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Missing Malaysian airliner reveals huge market for bogus passports
You've boarded an international flight and are looking around at your fellow passengers. All have been thoroughly screened to ensure that no one is carrying a stolen or faked passport, right?
Think again. On flights that don't involve U.S. and British airports, airlines and law enforcement rarely check international databases to verify that a ticket holder's passport isn't fraudulent. Last year, fewer than 20 of the 190 countries that belong to the global police network Interpol used its database to verify passports of international travelers, according to the agency.
Drug runners, illegal immigrants and human traffickers are major users of stolen passports, but aircraft hijackers and other terrorists have also used them as part of numerous attacks worldwide, including 9/11. That's why the scope of this potential security breach is drawing attention in the search for a Malaysia Airlines jet, missing now for nearly a week with 239 people aboard.
At least two passengers on Flight 370, both Iranian, boarded the flight with passports that later were found to have been stolen. In recent days, investigators have concluded that both were illegal migrants with no links to international terrorism. Various aviation experts have cast doubt on whether they _ or the basic problem of bogus passports _ had anything to do with the flight's disappearance.
Even so, there's no doubt that easy access to stolen passports makes it easier for terrorists to operate, said Paul J. Smith, a professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.
"The weakness in the system is lack of consistent verification of passport numbers against international databases to ascertain whether passports are stolen or otherwise invalid," said Smith in an email exchange with McClatchy. "That needs to change."
Interpol has information on nearly 40 million stolen or suspect passports in its database, but the agency's secretary-general, Ronald K. Noble, is frustrated that so few countries have chosen to regularly access it. Noble said this week that "it remains of serious concern to Interpol that approximately 4 out of every 10 international passengers are not being screened" against the agency's database.
There was no such screening for those who boarded the Malaysia Airlines flight. The three countries that use the database the most are the United States, Great Britain and the United Arab Emirates, according to Interpol.
Thailand is known to be a hot spot for passport theft and trafficking, with North American or European passports _ highly valued because they don't require many visas to travel internationally _ selling for thousands of dollars on the streets of Bangkok.
In the case of Flight 370, the two men whose names were listed on the flight's passenger manifest, Christian Kozel and Luigi Maraldi, both lost their passports in the popular Thai beach town of Phuket, in 2012 and 2013, respectively. While it isn't known where the two Iranian men _ Seyed Mohammed Reza Delavar and Pouria Nourmohammadi _ obtained their stolen passports, they purchased their plane tickets at travel agencies in Pattaya, a Thai city south of Bangkok.
Thailand is hardly the only trade point for stolen and faked passports. Congressional hearings after the 9/11 attacks revealed relationships between al Qaida and organized crime syndicates that smuggle humans across borders, with brokers in China, India, Africa and the Americas.
In China, a nation with a formidable security apparatus and worries about cross-border terrorism, a search of the Baidu search engine easily produced at least 12 Chinese companies marketing forged passports.
A man who answered at the phone number listed on the Longxiang website Friday said his company could forge a Chinese passport in a day's time, with delivery to Beijing in three days, at a cost of 2,600 yuan _ about $430. While he wouldn't say where the company was located, Longxiang's website suggests it's based in Tianjin or Shijiazhuang, cities to the southeast and southwest of Beijing.
Scott Hamilton, the managing director of the Seattle-based aviation consultancy Leeham Co., said the Flight 370-related revelations about stolen passports "have exposed this giant, giant loophole in the (air security) system."
Until now, Hamilton said, he'd assumed that in a post-9/11 world nearly all nations were routinely cross-checking passport numbers before any passenger flight took off.
"Electronically, you could certainly have it tied into the Interpol database," he said. "If we can do it here in the United States, there is no reason you couldn't do it elsewhere."
Along with stronger cross-checks, the international community needs to guard against "breeder document fraud," in which bogus birth certificates and other documents are used to obtain passports, said Smith. "The passport, after all, is supposed to be the ultimate identity document, but in some cases it is merely a fiction," he said.
McClatchy special correspondent Tiantian Zhang contributed to this report.


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Junior forward Eleanor Taylor
SCOTTSDALE, AZ-Two members of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's field hockey team have received All-Region honors.
Junior forward Eleanor Taylor (Fairhaven, MA/Bishop Stang HS) and junior defender Taryn Cardiel (Moorpark, CA/Moorpark HS) were named to the second team Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches Association NCAA Division II all-stars in the All-New England West Region.
Taylor led the Corsairs in scoring with 20 goals and five assists for 45 points. Cardiel was third with five goals and six assists for 16 points while playing an integral role on defense.
"It's great to see us recognized within such a strong talent-filled region," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Nicole Castonguay. "Some of the best players in the nation are honored within this region, so after a challenging season for UMD, we are glad that two of our conference's top talents are recognized today."
The Corsairs finished 10-10 this season and advanced to the semi-finals of the Little East Conference Tournament.

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Annual to subshrub
Leaves generally basal and cauline, alternate, generally simple; stipules 0
Inflorescence: generally raceme
Flower bisexual; sepals 4, free; petals (0)4, free, generally white or yellow, often clawed; stamens generally (2,4)6, generally 4 long, 2 short; ovary 1, superior, chambers generally 2, septum membranous, connecting 2 parietal placentas, style 1, stigma simple or 2-lobed
Fruit: generally capsule ("silique") with 2 deciduous valves, sometimes breaking transversely or indehiscent
Seeds 1many per chamber
Genera in family: 300+ genera, 3000+ species: worldwide, especially cool regions; some cultivated for food (especially Brassica, Raphanus ) and ornamental
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Capparaceae [Rodman et al. 1993 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 80:686699; Rollins 1993 Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford Univ Press]
Family description, key to genera by Robert A. Price.
PEPPERGRASS, PEPPERWORTAnnual to shrub; hairs 0 or simple
Leaves: basal not rosetted, generally petioled, entire to pinnately lobed; cauline short-petioled to sessile, sometimes clasping or surrounding stem
Flower small; sepals erect or spreading, oblong to ovate, shed early or persistent; petals linear to obovate, generally white, rarely yellowish, sometimes bristle-like or 0; stamens 6, 4, or 2
Fruit dehiscent, oblong to elliptic or obcordate, flat perpendicular to septum; pedicel cylindric or flat, winged or not
Seeds 1 per chamber, gelatinous when wetted; wing narrow or 0; embryonic root at back of 1 cotyledon, rarely at edges of both
Species in genus: ± 175 species: ± worldwide
Etymology: (Greek: little scale, from fruit)
Reference: [Hitchcock 1936 Madroño 3:265300]
L. oblongum SmallAnnual
Stem prostrate to ascending, 0.52(3) dm, generally branched from base; hairs long, weak
Leaf oblanceolate to obovate, pinnately lobed to 2-pinnate; segments generally 13 mm
Flower: sepals ± 1 mm, hairy on lower surface; petals 0 or vestigial, linear; stamens 2
Fruit 23.3 mm; notch generally open, 1/81/6 fruit; veins 0 or obscure, netted; valve tips erect, unwinged; pedicel generally flat, wing-margined; style 0
Ecology: Bluffs, slopes, disturbed areas, roadsides
Elevation: < 500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Great Central Valley, s Central Coast, Southwestern California
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Guangxi (or Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; simplified Chinese: 广西壮族自治区; traditional Chinese: 廣西壯族自治區; pinyin: Guǎngxī Zhuàngzú Zìzhìqū) is a Zhuang autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
Its location in southern China, along its border with Vietnam, and mountainous terrain, has made it one of the border frontiers of Chinese civilization. Even into the 20th century it was considered an open, wild territory. The current name "Guang" itself means "expanse", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in 226 AD. It was given provincial level status during the Yuan Dynasty and in 1949 was reformed as one of China's five minority autonomous regions.
The abbreviation of the province is 桂 (Gui), which comes from the city of Guilin, the former capital, center of much of Guangxi's culture, politics, and history, and currently a major city in the autonomous region.
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In the last two years, Rosa Alonso has lost friends, gained 20 pounds, and drained her life savings. But if she's depressed, you wouldn't know it. The Web site Alonso launched in 2008, first as MiApogeo.com, and then re-launched in 2009 as MyLatinoVoice.com, may have consumed her life and money to the tune of nearly seven figures (including loans from friends), but it's also delivered her immeasurable joy and a successful business.
At any start-up, she says, one expects a few bumps in the road. During a wide-ranging conversation recently, in which Alonso poured forth a rapid stream of stories, often interrupting herself with laughter, she returned several times to a single phrase: "I love what I do."
It doesn't hurt her mood, of course, that Alonso believes the nascent business will turn a profit in the near future. She says the Web offers many creative avenues for melding content with advertising. "We've had amazing growth," says Alonso, who is now seeking investors. "You won't see those crazy little ads for all sorts of interesting products that have nothing to do with the audience."
Unveiled on Valentine's Day two years ago, the site "is a labor of love," says Alonso, who calls herself a NuyoCuban, a twist on Nuyorican, which refers to New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent. Given her penchant for word play, it may not be surprising to learn that Alonso's most recent corporate job was in public relations and marketing. Her long and varied career has included marketing positions in both media and technology—often with a focus on multicultural and international consumers.
The Web site celebrates American- Latino culture in its many incarnations, with content that is both light-hearted (a recent essay relates the author's obsession with pointy bras) and the political (one article focuses on a new law that requires Puerto-Rican-born U.S. residents to renew their birth certificates). It taps into the diverse voices of American-Latinos, exploring Afro-Latino and gay-Latino issues, and also spotlighting Jarrett Barrios, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. MyLatinoVoice. com includes a navigation bar that transports readers to its sister site—also Alonso's endeavor—WikiLatino, a free encyclopedia of Latino culture and history.
Unlike similar sites, which offer Spanish or bilingual postings, MyLatinoVoice.com provides its content entirely in English, and draws more than 500,000 unique visitors every month. The site targets the fast-growing, youthful population of second- and third-generation Latinos. "You have to take a leap and go ahead and do it," says Alonso of launching her start-up.
Alonso has relied more on her "can-do" spirit many times in her life. In her mid-20s, she jumped from a budding career in law to one in business, simply by crossing the street. On a lunch break from Proskauer, the white-shoe law firm where she worked as a senior paralegal, Alonso walked into the human resources department of Bankers Trust, and announced: "I want to be part of the management training program." At first, the response was, "Who are you?" A month later she was hired.
Alonso's application to Barnard College followed a similar plot line. She was a new immigrant, with little money, and sadly, her mother had recently died in a car accident. The guidance counselor at her New Jersey high school hadn't even heard of Barnard. In college, Alonso majored in history, took up fencing, and grew active in student government, winning the office of senior class president. "Barnard gave me the encouragement, the tools, the education," says Alonso, who is serving her third term on Barnard's Board of Trustees.
In addition to Barnard, Alonso's father has had a tremendous impact on her gumption, her readiness to take risks, she says. "He never raised me with the idea that you're a girl, therefore you cannot...," says Alonso, her voice trailing off. "If he were changing the door lock, he would call me over to learn how it's done."
Alonso's father, who owned a successful furniture company in Cuba, remade himself when the family fled to Spain during the Cuban Revolution. Seven years later, when the family arrived in New York City, he began again, knocking on the door of a plastic upholstery shop in Washington Heights. "He drove me," says Alonso, noting her luck in having someone in the "household like that—with those powers of will and resiliency." These days, she steels herself with the same determination, and tells aspiring entrepreneurs: "You have to feel it in the pit of your stomach that you will succeed. If you don't believe in it 1,000 percent, then, when the valleys come, you will quit."
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Felstaff wrote:I'll be in NYC in June, about the 10th-14th I think. It would be great to meet up with you fine people. However it's a very short, family trip, celebrating my sexagenarian father's birthday, so I'm not sure if there's anything I can do than grab a quick coffee/beer with you hoopy froodle yankee-doodles.
My last trip involved walking around the Ulysses Bar near Wall Street, asking people if they were called 'clintonius'
Did the proposition to set up a Little Britain in NYC ever come to fruition? I have a friend there who was kind of upset how Chinatown is encroaching on Little Italy (he's of German/Jewish extraction, so I don't know why he's so upset), but in order to not be so homesick, I demand a slice of NYC to incorporate red telephone boxes, black taxicabs, stately palaces, and gentrified elite in top hats and tails, popping their monocles into snifters of brandy at every small surprise.
Hopefully I can meet meteorswarm, and apologise in person for deleting his account.
Hendu and I will be in NYC that weekend! Meeeeetuppp
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From http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/...ty-of-openbsd/
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
My summation of the article:
"Oh, all that is wrong can be boiled down to an improper attitude about security and a missing complex ACL structure overlayed on the filesystem. Any ACL system, really. This lack of a fun ACL is so critical, I will repeat variations of this about sixty times, just in case you didn't get it."
"Vulnerabilities everywhere else don't matter, as all systems have vulnerabilities. As long as I can get a filesystem with an ACL."
I assume we'll see a whole host of nasty, vicious rebuttals on misc@. I'm glad I use a threaded mail reader so I can avoid it all.
Well, I think you don't need any ACL and tons of untested addons when you have an audited code and well designed, secure OS ...
I think we have a new Jem Matzan ...
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
I think you may have missed the point of my article, and also grossly oversimplified, and thus dismissed my argument.
Which is not limited to ACL's, but also MAC, and other methods of actually locking down the system in the event of an intrusion.
I'm happy to discuss that argument, but so far all I have seen are dismissals, not rebuttals.
Nowadays applications are becoming the biggest security issue
From a discussion on the openbsd ports mailing list about "ethereal/wireshark" at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.ports/35284/
I myself, although I am 57, take a very radical stand. I don't think that keeping renovating the Unix/Linux/BSD building, an ACL here, a MAC there will bring us much further. I rather would see a new building, designed from the ground up with security as one of its leading design principles.
Just look at sendmail, still a design from the time when the Internet was a friendly place where scientists exchanged information. Off course sendmail could be an open relay at those times, no problem at all. Spam still was some kind of meat, and not junk you find in your trash mail folder.
Under pressure of the popularization of the internet, all kind of extra security measures had to be added to sendmail.
As a reaction you see Bernstein come up with qmail, postfix by Venema both designed with security in mind. IMHO we need architects like Bernstein and Venema but then for a new secure OS.
But just like you I still expect to use OpenBSD for a long time as network firewall and router
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
The reason I tried to make an actual argument, was that I got tired of perhaps someone bringing it up, and then a thousand OpenBSD users pooh-poohing it with the same old claims.
I hoped by actually writing an argument to invalidate those claims, it would at the least encourage discussion.
Hello and welcome.
From your article:
Whether or not ACL's, MAC labels, and whatnot are good security features is a entirely different discussion. If you are going to implement such feature, then they must be writing with quality code or else there will be security holes.
In any case, ACL's are not a magic bullet for a secure system, point in case being the MS Windows Nt/2000/XP/Vista/7 systems, which all have ACLs are are not exactly widely known for their security
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
I think you dramatized the whole thing a bit just because OBSD doesn't use these specific mechanisms [i.e ACL, MAC, etc].
Should I need an ACL for some reason on an OpenBSD platform, there is one: AFS, which has a multi-layer ACL. OpenBSD has the Arla AFS client built in to the base system, and the OpenAFS server available in the ports tree, with authentication for both managed via the built in Heimdal Kerberos service. An ACL can be useful for policy governance.
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I agree completely that writing secure code is a necessary component of a secure operating system. By itself however, it is not enough. Also with ways to mitigate exploits, it is not enough.
On a secure system, I should be able to run insecure software or have untrustworthy users, and control the damage that can be done. This is simply not true for OpenBSD.
I will also note that NT actually provides very powerful methods of securing systems, and certainly could restrict the damage that an attacker could do, although nowhere near as much as with MAC.
Some interesting discussion was taking place in my blog, but even then it is the same arguments.
MAC is bolted on/can be easily turned of, is insecure, adds no meaningful security etc.
All untrue.
For most cases however, MAC provides meaningful security.
It is also interesting to note that the more serious database platforms generally implement at least some from of RBAC/MAC.
2. You can' seriously be suggesting running a DFS locally as a substitution for a MAC implementation because it has an ACL?
Personally, I find ACLs, unless carefully designed, nearly always difficult to manage, and due to that difficulty, often poorly managed. (MACs are far more intrusive, by design, and have commensurate complexity and management concerns, but let us stay focused on ACLs.)
Here is a real world example regarding ACLs:
One of my tasks for a large, commercial customer is to find a way to eliminate, dismantle, or circumvent the ACL structure that was intended to govern access to major document repository, but has only gotten in the way of the repository's functionality. The ACL was implemented at senior management's request, and is now to be either eliminated, dismantled, or circumvented -- at senior management's request. It impacts 2400 users across two continents. The impact of the current ACL is so intrusive into business operations that senior management is willing to expend capital to duplicate the entire infrastructure, minus the ACLs, if that is what is required.Would I use OpenBSD if I needed an ACL? Perhaps, but only if AFS provided additional advantages, which it might. But I am a strong proponent of the right platform for the right reasons, driven downward by a business or organization: goals & objectives -> requirements -> application -> architecture -> infrastructure -> platform. And, when the infrastructure includes a network, I look to see if OpenBSD can add value to it. It may not be the appropriate application platform, but it might be useful in an adjunct capacity.
Your ACL example sounds absolutely horrible, but this is not a problem with the technology itself, or perhaps even that implementation of the technology. Its hard to say without knowing more details...it could have just as easily been poor design and management.
Using SELinux as an example, many people say this is too complex and disable. EVen if this is true, it is an argument against that particular implementation. GRSecurity, AppArmor and RSBAC all are easier to administer, and have saner error messages and policies.
The technology can be implemented in a way that is easy to administer without sacrificing functionality. The problem here is that the OpenBSD team refuses that any increase in security is provided.
We're going to have to agree to disagree, then. Note that, should I ever have an application that requires a MAC environment (I haven't yet, but I never say never), the platform of choice will not be OpenBSD:
That blog is just a hog wash. To quote one of kind souls from misc AT openbsd in order to have secure operating system you have to design secure hardware. i386 hardware is crap by design.
Any further discussion is waist of time.
Security of OS and hardware is a very deep topic. Many very smart people were thinking about that. It is true that OpenBSD doesn't belong to the group of secure operating systems due to its Unix heritage. Unix was never meant to be truly secure operating system if for no other reasons then for its portability.
People who are interested in secure operating systems should try to find as many documents as possible written by the scientists of RAND corporation and NSA. Basically
we common humans know about security about as much as it leaked from NSA and RAND. That is the real truth.
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To me it's some sort of a consensus, or golden mean if you want.
>Probobly only if 'secure' means 'closed' in the same time.
Security by obscurity is just a dream. Closing up a system just makes you think it's more secure.
use UNIX or die :-)
ask Theo and the bunch what do they think about it. I am not talking here M$ bullshit. I am talking serious military stuff.
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Among all of the amazing quotes I've heard and read over the years from inspirational people who are at the peak of their careers, the most important quote came to me at last night's Black Student Union (BSU) panel with alumni and special guests. In honor of Black History month, BSU hosted the 4th annual Panel event, an interactive discussion with panelists who have made it their goals in life to become entrepreneurs and turn their ideas of design, art, and fashion into something that can be received by the masses.
The panel featured Ken Borochov (Fashion Design '04), designer of the accessories/adornment line Mordekai; Kimberly Goldson, creator of the line Kimberly Goldson (FMM '01); Rob Norman (Advertising Design '94) a professor here at FIT and owner of two clothing lines; Princess Jenkins, owner of the Brownstone; and Bo Williams, Partner in Hildene Leveraged Finance. All of these people spoke on what it takes to start a business, the hardships that will occur, the trials they went through in the process of trying to relay their vision and ideas to investors and customers, and an abundance of other things within the realm of entrepreneurship; but the few words that stuck out for me was the quote from Bo Williams, "The 6 S's to Success".
The S's are composed of: Script, Swag, Study, Strikes, Stamina, and Start, all relating to the process of being in management and marketing.
Script is basically your pitch and how well you can convey your ideas in a concise manner to your investors and customers.
Swag is all about your confidence and self-esteem when you're pitching an idea and whether or not you are timid or take charge.
Study encompasses the knowledge you hold about your business plan down to the minute details and the knowledge of your intended field.
Strike and any businessman or woman knows that no success is obtainable without your fair share of downfalls. The only question is will you able to recover and keep on striving toward your goal and that is where the "S" of Stamina comes into play. And after all of that comes the most important part:
Start, which basically means are you able to be involved and get the business of the ground.
The entire panel offered up great advice, from Princess on the act of locating your target customer and following the "80/20" rule, Ken on building relationships and networking, Rob on "thinking big, and acting big", to Kimberly on engaging in social media. The 6 S's, though, are what all the panelists followed in order to be where they are today.
As a student, hearing from alumni and other special guests last night was amazing. As I go out into NY for internships and interviews, I will remember to be proactive and modest but most importantly keep in mind those key S words: Script, Swag, Study, Strikes, Stamina, and Start, and success is guaranteed.


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Herbs can be used for cooking, medicine, and a variety of other uses. Karyn Woodward makes it her mission to educate people on their uses.
She has been teaching people in Florence about herbs and their various uses in monthly classes called herb workshops for a year.
Woodward has been growing herbs for 20 years. She said she started after a class with famous chef Julia Child.
"At that time I was a single mom with four kids and didn't have health insurance so I started using herbs in my cooking for health reasons, and I never saw a doctor's bill until they moved away to college," Woodward said.
Woodward's garden is packed full of 25 to 30 different types of herbs. She said her previous garden was twice that size.
"They're all over the buildings side and getting bigger," she said. "The garden is half a block with herbs everywhere."
Woodward moved to Florence from Wichita last year after retiring.
"I did the vacation thing and I got bored," she said. "So I decided to teach again."
Woodward bought an old school building and fixed it up.
"I thought I could restore it and it would be the perfect place to hold classes," she said. "The plot was big enough to have a sizable garden."
She utilizes the garden to teach people how to use the herbs for cooking and medicinal purposes. Saturday's class taught people how to make pesto out of basil or parsley.
Her next class will be dedicated to teaching students how to start their own herb garden.
"They're all so healthy and good for you," she said. "With all the different types and tastes you can use them for anything and in anything."
Woodward said thyme can be used for medicinal purposes and make your potato soup better.
Woodward said Julia Child used to say, "If in doubt, use thyme."
"Rosemary can be very strong," she said. "It all depends on your taste and what you like, I really enjoy chives," Woodward said.
She said her classes give people a chance to taste herbs and see what they like.
"I try to cover as much useful information as possible," she said. "From how to grow them, to how to cook them."
Woodward says for now she tells her students to get their garden ground ready for the spring.
"That way come planting time they can be ready to go," she said.
Woodward is an herb expert according to Phoebe Janzen. Janzen said she is learning how to grow an herb garden of her own.
"I've been attending workshops and have learned a lot but I'm still a novice," she said.
Woodward plans to teach canning and wreath making classes over the cooler months.
"A lot of this stuff can be really simple and fun for people once they get the basics down," she said.
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Next-Generation SAN Fabric Switches Coupled with Dell Compellent Storage Arrays Double Bandwidth for Business Critical Applications in Virtualized Data Centers
Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD), the leader in fabric-based data center networking solutions, today demonstrated continued momentum in next-generation storage area networking (SAN) by announcing it is helping to offer the industry's first complete, end-to-end solution based on the 16 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) protocol with Dell Compellent—from servers, to switches and storage—that doubles bandwidth for business critical applications within highly virtualized data center environments.
The end-to-end 16 Gbps FC solution is achieved by new enhancements to Dell Compellent SC8000 storage arrays, including a next-generation 16 Gbps Fibre Channel IO module for the array, along with the new Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.3 software also announced today. In addition, Brocade announced availability of the Brocade M6505 16 Gbps FC embedded SAN I/O module by Dell, which enables Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosures to directly connect to the higher bandwidth-capable Compellent storage arrays. "Driven by the deployment of cloud and virtualization, storage continues to grow at unprecedented levels and demand for Fibre Channel storage technology is increasing, along with an accelerated adoption of 16 Gbps-based SAN products," said Jason Nolet, vice president, Data Center Networking Group, at Brocade. "The availability of end-to-end Dell Compellent 16 Gbps storage solutions will further this trend and strengthens our long-term partnership by combining a powerful data movement engine, intelligent software and Brocade's industry-leading Fibre Channel switch technology to allow enterprises to cut cost, time and risk while rapidly responding to change."
"Our new End-to-end 16Gbps Fibre Channel solutions integrated from servers to networking to storage will allow Dell Compellent customers to improve their storage availability and performance, while demonstrating our focus on investment protection and flexible, future proof architecture." said Dan McConnell, Director of Product Marketing and Management, Dell Compellent. "With these new solutions, we are able to provide our customers with scalable performance to meet their growing, data-driven applications, backed by our award winning support ecosystem."
The Brocade M6505 SAN I/O module provides exceptional price/performance value and enterprise-class functionality for Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosures. It is configurable in 12 or 24 ports and supports 4, 8 or 16 Gbps speeds. It complements other members of the Brocade SAN family offered by Dell, which includes the Brocade 6510 Switch, configurable between 24 and 48 ports, and the Brocade DCX® 8510 Backbone, available in 4- and 8-slot configurations.
Unique features of Brocade SAN solutions from which customers are realizing immediate value include second-generation inter-chassis links that enable flatter, faster, and simpler fabrics with fewer cables that increase consolidation, while reducing network complexity and costs. In addition, a new port type, Diagnostic Ports (D_Ports), enables administrators to quickly identify and isolate optics and cable problems, significantly reducing fabric deployment and diagnostic times.
The new Dell Compellent 16 Gbps-capable storage arrays will be available worldwide with the release of Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.3 software to key customers in early 2013 and with general availability in Q2 2013.
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Echiejile out of World Cup
The Monaco man was not part of his country's squad for Saturday's 2-1 defeat against the United States, having being withdrawn four minutes before half-time in the goalless draw with Greece on Wednesday.
And coach Stephen Keshi has now confirmed that Echiejile will not recover in time to play a part at the tournament in Brazil.
"Doctors have said he will need up to three weeks to recover from the muscle tear, but we don't have that type of time to play with so we have to replace him," said Keshi.
Echiejile will be replaced by winger Ejike Uzoenyi, who was one of seven players dropped from Keshi's provisional squad.
Meanwhile, Chelsea defender Kenneth Omeruo is set to be fit for Nigeria's curtain-raiser against Iran on June 16 after recovering from an ankle injury.
As well as Iran, Nigeria meet Argentina and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Group F.


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The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist
William Morrow, 1995 - Journalists - 360 pages
With honesty and humor, Rather recounts his thrilling trek through Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1980, tells the full story behind his confrontation with Vice President Bush over the Iran-Contra scandal, and writes his candid reflections on returning to Vietnam with General H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
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By now, you have your basic family information in notebooks, on notecards or typed into computer documents. You've decided that genealogy will be an enjoyable project and you want to be sure you're well organized.
It's time to review the various forms and charts used by family history researchers. Many are available free on the Web to print and use. Or use them as models and create your own versions on your computer so you can type in details for easy-to-read results.
Here are Web sites offering family record sheets, pedigree forms, family relationship charts, timelines, census forms and more. [Click on the bold, brown names to find the forms.]
Family Tree Magazine: more than 30 forms including ancestor chart, research forms, census checklist and census forms for 1790-1930, heirloom chart and more — in pdf and doc formats.
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Chinglish and Champagne
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David Henry Hwang, an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter who has risen to prominence as the preeminent Asian American dramatist in the U.S., was in Boston on December 7-8 to launch the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence's (ATASK) upcoming 20th anniversary celebration series. Starting with Mr. Hwang's play Chinglish, ATASK is sponsoring a series of special performances in 2013-2014 featuring Asian Americans who transform lives through the arts. The series will be dedicated to ATASK supporters Atsuko & Larry Fish, Kija Kim & Jim Aylward, Dr. Mary & Paul Lee, Angela & Mayor Thomas Menino, Diane Patrick & Governor Deval Patrick, and Rev. Cheng Imm Tan & Ken Morin.
On December 7, ATASK hosted Chinglish & Champagne - a performance of Chinglish at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, followed by a reception and Honorary Crane Award presentation to Mr. Hwang. Attendees were treated to a special musical tribute by performers of AAPI heritage. Emcees for the reception were author Gish Jen, Harvard Law School Professor Jeannie Suk, and WHDH reporter Janet Wu.
About ATASK's 20th anniversary celebration series:
In 1993, community leaders organized a special benefit performance of the play Dragonwings (an adaption of the children's book by Asian-American author Laurence Yep). This gathering was a first in many respects: the play's premiere on the East Coast, the city-non-profit-community collaboration, and fundraising for ATASK's first Chinese domestic violence advocate, one of the first in the US. Twenty years later, ATASK will be celebrating its 20th by combining Asian American Arts & Activism.
ATASK is honored to be collaborating with Massachusetts' cultural jewels including: the Lyric Stage, Wheelock Family Theatre, Company One, Longwood Symphony Orchestra, and American Repertory Theater. Events are still being planned and details will follow.


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The first person arrested under Albany County's new cyberbullying law is a teenager from Cohoes High School.
Marquan Mackey-Meggs, 16, was arrested for 10 counts of harassment and 10 counts of a cyberbullying. Under the new law, cyberbullying is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail
The student is accused of creating a Facebook page called "Cohoes Flame" in which he listed sexual experiences of female, and some male, students who were between the ages of 13 and 16. Detectives obtained IP address records to track down Mackey-Meggs.
Police said the student implicated himself as the person responsible for the writings and posting of the photos. He will be in Cohoes town court on July 7 on an appearance ticket.
The pages featured photos of girls with inappropriate sexual comments about them posted beneath their images. The Flame page, and a similar one called "Cohoes Tramp," appeared sometime in December and quickly drew notice by media outlets as well as the police. Facebook officials removed the pages within a few days of being notified.
Cohoes Mayor John McDonald said he hopes the case will be a cautionary tale for young people, as well as adults, that they need to remain civil on the Internet. He said the new law will continue to be used against those that continue to use social media to bully others.
"It's unfortunate that it came to this point that it had to be tested," he said. "This arrest hopefully will send a broader message that it won't be tolerated."


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If there are deities in the car world, the Ford Mustang and Ferrari Enzo might be candidates for the top job. Both have reached legendary status, have legions of fans and have spawned many years of devotional writings and devout followers.
Both the Mustang and the Enzo are about to undergo changes and reveal all-new versions, and both have been spotted in cloaked disguises on the streets of their respective countries.
Like hidden sentinels, these gods of all things automotive will surely redefine their categories… as soon as the cloaks come off.


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CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) Tyler Brown scored 22 points and Jackie Carmichael had 18 points and 14 rebounds to lead Illinois State over Southern Illinois 70-56 Sunday night, snapping a six-game losing streak.
Brown had six 3-pointers to lead the Redbirds (10-9, 1-6) in their first Missouri Valley Conference win of the season. Carmichael, the team's top scorer, was 7 of 12 from the field in reaching his double-double.
Johnny Hill had six assists as the Redbirds shot 45 percent from the field for the game. The Redbirds had 41 rebounds.
The Redbirds took the lead early in the game and were up 47-21 at halftime. Illinois State never looked back.
Jeff Early led Southern Illinois with 16 points and nine rebounds. Kendal Brown-Surles had 13 points, and Desmar Jackson added 11.
Southern Illinois (8-10, 1-6) shot 41.8 percent from the field and had 31 rebounds.
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HUNTLEY – The exposed General RV Center sales lot that borders Interstate 90 in Huntley has narrow aisles, with some of the company's most popular units crowding the walkways.
The service area, just northeast of the lot, can't house the many recreational vehicles slated for maintenance; technicians now use the sales lot and a nearby employee lot for overflow space.
The employees consequently park along Automall Drive, the street that leads customers from the ongoing tollway construction near Route 47 and I-90 to General RV at 14000 Automall.
"I'm out of room," said Operations Manager Keith Lessner, pointing to the narrow lots and overgrown maintenance area.
Space has been tight since the Huntley dealership opened its doors in May 2011. The business, which makes up one of 10 outlets owned by the Michigan-based General RV Center, has been seeing 10 to 20 percent sales growth each year since that inaugural summer in 2011, Lessner said.
The customers behind those increased sales have battled makeshift lanes and traffic delays along Route 47 since last year, when construction started on the $61 million tollway project.
Once complete later this fall, the project will open the Route 47/I-90 interchange to both east and westbound traffic from one of the state's busiest interstates.
Both the sales growth and the anticipated demand from a nearly constructed interchange has now forced Lessner and his 48 employees to add more space.
"Once this tollway project is complete, I think the floodgates will open," Lessner said.
Lessner expects construction to start later this year on a $500,000 maintenance area expansion that would add 10 service bays and 85 more parking spaces. The expansion would give technicians 24 total service spaces, allowing the Huntley RV business to service more clients at a faster pace.
Those clients primarily have come from the Chicago and Rockford areas to take advantage of a business that promotes friendly customer service and products tailored to campers and traveling families.
The family bunk houses and travel trailers that tow behind back bumpers are the two most popular products for the General RV Center, Lessner said. But the business' reputation is the reason why customers keep flowing through the doors.
"When you walk in as a customer, you can feel a vibe to this place. It feels welcoming and inviting," Lessner said. "When that happens and when you actually start to take care of them, the relationship builds from there."
The majority of General RV's customers are coming from referrals from other customers who have left satisfied with either the sales and service team or the diverse inventory, Lessner said.
That inventory also features camping equipment and household furniture in the business' accessory section. The product line won't be increased with the expansion project, but customers can expert service to excel, Lessner said.
"Our growth plan has been faster than we we anticipated, but I think it's because of who we are and what we do for customers," he said. "There's a need for a good, stable dealership that takes care of their customers in the area."
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About Huntley General RV Center:
What: Opened in May 2011, General RV Center in Huntley is one of 10 outlet stores belonging to the Michigan-based General RV Center. The Huntley center sells and maintains recreational vehicles, from motorized homes to travel trailers, and sells camping and household equipment.
Where: 14000 Automall Drive, Huntley
Information: Call 847-669-5570 or visit www.generalrv.com


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CeBIT: Robot obeys commands and gestures
At the CeBIT in Hanover, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology will present innovations for our everyday life in the future. At the joint stand G33 in hall 26, a humanoid kitchen robot will move around, three-dimensional visualizations will open up new perspectives, and new algorithms will be presented to protect data in the cloud. The FZI House of Living Labs will present the interactive HoLLiE service robot and solutions for intelligent energy management.
ARMAR Robot Learns by Watching
A robot helping in the household no longer is a dream of the future. ARMAR, the humanoid robot, can understand commands and execute them independently. For instance, it gets the milk out of the fridge. Thanks to cameras and sensors, it orients itself in the room, recognizes objects, and grasps them with the necessary sensitivity. Additionally, it reacts to gestures and learns by watching a human colleague how to empty a dishwasher or clean the counter. Thus, it adapts naturally to man's environment. At the CeBIT, ARMAR will show how it moves between a refrigerator, counter, and dishwasher.
A video on ARMAR can be found at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x1G0nkSd9w
Virtual Knowledge for Real Problems
Numerical simulations open up inaccessible rooms. Three-dimensional visual processing of data provides fascinating insights and findings. A surgeon, for instance, can plan cardiac operations on the virtual model that is based on the data of the patient to be treated before he cuts the tissue. Simulations of the lungs yield predictions as to where fine dust has a harmful effect and how this effect can be prevented. In virtual city models, scientists let the air flow to predict where pollen concentrations will increase, such that allergic persons may be informed in due time on their mobile phones as to which quarters of the city they should avoid. Simulations make the world better to live in. With efficient methods, computers can solve complex problems. At the CeBIT, a large-area 3D video wall will give insight into the virtual world, with the models of the heart, lungs, and Karlsruhe city area being presented as examples.
More information on numerical simulations can be found at: http://www.emcl.kit.edu/index.php
Safe in the Cloud
For companies, cloud computing is an inexpensive alternative to a computing center. But are sensitive company data at an external computing center protected against both external hackers and insiders? At the CeBIT, the demonstrator will show how this problem is solved: A database is encoded and distributed to three different computing centers. In this way, safe data storage in the cloud is achieved. Even if the hacker possesses insider knowledge of a cloud supplier, he cannot derive any useful information from the data set fragments of one computing center only. The combination of encoding with a smart distribution of the data significantly increases safety against internal and external attacks in the cloud.
More information on applied security technologies can be found at: http://www.iks.kit.edu/?id=409
smartEnergy Intelligent Energy Management
At the FZI House of Living Labs (HoLL), a novel platform is presently being established to study efficient and economic solutions for the complex energy system of the future. At the CeBIT, the Energy Management Panel (EMP) will be presented, a graphic interface for interaction between the decentralized energy management system in the building and the user. The user may specify individual parameters for his devices and configure the system according to his requirements. This ensures efficient load management without limiting user comfort. The user is informed about energy consumption and supply of all consumers, producers, and stores. These data increase the user's awareness of energy flows in the building.
More information on the FZI House of Living Labs can be found at: www.fzi.de/index.php/de/forsch … house-of-living-labs
Strategies for Trustable Hybrid Cloud Computing
Cloud computing offers potentials like dynamic scalability, elasticity, and low costs. Often, however, criteria like reliable service quality, simple connection of the own software stock, and security make companies refrain from the use of cloud computing.At the CeBIT, FZI will present how hybrid cloud computing solves the problem. An analysis and simulation method developed by FZI allows to develop an optimized cloud strategy tailored to the respective customer. Quality properties, such as performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security, are in the focus. FZI adapts the use of cloud computing to individual needs and supports the decision on whether to use the public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud. At the CeBIT, audriga, the spin-off of FZI and KIT, will present a solution for the safe relocation of groupware data in the cloud. At stand F30 in hall 26, audriga will present how the SaaS service helps users move their e-mail accounts, photos or files between cloud suppliers in a reliable manner.
More information on audriga can be found at: www.audriga.com
HoLLiE The Service Robot of FZI
Providing persons, who are in need of care, with food and medicine, joining interactive sports games, offering entertainment, or guiding visitors the applications of HoLLIE are manifold. The agile, two-armed service robot can be used flexibly in apartments and links robotics, ambient assisted living, and mobility services at FZI. At the CeBIT, HoLLiE (House of Living Labs intelligent Escort) will show how it intuitively interacts with people. Thanks to a modern 3D sensor system, HoLLiE can understand the body movement of its counterpart. In the scenario presented, HoLLiE asks its counterpart to do some sports together in order to remain in good shape. This function may be of therapeutic value to elderly people or people in need of care, but also serve to entertain everybody regardless of age.
More information on service robotics at FZI can be found at: http://www.fzi.de/index.php/de/forschung/fzi-living-labs/fzi-living-lab-service-robotics
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Inspired by Karl Meltzer and the rugged conditions of the Speedgoat 50k, the Speedgoat is completely redesigned to take on technical trails. Built on a slightly softer EVA midsole, and with 4mm Vibram® rubber lugs, the Speedgoat is built to tackle technical terrain with ease. The upper provides support all the way through the forefoot, and the ground-rubber toecap provides increased protection. When you need a tough shoe to get you through tough trail conditions, look Competitor Magazine's Best Cushioning award winner for 2015, the HOKA Speedgoat.
- Ultra-Lightweight No-Sew SpeedFrame Construction
- Welded Synthetic Overlays Provide Support
- Welded microfiber underlays provide lightweight comfort
- Durable, Injection Molded EVA
- Balanced Stage Meta-Rocker Geometry
- Vibram® MegaGrip Hi-Traction Outsole with 5mm Lugs
- GEOMETRY: Offset: 5mm / Heel: 33mm / Forefoot: 28mm
- Weight - 274g
Hoka Technology
Engineered midsole volume which is up to 2.5X the volume than standard running shoes, made with performance-specific cushioning material.
Benefit: Excellent shock absorption and an inherently stable ride.
Meta-Rocker midsole geometry, specifically engineered with a low heel-toe differential and a sculpted outsole radius in the heel and toe, creates a unique fulcrum effect and encourages a guided foot gait cycle.
Benefit: Supports a runners form, and encourages a continuous Positive Gait Speed roll from heel-strike to toe-off.
Uniquely engineered Active Foot Frame midsole geometry allows the foot to sink deeply into the shoe's midsole.
Benefit: Designed to provide integrated stability which is adaptable to a wide range of feet and running styles.
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Hoka Origins
Hoka One One is the brainchild of two gravity sports enthusiasts Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud. Both men have been adventuring for as long as they can remember, and their trail running experiences have taken them across the globe.
Both Jean-Luc and Nicolas are committed to the values of freedom and enjoyment and feel that this is part of to the running experience whether running on the trail or in the city. With this in mind they started to look at the variables that affected the performance of different types of runners.
They quickly came to an important conclusion; fatigue, impacts and muscle strains were challenges that runners of all stripes had to deal with every day. So Jean-Luc and Nicolas came up with a brilliant idea, why not design a shoe that would help to alleviate these problems - so that freedom and enjoyment could be guaranteed every time you go running!
From that idea Hoka One One was born. The word Hoka is derived from the ancient Maori language and roughly translated to "now it is time to fly". That's just how it feels to run in a pair of Hoka One One shoes; with each and every step, your foot flies.
Today's runners from around the world are learning about the benefits of Hoka One One, they have been used by marathon winners. 50 miles, 100 miles and even 2000+ miles ultra-runners as well as runners just like you or I, who want to enjoy running, perform at their peak and feel that important sense of freedom whilst maintaining top physical performance and protecting against shocks, jolts and injuries.
So put your best foot forward, it's time to fly!
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- Gender: Womens
- Age group: Adult
- Colour: Purple
- Season: aw16
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Taking our inspiration from both red velvet cake and red hot cinnamon candies, we combined the two in a meltaway-style cookie that crumbles and melts in your mouth.
Red velvet cake has long been a favorite of Southern cooks. But in recent years it has become a popular treat across the country.
Taking our inspiration from both red velvet cake and red hot cinnamon candies, we combined the two in a meltaway-style cookie that crumbles and melts in your mouth. And following red velvet cake tradition, we topped each cookie with a little cream cheese icing which pairs perfectly with the cinnamon bite.
Start to finish: 1 1/2 hours (30 minutes active)
Makes 3 dozen cookies
For the cookies:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 teaspoon red food coloring
1 teaspoon cinnamon extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
For the frosting:
1/2 cup (4 ounces) cream cheese, room temperature
1/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup powdered sugar
Red sugar or sprinkles, to decorate
In a small bowl, sift together the flour, cornstarch and salt. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together the granulated sugar, butter, food coloring, cinnamon extract and ground cinnamon just until creamy and well combined. Stir in the flour mixture, then refrigerate the dough until chilled, about 1 hour.
Heat the oven to 350 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Roll the chilled dough into balls the size of a large marble. Slightly flatten each ball to a disc about 1/4 inch thick. Arrange the cookies on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until set. These cookies should not brown or spread, and will be quite fragile. Allow to cool on the baking sheet.
To make the frosting, use an electric mixer to beat together the cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar until smooth and creamy. Using a pastry bag or a zip-close bag with the corner snipped off, drizzle the frosting over the cookies in a zigzag pattern. Sprinkle with red sugar or sprinkles to decorate. Store in a single layer in the refrigerator.
Nutrition information per cookie (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 100 calories; 70 calories from fat (64 percent of total calories); 8 g fat (5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 20 mg cholesterol; 9 g carbohydrate; 1 g protein; 0 g fiber; 25 mg sodium.


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LocationManheim, PA
3152 Lebanon Road
Manheim, PA 17545
Used 2018 Dutchmen RV Aspen Trail 2340BHS
See just how easy and fun camping can be in this single slide Aspen Trail 2340BHS. This model features a rear set of double size bunks, and an outdoor kitchen for your convenience.
As you enter the travel trailer, to your right there is a front bedroom with sliding doors on either side of the living room entertainment center which adds more privacy. In the bedroom you will find a queen bed, overhead shelf, and two shirt closets.
Along the curb side there is a kitchen area with an angled double sink, three burner range, microwave, and a refrigerator. On the opposite side there is a slide which gives more walking space throughout this area. The slide features a u-dinette and a pantry.
In the rear you will find a set of double size bunk beds with sleeping space for four people! The bathroom is also in the rear. Here you will find a sink, toilet, and a tub.
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This big-ass Alaskan bear was recently out for a walk when it stumbled upon the American Legion baseball field that some fools decided to build near its home. "Great," the bear must have thought. "Forgot about this dumb-ass baseball field they built on my walking route."
The fact that the game was a blowout certainly didn't improve the bear's day, as it couldn't even stop to enjoy some competitive baseball. "10-1? No thanks!" the bear probably concluded while circumnavigating the field.


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Court Dusseldorf, Germany
The new building of the regional and local court Duesseldorf became one of the largest justice centres in Germany. The media technology is as modern as the architecture and interior design of the building, which was inaugurated on April 28, 2010. The justice centre includes a total area of 62 000 m². The media technology provides judges, jurors, lawyers, prosecutors, defendants and visitors with the tools that are needed for a modern conduct of a case. Every day, around 3,000 visitors and 950 employees make use of the new rooms at the regional and local court.
Among other things, the media equipment is the basis for effective and appropriate trials in a building with 11 training course and conference rooms, 41 single courtrooms, 7 large criminal divisions, 6 small criminal divisions and 2 jury courtrooms. The representation of the electronic case files is only one of many tasks of the media technology. Information about cases is displayed on electronic door plates in the current room and a witness waiting outside the room can be called in via the microphone unit of the judge. Each major courtroom is provided with its own equipment for discussion, audio and video system to ensure a contemporary trial. Nevertheless, the transmission of video and audio signals into other rooms, the networking of the discussions systems via NetRateBus and CobraNet of the different rooms and the control of the room functions such as the opening of the blinds on the windows in time are ensured. The media technology must be operated by the judges and therefore it must be user-friendly and understandable regardless of the complexity of the media technology.
Basically, all rooms can exchange video and audio signals and the conference systems in all rooms can communicate with each other, e.g. to provide more room for additional spectators and press representatives in big trials. In addition, certain negotiation participants outside the courtroom can be connected via video or teleconference operation e.g. to avoid victims being are confronted by offenders.
To make these network functions available, the audio and video signals are fed into a central control room. The networking of the audio signals are based on the Biamp Audiaflex CM modules via CobraNet. The signal distribution is only one of the seven tasks that the Audiaflex CM can do; they also provide the signal processing. In order to bridge the long cable routes from the MCS-D 200 control unit to the courtrooms, which are combined in the control room, the newly developed CA 4211 optical coupler is used as a solution for the implementation of NetRateBus signals to fibre optic connections with a maximum length of 2 km. This will give 15 major courtrooms (7 large trial chambers, 6 small trial chambers, two jury rooms) their "own" control unit, which can be operated via the iCNS server in the control room and two Crestron touch screens per room (judge, constable in the room). In the two jury rooms the microphone units used are combined to 4 groups for a sound reinforcement via CA 4566 audio interface, AudiaFlex and PA2 amplifier output cards. In this way the judge can hear and see the trial participants speaking simultaneously.
The new MCS-D 3041 microphone units for the trial participants and the MCS-D 3073 for judges are provided with an attractive appearance and other advantages: low housing depth for more room to put trial documents on the table, gooseneck microphone mounted sidewards for optimal laptop operation and variable NetRateBus connections on the rear or at the bottom for different placements of the microphone units. The Justice Centre is provided with a total of 454 microphone units of which the judge microphone units are equipped with a programmable function button "4" to call witnesses.
The "Free Speech" operation mode has been determined as a standard for the discussion system. This, however, can be changed, when the judge desires a restricted allocation of word. The change can be done directly in the MCS-Digital System without a reboot of the control unit via the Crestron touch screen. In order to prevent that a call for a witness by a judge is not heard, because at the same time another call is made, all MCS-D 3073 microphone units display a flashing LED as an engaged signal. Basically, the Crestron media control system receives all status messages of the control unit or they can be scanned directly. The speaker list of the iCNS can also be requested with the external controller, to mention only some of the functions. By using the Biamp NPS 1 network microphone unit in the 41 single courtrooms, the call for a witness and the self-locking with currently active call are ensured. The microphone units are directly connected in the CobraNet network and can be controlled via the same network as the audio transmission.
If the MCS-Digital system is connected via video conferencing with an interview of the witness, the audio signal is routed via the AEC cards of the AudiaFlex. Due to a fully duplex operation all contributions of the trial participants are heard in a top audio quality without any echo.
Both, the magnitude and the detailed solutions make the particularities of the media technology installation in the new regional and local court. During the construction phase many extras were implemented into the MCS-D 200 system, which are already used in many other projects.
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A glowworm cave experience to top Waitomo or Te Anau?
Waitomo and Te Anau are great glowworm cave experiences but for a totally natural underworld adventure you can't go past the Nile River Cave in Charleston.
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Everybody knows the popular Waitomo and Te Anau glowworm cave experiences, visitors have been enjoying discovering these caves for many years and for good reason. Recently I was lucky enough to go through the amazing Nile River Caves near Charleston on the West Coast and if you are after a natural and totally genuine glowworm experience then this is hard to beat.
Best spot to base yourself - Punakaiki
The best place to discover the Nile River caves from is Punakaiki, an idyllic town on the West Coast of the South Island that is my favourite place in the entire country. If you've taken the journey across the Southern Alps, as we recommend, this makes your arrival into Punakaiki even more spectacular - we're really seeing New Zealand's famous variety of landscapes in our traverse across the island - the bare brown Canterbury high country, the jagged peaks of the Southern Alps and the lush west coast rainforest as we make our way down into the coast. We love Punakaiki and the surrounding Paparoa National Park area so much we've chosen to spend two nights on our tour here, so we can slow down and keep pace with 'west coast time' and enjoy everything the area has to offer. Punakaiki itself is a beautiful spot with lots to do, but the main reason we recommend a two night stay here is to experience an underworld adventure in the Nile River caves at nearby Charleson.
A totally natural and genuine glowworm cave experience
Without a doubt, this is one of the most amazing natural experiences you'll find anywhere in the world. A stunning natural environment completely untouched by development, you will also get to meet the passionate west coasters who have been putting their heart and soul into this business for over 25 years. The trip itself is a walking / caving / rafting excursion into the Nile River cave system to view the millions of resident glowworms, with both 'wet' and 'dry' options availiable to suit everybody. The first day I ever visited, we were greeted by one of the owners Geoff at reception who's personality just set the trip off on the right foot, the whole day had a really genuine feel to it which I loved.
Our adventure starts with a short drive to the edge of the forest where we jump on board a custom made train which takes us into the lush rainforest. After the obligatory safety talk and dry West Coast humour we chug gently off into the greenery - to give you an idea of what it looks like this is where the BBC filmed parts of 'the Lost World' and it certainly looks like the kind of place you'd see a dinosaur if they were still around today. Once we leave the train we cross the bridge over the Nile river and start a short climb to the caves, by this stage we have our local guide with us and they're providing interesting commentary and the all important 'it's not much further now' encouragement as we make the short climb into the cave entrance.
Something for everyone with 'wet' and 'dry' options on the same trip
It's at this point that the 'wet' and 'dry' trips part company, we're both heading into the same caves but the 'wet' adventurers have been kitted up with a wetsuit, lifejacket and a raft, which looked suspiciously to me like an inner tube of a truck tyre, but they were dutifully referred to as 'rafts' all day! The wet team take a slightly more adventurous route which is well within the ability of anyone who feels confident hiking on uneven rocky ground. There's a little scrambling over rocks and ducking under overhangs but our guide is always there to help and it was a lot of fun. People on the 'dry' trip remain in their hiking boots and outdoor clothing but are also equipped with helmets and lights as they follow their guide along the same route, but don't jump in the water for the wet section of the trip. Both the wet and dry trips start and finish at the same place so it's ideal for a couple, for example, where one person would like to do the wet trip and the other the dry. The big difference between the two trips comes about an hour into the cave system where we use our rafts to float on our backs through the largest and most impressive glowworm cavern I've ever seen. Working as a guide I've been lucky to experience most of the outdoor experiences and activities New Zealand has to offer and I would have to say that floating on my back through the Nile river glowworm caves was one of the best natural experiences I've ever had anywhere in the world. It was an incredibly peaceful, almost surreal experience as eight of us floated along in silence looking up at the galaxy of glowworms above us. Nobody said a thing as we all savoured the moment, highly recommended and definitely unforgettable! The 'dry' trip still takes in the glowworms but the largest and most impressive cavern is only accessible by water, so if you think you're up to squeezing into a wetsuit and a little scrambling then it's the 'wet' trip we'd recommend.
An unexpected highlight at the end of the trip - floating down the Nile river
The unexpected highlight of the trip was after we left the caves and floated peacefully along on our backs down the Nile river for 30 minutes or so back to our starting point. If you ever played on rafts as a kid you will be transported right back to those days as you float down the river through the lush green rainforest amongst the laughter of your friends. Both this last 'float' section on the river and the rafting section in the caves are nothing like white water rafting, the raft is used as a flotation device to transport us through an area that would be too tricky to walk. The river is neither deep nor fast flowing, underground we're moving along at walking pace and from time to time have to use our hands to propel us further forward. New Zealand's Nile River is nothing like it's African namesake, it's very shallow and gentle, of course this does vary with rainfall but a lot of the time the water was no more than knee deep on our gentle descent back to the swingbridge.
About the Nile River caves and the glowworms
The Nile river caves themselves were formed by water running down from the mountains and over time carving out these massive underground caverns from the soft limestone rock. The higher mountains of the Paparoa range are made from much harder granite, but it's limestone which the Nile river caves have been carved from. Each individual stalactite hanging from ceiling is the result of limestone sediments transported in running water accumulaing, granule by granule, over thousands of years. The entrance to the cave is pretty small and it's no surprise that they weren't discovered in the 1970s by locals, funnily enough by accident as one local's dog disappeared into a hole in the rock and it's owner was forced to follow it underground. This is the west coast after all so it just seems natural that a man and his dog discovered this natural wonderland by accident! After that locals began to explore these amazing caves and stories abound of people heading fearlessly into the caves with nothing more than a candle and no idea of where they were going! These were the people that started the company which runs the tours today.
The stalactites, stalacmites and out of this world rock formations are impressive enough, but it's the presence of glowworms in huge numbers that make the day. Not technically a worm but actually the larvae of a certain kind of fly called a fungus knat (Arachnocampa luminosa). Our guide explains the life cycle and behaviour of the glowworms and we can even see them close up. Their glowing light emits from an internal organ similar to our kidney and is how the larvae atracts small flying insects into their 'web', sticky threads suspended from the roof of the caves. Hundreds or even thousands of the larvae will live close to each other on damp sheltered surfaces just like the cave roof here, creating the galaxy like effect we are amazed by today. There are other glowworm caves in New Zealand but compared to the Nile River they are a lot busier and have encroached more on the natural environment. The operation here is a commercial one for sure, but they have hardly touched the caves and with long term locals running the operation and generations of families serving as guides, everything about this trip contributes to a fantastic day and it's people like this we want to work with and support for many years to come.
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SANTA ANA – A Huntington Beach man sat silently Tuesday as an Orange County jury convicted him of murdering his father during a confrontation over a handgun.
The jury of six men and six women deliberated for a day after a two-week trial and found that Jeremy Dwayne Martin, 37, used the gun to commit murder, a sentencing enhancement. Several relatives, including his mother, sat quietly in the courtroom gallery as the verdicts were announced.
Martin, who lived with his father in a mobile home in the Huntington by the Sea mobile-home park, now faces a prison term of 50 years to life at his May 10 sentencing by Superior Court Judge Richard King.
Deputy District Attorney Sonia Balleste argued that Frederick Martin, 62, tried to get the handgun away from his paranoid-acting son May 20, 2010, the day he died, but the younger man refused to give it up.
Witnesses testified that an argument over the gun escalated into a fight, which prompted Frederick Martin to summon police to evaluate the mental stability of his son.
Huntington Beach police responded to the early morning phone call, but officers left without contacting Jeremy Martin after his father did not mention the argument or the fight over the gun.
But a few minutes later, Jeremy Martin fired one shot into his father's face. Frederick Martin died at the scene.
Defense attorney Stephen Daniels argued that his client acted in self-defense when his father came after him in a last-ditch effort to get the gun.
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No Experience Necessary! – ALL ARE WELCOME! We are seeking sisters (Wahine's) to join us in sharing God's (Akua) love (Aloha) through Hula (Dance) and Song (Mele).
• 6:30 to 7:00 PM – Hula warm-ups
• 7:00 to 8:00 PM – Hula Practice
• 8:00 to 8:30 PM – Devotional
**We have no child care for this class, you are welcome to bring your keiki's.
*** Bring bottle water, hula skirt (if you don't have one don't worry), a smile and open spirit
Hula is meant to be a gift performed with humility. Our hope is that hula will share God's love, forgiveness, mercy, and faithfulness to all. We will dance before the Lord - 2 Samuel 6:14 and David danced before the Lord with all his might. We dance with humility - Philippians 2:3-4 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind, regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.


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Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown says Colorado and Washington state should be applauded for legalizing marijuana, but he wants to learn more about what happens in those states before supporting legalization in Maryland.
Brown, who is running for governor, talked about a variety of marijuana measures on Friday during a meeting with Baltimore lawmakers.
He says he firmly supports decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana. He says law enforcement resources can be better used on more important public safety concerns, and that black residents are disproportionately affected by current marijuana laws.
Brown also says he supports changes to Maryland's medical marijuana law, which has stalled under its current framework.
As for legalizing marijuana, Brown says: "I'm at the red light checking the intersection.''


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My application has many different subject collections in which I may want to identify a face. In the old version of your API, I called libNBiometrics.NMIdentifyStartEx, libNBiometrics.NMIdentifyNextEx, and libNBiometrics.NMIdentifyEnd. Based on business logic, I choose which reference collection to use for identification, and then stream in each reference template until I find a match. But it looks like in your current version, those API methods no longer exist.
From looking at your current tutorials and documentation, it looks like the enrolled collection of subjects is set directly on the NBiometricClient. But there's a couple issues about it that I'm clear on:
1) Do I need to create a new NBiometricClient for each of these collections, or is there a different scope I can operate on?
2) How do I stream in reference templates, so that I don't have to build up the entire reference collection before doing identify operations? I'd rather avoid having to prebuild and cache every collection due to memory constraints.


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The silliest LeBron James article you'll read today
The Atlantic's Joshua Green is lapping the field in the "silliest thing you'll read all day" competition with a piece purporting to explain "How LeBron's Move Helps the Tea Party."
Green's "explanation" ? See, Tea Partiers are mad. And, um, now Ohioans are mad at LeBron James. Therefore they'll become ultra-conservative Republicans, like the Tea Partiers. Or something. Take a look:
Back to Ohio. The unemployment rate is well above the national average, nearly 11 percent. The state's manufacturing base has been decimated, and those jobs aren't coming back. And now, suddenly, the biggest star in the state -- an economic engine in his own right, and a guy who probably single-handedly made Cleveland a recognizable sports mecca all over the world -- has forsaken its residents. And not just forsaken them, but utterly humiliated them by forsaking them on a globally televised ESPN Special!
Would you be angry? I sure would be. And I'd be that much more amenable to the Tea Party message that everything is going to hell.
Wow, that's good stuff! I can't wait for Green's explanation of how Hurley taking Jack's job in the series finale of Lost will stoke Tea Party anger, too.


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PSU grad is Kansan of the Year
Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
It's been more than 20 years since Norm Conard was a student at Pittsburg State University, but the memories of his time as a Gorilla remain vivid and inspiring.
"Being at Pitt State was a tremendously wonderful experience," Conard, who in 1992 received a master's degree in history from PSU, said. "I greatly enjoyed the focus on the positive, the outstanding faculty and all who were involved in the university."
Conard was recently named the 2012 Kansan of the Year by the Topeka Capital-Journal. Since 2007, he has served as the director of the Lowell Milken Center in Fort Scott, which focuses on project-based learning and gives students across the country opportunities to work with hands-on history projects.
Conard, a former history teacher at Uniontown High School who holds a master's degree in education from Pepperdine University, said he pursued a degree from PSU due to the university's proximity to his home and for its reputation.
"I was teaching in Uniontown, and I kept hearing so many great comments about PSU," he said. "I thought it would be ideal to get a history degree from Pitt, as that's what I was teaching. It was also a great opportunity because of its closeness to Fort Scott, where I lived."
The Kansan of the Year award is the latest in a long list of accolades for Conard, which includes Teacher of the Year, National Secondary Social Studies Outstanding Teacher and USAToday All-American teacher.
In 1998, he received a Meritorious Achievement Award from PSU.
"When people ask me about PSU, I tell them that the university always has strong, dynamic leadership that is focused on growth and advancement," Conard said. "I have tremendous respect for the educators at Pitt State and for the educators they produce within its program."


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San Francisco Food Show…Mmm Good!
From Sherry Jonas, Challah Connection Director of Customer Service
Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, CA. There is a summer show, held here in New York which, from our global headquarters in Westport, CT, is an easy day trip. But San Francisco is a commitment. People might wonder why we bother going to the West coast when we see so many wonderful vendors in our own backyard here in NYC. We go because we are constantly seeking out new and exciting kosher products that meet our high standards – delicious, the best in their class, and certified kosher by an appropriate Vaad.
San Francisco was typically wintery – gray and damp. But inside the Moscone Center was a completely different story! Produced by the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT) since 1955, the Fancy Food Shows are North America's largest specialty food and beverage marketplace. The shows draw 1,300 – 2,500 exhibitors showcasing 250,000 products including confections, cheese, coffee, snacks, spices, ethnic, natural, organic, kosher and more. Eighty-one countries are represented by both the presenters and the 16,000 – 24,000 attendees who make their way (and their stomachs!) to these shows. I was thrilled to be one of them.
I went representing Challah Connection with some very specific goals in mind:
– Find Purim's "Next Big Thing"!
– Find us delicious, exciting, ethnic AND kosher-certified foods.
Was I successful? Yes and no.
Our Purim gift baskets (shalach manot) will include some new and exciting confections and edibles – check out our website now for current offerings and in the coming weeks to see our new products. We are also working hard to bring you new and exciting reasons to celebrate – kosher breakfast baskets, healthy care packages, and new holiday goods. But one thing we are very excited about is new ethnic-centric baskets. We are pursuing kosher goods to offer you Indian, Italian, and Mediterranean gift baskets (to name but a few). Other items were harder to come by – not a lot of rabbis working in Japan & China, so not a lot of kosher Asian food products to choose from! But we're working on it, so keep checking back!
Some of my new favorite finds? Creamy salmon pate from the Pacific Northwest, scrumptious stuffed grape leaves from the Mediterranean, soothing masala chai teas from northern California, succulent figs and dates from southern California, fluffy pancake mixes and right-from-the-tree maple syrup from New England, and delectable scones from the Midwest USA. My mouth is watering just thinking about all of the wonderful things we are currently sourcing for you!
Stick around! It pays to be a member of the Challah Connection family, where you'll always eat well and send the best of the best – because we won't settle for anything less!


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1 lb of ground beef
1 small onion
1 cup of ketchup
2 tbsp of chili powder
3 cans chili hot beans
In a large skillet, brown the ground beef and diced onion. Drain off the excess fat from the beef. Add in the remaining ingredients and mix well. Allow to simmer for 30 minutes. Serve with cornbread fritters.
To make cornbread fritters:
1cup corn meal
1 cup milk
1 egg
Mix these ingredients together well and drop a tablespoon full in a hot skillet of oil. Brown on both sides. Enjoy!
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