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Quick HOWTO : App02 : Data Center Relocation - Selecting an ISP
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data Circuit Pricing
- 3 Data Circuit Types
- 4 Data Circuit Provisioning
- 5 IP Address Ownership
- 6 Routing Protocols
- 7 Conclusion
In Chapter 2, "Preparation"I outlined the importance of ISP preparation. This chapter will discuss the many technical factors that govern the selection process in detail. These factors include:
- Pricing
- Determining the type of data circuit to use.
- Deciding on whether to use IP addresses issued by your ISP or addresses owned by your company.
- Configuring a routing protocol to use with your ISP.
Check lists are also included in Appendix I, "Relocation Check Sheets" to help you make a better decision and facilitate your monitoring of the status of all the required tasks. First let's discuss these factors in more detail.
Data Circuit Pricing
Pricing varies depending on the type of service you purchase. Internet circuits typically require you to commit to a minimum data rate and charge a variable fee for usage above that rate to a defined maximum. Non-Internet dedicated point to point services from data carriers usually charge a fixed fee that allows transfers up to the maximum data rate. There is no variable component. This will be discussed in more detail next.
Internet Services
A very common ISP billing technique used is called the 95th percentile method. Here the internet service provider provides an absolute maximum data rate, also known as a committed information rate (CIR), but you are billed based on actual usage. The ISP samples your data rate every five minutes and sorts all the sample readings for the month from high to low. They then discard the top 5% of the samples with the highest utilization. You are then billed at the rate of the highest sample that remains, not the average of those remaining. One of the advantages of this billing method is that it allows you to download files, a usually bandwidth intensive process, for up to about an hour a day without it affecting your bill.
In addition to bandwidth, you may also be charged a local loop rate which amounts to a monthly fee that covers your connection from your facility to the nearest telephone / Internet exchange. This is frequently proportional to the distance between the exchange and your facility. Sometimes this fee is also related to your CIR and you may find that you can reduce this monthly fixed cost my negotiating a lower CIR. You may also be able to reduce your 95th percentile rate by committing to a longer contract or by convincing your ISP that you will be generating sufficient traffic to justify a bulk discount.
Non-Internet (Carrier) Services
Data carriers typically will charge a flat fee for circuits with a pre-defined maximum data rate. You will also be charged a local loop rate. The complexities of a CIR and 95th percentile are usually absent.
Data Circuit Types
The selection of the type of data circuit to be used will depend upon the amount of bandwidth you expect to use, the equipment available to your ISP in the area and the capabilities of your networking equipment. The most commonly used data circuit technologies include those listed in Table A3.1.
Table A3.1 - Common Data Circuit Terminologies
|1.544 Mbps link that can be split into up to 24 x 64 Kbps channels. Channels can be aggregated together to increase throughput up to the T1 maximum in a configuration called a "fractional T1". Channels may be used for voice or data. Typically runs over copper
|2.048 Mbps link that can be split into up to 32 x 64 Kbps channels. Two channels are used for signaling. Channels can be aggregated together to increase throughput up to the E1 maximum in a configuration called a "fractional E1". Channels may be used for voice or data. Typically runs over copper.
|Circuit configured to carry DS3 formatted data at up to 44.736 Mbps. A DS3 can be fractionalized with up to 30 T1 circuits. Two circuits are used for signaling. This means a T3 can up to 672 x 64 Kbps voice/data channels. Typically runs over copper.
|See T3
|High Speed Serial Interface capable of supporting up to 52 Mbps.
|Packet Over SONET (POS)
|Methodology carrying TCP/IP traffic over SONET networks. The TCP/IP packets are inserted into ATM packets which are then placed on the SONET circuit. You will most likely need a POS interface on your router if you intend to transmit TCP/IP, Voice over IP (VoIP) or Internet packets on an OC type circuit. ATM interfaces may look the same, but are designed to strictly carry traditional voice traffic. Typically runs over fiber optics.
|SONET Synchronous Optical Network.
|International standard for transmitting digitized voice over optical fiber circuits. There are a number of SONET circuit types, the most commonly used ones being optical carrier levels 3 and 12 mentioned in this table. (OC-3, OC-12). Data traveling on SONET networks use asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) formatted packets which were originally designed to carry voice traffic. Typically runs over fiber optics.
|Fast Ethernet
|Primarily copper based version of Ethernet that operates at 100 Mbps.
|Gigabit Ethernet (Fiber)
|Optical version of Ethernet that operates at 1 Gbps.
|Gigabit Ethernet (Copper)
|Copper based version of Ethernet that operates at 1 Gbps.
|Wireless Circuits
|Uses a variety of methods to transmit data through the air. In most cases the ISP manages the antenna equipment and hands off a physical cable link to their customer. This link may be of any of the circuit types mentioned in this table. Wireless links can be quickly installed but they tend to be subject to interference that can reduce their reliability.
|An adequate solution for low volume web sites. Usually offers a maximum bandwidth of 2 Mbps.
|Cable Modem
|Unsuitable for high bandwidth websites as your circuit is shared by many other subscribers who could affect your performance. Your bandwidth usage could also affect video quality of other subscribers. Some ISPs purposely restrict traffic to web servers on their cable links for this reason
It is good to note that data services are sometimes asymmetrical in nature, especially with DSL and cable modem circuits. This means that the incoming downstream data rate from the Internet is different from the reverse outgoing upstream speed. You should be most concerned about the upstream speed for your Web site to the Internet. Inbound Web browser queries don't use a lot of data bandwidth, but the Web pages that contain the outbound replies do. Internet service providers provide asymmetric services for residential users and the downstream rate is almost always higher than the upstream. They reserve symmetrical data circuits for businesses which usually need high bandwidth to both surf the web and serve Web pages and more reliable guaranteed service. The ISP will usually provide the business with a fixed range of Internet addresses as part of the service; residential customers usually get a dynamic address allocation which is unsuitable for most businesses. Whenever possible always opt for symmetrical services for your business. Remember that there are many ways to plan the expansion of your data circuit bandwidth. You can:
- Add more circuits.
- Order a high speed circuit and throttle it with a lower valued CIR. Increasing the CIR increases your bandwidth.
- Use a factional or channelized service and expand your usage one channel at a time till the maximum capacity of the circuit is reached.
Select your data circuit with care. A wrong decision could inhibit the growth of your business.
Data Circuit Provisioning
You should always be aware of the environment in which data circuit providers work. In most cases neighborhoods are grouped into geographic zones which receive data communication services from a central office (CO). COs can also be called telephone or Internet exchanges.
Usually the CO is owned and operated by a single incumbent carrier (eg. AT&T) that owns the wiring infrastructure all the way to the neighborhoods' homes and businesses. Competing carrier can sometimes arrange with the incumbent to provide competing services over the wired infrastructure for a fee. The connection between a CO and your business or home is often called the local loop.
Ideally, a dedicated point to point data circuit between two neighborhoods should have a local loop in neighborhood "A", which then connects to the carrier's backbone network. The backbone should then provide services to the CO in neighborhood "B", which connects to the remote business via another local loop. For Internet services, there need only be a single local loop to your ISPs Internet infrastructure.
Not all ISPs are present in all COs. In order to provide services to all neighborhoods in a city, ISPs may have to negotiate interconnections between COs. Therefore it is possible to purchase services from an ISP who then has to negotiate multiple local loops for the circuit to finally reach its backbone infrastructure.
It is best to minimize the number of local loops in your circuit design. Coordinating the installation and troubleshooting activities of one ISP can be difficult. Extending this to multiple ISPs can be tricky.
You should also realize that not all data centers allow access to all carriers and in some cases there may be only a limited number of circuit types available. Make sure you understand how your desired types of circuits and carriers will gain access to the facility before making a final data center decision.
The relationship between carriers and ISPs in a CO leads to a variety of additional terminologies you'll need to know:
LOA-CFA (Letter of Authority and Customer Facility Assignment): This document does two things. Firstly, it allows a carrier to have access to another carrier's facility to do work (LOA). Secondly the carrier that issues the document also provides a facility assignment (CFA) which indicates the specific interconnection point within the CO for the other carrier to use. Work cannot proceed without a LOA-CFA for the local loops. The more local loops you have, the more LOA-CFAs are required. It is important to keep a very close eye on this process.
DLR (Design Layout Record): This document describes all the details of the circuit path from one end to the other. It can include physical information such as location, floor, row, rack, panel and port. It can also refer to virtual circuits, in other words, circuits that are securely shared with other customers, such as a channelized DS3. A DLR can also mention interconnections with other known circuits, which can help reduce the complexity of the document. You should always verify that a DLR has been created on time in order for it not to hold up the rest of your operation.
FOC (Firm Order Commitment): It may sound rude, but FOC is a common term used in the industry. It is the date your carrier will commit to having a fully functional circuit delivered to you. Always ask what additional tasks will be required after the FOC date. You will almost certainly have to coordinate your engineers and those of the carrier to harmonize and test their configurations before data flows correctly. It is very possible for carriers to test their local loops correctly but make a mistake on the CFA with an incorrect cross-connection.
MPOE (Main Point of Entry): Carriers and ISPs need to deliver data circuits to a specific room at a business address. It is typically the same room in which all telephone lines enter the building.
MDF (Main Distribution Frame): Is usually a rack in the MPOE in which carriers will install the equipment required to terminate the circuit's local loop coming from the CO. This rack and equipment is usually the property of the carrier / ISP. Your equipment will usually connect to the MDF gear through a patch panel provided by you carrier / ISP.
IDF (Intermediate distribution frame): In buildings with multiple tenants it is common to extend connectivity from the MPOE to each tenant's premises. Each tenant location, (eg. a server room or the location of their PBX) will have their own IDF for their own equipment. Connectivity between gear in the MDF and the IDF is usually achieved by using patch panels.
Data center Cross-connects: A carrier or ISP will deliver your circuit to the MPOE, but you'll need to have a cross-connect created to link your server room's IDF to the MPOE's MDF. Remarkably, data centers often charge for this accessibility on a per circuit basis. It can be an unexpected hidden cost.
With the knowledge of these terminologies you should be in a much stronger position when talking to your ISP and carriers.
IP Address Ownership
In a data center environment you will normally request a block of IP addresses (the data equivalent of a telephone number) from your ISP for use by your servers. The ISP will assign a range of addresses to you and will configure their equipment to route traffic to this range via the data circuit they provide. There is a disadvantage to this. If you cancel your ISP data circuit, you will lose the IP addresses they assigned to you. This could force you to reassign brand new IP addresses to your servers.
Always consider applying for your own IP addresses from your Regional Internet Registry (RIR). Here is a useful list of RIRs you can use for your area:
- AfriNIC (African Network Information Centre) - Africa region
- APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) - Asia Pacific region
- ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) - Americas and Southern Africa
- LACNIC (Regional Latin-American and Caribbean IP Address Registry) - Latin America and some Caribbean
- RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) - Europe and surrounding areas will recognize your operation as being similar to that of an ISP and will assign you your own AS and IP addresses. The circumstances for doing so are slightly different for each affiliate but the main factors are that you can prove that your routing policy is different from that of your ISP and/or that your connectivity requires links to multiple ISPs.
If you cannot obtain your own IP block then you will have to ensure that all your applications use DNS names to refer to other servers in your environment and not their actual IP addresses. When new IP addresses are required, you can just modify the DNS name to map to the new address. This minimizes the impact of forced IP address changes on your operation.
Routing Protocols
Internet routing can be quite complicated and you will often need a network engineer to configure your equipment to get access. This section will provide an overview for project managers of the most common Internet routing challenges data center based web sites face. It will provide insights into what can be done if things go wrong during your data center relocation. ISPs usually use two methods to provide internet access to their clients. The first is by providing a simple default gateway through which all network traffic should pass. This is the usual option when only a single link is provided. The second method relies on the border gateway protocol (BGP) and is used primarily when Internet connectivity is provided via multiple ISP links.
Border Gateway Protocol
BGP is a dynamic protocol that can be adjusted relatively easily to influence traffic to and from your site in order to reduce bandwidth costs when your ISPs charge different rates, or to divert excess traffic from an overloaded circuit to a lesser utilized one. Unlike the configuration of a static route that can never change even if a link fails, BGP routes adjust themselves automatically depending on the availability of network links to reach target destinations. This section will cover BGP for use by project managers in some detail and Table A3.2 summarizes many of the terms that will be used later.
Table A3.2 - Common BGP Routing Terms
|BGP Autonomous System (AS)
|A BGP routing management domain usually owned by ISPs. Autonomous systems are assigned blocks of IP addresses which the ISP advertises to neighboring autonomous systems. The ISP is also responsible for the routing of traffic destined to their AS or passing through it to another AS.
|Autonomous System Number (ASN)
|A unique number assigned to the ISP for their autonomous system.
|AS Path
|A sequential list of ASs traffic must pass through in order to reach its destination network.
|AS Path Prepending
|A method of repeatedly adding on your AS number to the beginning of the AS path to your network to bias traffic away from the link that is advertising the prepended list.
|Local Preference
|A method of biasing the desirability of routes to the internet via a particular link in favor of an alternative one within your BGP AS.
|Multi-Exit Discriminator (MED)
|A method in which an ISP, with multiple links to your AS, can bias your routers to select one of its paths to the Internet over another.
With BGP, each ISP is provided with a BGP autonomous system (AS) number from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The ISP then associates the IP addresses it owns to this AS. Routes are exchanged with other ASs in the form of "I am AS number X and in my AS I have the following networks". This results in BGP routers having long lists of all the available networks on the Internet tied to a sequence of ASs that need to crossed in order to get to each one. This sequence is called an AS path list.
BGP routers update their neighbors of changes they detect in the Internet. If a BGP router loses connectivity with a peer responsible for advertising networks for a particular AS, it then notifies its remaining neighbors of the failure and instructs them to remove their routes to the failed AS from their routing tables. ISPs can advertise default routes to your routers via BGP. This can be useful when your equipment doesn't have sufficient memory to store the entire Internet routing table. Some manufacturers recommend a minimum of 512 KB of RAM to support full routes.
No matter what types of routes you receive you can influence how traffic leaves your site with a number of commonly used techniques. If the links terminate on the same router you can use a system of weighting to route traffic completely over one link versus the other. Weights aren't exchanged between routers, so when the links terminate on different routers within your control you'll need to use BGP's local preference feature help them negotiate the preferred link. When both your links are provided by the same ISP, you can also have them advertise a unique multi-exit discriminator (MED) metric value in the advertisements on each link which will bias BGP on your router to route its traffic on one link versus the other.
The methods previously discussed only refer to outbound traffic. Inbound traffic can be influenced too. One method uses AS path prepending in which you repeatedly add on your own AS number in your BGP advertisements. This lengthens your AS path list without making the traffic pass through any additional ASs. Prepending can be applied on a per link basis so that internet routers will feel that the AS path to your network on your preferred link is much shorter than the one to your network via the less favorable link.
These modifications don't have to apply to all Internet routes. You can bias traffic on a per-network and per-AS basis. This can be very useful. Say for example you have to email a weekly newsletter to thousands of customers but the additional traffic saturates one of your ISP links, you can use local preferences to make traffic to Hotmail, MSN and Yahoo! go through the original link, but traffic to AOL and Gmail pass through the other. Another common example would be a situation in which BGP automatically passes most of your outbound traffic over your most expensive link. You can use some of the techniques mentioned to make BGP favor the cheaper link for your traffic until your safe link bandwidth threshold is reached. You can usually guess the most popular ISPs from which web surfers would be coming, if not there are automated tools such as netflow on routers, and webalizer on web servers, that can provide more accurate insights. You can also figure out an AS number manually using the method in the following section.
Determining a BGP Autonomous System Number
Determining the AS number of an ISP or mail service manually is usually straight forward. In this case I'll attempt to determine the AS to which the IP address of mail.aol.com belongs.
- Use the nslookup or host command on a Windows or Linux server to determine the IP address of mail.aol.com
[root@bigboy tmp]# host mail.aol.com mail.aol.com has address 22.214.171.124 mail.aol.com has address 22.214.171.124 mail.aol.com has address 22.214.171.124 [root@bigboy tmp]#
- Use a search engine to find a site that will provide access to "BGP looking glass" routers. Log on to one of the looking glass routers listed on the site.
- Enter one of the AOL IP addresses, in this case 184.108.40.206, and select "BGP", not "BGP summary". Click on the submit button and you will get output looking like this.
TELIA (1299) AOL (1668) 8176, (aggregated by 8176 172.21.44.GENUITY/BBN (1)) 18.104.22.168 (metric 7) from 22.214.171.124 (188.8.131.52) Origin IGP, metric 46, localpref 100, valid, internal, atomic-aggregate Community: 6939:2000
The output shows that the AS path list is 1299, 1688, 8176. This means to get to
mail.aol.com the looking glass router had to pass through AS 1299, then 1688 and finally AS 8176. The final AS, 8176, is the AS for mail.aol.com. You will now have to do this again for all the other IP addresses returned by the hosts command.
Administrative Tasks Needed to Advertise BGP Routes
Network engineers will have to configure BGP on their routers, but the project manager will have to contact the ISP to make sure they are prepared to receive your routes. You will have to inform them ahead of time of your AS number, the networks you wish to advertise and the possibility of using AS path prepending. Once they receive this they will configure their equipment and then provide you with:
- A data circuit.
- IP address assignments for both your and their equipment connected to the circuit.
- Their BGP AS number.
Your network engineer will then be able to configure your equipment to provide correct BGP connectivity to the Internet.
Note: When you use multiple ISPs, make sure your network engineer's BGP configuration guarantees that data traveling from ISP #1 to ISP #2 doesn't pass through your AS. If this happens, you will find yourself paying for traffic that wasn't destined to your site. The volume of traffic passing through your AS could cripple your data circuits too.
Data center ISP selection is a very important part of any relocation activity. This Appendix has provided a summary of the issues that need to be addressed in the process and will make the overall task much simpler to complete. Activity checklists are provided in Appendix I to help facilitate this further.


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Both the 10k and Half Marathon courses start and finish near the Snohomish River at the South end of the park. The routes are fairly hilly, with a mix of steep and moderate grades, as well as some flatter sections. These courses are moderately hilly by trail running standards. The trails traversed by both courses include a mix of wider trails or dirt roads and narrower trails, with the Half Marathon having somewhat more of the smaller trails. Most of the trails are not very twisty, but there are some parts with more twists and turns on the Half Marathon course.
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Northwest Trail Runs provides courses that are clearly marked and precisely measured, we record a finish time for all finishers, and we post results to the website after the event. Longer courses will have aid stations, and there will be refreshments at the finish. There are no awards, however, we usually provide a few prizes for noteworthy runs or just for showing up.


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By Barry M.
Bloom / MLB.com
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career statistics• Giants
statement on passing of Rod Beck• Red
Sox have fond memories of Beck• Cubs
notes: Remembering Rod Beck
FRANCISCO -- Rod Beck, a former reliever for the
Giants, Padres, Cubs and Red Sox, has passed
away, the Giants said on Sunday. Beck was 38
years old.
Beck's body was found in bed at noon on Saturday
by two female friends who were visiting his
North Phoenix home and there was no sign of foul
play, said Sgt. Andy Hill, a spokesman for the
Phoenix Police Dept., which was dispatched to
the residence along with medics from the Phoenix
Fire Dept. The Giants were informed of Beck's
death on Saturday night and told the players,
announcers and front-office staff, who were
openly talking about the death prior to Sunday's
7-2 victory over the Yankees at AT&T Park.
"It comes as a complete shock," said Barry
Bonds, who played with Beck on the Giants from
1993-97. "We all just found out. He was a great
guy, great for us when he was here."
No cause was released, pending an autopsy and
possible toxicology report, Hill said, adding
that an investigation is standard when a dead
body is found alone. Also, Hill said undisclosed
evidence was confiscated from the scene by
investigating officers. Beck had a history of
substance abuse and went into drug rehab only
months before his career ended with the Padres
in 2004, when current Giants skipper Bruce Bochy
was the manager in San Diego.
"We tried everything we could do to help him,"
Bochy said.
Beck came up with the Giants in 1991 and holds
the team record for most saves in a single
season with 48 in 1993, although his career best
was 51 for the Cubs in 1998. His 199 saves with
the Giants is second in club history to Robb Nen,
who finished with 206, and his 286 saves during
his 13-year career places him 22nd on Major
League Baseball's all-time list.
A three-time All-Star with the Giants, Beck was
nicknamed "Shooter" by his teammates on that
1993 team that won 103 games but lost the
National League West title on the last day of
the season to the Braves.
"Because he was a gunslinger, man," said Mike
Krukow, the former Giants pitcher and current
announcer who retired in 1989, before Beck
joined the team. "That's the way he approached
everything. He had a huge heart, a Hall of Fame
Beck was estranged from his wife, Stacy, who
traveled to California, where the couple's two
daughters were in camp.
The Giants were told about Beck's death on
Saturday night by Rick Thurmond, Beck's agent,
who requested that the team refrain from issuing
a formal statement until the girls were
"Rod became a fixture in the San Francisco
community where he spent most of his career,"
Thurman said on Sunday. "Shooter was a
hard-nosed, blue-collar kind of guy who wore his
heart on his sleeve, and that is what made him
so endearing to baseball fans everywhere."
The Giants family has been rocked by a number of
deaths in the last year or two, including Tom
Haller, Ed Bailey, Jose Uribe, Chris Brown, Pat
Dobson and Harmon Burns, the team's majority
owner. Beck's was the latest to digest.
"Everyone in the Giants organization is deeply
saddened by the loss of a dear friend," Peter
Magowan, the team's managing general partner,
said. "Rod Beck was a true Giant in every sense
of the word -- from his dedication on the field
to his selflessness away from the park. Today,
our hearts go out to the Beck family. Rod will
be deeply missed."
"He was just a regular person," added Brian
Sabean, the team's general manager. "I don't
want to say he was almost like a civilian in the
clubhouse, but he wasn't at all like a baseball
player. He loved cowboy boots, he loved kids, he
loved country music and he loved to smoke
cigarettes. He was an upbeat personality who
respected the game, loved the game and loved the
Giants. His stay here certainly set the tone for
a lot of things we were able to do."
Likewise, the Padres have had their share of
bereavement. Since Alan Wiggins died in 1991,
Eric Show, Jack Krol, Mike Darr and Ken Caminiti
have all perished young. Bochy, then a backup
catcher, played with Wiggins and Show and when
Krol was a coach on San Diego's 1994 NL
pennant-winning team. Bochy managed Darr,
Caminiti and Beck during his 12 seasons in the
San Diego dugout.
Wiggins, Show and Caminiti all suffered
drug-related deaths. And Beck was barely
beginning his second season with the Padres when
he went into rehab. He was released by the team
on Aug. 24, 2004, and never pitched in the Major
Leagues again.
"[Beck] went out and got some help, I know
that," Bochy said on Sunday. "In '04, during the
spring, he had some problems. That's when he
went into rehab, but I don't know where."
The previous season, with Trevor Hoffman
recovering from shoulder surgery, Beck was
reclaimed off the junk heap and saved 20 games
in 20 chances. It was one of the top feel-good
stories in San Diego of an otherwise dreary 2003
season, the last for the franchise at Qualcomm
Stadium in Mission Valley.
"This is a bad day in baseball to lose a guy at
such an early age who's done so much for the
game," Bochy said. "[In San Diego], what a job
he did for us. We were desperate at the time for
a closer. I know he and Trevor became very good
friends. He was such a warrior on the mound.
Anybody who played with Rod Beck can tell you
just what a great teammate he was, what a big
heart he had."
Beck grew up in the Los Angeles area and was
drafted in 1986 by the A's, who traded him to
the Giants two years later. His San Francisco
run ended when he became a free agent after the
NL West-winning 1997 season, and he signed with
the Cubs. Beck was on the mound against the
Giants a year later and closed the NL Wild Card
playoff game at Wrigley Field, putting the Cubs
back into the playoffs for the first time since
1989. But he was traded to Boston before the
1999 season was complete.
Though his Cubs tenure lasted less than two
years, he was fondly remembered in Chicago. Last
Sept. 2 at Wrigley, Beck was invited back for a
Giants-Cubs game to throw out the first pitch
and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."
"I heard the stories that he said, 'I'll pitch
every day,' and that's the attitude I have
towards pitching," said Cubs reliever Scott
Eyre, who like Beck, lists the Giants and Cubs
on his resume. "He pitched every single day and
he saved every game for weeks straight. He went
out there with nothing, and still had all the
confidence in the world."
Beck's Boston tenure was equally as short,
lasting little more than two years before he
blew out his right elbow. But "Shooter" still
had his impact.
"I'm just a little lost for words," said Jason
Varitek, the Red Sox catcher, who played with
Beck during those years. "He didn't have the
same fastball by the time he got to Boston, but
you learn different ways to succeed. He could
pitch. More so, he was just such a great
teammate. A great person to be around. I just
can't say enough about what a great teammate he
Beck missed the 2002 season after having Tommy
John surgery, but in early 2003 he tried to
rejuvenate his career with the Triple-A Iowa
Cubs. In Des Moines, he became a mini
personality, living in his mobile home outside
the outfield fence and drinking beer with fans
when they dropped by to visit.
"He came there and his stuff wasn't what it was,
but he had the savvy and the desire, even in
Triple-A," said Mike Quade, the Cubs' third-base
coach now and the Iowa manager back then. "It
wasn't easy for him. He had a trailer and lived
outside the ballpark. He was a fun-loving guy, a
competitive guy, and he loved life."
With Beck's passing, that's undoubtedly the way
he will be remembered most.


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Gorgeous Seashell Pendants made by artisans of the Toyama Prefecture in Japan. These pendants are handmade, unique, with gold and sea shell (depending on the design) – A unique jewel, an elegant and delightful piece of art. These pendants are made with the technique of Maki-e Japanese lacquar.
Maki-e is a Japanese lacquer sprinkled with gold or silver powder as a decoration using amakizutsu or a kebo brush. The technique was developed mainly in the Heian Period(794-1185) and blossomed in the Edo Period(1603-1868). Maki-e objects were initially designed as household items for court nobles, they soon gained more popularity and were adopted by royal families and military leaders as an indication of power.
To create different colours and textures, maki-e artists use a variety of metal powders including gold, silver, copper, brass, lead, aluminum, platinum, pewter, as well as their alloys. Bamboo tubes and soft brushes of various sizes are used for laying powders and drawing fine lines. As it requires highly-skilled craftsmanship to produce a maki-e painting, young artists usually go through many years of training to develop the skills and to ultimately become maki-e masters.


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GOLETA, Calif., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A second batch of F-16 fighters being supplied to Iraq under a U.S. Foreign Military Sales deal will be equipped with a Raytheon electronic warfare system.
Raytheon said the contract was issued by Lockheed Martin, the aircraft's manufacturer, and calls for 18 advanced counter-measure electronic system, or ACES. The order, which includes spares and delivery of the systems to Lockheed, will begin in 2015.
"ACES offers the latest in electronic warfare self-protection technology designed specifically for the tactical fighter environment and mission," said Mark Kula, vice president of Tactical Airborne Systems for Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems business.
"Our system identifies, locates and reacts to potential threats before they can engage. This is critical, game-changing technology needed in today's increasingly complex threat environment."
The advanced counter-measure electronic system consists of a radar warning receiver, digital jammer and chaff-flare dispenser.
Raytheon, which supplied its system for the first batch of Iraqi F-16s, gave no details as to the value of the new contract.


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Microsoft 365 Reports in the admin center - Microsoft Office activations
The Microsoft 365 Reports dashboard shows you the activity overview across the products in your organization. It enables you to drill in to individual product level reports to give you more granular insight about the activities within each product. Check out the Reports overview topic.
The Office Activation report gives you a view of which users have activated their Office subscription on at least one device. It provides a breakdown of the Office 365 Proplus, Project, and Visio Pro for Office 365 subscription activations, as well as the breakdown of activations across desktop and devices. This report could be useful in helping you identify users that might need additional help and support to activate their Office subscription.
You must be a global administrator in Microsoft 365 or an Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business administrator, or reports reader to see reports.
How to get to the Office activations report
In the admin center, go to the Reports > Usage page.
From the Select a report drop-down, select Office 365 > Activations.
Interpret the Office activations report
You can get a view into your organization's Office activations by looking at the Activations and Users charts.
|The Office Activations report presents the current state of the office license activations data [as of the date of the report presented on the top right of the chart].
|The data in each report usually covers up to the last 24 to 48 hours.
|The Activations chart shows you the count of Office activations on desktops and devices.
|The Users chart shows you the count of users that are enabled, and users that have activated the Office subscription on desktop or devices..
|On the Activations chart, the Y axis is the count of Office activations.
On the Users chart, the Y axis is the user's performing activity of activating Office.
The X axis on both charts is the selected date range for this specific report.
|You can filter charts you see by selecting an item in the legend. For example, on the Activations chart, select Windows OS, Mac OS, Windows 10 mobile, iOS or Android to see only the info related to each one. Changing this selection doesn't change the info in the grid table.
|The table shows you a breakdown of Office activations at the user level. This is the list of all user's with the Office product assigned to them. You can add the additional columns to the table.
Username is the email address of the user.
Display name is the full name if the user.
Product licenses is the products that are assigned to this user.
Last activated date refers to the date the user activated Office on a desktop or a device.
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Windows refers to the number of Windows desktops a user activated Office on.
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Windows 10 mobile refers to the number of Windows 10 mobile devices a user activated Office on.
iOS refers to the number of iOS devices a user activated Office on.
Android refers to the number of Android devices a user activated Office on.
If your organization's policies prevents you from viewing reports where user information is identifiable, you can change the privacy setting for all these reports. Check out the Hide user details in the reports section in the Activity Reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
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I came across this rumor originally from the St. Paul Pioneer Press. I was starting to enjoy not having to worry too much about Favre's annual retirement indecision. But if he doesn't retire and does indeed head to Minnesota, I would not be happy. And not just because I do think he could make that team better (though he'd have few players to pass to), but I worry more about how that would further damage his reputation with Packer Nation. I was not happy when Sharper defected, and especially unhappy when Longwell did it (though I do understand that the Packers had a chance to re-sign them). (By the way, I did like Longwell when he was in Green Bay – seemed like a neat guy. But the guy always did watch his stats and the reason I believe he picked Minnesota, is because he knew he'd have better stats kicking indoors.)
Anyway, my point is this: if Favre goes to the Vikings, many Packer fans will appropriately view that as Favre trying to get back at the Pack. If he went to the Lions or 49ers or something, we wouldn't care. But if he goes to the Vikings, that would hurt a lot. I hope that doesn't happen.


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BCS Title Game
Who do you think will bring it home? I hate both teams but I believe Alabama get revenge.
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Researchers say these findings represent progress toward a mind-machine interface that may, one day, help people with a variety of disorders control devices, such as prosthetic arms and legs. The study's lead investigator, neurologist Jerry Shih, says: "This study constitutes a baby step on the road toward that future, but it represents tangible progress in using brain waves to do certain tasks."
The study was conducted in two patients with epilepsy. These patients were already being monitored for seizure activity using electrocorticography (ECoG), in which electrodes are placed directly on the surface of the brain to record electrical activity produced by the firing of nerve cells. In the study, the two patients sat in front of a monitor that was hooked to a computer running the researchers' software, which was designed to interpret electrical signals coming from the electrodes.
The patients were asked to look at the screen, which contained a 6-by-6 matrix with a single alphanumeric character inside each square. Every time the square with a certain letter flashed, and the patient focused on it, the computer recorded the brain's response to the flashing letter. The patients were then asked to focus on specific letters, and the computer software recorded the information. The computer then calibrated the system with the individual patient's specific brain wave, and when the patient then focused on a letter, the letter appeared on the screen.
"We were able to consistently predict the desired letters for our patients at or near 100 percent accuracy," Shih says. "While this is comparable to other researchers' results with EEGs, this approach is more localized and can potentially provide a faster communication rate."
The use of this technique would require patients to have a craniotomy to implant the electrodes. And software would have to calibrate each person's brain waves to the action that is desired, such as movement of a prosthetic arm, Shih says. "These patients would have to use a computer to interpret their brain waves, but these devices are getting so small, there is a possibility that they could be implanted at some point," he says.
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Blacks Still Struggle To Qualify For Personal and Business Credit; New Web Site Wants To Helpby GDN Shared Post September 4, 2012
A recent Washington Post article emphasized how poor credit makes it much tougher to secure loans and gain access to credit, especially for African-Americans. The article entitled, "For Black Americans, Financial Damage From Subprime Implosion is Likely to Last" (see link below), sheds light on what has been an ongoing problem for many decades: Minorities, particularly African Americans, continue to make up a huge population of people and business owners who are unqualified for credit.
Other articles from TheGriot.com and The Black American News Network (TBANN) share the same devastating news, but one new web site aims to make a change.
Launched in 2011, BusinessCredit.org is a free online resource that features the best tips and guidelines on how to obtain and build small business credit – that is, business loans, business credit cards, and business lines of credit. Visitors are also educated about business credit reports. The web site is available to help anyone regardless of their ethnic background, but it aims to especially reach African Americans and other minorities who are most in need.
Visitors to the site will learn exactly what to do and what to avoid when applying for new credit, and how to effectively plead a case when credit is being taken away. There is no other resource online like this, and most of all – it's 100% free to use.
The site features well-written informative articles, descriptive how-to videos, exclusive listings of useful resources, and detailed comparison charts of options offered by different banks. It also features the latest news and trends pertaining to small business funding and credit.
For more details, visit www.BusinessCredit.org
About African Americans and Small Business Credit:According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 27 million businesses in the United States that generate billions each year in combined revenue. However, amongst those, only about 1 million or 7% are Black-owned businesses. Even worse, federal statistics show that Black-owned businesses are 5 times more likely to fail than their white counterparts. Many are closing because they lack credit to keep themselves afloat during the time periods when their cash flow is low or non-existent.
For Black Americans, Financial Damage From Subprime Implosion Is Likely to Last
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www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/for-black-americans-financial-damage-from-subprime-implosion-is-likely-to-last/2012/07/08/gJQAwNmzWW_story.htmlAfrican-Americans and Credit Scores: How the Mortgage Meltdown Permanently Impacts Many Blacks' FinancesThe Griot
Credit Scores: The Silent African American KillerThe Black American News Network
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You don't get to hear this often: not only does a job opening exist, but it's for perhaps the coolest job any human can or ever will have: exploring space. NASA's opening its next astronaut class, live, right here.
The new recruits, should you be selected to represent our species in the vacuum, will work on the ISS, as well as "missions of exploration far away from our planet." Mars! Of course, money's a little tight right now, so don't expect to breeze by Phobos anytime soon, but this is a rare opportunity to be what you always wanted to be as a little kid. Watch the stream, get that resume in shape, make sure you can crank out some push-ups, and dream about space with us. [NASA]


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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
AILA's Featured Issues pages provide a one-stop shop on current immigration-related issues that AILA is actively tracking. This includes government actions and resources, AILA's policy recommendations, and materials and talking points to engage with Congress and the press.Start Your Research
AILA Doc. No. 04020311 | Dated February 3, 2004
American Immigration Lawyers Association
February 3, 2004
Contact: Judith Golub
(202) 216-2403
or Julia Hendrix
(202) 216-2404
Not Up to the Challenge
Statement of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) on Proposed USCIS Fee Increase and the President's Proposed FY 2005 Budget
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) bureau of the Department of Homeland Security today proposed increases in fees for immigration applications of up to 55%. These fees cover almost all of the bureau's expenses. However, at a time when the quality of service is at an historic low, increases of this magnitude are difficult to justify. Processing backlogs have reached crisis proportions, while the agency wastes resources revisiting issues already resolved and harassing honest petitioners with requests for paperwork unrelated to their immigration eligibility. Making matters worse, the public's only available avenue to resolve government errors and problems is a contractor-run 800 number that has proven to be useless to deal with these issues.
Adding insult to injury, the proposed fee increase would force applicants to pay for these failures. As USCIS loses files, errs on more and more applications, and provides no viable avenue to resolve problems, lawsuits to force action have increased. The proposed budget for USCIS factors the costs of these suits into the fees by proposing a surcharge to pay for them. The Equal Access to Justice Act mandates that government agencies pay certain costs when they take a substantially unjustified position in litigation. USCIS proposes to evade this law by forcing the very people who are harmed by its actions or inaction to pay the costs of the agency's unjustified positions.
The Department also has announced that it intends to outsource the immigration information officer (IIO) function and factors into the proposed fee increase the cost of conducting an expensive study of this problematic initiative. Despite numerous problems associated with contracting out the deeply flawed 800 number system, the USCIS budget would mandate that applicants pay the costs of this study to expand this failed concept to cover all user assistance functions.
In January 1998, the Commissioner of the INS, USCIS's predecessor, stated that the fee increase announced at that time would not be implemented until applicant wait times started to decrease. Today, no such reticence is shown. Even though the ordinary wait times on many applications are double or triple today what they were in 1998, USCIS offers no such concession to those who must pay increasing amounts for deteriorated service. AILA urges the Director of the USCIS to follow the example of his predecessor and demonstrate good faith by foreswearing the fee increase until the pandemic backlogs throughout the agency are noticeably decreased.
The Bush Administration's proposed FY 2005 budget for USCIS only deepens our concerns with the $140 million included for the bureau. Such a sum recognizes neither current challenges nor realities. AILA long has supported direct Congressional appropriations to supplement user fees: USCIS adjudications and security checks are in the national interest and such appropriations are necessary to ensure a rational and predictable funding stream. The President's proposed budget is going in the wrong direction. The $140 million marks a 41% reduction from the inadequate $236 million the bureau received in FY 2004. Furthermore, Administration spokespersons have indicated their goal of covering costs wholly with fee revenue. AILA calls on the Administration to conduct a study to determine what level of funding is necessary to adequately support USCIS's adjudications functions, eliminate the backlog, and put this bureau on sound financial footing. Both the Administration and Congress need to step up to the plate and recognize that the current funding system is deeply flawed and needs to be changed.
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Complaints and Disciplinary Process
Mission Statement
To safeguard life, health, and the public welfare, and to protect citizens from unauthorized, unqualified, and improper application of nursing education programs and nursing practices, in accordance with SDCL 36-9 and SDCL 36-9A.
What are the Grounds for Discipline by the South Dakota Board of Nursing?
State law authorizes the Board to take action against nurse licenses for violations. Specific grounds for action are outlined in SDCL 36-9-49.
Note: a complaint concerning a Certified Nurse Aide should be directed to South Dakota Department of Health.
Mandatory Reporting: South Dakota law requires individuals in the medical and mental health professions and employees or entities that have ongoing contact with and exposure to elders and adults with disabilities to report knowledge or reasonable suspicion of abuse or neglect of elders and adults with disabilities. For more information, see the South Dakota Department of Social Services website.
To Report a Complaint
Anyone who believes that a nurse has committed any violation(s) is encouraged to contact the Board of Nursing staff by fax, mail, or email. Please include the name of the nurse, nature of the complaint, and any other information that would assist the staff in its investigation, including dates, specific activities or practices of concern, witness names, etc. You may choose to remain anonymous; to the extent allowed by law, the Board attempts to maintain the confidentiality of the complainant. Please submit contact information; you will be contacted within a maximum of two weeks to acknowledge that the complaint was received. Information and documents obtained during the Board's investigation remain confidential except where admitted into evidence at a formal disciplinary hearing. The Board of Nursing's Board of Directors meets regularly and as often as necessary to accomplish its mission. As the complainant, you will also be informed of final actions taken by the Board.
Components of an Initial Complaint
- Nurse:
-Full Name, including middle initial
-Telephone #
-Nursing License #
-Other identifying information, i.e., date of birth, Social Security # , etc.
- Complainant:
-Name and Title of primary contact for this complaint
-Telephone #
-Facility name
What, When, and Where
Detailed written explanation of occurrence, including dates, times, places, and persons involved.
- Past facility work history of the nurse if prior action has been taken by the facility.
- Witness statements if taken by the facility prior to reporting.
- Medical records or other internal documents that provide evidence of reported occurrence. (South Dakota Board of Nursing is exempt from HIPAA regulations under Title 45, Volume 1 164.512 2 (D)).
- Statement informing what action the facility has taken to date, i.e., termination, suspension, HPAP, internal employee assistance referral, etc.
- Statement informing the Board as to the status of law enforcement involvement.
- If the nurse confesses during an internal investigation or to law enforcement, prepare a statement that includes what exactly the nurse confesses to, the date, time, and place of the confession, as well as a list of all persons present at the time of the confession.
After the Complaint Is Made
The Board of Nursing takes complaints about nurses seriously. As soon as a complaint is received at the Board of Nursing, work begins. First, a determination is made as to whether or not the facts, as alleged, violate existing laws or regulations that govern the nurse's practice. Remember: the Board of Nursing only has jurisdiction over licensed nurses in the state of South Dakota, with no authority over employment settings.
If a violation of law or regulation did indeed occur, and the person is licensed as a nurse in the state of South Dakota, then an immediate investigation into the facts of the case is begun. Evidence is gathered and interviews are conducted. This process may take a number of weeks prior to a decision being made by the Board.
If evidence obtained during the investigation supports the allegation(s), and the licensee does not dispute the facts, the Board of Nursing may negotiate a settlement with the licensee, outlining the facts of the violation and appropriate sanction. If the licensee contests the charges, he/she is entitled to a formal hearing. During this hearing, both sides may present evidence and witnesses. Lawyers will be present. The Board of Nursing determines and issues the sanction. Please review the South Dakota Board of Nursing Disciplinary Process Flow Chart shown below for more details.
Sanctions from which the Board of Nursing may choose:
- Dismissal of Complaint
- Letter of Concern
- Letter of Reprimand
- Licensure Denied
- Probation Ordered; Closure, Early Closure, or Modification of Probation Granted or Denied
- Revoke or Suspend the License
- Reinstatement of License Granted or Denied
- HPAP Participation Mandated; Closure, Early Closure, or Modification of HPAP Participation Granted or Denied
- HPAP with Probation; Closure, Early Closure, or Modification of HPAP/Probation Granted or Denied


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Graphic designers usually work on a lot of software tools, which lets them create those visually stunning pieces of artwork. Many designers use the creative suite (Adobe), like (Adobe) InDesign to design e-mailers, magazines, newsletters, posters, book cover art and much more.
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Open Admissions Protest Flier, October 1997
This Halloween themed flier, from October 1997, calls for participation in an October 26th protest at CUNY's administrative offices at 535 E. 80th Street. Depicted are Rudolph Giuliani, New York's mayor, and Herman Badillo, the Vice-Chair of [...]
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The HHS Preschool/Nursery program is open to all Hillsborough residents ages 3-5 years old. Students must be three years old by January 1, 2020. There are two sessions (a morning and an afternoon option) and the program runs Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from mid-January through mid-June for 1 hour and 20 minutes. The cost for the program per student is $150/semester. Preschool spots available for each session are determined by high school student enrollment in the course. Completed applications for the preschool are dated and kept on file in the order in which they are received. Parents must return the child's medical and immunizations forms prior to December 6, 2019 for the application to be eligible. The application is not eligible for acceptance until all required medical documents are received.
The preschool child/nursery class is a 10 credit, double period elective for Hillsborough High School juniors and seniors who are interested in such career fields as education, child psychology, and social services, or as a basis for learning good parenting skills for future family life. The high school students spend the first semester studying the theory behind the emotional, physical, and social development of preschool children. During the second semester, the students apply their knowledge in the classroom with the preschool students by planning, organizing, and supervising the program. The Preschool Program has been in operation since 1971.


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Photographer's Note
Toronto's skyline changes constantly these days. By most estimates, more towers are being constructed here than in any other city in the Western World.
Skyscraper construction has enjoyed three big booms in Toronto's history: in the 1920s aand 30s; in the 1960s and 70s; and over the last twenty years.
The diversity in these towers illustrates so much about the history of modern architecture. This multi-ethnic, vibrant city is all around us on the streets and in the neighbourhoods, but it's also sprouting upwards over our heads every day - fast!
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SimoAle (646) 2014-02-14 8:30
Hi William
mi piace questa composizione spinta in altezza! Hai catturato una bella luce e dei colori accativanti e brillanti. Il senso della profondit� ti porta fino alle nuvole.
Buon week end
pajaran (94317) 2014-02-14 12:10
Dobar dan.
Dobar tekst o gradu i arhitekturi sa opisom ...
Interesantan i lep pogled na kule ...
Dobar snimak, ostrina i kontrast, lepo pokazane kule i detalji na fasadi, lepe boje.
Imajte lep dan, sve najbolje za vikend, srecno.
Good afternoon.
A good article about the city and the architecture, with a description ...
An interesting and beautiful view of the towers ...
Good shot, sharpness and contrast nicely shown details of the tower and the facade, beautiful colors.
Have a nice day, all the best for the weekend, good luck.
timecapturer (49288) 2014-02-15 4:02
Hi William
love shots like this, it amazes me the number of photographers who just do not look up when out with a camera. Modern skylines are just wonderful when viewed like this and this one is just beautiful. Man made symmetry pitch against mother natures ever changing sky. Perfect!
Enjoy your weekend - B.
saxo042 (38078) 2014-02-15 5:55
Hi William,
A very impressive perspective, I hope you did not break your neck taking this picture... Very fine examples of modern architecture and a photo with very pleasant colours.
Kind regards
jemaflor (127701) 2014-02-15 8:03
Hi William,
Great pov, excellent depth effect, impressive buildings, good light management, tfs.
adidas5nb (5743) 2014-02-15 8:07
i really like this for its thought composition and choice of angle.gives a great visual effect.very nicely done.
Giustiniani (3650) 2014-02-17 1:11
Hello William,
une magnifique composition avec ces lignes de fuite qui nous m�nent droit au ciel! les bleus sont superbes et avec les reflets de la lumi�re, les structures des b�timents semblent faites de cuivre. Une tr�s belle photo.
Bonne journ�e, amicalement,
a beautiful composition with these lines of flight that lead us straight to heaven! The blues are beautiful and the reflections of the light building structures seem to be made of copper. A very beautiful picture.
Have a nice day, regards,
yquem46 (38752) 2014-02-17 9:13
hello William
I like the blend of colors here and the luminosity of the image
Very dynamic impact from this low pov
best regards, have a nice day
Royaldevon (66072) 2014-02-17 12:41
Hello William,
The vertical view of buildings can, as shown here, make the most interesting patterns. I love how the building on the left looks 'pleated', whilst the one on the right shows the ever decreasing rectangles, merging and changing colour, giving a fine sense of perspective.
I wonder how you would feel about cropping the shot a little to create a slightly more symmetrical shot. Not necessarily better, but different. I'll d a w/s. See what you think.
My warm regards,
Bev :-)
worldcitizen (13136) 2014-05-06 16:47
Hello William,
You captured two nice examples of modern skyscrapers. I like that they both have a different style. Buildings with a "glass curtain" exterior, such as the one on the left in this photo, are interesting. You also captured perfectly what it feels like to look up at these. I often stretch my neck trying to see to the top of towers here in NYC. :-) Nice blue sky, too.
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- Genre: �ꏊ
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- Date Taken: 2014-02-11
- Categories: Architecture
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A new academic study warns that with China's growing military power, US policies toward Taiwan may no longer be "sensible."
China's military power, and specifically its ability to blunt US power projection in the western Pacific, is growing and growing substantially, the study says.
"Throwing up our hands seems imprudent and possibly foolhardy," the principal analyst at research and analysis organization CNA, Elbridge Colby, says in the study.
CNA — not an acronym — is the parent organization of the Institute for Public Research and the Center for Naval Analyses.
Colby says he does not advocate for a "maximalist position" on Taiwan and that the US should not write Taiwan a "blank check." However, he insists the US should strongly support Taiwan's right to determine its own future and treat the question of Taiwan "with the utmost delicacy."
He says that it would be "dangerous and rash" to abandon Taiwan, and that the US must continue to walk a fine line "supporting Taiwan's reasonable rights, while avoiding needlessly angering China."
Colby, a grandson of former CIA director William Colby, says the US must preserve its position in the western Pacific.
"While we must be prepared to use force in the region, if at all possible we do not want to get in a war with China over Taiwan or anything else," he says.
"Ultimately, there is no silver bullet on the Taiwan question. Instead, the issues surrounding Taiwan's future are certain to remain immensely fraught, exceedingly delicate and continually changing. Wise government policy must adapt to these realities even as it charts a course that shapes the environment in ways favorable to our interests," he adds.
The study was printed this week in the US foreign affairs magazine the National Interest.
"Whatever happens, we will certainly be better off if we are strong. If we are strong, we will have more and better options, more leverage, more maneuvering room, more credibility and more time to chart a course through these waters, relatively placid on the surface, but exceedingly treacherous beneath, of deciding how best to deal with the problems of Taiwan and China," Colby says.
He adds that the US must focus defense spending "carefully and pointedly" on military capabilities of value in the western Pacific.
"We need the ability to match China's improvements in its military capabilities, especially its anti-access/area-denial capabilities with correlative and ideally superior improvements of our own," Colby says.
This means, he says, keeping a lead over China in the areas of high-end military capacities that will enable the US to prevail in a battle for supremacy in the Western Pacific.
"Most obviously this means the kind of naval and aerial capabilities that can deal effectively with an opponent like China, but it also means the cyber, space and associated elements that will mean the difference between a winning and losing combatant in such a conflict," Colby says.
He advises "focused and intelligent" investment in potentially disruptive technologies, like directed-energy weapons and 3D printing.
"Finally, it means maintaining a sufficiently large, flexible and discriminate nuclear force capable of deterring the most dramatic forms of escalation and as an ultimate backstop for our defense posture," he adds.
The US will be better off, he says, if it has the military capability to dissuade Beijing from seeing a military option as an attractive solution to its problems.


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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is due to make his decision on the plans by February 1.
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