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Under den här kursen lär du dig hur du hanterar Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) till både enheter, användare och data. Vi går igenom hur du använder andra tekniker, såsom Rights Management Service och andra Windows Server baserade teknologier som Azure AD Conect, för att integrera ert lokala AD med Azure. Efter genomförd kurs kommer du veta hur man utformar och implementerar en molnbaserad lösning för både iOS- och Android-enheter.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Use devices in the enterprise environment.
  • Implement and administer Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
  • Connect AD DS with Azure AD.
  • Manage devices in Microsoft Office 365.
  • Plan and implement Intune.
  • Use Intune to manage devices.
  • Plan and implement app support.
  • Use Intune to manage applications and Resource Access.
  • Plan and implement Microsoft Azure Rights Management (Azure RMS).
  • Plan and protect data.
  • Recover data and operating systems.

In addition to their professional experience, students who attend this training should already have the following technical knowledge:

  • TCP/IP networking fundamentals
  • Understanding of Domain Name System (DNS)
  • Working knowledge of Active Directory principles
  • Understanding of the public key infrastructure (PKI) fundamentals
  • Understanding of cloud-based service concepts
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 fundamentals, including Remote Desktop Services
  • Experience with Windows 10
  • Familiarity with Windows PowerShell
  • Basic knowledge of mobile platforms

Using devices in the enterprise environment

This is an overview module that introduces changes and challenges in today's typical workplace, and the solutions to address them. The intention of this module is to set the stage for later modules, and to introduce the Enterprise Mobility Suite.

  • Overview of devices in an enterprise
  • Device management features
  • Overview of the EMS

Implementing and administering Azure AD

In this module students will learn how to manage devices in an on-premises Active Directory environment. They will learn about cloud identity, and the features that Azure AD provides. They also will learn about Azure AD offerings, how to create and manage an Azure AD tenant, and how claims-based authentication works.

  • Overview of AD DS
  • Overview of Azure AD
  • Creating and managing Azure AD
  • Managing authentication in Azure AD

Connecting AD DS with Azure AD

In this module students will learn how to connect their on-premises AD DS with Azure AD. They will learn about Azure AD Connect, and how either to synchronize entire identities to Azure AD, including password hashes, or to establish federation with Azure AD.

  • Preparing AD DS for directory synchronization
  • Implementing Azure AD Connect
  • Planning and implementing federation

Managing devices in Office 365

In this module students will learn about Office 365 and its main features. The focus of this module is on device management by using mobile device management for Office 365.

  • Overview of Office 365
  • MDM for Office 365

Planning and implementing Microsoft Intune

In this module students will learn how to plan for Microsoft Intune, how to deploy an Intune client, and how to perform basic Intune administration.

  • Planning for Intune
  • Deploying Intune clients
  • Basic Intune administration

Managing devices by using Intune

In this module students will learn how to enroll and manage mobile devices with Intune, create, manage and deploy different types of Intune policies, and manage updates and Windows Defender by using Microsoft Intune.

  • Working with Microsoft Intune policies
  • Mobile device management
  • Managing updates and Windows Defender

Using Microsoft Intune to manage applications and resource access

In this module students will learn how to manage application deployments by using Microsoft Intune. They will also learn how to deploy settings, such as VPN profiles, Wi-Fi profiles and certificates to Intune clients.

  • Application lifecycle management
  • Application deployment process
  • Managing access to company resources

Planning and implementing Azure RMS

In this module students will learn how to plan and implement Azure Rights Management to protect digital content. They also will learn which applications can integrate with Azure Rights Management, and how to use Azure Rights Management with Office 365 in an on-premises infrastructure.

  • Overview of Azure RMS.
  • Implementing Azure RMS.

Planning and implementing app support

In this module students will learn how they can mitigate compatibility issues between applications on the same device, and between the application and the operating system. They also will learn about RemoteApp and Azure RemoteApp programs, which enable you to run Windows apps on any device with the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client.

  • Planning and implementing application compatibility options
  • Publishing and using RemoteApp programs
  • Publishing and using Azure RemoteApp

Planning and implementing remote access

In this module students will learn how to provide access to data in work folders, and data that is stored in the cloud.

  • Planning and implementing Work Folders
  • Implementing cloud data access
  • Planning and implementing mobility options

Planning and protecting data

In this module students will learn how to protect data on a device by using encryption or BitLocker. They will also learn about Enterprise Data Protection and how data can be remotely wiped if a device is lost or stolen.

  • Planning and implementing encryption (Short)
  • Planning and implementing BitLocker (Short)
  • Protecting data on devices

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  • Breed: Domestic Shorthair
  • Color: White
  • Age: Kitten
  • Sex: Male
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  • Hair: Short

Adoption Process:  Our adoptable animals are located at one of our two adoption centers or in foster homes. We encourage interested parties to apply prior to meeting to ensure a good match. To apply, visit For questions email

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Cats:  Does well.
Dogs:  Unknown
Kids:  Good with kids over 5 who are kitty-friendly.
Companion Animal:  Needs one!

Health information: All cats and kittens will be spayed or neutered, Felv/Fiv tested, receive vaccinations appropriate for age, preventative deworming, and microchipping prior to adoption

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About Our Rescue Group...

Saving One Life is a completely foster based, volunteer run, no kill rescue. Our motto is that although we can't save the world, it makes a world of difference to the ones we do save.

We primarily work with cats and kittens of all ages. We frequently take in "behavioral cases" including semi-ferals needing rehabilitation. We do take in purebred cats of all kinds but specialize in the Cornish Rex and Devon Rex. We occasionally have small dogs to medium dogs available. The majority of our animals come from the euthanasia list at the pound or off the rescue list at the humane society. We do have occasional owner surrenders, but we prefer to help those most in need first.

If you find a litter of kittens or your cat accidently got pregnant - please contact us if you are able to foster them. We cannot take in more animals without foster homes. All supplies and vet care will be taken care of - all you have to do is open your home and heart to them until they can find homes of their own!

All of our cats & kittens are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, blood tested for felv/fiv, dewormed, and microchipped. Adoption fee's range depending on the animal's age and breed. All adoption fees assist other animals in our care - we do not have any paid employees. We are a completely no kill group that provides sanctuary to any "unadoptable" animals that come into our care including hospice care. Our animals all live in homes with foster parents so that they can be acclimated to all sorts of situations and so that they can live as a part of a family until finding their "forever family" instead of in kennels or cages.

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When contacting to find out about a cat/kitten emails are ALWAYS preferred and will get a much faster response. If you are leaving a phone message please speak clearly, leave your name, the name of the animal you are interested in, phone number and a brief message.

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Carl's Jr. Doesn't Care If You Think They Objectify Women

By now you've probably seen the new David & Goliath-created commercial for Carl's Jr. called Anthem. What we love about it is its FU approach to marketing. The chain doesn't care if anyone thinks a gigantic burger is unhealthy to eat. And they don't care if anyone feels women are degraded by appearing half dressed in their ads.

The brand's new mantra spells these beliefs out very clearly:

- "We believe in burgers. Big, fat, juices-running-down-your-arm kind of burgers."
- "We believe in putting hot models in our commercials, because ugly ones don't sell burgers."
- "We believe that life is short. So if it feels good, do it, and if it tastes good, eat it."

We have to say, we love the approach. Too many brands bend over the second someone complains. We appreciate the fact Carl's Jr. isn't distracted by all that politically correct crap and they they are happy to foist scantily clad women eating gigantic burgers in our face.

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Is Budweiser Afraid of Gay Soldiers?

We'd like to know your thoughts on this one. A recent Budweiser ad centers on the story of a soldier returning home. In the ad, he first calls a friend and then his parents. When he finally gets home he is first hugged by his friend and then his family and other friends.

Some are calling this ad gay-themed. We say it is. We also say who gives a shit? Anyone, gay or straight, can shoot a gun and kill the enemy. But what we do give a shit about is the way Budweiser crafted this ad. Nebulous is a good word to describe the way the ad plays out.

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Aflac Makes Underwhelming Choice For New Duck Voice

Are you kidding me? No disrespect to Hugo Minnesota resident Dan McKeague but is he best Aflac could come up with for the new voice of its duck? Seriously? It sounds like the guy's trying to pinch a loaf that just won't pinch.

Now we're well aware the brand was trying to find a new voice and not a replication of the Gilbert Gottfried version but, wow, they should have called Scott Monty. Now that man can do voices!

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by Steve Hall    Apr-27-11
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Louis Vuitton Hooks Up With Angelina Jolie

For the cool sum of $10 million, Angelina Jolie has signed a deal with Louis Vuitton to front a new global campaign for the fashion brand. The campaign, shot by Annie Liebowitz, will break this summer in print.

Jolie follows in the footsteps of Madonna, Scarlett Johansson, Keith Richards, Uma Thurman and Jennifer Lopez, all of whom have fronted the brand in the past.

by Steve Hall    Apr-25-11
Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Celebrity

Dos Equis Offers Advice to Men on Approaching Women

As a man who might approach a woman in a social situation, would it behoove him to throw caution to the wind and scream out loud at her? That would seem to be the stance of those who are offended by a new Dos Equis ad which carries the headline, "Approach women like you do wild animals, With caution and a soothing voice."

Writing in AdWeek/AdFreak (it's kind of hard to tell the difference these days), David Gianatasio said the ad "not only offends women but adds an extra layer of insult by showing the world's least interesting Great White Colonial Man swaggering around in the brush with a pair of tribesmen at his side."

We beg to differ, David. A healthy dose of caution and soothing suavity is always advised when approaching women. After all, men certainly don't want to risk getting their head bitten off, a suffering which, sadly, is perpetrated upon men by women far too often.

Better safe than sorry. Always good advice in our book when it comes to interacting with the opposite sex.

by Steve Hall    Apr-25-11
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Yawn. St. Pauli Girl Choose New St. Pauli Girl

Does anyone really care? Really? After all, one brand ambassador is just like another, right? But we wouldn't be doing our job here at Adrants if we didn't point out every last bit of hot on the advertising landscape so, yawn, here goes.

St. Pauli Girl has chosen a new...St. Pauli Girl Her name is Jennifer England and she's from Michigan. She's a former Miss Venus Swimwear International as well as Miss Hawaiian Tropic International so she's well qualified to become St. Pauli Girl's version of a barmaid which is sort of like a cross between a high school cheerleader and lingerie model.

How this sells beer we know not but we also know not how any other brand's mascot sells anything either. We're just glad some brand enjoy serving up eye candy as opposed to the less interesting stuffed/fluffy/talking animal variety.

And that, friends, is your useless news item of the day.

Oh but wait!

If you're a poster collector, the press release informs you can order a free poster of England in St. Pauli Girl wear up through May 20 and sign up to win an autographed poster (the 3 millionth one) which will be hand delivered by England, herself.

by Steve Hall    Apr-21-11
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Chrysler Continues Celebrity Fetish With Dr. Dre

Chrysler continues to get its hip on, this time with the addition of music mogul Dr. Dre who will appear in a new campaign - debuting May 4 - for Chrysler's 300 sedan. Joining Dre in the campaign will be Detroit Lions football player Ndamukong Suh and fashion designer John Varvatos.

Of the new campaign, Chrysler CEO Olivier Francious said, "This will be a breakthrough in terms of how you speak about luxury in this country. It doesn't speak about luxury in terms of just aesthetic, but about luxury in terms of the spirit. This is a departure from traditional advertising. I want to be at least as visible as my competitors even without having the same resources."

Dr. Dre follows Eminem's "epic" commercial and ode to Detroit which appeared during the Super Bowl the star did for the brand's 200.

by Steve Hall    Apr-20-11
Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Celebrity

Keira Knightley Gives Photographer Blue Balls

Back in March we told you Keira Knightley would be reprising her role for Coco Mademoiselle in a new film from the brand. That film debuted yesterday. It's a very stylized piece which follows Knightley from her bed to a photoshoot.

Of course the whole thing devolves into the stereotypical tease-fest between photographer and model until they're making love to each other without actually touching. As things progress, a door gets locked and even more love making is expected.

That is until the poor photographer is dumped by the model, presumably, in protest of the soundtrack which proclaims, "This is a man's world."

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by Steve Hall    Apr- 5-11
Topic: Brands, Celebrity, Racy, Video

Three Olives Walk Into A Bar

A new campaign for Three Olives Vodka from M&C Saatchi LA settles upon the age old opening line of the classic "three guys walk into a bar..." joke. Each of the three commercials are animated and eschew the usual upscaling approach to advertising.

Explaining the campaign's approach, Proximo (parent company to Three Olives) Senior Vice President of Marketing Elwyn Gladstone said, "It seems that all the fun has been taken out of vodka with virtually all brands scrambling for the same crowded, so-called 'luxury' positioning. The Three Olives brand is set apart from that stuffy niche because while we're seriously premium, we're also seriously fun."

Well said and these spots are, indeed, fun. Our favorite is Three Sugar Daddies Walk Into a Bar. Why? Because we love twisted humor like that.

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by Steve Hall    Mar-29-11
Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Commercials

Kraft to Turn Tweets Into TV Ads Within 24 Hours

If you tweet about Kraft Macaroni & Cheese today, your tweet could be in a commercial on TV tonight. Kraft and its agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, are monitoring Twitter for tweets that mention Mac & Cheese. Five tweets will be picked for inclusion in five commercial which will be written and filmed today. One ad will air during Conan and Lopez and the other four will be viewable on the brand's Facebook page.

Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Senior Brand manager Noelle O'Meara told Mashable the tactic may be repeated if today's efforts go well. She also said the immediacy of social media has nudged marketers ever closer to real-time marketing.

Get tweeting, people!

by Steve Hall    Mar-28-11
Topic: Agencies, Brands, Social, Television

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Many people dream of having a home based business. If you have a family, you can work around their schedule. You can save money by staying at home with small children instead of paying for daycare. Of course, you need to be disciplined and structured so that you adhere to completing your work tasks.

First thing you must do when deciding that you will work at home is what you will be doing. What supplies you’ll need and where you will be setting up your work space. There are many different avenues of making money online. If you find your passion and make it a business, it won’t seem like work at all.

A way to get more sales on your site is to offer business people the opportunity of putting ads on your website. You would get paid if someone either buys something or clicks on the banner or advertisement you have posted on your website. The possibilities and opportunities in online home businesses are infinite.

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Do your due diligence before attempting to start your business. Writing and affiliate marketing are just two of the opportunities out there. If you like to express yourself by writing or have a knack for creative and fresh ideas, writing can be an awesome way to make some money.

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Three years in the making, Saint Dymphna is the long-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed album God’s Money.

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An integral element of the New York City arts scene, Gang Gang consists of Lizzi Bougatsos, Brian Degraw, Tim Dewit and Josh Diamond. Leader of the gang is multi-talented individual Brian Degraw who creates the band’s striking artwork and Diamond credits with majority input in the band’s artistic direction. Where other bands may be moulded to fit the fashion, as a creative collective Gang Gang possess a myriad of talents that have enabled them to well-define and control our aesthetic.” You get the feeling Gang Gang are not trying to deliberately react against or subvert the current trends, they just aren’t interested. Dismissive of “kids with overnight success that are forgotten about the next day… we’re just not into that.”

Gang Gang’s innovative, artsy approach to music has not gone unrecognised, in 2007 they were approached by the Whitney Biennial — an accolade seldom extended to musicians. When touring, Gang Gang make movies and in 2007 the multimedia art and audio film Retina Riddim testifies to their diversity. For the Whitney Biennial, they also incorporated visual installation into their performance. As Diamond says, “It’s kind of nice to be in a group where we are so artful with what we do.” This crossover of art and music is “something very fluid. I’m not a visual artist, but I like to think we paint with sound.”

Having toured with high profile groups such as Sonic Youth and The Animal Collective, very recently Gang Gang collaborated with the Boredoms in a piece that involved 88 drummers on 08.08.08 in their native New York City. To be recognised and sought out by the Boredoms, whose music Diamond describes as “sounding nothing like Gang Gang, but spiritually we’re the same. They’re just further down the line than we want to go.” The collaboration is a project that Gang Gang are massively enthusiastic about, with Diamond describing it as “overwhelming… a highlight of my life.”

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On October 4th, the USC Lancaster Native American Studies Program will host a public open house to inaugurate the opening of its new center. Faculty and staff of this 15,000 square foot facility in historic downtown Lancaster invite the public to tour the new Native American Studies Center at 119 South Main Street from 5 pm to 7 pm. Guests will have the opportunity to tour the NAS Center’s gallery spaces, archives, classrooms, and archaeology, language, and folklife/oral history labs. Refreshments will be provided and performers and artists will be on hand to demonstrate Native American traditions.

Through a partnership between USCL and the City of Lancaster, the Native American Studies Center was established to promote regional Native American art, culture, and history. Home to the world’s largest collection of Catawba Indian pottery, the state’s only university archive devoted to South Carolina’s Native cultures, a 200,000 piece collection of artifacts from the Ice Age to the present, the area’s only Catawba linguist, an on-going Native American folklife and oral history project, and the only Native American Studies academic program in the state, the NAS Center will offer exhibits of regional Native American Art, classes and workshops, a public archaeology lab, and other public programs. Following the Oct. 4th open house, the NAS Center will be open Tuesdays through Sundays and Mondays by appointment. Both the public open house and regular admission are free.

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With regard to the procedural side of the show — let’s face it, there are only three crime stories to tell. It’s all about how you tell the story. What is your show’s unique voice, how can you tell the same story in a way that can only be done on your show. And in our case it’s with a New Orleans POV as well as through the eyes of this couple who live and work together.

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There were a number of women who passed on the project before they ever came in the door, and we were never really told if it was because of the gay content, or whether they wanted to do a half-hour instead of a drama, or didn’t want to do TV at all, etc. Pilot season is a cluster-fuck with so many projects and everyone fighting for the same talent. It’s a wonder that anything ever gets cast and on the air.

What ever the case, we didn’t really get the feeling that playing a gay character was a issue, and honestly, the amazing amount of talent that walked through the door was awesome. People really responded to the script. I think The L Word may have helped us with that. Those women have been on the cover of every magazine and newspaper across North America. And it sure helped that we were shooting in New Orleans and not Canada.

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Re: Who's got IT and can and will teach it?

Mr. Watson,

While I really applaud and encourage the effort to seek out instructors who not only possess some level of IS, but can actually teach it, I'd offer the caveat that you're opening a can worms with your request; as evinced by most of the threads on this forum dealing with IT/IS, a greater number of folks purport to have some understanding of what IT and IS are than can actually cogently describe even the most obvious, fundamental manifestations thereof (and as tough as these skills are to acquire, the various tests/expressions of basic competency -- and I mean basic -- are very easy to describe and engage in), let alone actually demonstrate the slightest IS skills.

I think what you're going to end up with is a never-ending list of shining recommendations from well-meaning folks who have misinterpreted decent external martial skill -- and even more likely, crappy external martial skill - as being the Queen of Our Dreams. All of which, inevitably, will deteriorate into a series of indignant counter-posts claiming that so-and-so has been unfairly left off the list, or ad hominem attacks on anyone challenging the efficacy of such-and-such an organization's martial skill and teaching methodology. I mean, it's great fun if you have a bucket of popcorn and a good comfy seat (and nothing more worthwhile to occupy your time -- which would be just about anything else), but I wouldn't expect to gain anything worthwhile to go on if I were you. As much as can be said for the current trend of collective interpretation (i.e. wiki-knowledge), this topic is most certainly not an example of consensus trumping credentials. Sorry, but the hive mind just won't cut it with regard to IS.

I don't mean to color your curiosity as wasted effort, either. As much as the noise overwhelms the signal in this topic, you've got a great resource here on Aikiweb for finding opportunities, but you're really going to have to do some hard work to find out what's what, and who's who (and I'm not even talking about starting this work once you find someone credible who can actually teach you how to begin). First off, there are three names bandied about here quite regularly who are agreed to have something tangible, powerful, and replicable by those who have laid hands upon them. So do your reading -- notice that everyone who meets these three heavy hitters (er, literally) comes away with their entire world view shattered as far as MAs go. Those who show the most skepticism seem to do so from behind a keyboard…or from an entrenched belief system. Second, doubt that these heavy hitters could possibly live up to all the encomia, and that all the accolades come from a bunch of easily hoodwinked asthmatics whose only martial experiences emanate from a joystick and computer screen. And so resolve to go find out for yourself, because as a martial artist you realize that understanding of any merit is highly somatic, often painful, and hard-earned. You're really in luck here, because two of the three figures you'll read about hold seminars offering you a chance to not only feel what all the hooha's about, but will teach you the skills to set you in the right direction. The third person is welcoming and extremely generous to all sincere inquiries. Third, take everything you feel and experience with a conceptual grain of salt, and then go seek out the other two, just to broaden your scope of understanding. This is not to say that these three teachers are the end-all-be-all, but you'll have an effective baseline for further comparison. Then when you drop by the (insert bitchin' esoteric name here) School of (insert bitchin', really popular martial art-du jour here), you'll know whether Dai-Soke Earle "Phoenix Claw" McGinty has the goods or not the second you lay hands on him (and, hey, he really might). The important part in all of this is that you go out and feel for yourself. Again, this is not to say that you won't get some good recommendations from your query, but you already have a well-recommended pool (tiny though it may be) from which to avoid a lot of wasted time and effort.

One last caveat: don't expect any of this to come to you; do expect to have to go far and spend time and money to get to it. It would be really great if one of the seminar teachers decided to hold a gathering near you, but most of the folks who've felt any of this have either driven or flown quite a ways to do so. Before being consumed by my graduate program, I made a few trips of six to seven hours to experience it; people like Mark Murray have driven or flown even farther. I can't begin to detail how valuable and rewarding the effort will be.

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Dassault Falcon 900, Santa Barbara, Calif., June 10, 2007–The Safety Board blamed the Falcon accident on the erroneous gross weight calculation and improper trim setting by the captain, which resulted in the airplane’s failure to rotate at Vr as expected and the captain’s decision to abort the takeoff at high speed. The first officer had entered a takeoff gross weight of 45,500 pounds on the takeoff and landing distance card with the V-speeds for that weight (V1 at 116 knots and Vr at 129 knots); he did not compute the center of gravity. The actual weight was 46,481 pounds and the V speeds were 118 knots for V1 and 131 knots for Vr. The stabilizer trim was set at -5.5 degrees, while the correct setting for the calculated c.g. would have been between -7 and -7.5 degrees.

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Flying Cloud medicine cabinet door

We have a 2016, 25ft. Flying Cloud. I am tall and find the top hinged swing up medicine cabinet door awkward to use. Has anyone changed that type cabinet door to horizontal sliders? Was it difficult and do you like it better?
Wonder why Airstream uses that type of door instead of sliders?

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Wow. What a great idea. I hate that door on a good day. After every trip, I grab a screwdriver and tighten the loose hinges. I have to hold it up with my head while I look for what I need.

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That was one of the things that bothered us when we took possession of our Flying Cloud FB '25. I searched the forum and found that some people have put pneumatic lift hinges on the door to keep it open. There are also pictures of the install. Haven't done it yet, but it is on the project list.

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I put a "boat hatch support" or something like that on our 27fb top-hinged med cab door in our Pete from West Marine. It's a spring rod maybe 20" long that mounts to the bottom corner of the cabinet doorframe and the bottom corner of the mirrored door.

When you open the top-hinged door, the spring "locks" open and the door stays there, no headaches. To close the door, lift the door slightly, bend the spring so it folds onto itself and whalaa. A little tricky to get mounted but once in it works great.

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I put "piano bench" hinge supports on the medicine cabinet door and the door over the fridge on our 2014 25fb and it solved all the issues. I got the idea from a previous thread on the same subject.

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Here's a short video of my solution. A simple pneumatic lifter. Two screws. Maybe 20 minutes to install.

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Here is another solution: http://www.airforums.com/forums/f295...ml#post1821838.

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The cheap lightweight plastic latch on our very heavy mirrored medicine cabinet lift-up door broke on our first long trip in our 2016 FC 27 - found it hanging loose on the upper hinges when we checked things at a rest area. That mirror door is way too heavy for that application. Also, as has been said, it's inconvenient to actually get things out from the shelf while trying to hold door open. Husband took door and hinges off entirely for the rest of the trip.

So far I don't mind having just the open shelf up there - mostly miss the mirror (been propping a hand-held up on the shelf for now).

I had been thinking about a sliding mirror/door that would cover maybe half the space. Now we're thinking instead about simply putting up an acrylic mirror with glue or strong tape on the flat wall to the right of the sink just above all the switches and leaving the shelf open. Figure the acrylic won't break if it falls, it's lightweight, and can be cut to fit the space.

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Great Idea! Where did you get them and what sizes did you use? Did you put one on both sides or just one?
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Scherzi - great idea. Tim A - also a good idea. Hardware store here I come.
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Kscherzi & Tim - like both of these! Now to show the resident handyman (aka spouse) & see which one he likes. Also much cheaper than new mirror.
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I fixed that frustrating FC Medicine cabinet "lift up" door", and also the similar "up opening" door over the refrigerator by adding these simple "gas shocks". Now both doors stay fully up when wanted and still close and stay latched when traveling.

Apexstone 100N/22.5lb Gas Struts/Gas Springs/Gas Strut Lift Support/Gas Shocks Lift Lid,Set of 4

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Amaier7771, did you use two struts per door or is one each adequate?

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“Product quality in the context of logistics can best be defined by an agreed set of performance measurement metrics, standards and criteria between the transportation organization and its network of agents, vendors or partners,” says Aidan Oliver, director of field operations for AIT Worldwide Logistics, Inc.

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What steps must a company take to effectively establish quality-driven processes?

To successfully implement a strategic quality control process within your organization, you must first ensure that precise guidelines, standards and expectations have been clearly and comprehensively outlined. Determine and assess the demands of your customers and measure your network’s levels of performance specifically and scientifically according to those demands.

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Similarly, corporate resources and operational efficiencies should be properly allocated, particularly in terms of acquiring IT support in preparing internal and external reports and setting up an EDI infrastructure providing real-time information exchange between your organization and your network of agents. Because statuses including ‘recovered,’ ‘proof of delivery’ and ‘out for delivery’ are updated electronically as dispatchers and drivers change the status within the system, EDI allows logistics providers to provide customers and shippers the timely information they demand — and deserve.

Lastly, penalties, disciplinary action and/or probationary periods must be established and enforced in order to encourage and engage your line haul providers and preferred cartage vendors to remain in good standing with your program’s quality-driven standards. For instance, mandate that proof of deliveries (PODs) must be entered into the system within one hour of drop-off time, or that all pickups and deliveries must be invoiced within 24 hours from the time all transportation charges were approved.

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In the tradition of Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic, one girl chooses to change her fortune and her fate by falling in love.

Love is real in the town of Grimbaud, and Fallon Dupree has dreamed of attending high school there for years. After all, generations of Duprees have successfully followed the (100% accurate!) love fortunes from Zita’s famous Love Charms Shop to happily marry their high school sweethearts. It’s a tradition. So she is both stunned and devastated when her fortune states that she will NEVER find love.

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China's economy has grown at a slightly slower-than-normal pace in the first quarter of 2011, while inflation has accelerated, despite attempts to rein in soaring food and property prices, the latest economic data from the country's National Bureau of Statistics shows.

Gross domestic product (GDP) in the world's second-largest economy grew by 9.7 per cent year-on-year in the first three months of 2011, while the politically sensitive consumer price index (CPI) rose by 5.0 per cent.

The CPI had risen by 5.4 per cent year-on-year for March (the fastest pace since July 2008), well above the government's 2011 target of 4.0 per cent. In February, the CPI rose by 4.9 per cent.

GDP, meanwhile, continued apace with recent trends, having grown by 9.8 per cent in the final quarter of 2010, and 10.3 per cent for the entire year.

"The national economy maintained steady and fast development and had a very good beginning [to the year]," Sheng Laiyun, an NBS spokesman, said.

Sheng said that keeping inflation at 5.0 per cent was "no easy job", with food prices soaring by 11.7 per cent in the first quarter and housing costs rising by 6.5 per cent.

China "must be persist in managing inflation expectations", Sheng said. He termed the 0.2 per cent fall in inflation from February to March a "good sign".

Both Hu Jintao, China's president, and Wen Jiabao, the premier, have called for more balanced economic growth. Speaking on Friday, President Hu warned that China must boost domestic consumption in order to have more sustainable levels of growth and to balance its trade account.

On Thursday, Premier Wen warned a cabinet meeting that the government needs to be doing more to cool inflation, the Xinhua news agency reported.

"We need to skillfully handle the relationship between promoting economic growth and curbing inflation," he said.

Government measures not enough

Prices in China have remained high despite four interest rate hikes since October and tougher restrictions on bank lending.

"The Chinese economy is not slowing as planned or desired. Inflation remains stubbornly high," said Alistair Thornton, an analyst at IHS Global Insight.

"Inflation is a growing problem in the Chinese economy. For the past year, we've been watching as there's been a steady ... increase in the inflation rate from about two per cent a year ago to 5.4 per cent now. That's in spite of a lot of government efforts to try to rein in inflation, including price controls and also some tightening of the monetary policy," Patrick Chovanec, a professor of economics at Tsinghua University told Al Jazeera.

Last week, premier Wen vowed to ramp up efforts to combat rising costs, and an industry association on Wednesday ordered businesses not to raise prices in response to the government's efforts to control inflation.

The producer price index, which measures the cost of products at the factory gate, rose 7.3 per cent year-on-year in March, up from 7.2 per cent in February, the NBS figures showed.

Analysts say they expect Beijing to hike interest rates at least one more time in the coming months, and to also allow the Chinese yuan to rise faster against the US dollar, in order to make oil and other imports cheaper in Chinese terms.

China's government has been mindful of letting inflation get beyond controllable limits, as it could lead to unrest among the country's 1.3 billion citizens.

"The Chinese government is well aware that inflation following a big lending boom was one of the factors that fed into the unrest around 1988-89 and the Tiananmen protests, so ... if people get frustrated with rising prices, particularly rising food prices, there is a potential for social unrest, and that's one of the reasons that the government is paying attention to this," Professor Chovanec said.

The sharp jump in food costs will be particularly worrying to the government, as it has come at a time when prices usually fall as the spring harvest comes in, indicating inflationary pressures are stronger than is typical.

The continuing rapid growth in the country's GDP will also be cause for concern, as the government has in recent days been making efforts to steer China's expansion to a more sustainable pace.

"Really, [the inflation is] due to expansion of the money supply - trying to have a huge monetary expansion that really helps stimulate [China's] economy. Some people are looking to these high GDP numbers as the good part of the equation. In fact, they're really they are part of the problem, because it's China obsession with high GDP figures that is why they are continuing to pump money into the economy ... and that process also boosts inflation," Chovanec said.

New measures to rein in both growth and inflation could have global repercussions if they cut into Chinese demand for imported iron ore, factory machinery and other foreign goods.

Foreign exchange reserves rise

The NBS data also showed foreign exchange reserves rising past $3 trillion for the first time at the end of March. The world's largest such reserve has been rising as Beijing buys more foreign currencies in order to control the value of the yuan.

Industrial output from China's millions of factories and workshops rose 14.4 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter, while fixed asset investment, a measure of government spending on infrastructure, rose 25 per cent.

Retail sales in the first three months of the year were up 16.3 percent.

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Iran's UN envoy has accused Israel of plotting and carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed.

"It's amazing that just a few minutes after the terrorist attack, Israeli officials announced that Iran was behind it," Iran's UN Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee told a UN Security Council debate on the Middle East on Wednesday.

A suicide bomber blew up the bus in a car park at Burgas airport, a popular gateway for tourists visiting Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, killing himself, the Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver and wounding more than 30 people.

Israel has accused Iran and the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah of the bombing. Iran has denied the accusations.

"We have never and will not engage in such a despicable attempt on ... innocent people.

"Such terrorist operation could only be planned and carried out by the same regime whose short history is full of state terrorism operations and assassinations aimed implicating others for narrow political gains," Khazaee said.

He said he could provide many examples showing that Israel "killed its own citizens and innocent Jewish people during the last couple of decades in order to blame others."

"Iran is a victim of such operations and the assassinations of Iran's nuclear scientists are fresh cases in our mind," he said.

Tehran claims Israel's Mossad spy agency has been behind the slayings of at least five nuclear scientists since 2010, as well as other clandestine operations such as planting powerful computer viruses.

Israel's UN Ambassador Haim Waxman said Iran's fingerprints were all over the bomb attack in Bulgaria, as well as dozens of other plots in recent months around the world.

"These comments are appalling, but not surprising from the same government that says the 9/11 attack was a conspiracy theory and denies the Holocaust," Waxman said in a statement.

"The time has come for the world to put an end to this campaign of terror, once and for all," Waxman said.

Waxman also blamed Iran and Hezbollah for terrorist attacks and attempted attacks in recent months in India, Azerbaijan, Thailand, Kenya, Turkey and Cyprus that targeted Israelis.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said on Tuesday that a sophisticated group of conspirators was involved in the bombing. He did not give any nationalities of those believed to be responsible.