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Netflix, YouTube Streaming Gets Worse on Major ISPs, Who In Turn Blame the Deep, Dark Mysteries of the Internet
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Except as anybody who has spent any time on the phone with a support rep knows, what comes out of their mouths may or may not have any direct tie to this particular plane of reality. It's also worth noting that the kind of Netflix stuttering Raphael saw has been going on for much of the last year across numerous ISPs, long before Verizon's recent court victory over the FCC's neutrality rules. Verizon also denied they were manipulating traffic in a statement sent to all media outlets:
"We treat all traffic equally, and that has not changed. Many factors can affect the speed a customer's experiences for a specific site, including, that site's servers, the way the traffic is routed over the Internet, and other considerations. We are looking into this specific matter, but the company representative was mistaken. We are going to redouble our representative education efforts on this topic."While Raphael may have stumbled into Verizon shenanigans, what he saw could also be explained by normal peak network or peering congestion, and we've long discussed the problems with crying net neutrality wolf. Peering relationships are indeed complicated, with ISPs, content companies, and Internet backbone operators all engaged in an endless tug of war over video profits and peering imbalances (I recommend this piece last summer from Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica or this piece from last week by GigaOM's Stacey Higginbotham).
With that as background, fast forward to this week when Netflix released their latest ISP streaming rankings, which show that most of the nation's biggest ISPs have been dropping in regards to their Netflix streaming performance. ISPs that partner with Netflix's Open Connect CDN do better in the rankings, and major ISPs have tried somewhat feebly to claim Netflix's attempt to name and shame them into using their CDN is a sort of reverse network neutrality.
Still, Verizon FiOS (and DSL), Comcast, and AT&T's U-Verse services have seen major drops in the rankings not entirely explained by their refusal to use Netflix's CDN. Being large network operators, you would imagine that they'd be able to explain what exactly is happening to stink up millions of broadband users' Netflix experiences, though Comcast, AT&T and Time Warner Cable refuse to comment to the media on their collective performance nose dive. Netflix also refuses to comment. Verizon, with all of their network expertise, continues to blame the problems on either unknown Internet bogeymen or Netflix:
"We state unequivocally that Verizon's broadband Internet access services deliver a pristine user experience to our customers at any time of day on every day of the week. This has been repeatedly proven through independent testing by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which has conclusively demonstrated that FiOS Internet consistently delivers both download and upload speeds in excess of what we advertise. In short, our Internet customers often get more than they pay for. How the Internet works can be complicated, and consumers should be aware of the fact that the integrity of their home Internet connection is only a portion of the streaming video quality equation. If their broadband connection is functioning correctly, the source of their frustration and the content they wish to see may be one in the same."In summation, the only major ISP wiling to comment on why millions of people are having YouTube and Netflix issues on fast connections insists "it's complicated." So what's really happening? One theory du jour is that companies like Verizon are abusing their gatekeeper position and letting their peering points to companies like Netflix saturate in order to gain leverage in negotiations and rhetoric, while giving a leg up to their own CDN or services (like Red Box Instant by Verizon). Verizon's certainly no stranger to these kinds of tactics, but again, there's not enough data to prove that hypothesis, and while neutrality rules are dead, big ISPs aren't exactly eager to do anything to invite new neutrality regulations.
The reality is that despite the best guesses of some very smart people, the jury is out because we lack enough data to make full conclusions just yet. The good news is we should see some more robust data in the coming months as data from collection operations like MLAB comes to light in looming FCC ISP performance reports. In addition, YouTube has started ranking ISPs based on YouTube streaming performance, which will also hopefully shed a little more light on precisely which Internet bogeymen are to blame for your stuttering video feed.


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Noble and Greenough School 9 @ Lawrence Academy 3
C/W Matt Marshall, Nobles: 2-0-2
Marshall, a University of Vermont commit, came into the game as Nobles' second-leading scorer with 7 goals and 3 assists in 14 games.
Deerfield Academy 8 @ Loomis Chaffee 1
C Alex Killorn, DFA: 2-0-2
Killorn had 26 points in 9 games coming into the game. One of his goals against Loomis Chaffee came on a "perfect†(per Deerfield review) deflection from in front.
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BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research – A Fixed Income Research Report – Friday, 14 December 2012
Overview – Policy besides the fiscal cliff
Policy dominated market attention beyond the fiscal cliff negotiations this week. The Fed announced Treasury purchases in line with market expectations, but surprised by anchoring the forward guidance to economic thresholds. The Senate blocked a bill to extend unlimited FDIC insurance on TAG accounts.
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'Moon Knight' #1 Begins Los Angeles Superhero Saga by Bendis and Maleev [Preview]
On sale this week is the first issue of Moon Knight. A Marvel Comics mainstay since his introduction in the 1970s, the schizophrenic superhero has been retooled by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Alex Maleev, the fan-favorite creative team who returned the Daredevil character to prominence in a legendary series from the last decade. In the new book, Moon Knight uses his multiple personalities as a strength, going so far as to develop additional idioms based on his fellow Avengers.
You can check out a preview of Moon Knight #1 below.Marc Spector was a mercenary whose dark past caused him to create alternate personalities in addition to his Moon Knight persona, which he saw as a manifestation of the Egyptian god Khonshu. In Bendis and Maleev's new series, Spector has moved to Los Angeles, where he shrewdly produces a television show based on his own adventures as Moon Knight while he continues to fight his war on evil. The City of Angels itself is crucial to Marvel's new vision of the character, as Bendis explained in an interview with Comic Book Resources.
"In the opening arc you'll get a reintroduction to Marc Spector. You'll find out why he's in LA and how he got there. You'll see how his new status quo is represented visually and how it affects his life. You'll see how he's going to go about making a name for himself. We'll be introduced to the new cast and everywhere he goes he's going to get closer and closer to discovering who the Kingpin of LA is. Hint: it's an established character. The big question, though, is what is their master plan and why do they need an Ultron?"
Bendis and Maleev's work on the Daredevil series is superlative. They discuss the new Moon Knight with a similarly epic scope, making issue #1 something we're definitely going to check out. You can pick Moon Knight #1 up this Wednesday at comics shops everywhere or purchase it online from Things From Another Word.
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- Department of Justice Announces the Defending Childhood Task Force
Department of Justice Announces the Defending Childhood Task Force
WASHINGTON – Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli today announced the establishment of the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence. The task force is part of the Attorney General's Defending Childhood initiative, a project arising from the need to respond to the epidemic levels of exposure to violence faced by our nation's children.
"Our vision of justice must start with preventing crime before it happens, protecting our children, and ending cycles of violence and victimization. Every young person deserves the opportunity to grow and develop free from fear of violence," said Associate Attorney General Perrelli. "The task force will develop knowledge and spread awareness about the pervasive problem of children's exposure to violence – this will ultimately improve our homes, cities, towns and communities."
Following the release of the compelling findings of the first National Survey on Children Exposed to Violence (2009), Attorney General Eric Holder launched the Defending Childhood initiative in September 2010. The goals of the initiative are to prevent children's exposure to violence as victims and witnesses, reduce the negative effects experienced by children exposed to violence, and develop knowledge about and increase awareness of this issue.
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There are plenty of reasons to like or hate Network Address Translation. Network administrators like it because it provides a way to eke out small pools of IP addresses and allows them to hide portions of their networks from the public Internet. Engineers hate it because it breaks the end-to-end nature of the Internet by separating users from their address.
The FBI hates it because it stops them from gathering data from Internet service providers about their customers.
"If we are going to capture the bad guys, it goes back to attribution," the ability to associate an individual's online activity with a specific address, said supervisory special agent Robert Flaim.
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But when carriers put hundreds of customers behind a single public IP address using Carrier Grade NAT, the link is broken and it becomes difficult or impossible to identify the activities of an individual.
Carriers are required to provide police with records of user activity under court order, but if the records do not exist, the police are out of luck. "We're already seeing this," Flaim said June 6 at a conference on government IPv6 sponsored by the Digital Government Institute. "We are serving them subpoenas and they have nothing to provide us."
The FBI formed the Law Enforcement CGN Working Group in June 2011 to address this problem, said Flaim, who chairs the group. There are some workarounds that could help, but the ultimate answer is adoption of IPv6, which will provide enough Internet addresses to allow every user and every device to have its own address, he said.
IPv6 is the next generation of Internet Protocols, the rules that specify how networked devices communicate and interoperate on the Internet. The IPv6 address space is exponentially larger than that in the current version, IPv4, which is running out of new addresses as the growth of the Internet accelerates. Adoption of IPv6 has begun, but is moving slowly because, for the time being at least, using the new addresses requires operating and maintaining a separate network on top of existing IPv4 infrastructure.
The CGN working group wants to see the adoption of IPv6 proceed more quickly, before carriers spend millions of dollars on a Carrier Grade NAT infrastructure that would likely remain in place for decades once the investment is made.
Network Address Translation allows multiple users on a network to share a single IP address behind a device that translates the public IP address to a private network address. It has long been used by enterprises to extend their pool of addresses. But as the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses dries up, Carrier Grade or Large Scale NAT is being seen as a tool for carriers and network providers to put off the transition to IPv6.
Nearly everyone agrees that the transition is inevitable because the addition of new customers will increasingly come with IPv6 addresses. In an effort to jump-start the transition, the Internet Society sponsored IPv6 Launch Day June 6 to encourage networks, service providers and content providers to make the transition.
The law enforcement working group has held five meetings in its first year, and has scheduled another for July. "We're gaining a lot of momentum," Flaim said, with state and local law enforcement agencies from the United States as well as foreign agencies working, along with carriers and equipment providers, to explore ways around the CGN roadblock until IPv6 replaces the need for translation.
"They are going to have to start logging a lot more," Flaim said. The working group is developing applications to identify and log user information for lawful intercept purposes. But this is no simple solution. Logging intercept data can generate petabytes of data that have to be stored and managed, requiring significant investments by carriers, and not all servers and applications support logging by default. And unlike Europe, the United States has no data retention laws specifying how data is to be gathered and handled. On top of these difficulties, the collection and retention of such information also raises serious privacy issues.
"It's a very touchy issue," Flaim said.
Even wholesale adoption of IPv6 will not completely solve the problem because users still would be able to use anonymous proxy servers to hide or obscure activities.
"A criminal can always find a way around anything," Flaim said. "What we are trying to do is eliminate most of the problems, but there are always ways around it."
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I think it is well past time for the US Congress (both houses) to go to technology school and start writing legislation for law enforcement to protect citizens' privacy and against "unlawful search and seizure". Government agencies should be required to get court orders for having ISPs log data. It would reduce the logging costs for the ISPs and protect privacy for law abiding citizens that are not the object of ongoing investigations.
IPv6 allows for privacy addresses to be generated. Your address will change regularly, and authorities can't prove how many people there are on a network, or which activities were related. At least Mac OS X enables this by default. This article is badly researched.
The "attribution" aspect is pretty much the same with IPv6 (with privacy addressing) as we had in IPv4 (locally NATed, not Carrier-NATed). For home users: Either way, the FBI kicks in the door and takes all of the machines within that residence ... Carrier NATing would would require a bit more information (ports) from the FBI that the ISP would need to be logging, BUT with the same end result.
Law enforcement needs and should use whatever tools necessary to monitor criminals. Compared to other countries, our law enforcement is more restricted in how they can monitor our communications. Our 'innocent until proven guilty' mantra in the U.S. will ensure that we never become a police state.
Of course Law Enforcement wants to gather as much information as possible. Can anyone question that gathering this information would be a hugely valuable tool for monotoring criminals? Can anyone, also, question the danger of anyone having access to our communications on the internet. Europe is a beautiful place, and many couries I would say are veritable police states.
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Nicholas "Nicky" Mailliard died at 13 after being diagnosed with a brain tumor at age 11.
After his death in February 2005, Ra Sushi began an annual fundraiser to honor Nicky, the nephew of one of the trendy restaurant's founders, and to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where Nicky received treatment.
From Sunday through June 5, Ra will host its sixth Nicky's Week.
The sushi chain will donate 100 percent of proceeds from select menu items to benefit the hospital.
Ra Sushi has raised nearly $500,000 over the last five years of Nicky's Week. This year's fundraising goal is $125,000.
Food and beverages selected for the fundraiser included edamame, tootsy maki, shrimp nigiri, pork gyoza, tuna tataki, chicken yakitori, Fiji water, Red Bull and sugar-free Red Bull, Republic of Tea products and other select beverages.
Scott Kilpatrick, co-founder and vice president of Ra Sushi, said the partnership with St. Jude's Research Hospital was a way for the restaurant to support the fight for a cure.
"Nicholas lost his battle with his brain tumor, but St. Jude's does an amazing amount of research and they've made amazing headway in curing childhood diseases," Kilpatrick said. "We wanted to take this horrendous situation and try to make a positive impact."
St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital treats young patients from all over the country, regardless of the family's ability to pay.
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By Matt Styslinger
It is hard to imagine modern life without coffee. But one thing that rarely crosses our minds as we sip our morning cups is that coffee is an African native.
Worldwide coffee is a $90 billion a year industry, there are 125 million people whose livelihoods depend on it, and 25 million of those are small-scale farmers in developing countries whose sole source of income is coffee production. Of the two globally cultivated coffee species (Coffea Arabica and Coffea Canephora)—commonly known as Arabica and Robusta—Arabica is the most admired and dominates 70 percent of all coffee production. The species naturally occurs exclusively in the isolated highland forests of Southern Ethiopia.
For thousands of years, people living in the Ethiopian highlands have traditionally been roasting coffee berries and grinding them in a mortar. Coffee is often served with hot water and sugar to guests as part of a ritual of hospitality and respect. It was not until around the sixth century that coffee spread to the Arabian Peninsula, and eventually throughout the world.
In the past 30 years—as a result of poverty and a growing local population—Ethiopia's highland forests have been shrinking from deforestation for farmland, timber extraction, and the growing size of human settlements. Biodiversity is rapidly being lost in this delicate ecosystem. Recent research indicates that the natural diversity among the wild coffee cultivars in Ethiopia is high. Some of them have shown resistance to drought conditions—a trait that could become increasingly valuable. Many coffee growing regions across the continent and the world are becoming drier from climate change, and the livelihoods of millions of coffee growers are at stake. But as Ethiopia's forests degrade, wild coffee—and a valuable genetic resource—is becoming endangered.
Hoping to improve diets and livelihoods by preserving indigenous foods around the world, Slow Food International is compiling a database of indigenous crops or the Ark of Taste. The ark is helping to rediscover, catalog, and popularize endangered crops that Slow Food believes have real commercial potential. Slow food has recently added wild coffee from the Ethiopian highlands—which it calls Harenna wild coffee after the forest where it grows—to the list.
The Harenna forest is located at an elevation of 1,800 meters in Ethiopia's Bale National Park. Wild coffee gatherers typically harvest the berries by hand, competing with baboons who also eat them. They dry them in the sun on suspended nets and then sell them in local markets for low prices.
In 2007, Slow Food began training 64 gatherers on improved harvesting and drying techniques. Gatherers are also trained in organizational and business skills. The goal is to help locals produce a consistent, quality product that can then be marketed worldwide as a specialty product. Slow Food believes that wild coffee can sell for premium prices by emphasizing its natural and eco-friendly qualities. A certification process would be needed to authenticate the product's origins and sustainable harvesting, although that process does not yet exist. The added economic value would not only improve the incomes of local people, it could also help slow deforestation as gatherers become better stewards to preserve their product.
The prices of coffee exported from Africa have steadily declined over the years, in part due to lack of competitiveness in the global market and limited access to premium sellers. Further development of a wild coffee industry—as well as research into the development of cultivars that are better suited to various coffee growing regions on the continent—could enhance the quality of African coffee and contribute to poverty alleviation.
To read more about crops indigenous to Africa see: Black Plum: Fruit, Timber, and Agroforestry, Safou: the "Butterfruit" , Traditional Food Crops Provide Community Resilience in Face of Climate Change, Monkey Oranges: Mouthwatering Potential, The Green Gold of Africa, Fonio: Africa's Oldest Cereal Needs More Attention, The Locust Bean: An Answer to Africa's Greatest Needs in One Tree, and Lablab: The Bountiful, Beautiful Legume, Moringa: The Giving Tree, Black-eyed Peas to the Rescue.
Matt Styslinger is a research intern with the Nourishing the Planet project.
Similar posts:
- Slow Food's Ark of Taste: Harenna Wild Coffee
- The Taming of the Dika: West Africa's Most Eligible Wild Tree
- Tsamma Melons: Watermelon's Wild Cousins
- Black Plum: Fruit, Timber, and Agroforestry
- Breeding Respect for Indigenous Seeds
- Nourishing the Planet in the Ethiopian News
- Indigenous Farming Methods: Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change While Boosting Food Production
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text: Lost's Mr. Eko joins the cast of The Thing prequelCyriaque Lamar5/25/10 7:30pmFiled to: The ThingHorrorLostAdewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeMatthijs van HeijningenJohn CarpenterMovies37EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (a.k.a. Mr. Eko from Lost and Heavy Duty from G.I. Joe) will co-star in Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.'s prequel to John Carpenter's body-snatching classic The Thing. Akinnuoye-Agbaje plays Derek Jameson, a pilot who battles the Antarctic alien. Spoilers! Back in January, we noted that the casting call to The Thing prequel was making the rounds. Here's the description of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's character from the casting call: [DEREK JAMESON] In his early 30s, African American, well-built, he is Carter's friend and co-pilot. This is Jameson's last season in Antarctica. He's moving to Florida and starting a jetboat business with his brother, a former big league prospect. The trip to Thule Station is just another flight for him, another day in the countdown before he leaves the South Pole. Trapped at the site with Carter when the helicopter malfunctions, Jameson eventually falls prey to the THING.Jetboat business? Big league prospect? There better be a shot of Akinnuoye-Agbaje tearing ass through glaciers on a cigarette boat and brandishing his Jesus Stick like Frank Thomas. No wonder Mr. Eko wasn't in the Lost finale - he still had to take out the trash on Earth. Advertisement Advertisement [Via Bloody Disgusting]Reply37 repliesLeave a reply


text: Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans. But for a growing set of U.S. workers, there is no break from trying to earn enough to support their families. Despite a dip in unemployment during the past few years, low pay continues to plague many employees while their corporate bosses rake in record profits.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook's stock plunged to a new low Thursday as some of the social networking leader's early backers got their first chance to sell their shares since the company's initial public offering went awry.
Analysts interpreted the unusually high trading volume as a clear sign that at least a few of the insiders were seizing on a fresh selling opportunity. That is stirring a debate over whether they're simply locking in long-awaited gains on investments made many years ago or bailing out of a company that has lost its luster.
A breakdown on just how many major Facebook Inc. shareholders sold their stock probably won't be available until next week at the earliest. Securities regulations give them at least three days before they have to disclose such transactions.
The information is important "because if you are an investor who has been sitting on the sidelines waiting for a good time to buy the stock, you might decide to stay on the sidelines for a little longer after seeing which insiders decided to sell their stock," CapStone Investments analyst Rory Maher said.
All told, investors who owned a combined 271 million Facebook shares could have sold their holdings Thursday with the expiration of a ban known as a lock-up period. The restrictions were imposed on a group of venture capitalists, companies, and Silicon Valley cognoscente who invested in Facebook during its formative years and sold some of their holdings three months ago when the company went public at $38.
The highly anticipated IPO had valued the company at $104 billion, similar to those of Amazon.com Inc. and Pepsico Inc.
The shares have plunged by nearly 50 percent since then amid concerns about whether Facebook is destined to become a passing fancy and worries about whether it will be able to sell more advertising on mobile devices as users gravitate there.
Facebook shares closed Thursday at $19.87 a share, down $1.33, or more than 6 percent.
More than 156 million shares were traded, more than five times the stock's average volume over the past month. Trading in the overall market was lighter than usual.
The selling shackles will come off of an additional 1.66 billion locked-up Facebook shares during the next nine months to place more potential pressure on the stock. One of the biggest tests will come in November when about 1.2 billion insider shares will be eligible for sale.


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Comments for:The Art Of Sampling Part 207-Aug-08 13 Comments... Comments are closed while we transition to Disqus kEyTh Said... somehow your time line seems to have mis-included everything Depeche Mode. What a gross mistake if your talking about sampling.. .. Sampling was totally pioneering on albums: Construction Tim Again, Some Great Reward, Black Celebration--- as far as singles People Are People was the holy grail .... did you just forget or do you hate Depeche Mode 09-Aug-08 08:28 AM Alex Chopelas Said... I LOVE the residents! Nice for them to get a shout on a site like this 09-Aug-08 03:34 PM kEyTh Said...
and another mistake-- Fripp is NOT on "my life in the bush of ghosts" nor was their really any "digital" sampling--
no need in putting out educational videos if your facts arent correct---
seems like this video is really just someones own recollection as opposed to being actually "accurate" and with a scholarly thoroughness: Talk about tape and tape loops: absolutely discutsing is the omission of Pink Floyd and Dark of the Moon, and most specifically the track "money"-- a ruler was used to get everything all in time as it is... Talk about mellotrons: Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream.. as well Patrick Moraz when he was in Yes... You mention Fripp in the wrong context, he does belong in this story with Eno but in the TAPE section: Fripp and Enos "No PussyFooting" and "Evening Star" were very important in terms of pioneering use of Tape Everyone used "stock sounds" on the mellotron for the most part-- these guys spent the time to have their mellotrons customized... another overlook but possibly trivial is the fact that a mellotron key held down had only 4 seconds of life before the tape came to an end... a good knowledge of harmony was definitely needed to make these things work as you couldnt just hold a key like on a synth or organ till the cows come home... I believe Edgar Froese and Rick wakeman really had this aspect mastered with these very difficult machines.... and speaking of difficult Mellotrons were very tempermental and difficult to maintain, especially on tour 10-Aug-08 12:50 PM shekhar dhain Said... hmm...this certainly isnt up to the usual sonicstate standards, but then maybe it isnt supposed to be an EXHAUSTIVE guide. 10-Aug-08 06:57 PM puzzled Said... kEyTh....Your point is..? 11-Aug-08 02:54 AM bonner Said... Floyd and DSOTM both get a mention, as do fripp and eno..so whats that guy going on about? Was he pissed when he watched it? As usual this is very entertaining stuff. 11-Aug-08 03:03 AM mr pink Said... Yeah, and Depeche Mode? OK, great band, but loads of bands were using sampling around that time. they certainly weren't early innovators like all the others mentioned here. 11-Aug-08 03:21 AM Roi Said...
This video is, unfortunately, rather poorly researched, and oddly biased towards the introduction of sampling into mainstream Hip-Hop, which was very minimal really until around 1985, and even then mainly revolved around the 'lowest common denominator' use of sampling, which continues to sink to new lows to this very day of course, i.e. the lifting of other peoples work from copyrighted recordings.
The first ever use of an actual 'Digital Sample' on a commercial recording was Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock in 1982 which uses the Fairlight's famous Orchestra Hit sound 'straight out of the box'. Also worth a mention and produced by Arthur Baker that year, is when he utilised the original EMU Emulator for the voice samples on I.O.U by Freeez, the 1st time the Emulator made it onto a commercial recording.
In 1982/83 Vince Clarke was using the Fairlight system (two of them in fact) which you can clearly hear on the 'You and Me Both' album.
In 1983 Daniel Miller, he of Mute Records/The Normal/Silicon Teens, purchased the Synclavier system which was at the time one of the only ones to have been imported to the UK. This was way, way more powerful than the Fairlight, by the way - the U.S. used to monitor precisely the whereabouts of each unit sold in case they got turned into illegal Missile Control systems!
As kEyTH rightly points out, from Depeche Mode's 1983 'Construction Time Again' album onwards, the Mute Records Synclavier system was used extensively on all Depeche Mode's recordings, and continued to be right up until Violator.
There's an important creative difference to be made here though... DM, Daniel Miller and Producer Gareth Jones were making their own, new and unheard before sounds and rhythms from 'found sound' sources, and not just artlessly sampling sounds or big chunks like verses and choruses from other peoples music, which is how Sampling has sadly ended up being used for by most of course.
They genuinely were pioneers of Sampled sound at that time, pushing the limits of what was acceptable as 'musical content' in Pop music. Also, very few people used samplers at all due to their expense until '85 or so, and when they did it was usually in quite a naff or trashy way.
Apologies for the 'sermon'(I just couldn't let it lie!) but no offence intended to any of you I promise. 12-Aug-08 11:49 AM lexis Said... I can't believe how many people in these comments are just repeating what is either in the videos or in the timeline or in Sonic's Top Samplers series??? "You can type" Woopee. 12-Aug-08 12:10 PM the eye Said... Although the contents of the video is neat the video itselfs it suffers from too fast cuts and FX overuse so I get 'eye cancer' from watching it. Sorry folks, please consider not to have it that brutal flashy way in future - this is NO pleasure to watch instead a real pain. 16-Aug-08 02:24 AM Kevin Monahan EMU Systems Said...
"The first ever use of an actual 'Digital Sample' on a commercial recording was Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock in 1982 which uses the Fairlight's famous Orchestra Hit sound 'straight out of the box"
Not true. There are several instances that predate Planet Rock. We used the Emulator to add cash register sounds to Everybody's Broke - Magic Windows 1981. The Residents - Tunes of Two Cities was released in Early 1982 but recorded from 1980 - to January 1982. The Residents were an hours drive from EMU and we supported them though the production of that album. There was also Dirty Laundry - Don Henley with Steve Porcaro on Emulator very early 1982. 14-Mar-12 01:59 PM Said... That is Herbie Hancock - Everybody's Broke Magic WIndows- 1981 14-Mar-12 02:02 PM Jonathan Said... ALTERNATELY - you could make the argument that the first use of sampling was Pierre Schaefer in what was it? 1948? 1950? in his 'etude aux chemins de fer' - of course he used tape - but the mode and method is pound for pound the same. 06-Jun-15 07:06 AM Comments are closed while we transition to Disqus |


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Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center invites you to explore the maritime history of our region!
The Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center offers a wide variety of free educational programming for school and community groups. Please contact us and we will be happy to discuss your visit at 218-720-5260 x35274 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Programs are presented at no cost, whether your group visits our center, or we bring the activities to your school or community event. Reservations are required for all groups visiting the Visitor Center.
Listed below are brief program descriptions, length of program and target age groups.
Welcome (5-25 min) K-Adults (On site only)
This orientation program describes the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center, its exhibits and services as they reflect Great Lakes shipping and development. Tailored to your schedule.
Who's in Charge? (25-30 min) K-3rd (On site only)
What is it like to work aboard a Great Lakes ship? Program discusses the ships' crew, their jobs and shipboard life.
Up & Down the Soo Locks (25-30 min) K-8th
Because of the difference in lake levels, all ships coming to or going from Lake Superior must pass through the Soo Locks. The purpose and operation of the locks are explored using a model, maps, and an exciting fast-paced and humorous film.
Rail Meets Sail (25-30 min) 4th-Adult
Program illustrates shipping activities in Duluth-Superior Harbor and the Great Lakes. Hands-on look at coal, taconite, grain, and other cargoes handled by local docks and overall waterborne commerce.
Tall Water & Steel Ships (30 or 60 min versions) 4th-Adult
The Great MATAAFA Storm of 1905 was the most devastating ever for ships on Lake Superior. Historic photographs illustrate vessels caught in this storm. Also discusses marine weather forecasts and lifesaving equipment
With All Hands (30 or 60 min versions) 4th-Adult
Explore the wreck of the EDMUND FITZGERALD which foundered on Lake Superior with all hands during a heavy storm on the night of November 10, 1975.
Pier History Tour (30-45 min) K-Adult (On site only)
This Ranger led outside walking tour is offered during the months of May through September, depending on weather, provides a glimpse into the past of the surrounding area.
Summer Programming
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center in Canal Park Duluth, Minnesota is offering a series of summer films between 12:00 pmand 4:00 pm now through Labor Day. A variety of Great Lakes topics are covered including shipping, natural history, shipwrecks, lighthouses, Soo Lock operations, and Duluth-Superior Harbor activities. Films will change weekly with over twenty different films offered throughout the summer.
The Visitor Center will also be offering the popular 30 minute Pier History Tours Thursday through Monday 1:15 pm and 3:15 pm. This walking tour will highlight the fascinating history of Canal Park.
The Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center will be open daily from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm through Labor Day. There is never an admission charge to the Visitor Center or any of its programs. For information regarding specific programs and times, please contact the Visitor Center at (218) 720-5260, Ext 1.
School and Community Programs
The Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center offers a wide variety of educational programming for school and community groups. Please call us and we will be happy to discuss how we can assist you at 218-720-5260 x1. The programs are free of charge! All groups need to make a reservation whether you decide on a program or not.
For questions about the community programs you can contact the visitor center at - firstname.lastname@example.com
Listed below are brief program descriptions, length of program and target age groups.
Groups should have adequate supervision, with one adult for every 8-10 students. On arrival please have your group wait outside or in the lobby until notifying the staff person at the information desk on the museum's upper level. Most programs will begin in the meeting room on the lower level.
Restrooms and drinking fountain are located off the lower level entry.
The museum is handicap-accessible.
Additional Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center Program Information:
The Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center now offers a new tour option using a cell phone. The cell phone tour is an excellent way to explore and learn more about the history of the Corps of Engineers' Canal Park. Best of all, the tour can be accessed any time of the day. The cell phone tour highlighted stops include the tug Bayfield, Duluth Ship Canal, Duluth's Aerial Lift Bridge, local lighthouses and the shoreline anchor display.
To access the cell phone tour, just dial 218 213-9069. Callers listen to a short welcome message followed by instructions on how to receive information about each featured attraction. The cell phone tour is free. Cell phone usage rates do apply. Additional tour details are included in a four-page overview: Cell Phone Tour Overview.pdf
Open weekends - see hours Monday - Thursday CLOSED Friday - Sunday 10:00 am - 4:30 pm


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Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Release 7.0 -- Alarms Page
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Main page: Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Release 7.0
Up one level: Reference Information
Use this page to display the Alarm Table and clear alarms. To find this page, click Services > Alarms.
Table: Field Reference: Alarms Page
Field | Description |
Severity |
Magnitude of the alarm. Can be major or minor. |
Code |
Exception code. |
Count |
Number of alarms that were combined into the one table entry. |
First Time |
When the alarm was first added to the Alarm Table, not including any alarms that were previously cleared. |
Last Time |
When the most recent alarm occurred for this table entry. |
Unit |
Unit number reporting the alarm.
Software Module |
Number that identifies a specific software module. |
Note: The brief description for the Alarm Table entry may contain values that are specific to one alarm occurrence, such as an IP address. These values may differ in all alarms that are combined into one table entry, but only the values for the first alarm are displayed. To see the individual alarms, view Exception Log.
Related Topics
- Alarm and Exception Code Reference for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/ps5664/ps5669/prod_technical_reference_list.html


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Sunday River Outdoor Center caters to family winter fun. Step off our sunny deck and you are on your way to enjoying our 30k network of Nordic ski and snowshoe trails. Tracks are set on all trails and most have skating lanes. Dedicated snowshoe trails through unpacked powder lead to scenic views. The cross country trails are designed concentric loops with easier terrain closest to the ski center, making for a safe and comfortable experience for novice skiers. Winding through the woods, the trails pass picnic sites and lead to favorite destinations such as Artists' Covered Bridge. Beginner and experienced skiers alike can find a comfortable route or a new challenge.Relax in our sunny inviting lodge and enjoy food and drink at our on-site Cafe. Retail shops and free wi-fi in our lodge make us a great place to visit for a day. The Outdoor Center is located 1/2 mile from the Sunday River Ski Resort on the public transportation routes from nearby Bethel and the ski resort.
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Try our Nordic Discovery (lesson, rental and trail pass) for $60/Adults, $40/Jr./Sr.. Half day ticket pricing starts at 12:30.
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#1196 closed defect (worksforme)
Crash in wsdl.cpp:438 (SDL_SetVideoMode)
Reported by: | plumo | Owned by: | |
Priority: | Release Blocker | Milestone: | |
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Latest SVN version.
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Changed 5 years ago by plumo
Changed 5 years ago by plumo
comment:1 in reply to: ↑ description Changed 5 years ago by plumo
Replying to plumo:
Latest SVN version.
Game gets stuck on loading screen (50 percent)
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by historic_bruno
Can you run the game in a debugger, and put a breakpoint at wsdl.cpp:438 (SDL_SetVideoMode) to find the value of status? Then we can match it up with one of the return codes listed here, to find out why it's failing.
Also I'm not sure this qualifies as a release blocker.
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by plumo
I will try tomorrow when I'm home.
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by plumo
Ticket can be closed.
This error appears when clicking CTRL ALT DEL while loading a map.
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by plumo
- Resolution set to worksforme
- Status changed from new to closed
comment:6 Changed 5 years ago by historic_bruno
- Milestone Alpha 9 deleted
Ah, strange error. You have to be in fullscreen mode and then switch to the login screen while the game is loading. I found you can choose "Continue" in the error dialog and it will continue loading in windowed mode. If anyone's interested, the error is:
DISP_CHANGE_FAILED - The display driver failed the specified graphics mode.
Apparently, the problem is once you're on the login screen, you're no longer in the same desktop thread and you can't ChangeDisplaySettings on the current thread (obviously). I don't think this is a problem we can trivially solve, so the best advice may be: don't use Ctrl+Alt+Delete while the game is loading :)
(I do wonder if we can detect this situation though and either show a less scary message or make the application wait until the thread returns to the user's desktop)


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Anxiety is inevitable: the little jitters before giving a speech, the beads of sweat that break out when about to meet a blind date, the little knot in the stomach before a big test. These are things everyone will experience from time to time. However, for some people, anxiety can dominate their life. When this occurs, some simple things -- such as getting a bit of sun and enough sleep -- can help.
Sleep is restorative; it's a biological need that cannot, for general health, be overlooked. An anxiety disorder can make sleeping more difficult and be caused, in part, by a lack of sleep. Sleep deprivation -- routinely getting less than six hours of sleep a night -- has been found by researchers to contribute to anxiety disorder. Not getting enough sleep can cause havoc with hormones and neurotransmitters.
How Anxiety Affects Sleep
Insomnia: Insomnia is a general term that includes problems falling asleep, problems staying asleep, and waking so early that the person is not refreshed by sleep. Most people suffering from an anxiety disorder have insomnia as one of their symptoms.
Nightmares: Another sleep problem those with anxiety often have, especially post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients, is nightmares. Recurring nightmares can contribute to feeling unrested and anxious.
Other sleep disorders: Researchers are hot on the trail of sleep problems associated with anxiety disorders. Some researchers believe that sleep paralysis (waking up and yet being unable to move) is anxiety related. Another set of researchers are looking at cataplexy (a sudden loss of muscle tone) as a lesser version of narcolepsy (suddenly falling asleep) in relation to anxiety.
Hypersomnia: Anxiety can also be a symptom of over-sleeping called hypersomnia. A full night's sleep is essential, but there really can be too much of a good thing. Sleeping long hours at night or taking naps during the day after a full night's sleep can be a symptom or a cause of anxiety. First, check medications, as some can cause sleepiness. If the drug is suspected, check with the prescribing doctor; the dose may need to be altered. Excessive sleepiness could also be caused by drug interactions. It is also possible that sleepiness during the day may be due to insufficient sleep at night. While the quantity may be there, the quality may not. Check with a doctor to rule out sleep apnea.
Catching Some Rays
Sunlight is another basic human need. The vitamin D produced in our skin as a reaction to sunlight can go a long way in making someone feel better by producing a calming effect. Exposure to sunlight also helps regulate the nocturnal/diurnal cycles of the body, helping a person get a good night's sleep.
Furthermore, if a person has seasonal affective disorder (SAD) -- feeling depressed during the shorter, winter months -- along with an anxiety disorder, the exposure to sunlight can bring much relief.
Of course, anxiety is related to serotonin levels in the brain. When the levels are low, depression and anxiety can result. When the levels are too high, it can manifest in aggression. Most drugs to treat anxiety make more serotonin available. Sunlight may allow your body to produce more of the neurotransmitter.
One cautionary tip to consider: Several anti-anxiety drugs, such as Xanax and Librium, may degrade in the light even after consumption. They also may make a person more sensitive to light, such that their skin may burn more easily with prolonged sun exposure.
Tips to Consider
To avoid or minimize anxiety:
- Get at least seven hours of sleep per night
- Get no more than nine hours of sleep per night
- Get several hours of direct sunlight a day
- Be cautious of sunlight if on a course of anti-anxiety medications
- Take vitamin D when sunlight exposure is limited
- Have a medical checkup if sleep becomes an issue


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Emperor Nero was the last of the Julio-Claudians to rule the Roman Empire (54 AD to 68 AD). His fourteen year reign represents everything decadent about that period in Roman history. He was self-indulgent, cruel and violent as well as a cross-dressing exhibitionist. His lavish parties combined with the burning of Rome continued the economic chaos that had plagued the Roman citizenry since the days of Tiberius. According to the historian Suetonius in his The Twelve Caesars, upon hearing of the death of Nero, "…citizens ran through the streets wearing caps of liberty as though they were freed slaves."
Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 37 AD but renamed Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus when his mother, Agrippina, married Emperor Claudius in 49 AD. Some believe Nero's fate was inevitable. His father, Gnaeus Domitius, who died when Nero was three, was extremely violent in his own right -- described by his contemporaries as "a despicable character". He once deliberately ran over a young boy with his chariot as he drove through a local village. When his friends congratulated him upon hearing of the birth of his son, Nero's father said that anything born to Agrippina and him would be unlikeable and a disaster.
Nero's mother was daughter of Agrippina the Elder and the great-granddaughter of Emperor Augustus (her grandmother was his daughter Julia) – both women, as well as Agrippina's older brothers, were starved to death (the brothers by the order of Tiberius). Her youngest brother was Emperor Caligula whose short reign came to a violent end when he was murdered by his own Praetorian Guard thereby bringing her Uncle Claudius to the throne. After the death of her husband, Agrippina set her sights on the recently widowed Claudius, whose third wife Messalina had been murdered on his orders for among other reasons, adultery and attempted treason. After a short courtship, they married, and Nero (at his mother's insistence) was soon adopted in 50 AD.
However, by this time, Agrippina had already taken the next step -- the death of Claudius, placing Nero upon the emperor's throne. In 54 AD Claudius mysteriously died after eating a bowl of mushrooms -- probably poisoned ones. Some evidence exists suggesting that Nero knew of the poisoning when he later called mushrooms the "food of the gods." There was also fear that Britannicus (Claudius's legitimate son) might be chosen as emperor ahead of Nero. Suetonius wrote, "He (Nero) tried to poison Britannicus being not merely jealous of his voice … but afraid that the common people might be less attached to Claudius's adopted son than to his real one." Nero's fears soon abated (temporarily) when he was chosen as the new emperor in 54 AD. With his ascent to the imperial chair, Agrippina became the woman behind the man (but not for long).
Among Nero's first acts as emperor was to cancel many of Claudius's edicts and decrees -- referring to his predecessor as a "doddering old fool." To the general public Nero was a welcomed change. Like those before him, the early part of Nero's reign was considered by many to be a mini-golden age -- the populace believed him to be generous, kind and accessible. There were lavish games, plays, concerts, chariot races and gladiatorial tournaments, and taxes were even reduced. He restored much of the Senate's power that had been lost over the years, but this restoration had a hidden agenda; it was only done to enable the young emperor to pursue his worldly pleasures, to sing (he did not possess a great voice) and play his lyre. While he sang, no one in the audience was permitted to leave the performance. Suetonius wrote, "We read of women in the audience giving birth, and of men being so bored with the music and the applause that they furtively dropped down from the wall at the rear… and were carried away for burial."
Although Nero found time for his concerts and games, he had bigger problems at home -- his overly protective mother who still believed herself to be the true force behind the throne. Agrippina even was bold enough to boast of her influence to others. Nero, of course, found this interference intolerable and made plans to end it. First, he moved her out of the palace. Next, he denied her the protection of her Praetorian Guard and banned her from all gladiatorial contests. Realizing that she was losing her grip on Nero, she fought back by throwing her support behind Britannicus, Nero's step-brother and Claudius's son, but he mysteriously died at a family banquet: another poisoning victim. It didn't take long for Agrippina to realize she was next.
Nero's planned his mother's death with great care -- even bringing specialists to Rome from Alexandria to assist in the planning. He had an elaborate device created for her bedchamber ceiling which would collapse and crush her in her sleep; however, it proved to be too complicated to build and install. Next, he tried a specially designed boat that would collapse and sink, but she proved too smart and swam to the shore. Finally, his last attempt was the simplest and easiest: he had her stabbed to death, but her death would haunt him for the rest of his life.
Nero's marriages and affairs also proved to be troublesome. He was married to the very popular Octavia, the daughter of Claudius and Messalina (a marriage made at his mother's urging) but also having an affair with the very pregnant Poppaea Sabina (his mother detested her). In order to marry her he accused Octavia of adultery and exiled her, later to be murdered (but made to look like a suicide). Poppaea, whose first husband was Rufius Crispinus (a Roman soldier), was married to the future Emperor Otho at the time of her affair with Nero. On the emperor's orders, Otho was dispatched to the far reaches of the empire.
His exodus and Octavia's death opened the door for Nero's second marriage. It was even suspected that Poppaea was behind Octavia's and possibly Agrippina's death. The historian Tactius in his Annals wrote:
Length of power had matured his daring, and his passion for Poppaea daily grew more ardent. As the woman had no hope of marriage for herself or of Octavia's divorce while Agrippina lived, she would reproach the emperor with incessant vituperation … 'Why,' she asked, 'was her marriage put off?'
Nero's second marriage was not a happy one. Poppaea and Nero's child died shortly after her birth. Poppaea's next pregnancy ended in tragedy for both. After Nero and she argued late one night (Nero liked to stay out late), he supposedly kicked her in the stomach, killing both her and the unborn child.
Although he had good advisors in Burrus and Seneca, the emperor's reign would continue to see one catastrophe after another. First, there was the Piso Conspiracy, an unsuccessful plot to kill Nero, involving at least nineteen senators as well as other leading citizens. Its failure brought about the execution of forty-one individuals. Although it failed, it led to Nero be forever paranoid and untrusting. Next, there was the failed Boudicca rebellion in Britain as well as numerous insurrections in many outlying provinces including both Judea and Gaul -- the latter two were a reaction to increased taxes.
The greatest threat to Nero's reign, however, was the Great Fire, which began on July 19, 64 AD and lasted for six days. Ten of the fourteen districts of the city were destroyed, hundreds died, thousands were left homeless, and looters ravaged the city. Since the fire, many questions have been raised: Did Nero play his lyre (not a fiddle which hadn't been invented) while the city burned? Did he start it? Historians differ in their response to these questions -- was he even in the city or did he watch it burn? Suetonius wrote, "Nero watched the conflagration from the Tower of Maecenas enrapt by what he called 'the beauty of the flames'; then put on his tragedian's costume and sang …" Tacitus seemed to remain neutral when he wrote: "A disaster followed, whether accidental or treacherously contrived by the emperor, is uncertain, as authors have given both accounts, worse, however, and more dreadful than any which have ever happened to this city by the violence of fire." The blame fell, of course, upon the heads of the persecuted Christians who had always viewed Nero as the anti-Christ.
Although he had to raise taxes to finance the rebuilding of Rome, the city was better in some ways than before: rebuilt residential districts, wider streets, brick buildings, and colonnades at street level to shelter to residents from the sun. Of course, the new Rome also included Nero's Golden Palace (later to be buried by Emperor Trajan), containing gold plated ceilings, a lake, and exotic animals. Those who believe Nero started the fire point to his palace as the underlying reason.
The fire, the conspiracy, the numerous insurrections, and the empty treasury led to Nero's demise. The Senate declared him an enemy of the public and named Galba as the new emperor. Realizing his days as emperor were over, Nero attempted suicide but failed and needed help to take his own life. His last words were: "What an artist dies in me."
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However, the Dutch courts rejected the group's claims against Royal Dutch Shell. According to judge Henk Wien, Nigerian law has it that "a parent company in principle is not obliged to prevent its subsidiaries from harming third parties abroad." Thus, Royal Dutch Shell could not be tried for the oil damages, but rather Shell Nigeria would be faced with the plaintiffs' claims.
While the burden fell from Royal Dutch Shell to Shell Nigeria, very little stuck, as Shell Nigeria was only sentenced to pay for damages in one of the five cases brought against Royal Dutch Shell.
The ruling has a significant impact for both the people living near Shell's oil infrastructure in Nigeria and other countries, as well as for Shell and other multinationals. For Nigeria, which had over 200 oil spills in the Niger Delta last year, the ruling drastically limits the people's ability to seek compensation in court. For Shell and multinational corporations — at least those based in the Netherlands — the case shows that they are somewhat protected from the actions of their subsidiaries abroad.
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The Philippines' top diplomat warned on Thursday that "very threatening" actions by China in staking its claims to contested waters are posing a risk to stability in Asia.
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario made the comments following a meeting in Manila with his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, during which the two sides pledged to deepen security and other ties to counter a rising China.
The Philippines and Japan are locked in separate territorial disputes with China which have simmered for decades but intensified recently amid what the two nations perceive as increasingly aggressive Chinese tactics.
"We talked about the challenges that we appear to be facing in view of the assertions being made by China," del Rosario said.
"I think we all understand that the assertions being made by China, in terms of their nine-dash line claim for example, they do pose threats to the stability of the region."
The so-called nine-dash line map lays out China's claims to most of the South China Sea, including waters close to the shores of some of its neighbours.
The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei, as well as Taiwan, also have overlapping claims to parts of the South China Sea, but Beijing insists it has sovereign rights to nearly all of it.
Del Rosario cited a range of recent Chinese tactics that were of concern to the Philippines, including establishing a local governing authority to rule over the South China Sea and building more infrastructure in contested areas.
"I think these are all very threatening," said del Rosario, who has infuriated China with other outspoken comments. In July last year, he accused China of "duplicity and intimidation" in staking its claims.
Meanwhile, Tokyo is embroiled in an even more hostile dispute with Beijing over a group of uninhabited islands – known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Senkakus in Japan – in the East China Sea.
Without mentioning China directly, Kishida said the Philippines and Japan needed to boost their ties to help ensure peace in the region.
"As the strategic environment in the region is greatly changing, it is necessary for us foreign ministers to share recognition of the situation," said Kishida, who later on Thursday met Philippine President Benigno Aquino.
Kishida said this also made it necessary to "enhance the strategic partnership between the two countries and co-operate in shaping [a] peaceful and prosperous Asia-Pacific region".
Del Rosario said Japan was committed to boosting the capability of the under-equipped Philippine coastguard, which is one of the frontline forces in protecting Filipino interests in the South China Sea.
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Without making direct mention of the Philippine coastguard's requirements, Kishida said: "On the political and security front we agreed on strengthening policy dialogue and enhancing maritime co-operation and other measures."
Del Rosario said that although it was not raised during the Kishida visit, Aquino shared his foreign minister's view that Asia needed a militarily stronger Japan amid an increasingly assertive China.
"I think the president [Aquino] is of the view that a stronger Japan, acting as a counter-balance in the region, would help promote stability for the Asia-Pacific," del Rosario said.


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I have a Soddy Jr that's ancient I can strop that on my palm, can't do it with the new stuff. So I'd say the changed something I prefer it to be softer.
Case's Chrome Vanadium steel (CV) has been around for a long time, and with a deservedly excellent reputation. Even though the composition of the CV steel seems to constantly come into question, it has been revealed by an authoritative voice that it is actually 0170-6 (50100 B), which is basically 1095 with small additions of chromium and vanadium. Our forumite STR quoted BRK&T's Mike Stewart back in 2005 as saying this was common knowledge in the knife industry. Besides Case, it has been used by Cold Steel (Carbon V), Camillus, Becker and Western. Obviously, each company used their own HT recipes to bring out the performance criteria of their own products.
Sharon steel made the original batch in the 1950s, but went bankrupt in 1988. Some time after 2000, Case and Camillus got another (unnamed) company to duplicate the chemistry and produce more of the steel.
The composition, with the addition of chromium and vanadium, should be superior to plain 1095. Mike Stewart says it will outperform 1095. But, recent tests and anecdotal evidence support the case that GECs straight 1095 is both harder and better at edge-holding than Case CV. The only logical explanation is in the heat treatment.
Do those of you with great experience of older Case CV blades believe that either the composition, or more likely the HT, has changed over the years? Were the older blades run at a harder Rockwell than current production? Thanks for the input.
I have a Soddy Jr that's ancient I can strop that on my palm, can't do it with the new stuff. So I'd say the changed something I prefer it to be softer.
I've wondered about this too. I have a 1970 10-dot large Case sodbuster with the 'carbon' blade. But, it's not specifically marked with the 'CV' in the pattern number (2138). I've wondered if it was the same steel, but maybe Case just hadn't gotten around to using the 'CV' designation at that time.
It wouldn't surprise me if they've tweaked their process to make their blades easier to sharpen (& perhaps to make machining/stamping process more efficient). Buck Knives did this years ago with their 110 Folding Hunter, in switching from 440C to 425 and eventually to the current 420HC.
Case never marked the "CV" on the pattern number until 1996. CV was the predominant Case steel from the old days until about 1980 (very small percentage of the line was SS).
If anyone knows how to read steel data, I have some 1950's and 1960's era documents on Case CV from the company that provided the steel to Case.
Is it in the form of percentages of the alloying elements, like on A.G. Russell's Steel Guide?
Here is it's link: http://www.agrussell.com/Steel_Guide/a/73/
It shows 0170-6C as having .95% Carbon, .4% Manganese, .45% Chromium, and .19% Vanadium.
You can post the info in the maker's forum. I'm sure one of the metallurgist's there will be happy to identify it for you.
I think it is a little harder now than it used to be.
case knives before 1980 or even later rockwelled at 53 or 54[carbon] i know after parker was gone or maybe during his last gasps the rockwell or alloy was improved. 1991 or 93 or so i skinned a mule deer with a standard copperlock & noticed a big improvement in the edge holding. cardboard cutting in the 70s & 80s was very poor . gerber, eye & even carbon imperials did better on cardboard than the case. i figured someone had authorized the harder rockwell to improve the knives.whatever is the situation case carbon is a much better cutter than 25 years ago.
1095 is an AISI designation for iron alloyed with 0.95 carbon but variation of +/- 0.05 1070 is same but 0.70 w/o carbon. If true AISI there are no other alloying elements but some sulfur and manganese and phosphorous for other purposes. There are a bazillion other steel designators SAE ASTM DIN ASM etc and a lot of variation and similarity. 50100 is an SAE designation. It's hard to compare and rely on the compositions of carbon steel just based on what someone claims it's designator is even if that person isn't lying.
The composition of stainless steels varies more widely and the designators tend to be more significant e.g. 420 vs. 440 vs 316. Same more or less with tool steels like D2 O1 etc.
The proprietary designators like the various CPMs are like brand names and even more reliable.
Of course heat treatment and hardness (related but not same) can render composition nearly irrelevant.
Don Hanson has posted some definitive data on changes in CV composition. See post below. It is not just the heat treat. Current CV has less carbon.
According to Phil Gibbs, who worked for Camillus, Camillus did not partner with Case to buy the lot of steel that Cold Steel marketed as Carbon V and which Camillus marketed as 0170-6C. Phil admitted that the composition of the Camillus steel was similar to that of Sharon 0170-6. But he said it was not exactly the same. He also insisted that the proprietary heat treat performed by Camillus produced a superior blade.
Wayne Goddard wrote in The Wonder of Knife Making that he had taken a sample and had an elemental analysis performed on it. He posted the results in that book. 0170-6C was indeed extremely similar to the 1950's Case blade steel composition in Don's post. It is less similar to the current CV.
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I can well believe that statement, if Case was running theirs at from upper 40s to lower 50s HRc. Anything in the 1080 to 1095 range of steels can be run at 60+ HRc. So why are Case keeping their CV so relatively soft? Ease of sharpening does not mean nearly the same thing today, with diamond hones, as it did back in the 1940s. GECs 1095 is around 58 HRc, and by all accounts is noticeably harder than CV and still sharpens easily. What am I missing?
I own a number of pre 70's CV Cases as well as newer one. I agree the older CV knives did sharpen easier while the newer knives sharpen more like Carbon V (which I also own a good number of). I do admit I baby my knives, I use them but I try to use the right tool for the right job. If I am going to be breaking down cardboard boxes I use a box cutter, not my pocket knife. I prefer the older CV knives as I can put a near scalpel edge on them while that very fine edge is tougher on the newer knives. I often wondered if the newer CV had not become larger grained as well.
Very interesting info in this thread
I believe a higher hardness of Case CV would suit me better. I am with you black mamba on the the GEC 1095 vs Case CV.
I am not to suprised by most of these results. I ha e always felt that Case runs their stuff aft, even more so in the old days. But it is good stuff if they would run it a bit harder like GEC then their knives would be a noticable step up in my opinion.
Current Case CV blades rockwell in the mid 50s, 5 to 10 points harder than the old knives. I believe folks used to use pocket knives much harder than today, prying with the tips and doing stuff that would break harder blades. High blade hardness, upper 50s-low 60s started in the 70s' with custom knives. This trend has slowly worked it's way into some factory knives, this is a relatively new thing to the world of knives
Vanadium retards grain growth in tool steel, very small amount needed, .20% +/-. Also adds a little wear resistance. Larger amounts can be problematic.I don't know what vanadium does to the steel's microstructure
Grain size is a product of rolling/forging and heat treating of steel. Industry usually always shoots for smallest size. Large grain leads to chippy edges and weak blades, not something I've run into with Case CV.I often wondered if the newer CV had not become larger grained as well.
I have an old Case Peanut that dates from the late 1970's. It takes a good edge, but always seemed a bit soft to me.
It made 440C seem hard.
Ok, guys, how does the new CV compare to the "Surgical Stainless" Case currently uses on 90+% of their production? It seems that the knife knuts prefer the CV blades. Don't shoot me now, but if the SS versions are just as good or nearly so, seems that their mfg percentages are just about right.
Does the general public want a nice shiny blade over a better performing carbon steel blade? Seems that fancy stainless and powdered metal technology is "obsoleting" the older carbon steels. Yet, there seems to still be a market for the less costly carbon steel knives (examples are MORA and OPINEL).
When I am looking for a traditional slip joint or locking folder for EDC, I want a good performing steel. It helps if the knife is affordable. So, what is really better regarding current Case offerings - CV or SS?
When I tested the edge retentions of CV & Tru-Sharp side by side in manila rope cutting, the CV did a bit better than the Tru-Sharp. Enough so that I would expect to notice it in every day use.
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You are missing that the current CV is based on 1085. The old CV was based on 1095. The difference in carbon will have an effect on edge retention even if the blades are tempered to the same hardness.
GEC uses steel with more carbon and runs it at a higher hardness. It's not to wonder that they hold an edge better.
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One of the most important characteristics of good neighbors is that they have a good living habit and are friendly to others. A person with bad habit will affect your daily life. For example, children are most likely to be influenced by bad neighbors and carry on bad habits. On the other hands, being friendly is also an important nature of good neighbors. If neighbors are unfriendly, they are hard to approach and difficult to get along with.
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Iowa should win easily....but we've lost our 2 road games already this year.
Iowa 27
Minny 17
Anyone else going to the game? Short drive from eastern Iowa...5 hours or so.
Kinnick North!
My Dad will be there. But I am from Minneapolis. He and my Mom are both born and raised in Iowa (He Fort Dodge, my mother Des Moines). I know he had season tickets to Iowa football games and made the 5 hour drive a couple years in a row, but doesn't now. He will be there, I think he is dragging my little sister, who still gives him **** about having to watch the Iowa comeback and last second win against MSU a couple of years ago 20+ times with my Dad.
If you want the ultimate, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love.
Did we actually lose to the Gophers ahhaha? We are a powerhouse this year, wow
If you want the ultimate, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love.
Kill me now.
I'm not there at all yet, but I'm starting to entertain the idea of thinking about exploring the possibility of looking at some other options for Iowa's head coach. Kirk has done some amazing things, and I will love what hes done forever, but if there's a more clueless gameday coach in the Big Ten, I'd be surprised. I don't want to get started on them all, but you guys watched the game too. There were at least 5 terrible, if not very questionable decisions Kirk made. The result: once again losing to an inferior team. Getting tired of it.
Time for new blood. Ferentz is too "Old school" and doesn't adjust to the changes.
College football is completely different than it was 20 years ago.
Norm needs to hang it up, too. Love the guy but it's time to go.
Okeefe...he should have been gone 5 years ago
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Take ou your frustration on Michigan and then again on Nebraska
You forgot to mention Michigan State
This is what kills me about this team. We play up (or down) to the level of competition. I will not be surprised if we beat Michigan and MSU, since they are home games.
Yet we lose to ISU and ****ing Minnesota
You can't blame the players when you play down to those horrible teams. That's all on the coaches.
So stupid.
Beat Michigan.......lose to ISU/Minny.
Bowl eligible, so I'm happy. I won't be in Iowa in late December
i mean... we play msu at home, than got games against purdue and nebraska. win out, were in the big ten championship game, win that, well u wont be in iowa in early january do i think it will happen? nope, but stranger things have happened. (i believe in miracles since witnessing game 6 of the world series haha)
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Steamboat Springs The snowflakes that fell over Steamboat Springs Sunday night and Monday weren't of the famed champagne powder variety, but they were a welcome relief following more than a week of dry, mild weather.
A strong Pacific storm system moved into the area Sunday and teamed up with a cold front to turn rain to heavy, large snowflakes that piled up quickly in downtown Steamboat, with up to 10 inches reported in areas by the time Monday's morning commute began.
The storm picked up its intensity Monday afternoon after a midday lull, and the snowfall, heavy at times, was expected to leave between 12 and 16 inches by the time it moved out of the area late Monday night or early this morning, meteorologist Jim Daniels said.
A winter storm warning for the area was in effect until midnight Monday. The warning forecast heavy snow -- up to 2 inches an hour in places -- to possibly continue overnight in mountainous areas.
The heavy, water-packed snow was the result of a cold front that lacked punch, Daniels said.
"The warmer temperatures allowed for the larger growth of snowflakes, which tend to clump together and be heavier," he said.
It's hard to complain about snow quality, especially after more than a week of dry weather, ski area spokeswoman Cathy Wiedemer said.
"It's just what we need for the terrain that's not open," Wiedemer said. "This type of snow is great for a base. It wasn't the lightest, driest snowfall to date but it was well-received."
The ski area reported 14 inches of new snow in the 24-hour period from 12:30 p.m. Sunday to 12:30 p.m. Monday. At times Monday, the snow fell at a pace of nearly 2 inches an hour at the summit of Storm Peak, Wiedemer said.
"It's snowing, and that's what counts," she said.
The storm brought the ski area's cumulative snowfall total to more than 90 inches -- more than any other major Colorado resort, Wiedemer said. The ski area also has more terrain open than any major state resort.
While good for skiers and snowboarders, the snow left area roads icy and snowpacked and caused several two-vehicle accidents Monday, Steamboat Springs Police Department Assistant Chief Art Fiebing said. None of the accidents that occurred through Monday afternoon resulted in injuries.
"People need to slow down," Fiebing said. "But it hasn't been too bad today considering how much snow there is."
Routt County Sheriff John Warner said his deputies responded to several reports of cars sliding off of slick roads.
Two more winter storm systems could blow into the area by the end of the week, Daniels said. Though neither is considered to be as powerful as the one that moved through Steamboat Sunday and Monday, prevailing unstable conditions could continue to bring precipitation to the area through the middle of next week.


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My first french words Lite: Fruits
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Kids age 2 to 7 will now have fun learning basic french words.The aim of the game is to arrange the letters in the correct order to make up a word
Letters are pronounced when touched.
When word is completed, it's pronounced (in French) and provided letters were arranged in the correct written sequence an animation is displayed.
This lite version only includes 5 different fruits.
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