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Director or core switch: which one works for you?
Each brings with it certain assumptions about reliability and manageability. But there's hope: The architectures are converging.
In today's san (storage area network) environment, Fibre Channel (FC) switch architectures have pro-gressed beyond the either/or choices of yesterday. It used to be either you needed a high-availability FC switch chassis architecture or you didn't-and then chose accordingly. For many organizations, that time has passed.
Server, switch and storage consolidations, higher uptime requirements and cost-cutting efforts across the enterprise now require an integration of high availability and scalability from all FC switch architectures, regardless of which vendor provides the solution. With these increased requirements, the need to choose and build the right FC switch architecture for your organization has never been greater.
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So what criteria needs to be considered in this choice of switch architectures? Common ones continue to be affordability, availability, compatibility, interoperability, manageability, scalability and the ability to be upgraded. But factors weighing more heavily on decision makers today include security and simplicity of management, as well as the ability to use your existing investments in your SAN infrastructure.
Telecom and ESCON switch infrastructures
While there are a number of documented switch infrastructure models, two models preeminently exist in most large organizations. Which one that's being used depends heavily upon the requirements of the organization.
If your organization has a SAN in a rapidly growing or more cost-conscious FC environment, the network or telecom model will most likely exist within your infrastructure. If that's the case, Brocade is likely the vendor of your switch, as they provide the majority of the port count in this segment of the market.
On the other hand, if your SAN exists in a data center or some other high-availability environment, the black box or ESCON model predominates. Here you'll likely find directors from vendors such as McData or Inrange providing the connectivity on the SAN as these two combined control a large segment of the port count in these environments.
Why is there such dominance by two totally different architectures and a handful of vendors within those respective architectures? To understand the telecom and ESCON models and why they have prevailed in their respective environments, some definitions and an understanding of their environments are required.
The telecom model in FC switches closely parallels the intelligent switching architectures used in the telecom and networking worlds today. These switches have an intelligent and programmable OS, provide greater security functionality and can handle more complex routing operations. Due to this, they scale more easily and are more adaptable to a rapidly growing environment.
However, complexity exists within the telecom solution. It requires more up-front design work, more management after deployment and a better understanding of the data traffic patterns of the SAN infrastructure into which they are being deployed. This is an important item of note. A telecom solution deployed or utilized in a poorly understood or poorly documented environment could cause unpredictable results.
The ESCON model differs in that it has its roots in the ESCON directors of the mainframe world. In the mainframe world, ESCON directors are essentially black boxes used to connect mainframes to external storage arrays. The desirability of this model comes from the ability to provide a highly available solution that is simpler to understand, deploy, manage and maintain. It also generally provides a higher port count than switches on the telecom side.
While it generally comes with a higher port count, upgrading and scaling this solution should these ports fill up becomes a logistical problem. This issue has its roots in its underlying microcode that is less geared to handle trunking between switches than its telecom counterpart. Also, the security features in this solution appear to presume a physically secure environment, an assumption that can't necessarily be made in most open systems environments.
Convergence of these models
To meet the emerging business requirements of high availability, security and scalability, these existing models appear poised to converge to a more robust model that will connect the core and edge switches in the enterprise. Based upon what has been occurring internally at San Jose, CA-based Brocade and McData, Broomfield, CO, it appears they understand this convergence is coming and the limitations of their current designs. To address these design limitations, both are taking steps to meet these emerging business requirements.
McData announced in mid-October its Sphereon 4500, a 24-port SAN switch. Aimed at the midrange market it allows users to upgrade the switch in 8-port increments through McData's FlexPort technology. The 4500 ships with all 24 ports physically present, and customers have the option of whether to enable 8, 16, or all 24 of them and pay only for the ports they use. The Sphereon "offers buy what you need-flexibility," says Steve Duplessie, analyst for the Enterprise Storage Group.
McData has also recently addressed its deficiencies in its security and scalability capabilities. Its October 2002 microcode release, 5.0, took major steps in both of these areas. They will soon release a 4.0 code update prior to a more comprehensive 5.0 release, which is scheduled for early 2003. For the first time, the option now exists for servers to log on to the SAN that would require a user name and password prior to joining the fabric. This helps to prevent unauthorized or hostile servers from joining the SAN environment and accessing other servers' data. McData also chose this release to introduce more robust trunking functions into the software of its microcode. Up to this point, when connecting between McData directors, ISLs (Inter-Switch Links) were required using a round robin methodology to send data down the different paths, but they were not treated as one logical path. With their new microcode, these ISL links are now treated as one logical path between the directors permitting more sophisticated load balancing across these paths.
In the meantime, Brocade has responded by releasing its Silkworm 12000 switch into the director marketplace. Until the 12000's release, Brocade has lacked a true single chassis high availability solution. In its current and first release, the 12000 meets most of the requirements of a high-availability solution such as redundant and hot swappable power supplies, fans and port blades. While its Fabric OS still lacks the hot code load functionality normally associated with a core director, the time required to load its existing Fabric OS takes twenty five seconds. Brocade forecasts that its next code upgrade to its Fabric OS, 4.1, will offer this functionality.
The other major player currently in this space, Inrange, Lumbertown, NJ, still appears to be following the path of larger monolithic directors with limited ability to connect the edges of the enterprise. And smaller switch vendors such as Bothell, WA-based Vixel and QLogic, located in Aliso Viejo, CA, are either content to stay in the market niche they own or have found ways to capture new markets.
QLogic has diversified their product offerings beyond strictly being a FC switch vendor, aggressively expanding into markets such as the Host Bus Adapter (HBA) FC market. Vixel, meanwhile, has continued to capitalize on their core competency of being a high performance switch vendor. According to Claude Lorenson, Vixel's director of product management and marketing, Vixel continues to generate the majority of its revenue from the traditional hub and fabric switch business where it currently dominates the video/media streaming markets due to their switch's high performance capabilities.
In any case, this coming convergence would clearly seem to favor Brocade's telecom model. They dominate the switch end of the market, and their underlying operating system, Fabric OS, was designed with this coming convergence in mind. In addition, their Silkworm 12000 has been released to pull this model together.
Does Brocade win all the chips?
All of the SAN switch vendors, including Brocade, have yet to deliver and show this solution can work seamlessly for years on end. Additionally, not every organization necessarily needs or desires the telecom model for every application. And Brocade will face more competition in this space as time progresses from the telecom gorilla, Cisco, who in August 2002 announced their first model, the MDS 9000 series, and from McData, who intends to come on strong in this market with its latest code release.
With Cisco's formal entry into this space as well as more startups and the need for continuing better backup performance times on the SAN, the FC architecture seems primed for change. So from this, one can expect to see both an emergence of new architectures and a divergence of existing architectures to meet new requirements.
Future switch architectures
The entry of Cisco into this segment of the market presents some interesting scenarios for decision makers. Cisco pervades the telecom space. Almost every organization of almost any size has some Cisco equipment installed somewhere and engineers or administrators to support it. In fact, one would think to introduce FC switching into an existing Cisco environment would be as easy as plug-and-play. Simply plug a new blade into one of Cisco's core switches, upgrade the existing Cisco IOS and presto-a new SAN infrastructure magically appears.
But there is no smoke and mirrors in the SAN space. Unfortunately for Cisco, vendors such as Brocade and McData-long-time players in the SAN space-appear to have a decided advantage in that they understand the unique challenges presented by a SAN.
Jay Kidd, Brocade's vice president of product development, concurs. He points out that FC, unlike TCP/IP, doesn't understand the concept of either dropped packets or rearranging packets if they arrive in the wrong order. In a FC environment, data packets must be delivered and arrive in the same order they were sent or else data corruption or loss may occur.
That might help to explain Cisco's recent acquisition of Andiamo Systems, a company they have privately funded for a few years. This acquisition may indicate that Cisco, rather than using their existing product lines, will need to complement them with Andiamo's product line. The fact that this product line contains switches ranging from 8 ports to 256 ports that closely mirrors Brocade's and McData's line of offerings seems to confirm these assumptions.
So while a SAN may be taking on the features of today's telecom networks, it still will have and require a certain ESCON mentality at its core, specifically the simplicity and manageability aspects of it. The SAN also carries with it data integrity and availability questions as well as performance monitoring issues at every point within its infrastructure that the SAN telecom model may or may not be ready to address.
New players entering the SAN market also may alter how SAN architectures develop going forward. Three new vendors coming to market with products in this space include Milpitas, CA-based LightSand Communications, Nishan System, San Jose, CA, and Pirus Networks, Acton, MA, which was recently purchased by Sun Microsystems.
LightSand Communications has recently emerged after two and a half years in development with FC over SONET gateway. Their first two products, the S-600 and S-2500, are scheduled to ship in late Q3 of 2002. These products allow connectivity of FC SANs over wide-area SONET networks, in essence giving SANs acting in the same fabric the ability to extend over large geographic areas (up to 8000K) with real time synchronous connectivity.
Assuming statistics bear out and the telecom providers install this switch, the technology can expand the capability of synchronous SANs beyond the current 100 km limit. While this technology is obviously still in its infancy, LightSand's chairman is Kumar Mallavali, one of Brocade's original founders. So it's not a reach to conclude that the combination of his contacts and this technology could open doors for this company to succeed.
Another vendor looking to extend the SAN space is Nishan Systems. Nishan takes a slightly different angle than LightSand in extending the SAN. John Conlin, a regional manager with Nishan Systems, described their solution this way. "One of the strengths of Nishan Systems is that it allows you to connect any number of disparate SANs together, regardless of who the switch vendor is on each SAN, while maintaining the autonomy of each fabric. This helps to avoid SAN switch vendor lock-in or the complexity of meshing fabrics together when two different SAN fabrics are joined together."
Their IPS 4000 Series IP Storage switches support iSCSI, iFCP, and E_Port for trunking to both IP backbones and legacy Fibre Channel (FC) fabrics. This differs from LightSand's approach to essentially trunk remote SAN fabrics together, something organizations may or may not want to do.
Nishan's most recent and notable success is with the Carlson Companies based in Minneapolis. Carlson partly chose Nishan from this very reason, the ability to connect SANs and still maintain separate fabrics. This allows data to be passed between different regional SANs without introducing the complexity of a meshing these separate SAN fabrics or architectures into one.
Pirus Networks brings to Sun its SAN routing switch, the PSX-1000. It consists of a networking component, a system component and a storage component layer. The networking component provides connectivity to IP-based LANs or SANs. The system component provides the multiprotocol capability of the PSX-1000. Finally, the storage component contains FC ports that grant access to the FC-SAN.
Virtualization in the switch
The answer from vendors such as Pirus Networks would appear to be more. And based upon recent announcements from Brocade, they would concur that the switch should contain storage management and virtualization capabilities among others. However, since this functionality appears on the road map for inclusion into the core of the SAN switch, the definition of what comprises a switch architecture must also expand to include the providers of in-band storage virtualization solutions.
Storage virtualization itself is a very complex subject. And while one can not definitively say at what level storage virtualization should exist in the SAN in every environment, one has to note that vendors like Fujitsu Softek, Hitachi, and IBM have already announced their plans to put storage virtualization on a device on the SAN between the servers and the storage. So while storage virtualization may exist on either the server or the storage array, the storage virtualization solution that exists in the SAN, or the in-band solution, seems to be gaining momentum.
In-band storage virtualization is a technology by which storage arrays are seen by and controlled by a device between the servers and the storage array. The $64,000 question is whether this device should be the switch itself or yet another device in the SAN where this device sits in the data path between the servers and the storage. For most of the larger current providers of this technology, Fujitsu Softek, Hitachi Data Systems, Hewlett Packard, and the smaller ones such as DataCore and FalconStor, the answer is another device on the SAN. For vendors like Brocade and Pirus Networks, they would likely answer the switch itself.
Regardless of which approach is adopted, each of the solutions from these in-band virtualization vendors use different techniques to attempt to accomplish the same objective: manage and provide storage irrespective of operating systems or storage vendor. While this technology may seem farfetched to some, this one may hold the most potential for the growth and acceptance of SANs for two reasons.
First, it simplifies the zoning and configuration of the SAN. It provides a central point to which all servers come to for storage. This simplifies the provisioning of storage. Second, once all storage can be managed and controlled through a central management interface, it opens up new possibilities for data management and replication regardless of storage vendor or operating system. Of all the emerging technologies with the switch architecture, this one would appear to hold the most promise and seems to be gaining increased acceptance.
SAN security and backup
Another feature more companies are asking for is security. While many of today's SANs exist in physically secure environments, the inclusion of SAN islands throughout the enterprise in could compromise this security. Hence the increased interest for switch vendors to provide secure logins, authenticated logins and requirements to encrypt data between the server and the storage.
Another technology worth watching is the inclusion of backup agents and management code by vendors such as Veritas into the FC switches. But with all of these emerging technologies, some divergences are occurring as well. One interesting divergence is the re-emergence of what SANs were originally designed for, SANs designed exclusively for backups. In most SAN environments, two paths to the storage exist so that if one path fails, the other can maintain the connectivity to the disk. However, when backups occur in the SAN environment, contention may also arise on these data paths when the backups run. This contention inhibits the free flow of data and creates performance issues for the application if it is needed at the same time the backup is running.
By creating a tertiary SAN with existing technology, it's possible to eliminate or minimize the contention issues that arise between the backups and the primary paths to direct access storage device (DASD). While creating this tertiary SAN would require additional FC connections for all of the servers using it and at least one more SAN switch in the infrastructure, it could help to resolve the performance problems experienced in many SAN environments today during peak backup periods.
Switch within the storage array
The other interesting divergence going largely unnoticed but that may also have an impact to the bottom line of businesses is that of the creation of the back end switch within the storage array. Vixel has taken its patented rights to the arbitrated loop switch, put it on a chip, and has started marketing a back end for SANs within the storage array between the storage controller and the disk drives. Vixel then uses its documented switch performance advantage to speed up disk performance, increase the ability of a RAID controller to manage 3X to 4X as many back-end disks-up to 120 disks as opposed to only 30 to 45 now-and lowers the cost per megabyte to the end user by 15% to 20%. Their competition in their space is essentially nil and they report an increased amount of interest in this architectural design, especially since Hewlett-Packard came to market with a storage array using this architecture in July 2002.
With the emergence and divergence of these new and existing technologies within the SAN architecture, the bar for data delivery and availability on SANs will be raised even further. While the evidence points to a convergence of existing SAN architectures for many environments, it also points to a new level of expectations and base line for functionality performance in the SAN switch infrastructure and even the storage arrays themselves. This new infrastructure will create a new SAN infrastructure, one that is simpler to manage, better performing, easier to scale and more reliable than ever before.


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"Action in all sectors is necessary to reach our climate targets" – IEA Executive Director
Attaining the international goal of limiting the long-term increase of global temperature to 2° Celsius is still possible despite the world not being on track, the IEA Executive Director said on the first day of her official visit to Canada.
Energy use and carbon dioxide emissions are set to increase by a third by 2020 and almost double by 2050 under the current energy policies in place throughout the world, she warned industry representatives at the Toronto Board of Trade on 13 August.
Ms van der Hoeven, who earlier in the day had met with the Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, The Hon. Joe Oliver, cited Energy Technology Perspectives 2012 – the IEA's flagship energy technology publication – in which technologies are divided into three groups to test their present performance. She explained that some are on track, notably mature renewable technologies like hydro, biomass, onshore wind and solar photovoltaic, and some require more effort, such as electric vehicles and industrial energy efficiency. However, the majority are currently off track, including nuclear power and carbon capture and storage (CCS).
"Let's not be discouraged," she said. "While ambitious, a clean energy transition is still possible. But action in all sectors is necessary to reach our climate targets."
Ms. van der Hoeven offered four key recommendations to move towards a more sustainable energy future. First, she stressed that energy prices need to reflect the true cost of energy. "That means pricing carbon and abolishing fossil fuel subsidies – subsidies which in 2011 were almost seven times higher than support for renewables," she said.
The IEA Executive Director added that governments can unlock the potential of energy efficiency by adopting the IEA's 25 energy efficiency policy recommendations.
In addition, she noted that energy innovation and public support for research, development and demonstration must be accelerated to encourage private sector investment and more widespread commercial use.
Finally, Ms van der Hoeven said that while natural gas can provide a crucial bridge to low-carbon technologies going forward, in order to maintain the viability of the unconventional gas revolution, 'Golden Rules' must be implemented to address public concerns while maintaining a healthy investment climate. The Golden Rules, outlined by the IEA in May 2012, underline the importance of full transparency, measuring and monitoring of environmental impacts and engagement with local communities; careful choice of drilling sites and measures to prevent any leaks from wells into nearby aquifers; rigorous assessment and monitoring of water requirements and of waste water; measures to target zero venting and minimal flaring of gas; and improved project planning and regulatory control.
Oil sands
The day after her speech in Toronto, Ms van der Hoeven went to Fort McMurray to visit the oil sands, which comprise more than 97% of Canada's 174 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.
During her visit to the oil sands, the IEA Executive Director saw the sheer magnitude of the mining and in situ operation. Ms. Van der Hoeven observed the Waipisiw area, which was the first mine reclaimed, and the transition that is underway to make mining and upgrading a more sustainable process. She had opportunities to hear about initiatives that foster co-operation amongst companies, through initiatives like Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) and with universities, that can bring fundamental step-changes to the efficiency, sustainability, and social acceptability of oil sands production.
Ms. van der Hoeven then flew to Calgary where she met with Alberta's Minister of Energy, Ken Hughes, before participating in an Energy Roundtable with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. She heard from participants at the roundtable about the technical and environmental challenges that the oil and gas industry face in developing Canada's hydrocarbon resources.
The Executive Director concluded her visit to Canada with a speech at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce on 15 August where she presented the IEA's report on the Golden Rules that are needed in order to usher in a golden age of natural gas.


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Ugh, here we go again. :/
I contacted support (once accidentally by another email account.)
My problem is a case of art theft, so I'm trying to hurry and get this done so I can just get it off my shoulders. Heres the message I keep getting... https://i.gyazo.com/f12cd6c44e1660cd...d00226f692.png (Censored for privacy.)
And from no response I'm getting, I'm assuming it didn't go through. :I


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The annual BBC Price of Football Study has for the first time looked at the cost of following top flight Irish league Football.
Here's eight things we learned about the cost of the game locally in 2015
Portadown and Glenavon sell the cheapest season tickets at £70. Glentoran (£155), Ballymena United and Carrick Rangers ( both £150) charge the most for their lowest costing season ticket, followed by Ballinamallard United, Dungannon Swifts and Linfield (all at £140). It's £130 for the cheapest season ticket at Coleraine while Cliftonville charge £115 and Crusaders £112
Ballymena United, Glentoran and Coleraine charge charge most for their top end season tickets at £160, it's £150 at Linfield and Carrick Rangers, while Ballinamallard, Dungannon, Crusaders, Glenavon and Portadown charge £140. Cliftonville's top end season ticket costs £130
Glenavon fans can pay between £7 and £12 for an away ticket - all other clubs charge a flat rate £10 - the same price as a single home match ticket for all clubs
Glentoran fans pay more for their match day programme than any other club at £3. Linfield charge £2.50 while all other clubs sell match day programmes at £2
A kids replica shirt will sting parents somewhere between £25 (Ballinamallard United) and £35 ( Glenavon and Crusaders)
Ballinamallard United also sell the cheapest adult replica shirts at £35 - Crusaders FC, Glenavon, Carrick Rangers, Ballymena United, Glentoran, Linfield and Cliftonville all charge £40
That £2 half time cup of tea at Glentoran is twice the price of a cuppa at all other grounds surveyed
The cost to fans here is a far cry from that faced by those of English Premier League clubs
The average cost of the cheapest match-day ticket in the English Premier League has passed £30 for the first time, the BBC's Price of Football has found.
Eleven clubs in the top flight put the price of this ticket up, contributing to a 6.54% year-on-year rise. It now averages £30.68, up from £28.80.
The cost of the most expensive match-day ticket fell slightly to an average of £56.63.
In the season ticket category, both the cheapest and most expensive rose about 1% to £513.95 and £886.21 respectively. That works out at £27.05 and £46.64 a game.
Premier League grounds were 95.9% full last season – a record level.
Swansea were the only club out of 230 across the UK who declined to take part in the study.
Of the 19 Premier League clubs studied, 55.26% of tickets were frozen in price this season, while 11.84% were reduced and 32.89% were increased in price.
The average pie costs £3.35 in the top flight, up 1.82%, while a tea is £2.09, down 2.84%. A programme is £3.42, up 6.77%.
From next season, a bumper new television deal, worth £5.136bn, commences in the Premier League and will bring clubs tens of millions in extra revenue. Even the club which finishes 20th will earn an estimated £100m, up more than £30m.
The Price of Football, the largest study of its type in Europe, looked at costs at 230 clubs in 13 leagues across Britain.
Ticket price highlights
Arsenal again have the most expensive match day ticket in the Premier League at £97.
The cheapest matchday ticket in the Premier League is offered by Leicester City at £22.
Chelsea's cheapest match day ticket is £52, highest-priced of the Premier League's cheapest.
Derby County, Reading and Huddersfield's £10 match day ticket is the cheapest in the top five leagues in England - only matched by Southport in the Conference.
The average price of the cheapest match-day ticket in Scottish football's top flight now costs £20.17 on average after a 1.2% fall in price. This is less than England's Championship and League One.
In Women's Super Leagues One and Two, match day ticket prices average £4.94.
Season tickets
Arsenal again have the most expensive season ticket in the Premier League at £2,013.
Their cheapest season ticket remains £1,014, and is still the most costly in the Premier League - £249 more than the next highest.
However both Arsenal season tickets include seven matches in cup competitions.
Stoke City have the cheapest season ticket in the Premier League at £294.
Reading's £135 season ticket is the cheapest in the top four divisions in England, with only Conference side Eastleigh (£120) cheaper.
The most expensive season ticket in Scotland is sold by Celtic, at £559, but that fell in price by £41 this season.
In the Women's Super Leagues One and Two, Notts County have the most expensive season ticket at £60, while London Bees Ladies have the cheapest at £18.
Replica shirts
The average cost of a football shirt in the UK is £42.18 for adults.
In the Premier League the average cost of the adult replica shirt is now £49.68, up 4.82% with 10 clubs putting prices up.
Price of Football asked for the cost of junior shirts for the first time this year. The average price is £33.66 for children.
The average top flight junior shirt is £38.42.
Manchester United's £60 adult shirt is the highest in the study, as is their £45 junior shirt.
At the Old Trafford club, it costs £118 for a full adult strip, including shorts, socks and a name and number of the shirt at the club. A junior strip is £103.
Bournemouth's £40 adult shirt and Norwich's £28 junior shirt are the cheapest in the Premier League.
The 20 Premier League clubs brought out 50 strips this season, with 10 clubs putting new third strips on sale.
Aberdeen's £55 shirt is the most expensive in Scotland and the joint second highest in the UK, while their £43 junior shirt was the costliest in Scotland and third highest in the study.
The cheapest adult shirt in the UK is at London Bees who charge £20.90.
Kidderminster Harriers again have the most expensive pie among the clubs we covered. The National League club charges £4.50 for their award-winning pie.
Championship club Brighton & Hove Albion are the next most expensive at £4.10.
In the Premier League, Crystal Palace and Man City have the most expensive pie at £4.
In Scotland, at £1.20, the cheapest pies are at Forfar and Queen's Park.
Conference side Braintree's £1 pie is the cheapest in the study.
Cups of tea
Liverpool and Glasgow Rangers have the most expensive cup of tea in the study at £2.50.
The cheapest can be bought at Scottish League two side Elgin City for 60p. The cheapest in England is for 80p at Braintree.
Chelsea at £1 and Watford at £1.70 have the cheapest tea in the Premier League.
The most expensive cup of tea in the top four divisions of Scottish football can be bought at Celtic, Dundee, Dundee United, and Inverness at £2.20.
European comparisons:
You can buy a season ticket at Bayern Munich for £104.48 and Barcelona for £73.88, less than the cheapest available in the top four leagues in both England and Scotland.
Barcelona's shirt is £89.55 – the most expensive out of the 227 teams in the study.
You can buy a match day ticket for Bayern Munich (£11.19), Bayer Leverkusen (£11.19) and Borussia Dortmund (£11.94) for £34.32, less than the £36.06 cost of the average pie, tea and cheapest matchday ticket in the Premier League.
PSG expensive season ticket for £2,113.46 – £100 more than Arsenal's and the most expensive out of the 227 teams in the study.
PSG offer a matchday for £186.57 -£89.57 more than Arsenal's most expensive matchday ticket – which is the costliest in the UK.


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Graphic-Studio necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 13 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
Basically, what we have here is a website http://www.sblocal.com that also has an Online Shopping area and a BLOG; http://sblocal.typepad.com and I want to integrate the three sites. the Shop is http://ShopSBLocal.com - So the Logo needs to have the SHOP & BLOG parts removable from the main SBLocal.com part, and not interleaved. You can show just ONE Design with SHOP or BLOG included just for show.
A web 2.0 design with reflection or banner type logo is something I'd like to see - get creative. It's not really a Surfing community per se, but it is the Beach. check out the Sites listed and see if you want to work with this one.
So you can see that I have a photograph gallery that sells photographs and a DVD of the area with the growing BLOG . . . I want to show the many various areas available. Without making it a Navigational item.
Final file format preferred: PSD - CS2 and above. & at least 880px X 220px to cover the BLOG & SHOP Pages.
Santa Barbara Local, including: MAIN, SHOP,BLOG
The main website is located at SBLocal.com and eventually may get a redesign again. the shop is at https://ShopSBLocal.com - another location that I'd like to use this logo is http://sblocal.typepad.com
You are allowed to use any of the images that I have of Santa Barbara located at http://www.juedmartinez.com/galleries.html for posterizing or whatever. My favorite image is located on the ShopSBlocal.com page of the Restaurant on the Pier.
I want to tie everything together and probably need an image that's at least 880px X 220px to cover the BLOG Page.
- Tagline: "All Santa Barbara, All The Time" - Optional, I can add later if not incorporated in your design
- Beach, Surf, type of identity
- Scrolling, flourished text is okay
- Black or Red Background color preferred but be creative and we'll go from there
- Keep in mind that the Main site SBLOCAL.COM will get redesigned around this logo
- This logo will be used on the SHOP and the BLOG
- The words BLOG and SHOP will be inter changeable later on
- Vector Art is OK - but I want a themed type of logo for a Beach Community
- Comments and Feedback so I can answer questions and help along the way.
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Butterfly numbers in the UK countryside fell by almost a quarter last summer, according to a new scientific study.
The Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS) revealed that butterflies suffered a disappointing 2011 compared to 2010 with recorders seeing 22% fewer butterflies on average.
Last year's record-breaking cold summer and the ongoing deterioration of suitable butterfly habitat across the countryside are seen as causes for the fall in numbers.
Garden favourite the Small Tortoiseshell was one of the species badly affected, with less than one seen per kilometre walked on average in the countryside.
Such low numbers are a cause for concern given that less than a decade ago the butterfly was likely to be seen in almost every garden and flowery place through the summer months.
The drop in Small Tortoiseshell sightings from the WCBS mirrors an alarming and ongoing decline for this once ubiquitous species. This is the first time that a comprehensive survey has shown how few are now found across the countryside as a whole.
The WCBS involves counting butterflies in more than 700 randomly generated 1km-squares across the UK countryside.
The scheme helps assess the health of butterfly populations across the wider countryside, rather than specially managed hotspots such as nature reserves.
Last year, recorders saw on average 47 butterflies from seven species per-survey made over July and August.
This represents a 22% reduction in numbers from 2010 and an alarming 41% reduction from 2009 when recorders saw an average of 80 butterflies and eight species.
There were 43 visits where were recorders saw no butterflies at all - double the 2010 figure.
The Common Blue also struggled in 2011; the butterfly was present in only one-third of squares compared to over half in 2010.
The Wall declined in distribution for the third consecutive year with this once common species now largely absent from central England.
The Meadow Brown was the most widespread and abundant species, being found in more than 80% of squares.
WCBS Co-ordinator Dr Zoë Randle said: "The new survey is proving vital in getting better information on how our common butterflies are faring across the countryside as a whole.
"The gloomy results show we need to step up efforts to rebuild a better countryside for butterflies."
Kate Risely, Breeding Bird Survey Organiser at the BTO added: "It is important to carefully monitor the numbers of our wider countryside butterfly species in order to detect potential threats to their populations.
"Results from the upcoming 2012 survey and in years to come will show whether these declines are sustained. We're very pleased that bird surveyors can contribute to butterfly recording, highlighting the value of dedicated naturalists in our society."
The WCBS is run by Butterfly Conservation, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) as part of the United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring scheme (UKBMS).


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1. Official Seal
- The official seal is a device for lending authenticity to documents which emanate from the university, especially in its corporate capacity. This seal is used primarily on diplomas and official transcripts, certificates of completion for foreign students, written agreements and contracts, Regents publications and invitations, honorary degrees and awards, certification of board actions, and other official documents that have been issued on behalf of the university. This seal also appears on the president's chain of office, the university mace, commencement programs, Regents regalia, Regents web site, and standard stationary items for the Regents.
- The Secretary of the University and of the Board of Regents is the custodian of the official seal.
- The office of admissions and records on each campus is authorized to use an official seal on those documents requiring authentication and containing information drawn from the official records of that office.
- Discretion as to the use of the official seal on other documents rests with the Secretary of the University and of the Board of Regents.
2. Commercial Seal
The commercial seal may be reproduced on a variety of commercial applications with the approval of the university director of licensing. The commercial seal may also be used internally, in accordance with the University Graphics Standards Manual, for documents, certificates of appreciation, awards, invitations, other similar uses, and on standard university stationary items. If the reproduction of the commercial seal is less than the size of a quarter and/or the inscription is unreadable, the inscription should not be used. (Samples of the seals are included herewith.)
History: Adopted 04/15/49; revised 11/09/00


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Q: What is the difference between a waterfall filter and a pressurized filter?
Ryan – Houston, TX
A: Your pond or water garden needs some kind of biological filtration system to keep the water crystal clear. In general, you'll find two basic types: a waterfall filter and a pressurized filter. Both are comparably priced and work well at cleaning the water and removing suspended particles, but there are some distinct differences.
Waterfall Filter
Typically installed during pond construction and connected to the liner, a waterfall filter, like the PondBuilder™ Crystal Falls Waterfall Filter, is buried in the ground at the top of your waterfall. This allows a place for water to pool, which then creates a smooth, even flow as the water pours down into the pond.
The filter box itself houses the biological filtration media, like BioBalls™ and filter media pads, that are covered with nitrogen- and ammonia-eating beneficial bacteria. Overall, it's a simple, easy-to-maintain system that can handle high volumes of water.
Pressurized Filter
Unlike the waterfall filter, a pressurized filter, like The Pond Guy® AllClear™ Pressurized UV Filter, can be positioned anywhere outside the pond. The unit holds water pressure, so the filtered water can be routed back to the pond or up to a waterfall, creating a flowing waterfall effect without taking up space at the top of the falls.
As with the waterfall filter, the filter box itself holds the biological filtration media, but it can also house an ultraviolet sterilizer and may even be configured to backflush for ultra-easy maintenance. Another benefit: The pressurized filter is an easy addition to an already-existing pond that needs filtration (or an upgrade).
Purchase Options
When deciding whether to invest in a waterfall filter or a pressurized filter, ask yourself these questions:
- Given your current pond situation, which one is easier for you to install?
- What type of filter can accommodate the intended water flow? A waterfall filter can generally handle more water flow than the pressurized model.
- Do you wish to also use an ultraviolet sterilizer? If so, consider a pressurized filter, like the AllClear™, that includes a built in UV unit.
Pond Talk: What kind of filter do you have in your pond?
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un atelier de design à l'UQAM. Depuis Anette enseigne à la HEAD (Haute école d'art et de design de Genève). Anette m'a donc invité cette année à donner un workshop à Genève et c'est avec enthousiasme que j'ai accepté.
Pour tout vous dire, je n'ai pas été déçu. J'y ai fait un séjour fantastique (merci Anette et à toute l'équipe de la HEAD) , mais j'ai aussi renouvelé avec ce grand plaisir de travailler avec des étudiants stimulés et complètement engagés dans leur formation ce qui permet de faire du design et de former ma foi... de très bons designers si je me fie à ce qu'on a exécuté ici en seulement 5 jours.
Voici donc le groupe d'étudiants qui ont pris part au jeu.
It all started with a sincere friendship between Anette Lenz and me. For several years we had this project to renew the experience of working together. I met Anette in 2004 at a time when I invited her to give a design workshop at UQAM. Now, Anette teaches at HEAD (High School of Art and Design in Geneva). So this year, she invited me to give a workshop in Geneva and it was with great enthusiasm that I accepted.
To be honest, I have not been disappointed. It was a fantastic experience (thanks to Anette and the entire HEAD team). I must say it was great to renewed with the great pleasure of working with energized and fully engaged students in what design schools are for: developing the skills of future designers. When I look at what has been done at HEAD in just 5 days, I was simply fascinated. So, here is the group of students who took part in that workshop.
Les étudiants avaient à trouver un contenant de verre (bouteille, flacon, etc.) et une histoire. Le contenant trouvé devait être perçu comme l'acteur principal de l'histoire et inclure l'usager comme acteur de soutien, à moins que ce ne soit l'inverse. Il fallait ensuite concevoir un costume pour l'acteur (une étiquette) et une mise en scène (la boîte). La contrainte majeure, n'utiliser que le papier pour communiquer. Auncune image imprimée n'était permise. Il s'agissait donc d'engager l'utlisateur dans une expérience interactive où il prenait un rôle important et signifiant dans le déroulement de l'histoire.
Les prochaines publications de mon blogue présenteront les travaux exécutés par les étudiants de mon workshop.
The project: Telling a story with the package.
The students had to find a glass container (bottle, flask, etc.) and choose a story. The container was found to be perceived as the main actor in the history and include the user as a supporting actor, unless it is the opposite. He then had to design a costume for the actor (a label) and staging (the box). The major constraint consists of using only paper to communicate. No printed image was allowed. The package had therefore to involve the user in an interactive experience in witch he was playing an important role in the course of the history. Future posts on this blog will present the work done by the students in my workshop.
Valérie Pierrehumbert | Jack et le haricot
D'abord, il y a la longue bouteille évoquant bien sûr la hauteur. Puis, il y a cette boîte qui s'est construite tout au long du workshop et qui, comme le haricot géant, permet à Jack de grimper jusqu'en haut lorsque la bouteille est glissée hors de la boîte.
Valerie Pierrehumbert | Jack and the bean
First, there is the high bottle referring to the story. Then there is this box that was built throughout the workshop and, as the giant bean plant allowing Jack to literally climb when the bottle is slid out of the box.
Is there a political solution to an economic crisis in Europe? This is the complex question to a real problem. When discussing with Europeans these days, the least we can say is that a heavy and opaque cynicism is prevailing over optimism. When dealing with a very smart and committed Spanish student like Marta, the proposed solution is a disturbing pink magic potion that one must find in a labyrinth of words: Government Economical Solution to Crisis. Great work!
This is a nice tribute to Hitchcock designed by Arnaud Imobersteg in my workshop to Head. This bottle of eau-de-vie to which is added a drop of grenadine evokes, when taken out of the box, the progressive tension of the film "The Birds" (1963). The box can also mention the film "Rear Window" (1954).
Anthony Guex tells a story inspired by the illusionist's game where the packaging comes with a saw that actually helps revealing two small jars of jam when we thought there was only one.
Prediction for December 2012 is a sociological phenomenon based on several beliefs announcing major changes or cataclysmic events for December 21st, 2012. Originally, this date marks the end of the 5125 years cycle of long count in the Mayan calendar, interpreted by some as the definitive end of time.
Next question is, do you believe that? Everything here seems to be a matter of faith. What would we were sure it would happen? Here's a package designed specifically for the believers of the end of the world. It is a vial filled with a strong poison to avoid having to face the end of the world. But there's a small challenge here, the product expires one minute before the deadline so in other words the product must be consumed before the first signs of the end times. This is an offer designed specifically for believers who have the choice to decide weather or not they will die just before the big wreck. This project was designed by Victoria Ducruet in my workshop at HEAD in Geneva.
Garder la ligne | Camille Bouvier
In this holiday season, how to stay fit? Camille Bouvier in my packaging workshop the Head, attempts to answer this question with a slimming elixir packaged in a scales shaped box.


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Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive
The Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive Associates invite you to come to Fulton County, Illinois and enjoy the natural wonders of the Spoon River Valley. Spoon River has carved a wide scenic valley through Fulton County as it flows from London Mills to the south and east where it joins the Illinois River near the southeastern corner of the county. The Spoon River became nationally known from the work of Edgar Lee Masters, author of the noted Spoon River Anthology. Come on out the first two full weekends in October. There are over one hundred miles of scenic routes on the Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive to be enjoyed on this driving tour with beautiful fall colors. There will be food, arts, crafts, entertainment and flea market. Visit 17 villages and historic sites!
A unique, 2,000-acre zoological park which is home to wolves, bison, waterfowl, black bear, elk, cougar, otter, and others. You will enjoy the park's spectacular natural settings, butterfly garden, wildflowers, lakes and restored prairies.
CITY:Hanna City
The Nature Conservancy Emiquon Preserve
The Emiquon Preserve, also known as the "Jewel of the Illinois River," is aptly named for its abundance of wetlands and wildlife. The sheer biological diversity made it the natural place for Native Americans to settle long ago. In recent years, the land has undergone a restoration returning its natural beauty for all to enjoy once again.
Fulton County Camping & Recreation Area
Enjoy camping, hiking, fishing and other outdoor recreational activities.
CITY:St. David
Camping, fishing, picnicking, hiking.
DragonLand has something for everyone, all on three-plus acres of immaculately kept park land with ample room to stretch out and soak up the rays! DragonLand is handicapped accessible and has an award winning lifeguard staff ready to make your visit a safe one. Zero depth, play / entry area and two water slides that twist and turn you "Dude" the dragon slide with mushroom waterfall geyser play features Sand beach play area with water equipment and extended deck / patio with lounge chairs "Adults only" patio with large turf for sunbathing Reasonably priced cafeteria style concessions Sand beach volleyball courts with changing, shower and locker facilities Heated pool with lighting for night activities Fully handicapped accessible
Browns Oakridge Zoo is a family owned and operated zoo established in 1990. Beginning with a single pot bellied pig and a few whitetail deer, the number of species housed at the zoo has grown to include five Siberian tigers, several black bears, two lions, and many more exotic and domestic animals. Over the years we have taken in many abandoned animals. A total of 152 lion and tiger cubs, abandoned in captivity have been reared here. Most of our animals have been raised in the house, and have had a lot of human contact. You won't just get to see the animals here, but you will be able to have hands on contact. Imagine being able to hold a lion, tiger, or bear cub. It brings out the kid in all of us.
Championship course with a country club atmosphere. A challenging 18-hole course designed by the late Bruce Borland, senior designer for Jack Nicklaus.
Twelve sites with electricity and water available year-'round for nightly, weekly, and monthly camping. Close to footbridge. Complimentary firewood. One shelter.
The largest of all the state forests in Illinois. Covers 7,100 acres of native oak-hickory forests and pine plantations. Supports diverse desert flora and fauna in its sandy landscape as well as also offering a variety of recreational facilities.
CITY:Forest City
Rice Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area
Rice Lake is a waterfowler's dream. Its high quality habitat attracts thousands of migrating birds annually. In addition, areas are also available for fishing, boating, camping, and wildlife observation.
Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area
Fishing, boating, picnicking in the out-of-doors.
Home to one of the earliest educational enterprises in Illinois, the park and its sister site, Jubilee College State Historic Site, are located 15 miles northwest of Peoria near Kickapoo. In addition, to the rich history of the college, the park offers hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding and camping. Jubilee College State Park has more than 40 miles of multi-use trails that wind through woodland, hills, ravines and prairies. Mountain bikers are reminded that horses have the right-of-way on the trails.
Spring Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area
Contains a large bluff overlooking a long, narrow lake. Camping, picnicking, fishing, boating, hiking, and hunting opportunities provide a vast recreational experience. Concession and boat rentals are also available.
Powerton Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area
The lake was built on the floodplain of the Illinois River in 1971 by Commonwealth Edison Company as a cooling reservoir for the fossil-fuel power plant. Today, the completely diked, 1,426-acre lake is leased for visitor hunting and fishing.
This layout is wonderfully enjoyed by golfers of all skill levels, with 4 sets of tees on each hole the good golfers can go to the gold tees where it can play difficult, and the average player can enjoy themselves from the white tees. The 18-hole course features 6,900 yards from the longest tees for a par of 72, the course rating is 72.7 and it has a slope of 127.
Pavillion on the Lagoon at Mineral Springs Park
This beautiful building built in 1905, serves as the focal point of our community and is available for your group, family or organization's use. Comfortably seating 70 people, the Pavilion is surrounded with windows overlooking the lagoon and a large, wrap-around porch. Weddings, anniversary parties, baby showers, business meetings, and family get-together's are popular. This historic building is equipped with a kitchen area with counters, microwave and refrigerator, air conditioning, and tables and chairs. The Pavilion is handicapped accessible.
Shaw Creek Golf Course. The course is best known for its forgiving fairways. The greens are well manicured and medium in size and speed. There is a creek that flows through this course that comes into play on three holes. The course is sporty and will give golfers an opportunity to post some low numbers, but several holes will provide an enjoyable challenge for both experienced and inexperienced golfers.
Jubilee College State Park Camping
Jubilee College State Park is a 3,200-acre facility, located in Peoria County between Kickapoo and Brimfield, just off U.S. Route 150. This scenic area, with its rolling topography and meandering Jubilee Creek, offers various outdoor recreation.
Peaceful country setting on 35 acres with open grassy or wooded sites. Large open and enclosed pavilions available for parties and reunions.
Facilities include a 4-mile trail, indoor ice-skating rink, horse riding stables, fishing, bocce ball, canoes, bike boats, Frisbee golf course, mini-golf and a lot more.
This state of the art, beautifully landscaped miniature golf course features 18 holes of choice, chance, and challenge, including six holes that are handicapped accessible. With a stream running through the course, it's bound to add some unexpected challenges to your game. Walk through the caboose which serves as hole No. 4. Enjoy the beautiful landscaped eclectic theme of the history of Pekin.
Sunset Hills Golf Course is a locally owned course located in the center of the Sunset Hills neighborhood in Pekin, Illinois. Open to the public, this course offers many reasonable membership options, including varying discounts. This fantastic Pekin golf facility features a driving range to warm up with, and an experience rich with rolling hills and challenging flats.
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ROCKFORD — Several people at Monday's concealed-carry forum said it wasn't what they expected, but they're happy they went.
Many of them expected it to be an anti-gun or anti-concealed-carry meeting because of a post on the Illinois State Rifle Association's Facebook page under the heading "Urgent Alert — Gun grabbers to hold forum on concealed carry in Rockford."
The post directed gun owners to be there "to support the right to keep and bear arms."
As it turned out, and as the forum was described to media last week, not a word was said about repealing the law or wanting to "take your guns away from you," as the post stated.
About 100 people turned out for the educational forum.
"I was pleasantly surprised," said Stephanie Butler of Poplar Grove, a member of the Well Armed Woman. "It was very informative."
Bob Janzen of Rockford "thought this was going to be a lot more of an anti-concealed-carry meeting. I was shocked to find out it was just a generally informative meeting. ... I've been to a bunch of these already, but this was a good one. It would have been a good one for someone who had never been to one before."
The event at the YWCA building on East State Street was put on by the League of Women Voters of Greater Rockford and the YWCA of Rockford.
"This is an educational forum so people can come out and learn about the new law that's coming into effect," league President Ann Dempsey said. "The mission of the league is not pro or con."
The panelists — NIU law professor Paul Cain, Winnebago County State's Attorney Joe Bruscato and Mark Walsh of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence — gave an overview of the new law, spoke about the legal ramifications and discussed the effect they think it will have on crime and local businesses.
Bruscato believes the law will have a positive impact on crime in Winnebago County. He said he's more concerned about the people who are buying guns illegally and engaging in criminal activity.
Some of Walsh's concerns are the difficulty people and businesses may have interpreting the law's provision regarding the sale of alcohol, the confusion that may also arise in posting "no-gun zone" signs, particularly in public places like parks, schools, and bus and train stops.
In its Facebook post, the state rifle association called Walsh's group "a rabidly anti-gun organization that is working hard to take your guns away from you."
Walsh said it had been a long-time opposer of the concealed-carry law, but its focus is making the law the best it can be.
"This is one of the problems with this issue. Instead of having actual conversations about what's in the law and making this the best law possible, it becomes 'Don't let them take your gun away'."
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Check a typical college student's dorm these days, and you'll find the usual paraphernelia: a full collection of Rush CDs, a working MacQuarium, a poster of John Belushi from Animal House wearing the sweatshirt that says "COLLEGE" -- okay, so that's just what mine would have in it. Turns out I'd better budget for a sturdy UPS as well as potential increases in student fees, according to this AP report.
As students take more appliances and gadgets to school, colleges are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade electrical systems. The costs are often recouped by increasing room rates. "It looks like Circuit City in some of those rooms," said Dan Bertsos, director of residence services at Wright State University near Dayton. "What's happening today on college campuses is as we renovate buildings we are having to double or triple the electrical service to student rooms," Bertsos said. "Instead of having five or 10 amps to a room, you've got 20 or 30."
Now, to be fair, students aren't necessarily entirely to blame for the power drain. Lots of older campus buildings need extensive rewiring to bring them up to today's electrical code standards, and those shiny new computer labs add up, even with EnergyStar-compliant equipment mandatory these days...
Andrew Matthews, of the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International, said many dorms were built in the 1950s and 1960s and don't have the electrical capacity for power-dependent students. "I'm not so sure the students using more electronics is the problem," said Matthews, chairman of the association's facilities and service committee. "I think it goes back to the buildings."
In a time when school budgets are squeezed tighter than ever, it's a hard call for some colleges to make. Do you spend big amounts of cash to upgrade your infrastructure, knowing that it's likely to fill up anyway? Or do you put it off and try to control the drain at the source, by limiting what students can and can't bring to their rooms? Neither choice seems very appealing.
Ars has a pretty healthy college-level audience; what do you think? Are your dorms underpowered? Do you tend to run out of outlets quickly? Had to pony up extra cash to cover "infrastructure improvement costs" at your school?


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The TP-Link Wireless Pan/Tilt Surveillance Camera is a pretty ambitious little security camera. So let's go over the feature set of what it is supposed to do, talk about the features briefly, then discuss what the camera can ACTUALLY do so you decide if this is the right security solution for you. I'm going to qualify this by saying that this camera may be capable of doing more with a 3rd party software application, but as it is, out of the box, with the included software is how it was reviewed.
- 54 Mbps Wireless Connectivity
- Motorized Pan/Tilt 354 degree pan and 125 degree tilt.
- Day / Night
- 32 Preset Monitoring Positions and 4 patrol tours
- 10x digital zoom
- Smooth video Streaming
- 3gpp compliant video for 3G mobile device usage.
- 2 way audio communication support
- High Quality MJPEG and MPEG-4 Streaming
- Digital input / Output interface for external sensors and alarms
- Free bundled software supports 16 channel simultaneous surveillance
- Advanced SSL/HTTPS encryption
- Supports email, http or ftp alert
Ok, so most of this stuff is pretty straight forward… the problem is that is where it ends out of the box. The camera is very easy to setup, everything is logical and the manual (which is only available on the included CD) lays the setup out exactly how you would think it would go so many of you will not require to read it. Configuring the TP-LINK TL-SC4171G is easily done through the web interface. It is setup to grab an IP from your DHCP server, you login and configure it.
That said here are the actual features that we were able to get working well enough to use it as a security product:
- 54 Mbps Wireless Connectivity <— BINGO – This works great.
- Motorized Pan/Tilt 354 degree pan and 125 degree tilt. <— BINGO – This works great.
- Day / Night <– BINGO Works Great.
- 32 Preset Monitoring Positions and 4 patrol tours <— FAIL WHALE – We were not able to get this to work at all.
- 10x digital zoom <– Works
- Smooth video Streaming <– FAIL WHALE if you are using their software, there is a 3rd party app avail on iOS and Android that works well.
- 3gpp compliant video for 3G mobile device usage. <— BINGO Works Well
- 2 way audio communication support <— FAIL WHALE – Causes everything to slow down, doesn't work in their software, and glitches on 3rd Party Apps
- High Quality MJPEG and MPEG-4 Streaming <— FAIL WHALE – I have never seen a good image with their software. With the 3rd Party App I'd say the quality was decent, nothing to write home about.
- Digital input / Output interface for external sensors and alarms <– Was not able to test because they don't even give you a hint at what sensos and alarms are compatible so this is a useless feature unless you are into running out and buying 1 of everything to see if it works.
- Free bundled software supports 16 channel simultaneous surveillance <— FAIL WHALE This software is so incredibly useless I can't even begin to imagine why they would bundle it. If this was a restaurant and the software was a piece of steak… it would be served to with a spoiled smell and flies buzzing around it. In fact, all other companies on the planet should use this software as an example of what not to provide their consumer if it is going to fail so badly. This is a fail of epic proportion because it provides the basic functionality that is required to use all the features (like recording).
- Advanced SSL/HTTPS encryption <—- FAIL WHALE, yes it is encrypted, yay… but the web interface is not useable to view video because it refreshes the whole screen rather than just the window. It's annoying and useless. Yes I know it's not talking about the web interface but it wasn't listed on the list of features so I put it here because SSL/HTTPS is associated with that regularly and well I didn't think I should add to their list of features and put "Web Interface" as clearly they already know their web interface is not a "feature", which is why they must have omitted it.
- Supports email, http or ftp alert <— FAIL WHALE the image refreshes the whole screen so it is impossible to setup the motion detection stuff for email alerts.
- UPNP – My router is setup for UPNP and their software couldn't find their camera. Couldn't tell you if it worked, I'm assuming no because of the experience with the rest of the features. At this point in the review it didn't seem to really matter.
Now I know at this point you are thinking "Wow, I'm glad I didn't buy this camera". Maybe not… let me tell you why. Oh wait, I can't. At this point I was prepared to argue that the camera does function very well using IP Cam Viewer for iOS or Android. It will even record, so you can use a tablet and set it all up. I would normally do that if this camera was very inexpensive. However, I can't do that because there are a lot of other cameras that have all the features this camera does on the market for significantly less money (around $100 USD less). The cheapest price I could find on the TP-LINK TL-SC4171G is $216, and its MSRP is $299.99. It does "look" better than the rest of them, but I need a camera that is going to work with more than a cell phone to record what happens at my business. Sure I could get a 3rd party application for this purpose but how do I know it will do what I need to do if the company that makes it can't even get it to work properly with their software?
At this point all I can recommend that you do is take a pass on this TP-LINK TL-SC4171G Surveillence Camera. It's got a lot of potential, and I honestly believe that ALL of the issues I've outlined (with the exception of the patrol which just doesn't seem to work well at all) can be fixed through a few simple software updates. Until TP-LINK does this, and shows us that the camera can operate consistantly well we can't in all faith tell you to go out and buy one.
1 out of 5 stars.


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Fiddleheadbrewing needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 297 designs submitted by 71 freelance designers.
Fiddlehead Brewing Company
I am starting up a new craft brewery in the northeast which will focus on serving a local market in an area of discerning beer drinkers. We chose the name Fiddlehead (as in the fern) because it has region flair and combines a mix between an eathy image but a word that is fun, funky, playful.
A logo is needed to form brand/identify and will initially be used on signage, and later incorporated into bottles, tap handles, and other points of sale.
The target audience is craft beer drinkers, both male and female, between the ages of 21-45+.
We really want to see different ideas, and aren't entering into the process with a preconceived notion of what a Fiddlehead logo should look like. Black and white and color ideas are both of interest. I'm committed to following the contest closely and giving feedback through to narrow my focus and give designers more of a sense of what we are looking for.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Catherine MacDonald writes about vibrant, brave, strong, and hardy women. Growing up in Sacramento, California her library card was her passport, and the books she read were her adventures.
Always fascinated by the written word, after college Catherine took her keen love of books to the classroom for twenty-five years.
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The rumor mill is going crazy about which past Doctors, if any, are going to appear in Doctor Who's big anniversary special this November. And you should just get used to it — the rumor-mongering is only going to get wilder in the next few months. But suppose just one of the living past Doctors could make it, or made sense in story terms?
Who's the one past Doctor that you absolutely want to see playing opposite Matt Smith in the TARDIS?
And yes, we threw in Trevor Martin (who was the Doctor for quite some time on the stage) and Richard E. Grant (from the BBC radio adventure "Scream of the Shalka") because why not? It would be kind of hilarious if one of those guys was the only past Doctor to return for the anniversary.
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Dear Guys Working on the 405 Freeway,How's it going? I only ask because you started work over five years ago to add more lanes and, well... there aren't any. I've also noticed that on most days you're not actually doing anything. Is it possible you've grown bored with the project? I certainly would understand that. I've got more than a few half- finished scripts sitting in my desk. Of course, when I blow off my job millions of commuters aren't, how shall we say... fornicated. (Hey, maybe we should call it the 4-nication-05 freeway!) Regardless, I just want you to know that I'm rooting for you to complete your Herculean task and cut the ribbon on what will undoubtedly be a meaningless effort to ease traffic. I'd also like to offer up a few suggestions. From my untrained eye, you appear to be understaffed. Perhaps you might consider hiring a few thousand more guys and work in 'round the clock shifts, instead of, you know, just when you feel like it. Also, to avoid angry commuters flipping you off, how about giving them a heads up when you close an off ramp for no apparent reason? (Maybe a few miles in advance instead of a hundred yards.) And finally, I need to ask a small favor. Several times a week I crawl along the ol' 4-nication-05 with a bladder that is near to bursting. How about we work out a system where I, and other urinary-challenged drivers, get to pull over and share your port-a-potties? Maybe we can repay your hospitality by bringing you fresh magazines to read while you're in there working.
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Setting up a nightly build
The GHC builder builds GHC on various platforms in various different ways each night, runs the test suite and performance benchmarks, and mails the results to the
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- On Linux, get OpenSSL from your distro. E.g. install
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That said, allow me to post an inspirational quote. I'll even throw in an inspirational photo of an old fashioned typewriter and a blurry background of inspirational autumn:
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
--Gaston Bachelard
Aww. Isn't that inspiring?
Eh hmm. Truth?
I despise the blank page. When I read that quote, the first thing I noticed was that the guy's last name ended with lard, and I imagined him with a bushy beard and fried chicken on its way to his mouth. I did not envision myself typing away, glorying in the beauty and sheer miracle of the blank page.
The blank page is crap.
The only writerly thing that truly satisfies me is the page that's filled from beginning to end with words. That's where the story becomes a living, breathing thing full of possibility. When I first dream up a story idea, I get so excited I can hardly sit still enough to start writing it. But it doesn't take more than a few thousand (or hundred) words before I begin to despair. SO MUCH BLANK SPACE.
You'd think I weren't romantic or something. Honestly, I am. I'm a die-hard fan of grand gestures and fields of poppies and the ballet and Paris and writing at Starbucks and mud wrestling. Not the last two.
But I'm not particularly fanciful. I'm not the type to spend hours pinning things to Pinterest or finding just the right songs for my books' playlists or digging up quotes for my sanity. Perhaps it's a matter of practicality (or the sanity is already lost). I have two children and a husband to feed and water and my volunteer hours are ridiculous (seriously, go ahead and crown me Martyr of the Year.) But mostly, I'm really impatient. I don't want to fantasize about my stories. I want to live them. And I can't do that until I've written something. And that's bloody difficult. First drafts are killer. I will often rush through them just to have words on the page--something to work with, at least. I'm the photographer who doesn't necessarily envision the shot and then take it; I must take it and then work it until it becomes something glorious.
I just can't really see the story until I've written it. It's like I have to have a frame of reference in order to function artistically, but the frame of reference is inside my head not yet written--I've never found it outside of myself. That's the kicker. But by the time I've got a rough story written out, I'm so impatient to jump into revision, I don't want to go searching for stuff other people have tumblred and pinned and whatever to work the kinks out of the book. I just want to find my own story by digging inside my own head even more.
There is a certain vanity to this, I admit. But mostly just impatience.
Maybe this means I'm not a true artist?
It may be, though, there are simply two kinds of writers. Those that love the blank page and the endless possibility (these may be the ones who dream and fantasize and pin before the words come); and those who detest the blank page and revel in revision, dreaming and pinning and whatnot after the initial words. And then there's me who doesn't pin at all but thrashes inside my own mind looking for people and things that have never existed outside my head. Oh the folly. The torture...
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.--Ernest Hemingway
See, Ernest gets me. And I get him. I, however, don't really get Pinterest.
I'm not entirely sure how this post on the crapulous blank page turned into a call for help with Pinterest.


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Colorado casino revenues drop in January
Colorado's mountain casinos posted an 8 percent drop in revenue in January compared with the same month a year ago, according to data released today by the state Division of Gaming.
Last month, the industry recorded $59.2 million in adjusted gross proceeds, which is total bets minus payouts, down from $64.3 million in January
2009 2010.
Even Black Hawk, the state's top gambling destination, posted a drop. The city's 17 casinos posted AGP of $44.1 million, down 8.5 percent from $48.2 million.
Cripple Creek's 13 casinos posted a 9 percent drop to $9.9 million from $10.9 million.
Revenue in Central City, meanwhile, stayed flat. The city's 8 casinos recorded AGP of $5.2 million.
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