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Cake pans for the Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Buzz Lightyear, Ariel and Lightning McQueen are made and sold by Wilton Industries, as of 2015. Wilton is a producer of cake decorating and bakeware products in the United States.
In addition to the aforementioned cake pans, Wilton Industries offers a selection of Disney character-themed bakeware products, including paper baking cups featuring Olaf, Elsa and Ann from "Frozen"; Princess Sofia from the television series "Sofia the First"; and Jake and Skully from the television series "Jake and the Never Land Pirates." These decorated baking cups are great for making cupcakes, muffins or other treats.
Wilton also makes disposable cake pans and toppers featuring Mickey Mouse, Disney princesses, Disney fairies and characters from the "Toy Story" movies. These pans allow users to bake the cake directly in the pan, frost it, and then embellish it using the themed topper as a decoration. These items are available for purchase from Wilton's website, as well as at Walmart, Target, Michaels, Hobby Lobby, and other national retail chains.
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Last week's first televised showdown drew 67m viewers and saw Mitt Romney, the gaffe-prone Republican challenger, deliver a performance that was as close to presidential as he has so far come. President Barack Obama, in turn, was bereft of ideas and offered the strong impression he would rather be somewhere else .
Romney's polished showing dodged questions, but, more than a week later, the former governor of Massachusetts is leading in three national opinion polls. The performance has left the election poised on a knife edge, but it has also left Britain's leading defence company in its own form of limbo.
For however much BAE chief executive Ian King insists it is business as usual after the collapse of his company's planned £30bn merger with EADS, that is a hard sell. BAE has spent the past month spelling out the commercial logic of being part of a bigger group, and who does big better than the Americans?
The US is the only country from which a bid for all or part of BAE would now be politically acceptable. And such an American bid is, on balance, more likely if the Republicans reclaim The White House on November 6.
This is a function of the candidates' respective plans, say analysts. In February, Obama laid out a plan to shrink the US military budget by $487bn (£303bn) over the next decade. The cuts may be modest – after all military spending has grown to about $520bn – but they're in contrast to Romney's plans as he proposes increasing spending.
The 65-year old has pledged to allocate a minimum of 4pc of US gross domestic product a year on defence. Although that is a lower ratio than under Ronald Reagan, it is more than Obama intends. As with much of the Republican's policy pledges, there are few specifics. But, for now, it is the bigger picture that matters.
Under a Romney presidency, the largest buyer of weapons in the world is going to roll-up with a wallet full of freshly minted dollar bills. That would make most defence businesses, including a major US contractor like BAE, much more enticing for would-be suitors. "Right now the main objection to doing mergers is that valuations are too high versus future prospects," says Lauren Thompson, a defence consultant at the Lexington Institute in Virginia.
America's largest defence companies have said little over the last month as BAE and EADS frantically sought to make the European politics of their tie-up work.
In a rare public comment, Jim McNerney, the boss of Boeing, said the combination of the companies would not pose a "fundamental threat". But there is little doubt that BAE has businesses US rivals would be happy to prize from its grasp. Joe Lissenden, a director at IHS Jane's, a defence research firm, says five or six companies would be interested in BAE's electronics warfare business that employs 12,000 people in America and makes gear including surveillance equipment.
BAE's intelligence and cyber warfare division, based in Virginia, could also tempt buyers as the US shifts more of its dollars towards combating the threat from terrorists.
It's enough to get BAE shareholders dreaming of a juicy bid arrowing across the Atlantic, but as with most things political, of course it's not that simple. What Romney and Obama plan to do might turn out to be altogether different from what the economic situation allows. For starters, there's the small matter of a $500bn cut to the Pentagon's budget, scheduled in for January.
The reduction is part of the 'fiscal cliff', shorthand for a series of tax rises and spending cuts due to take effect in 2013 because politicians in Washington spent the last three years failing to agree on a grown-up plan to cut the country's debt.
Congress will almost certainly avoid sending the economy over the cliff, but how the defence budget will shake out in any agreement is anyone's guess. BAE warned pm Thursday that the situation "clouds" its outlook in the US. Any potential American bidder won't leave the starting blocks until the clouds clear.
And even if Romney wins The White House, there is no guarantee he will be able to bolster the Pentagon's budget. With the US out of Iraq and withdrawing from Afghanistan, Chris Preble, a defence expert at Cato, expects military spending to fall whoever is victorious. "If I were a betting person, I would anticipate that US military spending goes down," he says.
It may be that King persuades BAE investors that the best course is for the company to remain independent, and it may be that a US bid never emerges. But it is clear that following the collapse of the EADS deal, shareholders' focus will shift across the Atlantic.
That means tuning into US politics at a time of bitter division. Next week's debate is a good place to start. A word of warning though, shareholders should not expect any clarity from the US soon.

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Elena Pacenti, Director of the Domus Academy School of Design at NewSchool of Architecture and Design (San Diego, California, USA)
Elena Pacenti is the director of the recently created Domus Academy School of Design at NewSchool. Pacenti comes from Domus Academy in Milan, Italy, which is one of the top-ranked design schools in the world. She will lead the development of new global design education programs, such as NewSchool's Bachelor of Interior Design, that prepare students for careers in international design.
Pacenti previously directed the Design School at Domus Academy in Italy, and she brings the Domus Academy emphasis on advanced design methodologies for anticipating needs and trends in a continuously evolving society. The academy has received recognition from around the world, including being nominated three times by Businessweek magazine as one of the best design schools in the world. The academy also received the prestigious Compasso d'Oro award for the quality of its academic and research approaches, and it was included in the 2012 publication of Masterclass: Product Design: Guide to the World's Leading Graduate Schools from Frame Publishers.
Pacenti brings to her new position both professional and academic expertise in design-related fields. She was director of the Domus Academy Research Center from 2002 through 2009, where she oversaw the development and coordination of design innovation research projects for the European Union and for government and private groups in Italy. In 2011, she established the Master in Service and Experience Design program at Domus Academy. Pacenti has an undergraduate degree in architecture and a Ph.D. in industrial design, both from the Politecnico di Milano. Throughout her career, she has focused on research and application of theory and practice in the areas of service and product design.
Subject Matter Expert: Fernando G. Alberti, Domus Academy (Milan, Italy)
Fernando G. Alberti is the Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness at Università Cattaneo LIUC, where he is tenured professor and coordinator of the strategy and entrepreneurship area. Since 2010 he is affiliated to the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, chaired by Prof. Michael Porter. Strategic advisor to firms and institutions, he acted as Industrial Strategist for UNIDO and the World Bank. He authored more than 100 scientific publications and his Italian blog on the strategy of small and medium sized enterprises persistently scores first in Google.
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Title Prudence Couldn't Swim (Switchblade)
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Set in Oakland, California, white ex-convict Cal Winter returns home one day to find his gorgeous, young, black wife, Prudence, drowned in the swimming pool. Prudence couldn't swim, and Cal concludes she didn't go in the water willingly. Though theirs was a marriage of convenience, he takes the murder personally. Along with his former prison inmate, Red Eye, Cal sets out to find out who did Prudence in. His convoluted and often darkly humorous journey takes him deep into the world of the sexual urges of the rich and powerful and gradually reveals the many layers of his wife's complex identity. While doing so, Cal and Red Eye must confront their own racially charged pasts that still haunt them if the killer is to be caught.
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Final Fantasy X is the first Final Fantasy game to hit the Playstation 2. The hype that has been built around Final Fantasy X is amazing, but is it really good? When I booted up the game disc which I rented from Microplay, I was excited and curious to what this game was going to be like. The opening credits came on the screen and I started the game...
No complaints here. Final Fantasy X has some of the most luscious graphics to ever grace the Playstation 2. I was astounded by some of the CG scenes and most of the time, I had my jaw dropping in awe. The non CG scenes were just as pretty too, full of colors and brightness. I was really impressed with all of the work Squaresoft did to make this game so nice looking, which is a BIG plus. The characters are so full of life, and the water looks so crisp and clear. There were a couple of slowdown spots contained in the game but that's unavoidable for a game of this multitude.
This is the aspect Final Fantasy is known for. The story. Players will not be disappointed with this story. I laughed, I was sad, I was happy, I was disappointed, I was everything. Without giving too much away, Final Fantasy X is about a boy by the name of Tidus. He plays a sport called Blitzball which is the sport of choice. An evil force known by Sin, is terrorizing cities and towns and Tidus is there to stop it, with the help of Yuna who is a summoner. What journey awaits these young heros? You'll have to play to find out. I was really impressed with the story contained in Final Fantasy X. A couple of times I found the story to be very slow, sometimes lifeless, but that all pays off with the amazing ending. Good stuff.
There is very good sound quality in the game. The voices of each character are very nicely done, and they are all clear and fluid. There was very good expression used, but I sometimes found Tidus to sound like a baby which kind of turned me off of him, but that's just a minor flaw. The in-game sounds are very good too. Birds heard off in the distance, waves crashing against the sand - it just sounds so nice. Squaresoft can always improve their sound, but I was happy enough with the sound contained in the game. Kudos to Squaresoft for making excellent character voices, especially the sound of Wakka, whom I was very impressed with.
Final Fantasy X has a "Conditional Turn Based" battle system, which is very nice. Basically, you don't have the time slot which tells you that you have the option of attacking or defending against the enemy. This is a refreshing change, but I really thought some of the battles were cluttered. It's a personal preference if you would like the ATB system - any Final Fantasy fan will feel warm, but cautious while playing. Another new addition Squaresoft has done is the "Sphere Grid" system which brings a whole new form of strategy into the game. You want Wakka to be a healer? You got it. You want Tidus to be a powerhouse? You got it. The Sphere Grid system lets you customize your characters which is a really nice addition. People new to the Sphere Grid will have some trouble in getting used to it, as I did. Otherwise, the Sphere Grid is the best new addition to the Final Fantasy series. I really enjoyed the gameplay in Final Fantasy X, but some old school gamers may not feel totally comfortable with the new features. The only thing that was really disappointing was the fact that Squaresoft didn't include the rotating camera, which would of been a REALLY nice feature for the game. I didn't have much problems with the camera but a couple of times I got ticked off.
I was very impressed with this game. I thought the new gameplay features were very satisfying and the story was captivating, setting a new stage in the Final Fantasy series. I was let down with the Blitzball mini game but there is still a degree of fun that goes along with it. Any Final Fantasy fan will love this game and even most newcomers will like this game, but there is a steep learning curve, especially with the Sphere Grid System which is sure to confuse you quite a bit while playing this amazing game.
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Rubloff, Gary W.
Research Interests
- Biomaterials and biomicrosystems (bioMEMS)
- Programmable biopolymer deposition
- BioMEMS devices, process integration, packaging, and control
- Real-time diagnostics
- Electronic materials, processes, and equipment
- Combinatorial CVD and ALD
- Atomic layer deposition
- Semiconductor materials, processing, and characterization
- Semiconductor manufacturing
- Sensing and advanced process control for widegap semiconductor growth
- Real-time chemical process sensing for metrology and advanced process control
- Simulation and optimization in dynamic process systems
- Nanoscale systems
- Nanocomponent decoration
- Directed assembly
- Teaching interests
- Electronic materials processing
- Materials science and systems applications
- Vacuum process systems for semiconductor manufacturing
- Simulation-based engineered learning systems
Dr. Rubloff has published over 160 papers, holds 19 patents and 6 IBM Invention Achievement Awards. He won the AVS Gaede-Langmuir Prize in 2000 "for inventive application of surface science and vacuum technology to the semiconductor industry, and for fostering an effective bridge between AVS research and manufacturing". This award was established 1977 to recognize and encourage outstanding discoveries and inventions in the sciences and technologies of interest to the AVS. He is a Fellow of APS and AVS. His research has included solid state physics, surface physics and chemistry, interfaces, semiconductor materials and processing science and technology, process diagnostics and modeling, manufacturing science, combinatorial materials science, biomaterials and bioMEMS. His semiconductor process research has emphasized the elucidation of chemical and physical mechanisms involved in surface cleaning, thermal oxidation, chemical vapor deposition, and plasma etching, and in pursing these directions he pioneered the exploitation of ultrahigh vacuum process environments and their integration with in-situ surface and interface diagnostics.
Dr. Rubloff received his B.A. in Physics magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1966, his M.S. in 1967 and his Ph.D. in 1971 in Physics from the University of Chicago. He held a postdoctoral position in Physics at Brown University from 1971 to 1973. In 1973 he joined IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, as a Research Staff Member in the Physical Sciences Department, were he worked on surface and interface science. In 1984-85 he served as Technical Assistant to the IBM Research Vice-President for Logic and Memory, and from 1985 to 1991 he continued his research while serving in several capacities as Manager of exploratory materials and processing in the Silicon Technology Department. From 1992-1993 he was Manager of Thin Film Process Modeling in the Manufacturing Research Department. From 1992 to 1997 he was also Professor Adjunct in Electrical Engineering at Yale University.
He joined academia in 1993 as Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Advanced Electronic Materials Processing and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, focusing on real-time process sensing, simulation, optimization, and control.
In 1996 he joined the University of Maryland as Professor in the Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research. He served as Director of the Institute from 1996 to 2001. In 2004 he was named Minta Martin Professor of Engineering and assumed the position of founding Director of the Maryland NanoCenter.
Dr. Rubloff was the founding Chairman of the AVS Manufacturing Science and Technology Group from 1992-1997 and continues to serve on its Executive Committee. He has been a member of the Metrology Technical Working Group for the SIA's National Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors since its inception in 1994. He has been active in professional society work, including the Board of Directors of the AVS, Executive Committees of the AVS Electronic Materials and Processing Division, the APS Materials Physics Division, and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology. He has long been active in civic affairs, included 11 years service as an elected Member, Vice-President, and President of a local Board of Education in New York State.


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Welcome to the forum. There are quite a few of us who have experienced exactly what you have experienced...a large weight gain while on Zoloft.
I've personally had a very large weight gain over the last 6 years. The Zoloft is great for my OCD but heck on my body. It's frustrating and I've spent many a night crying about it.
Then I read something somewhere. An author asked "If I am fat, is that the worst thing in the world I can be? Is it worse than being a liar or a cheat or a thief or something equally as bad?" That got me to thinking...My OCD is under control, I function like my old self and I carry around extra weight. While I'm still not happy about it and still feel bad about it sometimes, other times I remind myself of those questions...Is this the worse thing I can be?
Hang in there...There is support on this site. We just all have to come together and demand that the drug companies do more research and come up with a better alternative.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
I Got Your Craft Right C'here
I learned that there are nice people, and some are so insular, that they will find any way to NOT help a brutha out.
I have enjoyed these past few days, because I have discovered the who's and what not's.
I like clarity…
I got more than enough clarity from a lonnnnnng time friend.
She wasn't thrilled with me. She's a person who practices her "craft".
I get a case of the goo when people reference, "their craft."
Acting, singing, writing….Their craft. God, it drives me nuts.
I hate it when someone says, "I'm practicing my craft." You know why they do it?
It's because they do not want to admit that like me, they ARE UNEMPLOYED!!
Y'know…I give up. Some people put themselves apart and above of others. I have never done that.
When Jay and I do our somewhat stupid little Blog Talk Radio Show, I always put him first, and he does the same with me when he speaks of it.
We both have egos (although Jay will admit to none of that) but it's a simple courtesy. It's a courtesy all should share.
And today, could ya, just not say it but do it, and put someone ahead of your own lame self?
Thank You, and as always…
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I have no "craft" to practice and since I'm retired, I really can't claim I'm unemployed. Underemployed maybe and even that is a stretch.
But as for helping a brotha out, when I'm at the food store, I stop in the aisle and wonder if I could ship some of those dented cans of veggies to a starving Matt-Man. There's love, I tell ya.
- 10:43 PM, December 28, 2010
- Matt-Man said...
David: Send me your dented cans, you fool..SEND THEM!! : ) Cheers David!!
- 10:45 PM, December 28, 2010
- Mike said...
I am 'practicing my craft'. It's commenting on blogs. I make 4 sometimes 5 comments a day. Here's one down, four to go.
AND I've picked up BTR listening. There's a crazy show I listen to. It's takes about a day to work up the proper mental state to listen to it. Then it takes 2 - 3 days to get over it.
- 11:30 PM, December 28, 2010
- Jay said...
I'll be practicing my craft right after I watch some videos online right before bed.
Okay, not really.
My craft will be on display at 11 pm EST Thursday night.
Such as it is. haha
- 11:44 PM, December 28, 2010
- Jay said...
Oh and BTW, I'll totally admit to your having an ego. No problem. ;-)
- 11:45 PM, December 28, 2010
- Matt-Man said...
All the comments disappeared
- 1:16 AM, December 29, 2010
- Matt-Man said...
Mike: Ha. You are funnier than usual of late. You have been practicing your craft!! Cheers Mike!!
Jay: Ha. I love you. Cheers Jay!!
- 8:11 AM, December 29, 2010
- Raquel's World said...
Well, I will try but it sure will be hard.
- 8:30 AM, December 29, 2010
- Matt-Man said...
Raquel: Ha. Hope you had a wunnerful Christmas hot stuff, and I looove it when you use the word, "hard." Cheers Roc!!
- 8:38 AM, December 29, 2010
I hope you made it through Christmas without too much distress. No matter what you think of me these days,and I have a pretty good idea, don't think for a minute that I don't think about how your doing.
Wish you well for the new year.
- 7:10 PM, December 29, 2010
- MysteryChick said...
I hate crafts and the people who "practice" them, they're usually messy, dust collectors. Oh, you meant THAT craft. hehe.
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I'm Sorry, I love you, I'm okay, I'm done. These are words and phrases that people throw around and they never truly mean it. To me these phrases have lost their meaning unless they are proven. Words mean nothing unless you can show me; otherwise they are jus words attached to lies. I've been shown that people are extremely skilled at lying to others and themselves. Her name was Madeline, she lied not only to me but to herself every time she said she was okay or that she was fine and nothing was wrong. As time went on it became apparent that this was not the truth, if it was then she wouldn't have continued to remain so sad, she wouldn't have became as self destructive as she did, and she wouldn't have caused harm to herself the way she obviously did. Her words were nothing but something to convince herself and others that she didn't have a problem, she needed the physical evidence to support her answers. Even though she continuously said she was fine, she was okay, and that nothing was wrong: no one believed her not even herself. People also say meaningless words because they want to get away with something or they want to appear as something they aren't. Another friend taught me this. Colby had a history of heavy drinking so this was no surprise when she started again well never stopped to be more accurate. People confronted her with anger and sadness. Every time it was the same routine: Colby would confess, she would beg for forgiveness, say she was sorry, and say that she was done. She failed every time to prove it all. If she was truly sorry then she wouldn't have wound up in the same place or in the same situation everyday. If she was ever truly done then she wouldn't have to make the same apology over and over again. She wouldn't have had to hide her hangovers or make up excuses. She said she was sorry and she wasn't, she may never be because she has yet to prove it. She said she was done and considering how many times she said it showed me that she said it with no intention of stopping. These days' people say things they don't mean because they think they have to so they can get something from you. People say I love so casually and don't even consider how truthfully other people perceive it. If they really loved someone then they wouldn't have to be reminded to care. They would be willing to show them physically in front of anyone no matter who was around. People constantly say that actions speak louder than words and I couldn't agree more. I believe that words mean nothing unless you prove them, words can fall flat but if you can prove what you say then it diminishes all doubt. You better be sorry, I love you too, it's not okay, it's done.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of or relating to a function.
- adj. Of, relating to, or indicating a mathematical function or functions.
- adj. Designed for or adapted to a particular function or use: functional architecture.
- adj. Capable of performing; operative: a functional set of brakes.
- adj. Pathology Involving functions rather than a physiological or structural cause.
- n. A linear function on vectors whose values are scalars.
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- adj. In good working order.
- adj. Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function
- adj. Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture
- adj. Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
- adj. Of a disease, such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.
- n. A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function y=f(x) whose argument x varies in a space of (real valued, complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example: the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.
- n. (functional analysis) A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space
- n. An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
- adj. Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general; involving or affecting function rather than physiology. See functional disease, below.
- adj. Designed for or capable of a particular function or use.
- adj. Fit or ready for use or service; useable; in working order. Antonym of
out of orderand nonfunctional.
- adj. Designed to emphasize practical utility rather than artistic or aesthetic purposes.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to functions; relating to some office or function.
- Pertaining to an algebraical operation: as, a functional symbol.
- Having the function usual to the part or organ: as, functional wings of an insect (that is, those used for flying).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- adj. fit or ready for use or service
- adj. designed for or adapted to a function or use
- adj. involving or affecting function rather than physiology
- adj. designed for or capable of a particular function or use
- adj. relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure
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In this paper, the term functional ingredients refers to substances purported to improve bodily functioning that are added to traditional foods through a manufacturing or other process.
It is important here that I clarify how I am using the term functional in this context.
You probably noticed that the term functional programming has appeared in many areas recently - the C# 3.0 and LINQ have been largely influenced by this paradigm and many of the libraries that enable and simplify writing parallel code rely on functional ideas.
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Great teams usually perform on the big stage and that was certainly the case for Barça in the semi-final of the UEFA Futsal Cup in Lisbon against local side Sporting de Portugal. Marc Carmona's side showed great character to seal the victory in the last minute with two quick strikes to send them through to Sunday's final.
The early stages of the game were a cagey affair yet both sides had chances to take the lead. Wilde went close for the blaugranes in the second minute whilst for the home side Ferrao was a constant threat. In the end it was the Portuguese team who broke the deadlock: Sporting stole the ball in midfield and Diogo made it 1-0 after 12 minutes. However, man of the match for Barça Dyego first hit the post on the quarter of an hour mark and then levelled things up just a minute later with a well taken goal. Sporting had to deal with losing their keeper and captain Joao Benedito due to injury. Substitute Cristiano came on for the home side and was immediately forced into action, making several important saves. Nevertheless, on 25 minutes Wilde put Barça ahead before adding a second for him and a third for Barça just three minutes later.
The Portuguese side looked dead and buried but a goal from Joao Matos brought them back into it at 3-2. With just five minutes remaining they sacrificed their keeper in search of an equaliser and were rewarded with a strike from Caio to bring it back to 3-3. Ferrao had a triple opportunity to put his side in front before Sporting struck the post with just a minute left on the clock. With the game heading into extra time, Batería conjured up the decisive goal with an excellent finish to put Barça ahead. Sedano rounded off the win with a fifth for the blaugranes as Sporting desperately sought an unlikely equaliser.
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A: And thus, in a pair of simple, declarative sentences, we can sum up Game 4 of the 2014 NBA Eastern Conference finals. Well, almost. First, Bosh did what he had been doing all season, spacing the floor with his range, making sure opposing big men wouldn't dominate on the boards with his box outs. Yes, the numbers have suffered. That, to a degree, is why the Heat don't suffer the fools who only point to his statistics. The Heat win because of the way Bosh has reinvented his game. Other players would have wilted amid the criticism; Bosh, instead, worked on his shot, stepped up his game, and now is within one victory of a fourth trip to the NBA Finals in as many years with the Heat. As for Stevenson, this is about more than his war of words with LeBron James. While he has blossomed as a player, his one-on-one attacking style too often takes his teammates out of the game, contributing, at least in part, to these disappearing acts by Roy Hibbert. There was a point early in the season when I thought Lance was going to cash in big during free agency this summer. Now I'm not sure that many teams would look to build around him as a core contributor. As he stepped forward this season, an argument can be made that the Pacers regressed.
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1. Road/Street signs that could be great Band/Song Names.
Dead End Alley, Slow Road Ahead, Left Lane Ends, and of course the classic "Share the Road". (editor note…found out Dead End Alley is a band….not sure if they are any good.)
3. http://www.charliestcloud.com/ (Must see if Zac Efron is starring!!!)
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Mayor Ed Lee was correct in suspending Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi for bruising his wife's arm during a spat at the couple's home, The City's Ethics Commission ruled Thursday in a complex decision that ended with attorneys for both the mayor and the sheriff claiming their own versions of victory.
The nine-hour hearing produced a 4-1 commission vote to sustain two of the mayor's six charges of official misconduct. Mirkarimi was suspended after pleading guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment in a domestic violence case involving his wife, Eliana Lopez.
While a majority of commissioners agreed that Mirkarimi's self-admitted act of violence and his subsequent conviction constitute official misconduct, they also decided that there was not enough evidence to prove some of Lee's other charges, such as witness dissuasion and abuse of office.
Those were the subject of similarly laborious hearings over allegations that Mirkarimi used his political power to intimidate Lopez during a brewing custody battle over the couple's 3-year-old son, and that he dissuaded witnesses from coming forward about the Dec. 31 domestic violence incident.
Mirkarimi's fate now rests with the Board of Supervisors, where votes from nine of the 11 members would mean almost certain doom for his political career in The City.
The recently elected sheriff has been suspended without pay since March 20, when the mayor swiftly began the rarely used official misconduct proceedings a day after Mirkarimi's guilty plea.
City attorneys representing Lee said the commission's decision is essentially upholding the primary reasons to remove Mirkarimi and should be taken as a recommendation to supervisors that they oust him permanently. But Mirkarimi's attorneys argued that the ruling is problematic under the City Charter because the commission doesn't have discretion to sustain only portions of the official misconduct charges.
"Frankly, I'm uncertain what they decided," Mirkarimi's attorney David Waggoner said after the hearing.
Deputy City Attorney Peter Keith said he more clearly understood the decision.
"A recommendation to sustain is a recommendation to remove," Keith said.
Ethics commissioners discussed making an explicit recommendation to remove the sheriff or to rule that the official misconduct didn't rise to the level of removal. It remains unclear whether the commission will make that distinction in an upcoming meeting.
Lopez, who was present at Thursday's hearing and has been supporting her husband through the proceedings, hugged Mirkarimi after the hearing. The couple smiled and laughed at times before a throng of media and members of the public.
After the hearing, Mirkarimi described the overall affair as "Kafka-esque," and while he said he disagreed with the conclusion of the proceedings, he lauded the Ethics Commission for its attention to detail.
"I thought they were as thoughtful as one could possibly hope for," Mirkarimi said, suggesting the mayor's legal team had succeeded only in proving an illegal act that he had already admitted. "They've arrived at the very same place we were at many, many months ago."
A statement from Lee sized up the situation differently and called Thursday's decision a "powerful message" to supervisors on why Mirkarimi is "unfit to serve the people of San Francisco."
"I am pleased that the members of the Ethics Commission, following a careful review of the evidence, and in the face of a sustained campaign to distract and misdirect them from the facts, agreed with me that Ross Mirkarimi's actions constitute official misconduct and fall below the ethical conduct we expect of the sheriff, our top law enforcement officer," Lee said.
From success to scandal, Ross Mirkarimi's fortunes have taken dramatic turns in the past few months:


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Hi everyone, Here is a Suggestion for setting up your Unproto / Chat Room string. (Check your TNC manual for the correct syntax to change your unproto string.) Most unproto command are in two parts, a greeting and a call sign. The greeting section can be up to 6 characters long. The data in the greeting section can be just about anything. It will not affect the reliability of the Unproto/Chat room packet. Below are 4 examples of unproto/chat room packets. The first part is always the call sign from the original station. The second part is what I am calling the greeting section. And the last section is the call sign of the Digipeater. > W3ADO-3>APRK27,NOCALL*: <<UI>>: > VE1JH>FN66,NOCALL*: <UI>:Hi miles > WF1F>MILES,NOCALL*: <UI>: Welcome to ISS > G6LVB>CQ,NOCALL*:Hello Here wa3ado chose APRK27, which is related to aprs data? > W3ADO-3>APRK27,NOCALL*: <<UI>>: ve1jh-brent put in his Grid square FN66 > VE1JH>FN66,NOCALL*: <UI>:Hi miles wf1f miles put in his first name > WF1F>MILES,NOCALL*: <UI>: Welcome to ISS and g6lvb put in the CQ symbol > G6LVB>CQ,NOCALL*:Hello My personal suggestion, is to replace the greeting section with your first name or nick name. Putting a name in you unproto packet string is much more friendly than a software revision number or a grid square. Lets try to keep ISS Chat room fun and friendly IMHO Miles WF1F WWW.MAREX-NA.ORG ---- Via the sarex mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe sarex" to firstname.lastname@example.com
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 Welcome to weindians.net- a worldwide malayalee forum. This is a small guide to various user groups in our forum. As many of you seen various usernames with different colours and title images, so this will clear your doubts and querries. This guide will expalin each usergroups and their benefits and powers.

 <color="red">1.Adminstrators-</color="red"> These are the members of forum who administer the website like any other website. They include founder of the forum,root admins,co-admins etc. They have the power to edit,delete anything in the forum, control and edit,promote,ban members, add new features to the forum and the root admins has almost the power to do anything to the forum. They are selected by the other admins based on their dedication, contributions and trust and they need to be with the forum long enough to get selected. Of course they should have enough free time to spend with the forum...

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Skip to comments.Electrical & Electronics Engineering unemployment up as non-U.S. workers flood the job market
Posted on 10/15/2003 8:05:15 AM PDT by null and void
U.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering unemployment moves upward as thousands of non-U.S. workers continue to flood the job market
14 October 2003 Washington D.C. Lightwave--Although the unemployment rate for all workers fell slightly in the third quarter, the rate moved in the opposite direction for U.S. electrical and electronics engineers (EEs), according to data compiled by the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The jobless rate for EEs rose from 6.4% in the second quarter to 6.7% in the third, while the rate for all workers fell from 5.6% to 5.5%. At the same time, the number of employed EEs fell by 37,000 (from 386,000 to 349,000).
The 6.7% figure is more than six times as high as it was in 1997 (1%), and more than five times as great as 2000 (1.2%). The EE unemployment rate reached an all-time high of 7% in the first quarter of 2003.
Despite continuing high levels of EE unemployment, the government has issued more than 900,000 H-1B visas in new, renewal, and exempt categories since FY 2000, many of them in high-tech fields.
"We're pleased that Congress allowed the annual H-1B cap to drop to 65,000 earlier this month, but U.S. EEs are still competing for scarce jobs in an artificially saturated labor market," said John Steadman, IEEE-USA president-elect. "In addition, demand is shrinking as high-tech jobs are outsourced overseas. Despite the bleak employment outlook, some H-1B proponents are still calling on Congress to increase the number of visa exemptions."
Among other high-tech professionals, the unemployment rate jumped for computer hardware engineers (5.7% to 6.9%), computer software engineers (4.1% to 4.6%), and network and computer systems administrators (5.6% to 7.6%). The rate fell for computer scientists and systems analysts (5.6% to 4.8%), computer programmers (7.5% to 7.1%), and network systems and data communications analysts (5.5% to 5%).
The third-quarter jobless rate for mechanical engineers rose slightly from 3.1% to 3.3%, while the rates for civil engineers (3.9%) and industrial engineers (5.9%)remained the same.
IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers created in 1973 to advance the public good, while promoting the careers and public-policy interests of the more than 235,000 electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society.
It doesn't count under employed (burger flipping EE's), or engineers who have dropped off the radar as their benefits expired.
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And people around here call me a gloom and doomer...
Another aspect of this is that the high-tech worker is the one who has the best capability for developing new areas of economic activity, things based on knowledge and discovery and innovation. Who else is going to do that? An unemployed textile mill worker isn't likely to make the new discoveries in medicine and biotechnology. An unemployed steel mill worker isn't going to discover the replacement for the microchip. Those low-tech workers are valuable in their own way and should not be discarded like they have been, but the high-tech employee brings to the table other things of value that make it less desirable to throw him away as well.
Finally, what trumps all of this are the issues of national security. We're in the process of a wholesale dismemberment of the intellectual capital of this country. Some of that is absolutely vital to defense industries, things like aerospace, microelectronics, weapons research, energy development, materials science, etc. Without those, we may find ourselves, come the next high-tech war, in the same position as the Polish Army on Sept. 1, 1939, sending the best and prettiest cavalry in the world out against the Nazi panzers.
Look, all honest work is "good" work, in the sense that it maintains current levels and stimulates further growth through maintenance of the consumer class. The problem I have is that too often highly skilled workers are either thrown away (and along with them their knowledge) or are underemployed. We don't want research scientists and systems engineers flipping burgers. It's not good for them, the economy, or the country as a whole.
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The members of Westboro Baptist Church are up to their normal evil. On Saturday they engaged in one of their famous homophobic protests at the University of Missouri. They stood outside the basketball arena in conjunction with a home game holding signs proclaiming hatred and violence against gays and lesbians because the entire Missouri football team was scheduled to be recognized at halftime. A few days ago Michael Sam, a star defensive player for Missouri and a NFL prospect, announced that he is gay.
I doubt that news organizations would have reported Westboro's latest antics except for what the students did in response. They turned their backs to the small group of protesters and formed a human shield. Then they sang the Missouri alma mater. So the protesters could not be seen or heard because of the actions of the students.
I really like what those students did. They didn't get in the faces of the Westboro protesters. They didn't make obscene gestures toward them or trade the church members' curses with their own. They simply turned their backs on them and drowned them out. Nice work!
But the main reason I bring up the latest Westboro protest is the way Yahoo Sports reported it. Assistant Editor Kyle Ringo didn't mention the name of the church in his article on the incident. Apparently he didn't want to give the Westboro folks any of the attention that they obviously sought.
I initially saw the news about the protest at Yahoo Sports and I assumed that Westboro was behind it. However, I had to go to other news outlets to confirm this.
I can't blame Ringo for attempting to deny Westboro another moment in the spotlight. I would be for nearly anything that thwarts the group in its hateful agenda. However, I'm concerned that Ringo might have unwittingly lumped all Baptists with Westboro Baptist in his approach.
Consider this line from the article: "Members of a Baptist church stood outside the arena holding signs that condemned the community's and school's support for Sam." In an article that nowhere mentions the specific church, Ringo's approach leaves the impression that this sort of activity could be typical of members of any Baptist church.
There is no question that there is plenty of homophobia to go around in many Baptist circles. There has been, unfortunately, no shortage of Baptist leaders who have, in recent years, grabbed headlines for spewing hatred against against the LGBTQ community. That said, is it fair to lump all Baptists with the singularly virulent homophobia of Westboro Baptist Church?
In a USA Today piece on Saturday's protest, there are photos showing the Westboro protesters carrying signs declaring messages typical of their rallies such as "Death penalty 4 [homosexuals]" and "God hates [homosexuals]." Many, many Baptists do not share such sentiments.
I have a Baptist pastor friend who says that Baptists are like dogs. (Careful, don't jump to any conclusions before I finish his thought.) "If I tell you that I have a dog," he says, "I haven't told you much unless I tell you what kind of dog it is." Dogs come in a multitude of shapes, colors, sizes and personalities and it is much the same with Baptists.
Some Baptists are welcoming and affirming of members of the LGBTQ community. Many Baptists are welcoming but not affirming. Many Baptists are neither welcoming nor affirming.
On the face of it, I don't think it's fair to lump all Baptists with the members of Westboro Baptist Church because many Baptists abhor their vile strain of homophobia. That said, to the degree that there is any hatred toward the LGBTQ community among Baptists, it is too much. After all, we follow the one who said the Greatest Commandment, the most important thing we do, includes loving our neighbors as ourselves. Jesus listed no exceptions to this commandment.
Addendum: I emailed this post to Kyle Ringo and he changed the article to include the name of the church.
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Unlike some free shooters, Crytek's game isn't all about player versus player arena combat. Those modes are present, but Warface also features co-operative missions presented sort of like daily quests in an MMO. When you log in, a new mission will appear and will be rated as supremely difficult. If you're able to put together a five person group that can clear it on the higher difficulty setting, you're awarded with bonuses. But if you're intimidated by the challenge, you can wait a day and the mission will be bumped down to a normal difficulty, and a new mission will appear for more advanced players to try out. By cycling content like this, Crytek hopes to keep people interested in logging in.
Before deploying Warface in territories outside of Russia, Crytek needs to figure out a payment system that fits with each region. This is a microtransaction-driven game, after all, and Crytek wants to ensure it's not the type of game where you can just pay a lot of money and instantly be able to obliterate everyone.
The unlockable items appear to affect battle quite a bit, as you can pick up gloves that boost reload speed, grenades that knock back, and a large variety of weapons. Like in Crysis, some of the gun customization items can be swapped around during play, letting you add and remove silencers from pistols and switch around scopes on assault rifles.
It's not all about items, though. If you can't shoot accurately, you're not going to live for very long in the co-operative mode. I played a Medic for a mission string, and had to first advance through enemy territory to a waiting helicopter for extraction alongside my five-person team, and in then defend territory against waves of enemies in the second half. Doing so successfully involved switching to my shotgun when enemies got too close and lining up pistol shots to pick off enemies firing bullets and rockets at our group from a distance.
It also meant I had to keep a close eye on my group's health, because I could heal and revive. Healing in this version of Warface required me to actually go up right next to my teammates and click and hold mouse 1 to activate healing; I couldn't just drop a health pack on the ground and keep fighting while it healed everything in range. This made healing extremely risky, as it forced me to cross in front of enemy fire frequently. It placed more emphasis on the need to make fast, important decisions. Do I run across a lane of enemy fire to heal my sniper teammate, or do I use my pistol to headshot a few hostiles first to lessen the chances I'll take damage, but increase the chances the sniper might die? Thankfully I could also heal myself, but I didn't want to risk getting killed, as I was the only one with defibrillator, which is used to revive.
During fights, some enemies simply charged right at our group, some hung back and took up hiding spots behind cover, and some used shields to run up and knock us down. Enemy behavior like that of the shield enemies is meant to encourage cooperation. If I'm on the ground after getting knocked over by a shield bash, my teammate should ideally run up beside the enemy and not have to worry about the shield deflecting his bullets. In general the action was fast, fun, and by the mission's end I wanted to play another round.
After a mission's over in-game credits are awarded and everyone's performance is fed into leaderboard that's refreshed every day. Special coin bonuses are awarded if you manage to rank near the top which can then be used to pick up otherwise inaccessible items and weapons, yet another way Crytek hopes to keep players logging in on a daily basis.
There's no set date for launch or open beta testing in North America, but according to Crytek it'll likely be sometime this fall.


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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
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There, walking across the threshold of the room, was a group of the most fine-looking people I had ever seen.
I don't know if she has the strength as a fine-looking woman for standing up against Washington," frets Bill Glawe, 68, a farmer, as he waits to line up for dinner."
But then, the lady tourists had nothing by which to judge save appearances, and Bertie certainly was a fine-looking man.
You see, I am in love with one woman, and while there are other, fine-looking women in this world, it takes absolutely no discipline for me to not lust after them or think of them in any other way as simply beautiful women -- who I have no sexual interest in whatsoever.
Also Anjanette Comer was in the film, as well as an unnamed but fine-looking Appaloosa stud horse.
Xtools are a fine-looking line of marine tools; as the ISDA blog says, The rust-resistant tools feature tungsten-carbide cutting blades (for cutting braided wire) and foamy, soft-grip ergonomic handles that float.
The fine-looking fellow in the photo below is called Mr. Hawgmouth.
He's a fine-looking lad, and I wish you and your family could have been spared this loss.
As I read the essay about the efficiency of producing chickens, I recalled what Julia Child wrote some years ago in her delightful book "My Life in France": "The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear."
It's a little quirk of the code in which BDS's desire for fine-looking buildings runs headlong into BES's desire for more permeable surfaces.
An apartment bunker in your neighborhood? If it's "delightful." (Jack Bog's Blog)


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Many plan online gamesat work, new poll says ...
NEW YORK -- Taking a break by playing online solitaire? More than half of your co-workers log onto game sites too, according to a recent poll. Candystand.com, an entertainment Web site owned by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., surveyed 1,000 adults nationwide and found that more than half play online games during the workday. The average playing time was 15 minutes. More than six out of 10 said that playing online games help them deal with stress, while 47 percent believe it helps their creative thinking. One in five have been caught by their supervisors, while 13 percent admitted playing during a conference call.
... And many go to worksick, another survey says
NEW YORK -- Instead of chicken soup and bed rest, most employees come to work when they're feeling under the weather, one recent survey shows. A whopping 98 percent of employees admitted going to work when they were sick, according to a poll from Kronos Inc., a work-force management company. Two out of five said they did so out of guilt and 39 percent said their workload was too heavy to miss a day. While these tough employees may impress the boss, their co-workers aren't happy to see them in the office with a fever. Thirty-eight percent of employees are afraid of getting sick when ill colleagues come to work, and another 35 percent blame their employers for not encouraging sick staffers to stay home.
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I've been "trying" to get my old desktop PC (XP sp3) back from semi-permanent retirement to use as a spare.
In doing so I have been doing defrags (it has 2 hard drives), disk cleanups, disk check for errors etc. and I have encountered a problem... Some redundant programmes simply CANNOT be removed!
I have tried deleting them via:
Start > All programmes > "programme concerned" > uninstall - where this is an available option (no luck )
Start > Control panel > Add or Remove Programmes (still no luck )
With one I even just tried to delete the programme file manually, by locating the programme file and selecting "delete" (No, no, no ) A message apppeared not allowing this!
I've run out of ideas
ALL useful suggestions would be appreciated, the more simple to follow the better!
I'm not quite ready to tip a bucket of water over it just yet, but...
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What's New in R75Check Point R75 is based on the Software Blades Architecture.
Identity Awareness in the Check Point Security Gateway
- Identity based Firewall and Application Control polices including users, user-group and machines.
- Logging of User Identities makes troubleshooting simpler and allows better trend analysis.
- Multiple and flexible methods for obtaining user identity including seamless integration with Active Directory (no need to install agent on Domain Controller), captive web portal for clientless user authentication or thin client for strong authentication and impersonation prevention based on unique patent-pending technology for light signature of packet information.
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- Granular Application Control to identify, allow or block thousands of applications.
- Largest application library with AppWiki - Comprehensive application control leveraging the largest application library that scans and detects more than 100,000 applications and Social Network widgets.
- Auto-updates for applications database on the gateway (NO need to re-install policy).
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Check Point's innovative Data Loss Prevention, now available as an integrated Software Blade.
- Prevents data loss of critical business information.
- Network-based solution prevents breach of corporate data.
- Compliance with data protection standards (such as PCI-DSS, HIPPA, GLBA, SOX, etc).
- Cutting edge technology for DLP processes enforcement.
- Innovative MultiSpect data classification engine combines users, content and process into accurate decisions.
- New UserCheck technology empowers users to remediate incidents.
- Low maintenance, self-educating system - does not require IT/security personnel in incident handling while educating the users on proper data sharing policies.
- Easy deployment for immediate data loss prevention.
- Less than one day deployment of preventative DLP solution.
- Over 250 pre-defined types to create your own policy.
- Better control and auditing capabilities with centralized security management.
- New DLP features:
- ClusterXL HA support - quarantine database is synchronized between cluster members.
- Incident storage at Management server.
- Remote Access - SSL VPN technology is used for secure encrypted communication from unmanaged mobile devices, PCs and Macs to your corporate IT infrastructure.
- Check Point Mobile Client - for simple and secure connectivity to corporate resources from smartphones and PCs.
- Mobile Access Portal - for connecting securely to corporate resources through a portal from a web browser.
- SSL Network Extender (On-demand client - SNX) - Best for secure connectivity to corporate resources using non-web-based applications via an on-demand, dissolvable client.
Endpoint Security VPN introduces the Next Generation of SecureClient, including 64-bit support. It provides mobile users seamless and secure connectivity to corporate resources by establishing an encrypted and authenticated IPSec tunnel with Check Point Security Gateways.
Enhanced IPS signature support
- Increase scalability of the IPS engine when adding many more protections.
- Decrease memory footprint (currently some pattern based protections require large memory footprint).
- Provide a new framework for using non-regular keywords replacing complex regular expressions.
- Enhance the IPS engine to support simpler and more efficient CIFS and DCE-RPC protections.
- R75 supports the new licensing scheme of Multi-Domain Security Management. You can easily convert an existing Security Management deployment to a Multi-Domain Security Management deployment by adding Software Blades.
- Security Management Server supports Series 80 Appliances gateways for centrally managed branch offices.
- You can set a different authentication method per blade on the same gateway. For example, a user can login to Mobile Access with certificate authentication and login to DLP with username and password authentication.
In Gateway Properties, configure the desired authentication method for IPSec VPN and Mobile Access in its respective Authentication page, and for Identity Awareness in its Authentication Settings page.
- You can now use multiple portals over port 443 and port 80. For example, the SecurePlatform Web User interface and the Mobile Access portal can both be on port 443. In the SmartDashboard Gateway properties window, set the Portal URL for the different portals on the portal configuration pages.
- The user search for remote access users works according to the user groups. If a user authenticates with an IPSEC VPN client and the user is in the LDAP groups of a Remote Access VPN Community, then the user will be found in the LDAP server. If a user authenticates to the Mobile Access portal, and the user is defined in the Access to Application rules as part of the Internal Database groups, the user will be found in the Internal Database.