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10 Things We Learned from Pacquiao vs. Marquez III in VegasNovember 15, 2011
10 Things We Learned from Pacquiao vs. Marquez III in Vegas
So the last big fight of the 2011 year is now complete, and the final matchup of one of the greatest trilogies of this era came to an end as well.
Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III was supposed to be the defining fight to settle the score between two of the best fighters of this generation. The only problem was the end result did not settle anything at all. In fact, it created more controversy, drama and question marks when it was supposed to just provide us simple answers.
It seemed everyone had a difference of opinion on what the actual score card of Pacquiao vs. Marquez III should have been, but the official judges' scorecards had it as a majority-decision win for the champion Manny Pacquiao with one judge having it a draw 114 to 114, 115 to 113 and 116 to 112.
For those of you who did not have the honor of being in Las Vegas this past weekend, here's a photo slide show of 10 Things We Learned From Pacquiao vs. Marquez III in Las Vegas.
Timothy Bradley Defeats Joel Casamayor Via 8th-Round TKO
I was making my rounds walking around the MGM Grand Arena trying to find some hard-core fans to take pictures of wearing interesting fight gear for our photo slideshow and then the Bradley vs. Joel Casamayor fight was about to begin so as the first round began, I saw it was evident that Bradley was showing signs of ring rust for being out of the ring for almost a year now.
A group of Mexican fans starting telling me this guy Bradley's fighting is a bum, I explained to them that he's Casamayor, a former WBC champion who fought some of the best names in the sport.
They then said, but yea, he's old as hell now.
Casamayor is 40 years old, and he did look like a 40-year-old fighting a man in his 20s that night.
It was rather ironic that in pre-fight buildup, Casamayor trash talked Bradley and taunted him about being a dirty fighter and headbutting his way to win, but it was Joel himself who actually blatantly fought dirty by holding, pushing Bradley, and yes, using his own head.
Bradley did not look sharp or impressive against the overmatched old veteran, and again, I attribute that to the long lay off outside the ring. Should he fight a few more times in early 2012, he'll be back into his own element.
The biggest fight for him that makes the most sense is a super fight with the other man in his division at 140 lbs Amir Khan where we will finally get one true unified undisputed champion at 140 lbs.
In the post-fight conference, I got a chance to speak with Bradley. He was very positive and modest about his win and performance. He also felt Pacquiao did enough to win the fight by a few rounds despite the many fans and media feeling Marquez won that night.
Also Bradley sets the record straight that his actual Twitter account is: @TimBradleyJr
All other Tim Bradley accounts ARE NOT HIM. There is a Tim Bradley Twitter account that has over 1,500 followers and who is cussing out other fighters such as Amir Khan and Maidana out daily, that is NOT him that is an impostor. So make sure to unfollow him or any other fake Tim Bradley accounts and follow the real Twitter account fight fans.
TECATE Girls Are Hot....
If you've been going to the big fights at the MGM Grand for some time, then you probably know that one of the major sponsors tends to be TECATE beer which means the TECATE girls will be on hand dressed in their usual red short skirts and even shorter red tank tops.
They are usually holding boxing related props such as one boxing glove and a boxing champion belt to remind us why we spent on that money on our tickets.
As much love as I have for the TECATE girls, I personally feel the Corona girls are usually even hotter with their even tighter short spandex shorts and spandex top in the signature blue and silver Corona colors. Don't worry fight fans, the next Corona-sponsored fight I'll cover I'll post pics as well so we can have a fair open debate on who is hotter.
You Want To Know Who's Hotter Than the TECATE Girls? This Girl Is!
Just as I was about to walk away from the TECATE girls I realized this fight fan looking at them is even way hotter than the TECATE girls.
Maybe she's thinking hmm maybe I can be a TECATE girl...no that belt looks too heavy to hold for long extended periods of time.
Another reason to go to the fights in person, the hot female fight fans who are even hotter than the TECATE girls!
If I was Bob Arum, or Oscar De La Hoya, I would show this girl and promote all fights by saying this is the average female fight fan who shows up to all the fights. If they were to do that, then all fights would sell out in record-breaking 60 seconds or less.
Manny Pacquiao STILL Brings out the Filipino Girls from All over
On Saturday fight day, I told myself I need to eat something nice for lunch since I'll most likely be eating the famous free media buffet in the MGM Grand media center later that night so I headed over to world-renowned celebrity chef Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill. (Yes, the dude who stole Mrs. Ari from Ari in the final season of Entourage)
The food there is excellent and not that ridiculously priced as one may assume.
But as I was grabbing a quick lunch there before I headed to the MGM Grand, I noticed a group of Filipino American Manny Pacquiao fans walk in.
I assumed they were Pacquiao fans since they were all wearing the same Team Pacquiao tank top.
I thought this was pretty cool so I had to take a picture and show all of you back at home.
They are from San Francisco, which to me shows that the Bay Area has more solidarity than the LA area where I am from. I would never see a group of Filipino LA girls all rocking the same Team Pacquiao tank top and represent full force like that at the fights.
They told me they were not able to score tickets to the actual fight since they sold out so fast, so they went to the Mandalay Bay closed circuit viewing route instead.
Many of my friends who flew into Vegas saw the fight at the closed circuit viewing at MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay and said it was like one big huge party there with lots of girls, full bar and people screaming and shouting full of energy for both Marquez and Pacquiao.
I also met another group of Filipino American girls who flew out all the way from New York who had six girls in their group and another group of about five Filipino college-aged chicks who flew in from Florida and who stayed all week from Monday to Sunday.
But what may be even more impressive was the group of about 10 Marquez fans I met shopping at the forum who flew in from Mexico City. They kept asking me how to bet on the fight once they saw my credential around my neck.
Mexican and Filipino Flags Being Worn as Capes in Support for Marquez and Pacquiao
If you have been going to the big fights lately, you might have noticed some hard-core fans who not only wear the colors of the fighters' home country flags of Mexico and the Philippines, but some even take it a bit further and wear the flags as a cape like they are a super hero.
Here at the bar of Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill is a man who appears to be Caucasian with a Filipino girlfriend, and he is wearing the Filipino flag as a cape.
It makes a very bold proud statement of who you are supporting and rooting for in tonight's big fight.
On the way to the MGM Grand, I bumped into a Mexican fan who was wearing the Mexican flag as a cape as well. He noticed my credential around my neck and began to talk about the fight with me.
He told me he put down $100 on Marquez by a 12th-round KO. The odds for a Marquez 12th-round KO was at 150 to 1 the night before. If Marquez would have won by 12th-round KO then this man could buy Mexican flag capes for everyone cause that bet would have won him $15,000!!!!
Obviously, the judges ruled it a majority decision for the champion Manny Pacquiao so he and everyone else who thought Pacquiao was going to knock Marquez lost that night.
Robert Guerrero Wants Both Pacquiao and Mayweather
At the post-fight conference Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero came and sat next to me, and said, hey let me borrow your shades cause I want to wear them when I call out Manny Pacquiao.
I turned to him and said are you serious? Let me get my video camera ready for this then.
He said, yes, he's serious( with a very intense look on his face)...but then he told me he was joking but should really do it.
He also joked about how Bob Arum kept looking at him cause he thought he was about to call out Manny as soon as he came out.
Unlike Bradley who thought Manny won the fight by a few rounds, Guerrero told me he felt Marquez won the fight Saturday night by a unanimous decision.
Robert told me his shoulder is still healing and should be able to get back in full on training by February or March.
I asked him if he injured his shoulder in sparring for the Maidana fight. He told me no. He's had a bad shoulder for quite some time, and it was all the accumulation of punishment he has been enduring ever since.
He then told me he intends to be back in the ring May 5th, 2012. I then say oh on the Floyd Mayweather Jr. under card? And he says no; I want Floyd in the main event!
Will Guerrero be Mayweather's opponent for Cinco De Mayo 2012? Well, it seems there's a better chance for that happening than the obvious biggest fight of our lives, seeing that it now has even more hurdles to jump over with all the controversy and uninspiring performance by Pacquiao in Saturday's fight.
Plus, you add that Guerrero's signed with Golden Boy promotions the same company who Floyd works with to co-promote his fights, makes this more realistic then we may think.
Manny Pacquiao Fan Turns out To Be Producer of New Freddie Roach Show
So I began talking to this man who was wearing a Manny Pacquiao jacket with the Philippines flag colors, and it turns out he is one of the producers for Freddie Roach's new reality series on HBO which is slated to air in January 2012.
The show is titled ON Freddie Roach, and it will chronicle the life and times of the legendary five-time trainer of the year and how he lives with Parkinson's disease.
Unlike many reality shows that breathe on the flamboyant lifestyles and over-the-top drama, ON Freddie Roach might very well be actually centered on "reality" and substance and less on that stuff that most reality shows are made of.
Going back to Robert Guerrero, he tells me he has a ton of respect for Roach for he always keeps it real. He also says did you ever see him fight in the ring guy was a monster.
Roach came out after the fight at the post-fight conference by himself which was rather odd. He notified us with the media that Manny was getting stitches on his cuts, and that's what was holding him up from coming to the post fight conference.
Freddie also told us that Manny was experiencing cramps again in his arches, legs and feet from Round 4 on.
When asked about another rematch, Roach admits Marquez deserves one, and that they should fight him again before taking on Floyd Mayweather Jr.
This Brother Is a Huge Pacquiao Fan
This African-American man...oh wait or should I say African Canadian since he flew in all way from Vancouver, Canada to be at the fight, is a huge Manny Pacquiao fan.
He says he flies down for all of Manny's fights, and as you can see, he is wearing the Manny Pacquiao jacket with the Filipino flag colors.
When I asked him who wins between Pacquiao and Mayweather, he says Pacquiao will knock him out. He then says Floyd is scared to fight him so the fight probably won't happen.
What would Floyd say if he saw this? He'll probably say something xenophobic like this guy ain't American, he's Canadian of course; he don't support me!
It would be interesting to see what this Pacquiao fan thinks now after watching the fight with Marquez later that night?
Does he still think Manny would KO Floyd?
Juan Manuel Marquez Is the Greatest Mexican Fighter of Our Time!
Juan Manuel Marquez is the greatest Mexican fighter of our time. He has proved it once again being the only fighter to really give Manny Pacquiao a run for his money three times in three hard fights.
As soon as this fight was signed, most of the media and fight fans including Mexican fight fans all said Pacquiao was going to easily destroy Marquez this time.
I knew that was totally wrong as I pointed out in our Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez: Official Bleacher Report Predictions
Marquez is one of those all-time greats who will unfortunately never get the full on credit he deserves. You saw this as he stormed out of the ring as soon as Michael Buffer announced the judges scores.
Right before the fight, many Mexican fans were even wearing Team Pacquiao shirts and hats and chanting Pacquiao, Pacquiao, Pacquiao in the hallways of the MGM Grand. A lot of these same Mexican fans began to start cheering for Marquez once they saw he was doing well in the fight.
But the problem with his recognition goes even deeper than that for both. Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera would often outshine him when in comparison, even though Pacquiao knocked both of them out very badly too. Marquez arguably beat Manny or at least found a way to always match up with him.
Many view Marquez as not ever getting the love worldwide as Marco Antonio Barrera because of his legendary trainer Nacho Beristain. Nacho did not allow Marquez to fight one of the biggest stars back in 2001 in Prince Naseem Hamed. Marco Antonio Barrera ended up fighting the huge UK international star (Hamed) and owned him in a performance that made him a household name and provided him instant worldwide fame.
Many blame Nacho for Marquez never blowing up at this point of his career for he turned down the Hamed fight.
A similar thing happened again when instead of rematching Pacquiao the second time right after the their first fight, Nacho decided to have Marquez fight Chris John instead in his highly-protective native land of Indonesia in which he lost in that fight, making a fraction of what he would have if he rematched Pacquiao instead.
Saturday night, you can argue that Nacho once again could be to blame for the loss for he repeatedly told Marquez that he had the fight won so to not really open up and engage with Pacquiao.
Nacho is one hell of a trainer, one of the best the sport has ever seen, but he is one horrible manager and adviser. Should Nacho have told Juan to relax cause he has the fight already won? Obviously not. Anyone who thought Marquez could win a decision against Pacquiao with the biggest fight possible on the table against Mayweather does not understand the politics and business of boxing.
The only way Marquez could have won is by a knockout, for no matter what, if it went the distance, Pacquiao would win. (politics and business)
Marquez was impressive in the post-fight conference speaking in English to the media. He was classy, and although upset with the controversial loss, he still remained professional enough to answer all the questions from the media.
He said he will most likely retire because of this loss but is open to a fourth fight with Pacquiao.
When asked about if he'll protest the decision to the WBO, he laughed that off and said he's not that type of person to do that.
Bob Arum said Marquez made a career-high $5 million guaranteed purse. With the upside of the pay-per-view, he will most likely walk away with $10 million in total.
There were times where Juan just stood there frozen in silence and just giving a blank stare to the media. Not sure what was going on in his mind at that point; maybe he was thinking man did I just make $10 million? Maybe I shouldn't feel so bad after all.
We Haven't Seen Manny Pacquiao Cut This Bad Since...the Last Marquez Fight
The last time we saw Pacquiao cut this bad, needing several stitches right after the fight was...yes the last Marquez fight.
As you can see, he has that bandage right above his right eye after a doctor had given him several stitches for that deep cut.
Many saw the cut from the accidental headbutt from the clash of heads, but again, this hasn't happened since the second Marquez fight.
So just as I mentioned in the introduction, this fight was supposed to answer a lot for us, but unfortunately, it did the complete opposite. It provided us with dozens of new questions that may or may never be answered?
Manny came out by himself to the podium which is very strange. Usually, he is accompanied with his team which includes: Alex Ariza, Freddie Roach, Buboy and even his wife joins him on the post-fight conference stage. But he was solo this time. Why?
Manny explained that he was experiencing cramps again as he did in the Mosley fight, and that's why his performance was as so.
Bob Arum made an announcement and said that there will only be two questions this time asked by the media since Manny is late for his concert performance at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay. Both questions asked by journalists were not anything to write about nor were their responses from him.
One journalist asked why Marquez is such a difficult opponent for him.
Manny basically explained that Marquez is a good counterpuncher, and he doesn't fight but just waits to counter you.
For the record, I personally had the fight 115 to 113 just as the official judge Dave Moretti scored it. It was a close fight, but neither fighter really dominated or got dominated.
When you are the champion, all close rounds go to the champion, and the challenger must go above and beyond to dethrone the champion. This is why I thought Marquez actually did better in the second fight more so because he was the champion, and Pacquiao was the challenger then.
Again, especially towards the end, Marquez may have been holding back since his trainer Nacho was coaching him.
But let's keep it real everyone, in addition to that, you have to realize with the potential multi-$100 million-plus ultra mega fight of our lifetime on the line (Pacquiao vs. Mayweather), there is no way either Pacquiao or Mayweather will lose a fight if it goes the distance...no way.
Give credit where it's due and that's to both of these warriors. Marquez more so for fighting the way he did at the age of 38 and for giving Manny trouble, problems galore, and for the third time giving him a run for his money.
Would you want to see these guys fight again for the fourth time?
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I know it's a total cliche to say, but seriously, WHERE have these been all my life??
I am suddenly seeing them all over the place and now I'm feeling like I'll never be satisfied with another curtain rod again.
The acrylic rods in this room by Shea McGee Design have me swooning. {Actually the whole room does, so you must check out the rest of the photos!}
Too bad acrylic rods like these are quite a bit pricier than the cheapo rods I usually buy. But when something looks this classy I think it's worth the extra money if you've got it.
Sadly I don't though, which is why I am giddy about the tutorial I just found for DIYing these!
These gorgeous rods were made by Grace of A Storied Style. She actually has two posts about making your own acrylic drapery rods- one has the tutorial for the rods that she made for her living room back in 2012 {HERE}, and then the other post has the tutorial for the acrylic drapery rods with DIY drapery hanging hardware that she made for some outdoor curtains last year {HERE}.
It kills me that I can't do this now. The house we're renting already has it's own curtain rods all over the place, and even though I've been fine with switching out a few light fixtures, swapping out curtain rods and then having to store all the old ones so we can put them back up when we move all seems like a little too much work to me. So I'm waiting on this one. But I've got these posts pinned and I've already made a blood pact with myself to make these one day.

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After listening to presentations on Cloud technology (a non-weather related term now applied to super computer networks that I can't quite explain here) and getting an overview of global technology trends, we took a break for lunch. I felt like an academic athlete at a super quiz bowl – ready to dump icewater over my head to cool it off from thinking too much. After lunch, we heard more detail on technology trends and potential implications before going on a tour of some displays that demonstrated some of the potential applications to everyday life. Here are a few examples of what we witnessed in this time travel experience:
- We watched a woman speak into a microphone, asking a question in English and having the computer respond back to her in Mandarin Chinese, with a third component validating the communication in writing. She said this was used at the Beijing Olympics and is being used today by our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. She said soon it will be available for market, most likely as an application for our cellphones – potentially turning our phones into our personal interpreters.
- Cellphones overall continue to be the mechanism for the future – with RFID technology, they are likely to become the means by which we interact in this hyper-technologic future. From serving as our wallet and electronic payment device to carrying a dna sample and all of our personal health/bio-identification information, cellphones seem to be able to do most anything.
- We witnessed the latest directions in surveillance technology that reminded me way too much of Tom Cruise in Minority Report.
- We saw how technology will change our retail experiences and our healthcare provider experiences. From customized displays that appear throughout the store as you shop to remote monitoring of our health through connections between our homes, doctors' offices and hospitals, the future is hard to comprehend.
- My "wow" for the day however, came when they showed us a 3-D image on a huge flat-panel display. The speaker said, "to produce this image and this animated motion, it requires the same computing power as the world's fastest supercomputer in 1998...today, I'm showing this to you on a Sony Playstation 3 with an enhanced video card." - yes, a videogame today has the computing capability of the world's fastest computer did 11 years ago.
I let a passing comment go by - that the world's fastest supercomputer can now process information as fast as the human brain - but I sat up in my chair when the speaker mentioned research into teletransporting (like "beam me up Scotty")…and no one laughed. IBM researchers have been able to dissolve an object through this process but they can only reconstitute a single atom. (Fortunately, I think the auto industry may have a few good years left.) I'll try to digest all of this and synthesize some of the implications for a future post. If you have any thoughts on this, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Live Law | Deepak Kumar | March 5, 2017 | Opinion |
As the human body needs a proper meal for nourishment in the same way education is needed for the nourishment of human mind.Education is thesole factor to the difference between animals and human. Historically,education in India only restricted to a certain caste that dominates the majority of the population. Alas, till the date things are more or less same. It is highly unfortunate that almost seven decades has come to complete after the enforcement of Indian Constitution but education has not become the national interest subject under the Constitution.*Indian Education Inclusive or Exclusive *In India, there are various kinds of boards and universities exist for primary as well as higher education level i.e. central, state,minorities and private or self-financing to established segregation or water type compartment among citizens. On the one hand, in the schooling system, there are International boards, ICSE board, CBSE board, states boards, minorities' boards like Madarsa and Gurukul. Among all Kendriya Vidyalaya is the unique schooling system which is available only for the central government employees' children. On the other hand in higher education, there are institute of national importance, IITs, IIMs AIIMs,NLUs etc., the central universities, the state universities, minorities' universities, deemed universities and the private or self-financed universities.The State segregates the citizens on the various grounds in education but the "language" is the most contested ground of all. For example almost all states boards in India; mandate the medium of education intheir local language rather than English. The result of this prohibition of majority of the students lose the opportunity to entering in the mainstream professional degrees for example IITs, IIMS, IIMs, NLUs, and even these students cannot make it to the merit list just because of the useof English in the top universities in India like Delhi University. It remains a sociological fact that through English one can be getting better education and jobs because it opens the doors of manyopportunities. Amartya Sen argued that "/knowing English opens all sortsof doors in India, even to someone who may not be particularly qualifiedotherwise [/Dreze, Jean and Sen, A. (2013)]To control and regulate whole education system in India, there is aUniversity Grant Commission (hereafter UGC) which comes under thecentral government, and the UGC is doing whatever the Central governmentwants to do. There is no single board for the school as well as thehigher education level in India. The primary education is the foundationfor the higher education and from primary level the State startsits/segregation's policy/ through various modes. The condition ofgovernment schools is miserable and become to commodity that canpurchasable. The condition of the higher education is more or less same.The scope of the public universities is shrinking day by day due to neweconomic policies of the State. The education budget is lesser thanother things because the State does not believe that education is not anecessary for the development of the nation. For analysis the above situations, the questions arises here that who is responsible to makeeducation a commodity, Constitution, industry or the State? Thesequestions arise yet again in light of the controversy over the UGC notification of May 2016, and its implementation in various universitiessuch as Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jadavpur University among others?The UGC last year in May 2016 passed a Regulation which has become controversial and its impact has been perceived as drastically negativeon the researcher's freedom to craft research areas as well as for undermining the autonomy of the universities and institutions. I suggestthat that through the2016 UGCs regulation the State's intention is to prohibit the down trodden peoples from acquiring the M.Phil and Ph.Ddegree and become the part of the mainstream. We may well ask why is theUGC through the new notification trying to cut the huge number of theseats of M.Phil and Ph.D programme. Do the new regulations signal that onthe one hand the State curbs the scope of public university to restrictthe access of the down trodden communities candidates from higher education and on the other hand, the State promotes private education?Do we fully understand the effect of 5^th May, 2016 UGC's Notificationon social justice which is guaranteed by the Constitutions of India?The preamble of the Indian Constitution guarantee to its citizen thatthe State shall be provide justice (social, economic and political) and equality of status and opportunity to all irrespective to anything.Article 38 of the Indian Constitution is direct to the State to secure social order for the promotion of the welfare of the people. Art 38(1)stated that /"The State shall strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may a social order in which justice, social, economic and political, shall inform allthe institutions of the national life/.Article 38(2) stated that /" The State shall, in particular, strive to minimise the inequalities in income, and endeavour to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities, and not only amongst individuals but also amongst groups of peoples residing indifferent areas or engaged in different vocations./That means it is the fundamental obligation on the State to make such laws accordance with the sprite of the Constitution which ensure justice and opportunity to all, but the State fails to fulfil its positive duty towards the Constitution as well as its citizen. The State on the one hand promotes and established the private education and on the otherhand shrinks the scope of public education due to reduction in funding,by not recruiting faculty and now reducing or freezing intake in theM.Phil/Ph.D programme.These disadvantage groups are neither able to /"purchase primary"/education from private schools nor are they able to access publicuniversity due to limited seats available. The State is under threat from the voices raises by these socially and educationally backwardsstudents' communities after acquiring the higher education from public universities. Therefore, it is the last weapon in the hand of the State to stop marginalised populations for not entering in the higher education. This may be the reason behind the low budget of the education in India that in the State's priorities the concept of spending money on education is a concept of /waste of money/. To acquire the higher education in private institutions is not less than a day-dream for the majority of the population (historically disadvantage groups i.e. SC/ST/OBC/women and minorities) and the last hope left in their hand that is public universities which is equal to the private education.
*Differences between 2009 and 2016 UGC's Regulation*
*Eligibility Criteria for M.Phil and Ph.D*
The UGC Regulation in 2009 allows the Universities to retain their autonomy in the matter relating to the academic activities. Section 6 ofthe 2009 UGC's Notification allows all Universities and others Institutions;/"the institutions shall lay down the criteria for the faculty to be recognised as Research Supervisor for both M.Phil and Ph.D Programmes/."Section 7 of the 2009 Notification allows the Universities and other Institutions to "/lay down and decide on annual basis, a predeterminedand manageable numbers of M.Phil and Doctoral students depending on the number of the available eligible Faculty Supervisors. A Supervisor shallnot have, at any given point of time, more than Eight Ph.D Scholars and Five M.Phil Scholars/."Section 9 (i) of the 2009 Notification allows to all universities and other Institutions to admit the M.Phil and Doctoral admission through an/Entrance Test/ conducted at the individual level of the Institution.Section 9 (ii) allows to take /the interview/ at the Institutionslevel.But on the other hand in 2016 the UGC dilute its progressive approach after imposition the new guidelines for the Entrance Test under section 5 of the regulation:/"5.4.1 An Entrance Test shall be qualifying with qualifying marks as50%. The syllabus of the Entrance Test shall consist of 50% of research methodology and 50% shall be subject specific. /And 5.4.2 has provisionfor/interview/ viva voce." /Section 10 of the UGC 2009 Notifications allows the intergraded M.Phil-Ph.D Programme i.e. "/The Admission to the Ph.D Programme would be either directly or through M.Phil Programme./Contrast this with the 2016 Notification.In 2016, the UGC does notmention a single word about the intergraded programme thereby indicating that the UGC totally undermines this unique programme through aRegulation. Unlike the earlier Regulation, UGC 2016 alters the entrance test in a manner that will decidedly exclude the marginalised—most students, especially in marginalised areas, are not taught methodology. In fact, UGC 2009 cherished the hope that methodology will be taught atthe MPhil level, now it is expected that MA students should be wellversed in methods to qualify for an MPhil! Even more insidious is that the provision for viva, which the JNU administration first insisted was to 100%, and following protests supposedly changed it to 20%, with 80%for the written marks, makes a mockery of the question of access to higher education. For, if a candidate does not qualify an OMR test, the candidate won't be able to write the descriptive examination. This interpretation by JNU — an alteration of the admission policy—that has not been approved by the Academic Council yet, has been perceived by students as a potent way by which students, especially those marginalised, will not be able to qualify even if there were "vacancies".
*On the Reservation*
Section 3 the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act 2006, allows the reservation in the Central Educational Institution.Section 11 of the UGC in 2009 clearly mentions that /theUniversities and other institutions will pay due attention to the national/State Reservation Policy/. That means the UGC talks about particularly CEI Act 2006 which is undemocratically ended by the 2016Notification by limited or cut the seats at large scale.The Act mentions that out of the annual existing permitted strength in each branch of thestudy or faculty, fifteen per cent seats shall be reserved for the SCs,Section 3 (i), seven and one-half per cent for the STs, Section 3(ii),and twenty-seven per cent for the OBCs, Section 3(iii).Section 5 of theCEI Act stated the mandatory provision for the implementation of the reservation policy which mentions under section 3 of the Act.On the contrary, the 2016 Regulation mention that the national level reservation policy will applicable in the admission process but thequestion arise on the intention of the State that neither the vacancies of Faculty fulfil nor the seats available for the research then how canthe object of CEI Act 2006 will be fulfil? Is there not a conflict between CEI Act and UGC's 2009 and 2016 regulations? The UGC 2009regulation makes mandatory provision to extent the existing seats/vacancies with the SC/ST/OBCs reservation but on the contrary 2016regulation curb the seats/vacancies for the M.Phil and Ph.D. If the seats are not available then what will be benefit of CEI Act 2006?
*On Choice/Interest of the Researcher*
The 2009 UGC's Notification allows great autonomy both the Faculty Supervisor as well as the student as mentions in section 12 of the Notification that "/The allocation of the supervisor for a selected student shall be decided by the Department in a formal manner depending on the number of the student per faculty member, *_the available specialization among the faculty supervisors_*_,_ and the *_research interest of the student as indicated during interview by the student._*The allotment/allocation of the supervisor shall not be left to the individual student or teacher./The choice/interest of the researcher must not be compromise in research. For example if in particular center/department, the particular Faculty who has expert in particular subject but has already maximum candidate for supervision for next 4-6 years, then what will happen withnew researcher who wants to research under /that /particular supervisor?In that situation not only the student deprived her research which shehas interest but the ultimate loss goes to the nation. It will be the pathetic condition if the plants will not get proper water and thegardener hope for the fruits. It is absolutely not justified and itleads to injustice for the future of research in India. If the 2016UGC's regulation applicable the essence of the research in India will be compromised.
*Is UGC's Notification Arbitrary and Unreasonable?*
The 5th May, 2016, the UGC make a notification <http://www.sliet.net.in/pdf/2016/UGCNOTIFICATION05MAY2016.pdf> which
says in section 6.5:
/A Research Supervisor/Co-supervisor who is a Professor, at any given point of time, cannot guide more than three (3) M.Phil and Eight (8)Ph.D. scholars. An Associate Professor as Research Supervisor can guideup to a maximum of two (2) M.Phil and six (6) Ph.D. scholars and anAssistant Professor as Research Supervisor can guide up to a maximum of one (1) M.Phil and four (4) Ph.D. scholars./It is statutory power of the UGC to make any rule/regulation for the academic purpose under section 26, but the question arises that can theUGC has sole power within itself or it can consult with universities.Section 12 of the UGC Act, 1956, that /It shall be the general duty of the Commission to take, in consultation with the Universities or other bodies concerned, all such steps as itmay think fit for the promotion and co-ordination of University education and for the determination and maintenance of standards ofteaching, examination and research in Universities, and for the purpose of performing its functions under this Act./Though, the UGC has expert members but how can the UGC free from influence of the central government? It is serious question which required answer from the UGC as well as the Government.In a democratic country every single decision which affects the public at large even the future of the country must be taken by the democratic process. It is the duty of the State to secure justice and make every single stake holder directly or indirectly in the process of any decision. Neither the State nor the UGC have absolute power do whatever they want to do. It was the UGC's duty to consult with the universities before taking such step.
*Judicial Approach Regarding UGC's Rules/Regulation/Notification *
In */Ajesh V.V. Varapuzha House vs The University Grants Commission<https://indiankanoon.org/doc/113619130/>/*/, /the Supreme Court of India held that the UGC has statutory power to frame any Rules and Regulation under section 26 of the UGC Act, 1956. The Court held in para21 that "/If any interference is made to the guidelines issued by theUniversity, it will amount to dilution of the 2009 Regulations which isnot permissible and the Courts cannot take a different view from whathas already been stated"./The Supreme Court in*/P.Suseela and Others v. University Grants Commission and Others <https://indiankanoon.org/doc/68173382/> /*heldthat the regulations made by UGC have no retrospective effect:/"14. The other interesting argument made is that such regulationsshould not be given retrospective effect so as to prejudicially affect the interests of any person to whom such regulation may be applicable.In order to appreciate this contention, it is necessary to distinguish between an existing right and a vested right."/The apex court apply its hands offs approach in */University Grant Commission & Anr v Neha Anil Bobde (Gadekar)<https://indiankanoon.org/doc/187384523/>/* CIVIL Appeal No. 8355 of 2013.
/"29. We are of the view that,<http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/6370531_Supreme-Court-judgement-UGC-NET-exam.pdf>in academic matters, unless there is a clear violation of statutoryprovisions, the Regulations or the Notification issued, the Courts shallkeep their hands off since those issues fall within the domain of theexperts. This Court in University of Mysore vs. C.D.Govinda Rao, AIR1965 SC 491, Tariq Islam vs. AligarhMuslim University (2001) 8 SCC 546and Rajbir SinghDalal vs. Chaudhary Devi Lal University (2008) 9 SCC284, has taken the view that the Court shall not generally sit in appealover the opinion expressed by expert academic bodies and normally it iswise and safe for the Courts to leave the decision of academic expertswho are more familiar with the problem they face, than the Courtsgenerally are. _UGC as an expert body has been entrusted with the dutyto take steps as it may think fit for the determination and maintenance of standards of teaching, examination and research in the University._For attaining the said standards, it is open to the UGC to lay down any"qualifying criteria", which has a rational nexus to the object to beachieved, that is for maintenance of standards of teaching, examination and research."/* *
*The effect of UGC Notification on JNU*
JNU administration adopts UGC's 5^th May, 2016 Regulation in its 142^nd Academic Council Meeting with undemocratic manner and not consulted withthe whole member of the AC Meeting. The JNU administration did not follows the JNU Act while trying to implement the UGC's 2016 Regulation.In 141 Academic Council meeting the UGC's Regulation not discussed in democratic manner by the JNU Administration and neither this Regulation circulated to the Schools and Centres for comments and suggestions before adaptation of the Regulation.There are two highest level committees in JNU, first Academic Council(Academic Body of the University), and the second Executive Council(Executive Body of the University). The Academic Council has two parts (A and B), part A include the student representative body with the Faculties, who elect by the election andhave statuary rights under the JNU Constitution to participate in AC Meetings when the policy matter discuss about admission and reservation at the university level. The part B of the AC includes the Faculty members and representatives of the elected members of the JNTA.On the other the student body have no right when the matter discuss relating to(a) faculty positions, requirement, conditions of service and academic freedom; (b) the issue relating to actual process of evaluating theacademic preference and merit of the students.The JNU administrations deliberately not discussed the Regulation andeven not clear how to implement the regulation. Pratiksha Baxi stated,it is the unique feature of the JUN student body that represent indecision making process. Baxi stated:<https://kafila.online/2017/02/21/the-struggle-to-save-the-jnu-act-the-student-standing-counsels-response-to-ugc-2016-pratiksha-baxi/>/Surely it is a matter of pride that students have this statutory rightand exercise their academic freedom without fear or threat. Very few universities, if any, concede such rights to students and we, as faculty are privileged to learn from our students how to make our university aninclusive, equal and dignified experience. This is an on-going process—and we have much to learn from our institutional history. /In the JNU Act, the AC only has rights to make Ordinance on matters relating to academic and the EC (Executive Committee) must approved the Ordinance which is deliberately decision taken by the AC. The AC alsohas a power to requisition an AC meeting if the EC passed an Ordinance beyond the JNU Constitution, and the Visitor have the power to annul EC proceedings.Baxi stated that how undemocratically the administration passed the
/In the 142 AC meeting, the minutes of the 141 meeting were passed amidst protests by members of the Academic Council. From accounts ofcolleagues in the AC, we learnt that the minutes were cursorily calledout, as "passed, passed". Students who protested were suspended andteachers who were issued a collective show cause notice, following the JNUTA's call for a one//‑//day strike. The show cause notice raised thespectre of CCS Rules, and five teachers were subsequently threatened with enquiries for making speeches on the adverse impact of the UGC Actevoking an inapplicable 20m rule, which proscribes where certain kinds of protests can take place<https://kafila.online/2017/02/21/the-struggle-to-save-the-jnu-act-the-student-standing-counsels-response-to-ugc-2016-pratiksha-baxi/>./By the undemocratic attempt of the JNU administration, constitutionally validity of the JNU Act, Academic Council, JNUSU, and JNUTA become /null and void. /The JNU administration, by pass the whole process which is violated the JNU Act and surrenders JNU's autonomy before the UGC's Regulation.The JNU administration uploads two tables of the existing research scholar and Faculty Members. The administration did not follow a due process while made these two tables. Because of these tables not onlythe student but the Faculty members are under stress that what will happen with the future of the M.Phil 2^nd year and Provisional Ph.Dcandidates. Dr. Baxi called it /Show Cause Jurisprudence<https://kafila.online/2017/02/21/the-struggle-to-save-the-jnu-act-the-student-standing-counsels-response-to-ugc-2016-pratiksha-baxi/>/*.*
Ayesha Kidwai
<https://kafila.online/2017/01/24/howdothenewugcregulationsaffectprospectivestudentsapplyingtojnuayeshakidwai/>,argued /in "How do the new UGC regulations affects prospective students applying to JNU/? Kidwai stated that due to this regulation the seatswill be reduced drastically and in may center of JNU will not have asingle seats of M.Phil/Ph.D. Due to this Regulation the admission policywill be affect as disaster for the JNU, it will be a blow on socialjustice, and the researcher advisory committee will curtail the academic freedom in the campus.
Nivedita Menon,
<https://kafila.online/2016/12/26/jnuvcsabotagesdemocraticfunctioningofacademiccounciltopushthroughantisocialjusticepolicies/>JNU Prof along with 20 Prof in /JNU VC Sabotages Democratic Functioningof Academic Council to push through Anti-Social Justice Policies, /stated:/"We, faculty members of the JNU Academic Council, are shocked anddismayed at the manner in which the Vice Chancellor has conducted the142 Academic Council meeting of December 23 (adjourned to December 26).This was a thinly attended meeting since it was held at short notice inthe middle of the winter vacation, despite several requests forrescheduling. The minutes of the previous (141) Academic Council meetingthat had been circulated contained many errors, misrepresentations, andfalsities. Several of these had been pointed out by many members of theAcademic Council, including in written representations to theRegistrar….//We disapproves of the way in which opinions of many in thehouse were not heard and democratic norms were violated in the conductof the 142 Academic Council meeting by the administration led by theVice Chancellor/."
We are living in an era where the State not follows its fundamentalobligation to secure justice social-economic and political to itscitizen. Education is the only means through which every sections of thesociety will get the opportunity to come with mains streams, but theState's intention is opposite at all. On the one hand the State and theUGC is violating the Constitutional principles as they can, and on theother hand the judiciary adopt /hands off approach/ in the matterrelating UGC's Notifications. The judiciary should take intoconsideration that whether the UGC's Notification is democratic or not?
The scope of public university is shrinking day by day through various tactics of the State and the future of the higher education comes at theedge. It was not possible for anyone to get admission in any public orprivate university without English but it's the unique feature of theJNU to allow all sections of the society irrespective of any caste,class, race, gender, religion, language, place of birth andethnicity.The entire academic community are living under stressed due toUGC's Notification and JNU Administration's arbitrary and undemocraticdecision. In the academic session 2015-16 the total number of 24,171 Ph.D degrees
and during 2014-2015 academic year the total 21,830 Ph.D degree wereawarded in the country. Due to reduction of seats or intake by the UGC's2016 regulation, the question arises on the conflict of lawsof thevarious provisions i.e. the constitutionally validity of the socialjustice ensured in Indian Constitution, the JNU Act of 1966, UGC 2009and 2016 regulation, andthe /Central Educational Institutions(Reservation in Admission) Act/ 2006.The UGC 2016 regulation's impact entire universities and othersinstitutions but the strong voice raised against this draconianregulation by few universities like JNU and Jadvapur University. SomeM.Phil and Ph.D scholars of JNU have moved the Delhi High Court forseeking justice and the whole JNU community is waiting for a positiveresponse from the Court. – Deepak Kumar is a M.Phil Scholar at Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU, New Delhi. – Article Courtesy


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There has been some fuss made recently about the number of tall buildings planned for London. Over 200 buildings over 20 stories are planned on sites in the city. Many are residential, some are mixed use but all of them are tall. The suggestion is that this amount of development will change London's skyline for ever and London will not be the city it once was, or something along those lines. All of which is true. All of which is fine by me.
To decide that London's skyline needs to stay as it is, is to decide that London is finished growing or changing as a city. Some Londoners love it so much they want to keep it just as it is, or mainly as it is. Of course everyone would like more cycle lanes, cleaner air, better buses, more tube trains, etc, just don't give them any tall buildings please, this isn't Manhattan!
London isn't Manhattan, but it is a sprawling, disconnected, land-hungry mass of poor quality housing, some of which is rather nice and a lot of which is rather awful. Much of it is in disconnected, low quality, low-rise suburbs full of increasingly poor people. There is huge demand for housing which is not being met now and doesn't look like being met any time soon. What new housing is being provided is largely in poor quality sites on post-industrial land. The density of new housing on larger sites is often kept down by a combination of GLA and Local Authority requirements and nimbyism.
None of the above says that we need towers on these 200 sites, but the market does. The amount of investment flowing into London at present is enormous, coming from all over the world in search of financial returns. Empty buildings in London are making a better return for investors than full factories in the far East, or most of the worlds banking institutions. So what should happen? The authors of the article suggest that we need a plan for London that dictates what good towers look like and where they should go. I would say that we already have a planning system including a London Authority and its enough already.
The towers on their own will not be enough to solve London's housing problem, and the reason most of them are towers is because there are not many large sites on the market. Vacant land in London with good transport links is non-existent. The only way for a developer to maximise the returns on a small site is to go up. Developers know that towers are not the cheapest form of development, and they are not doing to to massage their ego's. While towers are not an ideal form for many uses, developers have to make the most of the opportunities they are presented with. What the towers will do in the short term is make money for developers, contractors, architects and the construction trades that London needs. It will ensure that the skills this generation needs to develop and build low energy and highly sustainable buildings are retained in London and trained for the future.
None of the firms who are busy developing, designing and building those towers are on this list of signatories calling for tighter controls. Having experienced the deepest and longest recession in memory and only now seeing their balance sheets return to something approaching health, the last thing any one in the construction industry in London needs is another set of controls on development that will deter investment, slow down the progress of the planning system and curtail the delivery of much needed housing in London.


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is a set of rules that define and control the interactions between two communicating entities, like two computers, modems, routers, or other types of hardware or software.
Network Protocol
When one device communicates with another, the transmissions between them must conform to the specific format, length, and structure of a common protocol, regardless of whether the devices are directly connected or remote to one another across a network. In very simple terms, a protocol is a common language between the devices.
Is a suite of protocols that includes a variety of communications and networking protocols. These protocols provide the capabilities to initiate, facilitate, manage, maintain, and troubleshoot network communications.
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
The best way to understand the purpose and application of the TCP/IP protocols is by their function.
What are the protocols associated with the Network Layer of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) Layer?
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
What are the protocols associated with the Transport Layer of the OSI layer model?
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
What are the protocols associated with the Application Layer of the OSI layer model?
Domain Name System (DNS)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
is a connection-oriented protocol that manages the transmission of data between two communicating stations. It provides reliable, guaranteed transmission and receipt of data between a source and a destination. It requires an acknowledgement for each packet before transmitting any additional messages.
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
The workhorse protocol of the internet. It defines logical addressing (IP addresses) and the use of logical addressing for identifying networks and hosts across a network. There are two active versions 4 and 6...no 5.
Internet Protocol (IP)
is still the predominant logical addressing scheme in use on LANs and WANs. However, its 32-bit structure (four 8-bit groupings, or octets) provides for only about 4.29 billion unique addresses. At the time of its introduction, 4 billion addresses seemed like enough to handle Internet growth forever.
IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4)
Defines a 128-bit address that allows for 2 to the 128th power unique logical addresses, which is more than 340 undecillion addresses.
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6)
NOTE: IPv4 and IPv6 are largely compatible at the host-level of a network. For this reason, local networks and hosts can continue to use IPv4 public or private addresses. However, at the router or gateway level, networks have already begun the conversion to IPb6, and eventually all border and edge network equipment will require IPv6.
Ensures that data remains secure from the originating workstation or host through any routers and other network devices it passes through to the destination workstation or host.
IPSec (PP Security)
Other than the number of logical addresses, what is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
IPv6 comes with a non-optional IPSec
Because of the strong need for security in IPv4, IPSec was adapted for use with IPv4, bit its use is optional. The IPv4 implementation of IPSec provides security only between the edge routers of separate networks.
NOTE: An edge router (also called an access router or a border router) is the first or last router in a single provider or organization's network. It's the first router inbound traffic encounters, as well as the router from which traffic departs for another network. Edge routers typically run a version of the Border Gateway routing protocol.
What are the other differences between IPv4 and IPv6?
-IPSec is optional
-IPSec support is required
-Routers and the sending host fragment packets
-Routers do not support packet fragmentation. The sending host fragments packets.
-Header includes a checksum
-Header does not include a checksum
-Uses broadcast addresses to send traffic to all nodes on a subnet.
-Uses a link-local scope all-nodes to multicast address.
-Configured through DHCP
Does not require DHCP
Is the TCP/IP service that converts human-friendly domain names (such as ed2go.com) into their IP address equivalents (such as 10.0.100.20).
DNS (Domain Name System)
DNS comes up in the context of security as a means of attack. What are the three primary types of DNS attacks, which are all variations of a man-in-the-middle attack?
-DNS Spoofing
-DNS ID hacking
-DNS cache poising
In this type of attack, a DNS server accepts and uses incorrect information from a host that has no authority to provide that information. A non-DNS server spoofs itself to be one and uses cache poisoning to direct DNS to request traffic to itself.
DNS Spoofing
NOTE: When a browser sends a request to a DNS server for a website's IP address, DNS assigns an ID number to the request. When the DNS server responds to the request, it includes this ID number so that the requesting workstation can verify the response by comparing the numbers. If the ID numbers match, the DNS response is valid.
Where a hacker uses a packet analyzer (packet sniffer) to capture and examine DNS request originating from a particular computer or network to extract the ID number assigned to the request. The hacker is then able to redirect the requesting computer to a different website by responding to the DNS request with a matching ID number but an alternate IP address.
DNS ID Hacking
An attacker falsifies the information in a DNS server, typically mapping a domain name to an IP address other than its actual one. This causes the DNS server to direct request for a particular domain name to an incorrect IP address.
DNS cache poisoning
is a core TCP/IP protocol that carries error and informational messages between network devices.
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
Since ICMP packets, which transmit through IP, don't guarantee delivery, some ICMP packets may not arrive at their destinations. What are 7 examples of ICMP message types?
-Destination unreachable
-Parameter problem
-Source quench
-Synchronize (SYN)
-Time exceeded
Transmitted to the network when a packet or datagram fails to reach its destination address.
Destination Unreachable
Requests that a receiving network send back an acknowledgment to confirm that the transmitted ICMP message actually reached its destination. This ICMP message type is what the ping command uses.
Any situation not specifically covered by another ICMP message type uses this generic catchall message type.
Parameter Problem
A router is able to provide feedback to the network about better routes to a host.
Alerts a transmitting device to slow down its transmission rate for the datagrams it sends.
Source Quench
A request to open a new connection to a server from the source IP address. In a DoS attack, a router or server is flooded with SYN messages that contain a spoofed address, which doesn't reply to acknowledgement requests, thereby tying up the server.
Synchronize (SYN)
Sent when a datagram has been on the network too long or takes too long during reassembly of received fragments. Time exceeded packets relate to the TTL counter in a packet.
Time exceeded.
Is the standard protocol for managing network devices on TCP/IP networks. Virtually all network devices, including routers, switches, servers, workstations, printers, and modem racks, support this. Its most common use is for monitoring the condition and operational status of network devices.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
NOTE: Three versions of SNMP exist: SNMP version 1 (SNMPv1), SNMP version 2c (SNMPv2c) and SNMP version 3 (SNMPv3). Both SNMP versions 1 and 2c are vulnerable to packet sniffing because they transmit their "community" data strings in clear text. SNMPv3 implements encryption to prevent this. All of SNMP version are vulnerable to brute force and dictionary attacks for guessing community strings, authentication strings, authentication keys (passwords), and encryption keys.
allows SCSI commands to be transmitted across IP networks, which can be used for data transfers over internal networks and the management of remote data storage functions. It provides a mechanism to move data across local networks and across the Internet as well as enabling site-independent data storage and retrieval. Is a storage area network (SAN) protocol that can provide the illusion of locally stored data that is retrieved from remote storage devices.
Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
is a network technology that can run at speeds ranging from 2 to 16 gigabits per second and is commonly used to interconnect network storage devices in SANs. Although its name implies that it's a fiber-optic technology, it can also run on copper cabling.
Fiber Channel (FC)
is a Transport Layer protocol, similar to TCP on an IP network, that transports SCSI commands on an FC network.
Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP)
allows FC-constructed network segments to be transmitted over an Ethernet network. This protocol is commonly used for SANs on local networks. Because it runs directly above the Ethernet in the protocol stack, it is not routable across IP networks.
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
provides authentication and encryption of all IP packets in a communication session, establishes mutual authentication between transmitting agents, and negotiates the cryptographic keys for use in a communication session. It protects data streams between hosts, network gateways, or a combination of the two, making it an end-to-end security scheme.
IPSec (Internet Protocol Security)
In addition to IPSec, what are three of the other security systems in general use?
-Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
-Transport Layer Security (TLS)
-Secure Shell (SSH)
is an Application-Layer security protocol that cryptographically protects documents transmitted on a network. Its supported by virtually all major web browsers. It uses three layers of encryption for a packet: asymmetric cryptography for the encryption key exchange, symmetric cryptography for packet segments from any layer above the Transport layer, and message authentication codes to ensure message reliability.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Is an enhancement of SSL. It uses the same three layers of packet encryption as SSL.
Transport Layer Security (TLS)
is a network protocol that provides for secure data communications, remote command execution, and shell services on remote computers by creating a secure communication channel between one computer running an SSH server and another running an SSH client. SSH, which replaces Telnet and other insecure remote computing access methods, encrypts the data transmitted between the client and server.
Secure Shell (SSH)
NOTE: IPSec operates on the Network layer and protects application-oriented message traffic on an IP network. Applications operating on a network employing IPSec need no adjustments to be under the protection of IPSec. However, applications that use either TLS or SSL require coding to support its inclusion.
This command uses SSH to transfer data, so it requires a password or passphrase for authentication. It is similar to the UNIX/Linux remote copy (RCP). It copies files between hosts on a network using SSH to authenticate and protect the file.
Secure Copy (SCP)
is a secure file transfer protocol under SSH. It's often mistaken for FTP over SSH or FTP secure (it is neither). Using SSH for authentication and encryption of the data, file, or directory, it assures private data transfers between hosts.
SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
Another file transfer protocol, which is also not FTP Secure, but is perhaps the closest protocol to what that implies. It provides for server-to-server file transfers using SSL/TLS security.
FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS)
Combines the functions of HTTP and SSL/TLS to provide data encryption and reliable authentication on the Web, frequently for the transfer of private information and financial transactions.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
HTTPS is a different protocol than S-HTTP is an internet standard that is rarely used.
What are the 8 types of Wireless Network Security Protocol?
-IEEE 802.11i
-WPA and WPA2
defines the security measures for 802.11x wireless networks. It incorporates the 802.1x security standards, which include Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), Cipher-Block Chaining Messages Authentication Code Protocol (CCMP), and Wireless Robust Authenticated Protocol (WRAP). IEEE 802.11i protects the entire process of association, authentication, and message transmission
IEEE 802.11i
satisfies the high-level requirements of the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) that U.S. government agencies follow. The AES encryption algorithm is a symmetric block cipher that's capable of processing 128-, 192-, and 256-bit keys to encrypt data blocks up to 128 bits in length.
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
This security protocol provides a security and privacy equivalent to that of a wired network. It secures the data in transmission by encrypting the data between the network adapters and access points.
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
What is a major limitation of WEP?
A major limitation of WEP is its use of symmetric key encryption. This means that both ends of a wireless transmission must use the same key to encrypt and decrypt the message. This is a problem because both network adapters and access points use and store the same key. When encryption keys change, all network nodes receive the new key. Unless network administration updates the keys on a frequent but irregular basis, the same keys stay in use for extended periods, giving attackers the opportunity to intercept and defeat the encryption method.
Provides dynamic encryption keys for each data packet; a message integrity check value (ICV), which is a form of checksum; and a mechanism for periodically assigning new keys to network stations. These features correct problems of WEP. It uses 128-bit temporal keys that combine with a wireless station's MAC address and a 16-octet IV to produce a key to encrypt the data payload of a frame using the RC4 algorithm. A temporal key is valid for just a certain time or a set number of packets. This type of temporal key is valid for 10,000 packets before it expires.
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
Is a block-cipher protocol that performs both encryption and authentication. The encryption process uses any block cipher, such as AES or DES, in combination with a secret key for that cipher.
Cipher-Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol (CCMP)
which is an encryption protocol. was the original AES-based authentication protocol for 802.11i but CCMP has made its use optional.
WRAP Wireless Robust Authentication Protocol
is an interim standard before the release of the 802.11i standards. It includes most of the IEEE 802.11i standards and specifically incorporates TKIP.
Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) Protected Access Protocol (WAP)
enhances WAP by replacing TKIP with AES and releasing both personal and enterprise versions, along with Wi-Fi for multimedia (WMM). AES requires firmware updates on many older wireless devices or those without the WPA2 certification.
Provides security to point-to-point (PTP) communications. It is one of the authentication methods that implement the 802.1x security standards.
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
What are the 5 EAPoL available on WPA/WPA2 wireless devices?
-Message-Digest Algorithm (MD5)
-Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP)
-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS)
-Tunneled Transport Layer Security (EAP-TTLS)
-Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP)
Provides only basic EAP support. In fact, because it provides only one-way authentication, it is not a good choice for a WLAN. It doesn't include mutual authentication between wireless stations and the WLAN, nor does it generate dynamic keys.
Message-Digest Algorithm (MD5)
Transports authentication data between wireless devices securely. It supports a variety of authentication protocols and creates a virtual tunnel between this type of node and the authentication server. It authenticates WLAN stations using server-side certificates, which can simplify the implementation and administration of a WLAN.
Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP)
supports both certificate-based authentication and mutual authentication using client-side and server-side certificates. It can also dynamically generate user-based and session-based keys.
Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS)
Other names for EAP-TLS authentication are Smart Card or Certificate authentication.
is an extension of EAP-TLS that supports certificate-based, mutal authentication of a WLAN station and a WLAN employing an encrypted tunnel. It uses only server-side certificates.
Tunneled Transport Layer Security (EAP-TTLS)
is a Cisco systems WLAN authentication method that provides mutual authentication and dynamic keys. Each time a client authenticates, it acquires a new dynamic key. It can use dynamic WEP or TKP keys.
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP).
verify that data from a website or a WLAN station is from the actual source and not an impostor. The certificate verifies that the requested source is in fact the responding source.
Server-side digital certificate
is essentially the same as a server-side certificate. The difference lies in its use. This certificate requires that each node or user have a unique certificate, which verifies that the source's identity is not an impostor and is exactly who it claims to be.
Client-side certificate
Most wireless access points or routers routinely transmit the network identity in the form of the network's ______________ every few seconds. This is actually a protocol-based activity rather than a protocol itself. While this practice is great for roaming wireless devices, in most cases, WLANs don't have roaming nodes, the broadcasting this makes it easier for hackers to break into the WLAN. If broadcasting this isn't necessary, disable the function.
Service Set Identifier (SSID)
Note: In the context of TCP/IP networks, a port is a logical connection endpoint that points to a specific server program on a network.
is unique in that it uses two separate ports, one for the transfer of data (port 20) and one for the transfer of command and control messages (port 21).
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
contains a suite of security functions, including FTPS (FTP on SSH), SFTP (Secure FTP), and SCP (Secure Copy), all of which operate on port 22.
Secure Shell (SSH)
uses port 80
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
uses port 443
HTTPS (HTTP Secure)
This service provides applications with the capability to communicate host-to-host on a LAN. It uses two ports, one for the NetBIOS name service (port 137), which is like DNS for LANs, and one for the NetBIOS datagram service (port 139).
Network Basic Input Output System (NetBIOS)
Which is a very insecure method to transfer data, uses port 23.
is a simple and insecure version of FTP. uses port 69
Trivial FTP (TFTP)
Which of the active versions of IP requires the use of IPSec?
A. IPv5
B. IPv2
C. IPv4
D. IPv6
(this multiple choice question has been scrambled)
Which version of SNMP implements encryption to prevent packet sniffing?
A. All SNMP version include encryptions
B. SNMPv3
C. SNMPv1
D. SNMPv2c
D. SNMPv3
(this multiple choice question has been scrambled)
Which two well-known ports support FTP?
A. Ports 20 and 21
B. Ports 21 and 22
C. Ports 22 and 23
D. Ports 80 and 443
A. Ports 20 and 21
(this multiple choice question has been scrambled)
What secure wireless networking protocol replaced WEP?
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Democrats have perfected the art of being simultaneously maudlin and vicious, and above all else ruthlessly partisan in their pious denunciations of partisanship.--- MARK STEYN November 3, 2002
At least, they're trying to be vicious and maudlin. However, it falls flat, because I agree with just about everything Romney said. From the Liberal perception, his comments were damaging to election. To someone who understands facts, truth, and integral honesty, Romney banged the nail head dead-on.
I said it before, I'll say it again...landslide in November, and demoralized Democrat debris all over the battlefield.


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text: You would think after 24 years of this nonsense it wouldn't bother me anymore. I've long been the odd man out. The ugly duckling or the awkward one. I've never been very good at playing by the rules or pretending that others judgment's or nonsense didn't bother me. Well maybe its because I am now part of a church family who doesn't judge or that maybe its because I've reached a point in my life where I finally have the courage to speak out against the nonsense and the pretense. I've grown up around this concept that the measure of your ability to raise your children is based on the degrees they have and the number of non God given holes in their heads and ink in there skin. I've watched as mothers have clucked from the back of the church and during potluck to each other about mr and mrs johnsons troubled kid. "oh lets make sure so and so's son or daughter gets extra prayer this week" not because there was actually anything morally deficient or wrong with them but because they come to church in jeans and have more than the acceptable number of holes in there ears or heaven forbid one in there lip. Well I've quite had it with all this nonsense. I am tired of being treated like the prodigal child and like there's something terribly wrong with me for looking how i do . I am a very accomplished and well traveled 24 year old. I don't know a lot of parents who child decided at 22 that there gonna move 2500 hundred miles away to dedicate there lives for 2 years for the cause of serving the poor and being the Lords hands and feet. But somehow no matter how well I'm doing or what amazing things I've contributed to society , I am still judged based on the fact that I chose to have holes in my ears or ink in my skin.. it doesn't matter that the most visible tattoos I have speak of the unfailing love of Christ or that I got them for the purpose of having a constant reminder of Who my God is. When are we as the church finally going to be able to look at somebody like me and treat them like there part of the family? At the church body that Im a part of I've never once seen somebody judged based on appearance or lack of "success" that willingness to look past the outward appearance is what it means to truly see people as Jesus see's them and not as our fleshly judgmental hearts would quickly appraise their worth as less than others who look more "christian like" anyways thats my rant for today.


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She was born in London, the only child of Ethel (of wealthy Spanish and French parents) and Clarence Snead, who abandoned his legal training thanks to his wife's money. One of Clarence's sisters was mentally ill, another later committed suicide, and Clarence was consumed by black moods so severe that he ragingly and irrationally insisted his daughter be called Magdalene, not Stella, as his wife preferred. His silences were terrifying: knives and baby were kept from him for fear of murder.
When, in summer 1915, he entered a nursing home for a respite, Ethel and daughter left the house, keeping their destination secret. Clarence discharged himself the next day and searched for them in every south coast resort. They had avoided favourite holiday spots and fled to Leicester. Stella - as she was now safely called - went to village schools, and then spent three years at the progressive theosophical school, St Christopher's, Letchworth. After a joyful year studying French in Paris, she returned to her mother's new home in Sutton in 1928 and took a secretarial course. Neither saw Clarence again.
Stella could not work because of a genetic depressive tendency, and was supported by her mother until 1936 when, on holiday in Tenerife, she was transfixed by a friend's painting. Inspired, she returned to Sutton and, secluded in her bedroom, worked at her easel. This led to three years at the Academy of Fine Art in London, run by Amédée Ozenfant, a friend of Léger and Le Corbusier; another student was Leonora Carrington. Despair at the collapse of European civilisation meant a move in 1939 to New York. There, she met Carrington again and moved in the emigré surrealist circles to which she had been drawn as her own work evolved. Always independent minded, she hitched around the US on mail trucks, met Native Americans and traders in remote places; in California, astronomers allowed her to look through telescopes. "I had never felt space so completely," she recalled. She travelled between the west coast, Mexico and New York, then returned at the war's end to London, although she was gone from there before her own exhibition opened - on her way to Taos, New Mexico.
She had three prolific years inspired by the landscape and her small adobe house. In 1949, after a relationship broke up, she travelled through the Caribbean, then endured two years' depression in London. Eased away from psychiatry, but still unable to paint, she toured India by train and so loved the country that, after a return to New York and intensive reading, she went back to India and stayed there from 1956 to 1971. Photography preoccupied her since she was still unable to paint. Her surreal eye brought a new dimension to ancient sculptures and monuments: some pictures are gathered in such books as Ruins in Jungles (1962), Animals in Four Worlds (1989) and the hefty Shiva's Pigeons (1972) whose text by the Godden sisters, Jon and Rumer, notes that this "conglomeration of glimpses" showed someone who, even when photographing sand ripples, had "a concept of the whole" country: "little human points of view wax or dwindle as the cycles turn". She had been introduced to the sisters by a London publisher, and their text grew from the photographs. Back in New York in 1971, in an apartment near the Lincoln Centre, she adapted the photographs as collages.
In 1987, she found that she could resume painting. Her peripatetic life meant that many pictures had vanished, but she had photographed some as a record, and from these she made new versions which she called "variations" of her 1940s oils. Across the decades, her old and new work is of a piece.
Her nocturnal landscapes loom larger than the confines of a small canvas. For a while, she was preoccupied by animals; perhaps best known is Ecstatic Cow (1943), a bovine leap amid a motley menagerie. The New Mexico plains pervade work whose figures sometimes become abstract, such as the cowled shapes of Advancing Monuments (1946). Such sinister humour resurfaced in her late work. In Snake Tongue Pier (1989), a great red tongue could be a fish eaten by the creature-like shoreline. Ladies from Afar (1993) recreated a 1949 work in which the well-dressed are elegantly indecent, as if a Vogue cover had merged with Astounding Tales.
She never dared tell her long-lived, much-loved, vegetarian mother, "I now eat everything."
· Stella Snead, artist and photographer, born April 2 1910; died March 18 2006


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1 1/2 cup water
2 1/2 Tablespoon butter, cubed
2 Tablespoons honey or molasses
2 cups white flour
2 cups wheat flour
4 teaspoons vital wheat gluten (yes, you need it!)
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon yeast (if your loaf doesn't rise enough, add up to 1 1/2 teaspoon. If it rises too much, reduce to 1/2 teaspoon)
1 Tablespoon dough conditioner (optional)
1 Tablespoon milled flax seed (optional)
1 Tablespoon wheat germ (optional)
Bread Machine
Add all ingredients in order of recipe. Set to wheat, light crust and start. Remove immediately from pan when finished and allow to cool slightly before slicing or completely before storing.
Dissolve yeast in water. Add honey or molasses and melted butter. In a separate bowl, sift together dry ingredients. Add yeast and knead for five minutes. Spritz bowl with cooking spray and put in dough. Cover and let rest one hour in a warm place. Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead again about five minutes. Place in greased bread pan, cover and let rest an additional half hour. Bake at 350F for 25 to 35 minutes or until loaf is golden brown and sounds hollow when thumped. Remove from pan and cool slightly before slicing or completely before storing.


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London Social Media Week included the second running of the Be2Awards and @Be2Talks - a celebration of technology, B2B social media and the built environment - at the Building Centre, Store Street, London WC1 (but also live-streamed, live-blogged, tweeted, etc).
Welcome, introductions, house-keeping, etc - by Bernie Mitchell
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Nominations for the Be2Awards were 'crowd-sourced', the lists were collated, some categories were merged, and voted upon, and we announced the winners!
Since June 2008, the social media advocacy community, Be2camp, has been helping the architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and related industries think about and deploy Web 2.0 tools and techniques. The world's first awards for social media in the built environment, the 2011 Be2Awards were presented in London in February 2011.
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Mass take up of BIM is a turning point for UK construction. This is transformational technology but it supports and depends on changes in culture and communication. BIM is basically the switch to digital information: trustworthy, computable and sharable: a shared virtual resource for design, building and operation. Perfect info!
Collaboration was always possible with the up-draft of goodwill and good processes. BIM is like the Wright brothers adding an engine to a glider: it makes collaboration possible at any time; updraft not needed.
Productivity has been flat for decades in construction, with prices climbing above inflation and profits poor. Demand is depressed by this. BIM will deliver substantial growth, and continue to do so.
Negroponte (70s MIT) predicted in The Architecture Machine three stages of change: Accommodation (2D CAD); Adaptation (BIM L2); Evolution (unpredictable change).
Example of evolution in retailing since EPOS. Cars, Planes and Ships all use 'BIM'.
Stakeholder value uplift from BIM, examples:
• Clients: better assets for less risk, Capex and Opex; whole life service offer.
• Consultants: productivity hike; wider service offer; less risk; more control.
• Contractors: integrator role; less risk or scope for exploiting clients; more offsite and standard product; faster; cheaper; better; FM service opening.
• Specialists: less risk; more offsite; merge with product sector? Consultancy?
• Product makers: Transformed 'offsite' offer; e-catalogues: downloaded models.
• FMs: greatly increased scope; outcome and feedback role; building automation.
• BIM providers: huge world market for software and services
• Regulators: making regs into apps: auto permissions.
• Public: more sustainable built environment, econ, env, social. Growth and better quality jobs.
Communications in BIM-enabled world: less adversarial; more collaborative. Formal comms in working with the model. Informal comms in relating across the team.
Using Facebook to access product and model information? PAS1192.
Alliances will be important: consultants and contractors will work in more stable teams, continuously improving. Plug and Play methods between firms. 24-7 mobile working in the Cloud; few landlines on sites.
Growth will flow from demand for better product and service at lower WL cost.


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Saturday, November 20, 2010
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i ran another 1 mile race and won 1st prize for the girls under 12 catogory. i got the 1 of biggest trophies out of 2. 1 was for the girl winner under 12 and 1 was for the boy winner under 12. yay me!
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Flashback Friday - Cannon
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It used to be that only adults were the busy ones and then only those who had a paying job to go to, but now children are as busy as adults; if not even busier. There is a great need to have 'accomplished' children, so we put them in as many after school and pre school programs as there is time to; everything from piano lessons to soccer practice to swimming lessons and many of them all in the same day. Yes, we certainly live in a busy world.
In the midst of all of this frenzy it's important that we take the time to breathe. Just breathe. Take a deep breath and hold it for a second and let it slowly out. Relax. The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastics chapter 3 that there is a time for everything. There are only twenty-four hours in every day and many people in the world are trying to cram more activities and duties into those hours than can possibly fit. The results are discontentment, stress, worry, strife, unhappiness, health problems and loss of connection with family members, just to name a few.
Early this morning I had to leave our island to pick something up at one of the stores in town, and as I was driving across the causeway that connects our island to the mainland, I was struck with how peaceful and beautiful the water all around me was. There wasn't a ripple in the ocean. It was just like a mirror. I slowed my van down to better enjoy this gift the Lord had given me and took the time to relax. There was a red fishing boat anchored near a beautiful white sail boat and both were perfectly reflected in the water. Even the water birds weren't disturbing the stillness of the water. As I neared the end of the point of land I saw a dory with one lone rower at the oars. All around the dory the water was still glassy smooth except for the barely- there ripple caused by it's passage. It was such a beautiful scene and it spoke of such peace and solitude that I had to thank the Lord for blessing me with this picture that He created.
I had errands to run this morning and I was in a hurry but I took the time to stop and enjoy the peace the Lord had created. There is a time to rush, but today wasn't it. Let me encourage you to take the time to breathe deeply and enjoy God's creation and His presence; His peace.
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
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Mike McNamara, whether he was a prime mover in it or not, once operated in a hurling context where perceived slights were seized upon. If he read some of the championship previews judging his charges hopes he might be inclined to pin articles on the dressing room wall, and slip into full Canon Michael O' Brien "donkeys for derby's mode". The Sunday Tribune was particularly uncharitable, it's hurling correspondent rating Clare beneath Wexford, and another journalist railing against McNamara for his antediluvian training methods. The redoubtable Sean Moran in the Irish Times slipped into generic cliche by terming the Banner county to be "in transition". Too often this term is used in politically correct terms to describe an outfit that is perceived to be not much cop, and with Clare naming only one player spending his first season on the panel, and with no u-21 anywhere near the starting fifteen, there is a patronising whiff in the air.
But this imagining of Clare still existing in an established patterns also exists amongst their supporters. Talk amongst them usually focuses on the malaise in the forwards, with an eye constantly fixed on the sky looking for a sign as to the arrival of the next James O' Connor. Conversely there is a curious "it will be all right on the night" attitude towards the sides backs, due to years of living on the fatted calf. This complacency seems to have infected the management. It's a little reported fact that two men who played corner back in last years championship Kevin Dilleen and Anthony Kilmartin are not involved this summer. The Clare selectors seemed confident that Tadgh Keogh would cut the mustard and didn't try any other players in the position, bar the ill-fated Conor McMahon, in the spring. But subsequent challenge matches have put the selectors off the Sixmilebridge man and Daragh Clancy, with no apparent corner back experience, has been dragooned into the position. In the half-line Conor Plunkett so long the dauphin to Seanie McMahon has been informed his time has come, a promotion that seems less logical and more ripe for disappointment than five years ago. On his right Pat Donnellan, hopefully not too chastened by having virtually all the media spell his name wrong throughout the league, will have to overcome the suspicion formed from his county u-21 career, that he is more a ball player in the Paul Kelly mode than a granite hewn championship wing back that Clare need. If Dan Shanahan and Seamus Prendergast have shaken off injury, and in the case of the former sonamblulent league form, we'll have a much better idea about the reasoning behind Gerry Quinn's omission, on Sunday night.
The saffron and blue selection has a wing and a prayer element to it in attack for different reasons. Tony Griffin and Diarmuid McMahon are only back in the country for just over a month, albeit they are reported to be in good physical shape. Tony Carmody has had very little spring hurling after a serious injury. Niall Gilligan and Jonathan Clancy have both suffered mild concussions in recent weeks. But with Declan O'Rourke invalided and Fergal Lynch and Barry Nugent failing to secure the trust of yet another management team, Clare are hoping that class ( yes there is plenty of it, despite urban legend ) will overcome the respective infirmities. One bugbear, the lack of a quality freetaker may have been treated by Mark Flaharty's inclusion. Another, the lack of goal power is, judging on the league and challenges still a sore point.
The comfort for Clare is that their undercooked forwards are facing underpowered Deise backs. Eoin Murphy, perhaps on the advice of a frustrated agent, attempted in the winter through a celebrity dancing show to raise his public profile. His worth may be more apparent on Sunday night, much to the chagrin of Waterford's supporters, if their Munster hopes have gone south. His direct replacement Declan Prendergast, although more suited to corner back than full, will likely mark the aforementioned Flaherty, and Clare's debutant might have faced a harder introduction to championship. The absence of Ken McGrath doesn't need to be dallied on the for too long. One thing Waterford could take from the league q/f defeat to Tipperary was how calm and authoritative Kevin Moran seemed in a the problem position of full back. And of course the injury worries aside- which prevent Eoin Kelly from starting- there is the suspicion that Waterford's forwards have too much heavy artillery for their opposite numbers. Bar the debutant dual player Gary Hurney, it is instructive that the most unheralded amongst them include the All- Star Stephen Molumphey, and the oft undervalued Eoin McGrath.
Clare could improve markedly later in the summer. This would be ironic considering managements desire to take the Munster Championship ultra-seriously, forsaking the policy of the Anthony Daly era. Their saving grace could be that their ill-preparedness due to events seems to be aped by Waterford. Indeed its possible that Clare might have more fight for a contest that may be prosaic for Waterford with their eyes on a much bigger prize. However despite the absentees, Waterford's xv still seems to have a smidgen more talent, and though the draw might be tempting for serious punters, the Deise are still the better bet.
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Obama: Let the Terrorists Win One For a Change
Apparently the only way that Barack Obama can figure out to keep Palestinian terrorists from launching bombs on Israel is to give it to them.
Advised by every realist foreign policy adviser who has been on Meet the Press in the last 50 years to let the Palestinians have East Jerusalem, Obama has drawn on his vast experience as an executive to give it away while the giving's good.
Why does anyone think this is a good plan? Because it was drawn up by the King of Saudi Arbia? He's not in control of Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbullah ... is he? If he's in control of Al Qaeda Hamas, and Hezbullah, then we have no business talking to him until he's in Gitmo. If he's not in total control of Al Qaeda Hamas, and Hezbullah, then he can't be sure that the terrorists won't use East Jerusalem as a close-in base from which to attack Israel.
The radical Islamists have sworn to the destruction of Israel. This looks like it brings them a step closer, and all they have to do is stop shooting rockets long enough to move the launchers to the Palestinian side of Jerusalem.
w/t the amazing Gateway Pundit.
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I always have several students who struggle with the concept of rounding numbers. For some of them it helps to have something to manipulate while trying to round to nearest ten or hundred. I put together this to use for them a couple years ago. Today's throwback Thursday revisits it.1
To read my original post about using this in the classroom, click here. To download the freebie, click the picture.