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English Heritage: A very grand design (Apethorpe) 2009
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She may not be allowed to get back in the ring yet, but Ronda Rousey can still go the dance!
The 28-year-old MMA fighter kept her promise and accompanied 22-year-old U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jarrod Haschert to his Marine Corps Ball in South Carolina on Friday, following his viral Facebook video request in August.
Rousey, who is reeling from her loss of the UFC Women's Bantamweight championship title to Holly Holm at UFC 193 in mid-November, appears in an Instagram photo posted on Friday smiling and looking lovely in what appears to be a draped black gown with a plunging neckline while standing next to her date.
"T hank you Lance Cpl. Jarrod Haschert for taking me to the Marine Corps Ball, being such a gentleman, and putting a smile on my face again," she wrote.
"Ronda wanted to honor her commitment, she wanted to go," a source told E! News earlier in the day. "She'll be wearing a floor-length gown."
The source also said Rousey was headed to the ball with a friend and that she and her date planned to meet up beforehand.
"YES JARROD YES! I hope you had a blast, I know you worked so hard & your service means everything to us," one of Haschert's friends wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday. "You're accomplished so much in your life already, just keep going bud."
Other Marine Corps Ball attendees and their family members also shared pics of Rousey, who posed for selfies with many people.
Rousey was hospitalized and put on a medical suspension after she lost the fight, which was touted as the biggest UFC upset in history. She told ESPN the magazine, "It might be three to six months before I can eat an apple, let alone take an impact."
She and Holm are set to face off in a rematch this summer.
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Throughout the ages, despite differences in culture and cuisine, Jewish kitchens around the world shared a commitment to kashrut—the classical rules regulating the Jewish diet. This religious lifestyle, known as "keeping kosher," which is still observed in a great many Jewish homes today, encompasses a number of restrictions. Traditional Jews keep all meat and milk products separate; meat is salted before cooking; and animals must be ritually slaughtered before they may be eaten. But perhaps the most famous restrictions, and the ones most explicit in the Bible, are those laid out in Leviticus, which limit the kinds of animals that a Jew is allowed to eat. By eating only certain animals and not others, Jews all over the world have adhered to "the Tora of the beasts, and of the birds, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth: To make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten."1
As unified as traditional Jews have been, however, in adhering to the Tora's dietary distinctions between permitted and forbidden creatures, they were equally as diverse in explaining the meaning of kashrut, offering over the centuries a wide array of explanations. This is due in large part to the fact that the Bible itself, in distinguishing between permitted and forbidden animals, gives no explicit explanation for the rules; rather, Leviticus 11 offers fairly opaque criteria for determining "pure" and "impure" creatures. This sense of mystery is itself compounded by the fact that different distinctions are made among different sorts of species. For example, when it comes to quadrupeds, we are informed that only an animal "with clefts through the hoofs, and that chews the cud—such you may eat."2 Jews, then, are permitted to partake of domesticated animals (beheimot) such as the cow, goat, or lamb, as well as of "wilder" species (hayot) such as the deer and the antelope, but are enjoined not to eat of the pig, camel, hare, or rock badger, which lack one of the two required signs, or of the horse, bear, or rhinoceros, which lack both. In the case of fish, the Bible permits only those with both fins and scales.3 Species of marine life lacking one of the two, such as the shark or catfish (which have no scales), or both, such as shellfish, are forbidden. The Bible takes another mysterious turn in its discussion of birds, giving no instructions for the determinations of permitted fowl at all, but instead merely listing those that are forbidden. "The following, "Leviticus declares, "you shall abominate among the birds,"4 going on to list the eagle, the falcon, the vulture, and the owl, among others. Whereas the Sages of the Talmud and other commentators suggest that all the forbidden birds are predators, the Bible never says this explicitly. The reader of the Bible is thus presented with a compendium of rules for kashrut determination, without any immediate explanation for them.
While the rules pertaining to "the beasts, the birds, and every living creature that moves in the waters" are familiar to every kosher-keeping Jew, it is often forgotten that the dietary prohibitions pertain to the world of insects, as well, and that the distinctions made among permitted and forbidden bugs are perhaps the most mysterious of all. The Bible does not, on the whole, appear to deem insects worthy of Jewish consumption; we are told that "all winged swarming creatures that walk on all fours shall be an abomination to you,"5 forever forbidding the bee and the butterfly as objects of Jewish culinary delight. We are later told that all insects that cannot fly are forbidden as well: "All creatures that swarm upon the earth are an abomination."6
Thus, the Bible explains, Jews are forbidden to ingest "anything that crawls on its belly, or anything that walks on all fours, or anything that has many legs,"7 referring respectively to creatures such as the worm, the ant, and the centipede. In Deuteronomy, where the laws of kashrut are reiterated, no mention is made of any exceptions to this last prohibition; yet, in the midst of the discussion in Leviticus, the Bible explicitly permits those insects that neither walk nor fly, but leap: "But these you may eat among all the winged swarming creatures that walk on all fours: All that have, above their feet, jointed legs to leap with on the ground."8 The permitted insects, then, are "locusts of every variety, all varieties of bald locust, crickets of every variety, and all varieties of grasshopper."9 Once again, however, no explanation is given for why these insects are allowed, and why they prove the exception to the general biblical ban on eating insect life.
The laws of kashrut, in other words, while having had an important impact on the life of the Jewish people, have never really been understood; no clear explanation has ever been given for why one may eat of the cow but not the camel, of the carp but not the catfish, of the turtle-dove but not the turtle. In what follows, I will suggest that perhaps the Bible does not elaborate on why these distinctions are made because it is less interested in our understanding God's reasons for choosing these specific criteria than it is in our comprehending the larger importance of making such distinctions among all forms of life. Indeed, the careful reader of the Bible and its rabbinic interpretations will see that later on in Leviticus, the Bible does make it quite clear why keeping kosher is important—and why the Jewish dietary rules continue to remain relevant today....
Meir Soloveichik is an Associate Fellow at the Shalem Center, and a Contributing Editor of Azure. He is Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan, and is working on his doctorate at Princeton University. His last contribution to Azure was "The Jewish Mother: A Theology"(Azure 20, Winter 2005).


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|Oct 14, 2003
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|Sep 23, 1999
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|Sep 23, 1999
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|Jeffrey Lee Barrett, Simon C. Chu, David Joseph Doria, Christopher C. Gaskins, James Franklin Macon, Jr., Gregg Matthew Margosian, Michael Robert Primm, Gregory Brian Pruett, Jianping Yang
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|International Business Machines Corporation
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|Patent Citations (20), Non-Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (46), Classifications (11), Legal Events (9)
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1. Technical Field
This invention relates to communications networks, and in particular to a method for discovering SNMP agents on a communication network. Still more particularly, the present invention relates to a notification method which guarantees that a system manager discovers SNMP agents on a communications network.
2. Description of the Related Art
The technological development of communication networks is increasing at a fast pace. Network developers are continually searching for more efficient ways to complete network processes. A typical network consists of a web-like set of communication links to which are connected a plurality of agents. Agents on a network may be either a hardware device such as a router or a software application running on a processor system. Agents have traditionally been homogenous; however as networks become more complex, agents are becoming more and more heterogenous. As network complexity increases, it becomes more difficult to determine which agents are connected to the network.
A network could be a collection of voice, video, or data processing devices connected by communication lines. The method of transmission on the network is also key to determining the speed of transmission. Most present network connections utilize the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) as their transmission medium. The agents connected to these networks, in turn, utilize a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and are referred to as SNMP agents.
Networks are thus managed by a network management tool or network manager. A network manager is connected to one of the links of the network and utilized to monitor and manage the network's links, agents, and network functions. To provide effective management, the network manager must therefore be aware of which agents are connected to the network in order to efficiently monitor the agent processes. Additionally, a network manager needs management information about the network to help conceptualize the network and call attention to adverse changes in a fast and accurate manner.
Agent discovery process is therefore one important element to consider in the design of a network and the network manager. When a new agent is connected or a previously connected agent is reconnected, the network management station has to be made aware of the presence of the agent. A standard approach in discovering SNMP agents by a system manager is to broadcast a query message over the network and wait for acknowledgment. U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,933,416 and 5,835,720 utilize this broadcast query and acknowledgment method. This standard approach floods the network with its broadcasting message. Also, with this method, some SNMP agents may respond and some may not for various reasons. As a result there is no guarantee that all agents will be discovered.
Most current networks are configured with TCP/IP. The network management protocol of TCP/IP is Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). In SNMP, agents, which can be hardware as well as software, monitor the activity in the various devices on the network and report to the network manager. Control information about each device is maintained in a management information block.
Another prior art method utilizes a simple polling approach to gather network information. This method has severe problems in wasting network bandwidth, as described in Rose, "The Simple Book," p. 76, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice Hall Inc. This is of special concern in wide-area networks where recurring transmission line expenses directly affect the cost of network operation. Bandwidth used by management traffic comes at the expense of user bandwidth. Even in broadband networks, such as ATM networks, minimizing management bandwidth usage is a concern.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,909,549 describes a method which allows the SNMP managed device (agent) to register with a Network manager by generating and transmitting a frame. The process of transmitting the frame continues until the management station responds with another frame acknowledging receipt. That system further has a timer which determines when a follow up frame should be sent if the frame acknowledging receipt is not sent to the managed device. Like the traditional methods, this method results in a clustering of network resources with management frames utilizing valuable bandwidth. Also, the method requires a user to send a proprietary form of frame (trap) to communicate with the network manager and involves a series of unnecessarily complicated handshakes to complete the process. Further this method is system specific, i.e., it does not allow the discovery of different types of agents as in heterogenous networks. Further, like other prior art methods it results in a low success rate of discovery.
To build and continuously update a reliable network, information must be collected from each network node. The challenge is to do this in real time without adversely consuming network bandwidth, while increasing the success rate of agents discovery.
The present invention recognizes that it is advantageous to have a method and system for efficiently discovering an SNMP agent on a network without using significant amounts of bandwidth or incurring the potential errors of the broadcast query and acknowledgment method. The present invention substantially reduces or eliminates the potential for errors by having the agents themselves notify the network manager and thus increasing the success rate of discovery.
It is therefore one object of the present invention to provide an improved communications network.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved method for discovering SNMP agents on a communications network.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a method for efficiently discovering SNMP agents on a communications network by having the agents notify the network manager directly.
The foregoing objects are achieved as is now described. A method for a guaranteeing a network manager discovers SNMP agents on a communications network is disclosed. Each SNMP agent transmits a trap via network links to the network manager. The trap contains the network manager's IP address and the agents identifying information, such as its IP address. When the trap is received at the network manager, it is parsed for the agent identifying information, which is compared against the list of previously identified/discovered agents. If the agent identifying information is not found, which indicates that it is a newly discovered agent, the network manager adds the agent to the list of discovered agents on the network. The agent is then registered/stored in the discovered agent file. When the trap does not include sufficient identifying information, the network manager sends a query to the agent to extract additional identifying information. The system manager is thus able to discover all connected agents over a period of time without having to broadcast a query message or unnecessarily flood the network with traffic.
The above as well as additional objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent in the following detailed written description.
The novel features believed characteristic of the invention are set forth in the appended claims. The invention itself however, as well as a preferred mode of use, further objects and advantages thereof, will best be understood by reference to the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a diagram of a data processing system utilized in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a diagram of a communications network utilized in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a diagram of a registration graphical user interface (GUI) for entering agent identifying information, etc. during agent notification in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention; and
FIG. 4 is a logic flow chart of the process of receiving and analyzing a trap at the network manager in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
The present invention guarantees with a high degree of confidence that a network management tool (network manager) discovers SNMP agents connected to the network. With reference now to the figures, and in particular with reference to FIG. 1, there is depicted the basic structure of a data processing system 20 utilized in one embodiment of the invention. Data processing system 20 has at least one central processing unit (CPU) or processor housed in casing 32. CPU is connected to several peripheral devices, including input/output devices such as a display monitor 96, keyboard 82, graphical pointing device 84, and printer 100 for user interface. Also housed in casing 32 are a permanent memory device (such as a hard disk) for storing the data processing system's operating system and user programs/applications, and a temporary memory device (such as random access memory or RAM) that is utilized by CPU to implement program instructions. CPU communicates with the peripheral devices by various means, including a bus or a direct channel (more than one bus may be provided utilizing a bus bridge).
Data processing system 20 may have many additional components which are not shown such as serial, parallel, and USB ports for connection to, e.g., modems 92 or CD ROM 78. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, communication to the data processing system 20 is made possible via modem 92 connected to a land line or wireless telephone system which is in turn connected to a local communications network provider such as an Internet Service Provider (ISP). Additionally, data processing system 20 may be connected to a network via an ethernet/network card or adapter 90. Communicated data arrives at the modem or network card and is processed to be received by the data processing system's CPU or other software application.
Those skilled in the art will further appreciate that there are other components that might be utilized in conjunction with those shown in the block diagram of FIG. 1; for example, a display adapter connected to processor might be utilized to control a video display monitor 30, and a memory controller may be utilized as an interface between temporary memory device and CPU. Data processing system 20 also includes firmware whose primary purpose is to seek out and load an operating system from one of the peripherals (usually permanent memory device) whenever the data processing system is first turned on. In the preferred embodiment, data processing system contains a relatively fast CPU along with sufficiently large temporary memory device and space on permanent memory device, and other required hardware components.
Conventional data processing systems often employ a graphical user interface (GUI) to present information to the user. The GUI is created by software that is loaded on the data processing system, specifically, the data processing system's operating system acting in conjunction with application programs. In one embodiment of the invention, a GUI is utilized during the registration process on the agent, as will be described with reference to FIG. 3 below.
Modem 92 can be utilized to connect data processing system 20 to an on-line information service or an Internet service provider. Modem 92 is one method of connecting data processing system to the network of the present invention. Modem 92 may also provide a connection to other sources of software, such as a server, an electronic bulletin board (BBS), or the Internet (including the World Wide Web).
The implementation of the present invention preferably occurs on a number of data processing systems, i.e., the network manager discovery functionality and SNMP agent notification functionality are completed with a data processing system. It is understood however, that other types of data processing systems are possible, which may have some or more of the basic components described above. Additionally, those skilled in the art understand that the term 'agent' as utilized herein is not limited to a data processing system.
Referring now to FIG. 2, a network 10 is illustrated in which features of the invention may be implemented. In this example, four nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14, are illustrated in the network. These nodes are also referred to as nodes n1, n2, n3, and n4. Each node is a network device, often a computer, i.e., a data processing system which is capable of executing various tasks and processes, including that of sending messages to other nodes and responding to messages from other nodes. This network 10 may be of any one or a mixture of various network technologies, including token nng, Ethernet, point-to-point, satellite links, etc. There is usually some type of defined path or link between each node 11-14 and each one of the other nodes that is in the network, and this linkage is represented by the network connection links 15 of FIG. 2. The connection links 15 may be constructed using any communication medium commonly used in networks, e.g., buses between computers, telephone lines, T1 trunk connections, satellite links, or other such links. The network 10 of FIG. 2 may be what is generally termed a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), or combinations of LANs and WANs; the principles herein described could be used in a local area network interconnected by Ethernet or token ring technology, or others as maybe suitable. Each one of the nodes 11-14 is usually connected to other nodes or terminals (workstations, desktop computers, printers, system resources, etc.), not shown, by local area networks or the like, and it is of course understood that a typical network in which the invention is useful may have a large number of nodes, spread over sites that may be local or separated by long distances. The network preferably supports or utilizes TCP/IP as its transmission protocol. Those skilled in the art are familiar with TCP/IP and its functionalities.
Connected to the nodes 11-14 are various network resources 16, which may consist of printers, bulk storage facilities, processing devices, communications links to other networks, name servers, or servers of various types. These network resources are accessible by all nodes in the network, in the usual practice. Each of the nodes 11-14 and network resources 16 has a status which can be reported to a network manager 21, as by a local (network) agent 17. In the preferred embodiment, local agent 17 and network manager utilized a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) in the discovery process. The local agents 17 are therefore hereinafter interchangeably referred to as SNMP agents.
The nodes 11-14 have applications software 18 executing thereon. For example, a node 12 may have a network interface program running on it, for sending and receiving network traffic (messages) using various protocols. A user of the SNMP agent 17 for this node is thus able to place addressing information and other types of information in a SNMP trap, which can be transferred on the network by standard SNMP file transfer methods.
According to one feature of the invention, a network manager station 21 is employed, shown here connected to n1-node 11. The network manager 21 is illustrated as a workstation or computer terminal having a system unit 22, a monitor 23, and a keyboard 24. Within system unit 22 are hardware and software components that carry out the various network management functions including receiving the notification traps, determining whether the traps contain sufficient identifying data, updating the list of discovered agents, maintaining the list of agents, and sending a query from manager station 21 directly to an agent 17 whose discovery trap does not contain sufficient identifying data. These hardware components include modem 90 and the software components include network management software code 28, which operates on the operating system (OS) and firmware layer 25 to control the required hardware. Of course, the network manager 21 may be a task executing on the same computer that executes the nl-node 11, for example. Only one network manager 21 is shown, but other nodes in the network 10 could be functioning separately as network managers. The network manager 21 includes an applications program executing on a platform or general purpose processor, and has the functions of (1) executing network operator commands, i.e., those issued by a "user" or human operator, (2) communicating with the managed network 10 by messages, ordinarily using packet technology, (3) retrieving management information from other nodes, via the communication links, using messages, such as inquires and responses, (4) presenting the status and/or topology of the network in graphical form such as on the monitor 23 or by printed output, and (5) otherwise to display or present network status information. Each of these functions is performed using technology which is not treated here. The functions are specifically tailored to the invention to permit efficient discovery of agents on the network. The information generated by the network manager 21 can be made available to other management functions such as accounting, connection, performance, etc. As mentioned above, in the preferred embodiment, the network manager 21 and local agents 17 use the SNMP described in detail by Marshall T. Rose, "The Simple Book," Prentice-Hall, 1991, which is hereby incorporated by reference. Software for local agents 17 conforming to SNMP standards is commercially available, and agent source code is available; e.g., a source code SNMP development kit is available from M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, Mass.
Thus, each one of the nodes 11-14 has a special management application called an "agent" running locally, illustrated by SNMP agents 17 in FIG. 2. The main functions supported by an agent are: (1) maintain real time management information related to the resources and networking functions of its own node, locally, (2) receive messages from and send messages to the network manager 21, (3) respond to requests for information retrieval from the network manager 21, via these messages, and, in accordance with the preferred embodiment, (4) emit unsolicited notifications (traps) when defined events such as setup occurs.
In a preferred embodiment, the network manager 21 is not required to establish a connection with each local agent 17 in order to exchange discovery/notification information. The network manager 21 is external to the network, i.e., it could be connected to the network 10 via a communications link to one of the nodes. Thus, one of the nodes is assigned as the gateway—in FIG. 2 the n1-node 11 is the gateway for network manager 21—and the path 26 can be a bus connection, or a connection by a LAN, or the like, i.e., this connection need not be direct. All communication between the manager 21 and the agents 17 must go through the gateway n1-node 11, via path 26 and the links or trunks 15. If this gateway fails, another node may be activated to take over, but there is only one gateway in a network at any one time for a given network manager. Other network managers (not shown) may use the same or different nodes as gateways. The network manager monitors the network for the occurrence of traps from an agent on the network addressed to the network manager.
An agent application 17 is typically activated as part of the start-up procedure of its network node 11-14; however, it may be stopped and reactivated anytime independent of the network manager 21. It also does not require any information about the manager 21 except its IP address. The job of the agent 17 is to make a set of supported management information available to the manager 21. Specifically, in the present invention, the agent is responsible for alerting the manager of its presence on the network. In the preferred embodiment, the agents 17 connected to the network may be of varying types, thus creating a heterogenous network. The discovery process works just as well with each type of agent.
Configuration information such as network node address is required by the network manager 21 to establish connection with each agent 17. To this end, a name server (or database) 27 is available as a resource to the manager 21, as by a task operating on the nl-node 11, although it could be anywhere accessible to the manager 21 on the network. The name server 27 maintains a database of the name and address of each potentially-active/discovered node or resource on the network. Thus the present invention permits the manager to receive unsolicited notifications from agents 17. The present invention recognizes the fact that the accuracy and reliability of current network systems is almost 100% and therefore, no confirmation message is required from the network manager to the agent. This allows the invention to be implemented with very little additional congestion to, or use of, bandwidth on the network due to manager-generated control messages/frames. In the event the network becomes unreliable and causes a notification trap to be lost, the invention allows the agent to be discovered the next time the agent sends a trap. Those skilled in the art appreciate that different forms of traps are occasionally sent from the agent to the network manager. These traps are typically sent to alert the network manager of the occurrence of certain events such as a failure on the network or changes to the configuration of the agent.
In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the network manager functions of the invention are software implemented. The software includes monitoring and discovery algorithms which further effectuate the discovery of agents upon receipt of notification traps. The software is further able to access the database (name server) of discovered agents as discussed above. The software is installed on PC servers, which may be centralized. Also, in the preferred embodiment of the invention, the agent is made to notify the network manager during setup, ensuring the discovery of the agent at as early a time as possible. Typically, during setup, a user enters (or is prompted to enter) the IP address of the network management tool. The user of the agent thus forces a trap to register the agent. The trap may be a coldstart trap (i.e., a trap created and transmitted when the agent is first being set up on the network), or a test trap, or any other type of trap and is transmitted to the network manager with the entered information. The forced trap then notifies the discovery process of the network manager that the SNMP agent is up and running. As a result, the network manager is virtually guaranteed to discover the agent.
The network manager's discovery method operates with all system types. SNMP agents are one of these device types. FIG. 3 illustrates a GUI utilized to enter the relevant addressing and agent identification information included in the notification/discovery trap. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, no specific entry is required for identifying the agent. When a trap is created and sent to the network manager, it automatically contains the IP address of the agent. The network manager then checks the IP address against its database of discovered/registered IP addresses, as will be discussed in further detail below. In an alternative embodiment, as depicted in FIG. 3, the agent identifying information may be entered within the GUI. Use of the term agent identifying information may refer to the IP address as in the preferred embodiment, or the host name of the server/node and is understood to refer t o both embodiments unless otherwise specified. The GUI is depicted on a screen 30 of a monitor 90 of a computer system. Four input areas are illustrated on the GUI. These include the system manager's IP address 305, the agent's identifying information 307, which is typically its IP address, the agent's host name 312, and two other identifying information blocks 309 and 310. In the lower right comer of the GUI is a transmit button 311. Selection of this transmit button 311 by a user after entering the required information, instantiates the transmittal to the network manager of the trap with the entered information. Thus in the preferred embodiment, the system is registered with its IP address.
In the preferred embodiment which utilizes the agents' IP address in the discovery process, when the trap does not contain any identifying information, such as its host name, the system manager may send out a query to the network to get the host name of the system which sent the trap. Additionally, when the trap does not include sufficient identifying information, the system/network manager sends a query to the agent to extract additional identifying information. These are point-to-point transmissions, utilizing little network bandwidth. The underlying transmission mechanisms of TCP/IP and SNMP are well know to those skilled in the art and will not be described herein. Those skilled in the art will also appreciate that there are alternative methods of creating the notification trap (i.e., entering required information for transmission) and instantiating the transmission via the network's connecting links, and that these alternate methods all fall within the scope of the invention.
FIG. 4 illustrates the process of receiving a notification trap and registering the corresponding agent according to the invention. The process begins (step 401) when the network manager is activated. Network manager's discovery process monitors the network for traps (step 403). The network manager listens to a port and receives the SNMP packets (and or traps) transmitted to it over the network. It then analyzes a received trap to determine if it is a notification trap (step 405). If the received trap is not a notification trap, the network manager continues to monitor the network until a notification trap is received. When a notification trap is received, network manager separates (i.e. parses out) the IP address or other identifying information (step 407). The network manager then compares the identifying information against a database of previously discovered agents (step 409). A comparison is made to determine if the agent information has been previously received (step 411), i.e., to determine if the agent was previously registered/discovered on the network. If the agent's IP address or other identifying information is found in the database, then no action is required and the process terminates with respect to that agent; however, if the agent's IP address or other identifying information is not found, then the agent is added to the database of discovered agents (step 413) and the process terminates with respect to that agent (step 415). The process therefore allows for the recording of newly discovered agents without unnecessary broadcast queries over the network.
The database may be stored internally or externally but is immediately accessible to the network manager. Typically, a preliminary list of known agents connected to the network are manually entered into the database by network management personnel when the network manager is first activated. This database is read-writable, thus allowing for it to be dynamically updated as agents are added to or deleted from the network.
In the preferred embodiment, the trap is sent when the SNMP agent is being set up, i.e., a coldstart trap. However, other types of traps may be sent at different times besides setup to complete the notification process. The network manager is designed to recognize different types of agent without any proprietary limitations. This discovery system of non-proprietary, heterogenous agent types is an important aspect of the invention.
It is important to note that while the present invention has been described in the context of a fully functional data processing system, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the mechanism of the present invention is capable of being distributed in the form of a computer readable medium of instructions in a variety of forms, and that the present invention applies equally, regardless of the particular type of signal bearing media utilized to actually carry out the distribution. Examples of computer readable media include: nonvolatile, hard-coded type media such as read only memories (ROMs) or erasable, electrically programmable read only memories (EEPROMs), recordable type media such as floppy disks, hard disk drives and CD-ROMs, and transmission type media such as digital and analog communication links.
While the invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to a preferred embodiment, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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There are a lot of secrets being kept in Oak Knoll, California in Secrets to the Grave, author Tami Hoag's sequel to last year's Deeper than the Dead.
Hoag wastes no time plunging the reader into the story, opening the book with a horrific crime scene depicting the aftermath of the brutal knife murder of single mother Marissa Fordham. Her four-year-old daughter, Haley, was also attacked and left for dead, languishing for two days with her mother's corpse before being discovered.
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BAKERSFIELD – The CIF State office released a statement Thursday saying that this weekend's state wrestling tournament will proceed. Wrestling begins at 9 a.m. Friday at the Rabobank Arena.
The statement came after the parents of Blake Flovin, a senior from Archbishop Mitty High in San Jose, sent a letter requesting that the tournament be postponed after their son was diagnosed with a form of herpes, known as "mat herpes" after competing at the Central Coast Section championships, Feb. 19-20.
Here is an excerpt of a statement from CIF Executive Director Roger Blake: "After a thorough medical review of this situation, we have concluded that this week's CIF State Boys Wrestling Championships will proceed as scheduled for March 4-5, at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield.
"With regard to California high school wrestling championships, it is standard operating procedure for certified trainers and physicians to conduct a careful skin evaluation of every wrestler before weigh-ins on both days of the tournament. Physicians and certified athletic trainers are trained to detect symptoms and make a determination as to the nature of the condition and whether the student-athlete may compete without posing a risk to himself of any other competitor. ….
"We are confident that our practices, along with an exhaustive medical review of this particular situation, ensure that there is no justification for concern about the spread of a contagious disease at the event."
Per usual practices, each wrestler will undergo a groom check before weigh-ins before the start of both days.
There are 26 O.C. wrestlers competing in this year's championships.
Servite's Liam Cronin finished second last year at 106 pounds. Justin Thomas (Calvary Chapel) was second at 152 pounds. He wrestled for Santiago of Corona last year. His brother Jeremy Thomas was third at 145 pounds.
Cronin (113) and Justin Thomas (160) enter this weekend ranked No. 1 in the state. Jeremy Thomas (170) slips to second after losing to Palm Desert's Anthony Mantanona at the CIF-SS Masters Meet. Mantanona is now No. 1.
Last year, there were nine O.C. state medalists. Mater Dei's Jed Smith (170) was seventh at last year's tournament. He enters this year ranked fifth in the state.
Calvary Chapel's Johnny Knowles (145) and San Clemente's Tyler Meisinger (152) are ranked fifth in the state at their weights.


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Support » Fixing WordPress » Auto category hierarchy order for custom menus
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This post explains it…
Make the categories in the metabox on the custom menu page displayed in hierarchical order (like elsewhere in the admin) so we can see and understand the structure and be able to differentiate child categories with the same name but different parents.
I had someone make a little plugin for me that if anyone is interested. It indents the cat checkboxes and puts the full hierarchy title on the menu item metabox headings
4 years, 1 month ago
there is already a plug-in for this but developer didn't added categories option yet go and check it out
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Hi Pete. I am also interested on using this plugin you have mention. Can you assist me? Please contact with me on email@example.com
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Architectural Design for Multi-Agent Simulation System. Presented by: Ameya A. Velankar. Outline. Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems The DIVAS Project Architectural Design of DIVAS Framework DIVAS Social World DIVAS Environment Architecture DIVAS Agent Architecture Conclusion .
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Passing Through
Nella Larsen made a career of not quite belonging.
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Tags: author, Books, harlem renaissance, nella larsen, Poetry, writer
THE TENANT IN THE GROUND FLOOR APARTMENT at 315 Second Avenue lived alone. She was long divorced, had no children, and did not see much of anyone. For almost twenty years, starting shortly after the Second World War, she'd worked as a nurse in the hospitals nearby. The last of her employers was the psych unit at the Metropolitan Hospital on East 97th Street. It was the managers there who sent her into exile at seventy-two, an age she'd concealed precisely because she didn't want to leave.
No doubt they didn't think of it as a final blow. They probably thought they were sending her off to rest. Within a year of her last shift, though, she was discovered by her building superintendent lifeless on her bed, wearing a sweater, dress, and socks, just like someone who had laid down for a moment and thought herself right out of her life. The official cause of death was a heart attack around Easter Sunday, 1964.
That is how Nella Larsen, celebrated novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, died.
Thinking about her life is like sifting ashes. You believe you see the clear outline of a message, but it inevitably disintegrates before you can be sure of its sense. The mantle of a "rediscovered writer" has never settled firmly around Larsen's shoulders; she has a way of resisting the platitudes of remembering. There are scholars and biographers obsessed with Larsen, of course, but their work is rent with (polite, academic) infighting about what her legacy means, tangled as it is with ideas about race and identity that Larsen had conflicted feelings about herself. It's become clear in the fifty years since her death that there was a lot Larsen didn't want us to know. >>READ MORE
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Guest post from Stewart Bradley
Though the US government raised the debt ceiling in August 2011, there are still talks about the nation hitting it yet again even before the Presidential elections. As the government equips itself against all odds, what about the consumers who are also strangled with a high interest debt cycle? Are they also thinking about raising their personal debt ceiling with time or are they looking for ways to equip themselves with the best personal finance tips with which they can get a firm grip on their distressed finances? Who would want to incur debt, get harassing calls from debt collection agents and then run at the back of the companies for validation of debt? Well, if you want to live to tell the tale of credit crunch, you have to be financially armed and also practice some of the best personal finance habits. What are they? Read on to know about them.
- Review your personal finances periodically: This is a habit that most of us lack but if you don't want debts to mar 2012, you should review your present financial situation periodically. Though it's really tough to track your expenses but you can sit with a pen and paper and jot down each and every expense in order to stay on track. Just make sure that when you track your finances, you maintain a spreadsheet so that you may ensure transparency. The drudgery of tracking your pennies will certainly pay off in the near future.
- Keep away some cash: Go to a bank and open a separate account so that you can keep your hands off some cash. You may use your checking account for your daily expenses that includes rent, food costs, utility costs and others. But maintain your savings account as something that should be used during an emergency. Don't use it as a piggy bank withdrawing money for petty expenses.
- Stay within your means: Before buying a shirt that costs you hundreds of dollars, remind yourself of all the other debt obligations that are more important than buying yourself a shirt. Think about the debt obligations, the student loan payments and determine which is more important. Learn to distinguish between needs and wants and concentrate more on the necessities than on the luxuries.
- Resist the temptation to splurge on credit: If you always have the temptation to splurge with credit, change this habit immediately. During such sluggish economic times, using credit while shopping is a huge blunder and therefore you need to make sure that you don't commit this error. Always stuff your wallet with enough cash so that you can suffice your need with cash and not with credit.
- Get yourself insurance policies: If you already have insurance policies, you should check whether or not you you're paying for coverage that you don't need. Speak to your insurer and cancel such coverage so that you don't waste your dollars. And if you don't have an auto insurance policy, a life insurance policy and a health insurance policy, get yourself one and protect yourself from a financial disaster.
During times of odds, you have to act smartly with your finances so that none of your moves boomerang in the long run. Take the steps mentioned above and start afresh.
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Stewart Bradley is a contributory writer associated with the Debt Consolidation Care Community and has written several articles for various financial websites. Though he holds his expertise in the Debt industry and has made significant contribution through his various articles, he has interest in budgeting, mortgage, insurance, short term loans, bankruptcy, credit advice and more.


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In this groundbreaking memoir, Portia de Rossi reveals the pain and illness that haunted her for decades, from the time she was a twelve-year-old girl working as a model in Australia, through her early rise to fame as a cast member of the hit television show Ally McBeal . All the while terrified that the truth of her sexuality would be exposed in the tabloids, Portia alternately starved herself and binged, putting her life in danger and concealing from herself and everyone around her the seriousness of her illness.
She describes the elaborate rituals around food that came to dominate hours of every day and explores the pivotal moments of her childhood that set her on the road to illness. She reveals the heartache and fear that accompany a life lived in the closet, a sense of isolation that was only magnified by her unrelenting desire to be ever thinner, ever more in control of her body and the number of calories she consumed and spent.
From her lowest point, Portia began the painful climb back to a life of health and honesty, falling in love and marrying Ellen DeGeneres and emerging as an outspoken and articulate advocate for gay rights and women's health issues. In this remarkable and landmark book, she has given the world a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit.
"Written with artistry, compelling insight and lucid frankness, [Unbearable Lightness] offers solid hope and inducement to initiate the odyssey toward self-knowledge and acceptance."
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DC Youth Stand up for Social Injustices
NOTE: This is a guest blog post from Ossob Mohamud, Curriculum Director at One World Youth Project.
One of the most exciting environments to facilitate global education is in classrooms that are themselves traversing, sometimes with difficulty, their own complex diversity. Sometimes our university student facilitators find themselves trying to not only create human connections between their classroom and their partners abroad, but to bridge the gap between students of different backgrounds in their own classroom.
That is the case with the one of the high school classrooms that One World Youth Project is working in. Columbia Heights Education Campus (CHEC) is a high minority school, with Hispanic, African American, Asian, and East African students. Our class in particular has a fair number of English Language Learners (ELL). We immediately noticed the divisions in the classroom that unfortunately and undeniably formed along racial and linguistic lines. We tried rearranging seating but that did not create the collaboration nor communication we wanted to see between the newly mixed tables.
But something changed, even for a brief, fleeting moment, during the lesson about identifying injustice. Each group chose to speak about an injustice in their community that bothered them. We had to repeatedly encourage Isabella* to present for her group. She was shy and understandably so. But when she came to the front of the classroom and spoke, you could hear a pin drop. Isabella passionately talked about the discrimination and exclusion that ELL and Immigrant populations feel in the DC community. She talked about illegal deportations and the constant fear of having everything you worked for being taken away, which she related to her own life.
The class then voted on one community injustice to focus on for the rest of the semester. It came as a surprise to us that almost every single hand went up for Isabella's group idea on immigration issues. But it was a pleasant surprise. More than anything, we saw it as a breakthrough. We noticed students recognizing one another's humanity. We witnessed students empathizing with one another's experiences with injustice, and possibly realizing their own role in perpetuating it. I could see students possibly for the first time, realizing "it must be tough being you, and it's just not fair."
This is very much still a tentative beginning, to what we hope will be genuine respect and empathy between our students. Giving them a space to connect with their peers abroad, laid the equally important groundwork, for the CHEC students to connect amongst themselves here at home.
*The name of the student has been changed for privacy reasons.
One World Youth Project (OWYP) is a young, Washington D.C. based social enterprise that is trying to bring education into the 21st century. OWYP partners with universities around the world to deliver the opportunity for international engagement to students in their community.
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Biologists with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team will be resuming research operations in Yellowstone National Park on Monday, continuing through mid-July.
NEWCASTLE, Wyo. (AP) - A Wyoming high school senior who built a nuclear reactor was disqualified from the International Science and Engineering Fair this month on a technicality. It seems that 18-year-old Conrad Farnsworth, of Newcastle, had competed in too many science fairs.
The Buffalo City Council, at their last meeting, heard an update from City Building Inspector Toby Rhoades on the City-wide Spring Cleanup.
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Our vision is success for extraordinary young New Zealanders on the national and international stage. The Adastra Foundation was established in 2007 to provide financial and mentoring support to extraordinary young New Zealanders in their pursuit of excellence.
To date, the Adastra Foundation has awarded 457 scholarships totaling $2,117,000.
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Cath Cheatley represented New Zealand as a road and track cyclist . She competed at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
Cath moved to the United States from 2009 to 2012 to race for the Cheerwine and Colavita-Sutter Home pro cycling teams in the women's elite professional events.
She also competed for many years in Equestrian, Soccer, Harriers, Swimming, Rugby and Hockey.
Cath moved to Cambridge with her husband, Dayle (head track cycling coach) with the centralisation of cycling to the Avantidrome (their second home)!
Amigene Metcalfe
Amigene was on the Silver Ferns Netball Squad between 2000-2004 and was captain of the Waikato/BOP Magic Netball team between 1999-2008. She previously represented New Zealand in the NZ Womens Touch Team and was captain between 1999-2003, for three world cups. She also represented NZ in athletics at the 1984 & 1988 Pan Pacific Games.
Amigene is a currently employed at St Peter's as the Director of Netball and as the Assistant Coach to the Magic Netball Team.
She is married with three children and living in the Town of Champions.
Andy Roche
Andy Roche is a Kiwifruit grower from Katikati and has been involved in several sports at local, national and international level. In 1974 Andy was a member of the New Zealand wrestling team to the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch and was later Wrestling Coach at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. In 1991 he joined the staff of Sport Bay of plenty and later became involved in disability Sport heading the Development of the 'No Exceptions' strategy for the Hillary Commission and the 'Coaching Athletes with Disabilities' programme for Coaching New Zealand.
He has attended two Para-Olympic games as coach for the National Boccia Team and was part of the New Zealand delegation to the United Nations for the development of the Convention on the 'Rights and dignity of People with Disabilities'.
Jennifer Palmer
After 6 years as National Grants Manager for the Perry Foundation, Jennifer became the General Manager of the Brian Perry Charitable Trust in 2010. In this role she has overseen the development of the Te Awa River Ride – a cycleway alongside the Waikato River and played a key role in the development of the Home of Cycling's Avantidrome.
Jennifer is also a Trustee of the Skycity Hamilton Community Trust, a Trustee of the Home of Cycling Charitable Trust and the former Deputy Chair of the Waikato Institute of Leisure and Sports Studies.
Originally from Ottawa Canada, Jennifer is married to Craig and together they have twin daughters.
Kevin Burgess
Kevin Burgess has been a community pharmacist in Cambridge since 1981 and has had a long and active involvement within the Cambridge community, serving on both sporting and community organisations. He has been involved in sports administration since the mid 1980's and became a life member of the Hautapu Rugby Club in 2012.
Kevin has been a judge at the Waipa and Waikato secondary Sports awards for 15 years and is a passionate supporter of rugby, rowing, netball, cricket and lately, cycling. He has also mentored/sponsored numerous athletes over the years.
A joint founder of Perago Trust for promising athletes in Cambridge, Kevin is also a partner of Inside Running, a sports management company.
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Mike Chunn is CEO of the Play It Strange Trust which implements music programmes – songwriting, recording and stage performance – across NZ schools.
After graduating Bachelor of Engineering – Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Ak University), he started out his professional musical career as bassist with Split Enz and Citizen Band – between 1972 and 1980. Then he ran Mushroom Records and Sony Music Publishing from 1981 through to 1991. Then from 1992 to 2003 he was Director of NZ Operations for the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). He was appointed CEO of Play It Strange in Nov 2003.
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Polycaprolactone Market will expand at a CAGR of 11.1% between 2015 and 2021, Globally
Persistence Market Research has released a new research report pertaining to the global industries of chemicals and materials. The report, titled "Global Market Study on Polycaprolactone: Demand for Environment-Friendly Packaging Materials, Catalyzed the Polycaprolactone Market," provides key insights into this market while creating a forecast presentation that will tell the user precisely how the global polycaprolactone market will fare in the near future.
According to the report, the global polycaprolactone market is exhibiting a CAGR of 11.10% within a forecast period from 2015 to 2021. The market was recorded at US$113.9 mn in 2015 and is expected to reach US$214.2 mn by the end of 2021.
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Polycaprolactone is a highly permeable chemical, which makes it compatible with many other chemicals and plastics. It can be used to create blends with other biobased polymers in order to mitigate their negative qualities. Polycaprolactone can improve many qualities of biobased polymers, such as dye-ability, crack resistance, stress handling, and degradation rates. Most importantly, polycaprolactone can help create better medical devices that provide superior control over drug release rates, in comparison to traditional materials.
The primary driver of the global polycaprolactone market is the inherent advantages that using polycaprolactone can provide to polyurethane. It can impart several valuable properties such as an even distribution of molecular weight, lower viscosity for easier handling, and a high aversion to water.
Some of the more commonly used copolymers of polycaprolactone are polycaprolactonetetral, polycaprolactonediol, and polycaprolactonetriol. These copolymers are extensively used with the application-based products of polyurethane, namely thermoplastic, thermosetting, and polyols. The combination is then used in the production of elastomers, sealants, adhesives, and coatings.
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On the basis of application, the global polycaprolactone market is expected to be propelled by the healthcare segment. Polyurethane enriched with polycaprolactone is highly sought after for the manufacture of medical devices, due to the beneficial nature of these polymers. The large number of medical device manufacturers that are demanding polycaprolactone is advantageous to its global market. Additionally, with the healthcare segment expected to show the fastest CAGR among all application segments, the report expects a major piece of the market's revenue to be derived from this segment.
The report's geographical analysis reveals Europe to lead the global polycaprolactone market within the given forecast period. Asia Pacific is expected to become the second largest market for polycaprolactone in the same timeframe. In 2015, Asia Pacific generated 28.60% of the total revenue of the global polycaprolactone market. Europe, on the other hand, has been exhibiting a consistently high CAGR, which is expected to keep this region in the leading position till 2021.
The key players in the global polycaprolactone market are BASF SE, Durect Corporation, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, Perstorp Holding A.B., Haihang Industries Co. Ltd., Corbion Purec, and Shenzhen Esun Industries Co. Ltd.
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Winner of the Grand Jury Documentary prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's breathtaking work – a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage – follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization comprised of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives. Incorporating moments of both heart-pounding suspense and improbable beauty, the documentary draws us into the lives of three of its founders – Khaled, Subhi, and Mahmoud – as they grapple with the chaos around them and struggle with an ever-present dilemma: do they flee or stay and fight for their country.
Donate to support the heroes of the White Helmets. Every cent given goes to looking after the families of those killed saving lives, medical care for injured volunteers and life-saving equipment. whitehelmets.org/donate
→ Read Feras Fayyad's 10/10 list.
"An essential film."— Glenn Kenny, The New York Times
"You should — you must — see Last Men in Aleppo."— David Edelstein, Vulture
"A masterpiece."— Nick Fraser, The Guardian
"An unforgettable and essential documentary."— David Ehrlich, Indiewire
"Viscerally immediate, exquisitely realized."— Guy Lodge, Variety
"Essential viewing."— David Edelstein, New York Magazine
"Stunning. The [images] have a kind of incongruous and surreal beauty about them."— Boyd van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter
"Essential Viewing."— Amy Taubin, Film Comment
"Three-and-a-half stars. An unflinching depiction of life in a vulnerable city."— Vikram Murthi, RogerEbert.com
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