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More bandwidth does NOT equal better app performance
The stats are in: More bandwidth does not fix application performance problems, according to KillerApps 2013 — a recent Vanson Bourne survey of 650 US and European IT decision-makers.
Respondents were asked if they added bandwidth in the past year, as well as whether they encountered an increase in application performance issues. As it turns out, 92% of U.S. companies are adding bandwidth by at least 10% per annum. In tandem, 69% of U.S. organizations are experiencing a frequency of application latency or non-responsiveness. Of those experiencing more application slowness, business critical apps (especially CRM, ERP, UC and collaboration systems) are impacted more frequently than ever.
So what's missing? If bandwidth is being added, shouldn't application performance issues decrease? The answer is "only somewhat." If organizations add more bandwidth without any application control, it won't stop one application from usurping bandwidth from a more-important application traversing the network. Solving application problems is not just about adding more bandwidth; it's about adding network traffic management and traffic prioritization via quality of service (QoS), said TRAC Research President Bojan Simic.
"Monitoring user experience for VoIP and collaborative apps is a good way to measure application performance," Simic added. Not only is it important to control your applications, he said it's important to have the proper metrics for measuring such application performance.
Let's also not forget that WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs) are proven winners at accelerating app performance. So before you add more bandwidth to your network — consider better network metrics, a QoS strategy and a WOC or ADC to better the application performance experience for your users.
Riverbed and Silver Peak compete in the courthouse
A year ago, IT performance vendor Riverbed Technology claimed competitor Silver Peak Systems had infringed upon five patents.
Just yesterday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted Silver Peak's requests to reexamine two of them (7,428,573 & 7,849,134) and issued Office Actions rejecting all claims in each patent Riverbed accused Silver Peak of infringing — according to an official press release.
The two patents originate around Riverbed's core deduplication technology. It's not the first time Riverbed has been in the courthouse over patent infringement. The case is reminiscent of Riverbed's deduplication debacle in 2007-2008 where backup vendor Quantum sued Riverbed for patent infringement.
Silver Peak CEO Rick Tinsley says Riverbed's scaretactics call into question Riverbed's own patents:
It appears Riverbed's attempts to use its patents to slow down Silver Peak has backfired in a big way. This is a huge embarrassment for Riverbed as it calls into question the originality of their foundational technology. Despite spending millions of dollars on legal fees, Riverbed has to-date been unable to block Silver Peak who is gaining market share with its superior technology.
Although Riverbed is continuing growth, Silver Peak isn't the only competitor encroaching on marketshare from Riverbed and other dominant WAN optimization vendors (like Cisco). Exinda and other innovative WAN optimization vendors are finding ways to more-flexibly deliver traditional WAN optimization technology.
While Riverbed coined the term "WAN optimziation" and proliferated the technology with its Steelhead devices — the traditional hardware-at-both-ends method of delivery is no longer dazzling customers. Enterprises want software or cloud services to take care of optimizing applications.
This is not to say that Riverbed hasn't gone through great lengths to keep up with the times. After all, the company has been gaining newer capabilities through acquisition, like cloud networking with its Zeus Technology acquisition or Web content optimization with Aptimize.
The main difference between the competing companies is that Riverbed started out by accelerating key business applications, while Silver Peak began by optimizing anything over IP. Now that applications are proliferating networks, Riverbed has repositioned itself as an IT performance vendor (rather than a WAN optimization vendor) in order to "deliver performance of all types of workloads," Riverbed Products and Marketing President Eric Wolford explained.
Time will tell which company's strategy will win — in and out of the courthouse.
Top 5 WAN tips of 2012
The best WAN advice of 2012
What were the most popular tips for network engineers and IT managers dealing with enterprise wide area networks (WANs) in 2012? We took the top five advice articles from SearchEnterpriseWAN.com to give you a countdown of the year's most pertinent tips:
No. 5: Calculating mobile application bandwidth requirements
It's no secret mobile devices have infiltrated enterprise networks, whether through the consumerization of IT or through BYOD policies. In turn, IT managers have seen more network traffic coming from mobile applications. How can IT calculate the bandwidth requirements for these mobile applications? Tip writer Michael Finneran takes you through the calculations in this top tip of 2012.
No. 4: Three ways to optimize TCP/IP
Despite the hype around video conferencing and other real-time based applications, a great deal of network traffic is still based on TCP/IP. In this tip, WAN optimization expert Henry Svendblad offers three ways for enterprises to optimize TCP-based network traffic.
No. 3: Measuring network throughput using iPerf
As cheap as bandwidth has become, it's still a huge enterprise expense. Often times, the bandwidth enterprises pay for is not what they are getting in terms of network throughput. That's why we asked network testing guru Kevin Tolly to give us tips on how to measure wide area network throughput. In this article he shows us how to use free networking tool, iPerf, to accomplish this.
No. 2: Deciding between hardware and software WAN optimizers
Since the term "virtualization" was coined, the tech industry has gone to great lengths to virtualize just about everything imaginable — including WAN optimization controllers (WOCs). While at first virtual WOCs performed less efficiently than their hardware counterparts, that no longer speaks true today. Nemertes Research Principal Analyst John Burke presents these tips to help IT decide between hardware and software (virtual) WAN optimizers.
No. 1: Choosing the best WAN connectivity option
More than measuring network throughput, calculating bandwidth and choosing WAN optimization controllers — IT managers have wanted nothing more than to make the right telecom service decision. The most popular WAN connectivity options have included Ethernet and MPLS. Experts Johna Till Johnson and Paul Kirvan explain the benefits and drawbacks of each and list them neatly in this tech comparison chart.
How to speed up a slow network protocol
All network protocols were not created equal; nor were they designed for every network type in mind. When it comes to the wide area network (WAN), any issue with a protocol, no matter how small, is magnified as it traverses the great lengths of a wide area.
Take Network File System (NFS) or Common Internet File System (CIFS), for example. These file protocols are extremely latency-sensitive and function poorly over a WAN. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is certainly not exempt from these inefficiencies.
WAN optimization expert Henry Svendblad explains it this way:
TCP has blunt flow-management algorithms: If the network or the receiver can't handle the speed at which the sender is working, as indicated by packet loss, timeouts or an excess of out-of-order packets, the network flow will drop to half that rate. Speeds ramp up again, but more slowly than the first time.
Fortunately, IT professionals can take these steps outlined by Svendblad to thrwart slow speeds over a WAN.
For TCP optimization:
- Get smart about congestion and use a WAN optimizer that can change ramping behaviors to prevent congestion in the first place.
- Think about network priority and shape network traffic to control how bandwidth is consumed.
- Keep TCP out of the way of UDP traffic, like VoIP and video, to ensure priority of these real-time applications.
For file protocol optimization:
- Consider upgrading to current versions of your enterprise applications that use these more efficient Web protocols.
- Consider using WAN optimizers to shape traffic and control how limited bandwidth is used.
- Use a WAN optimizer to speed up file transfers with compression, caching and prefetching techniques.
Mobile and cloud optimization pick up where hardware and software WOCs leave off
For years, the WAN optimization market targeted enterprise customers. In most cases, adding WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) at branch offices cost less than adding more bandwidth. Even still, each WOC would cost anywhere from $2,500 to $15,000 — making it difficult for smaller organizations to justify the cost at every office location.
Some vendors, like Ipanema, have made strides to drive down the cost of WOCs to under $1,000 to target small and medium-sized businesses, but more organizations are looking at other WAN optimization form factors: namely, mobile and cloud optimization.
Mobile WAN optimization clients are ideal for the road warrior or the micro branch office — consisting of up to 10 employees. While a hardware WOC wouldn't make sense, a virtual WOC doesn't have a host server to load the software. Most laptops, fortunately, have space for a mobile client, and licenses have dropped from $70 to $30 USD, ZK Research Principal Analyst Zeus Kerravala said.
For those who don't want hardware, virtual or even software WAN optimization, there is cloud WAN optimization. WAN optimization as a Service has gained popularity in recent years because any number of end users at virtually any location can subscribe to a provider with an optimized link — all with more flexibility and at a more favorable cost.
But neither option comes without its caveats. Nemertes Research WAN optimization expert John Burke highlights the pros and cons of mobile and cloud optimization in this article and even considers how it compares to virtual and hardware WOCs.
Should you use a hardware or software WAN optimizer?
WAN optimization comes in many flavors and form factors. Two of the most hotly debated options are hardware and software—or physical and virtual—WAN optimization controllers (WOCs).
Advances in today's virtual technologies have made deciding between the two form factors more difficult. When virtual WOCs (vWOCs) first entered the market, the technology accelerated data more slowly than their physical counterparts—but that's beginning to change.
The decision between hardware and software WAN optimizers has become less of a question about speed, and more of a tradeoff between scalability and throughput. It also becomes a question of how familiar IT professionals are with virtual technology. If someone isn't familiar with a virtual machine or server, then a software WOC could be more trouble than it's worth.
Nemertes principal analyst John Burke breaks down the hardware vs. software debate this way:
IT needs to balance throughput requirements against scalability, infrastructure availability, and your desire to neatly modularize network functions. Where IT would have to deploy virtual machine hosts in places it did not otherwise plan to, a virtual WAN optimization appliance is not recommended. Where capacity is available and IT wants to spread WAN optimization widely, virtualization has more to recommend it.
To learn more about the advantages and disadvantages of hardware and software WAN optimizers, read Burke's article on SearchEnterpriseWAN.com.
What will accelerate your data?
Life was once simpler for the network architect: Corporate data was located in a data center that belonged to the company, and end users used to work at the headquarters or branch office. If end users complained about a stalling application, a deathly-slow file download or an eternal backup, IT could look into the appropriate WAN optimization or application acceleration solution to make that data run faster. They could put a WAN optimization controller (WOC) at the headquarters and branch and accelerate data between the two controllers — likewise with an application delivery controller (ADC).
But times have changed: Software as a Service (SaaS) makes more sense for organizations; data and storage live in the cloud instead of on-premises; end users don't just access corporate resources at an office, but also at home and on the go. These changes break down the traditional hub-and-spoke network architecture that once supported older business models. Today, making that data run faster for the cloud and mobile worker is nearly impossible with a hardware WOC or ADC.
Fortunately, vendors have caught on and developed virtual or cloud optimization solutions to keep up with this evolution. Yet cloud WAN optimization is not factored into WAN optimization market research reports, which paint a picture of a fading market. While WAN optimization may be called a different name — like "cloud optimization" or "IT performance solution" — the technology will be there to accelerate any data traversing the network. So when looking for a solution that can accelerate your data — wherever it may live — be on the look-out for non-traditional technology.
Silver Peak recognized for data movement over distance
As enterprises grow and spread out into branch offices, the ability to move data around becomes critical. Employees need access to information regardless of location, and enterprises need the peace of mind to know their data can be retrieved quickly for remote users, as well as for disaster recovery scenarios.
WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak has been on the cutting edge of data center virtualization for the enterprise, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office recently recognized the vendor's dedication to distance data movement by awarding Silver Peak with four patents for its Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) software.
The patents include:
- US Patent #8,171,238: "Identification of Data Stored in Memory"
- US Patent #8,095,774: "Pre-Fetching Data into a Memory"
- US Patent #7,948,921: "Automatic Network Optimization"
- US Patent #7,945,736: "Dynamic Load Management of Network Memory"
The software addresses the evolving enterprise WAN requirements — including shrinking real estate in the data center, noted David Hughes, founder and CTO of Silver Peak in a recent release.
In addition to the physical data center changes, enterprises must contend with new struggles associated with moving data across shared or public networks, and especially across long distances.
The newly-patented VXOA software can be deployed on any enterprise server, and move data up to 90 times faster than existing architectures, according to Silver Peak.
The shift from hardware to software isn't just a data center trend, and adaption will be important for WAN optimization vendors moving forward. As customers are looking toward software-based WAN solutions for their changing business demands, vendors must add virtual WAN optimization software in their portfolios.
Riverbed pairs application delivery with Web content optimization
If the influx of mobile devices has proven anything, it's that application delivery and Web content optimization go hand-in-hand. Tablets and smartphones are on the rise, and users need mobility. Traditional application delivery vendors are bracing for the future by aligning their products with the changing needs of the enterprise — faster, and more flexible Web experiences.
Riverbed has announced updates to its Stingray application delivery controller (ADC) product line adding its newly-acquired Aptimizer Web content optimization product to the ADC — Stingray version 9.0.
The announcement comes in at the heels of F5's latest updates to its BIG-IP Application Delivery Controller (ADC) product line — which was enhanced to support Google's SPDY protocol and designed with remote and mobile users in mind.
High latency for Web-based applications and slow-to-load websites are the enemy to any business, and the release of Stingray 9.0 sought to extend IT performance in the user direction, noted Naveen Prabhu, senior product manager for Riverbed.
"After just seven seconds, users will leave the Web site if it hasn't loaded, and these users leaving are affecting your bottom line," he said.
Cutting down the number of round trips to the server in order for Web pages to load is key for Web content optimization — and in gaining more page views. Stingray 9.0 enhanced with Aptimizer can optimize Web content up to four times faster, while eating up 40-60% less bandwidth, Prabhu claimed, noting that one unnamed corporate website gained 10 more page views per day after deploying Stingray 9.0.
Depending on the enterprises' environment, the latest version of Stingray — a software-based ADC — can be deployed standard server hardware on Cloud Steelhead to optimize any Web or cloud-based applications for the customer or cloud provider.
ADC vendors are starting to notice that while the legacy ADC model is important for bandwidth optimization, the user's web experience must come first.
"Users don't want to be sitting in Starbucks waiting for Web pages to load," Prabhu said.
IPv6 tests move to launching phase for World IPv6 Launch Day 2012
Today starts the new era of the Internet — an era in which "the world" comes together to launch the latest Internet protocol, IPv6. It is because the IP address space of it's primaeval counterpart — IPv4 — is really running out. This limitation must force all, who are interested in providing content to the online community, to move to IPv6 and learn to love it.
Of course, no one can make you do this. No government mandate or religious cree can force an organization to make the switch to IPv6 — which is not backwards-compatible with IPv4.
While there is no Internet authority, the next best thing is the Internet Society, and they have sponsored World IPv6 Launch Day — today, June 6, 2012 — to promote the new protocol.
The last World IPv6 Day (June 8, 2011) served as a test for IPv6 — to turn it on and find out where the kinks were; this year, organizations who participate in World IPv6 Launch Day — like Google and Facebook — have turned on IPv6 and plan to leave it on permanently.
"World IPv6 Launch Day is a lot larger than people understand. IPv6 is the single largest upgrade in the history of the Internet. It's not a small decision for the major content providers to turn on IPv6 and leave it on. Going forward, Internet users will be forced to go through transition gateways to reach businesses that do not similarly upgrade by adding IPv6 connectivity, with the result being slower connections and services for their customers," said John Curran, CEO and president of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN).
However, last year's test bodes well for today. ARIN waited by the phones for issues to arise during IPv6 tests, but all they heard were crickets, Curran told me during this video interview about World IPv6 Launch Day.
"The good news is that, done properly, Internet users globally will not notice any significant difference in their daily lives," he said.
In order to transition to IPv6 properly, enterprises need to have the right tools. On SearchEnterpriseWAN.com, we gathered resources for today to help organizations turn on IPv6:
- What World IPv6 Day Launch means for enterprises
- 20 top Internet service providers and where they are with IPv6 offerings
- How to start an IPv6 migration
- How to make the IPv4 to IPv6 transition without changing your whole network


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Welcome to Hyperion Records, an independent British classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first.
Hyperion offers both CDs, and downloads in a number of formats. The site is also available in several languages.
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|Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St John Chrysostom is steeped in the Orthodox tradition and the resulting ambience is rich in the manner familiar to Western listeners from works such as Rachmaninov's Vespers.» More
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With the Galaxy S2 still going strong (over 10 million units sold in the last four months), we understand why Samsung isn't hurrying to out its successor, the Samsung Galaxy S3 (or S III, as the official branding goes). But for true Android fans, the wait for Koreans' new flagship device is agonizing.
The S2 is a wonderful piece of hardware, so our expectations for the next generation of the Galaxy S are lofty. Thankfully, more and more rumors indicate that the S3 will definitely be worth the wait.
BGR claims that the new Galaxy S3 will treat our eyes with some serious eye candy. According to their sources, the new S3 will boast a magnificent 4.8-inch display, probably a Super AMOLED Plus HD screen. In other words, if you love the display of the S2, you'll absolutely adore the S3.
Another juicy detail concerns the design of the phone. We already knew that the S3 would be super-thin, with one source claiming a 7 mm profile (the thinnest S2 is 8.49 mm "thick"). Now, BGR tells us that the Galaxy S3 will have a ceramic back cover, instead of glossy plastic, like the previous iterations of the series. The ceramic cover may improve the grip and appearance of the new device, but may also add to its weight. But again, if the 7 mm thickness rumor is true, Samsung can afford to add a few grams with a more solid back plate.
The new information completes the picture of the Galaxy S3. To recap, here are the presumed specs that we know so far:
- Quad-core processor, possibly an Exynos 4412 (32 nm, Cortex A9, 1.5 GHz)
- 4G LTE connectivity
- 2GB of RAM
- Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
- 8MP rear camera, 2MP front camera
- Super AMOLED Plus HD display
- 4.8-inch screen
One more thing – the Samsung Galaxy S3 will supposedly launch in 50 markets and cities simultaneously. And no, the big announcement will not come at MWC next week. Instead, Samsung is said to be running a special event later this year, one that would be closer to the actual launch date of the S3. From what our sources have told us, Samsung should be holding their official launch party sometime in late May, early June 2012.
Stay tuned for more information!


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Re: An interesting rebuttal of "agile"by DBAugie (Beadle)
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Like everything else, there has to be a "point of balance". In this case, someone (the author of the quotation) acts as arbiter between what the end users want and what the "system" can or should provide. The ability to release new software daily does indeed reflect flexibility and agility. The question is how much flexibility and/or agility should be exercised?
Too much of these qualities expend resources that can never be reclaimed and will kill the organization. Insufficient flexibility/agility will kill the system, because: the users simply won't use it; or the organization will die because it could not adapt to the real functional needs it was designed to satisfy.
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I've been thinking about circles lately. The way my life is full of them and what they represent, especially as a parent. In Judaism, the bagel symbolize the eternal cycle of life – and I guess eating one of them recently set me off on this trajectory of cataloging some of the circles in my life. Here are just a few:
- Looping from room to room picking up Legos, socks, and other random stuff and them depositing wherever they supposed to be.
- Hugs and more hugs.
- My circle of Mom friends, so essential to my sanity.
- The sparkling three rings I wear on my ring finger – marking our engagement, our wedding and our five year anniversary.
- My Google+ Circles – not that I am using them much.
- The daily drive to preschool, school, to the office and then back all over again.
- The endless laundry – from hamper to washer to drier to closet to hamper to washer to drier to closet to hamper …
- Holding hands around the dinner table on a Sunday when we each say what we are thankful for.
- Target.
- Waffles, pancakes, pizza, crackers, cookies – and of course, bagels!
Coming next, the impact of rhomboids on my life.
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Mayoral candidates dial for dollars
Money always creates a spicy subplot in the supersized saga of a New York City mayoral campaign. And so, many eyes were fixed on yesterday's six-month fundraising disclosures -- an interesting load of data in a contest due to produce the first new mayor in 12 years.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg dominated the financing stories of the three previous elections, each time exercising his right to opt out of spending restrictions. He single-handedly blew the doors off election-spending records by pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into advertisements, consultant fees and targeted mailings.
Every candidate now has his own angle in this dial-for-dollars phase of the game. The scramble is monitored and supervised by the city's Campaign Finance Board -- a body as well known for hyper-vigilance as other election boards are for laxity. Last week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo even lauded the city's system for matching private contributions as "in many respects . . . the ideal model for statewide reform."
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) shows more than $5 million in the bank. Operatives for ex-city comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. touted his having raised more than $1 million in the six-month reporting period that led up to this week's deadline, saying it puts to rest fundraising doubts recently voiced by others.
Comptroller John Liu's report of raising more than $500,000 in the period signifies that he's pushing on -- despite a unique blight on his own campaign's fiscal conduct. His campaign treasurer, Jenny Hou, and a fundraiser, Oliver Pan, are on trial in federal court for allegedly taking part in a conspiracy to funnel illegal contributions to Liu's war chest.
And on the Republican side, the fundraising sums reported so far are smaller. At times, the city GOP looks not so much like a viable party as a gated community of ex-Democrats. But there's drama here, too. Mayoral candidate George McDonald has sued in court, claiming the CFB's contribution ceilings are way too low. "Without a personal fortune or a pre-existing base of donor support," he said in a statement, "it's impossible to raise the funds necessary to compete."
Another possible GOP candidate, John Catsimatidis, owner of Gristedes supermarkets, has the wherewithal to roil the campaign-financing landscape. How he chooses to proceed could influence whether rival candidate Joseph Lhota will opt in or out of the city's public-match program.
Twelve years ago, Alan Hevesi, then city comptroller, was widely hyped as a good bet to succeed the term-limited Rudy Giuliani. But before he landed fourth in a Democratic primary, the campaign board balked for a while at releasing matching public funds for Hevesi because his top campaign adviser, Hank Morris, seemed to be underreporting the cost of his own services -- thus potentially enabling the campaign to evade spending limits.
Mark Green, who in 2001 became the first of three Democratic nominees outspent and beaten by Bloomberg, leads a national effort called "Money Out -- Voters In," aimed at curbing big-spenders' influence on government in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United decision.
Green was asked Tuesday about legal efforts to chip away at the city's financing laws in light of the national advent of Super-PACs. "Is New York's system secure?" he said, "For the moment it is."
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A Southern California man arrested at a bus station after telling a man he thought was an al-Qaida recruiter that he "was born to" serve in the terror network pleaded guilty Friday to a federal terrorism offense.
Read: Grand Jury Indictment
Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. The plea comes one week after the filing of an agreement in which Nguyen admitted that he intended to provide weapons training to forces in Pakistan, according to prosecutors.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 21. He faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison.
Nguyen, of Garden Grove, was arrested at a Santa Ana bus station, where he had a ticket to travel to Mexico and, eventually, Pakistan to train al-Qaida forces, according to details in a grand jury indictment. He also had a false passport -- obtained during a meeting with an individual posing as a recruiter for al-Qaida -- and a computer drive that contained firearms training videos, according to authorities.
His admission to the offense was outlined in last week's plea deal. Nguyen said that about one year ago he traveled to Syria and told people he "was fighting against the Assad regime," the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.
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He returned to the United States and told associates his offers to train al-Qaida forces in Syria had been turned down, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
But it was between August and October 2012 when Nguyen met with a man he thought was an al-Qaida recruiter, but actually was working for the FBI, according to authorities. He told the man he wanted to return to jihad because "this was what he was born to do, " the U.S. Attorney's Office statement continued.
Nguyen provided the "recruiter" with a photo of himself for a passport and agreed to travel to Pakistan to train al-Qaida fighters, prosecutors said.
He was arrested at the Santa Ana bus station Oct. 11.


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Prophetic Precision
|Brad Bromling, D.Min.
One of the most amazing things about the Bible is that it contains information that could not have been known by its human authors. A perfect example of this is seen in the prophecy concerning the city of Tyre. At least six specific predictions were recorded in Ezekiel 26: (1) King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon would destroy the city (vss. 7-8); (2) Many nations would come against Tyre (vs. 3); (3) The city would be leveled and scraped clean—like a bare rock (vs. 4); (4) The city's stones, timber, and soil would be cast into the sea (vs. 12); (5) The area would become a place for the spreading of nets (vs. 5); and (6) The city never would be rebuilt (vs. 14).
Each of these items came to pass exactly as Ezekiel said. Tyre, a coastal city of ancient times, had an island about one-half mile offshore. Within a few years of Ezekiel's oracle, Nebuchadnezzar besieged the mainland city (586 B.C.). When he finally defeated Tyre 13 years later, the city was deserted—most of the inhabitants already had moved to the island. Things remained that way for about 241 years. Then in 332 B.C., Alexander the Great took the island city for Greece. This was accomplished by scraping clean the mainland city of its debris and using those materials to build a land-bridge to the island. Although Alexander brought much damage to the city, it still stood. Tyre persisted for the next 1,600 years. Finally, in A.D. 1291, the Muslims thoroughly crushed Tyre, and the city has remained in ruins ever since. Aside from a small fishing community, nothing is left.
How can we account for Ezekiel's precision regarding the history of this city? We cannot—apart from a miracle. How could he look almost 1,900 years into the future and predict that Tyre would be a bald rock where fishermen would spread their nets? God must have told him!


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Designed by Forbes and Fitzhardinge this 30 storey tower opened in 1975 and has undergone refurbishments to keep it modern, fresh and sustainable; including $34 million of work in 2005.
A stand-out feature upon entering this A Grade building is the magnificent conservatory inspired lobby. The two-storey high, 15-metre long bronzed-glass canopy is coated with small white dots create a shading effect during the day, with up-lighting produces a white ceiling effect at night.
AMP Tower includes a resident café on the ground floor with an informal and alfresco meeting area.
Additionally there's immediate access to the stunning gardens of Central Park which includes an array of dining options and car parking facilities.
The building boasts spectacular views across the city of Perth, Kings Park, Rottnest Island, and the Swan River. Many of Perth's landmark attractions are within walking distance, including Kings Park and Botanic Gardens, Swan River, the Perth Cultural Centre, and the Western Australian Museum.
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Level 28 features original pieces from renowned Australian artists Max Mannix and Pro Hart. Max Mannix paints 'yarns', based on his years growing up in Victorian country towns and working on cattle stations in the Queensland outback. Max's colourful depictions of country life in a light-hearted vein. Pro Hart is considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement,he grew up on his family's sheep farm in Menindee, New South Wales and his works are widely admired for capturing the true spirit of the outback.
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Objectives - Why this project and for whom?
The purpose of this project was to examine key aspects of the social situation of irregular immigrants in the European Union in order to assess the extent to which their fundamental rights are respected and protected. Areas covered by the research include health, housing, education, social care, employment status and fair working conditions, access to remedies as well as implications of immigration law enforcement.
Details - What did the project involve?
Existing secondary data was collected and analysed as well as questionnaires addressed to authorities and civil society organisations in each of the EU Member States. In addition, migrants in an irregular situation as well as other actors were interviewed in 10 EU Member States, namely Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden.
The findings of this research will provide policymakers with a solid scientific basis with which to take actions required to ensure that the fundamental rights of irregular immigrants are protected. By examining current problematic situations and documenting good practices, this project was also intended to give practitioners practical tools to promote the rights of irregular immigrants.
Innovation - What's 'new' about the project?
Through the collection of primary data from migrants in an irregular situation, the research provides a snapshot of their views and opinions on a variety of topics. In addition, the research provides some basic information on policies for all 27 EU Member States.
Outputs - What did the project deliver?
The research part of this project has been completed in 2011. Reports can be found in the Publications tab.
The reports formed the basis for the 2011 Fundamental Rights Conference organised by the FRA together with the Polish Presidency (see summary conclusions). The reports identify a number of areas that require action, including, among other things, the need to:
- address the fundamental rights of migrants in an irregular situation who have been given a return decision but who have not been removed, and to have mechanisms in place that put an end to situations of legal limbo deriving from protracted circumstances of non-removability;
- avoid disproportionate measures which undermine access by irregular migrants to basic rights (such as apprehensions near schools or hospitals and reporting requirements by social service providers) when detecting and apprehending irregular migrants;
- remove legal and practical obstacles that make it difficult or impossible for migrants in an irregular situation to seek justice, for instance, when they are exploited or abused by employers.
In 2012 the FRA engaged with relevant stakeholders in order to see how some of the actions can be implemented. For this purpose it has prioritised access to healthcare as well as the need to discourage detection practices which disproportionately affect access to fundamental rights.
FRA Programme: WP 2009, at 2.1.2; WP 2010 at 2.1.1
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Migrants in an irregular situation face obstructions in accessing their fundamental rights. They have no legal status and are therefore most vulnerable to exploitation and discrimination in key areas of social life.
They are affected by formal barriers to the enjoyment and exercise of rights, whereby certain rights (e.g. access to health services beyond emergency treatment) are only available to persons lawfully residing in the country. More often, however, it is practical obstacles which discourage irregular immigrants to approach public service providers (schools, medical facilities, etc.) or courts for fear of being identified as irregular and consequently removed from the territory. This results, for example, in persons in need of urgent medical treatment not seeking health care or victims of serious violations not seeking justice. Anti-smuggling legislation may also criminalise a wide range of support measures by private individuals, such as for instance the sheltering of migrants in an irregular situation.
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What's the funniest thing your child has ever done or said?
My boys are the funniest beings on the planet. Everything they do is funny. However, the single funniest sentence I have ever heard was from my niece, not my sons.
She was 5 years old and holding her lady parts as if she had to pee……
"Do you have to go potty?"
"No…. I farted and my fart went from my butt to my hoo-ha. Now I'm trying to pop the bubble."


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Exactly a year to the date of last year's coldest arctic outbreak in the Charlotte region, another burst of polar air is spilling into the Carolinas on Wednesday.
An arctic cold front is expected to cross the immediate Charlotte area sometime around midday, and temperatures will tumble from around 40 degrees late Wednesday morning to 10 degrees by daybreak Thursday. And forecasters said there will be even colder readings in some places not far from Charlotte.
The good news, according to meteorologists, is that long-range guidance indicates the Carolinas might escape a messy ice storm early next week.
It was a year ago today when the temperature dropped to 6 degrees in Charlotte. It's not expected to get quite that cold Thursday morning, but readings at daybreak probably won't be too far from the record of 8 degrees for the date.
A wind chill advisory is in effect for Wednesday evening and early Thursday. Winds will gust up to 30 mph from late afternoon until around midnight, causing wind chills of 5 to 15 degrees. Forecasters said the winds will abate overnight, but they'll still be blowing at up to 10 mph, causing wind chills slightly below zero in Charlotte.
In the mountains, wind chill readings could tumble to 10 or 15 degrees below zero.
There are two threats from this cold -- the wind chills, which will be a problem from about 6 p.m. Wednesday until midday Thursday; and the prolonged cold, which will be a problem for water pipes and heating systems.
The polar outbreak will send temperatures below freezing in the Charlotte area from about midnight until shortly before noon Friday. Some areas above 3,500 feet might not get above freezing until Saturday.
Thursday's highs in Charlotte will only reach the upper 20s. Highs will be in the lower 40s Friday.
When temperatures are in the teens for many hours, as will be the case Thursday, frozen water pipes are the typical result. Be sure to keep water dripping from a faucet tonight. Plumbers say it's best to use the faucet farthest from where water enters the house.
Heating systems obviously will be seriously taxed. Assuming it's too late to get a system checkup on
Wednesday, you might want to consider putting towels around window sills that leak cold air. And make sure electrical outlets are covered.
Another tip ... on Thursday, when the sun is shining, be sure to keep your blinds open on sunny sides of the house. Even though the temperature is in the 20s, the solar heat will help warm the inside of your residence.
Looking ahead to next week ...
Moisture is expected to arrive Sunday and intensify Monday, but the computer guidance can't agree on whether that will pose a threat of wintry precipitation for the Charlotte region.
The moisture is coming, the computer models agree. But they can't agree on the timing, and that's important. One strong high pressure system over New England will be moving out to sea Sunday, to be follow by another late Monday or Tuesday.
Two of the three most heavily used computer models predict the precipitation will arrive in the "gap" between the two cold high pressure systems. That means cold rain for the Charlotte region. The Global weather model predicts the precipitation will arrive with enough cold air still around for freezing rain Sunday.
The National Weather Service is leaning toward the cold rain scenario.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
First the cold; then a narrow escape Monday?
Exactly a year to the date of last year's coldest arctic outbreak in the Charlotte region, another burst of polar air is spilling into the Carolinas on Wednesday.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Brutal cold could set stage for weekend headaches
The late Woody Hayes, longtime Ohio State University football coach, used to say that three things can happen when you throw the football, and two of them are bad.
That's sort of what it's like when an arctic air mass moves into the Carolinas. As long as the cold is here, or even nearby, we're at risk of trouble.
The cold air -- our coldest of the season -- will arrive Wednesday afternoon. The wind will pick up, and temperatures will fall late Wednesday afternoon and evening from about 40 degrees into the teens. By Thursday morning, many spots in the Charlotte region will be sitting at 10 degrees.
It won't get above 30 degrees in most areas Thursday afternoon, and it'll drop into the teens again Friday morning.
A second arctic air mass will arrive late Friday or Saturday, and although the temperatures with the second system won't be quite as cold, they'll be cold enough to leave us at risk of trouble Sunday.
That's when a low pressure system off the Mexican coast could push eastward and begin affecting the Southeast.
One heavily used weather computer model, the Global, is predicting that the storm system, while weak, will spread precipitation into the Carolinas on Sunday morning. At that point, temperatures will be cold enough for freezing rain. I realize that some people enjoy wintry precipitation, but I don't think very many people want freezing rain. Power outages with temperatures in the 30s are not fun.
The other major weather computer model, the European, is predicting that the energy will remain over Baja California a bit longer and not reach the Carolinas until Sunday evening. By that time, the cold dome of high pressure over New England is expected to have moved offshore, and temperatures will climb enough so any precipitation falls as rain.
This is what we'll be watching over the next few days.
By the way, some of the longer-range computer guidance indicates the cold air will be reinforced early next week, and a fairly strong storm system will form off the Southeast coast. But that's more than a week away, and forecasts that far out are not terribly trustworthy.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Arctic blast is heading this way
Charlotte-area weather will go through some weird twists and turns over the next 36 hours, but the big story is coming near the end of the week.
An arctic blast, featuring temperatures that are easily the coldest of the season, is poised to envelop the eastern United States and sink far into the South.
The cold air will arrive late Wednesday, as it now appears, and it will be a dry arrival -- no rain, no snow for the Piedmont.
The day of real change will be Thursday. Computer guidance on polar outbreaks is sometimes not extremely reliable, but if you believe what the computer models are forecasting, we might have a tough time climbing above freezing Thursday in Charlotte.
It will be windy, with wind chill temperatures probably at 10 degrees or lower for much of the day in the Charlotte region. That, of course, means we're looking at morning lows Thursday and Friday in the low to mid teens.
There is nothing to indicate at this point that the cold outbreak will be anything but dry. Humidity levels are forecast to be very low, and it would seem that we're talking about clear-blue skies and cold temperatures.
Computer guidance indicates the shot of cold air will be transient, with temperatures back in the 40s by Friday. But some bitterly cold air will be bottled over Canada, and it's not far-fetched to believe that another push of polar air will move into the Southeast early the following week.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Panthers' game day weather looks colder, wetter
It's looking more like Carolina Panthers' fans will be sitting in a chilly rain Saturday at Bank of America Stadium for the NFL playoff game against Arizona.
The later computer guidance shows strong high pressure over New England and a strengthening low pressure system moving from the Gulf of Mexico up toward the Ohio Valley on Saturday.
This is a scenario we have seen many times in recent months. It's classic cold air damming, with a flow of chilly air being pumped into the Carolinas Piedmont and Foothills off the Atlantic. That cold air is dense and nearly impossible to dislodge.
Low pressure probably will create a warm front that will lift temperatures into the 60s to the south of Charlotte, but we'll be stuck in the upper 40s and lower 50s during the rain on Saturday and early Sunday.
So as of late Tuesday afternoon, the best guess for kickoff is for temperatures around 47 degrees and intermittent rain, probably becoming more consistent as the game goes on.
Monday, December 29, 2014
First look at Panthers-Cardinals: Wet, mild
If we've learned anything from weather computer models since early December, it's that they change frequently and are not terribly reliable beyond a few days.
But there seems to be agreement, five days away, that weather in the Carolinas this weekend will be unsettled.
The first guess for conditions at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, when the Carolina Panthers and Arizona Cardinals kick off their NFL wild-card playoff game, is for a chance of rain and temperatures above average for early January.
The various computer guidance input seems to agree on wet weather for the weekend, but the details are where everything gets tricky.
Will it rain all day Saturday? Will the rain be light, sporadic, or heavy? Those are questions we can't answer yet.
Very cold air is plunging into the continental United States this week, but the core of that cold will remain north of the Mason-Dixon line in the eastern United States. The Midwest and West will see a more southward push of the cold air.
Some of the cold will seep into the Southeast from Tuesday into Friday, but high temperatures those days will still reach the mid and upper 40s.
By the weekend, a moderating trend is likely. That's why the National Weather Service is predicting a high in the upper 50s Saturday.
In a few days, we'll have a better feel for exactly how wet it might be Saturday.
Friday, December 26, 2014
Coming up: A very mild January for Carolinas
Remember the other day, when I wrote that a few computer models were hinting that the much-publicized "pattern change" to cold and stormy weather might not be coming as expected at the beginning of the year?
I wrote that it was just a few runs of the models and not yet a trend.
Now it's a trend.
Most of the long-range guidance, including the pretty reliable Coupled Forecast System (CFSv2) operated by NOAA, is pointing to a mild January in the Southeast. In fact, temperatures could be well above average, if everything breaks the way it seems.
This marks a pretty big bust in many of the long-range forecasts that had called for a chilly and stormy winter, with the worst of the wintry weather arriving in early January.
First of all, this doesn't mean that it won't get chilly in the Carolinas, because it will -- next week. We're looking at several days of below-average temperatures before and immediately after New Years, although it won't be bitterly cold -- just highs in the mid and upper 40s for a few days.
Second, it doesn't mean arctic cold won't push into the United States. It looks like a blast of cold will slide southward from Canada into the Midwest, dumping cold air into Texas all the way to the Rio Grande next week.
But the computer guidance insists that the cold air won't push east of the Appalachians. Many of the forecasts show a persistent high pressure ridge off the Florida coast. Those southeast ridges are a death knell to wintry weather in the Southeast.
The Arctic Oscillation (AO) refuses to go negative, which keeps a steady west-to-east flow across the southern United States.
This doesn't mean our weather won't turn much colder in late January or February, but it means the computers certainly don't think it will happen anytime soon.
What caused the forecasts to go so wrong? I've been reading a lot of possible explanations, but it's really a reminder that what the science of meteorology has improved a lot in recent years, there are still many things we don't understand. One theory I've seen thrown around the past few days is solar activity, with the theory being that strong solar activity overrides many of our other weather factors.
Greg Fishel of WRAL-TV wrote on his Facebook page on Friday afternoon that the last time we had a pattern like the one developing in early January was in 2005 and again in 2006. Both years, we had highs in the 60s and 70s.
Those two winters produced some of our lightest snowfall ever -- a trace in 2004-05 and 1 inch in 2005-06.
All it takes is one big storm to give us a big snowfall total, but it doesn't seem likely any time soon.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Winter ... now you see it ... now you don't
Those of you who follow weather very closely might be bored by what I'm saying today. Casual followers of weather might want to read on, however.
You all know about computer models -- the computer-based guidance that is a tool used by meteorologists in forecasting the weather.
The models update several times a day, and those who follow the updates closely are sometimes known by the term "model-huggers." Model-hugging can be a frustrating experience, and the last 48 hours is an example of that.
By following some of the output of the Global model, you'd have thought a few days ago that the Carolinas (and much of the central and eastern United States) were heading into arctic cold and winter storms, starting shortly before the end of the year.
Then on Sunday night came new models, indicating that maybe the very cold weather wouldn't be sinking far enough south and east to affect the Carolinas. Maybe it would remain bottled up in Canada, or perhaps moving no farther southeast than the Midwest.
In other words, forget about wintry weather for a while.
Experienced meteorologists tend to study the trends before making forecasts.
The trend late last week pointed to a pattern change for the Southeast. There were indications that we'd move from our December pattern -- with temperatures averaging around seasonal norms and no real threat of wintry weather -- to a wintry, stormy pattern.
One facilitator of that change would be the deep low pressure system that is expected to push northward from the Deep South into the eastern Great Lakes and southern Canada over the next few days.
Now, based on the last few model runs, all that is in doubt again. The most recent computer guidance says the current Carolinas weather pattern will continue, for the most part, into at least the first several days of January. In other words, no pattern change.
But the model runs late Sunday hardly constitute a trend. That will be determined from what the guidance tells us over the next few days.
Today's Christmas facts ... Last week, I wrote about the most successful (financially) Christmas movies. But what are the most popular?
The website What To Do With The Kids (which can provide ideas on keeping children busy during the holidays) says it interviewed people last year on their favorite holiday movies. The response:
1. "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" (the 1966 animated version); 2. "The Polar Express" (2004 animated version); 3. "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946); 4. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (1964, animation); 5. "Elf" (2004); 6. (tie) "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965, animation); "The Santa Clause" (1994); "Frosty the Snowman" (1969, animation); 9. "The Grinch" (2000); 10. "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947 version); 11. "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (1989); 12. "A Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992).
Incidentally, "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" was also No. 1 in the last poll conducted by the website, in 2011.


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Ocean Rodeo Sports, a world leader in the production and design of innovative, high quality kiteboarding and surf related equipment is today proud to announce the addition of Bryan Lake as its newest team rider.
Additionally, Ocean Rodeo today announces the introduction of its custom Surf and Race Series directional board line up.
Bryan Lake brings solid wave riding and course racing experience to Ocean Rodeo's top ranks. Having grown up in Southern California and now living in Hawaii Bryan brings a lifetime of sailing, surfing and water skiing experience to his kiteboarding.
In addition to riding for Ocean Rodeo as their newest team rider Bryan is training for an Olympic campaign on the US Olympic Sailing team. Bryan is an aggressive and dedicated wave sailor and will bring both credibility and insight to Ocean Rodeo's wave and race specific product line ups.
Bryan's addition to the Ocean Rodeo team coincides with Ocean Rodeo's launch of a custom surf and race directional board program. Soon to be available to consumers through the Ocean Rodeo website and dealer network Ocean Rodeo customers will be able to customize their board's length when ordering hand shaped polyester Surf or Race Series directional boards.
Built in the USA out of CNC'd high density polyurethane the new Surf and Race Series directional boards from Ocean Rodeo are designed to offer Ocean Rodeo riders the benefits of team rider influenced design personalized to rider specific preferences.
Riders interested in ordering a custom Surf or Race directional board are asked to contact their dealers immediately for more information and pricing.
Photos and video of Bryan in action on Ocean Rodeo's exciting line up of kites and new Race and Surf Series boards will also be forthcoming.


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In fact, it's going to be a series of games based on the Mohawk Media Mr. T graphic novel license. The information made available to us frankly beggars belief (in a truly awesome, train-wreck fashion). So err, it looks like Mr. T will be fighting Nazis...
The first game will see Mr. T take on Nazis and their gigantic machines in the varied universe of South American rain forests, lost ancient cities, industrial complexes and contemporary military installations.How did poor old Will Wright get roped into this? Whatever the case, ZootFly is going out on an extremely thin, precarious limb. The results could be disastrous, amazing, or disastrously amazing. PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and PC have all been targeted for Mr. T insanity, so stay tuned.
Along with Mr. T and other characters from the graphic novel, the game will feature non other than Will Wright. In this universe, Will Wright is not a top-notch game designer but a top-notch American geneticist who was kidnapped and coerced to work on a diabolic plan. Mr. T and Will Wright will join forces to annihilate the Nazis and their hardware.
Bryn says: I'm left physically reeling after reading this announcement. I've got a generally dry sense of humor, but this... well this has the potential to be the funniest crap I've ever played.
When I say potential, I'd realistically give Mr. T's upcoming game a minuscule chance of not being total crapola, but at least it's got a chance. What the heck do you think about this bizarre announcement?


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150-acre array of panels will provide 25 percent of Arizona base's power.
Construction is under way on the Defense Department's largest solar project ever, the General Services Administration announced.
The 155-acre site near the Army base at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., will be outfitted with privately financed solar panels projected to provide more than 18-megawatts of clean power -- enough for 25 percent of the base's needs -- as soon as this fall.
The project is the fruit of collaboration among GSA; the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force; Tucson Electric Power; and its developer, E.ON Climate & Renewables, GSA said.
"These kinds of projects are vital to building a sustainable infrastructure for our nation," said GSA Regional Administrator Ruth Cox, in a news release on the April 25 ground-breaking ceremony. "It is important for the federal government to lead by example in reducing our carbon footprint. This project serves as a model for innovative partnering between the government and private industry while also easing our impact on the environment."
Katherine Hammack, assistant Army secretary for installations, energy and environment, stressed that the Arizona project is just one among others in a roster of renewable energy projects in California, Hawaii, Maryland and New York. "The Army is partnering with the private sector for renewable energy in many ways," she said. "The Fort Huachuca project is greater than the sum of all projects developed last year."
The Army has a commitment to the president of deploying one gigawatt of renewable energy by 2025.
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Pa. sporting-goods stores seeing ammo shortage
September 22, 2013 at 09:48 AM
The Associated Press
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A national shortage of firearms ammunition is starting to be felt at some sporting-goods stores in Pennsylvania as hunters begin loading up for deer and other fall hunting seasons.
Retailers are worrying about whether their supplies of ammunition will hold up, The Erie Times-News (http://bit.ly/18LxD9p) reported Saturday.
Salesman Joel Stafford of Edinboro Outdoors says its supply isn't too bad for the moment, but he predicts that it's going to be tight.
Owner Dan Seaman of Elk Creek Sports Store in Lake City says he's having a hard time finding a reasonable amount of ammunition that hunters would normally use, and customers could eventually be forced to pay higher prices for whatever remains.
"People don't realize there isn't going to be much hunting ammo out there," Seaman said.
Dave Wurst, the owner of Presque Isle Gun Shop, said customers likely will be forced to buy different brands or varieties in their quest to find the right caliber.
Deer season starts Dec. 2.
A few store owners say the ammunition shortage is caught in a vicious cycle as people scramble to stock up.
The shortages hit earlier this year when ammunition for smaller .22-caliber, 9 mm and .380-caliber firearms started to become scarce. As a result, manufacturers shifted away from the then-well-stocked hunting rifle ammunition, including rounds like .30-06, .30-30 or .308, Seaman said.
Rich Weber, president of the Erie Sport Store, said .22-caliber rounds are in such short supply that he limits customers in how much they can buy at one time and he doesn't know yet whether he will impose the same limits on purchases of hunting ammunition.
Information from: Erie Times-News, http://www.goerie.com
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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Gandalf is gorgeous as well as complex to draw, which is like his character in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (now a movie that has won 17 Academy awards). In these stories, Gandalf appears as a wizard, member and later the head (after Saruman's betrayal and fall) of the order known as the Istari, as well as leader of the Fellowship of the Ring and the army of the West. In The Lord of the Rings, he is initially known as Gandalf the Grey, but after returning from death as Gandalf the White. I have categorized this tutorial as advanced because of the details in his hair, eyebrows, and beard. I hope you enjoy this tutorial. Please fav, vote, and comment. Thank you all. Peace and love to you.
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text: There are places where open flames are particularly frowned upon. A textile mill or a stationery store, for instance. And then there are places where the mere mention of a flame, fire, spark, smoke or ember elicits pandemonium. The San Francisco Antiquarian Book, Print and Paper Fair, held earlier this month, would be such a place. In a building stretching one square block sat some of the rarest texts, maps and manuscripts in the world, precariously flammable, and indubitably expensive. Particularly fetching among these cultural treasures were the scientific tomes — works of biology, astronomy, chemistry and the like — which dealers proudly displayed with the most enticing illustration forward. It's the intellectual equivalent of the models on the car lot with their hoods popped open, only with more flammability and much more intellect. From Audubon's The Birds of America, a first edition of which sold last month at auction for $7.9 million, to Copernicus' heliocentric sketch that changed the world, we've selected the most remarkable works the fair had to offer. Above: Tabulae Anatomicae (1728) by Bartolomeo Eustachi Bartolomeo Eustachi, after whom the ear's Eustachian tube is named, drew the illustrations and compiled the corresponding notes in this work of human anatomy, only for the book to be lost in the Vatican library for 150 years. Upon its publication with only eight of Eustachius' original notes, the text was understandably dated, though no less remarkable in its beauty. Owner: By the Book, Phoenix, AZ Photos: Brian L. Frank/Wired.comTheatrum Italiae (1663) by Joan Blaeu Moving is never easy, and moving is especially difficult when you own a 327-ton Egyptian obelisk and you want it shifted 275 yards to sit right in front of the Vatican. Such was the task assigned to Italian engineer Domenico Fontana in 1586 and detailed in this illustration from Joan Blaeu's Theatrum Italiae (see a high-res version here). Enlisting some 900 men and 75 horses, it took Fontana a year to move the 83-foot obelisk. Says the book's owner, Paul Dowling: "People look at the 16th century and they look at the development of architecture and the arts and they see it as art and visually stimulating, but very rarely do they see the great technological advances that allowed the things to actually come to fruition.... It's reminiscent of things like Apple. It's great design, but there's an incredible technological layer underlying it. " Owner: Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C. Photo: David J. DowlingCursus Mathematicus (1690) by William Leybourn A compendium of British mathematician William Leybourn's writings, Cursus Mathematicus was aimed at the popular market (particularly for "a dull solitude or vacancy of Business," as the author put it), as opposed to scholars. It was this book that James Logan, the early American scientist and mentor to Benjamin Franklin, used to teach himself math. The illustration above is a product of a century that saw the introduction of the telescope, affording the first detailed looks at our trusty satellite. We wouldn't glimpse the far side of the moon, however, until 1959. Owner: Antiquariat Botanicum, Lynden, Washington Photo: Brian L. Frank/Wired.comOrnithology (1678) by Francis Willughby Together with his mentor John Ray, the father of English natural history, Francis Willughby toured Europe for three years to gather material for this, the modestly named Ornithology. When Willughby succumbed to pleurisy during its compilation, Ray picked up the project, publishing the gorgeous work in Latin in 1676 and in English two years later. It was the first study to organize birds by their characteristics, leading distinguished zoologist Alfred Newton to call it "the foundation of scientific Ornithology." Owner: Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C. Photo: David J. DowlingThe Temple of Flora (1807) by Robert John Thornton Conceived by Dr. Robert Thornton as a tribute to Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus, the architect of modern taxonomy, The Temple of Flora is a bulky (22 by 18 inches) tome that is considered to be the finest study of botany ever conceived. With vivid prints and heady poetry, it proved, alas, to be a bit too fine for its creator. "He enlisted the best artists, the best printmakers, colorists, et cetera, et cetera, because he had a vision of this work," said Helen Kelly, owner of the Boston Book Company. "He went broke, as most visionaries do, like Audubon. They get carried away with the art." Owner: Boston Book Company, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts Photo: Brian L. Frank/Wired.comAnatomy of Plants (1681) by Nehemiah Grew If family names are derived from occupations, Nehemiah Grew's ancestors must have been just as excited about plants as he was. His landmark work Anatomy of Plants was the first to note that a plant's stamen is a male organ, with pollen being the seed. The text is also remarkable in its unprecedented detail, as seen above, with Grew even getting down into the first microscopic descriptions of pollen. Owner: Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C. Photo: David J. DowlingInsectorum Sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum (1634) by Thomas Moffett This work, the first such book on insects published in England, was started by one Conrad Genser. Unfortunately, he died before finishing it, so his assistant, Thomas Penny, picked up the project and expanded upon it. After Penny's death, Thomas Moffett picked up the project and finished it, but couldn't sell it to a publisher before he himself died. Sir Theodore Mayerne then picked up the project and miraculously got it published before dying. Though the illustrations that made it into this 1634 first edition are remarkable in their detail, they could have been even better. In order to save money and finally get the thing published, Sir Mayerne had opted for woodcut illustrations instead of copper engravings. Owner: Pirages Fine Books, McMinnville, Oregon Photo: Brian L. Frank/Wired.comThe Birds of America (1840-1844) by John James Audubon This first edition The Birds of America in the octavo format features 500 hand-finished color lithographs of American avifauna, and is rightly considered to be among the greatest books ever printed in the United States. While stunning, it is actually a smaller version of the book's true first edition, which stands at three-and-a-half feet high and features life-size portraits. Called a double elephant folio, because apparently "single elephant folio" doesn't convey enough enormity, the larger sibling of the set shown above sold for $11.5 million in December 2010, a record for printed books at auction. Back when these smaller editions were released, said the book's owner, Phillip Pirages, they "would cost you as much as a good horse. Now it's $100,000." Owner: Pirages Fine Books, McMinnville, Oregon Photo: Brian L. Frank/Wired.comDe Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (1543) by Nicolaus Copernicus This may well be one of science's most revolutionary illustrations. At the center of this 16th-century model of the Solar System is the Sun, which mankind had hitherto assumed revolved around the Earth. Though the idea of heliocentrism had been floated long before Copernicus, he was the first to use mathematics to tease out a rather less egomaniacal way of envisioning our world, kicking off the Copernican Revolution. It was Copernicus' work that Galileo expanded upon, earning him a lifetime of house arrest by order of the Roman Catholic Church. Owner: Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C. Photo: David J. DowlingHistoriae Naturalis (1657) by John Jonston Before humans could hop on the internet, in order to gather information they had to flip through encyclopedias, like John Jonston's Historiae Naturalis, which was the 17th century's go-to guide on the animal kingdom. And in order to gather that information, Jonston had to travel extensively and, well, plagiarize some of information, what was referred to generously at the time as being a "learned compiler." Owner: Pirages Fine Books, McMinnville, Oregon Photo: Brian L. Frank/Wired.com


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Rep. Ann Coody will be one of the featured panelists when Cameron University joins colleges and universities across the nation to celebrate Constitution Day on Wednesday, Sept. 15, commemorating the 1787 signing of the Constitution of the United States of America. In recognition of the 90th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, this year's celebration will focus on "Women in American Politics." Sheryl Lovelady, Director of Women's Leadership Initiatives at the University of Oklahoma's Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center; and Dr. Melody Huckaby and Dr. Sarah Eppler Janda, both of CU's Department of History and Government, will be the other featured panelists.
The event is sponsored by the CU School of Liberal Arts, the Department of History and Government, and the Lawton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Cameron's Constitution Day celebration takes place in the McCasland Ballroom in the McMahon Centennial Complex from 3-5 p.m. and is open to the public at no charge. Copies of the U.S. Constitution and commemorative bookmarks will be distributed.
Constitution Day commemorates September 17, 1787, a key point in U.S. history, when the 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document that defined and separated powers of the federal government. Voting, debating the issues, gathering to meet in public and in private, criticizing or praising your government, observing a religion of choice and pursuing an education and a career are just a few of the pursuits guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution.
On January 10, 1918, U.S. House of Representatives approved the 19th Amendment, which said that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any other state on account of sex. The U.S. Senate passed the amendment 18 months later on June 19, 1919. After receiving ratification from the required 36 states, the 19th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution on August 26, 1920.
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- The U. S Constitution was written in the same Pennsylvania State House where the Declaration of Independence was signed and where George Washington received his commission as Commander of the Continental Army. Now called Independence Hall, the building still stands today on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, directly across from the National Constitution Center.
- Written in 1787, the Constitution was signed on September 17; it wasn't until 1788 that it was ratified by the necessary nine states.
- The U.S. Constitution was prepared in secret, behind locked doors that were guarded by sentries.
- Some of the original framers and many delegates in the state ratifying conventions were troubled that the original Constitution lacked a description of individual rights. In 1791, Americans added a list of rights to the Constitution. The first 10 amendments became known as The Bill of Rights
- Of the 55 delegates attending the Constitutional Convention, 39 signed and three delegates dissented. Two of America's "founding fathers" didn't sign the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson was representing his country in France, and John Adams was doing the same in Great Britain.
- Established on November 26, 1789, the first national "Thanksgiving Day" was originally created by George Washington as a way of "giving thanks" for the Constitution.
- Of the written national constitutions, the U.S. Constitution is the oldest and shortest.
- At 81, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania was the oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention, and at 26, Jonathon Dayton of New Jersey was the youngest.
- The original Constitution is on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, it was moved to Fort Knox for safekeeping.
- Of the more than 11,000 amendments have been introduced in Congress, only 33 have gone to the states to be ratified. Of these, 27 have received the necessary approval from the states to become amendments to the Constitution.
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Are you teaching in a tech classroom? Frustrated by the powerpoint remote not working? To check if the batteries (2 AAA's) are the problem, pull the little receiver out of the hand held device and press the laser button on top of the remote. If the light comes on, then the batteries are fine. If the light does not come on, the batteries are dead and need to be replaced.
Is the red light laser pointer working but your slides are just not advancing? the batteries are fine, but you may have it plugged into a port that is not working with the receiver. Try one of the USB ports that is on the front of the computer, or the USB port that is on the back of the keyboard. See the picture above. Do Not plug the remote receiver into the monitor. See the picture above.


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RPi Ralink WLAN devices
How configure RALink based devices on Official Distro (Raspbian) for a WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK secured network
Source: mikma.eu
1) sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant
2) sudo apt-get install firmware-ralink
3) sudo wpa_passphrase NetworkEssid password
4) sudo joe /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf - paste text from step 3, remove the passkey line
network={ ssid="NetworkEssid" psk=945609a382413e64d57daef00eb5fab3ae228716e1e440981c004bc61dccc98c }
5) sudo wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf - ctrl+c to stop
6) sudo joe /etc/network/interfaces - add:
auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-driver wext wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
7) sudo ifup wlan0
Alternative method of configuring a ralink network interface card for a WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK secured network (Somewhat simpler)
Install the wpasupplicant and the ralink firmware:
1) sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant
2) sudo apt-get install firmware-ralink
Restrict access to /etc/interfaces so only root can read it (in this method, this file will contain your network password):
3) sudo chmod 0600 /etc/network/interfaces
Edit you /etc/network/interfaces:
4) sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
5) The file already contains the configuration for eth0 (your Ethernet port) and looks something like this:
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp
add the following lines below, enter you network name (ssid) and password:
iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid <your network ssid here> wpa-psk <your network password>
6) save the file.
The network interface will connect every time the RPi boots up. To connect it now manually, run:
7) sudo ifup wlan0
Configuring a ralink network interface card for a WEP-PSK secured network
If at all possible, stop using WEP, and change your access point settings to use WPA/WPA-2 instead. From a security standpoint, WEP is completely broken, meaning that any 12 year old can crack your network password with easily available tools.
If you still want to connect to a WEP secured network (read: unsecured network):
install the ralink firmware:
1) sudo apt-get install firmware-ralink
edit /etc/network/interfaces:
2) sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
3) add the following below the configuration for eth0:
iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-essid <your network ssid here> wireless-mode managed wireless-key s:<your network's "secret" password, known to the whole neighborhood>
4) save the file.
Restrict access to /etc/interfaces so only root can read it (since it contains your network password, which the entire neighborhood already knows, but still...):
5) sudo chmod 0600 /etc/network/interfaces
The network interface will connect every time the RPi boots up. To connect it now manually, run:
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With the introduction of the 3 sedan and hatch, Mazda really brought back the art of fun driving to their small cars. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mazda3 takes that one step further, bringing actual art to the car. The question will be however, does its price paint a pretty picture?
I don't want to be the one to say Ayatollah so, but I knew yesterday's Iran Khodro Paykan would go down in a Crack Pipe loss of revolutionary proportions, and Shah-enough it did, with more than 90% of you choosing door number two.
Mazda's small car used to come with two doors, although by the turn of the century the company had pretty much given up on anything with fewer than four portals. In the U.S. only the MX-5 remains available with so few modes of egress, as even its bigger and more rotarier brother the RX-8 came with a vestigial set of rear doors - or maybe they were airbrakes.
Of course, having so many doors does offer a more grand canvas should you decide to use your car as an outlet for your own personal taste in artistic expression, and that's just what the owner of this 2006 Mazda3 S Grand Touring sedan has done. Festooned with Frank Frazetta-esque dragons and buxom bikini-clad barbarian princesses, this custom Mazda3 is attention grabbing and hence not a good choice for shrinking violets, bank robbery getaway drivers, or Steve Bartman.
The customizations on this 46,000-mile Mazda aren't just visual, but with an Alpine head unit and aftermarket speakers, it may also be appreciated by the likes of Chen Guangcheng on his flight to freedom. The ad claims custom upholstered door panels too, something Chen might possibly notice by their feel.
As you would expect of a reasonably recent car where a lot of cash has gone into just under the clear coat, not much of that found its way deeper into the engine compartment. Not that it's all that necessary here, what with the Mazda's 2.3-litre 160-horse engine. The seller does note that the hood prop has been replaced by Redline Tuning gas struts, and I'll understand if you need a moment to pull your jaw back up off the floor upon hearing that revelation.
Typical of those who value form over function, the ad doesn't bother to say whether the gearbox is Mazda's joyous 5-speed stick or that prophylactic of fun - an automatic. He does say that the car is optioned out with everything short of a Nav system, so that should mean you'll find leather on the seats and wheel as well as power this and that, and electroluminescent gauges. Seeing as the seller does note a custom painted shift knob we'll give him the benefit of the doubt that this car's custom aluminum pedals includes a clutch.
It was funny that the 2004 introduction of the sporty Mazda3 seemed to coincide with the decline of Honda's Civic - the car that used to wear the crown of most engaging small Japanese car - and huzzahs to Mazda for picking up the mantle. The second generation of the 3 lost some of the magic - it was larger, heavier, smilier - making this version still the one to have. And this particular Mazda3 is not just an S Grand Touring edition, but it has all those coolio customizations. Bonus!
Maybe not so bonus but a boner on the seller's part is pricing his work of art at $14,000, which is a premium over where these cars generally blue book. Of course this one may demand not a garage but a gallery, potentially making that premium an investment, just like that picture of dogs playing poker your wife makes you keep in the closet. Do you think fourteen large is a fair price for so unique a Mazda3? Or, is that a price that's just paint by numbers too much?
You decide!
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