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product Name L-Glutamic acid
Synonyms L-Glutamic acid (S)-2-Aminopentanedioic acid; H-Glu-OH; L-2-Aminoglutaric acid; L(+)GLUTAMIC ACID; L-Glutamine Acid ; Glutamic Acid; 4-amino-5-hydroxypentanamide
Molecular Formula C5H9NO4
Molecular Weight 147.1291
InChI InChI=1/C5H12N2O2/c6-4(3-8)1-2-5(7)9/h4,8H,1-3,6H2,(H2,7,9)
CAS Registry Number 56-86-0
In the food industry:
1) as a generation of salts, nutritional supplements, flavor agent (primarily for meat, soups and poultry, etc). For convenience foods such as broth and soups, 10g/kg. For beverages. Baking products, meat, meat, sausage, broth, milk and meat products, flavoring agent, cereal products, dosage 400mg/kg. Used as a nutritional supplement, limited 12.4 (in term of the amount of protein in food ).
2)Can be used as shrimp. Canned crab and other aquatic produce magnesium ammonium phosphate crystals in the prevention of agent, dosage 0.3-1.6.
3) L-monosodium glutamate (MSG Valley, known as "MSG"), has a strong meat flavor, is the world's largest outside of a flavoring agent besides
food and salt. Especially in the PH value is 6-7 pm, MSG all of dissociation, was the strongest flavor. Widely used in cooking and food processing. General dosage is 0.2-0.5 per capita daily intake of no more than 6g / d.
4) L-Glutamic acid hydrochloride not only can improve beer bitterness, but also can be used on behalf of salts, nutritional supplements, flavor enhancer.
In the pharmaceutical industry:
1) L-Glutamate is an non-essential amino acid metabolism. It is easy to lose amino acid when occur the transfer reaction. After eating, there are 96 - glutamic acid can be absorbed into the body, it can be used as nutritional supplements, "elemental diet" as one of raw materials, used in clinical Hill.
2) As a component of one of the amino acid infusion formulations.
3) Involved in promoting the oxidation process of protein and carbohydrate. With the excitatory role of mass transfer, it can improve and maintain brain function. It has the role of depression and central nervous excitement and additional brain agents of mental illness and mental retardation of children, as well as epilepsy, hypertension, memory disorders, the treatment agents.
Physical and chemical properties
1, in the food industry: as salt substitute, nutritional supplements, flavor enhancer (mainly for meat, soups and poultry, etc.). Broth and soups such as for convenience foods, 10g / kg. For beverages, bakery products, meat, sausage meat, milk and dairy products, flavorings, cereal products, the amount of 400mg / kg. Used as a nutritional supplement, Limited 12.4% (based on the total protein in food dollars). It can be used as shrimp, crabs and other aquatic products canned produce magnesium ammonium phosphate crystals to prevent the agent, the amount of 0.3% to 1.6%. L - monosodium glutamate (MSG, commonly known as "MSG") has a strong flavor of meat, sugar and salt is in addition to most of the world consumption of a flavoring agent. Especially in the PH value of 6 to 7:00, MSG all dissociation, the strongest flavor. Widely used in cooking and food processing. General amount of 0.2% to 0.5%. Per capita daily intake of no more than 6g / d. L- glutamic hydrochloride for improving the bitterness of beer, also be used as salt substitutes, nutritional supplements, flavoring agents. Application Notes
2, in the pharmaceutical industry: L - glutamic non-essential amino acids, it is metabolized in the body. Easy to lose amino, occurrence of transfer reactions with acid, other amino acids can be synthesized. After eating, there are 96% L - glutamic acid can be absorbed by the body, it can be used as raw material for nutritional supplements "elemental diet", the use in clinical practice.
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text: Full Broadcast of 2013 Las Vegas GEICO EnduroCross Opener Press Release | May 9, 2013The opening round of the 2013 GEICO AMA EnduroCross series, fueled by Monster Energy and presented by Lucas Oil featured a live broadcast online at www.EnduroCross.com, www.DirtRider.com and on the Motor Trend YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/motortrend). If you missed it, the full show is available online at the link below and you can watch the full three hours or skip forward to the main races.As a quick recap, the series kicked off on Friday night inside the Orleans Arena and Mike Brown dominated the event with a convincing main event win over Taddy Blazusiak and Colton Haaker. Brown led every lap and opened up a nine second lead but was only two seconds clear at the finish as Blazusiak, Haaker and Cody Webb closed up while fighting for second.Las Vegas, Nevada GEICO AMA EnduroCross, Fueled by Monster Energy Expert Main Event results:1. Mike Brown KTM 2. Taddy Blazusiak KTM 3. Colton Haaker Honda 4. Cody Webb Beta 5. Geoff Aaron KTM 6. Taylor Robert Kawasaki 7. Cory Graffunder Husqvarna 8. Kyle Redmond KTM 9. Justin Soule Kawasaki 10. Max Gerston BetaThe Women's class had a first time winner as Shelby Turner beat fellow Canadian, Chantelle Bykerk. Rachel Gutish finished third. Maria Forsberg, the defending Women's champion had a tough night and finished fourth and Louise Forsley, the second place women from 2012 missed the race due to injury.The night also included support classes and Kurt Nicoll started the night off by winning the Vet 35+ class ahead of Ty Davis and Colby Begin. Tyler Murray won the Open Amateur class by taking the lead in the last turn from second place finisher, David Broderick. Gavin McCarthy finished third. Australia's Jack Field wowed the crowd by pulling a backflip off the finishline log while taking the win in the TrialsCross class. Ty Cullins and Ty Tremaine finished second and third.Round two of the GEICO AMA EnduroCross series will take place in Sacramento, California inside the Sleep Train Arena on Saturday, June 8th. You can get tickets at Ticketmaster, http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C004A48A4E0645E?artistid=1305969&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=25 For more information, please visit www.EnduroCross.com 2013 GEICO AMA EnduroCross, Fueled by Monster Energy Schedule Location Date Arena / Additional Information Las Vegas, Nevada May 3, 2013 Orleans Arena (Friday during Supercross weekend) Sacramento, California June 8, 2013 Sleep Train Arena Ontario, California September 21, 2013 Citizens Business Bank Arena Denver, Colorado October 12, 2013 National Western Complex Everett, Washington October 26, 2013 Comcast Arena Boise, Idaho November 9, 2013 Idaho Center Las Vegas, Nevada November 23, 2013 Orleans ArenaEnduroCross NewsRead More Off-Road Racing News By Press Release Comments

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A leading medical specialist has told the High Court it is "tragic" that couples have to go to court to resolve issues on reproductive medicine because of an absence of legislation.
Dr Mary Wingfield was giving evidence in a landmark case involving the mother of twins born to a surrogate who wants her name recorded on the register of births.
Dr Wingfield, who was a defence witness for the State, said she was "very, very disappointed" that seven years after a report from the Commission on Assisted Reproduction, there is still "no clarity and no legislation".
She said: "We so badly need legislation, it is tragic that couples have to end up in the High Court to resolve issues like this. It is not right."
Dr Wingfield agreed that a majority of the commission had recommended seven years ago that "commissioning parents" of a child born to a surrogate mother should be "presumed" to be the parents as that was the original intention.
But she said it was a very complex area because of the different scenarios involved and the genetic make-up of the children and whether or not they were genetically linked, through egg donation, to the gestational mother.
It was important to protect the rights of a surrogate mother as well, she added.
Dr Wingfield felt parentage should lie with the "commissioning couple" as it was always intended a child born to a surrogate would be theirs but it is difficult to legislate for it.
The principal of intent was the primary one in her opinion rather than just genetics, as you had to allow for opposite situations where a woman received a donor egg to have children and she would want to have parental rights over the child.
Dr Wingfield said because of the lack of clarity and legislation Irish couples requiring surrogacy had to generally go abroad.
She agreed the Commission on Assisted Reproduction had used the word "presumption" of parentage for genetic mothers because that gave more flexibility than an absolute.
Earlier, the court was told there are no written guidelines or policies to deal with cases of registering surrogate births in Ireland.
Chief Registrar Kieran Feely said the State's policy was not written in any formal document, but was passed on to him verbally by his predecessor.
The case is the first of its kind in Ireland and will see issues of genetic parentage being considered for the first time by an Irish court.
During cross-examination by Gerard Durkan SC, Mr Feely said he had received legal advice that only the woman who gave birth to a child could be registered as the mother.
While he had been aware of this policy from his predecessor, nothing was reduced to writing.
He also said he had received DNA evidence in the current case to show that the applicant was the biological mother of the twins and the surrogate mother was not the biological mother.
The court also heard that in other jurisdictions, such as the UK, legislation is in place to deal with surrogate births and provision is made to register a transfer of parental duties to a genetic parent.
A similar system exists in Ireland, but only in cases of adoption, he said.


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UJ student receives award: Minchello named Outstanding Health and Physical Education Major
University of James-town student Jonathan Minchella, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was honored as the university's Outstanding Health and Physical Education Major of the Year at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance National Convention and Expo April 3 in St. Louis.
The award recognizes outstanding undergraduate students majoring in any health, physical education, recreation, dance, sport, kinesiology, exercise science or physical wellness related program at their college or university. All winners were nominated by their university and selected by AAHPERD to receive the honor. Colleges and universities can only nominate one student from each discipline to be recognized each year.
This year more than 150 students from around the country were honored at the Major of the Year Ceremony and Reception, which is sponsored by the National Strength & Conditioning Association.
"These young professionals will be the leaders of the future in improving educational programs and encouraging all Americans to make fitness and health a part of their daily lives," said Gale Wiedow, AAHPERD president and interim dean of the College of Education at Dakota State University in Madison, S.D. "Their recognition as outstanding majors in their university programs is a crowning glory of their college years and introduces them to the value of professional involvement."
During his years at University of Jamestown, Minchella played baseball for the Jimmies, participated in the physical education teacher education program and taught in the physical education homeschool program. Minchella has also received multiple awards, including college fellow, Dakota Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete and Capital One Academic All-American. He has been named to the university's dean's list each year.


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A PERFECT setting for this play is matched by the usual professional delivery by the company. Set in 1930s Athens with appropriate music of the era, the fairies of Shakespeare's play are now portrayed by clowns led by Puck (a captivating Suze Avery). Another innovation by director, Ken Hann, is to have a female Bottom (Jenni Watson) whose actions contribute to the fun generated by the play within a play.
The four young lovers (William Baggs, Kate Grundy, Carl Browning, Susannah Lawther) give athletic performances involving much horse-play and chasing.
The use of magic potions is well exercised by Oberon (Ruben Sanchez-Garcia) and Titania (Rachael Courage). Indeed, there is not a weakness in the whole cast with all the performers ably demonstrating clear diction in the open air.
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The Association benefits from a variety of volunteers who provide their time and resources to make improvements around Lake Linganore. These efforts are invaluable and help to defray costs and support a small management staff. Community members may notice the installation of "Little Free Libraries" around the community in the coming months. This project was completed by the Kids Volunteer Network (KVN) and local builder CE Rensberger & Family. All material cost related to the construction of the libraries was donated by local real estate agent, Liz Burrow of Keller Williams Realty Centre.
KVN is a Frederick area volunteer group, comprised of youth who want to get involved in their local community. Providing community service projects for kids is the primary goal of the organization and their recent project involved bringing Little Free Libraries to Lake Linganore.
CE Rensberger & Family is one of several businesses that actively supports the efforts of KVN through instruction, supervision and the donation of resources. CE Rensberger & Family is a Lake Linganore builder and hosted work sessions for this project at their woodshop. All labor was provided by the KVN kids and Joel Rensberger provided instruction during work sessions. e kids ranged in age between 7 and 13 years old, and there were 15 children that contributed to the project. The Little Free Libraries were built during five Saturday work parties where the kids learned how to use tools and how to understand construction vocabulary. KVN was happy to report no injuries! Several nervous mothers observed demonstrations where their children learned how to use nail guns, a table saw, circular saw, and many different hand tools on their own. Local Scout Pack 628 jumped on the opportunity to support this project and will be painting the Little Free Libraries.
The KVN kids involved in this project for Linganore came from as far as Baltimore County, although nearly all of them were Frederick County residents. All of the children who built the libraries wrote messages under the roofs and signed and dated their name. Only when the roof of each unit is replaced, perhaps 20 years from now, will the kids' notes be visible.
Many thanks to the Kids Volunteer Network of Frederick, CE Rensberger & Family and Liz Burrow, Realtor for giving back to the community and supporting a project that will benefit Linganore families for years to come. These Little Free Libraries will encourage reading and inspire residents to get outdoors and connect with their neighbors, one good book at a time!


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By Bassem Mroue, AP Thursday, February 23, 2012, 12:10 am TWN
The Obama administration opened the door slightly Tuesday to international military assistance for Syria's rebels, with officials saying new tactics may have to be explored if Assad continues to defy pressure to halt a brutal crackdown on dissenters that has raged for 11 months and killed thousands.
The White House and State Department said they still hope for a political solution. But faced with the daily onslaught by the Assad regime against Syrian civilians, officials dropped the administration's previous strident opposition to arming anti-regime forces. It remained unclear, though, what, if any, role the U.S. might play in providing such aid.
A Homs-based activist, Omar Shaker, said the journalists were killed when several rockets hit a garden of a house used by activists and journalists in the besieged Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr, which has come under weeks of heavy bombardment by forces from Assad's regime. At least 13 people were killed in Wednesday's shelling, including the journalists, activists said.
The U.N. estimates that 5,400 people have been killed in repression by the regime of President Bashar Assad against a popular uprising that began 11 months ago. Syrian activists, however, put the death toll at more than 7,300.
He added that intense Syrian troops shelling with tanks and artilleries began at 6:30 a.m. and was continuing hours later. He said the apartment used by journalists was hit around 10 a.m.
Many foreign journalists have been sneaking into Syria illegally in the past months with the help of smugglers from Lebanon and Turkey. Although the Syrian government has allowed some journalists into the country their movement is tightly controlled by Information Ministry minders.
Colvin, from Oyster Bay, New York, was in her 50s and a veteran foreign correspondent for Britain's Sunday Times for the past two decades. She was instantly recognizable for an eye patch worn after being injured covering conflicts in Sri Lanka in 2001. Colvin said she would not "hang up my flak jacket" even after the eye injury.
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In Geneva, the International Red Cross said it was holding talks with members of the opposition Syrian National Council. The ICRC called Tuesday for a daily two-hour halt to fighting in Syria so it can bring emergency aid to affected areas and evacuate the wounded and sick.
Head of ICRI operations for the Middle East, Beatrice Megevand-Roggo, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the ICRC had almost no contacts with opposition figures inside Syria.
The journalists' deaths came a day after a Syrian sniper shot dead Rami al-Sayyed, a prominent activist in Baba Amr who was famous for posting online videos, Shaker and the Local Coordination Committees activist group said.
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The Lake Pend Oreille Fishery Recovery Task Force and Idaho Fish and Game have scheduled an informational "State of the Lake" public meeting to discuss the status of fish populations in Lake Pend Oreille and the progress of the fishery recovery effort.
The meeting is scheduled for 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, February 21, at the Ponderay Events Center by the Bonner Mall north of Sandpoint.
The meeting is open to anyone with an interest in the lake. Following the presentations, there will be a question and answer session as well as time for informal discussion after the meeting.
Presentations will summarize the results of the 2012 predator removal efforts, status of kokanee and bull trout populations, and recap the recent rule changes. In addition, biologists will present results of a recent genetic assessment of the rainbow trout population, comparing the fish from Pend Oreille to those in Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, where the population originally came from.
For information, contact Idaho Fish and Game at 208-769-1414. Individuals with disabilities may request meeting accommodations by contacting Jim Fredericks at the number above; or, through the Idaho Relay Service at 1 800 377 2529 (TDD).


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As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'd never driven a dump-truck before hiring on with my current employer. Like most companies, they just sort of pointed me in the general direction and said "here's what we need done." No-one told me for three months to NEVER back up with your tag-axles (cheaters) down, though I usually didn't, but for my own reasons. No-one told me until LAST WEEK that the "regen" wouldn't work on my old truck unless the coolant was kept almost full to overflowing (meaning that I might have been partially responsible for the loss of my truck). There were other things, though, that had nothing to do with vehicle needs for which I was somewhat unprepared when I took on the job.
The first was the noise. I hired on in July, during the hot months. Since "my" truck had been purchased used, like most of their fleet, the air-conditioner was more than a little inconsistent. It tended to go off and on according to a mystical sequence of potholes in the highway. As a result, I sometimes ran with the windows partly down when the AC was partly working, and clear down when it was on the fritz. Incidentally, I noticed a psychological effect of additional perceived speed with the window noise, about 10 MPH at highway speed, it seemed to me.
I often kept my windows down about an inch anyway, to stay in better touch with my surroundings. Of course, in letting in the sound of sirens, horns, shouts, squealing tires, engine noise of other vehicles, etc, it also let in more of the noise of my exhaust (on the passenger side) and the noise of my own truck's engine. It was particularly noisy when the turbo kicked in. The windows were generally at least part-way down on job-sites, too, so I could hear back-up warnings, other machinery moving and the horn of various machines used to load the truck, many of which had diminutive horns in comparison to the size of the machines.
The independent radiator fans are nearly a loud as the engine, when they kick in, making it especially difficult to shift by ear, now that I'm driving a standard. Plus, in the old Mack, the speed sensor for the automatic transmission made a lot of noise, at certain speeds. I guess everything comes at a price. Besides the noise in the cab from the engine, transmission, hydraulic lift controls and speed sensor, all those items also add heat to the cab, good in winter, not so much in summer.
The flurry of activity with a dump-truck was also something I hadn't thought about. My previous driving experience had been with long delivery routes with few stops. There ARE some days like that on this job, but not many. While the salt runs of winter may involve one or two trips a day to some far-flung end of the state, the local "dirt jobs" can involve multiple short runs. I believe 24 loads is my record so far for a day. I don't usually mind the dirt jobs, though two weeks on that one was a bit much. The senior man, who was there with me, fussed about it after the first day and got moved to another job.
Often, the only breaks that we get are when the loader operators are adjusting their positions or their machine requires some sort of minor maintenance. On dirt jobs, it's hard to answer nature's call, or even eat your lunch (those things are difficult EVERY day, for that matter). We're told when hired to always take a 30 minute lunch break (so they'll be in compliance with the law) but, with the next load always waiting, few guys do, nor do they really expect us to, though they don't complain if we do. Most guys do like me and eat on the fly, or when they're being loaded. Lunch then, is not a meal, but a series of snacks. What you pack in your lunchbox soon begins to reflect that.
Keeping us busy, of course, is what keeps the company profitable and the drivers working, so I won't complain. I must confess, though, I DO prefer the days when the things are a bit more relaxed. © 2015


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Less than two weeks after getting an indie rock version of Twin Peaks' theme song, another nostalgic '90s television series gets the cover treatment, as online musician/artist/entrepreneur Sick Animation has put an acoustic spin on the intro from the show that gave us Steve Urkel.
What's next, Home Improvement? Hangin' With Mr. Cooper?
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Homesickness – the state of missing one's home during a period of absence, says the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. As an expatriate Hong Konger who has lived in Australia for the last 22 years, there are times when I yearn to return to HKG, if only for a holiday, and those times have become more and more frequent lately.
I've made the trip from my adopted home town of PER to my former home town of HKG 7 times in 22 years, although the past four times were made in less than four years: twice in 2009, once in 2011 and once, again, in late 2012, which is covered by this trip report.
The day of the flight
I'm a procrastinator. I don't get things done until the very last minute. The result of this nasty habit was that I had to wake up at 0300hrs on the day of departure to pack, for we would be leaving at 0500 to drive to the airport so that we can arrive at around 0530hrs. Luckily (or not, depending on how you look at it), I usually over-pack rather than under-pack, so I'm much more likely to bring the kitchen sink even if there's a 0.01% chance that I might actually want to use it at some stage during the trip, rather than forget something and have to buy it locally. So the chance of me leaving something behind in the mad rush to pack my bags was slim.
At the airport
We arrived at the airport at 0530hrs. Traffic was almost non-existent at that hour. As we had already completed online check-in, dropping off the bags and heading airside was quick and easy. Thankfully we got some proper boarding passes too!
PER isn't really anything to brag about. For a capital city airport, it is somewhat on the small side. I can't wait to see how its refurbishments turn out.
CX136 was going to depart from Gate 2 today, with an SQ 777-212ER at Gate 4 operating the second of four daily flights from PER to SIN, while at Gate 5 a CZ A330-343X was to operate a flight to CAN.
The flight
4 Nov 2012
Flight Number: CX136
Aircraft type: Airbus A330-343X
Registration: B-LAM
C/N 1236, delivered new to CX 29 July 2011
13th flight on Airbus A330
11th flight on Airbus A330-300
Photo © Edward Zhu
Boarding was conducted by row number. As my seat was in the last zone of the aircraft, I was among those who were first to board. This aircraft was equipped with CX's new long haul Business Class, Premium Economy and Economy seats. I was quite a fan of the much maligned previous generation economy seats, and at first, I was somewhat disappointed that CX has gone back from non-reclining shell seats to the normal reclining type, but once I sat down, all that was forgiven. This seat is a significant improvement over the previous generation in terms of comfort. My concern was that the reclining passengers in front of me would take away what little legroom I have left. However, as the seat base slides forward when the seat back is reclined, that effect is minimised. That said, the person in front of me did not use the seat's recline function to the fullest extent. One thing though: the new generation seats lack the previous seats' seatbelt mounted airbag.
Legroom was a comfortable 32 inches and there was but a very small IFE box located under the window seat which doesn't affect the leg room much at all.
Blanket and pillow were already on the seat. I don't usually sleep on flights anyway, even more so as it's a daytime flight between two cities with no time difference! I certainly won't need them today.
Route map
SQ's Boeing 777-212ER 9V-SQM departing as SQ224 to SIN.
CZ's Airbus A330-343X at Gate 5 operating flight CZ320 to CAN.
Still being refuelled
While we're waiting for pushback, I perused the menu
After pushback. I've spent many a free hour on that third floor observation deck.
We taxied to runway 21 and took off, heading south initially before turning west, winding its way through Perth's affluent suburbs and then turning northbound to HKG. No wonder residents here are up in arms about aircraft noise!
Rottnest Island
The new IFE system is a touchscreen operated system which I found to be very intuitive. There's a multi-function touch sensitive button in the middle of the black border below the screen which activates the menu to control the volume, brightness and contrast, as well as the control for the reading light and the attendant call button. When AVOD content is being played it also contains the pause/stop/play function.
As part of the celebration of the release of Skyfall and the 50th anniversary of James Bond films, StudioCX had added six Bond films to its choices during November.
I rarely watch films on planes. There's too much else going on to provide the entertainment, especially on a daytime flight such as this one. When I do get around to watching a film, I find that I can't just sit there for the two hours while the film plays through. I often pause, look at the airshow, then look out the window before returning to the film. It's the same with reading a book. When I'm on a plane, I get distracted quite easily.
Those who know me will tell you how much of a James Bond fan I am. I learnt English as my second language primarily through watching James Bond films. I could recite "Tell me, Miss Trench, do you play any other games? I mean besides Chemin-de-fer", before learning the basics of sentence structure and everyday communication. But I digress. As a Bond fan, I couldn't resist the temptation to break with tradition. With six Bond films to choose from, I decided on what I consider to be the third best James Bond film, Dr No
Breakfast was served about one and a half hours into the flight. I chose the chicken and ginger congee.
I'm not a big fan of congee, but I chose that dish because it was the lighter option and I wasn't particularly hungry. However, the caterer deserves top marks here – it was superb. The flavour is as good as any I've ever had.
Leaving the north-west coast of Australia
I paused the film for the second time while taking a stroll around the cabin. Here's a picture of the rear economy cabin.
A rather spartan lavatory, albeit with a lovely and modern light green finish
Unfortunately, the airshow only displayed flight information in imperial units. The previous version displayed flight information in both metric and imperial units. Bit of a shame, really. While I have a rough idea in my head how fast 900km/h ground speed is, when I see a measurement in imperial I struggle to convert it to metric before understanding what it really means. I think in metric.
The crew did several drinks rounds throughout the flight. This time, I ordered the PlaneHunter special
Some cloud formations near the Borneo area. As someone who is rather prone to motion sickness, however, I'm thankful that there was hardly any turbulence to speak of throughout the flight.
About two hours prior to landing, the smell of food wafted through the cabin yet again: lunch time! I chose the steamed fish, which, disappointingly, was a little overcooked. I should've known better. As a bit of a foodie, I know that fish steamed perfectly is not easy even if it was made fresh, let alone reheated on board an aircraft. I hear that in Michelin starred restaurants in Hong Kong, they have chefs that specialise in making that one dish perfectly: the traditional Cantonese steamed whole fish. If done perfectly, the flesh should be able to be pulled apart by a fork and simply flake off the bone. I should probably stop there in case I get sent the bill for replacement keyboards after people have drooled all over them.
The view from the window. Unlike many other flights I had been on, I was not asked by the crew to close the window shade, so I was able to enjoy the view outside for the entire flight!
Nearly there
After lunch, I played Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for a while. The best I could achieve was to walk away with $64,000 imaginary dollars
The IFE system switched off when we began our descent into HKG, which was a shame. I did notice, however, that the people who had their IFE set to the airshow channel could still watch the airshow, but as I was playing Who Wants To Be A Millionaire at the time, my screen went blank and I was unable to turn it back on.
On the ground in HKG
Immigration was quick and painless, and as always in a super-efficient airport like HKG, our bags were available for collection as we passed immigration.
Overall impressions
CX has been my favourite airline for many years. It may have stemmed from the fact that I grew up in HKG in the 1980s, but I have liked them ever since I saw their green and white striped aircraft at Kai Tak. The aircraft and livery may have changed, as have the people, but the friendly, professional atmosphere remains. While I wouldn't say that this flight was exceptionally good in the sense that nothing stood out as being over and above what I would expect, the crew did everything in a prompt, professional and friendly manner, and more importantly – with a smile. I can't ask for more. CX in its advertising has boldly claimed that their people make the airline. Well, from what I saw, CX makes a fine airline indeed.
Err … I mean, the trip report for the return sector might possibly be posted in due course …
[Edited 2012-12-09 09:49:53]


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Winter Weather Advisory 1am to Noon Wednesday
Snow definitely fell a bit heavier than I was expecting it to this morning due to a nice banding feature that set up right over the D.C. Metro. There have been reports of 1 to 2 inches (isolated higher spots) of snow across the area and a Winter Weather Advisory has been posted until 2pm, though additional accumulations will be unlikely. Here are some of the latest snowfall reports.
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Another shot of light snow is likely Wednesday morning as a different system kicks to the south and east of D.C. Snow will begin in the early morning hours close to 4am and continue through 9am or 10am. Accumulations will again be generally around 1 to 2 inches in the Metro and points south and east.
A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect from 1am to Noon Wednesday for the areas shaded in purple pic.twitter.com/M39oSsLAgJ— Alex Liggitt (@alexliggitt) February 25, 2014
Temperatures are expected to start a little colder tomorrow morning in the 20s so roadways may have an easier time accumulating the light snow, particularly on side roads. If another band happens to form like it did today, there may be a few spots with amounts to 3 inches, but that should be on the high end.
Reagan National Airport reported 2.8" of snow today, bringing the seasonal total up to 18.3", which is the second highest snowfall in the past 10 years. The highest was the record breaking 56.1" from 2009-2010, which hopefully we won't get closer to!4km NAM 12Z Model Composite Reflectivity for 6am Wednesday Morning (Courtesy: WeatherBELL Models)
Above is a look at the forecast composite reflectivity for 6am Wednesday morning. Again the best chance for snow will be east of the Blue Ridge closer to the Metro and points southeast to the Chesapeake Bay. We'll keep you on top of it!


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Bosses are a rare enemy type found mainly in dungeons and occasionally roaming the outdoors.
Outdoor bosses are much more difficult to kill due to their higher health than indoor bosses.
They yield more experience than normal enemies, and have much more health and deal higher damage.
Once killed, they can be reset and fought again by visiting an inn; or they will reappear naturally at 6:00 in the morning.
They can be identified by their size compared to their normal counterpart, purple color of their names and aura.
Bosses drop upper-tier loot and Spirit cubes.
They are frequent mission objectives, but there is no requirement of an active mission to slay a boss, should you happen upon one.
Taming as a Pet
Upon being tamed a boss transforms into a normal creature.
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During Wednesday's general audience address to 30,000 people in St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict XVI focused his remarks on why he initiated the Year for Priests and what it means to be a priest.
"Why a Year for Priests?" the Pope asked. "The aim of this Year for Priests," he said, "is to support each priest's struggle towards spiritual perfection, upon which the effectiveness of his ministry particularly depends, and to help priests, and with them the entire People of God, to rediscover and revive an awareness of the extraordinary and indispensable gift of Grace which the ordained ministry represents."
The priesthood is an indispensable gift for "the person who receives it, for the entire Church, and for the world which would be lost without the real presence of Christ," the Pope explained.
"In a world in which the common view of life leaves ever less space for the sacred, in place of which 'functionality' becomes the only decisive category, the Catholic concept of priesthood could risk losing its due regard, sometimes even in the ecclesial conscience," the Holy Father cautioned.
Pope Benedict identified two conceptions of the priesthood: on the one hand, "a social-functional conception which identifies the essence of priesthood with the concept of 'service;'" on the other hand, "a sacramental-ontological conception…as determined by a gift called Sacrament, granted by the Lord through the mediation of the Church."
"Priests are Christ's servants, in the sense that their existence, ontologically configured to Him, has an essentially relational character. The priest is in Christ, for Christ and with Christ at the service of humankind," the Pontiff explained. "Precisely because he belongs to Christ, the priest is radically at the service of man."
Benedict XVI concluded by expressing his hope that "the Year for Priests may lead all the clergy to identify themselves completely with Christ Who died and rose again, so that, imitating St. John the Baptist, they may be ready 'to diminish' that He may grow; and that, following the example of the Cure of Ars, they may be constantly and profoundly aware of their mission, which is both sign and presence of the infinite mercy of God."
At the end of today's general audience, the Holy Father greeted a delegation headed by Radhika Coomaraswamy, Under-Secretary of the United Nations and Special Representative for Children in Situations of Armed Conflict.
The Holy Father told the group that he is "thinking of all the children of the world, especially those who suffer fear, abandonment, hunger, abuses, sickness and death. The Pope remains close to all these young victims and always remembers them in his prayers."
He then went on to recall that 150 years ago today was born the idea for a movement to assist the victims of war, a movement which later took the name "Red Cross." "With the passage of the years," the Holy Father observed, "the values of universality, neutrality and independence of service have aroused the support of millions of volunteers all over the world, creating an important bulwark of humanity and solidarity in numerous contexts of war and conflict, and in many emergency situations.
The Pope also gave a special call for young people to "make a concrete commitment to this most worthy organization."
Benedict XVI finished by appealing for the "release of all people held hostage in areas of conflict and, once again, for the release of Eugenio Vagni, Red Cross worker in the Philippines."


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Release Notes for Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers and Lightweight Access Points for Release 220.127.116.11
Cisco Unified Wireless Network Solution Components
Upgrading to a New Software Release
FCC Safety Compliance Statement
Pings Intermittently Drop to the Controller
Service Modules Supported in the Catalyst 6500 Series Switch
Connecting 1100 and 1300 Series Access Points
Association Delay for 1500 Series Access Points
Controllers Must Run Release 184.108.40.206 or Later to Support -P Regulatory Domain
Preventing Clients from Accessing the Management Network on a Controller
Voice Wireless LAN Configuration
Operating Mesh Networks through Switches and Routers
Cisco 7920 Wireless IP Phone Support
Changing the IOS LWAPP Access Point Password
Exclusion List (Blacklist) Client Feature
RADIUS Servers and the Management VLAN
Cisco Aironet 1030 Remote Edge Lightweight Access Point s and WPA2-PSK
Lightweight Access Point Connection Limitations
Management Usernames and Local Netuser Names
802.1x and Microsoft Wireless Configuration Manager
Cisco Aironet 1030 Remote Edge Lightweight Access Point Default Operation
Home Page Retains Web Authentication Login with IE 5.x
Rogue Location Discovery Protocol (RLDP)
Changing the Default Values of SNMP Community Strings
Using the GUI to Change the SNMP Community String Default Values
Using the CLI to Change the SNMP Community String Default Values
Changing the Default Values for SNMP v3 Users
Using the GUI to Change the SNMP v3 User Default Values
Using the CLI to Change the SNMP v3 User Default Values
Web Authentication Limits on Hybrid-REAP Access Points
Features Not Supported on 2000 Series Controllers
Some Clients See Only 64 Access Point MAC Addresses (BSSIDs) at a Time
Pinging from a Network Device to a Controller Dynamic Interface
2006 Image Not Supported for 3504 Controllers
Running a 3504 Image on a 2000 Series Controller
Upgrading External Web Authentication
Resolved Caveats in Release 188.8.131.52
Resolved Caveats in Release 220.127.116.11
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
These release notes describe open and resolved caveats for software release 184.108.40.206 for Cisco 2000 and 4400 Series Wireless LAN Controllers; Cisco Wireless Services Modules (WiSM); Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Network Modules; Catalyst 3750G Integrated Wireless LAN Controller Switches; and Cisco Aironet 1000, 1100, 1130, 1200, 1240, 1300, and 1500 Series Lightweight Access Points, which comprise part of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network (UWN) Solution.
Note Unless otherwise noted, all of the Cisco wireless LAN controllers are hereafter referred to as controllers, and all of the Cisco lightweight access points are hereafter referred to as access points.
The following components are part of the Cisco UWN Solution and are compatible in this release:
The controller graphical user interface (GUI) requires the following operating system and web browser:
Note Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or higher is the only browser supported for accessing the controller GUI and for using WebAuth.
Operating system software is factory installed on your controller and automatically downloaded to the access points after a release upgrade and whenever an access point associates to a controller. As new releases become available for the controllers and their associated access points, consider upgrading.
Note The Cisco WiSM requires software release SWISMK9-32 or later. The Supervisor 720 12.2(18)SXF2 supports the Cisco WiSM software release 22.214.171.124 or above, and the Supervisor 720 12.2(18)SXF5 (Cisco IOS Software Modularity) supports the Cisco WiSM software release 184.108.40.206 (with Cisco IOS Software Modularity).
Note The Cisco WiSM is supported on Cisco 7609 and 7613 Series Routers running only Cisco IOS Release 12.2(18)SXF5 or higher.
Note To use the controller in the Catalyst 3750G Wireless LAN Controller Switch, the switch must be running Cisco IOS Release 12.2.25.FZ or 12.2(25)SEE.
To find the software release running on your controller, look on the Monitor > Summary page of the controller GUI or enter show sysinfo on the controller command line interface (CLI).
When a controller is upgraded, the code on its associated access points is also automatically upgraded. When an access point is loading code, each of its lights blinks in succession.
Note You can upgrade to controller software release 18.104.22.168 from any previous controller software release.
Cisco recommends the following sequence when performing an upgrade:
1. Upload your controller configuration files to a server to back them up.
2. Turn off the controller 802.11a and 802.11b networks.
3. Upgrade your controller to software release 220.127.116.11, following the instructions in the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration Guide, Release 4.0. Click this link to browse to that document: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/wireless/4400-series-wireless-lan-controllers/products-installation-and-configuration-guides-list.html
4. Re-enable your 802.11a and 802.11b networks.
Note Controllers can be upgraded from one release to another. However, should you require a downgrade from one release to another, you may be unable to use the higher release configuration. The workaround is to reload the previous controller configuration files saved on the backup server or to reconfigure the controller.
This section contains important information to keep in mind when installing controllers and access points.
Warning This warning means danger. You are in a situation that could cause bodily injury. Before you work on any equipment, be aware of the hazards involved with electrical circuitry and be familiar with standard practices for preventing accidents.
Warning Only trained and qualified personnel should be allowed to install, replace, or service this equipment.
Warning Do not locate any antenna near overhead power lines or other electric light or power circuits, or where it can come into contact with such circuits. When installing antennas, take extreme care not to come in contact with such circuits, as they may cause serious injury or death. For proper installation and grounding of the antenna, refer to national and local codes (e.g. U.S.: NFPA70, National Electrical Code, Article 810, in Canada: Canadian Electrical Code, Section 54).
Warning This product relies on the building's installation for short-circuit (overcurrent) protection. Ensure that the protective device is rated not greater than: 120 VAC, 15A U.S. (240vac, 10A International)
Warning This equipment must be grounded. Never defeat the ground conductor or operate the equipment in the absence of a suitably installed ground connector. Contact the appropriate electrical inspection authority or an electrician if you are uncertain that suitable grounding is available.
Warning Read the installation instructions before you connect the system to its power source.
Warning Do not work on the system or connect or disconnect cables during periods of lightning activity.
Warning Do not operate your wireless network near unshielded blasting caps or in an explosive environment unless the device has been modified to be especially qualified for such use.
Warning In order to comply with radio frequency (RF) exposure limits, the antennas for this product should be positioned no less than 6.56 ft. (2 m) from your body or nearby persons.
Warning This unit is intended for installation in restricted areas. A restricted access area can be accessed only through the use of a special tool, lock and key, or other means of security.
Follow the guidelines in this section to ensure proper operation and safe use of the controllers and access points.
FCC Compliance with its action in ET Docket 96-8, has adopted a safety standard for human exposure to RF electromagnetic energy emitted by FCC-certified equipment. When used with approved Cisco Aironet antennas, Cisco Aironet products meet the uncontrolled environmental limits found in OET-65 and ANSI C95.1, 1991. Proper operation of this radio device according to the instructions in this publication results in user exposure substantially below the FCC recommended limits.
Each year hundreds of people are killed or injured when attempting to install an antenna. In many of these cases, the victim was aware of the danger of electrocution but did not take adequate steps to avoid the hazard.
For your safety, and to help you achieve a good installation, read and follow these safety precautions. They may save your life!
1. If you are installing an antenna for the first time, for your own safety as well as others, seek professional assistance. Your Cisco sales representative can explain which mounting method to use for the size and type of antenna you are about to install.
2. Select your installation site with safety as well as performance in mind. Electric power lines and phone lines look alike. For your safety, assume that any overhead line can kill you.
3. Call your electric power company. Tell them your plans and ask them to come look at your proposed installation. This is a small inconvenience considering your life is at stake.
4. Plan your installation carefully and completely before you begin. Successfully raising a mast or tower is largely a matter of coordination. Each person should be assigned to a specific task and should know what to do and when to do it. One person should be in charge of the operation to issue instructions and watch for signs of trouble.
5. When installing an antenna, remember:
b. Do not work on a wet or windy day.
c. Do dress properly—shoes with rubber soles and heels, rubber gloves, long-sleeved shirt or jacket.
6. If the assembly starts to drop, get away from it and let it fall. Remember that the antenna, mast, cable, and metal guy wires are all excellent conductors of electrical current. Even the slightest touch of any of these parts to a power line completes an electrical path through the antenna and the installer: you!
7. If any part of an antenna system should come in contact with a power line, do not touch it or try to remove it yourself. Call your local power company. They will remove it safely.
8. If an accident should occur with the power lines, call for qualified emergency help immediately.
Refer to the appropriate quick start guide or hardware installation guide for instructions on installing controllers and access points.
Note To meet regulatory restrictions, all external antenna configurations must be professionally installed.
Personnel installing the controllers and access points must understand wireless techniques and grounding methods. Access points with internal antennas can be installed by an experienced IT professional.
The controller must be installed by a network administrator or qualified IT professional, and the proper country code must be selected. Following installation, access to the controller should be password protected by the installer to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements and ensure proper unit functionality.
This section describes important information about the controllers and access points.
The controller rate-limits pings to the controller's CPU by default. This behavior shows up as dropped ping packets to the controller when the pings are sent too fast. Enter this CLI command on the controller if you wish to disable this behavior and allow all ping packets to reach the controller CPU for a response:
The Catalyst 6500 Series Switch chassis can support up to five Cisco WiSMs without any other service module installed. If one or more service modules are installed, the chassis can support up to a maximum of four service modules (WiSMs included).
You must install software release 126.96.36.199 on the controller before connecting 1100 and 1300 series access points to the controller.
The 1500 series access points may take up to 10 minutes to fully associate to the controller on initial startup.
To support access points configured for use in Japan, you must upgrade the controller software to release 22.214.171.124 or later. Earlier releases do not support access points configured for use in Japan (regulatory domain -P).
To prevent or block a wired or wireless client from accessing the management network on a controller (from the wireless client dynamic interface or VLAN), the network administrator should ensure that there is no route through which to reach the controller from the dynamic interface or use a firewall between the client dynamic interface and the management network.
Cisco recommends that load balancing always be turned off in any wireless network that is supporting voice, regardless of vendor. When load balancing is turned on, voice clients can hear an audible artifact when roaming, and the handset is refused at its first reassociation attempt.
In mesh networks that operate through switches and routers, network round-trip delays between access points and the controller must be less than 100 milliseconds (ms); otherwise, timing problems may occur during wireless client authentication. Also, network path outages of 7 seconds or longer between access points and the controller may cause the access points to lose connectivity.
When using Cisco 7920 Wireless IP Phones with controllers, make sure that the phones and controllers are configured as follows:
Note Use this command to determine the WLAN ID number of the WLAN to which you want to add QBSS support.
– config wlan disable wlan_id_number
– config wlan 7920-support ap-cac-limit enable wlan_id_number
– config wlan enable wlan_id_number
Note Use this command to verify that the WLAN is enabled and the Dot11-Phone Mode (7920) field is configured for compat mode.
Cisco IOS Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP) access points have a default password of Cisco, and the pre-stage configuration for LWAPP access points is disabled by default. To enable it, you must configure the access point with a new username and password when it joins the controller. Enter this command using the controller CLI to push a new username and password to the access point:
config ap username user_id password password {AP_name | all}
The password pushed from the controller is configured as "enable password" on the access point.
There are some cases where the pre-stage configuration for LWAPP access points is disabled and the access point displays the following error message when the CLI commands are applied:
"ERROR!!! Command is disabled."
For more information, refer to Upgrading Autonomous Cisco Aironet Access Points to Lightweight Mode.
If a client is not able to connect to an access point, and the security policy for the WLAN and client are correct, the client has probably been disabled. In the controller GUI, you can view the client's status on the Monitor > Summary page under Client Summary. If the client is disabled, click Remove to clear the disabled state for that client. The client automatically comes back and, if necessary, reattempts authentication.
Automatic disabling happens as a result of too many failed authentications. Clients disabled due to failed authorization do not appear on the permanent disable display. This display is only for those MACs that are set as permanently disabled by the administrator.
The RADIUS server can be on any subnet as long as it can be reached by the management VLAN subnet. The controllers can be managed via the management VLAN subnet from any other subnet that can reach the management VLAN subnet.
Software release 18.104.22.168 does not support IPSec. If you upgrade to this release from a previous release that supported IPSec, any WLANs that are configured for this feature become disabled. If you want to use IPSec, you must use a version of controller software prior to 3.2 or wait for a future release.
Cisco Aironet 1030 Remote Edge Lightweight Access Points do not support WPA2-PSK in REAP standalone mode.
Cisco Aironet lightweight access points do not connect to the 4400 series controller if the time is not set first. Set the time on the controller before allowing the access points to connect to it.
This product has been tested with the following RADIUS servers:
Management usernames and local netuser names must be unique because they are stored in the same database. That is, you cannot assign the same name to a management user and a local netuser.
Clients using the Microsoft Wireless Configuration Manager and 802.1x must use WLANs configured for 40- or 104-bit key length. Configuring for 128-bit key length results in clients that can associate but not authenticate.
When a controller reboots, dropped Cisco Aironet 1030 Remote Edge Lightweight Access Points attempt to associate to any available controller. If the access points cannot contact a controller, they continue to offer 802.11a/b/g service on WLAN 1 only.
The controller bootloader (ppcboot) stores a copy of the active primary image and the backup image. If the primary image becomes corrupted, you can use the bootloader to boot with the backup image.
With the backup image stored before rebooting, be sure to choose Option 4: Change Active Boot Image from the boot menu to set the backup image as the active boot image. Otherwise, when the controller resets, it again boots off the corrupted primary image.
After the controller boots, the active boot image can be changed to the backup image using the config boot backup command.
Because of a caching problem in the Internet Explorer 5.x browser, the home page retains the web authentication login. To correct this problem, clear the history or upgrade your workstation to Internet Explorer 6.x.
Enabling RLDP may cause access points connected to the controller to lose connectivity with their clients for up to 30 seconds.
Client card implementations may mitigate the effectiveness of ad-hoc containment.
The controller has commonly known default values of "public" and "private" for the read-only and read-write SNMP community strings. Using these standard values presents a security risk. Therefore, Cisco strongly advises that you change these values.
Follow these steps to change the SNMP community string default values through the controller GUI.
Step 1 Click Management and then Communities under SNMP. The SNMP v1 / v2c Community page appears.
Step 2 If "public" or "private" appears in the Community Name column, click Remove to delete this community.
Step 3 Click New to create a new community.
Step 4 When the SNMP v1 / v2c Community > New page appears, enter a unique name containing up to 16 alphanumeric characters in the Community Name field. Do not enter "public" or "private."
Step 5 In the remaining fields, enter the IP address from which this device accepts SNMP packets with the associated community and the IP mask, choose Read Only or Read/Write to specify the access level for this community, and choose Enable or Disable to specify the status of this community.
Step 6 Click Apply to apply your changes.
Step 7 Click Save Configuration to save your settings.
Step 8 Repeat this procedure if a "public" or "private" community still appears on the SNMP v1 / v2c Community page.
Follow these steps to change the SNMP community string default values through the controller CLI.
Step 1 To see the current list of SNMP communities for this controller, enter this command:
Step 2 If "public" or "private" appears in the SNMP Community Name column, enter this command to delete this community:
config snmp community delete name
The name parameter is the community name (in this case, "public" or "private").
Step 3 To create a new community, enter this command:
config snmp community create name
Enter up to 16 alphanumeric characters for the name parameter. Do not enter "public" or "private."
Step 4 To enter the IP address from which this device accepts SNMP packets with the associated community, enter this command:
config snmp community ipaddr ip_address ip_mask name
Step 5 To specify the access level for this community, enter this command, where ro is read-only mode and rw is read/write mode:
config snmp community accessmode { ro | rw } name
Step 6 To enable or disable this SNMP community, enter this command:
config snmp community mode { enable | disable } name
Step 7 To save your changes, enter save config.
Step 8 Repeat this procedure if you still need to change the default values for a "public" or "private" community string.
The controller uses a default value of "default" for the username, authentication password, and privacy password for SNMP v3 users. Using these standard values presents a security risk. Therefore, Cisco strongly advises that you change these values.
Note SNMP v3 is time sensitive. Make sure that you have configured the correct time and time zone on your controller.
Follow these steps to change the SNMP v3 user default values through the controller GUI.
Step 1 Click Management and then SNMP V3 Users under SNMP.
Step 2 If "default" appears in the User Name column, click Remove to delete this SNMP v3 user.
Step 3 Click New to add a new SNMP v3 user.
Step 4 When the SNMP V3 Users > New page appears, enter a unique name in the User Profile Name field. Do not enter "default."
Step 5 In the remaining fields, choose Read Only or Read Write to specify the access level for this user, choose the authentication and privacy protocols to be used, and enter a password for each.
Step 6 Click Apply to commit your changes.
Step 7 Click Save Configuration to save your settings.
Follow these steps to change the SNMP v3 user default values through the controller CLI.
Step 1 To see the current list of SNMP v3 users for this controller, enter this command:
Step 2 If "default" appears in the SNMP v3 User Name column, enter this command to delete this user:
config snmp v3user delete username
The username parameter is the SNMP v3 username (in this case, "default").
Step 3 To create a new SNMP v3 user, enter this command:
config snmp v3user create username { ro | rw } { none | hmacmd5 | hmacsha } { none | des } auth_password privacy_password
Do not enter "default" for the username and password parameters.
Step 4 To save your changes, enter save config.
Access points in hybrid-REAP mode support web authentication with open authentication only if local switching is enabled on the WLAN.
These hardware features are not supported on 2000 series controllers:
These software features are not supported on 2000 series controllers:
In a crowded RF environment, clients may not be able to detect the desired SSID because of internal table limitations. Sometimes disabling and then enabling the client interface forces a rescan. Your RF environment needs to be controlled. Cisco UWN rogue access point detection and containment can help you to enforce RF policies in your buildings and campuses.
Pinging from a network device to a controller dynamic interface may not work in some configurations. When pinging does operate successfully, the controller places Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) traffic in a low-priority queue, and the reply to ping is on best effort. Pinging does not pose a security threat to the network. The controller rate limits any traffic to the CPU, and flooding the controller is prevented. Clients on the WLAN associated with the interface pass traffic normally.
The 2006 controller image is supported for use with only 2000 series controllers. Do not install the 2006 image on a 3504 controller. Otherwise, errors may occur. Install only the 3504 image on a 3504 controller.
It is possible to run a 3504 controller image on a 2000 series controller, but Cisco Aironet 1130, 1200, and 1240 series access points will not be able to connect to the controller.
When upgrading a controller from operating system release 2.0 or 18.104.22.168 to release 18.104.22.168 or later, update the external web authentication configuration as follows:
1. Instead of using a preauthentication ACL, the network manager must configure the external web server IP address using this command:
config custom-web ext-webserver add index IP-address
Note IP-address is the address of any web server that performs external web authentication.
2. The network manager must use the new login_template shown here:
This section lists Open Caveats, Resolved Caveats in Release 18.104.22.168, and Resolved Caveats in Release 184.108.40.206 for Cisco controllers and lightweight access points.
These caveats are open in operating system release 220.127.116.11 and 18.104.22.168:
Workaround: Make sure that the anchor controller is a mobility group member.
Workaround: Use the CLI configuration wizard.
Workaround: Reboot the controller through the CLI to access the wizard again.
Workaround: Do not configure the service VLAN as one of the VLANs on a data port.
Workaround: Ignore the prompt and exit as usual.
Workaround: Download new code images to the WiSM at times when there are no clients to be affected.
Workaround: Be sure to properly configure WLAN ID 1.
Workaround: None for this release.
Workaround: Download new code images to the WiSM a second time.
Workaround: Clear the access point's static IP address by hand.
Workaround: Apply the Microsoft KB 883659 patch to IAS. The Microsoft patch may or may not work. There is no workaround on the controller.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time. The controller must be returned for repair through the RMA process.
Workaround: Save the controller configuration to a TFTP server or WCS, then reset the controller. After completing the setup wizard, reload the saved configuration from the TFTP server or WCS.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: Disable ACM for WMM clients without TSPEC support.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: Create a fictitious RADIUS accounting server and assign it to the WLAN for which RADIUS accounting is not required.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: To change the 4.9-GHz band on the -P regulatory domain, enter this command using the controller CLI: config ap public-safety enable Cisco_AP.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: Remove access point group VLANs before you add the controller.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: After you change the ACM configuration, disable and then re-enable all of the WLANs with WMM enabled.
Workaround: Be sure to use WPA-PSK TKIP clients and WPA2-PSK AES clients.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: Before making any global changes to the access point settings on the controller, disable Ethernet bridging on all access points, make any relevant changes, wait for the access points to rejoin the controller, and then reenable Ethernet bridging on the access points.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: Reboot the controller to synchronize the primary access point image on the controller and the controller's running code.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: Upgrade the controller to release 4.0 or later and download customized HTML for the webauth login window. The Bug Toolkit lists an example of customized HTML.
Workaround: Configure the port that the access point is on as a trunk port (with native VLAN and allowed VLANs for the clients). Configure a dummy interface on the controller with the same VLAN ID (this vlan does not need to be tagged on the upstream router). Assign the webauth WLAN to the dummy interface. If the H-REAP location cannot support VLAN tagging, the webauth WLAN must be tied to the management interface.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: Remove the MAC address from the authorization list before adding it to the MAC filter.
Workaround: Adjust the user idle timeout on the controller to a low value.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: Use only TKIP with WPA or WPA2.
Workaround: Do not enter the show qos command on the WiSM controller CLI.
Workaround: Make sure the WLAN number configuration on the access point is continuous starting with WLAN 1 (for example, WLANs 1, 2, and 3).
Workaround: Do not contain rogue ad-hoc devices.
Workaround: Enter the config 802.11 antenna command on the controller CLI to set the antenna type to external. This workaround does not work if the access point is configured as a MAP. If the access point is in MAP mode, configure it for RAP mode (enter configure ap role rootAP on the CLI), disable the 802.11a radio (configure 802.11a disable), change the antenna setting to external (configure 802.11a antenna selection external), and set the access point back to MAP mode.
Workaround: None at this time.
Workaround: Use the trap log message on the controller to find out the source address.
Workaround: Open a new CLI session, disable remote debugging (enter remote-debug disable), and re-enable remote debugging.
Workaround: Downgrade controller software to release 188.8.131.52.
Workaround: None at this time.
These caveats are resolved in operating system release 220.127.116.11:
These caveats are resolved in operating system release 126.96.36.199:
This caveat has been closed in operating system release 126.96.36.199.
Workaround: If you encounter this issue, perform one of the following:
– Erase the controller's configuration, reconfigure the controller, and allow the MAPs to rejoin the controller.
If you need information about a specific caveat that does not appear in these release notes, you can use the Cisco Bug Toolkit to find caveats of any severity. Click this URL to browse to the Bug Toolkit:
(If you request a defect that cannot be displayed, the defect number might not exist, the defect might not yet have a customer-visible description, or the defect might be marked Cisco Confidential.)
For the most up-to-date, detailed troubleshooting information, refer to the Cisco TAC website at
Click Product Support > Wireless. Then choose your product and Troubleshooting to find information on the problem you are experiencing.
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At Wembley Arena the stage position changes to suit each event. If the show includes standing room, blocks A, B and C are often taken out and seating blocks S and N 1-3 are also removed occasionally.
The central arena is usually home to four blocks of seats facing the stage and as a general rule, when the stage is high seats four rows back tend to provide the best experience. Blocks C and D each sit on a step with two rows per step, which means if someone taller sits in front of you, you might lose you view. Behind row E there's a steep slope with clear, distant views wherever the rails don't impede sightlines, mostly from the first four rows.
The corner seats at the back are often surprisingly good value and row E is particularly good for central arena staged events, where every block feels nice and close to the on-stage action.
There are grand tiers along both sides of the arena spanning rows A to H, where many seats enjoy amazing views and the tiers means your views are rarely obstructed by taller people.
Avoid the seats at the far side of the entrance door walls, with such terrible visibility they are rarely put on sale.


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This firm favorite with visitors is next door to, and under same ownership as Jardin du Roy. Blocks of six spacious, en suite rooms are grouped around a courtyard. The hotel is thoughtfully designed and blends well into the extensive gardens and the sandstone formations of Isalo. Water is drawn from a stream and is solar-heated for the en suite showers. There is a swimming pool, tennis court, basketball and stables that are shared with its sister hotel.
'Overall satisfaction: Excellent. Relais des Plateaux is a very good hotel.
Gite d'Ampijoroa (Ankarafantsika National Park) has excellent location, good service, food and facilities; average comfort. (Basic)
Royal Palissandre Hotel & Spa excellent food and service. Too posh for us.
Vakona Forest Lodge: excellent location, meals and facilities. Lovely setting but felt a bit damp and cold.
Thermal Hotel Ranomafana: excellent comfort, good service, location and meals. Beautiful hotel but electricity kept running out.
La Varangue de Betsileo: excellent in all respects. Very nice people, looked after us very well.
Relais la Reine: Very nice, lovely area.
La Mira: excellent in all respects. Very nice and relaxing.
The guides were excellent especially Bel-Aviv and his driver Doudou, who were with us for most of the trip. All were very helpful, knowledgeable and friendly'.
'We had a great holiday - your itinerary was super - thanks!.Highlights: Relais de la Reine Hotel + Isalo National Park. Sheer variety of terrain and habitats. Quality of the guides, in particular Djato and the driver Barry. Exceptional passion and dedication. Local guides at Andasibe-Mantadia, Isalo and the Ifaty Spiny Forest'
'Njiva was a fantastic guide - thoroughly recommend him. Driver, Dodo, was also very good. Overall holiday satisfaction (Classic Madagascar overland: the RN7 route): excellent.
Vakona Forest Lodge is a lovely place but they wanted us to leave the bar/seating area by around 9pm.
Setam Lodge: good in all respects. Location excellent.
La Varangue de Betsileo: Service and comfort: excellent. Location, meals and facilities all good.
Relais la Reine d'Isalo: excellent.
Moringa Hotel: good in all respects; excellent meals.
Princesse Bora Lodge: Comfort, meals and facilities good; service and location excellent.'


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BAIRD & HALLIDAY DRAW THE BATTLELINES AT BATTERY TOWN PORSCHE GT3 CUP CHALLENGE OPENER Defending champion Craig Baird and series returnee Matt Halliday drew the battlelines at an all-action first round of the 2009/10 Battery Town Porsche GT3 Cup...
Defending champion Craig Baird and series returnee Matt Halliday drew the battlelines at an all-action first round of the 2009/10 Battery Town Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge championship at Pukekohe's Pukekohe Park Raceway over the weekend.
Baird could hardly have had a better start to his title defence, claiming the round win from Triple X Motorsport teammates Daniel Gaunt and Courtney Letica.
But it was Halliday who was quickest in qualifying and who came back from a puncture in the first race and a time penalty in the second to dominate the third.
Since its inception five years ago now, the Battery Town Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge championship, has always provided close and exciting racing and the opening round of the 2009/10 season was no different, Baird facing competition from old foe Halliday, 2007/08 runner-up and Rookie of The Year Daniel Gaunt, and Halliday's teammate in New Zealand's A1GP World Cup of Motorsport team, Jonny Reid.
Saturday's 36 lap, 100 km endurance race - complete with pit stop and requirement to remove and replace at least one tyre - provided an early indication of both the quality and depth of the competition with Halliday getting the better of fellow front row starter Baird off the line and - despite intense pressure from Baird - holding the advantage through the pit stop window and into the final laps.
It was Baird who ended up winning that race however after Halliday was forced to pit to replace a punctured tyre with just six laps to go. Halliday made it back up to seventh place, meaning he would start the first of Sunday's two sprint races, from seventh spot on the grid, but insult was added to injury when he was handed a 25 second time penalty in that race for what officials deemed was a 'practice start' on the warm up lap.
For the record Halliday was up to fifth by the end of the first lap and fourth by the end of the fourth but the penalty saw him dropped to ninth place when the results were tabulated, meaning he would start the reverse top six grid 16 lap final race on Sunday afternoon from fourth place on the grid.
International MotorSport teammate Jonny Reid, driving the second Fisher & Paykel-backed Giltrap Group team car, started that race from pole position, with Baird back on P6, but this time Halliday was not to be denied, jinking round a slow starting Courtney Letica to tuck into second behind teammate Reid as the field streamed into the left/right Castrol complex after the sweeper then passing Reid for a lead he would never lose as the pair started their second lap.
A Safety Car caution period half way through the 16 lap race gave Reid and a chasing Baird, Letica, Gaunt and Ant Pedersen a chance to catch up but when the track went green again Halliday quickly re-established his earlier buffer.
Halliday's final race win and quickest race lap aside, there was no denying that it was Baird's weekend, the 39-year-old category specialoist taking up where he left off at the end of the 2008/09 season, and heading to the second round of the 2009/10 Battery Town Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge championship in Christchurch at the end of the month with a handy 30 point advantage over round runner-up Daniel Gaunt and an 86 point buffer over third placed Courtney Letica.
Halliday ended up sixth overall, satisfied with his performance in performance in qualifying and the final race, but frustrated with the way his cards fell on Saturday and in the first race on Sunday.
"It was just crazy, " he said. "To lead the first race until the last few laps only to tangle with a back marker, that shouldn't have happened, then to get that penalty in the second race.....I think anyone who saw what happened this weekend will think we were hard done by but you know, hopefully we will have no more dramas like that and we will be able to fight back as far as the points are concerned. In terms of what Jonny and I have done this weekend though, for something which came together quite late, I think the team did a great job. Obviously, Jonny and I have worked together before and I can see us working well together both in terms of developing the car off the track and pushing each other on it. "
Reid was similarly upbeat having qualified third quickest and finished fourth in the endurance race on Saturday afternoon, fifth in the 12 lap sprint race on Sunday morning and second to teammate Halliday in the reverse top six grid final.
Perhaps surprisngly it was Reid's first major race in a tin-top, the Auckland-based international having so far concentrated on single-seaters.
As such everything was new and he was taking it one step at a time.
"It's certainly different, on all sorts of levels, to what I am used to, and I definitely didn't expect to be where I was in qualifying (third), so from that point of view I am absolutely stoked. I've got a lot of respect for the guys in this class, Matt obviously particularly coming off a SuperCup season, and Craig, because he has done so much racing in these cars, so I'm not taking the move lightly. It's been a pretty intense weekend and I've certainly got a lot to think about before the next one.
Fellow former single-seater star Daniel Gaunt, the former two-time Toyota Racing Series champion, was another satisifed after a strong weekend.
Gaunt set the fourth quickest lap time in qualifying then backed up his second place finish in Saturday's endurance race with second in Sunday's 12 lap sprint race and fourth in the 16 lap reverse top six grid final.
This year Gaunt has spent the off-season in Australia contesting the Fujitsu V8 Supercar series and he believes the extra time behind the wheel has already started to pay dividends.
"I think it's definitely sharpened me up as far as the racing is concerned, something, perhaps, I was lacking a bit last season and if this weekend is anything to go by I think we are going to be as competitive for the rest of the season."
Meanwhile sharing the round podium with his teammates Baird and Gaunt was young Auckland driver Courtney Letica, his place a reward for a quick, confident performance which , like Gaunt's, bodes well for the rest of the season.
"Fantastic!" is how he described it, two thirds and a fifth in such exalted company impressive in anyone's language.
Letica arrived in the Battery Town Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge with an impressive CV courtesy the MINI Challenge but before that he was more at home in karts.
Last season was a big step, moving straight to a 997, but that move paid off this weekend.
"I definitely feel more comfortable in the car, " he confirmed. "We didn't do much testing before this round but the plan was always to finish in the top five or six and that's what we've done so I'm very happy."
First of the 996 runners in qualifying, the first two races and the round, was last season's category-within-a-category standout Hugh Gardiner who spent the weekend mixing it up in the mid-field with the 997s of Shane McKillen and Paul Kelly.
With another category alumni Rob Steele, Gardiner was part of a five-strong 996 contingent and only missed out on three category wins from three starts when he went off the track rather than run up the back of one of the 997s early in the final race.
"Three out of three would have been nice, but you know, " he said, " I can't complain. "It's been a good weekend overall, and as far as I am concerned the season can only get better.
"It's good to have guys like Rob in the class to benchmark ourselves against and good to have these young fellows like Simon Evans and Simon McLennan coming into the category so I'm looking forward to more good racing as we head down to the South Island."
In Gardner's absence the first 996 home in the final race was piloted by Rob Steele who finished tenth, the Aucklander a last minute entry as he tries to compelte a budget to do the whole series this season.
"A the moment we are still looking for a bit more support to get to the rest of the rounds, " he confirmed, " so the result here was just what we needed. We're nearly there so hopefully some other people will come on board for Ruapuna and beyond."
Having arrived at Pukekohe facing one of the most competitive Battery Town Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge championship fields ever assembled yet leaving with his usual impressive early season points lead the last word must, however, below to five-time series champion Craig Baird.
This season as last, Baird is combining the defense of his Battery Town Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge championship with an attack on the BNT NZ V8s one (with the United Video team run by his father-in-law Gary Pedersen) and despite twice as many races as anyone else contesting the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge he was where he wanted to be at the end of play.
"We had to look after our weekend points and series lead, to do anything else was not who we are," he said as be climbed out of his Triple X Motorsport Porsche and headed for the NZV8 pit.
"Really as long as our top three cars came home in the top-six of the race we had the weekend and first round of the championship sewn up. We had a good buffer on anyone, but if we didn't finish the afternoon race we'd be back with everyone else."
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A disabled man was found dead — tied up with a bag over his head — in his upper Manhattan home yesterday morning, cops said.
Charles Romo, 48, was found in his apartment on Hamilton Place near West 142nd Street at 10:20 a.m. by his home health-care aide, law-enforcement sources said.
"He was found kneeling on [the] bedroom floor with [his] hands tied behind his back and legs secured together with what appeared to be a belt,'' a source said.
"There was tape found wrapped around his neck and blood coming from the head and neck area."
He did not appear to have been robbed, sources said.
The victim who suffered from HIV, was blind in one eye. He had won a several-thousand-dollar settlement against the city a few years ago over a discrimination lawsuit involving his service dog, which had been blocked from entering a state building with him, according to court documents.
Romo's guide dog, a greyhound, was safe at the apartment.
The case is being investigated as a homicide.