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|14 Feb 2013
So do I just keep installing everything else manually and hope that some day it will install and then my system will return to normal?
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KB2719857 error code 800F0826
KB2773072 error code 800F0826
KB2732487 error code 80070005
I think I figured out the bottom one is the one causing the other 2 not to update, but I have gone beyond my troubleshooting skills. All other updates that have come through I can get to suceed if I do them manually, but these 3 just won't cooperate.
So focus on KB2732487 error code 80070005
When you try to install updates by using Microsoft Update or Windows Update, you may receive error 0x80070005. You may receive this error if you don't have the appropriate permissions to install a particular update.
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|14 Feb 2013
I'll get back to you - I'm 'otherwise occupied' and playing catch-up at the same time
(I really must get a reliable ISP!)
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|16 Feb 2013
Any more help?
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Sorry, Mark - I've been rather busy the last few days!
KaktuSoft is correct - the 0x80070005 error is actually an 'Access Denied' error, often implying that permissions somewhere have been mis-set, but sometimes also meaning that the required folder or setting isn't present (which would more properly be an 0x8007002 or...003 error)
The trick is to work out where the failure occurs - and I don't understand the WU log enough to work it out from that.
I'll review all the logs later and see if I can spot something relevant.
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Please try installing all three updates by downloading the installers...
Download Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2732487) from Official Microsoft Download Center
Download Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2719857) from Official Microsoft Download Center
Download Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2773072) from Official Microsoft Download Center
Run each one and note the exact error received (if any), and then do a check for updates in WU.
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|18 Feb 2013
I followed the links you posted and here are the results
2732487 went thru install process, restarted and went thru config process, quit at 7%, machine restarted and failed to configure and restarted and reverted back. Error code 80070005
2719857 went thru install process, restarted and went thru config process, quit at 7%, machine restarted and procedded to 9% then failed to configure and restarted and reverted back. Error code 80070005
2773072 updated with no problems.
I tried the other 2 again after the last one worked and got the same errors again.
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|19 Feb 2013
OK - please run new SFC an CheckSUR, and post the new CBS.log and CheckSUR.log files.
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|19 Feb 2013
Here are the new logs. Thanks again for all your help.
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Benard didn't want to get into details, but Ashai Sharoz, which means "a special gift" in Muslim, was born prematurely. He said the majority of the worries are over.
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Benard collapsed in the locker room Nov. 11 and spent about eight hours in the hospital. Doctors cleared him of any serious ailment and he played against the Jets, registering a sack to give him a team-high 5½ on the year.
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Defensive back Mike Adams (abdomen), linebacker Eric Barton (thigh) and defensive lineman Shaun Rogers (ankle) returned to practice Thursday.
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So deeply has the Chanel aesthetic been impressed upon us that we no longer see it—like the air we breathe, it is everywhere but invisible.
Have you read Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History? It's the story of how the #1 luxury brand in the world was created. Coco Chanel was a self-made multimillionaire before she turned 40, and she was the founder of what is still the highest-earning privately owned luxury-goods manufacturer in the world.
'Every day millions of women awake and costume themselves as some version of Coco Chanel, choosing from a vast array of simple and reproducible items that created the streamlined look designed and worn first by Chanel, then by her vast army of customers: skirt suits in neutral colours, trousers, cardigan sweaters, jersey knits, T-shirts, flat shoes, the little black dress, and about a hundred other items we consider wardrobe staples.'
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While all the other luxury couturiers of her day went to great lengths to make it hard for others to copy their designs, Chanel didn't care a whit if someone copied her.
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She wanted everyone to wear her designs, even if they couldn't afford to buy them from her, so that she would become the most well-known fashion designer in the world.
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We all have ideas. We all have gifts and expertise to share with the world, and many of us have spent years developing our talents. Some of us make a living sharing these talents, some try to, and others keep our skills as a hobby. As a group, we're often told about the importance of protecting our talents, of copyrighting our best stuff, of not giving too much away lest we water down our value.
But all that self-protection can get lonely. In this ever-changing blogosphere, one thing that has remained is the importance of relationships, but relationships are hard to cultivate if we're all caught up in protecting ourselves from supposedly inevitable copyright infringement. It got me thinking about my own business, which has evolved over the years and is ready to evolve even more.
As many of you know, I have a system of understanding colour that should be taught in design schools. It should be taught to everyone who wants to decorate professionally, and to anyone who wants to decorate just their own living room. It should be used everywhere we use colour, and especially for permanent, fixed finishes and fabrics that are costly to replace. I've spent 15 years developing my system, and I've spent countless hours teaching it directly to design professionals and enthusiasts around the world.
I'm passionate about this because I know how deflating it can be to make the wrong choice during a renovation or decorating project. If you buy a skirt in the wrong colour, it's not going to break the bank, but tile, countertop, and carpet are significantly more expensive (and prominent) investments. Not many of us can afford to rip out our mistakes and start again, so we're stuck living with the disappointment of a bad choice for years, or even decades.
My method has saved thousands of homeowners and professionals from themselves. It teaches everyone how to walk confidently into a store, see the undertone in any sample, and understand why that undertone either does or doesn't fit into their overall decorating scheme. Believe me, being able to tell if a carpet swatch is green-beige, yellow-beige, or pink-beige is the difference between being delighted with your home, and being miserable and resentful.
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My system has always been available for sale on this website, and always under a copyright agreement. My students and readers have agreed to my terms and kept my material to themselves, but as of today, I'm tipping my hat to Chanel (and Leo Babauta) and releasing all my content — blog posts, photos, e-books, and courses — into the public domain. I waive my copyright on everything I've ever produced. If you want to share my work you do not need my permission, and you can just ignore the copyright statement in my e-books until I get around to updating the file.
Effectively immediately, I am not only allowing, but encouraging, the sharing and broad dissemination of my content. I want as many people as possible to know how to choose colour and make their homes beautiful, and I want that knowledge to be so impressed upon us all that it's "like the air we breathe, […] invisible, but everywhere."
Just to be clear, uncopyright does not mean free.
Of course I'd like it if you continue to buy my eBooks and on-demand training and credit would be appreciated if you choose to redistribute my stuff. The web store will remain open, and you can pop over there any time. If you've already bought something from me, accept my sincerest thanks.
Everyone says you should never choose a niche that's too small, or it will take too long to get your message out. My Understanding Undertones system might qualify as "too small" to some, but when your niche finds you, you have only two choices: ignore it because it's challenging, or work really hard to get your ideas out there into the world. I chose (and choose) the latter. But why work really hard on a blog like this, only to release all copyright claim to it eight years later?
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I'm not going anywhere. I will continue to show up in this space on a regular basis, sharing what I know about colour and interacting with all of you.
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I was very pleased with the location of this hotel, only fifty yards from the Washington DC area Metro station, and on the route of the free Old Town trolley service to Old Town Alexandria. While the location for anyone traveling to the DC area was perfect, it fell far short of expectations regarding cleanliness and attention to detail.
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Number luxury cottages: 6 • Bed capacity: 12
Children over the age of 12 years can be accommodated
Please note: guests are required to climb 132 steps to the lodge
Tshukudu Bush Lodge is located in the malaria free Pilanesberg National Park, in North West Province. It is built high on the side of a hilltop and offers sweeping views of the plains and the waterhole below.
Tshukudu has only 6 luxury cottages and is one of Africa's most romantic bush lodges, with personal service guaranteed.
Due to the fact that guests are required to climb 132 steps to the lodge, it is inaccessible to the physically challenged.
Tshukudu is famous for bushveld experience, its service, the quality of game rangers and uniqueness of its African inspired cuisine makes it one of the foremost Pilanesberg Lodges.
Rates vary depending on your lodge selection, the time of year and specials available. Please contact us for the most up to date rates for this specific lodge.
A lodge may offer special or discounted rates from time to time. Please enquire.
Special rates exclude peak periods, public holidays and long-weekends - and are subject to availability.
Rates include accommodation, welcome drink on arrival, high tea, five course dinner, early morning tea/coffee, brunch, all local beverages and two game drives per day.
Rates are quoted per night.
Tshukudu is renowned for its tranquillity and superb personalised service. Children under the age of 12 years are therefore not allowed.
Tshukudu Bush Lodge has 6 luxury cottages each with:
Cell phone signals can sometimes be received. The lodge facilities do not include radios, telephones or TVs.
Like all Pilanesberg Lodges, Tshukudu offers exceptional African cuisine and has a fully inclusive wine selection of note. Meals are served either on the main deck, in the intimate dining room or around the fire.
Specialty braais are available on request.
High tea and meals are provided on the deck overlooking the plain and waterhole at the foot of the hill.
Tshukudu is the perfect base from which to enjoy the rich diversity of indigenous flora and fauna of Africa. Amongst all other species the big five animals can also be seen here.
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Small conferences and meetings can be arranged on request.
Conference facilities available on request for 12 delegates.
Tshukudu Bush Lodge is located in the heart of the Pilanesberg National Park.
An easy drive of 2 hours from Johannesburg.
Access is through the Bakubung Gate and guests are transfered to Tshukudu at 14h30 from Bakubung.
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That Money Show | 2000
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Series that takes a fast-paced look at money. Taped each Friday after the U.S. stock markets close, the program takes the weekly pulse of money in the world, from high finance to home economics. The week's "Money Headlines" opens each show. A "Money Forecast" for the week ahead wraps things up. In between, the news team offers an array of studio and on-location segments to illuminate the week's money trends, discuss ideas and demonstrate skills that help viewers better manage their money. Segments include "Money Maker," a video potrait of someone starting out in their first real job; "The One-Minute MBA," everything they teach in business school distilled into 60-second animations; "Money Makeover," a team of financial advisors renovates a family's finances; and "Glossary of Green," financial terminology explained.


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Model-driven orchestration of web services based on BPMN and WebML
In this thesis the problem of implementing of orchestration of web services through BPMN and WebML is discussed, based on working example of travel agency. Here I present a visual model which combines the processing power of parallel computation with the ease of web service usage. Parallelization of Web Services is provided by using multi threading technology. Managing Web services shares business challenges with the management of Web-based infrastructure and applications that use distributed computing models.
Process automation for 3D City Model development (in Italian): Automazione di processo per lo sviluppo di 3D City Models
Obiettivo del presente lavoro è stato l'utilizzo delle più moderne tecnologie del rilievo aereo, integrato con l'utilizzo di strumenti software, appositamente svilupatti, per la definizione di un processo industrializzato di produzione del 3D City Model, garantendo tempi e costi inferiori rispetto all'approccio produttivo tradizionale.
Assembly process automation for ABB Instrumentations (in Italian): Automazione del processo di assemblaggio finale di ABB Instrumentations
Automatic generation of web applications from extended business process models (in Italian)
This work deals with the complete generation of web applications from extended process models.
The purpose is to provide some tools which can support the development of the application in all its phases, from the requirements specification to the design and the final deployment.
WebML: the Web Modeling Language - tutorial with audio and slides
The Web Modeling Language
The Web Modelling Language (WebML) is a visual notation for specifying the composition and navigation features of hypertext applications.
You can find here the multimedia lessons (slides + audio) about the following WebML topics:
WebML and WebRatio BPM - shared presentation
This presentation is a long introduction to the basics of WebML and of WebRatio. It describes how to model web applications, business processes, web content and web services. It describes WebML and BPMN and presents WebRatio BPM.
Tutorial on Search applications at ICWE 2010
Half-day tutorial on Search applications development has been accepted at ICWE 2010 (authors: Brambilla, Bozzon)
Paper on SeCo Liquid Query at WWW 2010
Our paper on SeCo liquid query has been published at WWW 2010
Integration of a human face annotation technology in an audio-visual search engine platform.
Bozzon, A., Brambilla, M., Fraternali, P., Pigazzini, P., 2010. Integration of a human face annotation technology in an audio-visual search engine platform. In: SAC '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 839-843.
Search-Based Web Applications are configurable and customizable platforms for multimedia search over the Web. This paper describes the results of the integration of an annotation component for automatic face recognition within a configurable multimedia Web search platform. We integrate a third-party image analysis technology for human face recognition, by extending it in order to cope with the requirements of video annotation solutions on the Web and wrapping it according to the platform's integration specification. As a result, the annotator outcomes are indexed within the platform and can be used for multi-modal and content-based search. We evaluate our experience in terms of development effort required, indexing performances, and perceived quality of the annotation results.
Liquid query: multi-domain exploratory search on the web
Bozzon, A., Brambilla, M., Ceri, S., Fraternali, P., 2010. Liquid query: multi-domain exploratory search on the web. In: WWW '10: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 161-170.
In this paper we propose the Liquid Query paradigm, to support users in finding responses to multi-domain queries through exploratory information seeking across structured information sources (Web documents, deep Web data, and personal data repositories), wrapped by means of a uniform notion of search service. Liquid Query aims at filling the gap between general-purpose search engines, which are unable to find information spanning multiple topics, and domain-specific search systems, which cannot go beyond their domain limits. The Liquid Query interface consists of interaction primitives that let users pose questions and explore results spanning over multiple sources incrementally, thus getting closer and closer to the sought information. We demonstrate our approach with a prototype built upon the YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) framework.
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Kollywood circles are wondering at actress Sonia Aggarwal's latest slim and trim avatar. Though nobody has gone public about it, those who have seen her at the recent audio-launch of her upcoming film Oru Nadigaiyin Vakkumoolam (ONV) can't stop raving about how elegant and slim she looked.
Sonia married director Selvaraghavan a few years back when she was still on top of her career. The marriage turned bitter and culminated in the couple filing for divorce from each other. Though Selvaa opted for second marriage and married Gitajali this year, Sonia didn't want to commit herself into another relationship so soon and instead wanted to try her luck for the second time in films. This year' Vaanam, where she played a small but significant role, turned out to be a hit film, encouraging her to continue to sustain her in films.
As such, ONV has her playing the solo heroine wherein she plays an actress. She spoke at length at the audio-launch of the film a few days back and was surely the cynosure of many eyes. Sources close to her say that she neither opted for rigorous work-outs not went on a crash-course in dieting to shed the flab around her waist which she had accumulated in the past few years.
In order to look slim to bag heroine's roles, Sonia went for the 'liposuction' treatment whereby a small hole is made and the flab 'sucked' through it, sources point out. Thanks to her 'slim' look, she has bagged as many as 3 new films in just a week's time!
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The cabinets date from 1900. Made from mahogany with boxwood line and satinwood inlay. One cabinet ahs a raised gallery back, the other doesnt. They have different astro glazed doors. Inside each has 2 shelves and lined in matching floral blue fabric material. Standing on splayed legs with a bottom corner undertier. Comes with key.
Offered in good order. Great colour and shine to the mahogany. The interiors are mint clean. Solid and sturdy.
Each cabinet stands 24" wide, 11.5" deep & 61"high.
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Fines for dooring offences in Victoria have more than doubled – to a maximum court penalty of $1408.
The on-the-spot fine for dooring has risen to $352, up from $141 – up from one penalty unit to 2.5.
The maximum court penalty has risen from $423 (three penalty units) to $1408 (10 units).
VicRoads has begun an advertising campaign warning drivers to look for cyclists before they open a car door.
The ads say that under Rule 269(3) of the Victorian Road Safety Road Rules 2009, it is an offence to cause a hazard to a person or a vehicle by opening a door, leaving a door of a vehicle open or getting off or out of a vehicle.
The new fine scale began in August.
"This increase is to reflect the risk to bike riders and other road users from the risks of vehicle doors opening in their path," the VicRoads ads say.
In tips for drivers and passengers, the ads say:
"When getting out of your car, always use your mirrors and do a head check before opening your door (one way to do this is to open the driver's door with your left hand).
"When getting into your car, face the oncoming traffic so you can see bike riders and other road users travelling towards you. Do not open your car door until they have passed.
For more information visit www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/cardoors
Interest in the issue was triggered last January by Coroner Heather Spooner's findings after her inquest late last year into the death of cyclist James Cross in Hawthorn in 2010 – in which a police officer said senior officers had stopped her charging the driver involved.
Ms Spooner heard evidence during the inquest that the rate of doorings had increased dramatically, reaching 171 in 2009 and 161 in 2010. In nearly all the recorded crashes, there was an injury of some kind.
Bicycle Network Victoria said the trend also was reflected in its membership crash data, which showed doorings doubling in a year.
Dooring made news in Melbourne again last Christmas Eve when Country Fire Authority Chief Officer Euan Ferguson broke his hand in a dooring crash at Hawthorn.
Last January, Victoria Police, VicRoads, Bicycle Network Victoria and Road Safe Action Group – Inner Melbourne launched a campaign aimed at riders and drivers on how to avoid dooring crashes.
Bicycle Network Victoria said at that time that a dooring crash was always the fault of the driver but cyclists could take measures to lessen the risk of a collision.
"Ride sensibly and predictably in a consistent straight line to avoid dangerous or risky situations," it said.
"Cyclists can see a lot more than drivers inside a car – allow for them not being able to see cyclists easily and be wary until eye contact has been made.
"Do not weave in and out of car spaces and traffic or ride fast in narrow spaces with little room for error – such as between two vehicles unless there is room to swerve or time to stop.
"Stay out of the door zone – about 1.5m from the car – or ride at a speed from which it is possible to stop.
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Lexington Real Foods Community CoopBuffalo & Western NY, New York
Buffalo, New York 14222
Your local place for wholesome ingredients
The coop has been a community staple in the Buffalo area since 1971. You can find your fresh produce and organic groceries here. They also have a small fresh baked goods section where you can find vegan rice krispies and a fresh deli section for a quick bite. They currently have over 3000 member-owners including me. But you don't have to be a member to shop there. Come for the quality food you can't find other places. If its not there they'll order it for you.
Mission Statement of Lexington (from website)
We are a membership-based organization, open to the entire community. We commit ourselves to serving both members and non-members by: providing a natural foods grocery store in a friendly environment, providing education about nutrition, consumer issues and co-operative principles, nurturing the local economy and the environment.
Added by Anne on Oct 3 06 (last updated Jan 20 09)
Mark this place closed (permanently).
Most Recent Reviews
David S.
A really nice co-operative grocery with plenty of vegan baked goods and other items.
Bit pricy, but they do have good deals sometimes. Be sure things from the deli say Vegan (if your vegan that is) prior to buying them (word of advise from a staff member when I was shopping in there last). Not too shabby.
NeighborhoodElmwood Village
On Elmwood Avenue just before Auburn Avenue next to Digging It.
Wheelchair Accessible
- Checks
- Eclectic (Varied)
- Macrobiotic
- (Mostly) Organic
- Buffet
- Kid-Friendly
- Kosher
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cc [ flag ... ] file ... -ltnfctl [ library ... ] #include <tnf/tnfctl.h>
tnfctl_errcode_t tnfctl_probe_apply(tnfctl_handle_t *hndl, tnfctl_probe_op_t probe_op, void *clientdata);
tnfctl_errcode_t tnfctl_probe_apply_ids(tnfctl_handle_t *hndl, ulong_t probe_count, ulong_t *probe_ids, tnfctl_probe_op_t probe_op, void *clientdata);
tnfctl_probe_apply() is used to iterate over the probes controlled by hndl. For every probe, the probe_op function is called:
typedef tnfctl_errcode_t (*tnfctl_probe_op_t)( tnfctl_handle_t *hndl, tnfctl_probe_t *probe_hndl, void *clientdata);
Several predefined functions are available for use as probe_op. These functions are described in tnfctl_probe_state_get(3TNF).
The clientdata supplied in tnfctl_probe_apply() is passed in as the last argument of probe_op. The probe_hndl in the probe operation function can be used to query or change the state of the probe. See tnfctl_probe_state_get(3TNF). The probe_op function should return TNFCTL_ERR_NONE upon success. It can also return an error code, which will cause tnfctl_probe_apply() to stop processing the rest of the probes and return with the same error code. Note that there are five (5) error codes reserved that the client can use for its own semantics. See ERRORS.
The lifetime of probe_hndl is the same as the lifetime of hndl. It is good until hndl is closed by tnfctl_close(3TNF). Do not confuse a probe_hndl with hndl. The probe_hndl refers to a particular probe, while hndl refers to a process or the kernel. If probe_hndl is used in another libtnfctl(3TNF) interface, and it references a probe in a library that has been dynamically closed (see dlclose(3C)), then the error code TNFCTL_ERR_INVALIDPROBE will be returned by that interface.
tnfctl_probe_apply_ids() is very similar to tnfctl_probe_apply(). The difference is that probe_op is called only for probes that match
a probe id specified in the array of integers referenced by probe_ids. The number of probe ids in the array should be specified in probe_count. Use
tnfctl_probe_state_get() to get the probe_id that corresponds to the probe_handl.
tnfctl_probe_apply() and tnfctl_probe_apply_ids() return TNFCTL_ERR_NONE upon success.
The following errors apply to both tnfctl_probe_apply() and tnfctl_probe_apply_ids():
TNFCTL_ERR_INTERNAL An internal error occurred.
TNFCTL_ERR_USR1 Error code reserved for user.
TNFCTL_ERR_USR2 Error code reserved for user.
TNFCTL_ERR_USR3 Error code reserved for user.
TNFCTL_ERR_USR4 Error code reserved for user.
TNFCTL_ERR_USR5 Error code reserved for user.
tnfctl_probe_apply() and tnfctl_probe_apply_ids() also return any error returned by the callback function probe_op.
The following errors apply only to tnfctl_probe_apply_ids():
TNFCTL_ERR_INVALIDPROBE The probe handle is no longer valid. For example, the probe is in a library that has been closed by dlclose(3C).
Example 1: Enabling Probes
To enable all probes:
tnfctl_probe_apply(hndl, tnfctl_probe_enable, NULL);
Example 2: Disabling Probes
To disable the probes that match a certain pattern in the probe attribute string:
/* To disable all probes that contain the string "vm" */ tnfctl_probe_apply(hndl, select_disable, "vm"); static tnfctl_errcode_t select_disable(tnfctl_handle_t *hndl, tnfctl_probe_t *probe_hndl, void *client_data) { char *pattern = client_data; tnfctl_probe_state_t probe_state; tnfctl_probe_state_get(hndl, probe_hndl, &probe_state); if (strstr(probe_state.attr_string, pattern)) { tnfctl_probe_disable(hndl, probe_hndl, NULL); } }
Note that these examples do not have any error handling code.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
prex(1), TNF_PROBE(3TNF), dlclose(3C), dlopen(3C), libtnfctl(3TNF), tnfctl_close(3TNF), tnfctl_probe_state_get(3TNF), tracing(3TNF), tnf_kernel_probes(4), attributes(5)
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Davenport, IA 52801-1104
Phone: 563-326-8625
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David's Auto Repair Service LLC
Review for David's Auto Repair Service LLC
Kirk S. on 03/24/2016
Spoke with Sharon. She said this business is always kind to her. They listen to whatever is going on, she never has a hard time with them and sometimes it takes them a while but they fix what needs to be fixed. She said she feels very confident going there. From her own personal experiences, they go above and beyond on what they need to do and she appreciates it.
Vehicle: Volkswagen Jetta
Category: Service
Service Date: 03/09/2016
Review Created: 03/24/2016
This review was collected via phone interview by Customer Research Inc.
David B. at David's Auto Repair Service LLC responded on 03/26/2016
Thank you Sharon... It is our pleasure working on your vehicle. We always try and go above and beyond for all of our customers especially great customers like you and Kirk! Thank you again for the review and your business!


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"Places most respected and recommended by locals."
National Geographic
With the National Historic Landmark, Louis Bolduc House, as its centerpiece, New France – the Other Colonial America at the Bolduc House Museum tells the story of the French American community in the Missouri's first town and the bread-basket of New France, Ste. Genevieve. Prior to the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, this community was home to a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural group of people from at least five Native American tribes, France, Spain, and Africa under the colonial governments of both France and Spain. With five historic houses, our campus provides a Living History experience for the whole family.
Four of our five historic houses are vertical log "post on sill" structures – the French vernacular architecture for which our National Historic Landmark designation was based. The Louis Bolduc House boasts its original Norman Truss roof structure with slave-built hand hewn logs and carved pegs.
In addition to a story-based interpretation of French Ste. Genevieve, we have a great exhibit about the African experience in colonial Ste. Genevieve that starts with the African context of the Bambara people who were the most likely tribe to be enslaved by La Traite, the French slave trade. It provides the names of slave buyers and sellers in Ste. Genevieve and detailed information about what individual Africans did here based on research in the Ste. Genevieve archives.
We also feature an exhibit of the Shawnee and Delaware experience in eastern Missouri. This is the result of a partnership with the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, the Delaware Tribe, the Delaware Nation, and the Missouri Humanities Council. Learn about the Doctrine of Discovery, the history of Tecumseh's tribe as defenders of "the Spanish Illinois Country" and then visit our Eastern Woodland Village outdoor area with a Three Sister's Garden, a Dye Garden, a dug-out canoe, wigwam, and ceramics firing pit.


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WWE News: Taz talks about the Orton and Wyatt angle on SmackDown Live
Former ECW superstar share his opinion about the developing rift in the Wyatt Family
What's the story?
Former WWE and ECW superstar Taz spoke about the ongoing storyline between Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton. On his podcast, The Taz Show, Taz discussed the events that transpired to close the show this past Tuesday night on SmackDown Live.
In case you didn't know...
The WWE Championship picture is at an interesting crossroads with Bray Wyatt as Champion, AJ Styles as the number one contender for the championship and Randy Orton coming back into the picture by turning on Bray Wyatt.
The heart of the matter
On the last episode of SmackDown Live, Randy Orton turned on Bray Wyatt as he burned down the Wyatt Family compound. Orton said that the compound was the resting grounds of "Sister Abigail" and by burning the compound, he was laying waste to her essence.
Taz said that the booking made Bray Wyatt look like a babyface while Randy took the place of the heel in the rivalry. He said that the segment was shot to perfection with both Bray and Randy executing their characters brilliantly. He stated that Orton's actions led to the WWE Universe feeling sorry for Bray, making the eccentric leader of the Wyatt Family a babyface in the eyes of the crowd.
Also read: WWE News: Randy Orton turns on Bray Wyatt and challenges him for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 33
Taz said that Bray Wyatt needed to take some extreme steps in the coming weeks to regain some of the heel heat going into WrestleMania. Taz suggested that Wyatt blindsiding Orton in a vicious attack would be the way to go.
What's next?
Bray Wyatt has painted a target on his back after winning the WWE Championship at Elimination Chamber. Wyatt was visibly shocked and appalled to see his "Brother" Randy Orton turn on him. Given that Styles is also looking for a second run with the WWE Championship, Bray Wyatt will face stiff odds going into WrestleMania
Sportskeeda's take
The title picture on SmackDown Live has become crowded with both Randy Orton and AJ Styles gunning for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania. There are rumours of AJ Styles leaving the title picture to feud with Shane McMahon, but it is still too early to comment as to how the main event of WrestleMania shapes up. However, one thing is certain that Bray Wyatt will have to step up his game if he wishes to walk out of WrestleMania as the WWE Champion.
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Effects of High Intensity Interval Exercise on Inflammation and Endothelial Function in Children & Adolescents With Obesity
Obesity, even in children, is generally accompanied by a state of chronic inflammation. To
combat childhood obesity, clinicians and scientists recommend lifestyle interventions that
include increased physical activity and exercise in an attempt to promote weight loss and,
consequently, decrease comorbidities associated with excess adiposity. More importantly, it
appears that the influence of regular exercise may offer children with obesity a multitude
of health benefits, independent of weight loss. However, the intensity of exercise required
to elicit significant health benefits is still unclear. Therefore, the aim of the present
project is to study the influence of high intensity interval exercise (HIIE) on the existing
inflammatory state found in obesity. Specifically, the proposed project will examine
endothelial function and markers of inflammation, such as TNFa, IL-6, hsCRP, and
adiponectin, in children with obesity before and after an exercise intervention. The data
will then be used to determine if changes in these values differ in magnitude based on the
intensity of exercise. Children with obesity will be randomized into either moderate
exercise or HIIE groups, and attend sessions 3 times per week for 6 weeks. The moderate
group will cycle continuously for 30 minutes at 65%-70% of maximal heart rate and the HIIE
group will perform ten, 2-minute bouts at 90%-95% of maximal heart rate. Outcome measures of
body composition, aerobic capacity, blood lipids, glucose metabolism, endothelial function,
and inflammation will be measured pre- and post-intervention. Results may help in
establishing exercise protocols not only for children with obesity, but also other
inflammatory diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and arthritis.
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment
Inflammation and endothelial function measured via forearm vascular resistance (FVR) and blood markers including tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-a), interleukin-6 (IL-6), adiponectin, high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), and endothelin 1.
The primary outcomes are the percent change in FVR and in inflammatory markers (hsCRP, IL-6, TNF-α, and adiponectin) from pre- to post-intervention in both groups.
Within one month pre and one month post-intervention
Ihuoma Eneli, MD
Principal Investigator
Nationwide Children's Hospital
United States: Institutional Review Board
September 2012
April 2013
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Located minutes away from the Providence International Airport in Warwick, the Best Western Providence Airport is a great place to stay before your flight.
The hotel offers many free amenities with your stay, including breakfast, newspaper, local calls, access to the fitness and business centers, and shuttle service to and from the airport. Chelo's Restaurant and The Legal Seafood are also located right across the street.
Rooms feature a TV, microwave, desk, hairdryer, alarm clock, iron/ironing board, and coffee pot. Pets are welcome!
Choose this hotel for your next Park Sleep Fly package and experience the convenience and comfort during your pre-flight stay.
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Staff very friendly and helpful Rooms clean
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Hotel was clean. We weren't there long enough to make a detailed evaluation but I would definitely stay there again. It was extremely close to the airport. They offered a simple but decent complimentary breakfast snack area. (not a sit down breakfast) A little understaffed for the return shuttle service, but we didn't wait any longer than we've waited at other hotels in the past...
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neat, clean and very friendly staff
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The Hotel was in the middle of a revamp, The room was clean and the bed comfortable
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This is a great service and made our travel very easy. The hotel was very neat and clean. The staff at the front desk were very Courteous, friendly and very helpful. The hotel shuttle service was very quick and easy. The hotel night manager was very cordial and picked us up at the airport within 5 minutes of our phone call. I highly recommend park sleep fly and Best Western Providence Airport Inn.
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Great location. Easy to take shuttle to airport
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My room was on the first floor and a little on the chilly side for me. When I told the front desk that they were willing to move me up a floor, I declined and found that I could manage for one night. It was nice to know that the offer to move me was there.
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Clean and comfortable. The night clerk was exceptional.
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Great customer service. We always stay here when we travel, which gives us an extra day of vacation. It's within walking distance of several very good restaurants. During one visit there was a snowstorm at home while we were traveling. We got back to Providence and the hotel employees had cleaned our car. Can't beat that! We call the shuttle when we receive our luggage and wait no more than 5 minutes for the shuttle. Cannot say enough good about our many stays at this Best Western.
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Infiltrate the enemy as a psychic spy, leaping from body to body by touch! But when your own body is stolen, you'll race against time to find it before your mind disintegrates.
The ORPHEUS Ruse is the thrilling interactive spy novel by Paul Gresty, where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based–without graphics or sound effects–but driven by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
What secrets have your mentors been keeping from you? Can you trust your friends when you don't know whose face they're wearing? What will you sacrifice to hide your powers from the world?
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Arriving in Zanzibar, December 22 at 6 am
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We arrived in the very small airport Karibuni in Zanzibar around 6 am. Unguja is the Swahili name for Zanzibar. It is often used to distinguish the island from the Zanzibar Archipelago(which also includes Pemba). The word Zanzibar comes from the Arabic Zinj el-Barr or "Land of the Blacks".
As soon as we got down from the airplane, we got our luggage. Very quickly and manual indeed. It was a very special, exotic and fascinating first encounter with the people of Zanzibar. Such a different culture, as if we were transported through the centuries, to the ancient kingdom of Persia, to the Oman days with its caliphs and sultans, to the coast of India with its sensual rhythms:):)Men wearing kanzu (white robes) and kofia (caps). Women in their flowing black bui-bui (cover alls).
Zanzibar is an archipelago 60 miles long and 20 miles wide and has a total area 610 squaremiles.. The local people are an incredible mixture of ethnic backgrounds.A mix of influences from the Indian continent, the Arabian peninsula, the African mainland and Europe. Islam is the dominant religion and practiced by most Zanzibaris, although there are also followers of Christianity and Hinduism. Zanzibaris speak swahili. Fishing and agriculture are the main economic activities of the local people. Once Zanzibar was the worlds largest producer of cloves.
One of Zanzibar's most famous sons is Queen lead vocalist Freddie Mercury, born Faroukh Bulsara in 1946 in Stone Town to Parsee parents.. He lived on the island until he was about eight years old, when he was sent off to India to boarding school. His family left Zanzibar in the wake of the 1964 revolution, and never returned.


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Our research strategy reflects our core status as a regionally connected, globally significant University. Our ongoing mission is to ensure continued growth in the quality and impact of research. Research activities are focused around areas of strategic strength that are world leading and internationally excellent.
Investment is directed towards the production of high quality outputs, the development of outstanding impact and the recruitment of talented researchers to grow the University's areas of strength.
Our strategy is contributing to a growth in the quality and vitality of research and has helped to realise:


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Hospitals Must Adopt Disaster Management Standards by November 2017 (Bloomberg, September 9, 2016)
Medical devices are finally marked with unique IDs. Only a few hospitals can use them. (Modern, September 17, 2016)
Great job reducing readmissions, hospitals (but it's about to get harder) (Modern, September 17, 2016)
Medicare Ratings Skew Poorly for Hospitals in Low-Income Areas (Bloomberg, September 16, 2016)
340B Hospitals laud bill that seeks to close orphan drug 'loophole' (Modern, September 28, 2016)
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Not long after promotional pictures for the Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 images leaked on the web, the successor to a year ago's Samsung Galaxy Folder leaked in set of live pictures, demonstrating the gold shading variation from all edges.
The period of flip telephones has long gone yet looks like Samsung wouldn't like to release it. The organization dispatched the Galaxy Golden in 2013 and gave it another life a year ago as the Galaxy Folder. This year may see another model from the Korean cell phone creator as a bundle of pictures of the gadget has spilled.
The new Galaxy Folder 2, or so it is accepted, has spilled in an arrangement of live pictures in a gold shading variation. As indicated by the TENAA posting, the Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 will include a 3.8-inch WVGA show (800×480 pixel determination), a 1.4GHz quad-center Snapdragon 425 processor, Adreno 308 GPU, 16GB installed stockpiling, microSD card space extension of up to 128GB, 2GB RAM, and a 2000mAh battery. It will keep running on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow and accompany a 8MP back camera and 5MP front-confronting camera.
Rest of the components incorporate double SIM card support, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi availability. There's no notice of 4G/LTE organizes however it most likely will offer the availability alternative. As far as size, the cell phone will gauge 122 x 60.2 x 15.5mm, weighing at 155g.
The dispatch of the new cell phone is expected to happen soon in China. On the off chance that you are anticipating that the cell phone should dispatch in India then you'll be frustrated to realize that it is very far-fetched since none of the more seasoned flip cell phones from Samsung was launched here.


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Brody Dalle Premieres New Single 'Don't Mess With Me'
Soaring vocals and guitar show the star at her best.
Brody Dalle has premiered the latest single from her upcoming debut solo album, "Diploid Love." Listen to the incredible "Don't Mess With Me" below.
As Gigwise notes, an excellent follow up to "Meet the Foetus," the new single exhibits beautifully produced guitar work that combines the rhythmic sound of Queens of the Stone Age with Distillers-levels of distortion. The chorus also allows for Dalle to unleash the full force of her voice, beautifully combining with the instrumental for a razor sharp melody.
"Diploid Love," Dalle's first ever solo album, is due out on 29 April and she is currently touring alongside Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails in Australia. The week before album release she will be embarking on a short five show run of the UK.
The full list of UK tour dates are as follows:
04/21 – Glasgow, UK - Glasgow Garage
04/22 – Manchester, UK - Manchester Academy 2
04/24 – London, UK - Electric Ballroom04/25 – Sheffield, UK - The Leadmill04/26 – Birmingham, UK - O2 Academy 2 Birmingham


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Video still. Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout, Melbourne.
My doctoral research investigates the language of desire and its relationship to my sculptural practice. Engaging sculpture through video, performance and objects, my studio process has explored the relationship between vision and desire; core to this, is my interest in the metaphor of the eye and how I see the condition of a tactile gaze as analogous to desire. My research has evolved from a process of investigation into the body and performance and its reclamation through manipulated video loops. These interventions act as spatial engagement with landscape and body, explored through a number of strategies using the eye as the mechanical and metaphoric device.
The work presented for exhibition Cut Colony comprises two high definition videos, each with mastered sound. The first video presents a female dancer performing a fouetté in the desert landscape. The second depicts two young men standing thigh deep in the waters of an inland desert lake. Focusing on the position of the colonial body in the Australian landscape, this installation explores the complexities and constructions of desire that are bound to its forms.
This exhibition comprises the practical component of Cate Consandine's PhD research.
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Cate Consandine on the success of her exhibition 'Cut Colony' at MADA Gallery.
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I've been on a few Scrum teams now, the latest with my current Intuit Hosting Engineering (HE) position. HE is doing Scrum well, implementing almost all of it as far as I can tell. I recently took the training to be a certified Scrum Product Owner – one of the three primary Scrum roles. It seems like this is what was missing from the Innovation Lab (iLab) processes we used – the "what came next" part that was always a challenge for us.
In the iLab, we had an unmatched process for discovering innovative solutions for tough problems, and getting quickly to the minimum viable feature set. What was tough was then transitioning that to a business unit for development and launch. Scrum takes care of that part of the process.
What we needed was a feature set that was described in terms of User Stories, detailed deeply enough for a development team to estimate in terms of relative development time (story points). The User Stories would be more than just the minimum viable, getting us over the hump of disbelief on the part of the business – disbelief that the product had enough features. The "minimum viable" would simply be the highest priority user stories, and the entire set would be in the "backlog" – all of the known user stories in diminishing detail.
The cost/time of development would be established if you already had a Scrum team, but it only takes about three Sprints – 1 to 4 weeks – to establish a baseline "velocity" for a new team. Velocity is a simple measure that indicates how many story points that a team can accomplish in a given sprint.
When a team follows Scrum, they can become hyper-productive: teams that quadruple their velocity compared to their first sprint. There's apparently two simple things that get a team to this measure – a backlog that has very well-defined user stories and an automated build that includes automated testing.
I think there's a trifecta here that, when combined, would be a simple but effective way to make a successful idea into a successful business: front end innovation (iLab style), with lean startup-mindset prioritizing of user stories, developed by a Scrum team.
It's finally here (or at least it's in the App Store awaiting review)! This is the Super Conversions (aka SuperConvert) that I've always wanted to develop. I had some time, so I coded almost non-stop, and it's ready to roll. This is a fully functional calculator, with Memory, sin, cos, Pi, tan and other useful functions. See the calculations at the top and the unit conversions at the bottom, with easily selected conversion categories and units. Copy either the calculated value or the converted value.
If you have a support question on this or other SuperConvert or Super Conversions apps, please post a comment below or @Super_Covert on Twitter. There are also "conversion facts" that show up every once in a while. If you have a fact you'd like to see in the App, tweet it to @Super_Convert and I'll add it to the list. Include a link to an image if there's an appropriate one for the fact. Note that all facts are moderated.
The design of the new SuperConvert 9.0 is actually based on an old calculator I've had for about 28 years. The solar powered device still works, and it's still the primary calculator I use at my desk. Check out the picture of the app and compare it with the picture I took of my calculator. I used that picture to design most of the visual elements of the app.
If you have any support questions, or features you'd like to see, bugs to report, etc… – please post a comment below and I'll get back to you.
I'm currently testing an iPad Dashboard app for QuickBooks Windows Desktop. It shows a few informational things about your QuickBooks company in a dashboard style app on an iPad. I have no idea yet if it'll be useful for anyone, or if I'm showing the right kind of information. I'm using TestFlightApp.com to get testers running the app before (if) it goes live in the Apple App store.
If you've never published into the Apple app store before, and you've never used TestFlight before… I have to say, it isn't an easy process to use. It took me about 3 hours to finally get the TestFlight process down to the minimum. I installed and deleted and re-installed on my iPad.
Apple doesn't help – if you delete a device from your allocation of 99 test devices, then re-add it, it takes up 2 slots. I added my personal iPad, then deleted it, then added it again. Presto: down to 97 devices. Avoid deleting a device if you can. Apparently my allocation will reset after a year. When I pay another $99 for the iOS developer subscription.
Intuit has, of course, a developer account and provisioning certificates and all that… but is also limited in the number of devices. When you have a dozen apps you're testing, then the team doing the apps will need their own iOS developer subscriptions. I guess that's okay.
And that's step number 1: get your own iOS developer subscription.
Apple has a great product in Xcode, but make sure you have the latest version – 4.3.3. Because if you don't, using TestFlight gets harder.
That's step number 2: use the Mac App Store to install Xcode 4.3.3 – note that it'll nicely, at least mostly nicely, update your Mac and get rid of the older version for you.
Step number 3 is to always use Xcode to manage your developer profiles and account – go to the Organizer in Xcode, Devices/Provisioning Profiles and click Refresh. That'll generate the various certificates and such that you need – just click the various dialogs to automatically submit requests and such. Hey, and make sure your iPad is connected to your Mac when you do the refresh.
Next you will need to go back to the Developer site and add an Ad-Hoc Provisioning profile. That's step number 4. Provisioning, Distribution, New Profile, Ad Hoc. That's pretty much it – select all your devices (probably only your personal one will be there). Apple will accept that "new profile" as a request, then approve it. Apple used to take up to 24 hours, it seemed, to approve, but now it appears to happen within seconds.
Step number 5 is to go back to the Xcode organizer (after your Ad-Hoc profile is approved) and click Refresh again. That'll download the new Ad-Hoc provisioning profile.
Step number 6 is to make sure your app is setup with the proper profile. In Xcode, go to your Target, Build Settings, Code Signing. Click the Top "Code Signing" line and select iPhone Distribution. If the Ad-Hoc is the only distribution profile you have, it'll be the one properly selected for everything. If it isn't the only one, you'll have to look at the drop down and select your new Ad-Hoc profile.
Okay, that's it for the basics. Those 6 steps don't have to be done again. However, the next part of the process, using TestFlight, is a bit repetitive – you must do it over and over, every time a new tester is added (or at least every time you want to authorize new tester(s) for your app).
Step A: Invitations – TestFlight has a couple of ways to invite folks. I've found the one-off invitation form to be useful. Click on Add Teammate and you can enter an email address and a short message. The recipient will get a link to TestFlightApp.com's acceptance page, with a single button click to accept (and an optional form to fill out if they want to permanently register on TestFlightApp.com).
In addition to Accepting, the invitee must also install a TestFlightApp profile on their device (shows up as an Add my device type of button after Accept is clicked). It's just a matter of "Yes, accept, yes, install, Done" type clicks.
You'll get an email for each action – Accept and Device Added. The Device Added email will include an attachment containing the device ID for that tester.
Which brings me to Step B: Add Device. You must add that tester's device ID to your Apple developer account list of devices. In the developer portal, click on Devices, then click Upload Devices. Select that text file that was attached to the email from TestFlight. That'll add that tester's device.
Next, you must add that new device to your Ad-Hoc Provisioning Profile, aka Step C. Click on Provisioning, Distribution, then click Edit and Modify next to your Ad-Hoc profile. There you can Select all the devices for that profile – the new one you just uploaded will be available but un-selected. Just select it and then click Save.
Step D: Update Xcode. Now go back to Xcode's Organizer and click Refresh. It'll churn for a bit, eventually updating your Ad-Hoc profile with the new one that includes the tester devices.
Step E: Compile and save your app as an IPA file. Now that you have valid testers in the Ad-Hoc provisioning profile, you can compile a version of your app that is ready for TestFlight-ing. Build for Archiving, then Archive. The organizer will pop up and you can select Distribute, Save for Enterprise or Ad-Hoc. Make sure you select the same Ad-Hoc provisioning profile in the subsequent drop down that you used to create the build. The dialog will ask you the filename to save as an IPA.
Step F: Upload your build to TestFlight. Next click on the Upload Build in TestFlight and upload your IPA. Easy peasy.
Step G: Inform your tester. After uploading, you'll see the "Permissions" dialog in TestFlight. Select the new tester and click the Update and Notify button. That'll send an auto-generated email to that tester with a link to install the app.
And you're done! At least until the next time a tester accepts your invitation, because you'll have to go back to Step A (well, really Step B since they've obviously been invited already) and do it all over again! Ahh well, at least it's much easier than trying to enter those IDs manually and distribute the IPA to be installed via iTunes or other such messy means.
Okay, so most of you probably already know how to do this, but it only occurred to me today. I develop various websites, usually creating a local version, then uploading it to an online dev version, and finally to the production instance.
In the past, I'd go into my httpd.conf configuration file and change my DocumentRoot to a different website, then restart Apache.
But I realized I could just use a hosts file to point local subdomain to a different folder, e.g. gi.localhost or site2.localhost, or, I could even use the real site's eventual url: mysite.com or some such.
On my Mac (generally my exclusive machine these days), I edit /etc/hosts and add a line:
gi.localhost 127.0.0.1
Then I make the appropriate changes in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
<Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory>NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80 <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80> DocumentRoot /Users/mhart/localhost ServerName localhost:80 ServerAlias 127.0.0.1:80 </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80> DocumentRoot /Users/mhart/gi.localhost ServerName gi.localhost:80 ServerAlias 127.0.0.1:80 </VirtualHost>
In Windows, the hosts file is in c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc, and your Apache config file can be found from the Start menu.
I think that my best apps are the ones I create in order to fulfill my own needs. PhotoKiosk is one of them – I wanted a nice way to view and discover photos. I set it to view the Flickr public feed, Utata Pool, my own feed, plus a variety of tags. It's cool!
I recently saw new toy prototypes for the next Batman movie, beautiful snowscapes from around the world, and even a ladies' roller derby team party. It's also cool watching what people tag as "iPad". It's usually a drawing created on the iPad, but sometimes it is children using the device or a new case. I saw a sort of stick on peel off case that created a form-fitted protective cover around the iPad.
I updated PhotoKiosk, so check out the Lite and paid versions in the App Store.
Here's the Feed list I use on mine:
- public feed
- Utata Pool
- wildlife (tag)
- tiger
- guitar
- toys
- iPad
- batman
- snow
- landscape
- funny
PhotoKiosk turns your iPad or iPad 2 into a gorgeous kiosk, displaying photos from an unlimited number of Flickr photo feeds or compatible URLs. Also works with the iPhone and iPod Touch.
A password-protected setup screen allows you to add feeds using an individual ID, a group ID, tags, the public feed, or a custom feed URL, or any combination. Feeds can be easily switched on or off, and a description of each feed can be optionally displayed on the kiosk.
Feeds are automatically cycled based on the refresh time you set, and the number of photos to display can also be changed. Touch a photo to zoom in, triple tap the screen to access the settings (after also entering your password), or quadruple tap to refresh the page and move to the next feed.
Older pictures are smaller and/or more transparent, while the newest pictures show up larger and opaque. Tap any picture to zoom in to the fullest size possible.
Works in either landscape or portrait mode and automatically compensates when you rotate the iPad. Use it in conjunction with iPad kiosk hardware that hides the Home button to turn it into a photo display for trade shows, non-profits or other businesses.
In this version:
* Customize the kiosk name
* Custom kiosk description or per-feed descriptions
* Unlimited feeds
* Select the number of photos
* Select the refresh timeout
* Change the password
Available now in the App Store!
Updated to version 1.2 – fixed a bug introduced by a Flickr API call change. Also removed the interruptive error messaging.
Super Conversions/SuperConvert
SuperConvert is the iPad/iPhone/iPod version of the popular Super Conversions Windows application, with over 20,000 conversions possible in 18 categories: Distance, Area, Volume, Weight, Power, Pressure, Temperature, Time, Energy, Force, Acceleration, Illuminance, Concentration, Electrical Current, Hydraulics, Density, Velocity and Viscosity.
Now Available! Click here to view it in the App Store.
Updated to version 8.2, fixed a problem where it was ignoring decimal places.
First part in a series detailing my journey line as a programmer
I encountered my first computer when I was in the 8th grade. I was living in Reno, Nevada, and had a friend who's dad ran a couple of 7/11 stores with the help of a TRS-80 and some software he'd written. The program's listing was printed out on tractor feed paper and was completely incomprehensible to me. I also saw the "Dancing Demon" application. The listing for it was even more crazy since it made extensive use of string packing, where machine language was encoded into BASIC string statements.
I was hooked and had to know more about this "personal computer" thing where you could write your own games and such.
Enter my summer job washing dishes at Dodson's Cafeteria, circa 1979. I worked full time and saved my money. At the end of the summer, my step-dad took me to Radio Shack and kicked in the last hundred dollars or so for my very own TRS-80 Model I Level II, a 16K black and white computer with a cassette tape drive for storage. I also got a subscription to SoftSide magazine, a monthly publication with program listings n BASIC for the TRS-80. I typed in the listings and, with the help of the computer's reference manual, debugged the programs and got them running. Thus I began to learn how to program.
In 1980, at the age of 14, I was hunched over a keyboard in the attic office space of our home in Dallas, writing a silly Enterprise vs. Klingons game, with a big blocky Enterprise on the left and a Klingon warbird on the right. Each player used a pair of keys to move their ship up and down the screen, and another key to fire upon their opponent. I knew little about realtime action programming at the time, so all movement ceased during a firing. It wasn't the funnest of games to play, but it was my first real program, created entirely from scratch.
I was off and running!
December 2008. The snow turned to rain, falling steadily throughout the night, coating the forest surrounding my house with tons of ice. A layer of warm air, high above the surface, melted the falling snow. The air at the surface was still below freezing, causing the ice storm. I live down a one lane gravel road, tall trees guarding the road and the power lines that snake up the hill. Both mighty oak and tall pine trees were broken by the onslaught of ice, yanking the phone line from our home with a loud tearing noise, snapping heavy power lines in two. The grid went down at around 2am.
I ventured out every time a falling branch or tree shook the house, just wanting to check the integrity of our shelter. I didn't venture far, and I wore a protective… well… a bike helmet… just in case. The crash of falling branches sent me scurrying back under the roof. Trees continued falling all through the night and even into the next afternoon. I wasn't too worried – I was reasonably prepared for an extended power outage lasting, oh, three or four days.
I had a small generator – enough power for lights, a small electric burner, and a fireplace blower. I had 15 gallons of fuel, bought in advance of the storm.
I had a stockpile of good wood, enough to last maybe a week of solid burning. It was dry and underneath a tarp.
Our water comes from a well, but I had enough – we began conserving as soon as the power went out – even filling containers before going to bed.
The house is reasonably well insulated – it would keep warm enough without even a fire for several days, especially after I got out the duct tape and made sure the recessed can lights weren't leaking warmth into the attic.
But this was no ordinary outage, and it showed me how little I was prepared to be off the grid for an extended period.
There were about 6 very large trees blocking the driveway, and about 30 smaller ones. My neighbor and I went through two chain saws clearing them. We just picked up the power lines and moved them out of the way as best we could – no way there was any juice running through them!
The family moved into our warm room, closing the door and putting a towel under it. We had a light from the small generator, plenty of heat from the air-blown fireplace, board games and plenty to eat. We put a table on the deck and emptied the fridge onto it, covering it with a tarp. We didn't need no stinkin' fridge! Not with the outside temperature peeking at 45 or so during the day.
The true extent of the disaster unfolded during the next few days. Power wasn't just "out", the entire grid infrastructure was broken. Hundreds of miles of power lines had to be rebuilt all over the Northern counties of Mass and some Southern New Hampshire areas.
Not only were we dead center in the disaster zone, but our house is one of the last ones on the grid. We were hosed. And we couldn't even drive out of the disaster area – there was a huge tree hanging off a powerline in the middle of the road.
After six days, I began running out of wood. Water wasn't too big a deal, and the food supply was still okay. But the nights were going to get really cold without a fire. The generator ran out of gas, too, so no fireplace blower. My wife had already left for a hotel in Burlington, Ma, with the kids, where her car window was shattered by a GPS thief. I stuck it out for a while longer and prepared the house to be on its own for a while. I left after, I think, day 9 without power.
It takes a lot of work to become prepared for an extended period off the grid. The best book I know of is Cody Lundin's "When All Hell Breaks Loose". It's practical, not fanatical, and Cody lives what he teaches, having been off the grid for (correct me if I'm wrong) decades. I had some big basic things I wanted to do to be prepared for the next time it happens, and Cody's book has done a great deal to fill in the blanks and give me confidence that I've taken the right steps.
Cody teaches the rule of 3's – you can live 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, but only 3 hours without warmth.
- Core body temperature.
This means a simple fireplace isn't good enough, nor is a six day supply of fuel. So, wood stove and lots and lots of wood. Better overall insulation in the house – plug the gaps. Quality sleeping bags – for everyone. No more SpongeBob overnight bags, might as well buy the good stuff.
- Water.
Stored potable water – enough immediately on hand for a month for 3 people, plus enough in a backup source, plus the means to make it potable, for as long as 100 days for 4 people. In addition to the 50 gallons in our regular water tank. And then there's the lake down the road, and several year's worth of disinfectant for water. Yeah, we got that covered now.
- Food.
Okay, so this one seems to be the hardest for some reason. Looking at all the food options, things that seem to make it easy……. Cody makes it pretty clear – just buy more of what you eat right now, and rotate it. That's a little harder when you eat a lot of fresh stuff. But, some things are easy – more rice, more spaghetti, more spaghetti sauce, lots of Pop Tarts and cereal. Okay, maybe not as hard as I thought! Plenty of bullion cubes and hot chocolate mix and some instant coffee. And, well, go ahead and get that 10 pound box of powdered milk, but put it in a food safe plastic container!
It's not too hard, and it's mostly cheap – even an installed wood stove is less than $2,000. You don't need to go crazy, or be crazy, to prepare for a disaster, or at least prepare for an extended time of living off the grid. It's happened to me, and tens of thousands of others around me.
Be ready.
Spill is almost 16 years old, but it's time for him to go. He's been suffering for a week now, despite repeated visits to the vet. We're paying extra attention to him today, and he seems to be liking it, although he doesn't wag his tail.
He was our first dog, a miniature poodle with "phantom" markings – similar to a "party" poodle, but with symmetrical markings. His chest had a "bow tie" and he had white "eyebrows".
Like most poodles, he was intelligent and had a unique personality. As a puppy, and our first, he wasn't crated and it took a long time to housebreak him. He tore up carpets and scratched up doors. We finally crated him and he quickly learned to go outside, but he did have one last trick: he ate my daughter's homework once when she left it on top of his crate!
He managed to get out of our yard a few times, always into our neighbor's back yard, attached to ours just like the duplex we shared. Once during a birthday party, he burst out the door and took off down the street. Even in his old age, he was the fastest dog we had. The kid's grandmother led a flock of screaming girls and boys after him.
My most vivid memory involves another attempt at escape. I was picking up some Outback to go food, and I noticed a problem with the order. As I opened the door of the car to get it corrected, Spill shot out and ran toward the restaurant. I was wearing some "I'm not going into the restaurant" clothes: a holey shirt, shorts, and sandals. I ran after him as he made his way to the sidewalk surrounding the restaurant.
Did I mention he's fast? He rounded a corner and headed for the front door. If someone had opened it, no doubt he would have run inside. Instead, he continued left around to the side. We were near a major road, and quickly running out of sidewalk. I knew I had to end this pursuit fast, so I literally dove onto him, banging and bloodying my knee and hands and arms. Once home, I instructed everyone to not be nice to him!
When we got our other dog, Haunter, Spill was hilarious. He didn't want anything to do with this visitor. He would not even LOOK at Haunter, averting his eyes and never playing with him.
But then a curious thing happened – we noticed that he would play with Haunter outside, but only if no one was looking. If Spill saw anyone observing his play, he would immediately go back to ignoring Haunter. Funny little guy.
He was always kind of a nervous dog, furiously moving his legs on wooden floors like Fred Flintstone trying to run, slowly gaining momentum. When we moved into our current home, Spill was stuck running around on wooden floors and wooden stairs. He would have to nerve himself to charge up the stairs, sometimes tripping and falling backward as he clawed his way to the top. Often there would be a terrible racket as he scrambled up, missing steps and pumping his legs. He didn't seem to realize it was okay to take it slow and sure-footed. We put carpet stair thingies down just for him.
When we got our daughter's puppy, poor Mr. Spill had yet another hurdle to get up the stairs: the puppy would wait at the top and ambush Spill as he came up, barking and playing and blocking his way. This was a nightly headache for Spill, as the puppy harassed him for almost two years as he clawed his way to the top. He seemed to learn to ignore it, or at least nerve himself for it before he began his mad scramble.
Spill could roll over, play dead, speak, give you a high five, and catch popcorn… at least he would catch it until one day when he missed a Frisbee that hit him in the nose. After that, he wouldn't try to catch anything.
For the last few years of his life, he would get up and go outside, get his canned food, lay around on the couch or easy chair, go upstairs, then go to bed in my son's room. Sometime during the night, he'd come into our room and sleep on his own little bed.
We buried him on a hill, lying in his bed.
Goodnight Mr. Spill, wherever you are.


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education and training
The Fifth Co-op Principle emphasises the importance of "Education, Training and Information. The fifth principle states that:
'co-operatives provide education and training for their members, elected representatives, managers, and employees so they can contribute effectively to the development of their co-operatives. They inform the general public - particularly young people and opinion leaders - about the nature and benefits of co-operation'.
CDS believes in promoting learning. We strongly believe that those new to co-ops need to understand and acquire both operational knowledge and skills in the conduct of the affairs of their co-op but also need to understand ethos of co-operation.
For the experienced members, we believe they need to keep up with information, skills technology, government policy and legislation and be aware of the salient international events within the co-op movement. Thus our education/training services are aimed at providing knowledge and skills to new members and updating knowledge and skills for more experienced members.
Our service takes account of your current circumstances and is adaptable to tackling issues of concern particular to you. The service is planned and delivered in a manner which respects your equal opportunities policy, is culturally sensitive to your local environment and will seek to empower every participant to maximise their learning.