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"This is a terribly hard-hearted decision, and the truth is that something could be done about it - Barnet's Conservative councillors could reduce councillors allowances by £45k to pay for these after school clubs and holiday play schemes to continue if they thought it was a priority. We proposed a cut in councillors allowances of £200k during the budget debate, but the Tories voted against this. Scrapping the council's Barnet First magazine would save £75k – they could do that. It really is a question of priorities, and the Tories don't seem to have the right set of priorities. We would be looking at every budget to try and protect frontline services like this and to find the money to keep these subsidised places going."


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Firstly back up the data using iTunes if in case data is lost (which doesn't usually happen)
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Download the latest version of Absinthe from here: Absinthe 2.0 has arrived! | greenpois0n.com. As of this writing, the tool is version 2.0.1.
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For quite sometime now a lot of Facebook users have been wanting a "dislike" function implemented into Facebook. However, the powers that be over at the popular social networking site have deemed this as something "unnecessary". Why? Is our dislikes unimportant? Is it not hold statistical value of what we dislike? And with Google's Google+ system, would it not be beneficial to our searches to determine what we find negative? Would it not promote more quality sharing if we had the ability to "-1" something?
I find that having this added to social networks that use such a ranking system would indeed benefit the users. Why? It would give various users credence and boost their popularity in a respective networks Stream or Wall. It would also benefit in our searches to help weed out useless links and pointless leads.
It seems that popular social networks feel it is "good enough" to not have a "-1" or "dislike" feature because the simple lack of clicking "+1" or "like" works the same way. NO it does not! Giving users the power to show our disapproval over a comment, or link helps. Our dislikes are just as important, statistically as it is to promote what we do like, or what interests us.
If you, the reader, clicked on the link for this article and found it unworthy of credence or importance, you would have the ability to click a "dislike" or "-1" on it. Would you see it implemented into many websites? I doubt it, but the important places for such buttons would be on the respective social network. Brave bloggers and websites, however, would find the importance of such buttons, as it would help the editors, and the authors, know what their target audience really wants.
Is there a chance of abuse in such a feature? Of course there is. However, there is just as much of a chance for abuse with "like" and "+1". What abuse could there be? Well considering "+1" in Google searches promotes various websites to appear higher in search results across all user experiences, if a hack or script was created to generate random "+1's", a website could get itself pushed up in the ranks. This would be something beneficial for spamming or phishing sites to be more visible to potential victims.
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Jordan's government is executing their vow to "eradicate" the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL): hundreds of sorties later, Jordanian military officials believe that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the terrorist group, is in hiding because he is "frightened" that an airstrike will kill him.
"He is frightened by what we did in the last three days," said Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Jabour, a leading official in the Jordanian mission, to NBC News. "If [al-Baghdadi] is not frightened let him show himself to us and he'll see what we can do against him." al-Jabour added that the Jordanian military has placed al-Baghdadi "at the top of our list" to kill.
The Jordanian military has increased its participation in the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against ISIS significantly since the terror group released a video of the death of pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh, who the terrorists burned alive on film. King Abdullah II responded to the video vowing revenge for al-Kaseasbeh and his family, quoting Clint Eastwood's film Unforgiven, according to some reports. Some even speculated that the King was personally flying missions in Syria, though those reports have been denied by official sources.
Since Jordan joined the anti-Islamic State coalition in September, it has flown 946 sorties, according to the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper reports that Jordan completely destroyed 56 ISIS targets since Thursday. In addition to lending a fleet of aircraft, the U.S. has provided almost two dozen additional air vehicles for support.
The campaign appears to be having some effect. Reuters reports that ISIS jihadists are leaving some key areas in northern Syria that have become the focal point of the airstrike campaign. The reports, from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, claim that the Muslim group has had to redistribute its jihadist soldiers to combat attacks from both Kurdish forces on the ground and coalition strikes in the air, particularly in northern Aleppo province. This success follows news that ISIS has been completely eradicated from the Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobani, for which ISIS fought a bloody weeks-long battle.
The response to Jordan escalating its participation in airstrikes, despite the news of a retreat, has not received universal praise. For one, the government of Syria, which ISIS considers an enemy, has condemned further encroaching into their territory by Jordan, implying the airstrikes violated their nation's sovereignty. "We will not allow anyone to violate our national sovereignty and we do not need any ground troops to fight Daesh," said Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moallem, referring to the group by an Arabic acronym.
"The Syrian Arab government is fully capable of fighting Daesh valiantly and we don't need any other troops," he continued in a press conference held this week. Al-Moallem had even harsher words for Jordan, accusing them of fighting only ISIS and not the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front. The Associated Press summarizes Syria's complaints: "allowing 'terrorists— a government term for all opposition fighters seeking to topple Assad — to cross into Syria after training them in camps in Jordan [is] overseen by the United States."


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Small Town, North Dakota—Through a cascading chain of bad luck, poor decisions, and fate, I've landed in a small American town, where now, along with my girl, I manage a low-budget motel along North Dakota's I-94 corridor. The motel, built in the 1960s, sits smack-dab in the middle of the state's Bakken Oil Patch, where the world's major oil companies are racing to pump an estimated 500 billion barrels of petro from deep within the planet, oil that just six years ago was untouchable because the technology didn't exist to retrieve it.
The majority of the motel's 62 rooms are occupied long-term by the guys who are building the infrastructure needed to move the oil and natural gas from the substrata to peoples' homes and cars. They're gone before I wake in the morning, arriving back in the evening, dirty and sweaty, carrying 12-packs of Miller Lite.
The motel's other guests are a mix of meth addicts, alcoholics, homeless couples, and people arriving from afar with dreams of landing one of the countless high-paying jobs available to those willing to work. Occasionally some cheapskate with money will pass through, only to ask for a refund within minutes of checking in. But most of our short-term guests, as I did, arrive almost penniless and hungry.
If there is one commonality among all guests it's that these low-budget motels are where people feel free to be disgusting and wallow around in their own filth.
Yesterday I called the police on a woman who, along with her boyfriend, had spent the last five days in their room, drinking. Each morning at 11 a.m., I had to ask them whether they were staying another night or checking out. They always said they'd stay, but getting them to pay for their room was a hassle-and-a-half. Every hour I'd tell them they needed to pay or check out until one of them would meander into the office later in the evening with that night's rate. I learned from a cell phone she left behind she'd been whoring in one of the man camps when the workers returned.
She was wasted when the police came to remove her. Her boyfriend left with his elderly mother hours earlier, informing us he was "done with her." Once she'd been removed, I entered the room and was greeted by dozens of flies buzzing around what had become a foul abyss of human depravity. Cigarettes had been extinguished on the tables. Hot sauce was spilled on the floor. A box of rotten peaches sat on a counter. The sink was clogged with Ramen noodles. Shit lined the toilet. A crock pot in the bathtub was filled with what looked more like sewage than food. The mattress was piss-stained and there was blood on a pillow. Vodka bottles and Clamato cans were scattered about the floor.
Funny that I always made sure when checking out of these motels that my room was clean, fearing charges would be added to my card if I left a mess. Truth is, the cleaners at these motels cover up the messes more than they clean them. The trick is knowing what the next guest will and will not notice.
Today, Room 138 will be cleared of its week-long build up of funk and nastiness. Surely the stink will co-mingle with the Spring Dew air freshener, creating an odor of its own, half tolerable—for a night or until a new funk takes over. By 2 p.m. the room will be ready for the next guest to hunker down for a night of his or her own particular brand of disgusting.


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| Factors That Influence Device Selection By Parents of Pediatric Cochlear Implant Candidates
Factors That Influence Device Selection By Parents of Pediatric Cochlear Implant Candidates
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors/variables and the importance of those factors during cochlear implant (CI) device selection by parents of recent pediatric CI recipients in the United States. Researchers created an electronic survey and asked audiologists and hearing-related professionals at various hospitals and CI centers across the U.S to distribute the survey link to the parents of any of their pediatric CI patients who received CI surgery within the past two years under the age of five years. The survey included Likert-type and open-ended questions regarding the importance of various factors/variables to the parents during their child's CI device selection. Results of the study found that the participants ranked the reported reliability and speech perception performance of the respective manufacturer's CI device as the most important factors. Individually, the parents of Cochlear Ltd., recipients found recommendations from others and the popular brand of the company to be most important; based on a limited sample, parents of Advanced Bionics recipients found the CI device's water-proof capabilities to be most important; and also based on a limited sample, parents of MED-EL recipients found the reported speech perception performance to be most important.
- Participants will be able to list several of the factors/variables and the perceived importance of those factors in cochlear implant device selection.
- Participants will be able to rank order the categories of the decision making variables for CI device selection -- device aesthetics, speech perception performance, history of device complications, manufacturer-specific marketing, and the rehabilitation services of each manufacturer.
- Participants will be able to report on the information resources made available to them and if the manufacturer's media/marketing influenced their decision-making.
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As part of our link with local Premiership football team WBA, our students were invited to take part in a tournament to compete against other schools at West Brom's indoor training centre. Holyhead faced Leasowes, Kinver and Willenhall in the group stages of the competition. They lost 4-3 to Leasowes in the first game but won their final two games against Kinver and Willenhall and qualified for the semi finals. Unfortunately they lost 5-4 in the semi-finals to Tudor Grange who went on to win the tournament overall.
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Holyhead student Safi met up with Lawrence from the WBA Academy for a Q&A session:
What is your role at West Brom?
My role is Post 16 coordinator at the club. We run courses through schools where students play football and can achieve a BTEC Extended Diploma. My role today is to organise and run the tournament and ensure the day goes well. The teams we have invited here today are the schools that we want to form a partnership with in the near future or schools where the course already runs.
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Are you making the tournament an annual event?
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What inspired you to run the tournament?
There are two reasons why we chose to run the tournament. Firstly it is a good marketing tool and it shows the community that we want to be involved in developing young people. Secondly, it allows student to use facilities that they wouldn't normally get the chance to play in. This is a Premier League facility and a lot of professionals use it. It's good to think that they are playing on the same pitch as some of their idols.
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Every Friday I'm posting free fiction! Last week was Chapter 1 of my new series: The Unspoken Game. Today, you get Chapter 2. Both are unedited works in progress, so please forgive my imperfections. Enjoy and please let me know what you think! If you missed Chapter 1 last week, get it here: TUG: Chapter 1.
Chapter 2
Donovan followed Dr. Antonia Warren to her motel room and stood quietly by the door while she threw her things into a brown leather bag. The room was a mess. Her clothes were…everywhere. Over the backs of chairs, across the table, on the bathroom counter, and a pile in the middle of the second bed. She didn't seem to care about any of it. She just jammed item after item into the bag before suddenly stopping and looking down at herself.
"Wait, are we going to Atlanta?" Her brown eyes were wide and she was standing completely still in the middle of the room.
Donovan nodded slowly, "Yes, we felt it would be logical to start at the beginning."
"Crap I need to change," she groaned and started pulling clothes back out of the bag. "I just worked a full field day. You and everyone else on earth are going to thank me."
"I'll wait here," he said dryly. It was kind of fun to watch her scrambling. Dr. Warren was fun to watch period. Her jeans were tight as was her t-shirt which he finally got a glimpse of when she took off her jacket. The long brown ponytail that hung down her back wasn't too bad either.
He'd definitely had worse assignments.
She cocked an eyebrow and rolled her eyes. "I'll be three minutes."
The moment he heard the shower turn on, Donovan started to snoop. Not because he was being rude, but because it was smart. He needed to know everything he could about the sexy lady in the bathroom—especially the things he couldn't find on paper. He'd studied every piece of information on the good doctor on the way out, even the classified documents, but nothing was as informative as a peek through her belongings.
Five pairs of jeans, all the same brand. Seven t-shirts, all the same brand. Seven pairs of identical white socks. A belt, a jacket, three gray sports bras, two lacey racer-back bra's, and a pile of delicate, lacey underwear. Odd that she had such standard clothes, but such beautiful underwear.
Donovan turned toward the bathroom counter. Dr. Warren's boots were carefully tucked under the open counter and Donovan realized it was the only pair of shoes he'd seen. Her toiletries were all drug store travel sizes, face wash, toothbrush, the standard. No makeup and only a couple of hair ties and bobby pins. Talk about seriously low-maintenance.
Or someone with nothing tying her down.
The shower turned off and Donovan resumed his post at the door. A minute later she emerged fully clothed in a fresh pair of identical jeans and a black t-shirt. "Have fun snooping through my stuff?" she asked with a devilish grin.
"I did nothing of the sort," he smiled back. They both knew full well he'd snooped.
Dr. Warren sat down on the corner of the bed and pulled on her boots. "Is there anything we know yet?"
"Dr. Green was abducted at seven fifty-two last night. It was a team of four, all wearing ski masks. They grabbed him and the mummy in less than three minutes, leaving in a white unmarked van—all very standard."
"And how do you know all this?"
"Cameras," he replied.
"Of course. How silly of me. You do realize most archaeology labs don't have surveillance cameras, right?" She stood up and resumed shoving things in her bag.
"Labs with extremely valuable mummies funded by a technology billionaire do."
"Touché," she said with a smile, zipping up her bag and throwing it over her shoulder. At the table she shoved a laptop and cords into a red backpack and slung it over the other shoulder. "Ready when you are."
"Aren't you taking your toiletries?"
She cocked her head to the side and smiled, "Don't they have drug stores in Atlanta?"
"Touché," he replied, pulling the door open. She really was low maintenance.
Donovan's rental car was a pretty standard blue Ford Focus. The sight of it, however, made him cringe for one very important reason.
He popped the trunk and waited while Dr. Warren put her bag inside, then slid behind the steering wheel, crossing his fingers the stupid thing started. It purred right to life.
"You ok over there, cowboy? You look like you're afraid the car is gonna bite you…"
"Forget about it," he grumbled and backed out of the parking space.
If everything went well, when they landed in Atlanta there would be three more members of their team ready and waiting. But that was only if things went well, which Donovan had a feeling wasn't going to happen. The crew The Old Man had selected was ragtag at best. All of them were loose cannons and none of them were the type to follow orders. Donovan hated when his orders weren't followed. Getting this foursome to work together was going to take finesse and a lot of patience on his part.
"There is a file," he fumbled around with his bag behind the seat, finally feeling the right file slide between his fingers, "that should bring you up to speed on what we know. When we get to the plane we will get an update."
He drove in silence for several minutes while Dr. Warren flipped through the file. "How well do you know Dr. Green?"
She sighed and slammed the folder shut, looking out the window. "Simon is like family. Well, more like an uncle you talk to a couple of times a year."
"So you haven't spoken in how long?"
She shrugged her shoulders, "Probably not in the last six months."
"Since your fall-out with your mother?"
Donovan had seen a lot in his life and had the displeasure of relieving many people of their lives, but he had never felt fear like he did right then. The anger rolling off the doctor was palpable. "I don't talk about my mother. But yes. Right around then." She crossed her arms over her chest and slumped down in the seat. "What do you know about my mother anyway?"
"She is the lead archaeologist for the Smithsonian and considered to be one of the preeminent minds in theories about early man. And… she publicly called you a disgrace to the profession for agreeing to work with several black market dealers."
There was a lot of silence after that. Antonia sat there with her arms crossed not moving a muscle. Donovan was actually afraid he might lose her before they even got to the airport, contract or no contract. "Dr. Warren, I didn't mean to upset you. I was merely talking about facts, not feelings."
She sniffed and adjusted. "You can call me Antonia. Dr. Warren gets to be a mouthful."
"And you think Antonia is better?" Except that it was. It was so much better. Not only was it less formal, but it rolled off the tongue. Antonia was soft and sexy and Donovan had a very good feeling that under the hardened exterior of Dr. Warren lay another layer. The Antonia layer.
"Call me whatever you want, I don't care."
Oh, he was definitely calling her Antonia—there was no doubt about that. "What I meant before was that I was simply going over the details, I wasn't judging you."
She smiled a little. It was beautiful. "You don't think it's immoral for an archaeologist to deal with the very people stealing our artifacts? How very odd of you."
He laughed. She had a funny way with words. "I think the black market isn't going away, so if you feel there is merit there, then there must be something to it."
"You trust someone you barely know?"
"I have good instincts," he replied a split second before the engine sputtered and died.
He had good instincts for people… not so much for cars.
"You have got to be kidding me," he swore under his breath.
"Pull over."
"I am!" he spat back, wrenching the wheel and letting the car glide onto the grassy side of the road.
"Sheesh, you don't have to get so bent out shape. Cars break down. They're machines, you know?"
He simply shook his head, threw the car into park, and popped the hood. "You have no idea, Antonia. You have no idea."
How was it possible to have that much bad luck? Every rental car he'd ever been given had broken down, been dinged, or ended up in a fiery ball of flames. Ok, so the last one only happened that one time, but the rest… it was a thing with him. He had the touch of death for rental cars.
She hopped out and sauntered around the hood with her hands on her hips, looking very serious as she stared at the engine. "What do you think is wrong?"
Donovan shook his head. "Never mind."
"Can we fix it?"
"I have no idea. The thing looks fine to me." They didn't have time to play around with rental cars. Donovan took out his cell phone. "Scott? I need a pickup."
"Seriously?" Scott replied. "Where are you?"
Donovan flicked on the GPS tracking device. "Follow the flashing light."
"You have the worst luck, man."
"Don't start with me…" Donovan warned.
"I'll be there in ten. Hold tight."
He flicked off his phone and tucked it away inside his pocket. "Let's get our things ready, our ride is on the way."
"Whatever you say, boss." Antonia skipped around to the trunk of the car like she didn't have a care in the world.
He was about to change all of that and for the first time in a long time, Donovan wasn't entirely sure how he felt about that.
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Celebrity spotting with the Cheeser
Last night I was out with friends in a bar close to Moorgate and in there was Victor Ebuwa from Big Brother!! That's him above. Although when I saw him he was actually looking relatively ordinary in jeans and a bomber jacket I think. And he didn't have the pencil-thin moustache.
In case you didn't know, Victor was one of the contestants on Big Brother 5, which was broadcast in 2004. He was a bit of a straight-talking, sometimes aggressive fellow and somewhat arrogant too. I confess I didn't like him much back then. At the time of BB, Victor claimed that his nicknames were 'the milkman', because he always delivered and 'Mr Slick', because he always got the job done. Not too modest, then. Other charming statements that he came out with were: "My DNA stands for Dis Negro is Attractive", "Mess around with me and I leave you R.I.P.", "Shizzle my nizzle. You get me?", not to mention his chat-up technique with women: "I have an extremely large penis. I just pull it out."
Lovely. What a fine specimen of male heterosexuality he is. I suppose Victor was capable of some degree of self awareness however, as he also described himself as being like Marmite - because people either loved or hated him.
Anyway. It was rather bizarre seeing him in the flesh right in front of me, as it would be running into any famous person or celebrity. As I said he looked relatively normal and actually rather subdued and quiet, nothing like his TV persona. Having consumed several glasses of wine, I was brimming with courage and went up to him to ask: "Are you Victor from Big Brother?" To which he replied: "Yes". Great conversation eh?! I actually don't remember much of what we said but it was brief - I did ask him if he'd seen the recent BB and he said he hadn't watched it atall. Then I said something like I was sorry for having bothered him, but he was fine about it. So that was that.
It's kind of difficult making conversation with famous people I guess. Do you comment on their work, the films, tv programmes, music or whatever they've done and are famous for? As they talk about that kind of stuff all the time in interviews and elsewhere, they probably get bored sick of people asking them the same kind of things. So the alternative is to talk about ordinary, "normal" stuff. But how can you make small talk with someone well-known, acting like they're your mate, when you are both strangers? Odd. That's why I kind of ran out of stuff to say to Mr Ebuwa.
Anyway. The excitement of it all was almost too much for this Cheeser to take.
Now. What I really want to know is - who was the last famous person YOU saw for real? What was the experience like? Did you dare to talk to them? What did they say and do? DO tell!
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The salad has a great crunch from the beans and the celery and just the right amount of heat from the chilies and paprika. So tasty!
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 4 shallots, trimmed and thinly sliced
- 2 tsp grated fresh ginger
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 long fresh green chilies, seeded and thinly sliced
- 2 cans chickpeas (without added salt) drained and rinsed
- 1 ½ tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 1 tsp ground paprika (or less if spice sensitive)
- 200g green beans, cut into bite sized (approx 3cm) lengths
- 1/3 cup reduced fat feta cheesed crumbled
- 4 fish fillets (I used snapper, I think white works best but salmon would also be good)
Heat 1 tsp oil in a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Cook the shallot, ginger, garlic and chili, stirring for a few minutes until flavours start to rise from the pan. Stir in the chickpeas, lemon juice and ½ tsp of paprika.
Cook the beans in boiling water for 2 minutes, you want to see them turn bright green but be careful to not overcook as you want them to be crisp. Drain then add the beans along with the feta, celery and parsley to the chickpea mixture and stir to combine. Season the mixture with some pepper and set aside.
Heat a non-stick pan on high heat. Brush the fish with 1 tsp oil and cook in the hot pan for approximately 3-4 minutes, then turn and cook on the other side for about another 2 minutes or until fish is cooked through.
Divide the salad among plates, top with the fish and sprinkle a little extra fresh chopped parsley and paprika if desired.


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In 2001, a organisation of homeless people In Portland, Oregon, set adult a campsite underneath a downtown bridge. The city didn't have adequate preserve space to accommodate a homeless population, and as a stay captivated some-more and some-more people, authorities began unchanging sweeps, clearing divided tents and sleeping bags — that fundamentally cropped right behind up. Then something reduction predicted happened. A organisation of outpost leaders and activists teamed adult with those vital during a stay and hatched a plan: make a tent outpost permanent by building a outpost of little homes for homeless people.
Mark Lakeman, principal during a Portland pattern organisation Communitecture and an romantic who volunteered pattern services for a project, says a organizers hoped this new outpost would be a antecedent not customarily for addressing homelessness, nonetheless also for addressing Americans' inclination to bigger and bigger homes. According to a U.S. census, between 1950 and 2012 a distance of a standard singular family home ballooned from 983 block feet to 2,500. The environmental implications of this materialisation are not tough to grasp, and a trend to some-more personal space has finished Americans increasingly removed from one another. The organizers of what came to be called Dignity Village argued that their devise could emanate a indication for shortening humans' environmental impact while concurrently fostering a clarity of community.
Wearing kneepads and lonesome in sawdust while holding a mangle from a home replacement in Southeast Portland, Lakeman recalls that during first, a greeting from a Portland City Council was dismissive. "That's crazy," a organizers were told. But it wasn't crazy!" says Lakeman, stating that a reason homeless people can't attain is "because they don't live in place-based communities."
Raised eyebrows notwithstanding, a city gave a organizers a tract of land in an industrial area of Portland. Beyond that, a organizers were obliged for all of a village's expenses, lonesome by proprietor dues, private donations and resident-run businesses, that in a past have enclosed a prohibited dog transport and firewood operation. Today, Dignity Village provides preserve to about 65 people and operates as a self-governing outpost for before homeless people. There is no outward house overseeing operations. There is no supervision funding. Dignity Village is run by a people of Dignity Village.
A giant, colorful picture spans a belligerent in a core of a village, while benches and little gardens are sparse throughout. At a village's legislature assembly one dusk in a tumble of 2016, a theme of review turns to JD and Ruthie's place in a village. Well, their former place. The integrate recently changed out of Dignity Village to an apartment, nonetheless their impassioned hoarding and a skill repairs they generated, including stashing urine-filled bottles, has rendered their section potentially uninhabitable for destiny residents.
Rick, who, like many of a subjects interviewed for this story, requested that his final name not be used, creates a offer to distribute some of a village's over-abundance supports this month towards whiten — to get a urine smell out. The legislature unanimously agrees to yield 5 dollars to cover 5 bottles of whiten from Dollar Tree. Somebody utters a word "cesspool." Another says he went in there and "the building is mushy." Tumbleweed, who sits in a wheelchair with prolonged gray hair in a plat down his back, and a cigarette swinging out of his mouth, beseeches a Golden Rule of homeless living: "You container it in, we container it out," he says. "Nobody should leave a place like that."
From a behind of a outpost room, Lisa, who sits with her legs accidentally swinging off a kitchen counter, brings adult what's to be finished about JD and Ruthie themselves. "As conduct of a outpost intake community, subsequent Tuesday we need to plead DNR. Do Not Return," she says.
As evidenced by a categorical sequence of business during tonight's meeting, things aren't always flattering during Dignity Village. But they are self-contained.
"It would be easy to demeanour during Dignity Village and say, 'Oh, it's customarily a garland of little sleeping pods.' But what you're indeed observant is that it's an inherently collaborative culture; they're in vicinity and they're operative and assisting any other," says Lakeman, who would like to see this character of collaborative vital replicated via a country. "The whole procedure for doing this is to see a replacement of a outpost — everywhere."
The outpost structure of Dignity Village frequency qualifies it as a utopia. "The outpost aspect here is flattering cold — not always, though," says Lisa. "We don't like any other during all times. We will quarrel like cats and dogs." Yet, Lisa also recalls a time a few years behind when there was a glow in her structure. She and her father were in a outpost room, and abandon from a destitute propane heater had an hour to smolder inside their section before they realized. But, "By a time a glow dialect left we had clothes, we had blankets, we had food, we had a place to sleep. We had all we unequivocally positively needed," Lisa says. The outpost has a save of donated apparatus it keeps in a shed, nonetheless that's not where this things came from. "This came from individuals."
"Even if we don't like any other, a outpost does lift together," Lisa says. "We're a family. Oh God, we're a dysfunctional family, nonetheless we're a family."
Sixteen years after a conception, Dignity Village has served as a indication for several other homeless little home villages via a Northwest. Similar villages have also cropped adult in towns such as Fresno, California; Madison, Wisconsin; and Ithaca, New York. They are a approach response to a boost in homeless tent encampments combined during a Great Recession and housing crisis. Their existence is roughly always fortuitous on a eagerness of city officials to extend land to a project, and afterwards to hook land use and zoning manners — villages are mostly situated on lots zoned for industrial use, and a little home structures themselves are personal in building formula grey areas as things like trailers or "wooden tents."
While initial and inaugural a response to a strident problem of homelessness, villages like Dignity are also many some-more than that. They are experiments in conscious, outpost living, of vital along with, not customarily alongside, neighbors. The people who live in these villages, people who have turn homeless for all sorts of reasons, all share one concurrently distressing and liberating quality: They have mislaid everything. And it's from that place of emptiness, of space, that a new approach of vital can emerge.
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At her bureau in downtown Seattle, Kshama Sawant is violation down in tears. The first-ever Socialist Alternative Party member of Seattle's city council, Sawant is recalling a new legislature assembly during that a homeless lady spoke about her knowledge perplexing to find a place to sleep. "The customarily preserve she was offering was preserve where she couldn't take her pet cat," Sawant recalls. The lady told a legislature that a cat has been her lifeline; it prevented her from committing self-murder on 3 opposite occasions. The lady chose to sojourn homeless rather than give adult her cat.
"Can we censure her?" Sawant asks, her tears clearing and her gawk now sharp. "Among those who are anti-homeless or anti-poor there's a unequivocally accessible idea that [homeless] people brought it on themselves and that they should accept whatever is given to them." She adds, "It's not about a cat per se, nonetheless what kind of prophesy of multitude are we generating?"
Sawant supports an beginning to entirely account an puncture devise that would yield preserve for a some-more than 3 thousand homeless people in Seattle, that has seen an presentation of large, illegal tent encampments. Despite sweeps by authorities, a camps keep opening back. This refusal of Seattle's homeless race to disappear has forged out a eventuality for reduction required housing to take hold. One of these is a little home outpost located opposite city from Sawant's downtown office, in South Seattle's Othello neighborhood.
A child in a purple sweatshirt, about 10 years old, comes into a kitchen of Othello Village carrying a box of food. A proprietor here, he sets a box on a fold-out dining list in a temporary kitchen — a vast rectilinear tent housing a refrigerator, H2O cooler, sink, and cooking equipment. Inside a box are particular Caesar salads with cosmetic over a tops like TV dinners. "Donations," he calls to whoever is around.
Mark, a primary male who has lived here for several months, peels behind a cosmetic hang on a salad after checking a date hammered on a bottom. "The series one sequence as a homeless chairman eating donated food," he says, "…check a death date." They've had things from 7 years ago donated here. Grandma dies and a family, cleaning out her kitchen, thinks they will be doing a use by giving it all to a homeless, something like that. "I found steaks from year 2000, one time," another proprietor says flatly.
Othello Village, founded in Mar of 2016, provides preserve to before homeless people, many of whom came here after months or even years vital in tents. It is sponsored by a Low Income Housing Institute, a internal nonprofit that owns a land on that Othello Village exists and worked with a city of Seattle to get accede to build a village. Sixty-seven people now live here — including several children, whose bicycles and cosmetic toys are sprinkled around a outpost common area. One of a many reasons many couples and families equivocate normal preserve housing is a regard that their family units will be damaged up.
Mitze Buffer is a bookkeeper during Othello Village. (There are a few opposite executive roles for residents who wish to take on additional responsibility). She spent 6 years homeless before opening to Othello, some nights sleeping in tent encampments, others in doorways. "Anyone who is homeless has gifted detriment after loss. They're nude down to their unclothed nothings," says Buffer. "Being here can revive a lot of confidence."
Othello Village is a vast autonomous entity, operated by residents, along with some outward slip from a Low Income Housing Institute and outpost classification Nickelsville Works. Residents contingency work 9 hours a week of confidence fact — manning a check-in hire customarily over a gated opening to a village, and a integrate hours of outward outpost use in a larger Seattle area. There's no fighting, drinking, or drug use on-site. (This is loyal for all a villages profiled in this article.) If any of those manners are violated, residents are kicked out and contingency have a capitulation of a whole outpost if they wish a second chance. "It's customarily a little bit of structure nonetheless it's not invasive. We still have a leisure to come and go and be ourselves," says Denny Adams, a proprietor who, like many others here, extols a virtues of a peer-run community.
There are stories of residents who transition out of Othello Village into some-more normal housing nonetheless they still come behind to revisit mixed times a week. Bradley, who has been a proprietor here for one month, explains it simply, saying, "An section is lonely."
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rin knows given government suggested she be interviewed for this story. She is accurately a kind of proprietor that Quixote Village in Olympia, Washington, would like a media to know about. "I feel like I'm a primary instance of what this program's ostensible to be finished for," she says on a stormy afternoon, stretched out in a leather recliner in Quixote Village's common area. "It brought me off a streets, it got me purify off my addiction, it finished me partial of this community." At 31, Arin changed here after 4 months vital in a tent, held in a hold of a ten-year obsession to methamphetamines.
In her 3 years here during a Village, Arin has left to rehab and gotten clean, landed a job, achieved removing her driver's permit unsuspended, and was even baptized. She now has dual years' seriousness — she found out now that she qualifies to be a sponsor. Index cards with certain affirmations created in opposite colored pen line a walls of her home, and she grows a strong garden out front. Arin now works during a Subway sandwich emporium and skeleton to enroll in electrical engineering classes in a fall. "Next week I'm gonna accommodate with my disciple and demeanour all adult — what we need to do, where school's at, that is substantially adult north by Tacoma," she says. "It's kinda' frightful to change nonetheless it's cool, we know. I'm ready. we can do it."
Quixote Village cost $3.05 million to build, creation it distant some-more costly than a other little home villages. The supports came from county, state and sovereign grants and about $200,000 in outpost donations. Constructed in 2013, Quixote comforts thirty little cottages (144 block feet each) with one-half baths, any costing about $19,000 to build. By contrast, a little homes during many other villages cost good underneath $5,000. Quixote is one of, if not a customarily little home outpost devise in a republic that also fits into a "permanent understanding housing" indication for addressing homelessness.
The many poignant approach in that Quixote Village differs from many other forms of permanent understanding housing is a same thing that ties it to a other, reduction discriminating villages: a community. Quixote comforts a vast common building with a common kitchen, showers, and a living/dining room. It has high ceilings and a little timber grate surrounded by couches, armchairs and rocking chairs. Residents opted opposite putting a TV in this room, in sequence to keep it peaceful. Instead there's a apart TV room down a hall. There's also a severe weekly duty schedule, and a complement of checks-and-balances to make certain nobody skips their duties. The kitchen area, for example, gets spotless 3 times a day, during 8 a.m., dual p.m. and 7 p.m.
Also housed in Quixote Village's common building are a offices of Raul Salazar and Jaycie Osterberg. They are not residents, nonetheless are a dual staff members obliged for handling a village's daily operations. A former trial officer and former university housing module manager, respectively, Salazar and Osterberg share duties that ring pushing residents to a grocery store; mediating disputes; assisting residents emanate and lift out life goals, like anticipating work or schooling; administering drug tests; and heading interventions for active addicts. On a good day their jobs can embody assisting someone applaud removing a job. On a bad day, they competence have to exude somebody and be called "the man" by an indignant resident.
"Sometimes we have a unequivocally critical things where somebody's going to remove their housing if they don't get ahold of their addiction," says Salazar. While Quixote Village, like all other villages profiled in this story, is a solemn vital environment, that's a lax definition, or during slightest a on-going one. Residents struggling with obsession are related adult with rehab comforts and other diagnosis options. Salazar and Osterberg contingency establish on a case-by-case basement either residents are holding their seriousness exceedingly adequate — even if they relapse — to stay. If they're not, they have to be evicted, given active users can be triggering to recuperating addicts.
"It's hard. It's unequivocally hard," says Osterberg, of evicting a resident. "'Cause we know where they're going. They're going behind to a streets."
Unlike a other villages, during Quixote residents pointer franchise agreements, and Salazar and Osterberg are obliged for creation certain a terms of a franchise are met. If not, they alone have a management to exile a resident.
"Members of a stay used to be means to come see any other and work things out if there was a feud or whatever. Now it's customarily everybody job Raul or Jaycie and stating it," says Theresa, who is 26 and has lived during Quixote Village given a pregnancy in 2013. Before that she, like a rest of a strange residents here, stayed during Camp Quixote — a homeless tent outpost that rotated between church parking lots via Olympia for 8 years.
Residents of Camp Quixote worked alongside a nonprofit Panza to assistance pattern a village. Questions such as either any section should have a front porch (yes), or either there should be a TV set in a categorical common room (no), were motionless collectively. Quixote Village still maintains a five-person proprietor council. But, as Arin describes it, "It's not self-governing here. There are manners and staff creates all a decisions."
Theresa agrees. "The self-governing thing has left divided a lot," she says, but adds that a fortitude a outpost has given her and other residents, many of whom have overcome addictions here, has been invaluable. Before Quixote Village she had never lived anywhere for longer than a year. She had been homeless 7 times previously, a beginning being when she was eleven, and her relatives told her they were customarily camping. "I was wondering given we're bringing a cats camping," she recalls with a pitiable laugh.
Now, she and her partner live subsequent doorway to one another in apart cottages. They both work and make art. Avid readers, they say book collections that were too unreal to keep in their tents during Camp Quixote. "People don't realize," Theresa says, "With homeless people if we customarily uncover support and we don't slur them, customarily they'll try to get better."
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It is choosing night in America. Soon, either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be a subsequent President. A lot of people are afraid, and tomorrow morning a lot some-more people will be afraid. But inside a yurt in Eugene, Oregon, a mood is light. The whole outpost is here for this imperative weekly assembly — about thirty people collected together on a couches, chairs, and mechanism workstations that make adult a chair of this outpost yurt. There are a few boxes of cookies and bags of potato chips on a large table, and people assistance themselves.
The assembly starts with acclamation — appreciation given to people who have finished things that assistance a village: Scott, for removing a fridge moved; Carlos, for traffic with a electrical issues. There's a smattering of applause. There is one latecomer, who enters by a side door. He turns out to be Carlos, carrying missed his kudos. He totes a little black dog in a strap over his shoulder and stays station during a core of a yurt, a autocratic participation joined with a large smile. Carlos asks if anyone is meddlesome in pitching in for a community's annual Thanksgiving meal. He doesn't wish a eventuality to bar anybody, nonetheless it is required to squeeze food. "I'm meditative ten, twenty bucks off your EBT or out of your pocket." He encourages people to come find him after a assembly to pointer up, and afterwards takes a chair subsequent to his mother Nonni, a Hawaiian lady with red fingernails and a tie-dyed Minnesota Vikings t-shirt.
Food is a bit of a huffy theme — there has been a lot of food burglary over a past several months. In a summer a outpost proprietor legislature and outward house of outpost leaders that helps to manage a village, concluded to squeeze a confidence camera with discretionary funds. It will be commissioned soon. Still, there was a burglary this week that needs to be discussed. A proprietor was cooking food in a outpost kitchen nonetheless left it unattended for a few moments, when some of it went missing.
One resident, Al, pipes up: "I customarily wanna ask — would whoever took it lift their palm please?"
"Yeah, right," someone else calls. Al shrugs. "Worth a try."
Carlos stands adult again. Before he speaks someone teases him: "I adore that we gotta mount adult like some Southern lawyer." Everyone laughs. Carlos cracks a large grin nonetheless deduction with his unpretentious proclamation — destined towards a unknown food thief, who is in a room somewhere.
"I swear, come hit on my door. We customarily have something. We don't have a lot nonetheless we're peaceful to share, so we don't have to steal. If we have nothing, I'll go with we doorway to doorway and we'll ask… We're all in a same fucked-up difficulty as one another and if we assistance any other out we can forestall issues like this from happening."
The assembly marches forward, and it is now time to elect a new member to a outpost legislature — a seven-person care cabinet that works alongside Opportunity Village's outward board. Nonni is nominated for reelection to her stream legislature seat. "Second!" "Third!" "Fourth!" Her assignment is official. Slips of paper are upheld around and any outpost proprietor has a possibility to check "yes" or "no" to reelect Nonni. After a discerning total her position is secured. That's it for a meeting…until Carlos stands adult once again. "I got a filibuster," he jokes, before enormous a grin and plopping behind down on a couch. Meeting adjourned.
What not all of a residents know is that Carlos struggles with basin that affects him so exceedingly Nonni says during times she's had to call a internal difficulty involvement group called CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets) to come to Opportunity Village and yield him. Nonni also suffers from depression. They are distant from alone in this struggle. "Basically everybody here has PTSD," one Opportunity Village proprietor said. It's a healthy outcome of sleeping outward in fear, fighting for your life any day.
Nonni says being active on a outpost legislature is a essential apparatus in treating both her and her husband's mental health challenges. "I don't wish to customarily distortion in bed all day," she says. "Instead, we know we're doing something good."
The cost of vital during Opportunity Village is customarily $30 per month per person, and 10 hours a week of work on confidence or painting — gardening, cleaning up, etc. Nonni says she and Carlos live on about $300 a month. "If we do it customarily right, $300 lasts us a whole month and we can feed one or dual of a friends," she explains.
The activists who orderly Opportunity Village in 2012 have pennyless belligerent on a next-tier devise called Emerald Village. While still designed as transitory housing for homeless people, a monthly impost will be aloft and residents will acquire equity on their homes. In a formulation stages of Emerald Village, there was a doubt about either to embody particular bathrooms in any home, that would have singular a series of units that could be built. While house members upheld a move, a opinion came in opposite them. The homeless people pronounced they would rather have smaller units with outpost bathrooms — given they wanted to yield housing for some-more people.
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This story was finished probable with support from the Marguerite Casey Foundation's Equal Voice Journalism / Fellowship Award.


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The Ontap manual says :
Migrating a vFiler unit to another storage system on the same subnet has the following affects.
So this would mean that it 's not possible to do a "hot" migration of nfs only vfilers (mostly clients mount on qtree level) ?
By hot migration I mean clients are active and have nfs mounts from the migrating vfiler. A few messages/some minutes with "NFS not respondig" is not aproblem if after the migrate NFS to the clients is back to normal.
thanks for response ,
Walter Talloen
The documentation is a little unclear. To clarify, if the vFiler owns only the qtree, not the volume then qtree level mounts must be remounted. In MOST cases, the vFiler owns the volume. A vFiler can be assigned either volumes or qtrees. A best practice is to assign volumes. When the vFiler owns the volume, both volume and qtree mounts stay mounted. When the vFiler owns the volume the vol fsid moves and all vol/qtree mounts stay intact when they are moved with the file handles to the target.
So, if you see under "vfiler status -a" that the vfiler is assigned volumes /vol/volname and not qtrees... (qtrees in volumes are automatically owned by the vfiler since below the volume assignment) it will keep mounts.
Now to the outage part... vfiler migrate does not guarantee a failover time. It runs until completion as long as it takes the final mirror and start on the target. This may or may not complete in your nfs timeout window. To get a guaranted migration within 120 seconds (using semi-sync snapmirror and the automation to fail back to source if not complete in 120 seconds), we need to integrate with OpsManager (OnCommand) and use Data Motion (won't work on 8.0, a 7.3 feature and soon an 8.1 feature).
Hi Scott ,
Thanks a lot for the very clear explanation .
Is it possible to explain more " integrate with OpsManager (OnCommand) and use Data Motion (won't work on 8.0, a 7.3 feature and soon an 8.1 feature)."
o. What is the "7.3 feature" ?
o. OpsManager - another user interface ...
Is there a white paper explaining the specifics off Data Motion ?
I found TR-3326 explaining the charastics off Sync and semi-sync SM
TR-3814. The GUI you use is the NetApp Management Console (NMC) which you download and install from the Operations Manager (web gui) setup menu and NMC is a java app that runs on Windows or Linux.