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As of Saturday my Rebel Reblochon are now two weeks old. They are stinky, soft (too soft maybe) and have been washed daily for almost 2 weeks. The one thing that ARN has in the wash is Ivory Linens. This will give a nice cream colour to the rind. I have seen the ivory develop and not the pink/orange of the other linens. The Geo has been held in check for the most part. This is a story about what can happen when you have a blinding migraine and your cheese brain takes over for your regular brain. So sit back and listen to the amazing tale of craziness of my weekend….
Saturday started with me attending the Annual Ceremonial Review of a Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps that I had previously had the pleasure of commanding, then on the way home I started to get a headache, well the start of a migraine to be exact. I called Leslie and Alex from Smoky Valley Artisan Cheese to let them know that I wouldn't be in any condition to go to Market on Sunday. Then went to bed to try to sleep it off, no this was not a 40 oz. Migraine, it was 5 PM. I woke up in the morning at 8 AM and went downstairs for Fathers Day Festivities still having the migraine. I went back to bed after lunch, yes I am getting to the cheese. When I got back up around 3 PM the fog had lifted, my mind was clear, the migraine was downgraded to an annoying headache. So after looking into the "cave" I saw that my Rebels were wrapped in microcrystalline wrapping papers. I do not remember wrapping the cheese! I checked my iPad because I take pictures of everything and there are pictures of the cheese wrapped. My wife and kids would not have touched the cheese, so who did it? Cheese Fairies? Or a wacked-out man in a migraine induced stupor? Yep!
I guess there are strange things done in the almost midnight sun. They will stay wrapped for the next few weeks, I will try one in two weeks and then again at 4 weeks. Hopefully they will be good. I hope I did the right thing in my moment of craziness. Most people have missing time and it involves alien abduction, mine involves cheese maintenance….I need to get out more.
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By David Fong
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TROY — The T-shirts will eventually become frayed and tattered, and the history books will become faded and dusty.
But both will tell a story that will live forever.
Shortly after his Troy team had captured an overall Greater Western Ohio Conference girls track and field championship, coach Kurt Snyder gathered together his athletes and told them his plan for their championship shirts, which will read: "They are changing the GWOC to the GOC, because we took that W."
Indeed they did.
"I am kind of speechless," Snyder said. "It feels good. These kids are special. This is what we've been working for all season. This was the perfect ending for our kids to be able to run on this track one final time in this conference and for us to be able to do what we did. Our kids competed so hard. They had a goal, and they worked hard to achieve it."
Friday night at Troy Memorial Stadium, Troy, along with fellow Miami County schools Piqua and Tippecanoe, saw their time in the GWOC come to an end, as all three will be competing next season in the 10-team Miami Valley League. On its way out, the Troy girls track and field team — as Snyder's cheeky T-shirt would imply — will be leaving with the overall GWOC trophy, having finished Friday's competition with 105 team points.
Troy was able to finish ahead of all 19 other schools — many of which are double or triple Troy's enrollment size — including defending champion Beavercreek, which was second with 89 points. Springboro was third with 68 points. Piqua finished with 19 points, while Tippecanoe had six points.
"When I first started coaching here, we were in the bottom half of the conference," Snyder said. "It wasn't easy competing against teams like Centerville and Beavercreek, which have three times as many kids as we do. But we have 85 girls who came out for our team because they wanted to be a part of something special. Being in this conference has made us work harder, and it has made us a better program. We know we had to work hard to get where those programs are.
"We have kids who work hard, and I have assistant coaches who do the same. It's not just me. I don't give my assistant coaches enough credit. They do an amazing job with these kids. And we also have a great feeder program at the junior high because of the great job our junior high coaches do down there."
Troy relied on its incredible depth to topple Beavercreek, which scored massive points in the distance races but couldn't keep up with the Trojans across the board. Troy had just four event champions but placed in all 17 events, including placing two competitors in five events.
"This was absolutely a team effort," Snyder said. "To have a kid place in every event is pretty unheard of. Every single kid who competed can say she contributed to this trophy."
Leading the way was junior Lenea Browder, who won both the shot put and discus, while setting meet records in both events. She won the shot put with a throw of 44-9 and the discus with a throw of 152-1. For Browder, the victories were particularly sweet not only because she'll leave the GWOC with both meet records, but also because early in the season she wasn't able to compete in the Herb Hartman Invitational, a meet that saw Beavercreek edge Troy by 1.5 points on its home turf.
"It was very important for me to get the records in both events," Browder said. "This was our last time competing in this conference, and I definitely wanted to stamp my name in the record books forever. I wanted to leave with the league records in everything. Ever since the Herb Hartman Invitational, we've wanted to show everyone why we are the best team in the GWOC. That meet was very hard for me because I knew if I had competed, I would have been able to make a difference. I definitely wanted to come out for the GWOC meet and make a difference."
Troy's other other individual champion was freshman Hannah Falknor, who won the 200 in 25.73 seconds. She also teamed up with Annah Stanley, Brennah Hutchinson and Kiersten Franklin to win the 4×200 (1:44.41) and placed fifth in the 400 (1:00.50). It was an impressive performance for an athlete competing in her first GWOC meet.
"I was really nervous, but I knew I had my friends and family here supporting me," Falknor said. "It also helps having great teammates who push me to believe in myself. It makes me better."
Also in the 200, Franklin placed seventh in 27.36 seconds. It was one of five events that saw the Trojans have two athletes score points. Joining Browder in the discus was Kathryn Cade, who placed fifth with a throw of 109-10. In the pole vault, Sophie Fong placed fourth (10-6), while Lilli Cusick was sixth (10-0). In the 300 hurdles, Katie Lord was fifth (48.11 seconds) and Anna Boezi was seventh (49.60). In 1,600, Dinah Gigandet was sixth (5:14.46) and Olivia Tyre was seventh (5:23.03).
Tyre also was sixth in the 800 with a personal-best time of 2:20.37, while Gigandet was seventh in the 3,200 (11:17.20). Both also teamed with Emma Kennett and Katie Castaneda to finish sixth in the 4×800 (10:05.89).
Stanley finished third in the long jump (16-0.5), while also teaming with Evelyn Plunkett, Franklin and Hutchinson to take third in the 4×100 (51.39 seconds). Jessica Goodwin was third in the 100 hurdles (16.19 seconds), Hallie Westmeyer was fourth in the high jump (5-1) and Franklin was eighth in the 100 (13.03 seconds).
Troy finished off the meet with Hutchinson, Laura Borchers, Alekhya Gollamudi and Ciena Miller taking fifth (4:17.81).
"When I first started coaching here, we were probably in the bottom half of the conference," Snyder said. "To have a kid place in every event is pretty special. There were some years where we probably only had kids reach the finals in three years. The kids worked hard to get to this point. Our goal all year has been to win the overall GWOC and we were able to do it."
The Piqua girls were led by freshman phenom Camilla Nicholas, who was second in the 100 (12.63 seconds), fourth in the 400 (1:00.15) and fifth in the 200 (27.21). Nicholas also teamed with Colleen Cox, Rakaela Smith and Ellie Jones to take seventh in the 4×400 (4:22.62).
For the Tippecanoe girls, Ashlyn Tarzinski was sixth in the discus (105-1) and Katie Taylor was eighth in the 1,600 (5:24.33). Taylor, Jillian Brown, Mackenzie Dix and Tori Prenger were seventh in the 4×800 (10:16.63).
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Jesse Westmeyer, Spencer Klopfenstein and Jaydon Culp-Bishop all placed in two events to lead the Troy boys track and field team, who finished eighth with 39 points. Troy also finished the two-day event in second place in the GWOC North, with Butler taking the North title.
Westmeyer was second in the shot put (48-10), while Klopfenstein was fourth (47-5.5). Klopfenstein was third in third in the discus (155-11), while Westmeyer was fourth (148-10). Culp-Bishop finished third in the 200 (22.69 seconds) and fifth in the 100 (11.43). Also for Troy, Tucker Raskay was eighth in the high jump (6-0), while the 4×200 relay team of Caleb Steggeman, Caillou Monroe, Noah Young and Lucas Henderson was fifth (1:32.99).
Tippecanoe's Bryce Conley was a double-placer, taking third in the 3,200 (9:37.88) and sixth in the 1,600 (4:28.92). Also for the Red Devils, Griffin Caldwell was sixth in the long jump (19-2) and Jake Rowland was seventh in the 300 hurdles (42.32).
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Display of Power: 150-175 Mile Cycling Training Program/13 Weeks
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This is a Display of Power program designed for a cyclist training for a two day ride where they plan to ride 150-175 miles across two consecutive days. Designed specifically for the MS 150, Pan Mass Challenge, and New England Classic riders to effectively prepare for their 2 day cycling events.
The system comes with the Display of Power eBook and The Performance Console of calculators. The three components provides the cyclist/triathlete with the knowledge base of the primary influences to cycling for racing performance as well as he steps to implement intensity zone specific workouts for targeted and measurable performance gains. Cycling workouts are designed with the TrainingPeaks workout builder. This allows for dynamic training targets and unambiguous understanding and error free execution.
Average Weekly Breakdown
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Sample Day 1
***Field Test***
Determine your Functional Threshold Power (FTP).
1) Warm up with an easy spin for 15 minutes.
2) Set your watch/head unit to display current and normalized power then begin the 20 minute test. (start your watch/head unit)
3) For 20 minutes, the objective is to rmaximize wattage. (highest gear and high cadence you can sustain on average). Even paced effort, or build into it gradually and don't try to get it all in a short time otherwise you'll burn out quickly.
4) At 20 minutes stop your watch/head unit and save the data. then cool down for 15 minutes at a recovery pace. The average watts minus 5% is your FTP.
Document the average watts and the average heart rate. Plug those figures into your Performance Console to derive your HR and Power zones. We recommend the 5 zone schema.
Important***Also plug those results into your TrainingPeaks Account Settings in the "zones" section. This will ensure your workouts will build with correct paces for the prescribed intensities.
If you don't have a HR monitor or Power meter use perceived effort as your intensity indicator.
Sample Day 2
**Base Focus: 3-5 Circuits, 10-12 reps, Medium-Heavy Weight
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Dumbbell Incline Chest Press
Pull-up or Pulldown
Incline Crunch or Little Big
Sample Day 3
4 Quarters Workout.
4x8 Minutes
#1 Easy/Low RPE Effort w/ High cadence
#2 FTP Level Effort/Big Gears @ sustainable RPM
#3 Easy/Low RPE Effort w/ High cadence
#4 FTP Level Effort/Big Gears @ sustainable RPM
Sample Day 4
Warm up for 20 minutes at an aerobic effort
3 x 20 seconds all-out power production, 4:40 easy low RPE/Power in between
3 x 10 seconds all-out power production, 4:50 easy low RPE/Power in between
Cool down with easy spinning
All out power production = 180% - 200% of FTP or close to highest RPE
Sample Day 5
**Base Focus: 3-5 Circuits, 10-12 reps, Medium-Heavy Weight
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Alternating Dumbbell Chest Press (preferably on stability ball)
Single Leg Romanian Deadlift
Single Leg Layout One Arm Dumbbell Row (stick one leg out behind you as you
perform a dumbbell row)
Single Leg Squat (use bench or ball behind you as a support)
Alternating Dumbbell Curl to Overhead Press
Woodchopper or Around the World
Sample Day 6
Outside or indoors. Steady Aerobic effort by RPE or Power. Target avg. cadence >85.
Sample Day 8
Mild, Moderate, Mad. 30 minutes easy effort, 30 minutes moderate effort and 30 minutes hard effort. All by perceived effort.


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This page provides information about the latest news in Asuncion, road conditions, weather, fishing reports, events and interesting anecdotes on the area.
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NEW SEAWALL FOR BAHIA ASUNCION Everyone is happy about the new seawall that will hopefull protect our beautiful beachfront areas of the village. These palms were planted and the new steps are fantastic... it is a great improvement to the village!
REPSOL GAS STATION replaces the Pemex!
But the gas comes from the same source and prices are the same..only difference is the nicer uniforms and the convenience store closed.
There is a beautiful palapa that serves fresh seafood like ceviche,seafood cocktails, shrimp, scallops, oysters, clams, octopus etc. The ocean view is fantastic watching the kids boogie board and swim and they serve beer too!
It is operated by Blady, Juanita & Lenin's son..who have Juanitas cafe. It is open Sat-Sun till 5 right on the town beach by where the second hand stands are.
great beachfront dining!!
After years of waiting, the village is happy to announce the opening of the new Pemex gas station...and it even has deisel! Finally reasonably priced fuel and regular business hours from 6:00 am - 10:00 pm. The store will be open in a couple of months too.
Living in a rural village in central Baja is like stepping back in time when life was simpler and everyone knew everyone and cared for each other. This is one of the many things I love about our village. We all help each other out and the expats that live here try hard to assist the villagers wherever they are able.
One of the challenges in small towns is keeping public works programs operating on a very low budget as very often they are not paid or grossly underpaid. Such is it with our local policia. Our police chief and most of the officers are from here so they know everybody. My husband fixes their radios and one day in March the Comandante was visiting us while a lawyer friend of mine and her partner who is a judge from my home town were also visiting.
The friendly talk led to a discussion of how the force operates here and how under budgeted they are. He sadly showed her how threadbare his uniform was and asked if there was some way to get a uniform sent down from Canada as they are prohibitively expensive or unavailable here.
So my friend Geri Sanson contacted the police chief in Chatham and asked about the possibility of getting some uniforms donated. The Chatham Police department took the task to heart and came up with not one but 20 uniforms that consisted of both blue & white shirts, pants, beautiful jackets and vests!
The next challenge was how to get them across 2 borders and into the hands of our officers. This time of year is when many Canadian snow birds head south so a wonderful couple Tim & Barb from Vernon B.C agreed to pack the 2 big boxes down with them and deliver them personally to Asuncion!
Needless to say, the Chief and other officers were thrilled with the uniforms and plan to use them for special events. We hope this becomes an annual donation that will keep our police looking dapper!
September is storm month in baja but Tropical Storm IVO hit us in late August with gale force winds & heavy rains that washed out roads and flooded houses. When storms hit the peninsula, Bahia Asuncion usually receives very little rain so even though people's roofs leaked we were thankful for the quantity of rain which will soon produce fields of wild flowers and the popular pitahaya cactus fruit.
Another positive aspect of storms is that they push lovely warm water up our way bringing more fish to the area. The fishing is always better after a storm as the fish are hungry so anglers have been getting easy limits of abundant yellowtail, bonita, barracuda & calicos.Not to mention how beautiful the rainbows are!!!
Here is a little slide show of the effects of IVO in Bahia Asuncion.
Summer is fiesta time in baja sur with the kids out of school and home from college. Each village has a few days set aside to celebrate…usually on the Saint's birthday the town was named after. Here in Bahia Asuncion, our Traditional Fiestas are held around the 15th of August, the feast day of the Assumption of Mary, that celebrates the day that God assumed the Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life into Heaven. This year's fiesta will be held starting Aug.15-18th.
The first day of the fiestas, the statue of Mary is removed from her pedestal in the Catholic Church and paraded through the village as well as taken in a panga around Asuncion Island. The parade leads about 100 horses in a Cabalgata which is like a car rally but with horses where the cowboys and girls don their fancy western attire. Horses come from far and wide to participate and there are usually over a hundred riders. The procession ends at the church where the participants are blessed and a feast follows. In the evening, the queen of the fiestas is crowned at the opening ceremony, fokloric dancers and other performers take the stage and a dance follows with a live band.
The Fiesta last for 4 days chocked full of events for the whole family. There are beach sporting events, a fishing tournament on Sunday Aug.18 for yellowtail open to the public. The entrance fee i 500 pesos for panga fishing for yellowtail and shore fishing fees are 50 peos for kids, 80 pesos for teens and 100 pesos for adults. You must be present at the meeting at 500 on Saturday Aug.17 and have a fishing license. Cash prizes are awarded in several catagories, adults, kids in panga and shore fishing. First prize for yellowtail is 50% of the inscriptions, 2nd prize is 30% and 3rd prize is 20%. The fish is cooked up afterwards at a big community BBQ with live music too.
There are horse races on Aug. 17 & 18th, rodeos, car & motorcycle races on Aug.18th as well as a midway with rides for the kids and food booths every night. There is music everywhere with roving bands at the events as well as big dances every night with 2 live bands.
It is a very lively festival and the village is full of visiting families from the surrounding ranches and villages. So if you are in central baja around mid August, come and enjoy the festivities.
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[drop_cap type="1/2/3″]Y[/drop_cap]ou've just waded through hordes of monsters, laying waste to them with raw skill and power, your eyes ablaze and a thirst for vengeance in your heart. Your axe is scarred, your shield battered and your armour dented; your chest is heaving with the exertion and just when you thought that things couldn't get any worse, the ground beneath your feet rumbles, loose rocks tumble down the cliff face, squishing the unprepared. A massive hand appears at the mouth of the crater, still wreathed in smoke and dripping magma from the depths of the demon's home world.
The hand is attached to the most horrific being that you have ever seen, it is Lyrroth himself that stands before you! But you do not fear, you do not tremble, this is the fight that you've been preparing for half your life. Now is not the time to back off, now is the only chance you'll ever get at vengeance. You recall the words of the Necromencion and call upon the Old Gods, focussing the most devastating power in the known universe on this one spot. A beam of pure energy emerges from the heavens, piercing Lyrroth's mortal form. An Earth-shattering roar, Lyrroth's last, desperate challenge to the universe, flattens the countryside for hundreds of miles around, his death throes flinging lava a hundred feet into the sky. Lyrroth falls, his hand at your feet.
You exult in your victory, you are the champion of your people, and the tales of your victory will spread far and wide. But was it worth it? You look around at the carnage that you have caused, at the millions of denizens that you have slain and doubt assails you. Did they deserve it?
You laid waste to kingdoms, destroyed worlds, slain millions in your lust for vengeance. Hadn't you become the very evil that you sought to destroy? Your shoulders slump as you contemplate the true horror of your actions. This wasn't the victory that you envisioned. You are not a hero. You are an ender of worlds, a monster that wiped out an entire alien race from this universe. Your shoulders slump forward. Are you the face of evil?
Defining evil
Google defines evil as the "profoundly immoral and wicked." But what really is morality and who really is wicked? It's a challenging enough question in itself and one that many a great philosopher has spent an entire lifetime trying to answer. Some claim to have found the answer, it being a simple matter of right and wrong, others beg to differ.
Game developers have also dabbled in this philosophical conundrum and each has tried to define evil in its own way. But in the end, who really defines evil, the developers, or you?
This act of defining evil is at the heart of what's right and what's wrong. If evil was a tangible phenomenon, we wouldn't need to define it and differentiating good from evil would be as natural as differentiating between the hot and the cold. We would be gravitating to a world that was either purely evil or purely good, there wouldn't be a middle ground.
Immanuel Kant claimed that an action is moral only if one has no desire to perform it, but performs it out of a sense of duty and derives no benefit from it of any sort, neither material nor spiritual; a benefit destroys the moral value of an action. Also, quoting Ayn Rand here, "Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality."
By this definition, Hitler would not be considered evil if he truly believed Jews to be evil and wiped them out with complete prejudice, provided he wasn't told otherwise. In such a situation, you're not dealing with an evil man (as defined above), since he is driven by morality, but by a child who knows no better. As such, the Germans who knew better but still went along with the purges for the sake of their own enjoyment or material benefit might be considered more evil.
But here's the kicker, consider the case of Herman Goering, a staunch member of the Nazi party and Hitler's close aide and advisor for much of the war. Here was a man who was no fool, a man who understood Hitler and his ambitions and who also took advantage of Hitler's "childishness" to shore up on his wealth, power and prestige. Goering took what he wanted with full knowledge and understanding of what he was doing and the kind of person he was supporting, but he was only evil by our (or at least, the popular) definition of morals and morality, not his.
To put it another way, a child that burns down an anthill is not evil because it knows no better. A child that burns down an anthill because an ant bit it is also not evil because it doesn't recognize the value of the ant's life. As a parent, you might be considered evil for encouraging the child's behaviour (if you did encourage it), but what if you knew no better and only saw your child as a determined and purposeful creature that was responsible enough to take matters into its own hands?
So what really is evil?
What we seem to be saying is just this, if evil is defined as being immoral and wicked, and wicked is defined as being evil or morally wrong, then to be immoral is to be evil. The caveat here is that if you follow a moral code of your own, even if it causes harm to others and is generally considered evil, you're still driven by morality and are thus, not evil. If someone else's moral code is interfering with your ability to adhere to your own moral code, then that person might be evil in your eyes.
As gamers, we've long been conditioned to shoot anything that moves (in the bulk of games) with no real moral justification one way or the other. In Doom, you're killing hellspawn. Why? Because, well, reasons. Are the hellspawn evil? No. They're staunch believers in the devil's wishes and they feel that it's their moral obligation to satisfy the devil's morality. Is the devil evil? Not really, he's working to fulfil his own moral obligations, but he is evil because he's interfering with your moral code of existence. When you're fighting Diablo, pretending you're fighting to save mankind is evil, but knowing that you're fighting to gather better loot, to ensure your own survival, that's not evil.
By the same token, games that prevent you from fulfilling your moral duty are evil. What if you really liked Bowser and thought that Princess Peach was a nagging old hag? Are you evil for playing the game anyway when you did not feel morally inclined to do so? Are Nintendo evil for not giving you that choice? Such moral conundrums are sure to make your head spin.
If you really think about it, how good or evil are you, truly?


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Getting over an ex-boyfriend can sometimes seem like an impossible task, especially if that ex-boyfriend was particularly nasty. If you're working to move on after a breakup from a jerk, there are several techniques you can employ to make the process faster and as pain-free as possible. Keeping perspective and remembering that this person wasn't right for you will help you think about the future and finding someone who treats you right.
Step 1
Cut off all contact with your ex. Don't call him, text him or email him. Don't check his social media page or ask mutual friends about him. Ending communication will help you stop thinking of things to say to him.
Step 2
Spend some time wallowing. Have your girlfriends over, eat ice cream, watch sappy movies. Feeling a little sorry for yourself is part of the healing process, so long as you don't stay in that mindset forever.
Step 3
Focus on what went wrong in your relationship. Remember the times he hurt you or took you for granted. Feeling sad about a guy may make you remember him better than he was, so remembering the negative can help you keep perspective.
Step 4
Focus on the positive aspects of the breakup, such as how you kept a straight face through the ordeal, how you've been spending more time with your best friend or sister -- a relationship that might have been neglected while you were still dating. Focusing on these positive things surrounding the breakup can help you to cope with the breakup and feel more confidence, happiness and other positive emotions, according to the American Psychological Association.
Step 5
Get your mind off the breakup, however you can. Get a new hobby, join a gym or a new club, anything to get you focused on something besides your ex.
Step 6
Get rid of everything in your home that reminds you of your ex. His clothes, photos of him, gifts he may have given you, anything that makes you think of him when you look at it, throw it away or donate it.
Step 7
Date other people when you are ready. Dating others will help you start thinking about the future, and realize that future doesn't include your ex.
Step 8
Consult a therapist if the problem persists. Talking to a counselor or licensed professional may give you the tools you need to fully move on.


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2. Clos des Papes Red Rhone Blend Châteauneuf-du-Pape (2010)
Review from original list creator: "This is very aromatic with a little hint of lift coming from some VA. A bit of an old school nose here with violets, olives, and a bit of teriyaki all layered over dark strawberry fruit. Smooth and polished in the mouth, showing a level of refinement that is surprising. This delivers masses of seamless slightly dark and liquory fruit supported by fine-grained tannins that extend across the long, slightly sweet finish. Very youthful. 93pts" by


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Passing the PADI course Discover Scuba Diver gives you the opportunity to make your first safe dive. Due to the fact that the instructor will carry out preliminary training with you, under water you will feel confident and unrestricted. Without prior training, you will not be able to make your first dive in the Dominican Republic. Training on the course "PADI Discover Scuba Diver" lasts half a day. You will watch a movie, discuss diving theory, and participate in a training session in the pool. After that, you make one dive in the Atlantic Ocean. After the dive, you will get a diploma that gives you the opportunity to continue your education at the next stage of the PADI Open Water Diver in a shortened course.
The cost of training is $110 per person.
Important: You will do the training and your first dive in one day. The minimum age of the program participant is 10 years. The cost of the program already includes one dive in the Atlantic Ocean.
Duration of program: Half day
What's included: Transfer from the hotel and back, training, diving equipment, one dive in the Atlantic Ocean.
What to bring: Swimsuit, sunscreen, towel, water.
Tour limitations: Medical conditions.


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When adorable baby animals stare at you lovingly from inside their cages in the pet store, it's hard to resist making a purchase. But what do you really know about that meowing, barking or squeaking ball of fur on the other side of the glass and how they came to be there? For starters, if they are for sale at the pet store, they are being exploited for profit. The dogs probably came from a puppy mill and were kept in horrendous conditions, and the cats could have been from an unlicensed breeder, where they are forced to mate and travel hundreds of miles in a crate without proper food and water. But what about small animals like hamsters? You don't often hear about the horrible conditions they are born into, but they don't fare any better than cats and dogs that are being sold in stores. The sad truth is that rabbits, guinea pigs, reptiles, birds, mice, gerbils and hamsters are all exploited by pet stores and breeders.
Times are slowly changing, and more people are becoming informed about the horrors animals go through before they end up with a large price tag around their neck. Some cities in North America like Toronto and Hollywood have a legal ban on the sale of cats and dogs in pet stores, and actually encourage adopting cats and dogs from shelters, or host adoption days for animals in need. Unfortunately, small animals are often overlooked and neglected.
More: Consider these facts before bringing home a hamster
Four years ago, my son Noah and I had two rescue cats, but he really wanted a hamster. As a mom, I want to teach Noah about kindness and compassion for all living creatures, not just certain ones. Hamsters, mice and gerbils might be small, but they have unique personalities and don't deserve the bad things that pet stores and breeders do to them. Many of these small animals arrive at the pet store dead, overstuffed in boxes and dirty crates. Some small animals die from starvation, dehydration, shipping injuries, sickness or from being shoved around like products. But it doesn't have to be this way. All you need to do is stop buying animals at pet stores.
A good place to start looking for a rescue hamster is Petfinder. This website allows you to enter your location, and links to local shelters in your area.
More: Rescue dog's dramatic transformation is heartwarming
When we adopted Fluffy, a male Syrian hamster, we loved him instantly. I taught Noah what Fluffy needed: a big enough habitat, healthy fresh food, exercise and playtime outside the cage. Fluffy was super friendly and enjoyed having dinner with us — he even loved tofu. Hamsters are nocturnal and they sleep during the day, so if your child wants a pet to play with during daytime hours, perhaps a gerbil, mouse or rat is ideal. (Yes, rats are actually great pets and very clean.) Hamsters may nibble on occasion, so are probably better for a child that is a bit older.
We weren't looking for another hamster, but I saw a Facebook post in a rescue group I belong to that a tiny dwarf hamster born with three legs was going to be killed. So we adopted her too. She couldn't live with Fluffy, so had her own habitat. She was a bundle of love and energy. Having three legs only added to her need for speed. She ran, climbed and cuddled, and if she could have understood she was saved from death, I am sure she would be grateful. We named her Hope.
Fluffy and Hope lived long lives (for hamsters, that is), but our time with these little souls is always too short. Both of them passed away last year. Enough time passed, and Noah wanted to rescue another. We decided to adopt our next hamster through the Toronto Humane Society.
If you check out your local animal shelter, chances are they have small animals for adoption too. Noah searched their website for weeks until he found Rosalie, a 6-month-old furry black teddy bear hamster from Montreal. We had an in-person interview at the shelter, and Noah signed a contract agreeing to take care of Rosalie forever and provide everything she needs to have a good life.
More: The vile practice of selling kittens for bait needs to be exposed
Rosalie loves watching television with Noah, playing in boxes, chewing sticks and eating peanuts.
In the process of saving three lives, Noah has learned how to treat and care for animals with compassion and love.
Rosalie, Fluffy and Hope are three lucky hamsters. We all have the power to save a life and not contribute to an industry that abuses and exploits animals the next time we decide to add a furry member to the family. After all, the best way to teach children about pets is to rescue one.


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Community Apiary Buzzing with Activity this Spring
Apr 27, 2017 | Laura Peddie, West Parry Sound Campus
West Parry Sound Campus Manager Dr. Peter Istvan represented the Parry Sound and Area Community Apiary at the Ontario Beekeeper's Association Spring meeting. He presented to over 175 attendees on the main purposes of the apiary, how it was established, and various stories from the first year in operation.
In the spring of 2016, the Parry Sound and Area Community Apiary was established at the West Parry Sound Canadore College Campus, made possible by funding from the TD Friends of the Environment and Crofter's Organic. With this funding honeybees, hives, and beekeeping accessories were purchased.
In the apiary's first year, hundreds of students from the Parry Sound area received education about honeybees, then a visit to the apiary, followed by honey tasting. Once completed they officially became Honeybee Ambassadors, receiving a certificate of completion. The apiary is looking forward to another busy year of tours and education; with three local classrooms already booked to visit in May and Introduction to Beekeeping running on May 27th.


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1. Azure Ray
Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink haven't made a record together since 2004 but after a one-off reunion performance in 2008 decided maybe it would be worth working together on new material. Azure Ray's new album, Drawing Down the Moon, will be released in September and I'm not sure you'll find more beautiful female vocals (x 2!) on any other CD this year. If September feels too far away, you can pick up a preview 3-song EP now to tide you over.
2. Blonde Redhead
I have to admit that I've never listened to Blonde Redhead before. Penny Sparkle, the band's eighth album, is due out in September and it sounds like I've got a discography to catch up on! Blonde Redhead's giving away a free track from the new album and it sounds gorgeous. Check the trio out on tour this September and October.
DOWNLOAD: Blonde Redhead – "Here Sometimes"
3. Filter
Rumor has it the new Filter CD, The Trouble with Angels, finds Richard Patrick revisiting the post-industrial sound of Filter's earliest material (think "Hey Man Nice Shot" more than "Take a Picture"). The album is available in stores today so make up your own mind. In the meantime, check out the title track.
4. The Wackers
Read about this '70s Canadian pop band on a few different blogs and thought the description, which read something like "the harmonies of The Beach Boys with the pop elements of The Beatles", made this something worth seeking out. Sadly, like so many bands of that time period, The Wackers never achieved much commercial success and are now just the type of band that bloggers occasionally mention in passing.
5. We Are Scientists
Made the choice to see Warrant this weekend instead of We Are Scientists and I'm sure that I made the right decision – the Warrant show was great. But, it was a tough decision considering how much I've been playing WAS's latest album, Barbara, on my iPod. There's a strong '80s new wave flavor to many of the songs and at times I'm reminded of Duran Duran, which is never a bad thing, right?


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For Wedding Photographers – Post Production 06
After a break we took from this column last week to review the Nikon D750 camera we now back with number 06 of creative post production for wedding photographers. Following the review last week it only makes sense that we look into the D750 files this time. It is in a way a bit unfair to the D750 if I can say this.
The wedding I shot with it was in a temple in Tamil Nadu to the light of the temple tubes. Those are known to be far from the best lights for taking pictures. The white balance is hard to nail down and the flickering tube lights can make any picture look bad. I rarely use extra lights on my shoots and the same was in this case. I relied on the tube lights as the only source and almost knew the camera files will not be looking great. From this point of view I was up for a surprise. The D750 gave a very good auto white balance and exposure to start working with.
Not every picture I review here is necessarily an award winning image. The idea is to show how the 'regular' images can become better with a little TLC (Tender love and care). I like this image because of the videographer pundit who was covering the entire wedding on his pablet. The times are changing!
Slider the bar right and left to see the before and after.
The image shot on Nikon D750 camera with an AFS 35mm/f1.4 lens. Shot at ISO 5,000 (!), 1/640 sec at f/2.2. The D750 can easily go up to ISO 12,800 and more and retain very minimal grain. This has always been something I wished to have in my next DSLR body.
The image corrections are here as well. Pushed up the contrast (seems I do this almost automatically in the last few months) and reduced the highlights considerably. I also reduced the vibrance of the image as I find that when I push the contrast up the image becomes too saturated. What I added here was selective intervention in the colour slides to selectively control the warm colours.
The brush touch ups are marked on the image here. Almost the same in every one of the spots but I decided to split the brush so I can control every area separately. Some areas needed double the brush strength so I repeated the same treatment in areas 1 and 2.
As usual, feel free to ask any question directly or indirectly related to post production and I'll do my best to answer.


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Heroes Hall, OC Fair & Event Center's veterans museum and education center, will debut a new exhibit during the 2018 OC Fair.
Bravemind is a virtual reality experience created by USC's Institute for Creative Technologies to enhance established therapeutic techniques to treat post-traumatic stress. The immersive tool is also used for resilience training for soldiers before they are deployed.
At Heroes Hall, the exhibit will include a VR segment for visitors to see firsthand how the technology works, as well as several videos and informational displays about the tool and those it has helped.
During the OC Fair, guests will be able to use specialty goggles to view a two-and-a-half-minute virtual reality segment on the first floor of Heroes Hall. Guests will enter the virtual world of war, and see the type of scenes typically used to help veterans. The content is recommended for viewers 13 years and older.
Guests can get a preview of the new exhibit from June 28 through July 1.
Experience this fascinating and eye-opening exhibition firsthand, and learn about how Bravemind has become a valuable resource for helping military and veterans.
Last chance: photography exhibit to close June 17
Heroes Hall's current first floor exhibit, Kimberly Millett's Operation Iraqi Freedom, is a photography exhibition featuring images captured by Newport Beach resident Kimberly Millett while on assignment with the U.S. Army. The exhibit debuted in October 2017 and will close on June 17.
Heroes Hall is open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. The museum will be closed June 18-27 and July 2-12.
Heroes Hall is an exhibition space honoring Orange County's veterans. It opened in February 2017 and features "The SAAAB Story," which celebrates the history of the flight training center, as well as The Medal of Honor Plaza and the Orange County Walk of Honor, tributes to veterans from Orange County who received high honors from the United States government.
For more information about Heroes Hall, visit ocfair.com/heroeshall
OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa is home to the annual OC Fair and Imaginology. Year-round attractions include Centennial Farm, Table of Dignity, Heroes Hall and Pacific Amphitheatre. Throughout the year, events ranging from recreation shows to cultural festivals are held at the Fairgrounds. For more information, visit ocfair.com


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The latest statistics illustrate that energy drink sales amounted to 2.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2016. Due to a high market growth potential, dollar sales have consistently increased since 2011. According to well-known industry sources, energy drinks reported a volume sales growth of 5.13 percent in 2016 compared to a year ago. The U.S. energy drink market is mainly dominated by key players such as Red Bull, Monster Beverage and Rockstar, based on 2016 sales. Red Bull generated U.S. sales worth of 3 billion U.S. dollars with its energy drink that "gives you wings" in that year. Monster Energy reported sales of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars.
According to a recent consumer survey, about 47 percent of respondents indicated to consume energy drinks several times per week. When buying energy drinks, supermarkets and general merchandisers as well as convenience stores and gas stations seemed to be the predominant distribution channels. The energy drink brand itself, the taste, and an affordable price were cited as important product attributes.


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You should be in the know already about this, no wonder. The Mozilla team has officially released again a new version for the fox to renew the previous release, Mozill Firefox 11. For this latest version mozila has added some new features to offer, they are like:
*You can now import data from Crome to mozila in case of bookmark, history, cookie dan password. If you previously used to surf the web with Crome and had some bookmarks left or those related to the "case", with this latest version you can import all the data to your new firefox so you won't lose them.
*With this latest version now you can also synchronize the add-ons that you may ever installed to any other computer, so you don't have to install and install again just anytime you change your computer.
*The Mozila Firefox team has added a new tool whose fuction is to check the element on a webpage namely "Tilt". To activate the function go to Menu >> Web Developer >> Inspect and then select 3D of the option available on the page. For those who know "WebGL" are assumed to be able to make use of 3D button to copy a 3D element on the net. The user can even set the appearance larger or narrower for the convenience.
*Changes of design on control of multimedia in Html5.
*Supports outerHTM property.
*View source synta highlighting now uses the HTML5 parser.
*Style Editor feature for editing Css files.
*View in 3D using Page Inspector 3D View.
*Supports SPDY (a web protocol by Google).
*Supports HTML parsing to answer Xml or Http Request.
*And more.
Download the browser officially here: http:// www.mozilla.org/ en-US/firefox /new
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We are off on an outing today. Today would have been the day I started breaking ground on our new garden but with the temperatures in the upper 50's today, we just can't resist so the garden will wait until the next warm day which the forecast says will be about next weekend 🙁 In the meantime, I am busy with paper and pen doing the important work of planning. Checking whenever we have sun, were it lands or does not land in the garden, where the water goes when it rains etc.
With all this talk of warming weather, I got to thinking that in the spring, all of Matthew's longies may not be so great for being out in the warm weather. I am making him my usual bucket seated shorties from my own crochet pattern but wanted to knit something up. It is so hard to be a mistress to crochet but ever since I learned to knit, my heart really is there more so than with crochet though I understand crochet so much more and can construct most anything with it.
These shorties are super simple (do I always say that about my projects?). Many years ago, I saw a pair like these somewhere and sketched the idea down in my crochet notebook. There was no pattern with it but looking at the sketch last week, it seemed so simple that I just cast it on.
I didn't of course write down the steps I took but I'm pretty sure I can figure it out from looking at the diaper soaker. I still have to add some ribbing around the leg openings to give it a bit more security but so far I really like it and it is a fast knit.
So what did you make this week? I can't wait to see it. Please post a link to the pin that inspired you in your post
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1. Pick a pin you have pinned from your Pinterest boards and do it.
2. Take a picture of your project or progress and blog about it or post a picture to flickr.
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The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to provide $3,470 to support the Southeastern Student Conference in Aesthetics at College of Charleston on March 18, 2017.
The conference will be conducted in workshop format. Graduate and undergraduate students will be invited to submit papers up to 3000 words, along with 400-word abstracts, in any aesthetics-related subject for anonymous review. The due date will be January 6, 2017. As soon as the complete RFP is ready, it will be posted here. Accepted papers and abstracts will be distributed electronically in advance for all participants to read. At the conference, there will be three 90-miinute panels with three students on each panel. Each will have at least one undergraduate presenter.
Sherri Irvin (University of Oklahoma) and Julian Dodd (University of Manchester) will have a plenary roundtable at the conference to present their own work while synthesizing the discussion from the previous sessions.
The primary constituency for the conference is students within easy traveling distance of Charleston. Departments in aesthetics-related departments will be encouraged to bring or send literature on their own aesthetics courses and graduate degrees, where appropriate, to be available at the meeting.
There will be no registration fee for the conference, but advance confirmation RSVPs will be requested by February 10 for distribution of papers and to assist in planning. Students presenting their work will be eligible for reimbursement of up to $325 for travel and lodging, especially if such funds are not available from their home institutions.
This is the first grant by the ASA in response to the Call for Proposals for student conferences in aesthetics. The complete CFP is here:
Proposals to hold student conferences in aesthetics elsewhere in North America are welcome at any time. Contact the email@example.com with inquiries.
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In the summer of 2001, we were walking on the beach when we met a man and a boy boogie-boarding in the waves. Charlie was four years old and absolutely fascinated by the ocean, which he clamored to be brought to in our arms or (preferably) on Jim's back. If not in the water, Charlie would stand on the wet sand enthralled by the waves going back and forth, back and forth; sometimes he'd run in and out of them and, too, from side to side.
Each time we were at the beach, Jim would drag out the boogie board and (sometimes with me holding it) get Charlie to lie on it. After a bit of wave action and, sometimes, or rather most of the time, Charlie flopping off the board (he'd just lie flat on it; we had to place his hands on the edges to hold on, and then his hands would slip off due to the board being, of course, wet), Jim would pitch the board to me and I'd haul it in, while he and Charlie ventured a little farther out into the waves.
The boy we saw boogie-boarding was wearing a rashguard and a big smile as (with his board properly fastened by its strap round his wrist) he rode a wave in; as he got up from the sand and, still smiling big, ran back to catch another wave.
It was early evening, the lifeguards long gone (they stay till 5pm) and the air cool. Jim and I asked how old the boy in the water was. "Six," replied his father. He was wearing a shiny black rashguard and must—as evidenced by his slicked-down hair and mustache—have just been swimming himself. He and Jim kept talking, and we learned that the man was a New York City firefighter.
"It all starts at five," he assured us. And smiled warmly towards Charlie.
We returned to watching his son—I think his name was Kevin—riding another wave in.
Sunday Jim and I stood on the sand and watched Charlie riding a couple of waves in.
We were at the same place on the Jersey shore where we'd met the fireman and his son, though not at the exact same part of the beach. It was late morning as Charlie, after a 6.30am walk, had put on his swimsuit, loaded his boogie board into the white car's trunk, and asked to go to the ocean.
Charlie refuses (quite logically) to wear anything but his swimsuit to swim and was only in the 50 degree water for several minutes. During that time, he jumped onto his board, swung with a wave for a moment, and started kicking. He went out and out and Jim called his name and I made the 'rein in it' gesture with my left hand; Charlie swum back around and got his first ride. He turned right back around towards the ocean (Jim could tell he was able to stand in the water) and got back on his board and a wave brought him in.
Repeat, repeat. Repeat.
Charlie got dunked under by the swirling waves on the last ride and ran out, asked Jim to unfasten the wrist strap, and ran back into the ocean. Aside from a girl around his age who scurried in and out at the very edge of the waves a-shiver, Charlie was the only swimmer.
Charlie was the sole swimmer, and he was swimming, and boogie-boarding, solo. Jim and I were two parents watching their son swimming in the ocean.
You can see for yourself.
And maybe someday we'll see the firefighter again, and his son in the waves.
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The passage of time always seems so strange, at the same time both so short and so long. We were up on the roof yesterday, Dimitri, preparing for the summer months, practicing his basket-ball skills, knocking the ball back to me one handed several times in a row. That was something that was out of the question a few years ago.
It would be nice if you got to meet the firefighter again.
Thats great that he was swimming all by himself, you had to be gleaming!
Have you ever heard of a organization called POAC.net? They host surfing events for autistic children, so does another organization called surfing healing. I'd recommend you look into both, sounds like your Charlie may enjoy it!
"You wait for moments like this even if they'll never come and then they do." This says it all for me, Kristina. Reading this and looking at the pictures…makes me hopeful that one day Nik & Charlie might be in that ocean together.
Very cool.
@Jersey Mother, we did Surfers Healing the year before last; thank you for the reminder to sign up again!
Your very welcome for the suggestion, we just found out about those events this year, and eager to try them all out! Are you attending the huge autism picnic with POAC.net?


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Pubs that try to please everybody can sometimes be found lacking, but credit to the Vauxhall Griffin - they pull it off pretty successfully. Tucked off a side street a few minutes walk from the unpleasantness of Vauxhall station, and once an underwhelming pub called 'Wyvil's', the new owners know what they're doing. Nicely decorated in a slightly shabby bohemian style, a central bar separates the comfortable main bar from the back area where you can find board games-a-plenty and a pool table. The latter space is also impressively filled with music related articles pasted over the walls, which also gives you a clue that the jukebox is above average (if slightly erring on the 'Guilty Pleasures' side of things). A lone pump of London Pride for the ale fans (along with bottles from the fridge), though you may want to give their self-proclaimed 'Best Bloody Mary in London' a try. Very reasonably priced grub and with a plethora of additional attractions too: a lively pub quiz on Tuesday nights, indie themed DJ nights on alternate Fridays, karaoke with a live band on a Saturday and Cinema nights upstairs on Sundays. Previous visits have found this place busy with a pre-clubbing crowd and it's worth noting the main bar area fills up pretty quickly. Nevertheless, at other less frenetic times the Griffin is arguably the best pub in Vauxhall.
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INTAREA Working Group Z.Liu Internet-Draft Intended status: Informational Y.Cao Expires: November 20, 2017 D.Liu Alibaba Group M.QI China Mobile Q.Sun China Telecom May 20, 2017 Problem Statement of Transport and Application Layer Protocols Providing Traffic Authentication Capability to Internet Middlebox draft-liu-intarea-ps-protocol-auth-00 Abstract Transport and application layer protocol provides end-to-end connectivity for clients and servers, but conveys limited or even no information to a middlebox, such as Policy and Charging Control (PCC) system, between the client and server. However, PCC needs to authenticate the client-server traffic so that it can perform the basic functionality, i.e., charging the client. Due to lack of traffic authentication capability in transport and application layer protocol, state-of-the-art PCC adopts Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to understand client-server communication and decide whether to charge a client. However, in this draft, we show that current transport layer protocol(TCP) and application layer(HTTP, TLS) protocol cannot meet the need of traffic authentication, i.e., the user can modify the packet and by pass the ISP PCC to have free ride. Due to the existence of the aforementioned free-riding attacks, we believe that Transport and application layer protocol needs to provide traffic authentication capability to a middlebox. In this draft, we describe free-riding attacks and present requirements for providing traffic authentication. Requirements Language The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. Liu et al. Expires November 20, 2017 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft draft-liu-intarea-ps-protocol-auth-00 May 2017 Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on November 20, 2017. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2014 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Liu et al. Expires November 20, 2017 [Page 2]
Internet-Draft draft-liu-intarea-ps-protocol-auth-00 May 2017 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ...................................................... 3 2. Test Scenario ....................................................... 3 3. Protocol Vulnerabilities .......................................... 4 3.1. HTTP ............................................................ 4 3.2. TLS ............................................................. 5 3.3. TCP Retransmission .............................................. 5 3.4. TCP TTL ......................................................... 5 3.5. DNS .............................................................. 5 4. Requirement for protocol in Policy and Charging Control ........... 6 4.1. Privacy Protection ............................................... 6 4.2. Integrity ....................................................... 6 4.3. Backward Compatibility ............................................ 6 5. Security Considerations ............................................ 6 6. IANA Considerations................................................. 6 7. References......................................................... 6 7.1. Normative References ............................................ 6 7.2. Informative References ............................................ 7 8. Acknowledgments ................................................... 7 1. Introduction Internet service providers (ISPs) often offer so-called zero-rating services, in addition to their normal charged ones, for contracted or affiliated content providers to either attract more users or shift the payment responsibility from users to corresponding CPs. To recognize whether a client-server communication is zero-rated, the policy and charging control (PCC) system of ISP uses use traffic inspection techniques, such as Deep Packet Inspection, to parse packets and match them against filter rules bound to specific policy and charging control rules (PCC rules). We discover that current transport layer and application layer protocols (e.g., TCP, TLS, HTTP, HTTP over TLS) cannot offer adequate support via DPI for the PCC system to securely support these services. Moreover, the use of DPI in combination with PCC exposes the mobile ISP to malicious attacker. 2. Test Scenario We describe the attack model and test environment in this section. We create several attacks intended to mislead the ISP PCC system. Liu et al. Expires November 20, 2017 [Page 3]
Internet-Draft draft-liu-intarea-ps-protocol-auth-00 May 2017 The test beds consist of two man-in-the-middle proxies where a local proxy at client-side is deployed between the application and the ISP to modify the client traffic and an external proxy is deployed in between the ISP and the content provider to forward the traffic to the real content provider and compromise the packet integrity from the real content provider. Consider a normal connection: a client application, e.g., a browser or a mobile APP, connects to a content provider via an ISP. The two man-in-the-middle proxies interact with the connection and modify the packets using different protocol stacks. The basic test bed is shown in figure 1. We deployed the Internal Proxy in a local computer and tethered to a mobile device and External Proxy in cloud data center. +------+ +--------+ +-----+ +--------+ +--------+ | | | | | | | | | | |client+--->Internal|===> ISP |===>External+--->Content | | | | Proxy | | | | Proxy | |Provider| | | | | | | |Optional| | | +------+ +--------+ +-----+ +--------+ +--------+ figure 1 3. Protocol Vulnerabilities In this section, we describe how to launch the attacks against real- world ISPs to mislead the Policy and Charging Control System. 3.1. HTTP HTTP protocol is plain text which can be easily inspected by ISP DPI. We use the test bed in section 2. The Client establishes an HTTP with a Content Provider A via ISP. Note, this Content Provider A is not a zero-rating program participant and the traffic go through this connection should be volumetrically charged to the user. When client initializes an HTTP request, the internal proxy changes the HTTP 'hostname' field to the zero-rating URL of Content Provider B. The Liu et al. Expires November 20, 2017 [Page 4]
Internet-Draft draft-liu-intarea-ps-protocol-auth-00 May 2017 ISP inspects this URL of Content Provider B thus triggering the zero- rating policy. Although the packet to Content Provider A is carrier 'hostname' B, it can still be routed to the A's server based on IP address. Note: but this could be easily fixed by having an additional check on DNS to make sure the hostname field matches the dstIP. The internal proxy and external proxy can connect with each other by means of a tunnel to create a more complex model. 3.2. TLS Because TLS Traffic is end-to-end encrypted, ISP cannot inspect content by DPI. However, the TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) field in TLS Client Hello Extension is in plain text and contains identification of the content provider (Short URL). The ISP can inspect the SNI to identify the packet. We discover that SNI field is changeable from the client side. We create a test based on the test bed in section 2. When the client sends out a non-zero-rating TLS Hello packet to Content Provider A, The internal proxy modifies the SNI field with the Content Provider B which belongs to a zero-rating program. The Result shows that ISP also zero- rates the traffic to Content Provider A. 3.3. TCP Retransmission Some ISPs do not charge a user's TCP Retransmission packet. The attack can use the internal proxy to capture the Zero-rating TCP Retransmission packet and reconstruct a new packet with non-zero-rating content and sent the packets to the external proxy for redirection. 3.4. TCP TTL The attacker can launch an overcharging attack by modifying the TCP TTL on of the packet from server send to the client to drop the packet after ISP charging without users' awareness. 3.5. DNS TBD Liu et al. Expires November 20, 2017 [Page 5]
Internet-Draft draft-liu-intarea-ps-protocol-auth-00 May 2017 4. Requirement for protocol in Policy and Charging Control In this section, we discuss the requirement for future protocol design in Policy and Charging Control. 4.1. Privacy Protection In encrypted traffic, the protocol must contain values for traffic identification but packets which are being inspected by the ISP DPI should not expose the user's content. 4.2. Integrity The protocol should preserve the packet integrity to prevent attacker modifying the packet content (header or payload). 4.3. Backward Compatibility The protocol should be backward compatible. First, it should be supported by current router and switch devices. Second, it should not require client and server application to upgrade to support. 5. Security Considerations TBD 6. IANA Considerations TBD 7. References 7.1. Normative References [1]Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [2]Crocker, D. and Overell, P.(Editors), "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, Internet Mail Consortium and Demon Internet Ltd., November 1997. Liu et al. Expires November 20, 2017 [Page 6]
Internet-Draft draft-liu-intarea-ps-protocol-auth-00 May 2017 [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC2234] Crocker, D. and Overell, P.(Editors), "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, Internet Mail Consortium and Demon Internet Ltd., November 1997. 7.2. Informative References [3] Arash Molavi Kakhki, Fangfan Li, David Cho nes, Ethan Katz- Bassett, and Alan Mislove. 2016. BingeOn Under the Microscope: Understanding T-Mobiles Zero-Rating Implementation. In Proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on QoE-based Analysis and Management of Data Communication Networks (Internet-QoE '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 43-48. https://doi.org/2940136. [4] Younghwan Go, Denis Foo Kune, Shinae Woo, KyoungSoo Park, and Yongdae Kim. 2013. Towards Accurate Accounting of Cellular Data for TCP Retransmission. In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10. 1145/2444776. [5] 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). (2015). TS 23.203, Policy and charging control architecture (Release 14). Available: http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/23203.htm 8. Acknowledgments TBD Liu et al. Expires November 20, 2017 [Page 7]
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Authors' Addresses
Zhiheng Liu
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Yinzhi Cao
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Dapeng Liu
Alibaba Group
Email: email@example.com
Minpeng Qi
China Mobile
Email: email@example.com
Qiong Sun
China Telecom
Email: email@example.com
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Age of Empires (Online)
Build an empire and conquer the world, or at least your tiny plot you like to call your world. This is Age of Empires and it is now online. It is not quite the massive multiplayer everyone hopes it would be, but it is online [sort of ]. You setup a capital city and build it up and challenge other players online to see who is the best at this sim game. Age of Empires is an old franchise in the RTS world. Newer games have tried to steal AoE's thunder, but they are still going strong. Real time strategy and age of empires go hand in hand. However, this is not the AoE you've come to know and love. This is Age of Empires meets … Bambi?
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I really wanted to like this game, but… in all fairness, something outside of the game makes the game unplayable. That something is Windows Live. Yes Microsoft has RUINED a perfectly good game. You know, it is rare for me to like something. It is rare for me to find something that isn't tarnished and or thrown together and hope people just waste their money on it. I feel it is my duty to tell you every dirty detail about something, in the hopes you'll do the right thing and save your money. Had you listend to me, by now, and not purchased any of the games I have reviewed, or movies too, you would have saved over $1,000.00. That's a pretty big hunk of pocket change eh? At $60.00 for a game and $10.00 for a movie, that's quite a bit of not being entertained rigth? No, how about having a series of nice evening with someone you love. That's priceless, in my book. Getting to know your kids. Now that's free.
ANYWAY, on to the review.
Any game that I have played that REQUIRED Windows Live, I have immediately uninstalled and thrown away. If not, I have disabled my internet and played the game single player without any Windows Live gamer point updates. Microsoft just has a horrible system. Mind you AoE is still testing, but I don't think Microsoft is going to suddenly NOT support the game and or let them distance themselves from them. The game is connected through Windows Live and the connection is constantly lost. In fact, calling my local cable provider I get a nice message saying, "XBOX Live is down nationwide and we have no idea when it will be back up, it is not an issue with our company." That message was on 3 days ago.
If you think I am being harsh, let's compare other games. Oh, I don't know, let's pick another ONLINE game, like World of Warcraft. I have never had issues with that game. They may break stuff when they patch the game, but it's fixed within hours. Since, I am a programmer myself, I cannot imagine how they break something and then fix it within hours. They must have about a thousand tiny mice going over the code to find the problems. Heck I made a website once and forgot a semicolon. I took all day finding that line of code.
Game Review:
Final Score: 0 [if the game can't be played, who cares how it looks or plays]
Look: 8/10
Gameplay: 6/10
Learning Curve: 9/10
Story: 5/10
Sound: 8/10
Other: Connection – 0
Look – the graphics are a cross between settlers and warcraft. They are very very VERY cute. With the probable 99.999% of the players being male, I can only guess the graphics were made to be cute to attract 6 year old girls to the game. That being said, world of warcraft, at full graphic settings blows this game away. It is beyond me why developers keep going backwards in graphics instead of forward. You can have the cartoony graphics, like world of warcraft, without it looking like something my dead kid brother could have drawn. The graphics look like dragon quest, the old arcade game. They are not terrible, they are just … not good. And, I don't understand the cuteness of it all. They have bright colors, like a kindergarten playroom. And the trees and people all sort of sway in the wind. And, the deer bounce around like it is a Disney movie. There is tremendous violence in the game, yet everything is very cute. This is not something kids should be playing, because of the violence, but then, why is it so cute? It makes no sense. The latest age of empires was looking quite realistic. Imagine my surprise at seeing AoE meets Bambi.
I gave it an 8/10 because, maybe I just don't get it, but if you like cute graphics, these are definitely cute. It's like someone forcing you to watch the moon. You might not be into the moon, but you can understand that they like the moon. If you're a grown man, over the age of 16, you probably will not like the graphics. If you're a 6 year old girl, you've looooooove the graphics.
|So Cute and Cuddley
Gameplay – nothing to right home about. Everything in the game is left click, right click. Everything has an internal timer, i.e. ships launching ballista go as fast as their internal clock says. The actual mechanics of the game are simple. Learning what things do and how they are applied is an entirely different ball of wax.
I gave it a 6/10 because they are not doing anything new. There is absolutely no pushing of the envelope by mouseclicking. I mean, it's on a computer.
Learning Curve – This is set high, is not a good thing. While the instructions seem simple in the game, the application of things doesn't start clicking until you're nearly finished with the game. I watched one guy play and when he saw someone else's city they had an epiphany that he was doing it all wrong. What's sad is, there is no way around the steep learning curve. Nothing hints at what is to be done. The mechanics are explained to you perfectly, just not the how to and why.
I gave this a 9/10 and this really should not be a part of the grading because it is apples and oranges.
Story – you acheive progress with your home city, which noone can attack, via doing quests, which really are a tutorial to the game. The quest givers are found in your own city. As you do the quests you gain experience, which helps you go up levels and go up in historical ages. There is really nothing more to the story than that. You may challenge another player, but everything takes place in instance runs. Your home city is basically only seen by you, or can be viewed by someone else, but that's about it. They cannot send troops there. There is no massive map of the world. And, should you want to challenge another player, you would simply type in their name and invite them, and the two of you are taken to an instance where you can build a little colony and challenge each other.
I gave this a 5/10 simply because while there is, technically, a story, it is nothing you would even care to mention.
Sound – The background music, the ambiance, the voice overs are all really nice in the game. They add to the immersion into the game. The citizens speak in Greek [I assume] and it adds a nice touch to it. The background music is not annoying, nor is it repetitive. It is constantly changing and it goes with whatever is on screen. Fights are accompanied by fight music, etc.
I gave this an 8/10 because the sounds really add another level of depth to the game. It is unfortunate that other aspects take away form the depth of it.
Other: Connection – As mention above
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Girl Talk
Kate McGarry, one of her generation's most individual and influential singers, has earned acclaim for blending her love of folk and pop music with jazz fluency and improvisation.
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On Girl Talk, McGarry pays homage to her role models among the great women of the jazz vocal tradition, from Betty Carter to Sheila Jordan to Carmen McRae. McGarry, although inspired by tradition, makes the album's songs feel utterly contemporary, not only through her distinctly 21st-century musical personality but through the personal emotions and sexual politics at play.
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I do not take "before" photos of the gingerbread houses, but I promise you these "afters" are extremely different.
Our bowls full of candy and treats!
My little niece at work on her house!
Alani, (and her new, extreme make-over haircut which we all LA-LA-Love) putting a ridge of gumballs on her rooftop. (And yes, that is my preggy sister in the background wielding a bag of royal icing)
I am in love with Alani's snowflake trees and trim on her house!
Blakey accidentally knocked over a bowl full of "Christmas Nerds"....which went "bouncing" all over the floor! We all started laughing because these houses turned out to be one of the biggest "messy" projects ever! Me and my sister spent the night vacuuming, sweeping, more vacuuming and sweeping. But it was worth it...how much "messy" fun the kids had!
Alani's backyard and her little candy and candy cane sleigh she made.
And the best one of all, due to sheer size......my 2 and half year old niece, Sydney's miniature gingerbread house...can you see it? ha ha ha ha! Her yard got the majority of decorations!
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ClockingIT – JRuby 1.1.5/1.1.6RC1 vs MRI Benchmark
December 4, 2008
As I've ported ClockingIT to use Sphinx/Ultrasphinx instead of ferret/acts_as_ferret, I figured I'd give jruby a shot to see how it compared to MRI when running ClockingIT. I've wanted to do this for a long time, but the reliance on ferret/acts_as_ferret for search has made it impossible to do until now, as native C extensions don't work with jruby.
The test machine is an Intel Core2 Quad @ 2.4Ghz with 8GB memory and SATA2 Raid5 disks running ArchLinux x86_64 and a 2.6.27 linux kernel. The benchmark consists of 23 different web pages from ClockingIT, requested 100 times each, using real data from my own hosted instance.
MRI 1.8.7 p72 / mysql / mongrel
Initial run: 6m46.396s
Second run: 6m43.450s
jruby 1.1.5 –server / jdbcmysql / mongrel
Initial run: 6m8.400s Second run: 5m20.322s
jruby 1.1.6RC1 –server / jdbcmysql / mongrel
Initial run: 5m50.992s
Second run: 4m59.823s
MRI 1.8.7 p72 / postgresql / mongrel
Initial run: 7m21.408s Second run: 7m17.608s
jruby 1.1.5 –server / jdbcpostgresql / mongrel
Initial run: 6m37.021s Second run: 5m55.811s
The PostgreSQL is mostly just there for comparison, and is not nearly as tweaked or optimized as the MySQL version, but it contains the same data.
WYSIWYG Wiki Editor
July 27, 2008
I've integrated TinyMCE when editing Wiki pages and Notes. This means that you don't have to muck about with Textile/Markdown to add formatting to your pages, as a lot of people have problems understanding how that works and getting the formatting right.
I've also added support for wrapping code and such in

 which turns off all WikiWords, autolinkification and task linking.
Rails Sessions and marshal data too short
July 12, 2008
I've been struggling a bit with a case of
marshal data too short
for one of my users. It happened out of the blue, and I was stumped as to how it could happen, as I only save a couple of ID's in the sessions and never any objects.
Turns out I forgot something which is pretty obvious, really.
flash['notice'] = "#{link_to_task_with_tooltip} successfully saved"
As the tooltip contains the full task description, what would happen if someone entered a massive description (~65kb) and saved the task?
It would case the session data to get truncated on save, and end up impossible to restore on the next request.
Also, the exception when this happens doesn't really include any useful information (like which session it was unable to restore) so I thought this was a way more common problem than it really was. Turns out this problem only affected two users, but they both kept trying and trying and it looked like I had this problem all over the place.
Fix coming up. 🙂
GANTT dependencies
June 29, 2008
I've had a go at making the ajax GANTT chart respect dependencies, which turned out to be quite tricky as this is happening on a webpage, and I can't really spend much processor-time laying it all out.
It seems to work just fine on my test-cases, but I'm sure I haven't thought of everything. 🙂
Work Log logging
June 24, 2008
I've added a small auto-saving text box to the right menu, which pops up whenever you're working on something. Whatever you enter in there will be logged to your current work log, so it's even easier to remember what you've done.
June 23, 2008
When I added translations to ClockingIT I went with a really simple system where all the strings to be translated are defined along with their translations in a file, with one file per language. This worked great for initially translating the whole thing to a new language, but it's broken down as I've added more and more languages, changed strings, and added new strings.
To get some new text translated these days, I've had to add the strings to 13 different files, and contact 13 different people to do update the translations, some of which don't have Git and need to have the complete file emailed back and forth.
No more! New strings are now automatically added to a table in the database, and I've added a simple form to update the translation of your language. I've also added a couple of rake tasks to dump/restore this information to/from the normal language files so you have a backup in case someone makes a mistake.
Ruby on Rails and Memory Usage / Leaks
June 18, 2008
I've been running ClockingIT for quite a while now, and at some point something was introduced which made the memory usage grow and grow over time. I installed God to monitor and restart my Mongrels whenever they grew too big, but I can't say I've been very comfortable with that solution.
Then, when I bought a new server to run on, I figured I'd get a bit more RAM and go 64bit to be able to use it. And found out that Ruby uses ~ 2x the memory, due to addresses in every object taking double the space.
I took some time to look for a better solution, and found something which works really great for me.
Enter Thin, Slim Attributes, Erubis and a Ruby GC patch:
Setup Time VIRT RES ----------------------------------------------- MRI/Mongrel 0m37.607s 181660 120720 MRI/Mongrel/Erubis 0m37.536s 181660 120920 MRI/Mongrel/Slim 0m36.399s 181672 119300 MRI/Mongrel/Erubis/Slim 0m36.020s 182696 120064 GC/Mongrel 0m37.416s 177560 119268 GC/Mongrel/Erubis 0m37.260s 172440 114484 GC/Mongrel/Slim 0m35.024s 164260 105656 GC/Mongrel/Erubis/Slim 0m35.049s 163236 104656 MRI/Thin 0m36.828s 172624 111512 MRI/Thin/Erubis 0m36.878s 175696 114724 MRI/Thin/Slim 0m35.457s 175708 113532 MRI/Thin/Erubis/Slim 0m35.087s 176732 114700 GC/Thin 0m36.208s 166476 108888 GC/Thin/Erubis 0m36.121s 166476 108724 GC/Thin/Slim 0m33.854s 155224 97060 GC/Thin/Erubis/Slim 0m33.832s 155224 97080
Keep in mind that this is on a 64bit platform, so a 32bit version would use ~ half the memory.
I'm getting a lot fewer restarts of my webservers with this setup, which can only be a good thing. It's also been rock solid after ironing out a couple of problems with Slim Attributes.


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