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The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
List of some Jinn Character types
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The "Ascended Master" Types and My Encounter with St. Germain
A SEPARATE STREAM : Alchemy and the "religion" taught by Jinn
In My Father's House are Many Mansions The new frontiers of human discovery are the hidden realms we occupy but don't even know about.
Doppelgangers and "Men in Black" My friend's elderly mom was bothered by MIB
The True Nature of the UFO Entities Gordon Creighton's Essay About Jinn
Why We Haven't Solved the UFO Mystery
The Dangers of Chi : A Personal Account of Jinn Possession which occurs in certain Qi Gong, Tai chi, martial arts and meditation practices.
The Truth about Spontaneous Chi Kung ( Jinns / Demonic Possession )
Demonic Possession and ExorcismThe Man Who Invented Flying Saucers by John Keel
Why Bother about aliens and Jinn?
Jinn Classification According to Islamic traditions
"How to Contact Space People" Rare vintage UFO book by Ted Owens, the "PK Man"
Into the World of JINN Article from the book "The World of Jinn and Devils"
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The World of the Jinn article
Dozens Claim They Spotted UFO in Texas Jan. 16, 2008 NPR -- Faster than a speeding bullet and bigger than a Wal-Mart.
We don't actually know a single thing about life on other planets. Scientific evidence that extraterrestrials visit us doesn't exist.
Our belief that they do is fantastic modern mythology in the making.
However, there is enormous evidence that deceptive entities are masquerading as extraterrestrials.
There are unseen creatures that we share this Earth with.They don't come from other planets.
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In the Koran they are called the Jinn.
Information about the Jinn reads like a textbook description of UFO and other paranormal phenomena.
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When most people think of the Bird Show, it is naturally birds that spring to mind, however the team is currently experimenting with something different. His name is 'Richie'; he is seven months old and … is a Common Ring-tailed Possum!
'Richie' was hand-reared by one of the keepers because his mum wasn't able to. She became his surrogate mum, and decided to name him after 'Richard', his surrogate dad.
Common Ring-tailed Possums share some of the same environmental problems as many birds that live in Australia, including habitat loss, particularly the loss of tree hollows. These hollows are mighty important because it is here that possums, owls and parrots will raise their young. In the absence of enough hollows, population numbers are dropping. Possums can also end up on the dinner plate from many Australian raptors, inextricably connecting the animals in the web of life.
'Richie' will not be used to demonstrate this 'cycle of life', but rather, if he proves to be star material, will demonstrate their amazing agility and ability to access hard to reach areas with his prehensile tail. With a prehensile tail 'Richie' can get his 'Cliffhanger' on, latching onto branches and ropes and competently descending to lower areas. It is an incredible adaptation.
There are many things 'Richie' will have to get used to out on stage, and today he was tested for the first time. Luckily for us, 'Richie' dealt with the people and birds flying over head really well, acting calmly the entire time. 'Just like our birds, 'Richie' has the finest in high-tech gadgetry! He is wearing a tracking transmitter which helps us keep track of 'Richie' when we can't see him'.
There is still a possibility 'Richie' will not make shows, but if that is the case he will be desensitised to many things and a fantastic addition to the Education team, so students can learn more about our native wildlife.
Being a nocturnal animal and coming out during the day is something many people ask about too, and this is not a concern for us at the Bird Show. Just like people can get used to being 'night owls', possums can get used to being up at this time. We are very lucky and excited to be working with 'Richie' and have high hopes for this tightrope, walking dare devil.


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ANAHEIM -- Jackie Bradley Jr.'s name was once again absent from the Red Sox starting lineup for Saturday's contest against the Angels.
The center fielder has been penciled into the starting lineup just once in the past five games as he continues to struggle at the plate. Bradley entered play Saturday in an 0-for-27 slump that began on July 29.
Manager John Farrell is looking at this time off as a way for Bradley to make necessary improvements.
"We trust that through the early work, which he has done the past few days, that it can carry over on the field," Farrell said. "We feel like their is a better hitter in there, from a consistency standpoint. From an average standpoint, time will tell."
Bradley seemed to turn a corner in July, hitting .345 over a 17-game stretch, but it didn't last.
"We want him to get back to that so he can be back in a starting role for us," Farrell said. "We need it to increase. This is a stretch of time where we are addressing some things. He is aware of the approach.
"We sat down and met with him yesterday. We don't want him questioning his abilities or where he stands. We are emphasizing the early work and the adjustments."
With Bradley's defensive capabilities, which were on full display for the final two innings of Friday's contest, Boston knows its a better team when Bradley is patrolling center field.
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- どこで: Nava
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- テーマ: Gastronomy
Nava hosts this event revolving around cider.
During the second weekend in July and the week running up to it, the village of Nava, in Asturias, celebrates its most famous festivity: the Cider Festival. During the event, first held in 1969, the village organises numerous cultural activities related to this drink which is so deep-rooted in the region.
There are talks, discussions, exhibitions, concerts, theatre… until Saturday's proclamation and the firecracker that marks the start of a free tasting session where thousands of litres of cider are consumed. The only requirement for being able to drink for free is that you wear a green handkerchief around your neck. On Sunday, the last day of the fair, the International Pouring Competition takes place.
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Ferrari at the 2011 Paris Air Show
Le Bourget, June 21, 2011 – The 49th Paris Air Show was chosen by Boeing for the debut of a number of important new models, and Ferrari was the co-star with its latest flagship sports car, the FF and the Ferrari California.
Alongside the new 787-8 Dreamliner on the Le Bourget runway is a Ferrari Four, the Prancing Horse's most recent model which incorporates the latest innovations to provide benchmark interior space, performance and fuel efficiency.
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Jillian Dempsey netted Harvard's first goal in a 2-1 win over Clarkson Friday night (Gil Talbot).
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's hockey team faced a 1-0 deficit early in the second period, but two goals in the back half of the frame and solid penalty killing in the third allowed Harvard to skate away with a gutsy, 2-1, win over Clarkson Friday at Bright Hockey Center. The win marks the second 2-1 victory over the Golden Knights (7-4-4, 3-3-1 ECAC) this season and gives Harvard (4-1-0, 4-1-0 ECAC) the season series sweep for the first time since 2007-08.
After a quiet first period, the Golden Knights struck first, taking advantage of the third Harvard penalty of the game. Carly Mercer slipped a pass to Hailey Wood and Wood fed Jamie Lee Rattray who beat Harvard goalie Laura Bellamy from close range for a 1-0 lead 6:45 into the second period.
The Crimson had some good looks but came up empty on its next power-play, but a Clarkson penalty at 14:37 of the second enabled Harvard to knot the score. Marissa Gedman led Gina McDonald into the right corner with a pass and McDonald redirected the puck back across the goalmouth to a streaking Jillian Dempsey, who one-timed the shot past Erica Howe for a power-play tally at 15:01.
Harvard took its first lead of the game just 47 seconds later, as Hillary Crowe muscled through a crowd in front of the net and shoved home a trickling puck for a 2-1 lead. Hilary Hayssen and Kalley Armstrong assisted on the play. Clarkson made a final push in the period, but Bellamy made a trio of sprawling saves to secure the 2-1 lead heading into the third period.
Clarkson looked primed to net the equalizer late in the third as a trio of Harvard penalties, including back-to-back infractions that put Clarkson on a 5-on-3, pinned Harvard in its own zone. Bellamy stayed true and managed to fend off a barrage of shots and even after the Golden Knights pulled their goalie with just over a minute to play, the Crimson defense was sure.
The two teams stayed consistent with the rest of the league in the first period as all four ECAC matchups on the night finished the opening frame with no score. The Golden Knights were efficient on the penalty kill, stymieing the Crimson on a pair of power-play opportunities. Harvard answered back later in the first with a penalty kill of its own and the period ended with the guests holding an 11-9 advantage in shots.
Bellamy finished with 29 saves in the game as the Crimson killed five of six Clarkson power-plays. Howe ended the night with 26 stops while Armstrong picked up her team-leading fifth assist of the season.
The Crimson returns to the ice tomorrow afternoon for a 4 p.m., showdown with St. Lawrence.


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MOSCOW/NAANTALI, Finland (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Tuesday a former U.S. spy agency contractor sought by the United States was in the transit area of a Moscow airport but ruled out handing him to Washington, dismissing U.S. criticisms as "ravings and rubbish".
In his first public comments since Edward Snowden flew in on Sunday, Putin appeared to make light of the diplomatic uproar over the fugitive, whose flight from U.S. authorities is becoming a growing embarrassment for President Barack Obama. Asked by a journalist about the affair, he smiled fleetingly.
"I myself would prefer not to deal with these issues. It's like shearing a piglet: there's a lot of squealing, but there's little wool," Putin told a news conference in Finland.
Snowden, who worked as a systems administrator at a U.S. National Security Agency facility in Hawaii, is facing espionage charges from the United States after leaking details about secret U.S. surveillance programs to the news media.
Putin's refusal to hand back Snowden risked deepening a rift with the United States that has also drawn in China and threatens relations between countries that may be essential in settling global conflicts including the Syrian war.
Republican lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday seized on the Snowden saga to portray Obama as an ineffective foreign leader.
Washington has gone to great lengths to try to ensure Snowden has nowhere to go to seek refuge. But Putin said Russia had no extradition treaty with the United States and suggested Moscow would expel Snowden only if he were a criminal.
"He has not crossed the state's border, and therefore does not need a visa. And any accusations against Russia (of aiding him) are ravings and rubbish," Putin said in the garden of a presidential residence, with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto beside him.
Shortly after Putin's comments, the White House once again urged Russia to immediately expel Snowden and said Moscow had a "clear legal basis" to do so because of his revoked passport and the outstanding charges against him.
"Accordingly, we are asking the Russian government to take action to expel Mr. Snowden without delay and to build upon the strong law enforcement cooperation we have had, particularly since the Boston Marathon bombing," said White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden.
Hayden said the United States agreed with Putin's comment in Finland that it did not want the incident to negatively impact U.S.-Russia relations, but members of the U.S. Congress denounced Putin's stance and said it would have an inevitable impact.
"It should cause a profound reevaluation on our relationship with Russia and with Vladimir Putin, something that a lot of us have been saying for a long time," Senator John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential contender, told reporters.
Hours earlier, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had cautiously questioned the Russian approach.
"It is accurate there is not an extradition treaty between Russia and the United States, but there are standards of behavior between sovereign nations," Kerry said, in Jeddah.
Republican critics of the president said the Snowden furor was a sign of Obama's weakness and declining international stature, and Russia was taking advantage of the United States.
"They know that he's weak. They know that he's so fearful about getting involved in balance-of-power foreign affairs and they're playing on it, and they're enjoying it very, very much," said Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah.
Snowden has applied for asylum in Ecuador but Quito has said it is still considering the application and the United States is trying to persuade the governments of countries where he might head to hand him over. His plans remain unclear.
Putin said the 30-year-old Snowden was in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and, not having gone through passport control, was free to leave.
"The sooner he chooses his final destination, the better it would be for us and for himself," Putin said.
Russian law requires travelers who spend more than 24 hours in the airport's transit area - as Snowden has done - to get a transit visa. It was unclear whether Snowden had sought or received a transit visa.
There has been speculation in the Russian media that Snowden may be talking to the FSB, the Russian security service, and could be involved in a prisoner swap. Putin said Russian security agencies "never worked with ... Snowden and are not working with him today".
The U.S. State Department said diplomats and Justice Department officials were talking to Russia, suggesting they sought a deal to secure his return to face espionage charges.
"We've asked the Russian government to consider all potential options to expel him to return to the United States, and we're going to continue those discussions in law enforcement and diplomatic channels," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters.
U.S. officials have said intelligence agencies are concerned they do not know how much sensitive material Snowden has and that he may have taken more documents than initially estimated which could get into the hands of foreign intelligence.
Snowden left Hong Kong for Moscow on Sunday, and the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy group said he was headed for Ecuador and is traveling on a refugee document of passage provided by Ecuador.
Journalists camped out at the airport have not spotted him inside, or leaving, the transit area. He has not registered at a hotel in the transit zone, hotel sources say.
A receptionist at the Capsule Hotel "Air Express", a complex of 47 basic rooms furnished predominantly with grey carpets and grey walls, said Snowden had turned up on Sunday, looked at the price list and then left.
U.S. officials admonished Beijing and Moscow on Monday for allowing Snowden to escape their clutches but the United States' partners on the U.N. Security Council, already at odds with Washington over the conflict in Syria, hit back indignantly.
"The United States' criticism of China's central government is baseless. China absolutely cannot accept it," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in Beijing, also dismissing U.S. criticism of Hong Kong, a Chinese territory, for letting Snowden leave.
Putin also praised WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is also a fugitive from U.S. justice, and questioned whether he or Snowden should be treated as criminals.
"Ask yourself: should such people be handed over to be imprisoned or not?" said Putin, who last week was smarting at being isolated over Syria at a summit of the G8 industrial powers and sees Washington as an overzealous global policeman.
Advisers to Assange declined to comment on the situation.
Fallout from a protracted wrangle over Snowden could be far-reaching, as Russia, the United States and China hold veto powers at the U.N. Security Council and their broad agreement could be vital to any settlement in Syria.
International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Tuesday he was pessimistic an international conference on Syria could take place in July as hoped and urged Russia and the United States to help contain a conflict which has killed almost 100,000 people.
Talks between the United States and Russia to set up a Syrian peace conference produced no deal on Tuesday, with the powers on either side of the two-year civil war failing to agree when it should be held or who would be invited.
Additional reporting Gabriela Baczynska and Lidia Kelly in Moscow, Alexandra Valencia in Quito, Mark Felsenthal, Paul Eckert, Rachelle Younglai, Laura MacInnis, Mark Hosenball and Patricia Zengerle in Washington and Katya Golubkova in Havana; Writing by Elizabeth Piper, Timothy Heritage and John Whitesides; Editing by Karey Van Hall and Tim Dobbyn


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by Jozsef Vass
Table of contents
1 June 2011
Prerequisite knowledge
Familiarity with ActionScript 3 and Flash Builder is required.
User level
Required products
Flash Builder (Download trial)
Sample files
Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5 introduce a new communications protocol, Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP), whose low latency, end-to-end peering capability, security, and scalability make it especially well suited for developing real-time collaboration applications by not only providing superior user experience but also reducing operators' costs.
Earlier versions of Flash Player use Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) and require Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) for interactive collaboration applications (such as Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro) or audio/video streaming. While RTMP is an excellent choice for streaming media, shared objects, or remoting, it has limited ability of meeting real-time requirements of interactive audio and video communications.
In order to use RTMFP, Flash Player endpoints must connect to an RTMFP-capable server, such as the Codename Cirrus (previously Codename Stratus) service or Flash Media Server 4. Cirrus is a hosted rendezvous service that aids establishing communications between Flash Player endpoints. Unlike FMS, Cirrus does not support media relay, shared objects, scripting, etc. So by using Cirrus, you can develop applications only where Flash Player endpoints are directly communicating with one another.
Flash Player is already the market leader in online video distribution over the web. With the introduction of RTMFP and advanced media compression technologies, Flash Player 10 is well positioned as the leader in real-time communications as well.
In this article, I first highlight the benefits of using RTMFP in real-time communications applications. Second, I describe the new ActionScript 3 API for managing direct end-to-end RTMFP connections. Finally, I present our VideoPhone sample application.
Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) is a new communications protocol introduced in Flash Player 10 and also available in AIR 1.5. One of its major differentiators from Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), which is based on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and exclusively used in previous versions of Flash Player, is that RTMFP is built on User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
While TCP provides reliable data delivery (well applicable for file transfer, e-mail, etc.), it does not provide any end-to-end delay guarantees. Reliable data transmission in TCP is achieved by re-transmission of lost data, which introduces latency. Because minimizing end-to-end delay is one of the most important goals in real-time communications (a few hundred milliseconds' delay may render a conversation unusable), TCP is not well suited for this purpose. Transmission error resilience and recovery form an integral part of most advanced audio and video compression techniques—such as Speex audio and H.264 video codec, both available in Flash Player 10. Reliable delivery provided by TCP is therefore not needed. As a result, UDP, which provides an efficient and rapid data delivery, is popularly used in real-time collaboration applications where minimizing end-to-end delay is of paramount importance. Another advantage of UDP over TCP that it enables end-to-end peering—that is, direct data transmission between two clients located behind network address translators (NATs).
When compared to RTMP, RTMFP provides the following advantages for real-time communications:
- Low latency: Since RTMFP is built on top of UDP, it provides minimal latency for real-time communications. It is important to note that RTMFP provides both reliable and unreliable service. When sending data between two Flash Player instances (for example, using the
NetStream.send()method), reliable data transmission is used. When sending Speex audio between two Flash Player instances, unreliable delivery is used, providing the smallest possible latency.
- End-to-end media delivery: Media is sent directly between two Flash Player instances without routing through a central relay server. When compared to RTMP, where all data is sent through Flash Media Server, RTMFP not only further reduces end-to-end delay, but also eliminates costs associated with a central data relay, thus lending itself to extremely scalable deployments.
- Data prioritization: Audio is transmitted with higher priority than video and non-time critical data (such as instant message, etc.). This can significantly enhance user experience over a bandwidth constrained communications channel.
All of these features represent tremendous benefits for real-time communications, providing a significantly greater user experience than is achievable with earlier versions of Flash Player.
RTMFP is built on top of UDP, which enables direct connection between clients even if they are located behind NATs or firewalls. In order for RTMFP to work, your firewall must be configured to allow outgoing UDP traffic. While this is the case with most consumer or small office/home office (SOHO) firewalls, many corporate firewalls block UDP traffic altogether.
One solution is to configure Flash Player to use a TURN proxy (Traversal Using Relays around NAT). Flash Player supports IETF Internet Draft
draft-ietf-behave-turn-08 without authentication. If the network administrator configures a TURN proxy that allows outgoing UDP, Flash Player can be configured by adding the following line in mms.cfg (for more information on Flash Player configuration and the location of mms.cfg, please read the Adobe Flash Player Administration Guide for Flash Player 10):
Direct UDP traffic is always attempted and the TURN proxy is only used as a backup: it is used for UDP traffic that cannot flow between Flash Player and Cirrus (in case of UDP blocking firewall) or between Flash Player endpoints.
Even if your firewall enables outgoing UDP traffic, it is possible that end-to-end peering cannot be established due to a combination of firewalls. When one endpoint is located behind a so-called "symmetric firewall," end-to-end communications may not be possible. (For a classification of firewalls, please see the Network address translation entry on Wikipedia.) In this situation, you may use a TURN proxy to aid firewall traversal.
Flash Player instances must connect to the Cirrus service (using
rtmfp://p2p.rtmfp.net) in order to communicate with one another. Cirrus is a hosted rendezvous service that helps Flash Player instances contact one another even if they are located behind NATs. Although connecting to Cirrus service is very similar to connecting to Flash Media Server, Cirrus does not provide any of the typical Flash Media Server features (media relay, shared objects, remoting, etc.). Flash Player endpoints must stay connected to Cirrus during the entire time of communication. In order to access Cirrus, you will need a developer key that is generated when you create your Adobe Developer ID.
RTMFP support is available in Flash Media Server 4. With Flash Media Server, it will be possible to enable communications between Flash Player 9 or earlier clients (using RTMP) and Flash Player 10 clients (using RTMFP).
RTMFP provides secure communications between endpoints. It uses a 128-bit AES with the key negotiated using the Diffie-Hellmann key exchange method. However, it does not provide strong endpoint authentication such as SSL or RTMPS. To aid endpoint authentication, RTMFP and ActionScript expose secure nonces to application developers. These nonces are available at both communicating Flash Player endpoints and are guaranteed to match. By verifying these nonces, end users can ensure that there is no man-in-the-middle attack. These nonces can also be used to develop key continuity mechanism.
It is important to note that Flash Player only enables sending media from your microphone and webcam devices to other Flash Player endpoints that subscribe to your media streams.
There is a new ActionScript 3 API in Flash Player 10 to support RTMFP. Connecting to the Cirrus service and creating end-to-end media streams are analogous to working with Flash Media Server. Please note that you must use ActionScript 3 with either Flash Professional (CS4 or later) or Flash Builder 4 targeting Flash Player 10 or AIR 1.5.
As I mentioned before, first you must connect to the Cirrus service:
private const CirrusAddress:String = "rtmfp://p2p.rtmfp.net";
private const DeveloperKey:String = "your-developer-key";
private var netConnection:NetConnection;
netConnection = new NetConnection();
netConnection.connect(CirrusAddress, DeveloperKey);
The developer key is issued when you sign up for an Adobe Developer Connection account and is available on the Cirrus beta service site.
Upon successful connection to Cirrus, you get a
NetConnection.Connect.Success event. There could be several reason for connection failure. If you provide an invalid developer key or incorrectly specify Cirrus address, you'll receive
NetConnection.Connect.Failed. If your firewall blocks outgoing UDP traffic, you'll receive the
NetConnection.Connect.Failed event after a 90-second timeout.
After successfully establishing a connection to the Cirrus service, you are assigned a unique 256-bit peer ID (
NetConnection.nearID). Other Flash Player endpoints must know this peer ID in order to receive your published audio/video streams. It is out of the scope of Flash Player or the Cirrus service how these peer IDs are exchanged among Flash Player endpoints. For exchanging peer IDs, you may use an XMPP service or a simple web service, as the Video Phone sample application does.
Direct communications between Flash Player instances is conducted using unidirectional
NetStream channels. That is, if you want two-way voice conversation, each Flash Player endpoint must create a sending
NetStream and a receiving
First, create a sending
private var sendStream:NetStream;
sendStream = new NetStream(netConnection, NetStream.DIRECT_CONNECTIONS);
This means that
media is published as an end-to-end stream. Since Cirrus cannot relay media, you can publish only end-to-end streams. This stream will include both audio and video from your local default devices chosen by the Settings Manager.
Note: Audio/video is not sent out until another Flash Player endpoint subscribes to your
media stream.
Now, create the receiving
private var recvStream:NetStream;
recvStream = new NetStream(netConnection, id_of_publishing_client);
recvStream.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStreamHandler);
At this point, you hear audio and you can create a
Video object to display video. In order to create the receiving
NetStream, you must know the 256-bit peer ID of the publisher (
id_of_publishing_client). In order to receive audio/video, you must know the name of the stream being published.
The publisher has fine control over which endpoint can receive its published stream. When a subscriber attempts to receive a published stream, the
onPeerConnect() method is invoked (default implementation simply returns
true) on the published
NetStream. The publisher could disallow certain Flash Player endpoints to receive its media:
var o:Object = new Object();
o.onPeerConnect = function(subscriberStream:NetStream):Boolean
if (accept)
return true;
return false;
sendStream.client = o;
On the publisher side, the
NetStream.peerStreams property holds all the subscribing instances of the publishing
NetStream. For example, using
sendStream.send() will send the same data to all subscribers. You can use the following to send information to a specific subscriber:
NetConnection.maxPeerConnections property specifies the number of peer streams that are allowed to connect to the publisher. The default value is set to 8 but, in practice, depending on your application, you must consider that most ISPs provide asymmetric Internet access. Figure 1 illustrates the direct communication among three instances of Flash Player. Each Flash Player endpoint sends and receives two streams, creating a fully connected mesh. Since Internet download capacity is generally much higher than upload capacity, you must be extra careful not to overload the end-user's uplink.
NetConnection.unconnectedPeerStreams property is an array of
NetStreams that are not associated with a publishing
NetStream yet. When a publishing stream matches a subscribing stream name, the subscribing
NetStream is moved from this array to the publishing
NetStream.peerStreams array.
We have developed a sample video phone application for illustrating how to use end-to-end capabilities of Flash Player 10. It is also available as part of this article.
The Video Phone sample application relies on a simple HTTP service to exchange the Flash Player peer ID. The script is provided as part of the package, reg.cgi. This web service does not provide any user authentication. After Flash Player successfully connects to Cirrus, it registers its peer ID with the web service. When making a call, the Video Phone caller uses this web service to look up recipient's peer ID.
Adobe runs this web service exclusively for the hosted Video Phone sample. When you build your own Video Phone sample, you must run your own web service and specify
WebServiceUrl in VideoPhoneLabs.mxml. You should override the
AbstractIdManager class to implement your own peer ID exchange mechanism—using, for example, XMPP, Google Apps, or the Facebook framework.
The following steps are necessary to build a Video Phone sample application—for more details, please see ReadMe.txt included in the package:
- Host a web service for the peer ID exchange using the provided reg.cgi Python script.
- Create a new Flex project in Flash Builder 4.
- Add the source files from the package—VideoPhoneLabs.mxml, AbstractIdManager.as, HttpIdManager.as, IdManagerError.as, and IdManagerEvent.as—to the project src folder.
- Specify your Cirrus developer key in
DeveloperKeyin VideoPhoneLabs.mxml.
- Specify the URL for the web service in
WebServiceUrlin VideoPhoneLabs.mxml.
The Video Phone sample application uses the phone model. The call control procedure is implemented using the newly added Cirrus message passing capability. Client A sends an "Invite" message to client B through Cirrus service and publishes the media stream. Client B learns the caller's remote ID and username from the incoming "Invite" message and prompts the user to accept or reject the call. If Client B accepts the call, it sends an "Accept" message through Cirrus service, subscribes to Client A's media stream, and publishes the media streams. When Client A receives the "Accept" message, it subscribes to Client B's media stream and two-way communications is established.
In this article, I presented some of the most exciting features of the new RTMFP protocol along with an overview of the new ActionScript 3 API. After reading this article, you should have a good understanding of how to use this revolutionary protocol. I hope you will be developing blockbuster applications using the end-to-end and advanced media capabilities of Flash Player 10 (and later) and Adobe AIR.


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Facebook also said that it was "pleased with our our growth."
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The report, from Inside Facebook, stated that the social network lost 6 million U.S. users and 1.5 million Canadian users in May. Facebook reached 687 million users in May, but despite the monthly audience rising 1.7 percent worldwide, growth has been declining since March. Some critics say this is evidence of Facebook fatigue.
However, similar data companies like Nielsen and comScore have only shown growth for the social network, leading some people to wonder who to believe.
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President Barack Obama has been pretty vocal about what he thinks of the current state of gun regulations—they're nowhere near as strict as he thinks they should be. But his battle for stricter gun laws will be exactly that: a battle.
The gun industry is booming. The demand for guns and ammo has never been higher. In 2012, the FBI conducted more background checks on people who wanted to buy guns than ever before.
So are profits. Since Obama took office in 2008, profits for some gun manufacturers are up almost 200%.
In 2012, the American industry for guns and ammunitions totaled about $12 billion, according to an estimate by the IBIS group. In 2011, gun companies paid more than $5 billion in federal, state and excise taxes, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a pro-gun organization.
The Gun Industry Employed 98,759 People In 2012.
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With 10,835 workers, there were more people employed in the gun industry in California than anywhere else in the United States. In second place is Texas, which employed 5,986 people in the gun industry in 2012.
Revenues & Profits:
The Strum & Ruger Co (RGR), a Connecticut-based firearms manufacturer, made $40 million in profits on sales worth $328.8 million in 2011, according to the company's annual statement. The company's profits are up almost 200% since Obama took office.
Smith & Wesson (SWHC), another popular but relatively small gun maker, made a profit of
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Last year, the FBI did 19,463,832 background checks on people who wanted to buy guns.
This interactive map shows how many background checks of people who wanted to purchase guns the FBI conducted in each state:
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There's a reason why the gun industry is so profitable: There's a huge market for them. The number of gun-purchase related background checks the FBI conducts is a pretty good indicator of how many people want to buy firearms. In 2012, the FBI conducted 19,463,832 background checks, according to FBI data.
Not surprisingly, the underground market for guns is also pretty robust: 62 percent of private gun sellers would have agreed to sell a firearm to a buyer who couldn't pass a background check, according to data from an undercover investigation by New York City public officials.
The number of people who wanted to buy guns in 2012 went up by more than 3 million in a year
This interactive map shows by how much the number of background checks conducted by the FBI increased or fell in each state:
Interactive map: click on any state to see how many more people wanted to buy guns in 2012 than in 2011. The darker the red, the higher the increase, blue and white mean the number decreased. Source: FBI NICS
Kentucky saw the highest increase in gun-related background checks, while that number decreased quite dramatically in Utah, and to a lesser degree, in Indiana.


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On Nov. 14, some legislators drew attention to two letters written by the Spanish government — in 2009 and 2011 — warning Taiwan that some olive oil imported from Spain was being mixed with other oils or inaccurately labeled by Taiwanese firms. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not pay a great deal of attention to the warning, and its failure to act on Spain's advice eventually led to the problem of certain manufacturers fooling consumers by mixing cheaper oils in with their olive oil.
The FDA can hardly deny its share of the blame. While Taiwanese edible oil manufacturers have made a lot of money and think a great deal of themselves, very few of their staff have a professional background in edible oil production. They do not know how to blend oil in the right proportions, still less how to add copper chlorophyllin to inferior oils to make them look like more expensive olive or grape seed oils.
The truth is that dishonest people can be found anywhere. While some Taiwanese factories have been guilty of producing adulterated olive oil, the same kind of thing has happened in Spain and other olive-producing countries.
In 2008, the Spanish-based International Olive Council defined "olive oil" as "the oil consisting of a blend of refined olive oil and virgin olive oils," while "refined olive oil" is defined as "the olive oil obtained from virgin olive oils by refining methods." Since the refinement process inevitably leads to a loss of color, the resulting oil will be colorless and transparent.
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An article, entitled "Control of Olive Oil Adulteration with Copper-Chlorophyll Derivatives," published by researchers from Spain's Instituto de la Grasa (Institute of Fats and Oils) in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in 2010, established techniques to test for copper chlorophyllin, by which misuse of the substance by dishonest Spanish companies could be detected.
Given that the FDA suspects that some imported olive and grape seed oils may have had copper chlorophyllin illegally added to them in their countries of origin, it should order the customs service to conduct border sample inspections to block tainted oils before they enter the country. Such a measure would help to safeguard the interests of consumers in Taiwan.


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The other explanation as to the interest in subfactors that I hear is, "they have a lot of surprising connections to other topics and show up all over the place." Can someone tell me about such an instance? What are some other topics where subfactors unexpectedly showed up? I am vaguely aware of something to do with random matrices ...
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Alright... here's the topic.
For many years the historicity of Jesus as a man has remained virtually undisputed among historians. However, I have noticed in recent years a rising number of historians [admittedly still a minority] who have expressed doubt that Jesus ever existed at all.
What do you all think?
[P.S. If you can... please provide evidence and sources for your opinions].
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When I was in college, about 40 years ago, I wrote a paper on the historical Jesus. I had no trouble finding sources for the paper, three of them as I recall. Josephus, was one, but don't recall the others. I don't doubt that Jesus was an historical figure.
Using logic, we have 4 gospel authors that have written what He said, and they don't agree. Then in the Dead Sea scrolls we find Thomas writing about Jesus' sayings that are different again. You might try to argue that all writers had an ancient copy they borrowed from, but since there is no evidence of such a document you would only be guessing.
Please don't let your desire to prove He didn't exist color your evidence, just stick to the facts.
You said: An agnostic sits on the wire and is unsure of the existence of a god(s)....bit of a cop out actually.
This is not accurate. An agnostic says that we can't know whether a god exists or not. Virtually every atheist and every theist is also an agnostic.
Atheists say that we have a lack of evidence for 'god' and we don't have a belief in god(s). If someone were ever able to present us with genuine proof of deities, we would no longer be 'without belief' but we would jump straight to 'gnostic.'
I was agnostic for most of my life until my near death experience which brought me to believing in a greater conscienceness or creator, nothing like the "God" many worship. So I have no part of the agnostic in me any more. Not to worry, I won't tell you about it.
yes, you claim to "know" which is exactly why the word "agnostic" was created.
Most atheists and theists do not claim to "know" - they claim to believe/not believe
'For many years the historicity of Jesus as a man has remained virtually undisputed among historians. However, I have noticed in recent years a rising number of historians [admittedly still a minority] who have expressed doubt that Jesus ever existed at all.''
Traditionally, Western scholars considered the Gospel accounts of Jesus to be authoritative and
inspired by God, but, starting in the late 18th century, scholars began to
submit the Gospels to historical scrutiny. From 1744 to 1767, Hermann Samuel Reimarus composed a
treatise rejecting miracles and accusing Bible authors of fraud, but did not
publish his findings.[140][141] Gotthold
Lessing published Reimarus's conclusions in the Wolfenbuettel fragments.[10] D.F.Strauss's biography of
Jesus set Gospel criticism on its modern course.[10]Strauss
explained gospel miracles as natural events misunderstood and misrepresented.[142] Joseph
Renan was the first to portray Jesus simply as a human person.[10] Albrecht
Ritschlhad reservations about this project, but it became central to liberal Protestantism in Germany
and to the Social Gospel movement in
America.[10] Martin
Kaehler protested, arguing that the true Christ is the one preached by the whole
Bible, not a historical hypothesis.[10] William
Wrede questioned the historical reliability of Mark.[10] Albert
Schweitzer[143] showed how
modern histories of Jesus had reflected the historians' bias.[10] Karl
Barth and Rudolph Bultmann repudiated
the quest for historical Jesus, suppressing any real interest in the topic fromc 1920 to c 1970.[85] There was a
brief New Quest movement in the 50s.[10] The 80s saw
the founding of the controversial Jesus Seminar.[144] Today,
historical efforts to construct a biography of Jesus are as strong as ever,
thanks to better knowledge of 1st-century Judaism, a rebirth of Roman Catholic
scholarship, the acceptance of historical methods across denominations,
literary analysis of Jesus' sayings, and sociological insights.[10]'
Back in the 18th and 19th century not many scholars accepted that Jesus existed, at all. Today, the majority of scholars do believe He existed.


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"Packages come, way too early for northern beekeepers in my opinion."
My best packages this year were my earliest ones, 4/1. the last one 4/20 is the worst performer so far. I think early packages are good if you feed them constantly.
"Packages come, way too early for northern beekeepers in my opinion."
My best packages this year were my earliest ones, 4/1. the last one 4/20 is the worst performer so far. I think early packages are good if you feed them constantly.
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I would say for an absolute beginner with no experience, packages, marked queen, on new foundation. They are docile, easy to handle, and as your experience and confidence grows, the hive grows. Checking the hive frequently will allow you to see their progress and as a beginner you will check it frequently, you won't be able to help yourself! You will first see eggs, then unsealed brood, then sealed brood. If you have read a few books, and asked some questions, you will know if it is a normal time frame. Failed Queen? Yes, that happens, sometimes, over the years I have had few in packages, that were promptly replaced by the supplier.But most beginners would probably recognize it quicker in a package than a nuc, because the nuc already has multiple stages of development. The beginner may not know if what they are seeing is normal. With a package a beginner does not have to evaluate the condition of old combs, then worry about how to work them out of the hive, if they are not acceptable, if they even know what is acceptable. I've seen packages that were duds, I've seen nucs that shouldn't have been hauled home. I personally prefer package, then I know what to expect with no surprises, and can create my own problems, without buying them. Should a person never buy a nuc? That is not my position at all. A GOOD nuc is a definite head start, but in my humble, but correct opinion you need to be able to tell if it is good nuc. If you are confident you can tell a good nuc, then buy it and dance away with glee. If you are not confident that you can honestly evaluate a nuc, then package. I personally look at either as an investment for next year, with no plans of a crop from either the year they are started, but have been fooled , when they turned into boomers, and have supered for late crops. The one biggest piece of advice when starting either is FEED,FEED,FEED. Heavy going to winter is always better than light. My late Father taught me how to keep bees, his philosophy was simple when it came to honey harvest. Plenty for the bees,some for me, then some for others. In that order, always.
The nucs that I am purchasing won't be ready until the 3rd week in May. Is this too late?
Timing is everything, but you have no real control over what matters like when it gets cold, when it gets warm and when the first blooms happen. Some years it all falls into place where the earlier packages do better because it's just cold enough long enough to keep them from all drifting and then it blooms soon enough that they get a good kickstart and then it stays warm enough they can keep moving forward. Other years it blooms too late, stays too cold and it's a struggle just to keep them alive and then the later ones do better. It's all in the details and you have no control over most of those details.
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The preceding post by Jim is perfectly correct if you plan on making a crop in the summer. Late splits have a harder time making it through the winter also.
In Georgia, I got a package of bees in 2009, in late May -- this was way too late and they didn't do well because they had completely missed the major nectar flow. In 2010 I got two nucs in April and they both did great; they hit the ground running because they already had brood going, and quickly build out frames of comb and produced honey.
MB nailed it in post #46. Most years, though, a "well timed" nuc will not only out produce a package but quite often out produce a strong overwintered colony which is prone to issues of swarming and queen aging.
Since I produce nucs in Alabama, I will answer an earlier question on this thread. I sell four frames of bees, brood and a free ranging laying queen. This is in its own wooden box. The person buying this little box of bees should transfer it into their hive replacing four frames. Most of the people buying them are brand new to beekeeping. So all they have is five frames of foundation around the four frames of drawn brood comb. I tell them to force feed the bees all they will take in the form of a 1-1 sugar syrup. Even if there is a flow I tell them this because I want them to get their bees across the box in about two weeks. Once across the box I tell them to put their first two supers on. The first one is for the bees for a food chamber and the second one is theirs. Usually, these people have very good luck by producing a super of honey the first year. Thus they come back and buy more nucs the next year. That is what it is all about--happy customers. TK
If you have someone local selling overwintered nucs in the early spring (April or early May), there's no way I would suggest a beginner turn that down. Those bees have proven themselves geneticaly as survivors and would have a lot more going for them than a package of unrelated bees that might kill off the equally unrelated queen. Last year our club had horrible queen acceptance from the southern bred stock. It seems that over 50% of the queens were lost (balled, stung, spontaneously died, or superceded).
Local beeks rearing their own queens and overwintering nucs to sell to local beeks solves this, and other, problems.
Don't get me wrong, package installation is a good skill, but I hope to never purchase one again.
I picked up a nuc from Everything Honeybee on 6/11/11 and put them in an observation hive in my house. They are doing very well and the queen was laying even as I was transferring them to the ob hive. Most packaged bees I have seen on "pick up day" had many dead and they still have to draw out comb before the queen can start laying. I prefer nucs.
[QUOTE=Docking;379137]Can a Nuc be pushed hard enough to draw out 2 deeps and a med of honey in their first year?
I started with 2 nucs this year. My first Nuc was mid May and was established on Medium 10 Frame Boxes. I purchased the Nuc (which had 4 brood 1 egg 2 honey and the rest drawn comb) with 3 extra Med Boxes all with drawn comb. I just put on my 5th 10 Frame Medium Box this week. They will fill it out at the rate they are going so I should have 3 full Med Brood Boxes and 2 Honey Supers (I hope). I fed them only a gallon of sugar syrup at the start.
My second Nuc was purchased on June 1st and consisted of 5 deep frames 3 brood 2 eggs and honey - no other drawn frames. I transferred the Nuc into my own deep brood box with 5 additional frames. I now have 2 full deeps and 2 honey supers on this colony. Half my frames have been foundationless and half have been plastic pierco frames. This hive fills out the foundationless so fast its crazy! They love it... I have already harvested a frame from this hive and have a little more than one full honey super that is about 50% capped. The rest of the frames in the honey supers are almost complete and most are filled but not capped.
In my part of Utah we have had more rain than usual which caused a slow start and cold spring but has resulted in a lot more honey flow than normal I think.
I am not experienced enough to advise whether packages, OW nucs or spring nucs are best. It may well come down to the weather.
The hardest thing for a newbie with no bees to overcome is the SOLD OUT sign. The OW nuc ordered in Feb may end up dead in May or used to replace the sellers own losses. Spring nucs may still be available for a longer drive, maybe not.
For good or bad the package will come. At least hedge your bet the first year or two.
There was a discussion at a meeting last night in No. Cal. of how some beekeepers ordered 75 nucs last year. Over 50% of them were africanized. So I guess that could be one more reason to not buy a nuc unless you know for certain where it came from. Probably local will always be better then out of state....
In AFB areas Local is going to be the greatest risk. Bees that are shipped from out of state have health inspections done and while not specifically looking for AFB traits, if the inspectors suspect AFB they will not issue the certificate.
Always question Conventional Wisdom.
When you stop learning you're dead.
The woman giving the presentation said they knew they were because they were not only very aggressive, but would follow people over 200 feet from the hive and not stop the attack. That is all I know....
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
should a bee keeper worry about bringing in diseases or pests when purchasing a nuc that comes from many states away and /or on dated frames?
or is there equal chance of contamination by purchasing pkg bees?
I am still learning on bees , but I do know people who always buy cattle, hogs and poultry at sale barns have a lot more problems with disease and pests.
so far I have not found any local stock pkg bees or nuc's for sale only migrating bees.


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