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2013 Spring Queen Rearing Class Saturday, April 27
"The only beekeepers with good queens are beekeepers that are raising their own queens."
- Albert Einstein [Our staff historian is looking into this one]
At Golden Rule Honey, one of our goals for 2013 is to help beekeepers in Massachusetts (and beyond) to get involved in rearing, selecting, and breeding queens.
Raising queens and selecting stock does not need to be difficult, expensive, or time consuming, and no more resources are required than one strong colony of bees to raise more queens than you will be able to use. Most of the complicated procedures you have heard described or read about are complicated because they are designed to work consistently, efficiently, and throughout the season whether conditions are favorable or not. For beekeepers not in the queenrearing business, these complications are not necessary.
Only a few basics need be in place in order to raise excellent queens.
Beginning on April 27th, we will be offering several sessions of full day queenrearing/breeding classes. Each class has a maximum of 10 students, and will consist of 3-4 hours of classroom/discussion about the mechanics of queenrearing and the process/methods of selecting and breeding bees. Following will be hands on grafting instruction/practice and (weather permitting) working a bit with the cell builders in our home yard.
We will focus on our preferred method (grafting and queenless cell builder), but will discuss other methods as well, as the concepts are the same. You will leave the class equiped to raise queens.
Each student will recieve as part of the class, 1 cell bar frame, 3 cell bars, 30 new cell cups, 1 grafting tool, 1 LED flashlight, and 1 pair of magnified reading glasses...everything needed to raise queens (just add bees).
In addition, each student will be entitled to 3 virgin queens or queen cells from our own stock. We will do our best to supply these 3 virgin queens when it is convenient for the student to use them...the more notice you give us when you want your queens, the more likely we are going to be able to have them available on that date. You can get the virgins any time we have them available this season or next.
Raising queens is only half the story. Breeding bees requires some special attention to the quirky haplodiploid genetic scheme employed by the honeybee and a close look at the traits you will be selecting for. Our class places a significant focus on the breeding end of things.
Tuition for the class is $100/student, and includes the above listed materials and 3 virgin queens. Class meets in Leominster, Massachusetts.
http://BeeUntoOthers.com for registration
Class begins at 10:30am and will run until 4-5 in the afternoon. We will take a lunch break (although I'm sure we will be talking about queen rearing the whole time). We have a good local pizza place that will deliver, or you can bring something.
We will be offering this class on some other dates coming up (generally on Saturday, but if you have a group of at least 4 people that wants to do this on a specific date, Saturday or not, let us know and we will try to accomidate your needs. Evening classes are also possible).
Each student will graft a few larvae to be placed in our cell builders. Students will be able to pick up virgin queens on May 8th or 9th from their own grafts. These virgins are not counted towards the 3 included in the class fee, and there is no extra charge for them. Conversely, there is no gurantee that they will emerge (it is still a bit early in the season).
There will be several Saturdays throughtout the season to follow up and practice grafting (we are going to offer 2 or 3 queen rearing open houses in Leominster).


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Passion for Computers Fuels the Dreams of this Researcher
Alexander Volynkin
MS in CS, Binghamton, 2003
PhD in EE, Binghamton, 2003
Senior Software Engineer, BitArmor Systems
Alexander Volynkin attended Binghamton University from 2001 to 2007, receiving his MS in Computer Science and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science.
As an MS student, he was actively involved in the research of applying the theory of support vector machines to detection and classification of nerve agents. After gaining initial experience in research and software development, he focused on his long-time passion: research in information security.
In 2003, he decided to pursue a PhD in electrical engineering in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Binghamton University's Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. His PhD studies covered a wide range of information security areas including computer software and hardware security, network security and intrusion detection systems. Under the guidance of Dr. Victor Skormin, distinguished professor of electrical engineering, and with support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, he has developed novel methods for detection of previously unknown malicious software, organized a new laboratory for information security analysis and research (LISAR) and participated in developing the foundation for future network security initiatives within the ECE department and Center for Advanced Information Technologies.
His active research experience in the area of computer security and outstanding examples of teaching demonstrated by the ECE faculty inspired him to design and introduce a new course in computer software security – Computer Malware Internals. During his PhD studies, Volynkin received multiple awards and recognition, including the Best Paper Award (IEEE), outstanding academic achievements in graduate studies and 1st place at the Pitney Bowes Network Security competition.
His passion continued after graduation. He is currently a senior software engineer at BitArmor Systems, developing core software technologies for enterprise data management and security. He also serves on the advisory board of the Center for Advanced Information Technologies, ECE department, and the program committee of the annual Information Assurance Workshop at the United States Military Academy.
His experience studying, conducting research, collaborating and teaching at Binghamton University has proven to be invaluable in all aspects of his professional career.

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Coquitlam Minor Hockey's 50th Anniversary Gala - Tickets on Sale Monday Aug 26.13
by CMHA Administrator, 2013-08-22T00:02:13-07:00August 22 2013, at 12:02 AM PDTCoquitlam Minor Hockey's 50th Anniversary Gala is October 26th at the Executive Plaza Hotel.
Music by DR STRANGELOVE!!
Limited number of tickets and will go on sale Monday August 26th Expected to be a fast sell out!!
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Executive Summary: Significant Activities and Accomplishments
Cooperative Initiatives with Other ED OfficesReauthorization of theRehabilitation Act
As noted in our last Semiannual Report, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is currently working on a series of audits that are designed to assist the Department (ED) and Congress in the upcoming reauthorization of the Rehabilitation Act. These audits address issues that were developed collaboratively with program officials and in consultation with Congressional staff during a comprehensive program survey.
- The OIG plans to issue the audit reports and provide copies to the Department's reauthorization work groups and to Congress during the next reporting period. Our work has focused on the following issue areas:
- why the rate of successful case closures varies between States;
- how well States report and use program income to improve rehabilitation outcomes; and
- whether the current allocation formula reflects the distribution of disabled indivividuals among States.
The OIG is also working with program managers and staff, as well as with State and local officials, on a comprehensive survey of Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) programs. The purpose of the survey is to identify issues we will audit over the next two years in preparation for the reauthorization of ESEA in 1999.
Cooperative Audit ResolutionAs noted in our last Semiannual Report, we have undertaken a wide-ranging project known as the Cooperative Audit Resolution and Oversight Initiative (CAROI). Under this initiative, we are working in partnership with ED program offices and States to consider alternative approaches to resolving audits in a more efficient and effective manner and rethinking how oversight can work better to help solve recurring problems.
The CAROI team includes staff from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Office of the General Counsel, and OIG. The team has partnered with three States (Florida, Mississippi, and Washington) to better understand the issues that are important to State and local educational agencies in their administration of federally funded education programs.
The overall goal of the CAROI is to improve education programs and student performance at State and local levels through better use of audits, monitoring, and technical assistance. To accomplish this goal, the team developed four strategies:
1) Create and maintain dialogue with States
The objective of this strategy is to work with key parties to address State concerns, remove obstacles to improved program performance, foster new cooperative methods of audit resolution, and avoid recurrence of violations.
2) Work with States to resolve open audits or audits under appeal
The objective of this strategy is to work with States to resolve audits from periods covered under prior legislation in a manner more consistent with the ESEA, the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, and the School-to-Work Opportunities Act.
3) Improve the single audit process
The objectives of this strategy are:
- to ensure that single audits focus on the most important issues and concerns in ED programs; and
- to revise those portions of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) compliance supplements applicable to programs authorized under the ESEA to reflect flexibility in a manner consistent with new education legislation.
The objective of this strategy is to improve program performance through better coordination of audits, Federal monitoring, and Federal technical assistance, while encouraging creativity and flexibility at the State and local level.
Our activities and accomplishments under each of these strategies during the reporting period are described in Abstract 1, "Significant Audits and Audit-related Activities."
Other Cooperative Efforts with the Audit and Education CommunitiesRevision to single audit requirements
Because single audits are an important part of the Department's monitoring system, the OIG has worked extensively with OMB and the General Accounting Office (GAO) in revising OMB guidance and Single Audit Act legislation, respectively. This period, revisions to the Single Audit Act were introduced in the Senate, and revisions to OMB guidance have been entered into the final OMB clearance process for issuance. When enacted/issued, the revised Act and implementing OMB guidance will provide for more efficient and effective audit coverage of ED programs.
Revision to the OMB compliance supplements for single audit
We are also working extensively with OMB to revise and update its compliance supplements for single audit. Last updated in the early '90s, the supplements provide the key compliance requirements auditors should test for and provide guidance on the types of testing to perform. Revising the supplements is a major government-wide effort; the guidance in the compliance supplements is used in virtually all audits of State, local and nonprofit recipients of Federal assistance nationwide.
In addition to revising sections under the Cooperative Audit Resolution and Oversight Initiative for programs authorized by the ESEA, this effort includes revising sections for other ED programs; revising sections for government-wide requirements; and completely reorganizing and reformatting the document. Other ED programs to be updated include special education, rehabilitative services, school-to-work, adult and vocational education, and student financial assistance programs. OMB's goal is to have a final document by December 1996.
Revision to PCIE external quality control review process
The ED/OIG has the lead in a project by the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE) and the Federal Audit Executive Council (the Assistant Inspectors General for Audit) to examine and revise, as appropriate, the PCIE external quality control (peer review) process. Offices of Inspector General are required to undergo an external quality control review to comply with generally accepted government auditing standards and the Inspector General Act.
This period, a paper was prepared by an ED/OIG-led project team with recommendations on certain policy issues associated with the peer review process. After these recommendations are considered by the PCIE Audit Committee, the team plans to revise and update the PCIE peer review guide.
Other cooperative initiatives
This period, OIG developed with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants a training program for independent public accountants (IPAs) who audit schools that receive funding under the Title IV student financial assistance programs. The training will be presented by OIG staff as a one-day strategic briefing on the new SFA Audit Guide in eight cities. At least 1,000 IPAs are expected to attend.
Audit Quality Issues: Settlement in Non-Federal Audit SuitThis period we began a new initiative focused on evaluating the results of non-Federal audits and ED program reviews of institutions participating in the Title IV programs. The objective of our initiative is to identify instances in which non-Federal audits of such institutions contain no findings while the program reviews contain significant findings of noncompliance. These findings frequently result in significant liabilities for institutions.
This initiative appears very timely, considering the results of a suit filed against a non-Federal audit firm alleging, among other things, negligence in the performance of non-Federal audits. A summary of the results of this lawsuit is provided in Abstract 1, "Significant Audits and Audit-related Activities."
Examples of OIG Effectiveness in Postsecondary EducationIn the student aid area, our focus continues to be on the Department's implementation of the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program. This program continues to generate enormous activity by management and intense Congressional interest. While circumstances warrant that the Direct Loan program continue to be an audit priority, we recognize the need to also focus our work on the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program and the Pell Grant program, both large-dollar student financial assistance programs susceptible to fraud, waste and abuse due to poor program design and decentralized administration. Debt collection activity
This period we issued a series of reports on the Department's debt collection activities one dealing with loan consolidations, others dealing with the effectiveness and efficiency of the Office of Postsecondary Education's Debt Collection Service (DCS) operations. In the loan consolidation report, we assessed the cost-effectiveness of the Department's initiative to target over 800,000 defaulted DCS borrowers' loans for consolidation into the Direct Loan program. Based on information available to us, our assessment concluded that it was not cost-effective to consolidate these loans. Accordingly, we recommended that active pur- suit of additional DCS consolidations be discontinued until a study is performed. Department program managers, while not in total agreement with our report, agreed to implement our recommendations.
Our series of reports assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of DCS operations showed, overall, that DCS's efforts to accomplish its mission were noteworthy. The reports dealt with DCS's internal operations, contract collection agency activities, and areas outside DCS's control.
We recommended steps that DCS could take to improve internal operations; improve the role that contract collection agencies play in DCS's efforts to meet its mission of providing quality customer service and sound credit management to increase net revenue; and improve customer service by emphasizing the need for a long-term, Department-wide collection policy.
Handling FFEL loans held by bankrupt or insolvent institutions
Also this period, we issued a report on lessons learned from the Resolution Trust Corporation's handling of Federal Family Education Loans. Our review concluded that a strategy for responding when institutions participating in the FFEL program become insolvent or bankrupt is needed. We also recommended that further dialogue between ED and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation continue with a view toward establishing a mechanism for coordinating and sharing data about these institutions.
Financial Statement AuditsThe Government Management Reform Act (GMRA), passed in 1994, mandates annual audits of agency-wide financial statements for FY 1996 and each year thereafter. In addition, GMRA mandates that consolidated government-wide financial statements be audited as of FY 1997. This period, our efforts were focused on both the required audit of ED financial statements and the development of guidance that will assist Federal agencies and OIGs in the preparation and audit of Department-wide financial statements. These efforts, as well as our concerns regarding the lack of funding that has severely challenged our ability to fulfill the GMRA mandate, are described below.
Government-wide Financial Statements Audit Task Force
The ED/OIG is participating in a government-wide Financial Statements Audit Task Force that is developing guidance for the preparation and audit of the Department-wide financial statements to meet GMRA requirements. The task force includes representatives from OMB, GAO, the Department of the Treasury, and the OIG and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) communities. Our participation is primarily in the areas of single audit reliance, credit reform, and electronic data processing audit requirements.
The objectives of the task force are:
- to provide recommended solutions for government-wide auditing and accounting issues not addressed by the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board;
- to provide a forum for assuring consistency of implementation guidance for identified accounting and auditing issues; and
- to assist GAO in developing its government-wide audit plan.
An audit of the FY 1995 Department-wide financial statements is currently being conducted, one year ahead of the GMRA requirement. The audit is being performed by an independent public accountant, with some assistance from the OIG, whose report is expected to be issued by the end of June. This is the first time the Department's operations will have had a financial statement audit.
Some of the challenges facing the Department-wide audit are essentially the same as those encountered in previous CFO audits. They include:
- overcoming antiquated financial management systems in preparing the statements;
- overcoming data reliability issues for financial statement estimates; and
- overcoming weaknesses in the monitoring of schools, lenders, and guaranty agencies.
Lack of funding raises questions on future of Department-wide audit
The GMRA-mandated annual audit of the Department's financial statements presents a substantial challenge to the OIG. We do not have enough staff with sufficient financial audit ex-.pertise to perform the required audit in-house without substantial contractor assistance. Historically, the OIG has not received adequate funding for contracting and we have had to rely upon the Department to pay for major portions of the audits.
Initially, funding for contracting from the Department allowed us to employ IPAs under contract to conduct the audit on behalf of the OIG. Operating under continuing resolutions, however, has hampered ED's ability to fund the FY 1996 Department-wide audit.
We believe that it is more efficient and effective to continue to allow independent public accountants to perform the major portions of the Department-wide audit while maintaining a core competency in financial statement auditing expertise in OIG. A source of funding for this year's financial statement audit is in the process of being determined.
Asset ForfeitureIn our last Semiannual Report, the Acting Inspector General discussed his concerns regarding this Office's lack of legislative authority to share in the proceeds of forfeited assets seized by the government pursuant to judicial orders based on prosecutive actions resulting from our investigations. Since the issuance of that report, we have seen little progress in the situation and remain concerned that our inability to receive an "equitable share" of forfeited proceeds an authority maintained by other Federal, State and local law enforcement agencies has resulted in a de facto denial of funds that, under comparable circumstances, would be available to other investigative agencies.
Lack of authority results in loss of opportunity to share in proceeds
Asset forfeiture is a powerful law enforcement tool that is aimed at taking the profit out of crime. It is particularly appropriate in the context of student aid program fraud cases, because the sole motive of the perpetrators is to enrich themselves at the expense of students and taxpayers.
As noted in our last Semiannual Report, OIG investigators have been responsible for some significant asset seizures in California, Puerto Rico and Texas from trade-school owners who have defrauded the student loan and grant programs. This period we were denied the opportunity to share in the proceeds of $1.2 million that was forfeited by the owner of a Texas truck-driving school who had defrauded the student loan programs. The other Federal law enforcement agency involved admitted that we had performed the lion's share of the work, and that, accordingly, we should receive a substantial portion of the proceeds of the seized assets; but we did not have the statutory authority to receive the money. Moreover, we could not accept reimbursement for our substantial investigative costs related to the case. We have aggressively explored non-legislative options, but our efforts have consistently been frustrated by statutory and bureaucratic obstacles. The Justice Department's asset forfeiture fund was reported to hold some $549.9 million in l994, but we cannot receive any proceeds from this or any other forfeiture fund to.defray the costs of our investigations, except in very limited circumstances..
We again ask the Congress to allow us, as it has State and other government law enforcement agencies, to receive an "equitable share" of asset forfeiture proceeds from our cases. Doing so would not only help provide needed support for our investigative efforts, but would also be in every way the equitable thing to do.
Initiatives Conducted at Congressional RequestThis period, the OIG initiated or completed reviews in response to Congressional requests. These initiatives are discussed below.
Local school districts' use of Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act funds
At the request of the House Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs and Criminal Justice, we performed a review to determine how local school districts used their Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA) funds. We visited nine school districts and determined how they used their DFSCA funds during FY 1995. The results of our review were presented to the subcommittee and are summarized in Abstract 3, "Initiatives Conducted in Response to Congressional Requests."
Review of Direct Loan and FFEL program administration
At the request of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunity, we.are conducting a review of the management systems and structure of the student financial assistance programs. Our review will assess the efficiency, effectiveness and consistent application of the systems and structure with respect to the Direct Loan program and the parallel FFEL program. We plan to complete this review during the next reporting period.
Review of the Office for Civil Rights
As a result of several Congressional requests, the OIG conducted an audit of the Office for Civil Rights' (OCR) complaint evaluation and resolution processes. We found that OCR has made many improvements in its operations. OCR's efforts are ongoing and our recommendations should assist them in contining to improve operations. The results of our review are discussed in detail in Abstract 1, "Significant Audits and Audit-related Activities."


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He most likely is done at Houston. He is an offensive coach who was OC for guys like Elway when he was playing some of his best ball. He's been a QB coach and OC and had tremendous success at those positions.
He philosophically features a strong run game that utilizes PA passes. while he likes to have a QB who can roll out, and Eli isnt the most mobile guy, i think he could handle that aspect of Kubiaks offense. and his offense would be a change of pace compared to KGs in that Kubiak tries to design the plays to create the seperation, whereas KG is relying on the receivers post snap to get the separation by breaking down what the D is doing. I guess itd be better summed up Kubiak will try to design plays that dictate to the D what they can do whereas KG "designs" plays that react off what the D is doing.
I dunno, I'd be pretty optimistic where we able to get Kubiak as the OC and I think he would take the job too.


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Enjoying ours too! I am ashamed to admit I never noticed these trees until this year, studying the list of forage for bees in my areas - this is a major source for Wisconsin bees, and I never knew it existed! And its everywhere - beekeeping sure is educational.
Love to just sit under a honey locust and listen to them.
Our Locust finally bloomed alot a week behind those only 10 miles away. I figure it might be because I am at a higher elevation.
But I have not seen any bees on it.
Got Honey? my Facebook group
Best bloom here in years
Cam Bishop
And it is over, went to look at the bloom today and the petals have fallen Bloomed May 29th and gone June 5th.
Always question Conventional Wisdom.
Rain washed it out here
Ed, KA9CTT profanity is IGNORANCE made audible
you can`t fix stupid not even with duct tape
still a few blooms here but about all gone. Sure was nice while it lasted.
Cam Bishop
Ours are still hanging on in central Wisc, but the endless rain is taking its toll. Hope it blows over one day and we get our next batch of blooms, wildflowers I think?
Our locust just starting to bloom here last 2 days. Unfortunately we are getting pounded with rain tonight. Hope it doesn't completely ruin the bloom this year. Last year was completely washed out with a week of rain.


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Hall Of Fame Professional Wrestler Hulk Hogan
announced as Grand Marshall of the 16th Annual Powell Memorial
a two-day late model $10,000-to-win race at Bubba Raceway Park Ocala
In support of close friend Bubba 'the Love Sponge®' Clem, Hulk Hogan's got a "brother's" back.
OCALA, Fla. / Florida-based wrestling icon, Hulk Hogan confirms today on the nationally syndicated Bubba the Love Sponge® Show that he will be Grand Marshal for Saturday night's 16th Annual Powell Memorial, a $10,000-to-win race at Bubba Raceway Park.
What: The 16th Annual Powell Memorial, featuring Hulk Hogan as Grand Marshal
An event created to honor the family of James Powell, a driver and former owner of Bubba Raceway Park from 1981 to 1994. On June 17, 1995 a tragic plane crash in Gainesville, Fla. took the lives of Powell's four-year-old twin daughters, Ashley and Nicole (whom the Bubba Raceway Park playground is dedicated to), Elizabeth Powell (mother), Buddy Powell (father), Loveda McNair (aunt), and CJ Powell (uncle).
When: Saturday, June 4th, 2011 – racing starts at 7pm
Where: Bubba Raceway Park - 9050 N.W. Gainesville Rd. Ocala, Florida 34482 (352)622-9400
About Bubba Raceway Park Ocala: The 3/8th mile D-shaped, semi-banked clay park began operations in 1952. 2011 will mark its 58th year of racing making it the oldest track in the state of Fla. Updates to the park have included an improved track wall, catch fence, refurbished grandstands, Whelen lighting, sound system, increased pits area and a consistently maintained dirt track.


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Mabel Halvorson
Mabel Halvorson
Mabel Halvorson, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend, died Friday, May 24, 2013, at Diamond Willow Assisted Living in Baxter. Memorial services will be held at a later date at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in Vancouver, Wash.
Mabel was born to John and Carrie (Worlie) Johnson on Dec. 17, 1920, in Randall. She grew up and attended school in Pequot Lakes. On Nov. 29, 1941, she was united in marriage to Gordon Halvorson. She was a homemaker until her later years when she worked seasonally at several canneries in Vancouver. The shining stars in her life were her family and her church family at St. Andrew's. While in Baxter, Mabel enjoyed Lord of Life Church and looked forward to many visits from Pastor Lilja Behr. She belonged to a quilting group and she was never happier than when she was helping at her church. Mabel loved to crochet. Her family and those who did anything for her were rewarded with her handiwork. Her homemade bread and meals were given freely with love.
Mabel is survived by her children, Carol (Mike) Blowers, of Baxter, Karen (Aaron) Brown, of Vancouver, and Allan (Karen) Halvorson, of Ephrata, Wash.; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren; sister, Ella Roberts, of Myrtle Creek, Ore.; sister-in-law, Violet Johnson, of Pine River; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; children, John Halvorson and Joann Atkinson; and siblings, Raymond Johnson, Ivie West, Lydia Richardson and Burton Johnson.
Please visit www.brenny.com to leave a message of comfort and support for Mabel's family.
Arrangements are with Brenny Funeral Chapel and Cremation Services.


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High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH
(PI) Chris Rapier PSC, Michael Stevens CMU, Benjamin Bennett PSC, Mike Tasota PSC/CMU
Are you using HPN-SSH?
On this page:
Notes and News
All patch sets from 6.2 to 7.2 are now available on sourceforge at http://hpnssh.sourceforge.net/. The entire codebase (merged with OpenSSH) is also available as a git repo from https://github.com/rapier1/openssh-portable. We will no longer be providing patch sets from this location as it quickly fell too far out of date. You can still find older patch sets at this location *but* I strongly encourage you to use the most recent version of HPN-SSH and OpenSSH in order to have the most secure installation possible.
If you care about HPN-SSH there is no better way to show your suport than making a donation to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. I do not personally receive any money from these donations but your support ends up supporting our work. When you donate please make a note in the comments field that this is for HPN-SSH. Any amount is worth while - even a dollar will show PSC and CMU your support for our work. Seriously, show your support in order to both keep HPN-SSH current and fund new improvements.
SCP and the underlying SSH2 protocol implementation in OpenSSH is network performance limited by statically defined internal flow control buffers. These buffers often end up acting as a bottleneck for network throughput of SCP, especially on long and high bandwith network links. Modifying the ssh code to allow the buffers to be defined at run time eliminates this bottleneck. We have created a patch that will remove the bottlenecks in OpenSSH and is fully interoperable with other servers and clients. In addition HPN clients will be able to download faster from non HPN servers, and HPN servers will be able to receive uploads faster from non HPN clients. However, the host receiving the data must have a properly tuned TCP/IP stack. Please refer to this tuning page for more information.
The amount of improvement any specific user will see is dependent on a number of issues. Transfer rates cannot exceed the capacity of the network nor the throughput of the I/O subsystem including the disk and memory speed. The improvement will also be highly influenced by the capacity of the processor to perform the encryption and decryption. Less computational expensive ciphers will often provide better throughput than more complex ciphers.
Performance Gap
With many high bandwidth connections, there is a performance gap between what SSH is capable of and what the network link has the capacity to do. The difference between these two numbers is the performance gap, or the underutilized portion of your network connection. This gap, in most situations, is the direct cause of undersized receive buffers in the SSH congestion control mechanism. The graph below shows the optimal receive buffer versus the effective SSH channel receive buffer for various round trip times along a 100Mbps path
The difference between the red and blue line is, essentially, wasted throughput potential along the path.
Normal vs. HPN SCP Performance
The effect of raising the SSH buffer sizes can be seen in the following chart. The standard SSH throughput, represented by the red columns, closely matches the expected throughput for this path if the receive buffer was limited to 64KB. By increasing the size of the SSH channel receive buffers throughput, represented by the blue columns, improved by as much as 1000%. The variation now seen is due to the complexity of the cipher and the limits of the hard drive.
Clearly, the HPN patches significantly boost throughput performance. This enhancement is entirely from tuning the SSH buffer sizes.
All patches should be applied to the OpenSSH source files using the 'patch' utility from the command line. Building SSH from source is actually quite easy and the recommended method. Some binary packages will be made available as a convenience but will not be officially supported.
Solaris Users: Some versions of Solaris use an older version of the patch and diff commands which are incompatible with this patch. Please make sure you are using a recent version of gnu patch.
This is the 1st revision of the 14th major version of the HPN patch set. The HPN13 patches will remain available on this page for the time being. The HPN12 patch set remains available here. There are two fundamental differences between the HPN13 and HPN14 patch set. The most significant of these is the inclusion of fully functional Multi-Threaded AES CTR (MT-AES-CTR) mode cipher. A paper and presentation about this work are available. The previous version of MT-AES-CTR failed when the process forked to the background or, starting in OpenSSH 6.1, when the rlimit sandbox was used. In the former case the threads lost their context from the parent during the fork. In the later, the rlimit prveented the creation of new threads/processes by setting NPROCS to 0. This issue was resolved by using the single process AES CTR cipher during the pre-authentication phase. After authentication takes place the pointer to the AES CTR cipher was replaced with a pointer to the MT-AES-CTR cipher. The application then forces a rekeying to take place which starts up the threads. No real change was made to the cipher itself - just how it was being called in SSH.
This cipher mode introduces multi-threading into the OpenSSH application in order to allow it to make full use of CPU resources available on multi-core systems. As the canonical distribution of OpenSSH is unable to make use of more than one core, high performance transfers can be bottlenecked by the cryptographic overhead. HPN12 dealt with this by the introduction of None Cipher Switching. However, this technique is limited to those users who are willing to allow their data to be transferred without encipherment. It also was, by design, limited to bulk data transfers which further restricts its value to some users. The MT-AES-CTR mode will allow users, on multicore platforms, to attain throughput rates comparable or equal to unencrypted data transfers. In both lab and real world tests throughput at full GigE line rates, with full encryption, were commonly seen.
Obviously, the MT AES-CTR mode cipher breaks through the single core bottleneck.
MT-AES-CTR produces a cipherstream that is indistinguishable from the distributed Single Thread AES-CTR (ST-AES-CTR) mode cipher and is fully compatible with all other AES-CTR mode implementations. In other words, its completely backward compatible and will function in heterogenous connections with no problem. However, it is important to note MT-AES-CTR does impose additional overhead and may impose a performance penalty on single core machines. Additionally, the MT-AES-CTR mode cipher replaces the default ST-AES-CTR mode cipher post authentication.
The second major difference between HPN13 and HPN14 is that the NONE cipher switching routines have been split off into their own patch. There are some circumstances in which users may have need of the NONE cipher without the additional overhead of the dynamic windowing (packet radio under an amatuer license for example). It also helps keep the patches a little cleaner. Please note, it's not always trivial to layer the patches on top of each other. If you don't have much experience delaing with reject files produced by diff I suggest making use of either the kitchen sink patch or the dynwindow-noneswitch patch sets.
HPN-14 Kitchen Sink
OpenSSH Version
|HPN-SSH Patch
|OpenSSH 6.2p2
|OpenSSH-6.2p2-hpn14 v1
|OpenSSH 6.3p1
|OpenSSH-6.3p1-hpn14 v2
HPN-14 A la Carte
|Dynamic Window & None Switch
|This is the most commonly impemented patchset. It provides dynamic window in SSH and the ability to switch to a NONE cipher post authentication. This patch is gziped.
|Dynamic Window
|This patch is the basis for HPN-SSH. It allows users to make optimal use of long/fat network paths. Without this patch it's not really HPN!
|None Switch
|This patch *only* provides the ability to switch to the NONE cipher after authentication.
|Multithreaded AES-CTR Cipher
|This patch adds threading to the CTR block mode for AES and other supported ciphers. This allows SSH to make use of multiple cores/cpus during transfers and significantly increase throughput.
|Peak Throughput
|This patch displays the current (1 second average) throughput for SCP transfers.
|Server Logging
|This patch adds additional logging to the SSHD server including encryption used, remote address and port, user name, remote version information, total bytes transferred, and average throughput. In order to use this patch you *must* direct syslogd to use an additional logging socket. This socket will be located in the sshd chroot, typically /var/empty. As such you will need to create a /var/empty/dev directory and add '-a /var/empty/dev/log' to your syslogd configuration. Example output can be seen here
HPN-13 Kitchen Sink
Note: This patch has been gziped. You must gunzip it before applying it.
|OpenSSH Version
|HPN-SSH Patch
|OpenSSH 4.7p1
|OpenSSH-4.7p1-hpn13 v3
|OpenSSH 5.0p1
|OpenSSH-5.0p1-hpn13 v4
|OpenSSH 5.1p1
|OpenSSH-5.1p1-hpn13 v5
|OpenSSH 5.2p1
|OpenSSH-5.2p1-hpn13 v6
|OpenSSH 5.3p1
|OpenSSH-5.3p1-hpn13 v7
|OpenSSH 5.4p1
|OpenSSH-5.4p1-hpn13 v8
|OpenSSH 5.5p1
|OpenSSH-5.5p1-hpn13 v9
|OpenSSH 5.6p1
|OpenSSH-5.6p1-hpn13 v10
|OpenSSH 5.8p1
|OpenSSH-5.8p1-hpn13 v11
|OpenSSH 5.9p1
|OpenSSH-5.9p1-hpn13 v12
|OpenSSH 6.0p1
|OpenSSH-6.0p1-hpn13 v13
|OpenSSH 6.1p1
|OpenSSH-6.1p1-hpn13 v14
HPN-13 A la Carte
These are the a la carte patches and some of the version numbers may skew from time to time. For example, if the peak throughput patch doesn't need to be updated for various OpenSSH releases the patch number won't be updated. Not all of the patches are available just yet, as the NONE cipher switching still needs to be broken out from the HPN12 patch set.
|Dynamic Windows and None Cipher
|This is a basis of the HPN-SSH patch set. It provides dynamic window in SSH and the ability to switch to a NONE cipher post authentication. Based on the HPN12 v20 patch. This patch is gziped.
|Threaded CTR cipher mode
|This patch adds threading to the CTR block mode for AES and other supported ciphers. This may allow SSH to make use of multiple cores/cpus during transfers and significantly increase throughput. This patch should be considered experimental at this time.
|Peak Throughput
|This patch modifes the progress bar to display the 1 second throughput average. On completion of the transfer it will display the peak throughput through the life of the connection.
|Server Logging
|This patch adds additional logging to the SSHD server including encryption used, remote address and port, user name, remote version information, total bytes transferred, and average throughput. In order to use this patch you *must* direct syslogd to use an additional logging socket. This socket will be located in the sshd chroot, typically /var/empty. As such you will need to create a /var/empty/dev directory and add '-a /var/empty/dev/log' to your syslogd configuration. Example output can be seen here For OpenSSH 4.7p1.
How to apply the patches:
- Get the OpenSSH source code from OpenSSH.org.
- Untar OpenSSH source.
- cd into the OpenSSH source directory
- If gzipped type 'zcat pathtopatch/patchfile | patch -p1'
Otherwise 'patch -p1 < pathtopatch/patchfile'
- type 'configure && make'
- type 'make install'
Problems with buffer_append_space in HPN-SSH. If you are experiencing disconnects due to a failure in buffer_append_space please let us know. We're currently tracking some problems with this and we're trying to gather more information to help resolve it. You may want to try using -oHPNBufferSize=16384 to restrict the growth of the buffer. Let us know if that helps.
|This work was made possible in part by grants from Cisco Systems, Inc., The National Science Foundation, and The National Library of Medicine


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Private room with bathroom and separate wc+possible private parking
Size15 m²
Floor No.
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Lockable room
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
- Dishwasher
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A Share common areas: kitchen, large living room, private garden, in a new house 100m2 triplex town, opposite the entrance to the Parc de la Légion d'Honneur , clear, quiet, very nice, with roller blind.
Near the Basilica of Saint-Denis and the Stade de France, RER B
10 minutes walk, 5 minutes walk from the Porte Saint Denis of Paris, Champs Elysées Clemenceau (15-20min) * direct subway or if you arrive by RER B or D get off at La Plaine Saint Denis Stade de France and take the 356 bus and get off at Park station of the Legion of Honor. shops and restaurants nearby.
Easily accessible by car if you arrive by the northern motorway 20 minutes from Charles de Gaulle airport.
possibility parking.
House rulesno pets,
no smoking authorize only in the garden
If the key of the House or the House have been lost by the guest, an amount of € 200.00 will be required to cover the costs of new copies
acceptance an additional 3e person, on the sofa bed in the living room of 17m2 next to the room, to pay 17 euros more , whether additional parking fee payable to the \ arrival 5 euros per dayPayable in resort,
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Reviews of this property
super nice people, friendly and helpful !!!
The apartment is very clean and tidy, the bed comfortable and the room is inviting. We would come back any time :)
super nette leute, freundlich und hilfsbereit!!!
die wohnung ist sehr sauber und ordentlich, das bett gemütlich und das zimmer ist einladend. wir würden jederzeit wiederkommen :)
Very nice hostess, great corner in Paris, everything was great. Why have I paid for 3 people, the hostess but was paid only for 2, a mystery remains ...
Sehr nette Gastgeberin, tolle Ecke in Paris, alles super. Warum ich für 3 Personen bezahlt habe, die Gastgeberin aber nur für 2 bezahlt wurde, bleibt ein Mysterium...
Somchit was an excellent host, she is relaxed and helpful. She hosts you in the upper floor's room which is next to the bathroom, very clean and comfortable, highly recommended.
Somchit's cute room was perfect for our 5-day trip to Paris.
It was very clean, big enough for two people to stay in with a queen sized bed.
It looks exactly like in the pictures posted.
She provided an own guest bathroom and we were allowed to use her kitchen.
She herself is a very friendly and warm-hearted woman making yourself feel at home. She laughs a lot and gives useful advise for a city trip.
All in all I felt very comfortable staying at her place.
It was all very clean and comfortable. The house is big, and the owner was very nice. I higly recommend this appartment!
Very helpful, a nice clean house, friendly and nice people, they help you at all. The property has a good metro and bus to reach the airport and all attractions. A house that you do not spend cold in winter and you have a very nice garden.
Muy atentos, una casa limpia y bonita, gente simpática y agradable, te ayudan en todo. El alojamiento tiene buenas conexiones de metro y bus para llegar a los aeropuertos y a todos los sitios de interés. Una casa en la que no pasas frío en invierno y tiene un jardín muy bonito.
excellent very beautiful home. very friendly people.
excellent très belle maison. des gens très sympathiques.
Somchit is a really nice person, she is a great host and make us feel like home! for example, she gave us a map for the metro and always indicated us the best way, she did try to made it easily for us! thanks a lot Somchit! ;-)
Le chambre est bonne situe, simple mais tout ce que vous voulez est la. Toilette et salle de bain prive. Cuir nést pas possible mais a Paris pas une problem.. La hotesse est gentile et tres sympathique et accueillant.Un parking est disponible dans le garage. Distance de marche de Metro ligne 13 direct au centre de Paris.
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CNN: ACORN fraud and ties to Obama
posted at 11:15 am on October 10, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
Drew Griffin had better watch out. If he continues reporting on Barack Obama like this, pretty soon the Obama campaign will target him as an extremist and a hate-monger. Griffin tells Campbell Brown on CNN how ACORN commits voter fraud, and then explains how Obama is closely tied to the group:
CAMPBELL BROWN: Now, it is officially nonpartisan. But this group works hard to register low-income voters who tend to vote for Democrats. ACORN's under fire over allegedly phony voter registration in several states, and Drew Griffin of CNN's Special Investigations Unit is digging into this for us. You'll be pretty surprised by what he found.
DREW GRIFFIN: There are 5,000 of them.
RUTH ANN HOAGLAND: These?
GRIFFIN: These.
HOAGLAND: These.
GRIFFIN: Those?
HOAGLAND: And these.
GRIFFIN: They are new voter registration applications turned into by the community organizing group, ACORN, which has launched a massive voter registration drive, and with 5,000 applications in this one county dumped on just before the October 6 deadline; it looked like to Elections Board Administrator Ruth Ann Hoagland like ACORN was extremely successful, until her workers began finding problems.
GRIFFIN: A lot of them?
HOAGLAND: 50 percent. We had close to 5,000 total from ACORN, and so far we have identified about 2,100.
GRIFFIN: So roughly half of them are bad.
HOAGLAND: Correct.
GRIFFIN: Registered to a dead person, registered as a person who lives at a fast food shop.
HOAGLAND: Yes.
GRIFFIN: Or just all of them amazingly in the same hand.
HOAGLAND: Yes. Yes. All the signatures look exactly the same. Everything on the card filled out looks just the same.
GRIFFIN: Ruth Ann. Fraud?
HOAGLAND: We have no idea what the motive behind it is. It's just overwhelming to us.
GRIFFIN: It's not that some are bad. Once they started going through them, every one they looked at was bad.
HOAGLAND: Right. We've run into a lot of the same – we'll go through ten cards, and the exact — in the exact same hand, the card is filled out the same, the signature is the same. We'll make telephone calls, and every phone has been disconnected.
GRIFFIN: Hoagland decided to stop the review all together, work on other apparently legitimate registrations and get back to the other half of what she now calls "the fake pile," later.
HOAGLAND: It's frustrating. It's very frustrating.
GRIFFIN: Here is another ACORN filled out registration form. It's for Jimmy Johns, 10839 Broadway in Crown Pointe. Jimmy Johns. We decided to track him down. Here he is. Is there anybody here that's actually named Jimmy Johns? Nobody registered to vote here named Jimmy Johns? This could really — I mean, there has been no fraud yet because people haven't voted yet, right?
HOAGLAND: Correct. We'll find out on Election Day.
GRIFFIN: But it certainly sets up a potential.
HOAGLAND: The potential, I suppose, is always there. It's just that the volume — the volume is just incredible.
GRIFFIN: The elections board is run by both Republicans and Democrats. Regardless of whose party, we've got a problem with these ballots. These registrations.
SALLY LASOTA: Both sides, Democrats and Republicans. For us, it's unfortunate. ACORN, with its intent, perhaps, was good to begin with, but unfortunately went awry somewhere.
GRIFFIN: It is fraud, says the Democrat Director, Sally LaSota.
LASOTA: Well, if you look, it's the same signature for all three voters. It's as though the one individual tried — did three separate applications but you can tell the signature—we're not handwriting experts, but what's obvious is obvious.
GRIFFIN: ACORN's voter registration drives are under investigation or suspicion in several states. Just yesterday, local authorities raided this ACORN office in Las Vegas where ACORN workers allegedly registered members of the Dallas Cowboys football team. Over the last four years, a dozen states investigated complaints of fraudulent registrations filed by ACORN, and complaints of fraud by ACORN have exploded nationwide in just the last few weeks. We tried to contact the ACORN director in Gary, Indiana. But when the phone messages went unanswered, we went to the office. It's abandoned. ACORN told us that the state director for Indiana ACORN is actually based in this office in Milwaukee. But today, we found it empty, too. ACORN's attorney in Boston told us allegations his organization has committed fraud is a government attempt to keep the disenfranchised from voting.
ACORN LAWYER BRIAN MOLLER: We believe their purpose is to attack ACORN and suppress votes. We think that by attacking ACORN that they are going to discourage people who have may have registered with ACORN from voting.
GRIFFIN: Brian Moller says ACORN has its own quality control, has fired workers in the past, including workers in Gary. Despite its past, the Obama campaign gave $800,000 to ACORN to help fund its primary registration drive, and ACORN has endorsed Barack Obama for president. The Obama campaign reacted this afternoon, saying, it is "committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process and said it has not worked with ACORN during the general election".
BROWN: Drew Griffin. Drew, though the campaign, or Obama, rather, has worked with ACORN, though, in the past. Is that accurate?
GRIFFIN: That's accurate. As an attorney, he represented ACORN in a motor voter court case, which, by the way, Barack Obama won for ACORN. But all afternoon long, the campaign has been calling us, trying to distance themselves from ACORN.
BROWN: All right. Drew Griffin for us, tonight. Drew, as always, thanks.
I'm less surprised to see this on Campbell Brown's show than on Anderson Cooper's. I've appeared a couple of times with Brown, and she seems interested in hearing both sides of a story. When Cooper heard Griffin's report on Obama and Ayers, Cooper looked like he'd eaten a bug and attempted to water it down somewhat. Brown not only let Griffin's reporting stand, she gave him the opening to talk about Obama's ties to ACORN.
How long before Team Obama sends an e-mail asking followers to start flooding CNN with outrage and demands that Griffin be taken off the air?
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After sitting in a corner for 6 months I've finally painted my BM armor,
using tk7602's rattle can rotj colors.
it's almost done...
What say yee?
After sitting in a corner for 6 months I've finally painted my BM armor,
using tk7602's rattle can rotj colors.
it's almost done...
What say yee?
Not bad for a first time paint job bruv...
Are you gonna get some grimy grey in some places to give it some texture?
Also don't forget to look at some ref material for those little scratches here and there.
IMHO...you have the right idea with the weathering...good job, but the size and locations of some of the damage seems off. IF you are going for the RotJ/SE look, be sure to check out some of the ref pics. You can find them in the Wiki.
Just a "For Example", the center piece of the chest armor should have very little weathering on it and should have a silver center.
The knees look very good! Nice work!
You'll be able to see from the MoM exhibit photos that the armor is just grimy and dirty, so don't afraid to do a grimy black mist and add some splatter.
Yea I know , I got a little carried away with the liquid mask. I hope that when I get to the graphite and dirt stage it won't be as noticeable.but for now I'm on hold waiting for my decals to arrive in the mail..
The knees look okay (with a little more scratching !!).
The armor seems a little to green/yellow/silver ... and no more. I think you need to rough up your edges and scatch / grime / mist / **** / ... you get the idea .... it up.
Seriously .. the colors are good, but the weathering needs some more work.
Nice start !!


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On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, the Board of Supervisors held the fourth of four departmental hearings dealing with the FY 2013-14 County budget. The following are the results of Tuesday's budget discussions:
- Sheriff's budget: Uniform Patrol was reduced by $36,264,
- Correctional Facility (LEC) was reduced by $65,789
- Correctional Facility (Prairie Hills) was increased by $20,000
- Court Security was reduced by $2,000
- Administration was increased by $13,000
- Total reduction of $71,053
- Juvenile Services: Juvenile Detention was reduced by $60,000
- First Tee Program was not reduced with the stipulation that
- participation by other government entities was needed to keep the
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Youth guidance Services was reduced by $200,000. Included in this reduction were care and keep at Toledo and child care.
Building Services CIP was reduced by $75,000 which included security renovations. It was decided to look at overall security measures at the Courthouse, LEC and Trosper Hoyt
- Mental Health was reduced by $650,665. Reductions were done as follows:
- Two full time employees reduced by $180,000
- Friendship House support reduced by $191,865
- Mental Health Court reduced by $250,000
- School Outreach reduced by $28,800
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(Aug. 9, 2006)--The UTSA Department of Art and Art History presents "Transitions : Drawings and Paintings by Enrique Martinez and Stacy Berlfein" at the UTSA Satellite Space in Blue Star Contemporary Art Center Suite 115 through Aug. 20.
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The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Enrique Martinez and Stacy Berlfein , UTSA students in the master of fine arts program, explore "transition" as a passage from one state, stage, subject or appearance to another. Touching on symbolism and the subconscious, the artists approach human psychology with an affinity for the unusual and enigmatic.
Gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m., Friday-Sunday, or by appointment. Blue Star Contemporary Art Center is at S. Alamo and Probandt streets, south of downtown San Antonio.
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Could you do a quick write up on this?
I have extracted the boot image, made the changes that i needed, then used cpio to repack the files, then gziped the image.
When I run rkcrc, all seems fine, but after flashing the new boot.img over its a no go.
# find . | cpio --create --format='newc' > /tmp/newboot
# gzip newboot
# rkcrc -p newboot.gz boot.img
Any suggestions?
I had to modify the rkcrc sourcecode to get it working on my fview 7" pro tablet
for the fview 7" the rom uses/checks for the header tag "KRNL", different brands might use differend HEADER's
--- check 1 ---
To see if rkcrc works for you
* extracht the "raw" cpiofile from the boot.img
- aka remove the first 8 bytes and last 4 bytes
p.s. at this point the the cpio file should unpack without errors/warnings
* apply rkcrc to the raw cpio
If everything works as it should the original boot.img and new boot.img should be identical, if not there no use i going on,because the bootload will refuse the boot.img.
--- check 2 ---
unpack and recreate the boot.img without any modification
the boot.img should work (and boot)
* Modifying boot.img can be a very tricky thing, a minor mistake can result in your device not booting
* Als using adb logcat during boot can give a lot of information on the boot process, and where it failes
Try it first of a working rom , because there are ofter a lot of errors/warning during the boot process that are "normal"


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Jayden Bradds' memory kept alive through family
MOBERLY, Mo. - For the first time, a parent of a murdered Mid-Missouri toddler is speaking out. Jayden Bradds was pronounced dead last November in Randolph County. Court documents show the toddler had a head injury.
The man accused of the boy's death went before a judge on Wednesday. He is charged with murder, assault and child abuse, and will face a jury for the crimes in October.
ABC 17 News crews sat down with Jayden's family on Thursday. Currently they're just trying to keep Jayden's memory alive. His father wants his short life to be a reminder to others that a death like this should never happen again.
"Jayden was amazing," said his older sister, Madalynn Ahrens. Gary Bailey, the toddler's father, said Jayden was also a "Fun-loving kid... That's all he ever was, a fun-loving kid."
For the family, the boy with the contagious smile is never really gone. As they thumb through the many photos, they hold Jayden's memory close to heart. "There ain't a day that goes by that I don't think about him ... every day," said Bailey.
While Jayden's memory lives on, the question of why he is gone will never make sense. "Why did you do that? How, just how?" said Madalynn.
"He was just a baby. I can't see anybody hurting a baby," said Bailey. According to police, Joseph Laswell did just that. He allegedly got angry after Jayden answered his cellphone. At that point, court documents said, he pushed Jayden and caused the boy to hit his head, then dropped the phone on him. It is abuse family members said they didn't see coming.
Now for Jayden's father, thinking of the horrific crime is overwhelming. "What I think about each and every day is what my son went through, what was his last thought," said Bailey.
Now those left behind from Jayden's life hope others learn from their child's heartbreaking death. "I need people to know when they see something like this or they think something is going on, they need to come out and say something before something bad happens," said Bailey.
Jayden's father said he doesn't wish any harm to Laswell; however, he hopes that justice will be done for Jayden.


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President of Ligmincha Institute, as well as its founder and spiritual director, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is a master of the Dzogchen meditative tradition of Tibet. Rinpoche was born in India after his parents fled the Chinese invasion of Tibet.
He was recognized as the reincarnation of the famous master Khyung Tul Rinpoche who was not only a great meditator but also a noted scholar and prolific author. From the age of thirteen, Tenzin Rinpoche practiced Dzogchen closely with his masters from both the Bon and Buddhist schools: Lopon Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche, Lopon Tenzin Namdak
Rinpoche, and Geshe Yungdrung Namgyal. He completed an eleven year course of traditional studies in the Bön tradition at the Bönpo Monastic Center, Dolanji, HP, India, whereupon he qualified for the Doctorate Degree of Geshe, the highest degree in the Tibetan spiritual tradition. He is an accomplished scholar in the Bönpo and Buddhist textual traditions of philosophy, exegesis, and debate.
Upon graduation in 1986, Tenzin Rinpoche was employed at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives at Dharamsala, India. That same year he was appointed by HH the Dalai Lama to be the representative of the Bön school to the assembly of deputies of the government in exile.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche was the first to bring the precious Bön Dzogchen teachings to the West in 1988, when he was invited to Italy by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche in order to teach at his center. During the 1991-92 academic year he was selected as a Rockefeller Fellow at Rice University in Houston, Texas. During this period he continued his research on early Bönpo Tantric deities and their relationship with Buddhist traditions in the early period of Buddhism in Tibet. Rice invited Rinpoche back to teach for the spring semester of 1993 and he was awarded a second Rockefeller Fellowship. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for 1994-95 to conduct academic research on logical and philosophical aspects of the Bön tradition. He appeared on the Discovery Channel in 1994, where he explained the principles involved in Tibetan dream practice as part of their three-part series entitled The Power of Dreams. Tenzin Rinpoche is the author of Wonders of the Natural Mind, in which he presents the view and practice of the Bön Dzogchen ("Great Perfection") teachings. [Originally published in 1993, this book has been reissued by Snow Lion Publications.] His next most recent book, released in 1998 by Snow Lion Publications, is entitled The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep.
Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha Institute and is one of the very few Bönpo masters living in the West who is trained in the Bön tradition and qualified to teach. Rinpoche is a well-known master, having traveled widely, giving teachings in Tibet and in the West for the past ten years. He is a scholar as well, having written several books and articles in Tibetan and English.
Tenzin Rinpoche currently resides in Virginia, where in March of 1992 he founded Ligmincha Institute for the Preservation of the Religions and Cultures of Tibet, in order to preserve the culture, religious teachings and arts of Tibet and Zhang Zhung. The aim of the Institute is to introduce to the West the wisdom traditions of the Bönpo, which are concerned with the harmonious integration of internal and external energies, and most importantly with the spiritual path to enlightenment. In addition to the current Shipman, VA headquarters, which includes the newly acquired rural retreat center, Serenity ridge—"A home for Bön in the West"—there are study groups and branches of Ligmincha throughout the United States, Europe, Canada and Mexico. Rinpoche travels regularly to teach at these centers.
For Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche's international teaching schedule, see: https://www.ligmincha.org/about-rinpoche/teaching-schedule-by-location-new.html
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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche from The Tapestry Initiative on Vimeo.
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Edna Shaviv, 2012 PASSIVE SOLAR PIONEER AWARD
Edna Shaviv started her academic career in 1967, researching computer-aided architectural design, and was the first to show that a form satisfying prerequisite stresses can be found in surface structures. This research work was the first-ever performance-based CAD tool to be developed.
As early as 1973 Shaviv realized the emerging importance of energy in building and turned her research effort to develop simulation-CAD tools to generate energy conscious designs. It is in this drive that she developed a series of models for energy conscious design, SUNSHADES (see the paper "A Method for the Design of Fixed External Sun-Shades" (Build International, 1975) and solar rights ("Design Tools for Solar Rights & Sun-Shades Determination", ASES 1984). The main undercurrent was generating the optimal form that satisfy predetermined criteria. Since then the ideas and tools so developed became classical examples in performance-based CAD tool (see AESOP by R. McCluney & R. Sater, from FSEC that was presented in ASES 1984). The AESOP package was submitted to the Designers' Software Exchange, directed by Prof. Harvey Bryan. Balcomb in ASES 1986 conference praised it as: "An excellent example of a guidance tool has been developed by Shaviv, which indicates the exact shape of overhangs in order to achieve a desired seasonal shading characteristic." This unique research work was awarded in 1977 "the Goldstein Award" of the Israeli Building Center.
In 1977 she developed one of the first models for of an Hourly Simulation Model, ENERGY, to predict the Thermal Performance of Buildings. The model was the foundation to a series of CAD models aiming at assisting the Architect during the Design Process. This series of design-assisting tools was awarded, in 1978, "the Arnan Award" of the Israel Association of Engineers and Architects for "the use of mathematical models and computers in architectural design."
Since 1979, Shaviv consulted the Weizmann Institute of Science building construction department on window shading and energy-conscious design of several buildings. She realized that it is important to integrate daylighting into the simulation model, which she did already in 1979. ("On the Determination of the Optimal Shading Factor of Windows", Proc. of CAD 80). Numerous papers were published on various aspects of the problem. These papers were at the base of the 1989 European massive drive as expressed in the "Report of the Commission of the European Communities – Building 2000," "Passive and Hybrid Cooling for buildings." Ten of Shaviv's papers were cited.
The two models SUNSHADES and ENERGY have been used since then for consulting, teaching and research, including the development of the Israeli Standards SI 5282 "Energy Rating of Buildings" (2005-Residential, 2007-Office Buildings), as well as the energy Chapter in SI 5281 "Buildings with reduced environmental impact (Green Buildings)" (2005).
Shaviv established at the Technion, with the support of the Ministry of Energy and Water, the national laboratory for "Climate and Energy in Architecture." At the Faculty of Architecture, Technion, she educated a new generation of researchers, with whom she developed a series a new models applied on larger scales like: SOLRET– Solar Retrofit of Social Residential Buildings. PSA– A Knowledge Based Expert System for Passive Solar Architecture. SHADING– Evaluating Mutual Shading Among Buildings and on Open Spaces. PASYS– A Knowledge Based Expert System for Determining Design Strategies for Passive Solar Design. MULRES-ENERGY– Determining the Optimum Configuration of Multifamily Residential Buildings. SUSTARC– Modeling the Design and Evaluation of Sustainable Architecture. APS – Modeling Acoustical Performance of Sunshades. CoED – Modeling Collaboration Enhancing among Design participants. WEG – A KB Expert System for Water Efficient Gardens & landscape design. The research products using these CAD tools were all published as guideline books for practicing architects. Her students carried the energy torch to other universities in Israel.
The book "Climatic and Energy Conscious Design Guidelines for Residential Buildings in Temperate-Cool and Hot-Humid Mediterranean Climate" (with I.G.Capeluto) was awarded the "Dori Prize" in 1994 by the Division of Culture – Haifa Municipality for "special achievements in technology."
Lately, three other research works/books, by her and the team in the Lab (Yezioro, and Capeluto), got by the Israel Association of United Architects and the "Architecture of Israel journal" the Project of the Year Prize in Research Category." The first prize was for the book "Climate and Energy Aspects of Urban Design in the Hot-Humid Region of Israel (2006); the second one for "Solar Rights in High Density Urban Development" (2007); and the third for the "Israeli Standard for the Energy-Rating of Office Buildings" (2008/9).
More recent works:
Kyoto Protocol for "Reducing greenhouse gas emissions – Israel policy, Sponsored by The Ministry of the Environment. Climatic and Energy Aspects of Urban Design in Hot-Humid Region of Israel, Sponsored by The Ministry of Energy and Water. "Solar Rights in High Density Urban Development", Sponsored by The Ministry of Housing and Constructions. Energy Code for Buildings in Israel. 1st stage ordered by The Ministry of the Environment. 2nd Stage: Residential Buildings & 3rd Stage: Office Buildings, Sponsored by the Ministry of Energy and Water. The Israeli Standards SI 5282 Energy Rating of Buildings as well as the Energy Chapter in SI 5281 "Buildings with reduced environmental impact (Green Buildings)" are based on it.
Consulting and Practice:
Shaviv is keen on implementing the fruits of the academic research in practice. Besides numerous projects, we mention the first passive solar house in Israel, which by the way, was built in a high-density area and required to develop special Passive Solar Systems to overcome the problem of shading by the close neighboring buildings (see Proc. of ASES 1985 in the paper: "Window Components as Integrative Passive Systems for Heating, Cooling & Daylighting"). The "Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences" at the Weizmann Institute of Science (1996) contains a range of special features that reduce significantly the cost of lighting, heating and cooling and is the first Green Office Building built in Israel. (See the 2nd ISES-Europe Solar Congress, EuroSun'98, in the paper: "The Integration of Passive Cooling, Heating and Daylighting in the Design of an Intelligent Energy Conscious Building Design.")
In 1979 Shaviv initiated the integrated course Bio-Climatic and Passive Solar Architectural Design in the Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning. The course integrates design practice and theory by using simulation and CAD tools for energy-conscious design. Shaviv supervised more than 20 Ph.D. and M.Sc students and wrote more than 120 original papers in professional refereed journals, chapters in books and conference proceedings. In 1998, Shaviv was honored by the World Renewable Energy Network with the title "PIONEER IN RENEWABLE ENERGY" for special achievements in the field, and in 2003 was honored by her city, Haifa, "On high scientific achievements in Science."
Writing the Israeli Standards:
Shaviv retired in 2008 from the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, after more than 40 years of teaching. Since her retirement she has devoted most of her time to the development of the revision of the Israeli Standard, SI 5282 – "Energy Rating of Buildings," and SI 5281, Sustainable Buildings ("Green Buildings"), both published in September 2011. These two standards are based on her extensive research performed over the years. Through these building standards, Shaviv feels that she can transfer her knowledge to the practicing architects, and hopes that future buildings in Israel will be greener. The Energy Chapter of the Israeli Green Building Standard is presented in this conference, with emphasis on Passive and Low Energy Architecture.


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Why Do My Loaves Collapse?
I have been making bread for months and every once in a while after I let the loaves rise in their loaf pans they look great. However, after a few minutes in the oven they collapse in the center. Why does this happen? The bread is still good but it won't stay risen. Making sandwiches with it is a pain because the width is ok but the height isn't...
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Re: Why Do My Loaves Collapse?
Welcome to the forum...my initial thought are...oven not pre-heated or the bread needs another few minutes in the oven...
Though if you can post what recipe you are using, we may have more of a clue....
Edit for typo...why is Y next to T??
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Re: Why Do My Loaves Collapse?
Welcome to the forum Elucidator
My darling always makes all the bread in our house and this also happens with some of his brown loaves .
There seems to be no real reason that it happes sometimes as its generally the same brand of flour that he used, however it has happened a few times with the Hovis flour.
It can also happen if the dough is a bit wet .
I am presuming that yu do not open the oven door as the loaf starts to cook.
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Agreed Chillard. The cranes would be ideal for certain operations. It can certainly be a real pain pulling, or maneuvering a loader on a trailer at times. Its kind of like a big anchor back there especially in some tough off road conditions. But you cant load/unload semis or heavy pallets of honey and you are always limited to setting your hives only on ground adjacent to where you can drive your truck and where no overhead limbs can interfere. It is pretty routine for us to stop at a nice flat loading area a short distance from where we want to place the hives and use our loader to just "truck" them in. All that said I can see some real advantages to this set up for some operations.
Here is the brochure in English for the API-CULTURE CRANE !!
Looks like much what I have, but mine is made in the land of OZ.
Could not find its lift capacity though,
Mine is 300 kg 16' in full reach
Ian can you give me some info on your crane
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We are hoping to bring these to the USA sometime next year. Just working out the details. Drop me a pm if you are interested. This is just a small sample we have others.
its about $20,000 US bills - not really that bad if you have 1000 hives to turn frofit with - well worth the back pain
The bobcat is ment for moving hives. The crane is ment for moving hives and lifting supers off the hive. Thats where your back is saved. Cant lift supers off a hive with a bobcat
OK Re watched the video and it can take off supers. http://www.youtube.com/user/apijuneda#p/u/1/iNldJFumKzw
cool eh?
no it cant lift 4 double pallets, but 2 double pallets easily
Again I will bring up the fact that there are a lot of used Payne, Kelly and easy loaders setting around. Before the fork lift, they were all that folks used. The price would be around $3,000.00 not $20,000.00. I built my Payne for less than $3,000.00. Heck, I remember when we made beek forklifts out of old Jeeps and some of those are still being used today. OH, I forgot this younger generation has to buy everything NEW right out of the box.
And a Payne loader can load a truck pretty fast if need be....lol
The fire started on the edge of the highway just over the mountain. We assume a tossed cigarette.
The hives have bottom boards and were on pallets(the type made to hold hives with bottoms).BUT they were not all supered up the same height and some were splits. Using the forklift in this emergency would have been a nightmare.
(by the way -all the pallets burned up)
I find the boom loaders more versatile and allows more flexibility in management.
On the other hand I sank a boom truck down to the bed last week in a muddy field.The forklift would have allowed me to park the truck on solid ground and run in 2 pallets at a time.
To go from bottom boards to clip pallets requires a lot of changes in management. My current set up is a compromise.
Just a few thoughts FWIW
>>OH, I forgot this younger generation has to buy everything NEW right out of the box
I dont see why it really matters. Its a machine, its modified to be used in a beekeeping operation, and it works very well. Its costly, but the expense is justified by its ease of use and efficiencies it brings to the operation. Only the operator can justify the cost of ones purchases.
New, well, ya, its available. Bring a Payne loader over and see if you can keep up to me in a bee yard shifting boxes.
Perhaps the cost of efficiency is something the younger generation can justify easier. We have a lifetime ahead of us,
Dont get me wrong, I have a 65 year old spinner, that needs to be replaced, and a honeyhouse that needs to be new, and an extractor that needs to be replaced. Lots of places to put the money. The trick is to put the money where it pays back the most benefit.
Last season I didnt lift a single box. how many beekeepers around can say that? How many old beekeepers look back and reflect "only if I had a machine that would help with the lifting".
Ian is right in that the EZ loader runs circles around any other loader.
The only way to realize this is to take the controls and try it yourself.
With the Payne or Kelly, there is SOOOOO much enertia to deal with and leveling is a nightmare compared with pushing a button for 1 1/2 second.
The EZ loader is a nuckle boom. This allows you to pick up a hive and "plunge" in between a row of trees. Very handy.
The ability to furl the EZ loader is a major blessing.
Folks with standard booms that come from the West to visit me have to drive an additional 16 miles because their booms cannot clear two railroad tressles. The EZ loader slips under those tressles with room to spare.
With all of that said, I have a friend with a large Kelly just like Peter Fonda's and I have used it many times while working with them. They love it and are used to it and it's paid for.
Most of my moves are with a forklift, but I will never, EVER get rid of my EZ loader.
Once you get used to having it around, can't imagine beekeeping without it.
AND its paid for. :P
I have exactly ONE hive more than than you.
That makes my opinion beyond dispute!