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|Ohio Valley Goodwill's Food Service Training program was delighted to receive the " Clean Kitchen Award" from the Hamilton County Public Health department for the second year in a row for outstanding sanitation practices in its kitchen preparation area. Chef Alison McElfresh was delighted to receive the award at a meeting of the Hamilton County Public Health department on Monday, March 10, 2014. Housed at its corporate headquarters in the village of Woodlawn, the busy Food Services training program kitchen serves between 150 to 200 meals per day to its program participants, staff and other visitors. " I am very proud of our staff and trainees that do the hard work necessary to meet the requirements outlined by Hamilton County Public Health." Receiving the award two years running is such an honor," said Alison McElfresh, Chef and Supervisor.
Goodwill's Food Services Training program offers the opportunity for trainees to learn all of the skills related to working in a restaurant setting or other food service-oriented occupation. Participants in the Goodwill program are typically sponsored by Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities formerly known as the Rehabilitation Services Commission and the goal is to help individuals learn the skills needed for employment and then, to get jobs in the community. " We are pleased to partner with Hamilton County Public Health to provide Food Handler Training and certification for our trainees," said McElfresh. " HCPH provides regular training classes utilizing multi-media materials as well as hands-on activities for instruction with our students," added McElfresh. Students who receive the HCPC certificates enhance their marketability in terms of future job placement. For more information about Goodwill's Food Services Training program, visit www.cincinnatigoodwill.org/services. Our thanks to Hamilton County Public Health for their recognition and on-going partnership with Ohio Valley Goodwill.


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The Chicago Bulls announced today the team has re-signed forward Brian Scalabrine. Per team policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed.
Scalabrine (6-9, 235) saw action in 18 games last season with the Bulls and averaged 1.1 ppg in 4.9 mpg.
The 10-year NBA veteran has played in 492 regular season contests, and posted averages of 3.2 ppg, 2.1 rpg and in 13.5 mpg. In 39 playoff games, he has averaged 2.7 ppg and 1.3 rpg in 10.6 mpg.
Chicago's roster now stands at 12 players.

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Van der Kamp Vineyard, Sonoma Mountain Pinot Noir
Learn more about the beauty and history of van der Kamp Vineyard The winding, 1,500-ft. ascent up Sonoma Mountain provokes the senses. Foremost is the recognition of sheer natural beauty broadcast by the forested and open hills, undulating and opening vistas folding unto themselves. This is the stage; all else is the theater of nature and human history. Marine fog plays a big role, emanating from the Petaluma Gap and the Bay, pushing from separate directions. Their silent, silver breaths travel upward along stream cuts and through gaps in the hills to converge, joust, and dictate the mountain's climate, rarely shrouding, mostly visiting long enough to kiss and cool its volcanic slopes before giving way to the sun. Natives recognized the mountain's attributes and their history traces back thousands of years. From their settlements along the Russian River came the Pomos with their baskets; from the coast came the Miwoks, the area's hunter-gatherers, so too did the Hupas arrive from the north with their penchant for baking, carving, and sweat lodge ceremonies. They were joined by small groups of Wappo, fierce and proud hunters from what is now the Napa Valley, and Patwin, who hunted, sowed seeds and were considered supreme spiritual myth keepers. The tribes came to trade and ritualistically express their spirits and the land upon which they had enacted these rituals is the 60-plus acre bench of land Martin and Dixie van der Kamp first farmed in the late 60s and then purchased in 1989. They raised six children here as well as countless hens and roosters surrounded by gardens and orchards and cultural icons. Buddhist prayer flags fly over the entrance to the property and across the road is the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center. On the property itself stands a sweat lodge erected at the request of tribesmen who still gather on the land. Spirituality is the core of the place and Martin and Dixie van der Kamp, along with their son Ulysses, have assumed the proprietorship of a belief system that has bound this ground for thousands of years—the deep connection to the land and the land's ability to reciprocate. The Pinot noir vines are among the oldest still producing in Sonoma County. Ulysses farms them single-handedly, pruning and leafing each as devotedly as if it were a one-and-only child, striving for balance over abundance, bio-diversity over monoculture, letting nature inform him and responding in kind. The results are floral wines with finessed tannins reflecting the sacred ground from which they come. Stewardship flows from the land to those of us fortunate enough to work with the van der Kamps. We feel this kinship, these shared values and our own responsibility for upholding the spirit this land and these grapes provide. Pinot clones are La Tache, 777, 828, Klevner Mariafeld, UCD 23, Martini, Swan, Pinot Meunier AVA: Sonoma Mountain


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One of this year's hippest and most-anticipated music festivals is nearing, and since it will happen in an island far from every metro guy or gal's comfort zones, here's a quick rundown of the stuff you need to know before packing your bags and heading there.
Get ready to bask in sunlight, save up your energy to dance, and enjoy the five-day spectacle that is Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival.
Since this year's Malasimbo line-up will attract a huge number of music lovers for five straight days (February 28 to March 3), booking a room on the spot might be a gamble not worth betting on.
Though there are some unadvertised rooms that might cost cheaper than the ones you'll find online, booking through sites like Agoda or directly through the websites of the hotels as early as now will save you the trouble of walking with your backpacks trying to find rooms.
There is also the option of camping out inside the premises of the venue at P500 a night, with hammocks for rent if you don't own a tent. If going for this closer-to-nature option, be sure to bring a sturdy tent, thick blankets and a bottle of mosquito repellent.
Take the bus going to Batangas Pier (best time to leave is at 6AM). Ride either in the Cubao or Buendia terminals, with tickets costing between P250 to 300. Once at the pier, purchase round-trip outrigger boat tickets (P450 to 500) to White Beach, or Muelle Pier, depending on where you will stay. The first boat trip to the islands (40 to 45 minutes) is around 9:30, with the last one scheduled at 3PM.
Note that Mt. Malasimbo is roughly 8 to 10 minutes away from the beaches, so you will have to ride one of the "Malasimbo" marked jeepneys at the main roads opposite the shores.
During daytime, before all the events begin, it's best to bum around the beaches; either in White Beach, Sabang, Tamaraw or Talipanan. Sunblock, swimwear and shades in your travel bag are a must.
Though getting sloshed by the shore is one of the greatest things in life, be sure to not be too drunk before the events start. You don't want to pass out while a headliner is playing, do you? There are bars in the event, so you won't run out of beers and other mixed drinks, anyway.
Think you can survive the entire trip with just bikinis and crocheted dresses? The natural amphitheater situated in Mt. Malasimbo can get way chilly at nights, so at least bring a scarf, a hoodie or a jacket.
A sarong or a towel can also act as your bed spread for the event, when it's not time to dance yet.
On Friday, Low Leaf, Mark De Clive-Lowe and Jungle Boys will hit the stage. Saturday will give you all the hip swayers: Robert Glasper Experiment, Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith, Omar and June Marieezy.
On Sunday, it will get a little gentle-yet-groovy with Jose Gonzales, Goodleaf and Mishka Adams. Monday will bring in dub and reggae thanks to Mad Professor, in celebration of Mindoro's cultural heritage.
There are more artists that have yet to be announced, which will make the trip all the more exciting and worth it.
The partying in Malasimbo can get pretty wild, and it's not impossible to lose your belongings while you jump up and down and dance all night. Leave your IDs and boat tickets in your rooms, and take only the money you're willing to spend.
Tying your room keys with a string and wearing it as a necklace will also lessen the risk of losing it and being forced to sleep outside.
There aren't many ATM machines in Mindoro, but based on last year's event, there are some situated at the entrance of the venue.
Still, it never hurts to be sure; those can go offline just when you're ready to get some cash. Withdraw the amount you think you will need during your entire trip while you're still in the city.
Malasimbo doesn't only offer great music and raise environmental awareness in Mindoro , the event also showcases fascinating artworks from many different artists, and different installations decorate the venue in an enthralling set-up.
Be sure to walk around and revel in such visual delight, while an eargasmic audio sensation fills the night. Be friendly and meet new friends who share the same passions as you, and most importantly, don't be afraid to have fun as if it's your first and last time attending the festival.
Tip: upon arriving at the venue, set a "rendezvous spot" for you and your friends in case someone cannot be reached due to unexpected drunken stupors.
Have fun at the festival!
Are you ready for Malasimbo? Hit us up in the Comments Section if you have other tips!


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Your service orders are still being processed with pen and paper? Driving and working times are recorded manually and spare parts inventories are requested by phone? Do you want to get away from the paperwork and enable your technicians to have all necessary information at their fingertips – regardless of their internet connection?
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With its Managed Print Services division, Noesse offers itscustomers the possibility of a tailor-made printer and copier infrastructure. If the devices do not work properly, a corresponding service ticket is created in Microsoft Dynamics NAV by the dispatcher.
For this pupose, Noesse uses SITE, an all-in-one solution from Singhammer, which is specially adapted to the business processes of medium-sized IT companies.
Before Anveo was implemented, the service technicians received their orders in printed form, processed them in handwritten form on site at the customer and later brought them back to the office where the data was entered manually in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. This led to delayed information transmission and a high time requirement in the post-processing.
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Aug 26, 2019 - Men's wardrobe
December 8, 2023 2:28pm
Men's underwear has long been a taboo subject, what is the situation like today? In general terms, men can be divided into two groups: the first group includes those who still avoid this subject as if it were something embarrassing for them, and the second often includes fans of gyms who use underwear only to cover a certain part of their bodies when they want to show off their hard-earned muscles. However, in the media, the topic is still "hidden under the carpet" because few men focus on this issue. The well-known SAXX brand conducted a survey to find out how men choose their underwear.
Do you think the market is still ruled by underpants and boxers? - We're about to change that!
Surveys showed that the market is dominated by 4 types of underwear:
43% choose classic boxer shorts - Boxer
equally 27% choose Brief slippers or a shortened boxer model - Boxer brief
18% select Trunk.
6% selects Long leg
You can see that the choice was large, and the market is not dominated by one style, so you can talk about comfort, for example. There's no denying, however, that classic boxer shorts win both in terms of comfort and health.
Replacing your wardrobe once a year? - Not at all!
Contrary to appearances, men take care of changing their wardrobe! The statistics show this:
65% - once a quarter, when the old one is no longer usable
21% - once a month
14% - once a year
It is important that there is not a single answer that men buy underwear less than once a year. What can guide men who change their wardrobe once a quarter? This probably indicates the need to change the wardrobe depending on the weather conditions. If a man buys underwear once a month, it means he cares about his clothes, but if he does once a year... we prefer to assume that he has so many couples that he does not wear one every day!
Are Christmas or anniversary the occasions when we most often buy new underwear?
Unfortunately, there are no specific dates in the year when men decide to buy new underwear. Most of them do it:
49% - when the old one is not fit for use
6% - when going on a date
3% - when a partner tells you to
48% - other factors
Very interesting is the last answer, which other factor may encourage the purchase of new underwear? However, almost half of the respondents answered that they buy new underwear when they are trying to wear it, but unfortunately these are most often the same people who indicated in the previous question - once a quarter. There can be two conclusions: either men buy underwear of poor quality or men really care about what they wear. However, we are concerned about the answer that women have to remind their partners about changing their wardrobe, it is worth changing it!
Convenience, quality or perhaps style - what are the men's choices when choosing?
There is no denying that many men are opticians, so we are not surprised by the number of respondents who focus on appearance:
48% - cut and colour
28% - quality
12% - price and brand
Despite the fact that a minority has opted for price and brand, it seems that the label still shows the quality of the product for some people. However, everyone has their own style of dress, in which they feel good, so we choose underwear that suits us and looks good. We know that more and more brands are entering the market offering high quality lingerie and we believe that by repeating the survey, more people will focus on quality!
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Pro-democracy and good governance group, Concerned Nigerians, has alleged that many critics of President Muhammadu Buhari will be framed in 2019.
The group also claimed that both the Senators representing Kogi West and Kaduna Central, Dino Melaye and Shehu Sani, respectively, were framed because they have been Buhari's critics and hence, that they have either suffered and or are still suffering some ordeals for doing so.
The group, in a statement signed by its Convener, Deji Adeyanju and made available to newsmen by its spokesperson, Theophilus Abu Agada, it condemned what it described as the re-arrest and re-arraignment of the Kogi Senator on a stretcher.
The group also alleged that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has a personal vendetta against Dino.
It however called for the respect and adherence to democratic tenets by, especially the law enforcement agencies.
The statement reads thus:
"We condemn the rearrest and re-arraignment of Senator representing Kogi West senatorial district, Mr. Dino Melaye on a stretcher for alleged criminal conspiracy, damage to government property, attempted suicide and escape from lawful custody after he was granted bail by a competent court of jurisdiction.
The arrest, victimization and intimidation of people perceived to be critics of government by the Nigerian Police must be condemned by all and sundry. What makes democracy robust is when citizens can freely express themselves, oppose the government and hold public officials accountable without being hounded by the government.
The Buhari led government of Nigeria must be reminded that power is transient and he will someday account for every atrocity done against the Nigerian people. The latest clampdown on critics of the government using the instrumentality of the state is nothing but political witch-hunting and shameless display of intolerance.
We are deeply concerned about the new tactics being deployed by the government to frame critics up by cajoling hardened criminals to make confessional statement of being sponsored by opposition leaders as in the case of Shehu Sani and Dino Melaye, both of whom are serving senators and critics of the government.
Those opposing the government must braze up for similar treatment or worse as what we are witnessing now reminds us of the dark days of Abacha.
This government has failed to fulfill its most basic function of protecting lives and property of Nigerians.
The government should be more concerned in protecting Nigerians in Benue, Kaduna, Taraba, Zamfara, Adamawa and many other parts of Nigeria than this energy they are expending in fighting the opposition and critics.
We are amazed by the level of impunity and disregard for democratic best practices that is being carried out by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris who has constantly disregarded the National Assembly in pursuance of a personal vendetta against Dino Melaye.
The Inspector General of Police cannot be greater than the National Assembly.
If the IGP is tired of being a policeman, he should resign and obtain APC membership card so Nigerians will know that he is working for his party and not the Nigerian people.
Nigerians, most especially the opposing voices must fight fiercely to make our nascent democracy work.
Moreover, we are calling on the international community and interest groups to take cognizance of the Nigerian government's totalitarian attitude and clampdown on dissenting voices."


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Hon'ble Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water
Resources, River Development Ganga Rejuvenation, Shri Nitin Gadkari,
Commissioned the Container Gantry Cranes at Berth No.8 (DBGT),
inaugurated the Information Centre and Truck parking Terminal at V.O.
Chidambaranar Port at 15 : 30 hrs on 26.02.2018 at Truck Parking Terminal in
the presence of presence of Thiru Pon. Radhakrishnan, Hon'ble Union Minister
of State for Finance and Shipping, Thiru C.Kadambur Raju, Hon'ble Minister for
Information and Publicity, Government of Tamilnadu, Thiru J. Jeyasingh
Thiyagaraj Natterjee, Hon'ble Member of Parliament, Thoothukudi
Constituency, Smt. P. Geetha Jeevan, Member of Legislative Assembly,
Thoothukkudi Constituency.
The V.O.Chidambaranar Port 2 nd Container Terminal Dakshin Bharat Gateway
Terminal Private Limited features 3 Rail Mounted Quay Cranes, 9 Rubber Tyre
Gantry Cranes etc. The project has been commissioned at an investment of
312.23 Crores and the PPP operator, M/s. Dakshin Bharat Gateway Terminal
would offer a revenue share of 55.19 % to the Port. The overall length of the
berth is 345 metres and the maximum draft is 13 metres. The Terminal has the
capacity to handled 6 lakhs TEUs per annum.
The Truck Parking Terminal in V.O.Chidambaranar Port has been constructed
at an investment of Rs.23.69 crores. The Truck Parking Terminal has been
established at an area of 52,609 Sq.m. It is located at the proximity of all the
Container Freight Stations in Tuticorin and is just 8 Kilometres from the Port.
The project is envisaged as a 'Ease of Doing Business Initiative by Government
of India for reducing the cost and dwell time of cargo clearance in Ports. The
Truck Parking Terminal will serve as a Document Processing Centre for export
cargo and clearing Centre for Direct Delivery consignments with the presence
of Customs officials and the Terminal Operators as a one stop solution.
The Truck Parking Terminal features parking slots for 200 vehicle at a time.
The Truck Parking Terminal also provides shelter to the Truck drivers and
cleaners with dormitory at nominal cost, canteen facilities etc.
The state of the Art 'Port Information Centre' has been established at a total
cost of 1.89 crores with a built up area of 445 Sq.m
The Information Centre facility to bring out the soft values of seaports and to
regenerate the connection between Ports and citizens of the country houses
LED panels depicting the evolution of and growth of the Port over the years.
The Touch screen kiosk systems would provide in depth information on
seaports, shipping, Indian ports, EXIM trade, Photo gallery and video gallery.
The Port model features the miniature of Port installations in the Harbour
estate. The Information centre also facilitates a theatre room with seating
capacity for 80 persons to enjoy the visual display of Port activities.
Hon'ble Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water
Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, Shri Nitin Gadkari,
highlighted the importance of capacity augmentation of Ports to meet the needs
of the flourishing EXIM Trade. He reaffirmed that the V.O. Chidambaranar Port
will find a place the league of Transhipment Ports of the country on completion
of the Deepening of the Harbour Basin to a depth of 16.50 meters, widening of
entrance channel and strengthening of berths 1 to 6.
Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Finance and Shipping, Shri Pon
Radhakrishnan, while addressing the gathering mentioned that VOC Port is a
growing Port and has always shown promise in attaining an inclusive growth.
He lauded the efforts of VOC Port for undertaking the lead in establishing the
Port information centre which will bring out the esthetic, intellectual and social
aspects of Port Community life.
Shri I.Jeyakumar IRTS, Chairman/VOCPT welcomed the gathering and
Shri S. Nararajan, Deputy Chairman / VOCPT proposed the vote of thanks


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Memos to the President: How to Run Government Effectively
Advice from leading scholars on how to improve government's ability to deliver on its promises.
Political campaigns are a time of promises. Transitions are a time of frantic preparation. And then, perhaps too soon, it's time to govern. Governing is the hard work of turning promises into legislation, budgets, actions and results.
For the transition currently underway, the stakes are tremendously high. Large portions of the electorate say they are frustrated or disillusioned by what they see as the failure of governing institutions to deliver. Elected leaders have come to share this frustration. Indeed, while presidents have left positive legacies, recent administrations of both parties have experienced disheartening failures and shortfalls of execution ranging from disaster response during Hurricane Katrina to the crash of the Healthcare.gov website.
To help the incoming administration and Congress, the National Academy of Public Administration and the American Society of Public Administration teamed up with George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government to commission a series of memos highlighting the best advice from leading academics and practitioners in public administration. A total of 25 Memos to National Leaders were published several weeks ago. They address five broad areas of policy and management:
- Managing Government to Achieve National Objectives: What strategies should the president adopt to improve the central leadership of government programs and agencies?
- Strengthening Policy Leadership and Follow Through: What are the most promising decision-making procedures and implementation approaches the next administration can use to effectively shape and follow through on its policy commitments?
- Managing Across Boundaries to Achieve National Goals: How can the new administration develop new, effective strategies for policy and administrative collaboration across boundaries—between federal agencies, across levels of government, between government and the private and nonprofit sectors, and across global boundaries?
- Sharpening the Tools of Government Action: How can government outcomes be achieved effectively when government relies on independent actors through financial, regulatory and contractual vehicles?
- Increasing Government's Capacity to Manage Complex Policy Issues: What unique policy design and management challenges are characteristic of the most important policy issues of our time?
The memos depict the clash between growing demands on government and institutional realities and constraints. While government has come under pressure to meet ever-higher expectations, it has become increasingly difficult to deliver on the promises made by its leaders. This is due in part to the growing complexity of government's role. A government that once was focused on delivering the mail and collecting taxes is now challenged to rebuild the nation's financial system, ensure safe drinking water and improve education across a diverse nation.
With increasing polarization of views among leaders and the public alike, consensus about the role of government itself has eroded. How can government agencies operate effectively when Congress and the White House, interest groups and clients are riven by conflicts over priorities and goals on such issues as climate change, education reform and tax administration? Moreover, agencies face an increasingly blame-seeking environment with a 24-hour news cycle, in which divided constituencies deploy weaponized social media to mobilize followers and dramatize differences. Such pressures tend to discourage the risk-taking and innovation many believe are necessary for government to improve performance.
As government's role evolves, our reliance on nonfederal actors to implement national goals increases. We are now in the habit of uploading promises and downloading responsibility to states, localities, nonprofit organizations, private businesses and citizens. While such changes in the way government functions can enhance our collective capacity to achieve national objectives, they also complicate accountability. Delegating the task of governing to others does not relieve federal agencies or presidents of responsibility or blame.
In this environment, deep-seated policy implementation and management challenges require a long-term strategy to instill urgency and institute reforms to achieve ambitious and complex goals. While the media and public often view management problems as caused by short-term leadership or situational factors, in fact the failures of government programs typically stem from chronic and perennial shortfalls in management capacity, misaligned incentives, poor use of technology, and weak cross-sector collaboration—coupled with overly hyped goals and expectations.
Often these implementation challenges come to our attention in a crisis. At that point, they can deal a crippling blow to an administration. So it's critical that management issues be addressed early in a president's term.
The Memos to National Leaders aim to facilitate that process. Government Executive will publish several of them over the next few weeks:
- Staffing the President's Team, by James Pfiffner of George Mason University. Recommends ways to streamline and expedite the appointments process to satisfy the competing needs of the White House, federal agencies and Congress.
- Human Resource Management and Public Service Motivation, edited by Paul Posner of George Mason University. Provides an agenda for enhancing human capital planning across government, with a focus on improving the talent pipeline and employee engagement.
- Reforming the Federal Budget Process, by Steve Redburn and Paul Posner of George Mason University. Proposes approaches to reinvent the budget process to strengthen discipline, improve certainty and heighten focus on long-term fiscal outcomes.
- Performance Accountability, Evidence and Improvement, by Shelley Metzenbaum and Robert Shea, leaders of governmentwide performance improvement efforts under Presidents Obama and Bush, respectively. Looks back at initiatives from recent administrations to promote reforms to better integrate performance data into the decision-making process in the executive branch and Congress.
- Collaboration Across Boundaries, by Donald F. Kettl of the University of Maryland. Brings together what we have learned about how to promote greater collaboration across agencies, levels of government and sectors.
- Strengthening Partnerships with State and Local Governments, by Barry Vanlare, formerly of the National Governors Association, and Timothy Conlan of George Mason University. Develops an agenda for generating closer relationships across levels of government in setting objectives and carrying out federal programs on the ground.
- Improving the Role of Public-Private Partnerships, by John Donahue of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Reviews the experiences with public-private partnerships and harvests lessons learned about managing these initiatives to balance benefits and potential risks.
- Procurement: Focusing on Performance and Results, by Steve Kelman, of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Provides an agenda to improve accountability for performance under contracts, entailing greater use of pay-for-success models, more transparent information on pricing and more emphasis on post-award monitoring and assessment.
- Infrastructure: Building a New Paradigm for Finance and Governance, by Mark Pisano of the University of Southern California and John Bartle of the University of Nebraska. Recommends new approaches to engage private business and beneficiaries in co-financing infrastructure, while building more collaborative partnerships with states and localities.
These memos chart strategies for tackling some of the most important issues that the new administration will face. Together, they provide a road map for renewing trust in government's ability to deliver the services that citizens want and expect.
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Ilumony — which is taking part in the Lightning Lab accelerator for Fintech, sponsored by Kiwibank — says the platform, Invsta, is in pre-beta testing and will be live to the general public later this year. In the meantime anyone interested can join a wait list.
Ilumony says its cloud-based investment platform offers a range of crypto-traded portfolios to help the wider public easily and confidently invest into a diverse range of crypto currencies and strategies.
"Through the Invsta platform, customers can easily set up an account and access a range of cryptocurrency portfolios and strategies, including two high-frequency-trading (HFT) algorithm-based portfolios, with more in the pipeline."
Ilumony cofounder and CTO Abhy Singla said: "HFTs trade throughout the day across multiple different crypto currencies, based on a large number or pre-defined parameters.
"Basically, they allow people to trade crypto without them actually having to do the trading themselves."
Cofounder and CEO Rachel Strevens said Ilumony had been getting a lot of interest and questions from its traditional investment customers about crypto currencies, wanting to know if it could help them invest .
"Globally, we discovered there's huge interest to invest in crypto currencies, but the majority of people just don't know how to buy into the market, who to listen to, and what to trust," she said.
"Although there's been a lot of hype and speculation around crypto currencies recently, we see this as an emerging asset class that will mature and become more important in coming years.Read moreGoogle to ban cryptocurrency ads
"The underlying technology behind them all — blockchain — could be as revolutionary as the internet. We wanted to give our customers the opportunity and appropriate guidance to invest in tomorrow's money, today."
Singla said Ilumony had "taken our cryptocurrency experience, applied traditional investment market principles and expertise to help reduce the risk, and combined this with powerful machine learning algorithms to provide a really simple, yet diversified approach to cryptocurrency investing."
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In the last two days, Microsoft released two builds for Windows 10 consecutively. They were build 10158 and 10159. In build 10158, Microsoft focuses on adding many high-demand features to the new web browser Microsoft Edge. Multiple homepages is one of them.
With this feature enabled, Edge is able to open a set of webpages whenever you launch it. To do this, open Microsoft Edge and hit the ellipsis icon on the top right corner. Then select Settings.
In Settings pane, you'll see the section "Open with." To make Edge open multiple pages when launch, you need to select "A specific page or pages." Then choose "Custom" in the drop-down menu. Now you can enter any web address to like into the box.
And that's all. One the other hand, if you like to set a page when open a new tab, you can learn how to do it here [2]. Enjoy!


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Last week we submitted the molsturm design paper titled Towards quantum-chemical method development for arbitrary basis functions. This manuscript is a condensed summary of the arguments about design and implementation of a basis-function independent self-consistent field scheme (SCF) already presented in my PhD thesis.
Our approach to a basis-function-independent electronic structure theory code is to employ contraction-based methods for solving the Hartree-Fock (HF) problem. The idea of this ansatz is to avoid storing the Fock matrix, i.e. the matrix representation of the operator underlying the HF problem, in memory. Instead one focuses on only employing optimised expressions for the product of this matrix with a set of trial vectors in the SCF procedure for solving HF. As the paper discusses in more detail this is possible, since all SCF algorithms known to us can be performed based upon iterative procedures, which only require a matrix-vector product.
An advantage of the contraction-based SCF is that the basis-function-dependent structure of the Fock matrix can be hidden inside the expression for the matrix-vector product. As a result the SCF code becomes independent of the basis function choice and new basis functions can be added to our SCF procedure in a plug and play fashion just by linking to appropriate integral libraries. The abstract of the paper reads
We present the design of a flexible quantum-chemical method development framework, which supports employing any type of basis function. This design has been implemented in the light-weight program package
molsturm, yielding a basis-function-independent self-consistent field scheme. Versatile interfaces, making use of open standards like
python, mediate the integration of
molsturmwith existing third-party packages. In this way both rapid extension of the present set of methods for electronic structure calculations as well as adding new basis function types can be readily achieved. This makes
molsturmwell-suitable for testing novel approaches for discretising the electronic wave function and allows comparing them to existing methods using the same software stack. This is illustrated by two examples, an implementation of coupled-cluster doubles as well as a gradient-free geometry optimisation, where in both cases, an arbitrary basis functions could be used.
molsturmis open-source and can be obtained from http://molsturm.org.
|Michael F. Herbst, Andreas Dreuw and James E. Avery. Towards quantum-chemical method development for arbitrary basis functions. Journal of Chemical Physics, 149, 84106 (2018). Received Editor's Pick. DOI 10.1063/1.5044765 [code]


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by Erica C. Barnett
People wheeling suitcases, lugging hand baskets, and pushing grocery carts trailed slowly out of a large homeless encampment on South Weller Street Thursday morning, passing through police barricades and a crowd of onlookers as the city's Navigation Team removed an encampment that, as recently as last weekend, included nearly 70 tents. About 30 police were on hand to escort an estimated 36 residents away from the area.
The sweep was the second in two days by the Navigation Team, which is part of the city's Human Services Department. The first took place on Wednesday, a few blocks away along South King Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. The team has touted its success at getting people to accept referrals to shelter from the two sites—plus another one at the Ballard Commons that was swept two weeks ago—through advance outreach and during the actual encampment removal.
Officially, sweeps are no longer happening. According to a March order by the city, "all encampment removal operations have been suspended" during the COVID-19 outbreak unless the encampment constitutes an "emergency" and there are appropriate shelter beds available for every person living there.
In reality, sweeps are still happening, and opponents believe they are ramping up. The city has acknowledged removing four encampments during the pandemic—the one in Ballard, one at South King Street on Wednesday, and two, including today's, outside the Navigation Center. The justifications for these removals have varied widely, and not all of them fall under the criteria the city gave as examples of "extreme circumstances" in the March announcement. At a city council meeting on Monday, council member Lisa Herbold, the council's longtime Navigation Team watchdog, said that "there seems to be continued divergence between what [people at HSD] say the policy is and what it is that the Navigation Team is actually doing."
In a blog post, the Human Services Department said it referred 88 people to shelter from the two locations between April 1 and today. As of last weekend, the two sites combined had around 80 tents, and dozens of people were walking around, so it's unclear whether people who received referrals simply returned to the encampment. Team director Tara Beck, who was on site at both removals, said the team has offered shelter to every person living at the encampments.
"I can guarantee that everyone here, we've explored shelter with them, and if they wanted shelter, we've explored transportation barriers," Beck said. "Our job is to offer, and the person's job is to accept. We do our part and we have to trust that the person is doing theirs. If they're choosing to walk away, they were not interested in the services that we were able to offer." Beck said the city is not providing actual transportation to shelter right now because of the need for social distancing in vehicles operated by city staff; instead, she said, they can call an Uber to transport people to shelter.
But several people I spoke to at both encampments said that they were not offered shelter, or, if they were, that it did not fit with their needs. One man who was helping a friend move his stuff across the street during Wednesday's sweep at South King Street, who identified himself as "Smiley" Dixon, said he had been living outdoors for three years and had never been offered shelter. His friend, Jacob Davis, said that the Navigation Team had "come through to let us know that they're going to remove us," but that "no one offered us anything."
When I talked to Davis and Dixon, they were standing on South Jackson Street, exactly one block away from the encampment where Davis had been staying. Davis called the team's claim to have offered shelter to every person "a bald-faced lie"—not that he would go "anywhere near" a mass shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic. "I don't want to get the virus," he said.
Guidance from the Centers for Disease Control says that cities should not remove encampments during the COVID-19 pandemic unless every person is offered "individual housing" such as a hotel room, rather than mass shelter, where disease can spread easily from person to person. King County has been following this guidance by moving people from existing shelters into hotel rooms, a strategy King County Executive Dow Constantine has credited for the fact that every person moved from the Downtown Emergency Service Center's downtown Seattle shelter into a Red Lion hotel in Renton had tested negative for the virus.
"That clearly would not have been the case if they had been left in the close quarters of a congregate shelter," Constantine said during the first meeting of the Regional Homelessness Authority governing board on Thursday.
In contrast, the city is only offering shelter beds, not hotels or housing. "The first thing we did, based on CDC guidance, was to de-intensify our shelters and set up hundreds of of new beds throughout our city," Durkan said at the RHA board meeting, referring to community centers and other facilities that have opened up so that shelters can place existing (not new) beds further apart.
Davis said he had been moved by the Navigation Team or police "more than 100 times" in four years, and "I've never been offered housing." Dixon added: "I would go to any hotel."
Beck said the city has to balance out the CDC guidance on mass shelters against the public health concerns that exist at encampments, including lack of social distancing between people and tents. "When you weigh the risks of being unsheltered [against] the risks of being in congregate shelters, the risk of being outside is greater," Beck said. "The CDC guidance is really important, but social distancing is also important."
About halfway through both of this week's encampment removals, a Parks and Recreation Department dump truck arrived to haul tents, mattresses, pallets, and other items left behind by encampment residents to the dump. Soon, it became hard to hear over the roar of the engine and the crunching sound of pallets, tents, and belongings being tossed into the truck and compacted. "They offer us storage, but they get to decide what's trash," Davis said. "Imagine if someone showed up at your house and told you you have 30 minutes to get out and they get to decide what you can keep. It is more stress and more trauma for most of us who are already experiencing stress and trauma living out here."
From behind the barricades blocking off South Weller Street, which Beck said had been set up to create "a secure work site … for the safety of everyone involved," protesters yelled at police about the lack of storage and the fact that they were not able to enter the site and assist encampment residents. Enrico Doan, who showed up to observe Thursday's encampment removal, told me people who left the site, then tried to return to collect more of their belongings, were being told they couldn't go back in. Neither could community activists, who wanted to hand out water and supplies. "There have been so many cops without masks on," he added. "They have refused to allow us to hand out gloves and masks to people who don't have them."
City council member Tammy Morales has proposed legislation that would create specific criteria for encampment removals during the COVID state of emergency. During a statewide call with homeless advocates on Wednesday, Morales said the legislation was meant to "take what the mayor herself declared in early March as a practice that the city would follow, which was that they weren't going to move people unless it was a serious safety hazard," and codify it. "I really felt that we needed a more formal policy to deal with this crisis," Morales, who was at the Wednesday-morning sweep, said. "We have so many more options, and for this to be the strategy … is really frustrating for me," Morales said.
The mayor's office has come out swinging against Morales' proposal, suggesting that the temporary bill, which would expire as soon as the mayor lifts the COVID-19 state of emergency, would allow crime and chaos to take over in vulnerable communities like the International District. In a six-page-long letter to the council, senior deputy mayor Mike Fong said the bill was "as poorly drafted and analyzed as I've ever seen and fails to recognize basic and legitimate operational, legal and policy considerations." Fong accused Morales of allowing a dangerous situation to continue in a neighborhood that had "borne the brunt of generational discrimination"—a message echoed by several community groups in letters asking the city to address the encampment.
There is, however, no community consensus in favor of sweeps; one neighborhood group, the Chinatown/ID Coalition, has posted a "Stop the Sweeps" petition, and the Friends of Little Saigon urged "proactive, long-term strategies" that are "more thoughtful and durable than convenient," such as "[r]amping up efforts to stabilize the homeless through shelter, moving them into more permanent housing, and implementing assistance programs to keep them in the housing." On Wednesday, Yin Yu of the CID Coalition said the pro-sweeps contingent "doesn't represent the neighborhood," and said her group wanted "for folks to be housed and not swept."
Deputy mayor Fong's letter also enumerated some of the situations in which the city might still need to do sweeps. These included encampments that are partially blocking a sidewalk (the initial directive explicitly said that only tents "completely blocking an entire sidewalk" would be removed); encampments where illegal activity is taking place; encampments in public parks and golf courses; and encampments in front of public libraries.
Fong's examples suggest that the mayor's office is moving back toward its pre-COVID position on which encampments require immediate removal. Reinstating the total ban on sleeping in parks and publicly owned rights-of-way, for example, would give the Navigation Team the authority to remove almost any encampment on the grounds that it constitutes an "obstruction," as was the practice before COVID. Allowing the city to sweep all encampments near libraries, as opposed to those blocking library entrances, would represent a return to the old policy of removing encampments that are not only blocking but merely in the vicinity of a public facility, in this case public libraries that are currently closed.
HSD has said that about 70 percent of people who have received referrals to shelter since the pandemic began have actually showed up to the shelters to which they were referred, but exact numbers can be hard to come by without reaching out directly to shelter providers one by one. For example, about 29 people living at the Ballard Commons were referred to shelter, according to HSD. Most of those referrals were to one shelter and one tiny house village run by the Low-Income Housing Institute, whose director, Sharon Lee, says they are all still staying at those locations. Beck said the Navigation Team measures its success by "did we make an offer and did we reduce the barriers" to moving inside, not on actual enrollments, which are "complicated to track."
It's clear, though, that a large number of people at the last three sweeps neither "accepted" the city's offer of shelter nor ended up indoors. It was easy to see them walking down the hill in all directions, or gathering their stuff in piles just outside the police perimeter. In addition to feeling vulnerable to the virus, as Davis does, people may refuse shelter because they have physical or mental health conditions that make it hard for them to stay in congregate settings, because they worry about theft and personal safety, because the shelter they're offered doesn't allow partners or pets, or because they don't trust the city based on previous negative interactions, for example.
Up in Ballard, outreach workers are still trying to locate all the people who were displaced by the city's sweep of the Commons two weeks ago. Joshua Perme, outreach manager for The Bridge Care Center near the park, said he has managed to locate about 70 percent of the people who had been staying at the Commons and are now spread out across Northwest Seattle, from Golden Gardens to Commodore Way in Magnolia. He believes people are less secure now than when they were staying together in a single location. "If we're going to tell people that they can't be where they are, we need something better than 'We have a couple of shelter beds and whatever you can't carry, we're going to destroy,'" he said.
"People know that the city's moratorium on sweeps is over. They don't necessarily understand why that is—it's not like the agencies or businesses or anything else that they would frequent are open to help them," Perme continued. "Those of us that are open are doing it in a very different, and sometimes inefficient, way, but we're trying. It's just a lot of uncertainty in a life that already has too much uncertainty."
Erica C. Barnett has covered Seattle politics since 2001 for print and online media. Read her latest at The C Is for Crank.
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Podcasting is the trend right now. This episode contains everything you need to know about podcasting from Alban Brooke and Travis Albritton.
Listen: Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | iHeart | More Options
Everything You Need To Know About Podcasting with Alban Brooks and Travis Albritton:
Starting a podcast is a huge trend right now. Alex wanted to know all of the stats about podcasting so he spoke with Alban Brooke and Travis Albritton to see what these podcasting professionals had to say about the industry. Here is what they had to say:
❓ Is it too late to start a new podcast?
· There are 770,000 podcasts and well over 50% of them haven't launched an episode in the last 3 months.
Do you think the future of podcasts will grow or stay at the 770,000?
· Episodes have grown 2 times more this year than last year
· The number of listeners is up 4 fold from last year, so there are plenty of people to listen to new podcasts.
Apple owns the majority of the market; do you think this will change?
· Apple was the creator of the word podcast and they have owned 98% of the market. But Spotify is beginning to gain traction. Spotify is now the #1 place to listen to podcasts in multiple countries.
· A year ago, Apple was 70% of the market and now they are at 50% and Spotify is at 25%.
Organic search: ?
· Google recently began indexing podcast audio in the search results
· Podcasts are ranking for keywords that are hard to get. This can be extremely beneficial.
· If you want to find out if you are on top in your space, open an incognito browser and search some terms that are important to your business. Then you can see what kind of content is being created and you should create some of that same type of content.
Related Content: Thinking about starting your own podcast? Here's a free check list for you: 9 Steps For a Successful Podcast Launch
How much does it cost to get started ? ?
· A couple of hundred dollars will get you started. There is no need to spend thousands of dollars.
How can you monetize a podcast?
· Patron support or donation model.
· The host read ads / Sponsors
· Affiliate marketing
· Creating your own products/services
You have to start with your ultimate goal and how you want to make money in the first place. Think about what would be valuable to you.
? How do you grow your brand and gain an audience for your podcast?
· It can be difficult to grow a new podcast because they are hard to find when they are new. – But this is good because a lot of people don't stick it out.
· Invest in your artwork and get a microphone and make sure your episode isn't 2 hours of rambling.
Alban Brooke and Travis Albritton's Strategies for growing your podcast:
1. Get 10 listeners – real listeners not family.
2. Engage with communities that have similar interests to what your podcast is about.
3. Ask for feedback. Learn what people like and don't like.
4. Be a guest and have guests on your podcast that have a similar audience as you. You can even collaborate with people who have a similar audience but are on a different medium.
5. Overcast is a great app where you can put adds. We've seen great ROI using this app.
Final Thoughts:
The more patient you can be the more successful you will be! If you really want to create something incredible, it takes time.
Think about why you started and keep that thought at the forefront!
About Alban Brooke and Travis Albritton:
Alban Brooke is the head of marketing at Buzzsprout.
Travis Albritton is the head of content at Buzzsprout.
Buzzsprout is the best podcasting hosting platform available. They have helped over 100,000 people start their own podcast. It is the easiest way to host, promote, and track your podcast.
Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
Buzzsprout (Use this link to get a $20.00 Amazon gift card!)
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Frequently asked questions
About ownCloud
What is ownCloud and why would I use it?
ownCloud is a file server that enables secure storage, collaboration and sharing.
It is convenient to store files in the cloud, so they are available on any device and can be shared with a few clicks. There are a lot of popular providers like Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Dropbox. With a lot of these vendors, files are stored and processed beyond users control. With U.S. firms, files are subject to the Cloud Act and thus to government snooping.
Consistently based on open standards and modularity, ownCloud is suitable as a robust and security-oriented file platform for proprietary environments and as well open-source software environments. As a result, ownCloud combines fully sovereign file storage with modern, efficient productivity tools while maintaining auditable source code and comprehensive release functions. Users can install ownCloud themselves or rent a managed instance.
You want to use ownCloud to benefit from the conveniences of the public clouds while being compliant and in control of your data.
How secure is ownCloud?
- ownCloud protects your data using state-of-the-art cryptographic measures in transit, at rest and optionally end-to-end.
- ownCloud is an open source project so all code is visible. We are committed to building secure code, work following the leading industry security practices and perform regular security audits on the code. Our bug bounty program on hackerone rewards white hat hackers for responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities.
- To learn more, see owncloud.org/security.
What Service Provider and Partner Programs does ownCloud offer?
- Service Providers: Please read about our Service Provider programs, branding and options for ownCloud Service Provider Edition. For consideration as an ownCloud Service Provider you need to submit your business plan.
- Solution Partners are actively serving our joint customers and are the ideal first contact for any customer in the respective country. They are experts in implementation and can help with a variety of underlying infrastructure needs.
- ownCloud Technology Partners help us to reach customers with innovative joint solutions and joint go-to-market offerings.
Browse an overview of all ownCloud Partners.
Please apply here to become an official ownCloud Partner.
What kind of customers does ownCloud GmbH have?
ownCloud works with several large enterprises across different industries like financial services, energy and healthcare as well as with organizations in science, education and government. Some of our marquis customers include CERN, Daimler, the European Commission, ETH Zürich, Jefferson National and the Dutch Ministry of Defense. Quite a few of our important customers cannot be named for confidentiality purposes. Check out our success stories from customers we actually can talk about.
What is the difference between ownCloud and Nextcloud?
ownCloud is an enterprise-grade open-source file access platform focused on scale and security. Nextcloud is a 2016 fork of the old ownCloud code base that still uses PHP and seems laser-focused on implementing lots of features for small businesses and home users.
What are the benefits of ownCloud being open-source software?
Being open source means you can audit the code to make sure it does what you want. It also means that ownCloud is more flexible and adaptable than closed source software – you can more easily write extensions and even modify the core. Transparency enables peer review which tends to lead to efficient code, good performance and low running costs.
What is the difference between ownCloud Community, Enterprise and Online?
The community edition can be deployed everywhere free of charge and without support even on a raspberry pi. The enterprise edition is the business on-premises solution for everyone with their own data-center. While the online version is especially for SMBs without data center and sys admins.
Who is it for?
ownCloud is for anybody seeking digital sovereignty and a powerful file access platform, whether they be individuals, small businesses, organizations and institutions large and small, multinational corporations or governments.
Product & Features
Is it possible to brand ownCloud with my Corporate Design?
Yes, ownCloud offers theming with ownBrander as part of the Enterprise or Custom Subscription. It includes thr Mobile Apps, Desktop Apps and the Web Interface.
How do the ownCloud Apps work?
There are three kinds of apps that you can use to extend ownCloud. There are free Marketplace Apps, Enterprise Apps that are part of the Enterprise Edition and third-party apps. The Enterprise Apps and are fully supported with a paid subscription. Third-party apps are not supported by ownCloud.
What is Federated Cloud Sharing?
The Federated Cloud Sharing Feature enables users to quickly and easily share files with users of other ownCloud instances. Users simply enter a Federated Cloud ID, e.g. instead of a local username to share a file or folder with the other party, who can then edit the file. Federation is particularly helpful for collaboration across organizations, be they companies, universities or public institutions.
Where can I find ownCloud apps?
You can find apps that extend the functionality of ownCloud on the ownCloud Marketplace. To see which Apps you have already installed in your ownCloud, visit [your-ownCloud-domain]/settings/admin?sectionid=apps
Can I use ownCloud in professional, large scale deployments?
Absolutely. ownCloud Server is built for and used in large scale, professional deployments in enterprises, education, research institutions and government agencies. Our customer list includes CERN, SwissLife, Daimler TSS, the European Commission and ZF.
Where can I get an overview of all features?
Please visit our Features page. We've compiled a number of needs that ownCloud addresses, please have a look to learn more.
Can I use ownCloud as a backup solution?
No. ownCloud is absolutely not a backup solution.
- Changes you make in one place are synchronized to other places which means that if you accidentally remove or overwrite a file on your local system, ownCloud will remove it from the server.
- If a file gets corrupted at one place the corrupted file gets distributed to other places.
- The 'previous files' and 'undelete' functionality of ownCloud is merely meant as a convenience and should never be relied upon as a backup function. Algorithms are in place that clean up 'old files' and thus, changes will get lost over time.
- External Storage connects ownCloud to an external storage like FTP, SMB another ownCloud Server or third-party providers like Google Drive, Amazon S3 or Dropbox. Files will show up in your web interface and can be synced with the client. However, they are not replicated on your ownCloud server!
You should use a backup application to store the files in ownCloud somewhere. The ownCloud documentation has tips on how to back up ownCloud.
What's the difference between ownCloud Standard Edition and ownCloud Enterprise Edition?
Both include support. The ownCloud Standard Edition ownCloud Enterprise Edition adds a range of Enterprise Apps specifically developed for the needs of corporate clients and large-scale installations. It integrates with SharePoint, Windows network drives, Amazon S3 and more. It also includes support, branding and mobile apps.
For a full feature comparison, please visit owncloud.com/find-the-right-edition
Which solution is best for me?
Is ownCloud Server limited to a certain number of users or files and do I have to purchase something to get a 'full' version?
ownCloud is open-source software without artificial limitations on things like the number of users or files. You only need a subscription to access to our world-class support desk and to our Enterprise Apps.
Is owncloud free?
It can be, depending on your needs. ownCloud is open source and anybody can deploy it. To unlock additional functionality and support, the ownCloud GmbH offers premium subscriptions.
For which deployment scenarios is ownCloud suitable?
We've compiled a number of needs that ownCloud addresses, please have a look to learn more.
You might also want to peek into our customer list here – it includes key players in education, finance, logistics, research, manufacturing, energy, government and raw materials. Our customer list includes, among others, CERN, SwissLife, Daimler TSS, the European Commission and ZF.
Guides & Docs
Do you have customer references you can share?
Look into our customer list here – it includes key players in education, finance, logistics, research, manufacturing, energy, government and raw materials. Among others, CERN, SwissLife, Daimler TSS, the European Commission and ZF use ownCloud for secure and efficient file access and collaboration. We are happy to provide you with further relevant customer references upon request.
Can I put ownCloud all on one server?
Yes. If you want to scale ownCloud beyond a handful of users however, and are looking for the best performance, you want to consider a more complex setup. To learn more, read our deployment considerations.
What are the Minimum System Requirements to run ownCloud?
In short: 512 MB Ram and current versions of a common 64-bit linux distro, apache, php and suitable database.
Note: ownCloud currently does not run on Windows Servers.
Where do I find information on how to use/install ownCloud Server?
You can install with docker, manually or with an appliance
I want to upgrade my ownCloud installation to the new release, how do I do that?
If you installed ownCloud using you Linux distro's package manager, read how to upgrade here: https://doc.owncloud.com/server/admin_manual/maintenance/package_upgrade.html
If you want to upgrade an appliance install, here are the instructions
For all other cases, check out the manual upgrade guide
Is it safe to upgrade to the new release?
Why should you be testing?
In short: because ownCloud is yours. ownCloud is an Open Source product, following an open development model. That means that many different stakeholders, both commercial and private, contribute to its development and share responsibility for the final release.
Why does the calendar/contacts app not work with Android?
iOS has native ical/caldav support, Android does not. You have to use an Android app that does but unfortunately almost all apps we're aware of that support caldav/ical are paid. One open source client is DavX5. You can find a list of 3rd-party apps that work with ownCloud here.
Why does the Android/iOS mobile app not support my favorite feature?
If you'd like to add features to the Android or iOS client, find the Android sources here and the iOS sources here. Legal notes: the Android app is under the GPLv2, the iOS app under the GPLv3. To contribute to either, you have to sign a contributor agreement or contribute your code under the MIT license. For testing, we provide a iOS license exception so you can run the iOS app on up to 100 devices.
Why do I sometimes get conflict files and messages while syncing?
A conflict may be caused by two or more users editing the same files at the same time or while on the road before the files are synced. We do not merge changes to files like version control systems like git do; we don't modify user files, ever. So you will get two files, the one that was synced to the server first and the one you had locally modified in the same time. You can compare the file changes by hand and delete the local file once you're sure you did not lose data.
Since ownCloud 10.5, you can manually lock files in the Web App.
Technology & Development
Does ownCloud offer a Proof of Concept?
What Encryption methods are used and what data is encrypted?
ownCloud encrypts data on three levels: In transit, at rest and optionally end-to-end. With its modular and flexible encryption architecture, ownCloud enables custom setups for every threat level and regulatory requirement.
How does the virus scanner app work?
It scans files on upload to avoid infections with viruses, trojans, and other malicious code using an integration with ClamAV. You may also integrate other virus scanners.
If I have my ownCloud server hosted, does that still help me protect my privacy?
Yes, it does. Encryption in-transfer and at-rest strenghtens data security in hosted environments. Moreover, you get to choose where and with whom you host your data – so you can find a jurisdiction that protects you better or host your data at a provider you trust.
Why does ownCloud use csync rather than rsync?
rsync is a one-way syncing protocol. This means that if you have two servers and delete a file on one side, it will pop up again if you use rsync. To ensure old files get removed but new files added, and updated files overwritten, you need a N-to-N sync solution. ownCloud uses csync for syncing, which also deals with conflicts in a smart way.
Why is ownCloud Server written in PHP?
We picked PHP a decade ago because it lowers the barrier for using, auditing, modifying and contributing to ownCloud
- Even the cheapest hosting provider supports PHP
- PHP is easy to learn which makes it easy for people to contribute. The ease of PHP also allows you to check the code that runs your ownCloud and make changes that you need.
Sadly, PHP also has some disadvantages. That is why we are building something new.
Why do you use HTTP and not another protocol?
HTTP goes through every firewall and proxy.
Does the long list of security advisories mean ownCloud is less secure than other solutions?
- Many large corporations with high security requirements use ownCloud, from finance to defence, subjecting the software to independent security audits. As an open-source project, ownCloud also benefits from a large numbers of eyes looking at its code.
- We are highly committed to comprehensive yet responsible disclosure of security issues, which is why we publish all potential security relevant issues with a CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) system, an international standard in security and availability. With CVE, system administrators can easily see whether their infrastructure is vulnerable or not.
- No other open-source file access platform is scrutinized like ownCloud. While a lower or higher number of CVE's does not directly say anything about security by itself, issuing CVE's is a responsible vendor security practice.
Are files encrypted during sync?
Yes, we use TLS for sending and receiving files over the network so they are encrypted during transmission.
Does ownCloud support file encryption on the server?
Does ownCloud do file de-duplication?
No, as we think that is a job for the file system. ownCloud does maintain versions of files as they are replaced and you may revert to older versions at any time.
Why is ownCloud syncing not faster?
The design of ownCloud is constrained by two important features: scalability and reliability.
- ownCloud is designed to be very scalable, and be independent of the used storage system. We want it to work with petabytes of data and tens of thousands of users – and it does, organizations like CERN in Switzerland and big universities and University Networks run ownCloud with such amounts of data and users.
- A second design goal of ownCloud is reliability. We would rather be slower to ensure no files are lost than playing fast-and-loose with user data. For example, the file-change-notifications on Linux and Windows are not 100% reliable in all cases, so just-to-be-sure we run a full file system scan periodically. Yes, that eats battery life, but it does ensure you do not lose any of your files!
This does not mean there is no room for improvement, we work very hard to make ownCloud faster and every release introduces many performance improvements. Also, help is always welcome. Check out the client code on github if you are interested in the challenges of fast, scalable and reliable file syncing! See the contribute pages for more information about getting involved.
Does ownCloud scale to large deployments?
Yes. ownCloud runs on a Raspberry Pi and also powers the Digilocker, the government document cloud in India with more than 200 million registered users.
Contribute & Legal
Where is the ownCloud community hosted?
The ownCloud code can be found at github.com/ownCloud
How can I get involved with the ownCloud Community and be a part of the open-source development?
Yes, find all the necessary information at owncloud.com/contribute. The development happens at https://github.com/owncloud.
How big is the ownCloud Community?
ownCloud has an over 200 million users and 398 programmers contribute code in 20 teams. Tens of thousands participate on our forums, mailing lists, translation and documentation tools.
Where can I discuss ideas with other ownCloud users?
How can I get involved in the ownCloud Community?
I am not very technical can I get involved in the community?
There are lots of ways you can contribute to ownCloud, even non-technical ones. Have a look at owncloud.com/contribute!
How can I get started writing mobile (Android, iOS) clients or third party (web) apps?
- First of all, awesome you want to bring ownCloud support to your app or build an app entirely for ownCloud, rocking!
- If you're interested in writing an Android or iOS app with ownCloud support, you can use our MIT licensed libraries on those platforms. Find them on Github: iOS, Android. You can then use the iOS and Android developer docs.
- To build a third party application accessing ownCloud data through its external API, find the documentation here.
Can I modify ownCloud and run it on my website for others to use/access?
ownCloud Server is available under the AGPLv3. In laymen terms (this is NOT legal advice!) the AGPL license grants you the right to run the ownCloud code wherever and however you want, make modifications and additions and share these with anybody you like. The only limitation is that if you give others access to your ownCloud (by giving them a user account or sharing files with them), you must also give them access to the source code; and the whole source (including your modifications) has to be under the AGPLv3 license.
How to comply
If you have made no modifications to the ownCloud code, the easiest way to comply with the AGPL is to have a small link to owncloud.org and note that users can find the code there.
Otherwise, if you have made modifications, contributing these to ownCloud is sufficient from our point of view. If you don't want or can't do that, you have to provide a way for users to download the modifications you made to ownCloud, including the modifications. Providing, upon request, a tarball, zip file or github repository is enough. Make sure they contain the copyright notice; the code has to be under the AGPLv3 or a compatible license like the MIT license.
Some examples:
- ownCloud apps (ownCloud apps like the calendar or music app from apps.owncloud.com, as you would write following the App Developer documentation, using the public but internal API) are considered an integral part of ownCloud; writing an ownCloud app is thus considered modifying ownCloud and your ownCloud apps are subject to the requirements of the AGPLv3. The ownCloud Enterprise Edition provides an exception as it is available under a proprietary license.
- External apps like mobile or desktop clients, or apps running on another server and otherwise not part of ownCloud but using the external ownCloud OCS API as you would find here are NOT subject to the AGPLv3 and can be under any license you like.
- Artwork is not subject to the AGPLv3: you can have a branded ownCloud installation, with modified logo, colors etcetera. You do NOT have to release your logo or other artwork under the AGPLv3.
- If you use ownCloud yourself (as private user or company!) and do not give third parties access to its user interface or API's (like webDAV), the AGPLv3 sharing clause does not come into effect. In general, note that you are only ever obliged to share the original source upon request with a third party who has been given access to your ownCloud instance. You must merely make sure that users are aware of this right.
Can I write closed source or proprietary apps for ownCloud Server?
- Yes, but following the requirements of the under the AGPLv3, these can be distributed or made available to users outside of your household or organization only under the ownCloud Enterprise Edition, which supports integration with proprietary technologies. Contact us for details.
- External apps like mobile or desktop clients (like those using the iOS or Android ownCloud libraries, which are MIT licensed) or apps running on another server and otherwise not part of ownCloud but using the external ownCloud OCS API as you would find here are NOT subject to the AGPLv3 and can be under any license you like.
I want to report a copyright infringement or other legal matter on a site that mentions use of ownCloud.
ownCloud is an open-source project that can be easily hosted by any person allowing anybody to securely exchange files. Neither the ownCloud open source project nor ownCloud GmbH exert any legal or technical control over those domains. If you found a copyright infringement on a domain other than owncloud.org or owncloud.com, please try to contact the domain owner. ownCloud has no insight or control over ownCloud instances.


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A catalyst's utility is influenced by its surface charge and how that charge is transferred. Until recently, studying charge transfer has relied on complex imaging techniques that are both expensive and time-consuming. Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) report an approach for studying charge transfer that does not rely on complicated equipment -- simplifying the real-time observation of catalysis.
The team describes an experimental setup using a tiny ruthenium catalyst, a nanocluster, that reacts with oxygen in the air when heated to high temperatures. This oxidation reaction is detected by a support structure attached to the catalyst that provides a live readout to a computer. Ruthenium can be used to detect breath acetone, which is a biomarker for various disease states, but this setup also has wider value in demonstrating exactly how catalysts facilitate a reaction.
"Essentially, the attached support structure detects a change in current, corresponding to a change in the catalyst nanocluster," explains Dr. Alexander Porkovich, first author of the study, published in ACS Nano. "In this case, that change is a shift in oxidation state as the ruthenium reacts with oxygen."
"When studying charge transfer phenomena, we are interested in the interface between the catalyst and the support -- and this experimental setup is ideal. With such a clean interface, we can be confident that our data accurately captures the unfolding oxidation reaction."
This paper adds to the growing body of literature bringing hidden catalytic activity to light, taking observations in situ -- allowing the reaction to take place unperturbed. These readings, dubbed chrono-conductometric measurements, are a useful evolution in methodology, and they are supplemented with other approaches to validate the ruthenium's shift in structure, chemical ordering, and surface charge. Combined, these techniques provide a complete and reliable picture of the reaction mechanics.
The study also highlights the importance of the ruthenium nanocluster's structure. Ruthenium was bound to the support in two distinct configurations, each exhibiting different mechanics when reacting with oxygen. One structure more fully reacts with oxygen, whereas the other retains an inert core. This raises further questions about how the structure of the nanocluster impacts on catalysis, and which conformation of ruthenium may be better suited to industrial applications.
Understanding charge transfer phenomena also has utility beyond catalysis, including the study of surface plasmons employed in electron microscopy, and materials required in solar energy devices. Exploring these systems with similar in situ, chrono-conductometric measurements could shed further light on important industrial processes.
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