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An 18-year-old Skyview High student, arrested after a shooting threat prompted more than 70 percent of the Nampa school's students to stay home, allegedly stoked the anxiety by posting on Instagram an image of an ominous-looking figure in a Skyview hallway 24 hours before bathroom graffiti warned that a school shooting was planned.
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A 16-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, also was arrested Monday and faces juvenile charges of disturbing the peace and making threats of violence on school grounds. Police declined to describe the younger boy's alleged actions. Juvenile cases are typically sealed from the public in Idaho.
The threat created tremendous anxiety among families and a lot of extra work for the Nampa Police Department and school district, police spokesman Sgt. Tim Riha said. Police have had an increased presence at the school all week to help ensure safety and reassure people, he said.
Soto, legally an adult, faces a felony charge of grand theft by possessing lost property: a handgun. Soto told NPD Sgt. Jason Cantrell that he found the handgun and bullets and displayed them in a video with the song "Pumped Up Kicks," the lyrics of which describe the homicidal thoughts of a troubled youth. Cantrell said other Skyview students had shown him a photo of the handgun and said it had come from Soto. The handgun and some ammunition were recovered from a shed behind Soto's home, police said.
As for the Instagram post, Soto told police that he took the photo of a person in a trench coat because the figure "looked to be a school shooter," and he time-stamped it to relate to the graffiti threat that was already creating great fear.
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A school district spokeswoman said Wednesday that officials have not determined disciplinary measures for the two teens arrested. Attendance was "back to normal" at the high school on Thursday, the spokeswoman said.
Soto was arraigned Wednesday in 3rd District Court and was ordered released to the county's pretrial release program. His preliminary hearing on the felony charge is set for April 26.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Harrison County officials close to the case in the teens accused of murdering a Harrison County couple say they have learned more information on how the murders were committed.
Officials say the teens stabbed the first victim, left the home, and then came back to steal more items, and then killed the second victim.
Harrison County Coroner Rusty Sizemore says that Austin Scott and Kevin "Drew" Schuler entered the home, and stabbed 70-year-old Gary Henderson 23 times.
Authorities say the teens left the house with guns, credit cards and prescription pills.
Sizemore says the teens later returned to the home to grab more items, and that's when they heard 57-year-old "Senie" Arnold cry out for her partner.
It was at that time that the coroner says the young men bludgeoned the woman to death.
The violent act is something that Henderson's daughter cannot fathom.
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Madanmohan Rao reports from the Global Internet Summit in Stockholm
Scaleable and seamless extension of the Internet to mobile devices, the solar system in open space, and user-friendly names for online resources are some of the next frontiers of today's Internet, according to its leading developers and shapers.
Other pressing issues such as governance of Internet infrastructure and bridging the digital divide in emerging economies also figured prominently in the one-week summit INET 2001, hosted in Stockholm recently by the Internet Society (www.isoc.org), a global umbrella organization dedicated to the open evolution and promotion of the Internet.
"The Internet will have to extend beyond planet Earth in order to support the exploration of the solar system. No standards underlie communications of previous missions of spacecraft," said WorldCom vice president Vint Cerf, co-founder of the Internet Society and co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol stack, who is widely regarded as the "father of the Internet."
But communicating across such vast distances will cause days and even weeks of communication delays, thus calling for a hierarchy of inter-Internet protocols, long-haul radio backbones, and inter-planetary gateways.
"You can say that these delays are astronomical - because that is indeed what they are," Cerf said.
Numerous umbrella organizations such as the Interplanetary Internet Project (www.IPNsig.org) and Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (www.ccsds.org) serve as coordinating platforms for companies and government labs involved in such research.
Back on planet Earth, a significant expansion of the Net is being driven by mobile devices and convergence. The global Internet population of around 400 million users is expected to cross the one billion mark in a couple of years.
"This is the year - 2001 -- when the worldwide figures for mobile subscribers will surpass the number of landlines. We are seeing a significant convergence between the wireless and Internet worlds," said Hakan Eriksson, VP of research at Ericsson.
"By 2005, most mobile handsets will have microbrowsers," he predicted. Pockets of wireless Internet development such as i-Mode in Japan and WAP in Europe will converge with WAP Release 2001 and GPRS networks.
m-Payment services will effectively create "credit cards with antennas," as mobile Internet devices take on multiple forms: wallets, cameras, navigators and walkmans.
"Just as 1981 marked the advent of GSM and 2001 marks the launch of 3G services, so also 2011 will mark the launch of 4G," Eriksson said.
By the end of next year, over 100 billion SMS messages will be sent worldwide each month, and much richer messages will be facilitated via MMS (multimedia message service).
Ericsson, along with Motorola and Nokia, is promoting a new standard for mobile Instant Messaging (IM) as part of an initiative called Wireless Village to enable interoperability between the instant messaging services of Microsoft and AOL on the one hand and wireless users on the other.
IPv6, the next generation of Internet Protocol, will address some of the problems with the wireless Internet based on the current IPv4, such as insufficient address space and inadequate support for mobile users; it also has provisions for better security and quality of service.
But better standardization between handset makers and inter-provider service agreements across boundaries between technologies will be needed.
And consumer services based on 3G will really take off only with proper revenue-sharing agreements between network operators and content providers, as exemplified by the 30 million subscribers of Japan's wireless Internet operators DoCoMo (i-Mode), KDDI (EZWeb) and J-Phone (J-sky).
While Internet users seem to expect free content in the narrow-band environment, broadband and wireless content are expected to be more promising in terms of drawing service fees.
"In regions like the Middle East and northern Africa, the mobile subscriber base will exceed the landline base by year 2003," said ITU analyst Michael Minges.
Another wave of convergence is being driven by the emergence of VoIP (voice over IP) services. Asian countries like China, South Korea and Malaysia are actively embracing VoIP - telephony over IP networks is now a central plank of telecom development in China -- while many other countries unfortunately are actively barring such services.
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"Work is being coordinated on XML-based query languages and meta-data protocols like the Common Name Resolution Protocol (CNRP)," said Leslie Daigle, a Canadian who chairs the URN Working Group.
Challenges lie ahead in designing the NameSpace Identifier (NID) in a manner which can balance complexity with mass uptake, and in configuring the NID registry, naming authority and resolution server.
The electronic commons of the global Internet also throws up a complex host of issues revolving around domain name registration, multilingual name registries, fair regulation, e-commerce taxation, intellectual property, global cyberlaws, cultural preservation, and protection of the public interest.
Numerous international organizations are leaping into the fray here: ICANN, IETF, IAB, OECD, OAS, UNESCO, WTO, ITU, Internews Network, Electronic Privacy Information Centre, Centre for Democracy and Technology, Global Business Dialogue on E-commerce, and Global Internet Project.
"It is becoming difficult for civil society in many countries to take part in the global decision-making for Internet governance," said Jeannette Hoffman, a cyberactivist from Germany.
Music exchange sites like Napster have raised serious questions about the role of intermediaries in the content and entertainment industries, who will have to find out new ways to add value to digital products.
"Huge markets are opening up in digital media management tools for protection of digital rights during content creation, distribution and sales," said Mike Nelson, Internet strategy director at IBM.
Numerous business models for free and paid-for content as well as hybrid configurations will co-exist, he said.
But free expression of ideas must not be threatened on the Net, cautioned John Perry Barlow, former lyricist of the U.S. band Grateful Dead, and a strong proponent of free speech in cyberspace.
He expressed strong reservations about the way the media and technology industries are commoditising creative works with terms like "content" and "consumption."
In either case, sites like Napster which facilitated over 500 million file-sharing transactions per week during some periods may just be the tip of the iceberg, as digital content exchange could continue on an even larger scale on the person-to-person (P2P) level via wireless-enabled personal digital assistants (PDAs).
In the post-dotcom era, concerns remain about business models and the pace of adoption of e-commerce; many companies are now focusing more on making use of existing resources efficiently than on rapidly increasing market share and brand profile.
"But e-mail adoption by even the most conservative businesses shows that e-business is irreversible," according to Greg Adamson, an Internet consultant with ICL in Scotland.
For emerging economies, another complex set of policy issues revolves around overcoming the digital divide.
Numerous such projects for community access, local capacity building, and sustainable knowledge networking were highlighted at the conference: HealthNet for medical workers in Africa, Linux-based SchoolNet in Cameroon which is used by students in the daytime and local community members at night, Pan Asian Networking's telecentres in the Philippines, the AkashGanga online dairy kiosks for milk cooperatives in India, the Gobi Business News network for online media in rural Mongolia, and multi-purpose telecentres for teachers and farmers in Uganda.
Initiatives and organisations active on this front include the G-8 countries' DotForce proposal (www.dotforce.org), WorldSpace Foundation, Pact (www.pactworld.org), Global Knowledge Partnership, and International Institute for Communication and Development (www.iicd.org).
While profit-oriented cybercafes (eg. India's growing chain of cybercafe operators) will help grow the Internet market in urban areas of developing countries, the telecentre model for rural areas may need more funding and support from government agencies and public bodies.
At tmhe level of national IT policy, some of the smaller and more nimble countries of Europe and Asia - most notably Ireland and Singapore - have positioned themselves well as hubs for the global Internet economy, said Rex Hughes, Internet analyst at the University of Washington, which runs the Internet Political Economy Forum (www.ipef.org) along with Cambridge University and the National University of Singapore.
"Both Singapore and Ireland were primarily agricultural in economic makeup just decades ago, but have re-engineered themselves for the knowledge economy - for instance, by investing significantly in broadband Internet infrastructure," said Hughes. They have also produced notable global players in areas like e-learning (SmartForce in Ireland) and soundblaster cards (Singapore).
In Europe, suburban pockets like Kista in Stockholm have positioned themselves as major hubs for innovations in the wireless and broadband Internet.
"India, Brazil and South Africa have now reached critical mass in terms of innovation in low-cost devices and access models," observed Mike Jensen, a network consultant based in South Africa.
Examples include the low cost device Simputer and wireless local loop technology CorDect in India, and affordable smart-cards for health transactions in Brazil.
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"There seems to be a crisis of leadership and a policy vacuum when it comes to deciding how to use the Internet and other IT innovations for development in emerging economies," said George Sadowsky, executive director of the Global Internet Policy Initiative (www.gipiproject.org), aimed at injecting consensus and informed decision-making in the currently fragmented policy environment.
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Yesterday I found out there was a crash in the same freeway my dream took place, two young guys died on the crash and one of them is currently on the hospital in critical condition.
Can someone please please tell me if my dream had anything to do with this? I don't know any of the guys involved.
My dream felt very real and I can't stop thinking that maybe I could have done something to protect them, but mainly I don't want to ever dream something like that.
Why did I dreamed that and why did the accident happen just like my dream?
Please tell me if anyone has ever been through this.
updated by @kenya: 03/13/17 12:49:55AM
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You may have psychic capabilities through your dreams! I've had many similar to this. Start a dream journal.
I have clusters of these types of experiences. They will go for maybe 3 months or so, then nothing for two or three years, then a cluster again of a few weeks etc. Mostly I can tie my "sensitivity" to being in some type of compromised state of mind. By compromised, I don't mean it negatively, just that the membrane between conscious and unconscious is more porous, for instance following childbirth when I was very sleep deprived; following being an almost victim to a violent crime; following divorce; following sleep deprivation generally awakens things for me. Or also when I invite this sense to come. Pray for it even.
Anyway. The experience of the "knowing" can be a bit frightening. I've heard it described as a lifting of the veil. And I like this description. Most of the time we humans could not function if the veil of time was lifted for us to see, but sometimes it is lifted anyway. If you would like to explore this, then just notice it, keep a journal. If it feels ick then quit. If it feels good, then proceed forward. I don't know very much about it, but I have been allowing it in my life, not judging, it's not really a choice for me--- the glimpses just come more frequently now.... and then when I see the manifestation, I just say, well there it is..... for now that seems the first step... we accept that we can smell things. we are used to it.... try to get used to having this sense.....
Hope this helps... Take Care!


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Final score
Myrtle Beach Pelicans 11, Down East Wood Ducks 7
Turning point
Down 4-1 in the fifth, the Pelicans' rally started with Tyler Pearson being hit on a pitch by Down East starter Jeffrey Springs. He would proceed to walk Bryant Flete, before Robert Garcia advanced the runners to second and third on a sacrifice bunt. Pearson would come home by way of a Wood Ducks error, right before a Connor Myers triple off the wall would allow Myrtle Beach's two base runners to come home, thus tying the game. After Springs walked Trent Giambrone, Eddy Martinez would put the Pelicans up for good with a 3-run homer.
Offensive star
Though only 1-for-5 on the night, Eddy Martin's 3-run homer gave the Pelicans a lead they would not relinquish. Matt Rose was also 2-for-4 on the night with a home run, three runs scored and an RBI, while Jesse Hodges was also 2-for-4 with a home run, two runs scored and two runs batted in.
Decision takers
Winner: Coming on in relief of starter Casey Bloomquist, Tommy Thorpe pitched 2 1/3 innings. He yielded a run on one hit, striking out two and walking one.
Loser: Jeffrey Springs was the victim of one big inning by the Pelicans, going 4 1/3 innings and giving up four runs on seven hits. He struck out seven and walked three.
By the numbers
3Home runs hit by the Pelicans Thursday night
12Hits for the Pelicans against Down East pitchers Thursday night
15Strikeouts for Myrtle Beach, along with the number of baserunners stranded in the game
Keeping record
Both teams are 7-8.
Up next
Myrtle Beach again is in Kinston, N.C., taking on the Down East Wood Ducks in the second of a four-game series between the clubs. First pitch is at 7 p.m.
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President Muhammadu Buhari, has appended his signature to an Act of the National Assembly which authorised the executive to extend the implementation of the Capital vote component in the 2015 budget beyond December 31, 2015, The Punch report.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters ( Senate ), Senator Ita Enang, confirmed the development in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja on Thursday.
Enang explained that his clarification became necessary in view of the fact that legislators, institutions and other concerned agencies had been contacting him to know the true status of the Act, which was forwarded to Buhari last week.
He said, "Further to several enquires and calls by legislators, institutions et al on the subject, we deem it appropriate to issue this release.
"His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, has assented to the 2015 appropriation amendment Act passed by the National Assembly on December 22, 2015, (extending the 2015 financial year to March 31st in respect of capital projects)"
The Act to amended the 2015 Supplementary Appropriation Act specifically authorised the issue from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation, N556.9bn meant for Capital Expenditure in the 2015 budget to enable the appropriate government agencies carry out massive infrastructural projects during the dry season.
The Senate had last on week Tuesday, amended the 2015 Supplementary Appropriation Act to enable the Executive arm of government, implement the N557bn Capital expenditure component in the 2015 Budget up to March next year.
The amendment was perfected at plenary shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari, presented the 2016 budget estimates to the joint session of the National Assembly.
Saraki,had explained that the essence of the ammendments was to allow the executive arm of government carry out execution of capital projects during the dry season pending the approval of the 2016 Appropriation Bill.


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SonicSpy: Over a thousand spyware apps discovered, some in Google Play
Apparently Android devices are easy to hack. "The sample of SonicSpy most recently found on the Play Store, called Soniac, is marketed as a messaging app", the post reads. All three were messaging apps: Soniac, Hulk Messenger and Troy Chat . Over a thousand infected apps, which are being deployed by a hacker in Iraq, have been detected.


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AstriCon Shows that Open Source VOIP is Getting Stronger
Several open-source vendors made announcements at last week's AstriCon, Asterisk's annual conference. Probably the most significant was that Digium, which makes commercialized Asterisk VoIP software, is partnering with Polycom to co-develop a SIP-based suite of telephony products for small and midsize businesses. Polycom phones will be able to be bundled with Digium's Asterisk Business Edition, and Polycom will be Digium's preferred VoIP phone manufacturer. Other companies announced applications like click-to-call for Asterisk.
Conference organizer Steve Sokol says AstriCon has grown each year since the first event two years ago. This year, for the first time, there also were a significant number of enterprise users at the conference. Sokol suggests news stories, venture capital funding for Digium, and developments like Sam Houston University dumping Cisco VoIP for Asterisk have solidified open-source telephony as an option. The switch from Cisco to Asterisk, which I wrote about in this aricle;
VOIP IP Telephony: A Suprisingly Simple Switch from Cisco Call Manager to Asterisk
Other companies have also recently bought into open-source communications. Amazon said last month that it would be rolling out open-source telephony from Pingtel enterprise-wide after a pilot in its Seattle headquarters; and marketing group InterMedi@ Marketing Solutions' 1,000- seat call center will soon be powered by Ranch Networks' Asterisk switches.
Fonality's Lyman says the examples of his company, Digium, and Pingtel show that there's a support model out there that works for enterprises and raises examples like Apache Web servers to show where open source is being used today in other critical applications. Still, don't expect an immediate groundswell of support for open-source IP PBXs just yet. The open-source telephony movement is in its early phases—Asterisk is a fly to Cisco's 800-pound gorilla—and most large vendors and customers haven't jumped on the bandwagon.
Conference proceedings could be found at astricon.net, but why PPT files, I read all PDFs but my system does not read ppts.
Astricon 2006 files
The Sokol site
Here are some people who were at Astricon;
Attractel, developer of state-of-the-art VoIP solutions, exhibited a suite of Attractel family products at AstriCon. Zoiper is their SIP/IAX support softphone that is packed with a variety of conventional and advanced features for Windows/Linux/Mac OS systems.Comes in Free and Biz version. Their Predilux has more to offer than just a predictive dialer with different modes to best fit Call Centre needs, the Service Line Platform offers service line providers a versatile tool to easily manage their core business and their Rate Engine is a real-time application for ITSPs to flexibly delineate and maintain their rate and markdown plans.
AudioCodes successfully completed certification testing with Digium's Asterisk Business Edition Software for AudioCodes' media gateway platforms. Some AudioCodes SIP Gateway products that completed certification testing are the TP260/SIP, Mediant(TM) 1000 and the MediaPack(TM) to ensure interoperability and compatibility when integrated with Digium's Asterisk Business Edition software. AudioCodes and Digium's collaboration will offer better design options for telephony developers and enable rapid deployment of high quality and scalable SIP-based solutions.
Digium partnered with Polycom and AudioCodes for added conveniences and benefits such as rapid feature development for SIP-based telephony solutions with Polycom and rapid deployment of high quality and scalable SIP-based solutions with AudioCodes. See Polycom and AudioCodes summaries for more information.
LumenVox provides speech recognition for Fonality's trixbox Application Platform, through integration into the platform. The Lumenvox Speech Engine, which recognizes words and phrases, will be part of trixbox 2.0. The partnership brings point-and-click installation and management of the LumenVox speech recognition to the trixbox community.
Mexuar launched its Corraleta Technology SDK for seamless VoIP Click-to-talk applications. This new solution will enable rapid development and deployment of VoIP click-to-talk apps for online businesses so that any website visitor can use the company's web browser and PC to make free calls and talk with sales or support in the company's contact center within ten seconds. The Corraleta-developed application can be used to initiate calls to the contact center via a button on a web page, or can trigger a callback from the contact center to the user's chosen telephone. In addition to enabling IP calls, the Corraleta SDK can also provide information about the user's online experience to the merchant's customer service agent when the call is initiated. The agent software can display this information directly or use it to trigger lookups in company databases to retrieve details such as customer records, purchase histories and so on.
MIX Networks
MIX Networks, a service provider, offering a full suite of high-value next-generation VoIP solutions to residential, business and reseller customers has recent implemented DUNDi (a peer to peer system for locating Internet gateways to telephony services created by Digium) to ease of network administration, add stability and flexibility to its already strong network foundation. In keeping with the goal of delivering quality VoIP services to end users, MIX Networks builds a strong, redundant end-to-end MPLS VoIP network.
NetLogic announced "PBX-Preferred" Certification program that is based on the rigorous testing of application IPBX software and systems which includes bench testing to ensure proper SIP trunk connectivity and quality, beta testing in the field with actual business users over NetLogic SIP trunks and implementing in a "general availability" environment with NetLogic SIP trunks.
PBXtra(TM) Standard and PBXtra Call Center from Fonality; Switchvox SOHO and Switchvox SMB; and Digium's Asterisk Appliance have earned PBX-Preferred Certifications. IPBX software earning the NetLogic PBX-Preferred Certification include: Digium's Asterisk Business Edition; Asterisk; and Free PBX.
NETXUSA Inc. has established a West Coast Distribution center in Henderson Nevada. The new location will provide a larger window of time to have products shipped while realizing increased savings on freight charges. As in the South Carolina corporate office a full compliment of VoIP products will be available for immediate shipment.
Polycom and Digium partner to offer integrated SIP-based telephony solution for SMB market. This multiyear partnership will cover development and marketing of the SIP-based telephony solution and will provide SMBs with a tightly integrated, standards-based solution with simplified provisioning, broad support for Asterisk telephony features on the Polycom phones and the delivery of new capabilities. Polycom's SIP desktop and conference phones will be combined with Digium's Asterisk Business Edition, at a lower price point than proprietary systems and with added control, rapid feature development and more. With this agreement, Polycom becomes Digium's preferred VoIP phone provider.
Ranch Networks
Ranch Networks provides optimal VoIP solution to Intermedi@ Marketing Solutions for 1,000 seat call center, across five facilities. Intermedi@ Marketing Solutions will now gain access to Ranch Network's unique features such as VoIP Matrix Technology(TM), 1+1 High Availability and Media Bridging through RN 40 appliances to ensure call quality and reliability. This unified VoIP PBX and predictive dialer based on the Asterisk and VICIDAL open source projects will also provide a more secure network across Asterisk server farms.
RedFone announced their next generation foneBRIDGE (T1 or E1 PRI-to-Ethernet bridge) that provides Asterisk with high availability, fail-over capabilities and load balancing. Normally offered through partner dealers, the foneBRIDGE is an integrated black-box "appliance" designed to streamline installation and enable redundant design of Asterisk based VoIP systems.
SIPBox appoints Roger Gusloff as new chief financial officer. Roger brings over 18 years of experience in financial leadership as a CFO, consultant, and a senior accountant. Most recently, he was CFO of Acme Refining Company, where he was responsible for the complete management of the company's financial position. During his tenure, Roger oversaw multiple strategic acquisitions and managed assets exceeding $40 million. Roger began his career at KPMG Peat Marwick, where he spent several years as a supervising senior accountant before starting his own consulting firm, Gusloff & Associates. Roger was responsible for all facets of the business' operations including the financial management as well as sales development, and employee and contract management.
Star2Star gives TAPI dialer back to open source community. This TAPI (telephony application programming interface) is used for connecting telephone services to a computer running Windows and can integrate with any Windows-based product such as ACT and Outlook. Star2Star's TAPI Dialer software allows users to "click to call" via the Internet and will work with general Asterisk installations.
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T2 Supply unveils new line of video conferencing products, the HDX 9000 series. New products include the HDX 9001(TM), HDX 9002(TM) and HDX 9004(TM). The HDX 9001(TM), HDX 9002(TM) both have four professional high definition video inputs and three video outputs with standard definition video at 30 fps; the 9002 has an added feature of 1280x720 (720p) resolution - the highest quality video resolution available in the market today. The HDX 9004(TM) has five professional high definition video inputs, four video outputs, standard definition video at 30 fps and 1280x720 (720p) resolution. Both the 9002 and 9003 can be used with the Polycom Eagle-Eye camera for the UltimateHD experience.
Fonality introduced trixbox 2.0, the newest version of its easy to use open source telephony and application platform. This new version provides the trixbox community with increased reliability and many new features including a point-and-click, web-based graphical user interface (GUI) and expanded LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/PERL) stack to LAAMPS by providing Asterisk telephony and SugarCRM. Additionally, trixbox 2.0 includes FreePBX, FOP, HUDlite and web-based package manager which allow users to upgrade individual components of their deployment versus having to reinstall from scratch with each upgrade.
VoxBone (Read the article, http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/2006/11/voxbone-adds-support-for-asterisks-iax.html )
VoxBone announced support for the Inter-Asterisk exchange protocol (IAX) from Digium. In addition to IAX, VoxBone already supports SIP trunking services, providing customers with a choice of standards to meet their particular needs.
For the first time, Xorcom presented their full suite of all-FXO Astribanks. Xorcom, creator of Asterisk-aligned hardware, demonstrated two Astribank-32 FXS connected to a TS-1 unit and also presented the 16 port and 8 port versions with analog phones. Since all Astribank units are USB connected to the Asterisk server, implementation is very easy. There is no need to shut down the machine, open panels or run into Ethernet issues. The Astribank units are controlled by the Asterisk server and do not have their own identity like gateways do, which simplifies the maintenance significantly. The integrator deals with configuring only one unit - the Asterisk Server. The TS-1 is an embedded Asterisk server and has a web interface, one half-size PCI slot and 2 x USB 2.0 connections. Special features include USB, disk, complete backup and restore, updates from the internet and more.


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I am so excited! Today is the day. I got up early, woke the kids too! One is packing up in the car and the other 2 are complaining but I am not going to let that shake me today. Kill them with kindness, I tell myself. They won't get to see screaming mommy this morning! I have made breakfast, gotten the pig all settled (sadly, something that is necessary to do) and emptied the dishwasher. Teeth are brushed and garbage is taken out. We are ahead of the game today! Today is a big day! Today, I am getting a BRAND NEW HAMPSTER WHEEL!
Courtney Joseph has been one of my favorite writer/bloggers for a while now. She organized the group 'Loving God Greatly' (which used to be 'Good Morning Girls'). She was the first person to introduce me to the SOAP method of bible study and one of the most widely used color coding/highlighting systems for bible study. She also wrote a book a while ago that is called 'Women Living Well.' As a northerner, I am proud to say, we aren't passive people. (Yes sometimes it's too much but you can be too passive too!) I stand up for what I believe in no matter how big or small. My heart aches for the underdog and I am quick to defend someone who can't defend themselves. We need proof of everything and be prepared for us to always push back. (We will get back to the proof thing later) Women Living Well was the first book that opened my eyes to the idea that maybe men and women DID have different roles. It made me think that maybe we CAN'T do all of the things that the opposite sex can do. Maybe we are supposed to "obey our husbands." Hold on now, don't get all crazy on me. I'm not talking about in a Warren Jeffs kind of way. Her book showed me how to be ok with the things that make me uncomfortable in the bible.(women being the caretakers/housekeepers) How to accept the things I wanted to push back on. (Submitting to your husband). Since then I have been an avid follower of Courtney Joseph's work.
Currently, I am working through her very first actual published bible study workbook (vs online studies that weren't as in depth). It's amazing. I have loved every page so far (I'm on week 2 day 1). She is having us walk through Ecclesiastes. Today's topic was on how everything goes in cycles and what we do when we get to the point where we feel "bored." Now you may have just snarled at me and thought, "I wish I had time to get bored!" But trust me when I say this, friend, you do.
How often do we look to our own schedules and feel like they aren't full enough? Women seem to think yay being busy = finding meaning. Which is crazy because when we are busy we feel like nothing we do is done the right way or done completely. How can we have true meaning through something we think we could have done better at if we could just do it again?
She says," So we chase after education, money, fame, relationships, or the next party and end up still on the road to emptiness ."
Have you ever experienced that? Do you ever find yourself still with a crazy busy schedule, yet feeling like maybe God is calling you to go back to school, start a new home business, take on more responsibility somewhere? Like it's time throw out the hamster wheel you are currently on and upgrade to the new model? It happens to me that's for sure! Always at the worst times too! It makes no sense. Why would God be calling you to put one more thing on the pile of chaos that you have amassed? God doesn't promote that kind of life. He doesn't want us to do things out of obligation. How could we bring any glory to Him if our actions are incomplete or slide in just making the deadline? It's a myth. All of it is a myth.
Not all that long ago, I came to a realization about myself. Something that I honestly think I denied for a long time. When it came to our families schedule, I found myself trying to "keep up with the Joneses." Now I am not that kind of person. I don't want to do what everyone else is doing because that means that a lot of people will be there and I am not a big fan of giant crowds. They make me tired and frankly, they make me feel small. (Because I am….) I don't feel a sense of euphoria if a room full of people. I think that's why I used to enjoy drinking with my friends (back in college and even a little of the post-college phase.) I never wanted to be left out of something but at the same time, I couldn't relax and feel comfortable in a room that was wall-to-wall people and beer pong cups. I didn't want to miss out on the hanging out part, but I was essentially bored and again, thought I needed to find something "to do" to keep myself entertained. Now you are never going to hear me say that I regret those days because I don't. Sure there are things I would do differently, but the experience alone is reason enough to be happy it happened. Because of my walk through the world my first 25 years, Jesus is just so much more real to me now. I thank God for the experience. regardless, I felt a lull in my life and that needed to be filled it with activity.
How much of your week so far has been full of starting something new, going somewhere, speaking to someone, adding another thing to your schedule, just because you feel uncomfortable in the silence. You watch your friends whiz around to work, dance, small group, baseball games, dinner with friends, & whatever else they can jam in, and you feel like you should be busy too. So you start looking for a new hamster wheel to jump on. One that shines brighter, one that bigger, one that is in line next to all the other hamster wheels. You do this even though, as you sit there and stare at this new contraption, you realize that it's almost the same as the one you are already on. You stare at it trying to find the differences and think to yourself, "Surely there has to be something I am missing. Everyone else seems to think it's a must have." Yet still, you feel something telling you, don't do it.
What do you do? That pinging feeling of don't do it won't go away and you have tried to rationalize it 13 ways from Sunday and you just can't seem to feel good about any of this justification. I know what I usually do. I usually say to myself, "Just get on it and it will all be fine. You are over analyzing and over-thinking it. Stop being paranoid and just get on it." Is that what you do too? How does that work out for you? As good as it always does for me? Yea, I thought so. (Sense the sarcasm?). I hate to be the killjoy here but you should have listened to that voice. It knows that you can't take on anymore. It knows that you aren't 100% sold on the idea of this new hamster wheel and it's trying to assure you that there is a reason for that. It's not too late to listen to it.
For me, as a Christian, that voice is the Holy Spirit. Don't write me off just yet. I know that sounds, "Jesus-y" but the fact of the matter is, we all think we have something like it living in us. What's interesting to me, is that we all act as if this "voice" knows the right thing to do all of the time too. Whether we listen to it or not. Some people call it their conscience and I know that I had one of those for most of my life. 90% of the time I CHOSE to not listen to it because it was easy to push it back down and ignore it. It always went away if I could just come up with enough reasons why the feeling I had inside myself, was wrong. Then one day I decided to accept Jesus. I didn't wake up and understand everything in the bible. I didn't fully accept everything I read or knew about Jesus either. I just decided to believe in the story He told because it fit in a way that I couldn't explain.
It took years to finally say with certainty, that I believe the Bible, I believe the story of Jesus coming, living as us, performing miracles and then being crucified. I believe that He rose from the dead and He went to heaven to be with His Father. I think that if you learned about Jesus the way I did, you would too. But that's neither here nor there right now. (And I do mean right now, you need to hear it, but later…) That voice inside you that is telling you it isn't a good idea to purchase this bright and shiny new hamster wheel knows something you seem to be ignoring. It knows that this change isn't necessary. That voice knows that the change isn't something God is telling you to do or something that will make your life easier. It knows that the wheel you are looking at is exactly the same, someone just washed it, painted it, moved things around. The voice knows that in the end, it will look exactly the same (if not worse!) than the one you are on right now. If it's the Holy Spirit inside you, then the voice knows it's not from God.
Busyness does not equal the answer. It doesn't have the anecdote to our feeling of emptiness. The lack of busyness doesn't mean we are doing something wrong. That empty feeling you have, probably means you are doing something right. You know that your enemy loves to pray on your thoughts of insecurity in all areas of your life. If you are on the path God wants you to be on, believer or unbeliever, then you will soon find that Satan will rear his ugly head and try to confuse you. Make you doubt your decisions. DON'T LET THAT HAPPEN! Understand that even if you are not a believer, God has a plan for you. You know it, you can feel it. You want to believe it because it gives you purpose. Satan knows it too. You know you believe in him to some extent. You can feel it. There's a reason for you to suddenly question your choices.
I leave you with this. Trust your gut, know how to say 'No' when it's needed. Don't try to keep up with the crowd. Do you, make your decisions and think about the role God plays in all of this for you. I know for me, this type of discernment and reaction became a lot easier as I grew closer to God over the past few years. I know that I can be sure of that little voice inside me much faster and with much more confidence, than before I knew God. I know it will not steer me wrong. I will focus on seeking God in all that I do, then I know everything will fall in line!
So quit adding more things onto your schedule. Stop taking on more projects and committing to more people because it feels like it's the right thing to do. Don't allow yourself to buy that unnecessary hamster wheel. You will know when it's time to buy it. I promise. Trust the voice inside you and know your goals. Use them as a screening board. Run the idea through that screening board and see where it measures up. Be different from the crowd. Teach your kids to do the same. Wait for the next model and then reassess all over again.
As the old saying goes, "more doesn't USUALLY mean, better."


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The following ginger and honey wrap is certainly one of the most powerful natural remedies you can use:
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger or ginger powder
- Raw natural honey
- Flour
- Olive oil
You should add the flour to the honey and stir well until you get a homogeneous mixture. Then, drizzle in the olive oil, and add the ginger. Stir again and pour the mixture on a napkin. Next, wrap the gauze around it, apply it on the back or chest, and secure with adhesive tape.
In the case of a child, the wrap should be left for 3 hours, and for adults, it should be left to act until the next morning.
A mother of a small child, Rachel Lim, reported her own experience with this remedy. She even used tin foil, replaced olive with coconut oil, and added ginger juice. She applied it on her baby, that coughed all night long, and after 4 hours, she says that the wrap delivered miraculous effects!
The baby stopped crying, the nasal congestion and the phlegm were gone, and the cough was relieved. Why don't you try it and enjoy its beneficial effects as well? A rather good deal I guess.


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Seeing a dramatic increase in activity, Crabtree & Evelyn was now particularly interested in finding a social management platform that had listening capability, enabling them to monitor brand mentions, indirect queries and also help them to review their competitors activity at a glance. They needed to be able to keep a close eye on their brand's reputation and ensure no questions were neglected. They knew that they would need to find a platform that would enable them to manage multiple channels from one central hub, help them to reduce time spent on scheduling content, and provide detailed data to improve their knowledge of customers desires and demands.
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26 December 1903
To see the shops to advantage at Christmas time one must
needs inspect them 'neath the glare of the gas and
electric lights. Improvements in the shape of incandescent
burners have done much to further the illuminating power
of gas, and a dimly-lighted establishment id nowadays
is a rarity.
The principal thoroughfare, Stamford-street,
at night is a blaze of light, and to dispense with the
this most brilliant asset at Christmas time would be to
rob the Yuletide aspect of its greatest charts. The emporiums
of Ashton have assumed quite a festive appearance. Cash
may be a little tight, and tradesmen may have felt the
pinch due to the depression in the cotton trade, but taking
the shops as a whole there is very little to indicate
the recent bad times.
An effort has been made in a few cases to
re-introduce the tableaux which used to be a feature of
nearly every shop window, but in the great majority of
cases the tradesmen have limited their display to their
own particular wares. The butchers have displayed prime
dressed carcases of the slaughtered innocents in their
windows, and the proverbial Jaffa orange plays still the
same part in adorning the wide-open mouths of the adult
and baby porkers.
Beef, mutton, pork, and poultry, daintily
bedecked, appeal with irresistible force to paterfamilias
on the look out for something to adorn his Christmas larder.
Birds of every variety, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants,
and chickens form a high façade to each poultry
establishment. The fish market is redolent with the aroma
of the finny tribe, and alive with the bustle and shouts
of the noisy salesmen.
The market is a perfect labyrinth of big
stacks of holly, mistletoe, firs, laurel branches, pine
apples, Californian apples, and Jaffas, and a veritable
eldorado for pater and mater in their anxious quest for
Christmas toys and bon bons. Holly is plentiful, but it
is stated to be weak in berries this year. A great quantity
has been made up into wreaths and crosses, with little
bunches of everlasting flowers, and Michaelmas daisies,
dyed scarlet, which have found a ready sale, although
the price is stated to have gone up in the case of mistletoe
from 21s to £2 per cwt. Since last Saturday, and
holly from 15s to 30s.
The chief area for shop displays is of course
Stamford-street. To individualise all the shops having
uniformity of display would be altogether superfluous.
In a few cases, however, tableaux have been introduced,
as in the case of Mr John WILSON, tailor, where a number
of boys are represented sliding on ice, with the usual
result that one has come a cropper and fallen on his back
with his feet high in the air.
Messrs BRIGGS Bros., tailors, introduced
a little fairy fountain into their window, illuminated
by electric lights, and goldfish swimming about in the
water, which is kept in check by waterproof cloth. HUTTS,
tailors, introduced Santa Claus as a central figure in
a very pretty display, and another tailoring establishment
in George-street, show several interesting figures, whilst
close by in Mrs J BRIGGS' millinery establishment
is a miniature of Santa Claus riding on a mule, in action,
heavily laden with toys.
The THOMPSON Drug Company have one or two
automatic pieces of mechanism in their window at the lower
end of the street, meant as advertisements; also bottles
of good cheer from the innocent ginger wine to special
"Johnny Walker" in connection with which is
a guessing competition. An imitation maypole dance, on
a small scale, with six flaxen-haired little girls attired
in dresses of coloured crimped paper arranged in a circle,
is a feature of the Maypole Dairy Co., whilst a snow scene
and a dainty arrangement of toys forms an attractive display
in connection with the shop of Black and White, whilst
Seymour Mead's is to be admired for an admirable
display; also Catlow, Lloyd and Co.
Lustrous furs, necklets, and muffs there
are in all shapes and varieties, elegant Alexandra Dagmars,
and Roxburghes, real Russian sable, hair, and wolf skins,
lovely Maltese and Mechlin laces, ladies' jackets,
mantles, and costumes and dress lengths, and draperies
of every description.
Toys and dolls flourish in abundance, some
of the latter being so tall as to fill their future little
foster mothers with perplexity as to how to negotiate
them. An up-to-date toy is the "looping of the loop,"
and this has had a ready sale, as have the numerous mechanical
toys on view in the various shop windows.
Christmas cards show considerable improvement
in novelty and design, and there are has been, as usual,
a big demand. The ever popular Christmas stocking, filled
with all kinds of dainty articles, has again been in much
favour. Nearly all the shops close on Christmas Day and
Bank Holiday.
Theft of a Lubricator from Cockbrook Mill
Ernest BIRD, a powerful looking man, was on Monday placed
in the dock at the Stalybridge Police Court and charged
with having stolen a brass lubricator, the property of
Messrs Thomas DEAN and Alexander BURROWS, under the following
Constable James HAMER said: On Friday night
about twelve o'clock I was on duty in Clarence-street
when I heard a noise on the other side of the wall surrounding
Messrs Reyner's Cockbrook Mill. I waited a while
to see what the noise was when I saw prisoner come to
the wall, look over, and then drop into the street, and
afterwards lift something off the wall. I went behind
prisoner, caught hold of him, and asked him what he had
got these, and he replied, "Hello, where the -----
has tha come from, it's a fair catch."
The Mayor: He was not very pleased to see
you then? — (Laughter.) — Witness: No, sir,
evidently not. After he had said it was a fair catch I
brought him to the police office and charged him with
the theft, and he replied, "I am guilty."
He was then locked up. — The Mayor: Have you any
questions to ask the officer? — Prisoner: It is
no use asking any.
James GORDON said: I am a watchman at the
Cockbrook, and reside in Corkland-street, Ashton. I identify
the lubricator produced as being the property of Thomas
Dean and Alexander BURROWS. I saw it last safe on the
engine at the mill fixed in position on the cylinder on
Thursday, and I did not miss it until I was notified by
the police on Saturday morning. I do not know the prisoner.
Alexander BURROWS said: I am in partnership
with Mr Thomas DEAN, builder and contractor, and reside
in Ashton. I identify the lubricator as being our joint
property. It is worth £5. Prisoner had no right
to take the lubricator.
Colonel SIDEBOTTOM: Do you know the man?
— Witness replied in the negative, and said he would
not have thought so much about the theft had it been their
intention to break up the engine. We had a likely customer
for working the mill again. If prisoner had broken up
the lubricator he would only have got six or seven shillings
for it.
Inspector BAMFORTH said he this was BIRD's
first appearance for felony. He had, however, been convicted
at Dukinfield, Ashton, and Hurst, chiefly for drunkenness
and assault upon police. Prisoner said he had nothing
to say, and the Mayor sentenced him to gaol for three
months with hard labour.
Addressing Constable HAMER, the Mayor said
the bench desired to express their satisfaction and admiration
upon the smartness he had exhibited in bringing the prisoner
to justice. The magistrates were satisfied that the officer
had displayed commendable alertness in capturing the thief
in the dead of night. — HAMER: Thank you, sir.
James Connolly's 103rd Appearance
On Monday, at the Stalybridge Police Court, before the
Mayor and other Justices, James CONNOLLY, labourer, made
his 103rd appearance, this time for having been drunk
in Wood-street on Saturday. He is 70 years of age, and
when told to stand up in the dock, he presented an extremely
weak appearance, and was shabbily dressed. He pleaded
guilty, and Constable HULME stated the facts.
The Mayor: What have you got to say? Prisoner:
Nothing, sir; I feel very ill. I came out of the Workhouse
on Monday and got a couple of glasses of rum which took
effect. — Last time you were here you promised to
stay in the Workhouse. — I did, sir, and I have
been in six months. — Why didn't you stay
there instead of coming out just when Christmas fare is
being served? — I will go back. — Where did
you get your drink — in Stalybridge? No, sir. —
I should think no-one in Stalybridge will serve you; they
all know you. I never asked for I know they will not.
Councillor HOPWOOD: I saw you one day going
up the street begging off everyone you met, saying you
wanted some hot coffee. I gave you a copper myself, expecting
you would go and get something warm. You ought to be sent
right away.
The Clerk: Won't you tell the magistrates
where you got your drink? — Councillor HOPWOOD:
He got it in Stalybridge almost certain. — Prisoner:
I sent another fellow in for it with a bottle. I did no
go in myself. — The Clerk: Why don't you tell
the magistrates the truth, man?
The Mayor: Will you go back to the Workhouse?
— Prisoner: I will, sir. — The Clerk: But
can you take his word? — On condition that he went
to the Workhouse, CONNOLLY was discharged. In default
it was ordered that he be sent to prisoner for 14 with
hard labour.
A charge of refusing to perform his allotted task whilst
an inmate of the casual ward of the Union Workhouse on
the 19th instant was preferred against John BINNS, at
the Ashton Borough Court, on Saturday, to which he pleaded
guilty. — The Workhouse Master (Mr SHORE) said the
prisoner claimed his discharge, stating that he had got
work to go to. He declined to any further work, and explained
that if he had a day's rest he would be better prepared
to commence his work on the following morning. —
The magistrates sent the prisoner to gaol for seven days.
Mr Edward GENTY, coal merchant, &c, has just suffered
a severe loss by the death of one of his horses under
most peculiar circumstances. On Friday the horse was attached
to a loaded cart at Smallshaw, when suddenly the "belly-band"
snapped, the result being that the cart and shafts tilted,
the animal being lifted bodily into mid-air. Some portion
of the harness was tightly drawn round the horse's
neck, and despite the vigorous efforts of the men in charge
to release the harness, the animal suffocated. In the
course of 12 months Mr GENTY has lost three horses by
Harry WOOD was before the county justices, at Ashton,
on Wednesday, charged with absconding and leaving his
wife chargeable to the union. He pleaded not guilty. —
Mr W B WOFFENDEN, relieving officer, said the man's
wife and four children had been chargeable to the union
for twelve months. His wife had had to enter the Workhouse
to be confined. The total cost had been £29 12s
6d. Prisoner had been working at Wigan, and had spent
the railway fare between there and Ashton. — Prisoner
said his employer paid the railway fare. He had only been
in work a short time, and had not had the chance to get
his wife out of the union. — The case was adjourned
for six weeks.
very interesting ceremony took place at the King's
Arms, Stamford-street, Ashton, on Saturday last, in the
shape of the presentation of a beautiful silver medal,
which, through the generosity of Mr and Mrs Sam HEY, of
that house, was handed to Mr Bert CHAPMAN, the well-known
blind vocalist. Mr George SMITH, in a neat little speech,
made the presentation on behalf of the donors.
A REMAND. — Harry
LAMBERT was charged on Thursday, at the borough police
court, with stealing a gas meter, the property of Mary
JOHNSON. — The Chief Constable stated that prisoner
brought a gas meter out of a house belonging to Mary JOHNSON.
He asked for a remand until Monday. — Edith Alice
CLAYTON, domestic servant in the employ of Mary JOHNSON,
living at 45 Grosvenor-street, said that as she was going
up Crickets-lane she saw prisoner breaking up a gas meter.
She asked what he was doing, and said that he would have
to pay. He answered that it would not cost above 7s 6d.
He then ran away. — The remand was granted.
Public Testing on the Market Ground
In the presence of a crowd of people, computed at several
hundreds, the new steam engine recently purchased by the
Stalybridge Corporation was on Monday afternoon officially
inspected, tested, and christened on the market-ground.
Many members of the Town Council were in attendance, assembling
at the Town Hall, and headed by the Mayor (Alderman R
WOOD), they paraded on to the market ground and took up
a stand opposite the baths.
Simultaneously the steam engine —
naturally looking spick and span — dashed on to
the spot, being drawn by a couple of heavy horses. The
firemen dismounted, and at this point the Mayoress came
forward for the purpose of christening the new purchase
Captain BATES, superintendent of the brigade,
wrapped a piece of crimson cloth round the hind portion
of the engine, securing at the other end a champagne bottle,
which he placed in the Mayoress's hand. Addressing
the Mayoress, Alderman FENTON the said: Mrs WOOD, I have
great pleasure on behalf of the Corporation of Stalybridge
in asking you to christen this new steam fire engine "Reliance."
— (Applause.)
The Mayoress, before letting the bottle
drop, said: "Alderman FENTON, ladies and gentlemen,
I have very great pleasure in christening your new fire
engine "Reliance," and I hope that whenever
we have a fire in our town and neighbouring boroughs it
will prove worthy of its name — "Reliance."
— (Loud applause.) Mrs WOOD then released the bottle,
which fell with a thud against the brass work of the engine
and smashed to pieces, a cheer being given by the onlookers.
The firemen then proceeded to prepare for
a demonstration of the engine's capabilities. A
fire was lighted, and in the course of 9½ minutes
all was in readiness for the pouring of volumes of water
through the hose pipes, which had been placed in readiness.
At the outset a 1½-in nozzle was used from a stand,
which was in charge of Sergeants OLLERENSHAW and GEE,
and the water was sent 150 feet into the air.
Then followed the 1¾-in nozzle, the
height attained being between 160 and 170 feet. Two nozzles
(each seven eighths inch) threw water 120 feet, as also
did a trio of ½-in nozzles and one of ¾in.
The results were all deemed very satisfactory, and the
consensus of opinion was that should a fire break out
in the future the Stalybridge fire brigade will be able
to cope with it as well as any brigade from other towns.
As we have previously stated in the "Reporter,"
the engine is one of Messrs Merryweathers' double
vertical "Greenwich" pattern machines, capable
of delivering 400 to 600 gallons per minute, and of throwing
one, two, or four jets as required. The boiler is Merryweathers'
patent water tube type, and will raise steam from cold
water to working pressure in from six to eight minutes
from time of lighting the fire.
The machinery, which is placed vertically
behind the boiler, consists of a pair of inverted steam
cylinders, driving two double-acting gunmetal pumps. The
steam and water pistons are at opposite ends of the same
rod, cross heads being used to drive a crankshaft to limit
the stroke and actuate the slide valves. The pump valves
are of rubber, and can be easily got at for examination
or repair.
Large copper suction and delivery air vessels
are fitted with extra large size hose connections, enabling
the engine to work very smoothly under high pressure.
The frame is of steel, carried on springs and high wood-spoke
wheels; a large hose box is fitted in front of the boiler,
forming seats for coachman and firemen, and the whole
can easily be run out by a pair of horses.
Double lever brakes are fitted to act on
both hind wheels. The boiler is brass lagged, and ample
accommodation is provided for coal and water. Similar
engines are already in use by the fire brigades at Birkenhead,
Oldham, Northampton, Clitheroe, Widnes, Atherton, Nottingham,
Bristol, etc.
At the Dukinfield Police Court, on Thursday, before Alderman
C H BOOTH and Mr W UNDERWOOD, three lads named James POTTS,
Robert BELLIS, and Samuel BRIDGE were charged on remand
with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mr H
RICHARDSON, Dukinfield Hall, last Saturday.
Mary Maria RICHARDSON said she was the wife
of Henry RICHARDSON, 53 Astley-street, setter in at Rowley's
ironworks. They left their home at 2.30 on Saturday afternoon
last. All was then securely fastened. They returned at
about 8.30 in the evening, and found the front door bolted
from the inside. They got in by a side door, and found
that the house had been broken into during their absence.
A pane of glass had been broken in the back
kitchen window. The cutlery on the sideboard, and the
drawers, were upset. In one of the bedrooms the drawers
were open, and some of the things placed on the wash-stand.
On Sunday morning she missed a child's pink under
flannel, a child's nightdress, two pairs men's
drawers, and other articles worth 5s. The prisoner POTTS
was sat on a wall near the house when she returned home
on Saturday night. There were two other lads on the opposite
side of the road, and POTTS called out to them, "come
on lads."
Constable CUNLIFFE stated that he was on
patrol duty last Saturday in Ashton-street. At 4.30 he
saw the prisoner POTTS about 50 yards from Mr RICHARDSON's
house. There were two other lads with him, but witness
could not identify them.
Constable HALL stated that he received information
of this robbery, and examined Mr RICHARDSON's premises.
He afterwards arrested the prisoner POTTS, and in consequence
of a statement he made he apprehended the other two prisoner
on Sunday night. He afterwards charged the prisoners with
breaking into 53 Astley-street. POTTS replied. "Yes,
and those two were with me," pointing to the prisoners.
BELLIS said "I deny being with you," BRIDGE
said "No, I was not there."
The prisoner POTTS now informed the Bench
that BELLIS broke a window with a brick and they shoved
him through. BELLIS denied being there, and said he went
to a football match at two o'clock, and returned
at 4.30. He afterwards went to Ashton and Hyde. BRIDGE
said he was on the football field. In the evening he went
to Manchester at six o'clock.
The Bench decided to commit POTTS for trial
to the sessions, and discharged the other prisoners. The
prisoner POTTS had been several times convicted. He is
a cripple.


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Hey everyone! HAPPY FRIDAY! :)
Today is a special edition of 'Friday Favorites' dedicated to you MOMS out there! What exactly should you get for the woman who has done and will continue to do so much for you?! Well, let me tell you if your mom is anything like mine, you can save the flowers (my mom hates flowers, she says they will die within days), and get her something meaningful that will last a while!