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This page describes small RF connectors, focusing on those which perform at microwave frequencies (well above 1 GHz). Included are SMA, K, BNC, N, APC-7 mm, SMB, SMC, W, V, 3.5 mm, 2.9 mm, 1.85 mm and 1.0 mm. Much of this information was taken from Hewlett Packard/Agilent application notes and catalogs, Wiltron/Anritsu datasheets, M/A-Com catalogs, and other sources. If you have more and/or better information about small RF connectors, please let me know (see bottom of page).
Why different connectors?
Many coaxial connector types are available in the RF and microwave industry, each designed for a specific purpose and application. Much of the development of the smaller connectors that perform well into the GHz and millimeter wave range has been conducted by test equipment measurement companies. One of their considerations is the number of connect-disconnect cycles that a connector pair can withstand while still performing as expected.
Below, the connectors are arranged into three categories: Primary Interconnects - widely used to interconnect RF equipment and components, Less Common Interconnects - connectors that are used to interconnect RF equipment and components, but are less widely in use, and Connectors for Precision Measurement Systems - which, as the title implies, are usually found only interconnecting and mating to measurement apparatus such as spectrum and network analyzers. Radio Amateurs may run across precision measurement connectors when buying flea-market items because those items are useful in microwave interconnection even though they were originally intended for measurement systems.
Why different sizes and frequencies?
The frequency range of any connector is limited by the excitation of the first circular waveguide propagation mode in the coaxial structure. Decreasing the diameter of the outer conductor increases the highest usable frequency. Filling the airspace with dielectric lowers the highest frequency and increases losses. The mating process typically changes the geometry of the mating surfaces and resistance loss at those interfaces as well as geometric changes result in variation of impedance and loss.
Some RF connectors are sexless (such as the HP/Amphenol APC-7 and the General Radio GR874). Most connectors have female structures with slotted fingers that introduce a small inductance. The fingers accommodate tolerance variations, but reduce repeatability and may ultimately break after 1000 connections. There are slotless versions of connectors available, but they are, for the most part, relegated to instrument interfaces. Slotless female connectors are very difficult to clean and require very careful connection and disconnection.
Type N
The Type N 50 ohm connector was designed in the 1940s for military systems operating below 5 GHz. One resource identifies the origin of the name as meaning " N avy". Several other sources attribute it to Mr. Paul Neil, an RF engineer at Bell Labs. The Type N uses an internal gasket to seal out the environment, and is hand tightened. There is an air gap between center and outer conductor. In the 1960s, improvements pushed performance to 12 GHz and later, mode-free, to 18 GHz. Hewlett Packard, Kings, Amphenol, and others offer some products with slotless type-N outer conductors for improved performance to 18 GHz. Type-N connectors follow the military standard MIL-C-39012. Even the best specialized type-N connectors will begin to mode around 20 GHz, producing unpredictable results if used at that frequency or higher. A 75 ohm version, with a reduced center pin is available and in wide use by the cable-TV industry.
The " B ayonet N eil- C oncelman" or "Bayonet Navy Connector" or "Baby Neil Connector", depending on the information source. Karl W. Concelman is believed to have created the "C" connector. The BNC was designed for military use and has gained wide acceptance in video and RF applications to 2 GHz. The BNC uses a slotted outer conductor and some plastic dielectric on each gender connector. This dielectric causes increasing losses at higher frequencies. Above 4 GHz, the slots may radiate signals, so the connector is usable, but not necessarily mechanically stable up to about 10 GHz. Both 50 ohm and 75 ohm versions are available.
A threaded version (TNC) helps resolve leakage and geometric stability problems, permitting applications up to 12 GHz. The specifications for N, BNC and TNC connectors are found in MIL-C-39012. There are special "extended frequency" versions of the TNC that adhere to the IEC 169-17 specification for operation to 11 GHz or 16 GHz, and the IEC 169-26 specification that operate mode-free to 18 Ghz (but with significant losses). The TNC connector is in wide use in cellular telephone RF/antenna connections. Because the mating geometries are compatible with the N connector, it is possible to temporarily mate some gender combinations of BNC and N. This is not a recommended use because the connection is not mechanically stable, and there will be significant impedance changes at the interface.
The SMA (Subminiature A) connector was designed by Bendix Scintilla Corporation and Omni-Spectra Corporation as the OSM connector, and is one of the most commonly used RF/microwave connectors. It is intended for use on semi-rigid cables and in components which are connected infrequently. It takes the cable dielectric directly to the interface without air gaps. The threads are 0.250 x 36, and the male has a 0.312 hex body, tightened with a 5/16 inch wrench.
A few hundred interconnect cycles are possible if performed carefully. Care should be taken to join connectors straight-on. Prior to making a connection it is wise to inspect the female end to assure that the center socket is in good condition (fingers not bent or missing).
A standard SMA connector is designed for interconnects to 12.4 GHz. Fortunately, a good SMA is useable to 18 GHz in most cables, and if well constructed with greater loss and lower return loss to 24 GHz. Most SMA connectors have higher reflection coefficients than other connectors available for use to 24 GHz because of the difficulty to anchor the dielectric support. Some manufacturers rate a special high quality version of an SMA that meets SMA standards as high as 26.5 GHz (The Johnson Field Replaceable SMA goes to 26.5 GHz, and the M/A-Com OSM extended frequency series goes to 27 GHz). Because an SMA with such quality can be repeatably manufactured, you will often see test equipment and components rated to exactly 26.5 GHz with SMA connectors as the primary interconnect.
"SMA" connectors rated for frequencies higher than 27 GHz are really following other standards and are made to be compatible with the SMA geometries to allow mating with SMA. So called "precision SMA" connectors are available with a variety of designators (see 3.5 & 2.92 mm section below). Precision SMA connectors rightly belong both in "primary interconnects" and "precision measurement" categories because they are meant to bridge the gap between the two uses. When two SMA compatible connectors of different ratings are coupled, it is very likely that the performance of the lesser connector will prevail, but as a chart below will show, some improvement over the lesser connector can be achieved.
This relatively new connector is finding popularity as an interconnect in cellular and other so called "wireless" applications, especially on towers. The primary advantage it has over N type connectors is that it uses a wrench to tighten. The 7/16 follows the DIN 47223 specifications. It is rated to 7.5 Ghz, uses rubber gaskets and silver or gold plate.
There are many other common RF interconnects, but are not described in this treatment because their performance in the microwave region is very limited. Examples are C, HN, SC, LC, various EIA, UHF, mini-UHF, Motorola, HV, SHV, and RCA Phono.
"G874", "GR874", or just plain "874" connectors are sexless, 50 ohm connectors developed by General Radio. It is a test equipment connector which is fairly easy to mate. Some have locking interfaces to secure them. Normally, it is made of Teflon with Beryllium Copper contacts and Nickel plated. The mating portion of the connector is air dielectric. Frequency range to 8.5 GHz. See http://www.deltarf.com/pdf/Delta874.pdf for details on commercially made current versions of this connector. This connector is apparently not being used on new equipment.
The Subminiature B connector is a snap-mount connector rated at 4 GHz, but usable to 10 GHz. The Mil standard is MIL-STD-348. Typical insertion loss is as much as 0.3 dB at rated frequencies, making this connector a poor choice in critical low noise microwave RF interconnects, but quite acceptable in other signal delivery applications. SMBs can be used up to 10 GHz without moding. They are designed for 500 interconnect cycles.
The SMC (Subminiature C) developed in the 1960's is a threaded type interface connector, much smaller than an SMA connector, making it suitable for some applications with size constraints. The threads are 10-32, and it is not gasketed. Much like a very small version of the TNC, dielectric appears in both the male and female connectors. It was originally intended for use up to 4 GHz. If made according to MIL STD-348, it can be used successfully to 10 GHz, but with increased loss. The SMC is generally a good substitute for the SMB where vibration is a concern.
OSSM and SSMA
- Sub-SMA, a small version of the SMA connector, about 70 % size. It uses a 0.190 in x 36 tpi thread (10-36). The standards vary regarding performance. One manufacturer quotes performance to 26 GHz. Another to 36 GHz, and still another (M/A Com) has a standard version that operates mode-free to 38 GHz, and a special high performance version which is mode-free to 40 GHz.
SSMB - Sub-SMB, a small version of the SMB connector, about 70% size. No specifications yet. SSMT - Sub-SubMiniature, a snap-on 6 GHz connector, 100 interconnect cycles. This connector is very small. Usually the male is mounted on a circuit board. The male has a small center pin, is primarily plastic and has a small metal ring embedded in the plastic which serves as the outer diameter. The connector uses air dielectric. (thanks to Chad Wangsvick for help with this info) OSMT M/A-Com - A blind mating connector, very similar to the SSMT but slightly larger. Rated to 6 GHz. OS-50P M/A-Com - A blind mating version of the OS-50 2.4 mm connector, rated to 40 GHz, and about 1/2 the size of an SMA connector, 500 interconnect cycles
BMA & OSP A female BMA connector
M/A-Com -A blind mating connector, some are only rated to 6 GHz with 500 interconnect cycles, many are rated to 18 GHz, and there is a stainless steel high-grade version rated as a 22 GHz connector, and designed to operate 5,000 interconnect cycles.
OSMP M/A-Com -A push-on 6 GHz connector, rated to 40 GHz, 100 interconnect cycles OSSP M/A-Com - A blind mating connector, rated at 28 GHz, and designed to operate 1,000 interconnect cycles. GPO and GPPO Gilbert - The GPO is rated to 40 GHz, and depending on detent type, it can withstand from 100 to 1,000 interconnect cycles. The GPPO is 30% the size of the GPO and is rated to 65 GHz. SMP and SSMP Connecting Devices Inc - These connectors are very similar to the GPO and GPPO. Some Connecting Devices Inc SMP and SSMP connectors Nanohex ITT - A sub Subminiature available in both snap and screw interfaces, rated at 12.4 GHz.
MCX Family Female MCX / OSX
The MCX Family (MCX and MMCX) are snap-on 50 Ohm connectors similar to SMB that follow the European CECC 22220 standard. M/A-Com part OSX is equivalent to the MCX. Both MCX and MMCX are rated for 0 - 6 GHz operation. The MCX is about 70% of the size of an SMB (but not compatible with the SSMB) and is rated at about 250 V (max working voltage) and the MMCX is about 50% of the size of an SMB and rated at about 170 V max working. It appears the MMCX stands for Micro-Mate C. These connectors are designed to permit at least 500 interconnect cycles.
The APC-7 (Amphenol Precision Connector - 7 mm) offers the lowest reflection coefficient and most repeatable measurement of all 18 GHz connectors. Development of this connector was a joint effort between HP and Amphenol which began in the early 1960s. This is a sexless design and is the preferred connector for the most demanding applications, notably metrology and calibration. These connectors are designed to perform repeatably for thousands of interconnect cycles as long as the mating surfaces are kept clean. You will find these connectors on the front of some network analyzers. Adapters are available to SMA, N, Waveguide and other precision connections.
Various "Precision SMA" connectors have been developed in order to reduce reflection coefficients, and allow mating with better connectors. There are two basic geometries (which are not true SMAs), one is the 3.5mm/Wiltron WSMA, and the other is the 2.92mm/Wiltron K. All connectors in this family mate to one another. The threads are 0.250 x 36, and the male has a 0.312 hex body, tightened with a 5/16 inch wrench (with different torque depending on type).
There is a question about mating an SMA with a 3.5 or 2.9, regarding the possibility of damaging the 3.5/2.9 female when a male SMA is inserted. These precision series are less likely (than SMA) to be damaged when being connected to their exact mates (because the geometries of the mating for precision 3.5 and 2.9 is superior to the SMA). There is the possibility of damage to the (unsupported) female fingers of the 3.5/2.9 if an SMA male is inserted other than perfectly straight-on, or if the SMA is improperly prepared with a pin that is too long. Indeed, an excessively long pin can and probably will seriously damage the female fingers of a 3.5/2.9. The damage is likely to be permanent.
One lab engineer has commented that even professionally manufactured and assembled SMAs can have their pin length change if the semi-rigid coax to which they are mounted is subsequently bent near the connector. Furthermore, even if an intermediate "connector saver" adapter is used, it is possible to push the pin through and damage the 3.5/2.9 female.
So, be advised that when mating a male SMA to a female "Precision SMA", to be sure that the SMA male is of professional manufacture, and to insert the male straight-on. If there is any doubt, it is wise to invest in an SMA Connector Gauge, and gauge the SMA male prior to mating. This advice does not apply to the connection of an SMA female to a 3.5 or 2.9 male. Such connections need to be made with care and straight-on, but there I have received no reports of damage. Connector gauges can be found at SRI Connector , and Maury Microwave. Both companies also sell precision connectors.
By the way, my English language resources indicate that the primary spelling of the word that means "to check for conformity to specifications or limits" is spelled with the "u" in the middle. On last reading, both SRI and Maury spell this word in its variant form, without the "u". I am a lousey speller, so I will stick with the dictionaries on this one.
The 3.5-mm connector was primarily developed at Hewlett Packard, with early manufacturing at Amphenol. In some places you will see this connector designated as an APC-3.5. Its design strategy focused on highly rugged physical interfaces that would mate with popular SMA dimensions, allowing thousands of repeatable connections. It is mode-free to 34 GHz. Note that UT-141 coax also modes at 34 GHz, so this connector is very well suited to this coaxial cable. One obvious difference between the 3.5 and the SMA is that the 3.5 uses an air dielectric throughout the connector. The diameter of the inside of the outer conductor (in the connector) is 3.5 mm. The outside of the outer conductor is kept at 4.55 mm to be compatible with the mating surfaces of the compatible series. When mated with SMA and other precision SMA type connectors the performance is limited by the connector with lesser performance. There are some male versions of this connector with a large knurled shell for hand tightening, especially on instrumentation cables. This allows quick connection without a wrench.
The Wiltron SMA, so called "WSMA" is an example of a precision SMA type connector, useful for both interconnects and for precision measurement. When mated with the Wiltron K connector (see below) gives quite good performance to 33 GHz. The WSMA is very similar to the HP 3.5 mm.
The K connector is trademarked by the Wiltron Corporation, and developed during 1983. The Wiltron Corporation is now part of the Anritsu Corporation. Also known as the 2.9 mm, the K mates with SMA and 3.5 mm connectors (and the Wiltron WMSA and other 2.92 mm), and offers mode-free performance to 40 GHz, usable to 46 GHz. As recently pointed out to me, this was announced at the 1984 MTT symposium and exhibition. Some manufacturers call this the "2.9" and others the "SMK".
The K and 2.92 equivalents use an air dielectric. The diameter of the inside of the outer conductor (in the connector) is 2.92 mm. The outside of the outer conductor is kept at 4.55 mm to be compatible with the mating surfaces of the compatible series. The K can be mated directly to the SMA, the 3.5 mm, and the WSMA. See the table below for mated performance. As with the 3.5 mm, there are some male versions of this connector with a large knurled shell for hand tightening, usually found on instrumentation cables. This allows quick connection without a wrench.
Although originally designed to operate with exceptional performance between K connectors to at least 20 GHz, a mated pair of Ks may indeed be used up to 46 GHz. Note that UT-141 coax begins to mode at 34 GHz and UT-085 begins to mode at 61 GHz. Additionally, the K connector has been successfully tested at over 10,000 (careful) interconnect cycles with negligible change in performance. The male K connectors that I have seen use a black dielectric with holes in it to reduce loss levels to that of air dielectric, while maintaining physical support of the pin.
Other 2.92 It appears that the performance of the HP 2.92 mm connector is identical to the K connector (see above). However, the exact geometric tolerance limits are different by as much as .002 inches. The tolerances significantly overlap, so that if you had one of each under the microscope they may in fact look and measure the same, and so, the K and 2.92 mm are essentially the same connector. The K connector has been available as the M/A-Com OS-2.9 Coaxial connector, which is licensed to M/A-Com by Wiltron/Anritsu.
The 2.4 and 1.85 mm geometries were designed to go beyond the SMA interface constraints, and as a result are NOT SMA compatible. Instead, maximum performance to the highest possible frequency that the geometry would allow, along with repeatable measurements after hundreds or even thousands of interconnects were the design goals. The male hex head is the same outer size as an SMA, 0.312 in, tightened with a 5/16 inch wrench. The threads, however, are metric, at M7 x .76-6G. To tell the difference between this family and the SMA by casual visual inspection, note that there is quite a thick outer conductor with a very narrow air gap between it and the center conductor in both of these connector types.
Photo courtesy RFCoax Inc.
It can be difficult to distinguish between a 2.9 mm SMA compatible and a 2.4 mm (non-compatible) unless they are next to each other (see photo above). Because they are not mechanically compatible, if you have a male and a female SMA of professional manufacture (carry one of each with you to flea markets), you can put them next to the connector under question and decide whether it is an SMA compatible or a 2.4/1.85. The next test would be to carefully try to insert the SMA onto the unknown. If the unknown is a 2.4 or 1.85 , it will not fit. The threads are quite different both in diameter and pitch. The barrel of the female 2.4 (being larger than the SMA) will prevent insertion of the male SMA. A 2.4 Male might fit over an SMA female, but it will be immediately clear that they are not compatible. Do NOT use force. As noted above in the section on Precision SMA, if the connector under question is a 2.9 or 3.5 female, it will be compatible with the SMA but not with a 2.4 or 1.85 mm.
Two Female 2.4 mm connectors
2.4 mm
The 2.4 mm connector was developed by HP, Amphenol and M/A-COM for use to 50 GHz (the first waveguide mode is reached at 52 GHz). Note that UT-141 coax modes at 34 GHz, and UT-085 at 61 GHz. M/A-Com refers to this connector as OS-2.4 (OS-50). This design eliminates the fragility of the SMA and 2.92-mm connectors by increasing the outer wall thickness and strengthening the female fingers. The inside of the outer conductor is 2.4 mm in diameter, and the outside is 4.7 mm. Because they are not mechanically compatible with SMA, 3.5-mm and 2.92-mm, precision adapters are required in order to mate to those types. (This family is not directly matable with the SMA family.) The 2.4-mm products are offered in different quality grades; general purpose, instrument, and metrology. General purpose grade is intended for economy use on components, cables and microstrip, where limited connections and less than perfect repeatability is acceptable. The higher grades are appropriate for their respective applications, and you will find that the cost increases as well.
The 1.85 mm connector was developed in the mid-1980s by HP for mode-free performance to 65 GHz. It is often used with UT-085 coax, which will mode at about 61 GHz. There are smaller coax choices such as UT-047 which is more lossey but won't mode before this connector does. Hewlett-Packard offered their design as public domain in 1988 to encourage standardization of connector types; a few devices are available from various manufacturers for research work (see the "V" connector, below). The inside of the outer conductor is 1.85 mm in diameter, while the outside dimension of the outer conductor is 4.7mm allowing compatibility, so that the 1.85 mm connector mates with the 2.4 mm connector and has the same ruggedness. This family is not matable to the SMA family.
A close-up photo of the 1.85 mm male connector. Photo provided by Spectrum Elektrotechnik GmbH Anritsu calls this the "V" connector.
The V connector is another Wiltron/Anritsu Corporation connector, developed in 1989. This connector uses a 1.85 mm geometry as established by public standards in 1988 (see above). It is compatible with the 2.4 mm connector as well. "V085" 50 Ohm is the intended coaxial cable for use with this geometry. Most UT085 coax will mode at 61 GHz and be more limiting than this connector.
Modern millimeter-wave engineering and test instrumentation needs have been pushing towards measurements up to W band (70-110 GHz), without switching to waveguide . This geometry appears to satisfy that demand. The inner diameter of the outer conductor is a mere 1.0 mm, very tiny indeed!
1.0 mm
An HP (now Agilent) development, this 1.0 mm connector supports transmission and repeatable interconnections from DC to 110 GHz. Laboratory instrumentation technicians and engineers are beginning to use the 1.0 mm for millimeter-wave analysis. This connector is also often used on semiconductor probe stations for the evaluation of millimeter-wave RF MMICs. The use of coaxial connections greatly simplifies what would otherwise require several sets of waveguide-based measurements to a single step.
A close-up photo of the Agilent (HP) 1.0 mm male connector. The dielectric diameter is only 1 millimeter
The W connector is a Wiltron/Anritsu Corporation connector, developed in 1996. It is meant for use on UT-47 cable and with probe stations. The design is meant to be as simple as an SMA - with reasonably easy installation while allowing operation up to 110 GHz. This connector shares characteristics with the HP 1.00 mm (see above).


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You may want to consider posting the form to PHP_SELF for basic error handling, or you can pass error messages through the url parameter, it's up to you. As I said, this is just a rudimentary example of how to set up a basic user login script. From here, if you want to check and see if a user is logged in, just put the following at the top of a page.
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Naturally there are many different ways to achieve the same thing in PHP. This script is great for basic logins, but may not be what you need for something more complex. Adapt it to your needs or just use it as a place to begin learning. Hope everything is clear with the instructions. As usual, questions and comments are more than welcome. Take care.
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Group Policy: Fundamentals, Security, and the Managed Desktop / Edition 3 available in Paperback, NOOK Book
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Table of Contents
Introduction xxv
Chapter 1 Group Policy Essentials 1
Getting Ready to Use This Book 2
Getting Started with Group Policy 7
Group Policy Entities and Policy Settings 7
The Categories of Group Policy 9
Active Directory and Local Group Policy 13
Understanding Local Group Policy 14
Group Policy and Active Directory 17
Linking Group Policy Objects 20
Final Thoughts on Local GPOs 25
An Example of Group Policy Application 26
Examining the Resultant Set of Policy 27
At the Site Level 28
At the Domain Level 29
At the OU Level 29
Bringing It All Together 29
Group Policy, Active Directory, and the GPMC 31
Implementing the GPMC on Your Management Station 32
Creating a One-Stop-Shop MMC 36
Group Policy 101 and Active Directory 38
Active Directory Users and Computers vs. GPMC 38
Adjusting the View within the GPMC 39
The GPMC-centric View 41
Our Own Group Policy Examples 43
More about Linking and the Group Policy Objects Container 44
Applying a Group Policy Object to the Site Level 47
Applying Group Policy Objects to the Domain Level 50
Applying Group Policy Objects to the OU Level 52
Testing Your Delegation of Group Policy Management 58
Understanding Group Policy Object Linking Delegation 59
Granting OU Admins Access to Create New Group Policy Objects 61
Creating and Linking Group Policy Objects at the OU Level 61
Creating a New Group Policy Object Affecting Computers in an OU 66
Moving Computers into the Human Resources Computers OU 67
Verifying Your Cumulative Changes 69
Final Thoughts 71
Chapter 2 Managing Group Policy with the GPMC 73
Common Procedures with the GPMC 74
Raising or Lowering the Precedence of Multiple Group Policy Objects 78
Understanding GPMC's Link Warning 79
Stopping Group Policy Objects from Applying 80
Block Inheritance 87
The Enforced Function 88
Security Filtering and Delegation with the GPMC 90
Filtering the Scope of Group Policy Objects with Security 91
User Permissions on Group Policy Objects 100
Granting Group Policy Object Creation Rights in the Domain 102
Special Group Policy Operation Delegations 103
Who Can Create and Use WMI Filters? 104
Performing RSoP Calculations with the GPMC 106
What's-Going-On Calculations with Group Policy Results 107
What-If Calculations with Group Policy Modeling 113
Searching and Commenting Group Policy Objects and Policy Settings 116
Searching for GPO Characteristics 116
Filtering Inside a GPO for Policy Settings 118
Comments for GPOs and Policy Settings 129
Starter GPOs 135
Creating a Starter GPO 136
Editing a Starter GPO 136
Leveraging a Starter GPO 137
Delegating Control of Starter GPOs 139
Wrapping Up and Sending Starter GPOs 140
Should You Use Microsoft's Pre-created Starter GPOs? 141
Back Up and Restore for Group Policy 142
Backing Up Group Policy Objects 143
Restoring Group Policy Objects 146
Backing Up and Restoring Starter GPOs 148
Backing Up and Restoring WMI Filters 148
Backing Up and Restoring IPsec Filters 149
Migrating Group Policy Objects between Domains 150
Basic Interdomain Copy and Import 150
Copy and Import with Migration Tables 157
GPMC At-a-Glance Icon View 160
Final Thoughts 160
Chapter 3 Group Policy Processing Behavior Essentials 163
Group Policy Processing Principles 164
Don't Get Lost 165
Initial Policy Processing 166
Background Refresh Policy Processing 168
Security Background Refresh Processing 182
Special Case: Moving a User or a Computer Object 187
Windows 8 and Group Policy: Subtle Differences 188
Policy Application via Remote Access, Slow Links, and after Hibernation 189
Windows XP Group Policy over Slow Network Connections 190
Windows 8 Group Policy over Slow Network Connections 190
What Is Processed over a Slow Network Connection? 192
Using Group Policy to Affect Group Policy 197
Affecting the User Settings of Group Policy 197
Affecting the Computer Settings of Group Policy 199
The Missing Group Policy Preferences' Policy Settings 211
Final Thoughts 212
Chapter 4 Advanced Group Policy Processing 215
WMI Filters: Fine-Tuning When and Where Group Policy Applies 215
Tools (and References) of the WMI Trade 217
WMI Filter Syntax 218
Creating and Using a WMI Filter 219
WMI Performance Impact 220
Group Policy Loopback Processing 221
Reviewing Normal Group Policy Processing 222
Group Policy Loopback—Merge Mode 223
Group Policy Loopback—Replace Mode 223
Group Policy with Cross-Forest Trusts 229
What Happens When Logging onto Different Clients across a Cross-Forest Trust? 229
Disabling Loopback Processing When Using Cross-Forest Trusts 232
Understanding Cross-Forest Trust Permissions 232
Final Thoughts 234
Chapter 5 Group Policy Preferences 235
Powers of the Group Policy Preferences 237
Computer Configuration a Preferences 238
User Configuration a Preferences 249
Group Policy Preferences Concepts 258
Preference vs. Policy 259
The Overlap of Group Policy vs. Group Policy
Preferences and Associated Issues 261
The Lines and Circles and the CRUD Action Modes 275
Common Tab 282
Group Policy Preferences Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting 294
Quick Copy, Drag and Drop, Cut and Paste, and Sharing of Settings 294
Multiple Preference Items at a Level 296
Temporarily Disabling a Single Preference Item or Extension Root 298
Environment Variables 298
Managing Group Policy Preferences: Hiding Extensions from Use 301
Troubleshooting: Reporting, Logging, and Tracing 302
Final Thoughts 310
Chapter 6 Managing Applications and Settings Using Group Policy 311
Administrative Templates: A History and Policy vs. Preferences 312
Administrative Templates: Then and Now 312
Policy vs. Preference 313
ADM vs. ADMX and ADML Files 318
ADM File Introduction 318
Updated GPMC's ADMX and ADML Files 318
ADM vs. ADMX Files—At a Glance 320
ADMX and ADML Files: What They Do and the Problems They Solve 321
Problem and Solution 1: Tackling SYSVOL Bloat 321
Problem 2: How Do We Deal with Multiple Languages? 321
Problem 3: How Do We Deal with "Write Overlaps"? 323
Problem 4: How Do We Distribute Updated Definitions to All Our Administrators? 324
The Central Store 325
The Windows ADMX/ADML Central Store 327
Creating and Editing GPOs in a Mixed Environment 331
Scenario 1: Start by Creating and Editing a GPO Using the Older GPMC. Edit Using Another Older GPMC
Management Station. 331
Scenario 2: Start by Creating and Editing a GPO with the Older GPMC. Edit Using the Updated GPMC. 332
Scenario 3: Start by Creating and Editing a GPO Using the Updated GPMC. Edit Using Another Updated GPMC Management Station. 334
Scenario 4: Start by Creating and Editing a GPO Using an Updated GPMC Management Station. Edit
Using an Older GPMC Management Station. 334
ADM and ADMX Templates from Other Sources 334
Using ADM Templates with the Updated GPMC 335
Using ADMX Templates from Other Sources 337
ADMX Migrator and ADMX Editor Tools 338
ADMX Migrator 339
ADMX Creation and Editor Tools 341
PolicyPak Community Edition and PolicyPak Professional 341
PolicyPak Concepts and Installation 344
PolicyPak Pregame Setup 344
PolicyPak Quick Installation 345
Getting Started Immediately with PolicyPak's Preconfigured Paks 346
PolicyPak Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up 352
Final Thoughts 353
Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Group Policy 355
Under the Hood of Group Policy 357
Inside Local Group Policy 357
Inside Active Directory Group Policy Objects 360
The Birth, Life, and Death of a GPO 362
How Group Policy Objects Are "Born" 362
How a GPO "Lives" 364
Death of a GPO 391
How Client Systems Get Group Policy Objects 392
The Steps to Group Policy Processing 392
Client-Side Extensions 395
Where Are Administrative Templates Registry Settings Stored? 403
Why Isn't Group Policy Applying? 405
Reviewing the Basics 406
Advanced Inspection 408
Client-Side Troubleshooting 418
RSoP for Windows Clients 419
Advanced Group Policy Troubleshooting with Log Files 428
Using the Event Viewer 428
Turning On Verbose Logging 429
Group Policy Processing Performance 443
Final Thoughts 444
Chapter 8 Implementing Security with Group Policy 447
The Two Default Group Policy Objects 448
GPOs Linked at the Domain Level 449
Group Policy Objects Linked to the Domain Controllers OU 453
Oops, the "Default Domain Policy" GPO and/or "Default Domain Controllers Policy" GPO Got Screwed Up! 455
The Strange Life of Password Policy 456
What Happens When You Set Password Settings at an OU Level 457
Fine-Grained Password Policy 458
Inside Auditing with and without Group Policy 463
Auditable Events Using Group Policy 464
Auditing File Access 470
Auditing Group Policy Object Changes 470
Advanced Audit Policy Configuration 475
Restricted Groups 480
Strictly Controlling Active Directory Groups 481
Strictly Applying Group Nesting 484
Which Groups Can Go into Which Other Groups via Restricted Groups? 484
Restrict Software: Software Restriction Policy and AppLocker 485
Inside Software Restriction Policies 486
Software Restriction Policies' "Philosophies" 487
Software Restriction Policies' Rules 488
Restricting Software Using AppLocker 495
Controlling User Account Control with Group Policy 514
Just Who Will See the UAC Prompts, Anyway? 517
Understanding the Group Policy Controls for UAC 521
UAC Policy Setting Suggestions 530
Wireless (802.3) and Wired Network (802.11) Policies 534
802.11 Wireless Policy for Windows XP 534
802.11 Wireless Policy and 802.3 Wired Policy for Windows 8 536
Configuring Windows Firewall with Group Policy 537
Manipulating the Windows XP Firewall 539
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (for Windows 8)—WFAS 542
IPsec (Now in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security) 551
How Windows Firewall Rules Are Ultimately Calculated 556
Final Thoughts 560
Chapter 9 Profiles: Local, Roaming, and Mandatory 561
What Is a User Profile? 562
The NTUSER.DAT File 562
Profile Folders for Type 1 Computers (Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server) 563
Profile Folders for Type 2 Computers (Windows Vista and Later) 565
The Default Local User Profile 570
The Default Network User Profile 573
Roaming Profiles 578
Setting Up Roaming Profiles 579
Testing Roaming Profiles 583
Roaming and Nonroaming Folders 586
Managing Roaming Profiles 590
Manipulating Roaming Profiles with Computer Group Policy Settings 592
Manipulating Roaming Profiles with User Group Policy Settings 604
Mandatory Profiles 609
Establishing Mandatory Profiles for Windows XP 610
Establishing Mandatory Profiles for Windows 8 612
Mandatory Profiles—Finishing Touches 612
Forced Mandatory Profiles (Super-Mandatory) 613
Final Thoughts 615
Chapter 10 Implementing a Managed Desktop, Part 1: Redirected Folders, Offline Files, and the Synchronization Manager 617
Overview of Change and Configuration Management 618
Redirected Folders 620
Available Folders to Redirect 620
Redirected Documents/My Documents 621
Redirecting the Start Menu and the Desktop 639
Redirecting the Application Data Folder 641
Group Policy Setting for Folder Redirection 641
Troubleshooting Redirected Folders 644
Offline Files and Synchronization 646
Making Offline Files Available 647
Inside Windows 8 File Synchronization 650
Handling Conflicts 658
Client Configuration of Offline Files 659
Using Folder Redirection and Offline Files over Slow Links 668
Synchronizing over Slow Links with Redirected My Documents 669
Synchronizing over Slow Links with Regular Shares 670
Teaching Windows 7 and Windows 8 How to React to Slow Links 671
Using Group Policy to Configure Offline Files (User and Computer Node) 675
Troubleshooting Sync Center 683
Turning Off Folder Redirection's Automatic Offline Caching for Desktops 685
Final Thoughts 695
Chapter 11 The Managed Desktop, Part 2: Software Deployment via Group Policy 697
Group Policy Software Installation (GPSI) Overview 697
The Windows Installer Service 699
Understanding .MSI Packages 700
Utilizing an Existing .MSI Package 700
Assigning and Publishing Applications 705
Assigning Applications 705
Publishing Applications 706
Rules of Deployment 707
Package-Targeting Strategy 708
Advanced Published or Assigned 717
The General Tab 717
The Deployment Tab 718
The Upgrades Tab 722
The Categories Tab 724
The Modifications Tab 724
The Security Tab 725
Default Group Policy Software Installation Properties 726
The General Tab 726
The Advanced Tab 727
The File Extensions Tab 728
The Categories Tab 728
Removing Applications 729
Users Can Manually Change or Remove Applications 729
Automatically Removing Assigned or Published .MSI Applications 729
Forcibly Removing Assigned or Published .MSI Applications 730
Using Group Policy Software Installation over Slow Links 732
MSI, the Windows Installer and Group Policy 735
Inside the MSIEXEC Tool 735
Patching a Distribution Point 736
Affecting Windows Installer with Group Policy 738
Deploying Office 2010 and Office 2013 Using Group Policy 741
Steps to Office 2010/2013 Deployment Using Group Policy 742
Result of Your Office Deploying Using Group Policy 751
Systems Center Configuration Manager vs. Group Policy 753
GPSI and Configuration Manager Coexistence 755
Final Thoughts 756
Chapter 12 Finishing Touches with Group Policy: Scripts, Internet Explorer, Hardware Control, and Printer Deployment 757
Scripts: Logon, Logoff, Startup, and Shutdown 757
Non-PowerShell-Based Scripts 758
Deploying PowerShell Scripts to Windows 7 and Later Clients 761
Managing Internet Explorer with Group Policy 762
Internet Explorer Maintenance—Where Is It? 763
Managing Internet Explorer with Group Policy Preferences 765
Internet Explorer's Group Policy Settings 765
Managing Internet Explorer using the IEAK 766
Restricting Access to Hardware via Group Policy 768
Group Policy Preferences Devices Extension 769
Restricting Driver Access with Policy Settings for Windows Vista and Later 773
Getting a Handle on Classes and IDs 774
Restricting or Allowing Your Hardware via Group Policy 777
Understanding the Remaining Policy Settings for Hardware Restrictions 778
Assigning Printers via Group Policy 780
Zapping Down Printers to Users and Computers (a Refresher) 780
Final Thoughts for This Chapter and for the Book 789
Appendix A Group Policy and VDI 791
Why Is VDI Different? 792
Tuning Your Images for VDI 793
Specific Functions to Turn Off for VDI Machines 794
Group Policy Settings to Set and Avoid for Maximum VDI Performance 795
Group Policy Tweaks for Fast VDI Video 796
Tweaking RDP Using Group Policy for VDI 797
Tweaking RemoteFX using Group Policy for VDI 798
Managing and Locking Down Desktop UI Tweaks 799
Final Thoughts for VDI and Group Policy 801
Appendix B Security Configuration Manager 803
SCM: Installation 805
SCM: Getting Around 806
SCM: Usual Use Case 807
Importing Existing GPOs 814
Comparing and Merging Baselines 814
LocalGPO Tool 816
Installing SCM's LocalGPO Tool 817
Using SCM's LocalGPO 817
Final Thoughts on LocalGPO and SCM 823
Appendix C Windows Intune (And What It Means to
Group Policy Admins) 825
Getting Started with Windows Intune 826
Using Windows Intune 829
Setting Up Windows Intune Groups 829
Setting Up Policies Using Windows Intune 830
Windows Intune and Group Policy Conflicts 831
Final Thoughts on Windows Intune 832
Index 835
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Interpreting Running Times for Marathon Training
When you're training for a marathon, time takes on a whole new dimension — and vocabulary. From mile splits (the time you run for each mile of a marathon) to finish times (your overall time for a race) to the speed displayed on your treadmill, marathoners are faced with all sorts of numbers. Read on to see what they mean.
Reading around the colons
When you see 4:02:27, 8:31, or :80, what does it all mean?
Any number with two colons is giving you hours, then minutes, then seconds. So 4:02:27 means 4 hours, 2 minutes, and 27 seconds.
When you see one colon, the time is in minutes and seconds. So 8:31 means 8 minutes and 31 seconds.
Times that are over — but close to — a minute or an hour may be converted to hours or minutes or may not. So you may see 80 seconds as :80 or as 1:20 (1 minute, 20 seconds). If you run a 10K in 65:00 (65 minutes), it may also be written as 1:05:00 (1 hour, 5 minutes).
Figuring your average time
To calculate minutes per mile when you're running one of your measured road routes, use a calculator and do the following:
Round your seconds to minutes and your hours to minutes, too.
For example, 36:33 (36 minutes and 33 seconds) becomes 37 minutes, and 1:10:24 — that's 1 hour, 10 minutes, and 24 seconds — becomes 70 minutes.
Divide the minutes by the number of miles.
Subtract the minutes, so that you're left with just the decimal that represents the number of seconds. Then multiply that decimal by 60.
For example, if after you divide your minutes by miles, you're left with 9.27, subtract 9 and multiply .27 by 60 to get 16.2 and round it down to 16.
Put the number of seconds back with the minutes, and you have your pace.
Using the previous example, you end up with 9 minutes + 16 seconds = 9:16 minutes per mile


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Legendary sci-fi fantasy author Ray Bradbury exits planet Earth
Author of influential post-WWII novel Fahrenheit 451 dies at 91
Obituary Ray Bradbury, a master of fantasy fiction and author of the classic dystopian sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451, has died at the age of 91.
The great man – who once labelled himself a "hybrid author" due to his love of movies, libraries and theatre – passed away on Tuesday night, his daughter Alexandra Bradbury confirmed to the Associated Press today.
"For many Americans, the news of Ray Bradbury's death immediately brought to mind images from his work, imprinted in our minds, often from a young age. His gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world. But Ray also understood that our imaginations could be used as a tool for better understanding, a vehicle for change, and an expression of our most cherished values," said the White House in a statement.
Bradbury's 1950 breakthrough series of short stories The Martian Chronicles took a pick axe to Cold War paranoia and superpower stupidity by ridiculing tensions between different nations.
Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, was Bradbury's seminal work, however. The novel depicted a world where books are burned as people battle to keep literary works alive by memorising the classic stories.
Bradbury completed a sequel to Fahrenheit 451 as a computer game on the Atari platform in 1986, where the hero ex-fireman Guy Montag seeks to retrieve scanned copies of the New York public library for the betterment of humanity. Bradbury worked closely on the script and the game is seen as the closure of the story arc.
Bradbury had once described the internet as a "distraction".
In 2009 he said of the interwebs: "[I]t's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere." That comment came after Yahoo! asked Bradbury if he would allow the company to publish some of his work online.
However, in November last year the author did agree to start releasing some of his stories in electronic form.
Bradbury is survived by his four daughters. The author's wife of 56 years, Maggie, died in 2003.
Sam Weller – Bradbury's authorised biographer – once wrote an appreciation of Maggie Bradbury, in which he said:
"In the late 1940s, while she took the 7.30 morning train all the way across Los Angeles every single workday, acting as the household breadwinner in an era when women didn't dare do such things, her spouse was allowed to stay home and work on his writing.
"He honed his craft, shaped his style, sent his material to editors across the continent in the Big Apple. He would not have had this luxury if she didn't bring home a paycheck.
"He would have been forced to get a day job and this, very likely, would have been the death knell for his writing career. The proverbial butterfly would have been squashed and the future of high-imaginative literature would have been altered for all time." ®
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Television as a Bridge
Duisburg-Rheinhausen, North Business Park, in the Ruhr Region, in the heart of Germany: Nestled in this industrial park are the glass headquarters of the German-Turkish television station "Kanal Avrupa" ("Channel Europe"), which can be received all over Europe through satellite "Türksat 2."
The program runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, featuring news and entertainment, advice and talk. The staff of 35 makes sure the program is varied. There's not always a political bent, sometimes an old American film will be shown in the afternoon. During primetime in the evening, it's usually Turkish folk music and culture.
Not just entertainment
But the problems of Turkish immigrants also have their place, says Seran Sargur, director of Kanal Avrupa: "We also have a forum for women called 'Feminine, Womanly – Kandincka.' Turkish women who come to Germany receive information about what to expect here. They are unfamiliar with the education system and the healthcare system in Germany. So we provide information about how life in Germany functions."
The station's program was conceived for Turks living in Germany and is largely in Turkish, but also partly in German.
Cengiz Yildirim from the "Essen Center for Turkish Studies" has been observing the station for some time and thinks that it fulfills an important social function.
It is not just a matter of Turkish viewers seeing their fellow countrymen who have grown up in Germany and with whom they can identify. More significant is that contemporary problems are addressed by "Kanal Avrupa", according to Cengiz Yildirim:
"Stories about education, the accomplishment of immigrants in school, or unemployment among youths are the topics that directly affect immigrants and which the program address," notes Yildirim. "Many of these discussions and contributions contain valuable information and I see this as serving as a bridge."
Mostly in Turkish
Because most programs have thus far been in Turkish, this represents a deficit in terms of integration, says Yildirim. Supporting the language skills of immigrants is an elementary task that should be emphasized. Those who want to integrate must master the language, according to Yildirim. "Perhaps 'Kanal Avrupa' is doing too little in this direction, given that most programs are only in Turkish."
Director Serkan Sargur defends the station against the accusation that "Kanal Avrupa" contributes to the ghettoization of the Turkish community. And some parts of programs are broadcast in German.
"Turksat has about 30 channels that are broadcast in Turkish," says Sargur, "and when you consider that "Kanal Avrupa" is the only one that reports on German issues, then it's clear we are doing just the opposite."
In the future, the German-Turkish station will place more emphasis on German politicians. Integration Minister Armin Laschet has already been a guest. The program content in the German language will soon be expanded - previously it was only ten percent. And a political forum and a talk show will also be added.
The shows will either be simultaneously translated or subtitled. Despite being a commercial station, "Kanal Avrupa" will also begin a few projects sponsored by EU funds, says Sargur:
A kind of tele-learning for women
"One of our projects is called 'Deutsch für Mama'. It is meant for newly-wed women who are staying at home because of their children and can't attend adult education, but with the help of our brochures they can learn German in front of the television - a kind of tele-learning."
So far there are no figures on how many people watch the programs because there are only a few general statistics available on the television habits of Turkish immigrants in Germany.
The only indicator thus far is the number of clicks on the station's homepage. The growing interest of Turkish viewers for German-Turkish programs is also demonstrated by the number of callers on the daily advice hotline. Every day new topics are addressed, for example law, family, education or health.
Alexandra Jarecki
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Translated from the German by Christina M. White
Düzgün TV
Integration via Satellite TV
The topic of integration is ever-present on German television. But Many German Turks are not tuning in to these channels. Many of them receive their television via Turkish-language satellite from Turkey. Now, however, Düzgün TV, a private television station in North Rhine-Westphalia, wants to change this. By Petra Tabeling
Interview with Armin Laschet
"Integration Is a Top Priority"
Armin Laschet of the conservative CDU party is North Rhine-Westphalia's first Minister for Integration, the first minister of that kind in Germany. In this interview with Petra Tabeling, he talks about the headscarf and the necessity of integration
Multicultural Radio in Germany
Radio Multikulti - a Programme for the World
Rap from Senegal, Bhangra sounds from the Pakistani quarter in Birmingham or Klezmer music – Berlin's Radio multikulti (Multicultural Radio) sometimes sounds like a trip around the world in one hour.


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Although the University of Chicago's Department of Physics was well known through the work of Albert A. Michelson, Robert A. Millikan, Arthur Holly Compton, and others, the news which broke after atomic bombs fell on Japan in August 1945 brought the University's scientists to new prominence. There could be no hiding the fact that an international team of physicists and engineers had been assembled on campus early in 1942 for top-secret research; but the announcement that Enrico Fermi and his group had built a nuclear pile and successfully initiated the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction, under the football stands, in the heart of the city, stunned even the faculty members who had eaten lunch every day with the physicists in the Quadrangle Club.
The nuclear pile had been planned for a site in the Cook County Forest Preserve, but a construction workers' strike and severe time constraints forced the group to build it on campus. Although the scientists were convinced their safety precautions were adequate, project director Compton wrote later, "I should have taken the matter to my superior. But that would have been unfair. President Hutchins was in no position to judge the hazards involved. Based on considerations of the University's welfare, the only answer he could have given would have been--no. And this answer would have been wrong."
Work accelerated in October 1942 as problems with equipment and obtaining pure materials were solved one by one. Orders with "double X priority" for graphite, uranium oxide, lumber for scaffolding, and a huge square balloon from Goodyear arrived at the Ellis Avenue laboratory with no questions asked. Youths from the Back of the Yards neighborhood were recruited to assist physics students to machine 400 tons of graphite into bricks and press uranium oxide into 22,000 small spheres.
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China looks to model hip-hop program at St. Paul college
The hip-hop program at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul is the only one like it in the U.S. But soon there could be one like it in China.
A delegation of Chinese music academics visited the college Tuesday to finalize arrangements for a group of Chinese college students to attend the hip-hop music program at McNally Smith.
College president Harry Chalmiers said he's honored to host the Chinese students and give them a taste of hip-hop, a homegrown American art form. McNally Smith officials don't know yet how many Chinese students will attend the college, but they could arrive in St. Paul as early as the spring semester.
"Certainly we hope to make this not only a successful music collaboration but we hope truly that this will advance relations between our two countries and understanding between of culture," Chalmiers said.
With the help of a translator, Gao Zhongyue, vice president of teaching affairs at Shenyang Conservatory, said the Chinese school hopes to learn from the college and open its own hip-hop program.
"Because the hip-hop music in China is very difficult to understand right now, the young people, the young generation really likes the form," she said. "But the rhythm and the lyric is a little different from the Chinese point of view.
"They don't understand it deeply like Americans, so they wanted to come here to study more for them to find out really the meaning of the hip-hop music."
As the officials toured the school, Minneapolis-based Rhymesayers Entertainment hip-hop artist, professor and coordinator of the hip-hop program, Toki Wright, spoke on hip-hop as a global phenomenon. He expects the Chinese students to put their own unique stamp on the music.
"We really try to make sure that everyone, when they are writing, when they are creating music, that they are putting themselves at the front and not someone else's idea of who they are," Wright said. "It's very important for the sake of hip-hop that people bring that honest, true story."
A delegation from McNally Smith visited northeast China last winter, Chalmiers said.
"It all started with a contact I received almost a year ago now from a representative of the Shenyang Conservatory, which is the second largest conservatory in China and one of the most progressive in terms of their exploration of contemporary music," Chalmiers said.
"We have the only accredited hip-hop diploma program of any music school in the country. They learned about that and wanted see if we could explore a partnership."
Tuesday's visit wraps up a year's negotiations between McNally Smith and Shenyang Conservatory, signing contracts clearing the way for enrollment of Chinese students at McNally Smith.


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You know them - those toy soldiers molded in soft plastic that are sold by the bagful. They have been around since the 1950s. Known as Army Men, the two- to three-inch soldiers are a staple of many a boy's toy chest. Most folks eventually THINK they outgrew them.
We KNOW we will never, ever outgrow them!!!!!
True Army Men are soft plastic toy soldiers (mistakenly called "rubber" in some regions). They generally have the following attributes:
Army Men stand 2 to 3 inches tall
They are molded in one piece, exceptions being special weapons or "ring hand" figures
They are commonly sold in plastic bags, with 20 or more soldiers
Larger lots are sold in plastic buckets or as boxed playsets with accessories
They are sold as toys, not as scale figures, miniatures, etc.
They do not pretend to be accurate, detailed miniature replicas.
They are the same cheap toy soldiers we have known and loved since the 1950s
They are generic "no brand" toys
A toy soldier is not necessarily an Army Man. Figures made of lead, tin, or other metals are not Army Men. With one or two exceptions, hard plastic figures are models, not Army men. Boxed sets of soft plastic figures sold by model companies are not Army Men, either (they're actually cheap scale miniatures - blah!)
The most common kind of Army Man is modeled after the American Soldier, with the old M1 Steel Helmet. Though particular types vary, the vast majority represent US troops circa 1941 to 1960. A later type armed with M-16 rifles has been around since the 1960s. Most Army Men are molded in green plastic. Those molded in other colors were done so to represent "enemy" troops.
Army Men were accompanied by an assortment of soft plastic accessories, vehicles and heavy weapons. These include tanks, M3/M4 half tracks, 105mm howitzers, Jeeps, 2 1/2 ton "deuce and a half" trucks, pup tents, sandbag emplacements, barbed wire fences, heavy machine guns, mortars, bazookas and parachutes. The common tank types include the M26 Pershing heavy tank, M41 "Walker Bulldog" light tank, M47 Patton tank and M48 Patton Tank. One manufacturer included an odd type of open personnel carrier that could carry a missile launcher and an obscure kind of tank destroyer.
Other accessories that might be included were pillboxes (concrete fortifications), fighter planes, helicopters, small landing craft, missile launchers and 3/4 ton trucks.
Packed with virtually every set was a paper American flag on a small wood dowel with a round plastic base.
An odd but common type was the "ring hand", with the soldier's weapons, field gear and helmets molded separately. These were a particular brand which were produced in great numbers.
Cowboys and Indians - generally these included standing figures along with a few mounted on horseback. Cowboys and Indians were molded in many colors. Accessories included covered wagons, stagecoaches, cavalry forts, Civil War era cannon, tepees, a plastic campfire,canoes and plastic trees. Indians were mixed bag, as a set included figures with the accouterments of several tribes and regions. It was not uncommon to find Mohawks mixed among Sioux and Apaches.
Civil War - soldiers were the same, the difference between armies being that one was molded in blue and the other in grey. There were usually a few mounted men included with the foot soldiers. Accessories included cannon, mortars, caissons, wagons, bunkers and molded "wood" fences. Most sets had both an American and Confederate flag. Usually, the standard 48 star flag represented the Union.
Foreign Legion - a few of these were available. They included foot soldiers and mounted figures, and a cannon or two. Armies represented were the French Foreign Legion and Arabs. Most figures were molded in any variety of colors.
American Revolution - not as popular as the others, American Revolution sets had figures molded in blue and red. Some included a handful of Indians. They often had cannon; most included a few mounted figures with foot soldiers.
Spacemen - very popular, Space Men were in two kinds. After 1962, the most popular kind of spacemen looked like American astronauts in action poses. Some had ray pistols and rifles, but one brand's astronauts carried scientific gear. Accessories could be missiles (the same used by regular Army Men), tracked vehicles (those personnel carries refitted with odd accessories and molded in "space" colors), rockets, radar sets and Mercury Capsules. Colors varied, but most were molded in red, white, blue, silver or gold. One occasionally found an earlier kind of spacemen armed for battle in "Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers" type suits. Aliens, if any, were invariably green bug-eyed monsters with ray guns.
Knights - very popular, with a great variety of knights. Any given brand's knights had armor covering various eras, and included both foot soldiers and mounted figures. Knights could be molded in a variety of colors. A few makers offered them in opposing armies molded in silver and gold or silver and black. Accessories included catapults, extra shields, small round medieval tents and a small castle molded in hard or soft plastic, or made of lithographed stamped metal with plastic gate and drawbridge. A few had Knights and Vikings. The Vikings were more correctly Migration-era Germans with horned and winged helmets and furs. A few companies had soft plastic Viking ships.
Pirates - very popular, pirates came in many colors and had the usual assortment of cutlasses, flintlock pistols, tricorn hats and hook hands. Some were molded with a parrot on the shoulder. Accessories included Pirate ships, rowboats, cannons, extra swords, a treasure chest and in some, a crocodile.
Romans - very unusual, sets of Romans included soldiers molded in two different colors. Most had a few mounted figures and some catapults; a chariot was common. If a fort was included, it was that respective brand's medieval castle. One company made a small Roman boat.
Many manufacturers made enemy soldiers for the American GIs to fight. There were a few varieties out there. Because they were designed in the post WWII era, most enemy troops are foreign soldiers circa 1940 - 1945.
German Infantry - a few companies still make standard 1942 German soldiers armed with light machine guns, rifles and submachine guns. The officers invariably wear their dress caps and carry Luger pistols. Most Germans were molded in grey, but in recent years we have seen tan and green. During the Gulf War, at least one manufacturer molded them in Olive Drab and Tan and sold them as US Troops. Some soft plastic scale figures have reappeared as Army men, most notably the German soldiers originally designed by Airfix.
Russians - a maker of several unusual kinds of Army Men issued Russians in the 1939 uniforms and headgear. Some wore fur hats, others had the old Russian Helmet. They carried rifles, Degtyarev light machine guns and the common "burp gun" submachine guns with drum magazines. They were molded in a dark, slightly metallic blue.
Japanese - they were molded in tan or yellow, and were armed with rifles, bayonets, light machine guns and officers with pistols and Samurai swords.
British - in particular, crude copies of the Britains/Herald British Infantry appeared from time to time, molded in green plastic. They were sold as regular Army Men. I remember the copies had the rounder, later type of British helmet, and Sten guns, rifles, bren automatic rifles and a radioman.
Odd-colored GIs - the standard way to make enemy soldiers for many companies was to mold their US troops in colors other than green. These enemy troops have been seen in grey, brown, tan, and blue. Odd colored troops were not sold alone, but were mixed in the bag with green soldiers.
Vehicles - at least one maker offered German PZ5 "Panther" tanks, German "jeeps" and odd half tracks, plus a hard-plastic, firing 88mm gun. Most of the enemy vehicles were standard US equipment molded in other colors, the most common being tan or grey.
African Explorers - a few sets had a handful of Jungle Jim/ Ramar of the Jungle type figures packed along with plastic palm trees, a canoe, tents, a jeep or truck, and a handful of African natives with spears and shields.
Divers - a few sets included Scuba and deep sea divers, plus an assortment of large fish, sea serpents, octopi and sharks. Most had a treasure chest, giant clam and small boat or submarine. I have seen divers in both non-combat and combat poses, including one carrying a "limpet" anti-ship mine.
Monsters - at least one company made a set of 3-inch movie monsters, including Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf man, a mummy, and some bug-eyed monsters based on the common 1950s space movies.
Farm sets - these had farm animals. Most included "wood" fences, farmers, a tractor and a small barn or silo
Zoo sets - these were usually a collection of wild animals in various colors, and most included a few farm figures.
Dinosaurs - there were several makers of toy dinosaurs. Some were small, others big enough to challenge standard Army men. A favorite enemy when re-enacting our favorite 1950s sci-fi.
Firemen - a few firemen sets appeared, usually with one or two small fire trucks.
Cops and robbers - one or two makers offered sets of cops and gangsters. They didn't have accessories in the bag.
Cars - a few makers offered soft plastic cars and trucks. The larger ones went well with standard Army men.
Of course, the easiest thing was to have a war in a sand pile. You could also use the living room, with furniture being the landscape. Favorite variants were Army Men versus Dinosaurs, Army Men versus Spacemen, and Army Men having a war around the electric trains.
One could annoy Mom by adding Army men to the Yule village under the Christmas Tree. Moms tend to get upset when they notice a Panzer 5's barrel edging around the side of the little creche, or a Confederate sniper taking a bead on the Three Wise men. A proven way to raise a ruckus since I started doing it in 1960.
Soft plastic used to be marketed as 'unbreakable." However, Army Men could get broken in several ways:
Ice cold - when cold, some brands' plastic got brittle. Whack them with a hammer and they shatter
Fire - when subjected to fire, Army men burn and melt.
Firecrackers - firecrackers will shatter a soldier in close proximity.
Teeth - dogs and baby brothers can chew a toy soldier into an elongated mess.
Guns - a 22 caliber bullet will usually pass through Army Men doing little more than making a big hole. Unless it hits an arm, leg or head, which it will sever.
Historical Accuracy
Are you kidding? Knights, Indians and several other types of Army Men are the embodiment of Anachronism. And how many WW2 play sets came complete with post war tanks like the M41, M47 and M48? And helicopters? If you're into historical accuracy, take up scale models and prepare to overpay and overpay for toy soldiers that you wouldn't dare play with.
The average Army man's scale is 1/35 to 1/25. Though most wagons, jeeps and trucks were close to scale, some were not. Tanks and half tracks were almost never to scale. Do you insist on scale accuracy? Then get into HO scale model railroading, because you won't find it around Army Men! A lot of stiffs get into HO (not many get into N scale or O gauge). Just ask your local model railroaders where the stiffs are. They will send you to the one club that nobody else talks to - even the regular HO guys don't want anything to do with them!
Army Men go great with O-gauge, 3-rail electric trains such as Lionel and K-line. Army men can ride in hoppers and gondolas. Do not stuff them into boxcars because it's hard to get them out. Seeing as tanks and half tracks were usually closer to 1/48 scale, they ride well on flat cars. Lionel made a load of firing combat trains in the early 1960s that were the perfect match for Army men.
Arms don't fall off Army Men unless you chop them off
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With Army Men, you get an army. Action figures come one at a time
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Army men are the same yesterday and today and tomorrow. They never go out of style when a new TV show and comic book series is released.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is allowing spouses of gay National Guard members to apply for federal marriage benefits.
The Courier-Journal reports Kentucky Adjutant General Edward Tonini recommended the state follow Defense Department policy and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Beshear spokeswoman Kerri Richardson says the governor affirmed the recommendation.
The Louisville newspaper says since the benefits became available in September, four have received them in Kentucky.
The Defense Department policy says gay spouses should be given the same federal benefits as heterosexuals.
The directive came after the Supreme Court struck down the part of the Defense of Marriage Act that prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.
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Tim Lilburn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has published ten books of poetry, including To the River (1999), Kill-site (2003), Orphic Politics (2008) and Assiniboia (2012). Lilburn has produced three books of essays concerned with poetics, eros and politics, especially environmentalism: Living in the World as if It Were Home (1999), Going Home (2008) and The Larger Conversation, completing the trilogy, published by the University of Alberta Press in 2017. His most recent poetry collection, The Names, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2016. The House of Charlemagne, a book length poem written as a text for dance, will appear from the University of Regina Press in 2018.


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Tall. Irish. Civil engineer with an unhealthy love of all things animated. Blogger at The Animation Anomaly: http://animationanomaly.com
Mickey serves multiple roles within the Disney corporation.
He's the overall mascot for the company and acts as a trademark in that regard. He acts as a salesman for a ton of merchandise.
Lastly, he acts as the Pied Pier-esque character that attracts the kiddies to Disney's channels and properties. He's a trustworthy character because, hey, parents figure anything he's in is safe for their little ones to watch.
That said, there is a new series of shorts being released that supposedly harken back to his roots in theatrical shorts.
No, no, dig up, stupid!
Let's talk about the biography of Disney's most famous animators that they're delaying unnecessarily.
Yup, they're refusing to grant permission to use the images associated with him because the book deviates too far from the company's official 'clean' version of his life.
Link for the interested: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/advance-praise-for-the-book-that-disney-doesnt-want-you-to-read-73 722.html
What's really funny is that if you watch the "making of" video you can spot a giant mural on the building where they made The Lollipop Forrest [sic] that clearly features characters from a very well-known anime show that I'm almost certain aren't licensed.
We Irish like our entitlements:
- Guinness
- Potatoes
- Independence from Britain
- A music industry afforded the full protection of the State from paying income taxes, effective competition, adapting to the marketplace and/or catering to consumer demand.
Any eejit who believes a company will kill-off their cash cow maybe doesn't deserve the glory of free internet.
It's not the connection to an aerial, it's the circuits that act as the receiver that causes you to pay. That's why the monitor is exempt but the TV isn't.
It's all a pile of shite, but just wait till they classify your PC as a "receiving device", that's when things will get really interesting.
Heh heh, all this brings me back to the time in college when we beat the TV licence inspector by simply cutting the plug off the TV. We couldn't prove it worked so he couldn't make us pay. Ah, memories.
...one of Cartoon Network's bigger success stories of the past few years, Adventure Time, earned and retains a lot of its viewers because of the vibrant fan community that the producing studio set up and engaged with.
And to think the network will undo/inhibit all that hard work with a stunt like this.
And if it keeps up, he'll manage to burrow himself all the way to Australia!
Y'know, I think our good friends at Guinness would have something to say about Kellogs' trademark claim to the toucan. (http://www.toucans.info/guinness.html)
Now that y'know people don't need blank CDs as much any more and sales have slipped, it seems pretty logical that the tax that was formerly applied to them be transitioned to the medium that replaced them.
"though it seems unlikely that many people still encode things in Real Media's format"
Ah but plenty of government agencies have paid up licenses that they just HAVE to use.
Ditto. I buy international editions for everything that I can. I've lost track of how much money I've saved over the years.
The best part? Half the "international editions" are printed in the USA (and thus covered by first sale).
I get a book at a third of the US price and the publisher still makes a profit. Everyone's a winner!
Ditto. I moved to the US 4 years ago and figured I would far rather have $700 in my pocket than fork it out for cable over the course of a year. I've subsisted just fine on Netflix, etc. etc.
Cord cutters are not the people that companies like Comcast, DirecTv, etc. should be worried about, they can always be bribed into coming back.
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Figs with Blue Cheese, Prosciutto and Toasted Walnuts
Serves 6
150g creamy blue cheese (such as Blue Castello or Shadows of Blue)
150g crème fraîche*
12–18 beautifully ripe figs (depending on size)
small handful of toasted walnuts, chopped
4–6 slices prosciutto, in fine strips
extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling
freshly ground black pepper, to taste
*Crème fraîche is a type of sour cream with a very delicate flavour and light texture. If you have trouble getting it, you can use regular sour cream, but you'll find it's just a little denser and heavier.
Mash the blue cheese until it's quite smooth. Add the crème fraîche and gently mix them together until they're just blended.
Halve the figs and put them, cut-side up, onto plates. If they wobble about a bit, just take a tiny sliver off the bottom of them. Plop a spoonful of the blue cheese mixture into the centre of each fig, sprinkle on a few chopped walnuts, then put a tiny pile of prosciutto strips on top. Drizzle them with a little olive oil at the table and grind on some black pepper – it adds a lovely bit of heat and bite that is the perfect contrast to the jammy sweetness of the figs.
I just adore figs, but quite a few people say to me that they don't see what all the fuss is about. I have a feeling that that's because it's hard to get really ripe figs, which is the only way to eat them. Often they're picked early because they're too fragile to handle once they are truly ripe and although they look beautiful at this stage, they don't have that wonderful honeyed heart that is the whole reason for eating them. I rarely go for looks, but tend to pick ones that have already split a little and are heavy for their size. Just be careful, though: if they're at the point where they're weeping sticky juice, they could well have fermented. A drop or two of juice indicates that they are perfect for eating straight away, but if they''re sitting in a little puddle of juice, they most likely have gone a bit too far.
Singapore Oyster Omelette
Serves 1
1 dozen nice plump oysters
3 free-range eggs
2 tablespoons finely chopped coriander
1 tablespoon dry sherry
sea salt, to taste
1 tablespoon peanut or light olive oil
1 large spring onion, finely sliced
2 cm piece ginger, finely chopped
½ red chilli (seeds and all), finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
spring onion tops, finely sliced
1 small red chilli, seeded and finely shredded, soaked in iced water
2–3 oysters on the half-shell (optional)
Prepare all the ingredients before you begin cooking, as you would a stir-fry. To prepare the oysters, slide them out of their shells into a bowl and put them aside.
Break the eggs into a bowl and whisk them gently with a fork so they are just mixed. Stir in the coriander, sherry and salt, and set the mixture aside.
Put a small non-stick frying pan over high heat. Once hot, add the oil and swirl it to coat the pan. Tip in the spring onion, ginger, chilli and garlic all at once and stir-fry them for about 15 seconds. Now pour in the eggs and give them a few brisk stirs with the flat of the fork. Quickly scatter 9 of the oysters over the top. Tilt the pan, and lift the edges of the omelette with the fork to let any uncooked egg run underneath. Reduce the heat slightly and leave the omelette to set. The top should still be quite moist; in fact, almost a bit wet.
To serve, you can just slide the omelette onto a warm plate as is, but for something a little more unusual, try moulding it. To do this, slide the omelette into a small heatproof bowl and quickly fold in the sides. Press down gently on top of the omelette to mould it to the shape of the bowl, then cover it with a warm plate. Firmly grasp the sides of the plate and the bowl at the same time, and quickly invert them both. (You need a bit of courage to do this the first time, but it gets much easier.) Remove the bowl and you have a lovely dome-shaped omelette. Put the three remaining shelled oysters on top. Garnish with some of the spring onion tops and the drained chilli shreds, as well as a few oysters in the shell, if you're using them. Serve immediately.


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