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ISLAMABAD: Continuing to share concern over India-US defence and nuclear cooperation, Pakistan on Thursday said that the defence agreement between the two sides could only “add to the conventional asymmetry and hence strategic instability in the region”.
It also said India’s massive acquisition of weapons ‘complicates’ regional stability. “India’s defence spending has increased by 12 percent in 2014-15 and stands at $38.35 billion. India has been the top buyer of arms for the last three years. In this backdrop, the US-India ten-year defence agreement can only add to the conventional asymmetry and hence strategic instability,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam told a weekly press briefing.
In Thursday’s media briefing, the FO spokesperson said Pakistan has been proposing a three-pronged ‘Strategic Restraint Regime’ based on conflict resolution, nuclear and missile restraint and conventional balance. “Pakistan firmly believes that confidence-building and arms reduction in the regional and sub-regional context are of paramount importance,” she said.
The spokesperson said Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Pakistan, which was postponed last year, was “very much on the cards” but exact dates were not finalised as yet. The FO diplomat termed China a ‘global power’. “China is a global power and it is a factor of regional stability. We are engaged with China very extensively and we believe that globally and regionally China has an important responsibility and role to play for peace, stability, prosperity and development,” Aslam said.
Asked whether Pakistan would support China for the membership of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), she said, “I’m not aware that China has evinced interest in becoming a full member of SAARC but China’s engagement has a positive and salutary impact on SAARC. If China’s role increases, it would benefit the organisation as such.
While Toukan’s answers are authoritative, they have not yet succeeded in convincing Jordanian skeptics. Perhaps that’s because serious safety problems emerged at Palo Verde in 2013. Or maybe Toukan’s unsubstantiated 2014 claims before parliament—that radiation leaks from the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona were resulting in increased incidences of cancer in the Kingdom—have further soured Jordanians on nuclear energy. It’s also possible that heightened fears of terrorism fueled by the recent territorial gains by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq or ISIS, are dampening enthusiasm for the project.
In the face of continued foreign and domestic opposition, it isn’t clear that Jordan will actually proceed with the nuclear option. Today the Atomic Energy Commission is calling nuclear power “a strategic choice,” but with nearly a million Syrian refugees in the Kingdom, a stumbling economy, a rising threat of terrorism on the home front, and with a downed Jordanian pilot currently held captive by ISIL, King Abdullah could punt, delaying a decision—and avoiding confrontation with Washington—for the indefinite future. Given the ongoing challenges, for the time being at least, no nukes should be a no-brainer for the Kingdom.
A North Korean nuclear plant is seen in Yongbyon, in this photo taken June 27, 2008 and released by Kyodo.
(Reuters) – North Korea may be trying to restart a nuclear reactor that can yield plutonium for atomic bombs, a U.S. security think tank said on Wednesday, citing new satellite imagery.
RIYADH/ON BOARD AIR FORCE ONE: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and U.S. President Barack Obama tackled a range of sensitive regional issues Tuesday during Obama’s one-day visit to Riyadh, as the Saudi monarch highlighted his country’s stance that Iran should not be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon.
The two leaders touched on the volatile situation in Saudi Arabia’s neighbor Yemen, where Shiite Houthi rebels have launched a power grab, as well as the thorny negotiations between Iran and the West over a nuclear program that Iran insists is for civilian and not military purposes.
King Salman expressed “no reservations” about the ongoing talks but added that Riyadh was adamant that Iran not be allowed to build a nuclear bomb, an administration official said.
The two leaders also touched on stability in the oil market and the king expressed a message of continuity on Saudi energy policy in their talks, the official said.
The talks were attended by Crown Prince Muqrin and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Nayef, along with several high-ranking Saudi officials, while Obama was joined by a high-powered delegation that included former secretaries of state and a Republican critic of the administration’s Middle East policy.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One after Obama departed Saudi Arabia, the official said the two men did not discuss current oil prices. He said the king suggested Saudi Arabia would continue to play its role within the global energy market and that one should not expect a change in the country’s position.
During his brief stop in Riyadh Obama held his first formal meeting with King Salman, newly installed on the throne following the death of the 90-year-old King Abdullah Friday.
The roughly hourlong meeting focused on a bevy of Mideast security issues – sectarian divisions in Iraq, the U.S.-led campaign against ISIS, the precarious situation in Yemen and support for Syrian opposition fighting President Bashar Assad, said the U.S. official who briefed reporters traveling with Obama on condition of anonymity, citing the private nature of the talks.
Stepping off the plane earlier in Riyadh, the president and first lady Michelle Obama were greeted by Salman and a military band playing both countries’ national anthems.
Some of the all-male Saudi delegation shook hands with Mrs. Obama while others gave her a nod as they passed by.
Salman formally greeted Obama and the U.S. delegation at the Erga Palace on the outskirts of Riyadh, where dozens of Saudi officials filed through a marble-walled room to greet the Americans under massive crystal chandeliers.
Then they sat for a three-course dinner of grilled meats, baked lobster and Arabic and French deserts.
Obama cut short his trip to India to spend just a few hours in Riyadh. Further underscoring Saudi Arabia’s key role in U.S. foreign policy was the extensive delegation that joined Obama for the visit.
Secretary of State John Kerry joined Obama in Riyadh, along with former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and James Baker III, both of whom served Republican presidents.
Former White House national security advisers Brent Scowcroft, Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley also made the trip, as did Sen. John McCain, a frequent critic of Obama’s Middle East policy.
CIA Director John Brennan and Gen. Lloyd Austin, commander of U.S. Central Command, which overseas military activity in the Middle East, also took part in the meetings with the Saudis.
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have worked in close coordination to address evolving security concerns in the tumultuous region. Most recently, Saudi Arabia became one of a handful of Arab nations that have joined the U.S. in launching airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Yet Obama’s presidency has also been marked by occasional strains with the Saudi royal family, particularly as Abdullah had pressed the U.S. to take more aggressive action to force Assad from power.
(Bloomberg) — Pakistan has warned that growing U.S. cooperation with India on its civilian nuclear program could destabilize a region with a quarter of the world’s people.
President Barack Obama announced during a three-day trip to New Delhi this week that the U.S. would support India’s entry into the 48-member Nuclear Suppliers Group. He also said the countries reached a breakthrough that would pave the way for investment in its civilian nuclear power sector.
Pakistan and China are among nations questioning whether neighboring India deserves to gain further international legitimacy for its nuclear program, putting them at odds with the Obama administration. The Nuclear Suppliers Group, a set of nations exporting atomic reactors and fuel, was created in response to India’s widely denounced nuclear tests in 1974.
Pakistan also objected to Obama’s support for India to get a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, Aziz said. Syed Akbaruddin, a spokesman for India’s foreign ministry, wasn’t immediately available for comment.
The moves may be part of Pakistan’s strategy to build more nuclear reactors with China, said Anit Mukherjee, an assistant professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
In a joint statement on Jan. 25, Obama said India was ready for membership to the Nuclear Suppliers Group. He agreed to work with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi toward “phased entry” that would include joining three more global non-proliferation assemblies: The Missile Technology Control Regime, the Wassenaar Arrangement and the Australia Group.
An agreement with the U.S. in 2008 helped India gain a waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group, which barred trade with any nation that hadn’t endorsed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, which India has refrained from signing. Pakistan isn’t a member of the group and doesn’t have a waiver.
China noted Obama’s trip to New Delhi and said that India still needs to take more steps to meet the requirements of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Jan. 26.
“Pakistan values its relations with the United States and expects it to play a constructive role for strategic stability and balance in South Asia,” Aziz said.
Nuclear cooperation highlighted the meetings between Modi and Obama, who was India’s chief guest for its annual Republic Day parade. Among the breakthroughs was an end to a years-long deadlock on obstacles that blocked the U.S. from installing nuclear plants in India, which plans a $182 billion expansion of its nuclear industry.
U.S. technology suppliers have questioned the depth of the agreement between Obama and Modi. Westinghouse Electric Co., the Monroeville, Pennsylvania-based nuclear builder owned by Toshiba Corp., said it would study an offer by India to create an insurance pool to shield suppliers from liability in the event of an accident.
Former senior U.S. military leaders outlined the threat that violent Islamist extremists pose and put it into a larger global security context at a Tuesday hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on global threats.
Gen. John Keane—a former vice chief of staff of the Army—recognized the split between the radical Shi’ia branch of Islam and the role Iran plays not only in the Middle East but beyond, using “proxies to attack the United States”—such as Hezbollah did in Lebanon or its sectarian militias did in Iraq—while developing its own nuclear and long-range missile capabilities and radical Sunnis.
The radical Sunnis, through al Qaeda and its affiliates, “exceed Iran” in attracting recruits and threatening Europe and North America. He cited the recent attack in Paris at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket as an example of radical Sunni reach outside of the Middle East.
“We sure as hell are opinionated” as witnesses, he said. “[But] it is unmistakable that our policies have failed” in rolling back the Islamic State (sometimes called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) or in using drones to attack suspected terrorist targets in Yemen and Pakistan. Those actions “guarantee we will be incrementally engaged” without an overall strategy, Keane said.
“We can’t have everything,” Adm. William Fallon, who also served as CENTCOM commander, said. “We’ve got to make choices,” he added, noting that it is impossible for the United States to solve the centuries-old divide between Shi’ia and Sunni and the even longer battle between Persians [Iran] and Arabs over control of the region.
Zeroing in on Iraq, Fallon said it is critical that Sunnis there believe they “are getting a fair shake going forward” from the government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. If they believe that, the tribes would be more likely to join the Kurds and largely Shi’ia Iraqi military in fighting ISIS.
“We know ISIS and ‘reconcilable Sunnis’ are on a collision course,” Keane added. He said the Abadi government and its military do not want to wait any longer to retake Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul.
“I don’t know if we will be ready by summer” to assist them with forward air controllers and air strikes, increased intelligence-gathering and sharing, special forces and additional trainers to be with Iraqi front-line forces in an attack on Mosul, Keane said. “We’ve got to have people on the ground with them,” he said. When asked, he put the number at 10,000 in that advise and assist role.
He added that several brigades of ground forces, including coalition troops, should be in place in Kuwait if the attempt to retake the city stalls or fails.
Mattis agreed on embedding forces with the Iraqis. Using forward controllers as an example, “you are seeing a much faster decision process” when they are available for planning and follow-up on a military operation that could keep an enemy off-balance.
Across the Iraqi border, Keane called the situation of the Free Syrian Army “as complex a thing as we have had on our plate” as it tries to battle ISIS with its roots in among Sunnis and the regime with its ties to Shi’ia at the same time. Most coalition nations assisting the Iraqi government have limited air strikes against ISIS to that country. Iran is supporting the Syrian regime with forces and equipment.
“Rigorous inspection” was the way Mattis described it. He said, “Economic sanctions worked better than I expected” in bringing Iran to the negotiations. Other steps could include a blockade, striking Hezbollah and the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria if talks fail.
“The threat has shifted” in Europe, Keane said pointing to the Russian seizure of Crimea, support of separatists in Ukraine and threats to the Baltic States, now members of NATO. “Let’s put some permanent bases there,” closer to the Russian border, and re-look the decision to pull the missile defense system from Eastern Europe.
As for a pivot to Asia and the Pacific, Fallon said the difference is rather small. During the Cold War, the Fleet was about evenly divided between the Atlantic and Pacific and the shift now would allocate 60 percent of the Navy’s 280 ships to the Pacific, a move of 28 ships. But it would be a step to reassure allies and partners in the region and China that the United States was still engaged, he and Mattis said.
When asked about a return to the draft, all said that would not be a good idea, but the growing divide between the 1 percent who serve voluntarily and the American public is “a huge problem,” Fallon said. Mattis said the All-Volunteer Force “has been good for the military [in terms of quality] but bad for the country” [in terms of the divide].
“The force looks like America, and they want to be there,” Keane said.
Most immediately, lifted sanctions on Iran’s oil and gas industry could spur tensions with other energy producers, such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
In last week’s State of the Union Address, President Obama threatened to veto new legislation affecting five issues, four of them in the domestic policy arena and just one covering foreign policy. The foreign policy issue in question involved the prospect of new sanctions legislation targeting Iran. Correspondingly, the administration has recently ramped up efforts to conclude a nuclear deal with Iran.
Should the United States and its partners in the P5+1 — Britain, China, France, Russia, and Germany — strike a deal with Iran, the global oil and gas markets would no doubt be affected. Indeed, several leading oil and gas companies are already preparing for a return to business in Iran in the event sanctions are lifted. Such jockeying would only intensify once the Iranian oil and gas sector became fully available to international markets.
However, the announcement alone of an agreement with Iran that removes international sanctions would accelerate the current steady downward trend of the global oil price. Thus, the oil price would be affected even before increased physical supplies of Iranian oil reached the market. And more oil would gradually return to the market, helping keep global oil prices low and perhaps depressing them even further. Burdened by sanctions, Tehran has offered discounts to regular buyers such as China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Turkey. The end of sanctions would most likely mean that such consumers would pay a price more in line with global prices. Accordingly, this could create an opportunity for Saudi Arabia and other Gulf producers to increase their market share.
Since the Russia-Ukraine crisis erupted last year, Tehran has tried to position itself as a reliable alternative to Russia as a gas supplier to Europe. Indeed, Iran is the only state close to Europe’s borders that possesses enough natural gas to rival Russia’s dominance in most European gas markets. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani even stated recently that “Iran can be a secure energy center for Europe.” And Iran’s deputy oil minister, Ali Majedi, boasted in official Iranian media that “Iranian natural gas is Russia’s only competitor for Europe.” He continued that European countries could import Iran’s gas through three separate routes: Turkey, Iraq, or a pipeline running through Armenia and Georgia, and then under the Black Sea.
However credible an option Iran might be for supplying Europe, two main obstacles would slow Iran’s entry into Europe’s gas markets: one, the need to produce more gas and, two, the need to build infrastructure to get it to Europe. To be sure, Iran is a significant natural gas producer, generating 160 billion cubic meters a year, third globally behind just Russia and the United States. Its output constitutes about 35 percent of annual EU gas consumption. Iran also has vast reserves. Yet interestingly, Iran is a net gas importer, with the country consuming a larger proportion of natural gas than any other country in the world. Iran’s high natural gas consumption rate is due in part to its very low domestic gas prices and thus low energy efficiency. Iran imports gas from Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, while it exports a bit less to Turkey and Armenia.
In Turkey, energy industry sources have reported that Ankara is preparing its pipeline infrastructure to enable transit of Iranian gas to Europe once sanctions are removed. However, natural gas production requires much larger investments than oil production, and concluding a supply contract generally takes a number of years. In addition, either long-distance pipelines or liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities cost billions of dollars, with these costs recovered only over many years. Such investments are therefore not undertaken lightly. Accordingly, after sanctions are removed, it will probably take at least five years, and possibly much longer, until meaningful volumes of Iranian gas hit European markets. Europe will also compete with Asia for Iran’s gas exports, since LNG exports into lucrative Asian markets may be more attractive to Tehran than European markets. If Iran seeks to sell LNG to Asia, U.S. LNG exports to the region could find themselves challenged by a new competitor. However, this would take close to a decade to play out.
On gas, Russia would take steps to block Tehran’s entry into European markets, as it has done in the past. In 2007, when Tehran inaugurated gas supplies to neighboring Armenia, Russia’s Gazprom immediately bought up the pipeline project within Armenia and built it with a small circumference to preempt its future use for transiting gas to European markets.
Moscow and Tehran could also find themselves competing for gas market share in neighboring Turkey. Already Russia’s second largest gas export market, Turkey’s role in Russia’s gas export strategy has recently grown with Russia’s proposed route change of the South Stream export pipeline from Bulgaria to Turkey.
Overall, cooperation between Russia and Iran rests on a rocky basis, and once Iran is released from sanctions and its conflict with the West, many issues of strategic competition between Tehran and Moscow will resurface, including in the sphere of gas markets.
Another potential conflict that may emerge once sanctions are removed and Iran’s natural gas industry revives is with Qatar over the delimitation of their shared South Pars/North Dome field. This natural gas field is one of the world’s largest and the main source of Qatar’s massive LNG exports as well as the main area where Iran has been investing in new gas and oil capacity. Conflict between Doha and Tehran over delimitation has been forestalled somewhat by sanctions and the corresponding lack of investment in Iranian production in the contested field.
If the United States and its partners can reach a deal with Iran, all players must understand the potential consequences of Iran’s reentry into the global oil and regional gas market. Most immediately, tensions could surge with other energy producers, such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. The downward spiral of global oil prices would also be reinforced. Tehran, it must be noted, could face serious difficulties finding markets for expanded output and attracting the needed investment in production and gas transit facilities. But in the long term, expanded Iranian output could create more supply options for European and Asian gas markets.
Brenda Shaffer, a specialist on international energy issues, is currently a visiting researcher at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES), on sabbatical from the University of Haifa, where she is a professor in the School of Political Science. She authored the Washington Institute study Partners in Need: The Strategic Relationship of Russia and Iran.
Last year saw Australia’s uranium production reach its lowest point since 1998 while Kazakhstan maintained its position as the world’s largest uranium producer.
Australian production of 5897 tonnes U3O8 (5000 tU) was down from 2013 production of 7488 tonnes U3O8 (6350 tU) despite the start of operations at the Four Mile in situ leach uranium project in South Australia, and was the lowest for the country in 16 years.
The figures reflect the loss of production at Energy Resources of Australia’s (ERA) Ranger mine, out of action until June 2014 following the rupture of a leach tank in December 2013. The mine had ramped up to full throughput by the end of September and by year end, Ranger had produced 988 tU.
Four Mile also started operations in June and by the end of the year a total of 640 tU had been produced. Uranium from Four Mile is processed at the Beverley plant. Beverley’s own wellfields contributed 21 tU to the annual total, although production has been suspended since early in the year.
The lion’s share of Australia’s 2014 production – 3351 tU – came from BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam, where uranium is produced as a by-product of copper.
Meanwhile, Kazakhstan remains the world’s largest uranium producer with 2014 total production of 22,829 tU, according to state nuclear company KazAtomProm. The company’s own share of production accounted for 13,156 tU of the total. The figure is slightly up from the 22,548 tU recorded for 2013, and Kazatomprom says it is in line with its expectations for the year.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In an unusually critical statement, a senior Pakistani official said that Pakistan remained opposed to India’s inclusion in the Nuclear Suppliers Group and feared that the country’s growing nuclear cooperation with the United States could harm deterrence efforts in South Asia.
The statement by Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistani national security adviser, came after President Obama wound up his visit to India, during which the United States and India announced an array of trade and strategic agreements.
Pakistan and India have had an antagonistic relationship since the end of British rule and their partition in 1947. In recent years, Pakistan has viewed growing United States-India cooperation with apprehension.
“Pakistan is opposed to yet another country-specific exemption from N.S.G. rules to grant membership to India, as this would further compound the already fragile strategic stability environment in South Asia,” Mr. Aziz said Tuesday in the statement. The Nuclear Suppliers Group is a 48-nation body established 40 years ago to ensure that civilian trade in nuclear materials is not diverted for military purposes.
In addition to opposing India’s membership in the group, Mr. Aziz also criticized American support for granting a seat to India on the United Nations Security Council.
“A country, in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions on matters of international peace and security, such as the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, by no means qualifies for a special status in the Security Council,” the statement read, referring to the Himalayan region of Kashmir, over which Pakistan and India have fought three wars.
“Radical Islam, as I’m defining it for today’s discussion, consists of three distinct movements who share a radical fundamentalist ideology, use jihad or terror to achieve objectives that compete with each other for influence and power,” he said.
“In 1980, Iran declared the United States as a strategic enemy and its goal is to drive the United States out of the region, achieve regional hegemony, and destroy the state of Israel. It uses proxies, primarily as the world’s number one state sponsoring terrorism. Thirty plus years Iran has used these proxies to attack the United States. To date, the result is U.S. troops left Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, while Iran has direct influence and some control over Beirut, Lebanon, Gaza, Damascus, Syria, Baghdad, Iraq, and now Sana’a, Yemen,” the general continued.
“Third, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, ISIS, is an outgrowth from Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which was defeated in Iraq by 2009. After U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq in 2011, ISIS reemerged as a terrorist organization in Iraq, moved into Syria in 2012, and began seizing towns and villages from the Syria-Iraq border all the way to the western Syria from Aleppo to Damascus,” he reminded the committee.
Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and opinion columns have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico and more, and has myriad television and radio credits as a commentator. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.

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We are delighted to share that David Tse has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
David Tse has worked on information theory and its applications in various fields, including wireless communication, energy and computational biology. His projects include designing assembly software that handles DNA and RNA sequencing data as well as the invention of the proportional-fair scheduling algorithm, which is used in all third and fourth generation cellular wireless systems around the world.
Founded in 1964, the NAE recognizes engineers whose education, research and practice have made significant contributions to the field. Election to the academy is among the highest honors in the field of engineering.
There are at least two other CSoI faculty who have been inducted into the NAE: Supriyo Datta and Andrea Goldsmith.

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I'm using Windows XP SP3 to attempt to use my new HE IPv6 tunnel.
I am connected to the network with Verizon DSL, and I'm using a Westell 6100 as my dsl modem (it's in bridge mode).
The ip provided by my ISP is 72.92.60.81, which I have a suspicion is maybe NAT'd itself, as when I do a ShieldsUp! Scan, it returns all of my ports as Stealth. That said, I don't really know how to tell for sure that I'm behind a NAT other than the one on my router.
The modem is connected to my Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, running DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/07/10) std router, and it connects using PPPoE.
I read various places that if you're behind a NAT that you might need to place the tunneling system on the DMZ.
I also tired it with the ip address instead and it resulted in the same problem.
That said, I don't really know how to tell for sure that I'm behind a NAT other than the one on my router.
You're behind a NAT because the IP address on your computer is 192.168.2.110. The 72.92.60.81 is a public address being supplied by your ISP. If your ISP was running carrier grade nat (CGN) then the IP address would be one in the private range.
Unfortunately placing your host in the DMZ of your router doesn't always work; there are some models that still won't pass protocol 41. The only way I know of to test this is to directly connect your computer to the Westell 6100 and see if it works then.
Based on my past experience with VZ DSL, the Westell isn't doing anything funny (NAT, etc.) so it should pass the traffic you need just fine.
Since you're running DD-WRT on your router, why not set that up for IPv6 then use your routed /48 for your Windows host?
See the tutorial at http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/IPv6 for directions.
Ii's not the Westell 6100 series DSL modem (in bridge mode) that's the problem. It's your router.
I too have VZ DSL at home and I don't have a problem. My router is a DLink DIR-615 (rev C1) and it uses 6in4 IPv6 (both directions) just fine.
So I probably have to change some setting on my router? Or is it just totally incompatible?
Ok so I went and changed my router firmware. It's now running Open-WRT OpenWrt Backfire 10.03.1-rc5.
Using Open-WRT and a tutorial I found, I was able to get IPv6 addresses assigned from Radvd to computers on my internet network.
These computers get IPv6 addresses that are within the prefix assigned to me by HE (2001:470:1F0F:EA7::/64).
I added this to my configuration making the necessary changes and then followed the documentation for configuring the firewall for IPv6.
I now appear to be able to ping www.v6.facebook.com from my router.
You don't connect them to the tunnel.
You then run radvd on the OpenWRT system to hand out router advertisements on that network. Now the internal hosts will use the OpenWRT host as their IPv6 router.
So radvd needs configured then.
I have radvd installed on my OpenWRT router, I don't imagine it is configured though.
Both of the 'prefix' listings above I pulled from the Routed IPv6 Prefixes in my tunnel configuration.
The error appears here, but it appears that the bug was a duplicate that has since been fixed.
I would imagine I need to set an IPv6 compatible DNS up somewhere. But I think the larger problem that I need to solve first is what to do about those large packets that don't appear to be coming through.
timeout (15.012s Validates that you can connect ot a dual-stack server (like the ds test); and that you can send/receive large packets on that conneciton. If this test times out for any reason, it indicates trouble for World IPv6 Day.
Validates that IPv6 requests with large packets work. If this test times out, but other IPv6 tests work, it suggests that there may be many PMTUD issues; possibly involving IP tunnels.
bad (0.227s) This is a test of your ISP's resolver (instead of a test of your host). If this test passes, your DNS server (often run my your ISP) is capable of reaching IPv6 DNS authoritative servers on the Internet. This is not critical (at this time) for you to reach sites via IPv6..
Not sure how to fix the issue with the large packets.
Also a little concerned about my security at this point...I have the firewall turned on, on my Windows 7 box, but I don't know what tool is the equivalent of good old fashion ShieldsUp! other than something like nmap, but I imagine I'd have to leave my house to try that.
But now I have no IPv6 internet access on my Windows 7 box. That's odd because I thought radvd dolled one out before.

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On Aug. 9, two 16-year-old males were charged with Attempted Burglary of an Occupied Structure, while a 19-year-old woman was charged with Accessory after the Fact, according to reports that Kaitlyn Perez, community affairs director for the Sheriff’s Office, provided.
Just after 6 a.m. on Aug. 9, the owner of a home in the 5000 block of Higel Avenue called the Sheriff’s Office, after she saw two males in her carport, allegedly trying to break into her vehicle, one of the responding officers wrote. The woman yelled at them, “and they fled on foot toward the road,” the report said. They climbed into a white sedan, “which drove away at a high rate of speed,” the report noted.
Sylvester Lee Sanders Jr., 16, of Sarasota, and Tydarius G. Washington, 16, of Fort Myers, both were charged with Attempted Burglary of an Occupied Structure.
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Farcry Productions is a not-for-profit arts organisation. Its remit is to carry out interrogations on events that deeply effect society. The ongoing violence of armed conflict and civil unrest and the global issue of child abuse with particular reference to religious congregations and those emerging scandals of inhumanity to children.
Everyone of us carry a hurt, the essence of a wrong done unto us, Farcry productions attempts to address that wrong.
We believe that creativity is one of the purest ways that a public can engage with traumatic events without shame or fear. As part of our programme for this year we have undertaken to present a body of work in Limerick in 2015 and also have a larger project commencing Dublin in 2016.
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This entry was posted in Personal Musings, Thursday Re-View and tagged depression, hope, light, mental health, musings. Bookmark the permalink.
From one who knows – you are welcome, my friend.
It is, (or at least can be), a birth canal into something wondrously more powerful and filled with light! Beautiful piece.
A birthing process edging toward the light… It’s always about the light. Namaste.
Always – even though the challenges of my PTSD and the co-morbid depression, anxiety, etc., etc. can sometimes make that light very hard to see. So far, by the grace of “what is,” every time I have dove into the abyss I have soared back up. Rising Hawk, Indeed 😉 I pray the same for all those that fight that wicked beast. Peace . . .
Beautiful. I love the message of hope here.
Well versed. The memory of that light is what keeps us going in the darkness. Yes, drop the resistance and head into the light.
Absolutely brilliant. I love this.
Something to ponder there Theresa.
That’s me, Laurie – a thinker.

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Mumbai, June 8 (IANS) Actor Pulkit Samrat says he declined an offer to judge a dance reality TV show as he wants to concentrate on his career in Bollywood.
“If I am adding value as an actor to something that’s offered to me on television, why not to do it? But it must challenge me and I must add some value to it,” added the actor, who got famous with his role in TV show “Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi”.


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Many Ewings followed the gradual but ineluctable western migration patterns of the nineteenth century. In 1810 descendants of Pocahontas James Ewing left their home on Swago Creek in present-day West Virginia, followed the Kanawha River to the Ohio, poled their rafts across that wide river to Gallipolis, before settling permanently in various parts of Gallia County and adjacent Jackson County.
Just across the Ohio River from Gallipolis is Pt Pleasant, West Virginia, site of a battle that took place on October 10, 1774, a conflict some historians consider the first battle of the Revolutionary War. William “Swago Bill” Ewing would have remembered that fight when he crossed the Ohio in 1810 on his way to Raccoon Township, north of Gallipolis. He had participated in the Battle of Pt. Pleasant 36 years earlier, when he was 18. Swago Bill spent the rest of his life in and around the small town of Ewington, where he died and was buried in 1822.
These Pocahontas James Ewing descendants, who migrated from the Shenandoah Valley via the Cumberland Gap were descendants of John Ewing of Carnashannagh. They were joined by descendants of another early Scots-Irish immigrant – James Ewing of Inch – who had immigrated to the Upper Chesapeake Bay area and then migrated via Braddock's Road, now known as the National Road, Route 40, to the area around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In September 2012 Ewings will gather in Gallipolis, Ohio to acknowledge the family’s continued western migration. In the proposed program are genealogical and historical presentations, caravans to various local historical sites, such as the Battle of Pt. Pleasant, and opportunities for self-guided tours to Ewington, Vinton, local cemeteries, and other venues important to the family’s history. As in the past, the research room will be open at specified times, and there will be ample time for reminiscing.
Registration: The early-bird (prior to August 15th) registration fee is $175 for adults and $100 for children under twelve.
Program: The gathering's program will include genealogical and historical presentations, caravans to various local historical sites, such as the Battle of Pt Pleasant, and opportunities for self-guided tours to Ewington, Vinton, local cemeteries, and other venues important to Ewing family history. As in the past, the research room will be open at specified times, and there will be ample time for reminiscing.
Caravan-Style Outing: The program includes an outing to Gallipolis's Our House Tavern, Pt Pleasant's River Front Murals and Tu-Endie-Wei Park.
Presentations: There will be several presentations on Ewing genealogy-related topics, among them: a status report on the Ewing Surname Y-DNA Project by David Neal Ewing; an analysis of the children of Pocahontas James Ewing by Wallace K. Ewing; and a discussion of the value and techniques of tombstone rubbing by Jane and Wallace K. Ewing. In addition, luncheon and dinner talks by Henny Evans (Gallia County Genealogical Society) and Dewetta Gay (Local Historian) will discuss the area's history and Curt Witcher (Manager, Genealogy Center, Allen County Public Library) will talk about the ways in which his department preserves genealogical documents.
Merchandise: Ewing Family Association Merchandise (Coffee Mugs, T Shirts, Caps, Golf Shirts, etc.) will be on sale at reduced prices during the gathering.
Entertainment: Among the meals included in the program will be a banquet on Saturday night, September 23rd. The Renaissance Singers will perform at the banquet. The ensemble's home is Chillicothe, Ohio. Barb Nowlin, Director, says the group will feature songs from Scotland and Ireland. One of the singers, Barbara (Ewing) Seigneur (the third person in the second row) is a great6-granddaughter of Alexander Ewing, born about 1708.
Lodging: The Quality Inn in Gallipolis, the venue for the 2012 Gathering, will hold rooms for us with a rate of $79 per night, single or double occupancy, until August 15, 2012. To make your reservation, contact the Quality Inn at +1 740.446.0090. Be sure to mention you will be attending the Ewing Family Association Gathering, and if you are entitled to a discount, such as a senior or AAA rate, request it from the registration clerk.
Pt Pleasant is a city in Mason Co., West Virginia, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. It is the county seat of Mason County and the principal city of the Pt Pleasant Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Gallipolis is one of the fifteen townships in Gallia County. It's located in southeast Ohio on the Ohio River. Gallipolis is the second-largest community in the Pt Pleasant Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Gallia Co., Ohio and Mason Co., West Virginia.
The Shawnee Village murals were officially dedicated in the fall of 2011. The murals, which were painted by artist Robert Dafford, are 260 feet long and approximately 15 feet high. A special paint, imported from Germany, was used for the murals in order to enable moisture that is wicked up through the foundation of the floodwall to escape through the painting without damage. In addition to pictures, the murals feature an interactive historical lesson complete with an audio presentation.
At the junction of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers stands this monument which commemorates the frontiersmen who fought and died at the Battle of Pt Pleasant. This battle was fought with Chief Cornstalk on October 10,1774, and is recognized as the decisive engagement in a proactive series of Indian wars. The name 'Tu-Endie-Wei' is a Wyandot word meaning 'point between two waters'. The Pt Pleasant Battlefield Monument was erected on October 10,1909 as a tribute to a battle fought on this same date in 1774.
Our House – a three-story brick tavern in the Federal style – was built in Gallipolis by Henry Cushing in 1819. The tavern boasted, in addition to its taproom, dining room, and other usual facilities, a large ballroom for social functions. On May 22, 1825 General Lafayette visited Gallipolis and was entertained at the tavern. Gallipolis still celebrates Lafayette's visit with a ceremony each spring. The Cushing family owned and operated Our House until 1865. The restored tavern and inn contains period furnishings and offers a display of early Americana. Visitors today will step back in time to when proprietor Henry Cushing invited weary travelers to stay at his inn.


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It’s common these days for us to get some push back from clients whenever we recommend Revocable Living Trusts (RLT). The resistance stems from the perception that many people have that RLTs are only good as tax-planning tools.
With the federal estate tax exemption currently set at $5.49 million per individual and just shy of $11 million per married couple, and the gift exclusion at $14,000 per person, some would argue that the need for estate tax planning for everyone but the extremely wealthy is pretty much done.
We disagree. There are significant benefits to an RLT beyond tax protection. Even if President Donald Trump manages to keep his campaign pledge to get Congress to eliminate the federal estate tax, a trust is still the best cost-saving investment you can make in creating your own estate plan.
With a properly drafted RLT, you can not only control who inherits your assets, but how those assets are disbursed and under what circumstances.
The trust grantor (you) can set up rules or stipulations in the trust that must be met before assets are inherited by beneficiaries. The trustee, chosen by you, manages those assets per your wishes.
A simple will, properly drafted, is essentially no more than a letter to a probate court. It informs the judge of a decedent’s wishes about what he or she wanted done with personal property and other assets, but the court can rule differently.
Documents filed in a probate case and court hearings are public record, meaning that if all you had was a will, then your personal worth and any records of family infighting over the estate could make the headlines. An RLT is executed outside of a probate court’s venue, keeping the entire matter private and out of public view.
After death, the RLT continues to offer protection to your heirs. If titled in the name of the trust, assets are shielded from a beneficiaries’ creditors, lawsuits and divorce settlements. It also helps protect your children from “accidental” disinheritance when a surviving spouse remarries.
Probate administration can last many months to several years, depending on the size and complexity of an estate. On the other hand, an RLT can dramatically reduce the wait time for an estate to be settled, allowing beneficiaries to move forward with their lives much sooner and receive the assets you wanted them to enjoy and benefit from.
Revocable Living Trusts are fantastic tools. If you are interested in learning more about whether an RLT should be part of your plan, we would be delighted to explain how it can work for you.
We hope this information was useful to you and helps you and your family. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to call our office at 1-800-835-2634. You can also email us at info@wadelawcorp.com.


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Our recent Brag is that we made a HUGE batch of Dirt for my son’s preschool class. Super easy to make and I loved watching their faces as they discovered it was not really dirt with worms but a yummy treat! We made individual cups for each child. I still remember my first time having this when I was in elementary school…it was served in a huge tinfoil lined flower pot with a large flower. Classic!
For anyone who has not tried it before, here you go: Crush Oreos to look like dirt (we took the cream off before crushing). Make pudding, let it set and then add it to cups. Top with crushed “dirt” and we like to add a few gummy worms.
Pudding Frosting – The Best!
Great idea! I think I need to surprise the kids with it.

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KYOSHO FOCKEWULF TA152H 90. Lastmanuals Dec 15, 2014 RC Warbirds and Warplanes Kyosho Ta 152H size ORIGINAL: Ramstein44 Are these ARF's still available?
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Oct 04, 2010 RC Kyosho ta 152 manual and Warplanes Kyosho Ta 152H size abufletcher when I see pics like that it makes me think I should go back to a smaller Offical Kyosho website and online shop for MiniZ, Optima, Inferno and others, including Kyosho diecast models, miniature cars, Kyosho Egg brand and all latest information.
kyoshorc model Oct 13, 2014 Kyosho Ta152. I picked up a used Ta152 last weekend. I am new to flying and have a foamy trainer right now getting the feel for flying. Kyosho really needs to bring this one back. Does anyone know the production dates, only item I read was their brochure release in late 2009.

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Welcome to another week of (mostly) spacey gaming my friends! I’m slowly getting back on the content train after taking some time off to enjoy my new PC in its full glory, and I’m starting things off with one of the most anticipated games of the genre, Arcen’s AI War 2! I’ll also have videos coming up of SimpleRockets 2 and more this week!
On the Podcast tonight (Tuesday, 5:00 PM Pacific, Twitch, YouTube, Mixer), we’ll be talking about what to look out for in the upcoming holiday sales, and also what we’re thankful for, gaming-wise.
On Thursday’s LAN Party (Thursday, 5:00 PM Pacific, Twitch, YouTube, Mixer), a couple of us finally acquired Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands (I finally got it because I now have a PC that can run it), so join us as we wreak hilarious havoc across the Bolivian countryside!
Might want to fix that Youtube link for AI War 2. I puzzled it out, but it gives a pretty crazy error if you click it.
Hey, I just replaced the link and it seems to work. Could you please refresh and try again?

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Anyone selling on eBay can list an eBay for Charity item and donate a percentage to charity Some eBay for Charity items are sold directly by charities themselves. You can support charities easily while shopping on eBay.
The item sells. The seller receives payment from the buyer (and a matching % fee credit from eBay.) The charity sets up an eBay seller's account and adds their eBay ID as a "Direct Seller" in their PayPal Giving Fund account, linking the two. Look for the eBay for charity ribbon in search result, which shows the items that benefit good causes.
PayPal Giving Fund collects the donation from the seller. The payment method on file with eBay is used unless the seller has chosen otherwise. The charity lists an item, choosing itself as the benefiting charity and 100% donation level. Visit and bookmark our home page and shopping page to view all the items that benefit charities.
If the seller ticked the Gift Aid box, PayPal Giving Fund claims Gift Aid for the charity. The item sells, and the charity receives payment from the buyer and a fee credit from eBay.
When making a purchases, add a small donation to the charity you see in eBay checkout.
After a short period to ensure all has gone through successfully, 100% of the donation and Gift Aid is transferred to the chosen charity. The charity keeps the money to spend on furthering its work. Choose which charities you see in eBay checkout on the “My Favorite Charities” page in your Donation Account.
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Selling: Learn how to sell on eBay for Charity and view the eBay for Charity terms and conditions.


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Dawes County Journal: Green Rivers.....gone forever!
Even small high plains communities like Chadron, Goodland, Torrington, and Winner had drugstores with soda fountains in the mid-20th century. It was a place where folks could not only get their prescriptions filled, they could also enjoy a cup of coffee, a Coca-Cola, or perhaps even a sandwich – all from the “soda fountain."
If you happened to live in a somewhat larger community, like Rapid City, Cheyenne, North Platte, Alliance, or Hays, you might have had access to an F.W. Woolworth store. It was a place we rural kids seldom had a chance to visit, but it was a pretty cool place with lots of “stuff” and a lunch counter that far surpassed the limited number of grilled items you could buy at the corner drugstore.
When a friend sent the Woolworth menu shown here, it immediately brought back memories of the three drugstores I remember in Chadron during the 1950s, all of them on the west side of the 200 block of Main Street.
Perhaps the most popular and successful was Saults Drug, owned Joe Saults. By the time it moved from the corner of 2nd and Main to a new building on the corner of 3rd and Main, “Saults Corner Drug” carried a wide array of merchandise, including greeting cards and gift items. While the pharmacy remained the nucleus of the business, teenagers continued to gravitate to the soda fountain. Interestingly, Joe Saults had relatives in Gordon who operated another Saults Drug, which for many years was every bit as successful as Joe’s operation in Chadron – perhaps moreso.
Least popular of the drugstores – at least for teens – was Thompson Drug, just a few doors north from Highway 20 on the west side of Main. Operated by "Tope" Thompson, I remember Thompson Drug as smaller than either Service Drug or Saults Drug, but it, too, carried retail merchandise and had a soda fountain in the back. For some of us, it was the place to order Green River drinks, a lemon-lime concoction that seemed to be a fountain specialty. Some years later, I was surprised to read in the Chadron, Nebraska Centennial History that "Tope" Thompson had been a “high muckamuck” in the Nebraska Ku Klux Klan back in the 1920s.
Service Drug was another hangout for teens and was operated by Paul Kampfe for many years. By the 1960s, Thompson Drug had gone out of business and only Service Drug and Saults Drug remained for several years.
Soda fountains intended for “real” customers were often overtaken by teens after school and on weekends. It was probably a mixed blessing for drugstore owners, and they eventually did away with soda fountains. I doubt they ever generated any real profit for the store and eventually became too much trouble.
My source of Green Rivers is gone forever!


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SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 17, 2015) - Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced that the Brocade® Virtual Evolved Packet Core has achieved VMware Ready™ status for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). This designation indicates that after a detailed validation process, the Brocade Virtual Evolved Packet Core has achieved VMware's highest level of endorsement, and can be found on the VMware Solution Exchange (VSX).
"This certification demonstrates a strong commitment between VMware as the leading virtualization vendor and Brocade as the networking leader for the New IP," said Sachin Kapur, senior director, Software Engineering, Mobile Networking R&D, Brocade. "Brocade is one of the first to be certified by VMware Ready for NFV, and the certification builds on existing success Brocade and VMware have shared in delivering NFV solutions to the market."
Brocade has shown leadership in delivering real-world NFV solutions to Communication Service Providers running on the VMware virtualization platform, and VMware Ready for NFV certifies the Brocade Virtual Evolved Packet Core for compatibility with the VMware NFV infrastructure. The Brocade Virtual Evolved Packet Core provides linear and independent scaling in signaling, throughput and storage, and exceeds the performance available from purpose-built hardware for traditional Evolved Packet Cores -- all while enabling lower total cost of ownership.
"We are pleased that Brocade qualifies for the VMware Ready logo, signifying to customers that it has met specific VMware interoperability standards and works effectively with VMware infrastructure, which can speed time to value within customer environments," said Howard Hall senior director, Global Technology Partnering Organization, VMware.
The VMware Ready program is a co-branding benefit of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner program that makes it easy for customers to identify partner products certified to work with VMware infrastructure. Customers can use these products and solutions to help lower project risks and realize cost savings over custom built solutions.
The Brocade Virtual Evolved Packet Core can be found within the online VMware Solution Exchange (VSX) at https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/brocade-vepc.


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We brought the name and packaging. New customers brought the fish stories.
After a decade of building premium ice augers for other brands, Vista Technologies decided that it was time to build them under their own name. The only problem was that they didn’t have one. They reached out to us in 2016 and tasked us with not just creating a name but with building a brand. Linnihan Foy started with naming the company Razr and moved on to design a logo that embodied the strength of the product. We worked closely with their ownership group to create packaging, trade show exhibits and gear that would cause ice fisherman nationwide to take notice of a new king of the ice.

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During your time with the bonus funds, the challenge will be to complete £400 worth of wagering before the £10 can be removed from you account as cash. If the funds are exhausted before then, you have no chance of keeping the bonus for yourself.
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Whenever I need to fill in my name on an online form, my computer recognises what I am doing and helpfully pops up my full name for me to click on to fill in the box.
There is only one problem: I cannot recall ever seeing a form in which they have asked for the full name in one box: they always want the forename in one box, the surname in another one. So the autofill function is completely useless, in fact it just gets in the way.
Why do the software writers continue to include such a pointless feature?
"Now with fewer bug parts than the other leading brand!"
In more detail, if they didn't do it, their product would look just like a million other similar products that work just as well and are being given away in Cornflakes boxes.


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I just bought a pair of Jamo c407's and am finding them fantastic. Definitely no need for a sub anymore as I did with bookshelf speakers.
Purchased a set of GS-10's a while back. Even just hooked up to a Denon AV-1906 they sound fantastic!!
Location: Perth Western Australia item: Kenwood KS-3000 automatic turntable with spare stylus. Good condition and works perfectly ($200.00 seperate) Onkyo receiver -no remote ($80.00) Monitor Audio GS-10 bookshelf speakers-slight damage to one corner,work perfectly ($800.00) Lovan speaker stands ($100) Can add a phono pre-amp if needed All in good working condition Price: $1100.00 Reason For Selling : Only selling as I have upgraded all of these components. Payment methods : Cash, Bank Transfer Delivery : Local Pick up Would prefer to sell as a complete unit but can separate. Reasonable offers welcome..


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The Children's Safety Center in Springdale, AR is hiring!
The Children's Safety Center in Springdale, AR is hiring a Child Advocate, to join our dynamic team. The candidate must be passionate about the mission of our agency and working with alleged child abuse victims and their families. Minimum Bachelor's Degree required; preferably in social work. Experience working with child victims of abuse, a plus. Bi-lingual preferred. Position requires attending Forensic Interview training and conducting forensic interviews with alleged victims. This is a full time position. Advocate must be very flexible with schedule, including on-call responsibilities as assigned.
If you are interested in this unique career opportunity, please send your resume and cover letter to the Program Director, Casey Atwood at casey@childrenssafetycenter.org.


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George Rogers Clark High of Kentucky eliminated Providence Day of Charlotte, N.C., jumping out to a big first half lead and never letting the Chargers recover on their way to a 57-34 win.
The Cardinals led 18-3 after one quarter and 34-12 at halftime.
Hayley Harrison led the scoring for GR Clark (8-3) with 19 points and Jasmine Flowers chipped in with 10. Providence Day (7-8) was led by Morgan Kelson and MiLeia Owens with 11 points apiece.
The Cardinals will play in the fifth place game today.
PROVIDENCE DAY (34): Smith 0-3 0-0 0, Morgan Kelson 4-8 3-8 11, Godwin 1-2 0-0 2, Letitz 1-4 0-2 3, MiLeia Owens 4-6 3-5 11, Naod 0-3 2-3 2, Gutierrez 2-5 0-0 5, Ferguson 0-0 0-0 0, Sanchez 0-1 0-0 0. TOTALS: 12-32 8-18 34.
GEORGE ROGERS CLARK (57): Jasmine Flowers 2-4 6-6 10, Bell 1-5 0-1 2, Wilson 4-5 0-2 8, T.Flowers 2-5 3-6 7, Hayley Harrison 8-15 3-3 19, Gay 0-0 0-0 0, Gray 1-2 0-0 2, Berry 0-0 0-0 0, Anderson 2-8 1-2 6, Flanery 0-0 0-0 0, Byars 1-4 1-2 3, Bunfill 0-0 0-0 0, Miller 0-0 0-0 0, Craig 0-0 0-0 0, Mack 0-1 0-0 0. TOTALS: 21-49 14-22 57.
3-Point Goals: PDâ€”2 (Letitz, Gutierrez). GRCâ€”1 (Anderson).


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Couple more hours to enter the giveaway. Your odds are still pretty good. I mean, 6 prizes folks! Enter quick or tweet for your extra entry! Deadline is midnight and all you have to do is leave a comment, any (polite) comment will do.
By the by, we've also had 3 more members join the photo pool this week (93 members...so close to 100) and we've had 2 more people contribute photos than last time. I do love me some steady forward progress. A four-year-old (and his mom) entered this challenge, folks. Surely you can too! (No pressure, promise, just kidding.) Deadline for the HOT/COLD challenge is Tuesday 9am and the entry info can be found here. Would love to have you along for the ride.
In other news I haven't left the house today. I don't feel as bad about that as I might, either.


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2 story home on a 5 acre lot in the country. This home needs major repairs and will not qualify for financing. There is great potential to rehab the current structure or to tear down and build another structure.
: State Route 235, north of Quincy to north on Township Rd 75.


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Innovative Developers, Inc. - Near Southside, Inc.
Innovative Developers, Inc., IDI, is a full-service commercial real estate developer based in Fort Worth, Texas. Since 1969, IDI has been creating value in real estate through development and construction solutions for Tarrant County business leaders who recognize real estate as an integral part of their business models. IDI is known as the “owner's” developer, specializing in build-to-suit real estate for full or partial owners who are also occupants in the completed projects.


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I am crazy about Foxgloves! I love their tall lanky stems with the spotted blossoms… and how the older blooms are always larger and lower on the stem, as if there to support the younger smaller ones just above.
I also love the folklore behind the name of the foxglove. Legend has it that the scoop shaped flowers are perfectly formed little gloves for foxes. I can just picture the momma fox slipping a pair of these flower mittens onto her babies’ paws to keep them warm on a cold chilly morn.
Back in the late 80’s when Doug and I lived in Laidlaw (a tiny little community at the foot of the Mountains North East of Vancouver), I developed a fondness for Foxgloves.
The tall, nodding blooms of these wildflowers would grow in the rockiest most inhospitable soil, and blow in unison across our windy fields. They were mostly a white and pink variety up at the mountain property… quite spectacular to behold when they sprouted up a thousand strong.
I’d once seen Foxgloves in a flower shop for $5 a stem. So when they were in bloom I would fill large enamel containers, and feel like a gazzilionaire!
Eventually, Doug and I moved closer into civilization, where we ended up settling at our current house in the burbs. And to my delight, there were already a few Foxgloves standing proud in the English-Style Country Garden out behind our new home.
By the way, due to a lack of time these days, my quaint little English Garden is now more of a “survivial-of-the-fittest” place where only the hardiest plants are able to make a go of it LOL.
Any way, the above Foxglove color palette photo, shows a particular strain that has survived and even thrived, in spite of my temporary garden neglect. Thanks to some fancy cross breeding, compliments of the local bees, it has an unusually beautiful mix of Creamy Yellow, Wine, Violet and Rusty Orange.
Porcelain Cup is the soft creamy yellow, found at the base of the stamens, surrounding the spots and along the outer rims of the Foxglove blossoms. Wineberry is the deep rich Berry Wine color of the darkest spots on the flowers. Foxgloves is the bright Pink Violet hue, that appears to be sprayed with an airbrush inside the throats of the flower heads. And Stamen is the Rusty Orange found on the pollen coated stamens of the blooms, giving this palette an interesting balance of warm and cool colors.
Love the history and your stories with this one. I have always loved them too. Now that I have a little more time I can look into their horticulture for this Spring.
Quite the interesting palette! I love your stories, and this one about foxgloves is no exception. Seeing them blowing across the fields must’ve been a glorious sight! Your ‘very hardy’ breed is beautiful, and makes for a cool polymer clay palette. Thanks so much for the recipes, and for all of your inspiration (as always!) Cindy & Doug, you ROCK!
Cindy I to love Foxgloves, I cant wait for the first to show their beautiful heads in spring. our wild variety are a light purplish and much nicer than the ones grown from seed. I always have to pick one vase full although I don’t like to pick wild flowers they look better in nature but they are a cheer for anyone in spring. but so is the color palette, you have scored again Cindy and Doug. By the way did you no that Foxgloves are poison but I still love them. Ritzs.
Hey, Cindy, your garden sounds like mine! In need a good and consistant gardener!! LOL! Now with two dogs and the littlest one wanting “mark” his spot – usually on my best flowering bushes! I may not have a nice garden this year.
Thanks guys! I really do love Foxgloves. I can already see them coming up in the front garden. It will be interesting to see what colors the bees came up with this year!
@Ritzs: Yes I knew they were poisonous. I do believe it is the root and leaves that are toxic, and not the flower so much though. But I would wash my hands after picking them, just to be safe. It is known as Digitalis and it is used in tiny amounts as a treatment for heart disease, I think. (It figures that often the cure is something poisonous. I sure wouldn’t want to be the ‘guinea pig’ for those herbal remedies. I wonder how many people suffered before they figured out just the right dose? Yikes!) The cool thing about these flowers is the millions of seeds they produce. When I pick one, the lower older pods have usually already gone to seed and dried, so I shake the seeds over the area, before taking the flowers in. That way I know there will be more flowers in the coming years.
@Catalina: I didn’t get a chance to mention it before, but that was real neat of your boss to source those Katiedids for you. Does that mean Michaels won’t be carrying them anymore? That wasn’t very long on the market. People obviously don’t get how cool they are. As far as a Foxglove tute, I’ve got a lesson on making Grape Hyacinth Canes, coming up soon. You’ll be able to adapt it to look like a Foxgloves if you like… more of a stylized version, not one with the spots, but cool none the less. Some day I would like to do a true Foxglove cane, as well as maybe a foxglove shaped bead. I think it would be really awesome!
@Cindy Lietz from Katiedids Bezels Tutorial: That sounds great! A Grape Hyacinth Cane would be cool! I just love flowers, real, silk, clay you name it!!
Yes, I guess since the Katiedids went clearance we will not be carrying them :( But, they could come back. Michaels is planning on adding over 8,000 new merchandise this year! Some of it has to be clay/jewelry related, right? It better!! Maybe if we all contact Michaels and ask them to put them back on the shelves they might listen. I might just do that especially since I want to know when we will be carrying the new Premo colors!!
I just finished, well almost finished, a treasure box, for my niece for her baby shower, with the new colors!! I’ll post the pics when completed.
@Catalina: I just re-read this…dear Cat, are you saying you’d prefer to poison the bunnies than have them eat your flowers? That’s one heck of a protective gardener!
@Phaedrakat: Yeah, you read right! Sorry, I do like rabbits but not when they eat my flowers. But, have a feeling that Bubby will be chasing them away. He is already getting “rid” of the birds that fly in the yard! But, so far I see a lot of holes and I hope they are not rabbit holes but squirrel holes looking for treasures.
Foxgloves are so beautiful. While on a working trip to a house in the country ( Idaho) I went for a walk in the countryside before my appointment, found the most beautiful flower and picked it. When I went to my appointment I took the flower with me to see if the lady could tell me what it was – a Foxglove. Then I got a lecture about it and that they were poisonous to her livestock and I should take that noxious weed as far away from her home as I could, she was very unhappy that I brought it with me. That was over twenty years ago and each time I see a foxglove I think of her, though I have long forgotten her name. The flower is beautiful. Thank you for the memories and the beautiful color palette.
@Karon C: I’ve done some research again, the formal name of Foxglove is Digitalis and it is toxic to all livestock, poultry, cats and dogs. It is used to treat heart conditions like congestive heart failure. Karon, it was your story that got me thinking (hence looking the info up), and my grandmother (a very long time ago) was on the medication derived from this plant.
Cindy, beautiful color palette BTW.
Ken, perhaps we can figure out (hint, Cindy) how to make this beautiful flower out of clay so that we can have it around us and my livestock and it will cause no harm. They are pretty but I never fail to remember that lady when I see them and know that I cannot grow them here. Some things leave an impression and knowing that they cause harm to my animals does not allow me to plant them.
Oh, I love this color palette………beautiful!
I think the approach could be adapted to create a decent camouflage cane too. You’d just need to avoid non-squiggly edges between adjacent cane slices for it to look right, maybe by using incomplete slices of the cane, or by creating a cane with a complex/squiggly shape (reduce it with the playdough backgroundless technique).
@Laura R.: The modern patterns are made up of little squares, like a pixleated image, maybe you could use one of the little square dies on either the Makins or WH clay extruders and assemble the pattern that way, they moved away from the pattern that looks like little blobs several years ago now.
What about using Cindy’s animal print canes, such as zebra, with olive greens, greys or whatever colours you want, instead of black and white, or the pink leopard.
Also you could make a few different canes and jumble the cane slices on the pens. With this “new” pattern being used it might make it easier to merge the edges of the cane slices.
You know, I’ve never liked foxgloves. When I was very small my parents had some growing in the garden and I remember my mum telling me not to touch them because they are poisonous. Obviously it scared me a bit, because I still hate them and wouldn’t dream of deliberately growing them in my garden (but if they happen to grow in my “wild area” by themselves then I guess that’s okay).
I do like the colours though!
AGAIN, what a pretty palette ! Unfortunately, in hot dry Tucson, they won’t grow well, sigh. But it would be NICE to have a tute,(hint,hint), so that all of us could enjoy their nodding heads…..smile……….
Thanks Sue, Jan, Ken and everyone on the input on the camo technique…headed to the work area to try out your thoughts…I’ll keep you posted…thanks for taking the time to share your insight! Much appreciated!
As Always Cindy a geat Tute!!
This is my fav finish for clay, and if you sand and buff, you will die with how beautiful.
Oops, sorry Kat, missed this one too! Started with a Dutch made cannuba wax my Dad had in his workshop a way long time ago. Recently switched to using a can of Johnson Paste Wax, paid about 4 bucks for the 1 lb can a few years ago at Walmart. Love the smell of it. I know. My bad. LOL!!!


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I'm thinking of running up to the Kandik next summer, from Circle. Does anyone have some good information on the trip and the river?
Canyon at the lower end (it's a rock garden) and shallow water. Plenty of other choices out there.
Kandik river is a shallow slow moving river and depends on rain for water although jet boats have have gone 35 miles up river in a good year. (Very few good years). Johnson gorge is 25 miles from the Yukon, class III.
The kandik is one of the better areas to hunt moose the problem is access,with low water I would recommend a small flat bottom boat or a airboat. Lots of areas to hunt below the gorge. There's a public use cabin at the mouth. The only local I know of is above the gorge. There maybe a outfitter dropping off float hunters 20+ miles above the gorge, I don't think it would be a problem. Hunt the swamps off the river and you should have a good hunt.
I just talked to a person who has direct knowledge about the Kandik. The river was in good condition this year with lots of power boat hunters.
A long-time friend and former river resident said this fall the reef at 3-mile stopped just about every jetboat, though some were naive enough to try it and one party got stuck and holed their boat there, but luckily plenty of other boaters were there (just below the reef) to help them out. If the river is up, isn't a problem to run up to 20-mile or so with a jet boat. If it's low---as is customary in fall---then even a canoe will drag on most riffles, and there are several (like three-mile reef) that will flat out stop you. Any power boater knows it's much easier to go upstream than down, so I've never figured out why so many continually try to go through things they can never make it back down (with or without a moose in the boat).
Plenty of longtime boaters use the lower river, and there are more coming all the time, from what I hear. I live above the gorge and don't usually see the boat traffic, just the float hunters. Had to help a party of float hunters this fall as the river was too low for them to make it out with the load and rafts they had. Called out and luckily a friend (air-taxi operator) had a cancellation and was able to come out and pick them up. Cost them a pretty penny too! They realized they'd never make their schedule and the transporter flying float-hunters out here is telling them (from what they say) it's an "easy three day float" from mile 70 or so. I suppose those with experience could pull that off if they went long hours and didn't hit any headwinds. Or if they didn't harvest all the meat off any moose they got and weigh themselves down.
Low density moose population...fires have really changed things above the gorge. Lowest moose density I've observed in the 25 years I've been living here, only saw one set of wolf tracks this fall and covered a lot of upper river from mile 50 to the border. Lower Kandik is pretty river, good grayling fishing, pool-and-riffle stream, similar to upper chena and upper salcha but with more sweepers and 90-degree bends and turns. The lower river has really changed in the past few years and now many new channels blown out that divert the river and make it confusing to read, and make the main channels shallower. So it's gotten a lot harder for jetboats on the lower river.
Larry and Jean's cabin at the mouth (now the property of the National Park Service as public use cabin) is a great place to stay, first come first serve, free, NPS doesn't allow reservations or anything. Some good pike fishing there at the mouth as well, and in the beaver sloughs on the lower river. Expect to be checked by NPS wildlife enforcement officers during hunting season. It's 80 miles of river from Circle to Kandik, beautiful upper-Yukon scenery with hoodoos, bluffs, lots of neat mining history. Several public use cabins along the Yukon as well, check with Yukon Charley website on those.
Sign the logbook at the mouth cabin if you stay, we always enjoy reading about others' time on the river.


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Rabbi Henry Isaacs served as rabbi on Bangor, Maine, for close to forty years. In 1958, he was a rabbinical student at Yeshiva University, and was engaged to be married. He had plans to enter the Armed Forces and join the Air Force. His father wouldn’t agree and unsure how to proceed, he turned to the Rebbe.
The Rebbe’s advice on that night was more far-reaching than he could have ever imagined at the time.
Excerpt from Living Torah Disc 174, Program 696.
Each had 2-3-5 min. But as they walked out they all had a story to tell.
Rebbe = getlichkiet, A Nosi. Etc. Just the fact of so many went to see the Rebbe. Each has a story to tell.
“Each has a story to tell.” – and we can learn from their stories.


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For the first time, Jair Bolsonaro appears to have a shot at winning a potential run-off, as he continues to lead ahead of the first round. Bolsonaro won the endorsement of Brazil's influential farm lobby.
With the opening round of Brazil's presidential election just four days away, far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro overtook his leftist rival Fernando Haddad in both the first and second rounds, according to a poll released by Brazilian polling firm Datafolha on Tuesday.
In the first-round survey, Bolsonaro obtained a 32 percent voter approval, four points higher than the most recent Datafolha poll on Sept 28. Workers Party candidate Haddad dropped one point and trailed Bolsonaro with 21 percent.
If no candidate gains a majority in Sunday's vote, a second-round run-off election will be held three weeks later, on October 28.
Until recently, Bolsonaro had been set to lose a second round, but Tuesday's poll showed that he has gained sufficient ground to at least tie. The far-right candidate polled at 44 percent, with Haddad trailing at 42 percent.
Some 14 percent of voters remain either undecided or are planning to cast a blank ballot. They could prove critical on Sunday and in the second round. Both Haddad and Bolsonaro have high rejection rates, with 42 and 45 percent respectively, reflecting the highly polarized landscape of a disaffected electorate.
As he increased his lead over Haddad, Bolsonaro won the backing of Brazil's influential Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA) on Tuesday. The lobby group includes nearly half of the lawmakers in the lower chamber of Congress.
The FPA explained its decision to not back the Workers Party as a rejection of leaders "linked to corruption schemes and a deepening of the Brazilian economic crisis."
The announcement, coupled with the latest poll's release, led to a surge in markets. The benchmark Bovespa stock index jumped 3.6 percent, indicating that investors view the gains of Bolsonaro's candidacy positively.
The right-wing firebrand, who is still recovering from a dramatic stabbing last month, has actively campaigned in support of economic liberalization, reducing the size of the state and privatizing "a large part" of state-run firms.
Despite mass protests on Saturday against Bolsonaro's racist, homophobic and misogynist positioning, under the banner "Not him," the former army general has also gained ground among women voters. A second poll by data firm Ibope showed his support among women overall rose 6 percentage points in the last week.
Lula quits race, but will voters support his successor?

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COLEY VILLE, ALSO KNOWN AS COLEY TOWN, WAS ESTABLISHED AS A VILLAGE IN THE LATE 1600S AND EARLY 1700S. THE PROMINENT FAMILY WAS THE COLEY FAMILY WHO OWNED A FARM AND THE VILLAGE GREW TO SUPPORT IT. IT HAD A VILLAGE GREEN, A SCHOOL HOUSE, A BLACKSMITH, A SHOEMAKER, STABLES, AND IT ALL CENTERED AROUND THiS VILLAGE MILL.
THIS ICONIC PROPERTY FUNCTIONED AS A MILL FOR MANY YEARS IN THE SEVENTEERN AND EIGHTEEN HUNDREDS.
MAIN HOUSE 3 BEDROOMS 2.5 BATHS AND HAS LOVELY VIEWS OF THE RIVER, WATERFALL AND FOOTBRIDGE.
THE BARN HAS A HUGE TWO STORY GREAT ROOM, INCLUDING KITCHEN, EATING AND LIVING AREAS. FABULOUS NORTH LIGHT MAKES A WONDERFUL ARTISTS STUDIO. UPSTAIRS THERE IS ONE BEDRROM WITH WALK IN CLOSET AND FULL BATH.
THE BARN ALSO HAS TWO CAR GARAGE FOR EXTRA PARKING.


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In 2000, the Berrien County Parks Commission was successful in obtaining a Clean Michigan Initiative Bond Grant for 65% of the construction cost of a new nature center at Love Creek. The "old" nature center served the public well for over 23 years, but was inadequate to facilitate and support the park's current scope of year-round recreation and education programs.
The new nature center features a larger classroom for interpretive programs and a separate multipurpose room with displays and park information. During the winter months the program and multipurpose rooms also serve as comfortable warming areas for skiers, complete with a food service area. The program room is also available for groups in search of a unique and relaxed location to host a meeting, planning session or group training seminar. Visit the Trillium Room page for more information.


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The fourth step in the Systems Aproach Framework (SAF) is the system assessment.
The System Assessment step of the SAF consists of a list of actions, which you can access in the menu to find more about each action.
There are also two tools that are useful to conduct some of the actions. The tools are presented in connection with the relevant action.
At the starting point of the system assessment step, the simulation analyses is completed and the results ready to be discussed with all the stakeholders.
The simulation results need to be processed in a manner that is easy to communicate to stakeholders.
The system assessment step should take 2-4 months to complete.
At the end of the system assessment step you should have a good overview of the consequences of potential management options to resolve the Issue. You have a good overview on the knowledge and perceptions of all the stakeholders involved and on potential reactions to decisions.


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A brand-new, fully immersive haunted attraction, called Terror Vault, is now open at The San Francisco Mint.
Face your darkest fears in this new haunted attraction inside The San Francisco Mint.
Madame Tussauds in San Francisco is opening the chain’s first escape room, featuring an Alcatraz theme.


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Two sides battling it for a Europa League spot this season, Nice will look to carry on their impressive form when they hist Saint-Etienne on Friday night.
Starting with the hosts, enjoying a very eye-catching rise up the Ligue 1 table, Nice will have their sights firmly set on securing European football for the Allianz Riviera. In their opening 16 matches, they have won seven, drawn four and lost five, scoring 12 and conceding 14 in return, only Montpellier and PSG can boast a better defensive record. With a points tally of 25, they sit just one point adrift of Friday’s visitors and a win could see them briefly jump into the top-four. As for their recent form, Nice are now unbeaten in their last seven matches across all competitions. More impressive, they have now recorded five Ligue 1 clean sheets on the bounce.
As for the visitors, while it was a very bright start for Saint-Etienne, a run that saw them flirting with the Champions League positions, they have hit their most difficult patch of the season. In their opening 16 games, they have won, seven, drawn five and lost four, scoring 24 and conceding 21 in return. While they may find themselves sat sixth in the Ligue 1 table, Saint-Etienne have now lost three of their last four matches across all competitions and also came crashing out of the Cup at the hands of Nimes last month. Also losing their last three away matches on the bounce, we’re backing a home victory on Friday night.

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There are a lot of places in Alcudia where you can book ferry services. Some are great and some may be not. However, online sites are booming these days and make reservations in such ferry services easier. Booking a cheap service of Alcudia ferry is now easier at AFerry.com.
All one has to do is just simply select your given route and state the number of passengers from the given booking form on the extreme left hand side to get started.You would also be able to compare some similar routes, using our great service of “Compare Prices” tab. Simply select the route and the given dates you would like to travel on and actually find the cheapest sailings and also their alternatives in an extremely easy to view list.
For making the job of tourists easy, this page also has a port map, with the given port address below so that you even know where to go on the day. Direct ferries.com could be another site you would like to go on.
Above ferry services in Alcudia are just some of several.

industry_corpus2: Transportation