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Includes ARCALOCK Clamp and Barricade stop. Can be used independently as a barricade stop, or paired with an Atlas bipod.
Area 419 is always looking for ways to improve existing products when we are not developing new technologies. With the rapid growth in popularity of ARCA rails in precision rifle, we saw a need to improve this great dovetail technology to something that could be mechanically locked in place instead of just friction. If you have ever tried using a Barricade stop on an existing ARCA rail, you've probably also seen it slide under much pressure.
Introducing the ARCALOCK Dovetail Rail System
Clamp Features:
– Proprietary two-stage screw design.
- Clamping screw features two different thread pitches. The coarse 16tpi is used when no tension is on clamp, allowing rapid movement of the clamp vs others on the market. With high speed comes low torque though, so to counteract this as soon as the clamp sees tension it will switch to the 32tpi threads in the knob to give you extra torque when not using on an ARCALOCK rail.
- ~1/4 Turn releases the clamp from the detents on the ARCALOCK rail for movement
- One Turn releases clamp to be removed from rail
– Clamp directly bolts to Atlas Bipods using their factory hardware
– Barricade stop can either be standalone on the clamp using provided hardware, or sandwiched between an Atlas bipod. *Barricade stop does not work with Harris Bipods*
– Harris Bipod adapter available immediately, find it here:
– Future plans for a Picatinny rail section that can be bolted to the clamp for use with other bipods.
– Clamp is backwards compatible with standard ARCA rails by removing the two pins, and will still work this way to give you infinite sliding adjustment on the ARCALOCK rail.
– Moving side of clamp is dovetailed on both sides to prevent tilt
– Knob/Screw design prevents the clamp from being able to fall apart if you loosen it too far
– Clamp and knob machined in house from 6061-T6 Aluminum
– Screw is turned from 303 Stainless Steel
– Type III Hardcoat Black anodized clamp and Gold anodized knob
Rail Features:
– Universal rail design is the same footprint as our previous rail. (There were two revisions to the hole spacing, if you have a very early model your hole spacing may change)
– Serrated rail sides interface with our proprietary clamp design to mechanically lock it in place so no movement is possible. Serrations are not sharp, will not damage bags or your hands.
– 65 Locking positions available on the 14″ rail
– Rail is backwards compatible with standard Arca accessories, but will not be locking without our clamp
– Serrated fixed rear barricade stop is same as before, but now we include an extension plug to raise it by another 1/2″
– Rail is 14″ long giving you the entire length of the stock forend for attachments. The best part is, it still only weighs in at a paltry 5.6oz
– Made to the RRS 1.5″ Dovetail Standard, so you can be sure lever clamps will work
– No sharp edges. Every corner is radiused, and every edge is chamfered on the machine. This takes longer to make, but it is the only right way.
– While designed with Manners Composite Stocks in mind, this rail accommodates a multitude of rifle and stock configurations that have an accessible front action screw and some sort of front attachment point(s).
– Spacers for rifle stocks with non-flat forends are available HERE
– Designed to attach to the rifle up to 4 places for maximum strength and stability.
– Extends past the end of most rifle stocks, allowing a further forward bipod attachment, increasing stability.
– Type 3 Hard Coat anodized for additional durability.
– Made from 6061-T6 Aluminum
– Made in-house here in the USA from USA sourced Aluminum on USA made CNCs
– Rail comes with 2 Remington 700-style action screws of different lengths to fit the rail to the front action screw attachment point. Some trimming will likely be required.
– A 3/4″ paddle bit and drill press may be required for installation of tee-nuts, depending on current rifle configuration. Tee nuts and hardware included.
***Includes clamp only, no bipod or other pictured items


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FC 77 The Manor with Mac Griswold
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This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is Mac Griswold, author of the book The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island.
Bio – Mac Griswold
Mac Griswold is an acclaimed cultural landscape historian and writer. Rooted in a childhood spent exploring the castles and towers of lush north central New Jersey, Mac went on to study landscape design at the Radcliffe Seminars and horticulture at the New York Botanical Gardens.
She is the author of Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon: Landscape of the Inner Man, Pleasure of the Garden: Images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates, with Eleanor Weller.
She taught landscape history at Sarah Lawrence College, where she was a recipient of the Noble Chair in Art and Cultural History, and has lectured widely in America and Europe. A Guggenheim fellow, she has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Travel + Leisure.
You can learn more about Mac Griswold at her author website, www.macgriswold.com. Learn more about Sylvestor Manor from their website, www.sylvestermanor.org.
Book Summary
Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago.
In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large—twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide—had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations.
Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories.
Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, The Manor is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering.
Book Info
Title: The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Publisher: Farrar, Strouss & Giroux (2013)
Hardcover; 273 pages with end notes, a bibliography, an index as well as BxW photos.
The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island is available for purchase from Amazon.com and other booksellers.
The Interview
Mac Griswold and I discuss the 17th century origins of Nathaniel Sylvester and his wife Grizell Brinley who developed the Manor on Shelter Island, Long Island, New York. The home remains in the hands of descendants of the same family today. Slavery existed on Sylvester Manor as well as on Constant Plantation in Barbados, the estate of Nathaniel's brother Sylvester. Mac makes interesting use of a treasure trove of original records and we discuss what was available and how it helped her research for the book.
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- Carol Ubosi of Maryland
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Piriformis Syndrome
Piriformis syndrome: a muscle irritates sciatic nerve; causes pain deep in buttocks and often down the leg.
The piriformis is a muscle in the buttocks that stabilizies the sacroiliac joint. Piriformis syndrome is a neuromuscular disorder in which the piriformis irritates the sciatic nerve, causing pain in the buttocks. The piriformis overlaps the sciatic nerve, so pain often goes all the way down the leg, which can cause piriformis syndrome to be mistaken for sciatica. With piriformis syndrome, patients usually report pain deep in the buttocks. This pain is made worse by climbing stairs, performing squats, or sitting.
There are several possible causes of piriformis syndrome, including trauma, overload, and if the piriformis strains and overstresses the sciatic nerve. Sports and exercise like racing and cycling that use forward movements and posture can lead to piriformis syndrome, but so can sitting for long periods of time.
Symptoms and Diagnosis:
When the piriformis muscle tightens, it causes extra tension between the tendon and hip bone, causing discomfort or pain for the patient in the area of the hip bone. Pain, numbness and tingling in the buttocks may also be felt by the patient, worsening when he or she is sitting, running or stretching. Sciatic neuralgia, or pain spreading from the buttocks down the leg, may also occur due to the piriformis muscle putting stress on the sciatic nerve.
Diagnosis of piriformis syndrome is not easy because many of the symptoms of piriformis syndrome are also associated with other disorders. The physician will go over the patient's medical history, following with a physical exam. During the exam, the physician may reproduce sciatic muscle pain with the help of external rotation of the piriformis muscles in a procedure called the Pace Test. The physician may also use the Freiberg Test, which reproduces the pain with the help of forced internal rotation of the extended thigh. An X-ray, MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Neurography can help to confirm the diagnosis.
Treatment for piriformis syndrome starts with relaxing the piriformis muscle as much as possible. All the activities that cause or aggravate this disorder should be avoided. Other non-medical treatments include exercise, change in posture, and massage. Ice over the affected area for fifteen to twenty minutes at a time will be helpful in relieving pain. This should be done several times a day. Stretching of the hip muscles is not advised until the acute pain is gone.
The physician may prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs or natural treatments like proteolytic enzymes, such as bromelain. These enzymes are both natural and extremely beneficial with no side effects.
Risks and benefits
Failure to take preventive measures for any spinal condition may result in a further aggravated condition. Surgical measures for advanced cases may give relief from extremity pain. The risks involved with surgery are common - infection, blood loss, non-union, damage to nerves and spine - and some specific to your treatment. This material is intended to give the patient an overview of surgical procedures and treatments and is not intended to replace the advice and guidance of a physician. Always consult with your doctor about the particular risks and benefits of your treatment.


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The coming of the light changes everything. Did you see the sunrise this morning? Even if you didn't, it changed your life. The coming of the light transforms the whole world, including you and me. As the sun rises each day, we are infused (barring sickness or early alarm clocks) with new vision and energy, stirred to move with purpose and life.
The same is true of the spiritual dimensions of our beings. The coming of the Light changes everything.
The apostle and author John (assuming, with reason, that the two are the same person) liked to talk about light and darkness. He is the one, for instance, that noticed that Nicodemus visited Jesus in the dark while the Samaritan woman visited him in the light of the noonday sun. Guess who possessed spiritual sight?
One place where light makes all the difference is 1 John 2:7-11:
7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. 11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
This passage is full of short, simple words. Even the Greek is among the simplest in the NT. But, as is typical with John, easy words bear weighty thoughts.
I see at least three basic themes in these verses:
- A commandment to love one's brother
- A contrast between light and darkness
- An apparent contradiction between "old" and "new"
Let's start with the apparent contradiction first.
How can the command to love our brother be both old and new?
Some try to solve this dilemma in part by noting that the Greek word for "new" in verse 8 is καινὴν, not νέος. The latter often means new in time (i.e., recent), while the former can sometimes mean new in quality (i.e., unusual or superior). Thus we could perhaps theoretically translate verse 8 like this: "At the same time, it is a fresh commandment that I am writing to you." This would remove the tension between "old" and "new," for an "old" commandment could still be a "fresh," or perhaps even "better" one. One commentator suggests it is like a familiar symphony being performed anew by skilled musicians, or a familiar dish of food prepared by a culinary wizard.1
But, however true such images are, this solution doesn't work on a linguistic basis. Why? Because the same word καινὴν is also found, negatively, in verse 7: "I am writing you no new commandment." Unless John changes the meaning of καινὴν from one verse to the next (which is entirely possible but which then overturns the distinction between καινὴν and νέος), he is still apparently contradicting himself.
The simple English word "new" is a good translation. And the word clearly includes a chronological dimension, for "old" is amplified by the phrase "from the beginning." So we must not try to hide the appearance of contradiction: John is saying that the commandment to love is both old (known from the beginning) and, in some other and more recent sense, new.
(John, with his black-and-white language, is full of such apparent contradictions, prompting us to puzzle profitably over his words as over cunning proverbs.)
So, how is the love commandment old?
One possible answer is to note that the command to love our brother has existed since the oldest parts of Scripture. Jesus summarized the OT law with two great commandments:
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." (Matt. 22:37-39)
In doing so, Jesus cited two OT texts:
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. (Deut. 6:5)
You shall not hate your brother in your heart, …but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. (Lev. 19:17-18)
So the love commandment is as old because it is older than the Bible itself.
But John likely had something else in mind when he called the love commandment "old." The commandment was old to John's readers because they "had [it] from the beginning" (2:7). "From the beginning" is a phrase that John uses in multiple ways, but here it seems to refer to time when his readers first heard the gospel message:
Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. (1 John 2:24)
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. (1 John 3:11)
And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another. (2 John 1:5)
Isn't this true with us, too? I can't recall a time when I didn't know I was supposed to love my brother. Can you? "Love one another" is very old command—so old, in fact that we sometimes forget that it is also new.
So, how is the love commandment new?
Here we are reminded of the words of Jesus—as recorded by John:
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. (John 13:34)
What did Jesus mean when he called this commandment "new"? I think the answer lies in the phrase "just as I have loved you." Jesus provided us a new example of love, an example that renews the old commandment by giving us a picture of what our love should look like.
John says much the same thing in his first letter:
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. (1 John 3:16)
Jesus' example demonstrates a new magnitude of love:
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:12-13)
In fact, Jesus' love extended not only to his friends, but to his enemies—an almost unheard of thing, as Paul notes:
For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Rom. 5:7-8)
Jesus' coming also provides a new power for us to love. John is the apostle of new birth. He is the one who records Jesus' words, "You must be born again" (John 3:7). He said that all who received Jesus were given the right to become children of God, born of God (John 1:12-13). And in his first letter he says that being born of God gives us power to keep God's commandments, including the command to love one another:
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments... And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world… (1 John 5:2-4)
Being born of God gives us power to love. So does abiding in Christ, another theme emphasized by John. At the end of the famous passage about bearing fruit by abiding in the Vine, John records these words from Jesus:
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends... You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another. (from John 15:12-17)
Abiding in Christ, therefore, empowers us to bear the fruit of mutual love.
I have suggested three ways (there are surely more) in which the love commandment can properly be called new:
- Jesus provided a new example of love.
- Jesus' example demonstrated a new magnitude of love.
- Jesus' coming gives us new power to love.
John pictures all this newness by talking about light.
Listen again to the verse where John first calls the love commandment "new":
At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. (1 John 2:8)
There are grammatical challenges in interpreting this verse. (In the Greek, "which" is a neuter pronoun while "commandment" is female, so the relationship between clauses is debated.)
But the basic ideas seem clear: The love commandment is "true"—realized or actualized—in both Jesus and in those who belong to him. And it is realized because "the darkness is dissipating and the true light already shines."2 The coming of the light actualizes the commandment, thus making it new.
This language of light links back to the foundational theological thesis statement for whole letter:
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5)
How did John know that God is light? Because Jesus, God in the flesh, had come into the world. John is a first-person witness to the word/Word of life (1 John 1:1). The incarnation of the Word is the theme of the opening verses of John's letter (1 John 1:1-4), and also of the prologue of his Gospel:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. (John 1:1-9)
As John's poetic prologue continues, the identity of the "true light" becomes clear: It is Jesus.
"The true light." This is the same phrase that John uses in our original passage: "The darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining" (1 John 2:8). Jesus, God in the flesh, is "already shining"!
Putting it all together, here is what John is saying: The coming of Jesus, the light of the world (cf. John 8:12), makes the commandment true and thus new.
There is much more to see about the nature of light and darkness in John's writings. Light suggests divine revelation, human exposure, honesty, spiritual sight, and holiness. Light exposes our hearts (John 3:19-21; John 9:39-41) and will transform us into "sons of light" if we believe in it (John 12:35-36).
We have enough light to ask ourselves some questions:
Am I loving my brother in a way that demonstrates that the Light has come into the world? Or am I still living as if the world is abandoned in darkness?
Can others see, by the way I love, that I have been transformed by the Light?
Am I imitating Jesus' new example of love? Does my love mirror his new magnitude of love, or is it no bigger than the love of non-Christians around me? Am I experiencing new power to love? (Or is there little evidence that I am abiding in Christ or even born again?)
In sum, is the command to love my brother a new commandment for me? Or is it just an old, powerless, forgettable and forgotten one?
I've tried in this post to express the love command in something of its end-of-the-age freshness. I have also tried to demonstrate some techniques of good exegesis:
- Identifying and focusing on key words and themes.
- Tracing these key words and themes beyond the immediate text, giving priority to (a) the rest of the same book of the Bible and then (b) to other books by the same author, without importing meanings from more distant contexts.
- Teasing out apparent contradictions, without denying anything Scripture affirms.
- Looking for how Christ, the ultimate subject of Scripture, is key to the meaning of the text.
Now it is your turn. What insights do you think John intended to communicate? How has the coming of the Light changed the way you love your brother? Share your thoughts in the comments below.


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LED Matrix Modules The Nexus Machines modules used are an assembly having 64 LED's (8x8 matrix) set in moulded plastic, with a PCB mounted on the back containing a Maxim MAX7219 display driver chip. For evaluation purposes we purchased 2 of the large modules (B64CDM8-R, 60mm square) with Red LED's, and one of the medium-sized modules (B48CDM8-G, 38mm square) with Green LED's. I could have made an LED display matrix using discrete LED's, however for the size of the future project the assembly and connection of so many discrete LED's, not to mention electronics for driving them, would be formiddable. The modules have 5 connection pins on either side and the moulded cases have slots to enable stacking. In this way it is easy to cascade several modules to create a much larger matrix. The modules are available from RS components (stock number 321-0991), or more cheaply from Farnell (stock number 301-4058), or EVEN more cheaply (in large quantities) direct from Nexus Machines themselves. Circuit Diagram Because all the hard work is taken care of my the MAX7219 on the PCB of the modules, the amount of wiring required is minimal! This diagram shows the connections between modules, and the pin numbers on the standard 25-pin PC parallel port connector. I am using a packaged power supply, which is capable of supplying +5V at the required 1A current (maximum current per module with all LED's on at maximum brightness is specified as 330mA). This diagram also shows the configuration of the jumpers on the modules, which determine which direction the data flows between cascaded modules. This configuration is the reverse of the default factory setting. ConstructionThe three modules are glued to a small piece of pine wood left over from my Nixie Clock. The front panel is a neutral display filter from RS components (stock number 588-746). A red display filter would have given higher brightness for the red modules but blocked the green modules completely. The display filter is sawn to size using a hacksaw and there is plenty left over from the 220mm x 130mm sheet to cut triangular side-pieces to bracket the front panel rigidly to the base. For this simple demonstration project no proper enclosure is used. Connections to the computer parallel port are via a 5-way ribbon cable, glued to the wooden base to prevent strain on the solder connections. The modules are wired together in series, in the opposite direction to the default configuration of the modules, which means the blue direction jumpers must be reversed. SoftwareControlling the PC parallel port on Windows NT isn't easy because they have protected the parallel port. Fortunately I found a shareware library TVicHW32 which takes care of all the Windows NT unpleasantness and allows direct access to the PC hardware under Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. My demo application drives one data pin of the parallel port, and two of the control pins, to behave like a serial SPI interface.
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Shock rock pioneer Alice Cooper is searching for evidence of vampires. Not the blood-sucking variety as you might fairly assume, but a group of friends and music industry alums that he used to hang out with back in rock's Hollywood heyday.
In the '70s, Cooper would regularly hold court at the prestigious Rainbow Bar on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. After watching the documentary of his life, 'Super Duper Alice Cooper,' the singer has taken to his website and social media with a plea to help him with a project about his old drinking buddies, who were dubbed the Hollywood Vampires. This will presumably be released in conjunction with his long-gestating covers record, which is a tribute to the Hollywood Vampires.
"Where were you in the early '70s?" he asked. "I decided that I'd like to tell the story of the Hollywood Vampires, my drinking club that used to meet in the loft of the Rainbow Bar on Sunset Blvd. Notable members were myself, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Micky Dolenz & Keith Moon, with regular drop-in's from just about everyone you could imagine."
To help achieve his goal, Cooper is imploring fans to submit, "photos, stories, artifacts and witnesses from this place in rock history." He's also asking for people to share encounters with Vampires on Twitter using the #HollywoodVampires.
In the meantime, the singer is keeping himself quite busy. This summer he's hitting the road -- new guitarist in tow -- with Motley Crue in support of their final tour. He also signed a deal to be featured in a new graphic novel series.


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CXLIV Bhishma said, In one of the branches of that tree, a pigeon with beautiful feathers, O king, lived for many years with his family. That morning his wife had gone out in search of food but had not yet returned.
Seeing the night had come and his wife still unreturned, the bird began to indulge in lamentations: Oh, great has been the storm and painful the shower that came today! Alas, thou has not yet returned, O dear wife! Woe is on me, what can be the cause that she has not yet comeback to us? Is every thing right with that dear spouse of mine in the forest? Separated from her, this my home appears to me empty! A house-holder's home, even if filled with sons and grandsons and daughters-in-law and servants, is regarded empty if destitute of the housewife. One's house is not one's home; one's wife only is one's home. A house without the wife is as desolate as the wilderness. If that dear wife of mine, of eyes fringed with red, of variegated plumes, and of sweet voice, does not come back today, my life itself will cease to be of any value. Of excellent vows, she never eats before I eat, and never bathes before I bathe.
She never sits before I sit down, and never lies before I lie down. She rejoices if I rejoice, and becomes sorry when I am sorry. When I am away she becomes cheerless, and when I am angry she ceases not to speak sweetly. Ever devoted to her lord and ever relying upon her lord, she was ever employed in doing what was agreeable to and beneficial for her lord. Worthy of praise is that person on earth who own such a spouse. That amiable creature knows that I am fatigued and hungry. Devoted to me and constant in her love, my famous spouse is exceedingly sweet-tempered and worships me devoutly. Even the foot of a tree is one's home if one lives there with one's spouse as a companion. Without one's spouse, a very palace is truly a desolate wilderness. One's spouse is one's associate in all one's acts of Virtue, Profit and Pleasure.
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GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The issue of whether Iran will be allowed to enrich uranium may create an impasse in negotiations over the country's nuclear program, officials said Thursday.
Uranium enrichment is at the center of talks in Geneva, Switzerland, between representatives of the United States, its diplomatic partners and Iran, CNN reported Thursday.
Michael Mann, a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said enrichment "and all things that lead from that" was the primary issue negotiators hoped to deal with.
Iran responded quickly.
"Enrichment is our red line and its suspension is unacceptable," the Iranian state-run Fars News Agency said in a tweet it attributed to Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, Iran's lead negotiator.
Araqchi did not respond later when asked about the issue of uranium enrichment.
Mann said the talks were entering "a serious phase."
Iran has processed about 10 metric tons (11 tons) of uranium with 5 percent purity, the level needed for nuclear power plants, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in August.
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This chapter discusses. It covers the following topics:
- Understanding Path Control
- Implementing Path Control Using Offset Lists
- Implementing Path Control Using Cisco IOS IP SLAs
- Implementing Path Control Using Policy-Based Routing
- Advanced Path Control Tools
This chapter starts by discussing path control fundamentals. Three tools for path control are detailed: offset lists, Cisco IOS IP service level agreements (SLAs), and policy-based routing (PBR). The chapter concludes with a discussion of advanced path control tools.
Understanding Path Control
This section introduces path control performance issues and introduces the tools available to control path selection.
Assessing Path Control Network Performance
This chapter is concerned with controlling the path that traffic takes through a network. In some cases, there might be only one way for traffic to go. However, many networks include redundant paths, by having redundant devices or redundant links. In these cases, the network administrator may want to control which way certain traffic flows.
The choice of routing protocol or routing protocols used in a network is one factor in defining how paths are selected; for example, different administrative distances, metrics, and convergence times may result in different paths being selected. As described in Chapter 4, "Manipulating Routing Updates," when multiple routing protocols are implemented, inefficient routing may result. For example, two-way multipoint redistribution requires careful planning and implementation to ensure that traffic travels the optimal way, and that there are no routing loops.
When a network includes redundancy, other considerations include the following:
- Resiliency—Having redundancy does not guarantee resiliency, the ability to maintain an acceptable level of service when faults occur. For example, having redundant links between two sites does not automatically result in the backup link being used if the primary link fails. Configuration is necessary to implement failover, and to use the backup link for load sharing if that is desired. (Even if failover is configured correctly, the redundant link may not operate when needed; for example, if it uses the same physical infrastructure as the primary link.)
- Availability—The time required for a routing protocol to learn about a backup path when a primary link fails is the convergence time. If the convergence time is relatively long, some applications may time out. Thus, using a fast-converging routing protocol, and tuning parameters to ensure that it does converge fast, is crucial for high-availability networks.
- Adaptability—The network can also be configured to adapt to changing conditions. For example, a redundant path could be brought up and used when the primary path becomes congested, not just when it fails.
- Performance—Network performance can be improved by tuning routers to load share across multiple links, making more efficient use of the bandwidth. For example, route advertisements for specific prefixes can be advertised on one link to change the balance of bandwidth use relative to other links.
- Support for network and application services—More advanced path control solutions involve adjusting routing for specific services, such as security, optimization, and quality of service (QoS). For example, to optimize traffic via a Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Central Manager, traffic must be directed to flow through the Cisco WAAS device.
- Predictability—The path control solution implemented should derive from an overall strategy, so that the results are deterministic and predictable. For example, traffic is bidirectional by nature; for every packet that goes out, a reply typically must come back. When configuring a routing protocol to deploy a path control strategy, consider both upstream and downstream traffic. For example, changing or tuning downstream advertisements toward a server farm could adversely affect upstream traffic flows from the server farm.
Asymmetric traffic—Asymmetric traffic, traffic that flows one on path in one direction and on a different path in the opposite direction, occurs in many networks that have redundant paths. Asymmetry, far from being a negative trait, is often desirable network trait, because it uses available bandwidth effectively, such as on an Internet connection on which downstream traffic may require higher bandwidth than upstream traffic. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) includes a good set of tools to control traffic in both directions on an Internet connection. However, in most routing protocols, there are no specific tools to control traffic direction.
In a part of a network that includes devices or services such as stateful firewalls, Network Address Translation (NAT) devices, and voice traffic, which require symmetrical routing, traffic symmetry must be enforced or the services must be tuned to accommodate asymmetry. For example, asymmetry in voice networks may introduce jitter and QoS issues. In other areas of the network, though, it might be inefficient and undesirable to try to engineer artificial symmetry.
Optimal routing in terms of network utilization within specific requirements is typically a design goal. Those requirements should be considered within the context of the applications in use, the user experience, and a comprehensive set of performance parameters. These parameters include delay, bandwidth utilization, jitter, availability, and overall application performance. Even if the routing table on the routers includes the necessary prefixes, applications might still fail if the performance requirements are not met.
Path Control Tools
Unfortunately there is not a "one-command" solution to implement path control. Instead, many tools are available.
Path control tools include the following:
A good addressing design: A good design should include summarizable address blocks and classless interdomain routing (CIDR) that align with the physical topology. These aspects are key to a stable network. As discussed in Chapter 1, "Routing Services," summarization hides addressing details, isolates routing issues, and defines failure domains. Controlling summarization in strategic areas of the network affects path control. For example, in the network in Figure 5-1, the 10.0.0.0/8 summary is advertised from both routers, and the more specific route for 10.1.80.0/24 is advertised from the router on the right, providing direct access to that subnet. The resulting traffic flows are deterministic and more resilient.
Figure 5-1 Advertising Summaries and More-Specific Routes Affects Traffic Flow.
Redistribution and other routing protocol characteristics—The capabilities of the routing protocol used can help implement a path control strategy more effectively, as summarized in Table 5-1. For example, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) automatically summarizes on network boundaries, and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) can summarize only on Area Border Routers (ABRs) and Autonomous System Boundary Routers (ASBRs). Metrics can be changed and external routes can be tagged during redistribution between protocols. When multiple routing protocols are used, routes must be redistributed between them carefully, as detailed in Chapter 4.
Table 5-1. Routing Protocol Characteristics
Route marking
Tags for external routes can be added at distribution points.
Tags for all routes can be configured.
Can be changed for external routes at redistribution points.
Can be set using route maps.
Next hop
Can be changed for external routes at redistribution points.
Can be set for all routes under various conditions.
Summary information can be filtered at ABRs and ASBRs.
Can be configured anywhere for any routes.
Route summarization
Can be configured only on ABRs and ASBRs.
Can be configured anywhere for any routes. Autosummarization is on by default.1
Unequal-cost load balancing
Not available.
Available, with variance command.
- Passive interfaces—As also described in Chapter 4, passive interfaces prevent a routing protocol's routing updates from being sent through the specified router interface.
Other tools include the following:
- Distribute lists
- Prefix lists
- Administrative distance
- Route maps
- Route tagging
- Offset lists
- Cisco IOS IP SLAs
The first five of these tools were covered in Chapter 4; the others are the focus of the rest of this chapter.
You can use all of these tools as part of an integrated strategy to implement path control, as illustrated in Figure 5-2. It is important to have a strategy before implementing specific path control tools and technologies.
Figure 5-2 Path Control Requires an Integrated Strategy.
For example, filters allow specific control of routing updates and provide security mechanisms to hide specific destinations. In contrast, PBR can bypass the routing table and define a path based on static or dynamic information, forcing traffic to specific destinations such as security appliances, NAT devices, and WAN optimization elements.
As another example, by controlling and filtering routing updates in one direction, you can affect traffic flowing in the opposite direction and prevent that traffic from reaching those destinations
By tagging routes by using route maps, you can define priorities for specific destinations along multiple paths, allowing those paths to be used in a deterministic order. For example, on an Internet connection when multiple exit points exist out of a network, route maps can be used to tag and define priorities for specific destinations.


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We'll walk you through everything you need to know about screening questions—from the benefits they offer your survey to the best practices in writing them. You can skip to whatever part you'd like, but if you want a brief refresher on screening questions, check out our first section!
Screening questions (also known as "screeners") either qualify or disqualify respondents from taking your survey—depending on how they answer. They let you decide who takes your survey based on the target audience you want to hear from.
To help visualize what this looks like on an actual survey, let's review an example:
Imagine you work at a pet food company that offers food for dogs.
Say you want feedback on a new product that's made for small and medium-sized dogs. This means you only want to survey small and medium dog owners. You can ask the following survey-screening question:
"How would you describe the size of your dog?"
Respondents who answer "Large" or "Extra Large" aren't a good match for your business. So you'd disqualify them from your survey while the rest of your respondents go on to the next page.
Now that you know what screening questions are and how they can look, let's explore the different reasons for using them.
Learn how to use screening questions to reach your ideal market research respondents.
Here are 6 key reasons for using a survey-screening question:
1) It helps you reach the people you want to survey.
Screening questions help to ensure that respondents meet your target specifications.
For example, if you want to survey pet owners who've purchased pet food in the past 6 months, you'd ask a qualifying question around the last time they purchased pet food.
Also, if you're sending a survey through a market research panel, like SurveyMonkey Audience, some of the exact targeting options you're looking for may not be available. Screening question(s) can help bridge the gap and confirm that respondents meet all of your criteria.
2) It reduces your survey costs.
When you pay for a panel of respondents, you'll be charged, in part, by the number of people who take your survey.
A screening question filters out respondents whose responses are relatively less valuable while helping you receive responses from those you value most. As you aren't charged for disqualified responses when using SurveyMonkey Audience, you're getting the best bang for your buck.
3) It helps you analyze the response data, faster.
Receiving responses directly from your target audiences saves you from performing extra steps to filter out unqualified responses. You'll see valuable high-level responses by default, and you can use filters to discover in-depth insights.
4) It contributes to eliminating respondent bias.
People who take surveys aren't necessarily qualified to do so. They may not have enough knowledge in the topic, or have a background that pressures them to answer in a certain way (e.g. they work in the industry you're surveying about). Screening questions remove these individuals from taking your survey, and put a higher standard on the quality of responses you receive.
5) It improves the respondent experience.
Put yourself in your respondents' shoes. If you knew little to nothing about a survey topic, would you still want to take the survey? Probably not. Screening questions help respondents take surveys that are relevant and worth their time.
6) It allows you to confirm your audience.
People's personal and professional situations can drastically change over time. Maybe they've gotten married and had a child. Or perhaps they've changed jobs.
Use screening questions to confirm that your targeting criteria is up to date. And if recent changes lead a respondent to no longer match your target audience specifications? Then they won't take your survey.
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When it comes to deciding on the type of screener to use, there are two popular types to choose from: Behavioral and industry-specific.
Behavioral screeners are just how they sound. They limit the survey to people who behave a certain way—whether it's related to how they spend their time or money.
A behavioral screener can look as follows:
"How often do you watch TV?"
Where if you're only interested in surveying devoted TV watchers, you can choose to disqualify respondents who select "Never" or "Less than once per week."
Meanwhile, industry-specific screeners filter out respondents who may be biased in your brand research. This can be the result of respondents working in the same industry you're doing research in or being close to someone who does. If this is the case, they might be influenced to answer in a certain way.
As an example, let's assume you want to compare your pet store to competitors. Your industry-specific screener can be:
"Do you or anyone in your family work in the following industries?"
To prevent any bias, you disqualify respondents who select the Pet food option.
As you look at both types, you'll probably conclude that you need to focus on using behavioral screeners. But keep an open mind to using an industry screener as it can help you keep the responses unbiased.
Know which screening questions to ask but don't have the contacts to ask them to? Use SurveyMonkey Audience to access our consumer panel and survey your target market.
Sold on using screeners? Before you do, let's talk about how to use them in your survey.
To simplify our tips, we'll use dos and don'ts:
Do put all screening questions at the very beginning of your survey. Otherwise, you'll take more of the respondents' time than you need to and collect responses from people you don't want taking the survey.
Do place a page break right after your last screening question to effectively disqualify and qualify respondents.
Do include enough screeners. It can be worth using more than one screening question if it leads to improving the quality of your responses.
Do be specific. If you keep the screening question(s) too general, you might let more respondents take the survey than you'd like.
Don't use "Yes" and "No" as answer options. These choices tempt respondents to answer the question less thoughtfully. Also, the acquiescence bias (tendency to answer in the affirmative to appear more agreeable) influences respondents to answer dishonestly.
Don't write leading questions, such as: "Given our recent award in providing high value products, what do you think of our pet food prices?" Adding information in the question that guides or even pressures respondents to answer a certain way can bias their response.
Don't make respondents think too hard. Respondents don't have a perfect memory or the time and patience to recall something. Be reasonable with your ask and when in doubt, err on the side of using a broader question.
Don't include industry slang. You don't want respondents to feel stupid and answer your screeners incorrectly. If you decide to use any slang or industry-specific terminology, make sure to define it in the question.
Finally, consider the disqualifying logic in your screeners. If a respondent doesn't qualify to take your survey, do you want to kick them out without learning anything new about them?
Since you already have their attention, you can use the opportunity to learn more about them—for free. To do so, apply either Question Skip Logic (when using one screener) or Advanced Branching (when using multiple screeners) to the page your screening questions are on. If they get disqualified, you wouldn't boot them to the disqualification page immediately, but send them to a page that asks a few questions, instead. Just remember to keep the questions on the page relatively broad so that they're comfortable answering them, and apply Page Skip Logic to it so that respondents get disqualified afterwards.
Here's an illustration of how this works:
Before launching your survey, consider its incidence rate.
The incidence rate is the percentage of respondents who pass your screening question(s) and go on to take your survey.
To help clarify the rate, let's walk through a quick example for calculating it:
Say 100 respondents take your survey. 70 pass your screeners while 30 are disqualified. This gives you a 70/100 x 100 = 70% incidence rate.
So why does the incidence rate matter? We use it to calculate the amount of people to send to your survey in order to give you the number of qualified respondents you need. If your guess is too high, we'll send less people to take your survey and you'll collect fewer responses than you ordered. And if your guess is too low, we'll send more people to take your survey and you'll collect more responses than you ordered.
Let's visualize this using numbers:
Assume you're hoping to collect responses from 100 people who own small or medium-sized dogs.
You estimated a 50% incidence rate but it's actually 25%. So you overestimated it by 25 percentage points. This means we served your survey to 100/.50 = 200 people but only 50 qualified to take your survey. So you fall 50 completes short of your goal.
Now say that you estimated a 25% incidence rate but it's actually 50%. So you underestimated it by 25 percentage points. In this case, we served your survey to 100/.25 = 400 people and 200 qualified to take your survey.
Note: When surveying a panel in the U.S., there's a chance that underestimating your incidence rate results in receiving more completes than you asked. But when surveying an audience internationally, we stop collecting responses once we reach your desired number of completes.
To make an educated guess on your incidence rate, there are a few things you can do:
For more help on estimating your incidence rate, check out the tips in this article. And if you're ready to add your screening questions and set your incidence rate, see how you can do both on SurveyMonkey Audience:
Say you've collected survey responses and are excited to analyze them!
As you look at the number of responses you've collected, keep in mind the difference between total responses and complete responses. Total responses include every person who took your survey—even the ones that were disqualified by your screening questions; complete responses only include the people who qualified for your survey and reached the end, so this number will be lower.
When sharing the sample size of responses from non-screening questions, use the complete responses figure. Otherwise, you'd be misrepresenting your survey data.
To prevent including disqualified respondents in your sample size, filter your survey by completeness and select, "Complete responses." Your resulting data will only include qualified completes.
Knowing when and how to use screeners can help you get the most out of your survey. They let you reach the right audience, collect more valuable responses, and analyze your responses more quickly—all the while giving survey takers a better experience.
Ready to use screeners? Create your survey today!


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The Poison Papers
100,000 Pages of Chemical Industry Secrets Gathered Dust in an Oregon Barn for Decades "" Until Now
From The Intercept
July 27 2017, 12:43� a.m.
For decades, some of the dirtiest, darkest secrets of the chemical industry have been kept in Carol Van Strum"�s barn. Creaky, damp, and prowled by the occasional black bear, the listing, 80-year-old structure in rural Oregon housed more than 100,000 pages of documents obtained through legal discovery in lawsuits against Dow, Monsanto, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, the Air Force, and pulp and paper companies, among others.
As of today, those documents and others that have been collected by environmental activists will be publicly available through a project called the Poison Papers. Together, the library contains more than 200,000 pages of information and "lays out a 40-year history of deceit and collusion involving the chemical industry and the regulatory agencies that were supposed to be protecting human health and the environment,"� said Peter von Stackelberg, a journalist who along with the Center for Media and Democracy� and the Bioscience Resource� Project helped put the collection online.
Van Strum didn"�t set out to be the repository for the people"�s pushback against the chemical industry. She moved to a house in the Siuslaw National Forest in 1974 to live a simple life. But soon after she arrived, she realized the Forest Service was spraying her area with an herbicide called 2,4,5-T "" on one occasion, directly dousing her four children with it as they fished by the river.
The chemical was one of two active ingredients in Agent Orange, which the U.S. military had stopped using in Vietnam after public outcry about the fact that it caused cancer, birth defects, and serious harms to people, animals, and the environment. But in the U.S., the Forest Service continued to use both 2,4,5-T and the other herbicide in Agent Orange, 2,4-D, to kill weeds. (Timber was "" and in some places� still is "" harvested from the national forest and sold.) Between 1972 and 1977, the Forest Service sprayed 20,000 pounds of 2,4,5-T in the 1,600-square-mile area that included Van Strum"�s house and the nearby town of Alsea.
As in Vietnam, the chemicals hurt people and animals in Oregon, as well as the plants that were their target. Immediately after they were sprayed, Van Strum"�s children developed nosebleeds, bloody diarrhea, and headaches, and many of their neighbors fell sick, too. Several women who lived in the area had miscarriages shortly after incidents of spraying. Locals described� finding animals that had died or had bizarre deformities "" ducks with backward-facing feet, birds with misshapen beaks, and blinded elk; cats and dogs that had been exposed began bleeding from their eyes and ears. At a community meeting, residents decided to write to the Forest Service detailing the effects of the spraying they had witnessed.
"We thought that if they knew what had happened to us, they wouldn"�t do it anymore,"� Van Strum said recently, before erupting into one of the many bursts of laughter that punctuate her conversation. We were sitting not far from the river where her children played more than 40 years ago, and her property remained much as it was back when the Forest Service first sprayed them with the herbicide. A mountain covered with alder and maple trees rose up across from her home, just as it did then, and the same monkey puzzle tree that was there when she moved in still shaded her dirt driveway.
But Van Strum, now 76, is much changed from the young woman who politely asked that the federal agency stop spraying many years ago. After the Forest Service refused their request to stop using the herbicides, she and her neighbors filed a suit that led to a temporary ban on 2,4,5-T in their area in 1977 and, ultimately, to a total stop to the use of the chemical in 1983.
For Van Strum, the suit was also the beginning of lifetime of battling the chemical industry. The lawyer who had taken their case offered a reduced fee in exchange for Van Strum"�s unpaid research assistance. And she found she had a knack for poring over and parsing documents and keeping track of huge volumes of information. Van Strum provided guidance to others filing suit over spraying in national forests and helped filed another case that pointed out� that the EPA"�s registration of 2,4-D and other pesticides was based on fraudulent data from a company called Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories. That case led to a decision, in 1983, to stop all aerial herbicide spraying by the Forest Service.
"We didn"�t think of ourselves as environmentalists, that wasn"�t even a word back then,"� Van Strum said. "We just didn"�t want to be poisoned."�
Still, Van Strum soon found herself helping with a string of suits filed by people who had been hurt by pesticides and other chemicals. "People would call up and say, "�Do you have such and such?"� And I"�d go clawing through my boxes,"� said Van Strum, who often wound up acquiring new documents through these requests "" and storing those, too, in her barn.
Along the way, she amassed disturbing evidence about the dangers of industrial chemicals "" and the practices of the companies that make them. Two documents, for instance, detailed experiments that Dow contracted a University of Pennsylvania dermatologist to conduct on prisoners in the 1960s to show the effects of TCDD, a particularly toxic contaminant found in 2,4,5-T.� Another� document,� from 1985, showed that Monsanto had sold a chemical that was tainted with TCDD to the makers of Lysol, who, apparently unaware of its toxicity, used it as an ingredient in their disinfectant spray for 23 years. Yet another, from 1990, detailed the EPA policy of allowing the use of hazardous waste as inert ingredients in pesticides and other products under certain circumstances.
There were limits to what Van Strum could prove through her persistent data collection. The EPA had undertaken a study of the relationship between herbicide exposure and miscarriages and had taken tissue samples from water, animals, a miscarried fetus, and a baby born without a brain in the area. The EPA never released the full results of the "Alsea study,"� as it was called, and insisted it had lost many of them. But a lab chemist provided Van Strum with what he said was the analysis of the test results he had been hired to do for the EPA, which showed the samples from water, various animals, and "products of conception"� were significantly contaminated with TCDD.
When confronted, the EPA claimed there had been a mix-up and that the samples were from another area. Van Strum filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the results and, for years, battled in court to get to the bottom of what happened. Though the EPA provided more than 34,000 pages in response to her request (which Van Strum carefully numbered and stored in her barn), the agency never released all the results of the study or fully explained what had happened to them or where the contaminated samples had been taken. And eventually, Van Strum gave up.� The EPA declined to comment for this story.
She had to make peace with not fully understanding a personal tragedy, too. In 1977, her house burned to the ground and her four children died in the fire. Firefighters who came to the scene said the fact that the whole house had burned so quickly pointed to the possibility of arson. But an investigation of the causes of the fire was never completed.
Van Strum suspected some of her opponents might� have set the fire. It was a time of intense conflict between local activists and employees of timber companies, chemical manufacturers, and government agencies over the spraying of herbicides. A group of angry residents in the area near Van Strum"�s home had destroyed a Forest Service helicopter that had been used for spraying. And, on one occasion, Van Strum had come home to find some of the defenders of the herbicides she was attacking in court on her property.
"I"�ve accepted that I"�ll never really know"� what happened, said Van Strum, who never rebuilt her house and now lives in an outbuilding next to the cleared site where it once stood.
But her� commitment to the battle against toxic chemicals survived the ordeal. "If it was intentional, it was the worst thing that ever happened to me,"� she said. "After that, there was nothing that could make me stop."�
Still, after all these years, Van Strum felt it was time to pass on her collection of documents, some of which pertain to battles that are still being waged, so "others can take up the fight."� And the seeds of many of the fights over chemicals going on today can be tied to the documents that sat in her barn. The Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories scandal is central in litigation over the carcinogenicity of Monsanto"�s Roundup, for instance. And 2,4-D, the other active ingredient in Agent Orange, is still in use.
Meanwhile, private timber companies continue to use both 2,4-D and Roundup widely, though not in the national forest. Van Strum has been part of an effort to ban aerial pesticide spraying in the county, and is speaking on behalf of the local ecosystem in a related lawsuit.
"I get to play the Lorax,"� Van Strum said. "It"�s going to be fun."�
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Coexistence of packets between 802.11 data and Bluetooth data is possibly one of the most challenging tasks for wireless device developers. Knowing precise packet timing, size, location, frequency of each and every packet is essential to successfully developing and debugging devices using both technologies.
To see 802.11 packets together with Bluetooth (classic and low energy) packets you need to connect the ComProbe 802.11 analyzer together with the Frontline Sodera or BPA 600 analyzer via ProbeSyncTM, a Frontline technology that allows two or more analyzers to share a common clock. Once connected you can see both technology together in one coexistence view.
The ComProbe 802.11 Protocol Analyzer includes unique characteristics that make viewing 801.11 packets and Bluetooth packets together in a single coexistence view possible. These are:
In the coexistence view you can see both 802.11 and Bluetooth packets together and quickly identify / troubleshoot issues - live.
The ComProbe 802.11 analyzer replaces Frontline's previous 802.11 "AirPCap" add-on. Although the old, like the new works with both FTS4BT (Bluetooth v3.0 +HS) and ComProbe BPA 500 (Bluetooth v4.0 +HS) there have been dramatic improvements including the data buffer size, time-stamp precision, and use of ProbeSync technology. While ComProbe 802.11 will continue to work with FTS4BT, there is no way to share a clock with it and will therefore not be as accurate using coexistence view. To take advantage of the full potential of the new ComProbe 802.11 protocol analyzer it should be used in conjunction with the BPA 600 Dual Mode Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer .


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Bakery On Main releases its new gluten-free, wheat-free, high fiber granola line, Fiber Power. The product comes in cinnamon raisin and triple berry flavors. It also contains nine grams of fiber per half-cup serving, and is casein and dairy free, trans fat free, cholesterol free, low sodium, low in saturated fat, all natural and Kosher.
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Published in WholeFoods Magazine, March 2010