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U.S. Patent No. 5,579,239
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Samsung claims Apple's new sixth-generation iPhone infringes on all of these patents.
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I was reading the last post about when some of you stop producting milk after you weaned and I'm just wondering if I should stop now or not.
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Its name has morphed from Hurricane Sandy to "Superstorm Sandy." With a wrath that stretches along the east coast, it's easy to see the reason for the name change. The hurricane's winds and rain left devastating flooding and power outages in its wake. Our hearts go out to those affected.
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I'm writing on behalf of a friend who has been breastfeding for a week. Her millk came in about 4 days ago.


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- Seasonal labor shortages hinder the expansion of Australia's multi-billion dollar horticultural industry because primary producers find it difficult to secure sufficient workers at peak times such as harvests. In the labor surplus economies of Pacific Island nations un(der)employment and a lack of income inhibit social and economic development, restrict educational opportunities and contribute to social unrest. This article investigates the potential to address both these issues through the development of temporary labor programs to allow Pacific Islanders to fill seasonal gaps in Australian horticulture. The authors outline key policy considerations for the design and regulation of seasonal work schemes in order to maximize social and economic development outcomes, protect workers' rights, dignity and entitlements and minimize the social costs of temporary migration on the home society.
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- 2007
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- Asia-Pacific; Australia; Horticulture; Immigration; Migrant labour; Pacific Islanders; Seasonal work schemes; Workers' rights; Recruitment; Family; Migrants and employment; Costs
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AJAX and NetBeans - jMaki and ZK
By jonasdias on Out 27, 2008
Hi everybody,
Last Thursday I did a Tech Demo about developing AJAX web apps using the powerful NetBeans 6.1 at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
I started talking about AJAX and how it improves usability and creates user friendly interfaces for the Web. Many people thinks that having ajax apps will overload the server and network just because you have a prettier interface. People have the idea that how more sophisticated is the app, heavier it will be. AJAX shows that it's not true.
A great doubt about developing an AJAX app is to choose a framework. I suggested 2!
First I talked about jMaki. (http://jmaki.com/)
I did a demo showing the features of jMaki framework and its cool plugin for NetBeans.
jMaki is a client-server framework that encapsulates many AJAX components from other frameworks in the form of a Widget. With the NetBeans plugin, it let you create your pages dragging and dropping widgets to your JSP. You only need to customize your page changing the CSS file as you like and choosing the best widgets to compose your web page.
To start learning about jMaki, I suggest these links:
NetBeans jMaki Introduction Tutorial
jMaki Screencast
To get a little more advanced learning, try this Another jMaki NetBeas tutorial with RESTful WS
Later I started talking about ZK framework to build AJAX RIA using NetBeans.
When a friend showed me ZK, I got really impressed. It's a complete framework and it let you develop your app programming only in Java.
Yes! All the server side AND the client side scripts can be written in pure Java language (sweet Java)! Check some videos and examples at ZK Home Page
I did a simple demo using ZK to build a Web Telephone List.
WARNING: I don't use a database on this demo, but it's just to leave things faster. On a real world implementation , you should really consider that, specially because ZK has great tools to deal with Database and Persistence. If you understand Brazilian Protugese, check this blog post.
Now let's start our demo.
First, install NetBeans ZK plugin:
There are 2 plugin options:
1. ZK Designer plugins for netbeans 6.1
2. REM for NetBeans 6.0
The first let you develop your ZUL web pages dragging and dropping the components into your xml, but the second one is the one with code completion and highlighting.
Actually, in a very near future they will became only one plugin. Stay tuned for next release of REM plugin because it will came with the visual ZK designer bundled too!
Download the plugin and install it on NetBeans through the Tools->Plugins window.
For my Demo, I chose the first plugin that let me create my pages faster using drag n drop.
So now, let's create a New Project.
1. Go to File -> New Project
2. Choose a new Web / Web Application
3. Choose a name for your project (like ZKDemo)
4. Choose your server (GlassFish)
5. Choose the framework you would like to use. Here you must choose ZK!
The project opens with two index files: the index.jsp and index.zul. Delete the JSP and keep the ZUL. ZK support JSP includes, but its main ajax components are arranged to compose your web page on a XML file called ZUL file.
The index.zul file comes with a simple window page like this:
Try some drag and drop with the ZK components of the palette and then Run you project to check some ZK features!! Not all the ZK components are already on the palette! To see a full list of ZK Components, check: ZK Explorer!
For our Telephone List project you will need this index.zul file.
Copy it's content on your index.zul.
You will also need the catalog.zul file that is included on our index.zul and the catalog.zs file that is used by the ZSCRIPT tag on the begining of the index.zul file.
Just save catalog.zul and catalog.zs on your project page at your NetBeansProjects/YourProjectName/Web folder!.
Then go to NetBeans and open the ZS file. Look! It's Java code! No Javascript in here :D! See that it does 2 imports:
import ufrj.zkdemo.Catalog;
import ufrj.zkdemo.Contact;
This classes need to be created! But it's quite simple! Remember that if you create your classes on a diferent package, you will need to update the ZS file with yourpackage.Catalog and yourpackage.Contact imports!
Download Catalog.java class.
Download Contact.java class.
And put them on your project's source code packages!
Now Run your application and enjoy your veeeery simple telephone ajax catalog! See that, since we are using Lists and a Map to store the data, every time you Refresh your Web Page, you will have your telephone data ERASED!! Yes, this is not a very useful Tel catalog, but I encourage you to improve this project using a Database!


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The defender moved to the Etihad Stadium in 2009 in a 16 million pound deal from Arsenal, but will not have his contract extended in the summer and has been told he is free to find a new club.
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This article will concentrate on how to get network connectivity for IPv6 -- as it's still not easy to get native IPv6 connectivity today -- and talk in length about the alternatives to native v6 connectivity as a transitional method until native v6 peers are available.
If you find an ISP that offers IPv6 natively, you are lucky. What you need next is a router that will be able to handle the traffic. To date, not all router manufacturers offer IPv6 support for their machines, and even if they do, it's unlikely that they offer hardware accelerated v6 routing or switching. A rather cheap alternative to the router hardware commonly in use today is a standard PC configured as a router, by using a Linux- or BSD-derived operating system like NetBSD, and using software like Zebra for handling the routing protocols. This solution is rather common today for sites that want IPv6 connectivity. The drawbacks are that you need an ISP that supports IPv6, and that you need dedicated uplink only for IPv6.
If this is not an option for you, you can still get IPv6 connectivity through tunnels. Instead of talking using IPv6 on the wire, the v6 packets are encapsulated in v4 packets. Using the existing infrastructure, the encapsulated packets are sent to a v6-capable uplink that will then remove the encapsulation, and forward the v6 packets via native IPv6.
When using tunnels, there are two possibilities. One is to use a so-called "configured" tunnel, the other is called an "automatic" tunnel. A configured tunnel is one that requires preparation from both ends of the tunnel, usually connected with some kind of registration to exchange setup information. An example for such a configured tunnel is the IPv6-over-IPv4 encapsulation described in [RFC1933], and that's implemented by the "gif" device found in the KAME-derived BSD-stacks like NetBSD.
Previously in this series:
Based on what you've read in this article, do you think it's time for you to start playing with IPv6? What are your thoughts?
An "automatic" tunnel consists of a public server that has IPv6 connectivity, such as via 6Bone. This type of server has made its connectivity data public, and also runs a tunneling protocol that does not require an explicit registration of the sites using it as an uplink. A well-used example of such a protocol is the 6to4 mechanism described in [RFC3056], and implemented by the "sit" device found in Linux or in "stf" found on KAME-derived BSD stacks. Another mechanism that does not require registration of v6-information is the 6over4 mechanism, which implements transporting of IPv6 over a multicast-enabled IPv4 network, instead of Ethernet or FDDI. 6over4 is documented in [RFC2529]. Its main drawback is that you do need existing multicast infrastructure. If you don't have that, setting it up is about as much effort as setting up a configured v6 tunnel directly, so it's usually not worth bothering in that case.
This section will talk in length about setting up a automatic tunnel using 6to4. 6to4 is rather easy to setup, esp. with the background given in the previous sections. Example configurations will be given for RedHat Linux 7.0 and NetBSD 1.5.
6to4 is an easy way to get IPv6 connectivity for hosts that only have an IPv4 uplink. It can be used with static as well as dynamically assigned IPv4 numbers, as found in modem dial-up scenarios today. When using dynamic v4 addresses, note that a dynamic change of IP numbers will be a problem for incoming traffic, you can't run persistent servers.
The 6to4 setup on your side doesn't consist of one single IPv6 number. Instead, you get a whole /48 network! The IPv6 addresses are derived from your (single) IPv4 address. The address prefix "2002:" is reserved for 6to4 based addresses (such as v6 addresses derived from IPv4 addresses). The next 32 bits are your IPv4 address. This results in a /48 network that you can use for your very own purposes. It leaves 16 bits of space for 216 IPv6 subnets, which can take up to 264 nodes each. Thanks to the 6to4 prefix and your worldwide unique IPv4 address, this address block is also unique, and it's mapped to you.
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In contrast to the classic "IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel" setup, you do not register at a 6bone-gateway, which will then forward you any v6 traffic (encapsulated in v4). Instead, because your IPv6 address is derived from your IPv4 address, any answers will be sent to you through your nearest 6to4 gateway. De-encapsulation of the packet is done via a 6to4-capable network interface, which then forwards the resulting v6 package according to your routing setup -- in case you have more than one machine connected on your 6to4 assigned network.
For sending out v6 packets, the 6to4-capable network interface will take the v6 packet, and encapsulate it into a v4 packet. You still need a 6bone-connected 6to4-gateway as an uplink that will de-encapsulate your packets, and forward them on over the 6Bone.
In contrast to the "configured tunnel" setup, you usually can't set up packet filters to block 6to4-packets from unauthorized sources, as this is exactly how (and why) 6to4 works at all. As such, malicious users can send packets with invalid/hazardous IPv6 payloads. If you don't already filter on your border gateways anyway, packets with the following characteristics should not be allowed as valid 6to4 packets, and some firewalling seems to be justified for them:
The NetBSD stf(4) man page documents some common configuration mistakes intercepted by default by the KAME stack as well as some further advice on filtering. Keep in mind that because of the requirement of these filters, 6to4 is not perfectly secure. Still, if forged 6to4 packets become a problem, you can use IPsec authentication to ensure the IPv6 packets are not modified.
In order to setup and configure IPv6 over 6to4, a few bits of configuration data must be known in advance. These are:
Your local IPv4 number. It can be determined using either the
ifconfig -a or
netstat -i commands on most Unix systems. If you use a NAT gateway or something similar, be sure to use the official, outside-visible address, not your private (10/8 or 192.168/16) one.
We will use 220.127.116.11 as the local IPv4 address in our example.
First you will need to know your local IPv6 address, as derived from the IPv4 address. See the instructions above on how to do that.
For our example, this is
2002:3ee0:3972:0001::1 (0x3ee03972 is the IP address
126.96.36.199 converted into hex. 0001::1 is an individual machine address and was arbitrarily chosen to identify this computer)..
Depending on your IPv6 stack, you'll need either the IPv6- or IPv4-number of the 6to4 uplink gateway you want to use. If you use a BSD/KAME based IP-stack, the v6 number will do, as it also contains the v4 number in the usual 6to4 translation. If you use Linux, having the gateway's IPv4 number will be handy.
We will use
2002:c25f:6cbf::1 (== 18.104.22.168 == 6to4.ipv6.fh-regensburg.de).
To process 6to4 packets, the operating system kernel needs to know about them. to do this, a driver has to be compiled in that knows about 6to4, and how to handle it.
For a BSD/KAME derived kernel, put the following into your kernel configuration file to prepare it for using IPv6 and 6to4. For example, on NetBSD use:
options INET6 # IPv6
pseudo-device stf # 6to4 IPv6 over IPv4 encapsulation
Note that the
stf(4) device is not enabled by default. Please consult
these documents on kernel configuration and compilation for assistance.
On Linux, do a
make config or
make menuconfig, and make sure the following answers are made:
Networking options The IPv6 protocol: yes
IPv6: enable EUI-64 token format: yes
IPv6: disable provider based address: yes
After these configuration steps, build and install the kernel (and any assorted modules, for Linux), then reboot your system to use the new kernel. Please consult your BSD/Linux flavor's documentation for further information on building and installing a new kernel.
The following commands are valid for RedHat Linux 7.0 and NetBSD 1.5, but because they don't use any "magic" variables from the OS-specific startup system, this should be widely usable. In short, the steps performed here are:
The first step in setting up 6to4 is assigning an IPv6 number to the 6to4 interface. This is achieved with the
ifconfig(8) command. Assuming the example configuration above, the command for NetBSD is:
ifconfig stf0 inet6 2002:3ee0:3972:1::1 prefixlen 16 alias # local address
On Linux, two steps are needed to configure the v4 and v6 "layers" of the SIT (Simple Internet Transition) device:
ifconfig sit0 tunnel ::188.8.131.52 up (v4 layer, remote address)
ifconfig sit1 tunnel 2002:3ee0:3972:1::1/64 (v6 layer, local address)
After configuring the 6to4 device with these commands, routing needs to be setup, to forward all IPv6 traffic to the 6to4 (uplink) gateway. The best way to do this is by setting a default route, the command to do so is, for NetBSD:
route add -inet6 default 2002:cdb2:5ac2::1 (remote)
and for Linux:
route -A inet6 add default gw ::18.104.22.168 (remove v4)
Note that the BSD/KAME
stf(4) device determines the IPv4-number of the 6to4 uplink from the routing table. Using this feature, it is easy to setup your own 6to4 (uplink) gateway if you have a v6 uplink, for example, via 6Bone.
After these commands, you are connected to the IPv6-enabled world -- Congratulations! Assuming name resolution is still done via IPv4, you can now ping a v6-site like KAME.net or www6.netbsd.org. Note that the syntax for v6-ready
ping(8) is different for Linux and BSD. For NetBSD, it is
/sbin/ping6 www.kame.net
while Linux uses
/usr/ipv6/bin/ping -A inet6 www.kame.net
As a final step in setting up IPv6 via 6to4, you will want to setup router advertisement if you have several hosts on your network. While it is possible to setup 6to4 on each node, doing so will result in very expensive routing from one node to the other -- packets will be sent to the remote 6to4 gateway, which will then route the packets back to the neighbor node. Instead, setting up 6to4 on one machine and talking native IPv6 locally is the preferred method of handling things.
The first step is to assign a IPv6-address to your Ethernet. In the following example, we will assume subnet "2" of the IPv6-net is used for the local Ethernet and the MAC address of the Ethernet interface is
12:34:56:78:9a:bc, which means your local gateway's Ethernet interface's IP address will be
2002:3ee0:3972:2:1234:56ff:fe78:9abc. Assign this address to your Ethernet interface:
ifconfig ne0 inet6 alias 2002:3ee0:3972:2:1234:56ff:fe78:9abc
ne0 is an example for your Ethernet card interface. This will most likely be different for your setup, depending on what kind of card is used. On Linux, the Ethernet interface is usually
To setup router advertisement on BSD, the file
/etc/rtadvd.conf needs to be checked. It allows configuration of many things, but usually the default configuration of not containing any data is OK. With that default, IPv6 addresses found on all of the router's network interfaces will be advertised.
On Linux, the same file is called
/etc/radvd.conf, an example is:
interface eth0
{ AdvSendAdvert on;
prefix 2002:3ee0:3972:2::/64
{ AdvOnLink on;
AdvRouterAddr on;
Next thing that needs to be ensured to set up the router is that it will actually forward packets from the local 6to4 device to the Ethernet device and back. To enable IPv6 packet-forwarding, set "ip6mode=router" in NetBSD's
/etc/rc.conf, which will result in the
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding sysctl being set to "1" -- this works the same on all BSD flavors. On Linux, make sure that
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/ip_forward is set to "1":
BSD: sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1
Linux: echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv6/ip_forward
After checking that the router advertisement configuration is correct and IPv6 forwarding is turned on, the daemon handling it can be started. Under NetBSD, it is called
rtadvd, in Linux it's called
radvd. Start it up either manually (for testing it the first time) or via the system's startup scripts, and see all your local nodes automagically configure the advertised subnet address in addition to their already-existing link local address.
There's also an experimental 6to4 server located in Germany,
6to4.ipv6.fh-regensburg.de. This server runs under NetBSD 1.5 and was setup using the configuration steps described above. The complete configuration of the machine can be seen here.
Compared to where IPv4 is today, IPv6 is still in its early steps. It is working, there are all sort of services and clients available, only the user base is missing. I hope the information provided here will help you better understand what IPv6 is, and to start playing with it.
A few links should be mentioned here for further reading:
An example script to set up 6to4 on BSD-based machines is available at the net/6to4 home page. The script determines your v6 address and sets up 6to4 and (if wanted) router advertising. It was designed to work in dial-up setups with changing IPv4 addresses.
Given that there isn't a standard for IPv6 in Linux land today, there are different setup instructions for most distributions. The setup of IPv6 on Debian Linux can be found at the Debian IPv6 Project page.
The BSD Unix implementations have their own independent IPv6 documentation, interesting pages are found at netbsd.org for NetBSD, freebsd.org for FreeBSD, and pages 61 and 62 of the BSD/OS Administrator's Guide.
If you're working on implementing IPv6 protocol stacks for free Unix-like operating systems such as KAME for BSD and USAGI for Linux, information can be found at KAME.net and linux-ipv6.org. A list of host and router implementations can be found on playground.sun.com.
Besides the official RFC archive at ftp.isi.edu, information on IPv6 can be found at several web sites. First and foremost, the 6Bone's web page must be mentioned. 6Bone was started as the testbed for IPv6, and is now an important part of the v6-connected world. Other web pages that contain IPv6-related contents include ipv6.org/, playground.sun.com, and ipv6forum.com. Most of these sites carry further links -- be sure to have a look!
Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol. S. Kent, R. Atkinson. November 1998. (Format: TXT=168162 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1825) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
IP Security Document Roadmap. R. Thayer, N. Doraswamy, R. Glenn. November 1998. (Format: TXT=22983 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels. B. Carpenter, C. Jung. March 1999. (Format: TXT=21049 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP, revised. G. Montenegro, Editor. January 2001. (Format: TXT=63929 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2344) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
Protocol Complications with the IP Network Address Translator. M. Holdrege, P. Srisuresh. January 2001. (Format: TXT=48662 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds. B. Carpenter, K. Moore. February 2001. (Format: TXT=54902 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
Hubert Feyrer works on operating systems, databases, and artificial intelligence at the Fachhochschule Regensburg.
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The first presidential debate of 2012 is now behind us. The reviews suggest that many were surprised at how well Mitt Romney did and how weakly President Obama performed.
The Instant Polls conducted by CBS and CNN showed Romney as the big winner. In fact, CNN found that Romney emerged with the largest advantage from any debate since they began the instant debate poll three decades ago.
This leads to two questions. The first is: How much of a difference will it make?
As I noted last week, debates rarely have a major impact on a campaign, but a small shift could be decisive in a race as close as this one. Roughly 5 percent of all voters are still uncommitted to either candidate. Another 10 percent indicate they could change their minds. That's more than enough to change the race from a slight Obama advantage to a slight Romney edge.
That's especially true when the first debate focused on the key issue of Election 2012 — the U.S. economy. Coming into the debate, 43 percent of voters gave the president good or excellent marks for handling the economy, while 46 percent said he had done a poor job. Those aren't great numbers, but the trend has been very good to Obama. The 43 percent who say he's doing a good job is up 2 points from a week ago, 8 points from a month ago and 13 points from a year ago.
Romney's comments in the debate were designed to have people rethink that assessment and reverse the trend. He said that the status quo "is not going to cut it" and talked of the need to find a "new path." He added that "under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing."
Obama seemed less interested in defending his track record, telling the national audience, "The question here tonight is not where we've been but where we're going."
It will take a week or so to really see what impact all of this has on the polls.
But it also leads to a second question. How will the president perform in the second debate? Incumbent presidents often struggle in the first debate and do better in the second. Ronald Reagan may be the greatest example of this.
After a very poor performance in the first debate of 1984, many wondered whether Reagan's age had caught up with him. Walter Mondale and his team thought they had a chance. But the veteran performer turned it all around at the beginning of the second debate by pledging not to make his "opponent's youth and inexperience an issue" in the campaign. Even Mondale laughed, although he had to know his chances of winning the election disappeared at that moment.
Does Obama have a comeback like that in him? We'll find out on Oct. 16.
Until then, all we can say for sure is that Romney had a good first debate and the next four weeks should be a lot more interesting on the campaign trail.
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HAWLEY, PA — It's been a banner year so far for the Dessin Animal Shelter as it celebrates its 45th anniversary and fifth FurrBall. This annual fundraising event, held on Saturday at the Inn at Woodloch Pines, was attended by 262 supporters—the biggest turnout ever according to organizers.
"We've had more sponsors than we've ever had in the past," said Dessin's executive director Dara Coslett Granza. In all, 45 raffle baskets were donated by 135 contributors, plus approximately $6,000 worth of items, including a kayak and diamond pendent that were given for the a auction.
"I really want to express our gratitude to all our donors and sponsors this year," said Tammy Hardler, president of the board of directors. "I just can't express how important it is to us for all of the people to give like they do…. That is our main lifeline, our donations. If we don't have them, the shelter will not exist.
"You see it every day, different shelters, maybe towards western Pennsylvania, where they're going out of business because they can't sustain…. We're fortunate. We've had tough times in the past, and this population in Wayne County seems to be able to keep us going. And it's just amazing. It's like I said, 'This is a wonderful place to live, because when you have a need, these people just step up,'" Hardler said.
Money raised during the annual event goes to capital expenses, such as renovating the shelter's outdoor kennels, repaving the parking lot, purchasing a new van and helping to offset veterinary bills in animal abuse cases.
Coslett Granza pointed to a number of animal cruelty and hoarding cases reported in the area, including the rescue of 61 beagles in September, an emaciated dog found abandoned in a Pike County home that is now recovering in foster care, and an ongoing case involving a puppy dragged behind a moving vehicle for more than a mile.
It's hard to understand why anyone would harm such a defenseless animal. "They love you unconditionally. They almost sense your mood," Coslett Granza said. She told how the other day, she was playing with a brindle pitbull that's up for adoption. "She was wagging her tail and licking me and giving me her toy. They give so willingly, and I hope they forget, because some have been through so much," she said.
In 2012, Dessin adopted out 700 animals, the most in the shelter's history. "We're a small, rural shelter," Coslett Granza said. "To give 700 animals new, forever homes gives me goose bumps."
An avid animal lover, Hardler talked about the importance of seeing that Dessin's animals get the best care and find good homes. "And it's not just dogs and cats," she said. "We've had rats, pigs, sheep, horses, cows, ferrets, rabbits. We have just about everything come in there. We've had amphibians. We've had exotic birds. So, yes, the shelter takes in whatever animals are in need," Hardler reported. "Now, I will say larger animals, such as livestock, horses and that, we have to find foster farms to help us because obviously we don't have the facilities to hold them."
Foster families are in high demand. "We need people who are willing to open their homes to take these animals in. And especially, believe it or not, cats, because we have a cat population issue in the county. There are always feral cats, and different cats coming in and we need to find homes," Hardler said.
To become a foster family, contact the shelter at 570/253-4037.
When asked if the best part of the shelter is making that connection between a family and a pet, Hardler's reply was immediate. "Absolutely. I think the most rewarding part is to see animals come in, especially animals that come from an abuse case or something like that, where a family takes them in and they're able to match them with the perfect forever home. And then you see these people send us their happy-ending stories later on. And you just, you could cry because it's such an emotional part of the job. And it just shows that we're doing something right."


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Since markets for GHG emission reductions have been established, their combined value has increased to more than US$100 billion in just a few years (Capoor and Ambrosi 2009). However, agriculture has been largely excluded from both formal and informal carbon markets, chiefly because of the high level of uncertainty surrounding agricultural mitigation and the transaction costs associated with smallholder agriculture, which manages most of the agricultural carbon. Key uncertainties include the amount of carbon that can be sequestered by agricultural soils, the reduction in emissions obtainable from the agricultural sector, and the length of time that carbon can be stored in the soil. Transaction costs depend on the costs of monitoring, reporting and verification of changes in soil carbon and emission and on the cost of aggregating and organizing farmers. This paper reviews these challenges and also reviews some the proposed methods to ensure that smallholder farmers have access to the markets that reward climate change mitigation activities. The paper first provides an overview on GHG emissions and the associated mitigation potential of the agricultural sector. This is followed by an overview of the regulatory and voluntary carbon markets that are currently available for emission abatement. After a brief review of the economic literature that analyzes the potential contribution of agriculture to climate change mitigation, the paper describes the opportunities and challenges for smallholders to access payments for environmental services such as carbon markets and ends with a series of final considerations and conclusions.
KEYWORDS: Carbon markets, small farmers, agriculture, climate change, carbon sequestration
SOURCE: http://www.globalfoodsec.net/static/text/ifpri_potential_carbon_markets.pdf
Le consensus mondial et les modalités changeantes d'allocation des ressources dans les domaines du développement et de la réduction de la pauvreté – exprimés dans les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD) et décrits dans le consensus de Monterrey sur le financement pour le développement et la Déclaration de Paris sur l'efficacité de l'aide – demandent de nouvelles approches et stratégies si l'on veut aider les pays à mobiliser des ressources en faveur de la gestion durable des terres
(GDT ). Les processus et modalités d'allocation des ressources financières qui voient le jour exigent que les pays Parties à la Convention des Nations unies sur la lutte contre la désertification (CNULCD) élaborent des approches efficaces pour mobiliser des ressources tant nationales qu'internationales au niveau du pays. Face à cette situation, le Mécanisme mondial (MM) a élaboré le concept de stratégie financière intégrée (SFI) pour la mise en oeuvre de la CNULCD. Le premier objectif de la SFI est de créer un environnement propice à la mobilisation de ressources internes, externes et novatrices aux fins de l'établissement d'un cadre d'investissement en faveur de la GDT .
L'élaboration d'un Programme d'action national (PAN ) au titre de la CNU LCD est fondamentale pour la formulation d'une SFI. La SFI est parfaitement cohérente avec le Plancadre stratégique visant à renforcer la mise en oeuvre de la CNULCD pendant la période 2008-2018 (la Stratégie décennale), qui donne une nouvelle impulsion aux pays pour qu'ils élaborent des SFI dans le cadre de leur processus d'alignement national sur la Stratégie.
Le présent document donne un aperçu du concept de la SFI et décrit les principes clés et les phases principales de la conception et de la mise en oeuvre d'une SFI pour la CNULCD et les initiatives de GDT .
La SFI favorise une mobilisation accrue des ressources en faveur de la GDT , en élargissant la portée des processus de planification au-delà des secteurs spécifiques, en intensifiant l'interaction avec des secteurs traditionnellement non associés au programme de travail de la CNULCD et en contribuant à faire en sorte que les politiques de développement liées à la GDT se voient allouées des ressources adéquates dans les budgets publics et les cadres
de dépenses. Une SFI doit être étroitement rattachée au processus du PAN national et être résumé solidement ancrée dans le cadre institutionnel du pays ainsi que dans les programmes et cycles budgétaires pertinents.
La SFI recense les rôles distincts et complémentaires joués par les différentes sources de financement – nationales, étrangères, publiques et privées. Elle tire parti de ces ressources en générant des synergies entre elles et en créant l'environnement porteur propice à la mobilisation de ressources. Les sources de financement sont les fonds bilatéraux et
multilatéraux, les budgets nationaux et les investissements des ménages, des communautés et des entités du secteur privé.
La SFI rassemble les partenaires du développement international, les organismes publics, les organisations de la société civile et le secteur privé. Tout en contribuant à la mise en place de la combinaison appropriée de ressources financières, la SFI repère les obstacles potentiels à l'identification, l'allocation et le décaissement des ressources. Elle met en
lumière les aspects de l'environnement politique, fiscal, juridique, institutionnel et humain (ressources humaines), susceptibles de saper la réalisation des activités spécifiques de mobilisation de ressources et recommande des mesures pour surmonter ces obstacles et
créer ainsi un environnement porteur.
KEYWORDS: Gestion durable des terres, stratégie financière, Mécanisme Mondiale
SOURCE: http://global-mechanism.org/dynamic/documents/document_file/ifs_fweb.pdf
With this Profile for Climate Change, FAO outlines its priorities for its
current and future work on climate change. FAO's work focuses on adaptation mitigation agricultural sectors and advocates for better
management synergies trade-offs among both. It also points to the areas
where adaptation mitigation activities merge with ongoing development efforts to improve sustainable use of natural resources for increased production, income, food security and rural development. Ensuring food security will require substantial investments and action to adapt agriculture, forestry and fisheries to climate change challenges. Agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors can significantly contribute to global mitigation efforts.
KEYWORDS: FAO, Climate Change, Food security, Agriculture
SOURCE: http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1323e/i1323e00.htm
The last decade was marked by booming globalization galvanizing many development advances. However, structural economic, human and climate crises also showed the downside of the existing path of development
especially in the least developed countries and in Africa. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) succeeded in mobilizing support for the development agenda and led to some success in the fight against hunger,
diseases and illiteracy. Yet, the finance and food crisis brought a backlash and enlarged the implementation and finance gap to achieve the targets by 2015. To reach the targets requires political leadership to speed up
progress. The climate agenda went through a paradigm change at the climate conference in Copenhagen in the end of 2009. Now, leadership of countries and country coalition are equal in importance like international negotiations for progress on the ground to curb emissions and to adapt to current and future climate impacts. Climate impacts impede the sustainability of MDG progress. Patterns of persisting poverty coincide with
areas of high climatic vulnerability. On the other hand, progress in achieving the MDGs contributes to adaptation by reducing vulnerabilities and increasing the capacities to be able to adapt.
Since the MDGs treat environmental sustainability as a sub-goal rather than a precondition for development, and since most development advances have relied on a fossil based growth model, there is an inherent conflict
between the development agenda and required mitigation actions. To resolve the dichotomy between development and the climate agenda, it is important to build on activities that decouple emission growth
from development advances.
KEYWORDS: Millennium Development Goals, Climate Change, investment, mitigation
SOURCE: http://www.germanwatch.org/klima/klimdg10e.pdf
This 2011 edition of the report is the first since 2001. It notes that, in the past decade, over 350 million people have been lifted out of poverty, but global poverty remains a massive and predominantly rural phenomenon, with 70% of the developing world's 1.4 billion extremely poor people living in rural areas. It highlights achievements particularly in East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa. It also describes challenges, including the high poverty rate in Sub-Saharan Africa and the lack of progress in South Asia. The report underscores threats to rural development posed by climate change, volatile food prices, and natural resource constraints.
It also notes ecosystems and biodiversity that sustain agricultural production are changing: for example, scarce and variable rainfall has already decreased the resilience of the high plateau ecosystem in eastern Morocco; the land is severely degraded and the carrying capacity of rangelands is no longer able to sustain growing demand. The report, thus highlights the challenges to boosting international agricultural productivity. In terms of opportunities, the report describes the growth of urban centers and better organized agricultural markets. It further outlines efforts to help poor rural people avoid and manage risks. The report was launched at Chatham House in London, UK.
KEYWORDS: Rural poverty, sustainable agriculture, agricultural productivity, Climate Change
SOURCE: http://www.ifad.org/RPR2011/report/e/rpr2011.pdf
Markers indicate donors' policy objectives in relation to each aid activity. Activities marked as having a "principal" climate objective (mitigation or adaptation) would not have been funded but for that objective; activities marked "significant" have been formulated or adjusted to help meet the objective.
It is important to note that there is no internationally agreed methodology for tracking the exact share of aid activity expenditure that contributes to climate change adaptation or mitigation. This is particularly true for adaptation given its intricate linkages with development. Absent such a methodology, the markers allow an approximate quantification of the amount of aid that targets climate change concerns, but not the exact amount of aid specifically directed to helping developing countries mitigate or adapt to climate change.
When analysing policy marker data, it is necessary to verify the coverage of donors' reporting. Donors are requested to screen each aid activity reported to the CRS, though data gaps still exist for some donors.
KEYWORDS: Climate Change, mitigation, adaptation
SOURCE: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/33/60/45906157.pdf
This technical paper provides an update to the paper on investment and financial flows to address
climate change which was published by the secretariat in 2007. This update was requested by the
Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), at
its second session, taking into account paragraph 1 of decision 1/CP.13 (the Bali Action Plan). The
technical paper presents different options, tools and mechanisms to enhance financing for
mitigation, adaptation and technology cooperation for an effective response to climate change.
Further, the assessment of options, tools and mechanisms is enriched by information submitted by
Parties and other observer organizations as part of the work of the AWG-LCA. It also presents
relevant new information available on the investment and financial flows needed.
KEYWORDS: tools, mechanisms, financial flows, Climate Change, UNFCCC
SOURCE: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2008/tp/07.pdf
The African Drought Risk and Development Network (ADDN) is sponsored by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Dryland Developem ent Centre and United Nations' International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) and recognizes the need for exchange of experience on managing the risk of drought in various sub regions of Africa.
The African Drought Risk and Development Network (ADDN) is focused on promoting applied discussion on key issues linking drought risk and development, providing a platform for the development and dissemination of good practice & innovation, providing an entry point for accessing networks in Africa and beyond, and acting as a Forum for the elaboration
of critical strategy and policy relevant decision making. We are adapting to the needs of all stakeholders, making it easier to access information that will help us react to the increased threat of drought and climate change in the dryland of Africa.
KEYWORDS: drought, adaptation, Africa, Climate Change, Disaster risk reduction
SOURCE: http://www.undp.org/drylands/docs/drought/ADDF3/3rd_African_Drought_Adaptation_Forum_Report.pdf
This paper presents IOM's efforts to support vulnerable and mobile communities affected by environmental hazards through disaster risk
reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) activities conducive to sustainable development. IOM's programmes around the world have
demonstrated the effectiveness of DRR and CCA for reducing risk exposure and vulnerability and for improved management of migration, particularly in times of crisis.2 This paper advocates for further strengthening DRR and
CCA mechanisms at the global, regional, national and local levels through an integrated and cross-sectoral approach supported by appropriate and
innovative financing systems.
Furthermore, it argues that migration and environmental migration3 in particular are crosscutting issues that – in order to be effectively managed – need to be fully recognized and mainstreamed into sustainable development strategies at all levels and in DRR and CCA
strategic frameworks, including the Hyogo Framework for Action and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process.
KEYWORDS: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), migration
SOURCE: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/DDR_CCA_report.pdf
Risk insurance can provide an effective means of catastrophic risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the developing countries. The ongoing discussions by the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change are putting substantial efforts to promote climate change adaptation through international cooperation in the form of providing additional finances and technologies including proposals to promote a global or regional climate risk insurance facility. Case studies from within and outside the Asia-Pacific region provide valuable lessons which could be used for promoting risk insurance in the future climate regime (post-Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012). The analysis of these risk insurance proposals to the Convention and comparison of what they intend to achieve with that of the existing issues within the risk insurance sector in the developing Asia indicate that these proposals address some of the major issues that are limiting the spread of risk insurance. However, no single proposal is comprehensive enough to address all the issues and all the proposals lack details in terms of how they can achieve what they intend to achieve. There is a need for the proposals to the Convention to give more thought on how they address the issues such as high base risks, lack of historical data required for risk assessment, limited awareness in the utility of insurance instruments, keeping the premium prices within affordable levels, and encourage the role of private sector, enable greater access to reinsurers, institute enabling policies to create a proactive risk mitigation environment with an eye on sustainability. A convergence approach wherein the proposals can derive lessons from on-the-ground experiences from regional, national and local initiatives and incorporating the same in their proposals could provide an effective model for promoting the risk insurance.
KEYWORDS: risk insurance, Climate change, adaptation, Asia-Pacific region
SOURCE: http://enviroscope.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/upload/3050/attach/ad-cc-working-paper2010-006.pdf
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Announcing Dark Souls Nexus Launchedposted by Dark0ne Site NewsHot on the tails of our new Grimrock Nexus site we've got another special treat for you. It's my pleasure to announce the launch of Dark Souls Nexus for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition.
For those living under a rock for the past few months I'll break it down a little. Dark Souls was (originally) a dark-fantasy console-only RPG that is well known for being quite difficult but particularly rewarding for players. It was so popular that the PC gaming community petitioned for a PC version of the game. In the end the petition received over 90,000 signatures, so the developers got on board with the idea and released Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition for the PC. Some players have been quick to criticise the direct port of the game lacking certain PC comforts, but developers FromSoftware were always very candid in mentioning that the Prepare to Die edition would be an almost direct port, so if you're one of those complaining; stop! I think the best way to put it would be "perhaps the worst port going, but still the best game this year".
While the game hasn't been without its fair share of issues, the PC gaming community has been quick to take on the task of getting it up to scratch (one of the many beauties of the PC as a gaming platform, I'm sure you'll agree) and many programmers and modders have been working away at the game to see what they can do to make things better. And boy have they worked hard.
While several great utilities have been released to make PC gamer's lives easier within Dark Souls, the cream of the crop has got to be Durante's DSfix tools. DSfix provides many customisable options, including changing the game's internal rendering resolution past the embarrassingly tiny 1024x720 defaults, depth of field changes, HUD customisations, save game backups, but most importantly for modders, texture over-rides.
Using DSfix with texture overriding enabled allows users to find, modify and change pretty much any of the textures used within the game. It also allows users to share these modifications with others. And that's what Dark Souls Nexus is here to help with. While texture overriding isn't like having a full SDK or editor to play with, it's a great start, and heck, even if that's the only modable thing the clever-clog programmers like Durante can get out of the game then it's much better than nothing. Durante has kindly agreed to keep us posted on his work on DSfix as a news writer here at Dark Souls Nexus, and I'm pretty sure he's going to be getting an initial piece up about what DSfix currently can and can't do in regards to modding some point soon. So keep your eyes peeled for that.
Thanks to the great Reddit community and the quick action of some of the users on the site there's already a flourish of modding activity going on for Dark Souls over in the DarkSoulsMods section, all pretty much revolving around DSfix. Some have come to the Nexus forums to see if a Dark Souls Nexus might be possible, and I've been monitoring the situation for a little while now. What I've seen being done and worked on with what little resources have been provided from the developers has really made me want to help out in any way I can. The Dark Souls modders deserve a decent modding community to get behind them, and I'm here to try and kick it up a gear.
With that in mind I've tried to contact as many mod authors as I could find on Reddit to see if they'd be interested in getting their work up on Dark Souls Nexus before I launched the site. Their response has been fantastic and I'm really pleased to say there are already a good handful of mods available for the game. If you've created some new textures or utilities for the game then please come and share them with the rest of us, and sorry if I didn't catch you on Reddit.
Because DSfix is required to enable modding in Dark Souls it does present a small barrier to entry for newcomers to modding. Having said that, we are currently working on getting Dark Souls supported in our Nexus Mod Manager that will enable the easy one-click installing of mods. It will still require DSfix to work, but we're going to build some checks in to NMM to ensure you're all set to go. If you haven't got DSfix, or you haven't setup your ini properly for modding, NMM will tell you. So that should hopefully help out a few people. In the mean-time, if you want to get in to modding your Dark Souls game then head on over to the DSfix page here on the Nexus, download and install it and then check out willypiggy's tutorial video on how to get your DSfix setup and ready for modding. You'll need to do this for mods to work in your game.
If you're reading this news and you're an RPG fanatic but haven't looked in to Dark Souls: Prepare to Die then get on it. If you can get around the slightly disappointing obvious console port feel to the game you will honestly find it one of the deepest, darkest and challenging RPGs you've ever played. Just a word of warning however, it's not called "Prepare to Die" for nothing.


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Greater Alliance FCU, Paramus, N.J., raised $3,000 for the American Cancer Society's Breast Cancer Walk.
CFE FCU, Lake Mary, Fla., awarded the $500 CFE Hero Award for 2012 to Dr. Thomas Dorsey, in recognition of his program to teach minority and inner-city youth the game of golf. In other news, the CU also donated gifts for 50 foster children in the child welfare services of Central Florida.
Los Angeles FCU collected 468 toys for the Toys for Tots program. Separately, CU employees volunteered to assemble food crates at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.
Tech CU, Crown Point, Ind., donated toys, gifts and clothing for the Carmelite Home in East Chicago, Ind.
Arrowhead CU, San Bernardino, Calif., delivered gifts for 73 local homeless children.
First Service CU, Houston, donated $12,562.34 to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
MSU FCU, East Lansing, Mich., teamed up with Michigan State University's University Housing, Child and Family Charities and Auburn Hills Firefighters Helping Hands for its 2012 Giving Tree. Separately, the CU said Polina Naumova won a $7,500 Classic Travel vacation package and Michael Huschke won a $7,500 gift card to Wheat Jewelers as part of the CU's 75th Anniversary celebration contest. The CU also opened a new branch in the Sparrow Professional Building in Lansing, and made a $1-million donation to the MSU College of Music for the MSU Federal Credit Union Jazz Studies Guest Artist Residency Endowment.
South Jersey FCU, Deptford, N.J., donated more than two dozen winter coats to Camden Education Association's 5th Annual Coat Drive.
Golden 1 CU, Sacramento, Calif., collected nearly 4,250 pounds of food and household necessities, plus $52,500 in monetary donations for 15 regional food banks.
TruMark Financial CU, Trevose, Penn., donated 670 pounds of food to the Food & Nutrition Network of the Bucks County Opportunity Council. In other news the CU also raised $760 for the Lupus Foundation of America and participated in the Future Business Leaders Association Region 12 Leadership Conference and Competition.
Local Government FCU, Raleigh, N.C., donated clothes, toys and other essentials to two families the CU adopted as part of its Holiday Cheer Program.
Redwood CU, Santa Rosa, Calif., provided $7,787 to the American Red Cross' Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.
The 100% for Kids CU Education Foundation, Salt Lake City, awarded more than $58,000 in grants to Utah schools during 2012.
USFCU, Burnsville, Minn., teamed up with Southern Anoka Community Assistance to participate in a holiday toy drive.
Allegany County Teachers FCU, Chessie FCU, HEALTHCARE 1st FCU, Potomac FCU, SECU of Maryland and Wepco FCU, along with the Maryland and District of Columbia CU Association held a Reality Fair for Allegany County high school students.
Singing River FCU, Moss Point, Miss., donated $1,640 to Our Daily Bread as part of its Christmas loan program.
WestStar CU, Las Vegas, donated $16,000 to the Opportunity Village's Mile of Smiles fundraising campaign.
Dover, Del., donated $400 to the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition. In other news, the CU participated in Operation Cookie Drop, which delivers baked goods to troops at the Dover Air Force Base.
OMNI Community CU, Battle Creek, Mich., made a $5,000 grant to S.A.F.E Place, $2,000 to Parent to Parent of SW Michigan and $3,000 to Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Services.
South Bay CU, Redondo Beach, Calif., served as drop-off site for Cheer for Children, collecting unwrapped toys.
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