products that you need and want!!!
- 50 mile – White Loop
- 36 mile – White Loop
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Disclaimer: The Closer and its characters are the property of their respective creators and owners, James Duff, Warner Bros. and TNT. No copyright infringement is intended.
Spoilers: Heavy for episode 503 "Red Tape".
Author's Note: This is my first time writing The Closer even though I've been playing with the idea for some time now. The main reason I started Laws of Attraction was that I needed a break from the epic CSI fic I'm currently writing. I thought that I needed something short, something different to get my juices flowing again but here I am once again, dealing with epic proportions. Old habits die hard.
Well. On to the first chapter…Laws of Attraction
Chapter One:
Red Tape
Have you ever met someone you were utterly attracted to from the very moment you first laid eyes on them?
Someone whose presence made you feel weak, feverish and dizzy.
Someone you could barely look at without feeling your heart pounding within your chest and your hands shaking because your blood was boiling and pulsing in your veins.
Have you ever met someone you desired so much that being around them almost had you falling apart?
Brenda had.
"Captain Raydor."
It was then when her eyes were trapped in a brief yet intense connection with alert, green ones, when she caught her first close-up glimpse, the very first whiff of the woman's scent, heard her clear, concise speech in that controlled, deliberate tone of voice, was able to appraise her posture and take in the energy Captain Sharon Raydor exuded that Brenda felt breathless.
Raydor was 'the other one', the only other woman running a division within the LAPD and she must know who Brenda was, there was no doubt in her mind but still she had been ignored. It was right down to business, the Captain made that very clear and Brenda felt irritated at being overlooked so purposefully.
But Raydor was a woman and Brenda hoped, suspected, that she might still be met with the solidarity of a fellow female officer.
She was sorely disappointed.
Raydor was hard, accustomed to the male world she had decided to earn her living in and she dared trying to establish her own superiority over Brenda, her dominance, tried to rip control over this situation right out of Brenda's hands and claim this investigation, Sergeant Gabriel, that very room, everything, as her own.
She damn near succeeded, Brenda had to give her that, yet her subconscious chose the very unfortunate tactic that most men, who had ever felt intimidated or threatened by her, had chosen to reestablish their superiority with.
Brenda pulled rank.
She instantly knew that she had lost this round and not with her dignity intact.
And that woman didn't even seem fazed.
It was early the next day that Brenda pulled a black blazer from her closet; she hadn't worn it in a long time because she thought it made her look stern and unapproachable which wasn't often useful when interrogating certain personages. She also pulled her hair up, thinking of that woman…Captain Raydor, and immediately her stomach was up in knots.
She had dared schedule a meeting with Pope to which Brenda had only been invited that morning, almost as an afterthought.
She wasn't surprised to find Raydor already waiting for them casually leaning against the wall next to Pope's office. Brenda felt her blood simmering beneath her skin as she spotted her, as Raydor looked at her with that barely-there smirk.
Some people smiled as a defense mechanism but Brenda wasn't sure about Raydor – did she do it to mask her own feelings of inadequacy, her fear of being looked at and actually seen or was she just plain good at reading Brenda and had realized early on how much it irritated the blonde?
"After you, Captain," Brenda said brightly and caught yet another faint whiff of the woman, it made her falter for a moment and forget about what an awful person to deal with she was…
…until Raydor delivered her report on last night's events and the subsequent deception by none other than Commander Taylor himself.
She had to hand it to him though, Taylor didn't mind implying that he had been drunk – confess to a smaller crime and it might cover up the much bigger one you committed.
Brenda's eyes traveled back to Raydor; no glasses today and she wore a skirt, of course she did, that woman. She should've worn a skirt, Brenda thought, not the dress because that blazer did not make her look stern and unapproachable enough considering with whom she had to deal with.
Brenda stared at Raydor again, it wasn't something she could help – like some people couldn't stop looking at the train wreck, it was the same thing, just that Brenda felt more anger than shock and devastation; though she did feel a sense of morbid fascination.
How could that woman be so calm? Brenda stared at her lips as they moved and formed words with undoubtedly careful consideration.
She had to stop! "Well, regardless, Eric Whitner is in stable condition. Sergeant Gabriel has met with his counsel and given a statement. The only thing outstandin' is the homicide of a newspaper vendor which no one is allowed to investigate."
"Chief." Raydor turned to Pope again. "I have spent the night familiarizing myself with Major Crimes-really, really impressive-I find no instance in which they've investigated the murder of a newspaper vendor, whereas the shooting of an unarmed civilian by an LAPD officer incurs serious liability-"
Brenda felt red, hot anger slowly boiling its way to the surface but the prep-talk she had given herself that morning, that she would not lose control when faced with Raydor again because she could ill afford it, kept her from exploding. "Well, it can't take priority over a homicide." She was right, Brenda knew that, Taylor knew that, Pope had to know that, everyone, except that woman who was actually convinced that she was right.
"And perhaps Captain Raydor would like to tell Mr. Parsall's family that-"
"Chief Johnson is trying to combine my officer involved shooting with her investigation to-"
"I'm sorry. Captain? Are you interrupting me?" She was pushing the woman's buttons. It had taken Brenda some time to figure it out but there was something rather intentional about Raydor's calm way of speaking; perhaps she didn't want to be the hysterical woman, perhaps she just despised having to raise her voice but it was pretty clear to the blonde that Raydor needed her time to speak, needed to be heard and when that did not happen, Raydor seemed to lose control over things rather quickly.
Brenda felt exhilaration sweep over her, she felt as if the fire within herself was about to be extinguished, a moment of satisfaction approaching. "Are you interrupting me?"
"I must go first!" Raydor exploded. "My investigation must go first!"
So there, thought Brenda, the feelings were mutual after all then.
There was her satisfaction.
Raydor pulled herself together, unfazed by her own outburst, and narrowed her eyes almost imperceptibly at Brenda. "These attempts to pull rank are embarrassing, unacceptable and potentially an obstruction of justice. I have a federally mandated responsibility to determine why an LAPD officer discharged his weapon which supersedes Chief Johnson's objections as well as yours…sir…if it comes to that."
"It won't." Pope said.
"Thank you."
Brenda rolled her eyes inwardly. There she was, winning again. That woman, that woman, that horrible, terrible woman!
"Clearly Chief Johnson wants to combine her murder with my investigation in order to protect a well-liked member of her division." Raydor had that smile on her face again and Brenda was pretty sure that the woman knew what an effect it had on the Deputy Chief; Raydor just managed to shake her confidence like that.
"…I…will not allow to have my professional conduct questioned like that, especially when all I asked Captain Raydor to do was to move her red tape just a few feet to the left so I can properly begin searchin' for a murderer."
In the end, it was all just a pissing contest, wasn't it?
"Chief Johnson, you and Captain Raydor will share the crime scene and the witnesses…"
Brenda felt her heart beating its way out of her chest. Work with the woman? A heat-wave seemed to roll right over her – all she wanted was to get as far away from her as possible. She wouldn't get anything done like this.
And then, after all the animosity they had inspired in each other in just a couple hours' time, Raydor had the nerve to offer the solidarity Brenda had anticipated but not gotten in the very beginning.
"Chief Johnson, wait." Even when she was calling out to people Raydor barely raised her voice. "I understand the urge to protect the people you work with and I respect it. But I'm obligated to investigate this shooting as if it were a criminal act."
That was the very thing Brenda had a problem with.
"And I would ask that you do nothing to jeopardize the success of my inquiry, that's all."
Well. Maybe she should give that woman a taste of her own medicine – right down to business. "You stay out of my way, Captain and I stay out of yours."
Raydor straightened and pulled on her blazer. "I tried," she said as if she had just thrown herself into the sword like a martyr and walked away, right past Brenda who felt something bubbling up within herself.
Even the way she walked! Mechanically somehow. Brenda's eyes trailed lower.
At least her hips moved.
"…she can carry a grudge."
Brenda caught the last part of Taylor's sentence. "Well, then she better get ready for some heavy liftin'."
For some reason Brenda couldn't entirely explain her reaction; it wasn't like she hadn't had to work with people whom she couldn't stand before. It was just something about Raydor that made Brenda want to turn around and avoid at all costs.
It was almost as bad as thinking about Kitty, her poor, poor Kitty.
It was over now and Brenda, even though she hated to admit it, couldn't be more relieved to finally be rid of Raydor.
On the other hand she felt a twinge of disappointment. Finally somebody she didn't really have to be nice to; polite, yes. Nice? Not so much.
Finally somebody who prompted her to feel…to feel…
What exactly? Brenda wasn't sure. The woman irritated her, that much was obvious. She was also the cause of the huge, gigantic, buildup of frustration Brenda felt like a white, hot ball of fury threatening to implode and suck everyone and everything in her vicinity into its vortex.
Yet she couldn't help taking another jab at Raydor who would fire back, Brenda had no doubt about that.
"I do wanna express my appreciation for the insight you've given me into how FID functions. I've learned a great deal from your…single-minded approach."
There was her moment of satisfaction.
"And I've learned a great deal about your investigative technique as well, especially as it regards the LAPD's struggle to gain autonomy over its own affairs and I'll be including all of that in my final report…Chief."
"Oh, I can't wait to read that, Captain."
And the fire kept on burning.
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Perhaps it's the gloomy winter weather. Or perhaps it's because every time turn on the radio it's like I'm suddenly trapped in self-help pop hell, but I'm totally feeling the visceral industrial pull of Austra's new single, "Beat & The Pulse".
What is Austra? It's a new band led by Katie Stelmanis, a classically-trained Canadian rock musician with an operatic voice who may or may not be shawl-twirling witchdom's heir apparent (ie. she sounds a bit goth). The band recently signed to Domino Records and is preparing to release their debut album, Feel It Break, on April 17. In the meantime, have a listen to the "Beat & The Pluse" single and if you like what you hear, watch its NSFW video after the jump.
Austra 2011 tour dates:
Feb 12 – Vancouver @ Goody
Feb 15 – Seattle @ The Crocodile
Feb 16 – Portland @ Holocene
Feb 18 – San Francisco @ Milk Bar
Feb 19 – Los Angeles @ Echoplex
Feb 25 – New York @ Santos Party House
Feb 26 – Brooklyn @ Glasslands
March 10 – Toronto @ Wrongbar
March 30 – Grenoble, France @ Le Ciel
March 31 – Metz, France @ Le Trinitaires
March 31 – Metz, France @ La Chapelle
April 1 – Paris, France @ La Machine


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Our First Annual Winter Songwriter Event!!
Join us for an informative afternoon of Songwriter Symposium at 2 pm
with some of our area's established artists performing and discussing their strategies for success.
Special Keynote Address by Melanie Thiel, Development Manager and morning DJ "The Dawnbird" at WNTI 91.9 FM
Snacks and drinks available through-out the day - Limited Vendor spots available!
Confirmed Presenters are:
Lelica with B.D. Lenz - Positioning your music for Commercials and Television
Steve Coleman and Judy Aron of Chasing June - Writing with a Partner, Technology in Writing
Gregg Cagno - Alternative Guitar Tunings, Technolgy in Performance
Sarah Donner - Niche Marketing, YouTube, Tour Management as an Independent
Karen Kamenetsky - Starting a Songwriting Career, Coping with Challenges!
Chelsea Carlson - Social Media Networking, Career Management
We will take a dinner break then dance the night away with a Mardi Gras Party (8pm) with
The VooDudes !
What is this voodoo that the VooDUDES do?
Well first you gotta make a Roux!!!
Then add in some New Orleans funk, blues, boogie-woogie and honky-tonk.
Add a pinch of Zydeco, Southern soul and Caribbean party music and let it simmer 'til it's r e a l thick.
The VooDUDES do it all--and with a beat that will make you move your feet and shake your hips!
Thanks to all who came out - We had a BLAST!!


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A year ago, United States and allied warplanes were striking Iraqi targets, and on Feb. 24, the allied ground offensive began. During the short war, the 28-member nation coalition executed a near-perfect military operation against the Iraqi forces.
The war ended on Feb. 28, much quicker and with far less loss of life than most anyone had expected.
There had been much heated debate in Congress about the Iraqi situation, and President Bush had to work extremely hard, with the aid of Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole to get the necessary votes to OK the possible use of military force. Many of those critical of Bush and those eager to whittle down the president's power used all kinds of arguments as to why it was wrong to approve a military action.
Democratic leaders such as Missouri's Rep. Richard Gephardt, Maine Sen. George Mitchell and other political foes of Bush tried their best to defeat the president's request for approval to use force to implement the United Nations mandate to get Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait.
THOSE FIGHTING the president wanted to use economic sanctions against Saddam with some claiming Bush and others in the administration had overstated the threat of Saddam to the stability of the vital Middle East area.
After the shooting had stopped, it wasn't long before various allied officials and later members of United Nations inspections teams, discovered Saddam had built a huge military machine, had come close to putting together a nuclear device and had amassed extensive stocks of lethal chemical weapons.
Chances are, economic sanctions against Saddam would have accomplished nothing but give the unstable, dangerous leader more time to build his war machine and to terrorize Iraqis into submission and support.
Lawmakers such as Gephardt, Mitchell and many other Democrats were strangely silent following the highly successful war. Still later, they didn't have much to say about all the evidence that was uncovered which made it clear Saddam was, and is, a cunning, ruthless leader who probably would use any means to strengthen his position and to carry out a plan to seize a good portion of the world's oil supply.
A YEAR AGO, many were criticizing Bush for not ending the war sooner as it was clear allied forces were routing the supposedly invincible Iraqi army. Pictures showed vast destruction, and there were increasing pleas for the president to have compassion and stop the killing.
Now, a year later, the president is being criticized for not extending the war and crushing Saddam. His critics and foes are determined to fault the president for his Kuwait-Iraq actions and policies.
It's clearly a case of "Don't bother me with what you accomplished yesterday; what have you done for me today?"
A diverse group of nations led by the U.S., with a great assist from Secretary of State James Baker, joined hands for the Kuwait action. Massive amounts of supplies were moved thousands of miles to a hostile environment, and new "high-tech" weapons proved successful beyond expectations. It was a great military action.
Some tried to pooh-pooh the effort, saying the Iraqi army was not a strong force and that the allied effort enjoyed total air superiority.
This wasn't the way these critics were talking before the shooting began as they claimed there would be massive loss of American lives.
IT'S SO EASY to criticize when the person criticizing doesn't have the final responsibility for initiating action and the criticism comes after the fact. This is why much of the current criticism and second-guessing is so disappointing but really not too surprising. These Monday morning quarterbacks have all the answers and are having a field day saying what the president should have done, what Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf should have done and how Uncle Sam really didn't accomplish much in the Persian Gulf war.
These critics now are saying Saddam still is in power, our massive military forces were unable to crush the leader and that the dictator has gained a moral victory over the U.S. and other allied forces. There is no way for Bush to win in this situation. He would have been faulted if he had allowed U.S. and allied forces to continue the "turkey shoot" in Iraq, and now he is being faulted for not pushing further north and crushing Saddam and his forces, throughout Iraq.
This being an election year, those in Congress who opposed U.S. action and who forecast horrible losses for American forces, will try to cloud the issues and hope voters forget their opposition to Desert Storm. Also, those opposed to Bush now will try to fault and blame him for Saddam's continued leadership in Iraq.
ALREADY, there are those who claim that due to what they suggest was Bush's mishandling of the war, U.S. forces are likely to be back in the Persian Gulf within three or four years, taking care of the unfinished business of getting rid of Saddam.
Hindsight is great, whether critiquing how a coach and team performed in an athletic contest or how military leaders and their troops performed in a war. Hindsight also is an easy, handy tool for challengers to use in trying to oust an incumbent officeholder.
The Persian Gulf military effort was a tremendously successful action, and it brought together a group of diverse nations in a common cause for good. There never is any perfect solution or resolution of a war, but allied leaders did what they thought was necessary at that time. Now the pressure must continue to monitor Saddam's actions and demand that he abide by every facet of the cease-fire settlement.
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