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Specifically, the presented study included three parts. The first one concerned to identify the needs of young farmers, based on sample responses of 2,205 young farmers (up to 40 years). The second part was to record the experience and results of the hitherto exchanges of young farmers (185 programs), which presented the results of farmers who participated in them (from the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria). The third part was the proposal of ECORYS, Wagenigen and AEQUATOR for the development of a guide for improving Exchange Programme.
According to the study, the most important problem faced by young farmers in 28 EU Member States is the lack of agricultural land to buy or to rent. In Greece 43.1% of young farmers face this problem. Even higher rates recorded in France (82.6%), Belgium (82.3%) and Germany (78%). Another issue is the lack of access to credits, subsidies and qualified labour in order to make investments. But there is also a serious problem with the education of farmers, which will help them to gain specialized knowledge and adopt strategies to grow their farm.
A large percentage of farmers looking for information on the internet. For example 94.8% of farmers in the Netherlands are seeking expertise for issues of their work via the internet. Netherlands followed by Hungary (93.4%), Great Britain and Luxembourg (91.3%), Denmark (90.5%) and Croatia (90.4%). The respective percentage in Greece is quite high (83.2%). Also a large percentage of young farmers acquire knowledge from other farmers. In Luxembourg all farmers get knowledge in this way (100%), followed by Portugal (98.6%). In Greece the respective percentage is 78.2%.
Regarding the results of the existing "exchange" programme of young farmers, although the rate of participation in an exchange scheme is quite low (17.5%), those who joined it seem to be satisfied. The research however showed that the lack of time and having no replacement on the farm (that is farmers could not find people to work on the farm during their absence to the educational journey) are the most important hindrances for a farmer to join such an exchange programme.


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|Palakkad Gap
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Palakkad Gap or Palghat Gap is a low mountain pass in the Western Ghats between Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and Palakkad in Kerala. It has an average elevation of 140 metres (460 ft) with a width of 24–30 kilometres (15–19 mi). The pass is located between the Nilgiri Hills to the north and Anaimalai Hills to the south.[1]
Origin and history
There are various theories about the origin of Palakkad gap. One among them is that it is caused by the landslide due to rivers flowing in opposite directions. The Bharatha Puzha river originates in the Palakkad Gap from rivulets and tributaries feeding from steep escarpment slopes along the flanks of the Ghats.[2]
Palakkad gap has played a major role in enabling human migration into Kerala from parts of Tamil Nadu. From 300 B.C. to 13th century, it also helped the Cheras rule the entire Kerala and the Kongu Nadu as one geographical unit from Karur in Western Tamil Nadu. Tamil Brahmins migrated to Palakkad from Central Tamil Nadu via the Palakkad gap from the 15th century to 18th century.
Effect on weather
The gap affects the weather patterns in Southern India as it allows the moisture-laden Southwest monsoon winds into western Tamil Nadu, moderating summer temperatures and generating greater rainfall in the region relative to the rest of lowland Tamil Nadu. It also allows the hot winds coming from Tamil Nadu which warm the eastern part of Kerala compared to the rest of the state and the tropical cyclone winds from Bay of Bengal bearing rain during the summer.
Transport and trade
The gap is the lowest pass through the Western Ghats in the region. It is an important mountain pass in the Western Ghats that runs along the entire eastern edge of Kerala isolating it from the neighboring Tamil Nadu. It acts as an important transport corridor between the two States by linking Palakkad District of Kerala with Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu and has served as a vital trade route between the east and west coasts of peninsular India since ancient times.
Both the National Highway 544 and the Coimbatore - Shoranur railway line joining Kerala to Tamil Nadu pass through the gap. The gap also helps for VHF line of sight communications between the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Wind Energy
The Palakkad Gap funnels the winds blowing from the west on to Coimbatore and Tirupur districts in Tamil Nadu making the region one of the major wind power generation areas.[3] The average annual wind speed is 18–22 km/hr.[4] Large windmill farms can be seen in and around Udumalaipettai and Kadathur.
See also
- Aryankavu mountain pass.
- Aralvaimozhi
Palghat-Coimbatore NH 47 runs through the gap
- ^ "Britannica Encyclopedia". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ Nair, Dr. S. Sathis Chandran, (20 May 2004). A Note on the Ecological Impact of the Proposed Pathrakkadavu Hydro-Electric Project (PHEP) in the Kunthi River, Palakkad District of Kerala: India - Silent Valley Rainforest Under Threat Once More
- ^ "Tiruppur District Official Webpage". Retrieved 6 November 2013.
- ^ "TamilNadu Energy Development Agency". Archived from the original on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
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In the last match on ARCB Trinidad and Tobago tour, ARCB U-13 team played a day-night T20 against a strong Secondary Schools Cricket League's (SSCL) representative team. The SSCL team comprised of some of the best boys in T&T school's league competition & one from Barbados.
SSCL team won the toss and decided to bat first. SSCL scored 145 for 5 in 20 overs with top score from Captain Sachin Emrit, 40 off 56, who plays for T&T national U-13 team. For ARCB, Arjun V 4-0-34-2 and Nayan E 4-0-11-1 were the pick off the bowlers. The team again displayed some agile fielding to produce 2 run outs.
Batting under lights, ARCB boys came up against tall lanky Barbados fast bowler Matthew Gittens, 2-0-6-0, who himself was touring the island nation. Matthew was the fastest bowler the boys faced on the tour. Arjun V top scored with 30 runs off 46 and Shashank Gundlapally scored 14 off 13. ARCB boys came up 40 runs short against some disciplined pace and spin bowling finishing with 105 for 7 in 20 overs. Ravindra Ramlal 3-1-8-4 was the best bowler for SSCL.
For SSCL, Sachin Emrit won the best batsmen award and Ravindra Ramlal won the best bowler award. Arjun Vajjala was awarded the best batsmen and the best bowler awards for Arjun V and Nayan E for their bowling performance.
ARCB boys had an amazing experience of playing a day-night game in front of couple hundred cheerful spectators. SSCL President Surujdath Mahabir, and Vice President Sharaz Mohammad, who was instrumental in organizing the tour, and invited the Atlantic Region for future tours to help develop tomorrow's Caribbean and American Cricketers.


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Please join us as we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Cellospeak's singular programs for adult amateur cellists. On this special occasion, we are hosting a special benefit concert featuring 4In Correspondence, the National Symphony Orchestra cello quartet under the leadership of Steven Honigberg.
4In Correspondence will play a wonderfully varied program of music from Bach and Brahms to Apocalyptica – a very talented Scandinavian cello "rock" group! 4In Correspondence also will perform a composition they have specially commissioned for cello quartet. Two of their pieces will be augmented by members of the Cellospeak faculty.
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He may not be a Hollywood hunk, but Big Apple big wig Andrew Stein said last night he wants to do his part to help Haiti.
Stein hosted a Haiti benefit at SoBe staple SET Nightclub last night during charity Orphaned Starfish Foundation's inaugural fundraising event.
"I definitely try to do my part, but I'm not George Clooney," he said.
The club, typically packed with twentysomethings, was full of Latin American power players throwing back drinks and dropped cash. The CEO whose charity helps improve the lives of and educate orphans throughout Latin America retooled the fundraising event after the earthquake rocked Haiti.
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Sprint's Kevin Packingham, the executive in charge of the company's 4G roll-out, will leave the company to join an undisclosed, Kansas-City based venture, Sprint confirmed Thursday.
Packingham, who serves as senior vice president of product and technology development, will leave Sprint effective Aug. 16. He will become chief executive of the new company. Sprint declined to provide further details, but said Packingham's new company will make an announcement "in the near future."
"This is a great opportunity for him to lead a dynamic new venture," a Sprint spokeswoman said in a statement.
Packingham's team will now report to Steve Elfman, president of network operations and wholesale.
Packingham has overseen the company's 4G releases, which are just starting to ramp up. The HTC EVO 4G made its debut earlier this summer, and it was revealed today that the Samsung Epic 4G, will be available on Aug. 31.
Packingham joined Sprint in 2001 as a senior marketing manager, and held a number of positions before being named senior vice president of product development in April 2008.


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"A courtyard, to me, is the best thing in life," architect David Stocker said. "It's an intimate space. It's not quite inside the house, but it's part of the house." The culture of the courtyard is what inspired Stocker to design this luxurious Santa Barbara estate in Preston Hollow for Jane and Mike Nicolais.
Courtyards have been around since dwellings began. They are found in every corner of the world, and there's a reason for their popularity. They provide the things we want most: security, privacy, light, air, and tranquility.
"A big house can be thought of as a village with connecting pieces," Stocker, principal of SHM Architects, said.
This Santa Barbara estate, at 9946 Rockbrook Drive, is 7,722 square feet with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and two powder baths. It's easy to see the analogy. Award-winning builders Manning, Snelling & Mcllyar worked with Stocker to bring this village to life in 2001 when Stocker was at Turner, Boaz and Stocker.


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- Other common names include Hong Kong Hawthorn or India Hawthorn
- Often found in residential as well as commercial landscapes
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Indian Hawthorn, Rhaphiolepis indica, can bring a vibrant splash of pink color to any landscape in mid-spring! Native to southern China, Rhaphiolepis indica is often used as a hedge and in beds and borders where these low maintenance plants are sure to attract the right attention. This shrub is a broad-leaved evergreen that is ideal for growing near buildings and other structures that could benefit from some color enhancement. We also like to let them mound naturally so that they can also be used as a privacy screen that can block unwanted views in style!
These are versatile evergreen shrubs. In fact, Indian Hawthorn can bloom in the shade or grow in a spot with plenty of full sun exposure. They are very cold hardy, and once established, Rhaphiolepis indica will have little to moderate water requirements. Some people choose to shape this versatile plant into a ball form or hedge. India Hawthorn is one useful plant in any landscape no matter how you choose to let it grow!
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Craigbank is located in the grounds of St Teresa's Chapel which can be found to the north of Glasgow. With a total of 61 single-occupancy bedrooms, Craigbank is a modern, purpose-built home that specialises in dementia care.
The home is made up of three separate houses, each with its own lounge, kitchen and dining room. Islay house specialises in residential care for up to 30 residents, Killearn house offers nursing dementia care for up to 15 residents, while Balmore house can accommodate up to 16 residents and provides nursing dementia care.
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We encourage all of our residents to carry on with their own interests at the home and to also try something new if they wish. By having regular and varied activities every day, there's always something fun to try.
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Taking part in stimulating activities is known to help improve appetites and sleep patterns, so that's why our activity co-ordinator does their very best to make sure that there's something interesting happening at the home every day of the week.
Some examples of the activities residents can take part in include quizzes and Bingo, arts and crafts, religious services and visits from local entertainers. We also hold a special themed event each month. So, for example, it could be a Harvest Festival meal, a Christmas party or fireworks on Bonfire Night. Other activities enjoyed by our residents include: Local community and charity events, the home is a 'Big Sing' winner plus regular trips out, to which friends and family are also welcome.
All our meals are homemade every day and often use seasonal ingredients to ensure that residents get fresh and healthy food. Personal preferences and diets are always taken into consideration when planning menus for our residents, as we appreciate that everyone's wants and needs are different.
There are 61 single bedrooms at Craigbank which have recently been refurbished and decorated to a high standard. All of our rooms come with en-suite bathroom facilities and some also have garden views too.
We want all of our residents to feel at home, so to help with that we suggest they bring along any personal items, ornaments or small items of furniture to have in their rooms with them.
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The sun stands still for just a day before again heading south
In the early morning Saturday, at 6:51am EDT, the sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky for the year, with its center hovering directly above the Tropic of Cancer somewhere in Africa. On solstice, the sun appears to pause in place, holding steady for several days directly overhead at high noon — solstice in fact means sun standing still. You can see proof of the sun standing still in this week's times of sunrise and sunset, listed below, which barely change.
This solstice marks the Northern Hemisphere's longest day of the year, with 14 hours 54 minutes of sunlight here along Chesapeake Bay. And while there is no universal body that dictates the start of the seasons, this celestial phenomenon is universally seen as the start of summer for the Northern Hemisphere and the start of winter for those below the equator.
The earth spins at a 231⁄2-degree tilt, causing the north side of the planet to more directly face the sun for half the year and the south side to more directly face the sun the other half of the year. At the time of the June solstice, the North Pole points almost directly at the sun, while December's solstice has the South Pole pointing sunward. Right now, we're enjoying that sunward tilt, and all those extra hours of daylight add up to the season's much warmer temperatures.
While it is only the start of summer and the days will continue to grow warmer for some time to come, it is also the beginning of summer's end. The very next day after solstice, the sun begins its southward march, albeit ever so slightly at first, and the length of daylight wanes.
For millenia, cultures have tracked the sun's path across the sky, measuring the length of daylight and the location of the sunrise and sunset throughout the year. The ancient Celts built Stonehenge, built at least 5,000 years ago in alignment with the solstices and sunrise. Around the same time, the Egyptians were building their own monuments to the sun and the passing seasons. From a vantage atop the Great Sphinx on the day of June's solstice, the sun set directly between the oldest of the Great Pyramids.
The sun may be the star this week, but the waning crescent moon makes good showings with Venus low in the east before dawn Monday and Tuesday, when only two degrees separate the two. Early Wednesday the moon is just above of the bright star Aldebaran in Taurus.


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Farming With Wildlife in Mind
This weekend the Times recommended Isabella Tree's excellent Wilding as one of its books of the year. It "forces us to rethink farming". More accurately, it forces us to rethink not farming. For those not in the know, Wilding is about the Knepp Estate. The estate is really poor quality farmland (grade 3 and 4), which has been in the Burrell family for generations. They were struggling on, losing money, living off grants and pouring chemicals into it to try to generate economic yields. They gave up the unequal fight and "rewilded" their land. It has been an inspiring story, as their exhausted land begins to recover and support a huge range of rare and sometimes unexpected animals. The point is, however, that they're no longer farming:
While the Estate is still producing food in the form of organic, pasture-fed meat from our free-roaming herds, the emphasis now is on 'ecosystem services' – the other vital public benefits that the land can provide, such as soil restoration, flood mitigation, water and air purification, biodiversity, pollinating insects, carbon sequestration and, of course, an amenity for human enjoyment.
This is a great model to promote for the post Brexit agricultural settlement, of course. It would be fabulous to offer owners of poor quality land – like lakeland sheep farmers – grants for public goods like this. BUT, it's not very helpful for those farmers on more productive holdings who want to continue to… farm.
I visited a productive local farm last week, which offered an interesting potential model for the future. Pertwood Organics are based on a 2,600 acre farm to the west of Salisbury Plain. It's high quality grade 1 and 2 farmland, and the land bears the marks of hundreds of years of agricultural use. There are barrows about and a large visible Medieval – at the latest – field system. The farm is organic, mostly arable, with some sheep and cattle. Yields are similar to non-organic farms, input costs are – of course – lower – and their organic produce fetches higher prices. You can read about how they do this on their website. It sounds disarmingly simple, but needs commitment, experience and, sometimes, technology.
What's doubly interesting about this is that it's done with wildlife in mind. I was kindly shown around by Nick Adams, the farm's wildlife consultant – is that even a thing? Nick is ex RSPB, so birds in particular are his thing. And birds are the first thing to strike you if you visit. There are flocks of linnets, goldfinches, starlings, etc etc. Higher up the foodchain there are kestrels, kites, buzzards, barn owls… they've seen 109 types of birds, including 30 red list species. They have 60 species breeding there, including 5% of the entire estimated UK population of Corn Buntings. Invertebrate populations – impossible to see in November! – are also great. They have been very excited by the recent appearance of brown arguses and marsh fritillaries.
How's it done?
There's no single answer, apart from the obvious – i.e. it's organic. No chemical intervention brings unexpected bonuses, too. There are no tracks from spraying machinery to make it easy for predators to find ground nesting birds, for example. Access is made even more difficult by the way crops are drilled, with dense and slightly wavy rows of plants, impenetrable to weeds and foxes and badgers and giving animals no clear sight lines. Pertwood use a high tech inter-row cultivator to weed between the rows.
There are colourful pollinator strips along field margins – long flowering phacelia and late flowering sunflowers (good for seeds too), for example*. There's a lovely butterfly bank. Red clover and other legume leys. Tussocky field margins too. This is insect nirvana – I hope I'll be able to have a look around next summer.
The corn buntings – among other birds – love all the winter stubble which is deliberately left. I imagine this regime is also good for soil health.
Why Isn't Everyone Doing It?
I don't know, but then I'm not an agronomist. I guess there may be limited markets for organic cereals? It's also true that we are only now exploring ways to farm with wildlife in mind. Groups like the Nature Friendly Farming Network are relatively new. The subsidy systems we have been using haven't encouraged it enough, nor have they ensured compliance.
Anyway, the point is that there seems to be an alternative way to farm for wildlife, without not farming for wildlife. This looks as if it works in straight commercial terms. It also has significant value for the Pertwood brand, which at least helps pay for Nick and his efforts. People drive past on the main road and see the pollinator strips. Organic food consumers love to hear they're helping corn buntings. Some might even read this blog.
Only Connect
I left the farm with a mixture of emotions. I'm so impressed by what they've done, and thoughtful about what more could be done (I hope we'll be able to help!). This was tinged by a degree of sadness.
What a disastrous period we have gone through. Pertwood – despite their size, budget, will and knowledge – is struggling to repair the terribly degraded and fragmented habitats around them. There are still no dormice on site, for example, even after 30 years and despite the perfect home it would make for them. Smalls mammals simply can't physically get there. It's an oasis in the middle of a green desert. While this can be partly sorted out by planting hedges etc., it's a sobering reflection on the state of the wider countryside.
*I'll have to work on the native wildflowers angle…


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Cloud Cover - Episode 1
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In this episode:
- Learn about the Service Management API and how to use PowerShell cmdlets to manage your cloud services.
- Find out how to get started quickly on the Windows Azure platform.
Other topics include:
- SQL Azure updates!
- Windows Azure Drives (XDrive).
- Hear about some cool new Windows Azure storage management tools.
- Azure Reader architecture.
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SQL Azure SU1
Windows Azure Drive (XDrive)
Clumsy Leaf CloudXplorer
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Web Platform Installer
Azure Reader Architecture
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Decoupling Large Applications with the Service Gateway
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Episode 9 - Design for Manageability
Episode 8 - Design for Availability
Episode 7 - Design for Scalability
Episode 6 - Design for Data
Episode 5 - Platform and Connectivity Patterns
Episode 4 - Design for Operations
The Discussion
It is going to be cloudy with a chance of Windows Azure! And chances may increase if MS will do it right
Thank you for this series, it will really help in desicion making.
Great show! I'm looking forward to more in the future. Here are a few notes:
1. When showing code it is much easier to read when you zoom in or set the font to be larger.
2. You might want to check out the Powershell Editor in http://PowerGui.org. It has much better code completion than the standard Powershell ISE.
would you guys post a video on azure service bus arcitecture?
The resolution of this video is too low to read the code.
Great new series! But PLEASE use a bigger font next time this video hurt my eyes...
What about the High Quality download?
If anyone has feedback/questions on the service management API, I would love to hear it.
One thing I should point out is the API is just a WCF/REST service and csmanage has a class library in it so you can write any code you want over it (or you can just roll your own using the XML/HTTP responses). Of course, you can always shell out to the PS cmdlets or csmanage.
FINALLY a show with Steve Marx. Such a great evangelist.
Great show guys - keep it up!
Very helpful.
1. Can we have schedule to know the details of coming show in next few weeks?
2. As the show is focused on creating the awareness for the tools related to Azure, it would be good to have a separate download with links to the tools site shown in the video.
I saw links on the main page. Sorry for posting Q2.
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It is an app developed in Russia that turns prosaic smartphone shots into an artwork. This is a unique combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence that helps you turn memorable moments into timeless art, according to Prisma-AI website.
You can turn your boring selfies and pictures into artworks with the help of Prisma. In fact, Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt has already tried it and posted her picture on Instagram yesterday after making it art-sy with Prisma.
The app is free. So, you too can give it a try by converting your picture into an art work in three easy steps. You first need to select a picture, pick a style such as gothic or robot and enjoy the result.
Here are a few things to consider when you use this new app.
1. Not available on Android yet: This app is only available on iOS right now. An Android version of Prisma will come soon, according to Prisma.AI's Facebook page.
2. May encounter a few server-down errors: According to its Facebook page, Prisma has "became the most downloaded app in 10 countries within nine days". Due to increased load on its server, you might face a few server-down errors.
3. Some camera functions are missing: You'll notice that some functions such as HDR or self-timer features are missing in Prisma.
4. Free of watermark: Go on the app's settings page, enable watermarks and then get it deactivated. Your instant artwork will bear no mark or branding.
5. Prisma has around 20 art filters: The app contains around 20 art filters at this point, with some of the art/graphical starting points including the Scream, Baroque, DC comic graphic as well as abstract artworks. More filters will be added soon.


text: Erik Slagter said: > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 19:43 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: >> > Just poking my head in here to note, for the little it's worth, that I >> > (as a not-particularly-videophilic American) had never even *heard* of >> > SCART until this discussion started; to the best of my knowledge I've >> > never seen any hardware which supported it. >> >> Consider yourself lucky. SCART was "invented" by the French, whose >> other contribution to the video world is SECAM. The SCART connector >> is an abominable thing that has the habit of falling apart when >> unplugged. That is, if you manage to get it plugged in properly in >> the first place. To make matters worse, the cable is thick as a >> garden hose and enters the plug at an angle, invariable towards the >> wrong side. > > The fact that the scart connector falls apart, is not nearly a big > problem as the fact the after a few years the TV set's connector starts > to fall apart as well. My solution is to get an adapter and leave it plugged in. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru at inprovide.com


text: Mike Melanson said: > Hi, > > Last night, I got a formal rejection notice from someone at the Google > Summer of Code project. This afternoon I received a cordial acceptance > from the same person. Strange how things work out sometimes. Would it be appropriate to display a poster for this at Linuxtag? -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru at inprovide.com


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ACE Boot Camp – Days 3 and 4
Days 3 and 4 did not disappoint! I don't know if I stated this in the earlier posts, but the days basically consisted of lecture in the morning and labs after lunch. I REALLY, REALLY enjoyed the lecture portion. Again, I have to state that the instructor was fairly knowledgeable in regards to ACE, so he was able to actually teach instead of regurgitate a slide deck like other classes I have been in. That makes all the difference in the world. As for the labs, I guess they do some good if you have not had much experience with the ACE CLI. We did not do any labs using the built in GUI or ANM. The problem I have with labs is that they are a very canned and controlled environment. You end up just going through the motions without actually soaking up what it is that you are doing. Ideally, the labs would need to be tailored to your environment to have the greatest effect. This of course, is not realistic. Having said that, I am sure there are some people who get something out of it. My opinion was shared by others in the class in regards to the effectiveness of the labs, so I am not the only one who feels this way. However, the effectiveness of the lecture portion completely overshadowed any shortcomings of the lab portion.
In the interest of brevity, I am going to touch on the things I thought were the most interesting, but I don't want this post to be so long it requires a coffee break to finish.
Route Health Injection – On a simplistic level, RHI allows the ACE to inject a host route into the network. You would use this to advertise the VIP(virtual IP) that clients use to connect to a server farm. If the server farm is not available due any number of issues, the host route can be automatically removed from the route table and not advertised. The alternative is to simply advertise the VIP's as part of a regular subnet advertisement like you do with any other VLAN or subnet. Again, I am simplifying this and need to point out that this is NOT something that is specific to Cisco ACE. Other vendors implement similar technologies.
KeepAlive-Appliance Protocol(KAL-AP) – There's a few variations of the Cisco ACE, and one of those is the Global Site Selector(GSS). Its purpose is simply to provide higher level load balancing between data centers. Basically, it is a load balancer of load balancers. By using KAL-AP, the GSS can query VIP's at multiple data centers and determine which one is the best fit to send traffic to.
There are a couple of things that the ACE 4710 appliance does that the ACE module cannot. I asked the question as to why this is the case and was told that the ACE appliance has different architecture than the module. It has certain functionality that might come to the module at some point, but for now is restricted to the appliance. These extra functions really revolve around the ACE appliance being able to cache certain HTTP objects and speeding up the process of delivering a web page to an end user. A fair amount of detail on this can be found here.
It sure seems as if I cut back on the information from days 3 and 4 when compared to 1 and 2. I did. Although there were plenty of interesting things covered in the past 2 days of class, a lot of those things would take a while to explain and draw out via diagrams. That's also assuming that I actually understand these things well enough to explain them in depth.
That brings to me to a more philosophical point in regards to the type of niche product that Cisco ACE is. While it would be great if you knew the CLI on ACE backwards and forwards, it really isn't necessary. What is necessary is an understanding of what a platform like ACE is capable of. I sat in a meeting today in which some developers wanted ACE to perform health checks on a server outside of a load balance pool and use the results of that query to determine whether or not servers should be removed from a load balance pool. Basically, they wanted to do something that ACE is not really designed to do. Spending 4 days in a classroom learning all about ACE gave me the information needed to have a productive meeting with these developers today. I was able to answer their questions and give better guidance than I would have a couple of weeks ago. I don't know all the commands for ACE. I will still have to use the configuration guides to look things up now and again. The important thing is that I understand the capabilities and limitations of the ACE load balancer a lot better today than I did prior to taking the ACE class. My main goal is to know what it can and cannot do in order to design anything requiring load balancing properly. To me that is more important than memorizing commands.
ACE Boot Camp – Day 2
Day 2 of ACE boot camp did not disappoint! Another full day of lecture and labs. We covered the following topics:
Modular Policy CLI
Managing the ACE Appliance and Service Module
Security Features
Layer 4 Load Balancing
Health Monitoring
I'll cover some general things about each topic and go into additional details on the points I thought were interesting.
Modular Policy CLI – ACE classifies which traffic it will load-balance based on policy maps, which are comprised of class maps. If this sounds a lot like how you build QoS policies on IOS based routers, it is. The big difference is that ACE is far more restrictive in what those policies contain.
Managing the ACE Appliance and Service Module – Like most Cisco devices, ACE can be managed in a number of different ways. Telnet, SSH, HTTPS, and SNMP. You can even use the XML API if you want. With SNMP, versions 1 and 2 cannot understand contexts. SNMP version 3 can. In order for SNMP version 1 and 2 to work with contexts, you have to use the community string format of "community@context" where "community" is the community name and "context" is the name of the virtual context. When the GET, SET, or whatever SNMP action you choose hits the ACE, the "@context" portion is understood and passed along to the appropriate context.
Security Features – There are a ton of different ways to restrict traffic entering and leaving the ACE. Most of the time you will be focused on traffic entering the ACE. As with applying ACL's to interfaces on switches and routers, very rarely will you see access lists applied in the outbound direction. That feature is there in case you have some special need to use it.
An interesting capability that the access lists have in ACE is the ability to use object groups to identify which traffic to permit or deny. If you have ever worked on the PIX, ASA, or FWSM, you will be familiar with object groups. They make traffic identification much easier not to mention the simplification of the ACE configuration itself.
The much more granular security options were of great interest to me. Take something like IP fragmentation and reassembly. You can specify the max number of fragments allowed from one packet. If it exceeds the number you specify, you can just drop the traffic. Many other options exist with regards to the packet stream itself. You can enforce certain flags from being set. If violations occur, not only can you drop the traffic, but you could actually reset the flag itself and then send the traffic through the ACE. While most options are configurable, there are some rules that are always enforced. For example, the source IP of a traffic flow can never equal the destination IP.
Layer 4 Load Balancing – This is exactly what it sounds like. Load balancing based on TCP/UDP flows. I think the neatest part about this particular topic was the fact that you can actually load balance traffic across multiple firewalls and have the return traffic come back through the same firewall. This of course requires an ACE on both sides of the firewall, but withe ability for the ACE module to have up to 250 virtual contexts, it doesn't have to be 2 separate physical ACE modules. The same module can host both contexts that live on either side of the firewall. It is fairly clever how they make this work. Essentially, when traffic comes from one firewall into the ACE, it remembers the MAC address of the sending firewall and places that connection in a state table. When traffic comes back through the ACE, it already knows which firewall to send the traffic to based on that state table. I'm not sure I would want to use an ACE module for load balancing through firewalls, but there are plenty of customers out there that are already doing it or could see the benefit in doing something like that.
Health Monitoring – If there's one thing the ACE seems to have a fairly large amount of options on, it's the health monitoring or probes. All the major protocols have specific probes on the ACE that are used to check the health of the back end or "real" servers. This is way beyond the load balancer simply pinging the server to make sure it is up and running. Let's say you used the HTTP probe. Instead of just trying a simple ping to check a back end servers' status, the HTTP probe can actually go out and make an HTTP connection to the server or serverfarm. That's a far more intelligent way to query server status. Based on the probe results, any number of things can be done to the various serverfarms and servers ACE may be providing services for. They may be taken out of active status, have their priority reduced, etc.
There's a LOT more to this stuff. This was only day 2 of 4! More to come.
ACE Boot Camp – Day 1
First off, let me point out that this is not a boot camp with a certification in mind. It's a 4 day course given by Firefly Communications. Although I booked the course through Global Knowledge, I was told that they typically outsource their data center courses to Firefly. Works for me. As long as it is quality training, I don't care if you outsource it to Elbonia. I am assuming they use the term "boot camp" because it is an end to end ACE class taught in just 4 days.
Which brings me to my first point. My company was able to use Cisco Learning Credits to pay for this class. At 30 credits, that translates to $3,000 US dollars for 4 days worth of training. Sitting in the class, I couldn't help but notice people doing regular work while the instructor was going through his lecture. I realize most places are understaffed. Outages happen. Fires have to get put out. However, $3,000 for 4 days to me is a big deal. If you send your employees off to training that is critical/applicable for their job, LET THEM TRAIN! Leave them alone while they are there. Of course, that's a 2 way street in that some employees need to learn to let go as well. The company will function without them for a few days. You can turn off "martyr" and "hero" mode for a couple of days. I am checking e-mail at night, but not being obsessive about it. I have very capable co-workers who can do anything and everything without my help.
Now, on to the actual class. Let me begin by commenting on the quality of instruction. I've been to plenty of poor classes in which someone was trying to shovel test material down your throat the whole time. I've also sat in several classes where the instructor was obviously out of their league and could not field questions from the crowd that weren't covered on the vendor approved slide deck. That is simply not the case with Firefly. My instructor is very competent and when he hits the limit of his knowledge, he indicates that. So far, I think I have only seen 1 time out of the dozen or so questions he was hit with today in which that was the case. I guess that is what $3,000 a seat gets you.
It seems as if there is a fairly decent mix of people in this class. About a dozen or so in attendance. A fair amount of them are actually using the ACE 4710 appliance which I thought was rather interesting. Of course, most are using the standard ACE module. There are varying levels of experience with ACE as well. I was under the impression that I would be here mainly for the second half of the class, as I felt comfortable with the basics. Of course, just when you go and get comfortable, you realize how little you know. I learned a LOT today. Mainly, it was about things I never really bothered to dig into. You see, like most people, we probably only dig into the features we absolutely need right now. Maybe we plan on coming back and covering everything else at a later time, but I think that happens far less than we'd like it to. Some of the things we covered today that I was horribly deficient on were:
Resource Management – If you use multiple contexts, RM can prevent a single context from taking over the entire resources of the module. I don't use this as it is currently not a concern, but good to know if things change!
HTTP Message Structure – 3 fields make up each HTTP message: Start/Request line(includes the METHOD), Header fields, and Body(which is optional)
ACE 4710 appliance – I don't use it and never have. However, it does do a few things the module does not mainly centered around application acceleration. We have not covered that exhaustively yet, but I will take good notes when we do.
There were other things covered in which I was glad to get a decent refresher. The main one being TCP sequence numbers. They are always a bit confusing to me if I don't study them on a fairly regular basis. Although you weren't there with me in class today, you can read this post by Jeremy Stretch which talks about TCP sequencing. He even uses nice graphics!
We ended the day doing a pretty simple lab in which we created some contexts and messed around with resource management to see if we could oversubscribe the module in terms of CPU, memory, etc in regards to other contexts. Overall, it was a really good first day. I am eagerly anticipating what tomorrow will be like. It is also good to be taught by someone who actually helped develop the slide deck the course is taught from. He was able to add funny little details about how he created this drawing or that. It's always nice to have someone teach who has a great sense of humor. So far, I give the Firefly ACE boot camp 2 thumbs up!
I am hoping to get a wee bit more technical in the following posts regarding ACE boot camp as the remaining days will REALLY focus on load balancing. Who knows? I might even post a graphic or two! Shocking isn't it?
Busy, Busy, Busy!
It's not that I don't have anything to say! People who know me know that I very rarely shut up for more than a few minutes. It's just that I have been fairly busy lately. A lot of different things have been eating into my time and writing things for a network blog take a lot of time and effort. I have a 4 day Cisco ACE class next week in which I will be out of town, so I hope to get several posts done at night when I am sitting in the hotel. You don't actually think I will be going out at night do you? Hmmmm…..a week away from the office and a training day that ends at 4:30pm. That leaves me all sorts of time for the following:
1. Catch up on the billion or so web pages I have bookmarked.
2. Get some things written for the blog that revolve around possible competitors to the Nexus 7000. With HP, Arista, Brocade, Force10, and Juniper selling competing products, there's a lot of data to sift through. I honestly have no idea who will come out on top. It might just be the Nexus 7000!
3. Comment on my experience with the ACE class I will be taking with Global Knowledge. I've spent the last several days at work focused on ACE, so I am very interested in filling in the gaps of my knowledge regarding this interesting product.
4. Read up a little more on the Cisco/EMC/VMware vBlock concept. I went to a presentation today about that and am intrigued to say the least.
5. Write about the concept of baselining your in-house applications. This would be focused on knowing what the normal TCP/UDP operations look like from a packet capture standpoint.
I try and keep a running list in Evernote of the things I would like to write about. The list continues to grow, but the time it takes to transform just one of those ideas into a somewhat coherent post just hasn't been there.
I hope to have some new content up early next week. The last thing I want is to end up abandoning this blog and waste all my time playing mindless games on my iPad, although I do enjoy doing that a few times a week.
Technical Book Annoyances
It seems that if you read enough technical stuff, you are bound to find things you either disagree with, or know to be untrue. At least I think they are untrue until I validate my thoughts with the applicable standard or bounce my thoughts off of others within the IT community. I understand that it is VERY difficult to write books, white papers, articles, etc with a technical focus and have them turn out well. A lot of editing has to take place. The target audience has to be considered as well. In short, it is a lot different than writing a fiction novel or short story as when it comes to technical stuff, there's a bunch of people out there second guessing every sentence you write and diagram you create. With fiction writing, the entire story is in someone's head and accuracy is not a factor. Let me also state that I have tremendous respect for most technical authors.
I have been doing a lot of reading on switching lately. I'm lazily making my way to the CCIE R/S lab attempt so I have been reading the 3560 command reference guide. It's the Good Will Hunting approach. In addition to that, I decided to supplement my lunch today with some reading of End-to-End QoS Network Design. So, now that I am thinking about switching and QoS, I came home after work and started in on my so far unused copy of Cisco LAN Switching Configuration Handbook. There's a QoS chapter. Hooray! The best of both worlds.
I get to the end of the third page in the chapter and run into a problem. That's page 223 if you have the printed version handy. I came across this tidbit:
Classes 1 through 4 are termed the Assured Forwarding (AF) service levels. Higher class numbers indicate higher-priority traffic. Each class or AF service level has three drop precedence categories:
* Low (1)
* Medium (2)
* High (3)
Traffic in the AF classes can be dropped, with the most likelihood of dropping in the Low category and the least in the High category. In other words, service level AF class 4 with drop precedence 3 is delivered before AF class 4 with drop precedence 1, which is delivered before AF class 3 with drop precedence 3, and so on.
Did you spot any errors? At first, I thought I was reading it all wrong. Maybe I misinterpreted what the authors were saying. AF classes have different priority levels? Hmmmm. I thought they were the same. Then of course, there's the issue of the book stating that the higher the drop precedence, the less likely it will get dropped. In other words, the book is saying that AF43 will get dropped less than AF41 along with a repeat of the logic stated earlier that AF41 comes before AF33 in terms of priority. At this point, I am really starting to get confused. That can't be right. I've never heard anything like that before.
Maybe it was an error that was fixed in the errata that Cisco Press usually posts on their site. I checked, and there were no corrections issued for that particular book on the Cisco Press site. I also went over to Amazon and read through the reviews people had written. A lot of times, people will list errors in their book reviews, so it is a good source of information when determining whether or not to buy the book. There was nothing there that alluded to this potential error.
The next step was to check the RFC along with the End-to-End QoS book I am reading as well. RFC 2597 is entitled Assured Forwarding PHB Group. Or, AF per hop behavior group. Remember that in a DiffServ environment, QoS is done on a per class basis. There is no end to end guarantee for an individual flow so to speak. That's what IntServ is for. One might even say that a per hop behavior is indicative of each hop being able to do whatever they want to traffic based on the class it is in. The router could care less about the entire flow. It looks at DSCP markings and makes a decision based on that. Maybe that's being too generic, but that is the way that I understand DSCP, PHB, etc. The RFC said the following:
Section 1 Paragraph 3
Within each AF class IP packets are marked (again by the customer or
the provider DS domain) with one of three possible drop precedence
values. In case of congestion, the drop precedence of a packet
determines the relative importance of the packet within the AF class.
A congested DS node tries to protect packets with a lower drop
precedence value from being lost by preferably discarding packets
with a higher drop precedence value.
Section 2 Paragraphs 1 and 2
Assured Forwarding (AF) PHB group provides forwarding of IP packets
in N independent AF classes. Within each AF class, an IP packet is
assigned one of M different levels of drop precedence. An IP packet
that belongs to an AF class i and has drop precedence j is marked
with the AF codepoint AFij, where 1 <= i <= N and 1 <= j <= M.
Currently, four classes (N=4) with three levels of drop precedence in
each class (M=3) are defined for general use. More AF classes or
levels of drop precedence MAY be defined for local use.
A DS node SHOULD implement all four general use AF classes. Packets
in one AF class MUST be forwarded independently from packets in
another AF class, i.e., a DS node MUST NOT aggregate two or more AF
classes together.
Okay, so the RFC is fairly clear that the lower the drop precedence, the safer the traffic should be. Routers and switches should drop AFx3 before AFx2, and drop AFx2 before AFx1. Additionally, we learn that the 4 AF classes are general use. There is no hierarchy. AF4x is no different than AF2x. We may give AF4x more bandwidth in a given QoS policy during periods of congestion, but we can also do the same for AF3x, AF2x, or AF1x traffic if we want to.
Looking for the same type of information in the End-to-End QoS book yields the following taken from chapter 3, Classification and Marking Tools, in the "Marking Tools" section:
DSCP values can be expressed in numeric form or by special keyword names, called per-hop behaviors (PHB). Three defined classes of DSCP PHBs exist: Best-Effort (BE or DSCP 0), Assured Forwarding (AFxy), and Expedited Forwarding (EF). In addition to these three defined PHBs, Class-Selector (CSx) codepoints have been defined to be backward compatible with IP Precedence (in other words, CS1 through CS7 are identical to IP Precedence values 1 through 7). The RFCs describing these PHBs are 2547, 2597, and 3246.
RFC 2597 defines four Assured Forwarding classes, denoted by the letters AF followed by two digits. The first digit denotes the AF class and can range from 1 through 4. (Incidentally, these values correspond to the three most significant bits of the codepoint, or the IPP value that the codepoint falls under.) The second digit refers to the level of drop preference within each AF class and can range from 1 (lowest drop preference) to 3 (highest drop preference). For example, during periods of congestion (on an RFC 2597–compliant node), AF33 would be dropped more often (statistically) than AF32, which, in turn, would be dropped more often (statistically) than AF31. Figure 3-7 shows the Assured Forwarding PHB encoding scheme.
More validation that I was correct in my initial hunch. Even though I was fairly certain the LAN Switching Configuration Guide book was wrong, I wanted to double-check with perhaps one of the greatest tools available. Twitter. I got responses from 3 different people, which is saying something considering it was about 10PM CST. Thanks to Steve Shaw, Steve Rossen, and Andrew vonNagy for their assistance in validating my assumptions. Steve Shaw pointed me to the exact paragraph in RFC 2597 and Andrew mentioned 1 of the 3 new QoS videos that Kevin Wallace created and posted on YouTube which discuss the AF class and drop precedence. Check it out. It's a fantastic video.
Now, you might be wondering why I am making such a big deal out of this. Is it really important? In this case, yes. Understanding the AF class and drop precedence is vital to one's understanding of DSCP as a whole. If you get this wrong, it could bite you down the road when designing a QoS policy for a large network. It can bite you when troubleshooting a QoS problem. Some things have to be right every single time they are put in print. QoS is not some super-easy technology that can be mastered in a half-day. Auto-QoS is a great functionality on hardware. I used it this past weekend when configuring 3750 POE switches for use with Cisco phones. However, typing a command and understanding what the ramifications are of that command are 2 different things.
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Are You A Technology Bigot?
If you have been around IT for more than 5 minutes, you have probably been involved in a technology dispute. You have come across the person who loathes any company but one. Or, they hate one company more than any other. Perhaps they hate certain protocols or technologies because they are slightly proprietary. You get the point.
These people are everywhere. Perhaps you are one. I have been one at times. Maybe even right now. With the sheer amount of things your average networking professional is required to know, it is often easier to take refuge in the arms of a select few vendors. In a previous post, I asked the question regarding whether or not we can stay vendor neutral. I think we can, but it takes some concerted effort on our part to do so.
I don't want to re-hash that old post, so I will move on to the point I want to make in this post. When you think about the companies you buy from, (By that I mean the actual hardware/software producer and not the reseller.) why do you buy from them? Surely you are not using only price to justify your selection are you? What are the technical reasons you buy from certain vendors? Can you name any of them? How about if I give you a competing product? Can you tell me why your choice is better than the competition?
About a month ago, I bought an iPad. I went into the Apple store and stood in line to buy my iPad. As I was standing there, a young couple was looking at a Macbook, or iMac, or whatever and asked the sales guy why they should buy a Mac. I was actually impressed with how the lady asked the question. She said: "We are looking to get a new computer and I want you to tell me why I should buy a Mac. They cost a lot more than an HP or Dell system." Obviously someone who is open to different technology, but wants to make the right purchase. She had "accountant" written all over her. The reply from the sales man really took my by surprise. He said: "You buy a Mac for several things. First, you don't have to worry about any viruses. Second, it is a lot more secure than any Windows machine. Third, you don't have to worry about it crashing on you. Fourth, it costs more because it is a much higher quality product."
I didn't stick around long enough to hear if he closed the sale or not. I was too enamored with my ability to con my wife into letting me spend $499 on a device that will waste even more of my time with meaningless games and YouTube videos. As I heard him say those things to that couple, I was thinking how incredibly naive and wrong they were. The Apple computing platforms have been relatively unharmed by large amounts of viruses and security issues because their market share has always been in single digits and wasn't worth the criminal/hacker community's time and effort. If 90% or more people are using Windows boxes, why would you spend time on less than 10% of the computer population? In the past couple of years, Apple has made huge gains in the consumer market. Huge. You'll see an increasing number of exploits head Apple's way as their market share increases. My opinion. I could be wrong, and if I am, call me out on it. As for Apple having to deal with OS or app crashes? Nah. That would never happen right? Perhaps the only thing he said that I would possibly agree with is that it costs more because it is higher quality. After using my iPad for a month, I must say that it is a VERY polished system. I love the way it works, but I do have plenty of apps that crash. Safari included.
Whew! Enough talk about Apple. I mentioned that story just to make a point. Sometimes we delude ourselves into believing that one product/company is better than another based on hearsay, groupthink, or own positive experience with that product/technology/protocol. Perhaps it is all we've ever known and thus come to the conclusion that it is the best. Or maybe that guy was just trying to make a sale and counted on the ignorance of the consumer. I don't know. I doubt I will make another trip to the Apple store unless they are the only ones selling Apple TV. What can I say? I'm becoming a convert/fanboy/zombie when it comes to Apple.
Here's an exercise for you. Don't worry. It's purely a mental one. Act as if you were a first time visitor to your company data center, computer room, closet, or wherever you hide your network gear. Ask about the various products you bought and why you chose them over a competing product. If you run a Cisco ASA firewall, why did you pick that over CheckPoint, Juniper NetScreen, WatchGuard, or SonicWall? Why did you choose that Juniper router over Cisco, Vyatta, Brocade, or Adtran? It's a good exercise because it forces you to confront the real reasons you buy from certain vendors. You see, you can be a fan of a product or a company and buy continually from them without ever really considering why you do it in the first place. At some point, someone who knows a fair amount about that particular product space might ask you to defend your selection. You better have a better answer than cost or the plethora of free lunches you get from the vendor. If you have no idea what the criteria is for determining the best choice, then you might be in over your head. Don't worry though. Most people won't notice as long as the free lunches keep rolling in.
In closing, can you be a technology bigot? Not if you want to be a professional. Every company has flaws and every company will produce bad technology from time to time. Being open to all solutions will keep you from buying the bad technology or using the wrong protocol. Your job as a corporate drone like myself is not to convert everyone to a particular product/technology to where they shut out reason and refuse to consider alternatives. Your job is to find the right product for your particular situation. Let the facts behind your decision speak for themselves. Tell people why you chose a particular product or technology from technical merits alone and you'll find most people will accept that. Tell people that only a moron would pick something else and you'll end up with a lot fewer friends. You better hope the vendor you buy from wants to buy you lunch all the time because no one else will.
****EDIT: I should probably make the point that I am only focusing on technical merits of hardware/technology first. There are other very valid reasons to buy or not buy certain products such as ease of use or familiarity by existing staff, ability to procure said equipment, or size and scope of project. If you have a fairly nailed down requirements list for some remote sites and need to deploy equipment there, then I wouldn't advocate going through a full blown product selection procedure every single time. My point is simply that before any of those things are considered, the product must meet the technical requirements of the job at hand. After determining that, then you can consider the support structure, cost, etc. If the cost is too much, your requirements will have to change.


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And, why exactly do you need a brand, anyway?
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If you are thinking of drop shipping to another countries you should consider also Turkey. Due to high electronic prices, Turkey is one of the best countries for drop shipping. There are too many people searching for cheap electronic devices on www.eBay.com or Chinese web sites www.dhgate.com and www.aliexpress.com
However when it comes to customs regulations there are some restrictions in Turkey. For example a person can not purchase a product from outside of Turkey more expensive than 75 euro (cost+shipping) and also not allowed to order any cosmetics, dietary or food supplements without customs declaration. And cost of a customs declaration would be higher than the cost of your product so you'd better not to try. On the other hand consumer electronics which cost less than 75 euro may allow you make good money.
For example Amazon Kindle 3; Amazon.com does not sell it to Turkey but there are some people here wants to buy and cost of the item here on domestic web sites not less than 330 Turkish Lira which is almost 220 usd (approx current rate is 1,51). However it is only 139 usd in USA on www.amazon.com and shipping would not be more that 35 usd as per dimensions of Kindle.
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"When asked this morning by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos if she could name a single economist who backs her call for a gas tax holiday this summer, HRC said "I'm not going to put my lot in with economists."
The gas tax holiday is...so economically stupid (it would increase demand for gas and cause prices to rise, eliminating any benefit to consumers while costing the Treasury more than $9 billion, and generate more pollution) and silly (even if she won, HRC won't be president this summer) as to be worrisome. That HRC now says she doesn't care that what economists think is even more troubling."
-Robert Reich, May 4, 2008
I know we've got those "intellectual", high-falutin', elitist meteorologists, those "forecasters" with their complicated charts and their mumbo-jumbo, their high fronts and their low fronts, their arrows and their Doppler radars. But I've come to say that we're going to put an end to all of that.
When my daddy and I went out in the morning in (Scranton, Indianapolis, Durham, Hagåtña, Charlotte Amalie, San Juan), and he said "It's going to be a sunny day today", well, that was good enough for me.
And that's why, if you vote for me on (May 6, May 13, June 3), I will put into effect a "Bad Weather Holiday" running from the years 2009-2012--and potentially extendable.
That's right. We shouldn't have to eat our (hot dogs, barbecue, tamales, Chicken Estufao, Stewed Oxtail) under rainy skies. We've had enough of going off to work in the (streets, sands, seas) of this most beautiful (state, territory) only to face a cold, cloudy day. We know what it's like to rest our weary bones after a hard day of labor in the nearest (local watering hole, locale taberna, berlina) only to step out into a stiff, tiring wind.
The Weather issue is very real to me, as I've been meeting people across this nation who (walk, drive, sail, ride ox before stewing tail) to work, and would save precious sums if they did not have to spend their hard earned money on "umbrellas" and "rain coats" and other high priced, high class items of the upper crust. In my daddy's day, a newspaper held over the head by a worn, calloused hand was just fine.
So I say: Let the 'Umbrella Lobby' take the brunt--not our hard working citizens. Oh, sure. I know elite opinion and so called "academic experts" say that my plan would cause 12 straight years of hail, swarms of ravenous locusts, and a vortex of hurricanes ranging from the Mideast to the West Coast.
But I don't put stock in experts. And neither should you. And that's why you should vote for me on (May 6, May 13, June 3).
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Well today is the day for the posts and link up for the Summer Draw along.EQ 7 Summer Draw Along
I have the first block done and made up.
I have worked on the 3 variations and will work them up soon. I missed the post at mid month that had the variations .... something to note for next month. It has been great practice in using EQ7.
I do have a tip for piecing the little outside half square units.
I cut mine at 2 1/2" instead of 2 3/8" and then trimmed them down to 2"units. There was not much trimmed off , and they were nice and square.
Having fun making the button for the side bar...... not. I'll keep working on it and maybe I will remember what I did the last time.
Bags are packed and still on the fence about the stitches conference this year...... just waiting for a phone call to see what I am to do.
Pop over to the EQ7 blog to see the other blocks created this month.
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