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Just another day fighting the tide.
Nov 1
This post is going to be a bit of a whine. We've been dealing with a lot of health issues this year and it seems that things get better and then they get not so very much better — meaning things slide downhill. I was just congratulating myself that I'd made it through Capclave okay with only a minor headache and a few muscle spasms. Then, I felt up for World Fantasy Convention (WFC) in Columbus, Ohio. Had a great time at both conventions.
Got a lot of exercise as well as fresh air walking about within a 1/2 to a mile of the hotel while in Columbus. However, had a couple of severe muscle spasm and a low grade migraine the last two day which got worse on the drive home to Maryland. The day before we left to come home, our cat sitter texted that the cat, Dorian, had a few accidents but was still greeting her when she came to the house and didn't seem lethargic.
Just after Christmas last year, Dorian had a severe downturn in his health but recovered and is known in the vet's office as the miracle cat because they didn't think he'd make it at all. He's got a heart problem and only 1 half of a functioning kidney and is 14 years old going on 15 (so in cat years that mid-70s). We got home to number of accidents (from both ends – use your imagination) throughout the house. We called the vet and took him right in. He was dehydrated and with really high levels in his blood work that indicate his kidney may be shutting down. They did some rehydration and gave him anti-nausea meds along with some other medications. We took him home and had to bring him in again today. He was there all day for treatment. His tests came back today much better in some way and yet still worrisome. He'll go in again tomorrow and then we may, depending on his test results, have to start making some very hard decisions about his quality of life. He's more active and moving about but seems not himself. I'm cautiously optimistic but still worried.
Afterall, what can you be but cautiously optimistic when the cat sits and stares at the bubbling water bowl for extended period so time. Maybe it is cat meditation. Currently, he's crawled under the lowest level of the cat tree and is not sleeping but probably contemplating the universe and his place in it.
Meanwhile, the magazines (SFRevu.com and GumshoeReview.com) went up as planned on November 1st. However, I still have some things to do — essential the reviews I was doing still need to be finished and added to the contents as well as writing the overview editorial for each magazine. Hoping that a good nights sleep will finally vanish the migraine — it is really hard to think clearly when someone invisible is using your head for an anvil.
If the headache finally eases off with a good nights sleep, I can finish up tomorrow while Dorian, the cat, is again at the vets. But, with so much stress my allergies and asthma have kicked in. This puts a bit of perspective on the migraines — though on the whole, lots of pain vs difficulty breathing seem to be in a tie.
Life goes on so far.
I'm sooooo glad May 2016 is over
May 31
This past month has been one thing after another. It seemed like I spent half the month in doctor's offices or waiting for someone who was in for a procedure to drive them home.
I'm now taking an extra antihistamine and, for the last few days, it's been making me feel like a zombie. When asked a question there's a significant pause while I have to parse the sentence and retrieve the answer. May make you drowsy. May make you sleep through your day with your eyes open and minimal functioning. On the plus side the itching is nearly bearable but the headaches are back.
The upshot is that the two magazine (SFRevu.com and GumshoeReview.com) are going to be up online on time but missing the reviews assigned to me. Those reviews will be added in over the next few days as they'll take me longer to draft, write, and edit. It helps if you're awake — or so I've been told.
I missed Balticon this year also. I got email with my program schedule and I wasn't on anything as far as I could tell so, since I was feel crappy I decided not stay home and sleep. Hopefully, next year May won't jump on me with both feet.
Enough whining from me. But hopefully, I can get back to updating my blog regularly.
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Not in a very Christmas mood …
Dec 13
I love Christmas. It's the best time of the year as far as I'm concerned. No matter what is going on in my life, Christmas always energizes me and makes me feel alive. I fall in love with my world and the people in it again. That spirit keeps me going for the next 12 months until it is renewed the following year.
At least, that's how it used to be. This year, well I'm just not feeling it. I'm watching my collection of Christmas movies and for a while I feel the start of that uplifting spirit and then I read the news — or go out shopping. That's when the spirit just sort of drains away.
It's little things. The cashiers at the stores smile but it doesn't reach their eyes. They don't look at you. I'm obviously female but I'm usually called 'Sir' — really. It you can't be bothered to look at your customer perhaps you can come up with phrases that don't rely on gender identification.
It's being cut off in traffic, for a parking space, having doors let go when you're just a few inches shy of being able to take over. I always make a habit of holding a door for the person behind me or open it for the person in front if they are having problems. It's just manners. What's happened to us?
People just seem so angry all the time now. I understand the feeling; I really do. It's hard when you listen to the talk of hate and bigotry being spewed on the airwaves lately. But really. All humans share this world and we really should strive to make it a better world. We can't do much but we can take the time to hold an elevator for someone coming toward it when we're right there by the button. To open a door for someone — male or female. To smile and wish someone a good day.
Life is a series of moments and if each of us will make the effort to smile and do a bit of kindness every day, to think of the things we're thankful for each night before falling asleep, maybe you'll help someone else have a good thing happen to them they didn't expect. They'll pass on that good feeling and maybe inspire someone else.
Small acts of kindness can build until maybe, just maybe, the Grinch-y feeling will go away for more of us.
Now, I wish each of you a good day, and restful evening, and an even more joyous tomorrow.
Yesterday, we finally decided to do something to decorate for Christmas. The Shooting Star Hydrangea surrounded by Poinsettias has brightened up my living room. Now maybe I can begin to get in the Christmas spirit — I think I'll put another movie in the player and believe that everyone is looking to make the world a better and kinder place for humans of all shapes, sizes, and colors.
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It seems that for the last several months every weekend was taken up with chores, meetings of one type or another, running errands, or dealing with some problem or inconvenience. Anyway, this weekend we ran all our errands yesterday. So, today I'm catching up on database entry, email checking/clearing/answering/sorting by priority, and updating my next week's To Do list.
Four days ago, our 'new' rescue cat, Simba, went out to get some fresh air and didn't come back. We'd been calling for him every few hours, and getting more and more worried for him. As of this morning, we were finally admitting to one another that we probably weren't going to see him again. Temperatures had been pretty low during the night so we hoped he'd found an emergency back-up family (as cats often do). But it's been fairly warm the last couple of days, so if he was snoozing on someone else's hearthrug, we figured he'd come around to see to his food bowl. So, reluctantly, we figured he was just gone. So, not expecting to see him again after four days, this afternoon, he came back. Our older cat, Emnot, isn't too happy with Simba's reappearance though.
Simba has a medical condition and so he'd been four days without his meds. His left eye was dripping like a faucet (his medical problem) and he was starving or so he said/indicated (you know what I mean). He seemed healthy (except for the dripping eye) and very happy to see us. Can't help but wonder where he was while he was missing. So, the first thing we did was put the extra collar on him (he came back without one). Before you ask — yes, he's chipped. But we get him break-away collars and the one we put on him today is his fifth. And we put collars on the grocery list to pick up a couple more spares. I'm sure he'll be needing them.
We're watching a Season 3 marathon of Dr. Who. We just bought Season 4 but will finish 3 first.
Today was household chores and baking day. Wash is already done, folded, and put away. We baked Chocolate Coconut Scones, and Banana Nut Muffins. For the first time in a what seems like ages, I'm warm since the oven has been on most of today. Now that we've got goodies to eat, I'll have to be careful, because hubby and I are back on calorie watch. But we will be indulging in an ignore-the-calories day for Valentines.
I've dug out my sock in progress and need to figure out where I am on the heel and work on it once we sit to watch another episode of Dr. Who. Also, got Divergent from Netflix so need to watch that soon too.
Except for the insomnia, or was it the headache, that woke me up at 4 this morning, and having to play catching up on work stuff it's looking like a good restful day. The crazy starts again tomorrow.
And so it goes…
Oct 23
Of course it would happen. The minute I post that I'll be getting this blog up and running again the world — my world — conspires to see that it doesn't happen. I've been so busy lately. First, there was getting the magazines up and live on time. Then there was gearing up for Capclave, attending Capclave, and decompressing from Capclave. Then getting back in the groove to get the next issues of SFRevu and Gumshoe set to go live on November 1st. But, wait there's more — I'm doing at-con registration for this year's World Fantasy Convention in DC so there's been meetings, planning, working with the pre-con reg people and programming people and others to be sure nothing gets forgotten in the registration packets and we don't duplicate effort. Luckily, the chairs of the convention this year are great people and keeping us all on track.
Meanwhile, there's been the headaches — they're baaaack. Mostly they've been related to the weird changes in the weather. Luckily, none have yet reached migraine status — that hardly every happens now that I see an acupuncturist fairly regularly and have started to meditate (or my version of meditation anyway).
I've been losing weight and exercising. The weight loss has helped with the arthritis and the exercise is supposed to help with losing weight and with my fibromyalgia. Some days it's all I can do to make my steps for the day. I swear some days there's just not enough spoons in my world but I force myself to push on — one step at a time. Paul got me a mp3 player (Sansa) and that has really helped with the walking — I've been listening to NPR Ted Talks and audiobooks. Love the Ted Talk compilations and find them really entertaining as well as informative. For audiobooks — I've downloaded from Librivox so they're mostly public domain. I've listened to "The Man Who Was Thursday", "Emma", and "The Letters of Jane Austen" (finishing this one tomorrow I believe). I started "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" but it kept referring to maps and while I'm pretty good at geography I was having a hard time picturing the terrain in my head so put it aside for awhile. Then I started "The Federalist Papers" and so far have listened to 1 to 6. I end up playing each paper two or three or more times to be sure I really get it all. Honestly, if I didn't know they were written so long ago, I'd swear they were about what's happening in politics today. So, my long walk everyday takes up a chunk of time but it does stimulate the brain and keep me going. I will have to come up with some way to stay warm once it gets colder and after walking in a misting rain the other day, I've got to get better walking shoes so my feet don't get so wet. (It's wonderful to come in to a hot cup of tea and dry thick wool socks though and a 1/2 hour of sitting with the cat and reading.)
I've got so many plans and so little time. I need more days in a month and more hours in a day to get everything I need to do done. To top it all off, I'm all set to do NaNoWriMo again this year. Sometimes, I just can't square the hours in a day with the stuff I want to do. So far I have a lot of scenes and partial chapters from previous years so I'm trying to get an outline done for this year so I know where I'm going or I'll end up with more scenes, character studies, and interesting settings again. Not that they don't occasionally come in handy.
I've also finally got around to unearthing my knitting projects. Several pairs of socks on the needles in various stages of done-ness. Got one pair all done except for weaving in the ends of the cut yarn. I did pick up the stitches for the first sleeve on the top-down sweater I started in August — really need to watch a movie or two and that would be all done, but squeezing out the time is an issue at the moment.
I've got six books read so far this month but I need to finish the reviews for the zines and then post the ones for Amazon Vine, and for here on the blog. I should be posting the review of the Manga Classic version of Pride and Prejudice soon.
What have you been doing?
The Best Laid Plans — A date goes wrong
Aug 2
Today my husband and I planned a date. We would go out to eat, and then to a movie (Guardians of the Galaxy). The new theater has very comfortable recliner-type seats and the trailers of the movie were outrageously funny. We even had to turn down a couple of invitations because of our plans to spend some quality time together. But like all plans, they seldom stand up to circumstances.
The circumstance this time was that … well, I have to start back a bit. We've been doing a lot of yard work this year to make up for the several years of neglect from various problems of health and time. Time is always a problem and we've (hubby and I) always had difficulty saying no when we really want to do something and so often find ourselves over committed and burning the candle at both ends to be sure to meet all our commitments. Anyway, we've been doing yard work — lots and lots of it. From clearing out the old garden area, refreshing the soil, planting a garden (doing well of this, by the way, this year) and reclaiming a walking path around the perimeter of the property that has become overgrown — so clearing brush.
The upshot is that I've had poison ivy treated three times so far this year. The doctor wants me to be very careful and stay with antihistamines and use steroid cream. That had been working, until hubby finally got a case of poison ivy that didn't go away in a couple of days as it usually had. Instead it just hangs on, and as one area seems to heal, it breaks out in another. And, I've been picking it up from him — again treating an area and having it get better but popping up somewhere else. So far I'm holding my own in the fight but it's taking its toll.
This morning he had some new patches and so did I. He finally gave in and went to the clinic — we hoped he could get in and see someone get the steroid pills and we'd go to the next showing. Well, best laid plans and all that. The place was crowded. By the time he was registered in, seen, got the Rx, filled it and we got out. It was mid-afternoon.
We still hadn't had breakfast yet. I hadn't had coffee yet. And, if you read this blog you know how dangerous that is. So we decided to eat first so hubby could take his first dose.
By the time we got to the restaurant, ordered, ate, and paid it was late afternoon and we needed to get the weekly shopping done and back home. The pills had Paul nearly asleep on his feet, so I had to drive, not to mention that he'd have fallen asleep in the film by then.
So, we decided to do the shopping. I'd drive. Tomorrow we'll try for the movie — again. This time no real date plans, nothing special going on just two people going to the movies — and we'll see how messed up things can get. (That's rhetorical… really.)
Not much going on here …
May 22
Well, I say not much going on because things are only now beginning to show. I've been working a lot — A LOT — in the garden area. For the last several years health problems have kept us from doing much in the yard area of our home ground.
I'll post pictures later but so far we've weeded and cleared out all the brush from the fruit orchard. A couple of the trees have died but most survived and seemed to have flowered and are starting to grow actual fruit. We've never really got any but that's mostly because with the deer, the squirrels, and the birds, there's usually not anything for us to pick if it lasts to ripen on the tree. But the worst of the mess is cleared out. We've got the areas around each tree cleared of all brush and crap and most now have a mulch mat around them. We've ordered some for the larger trees and we'll get them down when they arrive.
The side yard, where our square foot gardens (2 of them) and the herb garden are located, is now cleared and the gardens have been planted with broccoli, pumpkin, radishes, carrots, nasturtiums, onion, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce (3 separate planters so we could stagger the crops), potato and tomatoes. The herb garden is mostly perennials. We've planted the annual herbs, and the ones that are invasive, in pots.
The quarter of the herb garden we'd planted with strawberries, we are now working on clearing out, since wild fake strawberries invaded and we never got any real strawberries. We figure we'll clear it out and retry next year with a netting over the area. By then we should have a chance to see if we got all of the invaders. Meanwhile, we put strawberries in one of those deck planter things were you put 12 plants in one big pot. We're getting lots of flowers and even some berries, but they seem to disappear during the night before they ripen fully. We're suspecting the squirrels because they're sneaky and sly but it could be the birds or even the raccoons we've chased off the deck (if you can call waddling away when we open the door being chased).
Today, we put the ladder up to the carport and climbed up to rake and sweep a couple of years of storm accumulation off. We still need to do our shed and the higher part of the house roof. I already did the lower section of the house roof, but still need to go over all the rain gutters.
We've been clearing some of the brush out of the woods around the house and thinning the trees a bit. We have five acres and hope to put in some walking paths (once we settle on a way to make them look natural, and with minimal upkeep). We also want to put some nice seating areas here and there for the peace and quiet and views of nature. — We're really dreaming but it's nice because our property backs onto other wooded acreages so it's nice out here in the woods but with people just a few 100 yards away (in the right direction).
A side effect of all this working in the woods in making sure we do tick checks after every session of yard work. And, yes, we usually find them on us but, now that we've cleared the areas we're mostly working in, not so much.
I've also been having a poison ivy adventure. I'm on my third course of prednisone and I'm really hoping that this is the last time. This time it is paired with a strong antihistamine and steroid cream. The blotches from the first and second poison ivy assaults seem to be clearing up as well as this last time. I see the doc tomorrow mid-course to check that maybe we've beaten it back. This last time, I wasn't even out where the poison ivy was and it was popping up in areas that didn't even get exposure — so systemic. I'm so done now with this that I won't even touch something with shiny leave no matter how many leave they have or anything with three leave even if they aren't shiny. I'm from Maine and I haven't seen anything here that even actually looks like the poison ivy plants I'm used to from my childhood. I will learn to recognize it at some point hopefully before too much longer — we've got it down to between 4 different plants (all of which I'm now avoiding touching or even going near).
I figured it was about time I updated this blog regularly. I'm going to try for once a week for a while to get back into the groove of posting. I'll add pictures to this entry once I can find the cord to download the photos from my camera to the laptop.
How are your gardens growing or do you even have one?
The Soup and Bread Cookbook by Beatrice Ojakangas. Rodale Books. Photographs by Hector Sanchez. ISBN: 978-1-60961-362-4. (Retail: $23.99 / Amazon: $18.47) (October 2013)
First, I love cookbooks. I buy them for many reasons besides wanting to make the delicious sounding recipes in them. I buy them for the beautiful photos or artwork, the way they're set-up and designed, their clarity, and especially if the writing is clear, informative, entertaining, and the recipes themselves seem to be accurate (no ingredients hidden in the instructions that aren't in the list of ingredients — that sort of thing). I even have the two books by Laurie Colwin that aren't so much about the recipes as they are about cooking, food, and good eating and read like you were sitting around the table with a cuppa and just talking.
Ojakangas' The Soup and Bread Cookbooks has some of that flavor for me. The introduction to each season's recipes is sort of a quick overview of what the season means to her. There's also some interesting background in the short information piece on each recipe. The recipes seem set up to make them easy to follow and the instructions are clear. Some of the recipes have variations and some of the bread recipes have instruction for using a bread machine rather than doing it all by hand.
My preference is for recipes and cookbooks that use actual ingredients rather than a can of this and a can of that, plus a box mix or two of something else. All the recipes use real food — which is better for you and your family. However, I did notice that many had a note on use of a canned or frozen ingredient as well as some substitutions if something wasn't available in your area.
The photography was beautiful and it looks like this would be a cookbook you could sit and look at over and over.
Now for the cons:
Understand that I read a digital review copy which expired just about the time I finished reading through it. Digital review copies, as well as the print review copies are unfinished — there were a few places where there was just a note on what would be added, such as a sidebar. Even so, the instructions were still clear and concise — meaning I have great hopes for the finished edition. None of the recipes, in the copy I read, had calorie, carbs, etc. listed for a serving size. Normally, that wouldn't be of interest to me but my family is being really careful right now due to a medical need to cut cholesterol and lose weight — so I'm more aware of this information not being readily available. WARNING: Since the copy I read was unfinished some of the material may change between the copy I read and the finished one you'll find in your favorite bookstore.
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Overall, I found this cookbook to be one I'll more than likely go out and buy when it comes out in October. You'll notice that the recipes that most often caught my attention are those for bread — I love bread. During the winter, I make bread — from scratch — nearly every week. While I currently have a bread machine, I still like to set it on dough and knead it — there's something so satisfying and relaxing about making bread. Anyway, that another reviewer bias for you to add into the mix.
Now for the details:
Basics: Stocks, Broths, and Basic Breads
This section contained some recipes as well as helpful information and tips.
Recipes: Basic Chicken Stock, Two-for-One Chicken Stock (for soup stock and flavoring beans and rice dishes, braising vegetables, etc.), Two-for-One Beef Stock. Soup Tips: Cooling Stock Safely, Tips for making broth or stocks in a slow cooker, How to freeze stocks and Broths, Basic Vegetable Broth.
Glossary of Bread-Baking Basics
This section had some really good advice on breadmaking and some tips on how to get it right.
Recipes included: Fresh Baguette, Basic Vegetable Soup (whatever is in the house soup), Basic Home-Baked Bread (with Variations)
The book is arranged with the recipes chosen for what fresh ingredients would be available, and to deal with the heat or cold of the time of year. For each season, I've listed the total number of recipes for either soup or bread and the recipes that really got me wanting to pull out the pots and pans and try out. Luckily, I just did a read through because the book expired before I finished reading it through and if I'd stopped to cook along the way, I wouldn't have gotten through it.
27 soup and bread recipes
Some recipes that sounded interesting: Herbed Biscuit Muffins, Wheat Germ Batter Bread, Rosemary Focaccia, Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins, Asian Lemon-Ginger Soup, Cheddar Cheese Onion Scones, Walleye Chowder, and Super Simple Salmon Chowder.
24 soup and bread recipes
A sample listing of the recipes in this section I enjoyed reading: Whole Wheat Buttermilk Biscuits, Avgolemondo Soup, Pita Bread, Summer Day Herb-scented Soup, Whole-Grain Buttermilk Oatmeal Bread, Bacon Parmesan Crackers, Red Curry & Coconut Bread, Spiced Zucchini Soup10-minute Chickpea-Tomato Soup, Easy Refrigerator Rolls. Cranberry Bean & Pasta Soup. Southwestern Chicken Tortilla Soup, and Cowboy Beer & Cheddar Bread.
26 soup and bread recipes
The first recipe in this section is for Stone Soup based on the children's story. This is great for an autumn party potluck dinner and the author gives suggestions for what the guests should bring, as well as a bit of the story of stone soup.
Some of the recipes that caught my eye as ones I'd really like to make are: Oatmeal Batter Bread, Curried Chicken Wild Rice Soup, Dutch Raisin Bread, Green Cabbage & Hamburger Soup, Honey Whole Wheat Cranberry-Nut Bread, Brie & Apple Soup, Granola Loaf, Buttermilk Corn Muffins, and Curried Pumpkin Soup.
I was surprised by the Old-Fashioned Gridded Cheese, Apple, & Basil Sandwiches. I love grilled cheese sandwiches and often have them with swiss cheese, onion, and tomato but never thought of using apple and basil — what was I thinking, or rather not thinking to never consider this taste combination? I've got to try this in the fall when we usually have apples in the house.
30 soup and bread recipes.
Some of the recipes that intrigued me in this section: Spicy Black Bean Soup (one can never have enough black bean soup recipes), Oatmeal Rusks, Brown Bread Muffins, New Year's Good Luck Lentil Soup, Johnnycake, Herbed White Bean & Sausage Soup, Beer Biscuits, Cumin & Coriander Bean Soup, Senate Bean Soup (similar to one served in the US Senate dining room), Molasses Wheat Loaf, Rustic Rye Bread, Swedish Yellow Pea Soup with Pork, Overnight Mini Croissants, Russian Black Bread (there's chocolate and coffee in this one), Cabbage & Apple Soup, Mulligan Stew, and Feijoada (a black bean soup with oranges).
All in all, a great cookbook, especially if you have a garden or a good produce section in your local stores. Not a lot of specialty items needed. Soups are always great because you can stretch them out to feed company or for several meals. Since many people are cutting their budgets and food is usually a big expense for most families — soups and homemade bread would be a great way to serve nutritious meals at a lower cost per person.
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In December 2003, the Atlanta Braves sent then-minor league pitcher Adam Wainwright to the St. Louis Cardinals in a deal that centered on outfielder J.D. Drew. (Another player going to St. Louis in that trade is still active - by a thread – Cincinnati's Jason Marquis.)
As the history books remind us, Drew spent just one year in Atlanta before joining the Los Angeles Dodgers and later, the Boston Red Sox before retiring a career underperformer – at least compared to expectations - at the age of 35.
Wainwright, who reached the Majors in the 2005 season, continues a decade later as one of the game's best pitchers. Though he is out for the remainder of the 2015 season due to an Achilles injury, the scale of this trade is forever clearly tipped in St. Louis' direction.
This past winter, the tables were turned as the Cardinals needed an outfielder this time, after the death of Oscar Taveras. They sent a young, promising pitcher to the Braves in Shelby Miller in a package in which Jason Heyward moved to St. Louis. As was Drew, the latter is a potential lame duck - eligible to become a free agent following the 2015 season.
In the early going, the Miller side of the trade looks very strong. The third-year Major Leaguer carried a no-hitter into the ninth inning last Sunday and sports National League-bests in ERA (1.33) and WHIP (0.83) with 43 strikeouts against 16 walks in 54 innings.
On the other hand, Heyward is batting just .245 with career lows in both OBP (.300) and slugging (.388), and therefore, OPS. Trying to get the 25-year-old started, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny has tried Heyward in just about every spot in the batting order – including the leadoff spot, a move which seemed to cause a fair amount of controversy in Atlanta last season.
Of course, while every trade can be and probably is re-evaluated every single day – at least on Twitter - the final score on most deals will take at least several years to tabulate fairly.
The mention of Miller leads to my message for this week.
One of the most active trade probers in National League Tout Wars is BaseballHQ's Phil Hertz. Last week in this space, I outlined a swap we made in which I received Marco Gonzales in return for Pedro Strop.
This time around, Hertz e-mailed the entire league with his offer. Seizing on Miller's two-hitter, he placed the right-hander on the trade table the very next day. The stated price was a closer and a hitting upgrade.
Having made the highest bid for formerly-dependable, now manager-killing and deposed closer Steve Cishek on draft day meant I was excluded from consideration for this deal.
Despite that and the fact he apparently was unable to close a trade, I admired what Hertz was trying to do. Whether or not he believes Miller's value has peaked, Hertz decided to gauge interest on a red-hot player. He did it with a clearly-stated set of needs.
That way, others could make a quick evaluation. First of all, do I believe that Miller will continue to pitch well? Second, do I have what may be needed to close the deal? Finally, would I be willing to move into negotiations?
When making unsolicited trade offers, follow Hertz' lead, but make sure you don't stop there. If you are the seller, be ready to immediately follow up on each and every response, no matter how bad you think the counter offer may be.
From the other end, there is nothing worse than replying positively to these kinds of inquiries, only to not receive an acknowledgement of any kind. Next time, you might be branded as a difficult trader and may be left out of consideration for future offers.
Why limit your own options?
Just do these simple things and your odds of closing a deal – this time and down the road as well – are bound to increase.
Brian Walton was the 2009 National League Tout Wars champion, scoring the most points in the league's 17-year history. He also holds the all-time NL Tout single-season records for wins and saves. His work can also be found daily at TheCardinalNation.com and thecardinalnationblog.com. Follow Brian on Twitter.

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tributes have been paid to a Fence woman whose funeral on Wednesday last week saw Burnley Crematorium filled to capacity.
Anne Standring, of Pancakes Farm, died in Pendleside Hospice on October 5th after a long illness, 10 days before her 53rd birthday.
Born in the village, she had attended St Anne's CE Primary School and Edge End High School, Nelson, and worked in local schools.
She helped out at dinner times at Higham CE Primary School before moving to Lomeshaye Primary School, Nelson, where she taught young children to read.
For the last 13 years, she had worked in administration at Marsden CP School, Nelson, where headteacher Gemma Whaling said: "Everyone at school - staff, parents and pupils - has been deeply saddened by the death of Mrs Standring. It was especially difficult to tell the older children as they had known her for so long.
"We have even had students now at high school calling in to pay their respects and add to the collection in Mrs Standring's memory.
"Mrs Standring had worked at Marsden Primary School for over 13 years as a member of the administration team, working with hundreds of families in her time with us.
"We have been overwhelmed by the phone calls, donations and messages of support from members of the community and other agencies that school works with.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Mrs Standring's family in this sad time of their loss."
One parent wrote: "Mrs Standring was a very lovely lady. Wherever we saw her, whether it was in school or out of school, she would always say hello. She will be missed deeply by our family."
Mrs Standring is survived by her parents, Alf and Joan, and sons Stuart, Luke and John. Her husband, Danny, died some time ago.


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People who know me well say I jump into things I get passionate about. My experience with doing 20 portrait shoots over the past 2.5 months is a great example of this only what has created the "jump into" energy is the river of women who've sought me out to do shoots, which I've been so delighted by!
One of the things I've been the most surprised to learn in talking with women during these shoots is the extent to which they do not feel they have permission to be beautiful. Many see their experience during our photo shoot as a rare and exciting opportunity to be beautiful and fully enjoy it. Others find the process of having their picture taken unexpectedly anxiety provoking because they hadn't anticipated that it would actually feel foreign and confronting to celebrate their beauty.
The general sentiment I hear is that brides are the only women who are 100% allowed to be their fully radiant selves, to be the prettiest woman in the room. Other than that, your need to tone it down.
I have my theories about this but I decided to hear people out and see what the dominant answers were when I asked women why they felt they needed to tone themselves down. To be clear, because your mind may be saying the same thing, many said they didn't have time. But when I asked how much time they spent online or watching tv, they laughed and admitted the had other reasons. Their answers fell into 3 groups.
ONE – Being beautiful, expressive, and radiant goes against the role and identity they took on in childhood, are still living, and believe to be true about who they are. This one goes deep and is the seed for the next two.
TWO – Being beautiful will intimidate other women and lead to being judged and isolated.
THREE – Being beautiful will attract attention from men that they don't want because they feel unsafe to deal with it. Or, it will attract male attention that they do want but this makes them feel ashamed.
If you hold yourself back – with your beauty, expression, words, desires, or anything else – for one of these reasons, consider if that's a version of you that you want to keep living. If so, why? If not, what can you begin living a version of yourself who is beyond these beliefs?
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffIf anyone read it properly, they would notice that I outlined it early in the review.
Your review comes of very biased and confusing. It was not clear that you meant because you used words like "repetitive" when you really were talking about "the frequency". Or, you spoke of "balance" when you specifically talking about how "disjointed the music sounded". It all seems too vague.
I'm just stating that an album that is 4.5 should be a record which will stay in people's minds for years and years. This record does simply not have enough things to make it that. Even in an unprofessional setting, where you take bias into account, the maximum for this would be 3.5-4.
This is absolutely moronic. I wasn't aware albums needed to fill a quota of "things" to be considered excellent.
They sound very similar if you take out the usual variable that is different people's vocals.
From the various statements you have made about metalcore in this thread, it's safe to say you know nothing about it.
When I was referring to Kill, I was talking about the fact he asked me to write this review.
Nobody would know this... When you make a comment like that, people assume your friends with an elitist hipster like KILL.
Album Rating: 2.0You can look at my itunes library and you would get that yes, I have listened to my fair share of metalcore.
"This is absolutely moronic. I wasn't aware albums needed to fill a quota of "things" to be considered excellent."
Uhh, I'm pretty sure that's the definition of it. You have to be able to do certain things that make the record memorable. Hence, yes, criteria.
I generalize metalcore frequently, because all of the stuff I am sent on youtube (I get 3 videos a day) is the same. I get sent so much of the same that you can expect me to make sweeping generalizations. I used to be in a bland as fuck metalcore band so I think I know what I'm talking about.
"Nobody would know this... When you make a comment like that, people assume your friends with an elitist hipster like KILL."
Actually, it's on the other review for this album, so yes, people would know this.
Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Offelite hipster lol why are ppl so pissed that my taste is superior i will never no!!!!!!!!!
Digging: Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained
Album Rating: 2.0^^ It's because they wanna be you kill.
Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Offthe thing is they could just listen to the sweet ass music i jam, but no! they just wana carry on jammin sylosis and periphery and hatin on my diltch
Album Rating: 2.0periphery sucks hard.
gimme aspid any day
Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Offlol aspid is old man elitist metal fuck that they dont even stop start sw33p
Album Rating: 2.0sozz brah sw33ping is t00 br00tal for me. rec me some? i've bingned on some melodeath lately and i need a solid hit of thrash
Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Offsweep thrash hmm its hard, lich king dont sweep but they faggot stop startz so check em
Album Rating: 2.0sounds good, i meant thrash in general, but whatevs
Album Rating: 2.0Sonic +1 yes yes
Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Offoh right i thought you were tehe'n
get all these!!11111
Album Rating: 2.0thanks you kill, i'll be downloading them tomorrow.
Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off100 albums in one day damn dude good luck i hope you can handle the trve thrash
Album Rating: 2.0d00d fuck downloading them on my own, i'll leach the uni interwebs hehehehe
Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Offsweet metal lives
Album Rating: 2.0indeed m/
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffActually, it's on the other review for this album, so yes, people would know this.
Because everybody has the time to read everything you post /s
Uhh, I'm pretty sure that's the definition of it. You have to be able to do certain things that make the record memorable. Hence, yes, criteria.
See I was under the impression that music was about song writing first and foremost and not the frills and "things". I could give a shit about criteria. Bands should make records they want to make regardless of boundaries.
NVM. I thought you were trying to defend your positions, but your back to the typical "Band is Gay" stupidity. Enjoy wallowing in your own dribble.
Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off5 classic
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just shh plz
Album Rating: 3.0you guys need to arguing like a bunch of dicks and jam some Born Gay
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So I think my computer desk is just not big enough. It's a simple desk with side drawer, cabinet, and a keyboard drawer. When I need space for writing or drawing I have to use another desk or basically use tables like coffee tables or dinner tables. And all the computer gadgets like my music controller, drawing tablet, musical keyboard have no place. This makes a big mess around the computer area. Think I'd like an L shaped desk where the dual monitor setup, along with all the extra gadgets can have enough space. Oh, I forgot to mention two laptops, joystick, near field monitors, phone charging stuff, etc.
Maybe time to setup a home office!! It could act as home office during the day and recording studio at night. It could even be the game room for playing video games. I mean it's not like I would play ping pong!
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Jeremy Gask's Royal Riviera was a very comfortable winner of his only start in a bumper on soft ground at Wetherby in December and he has to be respected on his Flat racing debut on admittedly faster going but a better bet looks to be EMERGING ARTIST, who gets the vote over Bombadero. John Dunlop's colt has shown improved form for being stepped up to middle distances this term and the son of Sadler's Wells should be involved at the business end of the race again but he may once more have to settle for minor honours. Mick Quinlan's Joan d'Arc ran promisingly on her debut at Brighton earlier this month but he needs to step up on that effort to trouble the judge. Jamie Osborne's Never Can Tell ran promisingly on his first start in a handicap at Goodwood recently and has claims but preference is for Emerging Artist. Mark Johnston's gelding kept on at one pace when a close up fourth behind Very Good Day at Haydock 12 days ago and he should improve for that run so looks worth siding with on only his second start.
Boomtown Kat 10-3 (10-12) Prominent, led approaching 2 out, soon ridden, kept on gamely from last, won at Wincanton 2m 6f nh nov hdl (4) gd in May '09 beating Now Listen To Me (10-12) by ns, 13 ran.
Emerging Artist (FR) 11-1 (10-0) Tracked leader, ridden and every chance from 3f out, kept on one pace final furlong, 4th of 14, 3 1/2l behind Very Good Day (8-13) at Haydock 1m 4f mdn stks (5) gd.
Mhilu (IRE) 9-4 (11-5) Tendency to jump right, tracked leader, led briefly 6th, remained challenging, driven to lead soon after last, stayed on well, won at Uttoxeter 2m sll hdl (4-8yo) (5) gd beating Tri Nations (10-12) by 5l, 6 ran.
Royal Riviera 5-2fav (10-12) Tracked leaders, headway on bit over 3f out, led over 2f out, soon clear, eased towards finish, won at Wetherby 1m 5f 3yo nhf (5) hvy in Dec beating Pie At Midnight (10-12) by 12l, 13 ran.
Deejan (IRE) 33-1 (9-13) Slowly into stride,towards rear, good headway to lead after 1f, headed well over 3f out, soon weakened, 6th of 10, 24l behind Desert Sage (8-12) at Chepstow 1m 4f 3yo fll stks (5) gd.
Genes Of A Dancer (AUS) Galileo gelding out of Jugah's Dancer.
Shannon Falls (FR) 66-1 (9-2) Slowly into stride, held up in rear, rapid headway on outside over 7f out, led 6f out, ridden over 1f out, headed 1f out, faded inside final furlong, 5th of 11, 4l behind Two Oclock John (9-3) at Lingfield 1m 5f mdn stks (5) pol in Feb.
Bombadero (IRE) 4-7fav (9-3) Tracked leading pair, went 2nd on inside 5f out, led narrowly over 2f out, kept slight lead until headed 1f out, pressed winner until no extra final 50 yards, 2nd of 6, 3/4l behind Caucus (9-3) at Chepstow 1m 4f 3yo mdn (5) gf in May.
Joan D'Arc (IRE) 12-1 (8-4) Steadied in rear but in touch, effort over 3f out, soon raced wide, weakened over 1f out, 3rd of 4, 12l behind Ebony Boom (8-12) at Brighton 1m 4f mdn stks (5) gf.
Never Can Tell (IRE) 16-1 (9-1) Slight lead, set steady pace, travelling well 3f out, ridden and headed over 1f out, no impression when lost 2nd final 110 yards, 3rd of 9, 2 1/2l behind Boston Blue (9-5) at Goodwood 1m 6f 3yo mdn hcp 0-75 (5) gd.


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In conjunction with Wingate University, the Jesse Helms Center is pleased to present the BB&T Program on the Moral Foundations of Free Enterprise. The program offers lectures at Wingate University for students and the general public on capitalism and other economics-based topics. Policy experts and academic faculty share presentations each semester. This lecture series is made possible by a grant from the BB&T Corporation.
Our Spring 2017 speaker was Dr. Michael Munger, professor of Economics at Duke University. His speech, "Tomorrow 3.0: The Sharing Economy" took place February 16th, 2017.
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Oven-baked Thai chicken rice
Prep: 5 mins Cook: 30 mins
A fuss-free family meal that will you'll want to make again and again, with a lovely coconut taste
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal510
- fat18g
- saturates10g
- carbs59g
- sugars6g
- fibre2g
- protein32g
- salt1.02g
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- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 onion, chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 400g pack mini chicken fillet
- 4 tbsp Thai green curry paste (we used Bart's), or use less for a milder taste
- 250g basmati and wild rice mix, rinsed (we used Tilda)
- 2 red peppers, deseeded and cut into wedges
- finely grated zest and juice 1 lime
The same shape, but smaller than…
- 400g reduced-fat coconut milk
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- handful coriander leaves, to serve
Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Heat the oil in a shallow ovenproof casserole dish, then soften the onion for 5 mins. Add the chicken and curry paste, then cook for 3 mins, stirring to coat.
Tip in the rice and peppers, then stir in the lime zest and juice, coconut milk and 250ml boiling water. Bring to the boil, then pop the lid on and bake for 20 mins until the rice is fluffy. Scatter with coriander before serving.
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10th Dec, 2010
i used quorn fillets chopped (only half the weight), plain basmati rice, green beans and mushrooms as thats what we had and it was lovely. i also used a stock cube in the boiling water as advised by another poster and half a can of fullfat coconut milk and half can of water as i didnt have reduced fat coconut. if using quorn i recommend using when defrosted as it absorbs the curry pastes flavours better.


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As y'all know, it's Cinco de Mayo. What you may not know is that this is NOT Mexican independence day. Cinco de Mayo simply commemorates an impossible victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla. Because you know, beating the French is cause for celebration… But that's beside the point! The celebration eventually came to influence American culture in such a way that in the U.S. it is now considered a holiday for Mexican tradition. And what better way to celebrate by drinking 'til I think I'm Mexican!!!
Beer, Lime Juice, Hot Sauce, Worcestershire Sauce
The Drink:
Well I started out with a big-ass stein. I threw some lime juice in the bottom (about 1/4 cup's worth) and added some Worcestershire Sauce (1 TBSP) and hot sauce (1.5 TBSP Devil's Blood) to the mix. Finally, I topped it all off with two cans of beer. I know it's supposed to be Mexican beer, but I drink Bud. So there. Deal with it. Oh, and you'll notice from the photo I rimmed the glass with salt and cayenne pepper.
Then I drank it. Then I drank another. It's been a long weekend, so I've been drinking micheladas for most of the day. I've no idea where the drink originated or where the name came from, but I found a few recipes on Mexicanfood.com, which seems legit.
I don't know what else to tell y'all. I'm pretty drunk, and this spicy Mexican Abortion is not half bad. Because of the Devil's Blood, it gets about a 3/5 in the red pepper thingy and a 3/5 in the green pepper thingy. Again, drunk. Brian, I'm sure, will edit this to coherence and non-non-sensicalness.
(Translation: Mean Heat, Nominal Flavor ~ Brian)


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Title: Mystery in Little Tokyo
Author: Frank Bonham
Illustrator: Kazue Mizumura
Pages: 125
Reading Level: 9-12
Star Rating: ★★★
A random mystery in the vein of The Happy Hollisters.
The Story.
Danny is so excited. Grandpa Nomura has agreed to let Danny carry one of his treasured Samurai swords in the Nisei Festival parade this Sunday. Such a treasure will add greatly to the celebration of their Japanese heritage. Danny can hardly wait!
But then, Mr. Kaji from the Japanese government appears. He says that he has been sent to reclaim the old sword as property of Japan – along with many other swords that he has already reclaimed and which he keeps in a big black trunk.
But that night, the trunk is stolen from out of their house! Who could have done it? Could it have been the construction man? And why does next-door neighbor, Mr. Shinoda have a secret hole in his brick wall…
Grandpa and Grandma believe strongly in preserving the old traditions. Danny and Carol respect this, although they do not always agree that the traditions are as important as their grandparents believe.
One theme in the story (and an element that controls part of the plot), is the tension between Grandpa and Mr. Shinoda. They hold a grudge against one another of long standing. Danny and Carol are sorry for the disagreement and attempt to patch it up, believing it to be silly. In the end, Grandpa and Mr. Shinoda are friends again.
The proverb "If you ask too often, even Buddha will turn away" is quoted several times.
Mr. Shinoda says that little elves help him cook fortune cookies.
Luck is referenced three times.
Christmas is referenced once.
'Gosh' and 'darn' are each used four times, 'heck' twice, and 'golly' once.
Conclusion. Classic filler fiction.
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Thanks to her mom, 3-year-old London Scout is Instagram's youngest fashionista
Scout is making a name for herself on Instagram, racking up over 50,000 followers after posting daily photos of her outfits. This is nothing new for style bloggers, but there's something pretty adorable about seeing it from a toddler.The Huffington Post reports,
London's mom
The blog currently features daily updates, giveaways, and impeccably-styled photographs.
In 2013 New York Magazine did a similar profile of 5-year-old Alonso Mateo, who's stylish outfits and Instagram documentation garnered the attention of thousands.
New York Magazine reported in June 2013,Usually, these images first appear on his mother's feed ( @luisafere ): Luisa Fernanda Espinosa, a freelance stylist, started posting the pictures last year and now has more than 127,000 followers. There are now 230,000 photos catalogued of her son on Google Images - more than some B-List celebrities - wearing everything from his "favorite" AllSaints motorcycle boots (which his mom nabbed in several sizes before their kids line was discontinued), to designer blazers, tailor-made drop-crotch pants, and his classic Ray-Ban aviators.
Mateo and Scout share something in common - their mothers took the ubiquitous parental activity of posting pictures of their kids to social media and bumped it up a level; they made brands out of their children.
Not unlike children of celebrities who are often photographed alongside their famous parents wearing the latest fashions (Blue Ivy, North West, Suri Cruise), Scout and Mateo look like tiny adults, from haircuts to shoes.
Scout's mother says her daughter doesn't know she's an internet superstar. After all, she's three, and probably wouldn't understand. But peek through the Instagram comments, and you'll notice tons of kind comments from parents who are inspired by young Scout's attainable style.
"We're a modest family who mix and matches pieces that are gifted to us or purchased from affordable stores," Scout's mother tells The Huffington Post.
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I spend a lot of time pouring over vendor solutions. A lot. Unfortunately, I don't specialize in one area like wireless, security, storage, voice, etc. I am more of a network generalist. Because of that, I tend to focus on the big companies or those who fill a certain niche. There are just too many vendors to keep track of. Because of that, I seem to have missed Meraki. Thank goodness for Wireless Field Day 2! For an in depth recap of the WFD2 visit to Meraki, read Tom Hollingsworth's post here.
It's not that I was completely ignorant of them. I'd seen some of their advertisements. I knew that they sold wireless gear. I knew that they had some switches and firewalls. Everything was managed by the "cloud". I took all that into consideration and thought: "Yay. Another vendor shilling for the "cloud". As if we didn't have enough already." That was my thoughts on Meraki coming into Wireless Field Day 2. I work for a VAR that sells Cisco, HP, Aerohive, Brocade, Juniper, and a ton of other vendors. We have a variety of wireless choices at our disposal. I can sell a product for almost any environment. In short, I can work with all sorts of "it depends" scenarios. That should help explain some of my skepticism.
That doesn't mean I was opposed to hearing Meraki's pitch. I LOVE talking to vendors no matter the size of the company or the particular area they focus on. I firmly believe that every vendor has something to offer. They ALL employ smart people.
So that's where I was at on Thursday, January26th when we pulled up to the Meraki headquarters in San Francisco. I was a skeptical non-believer. We walked through their offices and it felt 100% like a tech startup. Lots of young people typing away on large screen Macs. Plenty of flair attached to desks of varying heights. A few dogs wandering around. Snacks galore in their break area(which also included a few kegs of beer). All the things that scream: "You want to come to work." Nothing like the usual corporate environments where cubical walls run high, dress codes are enforced, and the only semblance of a corporate perk is free coffee or a meager selection of carbonated beverages. Still, I was skeptical. I've seen this before. It is replayed "ad nauseum" across the entire Silicon Valley landscape.
The more I listened to the people from Meraki talk, the more I began to change my mind about them. We all asked a fair amount of questions. They answered them with a fair amount of candor. They also did a demonstration of their management platform. During this demonstration, I couldn't help but think how polished the management interface looked. It was full of features, yet didn't seem cluttered. It wasn't a canned demo either. Below is a video of Pablo Estrada from Meraki walking us through the wireless product. He also took a little time showing us the switch and firewall management piece as well.
Live demonstrations of Meraki Wi-Fi gear with Pablo Estrada from Stephen Foskett on Vimeo.
In addition to the extensive demonstration that Pablo did, one of the delegates from WFD2, Daniel Cybulskie, put together an article and video on Meraki's Device Manager product. You can access it here.
Their wireless product set is very easy to understand. A few AP models for indoor and a few for outside. They have all the major features other vendors have. WIPS, RTLS, spectrum analysis, RRM, 802.1x, device fingerprinting, etc. Everything is managed through the MCC(Meraki Cloud Controller). After our initial discussions at the Meraki headquarters, it seemed as if their controller wasn't very controller-like at all. If you lost your connection to the MCC(ie the Internet), you could still authenticate new users provided your RADIUS box was local. Your captive portal would also continue working for guest access provided you hosted that locally. With a lot of the other solutions out there, this wasn't the case. If you lost your link to the controller, you could still function, but no new client connections could happen.
Could this be another controller-less solution? After all, the MCC seemed to be more management plane oriented and less control plane oriented. Then, the mystery was solved. RRM didn't work 100% without the connection to the MCC. In effect, layer 3 roaming was dead without the MCC link. However, we were informed that Meraki is working on making that functionality available locally(read the "Comments" section in this link). At some point in the future, you can lose the MCC link and still be able to roam via layer 3. I suspect this isn't a big deal in some of the areas Meraki is prevalent in(ie retail), but can be an issue in the larger networks like educational institutions, hospitality, etc. Once the layer 3 roaming piece is worked out, Meraki will be a lot closer to the controller-less solution that Aerohive has been alone in for the past couple of years. Ideally, most decent sized networks will have redundant Internet connections. You could even buy a cheap DSL or cable modem circuit and only use it for backup connectivity to the MCC should your primary circuit fail. DSL and cable are cheap compared to a full blown redundant Internet circuit for a medium to large network. I am not entirely sure of the bandwidth requirements, but I can't imagine they are huge given the fact that all data plane traffic stays local and quite a few of the control plane functions can stay local as well.
But Wait……..There's More!
If one were to simply look at the wireless portion of Meraki, you would miss out. As of today, they are selling their own wired switches and firewalls. This is where I think they start to differentiate themselves from other companies even more. These devices are also managed over the Internet. The switches are basically 24 or 48 x 1Gbps interfaces. All wire speed/non-blocking. You can get them with or without PoE and they support 802.3af and 802.3at for your devices requiring a bit more power. Oh, and all ports can provide power at once if need be, but the limitation on the switch(24 and 48 port) is 380W in total.
There are some additional limitations on the switching side. They do provide 10Gbps uplinks from the switches, but it appears they are only doing so with short-haul multi-mode optics. I suspect this is because most of their customers are going to use short haul optics if any optics at all. In my opinion, these switches are not going to be dropped into a network to run as a core or distribution switch unless it is a rather small environment.
Yes. There's Still More!
Not to be content with basic wired/wireless products, Meraki also has a decent firewall/UTM/router/call-it-what-you-will offering. Ranging from 100Mbps to 2Gbps stateful firewall throughput, they have a box that can meet most organization's needs at least from a throughput perspective. As with any other vendor, when you spin up VPN connectivity, throughput drops like a rock. I suspect other features cause a performance hit as well, but those numbers aren't displayed. That isn't unique to Meraki. No other vendor that I know of will openly tell you how poorly their box runs when you turn all the features on. Why would they? Marketing isn't in the business of highlighting the negatives. 🙂
A firewall is a firewall right? Not these days. If you want to differentiate yourself from the others, you need to have some serious application intelligence. A big part of what makes PaloAlto Networks a good firewall vendor is their ability to understand a ton of applications and affect throughput based on that understanding instead of the usual IP address and port access rules. Barracuda Networks can do this too with their Next Generation firewall as does Check Point with their latest and greatest offering. The Meraki firewall is able to do substantial application recognition and when paired with device fingerprinting, you can give users an experience that they will either love you for, or hate you for. In short, you have some serious options. Allow iPads to access Facebook, but prohibit laptops. Those kinds of things.
Apparently, that wasn't enough for Meraki, so they took their firewalls to the next level. They included content filtering, routing, WAN optimization, link bonding, and automatic VPN creation.
The VPN portion looks to be pretty straightforward. They can create IPsec tunnels between your remote sites with a single click. I've built massive numbers of VPN connections over the years. However, I have never built one with a single click. Obviously, since all these devices are managed over the Internet, it can send down the appropriate phase1/2 parameters that you normally enter manually on each end of the connection. Very quick and efficient provided you are using Meraki gear on both sides.
The link bonding is really just a way of aggregating dissimilar connections so that you can perform basic load balancing and also have failover without having to employ a large amount of devices to support it all. Barracuda Networks has a similar product. This isn't a service that a large enterprise customer would necessarily employ as they are going to use redundant hardware and other mechanisms to control the flow of traffic. I can see the benefit of this for the medium to smaller customers. Especially considering it doesn't cost you any more money. In fact, the only increased licensing charge appears to be for content filtering, client VPN connectivity, and anti-virus.
I saw a bit of the content filtering during the product demo at the Meraki headquarters. It appears to be fairly in depth like most decent content filters are. You can filter by category, end user, etc. Nothing too exciting there, but a nice feature to have considering other vendors have separate appliances you have to install for this type of service.
The one thing out of all of these features that caught my eye was the WAN optimization piece. The low end MX60 has 100MB of cache. The other models all have 1TB of cache on a SATA drive with the exception of the large MX600. It has 4TB in a RAID configuration. That's a lot of space for WAN optimization cache. If you look at Riverbed Steelheads, you have to get the 5050H to even get 800GB of cache storage. To get 4TB or more with Riverbed, you have to buy the largest box they sell, the 7050M. I can assure you that box costs 4 times or more of the price of the MX600. I would be willing to bet the Riverbed Steelheads will outperform the Meraki MX boxes from a WAN optimization perspective, but considering you get the WAN optimization for no additional fee, it would be worthwhile to use it even if the gain was minimal. Meraki states you can get up to 99% intersite bandwidth reduction using their WAN optimization and that you can accelerate CIFS, FTP, HTTP, and TCP traffic by up to 209 times the non-accelerated rate. Of course, that all depends on a variety of factors. I wouldn't count on seeing those kinds of performance numbers outside of pristine lab scenarios, but again, it's WAN optimization without the price tag of the larger vendors.
That covers the 3 main Meraki lines. Wireless, wired, and security. A product set that is easy to remember. Now how about pricing? What does a Meraki network cost? Thankfully, you can find that out before you even pick up the phone or send out an e-mail to their sales staff. They actually have a fairly decent pricing tool right on their web site. The cost for each AP, switch, and MX firewall is shown along with licensing, maintenance, etc. This is something I wish more vendors would do as it shows the customer right up front what their costs are going to be. If they get it cheaper, then even better, but at least they know how much they should budget for initially. What makes the pricing tool even more interesting is that they compare it to the cost of comparable Cisco products. They actually give the corresponding Cisco part number and the associated cost.
The prices are all list, but you can add the appropriate discount into the calculation to get more realistic numbers, because who pays list? 😉
Closing Thoughts
Like a lot of companies out in the Silicon Valley and Bay Area, Meraki employs a fair amount of smart and talented people. Using commodity hardware and some decent software, they appear to have built a nice product set with a management model that is appealing to your small to medium environments. The questions that I find myself asking are where they fit and don't fit. What environments would they thrive in? Certainly the heavily distributed environments that survive off a single Internet connection are applicable. Retail immediately comes to mind. I don't doubt their wireless can scale, but until they can handle layer 3 roaming without a link to the MCC, I will remain cautious. This isn't a controller/controller-less argument on my part. It's just that any time you rely on something off site to serve a critical function, you better make sure you have more than one way to connect to it. As for the wired switches, I think they would be fine on the edge. Will they build more capable switching platforms in the future? I am guessing that they will. Hard-wired switches don't have the same dependency on the dedicated link to a management platform like the wireless solution does. As for the security solutions, they appear to be able to scale up to the large network size. Perhaps some in depth testing of the MX platforms would paint a different picture.
As of today, I have a much different opinion of Meraki compared to just a month ago. I like what they are doing with the concept of "cloud" based management of their hardware. It makes it easier to sell to certain organizations that want to run lean IT shops. The Meraki product is easy to install and easy to use, based on my own testing of one of their wireless AP's and the corresponding management console. Their products are not for everyone. Certain organizations are not going to want to go the route of "cloud" managed hardware. They also don't have a ton of different hardware options that some organizations will want. That's the risk you take when running with a model such as theirs. I do think that we'll see more and more interest in companies like Meraki as IT resources become scarce in the years to come. By resources, I mean people. I look forward to seeing what they will come up with in the future.
Disclaimer: As a delegate for Wireless Field Day 2, my travel, lodging, and meals were paid for by a number of vendors including Meraki. I also received some items from Meraki with their logo on it along with an MR16 access point to keep for testing or personal use. None of this was done with the expectation that I would write or say anything about them.


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General Tommy Franks, the commander in chief of the allied forces, has dismissed suggestions that the war has faltered, saying that the coalition offensive is "on plan".
Speaking at a press briefing at the United States Central Command in Qatar, Gen Franks refused to speculate about how long the war will last.
But he said American and British forces had made "truly remarkable" advances since the war began 10 days ago, including securing Iraq's southern oil fields and weakening Saddam Hussein's regime.
He added that allied forces had destroyed a "massive terrorist facility" in northern Iraq within the past 48 hours.
Gen Franks said: "One never knows how long a war will take. We don't know. But what we do know is this coalition sees this regime gone at the end of that."
He added: "Everyday we diminish the regime's ability to command and control its forces, and every day we erode the regime's grip over the people of Iraq."
Gen Franks denied widespread media reports that he had asked for the war to be delayed and that Donald Rumsfeld, the US secretary of defence, had ignored his advice.
He said: "Those who seek to find a wedge between the various people among us, the various leaders party to this [the decision to go to war], will likely not be able to do so."
Gen Franks did not give detailed information about the terrorist camp destroyed in northern Iraq. But he said the base was "literally massive" and that ground troops had started "exploiting the results of that strike".
Over the past two days, US special forces have led an offensive against Ansar al-Islam, an Islamic terrorist group linked to al-Qa'eda based in northern Iraq.
Throughout the day, US and British warplanes have continued to attack Baghdad from the air.
Overnight air strikes hit the main training base of the Fedayeen paramilitary force which is thought to have been behind much of the resistance put up by Iraqi forces in the past week.
A presidential palace, surface-to-air missile sites and an intelligence service offices were also hit in last night's attacks, the US military said.
As night fell on Baghdad, warplanes could be heard overhead and several loud explosions rocked the city.
A large fire in central Baghdad has also been raging, possibly caused by Iraqi officials setting light to a trench filled with oil in a bid to mask targets from the air.
Meanwhile, Royal Marine commandos have captured five senior Iraqi Army officers and killed a Republican Guard colonel on the outskirts of Basra, according to military sources.
The engagement happened overnight during "aggressive patrolling" by the marines from 3 Commando Brigade.
Gp Capt Al Lockwood, the British forces spokesman based in Qatar, said a Republican Guard colonel was killed and other high-ranking officers had been taken prisoner.
He said British troops had been helped to target the Iraqi officers by information from civilians.
He said: "What has become obvious in the last day or so is that in Basra and other towns the local population are now beginning to trust us, they are talking to us and giving us valuable information about where these paramilitaries are located."
Describing the "aggressive patrolling" tactics of British forces, Gp Capt Lockwood said: "They are going into Basra and locating and taking prisoner these irregular paramilitary forces and securing these areas of Basra for the local population."
In a separate incident, troops from 16th Air Assault Brigade patrolling the Rumaila oilfields captured the deputy commander of the local Ba'ath Party who was armed at the time, the sources said.
The marines also seized a considerable amount of Iraqi equipment in Basra including Soviet-built MTLB armoured personnel carriers, anti-aircraft artillery and bridging equipment.
Elsewhere, units from the 7th Armoured Brigade Desert Rats patrolling the outskirts of the city reported sporadic firing by the Iraqi forces.
The mission to get aid into southern Iraq has been boosted with the completion of a pipeline bringing freshwater from Kuwait.
Gp Capt Lockwood: "That's enough for 160,000 people. It's a start and we have the potential to increase that."
However, he refuted suggestions that Allied forces had "paused" over the last few days.
"There is no operational pause, we are continuing with our campaign in the air and on the ground. What you are seeing is a shaping of the battle space so that when we engage the enemy we do so on our own terms."
He also said there were no plans for more British troops. He said: "We have sufficient troops in theatre to carry out the campaign and there is no plan for more troops."


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Same issue. Following instructions in the manual but it seems to jump from removing the mounting screws to removing the bulb without describing how to gain access to the bulb by removing the cover the mounting screws were holding on. There must be a trick too it. Probably something so simple it's easily overlooked.
Hi from uk not too sure on elantra but will try to help? if car is hatchback ? lift up hatch and look at the water drain channel alongside lamp? if there are 3x screws? unscrew and lift lamp off then unclup bulb/lamp board from lens bulbs are bayonet fitting if saloon then open boot look to rear of lamp in boot for either clip on panel or carpet covering lamp rear remove and look for some kind of nylon head screw bolt/s or 10 mm nuts? that my hold the lamp in place to body? or you may ?find the bulb/lamp board is simply a clip in to the lens assy as 1st example ? in that case just unclip and change bulb/s with no need to remove lens assy with a little patience you will succeed hope this helps
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There is a devil lurking in the shadows seeking to devour whosoever comes its way. It is an elongated beast, some 5 metres in length and 1 metre broad across its back. It perches menacingly, its hollowed out back standing at least 60 centimetres above the ground. It's dark brown flesh is scarred from many a battle. It reeks of peat and earthly moss. Deep within its back lay the flowing orange fire that lures its victims to a sudden and untimely disaster.
That insidious monster is my neighbour's flower planter situated obnoxiously between my double driveway and theirs. It is an accident waiting to happen, violating at least one city bylaw. This devil disguised as an innocuous marigold flower planter has destroyed more of our vehicles than I care to elaborate. Front bumpers, rear bumpers, lower body panels, tires, wheels, and doors – the dastardly creature has attacked and devoured them all.
I have pleaded with my neighbour for well over a decade to remove the barrier or at least cut it back to be in compliance with city bylaw. It is nearly impossible for a car to turn left from the street on to our driveway without the danger of being accosted by that mud brown devil incarnate of a beast called a flower planter. We have spent literally thousands of dollars repairing various automobiles of ours (not to mention friends) after a confrontation with the beast.
Last night was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back. We just purchased a brand new car that cost us literally half the price of our home in 1995. The new Honda hot hatch was parked on the far left side of the driveway, far away from the smelly monster. My wife and daughter were taking our "old" car out for a spin. Our youngest was familiarizing herself with her "new" hand-me-down. After picking up some ice-cream at the local supermarket, she tried to maneuver the Honda coupe into the far right side of the driveway, being ever so careful not to hit our shiny new car.
Lo and behold, the monster was awakened, lunged out, and took a big bite out of the front bumper. It's talons tearing and scratching at the lower front of the car.
My devastated daughter just sat in the car and cried. Her "new" car was no longer immaculate, but wounded and mangled. By the time I was called outside to inspect the damage, I was livid with anger – not at my daughter, but at that damn planter and at myself for allowing this to go on for so long.
Sometimes, being a good neighbour is a one way street with little or no cooperation from the other party. That's it – the war is on. That planter is going to be removed come hell or high water.
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