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If you are a Linux enthusiast and just curious to know how the Ethernet frame is processed, how to sniff the packets even if it is not destined for your computer then you are at the right place, You need to have basics of C and networking that's it.
Linux provides Packet sockets to sniff the link layer packet at the application, generally also known as raw sockets, but i would like to make a distinction here that packet socket are use to send and receive the packets at data link layer(layer 2) and where as raw sockets are use to send the raw packet till layer 3 and can only receive specific protocols like icmp at application layer, please refer the following blog for more detail on raw sockets rawSocket.
Lets have a brief introduction about Ethernet LAN and then we can move to the Linux specific support to sniff the packets, Ethernet segment is shared by all the host connected to same hub and the packet sent by one host is sent to all the host on the segment, The host on the LAN is identified by unique mac address, which is 6 bytes long.
As multiple host share the same Ethernet segment this might result into collision, thus to detect the collision and to re-transmit the packet Ethernet defines the minimum frame size of 64 bytes. There are three types of Ethernet frames possible
i)Unicast Frame
This is received by all the host on the hub but processed only by the host whose mac address match with destination mac address in the frame, other host just drops it.
ii)Multicast Frame
This received by all the host on the hub but processed by the host whose Ethernet controller is configured for the destination mac address in the frame, other host just drops it.
iii)Broadcast Frame
This received by all the host on the hub and processed by all the host.
Linux networking subsystem
Linux has well defined device model, Everything in Linux is a file, device is a special kind of file known as device file and each device has the major and the minor number associated with it but network devices are the exceptions and the Linux network interface are not based on device files, Network devices are identified by name like eth0...ethx and each device inside the kernel is identified by interface index, Mostly all the devices has the driver associated with it, which performs the basic I/O on the device, Network device also has the network driver, which receives and transmits the packets over the network using Ethernet controller(Mac and Phy), For high Ethernet rate like 1000 mbps link , DMA (Direct Memory Access) is use to transfer the data between Ethernet controller and the kernel buffer.Once the packet is in the kernel buffer the network driver is notified either by interrupt or may be by poller thread, Network driver fills the data in sk_buff, sk_buff is a structure in Linux networking stack,which represent the data along with lots of meta information, hence forth for further discussion we will refer it as skb. skb contains lots of meta information , which helps kernel to manage the network packet efficiently.
The networking stack inside the kernel is consist of layers and each layer does the well defined protocol processing, The driver receives the packet and pass it to the layer 3, depending on the layer 3 protocol type the corresponding handler is called and once the processing is done the layer 3 pass it to the layer 4 protocol handler, it could be udp or tcp, this is the very high level understanding of protocol processing in kernel ,there are lot more things involved in the processing like Net filter hooks and layer 2 ebtables hook, we are not going to talk about the filters and detailed processing because they deserve altogether a separate article,So lets look at the important information filed by the driver for further processing, Mostly driver will fill the below information in skb
i) Network data including Ethernet header
ii) Aligning of IP header to 16 byte boundary
iii) Setting of protocol,device info and pkt_type, here the protocol field contains the layer 2 protocol and pkt_type is the macro which determines whether the packet is layer 2 broadcast/multicast/unicast or destined for other host(promisc mode)
Packet socket completely bypass the kernel networking stack, it directly receives and sends the packet to link layer, the above figure give the brief overview of Linux packet socket sub-system, Packet socket is created using call socket(PF_PACKET,SOCK_RAW,protocol) , to open a socket you need to specify the domain, socket type and protocol, in this case the domain(family) is PF_PACKET, the socket type can be SOCK_RAW or SOCK_DGRAM, depending on the application requirement, if SOCK_DGRAM is used in packet socket then application receives the packet without ethernet header, If SOCK_RAW is used then application receives the complete frame include link layer header, socket types are defined in Protocol is use to filter only specific types of packet, like if protocol is ETH_P_IP then only IP packets are received, to receive all protocol packets, application can register with ETH_P_ALL protocol, Protocol Id's are defined in http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.36/include/linux/if_ether.h, If you have multiple interfaces then you can also bind the socket to particular interface to receive and send the packet. To receive the packets which are not destined to the local host ,we need to set the Ethernet in promisc mode, Since packet socket may have serious security implications, only root user can create this kind of sockets.
We have so far covered the basics of packet sockets and I think its also worth mentioning about theBPF (Berkeley packet filters), These are the filters used by the kernel to filter the packets on user based criteria, depending on the protocol used by application, it might receive all the packets, filters can be used to restrict the packet reception to achieve higher performance, To generate the BPF code there is a easy way out, thanks to tcpdump, which provide the BPF code in C format for the applied filter for example tcpdump -dd ether proto 0x8100 -i eth0 will display the filter in C code as shown below
{ 0x28, 0, 0, 0x0000000c },
{ 0x15, 0, 1, 0x00008100 },
{ 0x6, 0, 0, 0x00000060 },
{ 0x6, 0, 0, 0x00000000 },
This could be use in our code for filtering.
To bind or to set the interface in promisc mode we need to find out the interface number use in kernel
struct ifreq ifr;
strncpy ((char *) ifr.ifr_name, interface.c_str (), IFNAMSIZ);
ioctl (sockId, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr)
We use ifreq structure to fill the interface name and then ioctl to get the interface id, ifreq structure is use to configure the network devices in Linux, Once the interface index is found we can go ahead and attached socket to the specific interface
struct sockaddr_ll sll;
sll.sll_family = AF_PACKET;
sll.sll_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
sll.sll_protocol = htons (protocol);
bind ( sockId, (struct sockaddr *) &sll, sizeof (sll) )
We fill up the the information like socket domain, protocol and the interface number in sockaddr_ll and use bind call to bind the socket.Then finally we set the interface to promisc mode, first we fill up the packet_mreq structure with interface index and interface flag(PACKET_MR_PROMISC) and finally pass it to the sockopt call.
struct packet_mreq mr;
memset (&mr, 0, sizeof (mr));
mr.mr_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
mr.mr_type = PACKET_MR_PROMISC;
setsockopt (sockId, SOL_PACKET,PACKET_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, &mr, sizeof (mr))
Once the above setting is done , we are ready to use the packet socket for sending and receiving the raw data.
Frame construction
The Ethernet header consist of 6 bytes destination address, 6 bytes source address and 2 bytes Ethernet protocol type, The other bytes in frame like start delimiter and FCS is added by the Ethernet H/w, Mac address is the unique H/W address to identify the host, here the destination mac address is the receivers mac address and source address is the senders address, packet type identify the layer 3 protocols like Ip, Arp contained in the Ethernet frame, Ip has value 0x0800 and Arp has 0x0806, they are defined in http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.36/include/linux/if_ether.h, Note the 4 byte is added extra after source mac addr if the packet is Vlan tagged, out of four bytes two bytes will be 0x8100 denoting Vlan packet and another 2 bytes will have Vlan id and pcp bits, immediately after Vlan tag the two bytes will denote the layer three protocol. Lets see how to construct layer 2 header in C code.
char buf[1522];
struct ethhdr *eth;
eth = (struct ethhdr*) buf;
eth->h_proto = ETH_P_IP;
The logic above is very straight forward, we take the buffer of 1522 bytes, 1522 bytes because Ethernet packet including Vlan cannot cross beyond that, Then we type cast the start of the packet to Ethernet header i.e. struct ethhdr (declare in include/linux/if_ether.h) and then fill up the destination ,source mac address, source mac address can also be retrieved from kernel interface, please find complete code here, destination mac address normally is learned through the arp protcol but just to try something with packet sockets we can send the layer 2 boradcast packet. finally we fill the layer 3 protocol type as IP.
After 14 bytes of Ethernet header the layer 3 protocol header will start, depending on the layer 2 protocol type the layer 3 header is type casted, If its a IP protcol then Ethernet data will be type casted as struct iphdr.
struct iphdr *ip = (struct iphdr*) (eth +1);
Further IP has many fields like protocol version(IPV4), the header length, protocol type within IP (it could be udp,tcp or icmp), tos(type of service for QOS), total length (including the IP header and IP data) and 2 bytes check sum. The most important field of iphdr is the source and destination IP address, IP address is used at layer 3 for routing information and also to identify the network domain, Please refer the complete code here to understand further. The IP packet has 2 bytes of checksum and it is defined by the standard, checksum needs to be correct otherwise the receiving IP stack will not accept the packet.
How to send packet
Once the socket is open and packet construction is done, sending of packet is just using the write command.
write system call takes 3 parameters ,the socket descriptor, buffer pointer and the length of buffer.
How to receive packet
To receive we can use read system call, Once the packet is received the application protocol should process it further.
read system call takes 3 parameters ,the socket descriptor, buffer pointer and the length of buffer.
In Linux 2.4/2.6 if PACKET_MMAP is not enabled, the capture process is very inefficient. It uses very limited buffers and requires one system call to capture each packet, it requires two if you want to get packet's
timestamp (like libpcap always does). In the other hand PACKET_MMAP is very efficient. PACKET_MMAP provides a size configurable circular buffer mapped in user space that can be used to either send or receive packets. This way reading packets just needs to wait for them, most of the time there is no need to issue a single system call. Concerning transmission, multiple packets can be sent through one system call to get the highest bandwidth. To use mmap , I would suggest to use libcap for portability reasons but this can also be done for understanding and learning low level implementation.
Below are the system calls involved with Zero copy configuration
socket() - Opening of packet socket
setsockopt() - Setting up the size of receive and transmit circular buffer
mmap() - map the kernel buffer in user space
poll() - wait for new incoming packets
send() - send the batch of packet
close() - close the socket
socket creation and the binding of the socket to interface is the same shown above, the important action is to allocation of RX ring buffer and TX ring buffer. To do this we need to use the setsockopt call as below
setsockopt(fd , SOL_PACKET , PACKET_RX_RING , (void*)&req , sizeof(req));
setsockopt(fd , SOL_PACKET , PACKET_TX_RING , (void*)&req , sizeof(req));
The most important argument in the above call is the request structure, which defines the ring buffer parameters
struct tpacket_req
unsigned int tp_block_size; /* Minimal size of contiguous block */
unsigned int tp_block_nr; /* Number of blocks */
unsigned int tp_frame_size; /* Size of frame */
unsigned int tp_frame_nr; /* Total number of frames */
This structure is defined in include/include/if_packet.h, The above call of setsockopt sets the circular buffer, which is unswapable memory in kernel, As this buffers are mapped to user space , the applications can directly read the packet and read the meta information like timestamp without using any system call, Frame are grouped in a block, block is a contigous memory and contains the frames. We need to specify the the number of blocks, sizeof block, number of frames spread across blocks and size of frame.
So if we need lets say a buffer of 16 frames of size 256 bytes each, then we can have below configuration
struct tpacket_req req;
req.tp_block_size = 2048
req.tp_block_nr = 2
req.tp_frame_size = 256
req.tp_frame_nr = 16
The idea above is to split the 16 frame into 2 blocks of 8 frames, So each block will contain 8 frames, there are 2 blocks of 2K bytes each, The number of blocks depends on the static array in kenrel for block pointers and total size of blocks depends on the memory available in the kernel , for better understanding please refer http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.36/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
Once the data-structure is initialized and ring buffers are allocated in the kernel, application can do the mmap to map the memory at user space, once the mmap is done user is ready to receive and the send the packet using Zero copy socket.
Note: To use the Zero copy, socket should be bound to an interface.
Packet socket can be very handy in designing real-time applications like Video streaming, Audio streaming, Ethernet Service OAM and SCTP protocol. Applications like video streaming and audio streaming requires real-time packet reception in order to provide noise-less service, these kind of real-time requirements can be achieved by the combination of BPF and Zero copy networking. New protocols like Ethernet OAM and SCTP can be developed at application layer without any kind of special support from kernel.


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Condor Born in 1910 Finally Kicks the Bucket
The planet is short one centenarian this week after Hector, the world's oldest condor, passed away in Algeria at the ripe old age of 100. Experts say Hector's long life was quite a feat considering that the scavenging birds generally don't live past 50. But as impressive as his longevity was, Hector's entire species of condor has a place in the record books, too, for having the longest wingspan of any land bird on the planet. Perhaps those magnificent wings came in handy as Hector slipped the surly bonds of Earth to fly towards that great rotting carcass in the sky. According to the Algerian new agency APS, Hector died on Monday, but his history goes way back. He was brought from South America to Africa in the early part of the last century by Joseph D'Angelo, a Frenchmen who created a zoo there. Over the decades, Hector grew up to be one big bird, coming in at 33 pounds with a wingspan of over 10.5 feet.
Andean condors, like Hector, are considered the biggest flying birds in the world, as well as one of the longest-living. Typically, these condors have an impressive lifespan of about 50 years -- but Hector's days numbered far more than even that.
As the years wore on, Hector would eventually land a place in the Guinness Book of World Records, while animal experts, too, were amazed with his exceptionally long life. Dr. Faisal Haffaci, a veterinarian and former zoo director, accredits this longevity to Hector's strength and physique, as well as the zoo's favorable micro-climate.
But despite the bird's century of life, his decline came rather suddenly, says Abderrezak Zeriat, from the Experimental Garden of El Hamma where Hector lived. "The condor did not look well, since last week, and seemed very weak."
While Hector may have enjoyed a number of extra years, his wild Andean condor brethren haven't had it so easy. Although the bird is a national symbol in six South American countries, they're still under threat by human activity, much like nearly extinct California condor.
The experts may have their theories as to why Hector lived as long as he did, but the truth is that no one will ever know for certain. I imagine though, when you're born as bald, gaunt, and wrinkly as condors are, age really is just a number.
More on Saving the Condor
Rare Condor Dies From Lead Poisoning
"100 Heartbeats:" Endangered Species Timebomb
Focus on Focus Earth: Saving the Condor


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Emperor Point - A Mechasaurus Rex!
- IvanovotMk 64 - A robot with a brain!
- Jason - A gun expert!
- Jezebel - (Me) a catgirl swashbuckler!
After walking away from the exploded building, we find another survivor fighting against zombies by his lonesome. It's Jason, a guy who is good at guns! We help clean up with him and then follow robobud's signal and find some supplies. A new sword, some guns, and a living metal suit upgrade for one member.
After divesting the goods as best as possible, we followed Robobud's signal further and discovered a huge crater it was telling us to go inside. We are then attacked by a tentacley cube. Well, attacked, I'm not sure. It teleports Robobud someplace else, and then Jason and I wait to see what happens. It then, beyond a shadow of a doubt attacks us, that's when we strike back. Jason and I dodging tentacles and appearifying blobs of attack radius [using the rules for Chanbara dodging to get out of the AoEs]. Jason focuses on the main cubes while I focus on the tentacles. After doing enough damage to both, Jason somehow recovers Robobud, and my bashing of the tendrils destroys the beast.
After Action Report
I learned that I've been doing the cumulative penalties for Chanbara dodges slightly wrong in my favor, but that's good. GM says we are about halfway done. All right. Session was a bit short; we apparently accidentally solved the puzzle too quickly.


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We are an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the history, culture and true lives of Romani people worldwide. We confront racism and oppression wherever we encounter it. We try to make connections with all the "isms" that make up western culture.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Imagine that one day you received notice that you and your whole family must be ready to move within 48 hours. You could take only the possessions you could carry and no one would tell you when you would be permitted to return home. Sound like a bad dream? This happened to over 100,000 United States citizens and legal residents during World War II. Your job is to find out why." ~ Martha Daly
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed an order "Establishing the War Relocation Authority in the Executive Office of the President and Defining its Functions and Duties." Also known as Order 9066, this order started plans of 10 internment camps where more that 110,000 Japanese Americans would be relocated to. Click here to see the document.
Life in Japanese Internment camps was not a pretty picture. When the United States of America decided to take all Japanese-Americans and put them in internment camps, people were taken away from the places, things, and people that they loved in life. These camps were called America's Concentration Camps, and the U.S. did not realize that they were doing the exact same thing as the nazis.
The camps were fenced, and in each fenced camp there were block arrangements. Each block contained 14 barracks, 1 mess hall, and 1 recreational hall on the outside. On the inside was the ironing, laundry, and men and women's lavatories. Other places in the camp included: dry and cold warehouses, a car and equipment repair and storage, an administration, schools, canteens, a library, religious services, hospitals, and a post office.
Anonymous Poem
Circulated at the Poston Camp
They've sunk the posts deep into the ground
They've strung out wires all the way around.
With machine gun nests just over there,
And sentries and soldiers everywhere.
We're trapped like rats in a wired cage,
To fret and fume with impotent rage;
Yonder whispers the lure of the night,
But that DAMNED FENCE assails our sight.
We seek the softness of the midnight air,
But that DAMNED FENCE in the floodlight glare
Awakens unrest in our nocturnal quest,
And mockingly laughs with vicious jest.
With nowhere to go and nothing to do,
We feed terrible, lonesome, and blue:
That DAMNED FENCE is driving us crazy,
Destroying our youth and making us lazy.
Imprisoned in here for a long, long time,
We know we're punished--though we've committed no crime,
Our thoughts are gloomy and enthusiasm damp,
To be locked up in a concentration camp.
Loyalty we know, and patriotism we feel,
To sacrifice our utmost was our ideal,
To fight for our country, and die, perhaps;
But we're here because we happen to be Japs.
We all love life, and our country best,
Our misfortune to be here in the west,
To keep us penned behind that DAMNED FENCE,
Is someone's notion of NATIONAL DEFENCE!
Poem from University of Arizona Library
The people in the camps had to face other hardships. Many of the camps were located in the desert, and faced unbearable temperatures. The average summer temperatures were over 100 degrees and winter was no better with winter temperatures falling to minus 30 degrees in one of the camps.
Meals in the camps, contained meager portions. Fruit and vegetables were cultivated on the land. They used these to feed the people in the camp. They also used this for commercial consumption. The had livestock that was bred and raised on the land. This was used for food, also.
Sue Tokushige was a young mother of 20, with a 10-day-old baby, when she was sent to a camp in Arizona with her husband. She said the government did not supply milk for her baby. Because she was unable to breastfeed, she fed her daughter only water for 10 days. She recalls with glassy eyes how a doctor told her that, for a person who seemed well-educated, she did not take good care of her baby. 'My daughter still pays for it today, health-wise, for the way our government treated us.'
Some Japanese Americans died in the camps due to inadequate medical care and the emotional stresses they encountered. Several were killed by military guards posted for allegedly resisting orders.
But life did go on in the camps. Children had to be educated, yet the government did not supply teachers. Instead, they looked to the camp members to fill these types of positions and paid them at extremely low wages. If you had two or more years of college you might become an "assistant teacher" who in some cases assumed a full teaching load.
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Fatso Dreams
Like racing jockeys and opera stars, food critics are doomed to a succession of diets. I endured a lengthy stretch of abstinence recently, and while I sat in grand restaurants gnawing on carrot sticks and gently pushing dessert plates aside, I passed the time hallucinating about meals that might have been. I dreamt of bellying up to the bar at Casa Mono, near Gramercy Park, and hoovering down towers of salty, charred lamb chops, and Andy Nusser's special sweetbreads, which are fried and rolled in crushed almonds. I fantasized about the puffy, fresh-made bread at Taboon, and bowls of the steamy, sweet shrimp-and-corn risotto served with all sorts of other southern delicacies at the East Village bayou joint Natchez. I dreamt of barbecue in all its forms, particularly the greasy cuts of brisket at Blue Smoke, and the Texas beef chili sold in cups at my local Daisy Mae's BBQ USA cart (it's on the corner of 39th and Broadway), which I used to supplement, during the course of long-ago binges, with sandwiches of Carolina pulled pork tasting faintly of citrus.
During my bleak days of no snacking, I also pondered fat Niman Ranch hot dogs from the new East Village branch of Westville; the wet, gravy-infused, uncannily tender roast-beef sandwiches at the new Manhattan outpost of Roll 'N' Roaster; and the impressive Fourth of July Picnic (cole slaw, fried-chicken strips, and bourbon-flavored mayonnaise squeezed between a messy baguette), which is just one of the inventive creations available at a clean little shop called Carve Unique Sandwiches, on a raffish corner of Eighth Avenue and 47th Street. I imagined devouring a brace or two of toasty, compact pork-chop banh mi (sweet pork, pickled carrots, mayonnaise, and cilantro stuffed in a hot, crunchy bun) at Nicky's Vietnamese Sandwiches, on the Lower East Side, before creeping uptown to demolish the great, toppling Skyscraper Burger, the most formidable of several pleasing burger options at the bustling lower Park Avenue outlet of New York Burger Co.
Speaking of hamburgers, I've whiled away long abstemious afternoons pining for Tom Valenti's structurally impressive new Ouest Burger, served at lunchtime only, at Ouest, or the zeppelin-sized roquefort cheeseburger at The Spotted Pig, which is best enjoyed, for maximum caloric damage, with a bowl of pillowy gnudi (little ricotta dumplings rolled in semolina and drowned in brown butter) and several dizzying tankards of very fattening Old Speckled Hen Ale. The burger at Danny Meyer's seasonal fast-food boutique, Shake Shack (try the Triple Shack Burger when the restaurant opens again in the spring), is pretty good, too, although what I craved most of all as I tossed and turned in bed, listening to the unhappy sounds of my gurgling belly, was the four-dip, four-topping, frozen-custard extravaganza called the Shackapalooza (Valrhona-chocolate chunks, hot caramel sauce, and coconut macaroons, please), presented with proper ceremony in a decorous pail, with a plastic shovel.


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Alt text: Maybe I should've tried Wexler?
I don't think this comic was very good. It's not very bad either, which is why it took me two weeks to think of anything to say about it. Next time, suggest a more interesting comic, you schmucks.
Let's start with the joke. I'll give you that there is some mileage in the whole 'nerd in an awkward romantic situation' setup. But the more and more I think about it, the more find myself comparing it to a throwaway line in said on something like The Big Bang Theory. It sounds like something Leonard would say, or Howard, or Raj, or Sheldon. Ah heck, they're all the same character anyway.
If I had to say which is better, XKCD or TBBT, it's not a clear-cut decision. On one hand, you can read three panels of XKCD in 10 seconds, whereas an episode of TBBT has a run time of 22 minutes plus ad breaks. So with XKCD, the pain is over faster.
On the other hand, TBBT at least has the semblance of characters you can relate to and care about what happens to them. And they will at least try and work that joke into a storyline. So at least TBBT has that. Whereas XKCD presents only the bare bones of the joke, with only the most rudimentary setup.
Speaking of bare bones, the artwork in this XKCD is drop-dead awful. I know it's early XKCD, but oy vey! The only artwork is a faceless stick figure, who doesn't change pose in three panels. And Randall doesn't even do the thing he does in later XKCDs where he uses their arms to express body language.
In fact this comic is scarcely more than a tweet. Perhaps Randall could have just posted it to Twitter and saved us the bother (note to editor: did Twitter exist in 2006?). If only it was 11 characters shorter.
PS: I know I haven't been giving you much in the way of actual thought-out critique. If you still crave a timely review of the latest comics, I suggest you check out XKCD's newest hate-blog on the block: XKCD Isn't Funny


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My last few wine weeks were dominated by Pinot Blanc, so it seemed a good idea to return to the wonderful world of Riesling - in this case to the German wine region of Rheinhessen, where the Keller winery is based. Kellers have an awesome reputation and the demand for their premium wines is high enough that they can sell them in subscription. The wine to introduce today is not one of them, it is Keller's basic Riesling, no subscription necessary and a reasonable price.
Inspired by Simon Jones' Markgräflerland report, I have opened a bottle of this. If you have read it (and if not - why not?), then I don't need to tell you what the Markgräflerland is, nor what Gutedel means, nor who Ziereisen is. With all that competently taken care of, let's dive right in:
Silvaner time again. After our Silvaner appreciation campaign last year, we were not planning to keep quiet about it in 2010. But it still needed Lukas Krauß engaging defense of the grape here to put it back on the immediate menu. Based on the river Main north of Würzburg, in classic Silvaner territory, Rudolf May is making his Wine Rambler debut today (he must be so nervous...).
Uncertain what you are looking at here? Somehow strangely attracted yet also confused? Doubtful whether this actually belongs on a wine blog?
If this is what you feel looking at the above picture then welcome to my world of confusion and doubt about a wine of which I am not sure if it should exist at all. What do you do with a wine clocking in at 15% alcohol? How do you feel when you realise it is a white - and from one of the coolest wine regions of a cool wine growing country? Should Mosel winemakers really do this? Should any (white) wine be so strong? Is it actually drinkable? If you want a definitive answer to these questions, please do not read on.
If you have ever come across the German village of Laumersheim, chances are it was because of a wine. Laumersheim is home to the Kinpser winery, a family owned estate that makes some of the best red wines you can get in Germany (and marvellous white wines too). And it is home to the Kuhn winery that is getting more and more attention, especially after Philipp Kuhn in 1992 - at the tender age of 20 - got involved in the family owned estate. You may be surprised to hear that the winery is not only producing some red wine, in fact about 50% of the wines made there are red. The delivery that brought this Riesling to London also included a Merlot! The story of red wine made by the Kuhns in the Palatinate will have to be told another night as tonight we are drinking the entry level Riesling from the Kuhn winery (entry level, by the way, does not mean mass-produced: harvests are limited to below 75 hl per hectare).
Oregon is bad. Stop it if you can. Here it comes. Here it comes. Now it's after you. Flee to some place new. Run away. Run away. - For the Wine Rambler it was too late. Oregon got me. And if you want to find out how it all happened and what this has to do do with one half of a team of almost-giants, well, then it got you too. Don't be afraid, though, it will all be revealed. And make sense. Sort of. Either way, there will be wine!
Read the background story to this wine here (be warned: It's quite a ramble)
A very dark cherry red in the glass, this brought sweet cherry juice, blackberries and a little fruit jam to our noses. The mouthfeel is, again, dominated by marinated cherries, dried fruit, and a chocolate pudding aftertaste.
It's a measure of the quality of the winemaking that this overripeness does not pull it out of balance, but a gentle tannic backbone wraps up the taste in the end. [read the full post...]
Certain ways of cooking fish and shellfish just cry out for a clean, light and crisp dry white wine - especially if you bake a whole sea bass in a salt crust. This is an excellent way to celebrate the delicate flavour of fish and it works well with a range of fish, including sea bream. Just put a little pepper and some herbs into the fish and then cover the whole fish in a dough made of salt, water and perhaps a few egg whites. This seals in all the moisture and preserves the delicate flavours of the fish. Serve the fish just with a bit of olive oil, pepper and salt, perhaps a little lemon and enjoy with very simple side dishes, perhaps just a few slices of white bread.
And make sure to select a wine that will not overpower the fish - I find a dry Muscadet works very well in this context.
London, so the MetOffice tells us, is about to descend into a snow chaos this night. While this may mean that tomorrow evening it will be time for hearty food with a robust red wine, tonight I felt more like spicy food and so I prepared a stir-fry. I use this simple recipe fairly often, it basically involves frying small bits of chicken breast in butter and then adding chopped peppers, green curry paste and lemon juice - the latter nicely balances the flavours and gives it that nice, fresh kick of acidity. So opening a Riesling seemed like the logical choice, and as the food was not overly spicy I thought I could get away with a dry Riesling. A particular bottle from the Wittmann winery had looked at me in this peculiar way for a couple of weeks now, so the choice was easy.
Whenever I drink a lightly (pleasantly!) oaked Chardonnay these days I think of Tom Aikens, a fine restaurant in South West London. I have not been there very often, but single time the sommelier surprised me with an unusual combination of food and wine and also with bringing out my (usually) hidden love for lightly oaked Chardonnay. The wine I have in my glass right now is not a Chardonnay and I am enjoying it at home, without the delight of Tom Aikens' food. Even so, it brings back some good memories. And it is not a Chardonnay, but an Auxerrois. Auxerrois is a relatively unknown and rare grape variety that can be quite similar to Chardonnay and Weißburgunder (Pinot Blanc). [read the full post...]
Sometimes I think that we should have a wine history segment on the wine rambler. Maybe we will some day. It should be fun to explore some of the microhistory in individual vineyard names, and to maybe get a grip on parts of the larger story of how the wine world that we know and love (well, some of it) came about. The breakup of large noble and monastic estates after 1803 within the crumbling holy roman empire would have to be such a period that changed the landscape of wine making beyond recognition. Or did it? [read the full post...]
Lukas Krauß, 21 years old, is a winemaker, no that's wrong, he is, proudly, a wine grower ("Weinbauer") from the Pfalz. And not the most prestigious part of the Pfalz, either. He is not listed in many wine guides nor will you have heard his name dropped in the wine blogosphere. But if you, like the wine rambler, are sometimes tired of the visual soft pornography and the worn out old clichés that are wine marketing, and want something that is personal, honest, stylish and funny, here is a name for you to remember, and here also is a site for you to look at:
We liked him instantly, and you will soon hear more from Lukas on the wine rambler, something that we look forward to very much. [read the full post...]
A fairly dark Pinot Noir, the 07 Vitus has a seriously dry nose: smoky, toasted oak, a little yeast and a little cherry fruit - more serious than playful, I would say. The wine is also not very fruity on the tongue, where leather and a hint of pepper are added to the mix. It does not feel heavy though, partly due to its fresh acidity. The finish is good, marinated cherries, acidity and tannins, but reasonably smooth, and a bit of woodland aroma with the tiniest hint of chocolate. [read the full post...]
Perhaps unusually for a Mosel winemaker, Clemens Busch is well known for his dry Riesling - he also makes off-dry and sweet wines, but when we visited the winery in 2008 I mostly brought home dry wines. Vom Roten Schiefer - "from red slate" - was one of them.
All starts with a nice golden colour and a nose of a mineral, stone fruit (peach and plum), camomile tea, honey and paraffin wax. All of that made for a substantial, matured impression. On the tongue the Riesling is quite full-bodied and a well rounded, caramel richness. Exotic fruit and ripe plum mix well with noticeable, fresh acidity and a kick of spice. A rich yet elegant wine with a little attitude.
Dark straw colour.
A nose of candied lemon and orange peel, with slate minerality and a tiny bit of vegetal roughness.
Candied lemon peel and "slate" are also prominent in the taste, with a hint of bitterness on the finish.
This very enjoyable Riesling from an up-and-coming producer ranges between the the lighter "traditional" mosel off-dry style and the more opulent and creamy "harmonic dry" created by the likes of Reinhard Löwenstein, Van Volxem and Clemens Busch. Not a bad place to be.
A nose of mineral, citrusy acidity and tobacco welcome you when you pour this Riesling from the Palatinate into a glass. Add some herbs and peach and you get a really pleasant nose that is fresh, crisp and light at the same time. The Riesling is quite similar on your tongue too, light and fresh with notable acidity and some slightly bitter vegetable elements that are a nice balance to the juiciness and, yes!, the tobacco. This organic wine seems quite light at first, but can also show some teeth. Enjoyable and fresh, with quite interesting tobacco notes, the Christmann wine is a pleasant companion, but also not quite a revelation - with a little more substance it could have been though. A decent showing for the price.
Before turning to this Hungarian Chardonnay, I feel I have to reveal the source behind my new interest in eastern European wines such as this:
Manfred Klimek a.k.a. Captain Cork is, to me, the freshest and most entertaining voice among German language wine journalists. I particularly enjoy his reports on winegrowers and -makers behind what used to be the iron curtain, because they bring out the passion and personality of individualists who have often not yet mastered winemaker marketing-speak. Highly recommended, 'nuff said.
Back to the Chard, then, and a weird little number it is:
Pale gold, with a hint of onion skin brown. Unusual.
Smells of brown sugar and fried banana, with a salty freshness at the same time. Even more unusual. [read the full post...]
The wine rambler continues its Silvaner coverage, today with a specimen from Slovenia - that's right, the Wine Rambler has been looking east lately, more on that soon - and this one here from good old Rheinhessen:
Fairly dark straw colour, not quite golden.
Nose of dried apple slices, but also ripe grapes, a little floral too, making me think, unexpectedly, of Gewürztraminer.
In the mouth it's candied apple again, mature fruit, quite some weight and length, noticeable sweetness, although 5 grams per litre of residual sugar make it legally dry. Very mild acidity. [read the full post...]
The winery Fürst Hohenlohe-Oehringen has already impressed the distinctly non-aristocratic wine rambler with its marvellous top-of-the line red "Ex flammis orior". And the Lemberger red wine grape of Württemberg, as our regular readers know, is no other than Austria's and Hungary's Blaufränkisch. In the new spirit of german patriotism summoned by german liberal democrat and possible future foreign (!) minister Guido Westerwelle, who refused to answer an english question from a BBC reporter with the witty and adroit words: "Wir sind ja hier in Deutschland", we should probably not even tell you that. So, let's turn to a german wine from a thoroughly german grape: [read the full post...]
I bought this wine when I last visited Philglas & Swiggot, one of my favourite London wine merchants. Apparently, Paulinshof is one of their long-term favourites, so I was curious to try one. Paulinshof is an old winery from the Mosel region, exclusively focussed on Riesling. So let's see what they have to offer! [read the full post...]


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Michael Vick caused a bit of a stir earlier this offseason when he said that he preferred coach Chip Kelly make a quick decision about who would start at quarterback for the Eagles because it was difficult dealing with the questions that came with the competition.
He's walked back those comments since then and he will resume his battle with Nick Foles and perhaps Matt Barkley as well at Eagles camp. The team reported for camp on Monday and General Manager Howie Roseman said that his own conversations with Vick have been positive and that the veteran is "really eager to show what he's capable of."
"Every conversation I've had, and anyone in this building had with Michael about competition, he's all for it," Roseman said, via Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "He wants the best players to play and he's not shying away from competition in any aspect. He knew that when we signed him. He knew there was going to be competition at every spot, and he said nothing other than he wants to compete."
Ultimately, Vick doesn't have much choice but to be all for the quarterback competition. While Roseman wouldn't discuss the hypotheticals, there's a chance Vick could be released if he doesn't win the starting job because it would save the Eagles $3.5 million and his chances of earning a starting job elsewhere would be compromised by the timing. So it behooves him to be up for anything the Eagles throw his way.


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Ai, my cohost of Pet Psychic radio and the producer of most all my videos, has recently undergone a 12-hour surgery to give her mother 30 percent of her liver. The goal is to save her mother's life. Ai is in Japan in the hospital right now in extreme pain. The simple task of walking is difficult because of the pain and the lack of strength in Ai's abdomen.
Ai and her husband John's animals are back in the states. She has a young, medium-to-large mixed-breed dog named Ripley, a small poodle named Aloha (who is actually Ai's mother's dog), and a cat named Rosa. Ventura, a Dalmatian, and Henry, the cat, are two of her animals in spirit. Here we ask all them if they have anything to say to Ai.


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Is there any source in the Talmud for the concept that an unborn child has awareness and can learn during the gestation period?
In the Babylonian Talmud (Tractate Nidah, p.30b, s.v. darash Rabi Simlai) there is an extensive description of the state of the fetus in its mother's womb. The Talmud teaches that the unborn child is taught the entire Torah while in the womb. When the fetus exits the womb in order to be born an angel comes, strikes it on its mouth, and makes it forget everything it has studied. It will be necessary for the newborn to relearn the Torah during its lifetime. The Talmud (ibid.) records many other fascinating teachings about the life of the unborn child during the months of gestation.
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Book of Saints – Maximus – 27 December
(Saint) Bishop (December 27) (3rd century) The Patriarch of Alexandria who succeeded Saint Dionysius in that See (A.D. 282 about). It would seem too that in the lifetime of his predecessor, at the times when Saint Dionysius found it necessary to leave Alexandria because of the fierce persecution of which he in particular was the object, Saint Maximus temporarily filled his place. The latter seems to have also been a Prelate in high repute for piety and learning.
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BEIJING – Censors have told Chinese media to stop discussing plagiarism claims against the Communist Party's star legal scholar, who is accused of copying parts of his new book from the writings of a once-jailed dissident.
Reporters and scholars involved said propaganda officials last week ordered no more reporting of the claims against Zhou Yezhong, a professor at Wuhan University in central China.
Zhou reached the peak of official favour in December, 2002, when he lectured then new Communist party chief Hu Jintao and the Politburo, the party's inner-circle, on constitutional law. His subsequent career has been marked with promotions and accolades.
But a month ago, two Chinese newspapers accused him of unacknowledged copying from Wang Tiancheng – a former Peking University lecturer who spent five years in jail from 1992 for trying to establish an opposition party.
Wang, now a businessman, told Reuters he was "outraged" after he bought Zhou's book, "The Constitutional Interpretation of Republicanism", and realised how much of it bore a word-for-word resemblance to his own writings from the 1990s.
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Wang said he is demanding that Zhou offer an explanation, and also considering suing him, to also make a larger point.
"He's risen to the top by repackaging fashionable terms – human rights, democracy, rule of law – for the Party's ends," Wang said of Zhou.
"But he reflects the emptiness of the Party's ideology. They've got nothing and so he needs to raid the opposition camp for any new ideas," he added.
The Propaganda Department last week ordered the China Youth Daily – a state-run paper that sometimes tests official boundaries – to suppress a dissection of Zhou's book by a liberal law professor, He Weifang, according to He and Chinese reporters.
But He's essay and discussion of the case continue to spread on China's Internet.
Zhou, 42, is one of several scholars who have brought intellectual prestige to the Communist Party's efforts to yoke formerly taboo ideas about human rights, rule of law, and constitutional government to its own needs.
His 280-page book that appeared in September is a survey of ideas of "republican" government by engaged citizens from ancient Greece to modern times.
"Developing citizens' freedoms is the source of consolidating a republic's strength", wrote Zhou and a student co-author.
But He, a well-known Peking University professor who has campaigned against China's anti-subversion laws, said Zhou took dozens of sections from Wang and other liberal Chinese scholars without attribution.
Zhou declined Reuters' repeated phone requests to discuss the plagiarism claims, and he did not respond to a phone message.
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"I fully obey scholarly norms, and don't have any problems", Zhou told the paper.
Wang said the People's Publishing House, which issued the book, has refused his request for a written statement supporting Zhou's claim.
He, the law professor, told Reuters, he did not accept Zhou's explanation. "Other scholars are also not acknowledged; this is much more than Wang Tiancheng," He said.
He said he is also angry that Zhou used "liberal" ideas to justify the Communist Party's current political controls, especially the Party's domination of China's weak parliament – the National People's Congress.
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Still wrangling the metadata on my music library. ReadyToPlay did a good job on the rip and categorized all music into a relatively small set of Genres. I'm taking this as canonical for now.
Avant-Garde • Ballet • Blues • Chamber Music • Choral • Christmas • Comedy\Spoken • Concerto • Country • Electronica • Folk • Jazz • Keyboard • Latin • New Age • Opera • Orchestral • R&B • Rap • Reggae • Rock • Soundtrack • Spoken Word • Symphonic • Vocal Music • World
Well, not entirely canonical; I'll probably unify a couple of these. Also the classical feels wrong to me: I couldn't tell you Orchestral from Symphonic. I'd prefer to break it down by Musical era: Early, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern. Of course those are ambiguous too.
One thing that's really annoying in my metadata; music is indexed by the composer's first name. So Tchaikovsky is filed under "P", for "Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky". It's a bit of a trivia game.


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Boa noite amigas
Sapatinhos de crochê para bebe
Tomei por base o PAP que tem no Blog,
Usei o fio Keamor da Pingouin
Obrigada pela visita !!
Inêz Garcez
Olá Inez,
Lindo, lindo esse sapatinho.
Alegres y bellos Inez.
Un beso guapa.
You can not get anything sweeter than these little booties! They are so sweet, I am gaining weight looking at them! are they for dolls or real babies?ResponderExcluir
the shoes are for babies real friend, but can also be used on dolls.
Thank you for visiting
Thank you for posting the patterns, this is so nice I tat all the time, but I do take knitting and crochet breaks too. I so want to make these!Excluir
For nothing friend, if you would like to see. bjsExcluir


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campfires are always a good source for inspiration
Okay, that was the distress call used back in the old days of radio and is probably still in use today - although I have not seen it employed in anything that didn't have Humphrey Bogart as the leading character. It is a crude derivative of the French m'aider and was something that was easily recognized over the cruder radios of the day and when repeated three times meant the caller was in "grave and imminent" danger.
So it is with me as I am staring at a blank screen and trying to think of pithy things to write to prepare me for the upcoming Canada Writes competition. Unfortunately I am pith-less today and all I can come up with is parodies that involve Captain Kirk, Spock and the ever outraged Bones.
I had put out a call to my facebook friends to send me what they felt was the ultimate Canadian song and will be rewriting those all day today. I found it amusing that the folks at CBC gave one of the finalists in the east the Anne Murray classic "Snowbird" to rewrite - obviously the contestant did not heed the advice given a few posts back and missed a great opportunity to wow them with a song about a dead cat.
I have a few good tunes in my arsenal now but don't wish to share them on the off chance that one of the producers sees that I have already covered the tunes and would have an unfair advantage over my fellow writers. On the other hand they might just take pity on me and give me that foot or two headstart that my gym teacher always gave me when I had to race against the other kids.
Well I will churn out a few more songs and then turn my attention to capturing some video from my last field trip.
Just need a good rhyme for Klingon.


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We are pleased to announce that ED's 2017 VIP Clubs e-Guide will be in a digital format. This means that club customers and traveling entertainers will have immediate access to adult nightclub listings no matter where they are—on their work or home computers, on their laptops, on their iPads and even on their smart phones.
No more searching through poorly designed 'strip club listing' websites or Google searches that take forever. Now, club customers and traveling entertainers can find everything they will need—club address, website, contact information, social media, hours of operation, type/format of dancing and more—on the easy-to-navigate, searchable and interactive ED 2017 VIP Clubs e-Guide.
—Access your website just by clicking the URL in your listing or display ad.
—Access your Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages just by clicking the icon in your listing or display ad.
—Send you an email just by clicking the email link in your listing or display ad
—Print Discount Coupons directly from your display ad.
—See videos of your club in your display ad.
—Cycle through a number of club photos in your display ad.
—View a slideshow of images in your display ad.
The deadline for submitting material is April 30th.
Please fill out the form below to submit your Free Listing.
If you have any questions, please call Lacy Empkey or Kris Kay at (727) 726-3592.


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The basics apply on the web too.
How many times do you run a print ad for a new community and not tell them something about the product? What is it? Where is it? How much does it costs? When will it be ready? These basic questions should be answered on the website. You have a lot more space and ability to educate the consumer about your product. I can't figure out what so much is left off the website.
I am often asked to analyze why websites are not performing. In most cases, its because the website does not answer the simple questions. I have seen so many websites recently that are designed to entertain the consumer. They are not doing what they should be doing, which is generating interest, leads, traffic and sales.
Why would you have a website if it is not even going to provide as much info as the media that sent the consumer there? Imagine a print ad that says "Condos from $200,000 now pre-selling with delivery in 4th qtr 0f 2007 in the heart of Atlanta's Buckhead District" visit our website at www. communitywebsite . com ...The community website makes you hunt to figure out what is being sold, never mentions buckhead, never tells you what the costs are, has annoying music that makes everyone in your office look up when you visit the website, and does not provide a contact phone number. What are the chances the website is going to show any value in your overall marketing? You would be better off just putting the print ad on the web and supplying a good contact form. This is not the best scenario, but would probably generate better results than a website that does not answer the simple questions.


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Osama bin Laden, the longtime leader of al Qaeda, was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, is dead, officials said — almost 10 years after the attacks that killed about 3,000 people. The founder and leader of al Qaeda was killed by U.S. forces Sunday in a mansion in Abbottabad, north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, along with other family members.


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So, I've had quite a few deep, introspective posts lately, and I was feeling in the mood for a fun one!
So here's a random, things I love right now post, ps, these are all iphone pics, so they are just so-so, sorry.
Made this dinosaur tail from an old flight suit for the bitty. He loves it. He runs around and roars like a dinosaur. It's awesome.
I love sewing. I love the accomplishment of making something adorable and practical. Plus, I have a fabric addiction, and sewing is a perfect cover-up... This is a minky blanket for a brand-new little baby boy...
Seriously, as much as having a girl scares me (think teenagers, ahhh!), I think I need one. I love ruffles. And bum ruffles are even better. This sweet onesie has a pink polka-dot Huey (helicopter) on the front.
Just when did he grow up on me??? Playing like a big boy. He walked up to the table and had no doubt what to do with those cars on the roads. I think it's ingrained. Trucks, cars, and tractors, we love anything loud and with wheels right now!! (And that includes the vacuum, he LOVES how loud it is and throws a fit when I get done... silly boy)
I am a part of this amazing group, Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS), and it has been my lifeline here in ND. They are amazing Christian women who gather to fellowship, grow, learn and become better wives, mothers and friends. I have been in charge of the creative activities this past year, however next year I will be stepping up to be a co-coordinator in charge of the group. Jen, our current coordinator, worked with our other group in town and arranged for us to be a part of an international Leadership Summit put on by MOPS. Here are the 8 ladies from our group that attended. It was a wonderful experience and we are very excited about what next year will hold!
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Psalm 37:7
So there's a big bucket of random... Happy Sunday!


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2018-02-18 12:24:00
I smacked my car on the bottom of my garage when I was backing out. Knocked it off the track. It was crunched like a broken slinky and would not go back…read more
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2017-01-19 06:34:45
One of our garage door springs broke. We called the company and they sent out Andy the very next day. Andy diagnosed the problem and we decided that new…read more
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Got two new garage door openers installed. The guy they sent out did a great job installing them cleanly. Some of these guys do sloppy work in these newer…read more
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Overhead Door just finished up a service call. Did an amazing job of diagnosis and fixing the issues. Mike was the technician and he certainly exceeded my expectations.
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They did an excellent job replacing our door. I used to do this myself and I can honestly say that I could not of done any better myself.
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I was so impressed with the quick response to our service call and the affordable options provided for fixing the issues with our garage door. Our technician, Mike D., was professional, kind, and knowledgeable. Even when having to fix our door in the Kansas July heat, he took the time to share his knowledge with me and gave multiple recommendations on how to fix our door, as well as warranty information should we have issues in the future. Our door is working better now than it ever has in the five years we have owned our home. I will happily recommend Overhead Door Company of Wichita to my friends and family. Thank you for your excellent service!
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Sound quality is great. Meaning the insulated doors muffles outside noises. Seal is tight, no gaps or cracks for critters to crawl through.
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Two years ago Chris Vaughn replaced both springs on my garage door and the opener has been making a very loud noise ever since
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Answered within an hour and in two hours timeframe called me and met meet at the house and fixed the door and also upsold me on a newer keypad. Thank you Josh for prompt service and Chris Barth for the recommendation. We will use you when we upgrade the door panels
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My garage door got all twisted up- cables tangled, rollers off track- and it took me two hours to get the door down so everything wouldn't get stolen overnight. Called Overhead Door and Andy came out the next day to fix it. They offered an 8:30AM service call so I could still have time to get to work, and in maybe 20 minutes, Andy had the cables back on, the door aligned, tracks fixed back up, and everything oiled. Great service. Thank you!!
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Contacted Overhead Door Co of Wichita this morning to have my garage door springs replaced. The service tech was here quickly and replaced the springs and rollers. I highly recommend this company for your garage door repairs/service.
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Andy was extremely professional and helpful. Thanks for the great service.
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My garage door was hanging off the track, called Overhead Door Company and they were here within an hour. Professional and fixed it fast. Thanks for the great service!
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This company was out within the hour of us calling them. They were speedy, professional, and very reasonably priced. If you're looking for amazing work call them!!
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Awesome experience with this company. They were very nice and the customer service was top notch. I highly recommend this company. I was in and out with a more than reasonable bill. They answered all my questions and my garage door works like a champ. Thank you for the five star service.
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What a Great and Caring Company! What you have done for my nephew and his family will never be forgotten. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. The Savages
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Door wouldn't close today..it was 3:00 pm and I had to leave home. Overhead had someone to my house within 30 minutes and door fixed within another 30 minutes. Thank you!
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20:36 12 Dec 18
I had a new garage door opener installed. Overhead Door was honest, kind, excellent and prompt. I don't give many five-star ratings but I would give overhead door six stars if it were possible!
Brett Hamrick
14:23 28 Nov 18
I called them to get a broken spring replaced. They were able to come out the same day. Not only did the tech replace the broken spring, but he cleaned and adjusted the door for the same price. I was thinking I might need to replace the door soon but it moves and sounds better than it has in years. Thanks.
Julian Dedeaux
00:24 17 Nov 18
Called them @ 130 and they had someone out by 4. That's extremely fast service in this type of work. Before I called these folks, I called the other "overhead door" company who were nice, but told me that I would have to be taken care of "after hours" as a commercial customer took priority over me. I mean, I get it, take care of the big spenders but they probably should have NOT told me that! Anyways, call These folks they are GREAT!!!
Larry Tobin
13:39 07 Nov 18
All went well, got unloaded fast and employees were friendly
Annalee Adams
21:31 14 Aug 18
We had a great experience with this company! Please do not waste your time with Reddi or any other. Won't go into details but please do not call Reddi.
Mike Kealey
16:42 09 Jan 18
Overhead Door sent out Tim to fix our garage door and he was awesome! He replaced the springs, installed safety wire, and I talked with him while he was completing the work. He answered all my questions about the doors, knew the answers the everything I asked (as I knew almost notice about garage doors), and was very polite. We recently purchased our home and have had quite a few people over to do work in the past few months (electricians, locksmiths, contractors, etc.) and Tim was definitely one of the best in regards of customer service. Customer service, to me, is very important and what sets apart companies and makes me want to do business with someone again. Because of Tim, and the quality of work performed, I will be going back to Overhead Door the next time we need help with our garage doors. Most companies in this field can fix a spring easily, but the service provided made the difference for. Fair price and fast service as well.
Tim Herrman
18:21 01 Dec 17
Great place to buy garage door stuff from
Brandon Carlson
12:43 30 Aug 17
Staff is friendly and helpful
Brandon Lehmer
03:05 19 Aug 17
I've never left a review for a company before, but i have to now. This was one of the best experiences I've had in a long time. I called around 8pm and they would've came out then for like $7 more an hour which i would've gladly paid but their techs were busy on a commercial project. That was fine, i wasn't even expecting someone to answer! The woman who answered was super nice and helpful. They called me first thing the next day and sent Craig out asap. I left my back door open for him since i was at work. I came home and everything was PERFECT. I installed a door on my own and needed a pro to get it working properly. And, he did. $205 bucks to fix my shotty attempt? I'll take it. I spent $400 on the door and opener, so $600 for a basically new door is amazing. They will get many referrals from me. Don't call any other door company. These guys are amazing. Keep up the good work. Companies like this are few and far between anymore. If the owner sees this, Craig and your office girl need raises!
Chase B
17:27 07 Apr 17
Called on a Friday morning at 9:00AM and had Justin at my house by 11:30AM. Replaced both of my torsion springs in about 15-20 mins. He was able to process my credit card right on the spot. Super nice, professional people. Great job guys, keep up the good work! Thank you!
Rick Ammon
14:35 19 Jan 17
One of our garage door springs broke. We called the company and they sent out Andy the very next day. Andy diagnosed the problem and we decided that new garage doors would be a better solution since our old doors were rotting and weighed a ton! Later that day, Jason came out and installed out new doors. Both Andy and Jason were very friendly and true professionals. Jason did an expert job and even had to do some extra things to make the doors operate correctly (he had to move our garage door opener over a few feet so it would be on center). We couldn't even tell Jason was here, besides the new doors of course, no mess or left over parts! Fairly priced and top tier service, would refer and use again.


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Got a meter of RGB LED strip. The LEDs have the WS2812 chips integrated in the package, so they are individually addressable. There are 144 of them per meter. I can control them with an Atmega32U4 at 16MHz.
I had a magnetometer on hand, so why not put the two together:
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AP Biology Classes Explore "Dinosaurs Among Us" Exhibit
This past Wednesday the Yeshivah of Flatbush AP Biology classes went on a trip to the American Museum of Natural History to explore the "Dinosaurs Among Us" exhibit. We learned about the evolutionary relationship between dinosaurs and modern-day birds. Then we explored the Hall of Human Origin to learn about the evolution of Homo sapiens. We also learned about biodiversity to further expand our understanding of the variation between species over time. Thank you Rabbi Lubner and Dr. Fruchter! We had a great time!
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This book is shockingly bad.
'Shockingly', because David Mitchell is the author of some of the most imaginative, perfectly written, innovative novels of this century.
Cloud Atlas, in particular, is unique in its range of settings and styles and the way that it combines stories spread over centuries or millennia into a coherent narrative. The scope and breadth of imaginative power in this book is like nothing else ever written.
The Bone Clocks is, at times, similar in structure to previous Mitchell novels. The story is told in sections, spread over decades from the seventies to a dystopian 2032. The sections are all narrated from a different point of view, and so the voice and style changes from section to section.
Holly Sykes is the central character, a rebellious teenager in the first section growing up in nineteen seventies
, with an Irish mother and an
English father. She hears voices, what she calls her 'radio people', that give
her some insight into what will happen in the future. Kent
Holly is a constant in the other narratives, though she is often a marginal character in the stories told by other characters, who are a brief lover of hers, a writer that eventually becomes her friend, and also her eventual husband.
The thing binding the stories together - apart from Holly - is a narrative about a great, centuries-long war between a group of 'carnivores', - The Anchorites - who eat people's souls in order to prolong their immortality, and another group of immortals - the Horologists - who are reincarnated into another body every time they die.
This is where the novel goes completely off the rails. Firstly the simplistic nature of the conflict - Good Horologists v Bad Carnivores - makes it read like a book for children. There is no moral ambiguity, no complexity at all.
Secondly, the whole story of this great war is unceasingly silly. All of the ideas are stolen from various sources, TV shows like Doctor Who and Charmed and Star Trek, from religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, from comics and sci-fi and a thousand books and films and programmes.
Yet the way Mitchell uses them leaches all of the wonder and fascination from the fantasy and sci-fi genres and reduces the whole concept to bland, random, silly ideas.
He invents a whole vocabulary to explain the phenomena he describes, psychosoteric voltage, suasion, subsaying, an Act of hiatus, as if what he was talking about was unique, innovative, clever. The truth is that all he describes are simple fantasy tropes - such as telepathy, one person taking over another's mind, ESP, or psychic abilities - familiar to anyone who has ever watched Buffy or read science fiction or seen Game of Thrones in the last twenty years.
There are parts in the second last section, narrated by a Horologist called Marinus, that are frankly laughable. Where he describes the origin of the dark side of the immortals, and then the battle that takes place, it would have been rejected by Doctor Who as over-complicated, derivative and insipid.
As an example of the verbose nonsense that the writer comes up with in this section we read Marinus explaining why it is a bad idea to follow a particular course of psychosoteric action..
"One, it's against the Codex. Two, she is chakra-latent, so she may react badly to scansion and redact her own memories,"
The book is most disappointing because of who wrote it. David Mitchell has shown such a powerful imagination in the past that the failure of this book is a big letdown. His strength is his originality, and yet The Bone Clocks is a rattlebag of borrowed and stolen ideas, with all of the fascination wrung out.


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This statement was originally published on eff.org on 10 February 2015.
President Obama recently announced slight changes to NSA data collection practices. The recent tweaks mean two new privacy protections for those that U.S. law considers foreigners (in this case, people who are outside of the United States borders who are neither U.S. citizens nor legal U.S. residents).
Perhaps you're thinking Obama is using his executive authority to stop the mass surveillance of all Internet traffic of people worldwide? Nope, not quite. The new protections are:
1. If the U.S. government collects information about a foreigner, it will consider the privacy ramifications before disseminating that information, such as to other governments; and
2. If the U.S. government collects information on innocent foreigners not connected to any crime or investigation and the information has no national security value, it will dispose of that information after five years.
That's right, the world's personal information will only be retained for five short years. And that's if the U.S. government decides you're not under suspicion.
David Medine, the chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, has said that "There's no country on the planet that has gone this far to improve the treatment of non-citizens in government surveillance."
That's certainly laudable. However, a critic might also note that there's no country on earth extending such enormous resources into surveilling all the people on the planet, so the United States has more room for "improvement" than most countries. (That's certainly what President Obama implied when he spoke of his country's "unique" capabilities in his speech defending the new rules.)
We wondered if people worldwide would be excited about these new privacy protections, and so we reached out to a few of our global partners to solicit their feedback.
Here's what they thought of Obama's protections for the privacy rights on non-US citizens:
"This decision is not only a confirmation of the disregard the United States has for its international human rights obligations, but given the fact that the US is treating our privacy worse than our own governments, it sends a terrible message for human rights defenders fighting against unchecked surveillance in our own country," said Luis Fernando García, a lawyer at Network for Digital Rights in Mexico.
"Deleting is no comfort at all because it can never be confirmed," said Professor K.S. Park of Korea University Law School, "Korea also allows warrantless wiretapping of overseas people for national security purposes. The United States should not set a bad precedent for the whole world to follow."
And Carolina Botero, a Colombian researcher and blogger with Fundacion Karisma, said, "Mass surveillance is unacceptable in democratic societies because of the threat it poses to human rights. Obama's reforms to NSA practices fail to address this situation for his citizens and continue the obnoxious violation of the privacy rights of foreigners. A data retention period of 5 years is a clear example of an illegal measure that can be seen abroad as justification for similar laws in other countries."
If Obama wants to make good on his promise to uphold the privacy of innocent people outside the United States, he's going to have to do better than this.
And he should start by ending mass surveillance under Executive Order 12333, the primary legal authority for mass surveillance of people outside U.S. borders. Sign our petition and tell Obama to rein in mass spying of people worldwide.
Obama announces new privacy rules for NSA data collection
This statement was originally published on eff.org on 10 February 2015.


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At Sprout, we will be hosting exciting emerging growth companies for interested investors to begin their due diligence on.
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Yes. In an open meeting on March 25, 2015, the SEC elected to approve and release the long-awaited final rules for Title IV of the JOBS Act (commonly referred to as Regulation A+). Per the final rules, under Regulation A+ companies will be permitted to offer and sell up to $50 million of securities to the general public subject to certain eligibility, disclosure and reporting requirements. The final Regulation A+ rules were published in the Federal Register on April 20, 2015 and became effective on June 19, 2015.
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FÁS - the Training and Employment Authority may grant-aid attendance on National College of Ireland courses by qualified applicants under the FÁS Training Support Scheme.
Applications for grant aid must be made to FÁS before attendance on the course. Grants are paid only after course completion and are subject to availability of funds. Firms employing up to 500 persons in manufacturing, internationally traded services, physical distribution, wholesale, retail and motor sectors who intend to sponsor their personnel on National College of Ireland programmes should contact their local FÁS Services to Industry Office to obtain information on the Scheme conditions and level of grant aid permissible.
Training of people in employment in the private sector and commercial state bodies in the public sector is eligible for financial support.nbsp; Employees in the Engineering Departments of Local Authorities are also eligible.
Training programmes that provide participants with portable and transferable skills.
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I'm feeling lost.
Nothing seems truly real. How can I remember him, smell him, hear his voice... when he is dead in a box?
I go through his notebooks... he was brilliant. He had so many ideas. Designs. Plans.
I cannot figure out what I have.
How can he be gone, when he is still in my head?
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