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Nas, who is coming off a worldwide tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of his seminal debut Illmatic, and Diddy, who recently launched his own cable network, will take a moment from their whirlwind lives to play a set at the benefit, known simply as the Black Ball.
Angel Haze and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Byrne are also slated to perform, as is Keys herself and more "incredible artists," so says the invite. Keys's husband Swizz Beatz will co-host.
Since 2004, the "black tie fly" event has brought in $22.6 million in funds to support children and families living with HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. Last year's ball, featuring performances from Pharrell and Carole King, raised some $4 million, reports the Associated Press.
This year's event, the 11th annual Black Ball, is scheduled for Oct. 30 at the Hammerstein Ballroom and, in addition to the star power, features a live auction. | 2019-04-25T14:31:21 | https://www.bet.com/news/music/2014/10/22/alicia-keys-taps-nas-diddy-to-perform-at-black-ball.html?cid=facebook |
Presented by Barcelona & Costa Brava Sotheby’s International Realty, Aiguacel Costa Brava Resort is a real estate development of luxury homes inspired by location, lifestyle, integration, uniqueness, architecture and services.
This exquisite and luxurious community is surrounded by the lush native vegetation of the coastal mountain only 300 metres from Cala Aigua Xelida. It is one of the most beautiful coves of the Costa Brava, surrounded by rocks and ideal for water sports such as snorkeling.
– Overflow pool on two levels.
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– Yoga area with panoramic views.
– Gym and changing rooms.
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– Events room + children’s room, both equipped with bathrooms. | 2019-04-20T16:15:13 | http://www.europeanlifemagazine.com/real-estate/sothebys-real-estate-aiguacel-costa-brava-resort/ |
Reduce cutting tress for paper, I placed posters about reduce paper use in the library’s, recreations Center's and school’s restrooms next to the hand paper towel bins. These posters encourage the public specially kids to use with thoughtfulness and raise awareness and create sense of environmental responsibility among them.
Educational Poster for reduce paper use. | 2019-04-24T16:10:17 | https://www.asvinithivakaran.com/reduce-paper-use.html |
Arenaria alfacarensis growing subshrub of the genus Arenaria alfacarensis also known as Spanish Sandwort, Arenaria alfacarensis perennial evergreen used as ornamental rock cover and groundcover plant, can grow in temperate, mediterranean or subtropics climate and growing in hardiness zone 4-9.
Leaves color green and sometime there is white in the leaves, leaf size 2-15 mm.
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This was a challenge. We had a tight budget and only three weeks to design and furnish these model units in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
We created two different looks, one using a warm palette of beiges, and browns, and the other more bright and airy featuring Philip Jefferies wallpaper in a vibrant yellow print to show off the units’ high ceilings. Mission accomplished, with a happy client and, very shortly thereafter, a building full of happy condo owners. | 2019-04-26T10:32:27 | https://julietgolddesign.com/portfolio/carroll-gardens-model-units/ |
The Competitive Insights Snapshot is designed to give you visibility into how your RealSelf profile is performing. In this blog post, I’ll share brief explanations of what’s included and best practices to help you build off of the recommendations.
First, let’s dive into the report you received. The first section covers how many people have looked at your profile, how many people clicked from your profile to your website, and how many people contacted you from your RealSelf profile.
Here’s a screenshot of the sample report we created for our fictional RealSelf Practice.
So you may be asking what’s competitive about total contacts? Well, the next step was to determine if you’re getting all the contacts you could. We also looked at how many consumers viewed you, yet went on to choose one of your top competitors.
To determine why a consumer would choose a competitor over you, our data scientists came up with a number of recommendations to make your RealSelf profile as compelling as possible. Included are how many contacts you’re losing to your top competitors and recommendations to maximize your competitiveness.
Your Snapshot might include a situation similar to Competitor #1 above, where a competitor has been contacted by people who visited your profile. Cross-referencing with the screenshot below as well, you’ll also see that Competitor #1 has more reviews. Reviews are a big contributor to consumer trust, so a provider with lots of positive reviews is often perceived as more trustworthy and more experienced.
Again, referencing the screenshots above and below, Competitor #2 answered more consumer questions. And that can signal to some consumers that the competitor is more knowledgeable or more committed to patient education. Sharing knowledge freely is also a great trust builder.
Moving on to Competitor #3 this sample provider has missed out to another provider who had more photos. Photos are an important indicator of expertise and is something that aesthetic consumers look for to help in their decision-making process.
Of course, some reasons a consumer chooses one provider over another can be about more than just data. So in the Snapshot you may see one or these potential reasons: 1) years of experience, 2) consumer research variance, and 3) distance too far. In these cases, we highly recommend you contact your advocate for a custom solution. Things like improving the quality of your before and after photos, creating more engaging or descriptive answers to questions, or encouraging longer, more detailed reviews from your patients can overcome some of this consumer variance.
And after all that, we knew you would want to know exactly how your before and afters, questions answered, and reviews compare to the competitors taking contacts from you. So we take the same competitors from above and complete a side by side analysis.
Getting more consumers to contact you starts with making your RealSelf Profile as compelling as possible. The more reviews, before & after photos, and answers to consumer questions you have, the better you can highlight your expertise and stand out from the competition.
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If you’re not a RealSelf Premier provider: Competitive Insights snapshots are exclusively for RealSelf Premier and Preferred. As the most invested providers on RealSelf, they receive a variety of benefits that help them be as competitive as possible. Contact your RealSelf Advocate or Advisor to learn more, 206-624-9357 x4. | 2019-04-22T18:40:37 | https://insightscenter.realself.com/making-the-most-of-your-competitive-snapshot/ |
Let me highlight the ‘Brew You Ride’ and ‘Heineken Beer Tasting’ we experienced last September at the Heineken Brewery Tour. This is probably the climax of the tour because here we BECOME the beer and we finally get to TASTE the beer behind the visit, even though we’ve probably drank litres and gallons of it already.
We are now inside the cistern, er studio, and we have this big panel screen in front of us and a narrator telling us we are now going to be brewed, step by step. I even felt the studio shake underneath me (that explains why the foto is a bit off!) and water was sprinkled on my face! Cool effects, reminds me of Omniversum in Den Haag and Rialto Theater in Enchanted Kingdom in the Philippines.
Enough of the brewing experience, now the official beer tasting ceremony has began! Give me my beer alstublieft!
She is explaining here why the Dutch cap the froth of the beer (the act of skimming off excess froth with a plastic tool which beer lovers find an abomination) when serving and it has something to do with letting the beer breathe and reach its strength limit or something like that? OK, I admit, I honestly forgot, I was not really listening that well, haha. Shame!
Anywho, it was a very fascinating week of beers because a few days before my visit to Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam, I was at the Guinness Brewery in Dublin as well. I did the self-guided tour, the beer tasting, all the works.
Interested to hear about my final assessment? So which is which? Heineken or Guinness?
Answer: Guinness beer of course as I love dark brews but the Heineken Brewery is much, much entertaining and engaging than Guinness Brewery.
More of the Heineken Brewery Tour on my next post. | 2019-04-23T02:28:53 | http://www.travelandlifestylediaries.com/2010/11/heineken-brewery-tour-brew-you-ride-and.html |
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ACI’s European Mineral Fertilizer Summit will be taking place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on the 6th & 7th December 2017. The two day event will provide an exclusive platform for collaboration and discussion between manufacturers, suppliers, distribution/logistics, academia, policymakers, NGO’s and other parties representing the fertilizer market value chain who will get an opportunity to share their views in an informal and intimate setting.
The objective of this conference is to emphasise the latest projects, the innovative specialty products, the new plant technologies and the best practices within operational production. This conference will also focus on tackling the latest opportunities arising from society concerns.
Register today for the opportunity to gain useful industry insights and network amongst the leading industry professionals. With an investment of £1,595 only you can benefit from becoming a part of the story and gain valuable experience and priceless expertise. As the number of attendees is strictly limited, please register as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Also, benefit from generous group discounts, where the second delegate from the same company will receive a 10% discount and the third 15% off.
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More than 120 years ago, a very determined Australian actor decided to find out what he was doing to cause himself to lose his voice. The impetus for this project was his love for acting, and his desire to continue unimpeded upon his career. He single-mindedly observed himself for months and then years in front of mirrors, successfully solving his vocal problems, and in the process making discoveries which would become the basis of his lifelong work. As a result of these discoveries, his life changed, and so have hundreds of thousands of lives around the world. Now the Alexander Technique is taught by internationally affiliated societies of teachers in 18 countries.
“What’s all this fuss about teaching people how to sit up straight and relax?” some may be thinking. And they would be right. At least they would be right about how ridiculous it would be to form national societies of teachers who teach people to sit up straight and relax. But the underlying assumption that Alexander Technique is about sitting up straight and relaxing would be wrong. “But what about the changes in posture and relaxation I have heard about?” you might say. After all, with Alexander lessons people’s posture changes, often dramatically, and often they report feeling more relaxed. But I don’t think I have ever heard an Alexander teacher tell someone to sit up straight or try to achieve relaxation. | 2019-04-19T00:52:07 | https://www.alexandertechniqueblogs.com/blog-of-the-week-the-alexander-technique-creating-opportunities-for-change/ |
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Carpenter, Collins and Craig is a surveying and civil engineering design practice that has been servicing Orange and the Central West for more than 100 years. We provide a wide range of services to a variety of clients including: large multinational companies local and state government departments large and small private developers builders mums and dads We can tailor a solution to suit your project, from a multi-million dollar mine development through to replacing a missing boundary peg for a new fence. | 2019-04-26T04:14:20 | https://www.startlocal.com.au/business/environmental/nsw_centralnsw/Bathurst.html |
Smile! Is your smile as bright as it should be? Like most people, you probably use daily brushing and flossing to make sure your teeth stay healthy. However, if your smile has become less white, you may want to consider teeth whitening in Achintee to enhance your smile.
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What made you venture into media?
I used to teach in school and the thought of the media never crossed my mind. But entering a career in 1990 I somehow happened to join Nepali Patra Saptahik. After experiencing both the challenges and opportunities, I realised my passion for journalism.
How seriously do you think women are taken in media?
There are quite a lot of women who are involved in Nepali media. Almost 25% of the industry is dominated by women, but amongst them, not all are driven by passion, there are many who are there just for the name and fame. For them, media is just a ladder to get into their purposed field. Because of such people, at times women are not taken very seriously in the media. But again, there are those who are very serious about their profession and have done a remarkable job in the country. In fact, some of the journalists have even made a name for themselves in the international media.
Do you think women still face discrimination in the media?
Although personally, I have not encountered any kind of discrimination, I have come to notice that female journalists are rarely offered the hard beat. Even after spending years in the field they are still doing soft stories. Also, the odd and uncertain working hours and maternity leave have definitely discouraged many women journalists from continuing work. I believe it is the work environment and attitude of the colleagues that determine gender discrimination in organisations.
What message would you give newcomers in this field?
This profession focuses on knowledge and interaction. It gives you a platform to introduce yourself and share your opinion with the world. You do get a lot of recognition. However, you need to work diligently and be courageous to be successful. | 2019-04-23T10:31:00 | https://wowmagnepal.com/babita-basnet/ |
In a display of gratitude to their fans, Swedish rising duo Cazzette have just released as a free download their own original take of Alex Clare‘s Too Close. This version highlights the distinct and unique sound that the two members of the group, Alexander Björklund and Sebastian Furrer have become world renowned for. Strongly based on an electro house lead, in place to highlight the original’s vocals and dubstep originating bass line, this mix showcases the group’s versatility and talent at delivering an original and creative new piece. Enjoy! | 2019-04-20T02:18:08 | https://www.youredm.com/2012/09/20/alex-clare-too-close-cazzette-mix-free-download/ |
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The theme for Photo Friday this week is Dawn. If you really want to know that truth, I am rarely awake at dawn, and if I am, taking a picture is the last thing on my mind, but sunset and dawn are so similar that I decided to use this picture taken at the lakefront.
I'm SO not a morning person...and finding me awake at dawn would only mean I was up already from the night before! Haha! And how cool that we're the same fun 27...honestly, I forget weather I'm 26 or 27. Is this the time of life where we start "forgetting?" Hehe...but, really, I'm not pretending. I really have moments where I totally forget! ;) Ha!
A beautiful shot, the colours are lolvely!
The color in this photo is so rich. It's very nice but evokes in me a feeling of lonliness. Your photography skills are very good. | 2019-04-21T22:41:37 | http://blog.carlysphotography.com/2009/10/photo-friday-dawn.html |
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Gas and electric ranges and ovens operate fairly simply, and they're usually easy to repair, mainly because the components are designed for speedy disassembly. Call Oven Repair Willow Grove for the best cooktop stove repair pricing and get a qualified appliance repair professional in your area.
Many of the malfunctions that affect gas ranges involve the supply and ignition of gas in the burners and the oven. Most malfunctions that affect electric ranges and ovens involve faulty heating elements. Listed here, we will take a look at how the main parts should work on gas and electric ranges and ovens and how to service them regularly to avoid larger, expensive problems. The first step is taking a glimpse inside to assess the problem. If you do not like what you see then call Oven Repair Services Willow Grove for the lowest and best pricing for all oven repair, stove repair, and cooktop prices within the Willow Grove area.
Caution: Until doing any work on a gas range or oven, make sure it's unplugged, or turn off the power supply power to the unit by removing a fuse or tripping a circuit breaker at the main access panel or at a separate panel. If there is a grounding wire to the range, remove it. In addition close down the gas supply valve to shut off the unit's gas supply. This is where you need to call Oven Repair Service Willow Grove for its great Range Repair Servicemen and also ask for the best oven stove repair pricing in all Willow Grove .
Ensure there's electrical power getting to your range, oven or cooktop. Check for a tripped circuit breaker or a blown fuse. Check the wall socket for power with a voltmeter or by plugging something else in. In some cases the problem is with a dirty or a clogged burner. Make sure the burner is clean. Be patient, don’t’ call Oven Repair Willow Grove for their top oven repair repairmen even if they give you the best prices for stove repair.
If you have a pilotless device, it uses a spark igniter to ignite the gas, which works in a combination with a spark switch (located on the burner gas valve) and a spark module. Because it is not simple to check these components and find out which one is defective, we recommend to contact a qualified oven technician or maybe someone at Willow Grove Oven Repair or Willow Grove Cooktop repair or Stove Repair in Willow Grove for best cost on all oven repairs.
In the event the bake igniter becomes weak or burns out, your oven would not bake. The bake igniter is usually mounted on the oven burner. It's about 1 inch by 4-8 inches (depending on the model), and comes in round or flat styles. If you don't see the igniter glow at all, it's probably burned out. Replace the igniter if found defective. Note: one of the exceptions could be that your range is set to automatic mode instead of manual. If this is the case, set your stove to manual mode and check again. If that doesn’t work pick up the phone and call your oven repair professionals. They are the oven repair, stove repair experts in the Willow Grove area.
If the bake igniter glows red and not bright yellow or white, it is probably because it is too weak. When this happens, the safety valve would not let the gas out into the range burner. A weak igniter must be switched out. So just call Willow Grove Oven Repair repairmen at Oven repair service Willow Grove .
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BATHINDA: From being reluctant to enter politics when she first fought a Lok Sabha election in 2009 to now when she is heading a Union ministry, Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal (52) has had a meteoric rise in 10 years — perhaps because her father-in-law is fivetime CM Parkash Singh Badal.
While many may cite Harsimrat’s family for her quick ascent, she has been instrumental in ensuring an AIIMS hospital is announced for her constituency, even though the BJP MP from Hoshiarpur, Vijay Sampla, had been trying to get the project for his seat. Though PM Narendra Modi laid the project’s foundation stone in November 2016, ahead of the 2017 assembly polls, the Union minister has been saying it has been delayed by 21 months because the Congress government in Punjab does not want her to take credit for the project.
Pitch-forked in the poll fray in 2009, when seven of 10 candidates of SAD lost, Harsimrat beat CM Amarinder Singh’s son Raninder by 1.2L votes that year. Though she is looking for a third term from Bathinda this time, Harsimrat may just face tough competition.
Her victory margin— in spite of the Modi wave— fell to just 19,395 in 2014. This could worsen now as the SAD-BJP government at the Centre is fighting anti-incumbency and the Modi factor has diminished. Also, Harsimrat has found it tough to manage her seat ever since the Congress came to power in Punjab in 2017. When the SAD-BJP alliance was in power, the minister used to hold sangat darshans (public meetings) with all three district administrations at her disposal.
She has said her husband’s estranged cousin, finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, blocked the construction of AIIMS. She has also been at loggerheads with local government minister Navjot Singh Sidhu.
The change in power in Punjab may just be a precursor to a change in fortunes in Bathina. | 2019-04-22T22:08:43 | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/amritsar/akalis-powerless-badal-bahu-faces-a-tough-3rd-term-bid/articleshow/67910117.cms |
Traditionally scientists have been reluctant to use these sediments as many of them were collected using rather crude methods. For example, we have a complete set of sediments from the HMS Challenger Expedition of 1872-1876 that traveled the world sampling the ocean. Collecting records suggest that most of these were collected using a bucket shaped dredge of the ocean floor (see below left).
Collecting methods: a Challenger dredge (left) and a modern coring ship sampling the ocean bottom (right). Diagrammatic depiction not to scale, of planktonic Foraminifera living in the upper waters of the ocean, their calcium carbonate shells sinking after death and being incorporated in ocean floor sediments.
Unfortunately this historical dredging method cannot guarantee that the samples don’t represent an average over a long period of time; deeper sediments sampled could be from as long ago as previous glacial intervals. Modern coring methods such as those currently employed by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program are much more precise and we are able to collect the very top slice of core (core tops). However, the modern collecting archive does not go as far back as 150 years ago like the historical sediments in our collections.
The only way to definitively show the age of the sediments is to carbon date individual calcium forming shells in the sediment or to investigate the carbon isotope composition. The isotopic composition can tell us whether the shells were formed in oceanic conditions representing a glacial or non-glacial period. This is expensive and impractical to do for an entire collection.
Planktonic Foraminifera from a sample from the Challenger Expedition. Each specimen is just under a millimeter in size.
Tiny microscopic single celled organisms called Foraminifera are floating in the ocean as we speak. They form tiny shells from calcium carbonate in the water column and when they die, the shells float to the bottom of the ocean. These accumulate within the bottom sediments (see diagram to right to dredge image above). Studying the planktonic Foraminifera from these sediment layers can tell us about the age of the layers and the state of the ocean at the time they lived.
Planktonic Foraminifera are ideal as they are very abundant and provide an excellent fossil record. They also have a well established taxonomy so there are relatively few arguments about how to identify modern species. Their isotopic composition can also be used to tell us about past climate conditions.
PhD student Marina studied the planktonic Foraminifera from a carefully selected set of samples from the Ocean Bottom Deposit Collection that covered most of the world’s oceans and major seas.
Fortunately there are some major datasets available that tell us the planktonic foraminiferal assemblages we would expect from those regions based on core top samples using modern methods (ForCenS) and samples from cores that represent the last glacial period (MARGO).
Marina compared these datasets with the assemblages she obtained from the Ocean Bottom Deposit Collection. This was able to tell her that her selected samples were not significantly different in composition from the expected modern day samples. She was also able to show areas where the modern and last glacial assemblages were expected to be very different (red and orange dots on map below).
Map showing the relative similarity of Recent (Holocene) assemblages of planktonic Foraminifera with those from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).
It’s almost certain that our historical sediment collections will contain some sediments that are an average over a long time period because of the collecting method used. Using the method Marina developed we will be able to focus studies on areas where it is possible to assess this. The Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection is available for studies like these on request.
It should be noted that this collection also contains material from plankton tows derived from the water column so the issues with time averaging are not relevant. This is part of a study in progress by the Museum comparing Challenger plankton tows with modern collected material from the Tara Expedition.
Finally, you can read more about Marina’s work on planktonic Foraminifera from the Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection and see how digitisation of these collections is answering questions on evolution and even helping to train the scientists of the future.
That’s an amazing piece of work. Reminds me of my BSc project on the meiofauna assemblage in the sediment of mangrove forests in Mauritius. Oceanic sediment surely has loads of surprises for us as we study the samples. Keep up the good work! | 2019-04-18T23:07:58 | https://naturalhistorymuseum.blog/2019/01/17/new-study-shows-the-value-of-historical-sediment-collections-curator-of-micropalaeontology/ |
On March 24, 2019, members of the Lewis County Sheriff's Office arrested Rickey D. Walton on an outstanding warrant for Lewis County. The charge was for one count of non-support, a class E felony.
Mr. Walton was released from the Lewis County Jail on his own recognizance. | 2019-04-23T08:25:00 | http://lewiscosheriff.org/press_view.php?id=182 |
The introduction of a second IP protocol into the Internet presents many technical issues, and in previous columns we've explored many of the issues related to network engineering and infrastructure. In this column I'd like to head upward in the protocol stack to the rarefied air way up there at the level of the application, and look at how applications are managing to cope with the issue of two IP stacks.
There is a proposal doing the rounds in the IETF for standardising dual stack client connection management called " Happy Eyeballs " [ draft-wing-v6ops-happy-eyeballs-ipv6-01 ]. It proposes taking the essentially sequential behavior of current implementations where they probe for connectivity in one protocol and then the other, and attempting to perform the initial connection (DNS name resolution and TCP connection handshake) in each protocol in parallel, and then proceeding with the fastest connection. In this article I'll look at how browsers on dual stack client systems access dual stack servers, and examine the corner cases when one protocol or the other isn't quite working properly, and how the browser attempts to recover from the error. There is an excellent article on this topic by Emile Aben on the RIPE Labs site (" Hampering Eyeballs "), and I'd here like to build on his work by taking a slightly deeper investigation of the issue and look at how a number of popular web browsers and operating systems cope with accessing dual stack servers, and look in particular at what happens when things don't go as smoothly as one would hope.
A conventional approach to the dual stack environment can be seen if I dust off the cobwebs of my old Windows XP implementation and turn on IPv6.
The time is measured in milliseconds, and the above log shows the elapsed time between each packet event that was generated in attempting to complete the connection. What this shows is a 581ms delay between issuing the query to the DNS for the AAAA resource record for the domain name foo.rd.td.h.labs.apnic.net , and a 4 millisecond delay after receiving the response before issuing a DNS query for the A resource record for the same domain name. This second query takes 299ms to obtain a response. After a further 3ms the application has generated an initial TCP connection packet (a SYN packet) to the IPv6 address. After one Round Trip Time (RTT) interval of 280ms, there is a SYN+ACK packet received in response. My local application sends an ACK packet after a further millisecond and the connection has been established, with a total elapsed time of 1.168 seconds. All these packet traces are performed at the client side of the connection.
What I am interested in here is the time taken from the start of the connection operation, which is when the DNS queries are fired off to the time when, from the client's perspective, TCP is able to complete the initial three-way handshake. In the above example, this connection takes some 1.2 seconds, where some 0.9 seconds are spent performing name resolution using the DNS and 0.3 seconds (or one round trip time) are spent performing the TCP connection setup.
The TCP three-way handshake is a protocol exchange that precedes every TCP connection. The initiator sends an initial TCP packet that has the SYN flag set. The "other end" will respond with a TCP packet that has the SYN and ACK flags set. When the initiator receives the SYN+ACK response it will send an ACK to the "other end" and set the local status of the connection to connected. At this point it is possible for the initiator to send data. The "other end" will enter the connected state when it receives the ACK packet.
Deliberately, with all these examples in this article, the server has been placed some distance away from the client, with an RTT of around 296ms for IPv4 and a slightly faster 280ms RTT for IPv6.
What is going on here is that the operating system has established there are "native" IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces on the clients device, and when it attempts to perform a connection using a domain name, it will query the DNS for both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses.
Even in this first step of the connection, it's pretty clear that this could be slightly faster if Windows XP generated the two DNS queries in parallel. As it stands, Windows XP appears to wait for the completion of the first DNS query before generating the second query.
Actually, as with many things in the DNS, its not so clear that serializing the DNS requests would be all that much faster. To illustrate this, in the example above to resolve the DNS name foo.rd.td.h.labs.apnic.net , the local DNS agent asks its DNS forwarding resolver, who in turn, if this was a clean state start of the forwarding resolver, would first ask the root name servers for the NS records for .net , then it would ask a .net name server for the name servers for .apnic , and so on. It is more likely that the first few steps are not required as these NS records are cached by the local DNS forwarding resolver, and wherever possible, the local cache is used rather than performing a new query on an authoritative name server. Now when there are two back-to-back queries, such as in this case where there is a second query for a different resource record associated with the same DNS name, then the local resolver will not repeat the set of NS record queries, as these are now held in the local cache, and it will simply ask the final authoritative server for the resource record being queried. This is why the first query took 581ms, while the second query was performed in a single round trip time of 299ms. If the two queries were to be performed in parallel the second query would not be able to take advantage of the entire cached state that is collected from the first query, and both queries would likely take a comparable time. In this case, I estimate that parallelising the requests would shave off some 0.3 seconds from the total connection time.
When it has collected the DNS responses, the client then consults its local preference table to determine which protocol to use for the initial connection attempt. As the Windows XP system uses the default set of protocol preferences, it prefers to use IPv6 first, and the connection proceeds using IPv6.
What the end user experiences here is a 22 second pause, while the local system tries three times to connect using IPv6 by resending the initial TCP SYN packet and waiting. The connection attempts are spaced using an exponentially increasing series of backoff timers of 3, 6 and 12 seconds. At the expiration of the third backoff interval, the system then switches over to the other protocol and undertakes a connection attempt using IPv4.
In many complex systems, having two ways to achieve the objective can be leveraged to make the system more robust and faster, but in this case the serialisation works against the user, and when the preferred connection path is not working, the additional 21 second connection delay makes the user experience a far worse service than if the server was just an IPv4-only service. Windows XP's use of a serial view of managing connectivity in a dual stack world is not exactly working to produce a better outcome for the user in such cases.
This is admittedly a pathologically broken example, but it illustrates two major differences in the default behaviour of Mac OS X and Windows XP. The first is that Mac OS X has parallelized the DNS resolution behaviour, rather than performing the DNS queries sequentially. The second difference is that Windows XP uses three connection probes over 21 seconds to conclude that an address is unreachable, while Mac OS X uses 11 connection probes over 75 seconds to reach the same conclusion.
The third difference, which is not explicitly illustrated, is the comparison of these two tests, namely that when there are multiple IPv6 addresses, Windows XP will try to connect using only one IPv6 address before failing over to IPv4, while Mac OS X will probe every IPv6 address using a 75 second probe sequence before flipping over protocol stacks to try IPv4. In the case where IPv6 is non-functional, this can cause excessive delay in connection attempts, such as the 226 seconds encountered here.
Here Max OS X Lion does not seem to do any better than Windows XP, and the 75 seconds taken for each TCP connection attempt, as compared to the Windows XP setting of 21 seconds, makes the user experience far worse when all is not working perfectly in the underlying network.
This was a very simple TCP application, and it has been observed that web browsers often customise their approach in order to strike a good balance between robustness and responsiveness. So lets look at some popular browsers and examine the way in which they handle these situations where the remote dual stack server is impaired in some manner.
Here I'm using a system running the latest version of the MAC OS X operating system, Lion, which is at version 10.7.2. I'll test the most popular web browsers for the Mac, namely Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome, and look at how they handle connections in the Dual Stack world where one protocol is just not responding.
The first browser case I'll look at here is the Safari browser on Mac OS X. Firstly, we connect to a URL where there is a dual stack server with responsive IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
Safari appears to be setting off two parallel connectivity sequences, where there is an IPv4 DNS query and TCP connection, and a parallel IPv6 DNS query and a TCP connection.
It is evident that the first session to provide a completed TCP handshake is used by the browser, while the other connection is terminated with a TCP RST (reset) as soon as it responds with a SYN+ACK.
What is not so clear from this trace is why the Safari system chose to fire off the first SYN in IPv4, even though the DNS response with the IPv6 address arrived first. What is also unclear is why Safari chose to wait for some 270ms between receiving the DNS response to the AAAA query and starting the IPv6 TCP connection. It appears that the system is using a table of RTT intervals associated with each address it has connected to in the recent past and also a "default" RTT for other addresses it has not encountered previously, and it fires off the first connection to the address that has the lowest RTT value. The failover time may also be managed from this RTT estimate, and in this case it may be that the system has an internal estimate that the expected connection time for this IPv4 address is 270ms, and when this time expires the system attempts to connect to the next address, which happens to be the IPv6 address, while leaving the first connection attempt open in case it responds.
Once it has a working connection, it politely resets the other connection.
In this case, the two DNS responses were received in the same millisecond interval, and once again the IPv6 AAAA record response arrived slightly ahead of the A record response. In this case, Safari selected the IPv6 address. Again I am guessing here, but it may be that the system now has a cached value of the IPv4 RTT time of 299ms, and it may have a cached value of the IPv6 RTT of 280ms, or it could be using some lower default estimate of the IPv6 RTT. It appears that Safari is using a sort function on the returned addresses based on some estimated RTT, and selecting the lowest RTT address to try first.
Here there was a delay of 120ms between the two SYN packets, as compared to a wait of 270ms in the previous experiment. This appears to be derived from some revised internal estimate of the expected RTT to the IPv6 destination address, which in this case is unduly optimistic as the actual RTT is 280ms.
I have to comment that, overall, this algorithm is fast! The RTT between the client and the server is 280ms in IPv6 and 299ms in IPv4 and the absolute minimum possible connection time is 579ms assuming a single IPv4 DNS RTT and a single IPv6 connection RTT. Safari's 611ms connection time is extremely efficient.
So that's what happens when everything is working. What happens when Safari is presented with a URL that has a some unresponsive addresses? This second test described here attempts to connect to www.rxxx.td.h.labs.apnic.net , which is configured with three unresponsive IPv6 addresses and a single responsive IPv4 address.
In this test, the AAAA query returned first, and Safari immediately attempted to open a session using the first IPv6 address. Safari now appears to have a default estimate of 270ms for this connection attempt, and upon its expiry it then tries the second IPv6 address, even though the A record response has been received from the DNS in the intervening period. Some 120ms later Safari attempts to connect using the third unresponsive address. A further 300ms later, it then tries to connect using the IPv4 address. The total effort takes 1.3 seconds, and each address is tried only once in Safari.
The behaviour of Safari in OS X Lion is described in a post from an Apple engineer in July of this year . That note refers to the command nettop -n -m route to show the information that is maintained by OS X for each destination route, including the current RTT estimates that are maintained by the system.
Chrome has also been equipped with a version of the "happy eyeballs" Dual Stack connection algorithm, which uses short timers and a relatively fast failover from one protocol to the other.
The first test is again a simple dual stack URL, where both IPv4 and IPv6 are responsive.
What appears to be happening in Chrome is that whichever DNS response arrives first, Chrome appears to select as the preferred protocol and attempts to connect by sending TCP SYN packets. Unlike Safari, Chrome attempts to connect using 2 ports in parallel, and after a 250ms delay, if there has been no SYN ACK in response, it will send a further SYN on a third port. Compared to the ideal connection time of 579ms, a connection of 587ms for IPv6 is extremely efficient, and is the fastest I've seen. It's very quick!
There is a 300ms connection timer that is evidently started upon sending the first SYN, and when this timer expires, Chrome then repeats the sequence of port opening in the other protocol if the first set of open calls have been unresponsive. This way, within 300ms Chrome is able to switch back from an unresponsive IPv6 address to IPv4 address and hopefully complete the connection quickly.
In this case, the total delay to establish the connection is 76.5 seconds, and it included sending 69 SYN packets! A similar 76 second delay is evident when the browser is presented with unresponsive IPv4 and IPv6 addresses coupled with a responding IPv4 address.
Obviously this is an extensive delay, and it would be useful to understand where this delay is coming from.
What appears to be the case is that there is a standard construct in the Mac OS X operating system (and in the FreeBSD operating system, upon which Max OS X has been constructed) that paces out the SYN retransmits according to the tcp_syn_backoff array, to a maximum interval of the value of net.inet.tcp.keepinit milliseconds.
Chrome is fast when there is a problem with one protocol, and will take no more than an additional 300ms to connect in the case where its initial connection attempt uses the unresponsive protocol. However, in more complex cases where there are unresponsive addresses in both protocols, Chrome's use of the host operating system defaults when performing the connection implies that the connection time for these complex cases can take more than 75 seconds on MAC OS X.
How does the latest version of Firefox fare under similar conditions?
Admittedly, this is a deliberately perverse example, where there are three unresponsive IPv6 addresses and one responsive IPv4 address behind this particular URL, but it shows the sequential nature of address processing in Firefox 8.0, where all the IPv6 addresses are probed for net.inet.tcp.keepinit milliseconds (which is set to 75 seconds in my case) before shifting over to probe the IPv4 address. In this case, the connection time is an impressive 226 seconds.
The other difference between Firefox and Chrome is that Firefox starts the connection with two parallel connections, and does not open up a third connection.
There is an additional tuning parameter in Firefox 8.0, where, using the about:config setting, the parameter network.http.fast-fallback-to-IPv4 can be set to true.
completed some 225 seconds ago!
This setting causes Firefox to dispense with the efforts to open two ports in parallel, and instead it looks a lot like the "happy eyeballs" behaviour, where both TCP sessions are opened as soon as there is a DNS response within the context of each protocol. With this setting set to true, Firefox is equally quick in a standard dual stack environment.
However, there appears to be a bug in the implementation where even when one protocol completes the web transaction, the other protocol continues its connection attempt to exhaustion, including the testing of all addresses in the case that the addresses are unresponsive. I was expecting to see the local client shut down the connection attempt on the outstanding connection and send a TCP reset (RST) if the connection has already elicited a SYN+ACK response.
There is a second bug visible here at the end of the connection attempts for an unresponsive protocol. As the packet trace illustrates, Firefox switches over and connects to the other protocol, even though there is no outstanding HTTP task. Once the connection is made, Firefox then appears to have a 5 second timeout and then closes the session and presumably completes the internal task of opening up the second protocol.
This packet trace example also highlights what I would interpret as another implementation bug, this time in the TCP implementation in the Linux server, where a TCP session that is opened but has no traffic will, after 3 seconds in this idle state, send a gratuitous SYN+ACK packet.
The last of the browsers to be tested here is the Opera browser.
Opera appears to try the first IPv6 address with a single port, and if this is unresponsive after the default TCP SYN timeout (75 seconds in my case) then it will try the next IPv6 address, if there is another IPv6 address, or switch to IPv4 and try the first IPv4 address.
To expose this connection behaviour, I'll use a URL that has an unresponsive IPv6 address and two IPv4 addresses, one unresponsive and one reachable address.
What was unexpected to see here were the four final packets, which appear to be Opera initiating a third connection attempt, repeating the previous address, but truncating this after a further 3.3 seconds. What appears to be happening is that Opera has a connection regime that selects only one address from each protocol, and it invokes a conventional connection with these addresses, preferring IPv6 over IPv4. Interestingly, when the IPv4 connection attempt returns failure (after a total elapsed time of some 152 seconds since the start of this entire connection process) Opera then invokes a third connection attempt, reusing the failed IPv4 address! I am not sure why it does not try the second (and in this case working) IPv4 address at this point. Then Opera appears to abort the entire connection process after a further 3 seconds (and four SYN packets). I guess that Opera has a "master" timer of 155 seconds, and if no progress has been made in establishing a connection after 155 seconds, it simply terminates the current connection and reports failure to the user.
In Windows 7 the operating system has a default bias to prefer IPv6 in its local preference tables.
Windows also uses a SYN retransmit timer, where a connection attempt takes up to 21 seconds, using 3 SYN probes, with a backoff timer of 3, 6 and 12 seconds following each SYN probe.
The options for browsers are evidently limited here – either the application can use the operating system default behaviour and experience a 20 second failover to IPv4 when the IPv6 address is unresponsive, or it can fork a second connection context in IPv4 without waiting for the initial connection to timeout. Almost all browsers tested use the first approach, including Explorer 9, Firefox 8, Safari 5 and Opera 11.5. The exceptions are Chrome, which performs a parallel failover connection 300ms after the primary connection, and Firefox 8 with fast failover enabled, which performs a fully parallel connection in both protocols.
I have also performed the same set of tests on Windows XP, and the browsers behave in the same manner. It seems that while many aspects of the system have changed on the evolutionary path from Windows XP through Windows Vista to Windows 7, one of the invariants is the behaviour of the protocol stack on these systems, and the dual stack recovery behaviour is identical, as far as I can tell by these tests.
Lets look at a few of these browsers' connection behaviour in Windows 7 in a bit more detail.
The noted behaviour in Explorer is to attempt to connect on all available IPv6 addresses before failing over to IPv4. In this admittedly pathological bad case of 3 unresponsive IPv6 addresses, the connection time is extended by 57 seconds. In a more conventional situation with a single unresponsive IPv6 address, Explorer will send 3 SYN probes to the IPv6 address with backoff timers of 3, 6 and 12 seconds, then switch over to probe IPv4.
This is very similar to the behaviour of Explorer in so far as it serialises the DNS queries, then serialises the TCP connection attempts. There is one curious artefact here, and that is that the initial connection is made on one port, but after the first SYN timeout of three seconds it is joined by a second parallel port, and both connections then perform a 6 second SYN time out. This strikes me as some form of implementation bug, but whether it's Firefox or Windows at fault here is hard to tell.
When I enable Firefox's network.http.fast-fallback-to-IPv4 the behaviour is switched from sequential to parallel for the TCP connection, but, curiously, the DNS name resolution remains a sequential operation.
This is the Linux behaviour of sending a gratuitous SYN+ACK 3 seconds.
The session startup is performed in parallel, but curiously even when the IPv4 connection successfully completes, the IPv6 stream is still attempting to connect. More curiously, when the IPv6 connection fails, it then falls back to IPv4, and sits idle for 5 seconds before shutting down the session. Also visible here is the Linux server's spurious idle SYN+ACK that appears to be generated after 3 seconds of initial inactivity at the server. This "hanging" connection attempt is not visible to the user, and the user sees a rapid connection and a rapid download, and the "dangling" extra session just trails off in the background. But it would be good to see this obvious implementation bug cleaned up in a future release of this browser.
As with Mac OS X, Chrome in Windows 7 launches 2 connection attempts in IPv6 immediately, and opens a third port after 250ms of inactivity. When 300ms expires, Chrome then switches over to IPv4 and opens two ports immediately, and a third port in another 250ms.
The last system tested here is Linux 2.6. The default behaviour for Linux is to attempt to connect using 5 SYN probes, as compared to 11 SYN probes taking 75 seconds with FreeBSD (and Mac OS X) and 3 probes taking 21 seconds with Windows. With Linux the wait time for each probe is, like Windows, an exponentially increasing set of times, starting at 3 seconds.
This 3 minute failover period is excessive these days, and can be altered by setting the sysctl parameter net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries to a lower value. It is also possible for the application itself to override this by using a local timer and terminating the connection attempt when the application level timer expires.
Why are the default timeout settings for TCP connections so long?
These days it takes some 350ms for a packet to pass around the entire globe on today's terrestrial fibre networks. Indeed searching for a network path that takes longer than 400ms using entirely terrestrial routes is a challenge and when it occurs, it's often symptomatic of a routing failure rather than the outcome of deliberate network engineering. So why do we see default settings in shipped operating systems with connection timers of 21 seconds, 75 seconds and even 189 seconds? In that 189 seconds that same erstwhile packet could've whizzed around the earth 540 times! Surely its possible to conclude that an address is unresponsive in 1 or 2 seconds, so why impose a 3 minute wait upon the long suffering user?
The challenge for protocol stack engineers is to design a system that is robust under all conditions, and that means that it's necessary for the stack to work reliably under some of the more extreme and challenging situations. Oddly enough, one of the most challenging situations is a dialup modem. The desire for useable speed means that dialup modems attempt to provide extreme payload compression as well as performing the highest level of signal compression it can. The combination can be used to extract a phenomenal 56Kbps out of a 300 baud analogue circuit, but the cost is an imposed delay, and it is not uncommon to see a dialup connection adding some 3 seconds to a round trip measurement. In addition, even 56Kbps of bandwidth is nowhere near enough, and many applications will swamp the connection with traffic, causing instances of sustained packet loss. So when you are engineering a system to be robust over a lossy high delay dialup connection, then an algorithm of 11 probes over 75 seconds starts to sound like a decent strategy, and even 6 probes over 189 seconds may well outlast any transient congestion event on a dialup connection.
So where to set the default? In the best possible case, in the certain knowledge that if the system is ever placed behind a dialup modem, then it simply will not work? Or in the worst case, in the knowledge that most of the network is highly reliable most of the time, and on a high speed connection, these default connection failure timers will be used rarely? Most protocol engineers design their default for the latter and hope that most users will simply not encounter these massive timeouts in their normal use of the network.
I have been waiting for the time when these protocol stacks employ a little more active probing of their environment and adapt their connection timers based on recent experience.
The recent changes to the MAC OS X protocol stack, where the estimated RTT times for each destination are cached and used to optimise the system's connection behaviour, are truly a delight to see. Yes, it probably still needs a little tuning as far as I can tell, but it is a major evolutionary step from the rather primitive blind guesswork that we've used so far in designing protocol behaviour. It appears to make the entire Dual Stack scenario about as painless as possible, even in some of the more pathological cases of partial connectivity.
I won't reproduce the complete set of packet traces for the browsers tested on Linux, but note that Firefox 8.0.1 uses a truncated connection sequence that terminates after 4 retries (a total of 5 probes) and 93 seconds, and when the fast failover option is enabled, performs a fully parallel connection sequence in each protocol. Chrome again uses the 300ms staggering of the two parallel connection attempts, allowing each attempt to run through to the full 189 seconds. Opera will wait for the full 189 seconds before failing over to use IPv4.
The iPhone supports a Dual Stack environment on its WiFi Interface.
On an iOS platform the Safari browser initiates the DNS queries in parallel. The system initially starts an IPv6 session, and after a 721ms timeout it starts a parallel session using IPv4. After a 991ms interval it sends a second SYN probe to the IPv6 address. When the IPv4 SYN probe responds, Safari latches onto this session and completes the HTTP request.
Now lets try this with a URL with three unresponsive IPv6 addresses.
This is somewhat unexpected. Again IPv6 is probed first, and after 718ms a second probe is initiated, but this time it uses the second IPv6 address. After a total of a 907ms timeout, the first probe is resent. After a further 425ms, the third IPv6 address is probed, and after another 131ms, or a total of 1574ms since the initial probe was commenced, it now opens up a probe on IPv4. The browser now has 4 probe sessions active, three in IPv6 and one in IPv4. After 992ms to the second unresponsive IPv6 address, the browser sends a second probe. When the IPv4 SYN generates a SYN+ACK response, curiously, the browser does not immediately send an ACK and close off the IPv6 probes. Instead it waits a further 116ms and, 899ms after the second probe, Safari sends a third probe to the first unresponsive IPv6 address. Only then does it respond to the IPv4 SYN+ACK and start up the fetch.
It seems that Safari uses a 990ms retransmit timer, and attempts to connect on all IPv6 addresses before performing a fallback to IPv4.
So, finally, lets try iOS on a URL where there are 2 addresses in each protocol, and all are unresponsive.
The total time before the connection failure was passed to the application used, was 64.3 seconds. Each address was probed 10 times, with a backoff timer set of 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 seconds between successive SYN probes. What is quite different here was that at 12.8 seconds, 26.1 seconds, 38.9 seconds and 51.9 seconds (approximately at 12 second intervals) the DNS query was repeated. The timing of the backoff algorithm appears to be based on some internal estimate of the RTT of the default route. In this case, it appears that the system has a cached IPv6 default RTT of 130ms and a cached IPv4 RTT of some 700ms. The fallback algorithm appears to be an ordering of addresses by RTT estimate, and each address is added to the probe set upon the expiration of the RTT timer of the pervious address.
This table shows the outcomes of dual stack failover tests for various operating systems and browser combinations. Each cell in this table contains the version of the browser that was tested on this system, the time taken to fail over when the preferred protocol was unresponsive, and the default protocol preference (where 'x' means that the faster connection is preferred).
There is much to be improved in the way in which operating systems and browsers generally handle dual stack situations. The operation of Firefox 8 with fast failover is perhaps the most efficient of all the browsers tested in terms of its ability to optimise its behaviour across all of the operating systems. It's not clear that the 300ms staggering used by Chrome is of any particular value. Noting the predilection for a number of these browsers to open 2 or even 3 parallel ports from the outset, considerations about imposing too high a TCP connection load on the server now appear to have become a mere historical curiosity in the unending search for blindingly fast browser performance. So Chrome's restraint with a 300ms timer is certainly polite, but on the other hand Chrome is the more profligate in terms of parallel connections as it starts off with 3 parallel connections when the RTT is over 250ms. I'd offer the view that Chrome would be faster in the corner cases if it dropped the third port and at the same time dropped the fallback timer from 300ms to 0ms.
Safari and Mac OS X combine to attempt to guess the fastest connection, rather than simply apply a brute force approach of using a parallel connection. Given that it only opens up a single port on startup, its politeness to the server could be considered bordering on being parsimonious, and the additional load imposed by using a fully parallel connection setup in both protocols with a single connection in each protocol would only put it on a level of the default Firefox 8 behaviour. The efforts to cache the RTT estimates and order the connection attempts by increasing RTT are an interesting optimisation, and where different protocols give different RTTs, as in the case here where there was a 20ms difference in the paths in IPv6 and IPv4, Safari managed to learn of this and apply the correct preference, with a little tinkering with v6-only and v4-only URLs in order to prime the cache of stored RTTs. However, Safari also places an RTT time estimate on the "default" route in both IPv4 and IPv6, and uses this internal value to bias its initial connection choice in dual stack scenarios in the absence of specific information. It appears that what is not cached is unresponsive addresses, so while Safari is able to make efficient choices when there is reliable information already gathered, it makes poor choices when one of the addresses returned by the DNS is persistently unresponsive and when its estimate of the RTT to "default" (what ever that may be!) starts to drift.
There is an interesting design compromise as to whether to tightly couple the DNS and TCP connection or whether to embark on connection attempts as soon as the DNS results are returned in each protocol family. The browser wants to optimise two performance parameters, namely the initial connection time from the user's click to the time that the page starts to draw, and of course the total connection time for the entire page download. If the decision was to optimise the initial connection time, then there is much to be said for setting off the two DNS queries in parallel and embarking on the associated TCP connection as soon as the DNS response is received. But if the decision is to optimise the session performance, then the lower RTT will be selected if the browser performs a rendezvous after the DNS query phase and then fires off the opening SYN packets in parallel. If there is an appreciable difference in RTT between the two protocols, then the faster path will complete the TCP connection first.
My choice? Right now Firefox 8 with fast failover enabled appears to offer the best performance on the platforms I've tested when you are after the fastest connection time if you are on a Windows or Linux platform. But you will need to set the fast failover option. Without this set to "true", its dual stack connection behaviour is pretty ordinary. If you are using a Mac then despite some of the erratic outcomes from the RTT tracking function when presented with pathologically broken cases, Safari appears to offer the fastest behaviour in dual stack scenarios.
But what if you happen to love the user interface provided by your favourite browser and don't want to switch? In that case, if you are still after improving connection speeds for unresponsive websites, you may certainly want to look at the SYN retransmit settings if you are on a MAC or a Linux platform and knock the number of retransmits down to a more reasonable 10 seconds in the case of the Mac or to 2 SYN retries in the case of Linux.
I performed these tests using tcpdump on a number of hosts. In setting up these tests I use a number of wildcard DNS domains. (They are wildcarded to override some browser's predilection for caching DNS answers. So any valid DNS string can be used as a prefix here.) Each of these domains has a different behaviour, as shown in the table below.
Hampering Eyeballs - Observations on Two "Happy Eyeballs" Implementations In this article we look at two "Happy Eyeballs" implementations, that aim to reduce degraded user experience as the result of broken dual-stack configurations. We call this degraded user experience "Unhappy Eyeballs". The Chrome web browser implementation seems to succeed in this aim, while Apple's Mac OS X Lion operating system only partially succeeds in avoiding "Unhappy Eyeballs". Furthermore we show that Mac OS X Lion, in combination with the Safari web browser results in "Happy Eyeballs", but leaves well performing native IPv6 capacity unused in roughly half of the cases we measured, a condition we name "Hampering Eyeballs".
As I told you at RIPE63, I also saw the spurious SYN+ACK that Linux servers send, if a client just does a TCP 3-way handshake and doesn't send any other packets.
I dug a little deeper into this and I found that Apache on Linux shows this behaviour while other server software doesn't necessarily. Digging through Apache source code, I found it sets the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT socket option. A simple test program shows that this behaviour only happens if one sets this option on a listening socket on Linux, but not without this option on Linux. Interesting still is that the use is quite wide spread (how many Apache/Linux servers are there on the Internet?).
Can this be used to measure things that we couldn't measure without knowing about this?
And I would _guess_ that the listener is, by virtue of this option, discarding the initial null ACK and awaiting an ACK with data to "complete" the initial handshake.
If the client sends a conventional ACK with no attached data to complete the initial TCP handshake and then does nothing (as distinct from the conventional behaviour of immediately sending a data segment with a duplicate of the previous ACK) then server says "hmm incomplete handshake" as the initial ACK has been discarded.
If you have tested this, do you still have a test rig handy?
What happens if you open the connection then sleep for 60 seconds then send 1 byte of data? what does the server send? multiple SYN+ACKs? or will it timeout the connection?
Yes, there are a couple of typos in the packet traces where I've put in the wrong DNS trace to the subsequent connection attempt. Good catch.
another comment on the Chrome/Mac OS X Lion experiments. I've also seen cases where, on trying a dualstack host, order of returned DNS record didn't dictate what IP protocol was used to set up the HTTP request, so I don't agree with your assumption that DNS record ordering dictates what protocol is going to be used. Usually IPv6 is tried, but on Mac OS X Lion I've also seen a couple of cases where IPv4 was tried. I think it's some kind of weird interaction between Chrome internal-caching and the reordering of getaddrinfo() results. Reinforces one of the points in my "Hampering Eyeballs" article about this becoming really hard to debug/understand. | 2019-04-20T00:44:30 | https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gih/dual-stack-esotropia |
I am on a mission to end poverty in the country, finish terrorism, act against corruption and black money.
Without naming Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati, Modi said that people have built their political career in the name of Bhimrao Ambedkar, but were only working for the benefit of their family members and relatives. "Their (SP-BSP) thinking is only one - abuse Modi as much as they can", he said. "(Udhar walon ko bhi samajh mein aa gaya hai ki agar teesri galti hui to lene ke dene padd jaenge)", PM Modi said while addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad.
"SP and BSP have not understood the mood of the people".
Economic growth in recent years had generated enough revenue for states to work more on poverty alleviation, job creation and improving healthcare and education, he said. "But the parties do not want to recognize the truth". But its Prime Minister Imran Khan did call on both sides to pull back from the brink in February because of the "weapons we have". Parties and their leaders, who are not even contesting 40 seats, are dreaming of becoming the prime minister of the country, he added.
At the rally, the Prime Minister had promised to "stand like a wall" against "attempts of the National Conference and the PDP to continue family rule" in the state. Terrorists used to come from Pakistan, attack us & Congress govt used to cry before the world that we've been attacked.
"Pakistan has threatened us with nuclear, nuclear, nuclear", Modi told an election rally in Jammu and Kashmir near the border with Pakistan. Should surgical strike and air strike take place or not? Why did they get rattled?
In a retaliatory action following the terror attack at Army camp in Uri sector on September 18, 2016, that left 17 security personnel dead, the Indian Army carried out surgical strikes on the intervening night of September 28 and 29 on terror launch pads across the LoC killing dozens of militants. Why do they choose power over Article 370 then?
At the rally today, the PM also slammed the Congress for ignoring the plight of Kashmiri Pandits because they were more anxious about their vote-bank. "They raise doubts on IAF strikes", he said, adding, "For the Congress, the Army is only a way of earning money".
Modi was in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua to campaign for Union minister and the BJP's Udhampur Lok Sabha candidate Jitendra Singh. "This alliance is an alliance of opprtunitism and hunger for power and not to provide better opportunities of life for the people of Jammu and Kashmir". | 2019-04-23T00:50:42 | http://globalengineeringnews.com/2019/04/15/there-s-a-bjp-wave-says-pm-modi/ |
Anna of forty-two roads was inspired by our DIY Wedding month and posted up the skinny on her handmade wedding to husband Mischa from back in 2004.
My husband and I had a handmade wedding – pretty much everything except the dress, food, and music we did ourselves. I’d say that key to a beautiful handmade wedding is location – you have to pick a place that will show off your style and creations. For us, a pure white studio in downtown Manhattan was the perfect place for the splashes of orange, blue, and green that were our palette.
My favorite thing we made was our birch branch huppah with orange organza canopy. It was not free-standing, and groomsmen held it up during the ceremony, in keeping with the old custom. We still have the branches in our living room.
I love these keepsake flip books that were made for the guests. | 2019-04-20T08:45:02 | https://makezine.com/2010/06/22/anna_and_mishas_wedding/ |
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I love my condo- don't get me wrong. I signed on the dotted line on 09/09/09 and I never looked back (ok truthfully, I spent about 2 weeks freaking out, but then i never looked back). There are so many things I love- the location downtown but still close to harbourfront and parks, the relatively private view from my windows, insuite laundry, the full size appliances, the hardwood floors...I could go on and on.
But living in a bachelor apartment is CHALLENGING. There is no sugar coating it. I am super lucky to be able to fit in separate living, dining, and bedroom spaces- but I am seriously lacking in closets! I only have one small front hall closet. That's it. So I have to use an armoire and a small dresser for clothes. For years I stored pajamas and unmentionables in my TV stand. As of today, they have moved to a dresser, but I still store bathing suits and undergarmets under my bed (TMI, perhaps- haha).
I also do not have a lot of cupboard space. There are two full cupboards, one small one, and then one over the microwave and the fridge. So sometimes I store pasta in my fridge and I'm fine with that. It is pretty funny when guests find out my liquor collection lives in the fridge!
And you know something else- I have no cutlery drawers! No one ever says "when hunting for a home, make sure it has cutlery drawers". You don't notice until you go to unpack and go "ooooh fudgesicles". By some stroke of luck, I owned a cutlery set that hangs from a stand (my brother would like to point out that he bought me it, but it was a stroke of luck that he bought me one on a stand!). And the previous owner installed a hanging system for cooking utensils.
My dining table folds into seating for 6, but when not entertaining it folds to a 2 seater or down to a side table. It also has drawers for storage. My ottoman/coffee table/bench has storage and provides extra seating when guests come over. My bedside table is made of my boot storage boxes for when I pack them up for the summer.
Who says you can't put pajamas in your TV stand, or booze in your fridge? Don't be afraid to think outside of the box when you need an item to fit a unique need or space.
3. Be aware of what you truly need.
I constantly purge my closet to save on space. If I haven't worn it in months, or if I have similar items I am more likely to use, I donate. I also spend a long time deciding when to bring a new item into the house. It needs to serve a purpose in my life before I clutter my place with it (and yes, sometimes "being pretty to look at" is a purpose, but try to limit it).
I love open storage and I hope to install some open shelving for books and knick knacks, but closed storage hides clutter best and this will help make your space look bigger. When you do have "stuff" out try to make it look very nice and orderly.
When I first moved in, the place came with a giant red TV stand with a built in red shelving unit. I kept it for a long time, but eventually I got sick of the red. I invested in white furniture and white bedding and now my place looks very airy and open! I know white isn't for everyone, but I don't eat in bed and I don't have kids running around with markers so it is very easy to keep clean. I like to put in pops of colour in accent pieces to bring personality to the space.
By inserting a bit of "you" in a space through art, design, pillows, knick knacks, whatever. When people have beautiful things to look at, they see less of a "tiny condo" and more of a "beautiful room".
There are so many more tips, but I find these are my top recommendations for anyone living in, or thinking of living in, a small space. You would be surprised how few things, and how little space, you need to live comfortably and stylishly!
So true. I don't think I've quite got the hang of #3 yet. I'm trying though! The books are the hardest for the BF and I. As english Majors we both really have to decide what to keep and what to purge because we can't bring more in if our shelves are full.
I think maybe a buy one donate one policy should be in effect for us.
I only keep the books I love and will read again, but I know not everyone can do that!!
I think I'm too much of a hermit to go with the light colors. | 2019-04-24T08:06:04 | http://www.wafflingblog.com/2012/03/challenges-of-small-space.html |
today I’m writing from Phoenix, Arizona. Yes, that’s right, we flew from Dallas all the way up to Phoenix in just one day. Within eight hours to be exactly. We took of from Fort Worth Spinks at 8AM local time and flew the first leg to Carlsbad, New Mexico where we stopped to get the tanks filled up again.
From there on the real fun began. We filed an IFR flight plan to Tucson, Arizona and just a few minutes after departure we got swallowed by the clouds. During our climb to 10.000feet altitude we passed several rain shower and the following two hours were a very interesting experience and a good opportunity to practice the procedures I’ve learned during my IFR training. Once we’ve passed Deming we had the worst weather behind us and the following miles we just passed some more thunderstorms and showers but were clear of clouds almost all the time.
In Tucson we took a few more gallons of fuel and continued for one more hour to Phoenix, Arizona. After 8 hours of flight time, two of which were IFR, and 800 nautical miles (~1500km) distance we landed safely at Goodyear airport and parked our plane right next to the planes Lufthansa is using for their initial flight training.
Tomorrow we will see how we continue our trip.
It was an interesting flight but it was really tough and exhausting.
So now that the studying is over for at least a few weeks, I have more time to write here.
And as I didn’t take any new pictures during the last couple of days, I decided to show you a few more photos I’ve taken mostly on flights as passenger. The photos are from all over central Florida which is our primary training area for IFR flights.
I probably won’t post any news in the following two or three weeks, ’cause it’s kind of my summer holidays and there won’t be any flying during this period of time.
But after that I’ll start a large tour across the USA and there will definitely pictures of that on this site here. | 2019-04-19T13:04:57 | https://americanflyyer.wordpress.com/tag/instrument/ |
On March 17, 2005, Jeff Alex Mazon, a former employee of Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR), and Ali Hijazi, the managing partner of Kuwaiti company LaNouvelle General Trading and Contracting Company, were indicted on charges of devising a scheme to defraud the United States of more than $3.5 million related to the awarding of a subcontract to LaNouvelle to supply fuel tankers for military operations in Kuwait. The indictment alleged that on or about February 2, 2003, Mazon, a negotiator for subcontractors, solicited bids by e-mail from potential subcontractors. The cost of the subcontract was estimated by KBR at $685,080. The indictment alleged that Mazon inflated the bid he received from Hijazi to ensure that LaNouvelle would be overpaid. In March 2009, after two trials ended with deadlocked juries, the U.S. Justice Department withdrew all fraud charges against Mazon and instead accepted a misdemeanor plea agreement under which Mazon pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of making a false written statement. | 2019-04-18T23:03:18 | https://www.contractormisconduct.org/misconduct/335/united-states-v-mazon-et-al-fraud |
Sir Elton John is delighted to hear (baseless) rumours linking Lady Gaga to the next James Bond movie theme - and he is keen to record the song with her, reports Jam.
The Rocket Man is adamant Gaga is the perfect choice to sing the Bond theme, and he wants to head into the studio, too.
He says, "I'm really pleased that Lady Gaga is up for the theme tune. She's fantastic and it would be amazing to do a duet."
Jack White and Alicia Keys recorded the first duet for the James Bond theme with Another Way to Die, which was featured in 2008's Quantum of Solace. | 2019-04-18T17:21:33 | https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=8458 |
Small steps to great changes are ahead. Come along with me and together we will discover the best you.
Fitness over Fifty : That's my passion. I have over 30 years of experience in the fitness and weight loss communities, with an emphasis on emotional and physical well being. I am the mother of a 18 daughter and 26 year old son, both of whom have learned the balance of enjoying favorite foods, nourishing their bodies and taking care of their bodies partly from my encouragement, knowledge and example. I continue to teach fitness classes at my facility as well as work with clients in a group setting or personal touch one on one. I love helping my clients reach their personal best through better choices and gradual lifestyle adjustments. It doesn't matter if you need to loose 10 pounds or 100 pounds: I've helped hundreds of people over the years, and together we will find that perfect balance for your unique lifestyle. Let me show you how easy it is to live a healthy lifestyle without feeling like you are sacrificing yourself. A better, healthier you is right around the corner!
A New You is Waiting to be discovered.
How to Choose and Make Your Own Ice Cream!
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Kilkenny the Marble City, is famous for its arts and heritage, Kilkenny is one of Irelands favourite tourist destinations.
The city itself is steeped in history. Dominated by superb ancient buildings culminating in the magnificent Kilkenny Castle, it brims with character.
Winding slipways lead from bustling shopping streets to quiet comers, and clues to the fascinating story of Kilkenny lie in every architectural feature.
Kilkenny also boasts one of europes best Golfing Courses , Mt Juliet along with numerous other top quality recreational facilities.
Host to argueably Europes best comedy festival and one of Irelands oldest Arts festival.
Kilkenny provides a choice of entertainment to suit all tastes.
Night Life in kilkenny is second to none with some of Irelands top pubs and clubs and an 'atmosphere' which makes Kilkenny Irelands most popular week end destination. Please remember don't drink and drive. | 2019-04-26T05:51:21 | http://kilkennytaxi.com/attractions.htm |
Ever since childhood Josh had known he wanted to be an artist. Growing up on the south shore of Massachusetts he had always been involved in art in one form or another, be it drawing, painting, sculpting or music. His teenage years were spent in the local music scene drumming for multiple bands, where he first discovered the tattoo industry.
In 2009 he fueled his interest in art and tattooing with an apprenticeship at a local tattoo shop, where he became fully licensed. Josh spent the next 5 years molding his style and perfecting his techniques, until March 2014 when he joined Famous Tattoos.
Josh is a well rounded artist with a passion for color tattoos done in neotraditional to realistic styles, and also a firm grasp on black & grey, making him able to handle just about any idea you would like! | 2019-04-19T22:28:38 | http://www.famoustattoosma.com/josh |
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The Surfrider Foundation Connecticut Chapter and Scoot & Paddle will hold the third annual Charles Island SUP Cup Saturday, June 24, at Walnut Beach.
The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will include a series of races throughout the day for paddleboarders, kayakers, outrigger canoes, and dragon boards.
There will be live music, dancing, food trucks, vendors, kids craft tent, hula hooping, free demos all day.
Racing check in starts at 8:30 a.m.
10:00-4:00 Commercial Interruption Live surf band!
Bonfire and drum circle at 7 p.m. | 2019-04-21T05:00:26 | https://www.milfordmirror.com/75160/charles-island-sup-cup-is-saturday-at-walnut-beach/ |
Bay View Resort is located right off the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk offering you 1.2 miles of walking along the Atlantic Ocean. The peace and tranquility of the waves crashing along the shore, is the best way to begin your helath and wellness vacation.
On-site fitness center: First, for guests staying at Bay View Resort, our on-property fitness center offers a treadmill, a stationary bike, a universal gym and more – so you don’t have to leave the premises to work up a sweat and get a great workout!
Cinzia Spa: Treat yourself to some well-deserved vacation relaxation and pampering at Cinzia Spa, where guests can choose from a long list of massage varieties including Swedish massages, deep-tissue massages, aromatherapy massages or a hybrid of all three. Other mood-boosting options at the 17,000-square-foot well-being oasis include facials, body treatments, manicures and pedicures.
Yoga: For those who like to nurture their bodies and souls on the mat, there are plenty of yoga-studio options in the Myrtle Beach area. Among them, The Market Common’s Yoga in Common offers a range of classes geared toward yoga veterans and newcomers alike. Looking to put a truly Grand Strand spin on your yoga session? Jack’s Surf Lessons offers SUP Yoga sessions in conjunction with Yoga in Common – so you can grab a few zen moments while floating atop the local waters on a paddleboard.
Bay Naturals: This “healthy market and kitchen” found less than 10 minutes north of The Strand Resort focuses on providing healthful offerings such as raw and organic foods, herbs, nutritional supplements and homeopathic medicines. For grab-and-go prepared meals with an eye toward health and avoiding additives, the organic kitchen is also a great option. To learn more, visit baynaturals.com.
Kindbelly Café: Found on 79th Avenue North in Myrtle Beach, Kindbelly strives to offer a healthy alternative to the typical breakfast and lunch eatery options. The fresh, nourishing and wholesome dishes found on the menu here include soups, salads, bowls, omelets, acai and pitaya blends, smoothies, and more, all featuring organic, non-GMO and responsibly sourced ingredients. Check out the restaurant’s full range of healthy offerings at kindbellycafe.com.
Bike rental: See the Grand Strand sights by pedal power – and get some exercise while you’re at it! Found less than 2 miles south of Bay View Resort, on Broadway Street in Myrtle Beach, Beach Bike Shop offers cruiser, hybrid and road bike rentals by the day or week, and they’ll even deliver (for an added fee) when guests rent their bikes for three days or longer.
We hope all of these options will allow you to really relax and unwind and as you head back to work, smile and remeber all of the fun! | 2019-04-24T08:57:27 | https://www.bayviewresort.com/relax-and-rest-as-you-rejuvenate-your-body-and-mind-2/ |
Growing up I always had a passion for food but I opted to go into the finance route for my career, although my love for cooking never faded. I love creating lasting memories over amazing food and even better company. Both Wesley and myself are from South Africa and moved to Amsterdam, we will also be happy to share our Dutch experience with you as well as give you some tips on the must do activities in Amsterdam. I often entertain my friends so I can experiment new dishes, the comments I always get are that I am in the wrong profession. I am well traveled and like to take inspiration from all the different places I have been to. If I put to much here there might not be anything to talk about over an amazing meal.
Dinner with JP and Wes was the BEST part of our entire trip to Amsterdam. Not only was the food absolutely delicious (and has inspired us to learn some new dishes ourselves) but the company, conversation and camaraderie was also off the charts. We were welcomed into a beautiful home with an amazing atmosphere and view by two kind, genuine souls who have a talent for making delicious food and having amazing conversation. We have already told many friends back at home in Birmingham, Alabama, USA about JP and Wes and how they should book an evening with them if they ever travel to Amsterdam. Again, the food was sooooo delicious and the presentation was impressive. Our hosts were fun, smart, full-of-life, and brought joy to our time in Amsterdam. Thank you JP and Wes for being so wonderful. If you are considering "eating with" this particular pair, I say YES. Thank you guys for an amazing time! It will be a memory for the two of us for a long time to come!
JP and Wes were very welcoming guests and the dinner is an experience I will forever cherish. I was greeted with a selection of top wines and a various uniquely Vegan entrées. As a seasoned Vegan diner I was impressed by the variety of dishes JP had for me to select from. The quality of the dishes was higher than that of any that I have had during my extensive travels. This experience was undoubtedly great value for money and I will definitely book a dinner with them again! | 2019-04-26T11:45:35 | https://es.eatwith.com/users/624245 |
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"A New Kind of Christmas"
"Christmas Soon Will Be Here"
Recorded in Las Vegas by Jimarillo "Baby Brown" Miller.
"(Baby it's Cold) Underneath the Mistletoe"
“In The Light Of Christmas" | 2019-04-20T18:33:59 | http://www.lasvegaschristmascd.com/vol-5-credits.html |
DETROIT — The mobile and wireless technology industry is one of only four global industries that achieves $1 trillion or more in annual revenue according to several independent research firms, and it’s one of Michigan’s fastest-growing industries.
But it’s also one of the state’s best kept secrets.
To help Michigan business, government and education stakeholders develop an understanding of the impact this surge in mobile technology growth means to residents, businesses, educational institutions, governments and Michigan’s statewide economy, the Mobile Technology Association of Michigan is launching a state-wide education initiative with communities around the state.
To facilitate this initiative, MTAM is currently seeking Michigan-based partner organizations interested in hosting a free seminar in their communities about mobile and wireless technology, its impact on Michigan businesses, the jobs it creates, the opportunity it is providing in Michigan, and the ways businesses can capitalize on that opportunity.
MTAM is planning to schedule presentations throughout Michigan during the months of April and May on a variety of mobile technology-related topics. Local partner organizations will be able to select their preferred topic from a pre-selected list in order to meet the specific needs of their local communities.
Mobile technologies are changing the way we live and the way we run our businesses, but what most don’t yet understand is that mobile is much more than the latest ‘app’ downloaded to a tablet or cell phone. Mobile is actually many technologies that are impacting every industry doing business in Michigan.
If your organization is interested in working with MTAM on this initiative, contact the trade association at [email protected] with your name, organization, job title, email address and work phone. A representative from MTAM will contact you to discuss the program and scheduling availability for your community. | 2019-04-22T21:01:03 | https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/04/10/mobile-technology-association-of-michigan-launches-education-effort/ |
Here we have another laptop, ASUS X75VB model exactly, that have no support for Windows 7. We have manage to find all the drivers needed for this model for Windows 7 64-bit operating system. All the drivers are installed and checked, and they work without problems. | 2019-04-24T22:02:19 | http://www.laptopish.com/1869/asus-x75vb-drivers-windows-7-64-bit/ |
COAL: 2001 Chevy Astro – Hold On Tight!
After seeing the “Best Astro Ever” that Paul posted a few days back, I couldn’t help but think of the Astros of my past.
Back in the fall of 2000, my father stumbled upon an excellent deal on an ’89 Astro. It was equipped much like the one shown–2WD, wagon wheels, three rows of seats, dark tinted glass, barn doors with a side slider–only ours was powder blue. It was clean, straight, and available for a mere $900.
We were never ‘minivan people,’ but suddenly, we had a minivan. It joined a 1985 Regal coupe and a 1989 Chevy G20 van in the family fleet.
As minivans go, it was pretty sporty and peppy, with just over 100K miles and a 4.3 V6 under the hood (er, doghouse). But anti-minivan sentiment was running high in those days, and Dad wasn’t content to drive a minivan that was merely “pretty sporty.” So out came the Keystone Klassics. Soon the van was the latest member of the Keystone club, one of six or so vehicles that’d get to wear those mags over the years.
The van provided us with several years’ worth of faithful service, hauling us to and fro without incident–save for one outing.
My mother was never a very good driver. She had a tendency to panic when the going got tough, and her panic reactions were often less than ideal.
On this particular January day, she was accelerating down an on-ramp, preparing to merge onto the freeway. The only other vehicle around was an eighteen wheeler, about a quarter mile back and traveling in the left lane. As she reached the bottom of the ramp, she hit a patch of black ice and began to lose control.
Had she reacted properly, the van might have been put back on course. But instead, she went straight down the list of her panic reactions, and jumped right to the worst of them: closing her eyes and releasing the wheel. Not surprisingly, the situation went from bad to worse in a hurry. By the time she opened her eyes, the van was on its roof.
The big rig’s driver had watched the whole thing unfold, and immediately stopped to provide aid. The Astro’s engine was still running even in its inverted state; he was able to easily open the door and shut it off. My mother then released her safety belt and crawled out, shaken but unharmed. I was amazed at her good fortune.
What was even more amazing was that while she was seven months pregnant at the time, the baby was likewise unharmed. My sister was born two months later, as perfect and wonderful as a baby could be.
Several days later, well after all involved had been given clean bills of health, the van arrived home on a rollback. After a few hours of dent-pulling and a rear end replacement, my father had it back in a roadworthy state once again.
After all the repairs were done, there was just one issue which had Dad stumped: the digital speedometer was reading ridiculously high. I was the first to notice the letters “kph” illuminated; one button press and this wrecked Astro was finally all the way back to its former glory.
Unfortunately, the van would meet an inglorious end a few years later. After my parents divorced, my mother traded it in for well below its value, using the meager credit towards her purchase of a late-’80s Century beater. After all that it went through, I hate to think where it ended up.
Back to the van at hand! I bought it from a small dealer, who had accidentally bought it at an auction and wanted it gone regardless of loss. I scooped it up for a few hundred bucks, and trailered it away (since it was sitting on four flats and had a dead battery).
Upon getting the wreck home and running, I had to figure out what to do about the rubber situation. There was absolutely nothing left of the existing tires. The rims were factory aluminum 5-spokes, and were likewise pretty chewed up. Ugly and useless – time for a change! So I went to my tire rack.
Waiting there was a set of four American Racing wheels with nice, aggressive tires already mounted. They had come on an eighties Chevy conversion van that I’d bought to part out and scrap. Needless to say, I was surprised to find them hiding behind a set of cheap plastic Wal-Mart wheelcovers!
At first I thought they were painted matte black. But copious amounts of scrubbing with water and steel wool revealed that they were actually chrome, each one coated with more brake dust than I previously believed any one wheel could hold.
The back ones fit fine, but the front ones needed a little added clearance. So I carved down the plastic fascia to create the needed elbow room. Ugly? Sure, but who cares – it was cheap, and it was ready to play in the snow!
For winter driving, this little AWD rig with big knobby tires was superb. I couldn’t justify keeping it, having two other four-wheelers in my arsenal already, so I turned it around for a quick buck. But I wouldn’t hesitate to own another.
If these vans were not such death traps I would consider buying one instead of another 94-95 Plymouth Voyager. The Astro/Safari twins are all over South Central Los Angeles and Cayuga Taxi used to have a large fleet of these which makes me wonder if any other cab company bought a lot of these.
Back in 2004 my folks and I were one of the first on the scene for a rollover involving an Astro with some unbelted passengers and a pop up camper trailer that got out of control. No one suffered anything more than a broken arm, but it definitely put a wet blanket on our trip back to New York. That is another (illogical?) reason I rather have nothing to do with these vans.
My grandpa totalled a nearly new Saab 900 Classic on some black ice and for the past twenty or so years he has refused to drive on that section of NY 79.
These are still fairly common as airport taxis in Puerto Rico.
I was there this past March, and still saw quite a few, with newer Siennas and Mopar vans being the other majority.
Panthers are still common too.
Maybe a person shouldn’t drive them into a concrete barrier at 45mph but in the real world looks like they are pretty safe. Black ice is something that no car is good on and rear wheel drive is probably worse then front.
Tell us how these vans are “death traps” please.
Poor crash test result. When one of these gets into a collision with another similarly sized vehicle it always fairs worse from what I have seen.
I prefer the first gen Astro and Safari over the second gen Astro and Safari. I prefer either, over their front wheel drive replacement.
Seems like they hold up in rollovers really well.
Unfortunately, the reason they roll over in the first place is the driver’s inability (or unwillingness) to drive according to their limitations. They’re reckless.
Agreed. The whole Firestone/Explorer thing wasn’t Ford’s fault (okay, it was a little bit), it wasn’t Firestone’s fault (it was a little bit there too), it was the drivers’ collective fault for thinking that their new SUV–essentially a slightly longer, slightly lower Bronco II–could be treated the same as a low-slung sedan.
I agree. I’ve driven many SUVs over the years, and I’ve only crashed one.
I’m firmly convinced that the higher center of gravity on these vehicles — and drivers’ unfamiliarity with the different handling dynamics — are largely the reason why all new vehicles come standard with tire pressure monitoring systems and stability control.
Which is no big deal to me, until someone borrows my 21-year-old pickup, at which point I then feel obligated to remind them of the absence of these techno-nannies, and that keeping the truck firmly planted on the road is solely their responsibility.
…are largely the reason why all new vehicles come standard with tire pressure monitoring systems and stability control.
Their propensity to roll when upset has not only lead to TPMS and stability control, those systems are now required by Federal regulations. SUV’s high beltline, compounded by “wedge” styling has resulted in rear visibility so poor that rear view TV cameras will become mandatory in a couple years.
So what has been the industry’s response to all these safety systems? They make SUVs that are even blinder in the back and more unstable, witness the Chevy Trax, tall, narrow and short. The thing will probably tumble like a circus performer, even with all the technology bandaids.
Both my old Ranger and my current Pathfinder have giant warnings, with graphics, on the sun visor, telling drivers that they are more likely to tip over and to avoid sudden high-speed maneuvers.
Agree 100%. A lot of Jeep CJs went rubber side up because someone swapped a Mustang or Camaro for one and didn’t bother to adjust their driving style.
Very capable snow and ice rigs. A high school friend had one in his family. I believe it led to the family buying more AWD vehicles.
I just went thru a used car buying marathon and some of the experience gained regarding the 4L60e means this van is not on my list. 10 years older with a 700r4 and a 4.3 would make it lots better IMO.
I am sure that it bothers Keith not in the slightest and confess to some envy. Everyone is probably good at something. My field was AC and Heat. With cars I tend to be somewhat stupid and trusting. My current truck is a manual and there is a reason for that.
We’ve a 1998 Safari (RWD) in the family DD fleet since 2001 and it has been pretty reliable. There has been one major issue with the a/c and it is now on its third a/c compressor. Recently it has developed an oil leak on the driver’s side. The oil leaks directly on the exhaust pipe so I get a little bit of smoke. Tomorrow I need to check and see what is causing the problem. I am thinking the oil pressure sender or the oil filter.
Some years ago we would make a 150 mile trip to see my younger daughter who was in college at the time. The road there is a state road with lots of curves and rolling hills. During these drives in the Safari you could definitely tell that it was not comfortable in those road conditions – too much lean. One time we took my 1984 BMW and what a difference that was.
Keith I’ve always been curious as to the reliability of these GM AWD systems used on the Astro/ Safari, the Olds Bravada, and maybe others I am not aware of. Love to hear your comments.
The quality of the interior components of these things (Chev and GM) was bar none, the worst I’ve ever seen in a mini van.
My brother has a 97 astro with 210,000 miles on it. Original transmission. It has been totaled by the insurance company twice. It is rough but refuses to die. These are unique vehicles because they offer a tremendous amount of utility and can haul and tow an amazing amount while still being of manageable size. He is always keeping his eyes out for a newer one but resale value is surprisingly high. GM blew it letting this vehicle wither on the vine because there still is a market for vans like this.
The 2WD Astro and Safari vans used the front suspension directly from our beloved B-Bodies. Literally EVERYTHING was taken from the B-Body, control arms, springs, shocks, sway bar, the steering box and linkages, and front disc brakes. All of it mounted to B-Body subframe of sorts. The vans used the larger 5″ x 5 lug pattern found on the 9C1s and wagons.
GM saw fit to spec these vans with the larger 5/8″ lower ball joint shared with the Limo / Hearse/ Armored upfit package D-Body Cadillac. In mid-1995 GM made a production change to the 9C1, and only the 9C1, to upgrade from the normal B-Body lower ball joint of 9/16″ to the beefier 5/8″ lower ball joint.
Thanks to the vans keeping the 5″ x 5 lug pattern till 2002, this makes the spindle (steering knuckle in GM-speak) a fairly inexpensive part to purchase new or plentiful to source from the junkyards. A nice little upgrade if you’re rebuilding the front end of your ’77-’96 B-Body or related C or D-Body.
After 2002, the all the Astro and Safari vans switched to the 6 lug patter in common with full-sized pickups. The 2WD front suspension stayed the same, but the spindle is totally different unit.
I forgot they offered AWD in these, and I sold them, but we never got an AWD one on the lot down in FL. The AWD in these was the same one that came in the turbocharded S-tuck/SUV. If I ran GMC I would have combined the Syclone/Typhoon turbo 4.3 in an AWD Safari, and then I would have probably been asked to leave.
In FL, awd is unnecessary. But up here in the salt-free pacific NW its the opposite. Youd swear the 2wd version didn’t exist at all. You see these all the time with snowboard racks mounted up, as they’ll mow thru a snowy mountain pass like its not even there.
Oh for sure, I imagine that these with AWD are like an SUV-Minivan.
My mom had one of these back in the early 90s…unfortunately, ours did NOT have Keystone mags! . It was an extended 2wd model. I drove it a few times, actually once down to New Orleans with like 6 of my buddys. It was a very reliable rig, got decent mpgs and while 160 hp sounds laughable now, its amazing how well that 4.3 v6 manhandled such a big box. We also had a fullsize GMC conversion van back in the mid 80s. These were literally 3/4 scale fullsize vans in every way…which I thought was a good thing. Unlike fwd minivans, these were often seen towing bass boats or campers. For a family with some outdoorsy inclinations, these really were a better way than SUVs or CUVs…especially in awd form. Back in the day, the downsize SUVs were often struggling to pull mommy duty. And yet, a good many 2 door XJ Cherokees, 1st gen 4 runners, and 2 door S-10 Blazer/Jimmys were in good hands with guys in my generation who lowered the 2wd versions or went wheeling with the 4x4s. These Astros could do all the grunt work of an SUV but also pull off family duty equally well.
Since I last posted on these I remembered all the things that have gone wrong in the past 12 years. None of it had to do with the drivetrain or the suspension. Those have been rock solid. Except for a cracked plastic intake plenum.
We bought the van from the original owner and it was still under warranty. As soon as the warranty ran out the a/c compressor started leaking and had to be replaced. Then the paint started peeling off the roof and the hood. It looked like a tree shedding off its bark. The leather front seats started to come apart not long after that. Then we found that if you used the cigar lighter it would blow a fuse which immobilized the van. Since then the dash cap over the instrument binnacle has come unglued from the structure below; Half of the lighted buttons on the radio, a/c controls and others stopped working; And the rear bumper cover flew off while the van was in motion. Other things that have gone wrong were the windshield and the rear window (my van has the dutch door option) had to be removed and re-glued. The most annoying has been the frequent loss of a/c due to the thin plastic vacuum tube that goes from the vacuum reservoir to the back of the a/c controller. This little tube becomes brittle and breaks due to engine heat. When that happens all the air is routed to the defrost registers. In 100 degree heat its like no a/c at all. This has happened several times in the past years. The last time I routed the plastic tube inside a vacuum hose for protection. Hope it lasts.
That instrument cluster! Never knew the Astro’s gauges looked like that. I dig it.
I prefer my instrument cluster to have analogue gauges.
The thing that’s always confused me about the Chevy Astro and GMC Safari van is its safety. The NHTSA ranks them as the worst vehicles to have an accident in, but I’ve heard of more people emerging from an accident, suffering only minor injuries. Could it have more to do with the type of accident the van was involved in, or the fact that the occupants were wearing their seat belts?
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I do also like the scaled-down fullsize styling of the 2nd-gen models. Which is really what these are.
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The Survey of the Afghan People is indeed the best annual study of Afghanistan, and it serves as a reference for so many people, including journalists. We use it not just when it’s out, at the end of the year, but throughout the year as a reference on the many topics it covers.
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This year, 62% of respondents report experiencing fear while voting, up from 52% in 2017. Yet, people turned out for the recent, long-delayed parliamentary elections. Confidence in the IEC is up from 38% last year to 43% this year, satisfaction with democracy is up from 57% to 61%, and 52% said they believed the October elections would be free and fair. Are we seeing an enduring commitment to democracy?
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The number of young people who say they drink alcohol has recently fallen. But the teenage years are still the time most of us start drinking. Drinking can be linked to other types of risky adolescent behaviour and, later in life, alcohol remains a major risk factor for illnesses such as heart attacks, cancer and diabetes. Most research to date has focused on the later teenage years, but a new study published in BMC Public Health has taken a close look at children in early adolescence. Professor Yvonne Kelly at the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies at UCL examines the circumstances in which children first explore alcohol and what this can tell public health professionals keen to counter the most damaging effects.
The Department of Health guidelines are clear; children aged 16 or less should not drink alcohol. But they do and many parents fear absolute prohibition will lead to secret drinking and a loss of trust in the relationship. It would appear to be common sense, too, that a child drinking a small amount of watered-down wine with a family meal would be likely to develop quite different later adolescent behaviours to a child swigging vodka with friends in a bus shelter. Common sense it might be, but there has been little robust research around this.
Are parents’ and friends’ drinking important influences on drinking among 11 year-olds?
What is the role of perceptions of risk, expectancies towards alcohol, parental supervision and family relationships on the likelihood of 11 year-olds drinking?
We made use of the detailed and rich data available in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), which has followed the lives of nearly 20,000 children born between 2000-2002.
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The children were also asked about other risky behaviours such as smoking or truanting and what they felt about their family. These factors were taken into account to enable us to focus in on the effect of parents’ or friends’ drinking.
Compared to children whose mums did not drink, children whose mums were light or moderate drinkers had a 60% increased risk of drinking at 11, while those whose mums were heavy or binge drinkers had an 80% increased risk. A father’s drinking appeared to have about half as much impact, regardless of whether he was a light to moderate or heavy/binge drinker. Children who said their friends drank were more than four times as likely to drink themselves as those children with friends who didn’t drink.
When we looked at home life, predictably those children who reported being happy were less likely to drink than those who reported frequent family battles. Where there were low levels of parental supervision combined with a dad who drank heavily, the risk of the child drinking was, again, higher.
A child’s view about the harms of alcohol also seemed to be an important factor. The more dangerous a child thought alcohol to be, the less likely they were to drink. Children who did not see drinking alcohol as a risky activity and who also had a heavy drinking mum were much more likely to be drinking alcohol at 11.
It is not possible to make statements regarding cause and effect with this sort of study, but the numbers do show us a strong association between 11 year-olds drinking and their friends’ and mothers’ behaviour. Family relationships, perceptions of risk and expectations regarding alcohol are important, too, as are some more general characteristics of the family unit.
So, what does this tell us about the risks of drinking at 11 and how to counter those risks? The fact that likely causes of early drinking are multiple, means that counter measures need, similarly, to be aimed at a number of different aspects of a child’s life. One size will not fit all.
Children certainly need to have a better understanding of the risks involved in drinking. Schools and parents are clearly well placed to provide the best advice, information and guidance to children of this age, but these robust new findings can play an important role in helping to shape the focus of those discussions.
Whilst the vast majority of children at the age of eleven are yet to explore alcohol, investigating in more detail the context in which children drink – who they drink with, where, when, what they drink and how they acquire alcohol – could help inform effective policy and alcohol harm prevention strategies to mitigate the risk associated with drinking as a young person.
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Please, fellow Mainers: do the right thing! | 2019-04-18T20:51:20 | https://foxymoonheart.livejournal.com/154455.html |
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Messaging services firm posts loss of Rs 399 crore.
Net expenditure almost doubled to Rs 439.92 crore in fiscal 2018, compared to Rs 245.66 crore in the previous financial year.
NEW DELHI: Tencent-backed messaging service Hike Messenger’s losses have almost doubled for the financial year ended March 2018, as per filings submitted by the Kavin Mittal-led company with the registrar of companies.
Hike Messenger, which is backed by some of the world’s biggest technology investors, posted a loss of Rs 399.58 crore, an increase of 88% compared to the year ago period, in which it recorded loss of Rs 212.77 crore, according to documents accessed by research platform Tofler. Total revenue for the company, which also counts Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer as an investor, grew just a shade over 20% to Rs 39.64 crore for fiscal 2018.
While operational revenue contributed a mere Rs 50.89 lakh to the overall topline for fiscal 2018, this compares to zero revenue from operations that the company posted in the previous fiscal. For financial year 2017-18, profit from the sale of mutual funds contributed Rs 38.76 crore.
Net expenditure almost doubled to Rs 439.92 crore in fiscal 2018, compared to Rs 245.66 crore in the previous financial year. The Delhi-headquartered company, which, in 2016, became one of the fastest unicorns to emerge from the Indian startup ecosystem, had laid off several employees, with a significant portion of the affected employees coming from its two acquisitions — hardware maker Creo and social networking venture InstaLively — that it announced last year. | 2019-04-21T05:30:40 | https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/hike-receives-a-message-losses-zoom/articleshow/66341307.cms |
I just now finished reading The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. Wow. What an amazingly great book. It’s a very humorous and fun read. I love the characters in it (except for the main character’s dad. But there’s even something to like about him, too.) It’s really well written. There are some great passages in it.
It takes place in 1967 and chronicles the 7th grade school year for Holling Hoodhood. On Wednesday afternoons the children in his small Long Island town go to thier respective temples or churches for religious study (brought back memories of Catechism form me. shudder). Holling is the only Presbyterian in the seventh grade, thus, no after-school religious classes. So he is stuck with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, who, he is sure, has it out for him. She has him do menial tasks but when those run out she begins to have him read Shakespeare. Which he likes and memorizes.
There are some very memorable vignettes in this book. My favorite is when Holling is in the town’s Shakespeare Holiday Extravaganza on the same evening that Mickey Mantle appears at the local sporting good store to sign baseballs. He barely makes the MIckey Mantle appearence, which is good, but he is snubbed by The Man himself, which is bad.
A great read. Highly recommeded. | 2019-04-21T14:50:28 | https://blatherskiteblog.com/2007/09/26/the-wednesday-wars/ |
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Having an addiction to drugs or alcohol can bring about the most horrific consequences to you and those you love, making it difficult to function and handle even basic daily tasks.
Some individuals may be in denial about their circumstances and delay the need for treatment and help until it is too late. Others may find it difficult to admit their struggle and reach out for the help and support they need.
Sometimes interventions are needed to help a person understand the severity of their addiction and the immediate need for treatment to recover.
A person who is struggling with addiction might fear missing out on family events, traditions, and more if admitted to treatment, and this can be a difficult consequence to face. This is perhaps felt most during the holiday season, when traditions that may have been customary for years are pushed to the wayside to prioritize treatment for addiction.
If you have found yourself in this position, you may be feel hesitant to go into treatment during the holiday season. However, it is important to reflect on the severity of potential consequences that may result from postponing necessary intervention.
While you may be disappointed on participating in things you are used to doing with friends and family during this time of year, you must realistically ask yourself how much you are able to be involved.
Perhaps you are physically present with your friends and family, but if you are under the influence of an addiction to drugs or alcohol, you are likely distanced emotionally and psychologically.
Being under the influence of substances means you are not functioning to your full potential as a human being, and this is likely hindering the relationships that you currently have.
While missing out on the holiday season can be disappointing and sobering, thing of the long time benefits you are reaping by choosing to get help and treatment for your addiction.
By committing to recovery now you are ensuring that you will have the ability and potential to be there for everything that matters to you in the future to come. Give yourself the gift of recovery and the promise of many more holidays in the future.
If you have been through treatment for a drug or alcohol addiction during the holiday season, what were ways that you got through this difficult time? What support might you offer another person who is going through a similar situation? | 2019-04-20T22:11:04 | https://www.addictionhope.com/blog/missing-holiday-traditions-due-to-drug-treatment-how-to-get-through-the-season/ |
Peter Dutton, Australia’s minister for Home Affairs has reduced the nation’s immigration intake without even needing to make a submission via the Cabinet. Australia’s total migration number will be lower in the upcoming years due to the fact that New Zealanders who already live in Australia are taking visas that would otherwise go to overseas migrants.
This news some around the same time that the federal government has revealed that less permanent visas than promised would be granted. This is the second year in a row the government has announced this.
The 44,000 spots in Australia’s independent skilled visa program had traditionally gone to Asians who are currently living overseas. Now it seems that as much as 10,000 New Zealanders who are already working and living within Australia will take up a big chunk of this yearly allocation.
The change comes after the government’s decision to combine a new visa for Kiwi’s with this existing program but without raising the overall cap of visas that would be issued.
The Home Affairs Department confirmed that the Kiwis receiving the new type of visa are already considered residents and thus reducing the amount of people who would enter Australia as part of the program.
A spokesperson for the Home Affairs Department said that the “pathway” had been “directly aimed at New Zealand citizens” who they said made a “demonstrated economic contribution to Australia”.
This move means that Australia will have the same annual immigration intake but won’t actually have as many people coming in from overseas. According to a statement from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the new visa had been announced in 2016 as a way of acknowledging the “special relationship” between Australia and New Zealand.
Peter Dutton said that the Cabinet had been having discussions about reducing migration to Australia. Despite this, the Prime Minister had declared no formal submissions for any cuts to Australia’s immigration program.
Scott Morrison, federal treasurer, has said previously that a slash in migration would also hurt the Australian economy.
This tweak has changed the mix in Australia’s future migration. Now, Kiwis will substitute for skilled Asian workers who are waiting to come to Australia from overseas.
The skilled independent via was historically been assessed entirely on a point system that was based around the workers’ experience. Combined with the employer-sponsored program, this is Australia’s primary source of migrant workers with skills. | 2019-04-21T06:43:44 | https://bestinau.com.au/tweaks-to-immigration-sees-kiwis-take-asian-visas/ |
Home AfricaHow expensive is Morocco?
Most people who know me know how much I love a bargain! I buy all my clothes from charity shops and know exactly what time supermarkets near me reduce the food.. I’m down for a bargain!
Firstly – Flights we spent £43 each on return flights through Ryanair (not affiliated but I should be the amount of flights I’ve taken with them!) We flew at 6.10am from London Stansted and arrived in Marrakech at 10.15am. Sadly at this time of the morning the trains from Cambridge don’t run early enough for the recommended 2 hour window of security so we took the last train (£9.95 open return with 16-25 railcard) and camped out at the airport until security opened at 3.30am. If you don’t mind that situation it can get you very cheap flights!
Next we have accommodation so the first two nights we stayed in a hostel called Riad Dia which cost us £3.60 per person per night in a mixed 14 bed dorm. (5 euros or 50 dirhams) This wasn’t the cheapest hostel in Marrakech but it had great reviews and a good breakfast so we were happy! However we soon realised that it would cost us 6 or 7 euros each if we split a double room and gave us more privacy. In Essaouira we stayed in 2 different Riads that both cost £12 per night and £14 per night respectively but didn’t include breakfast but had ensuites.However these didn’t include the city tax which was 1 or 2 euros per night. We then stayed back in Marrakech in a very cheap £12 hotel which wasn’t particularly great and had an interesting ‘ensuite’ connected by a shower curtain so I wouldn’t recommend riad 63 for more than a night, everywhere else we stayed was lovely and no different from the 40 euro per night riads. All together we spent around £50 each on hotels and hostels!
Another cost was transport which we already spent £9.95 each in the UK (well my partner paid twice because he collected his tickets early then forgot to bring them with him!). We also bought a return ticket from the airport to central Marrakech which was 50 dirhams each (5 euros or £3.60 at the time). We also paid 150 dirhams for our return bus tickets to Essaouira (15 euros or £10.80) and that was it for transport.
Finally the other expense for visiting Morocco is FOOD. I am a massive foodie so was very excited to try Moroccan food, although pre warning there isn’t a huge variety – it’s mainly tagine/couscous/ kebabs or panini style sandwiches. Without individually working out the cost of every meal we generally spent 50 dirhams each for a main meal around 30 for lunch and 10 for breakfast. We also had to buy water as you can’t drink the tap water in Morocco! We decided to buy a few 2 litre bottles for 6-8 dirhams each and then buy 5 litres for 12 and keep them filled up. We did this a lot but I doubt we spent more than 100 each during the whole 10 days. So I think we spent about 80 euros (£68) for food each during our 10 days in Morocco which could have been done cheaper but we decided to treat ourselves and eat where the locals did.
So if you can do the maths there you will realise that we spent… £244.85 each during our time there. (January 2017 prices) Everything was done in cash so this is a rough guide of the exchange rates but I hope this gives you an insight on roughly how much you would expect to spend for 10 days in Morocco.
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That doesn’t look expensive at all! And there are so many things to see there. I think you just made me go to Morocco in the near future.
I love this! I was just looking at the cost of trips to Morocco for an upcoming surf trip to Taghazout, a fishing village. Were prices outside of Marrakech the same or cheaper than in Marrakech? Thanks for the awesome detail!
In Essaouira it was around the same price, if not slightly cheaper and I heard smaller villages had less tourist prices and more local prices!
I absolutely recommend getting yourself a portable filter – a Sawyer mini filter or a LifeStraw. Great tech these days. It totally solves pretty much any potable water supply issue during travel and gives even better freedom than having to constantly look to buy water.
What a fantastic, comprehensive post! I really love Morocco, we travelled around the north a few years ago after getting the ferry across from Spain. Never made it to Marrakech, but Chefchaoen was absolutely stunning if you ever get the opportunity to go.
And can I just say – why have I never thought about camping out in the airport overnight before? I always fork out for hotel rooms after bagging myself bargain flights, but let’s face it – you can never sleep properly when you’ve got a super early flight so the money is wasted!
Sleeping at the airport can be great, I was once stuck by a water fountain which was a nightmare! Thanks for reading!
What a useful and practical way to write about country! Those prices sound very manageable if i ever make it to Morocco!
Great tips here, it’s so helpful to have an idea of prices to budget before arriving! I absolutely loved Morocco and am forever hoping for an opportunity to go back!
I’ve just moved to the UK so Morocco is closer than ever! I’m so excited to book a trip there and even more inspired now. Really great post!
Great post. I didn’t realize it was so inexpensive. I’ll have to look at flights from the US but would love to go there!
Wow! That’s so cheap. I love that you were able to see so much while spending so little.
Morocco is a destination I’ve always dreamt of, even if I’m not sure I want to go alone.
I loved it! It was amazing, I didn’t go alone but I know some people have. It was beautiful!
Wow, not expensive at all!
I was planning a trip to Morocco.
It didn’t seem to be expensive at all. Beautiful places for very cheap prices.
So this post helped out a lot with that plan.
I’m glad I could help out!
Oh this is great information! I had no idea it was this affordable.
Wow! This is definitely doable. Now I just have to convince my husband to go there. It’s been on my bucket list for years!
Definitely go for it! Well worth a trip there!
This is very useful article for travelers. Myself, I found Marocco cheap. However, I was using couch surfing and hitch hiking all the time.
That is such a useful analysis of the expenses for any trip with an example of Morocco. I am sure it would help a lot of newbie travelers to plan their trips better.
Thank you, that was my aim with this post to make things easier!
Although I’m sure I spent more and forgot the costs in each category, it’s great that you made this budget guide for those looking to travel to Morocco. I loved my two week trip and would go back in a heartbeat to see more. The nature stunned me, SAHARA above all. Truly a special country.
Thank you, I know it is an insane country! I loved it and glad you also loved it!
My father is from Morocco and I’ve always wanted to visit, but cost has definitely been a concern. These are some great tips that I would have scoured for hours to find (maybe). I probably would end up treating myself tothe more private room and splurge but on food, but this makes a trip seem entirely doable. Great post.
Thank you Yvette 🙂 It is a beautiful country!
We need RyanAir in this part of the world! (insert weeping noises) This sounds like an awesome trip, especially when keeping in mind the cost. What was your favorite food you had there?
I loved the tagine they had there, it was so good! Ryanair are great for cheap flights if you don’t mind less comfort and the risk of being seated separately!
Morocco is such a cool country and generally speaking isn’t expensive. I visited Marrakesh a few years ago over a long holiday weekend and had an amazing time. We tend to go a bit overboard when we are on holiday, but it’s great to see that people can come to the country and experience for very little money.
Ten days and only spending 80 euros on food – that’s cheap!!! I love food as well, and I really enjoy snacking all the time when I’m traveling. Sounds like I could afford that in Marocco. I heard it was a beautiful place, and it certainly looks that way.
I know, I love food as well and we didn’t limit ourselves so it shows what you can buy if you don’t sit it all the tourist places!
This is a great breakdown as I was looking into visiting Morocco. Great tip about the water. That’s one thing I always look into when I am traveling as I have had an unfortunate experience in the past.
Oh dear, that sounds like you’ve learnt your lesson with tap water… Probably best not to ask ?
Great tips! Was sitting next to a man visiting the U.S. from Morrocco las week on a train from San Francisco to Sacramento, and he was so excited to share where he was from and encouraged me to visit soon. Your advice on transportation and things to do along with prices is extremely helpful.
WOW!!! that’s amazing! Morocco sounds so affordable! Which is great to know, because it’s somewhere I’d really like to visit!
Sounds like you loved the food as much as I did. We did have an eventful hotel in Marrakech for the night after we came back from the desert and had booked the wrong day. We ended up paying 18 euros and being annoyed about it (as the original was 11 euros) but we stank of camel and needed a shower haha! I think we tried that pitta, my stomach is rumbling remembering all this great food!
What a surprisingly affordable spot – I always expected it would cost a lot more. This is really helpful for our planning Thanks! | 2019-04-19T11:19:59 | https://thegreatambini.co.uk/africa/how-expensive-is-morocco/ |
I want I would’ve read an article like this before the one so-referred to as contractor began changing my doorways and storm doorways. If the standard relationship between financing prices and reworking activity had been nonetheless intact, a lot stronger progress in house enchancment spending ought to have occurred when interest rates fell to historic lows in the aftermath of the housing crash, and now as rates of interest return to their longer-time period trend reworking activity could be expected to decline considerably.
Indeed, as shown in Figure 2, the relationship between the annual rates of change in dwelling improvement spending and 30-yr Treasury bond yields was fairly strong when the LIRA estimation model was last updated in mid-2008 with a correlation coefficient of zero.7 between 2000 and 2007 (remodeling spending and rates of interest are inversely correlated in order that when interest rates enhance spending declines and vice versa).
Illinois’ Home Repair Fraud Act (HRFA) threatens contractors with up to a year in jail and a $2,500 positive for making false promises, misrepresenting a fabric reality in regards to the job, charging more than 4 occasions fair market value for any work, making false excuses for non-performance, failing to employ qualified personnel or violating the constructing code.
A number of components have contributed to the strengthening remodeling market: following the housing bust, many households which may have traded as much as extra desirable homes decided as a substitute to enhance their current houses; federal and state stimulus packages inspired power-efficient upgrades; and plenty of rental property house owners, responding to a surge in demand, reinvested in their properties to attract new tenants.
The idea behind including a financing measure within the LIRA mannequin is that under more normal housing and economic environments, giant home improvement tasks are often financed by homeowners by residence fairness loans or traces of credit score or cash-out refinancing of mortgages, and so the traditionally low financing costs of recent years would ordinarily encourage significant transforming activity. | 2019-04-25T18:00:46 | http://old-glory.net/home-improvement-replacement-windows-mullions-glazing-and-more.html |
NEW YORK – February 7, 2017 – The Dodge Momentum Index rose 3.9% in January to 142.6 (2000=100) from its revised December reading of 137.3. The Momentum Index is a monthly measure of the first (or initial) report for nonresidential building projects in planning, which have been shown to lead construction industry spending for nonresidential buildings by a full year. The move higher in January was due to a 12.1% increase in institutional planning outweighing a 1.0% decline in commercial planning intentions. Despite the decline in commercial planning in January, that portion of the Momentum Index remains near its eight-year high, and suggests that commercial building will see renewed strength in 2017. Institutional planning meanwhile has been subject to volatility over the past two years, as the presence or absence of large projects in healthcare, recreation, and transportation terminals have swayed that portion of the Momentum Index. However, institutional planning projects trended higher through the end of 2016, which provides some optimism for institutional building activity in 2017.
In January, 11 projects entered planning each with a value that exceeded $100 million. For the commercial building sector, the leading construction projects were a $278 million mixed-use building in New York NY and a $180 million hotel and casino in Porterville CA. The leading institutional projects were a $192 million Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Reno NV and a $145 million medical tower in Hackensack NJ. | 2019-04-21T22:23:37 | https://www.construction.com/news/dodge-momentum-index-moves-higher-in-january |
Some of Tubac’s oldest historic buildings will be again welcoming visitors for a rare opportunity to tour inside during the Old Town Tubac Historic Adobe Building Tour on Saturday, November 11, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The tour is expected to include at least seven historic adobe buildings within Tubac’s National Historic District . One of the buildings is believed to have garrisoned Spanish Colonial Soldiers in the mid-1700s. Others are known to have housed some of Arizona’s earliest 19th century Anglo settlers and others were built on existing foundations at the turn of the 20th Century by Tubac’s Hispanic Heritage Families. Tubac’s artist colony had its modern beginnings in some of these buildings portions of which are known to have existed in 1767 and where the tradition of Tubac; Where Art and History Meet continues to this day.
Docents will provide guided tours inside the buildings and share with participants the history of the occupants and the building, and point out architectural features which help bring the Tubac history and her history makers’ lives back to life.
The Old Town Tubac Historic Adobe Building Tour is co-sponsored by the Tubac Historical Society and the Lowe House Project Artist in Residency Program.
Tickets are limited and registration in advance is recommended. Tickets are $40 per person. Children with adult supervision and students with identification are free. For members of the Tubac Historical Society tickets are $35.
Proceeds support the missions of The Tubac Historical Society and Lowe House Project Artist in Residency Program.
For more information and registration call THS at 520-398-2020 or email your inquiry to [email protected]. | 2019-04-24T11:57:14 | http://tubacaz.com/event/old-town-tubac-historic-adobe-building-tour-2/ |
A special event to publicise what is available for people with Autism is being held on 29th October 2013 from 2.00pm to 4.30pm at Hudderfield Town Hall. Poster attached.
A new organisation specifically to support all carers in Kirklees is holding two launch days, one in Dewsbury (Saturday 28th September 2013 10.00am - 3.00pm) and the other in Huddersfield (Saturday 5th October 2013 10.00am - 3.00pm). The posters inviting you to attend are attached.
The Government has agreed to consider for debate a cumulative impact assessment of cuts and changes that affect people with disabilities and their family carers if the number of signatories reaches over 100,000 – around 44,000 more signatures are needed before the petition closes on 12th December this year.
Twice a year, the Home Farm Trust publishes a Family Carers News Digest, which is packed full of information about national and regional developments and debates, and contains a wealth of information about resources available to carers etc. The Summer edition is out and is available free to family carers by emailing a request to: [email protected] , but can be viewed on their website www.hft.org.uk under `Family Carers`.
The issues taken by carers to the last LDPB on 18th March 2013 are attached.
Making a will / setting up a Trust Fund for the benefit of a loved one with a learning disability – free seminars for carers on 21st March 2013 in Leeds and York.
The Safe Places project across Kirklees aims to provide a safe environment for people with learning disabilities who may require some additional support when out and about in the community. They are ‘havens’ for people to turn to in busy public places if they need help or reassurance. Safe Places are all buildings that are open to the public such as shops, leisure centres or public buildings. | 2019-04-24T01:56:10 | http://www.ldcarersvoice.co.uk/news?page=6 |
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Poor barbie doll. She has to feel the wrath of these dirty bare feet until she is completely smashed. Hottie uses her game table to crush the doll and make her no more. This time she doesn't use her high heels; she wants to feel the destruction underneath her weight and only then she will be satisfied and her doll crush fetish will be fulfilled. | 2019-04-18T18:38:30 | https://www.sexygiantess.com/keyword/destruction/ |
Rapper M.I.A., real name Maya Arulpragasam, recently sat down with Huck Magazine to discuss the new documentary film MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. Directed by Stephen Loveridge, the film runs for roughly an hour and a half, focusing on the life of the female rapper.
The film illustrates the early chapters of her life, growing up on the Phipps Bridge housing estate in southwest London after moving with her family from Sri Lanka as refugees. Her family moved to London just before her 11th birthday, except for her father, who stayed behind due to his political activities in the Sri Lankan Civil war.
While speaking with Huck Magazine, Arulpragasam complains that the film was on the cusp of portraying her experience as a refugee as a major setback to her goals.
Although M.I.A. feels that the film exaggerates setbacks she may have had in that regard, she says that she feels that the film understated the negativity that came about from the lawsuit she was hit with by the NFL for a controversial gesture she made at her 2012 Super Bowl performance with Madonna.
In the middle of her halftime performance with Madonna, M.I.A. briefly threw up a middle finger, resulting in the NFL issuing an apology to the public and slapping M.I.A. with a $16.6 million lawsuit. According to the NFL, Arulpragasam breached a pre-show agreement to maintain the NFL’s “reputation for wholesomeness” by flipping off an audience of 167 million television viewers. See her discuss the issue in the video below.
Shortly after she divulges this information, Huck Magazine writes that she was advised not to speak any further on the subject. Pitchfork has reported that M.I.A. has reached a settlement with the NFL over the middle finger incident, but details of the agreement remain private. | 2019-04-25T10:54:43 | https://staging.hiphopmyway.com/m-i-a-says-jay-z-encouraged-bad-deal-to-end-nfl-lawsuit/ |
Look at those big baby blues!!!
I LOVE THE CHEEKS! And that double chin!! Too cute!
Thatcher is so much fun! He is so chill -- just goes with the flow. He smiles so big, and is starting to laugh -- no little baby giggles, either -- it's a big "HAH! HAH!" -- very funny. He loves watching Grayson and Ollie, but his very favorite person is his daddy. He is very strong, and can pretty much support his own weight while sitting and even standing for a few seconds. He eats like a champ, and is getting lots of chub :) He usually sleeps about 6 hours at night (YAY), except when he's building my milk supply up and thinks he needs to eat every 3 hours. He loves to snuggle, and *I* love to snuggle HIM! He is such a little sweetheart, and such a fun part of our lives.
he is so cute. I can't believe how much he looks like grayson. Griffin LOVES his hedge hog you made that my mom bought him. He chews its nose! I love it too! | 2019-04-18T19:20:13 | http://blog.thewayments.com/2011/04/thatcher-is-3-months-old.html |
To keep your cooling system working properly, you need to bring in an expert for regular air conditioning maintenance in Barrie.
When you turn on your air conditioner to combat the rising temperatures outside, you expect cool air to start flowing through the vents to keep a comfortable temperature within your office. But in order to keep your cooling system working properly, you need to bring in an expert for regular air conditioning maintenance.
Maintaining your air conditioning and heating system is crucial if you want to avoid bigger problems that may be more expensive to fix down the road. During the service call, your technician will examine the furnace and air conditioner to make sure all components are in good shape and operating how they should. If there are any concerns, we can develop a plan to fix them right then instead of waiting until specific parts stop working completely.
If you own a business in Barrie, Ontario, you can trust our team of experts at L&B Mechanical for all of your air conditioning maintenance needs. We can set up a recurring appointment to visit your property and assess the system. Many of our customers choose to have air conditioning maintenance around the start of the spring season, since that’s when the weather starts to get warmer. Waiting too long may result in an air conditioning system that isn’t working when you need it to, causing those in your office to feel uncomfortable in higher temperatures. Call us today to schedule your ongoing air conditioning maintenance and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with this important and beneficial service. | 2019-04-24T20:26:58 | https://lbmechanical.ca/commercial-cooling-services/air-conditioning/air-conditioning-maintenance/ |
Aloha, my name is Wes. I graduated from UH in the 90's and was involved in Cru as a student. After graduating, serving overseas and working with international students, I am privileged once again to find myself involved in Cru. It's been awhile, but I've realized that even though much has changed, much has remained the same. People still need the Lord.
The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers few. God still commands us to, " Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to everyone!" It is a privilege to be working along side my younger brothers and sisters in this eternal work. To God be all the glory!
Traveling to snow covered places to snowboard and enjoy the cold. Singing gospel hymns together with grandparents on a smart TV.
Moving to Hawai'i as well as serving at Cru has grown and stretched my faith in the Lord in more ways than I can count. As I continue to serve at UH Manoa my continual prayer is that I would INSPIRE and make an IMPACT on college-aged students through what God has done and continues to do in my life.
As I partner with the Lord, my hope is that I EQUIP students to listen to the HOLY SPIRIT to direct their lives and eventually be able to be SENT into the WORLD to use their talents and gifts in their every day lives to glorify God in all they do so they can further WIN others to Christ by LOVING, SERVING and SHARING THE GOSPEL.
What makes you laugh the most? PUNny things.
Fun Fact: Cristina found out about Cru through the internet and began serving at UH in 2014. Cristina was actually a part of another campus ministry called InterVarsity at San Francisco State when she was in college.
What are your hobbies? Artsy things (typography, painting, playing music, graphic design), going to the movies & tennis.
Prayer requests: To be faithful with all that God entrusts me with, the big things and the small things. | 2019-04-26T11:11:38 | https://hawaiicru.jimdo.com/meet-our-leaders/staff/ |
Can a pregnant woman who contracted the Zika virus abort?
Tzedakos that give promises for people who donate.
Grama switch on Yom Tov, is it permissible?
May one switch a shachan in middle of a shidduch? Which one does he have to pay?
Is it permitted for a man to wear a watch?
Is the murex the correct tcheilis? Should one wear it Msafeak?
Can a woman recite Kaddish from the ezras Nashim?
The status of DNA in Halachah.
Chizuk to children who have been molested. | 2019-04-22T12:49:26 | http://podcast.headlinesbook.com/e/72316-shailos-and-teshuvas-with-rav-moshe-shternbuch/ |
Sue and George Edwards decided in early 2016 to take the plunge and buy a rooftop solar-energy system for their Swarthmore house. Once they signed a contract, they figured they soon would be producing their own power.
But a process they anticipated would take weeks to complete instead took the better part of the year. As delays mounted, so did costs.
Peco, the electric utility in the region, told the Edwardses that it could not connect their 3.8-kilowatt system because it might elevate the voltage beyond legal limits for their neighbors. It would cost the couple $1,300 to modify the utility's network to accommodate their solar system.
"I had no clue this would be a problem," said Sue Edwards, an environmental activist. She grumbled about having to bear the cost of upgrading Peco's equipment.
Solar installations have increased more than 1,500 percent since 2010, including tenfold growth among residential customers. The new power production is forcing utilities to rethink the way their distribution grids are configured to accommodate the changing flows of power.
The solar installer shared the Peco fee, and the system was put in place in November - after the homeowners redid their roof, which added $20,000 to the price of the $12,700 solar system. But the Edwardses are still not sending solar power into the grid because Peco has yet to make the final connection.
"They don't like competition from nature," said George Edwards, expressing a common sentiment among solar advocates.
The couple's experience was not unusual. Of the 50 customers who signed up for solar through a community group's Solarize Greater Media campaign, 16 were initially rejected by Peco because their systems were incompatible with the utility's network.
Solar installers say that Peco's process for reviewing and approving solar jobs is fraught with obstacles, and that customers have experienced a high rate of denials because the utility's older distribution system was not designed to handle new customer-generators.
"There seems to be some underlying resistance from utilities to solar," said Ron Celentano, a Flourtown consultant and president of the Pennsylvania Solar Energy Industries Association. "You see it all over."
Peco says it experienced a surge of interest from potential solar customers in 2016, attracted by the declining price of solar panels and a 30 percent tax credit. Through November, the utility received 3,515 requests from customers to connect solar systems, quadruple the total applications it received in 2015.
"We're making the commitments to expand and enhance the organization to respond to this increase," said Ben Armstrong, Peco's spokesman.
The utility has revamped its review process and added 12 new employees to streamline the assessments, Armstrong said. Peco also is developing an online portal to allow solar installers to submit plans and payments electronically, as is done with other utilities.
Since 2009, Peco has received 6,105 solar-installation applications and approved 5,759, including 201 that required some modifications, Armstrong said. Only 6 percent were rejected, mostly because of system constraints.
Climate activists, solar-industry advocates, and customer demand are putting mounting pressure on Peco and other utilities to accelerate renewable-energy development.
Residential solar installations increased 16 percent this year, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. SolarCity, the Tesla Motors subsidiary, says it is ramping up local operations and now employs 400 people in Pennsylvania.
Community groups in Center City and Northwest Philadelphia are enlisting homeowners to enroll in group-buying efforts similar to the Solarize Greater Media campaign. Protesters from the Earth Quaker Action Team targeted Peco's headquarters in 2016, demanding that the utility buy more solar power.
Installers and customers have urged legislators and the state Public Utility Commission to remove obstacles that add costs and delays for homeowners installing solar systems. The PUC said it is reviewing the issues to see whether it should take action to improve the interconnection process.
"I don't want to downplay Peco's progress," said Micah Gold-Markel, head of Solar States LLC, the contractor employed to do the Solarize project in Media. "It used to be you would submit an application and you wouldn't hear back for months. They have cut that time now, but it's still longer than most utilities."
Peco's challenges tie into broader issues facing an industry historically designed to transmit power one-way, from central generation plants to customers. Increasingly, the grid is being asked to accommodate a scattered network of "distributed resources," such as renewable power, small cogeneration systems, and battery-storage equipment.
"If we're going to do a two-way system, with more generation on a particular feeder, then we have to think about new ways of managing the generation or new ways to protect and operate the distribution system," said Tom Key, senior technical executive with the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry nonprofit that is exploring the challenges.
While regional grid operators such as PJM Interconnection orchestrate the shifting power flows on major transmission lines, it falls to utilities such as Peco to manage local circuits, where power is fed from substations to a series of customers.
Most of the obstacles Peco has encountered with solar customers occur on the utility's 4,000-volt distribution circuits, an older design that can feed power to fewer customers over shorter distances than newer 13,000-volt circuits can. About a quarter of Peco's customers are served by the 4,000-volt lines, said Michael Pietrafitta, the utility's director of regional electric operations.
Solar customers, who sell their excess power back into the grid, are more likely to cause the circuit's voltage to exceed legal limits if they are located near a substation. Too much voltage creates havoc with some appliances and gets Peco in hot water with regulators.
Solutions can be as simple as replacing the wire connecting a house to the utility's system or downsizing the solar installation to produce less power. Other fixes involve replacing transformers or capacitors on the utility's system. Under a PUC rule, the utility charges the customer who benefits from the equipment.
Sari and Pat Steuber had solar panels installed in June. Sari Steuber is a leader in Transition Town Media, the community group that organized the solar effort.
"For some customers, Peco proposed a $20,000 solution, which was more than they were paying for the solar installation in the first place," said Sari Steuber, a leader in Transition Town Media, the community group that organized the solar effort. "It was hardly a cost-effective solution."
Some customers believe that Peco should upgrade its "antiquated" circuits to more readily accept solar systems.
The company says it can't justify expensive replacement of a system that still works well, according to industry reliability measures. "The current makeup of Peco's system meets the needs of our customers and does so at a level that is among the best in the country, in terms of reliability," said Armstrong.
Though Peco says it's doing all it can to accommodate solar customers, solar advocates say they believe it could do more if the utility's incentives were reconsidered.
Though less than 1 percent of Peco's customers have installed solar panels, each one represents a loss in utility revenue. Renewable-energy customers consume less power from the grid, and the utility is required to buy their excess production at retail prices. But solar customers still rely on the grid to deliver power when the sun isn't shining.
"There's this ethos inside of Peco that solar costs everybody more money, that solar people are sort of free-riding the grid," said Gold-Markel, the Solar States founder.
The PUC has launched a formal investigation into alternative rate mechanisms, including pricing structures that decouple utility profits from sales. A report is expected this year. | 2019-04-24T18:45:06 | https://www.philly.com/philly/business/A-dark-cloud-over-solars-sunny-prospects.html |
Sheldon: I often forget other people have limitations. It's so sad. Howard: He can feel sadness? Leonard: Not really. It's what you and I would call condescension. | 2019-04-24T09:59:05 | https://the-big-bang-theory.com/quotes/correct/156/ |
6/30 | 6:30 P.M. Family Game Night!
Join the KC Improv Company every Saturday night at 6:30 pm for our family friendly show! Family Game Night is an hour packed full of short-form “whose line?” style improv games. Based entirely on suggestions from the audience, we will create the comedy off the top of our heads.
Voted the best improv troupe in KC 4 straight years, bring the whole family to laugh together!
The KC Improv Company. Laugh Loud, Laugh Local!
Food & Beverages available through The Green Room Burgers & Beer! | 2019-04-19T06:53:30 | http://kansascitycomedy.com/event/6-30-630-p-m-family-game-night/ |
An appealing if rather breathless account of double discoveries: that of London-based American journalist Solomon, who goes to Gorbachev’s Moscow and finds a world of vicious deprivation and impenetrable strangeness; and that of the artists he meets along the way, whose long struggle against isolation and obscurity is rewarded with a sudden fame that brings its own disorientation. Solomon first visited the Soviet Union in 1988, when he was sent by a British magazine to cover Sotheby’s Sale of Contemporary and Avant-Garde Soviet Art. His expectations were initially modest — “I was determined to visit the U.S.S.R. and thought the Sotheby’s sale sounded an ideal opportunity” — but he managed to befriend quite a few of the artists involved, and followed their careers from London after his return. Eventually he helped them travel to Europe and America to exhibit their work, and in 1989 he went to stay with them for some months in Moscow as they prepared a giant exhibition of Soviet and German art. Solomon writes in a leisurely, anecdotal style that makes room for the many different stories comprising this tale: the larger portrait of the various movements and schools of postwar Soviet art, the political and historical forces (culminating in perestroika) that simultaneously resisted and engendered such art, and the (often horrendous) experiences of the artists themselves. The tone is compassionate and engaging throughout and manages to bring the opinions of the author into play without overwhelming the narrative. Thus the frequent digressions — on the nature of creativity, the Russian character, the experience of exile — serve to add depth rather than blur the focus. A good deal less attention might have been paid to the various fetes and soirées of the art world, but no doubt some will find them amusing. Timely and enjoyable: a rich collage of personality and adventure. | 2019-04-25T08:31:01 | http://andrewsolomon.com/reviews/the-irony-tower-soviet-artists-time-glasnost/ |
It is well known in the insurance industry that civil servants and civil servants pay cheaper insurance premiums. This is historically conditioned as the insurance industry assumes that civil servants are more careful about life. This has little to do with a civil service loan. The background is different.
Special conditions for civil servants.
Very flexible: rates and duration can be changed at any time.
Special repayments possible at any time.
In our official credit calculator, you can compare offers of other banks without obligation.
As part of a credit application, the credit scoring of the applicant takes place. The credit check ultimately results in the determination of the level of the interest rate. Part of the scoring are, for example, the marital status, the income, the economic conditions, the profession and the industry. From the last two points the risk can be deduced, how high the likelihood of default is due to a job loss. An applicant in the construction industry offers greater risk potential here in December due to the weather than a programmer at a bank. In addition, in some industries the number of bankruptcies is higher than average. But even the programmer can lose his job, the installments no longer pay. This concludes why official loans exist.
Neither the employer, the public sector, can go bankrupt, nor the official, unless he is guilty of serious misdemeanor, lose his job. The credit rating determines the level of the interest rate, official loans are therefore significantly cheaper than a loan for a worker in the private sector.
Civil servants can only be found in the area of consumer credit. For mortgage lending, there are no explicit offers for civil servants. The professional status has a positive effect on the scoring and thus on the interest rate only in the credit check.
Anyone looking for a loan as a civil servant is well advised to explicitly choose a “civil servant loan” when making a loan comparison, even if alternatives are offered as alternatives.
There is one exception. If the loan is to be used for the purchase of a car, it makes sense to compare the terms of the civil service loan with those of a car loan. Due to the simplified collateralization of the car loan, the borrower withdraws the car letter, the banks also offer for this earmarked loan more favorable conditions.
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