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Health: Combating HIV, AIDS and TB, Malaria, Nutrition and Pandemics with TCE
DAPP began its work to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1998 when its first HOPE project was launched. HOPE established community HIV clinics which served as resource hubs and activity centers for everyone in a given community. Building on this work, DAPP has worked closely with the Malawi Government since 2007 to combat and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria through its innovative program, Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE). TCE is a comprehensive and systematic HIV/AIDS prevention and care model that combines counselling, field-testing, education, and community mobilization. The program utilizes a door-to-door and interpersonal campaign that encourages lifestyle changes and preventive behaviour, reaching every individual and household within a prescribed area over period of time.
The TCE program reached more than 1.500.000 people with HIV information and, 810,421 were counselled on risks of infection, and 508,078 people were tested for HIV; 16% tested as couples and 46% of the total number of people tested were men.
TCE Officers in the Field
Planing Action in a new area
The approach has also helped in the reduction of TB spread by raising awareness, community mobilization and increasing both access and demand to TB and HIV testing and case detections. The project ensured follow ups and support for clients to adhere to treatment through family TRIO (two family members supporting HIV/TB patients on treatment for adherence).
The project targeted more than 20,000 Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), 30 teachers / tutors and matrons in private secondary schools and tertiary education institutions. The project aimed at providing correct information on HIV prevention, teenage pregnancy and SRHR, to empower AGYW to acquire the relevant knowledge, skills and right attitude to reduce their risk and vulnerability to HIV infection. The project facilitates the establishment of clubs to create opportunities for AGYW to share knowledge and experiences.
The Community leaders, the Parents and Teachers' Associations (PTA) from the targeted institutions were trained / oriented to improve knowledge and skills on SRHR for AGYW to champion modification of harmful cultural practices (i.e. early marriage, sexual cleansing rituals, etc.)
SRHR radio programs were used to provide opportunities for AGYW to discuss SRHR issues and at the same time increasing knowledge levels. AGYW were trained as peer educators and club matrons were trained to provide counselling to AGYW, encourage them to test for HIV, and ensure that they have access to testing and counselling services and supported to adhere to treatment
Volunteering HIV Testing
Working with Local Schools
DAPP Malawi supports the Government's efforts to reduce child stunting and; maternal and child anaemia through enhancing maternal and child nutrition service delivery at community level and by strengthening existing local development committees.
Since 2013, DAPP's nutrition efforts have reached 910,000 people with information about food, nutrition and child feeding practices. DAPP also established 5,500 backyard gardens for pregnant women and people living with HIV AIDS patients to grow fruits and vegetables. Over 11,000 cooking demonstrations have been done to teach families how they can prepare meals that have the necessary six food groups.
It's Time to End TB!
Held under the theme "Its Time for a World Without TB – Know Your Status" in Malawi, the World TB Day is commemorated on 24 March annually. Activities to mark this day took place on the 26th of March 2019 at Katoto Secondary School ground in Traditional…
DAPP partners with USAID's "Challenge TB" project
Challenge TB is a 5-year USAID-funded global project whose main objective is to decrease TB mortality and morbidity in high burdened countries. KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation is implementing the project in Malawi, with focused activities in 15 districts. DAPP…


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I installed django-celery (2.3.3) and then followed these instructions.
My django celery settings are the following:
BROKER_HOST = "localhost"
BROKER_PORT = 5672
BROKER_USER = "guest"
BROKER_PASSWORD = "guest"
BROKER_VHOST = "/"

When I try to launch the celery worker server with...
$ python manage.py celeryd -l info

I get the following output with a "Consumer: Connection Error: [Errno 111]" at the end :
/home/thomas/virtualenv/ULYSSE/lib/python2.6/site-packages/djcelery/loaders.py:84:     UserWarning: Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never use this setting in production environments!
warnings.warn("Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never "
[2011-09-20 12:14:00,645: WARNING/MainProcess]

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- ** ----------   . loader:      djcelery.loaders.DjangoLoader
- ** ----------   . logfile:     [stderr]@INFO
- ** ----------   . concurrency: 1
- ** ----------   . events:      OFF
- *** --- * ---   . beat:        OFF
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[2011-09-20 12:14:00,795: WARNING/MainProcess] celery@debian has started.
[2011-09-20 12:14:00,809: ERROR/MainProcess] **Consumer: Connection Error: [Errno 111]          Connection refused. Trying again in 2 seconds**...

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How can I get rid of this Connection Error?

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The Trust celebrates the differences and uniqueness of each school but also has a shared vision and a common set of values. The Trust is aiming to develop a community which ensures that pupils and their families are supported to improve life chances.
What is the TNLP Co-operative Trust? The Temple Newsam Learning Partnership Trust is a group of schools and partners who are working together for the benefit of the community as a whole. The Trust celebrates the differences and uniqueness of each school but also has a shared vision and a common set of values. The Trust is aiming to develop a community which ensures that pupils and their families are supported to improve life chances. A Co-operative is independent but agrees to work within a set of internationally agreed values and principles.
Which schools and partners are a part of the TNLP Co-Operative Trust? Meadowfield Primary, Corpus Christi Primary, Corpus Christi College, Temple Moor High School, Templenewsam Halton Primary, Whitkirk Primary, Colton Primary, Austhorpe Primary, East SILC, Children's Centres, YMCA, Leeds City Council Children's Services, Barnardos and the Co-operative College.
What are Co-operative values and principles?
Who owns a Co-operative? A Co-operative is owned and led by its members. That is why the TNLP have chosen this way of working.
What are the responsibilities of being a member? You can be involved at any level. Some Co-operatives have members who simply receive a newsletter. Others choose to be more active through consultations, forums and events. The more active members the Trust has the better they can shape the work of the Trust.
What are the benefits of being a member of the Trust? These are currently being developed.
Children - Priority booking to Trust holiday activities and after school clubs, develop projects such as the Multi-Use Games Area, access to joint activities and special events, have a say in how the Trust is run and what activities are offered in the community.
Parents/Carers - Reduction in costs of holiday activities, long term support for children and families, have a say in the way the Trust is run.
Staff in schools - Joint training, shared access to Trust facilities, opportunities to share best practice, shared resources, have a say in the way the Trust is run.
Community organisations - Plan & develop shared projects based on local need, have a say in the way the Trust is run.
Do you have voting rights? In a co-operative voting is done on a "one member, one vote" principle where each member has an equal say.
Does Trust membership cost anything? No the TNLP is free to join - Click here for more details.
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The Orange Cows Projects
Wheelchairs Handed Over
Quang Loi 2010
Hong Trung 2011
The Orange Cows Project
Background to the project
The Vietnam war, also called the American war by some, had a devastating impact. Even as the war is now long forgotten, and lost in the several other pages of our history books, its effects remain very real for certain people. These people, forgotten with the war, have had to live with consequences of that period. They struggle to gain a livelihood and are constantly hindered by several genetic deformities attributable to the devastating instruments of war employed by the US.
It is against this backdrop that the Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange Trust was established in Australia in 2002. The mission of this trust was quite simple; to ensure that these people get the assistance they desperately require and to empower them in any possible way.
It was in the interest of fulfilling this mission that the Orange Cows projects came about. The project was a way to secure a stream of income for the victims in remote areas.
Executing the project
The Orange Cows projects essentially involved raising money to purchase cows for Vietnamese people who were victims of the devastation of the war and thereby, make them more self-sufficient. The projects had to raise enough funds not only to pay for the cows but also for animal husbandry training to enable the Vietnamese locals to escape poverty and better care for family members suffering from disabilities.
The first project successfully raised enough money to enable 65 households in 2 communes to gain animal husbandry skills as well as breed cows. The subsequent project was also successful as it purchased 25 cows for people in the commune of Phong Xuan, which is an area that was gravely impacted during the war.
The distribution of the cows was made in consultation with the local people's committee and council via the Trust's colleagues at the Vietnamese Department of Foreign Affairs. This way, specific families to receive the cows were identified.
The cows were purchased from a Government-run supplier and had to journey through multiple districts, stopping at each border to be inspected by veterinarians and to receive appropriate sprays. The reception of the animals at the destination was an exciting one.
Recipients of the animals had to sign an agreement in which they pledged to look after their cow and to transfer its second calf to another affected family identified by the local people's committee and council. This way, the empowerment would remain continuous within the communities.
In 2012, the University of Agriculture and Forestry in Hue and the University of Tasmania were commissioned to assess the Orange Cows projects. The assessment showed that the projects were indeed meeting their objectives, although in several cases the village recipients were under-equipped to cope with the cows. In other instances, the mortality rate of the cattle in certain communes was simply too high.
Thus, the Trust arranged for the communes to receive training courses from Hue University's Professor Ba and colleagues. The Trust also had a final fundraising to provide proper shelter and food for the cattle as well as better educate the people with respect to breeding their cattle and earning money.
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ENIAC at 75
Significant anniversaries are usually celebrated in festival, and this is true of the several computer milestones that have finally reached their golden (fifty year) anniversaries. One of these was the fifty year anniversary of the BASIC programming language in 2014. I wrote about this in an earlier article (Fifty Years of BASIC, May 19, 2014).[1-2] However, many recent anniversaries have come and gone without much notice because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of these was the 75th anniversary of the ENIAC mainframe computer that became operational on February 15, 1946, at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).[3-4] ENIAC was an acronym for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
Left, the General Electric 225 mainframe computer on which BASIC was first deployed. Center, Thomas E. Kurtz (b. 1928). Right, John G. Kemeny (1926-1992). BASIC, an acronym for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code," was developed at Dartmouth College (Dartmouth, New Hampshire) by Kemeny and Kurtz. The development of BASIC began in 1963 with Kemeny's writing of a $300,000 proposal to the National Science Foundation for purchase of the General Electric 225 mainframe computer, and the subsequent development of a timesharing computer system for the Dartmouth campus. The GE 225 was soon replaced with a faster General Electric 235. BASIC was done with just 16k of 20 bit words. (Images from the Dartmouth College Flickr Website. Click for larger image.)
ENIAC was built from the best available electronic components of that time; so, its electronic switching was done using 17,468 vacuum tubes.[5] Today's computer circuits are built from tens of billions of transistors a few tens of nanometers in size. The vacuum tubes of ENIAC were about five centimeters in length, and its bulk, which filled a 30 foot x 50 foot room, was increased by the necessary tube sockets, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and 7,200 crystal diodes.[5]
Vacuum tubes of the ENIAC period had a lifetime of a few thousand hours, and octogenarians will remember the need to replace a burned-out tube in their vacuum tube television receiver about once each year. Since the ENIAC had many tubes, several of these commercial-grade tubes would burn-out daily, the failures normally occurring when the tube filaments were cycled on and off. Eventually, high-reliability tubes were manufactured, and the failure rate fell to a more manageable one tube every two days. With statistics in play, there were runs of several days without a failure.
The start of the technical specification for the 6SN7 dual triode vacuum tube as it appears in the 1966 edition of the RCA Receiving Tube Manual. ENIAC used this common octal-base radio tube for its flip-flops, while other tube types were used in logic functions, and as line drivers for the long cable connections between rack assemblies. I'm old enough to have built circuits using this tube type, as scavenged from old television receivers. (Scan from my manual. Click for larger image.)
ENIAC was built at a time when stored program computers weren't possible, so it was programmed using plugboards. Eniac's operators would connect wires from point to point on the computer to complete the necessary logic circuits for operation. There were times when two days were required to enter a program.[5] ENIAC had a 5,000 Hz clock frequency, and it was capable of just a few hundred calculations per second.[3]
ENIAC could multiply two, ten digit numbers 357 times per second, and it required 150 kilowatts of electrical power to operate, which works out to about a tenth watt per computation. Current supercomputers can perform as many as 10 billion floating point operations per watt. ENIAC had an estimated performance of 0.00289 MIPS (millions of instructions per second); so, the IBM Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tennessee), with a peak performance of 200,000 teraflops, is the equivalent of 69 trillion ENIACS.[3]
Hungarian-American mathematician, John von Neumann (1903-1957) had an early interest in computers, and he was a consultant to a successor project to ENIAC, the 6,000 vacuum tube EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer), one of the first stored-program computers. ENIAC's computations were done in decimal, but EDVAC was a binary computer.
Shrinking computer hardware, ENIAC (left) and successors. The smallest circuit board is from the BRLESC-I.
BRLESC used the letters K S N J F L instead of A B C D E F to represent the hexadecimal digits ten to fifteen. The mnemonic phrase "King Size Numbers Just For Laughs" was used to remember this notation.
This would be hard for me, since I still count A-F on my fingers.
(U.S. Army Photo 163-12-62, via Wikimedia Commons. Click for larger image.)
While on an extended train trip to Los Alamos, New Mexico, von Neumann wrote an incomplete First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC that described the stored-program concept, later known as the von Neumann architecture. ENIAC's inventors, physicist, John Mauchly (1907-1980), and electrical engineer, John Presper Eckert (1919-1995), were the inventors of EDVAC, which had an ultrasonic serial memory of 1,000 34-bit word and average multiplication time of a little less than 3 milliseconds. They were also inventors of the stored-program concept. Unfortunately, distribution of von Neumann's report prevented Eckert and Mauchly from patenting this invention.
The first significant milestone in numerical weather prediction was a forecasting program implemented on ENIAC in 1950.[6] This forecast happened in real time; that is, it took an entire day to forecast the day's weather. In the decades since, computers have become much faster, and this allows computation of advanced weather models that give us fairly accurate weather forecasts a week in advance.[7-8]
The precipitation forecast for July 10, 2012, to July 13, 2012, as computed by the North American Model.
Hurricane Emilia is at the bottom left corner, spinning towards the west.
The popular Linux graphical application, ImageMagick, was used in this rendering.
(From the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Website.)
While weather prediction is a noble goal, ENIAC was actually funded by the US Army, which need a faster way to calculate firing angles for artillery during World War II.[4] Such calculations require quite a few parameters that include temperature, wind speed, and humidity.[5] Such differential calculus calculations, necessarily done manually at the time, took 40 hours.[4]
The public's misunderstanding of the functioning of electronic brains like ENIAC is best typified in the plot of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn's 1957 film, Desk Set (Walter Lang, Director). The Tracy character is the inventor of the mainframe computer, EMERAC, an acronym for Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator, obviously similar to the name ENIAC.
Much like today, employees resisted deployment of the computer, since they thought that their jobs were in jeopardy, but that didn't happen. IBM assisted in the production of Desk Set, and some critics have called the movie an IBM propaganda piece with the message that computers won't take your job. EMERAC, which looks like a Star Trek computer with its flashing lights, is a delicate device that's prone to malfunction, just like ENIAC. EMERAC's functionality was far beyond that of ENIAC, and even that of computers built decades later. It could do natural language processing, and it had a database that's equivalent to the Internet of today.
Basic Fifty Web Site.
the original First BASIC Instruction Manual from 1964 (550 kB PDF File).
ENIAC Day Website,
Tom Avril, "Made in Philadelphia, the 'first modern computer' is celebrated on 75th anniversary," Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 2021.
ENIAC, PBS.org.
G.W. Platzman, "The ENIAC Computations of 1950: Gateway to Numerical Weather Prediction," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 60, no. 4 (April, 1979), pp.302-312. An open Access PDF File can be found at that page.
Numerical Weather Prediction, National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Website.
North American Mesoscale Forecast System (NAM).
Desk Set (1957) Walter Lang, Director, on the Internet Movie Database.
Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, Crispin Rope, and William Aspray, "ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer," The MIT Press (January 26, 2018), ISBN-13 : 978-0262535175 (via Amazon).
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Welcome to the Parish of Holy Cross, Bedford. We hope you settle in well over the next few weeks and eventually feel at home here!
We like to encourage new parishioners to get in touch with us and to leave their contact details. It's good to know who you are so that we can do our best to make you feel part of the parish community. It's not easy arriving somewhere new and trying to find your own way around.
Everyone is different, and some people like to be left to themselves until they feel at ease in a new place. Others may appreciate a friendly face in the first few weeks, and an introduction to parish life and to some of the various groups and societies on offer.
Whichever you are most comfortable with, do get in touch and let us know. Use the contact form on this page to introduce yourself to the Parish Secretary, Sheila Allen.
You can also download our Welcome Pack, which has more information and a form to complete with extra details, to be returned to Barbara Doyle at the parish address.


We believe in robust, diverse and dense communities in the city that benefit from the re-adaptation of our historic 'material culture' and the integration of new elements from our current time. Our projects in the city emphasize 'the street' and social atmosphere that buildings can foster. We believe in diverse housing solutions with mixed-use dynamics that question current building code conventions and typical definitions of use.


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Welcome to Wingecarribee Shire Council's online community engagement hub
This online discussion forum has concluded. You can still browse the site but the discussion area will no longer accept new comments or votes.
ARCHIVED CONSULTATIONS
This website contains archived consultations undertaken by Wingecarribee Shire Council before 2014. The consultations listed here are no longer open for comment but you can still read comments and view associated documents.
To view or participate in our CURRENT consultations, please visit us at http://www.yoursaywingecarribee.com.au.
For further information please phone the Community Engagement Coordinator on (02) 4868 0888 or email engagement@wsc.nsw.gov.au.
Wingecarribee Shire Council values your involvement and encourages you to have your say.
Mittagong, Moss Vale and Bowral Town Centre Master Plans on exhibition
Have you had a say about the Master Plans for Mittagong, Moss Vale and Bowral town centres yet?
Council employed an Urban Designer in mid 2012 to prepare Master Plan documents. Since then we've hosted online forums, held workshops in the three town centres and sought advice and feedback from a wide range of individuals and representative groups whilst developing draft plans.
We now have drafts of those plans available for comment before we prepare final documents.
Help us develop a shared vision and tell us what you value or appreciate about our town centres in order to improve and build upon these aspects.
Take a look at the draft Master Plans while they are on public exhibition and make a submission before Friday 20 December 2013.
What kind of Green Waste service would suit you?
THIS CONSULTATION HAS NOW CONCLUDED BUT THE FORUM AND ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS CAN STILL BE VIEWED.
Wingecarribee Shire Council is seeking feedback from the community about organic garden waste collection options with an estimated charge of around $78 per annum, or $1.50 per week.
Visit our consultation page to complete a survey, comment in the forum and learn more about the proposals before 23 August 2013.
Integrated Planning Documents on exhibition
THIS CONSULTATION CONCLUDED ON MONDAY 10 JUNE 2013
Council has developed the Draft 2013-2017 Delivery Program, 2013-2017 Resourcing Strategy and 2013-2014 Operational Plan. The draft plans for 2013-2014 and beyond are now on exhibition.
This is an opportunity for you to take a close look at the immediate program of works and broader future agenda and let us know what you think by 4pm Monday 10 June 2013.
Your comments will be considered prior to the endorsement of final plans and programs by Wingecarribee Shire Council on 26 June 2013.
Council e-newsletters
Council now has an e-newsletter service which is used by officers to promote WSC services and events or opportunities to comment on proposals. To subscribe or view recent issues click here
More opportunities to comment: Retford Park and Mittagong Creek Riparian Management Plan
A number of proposals and draft documents can be found on Wingecarribee Shire Council's website http://www.wsc.nsw.gov.au/development/whats-on-public-exhibition.
NEW DATE ANNOUNCED FOR MITTAGONG FORUM
The Mittagong Master Plan Forum that was to be held this evening has been postponed due to low RSVP numbers. The deadline was Friday for RSVPs.
Further publicity will be organised and the forum will now be held on 11 March 2013.
The Bowral forum remains unchanged.
Workshops announced for Mittagong and Bowral
Wingecarribee Shire Council is undertaking preliminary work to support the preparation of a series of town centre master plan documents for Moss Vale, Mittagong and Bowral. A community forum was held on 11 December 2012 for Moss Vale and forums have now been announced for Bowral and Mittagong.
Mark Pepping, Strategic and Assets Manager said "While we have employed an Urban Designer to assist in the preparation of the master plans, one of the most important aspects will be the participation of residents and business people in setting a vision for the future of our three main town centres.
"We are holding interactive forums in each area and the community is encouraged to attend these to provide guidance on how we can build on our most attractive features and move into the future with a clear vision" he said.
The Masterplans will provide a long term vision and implementation framework for how the Town Centres of Moss Vale, Bowral and Mittagong can best serve the future of the Southern Highlands. These visionary documents will play a key supportive role in ensuring major town centres within the Southern Highlands are effectively enhanced and promoted.
Residents and business people will have a number of opportunities to be involved in shaping the content of master plans as well as comment on draft documents once they are placed on public exhibition including:
public forums in each town centre
online discussions at www.yoursaywingecarribee.com.au/cbd
stakeholder group interviews
formal submissions
"The forums will be interactive and a bit of fun. We want people to creatively identify what they want to retain as well as discuss their aspirations for the future. If this means drawing a picture, discussing experiences elsewhere, bringing photos or writing a story then this will all assist us to understand where we are headed" Mr Pepping said.
It is envisioned that the primary objectives set by the community will be to respect, protect and build on the area's historic links, rural character and heritage to ensure the on-going vitality, economic robustness and amenity of each centre.
Mittagong Town Centre Master Plan Forum
Monday 18 February 2013 from 6pm to 9pm at the Highlands Golf Club, Old Hume Highway, Mittagong
RSVP by Thursday 14 February 2013. Phone: (02) 4868 0888 Email: customer.service@wsc.nsw.gov.au
Bowral Town Centre Master Plan Forum
Monday 25 February 2013 from 6pm to 9pm at Bowral Memorial Hall, Bendooley Street, Bowral
An appreciative enquiry approach will be used at the forums to:
Discover the "best of what is"— identify and discuss what we like about our town centres and what we believe works well.
Dream "what might be" —look at examples we believe work well and make a positive contribution.
Design "what should be"— define and prioritise the elements that will benefit our town centres.
Create a Vision of "what will be"— participate in discussions proposing key initiatives.
Opportunity to become involved in Council committees
Following the local government election in September 2012, Wingecarribee Shire Council is required, as part of the Local Government Act 1993, to review operation of the Council including that of the Committees, Advisory Committees and Working Groups.
Council and the community developed the Community Strategic Plan: Wingecarribee 2031+ in 2010 as a blueprint for the future of the Wingecarribee area. Council is considering options with regard to alignment of Committees and Working Groups to the 5 pillars of the strategic plan: Leadership, People, Places, Economy and Environment.
If you would like to participate in a committee or group aligned within one or more of these areas, please submit an expression of interest, together with your curriculum vitae, outlining skills and experience in your chosen areas.
A closing date has not yet been confirmed but will be announced in early 2013. Current committee and working group members have also been invited to apply.
If you're interested, please email your EOI and CV to wscmail@wsc.nsw.gov.au OR write to the Committee Appointment Officer, Wingecarribee Shire Council,PO Box 141, MOSS VALE NSW 2577.
For further information contact Ms Peta Kinnane, Governance Coordinator, on 02) 4868 0703 or email Peta.Kinnane@wsc.nsw.gov.au
Help Shape Your Town Centre
Council recently employed an Urban Designer to prepare Master Plan documents for Mittagong, Moss Vale and Bowral town centres. We want you to help us develop a shared vision. We want to know what you value or appreciate about our town centres in order to improve and build upon these aspects.
An online forum has now been prepared and a library of associated information will soon appear.
We will also be holding a number of workshops. Be sure to register your details so you can be informed.
For further information contact William Robertson, Urban Designer, at Wingecarribee Shire Council on (02) 4868 0888 ext 211 (Mon-Wed) or email william.robertson@wsc.nsw.gov.au,
Construction work has commenced on the Aquatic Centre
Wingecarribee Shire Council has commenced construction of an Aquatic Centre on the Moss Vale Swimming Pool site.
For information about what the new facility will look like and regular progress updates visit our project page or like us on Facebook.
Bowral From The Gib
Wingecarribee 2031+ (4.52 MB) (pdf)
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		this.socialMessageIndex = socialMessageIndex;
	}

	public Void execute(CommandContext commandContext) {
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Iran hostage crisis
During the Iran hostage crisis (1979–81), a group of Iranian militants, after seizing 66 American citizens at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, held 52 of them hostage for more than a year.
The crisis took place during the chaotic aftermath of Iran's Islamic revolution (1978–79) and its overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty. Anti-American sentiment in Iran—fueled in part by close ties between the United States and the unpopular Iranian leader Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi—peaked after the shah was forced to flee Iran in early 1979. The shah entered the United States for medical treatment later that year. Although the initial public response in Iran to the news of the shah's arrival in the United States was moderate, on November 4 the embassy was attacked by a mob of perhaps 3,000, some of whom were armed and who, after a short siege, took 63 American men and women hostage. (An additional three members of the U.S. diplomatic staff were actually seized at the Iranian Foreign Ministry.) Within the next few days, representatives of U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Tehran-based diplomats from other countries attempted but failed to free the hostages. An American delegation headed by former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark—who had long-standing relations with many Iranian officials—was refused admission to Iran.
The hostage-takers, who enjoyed the tacit support of the new Iranian regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, demanded the shah's extradition to Iran, but President Carter refused that demand and froze billions of dollars of Iranian assets in the United States. U.S. diplomats soon obtained two United Nations Security Council resolutions against Iran's actions. On November 17 the Iranians released 13 hostages, all women or African Americans, on the grounds that they were unlikely to be spies, and another hostage, who had become gravely ill, was released in July 1980. Throughout the ordeal the Iranians used as negotiating leverage the threat of putting the hostages on trial for various crimes, including espionage.
In April 1980 an attempt by U.S. military forces to rescue the hostages failed. Eight U.S. service members were killed during the mission when one of the eight helicopters sent for the operation collided with a support aircraft. By May 1980 the United States had convinced its closest allies to institute an economic embargo against Iran. Renewed negotiations for the hostages' return began after the shah died in July 1980, but the remaining 52 hostages were kept in captivity until January 20, 1981, when they were released minutes after the inauguration of the new U.S. president, Ronald W. Reagan. In addition to placing a roadblock in the path of U.S.-Iranian relations, the Iran hostage crisis was widely believed to have contributed to Carter's defeat by Reagan in the 1980 presidential election.


The Balbo beard is a type of beard that is devoid of any sideburns. This type of beard is well trimmed and is paired with a moustache that is floating in nature. This beard is similar in style to the short box beard.
This beard style for men has been immortalized by the Iron Man star, Robert Downey Jr. The actor has made this look his own over the years and he has been maintaining this look for some time now. The Balbo beard however has its roots in World War II Italy where it was made popular by one of Mussolini's air marshals who went by the name of Italo Balbo.
This beard style might have become very much the mainstream option today for men but it isn't for everyone. This beard suits only those with a narrow chin. Moreover, growing this beard and maintaining it isn't an easy task. Someone who is keen on maintaining this look must have a precision shaver and a sharp razor handy. The beard must be trimmed carefully every few days.
A person who wants to grow this beard must first go about developing a moustache. The beard must be allowed to grow for at least four weeks and then there is the tricky part below the lip where the soul patch must be groomed. But this style is worth all the hard work. Once the beard on the chin has been trimmed such that it meets the soul patch below and the moustache is in place, this is one trendy and cool look.
The Balbo beard is often termed as a compromise that is made by men who have tried to grow a Van Dyke beard but have given up half way through. There is however, a neat similarity between the two in terms of a visual perspective. In terms of popularity, the beard ranks quite high and in the UK, where 52 percent of the men sport a beard or a moustache, it is the second most popular trend. Robert Downey Jr. isn't the only one who has sported the Balbo. The former Batman star, Christian Bale has donned the look too and has done a quite a good job too.
Bollywood too hasn't shied away from the Balbo and Sidharth Malhotra of 'Brothers' Fame was captured recently sporting this very look. The nawab of Pataudi, Mr Saif Ali Khan has been sporting a beard that though isn't a Balbo but is a somewhat compromised version of the same.
So, in the year 2017 where facial hair is very much in style and the beard is perhaps the ultimate symbol of the alpha male, the Balbo beard is very much in. Having been made popular by the movie stars far and wide, this style ranks quite high on the coolness quotient. So, for all men, gifted with a sharp chin line and have no shortage of testosterone, this is one style they can easily go for. Little would Mr Italo Balbo have known back in the 1920's that the trend he started would become such a rage in the modern era.


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Focusing On The Symptom, Not The Disease: Rich Americans Fleeing The Country
Remember Denise Rich? Bill Clinton pardoned her ex-husband after she donated: roughly a million dollars: to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Library. Whatever your opinion may be of the pardon, it certainly looked like a very sleazy "You give us money and we'll wipe your crime off the books" deal.
Ironically, Rich was in trouble for evading 48 million dollars in taxes. That's ironic for two reasons.
First off, if Rich funneled 1/48th of the money he owed in taxes into the Democratic Party and got a pardon out of it, he proved crime does pay – at least when you're dealing with Democrats. However, it's also ironic because Denise Rich will now: is also about to save millions in taxes not by evading taxes, but by simply renouncing her American citizenship.
Denise Rich, songwriter, socialite and the former wife of a pardoned billionaire, has given up her U.S. citizenship, and will reportedly thus save millions in U.S. taxes as well.
…Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin made headlines when gave up his U.S. passport and became a citizen of Singapore, just before the social networks's May I.P.O.
…Denise Rich was born in Worcester, Massachusetts but has Austrian citizenship through her deceased father, a lawyer who represented her in a recent lawsuit told Reuters, adding she was making the move "so that she can be closer to her family and to Peter Cervinka, her long-time partner."
It's easy to hammer Rich for lacking patriotism or point out that she spent years supporting politicians who raise taxes for Americans and then moved to country where she didn't have to pay as much of her money to the government.
However, that ignores the real problem; despite all the rhetoric about the rich "not paying their fair share," we're already taxing them too much. If you provide strong economic incentives, you can bet that people – even rich people, will respond to those incentives.
Democrats may tell you that we can have an enormous, intrusive government that tosses billions around like Frisbees and it can all be funded by soaking the rich, but that's just not going to work long-term. Wealthy Americans have the money to afford the best accountants to take advantage of tax loopholes and they can even hire lobbyists to create those tax loopholes. You put a few hundred thousand dollars in the right pockets and next thing you know, there's a line slipped into a 500 page bill that saves you millions every year. If all of that doesn't work and you have enough money, you can just move somewhere else. With the type of money Denise Rich has she can live just as well in Austria or anywhere else here as she does here. You think she's going to worried about Americans thinking she's unpatriotic while she's sipping Dom Pérignon on a yacht she bought with money she would have shelled out in taxes if she was still an American citizen? Of course, not.
If you want to fix the problem, you don't curse the symptom, you cure the underlying disease which is an enormous, overweening government that's spending far too much money.


With more than 88 percent of businesses in the U.S. using social media to promote their company, business owners are clearly using platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to reach their customers.
It can be tough to measure the impact of social media on a business, which is why some business owners hesitate to build a social media presence. Will it make a measurable difference in customer referrals, quotes or submissions?
Your sales efforts as an insurance professional, however, are additive and cumulative. Investing in your online social media presence can yield success when coupled with other marketing efforts. It also allows you to network and engage with your customers and meet them where they want to be met. Utilizing social platforms can make you more approachable as a business and as an insurance professional representing that business.
We are happy to offer you, our valued customers, free social media assistance through our Social Media Help Desk so you can take advantage of all the benefits of having social media for your insurance business. Whether you're looking to dig deeper into your company's social media pages, or build a better foundation for your own individual professional page, we can give you guidance.
Many of you have asked what has worked for us and what hasn't, how to add more value to your social platforms and why it's important to stay connected on social media. Our team has done a terrific job helping many of you assess and build your social media presence, and we're always excited to share our perspective and ideas as we further develop our own online presence as well.
We invite you to connect with us on our own pages as well. By following us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, you can access many articles and posts to share with your customers. Our own USLI University also has a social media presence filled with learning opportunities for developing your team's leadership, sales and insurance skillsets. Our Slainte fitness team also has a Facebook page that you can follow to learn more about exercise, nutrition and overall better health.
It's never too late to start or learn something new, and we have to be ready for the next opportunity, including where social media will lead us in the future. We're looking forward to sharing our knowledge so that we can help your business grow.


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There are existing Kubernetes concepts which allows you to expose a single service. However, you can do so through an AppsCode Ingress as well, simply by specifying a default backend with no rules.
This will create a load balancer forwarding all traffic to test-server service, unconditionally. The loadbalancer ip can be found inside Status Field of the loadbalancer described response. If there are other rules defined in Ingress then the loadbalancer will forward traffic to the test-server when no other rule is matched.
Default Backend: An Ingress with no rules, like the one shown in the previous section, sends all traffic to a single default backend. You can use the same technique to tell a loadbalancer where to find your website's 404 page, by specifying a set of rules and a default backend. Traffic is routed to your default backend if none of the Hosts in your Ingress matches the Host in request header, and/or none of the paths match url of request.
This Ingress will forward traffic to test-service if request comes from the host appscode.example.com only. Other requests will be forwarded to default backend.
Default Backend also supports headerRules and rewriteRules.


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David Nalbandian Sails To The Next With Easy Win Over Pim-Pim
October 9, 2008 by Voo De Mar
Moscow champion from year 2005, Igor Andreev lost his second round match against Jeremy Chardy despite comfortable leading 6-3 5:2 (40-30). 21 year-old Frenchman has reached second quarterfinal this year.
Also tight match won another Frenchman (Moscow champion 2002, last year's finalist) Paul-Henri Mathieu who needed 2 hours 48 minutes to beat Dudi Sela 6-7(3) 7-5 7-6(0).
The tournament has been dominated by the French and Russian players. Beside mentioned two players from France a place in the last eight booked their compatriot Fabrice Santoro and three players from Russia (Davydenko, Safin and Kunitsyn). Russian number 1 Nikolay Davydenko smashed Guilermo Garcia-Lopez in just 55 minutes and almost secured himself a spot in year-ending Masters Cup.
David Nalbandian finished Pim-Pim's comeback on ATP circuit with surprisingly easy win 6-3 6-2. The match was equaled till 3:3 in the first set with a little optical advantage of the Swede who had 30-0 on Nalbandian's serve twice. Since the 7th game of the first set Nalbandian overwhelmed his opponent breaking his huge serve three times.
Two Spaniards, clay-court specialists, Albert Montanes and Oscar Hernandez have reached indoor's quarterfinal for the first time in career. They both lost easily first set to win without bigger problems two another sets.
One of the promising stars, 18 year-old Kei Nishikori of Japan, was two points away from losing his match against veteran Dominik Hrbaty at 4:5 in the third set. In the previous game the Japanese had triple break point. "I just concentrated on keeping my serve," Nishikori said. "I'm glad that I did not go down after failing to break his serve from 0-40. The next game was difficult." Hrbaty, former no. 12 in the world (now rank. 396) hasn't reached an ATP quarterfinal from one and a half year.
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Ernests Gulbis proved once again that has big potential to play on a very high level but has problems with concentration in the most important moments as well. Young Latvian wasted 5 match poins in the tie-break (6:4, 7:6, 9:8, 11:10) of the second set against Fernando Gonzalez. Gulbis has already lost four matches this year being one or two points away from vicotry (against Davydenko, Nalbandian, Acasuso and Gonzalez).
Juan Martin del Potro withdrew from the match against Philipp Kohlschreiber. It wasn't a surprising decision in view of Del Potro's previous tough match which was preceded by long flight from Tokyo where Del Potro had played a final last Sunday. Tired Argentinian has officially withdrew due to injury of his right big toe.
Moscow – Second Round
(1)Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) vs Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 6-1 6-1
(7)Marat Safin (RUS) d. Julien Benneteau (FRA) 6-4 0-6 6-2
Michael Zverev (GER) d. Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) 6-2 2-6 6-1
Viktor Troicki (SRB) vs (8)Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 6-3 6-4
Fabrice Santoro (FRA) d. (q)Denis Istomin (UZB) 6-2 6-4
(4)Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) d. Dudi Sela (ISR) 6-7(3) 7-5 7-6(0)
Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) d. Robby Ginepri (USA) 6-4 6-3
Jeremy Chardy (FRA) d. (2)Igor Andreev (RUS) 3-6 7-5 6-4 – 1 M.P.
Stockholm – Second Round
(1)David Nalbandian (ARG) d. (WC)Joachim Johansson (SWE) 6-3 6-2
(7)Albert Montanes (ESP) d. (q)George Bastl (SUI) 1-6 6-3 6-2
(3)Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) d. Arnaud Clement (FRA) 6-4 6-7(5) 6-2
Oscar Hernandez (ESP) d. (6)Jose Acasuso (ARG) 2-6 6-3 6-4
(5)Rainer Schuettler (GER) d. Nicolas Lapentti (ECU) 7-6(6) 6-3
(4)Robin Soderling (SWE) d. (LL)Juan Monaco (ARG) 6-3 6-3
(WC)Kei Nishikori (JPN) d. Dominik Hrbaty (SVK) 6-1 1-6 7-5
(2)Mario Ancic (CRO) d. Steve Darcis (BEL) 7-6(4) 6-4
Vienna – Second Round
(q)Philipp Petzschner (GER) d. (q)Jan Hernych (CZE) 6-3 6-4
Carlos Moya (ESP) d. Eduardo Schwank (ARG) 6-2 6-3
Jurgen Melzer (AUT) d. Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) 7-6(4) 6-3
Feliciano Lopez (ESP) d. (LL)Santiago Giraldo (COL) 7-6(5) 6-3
(5)Fernando Verdasco (ESP) d. Guillermo Canas (ARG) 6-1 6-2
Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) d. (3)Juan Martin del Potro (ARG) w/o
(8)Gael Monfils (FRA) d. Radek Stepanek (CZE) 6-4 6-3
(2)Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) d. Ernests Gulbis (LAT) 4-6 7-6(11) 6-1 – 5 M.P.
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Centers for Civic Impact Launches at Johns Hopkins
on May 1, 2019 at 11:10 am
Johns Hopkins University has launched a new center for Civic Impact, which is designed to help public organizations use data to better understand and improve civic life.
The center will be part of Johns Hopkins growing ecosystem of government focused research centers. Civic Impact will build on the success of the Center for Government Excellence's data work by also offering governments and nonprofits the latest in policy research from the new Center for Applied Public Research, and public sector training from the new GovEx Academy.
Johns Hopkins launched GovEx in 2015 to support What Works Cities, a Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative that helps cities use data and evidence to tackle their most pressing challenges and improve residents' lives. GovEx has now worked with more than 140 cities around the world and will continue to provide technical assistance and customized coaching in building data management, performance management, and advanced analytics skills and practices.
Simultaneously launching within the Centers for Civic Impact is GovEx Academy, which will offer the public sector a range of online and on-site courses in managing, analyzing, and communicating with data. Expert instructors from GovEx Academy will instruct government and nonprofit organizations to solve problems using their own data.
To further the work of Civic Impact, the newly created Center for Applied Public Research will connect public sector practitioners to academic researchers from Johns Hopkins and other universities to create evidence-informed policy solutions. This Center will collaborate with a range of experts to develop resources and test new approaches to some of the most intractable challenges faced by the public sector, on topics ranging from workforce development and food insecurity.
The expansion of Civic Impact has been made possible with the support of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bernard van Leer Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ballmer Group, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Distinguished Speaker series to discuss "Transforming School Culture"
Distinguished Speaker series to discuss "Transforming School Culture"
Celebrated educator Anthony S. Muhammad, Ph.D., an award-winning teacher and principal who led his school to double student proficiency on state assessments will share his insights on "Transforming School Culture" when he is featured in Fitchburg State University's Distinguished Speaker Series on Tuesday, March 12 at Hammond Hall, 160 Pearl St.
The Distinguished Speaker Series is now in its eighth year, and hundreds of area educators attend each year for an inspiring and informative professional development opportunity. The program is designed for superintendents, assistant superintendents, principals, curriculum directors, special education directors, teachers, graduate students, higher education faculty, and other interested school administrators and educators. The event, including the keynote address and workshop sessions, will run from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 12.
Dr. Muhammad is one of the most sought-after educational consultants in North America. As a practitioner of nearly 20 years, Dr. Muhammad has served as a middle school teacher, assistant principal, middle school principal, and high school principal. Dr. Muhammad's tenure as a practitioner has earned him several awards as both a teacher and a principal. His most notable accomplishment came as principal at Levey Middle School in Southfield, Mich., a National School of Excellence, where student proficiency on state assessments was more than doubled in five years and Dr. Muhammad was named the Michigan Middle School Principal of the Year in 2005. Dr. Muhammad and the staff at Levey used the Professional Learning Communities at Work (PLC) model of school improvement, and they have been recognized in several videos and articles as a model, high-performing PLC.
As a researcher, Dr. Muhammad has published articles in several publications in both the United States and Canada. Dr. Muhammad is the author of the book Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division (2009) and a contributing author to the book The Collaborative Administrator: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community (2008).
Dr. Muhammad's books will be available for purchase after the lecture, and checks, credit cards and cash will be accepted.
Registration for the workshop, luncheon and continuing education units is $150; the program offers four professional development points for educators. Payment will be accepted by check, credit card or purchase order. Teams of three or more educators within the same school district pay $125 per person and must register by purchase order.
The deadline to register is March 3. Registrations received by Jan. 31 will be entered into a raffle to receive free admission.
For more information, visit www.fitchburgstate.edu/gce/speaker or call the Center for Professional Studies at Fitchburg State University at 978-665-3636.


I took this picture at Kanda Myojin shrine after reading In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki. I learned more about Japanese aesthetics from this book than from any other one.
Wabi-sabi, impermanence, asymmetry, imperfection. Light, darkness, and all the shadows between them. Black, white, and all the tones between them.


Serenity Now: *Blessings Unlimited* Christmas Giveaway...from Me!
*Blessings Unlimited* Christmas Giveaway...from Me!
It's been awhile since I've hosted a Giveaway (from me) here on the blog. So many of you have left thoughtful and encouraging comments since I mentioned signing on with Blessings Unlimited that I wanted to share the love.
I'm going to give away one Happy Birthday to the King Platter (valued at $26) to a reader! This new collection was so popular that it has completely sold out for this year, but I saved one platter. It's 12 inches square, dishwasher and microwave safe, very sturdy. I love the fun lime green and red Christmas color combo!
If you're new to my blog or not sure what Blessings Unlimited is, I'll give you a quick background. The company opened in 2006, and is owned by DaySpring Christian Cards, which is owned by Hallmark. I've always thought of Hallmark as having a fun, unique style. I think it's exciting that they branched out to home decor and gifts that are geared to inspire and encourage you, as well as bring beauty to your home. And, oh yes, the cards!
I had never heard of Blessings Unlimited until May of this year. Between a fabulous post by The Nester and happening upon the products at the MOPS Convention in August, I was sold. The extra spending money has been helpful, and I really really love the products! Many of my orders come in with little prayer cards or Bible verses tucked inside, and I think that's pretty cool.
This Giveaway is open to residents of the Continental U.S.
There are several ways you can enter between today and Sunday, December 5th, at 5 pm (ET).
2. Let me know if you'd like to receive my monthly Blessings Unlimited e-newsletter with creative tips, monthly promotions, and Giveaways. Be sure to leave your email address!
4. Tweet this Giveaway with a link to this post.
5. Follow this blog through Google Friend Connect (see those little faces on the sidebar? I love those people!), or let me know if you already follow me through Google Friend Connect.
6. Link up a post (with a valid link!) to this weekend's Weekend Bloggy Reading party for an automatic extra entry.
There's a great sale going on right now, with a lot of items 50% to 81% off. One of the platters The Nester featured is on my sale page. Might make a cute gift?
Aw, thanks for doing a giveaway! You are so sweet! It is hard to pick a favorite, but I like the Blessings Block sets and the Celebrate plate!
I love the Silent Wonder Plate Set! Very pretty! I love a lot of the things you have!
I really like the new Tiered Server! I love that the arms are all adjustable so you can arrange it a ton of different ways!
I love the Fall Watercolor Decor - the winter one is very nice too!
I love the Abundance Wooden Tray!
I'm a stalker...I mean follower!
Loving SO many of these products, hard to pick one. I'll go with the Celebrate Plate and the As for Me & My Family Tray. Oh wait...that was more than one!
I have always loved the 'as for me and my family' tray!
I couldn't decide on just one, so here are the three I would have a hard time choosing...The abundance Wooden Tray, the Home Blessing Sign, and the Savor the Joy Cake Pedestal Set. Thank you for hosting this giveaway!!
A favorite?? Oh, gosh, how to choose?? Maybe the "Silent wonder" line of products. That light blue and cream color scheme is just beautiful. But I don't know--I like pretty much everything made by DaySpring!
Thanks for the giveaway! I'd love to subscribe to your newsletter (richellap@gmail.com). I'm so proud of you!!
The new ever greatful set is so beautiful I'd probably be afraid to use it but the blessings blocks are probably my fav! :-) Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
I love the tierd serving pedestal.
It's all lovely. And congrats on finding a product you believe in.
I really like the Silent Wonder square platter and plate set.
I really like the Ever Grateful Collection Mug Wasabi. It would be a pleasure to drink my morning coffee out of it. I have the perfect spot for the Silent Wonder Square Platter in my kitchen. I'm adding that to my "things I want" list!!
i love blessings unlimited :) i hope your new venture is going well!! my favorite item is the blessing blocks! i have 2 sets :) but i see there are more blocks? yippee! and that platter? sold out? i really think it is beautiful!
Thank you so very much for the chance to win your giveaway!
oops.... I didn't get to finish!
I like the Blessings Blocks. But there we so many cute things it was hard to choose.
Oh yay! I love your products!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the platter you are giving away and the Blessing blocks! So many wonderful things to choose from.
There are soooo many gorgeous things! I love the Abundance Wooden Tray. That is probably my favorite.
I love the "delight yourself in the Lord" bracelet.
That new tiered server has my name on it - love all the items. Good luck with your new business and thanks for the giveaway!
I'd like to receive your newsletter! Thanks!
Myfavorite item is the wooden abundance tray! Kim B.
Hi Amanda! I love the Gratitude table runner and placemats..beautiful!


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package io.pravega.segmentstore.server;

import io.pravega.common.util.BufferView;
import io.pravega.segmentstore.contracts.ReadResult;
import io.pravega.segmentstore.contracts.StreamSegmentNotExistsException;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * Defines a ReadIndex for StreamSegments, that allows adding data only at the end.
 */
public interface ReadIndex extends AutoCloseable {
    /**
     * Appends a range of bytes at the end of the Read Index for the given StreamSegmentId.
     *
     * @param streamSegmentId The Id of the StreamSegment to append to.
     * @param offset          The offset in the StreamSegment where to write this append. The offset must be at the end
     *                        of the StreamSegment as it exists in the ReadIndex.
     * @param data            The data to append.
     * @throws StreamSegmentNotExistsException If streamSegmentId is mapped to a Segment that is marked as Deleted.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException If the offset does not match the expected value (end of StreamSegment in ReadIndex).
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException If the offset + data.length exceeds the metadata Length of the StreamSegment.
     */
    void append(long streamSegmentId, long offset, BufferView data) throws StreamSegmentNotExistsException;

    /**
     * Executes Step 1 of the 2-Step Merge Process.
     *

     *
Step 1: The StreamSegments are merged (Source-$gt;Target@Offset) in Metadata and a ReadIndex Redirection is put in place.
     * At this stage, the Source still exists as a physical object in Storage, and we need to keep its ReadIndex around, pointing
     * to the old object.

     *
Step 2: The StreamSegments are physically merged in the Storage. The Source StreamSegment does not exist anymore.
     * The ReadIndex entries of the two Streams are actually joined together.

     *

     *
     * @param targetStreamSegmentId The Id of the StreamSegment to merge into.
     * @param offset                The offset in the Target StreamSegment where to merge the Source StreamSegment.
     *                              The offset must be at the end of the StreamSegment as it exists in the ReadIndex.
     * @param sourceStreamSegmentId The Id of the StreamSegment to merge.
     * @throws StreamSegmentNotExistsException If sourceStreamSegmentId is mapped to a Segment that is marked as Deleted.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException If the offset does not match the expected value (end of StreamSegment in ReadIndex).
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException If the offset + SourceStreamSegment.length exceeds the metadata Length
     *                                  of the target StreamSegment.
     */
    void beginMerge(long targetStreamSegmentId, long offset, long sourceStreamSegmentId) throws StreamSegmentNotExistsException;

    /**
     * Executes Step 2 of the 2-Step Merge Process. See 'beginMerge' for the description of the Merge Process.
     *
     * @param targetStreamSegmentId The Id of the StreamSegment to merge into.
     * @param sourceStreamSegmentId The Id of the StreamSegment to merge.
     * @throws StreamSegmentNotExistsException If targetStreamSegmentId is mapped to a Segment that is marked as Deleted.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException If the 'beginMerge' method was not called for the pair before.
     */
    void completeMerge(long targetStreamSegmentId, long sourceStreamSegmentId) throws StreamSegmentNotExistsException;

    /**
     * Reads a contiguous sequence of bytes of the given length starting at the given offset from the given Segment.
     * Every byte in the range must meet the following conditions:
     *

     *
 It must exist in this segment. This excludes bytes from merged transactions and future reads.
     *
 It must be part of data that is not yet committed to Storage (tail part) - as such, it must be fully in the cache.
     *

     * Notes:
     *

     *
 This method allows reading from partially merged transactions (on which beginMerge was called but not completeMerge).
     * This is acceptable because this method is only meant to be used by internal clients (not by an outside request)
     * and it prebuilds the result into the returned {@link BufferView}.
     *
 This method will not cause cache statistics to be updated. As such, Cache entry generations will not be
     * updated for those entries that are touched.
     *

     *
     * @param streamSegmentId The Id of the StreamSegment to read from.
     * @param startOffset     The offset in the StreamSegment where to start reading.
     * @param length          The number of bytes to read.
     * @return A {@link BufferView} containing the requested data, or null if all of the conditions of this read cannot be met.
     * @throws StreamSegmentNotExistsException If streamSegmentId is mapped to a Segment that is marked as Deleted.
     * @throws IllegalStateException    If the read index is in recovery mode.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException If the parameters are invalid (offset, length or offset+length are not in the Segment's range).
     */
    BufferView readDirect(long streamSegmentId, long startOffset, int length) throws StreamSegmentNotExistsException;

    /**
     * Reads a number of bytes from the StreamSegment ReadIndex.
     *
     * @param streamSegmentId The Id of the StreamSegment to read from.
     * @param offset          The offset in the StreamSegment where to start reading from.
     * @param maxLength       The maximum number of bytes to read.
     * @param timeout         Timeout for the operation.
     * @throws StreamSegmentNotExistsException If streamSegmentId is mapped to a Segment that is marked as Deleted.
     * @return A ReadResult containing the data to be read.
     */
    ReadResult read(long streamSegmentId, long offset, int maxLength, Duration timeout) throws StreamSegmentNotExistsException;

    /**
     * Triggers all eligible pending Future Reads for the given StreamSegmentIds.
     *
     * @param streamSegmentIds The Ids of the StreamSegments to trigger reads for.
     */
    void triggerFutureReads(Collection<Long> streamSegmentIds);

    /**
     * Clears the entire contents of the ReadIndex.
     *
     * @throws IllegalStateException If the operation cannot be performed due to the current state of the system (for example,
     *                               if the system is in Recovery Mode).
     */
    void clear();

    /**
     * Removes all internal indices that point to the given StreamSegments, but only if they are marked as Deleted in
     * the metadata or missing metadata altogether (i.e., they have been recycled).
     *
     * @param segmentIds A Collection of SegmentIds for the Segments to clean up. If this is null, then all the Segment Ids
     *                   registered in this ReadIndex are eligible for removal.
     */
    void cleanup(Collection<Long> segmentIds);

    /**
     * Evicts all cache entries that are eligible for eviction. Only applicable in recovery mode.
     * @throws IllegalStateException If the ReadIndex is not in recovery mode.
     */
    long trimCache();

    /**
     * Puts the ReadIndex in Recovery Mode. Some operations may not be available in Recovery Mode.
     *
     * @param recoveryMetadataSource The Metadata Source to use. This Metadata must be in sync with the ReadIndex base
     *                               ContainerMetadata. If, upon exiting recovery mode, they disagree, it could lead to
     *                               serious errors, and will be reported as DataCorruptionExceptions (see exitRecoveryMode).
     * @throws IllegalStateException If the ReadIndex is already in recovery mode.
     * @throws NullPointerException  If the parameter is null.
     */
    void enterRecoveryMode(ContainerMetadata recoveryMetadataSource);

    /**
     * Takes the ReadIndex out of Recovery Mode, enabling all operations.
     *
     * @param successfulRecovery Indicates whether recovery was successful. If not, the ReadIndex may be cleared out to
     *                           avoid further issues.
     * @throws IllegalStateException   If the ReadIndex is already in recovery mode.
     * @throws NullPointerException    If the parameter is null.
     * @throws DataCorruptionException If the new Metadata Store does not contain information about a StreamSegment in
     *                                 the Read Index or it has conflicting information about it.
     */
    void exitRecoveryMode(boolean successfulRecovery) throws DataCorruptionException;

    /**
     * Gets the {@link CacheUtilizationProvider} shared across all Segment Containers hosted in this process that can
     * be used to query the Cache State.
     *
     * @return The {@link CacheUtilizationProvider}.
     */
    CacheUtilizationProvider getCacheUtilizationProvider();

    @Override
    void close();
}


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Q: Cross-domain AJAX request to the WCF I have a hard Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, I want to make cross domain query from your web service to a WCF service, but it does not work.
Ajax code on a web page:
$.ajax (
    url: "http:/сите.com/ApplicationController.svc/HelloPost/"
    type: "POST",
    dataType: "json",
    contentType: "application/json",
    success: function (data) {
        alert (data);
    },
    error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        alert (jqXHR textStatus errorThrown);<br/>
    }
});

But my WCF service:
[OperationContract]
[WebInvoke (Method = "POST", UriTemplate = "HelloPost /", ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json, BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare)]
[JSONPBehavior (callback = "callback")]
String GetPostHello (Stream data);

public String GetPostHello (Stream data)
{
    HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader ("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");

    if (HttpContext.Current.Request.HttpMethod == "OPTIONS")
    {
        HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader ("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET, POST");
        HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader ("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type, Accept");
        HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader ("Access-Control-Max-Age", "1728000");
        HttpContext.Current.Response.End ();
        return null;
    }
    return "Hello";
}

When a GET request with the domain it works, but try to make a POST request returns this header:
Content-Type application/json
Accept application/json, text/javascript, */*;q=0.01
Help, what could be the problem! Thank you!

A: For POST requests to be made cross-domain by browsers which support CORS (which is what you're using with the Access-Control headers), prior to the request the browser first sends a preflight request, which is a HTTP OPTIONS request, asking the server whether is ok to send the POST request to it. You can either add another operation which responds to the OPTIONS request, or you can implement full CORS support for WCF - it's not too simple, but I've wrote about it on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosfigueira/archive/2012/05/15/implementing-cors-support-in-wcf.aspx with the steps required to make this work.