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There's a TV ad I've been seeing where one stranger says to another, “Congratulations on your moment.” I like that line, and lately I've been hearing it in my head when I spot an amazing bird—especially when I'm alone.
Don't worry, I'm not losing it. It's just a little celebration ritual—my way of savoring the moment when I find myself in exactly the right place at the right time.
Most of my mornings began outside on the patio watching, listening and sipping coffee to stay warm. One day was by far the best, with 15 species of warblers spotted.
My list included a Blackburnian, the flame-throated warbler that every birder longs to see each spring. Like a Baltimore oriole, indigo bunting or scarlet tanager, the Blackburnian warbler is one of those “wow” birds that can turn anybody into a committed birder. See one and you never forget it. And then you just want to see it again.
Of course, many less dazzling birds are still coveted by those of us who practice this hobby. How else to explain my excitement over an orange-crowned warbler? It's a rather drably dressed species that can be tricky to identify; the “orange crown” is virtually invisible. I'd never positively seen this bird in my yard before, so when one came along and gave me a good close look, I was up to the challenge. Species No. 106 on my all-time yard list. Congratulations on your moment.
Several more memorable birding moments occurred on May 22 at the Elsen's Hill area of West DuPage Woods Forest Preserve in Winfield. It was a sparkling day—ideal for seeing a wide variety of warblers. That was not to be, but what I did find was even better.
Almost from the time I stepped out of the car I could hear the flute-like sound of a wood thrush in the distance. It's a classic voice of the Eastern forest, and some would say it's the most beautiful bird song of all. Just listening was enough, but about an hour into my walk I realized the bird was quite close. Taking soft, gentle steps off the trail, I surprised myself by actually locating the singing thrush. It was perched on a branch about 20 feet up with it's back to me. What a treat it was to both see and hear this uncommon and declining species. Congratulations on your moment.
But the best was yet to come. Soon I walked into a clearing and noticed a bird sitting on a dead limb. I knew by its profile and stillness that it must be a flycatcher of some kind. I moved a little closer and saw the clean white belly and dark flanks that gave the bird a vested look.
Now, I'm thinking olive-sided flycatcher, which would be a terrific find. But I needed a better look, so I kept moving to get a different angle with the sun behind me. Fortunately, this bird wasn't timid. It held its position as I conducted a thorough study from head to tail. I saw white feather tufts on its back, confirming the ID, and then watched as the bird twice sallied out from its perch to snare a bumblebee.
But my morning at Elsen's Hill wasn't finished. As I was enjoying the olive-sided flycatcher, I heard a loud birdsong coming from a scrubby area just off the trail. The source then revealed itself, flying across the trail to a tree next to the one with the flycatcher. When I saw the bold white eye ring my heart skipped a beat. Then the bird turned toward me, exposed in perfect light. It was a Connecticut warbler, a truly difficult species to observe in this region. Congratulations on your moment.
Later, checking my log, I found that my only previous olive-sided flycatcher occurred at Indiana Dunes State Park in 1998. The Connecticut warbler also was a second-ever sighting, the first coming in 1999.
My morning at Elsen's Hill was another reminder that birding is all about great moments, and that some of the best ones invariably happen when we're alone.
Unless it's an ivory-billed woodpecker, I don't need a witness to enjoy a good find. But I do like hearing that voice.


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Enjoy a beautiful light aircraft flight over the islands and turquoise waters from Pemba International Airport to Ibo Island Lodge. Probably the most compelling attraction in the Quirimbas, Ibo's 200-year-old ghost town and 16th-century forts make for a fascinating journey to an era long forgotten.
The Ibo Island guided experience provides a chance to interact with the amazingly friendly local people and observe their unique island culture and heritage and a way of life that has not changed for hundreds of years. Wander around the mysterious ruins amongst forts and ancient trade buildings with many fascinating stories just waiting to be told.
Ibo Island lodge has spectacular views over the waterfront and tidal bay and accommodates guests in beautifully simple yet elegant rooms. Historic colonial mansions with high ceilings have been stylishly renovated to accommodate the lodge with various verandas, tropical gardens and a spectacular rooftop restaurant that provides the ideal venue to watch the sun go down. The emphasis at Ibo Island Lodge is a mix between guided activities and relaxation and a base from which to explore fascinating Ibo Island.
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The beautiful Ulumbwa river mouth beckons and it is here where fascinating rural fishing villages dot the shore. Enjoy an early morning sail up the Ulumbwa estuary viewing a variety of birds & mangroves that thrive in this area.
Return to your beautiful beach camp set up under the palms on the shores of Matemo Island with enough time to explore Matemo, take a walk or swim.
Return to your base at Ibo Island Lodge and continue your exploration of this fascinating place. Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Enjoy a beautiful light aircraft flight over the islands and turquoise waters to Pemba International Airport from Ibo Island Lodge. Breakfast is included.

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Poppy's girls : a musical / music & lyrics by Richard I. Baron.
words, music & arr.: Richard Lyle Baron.
arr. for piano: Richard Irving Baron, employer for hire.
I need to pretend it's Xmas.
music & lyrics: Richard L. Baron.
Poppy's girls III; a musical.
Prev. reg. 1990 as Poppy's girls, PAu 1-428-423 & Poppy's girls 2, PAu 1-445-516.
Prev. reg. 30Nov90, PAu 1-445-516, etc.
word, music & arr.: Richard Irving Baron, 1927-.
Imaging of cirrhosis : pathologic correlation following transplantation.
New Matter: compilation, all other text & editing.
Radiographic images & some text preexisting.
editing & printed text: Radiological Society of North America, Inc., employer for hire.
Copyrights records by Radiological Society of North America, Inc.
Imaging chronic liver disease : nodular lesions.
edited & printed text: Radiological Society of North America, employer for hire.
words, music, recording: Richard John Baron.
Golden year compilation no. 1.
My habit, and other selections.
Plan-it / [performed by] New Earth.
New Matter: "words for five works; all music, arrangement, performance, production, engineering, mixing of sounds, and sound recording for six works."
Preexisting material: words for side 2, selection 3.
music, arr., performance: Kyle A. Shinall.
The Community imperative : proceedings of a national conference on overcoming public opposition to community care for the mentally ill / [edited by Richard C. Baron, Irvin D. Rutman, Barbara Klaczynska].
Philadelphia : Horizon House Institute for Research and Development, 1980.
Horizon House Institute for Research & Development, employer for hire.
Raid! : The untold story of Patton's secret mission / Richard Baron [i.e. Richard W. Baron], Abe Baum [i.e. Abraham J. Baum], Richard Goldhurst.
Road & Track's Guide to the all new Nissan 300-ZX / contributors, Tap Duncan, Edwin X. Harshness, Jonathan Thompson ; art direction Richard Baron.
New York : CBS Publications, c1983.
C B S Publications, the consumer publishing division of C B S, Inc.
C B S Publications, the consumer publishing division of C B S, Inc., employer for hire.
Copyrights records by CBS Publications, the consumer publishing division of C B S, Inc.
Road & Track's Guide to the all new Toyota MR2 : exciting new mid-engine sports car / [editorial John Dinkel, Dennis Simanaitis, Dorothy Clendenin ... et al. ; art Wm. A. Motta, Richard M. Baron, Lawrence C. Crane ; production Lou Johnson, Ramona Bolhous].
New York : CBS Magazines, c1985.
C B S Magazines, a division of C B S, Inc.
C B S Magazines, a division of C B S, Inc., employer for hire.
Copyrights records by CBS Magazines, a division of C B S, Inc.
Witch Hazel's whacky adventures : The Whacky adventures of Witch Hazel.
The Whacky adventures of Witch Hazel.
entire text & artwork: Jonathon Josiah Thompson, Jr.
Cross cultural ministry in a pluralistic religious community / Jonathan Alfred Thompson.
X-rated romance # 1, "sexercise!"
X-rated romance # 1, "sexercise!" / by Jonathon Thompson, Jr.
X-rated romance number 1, "sexercise!"
Witch Hazel's whackola adventures / by Jonathon Thompson, Jr.
The Whackola adventures of Witch Hazel.
Appl. states W. H. W. A. is a hardcover comic book & that the drawings originated in Ed Emberley's Big orange drawing book.
Air raiders : Raiders of the air.
New Matter: text, some photos, and compilation of photos.
entire text, some photos. & compilation of photos.: Jonathon Josiah Thompson, Jr.
Plig kids; The Green family; My three mothers.
some text: Ernie Jessop, 1973- & Jonathan Thompson, 1968-.

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Bold, vivid strokes and bright colours are the trademarks of my works.I focus on figurative artworks and have over the years developed a unique style of my own. My paintings have a strong shading with clear differentiation between light and shade. Strong Outlines and definite poses give my expressive figures a grounded beauty, standing out from a softer, fading background.Bold, vivid strokes and bright colours are the trademarks of my works.I focus on figurative artworks and have over the years developed a unique style of my own. My paintings have a strong shading with clear differentiation between light and shade. Strong Outlines and definite poses give my expressive figures a grounded beauty, standing out from a softer, fading background.Bold, vivid strokes and bright colours are the trademarks of my works.I focus on figurative artworks and have over the years developed a unique style of my own. My paintings have a strong shading with clear differentiation between light and shade. Strong Outlines and definite poses give my expressive figures a grounded beauty, standing out from a softer, fading background.
 Participated in Charukala Utsav 99 organised by Charukala Parisad. Govt. of West Bengal.
 Participated in Charukala Utsav 2000 organised by Charukala Parisad. Govt.of West Bengal.
Participated in ARTICVISION Art exhibition - “RIPPLES OF BENGAL” in Mumbai 2011.
Participated in 9th anniversary exhibition - “LOOK NOU” on Gallery-G Bangalore, 2012.


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Bought this for my daughter leaving for college. Her school provided a Macbook Air since 8th grade so she wouldn't consider anything else. This one is only 1 year old and came with 2 years remaining on the factory warranty. Perfect condition and $200 less than a new one with a student discount and a year of extra warranty. And no sales tax. Great deal!

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Resolved an issue where automatic failover syncs could take up to 6 hours to complete.
Implemented keyboard injection fixes for RDP sessions.
Lowered the screen sharing poll rate on single-core systems to reduce CPU consumption.
“Edit Behavior Experience” and “Edit Connectivity and Authentication” permission checkboxes are no longer swapped on /login > Jump > Jump Item Roles.


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Many students use famous when they should use the term well known.
While these two terms can be usually be considered synonyms, famous has in its definition that something is famous because of an achievement of some sort.
Something that is famous could also be said to be better-known and more widely-known than something that is just well-known.
Don’t say: Washington state is famous for its delicious apples.
Do say: Washington state is well known for its delicious apples.
Don’t say: Mexico is famous for its spicy foods.
Do say: Mexico is well-known for its spicy foods.
Famous: usually describes a celebrity or an important person that a lot of people know.
Well-known: is similar to famous. However, it also describes people within their own group.
For example, you can say that the principal of your school is well-known at school. He/she is the principal, so everyone knows him/her. You cannot use the word “famous” because most people in your country probably do not care about the principal of your school.
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Spike Lee was pretty cut up about Michael Jackson's death and Samuel L. Jackson might star in the movie that has come from this emotion.
Jackson says "it looks like I might be doing" a new Spike Lee movie called "Brooklyn Loves Michael Jackson."
"He's written a movie about these folks who want to have a big concert in a Brooklyn park for Michael," Jackson said. "And the new gentrified people that live in the neighborhood are worried about the kind of element that might be coming into the neighborhood."
Jackson was speaking at the press day for his latest film "Mother and Child."
The star said he met with Lee for lunch the day after the Academy Awards. "We had a power meeting. We talked about it and I read the script. I like it. So it should be okay.
"Spike said he was bent out of shape about Michael Jackson for a long time."
Jackson added that he's hoping that Julianne Moore will sign on to be his wife in the movie.
The last movie Jackson appeared in a film with Spike Lee directing was "Jungle Fever."


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This is an extended commentary on a presentation to the 1st Workshop on Internet Economics, hosted by CAIDA in September 2009.
The Fine Print: I am not a economist in terms of my professional qualifications. Worse still, I think I fit in to the category of amateur economic dilettante! So most of what I offer here I do so tentatively, as it probably needs a little more rigor and precision in basic economic terms than I am able to provide!
At the outset I should say that here I would like to restrict my view to the transition from the IPv4 Internet to the IPv6 Internet, and, in particular, to examine the topic of the appropriate market structure that lies behind the dual stack transition strategy, and the manner in which the Internet can transition from the universal use of IPv4 as the underlying datagram protocol to the universal use of IPv6. I should also stress that this is not an examination of IPv6 itself and its utility, but is limited to an examination of the mechanisms of transition from the IPv4 Internet to the IPv6 Internet, using an approach that attempts to take a perspective of the fundamentals of markets and the associated market models that attempt to bring suppliers and consumers into some form of equilibration.
A New Zealand IPv6 Steering Group, convened by the Ministry of Economic Development, last week staged a 'Hui' (conference) on IPv6. Addressing the conference, acting minister for communications and information technology, Nathan Guy, said: "The rationale for these Hui is to convince you as key business decision-makers that there is a business case to be made for IPv6 adoption...We need to have IPv6 widely adopted if we are to be able to take full advantage of the mobile Internet and of the 'Internet of things' involving such things as intelligent houses and intelligent transport systems. A key driver for IPv6 is to make possible new services and business opportunities on a large scale, such as networked sensors for industrial or home automation services."
He added : "the minister for communications and information technology does not believe that regulatory intervention is appropriate. Adoption of IPv6 needs to be lead by the private sector. The private sector must recognize that adopting IPv6 is in their own best interests to protect their investment in online capabilities into the future. Issues of advantages and disadvantages, costs, risks, timing, methodology etc, have to be for each enterprise to assess for itself. There is no single best answer for all."
What I found noteworthy in this report is the position being advocated at the level of telecommunications industry public policy in New Zealand, namely that the transition to IPv6 is activity that should be directed entirely by the private sector. It appears to assume that the combination of the factors of the imminent exhaustion of the unallocated pool of IPv4 addresses and the conventional dynamics of an open competitive marketplace in the domestic IP service industry will be sufficient to propel the New Zealand ISP sector to adopt IPv6. Presumably the situation in New Zealand is little different from most other markets, so that this view of one national market could be generalised to be an observation about the entire Internet sector.
The question I would like to pose here is: Is this an appropriate view of the transition to IPv6?
An alternative view is that this transition to IPv6 has already stalled over the past decade, and we should be prepared to view the current situation as an instance of a market failure in economic terms, where the transition will require the impetus of some form of response associated with the distribution of a public good, and that conventional market dynamics are in and of themselves incapable of sustaining such a transition.
Market Failure (Wikipedia): [A] market failure exists when the production or use of goods and services by the market is not efficient. That is, there exists another outcome where market participants' total gains from the new outcome outweigh their losses (even if some participants lose under the new arrangement). Market failures can be viewed as scenarios where individuals' pursuit of pure self-interest leads to results that are not efficient â€" that can be improved upon from the societal point-of-view. The first known use of the term by economists was in 1958, but the concept has been traced back to the Victorian philosopher Henry Sidgwick. Market failures are often associated with non-competitive markets, externalities or public goods. The existence of a market failure is often used as a justification for government intervention in a particular market.
Public Good (Wikipedia): In economics, a public good is a good that is non-rivaled and non-excludable. This means, respectively, that consumption of the good by one individual does not reduce availability of the good for consumption by others; and that no one can be effectively excluded from using the good. In the real world, there may be no such thing as an absolutely non-rivaled and non-excludable good; but economists think that some goods approximate the concept closely enough for the analysis to be economically useful. ... Non-rivalness and non-excludability may cause problems for the production of such goods. Specifically, some economists have argued that they may lead to instances of market failure, where uncoordinated markets driven by parties working in their own self interest are unable to provide these goods in desired quantities. These issues are known as public goods problems, and there is a good deal of debate and literature on how to measure their significance to an economy, and to identify the best remedies. These debates can become important to political arguments about the role of markets in the economy.
One way of looking at this topic is to take the admittedly simplistic view that IPv6 is just IPv4 with larger address headers, and while this view ignores a significant body of adjustments that have been made in IPv6, to a first level of approximation this is a reasonable view. While it is possible to map the smaller (32 bit) IPv4 address pool into the larger (128 bit) IPv6 address pool, the reverse is simply not possible. So if an IPv4 host wants to send a packet to an IPv6 host the challenge is to somehow represent the 128 bits of IPv6 address in the 32 bits reserved for the destination address in the IPv4 header. This is a practical impossibility in any general fashion, and while small subsets of IPv6 address space can be 1:1 mapped into equally small subsets of IPv4 space, the larger problem is not solveable in this fashion. The consequence from this limitation is that even though IPv6 was designed to be a successor protocol to IPv4, its not a backward compatible technology, nor is IPv4 a forward compatible technology in this respect.
Backward Compatibility (Wikipedia): In technology, for example in telecommunications and computing, a device or technology is said to be backwards (or downwards) compatible if it allows input generated by older devices. A standard, for example a data format or a communication protocol, is said to allow backward compatibility, if products designed for the new standard can receive, read, view or play older standards or formats.
This should not be confused with forward compatibility, which implies that old devices allow (or are expected to allow) data formats generated by new (or future) devices, perhaps without supporting all new features. A standard supports forward compatibility if older product versions can receive, read, view or play the new standard.
For example, the introduction of FM stereo transmission, or color television, allowed backward compatibility since new receivers could receive monophonic or black-and-white signals generated by old transmitters. It also allowed forward compatibility, since old (and new) monophonic FM radio receivers and black-and-white TV sets still could receive a signal from a new transmitter.
An instance of the IPv6 protocol stack cannot receive an IPv4 packet header and make any sense of it. Similarly, an IPv6 protocol stack cannot generate a form of the IPv6 packet header that would make sense to an IPv4 protocol instance. They are in effect entirely different and incompatible protocols, and while the two protocols can coexist on the same network, they simply cannot interoperate from one host to another. The reason for this is that while most of the IPv4 header fields can be mapped into either the equivalent IPv6 field or some form of extension header in one fashion or another, the problem comes when attempting to map the source and destination address values between the two protocols. A host using only an IPv4 stack cannot directly communicate with a host using an IPv6 stack.
Maybe it could've been different, and perhaps in retrospect perhaps we should've looked harder at alternative approaches when working on IPv6 that deliberately eased the burden of transition. But such speculation is not all that helpful given that the agenda before us now is pretty clear: just how can we undertake this transition from IPv4 to IPv6?
Given that we can't bind the IPv4 and IPv6 worlds together in a seamless fashion at the IP packet header level, then the starting point of the transition is that the underlying network infrastructure needs to support two distinct protocol families: IPv4 and IPv6.
Presumably we'd know that we were in the final stages of this transition when there are new network deployments using only IPv6 and the dual stack hosts make no further use of IPv4 to reach other hosts, at which stage the continued need for IPv4 would've finished.
The dual stack deployment effort is predicated on the constraint that IPv4 hosts simply cannot talk directly with IPv6 hosts. So instead we have the dual stack negotiated behaviour that involves behaviours on the part of the application as well as the host's protocol stack. The approach is that the application first attempts to expose the protocol capabilities of the other end by asking the DNS for both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses that are associated with the other end's DNS name. Assuming that the DNS returns both address forms, then the application initially attempts to start up a session with one protocol (typically IPv6), and if this fails, then it falls back to the other protocol.
As transition plans go, it's a reasonable plan, particularly considering that IPv6 is not a backwards-compatible protocol. In other words while IPv6 is a substitute for IPv4, the lack of backward compatibility imply that in an existing IPv4 environment IPv6 could be regarded as an imperfect substitute for IPv4. Another view is that the protocol are not direct substitutes until there is comprehensive deployment of the support infrastructure for IPv6, at which point, and only at that point, the two protocols are sufficiently similar in capability that they then could be regarded as perfect substitutes.
Substitute Goods (Wikipedia): In economics, one kind of good (or service) is said to be a substitute good for another kind in so far as the two kinds of goods can be consumed or used in place of one another in at least some of their possible uses. [in this sense IPv6 is a substitute for IPv4]. Perfect substitutes may alternatively be characterized as goods having a constant marginal rate of substitution. Imperfect substitutes exhibit variable marginal rates of substitution along the consumer indifference curve.
The corollary of this dual transition plan is that, ideally, it needs to be complete before we exhaust the pool of IPv4 addresses that we will need to support the continual expansion of the Internet.
An idealised model of the dynamics of this transition is shown in figure 3. The green line in that figure shows the total size of the network, with a continual growth factors. The blue line shows the depletion of the unallocated IPv4 address pool. Given that the growth of the Internet will need to be sustained using IPv4 addresses during the transition phase, the IPv4 address pool will deplete in size in direct relationship to the increase in the size of the network during this transition. The red line shows the total size of the IPv6 network.
Given that the major motivation of the development of IPv6 was to avoid the situation of depletion of available IPv4 addresses, the assumption behind the transition plan was that the uptake of the IPv6 network would need to progress at a faster rate than the growth of the network itself, so that before the time that the IPv4 address pool was fully depleted the takeup of IPv6 would be universal, or close enough. At that stage there would be no further requirement for IPv4 addresses and the transition would be complete.
How well we are doing with this plan?
Current estimates indicate that the IANA will exhaust its IPv4 address pool in September 2011, and the first RIR will fully exhaust all its pool of addresses by June 2012. Given the level of uncertainty in the predictive process, a prudent consideration would be that the entire IPv6 transition should be well and truly completed by July 2011 if we want to avoid the dual problems of driving the dual stack transition and attempting to expand the Internet without any residual pool of available addresses. This implies that the end date in the above transition model is mid-2011. So we have a good idea of when the transition process should complete, assuming that we want to avoid IPv4 address depletion.
The overall 5 year trend in figure 4 shows that the level of end host IPv6 capability is still under 1% of the total set of end hosts that access this site.
Assuming that this is a mirror of a more general measurement of the IPv6 permeation levels, then we can put a timeline under the data presented in the earlier IPv6 transition plan.
The implication of this additional data on the originally envisaged process of dual stack transition is that if we wish to undertake this transition prior to the exhaustion of the IPv4 unallocated address pool, then a conservative estimate is that we have less than two years to lift the relative penetration of IPv6 by more than a hundredfold, from some 1% of the Internet of today to complete deployment, or effectively 100% of the Internet of 2011.
This appears to be a rather daunting objective. The Internet appears to embrace some 1.6 billion users (based on data published by the ITU-T). There are at least a billion end hosts (and likely to be far more), hundreds of millions of routers, and a comparable number of firewalls and other middleware devices, and a cumulative total of billions of lines of configuration codes and filters that are spread across hundreds of millions of ancillary support systems. We've been very busy over the past couple of decades and the IPv4 Internet is now widely dispersed across an impressive count of various forms of devices and active network elements.
The task, and associated cost, is that all these devices must be altered in some form or fashion to support IPv6. While some of these conversion tasks can be automated so that the cost of conversion can be minimized, other tasks require significant capital and operational costs, and also require an extended time to complete. The general tenor of industry comment on this transition timetable is that while it may have been feasible to complete this transition prior to IPv4 address exhaustion if the industry had commenced with this effort in the late 90's, this is no longer a feasible objective given our current situation. We are now incapable of orchestrating a comprehensive transition to IPv6 within the time available as determined by the anticipated time remaining for the unallocated pool of IPv4 addresses.
The implication is that the most likely outcome is that the efforts to undertake transition will be taking place at the same time as the industry will have to face the challenges, and costs, of operating the IPv4 Internet without sufficient addresses to perform unique numbering of the end points even within the current widely deployed model of edge Network Address Translation (NAT) deployment.
Edge NAT deployment: The current architecture used by most ISPs has managed to externalize the costs of address pool management to the customer. Rather than allocating the customer a pool of addresses and allow the customer to number their devices from the service provider's address pool, with the consequent issues and costs of address pool management, address portability and provider lock-in, the adopted solution has been for the provider to number the customer interface with a single address and have the customer use a private address pool for their devices, The customer owns and operates the NAT device that maps between this local private address pool and the service provider's public address. A consequence of this framework is that the service provider has managed to externalize the costs of address scarcity, transferring this cost directly to the customer.
Complete exhaustion of the unallocated IPv4 address space implies that service providers may need to deploy NAT devices within their own networks if they wish to service an expended set of IPv4 customers. The deployment of such Carrier Grade NATs (CGNs) will impose higher costs of the service provider without improving the service provided to the customer. Indeed the case can be made that the CGN deteriorates the service provided to the customer, so in a heterogeneous competitive environment where the address scarcity is not uniformly experienced, any service provided that attempted to pass on the costs of CGN deployment to its customer base would find itself at a short term competitive disadvantage to its competition though higher prices and lower service quality.
It appears that we can't seem to be able to undertake this transition in a manner that completely avoids IPv4 address exhaustion, and the issues with IPv4 address exhaustion expose a set of issues relating to a shift in the cost base for ISPs that are not necessarily exposed to the incumbent customer base, but are a significant factor for new customers and new products. This unequal exposure to the cost of IPv4 address exhaustion does not help in motivating the incumbent base of the network to underwrite their part of the costs of a dual stack transition to IPv6.
The question posed here is: In the light of these considerations, is the transition to IPv6 a "natural" outcome for a deregulated competitive industry? Does the impact of exhaustion of the unallocated IPv4 address pool provide further impetus for this transition, or, does it remove some of the impetus for transition through the creation of potentially mutually exclusive choices for an ISP's expenditure in IPv6 transition or CGN deployment? Will this industry require some form of external intervention to create an environment where the transition can proceed in an efficient manner?
As the original quotation at the start of this article illustrates, there is still some level of conviction in public policy circles that the open market is capable of reaching an IPv6 outcome without any need for external intervention in the transition process. It may be useful to understand the some of the factors that lie behind such convictions in the power and effectiveness of open competitive markets in the telecommunications sector, particularly when one considered that during the majority of he period between 1920 and 1990 this particular market was generally characterised by the use of public monopoly enterprises of one form or another. One possible reason for this recent conviction on the part of the regulatory and public policy bodies in the effectiveness of open competitive markets for telecommunications services is to observe the period of the Internet's own genesis. After all, if one is prepared to accept that the Internet itself is the outcome of an open market process of competitive interests working to ultimately benefit the consumer with novel innovation and efficient pricing and service delivery, surely this transition to IPv6 is another equally valid example where an open competitive market will create the appropriate outcome. So lets look at how the Internet arrived to see if there are similarities here.
The original deployment of IPv4 has often been cited as an excellent example of the beneficial outcomes of an open deregulated market in action. Indeed not only did this original deployment of the Internet happen without direct external intervention, and particularly without direct regulatory impost, it could be argued that at the time it happened in spite of the public policy regime at the time. In the late 80's there was a visible general level of governmental support for adoption of the OSI suite of protocols instead of the Internet, and the proliferation of various GOSIP programs of the late 80's and early 90's is illustrative of this. So why did the deregulated industry undertake the transition to IPv4? And are the factors that were at play in this previous transition relevant to the issues related to the transition from IPv4 to IPv6?
At the time IPv4 included a number of major technical innovations. The first of these was the use of datagram packet switching, in comparison to virtual circuit switching which formed the foundation of the then-prevalent data services. This form of stateless packet switching enabled access to lower costs through the transfer of functionality (and cost) from the network to the edge systems. This allowed a single data circuit to be efficiently shared across a community of up to thousands of IP end users. The related technical innovations in IP included a sufficiently large address field to accommodate a collection of users that was commensurate with the population of public network users, and the unreliable datagram model of switching control that pushed the responsibility for end-to-end reliability also out from the network and onto the edge systems. At the same time the provisioning methodology used by the telephone operating companies used a methodology of massive up-front provisioning of capacity, and then ameliorating this potential oversupply by careful rationing of availability of data services through extensive use of price premiums. In other words there was a significant pool of available infrastructure that could be accessed given a use model that achieved a certain threshold of exploitative value. The Internet's packet-switched architecture represented such an efficient user of the existing available carriage infrastructure.
In economic terms this Internet-induced shift can be modelled as a supply curve shift, where the cost of the provision of upper level data services was drastically reduced thorough the use of IP placed on top of the basic bit carriage services. If the supply side was able to respond to this opportunity then this lower price would result in an increase in quantity of service at the equilibrium point of the new price. At the same time the extremely simple and flexible model of service delivery in IP allowed for a entirely new set of applications for data networking. This was first seen in the rise of electronic mail, then with file sharing and very quickly to services that were built upon the emerging common substrate of the worldwide web. This dramatic expansion of the service portfolio increased the user's perceived value of the service, which can be modelled in the demand schedule as a demand curve shift within the framework of the same basic economic model.
The combination of these two factors in the supply and demand schedules worked together in terms of reduced price and increased user perception of value, shown in Figure 6.
Progressive deregulation of the telecommunications industry exposed this industry to the private capital investment markets, and a new class of entrepreneur that was seeking strategic weaknesses in the incumbents' service portfolio that could be readily exploited. IP provided such an opportunity, as the very significant differential between the efficiency of circuit-based and packet-based networks was of such a magnitude that it was readily possible to purchase a circuit, add IP switching elements and resell the service as IP to a large community of customers.
The initial growth of the Internet was fuelled by this entrepreneur sector, using highly agile, high risk private investment, or venture capital.
Venture Capital (Wikipedia): Venture capital (also known as VC or Venture) is a type of private equity capital typically provided to early-stage, high-potential, growth companies in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realization event such as an IPO or trade sale of the company. Venture capital investments are generally made as cash in exchange for shares in the invested company. It is typical for venture capital investors to identify and back companies in high technology industries such as biotechnology and ICT (information and communication technology). A core skill within VC is the ability to identify novel technologies that have the potential to generate high commercial returns at an early stage. By definition, VCs also take a role in managing entrepreneurial companies at an early stage, thus adding skills as well as capital (thereby differentiating VC from buy out private equity which typically invest in companies with proven revenue), and thereby potentially realizing much higher rates of returns.
This is not a long-term stable situation, particularly in the telecommunications services sector which is characterised by significant economies of scale. The increasing intensity of competition in a marketplace occupied by a set of small scale providers lead to a wave of consolidation in the nascent ISP industry, where the smaller players merged into larger enterprises that were then able to use their resultant greater volume of activity to achieve greater economics of scale.
It was only a matter of time before the larger telephone operators were able to overcome the short term issues of cannibalisation of existing data service products and directly address the strategic weakness in their service portfolio that had been exposed by the Internet. The latter part of the 1990's saw the larger players undertake the deployment of capital and the creation of new support infrastructure and process to support the large scale deployment of Internet services, and at the same time buy out many of the initial Internet service providers. The overall picture of the industry across the 90's and early 00's is indicated in Figure 7. This picture is not dissimilar to the early ears of the telephone industry in the late 19th century, or that of the early years of the auto industry, the television industry or the computer industry. The basic technical innovation that lay at the heart of the market initially motivated a wave of entrepreneurs who rushed products to market in order to obtain an early market lead. This stimulated greater levels of demand, which created further impetus for additional entrants in provision of goods and services. The pressures of competition then started to impose a need for efficient production, which lead to a need to improve production efficiency through economies of scale. This motivated a wave of consolidation in the supply side of the industry, leading to the consolidation of the market into a far smaller number of large scale providers.
I have recently heard a claim from one ex-telephone company public affairs spokesman who claimed that the only way to successfully provide innovative services in new markets was through vertical integration and bundling of services.
The experience of the Internet points entirely in the opposite direction, where the presence of a wide diversity of highly specialised service providers and the related activity of dis-integration and unbundling of all the components of the service lead to intense competition in both service efficiency and innovation in every part of the service portfolio. This, in turn, lead to a wave of innovative consumer products that left the incumbent telephone service operators looking distinctly anachronistic and out of touch with consumers. The side effect of this wave of entrepreneurial activity in the early days of the internet had a very notable outcome in the creation of a distinct market in the provision of specialised network services. This market is populated today by flagship enterprises such as EBay, Amazon and Google, as well as thousands of other smaller enterprises that continually push at the innovative edge. These providers do not operate an access network and have no direct relationship with the provision of Internet access services to end users, and collectively they represent a significant step in the unbundling of communications services, a process which previously had been successfully resisted by the incumbent telephone operators.
Despite the entry of these telephone operators into the internet services market, the Internet has managed to remain unbundled, allowing a large and diverse set of independent service providers to operate in an overlay across the substrate of the Internet.
The rather obvious question is: If it happened for IPv4, then why won't it happen for the transition to IPv6? Will we once again see the a deregulated industry embark upon this transition as a "natural" outcome of the conventional operation of an open, competitive, deregulated market?
The one major difference here is that we are not comparing the costs of datagram-based packet switching architectures to those of virtual circuits, but instead we are comparing two remarkably similar versions of IP. These versions are so similar in fact that the behaviour of the upper-layer transport protocols are essentially identical - TCP and UDP are both unaltered.
In comparing IPv4 to IPv6, the cost of the network service is identical. Adopting IPv6 does not provide any difference in the costs of the network's operation. Similarly, the functionality of the network services are so similar as to be effectively identical. There are some subtle differences in packet fragmentation and some subtle differences in auto-configuration, but these are extremely subtle changes and in general have no visible impact on the upper level services and on the resultant architecture of applications. The only significant difference here lies in the address space, where the span of devices that can possibly be addressed in an IPv6 network is vastly greater than that of IPv4.
In summary, there is no consumer-visible difference in the services provided by IPv6 that would lead to a change in demand, and nor is there a difference on the cost of production of services that would lead to a change in supply. And because IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4 the two goods are not perfect substitutes. Instead, there is a cost associated with the provision of IPv6 related to the cost of the provisioning and operating the network infrastructure with IPv6 support.
Normally this would lead to a situation where such a transition would fail, given that the two services are essentially identical and there is a non-negligible cost of transition from the incumbent protocol to the other protocol.
It has often been observed that this transition would've been a lot easier had the industry commenced the transition in 1999, while the network was a lot smaller than it is today and while the projection of completing the transition was well before the prospect of IPv4 address depletion became an imminent event. The obvious question here is that if we are allowed to assume that all the market players have been well informed at all times, then is the fact that this transition has not commenced when it would've been far easier and cheaper to undertake an indication that the transition is one that will not be undertaken at all? Is an inference from leaving this transition until its too late a clear signal that it will not happen at all within the constraints of the prevailing environment?
Another way to phrase this question is to inquire whether the transition to IPv6 is an instance of a market failure?
As noted earlier, a market failure is characterized by an inefficient production environment, where individual self interest does not provide sufficient incentive to undertake efficient production. This is often associated with a public good, and the associated question is whether this transition is an activity that can be characterised as a public good? On the face of it a strong case can be made that this transition has non-rivalrous and non-exclusionary properties. An individual's actions in supporting this transition does not lead to any other individual being unable to do so, and noone is excluded from the benefit of networking services by virtue of any individual's transition. In other words, if an ISP provides an IPv6 service in additional to an IPv4 service in support of a dual stack transition, then given that there are no services that are accessible using IPv6 exclusively there are no additional benefits or services than can be provided by this IPv6 service. The IPv4 users of the network can access all the clients of this dual stack service, so the additional expenditure on the part of the ISP has not created any additional value for the consumer and cannot be translated into an increase in the value of the service or the size of the service.
If this is the case, then it would appear that leaving this transition for competitive market forces to resolve appears to be an ineffectual stance if the transition is considered to be in the common or public interest. Conventional market dynamics in a deregulated market will not lead to this transition being undertaken.
Public Interest (Wikipedia): The public interest refers to the "common well-being" or "general welfare." The public interest is central to policy debates, politics, democracy and the nature of government itself. While nearly everyone claims that aiding the common well-being or general welfare is positive, there is little, if any, consensus on what exactly constitutes the public interest. Rather than as an absolute, the public interest is often defined relative to the concept of a private or individual interest. It is possible for acts in the public interest to be bad for given individuals and vice versa.
If this transition is considered to be necessary in terms of the public interest, then perhaps we need to look a little more widely for possible remedies.
One approach is to allow the complete exhaustion of IPv4 addresses to occur. Would this provide sufficient motivation for the industry to undertake this transition?
The major differentiator between IPv6 and IPv4 is that of future risk associated with IPv4 address exhaustion. Following exhaustion service providers will incur increased costs associated with continued expansion of the customer base through increased costs incurred through the combination of the increased cost of acquiring addresses (a scarcity premium) and the increased costs in making efficient use of these addresses through the use of service provider-provisioned NATs (an efficient exploitation cost). New customers and products that are deployed may have impaired functionality as a result of the use of additional NATs that are deployed in the data path. While the installed base of the network would not be disadvantaged, new customers would have a lower level of functionality and their service providers would experience higher costs in an IPv4 network that had to make more efficient use of the pool of addresses though multiple levels of NAT deployment (Figure 8).
However it must be noted that the entire Internet does not experience this shift in cost and functionality. This alteration to the demand schedule replates principally to the population of new Internet users and the deployment of new products. So the question is whether this shift of cost and functionality for new consumers and new product deployments would provide sufficient impetus for all providers to embark on the transition to IPv6 for all their customers and most on with a comprehensive deployment of IPv6 alongside IPv4? Interestingly, this does not change the demand schedule for new users, and the shift indicated in Figure 8 still applies, as a Dual Stack deployment implies a continuing need for IPv4 for such users. For existing customers the functionality and service remains constant, so there is no increase in the perceived benefit of the service, but the additional cost in the deployment of IPv6 in parallel to the IPv4 infrastructure would need to be borne by the service provider. If this cost were to be passed on the consumers this could result in a decrease in demand from that service provider (Figure 9).
It appears that a service provider that elects to commence a dual-stack deployment of IPv6 is putting itself at a short term competitive disadvantage with respect to a service provider that elects to remain with an IPv4 service portfolio, even though the necessity of this move in the longer term is a common constraint.
This appears to be a more general case of a form of market failure where short term competitive interests appear to be contrary to longer term common interests.
regulatory impost, where a regulatory constraint is placed on the licence holders that IPv6 services are to be provided by a given deadline (as has happened with digital television in many regulatory sectors). This regulatory constraint acts a form of a assurance contract, where all providers are in effect bound to produce a particular solution).
government purchase contracts, where the government sector collectively require the provision in IPv6 in all their service contracts. This is a form of a coasian solution where a group of potential beneficiaries pool together their willingness to pay for the public good. We have seen this approach in the past with the Government OSI Profiles (GOSIP) of the late 1980's when the approach proved ineffectual, and there is no assurance that such collective actions have sufficient mass and momentum to create a broader sustainable market.
subsidies and incentives, where the production of the good is subsidised in some fashion by public funds, This can be in the form of direct payments to service providers, or in the form of vouchers to consumers which can be redeemed only in exchange for the supply of a specified service. Other potential measures include the use of taxation incentives related to infrastructure investment, where the investment in a certain class of infrastructure or in a certain sector can be provided with advantaged taxation treatment.
public provision of the service, where the service is provided by a publically-owned enterprise. The funding for such an enterprise can be provided by government-backed investment bonds, or directly from public revenues, and operating losses are underwritten by the public purse. This measure was used for most national telephone service providers for a significant part of the twentieth century, so it is not exactly a completely foreign concept for this industry.
The one undeniable assertion that can be made about the current situation is that where we are today is an entirely unintended scenario. The dual stack transition was meant to be not only largely underway, but reaching its conclusion by now if we were to avoid the imposition of additional costs associated with IPv4 address exhaustion.
Given that this is now unavoidable, the next question to ask is whether this industry will undertake this transition at all if left to its own devices. It may well be the case that this is another instance of a public good with common interest implications, in that the problem of undertaking the transition is simultaneously a problem that is in every consumer's common interest as a desirable outcome, yet lies in no individual consumer's sphere of immediate self interest.
If this is indeed the case, then we may be facing a situation of a market failure with this transition, in which case we may need to contemplate some for of additional impetus in the form of a response to stimulating a viable and efficient market for what is at present a public good of the transition to IPv6.
There are at least a billion end hosts (and likely to be far more), hundreds of millions of routers, and a comparable number of firewalls and other middleware devices, and a cumulative total of billions of lines of configuration codes and filters that are spread across hundreds of millions of ancillary support systems.
It is actually the population of public-facing web servers that are the most important measure of transition success, as these need to transition to dual-stack for the Internet to be actually ready for a IPv6-only client connections. Still a large number of hosts, but perhaps in the millions not billions.
government purchase contracts, where the government sector collectively require the provision in IPv6 in all their service contracts.
While these do not generally work to create a long-term sustainable market, they have their place in creating a short-term market for services or equipment which can then be purchased by commercial sector when they're ready. We've seen this work with IPv6 router support due to addition to government profile, and it could also be useful approach to gain standard IPv6 support for firewall and loadbalancer vendors.
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I went to a lovely baby shower for my daughter's sister in law on Sunday. Everything was so nice and the snacks were great. They even had shots of pumpkin soup and little mini sundaes for dessert!!
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To get started with IT at NUI Galway, take a look at these Quick Start Guides. They cover a lot of the basics, including your Campus Account, Blackboard, Wifi, printing, storage and support.
Even if you feel that your IT and digital skills are very good, they can probably be improved or developed to serve you better as a student. Also, technological change occurs so rapidly that almost everyone can benefit from continuously up-skilling in this area. Click on the boxes below for more.
Recently a number of Irish higher education institutions (including NUI Galway) collaborated together on a major IT and digital skills project called All Aboard. They have produced a ‘metro map’ that maps out key IT and digital tools, technologies, and uses in a higher education setting. Take a look at this as a first step to reflecting on your own IT and digital skills. You can also take a digital confidence assessment on the All Aboard website.
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Boston Networks chief executive Scott McEwan says the synergies are 'obvious'. Picture: Peter Devlin.
An investment firm has seen a Glasgow-based IT provider in which it owns a majority stake acquire a Welsh player to create a UK-wide organisation with more than 300 staff.
Aliter Capital has fused Scotland’s Boston Networks with Pinacl Solutions and Pinacl GDA based in North Wales to create a “major player” with turnover approaching £50 million, and full design, installation, management and support capability across network infrastructure, smart buildings, Internet of Things (IoT), physical security and life safety systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and the now-enlarged leadership team will take responsibility for running the combined business. Both chief executives remain in post and both companies continue to operate from their current bases.
Boston Networks recently launched the £6m IoT Scotland, after being chosen to lead the commercialisation of IoT across Scotland – a project part-funded by the Scottish Government.
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Summer in the foothills – I am not sure there is anywhere better at this time of year.
Sunshine, blue skies, cooling breezes, mountain walks, picnics by the river or mountain lakes, cycling to favourite cafés, markets teeming with local produce, restaurant terraces full to bursting and a holiday atmosphere everywhere.
In addition, the property market here is very busy with some excellent value properties for sale. International buyers are out in force looking to snap up the chance of buying their home in France while the exchange rate and mortgage rates are still in their favour and house prices are bumping along the bottom.
Who knows what will happen in the next few years post Brexit (does anyone?) but my guess is that life will go on. If you are looking to buy a property in France for quality of life reasons then I am still very confident that you could do a lot worse than invest in what is definitely one of the most beautiful regions of France with just about everything you could want on your doorstep and a wide range of property at fantastic value.
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High Quality Garden Furniture and Outdoor Rattan Furniture.
The Patio Furniture Station features a great selection of outdoor and patio furniture, chairs, benches, tables and patio sets in aluminum, wicker and teak for lawn and garden.
Quality Garden Furniture stocks a huge range of excellent patio and garden furniture at affordable prices including wooden, metal, and all weather outdoor furniture, garden benches, sun loungers, swing seats and much more.
Goldenteak.com specializes in high quality teak furniture and its import, the distribution and sale and service.
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Obtain a cup of tea or coffee, relax, relax and also give a couple of minutes of your time to read this review about Sleep Choices and the Snuz mattresses. You will certainly see that your searches could come to the end, as you will learnt what it is a really great bed mattress.
Rest Choices have more than 50 years of experience in making mattresses. With so many years, they have actually been developing and renewing a great deal of technologies that are a little bit old as well as inventing some brand-new ones. If you are having issues with your resting, are awakening in the center of the evening, really feeling tired in the morning, you ought to take into consideration regarding Snuz cushion by Sleep Choices. These bed mattress are made with reducing overheating, also advertises appropriate back placement. Sleep Choices gives you with a bed mattress that you will certainly want to sleep on it forever and also not leave it in the morning!
Rest Choices supplies the Snuz cushions that are constructed from high quality materials that help you to really feel fresh as well as completely awake in the early morning.
➢ Foam of polyester that reduces motion moving, so you would certainly not feel your companion moving.
➢ Graphite instilled foam which assists to eliminate all smells that develops over time.
➢ Memory foam which is below the leading layer. It has actually grooved channels as well as helps air to circulate in the cushion.
If you favor to rest on the side, so you will require a high-pressure relief in your shoulder area in order to you really feel comfy. Likewise, your spine must be straightened, in another means you will obtain some major discomfort in the morning. For the side sleepers, the Snuz mattresses by Sleep Choices are providing high support on the reduced body location and also stress alleviation in the hip as well as shoulder location.
If you would rate The Snuz mattress with a suppleness scale, this bed mattress would certainly be in a 5 to 6 at the range. This implies, that the Sleep Choices mattresses are mainly produced all type of sleepers that requires medium firmness. Each part of these mattresses is made to offer an equivalent amount of assistance or stress alleviation. By doing this, your various parts of the body really feel comfortable and as the outcome – you are getting up fresh and fully relaxed.
We all recognize that annoying sensation when you feel your companion getting up initially in the morning and getting up you. Why? Since you really feel the movement transfer. Well, presume what – with the Snuz mattresses by Sleep Choices you can rest as much as you want even if your partner has to awaken early. The Sleep Choices mattresses are from the thick layer of foam which is not moving any type of motion as the latex ones, for example. These bed mattress are soaking up most vibration, so those sleepers that are sharing the bed with a companion, youngster or even a canine – will rest like a child and do not feel any movements in all.


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Yeah, so all those prayers Geron mentioned for Cora to have my temperament? Unanswered! I think we have a little Geron on our hands. Lately, whenever we're riding in the car, well, pretty much any time she's awake, Cora is LOUD, LOUD, LOUD. Geron and I sit in the front trying to talk about whatever is on our mind and we hear "Aagheeeeeaaaaabuhbuhbuh Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaagh buh buh buh buh pbstpbpbpbpbpbststststssssst" (Hard to write the sound of one blowing spit bubbles, but you get the point.) Geron mentioned the other morning "I thought your parents said you were a quiet baby." I responded "They did. SHe gets that from YOU!" Yes, Cora loves to talk and I think sing---seems to be what she's doing in the car, anyway. I'm sure if we listened to a music radio station as opposed to Geron's favorite talk radio shows, we'd probably get some actual melodies coming from the backseat. Whatever the case and whosever the temperament, we have a very happy LOUD little girl who is tons of fun to have around!
I will reiterate, folks, that both of my girls, Lydia and Annie, were very quiet little babies. (The boy--that's a different story.) Lydia remained quiet, folks, believe it or not, for years, although Ann began screaming at about 11 months and still is known for making herself heard.
Don't forget gorgeous! Your baby is gorgeous!
She is beautiful, indeed. And being loud and making yourself heard is not necessarily a bad thing (says the girl who has one of the biggest, loudest mouths around). LOL!


text: HK Diamonds was established in the year 2005. We are leading OEM Manufacturer and Supplier of Congo Loose Roghe Diamond, Congo Raund Beads Diamond etc. Listed in the category of topnotch companies, we are offering Loose Diamond to the clients. Visually appealing appearance, excellent polishing and vibrant shine are the striking characteristics of this Loose Diamond. This Loose Diamond is finished in the perfect manner and is available in myriad of range and specifications. In addition to this, this Loose Diamond is offered to the clients at economical price.


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San Jose LUNAFEST 2019 features eight award-winning short films by, for, and about women. See a full list of the films. And the evening includes delicious food and drink. Standard seating is included with all tickets, but as in past years, luxury “Living Room” seating will be auctioned to the highest bidder.
Big shout out to our event sponsors!


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Simplicity, functionality and minimalism, that's what Opposite has to offer.This mini-tufted carpet tile collection adds a touch of sophistication to any setting.The Scandinavian colour palette with vaporous blues, soft greys and natural shades such as brown and beige, captures light in the most remarkable ways and creates an inviting and productive atmosphere.
To add an extra dimension to your floor, the Opposite collection can be mixed & matched with the Opposite Lines collection. The Opposite carpet tile can only be installed in checkerboard and meets all the requirements for extremely intensive project use.


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Over the past decade, open world sandbox games have proliferated. Modern technology allows for bigger experiences with a lot less seams.
Generally speaking, this is a good thing. Great open world games allow the player to become completely immersed in its plot and setting. The Witcher III is an absolute masterpiece of open world design. You are given a world that begs to be explored, and it is a joy to do so. Players carve out their own path, but not at the expense of the story that CD Projeckt Red want to tell.
The problem is that some game designers mistake having a lot of things to do for having a lot of player choice.
Pictured: Chaos and confusion, slowly turning to apathy.
To be fair, some of those side quests can be pretty good, but most are the video game equivalent of busy work. The Far Cry series is even worse in this regard. They are beautiful, fun to play games, but nothing about the environments you play in are memorable. They are big maps filled with tons of things to collect and kill.
Ubisoft is an easy target, but other devs are just as guilty. Metal Gear Solid V is generally a successful open world game that gives you a lot of freedom on how you want to complete your missions. However, the side ops are a symptom of the Disease of More. After a few hours, it becomes apparent that you are doing one of a handful of mission types over and over again. Unless there was something useful on the other side, or a rad animal to add to my zoo, I started to skip them.
To be fair, developers could be responding to consumers that have been burned one too many times by The Order: 1886's of the world. Unfortunately, there seems to be a strange binary that your game either needs to be completely open world or corridor shooter. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be this way. There are quite a few linear games that are open ended in their design, but the best modern example is Dishonored.
There isn’t an open world to explore and you are taken to almost all of the targets by boat. The levels are big, but your goal is pretty open and shut. There is a target, and you have to deal with them.
Dishonored uses these self imposed shortcomings to its advantage. Instead of populating the game with repetitive “content”, they empower you through the abilities of hyper competent assassin Corvo Attano.
Corvo “only” has six active powers, but they all fit together with each other, unlockable passives, the environment, and the traditional weapons at your disposal. It isn’t possible to max all of the powers or skills in a single playthrough, promoting the player to replay it after the credits roll and try different techniques.
The levels all begin and in at the same place, but there are multiple routes to get to your target. It is perfectly valid to use your Blink ability to pop to a vent behind a guard, quickly take over the body of a nearby rat and infiltrate through there. Once inside, you can use your ability to see enemies and important objects through walls to avoid detection, disable the security system, and zero in on your prey.
The stages have a ton of verticality to take advantage of. If you come across a seemingly impassable guard post, take a moment to look up. It is possible to skip through massive sections with some creative routing, allowing you to avoid most guards altogether.
Or, you can kill them all. It is possible to play the entire game without killing a soul, but the game really shows its twisted chops when you become a whirling dervish of death and destruction.
A few examples: The game features traps that unleash slicing barbed wire to gruesome effect. You can place them around the level simply enough, but you can also attach the trap to a rat, possess it, and then send it over to a couple of chatting guards.
Getting shot at? Slow down time, possess an enemy to walk in front of enemy gunfire. While time warp is still active, you can quickly dispatch the rest of the gunmen with your blade or you can summon a swarm of rats to devour them while you make your escape.
Feeling especially cruel? Possess an enemy, walk them up to the edge of a building, jump out of their body, and push them off using your Wind Gust ability. Speaking of Wind Gust, it is handy to deal with enemies firing explosives at you by pushing them right back at them.
The great thing about Dishonored is that you don’t need to be nearly as good as StealthGamerBR or TheWalrusMovement to have a good time, but that level of depth is there for those that want to explore.
Not every linear game should be exactly like Dishonored, of course. Indeed, it is possible to develop a really good, hyper linear game. But being able to let players actually play instead of being shuttled from one scripted sequence to the next is a target that devs should be aiming at.

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Doris Lindley Stearns passed away on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 at the age of 95. She was born on June 21, 1918 to Helen Davie and Edwin Ferguson in American Falls, ID. A brother, Jack, was born in 1920. At the time of her birth the family lived in Roberts, ID; they moved to American Falls in 1934 when Doris was a sophomore in high school. That same year Doris met LeRoy Lindley in study hall. They were married on April 21, 1939. They had two children, a daughter, Sondra, and a son, Rand.
Doris and Leroy farmed in Arbon, ID. They spent their summers in Arbon and the winters in American Falls where their children attended school. They ultimately moved to Caldwell and were living there when Leroy passed away in 1988.
Doris’ goals in life were to have a home and raise a family. She took great pride in homemaking, whether it was ironing a shirt or setting the dinner table. She was a fantastic cook. A consummate mid-century woman, she was always well dressed and perfectly styled. She was a rock to her family and managed all household duties and raising her kids with a quiet confidence and keen sense of style and class.
Doris had many friends through the years. She was a member of PEO, Chapter U, The Order of Eastern Star and enjoyed the time spent at hobby club. She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church.
Doris met and married Jim Stearns in 1991. She and Jim took great care of one another and enjoyed cruises and vacations together.
Doris will be missed by many, especially her children, Sondra Anderson (Eldon) of Boise and Rand Lindley (Koni) of Emmett, as well as her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was given great care and attention in her final years by Grace Memory Care in Meridian and we wish to thank the staff who did so much to make her comfortable and safe.


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Located in the fashionable suburb of New Farm, Spicers Balfour Hotel is just minutes from the city centre. Step inside this iconic Queenslander and you’ll discover a chic and stylish interior that’s welcoming and warm and perfectly complements the high standard of personal service expected from a Spicers Retreat.
At Punthill Brisbane, you will discover stylish and spacious hotel accommodation. Located in Astor Terrace, Spring Hill it’s only a few minutes’ walk to the heart of Brisbane’s CBD. Our serviced apartments feature luxurious king beds, a private balcony, kitchen, workspace, flat screen TV, iPod dock, secure undercover parking and a modern contemporary interior design.
Royal Albert Hotel is the heart and soul of Brisbane. It sits adjacent to the Queen Street Mall, at the epicentre of the shopping, entertainment and attractions of Brisbane city.The hotel is an historic building with classic style and a history spanning 100 years.
The Royal on the Park Hotel CBD is an iconic hotel offering a rich history full of tradition, elegance and service. The unique outlook over the City Botanic Gardens provides a view like no other and offers guests a tranquil retreat in the heart of the Brisbane CBD that other hotels simply can’t match.
Housed in two of Australia’s grandest heritage buildings, this space has been transformed to create a hotel experience of world class standard which is unlike any other. A mere 25 minute drive from Brisbane’s domestic and international airports, Treasury Casino & Hotel is situated directly in the city’s commercial and retail heart. Offers 128 lavishly appointed rooms and unique packages.
The Sebel is a contemporary 4.5 star hotel consisting of studio, 1 bedroom and 2 bedroom apartment accommodation in the heart of central Brisbane. Palettes Restaurant and Bar offers innovative cuisine and cosmopolitan street level dining with the vibrant atmosphere of an inner city brassiere.
Rendezvous Hotel Anzac Square is a modern hotel located in the heart of Brisbane’s central business district. Overlooking the Anzac Square memorial gardens and directly opposite Central Railway Station, our superb location gives you direct access to the best that Brisbane has to offer. Whether you are travelling for business or leisure, you will appreciate having Queen Street Mall.
Welcome to the Pullman Brisbane King George Square, a unique and vibrant 5-star hotel located in Brisbane’s CBD.This upscale hotel offers business travellers 210 contemporary Pullman guestrooms whilst also offering a Mercure tower with 228 hotel rooms in Brisbane.


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It's Spring at last and time to celebrate with this basket of springtime favorites, red tulips, blue hyacinth and yellow daffodils. There's so much to love about this cheerful gift and you can be sure it will be appreciated. Order a bouquet of Spring flowers online or call Ruth's Flowers today!
Giving Beautiful Fresh Flowers Will Fill Her Day with Sunshine and Love. To Send a Floral Arrangement in the Locust, NC area, Call Ruth's Flowers Direct or Order Flowers Now from our Website.
What better way to celebrate Easter than with the candy-colors of springtime? Think you're too old for an Easter basket? Think again! Order a lush basket of Easter flowers from Ruth's Flowers for yourself or any bunny who needs a little pick-me-up! Whether your style is bright and cheery gerbera dasies, or powdery pastel lilies, this Locust florist has you covered!


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We’ve shared news of many kinds of school fundraisers – but this is the first time we can recall one involving mattresses. It’s set for this Saturday (September 15th) at West Seattle High School, 10 am-5 pm. The WS Booster Club is running the sale to raise money for WSHS Athletics, in partnership with a fundraising company that specializes in this, and you will be able to shop for new, name-brand mattresses, every size (even custom) and type – even motorized adjustable bed frames; delivery and you-haul options, cash/check/credit/layaway. The school’s at 3000 California SW.
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This has got to be one of the most interesting fundraisers I’ve ever heard of. I hope it’s successful!


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Meet the new feel great weight dieters and keep track of their progress on their journey to weight loss.
Ive lost and gained the same 20 pounds again and again. For the most part, Im healthy and active. But when I go crazy with food, I really go crazy. I crave the “bad” stuff: think pizza and Chinese dumplings. I eat more than I need to and find myself feeling too full too often. I dont want to be a waif, but Id like to become leaner and more muscular, and to develop good habits that I can stick with for the rest of my life.
When I had my son, I gained 40 pounds15 of which never came off. It doesnt help that I love to bake and that my husband and stepson are into junk food. Ive been trying to run twice a week, but if it doesnt happen first thing in the morning, it doesnt happen at all. People used to comment on how nicely defined my shoulders and quads were, but I cant remember the last time I heard that. I want to look strong and athletic again, and set a good example for my family.
Ive spent the better part of my life taking care of everyone else, and my health has taken a backseat. Food is my drug. Theres nothing I love more than a potatohowever you cook it, I want to eat it! I often dont get home from work until 9 oclock, and Im too worn out by then to put together a healthy dinner. And I have exercise equipment that I dont use. The good news? When I set a goal, I achieve it. I want to be healthier, and Im ready to finally focus on myself.