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Although I still follow US politics as much as I have always done, I just can't bear to post anything or make any comments. What can one say about it?
Observing US politics these days is like watching a slow motion train wreck. You know it is a disaster and people are going to get hurt, but it is just so amazing to watch it happen. The level of petty rivalries, monstrous egos, abject incompetence and outright evil on display is a wonder to behold.
There just isn't anything to discuss. It is just a horror show and a huge embarrassment. Indeed, I'm embarrassed for the United States.
This is very different than the old GW Bush days. Back then, we had lots of petty rivalries, monstrous egos and outright evil, and their competence was definitely questionable, but no where near the utter cluelessness that is on daily display these days. Back in the Bush days, one could actually argue about whether or not invading Iraq was a good idea, or about the merits of a a trillion dollar deficit-financed tax cut. But nowadays, what is there to discuss? I suppose the only issue worthy of comment these days is whether or not Trump is just a fucking ignorant idiot or suffering dementia?
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The James Clapper who is the in the press right now blasting Trump's rapport with Putin is the same friggin' James Clapper who told a bald-faced lie to the US Senate under oath and suffered no consequences. Top secret documents exposing Clapper were released by Edward Snowden and published by The Guardian in June of 2013.
This from Wikipedia:
Testimony to Congress on NSA surveillance programs, 2013
Excerpt of James Clappers testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
On March 12, 2013, during a United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Senator Ron Wyden quoted NSA director Keith B. Alexanders keynote speech at the 2012 DEF CON. Alexander had stated that Our job is foreign intelligence and that those who would want to weave the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people, is absolutely false.... From my perspective, this is absolute nonsense. Wyden then asked Clapper, Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans? He responded, No, sir. Wyden asked It does not? and Clapper said, Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly.[31]
When Edward Snowden was asked during his January 26, 2014, TV interview in Moscow what the decisive moment was or why he blew the whistle, he replied: Sort of the breaking point was seeing the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress. ... Seeing that really meant for me there was no going back.[32
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I should have mentioned that James Clapper was Director of US Intelligence, the head of all the secret police, when he lied under oath to Congress.
Both he and former CIA Director, who are about as deep state as you can get, are now bashing Trump.
Trump had said that he couldn't release the rest of the Kennedy murder documents as required by law because the CIA gave him "no choice." Now he has referred to Clapper and Brennan as "political hacks," which may indicate that he has more guts than brains.
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As the Wiki article link below states, Brennan was a CIA officer for 25 years, then director of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center under Bush, where he argued for rendering terrorist suspects to other countries for torture, and then Obama appointed him CIA Director in 2013.
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Why is CNN, the Associated Press, and other mainstream US media still treating James clapper as an expert celebrity witness when Snowden proved that he lied under oath to the US Senate as described in the Wikipedia link above, and we have no reason to believe a single thing that he says?
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Besides, the US media have an equally long history of propping up blatant liars and charlatans - but only if they serve the interests of US rightwing/warmongers/torture-lovers.
As I've said many times, the mass media serves the interests of the rulers against the interest of the ruled. That's the way it has been for a very long time.
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Steven Pinker made a great case that there is more peace and freedom in the world today than ever before as evidenced by a myriad of such things as fact that we no longer applaud the drawing and quartering of heretics or burning witches at the stake.
However, the US government doesn't seem to have gotten the memo, continuing to drone emerging politically incorrect leaders in the Mideast and Pakistan, with recent expansion into sub--Saharan Africa.
And along with increased US incursions abroad, there is an apparent increase of political control of US citizens:
The exposure of Operation Mockingbird showed that the CIA had been operating WITHIN THE US to influence media and control free thought for decades.
But, despite the old adage that if "it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck" that it might be a duck, the CIA has been omitted from the Wikipedia list of secret police agencies.
It makes one wonder just how much effort the CIA public relations department has made in order to keep the CIA and Mossad off the Wikipedia list which has Bahrain and China on the list; that is, it actually seems more damning that the CIA is not on the list.
With Operation Mockingbird in mind, can we CONNECT THESE DOTS:
. On March 12, 2013 James Clapper, as head of all 17 secretive policing agencies, testified under oath before Congress that the CIA handmaiden, the NSA, did not collect information on "a single US citizen."
. Two months later Edward Snowden released Top Secret documents detailing that the NSA spied on over 120 million US citizens.
. US Senator Lindsey Graham expressed shock that the secret police collected information on him and that he could not obtain the information they had gathered.
. A federal court ordered that the remaining undisclosed Kennedy murder documents be released on Oct. 26, 2017, 54 years after the event, with only the US President allowed to block the release of any documents. Trump said that he wanted to release the remaining thousands of pages of documents, but that the CIA refused and that he "had no choice" in the matter.
If Snowden hadn't released the top secret NSA documents, would we be aware of NSA spying on US citizens today? Would we know after 54 years?
Do we really know whether the secret police spy on US citizens now?
Maybe it doesn't really matter, but does the US have the kind of government that Washington, Jefferson, and Madison had in mind?
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And not to put too fine a point on it, I don't really like the kind of government that Washington, Jefferson and Madison had in mind. They created a government that institutionalized legal slavery and has lead precisely to the government you have now. I wouldn't blame Trump and the US security state on Washington, Jefferson and Madison, but I don't think those fellows are blameless in a full analysis of the process of how it all came to be.
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The gist is that there are tons of applications out there that don't quite do what you want, and you need something inbetween your various applications that can squish/slice/dice the data to fit each side. However, what the CEO of Apatar was trying to point out is that sometimes you don't need full time middleware and that he has a lighter weight variation on the theme called "Apatar". He described it as a "data mashup tool" that has connectors to a large variety of data sources and action items to manipulate the data in all kinds of weird and wonderful ways.
Last week the world's largest annual computer expo, the CeBIT conference, was held in Hannover, Germany. This year there was also a focus on the "application development" side of technology, which included a large area devoted to open-source and a number of panels on topics such as Virtual Worlds, Digital Content Distribution, as well as a panel on "Business Solutions with Enterprise Mashups". Ludmila Radzevich from Apatar (provider of an open-source data integration tool) was on hand to represent data mashups.
You might be able to save up to $100,000 a year by renegotiating your data integration licenses, according to this post published on Apatar's blog. Of course, Apatar is an open source data integration solution provider and has a vested interest in reminding you that you could save on licensing fees. But that number is actually from recent Gartner report, according to the post.
The backup guy, the storage guy, and the virtualization guy are going to quickly become "the guy" in many organizations. Having a separate management and monitoring application for each one of these applications isn't going to cut it any more. Tools will be needed, like those from Tek-Tools and Apatar that offer complete monitoring and reporting of storage management, data protection, and virtualization management in a single console.
This is the second part of my post about building an RSS Reader with Oracle and Apatar. If you have all the prerequisites mentioned in the previous post in place, let's proceed with the database schema. This is enough to define the Apatar transformations which will load RSS posts into the table automatically.
This article considers the example of integrating QuickBooks with salesforce.com. But, there is more to improved QuickBooks and Salesforce integration than just saving time and effort; quality data integration makes for better business processes which helps accelerate sales in various lines of business. On the one hand, you have the sales department that uses Salesforce, which is always updated with customers' credit and invoice information obtained from the back office's QuickBooks. On the other hand, your accounting department is guaranteed to keep abreast of the current sales by having their QuickBooks synchronized with Salesforce.
IBM i users can integrate customer data stored within DB2 with SugarCRM or transfer data to and from DB2 to SugarCRM. They can also improve the quality of corporate/customer data stored in DB2 prior to entering SugarCRM, or vice versa.
New Apatar Connector was recently released to aid those struggling with integration of open source suite SugarCRM with third-party applications, databases, flat files, other CRM/ERP applications and Web 2.0 destinations.
Apatar claims to be able to do it all "without coding".
Apatar recently announced its official connectivity to the SugarCRM open source suite for the construction of a new SugarCRM connector that can be deployed by all business users with no requirement for coding skills.
Data integration vendor Apatar has introduced a software tool for connecting SugarCRM, an open-source customer relationship management suite, with third party applications.
Apatar, which sells open source software aimed at the data integration market, has officially announced connectivity to the SugarCRM open source suite. Apatar officials say the new SugarCRM connector is designed to integrate data between their customer relation management system and what company officials describe as "a variety of third-party data sources, allowing for this data to be filtered, validated, and cleansed."
Apatar, a vendor of open source tools for data integration, today announced connectivity to the Vertica Analytic Database, a grid-based column-oriented database management system used for analytics and business intelligence.
Apatar Inc., is an industry leader in data integration and data
fluidity (made that up) who announced the release of their Apatar
On-Demand application to the Salesforce appexchange. Promising a
smoother flow of information between Salesforce Accounts and Quickbooks
as well as providing a few other perks like a data quality service. Apatar's press release proudly proclaims that all this will decrease deployment time "by a factor of ten".
Software as a service (SaaS) and open source continue to converge.
The latest example is Apatar On-Demand, which now synchronizes
Salesforce.com CRM and Intuit QuickBooks accounting software. Apatar specializes in open source tools for data integration. And
filling the gap between Salesforce.com and QuickBooks should be of
great interest to VARs and managed service providers. Here's a bit more
about some of the trends here.
By Loraine Lawson, July 11, 2008
A fan of QuickBooks and Salesforce.com CRM? Then you
might want to check out Apatar OnDemand, a new hosted integration
solution that synchronizes data between QuickBooks and Salesforce.com.
According to the press release, it's designed for business users and can be set up within 30 minutes via a browser.
By Direct Magazine, June 20, 2008
Apatar Inc. is working with Cdyne Corp. to offer a Web-based data
hygiene service for removing the names of deceased persons from
marketing lists and databases. The service verifies Social Security numbers
used for customer identification against the U.S. Social Security Death
Index database.
By Savio Rodrigues, May 21, 2008
I just spent some time looking at Apatar,
a company that's offering an extract, transform, load (ETL) and data
integration solution under the GPL (with commercial support
subscriptions available also). The really cool thing
is that Apatar provides a visual designer and mapping tool in order to
hide the complexity of ETL and data integration from the typical
(business) user.
By Brad Kenney, May 16, 2008
According to analyst firm Aberdeen Group, 52%
of organizations consider the "verification of data accuracy or
completeness" to be one of the biggest customer data management
challenges. Indeed, the principle of "garbage in, garbage out" is one
with which many manufacturing IT managers continually struggle.
By Andy Mulholland, April 21, 2008
As more and more enterprises move to adopt MashUps the question of what
content, and from where is it coming, is being asked more and more
often. I guess it's part of the move we are all taking part in from
using structured data, created by our own computers, to an increasing
use of unstructured data, which could be described as created, and used
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Humble packing tape gives rise to ghostly forms in the work of photographer and sculptor Mark Jenkins. The Morning News presents a gallery of his pieces, along with an interview that's well worth a read (not the usual art house banality). As we think of higher & higher tech ways to preserve creations for the ages, it's refreshing to hear from someone at peace with impermanence. You can see lots more from Mark on his site and here. [Via]
[Update: YouTube features Jenkins casting his head by wrapping it in tape–and, amazingly, not asphyxiating himself or Van Gogh-ing an ear. [Via]
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My intention is to discuss picturebooks, in particular the pictures in them! Why? Because, in ELT we tend to select picturebooks because they contain words our students might know. I plan to write something a couple of times a month, sharing what I discover in my readings; describe new titles I come across; discuss particular illustrators and their styles and generally promote the picture in picturebooks.
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Team of the 2000s: #3 – FloridaPosted by jstevrtc on August 18th, 2009
Ed. Note: Check the category team of the 2000s for our other entries in this feature.
As we move into the top three teams of the 2000s, we reach rarefied air. The team we review today at the third spot was one of the absolute toughest to place, for reasons that will be described below.
#3 — Florida
Overview. When Billy Donovan arrived at Florida in 1996 he brought with him all of two years of head coaching experience, a mere 35-20 record as the head bull at Marshall. In its previous 81 seasons, the Florida program had gone through 18 different head coaches and known the joys of only a single Final Four, coming in 1994 under Lon Kruger. Nevertheless, much was expected of Donovan. Because of his leadership skills displayed as a point guard at Providence and an assistant at Kentucky (serving head coach Rick Pitino in both capacities), Donovan was quickly anointed as the Next Big Thing in terms of young, up-and-coming college coaches. He delivered quickly, getting the Gators to the championship game in 2000 (falling to Tom Izzo and the Flintstones) and establishing himself as an unbelievable recruiter. But, despite the Blue Devil-like stable of stars, Florida in the early 2000s couldn't manage past the second round at best in the NCAA Tournament; true, they had made themselves into a formidable power in the SEC, culminating in their first-ever (?!?) SEC Tournament title in 2005 – the first of three straight – but because of their troubles in the Big Dance people began to wonder if Donovan really had what it took to "win the big one." The best evidence to this was the fact that in each of their appearances from 2001 to 2005, Florida lost to a lower-ranked opponent, and usually quite handily. The only non-double-digit loss during that span was a double-overtime defeat to Creighton in a 12-vs-5 game in the first round in 2002. Those Florida teams may have had top-flight recruits but seemed to lack a physical toughness (with the possible exception of David Lee) required of a true NCAA title contender, and this resulted in the Gators frequently getting pushed around in early tournament games.
Just as soon as people began to truly doubt Donovan, though, the coaching "potential" and the talent on the floor seemed to meld perfectly in the 2005-2006 season. While fellows like Al Horford, Joakim Noah, Taurean Green, and Corey Brewer were all prized recruits during their high school careers, they weren't quite as highly regarded as some of the players Donovan had on his comparatively disappointing squads mentioned above. What those fellows did indeed possess was the physical toughness, killer instinct, and coachability that Donovan's system requires, and this perfect fit resulted in Florida's first national basketball championship in 2006. Donovan and his Florida program still had their detractors who claimed that they merely lucked into an easy draw — four of their six victories in that tournament came against teams seeded 7th or worse — and that their 2006 title was just a fluke. Surprisingly, the "Oh-Fours" (the collective nickname that Brewer, Horford, Noah, and Green had given themselves for obvious reasons) all decided to return to campus the following year despite the certain looming promise of NBA riches. Flipping a gigantic middle finger to the aforementioned detractors, they proved that the previous season's title was certainly no fluke by becoming the first repeat champions in 15 years. When considering the two straight titles, Billy Donovan's recruiting prowess, and his intact image as a young coach with an increasingly bright future, everyone from ESPN anchors to sports-talk radio hosts began tossing around that dangerous word — "dynasty."
Then, just like Keyser Soze, poof — they were gone. Proving that Florida is a program so bipolar that it should be on Lithium, after repeating as champs, the Gators missed the last two tournaments of the 00s. So, let's recap the decade in order: a final, five early exits to lower-ranked teams, two national championships, two missed tournaments. Florida basketball…your prescription is ready.
Pinnacle. This has to be the night of the repeat championship in 2007. The second title officially took care of any idiots who felt the 2005-06 championship was a fluke. Also, we know how hard it is to repeat in this sport. A case could be made that the true pinnacle was that pep rally after the first championship when the Oh-Fours all announced that they were coming back to college the next year, and of course after the second title everyone pretty much knew that those guys were gone. But in this era of college basketball I don't see how there can be any higher pinnacle than the very moments right after repeating as national champions — a peak brought into even greater relief by the decline that followed.
Tailspin. It started on Selection Sunday in 2008. Yes, Florida lost a lot of talent after the second championship, to say the least; they were left with a 2007-08 team consisting of two juniors, three sophomores, and seven incoming freshmen. But with Walter Hodge, Marreese Speights and arguably the nation's best recruiting class headed to Gainesville for the 2007-08 season, you'd think they could at least have made it back to the NCAA Tournament (to their credit, they did post a 24-12 record, 8-8 SEC). The 2008-09 squad was also a young one, with 11 of the 14 players in either their freshman or sophomore years, but there was enough talent there to make the Dance. To be honest, Florida basketball is still in its tailspin.
Outlook for 2010s: Grade: A-. I wouldn't go shedding any tears for Donovan or his Gator program. Donovan will always get big-time talent, and, above all, it's big-time talent that wins championships. Most likely, Florida fans can rely on this continued steady diet of…unsteadiness, meaning a cycle of deep tournament runs followed by NIT births. But if Donovan can find a way to keep the player defections (for whatever reason) to a minimum and get to the point where he can develop teams with some upperclassman leadership, you'll see a longer string of consecutive years where Florida doesn't just have great incoming freshman classes but a solid foundation of a few juniors and seniors — and it's in this manner that legendary runs are built for a program. It could very well begin with the upcoming season as Kenny Boynton and Erik Murphy come to town to lend their assistance, comprising a smaller yet still highly skilled recruiting class. Most likely they'll all have people forgetting how to pronounce "Calathes" by Christmas.


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Police on Thursday arrested a former Foster's Daily Democrat reporter on 13 charges related to an incident in which a woman reported discovering a camera-like device in the women's bathroom at Rochester's Merchants' Plaza.
ROCHESTER — Police arrested a former reporter today on 13 charges in connection with a camera-like device found in the women's bathroom at Merchants' Plaza.
Conor Brendan Makem, 45, who had been a part-time reporter for the "Rochester Times" for 10 years, was taken into custody this afternoon at his home at 5 West Concord St. in Dover and transported to the Rochester Police Department.
The specific charges against Makem are 12 counts of invasion of privacy, a class A misdemeanor, and one count of falsifying physical evidence, a felony.
Makem is being held on $10,000 cash bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Friday. The Rochester police are still actively investigating this incident.
Police took Makem into custody around 2 p.m. and were transporting him to an unknown destination about an hour later.
Police last week executed a search warrant and seized Makem's work computer and other electronic devices from the Merchant's Plaza building. The story unfolded on Monday, Oct. 7, when a woman using the bathroom at the Merchant's Plaza building at 1 Old Dover Road reported what she thought was a camera in the ceiling.
Makem reportedly claimed the device was actually not a camera and said he threw it in a nearby dumpster before police could look at it.
According to a police affidavit written in support of the search warrant, a woman reported to police that she was using the women's bathroom on the second floor of the Merchants' Plaza building on Oct. 7 when she noticed "an eraser size camera lens in the ceiling."
The building, at 1 Old Dover Road, houses the shared "Foster's Daily Democrat" and "Rochester Times" office, which is leased, as well as several other business offices.
After noticing the device around 4 p.m. Monday, the woman, unsure what to do, explained the issue to Makem and showed him the device. According to the affidavit, the woman told police Makem tugged on the device, and "it appeared to be a small black camera like the one you would find on a game system about the size of an eraser with a soldered wire to what appeared to be a 1" x 1" computer circuit board and another wire soldered to what looked to be a silver flat rectangular shaped battery."
The woman then realized she was late for an appointment, and she and Makem agreed he would call the police and report the incident. According to the woman's statements to police, around 4:54 p.m. Monday Makem left her a voicemail, stating he reported the incident to police and turned the device over to them. After a couple of hours, the woman found it odd police had not gotten in touch with her, so she called them herself, and learned Makem "never actually called the police about this camera nor turned it in," according to her statements described in the affidavit.
On Wednesday, Oct. 9, the woman who originally found the device gave an audio statement to police, saying she got a call from Makem around 7:20 a.m. that day. Makem reportedly told her not to worry "and it was actually just a red light." According to her statements to police, she asked whether it was the police who called it a red light. Makem responded "as if he was surprised, by saying he never actually gave it to the police and after playing with it he discovered it was just a red light so he threw this device out in the dumpster."
According to the affidavit, later that day police spoke with a property maintenance employee, who stated he spoke with Makem about the incident and Makem responded by saying he had "identified the device as a circuit board with some wires hanging off it with no issue." The employee also stated Makem seemed to brush off the significance of the device, "saying it was no big deal."
A Rochester police officer then went into the women's bathroom with the property maintenance employee, who discussed a hole in the ceiling, where the device was originally found. The employee noted the edge of the hole was "clean and almost filed down," saying that when ceiling tile breaks it will not leave as clean of an edge.
The police officer then searched the dumpster after being told Waste Management had not emptied it that week. The device could not be found.
On Thursday, Oct. 10, police obtained a warrant to search Makem's workplace. The warrant, signed by Judge Daniel Cappiello, gave permission to search electronic items. The warrant states there is probable cause for believing that certain property is intended for use of committing crimes such as "falsifying physical evidence, violation of privacy, and interception and disclosure of telecommunication prohibited."
After the search, which lasted just less than an hour, police seized an Apple MacBook, flash drives, a Canon digital camera, and an iPhone 4.
Also that day, a police detective contacted Makem, saying police would be seizing his computers and cell phones. The officer also asked whether Makem would be willing to give police the passwords for his work computer, and Makem said he was legally advised against providing those passwords. Police have also searched Makem's home in Dover and seized electronic devices there.
Patrice Foster, president and publisher of Foster's Daily Democrat and the Rochester Times, suspended Makem early this week and terminated his employment earlier today. She also released a statement about the incident. "We are shocked and surprised by the events of the last week pertaining to our part-time reporter Conor Makem. Our main concern is for the well-being of our staff and those who might have been affected. We will be as transparent as legally possible as we begin to understand the charges that have been leveled against him," she said.


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Summer program offers explorations in earth, weather and water sciences for freshman and sophomore college studentsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Noelani Puniwai, (808) 587-8593
Hawaii Biodiversity and Mapping Program
HONOLULU — "Ka ʻImi ʻIke — Explorations in the Geosciences" is a three-week summer boarding experience for incoming freshman and sophomore college students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa who are not already majoring in a science field but are interested in learning more about earth, weather and water sciences. The program is currently accepting applications for the summer institute scheduled for July 24-August 11.
Students will be introduced to local scientists to learn more about science careers and the educational pathways they took to get there. Hands-on research will train students in GIS/GPS technology, volcanology, water sampling, meteorology, and prepare them for mini-research projects. Most days will be spent in the field, including a trip to the Big Island.
Eligible applicants should be Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders already accepted to UH Mānoa but without a declared major in the sciences. Topics of interest that will be covered include environmental studies, volcanism, geochemistry, geography, geology, geophysics, physical oceanography, hydrology or meteorology.
The three-week course includes boarding, meals, and a monetary grant for completion of the institute that can be used towards college expenses.
The deadline to apply for the program is March 31, 2006. For more information or to obtain an application, call 587-8593 or visit the website at http://hbmp.hawaii.edu .
Ka ʻImi ʻIke is funded by a grant through the National Science Foundation. It is a project of the Hawaiʻi Biodiversity and Mapping Program, a research program within the Center for Conservation Research and Training, Pacific Biosciences Research Center at UH Mānoa.
For more information, visit: http://hbmp.hawaii.edu


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Thank you so much to everyone who entered, spread the word, and thank you for just being you! :)
UPDATE: So, the first winner never responded... So I chose a new one.
The Winner Is...
26. Wendy
Congratulations! I have e-mailed you and you have 2 days to respond, if you do not respond by WEDNESDAY, I will chose a new winner!
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La Condesa beach
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Magalluf beach
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Portals Nous
- Autonomous region: Balearic Islands
- Province/Island: Majorca
The Majorcan town of Calvià dominates a land on the foothill of Sierra de Tramuntana, on the shore of the Mediterranenan. More than 50 kilometres that include cliffs, bays, beaches and isles, making it one of the roughest coast lines of the island of Majorca. Ancestral homes, country villas, fortresses and ancient mills are part of the main monuments found in this town, in addition to important prehistoric archaeological sites. The excellent cuisine typical of this region must be added to the many recreational activities available outdoors.
Surrounded by the mountains of Sierra de Tramuntana and only a few kilometres away from the Santa Ponça inlet, the town of Calvià stands the passage of time. Its history begins back in the 13th century, when different villages (inhabited by the peasants who worked the land) were united under a same name. However, this region had been inhabited since prehistoric times, as the many archaeological sites in the vicinity corroborate. Naveta Alemany, Puig de Sa Morisca and Turó de Ses Abelles are some of the best kept Talaiotic remains in the region. The artefacts from the site of Sa Mesquida are from the Roman period, from an ancient aristocratic country house.Ancestral homesThe 16th and 17th centuries left a great number of ancestral homes in this town, such as Can Verger or Can Ros, in addition to the extensive system of defence erected along the coast. The continuous pirate attacks that the coastal towns had to endure lead to the construction of a great number of stone and mortar, circular towers. Some of the most significant include Castellot de Santa Ponça, as well as the towers of Cap Andritxol, Figuera Cove, Portals Vells and Sa Porrassa.The ethnographic patrimony of Calvià include flour mills, in addition to farmhouses and lime ovens. In Galatzó, Santa Ponça and Son Martí, there are very typically Majorcan examples of popular architecture. It is also worthwhile to visit the parish church of Calvià, as well as the hermitages of Portals and Pedra Sagrada. The church dates back to the beginning of the 17th century and its two remarkable towers and façade present Romanesque and Gothic elements. On the other hand, the City Hall of Calvià follows a vanguard design that embraces both traditional architecture and the latest artistic trends.The beaches in this area have a busy calendar of activities, as well as a variety of accommodations available. Exclusive hotels are situated among the coves in the area of Illetas. Also in Portals Nous is one of the most exclusive marinas in the island. Luxurious restaurants, bars and ice cream parlours are found along in the wharf. Golf enthusiasts will be able to play their favourite sport in any of the five courses that are situated in the outskirts of Calvià. Fully integrated within the natural environment, these facilities also organise concerts, walks through the countryside and all sorts of recreational activities.Also, water sports can be played at the vast beaches of Palmanova, Magaluf and Santa Ponça. The peace and quiet at Peguera encourages relaxation, among the beautiful pine groves. Regional CuisineIn any point of the city, visitors will be able to explore the local culture through its wonderful cuisine. The variety of ingredients that it boasts is manifested in succulent dishes such as the different Majorcan soups (with tomato, cauliflower, cabbage, etc.). Pastenagues negres are prepared with carrots, Swiss chard, "sobrasada", which is a spicy Majorcan spread, "butifarrón", which is a Catalan sausage, raisins and pine nuts. visitors must also try the fried lamb, flavoured with bay leaves, fennel and garlic.The exceptional location of this town makes it a great starting point for the exploration of the region, by going to towns like Andratx and Banyalbufar. Port d´Andratx is a fishing port where the fishing vessels are often mixed up with the sporting ones. The town, situated in the valley, has a beautiful castle-citadel. Cliffs on the edge of the deep green sea, between farmed terraces and steep stone streets are part of the scene that awaits at Banyalbufar. Palma, the capital of Majorca and the Balearic Isles, is also nearby. Its interesting historic quarter, which overlooks the sea, will reveal significant monuments, such as the cathedral, the Palace of Almudaina, the fish market and the castle of Bellver.
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Knights Armament made the originals, though others have offered them. Dunno where to find one at present, but I do know both the upper and bolt need a bit of machine work to clear the feed lips on an AK mag.
Pic came from here.
Who makes those, or were can they be found?
Knights Armament made the originals, though others have offered them. Dunno where to find one at present, but I do know both the upper and bolt need a bit of machine work to clear the feed lips on an AK mag.
Pic came from here.
i have thought about getting one of those $35 forged ar blanks and giving it some cutouts for the AK mags. but i think i will wait till the 30rd mags come. i have seen some 20rd stainless for the AR-7.62 so they can't be too far behind. some outfit makes a AK/AR lower but it is like $450!! and the spare is like $250! mgi i think--
better off to buy an AK and a AR
my 7.62 m4forgery shoots and functions very well with the 10rd mags so i ain't in any rush to build a new lower just for the ak-mags. but if i had a dedicated lower for the 7.62 i could build another 5.56 upper and have a spare AR--lol
I picked up a couple of steel 30 rounders...no markings, but they are totally reliable.
I also picked up some plastic mags from Promag, they work fine for me...but are ten rounders and never, ever, slam them in...or they go deep and are a pain to get back out...
oh well.
Still fun to play with, but if I wanna spray...it is an AK.
That is why I especially like the 9mm AR. No forward assist weird looking thing.
Simple with no gas tube and piston.
Cheaper to plink with.
Has enough power to take out varmints.
Can put a mag full of 9mm into a 12 inch circle at 50 meters open sight.
Thank You for all the great info.
I recieved my 16" 7.52X39 upper from Del-Ton today and yesterday 3 magazines came from C-Products. Then I had to go to work to earn money to by more stuff. Tomorrow is my day off. Let the fun start.... I'm gonna shoot it and then build a custom gas block with a valve to shut off the gas. It'll be a selector from 'straight pull' single shot to semi-auto. I will be a while at the lathe & mill getting this part right. I'll keep you informed.
Thanks again
I am very eager to hear about the C products mags. Looking at their website I only see 5 and 10 round mags. Are these what you purchased or do they now make high caps also?
I just loaded 10 in one of the mags to function test the new upper. 10 in 10 out.
More later
Jim: What do you mean by "bolt assist"? And why dont you like it?