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Q: Citrix users experience slow performance and freezing sessions Since about this monday we have had severe problems with our Citrix environment. The symptoms are users are experiencing very slow connections from time to time and from user to user, today we had problems with users are unable to print (although I haven´t had time to investigate it further). The sessions would freeze after a short time. This happens even if users ends up on another XenApp server. So it follows the user/users who are affected and not the XenApp-server they end up on.
Ok so here is the environment:
12 XenApp servers on IBM blades (not vmware). Windows 2003 32-bit servers. XenApp 4.5.
1 Web Interface (vmware)
1 data store/SQL server (vmware)
1 provisioning server which provisions the 12 XenApp servers above (we had 2 provisioningservers up to a couple a weeks ago when we saw that XenApp servers provisioned from 1 provisioning server died almost daily).
We publish applications to different "sites" and it began this monday with users in one site complaining about slow performance and one user had problems with the applications just crashes. There was a technician at the site who said it crashed immediately and a window stating "citrix has crashed" (or simila) appeared. It didn´t help to reinstall Citrix online plugin 11.2 as we use, even after clearing out the users profile files related to citrix.
Others tried to use citrix on his computer but it didn´t work.
His computer got reinstalled this wednesday and it worked good after that.
Now today all **** broke loose. 3 people in another site (we do NOT manage the sites, they are external customers so we dont have any control over their computers) complained about the citrix window just become blank and sometimes just black. I asked them to try some other application but it was the same error on all applications, not just the one they mainly use. Then after 4 hours the problems went away for a while. Then they come back again! And in the midst of all this they all were unable to print anything.
I have worked with our citrix environment for 3 years and have never encountered a printingproblem so I guess it must be connected to this error as well. Only this "site" had printing issues, no one else.
A lot of information and vague info but if anyone has any tip I would appreciate it extremely much!

A: It sounds like you are having a network issue of some kind.  It's interesting that reimaging one of the workstations fixed it; it might be coincidence, or it might be the result of malware or a proxy being added somewhere in the chain (for instance, someone may have maliciously added a 3rd party proxy to a machine in order to try and hijack a session).
When the problems go away and come back, it's usually either load or network issues, and as it sounds like you are running this remotely for your clients, the latter is especially likely.  Do a ping from one of the affected workstations to your citrix servers (send 100-200 packets) and see what the loss rate is.  It should be no more than about 1 packet in 200, in my experience, if you are trying to do citrix over the link.  It's also possible that you have an MTU issue, or even just bad cabling somewhere.
Since the problems are isolated to one site, it's highly likely that it is either a malware or network underprovisioning issue at that site.

A: To avoid guessing where the issue may lie, i would suggest proactive monitoring of your Citrix farm. If you are running Citrix XenApp 6.5, you may want to check Citrix EdgeSight. If you are on version 7 or higher, EdgeSight functionality is no longer supported. Look for third party tools. One i have used is the eG Innovations Citrix Monitor - see http://www.eginnovations.com/solutions/citrix-monitoring


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The Girl From Blind River – The BOLO Books Review
by Kristopher | Jul 10, 2018 | Review
Occasionally, debuts come along that are so tightly-plotted and strongly-written that it is hard to believe they are first novels. When that happens, readers instantly know they will be following said author's career for quite some time to come. That is exactly what will happen when readers pick up Gale Massey's The Girl From Blind River; there is no turning back.
In a way that is not always the case, the title of Gale Massey's debut clues her new fans in to what is most important; the girl – Jamie Elders and the location – Blind River. Based on the strength of those two elements alone, The Girl From Blind River would be a smashing success, but in an embarrassment of riches, Gale Massey manages to provide so much more.
Crime fiction needs a character like nineteen-year-old Jamie Elders. She's spirited, candid, and steadfast to the core; she's incredibly savvy, yet inherently world-weary; she's an every-woman who manages to also be one-of-a-kind. This complex nature makes Jamie Elders the perfect type of character on which to base a series. Not only will readers not know where she is going to go in The Girl From Blind River, there is also no telling where Jamie is willing to go in the future.
Which brings us to Blind River. Gale Massey's elegiac language brings this location to life in a way that makes it unforgettable. On the surface, Blind River is nothing special: a struggling corner of New York state one either passes through with arms tense and breath held or a birthplace one aims to rid oneself of as soon as possible. But it is more than a physical place; it's an attitude that resides in the bones of its citizens, making escape impossible – and just maybe unwarranted.
Of course Jamie dreams of leaving Blind River behind, but she won't abandon her younger brother, Toby. When Uncle Loyal gets Toby embroiled in a major crime – as the lead suspect, no less – Jamie's fierce nature roars to the forefront. Self-preservation becomes a non-entity as she willingly sets out to do whatever she must to save young Toby.
Jamie's journey toward a new understanding of maturity dominates The Girl From Blind River, but the secondary characters are never neglected. The good, the bad, and every permutation between are fleshed out in nuanced ways, eliciting true emotion from the reader with each new plot turn.
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Gale Massey's writing style in The Girl From Blind River is unique. While the plot moves at fast clip, the language is methodical and at times lyrically beautiful. This is a writer in charge of every word and phrase, able to seduce readers, keeping them under her spell for the duration. Based on the strength of the writing, the complexity of the characters, and the uniqueness of the setting, a lot of new fans will be created once The Girl From Blind River is completed.
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I recently asked over on IG stories who the hardest people on your list to shop for are and many of you said TEENS! I went straight to the source and asked my teenage cousin what teens want. She graciously offered to just write the post herself since she's been so frustrated by how inaccurate gift guides for teens are. To make sure her list is really accurate, she went around her school polling her peers on what they'd like to receive. Then she wrote up the post below with the top answers she received. I hope this helps makes your shopping a little bit easier!
Click any of the photos above to be taken directly to the product!
Without further adieu, I'm turning the rest of the blog post over to my cousin, Noor!
Teens are pretty hard to shop for because everyone is different and the trends are constantly changing. Here's what most of the kids in my class said they would want. If you're still not sure, you have a detective to do the work for you- just ask their parents!
When in doubt give cash! This is what almost every single boy I asked said! Teens usually just prefer to pick out their own gift, which is why money is such a popular gift request. I know some people don't like to just give cash as a gift, but you could also just add some candy to it. That's always a popular gift!
A bunch of guys said they would love an indoor basketball hoop that goes over the door. Here's a cool and cost effective one.
This one is also a crowd pleaser. If you know they play a sport, love a team, or dream of playing the NFL, NBA, etc, get them sports gear! Ask their parents which sport they like to play and get them gear for that. For example, a new glove for baseball, a new ball for basketball (this one is supposed to never go flat!), or a soccer goal for soccer. If you don't want to ask their parents, you can just get any one of these.
If you know which sports team they like, almost all the guys also said they would love memorabilia for that sports team. You could get wall decals for their room or locker, jerseys, or hats. Here's a cool idea for a Laker's fan. You can find a ton of affordable options for almost every single sports team here.
This is also a really common one that guys said. The most popular video game is Call of Duty for Playstation 4.
If you can afford this, a lot of guys said they would love concert or sports game tickets.
This is always good option everyone. Everyone likes to receive money. You can never go wrong with money and just let them treat themselves. If you want to make it more exciting, you can call it a shopping spree.
Lip gloss is usually best and there are a LOT of ones teen girls want.
Sephora has really great value sets that are really pretty and have great products in them. They are very cost effective and come in a vary of prices. Almost any teen girl would love to receive that. Check out a whole list here.
Most teen girls love bath and body products! The best brands are Lush and Bath and Body Works.
Set of 1o large Lush bath bombs – I would die for this one!
Record players (and add records) and Polaroid cameras (and add film) have made a big comeback! These would be a really exciting gift. These are gifts with a "wow" factor without breaking the bank!
I hoped this helped you find the perfect gift for the teen in your life!
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A Privacy-centric World: Data-driven Advertising's Future in Asia
Changing attitudes towards privacy, new data protection laws and the deprecation of primary identifiers means brands and publishers will need to rethink their data strategy to navigate the new privacy-centric landscape. With marketers doubling down on data-driven advertising, what does the future of audience targeting and marketing attribution look like?
Magnite spoke to leaders from True Digital, South China Morning Post and Publicis Media Precision during "Asia: Transformation of User Identity," a panel discussion for the APAC region to explore what's next for data-driven advertising in a rapidly evolving identity landscape.
Future of Identity Solutions
To tackle the developing identity landscape, advertisers and publishers need to review current strategies and seek alternative solutions to identity.
"Run an audit of where you are standing today," says Stefan Priemer, data & product APAC, Publicis Media Precision. "Brands need to make a significant investment on data and technology, but the question remains on how to analyze and activate it."
"For advertisers, significant spending goes into native Google and Facebook audiences, and a lot of clients are actually not too dependent on third-party data," he added. "However, keep in mind the limitations with data ownership and measurement in the walled garden platforms."
Ching You Sing, advertising platform & delivery lead at True Digital says, "We took a drastic approach transitioning from advertising ID-based segments to user single sign-on ID as the new ID solution when Apple restricts access to IDFA and followed by Google starting 2022."
To manage the changes surrounding audience identification, publishers are investing in various identity solutions, including prioritising first-party data and integrating with universal identity solutions.
For South China Morning Post, which withdrew from the open marketplace in Asia in 2021, first-party data is key.
"The publishers are the closest to the users, and we do not want it to be obscured by third-party data. We want to enrich our data and make it available and accessible to brands by visualising the data they are buying and ultimately deliver a greater return on media investment for advertisers," says Kenny Cheung, director of product, innovation and partnership, South China Morning Post.
For True Digital, their identity strategy includes a mix of leveraging first-party data and third-party identity solutions. "We took a big step on re-architect post cookies. We now adopt identity that can interact and complement each other, including our TRUE proprietary ID, and UID 2.0 (in pipeline) for cross-platform usage of TrueID CTV, Mobile Apps, Website and E-wallet to help with hyper-targeting," says You Sing.
"The way forward is for publishers to integrate with the biggest identity players in the space and stay agnostic to identity providers," says Priemer.
Quantity: Targeting at Scale
With the deprecation of cookies, audience targeting is evolving. Publicis acknowledges that this will have a strong impact on measurement, where "targeting would be impacted in terms of volume."
"The scale of advertiser first-party data is still relatively low. This has a lot to do with brand readiness to not just collect first-party data, but also to store and manage it," says Priemer.
The importance of working with the right partners is key. "Working with partners, SSPs, etc. to tap into publisher data is a very important solution for brands who can't scale their own. Understand what identifiers are readable and how you can overlay the data that you have with your inventory," he adds.
Publishers are developing targetable ID solutions such as clean room technology to enrich advertiser first-party data in a secure environment.
"We have built an audience graph taking signals including user event-based data across platforms and endpoints that touch our users. Advertisers can then put their first-party data on our platform and convert them to look up for targetable IDs. This will allow advertisers to set up preferential audiences and analyze reach and frequency and run different attribution models. That's a long-term approach," says You Sing.
However, the question of whether clean room technology adoption will scale remains to be seen in Asia. "One reminder is that targetable IDs have limited scale. The use case should not just be limited to one-to-one targeting," says Cheung.
Quality: Data Beyond Targeting
While targeting at scale remains an issue for publisher identity solutions', advantages also lie in new insights brands can gain.
From the agency perspective, it is important to understand how to leverage their data, an area where publishers can step in to help brands build up their first-party data profile. "It's not just using data for targeting but to help enrich my own data as a brand and understand more about the IDs, including audience demographics, interests, etc. Brands usually collect IDs but don't know much about those," says Priemer.
South China Morning Post highlights the importance of using ID solutions to gain insights to scale activation.
"It is important to see how audiences have been interacting with the publisher's content to make informed decisions that shape your strategy. We have seen an increase in SCMP's audiences because they are looking for a trusted, alternative take on news. We want to build a forum where they can directly engage with our content," says Cheung.
Furthermore, when it comes to measurement, brands in Asia historically focused less on attribution. "Given that investments into sophisticated multi-touch attribution was behind more mature markets in the US and Europe, the impact of cookie deprecation is somewhat limited here. As alternatives, brands can look into marketing mix modeling approaches, which might not be as granular as attribution modeling, but is independent of log level cookie reliant data," says Priemer.
Watch panel discussion here
Tags: Brands, Data Privacy, First Party Data, publishers


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2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - This movie is loosely based on America's famous serial killer Ed Gein who had nine human skin masks in his possession at the time of his arrest. And a garage full of over 75 chainsaws. He even had 4 bodies of relatives who were barely alive, sitting in chairs around the house, whom he fed with human flesh. Spooky, isn't it?
3. A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010) - Love blood, gore and knife-fingered ghosts? This is it then. The makers of this movie were inspired by a group of Laotian refugees who had died in throes of a nightmare. The medical reports said there was nothing wrong with them physically, but that they had just died because of heart attacks suffered during extreme nightmares.
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6. Psycho (1960) - Alfed Hitchcock made taking a shower a frightening experience. This thriller-horror movie is loosely inspired by Ed Gein's crimes and Wisconsin murders. There have been various follow-ups of this movie, including a FX television series of the name Bate's Motel.
7. The Girl Next Door (2007) - This movie is loosely based on what is said to be the most terrible crime of Indiana's history. Sylvia Likens was tortured and eventually killed by Gertrude Baniszewski in 1965, as other children were made to watch the torture for days.
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9. Ravenous (1999) - We all enjoy a good meal but what if you had to eat human meat for your next meal? Yes, this is one of the most underrated movies on cannibalism which will spook you like nothing else can. Because you are what you eat, quite literally. It is one of many films loosely based on Hannibal Lectur, and possibly the grossest one.
10. The Rite (2011) - Based on the life of one of the most famous exorcists in America, Father Gary Thomas, this movie will scare the hell out of you. One piece of advice: Don't watch this alone. Father Thomas is said to have performed hundreds of exorcisms for the Catholic church over the years.
11. Borderland (2007) - Based on a real cult leader Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, this movie has gory details of how human sacrifice was practiced by the cult. Spoiler: Toes. fingers and even brain were cut out by him, and you can watch all of that in this movie.
12. The Strangers (2008) - Based loosely on the book Helter Skelter, this movie has psychopaths and murders. The director of this movie drew inspiration from the murders by serial killer Charles Mansion and a series of events that took place near his childhood home. Some are now, years later, being attributed to Manson and his family.
13. The Entity (1982) - In 1974, paranormal investigators Kerry Gaynor and Barry Taff worked at a place where they saw moving objects. This movie is based on the same incident where the ghost abuses sexually.
14. The Exorcism Of Emily Rose (2005) - This is based on the life of Anneliese Michel who was possessed by demons so strong that her exorcism took nearly an year to accomplish. It is one of the most famous exorcism movies and one of the most detailed and realistic.
15. Deliver Us From Evil (2014) - Like exorcism movies with twisted old tricks? This is what will save you. It is based on a book called Beware The Night which is based on non-fictional events. Book yourself in for this.
16. Eaten Alive (1980) - Want some alligator related horror flick? Keep this up on your list. This is based on Joe Ball, a man who killed around 20 women and watched the alligators feed on them. It's so gory but it's worth it because it did happen for real! Ball was sentenced to the death penalty.
17. Curse Of The Zodiac (2007) - Based on a serial killer called the "Zodiac", this horror movie has a lot of cryptic messages and codes to decode. Zodiac Killer is the nickname given to an unidentified serial killer who operated in northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
18. Silent House (2011) - This is an independent American horror movie that is based on a real incident that took place in in Uruguay. If you like "real time" footage in your horror movies then this is it, as it contains a lot of the original news coverage from the horrors.
19. Annabelle (2014) - This movie is a sequel to The Conjuring. And the story continues with the most scary possessed doll there has ever been. It is also true that people who taunted the doll in the museum faced near death or fatal accidents. When the cultists try to summon a demon, they smear a bloody rune on the nursery wall and drip blood on Mia's doll, thereby turning the former object of beauty into a conduit for ultimate evil.
20. The Dentist (1966) - One thing we know for sure is that after seeing this movie, your next visit to the dentist will be really hard. It is based on a dentist in LA, circa 1958, who turned out to be a serial killer. Corbin Bernsen is brilliant as the deranged dentist-he is completely believable. There is surprisingly little gore but the scenes of dental torture are quite nasty and grotesque.
21. Wolf Creek (2005) - What did your mom say about not talking to strangers? This movie is loosely based on two men, Ivan Milat and Bradley John Murdoch and their crimes. This movie will send shivers down your spine! It was suggested partly by the gruesome details of the backpacker murders committed by Ivan Milat in the 1990s, but these murders were committed in a state forest near Sydney.
The Exorcist (1973) - The Exorcist novel by Mario Puzzo is based on a book which is based on real life of a boy named Roland Doe who was possessed by demons in 1949. The exorcism was so scary that there have been books written on people who witnessed it. This story will give you goosebumps, all for real reasons. Puzzo used many of the original facts to create his Exorcist book in 1972, including the name of the priest.


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Q: Move files between Linux and OpenBSD and keep file properties I would like to move/share some files between Linux and OpenBSD. What would be an easy and simple way to achieve this?
These are the solutions I have found so far and why I am not fully convinced:

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*Using a normal USB drive with a FAT32 partition: It won't preserve permissions.

*Using another partition type: Which one would work RW on both?

*Using tar: I am worried about the fact that the tar implementations differ between the BSDs and Linux.

What would be a simple way to share files between Linux and OpenBSD while keeping permissions and timestamps?

A: I'm using NFS mounts. I have my /home mounted on both Ubuntu and OpenBSD, from an OpenBSD NFS server and have no issues (same UID/GID on both systems!).
If you are dual-booting and just want to transfer a few files every now and again, tar archives on a FAT32 USB stick will work just fine.
I've never tried to share partitions between Linux and OpenBSD (I'd use virtual machines instead of dual-booting). That sounds tricky, but OpenBSD 6.1 has a mount_ext2fs command in the base system, so EXT2 filesystems should be supported to at least a basic degree.

A: Quick test using tar. I believe the key that you may not be aware of the is the -p flag or option. This is (basically) try to preserve file permissions (and more).
On a FreeBSD system (but could be OpenBSD or even OSX):
mkdir t1-dir
touch t1-dir/t1-test
touch t1-dir/t1-read-only
chmod 600 t1-dir/t1-read-only
tar czf t1.tgz t1-dir
ls -l t1-dir
total 0
-rw-------   1 tigger  tigger     0  5 Sep 16:24 t1-read-only
-rw-r--r--   1 tigger  tigger     0  5 Sep 16:24 t1-test

On a Linux system (minutes later):
sftp <freebsd system>
get t1.tgz
exit
tar xzpf t1.tgz
ls -l t1-dir
total 0
-rw------- 1 tigger tigger 0 Sep  5 16:24 t1-read-only
-rw-r--r-- 1 tigger tigger 0 Sep  5 16:24 t1-test

If these two systems are on the same LAN you can set-up NFS or Samba share on either. Personally, I have a dedicated file and media server (FreeBSD) with a NFS set-up for shared files between FreeBSD and Linux and Samba set-up for Windows 10 and OSX.

A: OpenBSD supports ext2 and ext3 with read/write and keeping permissions. OpenBSD doest not supports ext4.
To mount a linux filesystem (sd0a for example) onto an openbsd machine, do as root :
mkdir /mnt/linux
mount_ext2fs /dev/sd0a /mnt/linux

Use mount_ext2fs for mounting ext3 filesystems too.
Then you could copy files between directories using cp or tar like this for example:
(cd /mnt/linux && tar cf - .) | (cd /home/pkdick/linux && tar xpf -)

If you want to permanently share a linux directory with openbsd, use NFS (OpenBSD supports only NFS version 1 to 3).
On the linux side, declare exports and starts nfs daemons. On the OpenBSD side, do (in the following lines, replace linuxhostname by your linux box hostname or IP):
mkdir /mnt/linux

# to check that NFS services are available on your linux box:
rpcinfo -p linuxhostname

# to see the NFS exports available on your linux box:
showmount -e linuxhostname

# Then, for example, if you have an export /home/pkdick on your linux box:
mount linuxhostname:/home/pkdick /mnt/linux

You could declare this mount into your /etc/fstab:
linuxhostname:/home/pkdick /mnt/linux nfs rw,nodev 0 0

A: OpenBSD does offer read-only support for ext4 filesystems: this is useful if you are able to directly attach the Linux disk to the OpenBSD box.
As in most cases with BSD, the relevant man pages are excellent. Here are a few for starters:
ext4(5)
mount_ext2fs(8)
The OpenBSD Disk Setup FAQ (https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html) is also useful.
Your partitions will probably be found at /dev/sdX[d-p] (for SCSI driver disks) or /dev/wdX[d-p] (for discs using the WD100x compatible driver).
sysctl hw.disknames will give you a list of disks on your system.
To discover what partitions are available to a disk:
disklabel sdX (replace sdX with your disk
To mount an ext4 drive read-only:
# mount -r /dev/sdX[d-p] /mountpoint
replace sdX[d-p] with the partition you have identified and /mountpoint with the location you would like it to be mounted. You will need admin access for this step.
Once you have mounted it read only, you should be able to copy files over to your new disk, avoiding any network bottlenecks you would have using NFS to complete the task.

A: Ext2 is about the only common filesystem format between Linux and the BSDs that will natively preserve permissions.  If user or group IDs differ, you may need to use chown or chgrp.  EXT2 timestamps have very coarse resolution, EXT4 has nanosecond resolution.  EXT variants, including EXT4, have been known to trash data (YMMV), so caveat emptor.
BSD mtree(8) is available on some Linux distributions (e.g. OpenSUSE), and can be used to save and restore permissions, timestamps, flags, owner/group etc. (i.e. using mtree files to hold the metadata can be used even with filesystems that are incapable of storing that data directly, including FAT variants).  For that matter, bsdtar is also available on some Linux distributions, so you may be able to use compatible versions on both sides.
If you have two running systems (as opposed to a single multiboot system), rsync over a network connection can also preserve such metadata.  If you haven't used rsync, there's a steep learning curve, but it's quite flexible once you get the hang of it.
I've used EXT variants to hold shared data on multiboot systems, and rsync over the network to share and synchronize data between machines.  There are even drivers for MS systems to read and write EXT2.  The biggest oddball that I know of among systems (I know little about macos, and I'd like to keep it that way) is illumos and the distributions based on it, which shares no common ground with all of the others (it uses ZFS natively, might support UFS, maybe NTFS, but not EXT; there's no UFS for MS machines, and limited availability of ZFS for some windows variants. [and unless you have enterprise-level disk capacity and support staff to stay on top of beadm etc., you probably don't want ZFS]; illumos also lacks USB 3 support, so unless you limit yourself to USB 2 or lower ports and devices, USB transfers aren't an option).


In the present thesis N2O results are presented from several measurement projects on two commercial circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers. Traditional parameter studies have been carried out, as well as test programs where various nitrogen-containing species were injected into the furnace or gas-concentration profiles in the combustion chamber were measured. The parameter studies show the influence of fuel, temperature and air supply on the N2O emission. The N2O emission increases with rank of the fuel. For fuels of higher rank, such as bituminous coals, concentrations of 150-200 ppm can be measured in the flue gases, whereas negligible amounts of N2O are emitted from wood combustion. The emission also depends on combustion temperature and air supply. Increasing the temperature or strangling the air supply decreases the emission of N2O. These N2O abatement strategies cannot be used without affecting either the NO reduction performance or the sulphur capture process when lime is added. Special tests show that N2O is formed from nitrogen-containing volatiles (HCN and NH3) and when NO is reduced on char surfaces in the combustion chamber. This is in agreement with model calculations and laboratory tests carried out by others. The special tests also show that the N2O concentration increases with height in the combustion chamber and that a very high reduction capacity already exists under normal operating conditions, in the bottom part of the combustor. This leads to the conclusion that N2O abatement strategies should be applied to the top of the combustion chamber and/or cyclone. Care should be taken when such strategies are tested in the future in order not to disturb the excellent NO reduction performance and sulphur capture process by lime addition which are both important in order to fulfil stringent environmental requirements which is expected to be achieved by the CFB combustion process.


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Home Gaming Former Service Center employee told about thousands of broken Joy-Cons a week
Former Service Center employee told about thousands of broken Joy-Cons a week
Nuri ODACI Gaming April 24, 2022
A former employee of the service center chain United Radio, who wished to remain incognito, told Kotaku about the thousands of faulty Joy-Cons that may have come in for repairs during the week.The problem with drift sticks is known to every second Nintendo Switch user - it has repeatedly been the cause of class action lawsuits, and the year before last Nintendo even issued a public apology.
In the U.S., the \"victims\" were exchanging controllers for new ones from 2017 to 2018, but then they started repairing them.
Because of the endless flow (as noted above, more than 1,000 defective Joy-Cons a week is commonplace) of controllers, employees began to quit one after another, not wanting to \"burn out\" in the workplace.
United Radio was left with no choice but to recruit immigrants - from Vietnam, for example - and the lack of English skills made it difficult to train the newcomers - and many had no experience in repairing such equipment at all.
However, the workers were happy with the working conditions and pay, so most of the staff consisted of immigrants.
In the end, this led to low-quality repairs in the vast majority of cases.It could be assumed that the ex-employee invented the above in order to smear his former employer and take revenge for unpaid bonuses.
However, Kotaku conducted an investigation and found many stories on Reddit that confirmed this, such as the incident with the user who was sent Switch with someone else's account.
Another customer was simply reset to factory settings, all because of United Radio's policy of allowing the console to be \"rolled back\" to its original state in cases where the serial number could not be verified during repair.


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George Scott: Fake Candidate for Congress
George Scott is a candidate for the local US Congressional seat presently held by Scott Perry, covering a large swath of Central Pennsylvania.
Both Scott Perry and George Scott are military veterans, and both were senior military officers.
And that is where their shared anything diverges.
After watching George Scott gleefully burn a .22-caliber small game rifle in a small bonfire (see screen shot below, and another screen shot at the end showing that George Scott removed his own self-damning video, because he doesn't want hunters to know he is hostile toward them), which he incorrectly calls a "weapon of war," I could only conclude that this man is unfit for service in any capacity, and it is a good thing he is no longer wearing the uniform of our nation's military. What a shameful embarrassment.
George Scott advocates for a mandatory registry of every single gun in America, from the dinky .22 caliber rifle he burned to your average sporting shotgun and deer rifle. This means he wants to put government bureaucrats in charge of our Constitutional rights. When people say they want "common sense gun control," like George Scott says, what they really mean is they are against private gun ownership altogether. His policy positions demonstrate that he is hostile toward gun ownership, even for hunting.
George Scott also wants to outlaw basic semi-automatic rifles that are the firearm of choice for coyote hunters across America, and which share a basic appearance, but not a mechanical ability, with fully automatic rifles used by the military.
When a military officer equates a basic hunting gun with a "weapon of war," then you know this is a guy who either doesn't know anything at all about guns, especially the guns he supposedly oversaw in the armed services, or he is simply hostile to the idea of private firearms ownership….Contrary to American history to date, to what the Second Amendment plainly says, and to what the US Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled it means.
When a military officer takes an oath to uphold and defend the US Constitution, which George Scott did, and then he turns around, runs for elected office, and takes an official campaign position directly against that same Constitution, then the guy cannot be taken seriously. He is either clueless and unworthy of being in Congress, or he is a bald-faced liar, or a power freak and closet tyrant.
US military officers are supposed to trust and defend the American People, not use coercive government force to disarm them and then make them dependent upon government for their rights. That is no longer America, it is a dictatorship. Like many people, I remain leery of military men who do not think citizens should own guns. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao come to mind, as does Venezuela's current socialist strongman, Maduro.
Whatever issues you may have with Scott Perry, and I think both liberals and conservatives are grumpy with him, one thing I like about Scott Perry is that he is the complete opposite of George Scott. In the sense that he is a stable and normal person, who says what he means and means what he says.
On the other hand, based on his own actions and public statements, George Scott demonstrates that he is unfit to serve. He is a fake candidate and cannot be taken seriously.
From Venezuela, with love
Recently I had the educational opportunity to have lunch with a refugee couple from Venezuela.
For safety reasons their names and location cannot be divulged. If it is any indication how insecure and unsafe America has become, this pair of humble, poor, well educated, fairly young EVIL capitalists (sarcasm) could not take refuge among their fellow countrymen in Florida. Should they be recognized, there are enough Venezuelan government -affiliated henchman there that they could easily be gunned down in what would be seen as a mere robbery.
We listened in shocked awe at the detailed and personal stories they told us of life in Venezuela's socialist paradise. The absence of food or medical care, the absence of freedom or liberty, the absence of personal security. The absence of personal choice, the complete lack of free speech. The packs of government militia thugs on the prowl everywhere, spreading terror and forced obeisance.
Doors kicked in, people dragged from their homes.
Latin America has a long history of repression, violence, and autocracy. When a capitalist tyrant is in power somewhere there, the American press reports daily on his malfeasance. When a socialist tyrant is in power, there is practically a news blackout.
When I asked the husband what he thought of America so far, he said he liked our freedoms the best.
"Which one do you like the most?," I asked him.
"Although I have never shot a gun in my life, I like that everyone here has a gun, if they want one," he said.
Continuing in his halting, broken English, he said "When the new, illegitimate government [Maduro] wanted to really control the population, they rounded up every private gun they could find. As a result, the Venezuelan people were unable to fight back."
Looking at me across the table, he said almost shyly, quietly, "Do not give up your guns."
A well-deserved Thank You to some stalwarts in the shooting sports
Since early childhood and Wyeth paintings of Captain Kidd and pirates bearing cutlasses and flintlock pistols, old timey guns and edged weapons have gripped my imagination.
No, there is no oddity here in that. There is no eccentric or weirdo behavior resulting from this affliction. In a sporting world increasingly enamored of stainless steel and plastic firearms, bearing Hubble Telescope-like magnifying scopes capable of coldly assassinating animals at half a mile or longer, being a nut for simple guns of old steel, open sights, and darkened walnut sets one apart more on the side of sanity.
When these old guns last hurt someone, the War of 1812 was a recent memory; maybe some time in the 1890s a kid playing with one hanging above the mantle managed to unintentionally bag his grandma in the living room.
In 1994, a pile of them were dumped into the trash by one of my neighbors in suburban Maryland, because they were "guns," and therefore bad, apparently, despite each one being representative of one artistic school or another, each a canvas of steel and wood, not fabric. Together worth a new luxury car at that time, and today each worth a single car.
Dumping them in the trash was that recent widow's own self-inflicted wound.
In general, these quality antique firearms and their "modern" descendants, including the black powder express rifles, double barrel shotguns, nitro double barreled rifles, and single-shot stalking rifles, pose no risk to humans and are a threat to four-legged animals only when used with hard-won, developed skill and hard-earned, focused woodcraft. After all, these weapons require their user to approach wary wild game within at least 150 yards, and well within 100 yards is preferred, where noses, ears and eyes easily tell the quarry "RUN! NOW! FAST!"
No assassinations here. Hunting skill is the key.
Many of these guns were made at a pivotal time in human and technological history when steels were dramatically improving in hardness and durability, explosives were well on their way to matching our best fireworks today, electricity-powered machinery was becoming more available and more precise, human labor was still abundant and relatively cheap, and standards of craftsmanship were still exceptionally high so that each item a worker produced carried his or her pride of best abilities applied.
Finally, remote stands of ancient walnut trees and other tree species, long neglected for their timber and enjoyed by the natives for their fruits and nuts, became known and available by steam locomotive, pack mule, and steam ship. Wood from these trees captured a time when few factors reared their hands against the relatively soft material, and so they grew slowly in peace and quiet in far-off lands and places, each decade adding a narrow band of dense and highly figured curl and figure to what would eventually become a stunning, valuable gunstock in London, Suhl, Ferlach, and Belgium.
Today, such firearms, and even reproductions of them, are highly sought after by harmless romantics seeking to hunt but not necessarily to kill, to capture the essence of bringing an aesthetically pleasing hand-craft to the necessary bloodletting in harvesting wild game; basically, to class-up and improve the joint a bit with style and understated elegance.
Certainly there are representations of this time period among our most favorite buildings around the planet, so if "guns" elude you, your emotions, or your tastes, think of beautiful, carefully constructed, famous buildings that inspire people (or furniture, or cars, or or or…). Then you should understand that those nerdy, harmless romantics actually carry such high art around in the woods, and that being a nut for such specimens of humankind's best mechanical and artistic abilities is not such a strange preoccupation, after all.
It is an aesthetic pursuit, with a bang.
As this right here is not a book, and as it is merely my own small, off-hand, and brief attempt to say Thank You to people who have distantly but materially added to my quality and enjoyment of life, just three institutions are receiving mention today, though many many many more deserve kudos, too (Steve Bodio comes to mind, or Ironmen Antiques, and and and…).
First, a big thank you to the Cote Family, the hard working founding publishers of the Double Gun & Single Shot Journal (DGJ), 1989 to present. Without the DGJ, aficionados of old but not the oldest or most popular firearms would have but occasional and fleeting mentions in Grey's Sporting Journal, American Rifleman, and hard-to-find tomes filled with errata and alchemy. DGJ captures both the spirit of old hunting tools and methods, and the details required to make the whole endeavor successfully fall into place now.
Without the DGJ, Capstick and Pondoro and similar oldies-but-goodies would be most of the reading available to us. Yes, yes, Roosevelt's African Game Trails and his other hunting books are phenomenal, but how many times over can a person read them?
So a huge Thank You to the Cote family for keeping the DGJ going.
Second, DGJ hosts such gifted analysts as Sherman Bell, whose decades-long "Finding Out for Myself" series of articles has put to rest silly notions about using black powder and nitro-for-black substitutes (yes, you can kill a beautiful buck with style, elegance, and woodcraft, you do not have to be an assassin to be successful), the safety of Damascus barrels (yes, they are safe with modern shells), and other interesting myths and facts surrounding Grandpa's old gun on the mantle. Thank You to Sherman Bell, for enriching my life in small but directly meaningful ways with these beloved and useful artifacts.
Finally, a huge Thank You to noted gun writer Ross Seyfried, whose introspective writings and wanderings in DGJ and elsewhere have inspired many others to pick up the double rifle or single shot, and shelve the plastic contraption, once again capturing the spirit, at least, of fair chase. And Thank You, Ross, for your own steady, incredibly patient guidance and knowledge as I walk my own path.
Yes, I know, you too had your mentors, and they too held your hand and guided you along your path. We have walked those paths with you in the Matabeleland of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and the hills of Elk Song in Oregon. But in a culture of increasingly shallow or fragile relationships, expectations of immediate gratification, point-and-click 'knowledge', plastic contraption guns, brief patience, half-mile assassinations of unstalked animals, and so on, being a junior apprentice to someone like you is a pleasurable rarity, and an honor.
Ross, I pledge I will do my best to follow in your footsteps and do as you have done with me: Passing along all of my knowledge of the old things, the old ways, the class and the grace — what little I possess!, to those who want them. I will withhold nothing from that next generation.
Downton Abbey's "field sports" Part II
Guess I shot from the hip, shot first and asked questions later, didn't identify my target too well, or another euphemism you may enjoy applying to the lack of foresight I brought to yesterday's analysis of Downton Abbey's field sports.
Yes, I could have sneaked a peak ahead of the coming scenes, like many other avid watchers of PBS's hit show do, but because I lack the time and the inclination to sneak anything, I just sat down in my easy chair and watched the show unfold last night without advance knowledge of its content.
My Sunday afternoon essay about the mediocre depiction of the field sports of Downton Abbey was written beforehand.
So, yes, there was a shooting scene last night, or more accurately, some scenes of wing shooting at driven partridge from bona fide shooting butts, using authentic guns and nice clothes, woven in and out of the story about the Scottish castle party.
But once again, there was more focus on the clothes on the people holding the guns than on the Purdeys, Rigbys, and other Best-quality side-by-side shotguns being used to down the birds.
In 1924, $150,000-then-equivalent Purdey shotguns do not get left with the menial help in the kitchen. They are fussed and obsessed over by their owners, kept locked in their rooms, cased with abundant hand-made accoutrements, labeled beautifully by their makers, and often proudly handed down from generation to generation and worn with traditional hunting clothes.
Scottish castles are loaded with arms and armor, and we barely got a peak at the edged weapons welcoming guests through the front door.
The wagons taking the hunters to the field were right, and a nice touch. I have ridden in such wagons on traditional hunts, and they are today an unnecessary throwback. But back then, they were a necessity through muck and muddy moors.
Shooting driven partridge from the butts was mostly done right, with gun loaders ducking to avoid being seen by the birds, and we did see some people bunched up waving white flags, but a real drive could have been filmed for full authenticity. Actual dead birds could have fallen. Smoke could have emitted from the barrels. Etc etc.
Depicting the shooting sports in so briefly and so shallow a manner is the equivalent of dressing Lady Mary in a perfect 1920s top with modern hip-hugger blue jeans below. It is just wrong. Don't do that!
A lot of non sequiturs occurred last night that really deprive the Downton Abbey audience of a full appreciation of the English field sport lifestyle, which actually reached its pinnacle in the 1920s (when cheap skilled labor was matched with newly superior steel and modern technology to create firearms that even today still command huge sums of money, not to mention the introduction and propagation of Asian pheasants to the English countryside), the time we are watching in the show.
I am sorry to criticize you, Julian Fellowes, because Downton Abbey is otherwise a great show, everything we want it to be.
Last night was disappointing, because the rich details of noble Scottish and English hunting rites should have been indulged. As a student of English history, you are missing a great, even important opportunity here to dig into a meaty subject which your audience will surely enjoy, even if it involves G-U-N-S.
Maybe in January 2016 we will get a more thorough treatment of a subject that may be missing from Mr. Fellowes' life today, but which was a nearly daily ritual for the actual residents of Downton Abbey and their peers in the 1920s.
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Bad guys are on the run around Harrisburg
Toldja so.
Last year, several critical essays I wrote about PA AG Kathleen Kane were widely published, long before other people felt safe enough, I guess, to jump on the band wagon.
Kane's incompetence and corrupt behavior were evident within a few months of her arrival in the PA Attorney General seat. She only got worse and worse, and was on a downhill slide to the point where she has now been indicted by a grand jury. Imagine that.
I feel vindicated. Sadly.
Harrisburg's top cop may go to jail, or be fined, disbarred, and barred from holding public office. It says a lot about politics, that her Breck Girl smile and slow-motion hair tosses were enough for her to get elected.
For the record, I believe that if Pennsylvania absolutely must have a Democrat AG, then Katie McGinty would be the right person. McGinty is every bit as liberal and political as Kane, but Katie is also way too smart to let it show or implement it so egregiously. So, we'd end up with a partisan professional and not the corrupt political hack we have now. That'd be an improvement.
An even better improvement would be Ed Marsico as AG. Ed Marsico is the stellar DA for Dauphin County, and he is so a-political that the Republican establishment has passed him over in the past. Can you imagine, an AG who simply does the job of prosecuting bad guys? How refreshing that would be.
On to Harrisburg City, my home town and my family's home since at least 1745. It's a place I care about a lot. We moved here from Washington, DC, to enjoy the high quality of life, easy commute, and low cost of living. I love living in Harrisburg.
Yes, the city has problems. OK, that is true and I think people are genuinely working to solve them, even as many of the same people have worked to exacerbate them because they stood to make money from them (think: Public Parking). But that is another story.
Here's a story that is just now unfolding: Harrisburg has decided to hold on to its illegal anti-gun laws. Harrisburg City remains happily and blatantly in violation of two state laws barring any PA municipality from passing gun laws. The city has been served notice that they may get sued over this, a costly loss because the city will have to pay money damages and legal fees to the winner.
And of course, the gun laws they have do zero to punish criminals or limit crime. They are designed to punish law-abiding citizens and turn them into criminals, because the zealot prohibitionist crusaders pushing these laws are against guns per se.
Late last Friday night a deranged man attempted to forcefully enter my home through the front door. He was banging away at it, working over the handle hard, and shouting at us.
My wife and kids cowered on the kitchen floor, with Viv talking with a surly 911 dispatcher (who actually yelled at me over the phone); our guests were in the basement.
I stood with a pistol pointed at the door, waiting for the guy to come barging through. Every warning I shouted to him through the door elicited a curse-filled response and harder efforts to get through.
Even I was scared. Someone trying that hard to break into your home is going to do damage once he gets inside.
Ten minutes later the Harrisburg police arrived and caught him, two doors up the street. They were professional and friendly to us taxpayers, and they used force to capture the crazy man because he was violent. I watched him fight with them and try to kick their police dog, Bo. He had some white powder drugs on him and acted like he was insane. Case in point here: Drugs are bad, m'kay?
Without my gun, immediately accessible, our family was a sitting duck for this guy.
We were lucky that he did not come through a ground floor window. Sure, I would have shot and killed him had he entered our home, but who needs that? And what about the other citizens who are neither armed nor prepared or able to defend themselves effectively against intruders?
Let's ask the obvious question: What about "when seconds count the police are only minutes away" do you not understand, Mayor Eric Papenfuse?
Why are your illegal, ineffective gun laws more important than the safety of my family?
What makes people on the Left so cocksure about their illegal behavior? It must have something to do with the tradition of Leftist protests always being "right," a mentality that undergirds everything they do.
We will see you in court, Mayor Papenfuse, because you may not inflict your illegal laws on the safety of my body.
I brought my guns to school
Back in the 1970s, I brought my deer rifle to school on the bus.
It was locked in my school locker when I arrived at school on the bus. In its case.
No one made a big deal about it.
No one was hurt by my gun.
My biology teacher reloaded my 7mm Mauser shells for me.
I hunted after school with friends, and no one was hurt. We were all safe handlers of our firearms. We all took it seriously.
It now might be a time for Americans to recall a different time, a safer time, a time when Americans could not imagine using basic firearms to hurt one another. A time when deer rifles were as normal as new sneakers, as significant as new clothes. A high powered deer rifle meant that much, and that little.
So many Americans today wonder what happened to our nation. Well, quit treating traditional American values as inferior to the chaos, anarchy, and violence that have replaced them. Let us traditionalists come back. Let your kids demonstrate how responsible they are. Take comfort in the inherent strength of our nation and its traditions. Relax.
We gun owners are safe, responsible, and experienced. We have our own children who we cherish. We will do nothing to hurt our own children.
Guns, used safely, are safe.
Scottish vote is instructive of changing identities around the world; is PA ready? Is USA ready?
A majority of Scots voted yesterday to not rock their world, not screw up their currency, not throw 300 years of cultural, financial, and military entanglement with Britain into a complete mess.
So although there was a sizable groundswell of independent-minded identity, about 45%, more Scots (55%) believed that the change was not worth the inevitable costs. That 55% may indeed share the same cultural identity and passion for change as the 45%, but they believe that the price was too high.
Fair enough. It is understandable. Reasonable people can disagree about these things. After all, Scotland will still be Scotland, with a common language, culture, and identity. And British lawmakers made clear concessions in recent days that will only strengthen and enhance Scotland's sense of separate identity and self-determination, so the mere threat of separation gained new, valuable rights.
But Scotland goes to show that there is a sweeping change around the world, including in America, where changing identities are tugging at frayed social fabrics. Eventually, these frays will become tears, whether we like it or not.
A good indication of this cultural change happened right here in America this past Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Constitution Day in America, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that American students could be denied their First Amendment right to wear shirts with the American flag on "Cinco de Mayo Day" in California.
Citing fears that Hispanic gangs in certain California government-run schools would see the American flag as intolerant of their Hispanic identities, an instigation to violence, a school principal, and subsequently one of the highest courts in the land (ain't that the truth) decided that American citizens must be barred from wearing the flag of our nation, America, on their clothes.
On just that one day.
Needless to say, that an American court would conclude such a violent attack on our free speech rights is OK in the first place is incredible, especially when it involves wearing our national flag.
That a court would cite potential violence by criminals, many of whom are not American citizens, as a reason to deny American citizens their free speech rights is a whole other thumb in the eye. It is not legal reasoning but rather giving in to mob rule.
That the court decision was given on Constitution Day really highlights the symbolic meaning and significance of this event. The court is either tone deaf or purposefully showing its disdain for our guiding light.
It really marks a widening cultural identity gap increasingly growing in America, as it is growing in parts of Spain (Basques), France (half the planet is still French-occupied), Syria (Kurds, Sunni vs Shia Muslims), Iraq (Kurds, Sunni vs Shia Muslims), Turkey (Kurds), Argentina (Falklands, occupied by Britain), and so on.
In each of these locations, there are large groups of people who believe that the present government is actually working against their interests, not for their interests. They want a government that they believe is representative of them, their needs, identities.
Come what may of these various separation movements, many of which have turned into open civil war, what concerns me is what this portends for Americans.
One poll this week shows that one in four Americans support some sort of secession or breakup of America.
Some states, like Alaska, Montana, and Texas, already have large secessionist movements or large population segments who want Republic status either restored, or instituted.
At some point these different intellectual disagreements will result in actual, physical disagreements, usually known as civil strife or civil war. As much as this terrifies me and anyone else who enjoys the relative tranquility and opportunity America now enjoys, it is a fact that such events are part of human history. They are probably inevitable.
When the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals hands down a patently ridiculous ruling like this one, to satisfy some small group of people who threaten violence against otherwise Constitutional behavior, you can be damned sure that a much larger group of actual Americans take notice, and they begin to see their nation a lot differently than they did, say, on Tuesday of this week.
If threats of violence by alien invaders can suppress our Constitutional rights, then what the hell does our Constitution really mean? Has it now become meaningless? Will threats of violence by other groups, alien or native, gain sufficient legal traction to suppress other Constitutional rights, too? Will or could threats of regional insurrection or violence against alien invaders result in similar court holdings that the Second Amendment no longer has standing there?
Can anyone imagine what that would then mean to tens of millions of law-abiding American citizens, whose otherwise legal ownership of plain vanilla firearms had suddenly overnight become criminalized. Like people using the Internet to promote their ideas, those Americans would use their guns before they would lose them. Surely here in Pennsylvania that is true.
America's Constitution is what binds us all together. It is the great equalizer, the super glue that keeps America's different, pulsing forces together.
Behind this week's 9th Circuit decision is a morally relativist, multiculturalist mindset that places first priority on vague feelings of separate ethnic pride above and beyond the limits on government and expansive freedoms for citizens granted in the Constitution. To this court, government is an enforcer for grievances and hurt feelings; the Constitution is irrelevant in how that enforcement is carried out.
Pennsylvania is undergoing quiet but dramatic demographic change, similar to many other states, including California and New York. These same sorts of issues and questions are about to descend upon us. Do we Pennsylvanians have the quality leaders necessary to keep us bound all together in one identity?
Or do we have elected leaders and courts who are willing to inject anarchy and civil strife in the name of a perverted sense of justice, what Hell may come as a result?
Perry County gets an eyeful of cr@p from anti-gun schemers
In what must be a warm-up for the 2016 state senate race in Perry County (in which I hope to be the Republican nominee), gun control schemers have drummed up a ridiculous problem. The Perry County Auditors are now suing Sheriff Nace for personal gun owner records, to which they have no legal access nor any expectation of access.
It is a political stunt. It is an effort to undermine gun owner rights and put gun owners on the defensive, in order to make easier the state senator's re-election there.
Given that the newly incumbent and very liberal state senator there is far in the minority in Perry County, where even the Democrats are fiercely pro-Second Amendment, this is undoubtedly a politically fostered, carefully coordinated effort between the senator's political party and anti-gun activists.
America's Second Amendment is not about hunting.
It is not about target shooting.
It is not about shotguns, single-shot twenty-twos, and bolt-action deer rifles.
Incredibly, it is about an armed citizenry being able to stand up to its own government. It is a crazy idea, right? So crazy that only America, the world's bastion of liberty, has it.
How frustrating is it to get into one Facebook debate after another with adults who not only have not bothered to research the Second Amendment, but who deliberately refuse to be educated once they are well into the debate.
Feelings are not a substitute for facts. Debates about Constitutional law require facts, historical quotes, Founders' intentions, etc. Sure, I understand that lots of people are afraid of guns. Why not? They are dangerous. But your fear cannot dictate my rights.
BLM giving open land a black eye
The Bureau of Land Management was established as a temporary holding entity, dealing more with water management than common natural resources and the plants and animals living on the land under its care.
Now, BLM has become the poster child of Big Government Gone Wild, using armed force and the threat of lethal force, let alone more prosaic forms of terrifying government coercion, to achieve dubious policy goals. Many of these policy goals grate on the public, who perceive them as being at best ancillary to BLM's mission, if not at odds with the multiple-use land management models the agency is supposed to implement.
Citizens, who own their American government, chafe at official signs that say "No Trespassing – BLM Property," as though the very taxpayers underwriting BLM are alien invaders upon that government-managed ground.
Job #1 would be to actually communicate with the citizenry about the agency's policy goals, the underpinnings and purpose of its policies, the reasons for protecting some landscapes from vehicles. Certainly, BLM can achieve better ways to manage environmentally sensitive land, and perhaps asking the citizenry for ideas would take the agency into new, good places. Many users of federally-managed lands are actually savvy about Leave No Trace, and most others at least care, even if they do not yet know how to minimally impact an area.
BLM's heavy hand in the supposed name of environmental quality is giving all open land a black eye. As a result of BLM's foolish behavior, all kinds of questions are being asked about public land, not just about how it is managed, but why it even exists. Perhaps it is a good discussion to have, and I certainly stand on the side of having those public spaces, but so far the BLM is just pouring gasoline on the fire, which threatens to overtake all public lands.
Part of any discussion should include What Next about BLM. The agency has clearly outlived its established purpose. My instinctive thinking is to divide up its lands among the agencies best suited to manage each piece – National Park Service for this heavily used area, National Forest for this timbered area, and so on. And no, conveying some of these lands to states is not a bad thing, so long as the deeds carry perpetual stipulations that the lands cannot be sold to private owners or converted to some other use. Mining, timbering, preservation of historic artifacts, water management, passive and active recreation, scenic beauty, ecological purposes…states can do many of these as well as a federal agency, and all without having snipers in fatigues pointing guns at citizens.
If nothing else, getting rid of BLM to get rid of its ridiculous snipers and armed thug culture is a worthy step. Not only is that insane behavior unworthy of a representative government, it is unrelated to the purpose of protecting open land in the first place.