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In many countries where Volunteers serve, governments and local communities face impediments to economic growth, such as high unemployment, rapidly increasing populations, unskilled workforces, and a lack of private sector investment. Peace Corps Volunteers have a long history of working with individuals and communities to promote economic opportunities at the grassroots level.
Business Volunteers focus on increasing family income, improving the environment for businesses, educating young people, and helping businesses find markets for traditional or value-added products. They participate at many levels, whether helping artisan cooperatives in rural Africa market their handmade goods or training people in Eastern Europe to take advantage of new free-market opportunities.
Often, business Volunteers begin in a classroom setting, which gives them a position in the community as respected leaders and makes other projects possible. These projects include training entrepreneurs in the basic skills of small-business development and working with women to help them expand their access to credit and find new markets for their products. Some Volunteers work with development banks, nongovernmental organizations, and municipalities to support local development projects.
Most business Volunteers have business or public administration degrees or experience; others have degrees in other disciplines and a strong interest in business and nonprofit organizations.
If you can offer a more detailed description than this standard description the Peace Corps offers, please feel free to include that so others can get a better idea of what certain work areas consist of.
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Business Advising
Volunteers assist private and public businesses, local and regional governments, nonprofit organizations, women's and youth groups, and educational institutions.
Business Development Volunteers
Volunteers assist private and public businesses, local and regional governments, nonprofit organizations, women's and youth groups, and educational institutions.
Nongovernmental Organization Development
Volunteers focus on increasing family income, improving the environment for businesses, educating young people, and helping businesses find markets for traditional or value-added products. Additionally, volunteers aid the NGOs with improving their own capacity and efficiency.
Urban and Regional Planning
Volunteers work with municipalities and communities, as well as with regional or national governments.
Business and Information technology currently represents 19% of the volunteer jobs, with a breakdown by subsector being:
Business Advising: 8%
Business Development Volunteers: 3%
Nongovernmental Organization Development: 4%
Urban and Regional Planning: 1%
Information technology: 3%
By location:
Business and Information & Communication Technology Volunteers
34% are in Africa
29% are in Latin America
22% are in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
4% are in North Africa and the Middle East
4% are in Pacific Islands
4% are in The Caribbean
3% are in Asia
Business Fund
Volunteers are posted through out the developing world to help local businesses thrive in ways they perhaps never thought possible. Increasing the opportunities presented to local businesses promotes a sense of empowerment that can truly change a community. Contributions to this fund will support Volunteer and community projects such as microfinance, agribusiness, business education, and artisan collectives.
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A family was grieving Sunday morning after a moped crash Saturday night claimed the life of a 17-year-old boy.
It happened on Kalihi Street near Machado Street just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday.
Police say the collision happened when a Lexus sedan pulled out and made a left hand turn onto Kalihi Street.
That's when the moped rider collided with the sedan.
Police say the moped rider was not wearing a helmet when he collided with a Lexus being driven by an adult male from Honolulu.
Two passengers in the car were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Police say speed and alcohol do not appear to be factors for the driver of the Lexus.
Kalihi Street was closed between Nobrega and Kamohoali'i Streets while police investigated. It was reopened around 7 a.m. Sunday.
This is the seventh traffic fatality on Oahu in 2013 compared to four at the same time last year.

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On this day (Feb. 11) in 1861, two presidents-elect departed on trips to assume the duties, which awaited both of them, in their new jobs.
Abraham Lincoln, elected Nov. 6, 1860, as the 16th U.S. president, left Springfield, Ill., by train for Washington, D.C. After his March 4, 1861, inauguration, he would be confronted with the problem of maintaining the American Union.
Seven Southern slave states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas) had, by Feb. 1, all passed ordinances of secession. On Feb. 4, delegates from these seven states had established the Confederate States of America. Lincoln firmly believed secession was unconstitutional and it would be his solemn duty to restore the errand Southern states to their proper relationship in the American Union.
Also immediately, he would have to deal specifically with the problem of keeping the eight border slave states (Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina and Virginia) still in the Union from leaving and joining the Confederacy.
Furthermore, he had to mount a diplomatic effort to prevent foreign countries (particularly Great Britain and France) from recognizing (and therefore possibly aiding militarily and financially) the newly created Southern nation.
Finally, Lincoln was faced with the awesome task of rapidly building up U.S. military and naval forces to conduct a possible military conflict between the U.S. and the CSA; a conflict that did tragically materialize on April 12, 1861, in Charleston Harbor.
Lincoln's Southern counterpart, Jefferson Davis, who had been elected Feb. 9, 1861, as the provisional president of the newly created Confederate States of America, departed from his home, Brierfield Plantation in Mississippi, on the same day Lincoln left Springfield, on what turned out to be an arduous, roundabout boat and train trip to Montgomery (the initial CSA capital city) to assume office as the first and, as it turned out, the only Confederate president.
The tasks confronting Davis appeared to be even more daunting than those Lincoln faced. He had to preside over the establishment of an entire new government and nation. This would entail immediately, of course, the creation of a military force to defend the CSA against the possibility of Northern aggressive military action. Also Davis worked to secure foreign diplomatic recognition of the CSA.
Finally, he had to keep Southern ports open in the face of an increasingly effective Northern blockade of Southern ports. The South needed to export its cotton crops to survive since it was not as self-sufficient (especially financially and industrially) as was the North.
In 1861, when two presidents-elect left their respective homes to assume their new positions, it appeared that Davis, the West Point graduate, former U.S. senator, and former U.S. secretary of war, would be the more effective president.
Lincoln, on the other hand, was viewed by some as just a prairie lawyer from Illinois who, although well-experienced in local and state politics, was relatively unknown nationally and who appeared to lack the necessary political experience and knowhow to lead the country during a period of crisis.
However, by the conclusion of the bloody Civil War in 1865, it was readily apparent that Lincoln had been the more effective leader of the two presidents. Not only was Lincoln the "winner" of the war, but he was credited with "restoring" the Union and freeing the slaves.
Davis, on the other hand, was the "loser" in the war who proved to have been a contentious, bumptious, ineffective, although well-intentioned, administrator and war leader.
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Janine Edwards, Wayne County District Attorney announced today another arreststemming from a joint operation between the Wayne County District Attorney's Drug Task Force and the Pennsylvania State Police.
Thomas James Robinson, age 42, of Honesdale, PA, was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Ted Mikulak on July 26, 2013 for a Felony charge of Manufacturing with the Intent to Deliver Marijuana as well as Misdemeanor charges of Possession of Marijuana and Paraphernalia in Cherry Ridge Township.
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The Affidavit of Probable Cause states that a confidential source presented to the officers color photographs taken on July 24, 2013 depicting the interior of a barn on the Robinson property at 301 Spinner Road, Honesdale. The pictures clearly showed numerous marijuana plants in various stages of growth.
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WATERLOO, ON A distinguished group of Canadian and international experts will gather in Waterloo Sept. 6 for a public discussion of academic freedom in the context of university partnership agreements.
Co-hosted by the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, in partnership with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, the Perspectives on Academic Freedom conference will feature speakers and panelists representing a range of viewpoints from the academic community in Canada and abroad.
Academic freedom is essential to the role of universities in a democratic society, said Paul Davidson, President of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. The pursuit of truth and its communication to others means that faculty must be free to take intellectual risks and engage in reasoned discourse, rigorous research and scholarship that is subject to peer review. This conference permits Canadas universities to explore these principles more deeply.
The Globe and Mails national affairs columnist, Jeffrey Simpson, will moderate two panel discussions. Speakers and panelists from across Canada, the U.S. and Europe include:
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- Rose Goldstein, Vice-Principal Research and International Relations, McGill University
- Heide Hackmann, Executive Director, International Social Science Council, Paris
- James Turk, President the Canadian Association of University Teachers
- Gary Rhoades, Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona
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- Peter Warrian, Senior Research Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies, and Past Chair of Philanthropic Foundations Canada
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- Max Blouw, President and Vice-Chancellor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Academic freedom and university partnership agreements have been the subject of vigorous debate, not just in Canada but across the international academic community, said Max Blouw, President and Vice-Chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University. These matters are important to the reputation of universities and the research they support, and we are pleased to facilitate an informed and insightful discussion of the complex issues involved.
As academic institutions strive to establish new and innovative partnerships to serve society, maintaining academic freedom is essential to the ongoing credibility of universities and affiliated research, said Feridun Hamdullahpur, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo. This conference provides an important forum for discussion regarding the role of philanthropy in supporting research at our publicly funded institutions.
The Perspectives on Academic Freedom conference will be held Sept. 6 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Waterloo Inn, 475 King St. N., Waterloo, Ontario. Admission is free but guests are asked to register at: https://uwaterloo.ca/events/rsvp/perspectives-academic-freedom-held-waterloo-inn
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PITTSBURGH, PA (August 4, 2006) – The June 2006 Scheduled Airline Traffic Report for Pittsburgh International Airport indicates that airlines other than US Airways are showing a combined increase and that passenger traffic declines continue to level off, thanks to the increase in regional passenger traffic. This report is compiled monthly by the Allegheny County Airport Authority.
Four airlines showed significant growth in June 2006 compared to June 2005, led by Southwest and Midwest. Southwest reported a 74.1 percent increase in passengers (116,825/67,104) while Midwest showed an 89.8 percent gain (9,139/4,816). Continental (40,849/27,717; 47.4 percent) and Air Canada (4,076/3,272; 24.6 percent) also reported increases in traffic.
Those gains helped offset the losses in passenger volume by US Airways (485,978/620,009; 21.6 percent), Delta (65,078/71,526; 9 percent), United (63,192/66,892; 5.5 percent), Northwest (45,464/48,605; 6.5 percent), American (38,016/39,093; 2.8 percent), AirTran (30,112/32,522; 7.4 percent) and USA3000 (15,080/21,688, 30.5 percent).
A total of 914,766 scheduled passengers traveled through the airport in June 2006 a 5.6 percent increase from May 2006 and a 10.5 percent decrease compared to June 2005 (914,766 in June 2006/ 1,022,119 in June 2005). Year-to-date scheduled airport traffic shows a 5.8 percent decrease (4,888,445/5,191,840).
"The numbers reflect a strong boost to launch the busy summer travel season, a trend that is typical for June. They also indicate that the shift from connecting passenger traffic to regional origination traffic in continuing. Our customers are responding to the choices that are being offered, including JetBlue Airways that we welcomed to Pittsburgh on June 30. We will continue to develop opportunities for airlines and work to expand service for our customers." explained Kent G. George, Executive Director of the Allegheny County Airport Authority.
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But if you take the love for the holiday a bit far with make-up and blood and fake wounds and fake weapons to make it gory and scary, something else is being revealed that isn't so lovey dovey.
If the costume is scary, you may have a darker side to your personality that you have repressed and want to get in touch with.
Up next, we look at something a bit more animalistic ...
No. 2: Animal costumes
Cats, bunnies, dogs, lions, cows and tigers are often in the crowd at parties. Sometimes, they just involve a tail and ears. Other times, the party-goer has gotten fancy to replicate the animal.
Dressing up like an animal doesn't necessarily mean that you are wild. And even if you meow like a cat, you haven't lost your mind. Dressing up like an animal most likely means that you want to take on the characteristics of that animal.
Cats are independent creatures so wearing all black and grabbing a tail and some ears, likely means that you are independent. It could also mean that you want your freedom. The same can be said for tigers, who live and hunt alone.
Dressing as a dog may mean you are a protector and provide friendship and a lot of affection.
Animals are cute and cuddly and all, but what if you go for something a bit more sultry this year?
No. 1: Sexy costumes
It can be fun to be a sexy vixen during Halloween, and there's no doubt a lot of women do it.
As a matter of fact, there is usually at least one woman at every party who seemingly has purchased her costume from the lingerie section of the department store or an adult store.
And if she didn't shop at those locations, she has figured out how to make a cat or nurse extremely sexy because she's revealing a lot of cleavage or the costume is tight. And we ask you, when exactly is the last time you saw a nurse who looked like that?
These days sexy costumes can range from bunnies to police officers and from school girls to lions.
Such costumes can indicate the costume-wearer is extremely comfortable with her sexuality. And if the woman in question is someone who usually doesn't dress so provocatively?
Well, she is revealing a bit more than cleavage. She is likely revealing that she has a repressed sexual side.
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6-10-09 Progressive Field
I decided to go to this game despite a gloomy forecast of rain throughout the afternoon and into the evening.
I had changed my mind several times about going. I had ultimately decided not to go, until the rain forecast changed from 60% chance to 50% chance at around 1PM.
Getting onto the turnpike in Pennsylvania, there were menacing clouds on the horizon ahead.
No rain drops though.
Passing into Ohio, it was just overcast. Still no rain.
Game: 6 Balls (1 hit, 3 thrown, 2 device)
Season: 157 Balls (68 hit, 65 thrown, 24 device)
Games: 31 games (4 of which didn't have BP)
Average: 5.06 Balls per Game
Career: 323 Balls
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education joins U.S. Sen. Richard J. Durbin and U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk in congratulating the two Illinois high school students selected as delegates to the 51st annual U.S. Senate Youth Program. Thomas Clark of Oswego and Anais Carell of Clarendon Hills were selected from applicants across Illinois to receive a scholarship and to represent our state for a weeklong educational visit to Washington, D.C., in March.
"Congratulations to Thomas and Anais who were selected from many amazing students who applied from across the state. Their families and teachers should be quite proud of their achievement," said State Superintendent of Education Christopher A. Koch. "This prestigious program gives students an amazing opportunity to see our democratic process up close to build their knowledge of our political system and instill a lifelong commitment to public service."
The U.S. Senate Youth Program was created in 1962. The Hearst Foundations fund the program and provide each of the 104 student delegates with a $5,000 undergraduate college scholarship and encourages them to continue coursework in government, history and public affairs. Each year, the competitive, merit-based program brings 104 outstanding high school students — two from each state, the District of Columbia and the Department of Defense Education Activity — to Washington, D.C., for an intensive weeklong study of the federal government.
Thomas "TJ" Clark attends Oswego High School and serves as president of the Oswego Chapter of Youth and Government. TJ has served in various leadership positions since elementary school. He represents his school on the Illinois House Minority Leader's Youth Council and serves on the Senior Class Executive Council. He attended the LeadAmerica Conference, interned for the Illinois House Republicans and has worked on numerous local and state campaigns.
Anais Carell attends Hinsdale Central High School and serves as student representative to the Downers Grove Township Democratic Organization. Anais titled her application essay "A Call to Action." This title accurately reflects Anais' passion for action and involvement. She has volunteered for political campaigns since 2008. She writes "Battleground," a political column for the school newspaper and is active on the school's speech team. At school, she co-founded the Young Progressive Club and works to encourage youth participation in the democratic system.
While in Washington March 9-16, the student delegates will attend meetings and briefings with senators and Congressional staff, the president of the United States, a justice of the Supreme Court, leaders of cabinet agencies, an ambassador to the United States and members of the national media.
Thomas Justison of Hillsboro High School and Wyatt Bensken, a resident of Champaign who attends the University of Illinois Laboratory High School, were chosen for the 2013 program.
Chief education officers in each state select the delegates after nomination by teachers and principals. Koch, who was first appointed to serve as State Superintendent of Education in 2006 and has been with the Illinois State Board of Education since 1994, chose this year's state delegates.
Among the many distinguished former program delegates are U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the first program delegate elected to the Senate; U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner of Colorado, the first former delegate elected to the House; New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie; former Chief Judge Robert Henry, U.S. Court of Appeals; former Ambassador to West Germany Richard Burt; and former presidential Advisers Thomas "Mack" McLarty and Karl Rove.
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4 Reality Show: The Reality Show
In a Nutshell
Every week, a bunch of reality TV show editors are handed many, many hours of raw footage and they compete to see who can edit together the most compelling story.
If you work in reality TV, you're probably familiar with the term "Frankenbiting," a practice that involves mixing and matching random bits of audio and constructing an entirely new sentence. The example given in that Time magazine article I just linked to is from a show called The Dating Experiment. One of the contestants wasn't attracted to any of her suitors, which made for bad television. So the crew of the show got her to admit to loving something ("I really love Adam Sandler"), and then removed Sandler's name in editing and swapped it out for the name of the male contestant that the show wanted her to love.
Sandler was never an option.
I've talked to lots of reality show editors, because this is absolutely fascinating to me. This sort of thing happens all the time. Villains are created, feuds are manufactured and whole conversations are built out of random, unrelated words recorded across days and days. The film crews have literally hundreds of hours of raw footage and audio to work with, after all, so it probably isn't that hard to make your characters say almost anything.
Reality Show: The Reality Show would be a contest that focused on reality TV editors. Five teams of editors would all be given the same pile of raw footage of, say, a bunch of people living together in a house (or, in season 2, a zoo!). There is no immediately clear narrative in the footage -- it's just a bunch of people hanging out and talking, and it's up to each team of editors to edit together the most exciting and dramatic story by manipulating the footage using all of the tricks they've accumulated over their years of distorting footage.
"... splice in the CNN footage, fade ... annnd there. Snooki just orchestrated the Rwandan genocide."
It would be a fun deconstruction of reality TV because it would highlight better than any other show exactly how fake reality TV really is, plus it would be fun to see a bunch of wildly different stories all being told with the same material.
Why It Probably Won't Ever Be Made
Because at some point in the pitch meeting, someone will have to say, "You know all of the SEXY and EXCITING reality TV stars? This show would be about the hairy people who point cameras at them."
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In a Nutshell
A guy thinks he's just one of many contestants on a reality show, but he doesn't realize that everyone else is an actor. In the middle of filming season 1 of "the show," a zombie outbreak happens, and we see what this guy decides to do.
Back in 2003, Spike TV aired The Joe Schmo Show, a reality show about a bunch of strangers living in a house together (and getting real), with a twist: Every person on the show was a trained comedic actor following a script, except for one. This was a fake reality show with only one "real" person. It featured a young Kristen Wiig, Rickity Cricket from It's Always Sunny and the always awesome Ralph Garman as the "host."
Of all the shows in history, it was one of them.
The show was fun and a refreshing change of pace at a time when reality shows seemed to dominate all of television (a time I've come to refer to as "Forever, now, I guess"). As much as I enjoyed it, I do think it fell short, because at the end of the day, they were still just doing the tired old "bunch of people living in a house and stuff happens" bit. I say if you're going to make a (mostly) fake reality show, don't pull any punches.
That's where the zombies come in.
I don't want to watch a fake reality show that does a convincing job of looking like a real reality show; I want total anarchy. With this show, we have six people living in a house on some remote, tropical island. All of them are actors except for one, our Joe Schmo. The first few episodes will seem like a standard reality show (people hanging out in a house), but then weird things start happening. The reality show "contestants" lose contact with the creators of the show, then all of the phones stop working, and before you can say Sex House, zombies (or some other supernatural element) show up.
And now we get to see how our Joe Schmo reacts when he's faced with what he believes are actual, real zombies. The other actors would be around to make sure he didn't kill himself (or anyone else), but mostly they'd just watch things play out.
"... see? I knew it'd be a good idea to smuggle this gun out here."
I've seen how "real" people deal with lots of alcohol, and surviving on an island, and marrying millionaires. I have never seen a dramatic reality TV interpretation of an actual zombie attack. I want to see if an everyday guy could step up and become a hero if the situation called for it.
Also, selfishly, if this show ever gets made, I would like to be considered for the role of the guy who doesn't know he's on a reality show and gets a chance to totally John McClane all over some zombies. Just putting it out there.
Why It Probably Won't Ever Be Made
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Well, the midterm elections went pretty much as expected. And although we didn't end up with the craziest of the crazies (O'Donnell, I'm looking at you), we can still expect all kinds of fun over the next couple years.
But despite anything you might say about the current crop of US lawmakers, at least you have to admit that they're better than this guy:
I just hope he doesn't run into Kevin Garnett anytime soon.
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HAHAHA. "I despise each and every one of you." Now that's the way to win votes. Don't we have a candidate like that somewhere? Think of the SNL parodies.


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Private Internet Access is committed to privacy, does not log and uses shared IPs. The US is one of the only countries without a mandatory data logging requirement:
Private Internet Access was rated 4.5 out of 5 Stars by PC Magazine and is PC Magazine's Editor's Choice VPN service provider.
The speeds and reliability and support is good for the money.
But they are registered in the USA so this 'we don't log or share things' talk is hogwash. Any VPN provider in the USA has an obligation to work with the authorities (the Patriot Act and/or NSA PRISM) so this is as anonymous as HMA (non-existent).
Private Internet Access response to PRISM: https://www.privateinte
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$5 for 30 days
$10 for 3 months
$35 for a year (regular price)
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With coupon code $4.16/month or $38.5/year for US, UK and FR locations. $10.5/month or $115.5/year for 13 countries. For torrents they have separate servers.
- witopia - https://www.witopia.net/products/ (people in other forum indicate it may block P2P related activity)
(Pro with OpenVPN $70/year, basic $50/year)
- StrongVPN - http://strongvpn.com/packages_specia
(yearly special only for servers at 4 countries. For servers at ALL 20 countries, need Deluxe PPTP or OPEN which is $15 or $20 a month) (for less countries $55/year PPTP or $85/year PPTP or OPEN)
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- HideMyNet.com - http://www.hidemynet.c
$7 a month, $49 a year (plus other plans). Have 12 countries and most have only one server per country (some servers seems to allow P2P but many including those in US/UK, etc don't)
hidemynet VPN had $25/yr lifetime deal. May be it will come back.
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- https://www.privateinte
regular price $6.95 a month or $40 a year
Setting up BT software Vuze (used to be call Azureus) to only use VPN connection (won't connect if VPN connection not available.)
Here is a tutorial of it.
Here's a tutorial for utorrent: http://wiki.hidemyass.
(Remember to un-check make new firewall rule in utorrent settings/prefs)
Enter the interface identifier into the field next to "Bind to local IP address or interface" in the settings.
Note that the interface identifier is named different on every system, so make sure to check how exactly it is called on yours.
In their example, it is "eth15" for OpenVPN, "net2" for PPTP" and "net1" for L2TP.
Make sure the checkbox next to "Enforce IP bindings even when interfaces are not available" is checked;
otherwise it can happen that Vuze keeps downloading without using the VPN.
If the Vuze setup is done correctly, it will ONLY use your VPN connection. If you didn't login to your VPN service, Vuze won't work.
For those of use still trying to pay with Anonymous Bitcoins... or as Anonymous as possible... There is a good recent link that Zabeer123 shared with us in the thread... This is a step-by-step guide to creating an anonymous wallet for what ever reason... There is also an option to pay with a one time gift card....
Two Mostly Somewhat anonymous Payment Options
** ALWAYS PAY CASH FOR EITHER OPTION / DO NOT USE SAVINGS CARDS IF BUYING @ A GROCERY STORE/CVS/WALGREEN's or Other / DO NOT ASK A BUSINESS HOW LONG THEY SAVE THEIR SECURITY FOOTAGE OR U'LL FLAG U'RSELF **
1st - BitCoins - A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an Anonymous Wallet for Covert Practices [reddit.com]
Key quote/point of tutorial below (U'll still be on camera where ever u end up doing the exchange) Read & Read & Read the tutorial until u know what u are doing...
Quote :Another great idea is to use the localbitcoins website; meet with a seller locally; pay cash and GTFO.
- As anonymous as u can theoretical get
- Once you learn how to do it, U can replicate it for next time
- Should cost about 3%-7% above MT.Gox average price which should be less then $4.95 per transaction on smaller amounts of $75...
- U still have to meet some one in public or at their business.
- U'll still be on camera at Star-bucks or at a business
- U are trusting a stranger
- It cost money to wash u'r BitCoins
- Value of BitCoins can fluctuate
- Never use u'r homes Wifi to purchase or clean BitCoins. U'll have to drive to a Library or Starbucks...
2nd - Credit Card Gift Cards - You can also pay with a CC Gift Card... They are available from different companies from different retailers... Get one that is not re-loadable but that you can add an exact amount at purchase time... Most run about $4.95 per GC... That way u pay the amount needed + $4.95... Call ahead to make sure the GC u are looking for is available where u plan to purchase... Choose a location where u don't normally go to... Wear a hat/cap & shades... Make sure u grab the right GC & that u add the right amount... Once activated/purchaed u probably can't change the balance... Go to an out of place retailer & not to a mall... Gas station stores are probably u'r best bet... Most of this info is part of different Blog posts old & more recent that when combine can give u the best option in u'r area & case... I've included links to said Blog posts... I included a hint to the best CC Gift Card... Said CC Gift Card will either not require any online registration or the only info they will request is a random ZipCode u will need to remember... Always use Tor & TorEmail when dealing with registration of u'r choice of CC Gift Card's... If possible use a public Wifi when doing said registration... Always use bogus info when registering said CC GC.... Also always write down the info u use for said registrations... Never use u'r CC GC at more then one service or purchase... But if u do... Only pay for the same service... NEVER use the CC GC on different services or u'll create linkage... CC GC do come with FEE's for u'r balance... Usually said fees don't start until 7 months or longer... So depending on how much $$ u add to u'r card & how long u plan to hold said CC GC... Be aware of how much extra it will cost u.... U will find the best option for u by reading all the links below...
Related Links:
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Vanilla Visa Retailers [vanillavisa.com]
How To Use Prepaid Debit Cards for Anonymous, Cash-like Digital Transactions [itstactical.com]
Anonymous Credit/Debit Cards [theprivacyguy.com]
Privacy Through Prepaid Credit Cards [snarfed.org]
- Theoretical a lot more anonymous then u'r Paypal, Visa, MasterCard... etc...
- Much easier to purchase then BitCoins...
- Easy to purchase if you do u'r homework...
- U can "cook" your card by waiting 30-90 days before using it to make sure the video footage of u buying has been written over...
- If u choose the right GC... It will probably be ready to go within 24 hours of purchase or the only info u will need to register online will be a random ZipCode... Don't forget what random Zipcode used...
- $5 per GC for possible anonymity
- Theoretical not as anonymous as BitCoins...
- Say Cheese... U'r on camera for as long as the retail location keeps their security video
- The bigger retailer u go to the longer u will be on camera purchasing the GC...
- GC's can incrue fees after a certain amount of months... 7 months, 12 months... Read the back of the GC before buying it...
- U might have to register the GC with bogus info online(Most non-refillable cards can be registered with bogus info... Write down what u use).... Use Tor & TorEmail for anything related to the GC & if possible don't do it at home...
- Re-using the GC negates any anonymity, So get as close to the amount u need... In this case $32...
- Using a GC for something that needs actually shipping to any address negates any anonymity too...
- $5 per GC for possible anonymity...
READ, READ, & READ & then READ some more... I think both of this payment options are worth the hassle to add a layer or two of anonymity when purchasing a VPN or other online service...
Thanks to all the Slick Dealer's that help us combine this info....
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How To Be Anonymous On The Internet [greycoder.com]
How to Avoid NSA Surveillance [greycoder.com]
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Can I insall on my android smartphone and then use as hotspot to all 8 other devices? So in this case, I only use one vpn connect??
The claim never made sense to me considering you're always toward the top on TorrentFreaks preferred VPNs.
I always use server in Romania. Cause its far away from anybody I know.
ALERT. I have to turn on my DNS Leak Protection. Go to dnsleaktest to check and if you ISP show up, then you need to turn on DNS Leak Protection.
Thank you for the questions!
This deal is lifetime.
We do not log, period. Where did TorGuard make this false claim?
You can connect up to 3 times per account simultaneously with an unlimited number of devices (but only 3 at any given moment).
Hope this helps, and please feel free to keep the questions coming!
As for the logging quote... I was told the following thru TorGuard's Chat service...
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TorGuard: and that site you mention, keep logs
they do not have ABSOLUTELY NO LOGS WHATSOEVER policy
like I said: they do not have ABSOLUTELY NO LOGS WHATSOEVER policy
Client: humn... intersting..
u do have the no logs on both ends right..
TorGuard: no logs on our side
thats the only side where logs could be kept
PIA keep logs in hashed form though, asked them directly about that
we do not encrypt your IP or do anything with it, nor do we store it
not even for 1ms
As for the 3 connections... Please increase this to 5.... If the logging part is false... It would make u'r service perfect... Router + Cell 1 when away from router + Cell 2 when way from router + Tablet way from router + laptop when away from router.... Would suck to have to open the cellphone to unencrypted traffic if one want's to use a bigger screen away from the router...
Also is there a way to mail in cash & a email address to pay & sub on this deal... Bitcoins are all over the place in price and hard to get for a Bitcoin noob anonymously... We don't mind waiting to open an account locked at this price till u receive the payment...
Hope to hear u'r responses... thanks for coming here to chat with us...
PS. Added the beginning of the conversation... New ?... What is the highest encryption that PIA uses ???
I am still trying to find the best possible VPN service for myself... As u can tell I research till there is no ? of what I am buying... Done editing for clarity... Will await u'r response... Please be specific...
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Great questions, please keep them coming!
The claim never made sense to me considering you're always toward the top on TorrentFreaks preferred VPNs.
As for the logging quote... I was told the following thru TorGuard's Chat service...
How do u handle u'r billing side & service side ??? Do u log who is log in at any time... ???
As for the 3 connections... Please increase this to 5.... If the logging part is false... It would make u'r service perfect... Router + Cell 1 when away from router + Cell 2 when way from router + Tablet way from router + laptop when away from router.... Would suck to have to open the cellphone to unencrypted traffic if one want's to use a bigger screen away from the router...
Also is there a way to mail in cash & a email address to pay & sub on this deal... Bitcoins are all over the place in price and hard to get for a Bitcoin noob anonymously... We don't mind waiting to open an account locked at this price till u receive the payment...
Hope to hear u'r responses... thanks for coming here to chat with us...
PS. Added the beginning of the conversation... New ?... What is the highest encryption that PIA uses ???
I am still trying to find the best possible VPN service for myself... As u can tell I research till there is no ? of what I am buying... Done editing for clarity... Will await u'r response... Please be specific...
The 3 device limit is there for now but may change. I have forwarded the request on.
You can buy bitcoins in cash and the price has been pretty stable lately. Right now, cash is not an option but, I will forward this request on as well!
Please keep the questions coming!!
VPN [wikipedia.org]
Some people use it for torrenting illegal files, others use them to bypass location restrictions on certain web applications (NetFlix, Hulu, MLB.Tv) and some people in countries who have web restrictions will use VPNs to read websites that have been blocked by ISP's.
Your company came recommended from Lifehacker. I appreciate you coming here to answer questions personally.
I had skipped your last promotion because I'm using StrongVPN and my subscription wasn't close to ending, but now it's ending in a few months. Will you have a new promotion soon or can you create a coupon for me that I can apply when my current VPN subscription ends? And are there student discounts too? Thanks.
Great questions, please keep them coming!
Yes, but performance will be dependent upon your smart phone.
We do not log - and the US is one of the few countries where you do not have to log.
We do not log, in hash form or otherwise. It appears the other service is making false claims...
The 3 device limit is there for now but may change. I have forwarded the request on.
You can buy bitcoins in cash and the price has been pretty stable lately. Right now, cash is not an option but, I will forward this request on as well!
You can do that - performance will vary depending on the phone.
Yes, this is true. However, in this case, then, do not enable VPN kill switch.
Please keep the questions coming!!


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#177156 - 05/28/08 07:17 AM Butterflies around the house
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 5295
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
Don't know if memorial lasts all week long or is everyone just busy in the garden or maybe closing off the teaching season.
Maybe some still find time to do this little butterfly poll?
Do you have any butterflies coming near the house this year? This is my little list:
Butterflies around the house.(city area)
*Pieris brassica ------- Cabbage white (common)
*Celastrina argiolus -- Holly blue (less common)
*Nymphális io--------- Peacock (common)
*Nymphális urticae--- Small tortoise shell (common)
*Vanéssa atalanta --- Red admiral (less common)
#177165 - 05/28/08 04:37 PM Re: Butterflies around the house [Re: BranShea]
old hand
Registered: 02/28/08
Posts: 876
Loc: western NY
1) Memorial Day is just one day (always the last Monday in May), but some people do go out of town for the long weekend. We had our picnic on Sunday, and the weather was grand!
2) In my part of the US (it varies greatly), the school year goes until June 20-something every year.
3) The WAD words have been yawners all week - scrannel?
4) I haven't check the butterflies, but I know we have Cabbage Whites and probably the tortoise shell ones. We also get Monarchs (love those!) and lots that nobody pays any attention. We also get Luna moths, and they are big suckers! They're only out at night, though. Not any that are really blue.
#177168 - 05/29/08 02:03 AM Re: Butterflies around the house [Re: twosleepy]
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 5295
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
Brought up the butterflies, cause we had a butterfly report - weekend. The five I came up with is what's left for where I live. I remember others from childhood, next to where the polders started in Rotterdam. Little yellow ones and whites with a tip of orange.
Mountain areas have far larger varieties, but Holland has only three things that with great effort might bear the name of "hillock".
Nice bird! Nice background color!
#177170 - 05/29/08 08:19 AM Re: Butterflies around the house [Re: BranShea]
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Registered: 02/28/08
Posts: 876
Loc: western NY
Thank you! That is the best photo I've ever taken of one of my favorite birds, the American Bluebird. It is our state bird (New York), and not often seen, much less spotted sitting on the bird feeder hook on one's deck! I took it last fall, hence the lovely fall foliage in the background... :0)
#181122 - 12/22/08 07:18 PM Re: Butterflies around the house [Re: twosleepy]
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 8539
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
This looks like another 'almost expired' discussion.
But I'll add my two bits like I seem to be doing everywhere
on this site, with not too many replies. But I love those I do
Quote:Maybe some still have time to do a butterfly poll
I sure do. I have a yard full of things to attract the little creatures. My favorite are the Monarchs who make their
3000 to 5000 mile trek to Mexico each autumn to mate in the
mountains of that country, and are now endangered by logging.
I plant milkweed which is their favorite food, laying eggson
it. Then come the caterpillars. Then the chrysalis's here in
Nebraska as well.
In the autumn I go to the Platte River (source of the name
Nebraska) and watch them migrate south. For two or three days
I watch, as I do other things. One at a time flies down the
river, being blown by south winds back north, it seems, more
than they get south: three stops forward, and two back.
All the way to Mexico. Amazing._________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
#181127 - 12/22/08 07:56 PM Re: Butterflies around the house [Re: LukeJavan8]
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I first heard about the monarch migration to Mexico from Lucy, the Peanuts character. It was at a time when she was bloviating about almost anything, making up wild stories about all kinds of things.
#181170 - 12/24/08 01:40 AM Re: Butterflies around the house [Re: Faldage]
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On my list of someday-I-will's is going to Mexico to see the monarchs.
#181194 - 12/24/08 02:08 PM Re: Butterflies around the house [Re: Zed]
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Originally Posted By: ZedOn my list of someday-I-will's is going to Mexico to see the monarchs.
Can I go with ya?
Wow. Unbelievable. I got this dead site going again, and about butterflies
of all things._________________________
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#181195 - 12/24/08 02:10 PM Re: Butterflies around the house [Re: LukeJavan8]
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I have two bushes, called "butterfly bushes" on order at a local
nursery, two different colored flowers. The honeybees love them too
and with problem we have had with honeybees, the more the merrier. Especially here in the Great Plains._________________________
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By Fay Garner, Public Affairs Specialist, NRCS, Auburn, AL
Madison County SWCD/NRCS honors Earth Team volunteers. (l-r) Anthony Hudson, NRCS District Conservationist; Earth Team Volunteers Bertie Weitzel and Inez Whiddon; and Kathy Walker, Madison County SWCS District Administrative Coordinator.
Senior citizens are valuable assets as volunteers. A statement made on the website "Center for Volunteering" (www.volunteering.com), said that seniors spend more time doing voluntary work than younger adults.
Madison County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD)/Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) staff members Kathy Walker and Anthony Hudson agree with that statement. The local office reaps great benefits because of two Earth Team volunteers they honored during 2012 Volunteer Week: Bertie Weitzel, 86 years of age, and Inez Whiddon, 77.
Anthony said, "We are honored to recognize these two volunteers, not because of their age, but because of their commitment and dedication in volunteering for our activities."
Kathy said, "I think it is awesome that anytime I have a need I can give Mrs. Weitzel or Mrs. Whiddon a call, and if they are available, they always say yes. I cannot handle 30 kids in a class or 30+ teachers in a workshop without their extra hands to help keep things moving."
Mrs. Weitzel said she enjoys the time she gives as a volunteer. She helps other seniors at Agape Assisted Living Facility with one of Kathy's signature conservation crafts, the soil baby. The Agape residents held a contest for the best cared for soil baby. This was a perfect activity for Mrs. Weitzel to share her conservation concerns and to make sure that all of the residents, including those in wheel chairs, got to participate.
Soil babies are constructed of knee-high hose, rye grass seed, soil, and decorations. After placing the seed in the toe of a knee-high (to grow grass hair), soil is packed in to form a ball. A knot is tied in the hose to hold the creature together. The knot side is placed in a jar of water. Soil babies are individually decorated; fabrics covering the jar, jiggle eyes and felt cutouts on the face, and even bows in the soon-to-grow hair. In 10 -15 days the seeds germinate and grass hair grows through the hose. Hair can be cut and styled as desired.
Kathy said that building soil babies is a conservation reminder to all that having good soil, fertilizer, sunshine, and the appropriate amount of water is important to grow and sustain hardy plants. She said, "This activity shows that people of any age can still enjoy learning or be refreshed on things that they were able to do in the past, such as gardening."
One of Ms. Whiddon's favorite activities is assisting with teacher workshops. She and her husband, Ray, have helped with this week-long event for many years. They help register the 30+ teachers, are "extra hands" needed to pass out or collect items, and help load and unload the buses.
The Whiddons have also attended and helped with the annual "Changing Face of Agriculture" tours since 2009. Mrs. Whiddon said, "It makes me want to be young again so I can farm. It is amazing to learn what can be done and what the Madison County SWCD/NRCS staff does to help the environment. I learn while I am volunteering."
Mrs. Whiddon added that, "Kathy encourages me to volunteer and anytime you are with her, you are going to have a good time. You can't help someone else have a good time without having a good time yourself. Volunteering brings joy and fulfillment to my life."
Kathy Walker hopes the effort of these ladies will encourage others to sign up as volunteers. She said, "We enjoy working with our Earth Team volunteers. They are vital to the Huntsville field office. They tell me they look forward to helping and always get more back than they give."
Anthony said "teaching the importance of soil and water with lots of hands-on activities can be a challenge without the "extra hands" to help keep things on track and flowing well. We appreciate the help that these two individuals give to the conservation effort."
Dr. William Pickett, Alabama NRCS State Conservationist says, "The Earth Team is the official volunteer workforce for NRCS and is making a difference across the nation. NRCS is proud of our Earth Team volunteers' commitment to conservation and we thank Mrs. Bertie Weitzel and Mrs. Inez Whiddon for being valued members of our conservation team."
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Prior to coming to STCHM, Luke was serving as administrator over the Florida Baptist Children's Home (FBCH) Panhandle area. For the past four years he has been responsible for all programs, services and supervision at the Pensacola and Tallahassee campuses.
Luke has a BA in church music from The Baptist College of Florida and a master's degree in public administration from Florida State University, specializing in non-profit management. After graduating with his bachelor's degree, he worked briefly in the music department at The Baptist College of Florida before moving to a position in their development office. He was then promoted to director of admissions and a year later was promoted to director of development, where he served for five more years. Luke then moved to Tallahassee to become the North Florida director of development for FBCH, where he served two years before becoming administrator of their Panhandle area.
"I am excited about the addition of Kyle Luke to the STCHM staff family," STCHM President and CEO Eron Green said. "I look forward to seeing how he will use his God-given talents to further the kingdom through South Texas Children's Home Ministries. We are blessed to have Kyle, Cara and the boys with us."
Luke believes his work in development allows him to fulfill his full-time ministry call to serve children and families and to make a difference in the culture in which he lives.
"Cultivating relationships is vital in the life of an organization, and I am excited about this opportunity to begin new relationships and continue established relationships with those sacrificing to help children and families in Texas and across the world. I also look forward to working with those passionate in serving the 'least of these,'" Luke shared, referring to Jesus' comment in Matthew 25:40. "I believe that Eron Green will take STCHM to its highest level, and I look forward to being on his team."
Luke also has served bi-vocationally as a minister of music in several churches for 16 years and enjoys being an active choir member. His wife, Cara, earned her BA in church music as well and has directed children's choir for many years. Since moving to the Beeville area, Cara will serve as the new music teacher for Beeville's First Baptist Church School when the new year begins.
The Lukes are currently living on the STCHM Boothe Campus along with their three sons: Garet, 10, Grayson, 6, and Gabe, 3.
"Our three boys have always enjoyed the outdoors," Luke said. "When we told them we were moving to Texas, they were very excited about wearing cowboy boots, riding horses and wearing a cowboy hat. Of course, there is much more than cowboys associated with Texas, but they have loved every minute since we moved here. They love the big campus and the excitement of being somewhere different."


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The Upper Delaware: The wild and winding thread that binds us
May 26, 2011 —
UPPER DELAWARE RIVER REGION — The paddle enters the dark water and the motion is like breathing. Rising and falling, merging with the ceaseless flow, the blades are driven, dropping to either side of my kayak with a rhythm reminiscent of cadenced prayer.
I ply another section of the longest free-flowing river east of the Mississippi—the Delaware River—this waterway of breathtaking majesty that frames so much of our lives.
Whether we call ourselves residents, or journey here from other places, we ascribe our devotion to the special river that has called to countless hearts, soothed many a ravaged spirit and nourished a wide variety of life forms that subsist on its trove of treasures.
The Upper Delaware River becomes one broadened flow at its wilder reaches where the East and West branches merge near Hancock, NY. As it courses toward New Jersey and Delaware, the river's meandering thread knits together a string of unique towns that have emerged along its New York and Pennsylvania borders.
Glimpse here some of those lively and lovely settlements, the fun and fascinating historic and recreational treasures available to any who seek them and the wild felicity of flora and fauna with which we coexist.
Long before humans staked their claims along its borders, the river has been the lifeblood of the region. Those who journey on these storied waters may encounter some of the beautiful and interesting plants and animals that are woven into the fabric of life in the Upper Delaware River region.
The stunning artist's palette of the sycamore tree's bark, the shadowed hemlock groves that line the ridges, even the bad but beautiful invasive purple loosestrife and Japanese knotweed—each can be seen here.
The doe and her fawn seeking a sip at water's edge; the black bear peering from a forested fringe; a great blue heron feeding in the shallows; bald eagles soaring over the open channel; aquatic insects, river-cleansing mussels, shad, even eels and lamprey—each living their lives in or near the river's flow; warblers, finches and the other winged ones that brighten our experience with the brilliance of their plumage and song—find all these and more.
On the river, one's senses come alive to the sound of waves lapping and rapids running, the piercing cry of the bald eagle or coarse croak of the heron, the laughter and many languages of river recreationists, wind wrestling with the wide-reaching branches of the white pines.


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Sandy Carter: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) -- Off the Record
April 3 SOA News -- SOA Entry Points!
SOASOA 060000JRQN Tags:  info_as_a_svc soa_entry_points collaboration business_process_mgmt 1,944 Views
Yesterday we announced a series of 5's for SOA.
5 SOA entry points based on a study of 500 customers from Mercer. The 5 are: People, Process, information, Reuse, and Connectivity!
We highlighted 5 Real customers using these SOA entry points for Value (Pep Boys, Harley Davidson, Delaware Electric, Magna Steyr, and Wuestenrot and Wuerttembergische AG (W and W AG).
On the business side, we have 3 entry points for customers looking to start their SOA journey! People centric collaboration, Business Process Management, Information as a service. Now we know that you could do BPM or Collaboration without SOA, but with SOA the value grows.
For instance around BPM, for many years companies have wanted the magic potion to fix, improve, modify process activity. But IT has been the biggest inhibitor. SOA changes the game in this space by allowing processes to be represented as services and components. As such, the service-based process now becomes re-usable, flexible, and can be modified and re-deployed more quickly. SOA turns processes into parts (called "services") so the specific part of the process can be improved, optimized, and then reassembled with other parts of the process.
Or for collaboration, SOA will enable this user experience and ensure consistent levels of service are met each step of the way. SOA allows customers to create, deploy, and update composite applications faster with SOA portlets. As application portlets are created or converted to "service-based" portlets, you can aggregate and integrate these portlets faster and more economically to get the collaborative user interface and view into your business that you need.
Or for Information, SOA drives further success Information delivered as a service provides extensive options to a company to allow for packaging, transformation, and distribution of the information to the right people at the right time. Information as a service, as a part of an SOA ensures consistency in sources and data rules, aligns information with business processes, provides business context to information, uncovers insightful relationships hidden within information, provides a basis for trust in information, and enables tighter control over information.
For the IT entry points, the 2 are Reuse, where a strong view of being able to reuse both IT assets and business logic. To build an SOA, you look at what you already have (people, applications, business processes, etc.), and use existing resources to streamline business processes, cut development time, ensure consistency through the organization, and save money. Based on open standards, IBM's offerings were created to allow a company to extend the value from their existing software by service-enabling it and then reuse the business value that comes from that service again and again. Firms can:
-Enhance flexibility by reduce duplication of function by creating services to be shared across the enterprise -Leverage proven core applications and function through services enablement, through wrappering or other methods
In fact, a study by Software Productivity Research found that it is five times less expensive to reuse existing services and applications than to re-write them.
And finally Connectivity. SOA connectivity allows users to take an existing business process and deliver it through a different business channel with minimal rework. So for example, if you have a business process like opening a new account that you deliver through a call center, you can deliver the same process through a web site or a kiosk by leveraging this kind of connectivity. Doing so will ensure a secure, consistent user experience and save a great deal of cost. By the same token, SOA Connectivity lets you reach out to your trading partners with secure, services-based connectivity beyond your firewall. The Enterprise Integration Challenge report from Software Strategies found that use of an Enterprise Service Buses was two to four times less expensive than custom-built integration or FTP.
So tell me what you think? Do these entry points seem like ones you could use?
We have an SOA business value tool that will allow you to sit down and determine your ROI from these Entry points as well. Let me hear from you![Read More]
SOA, BPM and Model-driven Development: The Keys to the SOA Kingdom!
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As I was sitting in my doctor's office (yes! I got the cast off!), I was reading through some of our recent SOA implementations and noticed that as more and more companies are seeing the power of SOA to drive business results. One of their surprises is the value they are seeing in modeling -- it seems that modeling is becoming one of the most critical steps to SOA success.
Reading more deeply and talking to several customers while icing my ankle, it seems that most companies deliver modeling to help organizations fully visualize, comprehend, and document business processes in order to close the gap that exists between an organization's lines of business and IT's understanding of the business drivers. Given that a business process is a defined set of activities leading to specific results, modeling provides the added assurance that best practices are well documented and communicated throughout the organization before deployment.
For example, one large insurer is having their business analysts use modeling to define alternative scenarios, differing in resource allocation, branching assumptions at decision points in the flow, and other parameters, and see which alternative results in the lowest cost, fastest average cycle time, lowest percentage of service level agreements violations, or other optimum business measure. In addition, tbecause they leveraged simulation can help reveal bottlenecks in the process, allowing new alternative scenarios to be analyzed -- resulting in significant time and cost savings before they are implemented throughout the SOA.
I believe that BPM with SOA is the keys the kingdom and SOA will help facilitate the next phase of the business process evolution. The evolution is occurring now because of the heightened need for enterprises to compete more effectively by adapting to market changes faster, continuously improving efficiencies and streamlining collaboration across traditionally siloed departments.
Well, at least it may be the key that opens the door that allows you to explore all the benefits to SOA. What are your thoughts? By the way, I have now proceeded in my recovery and hope to be walking with my cane at the NYC SOA summit -- that is sold out!
If you are one of the lucky 400 that got a seat, I'll see you there!
Til then....back to icing the ankle!
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A Minneapolis Solution
What is a Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO)?
CSOs occur when heavy rain or melting snow causes sanitary sewers to overflow into stormwater drainpipes. This allows sewage to mix with runoff from buildings, parking lots and streets and flow, untreated, into the Mississippi River.
Compared to many other cities, CSOs are relatively rare in Minneapolis. The City has been actively working on sewer separation, a key strategy for preventing CSOs, since the 1960s. Most of the City's sewer system has been separated.
When a CSO does occur, however, it can cause serious health and environmental problems that affect City residents and all who live, work or play downstream.
The threats posed by CSOs are serious enough that federal and state mandates have been issued that require the City of Minneapolis to stop CSOs into the Mississippi River. Not complying with these mandates could lead to fines and other legal action against the City.
Stopping CSOs
Fixing the remaining problems that can cause CSOs in Minneapolis won't be easy. Here is why:
- The combined sewers that remain were left for last because they will be the most difficult and expensive to separate.
- The entire system is large, complex, and has been in place for a long time. While the City has found and addressed many of the problems that could contribute to the risk of a CSO, there are some that have not yet been detected.
- Some solution strategies require action by home and building owners -- at their own expense.
See History of Combined Sewer Separation in Minneapolis
A Five-Year Plan
The City of Minneapolis has joined forces with the Metropolitan Council Environmental Services (MCES) to eliminate combined sewer overflows. Key components of the plan include:
Passage of an ordinance to prevent the kinds of discharges to the sanitary sewer system from homes and commercial buildings that can contribute to CSOs:
Chapter 56. Prohibited Discharges to Sanitary Sewer System (PDF)
High priority areas have been targeted first. Every parcel and building has been inspected to check for prohibited connections to the sanitary sewer system.
For more information about the ordinance and how you might be affected, see the Rainleader Ordinance Fact Sheet
Commitment to significant investment in capital improvements and maintenance repairs to our sewer systems:
The City has committed to giving higher priority to capital improvement and repair projects that will contribute to eliminating CSOs. Examples of such projects include:
- Sewer separation and sanitary main restoration projects
- Use of hydraulic modeling of the sanitary sewer system to identify improvements that will maximize storage capacity, locate problem areas, and evaluate the effectiveness of CSO program work that has been completed
- Continued research to find inlets and cross-connections to storm drains and eliminate them through maintenance repairs
Launching of a community outreach program to educate residents and business owners about CSOs and ways to prevent them
This CSO website is part of this outreach. How-to-disconnect brochures and other instructional pamphlets have been produced and been distributed to residents and business owners directly affected by rainleader ordinance compliance requirements.
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Two credit rating services warn US about possible downgrade in rating – again
While all the angst and hang-wringing continue over the Giffords shooting and the false flag of "vitriolic rhetoric", Moody's and Standard & Poor's Corp have again warned the US it's credit rating is in jeopardy:
Moody's Investors Service said in a report that the U.S. will need to reverse an upward trajectory in the debt ratios to support its triple-A rating.
"We have become increasingly clear about the fact that if there are not offsetting measures to reverse the deterioration in negative fundamentals in the U.S., the likelihood of a negative outlook over the next two years will increase," said Sarah Carlson, senior analyst at Moody's.
Standard & Poor's Corp. also didn't rule out changing the outlook for its U.S. sovereign-debt rating because of the recent deterioration of the country's fiscal situation. The U.S. has a triple-A rating with a stable outlook at both raters.
"The view of markets is that the U.S. will continue to benefit from the exorbitant privilege linked to the U.S. dollar" to fund its deficits, Carol Sirou, head of S&P France, said at a conference in Paris on Thursday. "But that may change. We can't rule out changing the outlook" on the U.S. sovereign debt rating in the future, she warned. She added the jobless nature of the U.S. recovery was one of the biggest threats to the U.S. economy. "No triple-A rating is forever," she said.
Note the line I emphasized. That is the primary reason it hasn't happened yet. The dollar is the true benchmark currency of the world. Or perhaps a better way of saying that is it is the benchmark currency of the world at least for the time being. But busting through 14 trillion dollar debt ceilings and continuing uncontrolled spending is a very quick way to have other countries consider other currencies or perhaps a market basket of currencies to replace the dollar.
If that happens, our triple-A rating will disappear faster than a pizza at a Weight Watchers convention. But even if it doesn't, we're well on the way to a downgrade anyway:
The most recent official figures show the ratio of federal debt to revenue averaging 397% of gross domestic product in the period to 2020, while the ratio of interest to revenue will rise to 17.6% by 2020, from 8.6% in the last fiscal year. "These figures are "quite high for an Aaa-rated country," Moody's said.
Debt affordability is "very important to the rating process," Ms. Carlson said. U.S. general government debt affordability, including states and municipalities, is "rising over time to a high level for an Aaa-rated country," the report said.
Or said more succinctly, the only thing keeping us at the Aaa level is the fact that we are the home of the dollar. Otherwise the ratios above would most likely have seen us downgraded already.
Comforting, no?