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NFL Consensus Preview and Pick For Week 2
- Updated: September 14, 2012
When betting on football the consensus report has grown into a very valuable tool and that is why every week here at Bang the Book we will go over the consensus report for that particular week and pick out a game that stands out above the rest.
In week two of the NFL the schedule has plenty of intriguing games that are highlighted. It starts on Thursday with the game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears and wraps up on Monday night football with the anticipated game between the Atlanta Falcons and the new-look Denver Broncos.
There are several games that are getting plenty of early betting action. The New England Patriots are getting over 70 percent of the consensus as they host the Arizona Cardinals in the first game at Foxboro.
There are also several road underdogs that are getting plenty of betting action as the Ravens are getting over 60 percent against the Eagles and Kansas City getting 61 percent over the Buffalo Bills. The New York Jets are getting 56 percent of the action although they are on the road against a talented Pittsburgh team, but the game that stands out the most is a game in the NFC South.
The New Orleans Saints travel to Carolina to battle the Panthers and are getting up to 80 percent of the action. Drew Brees and the Saints were upset in week one losing to the Redskins, but it has not stopped the public from backing the road team.
The Panthers lost in week one to Tampa Bay, but they still have Cam Newton and plenty of talent on offense that can take advantage of a suspect Saints defense that was shredded by rookie Robert Griffin III in the opener.
The Panthers are the anti-consensus play for week two in the NFL.
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U.S. Officers' "Phone Sex" Intercepted; Senate Demanding Answers By Brian Ross, Vic Walter and Anna Schecter
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia.
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), called the allegations "extremely disturbing" and said the committee has begun its own examination.
"We have requested all relevant information from the Bush Administration," Rockefeller said Thursday. "The Committee will take whatever action is necessary."
"These were just really everyday, average, ordinary Americans who happened to be in the Middle East, in our area of intercept and happened to be making these phone calls on satellite phones," said Adrienne Kinne, a 31-year old US Army Reserves Arab linguist assigned to a special military program at the NSA's Back Hall at Fort Gordon from November 2001 to 2003.
Kinne described the contents of the calls as "personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism."
WATCH Kinne discuss why it was 'awkward' listening to her fellow Americans.
She said US military officers, American journalists and American aid workers were routinely intercepted and "collected on" as they called their offices or homes in the United States.
Watch "World… Continue reading
By Jeff Stein
October 1, 2008
CQPolitics – SpyTalk Blog
The FBI has blocked two of its veteran counterterrorism agents from going public with accusations that the CIA deliberately withheld crucial intelligence before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
FBI Special Agents Mark Rossini and Douglas Miller have asked for permission to appear in an upcoming public television documentary, scheduled to air in January, on pre-9/11 rivalries between the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency.
The program is a spin-off from The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, by acclaimed investigative reporter James Bamford, due out in a matter of days.
The FBI denied Rossini and Miller permission to participate in the book or the PBS "NOVA" documentary, which is also being written and produced by Bamford, on grounds that the FBI "doesn't want to stir up old conflicts with the CIA," according to multiple reliable sources.
Bamford, contacted by phone, said he could not comment because his publisher has embargoed his new book for release around Oct. 10.
The author of two other ground-breaking books on the NSA, Bamford also said his general policy is not to discuss his negotiations for interviews with intelligence agencies.
Pre-9/11 intelligence mishaps have been generally attributed to bureaucratic screw-ups — a "failure to connect the dots," exacerbated by spy agency rivalries.
But Rossini and Miller, who were assigned to the CIA-run Counterterrorist Center during the run-up to the 9/11 attacks, are prepared to describe… Continue reading
by Cindy Sheehan
September 10, 2008
The 7th anniversary of September 11, 2001 is approaching and it seems like
a good time to reflect on what our nation has lost since that tragic day and
what we can do to go forward.
I do not think that anyone alive on that day will forget the shock that struck
our nation when the symbols of US capitalism and militarism were struck out
of the clear blue sky. I was in panic mode for a few days, because I did not
hear from Casey who was stationed at Ft. Hood on that day and his base went
into lock-down and he was too busy to call. Even though we mourn with our fellow
Americans, the loss of over 3000 innocent people and the pain their families
have had to deal with, the attacks of 9-11 have touched every American.
There are several ways to look at 9-11:
— 9-11 was planned and executed by the US government.
— BushCo did not plan 9-11, but they knew it was going to happen and
did nothing to prevent it and, in fact, may have allowed it to happen.
— 9-11 was planned and executed by a group of 17 terrorists (14 of them
from Saudi Arabia) without the foreknowledge of the US government and we were
attacked because the terrorists "hated our freedoms and democracy."
Whichever of the theories is true, one thing is for sure: the Bush regime's
response to 9-11 was woefully… Continue reading
(Sept. 5, 2008, New York, NY) A solid base has now been established to create
a public referendum known as the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative. This campaign is
to enable the voters of NY City to create a new, independent, impartial 9/11 Commission
that would conduct an authentic, comprehensive investigation of the most momentous
event of our time. This effort is unique because if passed by the voters of NY
City, the Commission would have subpoena power and its findings would have full
legal recognition.
A dedicated team of citizens are about to cross the threshold of 30,000 petition
signatures. This is the minimum required to submit the Initiative to the NY
City Clerk and NY City Council for their review. There is now official confirmation
from the City Clerk's office that all existing signed petitions will be valid
for the mayoral election in 2009. Upon reaching this milestone of 30,000, efforts
will continue to obtain as many as 75,000 signatures or more in the coming months
as well as create alliances with various organizations which will serve as a
coalition advocating for passage of the Initiative. With substantial numbers
and support showing there is a serious mandate from the voters, it is actually
possible that NY City Council can be moved to introduce and pass the Initiative
on their own. This is the current strategy which organizers and petitioners
here in NYC have every intention of pursuing.
Another vital piece of information has come to light. Back in the… Continue reading
August 30, 2008
by John Byrne
As the nation focuses on Sen. John McCain's choice of running mate, President
Bush has quietly moved to expand the reach of presidential power by ensuring
that America remains in a state of permanent war.
Buried in a recent proposal by the Administration is a sentence that has received
scant attention — and was buried itself in the very newspaper that exposed
it Saturday. It is an affirmation that the United States remains at war with
al Qaeda, the Taliban and "associated organizations."
Part of a proposal for Guantánamo Bay legal detainees, the provision before
Congress seeks to "acknowledge again and explicitly that this nation remains
engaged in an armed conflict with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated organizations,
who have already proclaimed themselves at war with us and who are dedicated
to the slaughter of Americans."
The New York Times' page 8 placement of the article in its Saturday
edition seems to downplay its importance. Such a re-affirmation of war carries
broad legal implications that could imperil Americans' civil liberties and the
rights of foreign nationals for decades to come.
It was under the guise of war that President Bush claimed a legal mandate for
his warrantless wiretapping program, giving the National Security Agency power
to intercept calls Americans made abroad. More of this program has emerged in
recent years, and it includes the surveillance of Americans' information and
exchanges online.
"War powers" have also given President Bush cover to hold… Continue reading
By Mark H. Gaffney
The following is an excerpt from Mark H. Gaffney's forthcoming book, THE 911 MYSTERY PLANE AND THE VANISHING OF AMERICA, to be released in September 2008.
15/08/08 "ICH" — Regrettably, there is considerable evidence that elements of the Bush administration were complicit in the 9/11 attack, and may even have helped stage it. Let us now examine some of what I regard as the most compelling evidence. However, the following discussion makes no claim to be comprehensive.
We know that within minutes of the "worst terrorist attack" in US history, even before the collapse of WTC-2 at 9:59 am, US officials knew the names of several of the alleged hijackers. CBS reported that a flight attendant on AA Flight 11, Amy Sweeney, had the presence of mind to call her office and reveal the seat numbers of the hijackers who had seized the plane.[1] FBI Director Robert Mueller later said, "This was the first piece of hard evidence."[2] In his memoirs CIA Director George Tenet emphasizes the importance of the passenger manifests, as does counter-terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke.[3] All of which is very strange because the manifests later released by the airlines do not include the names of any of the alleged hijackers. Nor has this discrepancy ever been explained.
According to MSNBC, the plan to invade Afghanistan and "remove Al Qaeda from the face of he earth" was already sitting on G.W.… Continue reading
August 7, 2008
are writing you to let you know that as of today, we, of the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative
Campaign has collected nearly 25,000 signatures towards our goal of 30,000!! Check
out the photo below! It's a powerful statement is it not? And yet, we are in the
proverbial ninth inning as we need to have the full amount soon so as to access
the NYC elections bureaucracy and place the call for a new investigation of 9/11
on the November 2008 NYC ballot. Ideally, we want 40,000 to have a comfortable
margin. With some PR that is happening we may just get the public response necessary
to achieve this goal. We are sure you are as excited as we are at the prospect
of achieving on our goal, namely, to create the conditions for a new and genuine
investigation of 9/11.
It is important to recognize that this effort is supported by many of the families
of victims of 9/11. Many prominent Americans have also voiced their support. These
include former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, Tony award winning actress Christine
Ebersole, Dallas Cowboy football player Mark Stepnowski, AZ state senator Karen
Johnson, consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Green Party presidential candidate and
former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, actor Ed Asner, former FBI field agent
Colleen Rowley, retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, retired NSA analyst Wayne Madsen,
former senators Mike Gravel and Lincoln Chafee, and more.
Now we need every one of you to call your friends and associates… Continue reading
by Chalmers Johnson
Source URL: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174959/chalmers_johnson_warning_mercenaries_at_work
Most Americans have a rough idea what the term "military-industrial complex" means when they come across it in a newspaper or hear a politician mention it. President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the idea to the public in his farewell address of January 17, 1961. "Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime," he said, "or indeed by the fighting men of World War II and Korea We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions We must not fail to comprehend its grave implications We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
Although Eisenhower's reference to the military-industrial complex is, by now, well-known, his warning against its "unwarranted influence" has, I believe, largely been ignored. Since 1961, there has been too little serious study of, or discussion of, the origins of the military-industrial complex, how it has changed over time, how governmental secrecy has hidden it from oversight by members of Congress or attentive citizens, and how it degrades our Constitutional structure of checks and balances.
From its origins in the early 1940s, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was building up his "arsenal of democracy," down to the present moment, public opinion has usually assumed that it involved more or less equitable relations — often termed a "partnership" — between the high command and civilian overlords of the United States military and… Continue reading
This week Visibility 9-11 welcomes former diplomat from the State Department's Foreign Service J. Michael Springmann. Mr. Springmann served postings in Germany, India, Saudi Arabia, and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in Washington D.C. He is a published author of several articles on national security themes, and is an attorney in private practice in Washington D.C.
Michael has attended several 9/11 Conferences over the years, most notably, the 9/11 Omission hearings on 9/9/2004 chaired by former Representative and current Green Party candidate for President, Cynthia McKinney, as well as the recent conference in Keene, NH.
Included in this important interview is a discussion regarding a new article by Mr. Springmann titled, THE MISTAKE DEPARTMENT: One Example of Why American Foreign Policy is a Disaster (reprinted below) that discusses the American Consulate General at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and it's relationship to 15 of the 19 alleged September 11th hijackers. In it, he says that "the Jeddah Consulate was not a State Department post but an intelligence services operation", "the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) routinely demanded (and got) visas for sleazy characters with no ties to either their home country or Saudi Arabia," and "these vile people were terrorists recruited by U.S. intelligence officers along with Osama bin Laden, then a CIA asset."
FISA "Compromise" Completes Transformation of US into Full Police
by Larry Chin
Global Research, July 11, 2008
On July 9, 2008, the US Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation permitting
government spying, including immunity to telecommunications companies involved
in secret domestic surveillance programs. With the stroke of George W. Bush's
pen, the US is now a police state by definition.
The extent of the spying program, and its larger implications, have been revealed
by Mark Klein, who blew the whistle on secret domestic spying program of Bush/Cheney's
National Security Agency (NSA) and AT&T:
AT&T whistleblower: spy bill creates infrastructure for police state
The update of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, called the "FISA
compromise", or more appropriately, the "spy bill", largely completes
the triumph of the Bush/Cheney administration and a bipartisan criminal consensus.
By convenient design, the FISA revision derails pending law suits filed against
the Bush administration's corporate spying partners (AT&T, Sprint
Nextel, and Verizon), silences (the largely empty-to-begin-with) congressional
investigations into Bush administration's illegal domestic spying program.
Presidential nominee Barack Obama and the Democrats have now moved to silence
all discussion about the issue.
Fear itself, a.k.a. spying itself
Between the false flag mass murder of 9/11 and the creation of the "war
on terrorism", the USA Patriot Act and this new FISA revision, the Bush-Cheney
administration and its enthusiastically complicit congressional partners, have
achieved total victory–world war, open criminality, and the end of law itself.
It gives the US government unprecedented new spying powers and sweeping new
legal… Continue reading
Press Conference with Sen. Mike Gravel
Foley Square, corner of Centre & Duane Streets across from U.S. Courthouse
Take trains to City Hall or Chambers Steet
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 — 12 noon
Les Jamieson
718.492.2192, 917.658.0132
Speakers: Former Sen. Mike Gravel, 9/11 family member Bob McIlvaine, Tony-award winning actress Christine Ebersole, investigative reporter Wayne Madsen, first responder John Feal
Support Grows for NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative
(New York, NY, June 13, 2009) — On Thursday, July 10th at 12 noon, at Foley Square in New York City, former Senator Mike Gravel, speaking on behalf of the New York City 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign, will call for a new and far reaching investigation of the crimes of 9/11. Advocating for the creation of an independent 9/11 Commission, Gravel states, "We're trying to change the paradigm of human democracy, of human governance, and that's what this [NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative] is all about, changing the paradigm of human governance right here in New York City by asserting that you saw something wrong that took place, and you want to address it through using the tool of the Initiative, the legislative power of citizenry to go after that fundamental change."
Accompanying Sen. Gravel will be 9/11 family member Bob McIlvaine who lost his son in the south tower, Tony-award winning actress Christine Ebersole, first responder John Feal, and former NSA analyst turned investigative reporter Wayne Madsen. Mr. Madsen, has recently voiced his support, stating many current and retired… Continue reading
By Tom Burghardt
June 16, 2008
from Antifascist Calling, Reprinted at Global Research
Proving the old axiom that Congress "is the best that money can buy,"
congressional Democrats are preparing to gut the Constitution by granting giant
telecom companies retroactive immunity and liability protection on warrantless
wiretapping by the Bush regime.
According to Congressional Quarterly, "Congressional leaders
and the Bush administration have reached an agreement in principle on an overhaul
of surveillance rules."
Tim Starks reports,
According to sources familiar with the negotiations, the compromise would
be very similar to the last proposal by Sen. Christopher S. Bond , R-Mo.,
to House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md.
Sources said the major change is that a federal district court, not the
secret FISA court itself, would make an assessment about whether to provide
retroactive legal immunity to telecommunications companies being sued for
their alleged role in the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program.
("Agreement Could Pave Way for Surveillance Overhaul," Congressional
Quarterly, June 13, 2008)
In other words, the telecommunication corporations and their "customers,"
the NSA, FBI and other members of the "intelligence community" will
get everything they want–retroactive immunity and billions of dollars in continued
taxpayer subsidies for intelligence "outsourcing."
Under rules being considered by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay
Rockefeller (D-WV), Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Kit Bond (R-MO),
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO)
and Bush administration officials, the deal would allow the federal district
court "to look at… Continue reading
Press Conference with Sen. Mike Gravel and reception to follow (see below) St. Marks Church, 2nd Ave. & 10th Street, New York City Tues. June 17th, 5pm
Senator Mike Gravel Calls for New Investigation of 9/11, Supports NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative
(New York, NY, June 13, 2008) — On Tuesday, June 17th at 5pm, at Union Square in New York City, former Senator Mike Gravel, speaking on behalf of the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign, will call for a new and far reaching investigation of the crimes of 9/11. This comes in the wake of several developments which underscore the need for a truly independent, thorough, fact-driven investigation into the events of 9/11. Consider the recent book by NY Times veteran reporter Philip Shenon titled ?The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation? which highlighted the conflicts of interest of Executive Director Philip Zelikow. Consider the book by Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton titled ?Unprecedented? in which they stated they were "doomed to fail from the start" and they were lied to by NORAD regarding our absence of air defense. Consider the Articles of Impeachment nos. 33-35 by Dennis Kucinich which list hard evidence showing dereliction of duty, obstruction of justice, and malfeasance by the Bush administration. Consider the revelation of the destruction in 2004 of CIA tape recordings of suspects in Guantánamo Bay which were requested by the 9/11 Commission. Consider that Arizona Congresswoman Karen Johnson, who has called attention to the research of physics professor Steven… Continue reading
Peter Dale Scott
The Deep State and 9/11
The unthinkable — that elements inside the state would conspire with criminals to kill innocent civilians — has become not only thinkable but commonplace in the last century. A seminal example was in French Algeria, where dissident elements of the French armed forces, resisting General de Gaulle's plans for Algerian independence, organized as the Secret Army Organization and bombed civilians indiscriminately, with targets including hospitals and schools. 1 Critics like Alexander Litvinenko, who was subsequently murdered in London in November 2006, have charged that the 1999 bombings of apartment buildings around Moscow, attributed to Chechen separatists, were in fact the work of the Russian secret service (FSB). 2
Similar attacks in Turkey have given rise to the notion there of an extra-legal "deep state" — a combination of forces, ranging from former members of the CIA-organized Gladio organization, to "a vast matrix of security and intelligence officials, ultranationalist members of the Turkish underworld and renegade former members of the [Kurdish separatist] PKK." 3 The deep state, financed in part by Turkey's substantial heroin traffic, has been accused of killing thousands of civilians, in incidents such as the lethal bomb attack in November 2005 on a bookshop in Semdinli. This attack, initially attributed to the Kurdish separatist PKK, turned out to have been committed by members of Turkey's paramilitary police intelligence service, together with a former PKK member turned informer. 4 On April 23, 2008, the former Interior Minister Mehmet Agar was ordered… Continue reading
The Spy Who Loves Us
Pay no mind to the Mossad agent on the line.
by Philip Giraldi
June 2, 2008 Issue, The American Conservative
After Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1986, the U.S. negotiated an understanding with Israel—a "gentlemen's agreement" —stipulating that neither nation would thenceforth conduct espionage operations in the other's territory without consent. But the agreement was a sham from the beginning. The Israeli government didn't even honor its commitments in the aftermath of the Pollard case, failing to return the estimated 360 cubic feet of stolen information to enable the U.S. to conduct a damage assessment. The United States, for its part, continued to recruit and run agents inside Israel throughout the 1980s and 1990s. And it was known within the intelligence and counterintelligence communities that Israel did the same in the United States. David Szady, the FBI's assistant director for counterintelligence, was so dismayed by the level of Israeli spying in the late '90s that he called in the head of the Israeli Embassy's Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Activities (Mossad) office and told him, "Knock it off."
Pollard's name was in the news again on April 22, when former U.S. Army weapons engineer Ben-Ami Kadish was arrested for passing secrets to Israel. Kadish had been an agent run by Yosef Yagur, who directed Pollard. Yagur, under cover as a science attaché at the Israeli Consulate General in New York, fled the U.S. in 1985 after Pollard was… Continue reading
When: Wednesday May 28th, 7:30 pm
Where: St. Mark's Church, 2nd Avenue @ 10th Street
(New York, May 22, 2008) – The New York City 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign,
a non-profit, citizens based organization, whose goal is the creation of an independent
commission to lead a new investigation into the tragedy of 9/11, will be holding
a rally on Wednesday, May 28th at 7:30 PM at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery.
The campaign hopes to put the issue of a new investigation of 9/11 on the November
2008 NYC ballot as a public referendum. Come and learn about this historic effort!
Visit www.nyc911initiative.org for full campaign details.
Featured speakers include:
Wayne Madsen, investigative reporter, retired NSA analyst
John Feal, 9/11 first responder, Director of the Feal Good Foundation
William Rodriguez, 9/11 hero and last survivor of WTC1
Sander Hicks, 9/11 author/researcher, founder of Voxpop.net
Jesse Richard, founder of TVNewsLies.org
Karen Johnson, state senator from Arizona (by phone)
The event will be moderated by the Reverend Frank Morales.
The rally will be an opportunity for the press and public to learn about the 9/11
Ballot Initiative Campaign and to fill out petitions. Upon reaching 30,000 valid
signatures which are lawfully required to put the Initiative on the ballot, NYC
voters will be enabled to create a fact-driven investigation of 9/11, which will
be distinct from the former Kean-Hamilton Commission because this will go beyond
political agendas by exploring all possible scenarios, following the evidence
wherever it may lead. We have… Continue reading
April 30, 2008
A variety of current and former high-level officials have recently warned that the Bush administration is attempting to instill a dictatorship in America, and will itself carry out a fake terrorist attack in order to obtain one.
FBI agents, Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and The Washington Post and Rolling Stone have all stated that the administration has issued terror alerts based on scant intelligence in order to rally people around the flag when the administration was suffering in the polls. This implies — as an initial matter only — that the administration will play fast and loose with the facts in order to instill fear for political purposes
More to the point, a former prominent republican congressman stated that the U.S. is close to becoming a totalitarian society and that the Bush administration is using fear to try to ensure that this happens.
General Tommy Franks stated that if another terrorist attack occurs in the United States "the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government".
Current U.S. Congressman Ron Paul stated, the government "is determined to have martial law", and that the government is hoping to get the people "fearful enough that they will accept the man on the white horse"
And Daniel Ellsberg, the famous Pentagon Papers whistleblower, said "if there is another terror attack, "I believe the president will get what he wants", which will include a dictatorship.
Terror on U.S. Citizens by American… Continue reading
For decades the federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that would override the Constitution in the event of a terrorist attack. Is it also compiling a secret enemies list of citizens who could face detention under martial law?
By Christopher Ketcham
In the spring of 2007, a retired senior official in the U.S. Justice Department sat before Congress and told a story so odd and ominous, it could have sprung from the pages of a pulp political thriller. It was about a principled bureaucrat struggling to protect his country from a highly classified program with sinister implications. Rife with high drama, it included a car chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., and a tense meeting at the White House, where the president's henchmen made the bureaucrat so nervous that he demanded a neutral witness be present.
The bureaucrat was James Comey, John Ashcroft's second-in-command at the Department of Justice during Bush's first term. Comey had been a loyal political foot soldier of the Republican Party for many years. Yet in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he described how he had grown increasingly uneasy reviewing the Bush administration's various… Continue reading

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Coalition Troops, Iraqi Police Patrol Baghdad
Responding to a call from coalition forces, around 2,000 Iraqi police officers in Baghdad have volunteered for the force. While the volunteer officers will provide much-needed security in the capital, they fall far short of the 40,000-strong member police force that patrolled the city prior to the war.
Several hundred volunteers — some in police uniforms and some in plainclothes — reported to the Iraqi police academy Monday, registering as U.S. Marines looked on. The Iraqi force began accompanying troops late Sunday or early Monday, Navy Captain Frank Thorp of U.S. Central Command told the Associated Press.
"We're beginning to see a downward trend in looting," he said.
Thorp did not specify whether the volunteer patrollers were former policemen or members of Saddam's Ba'ath Party, describing them as "people who are interested in creating infrastructure and hoping for a better Baghdad and better Iraq. As local commanders work in the cities, they're identifying people who want to help."
"But let me stress we still call on Iraqis themselves to protect their city and their country and their future," he continued.
Mohammed Mohsen Zubaidi, an official in the Iraqi National Congress opposition party, led a meeting of religious and civil opposition leaders Monday in a discussion about restoring water and electricity to Baghdad.
The International Red Cross said Monday that security appears to be improving in Baghdad, freeing aid workers to work on restoring water supplies and visiting hospitals.
"It appears there are more people in the streets, so we think there is some progress in terms of security," Nada Doumani, a Red Cross spokeswoman, told Agence France-Presse.
As of Sunday, several Baghdad hospitals were still without water or power. Looters have ransacked several medical facilities, and the hospital system is under duress despite the fact that the U.S. began airlifting medical supplies and other equipment in late last week.
Crowds of Iraqi citizens gathered outside Baghdad's Palestine Hotel on Sunday to protest the lack of power and water supplies, and to demand increased security to slow the widespread ransacking.
Some protesters blamed the United States and the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein for the looting, accusing them of "selling Iraq."
Heavy looting at the National Museum of Iraq was chief among their concerns. Some blame the U.S. military for losses at the museum, saying soldiers did not provide adequate security.
Looters have destroyed and stolen a 170,000-item collection of artifacts detailing more than 5,000 years of civilization and estimated to be worth billions of dollars.
The U.N. cultural agency UNESCO has urged the United States and Britain to protect Iraq's antiquities. The agency will hold an emergency meeting on Iraq next week.


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Nobody can say Brand New didn't have its old material down tight at the Harley-Davidson Roadhouse on Friday night. Then again, without any officially released fresh material since 2009, Brand New had plenty of practice time.
The Long Island quartet rewarded the patient and faithful with Tool-like power trudges, Jane's Addiction-ish tuning and even Weezer-esque slow numbers. Lead howler Jesse Lacey also made Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba seem calm.
Myriad fans responded to the intense performance by shouting along to nearly every word. Of course, they, too, had years to learn the material.
— Jon M. Gilbertson, Special to the Journal Sentinel
The Chainsmokers
Many electronic dance music, or EDM, fanboys decry the popularity of the witless-by-design subgenre called dubstep. And many dubstep adherents look down on the nearly brain-dead offshoot, brostep.
The Chainsmokers might have gone below brostep at its set Friday at the Uline Warehouse. The NYC pair of Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall jumped up and down and pumped their fists more often than they changed tracks.
Those tracks ranged from their popular single "#Selfie" to a remix of DJ Snake and Lil Jon's "Turn Down For What," the latter almost a Bartók concerto by comparison to anything else. Perhaps "duhstep" is the next rung down?
— Jon M. Gilbertson
Delta Rae
Anyone who was at the Johnson Controls World Sound Stage early for Delta Rae's Friday night headlining set saw a rare sight for Summerfest: a sound check. The open-crowd format doesn't lend itself to the usual concert preparation, but there was the North Carolina sextet on stage 30 minutes early, working out the harmonies to "Dance in the Graveyard."
When show time arrived, the extra work paid off as the group's combined a cappella voices were perfectly balanced and beautiful as they introduced that song's soaring melody. Mixing folk, rock and pop sounds, the music bounced infectiously off the stage, with Elizabeth Hopkins dancing exuberantly as she sang along with Eric Holljes on "Better Off Alone." A jangling chain and simple bass drum thump were the only accompaniment needed for Brittany Holljes' soulful wail on "Bottom of the River" before the band broke into a full-on percussion breakdown. Practice does make perfect.
— Erik Ernst, Special to the Journal Sentinel
Fitz and the Tantrums
Most acts riding the neo-soul fad have nostalgia going for them and not much else. Fitz and the Tantrums deserves credit for creating a modern twist rather than merely trying to recreate the past. The band has also managed at least three great singles across two albums, a rare feat in the MP3 era. The Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard was packed Friday night for the band's third Summerfest appearance, and the crowd didn't seem a bit impatient waiting for those hits.
The music split the difference between anthemic indie rock and mild funk; the soul tag fits in mood more than in style. The energy derived entirely from the bountiful hooks: "Spark" got the crowd shouting along; "Merry Go Round," not so much. But following a rousing cover of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," the hits started flowing, and the goodwill emanating from the stage was irresistible.
— Cal Roach, Special to the Journal Sentinel
The Autumn Defense
Would you have more thoroughly enjoyed the singer-songwriters of the '70s (Croce, Lightfoot, those chaps in America) had they been a little less sensitive? If so, you should've caught the Autumn Defense at the Big Backyard on Friday evening.
A five-piece with co-founders John Stirratt and Pat Sansone at its center, the Chicago group deliberately echoed those folk-inflected ballads about feelings and those country-tinged rockers about slightly different feelings. Less ambitious than Stirratt and Sansone's usual Wilco gig, the Autumn Defense nevertheless didn't just lazily and ironically recall the Mellow Gold decade. It summoned that era for an audience that mostly didn't care.
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"I can't remember the last time I had this much fun on the Fourth of July," he exclaimed before the rolling guitar and drum bump of "Pretend."
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Like many young musicians, Max Frost buttresses his own music with favorite influences, or so you'd guess from seeing him at the U.S. Cellular Stage early Friday evening. The nice thing is that unlike many young musicians nowadays who want to get their funk and soul on, the Austin, Texas, resident's iTunes library went back further than 1980s Michael Jackson.
Frost's favorite was 1970s Stevie Wonder, judging from the fairly full sound achieved by his backing trio, a bass line gently pried away from "I Wish" and an overall geniality. He bounced his music off a crowd that appeared to like it.
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Kennedy, C; Johnston, K; Taylor, P; Murdoch, IE; (2003) Determining clinician satisfaction with telemedicine. In: J Telemed Telecare. (pp. S62 - S64).
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We compared two methods of assessing clinician satisfaction with telemedicine. Clinicians completed a self-administered questionnaire with a preference ranking scale and a discrete choice method. Sixty-three clinicians completed the questionnaire (a 78% response rate). The preference ranking method showed that clinicians ranked the level of skill of the other clinician as the most important (55%) attribute of a teleconsultation and the completeness of the history as the second most important attribute (42%). The discrete choice method showed that clinicians ranked completeness of the patient's history as the most important attribute and risk of receiving wrong advice as the second most important. The use of discrete choice preferences provides an alternative and more objective method for collecting data about preferences in telemedicine. However, its use is not simple and requires the participants to be engaged in person rather than sent a questionnaire by post.
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|Determining clinician satisfaction with telemedicine.
|Adult, Aged, Attitude of Health Personnel, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Questionnaires, Telemedicine
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Teen Cleared in Florida Cyber-Bullying Suicide
Katelyn Roman, a 13-year-old Florida girl whose felony charges were dropped yesterday in the case of a schoolmate's suicide that was allegedly prompted by cyber-bullying, is telling the media, "I do not feel l did anything wrong." In September, 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick took her life after her family said she was "absolutely terrorized" by cyberbullies who were taunting her on social media. Roman and another girl–unnamed because she is a juvenile, were charged with third-degree aggravated stalking last month, but the charges have been dropped. More from Today.com:
Katelyn and a 14-year-old girl whom TODAY is not identifying because she is a juvenile were charged last month after Polk County (Fla.) Sheriff Grady Judd saw a derogatory post on Facebook that he claims was written by one of them. The two girls were arrested after Judd said they were allegedly involved in the bullying of Rebecca Sedwick, 12, who committed suicide on Sept. 9, with the 14-year-old allegedly writing on Facebook, "Yes ik [I know] I bullied Rebecca nd she killed her self but IDGAF [I don't give a f---]."
Judd also publicly revealed the girls' names and their mug shots at an Oct. 15 news conference and told TODAY on Oct. 16 that one of the girls did something "despicable" with the post on Facebook.
On Wednesday, the Florida state attorney's office announced that charges had been dropped and withheld comment on its reasoning because both girls are juveniles. After his public outrage over the alleged bullying by the two girls last month, Judd said at a news conference Wednesday that he was "exceptionally pleased with the outcome of the case."
"We see the children are going to get the services they need,'' Judd told reporters, referring to both girls being in counseling. "That's the best outcome for juveniles. Our goal is that these kids never bully anyone again."
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - NOVEMBER 22: Matt Ryan #2 of the Atlanta Falcons runs the ball against the New York Giants on November 22, 2009 at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Giants defeated the Falcons 34-31 in overtime. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
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Dump Cake
Dump everything in and your cake will be amazing.
- Prep Time : 5 min
- Cook Time : 50 min
- Ready Time : 55 min
- 1 (20 oz) can crushed pineapple with juice, undrained
- 1 1 can (21 ounces) Comstock® or Wilderness® Cherry Pie Filling
- 1 1 pkg Duncan Hines® Moist Deluxe® Classic Yellow Cake Mix
- 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) margarine
1 Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease a 13×9-inch pan.
2 Dump pineapple with juice into pan. Spread evenly. Dump in pie filling. Sprinkle cake mix evenly over cherry layer. Sprinkle pecans over cake mix. Dot with butter.
3 Bake 50 minutes or until top is lightly browned. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My War shows the Jekyll and Hyde side of Black Flag,
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Yes, 'Damaged' is perhaps their seminal work, but My War certainly kicks on its heels as a classic album from the 80s. My War is a Jekyll and Hyde of an album, one side full of short songs, the other comprised of just three long tracks. Some folk say it's like Black Sabbath, I just think of it as pure Black Flag. Ozzy could never hit the lows of Nothing Left Inside, or My War's 'You're one of them'.
Rollins peaks on this album, and hits the notes like a drained Iggy Pop, dragging notes up from the gutter. But is it metal, well no, and it's not punk, so is it a punk-metal crossover, no. It simply shows how intelligent Black Flag were; producing two classic albums, which are very distinctive, and sound so dissimilar you'd think they were not from the same band.
In fact you might not like it if you're a BF purist, or a nu-metal-man. But as Henry once said, 'You think that you're my friend but you're one of them'. Wasted? Still am...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars My First Black Flag Album...,
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I'd been meaning to get my hands on a Black Flag album for some time and decided to purchase 'My War' as I'd heard good things. It doesn't disappoint. Like many have commented it's something of an album of two half's. The first six tracks are pure 80's hardcore; fast, righteous, adrenaline fueled punk-rock. Like a lot of music from this time it sounds as vital as ever (although I do find you have to turn it up pretty loud as it's recorded pretty quietly by today's standards- no complaint really). The last three tracks see 'Flag adopt a Sabbath/Kyuss type style with slow, repetitive riffs replacing their usual frantic pace. Greg Ginn is a pretty impressive guitarist. It's a shift in style that works well- just listen to Rollins howling on the appropriately named 'Scream'. I can't believe it took me so long to get something by Black Flag! A really great album. If yr new to them like I am you might also enjoy acts such as Big Black, Fugazi and even the early Lemonheads stuff ('Hate Your Friends' & 'Lick')....
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5.0 out of 5 stars hardcore hard rock,
In some ways this could be seen as Black Flag's first proper album with Rollins. Most of the best tracks on DAMAGED were done better with other vocalists. Here the worlds most muscular poet sounds like a bull-moose with The Blues.
MY WAR is more like big gnarly rock than hardcore, although still recognizably Black Flag's take on punk. There is also a dissonant mangled element to the music that points towards the pre-grunge punk infused hard rock of Killdozer and the atonal assault of Big Black. It's better than either because it isn't so self-consciously "alternative". Ginn sounds great on this record, loose and tight at the same time. LOOSE NUT and SLIP IT IN were more playful, but the density of this record IMO is more impressive and comes closest to the sort of progressive punk sensibility SST were aiming for.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The beauty in pain,
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There is no such thing as an easy Black Flag album. With the possible exception of Damaged, Black Flag made challenging on the edge punk rock that pushed their listeners to the extremes.
Henry Rollins's tortured vocals rise above the scorching guitar work of Greg Ginn right from the blitz of the opening track 'My War', through 'Cant Decide' and on to the grinding efforts on side two.
My War is a album that pushes boundaries. It's in no way easy listening, but is very raw and soulful in a uniquely raucous way. An essential punk document of the times.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Very overrated,
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I think it's a disgrace that this album is so overlooked in comparison to Damaged. Whilst I love Damaged, this is a far more satisfying album. The album kicks off with the brutal title track before launching into a further 5 tracks of angry and outraged punk rock. It is the last 3 tracks however that for me encapsulates the quality of this album. It truley demonstrated that Black Flag weren't your average Hardcore band who were only obsessed with speed. They are very Sabbath-like in their tempo, which to me is no bad thing as I love Sabbath. I would advise people not to listen to this if they are depressed however as it is certainley not a comforting album! However it is a superb one.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive Black Flag,
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This review is from: My War [VINYL] (Vinyl)
I cannot believe that there are not no reviews for this album! I have had this on vinly for about 10 years and it is still as pleasing to hear today as it was when I was a lad.
This album is a true classic and EVERYBODY should buy it. Side one starts with a raucous Rollins screaming ' My War, you're one of them, you say that you're my friend, but you're one of them!'. At the end of side one your heart is pounding, your ears are bleeding and you are stilljumping around the room playing Greg Ginn style air guitar.
Side one is truly a relentless monsoon.
Side 2 only has three tracks. 3 tracks..on one side...and its punk? The 3 songs are of a much slower pace but they give the chance playing a more mellowed bass line on your air guitar.
If you only ever buy one Black Flag album mnake sure it is this one.
You will never regret it.
5.0 out of 5 stars Mind Blowing.....,
Wow. Pretty much all you need to know, really. Just buy it! The 'B' side is a pre-cursor to 'Sludge', as far as I'm concerned....Amazing.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great,
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Great album. Great sound. Love Nirvana, should like this, and Melvins of course. Real energy and is a fun album
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Sweet Madness (1990)
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Release Date: 12/25/1999
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Song Listing
Disc 1
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1. Thinking Of You
2. Fee ~ Fi
3. Sweet Madness
4. Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
5. You And The Night And The Music
6. Medley: I Told You So/Interlude/I Could Have Told You: I Told You So / Interlude / I Could Have Told You
7. Turn Around
8. Sometime Ago
9. Inception
10. Vermelho
11. Ambiance
12. Medley: Bea's Theme/The Job Application: Bea's Theme / Job Application
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|Personnel: Joyce Collins, Andy Simpkins, Octavio Bailly, Ralph Penland and Claudio Slon.
|Personnel: Joyce Collins (vocals, piano); Claudio Slon , Ralph Penland (drums).
|Liner Note Authors: George H. Buck, Jr.; Joyce Collins; Marian McPartland.
|Recording information: Los Angeles, CA (04/09/1990-04/27/1990); Mad Hatter Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA (04/09/1990-04/27/1990).
|Photographer: Scott Windus.
|Joyce Collins, who is joined here by either Andy Simpkins or Octavio Bailey on bass and Ralph Penland or Claudio Slon on drums, had a rare opportunity to record as a leader on this Audiophile CD, but she made the most of it. Collins takes two vocals (including one on a rather depressing if insightful "The Job Application"), but the emphasis is mostly on her skillful piano playing. Joyce Collins is in top form on such numbers as "Thinking of You," "You and the Night and the Music," Ornette Coleman's "Turn Around," and McCoy Tyner's "Inception." Recommended. ~ Scott Yanow
Producer: George H. Buck, Jr.; Joyce Collins
Engineer: Bernie Kirsh
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|Release Date : 1991
|Original Release Date : 1990
|Catalog ID : 262
|Label : Audiophile Records
|Number of Discs : 1
|Studio/Live : Studio
|Mono/Stereo : Stereo
|SPAR Code : n/a


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Welcome to the official campaign page for the second annual Clean Water Music Fest. Due to the surprise success of the inaugural event (we smashed our goal by over 4 times the amount), the pressure is on for this year's event to make a bigger splash!
This year's Clean Water Music Fest is taking place on Saturday, August 10th at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall from 1pm-11pm. As always, 100% of the proceeds from this event will go directly to building fresh-water wells in countries without access to safe, clean drinking water. In addition to a stellar line-up of the best bands that Northeast Florida has to offer, the Clean Water Music Fest will also feature the best silent auction + raffle you will ever see, a truly gourmet food truck court, and farmer's market.
Here's how you get your FREE ticket* to this year's Fest:
1.) Donate to our campaign here (a $10 minimum donation is recommended PER TICKET NEEDED). If money is tight for you, we will accept less than $10 for a ticket. Every bit helps, and we'd love to see you there supporting the cause!
2.) If you're donating for more than 1 ticket, leave the additional guests names in the comment area
3.) We will be notified of your donation, and will have your name(s) waiting at the box office on our guest list - no physical ticket is needed! Just show up! :)
* Subject to venue capacity. We highly encourage everyone to get there early to ensure entry.
This year's Clean Water Music Fest would not be possible if it wasn't for our amazing "Well-Wishers" (sponsors):
- Crazy Dave's Music
- Tigerlily Media (see the Clean Water Music Fest commercial they designed & donated here: http://youtu.be/FhB2GgN80Vg)
- Frenchy's Live Love Spa
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- Vista Financial Advisors
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- NAI Hallmark Partners
We encourage everyone attending the second annual Clean Water Music Fest to come hungry! Featured at this year's food truck court is a who's who of the local foodie scene.
- Mother Fletcher's
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- The Swedish Bistro (the CWMF is their debut!)
- The Hyppo Popsicles
We cannot believe the amount of donations that we have received from local businesses for our silent auction and raffle. To view the entire list of businesses that have contributed to our silent auction & raffle, visit http://cleanwatermusicfest.tumblr.com/Contributors
A special thanks to Brian Manley of FunWithRobots.com for donating the design of our incredible artwork this year!
To learn more about the charity: water organization, please watch the video below entitled "Water Changes Everything." It does such a wonderful job explaining the world-wide water crisis as well as what charity: water does to end it. Thank you for your time and support.


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|Fine breadcrumbs
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Form rounded tablespoons of bean mixture into balls.
Roll balls in flour until lightly coated.
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Heat to 350F (175C) or until a 1-inch cube of bread added to the oil turns brown in 60 seconds.
Fry balls, 4 or 5 at a time, until golden brown, about 3 minutes.
Drain on paper towels.
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Spoon about 1 tablespoon Cucumber-Yogurt Sauce into each half.
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A router separates the private network from the Internet. From it's routing table, a router can make decisions based on the destination IP address. Routing information can be stored either by using static entries or dynamic protocols. Imagine you want to send a message to a remote device. Packets arrive at the router, they are decapsulated, the destination IP address is checked with the routing table, the exit interface is chosen, the packet is encapsulated into the appropriate data link frame and forwarded through the exit interface. Multiple routers can exist from one end to another and each device have to process packets independently.
Routers have some main hardware components that we need to point out:
CPU - the main processing unit used to execute instructions
ROM - read only memory, used to store permanently the bootstrap and other read only information.
RAM - random access memory, used to store information needed by the CPU.
Flash - the location of Cisco IOS.
Interfaces - can be either Ethernet or Serial, these ports are used to interconnect networks.
Console port - used to establish a physical connection with the router.
Aux port - used to connect an external modem.
Upon start-up, a router does the following:
- It performs the POST or power on self test - a mechanism in which router's components are checked for faults
- The bootstrap is copied from ROM to RAM. Bootstrap is used to identify the routers operating system.
- The IOS is loaded from the Flash memory or a TFTP server.
- The start-up configuration file is loaded and executed. The start-up config file is usually stored in the NVRAM or a TFTP server. When the start-up file is located, it is loaded into RAM as the running configuration file. If the start-up config is not located, the user is prompted to make the initial router configuration.
To see information about the hardware components and more, type in the show version command:
As you already know, routers can have both Serial and Ethernet interfaces. You can see the router interfaces by typing show ip interfaces brief in the cli:
Because routers make decisions based on the Internet Protocol we can say that they are layer 3 devices.Routing tables are used to store information about the available network paths. You can see the routing information by typing show ip route:
As we can see in these iamge, there is only one directly connected network detected (check the above Codes). We can also have static or dynamic entries. Static (S) entries are configured by administrators and dynamic ones are added by dynamic routing protocols like RIP (R), EIGRP (D), OSPF (O) etc. We will talk later about dynamic routing protocols and static routes.
Based on what type of routing protocol you are using, routers make decisions on how to forward packets, by using different elements. A router can make decisions by comparing path costs, bandwidth, hop count etc. We will talk about how this information is interpreted when we will talk about routing protocols. Routers can provide load balancing when multiple equal routes exist from one point to another . Load balancing is a computer networking method to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_(computing) . Routers also determine best path for packets to travel from source to destination and switching function. I've found this short article on http://ciscoeducation.blogspot.ro/2009/05/switching-function-after-router-has.html in which router switching function is described:Switching Function
After the router has determined the exit interface using the path determination function, the router needs to encapsulate the packet into the data link frame of the outgoing interface.
The switching function is the process used by a router to accept a packet on one interface and forward it out another interface. A key responsibility of the switching function is to encapsulate packets in the appropriate data link frame type for the outgoing data link.
What does a router do with a packet received from one network and destined for another network? The router performs the following three major steps:
1. Decapsulates the Layer 3 packet by removing the Layer 2 frame header and trailer.
2. Examines the destination IP address of the IP packet to find the best path in the routing table.
3. Encapsulates Layer 3 packet into a new Layer 2 frame and forwards the frame out the exit interface.
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From the article: 10 Bird-Safe Houseplants
Houseplants add a touch of beauty to any home's decor, but if you own pet birds, you must be careful to choose houseplants that are non-toxic and safe for your feathered friends. What are your favorite bird-safe houseplants? What are your bird's favorite? Share your answer with other readers!
- My budgie not only loves the smell he loves to nibble on it! Dandelions make a nice little treat for your pet!
- —BirdBuddy123
- dandelions are safe. my parakeet just loves them to death!
- —Guest DANDY
- these plants,@ least some i can grow,appreciate the info,fellow parrot enthusiast,and canaries' bonding,gypsy
- —Guest gypsy ingram-stow
My parrotlets eat everything!
- I caught my two little girls eating the leaves of a peace lily and also pencil cactus without harmful effects. I didn't know they took a few nibbles until I saw the telltale green stains on their beaks and noticed a lacy effect on my plants!
- —Cocopazzo
safe flowers
- I also found out that carnations are safe. My first cockatiel just loved them. I called a vet first though just to make sure before I let him have a flower.
- —Guest rhondafrommsla
Some outdoor plants can be safe
- My Blue Crowned Conure really loves dandelion leaves and blossoms. I will pick them out in my yard and wash them before giving them to her. She loves to shred the flowers into a million pieces!
- —Guest D. Radcliff