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|Help if you can. What would you say are the advantages of using a matterport camera versus the traditional way of doing it (trusty DSLR and stitch the photos into 360)because it is hard to work around the whole subscription issues, the non-availability of the interactive offline version for use on a non-iOs platform, add to that the conversion to VR gear content being ridiculously expensive.
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|The huge difference I noticed right away is the depth of field you get with matterport. The video game effect I call it so clients understand. Everything has dimension and is t flat..
I'm sure more in depth answers to come from other members.
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|I was wondering the same thing.
I have been a 360 Panoramic photographer for over 10 years and the Matterport peaked my attention. It sounds fast, easy, 3d, auto floor plan, etc. I see some advantages, but also the quality doesnt seem quite there compared to high quality traditional 360 tours and of course the hosting and processing costs seems out of line IMHO.
The other challenge Ive found is its difficult to find clients willing to pay much for 360 Virtual tours even when they are offered at bargain prices. Given the cost of the camera and the hosting it doesnt seem to pencil out for me.
Is there really some selling advantage with the Matterport over conventional 360 methods?
Here is an example of a tour I did to show the quality difference (maybe I'm bias?).
360 Virtual tour
Can we expect a higher quality output for the next gen of Matterport and maybe some more control of the process and hosting?
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|William I have to say that your 360 tour has stunning image quality and the transitions between pano's are very good. The 360 technology has come a long way. If someone was looking for straight forward less complex 360/VT solution it's hard not to consider what your showing us here.
Granted it's not as immersive as a MP VT and as VR becomes more in fashion the advantages of shooting a MP VT/VR will become more apparent as you move fluidly around a space. But for someone who is looking at dipping their toe into producing a 360/VT it would be very hard not to consider your solution.
The cost of entry is far less as well, all you need is a good quality DSLR, a pano head like one from 360Precision (my choice) ,8mm lens (Sigma), decent tripod (Giotto) and the software to stitch it together. As you said the other very big advantage is you host your own content which is a massive savings.
For those of us that need to provide the next level of Immersive VT experiences as well who are looking to the future to include producing VR content MP still rules but it comes at a price.
These are just my thoughts but for all those fence sitters it's certainly something to consider.
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|Hi, looks fantastic. 360 Photagraphy becomes better and better.I mean the software. The great photographer you are gets the most advantage out of the software. You realy know what you are doing. As for the investment in a MP cam. Its not all dat expencive considering what you get. Buying a good DSLR with a good lens will also set you back a couple of bucks. Getting into 360 video the new hipe cost a ton of money. Cameratechnic wise you can train a monkey to work with a MP cam. I use one myself so dond't start shouting. Its simple, no adjustments to make, can't change anything, wish we could, press a button and thats it. No more no less. I don't think of myself as a photographer using the MP Cam. Its a great tool. The worst thing with MP is that you don't own your creations or can't change them in any way. That has to change. Competition is getting closer and closer. I lose clients at governement level because we need to host all our footage at MP. And they can do with it what they want if the like. Thats a bad thing. Its a great business model for MP not so much for us. I think their is room for different ways to make impressive pictures with more then only a DSLR or MP.
In three years time we are all doing this with our phone and then someone else comes with a fantastic new way of making pictures. Can't wait.
Grtz Rene.
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|Your photo quality looks excellent. I'm thinking that the gear you are using costs a lot less than Matterport and probably does not require the huge fees and startup expenses.
Matterport management should take notice that the competition is catching up and perhaps they should re-evaluate their business model.
Thanks for sharing.
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|Thanks for the kind words on my virtual tour quality.
I know its early and maybe they will open up more control of the process, but I like being able to have control over the final product (double exposing and inserting properly exposed windows, as one example). I do agree that traditional production is more work and likely a larger learning curve. I think that its a good point that MP process is fairly easy to create the content with the MP system and I do like the doll house effect, a lot.
I just was reading an article on the Lytro camera and there seemed to be some potential parallels with their company and MP. I think the Lytro camera system failure may have been partly because of how proprietary their system was as well (they have since abandoned consumer cameras for VR 360 professional creation solutions). With their system you had to host your images on their site exclusively and I believe you had to upload to their system for processing (sound familiar?).
I think too tight of a grip really limits the product appeal (MP) and adoption for many. Perhaps that system would work (for me) if the cameras were heavily subsidized, but they are not. In fairness, I have seen a lot more real world use of the MP system then I did for the Lytro cameras, so it may not be a just comparison.
Anyway, thanks for the insights and conversations. I may just stick with my process until MP gets closer to what Im looking for or other competitors enter the space.
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|for me the time factor was a consideration. Taking photos with DSLR, stitch, work out your flow, and upload. Grant it the MP solution might take just as long to capture the images, but I feel the time to stitch and create the flow is the winner. From being a Google Business View photographer, you do get your speed of capturing images really quick. But I found the delay time for Google to process the images the hardest part. sometimes taking 4 days. Then I had to create the flow path. In all via MP I might take say 2 hours to scan a 3 bedroom home, with two bathrooms. But I have found the processing time in the cloud to be 2 to 6 hours. This works for me due to time zones. Then I might spend another hour creating walk through and single snapshots. If I have to do a floor plan then I send that off as soon as the Cloud processing is complete. In all I have the final product back to the Agent and Vendor in 24 hours from Scan. I also have time to enjoy my family, and to sleep. If I was capturing a Golf Course or an Tourist park Then yes it would be DSLR as MP does not like the outside sun light. It is really looking at the task requirements and tools you have to complete the task.
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I can totally see that. I mainly produce the content for my listings and for a few brokers in the area that appreciate full 360 virtual tours. Bend is a smaller market and the demand and appreciation for high quality property experiences is pretty low. Realtors can frequently be really cheap. I'm a Realtor so I can say that, right? If I was doing them all of the time the MP offering would likley be something I could justify.
I'm a big VR (Virtual Reality) enthusiast and I can definitely see the market demanding these types of services in the near future for full VR immersion. I guess my hope is that there will be more players, with more options and more control of the process and end product by then. If not, I'll likely be picking up MP's solution.
Thanks for your insights.
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The guitar features on Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" are subtle but brilliant. About 1:40 into the track there is a riff that involves some very quick slides high on the neck with a clean amp setting.
The part is easy, but the very quick slides are a twist you don't hear often. Choose a clean amp setting. I like the AC-15 (vox) on the GNX3000 with generous compression, delay and reverb. At about 1:40 listen and you'll hear the guitar. To play it, start on the 1st and 3rd strings at the 9th fret. Then very quickly slide up to the 12th fret. Stay on the 12th fret and play the 3rd & 1st strings then add the 2nd string at the 15th fret with your little finger. Next, play 3rd & 1st strings at 12th fret again, then quickly slide up to the 14th fret. To finish it off, play 3rd & 1st strings on the 14th fret then very quickly slide down to the 9th fret. Then repeat the whole thing.

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Here's my second installment of the '31 Day Gratitude Experiment'
Day 6
I am grateful for:
- Being able to enjoy my own company.
- Having full vision to be able to appreciate amazing images and art.
- Being a geek and not a sheep (I'd hate to be a follower).
- The strength and will power that I possess.
- Having ambition and drive.
Day 7
I am grateful for:
- A nice cup of tea to wake me up in the morning
- Having passion for everything I do.
- My sense of humour.
- Having people who care about me.
- People that take an interest in what I do/say.
Day 8
I am grateful for:
- The opportunity to appreciate beautiful creatures.
- The sun's brief appearance today.
- The banter with work colleagues that gets me though the day.
- Being happily single.
- The opportunity to offer advice.
Day 9
I am grateful for:
- Being given one extra days holiday added onto what I normally have at work for this year 🙂
- Being able to hold a tune (I love to sing around the house).
- The time and inspiration to blog.
- The opportunity to read others blogs and get an insight into others lives.
- The respect and understanding of everyone's differences.
Day 10
I am grateful for:
- appreciating some peace and quiet during a busy day.
- Being able to look at things from a different perspective.
- everyone that stops to read my blog posts.
- That chocolate bar I'd forgotten I had.
- Being indoors in the warm on a cold day.
Day 11
I am grateful for:
- The kind invites I get from friends to join them at various social events.
- Having an influence on so many small lives.
- The bond I have with my customers.
- Appreciating the beautiful flowers that a lady sells outside my work place.
- The ability to read and write.
Day 12
I am grateful for:
- The response I got from a blogger who received my supportive message.
- the yummy Chinese takeaway I treat myself to on occasions.
- My sense of taste.
- My sense of smell to enable me to appreciate the scent of food and my Yankee Candle wax tarts.
- sitting in on a cold night watching t.v with the parents.
Day 13
I am grateful for:
- Realising what I should be grateful for.
- Those lazy relaxing Sundays.
- The moon and the stars and how pretty they are to look at
- The products I use that help keep me clean and well-groomed e.g. Shampoo, shower gel ect.
- having patience.


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Lakeside will square off against the East Coweta Indians, the #1 seed from Region 3-AAAAAA in a 3-game 1st-round series. Games 1 and 2 will be played on Wednesday, October 14th beginning at 4:30 PM, with Game 3 to be played on Thursday, October 15th if needed. All three games will be played at East Coweta High School in Sharpsburg, GA - driving directions from Lakeside can be found HERE.
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There are schools offering advertising programs in Kansas!
Schools Offering Advertising Programs in Kansas
Nearby States
Each year, roughly 0.0% of Kansas students graduate with degrees in advertising. Thus, Kansas' 2 advertising schools put out approximately 0 advertisers each year.
Top Schools
Kansas Wesleyan University, which is located in Salina, is the top-ranked school in Kansas that has a advertising program. It received a ranking of 80th in the country in 2010. no students graduated with a degree in advertising from Kansas Wesleyan University in 2010. Kansas Wesleyan University charged in-state students $20,200 in tuition fees per year.
The Art Institutes International_Kansas City, which is located in Shawnee Mission, is the second-ranked school in Kansas that has a advertising program. It received a ranking of 89th in the country in 2010. 0 students graduated with degree in advertising from The Art Institutes International_Kansas City in 2010. The tuition rate at The Art Institutes International_Kansas City was $17,668 per year.
Tuition at Kansas' advertising schools ranges from $20,200 per year to $17,668 per year. But, the average tuition is $18,934 per year. The Kansas advertising schools with the highest tuition rates in 2010 were:
- Kansas Wesleyan University - located in Salina, students are charged $20,200 per year
- The Art Institutes International_Kansas City - located in Shawnee Mission, students are charged $17,668 per year
The following Kansas advertising schools had the lowest tuition rates:
- The Art Institutes International_Kansas City - located in Shawnee Mission, students are charged $17,668 per year
- Kansas Wesleyan University - located in Salina, students are charged $20,200 per year
An advertising degree from a Kansas school... what next?
The highest percentage of advertising graduates in Kansas pursue careers as an advertiser. If you decide to work as an advertiser in Kansas, you will be joining the ranks of approximately 1,390 Kansas advertisers as of 2010. In Kansas, the largest numbers of advertisers work in the following counties:
- Allen County - 270 advertisers
- Butler County - 240 advertisers
- Douglas County - 90 advertisers
Projected Growth
According the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the number of advertisers is expected to grow by 1% by 2018. There are projected to be 1,680 advertisers working in the Kansas then.
On average, an advertiser earns a salary of $43,870 per year in Kansas state. However, Kansas advertisers earned anywhere in the range from as less than $15,720 per year to more than $82,180 per year in 2010. On average an advertiser earns the most in the following Kansas counties:
- Jackson County - $46,260 per year
- Butler County - $43,820 per year
- Allen County - $38,970 per year
On average, advertisers earns the least in the following Kansas counties:
- Douglas County - $31,450 per year
- Geary County - $35,470 per year
- Allen County - $38,970 per year
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Yeah that's right, Eric Paré makes bullet-time, light painting portraits. Honestly I'm not sure if that what he calls them, but that's the only way I can accurately describe the magic he creates. For years now, Eric has been producing some of the most incredibly unique portraits using a bullet time rig and light sticks, building a technique that I, before him, 1) had never seen before and 2) have never seen anyone else successfully replicate. That is to say, Eric has this particular brand of magic cornered.
Last year at Adobe MAX, I ran into Eric for the first time in person (we had been online friends through mutual photo circles for years now) and was really excited to finally meet the man behind the incredible vision. He and his assistant Kim didn't just bring examples of their work to show off there though (which is what I was expecting). No, instead of just showing what they had done, Eric and Kim went all out and brought their entire bullet time rig to AdobeMAX, set it up and did a bullet-time portrait for anyone willing to wait in line.
And oh man, were there a lot of interested parties.
The thing is, though Eric had certainly made his unique portraits before, he had never done so many at one time, with so many different people. "I'm used to working fast, not seeing what I'm doing (I'm not behind the camera), but this time was special," he said. "Things HAD to work perfectly 100% of the time. Most of the time, we had a line ofof 40 persons waiting to get their light-painting picture. That means they could wait an hour just to get inside the black tent."
What black tent? This black tent.
"At the end of the day, we were rushing like crazy to clear the line up before the security would kick everyone out. We had two downtime of about 10 minutes during the 3 days. The rest of the time, we simply continued on and on with the attendees. It was extremely intense and fun to create so many pictures. The only thing that was a bit frustrating is that we could not take the time to talk with the participants and review the pictures with them. From what I understood, we were by far the most popular part of the floor at AdobeMAX. Of course I would not have been able to stay just by myself in the dark for complete days. Kim Henry, my travel partner is very good at doing the light painting."
So what goes on underneath that tent? Well, let's take a look. What you see below takes about five hours to get set up and ready for action, though Eric says they are now working on a smaller, more compact travel version that should be ready to go in less than an hour.
Specifically, the bullet-time array:
So how does it all come together? "I have a remote trigger in my left hand, and all the cameras are in bulb mode," Eric explained. "So when I press the button, all the shutters open and light get seen by the camera sensors until I release the button. That is from 1 to 3 seconds depending on the shape I'm doing. Once I release the trigger, the 32 files are transfered to the slave computers (6 total), then to the local server which generates a preview within a few seconds. That preview is available to any device connected on our network (it is web based). Then the files are uploaded to the website so the attendees can share their pictures."
Here's a fun tidbit: you can sometimes tell who is commanding the light stick, Eric or Kim. "Kim created half of the light-paintings! Can you spot the differences? As she is shorter, she can not do a full circle on the of the taller subjects, but she found a way to make a very cool shape. She moves around the subject doing a "S" form. It works really well. That is her thing now," Eric told us with a smile.
When all was said and done, Eric and Kim created an astounding 4000 sets of 32 pictures (that's 128,000 files generated) in the three day convention. That's a LOT of data.
If you can't get enough of Eric's art, there are multiple ways to get your daily fix of his awesome talent. Catch him on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
For more, head over to 360max.com.


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The Asian Football Confederation issued a USD13,750 fine for the match between Vietnam and Indonesia at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on March 24, with the remainder for the match against Thailand.
Vietnamese fans burn flares at the match between Vietnam and Indonesia
This is the fourth time the VFF has been fined. If the problem continues, the VFF would be more strictly punished.
The VFF was previously fined USD11,000 after a match at the 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers against Cambodia at the Phnom Penh Olympic Stadium.
In August 2018, the AFF had to pay a fine of USD12,500 as fans set off flares at the Asian Games (ASIAD) in Indonesia after a match with South Korea.
In 2016, VFF was also penalised USD38,000 after local football fans threw stones through the windows of a bus carrying the Indonesian football squad to their hotel in Hanoi.


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In Oregon's Coast Range, a writer explores identity
A collection of essays ranges through the histories, trees and wildlife of the state.
There's a moment midway through Nick Neely's nonfiction debut, Coast Range, in an essay called "The Garden of Earthly Delights." Neely apparently sets out to write about the fleshy madrones — the "refrigerator trees," he calls them — that he encounters on the way to Lower Table Rock in Medford, Oregon. But he's distracted by the mutilated bark of the madrones on the trail's periphery, carved with phalluses, hearts, initials and enigmatic phrases along the line of "Jesus Team A. A+C =<3." One might expect Neely, an environmental writer, to rebuke the carvers, accuse them of being inane graffiti-scrawling vandals. Instead, Neely realizes they're his kind of person. "What is an essay, a book, but an incision into a tree?" he writes, and he concludes the piece with photographs of the arborglyphs. In this moment, it's hard to discern word from page, page from tree, tree from word.
Named after the mountain range spanning the Pacific Northwest in California and Oregon, Neely's Coast Range is populated by chiton fossils, madrone trees, salmon, steelhead, chanterelle mushrooms, hummingbirds, coyotes and a cache of agates. The millions-year-old agates, culled from Neely's beachcombing, are "comforts, pacifiers. Curiosities." They sit on his desk as he writes, displaced from the eternity that created them. "Once an object joins a collection," Neely writes, "it tends to become more than itself." It becomes sacred, carrying layers of history and association. As other objects join it, almost of their own volition, the collection gradually grows to "fill some part of the psyche." Neely, obsessed about ID'ing certain agates of distinction, reaches into the cubbyholes of his lexicon, deeming them "Rorschachian" and "amygdaloidal." They have crescents, crystals and spots as they cobble the shore. Look at their striations, their chemical variations: One is a webbed lima bean, while another is a pool of translucent blue. Considering Neely's habit of handling the agates, it's not surprising that these wondrous pebbles are sometimes "ruddy and skin-like," as dermal as the palms that cradle them.
In this book, the difference between agate and skin, bark and flesh, nature and human is sometimes imperceptible. This is most obvious when Neely is on a quick march through the wood. During more extended wilderness sojourns, though, humankind and mountainkind are occasionally at odds. This is most true in the 44-page penultimate essay, "Homestead," in which Neely lives off-grid with his wife, painter Sarah Bird, in southern Oregon along the Rogue River, as a participant in the Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. They begin as interlopers, hanging one of those classic hummingbird feeders, "plastic ruby-red with yellow florets. Without a doubt … the most garish object for twenty miles." Nick and Sarah watch the birds "parry each other's jousts," but this is a minor project when compared to the daily work that will be required of them.
In a single paragraph, they sweep needles, prune grapevines, pull thistle, eradicate poison oak, and mow grass for a fire buffer. Weeding, clearing, shoring up? If these verbs aren't for you, then that particular residency is probably not for you either. Their human habitat is conspicuous amid the encroaching natural world, and over the course of weeks, it takes a toll on their physical and emotional endurance.
In this long-form essay, Neely strays from the personal to include Indigenous histories, trapper records and accounts from Oregon's first homesteaders. And despite its breadth, it's every bit as polished as the micro-essay on 500 million-year-old chiton that opens the book. By "Homestead's" end (the end of the residency, too), Neely is so thoroughly immersed in the landscape that one can barely see him, "(plunging) down the Rattlesnake, glissading through scales of scree and fragile earth; catching trees with (his) hands and swinging (himself) around to temper (his) fall, (his) momentum." Blink, and you might miss this momentous caroming. Blink, and the body is gone: pure landscape painting. As a testament of their tenure, Sarah leaves some paintings in the meadow and Nick leaves his words in the cabin, all a part of "the clay of vocabulary." Neely is as agile a witness as he is a custodian of the range.
As a writer, Neely often behaves like a shadow; in one essay, he stands by as hatchery technicians select diverse broodstock. Rather than watch "disposed" salmon simply recede out of the frame, his impulse is to follow them, which leads him to the kitchen at a nearby casino and a ceremony for the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians. The shadowing transcends the physical into the realm of the psychic. He may not "speak salmon," but his shadow gets so close to the carcass it nearly "(becomes) the flies" swarming above it.
Though Neely is a native of the California bounds of the Coast Range, it's clear he feels equally at home in Oregon; it's part of his "biological address" (to borrow a term from environmental writer Ellen Meloy). For the reader, the word "range" might equally apply to the scope of this book's roaming, the array of its narrative approaches, or the breadth of its collecting. Or maybe range is just the literal space between the first and last page of this book, inside which Neely makes his meticulous incisions. Like arborglyphs in a stand of madrones, it is "a coming-together, a declaration of identity."


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Jim Arnold is an experienced environmental and business counselor and litigation attorney. He is the principal in The Arnold Law Practice, founded in 1998. He is a recognized legal expert in redevelopment of contaminated properties. He represents and counsels private clients in matters involving USTs, former UST sites, oil companies, lenders, governmental agencies, and in administrative proceedings, lawsuits, arbitrations, mediations, etc. Most recently, he represented current property owners with a UST site where suspended corporations had left extensive contamination. After obtaining a default judgment against the corporations, he qualified the site for the California UST Fund. Jim was an active volunteer member of the UST Cleanup Fund Task Force. He is a founding director of CORE Environmental Foundation, Inc., and of CORE Environmental. Jim is a founding Director of the Environmental Law Sections of both the San Francisco and the Los Angeles Bar Associations, and is a leader in the American Bar Association. Jim joined CORE because he believes that with a little bit of help, our government could work a lot better than it does. And, he remembers the slogan of VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) in 1967: "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."
Mr. Arnold and the staff of The Arnold Law Practice also organized and presented "Brownfields Redevelopment for the Single Site," a program for the Bar Association of San Francisco on the legal issues and the practicalities – including use of the UST Fund – involved in returning properties to productive use, allocating liabilities, and recovering cleanup costs. In 2001, Mr. Arnold wrote "Applying to the California UST Cleanup Fund – Some Questions and Answers" which was published by Daily Journal, and the updated version is at: http://www.baln.org/admin.
In addition, Mr. Arnold regularly writes and speaks on "due diligence" in buying and selling property with suspected contamination, investigation and evaluation of properties in estates and trusts, and cleanup alternatives and remedies. He is the principal author of the California "mini-treatise" about redeveloping "brownfields" in California, published as Chapter 72, "Hazardous Waste Cleanup and Land Use," in the 5 volume treatise, California Environmental Law and Land Use Practice (Lexis 2007).
Recent publication: James R. Arnold and Jessica C. Grannis, "The New 'All Appropriate Inquiry' Rules May Mean More Consistency and Accuracy in Phase I Environmental Assessments," 2006 California Environmental Law Reporter 159 (LexisNexis/Matthew Bender, April 2006).


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Release Notes v-2.2.0 : Faster deadlock detection. Can replay pcaps in a loop. Can now pass nettrack values to a guile action. More documentation (in doc/). Support for multi-line HTTP headers. Guile files are pre-compiled before installation (see ./configure –help)
Junkie is a real-time packet sniffer and analyzer. It is modular enough to accomplish many different tasks. It can be a helpful companion to the modern network administrator and analyst. Compared to previously available tools, junkie lies in between tcpdump and wireshark. Unlike tcpdump, its purpose is to parse protocols of any depth; unlike wireshark, though, it is designed to analyze traffic in real-time and so cannot parse traffic as completely as wireshark does. In addition, its design encompasses extendability and speed. It has a plug-in system and high-level extension language that eases the development and combination of new functionalities; threaded packet capture and analysis for handling of high bandwidth networks; and a modular architecture to ease the addition of any protocol layer. It is based on libpcap for portability, and well-tested on professional settings.
Download : https://github.com/securactive/junkie/zipball/release/2.2.0
Read more right here : https://github.com/securactive/junkie
Our port Before : https://seclist.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/junkiethesniffer-v1-5-0-released/


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Matthew 5:1-12 (NRSV)
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying:
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
"Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
"Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 5:1-12
November 4-5, 2017
All-Saints' Day
"We Have This Hope"
November 1, which was this past Wednesday, is always All-Saints' Day in the life of the church. So today, we remember and celebrate the saints of this faith community and others we consider saints in our lives because of their lasting influence and impact on our lives.
Our scripture from the Gospel of Matthew is the beginning portion of what we call Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. The Gospel writer tells of Jesus going up a mountain away from the crowd where he began to teach his disciples. We know from other Bible stories that when someone goes up a mountain, this is a signal that this is a 'pay attention moment'…that something important is going to happen or be said.
Leading up to this story, Jesus has been traveling and curing disease and sickness among the people. His popularity is spreading and great crowds were following him. Now, on the mountain, Jesus begins his teaching with words of blessing that we know as the Beatitudes.
(Read Matthew 5:1-12)
Jesus begins his teaching ministry in the Gospel of Matthew by going up a mountain and offering blessings to the people. He talked directly to them, saying, "Blessed are you" as he spoke to the poor in spirit, the grieving, the meek, the peacemakers, the justice seekers, and the persecuted. Jesus gave these blessings extravagantly to anyone who would receive them. Then once received, they are ours to share, to pass on to the next generation, and to bless the world, as extravagantly as Jesus did.
On this Sunday in which we celebrate All-Saints' Day, it is a day we remember those who have gone before us in faith and we remember those who have passed the hope and blessing of faith on to us. All-Saints' Day is a day when we pause to give thanks for that great cloud of witnesses in our lives.
On All-Saints' Day we remember those who are or have been anchors of hope in our lives. We remember those saints who made an investment in this faith community because their hope was firmly and securely anchored to God. And we remember those who shine the light of hope for others to follow.
There is a story of a little boy who attended Church with his grandfather one Sunday. Grandpa's church had beautiful stained-glass windows that seemed to come alive on a sunny day or at night when the lights were on in the sanctuary. Grandpa told his grandson that the windows contained pictures of Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, Saint Luke, Saint John, Saint Paul, and a whole lot of other saints. When he got home, the boy told his parents about the windows. His dad was curious about what his son had learned and asked, 'What is a saint?' The boy thought for a moment and then replied, 'A saint is somebody the light shines through.'
I think that is a pretty good definition of a Saint…someone the light shines through. Who are your saints? Who are the people in your life who are beams of light that let the light of God shine through them as compassion and love and concern for God's people? We are all called to let the light of God shine through us and when we do, we bless others in such a way that life is turned a bit for them…maybe even turned upside down.
Perhaps Jesus should have had his disciples and the crowds that followed him lie down on their backs and look up or stand on their heads as he proclaimed these Beatitudes of blessing. What he was doing was turning the world as they knew it, upside down.
Jesus' Beatitudes in the Gospel of Matthew express reversals of the world's value system, then and now. These blessings let us know that unlike the culture around us which blesses the beautiful, the wealthy, and the powerful, God chooses to bless the humble, the forgotten, the broken, the lost, the despised, the justice seekers, the peace makers, and those persecuted because of their witness for God. These Beatitudes show us the attitude of Jesus and point us to the promises of God.
In these Beatitudes, Jesus is giving us glimpses of what God's kingdom looks like by blessing those whom the world does not typically bless. These Beatitudes are not so much something we are to do, but something we are to see…to see the world as God sees it.
I invite us to consider not what we ought to do with these Beatitudes, but what these Beatitudes do with us, the way they push us from where we are perched, viewing the world as the world loves to view itself, toward viewing the world as God sees us.
I was working with this scripture the other night in between my door bell ringing with trick-or-treaters. There was a time when I had a longer lull in the action, so I was slowly reading and re-reading these blessings from the Gospel of Matthew to absorb them and also to try and make a connection between the blessings and All-Saints' Day.
When I got to, "Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy," the doorbell rang again. I jumped up to hand out the candy and at my door were three tall, fairly burly young men carrying Halloween bags and pushing the wheelchairs of three young children in their Halloween costumes.
The next blessing immediately came to mind and I almost said out loud, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God."
I silently asked God's blessing upon not only those children that experience life from a wheelchair, but for the mercy-filled, peace-making saints that pushed them door to door in their Halloween costumes so they could experience the joy of the evening.
The hearts of God's people follow the hope of God…and Scripture tells us that "we have this hope," which is "a firm and secure anchor of the soul" (Hebrews 6:19).
Like so many that have come before us, God has blessed us and invested hope in each of us. So, yes, we have this hope…that is a firm and secure anchor of blessing as we remember the saints and as we share in ministry together.
May it be so for each of us.
Thanks be to God.


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State of the World's Mothers 2011
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According to the Foundation Center's Philanthropy News Digest, a new report outlines how global maternal health supports U.S. national security:
"The 2011 Mother's Index from Save the Children ranks the United States thirty-first among 164 countries in the well-being of mothers and children, as measured by health, education, and economic status. According to State of the World's Mothers 2011 (42 pages, PDF), Norway, Australia, and Iceland are the three "best places to be a mother," while eight of the ten "worst" countries to be a mother are in sub-Saharan Africa. Ranked at the very bottom is Afghanistan, where a woman typically has fewer than five years of education and the mortality rate for children under the age of five is 20 percent. The report features essays from former business and military leaders, politicians, academics, and religious leaders, including members of Save the Children's board, that highlight the effectiveness of low-cost, low-tech strategies designed to improve access to basic health care and which suggest that women's empowerment is not only a moral imperative, but in the economic, environmental, and national security interest of the United States. "
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Sean Neville doing a backflip on famous Cavendish Beach.
Going for an awesome ride with Dan Steele and his son Michael, we are headed for the Confederation Trail which goes from West tip of the island to the East. PEI really has its tourism and cycling figured out.
Scotty is a true Atlantic fisherman. LP would be proud of his beard!
French River P.E.I.
With Troy (Manager of Fishermans Wharf Lobster Suppers, North Rustico, PEI (http://www.fishermanswharf.ca/) who gave us an unreal dinner for very very cheap. P.E.I. hospitality they call it. If you like fresh, delicious lobster,60 foot salad bars, all the ice cream and desserts you like then this is the place in P.E.I. you need to go. We wheelbarrowed Russ out of there.
The Wharf just before speaking with our first Prime Minister Sir John A McDonald.
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Moving to Pakistan
Renowned for its love of cricket and breathtaking mountains, Pakistan is a historically rich country that has shown considerable economic progress since its independence. Officially known as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Pakistan translates to 'Land of the Pure' and is the sixth most populous country in the world. The country consists of an assortment of cultures and traditions, introduced through the numerous kingdoms, empires and dynasties that have ruled Pakistan throughout its history.
Pakistan is one of the largest producers of natural commodities, and its economy is semi-industrialised. Due to the political instability and other hindering factors the country has faced, the economy is still developing. Exporting forms a major part of the economy, and expats may be able to find work opportunities in sectors such as manufacturing, tourism, and technology.
Expats will be pleased to know that the cost of living in Pakistan is relatively low, especially when compared to major expat destinations. Accommodation is likely to be the biggest monthly expense, but even very affordable accommodation is available if expats know where to look.
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Public schooling is free and compulsory for all children. Despite this, the country battles with widespread illiteracy and gender disparity. While the standard of public education is often lacking, there are numerous international schools located in the capital, Islamabad, and other main cities popular with expats. Pakistan has both public and private healthcare facilities, but the standard of public healthcare is often low, and most expats opt for private care instead.
The country faces a number of challenges including political instability, corruption and illiteracy. The government has implemented numerous plans to combat the issues and the country's economy shows much promise. In addition, Pakistan has an increase in tourism in recent years, as more and more people see the potential this historically diverse country has to offer. Though not the easiest expat destination, those who move to Pakistan with an open mind are sure to have a vibrant and exciting experience.


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I am a B.Tech 3rd year student.I want to join Indian Army , Navy , Airforce. What should i do now?
I am a B.Tech 3rd year student.I want to join Indian Army , Navy , Airforce. What should i do now?
More Related Questions:
- What is the Eligibility Criteria for Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force? What is the Procedure for a B.tech Mechanical Student to join? What are the Career options available for Mechanical Engineers?
- Which are the Army, Navy, Air Force entrance tests a final year B.Tech student can attend?
- DRDO training for btech 2nd year student from cse stream
- Can I apply for Indian Navy or Air Force having 54% in B.Tech, 58% in 12th and 68% in 10th?
- Various options available for B.Tech ECE final year in Navy or Air Force?
- What can I do if I am not able to qualify the UES Interview?
- Procedure to join Army , Navy or Air force for Pre Final Year B.Tech Student?
- How can I become an Indian Army Officer being a B.Tech(CSE) final year student?
- Procedure to join Indian Navy being B.Tech (BTE) student?
- How to join Defence? What I have to do for the same? Maximum permissible age? Eligibility for Air Force?
Hello friend,
As your pursuing your Graduation 3rd year, you can apply for CDS exam for joining Indian Defense Services.
CDS is Combined Defense Services, conducted by Union Public Service Commission for the recruitment to the Indian Military Academy, Officers Training Academy,
Naval Academy & Air force Academy.
This exam is conducted twice a year i.e FEB & SEPT every year.
Eligibility criteria:-
Age Limit should be between 19-24 years.
For Military Academy- You should be a Graduate from any recognized University.
For Naval Academy- You should be a Science Graduate B.Sc with Physics & Mathematics or a B.E graduate can also apply.
For Air force Academy- Graduate from a recognized University with Physics & Maths at 10+2 level or should be an Engineering Graduate.
You should be a citizen of India.
Both Male/Female candidates can apply.
Should be Physically & mentally fit.
Only unmarried candidates can apply.
Application form process:-
You can fill the application form through online process by using the link http://www.upsconline.nic.in
Candidates are required to pay a fee of Rs.100/- either by remitting the money in any branch of SBI by cash or by using the Net Banking facility .
Exam paper pattern includes subjects like English, Elementary Mathematics & General Knowledge.
Duration 2 hours.
Good Luck..
In third year of Engineering , one can apply for the UES exam to join in Defence services . So, you can also apply for the exam
If you are applying for the exam in your Third year , then Your age should lies in between 18-24 years only for the exam .
If you are applying for the exam in your Final year , then your age should lies in between 19-25 years only .
You should be an Unmarried candidate
Both male and female candidates are eligible for the exam
Selection process is having different stages .
Firstly you will have Written exam .
Those who have cleared written exam , they will have SSB Interview . It includes Group discussion , Picture presentation , etc. .
After the SSB Interview , you will have Medical Test .
For those who have passed in all these stages , they will be given Officer level posts .
Remember that , if you get selected in either Thirdyear of Final year ,then you should complete your Backlogs if you have any before joininf the job .
You should also have 60% in your entire B.tech .
All the best
dear aspirant,
being a B.Tech graduate you have to appear for UPSC CDS exam
if you want to join Navy, Air Force.
CDS exam is conducted by UPSC two times in a year.
CDS Exam Is Conducted by UPSC for four wings:
Eligibility Criteria for CDS:
Educational qualification
INA and Air force: B.Sc or Engineering degree
OTA and IMA: graduation with any subjects
Age Limit:
INA: 19 years to 22 years
IAF: 19 years to 23 years
IMA: 19 years to 24 years
OTA: 19 years to 25 years
Good Luck.......
hello frnd
you can apply for CDS in your final year and prefinal year of your graduation...
2) You can apply for the CDS exam to join in Army
CDS - Combined defence service exam
You should have completed Graduation from a Recognised university to apply for the exam
Your age shouldbe in between 19-24 years for Army,navy,airforce .
You should be an Unmarried candidate
You shouldbe a citizen of India
and you can also apply for university entry sceme
and NCC spl entry ...
best of luck for future
jai hind !!!
You have two options-1) UES- university entry scheme.2) CDS- Combined defence services examination.As you are a pre final year student of engineering then you can apply for the UES , because it does not require any entrance exam and there will be a direct SSB for the prefinal year engineering student.You only need to give the SSB and after that the medical examination for the final selection.After the completion of the graduation you will be able to apply for the CDS examination.If you fail to qualify the SSB in UES then you can apply after the completion of graduation for the CDS exam. You can see the eligibility criteria for the same.CDS exam is a Combined defence services examination.the Examination conducted twice in a year by union public service commission of india to recruit the candidates in Indian army, indian air force and indian navy.Eligibility criteria is as follows.If you are a graduate in any discipline from a recognised university then you can apply for indian army.If you have completed graduation in physics maths and engineering then you can apply for indian air force and indian navy.Age limit. Officers training academy 19 to 25 years of age. indian millitary academy 19 to 24 years of age. air force academy 19 to 23 years of age. indian naval academy 19 to 22 years of age.selection procedure.-written test.-SSB interview.-medical examination.for more details log on to www.upsc.gov.in thank you.
You can Join in Indian Defence After Completion of The B.Tech Only
So if You want To Join in Indian Defence Than You Have Two Exams.Those are as Under
CDS------------Combined Defence Service
AFCAT----------Air Force Common Admission Test
About The CDS:CDS Means Combined Defence Service.This CDS Exam is Conducting by The Union Public Service Commission Two Times in a Every Year.For This CDS Exam All Males and Females are Eligible and Should be Indians Only and Should be Completed The Any Graduation from The Any Discipline University and age Details are As Under
For Indian Army:19-24 Years
For Indian Navy:19-22 Years
For Indian Air Force:19-23 Years
About The AFCAT:
AFCAT Means Air Force Common Admission Test
This Exam Includes Three Branches
Technical Branch
Ground Duty Branch
Flying Branch
For The All Three Branches All Males and Females are Eligible and Should be Completed The Any Graduation from The Any Discipline University with 60% Marks and Age Details are As Under
For The Technical Branch:18-28 Years
For The Flying Branch:19-23 Years
For The Ground Duty Branch:20-25 Years
These are The Details
Thank You
If you want to join th Indian military srvices then you can join through CDS exam in the final year or after completion of your graduation.
You can join Indian Army,Indian Air Force & Indian Navy after graduation through CDS exam.
>>you must have bchelor degree.
>>Degree must be from recognized university.
>>Age limit for Indian army is 19-24 years
--For Navy 19-22 years
--For Air Force 19-23 years
>>You must be Indian.
for more information about this you can visit here http://www.upsc.gov.in
Sure you can Join by the CDSE exam. The Graduates can apply for this exam. This exam is conducted two times in a year. After completing the Graduation you can apply for the exam.
CDSE Combined Defence Service Commission
This exam is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. This exam is conducted in order to select the candidates in the various fields of the Defence.
As you are doing the Graduation. After the completing your graduation you can join Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air force. So you have to full the remaining requirements the Exam
You have to complete Graduation from the recognized college. If you wan to apply for the Indian Air force or Indian Navy then you must hold Physics and Mathematics in the intermediate level.
Age Limit
>> Navy 19-22 years
>> Air force 19-23 years
>> IMA 19-24 years
>> OTA 19-25 years
The candidates should be Indian citizen and should not be unmarried candidates. The candidates should be physically fit and do not have any type of the diseases and defects in the body.
Selection Process
## Written Exam
## SSB Interview
## Medical Examination
Thank You
Hey friend,
Being a Final year candidate you can join in Indian Army which is one of the defence force of India by being a B.Tech final year candidate.
You need to write the entrance exam for joining in Indian Army and as per the qualification which you possess.
Being a final year candidate the entrance exam which you can write are:
> CDS Stands for Combined Defence Service
> UES stands for University Entry Scheme
You can write these exams as regarding the education qualification which you have but apart from that there are certain other criteria's which you need to possess and they are listed below for reference:
Eligibility For CDS:
This exam can be a candidate who is a citizen of India and must be a unmarried male candidate.
The age limit needed is that the candidate must have 19-24 years.
Education qualification for the exam is that the candidate must have completed a degree from a recognized university.
Even final year candidates are eligible for the exam
Eligibility for UES:
Candidate appearing for the exam must be a citizen of India
Only unmarried male candidate are eligible for the UES Exam.
The age limit for the exam is that the candidate must have 19-25 years of age.
The education qualification for the exam is that the candidate must have completed a degree from a recognized university.Even final year candidates can apply for the exam
If you are satisfying them all then you can apply for the exams.


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Friday, July 27
Oops! Armchair Golf Misquotes Henry David Thoreau
"Golf is the only investment that never fails."
(not said by) Henry David Thoreau
Historical note:
Henry David Thoreau was an American author, philosopher and naturalist.
This misquote brought to you by The Armchair Golfer.
Getting it wrong for the love of the game.
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When on his deathbed, Thoreau was asked if he's made his peace with God. He replied that I never knew He was mad at me. How can you not respect a man like that?
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AP's Friday Jobs Report Coverage Also Ignored Many Predictions of Downward Revisions to First-Quarter GDP
This morning (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that Friday afternoon's coverage of the government's jobs report at the Associated Press by economics writers Christopher Rugaber and Josh Boak carried predictions of "nearly 3 percent" economic growth this year. Those predictions ignore how difficult achieving that will be after the first quarter's miserable 0.1 percent annualized result and "most economists'" estimates that the second quarter will come in at 3.5 percent. Those two results require average annualized growth of 3.9 percent during the third and fourth quarters — something the economy hasn't seen in ten years. Additionally, it appears that if the Federal Reserve under Janet Yellen sees that kind of growth, it will put on the brakes by raising interest rates in the name of heading off inflation.
Since they were entertaining predictions about future developments, it's more than a little odd that the AP pair chose to ignore many analysts' predictions that the first quarter's GDP result will move into contraction when it gets revised in future months — especially since those downward revisions, supposedly reflecting deferred growth, partially justify their 3.5 percent second-quarter prediction. It sure looks like Rugaber and Boak were selective in deciding what they would report.


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Kevin Rooney, often a role player after his days at Canton High School, is proving to be a dependable NHLer with the Devils.
He has checked off box after box, year after year, to get where he is today.
There's only one thing missing. Spring has arrived, and Kevin Rooney won't be in the playoffs.
"Obviously, it's been an unfortunate year in a lot of ways," said Rooney, the Devils' first-year center from Canton. "But there's still an opportunity for me now."
Rooney played for a state high school champion (Canton, 2010), a NEPSAC champion (Berkshire School, 2012) and an NCAA champion (Providence College, 2015) as an amateur, but the story has been different at the pro level: Since he joined the Devils organization after co-captaining PC as a senior in 2015-16, Rooney has played in just a single four-game playoff series, with the AHL's Albany Devils two years ago.
That's not changing this spring: The Devils were one of the first teams mathematically eliminated from Stanley Cup playoff contention. Rooney can't do anything about that except try to put himself in the best possible position to help the Devils qualify next year.
"These last few games are huge … so that when I come into training camp next year, they'll know what they have in me," said Rooney, 25, when the Devils visited the Bruins at TD Garden on March 2.
"I'm actually kind of looking at these last games of the season as sort of an early training camp. I'm trying to make an impression now."
Rooney, who wasn't drafted, has spent the last few years doing that.
Although rarely among his teams' Top 6 forwards after leaving Canton, Rooney's work ethic, defensive skills and leadership qualities convinced the Devils to give him an AHL tryout after his senior season at PC. He earned a one-year deal for 2016-17, which was spent almost entirely at AHL Albany (13 goals, 21 points in 71 games), signed another one-year contract for 2017-18 (14 goals, 34 points in 71 AHL games), and by then the Devils had seen enough. He's completing the first year of a two-year contract this season; next year it becomes a one-way NHL deal.
"We signed him to a one-way contract for next year, anticipating that he would be a guy, through internal development, who could come in and play on our team," Devils coach John Hynes said. "He's proving us right."
Rooney played most of the first half of this season in the AHL, totaling 17 points (career-high 16 assists) in 38 games. As injuries mounted and the Devils began to fade from the playoff picture, Rooney was called up on Jan. 10, and is pretty much assured of finishing the season in the NHL.
"This is a great opportunity for Kevin," Hynes said. "He's been in the organization and had numerous call-ups, and right now he's really playing some of the best hockey we've seen -- and he's doing it at the NHL level, which is encouraging."
Rooney recently experienced a nine-game stretch over which he didn't score any points, and logged a negative plus-minus rating four times. His recovery was impressive -- four goals and six points over the next nine games, not a single minus in the bunch. Better yet, he had a strong four-game road trip, putting up a goal and an assist last Wednesday at Edmonton, and adding a goal two nights later at Vancouver.
"I've felt really comfortable at home," Rooney said. "Now I'm trying to take my game to the next level on the road -- be a tougher guy to play against when we're away, too."
Rooney, who has effectively taken over the Bottom 6/penalty-killing role previously held by Hingham's Brian Boyle (he was traded to the Predators the day after Rooney was recalled from the AHL), has contributed six goals and nine points over 34 games. He's almost level when it comes to plus-minus (minus-2) and faceoff percentage (49.0), and playing more and more. His ice time average for the season is 12 minutes, 28 seconds, but he has been at or above 13:27 in his last nine games (14:50 in Thursday's 5-1 loss to the Bruins, in which he went 6-5 on faceoffs and blocked two shots), and played a career-high 19:52 on Friday at Vancouver -- including two shifts in overtime.
"I'm starting to get a little more confidence," he said. "I'm getting more minutes, which has helped me feel more comfortable.
"Nothing's really changed, though. I'm just trying to build my game, be the type of player the Devils saw when I was coming out of college."