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Configure the search head
You configure and enable the search head at the same time that you enable the other cluster components, as described in "Enable the search head". The cluster's set of peer nodes are automatically designated as search peers of the search head. For basic search-head functionality, you don't need to set any other configurations.
If you want to use some of the more advanced features of distributed search, such as search head pooling or mounted bundles, you must edit
distsearch.conf on the search head. For detailed information on search heads, including instructions on how to do advanced configuration, read the Distributed Search manual. That chapter focuses on non-clustered environments, but it also provides correct information for configuring advanced features on clustered search heads.
If you want the search head to search across multiple clusters, you must edit
server.conf, as described below in "Configure multi-cluster search".
Differences between clustered and non-clustered search head configuration
Most settings and capabilities are the same for clustered and non-clustered search heads. You edit
distsearch.conf to perform advanced configuration.
The main difference is that, for clusters, search heads and search peers are automatically connected to each other as part of the cluster enablement process. You do not perform any configuration in
distsearch.conf to enable automatic discovery.
A few other attributes are also not valid for clustered search heads. Specifically, a clustered search head ignores these attributes in
servers disabled_servers heartbeatMcastAddr heartbeatPort heartbeatFrequency ttl checkTimedOutServersFrequency autoAddServers
Note: As in non-clustered environments, search head access to search peers is controlled through public key authentication. However, you do not need to distribute the keys manually. The search head automatically pushes its public key to the search peers.
Distributed search page in Splunk Web
You cannot use the distributed search page on the search head's Splunk Web to configure a clustered search head. You can, however, use that page to view the list of search peers.
Mounted bundles and search peer configurations
distsearch.conf settings are only valid for search heads. However, to implement mounted bundles, you also need to distribute a small
distsearch.conf file to the search peers. For clusters, you should use the master node to distribute this file to the peers. For information on how to use the master to manage peer configurations, read "Configure the peer nodes" in this manual. For information on how to configure mounted bundles, read "Mount the knowledge bundle" in the Distributed Search Manual.
Configure multi-cluster search
If you have multiple clusters, you can configure a search head to search across all the clusters. You configure this in Splunk Web, through the CLI, or by editing the search head's
server.conf file.
In Splunk Web
In Splunk Web, you can configure multi-cluster search from the search head dashboard. See "View the search head dashboard" for more information.
Through the CLI
In the CLI, you can configure multi-cluster search with these commands:
splunk add master <master_uri:port> splunk edit master <master_uri:port> splunk remove master <master_uri:port> splunk list master
For more information on any command, see its CLI help.
By editing server.conf
You can configure multi-cluster search in the search head's
server.conf file by specifying a comma-separated list of master node references in the
master_uri attribute, followed by individual stanzas for each master. For example:
[clustering] mode = searchhead master_uri = clustermaster:east, clustermaster:west [clustermaster:east] master_uri=https://SplunkMaster01.example.com:8089 pass4SymmKey=someSecret [clustermaster:west] master_uri=https://SplunkMaster02.example.com:8089
In this example, the search head will use the
pass4SymmKey "someSecret" when communicating with SplunkMaster01 and no
pass4SymmKey when communicating with SplunkMaster02.
After you edit
server.conf, you must reload the search head for the changes to take effect.
For details on configuring multi-cluster search, see the server.conf specification file. You can learn more about using
server.conf to configure clusters by reading the topic "Configure the cluster with server.conf".
Search across both clustered and non-clustered search peers
You can search across both clustered and non-clustered search peers. To configure this:
1. Set up a clustered search head in the standard fashion, as described in "Enable the search head".
2. Use Splunk Web or the CLI to add one or more non-clustered search peers, as described in "Add search peers" in the Distributed Search Manual.
3. Restart the search head.
Important: You must specify the non-clustered search peers through either Splunk Web or the CLI. Due to authentication issues, you cannot specify the search peers by directly editing
distsearch.conf. When you add a search peer with Splunk Web or the CLI, Splunk prompts you for public key credentials. It has no way of obtaining those credentials when you add a search peer by directly editing
distsearch.conf. For more information on public keys and distributed search, read "Add search peers" in the Distributed Search Manual.
Note: The use of search head pooling in this scenario is not supported.
Warning: An indexer can be either a cluster peer (in which case, it is automatically a search peer for that cluster's search head) or a non-clustered search peer, with an entry in
distsearch.conf. It cannot be both. If you mistakenly configure an indexer as both a cluster peer and a non-clustered search peer, the search head's Distributed Search page will contain two entries for the peer, and the status for one entry will read, "Peer member of cluster and distsearch.conf". To remediate, disable or delete the entry for that peer in
Configure the peer indexes
Configure the cluster with server.conf
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.0.6, 6.0.7, 6.0.8, 6.0.9, 6.0.10, 6.0.11, 6.0.12, 6.0.13, 6.0.14, 6.0.15


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CAP Ventures Identifies Print On Demand Opportunities in Finance, Insurance
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Press release from the issuing company(Norwell, MA) October 30, 2002…In a recently completed white paper, CAP Ventures identifies key opportunities for digital service providers in the financial services and insurance industries. The key to success in these markets is the ability to provide comprehensive solutions that are accurate, flexible, innovative, and which help reduce expenses and deliver significant value to the company and its customers. For the digital service provider, understanding the trends in the financial services and insurance industries provides a number of opportunities. The rapidity with which regulations change in today's business and legislative environments reinforce the value proposition offered by electronic document storage and distribution, imaging, print on demand, and the addition of electronic pick-and-pack to fulfillment services. All of these services are core to the service provider who wishes to penetrate these industries. This industry brief provides an in-depth view of the issues and trends faced by the financial services and insurance industries, and outlines opportunities for market expansion. The brief also includes specific sales and marketing strategies to drive success in these industries, and presents four case studies of service providers who have been successful in serving them. Key topics covered in this application brief include: * Scope and size of the financial services and insurance industries * Key trends and issues facing both industries * Applications for digital printing and electronic delivery * Sales and marketing strategies for the financial services and insurance industries * Case histories discussing successful solutions in the financial services and insurance industries The complete white paper is available immediately to clients of CAP Ventures' Production Workflow Solutions Consulting Services. To learn more about the white paper or to make a purchase, please contact Stewart MacDonald at (781) 871-9000, ext. 175 or firstname.lastname@example.com. CAP Ventures' Production Workflow Solutions Consulting Service offers service providers and technology providers the news, analysis, research, and consulting they need to develop effective production workflow solutions and leverage those solutions to deliver value-added print and print-related services to the market. CAP Ventures is a strategic consulting firm for providers and users of business communication technologies and services. We deliver key research, analysis, forecasting, benchmarking, and strategy recommendations to make a competitive difference in our clients' businesses. Additional information about CAP Ventures is available on the Web at: www.capv.com
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Background: The proportion of people in Vietnam who are 60 years and over has increased rapidly. The emigration of young people and impact of other socioeconomic changes leave more elderly on their own and with less family support. This study assesses the willingness to use and pay for different models of care for community-dwelling elderly in rural Vietnam.
Methods: In 2007, people aged 60 and older and their family representatives, living in 2,240 households, were randomly selected from the FilaBavi Demographic Surveillance Site. They were interviewed using structured questionnaires to assess dependence in activities of daily living (ADLs), willingness to use and to pay for day care centres, mobile care teams, and nursing centres. Respondent socioeconomic characteristics were extracted from the FilaBavi repeated census. Percentages of those willing to use models and the average amount (with 95% confidence intervals) they are willing to pay were estimated. Multivariate analyses were performed to measure the relationship of willingness to use services with ADL index and socioeconomic factors. Four focus group discussions were conducted to explore people's perspectives on the use of services. The first discussion group was with the elderly. The second discussion group was with their household members. Two other discussion groups included community association representatives, one at the communal level and another at the village level.
Results: Use of mobile team care is the most requested service. The fewest respondents intend to use a nursing centre. Households expect to use services for their elderly to a greater extent than do the elderly themselves. Willingness to use services decreases when potential fees increase. The proportion of respondents who require that services be free-of-charge is two to three times higher than the proportion willing to pay full cost. Households are willing to pay more than the elderly for day care and nursing centres. The elderly are more willing to pay for mobile teams than are their households. Age group, sex, literacy, marital status, living arrangement, living area, working status, poverty, household wealth and dependence in ADLs are factors related to willingness to use services.
Conclusions: Community-centric elderly care will be used and partly paid for by individuals if it is provided by the government or associations. Capacity building for health professional networks and informal caregivers is essential for developing formal care models. Additional support is needed for the most vulnerable elderly to access services.
InVietnam, the proportion of people aged 60 and above has increased rapidly in recent decades. The majority live in rural areas where socioeconomic status is more disadvantaged than in urban areas.Vietnam's economic status is improving but disparities in income and living conditions are widening between groups and regions. A consistent and emerging danger of communicable diseases and an increase of non-communicable diseases exist concurrently. The emigration of young people and the impact of other socioeconomic changes leave more elderly on their own and with less family support. Introduction of user fees and development of a private sector improve the coverage and quality of health care but increase household health expenditures and inequalities in health care.
Life expectancy at birth has increased, but not much is known about changes during old age. There is a lack of evidence, particularly in rural settings, about health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among older people within the context of socioeconomic changes and health-sector reform. Knowledge of long-term elderly care needs in the community and the relevant models are still limited. To provide evidence for developing new policies and models of care, this thesis aimed to assess general health status, health care needs, and perspectives on future health care options for community-dwelling older people.
An abridged life table was used to estimate cohort life expectancies at old age from longitudinal data collected by FilaBavi DSS during 1999-2006. This covered 7,668 people aged 60 and above with 43,272 person-years. A 2007 cross-sectional survey was conducted among people aged 60 and over living in 2,240 households that were randomly selected from the FilaBavi DSS. Interviews used a structured questionnaire to assess HRQoL, daily care needs, and willingness to use and to pay for models of care. Participant and household socioeconomic characteristics were extracted from the 2007 DSS re-census.
Differences in life expectancy are examined by socioeconomic factors. The EQ-5D index is calculated based on the time trade-off tariff. Distributions of study subjects by study variables are described with 95% confidence intervals. Multivariate analyses are performed to identify socioeconomic determinants of HRQoL, need of support, ADL index, and willingness to use and pay for models of care. In addition, four focus group discussions with the elderly, their household members, and community association representatives were conducted to explore perspectives on the use of services by applying content analysis.
Life expectancy at age 60 increased by approximately one year from 1999-2002 to 2003-2006, but tended to decrease in the most vulnerable groups. There is a wide gap in life expectancy by poverty status and living arrangement. The sex gap in life expectancy is consistent across all socioeconomic groups and is wider among the more disadvantaged populations.
The EQ-5D index at old age is 0.876. Younger age groups, position as household head, working, literacy, and belonging to better wealth quintiles are determinants of higher HRQoL. Ageing has a primary influence on HRQoL that is mainly due to reduction in physical (rather than mental) functions. Being a household head and working at old age are advantageous for attaining better HRQoL in physical rather than psychological terms. Economic conditions affect HRQoL through sensory rather than physical functions. Long-term living conditions are more likely to affect HRQoL than short-term economic conditions.
Dependence in instrumental or intellectual activities of daily living (ADLs) is more common than in basic ADLs. People who need complete help are fewer than those who need some help in almost all ADLs. Over two-fifths of people who needed help received enough support in all ADL dimensions. Children and grand-children are confirmed to be the main caregivers. Presence of chronic illness, age groups, sex, educational level, marital status, household membership, working status, household size, living arrangement, residential area, household wealth, and poverty status are determinants of the need for care.
Use of mobile teams is the most requested service; the fewest respondents intend to use a nursing centre. Households expect to use services for their elderly to a greater extent than did the elderly themselves. Willingness to use services decreases when potential fees increase. The proportion of respondents who require free services is 2 to 3 times higher than those willing to pay full cost. Households are willing to pay more for day care and nursing centres than are the elderly. The elderly are more willing to pay for mobile teams than are their households. ADL index, age group, sex, literacy, marital status, living arrangement, head of household status, living area, working status, poverty and household wealth are factors related to willingness to use services.
There is a trend of increasing life expectancy at older ages in ruralVietnam. Inequalities in life expectancy exist between socioeconomic groups. HRQoL at old age is at a high level, but varies substantially according to socioeconomic factors. An unmet need of daily care for older people remains. Family is the main source of support for care. Need for care is in more demand among disadvantaged groups.
Development of a social network for community-based long-term elderly care is needed. The network should focus on instrumental and intellectual ADLs rather than basic ADLs. Home-based care is more essential than institutionalized care. Community-based elderly care will be used and partly paid for if it is provided by the government or associations.
The determinants of elderly health and care needs should be addressed by appropriate social and health policies with greater targeting of the poorest and most disadvantaged groups. Building capacity for health professionals and informal caregivers, as well as support for the most vulnerable elderly groups, is essential for providing and assessing the services.


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Many of us here at the John Innes Centre and the Sainsbury Laboratory use the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana for our research. Its small size, simple genome and rapid lifecycle make it an ideal model in many disciplines within plant science. From leaf development to interactions with pathogens, the wealth of resources available to Arabidopsis researchers makes it an invaluable system.
But James Lloyd, a PhD student at the University of Leeds, and his supervisor, Brendan Davies, have shown there to be a slight problem in using the plant.
The group is looking at nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) – a mechanism used by eukaryotes for regulating gene expression. In animals, this mechanism relies on a protein called SMG1. But this was thought to be an animal-specific pathway: the SMG1 gene had not been identified in fungi or in Arabidopsis.
It seems, however, that our favourite model is rather unusual in its lack of SMG1. The group managed to identify SMG1 in all the other plants that they looked at. Discussing the research, published in The Plant Journal, Davies said: "Everybody thought that this protein was only in animals. They thought that because, basically, most of the world studies one plant: Arabidopsis thaliana."
A. thaliana appears to be a complete anomaly in this respect. The protein was even found in its close relative Arabidopsis lyrata, suggesting a loss of function as recently as 5-10 million years ago.
Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress, was first described by Johannes Thal in the 16th century. It was first proposed as a model organism for studying plant genetics by Friedrich Laibach in 1943, and has been an integral part of plant molecular genetics work since the late 1970s.
While he looks towards examining what alternatives Arabidopsis and fungi have found to SMG1, Davies is keen not to dishearten his fellow plant scientists: "It is still a fantastically useful model. We would not be anywhere close to where we are in understanding plant biology without it." But he warns that the research highlights the importance of using a range of models when studying plant processes. "Evolution does strange and unpredictable things," he said.
And, of course, a diversity of model species exists already within plant science research. From Medicago truncatula's use as a model for root nodulation to the rise and rise of Brachypodium as a model cereal, research at the John Innes Centre certainly isn't restricted to the humble thale cress!
The research paper can be found here: dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.12329
More information on Professor Davies' lab homepage (http://www.plants.leeds.ac.uk/people/groups_dav.php) and the Arabidopsis Information Resource's guide to the plant (http://www.arabidopsis.org/portals/education/aboutarabidopsis.jsp).
by Mabon Elis – a first year PhD student in the lab of Enrico Coen


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7 Papaya Enzyme Side Effects & Warnings
While there are many health benefits to eating papaya fruit, there are also important potential papaya enzyme side effects and warnings to be aware of.
This is particularly the case with regards to the green unripe fruit, papaya seeds, papaya leaf and papain enzyme digestive supplements.
Let's have a look at 7 of the most common side effects of papain papaya enzyme and in what situations and conditions it would be best to avoid using it.
1. Pregnancy Precautions with Papaya
Green papaya latex, which is rich in the main papaya enzyme papain, has been traditionally used by various cultures in Asia to induce a miscarriage during pregnancy.
For this purpose it was often applied directly to the uterus, but food forms such as green papaya salad, the seeds of papaya in the parasite killing papaya seed smoothie ahead, as well as supplements containing papain enzyme are best avoided by pregnant women.
This warning does not extend to a fully ripe fresh fruit that are all yellow or orange with no green on it. These papaya fruit contain much lower levels of papain and are very healthy for pregnant women with their rich antioxidant and vitamin content and many other papaya health benefits.
2. Papain, Papaya Seeds and the Menstrual Cycle
Associated with the precautions of using papain when trying to become pregnant, papaya seeds, green papaya and other potent sources of papaya enzymes may interfere with a woman's menstrual cycle if taken in large and regular doses.
One research paper on the subject suggested two possible mechanisms for how papain or associated enzymes within papaya seeds and green papaya could have an effect on normal menstruation.
According to the scientists, unripe papaya: "…contains the enzyme papain which suppresses progesterone, a hormone needed to prepare the uterus for conception and maintain pregnancy. Another possibility is that papain may break down a membrane vital to the development of the fetus".
Once again, fully ripe papaya would not contain enough enzymes to have a significant effect on the menstrual cycle or a woman's ability to get pregnant.
3. Papaya Enzyme and Breastfeeding
Some sources advise against using papaya enzymes, unripe papaya or even the ripe fruit during breast feeding, though no specific reasons or supporting research is given why.
Interestingly, green papaya salads and soups are popular across Asia as a galactagogue, a substance that increases milk flow from the breast. To this end, eating the fruit while it is still green and full of papain enzyme is often recommended for breastfeeding women.
Many Asian women also eat green papaya salad regularly, even when not breastfeeding, believing the papaya enzymes in it can lead to an increase in breast size over time.
4. Papaya Seeds as a Contraceptive for Men
Along with their well known effects on the reproductive cycles of women, papaya seeds in particular can affect male fertility and have been traditionally used as a form of birth control for men in some Asian cultures.
There's a detailed look at using papaya seeds as a male contraceptive including supporting research here. Needless to say, a man trying to get his partner pregnant should avoid green papaya and papaya seeds.
5. Papaya and Stomach Ulcers
There are mixed reports from health resources regarding papaya enzyme and ulcers. On the one hand, people suffering from severe stomach ulcers are sometimes advised to avoid the fruit, particularly when it's green, as well as any digestive enzymes with papain.
On the other, eating papaya with its many nutrients and enzymes is often said to help prevent gastric ulcers and heal minor stomach problems.
It may do this by both increasing the protective mucus secretions in the stomach and, due to its ability to speed up the breakdown of protein, lessening the amount of time hydrochloric acid sits in the stomach.
While the occasional ripe fruit should not cause problems, talk to your doctor if you are being treated for a stomach ulcer and are thinking of using papaya enzymes with papain for digestion.
As a natural alternative to pharmaceuticals, this superfood smoothie contains some excellent ingredients for healing ulcers and improving your overall digestive health.
6. Papain and Blood Thinning Medications
The papain enzyme may increase the blood thinning effects of medications such as Warfarin and other anticoagulants, including daily aspirin taken for this purpose. As such it is not recommended for use at the same time as a course of these drugs.
It is also very important not to take papain supplements, green papaya or papaya seeds for several days before major surgery for the same reason.
People with blood clotting disorders, such as thrombosis and hemophilia, are also advised to avoid papain and green papaya. In cases like these, and any of the above, it is best to discuss using papaya enzymes with a knowledgeable healthcare professional.
7. Papaya Allergies
Papaya and especially the green fruit high in enzymes should be avoided by anyone with a latex allergy.
Papaya allergies are rare, but people who experience allergic reactions to papaw may also have an adverse reaction to pineapples, avocados, bananas, figs, kiwi fruit, melons and possibly other tropical fruit as well and should use any of these with caution and watch for symptoms.
Allergic reactions symptoms, while once again very uncommon, can include: swelling or itching of the face, lips, tongue and throat; rashes that appear shortly after consumption; dizziness; difficulty swallowing; and abdominal pain.
There may be other side effects of a papaya or latex allergies so seek medical advice as soon as possible if you have any unusual reactions after eating any of the fruit listed above.
For the vast majority of people, papaya and the enzymes from the unripe fruit are extremely beneficial and a very healthy addition to your diet. Effective green papaya digestive enzyme powder is available if you can't get the fresh fruit all the time, but I'd still recommend looking out of it and trying it when you can.
Papaya Leaf as a Treatment for Dengue, Malaria and Cancer
Papaya leaf is a natural treatment for dengue fever and malaria. It is particularly useful for dengue as there is currently no drug based treatment for the disease. It is also used as a cancer treatment in some natural therapies.
While many people have found papaya leaf juice or tea effective, the papaya enzyme warnings and potential side effects on this page would be especially relevant with the potency of papaya leaf.
Pregnant women in particularly should avoid all forms of papaya leaf and anyone being treated for ulcers or with blood thinning medication should consult their doctor before using it.
Papaya Enzyme Experiences
Do you have any experiences with using papaya enzyme that you'd like to share? I'd be interested to hear how it worked for you personally, both as a digestive aid and for other health improving purposes.
Next is a look at the unusual benefits of papaya seeds, an even stronger source of papain and other enzymes and alkaloids, and how to use them to improve your liver health, intestinal environment and even as a treatment for parasites.
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All the living beings on earth should be treated alike as we are all one and living under one sky. When it says all the living beings it does not limit to humans only, every animal that lives on planet earth counts in to this category. There are so many people among us who treat animals in a very abusive way without thinking for a moment that they too are surviving in this world and they too need love and attention. Currently a huge threat is made against zoos that are opened up around the world. This is quite a reasonable threat for the zoo administration because what the general public seeks is to allow the animals get the animal freedom they deserve. What they are trying to say is that animals do not belong behind bars but in a safe greenery environment having the lives they deserve. Therefore it can be stated that animal rights are essential and every living being has to be treated equally.
Furthermore now in many countries there are governmental and non-governmental organizations that take stray dogs under their supervision for the betterment of those animals. They provide them food, water, shelter and all the medications they need. Sometimes they look for families who can give these animals a home. It is such a wonderful and a good thought. Therefore rather than buying a pet in Singapore, taking one of these animals who have no shelter and food is way better. Some only treat well for the dogs that are clean and famous among the breeds and ignore street and stray dogs. This is completely wrong as every one of them can be called animals and are definitely equal. Therefore people should treat everyone alike and spread the love, care and tenderness to all of them.
As adults, we should teach our children, the younger generation of the importance of treating every animal alike. There are families that take for an example dogs as pets and treating them as if they are children of their own by giving necessary medicine, food, taking them on walks, buy dog items such as a comfortable belt, chain, toys and so on. These are good examples for their children as well because they will practice the same manners and will follow the same steps when they become adults one day.
Therefore the world should learn and understand the fact that every living being has rights and as humans, who have standards, should be able to speak on behalf of their rights.


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Consolidation is key: IT management best practices
How do you swap a jumble of different IT methods for a centralized computing approach? IT management best practices move you to consolidate.
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IT management best practices suffered with the emergence of server rooms in branch offices, employee-led technology changes like bring your own device (BYOD) and departments buying their own data center equipment and applications. The result is a combination of multiple different facilities, each running to different service levels with poor overall systems utilization and a lack of overall systems availability. It's time to take that back.
What will help centralize IT?
Virtualization, touted as the ultimate answer to jumbled IT systems, made things worse -- the number of virtual machines (VMs) and idle applications spiraled out of control. Cloud computing -- another panacea -- required the organization to deal not only with its own issues around multiple facilities, but also with cloud providers outside their direct control.
Increased mobility of the workforce, both from those at home and those on the road, led to a need for continuous access to enterprise applications -- and also to a BYOD appetite for using apps from other environments.
For things to get better and not worse, complete a full audit of your own IT infrastructure. Identify every connected server within your network and every application running on them -- there are plenty of tools for this. Once you finish auditing, identify the physical location of each server. This may be slightly more difficult to do, but here's a suggestion: When you cannot pinpoint a server, deny its access to the main network. Within a few minutes, the help desk will receive a call from an unsatisfied user who will know exactly where that server lives.
After you have a physical asset map of your servers and you know which applications are running on them, identify any and all applications that are doing the same job. You may have three or four different customer relationship management systems, for example. Arrange to migrate off the nonstrategic systems as soon as possible. Then identify different instances running on the same application and consolidate these down as far as possible -- for example, there may be five different instances of the same enterprise resource planning (ERP) application in place.
Such functional redundancy is bad, not only for IT with the cost of the servers, operating system licenses, maintenance and power required to keep the mix of IT systems running, but also for the business. These systems will generally be running separately from each other, causing a distorted view of what is really happening.
Even with a consolidated environment, there will still be plenty of in-house applications that could be better sourced through a software as a service (SaaS) model. Software functionality that is highly dependent on domain expertise -- such as payroll and expense management -- should be outsourced to a third party that oversees the legal aspects. With SaaS-based solutions, you have no responsibility for the facility, hardware or software and can focus on the business' needs.
Dealing with your organization's overall IT platform with more controlled, yet flexible best practices is next.
The overall internal IT platform for the organization should be smaller than before. Consolidation, particularly when carried out with a fully planned virtualization strategy, can reduce IT equipment by as much as 80%. You now have control over where the equipment goes. Should it all be in an owned facility? Probably not.
There are problems in building and managing a highly flexible data center: Power distribution and cooling tend to be designed and implemented to meet specific needs. Consolidation can lead to the facility's power utilization effectiveness score growing rather than shrinking. Always-on uptime requirements mean multiple, different connections from the facility to the outside. The more that's kept within an owned facility, the more availability becomes an issue.
Treat data centers in a cascade design for the best IT management strategy. Some applications must remain in an owned facility because of a long-term investment in the application and/or IT equipment, fears over data security or other reasons. Many more applications can live in a colocation or hosting facility where a dedicated company provides and manages the building -- connectivity, cooling, power distribution and so on. You only have to manage the hardware and software in your space, or you can offload some of that to a hosting provider. If your business's IT needs grow, the facility owner can give you more space, power and cooling. If demand shrinks, you can negotiate for a smaller part of the facility.
For a cascaded data center design (consisting of an owned facility in conjunction with a colocation facility and/or public cloud functionality) to work, your IT team must have the right tools in place to manage the movement of workloads from one environment to another. It also requires effective monitoring of application performance with the capability to switch workloads around to maintain service levels. Getting it right will provide far greater flexibility at both the technical and business levels. IT departments should carry out a complete and effective audit as soon as possible to plan how to house and manage the IT platform in the future.


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April 2, 2020 - Latest: What has happened to markets this year? by Darius McDermott
22nd September 2011
It's true that something needs to be done and inflation restricts the options open to the Fed but the strategy has a poor track record in terms of effectiveness. We will be in a lower growth environment for longer and should prepare accordingly.
The Economy Struggles: Something Needs to be Done
The US remains driven by consumer spending (~70% of GDP), but weak consumer confidence and limited access to financing are severe headwinds. Unemployment is stuck at 9% and even more worrying are the 'under-employment' figures which include those that have been forced to cut their working week rise as far as 18.5% of the population. In addition to discouraging spending, the longer this continues, the more skills are being eroded. Therefore the US government is under an immense pressure to act.
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I'm not so keen on this time of year. Despite the crocuses being up it doesn't feel anywhere near summer, and there is still a small chance that snow will fall before anything but parsnips can be harvested on our plot. Having been brought up in the Norfolk countryside I miss what the countryside offers. It is important to me that I notice the seasonal changes that shape our year, despite the suburban home I find myself in, here in Birmingham. I miss the big skies, the open fields, and the greens of each season, still in existence, I just can't see them from here.
Looking though photographs from last summer I found this shot. I took it from the car as we sat aboard the Windermere ferry, crossing back towards the motorway, heading south to the Midlands from our final holiday of the season. It really was a grasped shot of the closing summer, peering through the window, breathing in the view. A last look across to the beautiful hills of the Lake District, unaware of what sort of wet winter was in store for so many in the region. In getting the link to the ferry for this post I've just discovered there's a ferry-cam. I'll check back to it in daylight, and dream of the summer holiday.
Today it was sunny in Birmingham. I had a short run around the park nearby and pretended it was the countryside, imagining I really could feel the heat of the sun through my hat, gloves and coat. I think we have a while to wait. The ground underfoot reminded me all to well of school cross-country in winter!
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So I tested the Caramel Apple Pie recipe that I mentioned yesterday and it's a winner! Hallelujah. In my quest for pie proficiency this fall, I've tried three different apple pie recipes (two different crusts, three different fillings). This recipe wins both the crust and the filling contests, so I'm confident that it will go over well at our Thanksgiving celebration.
I experienced two "firsts" while trying this recipe:
1. I worked with lard! This was my first time buying it, in fact. One of my best friends is from New Mexico, and I remember being shocked at my first visit to the supermarket in Las Cruces when I saw shelf after shelf (after shelf!) of lard in containers of all sizes. I never even considered the existence of lard as a grocery product until I met this friend, but I've also never consumed better fried tacos than I have during the course of this friendship. And let me tell you, lard makes one heck of a pie crust. It almost had a bit of a snap to it when I cut the first piece and it held its shape well during serving. It was also exceptionally delicious, of course.
2. I made my own caramel! It was ridiculously easy and pass-out-freakin' delicious. Have you ever had those little log-shaped, individually-wrapped soft caramels? The ones that are so soft they aren't really even chewy? The pie caramel was too soft to be formed into candies (which makes sense since it's supposed to be drizzled over the pie), but the taste was spot on. You'd better believe that Dr. O and I scraped that saucepan clean.
The recipe for this pie is a bit long, so I'm not going to do the play-by-play today; you can check out the full original recipe here. What I will do is give you a rundown of the few things I did differently along with the tips I have to offer.
Let's begin!
- I really didn't feel like making pie dough with my hands yesterday, so I used my food processor instead. I put the flour and salt in the smallest bowl of my food processor and pulsed it a few times to mix. Then, I added the lard and (very cold) butter and pulsed until the mixture resembled coarse meal. I added the ice water little by little through the food processor tube, pulsing with each addition until the dough came together. (Try not to overprocess it.) The recipe called for 1/2 cup of ice water, but I had about 4 teaspoons left when I felt like my dough was moist enough. I wrapped the dough in plastic and chilled it for a couple of hours in the refrigerator before I rolled it out.
- I do love this recipe, but some of the language connected to rolling out the dough is unclear. The first part of the recipe tells you to "roll the dough to a 12-inch round about 1/8-inch thick" and line the pie plate. Notice that this says "the dough," not "half of the dough." There's no mention of dividing or halving the dough in either the main recipe or the pie dough recipe. Halfway through the recipe, though, we're told to "roll out the remaining dough to a large round." What?? I had already lined the pie plate and stuck it in the refrigerator before I realized there was a problem, so I had to pull out the dough, divide it in half, re-roll it, and set the other half aside for later. Maybe the "remaining dough" is supposed to be the scraps from lining the pie plate, but the recipe doesn't say anything about trimming excess dough. Maybe I was supposed to roll out that dough to exactly 1/8 inch and know that anything beyond the 12-inch round was scrap dough. Who knows? When I make the pie tomorrow, I'll just use half in the pie plate and half on top again.
- I did a rough chop of my apples and I thought the pieces would be small enough, but the apples were still slightly firm in the center of the pie. Tomorrow, I'm going to cut my apples into thin slices and then cut those slices into thirds. I think I'm also going to bake my pie for an extra 10 minutes at 300F (and I'll probably tent it with foil during the extra baking time to prevent it from browning any further).
- I can't say I understand why the pie has to go back into the oven after you put the caramel on top. The heat from the oven just made mine run off of the pie and pool at the crust. It's not like the caramel needs to cook any longer, so I'm just going to drizzle mine on the pie next time and let it set while the pie cools.
There may be better apple pies out there (like Grandma Ozenbaugh's pie), but this recipe is definitely the best of my experiments. The filling was still a bit tart (from the Granny Smith apples, I'm sure), but not overpoweringly so. It probably helped that this recipe has a bit more sugar in the filling and a little less lemon juice than some of the other recipes I've tried. The amount of cinnamon in the filling was just right, and the pie wasn't runny at all (thank you, tapioca). This crust wasn't as flaky as Martha Stewart's Perfect Pie Crust, but I actually liked it better. The flavor and texture were fantastic, and I loved that the pie pieces didn't collapse into a heap when they were served. This one's a keeper!
TIPS: Don't forget to put the pie on a rimmed baking sheet before you stick it in the oven. I had a small amount of filling and caramel bubble over, and I'd rather clean a baking sheet than the oven any day.
Recipe link: Caramel Apple Pie


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Substance Abuse and Teens: What Parents Need to Know
Parents will find this pamphlet very helpful when confronting the difficult problems of substance abuse and their children. Written by a woman who has "been there" she knows both sides of the issue very well, and has recovered and is now working in the Substance Abuse field helping others to find recovery. This pamphlets outlines how to spot the problems, how to find help, and how to minimize "enabling" behavior in parents.
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Here is my software:
ZCS 8.6.0 FOSS edition
Android 4.4.2 using DAVDroid to sync calendar via CalDAV
Some events that I create in the zimbra AJAX calendar show a slightly faded colouring in the appointment(not through being tagged with colours), and I've noted that these 'faded' appointments do not sync into my phone.
I noticed this on an event that I originally imported via an .ics from meetup.com, but then I manually created the same worded event, and I ended up with the faded look, but when I deleted the Location entry, it would get its colour back and sync to my phone.
Attached is a picture from my calendar to show the faded look, it happens in all colours, it's just more obvious in some colours than others.
There is nothing inside the event that indicates any difference between them, just the faded look in day/week/workweek/month view.
I have assumed that this issue is a ZCS issue and not a DAVDroid issue, because the event was created from the Zimbra AJAX interface and this faded colour issue is happening.
My phone won't let me import those .ics files directly into it so I can't try out the reverse as such, but I'm open to any suggestions.


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A group of Killarney jarveys say it's too early to say how dung catching devices are working. A number of the jarveys returned to work in the National Park today with the devices attached to their jaunting cars. They had been banned from the park by the National Parks and Wildlife Service after they refused to use the dung catchers.
Earlier this month the 27 Killarney based jarveys lost their High Court battle with the NPWS. The jarveys claim the dung-catchers are a health and safety risk – a claim disputed by the NPWS who say the devices are used in a number of countries already. The NPWS said a ban was necessary as the horses were soiling roads and paths. Today the jarveys returned to the National Park with the dung-catchers attached to their jaunting cars. Chairman of the Killarney Jarvey Association, Pat O'Sullivan, says it's too early to say how the devices are working.
This move by jarveys is being done on a trial basis without prejudice to a Supreme Court appeal to the High Court ruling. A written judgement from the High Court still has to be completed and it's understood that after this is received an appeal to the Supreme Court could be lodged by the jarveys.
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Building Strength Through Loyalty
Dean Matthew Horan is recognised in St. Patrick's Parish in Gympie as 'the builder'. As Fr. Matthew Horan he came to Gympie as parish priest in 1867, only five months after gold was discovered.
He continued as parish priest for 55 years. Fr. Horan, originally from Ireland, was a nephew of Bishop Quinn who was Bishop of Queensland from 1859 to 1881.
Fr. Horan celebrated Mass in a tent until it was replaced by a bark hut, then by a wooden church until this in turn was replaced by a stone church in 1887 where Mass is celebrated today. In the years that he tended his flock with a zealous, undying faith, he had a particular concern for the education of Catholic children. Long before the Mercy Sisters and the Christian Brothers came to the goldfields, he had set up a school near his church where lay teachers laboured in the cause of Catholicism. Dean Horan brought the Sisters of Mercy to Gympie in 1879 and the Christian Brothers in 1904. Having purchased the first piece of land for the Catholic Church for £18 Dean Horan expanded the area on all sides until five acres comprised the block on Calton Hill where the church and schools were built and still stand today. Matthew Horan, priest and builder, loved by a wide circle of friends and parishioners who had grown up around him, died on 6 July 1923.
The Cross:
The solid uniform cross of Horan House represents the firm foundation of the Catholic community in Gympie that Dean Matthew Horan nurtured in its earliest years. The masonry wall symbolises the actual building of St. Patrick's Church and the schools of the Sisters of Mercy and the Christian Brothers. The two schools amalgamated in 1983 to become St. Patrick's College and St. Patrick's Primary School.
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For the most part, students are in houses along family lines, and should now remain with the same Coordinator and Home Room Teacher for a number of years. Hopefully, positive and meaningful relationships can be built over this time and this will enhance your child's overall ability to learn academically, socially and spiritually at St. Patrick's.
Should you have concerns about how your student is coping with College life, or specific parts of their schooling, please contact the College and ask to speak to the relevant House Coordinator. For issues such as lateness, absence or minor uniform matters, speaking to your child's Home Room Teacher may be more productive initially.
One of the ways in which each house builds a sense of community is through of the specific sporting carnivals held each year.
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About the programme
Design School Kolding, the LEGO Foundation and the LEGO Group have joined forces to establish the world's first, exclusive two-year international Master's Degree programme within Design for Play. The programme will produce a new generation of highly specialised designers who can help companies and organisations achieve their aim of supporting customers, users and employees in creating a world that supports children and people in general in becoming creative, engaged, lifelong learners.
The programme is one of a kind. It is based on Scandinavian design, an international outlook, and advanced level research in design methodology and user centered studies. It affiliates some of the world's best designers, researchers and knowledge partners and creates a Scandinavian hub for play and design that demonstrates how research into play can achieve a practical impact. Students learn to utilize play as a motivating factor in design processes and how to design for meaningful play experiences.
The programme includes collaboration with companies, e.g. the LEGO Group, and individual courses based on specific cases. It incorporates strong elements of making, engaging, and co-creating with users. This could involve clothes, games, user interfaces, physical surroundings, toys – whatever supports the playful human being.
As a student of Design for Play you will be educated within the following:
- Designing for Play Experiences
- Child Centered Design for Play
- Applied Play
- Cultures of Play
- The Value of Play
- Playful Processes
- Toolbox
Apply now
We are looking for highly talented and motivated students with a relevant degree (BA or equivalent).
Application deadline is 1 March.
Design for Play Student Scholarship
In order to create a diverse team of students two scholarships for special talented non-EU students who need financial assistance are offered. The scholarship consists of a paid tuition fee. Please, find the link to the description of the scholarship and the application form to your right.
Selected MA projects
Design for Play reinforces and challenges the fields of industrial design, fashion design, textile design, accessory design and communication design and enables you to immerse yourself in the cross-disciplinary specialisation.
We have selected a few of our MA projects, which reflect the academic breadth and depth of the programme.
Selected MA projects
Workshops at Design School Kolding
Design School Kolding's workshops allow you to work with materials and manufacturing of prototypes and provide a space for you to constantly develop your talent in relation to your speciality.
Play in all its rich variety is one of the highest achievements of the human species, alongside language, culture and technology. Indeed, without play, none of these other achievements would be possible.
Dr. David Whitebread
Play enables us to explore, practice and try out ways of tackling similar challenges in the real world. Skills like problem-solving, creativity; empathy, communication and teamwork all have their foundations in play.
The LEGO Foundation
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.
Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst (1874-1961)
Creativity and innovation are now driving the economy, reshaping entire industries and stimulating inclusive growth.
The 2014 OECD Forum
Creativity will be the 3rd most important work skill by 2020
World Economic Forum, 2016
Let's build something amazing!
LAB and Q&A
The Danish tradition and our track record
In Denmark we have a great motivation to create good play experiences because in our culture play is perceived as a way to develop ourselves. Through play, we acquire our social, intellectual and creative competencies, which are crucial for thriving and succeeding in today's rapidly changing world. There is a growing body of evidence to confirm the importance of play, and we need to develop this knowledge further and facilitate the translation into practice.
Thus, Play & Design has been a strategic focal area for Design School Kolding for years. It is a dedicated research theme with currently two PhD students. In our Lab for Play & Design we have completed a number of projects and activities and worked with leading partners to investigate and define the unique Danish DNA for designing play. We have also identified possibilities, challenges and barriers for designing "good play". This has enabled us to establish a large network within play practice and play research, nationally and internationally.
Together with Capital of Children and the LEGO Foundation, we run the Play User Lab. This is an initiative that works to strengthen the performance of companies working with play, learning and creativity by increasing their innovation skills and user focus in order to enable them to lead the way in how to design for future play.
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If a business hums along and misses important patterns and trends, it is in mortal danger in today's world. It can mean a loss in business revenue, reputation and opportunities. Obviously, there are many events and patterns that organizations have to sort through to stay successful. This posting will focus on key pattern detection and the technologies that can help sort through the onslaught of events, data and information.
Business Patterns:
Opportunities, Threats and Noise:
Organizations need to be able to sort out the key patterns from the noise that is constantly bombarding them from multiple traditional sources as well as social outlets. Filtering out noise makes finding the key gems of interest. Once the big rocks are stripped away, the good ground can be sifted for patterns of threat. Threats have to be considered first to defend organizations immediately. Opportunities can often be developed on a slower time line, but not always.
Simple and Complex Patterns:
Organizations can be easily fooled into thinking that any one event is not germane for attention. This is why more data needs to be held over time, looking for pairings of events that may need attention. This will require think through the patterns and combinations of events that make sense to look for over time. This requires thought about the policies, rules and constraint boundaries to use as screening mechanisms.
Expected and Unexpected:
Smart organizations leverage scenario planning to establish the patterns of highest interest, that point to the expected, probable and reasonably possible scenarios. Even with the best of planning, there will be occasional unexpected scenarios that might emerge. Smart organization envision unlikely scenarios as well and are looking for the odd exceptions and unexpected trends and correlations.
Technologies Assisting Pattern Detection:
Complex Events:
There are established technologies that combine rules with events to look for patterns over time. This is a crucial base technology for pattern detection. This will only get more important as we link to the "Internet of Things"
Big Data in Memory:
The ability to gather and hold simple events is greatly enhanced by big data. For organizations that want a big view and high speed, big data in memory is a must.
Real Time Activity Monitoring:
Believe it or not many patterns are caught by visualizing patterns in monitoring business activity. While this works better in a slower and simple world, it is still quite effective. Organizations that are deep into speed and complexity, there is a need for additional technologies.
Process & Exception Management:
Quite often the early signs of an emerging pattern occurs in the exception grates of processes. It is easy to assign exceptions to skilled knowledge workers to complete case work, process management that highlights and points out unusual exceptions is a growing trend.
Listening Agents:
Like scouts in war conditions, specialized listening agents that contain logic for ferreting out patterns can be deployed upstream or in the collective. This way patterns of interest can be sensed early. Agents generally combine the function of many of the assisting technologies listed in this section.
Mining & Activity Analysis:
Smart organizations are constantly optimizing and mining their favorite sources of data and process actions to look for emerging better practices as well as for patterns of interest. This a rapidly evolving set of technologies combined to find work patterns.
Data Transformation & Integration:
Tapping into many event, data and information sources, normalizing them through transformation and merging them to be available to analyze is an important base technology
Net; Net:
There are compelling business reasons for finding patterns in order for organizations to survive, thrive and capitalize. There are emerging combinations of the supporting technologies, coming from one vendor that are gathering interest. These are know as process platforms (AKA iBPMS) that support intelligent business operations.


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INSPIRE's "Wear All Blue" Colorectal Cancer Awareness – DAY 15 with the Aga Family.
Fiasili Lana Aga shares a photo of several grandchildren and great grandchildren of the late Aga Tama & Fuafanua Aga's of Fagaitua in their dress blue.
Thank you Aga family for sharing your "Wear All Blue" with INSPIRE and supporting the American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition in helping the people of American Samoa fight cancer.
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But it turned out very tasty, the sponge was very light and the sauce below was very lemon curdy and tarty, just the way I like it!
Below pictures is the original recipe with 250 ml milk and baked in a bain maire.
Difference in versions:
Without milk, the sponge was very light and the sauce very much like a lemon curd in colour and taste.
The second with milk and baked in a bain maire, was less tarty and more custard curd, rather than lemon curd. Again very tasty, if you don't like your puddings too tangy and tarty then stick to the original recipe and go for the second version here. Myself, I like my dessert with a bit of a bite, so not sure which I will do in the future, I guess like all things depends on mood of the moment.
Update: Used just 100 ml Milk to avoid deciding milk or not milk. Tasty very tangy and creamy too. Just what you might expect. Delish just the same. Served on top of fresh strawberries, super :)
- 50g butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 lemon , zested
- 100ml lemon juice (include the zest from the zested lemon)
- 3 eggs , separated 250ml milk
- 50g Plain flour
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160/gas gas 4.
Whizz the butter, sugar and lemon zest until they are pale and creamy in a food processor. Add the lemon juice, egg yolks, flour and milk one by one until you have a smooth batter. Whisk the egg whites until firm but not stiff, and fold the two mixtures together.
Pour into a buttered ovenproof soufflé or baking dish and put it in a baking tray half filled with hot water. Bake for 45-50 minutes until the top is lightly browned and set and there is a sort of gooey lemon curd below. Remove the dish from the tray, dust with icing sugar and serve hot, with or without cream.


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We are happy to announce the release of an improved Sta.sh API. After many years the Sta.sh api had become a little confusing and was not keeping up with changes to its backend systems. We therefore decided to redesign parts and fix some of the confusing naming and behaviour.
These changes are versioned so if you are using version prior to 20150416 there will be no change in behaviour, we plan to support the old api for around a year.
Summary of Changes
The folderid and stashid fields have been replaced by stackid and itemid respectively, this change applies to all endpoints.
These endpoints were removed and their functionality is provided by newer ones
- /stash/folder
- /stash/media
- /stash/metadata
- /stash/move/file
- /stash/move/folder
New endpoints to manage stacks
- POST /stash/move/{stackid} - moves stacks
- POST /stash/position/{stackid} - change the position of a stack within a parent stack
- POST /stash/update/{stackid} - update stack details (title, description)
- GET /stash/{stackid} - fetch stack details, returns stash_metadata object
- GET /stash/{stackid}/contents - list stack contents, supports pagination
New endpoints to manage items
- GET /stash/item/{itemid} - fetch an item, returns stash_metadata object
- POST /stash/delete - delete an item by itemid
Stash Metadata object
- Renamed fields folderid and stashid
- Removed is_folder
- Replaced keywords with tags
Any problems can be reported on the GitHub Issue Tracker.
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These are where some my inspirations were from :
|Zara: Jacquard Blazer with Chain on the Shoulder
|Zara Blazer with Spikes on the Shoulder
Step 1: Remove the applique from the package and find the point where you want the applique to start. Think of this applique as a patch, everything has already been sewn to a felt patch. I held mine down, you could use a stick pin to keep it in place.


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Call for Participants: Capacity building for work in and with conflict regions
Thanks to a joint cooperation of SCI Germany, SCI Italy, UTILAPU Hungary and VCZ Croatia you can now apply for a seminar which definitly sounds like you should take a look at:
Who:Due to the funding, you can only apply if you are living in a member country of the Council of Europe
What: Capacity building for work in and with conflict regions
When: 20 – 27th January, 2014
Where: Germany, in Barnsdorf (near Bremen)
Reimbursement: All costs of the programme (including food, accommodation, internal travel) will be covered by the organisers and 66% (airplane), 75% (other than airplane) of international travel costs will be reimbursed. Registration fee of the seminar is 50 Euros.
How: Send the filled in Call-for-participants_-Capacity-building-for-work-in-and-with-conflict-regions to email@example.com , which has to forward it to firstname.lastname@example.com (details in the call for participants).
Applications deadline: Before the 22nd of November 2013
International seminar about capacity building of volunteers working in conflict areas will be taking place from 20.1.2014. – 27.1.2014. in Bremen, Germany.
It is the main part of a joint project "Volunteering for peace – Capacity building for work in and with conflict regions"of SCI Germany, SCI Italy and SCI Hungary (UTILAPU), funded by Council of Europe.
The project will bring together 25 volunteers from the SCI international network with 2 experienced trainers from Italy and Croatia, to work together on the themes of psychology of war, conflict resolution, skills of mediation, nonviolent communication and facilitation skills for work in this area. It will also try to address participants needs stemming from experience as volunteers in confict regions.
The project is in line with previous SCI peace building activities such as the work of "No more war" group.
The additional value of the project is including practical issues of working with people from conflict areas – what helps, what can we as volunteers do, what are the limits of responsibility we have as helpers, how to prevent burn out syndrome of helpers.
As a result there will be a training manual for working with volunteers working in/going to conflict areas produced, and we expect participants to further this work upon returning to their home countries.
We are pleased to announce that 5 participants from other continents are now confirmed
One of these participants from Palestine recently travelled to Lampedusa to meet with boat survivors and you can read her report here:https://www.oximity.com/article/Death_Boat___A_story_of_suffering_that_1#.UnggRvk3tEZ
The other participants originate from Nigeria, Vietnam, Egypt and Sri Lanka.
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Raiding the hotel mini-bar has never been so — affordable!
Guests at New York's Loews Regency Hotel can pay an extra $30 per night to enjoy an all-you-can-drink-and-eat mini-bar in their rooms. Before checking out, guests are even encouraged to raid the refrigerator and take home everything left inside in the "Milk the Mini-Bar" program.
"I think people, when they see the mini-bar in their hotel room, they're tempted by that package of Pringles — but then they're turned off by the price," said Adrian Norbury, director of sales and marketing at Loews Regency on Park Avenue and East 61st Street. "We want to make that a non-issue."
All the items, if purchased a la carte, with their outrageous hotel markup, would cost about $550 — which is a bit more than the average $449 nightly room charge at the posh Upper East Side hotel.
Items will include normal mini-bar fare such as bottled water, beer, wine, champagne, assorted spirits, chocolates, M&Ms, almonds, chocolate pretzels and potato chips.
The beers include Heineken, Brooklyn Lager, Amsetel Light and Miller Lite.


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For their forthcoming Late Night Tales compilation, Metronomy assembled a typically eclectic selection of their favourite songs and artists, from Autechre to Kate and Anna McGarrigle, to Missy Elliott's protege Tweet. In fact, you can listen to a minimix of the compilation curated by Metronomy mastermind Joe Mount here. For their obligatory cover, they've decided to shine a light on a fairly obscure Jean Michel Jarre instrumental called Hypnose, which was originally written in the 70s for French hypnotist and oddball Dominique Webb. Aware that it's quite difficult to "out-synth" Jean Michel Jarre, Metronomy's version – premiered here – has a slightly more live feel, with a typically spidery bassline and some jangly percussion underpinning a song that meanders artfully before being buffeted by big waves of ridiculous synths.
• Late Night Tales: Metronomy is released on 3 September.


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A California driver has been hospitalized along with eight others after crashing through a wall and into a motel pool on Sunday, police said.
The driver of the SUV plunged into the pool of the Vagabond Inn in Los Angeles at about 7:45 p.m., according to reports.
Read: Mom and 9-Year-Old Son With Autism Save Drowning Toddler: 'I'm Just a Little Helper'
Police told Inside Edition that the driver, who was not identified, is currently in critical condition, and it has not yet been determined whether he had drugs or alcohol in his system. Toxicology reports are pending.
Witnesses said there were many children in the pool at the time of the incident, who police said sustained minor injuries.
Read: 250-Pound Sea Turtle Rescued After Wandering Into Backyard Pool
A witness to the crash said in a Facebook comment that she "saw three little boys carried out and into an ambulance. Two little ones were walking and the other was on a stretcher," though they appeared alert.
The manager of the Vagabond Inn, who wished to remain anonymous, described the situation to Inside Edition as a "crisis" that he is working to resolve.
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Margin Trading Psychology
Hello everyone, this guide was written by my good friend Sparta. We both started actively trading around the same time and wanted to share some insight from an incredibly talented trader. I hope you all enjoy!
Sparta's Margin Psychology Guide
If you're new to high leverage Margin trading you will likely notice that it comes with its own set of challenges. I firmly believe that most of a trader's success in Margin is not due to TA (though it is still as important as ever) but due to an intimate understanding of their own individual psychology.
- Take responsibility for your losses.
It is incredibly easy for us to attribute our losses to external factors while ignoring exactly what it is that caused us to get rekt. In almost every circumstance, there is something you could have done better to prevent such a loss. Perhaps you should have not opened a position at all. It is seldom the case that a loss is truly unavoidable. Recognize that you never lose – you either win or you learn. A loss does not become a loss until you've failed to learn from it.
- Know your risk.
Margin Trading is absolutely not gambling but it can quickly become that if you lack the discipline necessary. Bitmex spoils us by allowing very high leverage but it is absolutely essential that the leverage you choose to trade with is appropriate for your trading plan and position size. If you are behaving erratically, getting liquidated at all, smashing the 'close at market button', or dealing with high blood pressure, your risk is absolutely too high. This leaves you vulnerable to making very, very stupid mistakes. What was previously a calculated activity becomes a degenerate gamblers haphazard effort to get rich quickly.
Personally, I never go above 25x leverage and most of the time I'm using 10-15x. With adequate position size and market volatility this is more than enough to make some serious money relative to your networth. Some of the people I work with only trade 50x+ and it works beautifully. That's great *for them*. I know what keeps me sane. I know what works for me. I know what makes me consistently profitable.
- Know when to trade. Know when to live your life.
We're blessed to have a 24 hour market and seemingly infinite opportunities to grow wealth in this space. It is very, very tempting to make Margin trading your full time job or to spend every waking moment of your existence staring at charts. Recognize that, unless you are a very specific kind of person, this is going to be counterproductive. As the saying goes 'time in the market beats timing the market'.
Personally, I do not open a position unless I see an obvious opportunity. Take a second to recognize what odds are in your favor and then act appropriately. Do not open a position for the sake of it. Do not bet blindly on price going up or down.
- Do not allow others to trade vicariously through you.
Oftentimes we'll find ourselves on Discord or in the Bitmex trollbox bouncing around ideas, TA, and deciding on what our next move is. It is very likely that you will perceive some traders as being better than yourself but it is essential that you do not open a position purely because someone you trust or look up to did. Willingness to learn from your mistakes is what will make you a good trader and this is very unlikely to happen in the event that you are trading based on someone else's words/actions. No trader, no matter how successful, is infallible and allowing yourself to even contemplate such a thing sets you up to get rekt. We've seen time and time again how
Groupthink can lead to panic buying/selling. It is something you must stamp out at every opportunity.
This is not to say that you cannot allow people to influence you. What I'm saying is that you must first know where you stand in relation to the market and where you think it is going before you seek the advice of others. If someone whose opinion you value agrees with your point of view, then allow it to influence you. If they disagree, consider it an opportunity for discourse and furthering your understanding of the market at this point in time.
Basically, make sure your actions are *your own*.
- Develop your rules for trading.
Each trader has their own individual biases, weaknesses, and strengths. What works for others, may not work for you. Introspection and contemplation are the only things that will allow *you* to understand how you should trade. Based on a comprehensive understanding of your own thought patterns, you will be able to hone your trading intuition.
Develop a set of trading commandments you will refuse to compromise under almost any circumstances. Put them in writing and make sure they are visible from wherever it is you trade.
This will minimize your losses and maximize your wins, cutting through your emotion as long as you are sufficiently disciplined.
- Mentally disconnect yourself from the market.
You've heard time and time again that you should only invest what you can afford to lose. This isn't new. Margin presents you with the opportunity to make a month's salary in mere hours and so it can be very tempting to make Hail Mary plays in the event that you have some hospital bills or need to make rent. This is absolutely *NOT* what Margin and crypto are meant for. This is nothing more than another game you play in your spare time and treating it as anything else is ill-advised to moronic.
Your portfolio value is a high score you're trying your best to beat. The second it becomes anything else, you're opening yourself up to a host of mental vulnerabilities.
- Before you even consider opening a position, have a plan.
What course of action you choose is unique to you, but make sure that your approach is both sensible and resistant to emotion. It is so, so easy to get scared and close a position that would otherwise have succeeded. Find ways to counter your own mental vulnerabilities.
- Do everything you can to recognize and avoid the influence of Greed.
Nothing is responsible for more failure than our tendency to get greedy when trading. Greed will cancel your stop losses, turn a winning position into a losing one, and instigate failures in the most insidious way. Adequate self knowledge will allow you to recognize when you are being greedy. Strangle it to death.


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Welcome to Evolution Financial Planning
Friendly advice from female financial advisers
Life presents us with a series of financial challenges. Some can be planned for – like a wedding or retirement – while others come when we least expect it.
That's why financial planning is so important. It means you will always feel prepared for the changes ahead while putting you in the best position to achieve your long and short-term goals!
The diagram below shows our ages along the bottom and stages of life across the top. The red line represents our income – starting low and increasing through career peaks before reducing again in retirement – and the lines going across the grid highlight potential areas of need for financial advice.
No matter what your age or life stage, getting financial advice from an adviser you trust is key to your family legacy and personal success.
Work with us
Who we typically work with as clients...
Career Women
You're aware that you're working more hours and earning more money, but perhaps you're concerned about your spending habits and are worried you're not saving enough. You know that financial planning makes complete sense, but never quite get around to it…
Perhaps you want to move up the property ladder or, if you have children, feel it is time to start saving for school or university fees.
You may also be thinking about organising legal guardianships for your children and want to ensure they'll receive a lump sum should anything happen to you.
We can help with all these areas of planning. As holistic advisers, we're able to provide advice around mortgages – which one is best for you and which lenders will offer the most money – and write wills.
We can give advice around guardianship and set up insurance policies with trust work ensuring your family's future is protected.
We are also able to give investment advice so that your children's university fees are covered, allowing you to relax in the knowledge they'll leave higher education with little or no debt.
Plus, we offer advice around investment and retirement plans to ensure you're in the best possible position later on in life.
Home Makers
With your partner busy working, you're left juggling all the other plates - including the home finances – and let's face it, making all those decisions by yourself can be daunting.
Perhaps you're concerned about your joint retirement plans or how you'll pay future school or university fees for the children. Maybe your goal is to set up legal guardianship for your children and you want to be able to provide them with a lump sum should anything happen to you?
We are here to offer a second opinion. Think of us as someone to bounce ideas and concerns off. As well as providing you with advice on guardianship we can help set up insurance policies with trust work ensuring your family is protected.
We are also able to give investment advice so that your children's university fees are covered, meaning you can relax in the knowledge they'll leave higher education with little or no debt.
We can also offer advice around investment and retirement plans to ensure you're in the best possible position later on in life.
Business Women
Your business is going well and you're paying yourself a salary but, now you've reached this massive milestone, you know there are other areas of your financial life which need attention.
Now that the business is working and profitable, it's time to shift your focus to other matters such as sorting out your existing mortgage or reviewing your pension plan. You know you could do more with your earnings and wonder what else you could consider.
We can help you create the financial plans you've been putting off and support you in making sure all your finances are in order – after all, you've worked hard work to get here and want to make sure your efforts pay off.
Starting Out
For younger couples or individuals just starting out, things are no different to 20 years ago except house prices are much higher!
Making the right decisions about your mortgage - how long the term is and what type you need - is very important. After all, it's probably the biggest financial commitment you'll ever make.
You may be wondering where to start or what you should do to put yourself in the strongest possible position. How much can, or should, you borrow? Are there schemes which could help you up the ladder?
We can help you find the right mortgage for your circumstances, ensuring it is financially comfortable for you. We assist with the whole mortgage administration process, so you'll always have someone to speak to.
Later on, we can advise on any protection needs you may have and even give you support in writing your will.
Near Retirement
Getting your ducks in line in readiness for your retirement is super sensible and worth the time and effort, especially if you haven't done this on a regular basis over the years.
You could be worried about all the paperwork and have no idea what your projected earnings would be at retirement. Or, you might have spare money and not know what else you should be doing to make the future secure.
We can help you review your pensions and give you advice on which steps to take to ensure you are in the strongest position.
Going through a divorce is a massive time of change and there are so many decisions to be made around where you live and how will you continue to pay the bills.
Everything comes into question - your Wills become invalid, your life insurance policies may need changing and, if you need to apply for a mortgage, you might not know how much you can borrow.
With so much information to deal with, we understand that deciding what to do can be overwhelming.
After getting legal advice, we are able to help you with all these areas. As holistic advisers we don't just deal with mortgages or pensions, our team is able to give you guidance on all the areas you may be facing, making it easier for you to make decisions.
Our Service is broken into 2 sections depending if you are taking out a new product, needing to speak to an adviser which has pension and investment knowledge or if you need general advice.
OPTION 1 – Specific Product:
- Mortgages – we cover them all. Remortgage, home movers and investments with Whole of Market advice provided.
- Insurances – Life insurance, income protection and critical illness
- Pensions – Reviewing existing to setting up new ones.
- Investments – Lump sum investments, inheritance and existing portfolios
- Wills – Single or Mirror Wills and Trust work where required.
OPTION 2 - Lifestyle Financial and Money Coaching - (Money Mentor and Lifestyle Financial Coaching)
Like many people you are needing more than just a mortgage or investment product, you've looked for a financial adviser as you want to really get efficient and affective with your finances. Is this you? You are earning well but feel like you are wasting money with over spending in your business or personal life. You have little or no structure to your finances and you know you need to take action but don't know where to start. You do know what you want to be in a position to invest – in yourself, in revenue creating opportunities, in property or in wealth structures like stocks and shares.
There are many kinds of money coaches out there, not many are qualified financial advisers – why? Because they, as we/I do, give regulated product advice and aren't needing to step into working with clients on areas of financial advice which aren't directly related to that. I do, because I love to see the transformation and change it can have on people. Every time I see it make the biggest difference.
What is mentoring – this is where someone has the experience and knowledge to show you the right way. What is coaching – coaching will get you thinking about why and how you do and feel the way you do about something and you to take inspired action to make change. We can do both!! Which makes is a really special process all done in a very bespoke way to your personal circumstances. Nothing 'one size fits all' process about it…
OPTION 1 - Specific Product Required Only
What is the process? The first meeting will be spent getting to know you, your current financial and personal circumstances as well as your financial aims and objectives over the next few years and long-term. Your advisor will take all the relevant information from you and some paperwork if necessary. They will then search the market for the most suitable financial products for you and your family in order to set you on the right track to fulfil all your goals and ambitions. They will prepare a report explaining all their recommendations. If you agree, they will then put the wheels in motion in order to set your financial plans up on your behalf.
How much does it cost?
- New Pension or Investment for £50,000 or less and a monthly contribution - set fee along with ISA and Pension £1200 including cash projections (on going management fees apply*)
- Reviewing existing pensions or investments - £125 for collecting full provider information. For more than 2 Pensions/Investments to review charge increased to £250 – this is an administration fee. For any recommendation implemented a charge of 1.5%-2% (based on investment levels) is applied.
- New Investment or Pension – lump sum over £50,000 for any recommendation implemented a charge of 1.5%-2% (based on investment levels) is applied.
- Insurance – no initial costs but any commission lost because of early cancellation will be invoiced to the client
- Mortgages or review existing mortgage - £199 on application, this is after the research and quote provided and £199 on offer from the mortgage provider, this is after an application has been submitted and underwriting completed.
- Wills – From** £98 single and £168 couple
**meaning a simple Will without too much complexity) *Ongoing management fees for investments/pension – This is where an IFA would support the client with a review of their financial position every year and review the plan set up. This charge can be taken from the plan itself or it can be paid by the client directly. This fee is charged between 0.50%-1% of the investment amount.
OPTION 2 - Lifestyle Financial and Money Coaching
Our 'Kick Start' 121 Coaching/Mentoring with Director and IFA Rebecca Robertson.
This is very bespoke to you, every client is so different. Rebecca will take you through the full process of money management, financial wellbeing and ensure that at the end of the process you have a super structure process and we hope, a stronger mindset towards your money.
3-4 months months package: 2hr Face to Face in our London/Kent Office or online following up with 3 online 121 - 1 hr sessions. £1,500 total investment (up front £450 the rest can be split monthly at £350 per month)
Our 'Kick Start' Group coaching/mentoring with Director and IFA Rebecca Robertson
Maximum of 6 individuals working together to share ideas, network and keep each other accountability with a structured learning with key outcomes and goals achieved in mind.
4 HOURS FACE TO FACE GROUP MEET UP in London.
2 hours every 3 weeks for 12 weeks.
Costing £995 payment £248.75 per month over 4 months, payment in advance.
At Evolution Financial Planning, we believe that everyone should have access to financial advice, therefore, we don't have minimum case sizes, for example, minimum mortgage amounts or minimum investment pots.
We also believe it is very important that our clients feel we're being transparent and open, therefore we have put this information together to help you understand what we can offer and how much it might cost.
If you have any questions regarding our charging structure or how we might be able to help, contact us today or book a discovery call to find out how we can help you.
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A pension advisor can support you on your journey to being in the best possible financial position come retirement. What do we offer? We offer you independent financial advice
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