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Rainbow Hawaiian Chicken Kabobs
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This post is sponsored by Bertolli.
Breaking news from my loft building — our community grill has finally been fixed!!
We’ve been begging our building manager to repair or replace it for months. And even though it took him until July — yeah, halfway through the summer — I’m happy to say that there’s finally a functioning grill out back for all of us again. Summer just doesn’t feel quite the same without one, right?
So my neighbors and I have wasted no time this week putting it back to good use. I’ve been grilling up tons of roasted veggies (my favorite), charring up Romaine for salads (yum), caramelizing pineapple for this dessert (a summer tradition), and experimenting with a handful of new burger recipes (hopefully coming to the blog soon!). But hand down, one of my favorite dinners this week ended up being a grilled version of one of my beloved teriyaki chicken recipe, skewered up with lots of colorful veggies and pineapple to make these gorgeous kabobs.
Because what food isn’t more fun on a stick? 😉
Alright, before we get to the recipe, though, I want to chat for a few seconds about what oils and grilling.
Because I’ve heard for years that you’re not supposed to use extra virgin olive oil when cooking over high heat (i.e. grilling, roasting, etc.) because EVOO has such a low smoke point. So I’ve tried experimenting with a handful of other oils over the years, but…
…recently, after doing some digging in and doing a little research, I learned that refined pure olive oil — like this Bertolli Classico 100% Pure Olive Oil — actually has a smoke point of 460°F (higher than extra virgin olive oil, which has a smoke point of 406°F). So it’s actually an olive oil that’s safe for roasting and grilling within that temperature range! You don’t get quite the same bold flavors with it as with EVOO, but those good monosaturated fats and the mild flavor of olive oil remain. I’m calling it a win-win. :)
So when Bertolli reached out and asked if I’d like to come up with a grilling recipe this summer to feature their pure olive oil — right around the time that our grill was finally back in business — it felt like a match made in grilling heaven. I had been craving my favorite teriyaki chicken recipe lately. So I decided to transform it into some colorful Hawaiian kabobs.
To make them, just marinate the chicken in a simple teriyaki sauce.
Then thread the chicken onto some skewers along with your favorite rainbow veggies and pineapple.
Pop them on the grill until they’re cooked to delicious rainbow perfection, basting them with some extra marinade (that I set aside before adding half of it to the chicken) during and after grilling. And then these gorgeous kabobs will be yours to enjoy.
So colorful, so fun, and SO delicious.
I love serving them over some simple rice or quinoa or sesame noodles, and pairing them with a fresh citrusy green salad. But go with whatever sounds good to you. (Oh, and if you happen to be in the same no-grill-available predicament, you can also roast these in the oven until the chicken is cooked through. Delish.)
So if you plan to be hanging around the grill more this summer, be sure to stock your pantry with some oils that are safe for high heat cooking, and then get to grilling!
Yield: 6-8 servings
Rainbow Hawaiian Chicken Kabobs
These Rainbow Hawaiian Chicken Kabobs are marinated and basted in a tasty teriyaki sauce, then grilled to perfection and sprinkled with cilantro. So delicious!
Prep Time: 35 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 45 mins
- 1.5 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1 batch Hawaiian Teriyaki Sauce, divided (see below)
- 2 large green bell peppers, cored and cut into bite-sized pieces
- 2 large red bell peppers, cored and cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1 large pineapple, cored and cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1 large red onion, peeled and cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1/4 cup finely-chopped fresh cilantro leaves
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup orange or pineapple juice
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger


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Mike Petrilli was over at Campbell Brown's place this week where A) he was oddly billed as a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a book author, but not as the head honcho of the Fordham Institute and B) suggesting that we might need to reconsider our stances on poverty, now that it's not so much of a thing.
I'm not an economist and I don't play one on tv (though economists pretend to be education experts all the time, so maybe I should just throw caution to the wind), so I'm leery of wrestling with Petrilli's contention that the poverty rate has dropped to 7.8%. But I can say this with confidence-- there's a huge amount of disagreement about what the poverty rate actually is.
The census folks said that in 2014, the poverty rate was 14.8%. But median income rate stayed flat. The poverty rate dropped from 19% in 1967 to around 15% today. Maybe those numbers are all really low because the poverty cut score is set too low, and the true number is much higher. Or maybe the true poverty rate is actually 4.5%. One sometimes suspects that economists do not know what the hell they are talking about.
Petrilli is leaning on a study by Scott Winship. Winship is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and at Brookings (maybe-- they really should annotate their website more carefully). So, not exactly a lefty here. Winship's idea is that when you count people's earnings, you should count all their government benefits as well, as in "Well, you're not really poor because you've got food stamps and tax credits and other non-cash benefits." He also thinks the Census Bureau's inflation calculator overstates things. Let's say that not everyone agrees with Winship's method of computing.
Petrilli is willing to note that Winship's method of figuring clearly implies that there would be waaaayyyyy more people in poverty if welfare-slashers in DC had their way. And he also acknowledges that just even if you're a bit over the poverty line, you're probably still having a Very Rough Time. Yet he also dismisses Free and Reduced Lunch numbers as a good measure of poverty.
But he's going to go on talking as if the 7.8% number is accurate so that we can consider the implications.
Part of his considering is baloney stapled to a straw man.
For the teachers unions and other traditional education groups, it raises hard questions about their familiar contention that America’s lackluster student achievement is due to poverty—that we must “fix poverty first” before our schools will improve.
The contention may be familiar, but only because reformsters keep repeating it and attributing it to their opponents. I don't know any serious voice on the non-reformy side of the debate who says, "We must fix poverty before students can learn." The fact that folks in the public education sphere see poverty as a factor does not mean that they see it as an excuse. If I have a student who wants to race, but she's in a wheelchair, I'm not contending that she must be cured and on her legs before she can race. But the preparations and training for that student will be different from those of a wheelchair-unbound student. If I think the solution for the athlete in the wheelchair is simply push her through the same training program I'd use with a non-wheelchair athlete, I'm a dope. She needs preparation that fits her situation.
Petrilli knows all this, and acknowledges in the piece that "a strong link remains between students’ socioeconomic status and achievement." (As always, we don't really mean "achievement"-- we mean "score on a narrow standardized test.")
But, Petrilli says, if poverty is lessened, then it can't be causing our "educational underachievement"-- which means at this point he is discussing the correlation between two data points (student achievement failure, lessening of poverty) neither of which has actually been established as a true thing.
are doing better by our poorest citizens, including our poorest
children, than we were 20 years ago. And we should expect them to be
doing better in school as a result.
But we don't really know if we're doing better by our poorest citizens or not, and we have no real indication that they aren't doing better in school for any number of reasons, including but not limited to A) policy wonks don't have a decent measure of student achievement and B) we have no way to measure the differences between what schools asked of students twenty years ago and what they asked today.
One implication that Petrilli doesn't address-- one reformster school (the one favored by the current administration) is that better education will cure poverty. So if poverty has been reduced, I suppose they could declare victory. Of course that would also mean they could stop pushing new reformy ideas. But the linchpin of their entire theory is still unproven-- that a child who gets a good score on the Big Standardized Test will end up with a better-paying job, as if employers are sitting out there thinking, "Well, I would pay more for this minimum wage job, but I'm waiting to hire someone who got a really high PARCC score."
The other factor that Petrilli is leaving out is the importance of support from government and policy makers. He notes that society is more stratified, with a greater gap between the wealthy and the not-wealthy; it's worth asking how much that stratification leads to the systemic under-support of schools in poor communities. We could also take a look at reports that show schools are handling 1 million more students with 200K fewer teachers under the headline that the recovery has not reached schools, raising the question: what happens if student poverty gets better, but school under-funding gets worse? He says that we should expect poor students to be doing better in school; I'd say we should expect federal, state and local government to do a better job of supporting those schools that the poor are students in.

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"The new TOS-2 heavy flamethrower system characterized by increased range and firepower is set to arrive for the troops until the end of the year," the defense chief said at the ministry’s board meeting.
During the Kavkaz-2020 (Caucasus-2020) strategic command and staff drills, the troops will practice firing the new flamethrowers, Shoigu said.
"This system will considerably boost the combat capabilities of force groupings in strategic areas," the defense chief said.
The effort to develop the nuclear, chemical and biological (NBC) protection troops that will be armed with TOS-2 heavy flamethrowers remains a major area of the Armed Forces’ activity, Shoigu said.
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The TOS-2 ‘Tosochka’ is a derivative of the TOS-1A ‘Solntsepyok’ (‘Scorching Sun’) heavy flamethrower system with improved performance characteristics. As compared to its predecessor, it is mounted on the wheeled chassis of the Ural truck with the increased carrying and cross-country capability. The system has an increased range of launching rockets. The TOS-2 has fully automated sighting, firing and fire control systems.
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I'm liking the ramen at Sapporo Ramen in the Porter Exchange these days. They claim the chicken based broth is cooked for 10+ hours and it's rich and slightly gelatinous. The regular ramen has a few slices of pork, the miso does not. And they are using a very nice noodle these days -- chewy and toothsome. No, it's not the best, but I suggest you try it before you buy a ticket to LA.
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Oohhh any updates on this? Just got back from Toronto and had some amazing Tonkotsu ramen there at Kenzo Ramen...so rich and creamy and porky flavored and the meat was juicy and fatty and the egg was so yummy my bf and I each ordered 2 extra halves! LOL
Hoping Sapporo today at Porter Square will be somewhat as good...I find Pikkaichi's ramen to be ehhh, the soups okay but nothing amazing...

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I get the feeling that the best is yet to come from this series, but it's lovely to have a TMNT comic that, 7 issues in, is a sure bet in quality month to month.


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Located in the city of Shah Alam, I-City is a one-of-a-kind theme-park where all the main attractions are made of plastic and millions of bright LED lights. Similar to Elmer Long’s Bottle Tree Ranch, during the day, i-City’s artificial forest of maple and pine trees really comes to life at night. Made out of plastic and fitted with colorful LEDs, they put on a light show unlike any other. Inaugurated in early 2010, Shah Alam‘s i-City has already become one of the most popular tourist attractions in Malaysia.
I-City is providing a new experience for all Malaysians. The new technologies can not only be used for multimedia and communications but also for celebrating our various festivals and holidays in Malaysia. Visitors are welcome to an auspiciously themed park to take a breath of fresh air and enjoy the aura of a pure vision of peace, prosperity and good health.
Additional activities like the flea market, children’s inflatable playground, photo gallery, and a live band have been lined up for the spectacular event. There are also cultural performances by Cuti Cuti Malaysia to keep the celebration mood alive.


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Windy Place is located in Fourfouras Village, at an altitude of 1509 feet. Free WiFi is available in all areas. The closest beach, Agia Galini, is a 30-minute drive away. All rooms have a TV.
Featuring free WiFi throughout the property, Apartments Petrochori Villas is located in Petrochori, 25 mi from Rethymno Town. Free private parking is available on site. The room was super clean and large , the owners incredible hospitable, the view from the balcony jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Owners provided delicious honey, oil, salad ingredients, fruit and basics. Pool was almost big enough to do laps. The view is much more beautiful than the pictures on the website. Can't say enough good things about our stay.
Surrounded by Psiloritis Mountains, Aposeti Villas offers spacious fully equipped villas with shared swimming pools, in Petrochori village. It has a tavern and provides free Wi-Fi access. This was an amazing villa in the shadow of Mt Idi. A really nice property with amazing views a pool and plenty of space. Very clean upon arrival and our hosts were very accommodating to us as well. They gave us a bottle of their wine that was one of our favorite on the island. The olive oil from there farm was also amazing and we ended up using it up by the time we left Crete. Really nice people and a really nice villa in an iconic mountain setting on Crete. Would definitely like to stay here again!
Offering free bikes, Ksenonas Kourites is located in Kouroutes Amariou. Each room here will provide you with a balcony, a patio and a terrace.
House Nithavri is a detached holiday home featuring a garden with a sun terrace, located in Níthavris in the Crete Region. It provides free private parking.
Offering an outdoor pool and a restaurant, Panakron is located among lush greenery in Asomatoi Village. Free WiFi access is available in public areas.
Located at the top of Amari Village, offering panoramic views over the surrounding mountains and the valley, Amari offers stone-built villas with free WiFi access and spacious terraces.
Amari Luxury is located in Amárion and offers a terrace. Guests staying at this vacation home can use the free WiFi, a fully equipped kitchen, and a balcony.
Featuring a seasonal outdoor swimming pool and shared lounge, as well as a restaurant, Aravanes is located in Thrónos. A tour desk can provide information on the area. The setting of Aravanes is breathtaking! The staff could not be friendlier, fun and more generous! I highly recommend. Our room was probably the smallest, but it was clean, comfortable, quiet; in short a special mountain place! We even got presents when we left. Special tea picked by one of the owners and some delicious homemade cheese that I loved!
Elia Meronas is located in Méronas, in the heart of Crete. Offering panoramic views of the surrounding forest, the property provides free WiFi and a seasonal outdoor pool. So you sit there on your throne looking across at Mount Psiloritis as it peeks out of the clouds on the eastern horizon. You are Zeus Tallaios, and your daughter Aphrodite serves you a sumptuous breakfast that has been created from the fruits of the Amari Valley below and is indeed fit for ‘the father of gods and men’. The clear blue waters of the pool at your feet are already enticing you as the sun begins to climb higher and sends you retreating for the shade of the canopy. You wonder will you ever be able to surrender your place in Elysium and return to Earth… This is a holiday like no other. The hospitality and generosity of Maria, Nektarios and his family was extraordinary, the variety and quality of the food was excellent (and we are vegetarian), the supply of raki was infinite!, the apartment was spacious and comfortable with our own separate entrance and balcony, and overall the value for money was unbeatable. Nektarios is a great cook and το φαγητό ήταν νόστιμο (the food was delicious), especially the six course breakfast!. There are numerous walks directly from Elia up to the hills or down to the local picturesque villages where you can drink the water directly from the mountain springs and enjoy the luxuriant growth of lemon, passion fruit, mulberry, fig and prickly pear. Or there are more challenging walks through fabulous mountain gorges less than an hour’s drive in all directions, not to mention Mount Ida (Psiloritis) itself if you really fancy a climb. And if the glistening waters of the Elia pool are not enough for you and you do want to visit the beach, then you can choose between those on the north or south coasts (Maria will recommend the best ones), as they are just around an hour’s drive in either direction from your location in the centre of the island.

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Punches come in bunches and this weekend there were plenty of occasions where a few goals would be scored in quick succession that would completely change a game’s complexion. Whether that’s a goal for each side, two for one or even a three-goal swing, teams were eager to excite in burst and it made for a great weekend of action.
Our stat of the week is thanks to @OptaJoe, who pointed out that the restoration powers going on at Wycombe are a sight to behold. The club have won six games before the end of September this season, half of the victories they had for the entirety of the 2013/14 season. Hats off to Gareth Ainsworth and his boys but are they on this weekend’s roll of honour? Let’s find out.

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It can sometimes be challenging for the highly competitive players of professional sports to maintain a positive yet aggressive emotional state. Sometimes they can take it too far, costing themselves and their team and hurting their public image. Young people can also find it difficult to control challenging emotions, especially in moments of high stress.
This lesson explores the breadth and depth of emotional states we can experience and provides some planning tools for identifying and regulating our emotional responses when we’re in stressful situations.
The health and fitness-related tasks undertaken throughout the Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge lessons are gamified, providing incentivised learning opportunities and allowing for some personalisation. Therefore, we recommend students complete the full Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge unit to benefit from the full experience, completing this lesson first.
- develop their emotional vocabulary
- explore the depth and breadth of emotional responses
- explore the consequences of emotions on behaviour and relationships
- plan and put in place measures to remain in control of their emotions
- set goals to improve themselves.
- identify, demonstrate, compare and contrast healthy and unreasonable emotional responses to situations
- identify patterns in their own emotional behaviour
- identify and enact plans for acceptable emotional responses to situations.
Lesson guides and printables
Australian Curriculum content descriptions:
Year 3 & 4 Health and Physical Education
- Explore strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change (ACPPS034)
- Describe and apply strategies that can be used in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe (ACPPS035)
- Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS036)
- Investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength (ACPPS038)
- Describe strategies to make the classroom and playground healthy, safe and active spaces (ACPPS040)
Year 5 & 6 Health and Physical Education:
- Investigate community resources and ways to seek help about health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS053)
- Plan and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS054)
- Practise skills to establish and manage relationships (ACPPS055)
- Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships (ACPPS056)
Year 3 & 4 Drama:
- Explore ideas and narrative structures through roles and situations and use empathy in their own improvisations and devised drama (ACADRM031)
Year 5 & 6 Drama:
- Explore dramatic action, empathy and space in improvisations, playbuilding and scripted drama to develop characters and situations (ACADRM035)
- Develop skills and techniques of voice and movement to create character, mood and atmosphere and focus dramatic action (ACADRM036)
General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability
Relevant parts of Years 3 & 4 Health and Physical Education achievement standards:
Students investigate how emotional responses vary and understand how to interact positively with others in a variety of situations.
Relevant parts of Years 5 & 6 Health and Physical Education achievement standards:
Students recognise the influence of emotions on behaviours and discuss factors that influence how people interact. They access and interpret health information and apply decision-making and problem-solving skills to enhance their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing.
Relevant parts of Years 5 & 6 Drama achievement standards:
Students use relationships, tension, time and place and narrative structure when improvising and performing devised and scripted drama
Relevant parts of Years 3 & 4 Drama achievement standards:
Students work collaboratively as they use the elements of drama to shape character, voice and movement in improvisation, play building and performances of devised and scripted drama for audiences.
This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge – HPE – Years 3-6
Time required: 65 mins
Level of teacher scaffolding: High – students will need to be significantly guided through the drama aspect of this unit and teachers will need to create a safe environment for students to work with the emotional content in this unit
- Coloured pencils
- Device capable of presenting a video to the class
- Emotional Signals Man (optional)
- Emotional Speccy Worksheet – one copy per student
- Student Worksheets – one copy per student
- Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge Tokens (from Lesson 1)
- Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge Game Plan (from Lesson 1 or 2)
- Volkswagen Footy Fit Stadium Scoreboard (from Lesson 1)
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- Critical thinking
- Social skills

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Organizations today must give attention to their cybersecurity posture, including policies, procedures, and technical solutions for cybersecurity challenges.
This often results in a greater burden on the IT service desk staff as end-users encounter issues related to security software, policies, and password restrictions.
One of the most common areas where security may cause challenges for end-users is password policies and password changes. What are these issues? How can organizations reduce end-user password change frustration? First, let's consider the standard password policy, its role, and general settings affecting end-users.
What are password policies?
Most organizations today have a password policy in place. So, what is a password policy? Password policies define the types and content of passwords allowed or required of end-users in an identity and access management system. Various aspects of the password that businesses control may include the password's required length, composition (requiring certain characters), password age, and disallowing the reuse of passwords used before.
Microsoft's Active Directory Domain Services is arguably the most prevalent identity and access management system servicing on-premises environments today. Active Directory Password Policies allow businesses to control basic characteristics of end-user passwords with configurable password settings.
These settings include:
- Enforce password history
- Maximum password age
- Minimum password age
- Minimum password length
- Minimum password length audit
- Password must meet complexity requirements
- Store passwords using reversible encryption
|Configuring Active Directory Password Policy
Active Directory Password Policies are enforced as part of Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services Group Policy. Group Policies can apply to a specific OU in Active Directory and filtered to apply to a particular user, group, or computer.
How password changes cause frustration for end-users
While password policies are significantly crucial to the overall cybersecurity posture of your organization, they can certainly lead to an increased burden on the IT service desk. The service desk fields the bulk of issues with password changes and account lockouts. Often, frustration results when end-users change their passwords as a result of password policy enforcement.
Many organizations choose to implement password policies that define password aging as part of policy enforcement. Password aging requires end-users to change passwords when the password's age reaches the days configured in the policy.
End-users who are required to change their passwords may mistype their password during the password change. It can lead to the account becoming locked out when they attempt to enter the password they "think" is correct. Also, end-users can encounter challenges simply setting their password. They may not fully understand the password policy requirements.
This ultimately leads to employees who cannot log in; meaning they are unable to be productive. In addition to being an expensive problem for that department (lost work); it also impacts the service desk.
Password Change Frustration – Costly for your business
Out of all the issues that service desk agents triage, the end-user password change can be among the most time-consuming and costly to the business. According to the Gartner Group, between 20% to 50% of all service desk calls are for password resets, while Forrester Research states that the average help desk labor cost for a single password reset is about $70.
Aside from the labor cost involved with the service desk, business continuity can be affected if a key user is locked out of their account or is experiencing application issues due to a changed password.
This situation can amount to less tangible costs associated with a password change. Additionally, if end-users are affected by a password change, this can trickle down to customers.
Reduce end-user password change frustration
Businesses cannot simply ignore security best practices simply for the convenience of end-users, no matter the seniority of the user calling the service desk. However, there are tools that can help reduce end-user password change frustration caused by a lack of clear messaging on why the password is being rejected.
Aside from providing a much more robust solution than the simplistic Active Directory Password Policy settings found natively in ADDS, Specops Password Policy is one tool that can provide this ability to reduce end-user password change frustration.
It includes the following two components that work together to provide much greater transparency to the end-user of password requirements and upcoming password changes required. These include:
- Client message configuration
- Specops Authentication Client
In Specops Password Policy, IT admins can configure the Client message to customize user feedback on failed password change attempts. Specops Password Policy can be configured to provide dynamic feedback to end-users, using the following settings:
- Show all rules
- Show only failed rules
- Show only custom messages
|Configuring the Client message in Specops Password Policy
The Specops Authentication Client tool works with the above-configured setting to allow Specops to display the password policy rules when a user fails to meet the policy criteria when changing their password. The Client will also notify users when their passwords are about to expire.
The standard "change a password" screen in Windows can be a real source of end-user frustration. With no guidance on a password policy, previous password history, or dictionaries, a user often resorts to the service desk for help.
|The standard Windows password change user experience
When users have visibility into the specific reason why the password they are attempting to change to is failing, this can help the end-user better understand the password policy requirements and align the passwords they use with the corporate policy. Specops Password Policy has recently implemented dynamic feedback at password change.
|Dynamic feedback at password change for Specops Password Policy end-users
This capability also helps alleviate the burden on the IT service desk when end-users can better understand what is required of their corporate password. A better understanding of the rules reduces not only end-user frustration but also minimizes costly calls to the IT service desk.
Password security and policies are required to maintain an effective cybersecurity posture for organizations today. However, password policies and forced account password changes can create an extra burden on the IT service desk, as service desk agents triage and troubleshoot account password issues in the environment. Reducing end-user password change frustration can be facilitated by effective dynamic feedback from your password policy source.
Natively, Windows displays very vague messaging related to why a particular password is not allowed by a password policy. Specops Password Policy fixes this gap by enabling organizations to implement customizable dynamic feedback to the end-user.
For example, when they attempt to set a password that does not meet all the requirements configured in the password policy, it provides much greater detail into why the password set operation failed if it is not successful.


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Our fully guided, conservation focused tours are both fun, informative and inspiring! We operate out of Picton in the calm & sheltered waters of the beautiful Marlborough Sounds. A clean green paradise of bush and sea, full of natural beauty, history and wildlife, all waiting to be explored and experienced. Enjoy up to 5 different species of dolphins (Bottlenose, Common, Hectors, Dusky & Orca), NZ Fur Seals, Little Blue Penguins, King Shags, South Island Saddlebacks and on occasions, Rowi Kiwi.
Wilderness, Water, Wildlife ....we have it all!
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Simplistic luxury apartment in Herne Bay
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This beautifully styled luxury apartment in Herne Bay is simplistic as it is elegant.
The warm, classic caramel tones of Ultra Tussock Oak create a neutral foundation for the contrasting cooler tones of the interior palette.
Ultra Tussock Oak is a beautifully warm European Oak with a lightly brushed texture and low-sheen finish.

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Barcelona's latest summer signing, Paulinho, will be presented by the club on Thursday.
The La Liga giants confirmed the 29-year-old's signing today, welcoming him to the club on Twitter.
The Catalans completed a £36.5million deal with Guanzhou Evergrande which the midfielder is set to ink his name on at Nou Camp on Thursday.
Paulinho has been on Ernesto Valverde's radar all summer after putting a spark back into his career in China under his former international manager Luiz Felipe Scolari.
The move was acknowledged by Barcelona and Brazilian legend Rivaldo who wished Paulinho luck at his former club on social media.
He will join his new club the same day they face Real Madrid again for the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup where they will hope to regain composure after an embarrassing 3-1 defeat to them at home on Sunday.
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red handedCristiano Ronaldo 'facing TWELVE match ban' for pushing ref during Real Madrid's win over Barcelona
RONALDO'S RAGECristiano Ronaldo scores, copies Lionel Messi's celebration, is sent off and PUSHES ref in just two crazy minutes during Real Madrid's 3-1 Super Cup win at Clasico rivals Barcelona
SERGI TUG-OF-WARManchester United will meet Sergi Roberto's £36.5m release clause if he wants to leave Barcelona
turq is cheapEl Clasico viewers complain of kit clash after Real Madrid wear turquoise third strip and tear up tradition
SPELLING IT OUTFan torn between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo wears half-and-half shirt of both of them
After an underwhelming two seasons at White Hart Lane, the midfielder's £10million move to China proved to be a success.
He quickly rose to become one of the best players in Asia scoring a total of 28 goals in 95 appearances since 2015 enroute to winning two league titles with the Southern China team.
His reemergence also saw his return to international football where he scored his first ever career hat-trick to help Brazil comeback to win against Uruguay in a 2018 World Cup qualifier.
Paulinho is Barcelona's first signing since pocketing £198million for Neymar's move to Paris Saint-Germain.


Over the past year, and especially since the Frith Forge conference in Germany, I’ve noticed increasing use and discussion of the term “inclusive Heathenry.”
It often seems more of a rebranding than a revolutionary concept. Practitioners of Ásatrú and Heathenry have long taken sides over issues of inclusion, with some taking hard stances on either end of the spectrum and many situating themselves in a complicated middle ground. The battles that have raged for so long have been between positions that were often defined by the other side. The universalist position supposedly said that anyone could be Heathen – no questions asked. The folkish position supposedly said that only straight white people could be Heathen – with many questions asked.
TWH – Now that the season has turned and we are nearing the end of the 2017, we look back, one last time, to review this historic year. What happened? What didn’t happen? What events shaped our thoughts and guided our actions? In our collective worlds, both big and small, what were the major discussions?
Frith Forge, the first international conference focused on inclusive Ásatrú and Heathenry, was held Oct. 6-8 outside of Potsdam, Germany. The event was the first major project of the International Relations and Exchange Program of the Troth, a U.S.-based Heathen organization with members around the world. The German host was Haimo Grebenstein of the Verein für Germanisches Heidentum (Association for Germanic Heathenry). The conference had 31 attendees from t12 countries: Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.
CALIF. – As is being reported throughout mainstream media, the California fires still burn. The death toll is at 40 and multiple fires continue to rage with the worst ones in the north. Despite the devastation, officials are now saying that firefighters are beginning to get control of many of the fires, and promise of cooler temperatures is helping. The California Pagan community has not be left untouched by the destruction.
From Oct. 5 through 8, Frith Forge 2017 will be held in Petzow, Germany. Organized by the Troth’s International Relations and Exchange Program, the event is designed as “an international conference among inclusive Asatru/Heathen organizations and individuals.”
According to the official website for the October conference,
Frith Forge is the space and time on an international level to build alliances, understanding, and friendships among us instead of compartmentalizing further in an industrialized world. Let’s learn from each other with respect and fellowship to forge frith [Old Norse “peace”] among us. Together we can enjoy this opportunity to discuss inclusion in religion and to promote cultural, religious, and educational exchange.


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Examinations or assessments play a vital role in every student’s life; they determine their future and career paths. The COVID pandemic has left adverse impacts in all areas, including the academic field. The regularized classroom learning and face-to-face real-time examinations were not feasible to avoid widespread infection and ensure safety. During these desperate times, technological advancements stepped in to aid students in continuing their education without any academic breaks. Machine learning is a key to this digital transformation of schools or colleges from real-time to online mode. Online learning and examination during lockdown were made possible by Machine learning methods. In this article, a systematic review of the role of Machine learning in Lockdown Exam Management Systems was conducted by evaluating 135 studies over the last five years. The significance of Machine learning in the entire exam cycle from pre-exam preparation, conduction of examination, and evaluation were studied and discussed. The unsupervised or supervised Machine learning algorithms were identified and categorized in each process. The primary aspects of examinations, such as authentication, scheduling, proctoring, and cheat or fraud detection, are investigated in detail with Machine learning perspectives. The main attributes, such as prediction of at-risk students, adaptive learning, and monitoring of students, are integrated for more understanding of the role of machine learning in exam preparation, followed by its management of the post-examination process. Finally, this review concludes with issues and challenges that machine learning imposes on the examination system, and these issues are discussed with solutions.
Machine learning, Online learning, Online examinations, Authentication, Fraud detection, Security
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Kaddoura, Sanaa; Popescu, Daniela Elena; and Hemanth, Jude D., "A systematic review on machine learning models for online learning and examination systems" (2022). All Works. 5142.
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The Planning Portal provides a fee calculator to enable the correct fee for your particular development to be determined.
Alternatively, the Planning Portal also provides a fee schedule which you can download from their website.Fee calculator Fee schedule
We do not accept cheques for planning applications or pre-application advice. Fees can be paid through the Planning Portal when submitting your application online. Alternatively, secure payments can be made by phone with the Planning Technical Support Team on 020 7527 2278 once your application has been received. If you wish to make payment by BACS please call the Technical Support Team before making your payment for an explanation of what is required so we can track and process your payment. This will avoid delays to your application.


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NEBRASKA PESTICIDE STORAGE STRATEGIES
When it comes to storing pesticides in Nebraska, there are a number of things to consider. One of them is, where should I store my pesticide? For Nebraska pesticide storage, location is a crucial factor and should not be overlooked. Your pesticides should be stored downwind of critical areas such as homes, ponds, and grazing pastures. This practice will protect your environment as well as your community from being contaminated by pesticides and pesticide fumes.
Your Nebraska pesticide storage building should be kept clean and well-maintained to prevent contamination. This means that good housekeeping is a must within your pesticide storage building. Practicing good housekeeping skills will help you maintain a clean, well-organized pesticide storage facility – a must for safe pesticide storage.
In Nebraska pesticide storage, good housekeeping can facilitate pesticide accessibility in a number of ways:
- Labels are completely visible, helping personnel select the proper pesticide for use,
- Floors are kept clean and clear of obstacles, preventing the likelihood of knocking into hazardous materials,
- Leaks and spills are quickly detected and identified by having full visibility,
- The possibility of contamination is minimized,
- Moving in and out of the storage building is done so with ease and efficiency, and
- Leaks and spills are easily cleaned and properly disposed of.
Housekeeping is just one factor involved with safe, compliant pesticide storage. Your pesticide storage environment should be maintained as well, protecting your inventory and personnel from potential hazards.
NEBRASKA PESTICIDE STORAGE COMPLIANCE
In Nebraska, pesticide storage compliance requires great consideration and planning. It is important to know the characteristics and hazards of the pesticides you will be storing in order to know the environment they require.
Certain chemical characteristics can be found on a pesticide’s Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS). These characteristics, such as flash point (if flammable), boiling point, and melting point, can help you determine if certain features such as climate control and mechanical ventilation are required for safe storage. An MSDS will also list hazards and incompatibilities, helping you prepare for and prevent hazardous situations.
When storing your pesticides on shelves, it is important to use metal shelving, as metal does not soak up pesticides and is easier to clean. Additionally, storing liquid pesticides below dry pesticides will prevent contamination of dry pesticides, should your liquid pesticides leak.
Another important safety practice is to keep your pesticides always in their original container. Doing anything other than this is not only a violation of the law, but it is extremely hazardous. The original container is well-marked with a label that details hazards. Any other container poses a risk of consumption by unaware persons.
Your pesticides should always be segregated from other materials such as insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides to ensure proper usage of each substance. It most definitely should be separated from seed, feed, and human food for the health of persons and livestock.
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U.S. Chemical Storage offers fully customizable pesticide storage buildings. When it comes to safety and compliance our pesticide storage buildings are tailored to your needs. We are dedicated to facilitating the Nebraska pesticide storage process by bringing you the unbeatable security provided by our pesticide storage buildings. A containment sump can prevent leaks or spills from escaping your storage building, while our optional accessories are designed to bring increased protection through climate control, mechanical ventilation, and more. For a safe and compliant Nebraska pesticide storage solution, come see what options are available from the most trusted name in pesticide storage buildings.
While this document may cover a number of important compliant Nebraska pesticide storage solutions, it cannot address every single situation for keeping pesticide storage maintained and compliant. Consult your state or local agencies and your pesticide’s MSDS for more information on safe pesticide storage practices.

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Melbourne is going to lose Angus Brayshaw for the rest of the finals and his angry coach wants consequences for the hit that caused his injury.
AFL: Melbourne’s Angus Brayshaw was left unconscious and had to be stretchered from the MCG after a flying collision with Collingwood’s Brayden Maynard. Teammate Jack Viney got stuck into Maynard, resulting in a shredded jumper.
Brayshaw is set to miss “a few weeks” after his first-quarter collision with Maynard in Thursday night’s qualifying final at the MCG. It could mean his finals campaign is over.
Goodwin suggested the Collingwood defender should face consequences for the hit, which knocked Brayshaw out cold in a continuation of his troubling history of head knocks.
Brayshaw sat out half of his second season in 2016 and the majority of 2017, as he suffered four concussions over the course of 12 months.
“I guess that will be sorted out during the week, but we‘ve got a pretty shattered player in there … you can only go by the facts,” Goodwin said.
“You (Maynard) jumped off the ground and knocked a guy out, so I guess time will tell.
“He’s upset, he’s obviously had a history with concussion a long time ago, so he’s dealing with some emotion there, but he wants to play finals footy – he’s going to be missing for a few weeks, and that’s disappointing.”
Goodwin said a poor first quarter had let the Demons down more than their terrible conversion, managing only seven goals from 69 inside 50s to Collingwood’s 37.
“There‘s a lot of optimism, we played the right way for a big part of that game … to dominate territory, to dominate inside 50, to win the (contested possessions) by 15 by the end of the game, that’s a pretty big turnaround in the game of footy, and that gives us a lot of heart because that is what stands up in finals footy,” he said.
“But you‘ve got to do it for the whole time, and in the first quarter we weren’t able to do that.”
Goodwin said Brayshaw‘s withdrawal from the game in the first quarter had left Melbourne unable to deploy Christian Petracca forward as much as planned, contributing to the poor offensive performance.
“We just didn‘t execute as well as we would have liked once we had our opportunities, and that shows up on the scoreboard – we didn’t kick a big enough score to win, so we’ve still got a little bit of work to do in that space,” he said.
The coach said he had not seen much of the incident involving Jacob van Rooyen, who appeared to collect Dan McStay in the chin with a bump during the first term.
He said van Rooyen was unlikely to be in trouble with the MRO because McStay remained on the ground, although the key forward did spend 20 minutes on the bench as he received a concussion test.


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Published in the Daily Telegraph, 21 April 2016
It’s reasonably well known that the Rudd-Gillard government burdened taxpayers for decades to come by locking-up-in-legislation massive unfunded spending. What’s less well recognised is how Labor-in-government also sabotaged the broader economy to benefit the unions. The common element is Labor’s determination to make itself the natural party of government by entrenching both social spending and union power.
The previous Labor government committed more than $100 billion extra over the next decade to schools and public hospitals. Then there was another $100 billion extra for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Some of it was justified and most of it was legislated but none of it was funded. That’s why the reforms of the 2014 budget were so necessary and why the Liberal National coalition’s continued commitment to savings is so important.
Still, this attempt to create more institutional and individual dependence on big spending government was just one side of Labor’s political project. The other side was using the levers of government to strengthen a union movement that’s become the Labor Party’s continuous campaign unit.
Bill Shorten feels compelled to oppose the restoration of the Australian Building and Construction Commission – even though it would add at least $5 billion a year in productivity gains – because this is the blood price demanded by the building union in return for the $3 million dollars that the CFMEU has given Labor over the past four years.
Abolishing a tough cop-on-the-beat for the construction industry was the most obvious product of Labor’s dependence on the union movement but there were many others.
Labor’s Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal was designed to make non-unionised owner-drivers less competitive than largely unionised company drivers. This week owner drivers frightened of losing their livelihoods have been protesting around parliament house to have this tribunal abolished. The Transport Workers Union has given well over a million dollars to Labor over the past four years.
The Labor government put an extra $1.2 billion into wage supplements for aged care centres and an extra $300 million into childcare centres but only if they had union-negotiated enterprise agreements. The main union covering these workers, United Voice, has given Labor nearly $4 million over the past four years.
The Labor government passed laws to prevent foreign vessels from competing with highly unionised Australian costal shipping. Despite these laws, the number of Australian-flagged ships in the coastal shipping trade has dropped from 30 to 15 – while costs to businesses have doubled. The maritime union has given Labor a quarter of a million dollars over the past four years.
As well, to help the unions, the former Labor government stacked the Fair Work Commission with former union officials, passed laws deeming non-unionised contractors to be workers, and made it much easier for unions to enter workplaces to recruit new members. Every single one of these changes has imposed additional burdens on businesses and made it harder for them to create jobs.
Every year, Labor receives about $5 million from the unions. Over and above that, there’s tens of millions of dollars that the unions spend every federal election on their own campaigns against the coalition. And there’s the thousands of union organisers who work for weeks and even months as a full-time professional campaign team for Labor candidates.
This gives Labor a permanent election war chest and a permanent campaign army that the coalition can never match. It’s no wonder that Labor is so keen to use taxpayers’ money and the law to stop the decline in union membership.
The problem is not just that this makes the political contest less fair. It also makes our economy less productive. Labor’s measures to boost unionism in the childcare and aged care sectors have put more costs onto government and more price pressure on consumers. Labor’s measures to boost unionism in the transport and construction sectors have depressed productivity and increased regulation. They can all be dressed up as “boosting quality”, “enhancing safety” and “protecting jobs” but they’re really all about protecting the Labor-union business model regardless of the long-term impact on Australia’s efficiency and prosperity.
By losing control of our borders, building over-priced school halls and installing home insulation batts that caught fire, the Rudd-Gillard government became notorious for incompetence and waste. By introducing a carbon tax and a mining tax, it demonstrated its addiction to big government. But just how much lasting damage was done by the worst government in our history is only now starting to become apparent.
But Labor hasn’t learned and would do it all again and more. If the opposition were to sneak back into government after just one term, with only Rudd and Gillard gone from the cabinets that made all these disastrous decisions, our country is doomed to the economic stagnation that now characterises continental Europe.


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Who are the newly elected ICJ judges?
By Justice Hub
Every three years, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gets an infusion of fresh blood. One third of the judges – five of the fifteen – are up for re-election or are replaced.
The ICJ is the highest court of the United Nations. It’s the place that states go to when they need to get a ruling that another state has lived up to its obligations – or not.
The ICJ settles boundaries, agrees huge compensations and can mean a state is lauded or held in ignominy. This year the court said that Japan was illegally whaling. That made the news!
The position of judge at the ICJ requires persons of “high moral character, who possess the qualifications required in their respective countries for appointment to the highest judicial offices, or just juris consults of recognized competence in international law”. (Source: ICJ)
There’s is a complicated voting procedure, conducted by the United Nations Security Council and United Nations General Assembly. The judges have to get an absolute majority in both places – at least 8 votes at the UNSC and at least 97 votes at the General Assembly. (Source: UN)
So, who are the men and women who make decisions about international law? Who are the new elected judges?
Mohamed Bennouna (1943) Re-elected
- From Marrakech, Morocco
- He has a Ph.D in international law and was professor and dean at the Faculty of Law in Rabat, Morocco
- Between 1998 and 2001, he was a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- From 2001 to 2006, he was the permanent representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations
- First elected to the ICJ in 2006
Joan E. Donoghue(1957) Re-elected
- Graduated in Russian studies and biology. Attended law school at the Boalt Hall School of Law and got her Ph.D at Berkeley University
- She served as a legal adviser in the famous ICJ case Nicaragua vs United States of America
- Between 2007 and 2010 worked for the US State Department as a principal deputy legal adviser, advising state career attorneys, the Secretary and other senior officials
- First elected in 2010 to replace previous US judge Thomas Buergenthal to fill the remainder of his 9-year mandate
(Photo: Robin van Lonkhuijsen)
James Richard Crawford (1948)
- Born in Adelaide, Australia
- Graduated in English and history, and graduated first of his LLB class with honours
- He has honorary doctorates from several universities, including Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Budapest, the University of Paris 1 Sorbonne and University of Amsterdam
- Whewell Professor of international law at Cambridge University
- Member of the Matrix Chambers in London
- He was nominated by the Australian government as an ICJ judge in 2012
(Photo: Russian Embassy)
Kirill Gevorgian (1953)
- Born in Moscow, Russia
- Graduated and made a major in the Moscow Institute of International Relations
- Russian Ambassador to the Netherlands, and head of the legal department in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and Member of the International Law Commission (ILC)
Patrick Lipton Robinson (1944)
(Source: Robert Goddijn)
- Born in Jamaica
- Holds a BA in English, Latin and Economics from the University College of the West Indies. And LLB with honours from the London University and an LLM in International Law from King’s College in the areas of the Law of the Sea, Law of the Air, Treaties and Armed Conflict
- Former President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Presided over the case of Slobodan Milosevic, making the former Yugoslav president the first former head of state to be tried for war crimes

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