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March 1, 2007
Once upon a time there were three college basketball players, each possessing the shooting skills to take over a basketball game on their own.
For the first part of the season one of them was terrific. For the middle part of the season another was outstanding. And in the final third of the season the third one stepped up.
Their coach kept on saying that if all three could shoot to their capabilities in a game that the team would be close to unbeatable.
Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament the No. 4-seeded Lipscomb Bisons had more than their three shooting stars zoned in. In their 85-49 romp over No. 5-seeded Mercer at the Memorial Center in Johnson City everything was as close to perfect as it could be.
It was the biggest margin of victory for the Bisons since they beat the University of the South 100-59 on Dec. 18, 2003. The Bisons 47-26 halftime lead was the biggest first half advantage of the season.
There are still two games left to be played to see if the Bisons have a fairy tale ending to this season. Tonight at 6 CT they face ETSU, the tournament host and the regular season conference champion in the semifinals. The winner of that game plays Saturday for the A-Sun Tournament Championship and the conference's automatic bid for the NCAA Tournament.
"That is the best we have played this year on both ends of the floor," Sanderson said. "We were very good defensively. We made our shots. When we put it together on both ends of the floor we are pretty good basketball team. We were ready to play. We were zoned in. Everyone saw that in this game."
Senior guard Brian Fisk and junior forward Eddie Ard each scored a game-high 17 points. Senior point guard Trey Williams added 11 and sophomore guard Michael Lusk chipped in with 10.
Ard also grabbed a game-high seven rebounds.
"Trey was terrific at the start of the season," Sanderson said. "Eddie was great in the middle. Brian has finished strong. This is the first time this season all three of them have played this well in a game. When they play like this and do what they are supposed to do, I'm not guaranteeing you we are going to win, but I do like our chances."
The Bisons shot a sizzling 58.1 percent from the field in the first half hitting 18-of-31 shots, a season-high. For the game they were just as red hot finishing at 57.9 percent (33-of-57), also a season-high.
Twelve Bisons scored in the game, a season-high. The Bisons scoring advantage allowed Sanderson to sit his main players for much of the last 10 minutes of the second half allowing many reserves to set season highs in minutes played.
"The best thing about the game was I got to play everybody and our starting players got a lot of rest," Sanderson said. "It was a great team win. We have to put the team before ourselves individually.
"At the five-minute mark I told our guys on the court that they deserved to play because they work so hard in practice getting the other guys ready to play. I told them that not only did they need to play, but they needed to play well. I thought they did play well. They moved the basketball and covered up defensively. They did what they were supposed to do on both ends of the floor. I applaud the way they played."
The Bisons have little time to recover before their next game, but Sanderson isn't overly concerned.
These guys are young," Sanderson said. "We have a lot of guys with a lot of energy. We played good, but that one is over. We have to move forward."
From 3-point range the Bisons were 8-of-16. They also hit 11-of-13 free throw attempts, an 84.6 percent success rate.
Mercer placed only one player in double figures. Forward Shaddean Aaron finished with 12. Mercer was 41 percent from the field, hitting 16-of-39 shots, including 6-of-14 from beyond the arc. Mercer also connected on 11-of-20 free throw attempts, 55 percent.
James Florence, the leading scorer in the A-Sun, was held to only six points.
"Brian did a terrific job guarding him," Sanderson said.
ETSU has beaten the Bisons twice during the regular season. ETSU, the No. 1 seed, advanced to the semifinals with a 77-61 win over No. 8-seeded Stetson.
"We are going to have to go back and watch film and evaluate ETSU," Sanderson said. "They were the best team in the league during the regular season. We have to find a way to stop Courtney Pigram. He scored 31 points against Stetson."
Preparations actually began for tournament week back in August when the Bisons played a series of exhibition games during Labor Day weekend in the Toronto, Canada area.
"This is the week in this league," Sanderson said. "We started getting ready in August. We practiced hard Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. This tournament starts for us long before the first game."


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Taco Salad In The House
I grew up as a Navy brat (that's what they call us military kids). My Dad was deployed pretty frequently. That left my Mom, who also worked outside the home, taking care of us kids by herself, fixing all the house disasters that always seemed to happen the minute Dad left and doing her best to get meals on the table. This Dorito Taco Salad was one of those meals. And let me tell ya, it is still a favorite of mine to this day.
Looking for a great weeknight meal? Then look no further. Put all the ingredients out and let your kids or guests customize their salad exactly the way they like it. Or mix it all up and serve as a tossed salad!
Dorito Taco Salad
1 bottle of catalina dressing
- 1 lb ground beef or ground turkey
- 1 packet taco seasoning
- water whatever the back of your packet of taco seasoning requires
- 1 bag of Doritos
- 1 can dark red kidney beans rinsed and drained
- ½ head lettuce shredded
- 1 block of medium cheddar cheese shredded
- 3 tomatoes diced
- 1 container of sour cream
- 1 bottle of catalina dressing
- Brown and drain beef of excess fat.
- Add packet of taco seasoning (whichever one is your favorite or if you make your own).
- Add necessary water.
- Let water reduce until the beef mixture is thick and the flavors melded.
- Turn off heat.
- Crush a handful (or more) of Doritos and place on plate.
- Next layer with a little taco beef mixture.
- Then add whatever toppings you prefer, kidney beans, shredded lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, sour cream and then lightly drizzle with Catalina dressing.
This is great to double to feed a larger crowd. Make a taco salad bar! Some other toppings include: salsa, pinto beans, olives or jalapenos. Or mix it all up and serve as a tossed salad!

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American Agri-Women (AAW) provides two scholarships for farm, ranch or agribusiness women or their daughters, to pursue accredited courses in ag leadership, communications, rural sociology, medicine, or any other courses directly related to agriculture. Each scholarship is for $500, to be used for tuition.
The scholarships are provided through the Daughters of American Agriculture Foundation, created to honor the memory of those courageous and adventuresome pioneer women who played such an important role in the founding of this nation, and to encourage the present generation to continue their education in agricultural pursuits. Funding for the foundation was provided by Jean and Calvin Ibendahl, who farmed near Tamaroa, Illinois, and from farm families around the country who pitched in "dollars for daughters."
The Jean Ibendahl Scholarship was initiated in 1991 by AAW member and educator Jean Ibendahl. It was later supported by a generous endowment of $10,000 by Jean and her husband Calvin. It is further maintained by donations by AAW member and affiliates. This scholarship is available to high school graduates and women aged 18-23.
The Sister Thomas More Bertels Scholarship was begun in 1991 to honor a founding mother of AAW. Sister T. More Bertels was a history teacher at Silver Lake College in Manitowoc, WI. She traveled the United States and Canada extolling the virtues of agriculture and empowering producers to realize their potential. This scholarship is available to women who are returning students in agriculture and are 24 years old or older.
An applicant must be a farmer, rancher or be the wife, daughter or other close relative of a farmer, rancher or other person employed in agriculture. She must have knowledge of or work experience in agriculture and show an economic or financial need. Grade Point Average or placement on tests are considered.
Applications for each are due by June 1st of each year. A copy of the applications and the submission information may be found on the AAW website (www.americanagriwomen.org).
For more information, contact Marcie Williams, President, email@example.com, or visit the web site at www.americanagriwomen.org. American Agri-Women is the nation's largest coalition of farm, ranch and agribusiness women, with 50 state, commodity, agribusiness affiliate organizations and collegiate chapters throughout the country. AAW is a volunteer organization, working to provide true information about agriculture to the public since 1974.


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I need some help to write a query. Consider a table "CardHistory" with 2 columns "OldCardNo" and "NewCardNo". This table has history for each card modification. Some times "OldCardNo" and "NewCardNo" can be same.
I need to find out very first CardNo, most recent (last) CardNo and ModificationsCount.
CardNo 100 changed to 101
CardNo 101 changed to 102
CardNo 102 changed to 103
CardNo 103 changed to 104
then query should return 100, 104, 4
Please help as soon as possible.
Thanks in advance.
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I'm going crazy... i've got a piece of code that don't update the database... Could somebody tel me why it doesn't run??
I want to display some stats in a listview contril. The table contains a record for every impression and for every click, and every record has a datetime field for the time and date of the impression of click. I want to be able to display how many impressions and clicks there were in a given day and hour, something like below:
Date Time Impressions Clicks8/20/2010 450 14 Midnight -1:00am 150 5&n
First I will say I googled (Binged to make Bill happy) for this but could not find anything, perhaps I am not stating what I need correctly;
I have a website that a customer creates orders (for a printing company) and after the order, I would like to email the customer a link to view the status of their order;
I need to send the CustomerID in the link so on the returning page if a CustomerID is detected in the querystring, I "auto login" the client and open the "Dashboard" for the order page for that customer.
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to send the link and how to parse the querystring to get the values from the link;
Thank you if you can point me in the right direction.
Hello, I've a MDX Query that has where clause as shown below.I'm designing report using SSRS 2008. How can i pass date as parameter ? I tried to setup @from and @to as parameter but not working ?any ideas....
WHERE ( {[Date Central].[Calendar Date].[2010-04-01 00:00:00]:[Date Central].[Calendar Date].[2010-08-30 00:00:00]} )
need it to work as WHERE ( {[Date Central].[Calendar Date].[@From]:[Date Central].[Calendar Date].[@To]} )
I'm using ReportViewer in Asp.net 2.0 to view a SSRS report. I need the value of the selected parameter to use in a vb query. The parameters are populated on the server and its a single selection. Doing searches I've come across ReportViewer1.ServerReport.GetParameters() but I can't figure out if I can use this to determine which value the user has selected in the parameter dropdownlist. Any help would be appreciated.
I am assigning and unique id [strShipperIdSequence] on my List on
of some properties which are grouped together uniquely.
Now what i needed is that my group should be further break down to some
maximum amount of chunks.[Let say 10]
that mean's even i am having Same value in 12 records i should get 2
groups[I of 10 items and other of 2 items]
var uniqueGroups = objMdbContentInfoList.GroupBy(p => new { p.CON_ENTRY_POINT, p.APPTType, p.CON_CONTAINER_ISSUE_DATE }).Select(g => g.First()).ToList(); foreach (var objUnique in uniqueGroups) { string strShipperIdSequence = APIGlobalMethods.GetShipperRequestID(); foreach (MdbContentInfo obj in objMdbContentInfoList.FindAll(h => (h.CON_ENTRY_POINT == objUnique.CON_ENTRY_POINT && h.APPTType == objUnique.APPTType && h.CON_CONTAINER_ISSUE_DATE == objUnique.CON_CONTAINER_ISSUE_DATE))) { obj.Shipper
I have an array list called Customer. I t holds a list of array list which has the account details.
proj.customer -> collection of arraylist of type customer
proj.customer.account -> collection of arraylist of type account
Account array list holds type account and it has a poperty account balance. How can I query all accounts which has account balance >100
I tried the following one
var Accountlist= from Account accountdetails in proj.customer.accountwhere accountid.balance >100select accountdetails.id
But it is always throwing an error saying cannot cast type customer to type accountPlease help
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Nefas, literally "unspeakable," is a Latin word for evil. It is a heavy word, weightier than malum, the term for a garden-variety moral wrongdoing. It is an offense against the sacred, a sacrilege in the sense of a ritual violation, but even more in the sense of a violation of the divine, an offense against Goodness itself. It was in this sense that Thomas Merton wrote in Raids on the Unspeakable of the crimes of the national security state.
James W. Douglass, a scholar and friend of Merton, also applied the concept, in his book JFK and the Unspeakable, a provocative view of the Kennedy assassination, to the American national security state. His latest book, Gandhi and the Unspeakable, centers around the Mahatma's assassination in 1948. But its true focus is the hostility of the violent Hindu nationalist movement, the Organization of National Volunteers, known in the West by its Hindi initials, R.S.S., which for 40 years opposed Gandhi's nonviolence and, before it finally succeeded, attempted to assassinate him numerous times, even as it penetrated the nascent Indian state.
When we think of Gandhi's adversaries, we can name the South African colonials whose mistreatment of Indians he first opposed, certainly the British Raj, against which he campaigned for 30 years, and perhaps Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Muslim leader who forced the partition of Pakistan and India; but we seldom think of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the ideologue, political strategist and intellectual author of Gandhi's murder. As early as 1906, after Savarkar organized the assassination of the British official William Curzon Wyllie, Gandhi outed the militant, charging that the assassin was "mad" with the idea of liberation by assassination that Savarkar had fomented. The assassin, he chided, "was egged on to do this thing by the half-digested reading of worthless writings."
Three years later, Gandhi debated Savarkar using the Indian epic The Ramayana as a common text. Gandhi saw the story as "a vision of suffering for the truth." In nonviolence, he professed, Indians were already free of the domination of empire. For his part, Savarkar drew from the epic the lesson of victory through violence. Rama, he argued, established his ideal kingdom only after slaying Ravana, the oppressor. For 40 years Savarkar and Gandhi sparred. At the same time, Savarkar schemed to eliminate the Mahatma, because he regarded Gandhi's satyagraha (active nonviolence) as corrupting Hindu India's martial spirit, weakening it for its conflict with Islam.
The Unspeakable, however, held in its power not just Savarkar and the R.S.S. It included the police and security apparatus, which failed to protect Gandhi despite ample advance evidence of a plot; the courts which let Savarkar go free; members of the government sympathetic to the R.S.S.; and even leading disciples, like Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, compromised by their ascent to political power. The ultimate betrayal, of course, came later, with India's rise as a nuclear power with its own national security state. Douglass assembles the record of weakness, malice and treachery with the help of a late (1970) judicial re-investigation of the murder and voluminous studies prepared by Gandhi's heirs in recent years.
Even in the darkest hours, there are moments of light, above all the conversion of Shaheed Suhrawardy, the Muslim chief minister of Bengal, who had abetted his co-religionists in expulsions and massacres of Hindus in Calcutta during the riots surrounding partition. When the minister sought Gandhi's help to return peace to the city, Gandhi challenged him, "The old Suhrawrdy will have to die," he told him, for the two to work side by side so that Muslims and Hindus might live together in peace.
In the months remaining before Gandhi's death, he and Suhrawdry labored together to still the rioting in the rest of India; and Suhrawardy served as an intermediary to Jinnah, attempting to reconcile the Pakistani leader to the idea of a united India. In a long speech the assassin, Nathuram Godse, who on Jan. 30, 1948, had shot Gandhi three times in the chest, cited at his trial the wrongness of Gandhi's "befriending an enemy such as Suhrwardy" as a justification for the assassination. "The enemy," he pleaded, "should be killed."
Gandhi and the Unspeakable is a short book, but it carries a profound lesson about the evil that feeds the politics of violence, reaching from rioting crowds in the streets to the councils of leaders preparing for war. But it offers a deeper lesson still about the godly power to love the enemy as children of the one God. Douglass, who in The Nonviolent Cross first celebrated the Second Vatican Council's critique of war and its message of peace, here, by making evil so palpable, argues the case for religiously inspired nonviolence as persuasively as he ever has.


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Leisure, Oct 2001, 5.50, 58 pp. ISBN: 0843949309 The Apache raiders killed her husband Alan. Though the grief has somewhat faded, a tired Abigail Madison raises their two children and runs the Flying M Ranch near Arivaca, Arizona with just the help of her two kind servants. The whites murdered apache Chino Whitehorse's family. He follows the spirits in his dreams seeking to avenge the deaths of his beloved family. His visions send C...
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|Mardi Gras (05) - 24Feb09, New Orleans (USA) (Photo credit: philippe leroyer)
So, if you know anyone feeling blue from this special day for lovers, send them this post full of funny photos that will have them laughing in no time.
Since it's 2012 and the whole world figures the Mayan Prophecy of the End of the World is at hand, well, we have the solution in Louisiana: party on. Our philosophy? You might as well go out in style 'cause you can't do anything about it anyway.


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The Sports Xchange
Peterson tweets brief response to his arrest
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson tweeted a pair of brief responses on Sunday to the news that he was arrested on Saturday and spent the night in jail.
First he quoted Winston Churchill: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. WC."
Shortly after that, he tweeted: "Thank you for waiting for the facts. Truth will surface."
According to reports, Peterson was arrested early Saturday at a Houston nightclub for resisting arrest. He spent the rest of the night in jail and was released on a $1,000 .
A police spokesman told NFL.com and NFL Network that Peterson allegedly pushed an off-duty police officer who was working security.
Peterson is recovering from reconstructive knee surgery and hopes to be ready to play in the season-opener.


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May 21
The upcoming Mt. Hood Cycling Classic is climbing fast among the ranks of the US National Racing Calendar's (NRC) 15 venues. As the smallest host city in the NRC, Hood River offers a unique race for some of the country's top road bike competitors. From the fresh air and breathtaking scenery to the city's supportive businesses and welcoming host families, the Hood River Valley is attracting more than 400 riders to the third annual event.
Professional road racers dedicate their lives to the sport. Many make very little money training and racing full time. To support financially strapped traveling competitors, cities on the NRC often arrange for riders to stay with local families to offset traveling expenses. In Hood River, 25 families are hosting more than 50 professional racers during the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic.
"I think the support Hood River is giving is outstanding," said event director Chad Sperry. "It shows how much the city is behind the event and the support reflects on Hood River as a community. Families hosting riders are volunteers and in return for their help they get a glimpse of what the uppermost level of the sport is like."
According to Sperry, host families are still being sought for 8-10 professional female racers. Anyone interested in hosting during the June 2-5 event is encouraged to contact housing coordinator Paul Blackburn at (541) 387- 4011.
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Major Projects
|The Gladstone Region truly is a Region of Choice, offering a great place to live, work, play and invest. Whilst major industrial facilities dominate Gladstone and Boyne Island, the region also features coastal towns and rural farming areas. Below are some major projects currently sought, being undertaken or completed in the past 12 months by the Gladstone Regional Council.
New Gladstone Region Planning Scheme
Gladstone Aquatic Centre redevelopment
Agnes Water/Seventeen Seventy Integrated Water Project
|Gladstone Airport Reconstruction Project
A major milestone in the $65 million Gladstone Airport Runway Reconstruction Project was achieved on Saturday, July 10, 2010 when stage four evening works were finalised. An official opening and the corporatisation of the facility followed, making it one of the best regional airports in Queensland.
|Tigalee Creek Project
Council has completed the work on the Tigalee Creek Project (at Kathleen Shanahan park in Gladstone), significantly reducing the impact of flooding for motorists, businesses, school children and residents downstream.


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Cyprus Postmortems
By Stephen Lendman
Solutions worse than problems don't resolve them. Cypriots face protracted hard times. Former IMF chief economist Michael Mussa explained three kinds of crises: liquidity, solvency and stupidity.
BoomBustBlog's Reggie Middleton says "economic depression is the new success." It's the new normal. Scoundrel media reports downplay the damage done.
"The danger of Cyprus' bankruptcy (and) tragic consequences for the economy and society are just getting started."
Eurocrats lied. They claim "boiling slowly in a pot of austerity flavored depression is preferable to a quick and clean exit and rebirth."
"Ready! Set! Bank Run!!!"
Cyprus reflects a watershed moment. Confiscating personal wealth becomes official government policy. Eurocrats and Cypriot officials bypassed parliament. Ordinary people had no say.
Euro Group head Jeroen Dijsselbloem said extracting wealth from depositors becomes a model for other troubled economies. He left no doubt what he means. He wants grand theft made official policy.
"If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be 'Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about that," he asked? "What can you do to recapitalize yourself?' "
"If the bank cant do it, then we'll talk to the shareholders and the bondholders. We'll ask them to contribute in recapitalizing the bank, and if necessary the uninsured deposit holders."
"The consequences may be that its the end of story, and that is an approach that I think, now that we are out of the heat of the crisis, we should take." According to
According to Karl Denninger:
"When you enter into an investment, whether you make a deposit in a bank or buy a bond or something else, you are buying into a capital structure in a given place with a given and declared level of both risk and potential reward."
"You price that risk and your willingness to enter into the transaction with the full understanding of where you are in that capital structure."
"When that is unilaterally changed retroactively you are being stolen from."
It's "wrong."
It's "actionable. It remains (so) whether the courts recognize it or not, just as theft from a drug dealer is actionable even though the dealer cannot go to the police and report the fact that you stole his stash because what he's doing is illegal."
"Goodnight Europe." Cyprus established a "template." It's unprecedented. Other troubled Eurozone countries may follow. Perhaps they all will. America also. It can happen anywhere.
Financial theft today is commonplace. It's frequent and severe. Everyone's harmed directly or indirectly.
Cypriot banks won't open until March 28. Perhaps they'll stay closed longer. Bank holidays can last longer than expected.
Bank of Cyprus (BOC) is the island state's largest bank. On March 26, chairman Adreas Artemi resigned. He cited differences with central bank policy.
It relates to recapitalizing BOC. The Central Bank of Cyprus appointed an administrator without the board's knowledge. Artemi said the central bank had recapitalization plans ready in January. It didn't tell board members.
On March 26, Cyprus Mail headlined "Eurogroup deal designed to kill off Cyprus, not cure it," saying:
A so-called "best possible deal .will push us into a prolonged slump that will shrink the economy beyond recognition, as businesses will close down and the numbers of the unemployed will keep rising."
Businesses will lose considerable capital. They'll be unable to operate and pay creditors.
Confidence in Cypriot banking was "shattered." Other Eurozone countries are affected.
Months earlier, Eurocrats said Cyprus' public debt was sustainable. In July 2011, its three largest banks (BOC, Laiki and Hellenic Bank) passed an European Banking Authority (EBA) - European Central Bank (ECB) stress test.
Results were rigged to hide trouble. Nicosia's Finance Ministry said measures banks took or planned increase their solvency. Government officials stand ready to do whatever it takes to maintain financial stability.
Cypriot troubles were suppressed. "IMF, Eurogroup and Commission members" lied. Sustainability is impossible "now that they have killed off all economic prospects for the next five to ten years." Most likely it'll be much longer.
Financial Times contributor Ben Hall headlined "Six ways Cyprus has hurt the eurozone," saying:
Bailout terms did "serious harm to the eurozone, and further undermined the credibility of its crisis response."
Deposits are no longer safe. Authorities can order them confiscated.
Capital flight is more likely. Depositors worried about safety will exit post haste.
Cyprus and other Eurozone countries have unsustainable debt. Bailouts increase it.
Troika officials are "disunited .The Commission bears responsibility for backing a levy on insured deposits." Doing so lost trust.
Cyprus' political process failed. "The fact that the bailout deal requires the approval of eurozone parliaments but not (Cyprus legislators) raises questions about democratic legitimacy."
Power brokers gave Cyprus few options. Germany wants things its way. It wants its burden offloaded on ordinary people.
FT's Lex headlined "Cyprus: crossing the green line. Ham-fisted 'rescue' could have serious long-term consequences."
"Overnight, Cyprus has become an offshore banking centre without a banking system."
The "rescue" deal "devastate(s) the Cypriot economy." It's baffling how a small country "caused so much trouble."
Capital controls make a bank run likely when lifted. Cyprus remains a Eurozone country. Angry people face disaster. They're hung out to dry with no recourse.
PIMCO's Mohamed El-Erian calls implementing Cyprus's deal "very challenging."
It may prove mission impossible. Eurocrats haven't addressed what's most important: "how to improve growth and employment prospects in a significant and sustainable manner."
If fully implemented, bailout terms avoid imminent financial collapse. They do so at great cost.
Ordinary Cypriots will be harmed most. Economic conditions will contract sharply. Challenges are significant.
They won't "be overcome easily and immediately." They won't "enhance Cyprus' ability to grow and create jobs."
Dismantling its offshore financial industry "loses an important driver of domestic activity."
"(N)o one should underestimate the social costs and related risk of political dysfunction and protests."
Deal terms destroy corporate working capital and domestic wealth. Solutions do more harm than good.
It remains to be seen what follows. Longterm pain is no substitute for short-term relief.
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Teens ask: will the stimulus act work?
Teens ask: will the stimulus act work?
High school students evaluate legislation using math, contend for scholarship prizes
The current economic crisis provides natural discussion topics for high school economics and social studies classes--but math class? Absolutely!
This year's Moody's Mega Math Challenge problem, "$787 Billion: Will the Stimulus Act Stimulate the U.S. Economy?" asked high school students to identify and mathematically assess the parts of the stimulus package most likely to produce the greatest improvements in employment and the time frame over which this effect would take place. They also had to quantify their findings using mathematical modeling and quantitative analysis techniques, develop and defend their models, and justify their conclusions.
"That teams of three to five students were able to make so much progress on this exceptionally daunting problem and in just 14 hours is a testament to the quality of our high school students and their teachers," said Lee Seitelman, professional consultant and Director of Judging for the Challenge. "This is especially true given the fact that the brightest minds in our country are grappling over these same issues at this very moment."
Close to 400 teams submitted viable solution papers on Challenge weekend, March 7-8. "The quality of the papers was excellent," said Ben Fusaro, M3 Challenge consultant and Head Judge. "The judges thought the solutions were exceptional considering that the authors are high school juniors and seniors."
After undergoing an extensive judging process during the past month, the following teams (listed alphabetically) were selected to contend for the top six awards ranging from $2,500 to $20,000:
Bergen County Academies, Team #119, Hackensack, New Jersey
Elk County Catholic High School, Team #290, Saint Marys, Pennsylvania
High Technology High School, Team #58, Lincroft, New Jersey
Staples High School, Team #143, Westport, Connecticut
The Wheeler School, Team #128, Providence, Rhode Island
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, Team #57, Plainsboro, New Jersey
These top teams will make formal presentations at the Moody's Corporation headquarters in Manhattan on May 5, when the judges learn for the first time the identities of the students and the schools they represent. Each team will have 15 minutes to present its solution paper and answer questions from the judges, who will then deliberate one last time and rank the teams in the final winning order. Following this deliberation, The Moody's Foundation, which funds the Challenge, will announce the winners and award the scholarship prizes.
In addition, teams representing the following 17 schools will be awarded Honorable Mention Team Prizes of $1,000 each:
Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Team #11, Hackensack, New Jersey
East Greenwich High School, Team #204, East Greenwich, Rhode Island
High Technology High School, Team # 126, Lincroft, New Jersey
Hunterdon Central Regional High School, Team #211, Flemington, New Jersey
J.R. Masterman Demonstration School, Team #92, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kinnelon High School, Team #173, Kinnelon, New Jersey
McQuaid Jesuit, Team #469, Rochester, New York
Montgomery Blair High School, Team #251, Silver Spring, Maryland
Needham High School, Team #410, Needham, Massachusetts
New Canaan High School, Team #322, New Canaan, Connecticut
Shrewsbury High School, Team #228, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
St. Joseph High School, Team #163, Metuchen, New Jersey
Stuyvesant High School, Team #293, New York, New York
Summit High School, Team #222, Summit, New Jersey
The Family Foundation School, Team #239, Hancock, New York
The Lawrenceville School, Team #253, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Valley Regional High School, Team #6, Deep River, Connecticut
Teams were required to evaluate whether or not the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that President Obama signed into law in February will in fact stimulate the economy. The problem called for student teams to mathematically assess the elements of the stimulus package and quantify their findings using mathematical modeling techniques, develop and defend their models, and justify their conclusions. They also had to gauge how quickly elements of the stimulus package might generate results, to ascertain how they will know if the package is working, and to indicate a confidence level in their predictions. Additionally, they were asked to discuss whether a second stimulus package would be needed, and if so, how large it should be and how it should be structured. Finally, they were challenged to propose other, better ways to stimulate the economy and increase U.S. employment.
"The Challenge has a reputation for posing problems that are both current and engaging and this year's topic is especially timely and interesting," said Michelle Montgomery, Project Director. "As in previous years, the problem is open-ended and based on a real-world application of mathematics. It does not have an exact or uniquely correct solution."
Judging for the Challenge is rigorous, meticulous, and impartial. There are no passing grades and numerical scores are not assigned. More than three-dozen Ph.D.-level applied mathematicians came together during March and early April to judge the competition, reaching a consensus on the 23 winning teams based on the creativity and quality of the papers' assumptions, math model, testing methodology, and summary.
"Several outstanding papers rose to the top during the judging this year, yielding clear winners," said James M. Crowley, Executive Director of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), which organizes the competition. "Successful teams build models and do careful quantitative analysis while developing a well-organized solution paper that clearly explains their results. The top papers won because they attacked this year's Challenge problem using creative ideas based on sound mathematics, and they presented their solution in a clear and cohesive way."
To see if your local high school participated in the M3 Challenge go to /pdf/2009_partic.pdf.
About the Challenge
Moody's Mega Math Challenge spotlights applied mathematics as a powerful problem-solving tool, as a viable and exciting profession, and as a vital contributor to advances in an increasingly technical society. Scholarship prizes total $80,000 in 2009. The Challenge is entirely Internet-based and there are no entrance or participation fees. Each high school may enter up to two teams of three to five students each. Students choose which day they wish to work on Challenge weekend and have 14 hours to solve an open-ended, realistic, applied math-modeling problem focused on real-world issues. Teams can work from any location they choose and can use any free and publicly available resources, but they may not discuss any aspect of the problem with, or seek help from, their coach or anyone other than their teammates. Complete details, sample problems, and archives of previous winners and Challenge events are available at .
Awards and Recognition: 2009 ASAE Associations Advance America (AAA) Award,2008 Excellence Award, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP)
About the Sponsor
The Moody's Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting a variety of nonprofit education, health and human services, civic, and arts and culture programs. Established by Moody's Corporation in 2001, the Foundation's primary area of giving is secondary and higher education with a focus on mathematics, economics and finance. Further information is available at http://philanthropy.moodys.com.
Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO), an essential component of the global capital markets, provides credit ratings, research, tools and analysis that contribute to stable, transparent and integrated financial markets. Moody's Corporation is the parent company of Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Analytics, encompassing Moody's non-ratings businesses. With revenues of $2.3 billion in 2007, Moody's employs approximately 3,600 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 27 countries. Further information is available at www.moodys.com.
About the Organizer
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, is an international society of over 12,000 individual members. These include applied and computational mathematicians and computer scientists, as well as other scientists and engineers. Members are researchers, educators, students, and practitioners from 85 countries in industry, government, laboratories, and academia. The Society, which also includes nearly 500 academic and corporate institutional members, serves and advances the disciplines of applied mathematics and computational science by publishing a variety of books and prestigious peer-reviewed research journals, by conducting conferences, and by hosting activity groups in various areas of mathematics. SIAM provides many opportunities for students including regional sections and student chapters. Further information is available at www.siam.org.


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Apple co-founder gave us what we want, before we knew we wanted it – a skill the best architects share
'People don't know what they want until you show it to them,' Steve Jobs once said. The innovative Apple co-founder died today at 56.
When he said it, Jobs was explaining why he didn't use focus groups for product development, preferring to go it alone.
The ability to intuit what people want is something Jobs did well, inventing aesthetically-beautiful personal computers, iPods and iPhones before we knew we needed them.
It's a skill shared by the very best architects. Discerning what a client really wants, even when they can't express it. Delivering a design that intuits their future needs, as well as the present ones. Putting in that little bit extra, to exceed their expectations.
My father worked in the automotive industry, and he calls that little bit extra 'a surprise and delight'. This referred to the reaction you got as a user when you found the perfect slot in your car for your sunglasses, or a cup holder just where you wanted it, just when you needed it.
Intuiting a client's needs takes a certain measure of ego – the confidence to put forward something that hasn't been requested, to presume that 'architect knows best'.
It's a confidence that the current education system and culture of architectural practice tries its best to undermine, with dismissive design critiques and tutors who are all too often verbally abusive. Not to mention procurement panels, design frameworks, community engagement, etc.
Jobs' lesson for architects and architectural students is to hold your nerve. If you can intuit what your client needs, design in 'a surprise and delight'. If you get it right, success is certain. If you don't get it right, each failure shortens the learning curve. Nothing risked, nothing gained.
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You cannot blame the education system entirely. The student i partly responsible. Some pay attention and become products of the system. I ignored my educators for 5 years, and came out of university all the better for it.
Nice piece; thanks. It reminded me of an Henri Ciriani lecture at the Bartlett (many moons ago). Ciriani proposed that no architect ever got paid for doing architecture; architecture, he asserted, is the unexpected moment of magic that the the brief doesn't demand and the client wasn't expecting. I remember starting up my first iPod. I was expecting to wrestle with a piece of high technology that was heavily trailed as having life-changing potential. It did change my life (musically at least)...but I didn't have to wrestle with it. Genius! Thanks Steve...
Steve Jobs' taste in architecture, to judge by images of his home, was half-timbered neo-tudor. It remains one of the conundra why those most forwrad thinking about technology are often most determined to e-affirm the past in their own environment.
As Stephen Fry said in the Guardian today:
"The standards he set, the passionate belief he had in the way that technology, the arts, design, fun, elegance and delight could all co-exist, the eternal pushing for higher standards, the refusal to accept standard paradigms in anything, either the conventional modus operandi of corporate affairs, technological matters or market practices was an example from which the world will continue to learn."
Puts in to perspective how we all (architects) continue, by and large, to peddle the same old bollocks... How many of us can really claim to shift paradigms? Me neither...
Oh dear, another bash at education and the role of the crit. Such view usually only come from those who cannot stand up to the cut and thrust of intellectual debate.
However one is reminded of what one often conveyed in teaching to young architects; advice from the great Denys Lasdun on the purposes of architecture and the brief (to paraphrase):-
'The purpose of architecture is not to give the client what they wanted, but to deliver that which they never dreamt of; and when they see it they will realise it is what they expected and wanted all along....'
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The Atlantic Sun Conference and ESPN have teamed up to deliver exclusive content on its signature multi-screen sports network ESPN3. A total of 20 live league basketball games will be distributed in 2011-12. The addition of games on ESPN3 extends ESPN's current five-year deal with the Atlantic Sun, which continues through the 2013-14 season.
ESPN3 will exclusively carry three Lipscomb basketball games this season, all originating from Allen Arena. The first broadcast will be the women's game against cross-town rival Belmont on Feb. 4. The Bisons' final two home games against USC Upstate (Feb. 18) and ETSU (Feb. 20) will also be broadcast. Each game is set to tip at 6:30 p.m.
"We are very excited about our expanded agreement with ESPN and the broad media exposure we'll be providing for our institutions and our outstanding student-athletes," said Commissioner Ted Gumbart. "This is a very big step for the A-Sun and we look forward to continued growth in our media package with ESPN moving forward."
ESPN3 will be the home of the conference's women's basketball package, which highlights each A-Sun institution through five regular season games and all of the 2012 General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Basketball Championship quarterfinal contests. A seven-game regular season men's package, in addition to men's quarterfinal action, will also be part of the exclusive agreement. The men's basketball tournament championship game will air live on either ESPN or ESPN2 at 4:00 p.m. on March 3.
"ESPN3's exclusive agreement with the Atlantic Sun Conference adds to our growing slate of programming and positions the network as a leading destination and key distribution outlet for college sports fans," said Damon Phillips, Vice President of ESPN3. "We are looking forward to delivering these games throughout the season across all screens."
The Atlantic Sun and ESPN have a long-standing relationship that first began with the airing of the conference's tournament title game back in 1989. For the past three seasons, all of the conference's CSS/A-Sun Friday Night Game of the Week contests have been available on the ESPN Full Court package and on ESPN3.
ESPN3 is ESPN's live multi-screen sports network, a 24/7 destination that delivers thousands of global sports events annually and accessible online via WatchESPN.com. It is available to approximately 70 million homes at no cost to fans who receive a high-speed Internet connection or video subscription from an affiliated provider. The network is also available at no cost to approximately 21 million U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers connected to on-campus educational networks and on-base military networks. It can be accessed on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app and on ESPN on Xbox LIVE through an affiliated provider.
The Atlantic Sun Conference is an NCAA Division I league with 10 member institutions committed to Building Winners for Life. The A-Sun meets the challenge of maintaining the highest standards in academic and athletic achievement with a true balance between student and athlete. Headquartered in Macon, Ga., the A-Sun boasts six of the top eight media markets in the Southeast. The A-Sun includes a blend of the most prestigious and dynamic private and public institutions in the region: Belmont University, East Tennessee State University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Jacksonville University, Kennesaw State University, Lipscomb University, Mercer University, University of North Florida, University of South Carolina Upstate and Stetson University.


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Spaniard Rubin Ramirez-Hidalgo was sleeving it like it was 2001 and he was Martina Hingis today at the BCR Open in Romania. Or maybe he was just sporting that right bicep?
In any case, we're not quite sure how Ramirez-Hidalgo — or Hingis, for that matter — evens out his tan lines after a day on the court like that. You've gotta like the creativity though, right?
Martina wore this adidas top through much of 2001, including at the Aussie and French. It never really did catch on, but we're loving Ramirez-Hidalgo's effort of resurrecting it. What's next? Crazy tees saluting Santoro?! Can't wait.
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New 6400 Series New Idea round balers are easygoing when it comes to hay handling and operator ease, but they are hard driving when it comes to productivity.
The series is available in three sizes, the automatic 6464 (4-feet × 6-feet), the 6454 (4-feet × five-feet), and the automatic 6465 (five-feet × 6 feet). The 6454 and 6464 are also available in silage models.
All five variable-chamber balers are equipped with an extra wide, low profile pickup and pack more in every bale from the core to the final wrap.
Consistent package
"Quickly capturing crop quality in a consistent package is the goal of every hay producer," says Shawn Boone, general marketing manager, New Idea. "The 6400 Series balers are designed to make it easy for operators to consistently produce high quality bales. Whether fully automatic and equipped with a monitor like the 6465 and 6464, or manual control like the 6454 and equipped with a more basic control box, they build a better bale by sensing bale surface shape and feeding that information to the operator."
Quality starts at the windrow where, combined with windguard and pickup flares, the low profile pickup gently gathers large and even windblown windrows.
Converging augers prevent bunching and gently feed leaves and stems to stuffer fingers even in heavy crop situations. The aggressive stuffer fingers and high capacity, open-throat, vertical bale chamber deliver quick bale starts and uniform feeding, while hydraulic density and belt tension arms maintain uniform pressure for consistent bale production.
"All three balers share hydraulic-actuated bale wrapping," says Clay Dell, New Idea sales engineer. "The in-cab monitor receives information from sensors with direct bale contact and displays drive arrows that indicate proper bale formation. With the touch of a single button, the 6465 and 6464 models not only wrap, but also disengage the drive, eject the bale and re-engage the drive. The operator has better control of bale ejection as opposed to competitive spring-loaded ejectors.
Standard features
The hydraulic-actuated bale ejector and the hydraulic pickup lift are standard on the 6464 and 6465 and available as options on the 6454. The New Idea 6465 features the widest pickup area of the three models with an inside panel to panel width of 83.6 inches.
Bale size indicated both visually and on the operator-friendly monitor can be selected from a minimum of 32 inches to 72 inches and a width of 61.5 inches.
A 90 PTO horsepower tractor is recommended for optimum performance over a variety of terrain and crop levels.
The 6454 and 6464 silage models are equipped with endless belts and special scrapers and rollers to reduce material buildup in wetter crops. The silage balers are equally effective baling dry hay.
The 6454 and 6464 balers have a pickup width of 66-inches and produce bales with a width of 46.5-inches. Operators can select bale diameters from 32 inches to a maximum of 72 inches on the New Idea 6464 and from 30 inches to 60 inches on the 6454. Bale size on the 6464 and 6465 is shown on the monitor, while the 6454 offers a visual gauge for bale size.
Rapid crop handling
"Regardless of what size bale a hay producer wants, the New Idea 6400s start bales faster, handle heavier crops and build better bales," says Boone. "Add the optional mesh wrap, and these high performance balers shift production into an even faster mode with no reduction in quality or consistency.
For more information on New Idea, visit www.newidea.com


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Padre Pio: Scandals of a Saint
Joe Nickell
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.2, March/April 2011
Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age
By Sergio Luzzatto. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2010.
ISBN: 978-0-8050-8905-9. 384 pp. Hardcover, $30.
From humble beginnings in the town of Pietrelcina, Italy, Francesco Forgione (1887–1968) went on to become Italy's most venerated saint of the twenty-first century, known popularly as Padre ("Father") Pio ("Pious"). His tomb draws more pilgrims than Lourdes or any other Catholic shrine. Yet the full, true story of this purported miracle worker's rise to sainthood has long needed to be told, and Sergio Luzzatto tells it in his Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age. (First published in 2007, this is a new English translation.) As the book's subtitle suggests, Luzzatto details Pio's fascist (he was reportedly an admirer of Mussolini) and other connections, although in this review I concentrate on the allegedly paranormal aspects of Pio's life.
Pio is best known for his stigmata—the supposedly supernaturally received wounds resembling the wounds of Jesus—which he first exhibited in the autumn of 1918 when the trauma of World War I caused many to hope for supernatural intervention. Suddenly, at a Capuchin monastery in southern Italy, an alter Christus (living figure of Christ) was manifest. While praying before the chapel's crucifix, the newly ordained priest was suddenly, he claimed, inflicted with the stigmata—bleeding so profusely, he alleged, that he feared he would bleed to death.
In fact, notwithstanding the claims in uncritical biographies, Pio's stigmata devolved—from bleeding wounds that could easily have been self-inflicted (like those of many fake stigmatists before and after, as I described in my 2001 book Real-Life X-Files) to merely discolored skin that appeared to have been irritated by the application of a caustic substance. Indeed, a bottle of carbolic acid was once discovered in the friar's cell, and Luzzatto cites letters from Padre Pio in which Pio requests that carbolic acid, and at another time a caustic alkaloid, be secretly delivered to him. Eventually Pio began wearing fingerless gloves, supposedly to cover his stigmata out of pious humility; however, to me, the practice seems instead a shrewd move to eliminate the need to continually self-inflict wounds.
Nor were the fake stigmata the friar's only deception. Years before, Pio had written numerous letters to his spiritual directors describing his mystical experiences; however, it is now known that he copied these words verbatim from the writings of stigmatic Gemma Galgani (1878–1903) without acknowledging they were hers. And that is not all: Pio attempted to divert suspicion from his plagiarism by asking for help in procuring copies of Galgani's books—saying he would very much like to read them!
As to miracles attributed to Pio, the report of a Vatican emissary in 1919 cited the wildest claims then circulating among an uneducated populace. The emissary characterized as fantasy the story of a church bell that fragmented when Pio's confreres were wronged by a superior. Likewise, it was not true that Pio instantly cured a man of a limp; nor had he caused a deaf-mute girl to regain her speech. He also did not heal a hunchback so the man could walk away "at least partly made straight." Not a single one of Padre Pio's miracles was genuine, the investigator determined.
Nevertheless, Padre Pio's reputation grew unabated, and ultimately "miracles" would be found to serve as the basis for his canonization. A once-hostile Vatican had eventually become conciliatory toward him and responsive to popular demand—this despite evidence that suggested sexual misconduct on behalf of the adored padre and the private opinion of Pope John XXIII (recorded in his daybook) that "P.P. has shown himself to be a straw idol."
By the time of his death in 1968, Pio's stigmata had disappeared, but that was effectively remedied in death. Although there was no need to cover his hands and feet—and indeed Capuchin rule forbids the wearing of socks—Pio's "father guardian," Father Carmelo of San Giovanni in Galdo, worried that the absence of stigmata might cause a faulty rush to judgment. Carmelo therefore had Padre Pio's hands and feet covered, as if the covering still concealed his allegedly holy gift. And so the deception continued.
In 2002, the late friar was canonized Saint Pio of Pietrelcina—not for the stigmata he was so famous for but for his healings that were, with due illogic, assumed miraculous because they were said to be inexplicable. And when his remains were exhumed for display forty years after his death, those hoping his body would be found incorrupt (a supposed sign of sanctity; see my Relics of the Christ, University Press of Kentucky, 2007), or that it would still exhibit the stigmata, were disappointed. The embalmed corpse had deteriorated sufficiently that it required a silicon mask—complete with bushy eyebrows and beard—fashioned by a London wax museum. Of the supposedly supernatural wounds there was not a trace.


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Mary Magdalene: Author of the Fourth Gospel?by truthhere
Mary Magdalene: Author of the Fourth Gospel? by Ramon K. Jusino, M.A. � 1998 INTRODUCTION Some Related Links: My Review of The Da Vinci Code The Nag Hammadi Library Non-Canonical Christian Texts Women in Ancient Christianity The Role of Women in Christian Churches of Paul's Day www.Magdalene.org Women and Gender in European History Mary Magdalene and the Discipled Jesus Loved The Sociology of Secrecy and the Fourth Gospel This article makes a case for ascribing authorship of the Fourth Gospel (the Gospel of John) in the New Testament to Mary Magdalene. As far as I know -- no previously published work has made an argument in support of this hypothesis. Most biblical scholars today assert that the Fourth Gospel was authored by an anonymous follower of Jesus referred to within the Gospel text as the Beloved Disciple. It is posited here that, in an earlier tradition of the Fourth Gospel's community, the now "anonymous" Beloved Disciple was known to be Mary Magdalene. It is further posited that Mary Magdalene is the true founder and hero of what has come to be known as the Johannine Community (i.e., Mary Magdalene was one of the original apostolic founders and leaders of the early Christian church).
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Range Description
Range includes the lower southeastern Coastal Plain of the United States from southern South Carolina southward to Marion County (north-central Florida) and disjunctly westward to the Apalachicola and Flint rivers (mid-Panhandle of Florida and northward) (Pauly et al. 2007).Based on 37 occurrences, and assuming 4 square kilometers per occurrence (actual value is unknown), area of occupancy would be 148 square kilometers; area of occupancy likely is larger than this.
Habitat and Ecology
The following information pertains to the Ambystoma cingulatum/bishopi complex as a whole.Post-larval individuals inhabit mesic longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)-wiregrass (Aristida stricta) flatwoods and savannas. The terrestrial habitat is best described as a topographically flat or slightly rolling wiregrass-dominated grassland having little to no midstory and an open overstory of widely scattered longleaf pine. Low-growing shrubs, such as saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), gallberry (Ilex glabra) and blueberries (Vaccinium spp.), co-exist with grasses and forbs in the groundcover. Groundcover plant diversity is usually very high. The underlying soil is typically poorly drained sand that becomes seasonally inundated. Slash pine flatwoods is often cited as the preferred terrestrial habitat of the flatwoods salamander (e.g., Conant and Collins 1991). This may be the result of an error made by Martof (1968) in which he referred to longleaf pine as slash pine (Pinus elliottii). In addition, slash pine now dominates or co-occurs with longleaf pine in many pine flatwoods communities as a result of fire suppression and preferential harvest of longleaf pine (Avers and Bracy 1975). Historically, however, fire-tolerant longleaf pine dominated the flatwoods, whereas slash pine was confined principally to wetlands (Harper 1914, Avers and Bracy 1975). Post-larval individuals are fossorial (live underground) and occupy burrows (Goin 1950, Neill 1951, Mount 1975, Ashton 1992). Presumably, they remain underground during the lightning-season (May through September). Adults are rarely encountered under cover objects at or near breeding sites (J. Palis, pers. obs.). Breeding occurs in acidic (pH 3.6-5.6 (Palis, unpubl. data)), tannin-stained ephemeral wetlands (swamps or graminoid-dominated depressions) that range in size from 0.02 to 9.5 ha, and are usually not more than 0.5 m deep (Palis, unpubl. data). The overstory is typically dominated by pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens), blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica var. biflora) and slash pine, but can also include red maple (Acer rubrum), sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), sweetbay (Magnolia virginiana), and loblolly bay (Gordonia lasianthus). Canopy coverage ranges from near zero to almost 100% (Palis, unpubl. data). The midstory, which is often very dense, is most often composed of young of the aforementioned species, myrtle-leaved holly (Ilex myrtifolia), Chapman's St. John's-wort (Hypericum chapmanii), sandweed (Hypericum fasciculatum), titi (Cyrilla racemiflora), storax (Styrax americana), popash (Fraxinus caroliniana), sweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia), fetterbush (Lyonia lucida), vine-wicky (Pieris phillyreifolia), and bamboo-vine (Smilax laurifolia). Depending on closure of the canopy and midstory, the herbaceous groundcover of breeding sites can range from about 5% to nearly 100% (Palis, unpubl. data). The groundcover is dominated by graminaceous species, including beakrushes (Rhynchospora spp.), sedges (Carex spp.), panic grasses (Panicum spp.), bluestems (Andropogon spp.), jointtails (Manisurus spp.), three-awned grass (Aristida affinis), plumegrass (Erianthus giganteus), nutrush (Sclera baldwinii) and yellow-eyed grasses (Xyris spp.). The floor of breeding sites is riddled with the burrows of crayfish (genus Procambarus). Breeding sites are typically encircled by a wiregrass-dominated graminaceous ecotone. Breeding sites can include roadside ditches (Anderson and Williamson 1976; Palis, pers. obs.) and borrow pits (D. Stevenson, pers. comm.). Breeding sites often harbor fishes, the most typical species include pygmy sunfishes (Elassoma spp.), mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrookii), and banded sunfish (Enneacanthus obesus) (Palis, unpubl. data). Favorable breeding habitat lacks large predatory fishes. Before breeding sites fill with water, eggs are deposited singly or in small groups on the ground beneath leaf litter, under logs and Sphagnum mats, at the base of grasses, shrubs or trees, or at the entrance to crayfish burrows (Anderson and Williamson 1976). In wetlands that fill incrementally, eggs are deposited amid graminaceous vegetation at the edge (J. Palis, pers. obs.). Egg deposition in shallow water also has been reported (Ashton 1992). Larvae hide amid inundated graminaceous vegetation by day, but will enter the water column at night (J. Palis, pers. obs.).
Surveys completed since 1990 indicate that 37 populations are known from across the historical range, with 6 in Georgia, 3 in South Carolina, and the remainder in Florida (USFWS 2005).Secretive habits of adults make population estimates difficult. Total adult population size likely is at least several thousand, but actual number is unknown.During extensive surveys of historical (pre-1990) breeding ponds, researchers recorded the species at only a small minority of formerly inhabited sites. The salamander has lost much of its former habitat in Georgia and South Carolina. Currently, the species presumably is declining in concert with continued loss of remaining intact pine flatwoods community (particularly degradation of groundcover). The rate of decline is unknown.
Population Trend
Major Threats
Potential threats include conversion of pine flatwoods habitat for agriculture, silviculture, or commercial/residential development; drainage or enlargement (with subsequent introduction of predatory fishes) of breeding ponds; habitat alteration resulting from suppression of fire; mortality and collecting losses associated with crayfish harvest; and highway mortality during migration. The principal threat is habitat destruction as a result of agriculture, silviculture, and residential and commercial development. Modern silvicultural methods rely on altering soil hydrology, suppressing fire, shortening timber rotations, and replacing widely-spaced longleaf pine with dense plantations of slash pine. Loss of groundcover vegetation due to mechanical soil preparation, fire suppression, and shading by overstories of slash pine have been implicated in the decline in north Florida (Means et al. 1994, 1996).Larvae are threatened in some wetlands by the harvest of crayfish as bait. Bait harvesters drag large hardware cloth buckets through inundated vegetation, dump the contents of the bucket on the ground, and then sort out the crayfish. Flatwoods salamander larvae taken in this manner are left to die or are collected as bait (J. Palis, pers. obs.). The effect of herbicide or fertilization application on flatwoods salamanders is unknown. However, fertilization of plantations often results in eutrophication of wetlands, promoting algal blooms. Larval flatwoods salamanders have not been observed in algal-choked wetlands (J. Palis, pers. obs.).Ditching or berming of small, isolated pond-cypress wetlands, a common practice when establishing slash pine plantations on mesic sites, results in lowered water levels and shortened hydroperiods (Marois and Ewel 1983). These hydrologic perturbations could prevent successful flatwoods salamander reproduction by preventing egg inundation or stranding larvae before they are capable of metamorphosis. Altered hydrology, in association with fire exclusion, results in a shift in dominance from pond-cypress to broad-leaved hardwoods that reduce herbaceous groundcover vegetation through shading (Marois and Ewel 1983). This may be detrimental since A. cingulatum larvae take shelter in herbaceous vegetation during the day.Ephemeral pond-cypress depressions are sometimes converted into permanent water bodies, rendering them unsuitable for flatwoods salamander reproduction (J. Palis, pers. obs.). A constant winter-burn fire plan could be detrimental (Ashton 1992). See USFWS (1999) for additional information.
Conservation Actions
This species occurs on several managed areas (see USFWS 1997). A substantial number of populations are on public land (USFWS 1997). Sites include Apalachicola and Osceola national forests and St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, Fort Stewart in Georgia, and Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina. Outlook on private lands is poor.Activities aimed at restoring/maintaining the ecological integrity of mesic longleaf pine-wiregrass flatwoods and associated ephemeral wetlands are needed to preserve extant populations of flatwoods salamanders.Recovery is directly linked with the ability to preserve existing habitat and restore degraded habitat. Given the drastic decline in the extent of longleaf pine-dominated communities (Ware et al. 1993), elevation of flatwoods salamander populations above present levels is unlikely. Restoration of degraded mesic, seasonally inundated longleaf pine flatwoods and savannas has not been attempted, and may only be feasible in cases where soil disturbance is minimal. The effectiveness of reintroduction into areas where extirpated is unknown.High quality occurrences include several wetlands within a matrix of pine flatwoods and savanna. Based on the maximum distance adults are known to travel between reproductive and nonreproductive habitat (1.7 km), each breeding site should be surrounded by at least 10 sq km of terrestrial habitat. Longterm perpetuation of a viable population of flatwoods salamanders will presumably require protection of a larger area of terrestrial habitat encompassing a suite of alternative breeding sites (Travis 1994). A suite of wetlands guards against extirpation at any one breeding site, since animals can immigrate from nearby wetlands. The minimum viable population size needed to sustain a population longterm is not known. Preliminary drift fence data at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, suggests that breeding population sizes are low relative to other Ambystoma (Palis, unpubl. data). However, this may be a site specific observation as larger breeding migrations have been observed elsewhere in the range (R. Moulis, pers. comm.). Presently, there is no method of assessing an occurrence based on the number of animals captured at a drift fence or the number of larvae inhabiting a breeding site.Maintenance of intact mesic longleaf pine-wiregrass flatwoods and ephemeral wetlands by mimicking natural forces, such as lightning-season fire, is the most appropriate form of management. On sites where timber extraction is practiced, several precautions should be taken to limit the impact to flatwoods salamanders. Tree harvest should be restricted to dry periods to prevent soil compaction and rutting. Clearcutting should be replaced with selective timber harvest and natural regeneration enhanced by fire, particularly lightning-season fire. If off-site species such as slash pine have been planted, they should be removed and replaced with longleaf pine at densities found in nature. Mechanical preparation of the soil should be avoided. If a site supports mature, closed-canopy pine plantations, they should be thinned with as little disturbance to the soil and remaining groundcover as possible. The natural hydrology and fire regime of terrestrial and aquatic habitats should be restored on sites where altered. The wetland/upland ecotone appears to be critical to successful flatwoods salamander reproduction. Some areas are in need of periodic burning to clear encroaching shrubby vegetation that shades out herbaceous ground cover (Palis and Jensen 1995). Maintenance of a graminaceous ecotone and breeding site will require burning in the lightning-season when wetlands are dry or nearly dry (Huffman and Blanchard 1990) . Bury et al. (1980) recommended that wiregrass not be burned in winter (destructive to wiregrass [used for egg attachment] and possibly to salamanders directly). Palis and Jensen (1995) stated that winter burns may be needed to avoid catastrophic fires when warm-season burning is initiated. Mechanical disturbance of the wetland-upland ecotone should be avoided. The practice of "protecting" wetlands by encircling them with plow line should be abandoned. Where present, berms should be removed and drainage ditches filled. Breeding ponds should not be dredged or stocked with fishes.Demographic data are needed to better understand the natural history and, in particular, factors that limit population size (e.g., egg, larval, and metamorph survivorship; competition with other species). Longterm drift-fence studies are needed at several nearby sites to examine inter-pond salamander movement and to delineate the range of natural population fluctuations. More information is needed on the extent of upland habitat required to support a population breeding in a particular pond. Radiotelemetry or radioactive tagging of adults could be used to address this need. Effects on salamander populations of different forms of resource management and of anthropogenic habitat disturbance need to be examined (Palis and Jensen 1995).
Red List Status
Vulnerable (VU)
Listed as Vulnerable because of a population decline, estimated to be more than 30% over the last three generations, inferred from habitat destruction and degradation. Additionally, population size may be less than 10,000 mature individuals, a continuing decline of at least 10% may occur within three generations, and no subpopulation may include as many as 1,000 mature individuals. However, adequate population information is lacking, so application of these criteria must await further data. Declines may be continuing, area of occupancy is small (perhaps less than 500 sq km), and the distribution may qualify as severely fragmented; under these criteria the species would qualify as Endangered.
Taxonomic Notes
Based on patterns of genetic and morphological variation, Pauly et al. (2007) concluded that Ambystoma cingulatum should be split into two species, A. bishopi west of the Apalachicola-Flint rivers and A. cingulatum east of those rivers.
Based on mtDNA evidence, A. cingulatum (sensu stricto) inhabiting the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain and the Atlantic Coastal Plain in northern Florida are distinct lineages; the Suwannee River and a large distributional gap separate them (Pauly et al. 2007). Further data are needed to determine whether these two lineages warrant recognition as different species (Pauly et al. 2007).
John Palis, Geoffrey Hammerson 2008. Ambystoma cingulatum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T1099A3236962. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T1099A3236962.en .Downloaded on 19 January 2019


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Driver hospitalized after 3-vehicle crash on I-95 in Westport
Photo: Westport Fire Department
The driver of a vehicle in a three-car crash on Interstate 95 in Westport early Friday was hospitalized for treatment of injuries.
The accident, reported about 2:50 a.m. Friday, took place in the highway's northbound lanes between Exits 17 and 18.
There was heavy front-end damage caused to one of the three vehicles -- a Ford Escape SUV -- and its driver was taken to Norwalk Hospital for treatment of what firefighters said were non-life-threatening injuries.
The other two drivers were not seriously hurt, according to the report.
The highway's middle and left-hand lanes were shut down during emergency operations at the accident scene.
The Fire Department dispatched an engine, a rescue truck and a command car to the scene.


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Manchester United claimed a record-equalling 18th successive home win to march two points clear at the Premier League summit with victory at Old Trafford. And that does not even scratch the surface of a day of drama against Chelsea.
First-half goals from Chris Smalling, Nani and Wayne Rooney - his ninth of the season - proved enough for the hosts.
However, Rooney also had a 'Moscow moment' missing a second-half penalty, slipping as he went to strike it, while Fernando Torres scored only his second Chelsea goal, then unbelievably fired wide of a completely empty net after rounding David de Gea.
De Gea had already repelled a marginally less glaring chance for Ramires and in stoppage time, Dimitar Berbatov was denied by Ashley Cole, whose earlier poor challenge on Javier Hernandez had led the Mexican to hobble off in considerable pain.
It all ended with United matching an achievement from the 1904-05 season, when they were a Second Division club.
Correctly, Ferguson observed this was United's toughest test to date.
The same could also be said of Villas-Boas' Chelsea - and they came up short.
Chelsea did carve out a succession of opportunities that at one stage turned the game into a personal contest between the Blues and De Gea.
The save that prevented Ramires prodding into an open goal was the best, drawing applause from Peter Schmeichel in the directors' box, and he knows a thing or two about the pressure of keeping net at Old Trafford.
In truth, Chelsea should have scored that one. Torres did his bit, rolling the ball across the box. A better-placed Daniel Sturridge could not believe Ramires had nipped in ahead of him as the goal gaped.
That was the trouble though. Chelsea needed Torres to convert those chances, not create them. He eventually did. And then contributed to one of those bloopers videos that will haunt him for the remainder of his career.
As Chelsea pressed, United created nothing. Their opener already converted after slack marking that angered John Terry and must have alarmed Villas-Boas.
There was nothing special about Ashley Young's eighth minute free-kick, which was floated to the far post.
But Terry found himself the only one defending as United shirts piled in, Smalling the man to make a connection to turn home his first league goal.
Having escaped unscathed from Chelsea's pummelling, United went to the other end and doubled their lead thanks to a piece of brilliance from Nani.
Questions should be asked about the ease with which Juan Mata was brushed aside but once the midfielder was out of the way, Nani advanced with confidence and drove a 20-yard effort into the top corner.
By half-time, United had a third as Terry's attempted clearance bounced off Nani and into the path of Rooney, who tapped home his ninth of the season.
The credit went to Phil Jones, although the aura surrounding the summer arrival from Blackburn was punctured by the ease with which Torres got behind him to slot home Nicolas Anelka's through ball 30 seconds after the re-start.
It was only Torres' second goal since arriving from Liverpool and justified Villas-Boas' decision to introduce Anelka for Lampard at half-time.
Having already threatened on numerous occasions, Chelsea's confidence grew immediately.
United nerves would have been eased had they converted the penalty Jose Bosingwa gifted them when he tripped Nani after initially remaining static to allow the Portugal winger to seize on the loose ball after his own deflected shot had crashed against the bar.
Neither side will forget how Terry slipped as he went to slot home what would have been the decisive spot-kick in the shoot-out to decide the 2008 Champions League final.
Today Rooney emulated him, his standing foot giving way, the ball bouncing harmlessly wide after the striker had fired it into his own body.
United might easily have had another spot-kick when Cole flew into Hernandez after Rooney had pushed a glorious chance against the post.
The tackle was not great and resulted in Hernandez hobbling down the tunnel in obvious pain as he was replaced by Berbatov but, having fired into the side netting, Dowd felt the incident was worthy of a yellow card and no more.
Having scored once in front of the Stretford End, Torres suffered utter humiliation seven minutes from time as he raced on to Ramires' through ball, rounded De Gea and then somehow fired wide of a completely empty net.
Berbatov missed a golden opportunity himself in stoppage time, as Cole cleared off the line after Rooney had set the Bulgarian up with an admittedly misdirected pass.


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The founder of a movement to increase racial diversity within the Republican Party told a crowd of tea party supporters on Sunday that they weren't racists because "the Democratic Party is the party of the KKK."
Speaking at the first ever South Carolina Tea Party Convention, Raging Elephants leader Apostle Claver explained that Republicans would need to attract black and Latino voters if they intended to win elections in the future.
"Look around," Claver told the mostly-white crowd. "Y'all hear me? Turn around and take a look. Where's our black brothers and sisters? Where's our Hispanic and Latino brothers and sisters? Our Asian brothers and sisters?"
I will however, note that the Onion's continuing sustainability is the greatest unsung success story of our time.


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HySociaTea: Autonomous robot-robot collaboration of Compi and AILA
Published on Sep 27, 2017
AILA, Artificial Intelligence Lightweight AndroidThis video shows the autonomous robot-robot collaboration in HySociaTea using the TECS framework. The Compi robot takes item to be delivered and reports that a delivery is required. AILA recognizes that she can handle the task and takes over. The handover is realized using a communication protocol.
COMPI, Compliant Robot Arm


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Hundreds of cancer survivors and supporters were out all night to walk the track to raise money for the cause. This year 60 teams consisting of 577 participants came together and raised over $185,000 for cancer research.
"This is such a great cause," said Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr., who lost both his aunt and uncle to leukemia. "This is what Queens is all about. You can see people as far as the eye can see. It's all about people coming out to help other people."
At 4 p.m., the relay kicked off with a group of cancer survivors walking the first lap. At 10 p.m. there was a candlelight ceremony to pay tribute to those who have been affected by cancer.
"It gives the community hope and it especially gives people who happen to have cancer hope," Vallone said.


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Bryant freshman killed in on-campus crash
Four other freshmen in car during crash
Bryant freshman killed in on-campus crash
Four other freshmen in car during crash
A Bryant University freshman has died after the vehicle he was in struck a tree on the Smithfield campus.
Police say it happened around 1 a.m. Thursday. He was taken by helicopter to Rhode Island Hospital but died of his injuries.
Four other freshmen in the car were taken to Rhode Island Hospital. They were treated and released.
Bryant University President Ronald Machtley identified the student who was killed as Christiano Barbosa.
In an email to students and staff he said "our hearts go out to Christiano's family and friends, and to the other students involved in the accident."
The statement didn't say who was driving.
Police say the crash is being investigated.


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The Battle of Ramillies
Made by De Blompot (The Flowerpot), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1692 - 1852. De Blompot owned by the Aelmis family1692-1787.
Made in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Europe
Tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decorationDimensions:
Approximately: 6 feet 9 7/8 inches x 10 feet 7 15/16 inches (208 x 325 cm)Curatorial Department:
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This tile picture depicts a battle that took place in Ramillies, a village in Brabant province in the Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium), in May 1706. This battle was an important event in the War of the Spanish Succession, which arose from a dispute between English, Dutch, and French rulers over the succession to the throne of Spain. John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, commanded allied English and Dutch troops; François de Neufville, duke of Villeroi, led an equal number of opposing French forces.
The French arrived at Ramillies first but quickly lost their advantage; Villeroi unwisely stationed them along the entire length of a four-mile ridge. When Marlborough launched a powerful attack on the French left, Villeroi was forced to pull reinforcements from the center of his line. Marlborough then redirected half the troops from the left flank assault to attack the now-weakened French center. Undetected until it was too late, Marlborough's forces defeated Villeroi's overextended army. Both sides sustained thousands of casualties, but French losses were at least three times those of the English and Dutch. Although the victory at Ramillies seemed decisive, peace was not achieved until 1714.
A tile picture of this size would have been made as a special commission, most likely to commemorate someone who showed exceptional valor at the battle of Ramillies. The holes at the bottom of the picture are, appropriately, bullet holes.


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Rush appreciates your prayers and well wishes and he will keep you updated via RushLimbaugh.com."
Rush Limbaugh has been hospitalized in Hawaii after suffering chest pains -- this according to KITV Hawaii.
According to KITV, paramedics responded to a call at the Kahala Hotel in Honolulu at 2:41 PM and transported Rush to Queens Medical Center.
According to the report, Rush was in "serious condition" when he arrived to the hospital.
Attempts to reach a rep for Limbaugh were unsuccessful.
UPDATE #1: TMZ has confirmed paramedics did respond to the Kahala Hotel at 2:41 to attend to someone with "chest discomfort."
UPDATE: 11:29 PM EST -- Sources inside the hotel tell TMZ the hotel took drastic measures to get the mystery patient -- reported to be Rush Limbaugh -- out of the resort without being seen.
We're told hotel security shut down a wing of the hotel and the guest elevators -- the patient was transported using the employee elevator bank.
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Application Name
NBAR Application name provides the information regarding the L7 level information for a particular flow, e.g HTTP, FTP, SIP etc.. There is an ID exported by ART, which explains which application this flow belongs to. The Application-ID is divided into two parts: Engine-ID:Classification-id.
First 8 bits provides the information about engine, which classified this flow. For example: IANA-L4, CANA-L3 etc. The rest of the 24 bits provides information about the application, for example 80 (HTTP) etc. The CLI for this field is:
flow record type mace <pa-record> collect application name
It is exported against FNF field ID 95. It is supported in both the export formats i.e. netflow-v9 and IPFIX. With this CLI, only the application ID would be exported. The application-id would be a number which may not be understood by collector. To resolve this issue, there is an option to export the mapping table between the application ID and the application name. This option is configurable under flow exporter command. Here is the cli:
flow exporter <my-exporter> option application-table
If you want to get more information regarding the various attributes of a particular application, you can configure the following option under the flow exporter:
flow exporter <my-exporter> option application-attribute
The option command results in periodic export of Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) application attributes to the collector. The following application attributes are sent to the collector per protocol:
|Provides first-level categorization for each application.
|Provides second-level categorization for each application.
|Groups applications that belong to the same networking application.
|Specifies whether the application is based on peer-to-peer technology or not.
|Specifies whether the application tunnels the traffic of other protocols or not.
|Specifies whether the application is an encrypted networking protocol or not. The optional timeout can alter the frequency at which reports are sent.
The following command can be used to display the option tables exported to the collector for application name mapping and attributes:
R9#show flow exporter templates Flow Exporter MYEXPORTER: [SNIP] Client: Option options application-name Exporter Format: IPFIX (Version 10) Template ID : 261 Source ID : 0 Record Size : 83 Template layout _____________________________________________________________________________ | Field | ID | Ent.ID | Offset | Size | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | APPLICATION ID | 95 | | 0 | 4 | | application name | 96 | | 4 | 24 | | application description | 94 | | 28 | 55 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Client: Option options application-attributes Exporter Format: IPFIX (Version 10) Template ID : 262 Source ID : 0 Record Size : 130 Template layout _____________________________________________________________________________ | Field | ID | Ent.ID | Offset | Size | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | APPLICATION ID | 95 | | 0 | 4 | | application category name | 12232 | 9 | 4 | 32 | | application sub category name | 12233 | 9 | 36 | 32 | | application group name | 12234 | 9 | 68 | 32 | | p2p technology | 288 | | 100 | 10 | | tunnel technology | 289 | | 110 | 10 | | encrypted technology | 290 | | 120 | 10 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [SNIP]
The following show commands can be used to display NBAR option tables:
- display all the application ID and the name mapping
R9#show flow exporter option application table Engine: prot (IANA_L3_STANDARD, ID: 1) appID Name Description ----- ---- ----------- 1:8 egp Exterior Gateway Protocol 1:47 gre General Routing Encapsulation 1:1 icmp Internet Control Message Protocol 1:88 eigrp Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol [SNIP]
- display the NBAR field extraction format which concatenates App ID|Sub-classification ID|Value
R9#show ip nbar parameter extraction Protocol Parameter ID -------- --------- -- smtp sender 4666370 smtp server 4666369 pop3 server 2176001 sip source 4273154 sip destination 4273153 nntp group-name 1848321 http referer 209924 http user-agent 209923 http host 209922 http url 209921 R9#
PA Metrics
PA provides the basic metrics for both TCP and UDP protocols and for both IPv4 and IPv6. Some of the metrics are dynamically exported in the form of the delta value for the interval. These include the client/server bytes and packets metrics. In addition, PA server/client bytes/packets metrics are for layer-3 measurements and in a TCP flow are counted up to the second FIN. The rest of the metrics are relatively static and remain the same across different export intervals.
PA keeps exporting the measurements as long as the flow stays active. As a consequence, the collector might occasionally observe zero values for dynamic metrics such as the client/server bytes/packets. For all the UDP flows, the TCP related metrics such as ART metrics would be zero. Another note for the Input/Output interface metrics is that these are corresponding to the interface from which the flow enters/leaves the box.
All the PA metrics can be exported either through Netflow v9 or IPFIX protocol. PA metrics are summarized below.
|Field Name
|Export ID
|Application ID
|collect application name
|exports application ID field (coming from NBAR2) to reporting tool.
|Client Bytes
|collect counter client bytes
|Total bytes sent by initiator of the connection. Counted up to the second FIN if for a TCP flow.
|Client Packets
|collect counter client packets
|Total packets sent by initiator of the connection. Counted up to the second FIN if for a TCP flow.
|Interface Input
|collect interface input
|Interface name from which flow is entering the box.
|Interface Output
|collect interface output
|Interface name from which flow is exiting out the box.
|Server Bytes
|collect counter server bytes
|Total bytes sent by responder of the connection. Counted up to the second FIN if for a TCP flow.
|Server Packets
|collect counter server packets
|Total packets sent by responder of the connection. Counted up to the second FIN if for a TCP flow.
|Datalink Mac Source Address Input
|collect datalink mac source address input
|MAC address of source device from Input side
|IPv4 DSCP
|collect ipv4 dscp
|IPv4 DSCP value
|IPv6 DSCP
|collect ipv6 dscp
|IPv6 DSCP value
ART Metrics
|Field Name
|Export ID
|Client Network Time [sum/min/max]
|The round trip time between SYN-ACK & ACK and also called Client Network Delay (CND). CND = T8 – T5
|Server Network Time [sum/min/max]
|The round trip time between SYN & SYN-ACK and also called Server Network Delay (SND).
|Network Time [sum/min/max]
|The round trip time that is the summation of CND and SND. It is also called Network Delay (ND).
|Server Response Time [sum/min/max]
| The time taken by an application to respond to a request. It is also called Application Delay (AD) or Application Response Time.
|Response Time [sum/min/max]
|The amount of time between the Client REQ and the 1st Server RESP. The Client request could contain multiple packets and we consider the time of last received client packet.
|Total Response Time [sum/min/max]
| The total time taken from the moment the client sends the request until the 1st response packet from the server is delivered to the client. It is also known as Total Delay (TD).
|Total Transaction Time [sum/min/max]
|The amount of time between the client request and the final response packet from the server. It is measured and exported on receiving either a new request from client (which indicates end of current transaction) or the first FIN packet.
|ART Client Bytes / Packets
| Byte & Packet count for all the client packets.
|ART Server Bytes / Packets
| Byte & Packet count for all the server packets.
|ART Count New Connections
|Number of TCP sessions established (3-way handshake). It is also called Number of connections (sessions).
|ART Count Responses
|Number of Req-Rsp pair received within the monitoring interval
|Responses histogram buckets (7- bucket histogram))
| Number of responses by response time in 7-bucket histogram.
|Art Count Late Responses
|Number of responses received after the max Response Time. Current threshold of timeout is 1 second. Also called Number of late responses (timeouts)
|Art Count Transactions
| Total number of Transactions for all TCP connections.
|Art Count Retransmissions
|Packet count for possible retransmitted packets with the same sequence number as the last received packet. The metric is for client retransmission only.
|Art All Metrics
|Single CLI to collect all the ART related metrics in mace. This CLI works as a replacement of all the ART related collect statements in a flow record.
Top Domain, URL Hit Count Report
The list of new NBAR related fields that PA supports 15.2(4)M2 onwards are:
- HTTP Host
- URI and URI Statistics
If the user configures one or more of the above fields, PA control plane will explicitly activate NBAR. The HTTP fields can be only exported through IPFIX protocol (NetFlow version9 doesn't support variable field length).
HTTP Host field is exported with Netflow export id 45003. It would be encoded as:
0 31 32 47 48 +---------------------+--------------------+---------------- | NBAR Application ID | Sub-Application ID | Value (host) +---------------------+--------------------+----------------
QoS Class-ID, Queue Drops and Queue Hierarchy
The list of new QoS related fields that PA supports 15.2(4)M2 onwards are:
- The QoS classification hierarchy
- The QoS queue index
- The QoS queue drops
|Field Name
|Export ID
|policy qos classification hierarchy
|Report application class of service hierarchy
|policy qos queue index
|Queue Index
|policy qos queue drops
|Number of drops in the queue