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We get asked quite often what is the best Cisco switch I can get for my CCNA lab. That can be somewhat of a tricky question as there are a lot of variables that can come into play. At the surface it seems like an easy, very straightforward question. But as you dig into it, there are a lot of factors that go into how you build your Cisco CCNA lab and what Cisco switches you will use in the lab.
We will cover the major considerations which are price, features and then number of switches for your CCNA lab.
So probably the biggest consideration on what type of Cisco switch(es) you will have in your CCNA lab is what your budget is. Cisco CCNA lab switches can run the gamut from about $35 at the time of this writing for a Cisco 2950 switch to roughly $230 for a Cisco 3560 switch. So let's take a look at each switch you will probably consider for your CCNA lab from a price perspective.
As I already mentioned, we have the standard Cisco 2950 switch which runs about $35. This switch is a basic staple of most CCNA labs. It is a low cost switch that runs the 12.1.x Standard Image IOS. Now many students will say something along the lines of "But I want a switch that runs IOS 15.x, why would you recommend a switch that only runs 12.1.x. That is so old, I don't want it.". Ok, we get the IOS revision is a bit older. But the reality is there are not a whole lot of additional commands or features that were added to the 15.x IOS feature set that are covered on the CCNA exam. So I would not stress about the switch having to be a 15.x switch for your Cisco CCNA lab. However, we will cover later in this article where it may make sense to have such a switch in your lab. So just hold on and let us get there!
Cisco 2950 CCNA Lab Switch
So back to the Cisco 2950 Standard Image switch. This is a Layer 2 switch that runs basically 98% of the commands that are covered on both the CCENT and CCNA exams. So it is a great, low cost switch that probably has some sort of place in your lab. Next we have the Cisco 2950-T, the 2950-G, the 2950-C and any other 2950 that runs the EI (Enhanced Image) IOS. This is a little different than Standard Image 2950 and costs on average $10 to $15 more than the standard switch. So what do you get for the extra $10 to $15 in additional features? I am glad you asked! You will then be able to run RSTP, MISTP and Enhanced QoS commands on your switch.
In numerical order the next Cisco lab switch we have is the Cisco 2960 series. This is the switch Cisco recommends for the CCENT or CCNA certification studies. It will cover pretty much all the commands on the CCENT or CCNA exam. But we honestly don't think it is the switch that provides you the best bang for the buck. You see, Cisco is only going to recommend a switch that they have not made in 5 years for you to go out and buy and study on. They won't make any money if you are not buying their newer products. Thus because the 2960 is a bit newer and has not come down in price as much as the other Layer 2 switches (this switch runs about $99 currently), you might consider passing on this switch for your CCENT or CCNA lab. However, there is one big advantage to getting this switch in your CCNA lab. Since it is a current Cisco switch, you will be getting practice on a switch you are very likely to see in the real world.
Cisco 2960 CCNA Lab Switch
The next switch we will talk about is the Cisco 3550 Layer 3 switch. Being it is a Layer 3 switch, you can do routing on your switch! This is a super cool feature. Now this is just touched on really at a high level in your CCNA studies and Cisco CCNA lab. It can do all the things the 2950 and 2960 switches can do and more. Another thing is these switches also run a SI or EI IOS. Again Standard Image or Enhanced Image. You will want to make sure you get one with the Enhanced Image for your Cisco certification lab studies. Finally, the Cisco 3550 is something you must have in your CCNP lab. So if you are planning on continuing to the Cisco CCNP track, you might want to start to build out your CCNA lab to match the CCNP lab blueprint. In that case, you are going to want some 3550 or better switches in your lab. I almost forgot. The Cisco 3550 is actually one of the best value switches for your CCENT and CCNA labs as currently they are running about $80 which for that price provides a lot of bang for the buck!
Cisco 3550 CCNA Lab Switch
Now we will talk about another Layer 3 switch that is just beginning to pop in up in many CCNA labs. The Cisco 3560 switch. The 3560 has been in the CCNP labs and Cisco CCIE labs for a few years now. Since they are coming down in price quite a bit (they are roughly $230 each currently). The do support one major feature set that the other switches do not which is PVLANs. It is touched on the CCNA exam, but if your budget cannot afford $230 for a single switch (and we definitely understand that), that may be a concept you will want to memorize and use your money elsewhere in your CCNA lab to get more bang for the buck.
Cisco 3560 CCNA Lab Switch
Wow, we covered a lot of ground in this article and it was a lot longer than we thought it would be. We did not actually cover how many switches should be used in your lab and how to have them compliment each other while saving you money. So we are going to break this into a two part series on what is the best CCNA lab switch. So please don't forget to read part two of this series as the next part will get into a lot more detail on the features so you can build the best CCENT and CCNA lab possible!


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In the middle of the war of the year 1052, Sir Zane was in charge of bringing important secret documents to the Count Grishnach, a loyal ally of the Kingdom of Oskorei. The group was formed by the imperial guards captained by the golden knight Arhur VI of Oskorei. The Marquese Vladimir, the Count Isidore and the saracen prince Abdullah II of Aqaba were the nobles ambassadors for the different ally kingdoms, along with the Princess Popi from Oskorei, betrothed of the Count Grishnach.
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The Marquese Vladimir, helped by an obscure power could enter the manor, killing the Count and sealing the door of the castle forever. The party was caught, the hope is lost.
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Wild hogs are invading a Lee County community and tearing up the land surrounding many homes. Neighbors say they are coming through a fence that separates their homes from the Six Mile Cypress slough in the Cross Creek Community.
Homeowner Mary Nelson says she is in a panic over what she could come face to face with. The lawn in front of her Cross creek home has been torn up by wild hogs!
"We're being invaded. We can't go out at night. We're afraid to walk our dogs at night. It's dangerous to people our age," she said.
Nelson says groups of 20 hogs have been foraging through holes in this fence. It separates her neighborhood from the Six Mile Cypress slough.
This is the second time this neighborhood has dealt with a hog problem. In 2006, the community and the county agreed to split the cost of about $40,000 to put up a fence trap hundreds of hogs.
"Any land manager will tell you there's no way to eliminate hogs. But we can keep the numbers down. And we're trying the best we can," said Slough Land Stewardship Coordinator Bob Repenning said.
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Automated Syncing with Git
Syncing folders with Git Sync and Systemd
I use Git quite a lot. Pretty much all of my personal projects end up in a Git repository, and are pushed to BitBucket. This doesn't just mean software projects, but also things like my notebook (I've been learning org-mode in Emacs recently), and the XML generated by Gnucash that I use to keep track of my finances.
In a software dev project, Git is typically part of my process. I'll have something I want to do in mind. I'll make some changes. I'll test. Then I'll commit with a meaningful commit message.
Writing a note in my notebook doesn't have such a disciplined structure, and I don't care to write a commit message. I just want it to be committed and sent to BitBucket so I can pull it elsewhere. Really, I want Dropbox-style syncing, just with the version history and merging of Git.
Script it
As with many quick automations, the first step is to write a script. I started writing this script myself, after all it sounded like it would just be a case of pull, commit, push, but soon realized that it was more complicated than I thought. What if a merge conflict happens? Then the step where you add everything will break things. What if you're in the middle of doing something manually, like resolving a merge conflict, and the script runs? Instead of writing something to handle these cases, I found that someone else already had here. In terms of setup on my Git repo, I needed to set some config flags using the following two commands.
git config --bool branch.master.sync true
git config --bool branch.master.syncNewFiles true
syncNewFiles flag will let it add new files. It's worth making
sure that your
.gitignore file covers anything that you don't want
to commit.
After that, I still wrapped my command in a shell script, to make it apply to multiple repos. When I get around to setting this up on my Windows machine, the Windows-friendly version of this script will also include running something like MinGW, since Git Sync is a Bash script.
cd ~/doc/gnucash
cd ~/doc/notebook
Put it on a Schedule
How you schedule the script to run will depend on your system. On Linux, you're likely to have Cron available. Windows has the Task Scheduler. Anything that lets you run your shell script at regular intervals will work.
I am running Arch Linux, which uses Systemd to manage these sorts of things internally, so I decided to give writing my own Systemd unit a go.
The first thing that you need is a service file telling Systemd how to run your script. This includes some useful settings like a description and a "Niceness". Nicer programs have less priority when it comes to allocating resources. I would rather my script takes a bit longer and doesn't slow down the system at all for me (not that the script is actually doing anything intense), so I made it super nice.
#Saved in ~/auto/autosync-repos.service
Description=Automatically does git push and pull on a number of repos
The next thing that Systemd needs is a timer, which is the trigger that launches the service at regular intervals. For testing, you can launch the service without the timer, or have it triggered by other events. I want my script to run every 15 minutes, starting soon after the machine boots up.
If you don't specify which service to run, the timer will find a service with the same name as itself, just a different extension.
#Saved in ~/auto/autosync-repos.timer
Description=Automatically does git push and pull on a number of repos
The last step is to register these config files with Systemd. These commands are run from the terminal. It will create a symlink to your config files in the folders that Systemd is checking, so you can keep your custom Systemd units arranged on your drive however you want.
systemctl --user enable /home/justin/auto/autosync-repos.service
systemctl --user enable /home/justin/auto/autosync-repos.timer
I found that the path to your service files needed to be absolute.
--user flag installs it in the Systemd config that applies to
your current logged in user, not everyone that shares your
computer. It also means that it runs as your user, so your script can
use your ssh keys and it knows where your home directory is.
But Does it Work?
If you want to test that your script works with the service config, you can run it with
systemctl --user start autosync-repos.service
and then, after waiting a few seconds, run
systemctl --user status autosync-repos.service
to see its output. You can also use that status command to make sure that the timer has been running it.
What am I Missing?
The big thing that I'm missing is error reporting. The Git Sync script is set up that it won't do much harm if a merge conflict comes up or my network is dead, but it will fail quietly. The Systemd docs suggest that you can set it up to email you when things go wrong. This could work, but I haven't played with it yet. If I ever add that, it will be the topic of a future post.
Update - 7 Nov 2017
I've finally gotten around to having this script tell me when things go wrong. Read more here.


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Mr Obama expressed "deep condolences" over the deaths on board a Turkish flagged ship that was assaulted by Israeli commandos, and said Washington was working with Israel on the release of impounded vessels and passengers.
"He also affirmed the United States position in support of a credible, impartial, and transparent investigation of the facts surrounding this tragedy," the White House said in a statement.
"The president affirmed the importance of finding better ways to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza without undermining Israel's security."
Mr Obama also underscored the importance of a "comprehensive peace agreement which establishes an independent, contiguous, and viable Palestinian state," the White House said.
The showdown provoked a crisis in Israel's relations with Turkey - once its closest Muslim ally - as diplomatic sources in Ankara confirmed at least four of the nine dead in the assault were Turkish.
It also provoked another diplomatic headache for Washington, as Obama had expended considerable effort trying to maintain good relations with Turkey, a rising regional power which is also key in the confrontation with Iran.
Earlier, Mr Erdogan said that Israel must be punished for its "bloody massacre" on aid ships bound for Gaza, urging international sanctions against the Jewish state's "lawlessness".
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Stormy Day
Ok this was supposed to go up a couple of days ago, but I got lazy. And it really was blizzarding outside so brain enters shut down mode once I get home from work. BUT, this is good advice for the entire winter season, so enjoy knuckleheads!
We are currently experiencing some stormy weather here in Ontario, and although Toronto doesn't get as much snow as the surrounding areas, we did get quite a bit today!
Not quite this level, but daaammmnnn! Can you imagine?
So here are my go-to's for evenings and nights like these...once the battle of getting home from work is over and you can shed your thousands of layers. And fall face first on to the couch.
1. Make some tea (and put some alcohol in it). I find the act of making tea warms me up. I don't even need to drink it, I just dump it down the sink once its made. Just kidding!
2. If you are so lucky as to have a fireplace (I don't), then light that sucker! Or better yet, shiver on the couch under blankets until someone else comes home and does it for you! P.S- for those who have a fireplace, you are lucky lucky bastards.
3. Pajamas and thick socks are where it's at! I HATE wearing anything on me feet if I don't have to, but sometimes I will make an exception. Because...winter.
4. I am sure this is mega OLD news by now, but if you haven't crawled out from your hibernation cave (I don't blame you), some Netflix is a MUST. And the documentary, Making A Murderer, is the one to watch. Make sure to call in sick for the next day BEFORE you start watching it, because the binge won't end until the doc does.
5. And last but not least, order some good take-out. Who wants to cook dinner when their kitchen feels like -20C? (like mine does). Order good stuff, bad stuff, whatever. Just shovel that food in and then continue lying around like a piece of garbage under the blankets until its time to schlep your bones to bed. Wait a minute....that's me every night.
What is your go-to on freezing cold, stormy winter nights? Stay warm friends!


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Farmers journey deep into the Bolivian Amazon to harvest rare and delicious wild cacao.
By Austin Bailey, World Ark senior editor
Photos by Dave Anderson
It's early when Abraham Noza goes to work, but the jungle is already singing. Leaves baked through by the heat crunch underfoot, and from all around comes the buzzing. Noza slaps a couple of the mosquitoes off his thigh with the broad side of a machete. It doesn't much matter. The hungry hordes keep after him, landing on his ears and tangling in his hair. Soon, dabs of blood dot his shirt.
Mosquitoes thrive in the shady, balmy understory of Bolivia's Amazon River basin. The land around Noza's stick-and-thatch house undulates in subtle mounds, the work of a long-forgotten civilization that found a way to keep flooding in check. The prehistoric engineering still functions today, but a lacework of rivers and plenty of afternoon rainstorms make a perfect climate for mosquitoes nonetheless.
Luckily the climate is perfect for other things, too. Plantains, bananas, manioc, corn and rice grow year-round. These starchy staples are the backbone of the Bolivian lowlands diet. But increasingly in Noza's community of Santa Rosa, and in other communities in the Bolivian Amazon, the backbone of the local economy is chocolate.
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The wild cacao that thrives here is food of the ancients and breakfast of champions. Noza and his neighbors start most days with a hot cup of it, ground, toasted and steeped in boiling water. Most of it, though, they sell. Forget about the stuff you grab in the grocery checkout lane, which is made from farmed cacao. Wild Bolivian cacao is a different creature altogether, fruity and mysterious, begging for descriptors usually reserved for artisanal cheese and expensive wine. And increasingly, those who harvest this rare and prized cacao are charging accordingly.
Noza's family and 2,783 others in the jungled Beni and Santa Cruz departments of Bolivia are part of a Heifer project that's helping them harvest these magic beans in ways that fortify the forest, ensuring the cacao trees will bear fruit for generations. The project is also helping these low-income cacao harvesters process their beans to achieve the highest quality so they can market them for the highest prices.
If you want to see these enchanted chocolate forests in person, brace yourself for an epic journey. Planes, trains and automobiles simply won't suffice. To get deep into the jungles where cacao trees grow, you'll have to add boats, canoes, trucks and motorbikes to the mix.
In San Jose de Cavitu, a village of 80 families that relies on the two-month cacao harvest for roughly a third of its income, no trucks come in or go out during the rainy season. They can't, since near-daily showers churn the dirt roads into sticky, lumpy troughs that routinely strand travelers for days. And it's during this rainy season, from late December through February, that the cacao trees bloom, then sprout their football-shaped pods.
So skip the roads. A three-hour boat ride down the Apere and Cabeta rivers is lovely, anyway, with sightings of pink river dolphins, monkeys, capybaras and hundreds of tropical birds virtually guaranteed. A Capuchin monkey named Boris might scream a greeting from the shore when you arrive. Boris used to terrorize San Jose de Cavitu, chasing chickens and stealing the strips of beef laid out to dry in the sun. So Sabina Mato captured him and made him a family pet. Now an unofficial village mascot, Boris lives in a tree overlooking the river in Mato's packed-dirt yard. He spends his days eating fruit that people bring him and heckling passersby.
Like everyone else in San Jose de Cavitu, Mato, 51, lives in a grass-thatched house and grows most of what she and her family eat. Plantains, bananas and manioc, a starchy root vegetable that's usually ground, boiled and fried, are on the table every day. Mato, her husband and their two sons grow enough of these crops to sell the extras, but prices are low. So they have to produce a lot to make enough money to buy oil, soap, flour, sugar, clothes and shoes.
No matter if your Spanish is rusty or even nonexistent, you won't leave San Jose del Cavitu without learning at least one word: trabajo. Spanish for "work," it's what everyone is doing, all the time. "We have to work very hard," Mato said. "We have to work in the field every day."
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In January and February, they leave the fields for the forest. Both children and adults make the daily hour-long motorbike ride or four-hour walk into the forest where cacao trees grow. Provisioned with buckets, tote bags and long sticks to knock the fruit from high branches, teams tramp into the shadowy understory. The air is still and wet under the dense ceiling of vegetation, and many of the chocolate gatherers wear multiple layers of clothing to protect against the ever-present clouds of mosquitoes.
The football-shaped pods are ready once they've turned from green to yellow. Some people haul the pods home whole, others slice them open and pour the slick, white, scallop-like fruits into buckets, leaving tall mounds of husks to decompose on the forest floor. The fruit, which tastes melon-like and citrusy, with no hint of the chocolate flavor we're used to, serves as a snack for the harvesters who can spend all day in the forest.
"It's very tiring. It's hard being eaten by the mosquitoes," said Mathilde Medrano Semo, who was picking cacao with her son, his friend and the family dog, Guardian.
But this tough job pays well, said Thomas Semo, a father of three. Best of all, he said, the work is neither extractive nor illicit. No trees are chopped or burned to make way for gardens or pasture, and unlike coca, Bolivia's other famous crop, cacao can cross borders legally. So it's with great pride that Semo and other harvesters pack up their dried and fermented beans and ship them down the river or load them on trucks bound for the new processing plant outside San Ignacio de Mojos, a spotlessly clean, high-tech plant perched on the edge of the jungle.
As big as an airplane hangar, blindingly white and with a tidy grass yard, the cacao processing plant practically gleams in the sun. Inside, new equipment sparkles on the smooth cement floor, and the workers' starched white lab coats hang on a wall, with matching white gumboots lined up underneath. Rows of potbellied burlap sacks nearly overflow with the almond-shaped beans waiting to be roasted, peeled, ground and formed into bars.
Only a few years old, the plant was built with funding from a number of local and international nonprofits including Heifer International partner CIPCA (the Center for the Advancement and Training of Peasant Farmers). The idea for it was born in the late 1980s as harvesters began to realize the value of the local wild chocolate and the merits of banding together. So they formed the Indigenous Agroforestry Association of the Southern Amazon. Today, the group owns and operates the plant, and includes members from 49 communities. A staff of six paid workers and a rotating army of association members keep the plant running.
Association President Silvia Cita Cuellar is sleepy and slow-moving on her only day off for the week. Her unpaid post is especially demanding during the rainy season, when fresh sacks of cacao beans come in to be processed every day. She's relieved to sit down in the cool, shady building on a weekend day when the growling machines are turned off and the only sounds come from the birds outside and the rain-like tapping the metal roof makes as it expands in the heat of the sun.
A mother of four and grandmother of six, Cuellar has always grown manioc, rice, plantains, corn and bananas, and she's always harvested cacao, but not very much of it because the buyers who came through offered low prices. Once the association formed, though, members realized the true value of their rare and prized crop. Cuellar and many others took advantage of literacy classes and grew in confidence as their reading and writing skills improved. Thus emboldened, the association started calling the shots.
"Instead of the buyers telling us the price, we will show our product and say, 'This is the price. This is what you need to pay,'" Cuellar said.
The unsweetened bars produced at the plant are sold to chocolate makers in Bolivia, who further process the cacao into candy bars that are sold in country. The effort to harvest and transport wild cacao results in a higher cost and a more limited market, said Michael Segal, a London-based spokesman for the International Cocoa Association. But increasingly, high-end chocolatiers are seeking out wild, organically grown cacao. Cuellar said the association aims to expand operations to produce candy on site and export it beyond Bolivian borders.
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You could call Abraham Noza and his brother, Ricardo, the founding chocolatiers of Santa Rosa. Their forefathers harvested cacao, but it was the brothers who first latched on to the idea that with time and cooperation, the wild bean could yield prosperity. They were the first to begin managing the cacao forests rather than just dropping in a couple of months out of the year to pick.
"We started planting new trees, and people said, 'Why are you planting? There's plenty in the forest,'" Ricardo Noza said. But now, with help from Heifer and its partner CIPCA, other members of the community are planting new trees and helping to care for established ones by trimming diseased limbs and applying organic fertilizers made from rotting wood.
Keeping the forest healthy and productive will help keep cattle ranchers or large-scale farmers from coming in and clearing it. The Heifer project here also includes fish and sheep to boost nutrition and income during the 10 months of the year when cacao can't be harvested.
"What the cacao has done for us is allowed us to have financial independence," Abraham Noza said. "Before, we had to hire ourselves out as day labor, having to leave our wives and children behind. Now we can stay close to our families."


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DW readies 'Hotel' room for Roberts
EmptyEmma Roberts is going to the dogs. The teen actress has signed on to star in DreamWorks' live-action canine film "Hotel for Dogs."
Based on Lois Duncan's novel, the story revolves around two orphaned teenagers who hide dozens of stray dogs in an abandoned hotel. Thor Freudenthal will make his feature directorial debut on the film, which was penned by Jeff Lowell.
Lauren Shuler Donner, Jack Leslie and Jon Gordon are producing.
DreamWorks' Marc Haimes and Chloe Dan are shepherding the project on behalf of president of production Adam Goodman.
Roberts, whose big-screen credits include "Nancy Drew" and "Aquamarine," recently signed on to reprise her role as the teen detective in a "Nancy Drew" sequel. In March, she was named ShoWest Female Star of Tomorrow.
She is repped by manager David Sweeney and attorney Neil Meyer.


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Atlanta Engagement
Last month I took a little tour of Atlanta with Julia & Jon! It had just rained, so it was a tad humid, but nothing too bad for the South. Jon on the other hand, thought it was REALLY humid...but considering he is from Iceland I can see how it could be too much!
The pair met when Julia traveled to Iceland awhile back. I can only imagine that Julia was traversing a mountain, lost her footing and Jon was there to sweep her off her feet.
Congratulations Julia + Jon!
I can't wait to see pictures from your gorgeous wedding in Iceland! (Let me know if I need to pack my bags!)


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I saw the Groupon Tibet ad online the night of the Superbowl, Sunday night a couple of weeks ago. The thirty second ad started with a shot of the Potala and went:
"Mountainous Tibet, one of the most beautiful places in the world.
This is Timothy Hutton. The people of Tibet are in trouble, their very culture is in jeopardy. But they still whip up an amazing fish curry. And since two hundred of us bought at groupon.com, we are getting thirty dollars worth of Tibetan food for just thirteen dollars at Himalayan restaurant in Chicago."
What a weird, strange ad, I thought. Tibetans don't eat fish curry, and that Himalayan restaurant looks Indian, and that supposedly Tibetan guy looks Nepalese or Sikkimese and also constipated.
So I was bemused and I was confused because I thought, "This cannot be the Superbowl ad." The ad didn't look like a $3 million dollar ad. The ad looked, frankly, a bit cheap. And I don't cheap in the sense of "This belittles the Tibet issue" because I don't think it did that but cheap in the sense of "This can't have cost anything to make". Why would you pay so much to sell something that doesn't look very expensive?
But I was not offended and I was not outraged. If anything, I was just a little bit excited that a Groupon ad featured Tibet. And a little bit awed that Groupon didn't sugarcoat the opening lines to suit the Chinese palate: "The people of Tibet are in trouble; their very culture is in jeopardy."
In Tibet circles, this is a big deal. It's huge. A company had the conscience and courage to say something where even governments sit silent for fear of offending China.
But the next morning and the following days, I saw the media (social, political, commercial) tearing the ad to shreds. These were some of the headlines that came out:
Groupon-Tibet: Clever Ad or Crass Commercialism? from CNN
Groupon's Gaffe from Chicago Tribune
When Edgy Goes Overboard from Politics Daily
Groupon Offends With Tibet-Themed Superbowl Ad from Forbes
The avalanche of criticism to the Groupon Tibet ad can be boiled down to this: that Groupon was turning the suffering of the Tibetan people into a way of making a buck, that they were "insensitive" to the "real crisis" in Tibet.
The show of support, the moral outrage on behalf of the Tibetan people and the Tibetan issue, was overwhelming, humbling and inspiring. I have no doubt that for so many people, it was an issue of principle. They must have felt like they were standing up for Tibetans.
But was the outrage really necessary? After all, Groupon's heart was in the right place and they were not only acknowledging that Tibetans have a problem, but also offering people a way to help by donating to an NGO that helps Tibetans.
I wondered if the fact that Groupon was a more manageable and less vengeful target than the Chinese Communist Party had anything to do with the enthusiasm of the outrage; if Tibet supporters were unconsciously heartened and relieved to have a more human target than the totalitarian Cyborg machine that is the CCP.
I noticed that my fellow Tibetans' reaction was quite different from the reaction of non-Tibetans. Far from being upset or insulted, they were just happy that a Superbowl ad mentioned Tibet. They were a bit confused about the slightly schizophrenic nature of the ad, and thought it could have been done better, but overall they were happy with the ad.
And they were all surprised at the reaction of the news media. They all wondered what the big deal was. Look at China's reaction, they said. The Chinese government and Chinese people were terribly upset that Groupon had said Tibetans were in trouble. If something upsets China this much, doesn't it mean that Groupon has done something right for Tibetans?
But should we be happy about a thing just because China is unhappy about it? And no matter how ironic the Groupon ad was, for a second there didn't it look as if the suffering of the Tibetan people was made the springboard for selling coupons for fish curry? Is our outrage threshold too low? Should we take a page from the Chinese book and cry bloody murder every time we spy a paper cut as a way to stave off future injury?
These were all valid questions I was asking myself. But ultimately, I think my fellow Tibetans were right. For us, it's an issue of survival above all else. We don't really have the luxury of getting offended at any supporters, not least an organization that has taken our message to a hundred million people.


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Black Panther is about to set the world aflame when it opens in theaters this week. Perhaps Marvel's most anticipated film to date (and the pre-sale tickets broke the record for all previous Marvel films), it's also, in my opinion, one of the Top 3 Marvel films and it's director and cast have EVERYTHING to do with that. A few weeks ago, select press were invited to the film's press … [Read more...]
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"Black Panther" is everything all Marvel films before it have not been: black, proud, regal, with a strong political message, and it is fantastic! And I want to be clear about something- "Black Panther" is 100% Director Ryan Coogler's film...it just happens to have Marvel superheroes, not vice versa and it pays off in spades. With gorgeous visuals (thanks to Academy Award nominee cinematographer … [Read more...]
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Hi guy's.
Not a rant post so please don't flame or troll.............
Is any body else getting memory leaks? on shut down of the game the screen goes black like its closing down an just hangs.
The only way ive found of clearing this is either "ALT-F4" or "CTRL-ALT-DELETE",last night i did the "ALT-F4" option then tried playing Battlefront 2 with a friend an it kept going in a cycle.
"Cloud sync" an back to the Origin UI,so i checked the process's running in the back ground an Anthem was still running,ended the process an BF2 booted fine.
Also noticed on the initial boot up of Anthem that all 12 threads are hitting 92-99% until i get in the Javelin.
i7 8700 (6 cores-12 threads)
32gig ddr4 3200
Gtx 1080 Ti.
Division used to do the same years ago until a patch fixed the problem but at that time i was on a totally different Pc build as well.
Yeah I have had this since the new patch which was also the same time we had a new Nvidia driver. I think its to do with the new Nvidia game capture feature not letting go on end of game.
Switched it off not had it since.
Been like that since launch. The only way to stop it is to kill the process via task manager.
It's writing a crap ton of data in the background, but I don't know what files it's writing to, or why.
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Yeah I have had this since the new patch which was also the same time we had a new Nvidia driver. I think its to do with the new Nvidia game capture feature not letting go on end of game.
Switched it off not had it since.
THanks for the heads up on that. I'll check that on mine. I have had the issue the OP describes with the game not closing down for a much longer period though. It occurs when the game is played for long periods for me.
I have noted that the process for Antehm remains, AND at times there is a child process under Origin for Anthem that also remains and the game won't close until I kill that process.
I'm not sure how much is the game and how much is Origin or the external elements like the recording app etc.
I do not experience the CPU overload though. I have an 8700k (@4.9GHz) with 1080Ti (@ 2.1GHz) and 32GB RAM; CPU tends to sit 40-60% across cores.
Are any of you able to verify if the issue in Origin still remains where you need to leave it on the "App settings" page to stop it hogging huge chunk of CPU time?
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When Josh was in Second grade however, I became a big fan of OCD. My therapist had told me that a person with OCD will always struggle with different OCD tendencies so if it surfaced in a healthy behavior it was ok to just go with it, unless it became detrimental. If it is a positive thing for the child then don't worry too much about fixing it. Well, Josh became obsessed with a reading challenge at school that the principal gave. He wanted every child to read 100 hours during the school year. When Josh started 2nd grade he was a little below grade level. His OCD took hold of this challenge and I let it go. He began reading an hour or more every night. He would ask me to pause his minutes if he needed a bathroom break or a drink. He was determined to be the first kid in school to finish. He ended up being the second kid in school to finish and was done with his 100 hours by November. He told Grandpa one weekend that he couldn't come visit because he needed to read 7 hours over the weekend. My Dad called and said he was concerned I was expecting too much out of him and that no 2nd grader should have to read that much over a weekend. I explained that he had the next 6 months to read those 7 hours and it was Josh's deadline...not mine. After he finished the challenge the next time they tested his reading level he was at a 6th grade reading level. He is in 8th grade now and continues to test off the charts in reading. It took him from the bottom of the class to the top. Thanks to his hard work...and OCD.
|Josh won a writing contest a few months after the reading challenge!
The last year however, OCD became my worst enemy. Jordy, my autistic son struggles with a lot of things. One of them being severe anxiety and OCD. He has had a fear since he could talk that the police would come and take him. He would panic when he heard sirens that they must be coming for him. He would be fearful that he was breaking laws constantly. It was something we had dealt with his entire life, so I got very used to telling him that, "Police never take children. They are here to help us and protect us and if he was lost they would help him find me, but never take him away from me." It was routine conversation. Well, in November of 2012 there was an increase in his asking again. He also started repetitively praying and repenting throughout the day. It became frequent enough I went in to the school to ask the teacher if he was praying at school as well. She responded with "To be perfectly honest, I haven't noticed we have had so many problems with "Johnny" (not his real name) this week it has taken all of my focus." I asked what kind of problems and her response felt like I had been kicked in the stomach. "Well, he has been so out of control that we have had to have the police come and remove him from the classroom twice. He was attacking other children and the staff as well." I couldn't believe it. During that week I probably told Jordy 100 times that, "Police never take children". He couldn't communicate what he had been seeing at school that week. So the trust that Jordy once had in me was gone. *Police DO take children, they actually come into your classroom and take you away and put handcuffs on you! So Mom is either lying to me or she is just dumb!*
We tried to recover the situation, by explaining why they needed to take Johnny, and that they didn't take him to jail. They just took him to help him calm down and he is still with his family. Part of the problem was Jordy identified with Johnny. They went to speech and resource together and had some similar problems. *What if I am bad like Johnny?* Johnny was hitting and kicking the women staff members. *What if I hit or kick a girl, I could go to jail, and then I won't live with Heavenly Father.*
By February OCD had won. Jordy's usual techniques of asking me if he was going to jail would no longer soothe his fear of police. He began asking EVERY girl, or women he saw, "Did I kick you? Did I hit you?" even if he wasn't even near them. He asked strangers in the grocery store, every visitor that came to our house, everyone at church, every little girl at school, every teacher and staff member at school. He prayed immediately after asking his questions. So that is how we lived until we could get into therapy. He asked his questions, and then prayed, ALL DAY long, EVERYDAY.
In the first few weeks while waiting I tried to use some of the techniques they use in helping autism behaviors, and that only made it worse. He began asking if he was holding up his middle finger. He stopped using his hands and kept them straight and stiff to be sure that he didn't hold up his middle finger. He added that to his routine questions, "Did I hit you, did I kick you, did I hold up my middle finger, did I say a bad word?" Those were the only words he used for 3 months. When he was in the middle of a baseball game he would take his hat off while on second base in between plays and pray. He would step out of the batter box in between pitches, take off his helmet and pray. He paced back and forth during class mumbling prayers to himself and asking the other kids his repeated questions. We took a 5 hour road trip during this time and Jordy literally asked his questions every minute. The longest time he sat silently was maybe 30 seconds, and when he took those small breaks it was to repent...just in case. When Jordy was in a situation that he couldn't ask his questions he would have to pray constantly. He would sit during an hour long church meeting and pray. He would finish a prayer look up and look around and then he would pray again, the entire service. He struggled to eat and drink because he didn't want to put up his middle finger. I remember him trying to get a drink from his cup using his wrists to pick it up and bring it to his mouth. He didn't want to wave hello to people or write in class because of the fear that his middle finger would flip someone off. It was completely debilitating in all aspects of his life. It CONSUMED him.
High functioning Autism can be referred to as an "invisible disability" at times. People don't know right away that there is something affecting your child. This has it's pro's and con's. Well, Jordy's invisible disability was no longer invisible. Everyone that came in contact knew immediately that he was a little boy that was struggling. The only word I could use to describe what he was going through was SUFFERING. I can't count the amount of tears I shed over watching him suffer. He needed therapy, and help fast, and yet it took weeks, even a few months to get into a therapist that could help him start to heal.
|This is how he held his hands all the time:(
|Who's the Boss? Jordy is the Boss!!!
OCD is so debilitating at times, and yet can be a powerful tool in people's lives as well. I am grateful that I have more awareness of when OCD is trying to "boss" my kids around and more tools to help them boss it back!
*These are just my experiences, and I know that everyone has a different view of things. I am not a therapist, just a Mom that is doing her best to navigate through my children's struggles and triumphs.
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Have you absorbed the beautiful Mythology about pursuing your hopes and dreams, or passion, with everything you've got? Rags to riches is a great storyline, isn't it. It's inspiring. It creates a sense of confidence that anyone, in any circumstances, can achieve great things if only they put their mind to it and believe in themselves and work hard enough. How could that not be attractive?
I lived into it when I started my business. I had the opportunity to continue part-time with the job I had. But I chose instead to be "all in" with Your Money by Design. I was smart, I had a well-written business plan with conservative estimates, and a certain amount of savings in the bank. I was determined to give my business 110%. No half measures for me.
Eight months into it, the penny dropped: I wasn't getting nearly the numbers in my seminars I'd anticipated. And I wasn't the only game in town after all. And everything they say about expenses always being higher than you anticipate had proven true. And hardly anybody could figure out just what was a money-coach anyways (oh, you sell mutual funds? No! I don't!)
Anyone ever eaten at Hamburger Mary's in Vancouver? That's where it all sank in for me. It all sank in as if the air turned black, and my stomach clenched up such that I couldn't even look at my plate of food when it arrived. My then-boyfriend kindly excused me for a moment – so he thought – and as fast as I could I found a quiet set of steps on an apartment building around the block and there I began to sob and sob and sob. I not only felt the pain of disillusionment but the weight of failure.
And you know what really sucked (to use blunt language)? I was as passionate as *any* entrepreneur and would likely have been one of those people who live without electricity or even in the back of their car (well, maybe not quite) and ultimately become super-successful and get to tell their passion-driven story. But being a money coach … well, you can see why that wasn't an option.
Nevertheless I carried on valiantly for another 1.5 years (didn't want to quit just one day before I'd finally make it big, right?) before succumbing and taking part-time work to ensure I could practice at least a baseline of what I preached about managing money effectively. And for a further 3 years I made an acceptable go of it. My electricity stayed on, my mortgage payments were made, my dogs and I were fed. But. I didn't take a holiday, not a real one, ever and I denied and denied myself so much over the months and months that my energy and enthusiasm, those spades and spades and spades of it, ultimately got sucked away.
There is nothing newsworthy, nothing exciting, nothing thrilling about that story at all. And the final failure was utterly banal: I'd set one "STOP AND SERIOUSLY REASSESS NOW" boundary at ever having to touch my RRSPs. And it happened. I got tripped up on something unforeseen and had to withdraw from my RRSPs. So I stopped in my tracks right then and there. What a boring end-of-the-road, eh?
I reassessed. I concluded I needed to rest for a while and hold my dreams less tightly. I decided for this reason along with a cluster of other rather awful events (which *would* make an interesting story) to move north for a v. good-paying job with full benefits (sick days! extraordinary!) and paid holidays and a pension. I can tell you, it has been a respite. A real respite.
And after two full years of respite, I'm replenished and ready to go again, but this time in and from a different place. I am pursuing my hopes and dreams (ie. creating a rockin' social-entrepreneurial business that helps people and helps the planet) with the same deep passion …and with significant and ongoing financial stability and security around me. From that firm ground, and rooted there, I am able to re-venture. Is that sexy? Dramatic? The stuff of legend? No. But I honestly think there's a much higher probability of attaining my personal hopes and dreams from this place.
So. You and *your* hopes and dreams. I'm not about to say don't go for (ha ha) broke. We all have our journeys to make. And I understand too (do I ever) that entrepreneurialism in particular has exceptional risk and uncertainty. But … I strongly encourage anyone pursuing their hopes and dreams to anchor that pursuit as deeply as possible in a broader financial context. And give yourself permission to follow the road less travelled in your pursuit, even if it sometimes looks remarkably ordinary compared to rags to riches!
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Minimal Resistance centres on the search by artists for new spaces of resistance in a globalised world, and examines a series of dualities that polarized the period dealt with, from the global economic crisis to financial capitalism, from the potential of the collective to the recuperation of the myth of the artist, from interventions reclaiming public spaces to discourses revolving around memory and the body, from a form of theatricality that emphasizes staging and architecture, to performative languages and relational models, and from the rehabilitation of traditional genres to the appropriation of images from mass media and mass culture. These tensions, which were very much a sign of the times, translate into a multiplicity of overlapping practices and discourses, and into a renewal of the art codes and languages that come from the perception of modernity as something past.
This exhibition encourages dialogue between pieces that, for the most part, have not been shown in the Museum, as they are recent acquisitions and deposits. Taking the inevitably fragmentary nature of the starting point of all contemporary art collections as a given, this is only the first view of a series of new presentations of the Collection planned for the future.
Organised by Museo Reina Sofía within the framework of "The Uses of Art," a project by the European museum network L'Internationale. L'Internationale proposes a space for art within a non-hierarchical and decentralised internationalism, based on the value of difference and horizontal exchange among a constellation of cultural agents, locally rooted and globally connected. Comprising six major European museums, Moderna galerija (MG, Ljubljana, Slovenia); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS, Madrid, Spain); Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA, Barcelona, Spain); Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium); SALT (Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey) and Van Abbemuseum (VAM, Eindhoven, the Netherlands) and associate organisations from the academic and artistic fields.
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Producteev: Like Evernote for Task Management
Producteev is a task manager that reminds me of Evernote. That's because it exists in the same places you do: on the Web, in Google Calendar, on your iPhone, and even in your instant-messaging account. That makes it easier not only to review your tasks, but also to add them.
Here's a video that shows you the Producteev ropes. Meet me after for some thoughts.
Cool, right? I love the fact that I can add tasks via the Web, e-mail, IM, and my iPhone -- whichever is most convenient at the time. I also like the social aspects of the service, like the team-oriented "who can get the most done?" game.
I do have a few quibbles. For starters, Producteev currently lacks a desktop component. There's one in the works, but it's Mac-only. (Really? Uh, hello, it's still a 90-ish-percent Windows world, guys.) And what about apps for Android and BlackBerry? (I have to assume they're coming soon.)
What I really need is Outlook integration. Much as I despise Outlook's task manager, I'm kind of stuck with it. On the other hand, because Producteev can send me alerts via IM, e-mail, etc., Outlook becomes less necessary (task management-wise). I'll have to wait and see if this can really work out for me.
In the meantime, I highly recommend giving Producteev a try. It's free to sign up, and even the iPhone app is free. (Someone tell me again how these companies make money?)
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Thanks to plenty of local parks, runners and walkers in Chattanooga and the surrounding area have a variety of options when it comes to getting outside!
Chattanooga Parks with Paved Walking/Running Paths
Caruthers Park
3300 Brannon Avenue
Partly shaded walking path in this 3 acre park with a playground.
Carver Park (East Chattanooga)
600 North Orchard Knob
Coolidge Park (Downtown – Northshore)
150 River Street
This park anchors the Northshore with large green spaces, an antique carousel, interactive water feature for the kids, and a cement path that connects to Renaissance Park to the west. Easy access to the Walnut Street Bridge via Frazier Avenue, which also offers easy access to the Riverwalk. Picnic facilities and restrooms available. Metered parking on site.
Enterprise South Nature Park
8015 Volkswagen Drive
Wooded trails and an asphalt path (part of it open to vehicular traffic, with a dedicated pedestrian/bike section alongside) near the Volkswagen plant. Picnic facilities and restrooms available. Free parking.
Greenway Farms
5051 Gann Store Road
Asphalt, crushed stone, and grassy/hard pack trails. Dog park on site, and trails are pet friendly, with multiple bag stations and trash cans on the trails for disposing of pet waste. Picnic facilities, restrooms, and water fountains available.
Harris Johnson Park (South Chattanooga)
41 West 28th Street
Heritage Park (East Brainerd)
1428 Jenkins Road
Just off East Brainerd Road, this park has an asphalt walking path that loops around the park's green space, playgrounds, dog park, Mackey's Branch creek, and the park's centerpiece: Heritage House. Restrooms, benches, and picnic tables are available. Free parking.
Lake Hills Park
4395 Bellview Avenue
Main Terrain Art Park (Downtown – Southside)
The cement walkway in this park is inlaid with haiku poetry. Five Playcore exercise stations are located along the track, with interactive sculptures in the middle. No restrooms. Metered parking available; metered parking is free after 4:30pm.
Mountain Creek Park
1102 Mountain Creek Road
Murray Hills Park
4125 Melinda Drive
Redoubt Soccer Complex (Tyner)
7000 Bonny Oaks Drive
One mile asphalt-surface track. This large park houses eight soccer fields and has picnic tables and restrooms available. Free parking.
Renaissance Park (Downtown – Northshore)
Cement and crushed stone paths that showcase the park's greenery, public art, and views of downtown. Pet friendly. Paid parking lot and metered parking adjacent to the park.
Ridgedale Safe Walk
1304 Buckley Street
Rivermont Park
3400 Lupton Drive
Riverview Park
1000 Barton Avenue
Sheila M. Jennings Westside Park
1200 Grove Street
South Chattanooga Park
1151 West 40th Street
St. Elmo Park (St. Elmo)
4909 St. Elmo Avenue
Standifer Gap Park
8327 Standifer Gap Road
This 15 acre park has a hilly 1/2 mile asphalt track. There is also a soccer/football field, baseball fields, sand volleyball court, and playground. Picnic tables and restrooms are available. Free parking.
Stringer's Ridge (North Chattanooga)
901 Cherokee Boulevard
The Chattanooga area's newest park. Map of Stringer's Ridge trails.
Tacoa Park (Brainerd)
5205 Tacoa Circle
Tatum Park (East Chattanooga)
1609 Union Avenue
Tennessee Riverwalk
Eight miles of cement path that will take you from the Chickamauga Dam to downtown, marked in half-mile increments. Water fountains, restrooms, benches, and picnic facilities located along the path. Keep an eye out for our in-depth look at the Tennessee Riverwalk on our blog.
Walnut Street Bridge (Downtown)
Chattanoogans saved this bridge from destruction, and now it's a very popular pedestrian bridge.
Parks with Paved Walking/Running Paths in the Surrounding Area
*Note: All parks listed below have restroom facilities and free parking UNLESS otherwise noted.
Apison Park
11206 Old East Brainerd Road, Apison, TN
Lighted asphalt track – 1/4 mile on the outer loop, 2/10 mile for the inner loop. Picnic tables and benches are available. NO RESTROOMS.
Bakewell Park (North Hamilton County)
McCallie Ferry Road at Mount Tabor, in Bakewell, TN
1/4 mile asphalt walking path near baseball fields.
Camp Jordan (East Ridge)
Camp Jordan Parkway, East Ridge, TN
2 mile flat asphalt walking path meanders past Camp Jordan Arena, large ponds, ballfields, soccer fields, and a sand volleyball court.
Chickamauga Battlefield
A Civil War battlefield, now a national park, the Chickamauga Battlefield offers miles and miles of asphalt to run on (traffic is light and some roads have a dedicated bike/pedestrian lane), as well as an extensive trail system. This is a popular place for those training for marathons to do their long runs. You'll pass large open fields, monuments, and cannons along your way. Rolling hills. Restrooms are available in the visitor's center on the north end of the park, as well as non-flush restrooms on the southwest side at Wilder Tower. Plenty of free parking all throughout the park, with lots at the welcome center, Recreation Field, and Wilder Tower. Water fountains at the visitor's center. Trail maps are also available at the visitor's center.
Lake Hills Park
4395 Bellview Ave.
Meadowview Park (Northeast Hamilton County)
11201 Meadowview Road, Georgetown, TN
1/2 mile asphalt track in a 13-acre park that also houses a small playground, softball fields, basketball court, and horseshoe pits. Restrooms are only open during events.
Mowbray Park (Soddy Daisy on Mowbray Mountain)
1709 Mowbray Pike, Soddy Daisy, TN
2/10 mile flat asphalt walking path in this 10 acre park that also has a playground, baseball field, tennis court, and picnic tables.
Sale Creek High School (North Hamilton County)
211 Patterson Road, Sale Creek, TN
Walking path. Restrooms available. Free parking.
Shackleford Ridge Park (Signal Mountain)
4447 Shackleford Ridge Road, Signal Mountain
Three miles of wooded trails with a crushed stone path. Benches are placed along the trail and picnic tables are available near the baseball and soccer fields.
Soddy Daisy Kids Park (Soddy Daisy)
On the north end of Soddy-Daisy on Dayton Pike. Large ballfield complex with flat walking track, playground, and horseshoe court.
South Chickamauga Creek Greenway
2900 Harrison Pike
Vandergriff Park (Hixson)
1414 Gadd Road, Hixson, TN
1/5 mile asphalt path around two large playgrounds. Benches along pathway and covered picnic facilities.
Veterans Park (Soddy Daisy)
In the 9000 Block of Dayton Pike in southern Soddy-Daisy. 1/4 mile flat asphalt walking track with benches. Covered picnic tables available.
Wolftever Creek Greenway (Collegedale)
Three miles of cement pathway with multiple access points takes you through the beautiful Wolftever Creek Greenway. Adjacent to a dog park, Nature Nook, large playground (Imagination Station), and connects to Veterans Memorial Park. Benches along pathway and picnic tables available. Map of Wolftever Creek Greenway
Keep an eye on our blog for features on individual area parks!
Are we missing your favorite park? Have you discovered a lesser-known park that you want to share with area runners? Let us know so we can keep this list up-to-date and accurate.


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Sheriff's officer Travis Wilson has a new partner who does not respond to Wilson if he tries to converse with her in English.
Cossta is a three-year old female Belgian Malinois who became Wilson's K-9 partner in November. She responds only to commands in German.
"She was trained by an international trainer and then, after I got her, she and I went to Longford for a specialized three-week course where we learned to work together," Wilson said.
Cossta replaces Dax, who retired this past fall and now spends his days as a family pet with the Wilsons. Dax had similar training and talents, but now has arthritis and cataracts.
"Most of the dogs give eight to 10 years of service," Wilson said. "They have a daily workout and serve with their police officer partner every time he or she goes out."
Cossta came to the county at a cost of $12,500. Wilson raised the funds to purchase her—it did not come out of the county law enforcement budget.
"The cities of Marion and Hillsboro each have a dog, but Cossta serves the rest of the county. I got donations from county businesses, individuals, and organizations, the Peabody-Burns school system and recreation commission, the city of Peabody, from drug tax stamps, various diversion funds, and a grant for K-9 units," he said.
"Cossta is a great dog," he said. "She is friendly, especially with kids, but she knows when it is time to work."
Wilson said she always minds and ranks "strong" in her obedience, tracking, and narcotics work. She is trained to alert him to the presence of marijuana, methamphetamines, cocaine, and heroin.
"If we are working evidence recovery and she finds something, she lowers herself down on it and won't move off of it until I give the command," he said.
Wilson said when she is tracking a fleeing suspect she doesn't necessarily follow the scent of the person, but she follows the trail the suspect leaves.
"She sniffs out that thing that is not normal, that is out of place," he said. "Whether it is grass crushed by the heel of a shoe or a fresh disturbance in the dirt or gravel, that is what she is looking for. She is really very good at it."
Cossta has one reward for doing her job well. Wilson lets her play with a small hard rubber ball on a short thick rope.
"The reward is a matter of conditioning with K-9 unit dogs. It is the only thing they get when they have performed well," he said. "Some dogs get a knotted towel or a different kind of rubber toy. They learn to identify the object as praise for doing a good job."
Cossta has adjusted well to her job. Belgian Malinois are an active breed they enjoy work and the challenge of doing their jobs. "They are an intelligent breed with a high energy level," Wilson said. "Cossta loves to work.
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The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) is a region of the extended amygdala in which multiple neuropeptide systems, including oxytocin and corticotropin releasing factor (CRF), have the potential to interact and regulate anxiety-like behaviors. Although oxytocin is known to be released into the BNST during times of stress, it is unknown what effect oxytocin release in the BNST has on anxiety behavior. We have demonstrated the presence of oxytocin receptors on discrete populations of BNST neurons that contain other neuropeptides involved in modulating the stress response, such as CRF, enkephalin (Enk), and neuropeptide Y (NPY). CRF is the prototypical stress hormone, which is thought to trigger the behavioral stress response, whereas NPY and Enk are thought of as factors that act to attenuate the stress response. Hence, oxytocin release in the BNST may affect two diametrically opposed components of the stress response. However, the electrophysiological response of these neuronal populations to oxytocin receptor activation has yet to be explored. The central hypothesis of this proposal is that oxytocin differentially regulats the activity of oxytocin responsive neurons in the BNST to decrease anxiety behavior. This project will first aim to determine the effect of oxytocin in the BNST on anxiety-like behavior in mice. Using site specific injection of an oxytocin agonist and antagonist into the BNST, anxiety behavior will be tested with the elevated plus maze and open field paradigms. Additionally, this project will aim to characterize the genotypic, electrophysiological, and oxytocin- response profile of cells expressing the oxytocin receptor in the BNST. Using two novel transgenic mice driving fluorescent protein expression in either CRF neurons or oxytocin receptor-expressing neurons to facilitate visually guided patch, I will perform patch-clamp electrophysiology and single cell reverse transcriptase PCR (scRT-PCR) to characterize these cells and their response to oxytocin. The combination of behavioral, electrophysiological, and molecular approaches will help us move away from considering the BNST as a homogenous group of neurons, but rather a complex structure with multiple neurotransmitter systems that interact to affect the physiological and behavioral output of the nucleus. Elucidating oxytocin's interactions with other neurotransmitter systems in the BNST could lead to a greater understanding of the etiology of and therapeutic strategies for anxiety disorders.
This project will be crucial in determining how oxytocin treatment could affect the neural circuitry of anxiety-like behavior, and will inform future studie on the use of oxytocin or molecules that manipulate oxytocin as treatment for anxiety disorders. The proposed research is expected to contribute to an understanding of how oxytocin acts on different cell types in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) and how this affects anxiety behaviors.
|Daniel, Sarah E; Guo, Jidong; Rainnie, Donald G (2017) A comparative analysis of the physiological properties of neurons in the anterolateral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, and Macaca mulatta. J Comp Neurol 525:2235-2248
|Daniel, Sarah E; Rainnie, Donald G (2016) Stress Modulation of Opposing Circuits in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis. Neuropsychopharmacology 41:103-25
|Rainnie, Donald G; Hazra, Rimi; Dabrowska, Joanna et al. (2014) Distribution and functional expression of Kv4 family ? subunits and associated KChIP ? subunits in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. J Comp Neurol 522:609-25
|Dabrowska, Joanna; Hazra, Rimi; Guo, Ji-Dong et al. (2013) Central CRF neurons are not created equal: phenotypic differences in CRF-containing neurons of the rat paraventricular hypothalamus and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Front Neurosci 7:156