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Who can get SNAP benefits? Can I receive SNAP if I do not have children?
All types of people receive SNAP benefits — single adults, families, seniors, and working people. Many people who do not have children are eligible for SNAP benefits.
How is SNAP eligibility determined?
Eligibility is based primarily on household income and certain expenses. Most applicants will not be asked for proof of money in the bank or other resources. Learn more and see if you are eligible by calling The FoodSource Hotline at 1-800-645-8333.
What are emergency SNAP benefits? Who is eligible?
Expedited benefits mean that you may receive benefits within seven days. We suggest you go in person to your local DTA office to apply.
To be eligible for expedited benefits, you must meet one of these three criteria:
If you believe you are eligible for expedited benefits but don't get them, you have a right to a conference with a DTA supervisor.
Do I need to be working to apply for SNAP?
No. Certain SNAP recipients may have to enroll in a job search program a few months after their benefits begin; however, many SNAP applicants do not.
I own my own home. Does this mean I cannot get SNAP?
No. In fact, the costs associated with owning your home are used as deductions in determining your eligibility. The home you live in is not considered an asset. Learn more about who uses SNAP.
I am not a US Citizen. Can I apply for SNAP?
Yes. Many non-citizens are eligible for SNAP. Receiving SNAP will have no impact on your application for citizenship and/or a green card. If you do not have documented immigration status, you will not be able to apply for yourself, but you may be able to apply for other eligible household members.
Children born in the US may receive benefits even if their parents do not have documentation.
Learn more about SNAP benefits for immigrants.
I am homeless. Can I apply for SNAP?
Yes. A permanent address is not required to apply for SNAP. You can get benefits whether you live on the street, are staying in a shelter, or are living with family or friends on a temporary basis. Homeless individuals and families who do not have regular shelter expenses can claim an automatic deduction from their income.
Do I have to go into the office to apply?
No. You can begin an application over the phone by calling Project Bread's toll-free FoodSource Hotline at 1-800-645-8333. You may also email or fax your application, or apply online. Your Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) caseworker will call you to schedule an interview over the phone. Learn more about how to apply for SNAP.
I live with other people. Do I have to put their names on my application?
Yes. If you buy and prepare food with the people you live with, you all apply together. If you do not, you apply separately, but you would still need to put their names on your application. Some people must always apply together, including spouses and children under 22 living with a parent or step-parent.
How do I find out the status of my SNAP application?
You should first try to contact your DTA caseworker. You can also call the DTA Assistance Line at 1-877-382-2363, or you can access information on your application through DTA's My Accounts webpage: www.mass.gov/vg/selfservice.
How long will it be until I get my SNAP benefits?
It can take up to 30 days to receive benefits. Some households may be eligible for expedited/emergency SNAP, which are available in seven calendar days.
I received an EBT card in the mail but the balance is $0. What does this mean?
When you apply for SNAP you may be given an EBT card right away, but until your application is processed, you will not have any benefits on your card.
It is also possible you may be categorically eligible for $0, meaning when your income and expense information was calculated the amount of SNAP benefits you qualified for was $0. However, you are still considered a SNAP recipient and can receive any associated benefits, such as utility discounts and free school meals for your children.
Does receiving SNAP affect my taxes?
No. SNAP benefits are not considered income.
I have seen people purchase non-food items with an EBT card. I thought SNAP was only for food?
Yes. SNAP benefits are only for food. However, some people have an EBT card for their TAFDC (cash assistance) benefits. You can use TAFDC benefits to purchase food and non-food items. For information on TAFDC eligibility, contact your local DTA office.
For a comprehensive list of permissible foods to purchase with your SNAP benefits, please visit the USDA website.
I still have some questions. Where can I get help?
For more information contact Project Bread's FoodSource Hotline at 1-800-645-8333.
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Well! Here's one way to re-tell a fairy-tale: Ditch the young female protagonist altogether.
According to Inkoo Kang over at Women And Hollywood, Snow White and the Huntsman — in which Kristen Stewart starred as Snow White — will get a sequel, but it will focus on the Huntsman, aka the one who no one gives a shit about and is no one's favorite fairy-tale character.
The Wrap reports that Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont is in talks to direct the sequel. Guess the Hunstman — aka Chris Hemsworth — will be doing lots of fighting and grunting and galloping and so on. The usual. Action flick. Sure.
But it's strange: If Charlize Theron is expected to reprise her role as the delightfully evil Queen Ravenna, why aren't they calling the movie Queen Ravenna and The Huntsman? Or better yet, just Ravenna? Maleficent-style. Ravenna was the best part of the original flick, making the most of a shitty concept. (Snow White was supposed to be pure, but then she put on armor and hit the battlefield like a regular old war monger. She should have fought the evil queen with love and dwarves and poppies and MDMA or something.)
Anyway, Ravenna had flawless style, gorgeous accessories and a killer (heh) beauty regime. Oh, and she could turn into a fucking murder of crows. How do you not make a movie focusing solely on her? As Inko Kang writes: "In the post-Katniss, post-Frozen, post-Gravity era, one would hope that Hollywood learn to stop worrying and love action heroines already."

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You might have heard that in response to concerns about its purchase of artificial intelligence vendor Deep Mind, Google has promised to form an artificial intelligence ethics board. That's rich.
When I first heard " Google" and "ethics" in the same sentence, my thoughts turned to other oxymorons like "jumbo shrimp" and "House Intelligence Committee." If you only know a little bit about the company's behavior over the years, you have to see the phrase "Google ethics" as a contradiction in terms.
The idea behind the board is reportedly to ensure that AI is developed safely at Google, however Google defines that (and nobody knows). Let's be real, though: Putting Google in charge of the ethics of anything is a stretch. This is the company that once promised to do no evil -- and has been trying to live that promise down ever since.
Maybe when they started, when they were two happy-go-lucky Stanford students, Google's founders really believed their company would be different. But their little startup grew into a behemoth and eventually went public, and just like Microsoft, the technology powerhouse that dominated the scene in Google's early days, Google has done whatever was necessary to maintain its market dominance.
Google is constantly raising ethical concerns, whether by giving precedence to its own content over others in Google Search, changing its algorithms without providing the least bit of transparency, closing down beloved services like Google Reader, snooping on everyone's Wi-Fi connections or secretly tracking iPhone users.
In fact, Google is in the midst of a lawsuit in the U.K. over the iPhone tracking issue, and The Guardian reports that the company isn't exactly making friends and influencing people with its attempt to have the lawsuit moved to California. Plaintiffs called Google "arrogant and immoral" for arguing that the lawsuit needs to be moved to its home turf, according to the British newspaper.
And this is the company that wants to be the self-policing ethical reviewer of artificial intelligence? With its track record, how can anyone seriously think that it would let some pesky ethical issues get in the way if the DeepMind technology could provide Google with a competitive advantage?
Publicly traded companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to maximize value. Google is certainly not alone among publicly traded companies in putting that imperative above all others. But it has shown itself in recent years to be especially aggressive in attending to the bottom line and willing to piss off users, competitors, governments and anyone else to do it.
In the end, of course, this DeepMind buy might not do for Google everything that it's now hoping for. Not everything that Google touches turns to gold; just look at Motorola Mobility, which Google bought for $12.5 billion in 2012 and is now selling for just $2.9 billion. But I do know this: If the DeepMind deal doesn't pan out, it won't be because an ethics board was able to put any brakes on Google's ambitions.
Ron Miller is a freelance technology journalist and blogger. He is an editor at FierceContentManagement and a contributing editor at EContent Magazine.
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The first thought I had when I heard about the Oculus Rift was: "Oh man, I can't wait to play Mirror's Edge on that." My second thought was: "It is going to make me so sick."
Over the past two months, I have played a lot of games on my Oculus Rift development kit, from Half Life and Dishonored to Macross and Portal 2. I have even spent more than a few hours watching movies on it. But this was all in the hopes of building up some kind of a resistance to the Oculus Rift so I could play the first-person, free-running title, Mirror's Edge.
So join me as I play a bit of it and talk about the positives and negatives when it comes to playing games on the Rift in general—and ones that only run on it thanks to fan-created drivers, specifically.
Also, we'll see if I can make it to the end of the level without losing my lunch.
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Boston (TheNextXbox) – Microsoft is starting to make a major impact in terms of developing its own consumer electronics. With the next-generation Xbox 360 successor the Xbox 720 just around the corner, will Microsoft leverage its popularity to help push Microsoft Surface sales?
That would make a lot of sense considering Sony might be doing the same thing with Gaikai for Vaio laptops/Sony tablets.
i hope around this whole thing of pushing this tech or that tech both sony and ms don't forget that end of the day the device is called gaming console so we need games
i am old school give me great games and i could careless about any features. give me a controller and games and i won't complain
hopefully they just remember to make amazing games, the gimmicks are just that, gimmicks
i can care less about touch controls, movement controls, tounge controls, AR games, lights shooting around my room!
what i want is crisp, 1080p games at 60 frames per second with all the annoying jaggies and screen tearing of the xbox 360 and ps3 last gen gone and a distant bad memory
i want new glorious ip's, and i want the old ip's like gears, killzone, uncharted and halo to show me new things with insane texture counts, destructibility/physics, amazing lighting, ai that thinks on its toes.
i want giant landscapes with immense draw distance, i want user created content, i want mods that can be uploaded and shared with the community
basically, i want next gen consoles to at least come close to catching up with pc, all the while delivering the franchises that i love from sony and microsoft!
you can keep your damn tablet, and kinect and whatever other hairbrained ideas you turds are floating around in the R and D departments
just give me the damn games!


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Dookhan charged with 27 criminal counts
A new report on the investigation into the work of a former state chemist accused of tampering with evidence and falsifying data has put 190,000 cases in jeopardy.
A confidential report by the Attorney General's Office reveals that the scope of the drug cases potentially tainted by former State Lab chemist Annie Dookhan may be much larger than originally feared.
According to the Globe, all drug cases since 2003 -- when Dookhan began working in the State Lab in Jamaica Plain -- may now be in jeopardy. That means 190,000 cases processed in the lab, including 34,000 processed by Dookhan.
Investigators from the Inspector General's Office examined the lab and reportedly found unlabeled bags and test tubes containing unknown substances, mysterious pills taped to a cabinet and old samples dating back to 1996.
Dookhan is charged with 27 criminal counts for allegedly mishandling drug evidence and deliberately falsifying records, including lying about her credentials.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced a new set of tools to help communities combat the rising number of pedestrian deaths that have occurred over the last two years. As part of the campaign, the Department's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is making $2 million in pedestrian safety grants available to cities with the highest rate of pedestrian deaths, and along with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), is launching a one-stop shop website www.nhtsa.gov/everyoneisapedestrian with safety tips and resources for local leaders, city planners, parents and others involved in improving pedestrian safety.
"Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian," said Secretary Foxx. "We all have a reason to support pedestrian safety, and now, everyone has new tools to help make a difference."
States have until Aug. 30 to apply for a total of $2 million that can be used for education and enforcement initiatives in 22 focus cities where pedestrian deaths are greater than the national average. The new website, www.nhtsa.gov/everyoneisapedestrian, pulls pedestrian safety information from both NHTSA and FHWA, and provides safety tips and resources that communities can use to keep pedestrians safe. These resources include information for parents on teaching children about safe walking, reports on effective pedestrian projects for state highway safety offices, and guides for community pedestrian safety advocates.
"We continue to see high rates of pedestrian fatalities in major cities and across every demographic," said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland. "To help stop the recent increase in deaths and injuries, we need everyone to play a role in pedestrian safety. Working with partners on the federal, state, local and individual level, we hope to turn this concerning trend around."
According to NHTSA data, 4,432 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in 2011 – an 8 percent increase since 2009. At today's press conference, NHTSA provided a breakdown of those numbers, which showed that three out of four pedestrian deaths occurred in urban areas and 70 percent of those killed were at non-intersections. In addition, 70 percent of deaths occurred at night and many involved alcohol.
"We are committed to making roads, highways and bridges safer for pedestrians," said Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez. "We're working to create safer environments for everyone, whether it's getting proven safety measures onto roads and at intersections or sharing online resources with schools, teachers, and parents that teach kids pedestrian safety."
Since 2009, FHWA has committed more than $3.8 billion to more than 11,000 projects that make it safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. The agency provides resources and expertise to improve walking routes and infrastructure, such as offering technical assistance to cities and states with the highest pedestrian fatalities and tools such as Pedsafe, an online toolbox that communities can use to improve pedestrian safety in their area.
Additional information on the new pedestrian data can be found in NHTSA's latest issue of SAFETY 1N NUM3ERS, an online monthly newsletter on hot topics in auto safety – including problem identification, people at risk, and recommended practices and solutions to mitigate injury and death on our nation's roadways.


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Life is all about priorities, compromises and compromising priorities, which is why the WNBA's Atlanta Dream — ever heard of 'em? — may not be able to play at home if they make the playoffs. They're being bumped by puppets.
But not just any puppets! This is "Sesame Street Live!" You know: Elmo! Oscar The Grouch! Big Bird! Seriously, who would you rather watch in action: Chamique Holdsclaw or Bert and Ernie? The people of Atlanta share that opinion — at least, they don't really have a say in the matter — so the Muppets were booked for Sept. 17-20 in Phillips Arena. What else could be happening Sept. 17-20 in Phillips Arena? Not the WNBA playoffs.
"It's a common problem for many WNBA teams that play in NBA arenas," Dream President Bill Bolen said. "September is a very popular month for family shows at a lot of these arenas. In our case Sesame Street has been booked for a year. It's not something you can plan around. It's a very profitable show."
Mo' money, mo' problems.
The backup plan, sensibly, might be moving the playoff games to Thomson-Boling Arena on the campus of your Tennessee Lady Volunteers, all the way up in Knoxville. Hmm, you might think, isn't that 200 miles away? Why, yes. Yes it is. And it's still "the best place to play" if the team has to leave the Atlanta metro area, Dream President Bill Bolen said. I have a few other ideas, if I may. There's this great outdoor court a few blocks from my apartment — newly paved and everything — and it's only about six hours from Atlanta.
Also, I've heard Russia's lovely this time of year. Just make sure there's not a traveling troupe of Muppets in Moscow or anything.
Sunny day! Elmo stares down Dream and wins! [AJC]
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When you're considering what college to attend, it's helpful to know about the racial diversity of the school. The more diverse a school is, the more perspectives you'll be open to experiencing throughout your tenure as a student, which will enhance your personal growth as a student.
At Amridge University, 28% of students are white. This means that the majority of the school's population is not white. A total of 72% of students are from minority groups or are students of color. Of those, 67% of students are black, 1% of students are hispanic, 1% of students are Asian, and 1% are American Indian or an Alaska Native.
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Amridge University has a good gender balance. 36% of students at the school are men and 64% of students are women. The US average gender split is weighed 56% toward female students. This means that Amridge University has a relatively similar gender diversity balance to other US schools.
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Most students who attend Amridge University come from in-state. A total of 100% of all the students reside in the state of Alabama. 0% of Amridge University's students come from out of state.
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Amridge University has a vibrant undergraduate student population. In total, NaN students at Amridge University are over 25 years old. This means that not only will you be studying with young students. You'll be able to work with people who are older than the typical student throughout your studies.
Of all the undergraduate students enrolled a Amridge University, 176 of them are part-time students and the other 175 are full-time students. Being a part-time student is a good option for learners who are already on their way to becoming financially dependent. Part-time studying is also ideal for people who have already started in their careers. What's more, studying part-time is good for people who have other responsibilities such as family to manage.
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Amridge University has rich diversity in terms of undergraduate student age and income levels.
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Venus Express mission operations update
At 11:30 CET, 10 November 2005, Venus Express Ground Segment Manager Manfred Warhaut reported from ESOC's Main Control Room that both the Venus Express spacecraft and ground segment continue to perform excellently.
The Venus Express Launch and Early Orbit (LEOP) operations continue to run very smoothly. However, the highlight of this period was the successful planning and testing of the Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM-0).
Given the slight over-performance of the Soyuz-Fregat launcher, it was decided to do the TCM-0 in direction of Earth in order to make best use of fuel. The movement (slew) of the spacecraft was enabled at 06:20 CET, started 06:43 and was completed 07:13.
Subsequently, the TCM-0 started at 07:38:52, had a manoeuvre duration of 48 seconds and a magnitude of 0.5 metres per second. Assessment of the manoeuvre afterwards based on Doppler data indicated that the manoeuvre duration was about 1 second less than commanded with negligible error in performance.
At 08:33 the spacecraft was turned back to the starting attitude. This completed the foreseen activities for this period.
The support from the ESA and NASA Deep Space Network ground stations has been very good throughout the LEOP.
Summary of operations on 9 November
The Soyuz-Fregat rocket lifted off right on schedule at 04:33:34.454 CET, 9 November 2005, carrying with it the Venus Express spacecraft on the start of a five-month journey to Earth's sister planet Venus.
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Fregat and Venus Express travel as a composite unit for a period of time after separation from the main Soyuz booster.
The first Fregat burn brought Fregat and Venus Express into a coast phase, while the second Fregat burn injected the composite into the required escape trajectory.
Starsem, the launch service provider, announced from Baikonur that separation of Venus Express from the Fregat upper stage had occurred nominally 1:36:30 hours after launch.
When the ESA ground station in New Norcia, Western Australia, acquired the telemetry signal from Venus Express at 06:30:42, some two hours after launch, the spacecraft status was nominal and the automatic separation sequence was seen to be in progress; pressurisation of the propulsion system having already been completed.
Initially after launch and main booster separation, Venus Express was rotating; the initial rate reduction and first Sun acquisition phase proceeded very smoothly. This was followed by the deployment of the two solar array panels, which was completed at 06:49. Following second Sun acquisition, the automatic separation sequence was completed 7:11.
After establishing communications with Venus Express, the first telecommands were uplinked from New Norcia at 07:09:29. Initial spacecraft configuration was achieved as expected and the spacecraft entered Safe Hold Mode (SHM) at 09:44.
LEOP activities continued as planned; the first star tracker, used to navigate the spacecraft, was switched on at 8:45. The reaction wheels, which enable the craft to be fully stabilised, were switched on at 09:57 and the spacecraft was commanded into Normal Mode at 11:00.
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Asche likely to start at third, but has competition
Prospect Franco also seeing time at hot corner, along with first base
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Cody Asche is the heavy favorite to be the Phillies' Opening Day third baseman, but nothing is guaranteed.
"We have competitions at lot of different spots," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said Wednesday.Top
Maikel Franco, the club's No. 2-ranked prospect, according to MLB.com, also plays third base. Both Asche and Franco are talented players who play the same position, although the Phillies have been working out Franco at first base to give him a little more versatility.
"Really good moves at third base," Sandberg said about Franco. "Real good glove. He has a knack for the harder the play it is, the softer he is. I don't know where he got that. I haven't asked him. That's instincts. That is second-nature stuff. I've seen him in live [batting practice] have a good, quality swing already. He's shown a lot of good stuff. I see him working real hard. He's around a lot of good guys."


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This time is different, and traditional investment principles — including even the hallowed precept of diversification — can no longer be relied upon in a "house of cards" financial structure that may soon "come down on the heads of investors."
So says currency portfolio manager Axel Merk of Merk Investments in his latest investment analysis.
Merk argues that "instead of a rebirth following the global financial crisis," we got a broad decline in economic and political stability across the globe. In the U.S. that is indicated by fiscal and monetary policies that kick the can down the road together with a rise in populist movements on the left and right, Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party; Merk cites populist Abenomics in Japan and the revolts of the Arab Spring in the Middle East.
In this kind of "house of cards" economy, investors must recognize that their interests are not aligned with those of policymakers.
"A government in debt has an incentive to debase the value of its debt, whereas investors have an interest in earning a positive real return on their savings," Merk writes.
Indeed, citing Stanford University economist Martin Schneider, Merk points out that both government and citizens would benefit from inflation today. That is because inflation would debase both government and consumer debt.
"If you are a consumer with savings, sorry, you are in the minority and your interests will have to take a back seat," he writes, adding that the same subordination will apply to foreigners who own U.S. Treasuries.
Merk foresees continued political decline and a continued blowing up of bubbles, making bonds and the U.S. dollar particularly vulnerable.
Moreover, in today's environment, "traditional diversification can't be relied upon as asset prices reflect the next perceived move of policymakers rather than fundamentals."
For all these reasons, investors need their own toolbox consisting of gold and currencies to counter the toolbox policymakers use to debase the currency and spur inflation.
Gold's value lies in its tendency to hedge against inflation and low correlation to other assets; currencies also have a low correlation to other asset classes and are less volatile than gold, Merk says.
Late last month, Merk launched just such a tool for investors who share his persuasion — a novel gold ETF that lets shareholders trade shares for physical possession of bullion. In a discussion of the new Merk Gold Trust (OUNZ) posted to the Merk Funds site earlier this week, Merk says that other ETFs allowing for physical delivery may be more restrictive than shareholders suspect — allowing only "authorized participants" to take possession.
Another unique feature of the fund, Merk says, is that "taking delivery is not a taxable event as investors merely take delivery of the gold they already own. With other gold ETFs, investors need to sell their shares, a taxable event, before they can deploy the proceeds to buy coins."
The gold and currencies manager also notes that their belief in gold is so strong that they get paid in gold rather than cash (through shares of OUNZ that shareholders pay as their management fee, which is equivalent to a 0.4% expense ratio).
Ultimately, Merk's case for gold rests on the strength of the trend he sees toward negative real interest rates among the world's monetary policymakers. While gold pays no interest, zero is preferable to the negative real rate he sees in the world's money centers.
The U.S., he says is biased toward inflation, and even if policymakers were not of this view, Merk argues the U.S. simply can't afford positive real rates:
"Looking at the projections of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a decade from now we may be paying over $900 billion a year in interest on government debt (marketable Treasury securities), up from about $200 billion currently. And the CBO does not think the average interest rate we will be paying on our debt will go back up to what has been the historic average; if it were, we would pay $1.2 trillion a year in interest expense alone. Fear not, I don't think this is going to happen; the price for this, however, may well be negative real interest rates, providing a potential catalyst for inflation and a weaker dollar."
Merk similarly sees Japan as structurally incapable of positive real rates and the eurozone as fully committed to negative real rates.
Check out Is Your Cash Trash? Eye-Popping Chart Raises Question on ThinkAdvisor.


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Lopatka: "Mozambique is booming - great opportunities for Austria's economy" / State Secretary sees new perspectives for closer cooperation with the ADC focus nation
VIENNA, Austria, February 25, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- "Mozambique is a future market for Austrian companies in Africa", State Secretary Reinhold Lopatka stated in his speech at the Mozambique Trade and Investment Forum of the Austrian Foreign Trade Office. An economic delegation headed by the Mozambique Minister of Industry and Trade Armando Inroga met with representatives of numerous Austrian companies at the Austrian Economic Chamber to discuss opportunities for joint projects.
"The Forum aims at motivating Austrian companies to make additional investments in Mozambique, which is one of the up-and-coming African nations. The trade figures are developing in a highly positive direction but there is still a great potential to be explored. Austrian expertise in the areas of railway construction, hydropower, mining, infrastructure and in the service industry is highly sought after", said the State Secretary.
"Over the last five years, we have invested more than 35 million Euros in bilateral development cooperation (ADC) with Mozambique, one of the focus nations of Austrian Development Cooperation. These funds have made an essential contribution to promoting the development of disadvantaged regions in rural areas", emphasised Lopatka. "Our partnership with Mozambique goes back many years and together we have achieved a lot. Now it is time to make a concentrated effort to expand our trade relations", said the State Secretary.
In the recent past, Mozambique has had growth rates of 7% and more. Political stability and the rapid economic development in the country are positive indicators for foreign investors: "In addition, Mozambique also fulfils the criteria for Soft Loan projects. In this context, a project carried out by Waagner-Biro that entails the construction of 5 bridges, with a total project volume o 5 million Euros, is already being implemented in the provinces of Sofala and Manica. Additional projects in the field of medical infrastructure are already in the pipeline", Lopatka concluded.
The State Secretary announced that the initiative on strengthening the economic relations with African nations would be continued. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of African Unity, the Foreign Ministry and the Austrian Economic Chamber are planning further talks with African representatives during May and June.


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From OneCMDB
OneCMDB is an Open Source CMDB, Configuration Management Database.
OneCMDB is a CMDB aimed at small and medium sized businesses. OneCMDB can be used as a stand-alone CMDB to keep track of software and hardware assets and their relations. Thanks to its open API:s it can also be a flexible and powerful Configuration Management engine for other Service Management software.
OneCMDB is easy to install and populate with data, either by hand or from other data sources. It has a user-specified data model that can be altered and enhanced without programming. OneCMDB allows you to easily:
- Create your CMDB datamodel, without writing a single line of code
- Populate the database, through auto-discovery of your network
- Get data from various external sources through a flexible import and transform mechanism
- Import/export network configuration information to/from NAGIOS Network Monitoring System
OneCMDB is available for free download and comes with source code. You may use, modify and redistribute OneCMDB under the terms of this license.
OneCMDB project on Sourceforge not accessible
Friday 30 March, 2012
The OneCMDB project site at Sourceforge is not accessible for some reason. The fault is reported to Sourceforge and we hope that the project site is back on-line again in the very near future.
New OneCMDB release
Monday 14 December, 2009
OneCMDB Version 2.1.0 is now available for download.
This release includes a new MDR Configurator. The MDR Configurator simplifies the task of designing an MDR. Which is used to transform, re-conciliate and import external data sources into the employed OneCMDB data model. Currently the supported external data sources are Excel, CSV and SQL-databases. This enables for instance importing data from external inventory/monitoring systems such as OCS Inventory NG and OpenNMS. A complete tutorial that describes the new MDR Configurator is available here.
A number of bugs reported at sourceforge have also been corrected.
The new version can be downloaded at Sourceforge.
Improved OneCMDB available!
Wednesday 2 September, 2009
OneCMDB Version 2.0.1 is now available for download. Around twenty bugs that was reported in version 2.0.0 is fixed in version 2.0.1. It is now for example possible to delete attributes. There is also a new way to enter values for complex attributes; instances are selected from a grid where also adding new instances are supported.
The new release has improved MDR (Management Data Repository) performance, i.e. it imports and stores external data faster. A function that locks the OneDMDB Desktop after a pre-defined time limit is introduced. The Desktop is unlocked by entering the user´s password. The integration with Nagios is also improved.
The new version can be downloaded at Sourceforge.
Next step for OneCMDB
Thursday 2 July, 2009
We would like your guidance regarding the development direction for OneCMDB.
We want to focus our resources where it makes most sense for the users of OneCMDB and we therefore appreciate if you can help us by filling out our questionnaire.
You find the questionnaire at www.onecmdb.org/poll/question.html
Please note that we ask you to suggest priorities for a number of different development areas, but you can also add textual remarks, and such qualitative comments are highly appreciated by us! It is up to you if you like to be anonymous or not. If you enter your e-mail address you give us the possibility to give you feedback and perhaps more detailed questions about something you have written.
Thanks for you co-operation!
The Lokomo Development Team
New OneCMDB version released
Monday 8 June, 2009
Version 2.0.0 is now ready and succeeds version 2.0.0Beta. All reported bugs in OneCMDB V2.0.0Beta have been corrected and some new features have been added.
The new version is available for download at Sourceforge.
Work has already started on the next version of OneCMDB and we welcome more input from users about what to prioritize, new features, integration with other systems etc.
Nominate OneCMDB for Community Choice Awards
If you like OneCMDB, please take the opportunity and nominate the project for the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards 2009.
Follow this link and nominate OneCMDB>!
Category "Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins" may be a suitable category to select.
OneCMDB is the most popular CMDB on Sourceforge and that is fantastic. We can however certainly benefit from more publicity and the more votes we get, the bigger is the chance that OneCMDB can win a Community Choice Award and that would be great!
Nominations are accepted until May 29th.
OneCMDB Version 2 is available!
Friday 6 February, 2009
Version 2.0 of OneCMDB is now available for download. It is released as beta version and we aim to proceed with a production version in the very near future. The goal with the development of this version has been to improve the back-end CMDB engine in several areas and to design a new Graphical User Interface that is easy to use and customize and also suitable for a multi-user environment. We think we have achieved all this, and a lot more!
Some of the new features:
- Multi-user support
- New graphical user interface, the OneCMDB Desktop
- Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Improved presentation of CMDB content, including dynamic graphs
- Custom view and report generator
- Powerful management of external datasources like SQL databases, CSV files, etc.
- Improved network discovery feature
- Integration with NAGIOS Network Monitoring System
A product description for Version 2 is available here.
We like to thank the supporters in the OneCMDB community that have helped us with the pre-release testing of this new version. We also like to thank all of you that have given us valuable input, requests for new functionality, suggestions to improvements etc. We now look forward to new response and feedback from all of you. We are already working on next release...
The Lokomo Development Team
OneCMDB V2 release info
Thursday 15 January, 2009
OneCMDB Version 2 is now being tested and packaged for public release. We have received very good feedback from the beta testers but we were also made aware of a couple of features we needed to improve. This has caused a slight delay in the release plan and we now aim for a public release on Sourceforge within three weeks, i.e. beginning of February.
Version 2 of OneCMDB is just around the corner
Wednesday 29 October, 2008
We are currently testing a new and vastly improved version of OneCMDB. It contains a lot of new, exciting functions and features. We plan to release the new version before the end of 2008.
Here are some of the new features:
- Improved OneCMDB engine with multi-user support
- New, easy-to-use GUI
- Graphical, dynamical presentation of CMDB model and data
- Role-Based Access Control
- Integration with Nagios
Final list of features will be presented when the new system is released.
We encourage you to send us feedback and comments regarding the upcoming release, please use e-mail address thomas(at)lokomo.com
A draft product description for Version 2 is available here.
New OneCMDB version released
Saturday 27 October, 2007
Lokomo Systems has today released a new OneCMDB package, version 1.4.0 (beta). The new software release contains an improved OneCMDB engine and several brand new OneCMDB applications covering areas like Incident, Problem and Asset Management.
The applications are small and minimalistic and the idea is that they shall serve as examples of what can be achieved with OneCMDB. As you will see, it is not a fullblown user application suite... The applications interact with the OneCMDB engine through the OneCMDB Web Services interface and they are based on a new GUI framework, which is now included in the OneCMDB distribution.
The Incident and Problem Management applications provide a very basic way to register and manage incidents and problems. The asset management application simply presents Configuration Items and all related data in a table. It can also present each Configuration Item´s references and dependencies to other CI:s.
A new Model Designer tool built with the new GUI is also included in this OneCMDB release. This distribution also includes an enhanced default CMDB model that includes support for the Incident and Problem applications as well as more types of references between CI:s.
The new software is currently released as a beta-version and we like to encourage you to give us feedback for the continued development of OneCMDB!
PHP Example Application
Thursday 5 July, 2007
A PHP example application is now available for download. The application demonstrates how to use the Web Services interface from PHP. For more information see PHP Example Application.
Version 1.3 launched
Friday, June 1, 2007
An updated version of Lokomo Systems´ OneCMDB-software is now available for download. The new version has a Web Services interface in addition to the Java API. The new Web Services interface allows for applications written in other languages than Java to easily communicate with OneCMDB. It also enables applications to access OneCMDB remotely over a network. A new Web Services manual describes the new interface.
The new version features an improved auto-discovery function. The discovery function browses the user´s network and populates the CMDB model with basic data about network equipment it finds. On the found equipment it also scans open ports to find out what applications are running.
Other improvements and fixes:
- Basic support for the Acegi security system
- A new compare function for importing external CI:s
- A graphical view is shown when viewing templates
- A WSDL link is added to the footer in the GUI
Version 1.2.1 released!
Monday, February 5, 2007
Lokomo Systems has released version 1.2.1 of OneCMDB, an object-oriented and XML-based CMDB. The new version is available for download in the Dowwnload section.
Among the new features in this release are:
- A new function with a calculator metaphor, which is used to memorize an object (CI) in the CMDB that the user likes to re-use in a form at a later stage. Simply press the MEM button to store the current object in memory and the RCL button to recall it later.
- All sections (menus) in the sidebar on the left side of the GUI can be collapsed and expanded.
- The graph can now be used for navigation. Click on a CI and the graph is repositioned with that CI in the center.
Fixed bugs:
- Forms forgot values the user had entered when the "Create New" function was used. This is now corrected.
- Internationalization issues, for instance chyrillic and chinese characters could not be used in forms, model files etc. UTF-8 text encoding is now used to allow such character sets.
OneCMDB Version 1.1.0 launched!
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Lokomo Systems has released a new release of OneCMDB, version 1.1.0. The new release has the following main features:
- Graphical presentation of CI:s and relations
- Possibility to switch between different database models
- Support for Linux platforms
Version 1.1.0 comes with two CMDB models, one basic and one more advanced model.
The new release is available for download, see the Downloads section.
Two OneCMDB Example Applications released!
Monday, October 16, 2006
Lokomo Systems has launched two Example Applications, Inventory and Availability, which operate on top of a common OneCMDB. The Inventory Example Application is a small piece of software, which lists Servers and selected related information. The Availability Example Application measures server uptime and calculates Server Availability in percent. This is a basic Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for any data center.
Both Example Applications can be tested and demonstrated online. See the demo page. You can also follow the Demonstration link in the navigation bar at the left.
The purpose of the Example Applications is to give users and developers an idea of different kind of applications that can be realized on top of OneCMDB. We will try to present more Example Applications, and we also encourage others to contribute as well!
Another purpose of the Example Applications is that the source code will help developers to understand how to interface with OneCMDB.
OneCMDB Single User Edition released!
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
The first release of OneCMDB is now available from the download section. OneCMDB Single User Edition is available for Windows. The package is easy to install and contains everything you need to get acquainted with OneCMDB.


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I would like to get and idea of how people use GPUs in finance.
I can find some specific papers or books on the subject.
GPUs in binomial model, finite difference, monte carlo,...
But I couldn't find any recent survey papers.
Do you know some recent survey paper?
Or any kind of reference which try to gives a birdview on GPUs in finance?
Reference I found:
Pagès, Wilbertz, 2011, GPGPUs in computational finance: Massive parallel computing for American style options
Labart, Lelong,2011,A Parallel Algorithm for solving BSDEs - Application to the pricing and hedging of American options
Bradley, 2012, State of GPU computing in computational finance
The paper digs deep in current GPU method in QF, but the general survey is very short.