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The Ultimate Business in a Box
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Disclaimer: This is a business which will require an initial purchase of inventory to get started. This starts at any level you choose starting at just $25 with various levels up to a $5,000 to suit your finances and confidence in the business. Remember never commit money to any venture without being comfortable with the business and your own commitment, so choose the level that suits you. The role is as a self-employed affiliate of Banners Broker. Your success will depend in large part on your own efforts and your ability to understand and work with the comprehensive system that is on offer. I am a Banners Broker affiliate and I will not be paid directly if you join, nor will any payments from you be used to subsidise a commission. I will however receive generous incentives which will benefit my business in the long term!
Because it does take a few weeks to get a full understanding of all the details of this business, and you will only really do that as you work it, there are some great starter packages which as you will see are designed to give you a flying start!
This is not an MLM business. It is not a doubling scheme. It is not a get rich quick scheme. There are no guarantees of earnings and like all good businesses your success will depend on your own efforts. However once you understand how the business works you should be able to manage the time spent very effectively to produce a great secondary income.
The great thing about this business is you do not need to refer people, sell to people or otherwise cajole them into joining your business. This is a truly stand alone business which requires a computer and a little bit of your time to understand the system initially. But guess what? I can help you with that. And there are forums and many other business owners who are friendly and helpful. There is an extensive online help within the system too.
If on the other hand, once you see the power of what you have here, you may not want to keep it to yourself and you may want to tell everyone you meet about it. Well that's fine too. You don't get paid for doing this, there is no commission taken out of what they do, however there is a very generous incentive bonus to help really boost your business.
Because it makes sense to get the best out of your business it is worthwhile promoting it.
However this is not like some multi-level marketing schemes where you have to promote on blind faith to get you going (not knocking MLM, many are very good, but there is no doubt you have to sell before you see results, which many people find particularly difficult). Once you see what this business can do for you first I am sure you will want to be telling your friends and family about it. But hey, that is completely up to you! Everything is completely up to you – if you want to know more about the system, fill in your details below and you will be taken straight to an introductory page and Free Access to the website where you can claim your Free Campaign.
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Banners Broker is an online advertising company that helps both advertisers and website owners capitalize on the power of the web. The Internet is an authoritative far reaching marketing tool that tends to remain largely unaffected by the global economy whether be it strong, weak or even in recession.
Offering affordable and effective marketing opportunities, Banners Broker is an extensive online advertising network with large scope and targeted reach. The Online advertising industry is an enormous market with Google being far and away the market leader. What you might not be aware of is that they are not the only players in the market, they are just the biggest! There are many others offering online advertising and each has to be slightly different to attract just a small share of the market. However this market is so vast that even a small share can equate to some large numbers.
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or opt for
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If you sign-up on the site, I will send you a welcoming email which will include my details, which means you can ask questions directly. That is why I need your email address.
You will I hope appreciate that I cannot put my email address on here as I only want to be communicating with real people who are serious about looking at a genuine first class business opportunity.
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PS: Banners Broker as a company are compliant in over 120 countries worldwide. They take great pains to maintain compliance with local business and tax laws. It is important that you understand that this is a self-employed business opportunity with a chance to be associated with a first class fast growing company.
Your success will depend to a large extent on your own efforts to understand and make the most of the management of the business system being offered to you.
Recently (Spring 2012) the company had in-depth discussions with the Inland Revenue in the United Kingdom and have established that VAT is not chargeable on their products or service, however each affiliate is liable to determine their own personal tax position in their own country of residence.


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Details 4 Jan 09:45:22 |
We are seeing evening congestion on the Bristol North exchange, incident has been raised with BT and they are investigating. |
19 Jan 09:51:48 | Here is an example graph: |
22 Jan 08:58:26 | The fault has been escalated further and we are expected an update on this tomorrow. |
23 Jan 09:37:14 | No Irams/Pew has been issued yet, and no further updates this morning. We are chasing BT. Update is expected around 1:30PM today. |
Broadband Users Affected | 0.01% |
Started | 4 Jan 09:45:22 |
Update was expected | 23 Jan 13:30:00 |
Previously expected | 21 Jan 13:45:22 |
Details 20 Jan 12:53:37 |
We are seeing low level packet loss on some BT circuits connected to the EUSTON exchange, this has been raised with BT and as soon as we have an update we will post an update here. |
20 Jan 12:57:32 | Here is an example graph: |
22 Jan 09:02:48 | We are due an update on this one later this PM |
23 Jan 09:36:21 | BT are chasing this and we are due an update at around 1:30PM. |
Broadband Users Affected | 0.07% |
Started | 10 Jan 12:51:26 by AAISP automated checking |
Update was expected | 23 Jan 13:30:00 |
Previously expected | 21 Jan 16:51:26 |
Details 21 Jan 09:44:42 |
Our minitoring has picked up further congestion within the BT network causing high latency between 6pm-11pm every night on the following BRAS's. This is affecting BT lines only and in the Bristol and South/South west Wales areas. 21CN-BRAS-RED3-CF-C 21CN-BRAS-RED6-CF-C An incident has been raised with BT and we will update this post as and when we have updates. |
21 Jan 09:47:51 | Here is an example graph: |
22 Jan 08:46:12 | We are expecting a resolution on the tomorrow - 2015-01-23 |
23 Jan 09:35:26 | This one is still with the Adhara NOC team. They are trying to solve the congestion problems. Target resolution is today 23/1/15, we have no specific time frame so we will update you as soon as we have more information from BT. |
Broadband Users Affected | 0.03% |
Started | 4 Jan 18:00:00 by AA Staff |
Update expected | Today 10:30:00 |
Previously expected | 23 Jan 13:40:45 |
Details 8 Jan 15:44:04 |
We are seeing some levels of congestion in the evening on the following exchanges: BT COWBRIDGE, BT MORRISTON, BT WEST (Bristol area), BT CARDIFF EMPIRE, BT THORNBURY, BT EASTON, BT WINTERBOURNE, BT FISHPONDS, BT LLANTWIT MAJOR. These have been reported to BT and they are currently investigating. |
8 Jan 15:56:59 | He is an example graph: |
9 Jan 15:21:53 | BT have been chased further on this as they have not provided an update as promised. |
9 Jan 16:19:48 | We did not see any congestion over night on the affected circuits but we will continue monitoring all affected lines and post another update on Monday. |
12 Jan 10:37:32 | We are still seeing congestion on the Exchanges listed above between the hours of 20:00hrs and 22:30hrs. We have updated BT and are awaiting their reply. |
20 Jan 12:52:05 | We are now seeing congestion starting from 19:30 to 22:30 on these exchanges. We are awaiting an update from BT. |
21 Jan 11:13:44 | BT have sent this into the TSO team, we are to await their investigation results. We will provide another update as soon as we have a reply. |
22 Jan 09:06:14 | An update is expected on this tomorrow |
23 Jan 09:33:48 | This one is still being investigated at the moment, and may need a card or fiber cable fitting, Will chase this for an update later on in the day. |
Broadband Users Affected | 0.30% |
Started | 8 Jan 15:40:15 by AA Staff |
Update was expected | 23 Jan 13:30:00 |
Details 09 Dec 2014 11:20:04 |
Some lines on the LOWER HOLLOWAY exchange are experiencing peak time packet loss. We have reported this to BT and they are investigating the issue. |
11 Dec 2014 10:46:42 | BT have passed this to TSO for investigation. We are waiting for a further update. |
12 Dec 2014 14:23:56 | BT's Tso are currently investigating the issue. |
16 Dec 2014 12:07:31 | Other ISPs are seeing the same problem. The BT Capacity team are now looking in to this. |
17 Dec 2014 16:21:04 | No update to report yet, we're still chasing BT... |
18 Dec 2014 11:09:46 | The latest update from this morning is: "The BT capacity team have investigated and confirmed that the port is not being over utilized, tech services have been engaged and are currently investigating from their side." |
19 Dec 2014 15:47:47 | BT are looking to move our affected circuits on to other ports. |
13 Jan 10:28:52 | This is being escalated further with BT now, update to follow |
19 Jan 12:04:34 | This has been raised as a new reference as the old one was closed. Update due by tomorrow AM |
20 Jan 12:07:53 | BT will be checking this further this evening so we should have more of an update by tomorrow morning |
22 Jan 09:44:47 | An update is due by the end of the day |
22 Jan 16:02:24 | This has been escalated further with BT, update probably tomorrow now |
23 Jan 09:31:23 | we are still waiting for a PEW to be relayed to us. BT will be chasing this for us later on in the day. |
Update was expected | 23 Jan 15:30:00 |
Previously expected | 19 Dec 2014 15:14:17 (Last Estimated Resolution Time from AAISP) |
Details 23 Jan 08:35:26 |
In addition to all of the BT issues we have ongoing (and affecting all ISPs), we have seen some signs of congestion in the evening last night - this is due to planned switch upgrade work this morning. Normally we aim not to be the bottleneck, as you know, but we have moved customers on to half of our infrastructure to facilitate the switch change, and this puts us right on the limit for capacity at peak times. Over the next few nights we will be redistributing customers back on to the normal arrangement of three LNSs with one hot spare, and this will address the issue. Hopefully we have enough capacity freed up to avoid the issue tonight. Sorry for any inconvenience. Longer term we have more LNSs planned as we expand anyway. |
Saturday 07:30:14 | The congestion was worse last night, and the first stage of moving customers back to correct LNSs was done over night. We are completing this now (Saturday morning) to ensure no problems this evening. |
Resolution | Lines all moved to correct LNS so there should be no issues tonight. |
Started | 22 Jan |
Closed | Saturday 08:17:21 |
Previously expected | Saturday 08:30:00 |
Details 13 Jan 12:17:05 |
We are seeing low level packet loss on the Hunslet exchange (BT tails) this has been reported to BT. All of our BT tails connected to the Hunslet exchange are affected. |
13 Jan 12:27:11 | Here is an example graph: |
15 Jan 11:50:15 | Having chased BT up they have promised us an update by the end of play today. |
16 Jan 09:07:51 | Bt have identified a card fault within their network. We are just waiting for conformation as to when it will be fixed. |
19 Jan 09:31:11 | It appears this is now resolved - well BT have added extra capacity on the link: "To alleviate congestion on acc-aln2.ls-bas -10/1/1 the OSPF cost on the backhauls in area 184.108.40.206 to acc-aln1.bok and acc-aln1.hma have been temporarily adjusted to 4000 from 3000. This has brought traffic down by about 10 to 15 % - and should hopefully avoid the over utilisation during peak" |
Resolution | Work has been completed on the BT network to alleviate traffic |
Broadband Users Affected | 0.01% |
Started | 11 Jan 12:14:28 by AAISP Pro Active Monitoring Systems |
Closed | 22 Jan 09:48:14 |
Details 10 Jan 19:44:03 |
Since 19:20 we have seen issues on all TalkTalk backhaul lines. Investigating |
10 Jan 20:08:08 | Looks to be recovering |
10 Jan 21:32:01 | Most lines are up as of 8pm. We'll investigate the cause of this. |
Started | 10 Jan 19:20:00 |
Closed | 10 Jan 20:00:00 |
Details 11 Dec 2014 10:42:15 |
We are seeing some TT connected lines with packetloss starting at 9AM yesterday and today. The loss lasts until 10AM and then there continues a low amount of loss. We have reported this to TalkTalk |
11 Dec 2014 10:46:34 | This is the pattern of loss we are seeing: |
12 Dec 2014 12:00:04 | No loss has been seen on these lines today. We're still chasing TT for any update though. |
Resolution | The problem went away... TT were unable to find the cause. |
Broadband Users Affected | 7% |
Started | 11 Dec 2014 09:00:00 |
Closed | 12 Dec 2014 11:00:40 |
Details 11 Dec 2014 14:13:58 |
BT issue affecting SOHO AKA GERRARD STREET 21CN-ACC-ALN1-L-GER. we have reported to this BT and they are now investigating. |
11 Dec 2014 14:19:33 | BT are investigating, however the circuits are mostly back online. |
Started | 11 Dec 2014 13:42:11 by AAISP Pro Active Monitoring Systems |
Closed | 11 Dec 2014 14:15:00 |
Previously expected | 11 Dec 2014 18:13:11 (Last Estimated Resolution Time from AAISP) |
Details 01 Dec 2014 21:54:24 |
All FTTP circuits on Bradwell Abbey have packetloss. This started at about 23:45 on 30th November. This is affecting other ISPs too. BT did have an Incident open, but this has been closed. They restarted a line card last night, but it seems the problem has been since the card was restarted. We are chasing BT. Example graph: |
01 Dec 2014 22:38:39 | It has been a struggle to get the front line support and the Incident Desk at BT to accept that this is a problem. We have passed this on to our Account Manager and other contacts within BT in the hope of a speedy fix. |
02 Dec 2014 07:28:40 | BT have tried doing something overnight, but the packetloss still exists at 7am 2nd December. Our monitoring shows:
02 Dec 2014 09:04:56 | Since 7AM today, the lines have been OK... we will continue to monitor. |
Started | 30 Nov 2014 23:45:00 |
Closed | 02 Dec 2014 09:05:00 |
Details 27 Nov 2014 16:31:03 |
We are seeing what looks like congestion on the Walworth exchange. Customers will be experiencing high latency, packetloss and slow throughput in the evenings and weekends. We have reported this to TalkTalk. |
02 Dec 2014 09:39:27 | Talk Talk are still investigating this issue. |
02 Dec 2014 12:22:04 | The congestion issue has been discovered on Walworth Exchange and Talk Talk are in the process of traffic balancing. |
03 Dec 2014 10:30:14 | Capacity has been increased and the exchange is looking much better now. |
Started | 27 Nov 2014 16:28:35 |
Closed | 03 Dec 2014 09:44:00 |
Details 19 Nov 2014 15:11:12 |
Lonap (one of the main Internet peering points in the UK) has a problem. We have stopped passing traffic over Lonap. Customers may have seen packetloss for a short while, but routing should be OK now. We are monitoring the traffic and will bring back Lonap when all is well. |
19 Nov 2014 16:21:29 | The Lonap problem has been fixed, and we've re-enabled our peering. |
Started | 19 Nov 2014 15:00:00 |
Closed | 19 Nov 2014 16:20:46 |
Details 21 Nov 2014 10:58:09 |
We have a number of TT lines down all on the same RAS: HOST-62-24-203-36-AS13285-NET. We are chasing this with TalkTalk. |
21 Nov 2014 11:01:29 | Most lines are now back. We have informed TalkTalk. |
21 Nov 2014 12:18:22 | TT have come back to us. They were aware of the problem, it was caused by a software problem on an LTS. |
Started | 21 Nov 2014 10:45:00 |
Closed | 21 Nov 2014 00:18:00 |
Details 21 Oct 2014 14:10:19 |
We're seeing congestion from 10am up to 11:30pm across the BT Rose Street, PIMLICO and the High Wycombe exchange. A fault has been raised with BT and we will post updates as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience. |
28 Oct 2014 11:23:44 | Rose Street and High Wycombe are now clear. Still investigating Pimlico |
03 Nov 2014 14:41:45 | Pimlico has now been passed to BT's capacity team to deal with . Further capacity is needed and will be added asap. We will provide updates as soon as it's available. |
05 Nov 2014 10:12:30 | We have just been informed by the BT capacity team that end users will be moved to a different VLAN on Friday morning. We will post futher updates when we have them. |
11 Nov 2014 10:23:59 | Most of the Pimlico exchange is now fixed. Sorry for the delay. |
19 Nov 2014 11:01:57 | There is further planned work on the Pimlico exchange for the 20th November. This should resolve the congestion on the Exchange. |
25 Nov 2014 10:44:43 | Pimlico lines are now running as expected. Thanks for your patience. |
Started | 21 Oct 2014 13:31:50 |
Closed | 25 Nov 2014 10:43:46 |
Details 04 Nov 2014 09:42:18 |
Several graphs have been missing in recent weeks, some days, and some LNSs. This is something we are working on. Unfortunately, today, one of the LNSs is not showing live graphs again, and so these will not be logged over night. We hope to have a fix for this in the next few days. Sorry for any inconvenience. |
Resolution | The underlying cause has been identified and will be deployed over the next few days. |
Started | 01 Oct 2014 |
Closed | 04 Nov 2014 16:47:11 |
Previously expected | 10 Nov 2014 |
Details 01 Nov 2014 11:55:38 |
There appears to be something of a small DoS attack which resulted in a blip around 11:29:16 today, and caused some issues with broadband lines and other services. We're looking in to this at present and graphs are not currently visible on one of the LNSs for customers. |
01 Nov 2014 13:09:44 | We expect graphs on a.gormless to be back tomorrow morning after some planned work. |
Resolution | Being investigated further. |
Started | 01 Nov 2014 11:29:16 |
Closed | 01 Nov 2014 11:35:11 |
Details 21 Aug 2014 12:50:32 |
Over the past week or so we have been missing data on some monitoring graphs, this is shown as purple for the first hour in the morning. This is being caused by delays in collecting the data. This is being looked in to. |
Resolution | We believe this has been fixed now. We have been monitoring it for a fortnight after making an initial fix, and it looks to have been successful. |
Closed | 29 Sep 2014 22:37:36 |
Details 20 Sep 2014 11:59:13 |
RADIUS account is behind at the moment. This is causing the usage data to appear as missing from customer lines. The accounting is behind, but it's not broken, and is catching up. The usage data doesn't appear to be lost, and should appear later in the day. |
21 Sep 2014 08:12:52 | Records have now caught up. |
Closed | 20 Sep 2014 07:09:09 |
Previously expected | 20 Sep 2014 15:57:11 |
Details 26 Aug 2014 09:02:02 |
Yesterday's and today's line graphs are not being shown at the moment. We are working on restoring this. |
26 Aug 2014 09:42:18 | Today's graphs are back, yesterdays are lost though. |
Started | 26 Aug 2014 08:00:00 |
Closed | 26 Aug 2014 09:15:00 |
Details 01 Sep 2014 19:42:56 |
c.gormless rebooted, lines moved to other LNS automatically. We are investigating. |
Broadband Users Affected | 33% |
Started | 01 Sep 2014 19:39:19 |
Closed | 01 Sep 2014 19:42:08 |
Details 01 Nov 2013 15:05:00 |
We have identified an issue that appears to be affecting some customers with FTTC modems. The issue is stupidly complex, and we are still trying to pin down the exact details. The symptoms appear to be that some packets are not passing correctly, some of the time.
Unfortunately one of the types of packet that refuses to pass correctly are FireBrick FB105 tunnel packets. This means customers relying on FB105 tunnels over FTTC are seeing issues. The work around is to remove the ethernet lead to the modem and then reconnect it. This seems to fix the issue, at least until the next PPP restart. If you have remote access to a FireBrick, e.g. via WAN IP, and need to do this you can change the Ethernet port settings to force it to re-negotiate, and this has the same effect - this only works if directly connected to the FTTC modem as the fix does need the modem Ethernet to restart. We are asking BT about this, and we are currently assuming this is a firmware issue on the BT FTTC modems. We have confirmed that modems re-flashed with non-BT firmware do not have the same problem, though we don't usually recommend doing this as it is a BT modem and part of the service. |
04 Nov 2013 16:52:49 | We have been working on getting more specific information regarding this, we hope to post an update tomorrow. |
05 Nov 2013 09:34:14 | We have reproduced this problem by sending UDP packets using 'Scapy'. We are doing further testing today, and hope to write up a more detailed report about what we are seeing and what we have tested. |
05 Nov 2013 14:27:26 | We have some quite good demonstrations of the problem now, and it looks like it will mess up most VPNs based on UDP. We can show how a whole range of UDP ports can be blacklisted by the modem somehow on the next PPP restart. It is crazy. We hope to post a little video of our testing shortly. |
05 Nov 2013 15:08:16 | Here is an update/overview of the situation. (from http://revk.www.me.uk/2013/11/bt-huawei-fttc-modem-bug-breaking-vpns.html ) We have confirmed that the latest code in the BT FTTC modems appears to have a serious bug that is affecting almost anyone running any sort of VPN over FTTC. Existing modems seem to be upgrading, presumably due to a roll out of new code in BT. An older modem that has not been on-line a while is fine. A re-flashed modem with non-BT firmware is fine. A working modem on the line for a while suddenly stopped working, presumably upgraded. The bug appears to be that the modem manages to "blacklist" some UDP packets after a PPP restart. If we send a number of UDP packets, using various UDP ports, then cause PPP to drop and reconnect, we then find that around 254 combinations of UDP IP/ports are now blacklisted. I.e. they no longer get sent on the line. Other packets are fine. Sending 500 different packets, around 254 of them will not work again after the PPP restart. It is not actually the first or last 254 packets, some in the middle, but it seems to be 254 combinations. They work as much as you like before the PPP restart, and then never work after it. We can send a batch of packets, wait 5 minutes, PPP restart, and still find that packets are now blacklisted. We have tried a wide range of ports, high and low, different src and dst ports, and so on - they are all affected. The only way to "fix" it, is to disconnect the Ethernet port on the modem and reconnect. This does not even have to be long enough to drop PPP. Then it is fine until the next PPP restart. And yes, we have been running a load of scripts to systematically test this and reproduce the fault. The problem is that a lot of VPNs use UDP and use the same set of ports for all of the packets, so if that combination is blacklisted by the modem the VPN stops after a PPP restart. The only way to fix it is manual intervention. The modem is meant to be an Ethernet bridge. It should not know anything about PPP restarting or UDP packets and ports. It makes no sense that it would do this. We have tested swapping working and broken modems back and forth. We have tested with a variety of different equipment doing PPPoE and IP behind the modem. BT are working on this, but it is a serious concern that this is being rolled out. |
12 Nov 2013 10:20:18 | Work on this in still ongoing... We have tested this on a standard BT retail FTTC 'Infinity' line, and the problem cannot be reproduced. We suspect this is because when the PPP re-establishes a different IP address is allocated each time, and whatever is session tracking does not match the new connection. |
12 Nov 2013 11:08:17 | Here is an update with some a more specific explanation as to what the problem we are seeing is: On WBC FTTC, we can send a UDP packet inside the PPP and then drop the PPP a few seconds later. After the PPP re-establishes, UDP packets with the same source and destination IP and ports won't pass; they do not reach the LNS at the ISP. Further to that, it's not just one src+dst IP and port tuple which is affected. We can send 254 UDP packets using different src+dest ports before we drop the PPP. After it comes back up, all 254 port combinations will fail. It is worth noting here that this cannot be reproduced on an FTTC service which allocates a dynamic IP which changes each time PPP re-established. If we send more than 254 packets, only 254 will be broken and the others will work. It's not always the first 254 or last 254, the broken ones move around between tests. So it sounds like the modem (or, less likely, something in the cab or exchange) is creating state table entries for packets it is passing which tie them to a particular PPP session, and then failing to flush the table when the PPP goes down. This is a little crazy in the first place. It's a modem. It shouldn't even be aware that it's passing PPPoE frames, let along looking inside them to see that they are UDP. This only happens when using an Openreach Huawei HG612 modem that we suspect has been recently remotely and automatically upgraded by Openreach in the past couple of months. Further - a HG612 modem with the 'unlocked' firmware does not have this problem. A HG612 modem that has probably not been automatically/remotely upgraded does not have this problem. Side note: One theory is that the brokenness is actually happening in the street cab and not the modem. And that the new firmware in the modem which is triggering it has enabled 'link-state forwarding' on the modem's Ethernet interface. |
27 Nov 2013 10:09:42 | This post has been a little quiet, but we are still working with BT/Openreach regarding this issue. We hope to have some more information to post in the next day or two. |
27 Nov 2013 10:10:13 | We have also had reports from someone outside of AAISP reproducing this problem. |
27 Nov 2013 14:19:19 | We have spent the morning with some nice chaps from Openreach and Huawei. We have demonstrated the problem and they were able to do traffic captures at various points on their side. Huawei HQ can now reproduce the problem and will investigate the problem further. |
28 Nov 2013 10:39:36 | Adrian has posted about this on his blog: http://revk.www.me.uk/2013/11/bt-huawei-working-with-us.html |
13 Jan 2014 14:09:08 | We are still chasing this with BT. |
03 Apr 2014 15:47:59 | We have seen this affect SIP registrations (which use 5060 as the source and target)... Customers can contact us and we'll arrange a modem swap. |
23 Apr 2014 10:21:03 | BT are in the process of testing an updated firmware for the modems with customers. Any customers affected by this can contact us and we can arrange a new modem to be sent out. |
Resolution | BT are testing a fix in the lab and will deploy in due course, but this could take months. However, if any customers are adversely affected by this bug, please let us know and we can arrange for BT to send a replacement ECI modem instead of the Huawei modem.
Thank you all for your patience.
--Update-- BT do have a new firmware that they are rolling out to the modems. So far it does seem to have fixed the fault and we have not heard of any other issues as of yet. If you do still have the issue, please reboot your modem, if the problem remains, please contact email@example.com and we will try and get the firmware rolled out to you. |
Started | 25 Oct 2013 |
Closed | 23 Apr 2014 10:21:03 |
Details 13 Aug 2014 11:26:08 |
Due to a radius issue we were not receiving line statistics from just after midnight. As a result we needed to force lines to login again. This would have caused lines to lose their PPP connection and then reconnect at around 9AM. We apologise for this, and will be investigating the cause. |
Started | 13 Aug 2014 09:00:00 |
Closed | 13 Aug 2014 09:15:00 |
Details 08 Aug 2014 15:42:28 |
At 15:15 we saw customer on the 'D' LNS's lose their connection and reconnect a few moments later. The cause of this is being looked in to. |
Resolution | Lines quickly came back online, we apologise for the drop though. The cause will be investigated. |
Started | 08 Aug 2014 15:15:00 |
Closed | 08 Aug 2014 15:25:00 |
Details 27 Jul 2014 21:00:00 |
We saw what looks to be congestion on some lines on the Rugby exchange (BT lines). This shows a slight packet loss on Sunday evening. We'll report this to BT. |
30 Jul 2014 11:03:08 | Card replaced early hours this morning, which should have fixed the congestion problems. |
Started | 27 Jul 2014 21:00:00 |
Closed | 01 Aug 2014 10:00:00 |
Details 28 Jul 2014 09:20:03 |
Customers may have seen a drop and reconnect of their broadband lines this morning. Due to a problem with our RADIUS accounting on Sunday we have needed to restart our customer database server, Clueless. This has been done, and Clueless is back online. Due to the initial problem with RADIUS accounting most DSL lines have had to be restarted. |
28 Jul 2014 10:02:13 | We are also sending out order update messages in error - eg, emails about orders that have already completed. We apologise for this confusing and are investigating this. |
Started | 28 Jul 2014 09:00:00 |
Closed | 28 Jul 2014 11:00:00 |
Details 17 Jul 2014 16:23:15 |
We have a few reports from customers, and a vague Incident report from BT that looks like there may be PPP problem within the BT network which is affecting customers logging in to us. Customers may see their ADSL router in sync, but not able to log in (no PPP). |
17 Jul 2014 16:40:31 | This looks to be affecting BT ADSL and FTTC circuits. A line which tries to log in may well fail. |
17 Jul 2014 16:42:34 | Some lines are logging in successfully now. |
17 Jul 2014 16:54:15 | Not all lines are back yet, but lines are still logging back in, so if you are still offline it may take a little more time. |
Resolution | This was a BT incident, reference IMT26151/14. This was closed by BT at 17:45 without giving us further details about what the problem was or what they did to restore service. |
Started | 17 Jul 2014 16:00:00 |
Closed | 17 Jul 2014 17:45:00 |
Details 11 Jul 2014 17:00:48 |
The "B" LNS restarted today, unexpectedly. All lines reconnected within minutes (however fast the model retries). We'll clear some traffic off the "D" server back to the "B" server later this evening. |
Resolution | We're investigating the cause of this. |
Broadband Users Affected | 33% |
Started | 11 Jul 2014 11:03:52 |
Closed | 11 Jul 2014 11:03:55 |
Details 01 Jul 2014 20:50:32 |
We have identified some TalkTalk back haul lines with congestion starting around 16:20 and now 100ms with 2% loss. This affects around 3% of our TT lines.
We have techies in TalkTalk on the case and hope to have it resolved soon. |
01 Jul 2014 20:56:19 | "On call engineers are being scrambled now - we have an issue in the wider Oxford area and you should see an incident coming through shortly." |
Resolution | Engineers fixed the issue last night. |
Started | 01 Jul 2014 16:20:00 |
Closed | 01 Jul 2014 23:25:00 |
Previously expected | 02 Jul 2014 |
Details 11 Mar 2014 10:11:55 |
We are seeing multiple exchanges with packet loss over BT wholesale. We are chasing BT on this and will update as and when we have updates. GOODMAYES CANONBURY HAINAULT SOUTHWARK LOUGHTON HARLOW NINE ELMS UPPER HOLLOWAY ABERDEEN DENBURN HAMPTON INGREBOURNE COVENTRY 21CN-BRAS-RED6-SF |
14 Mar 2014 12:49:28 | This has now been escalated to the next level for further investigation. |
17 Mar 2014 15:42:38 | BT are now raising faults on each Individual exchange. |
21 Mar 2014 10:19:24 | Below are the exchanges/RAS which has been fixed by capacity upgrades. We are hoping for the remanding four exchanges to be fixed in the next few days.
21 Mar 2014 15:52:45 | COVENTRY should be resolved later this evening when a new link is installed between Nottingham and Derby. CANONBURY is waiting for CVLAN moves that begin 19/03/2014 and will be competed 01/04/2014. |
25 Mar 2014 10:09:23 | CANONBURY - Planned Engineering works have taken place on 19.3.14, and there are three more planned 25.3.14 , 26.3.14 and 1.4.14.
COVENTRY - Is now fixed NINE ELMS and UPPER HOLLOWAY- Still suffering from packet loss and BT are investigating further. |
02 Apr 2014 15:27:11 | BT are still investigating congestion on Canonbury, Nine Elms and Upper Holloway. |
23 Apr 2014 11:45:44 | CANONBURY - further PEW's on 7th and 8th May
NINE ELMS - A total of 384 EU's have been migrated. A further 614 are planned to be migrated in the early hours of the 25/04/14. UPPER HOLLOWAY - Planned Engineering Work on 28th April BEULAH HILL and TEWKESBURY - Seeing congestion peak times and Chasing BT on this also. |
30 Apr 2014 12:51:24 | NINE ELMS - T11003 - Still ongoing investigations for nine elms.
UPPER HOLLOWAY - T11004 - BT are working on this and a resolution should be available soon. TEWKESBURY - T11200 - This is on the Backhaul list and will be dealt with shortly. Work request closed as no investigation required. BT are working on this and a resolution should be available soon. MONMOUTH - T11182 - ALS583669 - This was balanced. I have advised BT that this is still not up to standards. They will continue to investigate. This is on the Backhaul Spreadhsheet also. So this is being investigate by capacity. BEULAH HILL - Being investigated. |
02 May 2014 12:45:16 | CANONBURY - 580 EU's being migrated on 7th May and 359 EU's on 8th May
NINE ELMS - Emergency Pew PW238650 that will take place in the early hours on the 02/05/14. This is to move 500 circuits off 4 ISPV's onto other IPSV's. UPPER HOLLOWAY - Currently BT TSO have 12 projects scheduled for upper Holloway. TEWKESBURY - This is with BT TSO / Backhaul upgrades. MONMOUTH - This is with BT TSO / Backhaul upgrades. BEULAH HILL - Possibly fixed last night. Will monitor to see if any better this evening BAYSWATER - Packet loss identified and reported to BT |
06 May 2014 11:44:59 | TEWKESBURY - Fixed
CANONBURY - EU's being migrated on 7th May and 359 EU's on 8th May Still seeing some lines with issues after the upgrade. Passed back to BT. NINE ELMS MONMOUTH UPPER HOLLOWAY BEULAH HILL READING EARLEY |
09 May 2014 16:16:33 | CANONBURY - NINE ELMS- Now fixed
UPPER HOLLOWAY - Have asked the team dealing for the latest update. Email sent today 9/05/2014 MONMOUTH - BT TSO are still chasing this. BEULAH HILL - BT Tso chasing for a date on a PEW for work to be carried out. BAYSWATER - BT TSO are still chasing this READING EARLEY - Unbalanced LAG identified. Rebalancing will be completed out of hours. No ETA on this sorry. |
15 May 2014 10:47:22 | UPPER HOLLOWAY - Now fixed
MONMOUTH - We have been advised that the target date for the capacity increase is the 22nd May. BEULAH HILL - Escalated this to a Duty Manager asking if he can gain an update. EARLEY - TSO advised Capacity team have replied and hope to get the new 10gig links into service this month. No further updates, so escalated to Duty Manager to try and ascertain a specific date in May 2014 when this will take place. |
21 May 2014 09:32:00 | Reading Early / Monmouth - Now fixed
Bayswater - We have received a reply from the capacity management team, advising that to alleviate capacity issues, moves are taking place on May 23rd and May 28th. Beulah Hill - Due to issues with cabling this has been delayed , we are currently awaiting a date that the cables can be run so that the integration team can bring this into service |
02 Jun 2014 15:15:55 | Bayswater - Now fixed
Belauh Hill - To alleviate capacity issues, moves are taking place between June 2nd and June 6th. |
10 Jun 2014 12:16:52 | Belauh Hill - Now fixed
AYR - Seeing congestion on many lines, which has been reported. |
19 Jun 2014 14:33:06 | AYR - Is now fixed |
Broadband Users Affected | 1% |
Started | 09 Mar 2014 10:08:25 by AAISP Pro Active Monitoring Systems |
Closed | 19 Jun 2014 14:33:59 |
Details 11 Jun 2014 15:12:53 |
It looks like one of our LNSs restarted. This will have affected a third of our broadband customers. Lines all reconnected straight away and customers should not see any further problems. The usage graphs from midnight until the restart will have been lost. |
Broadband Users Affected | 33% |
Started | 11 Jun 2014 15:05:00 |
Closed | 11 Jun 2014 15:08:59 |
Details 10 May 2014 15:52:02 |
At 15:33 all 20CN lines on Kingston RASs dropped. We are chasing BT now. |
10 May 2014 16:05:18 | BT have raised an incident. Apparently issue has been caused by power issues at London Kingston. |
12 May 2014 08:55:29 | This was fixed after power was restored and a remote reset was performed. |
Started | 10 May 2014 15:50:27 by AAISP Staff |
Closed | 12 May 2014 08:55:06 |
Cause | BT |
Details 24 Apr 2014 14:23:02 |
Some TalkTalk connected lines dropped at around 14:14. They are reconnecting now though. We'll investigate and will update this post. |
24 Apr 2014 14:29:01 | This looked like it was a wider TalkTalk problem as other ISPs were also affected. Most lines are back online now though. We will investigate further. |
24 Apr 2014 14:40:50 | TalkTalk have been contacted and a Reason for Outage has been requested. |
24 Apr 2014 15:02:33 | TalkTalk have confirmed the outage on their status page: http://solutions.opal.co.uk/network-status-report.php?reportid=3893 |
24 Apr 2014 16:24:24 | Update from TalkTalk: 15:59 24/04/2014 Supplier has noticed a link flap between two exchanges which resulted in brief loss of service for some DSL customers. The traffic was reconverged over alternative links. Supplier is still investigating for the root cause. |
Resolution | Incident was due to a transmission failure which the supplier is investigating with the switch vendor. We've also had this update from TalkTalk: The cause was identified as a blown rectifier. |
Started | 24 Apr 2014 14:14:00 |
Closed | 28 Apr 2014 13:37:28 |
Details 02 May 2014 08:13:36 |
We did some work yesterday to try and ensure we are correctly tracking lines being up and down. If ever there is any problem with RADIUS accounting this can get out of step. It is meant to sort itself out automatically, but there seemed to be some cases where that was not quite right.
Unfortunately the change led to lots of up/down emails, texts, and tweeks over night. We think we have managed to address that now, and will be monitoring during the day. |
Resolution | We believe this is all sorted now. |
Started | 01 May 2014 20:00:00 |
Closed | 02 May 2014 08:48:41 |
Previously expected | 02 May 2014 12:00:00 |
Details 22 Mar 2014 07:36:41 |
We have started to see yet more congestion on BT lines last night. This looks again a bit like a link aggregation issue (where one leg of a multiple link trunk within BT is full). The patten is not as obvious this time. Looking at the history we can see that some of the affected lines have had slight loss in the evenings. We did not spot this with our tools because of the rather odd pattern. Obviously we are trying to get this sorted with BT, but we are pleased to confirm that BT are actually providing more data now that shows where each circuit will use network components within their network. We plan to integrate this soon so that we can correlate some of these newer congestion issues and point BT in the right direction more quickly. |
Started | 21 Mar 2014 18:00:00 |
Closed | 02 May 2014 08:48:46 |
Details 17 Feb 2014 20:13:09 |
We are seeing packet loss at peak times on some lines on the Crouch End exchange. It's a small number of customers, and it looks like a congested SVLAN. This has been reported to BT. |
18 Feb 2014 10:52:26 | Initially BT were unable to see any problem, their monitoring was not showing any congestion and they wanted us to report individual line faults rather than this being dealt as a specific BT network problem. However we have spoken to another ISP who confirms the problem. BT have now opened an Incident and will be investigating. |
18 Feb 2014 11:12:47 | We have passed all our circuit details and graphs to proactive to investigate. |
18 Feb 2014 16:31:17 | TSO will investigate overnight |
20 Feb 2014 10:15:02 | No updates from TSO, proactive are chasing. |
27 Feb 2014 13:24:38 | There is still congestion, we are chasing BT again. |
28 Feb 2014 09:34:50 | Appears the issue is on the MSE router. Lines connected to the MSE are due to be migrated on 21st March however BT are hoping to get this done by 21th March. |
24 Apr 2014 15:25:06 | All lines on the Crouch End exchange are now showing clear. |
Broadband Users Affected | 0.10% |
Started | 17 Feb 2014 20:10:29 |
Closed | 24 Apr 2014 13:36:17 |
Details 08 Apr 2014 16:58:41 |
Some lines on the BT LEITH exchange have gone down. BT are aware and are investigating at the moment. |
Started | 08 Apr 2014 16:30:20 by Customer report |
Closed | 04 Apr 2014 17:05:09 |
Details 25 Mar 2014 09:55:20 |
We are seeing customer routers being attacked this morning, which is causing them to drop. This was previously reported in the status post http://status.aa.net.uk/1877 where we saw that the attacks were affecting ZyXEL routers, as well as other makes. Since that post we have updated the configuration of customer ZyXEL routers, where possible and these are no longer being affected. However, these attacks are affecting other types of routers. We suggest that customers with lines that are dropping to check their router configuration and disable access to the router's web interface from the internet, or at least to change the the port used (eg one in the range of 1024-65535) Please speak to Support for more information. |
28 Mar 2014 10:13:13 | This is happening again, do speak to suport if you need help changing the web interface settings. Customers with ZyXELs can change the port from the control pages. |
Started | 25 Mar 2014 09:00:40 |
Closed | 03 Apr 2014 12:26:40 |
Details 01 Apr 2014 12:13:31 |
Some TalkTalk connected lines dropped at around 09:50 and reconnected a few minutes after. It looks like a connectivity problem between us and TalkTalk on one of our connections to them. We are investigating further. |
Started | 01 Apr 2014 09:50:00 |
Closed | 01 Apr 2014 10:00:00 |
Details 31 Mar 2014 09:40:40 |
Some TalkTalk line diagnostics (Signal graphs and line tests) as available from the Control Pages are not working at the moment. This is being looked in to. |
31 Mar 2014 15:03:17 | This is resolved. The TalkTalk side appears of have a bug relating to timezones. |
Resolution | This is resolved. The TalkTalk side appears of have a bug relating to timezones. |
Started | 31 Mar 2014 09:00:00 |
Closed | 31 Mar 2014 15:03:25 |
Details 20 Mar 2014 08:38:52 |
Customers will be seeing what looks like 'duplicated' usage reporting on the control for last night and this morning. This has been caused by a database migration that is taking longer than expected. The usage 'duplication' has been caused by usage reports being missed and so on subsequent hours the usage has been spread equally across missed hours. This means that overall the usage reporting will be correct, but an individual hour will be incorrect. This has also affected a few other related things such as the Line Colour states. |
20 Mar 2014 11:17:55 | Usage reporting is now back to normal. |
Started | 19 Mar 2014 18:00:00 |
Closed | 20 Mar 2014 11:17:21 |
Details 01 Mar 2014 04:24:02 |
Lines: 100% 21CN-REGION-GI-B dropped at 2014-03-01 04:22:17 We have advised BT This is likely to have affected multiple internet providers using BT |
01 Mar 2014 04:25:06 | Lines: 100% 21CN-REGION-GI-B dropped again at 2014-03-01 04:23:21. |
Broadband Users Affected | 2% |
Started | 01 Mar 2014 04:22:17 by AAISP automated checking |
Closed | 02 Mar 2014 11:33:29 |
Cause | BT |
Details 06 Mar 2014 13:07:51 |
We have had a small number of reports from customers who have had the DNS settings on their routers altered. The IPs we are seeing set are 18.104.22.168 and 220.127.116.11 (there may be others) This type of attack is called Pharming. In short, it means that any internet traffic could be redirected to servers controlled by the attacker. There is more information about pharming on the following pages:
At the moment we are logging when customers try to accesses these IP addresses and we are then contacting the customers to make them aware. To solve the problem we are suggesting that customers replace the router or speak to their local IT support. |
06 Mar 2014 13:33:10 | Changing the DNS settings back to auto, changing the administrator password and disabling WAN side access to the router may also prevent this from happening again. |
06 Mar 2014 13:48:14 | Also reported here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2104380/ |
Resolution | We have contacted the few affected customers. |
Started | 06 Mar 2014 09:00:00 |
Closed | 11 Mar 2014 09:32:42 |
Details 07 Mar 2014 15:10:59 |
Some broadbands lined blipped at 15:05. This was a result of one of our LNSs restarting. Lines are back online and we'll investigate the cause |
Started | 07 Mar 2014 15:03:00 |
Closed | 07 Mar 2014 15:08:45 |
Details 27 Feb 2014 20:29:14 |
We are seeing some TT lines dropping and a routing problem. |
27 Feb 2014 20:39:20 | Things are ok now, we're investigating. This looks to have affected some routing for broadband customers and caused some TT lines to drop. |
Resolution | We are not entirely sure what caused this, however we do believe it to be related to BGP flapping. This also looks to have affected other ISPs and networks too. |
Started | 27 Feb 2014 20:18:00 |
Closed | 27 Feb 2014 20:40:00 |
Details 16 Feb 2014 18:12:15 |
All lines reconnected right away as per normal backup systems, but graphs on the "B" LNS have lost history before the reset. The exact cause is not obvious yet, but at the same time there is yet another of these quite regular attacks on ZyXEL routers which adds to confusion. As advised on another status post there are changes to ZyXEL router config planned to address the issue. |
Broadband Users Affected | 33.33% |
Started | 16 Feb 2014 17:58:00 |
Closed | 16 Feb 2014 17:59:00 |
Details 11 Jan 2014 08:42:32 |
Since around 2am, as well as a short burst last night around 19:45, we have seen some issues with some lines. This appears to be specific to certain types of router being used on the lines. We are still investigating this. |
11 Jan 2014 10:53:53 | At the moment, we have managed to identify at least some of the traffic and the affected routers and block it temporarily. We'll be able to provide some more specific advice on the issue and contact affected customers in due course. |
13 Jan 2014 14:07:56 | We blocked a further IP this morning. |
15 Jan 2014 08:17:47 | The issue is related to specific routers, and is affecting many ISPs. In our case it is almost entirely zyxel routers that are affected. It appears to be some sort of widespread and ongoing syn flood attack that is causing routers to crash and resulting in loss of sync. We are operating some source IP blocking temporarily to address these issues for the time being, and will have a simple button on our control pages to reconfigure zyxel routers for affected customers shortly. |
07 Feb 2014 10:24:07 | Last night and this morning there was another flood of traffic causing ZyXELs to restart. We suggest changing the web port to something other than 80, details can be found here: http://wiki.aa.org.uk/Router_-_ZyXEL_P660R-D1#Closing_WAN_HTTP |
13 Feb 2014 10:44:41 | We will be contacting ZyXEL customers by email over the next few days regarding these problems. Before that though, to verify our records of the router type, we will be performing a 'scan' of customer's WAN IP addresses. This scan will involve downloading the index page from the WAN address. |
20 Feb 2014 21:34:54 | Customers with ZyXELs online have been contacted this week regarding this issue. |
24 Feb 2014 11:17:13 | As per email to affected customers, we are updating the http port on ZyXEL routers today - Customers will be emailed as their router is updated. |
Resolution | Affected customers have been notified, tools in place on the Control Pages for customers to manage the http port and where appropriate ZyXEL routers have had their http port and WAN settings changed. |
Broadband Users Affected | 5% |
Started | 11 Jan 2014 02:00:00 |
Closed | 24 Feb 2014 12:00:00 |
Details 22 Feb 2014 07:56:22 |
There seems to have been something going on between 2am and 3am. We even had some incidents in BT, but whatever was going on managed to cause an unexpected restart of on of our LNS ("B") at just after 3am. So graphs before then are lost. At 7:55 lines that ended up on the "D" LNS were moved back to the "B" LNS causing a PPP restart. |
Broadband Users Affected | 33.33% |
Started | 22 Feb 2014 03:00:00 |
Closed | 22 Feb 2014 08:00:00 |
Previously expected | 22 Feb 2014 08:00:00 |
Details 20 Feb 2014 09:20:19 |
We are seeing some lines unable to log in since a blip at 02:49. We are contacting BT. These lines are in sync, but PPP is failing. It looks like a number of BT RASs are affected, including 21CN-BRAS-RED9-GI-B and 21CN-BRAS-RED1-NT-B. |
20 Feb 2014 09:31:18 | BT were already aware of the problem and are investigating. |
20 Feb 2014 12:23:12 | These lines are still down, we are chasing BT. |
20 Feb 2014 13:21:20 | BT believed this issue had been fixed. We have supplied them with all of our circuits that are down. This is being supplied to TSO and we should have an update in the next hour. |
20 Feb 2014 14:26:44 | A new incident has been raised as BT thought the issue was fixed. |
20 Feb 2014 14:27:56 | The issue is apparently still being diagnosed. |
20 Feb 2014 21:17:48 | BT fixed this at 18:18 this evening. |
20 Feb 2014 21:34:04 | BT say: BT apologises for the problems experienced today by WMBC customers and are pleased to advise the issue has been fully resolved following the back out of a planned work completed overnight. BT is aware and understands the fault which occurred and have engaged vendor support to commence urgent investigations to identify the root cause. The BT Technical Services teams have monitored the network since the corrective actions taken at 18:04 and have confirmed the network has remained stable. |
Broadband Users Affected | 0.20% |
Started | 20 Feb 2014 03:49:00 |
Closed | 20 Feb 2014 18:18:00 |
Details 20 Feb 2014 10:24:43 |
In addition to https://status.aa.net.uk/1891 there is a UK wide problem with lines logging in. This is affecting other ISPs, and affecting a small number of lines. BT are already aware. |
20 Feb 2014 11:07:55 | BT are saying this is now fixed. We saw affected lines come back online just after 10am. BT say about half of the UK 21CN WBC lines were affected, however, we only saw a few dozen lines affected. |
Started | 20 Feb 2014 09:00:00 |
Closed | 20 Feb 2014 10:00:00 |

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Here are the handwarmers for Ms. Connelly! Aren't they cute? Very easy to do on straight needles then sewn together. You can find the pattern here if you'd like to make them also. I used my favorite Pastaza which was leftover from my sister's hat. Didn't even take a full cake and, actually, I could probably make another pair. My son, Glenn, is the hand model here and he liked them so much he asked for a pair! I think that's only the second thing he's asked me to make for him thus far. The other was a beanie. Which I made. Which he then lost. Boys. Sigh.
See how freckley he is? I love his freckles. He doesn't. I hope he doesn't read this because he'll make me take that down. Just like he made me take down his picture on my Facebook page of him in the bathtub with his brother when he was three years old. He said it embarrassed him. He has no idea that the embarrassment has just begun! Muhahahaha
Oh and for your funny bone:
Thank you NatalieDee for making me laugh every day!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
8 Talk to me:
- Retro Housewife said...
Those are adorable!! It's up to you to decide if I mean the handwarmers or the freckles!
- February 17, 2009 at 9:31 PM
- Kim said...
Gorgeous mitts! And Pastaza, oh my! My son has freckles too but just on his face. Gotta save up those blackmail photos for max embarrassment. teehee
- February 17, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- IrishgirlieKnits said...
Super cute mitts!! And how funny is that cartoon!
- February 18, 2009 at 1:01 AM
- Jen said...
Thanks for the laugh. One of my few joys in life is embarrasing my boys, aged 13 and 14.
- February 18, 2009 at 8:02 AM
- Sarah, The New Girl said...
I've never heard of NatalieDee till your blog-- I love her stuff!! Thanks!!!
- February 18, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- invisible monster said...
Handwarmers would be amazing for me on bike rides... =)
- February 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
Love those mitts!
marilyn - February 21, 2009 at 11:05 PM
- Rebekah said...
Wow! These mitts turned out amazing! Great job!
- February 23, 2009 at 9:27 PM
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By Alan "Hook" Lacer
When I picked up Dudley Murphy and Rick Edmisten's Fishing Lure Collectibles (see Sources, below), my interests in fishing, antiques and wood turning met head-on: Now I'm hooked on making wooden fishing lures. I know this passion is somewhat irrational, because plastic lures are abundant and economical—and they catch fish. I make my own wooden lures because it's fun. I love recreating old patterns as much as I love to explore my own theories on catching fish. I enjoy testing unusual shapes and unique finishes. And I can report first-hand that catching a fish with a lure I've made myself is delightful. You should try it yourself.
I like to fish for bass, musky and pike, which are all known to feed at the surface, so most of the lures that I make are designed to skip across the water. These "top water" lures can be made from almost any wood that holds screws well. (There's nothing worse than having a trophy fish escape because it was able to rip out the screw that anchored the hook to the lure!) I usually work with poplar and start with 1-1/2" to 1-3/4" square blocks. My bass lures range from 2" to 5" in length, while my musky and pike lures tend to be 5" to 11" long.
Usually, turning a wooden lure is basic spindle work, but the shapes you can experiment with are almost endless. Mimic a minnow or a small fish, a crawfish, a frog, a mouse, a bug, or a bird. Sometimes the turning doesn't resemble anything specific from nature.
Most lure shapes are turned between centers with basic tools (Photos 1 and 2). If you're adept with a skew chisel, you can complete most of the work using it alone. Use the skew or a 1/2" round-nose scraper to create a detail that gives the lure more "action" (Photo 3). Use a 3/8" detail/ spindle gouge and turn from two different centers to create a lure with an unusual face (Photo 4).
Refer to old lure shapes you find appealing, or use your imagination to dream up your own shapes (Photo 5). Whatever the shape, it'll take only minutes to complete, so you might as well turn several at a time (Photo 6).
To eliminate any chance of a fish ripping out the hook, attach the hook to a length of stainless steel wire (.030"—.040") that runs all the way through the lure (Photo 7). Drill a 1/8" hole and glue in 1/8" aluminum tubing to house the wire. Then insert the wire and use pliers to create loops at both ends for tying on the lure and for mounting the hook. This through wire also creates a nice foundation for adding propellers, beads and other details.
To attract fish, wooden lures are usually painted, and they almost always have eyes—as far as I can tell, fish just don't appreciate plain wood.
Historically, lures were brushpainted, dipped, marbled or sprayed. Red was often used as the primary color, or for details, in the belief that predator fish would view it as blood, a sign of injury. Examples decorated with real frog skin have also been documented. All of these options are open to the contemporary lure maker (except, perhaps, the frog skin option). I usually use a variation of the brushpainting method to apply paint while the lure is still on the lathe (Photos 8 and 9). Epoxy paints are the most durable, but they take a long time to dry, which makes applying multiplecolors a lengthy process. I often useacrylic paints for the color coats, followedseveral days later by a coat of clear epoxy paint, for durability.
Another option is to carve or sand the turned body, before or after painting, to make the lure attract more piscean attention as it moves across the water. Carving the head end of a lure will make it wobble or dive, much like hollowing on the lathe. A bit of sanding can dramatically change a turned lure's appearance (Photo 10). Viewing historical examples is a great way to get ideas for additional shaping (see Sources).
Eyes really do make a difference— just ask anyone who casts a lure. Eyes can be painted on or dotted, or they can be small tacks or nails that are driven in and then painted. You can also buy eyes made of glass or plastic, adhesive backed or with stems for gluing into a hole—or even doll eyes with loose pupils, for that "come hither" look that may help you hook the big one.
An almost endless array of options exists for mounting hooks and adding the final touches that make a piece of wood irresistible to fish (Photo 11). You can buy hardware (see Sources), strip it from an old lure, or make it yourself from metal or plastic. You can keep it simple or go for broke by installing hooks wrapped with fur or feathers, eyelets, diving lips, spinners, propellers, fins, collars, glass and metal beads, wire, spacers, cup washers, weights and split rings. The bottom line during the entire lure-making process is to think like a hungry fish, because ultimately, hungry fish will be your greatest critics.
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1. Most lures are simply shaped, so they're easy to turn with a skew chisel or detail/ spindle gouge. Cylinders and elliptical shapes like this one are typical. Sizes vary, depending on the type of fish you want to catch.
2. Embellish the basic shape to create variations. Adding a head and unique details, such as lips and a necklace show individuality that's not always found on factory-made lures.
3. Add a hollowed-out collar to create additional sound and surface disturbance. The hollow shape makes the lure chug and pop as it's pulled across the water. To hollow the collar, cut in with a skew chisel, long point down.
4. Create a lure with an offset snout by turning on two different centers. Turn the body with the blank centered between the ends. Then offset the blank's mounting point at the tailstock end to turn the snout.
5. Create your own designs. I call this one the "Leapin' Lacer." The turning is just a squat-shaped ellipse with hollowed collars at both ends. But to a largemouth bass, the completed lure will look like a tasty frog (Photo 10).
6. Most lures take ten minutes or less to turn, so it makes sense to turn multiples, whether they're unique or all the same. Leave the waste attached for now—it makes painting much easier.
7. To strengthen any lure, drill all the way through and mount the hook on stainless steel wire. Install the lure in a scroll chuck and drill from the tailstock end, using a long bit and a Jacobs-type chuck.
8. Here's the lazy man's painting method—just hold the brush and let the lathe do all the work. Run the lathe very slowly and thin the paint so that it flows evenly onto the lure.
9. Turn down the waste material at both ends, after the paint has dried. Then part off. This step shortens the time it takes to produce finished surfaces on the ends.
10. Flattening one side on a sanding disc transforms the turned body of the "Leapin' Lacer" into a frog—especially from a largemouth's viewpoint. Adding hardware (and occasionally lead weights) ensures that the lure will orient correctly in the water.
11. Attach eyes, hooks, weights and other hardware to complete each lure. Outsmarting fish isn't always easy, so use both your experience and imagination. And don't hesitate to change hardware that doesn't seem to work.
Note: Product availability and prices are subject to change.
Barlow's Tackle Express, barlowstackle.com, 972-231-5982, Dudley Murphy and Rick Edmisten, Fishing Lure Collectibles: An Identification and Value Guide to the Most Collectible Antique Fishing Lures Vol. I (2nd Ed), Collector Books, 2001.
Jann's Netcraft, jannsnetcraft.com, 800-346-6590.
Moore's Lures, mooreslures.com, 715-356-6834.
This story originally appeared in American Woodworker June/July 2010, issue #148.
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US Predators kill 4 'militants' in South Waziristan strike
US Predators struck for the first time in 19 days in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies today, killing four "militants" in an attack in South Waziristan.
The unmanned Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired two missiles at a compound in the Azam Warzak area of South Waziristan, according to AFP.
No senior commanders from the Taliban, al Qaeda, or allied terror groups based in the area are reported to have been killed.
Today's attack in South Waziristan took place in an area of South Waziristan that is controlled by Mullah Nazir, the leader of the Taliban in the Waziri tribal areas. Azam Warzak is on the border with Afghanistan, and is a transit point for Taliban, al Qaeda, and other terrorists heading to and from Pakistan's war-torn neighbor. Senior al Qaeda leaders are also thought to shelter in Azam Warzak.
"Good Taliban" leader Mullah Nazir also an al Qaeda leader
Mullah Nazir has openly supported Taliban emir Mullah Omar and al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and wages jihad in Afghanistan. In an interview with the Asia Times, Nazir rejected claims that he opposed al Qaeda, and affirmed that he considered himself to be a member of the global terror organization.
"Al Qaeda and the Taliban are one and the same," Nazir said. "At an operational level we might have different strategies, but at the policy level we are one and the same.... This is wrong that I am anti-al Qaeda. I am part of al Qaeda."
Pakistan's military and intelligence services consider Nazir and his followers "good Taliban" as they do not openly seek the overthrow of the Pakistani state.
In the summer of 2009, the military signed a peace agreement with Nazir stipulating that he would not shelter al Qaeda or members of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, which were based in the Mehsud tribal areas of South Waziristan. The Pakistani government launched a military operation against the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in October 2009, but left Nazir's areas untouched. Nazir has continued to allow the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, al Qaeda, and other terror groups safe haven in his tribal areas.
Significantly, more senior al Qaeda leaders have been killed in Nazir's tribal areas during the US air campaign than in those of any other Taliban leader in Pakistan. Nazir also shelters the Mehsuds from the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, in violation of the peace agreement with the Pakistani government.
In the past, the US has killed several senior al Qaeda leaders in Nazir's territories. One of the most senior al Qaeda leaders killed was Midhat Mursi al Sayyid Umar, who is better known as Abu Khabab al Masri. Abu Khabab was killed along with four members of his staff in a Predator strike on July 28, 2008.
Two other top al Qaeda leaders killed while in Nazir's care were Osama al Kini (Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam), al Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan; and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, one of al Kini's senior aides. Both men were wanted by the US for their involvement in the 1998 suicide attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The US believes it killed Abu Zaid al Iraqi during a Feb. 20, 2010 airstrike in Azam Warzak. Abu Zaid is said to be al Qaeda's top financier in Pakistan.
In another strike in Nazir's territory, US Predators also killed Abu Hazwa Jawfi, who is said to have led Jundallah, a Pakistani terror group that is based in Karachi and maintains close ties with al Qaeda.
Also, Ilyas Kashmiri, the leader of al Qaeda's Lashkar-al-Zil, or Shadow Army, is reported to have been killed in a June 3 Predator strike in Nazir's tribal areas. Kashmiri's death has not been confirmed, however.
The Predator strikes, by the numbers
Today's strike is the first in Pakistan's tribal areas this month, and the first since July 12, when a "hideout of al Qaeda-linked terrorists" was struck in the Birmal area of South Waziristan, killing eight terrorists.
From January through June 2011, the strikes in Pakistan were as follows: nine strikes in January, three strikes in February, seven in March, two in April, seven in May, 12 in June, and three in July. In the last four months of 2010, the US averaged almost 16 strikes per month (21 in September, 16 in October, 14 in November, and 12 in December).
So far this year, the US has carried out 44 strikes in Pakistan, and is well off the pace of the 117 attacks that took place in 2010. In 2010, the US more than doubled the number of strikes that had occurred in 2009; by late August 2010, the US had exceeded 2009's strike total of 53 with a strike in Kurram. In 2008, the US carried out a total of 36 strikes inside Pakistan. [For up-to-date charts on the US air campaign in Pakistan, see LWJ Special Report, Charting the data for US airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2011.]
In 2010 the strikes were concentrated almost exclusively in North Waziristan, where the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, the Haqqani Network, al Qaeda, and a host of Pakistani and Central and South Asian terror groups are based. All but 13 of the 117 strikes took place North Waziristan. Of the 13 strikes occurring outside of North Waziristan in 2010, seven were executed in South Waziristan, five were in Khyber, and one was in Kurram. This year, an increasing number of strikes are taking place in South Waziristan. So far in 2011, 27 of the 44 strikes have taken place in North Waziristan, 16 strikes have occurred in South Waziristan, and one took place in Kurram.
Since Sept. 1, 2010, the US has conducted 105 strikes in Pakistan's tribal agencies. The bulk of those attacks have aimed at the terror groups in North Waziristan, with 81 strikes in the tribal agency. Many of the strikes have targeted cells run by the Islamic Jihad Group, which have been plotting to conduct Mumbai-styled terror assaults in Europe. A Sept. 8 strike killed an IJG commander known as Qureshi, who specialized in training Germans to conduct attacks in their home country.
The US campaign in northwestern Pakistan has targeted top al Qaeda leaders, al Qaeda's external operations network, and Taliban leaders and fighters who threaten both the Afghan and Pakistani states as well as support al Qaeda's external operations. The campaign has been largely successful in focusing on terrorist targets and avoiding civilian casualties, as recently affirmed by the Pakistani military.
For a list of al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in the US air campaign in Pakistan, see LWJ Special Report, Senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in US airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2011.
READER COMMENTS: "US Predators kill 4 'militants' in South Waziristan strike"
Posted by JT at August 1, 2011 1:54 PM ET:
Yemen airstrikes have occurred recently also. Here's hoping that the former US guy (I don't recall the name) was one of the targets.
Posted by Charles at August 1, 2011 2:32 PM ET:
China Points to Pakistan in Xinjiang Attack
China has long accused Uighur groups waging a sporadic, sometimes violent, campaign for independence of being part of ETIM, which it says has links to al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations and has sent people to train and fight in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
But China rarely points a finger so directly and publicly at Pakistan, suggesting to some analysts that Beijing is either unhappy with Islamabad's counterterrorism efforts or anxious to portray the recent violence as emanating from abroad.
The allegation is all the more striking as Pakistan, facing a crisis in relations with the U.S. since the killing of Osama bin Laden, has been working hard to portray China as its "all-weather friend" and an alternative source of civilian and military aid. Pakistani officials said in May that China had agreed to take over operation of the strategically positioned Pakistani port of Gwadar, and that Islamabad had asked Beijing to build a naval base there.
Posted by blert at August 1, 2011 6:17 PM ET:
Beijing has to reason: if Islamabad is so willing to bite America's hand -- after all the aid -- why would Pakistan change character to suit Red China?
The fact is that Islamabad has destroyed their credibility -- pretty much across the board.
Islamabad is at war with: India, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and NATO... all at a slow boil. She's even orchestrating ethnic cleansing in the FATA.
Uighur jihadists would seem to have no other route to expertise save the ISI's front groups.
Posted by James at August 1, 2011 10:50 PM ET:
JT, I think you are referring to Anwar Awlaki.
Indeed, it would be great news if we got him. Honestly, I'm afraid the guy has the potential of becoming an "American Hitler."
Posted by Soccer at August 1, 2011 11:41 PM ET:
The Taliban claimed that the drone strikes "martyred over 70 innocent Pakistani civilians", and that "more than 80 invaders were killed in massive mujahideen retaliation assaults".
They claimed they killed 80 soldiers, wow! And how would NATO cover that up, exactly? It'd be interesting to know.
Posted by villiger at August 2, 2011 5:58 AM ET:
Where is the shift in the strategy to counter-terror with this slow pace of strikes?
Or is it the calm before the storm. Reading between the lines, there is a shift in strategy in process in DC. That would also be consistent with the changes in command at the top level...
2011 is crawling, save 5/2, esp wrt to reigning in Pak. 2012 i reckon is going to be hot--will have to be.
Posted by Max at August 2, 2011 9:28 AM ET:
Interesting point. It would seem counterproductive for Pakistan to be doing anything that would provoke one of its only "real" (if such a thing truly exists) friends in the world like China.
But perhaps it's like everything else Pakistan is doing: in their efforts to play both sides of the fence to their own advantage, their double-dealing has come back to bite them in the backside.
Posted by hee at August 2, 2011 8:28 PM ET:
Interesting point. Pakistan do anything, like the only provoke China "real" (if such things do exist) in the world of one of the friends, and it seems to be just the opposite.


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Sanchez Angus has been raising cattle since 1998, at which time, Patrick started with Commercial Angus and Angus Herford Cross Cattle. The sire used was a Traveler Angus from Capitan, NM, that produced first generation Baldy calves that were in high demand with the Commercial Cattle Market. In 2000, Sanchez Angus had the #1 selling commercial Angus Bull, sold at Valley Livestock Bull Sale, just South of Albuquerque.
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