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Most of the time, when people get traffic tickets, they pay whatever fine is associated with the offense, even if they believe it isn't justified. The prevailing attitude seems to be that fighting a traffic citation simply isn't worth the trouble or the expense.
That's unfortunate because there are often good reasons for choosing to contest a traffic offense.
Traffic tickets have little to do with highway safety. Their primary purpose is to generate revenue, according to the National Motorists Association. "No other class of 'crime' is as profitable for state and local governments as is that of traffic tickets," the association explains.
Only 5 percent of speeding tickets are contested in court, according to data from statisticbrain.com. The total amount paid for fines for speeding tickets exceeds $6.2 billion annually and if you include numbers from other traffic infractions, the total would be tens of billions.
There are many reasons why fighting traffic ticket makes sense, explains Bellingham attorney Ziad Youssef. Here are some factors to consider.
It can be a big deal
That first speeding ticket might not seem like a big concern. But perhaps you get a second moving violation a few months later for a different infraction like failure to yield. Or maybe you are in an accident and you get two citations at the same time.
Unlike many states, Washington does not operate under a driving record point system. There are penalties for repeated violations, however, that can include driver's license suspension or even revocation, according to dmv.org.
Traffic citations are costly
While fines for moving violations like speeding, negligent driving, failure to yield, etc., are expensive and inconvenient, added charges for court costs and increased insurance rates can easily push the cost of a speeding ticket to hundreds of dollars or more. A DUI or impaired driving conviction will cost thousands and you can lose driving privileges.
Enlisting the assistance of an attorney skilled in dealing with traffic cases can often get your charges reduced or eliminated. In the end, that saves you money and may protect your reputation and driving record.
It's hassle-free
A primary reason for not choosing to fight a traffic citation is the hassle factor. Drivers worry they will have to take time off work and show up in court. That issue has largely been alleviated through the mytrafficman.net Pick It for Your Ticket app. Using your smartphone, you can sign in with your Amazon account. The app makes it simple to hire an attorney to file your ticket electronically and fight your ticket. In most cases, you don't even need to appear in court. Your attorney will handle your court hearing.
Your odds are good
While no attorney can guarantee he will be able to get your traffic ticket dismissed, Youssef says, "I've had a great success rate over the last six years, and I've developed arguments that work under the greatest of pressure."
Even when he can't get a citation dismissed, Youssef reports he can usually negotiate a deal that will keep the driver's insurance rates from increasing by converting the ticket to a lesser offense.
It's your right
The constitutional right to a fair trial is essentially stripped from drivers.
"Our system of justice is based on the principle that people are considered innocent until proven guilty, but drivers — and vehicle owners in cases involving automated enforcement — are frequently presumed to be at fault and then subjected to administrative hearings that rubber-stamp guilty verdicts," notes the motorists association. "This denies them basic rights such as discovery, trial by jury and often the ability to question their accuser."
Next time you are cited for a traffic infraction, instead of paying the assessed fine and accepting the increased insurance rates, consider consulting an attorney who focuses on traffic cases. There is a good probability you will save money and perhaps even preserve your good driving record.


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The big kids and I got crafty Sunday afternoon and made a family of ghosts...
B....snaggle tooth and all
LJ... her newest trick is sticking out her tounge
As with all of my projects, things didn't go as planned. I had a hard time finding the tiniest tomato cages and had to use the 42 inch. Which would have been fine except I had already gotten all of the white felt my fabric store had, so we used off-white felt....we have dirty ghosts...which maybe is more fitting to us anyway.
Second challenge was I decided to just hot glue the ghosts together since I'm not really speaking to my sewing machine at the moment...well, I didn't make the ghosts big enough resulting in ghosts that need to watch what they eat.
All that being said, the kids LOVE them and that is what we were going for...
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bulgogi {불고기} from scratch
note | i submitted this recipe in the 'discover korea's delicious secret'. this was part of a full recipe that i combined to add a twist to the classic recipe. i am thrilled when i found a competition that combined both my loves together :: food and super junior :) incidentally, i was also exploring korean food in the past few months so it was perfect! keep your fingers crossed for me, will ya? :)
what was my first ever korean dish i have ever made?
it took me a few minutes to figure it out but the first korean dish i cooked happens to be one of my favorite korean dishes :: bulgogi {불거기}! however, i have to admit i've been cheating by using the bottled marinade from hmart since i didn't know better. but boy, it was a great and delicious short cut dinner.
bulgogi is one of the most famous korean cuisines. in fact, because it is a mild but very flavorful dish, it is an ideal introduction dish to korean cuisine to someone who has yet to experience the flavors of korea. bul {불} translates to fire and gogi {고기} means meat which makes bulgogi : 'cooking meat on fire'. bulgogi is made using thin slices of sirloin or other prime cuts of beef while the base marinade is usually a mixture of soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, garlic with addition of some vegetables. at restaurants, you could either ordered cooked served with a side of white rice or you could grill it yourself at the table.
if you refer to the note at the top of the entry, this recipe was a part of a recipe since i needed bulgogi as an ingredient for my other recipes i had in mind. so i've been searching online and comparing ingredients to find out what makes the yummy marinade mixture.
i promise you that this is one of the simplest recipes to make :: the basic steps are to get all the ingredients together for marinade, add meat, leave overnight and cook. sounds simple enough, yes? i would usually prepare all of it the night before to ensure all the meat absorb all the great flavors and also it tenderizes the meat with the addition of grated apple/pear in the marinade. oh and it's always a great idea to make extras! :)
it literally takes a couple of minutes to cook it in a hot pan. i would crank up the heat so that it caramelizes the sugar in the marinade to get a concentrated flavor. anything longer than a few minutes would make the meat dry.
verdict | i have to say i was pretty proud of myself with this dish. my first thought when i tasted was 'oh, it really tastes like the real deal!' leaving it overnight was a great idea because it allowed the flavors to combine together. sweet, savory beef slices where its meatiness is echoed by the mushroom slices which did a great job of absorbing the marinade. the onions definitely permeated its flavor throughout the dish so if you are not a huge fan of onions you might want to reduce the amount but i loved the sweetness of it and it would go so well with a bowl of warm rice. one thing i would probably fix is the amount of sesame oil which was a lil strong in the dish. .
now that i know how simple it is to make the marinade, i could always just make my own whenever i want to. ^^
now that i know how simple it is to make the marinade, i could always just make my own whenever i want to. ^^
so if you would like to have some bulgogi but can't find a korean restaurant to go to (or find bottled marinades) or even just want to make this dish from scratch, the recipe is as follows:
bulgogi {불고기}
recipe inspired by a few recipes i found online.
ingredients |
- 1 lb thinly sliced ribeye
- 1 small onion, sliced
- 2 stalks of green onions, sliced 2" lengthwise
- 0.5 lb sliced mushroom (i used fresh white mushrooms; optional but preferred)
- 3 tbs soy sauce
- 1.5 tbs water
- 1 tbs sugar
- 1 tbs honey
- 1 tbs rice wine
- 1 tbs garlic, minced
- 1 tbs sesame oil
- 1 tsp sesame seeds
- 1.5 tbs grated fuji apple (typically it should be Asian pear. if you can't find neither, substitute with apple juice)
- a dash of black pepper
- combine all the ingredients for the marinade in a bowl and mix well. transfer it to a huge ziploc bag or container.
- add the beef slices and make sure the marinade and beef slices are mixed well together.
- let marinade in the fridge for at least 3 hours or preferably overnight to let all the ingredients meld together.
- heat the pan on medium high and then add the amount of marinated meat you would like to have.
- cook until the meat is cooked through and slightly caramelized and the onions softens slightly (typically 6-8 minutes)


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Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has called for serious dialogue between Al Khalifa regime and opposition leaders.
"The only solution is a serious dialogue between the royal family and the opposition [al-Wefaq movement]," said Rajab, who heads the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights.
Rajab who was released on Saturday after serving a two-year jail term, said Bahrain's situation today is worse compared to when he went to prison because of an upsurge in violence.
He also said he still supports peaceful demonstrations, but is against violence.
Rajab was detained for his role in pro-democracy protests which erupted in Bahrain in 2011.
He has led numerous demonstrations, and is a strong critic of the Al Khalifa regime for its crackdown.
The activist is also critical of the US role in crushing Bahrain's protests.
Amnesty International as well as Human Rights Watch (HRW) had repeatedly urged the Bahraini regime to free Rajab and other activists.
Last year, the activist appealed to be released after serving three quarters of his jail sentence, but his request was rejected by the court.
Over the past years, Bahrain's human rights record has come under scrutiny over its handling of the anti-regime demonstrations across the country.
Since mid-February 2011, thousands of anti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the ruling Al Khalifa family to relinquish power.
Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of others injured and arrested in the Manama regime's ongoing crackdown on peaceful demonstrations.
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Historians concerned about the murder of Turkish writerHistorians in the News
International PEN issued a statement after the appalling murder yesterday of Armenian-Turkish writer Hrant Dink. Below it is reproduced and preceded by a NCH summary of Dink's case.
In addition, NCH wants to draw your attention to the fact that, sadly, historians and others concerned with the past are sometimes assassinated. Some recent examples from Iraq, Sudan, and Colombia:
**Last week, NCH circular #47 contained details about five historians assassinated in Iraq since 2003. Please sign the petition to protest this violence at the homepage of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA), London: http://www.academic-refugees.org.
**On 6 September 2006, Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed ([1956]-2006) was kidnapped and beheaded by masked gunmen near the capital Khartoum, Sudan. For details, see the NCH Annual Report 2006 (NCH #45).
**On 21 March 2006, Jaime Enrique Gómez Velásquez ([1950]-2006) disappeared in Bogotá, Colombia. He was assassinated. On 23 April 2006, his mutilated remains were discovered. For details, see the NCH Annual Report 2006 (NCH #45).
With best wishes,
Antoon De Baets
(Network of Concerned Historians)
On 7 October 2005, journalist Hrant Dink ([1955]-2007), editor-in- chief of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos (Ploughed Furrow; established 1996), Istanbul, was given a six-month suspended sentence for"insulting and weakening Turkish identity through the media". In February 2004, Dink had written a series of articles dealing with the collective memory of the Armenian genocide and its impact on the present-day Armenian diaspora. He called on Armenians to overcome their historical enmity toward Turks. In April 2004, he had declared at an international panel discussion that Turkey was preparing new curricula and textbooks in which the Armenian genocide thesis was rejected and that the Ministry of National Education had sent to all schools, including Armenian ones, a circular demanding that schools organize conferences and composition competitions dealing with the struggle against"unfounded Armenian genocide claims". On 1 May 2006, Dink's appeal was overturned and a new trial ordered. The rejection of the appeal led to hundreds of people signing a petition in his defence. In July 2006, the Supreme Court upheld the six-month suspended prison sentence. Dink reportedly submitted his case to the European Court on Human Rights. Meanwhile, in December 2005 charges of"attempting to influence the judiciary" were opened against Dink, Serkis Seropyan, co-editor of Agos, and Aydin Engin, journalist and author, for an article challenging Dink's October conviction. The trial was postponed several times, the last time until April 2007. In September 2006, a third case was initiated against Dink on charges of"insulting Turkish identity" for an interview to Reuters on 14 July 2006 in which he had declared that the Armenian genocide had taken place and that he would not remain silent on this issue. This trial was scheduled for March 2007. Some of the hearings of the three trials were marred by violent scenes inside and outside the courtrooms, instigated by nationalist activists calling for Dink to be punished. On 19 January 2007, Hrant Dink was murdered.
[Messages from International PEN about Dink (and other Turkish writers):"Statement on the Trial of Orhan Pamuk" (16 December 2005); Rapid Action Network, 06/06 (9 February 2006) and 17/06 (3 May 2006); Defamation and"Insult": Writers React (15 November 2006);"Turkey Defamation Campaign: Hrant Dink" (15 November 2006);"Statement on the Murder of Hrant Dink in Turkey (19 January 2007). Other sources include Human Rights Watch, World Report 2007 (Washington 2007), 426; Ifex Communiqué 14-47 (22 November 2005); Index on Censorship, 4/05: 145; 1/06: 122; 2/06: 196; 3/06: 82; 4/06: 200;"When history hurts: Times are tough for outspoken scholars", Economist, 4 August 2005. See also NCH Annual Report 2006 (NCH #45).]
Author(s): Eugene Schoulgin - WiPC International Chair
Date: 19th January, 2007
For more information contact: Eugene Schoulgin, Board Member International PEN mobile: +47 48031212; Sara Whyatt, International PEN Writers in Prison Committee Programme Direct +447930695826; Joanne Leedom Ackerman, International Secretary International PEN:
+447932733979; Larry Siems, +12123341660 ext. 105
The murder today, 19 January 2007, of Armenian-Turkish writer and editor Hrant Dink, the courageous and principled advocate for dialogue and understanding between the Armenian minority and the Turks, is an appalling act. Hrant Dink's fellow writers worldwide express their profound shock at this terrible loss.
Dink, whose campaign against the law making it a crime to insult the Turkish State, particularly as it relates to the killings of Armenians in the early years of the last century, has paid the highest price with his own life.
Jiri Grusa, International President of International PEN, the world association of writers, called the murder"a symptom of old hatreds that threaten the relationship of all Turkish people to the democratic values shared in Europe and the world." International PEN calls upon the Turkish government to do all in its power to apprehend Dink's killer and welcomes Prime Minister Erdogan's pledged commitment that those who ordered the killing be brought to justice.
Hrant Dink was well known to PEN members throughout the world and had received many awards for his courage, including, most recently, the Oxfam/Novib award for Freedom of Expression in November 2006. He was an honorary member of the English, American, Belgian Dutch and Norwegian PEN Centres, and friend to many more PEN Centres and individual PEN members around the globe. International PEN sends its condolences to Hrant Dink's wife and children.
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YWAM Minneapolis opened its doors in September of 1998. Like all YWAM bases, it began not as the decision of a centralized planning committee, but as the vision of one person. This is the story of how it began.
In the fall of 1986, David Clark was an 18-year-old freshman at Wheaton College. A missionary named Floyd McClung came to campus and challenged the student body to "radically" embrace God's heart for the lost and unreached of the world. Floyd had been ministering to "hippies" in Afghanistan with Youth With A Mission. Having never heard of the organization, David was intrigued. McClung's call to live radically for Jesus stuck in his mind. Shortly after, he read the missionary tale called Bruchko, about a Minnesota teen who left everything to go live in the Colombian rain forest and evangelize an unreached tribe. David decided that he must follow a similar path.
At the end of the school year, he announced to his parents that he was not returning to Wheaton, but felt called of God to go help the poor in Mexico. It took much discussion and prayer before his parents finally 'released' him. In 1987 at the age of 19, David traveled to an impoverished community near the city of Merida, Mexico. He had no agency or church backing him, and no committed financial support. By himself, and with his rudimentary Spanish, he arranged to rent a cardboard shack in which he lived and began to make relationships with the people around him. Over the next several years he planted and pastored a church, and also started a ministry for the homeless of Merida.
While working in Mexico, David continued to follow and admire the work of YWAM 'from afar'. In 1991, the opportunity came to meet some YWAM leaders. While making the long drive back to Mexico after a visit in Minnesota, David stopped in at the YWAM base in Tyler, TX and was warmly received by the base leader Leland Paris. At that time, Leland also served as YWAM's Field Director for all bases in North, Central, and South America. During this visit, David noticed a deep sense of community and authenticity among the YWAM staff. There was something that these YWAMers had. He knew that in his life and his ministry, he aspired to something like that, but the possibility of joining YWAM was still not on the radar screen.
In 1993, after six years of service in Mexico, the opportunity came to 'hand over the reigns' of his ministry. David moved home to Minnesota, and was offered a position at a local Christian organization as the head of their missions department. Over the next two years he would travel around the world, to encourage missionaries and develop ministry models that would make them more effective. He began to realize that many of their struggles stemmed from independence and isolation--similar to the challenges he had faced in Mexico. He came to the conviction that mission workers needed to be part of a community. The idea of a 'solo' missionary just wasn't working.
YWAM continued to loom large in David's mind. They were working in teams; they were emphasizing personal discipleship; they were focusing on young people; they were radical. It just seemed that they had everything he was looking for. And then one morning in 1995, David was praying, and a thought came into his head: A YWAM base in Minnesota. It made sense, and he wondered why he never had thought of that before.
Unsure of what to do next, David wrote a letter to Leland Paris outlining his vision but also confessing his ignorance of how to begin. He told Leland that he wanted to be involved with starting a YWAM center in the Minneapolis area, but considering his lack of experience with the organization he realized that he was probably not the right person to lead it.
Upon receiving the letter, Leland invited David down to Texas to discuss the matter. There, Leland told David about the numerous attempts that had been made to start a base in the Minneapolis area. He also commented on the thousands of YWAMers who had come from Minnesota. There was tremendous interest in seeing a base started there, but up until then, no one had been successful in doing so. Leland explained that if David first went through the YWAM training programs – both the Discipleship Training School (DTS) and the School of Evangelism (SOE) – and then joined the YWAM staff in Texas for a season, the opportunity may be given for him to recruit a team and establish the center in Minnesota. Energized by this green light, David went back to Minneapolis, making plans to return to Texas to begin his training in June of 1996.
Before taking this next step, however, there arose two developments which greatly affected David's plans. He had wondered from the beginning what facilities he might use in starting a missionary training center that could provide a classroom as well as living space in which a community could be formed. This became a specific point of prayer. He had seen several YWAM bases that used everything from church buildings to old schools or warehouses. After his trip to Texas, David took a proposal to a Christian foundation with which some of his family members were associated. After hearing David's vision, the foundation's board offered to purchase a multi-million dollar property which they would lease to YWAM for one dollar a year. YWAM would then be responsible only for maintenance and upkeep. The property they were looking at was a large estate, comprised of a 15,000 square-foot home, two other houses and several barns-- all set on 240 acres of wooded farmland. In addition, the foundation was willing to pay for any modifications that might be needed to make the rooms work as classrooms and dormitories. David was overwhelmed by this answer to prayer. In May of 1996, the property was secured, with the plan that the foundation would rent it out as a retreat center until YWAM would be ready to occupy it.
A second development was that David became engaged. He had been dating Kim Miller, also a native of Minnesota, for a year, and together they were growing in their excitement over the developing vision for a YWAM base in their home state. They were married January 12, 1996 and headed down to Texas in June.
David and Kim Clark spent two years at the YWAM center in Tyler, Texas. After completing the DTS and SOE training schools, David and Kim served on staff of YWAM Tyler. David was put on a rotation, working with various leaders to become familiar with the administrative tasks necessary for running the ministry.
It was while they were still in Texas, however, that a problem developed that put their plans in jeopardy. Before leaving Minnesota, David had submitted a request to the local Township zoning board requesting a change-of-status for the property which had been offered to YWAM. Word came that the zoning board reached a 'stale-mate' in granting his request. They had no established category to fit the way YWAM wanted to use the property, and some of the local residents, knowing nothing about YWAM, were suspicious of a religious group wanting to move in. Three board members had voted in favor, and three had voted against the proposal. The matter was postponed until the next board meeting, where the previously absent 7th member would cast the deciding vote.
During these weeks of uncertainty, when David and Kim were not sure if all their plans might come to nothing, they asked God for confirmation that they were following His will. One night as David was walking and praying, he heard the Lord say to him, "Haggai chapter two." He had no idea what this passage was about, but he rushed home to open his Bible. As he began to read, verses 7 - 9 caught his attention: "And I will shake all the nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory . . . The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will grant peace." David felt a deep sense that God was assuring him that He was with him and would bring His plans about. This passage would later become on of the central themes of YWAM Minneapolis.
In September of 1996, David flew up to Minnesota for the next zoning board meeting. After making his appeal, a local resident in the audience (who was there for a different case) stood and spoke of his high regard for the organization of Youth With A Mission. Having never met David, he told the board that he was delighted at the thought of a YWAM base coming near his home. Then, the president of the local bank stood up, and shared that his family had also been involved with YWAM, and that he loved the organization. With this surprising support from the community, the zoning board had no option but to concede. The petition was unanimously approved.
After two-and-a-half years of preparation, the newly formed team of 'YWAM Minneapolis' was sent off to Minnesota. David and Kim, along with twelve others, officially launched a new YWAM base in September of 1998. Arriving in Minnesota, the staff divided up the work of caring for the facilities and planning the first DTS. From the beginning, given his ministry experience in Mexico, David wanted this YWAM community to train and include Latin Americans. He also felt that through the Haggai 2:7 passage, God had shown him that "treasures of the nations" were to fill this house. Those treasures were to be young people from around the world who would come to be discipled and sent out to the nations.When their first school began on January 3, 1999, they had eleven students: two from Argentina, one from Brazil, two from Mexico, and six Americans. Both Spanish and English were used, with everything translated. They joked that only God could persuade Latin Americans to come to Minnesota in January! The first DTS outreach team of YWAM Minneapolis was sent to Merida, Mexico, working with the churches David had planted twelve years earlier. Some of the students from this school later joined the staff of YWAM Minneapolis. Others went home to go to college or to work with their churches. Still others went on to work overseas in full-time missions. This would become the pattern for the graduates of future training schools.
Since its inauguration in 1998, YWAM Minneapolis has continued to offer discipleship and missions training by running two DTS's and one SOE annually. Outreach teams have been sent to nations throughout Latin America as well as Europe, Africa, and Asia. The "treasures of the nations" have come to the house in Rockford. Over 600 students from 40 countries have attended the training schools.
Today, YWAM Minneapolis has 45 staff members from eight nations. The base continues to run its signature training schools, but has also expanded into many new areas of ministry. Every summer, YWAM Minneapolis mobilizes hundreds of youth through its short-term Mission Adventures outreaches. YWAM Minneapolis is feeding hungry children around the world through its "Kids Against Hunger" program. Every week, teams from YWAM Minneapolis reach out to the nations in our own city. And new projects are always on the horizon.
The beginning of the 'YWAM Minneapolis story' speaks of what one person can do when ready to give his or her life to God's service. David Clark's desire to do something "radical" for God as a teenager set the trajectory for his whole life. His early years living among the poor in Mexico showed him both what he could and could not do alone. Naturally independent, he began to learn the value of Christian community and the need young people have for training and guidance who, like himself, desire to do great things for God.
The present story of YWAM Minneapolis is no longer about just one person. It's about a group of people who are committed to relationship with one another; to a common vision to disciple nations; and to passionate relationship with Jesus Christ. The staff and students of YWAM Minneapolis firmly believe that the best is yet to come!


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A couple of hours long stopover in Amsterdam was a great chance to visit this capital city of tulips and coffee shops. Don't hesitate to take a train for less than 10 euros return, from Schipol to Amsterdam Centraal. You will enjoy an atmosphere of this Dutch city full of small boats sailing on canals.
There is free WiFi on trains, which totally reminded me that I'm out of Czech Republic. I didn't really have any sightseeing plan, but it turned out it wasn't necessary. After a walking for few minutes, I saw my old friend, Sandeman's walking tour. It wasn't my plan that time, but why not? To see highlights of the city in a short time? Yes, please.
Morning Amsterdam is probably not that alive like pubs and red districts at night, but still, you can see an ordinary life of this European city.
Honestly, I have to say that I started to not like Sandeman's free walking tours anymore. They promote more about their other products, support shops witch are friends with them and guides are trying to be funny all the time to make you feel you owe them some money. On the other hand, it's always your choice how big tip you are gonna give him.
So I had a great time there. If you have a chance or 9 hours long transfer in Amsterdam, take a train and head off. Plus, if you are lucky enough to have a sunny day, you won't definitely regret.
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Sunday, November 27, 2016
I Will Make My Next Action Known Soon- Jegede
"I should thank our people for their steadfastness. We are studying the situation and very soon you will know my position and my party's position. You all know the event that led to the election, we were in court, I got judgment 48 hours to the election, our request for postponement was turned down for the reason not known to us."
The state Chairman of the PDP, Mr. Clement Faboyede, also said something similar, saying the party would be meeting tomorrow (Monday) to decide their next action about the election.
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CNN Reports that President-elect Obama has announced this transition team. Brooklyn's Patrick Gaspard is right there in the thick of it.
Chicago - For the past several months, a board of advisors has been informally planning for a possible presidential transition. Among the many projects undertaken by the transition board have been detailed analyses of previous transition efforts, policy statements made during the campaign, and the workings of federal government agencies, and priority positions that must be filled by the incoming administration.
With Barack Obama and Joe Biden's election, this planning process will be now be formally organized as the Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501(c)(4) organization to ensure a smooth transition from one administration to the next. The work of this entity will be overseen by three co-chairs: John Podesta, Valerie Jarrett, and Pete Rouse.
The co-chairs will be assisted by an advisory board comprised of individuals with significant private and public sector experience: Carol Browner, William Daley, Christopher Edley, Michael Froman, Julius Genachowski, Donald Gips, Governor Janet Napolitano, Federico Peña, Susan Rice, Sonal Shah, Mark Gitenstein, and Ted Kaufman. Gitenstein and Kaufman will serve as co-chairs of Vice President-elect Biden's transition team.
Supervising the day-to-day activities of the transition will be:
Transition Senior Staff:
Chris Lu - Executive Director
Dan Pfeiffer - Communications Director
Stephanie Cutter - Chief Spokesperson
Cassandra Butts - General Counsel
Jim Messina - Personnel Director
Patrick Gaspard - Associate Personnel Director
Christine Varney - Personnel Counsel
Melody Barnes - Co-Director of Agency Review
Lisa Brown - Co-Director of Agency Review
Phil Schiliro - Director of Congressional Relations
Michael Strautmanis - Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs
Katy Kale - Director of Operations
Brad Kiley - Director of Operations
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
YES WE DID: Change Has Come ----President-Elect Barack Obama
A visionary. Healer. Orator. A new generation moves onto the stage having defeated the politics of the past. Recognizing the necessity for a new politics and a new model of America, as Lincoln did, as FDR did, as JFK did, even, as Reagan did. A vision for change and the courage to pursue it.
What a remarkable time to be alive in this fantastic country. History unfolds. Promising a government that crosses party lines and creates something entirely new. We are at a time of promise and, yes, hope.
Electoral college and polls: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/barack-obama-president-elect-of-united.html
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Games like chess and/or checkers can be played by people of all ages, and providing this opportunity will encourage youth, teens, adults, and seniors to frequent the playspace. These games can also be a perfect catalyst for playspace programming! They can also add to the beautification of a playspace. Ideally, this project involves adding a twist to existing, ordinary picnic tables.
|¾"x4x8' sanded plywood board
|Paint supplies
|Adjust as needed
|Sandpaper sheets
|Adjust as needed
|Adjust as needed
|1 ⅝" deck screws
|Yard stick
|Tools needed
|Circular saw
|Tape measure
|Chalk line
|Exterior paint
|Painter's tape
Sort all materials into piles by like items to ensure you have materials needed to complete project.
Measure the surface that the table-top game board will be attached to.
Using the measuring tape and chalk line, measure a rectangle on the plywood board with matching dimensions to your table-top surface.
Using the circular saw, cut the plywood down to match your table-top measurements.
Sand all edges until smooth.
Prime both sides and all edges.
Inventory and sort all of your materials.
Decide what type of game board you would like to make. Popular choices are chess/checkerboards, Chutes and Ladders, tic-tac-toe, or Dots.
Use the yard stick, painter's tape, and pencils to create the outline for your game.
Fill in your game using exterior paint and painting supplies.
When the piece is dry, attach it to the table top surface using the 1 ⅝" deck screws.


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Social media is a vast space that, like the universe, keeps expanding. It's a realm where a writer can quickly become overwhelmed: websites, blogs, Listservs, apps, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Goodreads, YouTube, Google+, Ning, Shelfari, Red Room, StumbleUpon and so on. Social media outlets trend: They come on the scene (Vine), they go (Myspace), and some of them are even designed to self-destruct (Snapchat). And when you're trying to build an author platform based on outreach to kid and teen readers—who tend to be even more trend-aware than adults—steering through this starry space can be especially tricky.
Here are three guiding stars to navigate the ever-changing Web.
- Know who your audience is—and whereto find them.
First, if this isn't immediately obvious: You need an online home. It's not enough to find out what social media networks teens are frequenting and set up profiles there. You'll also need a landing page (a website, a blog, etc.) where readers can, at minimum, find out basic information about you and your work, and link to your various social media profiles, all in one place. Consider two goals: How can you make it easy for someone who's heard about you (or one of your books) to find you? And, how can you make it easy for someone who is interested in the kind of things you write to find you?
If you're writing for middle-grade or young adult audiences, you can focus your online efforts primarily on those readers. To reach audiences younger than that, your efforts are better spent appealing to the gatekeepers who influence or oversee their reading: parents, librarians, educators and booksellers.
[Here's how to make money writing for the Web.]
Many of the best author websites, though, cater to both audiences, sending young readers to one area of the site, gatekeepers to another, and even (for those active in the writing community) fellow writers to a third. Cynthia Leitich Smith, online powerhouse and bestselling author of the Tantalize series, is one example. She divides her website into the following subpages: About Cyn, Cyn's Events, Books for Kids, Books for YAs, FAQs for All, Goodies for Writers, and Children's and YA Lit Resources.
A huge part of reaching your audience is knowing where they're spending their time online and how they prefer to use those different social media spaces. Kiera Cass, bestselling YA author of the Selection trilogy, says she's found that Q&As seem to be best received on Twitter, and fan art contests draw the biggest followings on Tumblr. She cautions, however, that what's true of one author's specific audience might not be true of another's. "I'd bet it works in different places for different fandoms," she says. She recommends doing some careful trial and error to better focus your efforts where the fans respond. After all, she says, "If they're not excited, what's the point?"


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Job Title: Back-up Harmony to Coyotes 2/Professional Chewer of anything left lying around.
Where Sofie Came From: (This is the same as Annie's story.)
One of the challenges of living in the wilderness is you have to deal with what other people discard out here. Lots of couches, carpets, and dogs get dumped amongst the cactus. I have rescued a number of dogs and was lucky to have the support of rescue groups that found homes for most of the dogs.
Annie and Sofie were abandoned out here along with a puppy. They would not come to me so I needed to get a trap. Although I was leaving out food and water for the three dogs while I was trying to arrange to trap them, the puppy disappeared. I can only assume it got eaten.
Once we trapped Annie and Sofie, a new, challenging chapter began. They had clearly never been handled. They must have been kept in someone's yard then dumped when the people got tired of feeding them.
It took months for them to come to trust me and let me touch them, even though I slept outside with them to let them learn to trust me. First I touched Annie. Once Sofie saw that she eventually accepted my touch as well. Slowly they have come to let my husband and the kids touch them. They are no longer skiddish at every loud noise. As long as there are no other people in the house they seem like normal dogs. Annie usually has a big grin and loves playing with Firetruck. Sofie is more aloof, but at night she nudges me with her nose while I'm typing on the computer and everyone else is sleeping.
We have been trying to find homes for them for almost a year. Given all they've been through together I'd like to find them a home together. However, they are so afraid of other people that it will take a special person to spend the time building their trust. I had one woman who wanted to adopt Annie. She faithfully came by with five hamburger patties for Annie over and over. Our schedules conflicted so we could only get together once a week or so. Finally we both accepted that the school year was about to begin and she had to return to her teaching job. Annie still growled whenever she saw her and once school started this teacher would not have the time to gain Annie's trust so she could adopt her.
So we have six dogs. Two more than we'd like. It's a bit much sometimes. But there are no alternatives. Any other option would probably result in these two sweet dogs being euthenized because they're fearful of others.


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Choosing a quality repair shop for auto body works in South Yarra can be tedious without knowing what to look for. It's extremely crucial to choose the right service provider to ensure that your vehicle is fixed perfectly the first time. There are certain features that should be taken into account when looking for a reliable and honest service provider.
A Certified Shop:
A good shop is one that is certified by the largest auto organisation. Only a certified shop will have the latest equipment, qualified technicians and state of the art facility to handle Smash Repairs in Hawthorn. Moreover, the technicians will be subjected to average training to stay ahead of the automotive repair industry. An auto shop can receive certification only if it meets certain qualifications. So, you can be sure of receiving the best possible services by enrolling with an accredited service center.
Qualified Staff Members:
A good auto body shop is one which has automobile technicians who have shown their proficiency in the business. The technicians should have obtained certification from car manufacturers, show their experience and knowledge dealing with a wide range of car brands. Moreover, they should be expert in handling basic body repairs to complete smash repairs in Kew.
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If possible, you should consult with their former clients to know about their experience with the repair shop. When you surf the internet, you will be able to find some reviews that make it easier for you to check whether the body shop has got good feedback for their Accident Repairs in Abbotsford.
Timely Delivery:
The auto shop should be equipped to complete smash repairs in South Yarra in a timely fashion. Whether it is a minor repair or a complete overhaul, they must fix your vehicle with complete perfection and get you back on the road with quick turnaround time.
Complete Range Of Services:
Another important aspect of a good auto body shop is that it should have a Panel beater in Kew who can remove all sorts of dents from your vehicle's body surface. Moreover, the repair shop should be able to provide a wide range of services and make repairs easy and convenient.


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A Freeform DIY that Combines Traditional Florals & Abstract Pattern
In a world of watercolory wisps and geometric forms, I'm counting down the days until this trend gives way to thick, textured paint streaks, crusty from layer upon layer of heavy oils and acrylics. While I love a good color wash, I'm anxious to see a heavier approach as the season changes — and maybe even a move towards more structured patterns and traditional florals. While I'm not much of a painter, I'm pretty handy with fabric and glue, so I thought I'd try to merge some modern materials (copper) with some more conventional florals in a purely decorative, minimalist form. For me, DIYs are all about exploration, seeing what can be made with everyday materials and refashioning motifs that have been absent for a while. I thought to myself, "What would it look like if I mixed wood and copper with traditional florals and an abstract bespoke design?" And so my hanging mobile was born!
I love the fact that it is "reversible" and shows two very different decorative approaches depending on the gauge of wire you use and random movement. It's exactly the type of subtle movement that I need to gaze at when I need a quick meditation break during the day and I'm not able to get outside. Making this tied in really well with the exercises in my Beauty of Self Care lessons on Patience and Purpose. It's really challenging to actually sit down with materials and not be frustrated by "mistakes" or disappointed with the finished product — but it's so worth it. While my mobile may not show up on the pages of a glossy magazine, I love that I took the time to experiment, explore and enjoy the finished product!
If you're looking to practice a little patience and to let go of expectations, I'd love for you to make this sometime soon. It is a wonderful way to take a timeout to appreciate something that you made in a proud, meditative way. See my full instructions after the jump! –Caitlin
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- Balsa wood panel or sheet
- Thin wooden dowel (Chop sticks or twigs can work too!)
- Copper jewelry wire (26 gauge is easy to use even without pliers.)
- Assorted paints
- Floral fabric
- Glue
- Scissors or an X-Acto knife
Step 1: If you're using a floral fabric, cut out 3-5 flowers from the pattern, cover the back of the fabric pieces with glue and place on the balsa wood. Smooth them so they are flat on the wood. Let dry.
Step 2: While the glue is drying, take out your paints and brushes and mix colors that will either pair with or contrast with the flower or fabric that you've glued onto the wood. Once you have a few shades that you like, and the glue is dry, cut out your shapes from the wood with scissors using small snips or with a straight edge.
Step 3: Flip your shapes over and paint the reverse side with your colors. You can also leave the wood unpainted. This looks lovely with the copper wire, too. Let dry. You can embellish this side more if you'd like. I used my balsa wood scraps to make an abstract leaf design by gluing them on top of the paint.
Step 4: Once the shapes are dry, play around with the placement of them to see how they will look when they are hanging. When you have an arrangement you like, snip your dowel in several pieces so you can attach your shapes to them with the copper wire. Lay the dowels down on a flat surface well enough above the shapes that you can use a length of wire to vary the distance of each shape from the dowel. You don't want all of the wires to be the same length, otherwise your shapes will all be clustered together.
Step 5: Now that you have your shapes arranged on a flat surface and your dowels in place (which they will hang from), cut lengths of the copper wire for each shape you're attaching. Be sure to add an additional 3″ of wire on each end for wrapping the wire to the dowel and to the shape!
Step 6: Pierce a small hole at least a 1/4″ from the edge of each shape. Insert one end of the copper wire through the fabric side of the shape, creating a small loop on the painted side that will prevent the wire from slipping out of the hole.
Step 7: Wrap the other end of the wire around the dowel. Repeat with each shape. Feel free to hold up the mobile to see how your flat arrangement is working. You can add new tiers and dowels as you see fit. Don't worry if your shapes are not hanging straight. You can straighten them when you're finished, before you hang it.
Step 8: Once all of your shapes and dowels are connected and hanging from one dowel at the top, cut a long length of wire the appropriate size for where you will hang the mobile. If you don't have a spot yet, 18″ is a good length to start with. You can always add or take away length. Make a "rabbit ear" loop, leaving 2″ at the tail so you can wrap it around the loop to secure it. This will be your hanger. Now you're done! Hang your mobile and straighten any copper wire so it hangs straight. Enjoy!


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Ginger Jeans - meets thrice
gather here Class
You're finally ready to take on jeans or figure out just what you've been missing. You want a true weekend of sewing, with other people that are passionate about sewing. You've been dreaming of 18 hours at gather here making something truly awesome.
We will start our "weekend" on Friday, taking measurements, tracing the pattern, and cutting out your jeans. There will be refreshments and time to grab last minute supplies. Saturday we'll focus on basting and fitting our jeans. Then it's all about modifications and stitching. We'll take a 30+ minute break to grab lunch so we can keep our heads in the game.
Limited to 6 students (16 yrs of age or older); 2 students are required for class to meet. If a class is cancelled due to low enrollment, you will receive a full refund.
- Level: Intermediate. You are way beyond pj pants and are comfortable using a sewing machine. You have a closet of Scout tees. You finished the last project you did with Virginia.
- We provide: samples of the jeans in a nice size range, studio space, tracing paper, tools, machines, refreshments, and expertise.
- You bring: A copy of the pattern (available in the store), fabric you love (it doesn't have to be denim - a stretch twill works great, too), interfacing, pocket lining fabric, a hardware kit, jean zipper, and coordinating thread for stitching your jeans as well as topstitching thread; we offer 15% off materials purchased for any of our classes. Don't forget lunch! Or visit one of the great local eateries in Inman Square!
- Class length: 6 hours on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday


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What Catholics Believe | Leaflet 12: Christian Life: Living Our Faith
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What Catholics Believe comes with twelve leaflets that can be used together or individually. Each of the 12 leaflets provides the starting point for a group conversation on aspects of our faith. While these leaflets are numbered in a logical sequence, they do not have to be used in order.
Watch the all new free introductory video, where author Christine Way Skinner discusses the resource in length! Click here to watch!
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Death in Bee Paradise
So, my colony has officially collapsed. The wax moths overwhelmed the colony's workers and ate all the brood the new queen laid. All the bees died of old age, except my new queen. I tried to catch her, but she flew off.
I'll be starting two colonies next year from packages so that I can bolster a weak hive from the stronger hive. I've also learned about easy to make wax moth traps to help deter them from the hives.
I'm taking the lessons learned over the last 15 months and incorporating them into my next hive design!
Post-Swarm Update
I've learned a lot about managing the hive over this, its first year. I'm planning on having two hives starting next spring - either from two packages or adding one to my current hive. I'm not sure yet whether this hive will survive or not. After a swarm, the population declined enough that there was too much comb space for them to patrol and they experienced a severe wax moth infestation, right as the new queen came of age.
I've been a beekeeper since April 26, 2016 with a top bar hive in my back yard.
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Finally, I can share with you my first, spring stylization! It sounds like a paradox a little, cause it's 25th of February, don't you think? However, the weather on Sunday was so great! I could pose in that sunny and warm day without jacket!:) This time I was wearing midi skirt and round sunglasses - they're both must-have of Spring 2014. I decided to adorn my green shirt with Terranova's "Nice to meet you" brooch. Items such as funny pins are in my opinion, the icing on the cake. Black, patchwork and stand-out purse + tights 20 DEN which will be very fashionable this season, made that I didn't look as a good girl only. And that was the point! What do you think? ;)
skirt - H&M
jacket - Stradivarius
shirt - Terranova
brooch - Terranova
scarf - no name
purse - second hand
sunglasses -New Yorker
heels - Stradivarius
earrings - no name
hair band - Glitter
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Use Social Media to Build, Not Ruin Families
Harare is abuzz with talk following the leaking of a video featuring a Harare woman caught cheating being divorced culturally by her husband. It has been dubbed the Gupuro video. Those who saw the video, which has been shared on social media, will agree that it was in bad taste.
Seeing that woman howling her guts out in front of her father and husband's people was just too much. But just ask yourself this if it was too much for those of us who are just strangers looking into someone else's drama with us being totally removed from the reality that her life is with its recriminations and remorse at a personal level before we even go to the recriminations from family and those close to her what was it like for the woman when she found out that those very painful moments of hers had been shared with all and sundry?
My issue today is not about the woman's actions that led her to this moment. She cheated on her husband and that is bad. She got caught which makes it even worse because she ended up hurting many people. Cheating of any form is bad.
Whether it is cheating in business or cheating on the one you promised to love till the end of time it is all cheating and it is very bad. Whether a man or a woman cheats, it is all cheating and is bad.
No one's cheating becomes better than the other's. When a man cheats on his wife I have always said that shows that he does not love her. For how does one love someone and hurt them so much? How does one love someone and expose them to the risk of disease by sleeping with someone else whose sexual movements you cannot always control because the majority of times you will not be with them. But still the men cheat and society has come to say it is the way of life.
The same applies to women. When a woman cheats on a man, she does not truly love or respect him. For how does one look a man in the eye and profess to love them?
But as we can see women are also cheating although some experts call women's cheating reactionary cheating usually caused by some disappointment or lack with the current partner.
True life is a bit more complicated than that and it is not always black and white. People who cheat can actually turn out to be good people later on in some cases. There are some shades of grey in there where you find that people can make mistakes but later repent and turn over a new leaf. Some people also go through bad patches in their relationships but get past them and are able to once again have firm, sound relationships.
Thus some of these issues couples have gone past before and can still get past today. While it seems incredible there are many women who have forgiven their men for cheating on them and moved past it. There are also men who have forgiven their wives for cheating on them and moved past it.
But when matters are handled the way Faith's issue was handled, can there ever be hope of going back? Faith is the woman in the Gupuro video. Her alleged cheating was exposed by H-Metro through her husband, who decided to take to them her chats with her lover.
After this, his family was apparently not satisfied that Faith had already been humiliated enough by getting caught and having her obscene and vulgar chats with her lover published for all to see in the paper. They decided to film her as she grovelled and pleaded for forgiveness in front of her father (a senior citizen who did not deserve this at all.)
They reduced her to nothing, which she may deserve in light of what she did to her husband but the truth of the matter is, these proceedings were private and should not have been filmed and shared with the whole world as has happened now.
Which takes me to this issue of smart phones and social media? There is real need for Zimbabweans to be wary of smart phones. Today an image, audio or message can be shared with thousands of people in an instant. Thus, people need to be very careful about the messages and images they share. You may trust someone with your images and messages but they could very well be the person that will destroy you.
Many have been left with egg on their face after relations sour and their former lovers share their nude pictures and other undesirable messages with all and sundry.
You have no business sending anyone nude pictures people. Why is it people can become so careless as to place all their trust in a gadget, which can be stolen anytime? Why have we become so obsessed with recording ourselves and taking pictures of everything and just pressing share? What happened to real relationship building where people sit down and have conversations — spending quality time together?
Who said these short and cryptic messages people spend so much time sharing on Whatsapp and other platforms are the real deal?
While Whatsapp is a fast, cheap and convenient way of communicating, today it has destroyed many homes. But it is us who have caused this. It is us humans because we corrupt everything we touch.
Today a family meeting which should have stayed within the confined space of the family home where a husband decided to traditionally divorce a woman after catching her in an adultery storm, has been shared across oceans and people in the United Kingdom, China and even more countries find themselves discussing it.
Is this how our elders did it? Did anyone ever bother to think of the children involved here? Now that it is circulating everywhere they will see and know this side to their mother. Is this what the father wanted? How many men have cheated on their wives?
Was this ever shared with their children and the world?
While not condoning the cheating by the wife involved abuse of women has never been as clear as it was in this case. Women are abused by men, systems, cultural practices and other women. By going to H-Metro first and then later calling on everyone in his family, the husband in question showed that he cannot sit down and communicate with his wife alone.
He must always have people around. The more he humiliates the wife the better. What will he do when he decides to visit the children later? Because no matter what the wife did, she still is a mother to his minor children and they will have to talk at some point. Or had his family also forgotten that they share children with this same woman?
Food for thought!
Source : The Herald


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NETGEAR ProSafe GS110TP POE (Power over Ethernet) 8-Port Smart Switch (Page 5)
The WebUI on the GS110TP is very extensive, so we will break it down into sections to make things a little easier to follow.
The System Tab
This tab has quite a bit going on; you start off on the management page which all on its own has six items for you to look through. Most of these are pretty mundane (like the time setup, IP configuration and DNS settings), but there are a couple that are intended to help with more advanced networking issues.
The system information page is very self-explanatory and gives you some quick information about the status of the system. The IP configuration tab also does not need any more information; this is where you set or change the IP address for the system.
The Time setup options are interesting; you have a global page which controls how you want to have the GS110TP get its time information. Your options are local and SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol). However, to choose SNTP you have to set up a server in the SNTP Server Configuration page. This is a handy little option, especially if you have an internal SNTP server that you want to use (to limit access to UDP port 123 on your network). As there is no option for daylight savings time, you will unfortunately have to adjust the UTC offset to make sure the time is correct on the GS110TP.
We talked about a few "more advanced" options on the management tab and the DOS (Denial of Service) page is one of them. Here you will find options to setup the DOS configuration automatically or to manually choose the DOS attack types you want to defend against.
The DNS configuration page is an interesting one. In it you can configure the GS110TP as a DNS server; you do have to manually add hosts to the DNS server, but it is capable of forwarding DNS requests to the primary servers on your network.
The green Ethernet configuration page gives you one option; to enable or disable the short cable mode. This mode checks the cable length and reduces the power used for any cables less than 10 feet long.
Device View
This one was a bust for us and Internet Explorer 8 and 9. When we tried to access this we only received an error saying that the publisher of the plug-in could not be identified. So it would not load the page. You would think that NETGEAR would setup a certificate for this plugin on this device to ensure that something like this would not happen.
Interestingly enough, when we ran Firefox 3.6.10 the WebUI was very slow and unresponsive, but after the manual installation of a Java plug-in the device view worked properly.
The Power over Ethernet pages are very nicely laid out and provide for excellent control over the PoE capabilities of the GS110TP. There is one item that needs some improvement, though. This is the PoE scheduling; the problem is that you can only associate one schedule with each port. I know this does not sound like a problem until you realize that each schedule can only work inside a 24 hour day. This means that you cannot tell it to power off a port from 22:00 (10PM) to 06:00 (6AM) the next morning.
Thankfully you can see what each port is doing (for PoE and other items) in the port configuration page. But you still have the overly complicated schedule page and its inability to handle what is probably the most common "off" time in a business (8PM to 7AM). The other problem I ran into was that when the system was supposed to turn off POE power to a single port, the switch failed to do so and would lock up the WebUI. The only way to correct this issue was to restore to factory defaults.
SNMP and LLDP
SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol. This is a protocol that allows you to gather information about network devices and send them to a "trap" or computer that can catch the packets of data sent from the switch. LLDP on the other hand stands for Link Layer Discovery Protocol and is important for the discovery of network services. It is generally used to identify network access devices and as such help your network operate faster, as it is able to sort out what other devices are in the same network quickly.
LLDP has also been implemented in Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Server 2008 etc) to allow for much faster discovery of networked appliances. The GS110TP offers a large amount of flexibility in this configuration. You can opt to allow the GS110TP to only transmit, receive or to do both with LLDP information.
The Services page is reserved for items such as DHCP filtering and interface configuration. Here you can see the trusts relegated to the different ports or Link Aggregation Groups. You can also view all items in a single screen.
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SILVERSTONE, England (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton questioned Ferrari's 'tactics' on Sunday after a first-lap collision with Kimi Raikkonen ended the Briton's hopes of a fifth home victory in a row on Sunday.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff also wondered whether the incident, that sent Hamilton into a spin before he fought back to second at the finish, had been deliberate or simply a sign of incompetence.
Ferrari, winners with championship leader Sebastian Vettel, dismissed the suggestion and others also jumped to their defense.
"Interesting tactics, I would say, from their side but we will do what we can to fight them and improve in the next race," a glum and terse Hamilton said immediately after the race.
Asked later by reporters about the comment and whether he suspected the incident had been deliberate, Hamilton only fanned the flames.
"All I'd say is that it's now two races that the Ferraris have taken out one of the Mercedes, and a five-second penalty and a 10-second penalty doesn't appear to feel...," he hesitated.
"It's a lot of points that ultimately Valtteri (Bottas) and I have lost in those two scenarios.
"I couldn't see behind me but we've just to work hard to try to position ourselves better so that we are not exposed to the red cars — because who knows when that's going to happen again," he added.
Hamilton, who took time out before addressing the crowd and looked drained by his exertions, later said he had no concerns and no problem with Raikkonen.
Vettel and Bottas collided at the start of last month's French Grand Prix, with both going to the back of the field.
The Ferrari driver, now eight points clear of Hamilton, finished fifth that day with Bottas seventh while Hamilton won.
"I think it's quite silly to think that anything that happened was deliberate, at least, I would struggle to be that precise, you know, to take somebody out," Vettel told reporters at Silverstone.
"In France, I lost my wing so I screwed my race.
"I only saw it briefly on the monitor, I don't think there was any intention and I find it a bit unnecessary to even go there."
Former world champion Jenson Button agreed there was no deliberate intent.
"This is not the way anyone goes racing anymore. But it's tough and there is high tension," the Briton told Sky Sports television. "They made mistakes but that's what racing is all about. You try not to, but sometimes you slip up."
Red Bull boss Christian Horner was of the same opinion.
"When something like that happens, there's going to be speculation but to me it just looked like a racing accident," he said.
"Kimi's not that kind of driver. I'd be amazed if there was anything untoward behind it."
Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Neil Robinson


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Suddenly, business payments are hot. How do I know? Five years ago, I was invited to sit on a panel about B2B payments at a fintech conference called Money 20/20. There was an incredible amount of innovation in consumer payments at the time, but business payments to vendors weren't on anybody's radar. Not surprisingly, my fellow panelists and I found ourselves speaking in a small, mostly empty room tucked away in a corner of the venue.
Still, they've invited me back every year, and every year I've seen an uptick in interest in B2B payments. In 2017, it positively exploded. The B2B payments panel was in a big room with bright lights, and it was standing room only at 4 pm on a Tuesday, even though the event's biggest social gathering took place Monday evening.
You could attribute that to the growth of the show itself—it is now the largest conference of its kind—but I was also inundated before, during, and after the show with requests to meet. At the show, people were in active pursuit, following me around the show floor and popping up in places where they knew I'd be. This is the first time I've been such a coveted person to meet.
Those are qualitative measures, but in the context of my experience at preceding years' shows, I'd say there's a growing level of understanding of the space and a feeling that B2B payments are starting to come of age. That is good news for customers, considering decades have passed since there was innovation in this space.
Granted, this is a show for industry insiders—people in financial services, banking, payments, etc., and not necessarily the end consumers of those products and services. It's still not clear how some of the trends and technologies discussed here will play out. It's safe to say that there are a few key trends businesses should be aware of right now.
Here are 5 trends for business payments in 2018:
B2B payments innovation has begunMany of the people who wanted to meet me were venture capitalists and private equity partners. B2B payments is a very, very large market—36 trillion in payment volume—versus about three billion for consumer payments. Most business customers are still paying with paper checks. This has always been an interesting category because it's so big, and so far behind in digitization. Now, as the consumer payments technology market is becoming saturated, B2B payments have captured the attention of the investment community. There are a lot of new investments happening, so look for offerings related to B2B payments in the next few years.
Payments as a backboneVendor payments are tied to a lot of other processes. Once you digitize payments, it opens up opportunities with procure to pay, dynamic discounting, supply chain financing, and lending to name a few. For example, we've already seen Uber experiment with making auto loans to its drivers and taking the loan payments directly out of their pay. Companies should look to digitize payments with an eye to efficiency and cost savings now, and as a springboard into other innovation opportunities down the road.
Full payments automationThe first wave of new entrants in B2B payments has already hit the market, and many of their value propositions sound the same—cloud, simple, automated. But, not all of them are really in the cloud, simple, or automating the whole process. B2B payments have long been plagued by partial automation, and that's a big reason why so many businesses are still stuck on checks. Cards and ACH make the transfer of funds electronic, but they also introduce new manual processes for file preparation, reconciliation, and vendor enablement. New, truly automated solutions can handle every part of the process. The person in accounts payable should only have to select the bills they want to pay and click the "pay" button. Buyers need to look past the marketing language and check under the hood.
Banks embrace fintechsFive years ago, the relationship between fintechs and banks was adversarial. There was a lot of talk about fintechs using technology to take over different aspects of banking and to do it faster, cheaper and better. Over the past 18 months or so, we've seen the conversation shift. There is a growing recognition that banks and fintechs have very different strengths and that they will be stronger together. Bank and fintech relationships are now starting to form. Examples include Bill.com's relationship with JPMorgan Chase. The idea is to bring Bill.com's solution to small businesses through the bank channel. Chase's recent acquisition of WePay provides an application for three-party payments for platforms such as ConstantContact and GoFundMe. This is just the tip of the iceberg; we will see many more partnerships and acquisitions in 2018.
Blockchain is still a technology to watchBlockchain, the distributed ledger technology that underpins Bitcoin, is still very much part of the conversation. This is the only technology that truly has the potential to change banking and finance as we know it, providing a new set of instantaneous, decentralized, global payment rails. Banks and fintechs such as Ripple and Earthport are collaborating and getting traction, demonstrating they have a value proposition. But, if banks find ways to control it, it may end up being a better experience, but it won't be any less expensive than current options.
All of these developments are great news for customers because the market is picking up speed and companies will have a lot more choices than in the past. B2B payments are far more complex than consumer payments, and there's next to no technological innovation applied to them until very recently. Companies have lived with the status quo for decades. That is all about to change.
As fintechs encroach on core bank activities like lending and payments, banks are going to step up their game by either improving their own services or teaming up with the innovators. A lot of the people chasing me around Money 20/20 were bankers wanting to discuss partnerships, so clearly a lot of banks are open to the idea of offering fintech solutions through their channels. Finance professionals will probably have more people talking to them about B2B payments in 2018 than they've ever had before. They should proceed with caution to see if the value is really there, but they should definitely listen and learn.
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