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Now developer and IoT ready with a built-in HTTP/HTTPS server and RESTful API. See Programming, below.
** Compatible with groov—the easy way to build mobile operator interfaces and securely use them to monitor and control your automation systems and equipment from your smartphone or tablet. **
The SNAP-PAC-S2 programmable automation controller provides powerful, real-time control and communications to meet your industrial control, monitoring, and data acquisition needs.
Part of Opto 22's S-series family of industrial controllers, the SNAP-PAC-S2 is fully integrated with PAC Project software, SNAP PAC brains, and SNAP I/O modules to form a complete control system. The SNAP PAC System includes digital and analog control, serial string handling, PID loops, and enterprise connectivity.
The SNAP-PAC-S2 is programmed using the included PAC Control software. PAC Control is a flowchart-based tool for developing control applications, or strategies. You create and debug the strategy on your computer and then download it to the PAC, where it runs independently.
REST API: All I/O point and strategy variable data is available for secure access using the built-in HTTPS server and RESTful API, with data delivered in JSON format. For complete API documentation and steps for getting started, see developer.opto22.com. In addition, two Node-RED nodes are available. Note that minimum firmware R9.5a and PAC Project R9.5a are required to use the REST API.
You can build full-featured operator interfaces (HMIs) using the included PAC Display software, which taps the same tagname database you've already developed in PAC Control. OR take advantage of Opto 22's groov to quickly build and view HMIs you can use on virtually any computer, tablet, or smartphone—any screen size, from any manufacturer—using just a modern web browser (like Firefox or Chrome). Learn more at groov.com.
The controller is compact and industrially hardened. It includes two independent Ethernet network interfaces with separate IP addresses, which can be used to segment the control network from the company network or for redundant Ethernet links. You can also set up a system with redundant controllers using two identical S-series controllers, the SNAP PAC Redundancy Option Kit, and PAC Project Professional 9.0.
The SNAP-PAC-S2 controller is well suited for use with serial-based I/O units and serial devices. The SNAP-PAC-S2 has four serial ports that can be individually configured as either RS-232 or RS-485 (2-wire or 4-wire). Configured as RS-232, serial ports support serial device communication or a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) modem connection for creating a TCP/IP network over PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) lines. Configured as RS-485, serial ports connect to SNAP PAC Serial brains or to legacy Opto 22 mistic™ I/O units, including the serial B3000 brain and remote mistic bricks. (Note: If you are using the S2 with misticI/O units, use the legacy versions of the PAC Control, PAC Display, and PAC Manager guides.)
The SNAP-PAC-S2 can be panel or DIN-rail mounted. For DIN rail, see the SNAP-S2DIN DIN-rail mounting kit.
If you need a similar PAC that also communicates wirelessly, see the SNAP-PAC-S2-W.
If you need fewer serial ports, see the SNAP-PAC-S1.
For more details, see the Specifications tab and the data sheet under the Docs & Downloads tab. To compare controller features, see the SNAP PAC Controller and Brain Comparison Chart.
266 MHz
32-bit ColdFire® 5475 with integrated floating-point unit (FPU)
and SNAP-PAC-S2
Total RAM: 32 MB
Total RAM for PAC Control Strategies: 16 MB
Battery-backed RAM: 8 MB
RAM File Storage: 2.5 MB
Flash File Storage: 4 MB
SNAP-PAC-S1-W and SNAP-PAC-S2-W
Total RAM: 128 MB
Total RAM for PAC Control Strategies: 64MB
Battery-backed RAM: 8 MB
RAM File Storage: 16 MB
Flash File Storage: 4 MB
(Models with
manufacture dates of June 2014 and newer. Requires firmware R9.4a or
higher and loader R6.1a or higher) MicroSD card slot: supports microSD
or microSDHC cards to 32 GB.
(Models with manufacture dates of November 2008 through May 2014 with
firmware R8.4 or higher) McroSD card slot: supports microSD cards up
to 2 GB.
Backup battery
with serial number 625654 or higher and all SNAP-PAC-S2s: Rechargeable
(recharges whenever the brain has power), 1-year power-off data retention (replacement part number: SNAP-PAC-BATTERY-ML2430)
SNAP-PAC-S1s with serial number 625653 or lower: User-replaceable 3.6-volt
TL 5242 /W lithium, 10-year minimum power-off data retention (replacement
part number: G4BATT32)
Communication (wired) to host and I/O
Two independent
10/100 Mbps Ethernet network interfaces (RJ-45 connectors).
Each interface has a separate IP address (separate subnet).
Communication (wireless)*
LAN interface with separate IP address.
Topologies: Infrastructure, Ad-Hoc
Security: 802.11i; AES - Compatible with WPA2 Personal, TKIP - Compatible
with WPA Personal, WEP. Note: TKIP/AES security is not supported in Ad-Hoc
Frequency 802.11a: 5.180–5.240 GHz, 5.745–5.825 GHz
Frequency 802.11b/g: 2.412–2.472 GHz, 2.484 GHz
Transmit Power: 15 dBm maximum
Antenna Connector: Reverse polarity SMA (RP-SMA or RSMA)
Roaming: Supported within an SSID (Service Set Identifier) only
Serial Communication
RS-232 serial: Two RS-232 serial ports (one DB-9 and one pluggable connector);
one port has full handshaking. PPP is supported only on port 0. Buffer
size: 512 bytes each for RX and TX.
RS-485 serial: One RS-485 serial port (pluggable connector); two-wire
RS-485; optional mistic signal interrupts. Range (serial multidrop):
32 stations maximum on a segment (including PC, controller, and I/O units);
up to 3000 ft (914 m) on a segment. Buffer size: 512 bytes each for RX
and TX.
Four serial ports that can be used as general purpose ports or for serial
I/O units; each port is software configurable as either RS-232 (Tx, Rx,
COM, DTR, DCD, RTS, CTS) or as RS-485 (2-wire, 4-wire, optional termination,
optional biasing); optional mistic signal interrupts. Buffer size:
512 bytes each for RX and TX.
Power requirements
±0.5, 11.3 VA maximum
(SNAP-PAC-S1 controllers with serial numbers below 500,000 use 8–24 VDC)
Storage temperature
to 60 °C
-40 °C to 85 °C
0% to 95% relative humidity, non-condensing
PAC Project Basic
PAC Project Professional
Includes programming, HMI
software, and configuration software; included with purchase of controller.
PAC Project Basic plus OPC 2.0-compliant OPC server, OptoControl strategy
and OptoDisplay project importing, support for serial mistic I/O
units, and Ethernet link redundancy support.
Use HTTPS to access data (read/write or read-only) from controller tags using your chosen programming language. Data returned in JSON. More information at developer.opto22.com
Number of
charts that can run simultaneously
Other features
protocol support including TCP/IP, FTP, SNMP v2.0c (with firmware 8.2a),
Modbus/TCP, EtherNet/IP™, and OptoMMP™.
Real-time clock
FTP server/client with file system (in RAM and in removable storage)
Ethernet link redundancy or network segmenting
Agency certifications
(-W models
only) U.S., FCC Part 15 Subpart C; Canada, IC RSS-210
(-FM models only) Factory Mutual approved
All models except -W models: CE, RoHS, DFARS
-W models: DFARS
30 months
from date of manufacture
Requires a Wired+Wireless model (SNAP-PAC-S1-W or SNAP-PAC-S2-W)
This user's guide shows you how to install and use Opto 22's SNAP PAC S-series programmable automation controllers. SNAP PAC S-series controllers are one of four components of the SNAP PAC System. These controllers work with PAC Project software, SNAP PAC brains, and SNAP I/O modules to form an easy-to-use system for remote monitoring, industrial control, and data acquisition.
SNAP PAC controllers are programmed with PAC Control Basic or PAC Control Professional, Opto 22's flowchart-based development software, which is part of the PAC Project software suite.
Press release announcing new built-in HTTP/HTTPS server and RESTful API in Opto 22 SNAP PAC standalone and rack-mounted programmable automation controllers.
For complete API documentation and steps to get started, visit developer.opto22.com.
This chart compares details for all SNAP PAC programmable automation controllers: SoftPAC software controller, SNAP PAC S-series standalone controllers, and SNAP PAC R-series rack-mounted controllers.
For additional details on SNAP PAC R-series controllers (including specific I/O processing features), see the SNAP PAC Controller and Brain Comparison Chart, form 1677.
Toyo Tanso USA manufactures a fine grade of graphite called isotropic graphite, and the company also provides graphite-related silicon carbide surface treatments to customers.
The batch automation process systems used to perform these surface treatments are in a busy, tough industrial setting. The multiple vessels involved in the process each require different specializations and careful management.
To control the vessels, Toyo Tanso needed a rugged control system with plenty of I/O options—and one that could be easily programmed and deployed.
Networking can be a complex subject. This guide tries to reduce the complexity by providing guidelines for how you might set up communications between your computer or mobile device and your SNAP PAC control system, including groov.
The goal is for you to be able to monitor and control your system from anywhere you need to, either inside your facility or outside it. It's possible to do this because Opto 22 control systems are built on standard protocols such as TCP and UDP over IP, which are the same protocols used by off-the-shelf computers, routers, and the Internet.
This guide shows you how to communicate with Opto 22's SNAP PAC controllers and groov using wired Ethernet networks and wireless LANs, both within your facility and over the Internet.
This guide shows you how to use PAC Manager, part of the PAC Project Software Suite, to assign IP addresses, configure I/O, and inspect and maintain Opto 22 SNAP PAC hardware.
Latest Readme for PAC Project Basic and Professional. Includes information on new features, enhancements, and bug fixes for each PAC Project application: PAC Control, PAC Display, OptoOPCServer, PAC Manager, and Tools.
Also see form 2212, the PAC Project 9.6 Release Notes, which include important information on installation and use.
The next industrial revolution, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), is happening now. This white paper summarizes the key IIoT trends from 2016, with predictions and recommendations for 2017 on:
- IIoT challenges still to be met
- Standards and architectures that work well for the IIoT
- Platforms to watch; their strengths and weaknesses
You've probably heard about the Internet of Things (IoT). But what is it, and how will it affect our businesses?
This primer helps you understand the IoT and the significant challenges we face to realize its benefits.
The primer defines operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT), and shows how they are converging and why. It defines IoT technologies and suggests 3 steps you can take to develop an effective and profitable IoT strategy.
Successful industrial internet of things (IIoT) applications send data from systems that monitor and control the physical world to information technology (IT) data processing systems. There the data can be analyzed and the results used to improve business capabilities: better inventory management, better predictive maintenance, reduced asset downtime, and much more.
But to achieve these IIoT goals, we need to solve 3 problems: how to connect the physical world to the IT world, how to handle the huge masses of data that physical systems produce, and how to efficiently structure the IIoT.
This white paper explores these problems and how edge computing and architectural change can help solve them.
This document is written in Chinese.
This white paper describes the advent of the programmable automation controller (PAC) and its use in modern industrial applications.
For additional white papers on PACs, see the Guide to PACs.
This white paper explores some important features of programming software for a programmable automation controller (PAC).
Smaller water and wastewater treatment districts often have difficulty funding SCADA systems to monitor their operations as required. In addition, remote and rural equipment sites are much more difficult to connect. Wireless communication can fail due to terrain, while cellular communication can be cost prohibitive.
Recognizing the needs of smaller water and wastewater treatment plant operators, systems integrator Perceptive Controls decided to develop a cloud-based SCADA system to reduce costs and provide operators with the data they need.
Read about the problems involved in building the system and the ways Perceptive Controls approached solutions in this application brief.
This document is in Chinese.
The Sotavento Virtual Power Plant in Galicia, Spain, is a "green" power utility with an annual production of approximately 38,500 MWh. The plant uses alternative fuels, specifically wind power, supplemented by hydrogen. At the Sotavento plant, Opto 22's SNAP PAC System provides a solution for not only automation and control, but also data acquisition, enterprise connectivity, and communication to databases.
Systems integrator Optomation Systems designed an integrated supervisory system for the Sotavento site, based on the Opto 22 SNAP PAC System platform. Utilizing a mix of analog and digital I/O connections, standalone and rack-mounted SNAP PACs connect to electrolyzers, motor generator units, and other plant systems and communicate with this equipment as well as with the plant's legacy SCADA systems. Disparate machinery and instrumentation from vendors such as Hydrogenics, Emerson, and Bauer Compressors are linked to the Opto controllers, which communicate using a variety of industrial protocols, such as Profibus and Modbus. The controllers also aggregate all data and serve it to Sotavento databases for analysis and archiving.
Opto 22 announces strategic partnership with IBM and acceptance into the IBM Watson IoT partner ecosystem, providing developers a full stack end-to-end toolset for rapidly developing and deploying industrial IoT applications.
Automation manufacturer Opto 22 and information technology company IBM join forces to bridge the gap between existing industrial assets and infrastructure, and the digital world of mobile, cloud, and information technology.
Watch the video and see how to get started:
This guide is for programmers who are writing custom applications to communicate with Opto 22 memory-mapped devices. These devices include SNAP PAC controllers and SNAP PAC EB and SB brains; G4EB2 brains; SNAP Ultimate, SNAP Ethernet, and SNAP Simple I/O; E1 and E2 brain boards, and SNAP-LCE controllers.
The guide describes how to use the IEEE 1394-based OptoMMP memory-mapped protocol for programming. The guide also contains the complete memory map for all Opto 22 memory-mapped devices.
NOTE: This guide replaced previous individual programming guides for SNAP Ultimate I/O (form #1312) and SNAP Ethernet I/O (form #1227). This document was formerly called the "SNAP Ethernet-Based I/O Units Protocols and Programming Guide."
We've all heard about the Internet of Things (IoT) and its promises: bringing useful data directly to people who make business decisions, and enabling machines to communicate with each other and make decisions for human benefit.
But how does the IoT actually work? How does the data get from inside these machines to computer networks where we can use it?
This technical paper describes that pathway for IT (information technology) professionals, explaining how physical "things" communicate, what kinds of data in them might be useful, and the current barriers to getting that data—especially from existing sensors and devices that have no IoT capabilities built in.
The paper also describes a new method to cut through those barriers and achieve the IoT results you want now.
But how does the IoT actually work? How does the data get from inside these physical "things" to computer networks where it can be used?
This technical paper describes that pathway for OT (operational technology) professionals—automation professionals. It describes the kinds of data you may be asked to provide and why. It explains how data from physical "things"—especially existing sensors and actuators that have no IoT capabilities built in—can be securely communicated to company computer networks, without disturbing control networks.
The paper also explains concepts important to any IoT strategy, like encryption and authentication, and introduces a new method to achieve the IoT results you need now, without requiring a complex chain of conversion hardware and software.
SNAP PAC controllers manufactured in November 2008 and later have a microSD
card slot in the top of the controller's case.
Behavior for the microSD card has changed since the first release. This technical note describes behavior with controller firmware versions older than 9.0.
If you are running controller firmware 9.0 or newer, use instructions in the controller user's guide; do not use this technical note.
This technical note describes the tools and protocols you can use with Opto 22 products for communication with a wide variety of software and systems.
If you've heard about our Opto 22 SNAP PACs with their built-in RESTful API (application program interface), you may be wondering how you'd use that API to send real-world data to the IBM® Watson IoT® platform.
This technical note shows you how, step by step.
This technical note is also a blog post on our website.
Several SNAP PAC controllers and brains contain a rechargeable backup battery. The battery recharges whenever the brain has power and retains data for an extended period of time with the power off.
You should never have to replace this battery, but if you do, this technical note shows you how.
This document is the Legacy Edition of the PAC Manager User's Guide. It includes information about both SNAP PAC hardware and older hardware.
Use this guide if you are using any legacy hardware (SNAP Ultimate, SNAP Ethernet, and SNAP Simple I/O, E1 and E2 brain boards) with PAC Manager.
If you are using SNAP PAC controllers and SNAP PAC brains only, use form #1704 instead of this guide.
See the README document for information on changes and fixes in the current version of this product's firmware.
This download contains special firmware for the SNAP PAC S-Series controllers that upgrades the controller bootloader (or "loader").
This download contains current firmware for the SNAP-PAC-S2 controller. Current firmware for all SNAP PAC brains and controllers is available in a single download here.
This CAD file contains a 3-dimensional drawing of the SNAP-PAC-S2 standalone programmable automation controller.
This application is used with the following Opto 22 controllers:
- SNAP PAC S- and R-Series
- Ultimate I/O (UIO)
OptoTagPreserve copies variables from your PAC Control strategy running on a SNAP PAC controller and saves them in a password-protected binary file or a plain-text XML, OptoScript, or init.txt file.
The primary reason you would use this utility is to make it easier to preserve variable states when you need to update firmware on the controller. Updating firmware erases battery-backed data including persistent variables and variables initialized on strategy download. Use OptoTagPreserve before loading new firmware to archive tag values to the computer, and then restore them after firmware is loaded and the strategy has been downloaded.
- Make sure the strategy is stopped before restoring tag values. If the strategy is running, unexpectedly changing values can cause unpredictable results with strategy operation.
- Writing to a plain-text file requires that the strategy contain a special variable allowing plain text.
See the technical note included in the download for complete information on using the utility.


text:
Pink has revealed she is a fan of winter as she finds the cold weather "romantic".
The singer is currently visiting London where she is promoting her new single Try and described how she has been spending her free time in the UK city.
Pink loved visiting London's seasonal attraction Winter Wonderland with her family as it reminded her of everything she likes about this time of year.
"We went to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park which is the best place in the world, I wanted to stay there forever. The family loved it. I didn't get recognised while there, I usually don't, not when I'm with my little one, as I'm in mom mode," Pink enthused to BBC Radio 1.
"I bought a British phone booth, lots of touristy stuff. I do love winter, I like the fashion that comes with the cold. It's kind of romantic. I like to snuggle up and I love snow landscapes, real snow, fake is not the same."
Although the star has a soft side, she also enjoys being "thrown around".
Pink joked that she loves a bit of rough and tumble, which explains why she liked making her new music video.
"It's so much fun (the new video). I got a little hurt. I figure it doesn't work if it doesn't hurt a little," she laughed. "You just have to be a warrior and have the strength and the passion. That's why I love it, I like being thrown around!"
The singer went on to discuss her unique style and her love of body art. She also admitted she is superstitious, blaming her star sign for her decisions and impulses.
"I really like tattoos I've got over 20. I don't regret mine. They are like a favourite book or something you revisit over again," Pink continued. "Because I'm such a Virgo, I'm always trying to stroke some balance so now I'd like to wipe the slate clean and get a new tattoo across the whole of my back."

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'We are protecting all the users against the 1% of the user base who use our network.'
Kinda like the old overbooking of flights.
I used to see the excuse:
We overbook our flights to save you money because some poeple don't show. So for that 1% that hurt our business we have to lie and sell you a service that we cannot possibly deliver on.
Just like the ISPs that overbook their network by selling a service that they could never deliver if all the poeple decided to show up at once and try and use their tier of 10/1.5 or whatever they pay for every month.
So the bet that not everybody will use the service doesn't pay off when some people regularly try and use what they have purchased. They get turned away at the gate or get 1/3rd of the service they paid for or even just get cut off. All for paying for a service and thinking that they have a right to use it.
If they overbook your flight they give your money back. If ISPs paid back w/e % you had taken away we'd see less complaints.
or they book you first class on the next flight.
What happens if the next flight is overbooked? Eventually you would have to have a plane dedicated to the people who have been waiting.
No what would happen is that they'd just keep pushing everyone backwards, until towards the end of the day some guy who was supposed to leave at 11 p.m. gets to ride on the near-empty midnight plane instead.
It's kinda similar to how the doctor's office works, shoving everyone backward in time but still managing to see all his patients' that same day, even if the last patient doesn't leave until 2 hours past the official 5 p.m. closing time.
No what would happen is that they'd just keep pushing everyone backwards,
What they actually do is ask for volunteers at each flight that are OK with being bumped. If you are bumped one flight someone else at the second flight may accept being bumped so you can fly, or you can accept being bumped again for additional compensation. Of course if they think that chain might occur they start out asking for people willing to be bumped a whole day or so to avoid the extra cost of multiple compensations.
Sounds like somebody's been flying business or full-flex economy. The regular tickets definately either don't let you do that at all or against a high fee.
We overbook our flights to save you money because some poeple don't show. So for that 1% that hurt our business we have to lie and sell you a service that we cannot possibly deliver on.
They sold the tickets to those 1% and get the money whether they show up or not. A more accurate statement would be "we overbook our flights to (save you money and/or make more profit) because we can - 1% of people don't show up, an
Fun facts: If everyone in your neighborhood with a land line picked up the phone right now and tried to make a call, probably only 10% to 20% of them would succeed. If everyone in the average American suburb all hopped in their car and tried to get on the road to the nearest Interstate, it'd be gridlock. Traffic would move at speeds no where near the posted limits. We're surrounded by shared resources with capacity that reflects typical usage with a reasonable amount of head room for "normal" peaks, but is far from being able to support the maximum theoretical demand.
Airlines overbook because a certain %age of customers don't show up, and that %age is large enough and stable enough that it makes sense to do so. When too many people do show up for a flight, the airline pays penalties (in the form of travel vouchers and upgrades), so there's incentive to be conservative in the practice. Everyone benefits overall, though. More people get flown from point A to point B. If the airlines sell more seats on a given flight, then they can charge less per seat too.
ISPs are no different. They purchase bandwidth based on a model of "reasonable" network usage and how many subscribers they have. The major difference, though, is that it's very easy for someone to fall well outside the "reasonable" traffic usage. It's quite possible for 1% of the users to take up the majority of the network bandwidth. And I can see this being considered "unreasonable," and the ISP taking steps to make sure that the other 99% of users have a reasonable experience.
What I don't like is that ISPs can advertise something as "unlimited" or as running at a certain speed, when it clearly is limited, and the advertised speed is only a peak speed available in small doses. At least airlines are required to disclose their overbooking policy.
And of course, everyone in that 1% has to be someone abusing the network.... There is no such thing as a household with multiple people using different computers wanting to watch legal videos.
Something that always amazes me is that a university with 20,000 students on a 100mbit (or sometimes less) line can manage to do network shaping, etc. correctly but ISPs in even small towns cannot.
One major thing that the university I go to does: you have to OPT IN to file sharing access. No big deal, you just say I need it for whatever legal reason and they activate it.
This would also reduce the random kids connecting to file sharing networks (their parents, in theory, would have to activate it).
It would also reduce the number of people who break into some unsecured wifi network to download because there wouldn't be as many networks that had the ability to file share.
For a subscriber to use such a disproportionate amount of bandwidth, such a bandwidth peak would have to be a sustained bandwidth peak.
There really should be different plans to cater to the hard-core users vs. the typical users. You have your average web surfer browsing You-Tube occasionally, or downloading the latest stuff off of iTunes or what have you, and then you have the hardcore folks that are streaming HD non-stop. Makes sense to me that you'd want to move the latter guys onto a different plan wit
ISPs are no different. They purchase bandwidth based on a model of "reasonable" network usage and how many subscribers they have.
Read the summary again: they aren't throttling all traffic for a given protocol; they're throttling traffic based on what site it's to. This nicely sets the stage for the next phase: charge said sites to un-throttle traffic. Fortunately said sites can play the game too and put up a special page to users connecting from this ISP explaining that the site is slow because the ISP is making it so, and that they can get better service by switching ISPs.
There are some major differences between all those shared resources you list, and those of ISP's though:
1. With ISP's, you pay for different speeds. If you pay for (say) 1000kb/s but it is known in advance that you will only ever receive 333kb/s, that effectively means they have just raised their prices by a factor three.
2. Rather than giving everyone _at least_ one third of their paid-for speed, and then spreading the remainder evenly over the various customers, you are simply capped. In fact I suspect that even that promised one third of the paid-for speed is on an "if available" basis.
3. The phrase "abuse" is thrown around lightly, and there is a clear undertone of "illegal". These are probably the kind of people downloading illegal movies and childpr0n all day long! Cap them, before they do even more harm! Or... Maybe they have subscribed to a legal movie download service? One that competes with UPC's own TV offerings? (UPC is actually a cable TV provider, that also does internet on the side!)
Simple fact: UPC is advertising certain speeds [www.upc.nl], but not delivering them. And it's not even because of oversubscription (as in the examples you gave), but simply because they don't want to.
What I find funny is if my ISP did that, capped stuff to 1/3rd the speed... It'd still be twice as fast as the DSL service I paid the same price for a little while ago.
Funny that. Is the 1% P2P users, or is the the new breed of people watching video's online? If I remember the last graph that Teksavvy tossed out of their current breakdown of net traffic, people watching streaming media of all types accounted for around 50% of their net traffic.
I'd like to be able to go to a local park and hike the nature trail. If the trail is cordoned off for a race every once in a while, I'll skip it then. If it's cordoned off for a race every weekend, that's a problem. I'll expect the park rangers to reject requests which too frequently occupy the park's resources to the exclusion of people like me.
1% of the network's users take action with protocols like bittorrent which fully occupy the network to the exclusion of folks who just want to check their webmail a
There must be more intelligent ways of handling this. For instance, someone who downloads more than so many GB a day can be throttled or capped individually. That shouldn't be too hard, I think.
I download a TON of stuff. I would happily accept a speed throttle.
Of course if they charge you by gigabyte over the cap they make more money than just throttling you.
"For instance, someone who downloads more than so many GB a day can be throttled or capped individually. That shouldn't be too hard, I think."
For instance, they could be compliant with the fucking contract we both agreed on that says 24x7 X bandwith upload Y bandwith download. If they can't stand by those terms (that, contrary to me, they were absolutly free to choose), then they can change for their next contract agreement or upon renoval at termination of mine. Then they could be not blatant liers and s
I use UPC in Austria. I don't think this is anything new. They been fucking with my bandwidth for ages.
I thought Net Neutrality was to prevent ISPs from filtering and controlling content, not protocols and speeds?
Technically, "net neutrality" refers to the traffic being completely agnostic about what a packet is--phone, video, http, etc.
Most of the insidious scenarios painted by the loss of neutrality do relate to content filtering--ie, Comcast makes a deal with Amazon and gimps the connections to, say, Powell's dodgy enough customers just think Amazon is the place to shop.
If it's really as described in this case, for bandwidth management, I personally don't think it's all that scary. There are issues about transpa
Technically, "net neutrality" refers to the traffic being completely agnostic about what a packet is--phone, video, http, etc.
No, it absolutely does not. Net Neutrality only refers to filtering or throttling based on source or destination. Prioritizing VoIP traffic over BitTorrent traffic is not a Net Neutrality issue. Throttling Vonage's VoIP traffic to make your ISP's VoIP service more attractive is a Net Neutrality issue.
No, it absolutely does not. Net Neutrality only refers to filtering or throttling based on source or destination. Prioritizing VoIP traffic over BitTorrent traffic is not a Net Neutrality issue. Throttling Vonage's VoIP traffic to make your ISP's VoIP service more attractive is a Net Neutrality issue.
I agree. The redefinition of network neutrality to include traffic type is a marketing scheme, no more. It allows providers to say "Net neutrality is not bad. We use it to slow down abusive users." This makes the debate about a straw man - it's harder to object to this behavior than real neutrality violations. By making the debate about peer-to-peer and streaming traffic taking bandwidth away from other users, they sidestep the real issue of giving privilege to certain content providers over others.
Again: The people who want to define network neutrality to include this behavior are not on your side. They want you to use that definition so they can control the debate. If they win the debate, we the netizens lose, and we lose a lot.
This is an important issue that could well help direct the culture of the technologized* world for a long time - possibly centuries, but certainly decades. Do we want content approved and delivered mainly by large central providers, like with television, or the free-for-all we have today? I choose the latter.
* Don't you think it's time we stopped saying "industrialized"?
I thought Net Neutrality was to prevent ISPs from filtering and controlling content, not protocols and speeds?
That's true, but if the summary is accurate (I know, I know), they appear to be throttling certain HTTP traffic because the site supposedly uses too much bandwidth.
If your ISP throttles YouTube down to a speed where you can no longer watch a video without waiting half an hour for it to buffer (hi Virgin Media), then that pretty effectively blocks their content.
It's really not a joke, I suspect something like this will happen.
The only way they'll be able to completely stop torrents and warez downloading would be to cut off internet access entirely.
Never underestimate nerds who want to fix something, even if they have to resort to TCP/IP over Carrier Pigeon.
Might as well. It seems to me, their real problem is they oversold their bandwidth, and the proper thing to do is to reprice bandwidth usage. Stop bullshitting the customers with promise of bandwidth they can't deliver.
Yeah, that would suck in marketing aspect. Again might as well. If a company actually uttered a truth, it just might shock some of us into death by heart attack.
Couldn't they instead perform a kind of load-balancing based on the actual bandwidth being consumed by each customer, regardless of protocol or destination? As far as I'm concerned, that's the only way to do QOS without violating the principle of network neutrality.
Or, they could just charge by the bit, like every other utility (water, gas, electricity).
Are you sure contract can hold you, considering that it probably mentions also speed, which has now changed?
You need a contract for internet access? Jesus. I can just call my ISP and say "Shove it. Cheers!"
After all, where did the term "going Dutch" come from?
Huh ?
A Dutch provider messes with the network ?
What are they smoking ?
I don't like filtering by protocol: I would get pissed off if my ssh sessions were slowed down.
In the short time that I've been UPC customer, I have been thoroughly dissatisfied with their service. Too many outages, and a paid helpdesk who weren't competent enough to do anything but reading from scripts. Quite the difference from when I was with XS4all- slightly more expensive, but what a difference. Competent people there (met them at HIP back in '97). Never needed the helpdesk as the connection *just worked*. Always. Now that I live abroad, I've got similar experiences. Goodbye BT- I hope you've le
Compared to the US, I guess we're doing better, but these are my options as I currently see them in Amsterdam.
Everytime I change ISPs, it is to get more bandwidth for less cost. I'm just finishing a ADSL 2 year contract with Tele2 and was seriously considering UPC. Still am, but this news sucks. UPC also has extraordinarily bad customer service. Bad in a legendary way.
There are loads of ADSL ISPs offering 20mb down/ 1up, with phone & TV for 30 euros a month. UPC uses the city coax network and DOCSIS 3.0
Forgot to mention, real-life speeds:
While I pay for 20 mps down, I'm lucky to get 10 mbs down. Usually around 7.5 mps download is average, and about
Any other consumers out there willing to compare? At least ADSL can be bought cheap here.
Sounds like your ISP is overselling its bandwidth.
In the UK it's the same sort of situation.. you can get up to 24Mbps* (theoretically.. most people get around 16 due to distance from the exchange) but not all ISPs are equal. There are some *really* cheap deals out there eg. £9.99 'unlimited' (subject to limits**), but if you go with such an ISP be prepared to deal with nonexistant customer support, huge latency and massive slowdowns especially in the evenings. Alternatively you can go with a more p
60 down and 1 up is a joke. There is no way that you are going to be able to effective use much more than 10 mbps down with only 1 mbps up.
And since when did net neutrality have anything to do with traffic shaping? Net neutrality is when all destinations are treated equally, not all protocols.
If you are on a net that has both tcp and udp traffic (the entire internet) you are already making protocol choices.
Errr, what? Seriously, I'd do some research first - unless you're using really small TCP packets, you should easily be able to manage 20:1 if not 50:1. With a non-acknowledged protocol such as UDP, you can increase that to over 100:1.
Just because you're using a vastly inefficient method to download your "must-have" illegal TV-rips, doesn't mean we get to blindly accept your facts.
There's a misunderstanding. One of UPC's package is 60mps down which I am considering is, 6 up. Just to be clear.
"Everytime I change ISPs, it is to get more bandwidth for less cost."
Everytime I chanhge ISPs, it is to get more *claimed* bandwidth *that it could be called "abuse" if I dare to in fact use it* for less cost.
There, corrected for you.
I know from internal sources*, that at the beginning to middle of the decade, Jubii was so successful in Denmark, that they were able to put the following rule on the providers:
Either you give us money, or your users won't be able to access our site.
Of course this was not strictly caused by the providers, but it was certainly not neutral.
* I don't think that it was ever a secret. (For obvious reasons.)
If I buy a DSL 6000 line with a flat-rate, I expect to get it. Period. No, I don't care for any "up to" clauses or "extreme traffic capping". People are expecting to get those 6000 kb/s and no limitations, they know it, and they specifically use that expectation to get you as a client. It's a scam, and they know it. Period.
The nice thing is, that now, you can end the contract, because they changed the terms. They can't simply change things afterwards, without you accepting them.
So goodbye UPC. See you in ba
If you bought a DSL 6000 line that actually guaranteed that service level it would cost you several times more than what you are paying now. The fact is that the internet gets much of economic power because of statistical use of the bandwidth. If everyone actually insisted on guaranteed service levels we would be back in the era of the switched circuit networks of the 1950's.
If I buy a DSL 6000 line with a flat-rate, I expect to get it. Period.
Sure you can get that, but expect to pay anywhere from 3 to 10 times the price of a regular consumer connection.
No, I don't care for any "up to" clauses
You should, it's in the contract you signed.
All protocols but HTTP are capped to 1/3 speed, and within the HTTP realm some Web sites and services that use lots of upstream bandwidth are capped as well. So far UPC is hiding behind the usual excuse: 'We are protecting all the users against the 1% of the user base who abuse our network.'"
Well IMAP, SMTP and POP3 are not HTTP protocols, nor is IRC, or IM programs, or video game clients like Wow etc. I also assume Google Earth will be slower as well as Antivirus programs doing updates will be slower and O
Someone's missing the point of net neutrality.
Net neutrality means: if I have network access, and some guy has network access, we can connect; the ISP treats my connection the same regardless of WHO I'm connecting with. It doesn't mean the ISP cannot differentiate the quality of the connection based on HOW we connect.
This is something else: they are varying quality based on HOW they're connecting to others (what protocol). Note that it's not an outright ban, only a rate limit in order to prioritize of HTTP traffic. The only problematic part is the throttling of upload-intensive services. However, it is not a net neutrality issue as long as they are throttling solely on the amount of bandwidth consumed by a service, rather than who pays them most money to have his service unthrottled.
Remember: Net neutrality is not about unrestricted BitTorrent for everyone. It is about the Internet not turning into cable TV. It is about stopping ISPs colluding with content providers so that they can charge you or deny you access to your favorite websites, in order to ram their own inferior ad-infested versions down your throat. It is about being able to connect to everyone without seeking permission of your ISP or paying extra. It is about Internet access being a binary variable: either you can connect, or you can't. No limited service plans where you can connect only to the ISP's webmail and search engine, and all other webmails and search engines are blocked unless you 'upgrade'. No 'premium sites' you can only use if your ISP has a deal with the content provider that you cannot opt into or out of.
If you are dissatisfied by your ISP blocking or throttling your favorite website or service, by all means complain. But do not conflate traffic shaping with net neutrality. It muddles an already complex issue, and harms our chances to win this battle.
Protocol discrimination is an equally important issue for network neutrality, as it has the same result. While prioritizing traffic by protocol in the name of QOS may appear to be fair on the surface, it is anything but, and will stunt the growth of innovative and competing services on the Internet.
Think about it; how will a competing protocol, or any other innovative new protocol emerge when it is so disadvantaged? The most popular existing protocols end up with a natural monopolies on the Internet.
No on
So, they are slowing down all but one port out of 65535 by 1/3rd... are they also going to reduce the price by 2/3 * 65534/65535? Didn't think so.
We are protecting all the users against the 1% of the user base who abuse our network.
Hang on a minute. That 1% are abusing the network, which presumably is against the terms of service or some such. A logical person would suggest that they could protect the 99% of their users who are not abusive by kicking off the 1% that are? Like kicking the loud drunk of the train for the good of the other passengers (and the train).
Instead this ISP is punishing all the users on your network that use youtube or what-ever other popular site (which chances are is a fair majority of their users) while leavi
My ISP's been playing games with throttling my (overpriced, shitty upstream speed) connection for at least 2 years. They have a virtual monopoly because I live in the middle of nowhere, and I know some poor guy who lives near one of the worse exchanges whose connection goes to hell at the same minute each day.
Is it really 1% of the user base consuming a huge portion of the bandwidth? That figure gets tossed around a lot, and I wonder if it's true.
We decry 1% of world citizens controlling 90% of the world's assets (substitute your favorite estimate for the 90%), and 4% of the world's people (USA) consuming a vast amount of the energy of the world.
Do we not care about the disproportionate internet usage because the
I guess they've never heard of a little country in Europe called Great Britain.
Yes, a country where net neutrality has been broken for nearly 3 - 5 years now. Not only that, but in the UK the government has declared no interest in net neutrality and has given ISPs the green light to do what they want.
Originally OFCOM, the telecommunications watchdog in the UK stated that it would be unacceptable if ISPs took it to the level of slowing down certain companies sites over others, but even that stance seems to have changed now as they appear to be considering allowing ISPs to hold the BBC to ransom forcing them to pay for the bandwidth they already pay their ISP for and their users already pay the threatening ISP for.
Britain is not unique in this respect in Europe either, it happens in many other countries here, I can only guess the submitter lives under a rock in his home country and now this has happened has woken up and started to take notice crying blue murder to the world. Unfortunately, the rest of us have been trying to fight the destruction of even the slightest hope for net neutrality in Europe for a few years now.
Isn't it great when people only cry out when something suddenly effects them? This is why things like this happen in the first place, because no one gives a shit about potential issues. If people across Europe had made a loud point about breaking of net neutrality earlier on it could've been stopped and wouldn't be creeping from country to country as it is now.
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I agree that it's a problem, but the solution is a greater degree of redistribution, not less redistribution. Lowering taxes on people who make over a million by $250,000 will not help any of the people we're talking about earn more money. And repealing with financial regulation won't help the bottom 50% in any way.
We need more money to invest in that bottom 50% so eventually the income tax rolls won't show a ridiculous inequality in wealth distribution.


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On November 10, 2011, President Obama announced another delay in rendering a decision on the Keystone Pipeline expansion. He stated that further research needed to be conducted for potentially rerouting the Nebraska section, one of the Heartland states affected by the pipeline expansion. Many consider this delay good news. However, there are several concerning factors that should be reviewed before waving the victory flag.
The Keystone expansion has been in the works since 2008, which means the Obama administration has had nearly its full term to reach a logical conclusion, free from the added distraction of a re-election campaign. This leaves many to wonder what data could be forthcoming that would countermand the scientific information already in evidence to warrant such prolongation. When tunnel vision is removed from this reported postponement, it becomes clear that this "delay" is likely nothing more than a political cool down tactic in an attempt to slake public opinion. Meanwhile, this deferred maneuver allows Canada to continue to do irreversible damage to the planet and animal life.
The proposed pipeline expansion, set to run through the agricultural Heartland of the United States is only one part of the problem. The other part resides in Canadas continuation to heat up the Arctic region through hazardous carbon extraction, irreversibly poisoning the water and land reserved for wildlife along the way. President Obamas preference for "no decision" over outright rejecting the scheme leaves America culpable to the ongoing destruction of protected wetlands, wild lands, and endangered wildlife affected by Tar Sands extraction, justified by both countries under the guise of a hypothetical deal.
TransCanadas swift response to the announcement was bone chilling. Within moments, the corporation stated that it was fully confident that the expansion would move forward. This Big Oil conglomeration is so confident that preparations are ongoing with no delay to the Tar Sands extraction in Canada. This dirty fuel scheme directly undermines the intention of international treaties to protect and preserve endangered species and their habitats. Aside from protected animals rapidly dying from exposure, the habitats for any future offspring are permanently damaged. Canada is willfully destroying wildlife habitats that once held viable water and land resources to gain access to dirty carbon for extraction, which affects the Earth similarly to that of skin cancer on people.
Americas continued complacency towards Tar Sands extraction violates the United States Pelly Amendment and Endangered Species Act, in addition to the international Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation. These actions were put into place to better regulate governmental responsibility to the planet and its inhabitants. Governmental bodies are expected to act in accordance with the law, not flout it. Globally, the Canada/America political climate infers that animal life is unnecessary for sustaining our own lives and that the decimation of promised sanctuaries for animal existence is an immaterial consequence.
Public opinion matters, as the government works for the people, not corporations, or their lobbyists. Publicly released impartial data concluded that this project would set in motion events that could not be corrected and has effectively demonstrated that this scheme simply goes too far. The White House administration and the American people have had the opportunity to listen to countless scientific experts, Nobel Laureates, Heads of State, philosophers, spiritual leaders, and global outcries. Unmistakably, with all of the overwhelming data presented the response given from the White House is weak and lacks authority.
This holdup does not provide a real solution for animal life throughout Americas Heartland territories, Canadas endangered habitat regions, or clean energy initiatives. Rather, it gives the appearance of triviality in matters concerning agricultural and livestock sustainability, as well as, masks the importance of implementing responsible energy resources. In addition, it shows that America is willing to be complicit in Canadas direct violation of International Wildlife Treaties. The Obama administration could and should take a firm stand utilizing the laws in place and the mounds of evidence with which it has already obtained. To do otherwise, leaves the world in stasis instead of actively addressing our collective responsibility to ecological stability.
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Here's a short post that gets you thinking about how knowledge moves through your organization via storytelling. The author then advocates putting a process in place to capture employee stories. Many of the comments left on the blog are helpful also.
Of course, the post brings into play the question of ethics -- who owns the employee's story, gaining permissions to share the story, etc. I'll post my ethics guide to business storytelling next.
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The Harlem Globetrotters is a unique American basketball team that plays only exhibition games. The team combines athleticism, theatre and comedy into its performances. Abe Seperstein founded it in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, as the Savoy Big Five. The team officially changed its name to The Harlem New York Globetrotters in 1927. Throughout the years the members of the team numbered over 520 players and they have played more than 20,000 exhibition games in 118 countries. The executive offices are currently in Phoenix, Arizona, and the team is owned by Shamrock Holdings.
The first star of the team was Albert Runt Pullins, who was an incredible dribbler and shooter. Soon Inman Jackson, who played center and had a very good sense of attractive performances and comedy, supported him. Together they marked the two main roles in the team - the showman and the dribbler.
During the first years The Harlem Globetrotters was a serious team that struggled in the World Professional Basketball Tournament. The team started with the exhibition matches in 1950. In 1977 Globetrotters celebrated the 50th season.
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In 1985 the team signed the first ever-female player - the Olympic Gold Medalist Lynette Woodard. In 2004 she was inducted into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Myths of racial profiling
This morning's Minneapolis Star Tribune carries a piece by liberal columnist Doug Grow on the latest study alleging racial profiling by Minnesota law enforcement agencies. Grow's column is "When will we stop profiling on our state's roads?" The column is based on a study released last week by the Council on Crime and Justice. The study compiles data from 65 Minnesota law enforcement agencies regarding traffic stops and searches during »
Donald O'Connor, RIP
Consummate song and dance man Donald O'Connor died today in a nursing home at age 78. Born into a circus/vaudeville family, O'Connor was in show business nearly his entire life. His most memorable film was Singin' In the Rain with Gene Kelly. I'd never seen it until a couple of years ago; it's a truly great movie with a contemporary sensibility. O'Connor's "Make 'em Laugh" dance number is deservedly a »
Grounds for Optimism
As most of you know, I've expressed some pessimistic feelings about the 2004 election a couple of times in the last week or so, for which I've been roundly denounced by a number of readers. Yesterday the Trunk pointed me to the most solid case for optimism I've seen in a long time, an assessment by Republican pollster Ed Goeas of the Tarrance Group. It is located here in PDF »
He's a better man than me
Whereas I skipped the latest Democratic presidential debate, my conservative cousin from New York watched much of it. He had this to say: "During the first half of yesterday's Democratic debate I noted two comparisons made by the candidates between George Bush and Herbert Hoover. Perhaps they were appealing to voters like my late father-in-law who called Republicans F—Hoovers. Unfortunately for Dick Gephardt the youngest voter who participated in the »
More Successes in Iraq
American troops discovered two weapons caches on a farm near Tikrit today, after receiving a tip from an Iraqi. One of the caches was huge, with a number of surface to air missiles, grenade launchers, a thousand pounds of plastic explosive and other munitions. It's a race against time, really; Baathist raids on American troops have no military significance but are directed entirely to a worldwide civilian audience–above all, of »
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Congratulations to Trunk for coining the word "Chaitred" to refer to the hating of President Bush by liberal partisans like Jonathan Chait. Our Jewish readers will know how to pronounce this word — think of the holiday Chanukah. In my posts on Chaitred, I argued that it is not irrational for liberal partisans to hate President Bush. I also predicted that our future presidents will likely be hated by partisans »
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Yale computer science professor and renaissance man David Gelernter has a thought-provoking article in the new issue of the Weekly Standard on the wisdom of joining issue with the leftist moralizers on the war: "Bush's rhetoric deficit." Gelernter invokes the history of the arguments over appeasement in the 1930's to make his case: "We misunderstand 1930s appeasers when we miss the fact that they cared about moral issues first and »
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No wonder even the Swedes are having second thoughts
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Our reticent administration
Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal on the mostly unreported successes of our efforts in Iraq. Henninger seems less disappointed by the mainstream media's unwillingness to report these successes than by the Bush adminiistration's failure to get the word out. Maybe my colleagues can help me understand this. Is the adminstration intimidated by its critics; does it perceive some advantage in holding its fire at this time; or is »
The Thirty-Year War. So Far.
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…are mimes and Greenpeace activists. Here is an appalling combination of the two: Greenpeace members in Chile "dramatize the possible effects on humans of PCBs, a chemical used in manufacturing that is harmful to human health and the environment in front of the Santiago subway office. Greenpeace targeted its protest against the Santiago subway operator, which it says uses large amounts of PCBs in transformers located in some of its »
Hard to kill
George Will suggests that "this may be remembered as the month when the European project began to collapse under the weight of its unrealism and undemocratic nature." He is referring to the fact that the "rarely turbulent Swedes" — "one of Europe's most deferential and state-broken people" — recently voted not to jettison their own currency in favor of the euro. This certainly represents a setback for the European project. »


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Born in 1974 in New York City, the youngest member of the Leonhart family started his trumpet playing at the age of 10, after stabs at keyboards, violin and drums (most of which he also still plays) starting at age seven. The trumpet prodigy was playing his first professional gigs by the time he was all of 12 and 13 years old, backing his father at The Blue Note, and by 16, he was the star pupil at New York's legendary Fiorello LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts (where the movie Fame was set), when no less than Wynton Marsalis personally invited the 16-year-old "serious swinger" to dinner to compare notes.
The following year, Leonhart became the then-youngest winner a Grammy award in his own right, for Outstanding High School Musician. That accolade made him a "Person of the Week" on ABC TV's "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," and got him a personality profile in The New York Times.
That fall, Leonhart was accepted on full scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music, then moving on Columbia University, where he "studied anything that interested him," especially literature and filmmaking, along with music. Also and even more fatefully during his Columbia years, a young singer named Jamie Obstbaumhis future wifefirst entered the picture. Before Leonhart even finished, he was signed to a contract at Sunnyside Records, where he released the avant-garde trumpet album, Aardvark Poses (1995). Then in 1996, Leonhart received the biggest break of his career when the 22-year-old was recruited to work with Steely Dan as they returned to live touring for the first time in over 20 years. The "ever enigmatic Michael Leonhart" will hopefully be returning to back Donald Fagen on tour later this year if all goes well.
Ahead of the release of his new CD on Truth and Soul Records (where he is known as the "house" trumpet player on studio recordings) with his longtime band, The Avramina 7, Seahorse and the Storyteller, Leonhart spoke with AAJ. He had just celebrated his 36th birthday May 5th with a CD release party hosted by Sean Lennon at The Mercury Lounge in Greenwich Village, and spoke about growing up in a family of artists and musicians, where he came late to the notion of becoming a professional musician.
"At one point I was really interested in neurology, like Oliver Sacks," he said. "When I read his books as a young teenager, I thought there was just something so poetic and mathematical about it, going deeper into the mind. I messed around with painting, and I always had an interest in filmmaking. But by the time I was 13, I knew how music could provide such a fantastical escape. Even when it feels bad, like a few times a year when my trumpet chops are utterly exhausted on a long gig, you don't know if you can make it but you just have to keep going... there's a rush about that. Where is fantasy and where is reality... drawing those lines..."
Leonhart has a reputation as being an athlete, something not uncommon since the trumpet is a very athletic instrument. Despite his busy schedule, he said he still plays a lot of sports.
"I think trumpet players push themselves very hardwe're almost all drawn to things that involve coordination and the machismo," he said. "My dad was always great at sports, and when I was young, I really got into sports. But by the time I was in high school and I got into music, I began to notice that the women I was interested in were infinitely more attracted to musicians than to jocks, so screw sports! But then I missed sports so I'd play on the weekends.
"Yet all it takes is spraining your finger once, and then you can't play, so I gave up on it for a while," he added. "But of course, I eventually got back into it again. Although I am only 5-foot-9, so I'm not exactly a giant on the field."
Growing up in a Jewish family in the heart of the New York arts scene, Leonhart's mother and father were both musicians and artists, and his older sister was a budding singeralmost parallel to the movie The Squid and the Whale (2005), about growing up in a novelist's home. Leonhart admits the movie "was really close to some" of his early memories and experiences.


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"Four-stair heating" at first seems wildly illogical. Unlike "forced-air heating," it would seem to warm only the first four steps up to the second floor. But I think it could qualify as an eggcorn if people are thinking it would heat four staircases: a whole five-story building.
The few instances indexed by Google seem to have been pulled off the Web, but there are people who discuss this as a known error.Another business person was writing ad copy about the nice building she had for lease in an older part of town. She proudly included the fact that it had "four-stair heating." When the ad was published, prospective customers asked to see this special kind of heating system. Four stairs! Sounds fancy! Much better than three stairs or just two! Whoops! Turns out the ad should have been worded to say: "forced-air heating."
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My parents used to say we had forced air heating, but I thought it was 'four stair heating'... so I would lay on the stairs trying to figure out which four.
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I also used to think that "forced-air" heating was "four-stair" heating, and I never could understand why we had it when we only lived in one story homes.
http://www.prophecyfellowship.org/showt … 245&page=2
Google suggests that the phrase has appeared in the past in a few recent real estate ads.
Paul Brians
Common Errors in English Usage
I like it, and it reminded me of one on a similar theme which I came across decades ago; there is a company called 'Baxi Bermuda' that makes fires and room heaters which were often referred to as backseat Bermudas suggesting, perhaps, a fire so warm that there is no need to sit close to it. To my surprise there is even a solitary ghit:
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I love citations which are testimonials of an eggcorn—the "I used to think…" kind; Those are the best ones.
I second the motion, Joe.
But it raises a question for me. We have so often given "it makes sense" as the main criterion separating eggcorns from non-eggcornish malaprops. How do we classify cases where the "I used to think" testimonial includes the confession "it didn't make sense"? E.g.
I would lay on the stairs trying to figure out which four.
I never could understand why we had it
[elsewhere on this site] I could not figure out why in the world the youth in asia … would want to kill old people.
These reshapings (judging from my own experience) can sit (or do they lie?) in your subconscious like a dislocated shoulder: you know quite surely what the pieces are but you are uncomfortably aware that they do not fit together right.
I'm wanting to say that this is probably a/the? major difference between eggcorns and mondegreens—mondegreens typically do not make wonderfully comfortable sense: why would King David be talking about "good Mrs. Murphy" following him at the end of the 23rd Psalm, and why would one lead pigeons to the flag? Yet they sometimes do fit in comfortably: Lady Mondegreen fits quite well into the ballad. In fact, Sylvia Wright suggested, in the same sentence where she christened them "mondegreens", that "The point about […] them, is that they are better than the original." I suspect she was including in the concept of "better" the notion of making better sense (at least to the mind of the mondegreener.)
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
I think David makes a good point: some of those "personal testimony" posts can provide better evidence for malaprop status. Though it can get complicated. The citation below is one of the "four-stair heating didn't make sense to me" reminiscences, but it manages to show that the logic brians imputes to the reshaping is possible for some speakers:
I also used to think that "forced-air" heating was "four-stair" heating, and I never could understand why we had it when we only lived in one story homes.
http://www.prophecyfellowship.org/showt … 245&page=2
I also wonder if some degree of blending with "four-star" (as in generals and/or hotels) might be involved. As somebody wrote above, "Sounds fancy!".
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-12-07 19:58:53)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Here's an alternative that would be quite logical if it were applied to a wood stove: forest air. Many of the hits referred to furnaces in holiday trailers, so that might be another link to the outdoors.
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it's the first weekend in june in wellsboro, PA. thought i'd see if anybody on here was planning on attending.
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i'm planning on going... apparently they have a charity rally that you can participate in friday so i might try to enter that...
either way, i will be there saturday for the first few stages... i have a gig that night though
im going to do the charity rally on friday me and my twin brother are skiping school that friday and doing the novice class, and me and my brother won a distance speed timed road rally race at our high school for a person senior project
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Cincinnati (31-24) won its third straight game on Saturday, beating the Astros 7-5. After consecutive losses to the Chicago Cubs, the Reds have bounced back to improve to 3-2 on a 10-day, nine-game road trip, their longest of the season.
Cincinnati has outscored its opponents 24-10 after being outscored 15-6 in the first two games of its trip.
The Reds' other road sweep this season came April 24-26 in a three-game set at Washington.
Bronson Arroyo pitched six strong innings and went 3-for-3 with a career-high four RBIs in Saturday's win. Ken Griffey Jr. added a solo home run, the 544th of his career, for the Reds, who got six hits, six RBIs and three runs from the last three batters in their order in the first six innings.
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