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Download the "Serverless Architectures Security Top 10" Guide
Today, we are launching the "Serverless Architectures Security Top 10" project - this project is meant to provide assistance and education for organizations looking to adopt serverless architectures. This document is not a secure coding best practices, but rather a list of the top most common weaknesses that are found in serverless applications. The research for the list was done by a strong group of security experts, industry practitioners and top notch serverless aficionados.
Serverless architectures enable organizations to build and deploy software and services without having to own or provision any physical or virtual servers. Applications built using serverless architectures are suitable for a wide range of services, and can scale elastically as cloud workloads grow.
In essence, when you develop applications using serverless architectures, you relieve yourself from the daunting task of having to constantly apply security patches for the underlying operating system and application servers - these tasks are now the responsibility of the serverless architecture provider.
If you are a developer - this sounds like heaven, right? Hold on...there's a fly in the ointment. You are still responsible for designing robust applications and making sure that your code doesn't introduce application layer vulnerabilities. Moreover, any configuration related to the application itself or to cloud services it interacts with would still need to be secure - again, that's your responsibility. In the serverless world, the cloud vendor and you share security responsibilities.
The following image, demonstrates the shared security responsibilities model, adapted to serverless architectures:
The comfort and elegance of serverless architectures is not without its drawbacks - serverless architectures introduce a new set of issues that must be taken into consideration when securing such applications:
- Increased attack surface: serverless functions consume data from a wide range of event sources such as HTTP APIs, message queues, cloud storage, IoT device communications and so forth. This increases the attack surface dramatically, especially when such messages use protocols and complex message structures - many of which cannot be inspected by standard application layer protections such as Web application firewalls
- Attack surface complexity: the attack surface in serverless architectures can be difficult for some to understand given that such architectures are still rather new. Many software developers and architects have yet to gain enough experience with the security risks and appropriate security protections required to secure such applications
- Overall system complexity: visualizing and monitoring serverless architectures is still more complex than standard software environments
- Inadequate security testing: performing security testing for serverless architectures is more complex than testing standard applications, especially when such applications interact with remote 3rd party services or with back-end cloud services such as NoSQL databases, cloud storage, or stream processing services. In addition, automated scanning tools are currently not adapted to scanning serverless applications:
- DAST (dynamic application security testing) tools will only provide testing coverage for HTTP interfaces. This poses a problem when testing serverless applications that consume input from non-HTTP sources, or interact with back-end cloud services. In addition, many DAST tools have issues to effectively test web services (e.g. RESTful services) which don't follow the classic HTML/HTTP request/response model and request format.
- SAST (static application security testing) tools rely on data flow analysis, control flow and semantic analysis to detect vulnerabilities in software. Since serverless applications contain multiple distinct functions that are stitched together using event triggers and cloud services (e.g. message queues, cloud storage or NoSQL databases), statically analyzing data flow in such scenarios is highly prone to false positives. In addition, SAST tools will also suffer from false negatives, since source/sink rules in many tools do not take into account FaaS constructs. These rule sets will need to evolve in order to provide proper support for serverless applications.
- IAST (interactive application security testing) tools have better odds at accurately detecting vulnerabilities in serverless applications when compared to both DAST and SAST, however, similarly to DAST tools, their security coverage is impaired when serverless applications use non-HTTP interfaces to consume input. In addition, some IAST solutions require that the tester will deploy an instrumentation agent on the local machine, which is not an option in serverless environments
- Traditional security protections (Firewall, WAF, IPS/IDS): since organizations that use serverless architectures do not have access to the physical (or virtual) server or its operating system, they are not at liberty to deploy traditional security layers such as endpoint protection, host-based intrusion prevention, web application firewalls and so forth. In addition, existing detection logic and rules have yet to be "translated" to support serverless environments
Today, we are launching the "Serverless Architectures Security Top 10" project - this project is meant to provide assistance and education for organizations looking to adopt serverless architectures. This document is not a secure coding best practices, but rather a list of the top most common weaknesses that are found in serverless applications. The research for the list was done by a strong group of security experts, industry practitioners and top notch serverless aficionados.
For ease of reference, we marked each category of the Top 10 list with a unique identifier in the form of SAS-[NUM]. The list is organized in order of criticality from SAS-1…10, where SAS-1 indicates the most critical risk, and SAS-10 the least critical risk. Keep in mind that the list is not exhaustive in any way, in fact, we are aware of additional common weaknesses (stay tuned for additional blog posts), but in order to make the data actionable and effective, we decided to concentrate on a short list of the top issues.
So, enough with the opening statements, here is the short list for 2018:
The Top 10 list ( Link ) covers the research in great detail, providing explanations, real world examples, code snippets and recommendations for mitigation. We hope you will find it helpful and make good use of it - and hope to receive your comments or feedback.


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The MADE NORTH Northern Industrial Project explores creating a range of affordable objects, furniture and fashion that convey a sense of northern-ness from the north of England, through a choice of materials or way of manufacture.
The commission provided Starter Studio participants Mike Scown and Victoria Dawes with the opportunity to make new work which will be exhibited at MADE NORTH Gallery from Saturday 9th July to Saturday 27th August.
"I set about making a mug suitable for the busy, daily working-life manner of tea drinking. In response to feedback I've received from Sheffield'ers on my own mugs, popular demand seems to be for something large, with a big, ergonomic handle. The form is simple and sturdy, decorated with a motif inspired by the Tinsley Towers, once visible from the M1 motorway and a symbol for many of homecoming but demolished on the 24th of August 2008, my 18th birthday.
I wanted there to be some significance of the materials used in the production of the mug, and knowing that ashes from burned organic matter can form a durable glass, I decided to develop a glaze from the ashes of burned Yorkshire Teabags.
The testing involved 92 different combinations of Yorkshire Tea ash and other materials to find something both beautiful and suitable for daily use. Happily, the most successful outcome was a very simple blend of tea ash and an iron-rich clay I dug from the ground in Sheffield.
I would like the interaction between the human hand and mouth and the basic materials of clay and tea to serve as a reminder of our relationship with the greater ecosystem of the planet on which we live. How often when we make a cup of tea do we consider that it is a product that has been transported thousands of miles to reach us?"
Mike Scown will talk about his work during the exhibition's Private View on Thursday 14th July, 6.30-8.30pm at MADE NORTH Gallery.

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Each year around 1,000 Australians die overseas, usually through illness or accident. The death of a loved one is always distressing for family and friends and when the death occurs overseas, this can make the circumstances even more difficult.
The death of an Australian overseas can involve complications in organising the funeral, repatriation and other administrative arrangements and formalities. These processes can seem unfamiliar and unnecessarily demanding for family or friends, whose priority is often to bring their loved one home.
This brochure is designed to provide information to help you understand what consular staff in Australia and overseas can do to assist during this difficult time. It also provides guidance on what should be done when a relative or a travelling companion dies overseas.
When Australians travel abroad, they leave behind Australia's support systems, emergency service capabilities and medical facilities. The Australian Government will do what it can to help families and friends who have lost a loved one overseas. However, there are legal and practical limits to what can be done on their behalf.
Travel insurance that covers costs incurred as a result of death can significantly reduce the stress on loved ones. Insurance companies will generally provide advice on, and take care of, most of the arrangements and costs associated with a local funeral or the return of the deceased to Australia.
Unfortunately, many Australians travel overseas without adequate insurance cover. If an Australian dies overseas and is not covered by travel insurance, it becomes their family's responsibility to make the funeral arrangements and meet the costs involved, such as returning the deceased to Australia.
We strongly recommend that all Australians travelling overseas take out travel insurance to cover the costs of hospitalisation and medical treatment should they become ill overseas, as well as costs incurred as a result of death.
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The Consular Services Charter sets out the standards of service all Australians can expect to receive from consular staff, including what they can and cannot do.
Under international law, the nearest Australian mission (embassy, consulate or high commission) should always be notified of the death of an Australian citizen.
If a tour company or a friend notifies us of the death of an Australian overseas, we'll always confirm the information with the local authorities in that country. We'll then contact the police in the relevant Australian state or territory, who will visit the family (or other contact nominated in the deceased's passport application) to inform them of the death and provide our contact details to them. We can then provide the family or nominated contact with further details about the death and advise the steps that need to be taken overseas.
It's important to understand that it is the responsibility of the funeral directors appointed overseas and in Australia to make repatriation and funeral arrangements on behalf of the family or next of kin and in accordance with their wishes.
While consular staff will make every effort to ensure that relatives don't first learn of a death via the media, this cannot always be prevented. If you hear of the death from a journalist, a tour operator or any other third party, you should contact the 24-hour Consular Emergency Centre on +61 2 6261 3305 (from anywhere in the world) or 1300 555 135 (local call cost within Australia). We will seek to confirm the death with local authorities and provide advice to immediate family or next of kin on how best to manage media enquiries.
It's not necessary for family or next of kin to travel to the overseas country unless they wish to. The Australian mission in the country can assist by providing the family or next of kin with a list of local funeral directors, who will liaise with Australian funeral directors regarding funeral and repatriation arrangements in accordance with the family or next of kin's wishes.
Although it is not compulsory, you may wish to register the death in Australia with the Office of Regulatory Services. Information on how to do this is available from the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages in the state where the person resided.
Further information may also be available from the Registrar of Deaths Abroad, GPO Box 158, Canberra ACT 2601. Tel: 02 6207 0460, Fax 02 6207 0895
It's important that the death of any Australian overseas is reported to an Australian mission. Contact details for Australian missions overseas are available on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website.
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If the death is unexpected and didn't occur in a hospital, the local police will be involved. If you haven't yet reported the death, the police should immediately notify the nearest Australian mission. The relevant state or territory police in Australia can help to notify the family or other contacts in Australia.
The family or next of kin will be consulted on options for local burial, cremation or repatriation of the deceased back to Australia, and the Australian mission and local funeral directors will make every effort to meet the wishes of the deceased or their next of kin. However, in some countries and in certain circumstances, local regulations and conditions may require a quick decision on what to do with the remains. In some cases, local authorities may require an autopsy before a death certificate or other documentation can be issued.
The time required to return the deceased to Australia depends on local regulations and circumstances. In some cases, it can take several weeks. It may take longer if, for example, there is a need for an autopsy or coronial enquiry to determine the cause of death.
Contact details for Australian missions overseas are available on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website.
Australia has an agreement with Canada to provide consular assistance to Australians in some countries. Contact details for Canadian missions providing consular assistance to Australians are also available on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website.
The 24-hour Consular Emergency Centre in Canberra can be contacted for assistance from anywhere in the world on +61 2 6261 3305, or on 1300 555 135 (local call cost within Australia).
Travel insurance companies often have 24-hour assistance centres that you can contact from anywhere in the world. If your family member or travelling companion dies overseas, you should also contact their travel insurance provider as soon as possible. Consider leaving travel insurance policy details with family or friends back home in the case they need to access this information quickly.
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Join this Canadian Christian communicators town hall meeting, led by the Canadian Church Press and hosted by the R.C. Archdiocese of Toronto, 1155 Yonge St, Toronto, Ontario, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern on Sept 12, 2017.
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So my precious kitty of about 7 years got sick 2 days ago. My wife called me while I was away and told me she couldn't stand or walk. I rushed home and found she was in bad shape. Nose was plugged, mouth was dry and tongue was brown. Dehydrated obviously. I cleaned her up, gave her fluids and she was breathing better but still past the point of no return.
I made her comfortable and he provided a few hours of loving purring, but later on she just stoped breathing. I know many will consider it silly or weak of me, but I cried. I loved her very much and she was a very loyal companion to me.
Today, I wrapped he in a very nice towel and buried her in the yard in a deep grave. I can't sleep, as I feel guilty about her death. I just wonder if something could have been done to save her.
My heart aches Belle, I love you and I'll think of you until I myself pass from this world. Goodbye my loving baby girl. I'll upload your pictured soon.


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The Perfect Bloody Mary
Need a little pick-me-up?
I've got just the trick for you! I love a good Bloody Mary when I have over indulged, and I have the perfect recipe to distract you from that headache. Or should I call it wine flu?
It took me a while to get into drinking Bloody Mary's as they are acquired taste, but once I did I seriously fell in love. They do hit the spot, and with a little nip of Tabasco – Divine! Let's get straight to it shall we?
- 4 oz. vodka
- 16 oz. tomato juice
- 1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
- Juice of one lemon
- 2 tbsp. olive juice
- 2 tbsp. horseradish
- One tsp. Hot sauce
- Freshly ground pepper
For the garnish
- 1 stalk of celery
- 1 lemon slices
- Optional olivies
- Combine all the ingredients—minus the vodka—in a pitcher and shake. Taste and adjust seasoning to preference.
- Run a lemon along the rims of each glass.
- Fill glasses with ice, pour 2 oz of vodka in each, and finish with the Bloody Mary mix.
- Garnish with lemon slice, olives, and celery.


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HAVER Architectural Mesh CHESS 6013
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Material: stainless steel
Weight: approx. 3.2 kg/m² (0.66 lbs/sqft)
Open area: approx. 31%
- interesting chessboard design
- slight transparency depending on light condition
- extensive range of indoor applications, especially for fair and shop fittings
As diversified as today's architecture, as diversified are our types of HAVER Architectural Mesh. The choice of warp and weft wires as well as the type of weave create different mesh geometries with specific optics and light effects. For special demands we of course develop individual wire mesh specifications.
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Half A Degree Celsius Could Make A Big Difference For Arctic Sea Ice
Two independent studies show how much we need to limit warming to preserve the ice. But we're currently headed on a very different path.
Almost every month now we get news of dramatic losses of Arctic sea ice due to human-caused warming — and last month was no exception. The ice extent in March 2018 turned out to be the second lowest for the month in the satellite record.
The best estimates are that unless we significantly reduce our emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide, the Arctic Ocean will begin to experience ice-free summers by mid-century, if not sooner.
But just how much would it take to give the ice a fighting chance? According to a pair of independent modeling studies published in the journal Nature Climate Change, a global warming difference of just a half degree Celsius — that's less than a degree Fahrenheit — could make all the difference.
Average March #Arctic sea ice extent was the 2nd lowest in the satellite record (after last year).
[Data from @NSIDC at https://t.co/aUqFYmnK0c] pic.twitter.com/ly2PIOzInh
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) April 2, 2018
Both studies examined what would happen if humankind managed to restrain global warming by the end of the century to no more than 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), versus 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
Those different levels of warming are significant because of the Paris Climate agreement. It commits the 175 signing parties to exerting their best efforts at keeping global warming this century below 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels. The agreement also states that it would be much preferable to limit warming no more than 1.5 C.
The two new studies show for the first time just how beneficial achieving the lower number would be for the Arctic, out to the year 2100.
As University of Colorado climate scientist Alexandra Jahn, the author of one of the studies, put it to me in an interview, "There's a strongly reduced probability of experiencing ice-free summers if warming can actually be limited to one and a half degrees instead of two."
The other study, conducted independently by Canadian researchers, produced the same overarching insight.
"We arrive at very much the same conclusions," Jahn said. "This tells us that we can trust results."
If you're wondering why we should care about the Arctic, the answer involves more than polar bears, Arctic ecosystems, fisheries, undiscovered resources, and geopolitics. What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.
"Everything that happens in the climate system is connected," Jahn said. Although the details are still being investigated, warming in the Arctic and losses of sea ice appear to have impacts on mid-latitude weather. Moreover, losing the sea ice in summer is likely to "further accelerate global warming in general."
In Jahn's study, simulations run on the Community Earth System Model, or CESM, showed that global warming of about 2 degrees C would guarantee ice-free conditions in summer by the year 2100. Moreover, "frequent ice-free conditions can be expected, potentially for several months per year," she writes in her paper.
By contrast, if we were to limit our emissions of CO2 enough to constrain warming to no more than 1.5 °C, the probability of ice free conditions occurring by 2100 would drop to just 30 percent.
Jahn did not expect that big of a benefit."I was surprised by that," she said in our interview.
Why would such a relatively modest change make such a big difference? When I put that question to Jahn she pointed out that "nobody exists in the global mean climate." Some areas of the world are heating up more quickly than the global average — and none more so than the Arctic.
As we get further into the 21st century, that phenomenon is expected to continue, and perhaps even intensify. "Based on the model I am working with, the CESM, it seems that Arctic change is about three times as much as the global average," Jahn said.
Emphasis on the word 'about.' According to her CESM modeling, here's how the numbers work out a bit more precisely (with all temperatures given in Celsius): 1.5 degrees of global warming translates to 4.25 in the Arctic. And 2 degrees C globally means 6 degrees of warming in the Arctic. That's why a seemingly small difference can help save the ice.
But that doesn't mean Arctic sea ice will stop shrinking. "Even when warming is limited to 1.5 °C, the Arctic summer sea-ice cover experiences significant reductions compared to today's cover," Jahn writes in her paper.
Also, keep in mind that this is all about probabilities. So it's still possible that we'd see an ice-free summer — even as early as mid-century — with no more than 1.5 degrees C of warming. It's just not a likely outcome.
Jahn's simulations show that this would be the result of natural variation combining with the effects of human-caused warming to drive sea ice that low. But if this should happen despite the low odds "it is likely to be an isolated event, whereas in the stronger-warming scenarios a second ice-free year would soon follow the first," Jahn writes.
One stronger-warming scenario run by Jahn on the computer model is known as "RCP8.5." You can think of it as business as usual. With it, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would continue to rise steeply, and by the end of the century it would soar to above 1,000 parts per million. We're at about 410 ppm now.
With RCP8.5, mean global warming would exceed 4 degrees C above preindustrial levels by 2100. If Jahn's computer simulations are accurate, that would produce a truly huge increase for the Arctic — close to 12 degrees C. And the impact on sea ice would be stark.
With this scenario, "the ice-free season in the Arctic could extend from July to November in some years, with a 100% probability of ice-free conditions from August to November by the final decade of the twenty-first century," Jahn writes.
For the second study, Canadian researchers used a different climate model and approach. Yet here too, the simulations show substantial benefits for stabilizing global warming at the end of the century at 1.5 degrees C versus 2: "an eightfold decrease in the frequency of ice-free conditions is expected, from once in every five to once in every forty years," the scientists write.
Both studies give us something to shoot for. But we are currently headed on a different path, with CO2 concentrations still growing, and the rate of growth increasing.
If the signatory nations to the Paris Agreement really do live up to their commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions, we'll get onto a better path. But even so, those emission cuts would not be sufficient to limit warming to 2 degrees C, let alone 1.5. Instead, the globe overall would probably experience warming of about 3 degrees C by 2100.
With that amount of warming, the Canadian study shows that "permanent summer ice-free conditions are likely, which emphasizes the need for nations to increase their commitments to the Paris Agreement."
How likely are we to limit global warming enough to save the Arctic sea ice? I posed that question to Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The NSIDC crunches the satellite-monitoring data every month to provide regular updates on what's happening to the ice.
"If we got a handle on fossil fuel emissions, we could keep global warming from getting out of hand," he wrote in an email message. But he's not optimistic. "I think we are destined for a seasonally ice free Arctic Ocean. I don't see that this is stoppable given our dependence on fossil fuels. We'll need to adapt. And we will."
But now that we know how much of a benefit could be gained by shooting just a little lower than 2 degrees C, perhaps we can summon up the will to do more than simply adapting and instead get more serious on mitigating the CO2 pollution that we're pouring into the atmosphere.


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I was wondering why my bicycle fell over… then I realized it's probably because it's two tired.
I am being a bit unfair. In fact on a recent ride we came upon a beautiful lookout over the river valley, looking down on the bridge we'd crossed on a previous ride, and she stood there so long taking it all in that I thought we were going to have to file a change of address with the tax office.
But that's more of an exception.
"Oh… look at this beautiful view!" I'll suggest.
She'll be looking instead at a patch of clover trying to find a 'lucky one.'
"From this bridge you can look five kilometers down the river." I'll say.
She'll be throwing stones to see them 'plop' in the water below.
It's all about priorities, I suppose. And to be honest, her's are probably more interesting than mine.
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A youth action group, led by Lloydminster, Alta. high school student Jianna Marin, hand delivered roughly 4,400 postcards to Alberta's health minister on Friday, May 30.
Each postcard contained a message to urge Alberta's government to proclaim a new law that would ban flavoured tobacco from store shelves.
"Alberta youth support a ban on all flavoured tobacco products" said Marin after wrapping up a month-long tour visiting high school students across the province.
"I have met with hundreds of high school students throughout the province and they want government action now. Students have been sharing their experiences with flavoured tobacco and it's definitely a serious problem in Alberta high schools. Every school that I have visited is currently struggling with flavoured tobacco use.
"We cannot allow tobacco companies to keep targeting youth with this blatant marketing scheme."
The delivery of the postcards were delivered one day before World No Tobacco Day on May 31.
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Council finance
- About the finance department
- Annual financial statement
- Budget
- Supplier payment policy
- Contact details
About the finance department
The finance department of Clare County Council is responsible for the following:
- Development and maintenance of systems and procedures for budgetary control
- Management information and general cost effectiveness
- Control and supervision of all statutory and financial accounting
- Investments and borrowing
- The management of the long and short term finances
- The securing of income
- The control of all expenditure of the Council
- Establishment and maintenance of satisfactory checking and internal audit systems
Given these responsibilities the finance directorate carries out the following duties:
- Payments to Suppliers/Contractors and associated functions
- Payment of Travelling Expenses to employees and associated functions
- Payment of Salaries/Wages/Pensions and associated functions
- Monitoring Expenditure & Income
- Preparation of Budgets/Estimates and Final Accounts
- Financial returns - External and Internal
- Financial Management and Accounting
- Financial Reports/Backup/Advice to all Sections
- Receipting/Lodging of monies due to Council
- Recoupments of sums due (Issuing demands, invoices, returns etc.)
- Investment and Borrowing
- Revenue Collection
- Rate Collection/Valuations
- Information Technology Services
- Internal Audit/Checking
Annual Financial Statement
The annual financial statement (AFS), provides details of actual figures, both revenue and capital at year-end. The AFS is based on accrual accounting and contains notes elaborating on the figures and explaining the accounting principles concerned.
Every local authority or joint body, under the Local Government Act 2001, "shall prepare an annual financial statement in accordance with the code of practice issued by the Minister"
The AFS is to be completed within 12 weeks of the end of the previous year.
When completed the elected members consider it and once adopted by the council, it is then forwarded to the minister and the director of audit.
- Annual Financial Statement 2018 - Audited PDF, 16MB]
- Annual Financial Statement 2017 - Audited PDF, 6MB]
- Annual Financial Statement 2016 - Audited PDF,1.5MB]
Each year, every local authority in accordance with The Local Government Act, 2001 "shall prepare a draft local authority budget setting out for the next local financial year the expenditure estimated to be necessary to carry out it's functions and the income estimated to accrue to it"."
Under the direction of the manager and assisted by the finance directorate, the draft budget for each year is prepared between September and November.
The format of the draft budget is standard to all local authorities although the layout and information may vary from authority to authority. Income and expenditure is broken down between eight programme groups. These are listed below:
- Housing and Building
- Road Transportation and Safety
- Water Supply and Sewerage
- Development Incentives and Controls
- Environmental Protection
- Recreation and Amenity
- Agriculture, Education, Health and Welfare
- Miscellaneous Services
Within these programme groups data is further broken down into sub-programmes which represents different activities within the programme group. For example, some of the sub programme groups in programme group 1 local authority housing include - assistance to persons housing themselves, assistance to persons improving houses, administration and miscellaneous. Each programme group has its own list of sub-programmes that are relevant to the activities in that programme group.
The budget must balance. Proposed expenditure must be met from proposed income whether from goods and services, grants or rates.
The draft budget is presented to the council following consultation with the corporate policy group.
The adoption of the draft budget is a reserved function of the council. Special budget meetings are held by the council to consider the draft budget.
There are prescribed periods within which the budget meetings must be held. This can vary from year to year and is decided by the minister.
The prescribed periods in respect of 2016 budget were 2nd November 2015 to 27th November 2015
Public notice is given that the draft budget has been prepared and that copies are available to the general public.
The draft budget must be adopted within 21 days of the first budget meeting within the prescribed dates. The budget can be adopted with or without amendment.
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Ullswater 'Steamers' is an award winning environmental accredited Lake District Cumbria attraction celebrating over 150 years of operating lake cruises on England's most beautiful lake, Ullswater. Ullswater 'Steamers' create the perfect opportunity to combine a lake cruise with some of the most famous and spectacular walks in the Lake District.
This app accompanies your boat trip by providing audio commentary and a map of the lake along with walk information and routes to follow.
Download our FREE full cruises commentary on Apple and Android stores here
Our FREE lake guide given to all passengers has information about the valley along with vouchers and adverts for local businesses.


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This project was made in order to assist marketing and sales purposes of a real estate.
It was easy – we were provided with photos and plan of the premise and came up with a good design arrangement visualised to help present the idea of refurbishing an old residence into a contemporary home.
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Kim Reed has been a musicologist, music journalist & photographer for over 40 years in Australia and the United States.
His list of interviews includes hundreds of artists in a full range of genres, including Joni Mitchell, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Martyn, Cyndi Lauper, BB King, John Mellencamp, Hall & Oates, Phil Collins, Frank Zappa, and members of
R. E. M. , The Go Go's, Yes, Moody Blues, and The Rolling Stones. Recently his work includes artists like Neko Case, Sharon Jones, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Warpaint, Valerie June, Father John Misty, Fred Armisen, and festivals such as SXSW, Lollapalooza, Americana Fest, Folk Alliance, and Wanee.
House photographer at the Thrasher-Horne Center
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1. Call the meeting to order
2. Roll Call
3. Review Proposed Emerald Point Utility Agreement with Hollister
4. Adjourn
Public Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Hollister,
Missouri, will be held at the Town Hall, 312 Esplanade Street, Hollister, Missouri, on
Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 7:00 P.M. to consider and act upon the matters on
the following tentative agenda and such other matters as may be presented at the
meeting and determined to be appropriate for discussion at that time.
1. Call the meeting to order
2. Roll Call
3. Consent Agenda
All items listed under item 3, consent agenda, are considered to be routine by the
City Council and will be enacted by one motion. There will not be a separate
discussion of those items unless a Council member or citizen so requests,
in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and will be considered separately.
June 19, 2008 Council meeting minutes
Conditional Use Permit – Lighthouse Baptist Church
Destruction of Records
Southwest MO Natural Gas granted FULL certificate of convenience
Allied Waste Services merge with Republic Services, Inc.
Informational Material
July 04, 2008 Town Hall Closed – Fourth of July – Fireworks Display
July 07, 2008 Park Board meeting at 6:30 PM
July 08, 2008 Planning & Zoning meeting at 6:30 PM
July 10, 2008 Municipal Court at 5:00 PM
July 15, 2008 Board of Adjustment meeting at 6:30 PM
July 17, 2008 Partners in Progress
July 17, 2008 Town Hall Square Park dedication at 6:00 PM (tentatively)
July 17, 2008 Council meeting at 7:00 PM
4. PDD Application - Public meeting – The Sanctuary Development Co., LLC
5. Gage Excavating, LLC – Change order for Gage Drive Extension
6. Second Reading on Bills
2008-24 Ordinance to voluntary annex approx 9 acres for Table Rock Canyon, Southwest of Hollister's current city limits
2008-25 Ordinance to amend 402.100 Final Development Plan – All Planned Development Districts
7. First Reading on Bill
2008-26 Ordinance to amend 402.070 Actions of the Planning Commission - PDD
2008-27 Ordinance to amend 342.010 Driving While Intoxicated
2008-28 Ordinance to add a new section 342.011 Driving While Under Influence of Drugs
8. Visitors
9. City Administrator's Report
10. New Business
11. Closed Session
Legal actions, causes of action or litigation 610.021(1), Personnel 610.021(3) Contract Negotiations 610.021(12)
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"We are shocked. This is not what we expected."
"Among several scenarios to explain Fomalhaut b's 2,000-year-long orbit is the hypothesis that an as yet undiscovered planet gravitationally ejected Fomalhaut b from a position closer to the star, and sent it flying in an orbit that extends beyond the dust belt."
"Hot Jupiters get tossed through scattering events, where one planet goes in and one gets thrown out. This could be the planet that gets thrown out."
"cosmic fireworks [like those] seen when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter."


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In case any New York Knicks fans had forgotten that May 7 was the anniversary of one of the worst games in franchise history, Reggie Miller was there to remind them.
The Hall of Famer and current TNT broadcaster returned to Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night to call Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals between the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers. Exactly 18 years earlier, in the same building, Miller scored eight points in the final 18.7 seconds of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals to push Indiana to a shocking victory.
The teams had also met in the playoffs in 1994, and Miller had famously given a choke sign to New York superfan Spike Lee as Indiana pulled away in Game 5. Miller joked about the incident on Twitter before Tuesday's game.
Since its the anniversary of the 8pts, maybe I walk by Spike tonight and give him the choke sign for old times sake...jk jk, I'm an ANGEL..
— Reggie Miller (@ReggieMillerTNT) May 7, 2013
But there's no lingering animosity between Miller and Lee, and the two shared a hug and a laugh before the game.
"We were just saying hello," Lee told the New York Times. "I didn't even know it was the 18th anniversary of that game until I got here."
While Lee may have been happy to see Miller, it's safe to say most Knicks fans were not. And Miller knew it.
Sooooooo looking forward to hearing the Garden's faithful crowd as Kevin Harlan, Rachel Nichols and myself come into the building... Smile..
— Reggie Miller (@ReggieMillerTNT) May 7, 2013
But whether you like Miller or hate him, it's impossible not to appreciate the coincidence.
"You know how they talk about the basketball gods?" Miller told the Times. "This is from the basketball gods."


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Updates on the Italian raids against Anarchists can be read at Contra Info.
Notably, R60, an occupied social center of Reggio nella Emilia, denies that the two arrests and searches of the squat have any correlation with Operation Ardire in spite that both took place in the same day and they relate it more with class solidarity with earthquake victims and the NO-TAV movement:
First the cops searched the residences of two activists, who are affiliated with the R60 space, and seized personal items of theirs. Then the operation extended to the social space itself. Computers, cameras, memory cards, etc. were confiscated. Both detainees were released by midday. R60 members mention, among others, that the police in Reggio Emilia have been persecuting political activists, and in particular those who engage in struggles against environmental devastation and support self-organization and direct solidarity with earthquake sufferers.
|R60 room vandalized by the carabinieri.
You can see the explosive ideas hidden in bomb-books on the shelves.
Beware of the bycicles: they bite!
The two arrestees from R60 are already in the streets, as for the rest, Contra Info publishes their prison adresses as well.
In a separate news item, innocent Basque ex-prisoner Lander Etxebarria, arrested by Italian police this week in Rome, was allowed home prison, a clear sign that he's not as dangerous. As I mentioned before, he has no pending legal issues after being acquitted from taking part in a prisoner-solidarity lottery earlier this month.


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Time for Emergency Economic Reform
How about a payroll tax holiday, funded by a federal spending, hiring and pay freeze?
Ronald Reagan enjoyed telling of the elderly Blitz victim rescued from her demolished London flat in World War II. A fireman found a bottle of brandy under the ruins of her staircase and offered her a nip for her pain. "Leave it right there," the matron ordered. "That's for emergencies."
A look around the American economy suggests that it's time to break out the brandy. By any measure, growth is anemic—alarmingly so for this time in what is supposed to be a recovery period. The administration's wild foray...


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Begging is by default looked at as a humiliating lifestyle. Well, it may look disgracing and shameful, but learning about this man may prompt many of you to feel ashamed too. Why? This story will show you that some beggars are making much more money by begging than you can make by doing your job and desperately trying to please your boss and his dog. We're not talking about begging and making few hundreds dollars more, we're talking about earning just over 27,000 USD per month.
Photo credit: Reuters
Of course, we shouldn't forget that vast majority of beggars are poor and unfortunate people who don't know where their next meal will come from, but it seems that begging if done correctly can yield money that will never be obtained through all those shiny business ideas that we all think about and dream about, hoping one day we will make it all work and finally relieve ourselves of the chains of insufficient funds once and for all. While you're developing your great ideas and pushing your cart up the hill, you're free to see arguably the richest beggar in India.
Earning 900-1000 dollars each day by begging: Bharat Jain
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This man is reportedly earning 900-1000 USD each day (60,000 Indian Rupee). That's just over 27,000 USD each month. He is making such a good money that he decided to buy two adjacent apartments in posh Parel area, which are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Besides the apartments, he also invested in a shop at Bhandup area, Mumbai, which he has been renting out and earning money from the rent.
Modus operandi: Begging at busy terminals. Full time job, begging 8 to 10 hours of a day. Sometimes he boards the train and is begging until the train reaches final destination. He is not aggressive, tries to be polite and humble, but is goal-oriented and persistent.
You don't believe there are beggars like this? You don't believe a beggar could be earning more than most of you?
Hm, more recent story is showing us that there are even wealthier beggars out there. As Gulfnews reported on March 17, 2017 a beggar has been caught with 270,000 Emirati Dirham which amounts to just over 73,500 USD.
This makes me wonder if something like this is possible in India or Arab countries only, or some well-skilled begging person would be able to humbly pull off something like this in US or other dignified highly developed democracies?
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Do you put labels on your quilts? Why/why not? If you do, what's your favorite technique?
I want to label the quilts I give away as gifts this year... and the ones I keep. I think it's nice for people to know the name of the quilt and adds to the homemade-love of the gift.


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Rigi – queen of the mountains.
The offer is available in the following categories
- Individual travellers
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- 120 km of hiking and walking paths.
- Covered barbecue areas, various campfires, picnic spots and restaurants.
- Adventure playground on Rigi Kaltbad and Staffel children's playground.
- Lunch in the BärgGnuss or Bahnhöfli restaurants on Rigi Staffel.
- Lunch in the BärgGnuss or Bahnhöfli restaurant on Rigi Staffel.
- 120 km of hiking and walking paths.
Whatever you expect from your trip to the Rigi, the queen of mountains is sure to surprise you.
Discover the 120-kilometre-long hiking trails, experience the legendary sunrise on the mountain, venture an in-depth look at the numerous climbing routes, celebrate your party at the covered barbecue areas, or enjoy a romantic coach ride.
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The Burial Committee is responsible for the running and maintenance of
three cemeteries in the Township:
Brent Road Cemetery – Brent Road, Burnham-on-Sea TA8 2JT
Burnham Cemetery – Westfield Road, Burnham-on-Sea TA8 2AW
Highbridge Cemetery – Burnham Road, Highbridge TA9 3JF
Opening Times
All three cemeteries have a caretaker on site and are generally available,
except when assisting at one of the other cemeteries:
Monday to Thursday – 8:00am to 4:00pm
Friday – 8:00am to 3:30pm
Contact Details
Brent Road Cemetery Caretaker – Andrew Taylor
Burnham Cemetery Caretaker – Stewart Crosby
Highbridge Cemetery Caretaker – Chris Tuck
For all enquires please contact the administration office:
Lorna Williams, Clerk to the Burial Committee,
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Office opening hours: Monday – Friday 9:00am to 4:00pm
Please Note: No dogs (except Guide Dogs) are permitted within the cemetery grounds
For further detailed information, application forms and fees payable please download from list below:-
|Interment Application Form 2019.pdf
|Application for a memorial or addtl inscription.pdf
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Memorial Testing Policy and Procedure
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|Income & Expenditure as at 31 March 2018
|Balance Sheet as at 31 march 2018
Statistical Information
|Interment statistics for 2018.pdf
Agendas, Minutes and Reports of the Burial Committee can be viewed under the said tab on the Town Council home page.
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Orange Beach and Gulf Shores have some of the most stunning coastline in the Southeast.
Teeming with wildlife of all kinds, these white beaches are the dividing line between the Alabama mainland and the the Gulf of Mexico. Sand, dunes, and swaying grasses are the building blocks of this place, and there is a certain timeless allure to these elements — that attraction is clear when we see how many of our visitors come back.
And the beaches are only the half of it. Most are happy to discover that because the Gulf of Mexico lies just north of the Equator its waters are seasonally heated and some of the warmest in the world. They're also relatively calm compared to the rough waves of the Atlantic and Pacific thanks to the protection of the Florida panhandle.
For decades this 32 mile stretch of beach was one of the region's best kept secrets, but in recent years it's become a major tourist attraction inspiring an explosion of growth. Thanks to this surge in development visitors will find more than enough affordable lodging opportunities as well as a huge variety of seaside activities. If sandcastles and sunbathing don't cut it, there are multiple marinas that offer charter fishing, parasailing rides, kayak rentals, pontoon boat rentals, paddle boards and more.
It's important to Chute for the Skye Parasail that our visitors enjoy themselves, make lasting memories, and get a chance to see the beauty of this place. We want you to build a sandcastle, hang with friends, play volleyball, chase a seagull or two, and let yourself spend a few days like a kid again. Because that's what our beaches are for. And when the day is done and night comes, go take a walk. Listen to the waves and let your worries drift away.


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Hardware+Tools Middle East is the region's only dedicated trade fair for Tools, Hardware, Materials, and Machinery. The show represents vital aspects of this ever-growing industry to network with international manufacturers and suppliers, find a variety of brands across cost ranges and evaluate the market.
This is an ultimate destination for addressing the manufacturing and trading requirements of not only the Original Equipment Manufacturers, but traders and distributors of plenty of industries. The event unveils up-to-the-minute solutions and techniques for enabling large, medium and small scale industries to enhance the manufacturing and trading capabilities of the business owners. Apart from this, the three day exhibition covers the entire array of machinery, material and various other equipment.
There is no other trade show that is more specifically equipped to cater to the construction, fabrication and technical industries with the latest tools, hardware, materials and machinery.
The 2017 edition, concluded a successful three days of busy networking featuring 166 exhibitors including international brands such as Bosch, Hitachi, Wiha, KNIPEX, 3M, Nito Kohki and more.
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[np_storybar title="Black Knight Sword" link=""]Score: 5/10
Platform: Xbox 360 (reviewed), PlayStation 3
Publisher: Reverb Communications
Release: December 12, 2012
ESRB: Mature
My black knight stabbed the giant magic chicken in its beak one last time, then leapt onto the beast's back and rode it into the sky like a magnificent clucking Pegasus. The strange duo flew through clouds of giant fruit and braved fearsome flocks of floating faces en route to the knight's real foe: A huge, scarred, bodiless head fluttering about on a pair of angelic ear-wings.
And here I thought I'd seen everything the video game industry had to throw at me in 2012.
Designed by Suda51, Japan's reigning prince of lewd and bizarre games (see: Lollipop Chainsaw, the No More Heroes series, Shadows of the Damned), the side-scrolling action platformer Black Knight Sword is nothing if not visually arresting.
Everything takes place on a stage that scrolls between two red theatre curtains. The game's unusual characters are sketches drawn upon paper cutouts that float in front of backdrop paintings. Objects in the environment take the form of props created by some demented set designer obsessed with kitty paws and jaws, which often appear as platforms and bridges.
If the game's goal is to deliver oddity upon oddity, it succeeds.
All of this weird stuff does a very good job of grabbing hold of our attention. But Black Knight Sword isn't the first game to garner stares based on pure spectacle. The question is what the developers do with our interest once captured. How do they explain the things we see?
Sadly, I'd not completed even the first stage before I began wondering whether there was any real purpose to the game's parade of peculiarities or if it was merely a case of Suda51 being strange for strangeness' sake.
If there's a reason why the game's treasure chests aren't chests at all but instead microwaves the dials of which we need to strike in order to cook and spew out the contents within, or why our performance at the end of each level isn't measured in standard stars but instead plant pots out of which sprout leafy kitten heads, it's quite beyond me.
In fact, I suspect the curious visuals exist simply to distract the player from reflecting on the game's shallow, often tedious action.
Our mysterious, platform-hopping knight is on a quest to put an end to the evildoings of a psychotic princess (details are annoyingly scant). To that end, he drags around a heavy looking sword which he jabs in eight basic directions – alas, we're not allowed a full 360-degree range – to attack enemies.
These baddies may look strange – imagine a horse's head on a spring, a decapitated seraph with bird heads in place of hands, two-headed dead men that squawk while lobbing eggs – but their tactics are quite familiar. They spit projectiles, drop from ceilings, flutter around in predictable patterns, and rush toward the knight should he enter their field of vision. Player strategies need never grow much more complex than dodging well-advertised attacks and setting themselves in position for a few well-timed jabs at weak spots when they present themselves.
Platforming sections – jumping between blocks both stationary and moving, plus the occasional cube summoned into existence by the player – are even less original. Worse, they tend to herald frustratingly lazy puzzles, like one near the end of the game in which players must make their way through ten numbered pairs of doors, selecting at random between left and right in each instance and starting all over again when they guess one wrong.
This sort of stale, clunky design just doesn't fly in the current renaissance of wonderfully imaginative side-scrolling action and platformer games we've been treated to over the last few years. 'Splosion Man, Shank 2, Super Meat Boy, Shadow Complex, Lost in Shadow, Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, VVVVV, Trine 2,Mark of the Ninja, Fez, Dust: An Elysian Tale… these and other contemporary entries in this genre are far too varied, creative, and legitimately engaging for us to cut much slack to a half-hearted run-to-the-right game like Black Knight Sword.
I won't deny that there are moments in Suda51's game that can't help but make a fellow pause and gaze wonderingly. That's exactly what I did when I smashed a canary cage hopping around on a human leg to release an orb held aloft by flapping hands that morphed into an in-game shop consisting of a huge eye encircled by a series of slowly rotating concentric flaps of flesh ringed by technicolor lips. But without some rationale for its existence, some clever tie to the narrative, this weirdness is ultimately without nourishment. It's just the juxtaposition of contrasting objects for no other reason than because they contrast.
Should I find myself in the mood to consume such strange visual amalgams I think I'd rather just look at the drawings of my daughter's classmates, which can often be just as bizarre but usually represent at least some attempt to communicate an idea. That they come without the need to endure any stale action or bland platforming is just a bonus.


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Hannah Tofts Marca
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Artist / designer /author / teacher in mixed media 3d big and small;
paint, drawing, collage, lost+found, plastic, animation
About Hannah Tofts
Hannah; 'After my studies MA, Royal College of Art, London, I worked in Illustration, 3d, collage, animation, wrote 15 children's books and teached BA Graphic Design in London. I moved to Amsterdam for 14 years, my favourite city, where I began to paint and changed my style again. Decoding Dutch food traditions in more painterly collage, making with thrown-away cardboard and paper, props and 3d collages for e.g. the Dutch department store HEMA and important other Dutch companies. A year in Australia, another home, painting aqua seas, lost & found sea collages and making fruit-box cardboard pieces; always making with whatever I find wherever I travel. Torn between wild nature and cafes by bike I moved to West Coast Scotland, 5 years ago, painting, drawing my vegetables, making with plastic and washed up finds and teaching kids and adults to have fun looking and creating. Always with a bike and heart in Holland; producing books with Dutch creative partner: 'Zzebbraa for Curious Creatures', 'I can't draw...Ways of Looking no.1', 'Plastic Sea', 'Winter Seascapes 1 of 4', 'Paper Street' in progress...
Passionate about Art and Design, ways of looking, inspiring creativity, documenting the story to share.'
Winter Seascapes West Coast Scotland 1/4 seasons 'from the city to the sea' /
'Every change makes you look with 'outsider' eyes to decode your environment with no presumption; this time it was literally new horizons of changing light, colour and huge composition issues to tackle.
I haven't dared to paint it yet, but am almost ready to choose a point of view.
I draw, document, play with colour, look and always return to collage, my natural medium.
Teaching others to see makes me look more closely too and see new possibilities.
After endless months of wet relentless grey I had to give in; mixing 69 shades of grey, painting my papers, cropping that sea and sky I captured my scenes as tiny mini worlds. Using a long lost camera format, pinning it down in black.
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Jermain Defoe will be loaned back to Tottenham as soon as his £6million transfer to Toronto is completed on Monday.
England international Defoe is flying to Canada at the weekend to finalise his move to the Major League Soccer club by putting pen to paper.
The 31-year-old former West Ham and Portsmouth striker, who only had 18 months left on his current deal at White Hart Lane, has agreed a four-year deal worth £90,000-a-week.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Defoe talked to England manager Roy Hodgson about his options before striking the agreement with Toronto's former Spurs defender Ryan Nelsen.
MORE: Toronto hail Defoe's arrival with a lovely cup of tea – video
It was decided that staying at Tottenham until March, when he new MLS season commences and then regular football with Toronto would help him stay sharp and crisp in front of goal ahead of this summer's World Cup in Brazil.
Defoe will remain as insurance to Tim Sherwood's preferred striking options of Roberto Soldado and Emmanuel Adebayor.
MORE: Defoe persuaded to join Toronto by rap star Drake
Tottenham now have to decide whether they will bring in another forward such as West Brom's Shane Long or Juventus marksman Mirko Vucinic, or wait to nurture record signing Erik Lamela or Harry Kane when Defoe finally packs his bags and heads to Canada.


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One of the reasons why smartphones have become popular nowadays is its ability to install all sorts of apps. The #Samsung #Galaxy #S5 is one such phone that's able to run most of the apps available at the Google Play Store. Installing the app on the device is quite easy as all you need to do is download it and it will immediately install itself. There are however instances when certain app related issues can occur on this phone which we will be addressing today. In this latest installment of our troubleshooting series we will tackle the Galaxy S5 app system error issue & other related problems.
If you own a Samsung Galaxy S5 or any other Android device for that matter then feel free to contact us using this form. We will be more than happy to assist you with any concern that you may have with your device. This is a free service we are offering with no strings attached. We however ask that when you do contact us try to be as detailed as possible so that an accurate assessment can be made and the correct solution can be given.
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S5 App System Error
Problem: I updated software for the 3rd time this week…on s5..I now have marshmallow. It has changed behavior of phone. I can not open Daily Audio Bible..a system error come up saying there is problem with content…try later…Never had problem before update Also there's a huge invasion of ads popping up everywhere…anytime. And lost my ability to pick which browser I open..sometimes I want clean masters browser and sometimes I need to print something so I have to leave CM and open next browser or browser Can u help…ESP with the error problem
Solution: Regarding the issue that you are having with the Daily Audio Bible app do you happen to remember what the exact error is? These app errors that usually occur right after a major software update are usually caused by incompatibility issues. The app that you have right now might still be optimized to work on Lollipop and not on Marshmallow. What you should do is to uninstall the app then install a fresh version from the Google Play Store.
Regarding the apps popping up in your phone this is usually caused by a third party app installed in your device or by some adware that has infected the phone. To troubleshoot this try starting the phone in Safe Mode first then check if the apps still appear in this mode. If they don't appear then it could be caused by a third party app. Find out what app this is and uninstall it.
If the issue still occurs even in Safe Mode then I highly recommend that you backup your phone data and do a factory reset.
S5 Email Not Working After Software Update
Problem: I installed the latest S5 update yesterday and today my email account won't work. I refresh but it says there are no emails yet I have sent emails to myself to test it and they do not download to my phone yet do to my desktop. I cleared the Cache and Data and reset the email account but there seems to be a problem connecting with the email server. HEEEEELP
Solution: I'm assuming that you are using the stock email app of your phone. For now we can set aside connectivity related problems since it looks like the email can be sent out since you are receiving it on your desktop. For this issue what you should do first is to check the email settings in your phone. Make sure to check the server settings since a wrong setting can cause this problem.
If your email settings are correct then you should try removing the email account from the email app. Once this is done clear the cache and data of the email app then setup your email again.
S5 Can't Access Gallery
Problem: After updating to Marshmallow I can't access my Gallery without giving it permission to access my Contacts. I've always been able to send photos to anyone on my contacts list so that can't be the reason, even though I contacted Samsung and that's what they told me. Is there a way to stop this? Or to go back to a previous version?
Solution: If the phone keeps on asking for permission even after you have allowed it previously then resetting the app preferences. To do this go to Settings then Apps then tap on the menu button of Apps then tap on reset app preferences. Once this is done you will be asked for permission again when you access your Gallery app. Check if the phone only asks you once. If this doesn't fix the problem then I recommend that you backup your phone data then do a factory reset. This reset will delete any old software data in your phone which might be causing the problem.
S5 Pictures Videos Taken Can't Be Opened
Problem: Every time I take a picture or record a video using my Samsung Galaxy S5 phone it saves the picture or video but when I try to view the image then it just appears as a blank screen which is black and has an exclamation mark on top of what looks like 2 hills in the background. This has been happening for months and i'm not sure what to do. Please advise. Thanks.
Solution: Does your phone have a microSD card and are the photos and videos saved in this card? If they are then there's a possibility that the card is corrupt. Try taking out the card. The camera will then switch the default save location to the internal storage of your phone. Try taking a picture or video and check if you are able to access it. If the issue doesn't occur anymore then I would suggest that you get a new microSD card.
If the phone doesn't have a microSD card then then this problem might be caused by a glitch in the phone software. I recommend that you backup your phone data then do a factory reset. Once the reset is complete try to check again if the issue still occurs.
S5 Apps Move Back To Internal Storage When They Update
Problem: I have a galaxy S5 with all the updates. I use a SD card for my apps and photos. Every time one of my SD card apps are updating they are moving back to the internal memory and I need to move them each time manually back to the SD card. Is there any solution? Thanks!
Solution: When an app is updated it will install the fresh version on the phone. By default the installation path is always the internal storage of the device. You will have to manually move the apps again to the external storage once they are updated.
S5 Error 501 When Installing App From Google Play Store
Problem: I have a Samsung 5 and until recently used Whatsapp. This has now disappeared from the phone and I am unable to re-install via Google Play and get error message 501. Since then I have tried to install Instagram but get the same issue and error message 501. Then thirdly the same message comes up when I try to upgrade Facebook. Any suggestions?
Solution: The error 501 that you have on your device can usually be resolved by going into your phone Settings then Application Manager. Look for Google Play Services and Play Store. Tap on clear cache. Once this is done delete your Google account from your phone. Restart your phone then setup your Google account again then let it sync. Try to check if the error still occurs.
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Beautiful Images and I so look forward to more. The light and or color in every photograph is utter magic.ReplyDelete
Beautiful images from India.ReplyDelete
Nice photos, TGG! Eager to see your garden adventures... BTW, does it snow in UK, where you live?ReplyDelete
Oh, I am so looking forward to your India garden posts. The sampling we have had so far is making me impatient while waiting for viewing the rest. I hope you have a safe trip home.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9 December 2009 at 06:24
Hi Tiggerlot, Welcome back. It looks like you were able to take in some fantastic scenery. I look forward to hearing about it.ReplyDelete
Hi Charlotte. India is really an awesome country. I've just been there once to Ooty and i was really fascinated by the bright colored clothes or saris they are wearing even under the heat of the sun. It looks like the style and materials make it more hot. I wonder how it feels. Have you worn saris the way they do it? with the tummys open and tightfitting tops. I also have an entry about the scenes I've seen when i was there. However, it was too short and my photos are mostly taken while inside the vehicle. I still wish i can go back especially because i have not seen the Taj Mahal yet.ReplyDelete
Such beautiful photographs as always.ReplyDelete
What wonderful photos of such wonderful scenes. You photo of the women is marvelous. It is enjoyable to see your memories.ReplyDelete
Such exotic images! Can't wait to see more!ReplyDelete
Lovely pictures! Have a safe and peaceful trip home.ReplyDelete
I can't wait to see the next gardens. Be safe getting home.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12 December 2009 at 11:33
Welcome home, Charlotte! We have enjoyed the Tikli post already, and look forward to the rest, especially Deeg, it looks intriguing. Love the women working, not in the gardens in that attire, surely?ReplyDelete
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While playing the game, you see the option of the tab in your screen to find the cards for unlocking many of things. You can see three types of cards in that display.
The hero is those people who fight for you and work for you, weapons are the source to kill the zombies, and without it, you can't play the game. Perks are those items that can help you to play the game effectively.
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This fall we decided that we were going to invest in a new kitchen. I was beyond excited! We had Sears come in and design it. Their price was more than we could afford, so Bill, Ryan, and Bruce became my free labor. I cannot tell you how happy this kitchen makes me. Bill will often come home and find me sitting in there watching something on my kindle, or reading. I just loooove spending time in there. It's easily my favorite room in the house. The color makes me so happy, the counter space makes me so happy, the cabinets make me so happy!!! I am so happy!!
Let's start with the before. I am almost embarrassed to post the pictures of the before because it was so awful.
|Shudder!! I had no cabinet space so things were stacked on top of the cabinets and fridge
|The back door was scratched from our dog and there was a play kitchen on the back wall (Brendan is my photo bomber)
|We had to use a bakers rack for our microwave and appliances. My parents gave us their china cabinet (we had emptied it for demolition when I took these)
Next came demolition!
|Look at those studs! (In the wall I mean ;) )
|Someone may have been a little vigorous with the drilling and put a hole in my living room wall. But it's ok. I forgive them
|Cabinets in, and lots of new lights, now new appliances!
We aren't quite finished. I need a window treatment, a new rug, and I am waiting for my backsplash to be installed. I finally picked one out, but we need to find a weekend where Bill and his dad can install it. (The pitfalls of doing things yourself.) I am looking for a wide striped roman shade for the window. Does anyone know where I can find one??? I am handicapped when it comes to window treatments.
|Behold! My kitchen aid has a home on my counter and I still have plenty of room! We are going to put shelves next to that cabinet.
|Space to roll out cinnamon rolls! And I can look out the window while I am doing it!
|The new fridge still has a bunch of stuff on it--Bill loves a cluttered fridge -- I will allow it since he did all this for meeeee! Backsplash will go here.
|I love my under-mount sink! I love that you can just brush crumbs in and it doesn't get crud around the outside!
|The cabinet on the right hides two garbage cans! One for recycle and one for garbage. This wall will have the back splash as well. That's Thor in the corner
|He likes to watch me bake. What can I say?
|All of my cabinets have these pull out drawers. I am in love with them!! They hide all my appliances and pots and pans
|This is the corner cabinet. I opted not to have a lazy susan because it gave me more space for things like Rori's easy bake oven ;)
|I decided to step out of my box and paint the door an accent color and I think I love it! It reminds me of Nantucket.
|I love to stand at that counter and bake while I look out the window


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In Sheryl's spare time she also likes to workout at the gym, volunteer with the Humane Society, and cook while tuning into the Food Network.
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Blocks and Punches is a drill for two people which increases in complexity as the partners progress in rank. Each rank adds a new set of techniques, and the drill is practiced cumulatively from the beginning through the techniques for the rank of the defending partner. This drill provides conditioning, timing for the hands and arms of both partners in a controlled sequence. To begin the drill, the partners face one another separated by a distance of one arm length. One partner is designated as the attacker, the other as the defender. The attacker alternates punches to the defender's centerline, beginning with the right punch and executing four attacks with the specified techniques using a staggered (left, right, right left) blocking sequence. The start point for soft style techniques begin across the body in the direction of the partner's opposite shoulder. At the higher levels, a suitable counter attack follows each block. The defender is free to use body mobility as part of the defense but should not make significant stance adjustments during the drill.
One Green Stripe
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Lower block
Inner middle block
Rising block
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Outer block
Knifehand block
Green Belt
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Elbow block
Middle low block
One Brown Stripe
(in inward stance with counter attacks)
Soft lower block
Soft inner middle block
Soft rising block
Soft outer block (monkey)
Two Brown Stripes
(in inward stance with counter attacks)
Soft knifehand block (crane)
Downward forearm block
Sweeping block
Brown Belt
(in inward stance with counter attacks)
Soft middle low block
Pressing block
Inner outer block
One Black Stripe
(in inward stance with counter attacks)
Palm push
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Gap at the end of the universe!
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The Priceline (NASDAQ: PCLN) Negotiator has come back from the dead as William Shatner is returning to the travel discount commercials, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Perhaps this announcement caused the surge in Priceline shares during Wednesday trading since 94 percent of the company's customers submitted feedback saying they wanted the 80-year old actor to return.
In the news lately, Priceline was offering abnormally conservative third quarter guidance despite being a favorite pick by firms such as Bank of America, which downgraded the company from Buy to Neutral on August 8. The downgrade was a result of the company's outlook, which is considered an indicator of the online travel agency's health. Booking activity was expected to deteriorate through the first half of 2012.
Priceline reported second quarter earnings on August 7 and despite a beat on EPS estimates ($7.85 vs. $7.37 estimates) and a slight miss on revenues ($1.33 billion vs. $1.35 billion estimates), the company's third quarter guidance was reported way below analyst estimates at $11.10-$12.10/share vs. $12.79 expected.
After the earnings report, Priceline shares fell to new lows and eventually hit below $600 a share and have yet to recover. This is in contrast to a company that has beaten the midpoint of bookings since its first quarter in 2009 by an average of seven percent. Analysts at Piper Jaffray concluded that the company's third quarter guidance was conservative due to, "[international] bookings growth is being more significantly impacted by macro slowness vs. what we had expected after aggregating industry and competitive company data points throughout Q2."
Where will shares go from here? The stock reached its high point Wednesday at $574.79 and has since slumped to just above $570. Once William Shatner returns to commercials, consumers may begin to remember why Priceline was the leader in online travel bookings and feel confident in using the service once again, rather than traveling through competitors like Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE), Orbitz (NYSE: OWW), Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO) and Ctrip.com (NASDAQ: CTRP), all of which have been trending upward recently (with the exception of Orbitz, which traded down seven percent during Wednesday trading).
Yes, Priceline's second quarter earnings miss was rare, but with bookings remaining strong and the fearless Negotiator returning to the screen, the company may being to surge once again. Hopefully William Shatner doesn't sell off his shares when they bottom this time around.
At the time of this writing, Priceline shares traded up one percent to $570.42.
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Aaron Swartz has committed suicide. That news struck me hard. I only know him from his web presence but when something came up on my radar with Aaron's name tag on it, I expected it to be good if not great. I thought he was a wise old man until I found today that he is of my age. Shocker!
This got me thinking. First, he is orders of magnitudes accomplished than I am. second, he is not there anymore. He broke. I can't help debating with voices in my head about suicide.
I strongly believe suicide is never the answer. What made me think so? I believe there are two reasons. My father was strongly anti suicide. He even refused to attend the funeral of a suicide victim. Now he is not that extremist about it and I don't know how wrong he was back then but he obviously had a great influence on me. The other reason is one of many 'religious facts' I was exposed to in my young age. I am a Buddhist and they said that suicide is one of the greatest sins. Those ideas have apparently made a significant impact on how I look at life.
Suicide is apparently something that happens too frequently in social circles I take part in. The last one that had me concerned was the death of Ilya Zhitomirskiy who was a co founder of Diaspora social network. His death had an effect similar to what I'm currently going through. I was thinking about sucide. In my soliloquy I realized I'm kind of afraid of suicide [Not death. Mind you.] I won't ever be able to do that to myself. I will fight the fights, veer through the struggles, drag my emotional self thorugh cold and dark caverns of life but not suicide.
One of those days I felt 'content', I read about a long prison sentence. I was imagining that happening to me. Spice that up with a crime I never did. I was scared shitless. I thought a long enough confinement would make my life meaningless that I'd rather die. Would I suicide? I couldn't make up my mind.
Again I was thinking of a time I lose everything that makes me what I am. Losing these abilities to walk, to talk, to think and code. To dream, to laugh, to sing and smoke (just to make it rhyme. Seriously!). That's scary to be stuck in the cave that is my body. I'd prefer getting euthinized at this stage. See, it's not suicide. I'm not doing that to myself.
Whichever route I take in my wanders in my thought space, I never ended up at suicide. It's not a rational move in my book. But taking all those journeys I realized that to one who does not have a mind hardened enough, suicide may very well look like a good option. Even the best. The one last winning move.
The truth is it is not.
"Treasure your life for all the adventures it may take you through."
PS: I don't pretend to be that I can walk in the same boots of those who made the wrong decision. I don't say my thought expeditions are any close to the real shit one would go through. I don't say I have it all figured out. I just say that I wouldn't ever make THAT wrong decision. I would not. Check back when I die.


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We're often told to be afraid of wild animals but this is one you just want to reach out and hug!
This lovely, colourful print has been covered with the work of one of our favourite designers, Ingela P Arrhenius, hailing from Sweden's Stockholm and making our walls delightful with her work.
Teaching kids about nature, this elegant retro-style design will look lovely alongside the other prints in the collection on a feature wall in their room (though, let's face it, it's too cool to save for just the kids!).


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Following is an email I just received from Change.org that I felt compelled to share. Please read it, consider it, and spend two minutes making an effort to save thousands of lives.
Citibank and Barclays could save the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Uganda.
The Ugandan legislature could vote any day on a so-called "Kill the Gays" bill that could result in legalizing the death penalty for any LGBT person in the country. But Citibank and Barclays together have hundreds of millions of dollars invested in Uganda and wield significant influence in the country, just as banking lobbyists wield influence with Congress in the US. If Citibank and Barclays speak out against the "Kill the Gays" bill, Ugandan legislators will take notice in a hurry.
Collin Burton is a Citibank customer — he's also gay. Collin started a petition on Change.org asking Citibank and Barclays to speak out against the "Kill the Gays" bill. Click here to sign Collin's petition right now.
Citibank and Barclays are both big supporters of LGBT rights for their own employees, yet they invest money with a government that is threatening to execute LGBT people. "I expect Citibank and Barclays to live up to the values of equality and fairness, not just list them on their websites," Collin says.
If Citibank and Barclays speak out against the "Kill the Gays" bill, Ugandan legislators will see that they are risking the business relationships that keep their government afloat.
Click here to sign Collin's petition asking Citibank and Barclays to issue strong statements condemning Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill. The bill could come up for a vote any day, so swift action is essential.
Thanks for being a change-maker,
– Eden and the Change.org team
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