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NEW YORK — As superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's largest city unusually vacant and dark.
New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart in Lower Manhattan shuttered for a second day and seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in the city and Long Island.
The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph sustained winds killed at least 17 people in seven states, cut power to more than 7.4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold.
Authorities launched an effort to evacuate about 800 people in the town of Moonachie in northern New Jersey early Tuesday after a berm overflowed, authorities said.
The massive storm reached well into the Midwest: Chicago officials warned residents to stay away from the Lake Michigan shore as the city prepares for winds of up to 60 mph and waves exceeding 24 feet well into Wednesday.
"This will be one for the record books," said John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, which had more than 670,000 customers without power in and around New York City.
An unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater — 3 feet above the previous record — gushed into Gotham, inundating tunnels, subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall Street, and sent hospital patients and tourists scrambling for safety. Skyscrapers swayed and creaked in winds that partially toppled a crane 74 stories above Midtown.
The massive storm caused the worst damage in the 108-year history of New York's extensive subway system, according to Joseph Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Right before dawn Tuesday, a handful of taxis were out on the streets, though there was an abundance of emergency and police vehicles.
Remnants of the former Category 1 hurricane were forecast to head across Pennsylvania before taking another sharp turn into western New York by Wednesday morning. Although weakening as it goes, the massive storm — which caused wind warnings from Florida to Canada — will continue to bring heavy rain and local flooding, said Daniel Brown, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
As Hurricane Sandy closed in on the Northeast, it converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a monstrous hybrid of rain and high wind — and even snow in West Virginia and other mountainous areas inland.
Just before it made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, N.J., forecasters stripped Sandy of hurricane status — but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature. It still packed hurricane-force wind, and forecasters were careful to say it was still dangerous to the tens of millions in its path.
While the hurricane's 90 mph winds registered as only a Category 1 on a scale of five, it packed "astoundingly low" barometric pressure, giving it terrific energy to push water inland, said Kerry Emanuel, a professor of meteorology at MIT.
Officials blamed at least 16 deaths on the converging storms — five in New York, three each in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, two in Connecticut, and one each in Maryland, North Carolina and West Virginia. Three of the victims were children, one just 8 years old.
Sandy, which killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Eastern Seaboard, began to hook left at midday Monday toward the New Jersey coast. Even before it made landfall, crashing waves had claimed an old, 50-foot piece of Atlantic City's world-famous Boardwalk.
"We are looking at the highest storm surges ever recorded" in the Northeast, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director for Weather Underground, a private forecasting service.
Sitting on the dangerous northeast wall of the storm, the New York metropolitan area got the worst of it.
An explosion at a ConEdison substation knocked out power to about 310,000 customers in Manhattan, said Miksad.
"We see a pop. The whole sky lights up," said Dani Hart, 30, who was watching the storm from the roof of her building in the Navy Yards.
"It sounded like the Fourth of July," Stephen Weisbrot said from his 10th-floor apartment.
New York University's Tisch Hospital was forced to evacuate 200 patients after its backup generator failed. NYU Medical Dean Robert Grossman said patients — among them 20 babies from neonatal intensive care that were on battery-powered respirators — had to be carried down staircases and to dozens of waiting ambulances.
Not only was the subway shut down, but the Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey was closed, as was a tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and several other spans were closed due to high winds.
The three major airports in the New York area — LaGuardia, Newark Liberty and Kennedy — remained shut down Tuesday.
A construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan collapsed in high winds and dangled precariously. Thousands of people were ordered to leave several nearby buildings as a precaution, including 900 guests at the ultramodern Le Parker Meridien hotel.
Alice Goldberg, 15, a tourist from Paris, was watching television in the hotel — whose slogan is "Uptown, Not Uptight" — when a voice came over the loudspeaker and told everyone to leave.
"They said to take only what we needed, and leave the rest, because we'll come back in two or three days," she said as she and hundreds of others gathered in the luggage-strewn marble lobby. "I hope so."
Trading at the New York Stock Exchange was canceled again Tuesday — the first time the exchange suspended operations for two consecutive days due to weather since an 1888 blizzard struck the city.
Fire destroyed at least 50 homes Monday night in a flooded neighborhood in the Breezy Point section of the borough of Queens, where the Rockaway peninsula juts into the Atlantic Ocean. Firefighters told WABC-TV that they had to use a boat to rescue residents because the water was chest high on the street. About 25 people were trapped in one home, with two injuries reported.
Airlines canceled around 12,500 flights because of the storm, a number that was expected to grow.
Off North Carolina, not far from an area known as "the Graveyard of the Atlantic," a replica of the 18th-century sailing ship HMS Bounty that was built for the 1962 Marlon Brando movie "Mutiny on the Bounty" sank when her diesel engine and bilge pumps failed. Coast Guard helicopters plucked 14 crew members from rubber lifeboats bobbing in 18-foot seas.
A 15th crew member who was found unresponsive several hours after the others was later pronounced dead. The Bounty's captain was still missing.
One of the units at Indian Point, a nuclear power plant about 45 miles north of New York City, was shut down around 10:45 p.m. Monday because of external electrical grid issues, said Entergy Corp., which operates the plant. The company said there was no risk to employees or the public.
And officials declared an "unusual event" at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey Township, N.J., the nation's oldest, when waters surged to 6 feet above sea level during the evening. Within two hours, the situation at the reactor — which was offline for regular maintenance — was upgraded to an alert, the second-lowest in a four-tiered warning system. Oyster Creek provides 9 percent of the state's electricity.
In Baltimore, fire officials said four unoccupied rowhouses collapsed in the storm, sending debris into the street but causing no injuries. Meanwhile, a blizzard in far western Maryland caused a pileup of tractor-trailers that blocked the westbound lanes of Interstate 68 on slippery Big Savage Mountain near the town of Finzel.
"It's like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs up here," said Bill Wiltson, a Maryland State Police dispatcher.
Hundreds of miles from the storm's center, gusts topping 60 mph prompted officials to close the port of Portland, Maine, and scaring away several cruise ships. A state of emergency in New Hampshire prompted Vice President Joe Biden to cancel a rally in Keene and Republican nominee Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, to call off her bus tour through the Granite State.
About 360,000 people in 30 Connecticut towns were urged to leave their homes under mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders. Christi McEldowney was among those who fled to a Fairfield shelter. She and other families brought tents for their children to play in.
"There's something about this storm," she said. "I feel it deep inside."
Despite dire warnings and evacuation orders that began Saturday, many stayed put.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — whose own family had to move to the executive mansion after his home in Mendham, far from the storm's center, lost power — criticized the mayor of Atlantic City for opening shelters there instead of forcing people out.
Eugenia Buono, 77, and her neighbor, Elaine DiCandio, 76, were among several dozen people who took shelter at South Kingstown High School in Narragansett, R.I. They live on Harbor Island, which is connected to the mainland by a causeway.
"I'm not an idiot," said Buono, who survived hurricanes Carol in 1954 and Bob in 1991. "People are very foolish if they don't leave."


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Possible Al Qaeda Threat Leads to Closure of Multiple U.S. Embassies, Travel Warning
The U.S. State Department issued a worldwide travel warning Friday morning for Americans, as a result of possible threats from Al Qaeda. It will also temporarily close multiple consulates and embassies in countries located in the Middle East and North Africa starting Sunday, August 4.
From the memo issued by the State Department:
The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the continued potential for terrorist attacks, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, and possibly occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula. Current information suggests that al-Qaeda and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks both in the region and beyond, and that they may focus efforts to conduct attacks in the period between now and the end of August.
The travel alert was global, but U.S. actions in response appear focused primarily on the regions in which the embassies and consulates are set to close. The threat, according to a source who spoke with NBC, seems to be coming from Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen, a country that intelligence agencies have been monitoring with increasing concern.
"This is a higher-than-normal threat stream," according to a source who spoke with CNN, while another said that there has been "more than the usual chatter" regarding possible terrorist operations.
Here are the consulates and embassies set to close on Sunday: Algiers, Algeria, Sana'a, Yemen; Tel Aviv, Israel; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Kuwait City, Kuwait; Ankara, Turkey; Muscat, Oman; Doha, Qatar; Cairo, Egypt; Kabul, Afghanistan; Baghdad, Iraq; Amman, Jordan; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Manama, Bahrain; Tripoli, Libya; Nouakchott, Mauritania; and Doha, Qatar.
The travel alert expires August 31.
[CNN, NBC, State Dept.]

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Hi, this is tutorial of root Samsung Galaxy J5 SM J510H. This root guide is working on Samsung Galaxy J5 SM J510H. It is safe and easiest method for root Samsung Galaxy J5 SM J510H.
Samsung Galaxy J5 SM J510H has Brilliant 5.2 inch screen with 720 x 1280 pixels resolution. This phone comes with superb build quality and innovative design. Samsung Galaxy J5 SM J510H has two outstanding features Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen and Qualcomm MSM8916 Snapdragon 410 chipset with Adreno 306 GPU, it's make this phone very smoother and faster. If we talk on gaming of this phone then we find Samsung Galaxy J5 SM J510H performed very well.
Samsung Galaxy J5 SM J510H has superb performance, So root Samsung Galaxy J5 J510H because root allows you to use maximum of your phone without any restrictions. After root you will install custom apps, custom Rom and custom setting in your Smartphone. But first you read root Advantage and Disadvantage by this post then follow these steps and root your phone.
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Preparations of Root:
1. Take a backup of your phone.
2. Your phone battery should charge 80% minimum.
3. Make sure proper power backup of your PC.
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Samsung Galaxy J5 SM J510H Odin Tool | Download |
Samsung Galaxy J5 SM J510H USB Driver | Download |
Samsung Galaxy J5 SM J510H CF-Auto-Root | Download |
Follow these steps to root Samsung Galaxy J5 SM J510H:
Step 1: Download and install your phone USB driver on your PC. Now download Odin tool and CF-Auto-Root file and extract both zip or rar file in a same folder.
Step 2: Enable Developer Mode and USB debugging mode on your Smartphone by this guide. Look for OEM unlock option and tap the toggle to enable OEM Unlock in the Developer option. If you find Verify Apps Via USB option in the Developer option, then tap the toggle to disable Verify Apps Via USB.
Step 3: Now we will go to Downloading Mode, So Switch off your phone. After then press and hold volume down key with Home key, while pressing these keys, then press and hold power button for a while and release all keys when you see ODIN Mode or Download Mode. see in the image 2.
Step 4: You will see a warning massage on your phone screen, see in the image 3. After then press Volume up key to continue or entering Download Mode. Now your phone entered in the Downloading Mode. See in the image 4.
Step 5: Now double click on Odin.exe for run Odin tool and you must check that "Auto Reboot" and "F.Reset Time" only these two options are ticked (see in the image 2). Now connect your device to PC via USB cable in Downloading Mode. When you connect your phone to PC then Odin tool detect your phone automatically and show COM port and give massage in massage box. See in the image 3.
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Note: In this process your phone automatically reboot and you will get a massage pass in the Odin tool window. Now disconnect your phone and start your phone then go to Application Menu where you will see SuperSU app. If you want check your phone is rooted or not, then use this app.
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Unless you have a big stash of cash, you'll need to borrow money to buy a home. Oh, you'll still need some cash (for the down payment and closing costs), so don't stop socking it away just yet.
In fact, one of the things that confuses our clients most is the down payment they'll pay when they get a home loan. So, today we'll share some of the questions we most frequently field.
Why do I have to make a down payment?
Not all home loans (also known as "mortgages") require a down payment, but most do. There are several reasons for the requirement. Primary among them is that the money helps protect the lender in case you default on the loan.
Secondary to that is the fact that lenders understand that borrowers with "skin in the game" are more apt to do whatever it takes to hang on to the home and not allow the loan to go into foreclosure.
Is the down payment the same as the earnest money I give the seller?
No. The earnest money's purpose is to show the seller that you are earnest about buying the home. The amount varies and it is typically held in a broker's trust account or in escrow until either the purchase is finalized or you or the seller back out of the transaction.
When the purchase is finalized, the earnest money deposit is credited toward your down payment or, in some instances, closing costs.
The purchase contract contains what are known as "contingencies." For instance, your purchase may be contingent upon you obtaining final loan approval. Should this not come to pass, you can walk away from the purchase with a full refund of your earnest money deposit.
If, on the other hand, you get cold feet and walk away from the deal, the seller may have the right to keep the deposit.
I've heard that some sellers help pay the down payment. Is that true?
No, it is not true. Sellers cannot help the buyer with the down payment. On the other hand, they are allowed to contribute toward the buyer's closing costs.
You can, however, use gifted funds, as long as the money doesn't come from someone directly involved in the transaction. The person who gifts you the funds must be able to document where the money came from.
If the gift funds are undocumented, you'll need to have them in your bank account for at least 60 days before the lender will consider them "seasoned." In fact, even your own down payment funds must either be sourced or seasoned, so if you need to move money around, do it as soon as possible.
Can I use money from my retirement account to pay the down payment?
Yes, you can, but we urge you to speak with your financial advisor or accountant before doing so. There may be penalties or tax ramifications that you should consider.
You'll find information on borrowing money from your 401k at smartasset.com and moneycrashers.com. You'll also find an article about why it isn't a good idea to withdraw retirement funds for a down payment at kiplinger.com.
Again, we urge you to speak with a financial advisor before making the decision.
How much will I need to pay for a down payment?
How much you'll be required to pay for a down payment depends on the loan product you're using. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Agriculture loan programs require no down payment but each has specific eligibility requirements.
Other loan programs, such as those offered through FHA and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac offer low down payments and the range is generally tied to credit scores. With a conventional loan, you'll typically be expected to pay 20 percent of the loan amount for the down payment.
But, consider voluntarily paying a larger down payment, if it's within your budget. The more you pay, the smaller the loan amount will be and, thus, the smaller your monthly loan payment will be.
Make a down payment that nets you 20 percent equity in the home and you won't be required to purchase private mortgage insurance, which adds a hefty premium fee to your monthly house payment.
When is the down payment due?
While you will need to show the lender proof of your funds for the down payment, the actual monies aren't due until closing.
The lender will send you a form, called the "Loan Estimate." While it breaks down all of the costs associated with the loan, pay special attention to the "Costs at Closing" section, specifically the second line under that heading, "Estimated Cash to Close."
You'll find a sample Loan Estimate online at consumerfinance.gov.
This amount reflects how much you'll need to provide to your lender before the transaction is closed. It includes the down payment and closing costs and the lender typically requires the funds be in the form of a cashier's check or wire transfer.
Please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have additional down payment questions or to clear up any confusion on other real estate-related topics. We're happy to help.
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Satisfaction is guaranteed on all of the items we sell. We offer a 14 day money-back guarantee. If for any reason you are not completely satisfied with the patch or neckerchief, we will promptly refund your money (including the original shipping charges). Simply return the item(s) to us, postage paid, and you will receive a refund within 7-10 days. Thank you for shopping with Boy Scout Patch Trader!


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Income and expenditure on council support services by Southland District Council, New Zealand
Year ended June 2010–2019, NZD thousands
Year ended June | Income and expenditure item | NZD thousands |
2020 | Total operating income | None |
2021 | Total operating income | None |
2022 | Total operating income | None |
2023 | Total operating income | None |
2020 | Total operating expenditure | None |
2021 | Total operating expenditure | None |
2022 | Total operating expenditure | None |
2023 | Total operating expenditure | None |
2010 | Total operating income | 3,562 |
2011 | Total operating income | 5,032 |
2010 | Total operating expenditure | 7,745 |
2011 | Total operating expenditure | 7,913 |
2012 | Total operating income | 8,001 |
2013 | Total operating income | 5,252 |
2014 | Total operating income | 6,379 |
2015 | Total operating income | 7,590 |
2012 | Total operating expenditure | 9,213 |
2013 | Total operating expenditure | 10,279 |
2014 | Total operating expenditure | 9,877 |
2015 | Total operating expenditure | 10,127 |
2016 | Total operating income | 7,258 |
2017 | Total operating income | 7,822 |
2018 | Total operating income | 8,464 |
2019 | Total operating income | 6,996 |
2016 | Total operating expenditure | 10,417 |
2017 | Total operating expenditure | 11,446 |
2018 | Total operating expenditure | 14,285 |
2019 | Total operating expenditure | 11,801 |
Local government: New Zealand has a system of local government administered by local authorities. Local authorities comprise city councils, district councils, regional councils, and unitary authorities. Unitary authorities are city and district councils that also perform the functions of a regional council. Local authorities all have elected boards called councils.
Local government funding: Councils are free to set their expenditure priorities and overall levels of expenditure. They receive income from many sources including rates, sales, and grants. Local government in New Zealand is not involved in the funding, administration, or management of education, social welfare, police, traffic control and enforcement, or urban fire services.
Roading: Includes maintenance of gravel and tar-sealed roadways, bridges, cycle lanes, verges, and footpaths.
Transportation: Includes bus and all other forms of passenger transport such as rail, trams and ferries, parking (including on-road and council-managed car parks), airports, and transport planning.
Water supply: Includes both drinking and non-drinking water supply, delivery networks and storage (such as reservoirs), irrigation and water treatment.
Wastewater: Includes sewerage network systems (including mains), sewage treatment (such as oxidation ponds), stormwater disposal (such as water run-off from roads, driveways, footpaths, and rooftops), culverts, and drains.
Solid waste/refuse: Includes the collection, recycling, recovery, and disposal of solid waste and refuse, landfill operations, street and roadside rubbish bins, recycling centres, reusable materials depots, and roadside recycling.
Environmental protection: Includes air and water quality measurement and education, land and soil management (soil conservation, erosion control, shelter belts, non-urban run-off), flood protection and river control, agricultural effluent monitoring, and pest management (such as opossum, rabbit, and invasive weed control).
Culture: Includes library facilities and materials (books, CDs, etc), museums and galleries (including historical and scientific preservation), and festivals and events.
Recreation and sport: Includes aquatic and sports facilities, zoological and botanical gardens, parks, reserves and playgrounds (such as bike and walking tracks, and parks and trails), and marine recreational facilities (such as berths, moorings, and access ways to water for sport and recreation activities).
Property: Includes social housing (such as housing programmes for low income earners and disadvantaged groups), community property (such as community halls, heritage sites, and camping grounds), council-owned property, commercial property (such as leased parking buildings and concert and cultural events facilities), and cemeteries and crematoria.
Emergency management: Includes emergency and disaster management (such as rural fire and civil defence services).
Planning and regulation: Includes building control (such as building consents, code compliance certification, and LIM reports (Land Information Memoranda), resource management (such as district and coastal policy and planning, city and town planning, and consent processing and hearings), animal control (such as dog registration, stock control, and trapping), environmental health (such as food and hairdressing premise regulation and licensing), health nuisance control (such as food poisoning investigations), liquor licensing, enforcement of council bylaws, and marine safety.
Community development: Includes community support (such as funding community organisations and projects), iwi liaison, social and research grants, community advocacy, and community safety (such as CCTV, street lighting, and emergency housing).
Economic development: Includes business and tourism promotion.
Governance: From 2009, includes financial matters related to the elected councils and community boards. Before 2009, governance is likely to have included governance, community development, economic development, council support services, and other activities.
Council support services: Include overheads for local authority administration, finance, IT, and HR functions as well as report preparation (such as annual reports and long-term council community plans).
Other activities: Include all activities undertaken by councils that are not included in the above categories.
Rates: Include all forms of rates such as uniform annual general charges, water rates, and targeted rates. Rates collected on behalf of other local authorities (such as regional councils) are not included. Water sold by meter is included in sales and other operating income.
Regulatory income and petrol tax: Include fees, consents, fines, penalties (including rates penalties), and local and regional council petrol taxes.
Current grants, subsidies, and donations income: Include those from central government (such as roading and transport grants from NZTA) as well as those from all other sources for operational (current) use.
Interest income: Includes interest earned from interest bearing deposits, short and long-term investments, loans, and all other interest bearing investments.
Dividend income: Arises from council ownership of equity in CCO and other entities, and includes councils' share of profits or losses from associates.
Sales and other operating income: Include income from admission charges, water sold by meter, rental income from properties, rubbish bag sales, and other miscellaneous operating income. Internal transfers and charges (such as overheads) are excluded.
Employee costs: Gross earnings of all paid employees in the authority. Overtime, sick and holiday pay, severance and redundancy payments, levies paid to the Accident Compensation Corporation, and employer contributions to superannuation schemes are all included.
Depreciation and amortisation: Depreciation on fixed assets includes depreciation on infrastructural assets, restricted assets, buildings, vehicles, other plant, machinery and office equipment, and all other types of fixed assets. Amortisation is charged on intangible assets, the most significant being computer software.
Current grants, subsidies, and donations expenditure: Include those that local authorities give to others for operational (current) use.
Interest expenditure: Includes interest on all loans and other interest bearing liabilities raised by councils.
Purchases and other operating expenditure: Include payments for expert advice and services (such as consultants, legal, and other experts), business and property insurance premium payments, rent, fuel, postage, repairs and maintenance, contracts for services, fringe benefit tax, and other purchases of goods and services.
For more information
Changes to data collection/processing
- General rates are not always allocated to activities by local authorities. Before 2009, attempts were made to allocate total rates across activities.
- Before 2009, current grants, subsidies, and donations was likely to have included some capital grants.
- Before 2009, governance was likely to have included governance, community development, economic development, council support services, and other activities.
Data provided by
Dataset name
Local Authority Financial Statistics: Income and expenditure by activity (Annual-Jun) 2023
How to find the data
Infoshare -> Government finance -> Local Authority Financial Statistics - LAF -> Local Authority Financial Statistics income and expenditure by activity (Annual-Jun).
Import & extraction details
File as imported: Local Authority Financial Statistics: Income and expenditure by activity (Annual-Jun) 2023
From the dataset Local Authority Financial Statistics: Income and expenditure by activity (Annual-Jun) 2023, this data was extracted:
- Rows: 3-5,294
- Columns: 4-195
- Provided: 486,864 data points
This data forms the table Local Government - Local authority income and expenditure by activity and item by 2003–2023.
Dataset originally released on:
May 13, 2024
About this dataset
Local authority statistics provides information on the performance of core non-trading activities of New Zealand's territorial and regional councils.
Method of collection/Data provider
Stats NZ collect data on local authorities' finances in the Local Authority Census, a comprehensive and detailed questionnaire. For most local authorities, the requested data will be based on their audited financial accounts, supplemented by information from individual local authority annual reports and subsequent enquiries to councils.
Information collected from New Zealand museums are also included in this release as these data are covered in government finance statistics (local government).


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Back by popular demand, a very special collaboration with beloved Australian artist Pete Cromer! Cuddly and cute our Koala earrings are a beautiful addition to your little gang, lovingly hand-assembled with a collection of stunning marbled and bright textured resins coming together to make a new twist on the beloved Australian icon.
Keen Koala knows what you need. Someone to listen, to help you through, and a big bear hug!
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Princeton alumna and trustee Sonia Sotomayor has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would be the court's first Latina justice.
She currently sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.
"What Sonia will bring to the court is not only the knowledge and experience acquired over the course of a brilliant legal career, but the wisdom accumulated from an inspiring life's journey," Obama said in announcing her nomination May 26 at the White House.
Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman said, "We are proud and delighted that Sonia Sotomayor has been nominated for the Supreme Court. As an undergraduate, Sonia was an excellent student and an exemplary University citizen, graduating summa cum laude and earning the highest award we confer for her strength of character and leadership. Eight years ago we presented her with an honorary degree and two years ago she became a Princeton trustee. She has brought to that role the same kind of insight, discernment, wisdom and good judgment that we are confident she will bring to the deliberations of the highest court in the land."
Sotomayor earned an A.B. with highest honors in history from Princeton in 1976. She also received the Pyne Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate, which is awarded to the senior who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership.
"The history department takes a great deal of pride that one of its alumni has been nominated for justice of the Supreme Court," said William Jordan, chair of Princeton's history department.
Sotomayor was presented with an honorary doctor of laws degree by the University in 2001 for her "wisdom and judgment that cross cultural boundaries." In 2007, she was elected to a four-year term on the Board of Trustees.
Sotomayor grew up in the Bronx and, after graduating from Princeton, attended Yale Law School, where she was editor of the Yale Law Journal. She began her legal career as an assistant district attorney with the New York County district attorney's office. In 1984 she joined the law firm of Pavia & Harcourt, and became a partner with a focus on international commercial litigation and arbitration of commercial and commodity export trading cases.
Sotomayor was appointed a U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of New York in 1992 and was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in 1998. Her decisions include a 1995 injunction that ended an impasse between baseball owners and players, a reinterpretation of copyright law in the context of new media, and rulings in favor of public access to private information and in defense of religious freedom.
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The clothes you wear. The food you eat. The color of your bedroom walls. Where you go and how you get there. The people you hang with. What time you go to bed.
What do these things have in common, you're asking? They're just a few examples of the many hundreds of things that your parents controlled for you when you were a child. As a kid, you didn't have a say in very much that went on; your parents made decisions about everything from the cereal you ate in the morning to the pajamas you wore at night. And it's a good thing, too — kids need this kind of protection and assistance because they aren't mature enough to take care of themselves and make careful decisions on their own.
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The Learning with the Lions programme was created to explore, capture and share the unique learning opportunities that only a Lions Tour can provide with the aim of helping growing the game across the four home nations.
The journey has begun with our Pick of the Pride Search which will see a team of Ambassadors travel to New Zealand and document how they interact, collaborate and learn with each other and local New Zealand rugby clubs before bringing it back to their clubs to share the knowledge they have gained.
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The packs will include Lions themed décor and a range of ideas and activities to help you set up and deliver the ultimate viewing party. UK based clubs can also secure a discounted rate with the Lions media partner, SKY Sports, to ensure viewing with ease. *
How your club runs the party is up to you but we'd be delighted if your club capitalises on the excitement of the day by inviting and welcoming non-members to come along and join in. Create some lasting memories, and include Touch or Tag tournaments and general skills sessions where new members can get a taste for the game following the Lions match!
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If you are touring to New Zealand to watch the Lions in action, you are invited to join one of four Learning with the Lions events hosted in collaboration with the New Zealand Rugby Union. Local NZ clubs will host a panel discussion and break-out sessions in a relaxed open sharing environment to discuss club rugby on a global level.
Club members from both sides of the hemisphere will come together in shared passion for rugby and a vision for development, particularly in the youth game. Attendees will be given the opportunity to raise concerns and share difficulties they experience in their clubs with the aim of collaborating with those outside their own Union. Through these fun learning events, we hope to provide a sharing atmosphere where alternative perspectives and strategies for developing the domestic game inspire growth and retention amongst clubs across our four home nations.
To apply for either of the Learning with the Lions Programmes, go to www.Lionsrugby.com/learning and register your interest. Entries close midnight the 2nd of June, 2017.
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On LinuxPlanet, Kurt Pfeifle explains details about Tenor, a framework that will facilitate new ways to locate and otherwise manage content. Learn about the background of Tenor, what differentiates it from "desktop search tools" and why this new approach is needed in a world of ever growing disk space. Additionally, the article provides some insights from Scott Wheeler, one of Tenor's authors and primary designers.
--> The article isn't very specific on Tenor's technology. It
does however hint at the main conceptual idea that drives
its development.
--> The main purpose of the articles is to provide background
on *why Tenor has been started* at all, and why I, as a *user*
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--> Tenor is now a joint project of Scott and Aaron J. Seigo,
it seems to me. (I neglected that aspect a bit in my full
Scott Wheeler on desktop search
"With the content browser, you will be able to find and use information spread out across your system using the same semantics you use when thinking about or describing that information in day-to-day life. It will also allow you to find and build relationships within your information set."
This is the only info I could find in the article about what specifically Tenor aims at is. It sounds much like GNOME Storage. Does Tenor have a different goals? If not, how will the actual frameworks differ? Could some of the Storage effort be reused?
Could the framework be (made) useful outside KDE (say on GNOME) and published on freedesktop.org?
Tenor reminds me alot of gnome's beagle.
Can't wait to see how the KDE team will implement this one! It will surely be killer.
AFAIU, Tenor will be able to find an image if I ask for 'an image that I got last summer as an email attachement by John', that's what makes Tenor a 'Context Link Engine' - in that case, with Tenor being part of the KDE framework, you'll receive the email with KMail and save the attached image. Tenor will register the save and try to gather the context, in that specific case it would associate the image to the email it came from, thereby also create a relation to the author of the email, the email's subject, date etc. It would also be able to extend the search following logical links, like 'all emails by John', 'all emails sent to John', 'all emails sent/ received that day' or possible hyperlinks inside that emails. Extending this to KAdressbook's geographic data, I could use the image to search for 'a website which link someone from France sent me via Jabber/ Kopete the same day I received this otherwise completely unrelated image'.
Beagle is just a 'mere' desktop search with support for metadata, similar to Apple's Spotlight - but that will only be a subset of what Tenor will do...
your example is a good one, but tenor goes even beyond that. i just blogged about a couple of the more non-obvious possibilities tenor opens up. =)
How about a link to the blog entry, Aaron? :-)
I see only a very short mention of Kat on aseigo.blogspot, you were looking through the code and suggesting that clucene be used on 12 August.
Gnome Dashboard was very exciting a couple of years ago but it hasn't gone anywhere since (seems interest has moved over to Beagle). From the few news items I've read, Kat/Tenor sounds like a great basis for such things and more in KDE.
And what if I receive my email through Thunderbird? Or create a letter in OpenOffice? Will that be taken into account by Tenor as well? Please make that possible!
Tenor sounds like a great idea, but I ask you, don't make it too KDE-centric. It's poor enough that Gnome and KDE have developed two VFSs, and neither of it works at a layer that makes it accessible in konsole/terminal/xterm ;) No need for two search engines which are limited to their specific desktop.
Just expressed my hopes and wishes,
Spotlight can do all the things you've listed.
It looks rather impressive. When will we see the first applications to make use of Tenor technology?
KDE 4, likely not before. About 1++ year.
in a production quality, shipping release, yes.
we'll have demos and beta releases well before that, though =)
How will Tenor deal with parts or all of my data being moved to a different machine, or being stored away on a CD-ROM?
Most people tend to use more than one machine, archive data and to buy new computers from time to time. It would be a shame to lose context data when doing so.
On the other hand, you would want to be able to drop Tenor data on your local machine and/or when giving data to others, according to your wishes. Otherwise Tenor would be a Big Brother of sorts.
actually, Tenor is Swahili for "Big Brother". it will phone home to Scott if you live in Europe or to me if you are in North America (we still need Asian, African, South American and Oceania conspirators; applicants welcome) with all your linking secrets. All Your Tenor Are Belong To Us.
ok, seriously though. yes, there are privacy concerns and we've been talking about them at length. it's a perfectly tamable problem, but we won't see implementations of those solutions until we have the basics down first.
as for filtering out related Tenor subgraphs, we should be able to get that almost "for free" since given any starting point, it's possible to create a subgraph specific to that node with a given "radius" or specificity.
moving Tenor data between machines won't be hard; merging two meshes effectively will be an interesting task, however, as will defining boundaries of visibility.
removable media will also be a bit tricky since there is greater ambiguity in addressing ("ok, but the foobar.kwd on which CD?"). it's a problem we haven't yet gotten to solving, yet. i don't see it as insurmountable, we're just not there yet in the project is all =) it's also a problem common to all such indexing services.
I volunteer for the position in of Tenor Conspirator in Cupertino.
Also, if not taken, I'd like to cover the Redmond position too, as well as Armdonk and Mountain View.
If you accept me, I'll start to submit a weekly "Tenor findings CVS" to this list. I am quite sure that the Microsoft/Redmond blokes will will have a close look at it. Will be interesting to see their "mesh" workss. The same for the IBM/Armdonk or Google/Mountain View.
All these big players are known for lifting off OSS technology for their won good.... So let's watch them while they are ag work.
Indeed, amaroK doesn't have a solution to the removable media problem, despite it being often requested.
WRT the removable media issue: This question just reminded me of how well the good old Commodore Amiga handled removable media (with floppies though). You could have a desktop icon link to any file or application, and if you clicked on it the machine asked you to enter the disk DISKNAME into any drive.
That's something PCs still don't do half as well.
Apologies for getting a bit technical here, but I'm bad at explaining this stuff in other terms. :-)
> How will Tenor deal with parts or all of my data being moved to a different
> machine, or being stored away on a CD-ROM?
The issue of how to export subgraphs (the base of the Tenor structure is a classical "graph" in the computer science sense) is one that I've been thinking about a lot recently. It's still a few steps away, so right now it's just something that I kick around on long train rides and draw pictures in my notepad about, but it will be doable.
Actually exporting subgraphs isn't that hard -- what's hard is connecting that to the security model and being able to define or decide what is exported, how and to who. I've been putting a lot of thought into that, but if I went into it here it'd just be a lot of fuzzy technical blabbing that I'd probably change anyway, so watch this space. There will be more articles in the future that will cover the details as they become concrete.
Wouldn't "1++ year" be equal to two years?
Great stuff. It strikes me that KDE is in the almost unique position of having the technology, the development ethic and the organizational structure to accomplish such a turn-around, thanks to the tightness and code-reuse within the KDE platform. Which other player in the field could roll out such heavy-weight technology in a reasonably complete set of desktop applications at the same time - the enabling condition for being able to take advantage of contexts? Apple comes to mind, arguably, but the list pretty much ends there.
The KDE team did spend a lot of time in early versions getting the framework right with integration technology such as dcop, kio and kparts.
I guess they (and we users coincidentally) are now set up to reap the benefits of this extra effort.
From my blog last week (http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/953):
"KDE has the tightest coupling of application frameworks and applications of any desktop in existence. We can't throw as much money or as many PhD's at a problem as proprietary desktops, but we can push new ideas out in a fraction of the time that they can."
OS X is pretty close. IMHO Apple is starting with great usability and heading towards rich frameworks, while KDE starts with great frameworks and is heading towards usability.
Still, while Apple spends developer time on interfacing with users and swallowing their ego when it comes to UI development and testing, there's still too much of the "my way is the right way so frack off" in the KDE world.
While KDE folk can (and IMHO) should steal all the nicest bits of OS X UI, I'm sure there's folks at Apple who will look at KDE's cool tech with an ugly face and they'll steal those ideas and plop a great UI on them.
I just got myself a Mac Mini - mainly because I needed a multimedia capable machine that still fits around my table, and because I wanted to make music. So here's the Linux user's view on OS X.
Yes, Apple did a lot for usability. But some of the things really get on your nerves in OS X, and I'd rather say the "my way or the highway" philosophy applies for OS X far more than for KDE. In KDE, there are usually several ways to achieve some task. In OS X, there is usually just one way. There are far fewer buttons and switches in applications, and this makes it easy for a beginner to get aquainted with the app, but it really gets on my nerves when I e.g. can only have a button for left OR right rotate in iPhoto's toolbar, not both.
And Apple Mail starts downloading (caching) your whole IMAP account by default as soon as you configure it (about 800MB in my case), and cannot search in mails any more once you disable this. (Whatever is the IMAP SEARCH command for?)
So, I think somewhere there should be a middle ground. Apple has some *really* cool applications and although I miss some features in the iLife apps, they *are* good software. but the default user interface is just to ... barren ... feature wise. It's overloaded with special FX to compensate for that, though.
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Tenor sounds cool, but these are hard problems. Is there actual code in a cvs somewhere to check out and take a look?
there are earlier drafts available that reflect sketches of various states of design.
the most recent version was in CVS, but is in the process of being moved. don't worry, as we have things for people to play with we'll let people know =)
What number of people does "we" include? Looking at the length of the authors list of beagle it will be surely hard to finish an even more ambitious project like tenor in time for KDE 4. What part will developers of the existing applications play? What can they do or at least think about today to prepare for tenor?
i've got a whole tribe of oompa loompas in the basement working on this. scott's working on the import permits for his own oompa loompa tribe. (Germany tends to be a bit more of a stickler on these things than Canada.)
seriously though, there's a rather small number of us. and yes, the application developers will end up adding the vast bulk of value to it by building services on top of it.
things like the Content Manager will be a generic user interface to Tenor's stored information, and there will be many specific ones (e.g. annotations in pdfs and elsewhere).
we just have to have make the engine work, others will build upon that to expose the functionality. sort of like most of the rest of KDE's library-base technologies. =)
Soo. Is this something that applications would need to support specifically? Something like dashboard where applications supply "hints" as to the current context?
It sounds so interesting, partly because, when someone talks about Beagle, or Spotlight, I immediately have some idea how one could implement such a system. With Tenor, I can't even begin to think how it might work, code-wise. :)
>Is this something that applications would need to support specifically?
No, this is KDE so it's customary to let the framework handle such things:-) Something like the way KIO-Slaves work today, they are available to all KDE applications without the need for any specific handling in the applications.
> With Tenor, I can't even begin to think how it might work, code-wise.
we'll have APIs and examples for people to play with shortly.
the basic essence is that you take a piece of information, decompose it if necessary in an application-specific manner, and then feed it into Tenor along with a description of what "gos together". Tenor then builds additional relationships, if it can, and slots it into the larger mesh and allows this to be searched for and navigated through either independently or as part of a larger body.
it's quite a bit easier to show with examples, which Scott and I have put several of together. once we're happy with the way the APIs look and the storage side of it is working, we'll start releasing developer previews. it'll become pretty obvious at that point =)
The more apps use tenor the more usefull it will be.
So, will it be kde-only or will other apps (Qt, gtk, any other) be able to feed data into it ?
there is no reason why any application couldn't fee data into it. there will likely be a Qt dependency (though not a GUI one) in the core Tenor engine, but i don't see that being a problem. i expect an IPC bridge to emerge, for instance, and if other app developers have a problem communicating with a non-gui but Qt using app then they may want to check their priorities =) personally i see this as similar to the glib issue =)
the file indexer will not be tied into the Tenor engine, but use the API like any other application. so there could be multiple indexers written for different purposes, one of which could use KFMI (or something faster and with FTI-appropriate capabilities, preferably)
and yes, it should be possible to write FireFox extensions and OOo plugins to tap into tenor, for instance.
there will also be a GUI library for KDE apps to use (stock interface elements and probably various KDE specific helper goo-gads) as well, but that should be a separate library from Tenor itself and so be of no concern to non-KDE apps.
Maybe I missed this part in the article, but... How will Tenor be implemented? Will there be a separate Tenor-app that you use, or will it end up being a KIO-slave? I could see benefits in having "tenor://seigo kde-usability png" in file-dialog for example. The example would find all png's that were sent to kde-usability by Aaron J. Seigo. yes, the example is pretty limited, but gets the idea across.
Of course, there is a problem that KDE has even today: how do we tell the users about all the great technology KDE has? I still run in to KDE-users who do not know about audiocd:// or fish://!
That's kind of the wrong way of looking at it -- "Tenor" isn't something that users will use directly; it's a framework, not a tool or a specific interface component.
The way that it will show up to users is simply applications that work "smarter", search that works better, desktop browsing (in applications or the file browser) that knows about relationships.
So, it's not a tool and it's not storage abstraction; it's a mechanism to make applications able to work with context.
In this sense -- libkio is something that makes it possible to work with various sorts of input and output in KDE. Tenor is something that makes it possible to work with context.
There probably will be some specific new applications that emerge built completely around its capabilities, but that's the second step. :-)
"That's kind of the wrong way of looking at it -- "Tenor" isn't something that users will use directly; it's a framework, not a tool or a specific interface component."
I was under the impression that Tenor is somekind of "Spotlight on steroids" :). As in: a set of technology that can be embedded in to the system. Maybe I should RTFA again :).
Well, the article is mostly speculative. I'm fundamentally an application developer (that ends up spending more than half of my time on framework components, so...) so when I explained this stuff to Kurt at one point I mostly talked in terms of what people will be able to do with this stuff.
In other words the things that Kurt mentions are the things that I've designed towards; concrete use cases, if you will. But the user visible things will come as applications start to use the framework and new tools are written to take advantage of it. I'll probably write a basic search tool to show off the possibilities and then let the interface guys have fun with it. :-)
Basically Tenor makes it easy to write a "Spotlight on steroids" -- like libkio and KHTML make it easy to throw together a basic webbrowser, but that's not what Tenor itself is.
Part of the problem with explaining some of the stuff is that it's sometimes hard to imagine how something will work when there's nothing popular to really compare it to. Most of the stuff that people think of is a subset of what Tenor makes possible.
>Of course, there is a problem that KDE has even today: how do we tell the users >about all the great technology KDE has? I still run in to KDE-users who do not >know about audiocd:// or fish://!
I guess I am one of them. When I paste audiocd:// into the location bar on Konqueror, I get a dialogue "Malformed URL audiocd://" The same applies to fish://.
In my protocols config dialog, I have "fish" and it's checked, "audiocd" is missing. I am running kde3.4. Where is the documentation on these protocols? Doing a google search brings up so much information not so useful to a n00b like me. Thanx.
do you have kde-multimedia installed? I guess you are just missing some part of KDE.
It's "audiocd:/" and "fish://" needs to go with a hostname or an IP, e.g. "fish://my.server.tld".
That did it, thanx! While I know what ftp:// and http:// or https:// can be used for, I wonder what use could be made of fish://. Since I have no system setup for the fish protocol, could you point me to one? Cb..
That's what's great about fish://, there's no setup, your linux machines are already fish servers (as long as they run an SSH server, which almost all do). For any Linux or Unix machine you have a username, simply use fish://username@machinename to access the filesystem of that machine using that username. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for Windows machines, for that you have to use smb://.
I can only say wooooow! I never knew KDE has this feature and I guess I am missing a lot more. I guess I can put "fish://username@machinename" in the save dialogue to save a file on this machine if everything is setup. This kind of publicity is what we need for KDE. When I get back to the Linux box at home I will try it out! Thanx. What other exciting protocols/goodies are there to exploit?
To get a list of all the available protocols:
$ kcmshell ioslaveinfo
Its audiocd:/, and fish://hostname or fish:/
Which distro are you using?
My only grip about KIO is that tar, rar, etc should be implemented as pipes or something like that. I mean, it should be possible to view a TAR file from a FTP. Dunno if this is being worked on. My suggestion for how the url would look like is something like this: scp://server.com/file.tar|tar .
Anyway, yes, KIO is one of the best piece of software that lives in KDE. Really useful.
I've always thought something like ftp://ftp.server.com/file.tar#tar:/file/inside/it would make sense -- taking a cue from the webpage.html#anchor-to-jump-to syntax. Don't know whether it would conflict with anything else, though.
It would be great except that somebody might use anchors named tar: in their html file, and even possibly name their html file with a .tar extension. It would be hard to figure out what was meant in every situation.


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TORONTO — With temperatures plummeting recently, the cold snap came as a bit of a shock to Torontonians.
But it was much worse for the homeless. For most of us, it's hard to imagine being homeless, never mind living on the street in the extreme cold. When temperatures drop to extreme-cold levels, homeless shelters are overflowing.
Project Winter Survival (PWS), a volunteer-run organization that provides essential supplies to people living on the street during the winter, has this year distributed 3,000 "survival kits" through 172 agencies in the Toronto area.
The group's 14th annual drive was launched Jan. 12. The first phase was a packing event at PWS headquarters, at the Bargains Group on Caledonia Road in Toronto. "In just over three hours, 200 volunteers packed 93,000 items into 3,000 survival kits for the homeless," PWS co-founder Jody Steinhauer said.
Health workers predict that the situation on the street for the homeless in 2013 will be bad. Anne Marie Batten, a street nurse, said, "We had a record number of homeless deaths in 2012, and many shelters are full and overflowing."
She added that the survival kits are essential for people living on the street, "as those individuals who have pets as a means of emotional support… cannot bring them into shelters… and couples who do not want to be separated [can't stay in shelters]. We also use the kits to establish relationships with homeless people that have trust issues, such as individuals with mental illnesses and substance abusers."
From clothing and food to personal-care items – and a sleeping bag – the survival kits often mean the difference between life and death for the homeless.
The second phase of the PWS annual drive was distribution day on Jan. 19, when the kits were loaded onto trucks by 150 volunteers. Picking up the kits were representatives from organizations such as Ve'ahavta: the Canadian Jewish Humanitarian and Relief Committee, Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue, Congregation Darchei Noam, the Red Cross, Covenant House, Scott Mission, Eva's Initiative and the Salvation Army.
Ve'ahavta's community outreach liaison, Ori Belmont, described the situation of one of Ve'ahavta's homeless clients. "The gentleman that I spoke with is a very warm and endearing middle-aged Jewish man. Not unlike many others in his situation, extremely articulate and bright. Many erroneously believe that those living on the street, or in a shelter like this man, are neither," Belmont said.
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Belmont said the man told him, "My faith in humanity is strong, and despite my predicament, it will never change."
PWS was founded 14 years ago by Steinhauer, chief bargain officer of the Bargains Group, a discount wholesaler, together with her husband, Lorne Simon. Since then, PWS volunteers have assembled and distributed over 15,000 survival kits.
"When we started to hear about the challenges of the homeless, we decided as business leaders to make a necessary contribution to help meet the overwhelming demand by local agencies that struggle to help the homeless survive the frigid Toronto winters each year," Steinhauer said. "Sadly, requests for PWS kits continue to rise each year. We will never let this project end as long as there are homeless people on the street."
Any one of those people on the street could be us, if we had a bad turn of luck, Steinhauer said.
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