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De Lille: Don't blame me, blame your councillor
De Lille said there was no need for the youth league to foment illegal protests and genuine grievances should be addressed through the proper channels.
"All of these wards have been won by ANC councillors. The first thing a community must do, when you've elected a councillor and you have a grievance, is go to your councillor. The councillor takes up your grievance," she said.
De Lille said that the community's grievances could not justify the destruction of property, attacks on passersby and the deaths that had resulted from the protests. "It cannot be acceptable in a normal democracy," she said.
While De Lille said she accepted that inequality was a serious problem in Cape Town, she said it was unfair to single out the city from other South African cities.
De Lille has condemned the ongoing service delivery protests in the Western Cape as political and said the ANC "cannot accept" that the it is not in power in the Western Cape.
"These are not service delivery protests. They are illegal ANC-organised protests with the express purpose of destroying property," said De Lille.
On Tuesday De Lille and DA leader Helen Zille wrote to President Jacob Zuma asking him to condemn a "sustained and co-ordinated campaign" by the youth league over the last two weeks to incite violent protests in Cape Town.
Poor opposition
The party has submitted a dossier of evidence concerning the protests to law enforcement officials for investigation.
Over the past week, four people, including a toddler, have died as a result of the protests in the Western Cape. The demonstrations have also reportedly caused R5-million worth of damage and cost over R600 000 in overtime for law enforcement officers.
The DA said the youth league had "all but admitted" responsibility for the violence but that the only words that had come from the ANC were justification of the youth league's campaign.
Earlier this week Western Cape ANC chairperson Marius Fransman dismissed allegations that the youth league was behind the protests and said the protests were caused by a lack of service delivery.
But De Lille told the Mail & Guardian that the underlying issue was that the ANC cannot accept that it is not in government in the Western Cape.
"They cannot get used to being the opposition in the only province where they are not in charge," she said, adding that the ANC must "learn how to be good opposition".
"If you are good opposition, you hold the government of the day to account, you ask questions and bring up debates," she said.
Youth league denies involvement
Meanwhile, Khaya Yozi, ANC Youth League leader in the Dullah Omar region, said the youth league has been unfairly implicated in the protest action.
"We've got absolutely nothing to do with it," he said. "[De Lille and Zille] are tarnishing the name and image of the youth league. This is a strategy to defocus us from raising critical issues. They want to drag us to court."
Yozi said the youth league had called on individuals who are frustrated to refrain from using violence and to operate within the legal framework.
He added that when the youth league said it would make the province "ungovernable", it meant that members would march to the economic hub of the province to protest legally.
Yozi dismissed De Lille's argument that grievances should be escalated through local government channels, saying ANC councillors and representatives were constantly outvoted by their DA counterparts in portfolio committees and the City's mayoral committee.
"It's useless when those who are in power ignore [you]," he said. "The DA is only considering servicing those people who voted it into power."
"Madam Zille does not give a damn about our conditions here."
Delivery hotspot
The Western Cape has been a hotspot for service delivery protests this year. Almost a quarter of all protests in the country this year have taken place in the province.
Karen Heese of Municipal IQ, which has been tracking service delivery protests around the country, said protests in Cape Town have the same root causes as in any other metro area.
"High rates of urbanisation, which puts pressure on housing delivery and failing this, rapid growth of informal settlements where living conditions are appalling and especially so in winter," she said.
"Of course the Western Cape has a whole additional layer of racialised politics and contested inter-party tension and this I think has accelerated protests and violence in recent months.
Heese said that while the Western Cape has one of the lowest poverty rates in the country, it also has one of the highest levels of inequality, which creates a heightened sense of relative deprivation.
"In terms of free basic service delivery, Cape Town has always done very well," said Heese but "the spatial layout of Cape Town makes any investment in economic infrastructure, [that is] not on the Cape Flats, a conspicuous investment away from the poor".
This was exacerbated by the DA's poor credibility when communicating its long-term development plans to the poor.
However, Heese said, the ANC should be more circumspect in its criticism of Cape Town as the same conditions exist in other cities.
In a report on the state of the world's cities, UN Habitat found that the three most unequal cities in 2010 were Buffalo City in East London, Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni.


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I have been using this camera for ages now to take my pictures for EBay so I thought it was about time that I waxed lyrical about it!
The camera that I am talking about is a Pentax Optio M60 and it is a compact digital camera and mine is black although I have also seen it in blue.
I forget how much I paid for this camera but when I took a look on Google the only one I could find was at Amazon and that was used and on offer at £49.99.
The camera is a lovely little thing - just 9.5cm by 2.4cm by 5.5cm - and it sits comfortably in the palm of my hand. On the top is the on / off switch, next to which is the button you press to take the photograph and the zoom lens is operated by a small rocker switch on the back of the camera situated at the top near to these.
Also on the back of the camera there is a screen on which you see the photograph that you are about to take. Next to it there is a button surrounded by another circular button which has four sections on it. These can be pressed to display the menus on the screen and you can alter the focus mode, drive mode, flash mode, set the time and date (which is displayed in the bottom right hand corner of the screen) and you can also set the camera to take portraits, night pictures, close ups etc.
There are also three small oblong buttons one of which brings up the photograph that you have just taken displayed on the screen, one is the button to press to delete a photograph and the other displays a full menu on the screen.
There is a built in flash which is easy to turn on and off. Sometimes, when I am trying to photograph things for EBay the flash will go off automatically and I get bright spots if the item is shiny so I switch off the flash. There is also a 5 times zoom which is easy to operate using the button on top of the camera.
Underneath the camera is a switch that, when moved across, a little door flips open revealing the memory card and the battery.
The memory card is where all the photographs are stored and to use this you just have to press it down and it springs up enough for you to grasp and pull out. You can then put it directly into your computer and download the photographs - easy peasy!
The battery is easy enough to remove and the camera comes with a charger into which the battery is inserted for charging from the mains. You can monitor the amount of charge left in the battery by looking at the little icon on the screen which shows the charge in a series of green bars which disappear one by one as the battery is used up.
The photographs that are taken with the camera are clear and sharp and are good enough for posting onto EBay or even for enlarging and printing.
In conclusion I find the camera very easy to use both for EBay photographs and holiday ones that I have also taken. The photographs are easy to get from the camera onto my computer, which is good because I am not very technically minded (as you can probably tell from this review!).
I would definitely recommend this one!
This camera is one of the best quality I have come across at an price, it has useful features such as its easy to use interface and high quality 10 mega pixel. This can however be lowered to poorer quality images when such a high quality is not required. The SD card which can be easily removed by flicking the lid open at the bottom is handy when a quick picture is needed for listing items on eBay for example. Also the camera takes both standard SD cards and newer SD High Capacity versions, this can come in handy when dealing with older computers as I have discovered myself which don't support the new SD card versions. I find the video recording feature quite good (also includes audio,) and ample for requirements if you do not wish to go through the expense of purchasing a camcorder
One drawback I do find is its Battery life seems lower than some I have used in the past and if you enjoy taking many high quality landscape photos for instance I find it decreasing fast in power supply. I also find the optical zoom feature works well up to 5x, although once the digital zoom feature comes into play it can be quite poor with its ridiculous 28.5x zoom, at this stage the photograph is simply no greater in quality than the old VGA 0.3 mega pixel cameras you use to find on mobile phones eight years ago.
My conclusion with this product is that it's an overall decent camera, it is simple to use and to understand with a high quality associated. I would recommend it to others.
There seems to be quite a bit of disagreement about this little camera when you look around on the internet. Either people seem very happy with it or they are complaining and want to return it to the store as soon as possible. Personally I am pretty enthusiastic about this camera. I have it for over a year now and have not had any issues with it.
I am your average "photographer", as in I point and click and want the camera to do the work without me having to fumble around with settings. So I am not going to talk about ISO values, white balance, sensitivity, EV Compensation, ... because honestly I do not know what they are all for. Which means I will cover things that I think matter most when looking for a normal day to day use digital camera.
The Pentax M60 is compact, light and lies very comfortably in your hand. The manufacturer has kept the use of plastic to a bear minimum, which gives the camera a very solid feel. Most of the back of the camera is taken up by a good size screen (which has remained scratch free so far).
Lens and zoom:
The camera is able to take pictures up to 10 mega pixels, which is more than enough for your day to day use and holiday pictures. And this would allow you to enlarge your pictures if you would like without losing out on quality.
Pentax did a nice job with the 5X optical zoom, which works very well and will not give you any quality loss.
The standard memory allows you to take 9 pictures on the best quality. So you will have to invest in an SD card to expand this. I have a 2gig SD card in my camera and that allows me to take 482 pictures on the best quality. Normally I set my camera on 7 mega pixels and than you can take up to 648 pictures.
Pentax has chosen for a lithium-ion battery, which has to be recharged outside the camera in a separate charger (delivered with the camera). The battery life is something I cannot flaw, the camera can be used for a long time before you have to recharge. And there is a handy indicator on your screen, which shows the remaining battery available.
There are no less than 24 preset modes you can chose from on this camera when taking a picture. All these modes are set by the manufacturer as "best" settings for certain situations. Just a grab out of the possibilities are night scene, flower, landscape, surf and snow, sport, pet.
I think the most important one though is the auto mode. The camera will then pick "the most likely correct mode" for you automatically. And in most occasions this will give you a very nice result.
In the menu you can change the settings of your camera. The menu is very simple in use and self-explanatory. But I must admit that I have left most of the options as default.
I'm not an expert but I cannot fault the picture quality. The pictures taken look sharp and the colours are very natural.
I have printed quite some pictures at home on photo paper with a normal printer and they come out just great!
Nice extras:
- Ability to make (short) movies
- "Smile capture" - Very funny to use at parties as the camera will automatically take a picture when it detects someone smiling
- "Face priority" - The camera will focus on faces when taking a picture
- A build-in picture editor so you can reduce red eyes, put a frame around a picture, adjust colours, ...
A very nice point and click camera with lots of options and very good picture quality. In its price range I think it is a very worthy contestant with others.
If you feel there is something missing in this review, do let me know and I will do my best to add it.
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The pentax m60, well what can i say, bought it from argos, and exchanged it 3 times, eventually got it from Comets! The problem being, and if anyone else has had the same i would be grateful to know, clicking noises, now Comets were kind enough to ring Pentax who said it does that when its trying to focus, buts its damn noisey, and i had my first pentax m60 for a week, before this fault as i call it developed. The one i have now is doing the same, but i kept it as i purchased £40 accessories which can't be returned! Its a lovely camera to look at, and i felt the pictures looked not bad, and it's not that hard to use, but this clicking noise is a loud one, so come on Pentax, sort this problem out, else what's the point in buying your products!! Be better if they were British built!!
I bought the Pentax Optio M60 on a Friday, used it on a Saturday, and returned it on a Monday. The camera is stylish and good looking, but regrettably developed a fault after one nights usage. This in itself is inconvenient, and does not speak well for the build quality. All could have been forgiven had it not been for the substandard image quality that the camera also suffered from.
The daylight shots were fine, although it struggled with mixed lighting conditions. What really let the camera down were night time shots. As noted by other reviewers, the lack of hardware based image stabilisation and focusing assistance measures seriously hinders the night time performance of this camera; shots were blurry, grainy, poorly defined, and with terrible red eye.
The M60 did have some redeeming features; the battery survived all evening after being charged for just 4 hours, the daylight shots were crisp and good quality, the menu system was easy to navigate, and the M60 is a genuine 'point and shoot' camera.
I would not recommend this camera to a friend; it's stylish, with good quality daylight shots, but it struggles with dim conditions and the unit I was supplied with broke after just one night..
As I am sure most of you will now know, I am a professional photographer but as well as taking pictures I also hold photography seminars at my local camera club and over the last few years I have become somewhat of a target for sales persons asking me to try out their latest digital cameras and give talks and written reviews on them.
I figured a couple of years back if I was going to be testing out all these cameras and doing reviews anyway then I may as well be posting them on Ciao and Dooyoo and making some money for charity which as you well know is what I do now.
The latest camera to be handed to me is the Pentax Optio M60 and as you read on you will find that this little digital camera is a real breath of fresh air. For months now I have been handed very expensive digital point and shoot cameras that claim to be able to perform miracles but they never seem to rise to their supposed capabilities.
The megapixels are getting higher and higher which is really just wasted because the tiny sensors in these point and shoots cannot make proper use of them, the built in anti-blur systems are promising to remove blur from pictures leading people to believe they can get great shots every time which of course is not true and the things like smile activated shutter release and facial recognition are leading people to believe that this makes the camera a better option when quite frankly it doesn't.
What a good camera needs is simply a decent level of megapixels (6 or above), some form of optical zoom (3X or above), the ability to allow the user to alter shutter speeds and apertures and of course the ability to produce good quality images, I say good quality rather than great quality because if you want great quality then quite simply you need a DSLR not a point and shoot.
Pentax are one of the original so called big 5, the 5 best known names in the camera market, along side the likes oc Canon, Nikon, Olympus and the now collapsed Minolta which has recently been taken over by Sony, well not exactly taken over but Sony design their DSLR cameras around the old Minolta workings which allows the old Minolta lenses to work on the new Sony bodies, anyhow, I digress.
Pentax having been around for so long have seen and done it all and it shows in this great little point and shoot camera, it has 10 megapixels (more than enough), a 5X zoom (more than enough) and it offers some great user settings that will keep even the most avid amateur very happy and what's more it actually produces images that you can be proud of and that look like they have been taken by a much more expensive unit.
The look and the feel of this camera also give the impression that it would cost a lot more than the £100 that it does, the body is all aluminium rather than the plastic offerings from most makers and it feels very solid and reassuringly tough in the hand. It was the first thing that really got me excited about this point and shoot, that it actually feels like a real camera and not a kids toy as so many others out there do. although it is very strong feeling it is still very light and also still small enough to fit in the average shirt pocket or it is certainly small enough to fit neatly into your handbags girls. The body is very compact, measuring 95 x 55 x 23.5mm, and extremely light, weighing only 130g and that is including the battery and the memory card.
Ok so having mentioned that this unit costs only around £100 I should also say that because of this there are a few things missing that some of the slightly more expensive cameras always offer, gone is image stabilization for still images although there is still a digital shake reduction for the video mode, gone also is the ability to manually set exposures a thing I would have liked to have seen included but most amateurs would not miss. It also has a zoom range from 36-180mm so you lose out on the ability to shoot wide angle that a lot of more expensive point and shoots can offer, that is about the only downfalls of this unit though and I have taken care of them in one paragraph, so now on to what is good about the Pentax Optio M60.
As far as everyday users are concerned the biggest advantage of this camera would certainly be its ease of use, the menu system is so easy to navigate and understand it is childs play, in fact the menu system could even be mistaken for something you would find in a kids camera, it has a real cartoon look to it but do not let that put you off as it is very informative whilst being so simple to use. one of the things I was very impressed with was the cameras built in face detection with blink detection, it works superbly which cannot be said for this function n many point and shoots and I was very impressed with the portraits I did using this function.
This unit also offers a full range of metering options including spot, centre-weighted and multi-zone, 6400 ISO maximum sensitivity and adjustable saturation, sharpness and contrast, these are functions that you would not find in some point and shoot cameras costing twice what this one does. Also included in this camera are a wide range of preset options from the usual portrait, landscape, sport and night scene to the less usual active children, fireworks, food and pets, with pets you can even set the cameras sub settings in pets to select the colour of your pets coat.
Away from all the presets you also of course have the good old auto mode for those who just want to pick up the camera point it at something and start snapping. Usually the auto functions on point and shoot cameras never really get it right and the things like white balance and exposure tend to be out a bit even if it is just slightly but this little cameras auto mode makes a brilliant job of getting the image right or as close to right as can be expected without human intervention, the only time I saw the camera produce poorer images on auto was when shooting in bright sunshine but then this is the worst time to be taking pictures anyway and some great professionals still struggle to get their images right in bright sunlight so I will let it off with that.
This camera is not the fastest in the start up or auto focusing departments but again you have to take into consideration its price, it will start up in three seconds and its auto focusing time is only marginally slower than the Panasonic LX3 which costs nearly three times as much. The time between shots sits at around 4 seconds which whilst being much, much slower than a DSLR is only about 2X slower than the point and shoots in the £200 range so again it depends what your expectations are as well as your budget. The auto focus on this unit gets it right even in very low light although again the lower the light the slower it focuses so do not expect to be snapping every few seconds if the light is not great.
On to the image quality which as I stated earlier is very good, it is especially good in great light and of course not so in poorer light but welcome to the real world, you are never going to find a point and shoot camera for £100 that will capture great images in poor light it just does not happen that is why professionals like myself use DSLR`s costing nearer £1000 than £100 and lenses that cost about the same again. Having said that though the images from this camera are free from most annoying things that digital point and shoots throw up, for example the lens gives very little barrel distortion and the softness found around the edges of the images was very minimal. When cropped or zoomed the chromatic aberration in some images becomes quite noticeable but as most point and shooters are quite happy to print their images at a basic 7X5 or maybe 10X8 this does not really throw up any real problems.
The ISO settings in point and shoot cameras tend to throw a lot of noise into the images when they are set to 400 or above to enable shooting in poorer lighting but with this little camera I found even the images shot at 800 ISO had very little signs of noise or at least not so much that a simple noise reduction program on your PC or laptop couldn't remove. The colour reproduction in the images was also very good although the ones taken in poorer light lost a bit of their edge and the colours that seemed to be very bright through the lens did not show their full brightness in the finished images. Overall though, when taking into consideration the low cost of the unit I was more than happy with the images.
Resolution: 10Mp CCD
Sensor size: 1/2.3in
Sensitivity: ISO64-6400
Storage: Built-in Memory (approx. 36.5MB), SD/SDHC
Aperture: f/3.5-5.6
Zoom: 5x Optical
Monitor: 2.5in LCD 230,000 dots
Focus type: 9-point AF, Spot AF, Auto tracking AF
Macro: 10cm
Metering: Multi, Centre-weighted, Spot
Exposure Compensation: Yes ±2EV(1/3EV steps)
Shutter Speed: 4sec-1/2000
Flash Modes: Flash-on, Flash-off, Red-eye reduction, Soft Flash
Flash Range: Wide: 0.2-4.4m, Tele: 0.6-2.8m
Drive Modes: One shot, Self-timer, Continuous Shooting, High Speed
Continuous Shooting
Power: Lithium-ion battery
Interfaces: USB2.0
Dimensions: 95×55×23.5mm
Weight: 130g
The battery on this unit is a lithium Ion rechargeable which is unusual for such an inexpensive unit but it is a great thing to have, read almost any review on a camera that still uses AA batteries and you will find that the battery life span is the most common complaint. The battery in this will allow around 350 photos and then you simply recharge so no further outlays of cash for batteries and of course as you are shooting digital there is no outlay for film so once you have this camera and a memory card all you have to pay for is printing unless of course you have your own printer than photography is free.
It should also be noted that although as with every point and shoot camera you will get red eye in your images from the flash when shooting in poor light it is worth saying that the red eye reduction in this camera is actually quite good and it reduces it enough so that a second or two in whichever program you favour will remove the red eye instead of it taking an age when the whole eye is virtually red.
The other things that make this a great buy at only £100 is the macro ability in it is superior to the macro capabilities in a lot of point and shoots at twice its price although you still have to be realistic and not expect it to compete with macro lenses on DSLR`s costing hundreds of pounds, and the high speed continuous shooting mode, although not particularly high speed will allow you to capture moving objects without too much trouble as long as you use it in good outdoor light otherwise it is less than useless.
The long and the short of it is that if you have only around £100 to spend then you will struggle to find a camera that offers better final images than this one, add to that the fact that it has a higher zoom than most in its price range and it has the now obligatory ten megapixels, why wouldn't you buy it? Even if you are a person who bases every buying decision on looks or size alone then again you will not be disappointed, this camera is a nice looker, it comes in black, silver and blue at the moment although I am sure a red or pink one will be available at some point and it is small and very lightweight so unless you are looking for the point and shoot with all the added extras then this is the one for you and my advice to you if you are looking for a camera that can do everything then you do not want to be spending a fortune on a point and shoot that will ultimately fail to impress you want to be buying a DSLR or at least a bridge (superzoom) camera.
Throughout the review I have commented on this unit costing only £100 but obviously this depends on where you purchase it from, simply Google the cameras full name and you will find many offers on it including one that I saw this morning from UK Digital cameras for this unit in red (told you there would be a red one) for only £103, there was also one last week for £98.99 which I can no longer find!
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Editorial support is welcome, but there is more to do
Wednesday, Apr 23, 2014 02:18 pm
Dear Editor,
Dear Editor,
I was pleased to see the editorial in support of GSA clubs in the Foothills Composite and Oilfields High Schools as I feel this topic is a long time coming to the area and that access to education should not come with being afraid of going to school.
I was, however, taken aback at the phrase �those individuals choosing a gay lifestyle.� By now it should be more than apparent that people do not �choose a gay lifestyle,� but rather that being LGBTQ, etc, is just one of the many parts of who a person is. GSA clubs should be supported so that all students can go to school and receive a quality education without living in fear for being bullied for who they are. As you said, this is exactly what places of learning are supposed to provide to their students. There is still much work to do.
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looks like his fingers are still curling, even on those foul shots
looks like his fingers are still curling, even on those foul shots
free throws? who needs them
he shouldn't of got that call, what the hell was that?
That was the worst last minute lets shoot because Amir brushed me attempt I have ever seen.
(sometimes, the whistle needs to be put away)
you have to be kidding me
where is the offensive foul?????? wtf is going on with these refs?
Acy got ripped off on two calls today, sad to see a young player getting picked on by these Donaghy's
Hope Tennabaum puts a PI on these jerks when they see their bookies
hopefully houston can beat boston tonight
Raps interior D is retarded, even with Acy in
Looked like Davis travelled to me on the replay, so we got that one
been impressed with acy's D
jose on fire
Are we sure we want to trade Jose lol this rudy Gay deal is looking less and less worth while haha.
even a bleeding Jose can't be stoppec


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BRENTWOOD — A major East County thoroughfare was expected to remain closed into Thursday afternoon following a vehicle crash Wednesday night that knocked down a power pole.
Brentwood Boulevard from Guthrie Lane to Sellers Avenue has been closed since the car crashed into the pole on the road around 8:22 p.m. Wednesday, according to a police advisory. Only minor injuries were reported.
The latest estimate for the reopening of the road is 4 p.m., according to California Highway Patrol Officer Ron Simmons.
The crash caused several power outages in the area, but only a handful of customers were still affected by 8:30 a.m. Thursday, according to a PG&E outage map. PG&E crews were still at the scene.
Drivers were detoured through the area and were urged to use Walnut Boulevard and Concord Avenue to bypass the closure.
Check back for updates.
Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rdERH.


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It's been a busy week full of cleaning, organizing, running errands and getting lost (in the most literal sense).
My weekend is still going to be busy, but I hope to grab a few moments for myself and relax with a warm drink and a good book. This weekend is all about keeping warm.
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I know some parts of the world are starting to experience spring and for others, summer is just winding down.
But, for us, winter is still very much here.
It's times like this that I want to slow down and warm up my body and soul. Coffee is my hot drink of choice, but there are times I also love a nice warm cup of tea.
A good book is necessary! I'm delving into a couple of poetry books. Winter Poems selected by Barbara Rogasky is a gem of a book I found in the children's section of our library. It has 25 wonderful poems about winter from such poets as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Poe and many others.
The other is an old favorite of mine, Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson. I pick it up on occasion whenever I need a bit of poetry.
So, find some time this weekend to unwind. Grab a blanket, a warm drink and a book that warms your soul. This weekend is all about keeping warm.
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Fans fond of competitive, fiery personalities would be well advised to turn an eye toward Bears' senior Deano Valdez.
The emotional leader of his team, Valdez amassed a 29-7 record this season and enters the state tournament intent on winning a title.
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Asked to describe what he has learned while wrestling in high school, Valdez was frank.
"Wrestling teaches you a lot of self discipline," said Valdez. "I learned to work."
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Mr Sutton, who has battled prostate cancer, invites the public to his expansive garden once a year with the offer of morning or afternoon tea.
The event raises funds for Cancer Council Victoria and Ryder-Cheshire Homes, which provides accommodation for country cancer patients.
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Cards erupt early at Coors, then pull away late
Cards erupt early at Coors, then pull away late
Piling runs on starter Jeff Francis early and tacking on key insurance later, the Cardinals bashed their way to an 11-6 victory over the Rockies in front of 31,297 fans, many of whom donned Cardinal red. With the win, the Cardinals wrapped up July with a 15-10 record.
"When we get into August, it's time to get going if we want to get to where we think we can," said Holliday, who had his second four-RBI game of the season. "If we want this to be a special season, we have to start winning a good bit."
The winning month was the team's first since a 14-8 April. Still, the Cardinals lost 3 1/2 games in the division race over the course of July. The first-place Reds closed the month with 11 wins in their final 12 games.
And yet, the settling of the bullpen, the continued consistency of the rotation and the potent potential of this offense push the Cardinals into August with a club seemingly capable of enjoying their own dominant streak. Taking advantage of three games against the now 37-64 Rockies seems an ideal place to start.
"We have to start tightening things up," Lohse said, "and start getting the job done."
The Cardinals jumped on Francis within minutes of his first pitch, offering a tease that they would be cruising to a win on this night. Four runs scored before the team's No. 5 hitter, David Freese, came to the plate.
Holliday, the former Rockies outfielder, drove home two with a double to center. Carlos Beltran followed with a two-run blast on the next pitch -- a hanging, 70-mph curveball. After going deep just twice in his first 78 at-bats of the month, Beltran has two homers in his last seven.
"When he's effective is when he's down in the strike zone," Beltran said of Francis. "Today was one of those days that everything he left in the middle of the plate and up in the strike zone. We took advantage of that."
Putting the four-run lead in the hands of their most consistent starter seemed a near certain formula for a series-opening victory by the Cards. Lohse took the mound riding a string of 10 straight quality starts. His season total of 16 ranked third-best in the league.
This night, though, wouldn't go so smoothly. And most of that was by no fault of Lohse.
Colorado sliced its deficit in half in the bottom of the first with RBI hits by Carlos Gonzalez and Michael Cuddyer. The inning started with Holliday misplaying a fly ball in left.
The Cardinals picked those runs back up with two-out RBI singles by Allen Craig in the second and Jon Jay in the sixth.
But Josh Rutledge's three-run blast off Lohse in the sixth pulled the Rockies to within one. The home run came with two outs and after two potential outs not made. Skip Schumaker, starting at second base, got his glove on two grounders, but couldn't corral either.
Schumaker and shortstop Daniel Descalso had, earlier in the night, each committed an error.
"We had chances to get out of some innings and it just didn't work out," said Lohse, now 11-2. "I had to make a lot of tough pitches all night. For whatever reason, it was a tough night."
Consequently, Lohse's final line wasn't pretty. He was charged with five runs in a start for the first time since May after having limited opponents to nine earned runs in his other 34 1/3 July innings.
"We added pitches to him by some plays that didn't get made," manager Mike Matheny said. "For a pitcher to be able to sit in the same spot and not be able to let that affect him says a lot about him as a competitor."
As soon as the game got tight, the Cardinals' offense pulled back away. St. Louis pushed its lead to four with a pair of seventh-inning homers off Adam Ottavino, a right-hander the Rockies claimed off waivers from the Cardinals in April.
Holliday's two-run homer -- his 19th of the season -- was followed two batters later by Freese's solo shot.
"You have to stay on it here, especially on warm nights like this," Holliday said. "No lead is safe."
With Freese's homer, the Cardinals boast five players with at least 15 home runs. It marks just the eighth time in franchise history that five or more players have reached that mark in the same year.
Craig chopped a two-RBI single over a drawn-in infield to extend the lead even further in the eighth. Craig, who went just 1-for-11 during the team's series in Chicago, reached base in all five of his plate appearances on Tuesday.
The Cardinals finished with 15 hits for the the third time in the last 10 games.
"They're the best offensive club in the league," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said. "They keep coming at you."
The Cardinals are 4-1 against the Rockies this year.
"Especially these next 30 days, we need to just push and play the game and play it right," Matheny said. "If [the Reds] keep running like crazy, that's what they do. But there's going to be an opportunity, whether it's in this division or a Wild Card spot, if we push hard enough and play consistently. I see us doing it."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Proposals have now been submitted for a massive development of 350 homes in South Ribble.
The plans, for land between Heatherleigh and Croston Road, in Farington Moss, were first revealed earlier this year when developers held a series of public consultations.
The plans have now been formally submitted to South Ribble Council are expected before the authority's planning committee in the next few months.
And campaigners have raised fears over the new plans, warning the development could worsen congestion on roads.
Ian Braddock, chairman of Farington Moss Residents Action Group, said: "We as a group are concerned this isn't the most appropriate location for development.
"We are also trying to get people aware of the scale of what they are proposing.
"We are going to end up with a considerable amount of housing all converging on some already very congested roads.
"People move here for the semi-rural element.
"If this does go through, we will all be part of a big houshng estate."
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If it gets the go ahead, the development will be made up of three, four and five-bedroom homes.
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I have been using this primer now for a few years and Id hate to have to use another after experiencing the benefits of this one. I usually order it from amazon and it is around £7. It comes in a ~60-100ml bottle with a pump dispensing top. Despite containing witch hazel it doesnt have a strong smell at all and doesnt cause some of the usual effects of witch hazel such as stinging and drying out the skin. As I have oily skin my morning routine involves cleansing and toning my skin and then I go straight to applying the primer without moisturising as this tends to make my skin break out. I let the primer 'sink in' to my skin for about five minutes before I apply my makeup and as its so gentle I can also use it on my eyelids to keep eye shadow in place and this doesnt cause any stinging or discomfort. I often work 12 hour shifts and this primer will keep my makeup in place for at least 10 hours despite my oily skin. This primer is an absolute god send to me as every other primer Ive tried in the past either makes my face even oilier or cause more spots to breakout as it clogs up my pores. The only disadvantage that Ive found with this primer is that its quite difficult to find in some areas and thats why I generally get it from amazon. Definitely worth the extra effort of finding it though!
I'm a member of RedditGifts, a companion site to reddit that essentially organises mass Secret Santa swaps several times a year. One of the more recent ones they did was a make up exchange. The general idea is that someone would send a little care package of various makeup bits and bobs to me, and I would send one on to someone else. This is always quite fun, as without knowing each others tastes, you can end up with some very surprising items - or in this case, an item you're not quite sure what to do with.
I had never, before receiving this, used a primer in my life. I didn't know I was meant to, having never been particularly adept at makeup. I'd just slap on some foundation, layer on the lippy, and I was ready to rock and roll. But apparently, primer is a pretty good idea - essentially it prepares your skin, mattifying it and giving a good base for applying foundation, helping to ensure a smooth even look. This particular primer, made by Witch, has some additional added features - it contains Witch Hazel extract to protect the skin from spots and blemishes, and it forms a protective barrier between your skin and the foundation, stopping it from clogging up your pores and causing nasty spots. It also claims to be soothing and hydrating.
The primer, which is dispensed through a pump action lid (two pumps should be sufficient) is white in colour, with a whipped creamy texture. It doesn't really have much of a smell to it, and is easy to rub into the skin, blending in well, and leaving no sticky residue and no marks on the skin. I can't see any visible difference to my skin when it's just primed, but I do find that it does keep my make up properly in place once applied - I particularly notice the difference around my eyes, my shadow doesn't tend to bunch in the creases as much.
This costs between £4 and £5 in chemists and supermarkets, and is pretty widely available. I do think I will buy this, or another primer, once this runs out, as I do find using one makes a difference to how long my makeup lasts on my skin, and I imagine not having to constantly top up and reapply will actually save me money in the long run. I don't know how good this has been at preventing spots, since I tend to only get them very rarely and then as a reaction to stress, but I have noticed my skin is a little less oily since using this (it's been around a month now).
It's not a product I would have picked up myself, since I wasn't aware of what a primer was or why I might need one, but I'm glad my makeup secret santa sent me this. 5 stars!
Witch skin clearing primer
I like to use a primer before applying make up and when I was recently I superdrug I decided to try this one out.
** what is it and what does it do? **
This has natural antibacterial actives which prepare the skin for foundation, thus allowing for smooth and even application. It also apparently creates an invisible shield to help protect skin from make up which can cause or aggravate spots. It also helps calm and soothe the skin, hydrating and drawing away excess oils. It contains witch hazel extract
to protect skin from the causes of blemishes.
The product is Fragrance free and Dermatalogically tested which I would expect from Witch products.
**product and packaging...**
The product comes packaged inside a box which has all of the information and instructions on the back of the box. Inside the box I find a plastic 30 ml bottle with a pull off push back on lid. When I take off the lid I find that the product is dispensed by pushing down on the pump action dispenser. When I push down I get a good amount of the stuff with one push and usually find that two presses of the pump gives me enough for complete application to my face.
The product itself is white with no discernible smell and whilst not especially creamy it's creamier than a gel and so when it's applied to my skin, it does make it feel moisturised and ready for make up. It is easy to blend into my skin and leaves no sticky residue. Because it states that edit helps to avoid excess oils I was expecting it to be drier than it is and less moisturising, but this is in fact very moisturising without being at all greasy. It does make my make up a lot easier to apply and seems to make it last longer.
**price and availability...**
The product is widely available in chemists and supermarkets. I bought mine for £4.49 from superdrug which is good value for money and not likely to break the bank.
I like this product. It is easy to apply and leaves my skin feeling very ready for make up. When I have applied the primer I find that my make up is easier to apply and after application it does seem to keep my make up in place for longer.
I'm not sure whether it prevents spots as I don't especially get spots but even though my skin is quite dry I found that it suits my skin and gave it a bit more of a moisture boost before make up.
I would definitely buy this again; non greasy and effective, it certainly isn't expensive and for me just as effective as some more expensive products
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Daniela xx
I've gone through a handful of primers in the past couple of years and it is always frustrating going through the expensive process of finding the right one. I've tried approximately eight primers that I can remember so far and there have only been two that have proven to be a winner for me. This being my most recent purchase and my all time favourite.
I was sceptical as to how a primer could actually help treat and protect the skin from any breakouts, but since I found this primer for half price a couple of months ago on the superdrug web store I decided to give it a go. I got it for just over £3 at the time but it usually retails between £6-7 which is still a very reasonable price for how great of a product it is. It contains witch hazel extract so this contributes helping heal and protect your skin from infections and break outs, though of course stop you from getting break outs completely, because let's face it, we'd need a miracle product to have constantly perfect looking skin, but it does make your skin more radiant and clearer, and I should know, I still have teenage skin at 21 years old!
The primer itself is fragrance free, which I didn't actually expect since it was by witch so I therefore expected some sort of fragrance to be there, but it smells of nothing which is great. It is also completely oil free, there is no greasy residue and doesn't make your skin feel gross and clogged up, it is genuinely so soft to touch and very easy to apply with no marking or uneven patches appearing during or after applying the primer.
The primer is 30ml which is usually one of the most common sizes, (I know that rimmel have a similar amount which is at a similar price) it also features a pump action bottle rather than a squeeze tube so it is mess free and you don't have to screw any lids back on afterwards. The primer also feels like a very subtle and gentle moisturiser as I've experienced less dry skin whilst using this product and that is saying something considering it is winter time and weather can be very harsh to your skin.
The longest I've worn makeup for whilst using this product was actually on Christmas day from about 9am to 6pm and my makeup was still in place and still very smooth looking. It also helps that you accompany the primer with a suitable foundation and ex foliate your skin beforehand (I use dream matte mousse and st ives apricot scrub) if necessary, then you will have fresh looking skin for a considerable amount of hours.
I would highly recommend this as it is kind and gentle to your skin and holds your makeup in place like it says it should. For a small price this is a great make up staple that you really do need in your bag!


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I am going to quilt a friend's quilt on my longarm. I've never quilted for others before. I can figure out what to charge her to do the quilting from other threads I've read, but I don't know how much to charge her for thread. Is there a formula to use? I don't have to worry about the batting - she's providing it.
Thanks for your help! I'm a little nervous about quilting somebody else's quilt (what if something goes wrong), but she has seen my quilts and is confident in my work. This is for her little granddaughter's birthday in mid-February, so I'm happy to help her get it done.
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HOUSTON, May 11 (UPI) -- Nelson Cruz, Lance Berkman and Adrian Beltre each homered for Texas Saturday and the Rangers survived a late Houston rally to hold off the Astros 8-7.
Cruz's two-run blast in the sixth ignited a six-run outburst that put the Rangers ahead 7-3, but it was Berkman's solo shot in the next frame off Phil Humber (0-8) proved to be decisive run.
Leonys Martin added a two-run triple during the sixth-inning uprising for Texas, which clinched its three-game series.
Yu Darvish (6-1) yielded four runs on four hits over eight full innings to record the win, walking three and striking out nine.
Trailing 8-4 in the ninth, the Astros mounted a comeback try. Carlos Corporan singled and Carlos Pena doubled with none out against Michael Kirkman, and closer Joe Nathan entered the contest.
Trevor Crowe greeted him with an RBI single and the Astros scored another run when Nathan uncorked a wild pitch, with Crowe going to third.
Marwin Gonzalez delivered a sacrifice fly, but after Robbie Grossman walked, Nathan retired Chris Carter for the final out and his 11th save.
Matt Dominguez slammed a pair of homers for the Astros.


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JAMAICA should drop the Queen as head of state and become a republic within the next four years, the country's prime minister has told his party.
"I love the Queen dearly ... but the time has come when we must have a head of state chosen by us, representative of us and immediately accountable to us," Percival James ("PJ") Patterson, told supporters at the close of his People's National Party's annual conference on Sunday night.
Mr Patterson said he hopes to enact the change before the 2007 general elections, when he plans to step down as prime minister.
Such a move would require amending Jamaica's constitution.
Jamaica's main opposition party has expressed its support, but has differed on the role of the future president. It prefers retaining the prime minister as chief policy-maker while appointing a largely ceremonial president similar to the governor-general, the Queen's representative in the government.
Mr Patterson's party favours an executive president elected by the people, but he said he's willing to accept the opposition's position in order to "fulfil the national desire".
He said: "The majority of people in Jamaica are ready to consign to history the last vestiges of colonialism."
Representatives of the opposition Jamaica Labour Party were unavailable for comment.
Jamaica declared independence from Britain in 1962 but remains within the British Commonwealth. It is one of 12 Caribbean countries that retain the Queen as head of state.
Though most Jamaicans are fond of the woman affectionately known as "Mrs Queen", republican sentiment on the island of 2.6 million has increased in recent years.
In 2002, Jamaica's parliament moved to sever ties with Britain by changing its oath of allegiance from the Queen to the Jamaican constitution.
Earlier this year, Jamaica announced it would join several Caribbean neighbours in abandoning the London-based Privy Council as its final appellate court in favour of a regional tribunal, which could be in place by November.
The Privy Council had angered Jamaicans by striking down the decisions of local courts and appearing to oppose the death penalty. Many in the country hope the establishment of the new court will open the way to judicial hangings that will act as a deterrent to those fuelling the country's high crime rate.
Yet the move has been opposed by human rights activists who believe that corruption in the country's legal and police systems means the Privy Council is desperately needed to ensure citizens are guaranteed a fair trial.
Royal visit cost of harry's security
HIS gap-year trip to Australia was to have been a four- month whirl of rugby, polo and art. But Prince Harry was greeted yesterday by a political storm over revelations that Australian taxpayers were paying 300,000 for security during his unofficial visit.
"We welcome visitors to Australia and are quite happy for him to spend what seems to be a terrific, planned end-of-school excursion but I don't think we should be paying for what seems to me to be over-the-top security arrangements," the Australian Republican Movement chairman, John Warhurst, said.
Australian Labour politicians agreed. "I think maybe we should look carefully at the cost-sharing arrangements with the British government on this, because [300,000] is a lot of money," Labour's foreign spokesman, Kevin Rudd, said.
However, Conservative government ministers saw the security costs differently.
"We would have to spend five times that amount to get the same positive publicity for Australia in the United Kingdom," the tourism minister, Joe Hockey, said.


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There are something things in life God designed for only YOU to do.... many many people can blog about Paleo, but only you can be a wife and mommy to your husband and children. And if you don't focus and seek FIRST His kingdom on those things then you open the door for others.ReplyDelete
I am so very very blessed by your announcement. And God will take care of all those who looked to you for encouragement. And HE really is able to take care of them!
Rejoice and give thanks, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus!!
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I only just discovered you! Sorry to see you go. God bless as you move on to your next chapter!ReplyDelete
So uhm, God hates paleo? I didn't get that memoReplyDelete
Ian Dumych, sorry, that's not was I was trying to communicate. No, I don't believe God hates Paleo, but I do believe that he hates anything that becomes an idol or takes our eyes off of him (which could be many things). It was a personal choice relating to blogging, my being sick and having a large family to care for on limited energy. And one I'm thankful I made, as this past 6 months have been a real struggle just to survive and keep up with our daily lives, I've had to narrow my life down drastically, focusing on whats most important to us. By all means enjoy Paleo as a healthy way of eating!ReplyDelete


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Lindsey Bains Johanson has spent her entire life practicing the art of denial. She was always the obedient, perfect daughter of General Travis Bains until she learned of the atrocities he committed against her own sister. Now, free of her father, she has become the perfect wife. A lifetime of training has enabled her to keep quiet about anything and everything, including the monster her husband becomes behind closed doors.
Circumstances allow her to take an unprecedented vacation, which she uses to visit her sister in Washington State, clear across the country from her home in Arlington, Virginia. Free of her husband's presence, she starts to step out of the confines he keeps her shackled in. With the help of veterinarian Noah Clark, she learns that she doesn't have to be so good or obedient. But she also knows that the woman she is becoming is someone her husband will never allow her to be.
When her husband eventually comes for her, she goes home without telling anyone the secret she has kept at the expense of her mind and body. But this time things go too far; and only then does Noah discover what she has hidden for years. But Lindsey knows that nothing will stop her husband from destroying her, no matter how long it takes.
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Ok, these books are great. Tragic but amazing at the same time. They are hard to listen to at times because the terrible things that happen to these girls but if you can stick through it you are rewarded with a great story full of twist and turns.
I don't want to spoil the biggest twist but someone makes a surprise entrance. It changes the book and I am excited to see how it effects the lives of them in the 3rd book.
She did good. This was a better performance than #1 & #1.5. She did a great job and it wasn't as awkward.
This is Lindseys story. All characters from the previous books have an active role in the story. However, we are learning what things are happening to Lindsey. We also learn that these two sisters have been handed a crap hand of cards.
If you are easily offended by domestic violence, rape, cursing, or adult content this isn't your book. If you can look past that and really invest yourself into the story you will be rewarded with a great story.
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It's about that time of year again – with Cisco Live US 2014 just a few weeks away, INE has several new and exciting developments to talk about.
First, I'd like to invite all of you to join us at INE Rewired, our 2014 Customer Appreciation Party at Cisco Live. The party is on Tuesday, May 20th, 2014, at 6:00pm at the Mezzanine Nightclub San Francisco. We'll be serving complimentary cocktails and appetizers, there will be over $25,000 in prizes and giveaways, and most importantly we'll have a sneak peak at INE's revolutionary new training platform, which will completely change the way you learn – but more on that coming soon. Second, we have two important announcements regarding new and updated products for CCIE R&Sv5.
On May 9th & 10th, 2014, I will be running an online CCIE RSv4 to RSv5 Transition Technologies Class. This online course is for candidates who have already invested a significant amount of time preparing for the CCIE Routing & Switching version 4 blueprint, but will be taking the lab exam in the new version 5 blueprint format that begins on June 3rd, 2014. This class focuses on technologies that have been newly introduced in the v5 blueprint, such as IPsec VPNs, DMVPN, GETVPN, and Embedded Packet Capture, as well as technology enhancements such as VTPv3, EIGRP Multi-AF Mode & Wide Metrics, EIGRP HMAC & OSPF SHA Authentication, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), and OSPF Loop Free Alternative (LFA) just to name a few. All Access Pass members can attend the class for free, but customers who purchase the CCIE RSv4 to RSv5 Transition Technologies Class will have real-time access to ask me questions via chat and will also be granted early beta access to our new new training platform, which is scheduled for release shortly after Cisco Live.
Last but not least, this week we will begin releasing our updated CCIE Routing & Switching Version 5 Workbook. INE's CCIE Routing & Switching v5 Workbook will collapse the previous four volume format used in our CCIE Routing & Switching v4 Workbooks into a single product. Customers who previously purchased either INE's CCIE Routing & Switching Workbook Volume I or Volume II will have the new Version 5 Workbook automatically added to their INE Members account before the end of the week. Anyone who purchased just Volume III or Volume IV as standalone products can get in touch with firstname.lastname@example.com for special upgrade pricing to the new Version 5 workbook.
The new CCIE Routing & Switching Version 5 Workbook will be priced at $499, or $299 for AAP Members. However, if you purchase either the current Volume 1 or Volume 2 workbook before Thursday, you'll still be eligible for the free upgrade to the Version 5 Workbook, and essentially save $300 on it. Just don't tell my sales team that I told you about this loophole
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Edit: For those asking where to meet me tomorrow for passes, my first session is "BRKCRT-8862 – Cisco Certified Architect: How to complete the journey from CCIE to CCDE to CCAr" which I believe is in room 309. The session runs from 8am – 9:30am, and I'll be hanging around outside the room after the session for a bit if you want to come get passes. After that check my twitter to come meet up with me!
Today wrapped up Day 0 of Cisco Live 2013 in Orlando Florida, US (#clus). Brian Dennis and I attended the CCIE Routing and Switching Techtorial (TECCCIE-8000), and despite rumors of a blueprint change, CCIE R&S is going to remain as the current version 4 for the near future. Version 5 is of course on the horizon, but I think the official announcement is still a ways out (Cisco Live 2014 Milan Italy?).
Me (Brian McGahan), Bruno van de Werve – CCIE R&S Exam Product Manager, and Brian Dennis
In other news, all of us here at INE our gearing up with final preparations for our CCIE Candidate Party 2013 at the Hard Rock Hotel! We're expecting a *huge* turnout, and along with prizes of iPads, MacBook Airs, AAP Memberships, and Bootcamps, just to name a few, we are giving away a Harley Davidson 2013 XL 1200X Forty-Eight!
If you don't already have passes to the party, follow me on twitter, along with Brian Dennis and Mark Snow to meet up with any of us tomorrow to get admission passes. I hope to see you all there, it's going to be a rockin' time!
Just as every year, I will be attending the additional 8-hour CCIE Voice/Collaboration Techtorial at Cisco Live, this Sunday June 23 2013, and will be tweeting live all of the additional nuanced details that I find out about changes to the CCIE Collaboration exam as it transitions from Voice. I've already downloaded the slide deck, and there are plenty of mentions about the new Collab track, but nothing that we don't yet already know. You can be sure that many questions will be asked and those will yield the information worth tuning in for. You can follow me on Twitter for up-to-the-minute information, and then as I do every year, I'll create a summary post here that includes all the details that were discussed.
Tags: ccie collaboration, CCIE Voice, cisco live, Techtorial
You all made it by far the best Cisco Live that we've been to thus far. We wanted to put together a video to help remember the night, and say thank you for being such great, loyal customers. We will be doing a party of at least this same magnitude next year. I say magnitude because that's probably the best way to describe the night. This wasn't just some low budget wings-n-beer social, we had a sushi chef, a taco stand, and top-shelf drinks being served. We actually had to have them bring in more food at one point because more people showed than we had planned for. It was a truly magnanimous party. At the peak we had 247 people on that roof (capacity was 250 at any one time). People came and went all night – and all-in-all we had almost 500 people show up for our customer appreciation party. All of INE was there, and we truly enjoyed meeting each one of you face-to-face – something that we can't always do online. We really cannot wait to see all of you, plus many new faces at our customer appreciation party at Cisco Live next year in Orlando. If you didn't happen to make it this year in San Diego, we certainly hope you can make it out to our event next year in 2013. Who knows, we may even do this in London or Melbourne next year as well.
By the way, stay tuned as early next week we lay out our CCIE Data Center training strategy and rack rental plans!
Tags: ccie, cisco live, Customer Appreciation, data center, networkers, Party, San Diego
Since it looks from here at Cisco Live like we won't be updating any CCIE Voice topics anytime soon (looks like roughly 12 months out – so rest easy and keep studying), then this post is most likely one that CCNP's will be focusing on for now – though CCIE's will still certainly benefit from this as well.
Here we will continue our series on Call Control Discovery via Service Advertisement Framework. Today we'll look at the 4th video in that series (video #56) from our current 62-hour CCNP Voice v8 bootcamp.
- CCD via SAF :: Overview (29m)
- CCD via SAF :: CUCM Inter-Cluster Call Routing (1h 32m)
- CCD via SAF :: CUCM Call Routing with PSTN Failover (29m)
- CCD via SAF :: CUCM Call Routing during SRST Fallback (48m)
- CCD via SAF :: CUCM to CME Call Routing (54m)
- CCD via SAF :: Inter-Cluster RSVP via SIP Preconditions (21m)
Once we finish this series (probably in the next week), I will be starting a brand new long-running series around all of Cisco Unified Contact Center Express and advanced scripting. We'll start with the basics for every one to be able to follow along, but very quickly ramp up to the advanced scripting sessions, so stay tuned for that. It's something a lot of students I've run into here at Cisco Live asked for – and we love to listen to what you all want.
By the way, should the lab be updated anytime sooner – you can already see from this post that INE is way ahead of the development curve for advanced UCM topics, including UCM v9 and TelePresence topics. We've got you covered with the normal extremely in-depth knowledge that you need – not just to "pass a lab", but rather to truly make you an Expert!
Tags: Call Control Discovery, CCD, CCIE Voice Update, ccnp voice, SAF, Service Advertisement Framework
A few seats are still available for the 10am and 2pm CCIE Routing & Switching Troubleshooting sessions that INE is running at Cisco Live US in San Diego. Sessions are being held in the Revolution room of the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego. Candidates who previously RSVPed to the sessions at the INE party last night will get priority, and seating after that will be on a first come first serve basis.
In these sessions students will be using our new 28 router and 4 switch CCIE R&S troubleshooting topology. Users will have 2 hours to complete a lab of 10 trouble tickets. Afterwards the sessions will be automatically graded and score reports presented. The user with the highest score for each session will win a new iPad! In the event of a tie the user with the fastest time and highest score will win.
Admission is free, but seating is limited, so get there early!
Tags: clus, troubleshooting
Right now I'm at Cisco Live US in San Diego waiting for the World of Solutions Expo to open. Tonight is our CCIE Candidate Party at the Altitude Sky Lounge. If you haven't RSVPed to the party yet and want to attend come find me on the expo floor and pick up a ticket.
We're also running CCIE R&S Troubleshooting Lab Sessions for free tomorrow and Wednesday near the Cisco Live conference. If you signed up already make sure to come to the party tonight to secure your reservation.
You can also follow me on twitter at @brianmcgahan. I look forward to meeting many of you tonight!
I'm sitting today in the CCIE Routing and Switching Techtorial here at Cisco Live in San Diego. I'll be update this blog post and tweet about anything ground breaking but it looks to be the exact same presentation as last year.
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8:45AM – Update
The topic of troubleshooting tickets and configuration task dependencies came up. They stated that you could see one ticket that requires a previous ticket to be resolved but not more than one ticket. In the configuration section if you had a PPPoE task that you couldn't resolve and then later in the IGP section you just configured OSPF over the Ethernet interfaces because you couldn't get the PPPoE task working you'll lose points for both tasks. They will not tell you that one ticket or task depends on another.
8:55AM – Update
You will get a single 22″ monitor and they are working on migrating to dual monitors but no time frame.
9:00AM – Update
They do not care what solution you used as long as you meet the requirements. They are concerned with the "state" of the rack and not the solution you implemented in the configuration. This means there can be multiple solutions to resolve a ticket/task and they do not care what solution you used as long as you meet the requirements of the ticket/task and didn't violate the guidelines.
9:05AM – Update
Do not remove any feature to resolve a task. You must resolve the issue without removing the feature UNLESS the only solution is to remove the feature. I'll talk to them later one-on-one to get clarification.
9:10AM – Update
5 routers (3825 and 1841s) and 4 switches (3560) in the real lab for the configuration section. The routers are running 12.4(15)T and 12.2(44)SE for the switches.
9:20AM – Update
No dedicated Frame Relay switch but you will still have Frame Relay. This means one of your routers will be a Frame Relay switch.
9:30AM – Update
The students are up in arms over the topic of pinging yourself in regards to Frame Relay. Cisco says they don't care but admit that the full reachability requirements could led someone into thinking it would be required.
9:45AM – Update
The topics are starting to slow down as they go over example questions.
10:30AM – Update
We went on break. Still not much happening as they are going over sample questions. Here is a sample question:
The ALPS topology and the MATIP architecture implemented in Phase III between R3 and R4. Provide end-to-end transportation of airline protocol traffic across the network between these two routers. Use either the P1024B ALC or P1024C UTS protocol to provide the TCP/IP-based MATIP protocol conversion to the connected to the mainframe on R3′s S0/1/0 interface. Do not use the alps default-circuit command under the alps ascu configuration. Use a clock rate of 48000. 3 Points.
Here is the documentation example: Airline Product Set (ALPS) Configuration Examples
This of course is a joke question
11:00AM – Update
Now this part is interesting. There are going over a redistribution example. They state they want optimal routing after the redistribution occurs but their solution is wrong in the slide as it seems to have been updated after the printing of the material. Also the presenter was trying to draw on a whiteboard in a room that is 10 rows deep. They need to draw on the projector and not a whiteboard
11:10AM – Update
Bruno van de Werve (R&S Program Manager) came in and saved the redistribution question with a quick word about how the solution should really be implemented (different than the slide). Basically just a mix up between the updated slides and the hand-outs. I was really surprised they asked for optimal routing with the redistribution but I think it's good they do.
1:00PM – Update
Right before lunch they talked about ZFW and hinted you should expect questions regarding it. Someone asked about IPS in the IOS and I got the feeling from the answer that although you could get a question on it, it's very not likely.
1:30PM – Update
The presenter asked if anyone was using the Cisco 360 Program to prepare for the exam. You could hear crickets chirping while he waited for an answer. Actually one person said they are using it.
1:50PM – Update
Not much happening. Guest speaker from Cisco talking about his experiences with the CCIE lab. Not sure of his name but seems like a really nice guy.
2:10PM – Update
Someone asked about 5 point questions. They stated that they won't have any 5 point questions but there could be questions that interrelate so two questions together basically become a 5 point question.
3:40PM – Update
They are walking through a troubleshooting lab scenario. Not very exciting except having 50+ people trying to answer a question is kind of funny.
Session ended around 4:45. They just went over sample troubleshooting tickets. I'll do another vseminar covering what minor changes I noticed in the presentation between last year and this year.
Tags: ccie, ccie routing and switcing, cisco live
Well, we had all heard the rumors that it was coming down the line, and today Cisco decided to make it official just ahead of Cisco Live. Something very interesting thing about this update -no doubt as a result of really listening to the community's voice in regards to the things that threaten the enterprise most these days- is that they've added a heavy emphasis on Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) over wireless threats. With the addition of a Wireless Lan Controller (WLC) and at least a single AP, along with the Identity Services Engine (ISE). For those of you who may not be familiar with the ISE, this is basically an evolution of a few devices combined into one – it is sort of a mix of the ACS, NAC Appliance and NAC Profiler. However, it is NOT a replacement for the ACS, namely because it does not do TACACS+, instead only supporting RADIUS for 802.1x and NAC. This is the reason that Cisco decided to leave ACS server in there – but upgrading it to v5.x (most likely 5.3). Also, if you happen to not have any experience with wireless technologies in general – you're in luck! INE is releasing our 20-hour CCNA Wireless class later today, which covers Lightweight Access Points (LWAP) being controlled by WLCs, and those WLCs being controlled by higher-up Wireless Control System (WCS). In fact, since I've mentioned the WCS, it's quite interesting that Cisco (in sort of a nonchalant way) mentions that the ASA firewalls may be configured by "Cisco Prime Tools". If you aren't familiar with Cisco Prime, it is basically the new branding of Cisco's network management as a whole. LMS would now fall under Prime, something called Prime NCS (evolution of Cisco's WCS), and Prime Tools fall under the new Prime branding.
There's also a smidge of Voice device authentication as well, though it doesn't even begin to really touch on Unified Communications security – something I still think will largely be addressed in the next CCIE Voice update. Basically they have a 7900 phone (probably 7965) and you do NOT have to configure the Unified Communications Manager (UCM) server to get it to work, you only have to dot1x authenticate it onto the wired network. Basically setup the ISE or ACS to auth it and interact with the actual phone display to input your credentials. Don't be concerned – it's nothing difficult at all.
Cisco also (finally) introduces their IronPort acquisition to the exam, by way of the S-series Web Security Appliance (WSA). This device goes way beyond days of old where you blocked or allowed certain websites, but rather digs deep into the functionality of websites and web-based applications and provides 'acceptable use enforcement' of these sites or webapps. Take for example Facebook. Many (if not most) companies these days have a social presence and use Facebook as a tool to conduct business, but that doesn't mean they want their users surfing FB all day. The WSA allows strategic enforcement of what is and is not allowed to occur via these type web sites. It also blocks against threats such as malware.
They mention simply including "VPN Client Software" which will no doubt be the Cisco Secure Services Client v5 installed on one or possibly more Windows 7 virtual desktops placed around the topology. This would make sense for both wired and wireless 802.1x authentication with the ACS/ISE. Something we also go into in the new 20-hour CCNA Wireless class I just recorded a few weeks back. Question is whether AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client will also be tested. It's not in there per-se, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.
The addition of at least one 2911 ISR-G2 only makes sense, as IOS version 15.2 can't be run on an older ISRs (making me wonder why the inclusion of the older ISR is even there, save maybe that there are far more deployed currently).
Links to both the new v4 blueprint and v4 hardware/software equipment list, as well as a more detailed checklist for studying:
CCIE Security v4 Equipment List
There are obviously still a lot of questions that need to be answered by Cisco to have a complete and full picture of this new version of the prestigious CCIE Security exam, and those will no doubt be addressed during the 8-hour seminar this Sunday at Cisco Live in San Diego. I should note that this 8-hour session is an additional charge ($799) on top of your normal admittance to the convention – it is not considered a "breakout session", all of which come included with your convention pass. Some obvious questions might be:
- Will we need to know how to configure ASA via Prime Tools, or is that simply another option?
- How many Windows 7 desktops will there be, and will we be using AnyConnect NAM on them or something like CSSC?
- Will there be both ASA and ASA-x versions? And if so, what would be the reason? (ASA-X series runs 8.6, whereas ASA only goes up to 8.4, amongst other things
- And many others we'll come up with and have asked and answered
You can be sure that INE will be there, tweeting and live-blogging from the event.
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Tags: asa, CCIE Security v4, CCIE Voice, wireless, WLC, WSA
The rumors have been swirling for many months now about a (seemingly) overdue update to the CCIE Voice blueprint, and having wondered about them myself, I decided to contact 3 proctors that I know and speak with regularly. While they (of course) could not divulge anything specific, they had all heard 'rumors' themselves. No one knows exactly when we might see an update officially announced, but two main theories seem to exist as to when it will come.
- It will happen one week from today at Cisco Live during the paid 8-hour CCIE Voice seminar
- It will come sometime during the month of July
The reasons behind the two schools of thought is that the first just seems to make sense 1) Big Cisco event, seems like the perfect time to announce, and 2) Wait until UC v9 comes out of beta to give a bit more longevity to the exam (have the version of UC servers being tested not as 'old' 3 years from now when they update again). It's possible Cisco could even surprise us and announce a new lab blueprint at Cisco Live and announce the still-in-beta v9 – though I personally think that is much less likely to happen.
Either way, INE will be there to update you live. I will be tweeting and live blogging from the 8-hour CCIE Voice seminar one week from today (Sunday, June 10) beginning at 8am PDT (GMT -7). I will also be tweeting anything interesting that we might find out about the CCIE DC track during the Monday morning session.
At a minimum, we will see an update to UC v8.6 servers, at the maximum, v9. While there are a number of new enhancements to v9 such as
redacted and redacted (after all it is still in beta and NDA ), I personally don't think it will make too much of a difference either way.
Some of the things we know almost certainly that we'll see updated are new UCM technologies such as:
- UCM Session Management Edition (SME) – Think of UCM as a hierarchical proxy/gatekeeper over multiple UCM clusters (my guess is one cluster would be pre-configured)
- Call Control Discovery (CCD) via the Service Advertisement Framework (SAF) – think IGP dynamic routing protocols for DNs
- Extension Mobility Cross-Cluster (EMCC or some say CCEM) – nuf said
- SIP Normalization via Lua scripting language – this is cool
- Geo-Location Filtering – basically restricting VoIP-to-PSTN hop-off in certain areas due to government law
- LDAP Custom Filters – self explanatory
- Security! – This is clutch these days, and UCM 8 and above have it in spades (and an absolute necessity for things like EMCC)
Now, some of the things that I'd be willing to wager on, but we certainly can't be sure of until announced are things such as :
- TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) (and possibly even VCS Expressway with an ASA)
- ISR-G2 voice/video gateways with PVDM3 – needed to conference/transcode/transrate/transsize Video
- 89xx or 99xx series phones – I'd pick the former since they have newer models with built-in cameras – go figure
- Jabber Client (replacing CUPC)
One that I don't think can be tested is the Intercompany Media Engine (IME). This in a nutshell is the ability for UCM clusters to securely 'discover' other UCM clusters out on the internet (between multiple companies or autonomous organizations) and learn/build secure SIP trunks between them and then auto-route calls between them. This contrasts with Call Control Discovery (CCD) which is used to auto-learn DNs from other UCM clusters, but within a single autonomous organization. CCD only requires 2 UCM clusters with 2 routers to provide the EIGRP-driven Service Advertisement Framework. IME requires 2 UCM clusters, 2 IME servers each with reachability to either GoDaddy or Cisco.com, and 2 ASA's to build the secure linkage between them. It is for this reason that I highly doubt that IME could/would be tested.
Whatever may be announced – one thing you do not need to do is panic. Yes, these are new things that you would have to learn. Yes that may take some time. However everything you have already been studying is still 100% relevant and necessary to know. Not only that, but you'll have around 6 months to finish up your studies and pass the exam before this new blueprint would go into effect.
Also, and perhaps much more importantly, INE has you covered. I've already been teaching all of these new topics for well over a year now in certain settings. Most of them can be found in my recently released 62 hour CCNP Voice bootcamp. I've also recently started a blog series on Call Control Discovery (CCD via SAF). It has 5.5 hours of video teaching you everything you need to know. Also I will begin another blog series on Extension Mobility Cross Cluster (EMCC) directly following the week of Cisco Live.
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It's sure to be a great time at Cisco Live even if we don't see an update. Hope to see you there!
Tags: CCD, CCIE Voice v4, EMCC, Expressway, IME, SAF, VCS


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I have been wanting to do these for a long time, its been on my long list of things to make..... I used matt board so it would be sturdy had to use a drill to do the holes for the rivets or eyelets . still not sure of the difference between them. come join in , add yours ,Id love to see them. Iam thinking on making a fabric one next.
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PITTSBURGH (93-7 The Fan) – CBS Sports.com MLB insider Danny Knobler checks in with Vinnie & Cook on Sportsradio 93-7 The Fan, and he has the latest scoop on the trade rumors surrounding Pirates' closer Joel Hanrahan.
Danny looks at the market for Hanrahan and reveals the two teams most likely to be in the running for his services.
He also explains why the Pirates may think it's risky to keep Hanrahan on the roster, and why they may be interested in dealing him.
Danny also looks at the blockbuster deals made by the Angels and Dodgers, and looks at what those signings say about the financial health of Major League Baseball.


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NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Roone Arledge, chairman and long-time president of ABC News, died in New York Thursday of complications from cancer, the network announced. He was 71.
As president of ABC Sports (1968-86), Arledge won seven Emmys as executive producer of "ABC's Wide World of Sports" -- where he helped develop a new approach to covering sporting events that went beyond reporting on wins and losses to highlight the personal stories of competitors.
The approach introduced the phrases "up close and personal" and "the thrill of victory ... the agony of defeat" into the American vocabulary.
During his tenure at ABC Sports, Arledge brought NFL football to prime time, introducing "Monday Night Football," which remains on the air as one of the longest-running programs in prime time history. Arledge was nominated for five Emmys for "Monday Night Football," winning in 1976 for outstanding live sports series.
Under Arledge's direction, ABC Sports developed many technological advances that are still being used in televising sports today -- including instant replay and slow motion replay. Dick Ebersol, a protégé of Arledge who went on to become president of NBC Sports, told ABC News that Arledge blazed the trail for sports programming in prime time.
"There was absolutely no prime time sports on any network (before Arledge)," said Ebersol.
Arledge produced all 10 of ABC's Olympic broadcasts, earning five Emmy nominations and winning three times -- for the Winter Olympics in 1968 and the Summer Olympics in 1972 and 1976. At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Arledge turned his sports division into a virtual news division, providing the first live TV coverage of the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the Olympic village.
Arledge was one of a handful of television executives to receive the Medal of the Olympic Order from the International Olympic Committee. In 1989, he was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame.
Using many of the techniques he applied at ABC Sports, Arledge took over as president of ABC News in 1977, and in short order led the network news division from the bottom to the top in the ratings race. He was credited with creating "ABC World News Tonight," "Nightline," "20/20," "Primetime" and "This Week with David Brinkley."
In addition to the technological advancements, Arledge also instituted a "star system" as ABC News, luring such talents as Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters from their long-time homes at CBS and NBC. Walters made broadcast history by becoming the first women to be given a $1 million contract.
"If you think about news in our time," Walters told ABC Thursday, "it's just synonymous with Roone Arledge."
Arledge was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 1990. He was a four-time winner of the George Foster Peabody Award, and named by Life Magazine as one of the "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century.'
A 1952 graduate of Columbia University, Arledge was honored earlier this year by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award for news.
Coincidentally, Arledge's death came two days after the death of producer Edgar J. Scherick, who created "Wide World of Sports" for ABC with the show's long-time anchor Jim McKay in 1961. Scherick -- who served as programming chief for ABC TV from 1963-66 and brought such shows as "Batman," "Bewitched" and "Peyton Place" to the network schedule -- died of leukemia in Los Angeles. He was 78.