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Good Morning, crew!
How was everyone's weekend?! Mine was pretty spectacular actually and it's because it was just so simple. Sometimes the simpler, the better, ya know?
This weekend, I did something drastic. I took not one, but TWO rest days.
Is that crazy or what?! I'm actually feeling super good about it! I've been training really hard lately, so my body definitely needed the break. I caught up on sleep (slept in till 7:30/8:00 am both Saturday and Sunday), made banana pancakes for my boyfriend and myself, lounge around, and explored the city! It was a beautiful, quiet, simple weekend. And I loved every minute of it!
Banana cinnamon walnut pancakes for him and straight up banana pancakes with Greek yogurt for moi! :) After chowing down Saturday morning, we walked the High Line. If you're ever in NYC, this is a must-do! It stretches from midtown all the way to downtown and is filled with patches of beautiful botanical gardens, sculptures, and views along the way. You sort of feel like you're in another city; like you're above all of the commotion that is New York, completely removed from the din below.
Not too bad, ya? ;) Sunday was spent catching up on the little to-dos, such as laundry, cleaning, and meal prep. Sunday evening, I travelled home and had dinner with the family and some family friends at the beach. Nothing beats a view like this :)
We got home pretty late, but I was still hungry, so I helped myself to some yummy Halo top ice cream! The Birthday cake flavor is incredible! I love it because usually, heavy dairy upsets my stomach, but this is not too hard! That being said, I do love my weekly Van Leewuen's ice cream- nothing beats a cup of the Dark Chocolate and Peanut Butter Swirl mixed with hot fudge and sprinkles. Oh yeah. I go all out, I promise ;)
And now on to the week! I had a beautiful run this morning, followed by some strength training, so I was in desperate need of a hearty recovery smoothie. Fun fact: Not all smoothies have to be green! I know a lot of bloggers will put in a lot of veggies (I do love to do that too), but some times I don't want a smoothie to be green! I want it to be purple, red, vanilla, or maybe pink! Embracing the colors of the rainbow over here. Let's do it!
This smoothie is full of the perfect recovery fuel after a long workout. With a banana base, I add in some maca powder, plant-based protein, a spoonful of almond butter, and some cinnamon. It's incredible, creamy, and oh-so satisfying. Check it out!
Maca Almond Recovery Smoothie
Serves 1
That's it for now! Hope you guys enjoy :) Let me know how your weekend was in the comments below! Have a beautiful Monday!
Flourless Banana Cookies
Guess what!? It's hump day.
I don't know about you, but as August is coming to a close, I know that I'll switching gears from all things summer to full-out FALL: my favorite season, and not just because my birthday is coming up. But before I go on a tangential rant about how much I love fall (I'll save that for next month, don't you worry!), I wanted to satisfy my intense craving for bananas this past week.
Yes, like the name of my blog suggests, you will find lots of bananas here. Banana bread, banana muffins, banana cream pie, banana oatmeal, bananas with almond butter and chocolate chips, banana-based smoothies, banana ice cream...I could go on! There's just something so comforting about the taste of bananas that always puts a smile on my face.
Aside from being a sweet and yummy treat, they're also full of potassium and magnesium- essential for the recovery of muscles in order to build lean muscle mass (Eat This, Not That!). Bananas also contain folate (Vitamin B9), a vitamin that may help fight depression (maybe that's why I smile a lot when I eat bananas!) (ibid). Not bad, huh?
So I did some exploring, and I visited one of my favorite blogs, Chocolate Covered Katie, to find the perfect gluten-free banana muffin/cookie recipe. Now, when I say these are the best banana muffins I have had, I mean it. Forget that they're gluten (and refined-sugar) free, they could be entered into a competition against any other regular banana muffin, and I can guarantee you that these would beat out every single muffin. Don't believe me? Try them out for yourself!
Made with bananas, white beans, GF oats, and almond butter, these cookie-muffins are such a simple recipe and are the perfect afternoon snack. I love to spread a little almond butter on them, or I break them up and mix them into a bit of Greek yogurt with some chocolate chips. YUM!
Flourless Banana Cookies (adapted from Chocolate Covered Katie)
Serves 9
Basic Overnight Oats
I don't think anyone can love breakfast as much as I do.
Literally impossible. Breakfast is my hands-down favorite meal of the day. Despite my Italian heritage, I love breakfast. In fact, breakfast is usually the one thing on my mind when I go to sleep each night. What am I going to eat? The options are endless. Yes, even for the glutenoids like myself (I see you out there).
One of my all-time favorite and go-to recipes is overnight oats. A brilliant mixture of oats, greek yogurt (if you're vegan, try mixing almond milk and your favorite plant-based protein powder together!), almond milk, and toppings-galore. So yummy. So filling. So delicious. I typically top mine with fresh fruit, chia seeds, nuts, nut butter, or chocolate chips- mix and match your favorites!
The oats are...
Easy to make...
Made with ingredients you can feel good about!!
Below is my standard recipe for overnight oats. This is a make ahead recipe, so you can make this right before you go to sleep the night before. When you wake up, you'll have a bowl full of yummy yoats! As my blog grows, be on the lookout for more variations, as I plan on sharing with you my versions of brownie batter oats, cookie dough oats, banana cream pie oats, golden milk oats, and more! Just you wait!
Nutrition Facts (without toppings and using Stevia): Calories: 250, Fat: 4.4 g, Sodium: 140 mg, Potassium: 500 mg, Total Carbohydrates: 32.7 g, Dietary Fiber: 4.6 g, Sugar: 3 g, Protein: 17.9 g
Hey everyone!
How is your Monday treating you? Mine started off with a nice run through Union Square and down by the Piers. I absolutely love that run. You'd be surprised how many people are up at my ungodly hour as well (5:00 a.m. to be precise). I probably pass 30-40 runners every morning (both those of whom are running the opposite direction me and those of whom I have mentally declared I'm racing, though they may not know it).
Makes about 2 cups of almond butter
2. Once the almonds are roasted, pour them into the food processor.
3. Grind them until smooth. At first it will look like dust, then it will clump, and finally, it will. turn into a smooth and creamy.
4. Once smooth, pour into a jar and enjoy! I like to store mine in the fridge so that it lasts longer, but you can also let it sit for a while. It should make about 2 cups, and a serving is about 1 tbsp (or if you're like me, a serving may be by the spoonfuls. Everyone is different).
And there you have it! A super simple, super easy, and healthy way to make almond butter! It also ends up being more cost-effective as well, especially when you buy the almonds in bulk. A normal jar of almond butter that most likely has oils, sugar, and salt added to it, will cost between $8-$10. If you buy your almonds in bulk, it can be as cheap at $6 per jar! Not bad at all.
Hope you enjoy, and let me know how you like it! See you guys next time!
Britt Isabella
Hey there and welcome! I'm a 20-something-year-old running, painting, and eating my way through NYC. Hope to see you along the way!
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With a majority of the votes in the state's 10 Local Government Areas, Adeleke of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, defeated his All Progressives Congress, APC, opponent, Mudashiru Hussain.
Adeleke won in nine of the ten LGAs where the election was held. This is a major feat considering the fact that APC had a stronghold on most of these LGAs.
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The Project Puffin research islands have officially closed for the season. Our home base in Bremen, which has only hosted a handful of staff until now, is flooded with interns and volunteers from the various field stations. This is definitely an exciting place to be right now, even if it's a little cramped and the competition for bathrooms and laundry is fierce. It's still really nice to see my friends and spend some quality time together before we go our separate ways. Most of the team are staying around until later this week. Today was a special wrap-up meeting on Hog Island (just across the water from base) with the other members of the Gulf of Maine Seabird Working Group, affectionately referred to by the acronym pronounced "Gomswig." Scientists from various stations as far south as Cape Cod and as far north as Nova Scotia joined us for a presentation of data from the 2014 season. Tales abounded of chick production rates, encounters with predators, and observations about food and foraging. We were relieved to discover that this was an almost universally successful season, with many birds recovering from recent slumps in breeding success. Notably, my "own" island broke one of its records this year: Eastern Egg Rock recorded 148 nesting pairs of puffins, the highest total since the project began! There were a number of discussions and workshops about in-progress papers, focusing on everything from distance traveled by nesting birds to integrated studies of marine food webs. All in all, it was a great opportunity to come together and celebrate another year while looking towards the future. Soon many of my coworkers will be departing for school, work, or parts unknown, leaving me to finish the tour boat season and run the visitor center. Until then, we have food, drink, and merriment to enjoy, as well as a special staff boat trip to Eastern Egg, where I get to show them what I've been up to all summer. Stay tuned for more updates!
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Imagine a world without institutions. No governments. No school or universities. No access to any information. No banks. Money no longer has any worth. There are no shops, because no one has anything to sell. Law and order are virtually non-existent because there is no police force and no judiciary. Men with weapons roam the streets taking what they want. Women of all classes and ages prostitute themselves for food and protection…
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A/N This story was formerly under the account of Lukekenobi, which still exists but is closed up now. I used it for some time as a secondary account but found it easier now to put all my stories under my main penname. So, this is not some plagiarism thing – they were mine to begin with.
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"POTTER! Stop that infernal noise!"
Harry looked up in confusion from the water jug where he had been scooping up water and letting it drip down back into the jug. The voice came again.
"Come here. Time for Occlumency lessons."
"No, please, don't make me go to those lessons," Harry begged, "Snape hates me. He will kill me. I looked, you know. I didn't mean to, I was bad. I was a bad boy, Aunt Petunia, please don't hit me, the frying pan is hot, please…"
"Your aunt is not here, Potter. Sit."
Harry obeyed the voice without question.
"Now, remember what I taught you. Banish all thought from your mind. They are all gone – packed up."
Harry relaxed. His mind became blank.
"Now walk into your home, the Gryffindor Common Room. You are alone here. Your secrets are stashed away. Your memories are safely hidden. You alone know the password."
Slowly, very slowly, Harry opened his eyes.
"I hate you, you know," he remarked pleasantly, "Insane is a much more pleasant state of mind here."
A grim smile appeared on his cellmate's face.
"I can imagine," said Severus Snape.
"Your move."
"Knight…to C4."
Harry pondered. "Tower to A4." He moved the piece.
"You're getting better," Snape remarked.
"We play chess for hours every day. I'd have to be pretty dim-witted not to get any better."
"With only me to play against, you'll find that there is a limit to your improvement," Snape said dryly.
Harry picked up one of the pieces. It had taken them two weeks of working the entire day to create the chess set from pieces of wood lying around, using a shard of stone. Then they had carved a chessboard into the small table in the cell. The pieces were uneven but they served well. They also used the pieces and board to play Nine Men's Morris when they got bored of chess. Slightly deeper carved lines indicated the shape of that board.
"Shields up. Incoming Dementor," Snape warned.
Harry immediately closed his eyes and focussed on his Occlumency shields. The Dementor's power rammed against his shields, sucking at them, trying to extract the memories, but fortunately they held. The feeling passed as the Dementor left.
"Oh, food," Snape said.
The tray contained a piece of bread, two bowls of an unidentifiable stew and, to their surprise, a newspaper clipping.
"Remus Lupin's final appeal for release of Potter and Snape overturned," Snape read out loud, "I did not know the wolf was even trying."
Harry sighed. "At least someone tried to get us out of Azkaban," he picked morosely at the bread, "they don't all believe we are killers."
"In my case they would be correct in believing that, Potter," Snape tossed the piece of paper aside and grabbed a bowl, using his fingers to delicately pick the larger chunks of bad, fatty meat and carrots from the bowl before drinking the rest down.
"How much water did they give us?"
"More than yesterday," Harry peered into the new jug.
Harry walked towards a large barrel in the corner and emptied half the jug and the remaining water from the old jug into it. The cell they were in had been used as a storage facility at some point in time and held all sorts of odds and ends. They collected part of their water each day. Over the course of a week, they collected enough water to wash themselves over the barrel. They preserved the water they had used for their bath to wash their clothes. Severus had insisted on this ever since they were tossed into the cell and Harry, well versed in survival techniques after his years with the Dursleys agreed with him. Considering they were still very much of a mind to kill each other in those days, that could be considered a miracle.
"Is there a date on that paper?"
"I believe so. Oh, look at this. July 31st, 1997."
"Wonderful, that means I'm seventeen today," Harry dipped a battered mug into the jug and held it up in a celebratory toast, "Hurrah for me."
Snape sneered but returned the gesture. "To adulthood. The beginning of something new."
Harry snorted. "Sure. New. We've been here for two years already – how much more new could it get?"
"You are an adult now," Snape smirked, "which means two things. First, your magic is now available to you, unlimited. Second, no one can force you to live with your guardians anymore."
"Point taken, but you are still overlooking the slight predicament we are in, and have been for quite some time."
"We won't be staying in this predicament," the dark-haired former professor leaned back lazily, "you'll see. Any visions from Tom?"
"He's very excited about something," Harry said after focussing intently, "something big. Do you know something I don't?"
No reply.
Harry focussed some more on the evil Dark Lord's brain and gasped. "Oh my…"
"Ah," Snape smiled, "I was correct."
"Yes. Yes, you were," Harry shook his head, reinforced his shields. Then he began to laugh, softly at first, but harder until he collapsed onto the floor.
After a long time, he looked up, panting a little and focussed on Snape.
"I'm scared."
"I know. Me too." The spy replied, staring straight ahead.
Albus Dumbledore was worried. Voldemort was up to something, with his penchant for certain dates, he was sure of it.
But what?
Since Severus and Harry had been arrested, he had not had an efficient spy in Voldemort's ranks. Which sometimes led him to wonder…but no. He had to have been right. Snape had taught Harry Dark Arts and corrupted his mind. They were beyond hope and Azkaban was the right place for them. The boy's godfather himself had said so. Sirius refused to talk about the son of his late friend at all.
Harry. The boy had turned seventeen today. An adult. That meant it was quite likely that Harry would be Kissed, along with Snape, in the near future. It all depended on the politics of the Minister.
First things first, however. No doubt Tom, in honour of Harry's birthday, would attack somewhere.
A mere half hour later he knew. When an Order member's Patronus came sailing in through the window, screaming for help at the top of its lungs. Azkaban had been taken, and Diagon Alley was under attack.
Snape and Harry had found themselves taken forcibly from their cell by Death Eaters and escorted to Diagon Alley where Voldemort was waiting for them.
"Ah. The traitor and my young nemesis," the snakeman smirked, "unfortunately you will have to be patient a little longer until your precious Order shows up."
"Their response time was always abysmal," Harry commented to Snape.
"Not to mention there is no use in starting the villains exposition without them," Snape nodded.
"Honestly, Order of the Turtle would be a more appropriate name," Harry shook his head after ten minutes waiting, "or Snail."
Voldemort was wearing a look that seemed undecided between annoyance, amusement and impatience.
Finally people began to Portkey and Apparate in, until the entire Order of the Phoenix was standing in front of them.
"YOU!" Ron Weasley shouted, "I knew it! You went Dark…"
"Be quiet!" Voldemort ordered, bored, "I will not listen to the babbling of ignorant children. Though, I must say, it was quite convenient that you so easily believed Potter and Snape guilty."
Sirius sank to the floor in a stupor. Ron looked around in confusion while Dumbledore paled significantly.
"Harry and Severus were found guilty…" he began.
"Of murdering his relatives," Voldemort finished the sentence. "Yes. Of course. Those loverly Muggles you stuck him with. You shouldn't have blamed him if he DID kill them. I had intended for you to betray only Potter, but it was quite convenient Snape was the first of your Order to arrive – the only effective one, really. I could not enter the house, of course, but my loyal, unmarked servants brought out Potter, his wand and his relatives. I am the only one that can use Potters wand, so I used it to kill his relatives. Then I deposited them all back in the house. You fell for it beautifully."
"Told you he wanted a villains exposition," Snape told Harry, "you owe me two galleons."
"No way! I agreed with you, so it was a tie!" Harry protested.
Voldemort turned around in annoyance. "Stop doing that," he hissed, "You two are going to die soon, you realize that, don't you? Along with the people who betrayed you. Azkaban must have been harder on your minds than I thought if you can joke in the face of death!"
"We don't all fear death like you do," Snape said, suddenly serious, "There are those, like Lily, who welcomed it if it would keep their loved ones safe. That you do not understand does not mean we are crazy."
Harry stepped forward, determined.
"It's supposed to be you and me, Tom. You know that. So why don't we finish it, right here and now?"
"Harry NO!" Dumbledore cried out, "You cannot defeat Tom, not after…"
"After being in Azkaban for two years?" Harry glared at the old man, "after being drained by Dementors constantly? I have no particular reason to fight for you, you know. Riddle here can kill you for all I care. The only reason I am issuing this challenge is for my parents."
Voldemort smiled wickedly. "Very well then, my young opponent. Shall we?"
"There's the little matter of a wand," Harry remarked casually as he moved in the circle formed by Death Eaters on one side and Order members on the other.
He frowned, then walked up to Dumbledore. "Give me your wand."
The boy didn't wait for approval, but in one quick motion snatched the wand from the old wizard's hand.
"There we go. Wand."
"Well, well, Harry Potter. Not so idealistic and naïve anymore, are you? No taunts? No pleading for me to be remorseful?" Voldemort smiled, a smile that was almost friendly and thus, all the more scary.
"Did you plan on repenting?" Harry inquired. "No, I didn't think so. Nothing anyone can say will make a difference now; you've made up your mind long ago."
"A weak mind turns from the chosen path," Voldemort hissed, raising his own wand.
"A wise man turns from the wrong road as he recognizes it, but a fool clings to it blindly," Harry shrugged.
That was it. Voldemort spat out the killing curse as Harry quickly ducked away.
Spell after spell was fired, most of them being deflected or absorbed into shields. Snape followed the battle anxiously. Harry was capable, he knew, but they were both weakened by their stay in prison.
Finally Voldemort sent another killing curse to Harry, who reacted with an Expelliarmus.
The spells hit. The killing curse was reflected to its caster and Voldemort dropped dead to the ground, his eyes wide in shock.
Silence reigned for a good minute or so, Harry panting and not really believing what had happened. Then he realized that all eyes were shifting from the prone form on the ground to himself.
"Well, what do you know. I didn't need my own wand after all," he commented.
The Death Eaters finally seemed to realize that their leader was dead, for good this time. A large number of them started to flee. A few attacked Harry and Snape, or the Order. Those were the fanatics who did not want to admit that they had lost. Some, like Lucius Malfoy, simply surrendered.
The few fighting Death Eaters were easily overpowered, and the fleeing ones pursued. They would be caught over the course of the next few days.
Severus Snape quickly moved to support Harry, who only now realised how tired he was.
"Very well done, Mr Potter," the Potions Master smiled, "thank you."
Then they saw the Order move in on them.
A day later, Albus Dumbledore found himself face to face with the two men he betrayed. The two men who, as it turned out, would have done anything for him. When they had taken them from the Alley, they had been brought to Hogwarts where they had been checked over by Poppy, put on nutrient potions, and then locked into a set of room with instructions to bathe, dress in clean clothes and sleep.
Meanwhile, Albus Dumbledore had worked through the night to set his latest plan into action.
The boys hated him now, that much he understood. He would not deny that he deserved it. Nevertheless if he let them go, he would not see them again. So, in his wisdom, he deduced that the best way to make sure they were safe, and would eventually come to see that he had acted as he thought was best for the greater good, was to keep them in the castle.
He had no illusions that they would be happy about his little scheme, but on the grand scale of things, it was the best thing to do. He was sure of it.
"Let me see if I understand you correctly, Headmaster," the Potions Master summarized. He and Harry wore identical, blank expressions.
"You arranged for our release from Azkaban. I can only imagine how difficult that must have been to accomplish, considering the whole Wizarding World learned of our innocence yesterday. You then proceeded to get a sentence passed in which we are put under your supervision for an undetermined amount of time, which we will spend here in the castle, Harry as a student, and myself as your Potions Master."
"I think you've made yourself clear, Headmaster. Harry and I will retreat to our rooms, now. We are still not entirely ourselves and need some rest."
Back in their rooms, they first put up their strongest anti-eavesdropping wards. Severus raised an eyebrow. "Remarkable restrain you showed there, Harry."
The boy turned bright red. "He shocked me into silence! Only my shields prevented me from jumping up and throttling him! How dare he do this to us!"
"Calm down, Harry," Snape admonished, "I agree this is a most foul trick he played on us, but I believe we can use it to our advantage."
Harry took a deep breath. "He stipulated I must resume my studies, presumably he even hired that mutt to teach, and you must take the Potions position…" an unholy gleam entered his eyes.
"Yes, now you are thinking like a Slytherin," Snape smirked, "he merely arranged for our presence in the castle. He wants us here. So, I have no fear of being dismissed, no matter what I do…"
"And I cannot be expelled, no matter what I do," Snapes smirk transferred to Harry's face, "I hate this, but it does have its good side."
"That, and we find a lawyer of some kind who can get this ridiculous sentence overturned," Snape nodded.
"I didn't know the wizarding world has lawyers," Harry remarked.
"England does not, however, other countries have a less corrupt government than we do. Suspects are actually allowed lawyers there. I will find a way to contact one, possibly through the Potions Masters Guild. Meanwhile, since we must stay here until then, we might as well take advantage of the research facilities in the castle. You do not have to act like a student, but we would be fools not to utilize the library while we are here."
"Very true. I do intent to study, although not the curriculum they have in mind."


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This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to configure and manage a Microsoft® SharePoint Server 2013 environment. This course will teach you how to configure SharePoint Server 2013, as well as provide guidelines, best practices, and considerations that will help you optimize your SharePoint server deployment.
This is the first in a sequence of two courses for IT Professionals and will align with the first exam in the SharePoint Server 2013 IT Pro certification.
Consists of
- 3 months access to e-learning materials
- 3 months access to training labs
An ideal candidate will have at least one year of experience with deploying and administering multiple SharePoint 2010 farms across a large enterprise. Because many customers skipped upgrading from SharePoint 2007, a candidate can also have at least 2 years of experience with SharePoint 2007 and knowledge of the differences between 2007 and 2010, particularly the Service Application model. A candidate can demonstrate the following skills:
- Software management in a Windows 2008 R2 enterprise server or Windows Server 2012 environment.
- Deploying and managing applications natively, virtually and in the cloud.
- Administering Internet Information Services (IIS).
- Configuring Active Directory for use in authentication, authorization and as a user store.
- Managing an application remotely using Windows PowerShell 2.0.
- Connecting applications to Microsoft SQL Server.
- Implementing Claims-based Security.
Course outcome
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the key features of SharePoint 2013
- Design an information architecture
- Design logical and physical architectures
- Install and configure SharePoint Server 2013
- Create web applications and site collections
- Plan and configure service applications
- Manage users and permissions
- Configure authentication for SharePoint 2013
- Secure a SharePoint 2013 deployment
- Manage taxonomy
- Configure user profiles
- Configure enterprise search
- Monitor and maintain a SharePoint 2013 environment
Who should attend
The course is targeted at experienced IT Professionals interested in learning how to install, configure, deploy and manage SharePoint Server 2013 installations in either the data center or the cloud. Students typically have more than four years of hands-on experience* planning and maintaining SharePoint and other core technologies upon which SharePoint depends, including Windows Server 2008 R2 or later, Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server 2008 R2 or later, Active Directory, and networking infrastructure services. The minimally qualified candidate typically:
- Is an IT professional who plans, implements, and maintains a multi-server deployment of SharePoint Server 2013.
- Has a working knowledge of, and preferably hands-on experience, with SharePoint Online.
- Has broad familiarity with SharePoint workloads.
- Have experience with business continuity management, including data backup, restoration, and high availability.
- Has experience with authentication and security technologies
- Has experience with Windows PowerShell.
- Hands-on experience or job experience is considered a solutions-based role where the candidate works within the solutions space covered by SharePoint, working on multiple solutions in the
- SharePoint space that includes document management, content management, and search.
The secondary audience for this course are Business Application Administrators (BAAs) who are engaged in the administering line-of-business (LOB) projects in conjunction with internal business customers would benefit from an understanding of how to manage SharePoint Server 2013. Administrators who are entirely new to SharePoint will gain some benefit from the course, but it is recommended that they familiarize themselves with the basic concepts of the SharePoint platform before attending.
Module overview
- Module 1: Introducing SharePoint Server 2013
- Module 2: Designing an Information Architecture
- Lab : Creating an Information Architecture – Part One
- Lab : Creating an Information Architecture – Part Two
- Module 3: Designing a Logical Architecture
- Lab : Designing a Logical ArchitectureAfter completing this module, you will be able to:
- Module 4: Designing a Physical Architecture
- Lab : Designing a Physical Architecture
- Module 5: Installing and Configuring SharePoint Server 2013
- Lab : Deploying and Configuring SharePoint Server 2013 – Part One
- Lab : Configuring SharePoint Server 2013 Farm Settings
- Module 6: Creating Web Applications and Site Collections
- Lab : Creating and Configuring Web Applications
- Lab : Creating and Configuring Site Collections
- Module 7: Planning and Configuring Service Applications
- Lab : Planning and Configuring Service Applications
- Module 8: Managing Users and Permissions
- Lab : Managing Users and Groups
- Lab : Securing Content in SharePoint Sites
- Module 9: Configuring Authentication for SharePoint 2013
- Lab : Configuring SharePoint 2013 to Use Federated Identities
- Module 10: Securing a SharePoint 2013 Deployment
- Lab : Hardening a SharePoint 2013 Server Farm
- Lab : Configuring Farm-Level Security
- Module 11: Managing Taxonomy
- Lab : Configuring Content Type Propagation
- Lab : Configuring and Using Managed Metadata Term Sets
- Module 12: Configuring User Profiles
- Lab : Configuring User Profiles
- Lab : Configuring My Sites and Audiences
- Module 13: Configuring Enterprise Search
- Lab : Configuring Enterprise Search
- Lab : Configuring the Search Experience
- Module 14: Monitoring and Maintaining a SharePoint 2013 Environment
- Lab : Monitoring a SharePoint 2013 Deployment
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Gary Higgs has claimed his third feature race win of the 2018/2019 WA Super Sedan Summer Series with a dominate victory in yesterday's Mount Barker Super Sedan Classic.
Higgs lead from start to finish with the eleven cars on hand putting on some great heat racing throughout the afternoon.
Kevin Bell continued his strong season aboard his new car finishing second in the main event with Adyme Harvey rounding out the podium.
The WA Super Sedan Summer Series will be in action again on Saturday 30th March 2019 when they visit the Trade Hire Augusta Margaret River Speedway
Official Result of the 2019 Mount Barker Super Sedan Classic
A Main, 25 Laps: 1. W81 Gary Higgs, 2. W5 Kevin Bell, 3. W88 Adyme Harvey, 4. W1 Chris Pavlovich, 5. W7 Warren Minshull, 6. W63 Tony St Jack, 7. W25 Nathan Thiele (24 laps), 8. W71 Adam Campbell (24), 9. W11 Wayne Coleman (24). Time: 7.18.263, Winning Margin: 2.038, Fastest Lap: 16.902 W81 Gary Higgs


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The National Credit Regulator alleged last month that the group's subsidiaries Lewis Stores and Monarch Insurance had contravened the National Credit Act by selling the policies to certain customers. Since these consumers were not entitled to benefits provided under the policies, the regulator argued, Lewis and Monarch had sold such cover with the intent to defraud the consumers and referred the complaint to the National Consumer Tribunal.
Friday's statement said that Lewis and Monarch were opposing the referral and had filed a "comprehensive answering affidavit". The affidavit raised "numerous challenges" to the regulator's findings, including failure to properly consider the complaint, failure to conduct a proper investigation or to properly engage with Lewis and Monarch. It also raises questions about jurisdiction over Monarch.
The company said Lewis and Monarch had demonstrated in the affidavit that the regulator's allegation that the sale of certain policies to particular customers was fraudulent and deceitful and was done with the intention to defraud consumers was patently untrue and had no factual basis.
The group said that an internal investigation by Lewis going back to June 2007 had found that a small percentage of pensioners and self-employed people were sold the policies in question through human error and in contravention to Lewis' policies. The retailer was reported to still be calculating the amount to be refunded to consumers. An estimate from Lewis suggests that about R46 million in premiums plus interest of R23 million would be refunded to consumers.
The group added that Lewis and Monarch reject the NCR's allegation that the sale of disability insurance to pensioners and self-employed people constitutes a contravention of the NCA. Their affidavit is said to include data showing that claims against these policies by pensioners and self-employed people had been, and continued to be, honoured by Monarch.


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Fine art these days is rarely either. Go to the sculpture wing of a contemporary museum, and you won't find a painstakingly chiseled block of marble whose astonishing frozen drapery recalls the brilliance of Bernini. You'll get a lump of masking tape with the title "Despair III" (1974). If there is painting, don't expect that the artist could do anything more with a brush than draw Hitler mustaches on pictures torn from fashion magazines. Why? So we can have a conversation about anorexia and fascism, or something. Or explore the connection between cosmetics and nationalism. Modern artists always want to explore connections, although the connection between a lack of a marketable talent and a reliance on arts grants is not high on the list of conversations they'd like to have.
The contemporary museums of the world are stuffed with forgettable truckloads of junk-shop agglomerations and conceptual ciphers, instantly forgotten when a show of spray-painted sex toys or photographs of cast-off prosthetic limbs comes along to start another conversation about exploring. How do you keep it fresh and intriguing? The Aussie paper The Age reviews a new work that raised eyebrows and flared nostrils at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art:
"The two-hour act saw the six dancers, masked but naked beneath sheer garments, move around a room in the gallery before sitting on transparent stools and performing — only if they were moved to do so — what is usually one of our most private and rarely discussed daily acts."
Bowel-moving, in other words. Finally, some eliminationist rhetoric the Left can get behind! Mikala Dwyer, the choreographer of the special event, wants us to have a conversation about it all, of course. Will it be about the utter bankruptcy of a culture now facing the end result of the long war against technique, beauty, and transcendence? That would seem to be subject number 1, in need of exploring, but she wants us to talk about subject number 2.
"She hoped ACCA visitors would think and talk about something we have been socialized to consider dirty and shameful, and have historically hidden from view, even though it is perfectly natural."
"Socialized" means something bad, if you're wondering. Dull-witted puritanical society-shapers have stifled our glorious natural response to the world by cinching our free spirits into straitjackets of shame and self-loathing. The idea that something that's perfectly natural is endowed with a Rousseauian halo of virtue is an idiocy surpassed only by her hope that people, having seen her work of art, would then have a conversation about excrement.
#page#You suspect they did just that, but not for the reasons she preferred.
This is the conceit of the artist: Until we are confronted with ballet dancers engaged in a process of elimination that is not an audition, no one thinks or talks about the subject. Dwyer is described as "a highly respected artist with an impressive CV" and a painting prof at the U of Sydney, which adds weight to her university-strength insights on the human condition:
"As she said, this is humanity's most democratic act: from royalty and supermodels to politicians or the tiniest newborn baby, we all participate in this necessary biological function."
The same holds true for respiration, but try getting a grant for just standing on stage breathing.
The Australian Center for Contemporary Art, like a toddler who used the little potty correctly for the first time, is awfully proud of itself. Said a spokesperson to The Age:
"We evaluated it as a key and bold move in her practice, one that links to a long artistic legacy looking at alchemical transformation and magical performance. The work, while challenging taboos, never becomes sensational or gratuitous. It's wonderful, powerful work."
If it's a magical performance to anyone, then there are a wide variety of fiber-packed cereals on the market, and as far as alchemy goes, the old philosophers were trying to turn lead into gold. This is defining alchemy down.
The Age's review also had a sidebar called "Excrement and the arts"; it included the time that an inflatable sculpture of canine leavings slipped the surly bonds of earth, floated away, and struck a power line. To which the artist no doubt thought: Top that, Michelangelo.
This is the culture of the West's artistic intellectuals. It's everywhere. Last summer at the Walker, I saw an exhibit on modern art after the pivotal year of 1989. The Berlin Wall fell, Tiananmen Square happened, but most important, the NEA "was under a sustained assault," as the catalogue put it, and that's really hitting artists where they live. One of the works on display was a series of boxes with writing on the side, with a plaque to help you out: "Minimalism's Evil Orthodoxy Monoculture's Totalitarian Esthetic" was the name.
Well, of all the truly evil orthodoxies afoot in the world, Minimalism probably ranks low. When car bombers start using firecracker-packed Cooper Minis on behalf of their "Less Is More" ideology, we can talk. When artists are shot on orders of a commissar purging everyone who's using the wrong shade of yellow, then our Monoculture might be Totalitarian. The title told you the art work was art about theories of art, a symbol of an exhausted, narcissistic culture whose collective head has been thrust so deeply into its fundamental inanity that a performance of defecating dancers is the most logical result.
Of course the Australian museum is taxpayer funded! Don't tell Harry Reid, or he'll insist the NEA fund performances of the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles. It certainly challenges taboos, and starts conversations. And if that's not Cowboy Poetry, nothing is.
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How to get success in online degree?Written by admin on November 23rd, 2010
It's frequently said that there is no age bar for one to get educated. People have urges to learn different kinds of courses to enhance their over pot of knowledge. Even people sitting pretty on top posts always have hunger or inclination towards taking on newer courses every now and then.
The question arises here is that when they are done with studies and doing fantastic in their jobs, what's the use of taking on a course?
Today's era is changing fast and in order to make one more technologically viable and in synchronization with the current demand of the time, its important to keep oneself fully updated and that's where the need of taking up those courses which stimulates and enhances your knowledge comes.
But time factor is another thing we don't have nowadays; however, people are more open to the usage of internet so doing an online degree becomes an easier option for people to take on easily.
This article basically emphasizes on how to get success in an online degree course. We will see in the coming columns the simple formula for attaining the same.
What's an online degree?
It's a term that refers to degrees (diplomas, higher education, post graduation, graduation, etc) offered by various Online universities in and across India that can be earned by primarily or entirely through the use of an internet enabled computer and not by adhering to the contemporary method of attending classes in a full time residential course.
How to get success in online degree?
Since the classes done via the mode is not a strict one and one must not attend it like a college kid but at the user's own discretion of available timings, it's very difficult to get success in the online college degree or university online degrees.
Nevertheless, the simpleton mode of switching to some key concept can guide you in getting the very best of an online education degree.
Let's have a look around those pivotal points:
1. Should have internet and computer efficiency – Since the university accredited online degrees are tough via the mode of internet, its important for a candidate vying for the same to be good in the captioned subject matter. His ability to work efficiently and coherently on the computer and internet shall be one of the key factors pushing oneself on the threshold of getting successful in winning college online degree.
2. Time Management – Although the online degree courses provides an E-student with independence and absolute freedom in choosing his preferred time to study the portions but the same action over the time deviates people from the courses.
Thus, managing the time in order to be degree viable on the stipulated time is another vital key to get success online. People doing an online degree course basically thinks that they can do the course easily thereby taking their very own sweet time and their attitude pave the way for getting things mixed up. So, manage the time and cruise along!
3. Good Communication Skills to Carry Home – Communication skills in any plethora of work are a win-win attribute for any one. Thus, maintaining a good hole over the same will ensure that you write your online degree papers satisfactorily.
4. Make Study Time Schedule – The whole essence of switching over to an online degree course is because people don't find much time to join the traditional mode of classroom programs at the college premises. Does not mean that you are not going to a regular classroom, you will indulge in to activities that will keep you away from the proximity of completing the portions on time!
Thus, make a time table for your studies over the electronic mode and make sure you are also sincere in doing so. Since people have the habit of giving quality time to their online study courses only during weekends, it shall be also made an unchanged habit to cover up the portion in weekdays too.
Let's see the advantages and disadvantages of an online degree course in brief:
1. Accessibilities, cost and documentation – The major advantages of an online degree are that it provides the user with accessibility option of using the same anywhere in the world. Cost is another factor which gets reduces and then comes the major aspects of documentation as live discussions; transcripts, project details, etc are all achieved and recorded so that it easily is retrieved.
2. Employment, communications & courses – It's important to present all degree related info to a recruiter at the time of your employment but an inconsistency in the same can make you go here and there to get them corrected thereby, killing your precious time.
You can also miss important notices from your colleges some time due to your negligence to check the same not according to correct time.
Not all courses are readily available online. Thus, trying to do such a course will surely trouble you and leave you with no option but to go for a regular university accredited college residential programs.
With increased work load on us like never before and the same set to grow as we do, people desperate to go for education of diverse nature through contemporary sources are not a healthy option. Thus, the option of enrolling for an online degree course comes as a refreshing change.
However, people track difficulties in doing the same, so, just following the above mentioned simple steps shall ensure that you complete the course comprehensively.
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Stage weapons will again be allowed in University theatrical productions... Administrators decided Monday afternoon to require that audiences instead be informed of the use of stage weapons before the start of every performance(from yaledailynews.com). I previously posted about this.
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Leinster's past, present and future collided yesterday with Trevor Hogan's widely expected decision to retire swiftly following tyro Sean O'Brien's receipt of the Bank of Ireland December Player of the Month award.
Ex-Munster player Hogan has been racked by knee problems and his seasonal bow against Dragons in November has proved to be his swansong appearance in a professional capacity.
"It's been a tough battle over the last couple of seasons with my injury, but after my last game, the problem worsened to the point that I couldn't continue," said the 31-year-old, who has been capped four times for Ireland.
"It is never an easy thing to accept, but I'm thankful for all the support from my team-mates and the medical, management and coaching staff at Leinster, as well as Dr Ray Moran, who has helped me greatly over the past few years.
"It was an honour to play for Leinster and I would like to thank all the supporters for their backing over my career."
Hogan's provincial loyalties were professionally split -- 59 appearances for Leinster narrowly trumping his initial 57 appearances in a red jersey; sadly, he rarely established himself with either.
A CBS Nenagh schoolboy, the popular second-rower won an AIL with Shannon in 2002 before linking up with Munster.
Three of his four Irish caps came on summer tours to Japan (two) in 2005 and Argentina (2007), the latter in Santa Fe mere months after he came off the bench as Ireland vainly chased the Six Nations Championship title during their St Patrick's Day Rome romp against Italy.
Now the seventh Leinster player to retire since last summer, Hogan's injury woes were compounded by the steady stream of talent emerging from Leinster's academy in recent years, a fact alluded to by award winner O'Brien.
"The academy really helped me, both physically and mentally, and it gave me a great insight into what the demands are to becoming a professional rugby player," said the Tullow native, who is on stand-by to replace Jamie Heaslip at No 8 in this weekend's Heineken Cup clash with Saracens at the RDS.
"The lads that have come through there recently, like Dominic Ryan and Rhys Ruddock, are on our heels now and it's good to have that competition in the squad."
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MURPHYSBORO, Ill. – Randy Bateman, a long-time competitor as a driver and team owner in USAC's Silver Crown and National Sprint Car series, died Sunday after a battle against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. He was 63 years old.
The Murphysboro, Ill., driver was well-known for campaigning the familiar No. 55 for more than three decades on the Silver Crown trail. However, Bateman's early years were spent in the seat of the blue No. 37 in which he made his first series appearance at DuQuoin in 1982 and, one year later, broke through to make his first feature start during the 1983 season in Nazareth, Pa.
Bateman made 60 USAC Silver Crown starts in 27 different seasons with his most prolific year, 2014, being his final as a competitor behind the wheel, making five starts with a 15th place showing in the points to his credit.
Bateman was a staunch supporter of USAC racing as an owner and driver and his dedication to the sport was honored with a ceremony prior to the main event at the 2014 Ted Horn 100 in DuQuoin, Ill. Just a little over a month later, Bateman made his final series start at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, N.Y.
In 2002 Bateman earned a career-best finish of ninth in the Hoosier Hundred at the Indiana State Fairgrounds and put the fans on their feet with a memorable front-row qualifying run at the 2008 Ted Horn 100.
Bateman stepped out of the seat in 2015 after beginning his battle against ALS, but remained as a car owner for Brian Tyler's remarkable run from 27th to 3rd at that year's Hoosier Hundred as well as Casey Shuman's Rookie of the Year season in the series in 2016.


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Challenges of Managing Huge Automotive Data Sets Solved by Renovo
Renovo, the global autonomous vehicle software company, has announced the launch of Insight—a data management and orchestration platform for developing autonomous and ADAS products. Insight offers AV/ADAS companies an edge over their competition, allowing them to develop features faster and decreasing their time to market. Insight enables automotive companies to quickly index and tag unstructured data from their development fleets, query the most important insights, and automatically deliver them to distributed engineering teams ten times faster than any other approach.
Insight is designed to empower companies that are addressing the massive current economic opportunities of a global ADAS market, which is expected to hit $70.4 billion in 2024, and a wider AV industry projected to reach a massive $800 billion in 2035.
Currently, managing the enormous amounts of data generated by these vehicles is a struggle. Individual vehicles can generate terabytes of data every day. It can take days or even weeks for critical information needed by developers and data scientists to be identified and made available. Insight speeds up this cycle by sorting, tagging and delivering a company's most critical data to whomever needs it most—in just minutes. Insight represents a data revolution for AV/ADAS development, one that is estimated to ultimately save more than 580,000 lives between 2035 and 2045.
"With Insight, we've been able to create a solution that addresses the challenges of vehicle and AI data management at scale for the automotive industry," said Chris Heiser, Renovo CEO. "Insight will enable AV/ADAS development teams to quickly leverage key data points, enabling their companies to compete with the market faster and with the most advanced features."
"Rapidly Identifying valuable data, and getting it in the hands of those that need it is a critical problem facing the AV industry," said Ken Claffey, Vice President & General Manager of Enterprise Data Solutions at Seagate. "Renovo's expertise in vehicle and data systems makes them uniquely qualified to solve this problem for autonomous vehicle fleets."
Renovo, an established leader in AV technology, initially created Insight to speed their own development of autonomous safety platforms that power AV fleets today. Insight benefits from nearly a decade of experience developing the world's most advanced automotive and software systems. With the public release of Insight, this technology platform is now available to customer ADAS and AV programs worldwide. As with all Renovo products, Insight is open to the Renovo Ecosystem, which consists of dozens of technology solutions from the world's best AV technology providers. The Ecosystem's most recent addition, Seagate, joins a list of companies that include: Samsung, Verizon, HERE, Velodyne LiDAR, Parsons, INRIX, and Argus Cyber Security. Renovo and their partners have worked together to create a platform that will transform how companies find value in their fleet data, and build more of what their customers love.
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Wings, prayers and the cosmic comic conspiracy
Lately at home we've been invaded by wings. Chicken wings, that is. It's my fault. They've been on sale and I can't resist a bargain. But beyond that, I just find them to be a good, easy-to-make food you can cook a million ways.
My wife is less enthralled with what we've come to call 'wing season' around here, and almost seemed relieved by our recent nine-day halachic hiatus.
There may well be a way to tell which wings in a given package are 'right' wings and which are 'lefts', but I have yet to discover it. Far easier is it to discern what qualifies as politically left or right wing—or so I thought until recently.
Certainly here in Israel it seems to revolve mostly around issues of security vis-à-vis the Arabs. Although once they get into power, the so-called 'right wing' politician and his 'left wing' counterpart, tend to behave essentially the same, the only difference being that which one does with a smile on his face, the other does with a frown.
In America, where there exists (at least the illusion of) more existential breathing room, the two 'wings' tend to spread out more and take on a broader ideological spectrum.
Simply put, if I had to pigeonhole (pun somewhat intended) I'd say that the right wing emphasizes values—or, what 'should' be, while the left wing stresses vision—or, what 'could' be.
Now we Jews are smart enough to know that a bird needs two healthy wings to fly, and the Torah is, in my opinion, unique in that it presents a way of life with both vision and values in abundance. The two not competing, but complementary, avoiding the inevitable imbalance of a secular approach, be it right leaning, or left.
But even this cursory distinction between the two wings shrinks when we step back and focus on how the non-Jewish socio-political left and right wings actually conspire to mislead people and prevent them from approaching and appreciating the truth of the Torah.
To illustrate, think of the classical comedy teams (Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, etc). Generally these consist of a 'straight man' and a 'fool'.
The straight man's job is to serve as a set-up for the fool to bounce off of. This is often accomplished by the straight man portraying a caricature of accepted mores and values, emphasizing their weak points and hypocrisies, which the 'fool' wryly pounces upon, spoofs, or otherwise picks apart, rendering the previously respectable straight man foolish, and himself winkingly wise. (Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont, being a textbook example).
On the surface, the straight man and the fool seem to be at odds, antagonistic toward each other, but in fact, the two are in cahoots, reading out of the same script. They are both in fact letzim (mockers), simply pulling off their letzonus in different ways.
So how did we get from food, to politics, to comedy—you might well be asking? Let me explain.
The Torah presents a pure, clear, God given morality (or values, as we like to call it today). The political left (beginning from the so-called 'enlightenment') has been at war against these values and the curtailment of unrestrained selfish desire fulfillment they mandate.
But to mock and attack the truth directly would yield them little, so they teamed up with a 'straight man'—the non-Jewish religious right. These latter present (or misrepresent) Torah-originated values and outlooks, distorting them based on their ancestors' millennia-old distortions.
These simplistic distortions, coupled with the blatant hypocrisy of many of their high-profile practitioners, serve to create a perfect 'foil' for the left-wing 'fools' to mock. "See, there is your traditional values and religion!…How ridiculous!…(and it is, as the right-wing straight man/letz presents it)…So chuck it all and be free!"
This 'Cosmic Comic Conspiracy' really is a very slick and professional comedy team. Only its results are a far from laughing matter, as it poisons and prejudices people's minds and has practically closed the door to any of our attempts to fulfill our mission of relating the message that a life of true God given values, far from being silly, is sublime.
Is there any way out of this cynical cycle?
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I didn't want to do a cartoon about the pathetic and ridiculous Omarosa Manigault Newman. I don't like giving more attention to celebrities who are famous without any recognizable achievements. Why are the Kardashians famous? How about Paris Hilton? What have they done or contributed to society? Even a bad actor like Keanu Reeves or a lousy musician like Justin Bieber has put time and effort into what they do. A person like Omarosa being famous is a real head-scratcher. If you heard of her before now, can you tell me what she did other than appearing on Donald Trump's fake reality show, The Apprentice?
I'll ask an easier question. Can you tell me what she did in the White House? Her official title was White House director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison, but it seemed she spent more time pissing people off and planning her wedding. In fact, she brought her 39-person bridal party to the White House for a photo shoot.
The Daily Beast published an article before she was canned titled, "No one knows what Omarosa is doing in the White House, even Omarosa." It's very fascinating, though not enough for me to finish reading the article. Ridiculous and incompetent people can only hold my attention for so long, unless their finger is on the nuclear button.
Many people saw Omarosa as a Trump tool, which is what most people are who work for Trump. Omarosa's presence and willingness to degrade herself for Trump is more laughable, and disgusting than most, as she was used as Trump's "black friend." That's when someone cites a minority they know, dated, slept with, or are friends with to prove they're not racist. It's kinda like when someone says they're not anti-Semitic because their lawyer "is a Jew."
Put down your coffee because I don't want you to spit it on your computer monitor for this part. During the campaign, Omarosa's title was Director of African-American Outreach. Great job with that outreaching, Omarosa.
What she was, was ridiculous. She once accused the Congressional Black Caucus of "showboating" after they refused a meeting with Trump, but signed her name on the invitation as "the Honorable Omarosa Manigault."
According to reports, Omarosa was literally dragged out of the White House. She denies this and the Secret Service says they didn't drag her out, which means someone else dragged her out. Reportedly, she attempted to barge into the residential area of the White House to whine about her firing to the big orange cheese himself. Her ouster has been reported as another of Chief-of-Staff John Kelly's purges. It makes sense. With Trump there how many more stupid and absurd people do you need on the premises?
Now, Omarosa claims she's going to write a book, as basically the only black person in the Trump White House, exposing the horrible stuff she didn't like going on in. Really? Now you're going to take a stand?
Omarosa outperformed Sebastian Gorka for sycophant quotes praising Trump. Gorka proclaimed Trump's authority "would not be questioned." During a previous interview, she said everyone would eventually bow down to Trump, and his becoming the most powerful man in the world was the ultimate revenge on everyone who had ever challenged or questioned him. Those were her words but I'm sure the sentiment is shared by Trump. I don't think someone's objective for leadership should be revenge or a desire for people to bow before you.
A friend of hers said, "She had many opportunities to do right by women, blacks, poor people, and humanity and has never risen to the challenge." Leona Allen of The Dallas Morning News wrote, "Omarosa was too caught up in shallow selfishness and her appetite for fame and drama to be of use to anyone." I know that's shocking. She has a friend?
Omarosa has not written her book yet, so I'm sure it'll be out by next Wednesday. I wouldn't expect to gain any major insights into the inner workings or turmoil in the Trump administration, but we might find out how to use our workplaces as settings for bridal-party photo shoots.
We don't know what Omarosa actually did before she was fired, and we sure as hell don't know what she's doing now, despite still being on the payroll. The Secret Service has deactivated her badges and passes for entering the White House, so it's not like she's going to work.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about this and she told the press to take it up with the White House's human resources' department. No, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Since the money going to Omarosa is our money then we deserve to know what it's being paid for. And, since we're paying your salary as Trump's spokesgoon, Sarah, why don't you get off your ass, do your freaking job, go to human resources, get the answer so you can answer the freaking question.
I'm sure Omarosa will do as much she possibly can to further, or retain, her fame. She's definitely put more into that than she has in doing for others. Maybe, when her book does come out it will retain her 15 minutes, when she doesn't even deserve 15 seconds.
Despite all the firings and resignations in an extremely short time for this White House, I still have plenty of characters to make fun of. None of them are "honorable."
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Human Trafficking in South Florida: What You Need to Know
Human trafficking is poised to overtake the illegal drug trade as the largest criminal enterprise in the world, according to the FBI. That's because a kilo of heroin can only be sold once—after it's been snorted, smoked or shot up, it's gone. But a human being can be sold over and over again.
Think slavery is something out of a history book? One expert estimates that if you live in Palm Beach County, you likely live within 10 miles of a modern-day slave.
The International Labor Organization estimates that there are nearly 21 million victims of human trafficking worldwide today. They are forced to provide labor or sex. They do not keep the money they earn. They are not free to come and go as they please. And only one percent of them will escape.
West Palm Beach resident Rosa Castillo, 34, is part of that one percent.
Castillo was only 12 years old when her parents fled Nicaragua in the 1990s, leaving her behind with her grandparents. To reunite their family, the Castillos paid a coyotaje (a Mexican border smuggler) $6,000 to bring their daughter safely to the United States. The journey was supposed to take Castillo two weeks. Instead, she was held captive for 14 years.
The coyotaje turned out to be a human trafficker. And although he delivered Castillo to the United States, she was anything but safe. "I was sold as merchandise in America, in the land of justice and freedom," she says. "And nobody did anything to help me."
By day she was forced to work picking crops. "I was just a little girl, working 18 hours a day," Castillo says, describing her years in the fields of multinational produce companies with household names. "They're making millions of dollars. And they're buying into human trafficking to make their money."
By night she was forced into prostitution—both on the streets and in businesses like erotic spas and massage parlors.
When she wasn't working, Castillo was kept in a cage with 60 other women from Central America, the Caribbean and the United States. "All of us were there for 10 years or more. We grew up together in that cage, being fed twice a week, being raped, beaten and burned," she says.
Castillo watched as others tried to escape. When they were caught, they were tortured. Still, she made her own attempts. When she was unsuccessful, she was punished. "They used me as their personal ashtray," she says, pointing to burn scars on her arms and chest. "There are scars like these on places I can't show you."
Eventually, she lost hope. Castillo says she even stopped speaking for several years. "I gave up," she says. "I prayed to God to take my life. I couldn't take any more."
The Modern Slave Trade
Human trafficking is more than a buzzword. In general, it's an umbrella term for the modern slave trade. More specifically, it's the act of "recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud or coercion," according to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, passed by Congress in 2000. It encompasses several forms of slavery, including forced labor, domestic servitude and sex trafficking. And it's a booming business.
The global value of human trafficking is estimated at $150 billion—so lucrative that it recently outpaced the illegal arms trade as the world's fastest growing criminal industry, according to a report by the United Nations. The domestic value of human trafficking is harder to pin down, but the U.S. intelligence community puts its estimate at $9.5 billion. That's the same valuation many Wall Street analysts give the domestic bottled water market.
Human trafficking is market-driven, and demand is high for cheap labor and easy sex. Despite recent crackdowns by law enforcement, many traffickers are willing to risk prosecution for earning potential. A 2014 study by the Urban Institute reveals that domestic sex traffickers make a monthly average of $27,000—more than $300,000 per year.
The state of Florida is a human trafficking hot spot, reporting the third highest number of cases in the country (behind California and Texas), according to a 2016 report by the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Last year alone, the Florida Department of Children and Families counted nearly 1,900 confirmed trafficking cases statewide, up 54 percent from the preceding year.
Wifredo Ferrer, former United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida, says the state's status as a tourist draw and transplant-heavy population provide fertile ground for human trafficking to flourish. "We have a booming tourism industry. We have a very active transient male population, where guys come and go," Ferrer says. "If they are here for sporting events, for example, a lot of these victims are used, so to speak, to service them."
Those services regularly take place at local businesses that may appear to be on the up-and-up—including hotels, strip clubs, massage parlors and escort services, says Becky Dymond, president and founder of Hepzibah House, a Boynton Beach program for women escaping human trafficking.
Dymond estimates through research that 3,500 women and girls are being trafficked for sex in the Palm Beaches. That doesn't include women trafficked through streetwalking or porn production, nor those being trafficked in underground clubs or on websites. "That data is harder to come by," she says. But if Dymond could quantify those hidden victims, she figures her estimate could easily double. "If you live in Palm Beach County," she says, "You probably live within 10 miles of a modern-day slave."
Predator and Prey
Behind the statistics, it's the people who make the industry go 'round. The cycle starts with the traffickers, including pimps, gang members and mafiosos. And then there are the victims—drawn from all genders, races and walks of life. Still, they share a key characteristic that traffickers are uncannily able to sniff out: vulnerability. That's because the more vulnerable a victim is, the easier they are to control.
"I'm counseling a woman now who was kept in chains," Dymond says. "But that's not typical." Instead, she says, the psychological ramifications of childhood abuse are what most often keep individuals from rebuffing a trafficker's advances, or from trying to escape once they've been recruited.
Dymond also notes that a majority of adult victims of sex trafficking have been molested as children. "When that quintessential boundary violation happens to you, silence becomes your voice," she explains. "It becomes dangerous to say 'no.' It's a mentality that you never outgrow."
New research by Joan Reid, assistant professor of criminology at the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, supports Dymond's claims. In a 2016 study published in the American Journal of Public Health, Reid and her co-authors examined the histories of more than 900 adolescent human trafficking victims in Florida. What they found was troubling: All of the trafficked children had experienced some kind of abuse. But when compared with children whose abuse did not include sex acts, sexually abused boys were found to be 8.2 times more likely to be exploited in human trafficking, and sexually abused girls were found to be 2.5 times more likely to be similarly exploited.
"Being abused is the only way of life many of these boys and girls have known," Reid's report concludes. "They may possess very little hope of escaping to something or someone better."
In essence, by recruiting from the most vulnerable among us, traffickers have created what Reid calls a "safe crime." "The trafficker is at a very low risk to be told on," she says. "And because of their abusive pasts, many victims have the mindset that they freely chose this life. They don't run or try to get help, because they don't view themselves as being exploited."
A Vulnerable Victim
Reid's findings resonate with Brenda Smith, now 52 and living in Boynton Beach. In 1983, Smith was abducted at age 18 and forced into prostitution across the northeastern United States for two years.
Smith's father left when she was just a toddler, and her mother struggled to raise four kids alone. A family acquaintance took an interest in Smith, offering the treats and attention she craved. But when she was only 3 years old, he began molesting her.
"That started me on a journey of sexual awareness at a very early age," Smith says. Soon her older brother's friends became her molesters. When she was 12, her mother remarried, and her stepfather began sexually assaulting her. When her mother found out, she accused Smith of trying to break up her marriage and sent her to live with her father.
It was anything but a fresh start. Smith began drinking and abusing drugs. "I was in a bad place. I hated life," she says. When she returned to her father's house from a weekend getaway, she found all of her possessions piled on the front porch.
Smith grabbed what she could. Leaving the rest behind, she drifted, living with her brother and hitting the bar scene. That's when she met James. "He acted like he was so interested in me," she says. "But I kept my distance." Still, when James asked her on a lunch date, Smith accepted.
Instead of taking her to lunch, James drove Smith several counties away and revealed his plan. "He said, 'You're going to be making some money so we can be together,'" Smith recalls. "When I figured out he was talking about prostitution, I said, 'No way.' But he said, 'This is what's going to happen: I'll tell you where to stand and what to do. I'll be right there.'"
Smith first realized James was serious when she met what's known as the "top wife"—the woman in charge of keeping a trafficker's stable of victims in line. "He left me with her and told her to watch me," Smith explains. "She started describing this hierarchy where I was supposed to be the wife-in-law, the next one down. So I played it cool. I said, 'Listen, I ran out of cigarettes, and I'm just gonna go down to the corner and buy a pack.' But in my head I was like, 'I'm getting the heck out of here,'" Smith says.
James had unwittingly left Smith near a house where some of her friends lived. She hurried to their front door and begged them for a ride. But James followed her and demanded she return with him. "He was 6-foot-8-inches," Smith says. "Nobody was willing to say: 'Move along and leave her alone, dude.'"
Like Rosa Castillo, Smith was punished for her escape attempt. "He didn't trust me or leave me alone for a long time after that," she says. "He took me out of town again and kept me moving to keep me from running to someone who could help me. I was trapped."
The New Abolitionists
"When you say 20 million slaves, most people's instinct is to switch off," says Jupiter resident Ellen Coleman. "But," she says, "a problem this big is going to take all of us doing something." Coleman was "shaken" in 2012 when she first discovered the magnitude of the human trafficking epidemic. She now works as a program ambassador for the A21 Campaign, raising awareness and funds for the worldwide anti-trafficking organization.
"A21 is leading the global charge in terms of abolishing modern slavery," Coleman says. "But there are amazing organizations in Palm Beach County that are doing impactful work too."
One of those organizations is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach. In January, the group was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to partner with the Palm Beach Sherriff's Office in addressing local human trafficking. As part of that initiative, Catholic Charities has established a 24-hour tip line and an education campaign aimed at teaching local residents to identify human trafficking when they see it. "This is a crime that can go on right before your eyes and you might not recognize it," says Sheila Gomez, Catholic Charities' executive director. "When people know what to look for and who to call, that can be a powerful tool in the fight."
Palm Beach Gardens-based Christ Fellowship Church began funding its anti-human trafficking outreach program known as Hope for Freedom through hundreds of yard sales in 2009. Today, Hope for Freedom supports Hope House, a safe house for girls 12 to 17 who have been victims of sex trafficking. Operated by Place of Hope in Palm Beach Gardens, Hope House serves five girls at a time, featuring an all-female roster of counselors and support staff, as well as on-site schooling.
Place of Hope's CEO Charles L. Bender III says it's the "family feel" that makes Hope House one of the most successful recovery operations in the state. Since 2012, it's housed and rehabilitated nearly 30 girls. "We try to emulate a healthy family environment," he explains. "Our model helps victims feel like there's something better they can move toward."
While Hope House works with human trafficking's underage victims, Becky Dymond's Hepzibah House provides a safe house for adult victims. "We offer a highly trained therapeutic team and a safe place to live during recovery," Dymond says of her four-bed facility that opened in late 2015. Since then, Dymond says the organization has sheltered six women and supplied therapy, mentoring and career counseling for more than 40 others.
For many of these local abolitionists—Dymond included—the calling to fight human trafficking first came as a wave of anger that such an industry could exist in modern times. But Dymond says a deeper emotion needs to be tapped to affect lasting change. "Righteous anger can spur action," she says. "But it can't sustain the kind of action it will take to end human trafficking. Only love can do that."
Leaving it Behind
For both Brenda Smith and Rosa Castillo, it was love that spurred their final escape attempts.
After more than a year of working as a sex slave, Smith discovered she was pregnant. Up to that point, she'd used both drugs and alcohol freely, trying to numb her pain. But the pregnancy was a wake-up call, and Smith quit cold turkey. "I told myself, 'I don't care what I'm going through. I'm not going to put a baby's life at risk,'" she says.
Ditching the drugs and alcohol had a bonus effect. "It got my head clear," she says. "I started thinking of ways to run."
When James found out about Smith's pregnancy, he demanded she "get rid of it." But Smith stalled for time. "I knew that I needed to get free before he would force me to end my pregnancy," she says.
Smith's chance came when James inadvertently dropped her off for a night of trick-turning just three blocks away from her aunt's house. "When I knew he was gone, I hid on the back porch until I got up the courage to go inside and call my mom," she says.
On the other side of freedom, Smith's mother urged her to have an abortion, but she refused. "I told her, 'I'm having this baby. He's my gift. He's my collateral beauty," she says of her son Ryan, who is now 32. "I didn't have value or love enough for me," Smith says. "But for him? I could see his value was limitless."
Like Smith, Castillo became pregnant while in captivity. It was 2003, and at 22 years old, she had lived as a slave for a decade. Suddenly, she no longer wanted to die. But first, she had to beg to carry her pregnancy to term.
Castillo had seen how her trafficker had beaten pregnant women to make them spontaneously abort. So she told him, "You don't have to do this to me. I've been here for so long, I'm not going anywhere. I would like to have the baby."
The trafficker relented, and in 2004 Castillo gave birth to a daughter she named Louvia. "It was the first time in my life that I had something that was mine," she says. "I decided that I will do whatever it takes to set us free."
Freedom came four years later, in June of 2008. According to Castillo, her trafficker and his gang threw a party outside Corpus Christi, Texas. Castillo and a fellow captive—a woman who had been taken from her home in Cuba—had been left outside the cage. When many of the men were either drunk or passed out, Castillo says her Cuban friend turned to her and said, "Today we will be free or we will die trying."
Castillo recounts how they formed a quick plan, wrapping Louvia in towels and zipping her inside a suitcase. When Castillo hoisted the suitcase over a wall of the compound where they were staying, Louvia started crying loudly. Terrified, Castillo told her friend, "I gotta go! Hold the ladder for me!" As she climbed and her friend stood below, Castillo says one of the enforcers spotted them and began to shoot. "She was hit four times in the chest," Castillo explains. "She died where she fell." Shot once in the forehead, Castillo fell, too—not inside the wall, but outside of it, where she played dead, laying on top of the suitcase with Louvia still inside. Eventually, she says, she dragged the suitcase to the edge of a highway, where a truck driver spotted her and brought her to a hospital. After surgery to repair her fractured skull, law enforcement placed Castillo and her daughter in protective custody until she was brought to West Palm Beach to be reunited with family members.
Since her escape, Castillo has undergone intensive therapy to restore both her voice and her life. "I have worked hard to come back to myself, to forgive myself," she says. Still, she struggles. "It took so much from me," she says. "There is nothing that removes the marks from my body. There is nothing to wipe away my memories. I still have flashbacks. There are still days I feel my spirit is broken."
For Smith and Castillo, there's life after trafficking. You can't call them lucky. But you can call them free, unlike the 99 percent of victims who never escape.
Today, Smith serves as a board member and mentor at Hepzibah House, sharing her story to raise awareness and to bring hope to the hopeless. "Hepzibah House is a life-giving community," Smith says. "Its passion instills courage, hope and change."
In her advocacy work through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Blue Campaign, Castillo collaborates with lawmakers to develop new legislation and gives first responders key insights into the minds of traffickers and their victims. "What happened to me is still happening. Traffickers are preying on our local kids. Why are we not talking about this? Why are we silenced?" she asks.
Castillo refuses to be silenced again. "I have so much to say. Sometimes I feel like my heart is going to spill out of my body," she says. "But speaking up is a way to protect my daughter, a way to protect every child. For that, I will continue to speak forever."
Human Trafficking : Myth Vs. Fact
Combating any problem begins with replacing myths with truths. Consider these commonly held misconceptions about human trafficking.
Myth : Human trafficking is a new term for prostitution.
Facts : Worldwide each year 4.5 million people are trafficked into sex work; and 16.4 million people are victims of labor trafficking. Common types of labor trafficking in the U.S. include farm work, domestic servitude and factory work. Victims are frequently found in businesses like sweatshops, massage parlors, farms, restaurants, hotels and domestic service.
Myth : Human trafficking is the same as human smuggling.
Facts : Human trafficking is based on exploitation and does not require movement across borders. Smuggling can turn into trafficking if the smuggler uses force, fraud or coercion to hold victims against their will for the purposes of labor or sexual exploitation.
Myth : Equating human trafficking with slavery is an overstatement.
Facts : Buying and selling human beings for any purpose or period of time is slavery. The U.S. Department of State estimates there were more people in worldwide slavery in 2013 (20 to 30 million enslaved persons) than during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from the 1400s to the 1800s (more than 10 million enslaved persons).
Myth : Human trafficking doesn't take place in the United States.
Facts : There are an estimated 250,000 slaves in the country today, and verified cases of human trafficking per year in the United States are on the rise. The count has raised from 3,409 verified cases in 2012 to 8,042 verified cases in 2016.
Myth : U.S. citizens are rarely human trafficking victims.
Facts : Sixty-seven percent of people trafficked for labor in the country go undocumented. Among domestic sex slaves, 17 percent are legal or illegal immigrants. Eighty-three percent of domestic sex slaves are U.S. citizens.
Myth : Only adults are trafficked.
Facts : Globally, Shared Hope International estimates that 1.2 million children are trafficked each year, and more than 100,000 children who are U.S. citizens (about the population of West Palm Beach) are exploited through sex trafficking during any given year without ever crossing a border.
Sources include the Polaris Project, International Labour Office; Hepzibah House; Polaris Project, National Human Trafficking Hotline Cases; Bureau of Justice; Polaris Project, Shared Hope International; Shared Hope International; US. Department of State; UNICEF; Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service; and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Blue Campaign
Telltale Trafficking Signs
Look for these common signs of human trafficking. Victims of modern-day slavery may:
• have bruises, black eyes, cuts, marks, scars or other signs of physical abuse and torture. Victims of human trafficking are often beaten in areas that will not damage their appearance, such as their lower back or the back of their head.
•show signs of being denied food, water, sleep, or medical care.
• provide answers that sound scripted or rehearsed when they are questioned about their lifestyle or wellbeing.
• give false information when asked for details like age, name or date of birth.
• be accompanied by a controlling person, or may not speak for themselves. Instead, they may consistently defer to another person.
• keep late-night or unusual hours.
• be transported to or from work by their employer. They may also live with their employer or other fellow employees, or they may live in the same place that they work.
• be unable to keep or control their earnings, which are withheld for "safekeeping" or to "repay their debts" to traffickers.
• have no identification, or may not be in control of their identification documents.
• be frightened to talk to outsiders and authorities, since they are closely monitored and controlled.
• be depressed, tense, paranoid, hyper-vigilant, overly submissive or distrustful toward anyone who offers assistance or attempts to converse with them.
• have tattoos or brands that they are reluctant to explain. Traffickers often tattoo or brand victims, particularly girls. Youth are commonly branded with their exploiter's name or the word "Daddy" tattooed on the neck, chest or arms.
• have a cell phone or an expensive designer handbag despite a lack of other basic belongings.
• demonstrate affection toward their trafficker. Many victims develop Stockholm syndrome, in which victims, over time, become sympathetic to their trafficker.
Source Materials: Adapted from several sources, including Hepzibah House, Joan Reid and myflfamilies.com
If You See Something, Say Something
Never attempt to confront a potential trafficker directly or alert a possible victim to your suspicions. Instead, use the following hotlines to report any suspicious activities that may resemble human trafficking. By reporting tips, you can do your part to help law enforcement rescue victims and bring traffickers to justice.
To report information regarding suspected human trafficking of child or an adult in South Florida:
Catholic Charities 24-Hour Incident Abuse Hotline: 561.598.9848
To report suspected human trafficking of a child or an adult anywhere in the United States (outside of Florida):
National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline: 888.373.7888
Other useful numbers:
Be Free Trafficking Text Line: 233733
Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Exploitation: 800.633.3572
Sources: Adapted frommyflfamilies.com, Hepzibah House, The Blue Campaign and Place of Hope