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Crina Bulprich is a Romanian designer based in Cluj. She graduated from University of Art and Design in Cluj. In the third year of Fashion Design School, Crina was offered a scholarship in Milano as an intern for Lucio Vanotti, an experience that marked her career.
Crina Bulprich 's aesthetics is based on the phrase "Less is more". It aims to show a clean silhouette through straight lines and refined colors, but it is also a precise one through the construction of perfect volumes. The two principles underlying the brand are the quality and the functionality of the designed products.
When it comes to creating a minimalist line, the difficulty usually comes in reaching a certain level of consistency. Crina Bulprich has nicely solved this issue once and for all, as her latest collections, besides excelling in balancing forms and structures, have contoured a dreamlike character able to take things to the next level. Approachable business-wise because of the modern, yet functional designs, plus the distinctive 'poetic' twist that will surely become a helpful trademark with time, Crina Bulprich is certainly one of the promising designers of her generation, a creative spirit on whom we all have to keep an eye on.
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The inspiration comes from Fuerteventura, a place where Crina found a little village. She was captivated by the houses in the shape of a cube (the geometric shapes are constantly following her in designing the clothes).
She was always thinking about living there and what activities she would do or what clothes she would wear. And this is how all started.


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MELBOURNE, Florida – A 7-Eleven patron who said "the customer is always right" threw a sandwich and hot cheese at a store clerk in Melbourne.
The incident occurred earlier this morning at 1:50 a.m. when Stephanie L. Hicks, 31, walked into the 7-Eleven store at 1262 Aurora Road in Melbourne to purchase a sandwich and a cup full of hot nacho cheese.
While in the store, the clerk asked Hicks not to open the hot cheese dispenser. Hicks told officers she didn't like the employee's attitude.
When Hicks walked up to pay for her items, the 7-Eleven clerk denied her service.
Hicks then threw the sandwich and the cup of hot cheese across the counter, which hit the clerk.
The clerk told Hicks she was calling the police. Hicks told the clerk that "the customer is always right" before waiting outside the front door until police arrived.
Officers said the clerk had yellow nacho cheese on her hands, feet, and on the floor behind the register.
The Melbourne Police officer watched the in-store video of the incident, which shows Hicks throwing the items at the clerk across the counter.
Hicks was arrested and transported to the Brevard County Jail where she was charged with Battery.
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The AUJS Summer15+ campsite is the ideal venue, quietly snug amongst bush land less than a one hour drive from Caulfield. Wake up to chirping birds and laughing kookaburras in the morning instead of the drone of traffic. You may even hand feed wild kookaburra's that come to visit. The campsite has numerous sports and recreational facilities including a sports oval, tennis court and rock climbing wall in addition to creative/artistic spaces.
Transport to and from the campsite will be provided from a location in Caulfield.
When booking your fights to Melbourne, you need to take into consideration travel time and the following scheduling:
- The conference begins on February 8th at 8.45 am in Caulfield. You will be advised of the specific location soon. We will then be travelling via bus to the campsite.
- On February 11th, we will leave the campsite so that we return to Caulfield by 5 pm.
Three delicious kosher meals and an endless supply of snacks will be provided. AUJS will do its best to accommodate for any dietary requirements. If you leave the indoor or the alfresco dining area overlooking the country side hungry, it will be your own fault.


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Localized Osteosarcoma clinical trials at UCSF
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Combination Chemotherapy, PEG-Interferon Alfa-2b, and Surgery in Treating Patients With Osteosarcoma
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This randomized phase III trial is studying combination chemotherapy followed by surgery and two different combination chemotherapy regimens with or without PEG-interferon alfa-2b to compare how well they work in treating patients with osteosarcoma. Drugs used in chemotherapy work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more tumor cells. Biological therapies, such as PEG-interferon alfa-2b, may interfere with the growth of tumor cells. Giving combination chemotherapy before surgery may shrink the tumor so it can be removed. Giving combination chemotherapy together with PEG-interferon alfa-2b after surgery may kill any remaining tumor cells. It is not yet known whether giving combination therapy together with PEG-interferon alfa-2b is more effective than two different combination chemotherapy regimens alone after surgery in treating osteosarcoma.
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V8.0 / 8.1 (note that sound quality improves in gameplay):
You'll need SAAT (San Andreas Audio Toolkit) to replace these sounds (if you need a tutorial, I included a link to one in the README file). For this mod, you need to install this entire bank_137 first, because other sounds have been slightly shortened to compensate for higher quality gun sounds. This is how the rain bug can be fixed.
See the README for more details and instruction on how to install.
V1.0 Suppressed gun sound pack (for those using additional suppressed weapons):
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One of the best ways to earn more money when you feel like you've hit an income ceiling is to start a side hustle while still working a full time job.
Happy new month guys!
It's the beginning of August and since I've reconnected with my love for blogging,
Three years ago as a new mom, I found myself worrying so much about money.
I had always been financially independent before having a baby and being dependent on my husband even if for a little while was not easy.
Last week, Forbes reported that Kylie Jenner has a $900 million net worth and is the youngest woman on the 2018 Forbes List of America's Richest Self Made Women.
Have you and your honey been fighting a lot lately?
Chances are it's because of money. According to a nationwide study done by Money Magazine,
Having a baby in America is definitely very different from having a baby in let's say Kenya,
"What if I'm throwing away the greatest opportunity of my life?" Someone asked me this a few weeks ago. So I thought I should write a post about it today.
In honor of my 28th birthday, I decided to share with you some of the lessons I have learned from finding and walking in my purpose.
If anyone had told me that I would be a mom, happily married and doing everything I can to build and grow my own women's empowerment brand at 27.
"It seems to me like you're doing the same thing over and over again," my hubby says to me with a concerned look on his face."
"It's like you're going round and round in circles but not really making any progress.We need to move forward and in order to do that you'll have to stop second guessing yourself all the time and start believing that you can do this."
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As Adams Morgan's massive construction project draws a close, U Street's is kicking off.
Work begins Monday to overhaul the streetscape along U between 9th and 14th streets.
"We're starting at 9th Street," said Monica Hernandez, of the D.C. Department of Transportation. "We're going to move westbound toward 14th Street. We'll start on the north side first, complete that section, and then jump over to the south side."
Sidewalks will be rebuilt and widened with new landscaping. Roadways will be repaved, and traffic signals and storm drains will be upgraded.
The road will be reconstructed one block at a time, transportation officials said. At least one lane of traffic will be kept open in each direction during construction, but curbside parking will be restricted.
"We're going to keep the corridor open," Hernandez said. Businesses and sidewalks will stay open.
Up in Adams Morgan, owners of shops along 18th Street said the streetscape project has disrupted business.
"We're prepared," said Leon King of Why Not Boutique. "And I think most of the folks understand that changes make great things in the end."


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12-Year-Old Suspended For Pink Hair
Don't school administrations ever learn? 12-year-old Amelia Robbins has been suspended after dying her hair pink as a tribute to her late father who died of cancer.
Broadsheet sums it up:
Administrators argue that the dye job is a "distraction" to other students, but with the full support of her mom, Amelia's choosing to fight the suspension rather than adopt a more conventional hair color. "I don't feel like I should have to, because i'm expressing myself as an individual. Because they constantly tell us be different, don't follow the crowd." Nice one, kiddo! It's never too early to start calling out your superiors' hypocrisy!


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A World War II–era family saga filled with secrets, passion and untimely tragedy.
Kelly's debut novel is set during the five years after the end of WWII. After Caroline Hunt's husband dies in the war, she moves from a town called Beaufort to her hometown of Salem, Mass., with her two daughters, teenage Dinah and 6-year-old Jemima. Caroline soon reconnects with an old flame, Tom, himself a widower who has a son named Tru. Caroline and Tom's reunion is peaceful and sweet, and Kelly draws a realistic portrait of a new family awkwardly, but happily, coming together. The Hunt girls, in particular, are relatable and lifelike; Jemima is hilarious, and Dinah is refreshingly kind and self-assured, always looking after her sister and preferring "the company of dead authors" to the companionship of her peers. She settles into high school, but her relationship with her slightly older and more popular stepbrother, Tru, remains stagnant; Tru dotes on Jemima and refers to Caroline as "mom," but he and Dinah never quite seem to hit it off. Eventually, however, Tru is unable to hide the fact that he's in love with her. Their relationship is tested by its taboo nature, other suitors, illness and a tragic death. Unfortunately, although both characters are well–thought-out, their passion seems to be based on nothing but mutual physical attraction. There doesn't seem to be enough substance for their relationship to progress—but it does, despite their parents' surprisingly weak attempts to stop it. The teens' relationship may disturb some readers, but Kelly's story is a revealing peek into family life—including inside jokes, closely guarded secrets and long-standing feuds. There are a few aspects of the novel that fall flat, including a few superfluous characters and a few too many cute winks about the time period ("That Tom Stuart bears an uncanny resemblance to that new Congressman in the eleventh district—what's his name again…that's right—Kennedy"). Overall, however, the book is an easy, absorbing read.
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Data shows that across the state home prices are on the rise and with wages stagnating, these homes were becoming less and less affordable.
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According to the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension, blueberries were growing in the state as early as when the first settlers arrived. While it takes several years for a blueberry bush to produce fruit, the sweet, juicy rewards can make it a worthwhile endeavor. With proper care and a suitable growing location, your blueberries can thrive in Maryland.
Choose an appropriate cultivar for the state. The University of Maryland recommends Bluetta, Duke, Earliblue, Spartan, Patriot, Blueray, Bluecrop, Jersey, Elliott and Lateblue. Always start with plants that are 2 to 3 years old, purchased from a nursery.
Find a location in your yard that receives between six and eight hours of sunlight each day and is free of other plants. Make sure the pH level of the soil is between 4.5 and 5.0 by using a testing kit. Adding sulfur can lower the pH level, and lime can raise it if necessary.
Create a hole for each blueberry bush. Leave a space of 5 feet between each bush. Ohio State University recommends that each hole be 18 inches wide and 18 inches deep. Place the plant in the hole and over with 4 inches of a peat moss/soil mix.
Provide each blueberry bush with a minimum of 2 inches of water per week. Rain in Maryland during the summer season can often be sporadic, so you'll likely need to do this by hand.
Prune the plant once it reaches its fourth year of life. After the growing season, trim away the older canes from the base of the plant. Choose the canes that appear light in color and have peeling bark.
Apply fertilizer once per year right after the bush blooms, but only after the plant's second year of growth. Use ammonium sulfate at the rate of 4 ounces per bush.
Things You Will Need
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- Birds are the biggest potential pest problem for blueberry bushes. Deter birds by placing netting over the plants once berries begin to ripen.
- County extension educators in Maryland can provide assistance with soil tests and recommendations on soil improvement.
- Blueberries are very sensitive to soil pH levels, so test at least once per year.
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Outdoor enthusiasts participate in activities year-round, often not discouraged even by falling temperatures. Skiers, hunters, anglers and others can appreciate warm hands on a cold day. To help remove some of the chill, Zippo produces a hand warmer designed to be carried in a pocket. Made of metal and featuring a compact design, the Zippo hand warmer uses lighter fluid as a heat source.
Hold the Zippo hand warmer in one hand and remove the lid so that the burner is easily accessible.
Ignite a cigar lighter or similar butane-type lighter and touch the flame to the burner located in the top of the hand warmer. Allow the flame to contact the burner for three to five seconds.
Turn the lid of the hand warmer that was removed earlier and locate the small, orange indicator strip on its side.
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Electromobility and highly automated driving: No longer futuristic visions but important market trends that already play a significant role in the day-to-day operations of many development departments – but they entail great challenges. How can you master these challenges, spur the development of autonomous systems, and bring cutting-edge technologies to the roads and market as soon as possible? Let dSPACE show you at embedded world 2019.
dSPACE develops and distributes tools for the development of electronic control units (ECUs) and mechatronic systems worldwide. dSPACE was one of the companies that created this market segment 3 decades ago, and continues to shape it to this day.
Our systems enable you to reduce development times and costs dramatically when you design ECUs and controllers, which systematically increases your productivity. The reason is our optimal mix of standard solutions for rapid-control-prototyping, automatic production code generation, and hardware-in-the-loop simulation. Moreover, we offer comprehensive services from on-site user training to customer-specific system engineering such as turn-key HIL test systems.
Whether they are working on electronic combustion engine controls, alternative drives or modern driver assistance systems – virtually all international car makers and many of their suppliers rely on dSPACE hardware and software in their current development projects. And our products are used not only in the automotive industry, but also in aerospace, drives technology, medical technology, industrial automation, and other fields.
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Minecraft type of games has become quite popular these days. Many of them are successful, many are not. Nonetheless, one of the beginners of this style is well known Terraria. The new part of the game is coming ready to offer new elements, new graphics and new opportunities.
Terraria: Otherworld Release Date
Despite the fact that many gamers can't call Otherworld a sequel the developers still insist. Thus the full new release is promised to be in late 2016, however it won't happen. When the game actually be released is unknown.
It is promised to be released in all platform, including current generation consoles, such as PS4 and Xbox One. Despite this, the actual development stage for this versions is unknown.
Release date: TBA
According to the information on the official website the action is set in the same universe but in a different dimension. The main task of the player is going to be a fight against a mysterious evil which has come to the world. The player is supposed to defeat the evil forces and return the lost values of the universe.
Terraria: Otherworld System Requirements
The fresh release is being developed for Xbox One, PS4 and PC/Mac platforms. As for PC requirements they're here.
Intel CPU: Pentium 4 1.6 GHz / AMD CPU: Athlon XP 1700+
Nvidia GPU: GeForce 8500GT
HDD Space: 200 MB
The game is going to give players a lot of new items, furniture, blocks and enemies. Now you can find Dirt and Snow in the game. New weather is also present, so you can work with Lightning for example. What's more, the defensive abilities are promised to be improved so that you can modify and customize the turrets. The game has become obviously wider in terms of the world and items to use.
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The sequel is going to save the existing characters but some new NPCs are added which are Mechanic and Doctor. You can also find new enemies such as Crimother Boss, Triffid and Scavenger Corruption ones.
The new game is still good old 2D sandbox with elements of RPG and Strategy now. In the new version you can enjoy the added grappling hooks as well as a lot of new items, enemies and allies. The new NPCs are clever now which makes the game more interesting and more difficult. The game is still centered on building up and defensing yourself with a number of improvements now. And you still have the opportunity to place some of NPCs inside of your construction after you have defeated another enemy.
Still 2D Terraria gives you wider range of actions and absolutely opened world. Even though there're complaints about this part being a mini game, the final release is supposed to stop them.


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Tom Brake MP will be celebrating the 70th birthday of the National Health Service by presenting a massive card to St Helier Hospital. Hundreds of residents have already signed the card, using the opportunity to thank staff for their dedication and hard work.
Carshalton & Wallington MP Tom Brake said:
"I am so proud of the NHS and the hard work put in by doctors, nurses, porters, therapists and other staff every day. Their relentless dedication helps keep us all happy and healthy.
"I can't thank St Helier enough for all it does for local residents. I encourage everyone to help me celebrate our hospital by adding your messages of gratitude to our lovely card."
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The founder developed much of empty handed Aikido from traditional sword and spear movements. Consequently, the practice of these movements both gives insight into the origin of techniques and movements, and reinforces the concepts of distance, foot movement, presence and connectedness with one's training partners
The bokken, or wooden sword, is modeled after the Samuri sword of ancient Japan and is an extension of the slightly bent arm used in Aikido. Bokken practice is used to deepen the student's understanding of Aikido, improve balance, posture, timing, distance, alertness and movement. It includes suburi, tachidori and kumitachi.
Jodo is often called 'The way of the stick.' This martial art uses a short wooden staff, called a 'jo' or 'tsue', to defend oneself against an attacker using a Japanese sword. The jo and the sword, called 'tachi', form a complimentary method of 'keiko' or training.
A Tanto is a Japanese short blade, much like a short Katana. Tanto Dori is the study of how to defend one self against an attacker wielding a knife. Tanto training can be dificult and dangerous so training starts at the senior levels.


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Labor in the Name of Learning: Broadview University Gives Back
Published on May 27, 2014 by arothstein
(GARDEN CITY) One day a year, Broadview University closes its doors for business and opens the window for an opportunity to give back to the community. On Friday, May 16, the Boise campus staff participated in its annual Community Service Day. This year, the campus chose the Learning Lab in Garden City to be its volunteer project recipient; providing labor in the name of learning.
The Learning Lab is a computer-assisted learning center for adults and families with children birth to six years old. Students receive basic skills instruction including math, reading, writing, spelling, GED preps and workplace skills. While students are learning, their children are enrolled in infant/toddler or preschool programs. Students are placed in a class according to their ability and need. All courses they take utilize computerized, interactive learning systems. The mission here is to break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy.
The nonprofit organization relies on community volunteers to help break that cycle. To do its part, a group of 18 faculty and staff members gathered at the Garden City facility and donated a day's worth of manual labor—painting, cleaning, organizing, pulling weeds and cleaning up the outside grounds and playground. For four hours—minus a quick lunch—the staff worked on a variety of projects.
"From the minute I heard about this organization, I knew I wanted to do something to help out," Mike McAllister, Broadview University's campus director, said. "I am truly excited we chose to do this project. The Learning Lab is a great, very deserving organization."
At the end of the work day, Broadview University's staff made a considerable dent in their assigned tasks. Two rooms were painted, the entire playground was weeded, raked and cleaned, the grounds were freshly landscaped, and the facility inside was cleaned from top to bottom.
"Thank you so much for the amazing work [your team] did," Ann Heilman, the director at the Learning Lab, said. "Your team was such a friendly group of people and so well organized. We can't thank you enough for the work put in to making Learning Lab a cleaner, safer place to work, teach and learn."
"Our preschool students and teachers are enjoying the clean equipment and safer playing area. The teachers and staff are also thrilled with the cleanliness of their offices and improvements made both inside and out! A special thank you to the gardeners/outside workers who had their work cut out for them and to the painters who stayed to get the job done! We truly appreciate that you dedicated this day to helping us."


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Hello and happy Thursday!
I know what you're thinking – "One Room Challenge week 4?!! What happened to weeks 2 & 3?". Well, to be honest there wasn't much action going on in the nursery until last week. We cleared the room one week, and did nothing the next because life has been hectic and there has been a ton going on. Last weekend the room went from zero to sixty. In two days my husband finished clearing out the remaining things in the room, painted, built the dresser and crib, and put together the glider. Poor guy was hard at work last weekend, but things needed to get done and he's such a trooper about it all (amidst some complaining 😉 ).
Ok, so let me fill you all in from the beginning – lets start with the paint. I'm not really a pink person, at all – my oldest daughter's room has been green since day one and accented with pinks, peaches, mint green and gold. This time around though, I wanted to paint the room pink. I picked the lightest shade of pink I could find. It is called Frosty Peach Ribbon by Glidden. It's so soft and such a beautiful color. Her room is small, and unfortunately the weirdest shape, so I didn't want a color to overpower the room, I think the color we picked works perfectly!
We decided on the Hemnes 3-drawer Chest in the white stain for the room because of its size. It fits perfectly in the crevice of the wall I wanted. We originally thought we would use our oldest daughter's dresser for the space but it was too big so we got this one and love it so far. I've already started stocking the drawers with all of the baby things and am so happy with how deep the drawers are. The only thing I'm worried about is fitting the changing pad PLUS a diaper caddy on it. My mother-in-law got me a storage cart – you can kind of see it in the pictures. Although it's very cute, I'm not entirely sure about using it. So far it seems hard to get things in and out of the cubby holes. We bought Ikea's storage cart, but it is going to be too big and bulky for the area I want it.
I'm in LOVE with our DaVinci Jenny Lind Crib. It's a perfect size for the room, not bulky at all and brings the perfect splash of vintage charm to the room. I can't wait to put my Carousel Design custom bedding on it and see my whole vision come to life!
The carpet shown was just delivered yesterday. I had originally ordered this one (here) and while I thought it was very pretty, the colors were too dull for the room and the cream color in the carpet almost looked dirty. I found this one (here) on Target.com too, and thought it was beautiful and would work well in the room. The quality is great and it was half the price of the other carpet, score! Another Target find was the cute pillow on my glider (by the way, my glider is from Buy Buy Baby – it's called the Felicia Glider. Unfortunately it is no where to be found online, but it is sooo comfortable and reclines) the aqua piping on the pillow is perfect and will go great with the pink and ivory throw that I plan on draping on the glider.
I'm slowly but surely starting to organize her closet, I've bought a couple of bins and hope to have it done soon.
That's all of the progress so far. I hope to hang up the curtains and art for the walls this weekend and have the room look mostly finished.
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UPI Welcomes Jace Crossley to the Ag West Team
We are pleased to welcome Jace Crossley to the Ag West Team effective October 1, 2016. Jace will serve as a Territory Account Manager, reporting to Gary Olson.
Jace earned his B.S. in Agronomy from Brigham Young University - Idaho. Jace currently resides in Pocatello, Idaho with his family.
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ALEX Spa Fun Sparkle Tattoo Parlor Peace and Love gives you a temporary way to make a lasting impression. Stencil on trendy designs. The images all feature peace and love, so you can match any outfit, jewelry, nails or makeup. Includes 4 colors of glitter, 12 stencils, 2 brushes, tattoo glue and easy instructions. Recommended for children 8 years of age and older.
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While Verizon Wireless talks vaguely about new Windows Phones sometime in the Windows Phone "8" timeframe, AT&T keeps rolling out new devices.
Today, AT&T announced another Windows device on its 4G LTE network -- the Samsung Focus 2, which will be available on May 20.
The Samsung Focus was reportedly the most popular of the Windows Phone 7 devices (for what that was worth). Samsung had already rolled out an upgraded phone, the Samsung Focus S to coincide with the Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" release. So in effect, this is the third generation Focus for the Windows Phone platform.
Specifics of the device are a relatively low price tag ($49.99 with a two-year contract), a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, a 5-megapixel camera and a front-facing VGA camera. It's available in white.
For AT&T the biggest significance is that the Samsung Focus 2 is the third device on its 4G LTE network, joining the $99 Nokia Lumia 900 and the $199 HTC Titan II (both prices are with two-year contracts). Salesperson incentives in AT&T stores also seem to be trickling down to some actual store-level enthusiasm, as my colleague Keith Ward recently noted.
Will AT&T's big push funded by Nokia via Microsoft start making a difference this quarter? Only the numbers will tell, and even if Microsoft turns in another lackluster quarter in terms of smartphone sales, I don't suspect Microsoft will be deterred. Microsoft's pockets are deep, and management has obviously concluded that smartphones are too strategic to abandon without a lengthy fight.
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Bishop Malooly invites youth, young adults, and their families from all parishes and schools to join him as we come together for the sixth annual Pilgrimage on Saturday, March 28. Young people from across the diocese will carry the diocesan pilgrimage cross through the streets of Wilmington with the bishop as a representation of Jesus' entry to Jerusalem and his journey on Good Friday to Calvary. Registration opens at 10 am at St. Elizabeth parish and the day begins with opening prayer and a concert featuring Steve Angrisano at 10:30 am. We conclude with the 5pm liturgy at St. Elizabeth. Don't miss this great opportunity to wrap up your Lenten journey with hundreds of your peers. Cost for the day is $15 or $45 max per family (bring your own lunch). To register, please contact Theresa Stamegna. Registration deadline is March 11, 2015. (Registration with t-shirt orders must be returned by 2/25/15.) This event is free to students who wish to use this event to fulfill their retreat requirement for Confirmation
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This is a snowfall that started about a week ago and hasn't stopped. We've have a few inches since this was taken and about 6 more by x-mas.
The view of the bush outside my window. It has about twice as much snow after today.
This is Nick's "Yankee Gift Exchange" for Megan. Lego Star Wars guys!
They are so epic
and the latest addition to our toy shelf...
Here's Grover on the lunchbox flashing the "Van Buren Boys" gang sign
Megan love "It's A Wonderful Life." So, when she saw that it was going to be on the big screen at the Music Box as a double feature, we had to go. We were completely unprepared. We thought we were going to a movie, not an experience. It was their 25th x-mas show that featured a choir, a organ player, and a possibly drunk Santa leading a sing-a-long. Everyone (except us) was dressed up and insane. Every time (literally) Mr. Potter came on the screen everyone hissed. Whenever Clarence was on screen people would ring their little bells. We were completely unprepared, but it was good fun.
The show was sold out. This is before. The second movie was "A White Christmas" with Bing Crosby and George Clooney's grandma. Megan has never seen it and I forgot which movie that was. Once it started, I remembered I really don't like that movie and Megan leaned over half way through and said, "I really don't like this." So, we left. The crowd for the second movie was weird too. There was some Army guy that was so excited by everything and sang along to the "Sisters" song.
Christmas plans are still somewhat in flux. I'm staying in Chicago for the 25th for sure. We're heading to a couple parties that day after we open gifts under our little tree. Michigan for a quick weekend trip (pending weather that won't kill us).
On a final note: You have to check out this story from Chicago today. It's like something out of a movie. Amazing and stupid at the same time! http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/man-survives-100-foot-fall-from-dan-ryan.html


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VSU Multipurpose Center named 2018 Business of the Year
Published date: March 28, 2018
The VSU Multipurpose Center (MPC) has been named the 2018 Business of the Year by the Colonial Height Chamber of Commerce.
The MPC is a state-of-the-art facility that stands as the premier entertainment and meeting space destination in the Tri Cities Area of Virginia. The arena measures up to be the size of three football fields at 167,000 sq. ft. and seats more than 6,000, making it the largest event venue located south of Richmond in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Managed and operated by Spectra by Comcast Spectacor, the amenities- packed multipurpose center hosts men's and women's athletic events, live concerts, family shows, banquets, trade shows, corporate meetings, commencements and more.
The MPC was honored with the Business of the Year Award at the 69th Colonial Heights Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner held in the MPC on Thursday, March 22, 2018. The Chamber's dinner program focused on honoring Hometown Heroes in which local teachers, public safety officers, military veterans and other members of the community were presented with special recognitions.
About the VSU Multipurpose Center (MPC)
The Virginia State University Multipurpose Center offers 167,000 square feet of inviting and flexible event space for meetings, concerts, sporting events, trade-shows, and more. The MPC serves as a premier event venue in the Virginia Tri-Cities Area, located on 2nd Avenue in Petersburg, VA, on the campus of Virginia State University. Only 30 minutes from the Richmond International Airport, the MPC is a true state-of-the-art full service facility. You'll find our staff friendly and ready to assist you in planning your successful event. Learn more at www.vsumpc.com.
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Spectra by Comcast Spectacor is an industry leader in hosting and entertainment, partnering with clients to create memorable experiences for millions of visitors every year. Spectra's unmatched blend of integrated services delivers incremental value for clients through several primary areas of expertise: Venue Management, Food Services & Hospitality, and Partnerships. Learn more at SpectraExperiences.com.
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Comcast Spectacor is part of Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company that operates Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Comcast Spectacor's three core businesses are the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers, the Wells Fargo Center Complex, and Spectra, a leading hospitality firm that provides Venue Management, Food Services & Hospitality and Partnerships to more than 300 client properties in the United States, Canada, and Singapore. Visit us at ComcastSpectacor.com for more information.


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Kirusa, MTN launch Celeb Connect and Sports Connect in Rwanda
Kirusa, the leader in voice messaging and social media mobileapps in emerging markets, today announced the launch of its popular services, CelebConnect and SportsConnect on MTN Rwanda network. The Celeb Connect service will enable fans to reach out and connect with their favorite celebs, while the Sports Connect service will enable MTN subscribers to get updates about their favorite soccer clubs and teams.
Using Celeb Connect, celebrities share their thoughts and emotions in their own voice with their fans. Participating stars can call a number, or use smartphones to leave messages. These messages are then delivered immediately to fans, which creates an almost "Voice Twitter" experience. MTN subscribers can see messages, call, and listen to what's happening over the phone, or on the web at vobolo.com, and can share with their friends on Facebook and Twitter, creating an engaging social media experience. Further, the fans get an opportunity to speak and engage with the celebrities in multiple ways on-line and off-line.
Sports Connect service will enable MTN Rwanda subscribers to receive daily soccer updates such as team news, pre and post-match analysis and quotes of team managers as well as players. The bulletins are available in English and French languages.
These services are available across Rwanda, to all MTN Rwanda subscribers, and on both smartphones and feature phones. Movie actors and actresses, singers, song writers, and models notch up the glamour quotient of the Celeb Connect service in Rwanda. Participating stars include LilG (Hip-Hop star), Tijarat (Radio & TV Presenter), and JayPolly (Rapper). The Sport Connect service, offered in partnership with goal.com, includes frequent updates about various European clubs, such as Barcelona, #ManchesterUnited, and Chelsea, and about various African national teams playing in Brazil.
Speaking on the launch, Yvonne Manzi Makolo, CMO of MTN Rwanda, said, "We are delighted to launch these compelling services from Kirusa. It is exciting to directly connect with one's favorite celebrity every day from the comfort of one's mobile phone. Our subscribers will also be thrilled to get regular updates about their favorite football teams just as the WorldCup fever is gripping the country."
Elated, Jay Polly, Hip-Hop Star, expressed his views on the launch, "Celeb Connect is a unique way for us to connect with our fans. We can now interact with our fans amicably without media intrusion and third party involvement. Authenticity is also maintained with Celeb Connect. We do not need to fret about fake accounts now."
Barinderpal Singh Mumick, VP, Operations, Kirusa, added, "We all have, at one time or another tried to reach out and speak to our favorite celebrities. Celeb Connect is a fantastic platform for fulfilling a common man's dream to stay connected with their cherished celebrities."
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Snooki, Socked: The Footage MTV (Suddenly) Doesn't Want You to See
MTV drummed up publicity for Jersey Shore by promising controversial footage of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi being punched. Now that it has everyone's attention, MTV is backing out, pulling the footage and trying to erase it from the Internet. Good luck!
The footage of Snooki being punched was originally set to air on this Thursday's episode. Over the last several days, chatter about the incident reached an all-time high, complete with updates from the New York Post and other media outlets about the the charges faced by Snooki's attacker, New York City gym teacher Brad Ferro.
By hyping the footage of the attack on Snooki and promising to air it later, MTV got exactly what it wanted, what it had planned for all along: suddenly, everybody was talking about Jersey Shore. So, it came as quite a surprise when—yesterday morning—the network decided to not air the footage on Thursday, and issued the following statement:
What happened to "Snooki" was a crime and obviously extremely disturbing. After hearing from our viewers, further consulting with experts on the issue of violence, and seeing how the video footage has been taken out of context to not show the severity of this act or the resulting consequences, MTV has decided not to air Snooki being physically punched in next week's episode. The show will still make it clear what events transpired, including the full aftermath.
That's all well and good, except for the fact that MTV must have known what it was doing all along. How could it not? This isn't about taking the high road, it's about nipping another type of controversy—the negative reaction toward the network sure to come from anti-violence groups following the airing of the footage—in the bud.
Not only did MTV decide not to air the footage on Thursday, but the network also launched a campaign to remove any evidence that it ever existed from the Internet, reportedly policing YouTube and taking down any videos that feature the incident. And while this is a smart reaction—especially if MTV wants people to think that it's acting altruistically here, heeding the concerns of people uncomfortable with its original decision to air the footage—it's not a genuine one.
The bottom line here is that MTV manufactured a controversy, benefited from that controversy, and then tried to erase it before it backfired on them. Because of that, we've decided to show you the footage that MTV doesn't want you to see.
First, footage of the attack that MTV aired in a promo at the end of Jersey Shore's season premiere, which has since been edited out.
And now, additional footage that MTV aired in a promo following last Thursday's episode, which has also since been removed.
MTV may think it can trick people into believing that this whole thing wasn't planned from the beginning. The network may also think it can police the Internet and remove any videos featuring the footage, effectively ending the controversy it tried so hard to create in the first place.
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The Local Media Consortium and the Local Media Association announced that TAPinto, along with 21 other local news organizations nationwide, has been selected to participate in the beta group of the Branded Content Partnership, a partnership between LMC and the LMA, and funded by a $1 million investment from the Facebook Journalism Project that commenced in March 2019 with an initial alpha test group. The announced organizations will receive grant money to test and develop successful and sustainable branded content offerings and revenue streams.
"We are thrilled to have been selected to take part in the Branded Content Partnership," said TAPinto CEO and Publisher Michael Shapiro. "When we started TAPinto as a single site, we quickly realized that innovation was needed in the local media space in order to support truly local news reporting. We were one of the first hyperlocal media organizations to use branded content and are looking forward to sharing our knowledge and learning from our fellow media organizations to help continue to fill the void in local news," he continued.
The LMA and LMC define branded content as any sales initiative that uses content to engage the user and is paid for by a client who participates as part of the content, helps supply the content, or sponsors the content that is distributed across any platform.
"We received applications encompassing every media type from all over the world, and ultimately selected the Branded Content betas that best demonstrate the ability to help others learn from their initiatives while learning more about branded content strategies themselves," said Julia Campbell, Branded Content Project lead. "As part of the Branded Content Project initiative, these beta testers will build on the knowledge gleaned from the alpha projects, participate in case studies and contribute to white papers to explain their findings and share their results with the broader local media industry."
The call for applications was announced in September and closed October 21 seeking groups with a mature branded content program. Applications were received from LMA and LMC members and non-members, with entries from across the U.S. and as far away as Africa and Argentina. The Branded Content Project beta group includes the following (listed in alphabetical order):
- ARA Newspaper (ara.cat)
- Cox Media Group
- Entravision Communications
- GateHouse Media (now Gannett)
- Growing Community Media
- Lifestyle Frisco
- MinnPost
- Mundo Hispanico
- Narcity Media
- Newsday Media Group
- Portland Press Herald – Masthead Maine Media Network
- Skyline (SCNG Media)
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Swift Communications
- TAPinto.net
- The Denver Post
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)
- The Seattle Times
- Tribune Publishing
- Village Media Inc.
- WBOC (Draper Media)
Many of the organizations will focus their testing on the common challenges identified across all organizations in the first round, including the need for education of the sales teams and advertisers, proving ROI for clients, and improving the process and workload of branded content teams. In addition to interacting with and drawing from the alpha group's discoveries, planned beta initiatives include working with brands and advertisers to test scalability in other markets, improving usability or UX, implementing better analytics or reporting, adding additional training for sales and news, adding social video production, gaining assistance with in-market group sales events for clients and purchasing technology for improved production.


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Prisoner Rights: Opinion
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Explain if inmates should have the legal rights they are granted and whether they deserve ethical treatment as defined in the American Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (AACFP) standards and the Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychologists and why or why not. Justify your position referencing the legal rights and ethical standards.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com October 10, 2019, 6:56 am ad1c9bdddf
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Prisoner Rights
Prisoners, while incarcerated and doing so to pay for the crimes they have been sentenced of, give up the freedom of movement, without the ability to come and go as one pleases or act and behave in a particular manner, restrained in a particular space for a length of time. The modern legal term is incarceration where those incarcerated are criminals serving the punishment for their crimes in accordance with the justice system. But while they are serving and are imprisoned, they still retain certain rights based of course on the law and that which society sees as ethical and moral. Additionally, there are non-convicted criminals who find themselves in prison for the purpose of detention on suspicion of having committed a crime (as when during which the crime is being investigated, or when the trial is underway to find the accused guilty/not guilty). Is it right for these men and women, convicted and non-convicted to retain certain rights? What are these rights? This is what this small discussion is about. The Cornell University Law School (2013) teaches that while they have lost their constitutional rights, certain rights are non-removable from the person imprisoned,
"Federal and state laws govern the establishment and administration of prisons as well as the rights of the inmates. Although prisoners do not have full Constitutional rights, they are protected by the Constitution's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment (see Amendment VIII). This protection requires that prisoners be afforded a minimum standard of living. Prisoners retain some other Constitutional rights, including due process in their right to administrative appeals and a right of access to the parole ...
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The solution provides information, assistance and advise in tackling the task (see above) of weighing in on the subject of prisoner rights - should they retain any and why? The solution provides a discussion as well as a list of resources that can be used to further explore the topic.


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Two New Zealand meat companies scored gold in the 2018 World Steak Challenge in London last week.
Alliance Group took away medals for two steaks from its Pure South Handpicked 55 Day Aged Beef grass-fed range – gold for its rib-eye steak and a bronze for a fillet steak. First Light Foods also won gold for a grass-fed Wagyu rib-eye steak.
These were awarded at an event for 200 invited guests after the busy day of judging on 4 July, benchmarking the quality of beef production against global competitors.
According to a delighted Alliance general manager marketing Peter Russell, Pure South Handpicked 55 Day Aged Beef is based on an innovative grading system focused on superior eating quality. Internationally-accredited master graders carefully hand select carcases from prime cattle of any breed.
The selection is based on quantifiable meat quality characteristics such as marbling, fat cover, fat colour and pH, he says. Alliance selects from Prime animals only (Steer and Heifer), and the carcase must have a marbling score of 4+, and pH of 5.7 or lower. Selected cuts are then aged in a vacuum-bag for 55 days. Only a fraction of the very finest beef ever makes the grade.
The product, the first within Pure South's Handpicked range, is aimed exclusively at the foodservice sector. It was launched in May following a three-year research and development programme and extensive chef and premium restaurant trials.
Russell says the product has an unprecedented level of tenderness and a milder beef flavour profile, suitable for a variety of eating experiences.
"The product has been developed with restaurants in mind. The extended wet ageing of the product means chefs may choose to serve immediately or further dry age.
"Feedback from our trials at restaurants around the country and from 'blind' taste testing alongside other premium beef products has been exceptional with chefs reporting an unprecedented level of succulence, tenderness and flavour.
"This award also provides international affirmation of the programme's objectives – being breed agnostic, selecting only the finest quality carcases and pre-ageing the product before release.
"The success in this competition and the independent gold medal becomes a very powerful stamp of quality that will be used as an integral part of the product marketing.
"This accolade on the world stage underlines the value of our commitment to building a differentiated premium portfolio, directed to specific channels and consumer requirements and offering farmers the opportunity to partner with us on products for new segments across our entire range."
Heather Stacy, general manager livestock and shareholder services at Alliance, says: "Handpicked is a further step in the company's strategy to capture more market value for farmer shareholders.
"We'd like to see more animals making the grade. We are collecting a range of data from the selection process to identify attributes that may influence marbling outcomes. Once we have collated 18-24 months of data, we will be able to provide feedback to farmers on those factors."
Danish company JN Meat International came away with the supreme award of World's Best Steak for a grass-fed Ayrshire sirloin from a Finnish animal. This is understood to be the first time a grass-fed steak has won the competition. The company also won the categories for the World's Best Rib Eye, Sirloin and Grass-fed Steak and nine of the golds, while ABP Poland won the World's Best Fillet Steak and Germany's OSI International GmbH came away with the trophy for World's Best Grass-Fed.
Australian meat companies also participated in the challenge, with Jack's Creek receiving three golds for Black Angus/Wagyu grain-fed steaks (sirloin, fillet and rib-eye), Mort & Co two for grass-fed Black Angus (rib-eye and sirloin), while JBS Global and Providore Global received one each for a grass-fed and a grain-fed, respectively.
Overall, there were 45 gold medal, 37 silver and 54 bronze accolades awarded at the fourth edition of the annual World Steak Challenge. This saw companies from 22 countries entering steaks from 35 different breeds, including cross-breeds and pure breeds.
Find out more at worldsteakchallenge.com where you can also register interest for next year's event.


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Many works on TCP/IP networking begin with a discussion of the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and then map the TCP/IP model to the OSI model. This approach fails because TCP/IP does not neatly map into the OSI model and because many application models do not map to the OSI application layers. If the OSI model fails to correctly reflect the nature of TCP/IP, what is the best model? Over the years, different authors have described TCP/IP with three-, four-, and five-layer models. Because it most accurately reflects the nature of TCP/IP, the following discussion of TCP/IP uses the four-layer model as depicted in Figure 1.4.
The TCP/IP protocols have their roots in the Network Control Program (NCP) protocol of the early ARPAnet. In the early 1970s, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) emerged without the IP layer. Thus the three-layer model, consisting of the physical layer, transport layer, and application layer, was created. By the time OSI published its seven-layer model in 1977, IP was a separate layer, the Network layer. Some publications add a Data Link layer between the Network layer and Physical layer. However, such an expansion is not necessary because the TCP/IP model treats the Physical and Application layers as open-ended, thereby enabling each layer to have several different models. The following sections explore the layers of the TCP/IP model in more depth.
In addition to describing the flow of information, the four-layer model (physical, network, transport, and application) also organizes the large number of protocols into a structure that makes them easier to understand. In Internet jargon, the Request For Comment (RFC) describes a protocol. Today, more than 1,900 RFCs describe protocols, provide information, or are tutorials. In part, the success of the Internet is a result of the open nature of its organization. The Internet Activities Board (IAB) provides overall direction and management (see Figure 1.5 for the organizational chart), and task forces manage the development of new protocols. The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) deals with the long-term direction of the Internet, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) handles implementation and engineering problems. The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) coordinates the activities of the many working groups. Membership is not controlled by any organization; instead, anyone who so desires can participate. Anyone can submit an RFC, and anyone can participate in a workgroup. In many ways, the Internet is a grassroots organization that is beyond the control of any organization or government.
To get the latest status of the Internet or to obtain a copy of an RFC, the fastest route is via http://www.internic.net. In particular, RFC 1920 (or its replacement) describes the organization of the IAB in more detail, provides the status of RFCs, and gives instructions on how to submit an RFC.
The Physical Layer
As the lowest layer in the stack, the Physical layer has the task of transmitting the IP datagram over the physical media. Unlike the other layers, this layer has specific knowledge of the underlying network. As a result, detailed models of this layer depend on the transmission protocol being used. The sections "LAN Topologies" and "Internetworking-Linking LANs Together" explain these protocols in more detail.
In general, the Physical layer
- Encapsulates the IP datagram into the frames that are transmitted by the network
- Maps IP addresses to the physical addresses used by the network (the MAC address for Ethernet, token ring, and FDDI)
- Performs the operations necessary to transmit the frame over a particular media (such as thick cable, thin cable, telephone wire, or optical fiber)
The Network Layer
The Network layer is sometimes called the Internetworking layer, which is a more descriptive term for this layer's main function. Three protocols are defined in this layer: the Internet Protocol, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), and the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP). Of these, IP is the most important protocol.
Internet Protocol
RFC 791 defines IP as a connectionless and unreliable protocol. It is connectionless because a connection to the destination host does not have to be made prior to sending an IP datagram. The header of the IP datagram contains sufficient information for it to be transported to its destination over either connectionless or connection-oriented transmission protocols. It is an unreliable protocol because it does not perform any error checking. All error checking, if required, is the responsibility of a higher layer protocol.
What then is the purpose of IP? As the heart of the Internet, the functions of IP include
- Creating a virtual network for the user
- Performing fragmentation and reassembly of datagrams
- Routing datagrams
By creating a virtual network, IP hides the Physical layer and its underlying subnetwork from the end user. The user application needs to know only the destination IP address; IP hides the mechanics of delivery. It does this by fragmenting the packet received from the Transport layer to fit the Protocol Data Unit (PDU) of the transmission protocol. For example, the PDU for Ethernet is 1,500 octets; for SNAP, it is 1,492 octets; for X.25, it is 128 to 256 octets. For each transmission protocol encountered on a datagram's journey to the destination host, IP makes the fragmentation decision until IP reassembles the packet for the Transport layer at its final destination.
IP also handles routing of the datagram to its destination. IP accomplishes this by passing to the Physical layer the IP address of the next hop, where a hop is the distance between a device and a gateway or the distance between two gateways. The following are the rules IP uses for determining the next hop:
- For IP addresses on a local network, send the datagram directly to the host.
- For other addresses, check the routing table for the gateway IP address toward the destination network.
- For all other addresses, send the datagram to the default gateway.
A gateway is any device that connects to two or more networks. The gateway then follows the same rules to make a routing decision. Because gateways make the routing decisions, the movement of the datagram from source to destination is independent of any transmission protocol. In addition, each datagram contains sufficient information to enable it to follow a separate path to the destination.
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
ICMP (RFC 792) performs the error reporting, flow control, and informational functions for IP. Following are the major characteristics of ICMP:
- ICMP data units are encapsulated by IP for submission to the Physical layer.
- ICMP is a required protocol.
- ICMP does not make IP reliable, because it only reports errors.
- ICMP reports errors on IP datagrams but not on ICMP data units.
- ICMP reports an error only on the first IP datagram if the IP datagram is fragmented.
- ICMP is not required to report errors on datagrams.
ICMP reports the following types of messages:
- ICMP sends a source quench message to the host or gateway to indicate that the IP buffers are full. However, if the message flows through a gateway, the originating host does not receive the message. This ICMP message goes only to the gateway that is one hop away.
- ICMP sends a destination unreachable message to the originating host when the net-work is unreachable, the host is unreachable, the protocol is unavailable, or the port is unavailable. (See the section, "The Transport Layer," for an explanation of ports.)
- A gateway sends a redirection message to the originating host to tell it to use another gateway.
- An echo request message can be sent to an IP address to verify that IP is running. The destination responds with an echo reply message. The Ping command uses this type of ICMP message.
Address Resolution Protocol
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) present an interesting problem regarding which layer to assign these protocols to. Because they are used only by the multinode transmission protocols (Ethernet, token ring, and FDDI), ARP and RARP belong to the Physical layer. However, because the transmission protocol encapsulates their packets, they belong to the Network layer. To keep the encapsulation boundary clear, I have included them in the discussion on the Network layer.
ARP (RFC 826) resolves IP addresses to MAC addresses (the "Ethernet LANs" section provides additional information about the MAC address) by broadcasting an ARP request to the attached LAN. The device that recognizes the IP address as its own returns an ARP reply along with its MAC address. The result is stored in the ARP cache. On subsequent requests, the transmission protocol needs to check only the ARP cache. To allow for the dynamic nature of networks, the system removes any ARP entry in the cache that has not been used in the last 20 minutes.
RARP (RFC 903) performs a totally different function. If a device does not know its IP address (such as a diskless workstation), it broadcasts a RARP request asking for an IP address. A RARP server responds with the IP address.
The Transport Layer
The Transport layer provides two protocols that link the Application layer with the IP layer. The TCP provides reliable data delivery service with end-to-end error detection and correction. The User Datagram Protocol (UDP), on the other hand, provides an application with a connectionless datagram delivery service.
Applications can use TCP, UDP, or both. The needs of the application determine the choice of protocols.
For both TCP and UDP, the port number defines the interface between the Transport layer and the Application layer. The port number is a 16-bit value that identifies a particular application. The services file, in UNIX/etc/services, connects application names with the port numbers and the associated protocol. Following is a sample of the contents of the services file:
# Format: # # <service name> <port number>/<protocol> # echo 7/udp echo 7/tcp systat 11/tcp netstat 15/tcp ftp-data 20/tcp fdp 21/tcp telnet 23/tcp smtp 25/tcp time 37/tcp time 37/udp
Port numbers between 1 and 255 are the "well-known services," which represent the port numbers to common application protocols. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority assigns the numbers for the well-known services, and RFC 1700 contains the current list of assigned numbers. Port numbers between 256 and 1024 previously referred to UNIX applications, although a number of these now exist on other platforms. BSD UNIX specifies that the numbers below 1024 require root permission. The remaining numbers are assigned to experimental applications and to user-developed applications. The packets sent by TCP and UDP contain both the source port number and the destination port number in the packet header. The section "Sockets and Socket APIs" covers the use of port numbers in more detail.
The Transport layer is stream-oriented and not block-oriented. The Applications layer sends data to the Transport layer byte-by-byte. The Transport layer assembles the bytes into segments and then passes the segments to the Network layer. TCP and UDP use different methods to determine the segment size as explained in the following sections.
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
The key to understanding TCP lies in the end-to-end principle. In a nutshell, the principle says that only the ends can be trusted because the carrier is unreliable. The ends, in this case, are the TCP protocol of the source and the destination hosts. Thus any error checking performed by the Physical layer is redundant.
Use TCP when an application must have reliable data delivery.
TCP uses a technique called positive acknowledgment and re-transmission (PAR) to ensure reliability. After waiting for a time-out, the sending host (or source host) retransmits a segment (the name for a TCP packet) unless it receives an acknowledgment from the destination host. The destination host acknowledges only segments that are error free and discards any segments that contain errors. Because an acknowledgment can arrive after the host resends the segment, the receiving host must discard duplicate segments. Also, because segments can arrive out of sequence (because each IP datagram can take a different route between the sending host and destination host) the destination host must resequence the segments.
The stream-oriented nature of TCP means that the responsibility for management of blocks, frames, or records lies in the application.
TCP sequentially numbers each byte in the input data stream and uses this sequence number to track the acknowledgments of data received by the destination host. To initiate the connection and establish the initial sequence number, the source host sends a sync packet to the destination host. The destination host responds with a sync acknowledgment that also contains the initial window size and, optionally, the maximum segment size. The window size represents the maximum amount of data that can be sent before receiving an acknowledgment. Because each acknowledgment contains the window size, the destination controls the flow of information. This form of flow control is separate from the flow control mentioned in the ICMP section. ICMP refers to IP buffers, whereas window size refers to TCP buffers. ICMP flow control affects the device one hop away (which may be a gateway or the source host); window size affects only the source host.
The acknowledgment message contains the highest consecutive octet received as well as the new window size. The destination host does not acknowledge out-of-sequence segments until it receives the intervening segments. After the time-out period elapses, the source host retransmits the unacknowledged portion of the window. This sliding window provides for end-to-end flow control and minimizes IP traffic by acknowledging more than one segment.
Figure 1.6 illustrates the principle of the sliding window. For the sake of simplicity, the segment size used in Figure 1.6 is 1,000 octets. The initial window size is 5,000 octets, as specified in the sync acknowledgment message. The source host transmits segments until the window size is reached. The destination host acknowledges receiving 2,000 contiguous octets and returns a new window size of 5,000, which enables the source host to send another 2,000 octets. Should the time-out period expire before the source host receives another acknowledgment, the source host retransmits the entire 5,000 octets remaining in the window. Upon receiving the duplicate segments, the destination host trashes these duplicates.
Upon receiving segments, the destination host passes the acknowledged segments to the receiving port number as a stream of octets. The application on the receiving host has the job of turning this stream into a format required by the application.
Just as the process to open a connection involves a three-way handshake, the closing process (fin) uses a three-way handshake. Upon receiving a close request from the application, the source host sends a fin request to the destination host, with the sequence number set to that of the next segment. To actually close the connection requires the acknowledgment of all segments sent and a fin acknowledgment from the destination host. The source host acknowledges the fin acknowledgment and notifies the application of the closure.
As I explained, the PAR method used by TCP minimizes the IP traffic over the connection. Furthermore, it does not depend on the reliability of the carrier. On the contrary, a carrier that spends too much time achieving reliability causes TCP to time out segments. For TCP/IP, a well-behaved transmission protocol trashes, rather than corrects, bad datagrams.
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
UDP (RFC 768) provides an application interface for connectionless, unreliable datagram protocol. As mentioned at the beginning of "The Transport Layer" section, the protocol does not provide a mechanism for determining if the destination received the datagram or if it contained errors.
Because UDP has very little overhead, applications not requiring a connection-oriented, reliable delivery service should use UDP instead of TCP. Such applications include those that are message oriented.
The UDP packet reflects its simplicity as a protocol. The UDP packet contains only the beginning and destination port number, the length of the packet, a checksum, and the data. It needs nothing else because UDP treats every packet as an individual entity.
Applications that use UDP include applications that
- Provide their own mechanism for connections, flow control, and error checking
- Produce less retransmission overhead
- Use a query/response model
For each type of application, UDP eliminates unnecessary overhead.
The Application Layer
The Application layer is the richest layer in terms of the number of protocols. This section covers the most popular protocols. The "Routing in an Internetwork" section covers the routing protocols, and "The Client/Server Model" section examines various models for application protocols. Despite this broad coverage, this chapter considers only a sampling of the many application protocols that have an RFC. An even greater number of intranet applications do not have an RFC. Applications need only follow the rules for interfacing to the Transport layer, and the socket APIs (covered in the "Sockets and Socket APIs" section) hide from the programmer the details of this interface.
Telnet is one of the oldest and most complicated of the application protocols. Telnet provides network terminal emulation capabilities. Although telnet standards support a wide variety of terminals, the most common emulation used in the Internet is the vt100 emulation. Besides terminal emulation, telnet includes standards for a remote login protocol, which is not the same as the Berkeley rlogin protocol. The full telnet specification encompasses 40 separate RFCs. The Internet Official Protocol Standards RFC (RFC 1920 as of this writing) contains a separate section that lists all current telnet RFCs. However, telnet clients usually implement a subset of these RFCs.
Telnet remains the primary protocol for remotely logging into a host. Although the terminal emulation features are important, other protocols use the remote login portion of the standard to provide authentication services to the remote host. In addition to the traditional remote login standard, some telnet clients and servers support Kerberos (the security method developed by the MIT Athena Project and used in DCE) to provide a secure login capability.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
FTP (RFC 959) is another old-time protocol. It is unusual in that it maintains two simultaneous connections. The first connection uses the telnet remote login protocol to log the client into an account and process commands via the protocol interpreter. The second connection is used for the data transfer process. Whereas the first connection is maintained throughout the FTP session, the second connection is opened and closed for each file transfer. The FTP protocol also enables an FTP client to establish connections with two servers and to act as the third-party agent in transferring files between the two servers.
FTP servers rarely change, but new FTP clients appear on a regular basis. These clients vary widely in the number of FTP commands they implement. Very few clients implement the third-party transfer feature, and most of the PC clients implement only a small subset of the FTP commands. Although FTP is a command-line oriented protocol, the new generation of FTP clients hides this orientation under a GUI environment.
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
The trivial part of the name refers not to the protocol itself, but to the small amount of code required to implement the protocol. Because TFTP does not include an authentication procedure, it is limited to reading and writing publicly accessible files. Consequently, TFTP is a security risk and must never be used to transfer data through a firewall.
TFTP uses the flip-flop protocol to transfer data. In other words, it sends a block of data and then waits for an acknowledgment before sending the next block. It uses UDP and therefore performs its own integrity checks and establishes a very minimal connection. In contrast to the richness of FTP, TFTP defines only five types of packets: read request, write request, data, acknowledgment, and error. Because TFTP is so limited, only a few applications (such as router management software and X-terminal software) use it.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
The word simple in Simple Mail Transfer Protocol refers to the protocol and definitely not to the software required to implement the protocol. Like telnet, many RFCs define SMTP. The two core RFCs are 821 and 822. RFC 821 defines the protocol for transfer of mail between two machines. RFC 822 defines the structure of the mail message. The mail handling system (MHS) model describes the components needed to support e-mail. As shown in Figure 1.7, the MHS consists of the mail transfer agent (MTA), the mail store (MS or mailbox), and the user agent (UA).
The MTA (such as sendmail) receives mail from the UA and forwards it to another MTA. Because the MTA for SMTP receives all mail through port number 25, it makes no distinction between mail arriving from another MTA or from a UA. The MS stores all mail destined for the MTA. The UA reads mail from the MS and sends mail to the MTA.
A UA executing on the MTA host needs only to read the MS as a regular file. However, the network UA requires a protocol to read and manage the MS. The most popular protocol for reading remote mail is the post office protocol version 3 (POP-3) as defined by RFC 1725, which makes RFC 1460 obsolete. So as to enhance the security of POP-3, RFC 1734 describes an optional authentication extension to POP-3. POP-3 transfers all of the mail to the UA and enables the mailbox to be kept or cleared. Because keeping the mail in the MS means that it is downloaded every time, most users choose the clear mailbox option. This option works when you have only one client workstation that always reads the mail. Users who need a more sophisticated approach to mail management should consider the Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP). RFC 1732 describes the specifications for version 4 of IMAP. With IMAP, the mail server becomes the mail database manager. This method enables a user to read mail from various workstations and still see one mail database that is maintained on the mail server.
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
In 1986, the year that Brian Kantor and Phil Lapsley wrote the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) standard (RFC 977), ARPAnet used list servers for news distributions, and Usenet was still a separate UUCP network. With this standard, the door opened to establish Usenet news groups on ARPAnet. The NNTP standard provides for a new server that maintains a news database. The news clients use NNTP to read and send mail to the news server. In addition, the news server communicates with other news servers via NNTP.
Gopher Protocol
The popularity of the Gopher protocol is without question. Because it provides a simple mechanism for presenting textual documents on the Internet, Gopher servers provide access to over one million documents. Nevertheless, RFC 1436, the only Gopher protocol RFC, is an informational RFC.
Gopher uses a hierarchical menu system, which resembles a UNIX file system, to store documents. The Gopher client enables the user to negotiate this menu system and to display or download stored documents. Before the popularity of the Web browser, Gopher clients, as separate applications, were popular. Today, the Web browser is the most common client used to display Gopher documents.
HyperText Transfer Protocol
Although HTTP dates back to 1990, it still doesn't have an RFC. However, several Internet drafts reflect the "work in progress." Although the Web uses HTTP, HTTP's potential uses include name servers and distributed object management systems. HTTP achieves this flexibility by being a generic, stateless, object-oriented protocol. It is generic because it merely transfers data according to the URL and handles different Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) types (see the following section for details about MIME types). Because it treats every request as an isolated event, HTTP is stateless.
Although an HTTP server is small and efficient, the client bears the burden of the work. The client processes the HTML-encoded document and manages all the tasks involved in retrieval and presentation of the retrieved objects. The URL and MIME open the doors to a degree of flexibility not found in any other document retrieval protocol.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
The original MIME standard set out to resolve the limitations of the ASCII text messages defined in RFC 822. Using the content header standard (RFC 1049), the MIME standard defines the general content type with a subtype to define a particular message format. MIME is an extensible standard, and RFC 1896 describes the latest extensions. Once again, the client (the UA for an MHS) must take care of building and displaying MIME attachments to mail messages.
The simplicity and extensibility of the MIME standard led it to being used to extend the content of other protocols beyond the limits of ASCII text. The notable uses are in the Gopher protocol and HTTP.


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USA Today Bestselling and award winning author Barbara McMahon has written more than 80 novels which have sold more than 14 million copies world wide in more than fifty countries in twenty-eight languages.
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"Sir, just for Rs 800 I will take the camel cart to the farthest limit of this desert…..You can see the finest golden sand there…no coarse grain. All films with desert scene are shot in that part, sir!!" Our camel ride guide was trying his selling pitch on us as we stepped down the cart to shoot some pictures at the 'Sam sand-dunes' at outskirts of Jaisalmer.
Sam (pronounced as "sum") Sand Dunes are located at about 45km west of Jaisalmer. The golden sand stretches for miles and miles burning during the day and freezing cold in the nights. December to March weather is perfect for a visit to dunes. The best time however is February-March when the "Desert Festival" is organised. The festival is a showcase of all cultural activities with camel races, folk dances, puppet shows, Rajasthani music, traditional cuisine and henna art by local women.
Though regular buses ply for Sam from Jaisalmer but it is better to hire a vehicle from the town for the campsite.
The sun was already setting…..we couldn't have reached the promised farthest part before it was completely dark…so we declined the camel owner's offer. He soon dumped us at the pick-up point and proceeded to find more gullible eager tourists. On our own then, we sauntered back to the nearest dunes across the campsite where we planned to stay the night. I could not resist taking a shot of the picture-postcard look-alike scene of distant camel riders and the camel carts with a backdrop of setting sun.
Afraid of snakes and scorpions that might venture out of their burrows at night we returned to our campsite before it was too dark and cold.
The campsite was one of many along the road. All the campsites offer similar stay options with slight difference in quality and hence the variation in rates. The average rates per night for the tents vary from Indian Rs 4000 to Rs 7000. These can be booked online or from the tour operators in Jaisalmer town.
The tents are spacious with a sit-out,bedroom and attached washrooms. A table fan to be used during day and quilts for the night are provided by the campsite management. The kitchen is just a shout away and staff is willing to make a cup of tea or coffee whenever asked for. They love a tip though!!
"Khamma ghani sa (welcome sir)" …….. So says the traditionally dressed lady at the entrance of the campsite in the evening welcoming the guest with a garland and a 'tilak' ( a mark made by ring finger with paste of turmeric ) on forehead of all guests irrespective of whether someone is staying the night at tents or just visiting for dinner and dance performance.
Almost all campsites offer the regional cuisine served by men dressed up in local traditional dress. Indian style of low seating is provided for all guests. After the dinner the stage is set for the traditional 'Kalbeliya' dancers and the night carries on till the guests leave on their own to retire in their tents.
Kalbeliya is a Rajasthani tribe of snake charmers and the kalbeliya dance depicts the snake movements. The dancing girls wear a very colorful long skirt and the traditional jewellery and perform tricks like picking up rings, blades and paper currency with their eyelids. This dance is listed with the UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
It was well into midnight before we retired to the tents. The temperatures drop close to zero during some winter nights in desert and we were not prepared for so low temperatures. The only option was to huddle and snuggle up in the quilts and that is precisely what we did.
The next morning the sun shone bright and there was no sign of cold. A lone camel rider in an attempt to be the first one to get some business showed up with a beautifully decorated camel on the dunes but the sun was too harsh to ride on dunes. I was content with taking pictures only.
On our way back we came across some untamed camels with their little ones drinking water from a pothole….
Though this trip was quite enjoyable with the tents somewhat like Arabian nights, rides on camels and camel carts but what I discovered about myself was that….. Me, the sun and sand don't go together!!


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We have all witnessed hours of media discussion revolving around the Boston terrorists and the subsequent manhunt, but there is one aspect of the manhunt that has received little attention. It is the use of the shelter in place protocol. First of all, let's review the intent and definition of shelter in place warnings.
Per the Red Cross:
One of the instructions you may be given in an emergency where hazardous materials may have been released into the atmosphere
Updated 04-21-2013 at 06:37 PM by Brian4Liberty
The verdict is in. The Supreme Court has upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which narrowly passed Congress in a purely partisan effort. The swing vote on the Court, and thus the decision, lay with Chief Justice John Roberts.
In the decision, Chief Justice Roberts ruled the law to be Constitutional if the individual mandate portion of the law was interpreted and characterized as a tax, rather than as a penalty. This opinion in and of itself is questionable, as this
Updated 06-28-2012 at 12:36 PM by Brian4Liberty
The question often arises, "is there a media conspiracy against Ron Paul"? Conspiracy is a loaded term, often used as an ad hominem attack to discredit people, so perhaps it is better to take a common sense approach, and focus more on human nature, and less on terminology.
Political entertainers such as Jon Stewart on The Daily Show have made compelling cases that the treatment of Ron Paul is less than fair and balanced. Jon Stewart's commentary on the Iowa Straw Poll results,
With the recent killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, an unusual majority consensus has arisen, and it is not pretty. The majority of Americans have, at least temporarily, subscribed to the philosophy that "the ends justify the means". The death of Osama Bin Laden (the "ends") was so important that it should be accomplished at any price. The Constitutional limits on executive power can be ignored, due process can be ignored, international treaties can be ignored, and acts of
Updated 05-13-2011 at 11:27 AM by Brian4Liberty
A review of a book by Charles Gasparino:
Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street
The Creature from Johnny's Half Shell
Johnny's Half Shell is a popular gourmet restaurant located in Washington, DC. In June 2007, representatives of the Financial elite from New York were called to gather there for a secret meeting. It was a small affair, held in


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Have you had farro? I adore the texture - very chewy, but in a soft and welcoming way. It's high in fiber, protein, iron, and calcium making it a fun alternative to rice and even quinoa. I made farro with lemon a few months ago and was blown away and decided to incorporate into my meals more often. This is a slightly less healthy way to prepare it (cheese instead of lemon), but it is still pretty healthy and trust me when I say that it tastes amazing and does not feel heavy and cheesy. All of the flavors really work well together. I have been really into roasting cauliflower so I had to throw that in of course and it complimented everything nicely. Oh, just thinking about it makes me wish I still had some left.
Fontina Farro Risotto
How I Did It:
1 head cauliflower, sliced lengthwise into 1-inch chunks
salt and pepper
1 onion, chopped
2 cups farro
16 oz low sodium chicken broth
6 oz fontina cheese, grated
6 oz peas
spinach, roughly chopped
1. Preheat oven to 450.
2. Spread cauliflower out on a large cookie sheet and drizzing with olive olive and then sprinkle with salt and pepper (using more pepper than salt). Flip all of the chunks and repeat. Roast for about 20 minutes or until parts of it start to crisp up and it is soft.
3. While the cauliflower is roasting, heat 2 tablespoons of water in a large pot and add the onion. Cook for about 10 minutes or until soft and translucent.
4. Add farro and let cook for 1 minute while constantly stirring.
5. Add 2 cups of broth or enough to cover the farro. Lower heat and cook until the broth has been mostly absorbed (stirring frequently) before adding more broth, 1/2 cup at a time until the farro is cooked.
6. Stir in peas, spinach, and cheese and cook on low until cheese is melted and everything is well combined.
7. Cut up cauliflower and stir in, reserve a couple larger pieces for garnish.


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Plus President Bush, Clinton, and Nixon masks too
The Armored Transport downloadable content for Payday 2 comes to PC tomorrow for $6.99. In it you'll get new armored car and train heist jobs playable across the game's six maps. Plus expect three new weapons, four new mask patterns, four new mask materials, and four masks based on Presidents of the United States.
Become President Obama, Bush, Clinton, and Nixon and ultimately recreate your Point Break fan fiction stories. There's going to be other goodies included with the DLC too.
As for the console versions, developer Overkill Software is working on console patches first, and will follow up with the Armored Transport content sometime after the patch is released.
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