NetScaler is already well established as the industry’s leading internet delivery system, touching an estimated 75 percent of internet users each day. The new NetScaler 10 release builds on this leadership to deliver the world’s most advanced “cloud networking platform”, giving customers a single integrated solution that brings the elasticity, simplicity and expandability of the cloud to networks of any size. This powerful combination helps customers deliver public and private cloud services with the best performance, security and reliability to any device. NetScaler 10 for AWS will answer the call from customers to be able to rely upon this world-class cloud network platform while using their AWS environments. With this combination, a variety of essential cloud deployment scenarios become possible.
Enables key Cloud Use Cases
NetScaler 10 for AWS will create a variety of new solutions to be explored, including:
- For customers running production on-premise, but using AWS for dev/test, NetScaler can be included within their AWS test environments, speeding time-to-production due to better mimicry of the production environment within their test environments.
- For customers using AWS for production delivery, they can front their AWS-based applications with the same core cloud networking platform used by the largest websites and clouds in the world.
- For customers implementing hybrid clouds spanning their own data centers and AWS, they can now use the same cloud networking platform in both, significantly easing the transition of applications and workloads back and forth between their own private clouds and AWS.
- For Customers using NetScaler AppFlow™, NetScaler for AWS provides unprecedented network and application visibility for AWS environments. With NetScaler AppFlow, customers can leverage their existing on-premise management tools to obtain real-time insight into application and data traffic within their AWS environments without having to install and maintain expensive and cumbersome probes and agents.
- For customers using the latest version of NetScaler 10, they will further find that the new ActionAnalytics™ capability compliments NetScaler AppFlow with real-time monitoring of web application and data traffic within the AWS environment, and provides adaptive controls to automatically change or create policy in real-time. For example, caching policy can be automatically adjusted in real-time such that the most frequently requested objects are always cached. Or, if response time exceeds a certain threshold, tracing can be automatically turned on to aid in troubleshooting.
- For customers working with MSQL, the enhanced NetScaler DataStream™ SQL intelligent load balancing and DBMS caching features of NetScaler 10 improves database scale, availability and performance for AWS-based MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server DBMS farms.
“IDC has forecast that cloud computing will account for 46% of net new growth in IT spending. As enterprise IT embraces cloud computing, it will require the ability to extend the application availability, control and visibility it relies upon in its own datacenters to the external clouds it will utilize.”
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With the Department of Defense unveiling CMMC version 2.0 last November, many contractors breathed a sigh of relief. The relaxed assessment requirements and streamlined structure signaled a willingness from the DoD to work with assessors and contractors to find a way to promote security over Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) without making the process harder than… Read More
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By Chris Moore:
The notes for Meade Skelton’s 2003 release They Can’t Keep Me Down declare, “In an era of serious singer-songwriters with overly pretentious lyrics, Meade Skelton keeps it simple and sincere.”
This indeed continues to be true for the music he is making five years later.
His new single, “My Loudoun County Home,” is a lyrical stroll down memory lane, recalling and reminiscing about people, places, and events of importance in Skelton’s life. There is a bittersweet combination of love and sadness in his words. Truly, Skelton’s voice brings this song to life. His voice is clear and crisp; clearly he has been classically trained. And yet this training has not affected his ability to sing with the sort of emotion that one cannot be trained to project. His vocals have a soaring quality that conjure John Denver at his best.
Skelton is clearly singing from his heart, and when he sings, “No matter where I roam, I’ll always love my Loudon County home,” it does not come across as too simple or trite — it translates as true and heartfelt.
And this song holds true to that claim made in 2003 — he sounds far from pretentious. Quite to the contrary, his lyrics are straightforward and his sound is perfectly matched to the tone of this single. In addition to his pitch-perfect, emotive vocals, the instrumental accompaniment is simple, but full. Predominant in the mix are Skelton’s piano, a violin, bass, and drums. The piano may be the grounding force in this track, but the violin accents the tone of the song in all the places that his voice does not, the string instrument holding back as he sings only to come to full and vibrant life as his singing pauses in between lines.
“Moved By The Spirit,” the second track (the B-side if you decide to purchase the vinyl edition of this single instead of the CD), delves into the spiritual overtones referenced in “My Loudoun County Home.” Here, the lyrics are even simpler and more straightforward. The instrumentation is sparse to match, highlighting Skelton’s abilities on the keyboards, which have been — perhaps purposely — set to an organ tone. This is, of course, fitting for a song about the Holy Spirit.
Overall, this seems a very appropriate time for Skelton to release a fairly serious, autobiographical song. After all, he has been performing music since childhood and has been “playing the scene” (as his YouTube page states) since 2001. His two releases in the past five years have included an album of standards, which is of course the traditional way to gain people’s interest in your own work. Now, as he pays tribute to his “Loudoun County Home,” Skelton sounds confident in his work.
As well he should be, considering the amount of time and energy he has dedicated to this endeavor. Even a quick stop at Meade Skelton’s YouTube page will reveal a virtual treasure trove of life performances, as well as a video promo for this, his latest single.
Whether you are a fan of Skelton already or a newcomer to his music, this new single is an excellent opportunity to acquaint (or re-acquaint, as the case may be) yourself with the sound and the background of this talented performer.


A Redmond man was arrested Thursday for allegedly firing a gun through the front door of his house after an argument with his girlfriend, barricading himself in the home and launching a three-hour standoff with police.
Matt Ryan Frazier, 42, was arrested on multiple charges including menacing, coercion and unlawful use of a weapon.
Redmond Police Sgt. Devin Lee said the incident started at 6 p.m. when they received a report of someone who had fired a shotgun into the home at 2907 SW Peridot Ave.
Officers found Frazier had barricaded himself alone inside the house, prompting the CERT team to respond.
Lee said after about three hours, Frazier came out of the home and challenged the CERT Team members.
He was arrested with the help of Bend Police K-9 Lil’ Kim. No one was injured.
If you saw the incident or have information, please contact the RPD through non-emergency dispatch, 541-693-6911.


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Fallout from Boy Scouts Sex-Abuse Settlement Leaves Future of High-Value Rhode Island Open Space Uncertain
July 16, 2021
BURRILLVILLE, R.I. — A few days before Christmas last year, Bill Eccleston and Rich Dionne went snowshoeing, starting out from the Pulaski State Park and Recreational Area in Glocester. They followed the trail north for a few hours and then debated whether to turn back or keep going to the Buck Hill Scout Reservation in the village of Pascoag. They decided to head back, but the conversation got them thinking about the future of the 1,600-acre property in the northwest corner of Rhode Island.
The nature enthusiasts were aware that the Boy Scouts of America were being sued over sex-abuse allegations and had already filed for bankruptcy.
Seven months later, on July 1, the 111-year-old organization reached an $850 million settlement with tens of thousands of people, over decades, who say they were sexually abused when they were Scouts.
The settlement, which came after the national organization filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020 while facing mounting legal costs over the abuse claims, is one of the largest of its kind in a child sexual abuse case in U.S. history, according to The Washington Post. The story noted local councils, like the Boy Scouts of America Narragansett Council, are expected to contribute to the settlement fund.
Boy Scouts of America has estimated the likely payout potential of the abuse claims at a range of $2.4 billion to $7.1 billion, while a committee representing victims has valued the total claims at more than $100 billion, according to The New York Times.
The Boy Scouts of America’s national organization has agreed to contribute $250 million to the fund, The New York Times reported. The brunt of the settlement would be paid by the 250 local councils, which were asked to contribute $500 million in cash and properties. Local councils can also add another $100 million, funded with contributions that would have originally gone to a pension plan for former executives and employees, which the Scouts say is overfunded, according to The New York Times story.
The Boy Scouts of America Narragansett Council, which serves all of Rhode Island and some of Massachusetts and Connecticut, operates and/or owns nine properties. Some of the properties are a collection of different parcels.
Dionne and Eccleston’s snowshoe conversation back to Pulaski State Park revolved around the future of the Buck Hill Scout Reservation and the Yawgoog Scout Reservation, both of which are part of a regional wildlife corridor.
Both men, outspoken opponents of the rejected fossil-fuel power plant that had been proposed for the woods of Burrillville, are concerned one or both of the high-profile Boy Scout properties could be sold to private interests.
They fear waterfront houses will be built on Boy Scout property in what is now a lightly developed area around Wakefield Pond. They’re concerned the Buck Hill Scout Reservation could be turned into a private hunting and fishing club with all the requisite amenities.
“What’s going to happen to the huge Buck Hill and Yawgoog holdings here?” Eccleston asked. “Aren’t they going to be liquidated to pay off the settlements?”
Another question he and Dionne have is: Will the state of Rhode Island or a nongovernmental organization like The Nature Conservancy be able to buy and preserve these largely forested tracts of open space?
Eccleston noted the Buck Hill Management Area is geographically critical to the forest ecology of the tri-state corner, “like a puzzle piece to physically link together” publicly owned forests in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Buck Hill Scout Reservation is 1.5 miles from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management’s Buck Hill Management Area.
The North Providence resident said the Yawgoog Scout Reservation is likewise critical to the Arcadia Management Area and Pachaug State Forest tract in southwest Rhode Island and southeast Connecticut.
They said it would be intolerable if the Buck Hill and/or Yawgoog properties were sold to a residential developer — “no matter how said developer would try to spin it.”
“The Buck Hill Boy Scout Reservation, over 1,600 acres of forest and undeveloped waterfront on pristine Wakefield Pond, is a crucial link in a North-South chain of state-owned public land totaling over 26,000 acres in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island,” Eccleston wrote in an email to ecoRI News. “Sell that land to a residential developer and you’ve broken that Tri-State link and snapped that major corridor for wildlife migration.”
A spokesperson for the Boy Scouts of America Narragansett Council told ecoRI News, “At this point, it would be premature to speculate about any effect that the national bankruptcy could have on Scout camps in Rhode Island.”
New York’s Greater Hudson Valley Council addressed the settlement situation in its June 25 newsletter, noting selling property is a likely response.
“As the Council faces a multi-million-dollar payment, please understand that as a non-profit organization most of our worth is in our assets, which is our property. It is difficult to foresee a way of making this payment without selling a property,” according to a letter signed by four people in council leadership positions.
The Greater Hudson Valley Council has since put up three large properties for sale to settle its portion of the settlement payouts.
John Torgan, state director of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Rhode Island, told ecoRI News his chapter hasn’t had specific discussions about the potential fallout from the Boy Scouts of America settlement, but he said the pandemic-forced closure of summer camps and campsites last year made the staff take notice of important open space that may need protection because of financial difficulties.
Torgan said buying development rights to properties to help organizations from going out of business is always an option, for both TNC and property owners. He also noted TNC and the Boy Scouts of America have a history of working together.
In 2012, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, in partnership with TNC, bought 189 acres of land in Burrillville, near the Buck Hill and George Washington management areas, from the Boy Scouts of America Narragansett Council.
In the press release announcing the sale, Terry Sullivan, then the state director for TNC Rhode Island, is quoted, “The forests in the northwest of our state provide so many benefits … including wonderful recreation opportunities, protection of freshwater supplies and room for wildlife to thrive.”
Torgan said TNC has priority criteria for buying properties or their development rights such as: Are there endangered or threatened species on the property? Is it near other protected land? Is it ecologically important? Is it accessible to the public?
“It’s important that places that are special to people and important to nature are protected,” he said.

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Covid-19 infected more than 281 million people worldwide and killed more than 5.4 million people. Here are some of the latest developments related to coronavirus:
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Spain’s infection rate soars
The coronavirus infection rate in Spain exceeded 1,000 for the first time per 100,000 people. This was astonished by the rapidly expanding variant of Omicron, but the hospital was far less burdensome than the previous pandemic wave.
According to health ministry data, the rate measured over the last 14 days has risen to 1,206 following the Christmas weekend.
This is compared to the 911 reported on Thursday, which first surpassed the 900 past records set in late January.
The aggregate has not been updated since Thursday, adding 214,619 new cases to the 5,932,626 cases recorded since the start of the pandemic.
U.S. halves quarantine period
The United States has set new highs in multiple US states and Europe, causing havoc in the world’s air travel, and asymptomatic Covid cases to slow the mass turmoil by Omicron. Halved the quarantine period.
Since Friday, about 11,500 flights have been scrapped worldwide, making it one of the busiest travel periods of the year, with tens of thousands more delayed. Several airlines have stated that the surge in the case of the Omicron coronavirus mutant caused a staff shortage.
Cases in the United States are already on track to reach record highs in January, boosted by the large pockets of unvaccinated residents and lack of access to quick and easy tests.
Brazil reports 86 Covid-19 deaths
According to data released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Brazil has enrolled 86 Covid-19 deaths and 6,840 additional cases, as two of Brazil’s 27 federal units were unable to provide up-to-date information. , The statistics were incomplete.
South American countries are currently enrolling a total of 618,534 coronavirus deaths and 22,246,276 confirmed cases.
Brazil has the second highest number of deaths in the world after the United States, but the number of daily deaths and cases has dropped dramatically in recent months.
Borsolano does not vaccinate her daughter
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro will not vaccinate his 11-year-old daughter with Covid-19, he said.
Right-wing leaders added that state health minister Marcelo Vieira will reveal on January 5 how Brazil will implement a coronavirus vaccination campaign approved earlier this month for ages 5-11. ..
Child vaccination is a hot topic in Brazil, where the majority of the population supports vaccines, but Bolsonaro’s core supporters are enthusiastic about this measure.
Source: TRT World and distributors
https://www.trtworld.com/life/spain-s-covid-19-infections-soar-after-christmas-latest-updates-53070?utm_source=other&utm_medium=rss Spain’s Covid-19 infection surges after Christmas – latest update


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Why might you need to lease a canine trainer anyway? This is a query that many human beings ask
whilst the difficulty comes up. You regularly listen human beings claiming to have managed to educate their
vintage canine with out such assist. These same properly meaning folks will regularly pass on to inform you
approximately the antiquated techniques that grandpa passed down consisting of hitting “Old Trusty” at the nose with a rolled up newspaper, or striking a useless hen round his neck to teach him not to kill animals.
The character knowledgeable in an kutyatréner kecskemét appropriate use of dog schooling and canine psychology while listening to those
styles of testimonies will secretly be wondering, it become excellent that vintage “Trusty” survived grandpas abuse.
Maybe he did with the aid of warding off being round grandpa at any price. “Trusty” possibly noticed grandpa and ran within the contrary route or low crawled his way to him with the anticipation of more abuse. Beating a dog into submission isn’t always training! Training, whilst achieved well, uses the intelligence of the human race to control the dog into preferred behavior, not our barbaric caveman facet.
So back to the unique question of “Why could you lease a pet canine instructor?” Most human beings accomplish that when they run into troubles that they completely understand they lack the information to resolve. Usually frustration has built up when the canine is continuously having residence breaking problems, or he’s destroying items within the domestic or backyard. He may also have a walking away difficulty, or just be unruly in trendy. Dog schooling is regularly the closing effort owners make in saving the dog from being added to a shelter. The maximum shrewd of owners but, will use canine education to clear up these troubles BEFORE they ever turn out to be troubles. As a canine trainer, my favorite clients are the ones that name earlier than they get the domestic dog. They know that an oz. Of prevention is well worth a pound of cure. They regularly will ask questions about the inclinations of their breed of desire BEFORE making the selection. This in and of itself can save you them from setting out on the incorrect foot or making the wrong choice for his or her state of affairs. A appropriate example of this is the 75 year antique grandmother who lived in a rental who wanted to realize if I notion it changed into an awesome concept for her to take at the Alaskan Malamute doggy that her grandchildren had offered and now no longer wanted to hold. The issues with the domestic dog had been unruliness, destruction, and leaping up on human beings. The ultimate of which could obviously been a hassle for a 75 12 months old female. We subsequently resolved the problem with the aid of finding out that the correct issue to do might be for the grandchildren (who were young adults) to keep and educate the canine. Grandma paid for it. The doggy stored his now happier home. Grandma lived a happier lifestyles than she could with the possibility of a damaged hip due to a nicely that means however overly zealous domestic dog.
The aforementioned doggy become skilled first at five months of age with all of it is simple obedience, problem fixing, and domestic manners (stopping at doors, gates, obstacles, and coming in and laying in “location” in a comfy down live) as well as giving the owners right control techniques consisting of the use of a crate and dog run area when they were not there to monitor the puppies conduct. As he became an excellent larger teenager of approximately three hundred and sixty five days of age, he persisted his schooling into a extra advanced degree of schooling to insure that he remained practicable. This family turned into able to not best hold their dog but to experience him into old age, all due to the fact Grandma made a totally crucial phone call and determined out what she should do approximately a state of affairs with a doggy that changed into getting out of control for the entire circle of relatives.
So now that we understand why people lease Pet Dog Trainers, the following query ought to be “How do I discover a right one?” This isn’t always an smooth query to reply because it requires a chunk of explaining as to how one will become a Pet Dog Trainer. I maintain regarding the teacher as a Pet Dog Trainer instead of only a teacher due to the fact there are numerous exceptional styles of trainers. The are for example Movie Dog Trainers, Sport Dog Trainers (for particular competitions), Police Dog Trainers, Gun Dog Trainers, and so on. Each of these sorts of trainers has in common that they train dogs but the applications are massively specific and maximum do not correlate nicely to Pet Dog Training. The Pet Dog Trainer desires to understand a way to educate any breed of canine to be an excellent puppy. This is more hard than it sounds because it calls for that the teacher be capable of alter their strategies in step with the character dog (breed, temperament, length etc)
Although a few trainers start out in a specific area which include Sport Dog Training, or Police Dog Training, after which move on to Pet Dog Training, this requires an addition to their training. Unfortunately many of these types in no way get that education and try to practice their vintage strategies which can were relevant on a Sport Dog (take shock collars as an example) a customers pet Maltipoo. In our opinion, the high-quality training that a Pet Dog Trainer can get is operating for another Pet Dog Trainer for not less than one to two years. It is proper that there are courses around that provide certification in schooling but few of them offer any great enjoy with numbers of dogs.
So in which do you start whilst searching out a Pet Dog Trainer on your dog? As with maximum offerings a word of mouth advice from a person who has already used a selected teacher and was satisfied with the carrier is first-rate. Asking your veterinarian, groomer, or different puppy professional for a
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Rättvik - Jarlstugan MTB area
The area around Jarlstugan in Rättvik offers varied routes, mostly on smooth trails on pine forests. Both shorter and longer light-cycled trails in hilly terrain and tougher, more challenging trails in hilly terrain.
The trails start at Jarlstugan in Rättvik. It is located on the right side of Backavägen just before the horse-racecourse (Travbana) if you come from the center of Rättvik.
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Archive for March 13th, 2009
Straight from Slashdot: “China will be launching 2 new space stations this next year. One is for their civil program (as run by the military), while the second is openly for the military. It appears that there will be multiples of the military version to be launched in 2010, and that they are developing the same US Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) that was canceled in 1969. In addition, it appears that China is accelerating their timelines on a number of the earlier space announcements.”
Straight from Slashdot: “It’s not Sigourney Weaver tossing aliens about, but The Register has an interesting blurb about a real human-capable exoskeleton that looks pretty cool (Lockheed-Martin press release). Runs for three hours at 3 mph on internal batteries; max speed is 7 mph. Of course, no price is listed but I suppose if you have to ask you can’t afford it. Team this up with a Big Dog and you’ve got the ultimate high-tech cross-country team. Bring your own batteries. Or just wait for your jetpack to arrive.”
Straight from Fox News: “A District of Columbia employee and a technology consultant were charged with corruption counts Thursday after FBI agents raided the former office of the man tapped to be President Obama’s chief information officer.
The White House said it was notified in advance of the search at the office of Vivek Kundra, who was formerly the D.C. technology officer. While the raid was happening at his old office, Kundra was giving a speech elsewhere on his new goals for government contracting.
Kundra was not a target of the investigation, a source told FOX News.
But Yusuf Acar, a city technology worker who worked under Kundra, was charged. He was ordered held without bond pending a hearing Tuesday. Prosecutors said $70,000 in cash was found during a search of Acar’s home. Technology consultant Sushil Bansal was released but was ordered not to engage in overseas financial transactions. Bansal is due back in court on April 21.
The White House chief information officer is responsible for overseeing federal technology spending. “
Straight from Fox News: “A court convicted an Iraqi journalist of assault Thursday for hurling his shoes at George W. Bush and sentenced him to three years in prison, prompting an outburst from his family and calls for his release from Iraqis who consider him an icon for a nation decimated by war.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi, 30, defiantly shouted, “Long Live Iraq!” when the sentence was imposed, according to defense lawyers. Some of his relatives collapsed and had to be helped out of the courthouse. Others were forcibly removed by guards after shouting “Down with Bush!”
“This judiciary is unjust,” al-Zeidi’s brother, Dargham, said tearfully.
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Other family members shouted insults against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who like al-Zeidi is a Shiite.
Although al-Zeidi received the minimum sentence — it could have been 15 years behind bars — his lawyers denounced the verdict and said they would appeal, possibly hoping a public outcry would aid their cause.
Al-Zeidi’s brazen act during a Dec. 14 press conference by Bush and al-Maliki in Baghdad’s Green Zone turned the young reporter into a folk hero across the Arab world, where the former U.S. president is reviled for invading Iraq in 2003 and for other policies.”


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a great example of a castle
mmm dark wood and sculpted bits. what's not to love?
I love the faded look; the overgrown nature; the soft detail coming out of a run-of-the-mill brick face.
i love the idea of such an ordered place in the midst of a harsh chaos.

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — It’s been hours since we last reported the Grand Rapids Police Department’s request for help from the public and the media in locating 26 year old Latrice Renea Maze, who was last seen near the intersection of Burton and Division yesterday, then reported missing by family after she failed to pick-up her child up from school. The Grand Rapids Major Case Team is still on top of investigating her disappearance, but is still asking for your help.
Please, if you have any information on the disappearance of Latrice Maze, you are urged to contact the Grand Rapids Police Department at 616-456-3406. You may also contact the Silent Observer by calling 616-774-2345, or leaving information online on www.silentobserver.org.
Remember, you do not to leave any personal or contact information. Your identity is strictly confidential.


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I’m very thankful for 2011, a lot of blessing came in and as well as challenges. One of my blogs (rizalpark.org) won the Top Emerging Influential Blogs for 2011, my clients continued to increase, meet new friends and learn a lot of things from the challenges offline and in social media. One good lesson I have learned this year is not to apathy to issues. Before, I never engage into online discussion nor opposed to share my thoughts a matter, until someone defaced my rizalpark.org blog. They thought their freedom has been suppressed. They used social media to gather sympathy on what they think cause, but they don’t really understand what they are fighting for.
The use of social media should be use to promote our country not to demoralized it. That’s why I believe, 2012 should be the year to promote what is positive and true. If we speak on what we believe is right and true, authors of black propaganda in the social media will be lessen or avoided. Cyberbullying like what happen to me and experienced by Chris Lao (who suffered online rough criticism) should have been avoided. Spreading of false information about Oprah’s saying Shamcey should have won the beauty contest has been contained immediately.
Social media in 2012 should be the year to promote online transparency. Politicians should use social media more to promote government transparency not just for their personal online propaganda. Instead of initiating online tweet war why not, dissemination of government policies and help promote bayanihan in the country. We should speak up, that we need “change” and do our share in promoting our country!
I think 2012 should be the start for online positivism. Social Media should be the medium of bayanihan (voluntarism) , transparency, and tourism in the country. If you feel we deserved better… we should Speak up. Speak up in resistance to mediocrity, limitations, “bahala na si batman!” and uniformity (Sama lang ng sama!). Let’s help the rebuild our country by promoting online a beautiful Philippines!
That’s why starting next year I will Speak Up for Online Positivism in 2012!

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The Arcteryx Atom Heavyweight Hoody is a versatile insulated hooded jacket that allows you to perform without restriction. It's ideal as an outer layer on cold dry days but when the weather turns wetter, it becomes the ideal mid layer. All in all, a very versatile jacket that is ideal for alpine climbing, ski-touring or trekking in the hills and mountains. Though it is equally at home around town too.
The outer fabric is constructed from a highly durable Tyono 30 that is also wind resistant and light. It also benefits from a DWR finish to repel any rain or snow. The Atom Heavyweight Hoody utilizes Coreloft, this is a lightweight synthetic insulation that is very compressible and light but expands very quickly when unpacked. Coreloft is made up of thicker fibres than other leading insulation brands, which means they will not penetrate the outer fabric. The insulation is also body mapped to improve the thermal performance.
The Arcteryx Atom Heavyweight Hoody is cut to allow freedom of movement, with articulated elbows and gusseted underarms which feature very breathable Dope Permair 20 liner material. This liner material is dope dyed, a process which requires far fewer resources than regular dying techniques. The superbly designed cuffs are constructed from a stretch knitted fabric to enable easy layering. The StormHood is insulated and helmet compatible with a a mini hood brim. The No Slip Zip is an Arcteryx feature which works like a series of speed bumps down the zip, so the zip doesn't slip from the position you put it in, even when its not fully zipped up.
Arcteryx Atom Hoody Heavyweight Features
- Tyono 30 with a DWR finish
- Dope Permair 20 liner
- Coreloft 120 synthetic insulation (body)
- Coreloft 80 synthetic insulation (under arms)
- Coreloft 60 synthetic insulation (hood)
- Helmet compatible StormHood
- No Slip Zip main zip
- 2 zipped hand pockets
- 1 internal zipped chest pocket
- Adjustable hem drawcord
- Regular and hip length.

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He said this to Ukrainski Novyny, Censor.NET informs.
"The prosecutor of the Rivne region has been dismissed," he said.
He did not specify when exactly he signed the order.
July 4, law enforcers conducted a large-scale operation titled 'Burshtyn' (amber) in the Rivne region, with participation of more than 400 field investigators. Deputy head of Rivne regional prosecutor Andrii Borovyk has been detained. The National Police also informed that an amber mafia boss was detained in Kyiv. Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko announced of his intentions to dismiss Rivne regional prosecutor Anatolii Kovalchuk.
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The Cheatles Themed Night
Join us for a sumptuous three-course Carvery style buffet, with a live Beatles style band and themed disco
Friday 25th June 2010
Join us for a musical tribute to The Beatles, the most famous of Liverpool musicians. Take a step back in time and dance the night away to a selection of their timeless hits. Includes a sumptuous three-course Carvery style buffet, The Cheatles and disco until 1.00am.
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Kidney considering whether to wing it for the next day out
A long standing conundrum for Ireland has been whether to only pick individuals in their best positions or shoehorn them into the team to ensure the best 15 rugby players take the field.
The latter option tends to prevail. It is why specialist openside flankers tend to suffer in a straight fight against a more powerful backrower and wingers with natural pace tend to be overlooked for a Fergus McFadden or Andrew Trimble type player. Even Shane Horgan was a converted centre. It is the needs must argument that will always arise in a small playing pool. Such conundrums have become more complex for Declan Kidney after Saturday’s impressive gutting of the hapless, under-prepared Fijians. The two outstanding performers on the night were young Ulster pair Luke Marshall and Craig Gilroy. A natural born inside centre and winger respectively.
Two players who reflect the transitional period of Ireland rugby as they are unable to nail down Heineken Cup berths. On the evidence of the pairs controlled showing at Thomond Park, and despite the poor opposition, that could be about to change.
The question is whether Kidney is willing to speed up what looks an inevitable journey into the Test arena. “It’s a new time for Irish rugby, there is a whole new squad coming through,” Kidney said. “Some fellas got their chances and showed they want more of it.”
The issue of being unable to nail down a provincial jersey hindering Ireland selection, even for next week, doesn’t seen to relevant. The live debate now is whether Gilroy’s hat-trick and all round performance is enough to leap over Trimble and McFadden in the left wing pecking order.
“Craig is fighting for a place in Ulster, behind Andrew and Tommy [Bowe], but he is a really positive young man,” Kidney continued. “Himself and Luke – Luke probably hasn’t played a match in six weeks – so to come in and be as strong as that for 80 minutes, to create space, he is just a really positive young man.”
Gilroy has always possessed sprinter’s pace. His switch to left wing in the second half can be interpreted as a chance to check if can he operate there, should Kidney seek to select two natural born wingers. The coach will reveal the answers to that conundrum on Thursday.
“Let them fight it out. We’ve tried Fergus right and left and Craig has shown on the left but has also gone well for us on the right. Simon [Zebo] has been predominantly left wing and we talk about loosehead and tighthead, which is definitely a big topic of conversation, but there is a huge difference between left and right wing. It isn’t the same that you’re able to rock up, Tommy will tell you, he’ll hang onto 14 a lot easier than move out to 11 – that one has a lot of defensive nuances that 14 doesn’t have.” With man of the match Gilroy not made available for print interview, McFadden was asked about his mid-game swap from left to right wing.
“He just said at half-time he wanted both of us to have a run on the opposite wing just to have a look,” said McFadden. “You can only take that as a positive. Obviously he wants to give lads as much an opportunity in different positions to weigh up things ahead of next week and what’s the best combination he can go with.”


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8 Ways to Look Your Best Every Day
Sometimes in life, you do not need great looking clothes or expensive makeup to look good on an everyday basis. You will just have to make a few adjustments in your life and your lifestyle to get that glow and healthy look from the inside. After all, if you are pretty messed up inside, it reflects on your face and skin. Looking good on a daily basis actually does not require much and you can do it pretty easily. Here are a few ways to look your best every day without having to put too much effort into it.
1. Sleep well
Each person needs a specific amount of sleep to function normally and also look good in the morning. You will know how many hours of sleep your body needs. Go to bed early and also wake up early. A good night’s sleep is more than enough to give you a well-rested look and good skin.
2. Drink lots of water
There are so many health benefits associated with drinking the right amount of water that reiterating it would sound cliche. Drinking enough water keeps you hydrated, gives you great looking skin and also keeps your body rejuvenated and fresh looking. There are also fewer chances of you suffering from dry and scaly skin when you hydrate your body regularly. Good, healthy skin makes you look good.
3. Regularly cleanse and detox your body
You need to clean your body inside out to look good. Go on a detox at least once in a month to remove all the excess toxins from your system. Also have a proper bath or shower and exfoliate regularly to remove the dead cells and also get the well-scrubbed look.
4. Avoid strss
Stress not only causes you mental strain but also reflects on your body. You get dark circles around your eyes, bags and a lot of worry lines. Pick out the best way to de-stress. It could be catching a movie, reading a book or going out for a walk. Leave behind your problems at work when you get back home and learn how to relax. A stress free life is a great way to look good every day.

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Albuquerque & Texas Medical Malpractice & Personal Injury Lawyers
Have you been catastrophically injured in a car wreck or other accident? Under the law, if another person or party’s actions were in part responsible for causing your injuries, you may have the right to file a lawsuit against them in order to recover financial compensation for your injuries.
At Buckingham Barrera Albuquerque and Texas Medical Malpractice Law Firm, we know that it’s easy for victims and their families to feel overwhelmed after a serious accident. Aside from the physical pain and suffering and mental anguish associated with their injuries, victims are often confronted by financial instability and even the possibility of bankruptcy as bills pile up and returning to work remains impossible.
We can help. We’re a dedicated personal injury law firm, which means that negotiating or litigating insurance claims on behalf of accident victims is all we do. We represent victims of auto accidents and medical malpractice, as well as individuals who have been seriously injured in oil field accidents. We also assist family members and personal representatives of estates with filing wrongful death claims in Texas or New Mexico.
We have helped numerous accident victims take on big insurance companies and get the financial compensation they deserve for their injuries focusing on the following areas:
- Medical Malpractice
- Wrongful Death
- Oil Field Accidents
- Car Accidents
- Truck Accidents
- Motorcycle Accidents
Contact our New Mexico and Texas medical malpractice attorneys today to get started immediately.
DEDICATED TO PROTECTING YOUR RIGHTS AFTER A CATASTROPHIC INJURY
At Buckingham Barrera Law Firm, we represent victims who have been seriously injured. Such cases include but are not limited to those involving:
Whether it involves a car accident, incident of medical malpractice, oil field accident, or other factor, most personal injury cases hinge on the legal doctrine of negligence. This means that individuals or companies whose careless or reckless behavior contributed to causing a serious accident can be held legally liable for doing so. This doesn’t happen automatically, however. In order to make their case, accident victims have to demonstrate that another party’s breach of some legal duty of care directly caused their injuries.
Since 1999, Buckingham Barrera has been helping victims of car crashes take on big insurance companies. We know that driving can become deadly in an instant if other drivers don’t observe the rules of the road, and we’ve made it our mission to hold negligent or criminally reckless drivers accountable on behalf of our clients in their personal injury cases. There are some elements common to most personal injury cases, including the basic legal principles involved and the steps in the claims process. We are available to answer your questions and get started on assisting you today. Learn More >>
OIL FIELD ACCIDENTS
The Permian basin alone represents a fifth of our nation’s petroleum and natural gas resources. As the development of these resources expands, so does the potential for tragedy for families living in Texas and New Mexico communities. Our law firm has a track record of success when it comes to representing workers who have been injured in pipeline explosions or other kinds of oil field accidents. We have successfully helped many victims recover financial damages. Depending on the circumstances of your injury, you may also be able to file third party lawsuits against contractors or other parties in addition to any workers’ compensation claims concerned. We know how a sudden oil field accident can devastate a family emotionally and leave them financially exposed due to loss of wages, expensive medical bills, and other factors. If this sounds familiar, we urge you to discuss your situation with an oil field accident lawyer as soon as possible. Learn More >>
As health care consumers, we have the right to expect that the physicians, nurses, and other health care personnel who are treating us perform their jobs with the highest standards of professionalism. When a health care worker violates their expected duty of care, the results can be catastrophic for patients and their families. If you or a member of your family suspects that you have sustained a bile duct injury, a brain injury, or another catastrophic injury as a result of an incident of medical malpractice, contact Buckingham Barrera Law Firm today. We have a long history of helping victims of medical malpractice prevail in their battles against health insurance companies and hospitals and getting them the compensation they are entitled to under the law. Learn More >>
Not all brain injuries involve vehicle collisions, sports, or falls. Brain injuries can also arise because of surgery-related infections, medication errors, surgical errors that occur during procedures involving brain tumors, a failure to correctly diagnose a severe stroke, or the carelessness of health care workers during the birthing process. In any case, you have a substantial fight ahead of you when it comes to securing financial compensation. Don’t try to take on hospitals and their insurance companies alone if you or someone in your family has suffered a catastrophic brain injury as a result of medical malpractice. Talk to a brain injury attorney at Buckingham Barrera Law Firm today.
THIRD PARTY LAWSUITS
Sometimes there are individuals or other parties whose responsibility for an accident may not be obvious. For instance, if a car accident occurred in part due to a malfunctioning or defective component in either vehicle, the vehicle manufacturer (and sometimes distributors and wholesalers) may be legally liable for a plaintiff’s injuries. Such so-called third party lawsuits often increase the amount of compensation to which an accident victim may be entitled, but they can be easily overlooked when such liability isn’t immediately obvious. This is another reason why it is always advisable to consult with a lawyer when filing a claim. An accident attorney may be able to identify third parties who are responsible for your situation and help you file a claim against them as well.
UNDERSTANDING THE CLAIMS PROCESS: WHAT TO DO FOLLOWING A CATASTROPHIC INJURY
The process of filing an insurance claim is very complicated regardless of what state you may live in. If you have been seriously injured in an accident, you or a member of your family should consult an accident attorney before proceeding with the claims process. The best time for an accident victim to speak with an attorney is immediately after they have been treated at the hospital for their injuries. If they are unable to speak due to their injuries, another family member can – and should – act on their behalf. In any case, the legal process of filing a claim usually involves the same series of steps.
SENDING LETTERS OF NOTIFICATION, GATHERING EVIDENCE, AND ESTABLISHING GUILTY PARTIES
The first step in filing a claim involves letting those parties whom you believe may be responsible for your injuries know that you are planning on filing one. A simple typed letter is usually sufficient. Letters of notification aren’t formal accusations; rather, you’re just letting the parties concerned know that they may be formally accused of liability for your injuries at some later date. After this, you are expected to gather evidence concerning the incident, which may include revisiting the scene of an accident, finding and safeguarding any relevant physical evidence, locating and interviewing witnesses, consulting medical experts, and collecting extensive medical documentation about your injuries and your subsequent medical treatment. The third step in filing a claim involves establishing the guilty parties. Based on the evidence you’ve gathered, you should be able to determine which of the parties you initially notified are, in fact, responsible for your injuries.
DETERMINING HOW MUCH YOUR CLAIM IS WORTH AND WRITING THE DEMAND LETTER
Once you’ve established exactly who caused an accident, you need to figure out how much your claim is worth and then write a formal demand letter to the appropriate insurance company based on whom you determined to be the parties responsible for an accident. Figuring out how much a claim is worth involves a number of factors that include a victim’s pain and suffering as well as the actual economic costs of an accident, but there are formulas available for determining this sum that you can discuss with your lawyer. The demand letter itself is the most important part of the claims process. In the demand letter, you are making the case to a claims examiner that you deserve to receive monetary compensation for your ordeal. A demand letter usually includes the following information:
- A detailed description of your injuries
- Where you are at now with your recovery process
- The names of those persons or parties whom you are formally accusing of being responsible for causing the accident
- What kinds of medical treatment you received after your accident and how much this cost
- How much money you lost due to being unable to work
- What other damages you endured besides monetary damages (i.e., the extent of your pain and suffering)
NEGOTIATIONS AND POSSIBLE LITIGATION
What comes next is a series of negotiations between you and the claims examiner who is employed by the insurance company in which the two of you essentially haggle over how much your claim is worth and try to arrive at a mutually acceptable settlement. Of course, claims examiners will usually try, at least initially, to persuade accident victims to settle for much less than they deserve. Claimants who have done their homework and know how much their claim is worth should hold out for a fair offer and certainly seek legal representation before accepting any settlement. If negotiation fails, of course, your personal injury case proceeds to the final phase, which is civil litigation.
In practice, most personal injury cases can be settled without litigation, but accident victims need to be prepared for the possibility that their case will go to court. The litigation process can be extremely time-consuming and tedious, but sometimes it’s the only way a plaintiff can get the financial compensation they are owed. The good news is that insurance companies are generally reluctant to allow a case to proceed to trial because of the time and expense they involve, and will frequently offer a fair settlement at the last moment to avoid litigation.
CIVIL COURT AND PERSONAL INJURY CLAIMS
Many serious accidents also involve criminal charges against the individuals who caused them. In the United States, criminal and civil court are two separate institutions, and it’s not unusual for a defendant to be facing both criminal charges and a civil trial at the same time. If you were hit by a drunk driver and the drunk driver was arrested for DUI or for other criminal charges after this accident, you still have the right to file a personal injury claim against them. Nor does a defendant have to be found guilty of a crime in order to be held liable for an accident in civil court. In many cases, an individual can be found innocent of their criminal charges but still be held responsible in civil court for an accident, entitling a plaintiff to financial compensation. Talk to a dedicated personal injury attorney to learn more about the differences between criminal and civil court and whether or not proceeding with a claim makes sense based on your circumstances.
LET US GET TO WORK ON YOUR PERSONAL INJURY CLAIM OR WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT TODAY
It’s important to understand that although the statute of limitations for filing a personal injury case in the State of Texas is generally two years from the date of an accident (and three years in New Mexico), it’s in your best interest to hire an injury attorney quickly. Much of the claims process involves interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, and requesting medical documentation, all of which becomes more difficult with the passage of time.
Regardless of whether your case is ultimately resolved through negotiation or through the courts, the best way to secure a favorable outcome and get the financial compensation you deserve is to partner with a dedicated personal injury lawyer as soon as you have received medical treatment for your injuries. When an insurance company knows that an accident victim has partnered with a capable injury lawyer, they will often throw the towel in early in the negotiations process and offer an acceptable settlement.
Call Buckingham Barrera Law Firm today to schedule a consultation with an accident attorney who can help you with the process of filing a personal injury claim or wrongful death suit after a catastrophic car crash or other accident.

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Disputes are a fact of life. In Australia, according to the Bureau of Statistics, there was a total of over 50,000 working days lost in the 12 months till June 2018 due to industrial disputation. The requirement for individuals to attend hearings in person, with the relevant tribunals or other parties, is one of the main causes for the heavy toll that these proceedings take on personal productivity and efficiency.
A new technology developed by the Italian company Namirial, represented in Australia by Microelectronic, offers a solution to this problem with a radical improvement in efficiency and convenience without compromising, in fact improving, the security of the overall process.
The case of the Italian Authority for Electricity, Gas and Water
Italian energy customers and suppliers can now rely on a fast and highly efficient way to settle disputes. The online Customer Dispute Settlement Service allows users to save time and money by removing the need to attend in person at a dispute settlement meeting.
This innovative project is part of a larger program for the digital transformation of public service and was recently undertaken by the Italian Authority for Electricity, Gas and Water (ARERA), a government body that oversees and regulates the energy and water supply to citizens.
The technology solution is based on two software applications called LiveID and eSignAnyWhere, by Namirial, which allow customers to have a face to face online meeting with both the energy operator and an expert conciliator, while relying on live video identification and e-signature-based authentication. Each individual settlement is collaboratively negotiated, documented and electronically signed by all parties in a legally binding agreement.
The whole process is as easy as a video chat with friends or family and, likewise, the only requirements are an internet connection, a microphone and, optionally, a camera on the consumer’s device (smartphone, tablet or desktop PC).
The solution was designed to provide evidential proof and non-repudiation of signed documents. Customers are authenticated via a One-Time Password (OTP) and documents are signed with one-time digital certificates issued by Namirial trust centre.
This dispute resolution system has been operating for several months now and during this time most disputes have been resolved without legal action being required, with substantial benefits not only for the parties directly involved but also, indirectly, for the judiciary.
Check out this short video explaining the mediation process.
If you want to know more about this solution, or run a trial for your evaluation, please enquire here.
Note: Namirial LiveID provides a full-featured customer identification process, fully compliant with the most recent Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations. Using Namirial eSignAnyWhere, documents are signed in compliance with the 910/2014 EU Regulation (eIDAS, electronic IDentity and Signature). Both platforms can be obtained as Software-as-a-Service, deployed in a private cloud or on-premises.


Inboard Boat Propeller Hardware Kit
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The components used to secure a propeller to the prop shaft are realistically only designed to be used two times, after which they should be replaced.
The max torque when tightening this nut on the shaft should be 35 ft/lbs.
This kit includes everything you'll need when changing the Acme propeller on your boat:
- Nylock Lock Nut
- Cotter Pin
Note: This hardware kit will not work with older style shafts that make use of a castle nut and cotter pin arrangement. These are typically found on boats from the late 70's to early 80's.
Low cost, worth having just in case
I bought this with the puller for the spare prop I hope I never need, should last forever.
Works as expected, I didn't end up using the new Keyway that came with the package though...it was considerably shorter than the stock one that came with my 14' SUPRA SC 350.
<i>NOTE: Thank you for the feedback regarding the size of the key in our replacement kit. Based on other feedback we have switched to a longer key with this kit which should be a direct replacement for the key that came on your boat.
- WakeMAKERS Team</i>
Does the Job
This will get the job done and is good to have as a backup.
Easy to use - A must with changing a Prop more than 3-times
New Prop install
Great to have
I ordered this with a new Acme prop. Great to have these around as a backup. 15$ worth of parts could save you 450$ + if you dont replace the hardware and you lose your prop.
You should just buy two of these to have on had in the event that you hit something. It's a must have so you don't get stuck out there.
A must have with a new prop order
Like others have mentioned, this is a must if you are installing a new prop on your boat. Yes, it is quite pricey for what it is, but if you are investing that kind of money in a new prop... what's a little more going to hurt when it is protecting that investment? Just add it to your cart, you will not regret it.
Always nice to have a spare around.
You need it
You need this to finish the job. And the price is the best I could find online. This is my second one. the first one installed perfectly. So I had to get one for the spare prop
Great product and was the best price around.
You need it to finish the job!
A little pricey for a nut, pin and key but you need it to properly complete the job!
Refinished prop, installed with nice new hardware.
After 10 years of problem free boating, I struck a rock while backing out of a sandbar. For $15.99, why not insure a $300+ newly refinished prop with a new cotter, nut, and key? No brainer.
Luckily I read previous reviews and ordered the hardware kit with my prop. Kit was great but the key did not fit the slot in my drive line (too long) so I just reused my existing key. Worked great.
Right Product and quick shipping
Product was as advertise and shipping was very quick


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For those alert to signs hidden in the fabric of the world, the Roman Empire’s collapse in the west was announced by a series of omens. In Antioch, dogs howled like wolves, night birds let out hideous shrieks, and people muttered that the emperor should be burned alive. In Thrace, a dead man lay in the road and fixed passersby with an unnerving, lifelike glare, until after a few days the corpse suddenly disappeared. And in the city of Rome itself, citizens persisted in going to the theater, an egregious and insanely sinful pastime, which, according to one Christian writer, practically invited the wrath of the Almighty.
Human beings have been superstitious in all ages, and we are especially good at adducing portents when we have the benefit of hindsight. Hence the opinion of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus, who looked back on the end of the fourth century into which he was born and reflected that this was a time when fortune’s wheel, “which is perpetually alternating prosperity and adversity,” was turning fast.
In the 370s, when Rome’s fatal malady set in, the Roman state—monarchy, republic and empire—had existed for more than a millennium. Yet within little more than one hundred years, by the end of the fifth century A.D., every province west of the Balkans had slipped from Roman control. In the ancient heartlands of empire, Roman institutions, tax systems, and trade networks were falling apart. The physical signs of Roman elite culture—palatial villas, cheap imported consumer goods, hot running water—were fading from everyday life.
The eternal city had been sacked several times, the western crown had passed between a succession of dimwits, usurpers, tyrants, and children, until eventually it had been abolished; and territory that formerly comprised the core of a powerful megastate had been parceled among peoples whom the proudhearted citizens of Rome’s imperial heyday had previously scorned as savages and subhumans. These were the “barbarians”: a derogatory word that encompassed a huge range of people, from itinerant nomadic tribes quite new to the west and ignorant or dismissive of Roman mores, to long-standing near neighbors, whose lives were heavily influenced by Roman-ness but who had not been able to share in the fruits of citizenship.
The rise of the barbarians was a complex process, involving long- and short-distance migration, a collision of political systems and cultures, and a general collapse in imperial institutions. Although Rome would live on largely untouched in the east, where it thrived in mutant form as Greek-speaking Byzantium, the future of the Roman west now lay in the hands of the newcomers. The age of the barbarian had dawned.
The antique world can be said to have crumbled—and the Middle Ages begun—on the banks of the river Volga in the year 370 A.D. In that year there appeared at the riverside crowds of people known collectively as the Huns, who had left their homelands thousands of miles away on the grasslands—or “steppe”—north of China. The origins of the Huns will forever be sketchy, but their effect on the history of the west was profound. When they first appeared, the Huns were what we would today call climate migrants or even refugees.
But in the fourth century they did not come to the west to solicit sympathy. Rather, they arrived on horseback, carrying composite reflex bows that were unusually large and powerful and could shoot arrows accurately to an exceptional range of 150 meters, piercing armor at 100 meters. Such weapons were beyond the craftsmanship of any contemporary nomadic people, and the Huns’ expertise in mounted archery earned them a reputation for brutality and slaughter, which they enthusiastically played up. They were a nomadic civilization led by a warrior caste, with access to revolutionary military technology, a people who had been toughened by countless generations of life on the unforgiving Eurasian steppe, for whom migration was the only way of life and violence a basic fact of survival. They would shake the Roman world to its core.
The Huns were related in some way to a nomadic group who populated and dominated the Asian steppe as rulers of a tribal empire from the third century B.C. These nomads fought against the Chinese Qin and Han dynasties, and Chinese scribes dubbed them “Xiongnu,” or “howling slaves.” The name stuck, and was transliterated as Xwn or Hun. Although the Xiongnu empire collapsed in the second century A.D., many tribes survived, and the scattered descendants of the imperial Xiongnu still retained the name two hundred years later. Xiongnu, Xwn, or Hun: who called them what, when, and where is only vaguely knowable given the patchy sources of the time. But whichever way the word was rendered, it carried a sense of implied horror, the fear and loathing traditionally borne by sedentary civilizations toward alien nomads.
By the late 300s the Huns no longer commanded an empire, but they were still a political force. And it was not only Chinese observers who sharpened their pens against them. Around A.D. 313 a merchant from central Asia called Nanaivande wrote about the appalling damage a band of Huns had done to towns in northern China, including Luoyang, where the imperial “palace was burnt and the city destroyed.” A generation later—after a splinter group of Hunnic tribes moved out into new parts of the world, heading toward Europe—western writers also composed screeds elaborating on Hunnic misdeeds. Ammianus Marcellinus called the Huns “quite abnormally savage.” Certainly they were physically distinctive, often binding their children’s skulls so that their heads grew long and conical. Squat-bodied, hairy, coarse, and inured to life in the saddle and under canvas, wrote Ammianus Marcellinus, the Huns “are not subject to the authority of any king, but break through any obstacle in their path under the improvised command of their chief men.”
What caused the Huns to move east in the fourth century has long perplexed historians. Unfortunately, like most tribal nomads of their time, the Huns were illiterate—a people with no record keeping or chronicle culture. They can no longer speak to us in their language, so we will never know their side of the story, and most of our information about them comes from people who hated them. Literary types like Ammianus Marcellinus considered the Huns a scourge of the gods; their appearance in the west was, in his telling, simply a manifestation of “the wrath of Mars.” What human factors prompted their rise did not detain him very long; insofar as the Huns had any choice in the matter, Ammianus Marcellinus said only that they were “consumed by a savage passion to pillage the property of others.” Neither he nor any other writers at the time thought to investigate why the Huns appeared on the Volga in A.D. 370. The fact was, they did.
Yet there is one source that can give us a clue about what drove the Huns from their home on the Asian steppe and turned them toward the west. It is not a chronicler or an itinerant Silk Road merchant, but the rugged, spiny Chinese mountain tree known as the Qilian juniper or Przewalski’s juniper (Juniperus przewalski). This hardy plant, which thrives in the mountains, grows slowly but steadily to around twenty meters in height. Individual trees often live for more than one thousand years, and as they grow they preserve in the rings of their trunks precious information about the history of their world. In this case, the Qilian juniper tells us about the amount of rain that fell in the east during the fourth century A.D.
According to tree ring data provided by Qilian juniper samples from Qinghai province on the Tibetan Plateau, it seems that between A.D. 350 and 370, eastern Asia suffered a “megadrought”—which remains the worst drought recorded in the last two thousand years. The skies simply dried up. Northern China endured conditions at least as severe as those of the American dust bowl in the 1930s, or the Chinese drought of the 1870s—when between nine and thirteen million people starved to death. During that nineteenth-century drought, a missionary named Timothy Richards wrote a harrowing account of conditions among ordinary folk: “People pull down their houses, sell their wives and daughters, eat roots and carrion, clay and leaves . . . If this were not enough to move one’s pity, the sight of men and women lying helpless on the roadside, or if dead, torn by hungry dogs and magpies should do, and the news . . . of children being boiled and eaten up, is so fearful as to make one shudder at the thought.”
Things were probably similar among the Huns in the 300s. The grass and scrub of the steppe would have turned to mean, biting dust. For the Huns, who depended on grazing animals for their meat, drink, clothing, and transport, this was an existential disaster. And it would have presented a stark choice: move, or die. They chose to move.
In A.D. 370 various bands of Huns began to cross the Volga, which empties into the Caspian Sea on the border between modern Russia and Kazakhstan. This in itself was not an immediate threat to Rome. When Julius Caesar had crossed the Rubicon in 49 B.C. he was about 350 kilometers away from the imperial capital; the Huns crossing the Volga were approximately ten times farther away from central Italy, and more than 2,000 kilometers from the eastern capital in Constantinople. It would be decades before they asserted themselves directly as a first-rank power in the Roman world. Yet in the 370s it was not the Huns who were the problem. It was the people they displaced.
Once across the Volga (in lands roughly equivalent to modern Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania) the Huns came into contact with other tribal civilizations: first the Iranian-speaking Alans and then the Germanic tribes known collectively as the Goths. Exactly what took place between these two groups on their first encounters was not reliably recorded. But the Greek writer Zosimus gave the picture in broad strokes. After defeating the Alans, the Huns invaded the Goths’ lands, he said, “with their wives, children, horses, and carriages.” Although as Zosimus understood it, the Huns were so crude and uncivilized that they did not even walk like humans, “by wheeling, charging, retreating in good time and shooting from their horses, they wrought great slaughter” among the Goths, who were compelled to leave their homes and head toward the Roman Empire, where they “begged to be received by the emperor.”
In other words, a climate emergency in eastern-central Asia fed a secondary migrant crisis in eastern Europe. Drought moved the Huns, and the Huns moved the Goths, so that in 376, huge bands of terrorized Gothic tribespeople showed up on the banks of another major Roman boundary river: the Danube. There may have been ninety thousand or one hundred thousand refugees in total, although estimating numbers with any real accuracy is impossible. Some were armed; many were desperate. And all were looking for respite within the Roman Empire—which represented, if not paradise, then at least a Hunless zone where stability was the norm and the military offered citizens and subject peoples protection in a time of crisis.Humanitarian crises are never pretty, and 376 was no exception.
Humanitarian crises are never pretty, and 376 was no exception. The task of dealing with an influx of Goths—deciding who should enter the empire, on what terms, and where they should be settled—fell to the eastern emperor, Valens (r. A.D. 364–78). A nervous individual who owed his position as ruler in Constantinople to his late brother (and erstwhile co-emperor) Valentinian I, Valens had spent much of his reign trying to reconcile his apparently boundless military obligations with his limited resources. He was constantly preoccupied with either internal rebellion or conflict with the Sassanid Persians on his borders in Armenia and elsewhere. The Persians had hitherto been by far the most serious menace to Rome’s eastern security, and the rivalry between the two empires dominated Middle Eastern politics. Even so, Valens could not ignore the arrival of a large band of indigent outsiders from the realm of the barbarians. It presented him with a practical as well as a moral dilemma. Was it better to admit the bedraggled Goths or turn them back and leave them to be butchered or enslaved by the Huns? To allow them to cross the Danube would bring major challenges: it would be no easy task to maintain public order and a regular food supply while controlling the spread of disease.
On the other hand, desperate migrants have throughout history been a reliable source of cheap labor, and the Roman army was always in need of new recruits. If Valens allowed the Goths to enter the empire, he might be able to press their menfolk into military service against Persia, and levy taxes on the rest. The situation was delicate—but not without promise.
In 376 Gothic envoys found Valens in Antioch and formally requested admission for their people. The emperor pondered for a while and then said he would allow some of the Goths to cross the Danube, after which they could settle their families in Thrace (modern Bulgaria and eastern Greece), so long as they sent their menfolk to join the military. Orders went to the frontier granting passage across the water to the Gothic tribe known as the Thervingi; but a rival tribe, the Greuthungi, were to be kept out. This evidently struck Valens as a reasonable fudge, and according to sources including Ammianus Marcellinus, he was delighted with the outcome: “The affair seemed a matter for rejoicing rather than dread.” It seemed he had turned a profit from a tragedy.
On the Danube, the Roman fleet began a major relief effort, which brought perhaps 15,000–20,000 of the Goths across the river “on boats and rafts and canoes made from hollowed tree trunks.” But it did not take long for the Gothic migrant crisis to turn sour. It is easy, with hindsight, to argue that Valens made a catastrophic historical blunder in his approach. Yet this was a situation that might have defeated even an Augustus or a Constantine I. And one thing was certain: once the policy of admitting vast numbers of refugees into the empire had been set, it proved impossible to reverse.
There was recent history between Romans and Goths. Between 367 and 369 Valens had fought a series of wars against Gothic tribes. These had been settled by negotiation, but the damage done by Roman troops in Gothic lands, combined with economic sanctions, had left bad feeling on both sides. (It is indeed quite likely that war against Rome had played a significant part in weakening the Goths prior to the arrival of the Huns.) And so it did not take much for a state-led refugee settlement program to turn into an episode of foul exploitation in which “crimes [were] committed for the worst motives . . . against hitherto innocent newcomers.”
According to Ammianus Marcellinus, the Roman officials in charge of the Danube crossings—named Lupicinus and Maximus—took advantage of starving migrant Thervingian families by forcing them to sell their children into slavery in return for parcels of dog flesh. Along with cruelty came ineptitude. Besides abusing the Thervingian Goths, Lupicinus and Maximus also failed to ensure that other refugees, the barbarians non grata, stayed out. Guerilla crossings, which dodged Roman river patrols, meant that between A.D. 376 and 377 Thrace slowly became home to thousands of disaffected and mistreated Gothic migrants. Some were legal; many were illegal. Most were alienated from their homelands but with no love for their host country. The infrastructure to contain, resettle, and feed tens of thousands of new arrivals did not exist. The chief focus of imperial attention remained the Persian borderlands, and Valens had delegated the Gothic issue to men patently not up to the job. The Balkans were becoming a tinderbox.
In 377 Goths inside the Roman Empire began a series of running rebellions. Their plundering of wealthy Thracian villages and estates soon spiraled into all-out warfare, in which the Goths fought Roman military detachments with “a combination of despair and wild fury.” In one clash, at Ad Salices, not far from the coast of the Black Sea, the Goths attacked Roman troops with “huge clubs hardened in the fire” and “plunged their daggers in the breasts of those who put up a stout resistance . . . The whole field was strewn with corpses . . . A number had fallen by slingshot or had been transfixed by shafts tipped with metal. In some cases the head had been split in two by a sword-stroke through crown and forehead, and hung down on both shoulders, a most gruesome sight.”
The first great reckoning with the Goths came in the high summer of 378. By now the Gothic tribes inside the empire had combined their forces. They were joined in the field by groups of Alans and even some freelance Huns, who had also crossed the inadequately policed river border and were looking for trouble. Together they had turned much of the large corridor between the Danube and the Haemus Mountains into a scorched and smoldering plain. At one point a war band had ridden within sight of the walls of Constantinople itself. This was no longer a marginal migrant problem on the fringes of empire, but a full-blown crisis that threatened both the integrity and the honor of the imperial state.
Valens had no choice but to act. During a period of brief respite on the Persian front, he marched in person to the Balkans at the head of an army. He also sent word to the emperor in the west, his nineteen-year-old nephew Gratian, asking for his support. In itself this was prudent, for despite his youth, Gratian had already recorded a series of impressive military victories against Germanic tribes farther up the Danube. But Valens was conflicted about asking for the help of his much younger and more successful co-emperor. Both his pride and his advisers urged him to get the job done unaided. So in the end Valens did not wait for Gratian to arrive. Having kept his army in camp throughout much of the summer, in early August he received word that large numbers of Goths were assembling near Adrianople (now Edirne, in Turkey), under a commander called Fritigern. Scouts estimated that they had around ten thousand troops. Valens decided to attack them on his own.
At dawn on August 9 “the army was put in rapid motion.” Valens marched his men out of their fortified camp at Adrianople, eight miles over rough country under a broiling midday sun. When they caught up with the Goths, they found them setting fire to the dry countryside. “Our men, who were already exhausted by the summer heat, [were now] parched with thirst,” wrote Ammianus Marcellinus. “Bellona [the Roman goddess of war], raging with more than her usual fury, was sounding the death-knell of the Roman cause.”
When Valens appeared, envoys came to him from the Goths. They claimed they wanted to parlay a truce. In fact, they were playing for time, as the Goths’ leaders laid a trap. Following inconclusive negotiations, in the early afternoon Valens lost control of his tired and thirsty troops, who charged unbidden at the Goths. Battle was joined. “The opposing lines came into collision like ships of war and pushed each other to and fro, heaving under the reciprocal motion like the waves of the sea,” wrote Ammianus Marcellinus. “Dust rose in such clouds as to hide the sky, which rang with frightful shouts . . . It was impossible to see the enemy’s missiles in flight and dodge them; all found their mark and dealt death on every side.” But the damage was loaded heavily on the Romans’ ranks.
The Roman intelligence that had suggested the Goths were only ten thousand strong was wrong. There were many more, easily enough to take on a Roman army of perhaps thirty thousand troops. “The barbarians poured on in huge columns,” continued Ammianus Marcellinus, “trampling down horse and man and crushing our ranks so as to make an orderly retreat impossible. Our men were too close-packed to have any hope of escape.” Meanwhile, the Goths had prudently hidden a large detachment of cavalry out of sight of Roman scouts. At a crucial moment during the fighting, these horsemen appeared, to devastating effect. Valens had been outthought, and his men were overwhelmed. “The whole field was one dark pool of blood and [the survivors] could see nothing but heaps of slain wherever they turned their eyes,” wrote Ammianus Marcellinus. “At last a moonless night brought an end to these irreparable losses, which cost Rome so dear.”
The costliest casualty was Valens himself. The emperor’s exact fate was something of a mystery: one report said he was shot with an arrow and died instantly. Others said he was thrown by his horse into a bog, where he drowned. Others still maintained that Valens was pursued from the battlefield with a few guards and some of his eunuchs, and took cover in a farmhouse. Because those hunting him could not batter down the doors they “piled up bundles of straw and faggots, set fire to them and burned the house with all those who were in it.” Whatever happened, Valens’s body was never found. At Adrianople the barbarians killed between ten thousand and twenty thousand Romans, including the eastern emperor. Rome was badly mauled—and over time, her wounds began to fester.
Dan Jones’s POWERS AND THRONES: A NEW HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES is available from Viking on November 9, 2021.

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A Miami couple was arrested Friday after an investigation found they stole $2.5 million from a Florida Keys fish house they managed and from several commercial fishermen, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said.
Marianela Armenteros, 44, and Yamir Gonzalez-Betancourt, 53, were booked into a Miami-Dade detention center.
They are accused of spending several months running scams to cash in on other people’s work on Stock Island.
Armenteros was charged with multiple counts of felony grand theft and Gonzalez-Betancourt was charged with one count of felony grand theft.
The pair had worked for a fish house in the 6000 block of Peninsular Avenue owned by the Valero-Duran Corp. — Armenteros worked as general manager while Betancourt was the assistant general manager — said sheriff’s office spokesman Adam Linhardt.
Armenteros put thousands of stone crab and lobster tags in her name instead of the names of the commercial fishermen, preventing the fishermen from fishing legally and profiting from their work, Linhardt said.
Armenteros also placed a commercial fisherman’s boat in her name without his permission, and the fish house lost money due to the fishermen being unable to sell their products to the company, Linhardt said.
Meanwhile, Gonzalez-Betancourt ripped off the fish house by selling lobsters directly to export buyers for cash instead of the fish house, costing the business more than $100,000, investigators said.
In early 2021, the owner of the fish house and three commercial fishermen contacted the sheriff’s office and said the two were stealing money.
On Friday, Armenteros was being held on $400,000 bond while Gonzalez-Betancourt was being held on $100,000 bond, Linhardt said.
It was unclear whether they had legal representation. They are expected to be brought to Monroe County to face prosecution, Linhardt said.
Rafael Garcia is listed as the president of the Valero-Duran Corp., 6011 Peninsular Ave., in online reports on the Florida Department of State’s Division of Corporations’ website. Garcia’s address is in Miami, the reports state. The business is also listed as Key West Fisheries in state records.
Garcia could not be reached for comment Friday. Phone calls to the business number in the records went unanswered.

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Will the third time be the charm?
Head coach Ron Rivera inherited the Carolina Panthers in 2011, a team coming off a 2-14 showing the previous year.
After a 6-10 debut campaign, Rivera's second year at the helm resulted in a 7-9 mark in 2012, including wins in the team's final four games. And three of those victories during the season included a sweep of the New Orleans Saints and a win over the Atlanta Falcons.
So what's next? In the NFC South, the only one of the eight current divisions that was not won by the same team two years in a row, anything is possible. And no doubt Carolina has this little factoid on its mind.
And the Carolina Panthers will reach the playoffs for the first time since 2008…
If: Quarterback Cam Newton and the team in general can avoid another terrible start. In each of the past two seasons, the Panthers opened with eight losses in their first 10 contests. The club rallied to a 4-2 finish in their final six games in 2011 and a year ago closed the season with four consecutive wins and a 5-1 mark in their final six contests. And Newton was hot after a sluggish start in 2012, throwing 11 touchdown passes (two interceptions) and running for 387 yards and four scores in his final seven outings.
And: Carolina's defense continues to head in the right direction. In 2011, the Panthers allowed 429 points and gave up 46 offensive touchdowns. This past season, Rivera's team surrendered 363 points and 13 fewer offensive touchdowns (33). Middle linebacker Luke Kuechly was the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year and defensive ends Charles Johnson (12.5) and Greg Hardy (11.0) combined for 23.5 of the team's 39 sacks. This is a unit that bears watching this season.
But: The team has to get back to running the football with a little more commitment. Yes, the Panthers did finish ninth in the NFL in rushing yardage this past season. But keep in mind that Newton led the club with 741 yards on the ground. And while running back DeAngelo Williams was close on Newton's heels, 200 of his 737 rushing yards came in the season finale at New Orleans. You can expect the Panthers' quarterback to get his yards, but Williams, Jonathan Stewart (limited to 9 games in 2012) and Mike Tolbert need to produce more in 2013.
So what do you think? The Panthers have proven they can put points on the board and their defense appears to be on the rise. But they also finished six games behind the NFC South champion Atlanta Falcons in 2012 and that's a lot of ground to make up in one season. Will this team continue to move forward? Or is Rivera's club destined to remain in neutral (or worse) for another season?
Russell S. Baxter has spent the last 40-plus years watching football. He is the founder of ProFootballGuru.com, writes for numerous websites and publications across the country, can be heard on Yahoo! Sports Radio and many other networks and was blessed with an encyclopedic memory. Ready to talk NFL? Follow him on Twitter at @BaxFootballGuru.
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If Yale-New Haven Hospital officials have it their way, the hospital will break the Guinness World Record for organ donors registered in eight hours.
The hospital announced yesterday that it is taking on the challenge of breaking the current one-day donor world record next Monday to raise awareness about organ donation during the Barack Obama administration’s National Donate Life month. This is the first time the hospital has challenged the community to participate in a Guinness World Record, said Yale-New Haven spokesman Mark Dantonio at a Monday press conference in the Park Street Auditorium.
“Organ transplant is a life-saving procedure, but the supply of organs is too scarce,” said Sukru Emre, director of the Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center. “We hope this event will spotlight the critical need for more registered organ donors and be part of the Guinness World Records.”
The organ donor registration event, “Don’t Wait! Donate,” will take place on Monday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and will be supervised by a Guinness World Record judge.
The current world record is a held by Utah-based The Quest for the Gift of Life Foundation — more than 765 people registered to become organ donors during an event held by the organization at the Springville City Arts Park in Springville, Utah on August 28, 2010.
To advocate for organ donation, Yale-New Haven Hospital will set up registration sites in the hospital’s Atrium lobby at 20 York St. and the Hunter Courtyard at the corner of York and Cedar Streets on Monday. To register, prospective donors must be at least 18 years old, Dantonio said.
At Monday’s press conference, Trumbull, Conn., resident Alice Coletti, a 22-year-old nursing student, shared her experience of obtaining a liver transplant. She said that at age 10 she was diagnosed with a rare disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis, which damaged her liver. As she finished her sophomore year of college, she said, she was suffering from liver failure. Her family members were not compatible as donors, she said, and she did not qualify for the priority donation list. Her “desperate parents,” she said, emailed students in her college, and an anonymous donor quickly appeared. She later met him, she added, to thank him and ask why he gave her part of his liver — to which he answered, “It was the right thing to do.”
Emre said one of the challenges of soliciting organ donors is a misconception that a doctor may let his patients die more willingly if they are organ donors. He said that this is not at all the case, as it is not the doctors who have the ability to decide what happens to the dying patient, but rather the family working together with end-of-life specialists.
“Currently we estimate that 50 percent of patients at Yale-New Haven Hospital do not consent to donate their organs,” Emre said. “Yet cases like Alice’s show that people are really altruistic. We need to raise awareness and break misconceptions.”
New Haven resident David Clark said at the press conference that after his wife was involved in an accident that left her unconscious, he followed her wife’s requests to have her organs donated, though he said it was hard for him, and his wife’s mother raised religious objections. After this experience, he registered as a donor as well, he said.
Dantonio said that while the hospital aims to break the record, it would still be pleased if only 500 people signed up.
According to Donate Life America — a national non-profit alliance of organ and tissue donation associations — 113,115 patients nationwide are waiting to receive a transplant.

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Monumental is a Civilization-style game, that got funded in less than 2 hours. The Kickstarter campaign got board game fans hooked with some bold ideas, interesting concepts, and great presentation.
Monumental is a game, where 1-4 players lead small, budding civilizations. Our task is to lead our people in a way, that lets them become the biggest civilization in the history of mankind. We will have 3 eras to pull that off. Deck building is the core mechanic of Monumental – we begin the game with 14 cards and keep getting new ones. Each one will have a potential to make our civilization stronger. Every nation has different cards, and thanks to that, each specializes in different things, and has separate advantages and disadvantages.
Deck building is Your Key to Success
The mechanism of activating cards is innovative – at first: we build our city as a 3×3 square, so there are 9 cards total. Each round has us activating 5 of them – always a single column or a single row. Thanks to that, we often have difficult decisions to make, and plenty of combos to activate. At first we only have access to basic huts, but as the time goes on, we will not only create buildings, but also the “Wonders of the World”.
Effective card management is going to be vital, if you want to achieve your final success. During the game we will decide which cards are worth buying, how to add them to the city, where to locate them and which ones to activate in a certain round.
“There are so many games like that already… but I love them. I remember spending a whole night playing Through the Ages, while visiting my friends in Paris”
Exploration and Conquest
Cards work as our nation’s culture, and tokens/minis – as our military strength. At first we can attack barbarians and city states only, but later on, the conflicts with the civilizations of other players will become unavoidable. Each player will also have his or her leader, with an unique ability.
The board is made out of tiles. These are two-sided, which gives us many map combinations and guarantees, that each session will be different. Terrain tiles can be put together in a certain way when playing scenarios, but you can also use your imagination and create something of your own.
Monumental and Stunning
When you take a look at Monumental, you can’t deny how beautiful and well illustrated it is. Visuals are amazing and remind me of “7 Wonders”. Terrain tiles are colorful and full of detail, while the minis are just begging to be painted. There’s a whopping 70 of them, and the biggest ones measure over 50mm. In the box you’ll also find 500 cards, and other elements that will help you develop your civilization.
If you like Monumental, you have time until November 22nd to back the game. Getting it at a later date might prove difficult, as the entire project is a “Kickstarter Exclusive”, and that means, it won’t be available at retail.
For 65 EUR you can get the core version of the game with tokens working as warriors. If you’d like your army to be more realistic, you might have to take 90 EUR from your piggy bank.
During the campaign there’s also an expansion available. “The Lost Kingdoms” is priced at 55 EUR with 75 for the version with 56 new minis.