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2/28/2011 - Blending in Black Mountain
by Paul Clark
"Green and Healthy Built homes are more and more popular in Asheville, and the world, as there is more awareness of our environment and the benefits of conservation. North Carolina is a leading state in America's "greening" and Asheville a model city." - Ben Falcon
Elizabeth and Bill Green's home is built to blend in with Black Mountain lot. / Holli email@example.com
Nuts and bolts
The home: A 3,300-square-foot Arts & Crafts home with four bedrooms a nd four baths at The Settings at Black Mountain.
The homeowners: Elizabeth Green, a retired physical therapist, and Bill Green, an anesthesiologist. They have three standard poodles - Guy, Luci and Sunny.
Defining aspect: Designed as a second home, the house flows comfortably from room to room, achieving a casualness that puts visitors at ease.
Architect: Amy Conner-Murphy, ACM Design PA, Asheville.
Builder: Sean Sullivan, Living Stone Construction, Black Mountain.
Interior: Amy Conner-Murphy, ACM Design PA.
Grounds: Jennifer Brown, Greenmeadow Landscaping, Old Fort.
Things happen in threes for Elizabeth and Bill Green, who built their third house at The Settings in Black Mountain.
"One of the neat things the architect did was for our dogs," Elizabeth said recently, showing her home to guests. "She said we might want a separate in and out (door) for them, with a shower. That was a great suggestion."
The architect - Amy Conner-Murphy of Asheville - was one of three principals who worked on the Green house. The other two were builder Sean Sullivan of Living Stone Construction (Black Mountain) and Jennifer Brown of Greenmeadow Landscaping (Old Fort).
"They all started working together from the beginning," Elizabeth said. Consulting over the slope of the lot, they placed the house and rock walls in the space that makes the best use of the lay of the land, she said.
"When you see the outside," Bill said, "you see how it blends in with the surroundings."
"We didn't want it to stand out," Elizabeth said.
Second home, added features
The Greens live primarily in Cornelius, near Charlotte, where Bill works as an anesthesiologist. They built their home, a gold-level HealthyBuilt Home, in The Settings as a getaway, a place that they plan to be their retirement home. In 2008, the house won first place in the N.C. Home Builders Association STARS Awards in the category of Best Custom House Priced Over $1 million under 5,000 square feet.
"We love the mountains, and Black Mountain is such a neat town," Elizabeth said. And Asheville's being close by is a bonus. "You walk your dogs, and people are always stopping you," Bill said.
Back up and running
A temporary loss of power doesn't affect the Greens for long. The gas fireplaces in the master bedroom and living room don't need electricity to work. A generator powers the house when the power goes down, as it did on Christmas Day 2009. "My neighbor looked at us and said, 'that was a good idea,'" Elizabeth said.
Meeting in the kitchen
Elizabeth likes that when Bill's in the next room working on his computer (a really old, still functional Mac), she's in the kitchen, cooking and (during the regular season, any way), watching their beloved Cleveland Browns on TV. They both like to cook, a passion that in previous residences inevitably had them crowding around the sink. They solved the problem by installing two sinks in this kitchen.
Warm long into the night
Afternoons find Elizabeth in the living room, quietly reading English mysteries and appreciating the view of the rhododendrons outside. One of the dogs will be curled up in front of the fire, on the little rug on the cork floor. The fieldstone in the fireplace holds the heat far into the night


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Music plays a huge part in every local community throughout the UK, both economically and culturally. It is a vibrant and complex ecosystem that not only helps nurture and launch the artists of tomorrow but it also enriches the region by providing jobs and a significant contribution to the local economies. At UK Music we are passionate in our advocacy of music as a driver for economic recovery and as a career path for young people.
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is the siri remote IP rated at all?
kid dropped remote in cup of water, it was immediately taken out. in that about 1 second it filled with water. just wondering if it is IP rated at all?
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Effective Portfolio Design Tips | Everything You Need To Know About Designing A Killer Photography Portfolio Website That Gets You Hired
Effective Portfolio Design Tips | Being hired to shoot a project or expedition requires that you have the entire package – stunning pictures, the right attitude and personality, as well as discipline — but when it comes down to it, the first thing a potential client will see when doing their research is something that many photographers often neglect: the portfolio website. It has to be flawless. In the same way that a logo represents a brand, your portfolio represents your personal brand. If you get it right, you can have clients forever.
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Your website is often the single deciding factor in whether you get a call or an email about a project. Having an appealing, up-to-date portfolio website shows that you're serious about your photography business. However, do you know, in addition to fantastic pictures, what features are found in most successful online photo portfolios? What are some of the important things to consider when presenting your best work?
Try to Keep the Contrast High | Effective Portfolio Design Tips
Depending on the style of photography, pictures usually look a lot better when you view them on a black background. This is because there is a lot more contrast than when viewing against white background. Contrast helps bring out the colors in the picture, which in turn, makes the image appear more vivid and appealing. While pictures may look great on black or gray backgrounds, keep in mind that white text on a dark background is difficult to read. If you're going to include a blog with lots of text, find a way to put the text on a light background to make it easier to read.
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If your website is too hard to navigate, your potential clients will be easily turned off and will produce more negative feelings towards your work. Rethink your navigation, making it as easy and natural as possible to use. In other words, make the navigation easy so your visitors can focus on the actual photography without being distracted by trying to figure out how to use the portfolio website.
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Although you may have a large collection of pictures you wish to share in your portfolio, try to limit your selection to only the stronger examples. Too many images in your portfolio can affect load times, and overwhelm the visitors with too many options. It can make your portfolio feel like it is dragging on and on.
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Your breadth of work should be arranged according to theme or subject. If your work is presented in an organized and easy to navigate way, chances are, potential clients will appreciate the curation and level of professionalism that went into setting up your portfolio website. If you place your best pictures at either the beginning or end of the portfolio, you will hit the potential client the hardest. Using both ends of the spectrum is a wise idea in order to grab their attention right from the beginning and leave them something to remember at the end of the portfolio.
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If the goal of your portfolio is to land you new gigs, then make sure a client knows how to reach you so you can actually get one. The easiest way is to include your contact details on each page throughout your website — including your portfolio. You can put whatever you want for your contact details, just make sure that whatever you do put, is correct. A simple phone number will often be enough, although if a potential client isn't fond of the telephone, it may be better if they knew your email address as well.
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One of the many many shots I took of the interior of this beautiful cathedral. There is a still pool fountain in the centre of rear nave, and it makes for some beautiful reflections. I'm amazed at how many people miss looking into this for a very different view.
Salisbury Cathedral is the tallest surviving pre-1400 spire in the world.
Cathedral of Saint Mary (Salisbury Cathedral), Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.


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£3m legacy for Northern Ireland boxing clubs
Boxing in Northern Ireland is to get a cash injection of £3m, the sports minister has confirmed.
Caral Ni Chuilin highlighted the investment in boxing, announced earlier this year, after two NI boxers Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan secured Olympic medals.
"Barnes is the first Irish boxer to win back-to-back Olympic medals," she said.
"In communities across the north, boxing is much more than a sport, it is a lifesaver," she said.
She added that the money should be available by the end of the year.
"The Olympic wins have added to the building excitement and awareness of what the boxers are doing in terms of their achievement," she said.
"It is testimony to people like Paddy's father and Gerry Storey (Olympic boxing trainer) and the Holy Family Boxing Club.
"This is about small clubs putting in huge investment in terms of their time and skills into people like Paddy and Michael."
Ms Ni Chuilin said boxing was vital in communities across Northern Ireland.
"It takes children off the street, it invests in those children, it gives them a sense of self-worth, it gives them a sense of discipline to perform and they perform not only for themselves and for their clubs, but as Michael Conlan and Paddy Barnes and the other great local boxers have shown, they can perform at the highest level."
The sports minister said that when she took over her role last year, she was shocked at the lack of funding in boxing over the decades.
"Yet of practically all the sports, boxing has yielded more medals and success.
But the facilities in some clubs are very basic. "St John Bosco Club does not even have a toilet," she said.
"You have clubs like Clonard with pigeons flying through. Despite those conditions, the success is unbelievable."


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I donkey work next to individuals who esteem God, impoverishment His design for their lives and are actively exasperating to walk next to Him.
When panic swirls through their life, challenges dragoon them to the wall, and they feel as yet He's discarded them, them come up to me.
As a Christian Life Coach I ask, "What is God revealing you?" or the variation, "Have you asked God roughly it?" Undoubtedly I hear, "Yes, I've asked God."Post ads:
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To which I reply, "What did He say?" I in the main get a clean look and whichever stuttering vacillation of "I don't know." As they face at me as if I was off the wall.
Can you truly feel at one with next to God?
Yes. It's not awkward to perceive God. He's tongued to you day by day. Because you are His highest treasure, He's sworn to assist you fulfill your being purpose- what He created you do to present. And He square for it next to the life span of His Son, He can't be by a long way more than bound up than that!Post ads:
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I've found nearby are 5 Common Barriers to Hearing God.
Barrier 1. Never attentive for His reply.
Many citizens aliment their case speaking to God resembling a preference register. They drop their wishes on Him in a monthlong speech of petitioning and beseeching. Then waddle distant without listening for His answer. That's fair ill-mannered. Prayer is not a monologue, it's a dialogue. Talk to Him more or less your life and LISTEN FOR HIS ANSWERS.
It's easy, rightful get slumberous for a minute, expecting Him to reply you. That one pace unsocial will revolutionize your worship example into an surprising travel of intimacy near the One who loves you more than you can dig.
Barrier 2. Not wanting to perceive His answer.
Often society are acrophobic that God's statement will be something they don't want, one intolerable entity they must do or bequeath up. As if God requirements bad, ill-favored holding for you! Do you cognize in good health than God what will send so fulfillment?
Stop exasperating to be your own god and run your own vivacity by your own diplomacy... He knows greater than you do! And He with the sole purpose wishes dandy for you! Trust Him.
Barrier 3. Not wise to Him.
If you don't cognise Him, you don't recognizing His voice. If you don't cognize me, you won't accept my sound either! When you don't cognize how He talks, you may well be ready and waiting for a big deep voice to cog the clouds and roaring out directions! That's not how He talks!
Take few incident to get to cognise Him and how He discussion.
Barrier 4. Your own commander.
When you are looking for answers you come with up next to your own. You spend hours and work time reasoning astir how to fix your complications. The mess next to that is God's not in your boss and not in those plans! He dwells in your heart, in your heart is wherever He'll metallic element and head you.
Learn to get out of your commander and listen to your heart. (That's where on earth He talks!)
Barrier 5. Sin.
I cognize you were waiting for this one, but it's not what you infer.
Sin doesn't avoid God from discussion to you. After all, we are all sinners; Jesus is the solely one to live a innocent beingness. So, sin couldn't conclude God from speaking to you or He wouldn't have talked to someone in the precedent of the global. It's your concentration on sin and your presupposition He can't perceive you that card game God in your vivacity. There is no sin too big for Him to transport exactness of, to forgive, to get you through. When you focusing on your sin you won't go to Him for your escape or answer, you can't hear Him if you don't go to Him.
Refocus on Him, He's discussion to you present... are you listening? Blow chronological these established barriers and let God atomic number 82 you into His glorious blueprint for your natural life.


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Bodyboarding is like bronco busting for enthusiasts of that relatively new sport. They throw a ``saddle`` on a wave and ride it until it busts - or they bust.
The bodyboard is the saddle. Waves rumble in like thundering stallions. The thrill is catching a spirited stallion and then staying in the saddle.
Two Palm Beach County residents stayed in the saddle most of the time to turn in winning performances in what could have been called a beach rodeo. They joined 40 other persons for competition in Island Water Sports` fourth annual Morey Boogie Bodyboard Contest at the International Fishing Pier in Deerfield Beach.
It was an especially good day for West Palm Beach bodyboarders Larry Wans and Rose Guionnaud. Wans won the junior boys` division and Guionnaud won the women`s division. Kirk Cottrell, who grew up in Boca Raton and now runs the Island Water Sports businesses out of Deerfield Beach, won the men`s 30-and- over division.
The competition was a promotion for the sport. It was designed to ``turn beach people on to the sport,`` said one Morey Boogie Bodyboard representative.
``It`s fun and it`s something like surfing, but it`s not as dangerous,`` Cottrell said. ``(Bodyboards) are soft and flexible. They`re fun and inexpensive.``
A bodyboard is a smaller version of a surfboard. Bodyboarding began to grow in the late 1970s. It`s a new option for those who, like Alex Altier of Deerfield Beach, like being in the ocean but prefer not to surf.
``I love the water,`` Altier said. ``I can`t surf, but you don`t have to know how to surf to bodyboard. There`s still a lot of thrills when you catch a wave with a bodyboard.``


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LONG POND, Pa. (AP) Juan Pablo Montoya had a two-lap average of 223.871 mph Saturday at Pocono Raceway for his first carer IndyCar pole.
Driving for Team Penske in his open-wheel return after seven years in NASCAR, the Colombian knocked off Penske teammate Will Power on the final qualifying run Saturday.
Carlos Munoz joins Montoya and Power on the front row.
Montoya won a Pocono pole in NASCAR in August 2012.
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The investigation into potential misuse of the free- and reduced-price lunch program in Columbus City Schools marches on. (The internal auditor was given the go-ahead to take a look earlier this month.)
The second principal accused of improperly enrolling his children to receive lower-cost lunches, D. Christopher Scott, still is under investigation, a district spokeswoman said.
He was sent home with pay in late May pending the outcome of the investigation. No word on when the probe into the accusations against Scott will be complete. The first principal who came under fire, Kimberly N. Jones, resigned in early May.


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Kim Kardashian: Pregnant in Heels at LAX Airport!
Kim Kardashian flashes a big smile while wheeling her luggage through LAX Airport on Monday (February 18) in Los Angeles.
The 32-year-old pregnant entertainer rocked a pair of high heel boots while walking through the terminal after arriving from Nigeria.
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"Waiting for the plane to take off. Thank you for the amazing time Nigeria! I can't wait to come back soon!" Kim tweeted the day before. The next day, she added "Just landed back home! 20 hrs of flying. No big deal."
20+ pictures inside of Kim Kardashian at the airport…


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Integrating multiple control systems
Control system integration: Very few plants have one monolithic controller running everything. Instead, many have subsystems which need to be interconnected for maximum effectiveness.
When considering the control system running a process unit or an entire plant, it's easy to picture it as a single thing, one distributed control system (DCS), controlling everything. Although there is probably a DCS or large-scale programmable logic controller (PLC)/ programmable automation controller (PAC) controlling the process, there are additional control systems running smaller operations within the facility, process units, and auxiliary systems.
This kind of approach has been in use for a long time. After all, the "D" in DCS stands for distributed, which suggests control functions spread out with a high degree of autonomy but tied back to one, central place. In fact, there can be quite a few autonomous control functions, depending on the nature and overall complexity of the process itself. For example, here are a few processes and systems, each which might be monitored by the DCS but have independent control mechanisms:
- Hot water
- Chilled water
- Steam
- Fired heaters
- Power distribution
- Analyzers
- Fire and gas detection systems
- Skidded equipment (chemical injection, incinerators, etc.)
- Communications
- Water supplies (soft, filtered, reverse osmosis, water for injection)
- Clean-in-place systems
- Wastewater
- Compressed air
- Refrigeration
- Environmental
- Emergency power.
Theoretically, one DCS could control any of these, and it is possible to control every aspect of a plant from a central point. However, in most plants it isn't practical and would cause unnecessary complexity. Safety instrumented systems (SISs) would be the first thing off the list because they function independently. Similar functional considerations also influence other decisions.
Some decisions of when to break free of the DCS are based on functionality. A DCS is, at its heart, an analog system. It is designed to support control loops driven by sensors with scalar, analog output, and control scalar, analog actuated devices. It can work with discrete devices and functions, but they are not its best application. For the purposes of this discussion, discrete means a device with simple on/off functionality such as a motor starter, pressure switch, or quarter-turn valve.
Process units have many discrete control functions. Pumps have to be turned on and off, alarms may need to be activated, and so on. A DCS could handle those, but when there are many related things which must work together, it's best to split them off and control them with one or more PLCs or other controllers more suited for those operations. It may also be cheaper because DCS platforms are often priced based on the number of tags. Increasing the number of discrete tags can add to the cost without any meaningful benefit. The input/output (I/O) also tends to be more expensive in a DCS compared to a PLC. Supplementary PLCs can communicate with the DCS while controlling these local functions.
Operators in the control room will need to know what the secondary systems are doing, so the function will be incorporated into the normal control graphics, but the DCS will only be passing information and commands without performing any real-time control itself.
Safety and regulatory choices
As mentioned earlier, safety functions and systems are separated from the DCS. These fall under various regulations, but the common denominator is the need for independent functionality. If a system needs to shut down some part of the unit and move to a safe state, for example when pressure in a reactor exceeds a set limit, it must be able to execute the function regardless of what the DCS is doing and without human intervention.
In some cases, a safety function may depend on something as basic as a pressure switch sending a signal to a logic solver controlling a relief valve. The logic solver can open the valve without any assistance from the DCS or operator. It will probably send a signal to the DCS saying it has done its task and triggering an alarm, but the communication is strictly one way.
As a more complex example, a paper mill has a recovery boiler system to support the paper making process and supply steam to turbines used to generate electricity, sending the exhaust to heat paper drying rollers. The boiler has two main functional systems: combustion control to determine how much steam it's putting out, plus a burner management system (BMS) to ensure it is running properly with a stable flame and no residual unburned fuel. In this case, the primary fuel is black liquor supported by fuel oil or gas. Since steam output is a process variable based on the needs of the paper machine and the amount of power the generators are producing, it is controlled by the DCS. It tells the boiler how much steam to put out, and it does it by controlling fuel flow (black liquor) and combustion air for the necessary amount of fired heat, along with feedwater to keep up with steam output.
The BMS, on the other hand, is a more discrete function. It turns the fuel on and off. If there is a problem, it shuts down. It needs to be able to execute such a shutdown even if the DCS is calling for steam. The BMS is governed by a variety of safety regulations, including National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) regulations, which define how it has to function. The operators in the control room may not realize it, but they are working with both systems. They tell the combustion control how much steam they need. It says how much heat it is putting out, and there are two instruments (pressure and flow) on the steam output line to indicate steam production. The BMS will verify the boiler is on and has a stable flame, but that's it. The operators can probably shut the boiler down via the DCS, but they cannot interfere with the BMS safety functions.
Communication method fit for purpose
All of the subsystems have to be tied together so operators can monitor and control all the elements from one place. Even if a chemical injection skid is fully capable of working on its own, operators will want to be able to turn it on and off and know what its settings are without having to hike out to wherever it is. Nothing exists in total isolation.
The nature of the inter-system connections depends on the functionality and speed (see Figure 1). If there is a strong safety element, the subsystem will probably be hard-wired, I/O to I/O. Something less critical can communicate via Modbus or some other serial network, or increasingly, via an Ethernet protocol. Direct serial links are being replaced by more conventional Ethernet networking strategies as IT practices move onto the plant floor.
Larger networks are particularly useful where a subsystem has to connect to multiple DCS platforms, such as where a plant utility might have to serve more than one process unit. The subsystem has to be sophisticated enough to balance those demands and adjust itself accordingly. A steam boiler serving two or three continuous process units may find its output fairly constant, whereas multiple batch processes operating simultaneously could call for drastically different volumes as they move through production phases.
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Are y'all ready for Thanksgiving? We're doing Thanksgiving in LA this year with one side of my husband's family. I'm really excited to walk away from this whole house selling thing. If there's a worse time of year to sell a house than the week before Thanksgiving, please, let me know. I could really use a California vacation. I'm positively giddy to return to the state in which I left part of my heart. We are flying through LAX, so, please, prayers. Once we get there, I will begin full-on Thanksgiving planning mode. I'm the self-appointed head chef for Thanksgiving dinner, but luckily, Brian's Stepmom is a stellar cook.
I plan on roasting a turkey breast because there's only a handful of us. I will be making these trashy sweet potatoes, my Mom's killer cornbread dressing recipe, a warm brussel sprout salad with bacon, bleu and kamut, and cranberry sauce. And since it's California, his Grandma will probably insist on some type of salad on the side. Good thinkin', Grandma!
And for dessert? Oh, what won't we have for dessert?! I'm a big believer in a dessert buffet for holidays. I plan on making these two-bite pumpkin pies as part of the dessert table. You don't have to make my crust, but if you do, you will be rewarded with the flakiest, most butter-rific crust ever. You could use one sheet of store-bought roll-out crust for these. But then you'd miss this:
Since it's the season of giving, I'd like to offer you TWO giveaways today. There will be two more giveaways later this week, too, so stay tuned! These giveaways are so good that I want to win my own giveaway!
First up is a prize pack full of fun baking supplies, Cabot cheese and King Arthur flour. Enter here:
The second prize pack is for a fabulous Wusthof knife set plus Anolon cookware set. Wouldn't these be great to cook with during the holidays?
Best of luck! And stay tuned for more giveaways throughout the week!
And finally, the recipe for these mini pumpkin pies made in muffin cups:
- 3 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, diced
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cold shortening, diced
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- 1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- pinch of ground cloves
- pinch of salt
- 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoons canned pumpkin puree
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg beaten (for brushing on pie crust)
- In a medium bowl, combine the butter, shortening, flour and salt. Blend the butter and shortening into the flour using your fingertips. Pinch the dough through your fingertips for the flakiest results. When the fats are evenly distributed, sprinkle the cold water on top. Stir the dough together with a fork. It may need more water, but try not err on the dry side.
- Bring the dough together into a ball, press it into a disk, then wrap and refrigerate it for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400.
- Stir together all filling ingredients (only use 1 egg) with a whisk. Set aside.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and flour a work surface. Roll the dough out to a rough 9" circle, using more flour as needed to prevent sticking.
- Use a 4" round cookie cutter to cut out 4 round pieces of dough. Fit each dough circle into cups on a muffin pan. You can flute the edges with your fingertips. (I used excess dough to make the feather shapes on top of the dough).
- Divide the filling mixture between the cups. Brush the beaten egg on the pie dough edges and feather cut-outs (if using).
- Bake for 10 minutes, then turn the oven down to 325 for another 10 minutes.
- Let mini pies cool in pan completely before removing. You may need to run a knife around the edges of the pies to pop them out of the muffin pan.
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Erin from Texanerin Baking made Dulce de Leche Apple Streusel Bars
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Katrina from In Katrina's Kitchen made Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins
Sally from Sally's Baking Addiction made Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Mini Cheesecakes
Tracey from Tracey's Culinary Adventures made Butternut Squash, Apple and Potato Gratin with Cheddar Crumb Topping
Georgia from The Comfort of Cooking made Spiced Caramel-Apple Crumb Bars
Rachel from Rachel Cooks made Brussels Sprout Salad with Apples and Cranberries
Kate from Diethood made Sweet Potato Shepherds Pie
Gina from Running to the Kitchen made Green Beans with Cranberries, Bacon, & Goat Cheese
Carla from Carla's Confections made Spinach Mashed Potatoes
Carolyn from All Day I Dream About Food made Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars
Liz from The Lemon Bowl made Pumpkin Cheesecake with Gingersnap Crust
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One of the six churches which had their buildings confiscated on the direct orders of President Erdogan's cabinet, as Barnabas Fund reported last year, is suing the Turkish government. The Surp Giragos Church in Diyarbakir, the largest Armenian Church in the Middle East, was seized by the Turkish government last year and is currently being used as an army base. The church has enormous emotional and historical significance because the area was at the centre of the Armenian genocide, during which the church's bell tower was destroyed by artillery fire when the Ottoman Turkish army fired on the Christians in 1915. The church was then seized by the Turkish government and remained in ruins until it was restored and reopened for worship in 2011, with the support of the Kurdish-administered Diyarbakir municipality.
This support was significant, as much of the Armenian genocide was carried out by Kurdish irregular forces acting on the orders of the Turkish government. However, while the Kurdish local government has begun to address the past and live in peace with Christians, the Turkish government still threatens to prosecute anyone who even mentions the Armenian genocide. The Turkish government now seems to be taking the same approach to anyone who reports on its seizure of churches. A few weeks ago, the Turkish government issued a decree shutting down a local newspaper that had reported on the seizure of property and treatment of Christians in the areas.
The Turkish government must decide whether it wants to be part of the world that respects the rule of law, freedom of religion and other human rights. At the moment, its actions are awakening fear and uncomfortable echoes of the past for Turkey's Christians, who prior to the Armenian genocide constituted 22% of its population and now make up a mere 0.2%.


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An unbearable burden on human conscience
Thousands of demonstrators marched on the streets in almost every capital and major city in the five continents, from Japan in the east to US in the west, and from Europe to South Africa. Even, the king of Sweden and his wife abandoned the inherited pomp of monarchies and walked in the street wearing Palestinian keffiyah to show solidarity with Gaza. Why was the world united against Israel?
We might find some answers in Israeli writer Ari Shavit's article titled 'How will Israel deal with Hamas' secret weapon?', published on August 7 in Haaretz newspaper: "In the July war, Hamas fired 3,356 rockets at Israel, some of them short range, some long range, some medium range. But the most dangerous rocket Hamas launched in Operation Protective Edge was the 3,357th one.
This invisible rocket was intercontinental. It struck hard at Israel's most important support bases in five continents. It reached every home in America, caused huge damage in every single country in Europe and it's lethal explosives reached South America and Asia and [the] Indian sub-continent also."
The conclusion for Shavit is obvious: "Hamas... [created] a shameful image for the State of Israel, in the eyes of billions of people around the world... It seems that Hamas will not launch anymore rockets at Ashkelon and Ashdod, but will use its secret missile to try to make us other than what we are, to make us [apartheid] South Africa."
Such facts, which Shavit wrote about, are just a renewed realisation that dawns on Israelis in historic moments such as the recent aggression against Gaza. Back in 1987 when the first Palestinian uprising erupted, Israeli commentators wrote that the uprising had erased the so-called 'Green Line' separating the territories occupied in 1967 and the 1948 territories. Such existential obsessions emerge only in times when the fundamental reality of Israel becomes unavoidable: an occupier state, robbing continuously the land of another people and massacring them continuously. This is the glaring truth, which is in contrast to the image of a people who suffered the Holocaust.
In other words, those existential obsessions take the story to its beginning point: how this state was founded and how the international community gave a group of people the right to displace another people and occupy their homeland and disperse them. Thus, such existential obsessions come to the fore when the international community tries to turn a blind eye to the forgotten meaning of that decision: "a permission to kill the Palestinian people and uproot them from their homeland".
This understanding went deep in the collective consciousness of the Israelis. This led to them coining one definition of victory: the number of their victims. No wonder all of Israel's aggressions against Palestinians over the decades of this conflict always increased numbers of Palestinian victims. Politically, this understanding embodies a single goal: Palestinians must always be defeated and remain losers.
The July-August aggression and the ceasefire talks in Cairo that followed, illustrate this understanding very clearly. There were more than 2,100 Palestinian victims, mostly children and civilians. And in the truce talks, there would be no waivering. The blockade of is set to Gaza continue, and the most basic requirements of life — like food and medicine — are, for the most part, forbidden. In other words, Palestinians have to remain losers even when it comes to the simple requirements of life.
The history of Israel is moving along two inseparable lines, massacres and the absolute rejection of any political concession of any kind. It is unfortunate that the world needs a bloody reminder — such as the aggression against Gaza — from time to time to remember that Israel has not implemented UN resolutions since 1947, except half of resolution 181, which led to its inception. It ignored the other half, which provides for the establishment of a state for the Palestinians.
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Negotiations lasted 20 years since 1994 without any progress except mounting desperation among Palestinians, and that's the most accurate living embodiment of Israel's strategic goal since 1993: preventing any path for the growth of a Palestinian state. But in Gaza, it's not about the conditions of statehood and negotiations on the demarcation of borders. It is about the right of the Palestinian population in the Strip to get the minimum requirements for living.
The world was united against Israel in a rare consensus not because of the unbearable scenes of dead Palestinian children but due to the fact that Israeli actions represent an unbearable burden on the human conscience. Some of the weight of this unbearable burden is borne by Israelis themselves.
It's a society in deep crisis, ethically and politically. This is not an Arab writer like me is saying it, but six Israeli men. And they are not just ordinary men; they are six former heads of the Israeli domestic intelligence service Shin Bet — one of the dirtiest Israeli intelligence organisations. In a documentary film directed by Dror Moreh and screened in 2013, these former intelligence officials admit that Israel conceded defeat, politically and ethically, by occupying the West Bank and Gaza and call for peace with Palestinians.
In a burdened conscience testimony, Abraham Shalom one of those six men says: "Our hearts became cruel and we became like ferocious beasts towards Palestinians under the pretext of combating terrorism."
It's time to get rid of this burden. "It's time for the world to do what it did it the case of apartheid South Africa: boycotts, divestment and sanctions.
Mohammad Fadhel is a Bahraini writer and Media consultant at "b'huth" (Dubai).


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Football: Players to watch in 2010
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Local Running Stores and Barefoot Running
I get a fair number of questions regarding the issue of the local running stores and minimalist shoes. Some carry a wide selection of minimalist shoes, offer clinics teaching good running form, teach their staff about the fundamentals of good running form, and even support us barefoot running hippies. Playmakers in Okemos, Michigan and ZombieRunner in Palo Alto, California are good examples.
Others take more of a middle ground approach. They may carry some minimalist shoes, but don't really do much to sell them or educate the consumer.
Finally, some take a pretty strong "heel striking is the only right way to run and the rest of you guys are idiots" approach. I hear The Running Room chain of stores fits this category. 😉
As I mentioned in my last post, the minimalist shoe market is expanding rapidly. It has become abundantly clear this movement isn't a fad or a trend, it is a paradigm shift in how we think about running.
Those running stores that pick up on this trend will prosper, especially as more and more companies enter the market. The running stores that keep their heads in the sand will suffer mightily. They may stick by their guns, but they will be dominated by the forward-thinking competition.
I do what I can to help stores that are embracing the minimalist movement. I shop at their stores instead of the big box sporting goods stores. I offer to hold clinics. I do what I can to promote their store, their events, and even their sales. In short, I want to do what I can to make sure they succeed. They give to the running community; this is my way to repay them.
So what about those stores that universally reject barefoot and minimalism? I don't support them in any way, though I am still pleasant. Essentially I keep a friendly channel of communication open in preparation for the day when they finally come around. When this happens, I happily offer them all the same stuff I offer the other stores, including my business.
Can we do something to help persuade them?
Of course!
I always tell all my barefoot and minimalist shoe friends to send emails and make phone calls. Find the owner or manager of your local stores and contact them. Ask if they offer any clinics that teach barefoot running, POSE, ChiRunning, Good Form Running, or any other natural running form. If you feel confident in your own knowledge, offer to help conduct clinics. Ask them if they carry your favorite brands of minimalist shoes.
These communications will help convince them there is a legitimate market for these services and products. We're great at communicating with each other online, but not always so great at communicating with the people in our local running communities. Little things like this can make a huge difference.
What about your area? Do you have any local running stores that are especially supportive? How about stores that are openly hostile? Have you tried engaging them in discussions yet? Leave your story in the comments!


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There is a broad acceptance in the content, content distribution and consumer electronics industries that the addition of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wider Colour Gamut (WCG) will be the enabler for mass market sales of the next generation Ultra-HD displays and equipment.
Two trade associations, the UHD Alliance and the UHD Forum representing members from the entire ecosystem have started to promote HDR/WCG images to the home. The Blu-ray Disk Association has also announced a new generation of UltraHD discs and players that incorporate HDR/WCG technologies.
Nonetheless for many years hence, legacy receivers, including tablet devices, will comprise the majority of the receiver installed base. To ensure a smooth transition between today's television standards and tomorrow's, a new transmission system should offer backwards compatibility with today's television standards whilst also providing full quality for the next generation HDR/WCG televisions.
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A Compound Content transmission system would allow two or more qualities or grades of content to be sent simultaneously and permits the intelligent reconstruction of one or more of these qualities or grades in the receiver without compromising the intent of the other.
Any High Dynamic Range (HDR) / Wider Colour Gamut (WCG) transmission solution must take into account the diverse needs of the content creation industry, the work currently being undertaken in the ITU-R and SMPTE regarding new HDR/WCG production technologies, the complexity of any solution in silicon and the quality of the signals to be delivered through DVB or ATSC based systems to both legacy devices and HDR/WCG devices.
Industry Specification Group (ISG) CCM defines and specifies the additional functionality required in consumer devices to enable the accurate recreation of both today's television signal and the HDR/WCG signal from content created using the production techniques under development in SMPTE.
Given the requirement to achieve backwards compatibility with existing receivers, some additional technology will be required in the next generation of HDR/WCG receivers to accurately recreate the HDR/WCG signal. This group will specify the technology needed and ensure that the creative intent embedded into both legacy and HDR/WCG content is preserved and propagated through the appropriate interfaces.
When will CCM deliver?
The planned date for completion of the work of the ISG CCM is about 9 months from the kick-off meeting. This timescale is required to meet market needs in this fast moving area. Due to significant industry interest concerning HDR/WCG systems, the ISG CCM intends to provide information on both technology and progress to significant external industry standards bodies such as ATSC and DVB.
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It seems as if everyone who kept sensitive files secure did it with TrueCrypt. Edward Snowden depended on it. So did I.
But now that the popular disk-encryption app is effectively dead — at least for the foreseeable future — it's time to look for a replacement.
In last week's (June 12) Top Story, "The life and untimely demise of TrueCrypt," Susan Bradley reviewed the application's history and stated, "It's a mystery that we gave TrueCrypt such an extraordinary level of trust. It had dubious legal foundations, its developers were unknown, and its support was primarily relegated to forums that are now missing."
In this follow-up article, I'll discuss my own approach to protecting sensitive files, and I'll explain why I — unlike Susan — typically don't recommend Microsoft's BitLocker. I will recommend two file-encryption programs that might take TrueCrypt's place.
How safe is safe enough — and for what?
Let's use your home as an analogy. You probably keep your front door locked — at least at night and when you're away. You might have an alarm system or even bars on the windows. But your security system most likely doesn't match those used by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Why? Well, for one thing, you can't afford it. But mostly, it would be overkill. Few of us have anything in our homes that would attract the sort of professional thieves who might steal a Van Gogh.
To a large extent, the same rules apply to data. It takes a lot of time and skill to crack encryption, and most criminals are looking for an easy score. Even the NSA, which has the ability to crack all but the best encryption, probably won't bother. It might soak up everyone's cellphone metadata because that's relatively easy. But it reserves the hard work for the few people of interest.


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Project Connect Niagara aims to make a positive impact on the community by bringing together a wide range of agencies to provide access to free services and resources, including housing, employment, government benefits, veterans benefits, legal services, medical and dental care, haircuts, public benefits screenings, financial services and family services.
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Sony Mobile and Red Bull: a ground breaking partnership
Red Bull Media House's awesome new riding film has been released in partnership with Sony Xperia Z5 Premium…| November 13th, 2015
The Xperia Z5 Premium story is all about its amazing 4k smartphone technology.
We recognised the opportunity to bring this 4k story to life in a credible and inspiring way that Sony could apply right through the line from traditional ATL to POS.
Sony Xperia Z5 Premium are Red Bull Media House's first ever commercial partners. Our sponsorship of Kaleidoscope is the gateway to an extraordinarily integrated partnership designed to prove the superiority of the Xperia Z5 Premium in action, including branded content creation, product placement, social, advertorials, talent endorsement and extensive licensing rights across point of sale and OOH.
The project has been wholly embraced by the Sony cross agency team as it is the first of its kind – this has resulted in some excellent work which we are all really proud of.
Shot by Ridley Scott & Associates, and combined with behind the scenes imagery shot on the Xperia Z5 Premium itself, the result is a visually arresting piece which illustrates why Red Bull Media House have such a mass of organic followers. The production values are incredible throughout and the three minute film (together with our supporting Sony content) is set for big things.
The star of the film, Kriss Kyle, is now the proud owner and advocate of the Z5 Premium and has been integral in social campaigns leading up to the launch.
The branded content consists of four bespoke Sony videos – 'Through the lens of Kaleidoscope' – showcasing the four key features of the Xperia Z5 Premium. These videos are centred around the tricks in the main Kaleidoscope film and incorporate the phone into the content in a credible and authentic way that really offers exciting added value to the viewers.
The branded content sits alongside the hero film on the microsite which is testament to its strong editorial quality. Xperia Z5 have also used a shot from the film as their key visual for the overall Z5 premium campaign. As we negotiated an extensive rights package for Sony with Red Bull, the image will be prevalent across 1,650 retail stores nationally. We also secured above the line rights and subsequently the imagery is being used for a large out of home campaign for Z5 premium.
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Family of the man who killed Sgt. Wilson speaks out
The family of the man who killed Sergeant Michael Wilson last week in Port Charlotte is speaking out exclusively with us. Sergeant Wilson was on his way to break up a domestic dispute at the Lakes of Tuscana Apartment Homes when he was shot by Jay Vanko.
The Vanko's have decided to move out of the neighborhood. They say they're shocked, confused and hurting for the Wilson family and what happened that night "affected them and the entire community forever."
After Sergeant Wilson's service this weekend, the Vanko's said, "At first we wanted to go, but didn't want it to be perceived like we were intruding or being disrespectful in any way."
They described the fight that led Wilson to the apartment as an "isolated incident," not giving any details about what led up to the domestic dispute call. They did say "we are a private family, but don't have anything to hide" and that Jay Vanko was "never physically abusive in the past."
But we found back in June, the Vanko's son called 911 because the couple was fighting. The family did not want to talk about that incident today.
It was clear they loved Jay Vanko, but are distraught and saddened by what happened.


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With college football reaching its maxim headed into the week of Thanksgiving, I think it's an appropriate time to ask which schools have the best and worst mascots. My criteria are simple: does it look good, does it make sense, and is it synonymous with the team and university. So without further ado, I present to you the five best and worst college mascots – we begin with the bottom five.
5. Big Red – Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers
It's big and it's red and it looks like a severely obese Elmo. I have no idea as to how an amorphous red blob relates to a Hilltopper (for that matter what the heck is a Hilltopper anyway?). The best I can gather is that the red blob comes from the fact that famed basketball coach Edgar Diddle got upset about people taking athletic towels, so to put an end to it, he commissioned red towels for all athletes. The red towel became his trademark and he was rarely spotted roaming the sideline without it. Thus, Big Red came to symbolize, in some form, the importance of the color red to WKU…..what?
4. Goldy Gopher – University of Minnesota Golden Gophers
All I can think about when I see Goldy Gopher is the gopher from Caddy Shack. However, this gopher is not "alright." Does the state of Minnesota even have gophers? And how do they not freeze to death in the winter? Have you been to Minnesota in the winter? They have ICE FISHING there for god's sake! And why are they golden? Last time I checked, gophers are brown, unless the ones in Minnesota are using L'Oreal hair coloring. (Sold at Walgreens for $8.99) Don't fret Gopher fans, there's hope for you yet. I will agree to remove you from the list if you officially adopt dramatic gopher as your new mascot.
3. Captain Cane – University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane
Captain Cane is just turrible, as Charles Barkley would say. Surprisingly, though, this manifestation of Captain Cane is a major upgrade from the former version of the mascot, which looked like an anthropomorphized Bugle (the snack, not the instrument). However, the current version looks like a reject straight out of central casting for Disney/Pixar. What is a Golden Hurricane? The story goes that the football coach wanted to name the team Golden Tornadoes (appropriate, given the team is located in the Dust Bowl and Tornado Alley) but Georgia Tech was using the name at the time, so they settled for Golden Hurricane – see what happens when you settle, kids? You end up looking like a superhero reject.
2. Pistol Pete – New Mexico State University Aggies, Oklahoma State University and University of Wyoming – Cowboys
The tale of Pistol Pete is a bizarre one at best. Not one, not two, but THREE schools share the same name for their mascot. What, no one wanted to take Billy the Kid? Oklahoma State's version may be the scariest mascot in all of sportsdom – this guy has a look in his eye like he could snap on us at any moment. He's definitely the type that you avoid walking into the bathroom with at your typical interstate rest area, although the last time we saw Wyoming Pistol Pete he was seen trying to put some moves on President Obama! As for New Mexico State Pistol Pete, he's still trying to grow his mustache in. I think it's time for these three to meet up at the OK Corral and settle this thing. Otherwise it's like three girls showing up to prom in the same dress.
1. The Stanford Tree – Stanford University Cardinal
As if there was ever any doubt about what the worst mascot in all of college sports is. The Stanford Tree was born out of controversy (and perhaps an acid trip) over the adoption of a new nickname and mascot after the university removed its Indian moniker. The Tree is selected by the Tree Selection Committee during Tree Week at Stanford, which resembles something of a cross between Jackass and a reality TV game show. Nevertheless, even Admiral Akbar as the Ole Miss Rebels mascot would have made more sense than this (Probably would have looked better too).


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source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14988/info Merak Mail Server is affected by an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability. This issue arises due to an input validation error allowing an attacker to delete files in the context of the Web server running the application. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause a denial of service condition due to data corruption. Merak Mail Server version 8.2.4r is affected by this vulnerability. http://www.example.com:32000/mail/logout.html?id=[relative path] http://www.example.com:32000/mail/logout.html?id=[relative path]%00blabla
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HYDERABAD: The fourth day of the consecutive day. There was a war between the opposition and the Opposition in Telangana. Power supply their contracts continue to fade. The martyrs' stable in front of the assembly was the venue for these challenges. Revanth Reddy, who announced that he was willing to give an explanation on the challenges of the ruling TRS party leaders came to Gun Park. However, TRS party leaders did not attend. Talking to the media here, he said that the Chief Minister of KCR was strangled by the TRS leaders.
Revanth Reddy reiterated that the corruption of the state government was behind corruption. On the allocation of power during the state wins, the surplus has now become possible with the projects undertaken by the Congress. Revant Reddy said that the TRS leaders threw up the challenge of challenging the power of light and corruption. `TRS Sawal's reception now got to Gun Park. TRS had gone back for about twenty four hours. Can I match my loyalty? Revanth Reddy said, "I have revealed KCR, who got the Polavaram contracts,
Revanth announced that he was willing to speak the facts. 'The martyrs' families - in the Osmania University I go ... will come to KCR? If the credibility is to come to KCR. Then what is the credibility? Sonia is aware of the KCR's credibility with the eyes of the son of Telangana, "Revanth said, "We have to face the debate about theft," the government said. Why do BHL do not say 30400 crore works without calling the tender. KCR works for BNAMs with BHEL. With this decision, Genco had a loss of $ 5 billion. Would the Minister be responsible for this loss ??


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A group of student friends and I were discussing some tools to help with a dissertation project over drinks one night recently. I decided that it would be a good idea to blog some lessons of experience from doing my dissertation, so that others may have an easier ride. While the university did provide some guidance specifically for the dissertation, a lot of it was basic and generic and not hugely actionable. Further than that, some of the practices and techniques that I had to learn and then employ in doing the dissertation were only lightly covered in classes.
It should be noted that this advice is aimed mostly at management science students doing social science dissertations.
The first thing to do is to read a book like Business Research by Collis and Hussey to get a good grounding in the undertaking of research in the social science arena. This book goes through the theory of research paradigms and methodologies but also includes advice on the more practical side like organizing surveys, conducting interviews, what software to get, etc.
I found it useful to access more learning materials pertaining to my chosen methodology. For example, because I was conducting exploratory research from interviews, I watched several lectures from the University of Huddersfield's Graham Gibbs to gain a better understanding of Grounded Theory. I also read various texts on Grounded Theory and this helped me structure in my mind how the research was going to be conducted.
Once you start to make head or tail of how you might go about conducting the research, you can start reading the relevant literature on your topic. I found it very useful to create a spreadsheet listing the name of the paper, authors, rating out of 10 (how useful/relevant/interesting it was) and key takeaways. This is going to come in very handy later on when you've totally lost track of what concepts you've read where, and you have to trace certain ideas back to their source papers in order to substantiate your own observations in your dissertation writing. I used a Google Spreadsheet.
I also found it useful to use a software tool called Dropbox. Dropbox makes a folder on your computer sync with any other computers/mobiles/tablets on which you've also installed Dropbox. This is handy for searching for research papers and saving copies when on a computer, but leaving the reading of those papers for somewhere more comfortable like an iPad. Dropbox also stores copies of all your files in the cloud, so nothing is ever lost.
If you are doing qualitative research, you will probably find NVIVO to be your main tool of choice. This application lets you input a number of data sources (for example, interview transcripts) and lets you code them into categories and themes. Be sure to watch some of the numerous YouTube videos covering coding in NVIVO (and general NVIVO usage for that matter) if you intend to include this activity in your research. The latest version is NVIVO 9 and a student license is around £80, although you should have it available through the university as well. I ended up recording interviews using my iPhone, playing them back at halfspeed using Windows Media Player and transcribing-on-the-go straight into NVIVO.
When actually writing the dissertation, I found Google Documents more than sufficed. Again, stored in the cloud so it's accessible anywhere and never lost, even if your computer dies or is stolen (avoiding that nightmare dissertation situation!). I know people use more sophisticated tools like LaTeX and MS Word, but I don't understand why more people don't use Google Docs – it's simple and reliable, and all you need to use it is a browser.
One of the more important problems to solve in writing dissertations is creating a reference database. Zotero is an outstanding plugin for the Firefox browser which can automatically create reference items from popular websites supplying research papers, like Google Scholar or JSTOR. With a click of a button you can save a citation to your database, and when it comes time to create your dissertation's referencing section, it is simply a matter of a select-all and copy & paste (with a little bit of tidying up) to get your references section automatically generated for you. No more manual reference-writing!
I hope that gives you some direction and a bit of a head-start in your dissertation preparation. If you have any questions about the tools or processes mentioned above, let me know at firstname.lastname@example.com or @markgibaud.
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Gerda's serene and idyllic childhood is shattered when Nazis march into Poland on September 3, 1939. Although the Weissmanns were permitted to live for a while in the basement of their home, they were eventually separated and sent to German labor camps. Over the next few years Gerda experienced the slow, inexorable stripping away of "all but her life." By the end of the war she had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead.
Despite her horrifying experiences, Klein conveys great strength of spirit and faith in humanity. In the darkness of the camps, Gerda and her young friends manage to create a community of friendship and love. Although stripped of the essence of life, they were able to survive the barbarity of their captors. Gerda's beautifully written story gives an invaluable message to everyone. It introduces them to last century's terrible history of devastation and prejudice, yet offers them hope that the effects of hatred can be overcome.
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An extremely well written book about one young girl's life in occupied Poland, her years in SS slave labour camps, and a horrendous death march as the war is ending. One of the distinguishing features of this book is the story continues after liberation through the period of physical and mental healing. The epilogue even summarizes the next 40+ years.
Great read, about Jewish survivor of the Nazis.
Hard to believe what humans are capable of.
More entrancing than fiction's best. You realize the intricacy in mankind and the beauty in it. This is one of the best books I have ever read, and without a doubt, my favorite nonfiction & Holocaust novel.
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Tess is half a year old... She is in her prime months, and loving every second
My my does Tessa have A LOT of energy! she gets random bursts of excitement throughout the day that include but are not limited to: screaming, drooling, squealing, jumping, rocking, drooling, babbling, drooling, blubbering, laughing, sighing, drooling. Did I mention the drooling. NO? well in that case, she is A DROOL BUCKET. we are dealing with it minute by minute, but Im really trying to help her understand it isnt lady like. ;)
Tessa's full time job is sitting! When she isnt on the clock she enjoys laying on her belly, standing in the excersaucer (thanks caleb!) playing with all kinds of things (tags on soft toys and books seem to be her favorite) and EATING. She loves food so much I think she would trade in milk for food any day. But the milk must go on.... such is life.
Tessa is very meticulous with her little fingers and loves to turn pages of her books and fondle the tags (see, she is obsessed!) she grabs EVERYTHING and will hold it until it drops! for example she held the plastic stick attached to her big piano/xylophone all the way out of her room and into the hallway one day when I picked her up. This girl is STRONG.
She has been enjoying an earlier bedtime of about 5:45-6:00 lately (since she still tends to be a poor napper)
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Security Networks' 2013 forecast: even more growth
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—With revenues projected to exceed $100 million, a plan to add about 80 employees and continued expansion of its affiliate network, Security Networks is expecting 2013 to be another in a series of strong growth years, according to CEO Richard Perry.
"We're pretty excited about our prospects," Perry told Security Systems News. Perry, who also is president of the super-regional, which is based here, said he expects that in the new year, "we'll keep up our growth rate that we've had over the last several years."
He said the company, founded in 2000, has weathered the economic recession well, continuing to build its business despite the downturn.
In 2011, for example, it had 126,000 customers and $53 million in revenues. In 2012, it has 170,000 customers and Perry said in early December that, "we'll be right around $79 million to $80 million this year in revenue, and we're tracking for next year over $100 million."
And he said Security Networks plans in 2013 to add about 40 full-time employees to the 210 already at its headquarters here. "As we add additional customers throughout the country, it creates additional need for staff here in West Palm," Perry said. Among the employees added will be customer service reps and collections and accounting staff, he said.
Then, Perry said, Security Networks plans to add another 40 employees as technicians in the field or at its central station in Orlando, Fla.
In addition, the company, which has about 250 active affiliates across the nation and in Puerto Rico, has plans to add more. "We've been adding five or six new affiliates per month and we expect that to continue in the foreseeable future," Perry said. "It's sort of an average growth rate."
What is Security Networks' secret for success?
"I attribute it to the right business model at the right time," Perry said.
He continued: "Our business model is what we call an affiliate business model. Others call them dealers. We've partnered with independent companies throughout the U.S. who represent us in selling and installing alarm systems."
The company also expanded its affiliate program to Puerto Rico last year, he added.
"We establish a relationship with the customer at the point of sale and beyond that we do all the service," Perry explained. "We do all the monitoring, billing and collections, and that business model has allowed us to grow rapidly and allowed us to expand our footprint. Today we are essentially a national company. We're not in every major market in the United States, but we're in the vast majority."
He added that Security Networks doesn't compete with its affiliates because it doesn't have any company branches. Its only brick-and-mortar offices are its headquarters and central station. Perry said that has "allowed us to really stay focused on the core objective, which is really supporting our affiliates and helping them grow their businesses. We've created a very strong CRM [customer relationship management] platform designed to help them run their business and get funded quickly by us."
The company also has a "hyper-focus" on training its employees, he said. Security Networks has created what it calls SN University and recently hired a training director "to be the quarterback for all the training companywide and consolidate it into a more formal process," Perry said.
"Even though we're growing rapidly and now adding customers, we're trying to maintain that small company feel when it comes to our customers," he said. "They get immediate service from people who are well-trained and pleasant. We want to exceed [customers'] expectations whenever we're interacting with them."
Security Networks, owned by Oak Hill Capital, this spring extended its credit facility by $100 million, bringing its total to $250 million. Perry told SSN: "We're still operating within that deal and we expect we're going to be fine with respect to our capital structure for at least another year or year and a half."


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The Interflour Group, owned by Indonesian billionaire Anthony Salim, has purchased a flour mill in Da Nang with the aim of expanding its network of mills in Southeast Asia.
According to Mr. Greg Harvey, CEO of the Interflour Group, the Da Nang facility is relatively small with a production capacity of 220 tons a day but is an important part of the Group's plans to become one of the world's five largest flour millers by 2018.
There was also capacity to expand on the 3 ha site, he added, which is close to a port. Interflour will use barges to transport wheat to Da Nang from its port facilities at Cai Mep near Ho Chi Minh City, which include the largest mill in Vietnam and a malt plant set to start production early in 2017.
Although the value of the buy was not officially disclosed, industry rivals believe Foodinco may have sold the mill for a bargain $4 million.
Interflour ranks about 15th on the list of the world's largest flour millers. Its aim is to crash into the Top 5 by boosting production to 10,000 tons a day.


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Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc. (SPB - Free Report) began fiscal 2014 on a positive note, recording a 39.7% rise in its first-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.09 per share. Quarterly earnings also surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.02. The global consumer discretionary products company's bottom-line results mainly benefited from top-line growth and improved margins.
Including certain one-time items for both the periods, the company reported earnings of $1.03 per share compared with a loss per share of 26 cents in the year-ago comparable quarter.
Consolidated net sales for the quarter came in at $1,100.6 million, up 26.5% from the year-ago comparable period of $870.3 million. The sales growth was primarily driven by the Hardware & Home Improvement (HHI) acquisition in Dec 2012. Moreover, Spectrum Brands' net sales beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1,075.0 million. Further, assuming that the HHI business was with the company in the prior year's first quarter (pro-forma basis), net sales would have increased 3.6% including the negative impact of foreign exchange.
The company's adjusted earnings before interests, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) increased 36.8% year over year to $178.8 million. However, on a pro-forma basis (including the impact of the HHI acquisition in the prior-year period) Spectrum Brands' adjusted EBITDA rose 11.4% year over year, while as a percentage of sales it improved 110 basis points to 16.2%.
Segment Detail
Sales at Spectrum Brands' Global Batteries & Appliances segment came in at $659.3 million, down 1% from the year-ago quarter figure of $666.0 million, as lower battery and small appliances sales more than offset the benefit of increased personal care sales. The segment's adjusted EBITDA came in at $114.2 million versus $110.7 million in the year-ago quarter.
The company's Global Pet Supplies segment sales totaled $129.1 million, down from the year-ago comparable quarter figure of $139.8 million primarily due to weak sales at its both categories: North American and European aquatics and companion animal. The categories sales were negatively impacted by the shorter Christmas selling period and reduced inventory. Adjusted EBITDA of the segment came in at $20.4 million compared with $23.1 million in the year-ago period. The fall was due to weak top-line performance and unfavorable product mix, which were partially offset by effective cost management.
Sales at the Home & Garden segment increased 10.8% year over year to $33.8 million primarily due to increased demand for lawn and garden controls product category. The segment reported its first ever positive adjusted EBITDA of $1.7 million as against a loss of $1.4 million in the year-ago comparable period primarily driven by higher volumes, improved product mix and effective cost management.
On a pro-forma basis, Spectrum Brands' HHI segment sales increased 23.3% to $278.4 million primarily driven by robust performance at its U.S. residential security, builder's hardware and plumbing businesses. The segment's adjusted EBITDA of $49.6 million was up 48.1% from the year-ago figure of $33.5 million.
Other Financial Details
Spectrum Brands ended the quarter with a cash and cash equivalents of $131.8 million and a total debt of $3,366.3 million. During fiscal 2014, the company expects to generate a free cash flow of at least $350 million and intends to make capital expenditure in the range of $70–$75 million. Furthermore, in the second half of fiscal 2014, Spectrum Brands projects a reduction of its debt by approximately $250 million.
In a separate news bulletin, the company announced a quarterly cash dividend of 30 cents per share payable on Mar 18, 2014 to shareholders of record on Feb 19, 2014. The new dividend marks a hike of 20% from the previous payout of 25 cents.
Fiscal 2014 Outlook
Including the HHI acquisition in the prior-year period on a pro-forma basis, Spectrum Brands expects net sales for fiscal 2014 to grow at the rate of GDP compared with fiscal 2013 net sales.
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Here is another video I made that shows you how to create a stunning UIProgressView for your app.
The progress view is useful in showing intermediate states for your app. For example, when you are downloading content and want to show the progress.
Here is how to go beyond the standard Progress view and get a totally custom one just like the one we have in our Fitpulse template
You can download the sample XCode Project here.
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Jones Lang LaSalle reaction to second rate tightening
London, 7 July 2011 – As widely expected, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) today raised the main refinancing (refi) rate by 25 bps to 1.50 percent, its second hike in official rates this year.
Grant Fitzner, Head of EMEA Research at Jones Lang LaSalle, commented: "Although today's increase was expected, the challenge now for the ECB is whether it should continue to steadily tighten rates while other major central banks, such as the Federal Reserve and Bank of England, are content to leave official rates unchanged at historical lows."
"President Trichet softened the Bank's hawkish rhetoric at today's press conference, noting that its monetary policy stance "remains accommodative", but "uncertainty remains elevated". With core inflation steady at 1.5 percent, business and consumer price expectations easing, and a broad-based slowdown in Euro area growth, there is now a strong case for an ECB rates pause."
"With a gradual tightening in Euro area rates widely anticipated, today's move will have minimal impact on European property markets. After a solid recovery in 2010, the European commercial real estate market posted further improvements in gross returns in H1 2011, reflecting lower yields and higher rentals. There is scope for more modest gains in selected markets in the second half of the year."
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6 Plus battery supply is limited, but other models are still mostly on schedule. When Reddit users and a Geekbench developer discovered and shared that Apple's approach to mitigating the aging of batteries is partly responsible for the gradual performance degradation that iPhone users have sometimes experienced, Apple made an effort to explain its choices. The company promised to add software features to give users "more visibility into the health of their iPhones battery" and offered a discounted battery replacement program: new batteries for affected devices will be just $29 through the end of 2018. That means users could reclaim some of that performance. However, an Apple Store memo obtained by MacRumors suggests that owners of the iPhone 6 Plus in some regions (including the US) will have to wait until March or April to replace their batteries. According to MacRumors' report, Apple believes its supply of batteries for these devices will not meet demand in the beginning of the year. Other models are not expected to see such significant delays. For example, the iPhone 6 and 6S Plus are expected to take around two weeks to become available to customers who purchase them, and batteries for all other affected iPhone models should have a quick turnaround time. The revelation that Apple deployed software updates to throttle performance on some iPhones in order to maintain battery life as the battery degrades angered many consumers. They suspected Apple had done so to deliberately shorten the life of devices to encourage upgrades. Lawsuits and government questioning arose. Apple denied this consumer suspicion, saying: First and foremost, we have never—and would never—do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades. In addition to offering discounted battery upgrades and promising a software upgrade to add more transparency to its approach, Apple said it will provide batteries at the discounted rate even if the batteries to be replaced appear healthy in its Genius Bar tests. iPhone owners have until December 31, 2018 to upgrade their batteries at the reduced cost. After that, the cost will return to $79. So even with the delay, there's plenty of time. But if your iPhone 6 Plus is running slowly, you'll have to deal with it a little bit longer.
When Apple promised to replace old iPhone batteries for $29 after its slowdown debacle, there was always going to be a queue for new parts. Well, for owners of the iPhone 6 Plus, the queue will likely be a bit longer than expected. According to internal documents seen by MacRumors, Apple wont have batteries in stock for the 2014 device until late March to early April. Wait times for replacement batteries have understandably fluctuated as Apple adapts to this unexpected increase in demand. When the $29 replacement offer was first made in December, the company said the batteries would be available in late January, before updating that timeframe later in the month to available right away. Now, in an internal document distributed to Apple stores and authorized service providers, we have the latest estimates for wait times. As per MacRumors write-up, that means approximately two weeks for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s Plus; a late March to early April date for the iPhone 6 Plus; and batteries for the iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and iPhone SE will be, in Apples own words, available without extended delays. Whatever that means. These estimates are for the US, and there are likely to be regional variations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Weve contacted Apple to try to confirm times. Apple first made the offer for $29 battery replacements last December, after benchmark tests showed significant slowdowns in old devices after they received the latest software updates. Although this finding seemed to confirm the Apple slows old iPhones meme, the company said this throttling was needed to compensate for the (unavoidable) degraded performance of old batteries. In other words, Apple decided on behalf of its customers that theyd prefer an iPhone that performed worse for the same amount of time, than an iPhone that performed just as well for a shorter amount of time. Its a decision that does nothing to dispel the characterization of Apple as a company that does what it can to push customers into buying new phones. But at least now you can get a $29 mea culpa from Apple — even if you have to wait for it.