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Big Brother - Season 14 Episode 11 Recap
Episode 11 of the 14th season of Big Brother was supposed to be the weekly live eviction show, but a twist effectively "reset" the show back to the beginning.
Since the previous week's eviction episode viewers had been able to vote on whether or not to allow the coaches (former beloved and sometimes hated houseguests Mike "Boogie" Malin, Janelle Pierzina, Dan Gheesling and Britney Haneys) to re-enter the game as players and compete for the $500,000 grand prize.
During the 11th episode, host Julie Chen announced the twist and said America had voted to give the coaches a chance to return to the game.
However, the twist was not finished there. Chen announced that the coaches could return to the game, but if they chose that option there would be some repercussions.
The reigning Head of Household, Shane Meaney, would be able to compete for the honor for the second week in a row, and the two houseguests on the block for eviction, Frank Eudy and Joe Arvin, would stay in the house another week. Coming back into the game would not have worked out great for Boogie, who had all of his players remaining. However it was too good a chance to pass up for the other coaches since Dan and Britney were down to one player each and Janelle's players were turning against her.
From there, coaches entered the diary room one at a time and were asked to hit a big, red "Reset" button if they wanted to end their coaching duties and become individual players once again. The only coach to not hit the button was Boogie, though Britney did think hard about her decision first.
After Julie announced the results, the houseguests reacted, somewhat appropriately, with dismay since all of their game plans had been turned on their heads. But it was only a few moments before they were all directed to the backyard for the Head of Household competition.
In the yard they were greeted with a large, shallow pool and a giant pirate ship. After the commercial break viewers saw the houseguests, including Shane and all of the former coaches, standing with their backs to the ship on small "planks" jutting from the side of the wooden structure. They each had nothing but a bar to hold onto in what seemed to be a really tough endurance competition for the ultimate power in the house.
As the show ended, Julie announced that the seas were getting rough, and the boat began to rock. No winner was known as the credits began to roll.
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I want to talk about remembering, an issue I share with many friends. I need to remember why I open and stare at the refrigerator. (And we'll talk about the best gift, one that will give real memories…) We need to remember The Kling Street Kids, Toluca Lake's Golden-Rule specialists, are having their grass root fundraising event on December 23-24. They are now legendary and, so far—since 2002—have raised more than $44,000 for Children's Hospital. Starting with a small stand, they now have a Web site! Google The Kling Street Kids. I did… WOW.
Do you remember D.G. Fulford who wrote a charming column for The Daily News some years ago? Do you remember The Daily News? (It's the other paper, besides The Tolucan Times.) I latched on to D.G. I may have written her a fan letter? (I know I've written one in my head many times.) Anyway, D.G. became a special part of my collective treasury of people. When she moved away, we each drifted into our own continuum. Then I received an e-mail, which may be old news, but it is new/good news to me! And D.G. Fulford co-founded this, so it is tried and true.
The Remembering Site
Give the greatest gift: the ability to easily write and preserve life memories. Not everyone is able to leave money, jewelry or property as an inheritance. Everyone, though, can leave the most precious commodity of all: family treasures made of words and cherished photos. This site is for you and your loved ones to write your life memories, experiences, memoirs or autobiography. Evocative, story-telling questions span a lifetime that leads you to easily complete your life story. What were some of your favorite holidays and traditions? Did you eat lunch at school, or did you go home for lunch? Do you remember your first kiss? Describe your career. What was the happiest moment of your life? The saddest? What memories from your family history do you want to share with your grandchildren? It is so important to encourage our parents and grandparents to write their life memories. These memories can be e-mailed to friends and family, printed from a home printer, archived by The Remembering Site for future generation to read, and/or, best of all, have a beautifully bound book printed to give to loved ones. There's no greater gift than giving a child or grandchild answers to the questions that they just never think to ask the previous generations—the gift of remembering. Everyone is interesting, whether they know it or not. I'm often poked by my family, friends and strangers to write a book but I'm blocked wondering where to start. Now, I have this imaginative guide and I have started… now, where to stop? Google The Remembering Site and read how it started and some of the fascinating autobiography's. Hope to read about some of your memories soon.
My Sweet Street
And remember The Kling Street Kids 8th Annual 2009 my Sweet Street event. The Beanie Babies are back, incredible silent auction items and lots more. Due to the growing group of kid volunteers from streets all over the area, The Kling Street Kids are adapting their name this year to become "My Sweet Street—The Kling Street Kids" since the organization has grown way beyond Kling Street. So, see you on Kling Street in Toluca Lake, between Cahuenga and Ledge on Dec. 23 (8am–2pm) and Dec. 24 (8am-12pm).
With fond memories… we'll talk.

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text: I only use the GUI to add the users. Yes, I leave the data in the "/" dataset and then moving it once is all set. The dataset is mounted correctly at each reboot, maybe it is not mounted when the user is created via the GUI ? Another problem I found: deleting the user does not delete the user folder. In my case I had to re-create the user with the same username, so I opened xterm, umounted, deleted the /home/<user> recreated (and it created it without mounting it) logged in and followed the steps that I previously said between before I add the user and after I add the user the mount doesn't change much except the trunk1/usr/home/<user> is mapped to /usr/home/<user> Fabry On 06/21/2013 16:02, Kris Moore wrote: > On 06/21/2013 15:50, Fabrizio Parrella wrote: >> it is ZFS, it doesn't let me MV unless I umount first >> >> Fabry > Gotcha. So it seems all you are doing is unmounting the ZFS dataset, and > leaving your data on the '/' dataset? Can I see a before & after of the > mount command when you set this up? Are you adding the users from the > GUI? What happens if you add via the CLI with the "adduser" command? > > Maybe the new dataset isn't getting auto-mounted after a reboot, since > you said you lose settings at each reboot. > > I'm going to test a new user here also, see what happens :) > > >> On 06/21/2013 14:39, Kris Moore wrote: >>> On 06/21/2013 12:22, Fabrizio Parrella wrote: >>>> I have been having a very hard time trying to add users to PC-BSD 9.1 >>>> (fully updated - 32 and 64bits). >>>> When I need to add a user those are the steps that I have to take to >>>> make it fully work: >>>> - Add user via interface, set it as administrator >>>> - open xterm and as root, if the /home/<user> is mounted, umount it >>>> - log out and log in as the new user >>>> - do the needed setup, folders, Thunderbird, chrome, etc... >>>> - log out and log back in as the initial user >>>> - open xterm and as root make sure that /home/<user> is not mounted >>>> and then: mv /home/<user> /home/<user>.ok >>>> - reboot >>>> - login as initial user >>>> - open xterm as root and copy all the files from /home/<user>.ok to >>>> /home/<user> followed by chown -Rf <user>:<user> <user> >>>> - a final reboot and now it works >>>> >>>> if I don't follow those steps I always encounter issues like (random): >>>> - smb protocol not working >>>> - Thunderbird gives a weird startup error about permission on opening >>>> some protocol (TCP/IP) >>>> - desktop settings are lost at every reboot >>>> - random "cannot connect to <anything>" errors, can be "desktop", a >>>> web server, the proxy servers, etc... >>>> >>>> Anyone know what might cause this problem ? It is kind of a new error >>>> that started a month ago or so and affects all the up-to-date >>>> computers. This does not happen on 9.0 32bit >>>> >>> Is this on UFS or ZFS? Can you give "mount" output of system after you >>> create a new user? I'm guessing its *not* ZFS, otherwise you would >>> probably get an error when you do the "mv <homedir>" step, since that >>> should be a new dataset. >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> Dev at lists.pcbsd.org >> http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >


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This is very much the peta argument: life is suffering; hence death is good.
He added that the company could consider legal action against peta for defamation of Vail.
When Best Week Ever poked fun at her peta campaign, she was not kind.
peta should quit putting pressure on the Obama kids to pick an abandoned dog from a rescue shelter.
Even when peta is on the right side of an issue, the phrase "peta issued a response" can induce eye rolling.
So peta has a natural pool of empathy to tap into and instead they throw the pie right in the face of it.
He tells me about the absurdity of the ASPCA, the Humane Society of the United States, and peta.
See other campaigns that Burger King, Budweiser, and peta "never meant to be seen."
peta, a species of Myrtus, of which hoops for barrels are made.
peta Nocona, the old chief's young son, rode my mother at the head of the Quahadas.
acronym for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; the group's website says it was founded in 1980.
peta- pref.
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All eyes are on the White House as President Obama gets set to roll out a climate change plan. His top energy and climate adviser, Heather Zichal, said it's coming in weeks.
Zichal said the plan, which will rely on actions that don't require the consent of Congress, will focus on power plant emissions, expanding renewable energy on public lands and bolstering energy efficiency. The plan will likely include finalizing emissions rules for new coal-fired power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) missed an April deadline for doing so. The big question is whether Obama will propose standards for existing power plants — a move that green and public health groups would surely applaud, but one to which industry would object.


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First, There are no funnel cakes at MayFest, despite promises and a map outlining their location, provided to Ace earlier in the week.
Second, how are Mayor Newberry and Dudley Webb to blame for this travesty?
That remains to be seen.
For now, the Readers must be allowed to grieve.
1. Denial
There must be funnel cakes.
Maybe they've just moved them?
2. Anger
Where's our motherfu…nnel cakes?!
3. Bargaining
What do we want?!
Funnel cakes!
When do we want 'em?!
Ace will make our OWN damn funnel cakes. Maybe the Biggest Funnel Cake in the World. 'Cause this story ain't over yet. It's still being topped off, on twitter.


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A small mirror is attached to a vertical wall, and it hangs a distance of 1.81 m above the floor. The mirror is facing due east, and a ray of sunlight strikes the mirror early in the morning and then again later in the morning. The incident and reflected rays lie in a plane that is perpendicular to both the wall and the floor. Early in the morning, the reflected ray strikes the floor at a distance of 3.13 m from the base of the wall. Later on in the morning, the ray is observed to strike the floor at a distance of 1.19 m from the wall. The earth rotates at a rate of 15.0˚ per hour. How much time (in hours) has elapsed between the two observations?


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19Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.
The New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Two people and the gunman are dead after a man opened fire on holiday shoppers at the crowded Clackamas Town Center in Oregon.
Hot, Flat, and crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman.
For many years, it was a healthy No. 2 to Best Buy in the crowded electronics-retailing industry.
We squeezed into a crowded elevator on our way to the hearing room.
Streets were all crowded when we found our car and drove home.
Even in the crowded, noisy station this simple picture was vivid.
The shores were crowded with steamboats and sailing-vessels.
The best and the meanest of France were crowded together in his two ships.
The ships were crowded with visitors, but not a single person had a weapon of any sort.
A great earthquake had crowded all its might into a mole-hill.
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Hi everyone,
So, I've started seeing little comments like "ugh, another cu3er template" from authors and buyers. I'm just curious what other authors are thinking at this point.
I personally think that it's an awesome plugin, but doesn't replace a good design or fix a bad one. In lots of cases, a basic template without CU3ER can have it installed in under 15 minutes, so it seems like it should be swappable with any other jQuery/Flash slider out there – but I also know buyers don't see it this way and that CU3ER based templates seem to be selling like hotcakes. So here are the questions:
Has CU3ER taken over templates? What are the pro's and con's of including it in a template? Is this just another fad that will fade away in a month? Do you think buyers are demanding CU3ER in templates now? Are you sick of seeing CU3ER in templates?
Veteran authors: Has a similar plugin caused a similar phenomena in the past?
Also – I'm very interested in hearing from buyers too, so don't hesitate to respond.
I think it's the plugin of the moment, so there will be lots of templates using it and lots of buyers buying templates because of it.
Interesting post!!!
I loved the first few, but it has been a litle bit overused lately but I can see why authors would want to use it I mean it's alot easier to implment than jQuery sliders.
The only negative I can see is it's Flash based, and while I'm not against Flash in general here in the UK many Public Sector organisations (like seeriously big national companies) block Flash on websites.
I like the plugin, it's awesome and looks great but as a purist and an author I much prefer jQuery Solutions.
To emphasis my point there is a new template using a very unique slider:
I think this type is much more unique and as an author I'd buy it just to find out how it was made lol.
My template "iMaxell" was the first with CU3ER in ThemeForest and it was a hit, I've experimented with 4 more options (jQuery fades and slides) because too many people hate flash, in fact I don't like flash I just prefer minimal sites without flash and that's why I used those jQuery options.
CU3ER is so easy to cuztomize and beautiful hence the hit but is too boring now with 8 or 9 templates/themes (and counting) using it as the main slide. I think I will use it again in another template but differently.
I won't elaborate.
I'm sick of it and I will never use it in my theme even if it would give me more money.
This plugin take too much place in a design.
I love to create my own stuff.
I won't elaborate.
I'm sick of it and I will never use it in my theme even if it would give me more money.
This plugin take too much place in a design.I love to create my own stuff.
Good shout – it's too easy to chuck into a design and submit as a theme, it's not unique enough.
Personally, I just hate flash with all my heart, but cu3er is just like any other fad, it comes, it goes…I think the same happened with jQuery sliders, only jQuery allows for more variation, while cu3er, already used in several themes here will probably go out of style more quickly.
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Anything that I can't control I instantly dislike lol.
cu3er is starting to annoy me. i don't see using it in any themes i'm working on. My first submission will use a new jQuery slider that will bring something fresh and different, plus it works on mobile devices. That's good enough for me.
My two cents:
I've opted to offer it in a few of my templates as optional elements (just like an image or a video), but they aren't crucial design components in any case. I do have a few in the works that will use CU3ER as an optional alternative to a jQuery slider on the homepage, but I don't think that it should be used in EVERY new template that comes out. Unfortunately, I think that lots of buyers will basically buy CU3ER on first impression without really understanding the limitations that it brings. Perhaps seeing 15 items on the homepage with the same plugin will create backlash.
I'm not sick of seeing CU3ER per say, but I am tired of seeing lackluster designs using it as a crutch to pick up sales. That's not creativity – it's gimmickry. If the template won't work without CU3ER (ie: using a flat image instead), it's probably not a great template to begin with.
In most cases, I think templates that force CU3ER on buyers should also be required offer a suitable non-flash alternative – this being themeforest and all – it seems silly that a template should force Flash as a layout component. That's just my own humble opinion though.
That said, I still think CU3ER is great and meets a lot of buyers requests for a powerful attention getting device. As an author, you pretty much can't afford to ignore it's existence right now. Even if you decide not to use it, you've gotta be aware of the competition.
Finally – I really do hope that it's a passing fad. I like it (a lot), but there are a lot of powerful non-Flash alternatives out there that I hope get attention from designers and developers here.
Good discussion so far!


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text: You would simply run the pbs-mom process, the pbs-server process and assuming you are using the pbs-sched server, that as well all on the one system. You would also add the single host name into the /var/spool/torque/server_priv/nodes file and the same hostname in the /var/spool/torque/server_name file as well. -- Steven DuChene From: torqueusers-bounces at supercluster.org [mailto:torqueusers-bounces at supercluster.org] On Behalf Of Jay R Santos Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:00 AM To: torqueusers at supercluster.org Subject: [torqueusers] how to install torque on a stand alone machine Hi all, can anyone please guide me on how to install torque on a single machine? I already followed installation guide at http://www.clusterresources.com/torquedocs21/1.1installation.shtml but it seems I'm lost on the compute node part and so on. Sorry for being a newbie here. and I hope to get positive feed backs. Thanks, Jay -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.supercluster.org/pipermail/torqueusers/attachments/20120416/ff61712b/attachment-0001.html


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Tyler Scott in action with the Acadia Axemen in March 2013.
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The UPEI Panthers had something no other team had to land Tyler Scott: familiarity.
"I feel like I fit in here," Scott said. "I have a great relationship with all these guys."
Scott played for coach Tim Kendrick, former Horton High coach, for two summers, including the 2009 Canada Games team with current Panthers Geoff Doane and Deontay (D.J.) Smith. He also knows Jayden Skinner-Nordin from Halifax.
He said Kendrick has been, in some ways, like a father figure during his life.
"If I need advice with anything, if I need help, he's always there for me," Scott said.
The 21-year-old from Halifax was heavily recruited by Canadian universities and some American schools. He signed his letter of intent Jan. 25 to join the Panthers men's basketball team for the 2014-15 season.
"It's very exciting," Doane said. "He's a scorer, he's a great player and we're very happy to have him."
Kendrick said Scott is the latest in a list of quality recruits to Charlottetown.
"This is definitely a big one," he said.
"This will ripple. People will say, 'Ooooo.'"
Scott is a combo guard who said he is willing to play whatever role is needed to help the team be successful. He played two seasons with Acadia and was part of an Atlantic University Sport (AUS) championship team in his rookie season.
Scott said he learned a lot from the Axemen coaches and players like Owen Klassen, Anthony Sears and Anthony Ashe.
He averaged 11.7 points, 4.8 assists and 1.4 assists in 18 games last season with Acadia and hopes to bring leadership to the Panthers.
"They have a good team out there," Scott said as the Panthers warmed up Jan. 25.
"I feel like they just need to get over that one hump for people to recognize what they have. I am hoping I can bring that."
Scott said he enjoyed his time at Acadia but the fit wasn't right for him long term, so he decided to sit out this season.
"I think that kid has the potential to be an all-Canadian," Kendrick said. "I think that kid has the potential to help us get where we want to be, which is AUS champions and national champions."
Scott said his experience playing in Kendrick's offensive system would help the transition.
"You're a basketball player, you're not a robot," he said. "If you know you can beat your man, you beat your man, if not, pass the ball."
Kendrick suggested there are other players he's in contact with in an effort to recruit to the Island for next season.
"There are other pieces that we expect will fall soon," he said.
The coach added the players have size and the pedigree the team is looking for.


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Wiltshire Council announced plans to reform their education department this afternoon which could see up to 20 people lose their jobs.
At a briefing, held at Trowbridge Civic Centre, the council's senior director for schools and learning, Stephanie Denovan, outlined plans with 129 people being considered at risk and given the opportunity to take voluntary redundancy.
Wiltshire Council expect to lose around £3m in funding for education when their budget is confirmed in March and in anticipation of this they've already made around £2.4m in cuts but said redundancies are needed to make up the shortfall.
"It is very hard to be specific at this stage but we are looking at around 18-20 full time equivalent redundancies," said Mrs Denovan. "I don't want to lose anyone as I've worked here for a number of years, built up some really good teams and value the staff.
"For those leaving us we will do everything we can to support them with their future opportunities as they have all done very well representing Wiltshire."
None of the staff placed at risk are teachers but they do work in early years, primary, secondary, post 14 and adult education with others being administrative staff.
After Wednesday's meeting, staff were given the opportunity to consider voluntary redundancy with a deadline of February 1 being in place for them to apply for it.


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Govt to sell Genesis stake in 'next month or so', Key says
Feb. 24 (BusinessDesk) - The government plans to sell down its holding in Genesis Energy "in the next month or so" with more details coming on Wednesday, Prime Minister John Key says.
Speaking at his weekly post-Cabinet press conference, Key confirmed the government's intention to sell 49 percent of Genesis, saying the details will come in Finance Minister Bill English's speech to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. The Genesis part-sale is expected to raise between $700 million and $1 billion.
Last week Genesis reported a 23 percent slide in first-half earnings to $150.5 million, reflecting stiff retail competition and a warm winter, which meant hydro-storage was above average and wholesale prices were lower.
The partial privatisation programme has had mixed success after an opposition proposal to overhaul the electricity market saw traders discount the value of the power companies, accompanied by growing recognition that New Zealand has excess generation capacity that may last some years, keeping a lid on prices.


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Victoria takes resourceful approach to build trade
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VICTORIA might not have been able to ride the resources boom like other states, but China is on track to become our largest trading partner as early as next year. Victorian Treasurer John Brumby said that while Victoria had not been able to cash in on the China-charged export boom boosting Australia's resource-rich states, Victoria's trade with China was still on track to surpass that of the US.
"Two-way trade has been growing at a billion dollars a year and continues to grow at a billion dollars a year, so by 2006-2007 China will be Victoria's largest trading partner, with two-way trade at close to $10 billion," he said.
While the growth can be largely attributed to our insatiable demand for Chinese imports such as clothing, toys and furniture, Mr Brumby said China's increasing demand for Victorian primary products such as wool and live animals had fuelled overall growth.
"Imports have grown more rapidly, which is what you would expect, but China, including Hong Kong, is now Victoria's largest goods export market, with key exports including wool, aluminium, hides and skins, live animals, dairy and photographic and cinematic supplies."
However, unlike Queensland and Western Australia, which have been effortlessly buoyed by China's resource needs, Mr Brumby said the Victorian Government and industries had worked hard to capitalise on China's rapid growth.
" There have been a large number of ministerial visitations, there have been countless export and trade missions to China, from the automotive industry through to food and wine, we've had a large number of inbound missions from China and there's been a huge amount of work done around our sister-state relationship with the Jiangsu province," he said.
"All of that together has created a significantly higher level of activity than would have otherwise been the case."
While the effort has resulted in some of China's international companies such as China MinMetals and Huawei establishing themselves in Victoria, China is now receiving 10 per cent of Victoria's exports compared with 4 per cent in 1995.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade data shows the key beneficiaries have been mixed. A steady increase in demand for wool Victoria's No.1 export to China has helped exports increase from $320 million in 2000 to $524 million this year an average annual increase of 6.1 per cent. Victoria's fourth-largest export, aluminium, recorded similar growth, with exports increasing an average 12.5 per cent each, from $57 million in 2000 to $94 million in 2005.
But the strongest advance occurred in the exporting of liquefied propane and butane and live animals, now Victoria's second- and third-largest exports. Propane and butane exports increased from $28 million in 2000 to $124 million in 2005, and the biggest winner, live animals, surged from $3 million in 2000 to $103 million in 2005.
But while Victoria appears to have been living off its sheep's backs for the past five years, China's boost to Victoria's agribusiness sector has gone beyond the export of wool and live animals.
Ben Foskett, chief executive of Invest Victoria the government agency responsible for promoting investment in Victoria said China had provided a much needed boost to Victoria's dairy industry.
"Victorian exports of dairy products represent 13 per cent of global trade in dairy and China is rapidly emerging and maturing as a user of our dairy products," he said.
With Chinese demand for milk and cream increasing from $22 million in 2000 to $39 million this year, Mr Foskett says the country's changing tastes will create opportunities for Chinese investment locally too.
"We're working up and developing products that are suitable for Chinese tastes, and that goes right back to dairy herd management, animal husbandry, food technology and smart packaging through to transport, distribution and logistics. These are all areas the Chinese are eager to learn from our expertise in so there are a lot of opportunities for the Chinese to invest in the supply chain back here so they can develop a presence to supply their own market."
While encouraging Chinese investment locally through Victoria's three business offices in Shanghai, Nanjing and Hong Kong remains a priority for the Victorian Government, Chinese tourists and students have become increasingly valuable to the Victorian economy too.
Tourism Minister John Pandazopoulos said Chinese travellers had grown at a rate of 21 per cent since 1999, making them Victoria's fourth-largest source of inbound arrivals.
"We've been able to achieve the second-biggest market share at 48 per cent in Australia after New South Wales, which is one of our biggest market shares of any country destination," he said.
And while new direct air services from Melbourne to the three key ports of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are delivering the cashed-up Chinese travellers to Melbourne faster than ever before, they're now staying longer too.
Chinese visitors spent 3.2 million visitor nights in Victoria last year, an increase of 48 per cent on the previous year a $337 million boost to Victoria's economy.
With visitors from China predicted to become Australia's largest source of tourists in the next 10 years, Mr Pandazopoulos believes Victoria will continue to profit from the growing leisure travel market.
"Last year we received 92,747 Chinese tourists, but Victoria is forecast to receive 555,000 of the total number of Chinese tourists visiting Australia in 2014, assuming we can retain its current market share," he said.
Victoria's foreign education market has also benefited from increasing Chinese demand for Australian education. With overseas students worth around $1.4 billion to the Victorian economy annually, Mr Brumby said Chinese students were becoming increasingly valuable.
"China is a key growth market," he said.
"In October 2004, Victoria saw an increase in overseas students from China of around 22 per cent compared with 2003, so they now represent about 30 per cent of all Chinese students in Australia."
But with increasing Chinese Government investment in their own resources and services, the Victorian Government and industry have been sure to invest in initiatives aimed at sustaining growth in trade.
The Victorian Government's China strategy "China, 2005 and Beyond: A vision for growing trade and investment", released in April this year, identifies a long list of areas to target future growth with China based on the country's abundant needs and Victoria's capabilities.
While tourism, education, primary production and health care feature prominently in the plan, Mr Brumby believes Victoria's construction, architectural design and environmental management and technology sectors will start to benefit significantly in coming years.
"If you look at China's 20-year construction program, they're going to build as much public and private space as what currently exists in the whole of Europe, so there are huge opportunities there," he said.
"Other developing areas with enormous potential include speciality equipment, raw materials, collaborative scientific ventures and food."
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Following a spectacular opening ceremony to the 2013 African Cup of Nations, the first game was a rather dull and disappointing affair as the Group A match between South Africa and Cape Verde finished goalless at National stadium on Saturday night.
The first 45 minutes failed to produce the goal feast all South Africans were hoping for as Bafana Bafana struggled to create many clear cut opportunities in front of goal.
Instead, it was Cape Verde who looked the more threatening going forward, especially when playing through balls behind the slow looking Bafana central pairing of Bongani Khumalo and Siyabonga Sangweni.
Nonetheless, despite a poor finish to the first half, Gordon Igesunds men did start the match brightly and were able to create a chance on goal as early as the second minute.
Some great work down the right flank by Thuso Phala saw him earn South Africa a free-kick which Siphiwe Tshabalala whipped into the box. Bernard Parker was able to lose his marker and get on the end of the cross at the front post, but he saw his six-yard header go narrowly wide of the target.
Eleven minutes later Tshabalala was at the thick of the action again, this time shooting at goal from a 30-yard free-kick. His effort, though, failed to really threaten the Cape Verde goal as Josimar Dias made a comfortable save.
The best chance of the match, in the opening 45 minutes, though, for either side, went the way of Cape Verde in the 15th minute.
Luis Soares was put through on goal with an inch perfect pass, but with just the Bafana keeper to beat he dragged his ten-yard shot wide of goal.
Soares was causing all kinds of problems for the South African defence and he was at it again in the 34th minute when he worked his way into the box after beating a couple defenders before firing into the side netting from 14-yards out.
Cape Verde definitely finished the half the stronger of the two teams as Igesund looked extremely frustrated on the sidelines.
The start of the second 45 saw Igesund make an immediate change as he replaced a disappointing Kagisho Dikgacoi with Lerato Chabangu, which gave Bafana more options in attack.
Still, chances were few and far between in the second stanza as neither side were able to play smooth passing football.
In the 56th minute Bafana did manage to create a chance on goal after a sublime ball from Reneilwe Letsholonyane saw Lehlohonolo Majoro through on goal, but he opted to cut back and play a pass across the face of goal which saw Tshabalala and ball smother by the keeper.
Again, however, it was Cape Verde who managed to create the best chance of the half in the 73rd minute. A cross from the right saw Ramos Heldon with a 12-yard header goal, but Itumeleng Khune produced a great save, flinging himself to his right to tip the ball around the post for a corner.
Sadly, the half filtered out without any more decent chances on gaol as the opening game of the 2013 AFCON finished goalless.
South Africa (0) 0
Cape Verde (0) 0
Bafana: Khune; Ngcongca, Khumalo, Sangweni, Matlaba, Phala, Letsholonyane, Dikgacoi (Chabangu 46), Tshabalala (Serero 60), Parker, Majoro (Mphela 68)
Cape Verde: Vozinha; F. Varela, Babanco, Neves, Platini, T. Varela, Heldon (Silva 76), M. Soares (J. Tavares 63), Nivaldo, Mendes (Walder 86), Carlitos


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Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot in thrilling crime stories. The Yorkshire countryside provides a striking and contrasting backdrop to these stories based on the Inspector Banks novels by Peter Robinson.
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A husband and daughter struggle to come to terms with their grief when the body of wife and mother Anaan Kamel is found washed up by an underground river. Suspicion falls on Marcus Leyton, a former employee of Anaan and Raheel's law chambers, who was recently fired by Raheel – especially when texts between her and Marcus suggest an affair which progressed to blackmail on his part. The team struggles to find further information about Marcus, as his records only seem to go back five years. Banks and Helen believe that the family are hiding something when daughter Nafeesah makes up a story about her mother recently falling down the stairs, until she eventually reveals that Anaan's brother Bilal hit her in an argument over her conduct and wavering faith.


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I help couples in therapy to discuss their problems in order to work issues out in a calm way. If one or both of you need one-to-one therapy, it will be recommended, each seeing a different therapist. With more understanding of oneself, it will be easier to see the other's point of view and to compromise. In couples or marriage counseling I help you both to recognize projections so that you may relate to each other in a healthier way.


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Vote for America's 'Least Crossable Streets'
"In most American cities you can find streets that turn what should be short, easy walking trips into excursions so long and humiliating that you might as well drive. Or, if you don't have that option, you can take your chances playing a high-stakes game of Frogger," writes Angie Schmitt.
To dole out some public shame to the places that allows such anti-pedestrian conditions to exist, Schmitt and Streetsblog called on readers to crowdsource a set of examples of these "monster roads" from around the country. There is still time to vote on the list, which includes streets in Maryland, Tennessee, Idaho, and Arizona, among others.


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The search for a new Cubs analyst for WGN-AM 720 begins Tuesday with no clear-cut favorite.
Keith Moreland's decision to leave the radio booth caught the Cubs and WGN by surprise, so there has been little thought given to his replacement.
WGN-AM sports director Dave Eanet said they are now putting together a list of candidates and hope to "compare notes with the Cubs and see where we are."


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This colonial mansion dating from 1785 was, between 1860 and 1906, the home of former president and founder of La Nación newspaper, Bartolomé Mitre. The library is the main attraction: it holds some of the region's most important books, as well as documents on Latin American history and some unique photographic exhibits.
Area Microcentro
Transport Subte B, Florida
Telephone 011 4394 7659
Open 12-7.30pm Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri
Admission AR$5
Stunningly beautiful , hhligy recommended taking the cable railway to the top of mountain. You also get to see the full view of the city of Bogota. The church is very fascinating, beautiful architect very spiritual and peaceful visit must see!!Josefina Argfcello


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✮Saruman ☥ Nara✮
Basic Information
Name: Saruman Nara
Nickname: Cthulhu, the Great Old One, The Dark one
Gender: Male
Age: 122
Clan: Nara
Looks: He has long, wight hair, a moustache and a small wight beard.... His eyes are red. He wears a black cape all the time. He has a tatoo with an octopus-demon on his right shoulder. He also wears a ring with a black onyx stone attached, on the ring finger of his right hand. He is 2 metters tall, and very muscular. Excesive excercice and a good health condition, make it possible for him to still be fighting.
Personality: Unlike most of the Nara clan, he is very workaholic. He also is a true genius. His long life has granted him exceptional analyst and strategist skills as well as exceptional wisdom. He has the tendedncy to start his phraces with "Hmmm...". He rarelly shows any emmotion, and has talend in telling horror stories (as well as making them come true).
Village Info.
Village of Birth: Nara Clan Nomade (before the village system was funded)
Village of Alliance: Kumogakure
Rank//Chakra Info.
Ninja Rank: Sannin
Specialty: Raiton
Elements: Raiton (Mastered), Katon
Your ninjutsu:
(D-rank) Shadow Manipulation (needs training)
Raiton: Mastered all canon Jutsu + Kumogakure customs
Background Info.
History: Early years: When Cthulhu was young, the village system did not yet exist. He was passioned with metaphysics, and tryed to make multiple experiments to contact other worlds, unsuccesfully.
Konoha Funding:
As he slowly became one of the Elders of the Nara clan, he suggested aliance with Kumogakure. As the other elders declined it, he chosed to dump his clan, and went in kumo to become an ANBU General...
Kumogakure ANBU General:
As he was already a reknown and respected ninja, when he asked permision to join the Counsil of the Kumogakure ANBU squad, a wile after he joined Kumo, the Raikage named him a General, and one of the leaders of the counsil.
He also has a scroll were he stores all his equipment: Shuriken, Kunai, Flash Bombs, Smoke Bombs, Explosive Taqs, Ninja Wire etc. The scroll is on the inner part of his cloack. Also, he holds a black stuff with a diamond pole, and is quite proficient in using it in battle.
Killing an other Elder of the Nara clan, when Deflecting from Konoha.
Using Raiton:
Using Battle Pole:
Theme Song and Background Music:
Won: Many
Draw: Some
Lost: Less
~Approved~ removed the chakra blade, such weapons have to be submitted and approved in the CJ thread.


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When it comes to music I can listen to anything. So don't be surprised if I start jamming to a random song that starts playing
The TV shows that I watch tend to be on Netflix lol.
I haven't read a decent book in awhile, but that doesn't mean I don't like to read... Just a little picky when it comes to books.
Food is greatness no matter what it is... That is as long as it isn't seafood.
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Well just over a year ago I said I would give this Micro stock thing a fair shot, and if I liked it I would stick around. It was also an experiment in photography. Could I produce images that would sell?
Micro stock for me was all about setting targets. The first image online, the first sale, 50 images online, 100 images online, you get the idea. Well I have learned a lot about this business, and even more about myself and sticking to the task. I have also made a little money in the process. I am happy to say I plan to stick at it. I have enjoyed the challenge. Thank you to everyone that helped along the way.
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I'm In
I'm In. At least, I've put my big toe in. I'm not in like Clinton T., my neighborhood team leader with an engaging voice and smile. I'm not in like Mary R., whose bilingualism reaches out to both English and Spanish speaking voters. I'm not in like Frank M., who shows up to phone banks well equipped with phones and headphones. But I'm in. I tested the waters. It feels good. It feels right.
Too intimidated to dial a number of someone I don't know, I volunteered to attend a phone bank and learn how to enter the phone bank data. While there, I observed the veteran callers and marveled at their ease and patience on the phone, and their conviction to reelect President Obama. I eavesdropped on their conversations and imagined the people at the other end of the line. I imagined the ones who said they were in. I imagined the ones who agreed to attend a caucus. I imagined the ones that volunteered to work for the campaign. I wondered which of President Obama's promises had touched them and their families.
Was it the Recovery Act? Was someone in their household one of the 3.7 million Americans who had a job saved or created? Was it middle-class tax cuts? Were they part of the 95% of middle class families with a tax cut and/or unemployment benefits? Was it health reform? Was someone in their family finally able to get health coverage? Was it a Civil Rights issue? Do they have a gay service member in their family who can finally have the personal rights we all should enjoy? Is there a woman in their household who now has the right to fight for equal pay? I wondered who those people on the other end of the line were. I thought about how President's Obama's reforms have touched so many lives.
Yes. I'm in! A little deeper now. I'm hosting a phone bank this weekend. I'll listen. I'll observe. I'll enter data. Maybe, I'll pick up the phone and dial someone I don't know. Maybe, I'll get to hear a story about how President Obama has touched a life.


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While ITU is able to provision electronic facilities for remote participation in meetings, please be informed that due to staff cuts in support staff TSB no longer will be able to assist in starting and conducting such remote sessions when meetings are held outside ITU headquarters.
Rapporteurs would therefore need to rely on a person local at the meeting to start and manage the remote participation session. TSB will provide to the Rapporteur-designated person the details of a Gotomeeting account that has the necessary admin rights to perform those two tasks. Delegates may want to take a look at the support articles and training videos available online at http://support.citrixonline.com/GoToMeeting/.
It should be noted that ITU will continue to provide staff support during sessions with remote participation for meetings taking place in ITU HQs, when they are booked with three weeks in advance.
As before, requests for setting up remote meeting participation facilities should be sent to the applicable group secretariat.
Today it is estimated that 65 per cent of the world's population live in cities, with the number set to grow as 1.3 million people move into urban areas every week. This migration has contributed to the rise of megacities, of which there were only three in 1975, now 21 and rising. Experts predict that by 2050 more than 6 billion people will live in urban areas.
To face the challenge of this growing population and meet the rising demand of resources and services, cities need to move towards a path of sustainable growth and development, while remaining respectful of the environment. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be the driver for such solutions.
And here is where you come in...
Now in its third year, ITU and Telefónica are delighted to again present their Green ICT Application Challenge, inviting developers to submit the best and most innovative Concept Paper for an ICT application to help build Smart Sustainable Cities and achieve environmental sustainability in urban areas.
Ideas for topic areas are:
The challenge is open to individuals from ITU Member States, and the author of the best and most innovative Concept Paper for an ICT Application will be awarded a 5,000 USD cash prize in Madrid, Spain on 18 September 2013 during the 3rd ITU Green Standards Week.
But hurry… submission ends on 15 July 2013 at 12:00 PM CET.
For more information please click here
Learn more about ITU-T's work on ICTs, the environment and climate change here.
ITU experts are discussing ways to meet user and operator demand for a standardized methodology for measuring Internet access speeds. The establishment of such a framework would inspire greater consumer confidence in advertised speeds and ensure that accurate comparisons can be made between offerings from different operators.
The experts meeting under the auspices of the ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Conformance and Interoperability Testing (JCA-CIT) are discussing how end-to-end testing can be facilitated via remote access to world-class testing facilities.
A meeting of JCA-CIT, 25 April 2013, analyzed the proposal of an independent speed-testing methodology from a variety of perspectives; taking presentations from a national regulator, a national testing laboratory and a manufacturer of testing equipment.
Germany's Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency) presented its study evaluating the status quo of received Internet access speed as compared to advertised or contracted broadband speeds. The ultimate goal of Germany's research in this field is to produce fundamental considerations for the development of a quality-measurement methodology accessible to end-users. The study attempts to gain an informed basis on various QoS aspects with regard to Article 20 (Contracts) and Article 22 (Quality of Service) of the "Universal Service Directive" of the European Union, Directive 2002/22/EC on "universal service and users' rights relating to electronic communications networks and services".
The testing laboratory of the Central Research Telecommunication Institute (ZNIIS, Russia) presented its implementation plan for the joint ITU-ZNIIS project to establish a 'virtual laboratory' granting developing countries remote access to cutting-edge tools for the assessment of network performance, Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE).
A central goal in the ITU-ZNIIS project is the development of a framework for the remote testing of fixed and mobile Internet access speeds. This goal is the subject of a contribution made by the Russian Federation to ITU-T Study Group 11 which proposes a new work item focused on standardizing the framework and protocols needed to enable the testing of end-to-end Internet access speed. The proposal advocates for the independent estimation of the quality of end-user access to the Internet and the interconnection speeds between carrier networks, thereby offering means to aid operators in drafting service-level agreements (SLAs) with their customers and other operators.
The presentations from the Federal Network Agency of Germany and ZNIIS were supported by a manufacturer's perspective in the form of a presentation on QoS/QoE assessment from a maker of telecom testing equipment, Arcatech (UK).
JCA-CIT enters the 2013-2016 study period with a strengthened mandate, assisting ITU-T Study Group 11 (Protocols and test specifications) in coordinating the implementation of the ITU Conformity and Interoperability (C&I) programme.
Read the report from the most recent meeting of JCA-CIT here (TIES restricted)
More information on the implementation of the ITU C&I Programme is available in the C&I Portal
An upcoming Joint ATU-ITU Seminar on the outcomes of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-12) and the World Conference on International Telecommunications ( WCIT-12) will offer Africa's ICT executives and policy makers an insight into the meaning and significance of these conference's outcomes with a view to ensuring their effective implementation. The event will be preceded by two workshops geared towards key directives issued by WTSA-12 and WCIT-12, that of countering spam and ensuring the eco-friendly management of e-waste. The two full-day workshops are free of charge and open to all interested parties, including non-members of ITU.
The three events will be hosted by South Africa's Department of Communications at the International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa:
WCIT-12's revision of the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) was especially relevant to ITU-T, with the new treaty requiring Member States to encourage the application of relevant ITU-T Recommendations in areas including Quality of Service (QoS), numbering, international calling line identification, international roaming, emergency communications, countering spam, energy-efficiency, e-waste and accessibility. WCIT-12 also called on ITU-T to study the regulatory, technical and economic issues which need to be addressed in the transition from dedicated phone and data networks to converged IP-based networks.
The workshop on "Countering and Combating Spam" responds to Article 7 of the new ITRs on "unsolicited bulk electronic communications" which encourages Member States to cooperate in taking necessary measures to prevent the propagation of spam and minimize its impact on international telecommunication services.
The workshop on the "Environmentally Sound Management of e-Waste" responds to Article 8 of the new ITRs which encourages Member States to adopt energy-efficiency and e-waste best practices, taking into account relevant ITU-T Recommendations. WTSA-12 offered another boost to ITU's mandate in this arena by agreeing a new Resolution on e-waste; giving further impetus to ITU's standardization work on the subject and requesting ITU's standardization and development sectors, ITU-T and ITU-D, to assist Member States in instituting policy frameworks that limit e-waste's negative environmental effects. It also instructs ITU-T Study Group 5 to develop Recommendations, methodologies and other publications relating to handling and controlling e-waste as well as methods of treating it.
The latest ITU-T Technology Watch report charts the rise of mobile money, illustrating the importance of global standards in supporting recent advances in mobile payments enabled by near field communication (NFC) and in fortifying mobile money's inroads into enhancing financial inclusion in developing countries.
Just 15 years ago the mobile phone was used almost exclusively to make calls, send texts and play simple games. Mobile phones today access the Internet, make video calls, take photos, find your location on a map, purchase tickets for public transport, and provide electronic banking services. Innovation in financial services, mobile technology and NFC continues to expand these applications and our ever-present mobile devices are fast evolving into substitutes for wallets and bank accounts, transforming the way we transfer money and pay for goods and services.
The report is published in two parts, the first focused on NFC-enabled mobile payments and the second on mobile money's game-changing impacts in developing countries. Read or download the full report here.
Part 1 analyses innovations in 'tap and go' NFC mobile payments and their likely impact on future standardization activities. A mobile device's electronic account or "mobile wallet" serves to replace deposit accounts, credit accounts, loyalty accounts, merchant accounts, gift cards and coupons. In developed countries the mobile wallet is also playing a role as a container for different currencies and bank accounts.
Part 2 considers the innovations driving mobile money transfer apps in developing countries. Globally, more than 2.5 billion adults do not have access to a formal bank account and mobile money is thus seen as a crucial means through which to tackle the low levels of financial inclusion that continue to pose a barrier to socio-economic development in emerging economies. In keeping with mobile money's importance in the transfer of money between migrant labourers and their dependents, the report also reviews the technical standards working behind the scenes to ensure the security of mobile money transfer services.
The recent meeting of the Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG) has seen the launch of a new Focus Group to hasten standards development in the key area of Smart Water Management.
The formation of the Focus Group on Smart Water Management (FG-SWM) responds to the Luxor Call to Action emanating from a workshop held in Luxor, Egypt, 14-15 April 2013.
The event highlighted the necessity of a multi-stakeholder approach to the development of 'smart' water-management systems; one that incorporates the views of irrigation, agriculture, environment and communications ministries as well as those of the ICT industry and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations.
FG-SWM is expected to carry out the following specific tasks:
The new Focus Group will work in close collaboration with the Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities (FG-SSC) established in February 2013 (read an earlier newslog article on the formation of FG-SSC here).
Learn more about ITU-T's work on ICTs, the environment and climate change here.
The highly-anticipated video coding standard, ITU-T H.265 'High Efficiency Video Coding' (HEVC), is now available free of charge on the ITU website here.
Recommendation ITU-T H.265 is a technically-aligned twin text with International Standard ISO/IEC 23008-2. The standard was developed within the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), a mechanism underscoring the longstanding collaboration of the ITU Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).
ITU-T H.265 will need only half the bit rate of its predecessor, ITU-T H.264 | MPEG-4 Part 10 'Advanced Video Coding' (AVC), which remains the most deployed video compression standard worldwide. The new standard is designed to take account of advancing screen resolutions and is expected to be phased in as high-end products and services outgrow the limits of current network and display technology.
The development of ITU-T H.265 was led by ITU-T Study Group 16 (Multimedia) and the standard was approved by ITU members on 13 April 2013 (detailed in a press release here).
April also saw the approval of the latest edition of HEVC's predecessor, ITU-T H.264. Ten years old this year, ITU-T H.264 is now in its eighth edition and is available free of charge on the ITU website here. The latest edition contains an additional profile for multiview video coding with depth information (the Multiview and Depth profile) as well as additional colourimetry identifiers and improvements to supplemental enhancement information (SEI) messages.
The ITU IPv6 IPTV Global Testbed has undergone a significant expansion with the connection of South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
The international ITU IPv6 IPTV Global Testbed was established by ITU-T in collaboration with Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Hokkaido Television Broadcasting (HTB) and OKI. The backbone to this international IPTV experiment is established through extended connectivity between SANReN and NICT's IPv6 research network, JGN-X (Japan Gigabit Network-eXtreme).
Core ITU standards underpinning the experiment include Recommendation ITU-T H.721's IPTV terminal for Video on Demand (VoD) and Linear TV, ITU-T H.762's Lightweight Interactive Multimedia Environment (LIME) for interactive IPTV services, and ITU-T H.264's video encoding. High-definition IPTV content encoded in H.264 is being delivered over IPv6 between CSIR and other testbed locations, interactively controlled by H.762 on H.721-compliant terminals.
The news marks the first-ever IPTV testbed in Africa. Rwanda's capital, Kigali, will be the next location to join the project with preparations already underway between ITU-T Study Group 16 (Multimedia) and Rwanda's proposed host of the testbed.
For more on ITU-T's work on IPTV, please see ITU's IPTV Global Standards Initiative.
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Although most of these look like large shop tools, the sale looks interesting.Ā I thought some here might want to go check it out.

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My, Oh My Where to I start!: Prinsendam Cruise Review by mycruisedirector
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My, Oh My Where to I start!
Destination: Europe - British Isles & Western
Embarkation: Amsterdam
Our cruise card stating that we were assigned anytime dining after we were assured by the Holland America rep 6 months before that we would have the early seating we requested the 9 months before that. Even though my documents reaffirmed the early seating, they were trumped by our cruise card. So the hassle with the powers that be ensued. I won but really wondered later if it was worth the battle. Later on that.
We had the prized 197 room with the big glass wall. It was really beautiful and there was a ton of storage. We had only one problem, the bathroom had a very strong odor of urine. I washed it down with the Clorox wipes I had brought More and when that didn't work I brought it to the attention of our cabin steward and he made some extra effort wiping it down. To no avail. I think the odor may have been coming from the drain in the floor, who knows. I bought air freshener at the first opportunity on shore. I loved the location of the room, it was perfect and just lovely. That room and the friends we had made on Cruise Critic in advance were really the highlight of our trip.
The food and the service in the dining room was not great. We were put at a table with 2 other delightful couples that were veteran Holland America cruisers and by the 2nd night we realized that our dining was not going to be the highlight of this cruise. The food was not exciting, not bad, but not exceptional. I can identify two items that were to die for- the short-ribs and a crab dip served as a appetizer. The rest was not really up to the standards you expect of a premium cruise line. By the end of the first week the 6 of us came to the conclusion that if we had to identify our servers from a lineup we would not be able to. That is how impersonal the service was. Thank God no one at our table was picky, because it was not happening. No one to ask if you required pepper, or to brush the crumbs off before dessert etc., etc., Those things that usually come with eating at a fine restaurant. To think I wasted my time convincing them that we wanted traditional dining so we could experience the same waiters etc. A joke!
The ports were fine but the tours arranged by Holland were EXPENSIVE. We spent over $1600 on tours and in three ports a bunch of us got together and did our own.
One of the ship's tours to Caldey Island about killed me. These were rated as not extra strenuous but we had to walk about 2 miles, up hill, through sand and climb up out of a rocking boat onto stone steps without a hand rail. I and about 8 other senior citizens had to crawl up the steps to get to a wall to hang on to something so that we did not fall into the ocean. By the time I got to the top my artificial knee and the knee I need to have replaced were knocking together. Never again! This is not like this is my first cruise and my first tour. We have been on dozens of tours and have never experienced anything like this. Beware! They really need to have someone take a look at the ratings of these tours. I can walk, but I am not a triathlon athlete.
The ship itself is lovely, the library with the fireplace and the Explorers Lounge with the espresso bar was great. I never went by without a cup of cappuccino. I think my biggest concern was that there was a lot of illness on the ship and I don't think they promoted the use of Purell and spent enough time wiping down the public places such as rails and elevator buttons. We have been on ships where you did not get a tray without washing your hands with Purell first. There were Purell dispensers all over but I don't think I ever saw anyone wipe any of the surfaces down.
I think, in conclusion, Holland America is succumbing to the "Carnivalization" that has taken place at Princess. It has a whole lot to do with the bottom line but I think a whole lot of bad management. We were disappointed but we will live to cruise again, just maybe not with Holland America. We are really going to look at other options. Again thanks to the Cruise Critic members that made this cruise memorable. We will hold you close in our hearts. Less
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David Benedek has done it all. He's put out some of the most progressive video parts to date, he's invented tricks, made movies and created contests. And now he's hard at work on a book called Current State: Snowboarding. Here's the quote that ran in the December issue of TranWorld and the interview it was pulled from.
Why a book?
I just always found it very intriguing to work on a print project.The switch from film to print is definitely pretty challenging, but it's been really fun so far.
Who is helping you with the book?
Haha, as of right now, I am a one-man army.
Can you give us a preview of the table of contents? What will this book contain?
It's basically an interview compilation with some of snowboarding's most influential characters of the last 20 years. So there's not going to be an actual author voice. One half will be interviews, the other half photos.
What's the hardest thing about making a book or a movie?
Getting going. You can have the greatest ideas but unless you just jump into it it's not going to happen. There's never a right time for anything so you just have to make it happen. I've been carrying this idea around with me for years and I am finally on the road, interviewing people.
What's the most rewarding part of this process?
Holding whatever you created in your hands. Seeing your ideas come to life. Although that has a lot of depressing potential, too. When you're working on something for a long time you tend to only notice your mistakes afterwards.
What do you want people to take away from this book?
It kind of comes down to entertainment I think. Definitely my ambition is to spark some change and bundle some of the voice within snowboarding but really, it's got to be fun to look at. I do think that since a lot of the smarter people within snowboarding work in competing brands or different countries, there's not really much of a collaborative effort to progress and talk to each other. It's definitely pretty interesting to hear that a lot of the people have similar opinions.
And what do you think of the current state of snowboarding?
Well, that's what I am trying to find out right now, I´ll be able to tell you a better answer in a few months. But, overall I think it's doing pretty good.
Why do you like documenting things?
I am not sure if I particularly like documenting things. Documenting always entails some sort of objective truth and that usually requires a lot of work and thinking. So really, I think it's more the creation of an idea that I enjoy.
Who are your biggest creative influences?
Hmm, I don't really have these single people that influence me a great deal. The constant stream of creative work that floats around the world really amazes me. If I wasn't so busy I could spend all day on the Internet just looking at rad projects or films people have been putting together.
How many days a season do you ride these days?
I still ride as much as I can, actually not much less than I ever used to. It's maybe just a bit more focused so I can use my time more efficiently. I don't really go on these 3 month trips anymore where you just wait for weather.
How else do you spend your time these days?
Well, now the book really consumes a lot of my time, but before that and besides snowboarding I've mostly been working on some commercial film stuff.
Which riders are you really hyped on right now?
Phew, so many. Jed Anderson, LNP, Gigi, Danny Davis…too many to mention.
Where will people be able to buy this book?
There will be a limited amount of copies so people will have to reserve their copy online. Maybe there will be some going out to shops, but since it's such a high quality it's just not an option to produce for mass distribution. You can sign up at www.almostanything.com and once the project is closer to completion you'll be contacted for an actual order.
How much is it going to sell for?
I actually don't know yet and I am a bit scared to answer that question. I have some pretty wild print ideas and that might be very expensive.
How do you want to be remembered?
I don't really care actually. Or at least I am trying not to. I think people spend too much time worrying about what people think, I know I definitely used to and probably still do. People will forget about you sooner or later so you should just spend your energy on simply doing good stuff.


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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are formed by nodes with limited computational and power resources. WSNs are finding an increasing number of applications, both civilian and military, most of which require security for the sensed data being collected by the base station from remote sensor nodes. In addition, when many sensor nodes transmit to the base station, the implosion problem arises. Providing security measures and implosion-resistance in a resource-limited environment is a real challenge. This article reviews the aggregation strategies proposed in the literature to handle the bandwidth and security problems related to many-to-one transmission in WSNs. Recent contributions to secure lossless many-to-one communication developed by the authors in the context of several Spanish-funded projects are surveyed. Ongoing work on the secure lossy many-to-one communication is also sketched.
A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of resource-constrained devices equipped with wireless communication technologies and capable of sensing certain events from their environment. These devices are called
WSNs have a broad variety of applications for both civilian and military use. On the civilian side, this technology can be deployed to perform surveillance tasks, to provide emergency response in case of abnormal conditions in a residential or industrial area, to routinely monitor temperatures and pressures at several places in a large chemical plant, etc. On the military side, WSNs are attractive for their ease of deployment (especially in a hostile scenario, like a battlefield). In this kind of scenario, hundreds of sensor nodes are scattered around the area to be monitored. When this process ends, the sensor nodes use their wireless capabilities to establish connections and form the WSN. Finally, the whole network starts its activity [
Communications can be classified according to the number of involved senders and receivers. Single-sender paradigms are:
Efficient one-to-many (and one-to-all) communications can be implemented using a tree topology (
This model provides scalability because the number of receivers can be increased without increasing the workload or the bandwidth needs at the source. Unfortunately, a common monitoring application in WSN cannot be accommodated in this communication-efficient paradigm. This kind of application generally involves a large amount of sensor nodes sending sensed data towards a base station (BS) that processes all received information. This situation results in
Implosion resistance is a challenging issue in the design of many-to-one communication protocols. These protocols also follow a tree topology. In this case, the leaves are the senders, the intermediate nodes are routers that collect the messages coming from their children and aggregate them into a single message that is transmitted upward to their parent, and the root (which corresponds to the BS of a WSN) is the only receiver (
In addition to their scalability, many-to-one communications usually need to be secure. This is especially important in the case of WSNs. Let us assume that a certain entity is using a WSN to obtain some benefit (e.g., economic or military gain). If the network is deployed in an area that is very large and/or cannot be physically protected, its operation might be disrupted by an attacker having interests opposed to those of the owner of the WSN. The above is not a far-fetched scenario: WSNs are often deployed in disseminated and uncontrolled environments and, at the same time, their correct operation is often security-critical (e.g., emergency responses may depend on the collected sensor data). Therefore, in order to be really useful, communication protocols in WSNs should be designed by taking into account certain security requirements. These requirements should include
Due to the relevance and the usefulness of WSNs, the research community has focused on studying the security challenges that arise in the many-to-one communications in these networks. As a result, some proposals have been developed and some new and promising approaches can be found in the literature.
There is a general consensus that, in scenarios where nodes have limited computational capacity and power supply, the high cost of public-key cryptography is usually not affordable. Researchers assume that in such scenarios symmetric cryptography and hash functions constitute the basic tools to provide security.
However, [
Fortunately, the authors of [
More details on the feasibility of deploying public-key cryptography in WSNs can be found in [
This paper identifies the challenges related to the secure many-to-one communications in WSNs and surveys the solutions proposed by these authors in the past years in the context of several Spanish-funded research projects. For those challenges which remain open, ongoing works that address them are described.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 reviews and classifies the aggregation strategies proposed in the literature to handle the bandwidth and security problems inherent to the many-to-one communication. Section 3 surveys our recent contributions to the secure lossless many-to-one communication. Ongoing work in the secure lossy many-to-one communication is described in Section 4. Conclusions are drawn in Section 5.
The authors of [ – If the data is a temperature, different temperatures can be aggregated by computing their average. Information loss comes from the fact that the base station will not learn the temperature obtained by each node but only the average of all readings. – If the data is a counter, different counters can be aggregated by addition. Information loss comes from the base station not being able to find out the exact contribution by each node. – If the data sent is a binary value indicating an alarm, it can be aggregated using a logical OR operation. The base station will know an alarm has been raised but not its exact origin. Lossy approaches cannot be used in scenarios where the BS must know the specific data sent by each sensor.
– If the data is a temperature, different temperatures can be aggregated by computing their average. Information loss comes from the fact that the base station will not learn the temperature obtained by each node but only the average of all readings.
– If the data is a counter, different counters can be aggregated by addition. Information loss comes from the base station not being able to find out the exact contribution by each node.
– If the data sent is a binary value indicating an alarm, it can be aggregated using a logical OR operation. The base station will know an alarm has been raised but not its exact origin. Lossy approaches cannot be used in scenarios where the BS must know the specific data sent by each sensor.
The framework presented in [
In order to provide some background, we next review the most relevant schemes in the literature for
Proposals that focus on this scenario can be divided in two categories described below:
These schemes provide the BS with an undeniable and unforgeable proof that a certain set of leaves have received a specific content. The information sent by the leaves to the BS is unary in the sense that, after receiving a piece of data, every sensor will either respond with a positive acknowledgment (a digital signature) in case of correct reception or stay silent if otherwise.
The systems proposed in [
These systems only provide non-repudiation; other security properties are not addressed. For instance, the BS is unable to distinguish a voluntary non-transmission from malicious erasure of acknowledgments by intruders. The authors in [
Here, the BS first multicasts a data request to the sensor nodes. Then, upon reception of this request, the sensors react by sending one
It is easy to prove that symbols sent by
In [
The scheme in [
Both systems mentioned in this section provide confidentiality, authentication and integrity, and they use bandwidth efficiently. Non-repudiation is not provided by any of them, but their main drawback is the high computational cost. Both use additive public-key privacy homomorphisms, whose clear-text message length grows like
Regarding integrity, both systems permit data corruption to be detected, but the identification of the corrupting nodes is not straightforward and must be done using a tracing procedure described in [
Schemes that fall in this category focus on obtaining aggregate statistics such as SUM, AVERAGE, or MAX/MIN of data readings over a certain space region or time period. These protocols provide different levels of security to the data sent by the sensors. The computation and communication resources needed must be also considered.
Two different approaches can be distinguished:
In this class of schemes, the nodes that perform the aggregation can read the data they are aggregating and can compute any aggregation function on them. Therefore, if the messages are encrypted, the intermediate nodes must be able to decrypt them. The problem is that, when an intermediate node is compromised, the confidentiality and the integrity of all messages traversing that node also become compromised.
The authors of [
Another scheme that only addresses integrity can be found in [
All proposals in this class aggregate encrypted data directly. Data is not decrypted at intermediate nodes, hence the confidentiality of the data traversing the network towards the BS is preserved.
Unfortunately, confidentiality is not provided without cost: schemes in this class allow only one function (or at best a restricted set of functions) to be computed by intermediate nodes on the encrypted data sent by the leaves.
[ Integrity is not provided (although this is addressed in [ The use of a homomorphic cryptosystem is ill-suited to resource-constrained environments. This protocol generates significant overhead if the network is unreliable, since the identities of non-responding sensor nodes must be sent to the BS together with the aggregated result.
Integrity is not provided (although this is addressed in [
The use of a homomorphic cryptosystem is ill-suited to resource-constrained environments.
This protocol generates significant overhead if the network is unreliable, since the identities of non-responding sensor nodes must be sent to the BS together with the aggregated result.
In [
Authors in [
In Section 2.1 we pointed out the need to design efficient protocols to provide secure many-to-one symbol transmission for WSNs. We next survey in some detail our recent contributions to this field.
As mentioned above, sensors are devices with limited computational capabilities and limited battery power. Therefore, WSNs require protocols which
In [
We solve this situation in [
We next explain how this novel protocol works. Further details can be found in [
The BS is a full-fledged computer. Sensor nodes and intermediate nodes are low-cost devices. The BS owns a private key
We represent each symbol from the Upon receiving Each If ( Else ( Note that this step ensures that the sequence ( Each Store each received pair ( Once all expected messages {( If Let While Compute ( If ( Else ( Compute If If
Upon receiving
Each If ( Else (
If (
Else (
Note that this step ensures that the sequence (
Store each received pair (
Once all expected messages {(
While Compute ( If ( Else ( Compute
Compute (
If (
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During symbol extraction, the BS checks the integrity of the received message. If this verification fails, the BS identifies the message as corrupted.
For the received corrupted aggregate
Each intermediate
Our system is designed for nodes with limited computational capacity and power supply. This motivates the need to reduce energy consumption as much as possible. Reducing the length of messages is one way to achieve this.
In our protocol, sensor
This information could be represented in a more compact way using log
For small values of
Therefore using this alternative coding when
We have argued in Section 2.2 that new lightweight protocols providing secure many-to-one lossy transmission are needed. These schemes must allow the BS to obtain aggregate statistics such as SUM, AVERAGE, or MAX/MIN of the data gathered by the sensor nodes. Those proposals should guarantee confidentiality and integrity.
We are currently working in two different contributions in this direction. Both schemes are at an advanced stage of development and we next introduce their main features.
The first scheme is a probabilistic protocol that allows the BS to query the WSN in order to obtain the MAX of the sensed data. Our scenario requires sensor nodes to be capable of computing hash functions and intermediate nodes to be capable of computing bitwise operations. This protocol will prevent an adversary from learning the reading sent by each sensor node (confidentiality against external and internal attackers will be achieved). Besides, we will show that the proposed protocol is also resilient against an adversary who actively tries to alter the readings sent by the sensor nodes, thereby providing data integrity. The proposed solution will be efficient in terms of both the computation and communication required; moreover, the communication overhead will be evenly distributed among nodes, hence increasing the power lifetime of the WSN.
It is straightforward to extend this first protocol to compute the MIN, as well as to perform range queries (i.e., to query whether there is any node that has sensed values within a given range). In turn, range queries are a building block for more complex queries.
In a second protocol in preparation, we propose mixing both lossless and lossy approaches to obtain a secure and scalable protocol designed to provide secure many-to-one
In the initial version of the protocol, confidentiality will be guaranteed by having intermediate nodes aggregate encrypted data directly. The required process may be excessively resource-demanding and thus not suitable for lightweight WSNs. This will be improved in a subsequent version of the system. Perfect integrity will be achieved only against individual dishonest nodes trying to alter transmitted data. Colluding nodes may modify the final result of a mathematical function applied to the received data, but they will be able to cause only a limited deviation from the correct result. Finally, authentication will be provided in the sense that the BS will be able to verify that all data come from authorized sensors.
Regarding the transmission cost of the protocol, we plan to offer a message length growing logarithmically with the number of sensors of the network, which guarantees scalability.
Due to their resource-constrained nature, their security-critical application and the implosion problems caused by their many-to-one traffic, wireless sensor networks are a challenging technology.
We have reviewed and classified the aggregation strategies used to merge the information sent by a community of sensor nodes into a single message to be collected by a base station. Some of these strategies fail to provide security and others provide security with a computation cost unaffordable by WSN nodes. Recent contributions to the secure lossless many-to-one communication developed by these authors in the context of several Spanish-funded research projects have been reviewed.
Lossy many-to-one communication is an attractive option when the bandwidth problem is the main concern. To guarantee security in lossy scenarios with reasonable computational burden is an open issue. We have sketched work in progress in this direction.
The authors are with the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, but they are solely responsible for the views expressed in this paper, which do not necessarily reflect the position of UNESCO nor commit that organization. This work was partly supported by the Spanish Government through projects TSI2007-65406-C03-01 "E-AEGIS", CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00004 "ARES" and MTM2007-66842-C02-02. The second author is also partially supported as an ICREA-Acadèmia Researcher by the Government of Catalonia.
One-to-many communication using a tree topology.
Many-to-one communication.
Message flow in a protocol execution.


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Uma Thurman Gives Baby Girl Seven Names!
Actress Uma Thurman gave birth to a baby girl on July 15 and kept mum on the child's name, but she and financer beau Arpad Busson are ready to formally introduce their daughter.
The rep added, "Each name has a special reason and meaning to her mother and father."
Baby Luna is the first child for Thurman, 42, and Busson, 49. Uma has two children, Maya Ray, 14, and Levon, 10, from Thurman's marriage to Ethan Hawke. Busson also has two sons with ex-fiancée Elle Macpherson.


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