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Living well with HIV can involve many things, including looking after your health, managing treatment, dealing with relationships and family, telling others, finances, working and travel.
In this section you will find a range of information on living well with HIV – this includes HFA articles specifically for people with bleeding disorders and links to relevant resources.
For the latest news, information on treatments and living well
National Association of People HIV/AIDS Australia (NAPWHA)
Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO)
HIV Futures survey - a regular survey on all aspects of living with HIV in Australia and reports on the results. (Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University)
NB We provide these links as a service to the haemophilia community. As web sites can change or should you find a site to be no longer active please notify email@example.com. Haemophilia Foundation Australia is not responsible for the content of any external web sites. The featuring of a site on this page is not an endorsement by HFA of the information or views expressed therein.


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Location: Tianjin, China
Area/size: 80.000 m2
Status: completed May 2013
Samaranch Memorial is a romantic park surrounding the museum celebrating Juan Antonio Samaranch – the former Spanish president of the Olympic Games. The project was won in an invited competition, with a proposal that places the museum inside a park that forms a slightly hilly landscape inspired by the dune landscapes found at the Danish coast along the North Sea.
The park features a lake, a soft molding landscape of grassy hills and pine trees situated in small groups following the hills. The main feature is the lake in front of the museum, and it serves as the central and peaceful "heart" of the park. The park has a delicate system of paths and walkways, designed with various patterns in black and white. The paths expand on strategic locations to create open plazas. Throughout the entire site, rainwater is led from the green areas down into the central lake, and out into the nearby canal.
The proposal creates its very own intimate site for the museum.
Collaborators: Archiland, HAO Architects, COWI, TADI
Copyrights: Archiland ltd photos and buildings, Kragh & Berglund Landscape Architects a/s.

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|PLANETS will be an off-axis telescope combining several new technologies and instrumentation techniques. Off-axis telescopes can have far superior contrast because there are no obstructions in the beam such as secondary mirror supports. This limits the diffraction as well as scattered light from obstructions. The telescope will also be highly polished to minimize diffuse scatter from mirror roughness - a major source of scattering at large angles. This telescope will be ideal for coronography and other techniques requiring a stable optical path, as it will be seeing limited with very low instrumental scattered light. By combining expertise from various fields - coronography and high contrast imaging from solar physics, polishing, polarimetry, and adaptive optics from astronomical communities and the experience of each institutional partner - this telescope will make significant advances in several fields. The telescope is proposed for Haleakala, a 3000-meters (10,000-ft) volcano on the island of Maui, Hawai'i, with excellent weather and seeing.
The unique capabilities of this telescope will allow advances in the study of circumstellar environments, solar system planetary atmospheres, extrasolar planetary atmospheres and the development of the innovative instrumentation to enable this science.
The key technologies developed or improved as part of this project are innovative optics (low scattered light systems), adaptive optics, coronography, polarimetry and spectropolarimetry.
The major partners of this project include Japan, North America and Europe. The institutions include University of Hawai'i Institute for Astronomy (IfA), Tohoku University, and the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) and the National Autonomous Univesity of Mexico (UNAM).


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EPSB.ca » Schools » Space for Students » Rosslyn Area
Many of our older schools are reaching the point where they will soon need major repairs. The older these schools get, the more expensive they are to maintain or upgrade. We hosted an initial meeting in March 2016 to talk about the condition of seven area schools: Athlone, Calder, Kensington, Lauderdale, McArthur, Rosslyn and Scott Robertson.
In May 2016, we hosted a second meeting to talk about potential concepts for schools in the Rosslyn area. City of Edmonton staff also joined us to share information about other community projects happening in the area and answer questions.
From October 2016 to February 2017, a working committee group developed a community-driven plan using feedback gathered at the public meetings, along with data and other information.
In the spring of 2017, we presented concepts, based on feedback we heard from all public meetings, responses to online surveys and from the working committee.
VIEW: Report to the Community (PDF) provides a closer look at our engagement and consultation process in the Britannia, Westlawn and Rosslyn areas.
The feedback from the survey and public meeting held in March 2017 didn't show a clear preference for a specific concept. The conversations did, however, show that concept 1, concept 2 and concept 5 were preferred.
We also heard that conversations about programming for this area were limited and need to be explored more.
Edmonton Public Schools is coming back to the community during the 2017-2018 school year for further consultation. We want to make sure all final concepts support the input we receive from all the communities involved.
We will recommend that the Rosslyn cluster is placed in the Three-Year Capital Plan 2018-2021. The Three-Year Capital Plan is prepared each year and identifies the District's needs for new schools, modernizations and replacement schools. The plan is approved by the Board of Trustees and is submitted to the provincial government each spring. The government plans funding based on the projects listed in the plan. Projects included in the plan are not guaranteed until government funding is announced.
VIEW: Rosslyn Area Map (PDF)


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Renowned for the sheer intensity, skill and volume of their cathartic live shows, Cloud Nothings will headline Sydney's Oxford Art Factory on Wednesday 10th December, Melbourne's Corner Hotel on Tuesday 11th December, and The Zoo in Brisbane on Sunday 14th December in addition to an appearance at Meredith Music Festival when visiting Australia with their new album, Here And Nowhere Else this December.
From its beginnings as Dylan Baldi's basement phenomenon to the current power-trio of drummer Jayson Gerycz and bassist TJ Duke, Cloud Nothings' beyond immediate alt-punk is at once nostalgic and groundbreaking - recalling the golden age of Buzzcocks, Blink-182 and Husker D yet featured among Hype Machine's Most Blogged Artists of 2014.
Backing up Attack On Memory, the Steve Albini-helmed breakthrough album with which they first toured Australia in 2013, Here And Nowhere Else again sets Baldi's breathtaking ear for melody to the pummeling drums and seismic guitar work that are Cloud Nothings' trademark.
Anthemic single I'm Not Part Of Me and the sprawling, seven-minute Pattern Walks define a record every inch as sharp and ferocious as we've come to expect, noting Stereogum: "Baldi is not exactly new to kicking ass, and a kickass rock album is exactly what Here And Nowhere Else is." Write The Guardian: "It's brash, ballsy and above all, fun".
Resuming the magnetic relationship with Australian audiences which would sell out their prior club dates, Cloud Nothings' highly anticipated live return follows scores of blistering shows across America, Europe and the UK - Pitchfork Music Festival and Primavera appearances among them.
"Cloud Nothings stand out from indie-rock's ranks for the fashion-free quality of their craft." - The Age
"Baldi and his bandmates tore the roof off with a nonstop assault of punk bliss." - KEXP
"It's almost impossible to remember a time when Baldi failed to hit the mark." - Pitchfork
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In the fall of the year David and I sat down at our dining room table in Georgia and I laid a copy of Sigfried Engleman's Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons on the table between us. "David, it's time for you to learn to read. Are you ready?" Boy, was he ready. David had been determined, since he was four, to learn to read. His brother, whom he idolizes, read late into the night every night, using the special flashlight he had earned on completing his 100 Easy lessons and David, laying on the bunk below, couldn't wait to bask in the glow of reading. For ten months David read almost every day. He would start reading on the floor, book spread in front of him, then half way through he would groan, and put his hands on his back, leaning back like a little old man, and say "Oh, my back!" Then we would move to an easy chair, with him curled up on my lap while I held the book. David learned to be careful tracking as the text shrunk and the lines grew closer together. He learned the special sounds made by the various blends and, his favorite, he learned about quotation marks: "now we're going to find out what he said!" Reading didn't come with remarkable ease for David. Sometimes we took breaks from the 100 Easy Lessons, which David insisted we needed to change to "100 Hard Lessons," and read other things until he was ready to go on, but through it all David was the most determined young reader I have ever seen. He didn't complain, he didn't put his head down and give up, he just kept reading- sounding out, back tracking, and completely making things up when he got too lost. We finished the school year at the end of May and he still had a dozen lessons left to go, so he just kept reading. Finally, on Friday, David finished his 100th lesson! "This is the last end," he read, as we all sat around our table in our dining room in Seoul, Korea. The family cheered as Kenny turned off the video camera and we presented David with the gifts that have become a tradition for this first rite of passage in our family: a cookie sheet with the number 100 made out of gummy bears, a small gift (Pokemon cards in his case,) and the coveted flashlight. Kenny picked out David's flashlight: a smaller version of the lights soldiers use with an L-bend in the neck and interchangeable color lenses for signaling. It was perfect for our little warrior. David raced to bed that first night and read a super hero book. Then he hopped out of bed and went to his sister's bed and read her a Biscuit book. Eventually, we told everyone to turn off the flashlights and go to sleep, but since he learned to read David has carried his flashlight everywhere- Sonlight Kid's Camp, church today, the bathroom- and read everything he can find. It makes me feel joyful to see him enthusiastic about one of my favorite past times, but more than that, I'm grateful to God for the character David showed while learning to read. He was determined, and joyful, even though the task was sometimes frustratingly hard. I'm so excited to see how God will grow this character in David and how He will turn David's new skill into a tool for building his relationship with God. Welcome to the world of readers, my little joy!
David's 100th Lesson


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The 2nd PlayGround Film Festival features six short films adapted by teams of local filmmakers and writers from short plays originally developed through PlayGround's celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series at Berkeley Rep and premiered in the Best of PlayGround Festival. Among them is Kirk Shimano and Amy Harrison's Miss Finknagle Succumbs to Chaos, recipient of the 2013 People's Choice Award. The other films include: Undone by Diane Sampson and Bruce Coughran; Obit by Geetha Reddy and Brian Tolle; The Secret Life of a Hotel Room by Garret Jon Groenveld and the Runnels Brothers; Aegis by Jonathan Luskin, Mark Leialoha and Flying Moose Pictures; and Climax by Sean Owen and Jeremy Solterbeck. "Anthology films are always a dicey proposition..., but the second annual PlayGround Film Festival gets it right." - SF Weekly. "...one of the best synergistic developments since one teenager got his chocolate in another teenager's peanut butter..." - Berkeleyside. For the full reviews and other coverage, click the links: SF Weekly review / Berkeleyside review / Huffington Post review / KQED article.
PlayGround recently announced guidelines for the 3rd PlayGround Film Festival Competition, with an August 23, 2013 deadline for completed applications. The 3rd PlayGround Film Festival will take place in May 2014. For more information, click here.
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What's the best way to bring a powerful app designed for Windows PCs and Macs to the iPad?
Graphics kingpin Adobe has been experimenting with multiple answers to that question. In the case of Photoshop, it offers Photoshop Express (free and basic) and Photoshop Touch (lots of power features for $10). Both are standalone apps that don't assume you own and use any other version of Photoshop.
With Lightroom–its excellent program that includes features for quickly managing and tweaking photos, carving off a different niche for itself than Photoshop–Adobe is trying still another approach. Lightroom Mobile, which the company is announcing today, isn't a beast unto itself. Instead, it's designed to work in conjunction with the Windows or Mac version, and requires one of Adobe's software subscription plans–either Creative Cloud, which starts at $20 a month, or the Photoshop Photography Program, which offers Photoshop, Lightroom and Lightroom Mobile for $10 a month.
Once you've got Lightroom on a computer and an iPad, you can sync images back and forth over the Internet with just a few clicks. Gigantic space-hogging photos in formats such as RAW stay on the PC; you work with smaller versions on the tablet. There's also a new feature that lets you view the photos you've chosen to sync in any web browser.
Adobe thinks that some Lightroom aficionados will use the iPad for browsing and simple edits even if they've got a computer handy. Judging from a preview I got, it'll be a fun and efficient way to do so. Its interface looks clean and contemporary, a decided upgrade over the merely O.K. one on Photoshop Touch.
Lightroom Mobile seems to be ambitious and capable, so as far as I can tell, Adobe's decision to make it an appendage of the desktop version is more of a philosophical and business choice than a technical one. The company says that the goal with this first version is to start a conversation with its customers about how they want to see Lightroom evolve as a mobile product. It also says that iPhone and Android versions are in the works.
I'm glad Lightroom Mobile is here–but as a guy who uses an iPad to work with lots of photos that never wind up on a computer, I vote for it becoming more fully autonomous at some point.


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The Use of Angiotensin-I Converting Enzyme I/D Genetic Polymorphism as a Biomarker of Athletic Performance in Humans
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Biosensors 2012, 2(4), 396-404; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios2040396
Received: 17 August 2012 / Revised: 17 September 2012 / Accepted: 24 September 2012 / Published: 9 October 2012
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiplex and Multiparametric Sensing Devices)
AbstractAngiotensin II is a key regulator of blood pressure and cardiovascular function in mammals. The conversion of angiotensin into its active form is carried out by Angiotensin I-Converting Enzyme (ACE). The measurement of ACE concentration in plasma or serum, its enzymatic activity, and the correlation between an insertion/deletion (I/D) genetic polymorphism of the ACE gene have been investigated as possible indicators of superior athletic performance in humans. In this context, other indicators of superior adaptation to exercise resulting in better athletic performance (such as ventricular hypertrophy, VO2 max, and competition results) were mostly used to study the association between ACE I/D polymorphism and improved performance. Despite the fact that the existing literature presents little consensus, there is sufficient scientific evidence to warrant further investigation on the usage of ACE activity and the I/D ACE gene polymorphism as biomarkers of superior athletic performance in humans of specific ethnicities or in athletes involved in certain sports. In this sense, a biomarker would be a substance or genetic component that could be measured to provide a degree of certainty, or an indication, of the presence of a certain trait or characteristic that would be beneficial to the athlete's performance. Difficulties in interpreting and comparing the results of scientific research on the topic arise from dissimilar protocols and variation in study design. This review aims to investigate the current literature on the use of ACE I/D polymorphism as a biomarker of performance in humans through the comparison of scientific publications. View Full-Text
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TNTET Model Question Paper 2017: Through Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board (TNTRB), government has said one good news recently regarding conduct of an entrance examination TET (Teachers Eligibility Test). For getting Teacher jobs in Government Schools nowadays this is considered as a compulsory certificate. By hiring staffs in this way, the standards in teaching (first to eighth standard) can definitely be improved. But to acquire these jobs good marks should be secured by contestants of this test. For helping those candidates by giving the model/ previous TNTET question papers to prepare for exam, this article has been presented now.
|Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board (TNTRB)
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|TN Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) – 2017
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|Model Question Papers
TNTET Model Question Paper 2017
Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board (TNTRB) is nominated by state government for executing this TNTET exam. Mostly this sort of tests will be conducted twice a year. The Diploma certificate holders (Teacher/ Elementary Education) and Graduates (Tamil/ English/ Mathematics/ Physics/ Chemistry/ Botany/ Zoology/ History/ Geography or equivalent) are the eligible persons to appear and compete in this test. Individuals appearing in final semester exams of respective academics are also suitable.
Permission to participate in TET exam will be given only by board to appliers who are found eligible, by issuing of Hall Tickets. TNTET is a nice chance to secure a permanent posting in any government/ reputed Schools of state. By practising using TNTET Previous Question Papers, good cut-off can be secured in test. The certificate getting through this exam will remain as valid for 7 years period.
- NCTE maintains the database of this test.
- Necessary writing materials, admission certificate, id proof should be carried.
- Instructions said by invigilator should be clearly noticed and followed.
- Strict silence should be maintained inside exam hall.
- About 60% and above is the qualifying limit.
Question Pattern: Paper-I of TET exam is for Secondary Grade Teacher posts and Paper-II is for Graduate level teacher positions. From about 5 sections questions will be drafted for Paper-I i.e. related to child development, language, maths and environmental. Paper-II syllabus is also somewhat similar but, there is no environmental related question.
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|Child Development and Pedagogy
|Child Development and Pedagogy
|Language I – Tamil/ Telugu/ Malayalam/ Kannada/ Urdu
|Language I – Tamil/ Telugu/ Malayalam/ Kannada/ Urdu
|Language II – English
|Language II – English
|Mathematics and Science/ Social Science/ Other
|Environmental Studies
|Total Time Allotted: 3 hours
|Total Marks: 150 (1 mark for each correct answer)
- Full of MCQs on one word format will be asked.
- This is purely an offline mode of exam.
- Time that will be given for marking answers is 3 hours.
- Within this prescribed time, contestants have to answer for 150 questions.
TNTET Exam Syllabus 2017
Candidates are expected to know official language and any one optional language, to take classes in an understandable manner andso Language section questions will be asked in TNTET exam. Also they should be able to know how to handle students to make them learn, predict their abilities, etc. andso Child Development & Pedagogy related questions are planned to be asked. Mathematics/ Environmental/ Science/ Social Science questions will be included to assess the problem solving abilities, concepts and pedagogical understanding.
With some general instructions that should be followed for answering questions, we have provided the model question papers. This will help the applicants of TNTET Exam 2017 to guess an idea about the type/ category of questions that will come in forthcoming test.
- Model Question Paper-I
- Model Question Paper-II
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TNTET Exam 2017
TNTET exam is going to be conducted by state government for recruiting suitable Diploma qualified/ Degree persons for Secondary Grade/ Graduate level Teacher posts. No particular age limits are fixed to compete under this exam. The applications for this exam are asked to be collected from HM of Government H. Sc Schools by paying requisite amount of fees. Applications are accepted upto first week of July 2017, with exam fee. After test, the next level is certificate verification. Depending upon Teacher requirements for taking classes to School students in 1st to 8th standard, enrollment will be done atlast.
- Name of Designation: Secondary Grade, Graduate Teachers
- No.of Vacancies: Not Mentioned
- Qualification: Diploma/ Degree
- Last Date: 23-03-2017
- Date of Exam: 29th ,30th April 2017
Note: Useful model question papers to prepare for TNTET exam 2017 are attached in this article. To know more, visit the official website of board frequently.


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Due to heavy rainfall the Ouse and other Yorkshire rivers are now heavilyflooding and for the past four days the water levels have risen significantly, causing a lot of chaos in York and elsewhere. It is not unusual for the Ouse to overstep its banks - quite the contrary - but the masses of water currently sweeping through the city are extraordinary. I have myself seen the Ouse flood - and I have found some primal excitement beholding the spectacle - but from photographs put up by friends in York, I understand that this flooding exceeds everything I've experienced myself.
The principal concern in such matters is of course the individuals affected by the Yorkshire deluge and I wish them all the very best. Yet at the same time I can't help feeling a bit sad for not being there to see this for myself. To me there is something deeply fascinating about water - probably owing to my Western Norwegian upbringing - and I find few things as spellbinding as river scorning its boundaries.
January Flood
The Ouse, January 2011
As if to take revenge the river came -
So full with earth it could not keep it in -
So full with earth it could not keep it in -
To repossess what man long since had claimed
With steel and stones in monetary whims.
As if to take revenge, as if to scorn
What man took pains to raise from grass and clay
The river spews out what the rain had torn
From out the fields and folds and washed away.
The river came, drunk, dull in a sluggish speed;
Like some old force grown fat from wasted years
Like some old force grown fat from wasted years
It came, pathetic, pleased with prospective fears;
It passed and left its vestiges of greed.
It passed and left its vestiges of greed.
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After the Cloud:
I've made a few hints so far about what cloud service I'd like to see come into being, and at the end of this post, we'll get closer to discussing that. Hang in there: the post after this one will describe that in more detail. Then, after that, there will be at least one post which will take a peek at some of the many business opportunities that could come from this.
A Passing Comment
At PyCon 2006 in Dallas, TX, an after-hours event was held in a local bookstore. At one point during that evening, Itamar, Moshe and I got into a discussion about miniaturization and Moshe went off on a hilarious rant that Itamar and I just sat back and enjoyed. His whole tirade was based on the beauty and perfection of gumstix. This was the first I'd heard of them; I had no idea a product like that was on the market, and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
For the next day or so all I could think about was buying a boxload of gumstix computers and doing something with them -- anything! And not just because they were the coolest toys ever, but because there was something about them that I could just feel was a part of the future of computing (see my 2004 post on Dinosaurs and Mammals). It seemed that these miniture devices could help prototype what was destined to be one of the most exciting fields in the coming years for both systems and application engineers.
Sadly, I never did get that box :-) But I neither did I stop thinking about them. Confronted with the problem of small distributed services sitting on big, barely-used iron, gumstix haunted my musings.
Tiny Apps in the Cloud?
When at Divmod, one of the strategies that Glyph and I were working on concerned Twisted adoption in web hosting and cloud environments. The differences between CGI and Twisted applications are magnified when one considers a cloud environment like Mosso and one that would suitably support Twisted design principals. I spent a lot of time pondering the ramifcations of that one, let me tell you. A potential merger permanently postponed those business possibilities, but a nice side benefit was the forking of Python Director into a pure-Twisted conversion, txLoadBalancer (with the beginnings of native, in-app load-balancing support).
Thoughts of adjusting tiny apps to be able to run on big cloud hardware still grated, though. It felt dangerously close to pounding round pegs into square holes. What I really wanted was something closer to the future hinted at by Ultra Large-Scale Systems research: massively distributed, fault-tolerant services running on everything :-) Until then, though, I would have been satisfied with tiny apps on tiny hardware, consuming only the resources they need in order to provide the service they were designed for.
This brought up ideas of distributed storage, memory, and processing as well as the need for redundacy and failover. But tiny. All I could see was tiny hardware, tiny apps, tiny protocols, tiny power consumption. For me, tiny was big. The easiest "tiny" problem to address with small devices was storage. And I already knew the guys that were working on the problem.
Distributed Storage Done Right
There's an odd, rather abstract parallel between EC2 and Tahoe (a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem). EC2 arose in part from a corporation acting out of its best interests: turn a liability into an asset. For Tahoe, the "body" in question isn't a corporation, but rather a community. And the commodity is not bottom lines, but rather data owned and treasured by members of a data-consuming community.
Here's a quick description of Tahoe from a 2008 paper:
Tahoe is a storage grid designed to provide secure, long-term storage, such as for backup applications. It consists of userspace processes running on commodity PC hardware and communicating with [other Tahoe nodes] over TCP/IP.Tahoe is written in Python using Twisted and a capabilities system inspired by those defined by E. But what does this mean to a user? It means that anyone can setup and run a storage grid on their personal computers. All data is encrypted and redundant, so you don't need to trust members of the community (your data grid), you just need to set aside some disk space on your machines for them.
In a message to the Tahoe mail list, I responded to an associate who was exploring Tahoe for in-memory use by Python mapreduce applications. I wanted in-memory distributed storage for a different use case (tiny apps on tiny devices!) but our interests were similar. It turned out one of the primary Tahoe developers was working on related code; something that could be used as the basis for future support for distributed, solid-state devices.
Here's some nice dessert: Twisted coder David Reid was reported to have gotten Tahoe runnig on his iPhone. Now we're talking ;-) (Update: David has informed me that Allmydata has a Tahoe client that runs on his iPhone).
Processing in the Right Direction
But what about the CPU? Running daemons? Can we do something similar with processing power? If a whole virtual machine is too much for users, can we get a virtual processing space? I want to be able to run my process (e.g., a Twisted daemon) on someone else's machine, but in such a way that they feel perfectly safe running it. I want Tahoe for processes :-)
As part of some recent experiments in setting up a virtual lab of running gumstix ARM images, I needed to be able to connect mutliple gumstix instances in a virtual network for testing purposes. In a search for such a solution, I discovered VDE. Then, unexpectedly, I ran across a couple fascinating wiki pages on the site of related super-project Virtual Square Networking. Their domain is currently not resolving for me, so I can't pull the exact text, but here's a blurb from a sister project on SourceForge:
View OS is a user configurable, modular process virtual machine, or system call hypervisor. For each process the user is able to define a "view of the world" in terms of file system, networking, devices, permissions, users, time and so on.Man, that's so close, I can almost taste it!
Where is all this techno-rambling going? Well, I'm sure some of you have long since guessed by now :-) Regardless, I will save that for the next post.
Oh, and yes: tiny is the new big.
Next Up: A Passing Message


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Developing a world-class hub for tourists is not easy. Required expertise and experience in building projects that would be loved by people of all age groups. Standing out to the demand of clients while maintaining quality and prices is an impressive feat that Euro Asia Group does in every project.
Staying at the helm of Euro Asia Management Group, Louis Gerard Saliot supervises and consider every detail of the project in consultation with the clients. Starting from conceptualisation, designing of the master plan, architectural implementation, and fabrication of the project – he dedicates heart and soul to achieve an international standard hub as described by clients.
Further, Euro Asia has a team of expert professionals to carry out every aspect of the project with perfection. It is one of the few reasons why the company has been successful in building world-class tourism in Asia Pacific region. After the development of tourism hubs, the company has been offering management services to maintain their standards and shines intact.
The area is known for having nature best sceneries like a waterfall, islet, islands, tropical forests, and others. However, the countries remain inaccessible to world's tourists due to lack of infrastructures like resorts, road, and others. Euro Asia is one of the top companies promoting the tourism industry of different countries – Fiji, Jakarta, Singapore, Java, and others.
Nobody loves to stay in a resort that doesn't attract or offer a luxury setting for a perfect holiday. The resort must contain establishments for foods, lodging, shopping malls, spas, kid clubs, sports complexes, marinas, and other facilities. These are prime factors attracting tourists to spend a holiday and get a unique experience.
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The organizers did a great job at inviting some of the people that were part of the Agile movement from the very beginning and this definitely made a difference in the level of experience and expertise showed by the speakers.
With the organizers being domain experts as well (experienced agile practitioners and coaches), they very well understood the need to have the talks focused on answering questions as opposed to raising new ones. All the talks were focused on practical approaches to improving Agile methodologies as well as methods to implement Agile in organizations just getting started. Not a single talk was focused on theory or theoretic approaches to methodologies or frameworks.
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The Avaya Technology Forum went to Dubai for the first time and attracted more than 750 attendees, breaking records for any other first-time show in a region.
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (***3/4)
Well done on the twist
CG baby is creepy
End of an era
(I posted this disclaimer on my review of Part 1 and although there was no contention on that post, I'm going to do so again.)
Disclaimer: Yes, I know Twilight is not for everyone. But I have been a fan for quite a while now, and although my initial (ridiculous) obsession has waned, I will continue to be a fan. Is it "quality literature"? No. Are the movies faithful adaptations of the books? No. (But when are they ever, really?) Is it an enjoyable series that has brought me great friends and a whole lot of entertainment? Yes. So if you're only here to hate, please don't.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD. I've got bittersweet feelings about writing this review. On the one hand, like I say in the disclaimer above, my Twihardiness has lessened since the book this movie is based on came out, so I'm not totally distraught that the movies have come to an end. On the other, it really is a finale to something that at one point meant a whole lot to me.
And what a fitting finale it was.
I'd been hearing rumors since Part 1 came out that the ending to this movie had been changed. As a reader who felt a little "is that it?" at the end of the book, I was hoping for the change to include more action—and the movie definitely delivered. To avoid total spoilers, I won't go into detail, but there were definitely more than a couple of WTF moments and disbelieving gasps during the "battle" between the Cullens+ and the Volturi. (There were also some cheers and laughs, too—Marcus, you make me grin.)
Surprisingly enough, even Kristen Stewart's Bella and Robert Pattinson's Edward were improved. (I thought they were better in Part 1, but they were even more so in Part 2.) They laughed, they joked, they had facial expressions! There was more life in Bella in this film than nearly all of the others combined. (Ironic, right?) Yay for arm-wrestling and punching boulders.
On a technical level, I'm still super disappointed with Summit's apparent lack of concern about their movies' crappy CG. The way they made Renesmee look for most of the film was super awkward and, in my opinion, could have totally been avoided if they'd just worked with a baby, a toddler, and then Mackenzie Foy (who played the character at her oldest in the film). Perhaps child stars are just more expensive to cast than Ally McBeal's dancing baby. (Even the ETrade babies look better than this one did!)
One of my favorite parts of the book was getting to meet the additional vampires, especially Garrett, and Lee Pace did a wonderful job of bringing him to life on screen. It was fun to see all of the other vampires' various powers, too. Even with all of the additional characters, the movie didn't feel cramped ... maybe less Edward-Bella-Jacob makes for a more entertaining watch?
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Not that there were any doubts. The second installment of the auction of the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola, held yesterday by Richard Opfer Auctioneering, once again featured the merchandise Coke collectors lust after and the prices sellers dream of.
Bringing the highest bid of either day was a stained glass hanging globe that realized $161,000 (with 15% buyer's premium). The 13-inch orb featured a mosaic-like design of glass in green, red, white, and ivory. The catalog noted, "The small intricate pieces and exquisite detail that went into this piece is just incredible." In near-mint condition, the globe had been estimated at $28,000 to $30,000.
The other six-figure price of the day was $109,250 for an 1897 Victorian Girl tray. The 9.25-inch tray has earned special honors among Coke items. It is believed to be the first lithographed-tin tray used by the Coca-Cola Company.
When Bill and Jan Schmidt assembled their collection, this example was among the key finds that allowed them to amass what might have been the only complete set of Coke trays. As the catalog put it, "This is the ultimate, the one iconic piece that defines that one collection that will go down in history…."
Estimated at $25,000 to $30,000, the tray was listed as being in very good condition, with strong colors but some rubs, chips and tarnishing.
Another prime item from the collection was a circa-1913 festoon, Girl On Hammock, that brought $92,000. Described as possibly the ultimate festoon of all time, this piece has been praised for its artwork and early lithography. In untouched, as-found condition, it was near-mint, with a bend, creases and edge chips.
The catalog and prices realized for the auction can be found here for the September 17 session, and here for the September 18 session. The Web site for Richard Opfer Auctioneering can be found here.


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Mom of Bristol Palin's Ex Cops Plea
Sherry Johnston pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of possession with intent to deliver the painkiller OxyContin. Five other felony counts were dropped.
"That's pretty," Johnston said as a state trooper's pink handcuffs were placed around her wrists.
She hugged her lawyer, Rex Butler, before being escorted out of the courtroom and taken to a correctional facility where she'll be held until her Nov. 20 sentencing.
Although Johnston could receive 20 years in prison, her attorney and prosecutors agreed to a five-year sentence, with two years suspended, Butler said, considering the small quantities of drugs involved. The judge has the sentencing recommendation under review.
Johnston, 42, is the mother of 19-year-old Levi Johnston. He and 18-year-old Bristol Palin were engaged but called the wedding off after their son, Tripp, was born in December.
Levi Johnston didn't attend his mother's hearing but his younger sister, Mercede, did.
Sherry Johnston has two pain pumps implanted in her body to deliver medication because she suffers a rare condition involving scurvy and chronic pelvic pain from prior medical surgeries, Butler said. She was receiving professional pain relief treatment but the problems arose when her insurer refused to pay for the medication, Butler said.
"People want to think she was just a drug addict," he said. "She made a poor judgment choice. But what do you do?"
Assistant District Attorney Richard K. Allen said prosecutors considered Johnston's criminal-free background as well as her physical problems in agreeing to the mitigated sentence.
"Rehabilitation would be the goal," he said.
The case against Johnston began last September when investigators intercepted a package containing 179 OxyContin pills. The suspects who were arrested agreed to become informants.
Police said Johnston set up a meeting with one of the informants, who bought 10 pills of 80-milligram OxyContin using $800 provided by investigators. A second purchase was made the following day, and a third purchase in November was videotaped by police, authorities said.
Johnston was arrested in mid-December and charged with six felony drug counts. Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin's baby was born a short time later.
Sarah Palin announced on the first day of the Republican National Convention on Sept. 1, 2008, that her unwed daughter was pregnant. The McCain-Palin campaign issued a statement saying Bristol Palin "and the young man" would get married.
Sherry Johnston eventually disclosed that her son was the father. The following week, Levi Johnson attended the convention in St. Paul, Minn., when Sarah Palin accepted the vice presidential nomination.
Palin resigned as Alaska governor last month.


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In 1929, T.B. Baker was on a roll. Within a six month period, he opened 5 brand new hotels, the last one being The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells (which opened in November). However, another Baker that opened only a few months earlier was the 11 story, 160 room Goodhue Hotel in Port Arthur Texas.
J. Forrest Goodhue, a local builder and civic leader, was helping to build the hotel with local funds when he died of a heart attack in January 1929 – while the building was still under construction.
The original name of the Goodhue Hotel was planned to be "The Dick Dowling Hotel" in honor of the Confederate Civil War hero of the same name. In fact, you may see "The Dick Dowling Hotel" on some of the early promotional postcards for the building. In April of 1929, however, Baker formally announced that the building would officially be called "The Goodhue Hotel" going forward, simply because "Everyone called it Goodhue instead."
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Community School Builder is pleased to provide a fully integrated web 2.0 communication platform for our schools and districts. Every solution includes the following Education Package components for the one same hosting price and it is 100% E-Rate eligible. We do not charge for each extension, nor do we break out pricing on "basic" or "advanced" packages. We offer everything in one package so they are available for you to use at any time. As the web evolves we will always add new features to enhance your site and they will always be available to you for no charge. Examples include integration of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and more (please note this list merely highlights the major features and is not meant to be exhaustive, as there are just too many features like photo slideshows, weather modules, Google Analytics, etc. so if we missed something you would like, just ask it is probably available!)
Powerful Web Based Editor
OverviewOur Editor adds a set of tools to your web site environment that gives you the power to create the kind of content you want, without limitations, and without needing to know or learn HTML, XHTML, CSS, etc. in real time on the web page. Submit, edit, publish, un-publish, schedule to publish or un-publish, set user access, and much more. Preview
Individual Teacher Sites
OverviewAllow teachers/users the ability to create not just a blog but a mini-website within your website. The teachers/users can post assignments, podcasts, pictures, and more. The user has the ability to have multiple pages and the option to allow or not allow comments to be posted Preview
Multi-User Blog
OverviewMyBlog is a feature-filled, simple to use, user friendly and powerful blog component. MyBlog features front-end blog editing with Dashboard, RSS feeds, Technorati pings, Trackbacks, support for multiple blog users, avatar support for Gravatar and Community Builder and much more. Preview
Form Builder
OverviewThe Form Builder is a professional form creator, easy to use by beginners and pros alike, giving the user extended flexibility in the matter of forms creation. The Form Builder will help you to create forms in seconds. Very powerful ,with new features, this professional form manager was created to improve user experience and functionality. Preview
Flash Picture Gallery
OverviewThe Picture Gallery is a Flash-based tool which allows you to create eye-catching slide shows of your pictures on the web. The small footprint of the Flash clips and an intelligent loading of resources allow even dial up users to have a seamless experience viewing your photos. Preview
Video Gallery
OverviewThe Video Gallery is a feature rich tool which allows you to offer a video platform to create and share local video in wmv,mpg,mp3,and swf files and direct linking to over 35 video servers, like youtube, google, revver, break etc Preview
Automated Newsletter Mailer
OverviewOur Newsletter Mailing system is designed with ease of use and robustness in mind. It can handle an unlimited number of newsletters with an unlimited number of subscribers with just a few clicks. Regular newsletters are one of the best ways to keep visitors interested in your site and keeps them coming back. Preview
Community Forums
OverviewA forum is public meeting place for open discussion of various topics. Online, a forum may also be referred to as a bulletin board or discussion area. Forums come in all shapes and sizes. The main objective is to provide an area where users can interact with questions, answers and discussions on a given topic. There are literally thousands and thousands of topical forums online. Each forum usually states the topic and tries to keep the discussions on topic. However, this can often vary from forum to forum. This can be a very powerful means of communication for parents, teachers, students, and administration by providing a platform for the sharing of ideas, homework help, general ideas, etc. You could also use a forum to gather data in a less traditional way rather than survey based. Preview
Calendar System
OverviewThe calendar system is a robust online calendar system that allows for general district calendars to individual calendars. Use a 3rd party application that supports iCalendar such as Outlook 2007, Apple iCal, and Mozilla Sunbird to view and / or update the calendar while you're on the go. Other people can subscribe to your calendar to easily view your schedule or add an appointment to a calendar shared by your group. The features are extensive so please view the features tab. Preview
Online Learning Management System (LMS)
OverviewTrain your faculty, staff, students, and parents with this amazing light weight component. Online training allows everyone the ability to participate in professional development activities at their own pace. You can make some training items compulsory or optional with the ability to require a test to be taken upon completion of the training. Preview
School Store
OverviewThe School Store is a robust, featured filled e-commerce shopping cart solution that is fully integrated into the website. The shopping cart can handled an unlimited number of products, categories, attributes (such as size, color). Please check the feature tab for more information. Please note that additionalcharges may apply such as purchase of an SSL Certificate and setup fees. Preview
Private Messaging
OverviewThe private messaging system allows users of your website to easily communicate with each other. Many Districts/Schools face the challenge providing student email accounts. The private messaging system is set to an alternative by providing a simple, yet effective means of communication. Users can only send and receive from within your community. Messages are archived in the database and the system is capable of creating distribution lists and attachments. Additionally, the private messaging system will copy a traditional email to the recipient so you don't have to worry about messages in two different places. Preview
Email Updates (Listserve)
OverviewAlways stay informed with Email updated news that allows registered users to e-mail subscribe to news categories. News articles on the web site are scanned at the selected interval and mailings can trigger automatically. For example, a parent can subscribe to her child's teacher and when the teacher posts new homework assignments, the parent is automatically emailed the home work assignments that have been posted. Preview
Help Desk
OverviewThe help desk is a great way for your staff to perform a maintenance request or technical assistance. Teacher can submit a ticket through the system which will email the person in charge of each category. The ticket can then be assigned to a particular person for completion and priorities can be set when assigning. When the request has been taken care of the ticket can be closed.
The advantage of implementing this system is the ability to track request in a database format and makes it easy to determine campus trends, or trends from particular users. This provides the useful information to run a more effective campus and a useful tool to help make sure your teacher's needs are being addressed. Preview
Survey System
OverviewThe survey system helps schools by conducting surveys of your stakeholders to gain anonymous responses to questions that you feel are relevant to your operation. For example, you may want to conduct a campus wide survey to evaluate your safe and drug free program compliance reports or even a needs assessment to help you with your NCLB application. Gain useful information with results that can be view graphically or exported to a spreadsheet.
Job Postings
OverviewOffer job postings on your school web site. Your users can browse jobs or search by job title and apply immediately online. Human resources can add jobs and update job status throughout the hiring process. The administrator can approve or deny any job and controls publishing status. Preview
Twitter Integration
OverviewWith the growth and popularity of Twitter it has also emerged as a great way for school/districts to communicate rapidly with their stakeholders without increased costs. Subscribers to the school/district Twitter account with notify them via text message updated Tweets and the Tweets will automatically be included on the school/district website. Preview
Document Manager
OverviewThe document manager is a document repository system for uploading, downloading, opening, or editing important school documents. With this component you can manage documents across multiple categories and subcategories and make them available to the public. You can also set permissions so that only certain users or user group can access the documents. This is especially important for sharing and working on sensitive documents from a central location. Administration has the ability to be notified by email of new posting and to decide if it should be posted or denied. Preview
Commenting System
OverviewThe commenting system allows user to comment on articles posted on your website. The permission are fully definable and comes with the ability to moderate so you don't have to worry about negative information or foul language being posted. Additionally, you define the areas that users are able to comment. This provides an effective communication tool to give or receive feedback about the content on your site. Preview
Language Translation
OverviewPresent your content to users in EIGHT languages. This module gives the power of Google translation to your website. The eight language translations included in this are: English to French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.This is a dream come true for web site owners who have content in English but want multilingual users.
RSS Feeds
Why RSS? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS
RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter. Preview


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The supplier directory
A comprehensive international database of suppliers of fabric, leather, dyeing, printing, fashion, wardrobe sundries, dry cleaning, manufacturers & disposal.
Ecological Textiles offer a wide range of fabrics, fibres, yarns and dyes for fashion and interiors.
The fabrics are made using fibres such as wool, hemp and bamboo.


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SDGs, inclusive health and the path to Universal Health CoverageDisability and the Global South, 2017The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of goals designed to improve the social, economic and well-being of all, while maintaining global and environmental sustainability. Health is one of the 17 goals, and focuses not only on addressing morbidity and mortality, but also on improving access to healthcare services for all through Universal Health Coverage (UHC).Document
Water and sanitation challenges and impact on health in informal settlementsFuture Health Systems research consortium, 2018Access to water is one of the major challenges faced by residents of Freetown, Sierra Leone, and informal settlements are no exception to this problem. Communities' sources and access to water vary by location.Document
The challenges of institutionalizing community-level social accountability mechanisms for health and nutrition: a qualitative study in Odisha, IndiaBioMed Central, 2018India has been at the forefront of innovations around social accountability mechanisms in improving the delivery of public services, including health and nutrition. Yet little is known about how such initiatives are faring now that they are incorporated formally into government programmes and implemented at scale. This brings greater impetus to understand their effectiveness.Document
Evidence and gap map of studies assessing the effectiveness of interventions for people with disabilitiesThe Campbell Collaboration, 2018This evidence gap map was commissioned to draw together what is known about 'what works' for people with disabilities and identify gaps in evidence (i.e. areas where this is less or no evidence).Document
Global framework on people-centred and integrated health servicesFuture Health Systems research consortium, 2017Future Health Systems research into empowering communities to demand and shape health services has informed the development of a WHO strategy on service delivery.The strategy reflects a paradigm shift towards an increased emphasis on preventive public health, as well as curative strategies, to address current and future health challenges.Document
Factors influencing non-institutional deliveries in Afghanistan: secondary analysis of the Afghanistan Mortality Survey 2010Nagoya University School of Medicine/Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya Japan, 2015Home delivery in unhygienic environments is common among Afghan women; only one third of births are delivered at health facilities. Institutional delivery is central to reducing maternal mortality.Document
Leaving them behind: healthcare services in situations of armed conflictNorwegian Red Cross, 2017In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2016, the international community agreed to 'leave no one behind'. However, the community is doing precisely that by failing to act as millions living in conflict-affected areas are deprived of access to healthcare services.Document
Community-based health care is an essential component of a resilient health system: evidence from Ebola outbreak in LiberiaBioMed Central, 2017Trained community health workers (CHW) enhance access to essential primary health care services in contexts where the health system lacks capacity to adequately deliver them. In Liberia, the Ebola outbreak further disrupted health system function.Document
Implementing a basic package of health services in post-conflict Liberia: perceptions of key stakeholdersElsevier, 2013Recovery of the health sector in post-conflict countries is increasingly initiated through a Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) approach. The country government and partners, including international donors, typically contract international and local NGOs to deliver the BPHS.Document
Barriers to appropriate care for mothers and infants during the perinatal period in rural Afghanistan: a qualitative assessmentTaylor and Francis Group, 2014This study, conducted in five rural districts in Afghanistan, used qualitative methods to explore traditional practices of women, families and communities related to maternal and newborn care, and sociocultural and health system issues that create access barriers.


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Computerized Speech Lab
- See and hear your speech and voice patterns
- Measure your improvement
- Improve immediately
- Take your results home to review on your computer
This excellent multifaceted computer program is used for audio and visual feedback and enhances the learning and results of all of our programs.
Real-Time Pitch
- Stress, timing, intonation patterns, as well as target pitch and/or voice projection during conversation can be seen exactly as they are spoken.
- Speech samples can be compared both graphically (using split screen) and quantitatively.
- Immediately see and hear if your pronunciation of specific sounds is perfect.
- Compare your pronunciation to the instructor's.
Multi-Dimensional Voice Program (MDVP)
- The MDVP graph provides a useful snapshot of your voice quality.
- You see immediate visual feedback of critical speech/voice patterns and habits
- You hear immediate auditory feedback of your voice
- Enhance pronunciation training
- Receive instant analysis of your speech and voice
Real-Time Spectrogram
- Used for pronunciation training. and for voice "typing".
- Speeds progress.
- Improves training
- Immediately see and hear and correct your errors.


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Welcome to Fred Anderson Landscape Design
A well designed landscape can add untold beauty and value. Come and enjoy an atmosphere rich with natural beauty and a sense of peace and tranquility. A good landscape is like a treasured piece of art. It is more than just an extension of your home. It can reveal your own personality, style and attitude.
Why Use A Landscape Specialist?
Landscaping is a skill that is crafted by experience and expertise. It is important for a landscape designer to have not only good observation, but also great design skills. He has to identify various elements in your landscape and has to have the ability to blend them beautifully and attractively. Such ability and expertise can only come when you are dealing with the best.
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With hands-on experience in designing landscapes to suit different needs, tastes and budgets, we are equipped to deliver the very best for you. Contact us if you want a masterpiece that will become your pride and joy. Our custom landscape designs are breathtakingly beautiful. You won't want to go too far once we have transformed your landscape into a work of art.
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A federal agency has just given final approval for a natural gas pipeline that will run through parts of Jersey City and Bayonne and offshore in Hoboken.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has just released the news that it has approved the Spectra Pipeline, which was strongly opposed by Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy, and several other elected officials and other groups.
The pipeline is being built by Texas Energy, a subdivision of Spectra Energy.
The writing was on the wall for a favorable decision by the regulatory agency when in March, it released a favorable environmental impact statement.
"We determined that construction and operation of the NJ-NY Project would result in limited adverse environmental impacts," reads the 511-page EIS report. "These limited impacts would mostly occur during the period of construction."
The pipeline that would be built by the Houston-based energy company would add about 15 miles of natural-gas pipeline starting in Staten Island and running through parts of Bayonne, Jersey City and offshore Hoboken. An additional five miles of pipe running from Linden to State Island would also be replaced.
An alternative plan that would have the pipeline crossing the Hudson River near the east end of Caven Point Road in Jersey City was rejected because it would have required Con Edison to build a new pipeline connecting to its facility near W 16th Street, according to the report.
The pipeline would serve customers in New York City.
Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith negotiated with Spectra to alter the proposed pipeline so that it would not run under residential neighborhoods.


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GFI LanGuard
Approve patches per group of computers
We have problems with patch approval process in Languard 9. For example, a patch causes problems on server-x, but it's ok on server-y. If we approve that patch, it's applied on both servers.
Is there a way to solve this? I mean, approval with respect to groups formed for Languard..7 votes
Relay Agent/Server to Install Local Agents
To reduce Traffic/Bandwidth Consumption on slow networks. Instead of LanGuard Agents being installed from the main LanGuard Server consuming WAN Bandwidth.Allow installed Relay Agents to locally install\push normal LanGuard Agents to computers using it as a relay server since they are typically on the same LAN anyways.4 votes
LANguard - IPv6 support
Any idea when there'll be support for IPv6?
Thanks.1 vote
Disable File and print sharing for scaning
Scan remote computer without enabling on it the feature of "File and Print Sharing" on Network interface for secured servers that this feature is not recommended.
Thanks1 vote
Agent Settings for Remote Users
I have multiple clients that are not on the network and hardly ever VPN into the network. We should have the ability to set the client to call home using a domain name. For example languard.companydomain.com. That would give us the ability to monitor those machines and apply patches to our users outside the network.
**The current version only allows for the internal IP of that server for the agents to call home with.**1 vote
Quicker auto-deployment approval
It would be great to be able to approve patches for auto-deployment from the 'Dashboard->Patches-Missing Patches' screen. This would much quicker approval for patches that are missing from the network. Currently the approach is to review this screen, make an off-screen note about the missing patch and then find it in the auto-deployment screen.1 vote
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|You know it's getting serious when you entrust your handbag to a panda while you tee off.
Given the recent influx of crazy golf courses in London (crazy golf underground, crazy golf on a roof, crazy golf that's literally rubbish), it seems I'm not the only one. But sometimes it's nice to step away from the hipster haunts of Shoreditch and go back to good, old-fashioned crazy golf -- fibreglass animals and all.
|Talk about putting me off my swing
The course at Paradise Wildlife Park in Hertfordshire is just that. A wildlife park may not seem the obvious place for a crazy golf course, but Paradise caters for a young family audience, and it does it very well. Fortunately for us, visiting on a rainy Sunday (a Sunday which also offered the Wimbledon and Euro 2016 finals, the British Grand Prix and some golf or other on the TV), all children were out of the way and we had the course practically to ourselves.
It's an 18 hole course, and a sizable one at that. Thanks to the abundance of greenery, you never know what's around the next corner (expect fibreglass animals - there are always fibreglass animals).
|The first hole
|You lookin' at me?
It really is a Tardis of a course - how they manage to fit so much into such as small space, I really don't know.
On Safari Golf, Paradise Wildlife Park, Hertfordshire. Crazy golf is £2 per person (+ park admission fee).


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