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Table Of Contents
Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15600 Release 7.0.4
Maintenance and Administration
Resolved Caveats for Release 7.0.x
Maintenance and Administration
New Features and Functionality
Data Communications Network Tool
Advanced Circuit Filtering and Export
Superuser Privileges for Provisioning Users
CTC Download Highest Level NET JAR File
Local Domain Creation and Viewing
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15600 Release 7.0.4
June 2008
Note The terms "Unidirectional Path Switched Ring" and "UPSR" may appear in Cisco literature. These terms do not refer to using Cisco ONS 15xxx products in a unidirectional path switched ring configuration. Rather, these terms, as well as "Path Protected Mesh Network" and "PPMN," refer generally to Cisco's path protection feature, which may be used in any topological network configuration. Cisco does not recommend using its path protection feature in any particular topological network configuration.
Release notes address closed (maintenance) issues, caveats, and new features for the Cisco ONS 15600. For detailed information regarding features, capabilities, hardware, and software introduced with this release, refer to Release 7.0 of the Cisco ONS 15600 Procedure Guide, Cisco ONS 15600 Reference Manual, Cisco ONS SONET TL1 Command Guide, and Cisco ONS 15600 Troubleshooting Guide. For the most current version of the Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15600 Release 7.0.4, visit the following URL:
Cisco also provides Bug Toolkit, a web resource for tracking defects. To access Bug Toolkit, visit the following URL:
Resolved Caveats for Release 7.0.x
New Features and Functionality
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Changes to the Release Notes
This section documents supplemental changes that have been added to the Release Notes for Cisco ONS 15600 Release 7.0.4 since the production of the Cisco ONS 15600 System Software CD for Release 7.0.4.
Review the notes listed below before deploying the ONS 15600. Caveats with tracking numbers are known system limitations that are scheduled to be addressed in a subsequent release. Caveats without tracking numbers are provided to point out procedural or situational considerations when deploying the product.
The ONS-SE-2G-xx.x complies with performance criteria for all intra-facility fiber cables and connectors per Telcordia GR-326-CORE, Issue 3 Sept. 1999. Cisco recommends the following approved suppliers for intrafacility fiber cables to use with this product:
Maintenance and Administration
Caution VxWorks is intended for qualified Cisco personnel only. Customer use of VxWorks is not recommended, nor is it supported by Cisco's Technical Assistance Center. Inappropriate use of VxWorks commands can have a negative and service affecting impact on your network. Please consult the troubleshooting guide for your release and platform for appropriate troubleshooting procedures. To exit without logging in, enter a Control-D (hold down the Control and D keys at the same time) at the Username prompt. To exit after logging in, type "logout" at the VxWorks shell prompt.
When a PPM or PIM is physically removed from a node yet remains provisioned, the CTC display shows as blue, as though it was only preprovisioned. Because the PPM or PIM is physically removed, and thus raises an improper removal alarm, CTC should display the alarmed entity as yellow. This issue is resolved in Release 7.2.
When you perform a Manual Switch To Protect and then an SD-L condition is raised on the Protect port that preempts the Manual Switch To Protect, the CTC Maintenance > Protection tab shows "APS_CLEAR." When you click Clear in that tab while the SD-L is still present on the protect port, the K bytes will change to "No Request" for about 400-1000 frames before redeclaring the SD-L condition. This issue can occur on ONS 15600 ASAP cards with 1+1 protection. It does not affect other cards or protection schemes. This issue does not affect traffic. This issue can only occur when using the CTC Maintenance > Protection tab under the aforementioned conditions. To avoid this issue, do not click Clear when the CTC Maintenance > Protection tab shows "APS_CLEAR" and SD-L is present on the protect port. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
A CTC client session can disconnect from an ONS node during simultaneous deletion of large numbers of VT level circuits (3000+). Connectivity to the node will recover without any user action. If the condition persists, restart the CTC session to reconnect. This issue is under investigation.
ONS platforms support only a single OSPF virtual link. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
Network connectivity could be lost if a backbone area becomes segmented into multiple GNEs. This occurs only if multiple ONS 15600 nodes and routers are connected to the same LAN in OSPF area 0. If a link between two routers breaks, the CTC session connected to Router 1 will not be able to communicate with the ONS 15600 connected to Router 2. To resolve, you must repair the link between the routers or provide another form of redundancy in the network. This is as designed.
If OSPF on LAN is enabled with an area ID that is the same as the area ID of any of the DCC Links, CTC will not be able to discover any of the DCC Connected Nodes. To avoid this issue, set the OSPF on LAN area ID to an area other than any of those already occupied by a DCC link. This is as designed.
Equipment alarms are always reported based on the activity of the particular card, without taking card redundancy into consideration. Thus, an equipment alarm such as CTNEQPT-PB-0 may be raised against a line card as CR(SA) even though the traffic is protected. This issue will not be resolved.
Choosing certain qualities of RES settings in the CTC Provisioning tab, Timing subtab, may trigger a reference failure. Specifically, this can occur if you select the quality of RES level such that any of the following are true.
When you then input an actual reference signal lower than ST3E quality, the failure is triggered. This issue will not be resolved.
Optical IO Cards
In ASAP card view, the PIM graphic might not update with the correct color after an alarm is cleared. This can occur anytime there is an alarm raised against the PIM or any of its subcomponents (PPM or port). To recover from this state, you must either click the Synchronize button, or change to node view and then back to card view. This issue is resolved in Release 7.2.
No graphical representations of LEDs for ASAP ports are displayed in the CTC card view. SD and SF LED representations are also absent from the CTC node view for some legacy OCn cards. There are no plans to resolve this issue.
BLSR Functionality
Connections might still exist after circuit deletions on BLSR DRI rings for which the primary node is isolated. For BLSR DRI rings with several types of DRI circuits, if you isolate the primary node by deleting the database, reseat the I/O cards, then delete all BLSR DRI circuits, the SSXCs still show connections. To avoid this issue, do not delete or create BLSR DRI circuits when a node on the BLSR DRI ring is isolated. This issue will not be resolved.
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If, using CTC, you attempt to create a protected VT1.5 circuit that originates on one ONS 15327/454 that is connected to the ONS 15600 via path protection to another ONS 15327/454 that is connected to the ONS 15600 via 1+1 or BLSR, the circuit creation request will be denied because of mixed protection domains. CTC is currently incapable of routing VT circuits across the ONS 15600 when mixed protection schemes are involved. VT traffic can be routed across the ONS 15600 when mixed protection schemes are involved by performing the following:
Step 1 On the ONS 15600, create an STS level cross connect with the requisite path selectors.
Step 2 Use CTC to create a VT circuit from the source node to the trunk ports that interface to the 15600.
Step 3 Use CTC to create a VT circuit between the destination node and the trunk ports that interface with the 15600.
Note While this workaround provides the ability to route VT traffic across the ONS 15600 when mixed protection domains exist, the traffic must be managed as three separate circuits instead of one single end-to-end circuit.
This issue will be resolved in a future release.
When you attempt to configure VT circuits on a test configuration consisting of two ONS 15454 nodes and one ONS 15600 node, when both ONS 15454s are connected to the ONS 15600 node using a dual path protection connection configuration, and when the ONS 15600 node serves as an intermediate node between the two ONS 15454 nodes, you may be unable to create a VT circuit from one ONS 15454 to the ONS 15600 and then to the other ONS 15454. VT Tunnels are created, but the VT circuit is not created. A mixed protection domain error message is raised when this occurs. To avoid this issue, create the VT tunnels manually, so that the two tunnels do not create a topology where the working and protect tunnels share the same I/O card. After the tunnels have been created, the VT circuit can be successfully added. This issue will be resolved in future release.
Physical PM parameters can not be retrieved through the SNMP interface. MIBs released with the ONS 15600 do not have entries for the following physical PM parameters.
The standard SONET Generic MIB does not have entries for these. To work around this issue, use CTC to retrieve the values. SNMP support for these parameters may be considered for a future release.
The following PM parameters can not be retrieved through SNMP.
•Protection groups:
•Far End counts for line and path
•1-Day PM counts
To retrieve these counts, use CTC. SNMP support for these parameters may be considered for a future release.
Bridge and Roll
The manual bridge and roll feature allows you to perform the END command once the roll operation transitions from a ROLL PENDING to ROLL condition, even if the roll to port has an invalid signal. To avoid traffic impact, ensure that the roll-to line is alarm-free. If an alarm exists, you can choose to do nothing and wait for the alarm to clear, to delete the roll, or to proceed in spite of the alarm. This issue will not be resolved.
You cannot perform an ENT-EQPT for a valid card type when the current equipment state is OOS-AUMA,MEA&UAS. When the fault PPM comes up as OOS-AUMA,MEA&UAS and then the ENT-EQPT command is entered using TL1, the command is rejected. This issue will be resolved in a future release.
A TL1 user cannot preprovision IO cards when a filler card is in the slot. Removal of the filler card will clear the slot and allow the TL1 user to preprovision the IO card. This is by design.
Resolved Caveats for Release 7.0.x
The following caveats were resolved in Release 7.0.x.
Maintenance and Administration
A new command to set a card's ESM Admin State was added to CTS for MFG testing requirements given it was not added in Maverick when the ESM feature was originally developed.
You can have no more than 113 DCC links in one area ID. For example, with 128 DCC Links provisioned within one area ID, 14 DCC links gray out in CTC. To avoid this issue divide the 128 DCCs into multiple area IDs (at least two). This issue is resolved in Release 7.0.
After restoring a previously backed up database, the restoral of the PM history database is not time-based, but rather, position-based. The PM history database is stored or retrieved to or from position-dependent time slots from the present PM period. Thus, PM history backed up 24 hours prior to the restore will show the PM history without acknowledging the missing day. This issue is resolved in Release 7.0.
Rarely, when an ASAP card is participating in a DCC tunnel, and working and protect spans both fail, the ASAP card might stop responding, sometimes followed by a reset. When this occurs there is no resulting traffic loss, and protection switching continues to function. To recover ASAP card responsiveness a soft reset of the card might be necessary. This issue is resolved in Release 7.0.
When the first and second ports of a PIM are provisioned as GIGE and, at a minimum, the second port is in a circuit, or, when the third and fourth ports of a PIM are provisioned as GIGE and, at a minimum, the fourth port is in a circuit, packets might be dropped on a soft reset of the associated ASAP card. To prevent this, avoid provisioning a GIGE port next to another GIGE port. This issue is resolved in Releases 6.1 and 7.0.
There is memory leak in the software running on 15600 nodes. The leak happens whenever there is a change in the entity table. Entity changes happen during events like: cards are inserted or removed; PPMs are inserted or removed, creating or deleting circuits. The memory leak also seems to happen whenever Entity alarms are raised. Though this memory leak is in SNMP code it happens irrespective of whether SNMP is configured on the node or not.
Bridge and Roll
When a rollTo leg is not receiving a good signal, and because of this the rollPending alarm is not cleared, there is no alarm indicating the reason that the RollPending alarm fails to clear. This issue is resolved in Release 7.0.
Electrical IO Cards
When upgrading the software from Release 6.x.x to Release 7.x.x, the DS3 and EC1-12 cards fail to load if the node name begins with the letters FL. Changing the node name resolves this issue.
TL1 Functionality
When the Cisco ONS 15600 is supporting 500 TL1 sessions and there is a sustained high level of management traffic the active TSC might reset. This issue is visible when the Cisco ONS 15600 is supporting 500 TL1 ENE logins to DCC-linked network nodes such as the Cisco ONS 15454. In a laboratory test it was observed that an alarm flood (approximately 70000 alarm messages) in the network would overload the active TSC and cause it to reset. The standby TSC transitions to active and the node recovers. To avoid this issue configure TL1 sessions to throttle the amount of alarm data that is sent across the management network. For example, when a TL1 session starts, the REPT^ALM and REPT^EVT messages are allowed by default. The TL1 command "INH-MSG-ALL" will inhibit all REPT-ALM and REPT^EVT autonomous messages from being transmitted. This issue is resolved in Release 7.0.
New Features and Functionality
This section highlights new features and functionality for Release 7.0.x. For detailed documentation of each feature, consult the user documentation.
New Software Features
The following feature has been added for Release 7.0.2.
Daylight Savings Time Support
With Release 7.0.2 CTC and TL1 display daylight savings time (DST) in keeping with the new DST rules applicable from 2007 forward. As described in the change in energy policy for the United States of America (USA), the DST start date will be the 2nd Sunday of March and the DST end date will be 1st Sunday of November.
The following features were added for Release 7.0.
Server Trails
Release 7.0.x adds support for server trails. A server trail is a non-DCC link across a third-party network that connects two CTC network domains. A server trail allows circuit provisioning when no DCC is available. You can create server trails between any two optical or DS-3 ports. The end ports of a server trail can be different types. Server trails are not allowed on DCC-enabled ports.
The server trail link is bidirectional and can be VT1.5, VT2, STS1, STS-3c, or STS-12c; you cannot upgrade an existing server trail to another size. A server trail link can be one of the following protection types: Preemptible, Unprotected, and Fully Protected. The server trail protection type determines the protection type for any circuits that traverse it. PCA circuits will use server trails with the Preemptible attribute.
When creating circuits or VCATs, you can choose a server trail link during manual circuit routing. CTC can also route circuits over server trail links during automatic routing. VCAT common-fiber automatic routing is not supported.
Link Consolidation
CTC provides the ability to consolidate the DCC, general communications channel (GCC), optical transport section (OTS), server trail, and provisionable patchcord (PPC) links shown in the network view into a more streamlined view. Link consolidation allows you to condense multiple internodal links into a singular link. The link consolidation sorts links by class, meaning that all DCC links are consolidated together, for example. You can access individual links within consolidated links using the right-click shortcut menu. Each link has an associated icon.
Link consolidation is only available on non-detailed maps. Non-detailed maps display nodes in icon form instead of detailed form, meaning the nodes appear as rectangles with ports on the sides. Refer to the Cisco ONS 15600 Procedure Guide for more information about consolidated links.
Data Communications Network Tool
Release 7.0.x CTC includes a data communications network (DCN) tool that assists with network troubleshooting for Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) networks. This tool, located in network view, executes an internal dump command to retrieve information about all nodes accessible from the entry point. The retrieved information is the same as you would get if you were to execute a dump using special networking commands. The contents of the dump file can be saved or printed and furnished to Cisco Technical Support for use in OSPF network support.
Advanced Circuit Filtering and Export
Release 7.0.x adds an Advanced tab to the Circuit Filter dialog. With advanced circuit filtering you can filter on selected rings, nodes, links, or source/drop combinations.
Also, you can export the active Circuit window data in HTML, comma-separated values (CSV), or tab-separated values (TSV) format using the Export command from the File menu.
Superuser Privileges for Provisioning Users
With Release 7.0.x Superusers can grant permission to Provisioning users to perform a set of tasks, including retrieving the audit log, restoring a database, clearing performance monitoring (PM) parameters, activating a software load, and reverting a software load. These privileges can only be set using the node-level network element (NE) defaults, with the exception of the PM clearing privilege, which can be granted to a Provisioning user from the CTC Provisioning > Security > Access tabs. For more information about setting up Superuser privileges, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 Procedure Guide.
CTC Download Highest Level NET JAR File
As of Release 7.0.x CTC, during network topology discovery, polls each node in the network to determine which one contains the most recent version of the CTC software. If CTC discovers a node in the network that has a more recent version of the CTC software than the version you are currently running, CTC generates a message stating that a later version of CTC has been found in the network, and offers to install the CTC software upgrade JAR files. If you have network discovery disabled, CTC will not seek more recent versions of the software. Unreachable nodes are not included in the upgrade discovery.
Local Domain Creation and Viewing
With Release 7.0.x a Superuser can control whether domains that any future users create and view persist globally (for all CTC sessions), or only locally (within the current CTC session in which they are created), as well as who can create domains (all users, or just Superusers). This control is given to Superusers by means of the NE default, CTC.network.LocalDomainCreationAndViewing. The factory pre-set default value is FALSE, meaning domain information is applied to all CTC sessions and only Superusers can create a domain or add a node to a domain. Setting the default to TRUE enables the option for local domain creation by any user.
BLSR STS and VT Squelching
Release 7.0.x supports BLSR STS squelching for the ONS 15454, ONS 15327, and ONS 15600, and VT squelching for the ONS 15454, and ONS 15327, with limited VT squelching support (see below) provided by the ONS 15600. STS-level squelching is supported in previous releases. With VT-level squelching added in Release 7.0.x the STS squelch table now displays VT-access status for each STS (every entry) in the table. There is a check box in both the east and west sides for each entry of STS squelch table, and a check mark in this box indicates that the STS is VT-access.
Release 7.0.x nodes display STS and VT squelch tables depending on the type of circuits created. For example, if a fiber cut occurs, the BLSR squelch tables show STSs or VTs that will be squelched for every isolated node. Squelching replaces traffic by inserting the appropriate alarm indication signal path (AIS-P) and prevents traffic misconnections. For an STS with a VT-access check mark, the AIS-P will be removed after 100 ms.
BLSR STS Squelch Tables in CTC
BLSR STS squelch tables show STSs that will be squelched for every isolated node. BLSR STS numbers, East and West source and destination information, and East and West incoming, or outgoing VT access indications are displayed in the BLSR Squelch Table window. BLSR squelching is performed on STSs that carry STS circuits only. Squelch table entries will not appear for STSs carrying VT circuits or Ethernet circuits to, or from E-Series Ethernet cards provisioned in a multicard Ethergroup. These squelch tables contain entries with adjacent node IDs displayed, instead of source or destination node IDs.
BLSR VT Squelch Tables in CTC
BLSR VT squelch tables only appear on the node dropping VTs from a BLSR and are used to perform VT-level squelching when a node is isolated. VT squelching is supported on the ONS 15454 and the ONS 15327 platforms. The ONS 15600 platform does not support VT squelching; however, when an ONS 15454 and an ONS 15600 are in the same network, the ONS 15600 node allows the ONS 15454 node to carry VT circuits in a VT tunnel. The ONS 15600 performs 100-ms STS-level squelching for each VT-access STS at the switching node in case of a node failure.
When using a VT circuit on a VT tunnel (VTT), or on a VT aggregation point (VAP), the VTT or VAP allows multiple VT circuits to be passed through on a single STS without consuming VT matrix resources on the cross-connect card.
In case of a source and destination node failure of a VTT, the switching node performs 100-ms STS-level squelching for the VTT STS. The node dropping VT traffic performs VT-level squelching. VT traffic on the VTT that is not coming from the failed node is protected.
An STS grooming node (VAP source) does not carry VT circuits through a VTT. The STS grooming node performs STS-level squelching for each STS timeslot at the switching node in case the VT-grooming (VAP destination) node fails. The node dropping VT traffic performs VT-level squelching for each VT timeslot in case the STS-grooming end node fails. No VT traffic on the VAP is protected during a failure of the STS-grooming node or the VT-grooming node.
The VT squelch table provides BLSR VT group number and channel indications, and East and West source information. To view the VT squelch table, double-click the STS with a check mark in the BLSR STS squelch table window. The check mark appears on every VT-access STS; however, the VT-squelch table appears only by double-clicking the check mark on the node dropping the VT. The intermediate node of the VT does not maintain the VT-squelch table.
"Ring is Squelching STS Traffic" Condition
Release 7.0.x supports an informational Ring is Squelching STS Traffic (STS-SQUELCH-L) condition that can be raised on an OC-N facility. The STS-SQUELCH-L condition indicates that traffic is squelched due to node failure (traffic outage). If the node failure scenario includes the source or destination node, then switching the nodes that switched the traffic away from the failure will squelch all the STSs that originate from or are destined to the failure node. The condition resolves when the node is no longer failing.
"Ring is Squelching VT Traffic" Condition
Release 7.0.x supports an informational Ring is Squelching VT Traffic (VT-SQUELCH-L) condition that can be raised on an OC-N facility. The VT-SQUELCH-L condition indicates that traffic is squelched due to node failure (traffic outage). If the node failure scenario includes the source node, the node dropping VT will squelch VT traffic. The condition resolves when the node failure is recovered.
Enhanced Fault Management
Release 7.0.x adds increased flexibility for fault management. When an entity is put in the OOS,MT administrative state, the node suppresses all standing alarms on that entity. All alarms and events appear on the Conditions tab. You can change this behavior for the LPBKFACILITY and LPBKTERMINAL alarms. To display these alarms on the Alarms tab, you can set the NODE.general.ReportLoopbackConditionsOnOOS-MTPorts to TRUE in the NE Defaults editor.
TL1 Command Changes
Command Syntax Changes
The syntax of the following commands is changed in Release 7.0.x.
ENT-TADRMAP syntax:
Is changed to:
OPR-SYNCNSW syntax:
Is changed to:
RTRV-NE-SYNCN syntax:
Is changed to:
RTRV-SYNCN syntax:
Is changed to:
RTRV-TADRMAP syntax:
Is changed to:
ED-NE-GEN syntax:
Is changed to:
Command Response Changes
The following TL1 response has changed in Release 7.0.x.
RTRV-INV response:
<aid>,<aidtype>::[<pn>],[<hwrev>],[<fwrev>],[<sn>],[<clei>],[<twl1=nwl in code>],[<pluginvendorid>],[<pluginpn>],[<pluginhwrev>],[<pluginfwrev>],[<pluginsn>],[<ilossref>],[<productId>],[<versionId>],[<fpgaVersion>]
Is changed to:
<aid>,<aidtype>::[<pn>],[<hwrev>],[<fwrev>],[<sn>],[<clei>],[<twl1=nwl in code>],[<pluginvendorid>],[<pluginpn>],[<pluginhwrev>],[<pluginfwrev>],[<pluginsn>],[<ilossref>],[<productId>],[<versionId>],[<fpgaVersion>],[<vendorId>]
TL1 ENUM Items Added
Table 1 and Table 2 highlight ENUM items added for Release 7.0.x, by ENUM type.
Table 1 EQUIPMENT_TYPE enum items added to Release 7.0.x
Enum Name Enum Value
EQUIPMENT_TYPE is used in the following commands:
Table 2 MTU_TYPE enum items added to Release 7.0.x
Enum Name Enum Value
MTU_TYPE is used in the following commands:
Related Documentation
Release-Specific Documents
•Release Notes for the Cisco ONS 15600, Release 7.0
•Release Notes for the Cisco ONS 15454 SDH, Release 7.0.2
•Release Notes for the Cisco ONS 15327, Release 7.0.2
•Release Notes for the Cisco ONS 15454, Release 7.0.2
•Release Notes for the Cisco ONS 15310-CL, Release 7.0.2
•Release Notes for the Cisco ONS 15310-MA, Release 7.0.2
•Cisco ONS 15600 Software Upgrade Guide, Release 7.0
Platform-Specific Documents
•Cisco ONS 15600 Procedure Guide
Provides installation, turn up, test, and maintenance procedures
•Cisco ONS 15600 Reference Manual
Provides technical reference information for SONET/SDH cards, nodes, and networks
•Cisco ONS 15600 Troubleshooting Guide
Provides a list of SONET alarms and troubleshooting procedures, general troubleshooting information, and hardware replacement procedures
•Cisco ONS SONET TL1 Command Guide
Provides a comprehensive list of TL1 commands
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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Compatible / Supported Storage Arrays (SAN, NAS)
This section assumes you have already followed either the Tested Reference Configurations (TRC) or the Specification-Based Hardware Support policy for UC apps and compute hardware.
Storage arrays used with UC virtualization must align with the following:
- The storage solution must be supported by the Cisco Unified Computing System. For example, visit:
- Cisco UCS storage certification list
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/interoperability/matrix/hw_sw_interop_matrix_seriesB_111.pdf for Cisco UCS B-Series servers or
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/interoperability/matrix/hw_sw_interop_matrix_seriesC_101.pdf for Cisco UCS C-Series servers.
- The storage solution must be supported by VMware ESXi / vSphere 4. For example, refer to the "SAN/Storage" tab at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=
- The storage solution must meet Capacity (GB) and Performance (IOPS) requirements of UC VMs described later on this page.
- Otherwise any storage array vendor or product is supported for use with UC.
- In general, all other details, such as configuration of RAID or disk technology options on the storage array (such as choice of SAS, SATA or FC disks) are up to you. "Tier 1 Storage" is generally recommended for UC deployments.
No requirement to dedicate arrays or storage groups to UC (vs. non-UC), or to one UC app vs. other UC apps.
Supported Storage for UCS Tested Reference Configurations
Tested Reference Configurations (TRC) only support DAS (with specified RAID configurations), FC SAN and boot from FC SAN (diskless):
- FC SAN is mandatory for all UCS B200 Tested Reference Configurations
- FC SAN is optional for UCS C210 Tested Reference Configuration - see Supported Hardware page for which ones support FC SAN.
- UCS C200 Tested Reference Configurations are DAS only.
Supported Storage for Specs-based Support
Specification-Based Hardware Support supports DAS (with custom RAID configurations), NAS, SAN and boot from SAN (diskless) using NFS, FC, iSCSI and FCoE transport options.
- There is no UC-specific requirement for NFS version. Use what VMware and the server vendor recommend for the vSphere ESXi version required by UC.
For UC on UCS C-series Specs-based
- SAN General : Design your deployment in accordance with the UCS High Availability guidelines (see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/white_paper_c11-553711.html).
- You must provision a dedicated HBA (see Tested Reference Configurations (TRC) page for more information).
- Your choice
- FCoE, iSCSI, or NFS:
- UC requires provisioning a dedicated 10GbE ethernet port on the server to the upstream switch, using Cisco Platinum Class QOS for the storage traffic. The port for storage access must be separate from the port used for LAN access. Whether the storage access port is on same adapter as LAN access is up to the customer. E.g. it may be desirable to have LAN and storage access on separate adapters for redundancy purposes, but UC does not require this.
- Normal QoS (L3 and L2 marking) can be used starting from the first upstream switch to the storage array
- The storage array vendor may have additional best practices as well.
For UC on UCS B-series Specs-based
- SAN General : Design your deployment in accordance with the UCS High Availability guidelines (see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/white_paper_c11-553711.html).
- FC or FCoE: No additional requirements for UC VM-to-storage traffic. The UCS 6100 switch handles this requirement by default.
- iSCSI or NFS: Follow these best practices:
- Use a L2 CoS between the chassis and the upstream switch.
- For the storage traffic, recommend a Platinum class QoS, CoS=5, no drop (Fiber Channel Equivalent)
- L3 DSCP is optional between the chassis and the first upstream switch.
- From the first upstream switch to the storage array, use the normal QoS (L3 and L2 marking). Note that iSCSI or NFS traffic is typically assigned a separate VLAN.
- iSCSI or NFS: Ensure that the traffic is prioritized to provide the right IOPS. For a configuration example, see the FlexPod Secure Multi-Tenant (SMT) documentation (http://www.imaginevirtuallyanything.com/us/).
- The storage array vendor may have additional best practices as well.
Capacity and Performance Requirements of Storage Solution
Storage capacity must support the sum of UC VM OVA vDisks, plus overhead for VMware and RAID on the array.
Storage performance must support the sum of UC VM OVA IOPS, documented in the IO Operations Per Second (IOPS) page. IOPS utilization should be monitored for each application to ensure that the aggregate IOPS is not exceeding the capacity of the array. Prolonged buffering of IOPS against an array may result in degraded system performance and delayed reporting data availability.
Cisco UC uses a 4 kilobyte block size to determine bandwidth needs.
Disk oversubscription is not supported.
Storage thin provisioning is not supported (neither at the VM level nor at the array level). While use of thin provisioning does not impose a VM performance penalty, many UC VMs are designed to fully utilize their allocated vDisk storage for critical operations (such as upgrades or backups) or application-specific functions (such as the Cisco Unity Connection message store).
EMC-based storage solutions may use EMC PowerPath/VE multi-pathing (for details, see http://www.emc.com/products/family/powerpath-family.htm).
SAN/NAS Link Provisioning and High Availability
Consider the following example to determine the number of physical Fiber Channel (FC) or 10Gig Ethernet links required between your storage array (such as the EMC Clariion CX4 series or NetApp FAS 3000 Series) and SAN switch for example, Nexus or MDS Series SAN Switches), and between your SAN switch and the UCS Fabric Interconnect Switch. This example is presented to give a general idea of the design considerations involved. You should contact your storage vendor to determine the exact requirement.
Assume that the storage array has a total capacity of 28,000 Input/output Operations Per Second (IOPS). Enterprise grade SAN Storage Arrays have at least two service processors (SPs) or controllers for redundancy and load balancing. That means 14,000 IOPS per controller or service processor. With the capacity of 28,000 IOPS, and assuming a 4 KByte block size, we can calculate the throughput per storage array controller as follows:
- 14,000 I/O per second * (4000 Byte block size * 8) bits = 448,000,000 bits per second
- 448,000,000/1024 = 437,500 Kbits per second
- 437,500/1024 = ~428 Mbits per second
Adding more overhead, one controller can support a throughput rate of roughly 600 Mbps. Based on this calculation, it is clear that a 4 Gbps FC interface is enough to handle the entire capacity of one Storage Array. Therefore, Cisco recommends putting four FC interfaces between the storage array and storage switch, as shown in the following image, to provide high availability.
|Cisco provides storage networking and switching products that are based on industry standards and that work with storage array providers such as EMC, NetApp, and so forth. Virtualized Unified Communications is supported on any storage access and storage array products that are supported by Cisco UCS and VMware. For more details on storage networking, see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns747/networking_solutions_sub_program_home.html.
Best Practices for Storage Array LUNs for Unified Communications Applications
There are various ways to create partitions or Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) in the storage array to meet the IOPS requirement for Cisco Unified Communications applications (see IO Operations Per Second (IOPS)}.
The best practices mentioned below are meant only to provide guidelines. Data Center storage administrators should carefully consider these best practices and adjust them based on their specific data center network, latency, and high availability requirements.
The storage array Hard Disk Drive (HDD) must be a Fibre Channel (FC) class HDD. These hard drives could vary in size. The current most popular HDD (spindle) sizes are:
- 450 GB, 15K revolutions per minute (RPM) FC HDD
Both types of HDD provide approximately 180 IOPS. Regardless of the hard drive size used, it is important to try to balance IOPS load and disk space usage.
LUN size must be less than 2 terabytes (TB) for the virtual machine file system to recognize it. For Cisco Unified Communications virtual applications, the recommendation is to create a LUN size of between 500 GB and 1.5 TB, depending on the size of the disk and RAID group type used. Also as a best practice, select the LUN size so that the number of Unified Communications virtual machines per LUN is between 4 and 8. Do not allocate more than eight virtual machines (VMs) per LUN or datastore. The total size of all Virtual Machines (where total size = VM disk + RAM copy) must not exceed 90% of the capacity of a datastore.
LUN filesystem type must be VMFS. Raw Device Mapping (RDM) is not supported.
The following example illustrates an example of these best practices for UC:
For example, assume RAID5 (4+1) is selected for a storage array containing five 450 GB, 15K RPM drives (HDDs) in a single RAID group. This creates a total RAID5 array size of approximately 1.4 TB usable space. This is lower than the total aggregate disk drive storage space provided by the five 450 GB drives (2.25 TB). This is to be expected because some of the drive space will be used for array creation and almost an entire drive of data will be used for RAID5 striping.
Next, assume two LUNs of approximately 720 GB each are created to store Unified Communications application virtual machines. For this example, between one and three LUNs per RAID group could be created based on need. Creating more than three LUNs per RAID group would violate the previously mentioned recommendation of a LUN size of between 500 GB and 1.5 TB.
A RAID group with RAID 1+0 scheme would also be valid for this example and in fact in some cases could provide better IOPS performance and high availability when compared to a RAID 5 scheme.
The above example of storage array design should be altered based on your specific Unified Communications application IOPS requirements.
Below is a graphic of an example configuration following these best practices guidelines, note there are other designs possible.
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Readers complained about the June headline, which described the Star Trek beauty as "115 pounds of grit and heartache," but Saldana believes the tagline perfectly sums up the contrast between her larger-than-life personality and her tiny frame.
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LITTLE ROCK — The state Supreme Court on Thursday disqualified a proposed constitutional amendment to allow casinos in four Arkansas counties from the Nov. 6 general election ballot.
The court ruled that sponsor Nancy Todd improperly changed the wording of the proposal after gathering signatures for it. Todd changed the wording to say the measure may repeal a 2005 state law that allowed local elections to permit Oaklawn Park thoroughbred track in Hot Springs and Southland Greyhound Park in West Memphis to operate electronic games of skill.
The casino measure, which would have allowed Nancy Todd's Poker Palace and Entertainment Venues LLC to operate casinos in Crittenden, Franklin, Miller and Pulaski counties, will appear on the ballot, but the Supreme Court ordered that any votes cast for it not be counted.
Todd said it was a "huge disappointment that the voices of 200,000 people who expressed interest in this doesn't seem to count."
The professional poker player initially fell more than 55,000 signatures short of the 78,133 valid signatures needed to qualify the proposed amendment for the ballot. After Todd later submitted more than 100,000 additional signatures, Secretary of State Mark Martin certified that she had met the threshold.
But Martin also ruled, on advice from Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, that the measure was legally insufficient because it did not adequately address the issue of the amendment's possible impact on games of skill.
Todd appealed that ruling. She argued that she had addressed this concern, which McDaniel had raised previously, by adding a phrase stating that the amendment may repeal the Electronic Games of Skill Act.
The Arkansas Racing Alliance, a ballot committee funded by Oaklawn, filed a separate lawsuit arguing that the measure was legally insufficient because, among other things, the language about repealing the Electronic Games of Skill Act was not in the measure when Todd was gathering signatures for it, so the people who signed petitions did not fully know what they were supporting.
In its unanimous opinion Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed, noting that Amendment 7 to the Arkansas Constitution states that petitions in support of a ballot initiative must have attached to them "the exact title to be used on the ballot."
"Because (Todd's) revised ballot is clearly 'something different' than their original ballot title … we hold that no signatures collected under the former title may support certification of the revised ballot title. Accordingly, we hereby vacate respondent's Aug. 23, 2012, certification and order that any votes cast for or against the proposed amendment not be counted or certified," Justice Jim Gunter wrote in the opinion.
Todd said she felt no anguish over having added language to the proposal after McDaniel reviewed it and said it did not address the issue of the possible impact on the Electronic Games of Skill Act.
"Had we not added that language, the argument that it was not clear in the amendment would have held true," she said.
Elizabeth Robben Murray, attorney for the Arkansas Racing Alliance, said the alliance was "very pleased" with the ruling.
"I think that based on the language of Amendment 7, the court's holding is the only logical result," she said.
Todd, who moved to Arkansas from Las Vegas to push her casino proposal, said she was in Arkansas to stay but that it was too soon to say whether she would make a future attempt to pass it here.
"That's a little premature. I just had a long hard fight and I want to digest it before you start talking about the future," she said.
The Supreme Court previously upheld a ruling by Martin that disqualified a separate proposed amendment that would have allowed casinos in seven counties, because of insufficient signatures.
Alex Reed, a spokesman for Martin, said the secretary of state's office is working to notify county election commissioners that votes for both casino measures are not to be counted. He said counties may choose to post notices at polling places to let voters know the votes on those items will not be counted, but they are not legally required to do so.
The court has upheld Martin's certification of a proposed initiated act that would allow marijuana use for medicinal purposes. Also on the general election ballot will be two measures referred to voters by the Legislature.
One of the referred measures would raise the state sales by half a cent to fund construction of a statewide four-lane highway system. The other would allow cities and counties to do three things — create districts for development and redevelopment projects; issue bonds payable from city and county sales taxes; and issue bonds and levy a local sales tax, with voter approval, to retire unfunded liabilities of closed local police and fire pension plans.


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Actor Martin Shaw on being a reformed hellraiser: I used to drink before every performance
THE Inspector George Gently star talks about giving up alcohol 43 years ago and filming the hit BBC series in constant pain from an old shoulder injury
Fans will be relieved to find that as the seventh series opens, the cops have pulled through, but not without serious physical and mental scars
The last series of Inspector George Gently ended on a dramatic high, with a shoot-out in Durham Cathedral. As Inspector Gently (Martin Shaw) and his sidekick Sergeant John Bacchus (Lee Ingleby) lay wounded on the cold stone floor, no one knew if they would survive to fight crime another day.
Fans will be relieved to find that as the seventh series opens, the cops have pulled through, but not without serious physical and mental scars. The first episode of the 1960s-set show begins with Gently trying to fight his way back to health. He's still in pain and, in a strange case of life imitating art, so was Martin Shaw. A shoulder injury flared up during filming and left the 69-year-old actor in constant pain, making his on-screen suffering remarkably realistic.
"It started hurting pretty much as soon as we started filming and I was like, 'Thanks, God!'" laughs Martin when we meet. "I was in pain throughout filming, but there were many ways of hiding it."
Martin's rotator cuff was damaged through years of wear and tear and he struggled through the shoot before having surgery the day after filming ended. When we meet in London's Covent Garden he's still sore from the operation and is on medication but he's on great form; amiable, relaxed and surprisingly open.
In this week's opening episode of the four-part series, Gently is back at work investigating the death of a man in police custody. But he is disturbed about a resignation letter he's received from Bacchus, disillusioned after the shoot-out and wanting to quit.
"The two men have reacted to the shooting in different ways," says Martin. "Gently fought his way through the Second World War and shooting and being shot at is not unfamiliar to him. But for someone of Bacchus's generation, it was deeply and profoundly shocking."
Although Martin has starred in numerous hit series, including The Professionals and Judge John Deed, he's particularly proud of Inspector George Gently, which regularly pulls in more than six million viewers.
"I think the series gets better every time," says Martin. "Each time, we move on a little bit in depth and importance and skill, which I really love."
Martin says he offers advice to the show's directors and producers about direction and script – not to mention life in the 1960s. Birmingham native Martin got his professional start in theatre in 1963.
"It doesn't feel that long ago," he admits. "The Damascene moments that happened at drama school are still with me as fresh as the day when I had them. So whenever I'm stuck with a role, I still use the same old acting processes to tunnel my way out."
Despite success on stage and screen, Martin reveals things could have been very different. He admits he used to drink before every performance before giving up alcohol entirely in 1971.
"Early in my career, the ridiculous, stupid badge of office was to be a hellraiser and see how dramatically drunk you can be. And I embraced that wholeheartedly, to my shame," he says.
Martin's long collaboration with theatre producer Bill Kenwright has been fruitful. He is currently starring in Kenwright's West End production of Twelve Angry Men, a play made famous by the 1957 film starring Henry Fonda.
In the play at London's Garrick Theatre, Martin plays another of the serious, righteous characters to which he gravitates. He admits it's led to typecasting that precludes him from being considered for comedy roles.
"I'm seen as a serious actor and that's partly my fault because of the amount of pontificating I do," he grins.
He's looking forward to recovering enough from his operation to get back in front of a camera, although he admits the notion of retirement occasionally flits across his mind, albeit briefly.
"About three quarters of the way through a series I think, 'I can't do this anymore'. But then, after a few weeks' rest, I'm thinking, 'what's next?'" he says.
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New NSA Leakers Reveal NSA Switched From Spying On Merkel... To All Her Chief Advisors
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And, indeed, over the weekend, German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported that the NSA may have stopped bugging Merkel's phone, but instead it had started bugging the phones of basically everyone around her, including pretty much every senior government official who reported to her. The report quotes a "high-ranking NSA employee in Germany" explaining what's going on:
"We have had the order not to miss out on any information now that we are no longer able to monitor the chancellor's communication directly," it quoted the NSA employee as saying.This shouldn't be that surprising. This is what the NSA is going to do, after all. But what amazes me about this story is the fact that it's already leaked out, and that despite all the talk of cracking down on future leaks out of the NSA, the NSA already has another leaker releasing information that is clearly politically sensitive. So many folks like to point to Snowden as if he's the only leaker the NSA ever had or ever will have. But it's increasingly looking like there are others within the NSA who are equally uncomfortable with what's become of the intelligence community.


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First time posting one of my own pieces here. This is a recent instrumental variation of a song I worked up a couple of years ago. It includes Freesound.org samples courtesy Andrew Duke, sorohanro and kaponja - thanks to all three for their contributions. Hope you enjoy it.
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On saturday I woke up at 3:15 am to wait in a painfully long line to board a bus that took me up Provo Canyon where I ran 13.1 miles back down with a couple thousand other people, holding up traffic, sweating like a fiend, and for the most part smiling and having a grand time.
A few things to preface, I am not a runner, nor was I ever before, but I kind of love it. This has very little to do with food, well maybe a little. This post is long, really long. No this will not become a running blog, but the subject may make mention every once in a while; like today.
I had hoped to run the race with my brother who ran his first half marathon october of 2010. I had always wanted to run a long distance race but was just too scared to do it on my own. He encouraged me to pick a race and we would run it together, but due to an old injury of his I ended up in the early morning bus line alone facing the longest run of my life with 2 and a half hours worth of music to accompany me.
Then a sweet girl named Whitney sat by me on the bus. We introduced ourselves, confessed it was our first race and that we were running alone, then we stood in the porta potty line together, became facebook and instagram friends, and ran 9 of the 13.1 side by side getting to know one another. It made the race go so much faster than if it would have been just me, Florence, and the machine.
So basically the race went like this.
the mob of people I am a part of begins to move.
My joints are creaking and my fingers are still chilly.
A water station (already?).
We keep running, passing a few people, being passed by even more, Whitney and I chat about where we're from, school, family and the like.
My body begins to warm up and I am running more smoothly.
I see my twice a week running buddy and kiddie pool friend Makenzie, say hello, introduce myself to her sister and they run off ahead (they're fast).
Whitney and I both shed our jackets because it's starting to get warm, I lose a few almonds and raisins from my pockets in the process.
We keep running and talking, passing more aid and water stations where I quickly learn it's necessary to slow down to a walk if I actually want to ingest the water.
Conversation continues and we realize we're almost out of the canyon, and that we're both harry potter obsessed = all of a sudden we're best friends.
We start seeing families on the side of the road, families who are there to show love and support for their racing relatives.
We talk about what ours are doing and then realize we've only a handful of miles to go.
I start to see the cars held up on our expense and give a silent apology because they will be there for quite some time.
We see more families and imagine our names are on their big posters, we run a little lighter.
By the time 9 miles come around I can't keep up, did I mention she has legs like a model? So I wave her on and my thoughts and music keep me company for a bit.
When I reach bulldog boulevard I realize the end of the race is in a different place than I told my family. I call husband and tell him where I am and where I am soon to be.
I am going to beat him to the finish line.
I will beat them all. My brothers and sisters are on their way from Orem and I am 3 blocks to the end.
I see the clock at the finish, it's one minute under 2 hours, so I start to pick up the pace, I'm flying. and then I'm done. 30 seconds before the goal I set for myself; 30 seconds under 2 hours.
I am handed a medal, grab an orange slice and water, then look for someone I know.
The rest of the morning (it felt like afternoon) was spent looking for family, looking for bags, eating a creamie (first dairy in so long!), taking instagrams/tweeting/facebooking, getting definite results and then going home for some food, a recovery drink, a rinse, then to the pool where I sat around and enjoyed the sun while toddler and husband enjoyed the slides.
Overall it was a fantastic experience. So much so that I am already planning another race in the fall. One that's a little longer since I figure I'm already halfway there. Of course that is, after a short break.
As for food, I mostly followed Sheena's race day food advice, although I found out afterward that it was a little too much for me, specifically right before the race. I was used to eating little to nothing before my runs in the morning, so what I ate ended up being too much in addition to my nerves and the water I drank. I was having to keep it all down the first 5 miles. not fun.
fuel - day before:
brekky - muesli with blueberries and strawberries, almond milk
lunch - huge salad with greens from our garden, sweet potato, frozen raspberries, chevre, walnuts and brown rice syrup vinaigrette, a tortilla or two, water.
snack - fruit + nut bar, water
dinner - a pasta party, whole wheat spaghetti, sauteed veggies in a marinara, green salad, fruit salad, lots of bread and water
fuel - race day!:
brekky (3:30am) - whole wheat toast with peanut butter, raw honey and a banana, water, a little gatorade and a spoon of coconut oil
an hour before (5am) - some water, a couple sport beans
during the race - water (i grabbed a gu just in case but didn't end up using it)
after the race - whole wheat toast with avocado, a glass of chocolate milk, and lotsa water
. training with a friend is the best way to consistently prepare yourself; my twice a week morning running friend makenzie was an answer to a prayer.
. I should have stuck with the things I did during my other long runs. Eat a little right before, maybe a fruit + nut bar, and bringing along almonds and dried fruit for the ride.
. I want to try out more natural/whole food alternatives to sports drinks/beans/gu chews like coconut water, nuts, and dried fruit. I actually really liked the sport beans, but they seemed to throw me off balance; any recommendations/advice?
. note to self, get a new running top. One that doesn't rub or show sweat marks. people will think you're lactating..
. wear less, tying my jacket around my waist wasn't too bad, but I think next time (despite the cold) I'd wear a long sleeve shirt over a racer top and shorts instead.
. doubling up my support was a good idea. very good.
. if you can't walk down the stairs the day after, walking down backward is much easier.
. I am much stronger than I thought; and it felt awesome meeting a goal I initially thought would be incredibly difficult.
now for another one!


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Another photo pulled from the Ford media photo collection, this one a nice color shot of Eric Jackson and Ken Chambers posing with their Ford Corsair in front of the Windsor Castle following their race with the luxury liner from Cape Town to Southampton. The caption for the photo on the Ford media site claims that Jackson and Chambers beat the liner in the race, but the website for the London-Algiers-Cape Town Rally notes that the results of the race weren't so cut-n-dry:
Ford were pleased with Eric's effort in the Cortina (Jackson and Chambers had set the London-Cape Town record in 1963), so a couple of years later in 1965 they planned a publicity stunt to race the liner RMS Windsor Castle from Cape Town to Southampton. This ship, the last passenger liner built at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead and last of the Union-Castle mailships that sailed between Southampton and South Africa, would average 24 mph and Captain Hart thought it a no brainer – he would win. Jackson set off in the Corsair but lost time with a string of punctures. He used Firestone cross-plies, and found the inner tubes were rubbing badly by the ribbing inside the tyres. Cross-plies, he argued, are available all along the route and have stronger side-walls – but it proved to be a duff choice, and the car's progress suffered. At one point, Eric was changing tubes, fixing a puncture, on the move!
Cameroon refused the car so it had to be flown in an air-lift – and at a stroke was no longer keeping the wheels on the ground. They then drove non-stop to England, reaching a hotel at Gatwick the night before the day the ship was due to dock, the crew took a hotel room for a few hours rest and then drove to Southampton. Ford publicity chief Walter Hayes had agreed with Captain Hart that due to the air-lift, they would call it a draw, and the Corsair made it to the dockside as the ship entered the harbour.
The Ocean Liner Virtual Museum has a more elaborate version of the story that places the race in 1967:
In May 1967 the RMS Windsor Castle was involved in a dramatic race from Cape Town to Southampton against a motor car. It began after Union-Castle Line claimed sea travel was the fastest means of travel from South Africa after air. The Ford Motor Company disputed this and threw down the gauntlet for the ship to race one of their cars from Cape Town back to England. So the RMS Windsor Castle took up the challenge and in May 1967 raced home against a Halewood built Ford Corsair 2000E in a dramatic and nail biting race between these two Merseyside built machines. Sadly despite the high profile nature of this race sadly press coverage was muted. The ship and the car (with rally drivers Ken Chambers and Eric Chapman), left simultaneously from Cape Town dockside to a great send off bound for Southampton. The liner's 7,000 mile sea voyage was pitched against the 9,700 road journey. Chambers and Chapman had many adventures along the way. Including a moment when the Corsair fell into a 6ft, water filled pothole and had to be rescued by 30 locals and 200ft of rope. Other challenges included petrol shortages (nuns once gave them beer as a substitute!), armed Congolese soldiers forcing frequent stops (their support team and plane were locked up for several days), plus 24 tyre changes and 37 puncture repairs. Even, just before reaching Southampton, they were pulled over by West Sussex Police and cautioned for having a dirty number plate! Accounting for the driver's air travel, the race was declared a draw, although the Corsair arrived the evening before the ship sailed in.
The RMS Windsor Castle was broken apart for scrap five years ago. Anybody know the ultimate fate of the Corsair that raced her? And anybody know the exact year the race took place?


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Lee MacPhail, a former American League president who was the oldest member of baseball's Hall of Fame and part of one of the sport's foremost families, has died. He was 95.
MacPhail, who with his father forms the only father-son duo in the baseball shrine, died of natural causes Thursday at his home in Delray Beach, Fla., the Hall of Fame announced.
During a baseball career that spanned five decades, the younger MacPhail was president and general manager of the New York Yankees and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles before serving as president of the American League from 1974 to 1983.
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"As far as I'm concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews," Jones said. "It's the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune in books, movies, plays and TV.
"The more survivors, the more lies that are told."
A member of the Nationalist Socialist Party in his younger days, Jones took part in the Nazis' march on Chicago's Marquette Park in ... While he doesn't deny nor repudiate his "past affiliations," he says he votes Republican "90 percent of the time."
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Finally, someone who is not afraid to tell the truth. I applaud you, Mr. Jones. But while we're on the topic, don't forget that Stalin never killed all the people in Russia, Pol Pot and Chairman Mao were paragons of virtue, never having anyone whacked. Also slavery was never really big in the American south, only...(hm let's see what is a good number to make up. 10%, 5%. Yeah that's it) 5% of the black population was in slavery. Well actually indentured servitude, would all have been free by 1863, so really no need for the Civil War. Also unicorns and dragons frolic in the meadows of Switzerland, and the first to gather a unicorn horn AND 3 dragon scales will win a trip Shangri-La, wheren they will receive a gryphon as a pet that they can call their very own. Sarcasm, Mr. Jones, goes better with the truth. Bite me.
"I don't doubt what you say my friend ... I'm just saying that the democrats have their share of kooks as well."
…is still just a tu quoque fallacy.
"There is no difference between the two."
The best thing the Democratic party has going for them right now is; they aren't the Republican party. As for capitalism (which isn't being addressed in this blog post), …both parties favor the failed model of free-market, laissez-faire capitalism. Both parties are stuck in the Cohn/McCarthy/Rand mud of under-the-bed monsters… In this, they both equally suck, yes.
"As for the above moron voting Republican 90% of the time ... that doesn't really say much."
On the contrary, fascism is a right-wing authoritarian construct, …the GOP has been a right-wing authoritarian construct for more than the last 50 years. Even the Ayn Rand Tea Baggers, while pretending to be libertarian, are still (like Ron "kook" Paul) a right-wing construct.
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this weekend I've been super productive, I've bake a sourdough chocolate cake, 50% ww English muffins and a Norwich.
with the help of TFLers I've finally pull together a not too sour sourdough. But I still can't taste the subtle sweetness as describe in others post. Probably I should get one and use it as a benchmark.


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Christopher Wheeldon, (born March 22, 1973, Yeovil, Somerset, Eng.), British-born ballet soloist and choreographer, known for his work with the New York City Ballet and its connected institution, the School of American Ballet. In his work Wheeldon shunned trendiness and preferred the classical and lyrical to the more contemporary.
Wheeldon was first attracted to ballet when he saw the chicken dance in a production of La Fille mal gardée on television. He began taking classes, first in a local school and later at London's Royal Ballet School. There he began creating dances and winning awards for them. At age 17 he won the Prix de Lausanne competition's gold medal with a program that included one of his own pieces.
In 1991 Wheeldon entered the corps de ballet of the Royal Ballet, where he spent two years. While on a trip to New York City during a company break, he was persuaded to take a class with New York City Ballet (NYCB), and at the end of the class he was offered a job with that company. In 1993, after he finished his contract with the Royal Ballet, he entered the NYCB corps. He appeared in such ballets as Dances at a Gathering, The Four Temperaments, Chaconnne, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Nutcracker, The Concert, and The Goldberg Variations. He originated roles in a number of other works, among them West Side Story Suite, La Stravaganza, Brandenburg, Reliquary, and Episodes and Sarcasms. Along the way, he was promoted to soloist.
Wheeldon also choreographed for the School of American Ballet for such performances as Le Voyage (1994) and Danses bohémiennes (1996). In 1997 his first work for NYCB, Slavonic Dances, was presented to wide acclaim. Wheeldon also choreographed Scènes de ballet for the School of American Ballet; it premiered in 1999. Set to music by Igor Stravinsky, it featured more than 60 children in a classroom setting and for the most part was choreographed to give the illusion of dancers and their mirror images. One scene, however, depicted a rapturous fantasy pas de deux "imagined" by one of the children as she gazed into a mirror.
As his reputation grew, Wheeldon received invitations from other ballet troupes such as the San Francisco Ballet, Colorado Ballet, and Boston Ballet, and in late 1999 it was announced that he had been appointed Boston Ballet's principal guest choreographer. He also supplied some of the original choreography for the motion pictures Center Stage (2000), Ballets russes (2005), and The Sleeping Beauty (2008). In 2007 Wheeldon founded a dance company, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, in collaboration with former New York City Ballet principal dancer Lourdes Lopez. When Wheeldon left the organization in 2010, Lopez carried on and continued to direct the company then renamed simply Morphoses.


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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — When English teacher Faith Linton first proposed translating the Bible into Jamaica's patois tongue in the late 1950s, most people who heard the idea shook their heads.
Some on the deeply Christian island believed it was sacrilegious. Others opposed it because the mixture of English and African languages was disdained as a coarse linguistic stepchild to English, which is the only official language in the former British colony.
Decades later, Linton's vision is becoming a reality: After years of meticulous translation from the original Greek, the Bible Society is releasing in Jamaica print and audio CD versions of the first patois translation of the New Testament.
The Rev. Courtney Stewart, general secretary of the regional Bible society, says Scripture is best understood in a person's spoken tongue.


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White Truffle Fever Makes the Season Glow
The aroma is penetrating, distinctive, seductive. At La Grotta, a restaurant outside this Tuscan hill town, a waiter has begun shaving slivers of fresh white truffle over a humble plate of fried eggs. Instantly, heads go up around the dining room, and diners signal the staff -- yes, they'd like tartufi bianchi, too, please, on plain risotto, on buttery strands of egg pasta or simply shaved in abundance over crusts of toasted bread.
It is white truffle season here, and Italians are showing their usual enthusiasm -- even in a year when a spell of hot, dry weather has brought far fewer truffles, with elevated prices and an intense truffle war that has included the poisoning of valuable truffle hounds.
Things might be worse, if truffle seekers relied entirely on nature and serendipity. But these days, about 30 percent of truffles are harvested from trees whose roots have been inoculated with the spores of black or white truffles. These young oak, willow and nut trees, called ''truffled trees,'' have been nurtured in sterile greenhouses by a process that includes bathing their roots in a solution containing the fungi that grow into truffles.
Urbani Tartufi, the major world supplier of white and black truffles, produces 30,000 to 40,000 truffled trees a year through Agricoltura Urbani, its subsidiary, said Dr. Sandro Silveri, the company's director of production. They are shipped all over Italy and to France and Spain. Rosario Safina, president of Urbani U.S.A., said the effort has spread as far as Texas, where a planting of 65,000 black-truffle trees could in time produce as much as 3,000 kilos of truffles a year.
Those would be black truffles, however, and as much as they are in demand, it's the more delicate and highly perfumed white truffles that are truly prized. Urbani has had less success getting white-truffle trees to mature. The problem is not in developing the spore structures on the roots, Dr. Silveri explained, but rather in finding the right environment to cultivate them. And that isn't easy because white truffles have specific requirements that aren't completely understood, even by experts.
''We still have so much to discover, so much to understand.'' Dr. Silveri said. ''This is a young form of agriculture.''
There's more than one way to tame a white truffle, however. The most successful tactic seems simply to identify where the fungi grow naturally -- in limestone soil along stream beds and near humid river bottom land -- and to encourage their growth by clearing heavy underbrush and silted streams. In the area around San Giovanni d'Asso, a small hill town southeast of Siena, truffle hunters have banded together to protect their truffle turf. White truffles are exquisitely sensitive to pollution, so agricultural run-off, highways and development must be kept far from the truffle bed.
Does all this truffle culture mean more truffles for the masses? Will they go from a rare and precious seasonal food to something so common that Dad will pick up a couple in the local supermarket to shave over scrambled eggs for Sunday breakfast?
Not very likely, Dr. Silveri says, especially not for white truffles. ''Truffles aren't tomatoes,'' he said, ''and will never be grown like garden vegetables.''
Urbani Tartufi is a small but powerful family-owned company in the Valnerina, one of Umbria's most spectacular and splendidly isolated green valleys. The company was founded early in this century to provide Umbrian black truffles for the French market.
Over four generations, Urbani Tartufi has grown, and it now ships 70 percent of the Italian and 80 percent of the international market in truffles, said Olga Urbani, the company's public relations director. Much of that market is for flash-frozen or canned truffles, as well as for truffle extracts, but from the beginning of October to the end of December, Urbani's efforts focus on a controlled frenzy of buying and selling fresh white truffles.
Fifteen years ago, white truffles were almost unknown in the United States except in the fanciest French and Italian restaurants. Sirio Maccione said he had 11 pounds of white truffles sent by a friend, Giacomo Bologna, the late, legendary winemaker, when he opened Le Cirque in 1974. White truffles were then considered exclusive to a small region around Alba in Italy's northwestern Piedmont, and true Piedmontese truffle mavens like Mr. Bologna turned up their noses at white truffles from elsewhere.
But these fragrant nuggets, which look like nothing so much as misshapen golf balls left out too long in the mud and rain, turn up all over central Italy in a wide belt that extends from the Po Valley down into Latium and the Abruzzi.
The truffles develop underground, along the tree root systems. And they must be carefully scavenged, often from several inches below the surface. Truffle hunters, who call themselves cavatori or excavators, are profoundly secretive, working by night or in the dark mists of winter dawns, when no one can follow them. Their dogs, called truffle hounds, are usually mongrels, distinguished mainly by intelligence and eagerness to please, which they do by coursing the ground until they come upon the exciting fragrance of truffle. Then it's just a matter of time as man and dog together scrape away the soil.
At the annual White Truffle Exposition and Market held last month in San Giovanni d'Asso, specimens from the Crete Senese, the hills south of Siena, one of Tuscany's prime truffle grounds, were selling for $100 to $150, depending on size, for about three and a half ounces -- just enough to garnish pasta for six.
In a year like this, in which central Italy suffered a prolonged drought and hot weather, the truffle spores, whether fixed to tree roots by nature or science, just don't get a start. And that means fewer truffles and higher prices, as importers like Mr. Safina, president of Urbani U.S.A., and restaurateurs like Mr. Maccione know well.
Prices fluctuate week by week, if not day by day, as the season builds to a crescendo around the holidays. At the Urbani establishment in Sant'Anatolia di Narco last month, Gianluca Urbani was supervising a work force of women in white coats, who were readying a shipment to New York: 37 pounds of large, firm, beautifully cleaned truffles, worth about $25,000, said Mr. Urbani, who manages the company's commercial operations.
At this time of year, Mr. Urbani abandons his desk job to work directly on the shipping floor, surrounded by his white truffles, which arrive daily from Piedmont, Tuscany, the upper Tiber Valley and other parts of Italy. His enthusiasm is catching; being surrounded by overwhelming aroma day after day isn't too much for him. ''It's a drug,'' he said with a broad grin. ''Every day the desire just gets stronger.''
Mr. Safina, who receives four or five of Mr. Urbani's shipments a week, sells truffles for $580 to $1,250 a pound, depending on their size.
At Le Cirque 2000, risotto di tartufi bianchi as a first course is $25 at lunchtime and $35 on the evening menu. ''We use three, four, five pounds a week,'' Mr. Maccione said. ''That's a lot of truffles.''


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The work of 11 of the islands' best artists is the focus of The Reveal—celebrating the new exhibition Artists of Hawai'i 2013.
Get down to the bluesy soul of Jive Nene, featuring the powerhouse vocals of Simone Cole.
See live demonstrations by the Artists of Hawai'i throughout the night.
Take a zip tour of Artists of Hawai'i 2013 at 7 + 7:30pm, and participate in our ?art gallery hunt.
See the work of two other Hawai'i artists in the new exhibitions Ponoiwi: An Installation by Kapulani Landgraf and Jean Charlot: Hawaiian Drummers.
Relish contemporary fare from The Grove.
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This is the Lite Version for Box Paratrooper.Box Paratrooper is an exciting and addictive game. The game takes place during World War II. You are on the allies parachuting down on the Sea near the German soil. Your mission is to send all the Paratroopers to the safe place on sea or your box pal will be killed by the shark jumping out of the sea!Introduction: Somewhere in the vast ocean, a special military unit is conducting an extremely dangerous task to parachute different soldiers into a rugged reef terrain with limited landing space. As the officer in command, your skill in disciplining your men is critical to their survival. Try landing as much paratroopers as possible before the navy ship sails off, leaving the forsaken soldiers as appetizers for awaiting sharks. Instruction: A military aircraft carrying the soldiers to be deployed in the mission shall appear on the top screen when you enter the game. Their different shapes represent different soldier types, as well as their different roles during the parachuting process. The landing points are at the bottom of the screen. As the game proceeds, the shapes and sizes of the reef will make it increasingly harder for your men to land. Luckily, experienced paratroopers sometimes appear to help out when the tough really gets going. Them put together with your commanding skills is the key the missions success. Ensure the safety of your paratroopers until the navy ships comes pick them up. To do that, you must arrange your troopers with strategy. Distribution, selection, judgement, timing, and sometimes a little bit of luck are all neccessary to improve their chances of survival. Slowly accumulate experience in the skill of arranging their formations. The paratroopers in the mission have differences both in type and rank, but because of air visibility restrictions, partial intel arent available to us. So we only know their unit types in advance before they start parachuting off the plane. Therefore, it is required that the commander is familiar with not only the different types, but also the combination of different ranks. Command them wisely to be stacked right and tight, or the paratroopers under would collapse due to the weight. Your men are counting on you to survive the sharks. Avoid failure or hear them shout. Now youve heard the signal, good luck, and GO! Game features: Its similiar with Tetris, one of our most familiar childhood games. This different style of stacking can remind the grownup you warm and happy memories from childhood. Innovative gameplay which is easy to get used to. Trains the coordination of eyes, hands, and brain. Various shapes and colors along with a compact rhythm adds up to a good gaming experience.
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Court Finds Copyright Trolling Lawyer Evan Stone In Contempt; Orders Him To Pay Attorneys' Fees
from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept
In response, the lawyers at Public Citizen and EFF filed for sanctions against Stone... which they got, to the tune of $10,000. Stone, of course, appealed.
However, as you can see below, the court isn't buying it (not one bit). Not only does the court order him to pay attorneys' fees to Public Citizen and EFF (basically the $22,000 the lawyers asked for, though the court gets there through very slightly different math), but even more interestingly, the court also finds Stone in contempt and is requiring that he pay $500 per day until he pays the attorneys' fees owed...


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Dirty data, whether it's the result of sensor blooming on the high end or underexposing on the low end remains the same. 14-bit processing just places a greater scrutiny (levels/gradation) on it. This is analogous to what happened when we used 10, 12 and 16 mp cameras with lenses designed when 4, 6 and 8 mp cameras were the hi-end. Suddenly what we once couldn't see now came into a sharp focus, and some of it we didn't like much. It changed how we shot and changed what lens we shot with. Example: 12-24mm nik behind a dome.
looking at the table above, say you expose the sun area correctly (exposure zone 1) and want to bring detail back to an area that was 4 stops underexposed. With the 12bit images you will have 256 levels available, with the 14bit image you will have 1024. The 14bit image will look better after post-processing, right?
14-bit.......essentially, in the case of sunballs, it will heighten the evidence of fringing on the high end as well as the evidence of noise on the low end. Plus it will preclude using underexposure as a workaround for the same two issues.
Better processing will require cleaner capture data if the proportional distributions remain the same (Canon has not indicated they have changed). Sunballs or the popular workarounds when shooting sunballs do not deliver cleaner data. I cannot see how greater scrutiny on dirty data makes the image better. I can see how 14-bit and higher processing will make us shoot in a way that minimizes what we now consider acceptable. I can also see why it is better. I just don't believe it will make certain shoots improve without first being captured on a sensor with higher dr. Sunballs is one of those image types.
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PACIFICA, Calif. — Crews removed an 82-foot yacht from a Northern California beach early Tuesday after authorities say three people stole it, stocked it with pizza and beer, then drove it a little more than 20 miles before running it aground.
The luxury vessel "Darlin" was pulled from the sand at Pacifica State Beach, where it was stuck for nearly a day.
Pacifica police arrested Leslie Gardner, 63, Dario Mira, 54, and Lisa Modawell, 56, on suspicion of grand theft and conspiracy. Each of the three was being held on more than $1 million bail.
The strange tale began early Monday when beachgoers phoned police to report the sailboat in trouble.
The yacht was trapped in shallow water at low tide and unable to get back out to sea. A few wetsuit-clad surfers had paddled out in the frigid water near the grounded vessel as its hull was battered by 4- to 5-foot waves.
After television news reports of the grounding aired, the boat's owner called police to report it stolen from Sausalito, about 20 miles to the north, police said.
Authorities made brief contact with the three people on board, but the people at first refused to disembark.
Once officers were alerted that it was a stolen vessel, police surrounded it with guns drawn. After a few hours, the trio agreed to be taken off of the yacht, jumping onto personal watercraft and being quickly ferried to shore.
Pacifica police Capt. Dan Steidle said there was some indication the trio was planning to take the vessel to Pillar Point Harbor, about 10 miles south of where they ended up.
"They have been less than cooperative with our investigative efforts," Steidle said.
Gardner, Mira and Modawell were being held at the San Mateo County jail and were scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.
At about 1 a.m. Tuesday, a high tide moved in and provided enough water for crews to dislodge the yacht from the a sandbar where it had gotten stuck. The boat had a damaged rudder and keel, and was taken to a repair yard in Richmond.
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