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GMN - Vol73 - Motionless In White, Rise To Remain, Zoltar Speaks, Mave Infinitum, Affliction9/3/2012 MOTIONLESS IN WHITE 'Creatures' FEARLESS It was only a matter of time before a new genre crossed the ever-expanding chasm of Metalcore, this fell to the dark genre of Gothic Metal and thus spawned a new sound, capitalised by American sextet Motionless In White. 'Creatures' their debut album, released in 2010, delivers that sound that fits the 'Gothcore' tag in completeness. With the atmospheric synths delivering a spine-chilling blow of insane melodies and the rest of the music encasing the listener with a powerful smackdown of straight-edge Metalcore, Motionless In White are due to take the world by storm, by delivering a unique twist and captivating ears everywhere, the old Gothic renaissance has been brought back to life. [8.5] RHYS STEVENSON RISE TO REMAIN 'City of Vultures' EMI Hailing from a metal bloodline, Austin Dickinson and his unholy compatriots in Rise To Remain smash out the of London Metal scene with a belter, collaborating the harsh heavy sounds of Metalcore with the flowing elegancy of Melodic Metal. It would seem apparent that the album itself has a story to itself, for each song has a build-up and an anti-climax, but even so with the guitar virtuoso being present and the soul-soothing vocals adding the third dimension to this magnificent debut, 'City of Vultures' is perhaps the sentimental sound to be attached to Rise To Remain forever. 'City of Vultures' is one solid proof that British Metalcore has only just begun, let the battle commence. [9] RHYS STEVENSON ZOLTAR SPEAKS 'Treatment' There just seems to be a trend amongst South-West English metal bands, one trend unnoticed. But that trend is heavily hinted with Zoltar Speaks, most bands in Somerset are near breaking-point, breaking the underground barrier. With their four track EP 'Treatment' released last year, this is a prime example of pure Melodic Heavy Metal, with the vocals nearly reminiscent of vocalists such as Amy Lee and Avril Lavigne and the music itself taking influence from Iron Maiden at its peak, Zoltar Speaks are the voice of Somerset. 'Treatment' delivers a powerful knock-out punch with each song and offers no way of forgiving mercy, not even a respite from complete audio annihilation. [8] RHYS STEVENSON MARE INFINITUM 'Sea Of Infinity' SOLITUDE PRODS. Calm and depression may not always work together, but when applied to the Russian two-man band Mare Infinitum, it does. The Atmospheric Doom / Death Metal duo create a world full of enchantment, mystic and sensational sounds, all of which amount to their debut album 'Sea Of Infinity', burdening a hefty 55 minutes worth of music in five tracks, so much for keeping one entertained. Mare Infinitum are like most Russian Doom Metal bands and so therefore the cliché of the genre becomes the norm, in one way there lies nothing relatively new with the album, but it offers some respite in that it in places has an upbeat side, but lacks the final panache. [6.5] RHYS STEVENSON AFFLICTION
'Eyes Of Horror' SALUTE Darkened sadness drapes the misery and despair with the sounds of Doom / Death Metal project Affliction, operated by one Satanic Tony, of whom owns Salute Records, delivers an almighty blow to the heart with this six track demo, with raw vocals at the forefront and sensational music acting as a foundation for perhaps the most evil music created by Satanic Tony, this is one demo most underground Metal fans should have in their collection. Subtle and mesmerising goes the compositions, although not powerful enough to spark competition from the Russians, it does however send a clear message of desirable hate and sufferable pain. [7] RHYS STEVENSON ONE WITHOUT 'Sweet Relief' Hailing from the centre of the Gothenburg Metal storm system, Swedish Gothic Metalcore quintet One Without storm out of the darkness with their all-so beautiful melodies and earthquake-rhythmetic beats in the form of their sophomore album 'Sweet Relief'. The Metalcore part stems from the source that seems to be the same as where fellow countrymen Sonic Syndicate have doused themselves in whereas the Gothic Metal part is in the style of the Italian maestros Lacuna Coil. None the less this is not Motionless In White mark 2, but more so a band in their own rights and sounds. Without a doubt this is the Swedish Metal album of the year 2011. [10] RHYS STEVENSON SENTENCED TO BURN 'We Represent' No prisoners and no prayers are welcome with the debut EP of Hardcore crew Sentenced To Burn, the quintet from the State of Brunei Darussalam (in South-East Asia) give no reason to why people should shy away from their music, full of breakdown and rib-snapping riffs, this is Hardcore beyond all belief. Drawing clear influences from the American Hardcore scene and especially Hatebreed, Sentenced To Burn are truly bringing metal to the masses with 'We Represent', simply put you would have to be totally insane not to check them out. Balls, sweat, brutality, masculinity, just about everything including the kitchen sink has been injected into this release, forget Hatebreed 'cause this is the new s***! The band may as well be caught saying 'We Represent' Brunei Darussalam, because they are flying the flag for their Metal scene. [8.5] RHYS STEVENSON INFLUENCE 'Where Does Your Way Lead To?' Without compromise and without any signs of respite, this is the brutal melodic storm the Polish Metal scene has been waiting for, clad in business suits and corporate like CEO's, the Technical / Melodic Death Metal quartet Influence shed noise on their debut EP 'Where Does Your Way Lead To?' Fast paced percussion encased by the viral sounds of outrageous riffs and solos and dogged by some of the harshest vocals heard this year, Influence are exactly what the band name says, an influence to the next generation of Metal bands, think twice before dismissing them as another average Melodic Metal band, you'd be a fool to do so, so in the end fans know where the bands way leads to, but 'Where Does Your Way Lead To?' [9] RHYS STEVENSON MITIGATE 'A New Day' Austrian Symphonic / Melodic Death Metal trio Mitigate return once again with swords raised high and in triumph of unleashing their second album 'A New Day' to the masses. Much goes by the basic drumming but more attention is drawn to the vocals of which give two contrasting feelings, one of majestic feeling and the other of being slaughtered, whilst conventionally the music has some progressive elements to it - especially in the symphonies, but even so the latter is a just reflection of 'Dimmu Borgir-like' symphonic metal. Mitigate for who they are, have created a separate sound regardless of the common drum sounds, rest assured it can only get better. [7] RHYS STEVENSON LIVARKAHIL
'Signs Of Decay' LISTENABLE Parisian Deathcore slammers Livarkahil commit double genocide with their emphatically grave-raping sophomore album 'Signs Of Decay'. Fisting in a smacking of brain-crushing Death Metal in its most extreme form whilst the gritty gravel of Hardcore digs down into the skull's chambers to unleash a torrential flooding of blood and sweat in an outrageous style. With smack-down breakdowns and vocals to give any emo a migraine, 'Signs Of Decay' is the most unforgivable Deathcore production this year, take no mercy, take no cowardice, Livarkahil have only just begun the humanity slaughtering. [10] RHYS STEVENSON BLAIR WITCH 'Imprecation' Arising from the darkened countryside of the island country of Taiwan is quintet (male guitarist Chiang joined later) Blair Witch, with four females leading the way. Sad to say they are going on hiatus, but that does not deter the fact this is possibly the best Black Metal album to come out of Taiwan in ages (albeit ChthoniC), mixing clear Carpathian Forest sounds with the ferocity of the Taiwanese culture, Blair Witch are in their own league and with their debut EP 'Imprecation' giving all the green lights to state this is a band that clearly has the musicianship powerful enough to overthrow Taiwanese Metal leaders ChthoniC, is pretty much the truth. Blair Witch, brings a whole new level of darkness, with that in mind, Taiwan has spoken. [10] RHYS STEVENSON NIOBETH 'Silvery Moonbeams' What is it with Gothic Metal and the Spanish that seems to make both worth without error or fault? Niobeth, the Symphonic / Progressive Gothic Metal quartet from Spain make their long-awaited return with their sophomore album 'Silvery Moonbeams', twisting the atmosphere like unravelling wrapped sweets with the taste of el classico being amidst the elegancy of this band, such dramatic music would provide the apt soundtrack to the Real Madrid vs. Barcelona fiasco. Sounding similar to that of Dutch band Within Temptation, this Spanish lot are sure to make a name for themselves if not an attractive gem to major labels. [7.5] RHYS STEVENSON _ CRYSALYS 'The Awakening Of Gaia' AURAL MUSIC As majestic as the great soprano's hitting the high notes in the coliseums, Italy's Gothic Metalcore magicians Crysalys weave a sensual and emotional stream of operatic vocals in the form of Therion-cross-Nightwish whilst being embodied by the brutality of Metalcore. After eight years their long awaited debut album took full flight and delivers a heavenly outburst of dominant female vocals and a solid backbone of riffs, crushing drumming and an atmosphere rivalling any dramatic spills found in the Inter Milan vs. AC Milan riposte. Crysalys are leading the way forward for the darkened side of the once criticised music genre, for the Italian band it is only just the beginning. [7] RHYS STEVENSON TERRORDOME 'We'll Show You Mosh, Bitch!' DEFENSE Polish crackpots Terrordome give the all out nuclear blast with their debut album 'We'll Show You Mosh, Bitch!', laying tight riffs, mentally bruising drumming and soul-ripping vocals, the Brutal Thrashers rage out of the stables with a monstrous thundering of apocalyptic audio-waves. Whilst conventionally the vocals are not really clear, the music gives its fair share of absolute precise composition. In the end, although an extremely brutal and heavy release, the downside lies with the vocals, but this will not deter the band from making a long-lasted impression. [6.5] RHYS STEVENSON _ RATZINGER
'2012' DIGIMETALWORDL / AUSTRALIS This is the sophomore album from Chilean Groove Thrash merchants Ratzinger, flinging a whirlwind of neck-breaking thrash with groove elements to sound out an utter cataclysmic explosion of South American metal. '2012' may serve as a literal precedent to the year 2012, but whilst that may remain as an opinion, the fact lies within the truth that Ratzinger is perhaps the best Thrash Metal band in the Chilean Metal scene. Whilst the vocals sadly are not the greatest, the music fails to let down and so rescues the album in its near entirety; but definitely an album worth checking out. [7] RHYS STEVENSON |


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Malans Waterfall: II, WI5 - This was one of the first waterfalls to be ice climbed in Utah. Greg Lowe made the first ascent of the falls in 1971. The route is best climbed early in the morning before the sun hits the wall. | Image Data
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You may recall we've mentioned Serpens Sector before. The indie turn-based space-faring RPG from Metal Beetle has a new development preview download if you'd like to check out the progress. Here's the press release:
Space Exploration: Serpens Sector Development Preview 10 ReleasedMore information.
Metal Beetle Ltd has released a new preview version of Space Exploration: Serpens Sector, its upcoming RPG. The new preview is available from http://www.metalbeetle.com/spaceexpl…n/download.php.
This preview features an improved combat mode where you can use planets for cover, navigate past dangerous asteroid fields, hack enemy spaceships, and partake in fleet battles. The game now also contains music by Rozovian, a choice of difficulty levels, and more fleshed-out interactions with the crew of your ship, who will give you advice and sometimes pursue their own agendas.
Space Exploration: Serpens Sector is a role-playing game based on classics like Starflight and Star Control. You are tasked with exploring the mysterious Serpens Sector after a long period of human absence. Each game has a different map and a different set of encounters, drawn from a large list. The base game will be free, and purchasable expansions will add further encounters for those who enjoy the game and want to see more.
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A tribute to a Laxman-special: India win a thriller at Mohali
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India should have probably never won the first Test match against Australia at Mohali, but the greatness of VVS Laxman can hardly be underestimated. Especially when the opposition is Australia. Laxman hit a most valuable half century to guide his side to a 1-0 lead over the Aussies [1] at Mohali.
Words can only do so much justice to what VVS Laxman did today. Countless attempts can be made to describe the knock but the entities like the non-striker, the commentators at the ground or even the fans at the stadium would probably speak of the pictures speaking louder than words. And in this instance, much louder.
As a business management student, I had often heard of the 80-20 rule; in case of Laxman, his innings could be apportioned into two such halves. For 80% of his knock, he was like a sage who only batted for penance and batted really long. Nothing could faze him, nobody could move him and almost conversely to Humpty Dumpty, none of the King's horses and Ponting's men could dislodge him.
Then came the next 20% of his innings. This was the portion of the innings where Pragyan Ojha endeavoured to remain at the crease. And to get out. He sent the palpitations of even the sage into overdrive and by the time it was over, Laxman was counting his remaining hair. And the nails under his gloves. So were we.
However, amidst all of this, one will have to use the oft-repeated words to describe the innings that he played today. One that saw him see Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh give their wickets away like the mere mortals they were, one that saw the fans see him take many of those deliveries from outside the off-stump and deposit between the deep square-leg and deep mid-wicket, one that had him play his second successive match-winning knock in as many games. It was a half-century that could act as a brand ambassador for this format of the game. Especially after the battering it has taken in recent times from awful tracks, silly off-springs by the name of T20 cricket and feeble bowling (again, brought about the first two factors)
Let's face it, the Australian bowling was not at its best. Mitchell Johnson has shown glimpses of good form over the years but his alter-ego has reared his ugly head every now and again. Ben Hilfenhaus has often swung the ball but with the old ball, things have not always been right for him while Doug Bollinger was injured for most part of the first and the second session of the day. Lesser said the better about 'spinner' Nathan Hauritz.
And yet, it was the fact that it was Australia and not Bangladesh that the Indians were playing against and chasing a more-than-moderate target on a wearing pitch that makes the knock special. So does the fact that Laxman was batting with spasms in the back, with a runner to add to the confusion and had had to endure being indirectly responsible for the run-out of his captain, Dhoni. None of it ever fazed the man. Nothing did. Nada. At least till his fellow Hyderabadi number eleven came to the crease.
What I wonder, though, is the fact whether his innings would have got as much air-time in the media and amongst the experts had India lost the game, say, by three runs because of the ineptitude of Ojha. And if the answer to this question is no, then one would have to give a huge amount of credit to Ishant Sharma for being able to get India in that situation.
One must remember that Ishant had had a ragged Test match. The 15 no-balls that he bowled in the game is feat that can probably be paralleled only if Henry Olonga makes his comeback to Test match cricket or if Ranadeb Bose decided to commit cricketing suicide. Then there was that knee injury which had pushed him out reckoning for the second Test match. The pressure was squarely on him and one has to doff one's hat to him for showing the mettle.
Thankfully for the Indians, they will go into the second Test match without the pressure that is usually associated with losing the first one – something that they have been notoriously well versed with this year.
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Orders of the Day — Clause 29 — Community treatment orders, etc — 18 Jun 2007 at 21:45
Nick Herbert MP, Arundel and South Downs voted in the minority (Aye).
Amendment proposed: No. 96, page 19, line 27, leave out paragraphs (b) to (d) and insert-
'(b) if the patient is not under Part III of the Act, (a patient concerned in criminal proceedings or under sentence), the patient's ability to make decisions about the provision of medical treatment is significantly impaired because of his mental disorder;
(c) it is necessary for-
(i) the protection of others from serious harm, or
(ii) the protection of the patient from suicide or serious harm to himself that he should receive treatment for his mental disorder;
(d) subject to his being liable to be recalled to hospital for medical treatment such treatment can be provided without his continuing to be detained in a hospital;
(e) the patient has on at least one occasion within five years previous to the present admission under section 3 refused to accept medical treatment for mental disorder;
(i) when appropriate medical treatment has been refused there has been a significant relapse in his mental or physical condition justifying compulsory admission to hospital; (whether or not there has been such an admission); and
(ii) medical treatment was then provided to him which alleviated or prevented a worsening of his condition, its symptoms or other manifestations of his condition.
(f) it is necessary for the protection of others from serious harm, or the protection of the patient from suicide or serious harm to himself, that he should be liable to be recalled to hospital for medical treatment; and".'.- [Tim Loughton.]
Question put, That the amendment be made:-
The House divided: Ayes 212, Noes 271.
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Con | 0 | 148 (+2 tell) | 0 | 76.5% |
Independent | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 270 (+2 tell) | 2 | 0 | 77.8% |
LDem | 0 | 59 | 0 | 93.7% |
Total: | 271 | 212 | 0 | 79.1% |
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bearbnz | Route Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Dave, how many pitches of 5th class on this climb by your count? I couldn't decide for sure from the route description, with the traverses and all. Btw, it is Cecile Lake rather than Cecil Lake. You can see it here. | |
Posted Jun 9, 2004 11:36 am |
Dave Daly | Route Comment | |
Hasn't voted | We counted 13 pitches. However, we did the direct variation at the very base of Clyde Minaret. The 5.6 start may shorten it up by a pitch....I think. | |
Posted Jun 14, 2004 11:21 am |
stoneman5 | Route Comment | |
Hasn't voted | I suggest going to the left, farther than you think, through the woods, to get to Cecile. It is a walk, the notch on the right side at the end of the climber trail requires 4th-easy 5th class scrambling. It took us less than a 30 minute stroll in the morning from Minaret Lake to the base of the route. The camping at Minaret is much better than Cecile. | |
Posted Aug 18, 2004 6:41 pm |
alecFerguson | Beta | |
Hasn't voted | Overall, a well done page, with all the beta I would have written. If someone knows a good descent route that would be a welcome addition. We tried to find the route described in Peter Croft's guide. We went north-northwest on a ridge from the summit, but cut down at the earliest possible place. We found a good rappel route set up for one 60 meter rope. We continued down the prominent couloir to the south of Clyde Minaret, with one rappel into a slot. This descent route worked very well in September with no snow. This route is very long, because every pitch is full ropelength. Get an early start. The rock isn't granite, and takes some getting used to. Oh yeah: this is one of the best routes I've ever done. | |
Posted Oct 22, 2007 3:43 pm |
Dave Daly | Re: Beta | |
Hasn't voted | When we did it, we took the Rock Route (4th class), which is northeast of the summit. | |
Posted Oct 26, 2007 1:41 pm |
stella | good descent option | |
Hasn't voted | before doing this route, we read three different options for descents, one from peter croft and two from sp parker. they all seemed overly confusing, and in one of parkers descriptions, potentially wrong. here is our descent, which was generally easy, straightforward, and involved nothing harder than class 3. from the summit, head north on the ridge until you are blocked by a 20 ft. high wall. head left and slightly down on easy ledges for ~50 feet until you see a slung chockstone with carabiners. single rope rappel into the 3rd class gully. from these first anchors, look across the gully to the ridge on its opposite side; you will see another slung chockstone with white/yellow webbing. after your first rappel, head generally across the gully to these anchors. single rope rappel into the next gully over. from here, you can 3rd class it down and left to the obvious notch at the top of the ken/clyde couloir. 3rd class down this to a single rope rappel on your right. 3rd class again until you hit a huge chockstone; parker calls this a double rope rappel, in fact it was a short single rope rappel. maybe a double rope rappel in early season with a lot of snow in the gully, but there are anchors down lower as well, if needed. from here, scree/talus down to cecile lake. i'm sure this description can be condensed quite a bit. also, for the approach from minaret lake, you can follow cairns up the right side of the slope from minaret lake, through easy talus/trail to get to cecile lake. takes about 20 minutes. | |
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But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.
Therefore He says:
And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—
from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But you have not so learned Christ,
if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
Therefore, putting away lying, "Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor," for we are members of one another.
"Be angry, and do not sin": do not let the sun go down on your wrath,
nor give place to the devil.
Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.
Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
Walk in Unity
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,
with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,
endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
"When He ascended on high,
He led captivity captive,
And gave gifts to men."
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I'm running a Redgate SQL Compare (schema) between 2 databases: one is our Development DB (2008 R2 10.50.4276) and the other is our UAT DB (Azure 10.50.4021). The UAT DB is a Publisher in a replicated environment - there's no data being updated at the 2 subscribers at the moment, so there'll be very little if at all data being merged.
The issue I'm having is the time it is taking to compare the databases using SQL Compare (I've used version 7 and the latest version 10). Under the Registering Databases section, it takes a very long time for the Azure DB when 'Reading Object Text', around 15 minutes, before the comparison finishes.
Is this what I should expect when comparing a 2008 DB and an Azure DB? If not, is there any advice you can give to speed up this process (changes in any settings for the Azure DB for example).
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Opioid action, at last
With the prescription drug epidemic killing, on average, someone every other day in Orange County, the Food and Drug Administration this week finally took its first significant step to slow the death rate.
It may not seem like much, but the FDA's move to clamp down on relatively easy access to hydrocodone indicates a long-awaited paradigm shift.
Still, for 44 people in Orange County – according to my review of coroner records – the FDA's move is too little too late. Each one accidentally overdosed last year of hydrocodone-related causes.
Consider that the Drug Enforcement Administration itself recommended such a move by the FDA four years ago. Since the DEA asked to make it more difficult to get hydrocodone, also known as Vicodin, more than 100,000 people have died from prescription opioids.
James Kennedy is the father of a young man named Joey whose life and death I profiled last year. After learning of the FDA's move, Kennedy told me: Joey's "introduction to prescription pain medication started with Vicodin and that quickly led him to stronger and more lethal pharmaceutical opioids.
"I am happy to see the FDA is finally doing something about the overprescribing of Vicodin and its generic counterparts, but that is not enough."
Kennedy, of San Clemente, pointed to the staggering amounts of opioids manufactured legally in the U.S. He said flooding the market with such drugs "has created a significant increase in addiction to pain medication, which will unfortunately continue forward until all opioids are very tightly controlled."
Still, the FDA's move to curtail an epidemic that kills more people than car crashes is a start.
Consider that last month the agency was all proud that it required changing labels on opioids.
This week, Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, noted the move to reclassify hydrocodone as a Schedule II drug came after considerable work. She wasn't kidding.
Woodcock said the FDA's decision followed "extensive scientific literature, review of hundreds of public comments on the issue, and several public meetings, during which we received input from a wide range of stakeholders, including patients, health care providers, outside experts, and other government entities."
Sure, we want the FDA to carefully evaluate drugs. But given the delay, the number of deaths and the clout of what critics call Big Pharma, the question rises: Who does the FDA really work for?
I started writing about the opioid epidemic three years ago when it was mostly affecting teens and young adults along our golden coast and in South County. At that time, so-called pharm parties with young people snorting crushed pills stolen from parents' medicine cabinets were all the rage.
They still are.
Like the DEA, I called for tighter drug controls. It doesn't take a medical degree to figure out the way to slow drug flow is to tighten the faucet.
Yet, as the epidemic spread, the FDA had meetings. Earlier this year, I examined county coroner reports from 2012 and found a 25 percent spike from the year before in women dying.
What was equally disturbing was that the epidemic also was spreading to other age groups. Among women 40 and older, the number of opioid deaths jumped from 35 to 49, a 40 percent increase.
I call that an outrage.
The FDA uses different words. In announcing the reclassification of hydrocodone, the agency said it has "become increasingly concerned about the abuse and misuse of opioid products."
Reviewing coroner records, I also found that, on average, a young person in Orange County dies every other week.
Additionally, the Orange County Coroner office announced several months ago that from 1999 to 2012, local residents dying solely from prescription drugs increased 114 percent.
But if you're a parent, the biggest number is one.
Elaine Werner-Hudson lives in South County and lost her son, Josh, to prescription opioids. After the FDA's announcement, I contacted Werner-Hudson and learned something I didn't know.
Josh's addiction started at the age of 24 with, yes, hydrocodone. Three years later, Josh was dead.
In his journal, Josh shared his first hydrocodone experience. Explaining the initial high, in context, is revealing.
"It was a wonderful warm night," Josh wrote. "It just had rained earlier and it smelled wonderful. I took two of these pills before I left, and I am filled with positive emotion. I feel better than I ever have."
Looking back, Josh continues: "Nothing could have harmed me that night. I was in love." Then things get dark. "I found that nothing in life is as good when I didn't have my pills.
"So even though I had everything, I started the long painful process of letting it all go without the knowledge I was doing so."
Josh lost everything.
Werner-Hudson, founder of an addiction and survivor's help group called Solace, echoes dozens of Orange County parents I've talked to about the epidemic.
"Drug companies have downplayed and profited from the addiction potential of these drugs," Werner-Hudson said. "For years their studies reported minimal risk of addiction and dependence. With all of the opioid related deaths in past years in Orange County and around the U.S., I find this incomprehensible.
"The FDA is responsible for regulating and overseeing these profit-making companies, but didn't intervene until now."
Still, Werner-Hudson finds hope with the FDA's most recent move. "The significance of making the drug harder to obtain will save many lives."
Some pain medication experts, however, are less sure.
Dr. Robert Kutzner is a pain specialist with offices in Costa Mesa and Fountain Valley. Instead of pointing fingers at the FDA, Kutzner is frustrated with the state of California for failing to enforce regulations already in place.
Kutzner offers that state-mandated guidelines for prescribing pain medication in workers' compensation cases would go a long way in resolving the epidemic – if the guidelines weren't ignored and virtually unknown.
The doctor's right. In a column a month ago, I reported that even the physician in charge of the program, worker's comp Executive Medical Director Dr. Rupali Das, admitted doctor education was needed.
Called the "Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule," the book-length document includes dozens of pages outlining detailed procedures for opioid treatment. Significantly, it also includes a host of non-opioid procedures such as therapy.
"We don't need more government," Kutzner maintains. "We need more compliance with the guidelines that already exist.
"Remember that the drugs that are on the (FDA) schedule list are there because they are addictive, abused."
Dave Macleod of Huntington Beach understands Kutzner's point too well. He lost his 18-year-old son, Tyler, last year.
Of the FDA, Macleod says: "It's about time they started making it tougher for these kids to easily get these so-called painkillers. They are sold on the streets to our kids and are more readily available than any other drug."
Until the FDA, pharmaceutical companies and doctors get serious about change, there only will be more Joeys, Joshes, Tylers.
David Whiting's column appears four days a week.
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— Con artists use an arsenal of tricks to harvest cash from the elderly, the greedy and the lonely. Even the dead aren't safe.
Sid Kirschheimer knows from scams.
For the last 10 years, the Northeast High School alum has been reporting on con games for the AARP Bulletin, and he's seen them all — from outrageous to heart-breaking.
"All of them are kind of bizarre in one way or another," he said of scams that victimize senior citizens. Even legitimate sales, done door-to-door, can make your head spin. He mentioned the story of an elderly fellow who paid $4,000 for a vacuum cleaner, but more about that later.
Besides reporting for the AARP's monthly publication, circulation 22 million, Kirschheimer has written more than a dozen books and contributed to NBC's Today Show.
And no, he's never been the victim of a scam.
"That's because I don't trust anybody," he said in a March 20 phone interview.
That's not to say you should lock yourself in your house and never answer your phone, but, according to Kirschheimer, there are some obvious precepts to follow.
Don't open your door to strangers, and don't give out personal information, especially your Social Security number, over the phone.
"That's the holy grail for scammers," he said. Once they have a name, address and Social Security number, they can open phony bank accounts and do serious damage to a victim's finances.
"The vast majority of scams can be prevented by not giving out your personal information over the phone," Kirschheimer said.
There are some less obvious things to be aware of, too.
Don't fill out warranty cards, he advised. Some of those cards request personal data that should be kept private. Also, many people put information on social media Web sites that can be used by con artists.
Two cons that are currently most popular involve phony lottery wins from foreign countries and people pretending to be grandchildren who say they've been arrested in foreign countries and need bail money wired to them.
Those who are prolific on social media are more likely to become scam victims than those who are not, he said. For example, con artists working the "grandparent scam" learned the names of their victims' grandchildren online.
Kirschheimer avoids social media.
"I'm not on LinkedIn and I don't have a Facebook account," he said. "It's doing the little things. … Fly a bit under the radar."
Practicing what he preaches, Kirschheimer guards his privacy so closely that his phone in his suburban Philadelphia home is listed, but not under his own name.
Even those precautions don't stop con artists from trying.
Just 12 hours before Kirschheimer was interviewed for this story, he said he was contacted by someone in India who wanted remote access to his computer to fix a virus he claimed was on it.
The writer didn't play along. Giving someone else remote access to your computer gives them access to any information you have on it, he said. Also, the scammer inevitably tells you he's found a problem, locks you out of your computer and then charges to let you get back in.
The dishonest can harvest dollars from the deceased by using information they find in obituaries, Kirschheimer wrote in the March issue of the AARP Bulletin.
In "Dead Ringers," Kirschheimer wrote that the identities of almost 2.5 million dead Americans are used annually "to open credit card accounts, apply for loans and get cell phones or other services."
The crime, nicknamed "ghosting," often begins with thieves reading obituaries, where they can find out names, addresses and birth dates. With that information, con artists can go to illicit overseas Web sites and purchase Social Security numbers, Kirschheimer wrote.
He proved that while working on a segment for the Today Show, he said. He was able to find out the Social Security number of his show's producer.
"It cost me $30," he said.
Kirschheimer's tip for heirs: Omit from obituaries and death notices birth dates, mothers' maiden names, addresses and other personal information that might prove useful to identity thieves.
Time is on the bad guys' side, according to Kirschheimer. Six months can go by before banks, credit bureaus and the Social Security Administration get or share death records. Besides, the dead don't check on their credit ratings. Often, their survivors don't check either.
Kirschheimer, 55, started writing about scams and other consumer issues when he pitched a con game story to an AARP Bulletin editor he knew.
"The piece got tremendous reader feeback," he said, adding he soon began writing the publication's scam alerts, and for many years wrote a column called "Ask Sid."
He started out as a reporter for the Philadelphia Journal, worked for several daily papers in different areas of the United States and then wrote books for Rodale Press. In 2006, AARP Books published Kirschheimer's Scam-Proof Your Life.
There's no shortage of villains to write about.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, grifters glean more than $1 billion a year from hundreds of thousands of victims. Kirschheimer, however, feels most victims don't report being taken.
Kirschheimer said he has been getting a lot of mail about door-to-door scams.
After states like Pennsylvania opened up competition, rival power companies have begun sending representatives door-to-door to try to persuade residents to switch their service away from PECO. Some are legitimate, but others are con artists looking to get personal information.
Kirschheimer is more than a little wary of door-to-door solicitors.
"I don't even want to hear what they're selling," he said, adding that he shoos them away from his door.
"Older people often don't do that … They're polite," he said. "Don't be polite."
One of the more outrageous examples of a legitimate, but questionable, sale, Kirschheimer said, was a vacuum cleaner that a man bought from a door-to-door salesman for $4,000. When financing was figured in, the price was actually $8,000, he said.
The FTC'S regulations allow customers three days to back out of deals, but the customer, whose daughter told Kirschheimer of the high-priced vacuum, waited a week to change his mind, and the company told the man he had to pay.
Eventually, the company relented and canceled the sale, Kirschheimer said. However, the vacuum sale was legal, he said, because the salesman can charge whatever he wants.
"It's up to you to say, 'What? Are you out of your mind?' " Kirschheimer said.
"Romance scams" are the saddest ripoffs, he said. The targets are lonely people over 50 who sometimes are tricked out of their life savings.
"That really gets to me," he said. "And it happens a lot."
It works like this:
A person logs onto a singles chat room for people over 50. The con artist "meets" the mark online and poses as a potential lover.
The chat-room chum who says he's a wealthy overseas businessman who runs animal shelters or a Russian model who asks you to forgive her poor command of English might actually be a guy in Nigeria who is sending out hundreds of messages per day to people who have postings on dating Web sites.
"They sweet talk you and then they ask you for money," he said. Then, they ask for more.
"The average loss in that scam is $10,000," Kirschheimer said. "There are numerous cases in which people have committed suicide."
The victims believe in love, and scammers use that to their advantage, he said.
He encourages people to use common sense, maintain a high level of skepticism and realize things don't just fall in their laps.
If you win the Pennsylvania Lottery, it's up to you to claim your prize.
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10.12: Area of Regular Polygons
What if you were asked to find the distance across The Pentagon in Arlington, VA? The Pentagon, which also houses the Department of Defense, is composed of two regular pentagons with the same center. The entire area of the building is 29 acres (40,000 square feet in an acre), with an additional 5 acre courtyard in the center. The length of each outer wall is 921 feet. What is the total distance across the pentagon? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth. After completing this Concept, you'll be able to answer questions like this.
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Brightstorm: Area of Regular Polygons
A regular polygon is a polygon with congruent sides and angles. Recall that the perimeter of a square is 4 times the length of a side because each side is congruent. We can extend this concept to any regular polygon.
Perimeter of a Regular Polygon: If the length of a side is \begin{align*}s\end{align*} and there are \begin{align*}n\end{align*} sides in a regular polygon, then the perimeter is \begin{align*}P=ns\end{align*}.
In order to find the area of a regular polygon, we need to define some new terminology. First, all regular polygons can be inscribed in a circle. So, regular polygons have a center and radius, which are the center and radius of the circumscribed circle. Also like a circle, a regular polygon will have a central angle formed. In a regular polygon, however, the central angle is the angle formed by two radii drawn to consecutive vertices of the polygon. In the picture below, the central angle is \begin{align*}\angle BAD\end{align*}. Also, notice that \begin{align*}\triangle BAD\end{align*} is an isosceles triangle. Every regular polygon with \begin{align*}n\end{align*} sides is formed by \begin{align*}n\end{align*} isosceles triangles. The height of these isosceles triangles is called the apothem.
The area of each triangle is \begin{align*}A_\triangle = \frac{1}{2} bh= \frac{1}{2} sa\end{align*}, where \begin{align*}s\end{align*} is the length of a side and \begin{align*}a\end{align*} is the apothem. If there are \begin{align*}n\end{align*} sides in the regular polygon, then it is made up of \begin{align*}n\end{align*} congruent triangles.
Area of a Regular Polygon: If there are \begin{align*}n\end{align*} sides with length \begin{align*}s\end{align*} in a regular polygon and \begin{align*}a\end{align*} is the apothem, then \begin{align*}A=\frac{1}{2} asn\end{align*} or \begin{align*}A=\frac{1}{2} aP\end{align*}, where \begin{align*}P\end{align*} is the perimeter.
Example A
What is the perimeter of a regular octagon with 4 inch sides?
If each side is 4 inches and there are 8 sides, that means the perimeter is 8(4 in) = 32 inches.
Example B
The perimeter of a regular heptagon is 35 cm. What is the length of each side?
If \begin{align*}P=ns\end{align*}, then \begin{align*}35 \ cm=7s\end{align*}. Therefore, \begin{align*}s=5 \ cm\end{align*}.
Example C
Find the length of the apothem in the regular octagon. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.
To find the length of the apothem, \begin{align*}AB\end{align*}, you will need to use the trig ratios. First, find \begin{align*}m \angle CAD\end{align*}. There are \begin{align*}360^\circ\end{align*} around a point, so \begin{align*}m \angle CAD= \frac{360^\circ}{8}=45^\circ\end{align*}. Now, we can use this to find the other two angles in \begin{align*}\triangle CAD\end{align*}. \begin{align*}m \angle ACB\end{align*} and \begin{align*}m \angle ADC\end{align*} are equal because \begin{align*}\triangle CAD\end{align*} is a right triangle.
\begin{align*}m \angle CAD+m \angle ACB+m \angle ADC &= 180^\circ\\ 45^\circ+2m \angle ACB &= 180^\circ\\ 2m \angle ACB &= 135^\circ\\ m \angle ACB &= 67.5^\circ\end{align*}
To find \begin{align*}AB\end{align*}, we must use the tangent ratio. You can use either acute angle.
\begin{align*}\tan 67.5^\circ &= \frac{AB}{6}\\ AB &= 6 \cdot \tan 67.5^\circ \approx 14.49\end{align*}
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Concept Problem Revisited
From the picture below, we can see that the total distance across the Pentagon is the length of the apothem plus the length of the radius. If the total area of the Pentagon is 34 acres, that is 2,720,000 square feet. Therefore, the area equation is \begin{align*}2720000=\frac{1}{2} a(921)(5)\end{align*} and the apothem is 590.66 ft. To find the radius, we can either use the Pythagorean Theorem, with the apothem and half the length of a side or the sine ratio. Recall from Example 5, that each central angle in a pentagon is \begin{align*}72^\circ\end{align*}, so we would use half of that for the right triangle.
\begin{align*}\sin 36^\circ=\frac{460.5}{r} \rightarrow r=\frac{460.5}{\sin 36^\circ} \approx 783.45 \ ft.\end{align*}
Therefore, the total distance across is \begin{align*}590.66 + 783.45 = 1374.11 \ ft\end{align*}.
Perimeter is the distance around a shape. The perimeter of any figure must have a unit of measurement attached to it. If no specific units are given (feet, inches, centimeters, etc), write "units." Area is the amount of space inside a figure. Area is measured in square units. The center and radius of a regular polygon is the center and radius of the circumscribed circle. An apothem is a line segment drawn from the center of a regular polygon to the midpoint of one of its sides.
Guided Practice
1. Find the area of the regular octagon in Example C.
2. Find the area of the regular polygon with radius 4.
3. The area of a regular hexagon is \begin{align*}54 \sqrt{3}\end{align*} and the perimeter is 36. Find the length of the sides and the apothem.
1. The octagon can be split into 8 congruent triangles. So, if we find the area of one triangle and multiply it by 8, we will have the area of the entire octagon.
\begin{align*}A_{octagon}=8 \left( \frac{1}{2} \cdot 12 \cdot 14.49 \right)=695.52 \ units^2\end{align*}
2. In this problem we need to find the apothem and the length of the side before we can find the area of the entire polygon. Each central angle for a regular pentagon is \begin{align*}\frac{360^\circ}{5}=72^\circ\end{align*}. So, half of that, to make a right triangle with the apothem, is \begin{align*}36^\circ\end{align*}. We need to use sine and cosine.
\begin{align*}\sin 36^\circ &= \frac{.5n}{4} && \ \cos 36^\circ=\frac{a}{4}\\ 4 \sin 36^\circ &= \frac{1}{2} n && 4 \cos 36^\circ=a\\ 8 \sin 36^\circ &= n && \qquad \quad a \approx 3.24\\ n &\approx 4.7\end{align*}
Using these two pieces of information, we can now find the area. \begin{align*}A=\frac{1}{2}(3.24)(5)(4.7) \approx 38.07 \ units^2\end{align*}.
3. Plug in what you know into both the area and the perimeter formulas to solve for the length of a side and the apothem.
\begin{align*}P &= sn && \quad \ \ A= \frac{1}{2} aP\\ 36 &= 6s && 54 \sqrt{3}=\frac{1}{2} a(36)\\ s &= 6 && 54 \sqrt{3}=18a\\ & && \ \ 3 \sqrt{3}=a\end{align*}
Use the regular hexagon below to answer the following questions. Each side is 10 cm long.
- Each dashed line segment is \begin{align*}a(n)\end{align*} ________________.
- The red line segment is \begin{align*}a(n)\end{align*} __________________.
- There are _____ congruent triangles in a regular hexagon.
- In a regular hexagon, all the triangles are _________________.
- Find the radius of this hexagon.
- Find the apothem.
- Find the perimeter.
- Find the area.
Find the area and perimeter of each of the following regular polygons. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.
- If the perimeter of a regular decagon is 65, what is the length of each side?
- A regular polygon has a perimeter of 132 and the sides are 11 units long. How many sides does the polygon have?
- The area of a regular pentagon is \begin{align*}440.44 \ in^2\end{align*} and the perimeter is 80 in. Find the length of the apothem of the pentagon.
- The area of a regular octagon is \begin{align*}695.3 \ cm^2\end{align*} and the sides are 12 cm. What is the length of the apothem?
A regular 20-gon and a regular 40-gon are inscribed in a circle with a radius of 15 units.
- Challenge Derive a formula for the area of a regular hexagon with sides of length \begin{align*}s\end{align*}. Your only variable will be \begin{align*}s\end{align*}. HINT: Use 30-60-90 triangle ratios.
Challenge in the following steps you will derive an alternate formula for finding the area of a regular polygon with \begin{align*}n\end{align*} sides. We are going to start by thinking of a polygon with \begin{align*}n\end{align*} sides as \begin{align*}n\end{align*} congruent isosceles triangles. We will find the sum of the areas of these triangles using trigonometry. First, the area of a triangle is \begin{align*}\frac{1}{2} bh\end{align*}. In the diagram to the right, this area formula would be \begin{align*}\frac{1}{2} sa\end{align*}, where \begin{align*}s\end{align*} is the length of a side and \begin{align*}a\end{align*} is the length of the apothem. In the diagram, \begin{align*}x\end{align*} represents the measure of the vertex angle of each isosceles triangle.
- The apothem, \begin{align*}a\end{align*}, divides the triangle into two congruent right triangles. The top angle in each is \begin{align*}\frac{x^\circ}{2}\end{align*}. Find \begin{align*}\sin \left( \frac{x^\circ}{2} \right)\end{align*} and \begin{align*}\cos \left( \frac{x^\circ}{2} \right)\end{align*}.
- Solve your \begin{align*}\sin\end{align*} equation to find an expression for \begin{align*}s\end{align*} in terms of \begin{align*}r\end{align*} and \begin{align*}x\end{align*}.
- Solve your \begin{align*}\cos\end{align*} equation to find an expression for \begin{align*}a\end{align*} in terms of \begin{align*}r\end{align*} and \begin{align*}x\end{align*}.
- Substitute these expressions into the equation for the area of one of the triangles, \begin{align*}\frac{1}{2} sa\end{align*}.
- Since there will be \begin{align*}n\end{align*} triangles in an n-gon, you need to multiply your expression from part d by \begin{align*}n\end{align*} to get the total area.
- How would you tell someone to find the value of \begin{align*}x\end{align*} for a regular n-gon?
Use the formula you derived in problem 18 to find the area of the regular polygons described in problems 19-22. Round your answers to the nearest hundredth.
- Decagon with radius 12 cm.
- 20-gon with radius 5 in.
- 15-gon with radius length 8 cm.
- 45-gon with radius length 7 in.
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If everything had gone according to plan, the Internet as we know it would never have sprung up. That plan, devised 35 years ago, instead would have created a comprehensive set of standards for computer networks called Open Systems Interconnection, or OSI. Its architects were a dedicated group of computer industry representatives in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States who envisioned a complete, open, and multilayered system that would allow users all over the world to exchange data easily and thereby unleash new possibilities for collaboration and commerce.
For a time, their vision seemed like the right one. Thousands of engineers and policymakers around the world became involved in the effort to establish OSI standards. They soon had the support of everyone who mattered: computer companies, telephone companies, regulators, national governments, international standards setting agencies, academic researchers, even the U.S. Department of Defense. By the mid-1980s the worldwide adoption of OSI appeared inevitable.
And yet, by the early 1990s, the project had all but stalled in the face of a cheap and agile, if less comprehensive, alternative: the Internet's Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol. As OSI faltered, one of the Internet's chief advocates, Einar Stefferud, gleefully pronounced: "OSI is a beautiful dream, and TCP/IP is living it!"
What happened to the "beautiful dream"? While the Internet's triumphant story has been well documented by its designers and the historians they have worked with, OSI has been forgotten by all but a handful of veterans of the Internet-OSI standards wars. To understand why, we need to dive into the early history of computer networking, a time when the vexing problems of digital convergence and global interconnection were very much on the minds of computer scientists, telecom engineers, policymakers, and industry executives. And to appreciate that history, you'll have to set aside for a few minutes what you already know about the Internet. Try to imagine, if you can, that the Internet never existed.
The story starts in the 1960s. The Berlin Wall was going up. The Free Speech movement was blossoming in Berkeley. U.S. troops were fighting in Vietnam. And digital computer-communication systems were in their infancy and the subject of intense, wide-ranging investigations, with dozens (and soon hundreds) of people in academia, industry, and government pursuing major research programs.
The most promising of these involved a new approach to data communication called packet switching. Invented independently by Paul Baran at the Rand Corp. in the United States and Donald Davies at the National Physical Laboratory in England, packet switching broke messages into discrete blocks, or packets, that could be routed separately across a network's various channels. A computer at the receiving end would reassemble the packets into their original form. Baran and Davies both believed that packet switching could be more robust and efficient than circuit switching, the old technology used in telephone systems that required a dedicated channel for each conversation.
Researchers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency created the first packet-switched network, called the ARPANET, in 1969. Soon other institutions, most notably the computer giant IBM and several of the telephone monopolies in Europe, hatched their own ambitious plans for packet-switched networks. Even as these institutions contemplated the digital convergence of computing and communications, however, they were anxious to protect the revenues generated by their existing businesses. As a result, IBM and the telephone monopolies favored packet switching that relied on "virtual circuits"—a design that mimicked circuit switching's technical and organizational routines.
With so many interested parties putting forth ideas, there was widespread agreement that some form of international standardization would be necessary for packet switching to be viable. An early attempt began in 1972, with the formation of the International Network Working Group (INWG). Vint Cerf was its first chairman; other active members included Alex McKenzie in the United States, Donald Davies and Roger Scantlebury in England, and Louis Pouzin and Hubert Zimmermann in France.
The purpose of INWG was to promote the "datagram" style of packet switching that Pouzin had designed. As he explained to me when we met in Paris in 2012, "The essence of datagram is connectionless. That means you have no relationship established between sender and receiver. Things just go separately, one by one, like photons." It was a radical proposal, especially when compared to the connection-oriented virtual circuits favored by IBM and the telecom engineers.
INWG met regularly and exchanged technical papers in an effort to reconcile its designs for datagram networks, in particular for a transport protocol—the key mechanism for exchanging packets across different types of networks. After several years of debate and discussion, the group finally reached an agreement in 1975, and Cerf and Pouzin submitted their protocol to the international body responsible for overseeing telecommunication standards, the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (known by its French acronym, CCITT).
The committee, dominated by telecom engineers, rejected the INWG's proposal as too risky and untested. Cerf and his colleagues were bitterly disappointed. Pouzin, the combative leader of Cyclades, France's own packet-switching research project, sarcastically noted that members of the CCITT "do not object to packet switching, as long as it looks just like circuit switching." And when Pouzin complained at major conferences about the "arm-twisting" tactics of "national monopolies," everyone knew he was referring to the French telecom authority. French bureaucrats did not appreciate their countryman's candor, and government funding was drained from Cyclades between 1975 and 1978, when Pouzin's involvement also ended.
For his part, Cerf was so discouraged by his international adventures in standards making that he resigned his position as INWG chair in late 1975. He also quit the faculty at Stanford and accepted an offer to work with Bob Kahn at ARPA. Cerf and Kahn had already drawn on Pouzin's datagram design and published the details of their "transmission control program" the previous year in the IEEE Transactions on Communications. That provided the technical foundation of the "Internet," a term adopted later to refer to a network of networks that utilized ARPA's TCP/IP. In subsequent years the two men directed the development of Internet protocols in an environment they could control: the small community of ARPA contractors.
Cerf's departure marked a rift within the INWG. While Cerf and other ARPA contractors eventually formed the core of the Internet community in the 1980s, many of the remaining veterans of INWG regrouped and joined the international alliance taking shape under the banner of OSI. The two camps became bitter rivals.
OSI was devised by committee, but that fact alone wasn't enough to doom the project—after all, plenty of successful standards start out that way. Still, it is worth noting for what came later.
In 1977, representatives from the British computer industry proposed the creation of a new standards committee devoted to packet-switching networks within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), an independent nongovernmental association created after World War II. Unlike the CCITT, ISO wasn't specifically concerned with telecommunications—the wide-ranging topics of its technical committees included TC 1 for standards on screw threads and TC 17 for steel. Also unlike the CCITT, ISO already had committees for computer standards and seemed far more likely to be receptive to connectionless datagrams.
The British proposal, which had the support of U.S. and French representatives, called for "network standards needed for open working." These standards would, the British argued, provide an alternative to traditional computing's "self-contained, 'closed' systems," which were designed with "little regard for the possibility of their interworking with each other." The concept of open working was as much strategic as it was technical, signaling their desire to enable competition with the big incumbents—namely, IBM and the telecom monopolies.
As expected, ISO approved the British request and named the U.S. database expert Charles Bachman as committee chairman. Widely respected in computer circles, Bachman had four years earlier received the prestigious Turing Award for his work on a database management system called the Integrated Data Store.
When I interviewed Bachman in 2011, he described the "architectural vision" that he brought to OSI, a vision that was inspired by his work with databases generally and by IBM's Systems Network Architecture in particular. He began by specifying a reference model that divided the various tasks of computer communication into distinct layers. For example, physical media (such as copper cables) fit into layer 1; transport protocols for moving data fit into layer 4; and applications (such as e-mail and file transfer) fit into layer 7. Once a layered architecture was established, specific protocols would then be developed.
Bachman's design departed from IBM's Systems Network Architecture in a significant way: Where IBM specified a terminal-to-computer architecture, Bachman would connect computers to one another, as peers. That made it extremely attractive to companies like General Motors, a leading proponent of OSI in the 1980s. GM had dozens of plants and hundreds of suppliers, using a mix of largely incompatible hardware and software. Bachman's scheme would allow "interworking" between different types of proprietary computers and networks—so long as they followed OSI's standard protocols.
The layered OSI reference model also provided an important organizational feature: modularity. That is, the layering allowed committees to subdivide the work. Indeed, Bachman's reference model was just a starting point. To become an international standard, each proposal would have to complete a four-step process, starting with a working draft, then a draft proposed international standard, then a draft international standard, and finally an international standard. Building consensus around the OSI reference model and associated standards required an extraordinary number of plenary and committee meetings.
OSI's first plenary meeting lasted three days, from 28 February through 2 March 1978. Dozens of delegates from 10 countries participated, as well as observers from four international organizations. Everyone who attended had market interests to protect and pet projects to advance. Delegates from the same country often had divergent agendas. Many attendees were veterans of INWG who retained a wary optimism that the future of data networking could be wrested from the hands of IBM and the telecom monopolies, which had clear intentions of dominating this emerging market.
Meanwhile, IBM representatives, led by the company's capable director of standards, Joseph De Blasi, masterfully steered the discussion, keeping OSI's development in line with IBM's own business interests. Computer scientist John Day, who designed protocols for the ARPANET, was a key member of the U.S. delegation. In his 2008 book Patterns in Network Architecture (Prentice Hall), Day recalled that IBM representatives expertly intervened in disputes between delegates "fighting over who would get a piece of the pie.… IBM played them like a violin. It was truly magical to watch."
Despite such stalling tactics, Bachman's leadership propelled OSI along the precarious path from vision to reality. Bachman and Hubert Zimmermann (a veteran of Cyclades and INWG) forged an alliance with the telecom engineers in CCITT. But the partnership struggled to overcome the fundamental incompatibility between their respective worldviews. Zimmermann and his computing colleagues, inspired by Pouzin's datagram design, championed "connectionless" protocols, while the telecom professionals persisted with their virtual circuits. Instead of resolving the dispute, they agreed to include options for both designs within OSI, thus increasing its size and complexity.
This uneasy alliance of computer and telecom engineers published the OSI reference model as an international standard in 1984. Individual OSI standards for transport protocols, electronic mail, electronic directories, network management, and many other functions soon followed. OSI began to accumulate the trappings of inevitability. Leading computer companies such as Digital Equipment Corp., Honeywell, and IBM were by then heavily invested in OSI, as was the European Economic Community and national governments throughout Europe, North America, and Asia.
Even the U.S. government—the main sponsor of the Internet protocols, which were incompatible with OSI—jumped on the OSI bandwagon. The Defense Department officially embraced the conclusions of a 1985 National Research Council recommendation to transition away from TCP/IP and toward OSI. Meanwhile, the Department of Commerce issued a mandate in 1988 that the OSI standard be used in all computers purchased by U.S. government agencies after August 1990.
While such edicts may sound like the work of overreaching bureaucrats, remember that throughout the 1980s, the Internet was still a research network: It was growing rapidly, to be sure, but its managers did not allow commercial traffic or for-profit service providers on the government-subsidized backbone until 1992. For businesses and other large entities that wanted to exchange data between different kinds of computers or different types of networks, OSI was the only game in town.
That was not the end of the story, of course. By the late 1980s, frustration with OSI's slow development had reached a boiling point. At a 1989 meeting in Europe, the OSI advocate Brian Carpenter gave a talk titled "Is OSI Too Late?" It was, he recalled in a recent memoir, "the only time in my life" that he "got a standing ovation in a technical conference." Two years later, the French networking expert and former INWG member Pouzin, in an essay titled "Ten Years of OSI—Maturity or Infancy?," summed up the growing uncertainty: "Government and corporate policies never fail to recommend OSI as the solution. But, it is easier and quicker to implement homogenous networks based on proprietary architectures, or else to interconnect heterogeneous systems with TCP-based products." Even for OSI's champions, the Internet was looking increasingly attractive.
That sense of doom deepened, progress stalled, and in the mid-1990s, OSI's beautiful dream finally ended. The effort's fatal flaw, ironically, grew from its commitment to openness. The formal rules for international standardization gave any interested party the right to participate in the design process, thereby inviting structural tensions, incompatible visions, and disruptive tactics.
OSI's first chairman, Bachman, had anticipated such problems from the start. In a conference talk in 1978, he worried about OSI's chances of success: "The organizational problem alone is incredible. The technical problem is bigger than any one previously faced in information systems. And the political problems will challenge the most astute statesmen. Can you imagine trying to get the representatives from ten major and competing computer corporations, and ten telephone companies and PTTs [state-owned telecom monopolies], and the technical experts from ten different nations to come to any agreement within the foreseeable future?"
Despite Bachman's and others' best efforts, the burden of organizational overhead never lifted. Hundreds of engineers attended the meetings of OSI's various committees and working groups, and the bureaucratic procedures used to structure the discussions didn't allow for the speedy production of standards. Everything was up for debate—even trivial nuances of language, like the difference between "you will comply" and "you should comply," triggered complaints. More significant rifts continued between OSI's computer and telecom experts, whose technical and business plans remained at odds. And so openness and modularity—the key principles for coordinating the project—ended up killing OSI.
Meanwhile, the Internet flourished. With ample funding from the U.S. government, Cerf, Kahn, and their colleagues were shielded from the forces of international politics and economics. ARPA and the Defense Communications Agency accelerated the Internet's adoption in the early 1980s, when they subsidized researchers to implement Internet protocols in popular operating systems, such as the modification of Unix by the University of California, Berkeley. Then, on 1 January 1983, ARPA stopped supporting the ARPANET host protocol, thus forcing its contractors to adopt TCP/IP if they wanted to stay connected; that date became known as the "birth of the Internet."
And so, while many users still expected OSI to become the future solution to global network interconnection, growing numbers began using TCP/IP to meet the practical near-term pressures for interoperability.
Engineers who joined the Internet community in the 1980s frequently misconstrued OSI, lampooning it as a misguided monstrosity created by clueless European bureaucrats. Internet engineer Marshall Rose wrote in his 1990 textbook that the "Internet community tries its very best to ignore the OSI community. By and large, OSI technology is ugly in comparison to Internet technology."
Unfortunately, the Internet community's bias also led it to reject any technical insights from OSI. The classic example was the "palace revolt" of 1992. Though not nearly as formal as the bureaucracy that devised OSI, the Internet had its Internet Activities Board and the Internet Engineering Task Force, responsible for shepherding the development of its standards. Such work went on at a July 1992 meeting in Cambridge, Mass. Several leaders, pressed to revise routing and addressing limitations that had not been anticipated when TCP and IP were designed, recommended that the community consider—if not adopt—some technical protocols developed within OSI. The hundreds of Internet engineers in attendance howled in protest and then sacked their leaders for their heresy.
Although Cerf and Kahn did not design TCP/IP for business use, decades of government subsidies for their research eventually created a distinct commercial advantage: Internet protocols could be implemented for free. (To use OSI standards, companies that made and sold networking equipment had to purchase paper copies from the standards group ISO, one copy at a time.) Marc Levilion, an engineer for IBM France, told me in a 2012 interview about the computer industry's shift away from OSI and toward TCP/IP: "On one side you have something that's free, available, you just have to load it. And on the other side, you have something which is much more architectured, much more complete, much more elaborate, but it is expensive. If you are a director of computation in a company, what do you choose?"
By the mid-1990s, the Internet had become the de facto standard for global computer networking. Cruelly for OSI's creators, Internet advocates seized the mantle of "openness" and claimed it as their own. Today, they routinely campaign to preserve the "open Internet" from authoritarian governments, regulators, and would-be monopolists.
In light of the success of the nimble Internet, OSI is often portrayed as a cautionary tale of overbureaucratized "anticipatory standardization" in an immature and volatile market. This emphasis on its failings, however, misses OSI's many successes: It focused attention on cutting-edge technological questions, and it became a source of learning by doing—including some hard knocks—for a generation of network engineers, who went on to create new companies, advise governments, and teach in universities around the world.
Beyond these simplistic declarations of "success" and "failure," OSI's history holds important lessons that engineers, policymakers, and Internet users should get to know better. Perhaps the most important lesson is that "openness" is full of contradictions. OSI brought to light the deep incompatibility between idealistic visions of openness and the political and economic realities of the international networking industry. And OSI eventually collapsed because it could not reconcile the divergent desires of all the interested parties. What then does this mean for the continued viability of the open Internet?
For more about the author, see the Back Story, "How Quickly We Forget."
This article originally appeared in print as "The Internet That Wasn't."
To Probe Further
This article is a follow-up to a 2006 article Andrew L. Russell published in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, called " 'Rough Consensus and Running Code' and the Internet-OSI Standards War." And he will be delving into the history of OSI and the Internet—along with related topics such as standardization in the Bell System—in his upcoming book, Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in late 2013 or early 2014.
Janet Abbate's Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999) is an excellent account of the events that led to the development of the Internet as we know it.
Alexander McKenzie's article "INWG and the Conception of the Internet: An Eyewitness Account," published in the January 2011 issue of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, builds on documents McKenzie saved from his experience with the International Networking Working Group and that now are archived at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
James Pelkey's online book Entrepreneurial Capitalism and Innovation: A History of Computer Communications, 1968–1988 is based on interviews and documents he collected in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a time when OSI seemed certain to dominate the future of computer internetworking. Pelkey's project also was described in a recent Computer History Museum blog post celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ethernet.


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Penguin Random House launches new identity
Penguin Random House has launched a new identity, following the merger between the two publishing giants last year.
The wordmark has been developed by Pentagram partner Michael Bierut, and replaces an interim identity that has been in use for around 12 months.
The identity will be most often used in conjunction with one of the company's publishing divisions, imprints and brands. PRH operates 250 brands, including DK and Crown.
PRH says, 'The brand system, as this pairing design framework is called, is flexible and can be employed not just at the publishing level, but also territorially. The imprints and brand symbols also can continue to stand alone without the brand-system pairing – for example, on the spines of books.'
Bierut says, 'Like everyone else we tried every zany combination of penguins and houses, and many abstract symbols that had nothing to do with either.
'The issue turned out to be that it just didn't make sense to create a new symbol for a company that already has 250 symbols, none of which are going away, and each of which has heritage and value on some level. So the trick was to come up with a wordmark that could at once provide a strong endorsement for each of the imprint symbols, and that could in turn gain itself in meaning through association with them.'
He adds, 'Penguin and Random House both have amazing design legacies: the original Random House logo was drawn by Rockwell Kent, and the classic Penguin cover format was formalised by Jan Tschichold, and on and on. Yet the two companies have had quite different branding strategies, the Penguin being a "branded house" and Random House as a "house of brands."'
'The new system very deliberately balances both strategies.'
The new identity uses the Shift typeface developed by Jeremy Mickel. According to Bierut, Mickel also adjusted the lettering in the wordmark 'to make them really sing'.
Bierut says, 'We needed a typeface that was neutral enough to work with all of the very different imprint symbols. Yet we didn't want a cold sans serif, but rather something that had a bit of literary quality.
'Shift combined those two things, along with good legibility at small sizes. And the fact that Jeremy Mickel based Shift on typewriter fonts provided another connection to the traditional world of writers and writing.'
PRH chief executive Markus Dohlesays, 'Presenting our new Penguin Random House wordmark side-by-side with each of our publishing imprint and brand symbols powerfully communicates what makes our company so special: our collective expertise and global scale coupled with our local publishing teams giving diverse and important voices a platform and audience.
'This fundamental understanding of our heritage and of the company we are building together for the future informs the design of the brand identity, and how we will visually represent who we are.'
How incredibly underwhelming
That's a lot of words & visuals mixed in with a jumbled animation to try and justify a sub-par logo which is already flawed in the visuals shown in the article.
'Like everyone else we tried every zany combination of penguins and houses, and many abstract symbols that had nothing to do with either.'
– Is that how Brand Experts work these days…. what a let-down.
They talk about the "amazing design legacies" of both brands and decide to pay homage to this fact by creating something so 'throw away'.
I would agree that the font does have "a bit of literary quality"… a bit… maybe next time aim for a lot?
A sad day for both of these iconic brands.
Big disappointment!
….brilliantly well done to the writer who 'constructed' the creative rationale…
Fantastic 'sell' of an awful logo.
I would love to know the budget this was given!
Not sure if any of the above comments read the article or understand the purpose of this identity, but I think it works wonderfully. A subtle word mark, with a bookish twist that still lets the multiple brands it represents and partners stand out.
Great use of the Shift typeface too.
Given all (bar you Tom) think the same (who I believe can all read Tom!!?!) I would say the same with your comments Tom!
Matt & Laura's comments are especially spot on!
You are right though Tom, it is a Great Use of a Shit typeface!
Just so you know I've had a Grown-Up read the article out to me and now I understand its purpose.
It still doesn't work!
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