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Welcome to the CNET 2018 Directory of VPN providers. In this directory, we're taking a look at a few of the very best commercial VPN service providers on the Internet like CyberGhost, IPVanish, Buffered, Private Internet Access and others. Rather than looking at the wide range of free providers, which often have a lot of limits (and dubious loyalties), we are looking at those vendors who charge a few bucks a month, but put your interests first, rather than those of shadowy advertisers and sponsors. Our VPN rankings are based more than 20 factors including number of server locations, client software, dedicated and dynamic IP, bandwidth caps, security, logging, customer support and price.
We hope that our take on fastest VPN service providers paid off well, and we were able to share all the important details on the subject. A little recap; VPN is undoubtedly a great invention, but when it comes to delivering high speed, a lot of VPNs fails. We have discussed many essential factors above that will help you with your search of high-speed VPNs. Remember, bandwidth is your biggest enemy in VPN speed also, and to give it a headshot requires a fast secure VPN installed on your PC and device.Throughout our fast VPN speed test, we have tested a dozen of VPNs, but if we have to recommend a single VPN only, then we would suggest you go with ExpressVPN – the all-rounder VPN!
When you're using a public Wi-Fi network, even a password-protected one, a VPN is your best friend. That's because using public hotspots can be rife with hazards. From man-in-the-middle attacks to Wi-Fi sniffing, there are many different hacking methods that snoopers use to intercept your Internet traffic and steal your social media or banking passwords, files and photos.
The VPN server provides a routed connection to the network to which the VPN server is attached. On a site-to-site VPN connection, the packets sent from either router across the VPN connection typically do not originate at the routers. The calling router (the VPN client) authenticates itself to the answering router (the VPN server), and, for mutual authentication, the answering router authenticates itself to the calling router.
We spent more than 130 hours researching 32 VPN services, testing 12, interviewing the leadership of five, and consulting information security and legal experts. We found that a VPN shouldn't be your first step toward online security, but for protecting your info on public Wi-Fi (and in some other cases), IVPN is the most trustworthy provider that offers fast, secure connections and easy setup.
Like ProtonVPN, the VPN service built in to the Opera web browser gives you an unlimited amount of free data per month. But its network download and upload speeds were awful (download speeds were 3 percent of the baseline speed), and it's not even a real VPN; it's just a browser-specific encrypted proxy service. (The OperaVPN mobile apps no longer work.)
I read your post about fast vpns and everything makes sense, but which servers did you use? The distance between your location and the servers might be a significant aspect in determining the actual speeds. The distance the data packets have to travel can result in delayed response or increased ping times. If you place that as well in your post, it will be very helpful. As a reader, more info will available to make a solid choice. I have used various VPN services in the past, and have referred to your website for suggestion. The list seems appropriate but adding that suggested info can be really beneficial. Cheers!
To be sent on a local area network (LAN) or WAN link, the IP datagram is finally encapsulated with a header and trailer for the data-link layer technology of the outgoing physical interface. For example, when IP datagrams are sent on an Ethernet interface, the IP datagram is encapsulated with an Ethernet header and trailer. When IP datagrams are sent over a point-to-point WAN link, such as an analog phone line or ISDN, the IP datagram is encapsulated with a PPP header and trailer.
Cost: To be billed every 7 days, you can subscribe to ZenVPN on a weekly basis for $2.95, which is equivalent to around $11.80/month. Another option is to just buy it a month at a time for $5.95/month. A third option is to buy a whole year at once (for $49.95) for what comes out to be $4.16/month. The unlimited option is more expensive, at $5.95/week, $9.95/month or $7.96/month if you pay $95.50 for the whole year.
Without a VPN, your connection is fully open. Your ISP, employer, the Wi-Fi router in the coffee shop mentioned above, any server along the way, or a person with the right tools can look at your data, log it and use it in ways you can't control. Government agencies can monitor your online activity and share the retained metadata with each other, including across country borders through intelligence alliances such as "14 Eyes." Based on your IP address, which depends on your geographic location, third-party sites and services may charge different prices or display intrusive targeted advertising.
PureVPN has a huge choice of 750 servers in 141 countries and counting. The sheer volume of features, toggles, and tools they provide makes it a top contender for the advanced users. There is a stealth browsing mode, online banking security, secure FTP access, multiple protocols and more. They have server lists optimized for P2P and video streaming, so switching is easy.
As we previously noted, we don't recommend relying on our picks to get around geographic restrictions on copyrighted content. The practice is likely illegal, and it violates the terms of service of your ISP, VPN, and content provider. On top of that, it often doesn't work—we couldn't access Netflix over any of the services we tried, and of the four streams we loaded on BBC iPlayer, only two worked a few days later.
You may be considering going with one of the handful of free VPN services available. Why pay for something you can get for free, right? Unfortunately there's a ton of limitations and risks with using a free VPN. Most offer tiny bandwidth allowances, limited server locations, even capped speeds, as they want to convert you into a paid customer to unlock the full product. Don't expect to be able to stream more than a few Youtube clips, that's for sure.
PIA didn't score super high. Total was really fast when I first tested it, probably because it had few customers and the servers weren't congested, but since then the service has taken a nose dive both on the performance and the customer service front. We had a never-ending stream of comments on their review about poor billing practices and other major issues, so we can no longer recommend it.
In addition, in a spoke and hub frame relay topology, the frame relay interface for the hub router must have a router priority set to 1 or greater and the frame relay interfaces for the spoke routers must have a router priority set to 0. Otherwise, the hub router, which is the only router that can communicate with all of the spoke routers, cannot become the designated router and adjacencies cannot form across the frame relay network.
A traditional VPN can affect the user experience when applied to wireless devices. It's best to use a mobile VPN to avoid slower speeds and data loss. A mobile VPN offers you a high level of security for the challenges of wireless communication. It can provide mobile devices with secure access to network resources and software applications on their wireless networks. It's good to use when you're facing coverage gaps, inter-network roaming, bandwidth issues, or limited battery life, memory or processing power.
Many companies proudly display "warrant canaries" on their websites. These are digitally signed notices that say something to the effect of "We have never been served a warrant for traffic logs or turned over customer information." Law enforcement can prohibit a company from discussing an investigation, but in theory, it can't compel a company to actively lie. So the theory goes that when the warrant canary dies—that is, the notice disappears from the website because it's no longer truthful—so does privacy. The EFF supports this legal position, though other highly regarded companies and organizations think warrant canaries are helpful only for informing you after the damage has been done. Such notices may provide a nice sense of security, and they are important to some people, but we didn't consider them essential.
Known for its speed, ease of use and native clients, HideIPVPN supports Windows, Mac, iOS and Android platforms. Its Smart DNS service is known to be able to unblock some sites. The service supports a variety of protocols, which include SSTP, OpenVPN, SoftEther, PPTP and L2TP/IPSec. With the service, torrenting is allowed although only on German and Dutch servers, this is due to the fact that it only has seven server locations in North America and Europe.
One of the platform's notable features is its ability to provide fast connection speeds. VPN software are known to reduce Internet speeds significantly, but with SaferVPN, you won't even notice any speed reduction. The service also allows multiple user accounts at both personal and business levels. Customer support is available 24/7, which include email, tickets, live chats and a comprehensive knowledge base.
In the past, Google has always stuck to a basic design of trapezoidal design of its tabs. But a new design in the Chrome Canary showcases a slope-shouldered look with curved corners. Now, the inactive tabs can be seen merging with the browser itself by graying out in the background, separated by thin vertical lines. Moreover, the address bar and the Chrome new tab search bar has changed into a gray oval shape as compared to the earlier white square box.
IVPN was one of the fastest providers when we tested US servers using the Internet Health Test. Our budget pick, TorGuard, was faster, but it defaults to the less secure 128-bit encryption. Our non-VPN connection tested at roughly 300 Mbps down. Some tested services are not listed because connection failures prevented some of our tests from completing.
The VPN services market has exploded in the past few years, and a small competition has turned into an all-out melee. Many providers are capitalizing on the general population's growing concerns about surveillance and cybercrime, which means it's getting hard to tell when a company is actually providing a secure service and when it's throwing out a lot of fancy words while selling snake oil. In fact, since VPN services have become so popular in the wake of Congress killing ISP privacy rules, there have even been fake VPNs popping up, so be careful. It's important to keep a few things in mind when evaluating which VPN service is right for you: reputation, performance, type of encryption used, transparency, ease of use, support, and extra features. Don't just focus on price or speed, though those are important factors.


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Interview: Chen Wei-Ting (陳為廷)
Yen-Ting Edward Liu 12/13/2015 #11Brian HioeDecember 2015InterviewsThird Force InterviewsYouth Movements中文
Edward Liu
English /// 中文
Photo Credit: Chen Wei-Ting
Translation: Brian Hioe
From the anti-media monopoly movement in 2012, through the Dapu incident in Miaoli to the Sunflower Movement, Chen Wei-Ting has in many important social movements for the sake of society, participated in every activity. But even so, Chen Wei-Ting has been a controversial figure.
In the middle of the battle for 2016 legislative elections, the famous Chen Wei-Ting of the Sunflower Movement was earnestly requested by Chiu Hsien-Chih to be his campaign manager.
New Bloom took the opportunity to interview both Chiu and Chen during Chiu Hsien-Chih's visit to the US on August 30th.
Edward Liu: Wei-Ting, can you discuss why you would want to help Mr. Chiu's campaign?
Chen Wei-Ting: Personally, I feel this campaign confronts a place in which both the KMT and DPP are strong. This is a challenge. Of course, we hope to knock down the KMT, but also hope to compete with the DPP, to show where the the DPP is conservative on some issues.
EL: Then why enter the New Power Party after the Sunflower Movement? A lot of participants joined the DPP after, but you decided on the New Power Party? The reason is…?
CWT: From last year's social movement, I largely acted on the basis of intuition. From 2012's anti-media monopoly movement to the Sunflower Movement, a lot of times I felt that I should just do some things, so I went out and did them.
Like during the time of the anti-media monopoly movement, three days before the merger case was going to pass, at 5 AM in morning I couldn't sleep, so I called Lin Fei-Fan up. He also couldn't believe this thing was going to happen and couldn't sleep. So I said to him, "Let's charge the day after tomorrow". Back then there was no organization, the next day I grabbed a few people to hold a meeting, and the day after that we charged. 318 also. At that time I wasn't in the Black Island Youth Alliance, just I felt that people should go do something.
And I feel that with Taiwan at this time, there needs to be a progressive third party. This is without doubt. To be honest, the Third Force parties came too late, they should have come out at time of nine-in-one elections. It's slowed down a lot. If we didn't come out now, it would be hard to preserve existing political achievements.
Therefore, my priority on joining a Third Force party was a natural course of events, for me more so than joining the DPP. But it's not to say this is more noble. I have social movement friends around my age also working in the DPP, struggling hard to do different things, participating in the presidential elections. I feel this is all good. After all, if there's the opportunity, we can do some things for Taiwan together in future.
Photo credit: BBC
EL: Why did you pick the New Power Party and not the DPP or a different Third Force party?
CWT: I hope more to struggle with legislative districts. This is more challenging.
I feel like with the Green Party, Social Democratic Party, and New Power Party, there are some differences in their electoral campaign strategies. One one hand, there is the strategy which places importance on party votes, on the other hand, there is the strategy hoping to go through electoral campaigns in districts to win seats, while also fighting for party votes. And if you want to win districts, you can't pick a district with a large gap in votes that even the DPP is afraid to place their famous electoral candidates as district candidates there. That way, it's also hard to grab space.
EL: So the Social Democratic Party, Green Party, and New Power Party, from your standpoint, have similar ideals? You would help the New Power Party because you're particularly interested in Hsinchu's legislative campaign? Or because of electoral considerations?
CWT: Of course I have many friends who feel that the New Power Party is not very progressive. But to my understanding, after the movement, the split between parties is because of the problem of trust. In the past, if there was not the experience of working together too much in social movements, to complete something, the price would be very high. If working together has too high a price, working together might not necessarily be a good thing, so why insist on it?
And the important reason why I picked the New Power Party is because I wanted to throw myself into this election district. Up to now, of all the electoral campaigns of Third Force parties, this probably has the most back and forth, and has succeeded in inciting controversy. We came together because we believed in reforming the legislature after 2016. But in other electoral districts, its hard to coordinate, because fundamentally the disparity between political camps is very large, and without any DPP electoral candidates, it's easy to be overlooked
EL: Then as campaign manager for Chiu Hsien-Chih, what strategies do you employ to win in your district?
Photo credit: 邱顯智臉書
CWT: Hsinchu voters can be divided into three categories.
For the first group, we might note that Hsinchu is a very special city. The proportion of people from outside is very high. From nine-in-one elections, we can see why Tsai Jen-Chien hasn't run for office in over ten years, but can still win so many votes. Actually what is important is that Hsinchu residents are young, Hsinchu residents are willing to take a deep look at policy and discuss online who is more diversified or which policies can win more support. This is what we work hard to consolidate.
Outside of that, apart from big political questions, we will also emphasize some questions related to the everyday life of residents of Hsinchu. For example, in the middle of the election campaign, we encountered the problem of childcare, unaffordable real estate, these kinds of things will be a key point in the election campaign. This also matches with the situation of our candidate. Chiu Hsien-Chih himself is a father with two kids, and up to now is still renting a house.
The second group is traditional deep green voters. With them, we will be faced with a lot of doubts, everyone will ask, why did you not join together with the DPP? But we worry about this less, because a lot of green voters don't buy old Ker's excuses anymore. Even if old Ker is very well known among Hsinchu voters, dissatisfaction is also very high. We believe that we can persuade them, Chiu Hsien-Chih is a candidate with the potential to expand roots, but of course we need to spend more time doing this.
The third group is old KMT soldier voters. The most surprising thing is we've made contact with a lot of past Hsinchu military dependents, what is very unexpected is they express approval of us. Many of these military dependents, do not live in military dependent's villages, and after being driven out of military dependent's villages, they live in illegal residences. These dependents became marginalized individuals in society. They've suffered a lot because of the Ministry of Defense, so towards Chiu Hsien-Chih's long history of demonstrating against the Ministry of Defense, they can really understand why he would do that. This is not an ethnic problem of waishengren and benshengren, but a class one.
This is framework by which we address these three important types of voters. We will see how to continue to carry this out. In the past few months, what is important is thinking of policy, looking for research materials, then doing interviews, and drawing conclusions.
Continuing onwards, what is important is to take care of is advertising and organization. Of course, our situation can't compare with having a lot of people, whether in regards to policy or anything else. In Taichung, Mayor Lin Chia-Lung has an entire think tank, and we are mostly college students and graduate students. How do we do policy? Our important fight is in legislative reform, so we earnestly debate with Minority Whip Ker over these issues.
Our first problem to take care of is, why are we more more representative of the voters? But this is harder to grasp. During this period, why do we target Minority Whip Ker? Looking at it, we actually don't take the initiative in attacking, a lot of times, we are reacting. For example, last week, his office compiled two articles, we responded with one. But this is directed against legislative reform as a confrontation of policy. This is what is harder to observe in the election campaigns in districts of other Third Force candidates.
This is also our difference with the electoral strategy of the Social Democratic Party. They use the party to organize discussion of policy and sometimes will criticize the DPP, but the DPP doesn't respond. Because in regards to party votes, it is hard to challenge the DPP. But today in district campaigns, when you have to decide between specific people, the other side is required to respond. This allows for positive political discussion.
Photo credit: ETToday
Outside of legislative reform, confronting Ker Chien-Ming and places where the DPP is in power, we've encountered some issues about land. The mayor who just took power was Ker Chien-Ming's former assistant. These past few months, he has begun to organize public hearings for plans to develop the city. At every month's hearing, you will see many crying residents. Within these cases, you can also see a lot of past land development under the KMT which had been halted, but now it's the the construction companies close to the DPP leading it. After taking power, they began doing this openly and without fear. This is something that will affect people.
The other part is confronting the KMT candidate, Zheng Zhengjian. What is more troublesome is, he doesn't have any important platforms. His only issue is direct cross-strait flights between Hsinchu and Pingtan Island. In the past, the KMT in Hsinchu wanted to establish direct cross-strait flights, because Hsinchu is the closest placed to Pingtan Island in China. The CCP relies on Pingtan Island as part of the United Front against Taiwan. When the KMT was in power in Hsinchu, they pushed for this in spite of opposition. Their only consideration is that this would bring tourists from the mainland. After the DPP took power, this plan was stopped. But recently the KMT's Hsinchu branch office and Zheng Zhengjian is pursuing this issue again. This is also something we will focus on during our electoral campaign more in the future.
Then there is advertising. What is important is the Internet, to address news topics every day, to share images with commentaries, and to use these kinds of methods for commentary to let people understand our policy and stances. We also can't have too little of traditional paper advertising materials.
Last is organization. Old Ker and Tsai Ing-Wen, with the opening up of election headquarters in DPP central had three thousand people show up. But we began with zero. Traditionally, there would be an organization backing you up, including local representatives, legislatures, and different aid associations in different areas. We don't have any of this.
Our important focus is on traditional methods. To pay a visit to each of the 122 district representatives once. Although it's not a lot, we have encountered some who are willing to support us. For example, Hsinchu's riverside is very particular. There was a movement in Taiwan protesting Evergreen Group there. In 1987, people surrounded that place for three days, that was probably the earliest self-organized social movement in Taiwan before the end of martial law. And now the local representative was a young person then, so he is more supportive towards us. Apart from that, there is still some local representatives who are DPP supporters but don't like old Ker, some people have agreed to help set up a general assembly.
Other than that is young people. For example, Ker Chien-Ming keeps dragging Ko Wen-Je back to Hsinchu, emphasizing that they are old army buddies, using these types of means to get support from Hsinchu people. But in truth, the young people of Hsinchu won't necessarily be convinced to vote for him. We now really are establishing different Hsinchu high school and high school alumni support organizations, and using the Internet to organize the young people of Hsinchu. Apart from that, we appreciate Mr. Yuan T. Lee supporting us, being willing to help advertise for us, and helping us stand up. Mr. Yuan T. Lee is also a Hsinchu person, this of course to us is very helpful.
318 MovementChen Wei-TingChiu Hsien-ChihDemocratic Progressive PartyDPPNew Power PartyNPPsunflower movementSunflower Student MovementThird ForceThird Force InterviewsThird Political Force
Yen-Ting Edward Liu
Edward Liu has a Master's in Statistics from Columbia University, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Social Welfare at Rutger's University. He is interested in the phenomenon of poverty and social inequality. Through deconstructing left and right ideology and the dialogue of the data sciences and empirical research, he hopes that this can become a topic of public discussion, and can lead to new ways of understanding.
劉彥廷,紐約哥倫比亞大學統計碩士,紐澤西羅格斯大學社會福利所博士生。
對於理解貧窮現象與社會不均有濃厚的興趣,透過解構左與右的意識型態以及資料科學的實證研究對話,盼能在公共論述的討論中,提供另一種途徑的論述見解。
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James Cody Tortured by Chicago Police
On November 18, 1983, a black man named James Cody was beaten with a flashlight, subjected to electric shock on his testicles and buttocks, and threatened with castration by officers acting under Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge. Over the course of almost thirty years, Burge oversaw and participated in the torture of over 100 black men, resulting in scores of forced confessions. When Burge first took command of the jurisdiction known as Area 2 as a detective in 1972, he and his men -- known as the "Midnight Crew" -- began forcing confessions using brutal torture practices such as beating, suffocation, electric shock, burning, Russian roulette, and mock execution.
In 1982, Cook County State's Attorney Richard Daley was notified of Burge's tactics through a letter detailing Burge's abuse of a man named Andrew Wilson, who was beaten, shocked, suffocated, burned with a radiator, and threatened with a gun in his mouth. Mr. Wilson sued the city in one of numerous complaints and lawsuits alleging torture by Burge and his men. Despite these complaints, the State's Attorney's office continued to use confessions obtained by Burge's team to convict and incarcerate of dozens of black men over the next ten years.
An investigation into the torture allegations was not launched until 1991, following pressure from advocacy groups, international human rights organizations, and torture survivors. Two years later, Burge was fired, and fifteen years after that, he was convicted of perjury for lying under oath in one of the civil suits; he served less than four years in prison. In 2015, the city of Chicago approved a $5.5 million reparations package for survivors of the Burge-led torture campaign. The settlement included a formal apology as well as curricular reforms that would highlight the survivors' stories in schools. Despite the review and reversal of many convictions that were obtained under Burge's command, more than a dozen survivors remain in prison and have not yet had their cases reviewed.


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My job is quite multi-disciplinary, covering many areas of science and engineering. It mostly involves using physics-based methods to explore, develop and manage geothermal fields (regions that are suitable for generating geothermal power).
Geothermal energy involves circulating hot fluids (~150-300 °C) from regions below the surface (called the sub-surface) and using the hot fluids to turn turbines and generate electricity.
To access the hot fluids, wells are drilled into the ground up to 3-4 kilometres deep. Naturally we need 'images' of these regions before any drilling is done. We need to know things like what kinds of rocks are present, whether there are any faults in the rocks, the size and location of the reservoir of hot fluids, and their likely temperature. This enables us to work out where exploration wells should be drilled.
One of the main imaging methods used in geothermal energy is magnetotelluric (MT) surveys. In this kind of survey, the electric and magnetic fields present are measured. The data is then processed to produce a kind of map of the region below the surface. A big part of my job is to plan and manage the running of these surveys and process and interpret the data that comes from them.
Probably the most rewarding aspect is going in to survey a possible new geothermal field. It is good to spend some time outdoors instead of staying in an office all the time.
Time management! I have a lot going on in a wide variety of areas and managing my time is hard. This is nothing unusual, though, for anyone in the geothermal business at the moment!
I would like to become an expert in geothermal energy and help to put as much geothermal energy on the electricity grid as I can.
What are some of the benefits of being a geoscientist?
Geoscientists generally are paid quite well and often have opportunities to travel with their job. After studying and initially working in Australia, I have been fortunate enough to travel overseas with work to Kyrgyzstan, India and now New Zealand. Geoscientists in Australia can have widely varying salaries. Those in the minerals and petroleum sectors tend to get paid quite well, but are exposed to the ups and downs of mineral and oil prices. Salaries can range from $50,000 to $100,000 and well over. Some of the people with whom I went to university who obtained jobs with mining companies were paid in excess of $100,000 straight out of university! People in geothermal energy are paid comparatively well, but not as much as those in the minerals and petroleum sectors.
Why is the study of science, technology or engineering relevant to your role?
Although my job title is 'geophysicist', the work I do day-to-day involves many areas of science and engineering. For example, the chemistry of the hot fluids can provide a vast amount of information on the nature of a particular geothermal reservoir. Engineering allows us to determine how the hot fluid will flow through the reservoir into the wells and afterward be used to generate electricity. My work is very cross-disciplinary, and geothermal geoscientists and engineers need to have a wide background in many areas of science and engineering.
After finishing High School in country New South Wales, I enrolled in a Bachelor of Engineering and Science at Monash University in Melbourne. I dropped out of the engineering part of my course in my first year, continuing on with my science degree, not really knowing exactly what I wanted to do. I then took courses in maths, physics and geology in my second and third years and found out about geophysics in my third year.
I did a third year project in geophysics looking at heat flow through the earth, which was my first introduction to geothermal energy. I followed that project up with similar work in my Honours (4th) year. After university I worked for Geoscience Australia for around 6 months then began working for a geothermal energy consultancy in Melbourne. I then took a post-graduate course in geothermal energy for six months at the University of Auckland. After I finished that course, I obtained my current job at Mighty River Power and have now moved to Rotorua.
A career in geothermal energy as a geophysicist is best supported by having a background in maths, physics and geology, so you should study as much as you can in these areas at school and university.
If you don't know at this stage what career path you would like to take, do not worry! By the end of my second year at university, I still had no idea what direction my career would take. My main piece of advice would be to always work hard regardless of whether or not you know where it is taking you, and to try to find something you are keenly interested in and passionate about doing. If you can do this, work will hardly seem like work at all!


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What should you know
COVID-19 is a respiratory illness that spreads easily from person-to-person. The vaccine can provide protection against COVID-19. The COVID-19 vaccine creates an antibody response that helps the body fight the virus. In research studies, those who received the vaccine were less likely to get COVID-19 than those who were not vaccinated. Research also found that people who were exposed to COVID-19 after being vaccinated had milder cases of COVID-19. While the vaccine is one way to protect yourself, you should still continue to wear a mask, stay at least 6 feet apart, avoid crowds, and wash your hands often.
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Vaccines give the body a head start when it comes to fighting different diseases. They introduce the disease to the body's immune system to trigger a response. This response helps the body build its defense to fight the disease. Many vaccines use a weak or inactive germ to trigger an immune response; however, mRNA vaccines work differently. mRNA vaccines teach cells how to make proteins, or pieces of proteins, that can trigger an immune response. That immune response, which produces antibodies, is what protects us from getting infected if the real virus enters our bodies. Researchers have been studying and working with mRNA vaccines for decades. Interest has grown in these vaccines because they can be developed in a laboratory using readily available materials. This allows researchers to make vaccines faster than they are made now.
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95% effective after two doses
Efficacy was seen regardless of gender, age, race, or ethnicity 2 doses given 3 weeks or 21 days apart
It is best to get the 2nd dose 17-21 days after the 1st dose.
Both doses are needed for full effectiveness
NOTE: Safety and efficacy of this vaccine, when given with other vaccines, has not been tested. DO NOT get any other vaccines 14 days before or after getting this vaccine Most people experience side effects after the 2nd dose. Common side effects seen in the trials included:
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Utnäset är ett naturreservat i Askersunds kommun i Örebro län.

Området är naturskyddat sedan 2006 och är 121 hektar stort. Reservatet omfattar stranden av en udde och öar och holmar utanför i västra Vättern. Växtligheten består av hällmarkstallskog och i fuktigare skrevor gran, rönn och asp.

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Package Thieves Go Home Empty Handed, Thanks To Black Lab Good job, Zero! It's amazing that this thwarted theft was all caught on film!
A family in Utah is crediting their dog for foiling a petty porch thief's plans for their package.
Zero, a 9-year-old black lab, isn't exactly what you'd call a tough guy. His owners even go as far as to call him a bit of a scaredy cat.
"Just a lab that's scared of everyone and everything," laughed Zero's owner, Whitney Cahoon. "I mean dusters, plastic bags, the cats… he's terrified of the cats."
So how then did Zero become a Superhero?
"I just kind of yelled, 'Get 'em Zero! Get 'em!" Cahoon said.
A doorbell camera caught what happened next. A man can be seen running up to their porch and grabbing a package. A few moments later, Zero bolts from the house towards the thief. The thief ran and jumped into his getaway car, but he threw the package back out onto the road.
"He just went for it, it was awesome!" said Cahoon.
Whitney said that package theft has sadly become a common occurrence in the neighborhood.
"People have been trying to steal packages, they've caught them on camera, but never here," she said. "We're on a pretty busy street, I didn't think that anybody would ever dare attempt that."
Thanks to Zero, Cahoon's home won't be added to the list of those stolen from.
"I'm hoping that the word spread from them not to mess with us," Cahoon said.
Perhaps you're wondering what was in the package. It was just a four-dollar dimmer switch from Ikea. Whitney said she thinks it would have been pretty funny if the guy had gotten away with the caper because the item was basically worthless!
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require 'grpc'
require 'google/ads/google_ads/v12/services/ad_group_criterion_customizer_service_pb'

module Google
  module Ads
    module GoogleAds
      module V12
        module Services
          module AdGroupCriterionCustomizerService
            # Proto file describing the AdGroupCriterionCustomizer service.
            #
            # Service to manage ad group criterion customizer
            class Service

              include ::GRPC::GenericService

              self.marshal_class_method = :encode
              self.unmarshal_class_method = :decode
              self.service_name = 'google.ads.googleads.v12.services.AdGroupCriterionCustomizerService'

              # Creates, updates or removes ad group criterion customizers. Operation
              # statuses are returned.
              rpc :MutateAdGroupCriterionCustomizers, ::Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V12::Services::MutateAdGroupCriterionCustomizersRequest, ::Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V12::Services::MutateAdGroupCriterionCustomizersResponse
            end

            Stub = Service.rpc_stub_class
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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The Hawaii Government's Waikoloa Highlands Heist
Collage of parties involved in the Hawaii County Waikoloa Highlands heist including Mayors Kenoi and Kim, drug dealers Sulla and Martirosian (both arrested thieves), and victims including Valery Grigoryants representing his brother Vitaly, owner of Armbusinessbank, and key Waikoloa Highlands investors with Morgan Stanley of New York. Lower left is fellow victims and whistleblowers, Dr. Leonard Horowitz and Sherri Kane.
THE WAIKOLOA HIGHLANDS HEIST
Leonard G. Horowitz and Sherri Kane
For simultaneous publication in
The Frank Report
JudicialCorruptionNews.com
The County of Hawaii Crime Syndicate
Hollywood producer, cocaine trafficker, and embezzler Stephan Martirosian poses with actor Pierce Brosnan.
(Hilo, HI 1-13-20) According to County of Hawaii officials, the Waikoloa Highlands heist resulted from the wrongoing of Mr. Stephan Martirosian. An investigation by the L.A. Weekly explained that Martirosian, and his partner Remington Chase, were convicted cocaine dealers, Russian oil mob federal informants, and Martirosian was also an alleged contract murder whistleblower.
As explained previously on JudicialCorruptionNews.com, the 'hit' was most likely ordered by Mikhail Khodorkovsky—previously one of Russia's wealthiest oil tycoons imprisoned for the alleged murder of a Siberian town mayor.
Third Circuit 'Drug' Court Judge Ronald Ibarra turned a blind-eye over many years to Sulla's forgeries to grant him stolen properties. Then Ibarra retired 'early' when word got out about the corruption.
Pinning the exclusive blame on Martirosian for losing 80 affordable housing units and a half billion dollar revenue stream, however, doesn't compute.
It isn't known if Martirosian, who is currently jailed in Armenia, made any money on the Waikoloa Highlands heist. But Paul J. Sulla, Jr. most certainly did.
Of more than 700 rezoned acres designated for the "Waikoloa Highlands Project" ("WHP") there was only 11.7 acres of most valuable highway front, village neighboring, "commercial" land that County of Hawaii officials virtually handed-over to Sulla–a hallucinogenic drug kinpin, indicted forger, and veteran land thief. This official action resulted in the loss of 48 affordable housing units and much more.
The Mayors of Hawaii County: Complicity in Land Thievery
According to Hawaii County tax records and Land Use Commission transcripts, Hilo lawyer Sulla Jr. was both the member and the attorney of record for the 11.7 acre property transfer from Waikoloa Highlands to his own LLC–Plumeria Waikoloa. Corporate counsel, the Mayor's Office and the County Office of Housing and Community Development, all signed off on the transfer.
Paul J. Sulla, Jr. arrest 'mug shot.'
Then Sulla converted the non-profit affordable housing land, donated by the financiers of the community development project, into a $1.5 million windfall. The beneficiaries were allegedly the C0unty's commercial "consortium," Sulla explained to Environment Hawaii investigator Patricia Tummons. Sulla refused to answer who else was associated with the transaction.
Pinning exclusive blame on Martirosian, therefore, doesn't compute with the facts. Did Martirosian receive a recorded 'payout' for his compliance and complicity with Sulla under the County's instruction? Unlikely. But Sulla surely got wealthy, paying $0 for the property, and quickly 'flipping it' for $1.5M.
But notice that local, state or federal investigators who would try to claim that Martirosian sabotaged the WHP, would need to turn deaf, dumb and blind to the series of transactions that put the main investors, the Ukrainian-Armenian Grigoryants, through zoning impositions and express instructions to donate the land for affordable housing before "the consortium" consummated the developers' defrauding and land heist.
Ch 11 of the Hawaii Housing Code required Sulla's LLC ( the transferee) to be a non-profit entity. The original deed, executed by the Armenian-Ukrainian developer, clearly evidences a lawful transfer to a non-profit. This record is undisputed. Subsequent to its receipt by the County, the deed was suddenly and inexplicably altered, and the land was transferred to a for-profit entity with Sulla as the exclusive named member.
The registered name on the forged (void) deed is "PLUMERIA AT WAIKOLOA, LLC, a Hawai'I limited liability company." The transfer from WAIKOLOA HIGHLANDS, INC. a Colorado Corporation, representing the Armenian-Ukrainian business interests of the developer, Valery and Vitale Grigoryants, of Arch Limited and Vitoil Co. This deed was executed on June 1, 2017, but not recorded with the State of Hawaii's Bureau of Conveyances until January 29, 2018. Therefore, between those dates, page 2 of the deed was illegally switched–altered to permit the for-profit sale of the land by Sulla and Plumeria in favor of, quoting Sulla, the "consortium."
According to a legal notice issued by Mayor Harry Kim on June 22, 2017, directing the U.S. Army's Director of Munitions and Chemical Matters (ODASA [ESOH]) to clear the subject property of "unexploded ordinances" (i.e., bombs) and shell casings–cc'd to Senators Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz, and Representatives Colleen Hanabusa and Tulsi Gabbard, "Plumeria at Waikoloa (JSM Enterprises)" was designated as the subject property owner, no longer the Gregoriants' Grantor. (CLICK HERE to read Mayor Kim's military instructions.)
It is noteworthy that the "JSM Enterprises" designation referenced by Mayor Kim to represent "Plumeria at Waikoloa" presumably references an enterprise with Sulla's son, "Jason Sulla-Menashe." On Jan. 11, 2020 Jason (pictured with his father above) was indicted by a Hilo grand jury on charges of child pornography and soliciting sex with minors. Sulla appeared in court to represent his "family therapist" son. It must, therefore, be presumed that Sulla, who was indicted for deed forgery and property theft on December 4, 2019, represents Plumeria at Waikoloa with his indicted son, Jason Sulla-Menashe, as members of the "consortium" that administered these transactions under the County's instruction and jurisdiction.
How can a reasonable person explain these facts; that all of this occurred with no law enforcers objecting?
The Incomprehensible and Unconscionable Extent of Corruption in Hawaii
Mayor Billy Kenoi at trial.
These criminal transactions occurred under the authority of the present Democratic Mayor, Harry Kim, and the Past Democratic Mayor, Billy Kenoi, who had been indicted in 2016 for embezzling more than $125,000 from Big Island taxpayers.
Kenoi was later exonerated under suspicious conditions after Judge Dexter Del Rosario dismissed three counts related to tampering with government documents after the state Attorney General's office finished arguing its case.
That's odd. Why would a judge strike the state's claims and evidence after prosecutors rested their case?
We're talking about the same obstruction of justice and criminal complicity here–concealing forgery of a government-administered deed.
Kenoi, history reveals, was mentored by Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, who chaired the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during the 1977 investigation of "Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification" that featured LSD and biochemical weapons for mass depopulation.
Hollywood producer and cocaine trafficker, Stephan Martirosian (right) and his federal informant partner Remington Chase (left), with actor actor Gerard Butler.
It must also be known that Hawaii AG Douglas Chin and Hilo Prosecutor, Mitch Roth, both aided-and-abetted Martirosian's accomplice, Paul J. Sulla, Jr. by willful blindness, not only of the Waikoloa Highlands Heist, but a similar forgery scheme to steal these authors' million dollar property.
Let us not forget Sulla's Class I narcotic hallucinogen enterprise operating with more willful blindness by state and federal officials. They permitted a massive amount of drugs to be shipped to the mainland U.S. through Honolulu and Hilo harbors.
Further documenting the unconscionable extent of this government's organized crime syndicate is the indictment of Hilo Police officers Brian Miller and Chadwick Fuku in 2018 for disappearing an undisclosed amount of cocaine from a secured government facility. That case also brought charges against complicit civilians Lance Yamada, Stacey Yamada, David Colon and Ivar Kaluhikau.
Mitch Roth announced his bid for mayor, on a 'tough on crime' platform?
The original cocaine bust was accompanied by media censorship. Subsequently, County Prosecutor Mitch Roth forwarded the case to the attorney general's office in Honolulu, which shuffled-it-off to the Honolulu Prosecutor's Office "because of a conflict of interest," the Tribune Herald reported.
After months of reviewing the case, Honolulu determined there was no probable cause to support a charge of "Securing the Proceeds of an Offense," or any other crime.
Prosecutors said they began reviewing the case a second time after receiving [many complaints, condemnations, and "more information." "The conflict of interest that existed in March 2018 that kept Hawaii County prosecutors from pursuing the case has been resolved." reported the Tribune Herald on May 14, 2019.
"Miller intentionally obtained control of cocaine, . . . by deception," the West Hawaii Today reported. "He also reportedly possessed one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances of . . . heroin, morphine or cocaine."
Paul J. Sulla, Jr., indicted deed forger, property thief, and leading trafficker of the Class I narcotic hallucinogen, ayahuasca (DMT) to the mainland U.S.
"Fukui retired as a captain with 34 years of service on June 30, 2006. He applied for police chief in 2008," but was turned down. He then went to work for the Hawaii County prosecutor's office as an investigator from 2007 to 2014, West Hawaii Today continued.
That time period overlapped many years of neglected complaints against Sulla for DMT/ayahuasca trafficking, forgery and property theft.
The prosecutor's office under Mitch Roth purportedly "looked at previous cases where Miller and Fukui were primary investigators," but nothing reportedly came of it.
Hawaii AG Douglas Chin and Hilo Prosecutor, Mitch Roth, both aided-and-abetted Sulla's drug enterprise and property conversion schemes by willful blindness or reckless negligence. They permitted a massive amount of drugs to be shipped to the mainland U.S. through Honolulu and Hilo harbors, and a large number of people to be damaged by organized crime.
Similarly, in Honolulu at that time, Nick Grube later reported for the Civil Beat on March 11, 2019, more Big Island narcotics traders were linked to extensive public corruption in the Honolulu AG's office.
On August 13, 2015 Tiffany Masunaga and Honolulu Police Officer Alan Ahn were busted for cocaine, marijuana and several prescription medications, including hydrocodone, alprazolam and 114 transdermal patches of the high-powered opioid fentanyl.
Four years later they were still free on a plea bargain that allegedly was part of "a growing federal investigation into public corruption and abuse of power in Hawaii law enforcement."
Civil Beat detailed related convictions of Honolulu's former police chief Louis Kealoha, and his wife, Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha in cases completely censored by the mainland's corporate-controlled press.
Five more officers in Honolulu, including HPD Lt. Derek Hahn, officer Bobby Nguyen, and former Maj. Gordon Shiraishi, were all charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Suspicions extended to Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro. Nonetheless, Kaneshiro was granted paid leave by Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell, who's lawyer, Donna Leong, "helped craft a $250,000 payout for Louis Kealoha."
Katherine Kealoha's brother, fellow drug trafficker, Rudy Puana, a Hilo doctor, leaves the federal courthouse.
In July 2015, HPD detective, Daniel Sellers, a member of the Honolulu Police Department's elite Criminal Intelligence Unit, told Katherine Kealoha that her younger brother, Rudolph Puana, was buying cocaine from Masunaga. Sellers and Kealoha tipped brother Puana off that he was under federal investigation for drug trafficking, so he fled the country.
That presumably brought federal investigators back to Hilo where brother "Rudy"–Dr. Rudolph Puana–served as an anesthesiologist, anesthetizing himself and his clients with legal and illegal drugs, including oxycodone, fentanyl, Xanax, and cocaine incoming from the Mexican Salinas cartel. The 56-count federal indictment alleges that Dr. Puana and Katherine Kealoha played leading roles in "a small," multi-island drug ring.
The Waikoloa Highlands Heist Consummated, then Neglected and Concealed by County Officials
In this context of a de-facto mob state, this endemic public corruption in Hawaii, as the aforementioned federal investigations were targeting "a small multi-island drug ring," the large multi-national criminals and security risks went unattended, even concealed.
Mayor Harry Kim and County law enforcers, including Hilo Prosecutor Mitch Roth, evaded the criminality linking even the Trump impeachment to the Ukrainian-Armenian Gregoriants' being defrauded and damaged in favor of Burisma and the Bidens through the Waikoloa investment hijacking.
"If there is all this noncompliance going on, why hasn't the County taken enforcement actions . . .?" asked Land Commissioner Gary Okuda of Ron Kim, Planning Program Co-manager, and Deputy Corporation Counsel for the County.
Okuda was referring to the 'elephant under the carpet' that law enforcers neglected.
Deputy Prosecutor, Rick Damerville, in retirement mode, finally brought Sulla before a grand jury on December 4, 2019. The indictment for only two counts–forgery and theft–neglected dozens of felonies yet to be charged.
How was it possible that Sulla, aided-and-abetted by County officials, continued to forge deeds and steal properties, yet no one brought him to justice before retiring deputy prosecutor Rick Damerville moved the grand jury to favor society?
Steven Lim, lawyer for the defrauded Grigoryants, asked similarly, "Who would have been the person from the County that would be responsible for that [gross societally-damaging neglect]?"
Jeff Darrow, Planning Program Manager, Deputy Corporate Counsel replied, "This would have been the members of the Office of Housing and Community Development, as well as our Corporation Counsel, and I believe that Mayor as well, and the parties, the Applicant themselves."
Darrow was referring to Alan Rudo of the housing department, Neil S. Gyotoku and Susan Akiyama, Housing Administrators; and Amy Self, Deputy Corporation Counsel at the time. Mayor Kenoi left office under a cloud of suspicion a few days after Sulla got the assignment to administer (and forged) the Gregoriant's deed.
Mayor Harry Kim
Lim noted that, "the County Office of Housing and Community Development, . . . prepared all the documents for the transfer." He later noted that Rudo also resigned under suspicion.
The illegal alteration of the Grigoryants' Deed by Sulla, transferring the 11.7 acres of land from a non-profit to a for-profit entity, gave County officials a 'legal' excuse to void the Gregoriants' whole deal. The 'Deep State' and Satan couldn't have done better. 80 units of affordable housing were terminated. The forged deed nixed all of it.
Click to view a music video featuring The Eagles and the U.S. Air Force Band produced by award-winning filmmaker, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, detailing how Hawaii fell into this despicable lawlessness.
Administrator Gyotoku, when questioned under oath, testified that even though the altered deed had been under County control at the time the forgery occurred, he had no idea how the forgery happened.
But when the Grigoryants' attorney Lim subpoenaed the records to get that exact answer, the Land Use Commission refused to provide the records. They argued their obstruction was "irrelevant."
Concluding Analysis
The evidentiary record speaks volumes. Paul Sulla created the original deed, and fraudulently altered it while it was in the County's possession. In the end, Sulla pocketed $1.5 million dollars at the expense of 80 low income families and President Trump's wealthiest supporters in the Ukraine.
To read an "Executive Summary" detailing the facts in the Waikaloa Highlands Project land heist and defrauding of the Gregoriants, CLICK: Waikoloa Highlands Heist Exec. Summary.
Dr. Leonard Horowitz and Sherri Kane
Leonard Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., D.N.M. (hon.), D.M.M. (hon.), is the author of twenty two books, including the prophetically titled Death In The Air: Globalism,Terrorism and Toxic Warfare that came out three months before 9-11-01. That book deals with biological and energy weapons being used for population control. His three American best-sellers include: Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola–Nature, Accident or Intentional? that was largely responsible for prompting explosive interest in vaccination risks and biological warfare; Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse, that revealed the original Solfeggio musical scale secreted for millennia; and Healing Celebrations: Miraculous Recoveries Through Ancient Scripture, Natural Medicine and Modern Science in which Dr. Horowitz presents his protocol for administering prevention and speedier recoveries. His text, The Book of 528: Prosperity Key of LOVE, has prompted a revolution in the music industry improving recording artistry and music therapy with the use of C=528Hz(A=444Hz) tuning that produces "medicinal music." Dr. Horowitz's documentary, UN-VAXXED: A Docu-commentary for Robert De Niro won five international awards, including "Best Film – 2016" in London and Geneva competitions.
Sherri Kane
If you do a Google search on Sherri Kane, you will probably notice she has been widely defamed by the Troll Triad and their "socks"–a seemingly large group of racist, anti-Semitic, and sexist men who obviously feel their lives spent on the Internet libeling her is a profitable pastime.
Here are some political reasons why:
Sherri Kane is America's gutsiest investigative journalist, news commentator, psycho-social analyst, and political activist, specializing in uncovering what predators do to women, children, and even animals. She exposes human and animal rights violators, child sex traffickers, and human slavery networks, several involving high ranking government officials.
Sherri does not hesitate to investigate, analyze, and vet the dark world of government and intelligence agencies' corruption, and agents' complicity in organized crimes. She refutes the propaganda published to manipulate and damage people, and exposes what is being concealed by the FBI/CIA's COINTELPRO (that was supposed to have stopped abusing people and depriving human rights in 1976 by Acts of Congress). Sherri delves into conspiracy realities so dark that very few people dare to study them.
For instance, you may have heard of the political fracas involving certain members of Congress, a high ranking official in the Republican Party, and the mysterious disappearances and abuses of children at "Boys Town" in Nebraska, called "The Franklin Cover-up." Thanks to Ms. Kane's heroic investigative reporting, the matter has now been exposed as "The Franklin Double-coverup."
You may recall the Gulf Oil Crisis, maybe even the extensive coverage Jesse Ventura and TruTV gave to the "Conspiracy Theory" implicating Halliburton, BP, and TransOcean in the intentional explosion and environmental devastation in the Gulf of Mexico. Ms Kane sourced the story and appears on the segment.
Sherri wrote the foreword to Dr. Horowitz's music-industry-transforming book, The Book of 528: Prosperity Key of Love, and co-produced and is co-starring in Dr. Horowitz's controversial docu-comedy PHARMAWHORES: The SHOWTIME Sting of Penn & Teller, winner of the 2010 Accolade Award for "Uniqueness in Documentary Film-making." That film heavily influenced online video production for thousands of subsequent Internet producer. Sherri also stars in Dr. Horowitz's latest documentary, UN-VAXXED: A Docu-commentary for Robert De Niro that won five international awards, including "Best Film – 2016" in London and Geneva competitions. Ms. Kane also co-wrote Space Pearl Harbor, reviewed in the 39-minute news program seen HERE.
Ms. Kane is the Vice President of Medical Veritas online journal, has published works in newspapers, magazines and many websites, and has been interviewed worldwide including on Al Jazeera's A9 Turkey, The Veritas Show, the BBC's Talk Radio Europe, Late Night In The Midlands, WAC Connecticut, LA Talk Radio, and many others. She co-hosts the Hollywood Spin series of film reviews with Dr. Horowitz viewed on RevolutionTelevision.net and Vimeo's Revolution Television Channel.
Sherri is currently collaborating with Dr. Horowitz on various projects including Healthy World Organization (HWO), the alternative to the corrupt World Health Organization (WHO), HealthyWorldAffiliates.com, and advancing the power of "528 Hz" frequency for global healing, as experienced at 528Records.com, 528Radio.com, and 528Revolution.com.
For their work together exposing devil-doing operatives in the media, Dr. Horowitz and Ms. Kane were christened "The HOROKANE" by Alma C. Ott, exposed in this article.
E-mail inquiries to SherriKane@gmail.com.


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Seven Mariners pitchers combine for shutout in spring opener
Wed., March 2, 2016
James Paxton started and pitched two scoreless innings in the Mariners' 7-0 victory over the Padres. (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)
Bob Dutton Tacoma News Tribune
PEORIA, Ariz. – If this Cactus League opener produces the dawn of a new era for the Mariners, it couldn't have gone much better than Wednesday's 7-0 romp over the San Diego Padres at Peoria Stadium.
With a roster retooled in the offseason by new general manager Jerry Dipoto, and sporting a new manager in Scott Servais, the only drawback for the Mariners on this sunny afternoon was, well, it doesn't count for much.
Even so, there was much to like.
Lefty James Paxton began his quest to retain a spot in the rotation by working two scoreless innings. Six pitchers followed in closing out a four-hit shutout.
"It felt great to be back on the mound," Paxton said, "and facing guys who aren't our own guys. It was fun. First time out, and I felt I was pounding the strike zone pretty well.
"I tried to do too much on a few pitches. But I felt it was a really good starting point for spring training."
The overhauled lineup delivered 12 hits, including home runs by Chris Iannetta, Franklin Gutierrez and Stefen Romero.
"Our pitching, obviously, threw strikes," Servais said. "We were ahead in the count for the most part. The thing that stood out for me, as much as anything, is our at-bats were very competitive."
Iannetta opened the scoring with a two-run homer on a 2-2 slider from Luis Perdomo in the second inning.
Gutierrez extended the lead to 3-0 with a leadoff homer in the fourth inning against Cory Mazzoni. The ball struck high off the blue batters's eye in center field.
Iannetta's sacrifice fly added another run in the fourth.
The Mariners stretched their lead with two more runs in the fifth inning after the first waves of substitutes entered the game. Dan Robertson had an RBI triple and scored on Chris Taylor's double.
Romero's leadoff homer in the sixth made it 7-0.
Paxton started the game by striking out Melvin Upton and worked a one-two-three first inning on 15 pitches. Paxton then needed 19 pitches in working around a two-out walk in the second inning.
"Very good," Servais said. "Under control. Commanded his pitches. Worked the change-up in there. Off to a good start. Really happy for him. He's worked his tail off."
The play of the game came in the third inning. The Mariners escaped a two-on, one-out threat when second baseman Robinson Cano, showing improved range over last season, gloved a sharp grounder up the middle and turned it into a double play.
"I'm not able to do that last year," he said. "I was hurt."
Cano played the final two months last season with a double hernia.
Seth Smith had singles in each of his two at-bats, although the second one was a charitable call on a hopper that eluded Padres first baseman Wil Myers … Cano started his spring with a line-drive single to left with two outs in the first inning …Ketel Marte worked back from an 0-2 count for a walk in his first plate appearance and then stole second…Right-hander Donn Roach worked two strong innings after relieving Paxton. Roach is likely bound for Triple-A Tacoma…Veteran reliever Joel Peralta, in camp as a non-roster invite, worked a one-two-three fifth inning…Lefty Vidal Nuno pitched a one-two-three eighth inning on 10 pitches…Tony Zych stranded two runners in the ninth inning by striking out the last two hitters.
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2003 Top Ten: Startup Flameouts
In 2003, everything old was new again, and new things had become old. This wasn't good for startups, especially flashy, pie-in-the-sky startups promising "revolutionary" products.
Elaborate new technologies that required ripping out and replacing old equipment were rejected outright. Carriers' interest was limited to anything that would enable them to sweat the old network for another 12 months.
As if that weren't bad enough, venture capitalists continued to hide in caves, so even those startups that had promising developments had trouble finding the cash to continue.
Combine hesitant operators with coy VCs, and you get a miserable environment for startups. It's easy to see why network equipment startups selling flashy new kit in 2003 had such a tough year.
Here's a rundown of some of the startup burnouts we reported this year:
No. 10 Crescent Networks Three months after it declared that it absolutely wasn't closing its doors, this edge router company did indeed cease operations (see Crescent is Waning).
Crescent's routers fared well in tests with BTexact Technologies, the testing arm of BT plc (London: BGC), but it was unable to turn these early trials into revenue-generating sales and shut its doors in January.
After raising $66 million, the assets of the company were sold to British network equipment manufacturer Marconi Corp. plc (Nasdaq: MRCIY; London: MONI) for "tens of thousands of pounds," according to a source familiar with the deal. Did somebody say FIRE SALE?
No. 9 Silicon Access Networks This network processor company's chips were up sometime in October, but it was hard to tell exactly when Silicon Access shut its doors, as it disconnected the phone lines before Light Reading had the chance to report a proper postmortem (see For the Masses).
Nevertheless, our stories leading up to its disappearance shed some light on what happened.
Silicon Access made a big fuss about a deal it claimed to have signed with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in February. The Chinese router company was said to be using its network processor, address processor, classifier, and accounting device for 10-Gbit/s port speeds (see Silicon Access Nabs Huawei).
But for months after this announcement, Silicon Access's competitors insisted the deal never materialized (see Huawei Chip Deal: Who's Got It?).
Silicon Access officials stood by their story. Chief operating officer Rex Naden wouldn't elaborate much, citing Huawei's reluctance to publicly disclose its plans, but at the time he said Silicon Access "absolutely" did sign a contract with Huawei, claiming revenues were on the way.
These revenues never amounted to much, clearly, as Silicon Access has not been heard from since. The company had raised a total of $124 million in funding.
No. 8 Corona Networks IP edge router startup Corona was in business for six years before it eventually kicked the bucket in August (see Corona Networks Disappears).
Corona's end came as a bit of a surprise, as just a few months earlier it had squeezed $8 million in extra funding out of its VCs and clinched a deal with Alcatel SA (NYSE: ALA; Paris: CGEP:PA). The French equipment maker signed a contract with Corona to produce a broadband remote access server (B-RAS) for its 7301 DSLAM (see Corona Gets a Boost).
Then, mysteriously, Corona was spotted in talks with Zhone Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ZHNE) around the same time, but this conversation cooled, and Zhone went off looking at other IP edge router/subscriber management services companies.
Did Corona blow it by hedging its bets on both of these deals? Whatever happened, it's time was up. It had raised a total of $78 million in funding.
No. 7 Tenor Networks Tenor Networks raised $120 million to build a giant IP/MPLS switch for service provider core networks. The problem? Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Juniper Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR) had already started building MPLS functionality into their existing routers – thus rendering Tenor's box obsolete before it even hit the shelves. Bummer!
In addition, carriers were looking for equipment that could help them gradually migrate existing ATM services onto an MPLS backbone. The Tenor box required carriers to rip out old kit, which really doesn't go over well in hard times when no one has two beans to rub together.
Tenor tried to change with the times, but it ended up being behind the market with its next product and eventually pulled the plug in February (see Tenor Goes Silent).
No. 6 Metro-Optix Metro-Optix, one of a bunch of startups targeting the next-gen metro-optical networking sector, built and sold its multiservice provisioning system to 15 customers but still failed to keep its head above water (see More Cuts Coming).
As the need for capacity continued to wane, so did many of the startups that were the heroes of optical networking a couple of years ago.
Metro-Optix, which raised a whopping $136 million, ended up auctioning off its assets to Xtera Communications Inc. in a fire sale deal in August, the details of which were never disclosed. One Light Reading reader had this to say about the achievement:
"I just don't get how the shareholders (ie: VCs) and board could have approved this deal. This is akin to Xtera going out and buying a MacDonald's franchise until the market for its core products (re-)appears. It is inconceivable that the board has allowed the company to continue despite a lack of market for its products, and/or a lack of competitive differentiation." -- Zettabit.
Oddly enough, Xtera, flush with $30 million in funding in August, is still hanging in there (see Xtera Scores Surprise $30M).
No. 5 CeyYa! Ceyba Alas, the same fate did not await Ceyba (formally Solinet Systems Inc.), another optical long-haul startup like Xtera (see Ceyba Shuts Down).
In August Ceyba was abandoned by one of its VCs, which pulled out of a round that was expected to happen later this year. The move set the cat among the pigeons as the rest of board also bailed on the plan, deciding that it was too risky to keep Ceyba going. [Ed. note: And a thousand lemmings can't be wrong!].
Ceyba had at least two U.S. carrier customers and a war chest of $93 million in funding, but this still wasn't enough (see Ceyba Rattling in Ottawa).
Startups like Ceyba were hit hardest by the downturn, because they specialized in products for core network capacity, where the most extravagant excesses of the boom era were focused. What's more, most next-gen equipment for core deployment calls for carriers to commit to a new network architecture that's different from their current, Sonet-based gear. For the majority of 2003, carriers balked at any such changes, as they drop all but the most urgently needed network upgrades.
No. 4 Innovance Networks Another long-haul letdown, Innovance shut its doors in December after failing to secure additional funding, according to several Canadian news reports (see Innovance CEO: Layoff a 'Rebalance', Company Makeover).
Innovance's plan was to provide end-to-end optical transport for carriers, incorporating a kind of "wavelength-on-demand" style of provisioning. With capex spending still frozen and excess capacity still a major problem, Innovance went in-a-trance and never came out again.
The company employed more than 310 employees in February 2002 and had raised more than $130 million in funding since it opened for business in May 2000.
No. 3 Network Photonics Fancy all-optical switching gear featuring tilting mirrors and prisms that split light were all the rage in 2000 when Network Photonics raised a staggering $106.5 million to build some.
Unfortunately, these prisms are now tripping the light fantastic on eBay for $10.99 a pop, as such experimental technology got dropped like a lead balloon during the downturn.
Seriously, though, if you're talking about splitting the atom, or whatever Network Photonics was doing, when everyone else is talking about maintaining the tin cans and string, what do you expect?
The company did attempt to regroup and do something else, but it failed abysmally and eventually shut its doors in April (see Network Photonics Scales Back, Network Photonics Shuts Down).
No. 2 OMM OMM, once the leader of the pack in the all-optical switching game, faced the same gloomy fate as Network Photonics – only its demise dragged on even longer, as most folk expected the company to pull through (see OMM: The End Is Near). The all-optical subsystem vendor had been trying to land more funding since mid 2002, and given that it was shipping product and had paying customers, this didn't seem impossible.
OMM counted Ciena Corp. (Nasdaq: CIEN) and Siemens AG (NYSE: SI; Frankfurt: SIE) among its customers, but it turned out that most of its work was still going into lab trials rather than live networks, which doesn't pay the bills (see OMM-inous News).
OMM decided to take a stab at 3-D MEMS (more light-splitting prisms and tilting mirrors), which no doubt gave the VCs the willies and contributed to their eventual decision to pull out. OMM closed its doors in March, laying off 85 employees. It had raised close to $100 million (see OMM Closes Its Doors).
OMM's demise spelled the end of all-optical switching in 2003. The question now is: Will this sector ever come back?
No. 1 PhotonEx At the top of the pile of companies that hit bottom in 2003 is PhotonEx, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November (see PhotonEx Falls Into 40Gig Hole).
PhotonEx, founded in 1999, claimed to be selling "the world's only commercially-available, field-proven," 40-Gbit/s, long-haul DWDM systems. To do so, it raised an astounding $178 million in three financing rounds.
"It was a classic case of a company with technology too advanced for what carriers wanted," says Scott Clavenna, chief analyst at Heavy Reading.
Unfortunately for PhotonEx, carrier budgets didn't allow for 40-Gbit/s systems nearly as quickly as the company had hoped. Sources say shortly after the company failed to get any part of the U.S. government's Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE) business, its managers decided to wind down operations.
For anyone who's counting, the total amount of funding raised by these 10 companies was $1.13 billion. Which would almost cover the Light Reading staff's Christmas bonus!
— The Staff, Light Reading
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nbwaite,
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12/5/2012 | 2:47:11 AM
re: 2003 Top Ten: Startup Flameouts
Abby:
Wanna bet? Since there are, at the least, 500 telecommunications providers worldwide. Therefore, UBS's number ($74 Billion) would equate to about $150 million in telecommunications equipment purchases per provider. Sounds about right in order to maintain their voice, data, wireless, video, back office, and management system infrastructures.
I believe that the numbers I gave contradict the theme of the article, and apparently you don't. Okay. I agree we should have more information on what got added to get the "roughly" $4 billion to Cisco, the $74 billion in equipment, and the $156 billion in capex.
Maybe Light Reading  will dig up more data, enough solid data to explain clearly what is and is not going on with capex, equipment sales, and network growth, overall and in important sectors. And as mentioned in this thread, the parts should add reasonably accurately to the whole.
Such clear information stands to be crucial for good planning for the future of the industry.
I doubt that such information would support the theme of down, down, down, melt-down, uniformly, for all or nearly all of the whole industry, but I would be glad to have the information in any event.
BlueButtMonkey,
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Marmaduke,
I think AcceLight should be in the Top 20 for 2003... 100+M$ of VC money, they went under early January.
JackRJ45,
12/4/2012 | 11:08:19 PM
What about Celox Networks? They raised $155 million!
http://www.bizjournals.com/stl...
BlueWater66,
Not as large as the ones above, but what ever happened to BLAZE NETWORK PRODUCTS ???
They were selling the multi-wavelength GBIC to Cisco (allowed Gigabit Ethernet over 2km multi-mode fiber installed for 100 MB ethernet).
I think they raised over $75M total.
It's hard to understand how some of these companies managed to get through these huge (nine-figure!) sums. Where does the money go? Did the VCs pull it back? Do the founders get to take it with them? Did they drop it on the way to the bank?
NightTrain,
Old news dude. Celox essentially went out of business in 2002.
zillionaire,
night train - they raised $185 million. They had a 4th round of 30 million...Photonex were a "frugal" bunch compared to Celox.
WolfLarsen,
Steve, you are going to hear a whole lot of complaints about how executives took it, venture capitalists took it, bankers took it, etc etc...
In reality the money lost was primarily spent on the salaries for the engineers that peruse this board. (And some suppliers, some office space, etc...)
justvisiting,
How soon we forget the small company with the big, arrogant EMC attitude. They burned through $160M without producing anything but hype, and well-paid former executives.
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