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|January 2, 2013, 04:43 PM
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Convert a closet to a locking gun cabinet
I know it won't be secure from a determined thief but my goal is keep my guns secured from my kid, her friends, visitors, workmen etc.
The closet in question is pretty small. My initial thoughts were to buy a safe and put it in the closet but the narrow door opening limited what I could buy. The closet interior is about 2' X 1.5' and the door opening is only 17" so I decided that I may be better off just hardening the security on this closet a bit and dressing up the inside. The closet is sort of hidden. There is a different doorway next to this closet that leads from the den to the another section of the house and when that door is open, which it is 90% of the time, then this closet is not visible behind the open door. Right now it just has a cheap hollow core door with exterior hinges and no lock. I am going to buy a solid core door and replace the door knob with a dead bolt, use invisible hinges and a hidden touch latch that pushes the door open.
I think that's it for the door. The inside has plenty of shelves that I used to use for CDs before the MP3 revolution. What else should I do? It's hardwood floor so I guess something soft for the rifle butts to sit on. Line the shelves? Rifle rests? I've never had a gun safe/cabinet so not sure what I should do in there. I've only got two rifles and three handguns and accessories so I know this is more room than I need but I'll probably use it for other stuff that I also want out of site.
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|January 2, 2013, 05:49 PM
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You didn't say different, . . . so I assue that the walls are drywall. BAD !!!
First thing, . . . line the entire inside with 3/4 inch plywood. Put up the longer walls first, . . . then the ends, . . . then the floor, . . . then the ceiling. That makes it almost impossible to "kick" in the walls.
I would get a solid core door, . . . line the back side with 1/8 or 3/16 steel plate, . . . bolted at the edges, . . .
Beef up that front wall where the door frame sits, . . . use locking, sliding bolts to secure the door.
Beyond that, . . . it would take one DE-termined individual and some tools to get into that room.
Wish I had one like it, just to be honest.
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|January 2, 2013, 06:23 PM
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I was thinking about either a false wall or making a reinforced cubby in between studs, and some way to disguise the opening.
Plywood sandwiched together is very strong, in fact they've made tornado proof rooms from a few layers of plywood.
|January 3, 2013, 10:48 AM
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It's an older home so the walls are not drywall but wooden lath and plaster. Not that that is any more secure. The inside of the closet is lined with wood paneling that was common back in the 50's. So, it would be a little tougher to kick through than just two layers of drywall but it's nothing a sawzall couldn't get through. That said, I'm not trying to make it into an impenetrable vault. Visitors in my home are not going to try to kick in walls to get into the closet. I'm just trying to keep it simple and secure enough to keep out kids and visitors.
I guess my reason for posting is twofold. Is my plan for the door reasonable or am I missing something obvious? I'm not going to spend a ton of money when we may not even stay here for many more years. Secondly, I was looking for ideas to spiff up the inside to make it gun friendly.
|January 3, 2013, 12:20 PM
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You can easily get commercial grade metal security doors through your local home center. They are basically metal doors with reinforced jams.
|January 3, 2013, 07:45 PM
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This is probably overkill; but...
Take a look at these:
For a real secure door. Better beef up the walls though.
Or for a smaller budget see http://www.amazon.com/Homak-In-Wall-.../dp/B0017KL254
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|January 3, 2013, 09:06 PM
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A cheap gun locker inside a locked closet is cheap and easy. Bolt to studs and install shelves above for more goodies.
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|January 3, 2013, 09:36 PM
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If it's really just to keep the honest people out your on the right track . They make hinges that the pin does not come out . You see these more on exterior doors that open out . I assume the door opens out so you might want to replace the door stop trim with something thicker like 5/8" or 3/4" and use nails with heads rather then finish nails . That would help keep it from being kicked in .
As for the interior I would not do much at first cus your bound to change things up a little as you start to use the space ( add , move or remove shelves ) you can always add but it can be a pain to remove .
You need to make sure that area/space will stay dry . That type of floor and walls can leach moister through them .
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|January 3, 2013, 10:26 PM
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I think you are definantly on the right track. Perfect location too. Had a similar one in a previous house I had. Just to keep noses out, and safe from the kids.
I actually had my rifles raised off the floor by a couple feet on a shelf. Good for storing ammo under, since ammom is heavy. I had mine so I could stack two ammo cans and have plenty of room to spare.
Maybe a can or bags of desiccant in there. Rice, or at a craft store they sell silica.
|January 4, 2013, 12:21 AM
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Line the walls with cedar and trim it out, replace the door with a nice solid-core door, you can get a steel door if you want, and get a locking knob and deadbolt (two holes in the door), and new hinges, and be sure to use long screws to attach the hinges to door and jamb. If using a pre-hung door, use long nails to attach the frame.
|January 4, 2013, 08:51 AM
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Just buy a solid wood door and a dead-bolt lock - that will be enough to keep kids out, and even workmen while you are present (and probably if you aren't present.) In fact, that's what is typically used in Condos that are used as part-time rentals to keep "honest" folks out of the owner's stuff.
Nothing mentioned above is going to keep a thief out who is determined to get at your guns. I could cut through all of the above with nothing more than a $22 sawzall from Harbor Freight.
|January 6, 2013, 01:46 PM
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For the stated level of security, the invisible hinges and a solid door with a deadbolt should be fine. You might line the interior with plywood, but if a thief is willing to trash your house, or worse, has a sawzall, then you are out of luck anyway unless you have a real safe. I don't think you'll need the touch latch, you can open the door with the key in the deadbolt.
You will want to rest the gun butts on something softer than the recoil pads but firm enough not to bottom out over years of storage. My local hardware store had some closed cell foam that was perfect. It also had some wood moulding that had a long series of bumps that's perfect for rifle rests.
|January 7, 2013, 04:55 PM
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|January 7, 2013, 05:03 PM
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I used a few layers of tight knit carpet I had from a remodeling project. Price was right Just a thought.
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|January 7, 2013, 05:07 PM
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Think hidden. Bad guy can't attack or steal what he doesn't know is there.
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|January 7, 2013, 05:29 PM
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It sounds like you really just want a nice storage closet with a simple closet to child proof/nosy neighbor proof it.
If thats all you want then put a decent lock on it and fix out the inside as desired. Its not going to stop any sort of determined thief, but that doesn't appear to be your intent in this.
You can get simple felt at Hobby Lobby to felt shelves. Id' consider a humidifier depending on your exact location, and a nice interior light. Else a new lock and it should meet the need of what you want it for.
|January 7, 2013, 05:49 PM
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I'm thinking of doing the same thing. I have too many guns for one real safe. I have a few RSCs and cabinets. An RSC you could open in 5 minutes with a Sawzall or big prybar. The cabinets would open with a screwdriver.
I'm thinking of putting them in a walk in closet. I'd line the closet with plywood and maybe an extra layer of drywall. Then I'd go with a solid core door and deadbolt. It would be just as secure as a RSC, in my opinion. Wife wants a safe room anyway.
|January 9, 2013, 01:28 AM
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Suggestion from a locksmith. Do not use an entry lock and expect anything resembling security. This includes the deadbolts commonly sold in home improvement stores. (research "keypicking" or "bumping")
I recomend "Medeco" brand hardware. This helps resist sawzalls also.
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|January 9, 2013, 01:35 AM
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Anything that can be cut with a Sawsall is a waste of time. Not to mention a house fire.
If you can't bolt down a real safe then make good hiding places as mentioned above.
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|January 9, 2013, 02:28 AM
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You could install a door with a regular lock that swings in. Remove the door trim on the outside wall and hang a large piece of pegboard with hidden hinges over the door, secured by a couple strong magnets that swings out. The locked door will keep the kids out, the pegboard will camoflauge from an intruder unfamiliar with your home.
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August 28. 2013 2:13PM
MANCHESTER - Police are investigating two stabbings that happened Tuesday in the city, one in the morning in an alley behind Mike's Pub & Grub, and the other at night near Concord and Maple streets.Police learned of the 10:30 a.m. stabbing when they were called an hour later to the emergency room at the Elliot Hospital where Thomas Frotton, 39, of Manchester, was being treated for a minor stab wound to the abdomen.He told police he was stabbed while he was in the area of Barry and Lake avenues behind Mike's Pub & Grub, 155 Lake Ave. He described his assailant as a man in his late 20s wearing a hat.The second stabbing happened about 7:30 p.m. near Concord and Maple streets.Medard Wasso Kindo, 25, of Manchester, had stab wounds to his face, head and back.A passenger in a green SUV stabbed him, witnesses told police.Lt. Maureen Tessier said there were several people inside the SUV that pulled up next to Kindo. A passenger began arguing with Kindo and then pulled out a knife and stabbed him, according to witnesses.The assailant is described as a tall, white man with dirty blond hair and some facial hair. He was wearing a tank top and blue jeans. He also reportedly had a tattoo on his forearm similar to "NY."Both victims gave limited information to investigators concerning the incidents, according to Tessier.Anyone with information about either stabbing is asked to call police at 668-8711. Anonymous tips for cash rewards may be made through Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org.


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PORTSMOUTH — Kathryn "Kat" McDonough's parents insisted their daughter come home months before she became entangled in the disapearance of UNH student Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott.
The family's attorney, Jay Nadeau, said McDonough's mother, Denise, went to Seth Mazzaglia's apartment last March to convince her daughter to come home. Kat McDonough was 18 when she moved out and still in high school at the time.
"It is my clients', the parents', opinion that (Mazzaglia) manipulated their daughter … and (put) a barrier there, I guess, between her and her parents," Nadeau said.
Wednesday morning, the 19-year-old suspect accused of lying to police in the Marriott investigation followed her parents to a car in the Portsmouth Circuit Court parking lot, flying by a dozen or so reporters all seeking to learn more about her relationship with Mazzaglia, the suspect in the case accused of Marriott's alleged second-degree murder. McDonough had a probable cause hearing that day for charges stemming from the incident, for allegedly lying to investigators and providing a false alibi on Oct. 12.
Mazzaglia is now 30 years old and was 29 when McDonough moved into his Dover apartment, #341 at the Sawyer Mill Apartments.
Nadeau said in a phone interview with Foster's Wednesday afternoon, McDonough's parents are greatly troubled by the criminal charges facing their daughter, but relieved to see her out on bail. McDonough faces one count of hindering apprehension or prosecution and one count of conspiracy to commit hindering apprehension or prosecution. Either one carries a sentence of up to seven years in prison.
"The whole series of events has been very troubling for them," Nadeau explained. "From her moving out, to her coming back under these circumstances … They never wanted her to leave in the first place."
Nadeau said some time in February 2012, when McDonough left for Mazzaglia's apartment, she left a note for her parents on her bedroom pillow saying she wouldn't come back. She was still attending Portsmouth Regional High School at that time, which she graduated from later that year. Nadeau said the move came as a shock to the family household, where the McDonoughs live across the street from grandparents in the Elwyn Park neighborhood.
"It was not contentious," Nadeau explained. "(but) they were taken completely by surprise."
A few weeks later, Nadeau said Denise McDonough, along with her father and sister-in-law, found out where Mazzaglia lived and went to Dover to convince their teenager to come home.
Around 10 p.m. on March 11, Dover police were called to Mazzaglia's apartment when a neighbor reported a disturbance in the hallway. Nadeau said there, Denise McDonough attempted to enter the apartment to find her daughter but Mazzaglia blocked her from entering.
"Mrs. McDonough was taken aback with that positioning because she's always had nothing but an open and loving relationship with her daughter," Nadeau said, noting this happened while Kat McDonough's grandfather and aunt stood at the door with Denise.
According to a police report filed by Dover Police Officer Sean Kennedy, Denise McDonough understood her daughter was old enough to decide where she wanted to live, though she wished she would return to their Portsmouth home.
"Upon my arrival, I contacted the involved parties who were actively involved in conversation, but not yelling," Kennedy wrote in his report. "… Denise said Kathryn had lied to her and she came to confront Kathryn…"
Nadeau said the pained mother and daughter sat on the floor, talking and crying, but eventually decided to part ways, especially when police arrived and ordered they have a more private conversation another time when they wouldn't disturb others.
Almost eight months later, McDonough's parents were in for an even more terrifying prospect — the possibility their daughter may serve a prison sentence, maybe for years.
Nadeau said with the Lizzi Marriott case unfolding, Kat McDonough's parents have been left in the dark on what truly happened the night of Oct. 9 — the night authorities say Marriott was murdered by Mazzaglia by either strangulation or suffocation. Foster's has learned the alleged murder occurred during a sexual encounter, but it is not known whether Marriott's involvement was voluntary.
Nadeau said McDonough's parents, Peter and Denise, who own Firefly Pottery in Portsmouth, have not been privy to any special information, while the official arrest warrant remains sealed at Dover Circuit Court and authorities remain tightlipped about their ongoing investigation.
"My clients have absolutely no idea (what happened)," Nadeau said. "They are learning as everybody else is learning when they're sitting in the courtroom."
Kat McDonough has now returned to live with her parents, following a court order that says in addition to her $35,000 cash or corporate surety bail, she must live with her parents and be accompanied by them if she plans to go out between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
"They miss and love her. They're happy to have her home, but again," Nadeau said, "they wish it wasn't under these circumstances, if you would. It's very upsetting for (Kat)."


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Jesse Larios was rambunctious as a youngster growing up in California's Imperial Valley, so his mother would send him off with his father to work with cattle at a local feedlot.
"I just didn't want to be home, so my mother would say, 'Go with your father,'" he said.
It didn't take long for the young Larios to develop a love for animals and agriculture, and after earning a college degree, he became a second-generation employee at the Foster Feed Yard in Brawley, Calif.
Now 45 and the company's manager, Larios and his wife, Briana, also raise and show their own beef cattle and goats, which they market throughout the Southwest.
"I was born into it," said Larios, whose family emigrated from Mexico when he was 2 months old. "As a young man, I grew up wanting to be a cowboy."
Larios' up-by-the-bootstraps experience typifies the increasing ethnic diversity within America's farming population, as more and more Latinos, American Indians, Asian-Americans, African Americans and those who identify with more than one race own and operate farms and ranches.
Numbers increase
Nationwide, the number of Spanish, Hispanic or Latino-owned farms ballooned from 55,570 in 2007 to 67,014 in 2012, according to the USDA's latest Census of Agriculture. American Indians remained the nation's second-largest nonwhite group with 37,857 principal operators, up from 34,706 five years previous, according to a census summary released Feb. 20.
Growers of Asian descent numbered 13,699 in the 2012 survey, 4,820 of which were in California. That's up from 11,214 and 3,684, respectively, in 2007, the government reported.
In all, 8 percent of the nation's 2.1 million principal farm operators are minorities.
The growing diversity is evident when looking at the faces of vendors at America's burgeoning farmers' markets, said Bob Young, an economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation.
"These efforts that the USDA has had and others have had in promoting diversity have paid off in those numbers, or they seem to be paying off," Young said.
Among Hispanic-owned farms, most earn less than $50,000 a year, but together they generated more than $8.6 billion in crop value in 2012, up from $6.6 billion five years earlier. A slight majority of Hispanic farmers lists other jobs as their primary occupation.
For many, their stories are similar to that of the Larios family — they started as farmworkers and saved enough money to buy or lease some land and start their own operations.
From worker to owner
Adrian Renteria, 57, ran across the U.S-Mexico border near Tijuana with a couple other young men in 1974 when he was 17 years old. From a farming family, he "just wanted to know the United States, a bigger world" and make some money.
He worked his way north and ended up in Orondo, Wash., north of Wenatchee, where he settled into orchard work — pruning, thinning and picking apples, pears and cherries.
"I was a fast worker and helped everybody, whoever needed work," he says.
He married a local woman, gaining his green card and later U.S. citizenship.
Renteria became a foreman, saved his money and in 1989 bought his first semi-truck and worked as a truck driver. A year later, he bought a 21-acre orchard in the Palisades near Wenatchee. He owned 43 acres before losing part of it when apple prices tanked in the late 1990s.
Recently, he sold the rest of his orchard and bought two homes and nine acres of cherry orchard on the south edge of East Wenatchee. He and a hired hand do the pruning and he still hires out his trucking services.
"For me it's been easy to do all that stuff because I've been a farmer since I remember," he says.
Opportunities await
Some immigrants sold land in their home countries to afford to farm here, said Navid Khan, deputy agricultural commissioner in Butte County, Calif. Khan is a third-generation rice and walnut grower whose family emigrated in the 1920s from the Punjabi region of what is now Pakistan.
Khan's great-uncle, Kalu Khan, initially worked for other farmers and ranchers in the '20s while scraping together enough money to buy a plot in nearby Glenn County. Khan credits his uncle, Tariq Khan, for building the business before recently dying of cancer.
"He embodied the can-do attitude," Khan said of his uncle. "He built it from the ground up."
While farm ownership is becoming more diverse, the increases reflected in the census may also be partly the result of greater efforts by the National Agricultural Statistics Service over the past decade to find and count historically underrepresented growers, spokeswoman Sue King acknowledged.
The effort began in earnest with the 2007 census, and the agency built on its relationships with various ethnic groups to encourage responses to the 2012 census, too, King said.
In addition, the University of California Cooperative Extension touted the census to Latino, Hmong, Mien, Chinese and other ethnic farmers during food safety courses, said Shermain Hardesty, who leads the small farm program at UC-Davis.
Help to succeed
The government's efforts on behalf of ethnic farmers go beyond merely trying to count them all. Scores of extension service and other programs exist to help fledgling growers succeed.
In one case, some farmworkers-turned-produce growers along the California coast were struggling to meet input costs, so the UC Extension has been helping them plant additional varieties that are harvested during non-peak seasons, enabling the growers to get higher prices, Hardesty said.
The Imperial Valley's Larios remembers that as children, he and his friends developed negative attitudes toward farming because they saw their parents working long hours for little pay.
"We never saw the opportunities of managerial positions," he said.
That changed when he went to California State University-Fresno, where he earned a degree in economics. Many of his classmates were also Hispanic, he said.
"I used to have horse blinders on me, and all of the sudden my eyes were opened up to the opportunities not only in livestock but in agriculture," Larios said.
"There have been many opportunities for me," he said. "I think the opportunities have always been there, and now that some ag leaders have been more noticeable, I think the next generation of Hispanics are noticing there are opportunities out there. We'll see more and more Hispanics getting involved."
Capital Press staff writer Dan Wheat contributed to this report.


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On Wednesday a reader noted that the Minneapolis Star Tribune had posted and removed a column by Imara Jones attacking Paul Ryan as bad for black Americans. Jones's column is a small part of the MSM drill that Steve Hayward noted this past Sunday. The reader also observed that the Star Tribune had not enabled comments on the column and wondered why.
Jones describes himself as a "New York-based blogger who writes about economic justice, among other issues, for Colorlines. His site caffeineator.com offers incisive commentary about our disruptive world and what comes next, and he serves as editor of www.slaveryblog.org, an online information resource on the transatlantic slave trade and Afro-Atlantic world."
We wrote Strib editorial page editor Scott Gillespie to ask what was going on. Scott promptly responded to our inquiry with the following explanation:
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A self-proclaimed, voodoo-practicing Middleboro woman is accused of swinging a machete at police who came to search her house as part of a probe into 24 suspicious fires across Southeastern Massachusetts, police said.
A self-proclaimed, voodoo-practicing Middleboro woman is accused of swinging a machete at police who came to search her house as part of a probe into 24 suspicious fires across Southeastern Massachusetts, police said.
Myrna Antoine was released after her Jan. 31 arraignment in Wareham District Court, where she pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon.
She appeared before a judge on the same day as her live-in boyfriend, Mark Sargent, 45, and his stepson, Jeanmarie Louis, 23, who were charged with setting ablaze a West Bridgewater building and are being eyed in a string of two dozen arson fires that have left residents and firefighters on edge in recent months.
As police arrived at her Wareham Street home around midnight as part of the case against Sargent and Louis, the 42-year-old Antoine told police she "couldn't believe this was about her boyfriend" and nervously paced her home smoking cigarettes, according to a police report.
While officers urged her to get dressed, Antoine began waving a scarf in a "ritual fashion" and taking sips from a bottle before spitting all "over the room" and even on her 2-year-old son, according to the report.
Officer Simonne Ryder wrote that she then took the boy from the room and, when she returned, Antoine was holding a skull and there was a machete leaning in a nearby corner.
Antoine then grabbed the machete and began "swinging it in our direction" before finally dropping it as officers held her at gunpoint, according to the report.
"Myrna said she is from Haiti and she practices voodoo," Ryder wrote. "I told Myrna that I have no problem with her practicing voodoo. The problem was when she grabbed the machete."
The Department of Children and Families took custody of two children in the house, including the 2-year-old and a 14-year-old.
The three-page report also shed more light on the arrests of Sargent and Louis. Police wrote that Sargent was a suspect in three Middleboro fires alone and that the probe "revealed (Louis') involvement in Halifax-Hanson fires."


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The Little Sand Fire had burned 17,280 acres by Thursday evening, with haze and smoke visible in Durango and Bayfield. Thats up from 15,987 acres Wednesday night and 10,000 acres June 15.
The fire, which is burning 13 miles northwest of Pagosa Springs, was sparked by lightning May 13.
It was pretty mild today, Fire Information Officer Dean McAlister said. But the next couple of days, theyre predicting drier, warmer and windier, so the fire index says it will support rapid growth.
While McAlister was surprised the smoke was visible over here, because the wind was blowing primarily to the southeast, he said it was settling into the valley around Williams Creek Reservoir, as well, in an area where it had been clearing out in the afternoon.
We had clouds around the periphery of the fire today, McAlister said. If by chance we get clouds over the fire tomorrow, that could temper things.
Dean Phillips, a meteorologist with the Grand Junction office of the National Weather Service, said southern Colorado, including the Durango and Pagosa areas, probably will not be under a red-flag warning today despite the fact that the areas all around us will be. That doesnt mean the fire danger isnt high.
Beginning Saturday afternoon and building through the middle of next week, youll be getting dry thunderstorms with the potential of dry lightning strikes, he said. Thats a danger before the monsoons get into full gear; we get storms with little precipitation.
In a news release, Durango Interagency Fire Dispatch said most of the campgrounds and businesses in the Piedra area are open, although guides are rerouting trips to avoid the Little Sand Fire.
Smoke is expected to continue to be visible from the fire for the foreseeable future.
Its been burning some 40 odd days, McAlister said, and its a long way from burning out.


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Even in a regular offseason, June is a month for lists around the NFL.
There were a couple that came out while I was on vacation that I haven't been able to comment on yet. They focus on the most overrated and underrated players in the league.
Let's start with John Clayton's list on ESPN.com. The Eagles are the only club to notch three players on his All-Underrated Team: LeSean McCoy, Brent Celek and Nate Allen.
Can't say I really agree. The best case of the three is probably for McCoy. He broke out in his first year as a full-time starter, averaging 5.2 yards per carry, fourth in the NFL among backs that had at least 100 carries.
McCoy totaled 1,672 rushing and receiving yards and led all running backs with 78 catches, but didn't make the Pro Bowl. He's only done it for one year, but it's fair to say that McCoy didn't get the league-wide accolades of some of his peers in 2010.
The Celek selection is puzzling. His numbers fell from 76 catches, 971 yards and 8 touchdowns in 2009 to 42 catches, 511 yards and 4 touchdowns last season. Granted, part of the dropoff had to do with Celek being used more as a blocker. Pro Football Focus took a look at this recently and found that Celek was kept in to pass block 127 times last season, fifth-most among tight ends.
Celek was targeted 78 times in 2010, compared to 112 in 2009 so he clearly had fewer opportunities to catch the ball. He was also tied for the seventh-most drops in the league with eight, according to STATS.com. In other words, I think he was probably rated properly by most in 2010.
As for Allen, he started off great, but then had some ups and downs. Don't get me wrong. I think he showed a lot of potential, but it's tough for me to put him on an underrated list after just 13 games in the league.
So who is the most underrated Eagle? My vote goes to defensive tackle Antonio Dixon. He was probably their third-best defensive player in 2010 behind Asante Samuel and Trent Cole, yet Dixon hasn't received a lot of recognition. If he builds on last season in 2011, I think that will change.
Meanwhile, Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com named an overrated and underrated player from each team, and the overrated selection might surprise you. He had Samuel:
I say it every year here: Good player, not great. Big-time gambler. He makes plays, but he also gives up a bunch.
The numbers say otherwise. Back in March, Football Outsiders noted that Samuel ranked first among cornerbacks with a 3.2 yards per pass average on 36 targets. Tough to call that overrated.
Choosing an overrated Eagle is difficult though, especially since the defense is filled with late-round picks and undrafted free agents. If I had to pick one, it might be Stewart Bradley - not only because of the injury issues, but because he didn't play at a consistently high level even when he was healthy.
This is a good one for you all to chime in. Who's the most underrated and overrated Eagle?
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Biochemically speaking, enzymes make things happen. Action is their motto. If metabolism were a party, it would be inert, as good as dead, until the enzymes arrive. When they show up, suddenly the whole place starts jumping.
Enzymes - nearly all of which are proteins - are such amazing catalysts that it's hard to appreciate how much difference they make. What they do seems simple enough. A molecule undergoing reaction - called the substrate - swims into contact with the enzyme for that reaction and finds a place where it fits, usually a pocket or crease in the enzyme's 3D shape - called the active site. Seemingly, the next thing you know the substrate has changed to the product of the reaction.
The enzyme itself is unchanged and from outward appearance has done nothing beyond provide a port in a storm for a wandering molecule. Yet incredibly, the reaction happens a million times faster than it would without the enzyme. And with some reactions, the speedup is much more than that, a billion-trillion times faster with enzymes.
What biomolecular magic is happening here? "Over the past 50 years or so," says biochemist David Deerfield, "we've made enormous progress in filling in the big picture of what enzymes do and how they do it at an ever increasing level of detail. But we're a long way from precisely understanding what happens in the transition from substrate to product, the atom-by-atom details of these changes and exactly how enzymes play their role."
For the past few years, in research supported through the NIH National Center for Research Resources, PSC scientist Troy Wymore has worked with Deerfield, who directs the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center biomedical program, and with others - PSC scientist Hugh Nicholas, University of Pittsburgh biologist John Hempel and computational chemist Martin Field - to elucidate the mechanism of an enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase.
"ALDH is a big family of enzymes that show up in one form or another in just about every living thing," says Nicholas. "They help to metabolize and detoxify chemicals called aldehydes." Among the aldehydes is ethanal, a byproduct of alcohol, and ALDH's ability to break down ethanal is what pulls us through a hangover. About half of all Asians lack a liver ALDH needed to metabolize ethanal and as a result become sick and potentially risk their lives if they drink alcoholic beverages.
ALDHs also affect cancer treatment, where one of the most used chemotherapy drugs breaks down to an aldehyde. "With cancer therapy," says Hempel, "ALDH just does what it's supposed to do, detoxify an aldehyde. The aldehyde in this case, though, is a therapeutic agent. By doing its job, ALDH reduces effectiveness of the drug, which means you have to use a larger dose than would otherwise be necessary, which increases side effects. If we understood this enzyme better, we could presumably design drugs to block the ALDH that eats up the cancer drug and use smaller doses to attack the cancer."
With LeMieux, PSC's terascale system, Wymore has at hand a powerful tool to attack his problem. In 2001, with a fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program, he spent a month in Grenoble, France working with Field, a leader in the development of computational methods to understand how enzymes work. Over the past year, with a creative approach that combines less costly, non-quantum methods with detailed quantum techniques, Wymore employed LeMieux in simulations that pin down previously unknown details about how ALDH does its job. In the process, he and his colleagues appear to have discovered an interesting chemical event no one has seen before - a proton transfer from the enzyme backbone.
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Wymore's ALDH simulations arise from work started by Hempel, who in 1997 collaborated with others to determine the 3D structure of an ALDH enzyme for the first time. Not long after that, Hempel and Nicholas, a specialist in DNA and protein sequence analysis, teamed up on a sequencing study of the ALDHs. Their work grouped this "superfamily" of nearly 200 enzymes into 13 distinct sub-families or classes, structurally related by their amino-acid sequences and differing in the aldehydes they catalyze.
As an entry point into this huge enzyme family, Wymore focused on ALDH class 3, one of the smallest ALDHs and therefore a good choice, by the economics of computing time, to work out computational strategies. ALDH3 is the ALDH most involved in metabolizing cancer-therapy drugs, and it's also the subject of Hempel's lab work. "It's a big plus," says Deerfield, "that we have this strong connection with a wet biology group. Experiment and computation can feed each other. When the calculations identify certain amino-acid groups as being important, the lab team can do the experiments that test these findings."
What's going on at the ALDH3 active site? In other words, what happens chemically, atom-by-atom, between the substrate, an aldehyde called benzaldehyde, and the amino-acid groups that surround it like a big easy chair? Experiments help to determine which amino acids are involved in changing the substrate to the reaction product, but chemical reactions happen with many fleetingly transient intermediate states. Understanding these transient states can be the key to intervening with drugs to regulate an enzyme reaction. Wymore's challenge was to precisely identify each step in the ALDH3 mechanism.
It's a challenge that calls for quantum methods. The most widely used approach to simulating proteins - called molecular dynamics - shows structure and movement, but doesn't show reactions, the making and breaking of bonds. To get at these pesky, crucial details, Field pioneered hybrid methods that zoom in on the active site with quantum theory while, at the same time, maintaining the less costly approach for the rest of the enzyme. It's a complex approach - called QM/MM (quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics) - that Wymore added to his toolbox before going to work on ALDH3.
Keeping Track of Protons
A big question had to do with the chemistry involved in the first intermediate state of the reaction - in particular, what's going on with the hydrogen atoms? Experiments show the first intermediate forms when an active-site cysteine, an amino acid with a sulfur atom bonded to hydrogen, binds with benzaldehyde. Cysteine's sulfur binds with a benzaldehyde carbon, and the untested thinking was that the cysteine was "deprotonated" - gave up its hydrogen - before forming the bond with benzaldehyde.
The researchers had their doubts, and Wymore undertook a series of calculations, using various methods, to address this question, which was a prerequisite to using QM/MM to simulate the reaction. One strong result came from molecular dynamics computations that included benzaldehyde in the active site. With the cysteine deprotonated, benzaldehyde was unwilling to orient itself as needed to form the intermediate state.
Guided by this clue and others, Wymore did several different computations with the cysteine protonated. With a series of simulations of the enzyme with cofactors - molecules also involved in the enzyme mechanism - surrounded by water, a total of 56,000 atoms, he systematically studied the active-site interactions. The results show a two-stage process. The cysteine is protonated when it first interacts with the substrate and only then becomes deprotonated - through interaction with a nearby amino-acid group.
It was also the prevalent view that another hydrogen atom at the active site formed a hydrogen bond with benzaldehyde to help stabilize this first intermediate. Wymore's simulations showed, however, that rather than forming a hydrogen bond, the enzyme actually donates a proton to the intermediate state. This proton transfer happens as a concerted reaction at the same time as cysteine's sulfur binds with benzaldehyde.
Perhaps the biggest surprise is that this donated proton comes from a nitrogen atom on ALDH3's backbone, next door to the cysteine. "It's quite interesting," says Wymore. "We seem to have discovered a novel enzyme mechanism. We wouldn't have looked for this because the backbone is structural. You expect the side chains to do all the chemistry."
The key, says Deerfield, is the QM/MM approach. "We did a series of calculations of just the active site and substrate, without all the protein interactions around it. Then we backed up again, using the quantum framework but now tied to the protein with molecular mechanics. This gives you a more realistic model."
Wymore has more work ahead with ALDH3 and then expects to move on to simulations of ALDH2, the ALDH involved in metabolizing ethanal. He has support from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and from this standpoint ALDH3 is a first step to understanding the bigger enzyme's mechanism. "This has given us the clue to look for a proton donor," says Wymore, "where we wouldn't have thought to look."
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police arrested a homeless man who spent the night sleeping in the back of a patrol car and then couldn't get out.
Sgt. Pete Simpson said an officer was in the Southeast Precinct parking lot Tuesday morning when he heard someone yelling from an unattended police car. In the back seat was Ruben James Turner III, who told the officer he accidentally locked himself inside after deciding to sleep in the vehicle.
Unlike a regular car, the back seat of a patrol vehicle is a secure custody area and has no handle to get out.
"Once you shut that back door, you're essentially in a cage," Simpson said.
The precinct is not staffed 24 hours, so Turner couldn't get rescued until morning. He tried, however, by writing "Help" with his finger in the window condensation.
Simpson said the police car had been accidentally left unlocked, allowing access to the front seat, which has a lot of equipment. Turner rummaged through the glove box and unhooked the mobile data computer before heading to the roomier back seat.
Nothing was stolen, but the officer discovered foam padding had been ripped from the headliner and around the plastic seats, said Simpson, who did not have a damage estimate.
The 30-year-old was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on charges of criminal mischief, criminal trespass and unlawful entry into a motor vehicle.
"It's safer than a lot of places and perhaps more comfortable than cold, wet pavement," Simpson said. "But it's definitely not a place most people would seek to sleep."


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I begged, pleaded and worked in the tobacco fields in North Carolina to purchase my first Teisco Del Ray guitar from a department store with a small amp. This was one of those three-pickup jobs with all the switches and action so high I couldn't believe guitar players were anything short of super-human. From there, I got a little stereo set-up with a turntable and spent every dime I had on the early and mid '70s albums and every waking minute scraping the needle over and over again trying to learn licks by Eric Clapton, Deep Purple, GFR, and any great guitar-driven band of the '70s.
Clapton was my first rock god guy because he had it all: tone, feeling, phrasing, vibrato… And I knew, whatever it was, I wanted that. From there, I graduated to Jimmy Page, Ted Nugent, Joe Perry, Pat Travers, and then it happened… There are times in your life when you can remember exactly where you were and the circumstances in which something comes to you: this was one of those times.
A kid I knew at school kept telling me about this band and this guitar player that was one of the most incredible things he'd ever heard, because he knew I played guitar. I didn't really listen to him because I didn't believe anybody could be better than Jimmy Page or Ted Nugent; it just wasn't possible. Finally, this kid tracked me down and stuck an album halfway jutting out of my gym locker called Van Halen.
I took the record home and put it on the turntable—in the studio that me and my dad had constructed in our backyard as a full rehearsal place—and dropped the needle down on track 1 of Van Halen's first record. After the second track, which ran 1:42 (entitled "Eruption"), my life was forever changed. Some people call these things epiphanies, some call them religious experiences—but I can tell you right now I had no (expletive) idea what I'd just heard. But I knew whatever it was was the coolest, most bad-ass recording I'd ever heard up to that point. I was hooked.
I was privileged to see Roth and Van Halen on every single tour up until 1984. I wasn't really a Roth fan so much as I was an Ed junkie. I had assembled a high school band with the best musicians I could find around me and we had a repertoire of over 50 songs by the time I was 16. We started garnering a lot of local recognition playing bars and high school dances and I was making more in one night with a band than I'd made in my dad's shop all week—plus there were the chicks.
I'd always been good with books and able to squeak by and I, eventually, was accepted at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. I went to fulfill my parents' wishes, but I was really looking for better musicians to play with. Within a week or two of being on campus, I'd already formed a band.


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They don't have the cancer-causing tar and nasty-smelling smoke that sticks to your clothes for weeks, but electronic cigarettes with flavors such as mojito mint are getting scrutinized just like their tobacco counterparts.
State attorneys general are turning up the heat on the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the nicotine product and restrict advertising — just as they do with cigarettes. Meantime, in the absence of tough federal regulation, cities such as Lakewood are looking to crack down on puffing the faux cigarettes in public places or selling them near schools.
An alternative for many smokers trying to quit, the devices look like cigarettes but are actually battery-operated sticks that can be filled with liquid nicotine and other additives that are converted into an inhalable vapor that mimics the taste of tobacco. Some have hailed the vapor-emitting devices as a healthy alternative to smoking, a guilt-free indulgence.
Introduced into the U.S. market more than five years ago, they have become wildly popular, spawning a cottage industry of vaping shops. They are all over bars, clubs and everywhere cigarettes were decades ago. Sales this year are expected to hit $1 billion and keep rising.
At the end of this month the FDA is set to issue proposed regulations on advertising, ingredients and sale of e-cigarettes to minors. Meantime, cities have been scrambling to keep up with the trend. Last month, the city of Seal Beach placed a one-year moratorium on shops specializing in the vapor cigarette.
But is it going too far? There's little scientific study on the effects of vaping, as inhaling these cigarettes is termed, much less the impact of secondhand vapor smoke.
What do you think?
Should cities regulate e-cigarettes like regular cigarettes, or do they deserve special consideration that recognize them as a preferable alternative? And do children need to be protected from their sale before they become addicted to these products?
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DANVILLE, Pa. (AP) — An early morning farmhouse fire in north-central Pennsylvania killed three children, ages 2 to 13, authorities said.
The fire was reported at about 1:20 a.m. Friday outside Danville, about 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia, officials said.
"It doesn't get much worse than this," Chief Butch Kriner of the Southside Fire Company in Riverside said.
The Northumberland County coroner identified the victims as 13-year old Daniel Dissinger, 7-year old Gavin Dissinger and 2-year old Arthur Dissinger. The deaths were ruled accidental.
The children's mother was at work at the time of the fire, Kriner said.
He said a 13-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl managed to escape from the home and were treated for injuries that weren't life-threatening. Another child was staying at a friend's house overnight, he said.
The home had almost completely collapsed by the time the first crews arrived, officials said.
"It was all but in the basement by the time we got there, so I could not tell you where it started," Kriner said.
A state police fire marshal was investigating the cause.


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Lifeline for Global Hawk as Pentagon eyes stay of execution
My how times—and political winds—have changed for the beleaguered Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.
Less than two years after proposing termination and premature mothballing of the new Block 30 version—once eyed as a replacement for the venerable, high-flying U-2 reconnaissance aircraft—the Pentagon leadership is toying with a complete reversal on its position as it works through options for the fiscal 2015 budget proposal.
In a resourcing management decision—the mechanism by which the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) responds to the services' annual spending plans—Pentagon budgeters gutted U-2 funding, shifting more than $3 billion into the Global Hawk Block 30 account. The decision is not yet final, and it remains to be seen whether the service will maintain its position from the fiscal 2013 budget. It favored halting Block 30 work and operations and focusing solely on the Lockheed Martin U-2 as the high-altitude, standoff intelligence collector for the next decade or more.
Officials in the OSD and the Air Force do not comment on funding decisions prior to their delivery to Congress. But there are a variety of reasons behind the possible reversal of course by the Pentagon's leadership. These include politics and a shift in the cost estimate to operate the fleet.
The outcome of this debate could be a bellwether for other such squabbles down the road as the Pentagon proposes fleet terminations—including the A-10, Kiowa and TH-67—in the wake of sequestration and other fiscal pressures. Will the Pentagon and the service capitulate to parochial pressure from Capitol Hill to save a politically popular program? Or will they go to bat for the savings plans they have devised in light of dramatically declining investment budgets? Defense planners argue that if each fleet cut is adjusted, overall savings will be eroded, leaving the Pentagon with a "hollow force" of many platforms that it cannot afford to fly and keep current.
At issue for the Global Hawk is a dive in the cost per flying hour (CPFH) for the aircraft. In earlier fiscal years, CPFH was near that of the U-2 at roughly $33,000 per hr. Fiscal 2013 numbers, recently in from the field, point to a CPFH closer to $25,000, according to a program source.
The notable decrease is due to a substantial spike in the number of hours flown, a shift partly related to the fielding of the first Block 40s outfitted with active, electronically scanned array (AESA) radars for ground surveillance, an Air Force official says. The official did not provide a total number for the year, but a larger number of hours allows fixed costs to be more diluted in the calculation. Though the Air Force has not publicly proposed terminating the Block 40 in budget plans, last year senior leaders were eyeing it for a kill. It was likely saved owing to the then open debate on the fate of Block 30.
Even if this new CPFH holds true in coming years, one program official notes that for some regions—such as the Pacific—Global Hawk must fly more hours to have an equitable time on station as the U-2. While CPFH may be lower for the Global Hawk, the figure is not reflective of the total cost to gather the needed intelligence.
To give an example, the unmanned air system (UAS) would have to fly 54% more flight hours to collect intelligence on areas in North Korea, the Middle East and Iran.
Nor is CPFH reflective of mission success rates between the two platforms. Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection is in high demand, and aircraft downtime is extremely worrisome for combatant commanders. In the Pacific, 55% of Global Hawk's missions were canceled in fiscal 2013; 96% of the U-2's missions were achieved. The U-2 was also scheduled for nearly three times as many missions. Global Hawk lacks anti-icing equipment and is not able to operate in severe weather. An upgrade to remedy the shortcoming is being developed by the Navy for its Triton Global Hawk variant, but it would cost money and time to field.
The program source argues that CPFH is not an accurate metric on which to make a decision. He notes that Global Hawks based in Guam have to transit for hours just to reach North Korea, whereas the U-2, based at Osan air base, South Korea, has a shorter commute.
Additionally, the service originally opted to terminate the aircraft because of the lackluster performance by its Raytheon Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suite—the camera used to collect visual, infrared, and radar images. Global Hawk also flies at a lower altitude—typically close to 50,000 ft.—making it more susceptible to some weather and offering less-than-optimal ranges for peering into an enemy's territory. The U-2, by contrast, operates above 60,000 ft., and has nearly twice as much onboard power at the ready for collecting radar images. Forthcoming fielding of the secret, stealthy RQ-180 UAS (also developed by Northrop Grumman) probably contributed to the Air Force's view that the Global Hawk is excessive (AW&ST Dec, 9, 2013, p. 20).
Northrop Grumman did not discuss the newest CPFH figures. "[We are] working closely with the Air Force to reduce Global Hawk costs and enhance the system's outstanding performance. Global Hawk costs per flight hour have gone down significantly since 2010 and continue to decline as the system increases its operational tempo," says Rene Freeland, a company spokeswoman.
The cost argument could, ultimately, be a cover for OSD simply succumbing to pressure from Capitol Hill, according to some program officials. Lawmakers have gone to bat for the system repeatedly, and Northrop Grumman has aggressively lobbied to keep Global Hawk alive.


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"The People Speak" provides the opportunity to see and hear history in a whole new way. Inspired by award-winning author Howard Zinn, the movie illustrates the nation's history through powerful speeches, dialogue, and acting.
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i want to know the actual definition for the term tafkheem and tarqeeq, some books write it as full mouth and empty mouth.
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i want to know the actual definition for the term tafkheem and tarqeeq. some book writes it as full mouth and empty mouth, from what i've been taught was heavy and light.i also know that mukhaffam is full mouth, muraqqaq is empty mouth. i am confused.
please do state the actual meaning!!!
The actual correct English term for tafkheem (which an Arabic word written in English transliteration) is velarization. This is the term used for letters that are pronounced so that the back of the tongue raises up and the sound is focused up to the roof of the mouth and there is an echo like sound caused from this. The correct English term for tarqeeq is attenuation. This is the opposite of velarization, the tongue does not raise up and the sound is not focused up to the roof of the mouth and there is no echo sound. These terms though, would be found in linguistic books, not in every day conversation.
We do not know why some use the term full mouth and empty mouth for tafkheem and tarqeeq. Heavy and light kind of give an indication of the sound, so can be used. We tend to use the Arabic terms.
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Hitler's alpine retreat getting multi-million dollar makeover
BERLIN – Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat in Bavaria is getting a makeover, with a 17-million euro ($22.5 million) renovation project that will enlarge the historical information center now there.
The Bavarian government said Tuesday that building should begin in 2015.
The daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports the 11,000 square foot center will be expanded to 27,000 square feet in a project that will take until 2018.
The center includes details on Obersalzberg — the mountain ridge where Hitler had his Eagle's Nest retreat and Berghof home and headquarters — as well as on the Nazi regime in general.
The alpine village was a second center of power after Berlin for the Nazis, with high-ranking officials like Herman Goering, Albert Speer and Martin Bormann also keeping homes there.


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Sky appears to be rolling out some new software updates for Amstrad boxes right now and they sent it to my Amstrad 780UK box yesterday and it has DELETED MY ENTIRE PLANNER.
The reason I mention this here is nobody else appears to have had any problems with the update so I am wondering could it have anything to do with the fact that I used Copy+ to copy the contents of the planner from my old buggy Thompson box to this Amstrad box two months ago. It appeared to work fine and the entire planner transferred from old Thompson to new Amstrad.
So could something caused by Copy+ have caused the Sky update to delete the entire planner/series links/anytime now?????


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Re: Teacher Certification Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Re: Teacher Certification Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Anne StevensJoined: 03 Mar 2003Posts: 49Location: United states Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 4:16 pm Post subject: Re: Teacher Certification Hi, I know there have been a few posts on the subject; but, as far as i know, there have not been many relevant responses. Could people share their experiences re: teaching abroad without any further education [say, BA or less] versus teaching with a Teacher Certification or specialized MA (or more)? I leave it vague as to which country ... where the Teacher Certification would be granted in order to have as many answers as possible. You can send me an E-mail privately, too. And, please only serious posts will be considered. Thank you Anne Stevens [email protected] Back to top BrooksJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1369Location: Sagamihara Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 4:29 am Post subject: I have taught in Morocco, Poland, Russia, and Japan. The only places where I needed a M.A. was at the American Language Center in Morocco as an intern (actually I had almost finished), and at a private secondary school in Japan, where a M.A. is required in order to be a full time teacher.Last edited by Brooks on Thu Apr 03, 2003 1:24 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top GlenskiJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 12844Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 10:44 pm Post subject: Anne, In Japan, you need a bachelor's degree to get a work visa. Period. It doesn't matter what country you are from. However, if you don't have a degree, and if you are from the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France, Germany or South Korea, you are eligible for a working holiday visa. This is limited to people 18-30 years old, and it has a 12-18 month time limit, depending on your nationality. WHVs permit part-time work. Other ways to work legally in Japan include... spouse visa, if you are married to a Japanese dependent visa, if you are married to a non-Japanese with a FT job student visa, if you are enrolled in a Japanese program (PT work only) That said, universities in Japan require a minimum of a master's degree plus publications. Eikaiwas don't really care about your degree most of the time, so a work visa or WHV is ok. High schools, kindergartens, and elementary schools vary, but expect to need a bachelor's degree minimum. In Japan, any teaching certification is a bonus, and in some cases it doesn't even make a difference in getting a job. It might tip the scales between you and a non-certified person, but it won't give you a larger salary. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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Finally, a SIP Trunking Standard that Makes Sense
With the ratification of v1.1, it can no longer be said that there is no standard for SIP Trunking. Whether v1.1 is widely acknowledged or adopted by the industry remains to be seen.
Regular readers of No Jitter are very familiar with the issues around SIP Trunking, not least of which is the lack of any meaningful or implementable standard. However, the SIP Forum has recently ratified its SIPConnect 1.1 Technical Recommendation for SIP Trunking; a significant event that has been a long time in coming: the work started on v1.1 in early 2008. To set the stage for an evaluation of v1.1, first let me (briefly) recap on the issues and history of SIP Trunking and related standards.
The Long Road to a SIP Trunk Standard
The concept of SIP Trunking originated 7-8 years ago as a mechanism for overcoming the limitations of the existing PBX to Service Provider connection technology--the PRI trunk--specifically:
* The 23/30 channel limit;
* The fixed (64kps) bandwidth per channel;
* Being tied into telephony toll rate plans for even inter-branch calls.
The use of SIP/RTP and the Internet to gain access to sources of PSTN origination and termination overcomes all of these issues, and many see "SIP Trunks" as an attractive alternative to PRI Trunks, particularly for enterprises that have deployed unified communications (UC) systems. However, the ambiguity within SIP standards caused varying implementations of SIP Trunk interfaces to be offered by service providers, thus slowing the adoption of the technology. The SIP Forum started its SIPconnect project in 2005, but conflicting interests within the participating consortium delayed the first release of the Technical Recommendation until January 2008. According to SIP Forum Chairman (then Technical Working Group Chair), Rich Shockey, SIPconnect 1.0 was a document that fell short of its original goals. In February 2008 Jonathan Rosenberg, one of the inventors of SIP, attempted to define SIP Trunking as an IETF "Best Current Practice", but this never got past "internet draft" status.
Despite these challenges, the potential of SIP Trunk technology has caused many new service providers to emerge to offer Internet-based alternatives to PRI lines. These firms offered disruptive pricing that made it difficult for incumbent service providers to contemplate adoption of SIP Trunks, since they would have to cannibalize their PRI revenues. The conflicts and confusion that emanated from this situation have significantly slowed the adoption of SIP Trunk services: particularly for enterprises using non-SIP-based PBXs which additionally require a PBX-SIP gateway. Nevertheless, as SIP-based unified communications systems have matured from lab trials to enterprise deployments, the interest in and demand for native SIP/RTP connections to the PSTN has grown rapidly.
The SIPconnect v1.1 Process
Undeterred by the SIPconnect 1.0 experience, the SIP Forum, then lead by Eric Burger, to its credit launched the SIPconnect 1.1 project almost immediately after v1.0 was ratified in early 2008. As stated above, the increasing interest in a SIP Trunk standard provided extra impetus for communications equipment vendors and service providers to agree on an implementable standard. At the time, I had just launched the Microsoft SIP Trunking program within the Unified Communications Group and, to everyone's amazement, Microsoft was an early supporter of the SIPconnect 1.1 initiative. Several firms, including Microsoft, contributed their own SIP Trunk specifications to the SIP Forum as a working basis for v1.1, and the document submitted by CableLabs (the R&D consortium of cable network providers) was selected as the best starting point.
The work on v1.1 got off to a brisk start, but as the team got ever deeper into the nitty gritty details of an implementable and meaningful standard, the progress slowed. In the interest of maintaining reader attention and to protect the innocent, I will gloss over those details and move on to the final result.
The key weakness of SIPconnect 1.1 as a SIP Trunk standard is that, apart from CableLabs and Skype, the telephony service providers are conspicuous by their absence in the list of contributors. This could be because they disagreed with the direction, or because they didn't see a SIP Trunk standard as being within their interests. One incumbent service provider participated for the first half of the exercise, but later withdrew. Consequently, service providers may be dismissive of this document as a valid standard; but, as always, declining to participate in a public process is a risky tactic that can undermine one's point of view.


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