text: From The Director's Desk The preservation of tribal existence, one of NARF's five priorities, is the most critical issue facing Indian tribes today. The future of tribes in this country depends ultimately upon secure and permanent land bases, the rights of self-determination necessary to preserve traditional customs and ways of life, and the power and authority that tribal government status entails. Here in the "lower 48" states federally recognized Tribes, as sovereign governments, possess the power to regulate the internal affairs of their members and the activities within their reservations. They levy taxes, pass land-use and environmental regulations, have tribal police forces, and in some cases issue fish and wildlife regulations. However, in Alaska where 40% of the tribes in the United States reside, its a different story. Alaska Native villages and the Native American Rights Fund are struggling to uphold a recent court decision in State of Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie that says an Alaska Native tribal council has the same broad authority over its lands as lower-48 reservations -- including some authority on non-tribal members and the ability to levy taxes. The key word here is struggling. Alaska legislators have created a $1 million "war chest" to fight the ruling and have hired a high-powered Washington lawyer to push for a Supreme Court hearing. Alaska's two U.S. senators have vowed to fight the law in Congress, despite Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's statement that he considers the Venetie ruling to be "the law of the land" and that he will oppose any effort by the Alaska congressional delegation to overturn it with legislation. Clearly, this is an issue that will need constant attention. We must be prepared for a long battle before we can declare total victory. John E. Echohawk (Pawnee) Indian Country in Alaska - The Venetie Decision The Native American Rights Fund represents the Native Village of Venetie in State of Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie, a case that involves the Tribe's authority to impose a tax on a non-member who engages in business activity within the Village - in this case, a contractor company that is building a school in the village. On November 20, 1996 a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in the case that the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) did not extinguish Indian Country in Alaska, and that the land occupied by the Neets'aii Gwich'in people of Venetie and Arctic Village is Indian Country. This decision, which overrules a 1994 Federal District Court ruling, represents a complete and unqualified victory for Tribes in Alaska. It eliminates the argument that ANCSA extinguished the territorial power of the Tribes and therefore, will apply to virtually all other Native villages. Specifically, the additional powers that the Tribe will have as a consequence of Indian Country status include the authority to: tax, zone, condemn real property, regulate land use, manage fish and game (although the extent of such authority is unclear) exercise civil and criminal misdemeanor jurisdiction over Tribal members, and under certain circumstances exercise civil jurisdiction over non-Tribal members, as well. "When [in] 1971, the Native land claims [act] came into law we had a choice of whether to take the land or take the money. And the people very wisely took the land...We call ourselves a sovereign people. And that's the way it should be, because we don't have to ask anybody [when] we're going to hunt on our land or get timber to build our cabins. We go out and do it without any waste, and we have our own laws to follow that [have] been in existence before the white man law came into the village, came into the country. And we still follow that. That's a traditional law." Venetie & Arctic Village Venetie (pop. 225) and Arctic Village (pop. 170) are located in northwest Alaska above the Arctic Circle and southeast of the Brooks Range. Both villages are comprised primarily of Neets'aii Gwichin ("residents of the north side") who at one time lived a highly nomadic life, utilizing semi-permanent settlements in pursuit of fish and game for subsistence and trading purposes. The Venetie Tribal Government owns surface and subsurface title to 1.8 million acres of land held "in common" for the indigenous people of the communities of Venetie, Arctic Village, Christian Village and Kachik or Robert's Fish Camp. The Villages secured their lands in 1943 under the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA). Today most residents have settled in Arctic Village and Venetie. Christian Village and Kachik are summer camps. Venetie and Arctic Village are each governed by an elected seven-member village council that are recognized by the federal government as official tribal governing bodies. The councils administer a variety of federal programs including local health care, employment assistance, social services and tribal operations. The economies of Venetie and Arctic village are heavily dependent on subsistence. Village residents hunt waterfowl, whitefish and pike in the late spring and in the summer, many villagers move to fish camps on the Yukon River to fish for king and chum salmon. Fall and winter are devoted to moose and caribou hunting and trapping. A Brief Alaska History During the eighteenth century, Russian fur traders found their way to Alaska and came to occupy the Aleutian Islands and southeast Alaska. In 1867 by the Treaty of Cession, Russian sold its "interests" in Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million. The discovery of gold in 1889, the development of commercial salmon fisheries and logging activity brought white settlers into the territory. Over 50 years later, Japan invaded the Aleutian Islands, and more than 140,000 American military personnel were sent to Alaska. Native land claims in Alaska date back to 1867, but it was not until 1958 that the settlement of land claims acquired a new urgency. Although the Statehood Act disclaimed any right to land and property held by Alaska Natives or held in trust for them, it granted to the new state the right to select from the public domain more than 103 million acres "which are vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved". Despite the fact that aboriginal title had never been extinguished, the state considered lands used by Alaska Natives for subsistence activities to fall within the public domain. In 1966, Alaska Natives established a statewide organization, the Alaska Federation of Natives, that recommended that the Department of Interior cease all disposals of land pending a land claims settlement; that Congress pass a law to settle the claims; and that Alaska Natives play an active role in developing such a law (what would become ANCSA). As a result, Stewart Udall, Secretary of Interior at the time, stopped the transfer of state-selected lands. Then, after the discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay in 1968 and at the urging of oil companies, legislators recognized the need to address the question of aboriginal claims in Alaska. For the proposed 900 hundred mile pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to the Gulf of Alaska crossed through aboriginal lands of several Alaska Native villages. This gave rise to the development and passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act In 1971 Alaska Natives held aboriginal title to virtually all of Alaska, a title based on Native use and occupation of the land since time immemorial. However, with the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) in 1971, Congress extinguished the aboriginal title Alaska Natives held to their lands throughout Alaska. In an effort to settle the land claims by the villages, ANCSA reserved 44 million acres of land (about 10% of Alaska's territory) for twelve regional corporations and more than 200 village corporations. The federal government reserved about 197 million acres (60%) for itself and the state selected 124 million acres (30%). As compensation for the 90% of the state claimed by the state and federal governments, Alaska Natives were paid $962.5 million -- a mere three dollars per acre. Venetie and Arctic Village elected to keep their traditional homeland that was secured in 1934 and forego the monetary compensation. Rulings in the Case Following a trial in 1993 on whether the Native Village of Venetie is an Indian tribe as defined under federal law and whether the Village is a "dependent Indian community" and thus Indian Country, the federal district court ruled in 1994 that Venetie, which is organized under the Indian Reorganization Act, has tribal status. The questioned remained as to whether the Tribe had the power to levy taxes. Tribal status for tribes means that a Native community is recognized by the federal government as a political institution holding limited sovereign powers of self-government. "Indian Country" is the geographic area which a federally recognized tribe may exercise its powers of self-government. Although tribal status is essential to Indian Country, the fact that an area is occupied by a federally recognized tribe does not alone make it Indian Country. Other criteria must be considered including the degree of federal control of the area and the extent to which the area and the extent to which the area was set aside for the use, occupancy and protection of dependent Native people. In August 1995, the Alaska federal district court, ruled that Venetie, although a tribe, is not a dependent Indian community under federal law and therefore is not Indian Country in which it can impose tribal taxes. Judge Russell Holland's ruling said that Native land in Alaska could no longer be considered Indian country because through ANCSA the land was set aside for corporations, not tribes, and was not under the active supervision of the federal government. The court reasoned that Indian Country can exist only "where the degree of congressional and executive control over the Alaska Native tribe is so pervasive as to evidence an intention that the federal government, not the state, be the dominant political institution in the area." Furthermore, the District Court found that Venetie does not qualify as a "dependent Indian community" because it does not occupy lands specifically "set-aside" for the use of Indians. NARF appealed the decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals saying that ANCSA extinguished aboriginal land claims only. It did not eliminate the "trust relationship" between the federal government and Alaska Natives, nor tribal or Indian Country status of Alaska Native villages. In addition, NARF argued that Venetie's one million acres held by the tribe in fee simple and occupied almost exclusively by tribal members is a dependent Indian community over which the tribe has jurisdiction. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals concurred and in its recent decision rule that the corporations that were created by ANCSA are owned and managed by Natives, are controlled by the villages, and maintain a "distinctly Native identity" -- all standards used to determine Indian Country. Conclusion Although the Neetsaii Gwich'in have much to celebrate about this landmark decision, the State of Alaska is busy building its opposition. Following an unsuccessful petition to the Ninth Circuit to reconsider its ruling, the state is now asking the United States Supreme Court to hear the case. In addition, United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has said that if the state fails to get the ruling overturned in court, he, Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Representative Don Young (R-Alaska) will attack it in Congress. On the Case Lawrence "Lare" Aschenbrenner has been on the NARF staff for 16 years and has served as the Directing Attorney of the Alaska office for the past ten years. Lare has over 36 years of litigation experience and previously served as the Directing Attorney for NARF's Washington, D.C. office. He earned his law degree from the University of Oregon and completed his undergraduate work there, as well. Prior to joining NARF's staff, Lare served in a number of legal capacities, including Acting Associate Solicitor for Indian Affairs and Assistant Solicitor for Indian Affairs in the Department of the Interior from 1974 through February 1977. In addition, he has been the Deputy Attorney General for the Navajo Nation, 1982-84; Chief Counsel for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Jackson, Mississippi, 1967-69; a partner in a public interest law firm in Oregon; the first Public Defender for the State of Oregon; and District Attorney for Josephine County, Oregon. Lare's legal responsibilities in Indian law have related primarily to issues and cases involving tribal jurisdiction, lands, minerals, hunting, fishing and water rights, and the environment. Heather Kendall (Athabascan) has been a staff attorney with NARF since 1993. Her cases focus on Alaska issues of tribal sovereignty and subsistence rights. Heather holds a History degree from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and a J.D. from Harvard University. Her legal experience includes working as a law clerk for Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse & Miller in Anchorage and Bogle & Gates in San Francisco. Immediately after earning her law degree Heather was a Judicial Clerk for Chief Justice Ray Rabinowitz of the Alaska Supreme Court. A Skadden Fellowship from 1992-93 funded Heather's work with Alaska Legal Services and the Native American Rights Fund where she worked as a staff and research attorney. Events The Mashantucket Pequot Tribe raised $650,000 for the Native American Rights Fund through a benefit gala on November 7, 1996 at the Tribe's Foxwood's Resort Casino. Richard "Skip" Hayward -- chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, NARF National Support Committee member and former member and Chair of the NARF Board of Directors -- and his wife Carol hosted the event. Several hundred guests including tribal members, tribal employees and business associates of the Tribe chose among four benefactor categories: patron, silver, gold and platinum. Platinum benefactors also received limousine service to and from the Hayward's home for a private reception and luxury overnight accommodations for four at Foxwoods and a gourmet breakfast. "We are very pleased that Chairman Hayward and the tribe were able to organize this event to benefit tribes all across the nation. This is the third event they've done for us and we greatly appreciate their efforts and hospitality," said John Echohawk. NARF represented the Mashantucket Pequots in their efforts to gain federal recognition as a Tribe and their land claim settlement. The Eagle Feather The Native American Rights Fund is proud to honor Alfonso Ortiz (San Juan Pueblo), anthropologist/author/scholar and NARF National Support Committee member who passed away on January 27, 1997 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He had recently taken medical leave from teaching cultural and social anthropology at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque, but had hoped to return this semester. Ortiz is remembered for his countless contributions to higher education and American Indian students. He received a bachelors degree in sociology from the UNM and his masters and doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. After teaching at Princeton and Rutgers, Ortiz returned to his alma mater in 1974 to teach. Over his long career, he won numerous awards, research grants and scholarships, including a post-doctoral fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. Among his public service activities, Ortiz was president of the Association of American Indian Affairs; a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian; and member of the National Advisory Council on the National Indian Youth Council. Ortiz was born in 1939 at San Juan Pueblo in Northern New Mexico. Condolences to the Ortiz family can be sent in care of the Department of Anthropolgy, University of New Mexico. Update INDIVIDUAL INDIAN MONEY (IIM) ACCOUNTS CASE UPDATE In a first-of-its-kind ruling, a federal judge has granted certification to a class of more than 300,000 individual Indian account holders suing the federal government for gross mismanagement of the Indians' multibillion dollar trust fund. The suit now becomes the largest ever brought against the government for financial mismanagement and the broadest such effort by American Indians. The Native American Rights Fund represents the 300,000 account holders. Class certification guarantees that past and present IIM account holders will be able to pursue in court, for the first time: A full accounting of the trust funds The Department of Interior and Treasury are obligated to hold and reinvest individual Indian trust monies for account holders - revenue derived from oil, gas, timber and other leases. But Interior lacks even a basic accounting and accounts receivable system and perhaps tens of billions of dollars are missing or uncollected. Eyapaha Hau Kolas! Occasionally in the Eyapaha, I like to share with you stories about NARF friends who have done something special to help the Native American Rights Fund. While they share a deep affinity with our continuing struggles for justice on behalf of Native American people, they are usually mature individuals with broad life experiences. Many have gone through events in their lives that have somehow made them feel close to the people in Indian country. That is why we hold them in such high regard and appreciate their wisdom and generosity. I would like to tell you about a unique young woman. Her name is Sonja Skovsted. I say unique because Sonja -- though a sophomore at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado -- has helped to educate and bring understanding about NARF and Indian issues to countless high school students and educators in Colorado. Sonja first became aware of the issues facing Native Americans after watching the movie "Lakota Woman." She then traveled to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. That visit motivated her to compete in her school district's History Day competition. The theme of the competition was "Taking a Stand in History." Sonja's topic was "The Rights of Native Americans." Sonja's research for the competition led her to the Native American Rights Fund where she learned firsthand from NARF staff and Executive Director John Echohawk about NARF's mission, accomplishments and our efforts to "Stand Firm for Justice." After completing her research, Sonja spent countless hours designing, selecting artwork, writing, compiling quotes and constructing her project, a display board, for the competition. The results were well worth her efforts. She took First Place in the District Competition which allowed her to compete at the state level. Needless to say, we were extremely proud of her when she and her father came to tell us the great news. Sonja then graciously donate her project to NARF which we will be taking with us whenever we do a presentation or special event. To Sonja and her family -- we at the Native American Rights Fund appreciate your generosity and your ability at such a young age to recognize the injustices that Native American people have faced. Through your work, you have shared your insight with others. It gives us renewed hope that one day there will be justice for Native Americans because of people like you who have the ability to learn and the courage to act. Pila Miya. Myths Surrounding Indian Gaming The Native American Rights Fund would like to take this opportunity to address some of the misconceptions surrounding Indian gaming. As many of our donors are aware, there is a somewhat common belief in American society that Indians "have struck it rich" with the establishment of Indian casinos. However, that is not the case. Media coverage concerning Indian gaming has focused on the few operations that have seen spectacular success, most notably the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe. However, these operations are the exception, rather than the rule. While few Indian gaming operations are highly successful, with a profit margin of up to 40%, most are only marginally profitable. And given the financial situation on most reservations, it will take several decades of sustained revenue flow to create opportunities for economic parity. According to the recent "Survey of Grant Giving by American Indian Foundations and Organizations" by Native Americans in Philanthropy, the needs of reservation Indians are so great that even if the total Indian gaming revenue in the country could be divided equally among all the Indians in the country, the amount ($3,000) per person would still not be enough to raise Indian per capita income (currently $4,500) to anywhere near the national average of $14,400. In addition, many tribes may never participate in gaming because of their geographic location in remote areas. For the "successful" tribal operators, gaming has reduced or eliminated unemployment and has provided a substitute for shrinking federal funds. These tribes are using their revenues to create and maintain tribal police/fire/ambulance services, health and child-care services, educational assistance program, cultural enhancement, and numerous other human service programs. Tribal gaming facilities have also become powerful economic engines for surrounding non-Indian communities. For example, in San Diego county tribal gaming has been responsible for the creation of 1,500 jobs with a payroll of $22 million per year (and associated payroll taxes and employee income taxes). In Minnesota, Indian gaming has become the 7th largest employer in the state. Furthermore, tribal gaming facilities spend millions of dollars every year purchasing goods and services from local sources because there are no other commercial businesses on most reservations. As a result, virtually all services such as grocery stores and service stations in surrounding non-Indian communities benefit from increased visitors to the reservations. |


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JESUS! That ain't right. Janice Dickinson really needs to knock this shit off. Yeah, when you're old you should be able to do whatever the hell you want because, let's face it, death is stealing your pills. (Or in Janice's case, crying in a sandy Port-a-John.) But this is getting out of hand. Sure, ...

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Have you had safety and success with 1950s solid 3/4 ply garage single doors & new openers? I have had openers on lighter 68's wooden panel doors w/o any problem since mid 80s. A friend wants to add an opener but I remember too much weight w/o seeing and raising the door. I doubt it has any counter balance springs. My suggestion has been to add a newer panel or metal door to the old hardware to be safe. The newer metal doors that I have noticed and work with were just "Skin" vs any quality.
Thanks in advance for any info. loger |
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- Posted by slowpoke_gardener 6/7 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 14, 11 at 18:41
I think I would want a counter balance spring on any garage door. I would expect it is time for a new door and hardware. |
I'm sure the wood door in question has springs. If it didn't, you couldn't open it. The door probably needs maintenance which may include spring replacement or certainly adjustment. Once the spring tension is optimized, any regular opener will work. My mother-in-law has a pair of the solid wood doors as you refer to, and they both have regular residential remote-control openers. I'm with you on the security aspect of these very solid doors, but they do require a lot of maintenance. |
Saxman, after seeing pics of the solid doors, you are correct. 1. They have good looking counter balancing springs, from the ceiling down to the pivot arms. 2. They have good strange looking hardware pivoting arms 3-4' away, approx center of height. 3. They have been rebuilt and I hope with 3/8" ply vs 3/4" but they still used full 2X4s. Seeing this I feel the doors will be fine with openers. They'll still have the option to install rolling panels vs solid doors. I built overhead storage cabinets above my straight "panel" doors (mid 1970s) before rolling panels became popular with openers. I have opted to stay with my straight panels (that requires less hardware height clearance) vs removing the storage. To add strength, I rebuilt the doors with 1/8" X 1.5" angle iron and added 3/8" quality ply. Each door is 10 - 15 lbs heavier and there has never been a problem with the doors. I reinforced pivots and greased as needed as well as original early to mid 80s openers. loger. |
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Is the advertising industry raising the bar?
ODEL, one of Colombo's prominent department stores, has broken new ground in advertising with a print creative for jeans depicting two females in an unabashed expression of lesbian eroticism. The ad, which comes with the payoff line 'The perfect pair', is a clear departure from the 'traditional' culture of flaunting sexuality that has been part and parcel of the advertising industry the world over.
The culture police may or may not pounce on the ad and censure ODEL, but the truth of the matter is that all societies have gays, lesbians and bisexuals in addition to heterosexuals, the relevant percentages being roughly equal across time and space. It is 'queer' but not considered enough reason for outright condemnation; people generally being ready to live and let live. What people do in private after all is their business, as is who they do it with.
A palpably Western fascination with formal rules and institutionalization of propriety has certainly put out roots in other cultures. Just the other day, the Pakistan Supreme Court determined to allow transsexuals to have their own gender category on some official documents. Sri Lanka didn't have marriage registration until the middle of the 19th Century, but that didn't stop cohabitation and neither did it make 'family' untenable. 'Marriage' came with a need to track inheritance of land given the complications of a matrilineal system. With it came Victorian morality as well as patriarchal values. And laws, including those that refer to sexual orientation.
The ad, which its creators defend on the basis of 'creative license', therefore snubs the law that considers gay and lesbian sex 'illegal', never mind societal permissibility. It is quite likely that those who subscribe to ideologies framed by Judeo-Christian morality and others who have internalized Victorian morality would object to the ad.
Odel's head of marketing, Upendra said that 'the perfect pair' refers to 'jeans and the top' (not denims and the color blue), and that the idea 'was inspired by international trends'. The girl-girl picture was chosen ahead of girl-boy and boy-boy pictures, he said.
Odel, whose CEO, Otara Gunawardena was recently featured in India's 'Verve' magazine and is considered a fashion icon and head of a trend-setting enterprise, defends the ad referring to 'international trend' which they've incorporated into Odel's theme of the month, 'denims and the color blue'. It is not clear whether lesbian eroticism or advertising that promotes agenda rather than brand is the 'trend' referred to here.
Recently, a North Carolina-based magazine, 'Weddings Unveiled' refused to carry an advertisement of an Atlanta-based wedding photographer, Anne Almasy, because it showed a lesbian couple kissing at their wedding (gay marriages are legal in certain states of the USA). The 'trend' then, remains unclear.
So was Odel promoting a brand or pushing an agenda? Upendra said 'Odel is not just about clothes, it is about promoting a lifestyle' and brushed off 'acceptability' issues with 'if it is not acceptable, we won't be promoting it'.
The point here is that Odel is coming out of the closet, so to speak, in a self-consciously Western manner as per 'creative right' and 'ideological persuasion'. In doing so, Odel deliberately ventures into a new dimension in the use of sexuality and sex in advertising. The good and bad of it, the embrace or rejection, whether it will set a trend or be a one-off effort, only time and public perceptions will determine.


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I was going to some pruning and noticed the underside branches were all dead. Then I noticed the entire branches were white. Millions upon millions (no exaggeration) covered the branches completely around. There were not on the leaves at all, only the bark.
They were smaller than a pencil point. Searching google didn't help me. What are they and how do I get rid of them? |
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Pictures would be helpful...or at the very least a much better description. What do they look like, do they move, can you rub them off, etc.? |
Tree branches seldom die only on the underside. This "white stuff" may be lichen spores. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Lichens
I read that to mean that the lower branches were all dead...the inside of this weeping tree can be very dense and the older, inside branches can die. In other words, not the 'underside OF the branches', but the underside (inside) branches. Maybe Joy will get back to us with some pictures or a description. |
Must have pictures How to post them |
Here is a link that might be useful: how to post images
- Posted by joy_division NY-7 (My Page) on Tue, Sep 6, 11 at 19:53
Sorry, here is more. Pictures I do not have as they are so small it only comes out as white paint. I can scrape them off, yes. They do not move. They don't just wipe off though; it does take some "elbow grease." Lower branches were never dead before. This tree is like a weed. I trim it back and within a week, a foot of new growth has appeared in many places. It doesn't grow up, it grows across. Anyway, back to these "things." Like I said, pencil point at best. It's like the bark is painted white. Total coverage, from 2 inch thick branches to little twigs. I am going to look up lichen spores right now. |
- Posted by joy_division (My Page) on Tue, Sep 6, 11 at 19:55
definitely not lichen spores. From a distance, like I said,m looks like the branches are painted white. Must get within a few inches to see it covered in immobile white pencil points. I'll try and work some photography magic. |
Lacking pictures, you might compare to white peach scale (also attacks cherry). hortster |
I've been thinking peach scale, too, hortster, but without more of a description.... Peach scale doesn't really fit what little bit we know, but at least we know that it can totally cover branches. |
- Posted by joy_division (My Page) on Wed, Sep 7, 11 at 17:04
definitely not lichen spores. From a distance, like I said,m looks like the branches are painted white. Must get within a few inches to see it covered in immobile white pencil points. I'll try and work some photography magic. |
- Posted by joy_division (My Page) on Wed, Sep 7, 11 at 17:08
ok, here's the pic. Don't know if it's helpful enough, but it's more helpful than no picture. I scraped of 99% of the 'stuff.' http://gsa.freeshell.org/IMG_1073.jpg For some reason, I no longer see a way to attach photos in gardenweb. |
Here is a link that might be useful: white stuff photo
- Posted by joy_division (My Page) on Wed, Sep 7, 11 at 17:12
You know what, it looks like peach scale as suggested. Thanks! am I right? ok a forum related question. Why can I not post follow-up's anymore unless I change the subject line. I can't post photos. Why is it so hard to just post to this forum now? |
Yes from the pictures it looks like White Prunicola or Peach scale. Take or send some to your local Extension service for proper ID. In the mean time hit them with horticultural oil. Hit them again with oil in the spring and again when the crawlers hatch, once identified you can find out when this is. Merit (imidacloprid) as a drench or soil injection will also completely control this scale but that takes time to work so don't skip the first oil application. |
From the fuzzy picture, if it is indeed white peach scale I am predominately seeing the males. Females are round, also white with a tan center, under magnification looking kind of like a sunny side up egg. White peach scale is a "hard scale" which means that it is hard to kill it with insecticide unless the application coincides with the emergence of "crawlers" from beneath the females. As to the date of insecticide application, not knowing where you are and your zone, contact your extension service for the likely emergence of crawlers and what to use. hortster |
- Posted by joy_division (My Page) on Wed, Sep 7, 11 at 19:46
new york zone 7. |
Sheesh, I could have sworn you said they were like small white pencil points! lol. Male peach scales, which are the white ones, are always clearly oblong in shape...quite distinctive. You took a VERY good picture. There's no other scale that looks quite like this. I'd ask you to ponder most carefully on the recommendation of Imidicloprid drenches. This chemical would need to be applied in the spring when your plant is probably getting ready to flower and it is well known that imidicloprid is translocated to the nectar and pollen of flowering plants, making it a problem for pollinating insects and even hummingbirds. I think that you will have quite a bit of success with your horticultural oil applications, as long as you attend to your plant three or four times over the fall, winter, and early spring. Be sure to concentrate on getting the product all over the trunk, branches and twigs...nooks and crannies and all. Please use a commercial product specially manufactured to be mixed with water to make an emulsion. Horticultural oil applications have been the most recommended and successful remedy for a wide variety of scale insects for generations. |
- Posted by joy_division (My Page) on Thu, Sep 8, 11 at 22:59
Thanks for the feedback Rhizo. You said commercial product. Where do I get a commercial version of horticultural oil? |
You can find a wide assortment of horticultural oils at any garden center, nursery, or garden department in a big box store. |
I could not resist adding a bit on my Recommendation for Imidacloprid but so as not to hijack this post, started a new one. |
Here is a link that might be useful: The use of Imidacloprid
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I'm a bit unsure whether there's a 'metal' pun that hasn't been used to death when discussing Compressorhead, but one thing's for sure – despite their molecular composition…they rock.
The robotic outfit were brought in to occupy fans in-between sets at the Big Day Out main stages, but ended up coming dangerously close to stealing the thunder of the bands they ushered in/out.
Compressorhead are a seriously talented band and showcased an array of cover tracks on a playlist built by fan requests, apparently, one of which was Motorhead's metal anthem Ace Of Spades… Those bands should consider swapping names.
Footage has emerged of this ultimate cross section of science and rock 'n' roll, which you can check out below. What an age we live in.
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Bugatti transmission order means Veyron may last well into 2014
Bugatti has reportedly extended its order for the unique seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox in the Veyron through 2014. Originally, the automaker had only maintained a contract for the transmissions through the end of 2013. Rumours have been swirling around the possibility of a new iteration of the Veyron in the works capable of dropping a 1.8-second 0-60 (0-96 km/h) time. It's entirely possible the new transmission order could be used in that contraption, though Bugatti isn't saying one way or the other.
The transmission is used only in the Veyron and has been engineered to withstand a full 1,200 horsepower by Ricardo. With shift times of less than 150 milliseconds and both automatic and manual modes, there's no other transmission like it in the world. Of course, they don't come cheap. Toast one of these and Bugatti will kindly ask for US$120,000 for a replacement, not including installation.
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Mass Effect 2 wins big at 28th Golden Joystick Awards
October 30, 2010 by Sahil Dino
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BioWare's sci-fi epic named Game of the Year.
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Kim Kardashian will be stopping traffic with a giant billboard again in Hollywood -- but this time, she's probably not going to like it.
PETA is planning to post a billboard next month in L.A. of the newly single Kardashian wearing fur next to a photo of baby foxes -- with a message reading "Kim: These Babies Miss Their Mother. Is She on Your Back?"
"Kim knows that animals on fur farms are beaten, electrocuted, and often
skinned alive," says PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange. "We've explained it to her, and she's watched a video
exposé that was filmed inside fur farms."
But apparently the message wasn't strong enough.
PETA is hoping Kim will "Divorce herself from fur and say "I do" to a more compassionate wardrobe," like her sister Khloe -- who has posed for PETA's 'I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign.
See more celeb PETA ads below:
mddiva35: 1172 days ago
PETA are bullies. I don't like Kim K any more than I like bullies. Let people live their lives. If we want to wear fur so be it. How do you know it's not FAUX?
bucsgirl45: 1172 days ago
how old is that photo of kim, what 4 or 5 years old?
JUstin: 1172 days ago
Yeah , That Photo looks quite old . PETA should be called OUT for that ..
sPaNkdEnALgAs: 1172 days ago
Yep, that picture is pretty old. Kim's face no longer looks like that......
Areader: 1171 days ago
I support PETA, that said are they certain that Kim's putting her name to real fur products?
Amber: 1171 days ago
Why doesn't PETA donate the money they're going to spend on this billboard & post one showing how many unborn babies are slaughtered every day due to abortion? Oh wait, poor defensless animals are more of a priority than unborn children that are murdered senselessly every day. I'm sure they're looking for publicity with a public apology & a huge donation from Kim, which I'm sure they'll get. There are so many real problems that people are faced with every day-poverty, hunger, abuse, yet these people spend all their time trying to save the dolphins instead...seriously annoying!
lalaland: 1171 days ago
hmmm...which do I hate more: Kardashian or Peta. That's a tough call. I believe the things Peta does, I just don't care for their methods. So, I guess it's Kardashian I hate the most.
TheMarshmallowMan: 1171 days ago
Please sign the petition to end these shameless people.
Raymond: 1171 days ago
Doesn't Peta have to pay to use someone's likeness on a billboard? I'm fine with Petas overall message of not torturing animals, but their tactics are very questionable. Their biggest ads are having people pose nude exploiting people just to get publicity. Then they ruin existing fur by throwing blood or fake blood on people wearing fur which they should get arrested for and are too dumb to realize that that just means those people will then buy new fur and if they are smart make the social terrorist animal right groups pay for it.
You can get a message across without all of these questionable tactics. Most of the time you hear about them they are doing something illegal
he's a creep: 1171 days ago
I'd sue big time and hope she does. I love animals and have some of my own and can't imagine hurting any of them...but I'm not a bully and would never use someone in this way. This is really nasty and immature and turns me OFF OF PETA.
really pathetic advert and a "low life" kind of move by Peta...they just lost my support
Lyssa: 1171 days ago
Kim will wear or do anything to keep her name in the media. That whole family needs to go away.. Kim your PATHTIC..
Raymond: 1171 days ago
I find it funny how much Peta tries to benefit from the Kardashians of all people. They hired Khloe to represent the organization in anti fur even though she's worn fur, eats meat, and has leather bags. Now they are trying to profit from her more famous sister? Most of the people Peta even hires don't live a leather/fur free life
Peta is such a joke
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.- A Canadian woman who grew up in a homosexual household in Toronto in the 60s and 70s says same-sex marriage does not respect or protect the rights and best interests of children. Dawn Stefanowicz said as a child she was at high risk of exposure to contagious STDs due to sexual molestation, her father's high-risk sexual behaviors, and multiple partners. She shared her personal story and her position on same-sex marriage in a statement at a pro-family rally in Ottawa on Parliament Hill in April.
Her father, who was molested by older males as a child, lived with depression, control issues, anger outbursts, suicidal tendencies and sexual compulsions. He died of AIDS in 1991.
Stefanowicz, who cared deeply for her father, noted that growing up in a gay household exposed her to "bathhouse sex, cross-dressing, sodomy, pornography, gay nudity, lesbianism, bisexuality, minor recruitment, voyeurism, and exhibitionism." In addition, she said, "Sadomasochism was alluded to and aspects demonstrated. Alcohol and drugs were often contributing factors to lower inhibitions in my father's relationships."
After two decades of exposure to these behaviors, she became insecure, depressed, suicidal and confused over her own sexuality.
"I did not see the value of biological complementing differences of male and female or think about marriage. I made vows to never have children since I had not grown up in a safe, sacrificial, child-centered home environment," she said.
"I can tell you that I suffered long term in this situation and this has been professionally documented … I witnessed that every other family member suffered severely as well … My gender identity, psychological well being, and peer relationships were affected."
According to Stefanowicz, children should not be subjected to such an environment. "Same-sex marriage will put the human rights of the individual in a higher place than what is best for society, families and especially children."
Stefanowicz says her experience is not that uncommon. She said research and personal testimonies indicate that children do best with both a mother and a father in a lifelong marriage bond. "Children need responsible monogamous parents who have no extramarital sexual partners. Parental promiscuity, abuse and divorce are not good for children.
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Arcane Brilliance: Cataclysm beta highlights for mages {WoW}
Jul 3rd 2010 8:48PM Uhm, I think that all the damage a polymorphed target receives isn't given out at once after 3s of the initial damage, but rather at 3s after said damage has been originally inflicted..
I mean, it would be SICK otherwise. Not that I'm not wishing for it, I surely am. But then again I'm not a beta tester either, so who knows..
Breakfast Topic: We need more WoW lolcats {WoW}
Jun 18th 2010 11:53AM Richard Dawkins: "Some douche bag blogger trying to make hes douche bag talk in to something clever, or smart, or something else, which only accomplished making him an even bigger douche bag." (sic)
Enter to win an Ethereal Soul-Trader {WoW}
Jun 2nd 2010 9:50PM DO want.
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Maintenance day loot from WoW.com {WoW}
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May 6th 2010 12:25PM The 'point' was to be a literal reproduction of the original "Satisfaction" music video, although I agree that it was not very well done..
WoW.com reacts to Cataclysm raid changes, page 2 {WoW}
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Mar 10th 2010 9:22PM As I priest, I must say:
Priest shield? 'Any sort of heal'? Bladestorm trashes a priest's shield in 3 ticks at most, and any good warrior will have at least Mortal Strike, at most MS+Unrelenting Assault up before Bladestorming, rending "any sort of heal" a 25% efficiency. You have to SPAM heals to survive, leaving plenty of opportunity for the warrior's partner to interrupt you.
tl;dr: It's pretty hard to survive a well timed Bladestorm.
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Research:Article feedback
Article Feedback v5 | Data & Metrics | Stage 1: Design (December 2011 - March 2012) |
Stage 2: Placement (March 2012 - April 2012) |
Stage 3: Impact on engagement (April 2012 - May 2012) |
WP:AFT5 (Talk) Dashboards |
Volume analysis |
Conversions and newcomer quality Final tests Quality assessment |
Article Feedback v5 | |
Main contact |
Fabrice Florin
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Start | 2010-10 |
Status | in progress |
Field | social computing |
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Key Personnel[edit]
- Dario Taraborelli
- Aaron Halfaker
- Oliver Keyes
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Project Summary[edit]
The Article feedback project is an initiative of the Wikimedia Foundation to engage Wikimedia readers in the assessment of article quality, one of the five priorities defined in the strategic plan. It is based on the WMF-developed ArticleFeedback MediaWiki extension called Article Feedback Tool (AFT) and deployed as of v.4 on all articles on the English Wikipedia. A new version (v.5) of the Article Feedback Tool is under development, with a new emphasis on engaging readers to participate more on Wikipedia.
Research reports from the first phase of AFT's deployment (up to v.4) can be found on this page.
AFT v.5 was initially enabled on a small sample (0.3%) of randomly selected articles from the English Wikipedia on top of a small list of high-profile articles. Visitors are randomly assigned to one of three buckets for testing purposes. Key metrics and a work plan for testing AFT v.5 are available on this page. Clicktracking data specifications are described here.
The first reports from phase 1 of the AFT5 experimentation are available. They report results on the difference in volume and quality of feedback as a function of the design and placement of the AFT widget. For real-time data from the current AFT5 tests, check the metrics dashboard and feedback stream, as well as data dumps.
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A detailed timeline of the project can be found on this page.
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Article Feedback Version 5 | Specs: Hub • Feature Requirements • Technical Design • Testing • Extension Page Metrics: Data and Metrics Plan • Clicktracking • Volume Analysis • Quality Assessment Tools: AFTv5 Category • Wikipedia Data Stream • Open Bugs • Recent Code Changes • PDF Prototype Community: MW talk page • Ideas Log • Wikipedia talk page |


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Clearly, things are happening in the ZEROtherm R&D department that other companies have yet to discover. Maybe the engineers are eating their Wheaties formulated for advanced engineering skill; to be honest I am not really sure. The only thing I do know is that all of the ZEROtherm products I have tested all work remarkably well without any outside visual indication of being top performers. They just work really REALLY good.
The ZEROtherm ZEN FZ 120 follows the path of the NV120 Premium and Hurricane HC92 CU 8800 and delivers great performance that is comparable to other class leading CPU coolers. If you run a flagship or overclocked processor, the FZ 120 will be a great choice to keep your temperatures and noise levels down. The only cooler that gave us better results is the innovative Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer that we have yet been able to find for sale at retail or e-tail.
The real shocker for the ZEN FZ 120 is the price. As stated previously, the official MSRP was not available at the time of writing but the street value was disclosed to us. At 39.99 after rebate, it is safe to say that you can't go wrong by purchasing the ZEN FZ 120. Many of the coolers that are targeted for enthusiast use start at the 60 US Dollar mark and go up from there. I am going to go out on a limb and say that the ZEN FZ 120 will come with either a 10 or 20 US Dollar rebate, making the initial purchase price either 50 or 60 Dollars. At 50, the cooler is great value; much better than anything we have seen previously. At 60, the competition becomes a little crowded, but our testing has shown that the ZEROtherm ZEN FZ 120 is still the best performer in this price range.


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Reports indicate that Meshael Alayban, a Saudi princess, has been arrested in the United States for turning a young Kenyan woman into her slave. Alayban is one of the wives of a grandson of Saudi King, Abdullah.
Alayban, 42, reportedly forced the yet unnamed Kenyan woman to be the equivalent of a slave by withholding her passport and forcing her to work in deplorable and abusive conditions.
Alayban was arrested in Orange County, California after the Kenyan woman escaped from the house she was being held in and informed the police. The Kenyan woman reportedly used to work for the family in Saudi Arabia before being brought to the US.
Alayban was released on a $ 5 million bond on Thursday.
"She is required to wear a GPS tracking device, is prohibited from leaving Orange County without permission from the Court and is barred from having any contact with the victim."
Apart from the fact that she is 30 years old, little else is known about the Kenyan woman in the case. Some US news outlets are however reporting that the woman went to Saudi Arabia to work as a house help in order to pay for her daughter's medical care.
The Kenyan woman only got paid $220 a month despite singing a contract with an employment agency that entitled her to $1,600 a month.


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Samsung Open Sources exFAT File System
Subject: General Tech, Storage, Mobile | August 20, 2013 - 09:41 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: exFAT, Samsung
But Linux distributions still cannot officially use it... sort of?
Samsung added support for exFAT on Linux, in kernel, with one of their tablets. At some point code was leaked on GitHub. At some other point the Software Freedom Conservancy determined certain GPL-dependent modifications were published in binary form alone. Eventually Samsung properly released their source code under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
I am still unclear about how Samsung was allowed to do so, however. Copyright was never the main concern with exFAT but rather the patents Microsoft holds over the file system. The GPL mandates that code it covers must come with a non-exclusive worldwide and royalty-free license for applicable patents except under certain conditions. I would be curious how this license was accomplished unless Microsoft granted Samsung a patent license prior to March 28, 2007 (or some loophole like that).
I understand how people might be sympathetic to Microsoft and others asserting software patents because they are a for-profit business but that does not apply everywhere. You need to be careful when you apply a license to something as upstream as a file system or a kernel as everything downstream relies upon your decision.
Just imagine if you were separated from the contents of your SDXC card because, somehow, this patent found its way into the portfolio of a troll firm?
Current implementations of the file system are in user space until Samsung's in-kernel module. The Software Freedom Conservancy praised Samsung -- not only for their source code contribution -- but also for how open and public their response was.
Samsung Launches First V-NAND SSD For Enterprise Market
Subject: Storage | August 14, 2013 - 10:11 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: Samsung, charge trap flash, vertical nand, vnand, 128Gb, enterprise ssd
Last week, Samsung announced that it had started producing a new stackable NAND flash memory called V-NAND, or vertical NAND. The new 3D V-NAND would initially be available in 128Gb (Gigabit) chips, but could eventually scale into as much as 1 Tb (Terabit) per chip by stacking additional dies vertically. Doing so allows Samsung some flexibility in scaling to higher capacities without going to increasingly expensive and difficult to manufacturer smaller manufacturing processes, which has been the traditional method of attaining denser flash.
The company has now announced the V-NAND SSD, which is its first Solid State Drive to use the Vertical NAND technology. Aimed at the enterprise server market, the V-NAND SSD will come in 480GB and 960GB capacities. The 2.5" form factor drives are 7mm thick and come equipped with a SATA III 6Gbps controller. On the high end, the 960GB model uses 64 MLC 3D V-NAND 128Gb dies for a total physical capacity of 1TB. However, user-accessible capacity will be only 960GB. Unfortunately, Samsung did not reveal how many physical chips the drives use, so its hard to say how those 64 128Gb dies are distributed (4 high in 16 chips or 8 high in 8 chips, etc).
The 960GB Samsung V-NAND SSD spotted by Engadget.
Samsung claims that the V-NAND SSD offers up to 20% increased performance and a 40% reduction in power consumption versus previous SSDs. Further, the 3D NAND using Samsung's Charge Trap Flash technology is rated at 35K program erase cycles. Samsung rates the V-NAND memory itself as being twice as fast in writes and between two and ten times as reliable versus traditional 19nm floating gate NAND (the alternative to CTF NAND).
Samsung's 128Gb V-NAND die.
Samsung stated in a press release that it started production of the V-NAND SSD earlier this month. While it is introducing V-NAND into enterprise drives first, the technology will eventually trickle down into consumer drives. I'm interested to see this drive benchmarked for performance and write endurance to see if the 3D flash lives up to its potential.
4k alignment from a free partitioning tool
Subject: Storage | August 12, 2013 - 05:37 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: ssd, partition, MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, 4k
SSDs and modern OSes no longer use the old 512 byte LBA alignment, or at least they don't need to and in the case of SSDs offer larger disk size and faster performance. However many people are not aware of 4k alignment nor how to check if their SSD is aligned nor what to do even if they do know it is not aligned. Hardware.Info put together a short article on the steps to verify if your SSD is aligned as well as covering a free partitioning tool called MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition which will help you align your SSD as well as other tasks common to partitioning software. As with any major changes being made at this low a level, do realize that this could cause data loss, but aligning those sectors is a great IDEMA.
"When you copy the contents of a hard disk from a PC or laptop to an SSD you have to make sure that the placement of the partitions corresponds to the underlying hardware structure. The same is true for the latest generation of hard disks. Today we'll discuss what this so-called '4k alignment' really means and what you can do in order to prevent a decrease in performance."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- ULLtraDIMM: combining SSD and DRAM for the enterprise @ Hardware.info
- Seagate 600 SSD 240GB (ST240HM000) @ NikKTech
- Plextor M5 Pro 256 GB SSD @ techPowerUp
- SanDisk Extreme 2 240GB SSD Review @ Hardware Canucks
- SanDisk Extreme II Solid State Drive SDSSDXP @ Legion Hardware
- Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD 500GB @ NikKTech
- ASUS RAIDR Express 240GB PCI-Express SSD @ Hardware.info
- Silicon Power Blaze B20 USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review @ Madshrimps
- Corsair Voyager Air 500GB @ Legion Hardware
- WD My Passport Ultra 1TB Portable Hard Drive Review @ Techgage
- Patriot Tab 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive @ eTeknix
- Kingston DT Ultimate 3.0 G3 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive 2 Funky Kit
- Seagate Business Storage 2-bay 6TB @ Hardware.info
- Synology DS713+ @ techPowerUp
- Seagate NAS HDD 4TB Review @ Techgage
- QNAP TS-421 and TS-420 @ Legion Hardware
- Teratrend (SilverStone) TS231U 2 Bay USB3.0 RAID Enclosure @ eTeknix
Silicon Motion introduces new SM2246EN SATA SSD controller, promises lower power for mobile devices
Subject: Storage | August 12, 2013 - 09:00 AM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: ssd, silicon motion, sata, controller
You may very well have never heard of Silicon Motion (SMI), a major priducer of flash memory controllers, even if you've followed the SSD industry for a while. This is primarily because the vast majority of their products have been tailored for the devices that folks tend to not crack open during review, namely USB memory sticks, eMMC devices, and SD / CF cards:
Creating controllers in those arenas will tend to force a company to do a few things very well:
- Handle a very limited number of flash channels with the greatest speed possible, due to packaging requirements for very small devices.
- Operate at the lowest power draw possible as to meet the current draw limits of the host interface.
This has resulted in SMI developing a 6Gb/sec SSD controller, dubbed the SM2246EN, using the above techniques:
The block diagram shows what appears to be a fairly standard 4-channel configuration, though there are fewer steps in the pipeline as compared to SandForce and other controllers, which should help decrease latency and improve efficiency. There is also no compression engine, which means power consumption should be further reduced.
Read on for further details on specs and power consumption, followed by the full press blast.
500GB on the go
Corsair seems to have its fingers in just about everything these days so why not mobile storage, right? The Voyager Air a multi-function device that Corsair calls as "portable wireless drive, home network drive, USB drive, and wireless hub." This battery powered device is meant to act as a mobile hard drive for users that need more storage on the go including PCs and Macs as well as iOS and Android users.
The Voyager Air can also act as a basic home NAS device with a Gigabit Ethernet connection on board for all the computers on your local network. And if you happen to have DLNA ready Blu-ray players or TVs nearby, they can access the video and audio stored on the Voyager Air as well.
Available in either red or black, with 500GB and 1TB capacities, the Voyager Air is slim and sleek, meant to be seen not hidden in a closet.
The front holds the power switch and WiFi on/off switch as well as back-lit icons to check for power, battery life and connection status.
Continue reading our review of the Corsair Voyager Air 500GB Wireless USB 3.0 HDD!!
Diablo Technologies Unveils Memory Channel Storage
Subject: Storage | July 31, 2013 - 05:34 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: diablo technologies, DIMM, nand, flash memory, memory channel storage
Ottawa-based Diablo Technologies unveiled a new flash storage technology yesterday that it calls Memory Channel Storage. As the name suggest, the storage technology puts NAND flash into a DIMM form factor and interfaces the persistent storage directly with the processor via the integrated memory controller.
The Memory Channel Storage (MCS) is a drop-in replacement for DDR3 RDIMMs (Registered DIMMs) in servers and storage arrays. Unlike DRAM, MCS is persistent storage backed by NAND flash and it can allow servers to have Terabytes of storage connected to the CPU via the memory interface instead of mere Gigabytes of DRAM acting as either system memory or block storage. The photo provided in the technology report (PDF) shows a 400GB MCS module that can slot into a standard DIMM slot, for example.
Diablo Technologies claims that MCS exhibits lower latencies and higher bandwidth than PCI-E and SATA SSDs. More importantly, the storage latency is predictable and consistent, making it useful for applications such as high frequency stock trading where speed and deterministic latency are paramount. Further, users can get linear increases in throughput with each additional Memory Channel Storage module added to the system. Latencies with MCS are as much as 85% lower with PCI-E SSDs and 96% lower than SAS/SATA SSDs according to Diablo Technologies. NAND flash maintenance such as wear leveling is handled via an on-board logic chip.
Diablo Technologies is also aiming the MCS technology at servers running big data analytics, massive cloud databases, financial applications, server virtualization, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). MCS can act as super fast local storage or as a local cache for external (such as networked) storage in the form of mechanical hard drives or SSDs.
Some details about Memory Channel Storage are still unclear, but it looks promising. It will not be quite as fast in random access as DRAM but it will be better (more bandwidth, lower latency) than both PCI-E and SATA-connected NAND flash-based SSDs. It would be awesome to see this kind of tech make its way to consumer systems so that I can have a physical RAMDisk with fast persistent storage (at least as far as form factor, MCS uses NAND not DRAM chips).
The full press release can be found here.
ASUS Launches ROG RAIDR Express PCI-E SSD
Subject: Storage | July 28, 2013 - 11:13 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: ssd, raidr express, raidr, pci-e ssd, ASUS ROG, asus
ASUS has officially launched its PCI-E based ROG RAIDR Express SSD which was first shown off at CES 2013. The company posted details and high resolution photos on its Republic of Gamers blog on Friday.
The new PCI-E-based solid state drive measures 157 x 120 x 20mm and contains 240GB of NAND flash encased in a sleek metal Replublic Of Gamers themed exterior. Specifically, the RAIDR Express uses 19nm Toshiba synchronous MLC NAND flash and two LSI SandForce 2281 SSD controllers. As such, the drive is actually two SSDs that are placed in a RAID 0 configuration for the best performance. ASUS rates the drive at 830 MB/s sequential reads and 810 MB/s sequential writes. The PCI-E SSD is further capable of up to 100,000 4K random IOPS.
ASUS has also included what it is calling a "DuoMode" BIOS switch that allows the drive to be used with either legacy or modern UEFI BIOSes. When the switch is in the EUFI position, PCs with the modern UEFI-equipped motherboards can boot up faster.
Beyond the RAIDR Express SSD itself, ASUS includes the following bundled software packages:
- CrystalDiskMark
- RAMDisk software
- HybriDisk caching software
- SSD TweakIT utility
ASUS is including RAMDisk software that is able to use as much as 80% of system RAM as a virtual drive that can be used to reduce wear on the SSD by using the RAM drive instead of the SSD for writing temporary files and the like. The above mentioned HybriDisk software allows the RAIDR Express SSD to be used as a cache drive for mechanical hard drives up to 4TB in capacity. Users can use the TweakIT utility to manage and optimize the SSD, and the CrystalDiskMark benchmark is being included to allow gamers to run benchmarks on the RAIDR Express to get an idea of its performance.
Oddly enough, ASUS has yet to release specific pricing or availability. More information along with the full press release can be found on the Republic of Gamers blog, however.
With that said, some sites are reporting that the RAIDR Express will be sold for around 440 Euros, which works out to about $600 USD or $2.5 per Gigabyte. Update: Commentor Roberto has pointed out that the RAIDR Express 240GB is available over in Japan for around 39,980 Yen, or ~$409 USD which is a much more reasonable price. US availability and pricing are still just estimates at this point, however. A bit on the expensive side (if the price is true) for sure, but it is nice to see another player in the PCI-E SSD space and it looks to be a speedy drive aimed at ROG fans and enthusiasts.
Also read: Details on a 120GB ASUS ROG RAIDR Express SSD @ PC Perspective.
More on Samsung's new cached SSD wizardry
Subject: Storage | July 26, 2013 - 06:08 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: TurboWrite, tlc, ssd, slc, Samsung, 840 evo, MEX controller
Along with Al's review of the new EVO line you can get a second opinion from The Tech Report about the performance of the new SSD with a fast cache. The majority of the storage is 19nm TLC NAND but there is an SLC cache sitting between the controller and that long term TLC storage to help with the overall responsiveness of the drive, aka TurboWrite. In the 120 and 250GB models that cache is 3GB while in the larger models you get a 6GB cache. In their real world testing the new EVO drive is incredible at large file copying though Sandforce drives can beat it in small file copy speeds, likely thanks to the compressed write trickery that controller family is so good at. Check out the review here and keep your fingers crossed that MSRP is the acual price these drives sell at.
"Samsung's entry-level 840 EVO SSD combines affordable TLC NAND with a server-style SLC cache. We explain the drive's unique buffering tech and explore how it affects performance."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Samsung 840 EVO SSD @ The SSD Review
- Samsung SSD 840 EVO Review: 120GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB & 1TB Models Tested @ AnandTech
- Samsung 840 EVO 250GB, 750GB SSD Review @ Custom PC Review
- Samsung 840 Evo SSD @ Hardware.info
- Samsung unveils 840 EVO solid-state drive family @ The Tech Report
- 240GB OCZ Vertex 450 Solid State Drive @ Benchmark Reviews
- Plextor M5M 128GB mSATA SSD Review @ Legit Reviews
- OCZ Vertex 3.20 240GB SSD @ eTeknix
- OCZ Vector 512GB SSD @ Kitguru
- RunCore Pro IV 1.8 Inch ZIF SSD @ LanOC Reviews
- Silicon-Power Velox V55 240GB @ Legion Hardware
- Seagate 600 Pro SSD 400GB @ Bjorn3D
- Securely Erasing Your SSD with Linux: A How-To @ Techgage
- Seagate Central 3TB review: User-friendly? @ Hardware.info
- Silicon Power Blaze B20 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive @ NikKTech
- USB 3.0 Flash Drive Roundup July 2013 @ Legion Hardware
- Icy Dock FlexCage 2 Bay and 3 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure Review @ HiTech Legion
- Zalman ZM-VE400 USB 3.0 HDD/SSD Enclosure @ Funky Kit
- QNAP TS-421 & QTS 4.0 @ techPowerUp
- Thecus N2520 review: first NAS with Intel Atom CE5315 @ Hardware.info
Seagate Introduces Enterprise Turbo SSHD 2.5" SAS Drive For Servers
Subject: Storage | July 26, 2013 - 12:35 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: turbo sshd, sshd, Seagate, nand, enterprise
Earlier this week Seagate took the wraps off of its latest Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD). Dubbed the Enterprise Turbo SSHD, this latest model is aimed at the enterprise server market. The drives combine a traditional 10K SAS mechanical hard drive in capacities up to 600GB with up to 32GB of NAND flash.
The 2.5" Enterprise Turbo SSHDs are aimed at servers with big data analytics, virtual desktops, and transaction processing workloads. The NAND flash acts as a cache for the mechanical hard drive, and caching is done by the controller at an I/O level.
According to Seagate, the company has been working with IBM over the past year to put the new SSHD through its paces. As such, the hybrid drives will first be available in the IBM X and BladeCentral servers. The IBM versions will have 16GB of NAND flash and one year warranties according to the documentation available online.
Seagate further claims up to three times random performance increase versus 15K SAS mechanical hard drives. The 600GB 10K SSHD is rated to have up to two times better IOPS than a traditional 10K SAS hard drive without a NAND cache.
The Enterprise Turbo also comes with enterprise-friendly drive self encryption options. The Seagate product page notes that the Enterprise Turbo SSHD will have a five year warranty. Pricing and detailed benchmarks are not yet available though some preliminary performance results can be found here.
The full press release can be found here.
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Yes there is a key under the mat..the sign is to the right as soon as you get pass the turnstiles and i believe it says "Be back in 5 minutes key is under mat".
This one is old as heck and is pretty well known but I know a lot of casual Disney fans read this board that don't know a ton about Disney. In Muppet Vision 3D when you first walk into the building there is a ticket booth with a sign that says that there is a key left under the mat. Lift the mat up to check and you will actually find a key.
The pre-show room has some funny inside jokes. For example, there is a net full of jello. Think back to one of the classic Mouseketeers and you'll hopefully understand the reference.
Like I said, those are pretty well know secrets but I figured a lot of you might not have heard them.
Yes there is a key under the mat..the sign is to the right as soon as you get pass the turnstiles and i believe it says "Be back in 5 minutes key is under mat".
I heard about it...but I've never looked for myself in all the years I've been. lol
okay i know there is a key under the mat... but where is the MAT????? my sister and i went there and the place was empty (it was near the time for Fantasmic to start) and we walked ALL OVER the place looking for the mat! does anyone have a picture of it??
Karen S.K. fellow scrapbooker and disney addict since September 12th, 1985
It all started with a mouse..... and noone in my family can stop it!!!:mickey:
It's to your right literally as soon as you walk in. You can't miss it if you are looking for it. Just keeping looking to your right when you walk in.
We'll try to get a picture in 27 days for you.
the key is where the ticket window is (right of the turnstyles) under the mat
and at the wind there is a sign that says back in 5 minutes - key under mat
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney
Not sure if I read that right but I think Sledge refers to "a net full of jello" as being part of the pre-show jokes (got the reference, you need to say it out loud to fully appreciate it!) Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
A Net Full Of Jello
It is actually one of the many props above in the pre-show room. Not in the pre-show itself.
Also, towards the front there is a box of flat, playwood made fruit with a sign that says 2D Fruities. Think about it.
Just a weird little fact but the name of the attraction is Jim Henson's Muppet*Vision 3D but the door that Kermit opens in the beginning of the film says Kermit the Frog Presents Muppet*Vision 3D. Must have changed the name after it was filmed.
So I was wrong...Must pay more attention next time I'm there! Cool tips, thanks!
I have seen the key before , and people will ask me : How did you know!? I thought the sign was a prop!..
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I looked for my recent trip. My parents, brother and the cast member that was near by all laughed a bit.
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I saw the key. It is definately under there. Don't steal the key. there is a hidden security camrea over top of you. Muppet Vision 3-D Rocks!


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This is some of my cuttings for new stuff. I try to keep them alive, without letting them grow much, in the winter. I think they have survived really well inspite of my abuse. They are ready for some serious growing now. To the right are some of my dormant plants. You can see the green peeking out. The adult plants survive the winter dormancy (inside) with zero help from me. Brutal but it works for me. They are ready for what I hope will be another great year. I am feeling better now so maybe I will have a garden instead of a weed patch, this year.
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Bill: Great looking bunch of cuttings to start the year with. You should have quite a lush garden! My few cuttings which are still overwintering in my attached but unheated garage are itching to get out and get some light. Hope I can get them out real soon. Thanks for sharing your pictures. Ross. |
- Posted by kasha77 7 (email@example.com) on Wed, Mar 28, 12 at 21:50
They look great to me! Hope you have a better year, Bill! |
- Posted by maile-2010 4 Central MN (My Page) on Thu, Mar 29, 12 at 21:57
Awesome Bill. |
Those look really good, Bill - sadly, all of mine rotted. |
- Posted by love_the_yard z9A Jax FL (My Page) on Thu, Apr 12, 12 at 23:12
Bill, your cuttings look great! Very healthy - especially for Zone 6a! Carol in Jax |
- Posted by diane_v_44 Z6 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 14, 12 at 21:10
Bill your cuttings look about the same size as the ones that you gave to me. Mine could be larger if I had planted them maybe a month ago directly into the ground, down here. (I winter in Florida) I am sooo happy with those cuttings Rosco you are in Canada, as am I. I can not imagine that your cuttings of Brugmansia will survive the winter in an unheated garage I know mine would not do so. Datura have overwintered sometimes for me, in the garage Actually I have one neat datura that a Japanese fellow gave me years and years ago, which I used to bring in but now find that the plant, not the original, but one of its offspring overwinters outside I have the spot marked as you don't see it at first but then in June, mid June, there it is once again and it does bloom, late summer. Is a white Datura but not quite like the ones we normally see The flower is larger and longer but not fragrant at all. |
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After an evaluation of SplashID (made by SplashData) as a new password manager for my workplace I've come to the conclusion it's snake oil rather than secure. And not just snake oil, but poorly designed snake oil. Here's why.
The architecture of SplashID is simple. The backend is a plain MySQL database. The user interface is SplashID's app, available on Windows and Mac. When you start your client and log in, it communicates directly in MySQL-speak to the database backend. The connection to MySQL is SSLified (yay!), although bizzarely SplashData call this encryption "IPSec". Not having an actual server process between the clients and database is an unusual design, but it's possible to build something secure this way so we press on.
In SplashID's world, each user's access credentials are made up of three parts. Since each user has a MySQL account, the first two are a username and password. The third part is a "master password". What's a master password? I'm glad you asked. You see, every cell of data in the SplashID database is encrypted with the same key. (Encrypted with AES-256 and Blowfish. Why use two ciphers? Why not!) The encryption key is, of course, the "master password". Because all data is encrypted with this key, every user has to have access to it. Most programs do this by storing the "master password" in the database, one copy per user, encrypted with that user's password. Unlike these programs, SplashID just makes every user remember piece of secret information. Why SplashID does this is another mystery, and a strike against them for poor UI design.
Let's investigate this "every user is a MySQL user" concept. I've created a limited user for myself in SplashID with no access to any passwords. The Splash client app obviously lets me see nothing, but how about a generic MySQL client?
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$ mysql -u user1 -p -h splashtest Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 92 to server version: 5.1.47-community Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> show databases; +--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | information_schema | | mysql | | splashiddb | +--------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.02 sec) mysql> use splashiddb; Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Database changed mysql> show tables; +-----------------------+ | Tables_in_splashiddb | +-----------------------+ | apppreftable | | attachmenttable | | columninfotable | | customicontable | | customtypetable | | databaseinfotable | | eventloggertable | | groupsubgrouptable | | grouptable | | mostviewedtable | | recentlyaddedtable | | recentlymodifiedtable | | recentlyviewedtable | | recordtable | | typetable | | usergrouptable | | usertable | +-----------------------+ 17 rows in set (0.02 sec)
It looks like there's only one table that all passwords are stored in. MySQL doesn't offer per-row access controls, but surely I can't view every password in the database with my limited user???
mysql> select * from recordtable\G *************************** 1. row *************************** RECORDID: 1F6642A0C892BC76 TYPEUID: 0000000000000013 GROUPUID: 1F66429EC892BBDB FIELD1: <blob> FIELD2: <blob> FIELD3: FIELD4: FIELD5: FIELD6: FIELD7: FIELD8: FIELD9: <blob> FIELD10: <blob> NOTE: HASATTACHMENT: 0 HASCUSTOMFIELD: 0 VIEWCOUNT: 6 *************************** 2. row *************************** [snip] 10 rows in set (0.03 sec)
Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.
mysql> Bye
So there you go. Every user in SplashID, no matter how limited, can view every password in the database, all encrypted with a key they know. Another strike against SplashID. They need a miracle now.
And hark! Here comes the explanation from SplashData. I emailed them specifically regarding my findings, wanting to make sure this wasn't some huge mistake. I asked:
...every cell is encrypted using the same process, right? From that it follows that if a user can decrypt one cell, they can decrypt every cell. The only protection is that your encryption routine is not published. Or am I missing something?
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That's right Alex.
That's why I mentioned-
> Actually, they don't use the same key. AES key is a hash function of the
> Blowfish key. I'm sorry I cannot give you more details on the algorithms we use.So, if the user knows the Blowfish key, it is not enough. They still need to decrypt using SplashID Enterprise application.
Even though every user can download the entire encrypted database, even though the master password decryption routine is stored in the client side application, it's all fine because nobody has ever reverse engineered an application to extract a single hash function before! In the end, the previous security missteps hardly matter compared to this blunder. All it will take is one enterprising security researcher or blackhat to figure it out and put their findings on the web, and suddenly every password in every SplashID install is wide open for the taking by its users.
We won't be using SplashID at my workplace, and my advice to you, dear reader, is to avoid them too.
Comments (12)12 Responses to "SplashID Sucks"
Amer Kawar on
August 22, 2010 11:04 am
I learnt one thing from this post: My grandma knows more about security than SplashID's team.
Thanks for taking the time to make a lot of people feel smart!
Julian on
August 22, 2010 12:13 pm
I wonder if this only applies to the enterprise product - as presumably some of the smaller scale things aren't backed with MySQL and might not have the same design. They only have a single password, for starters, not this odd master key arrangement.
barack on
August 22, 2010 2:10 pm
I kind of like it.
Randy on
August 22, 2010 2:42 pm
You may be able to have SplashID show you passwords that aren't yours by modifying the database.
Can you change the GroupUID to yours? Can you modify one of yours to have others password information in it? Can you create a new entry with their password that you have access to?
Steve on
August 22, 2010 8:29 pm
If its only about storing some passwords you could use cloudsafe.com
Steve -
anonymous on
August 23, 2010 9:28 am
Take a look at http://clipperz.com/ -- They use MySQL, but decryption is all done on the client in *JavaScript*. You can even dump the (encrypted) data into a HTML page and use the app locally. Very neat.
(My only beef is that if you set up a private server, you can't prevent random people from putting rows in your database. Shesh!)
Alex Jurkiewicz on
August 23, 2010 6:01 pm
Those are good ideas Randy. I didn't think of them at the time and our test install is long gone sadly. Perhaps someone who wants to be the author of a CVE should look into this? :)
Sherry Markwart on
January 20, 2011 11:52 am
I just want to be able to sync it with my android without having to uninstall, reinstall, blah blah blah every time I need to reset my devise. I am looking for something else.
Alex Jurkiewicz on
January 20, 2011 11:56 am
I have a Dropbox account with a Keepass password database synced in it. Dropbox and Keepass both have android apps so it's pretty simple to get an up-to-date copy onto my phone for use.
Dan Connor on
January 5, 2012 11:05 pm
This writeup was hilarious. Another example of "enterprise" software dropping the ball in a big way.
Mount Knowledge » SplashID for iOS by @SplashData stores master password inside database: #security #fail on
March 18, 2012 9:18 am
[...] seems that SplashData made a similar faux pas with SplashID Enterprise Safe. This makes me fear the worst for the other members of the SplashID [...]
Sherry Markwart on
May 9, 2012 4:38 pm
Since my negative comment in January 2011, I must say that splash has really improved. Thanks to all who worked so hard to get thing up and running smoothly. I can now recommend splash id without reservation!


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