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FACT Scanning
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This section describes how to use FACT.
Before FACT can perform other network tasks, you must first scan the network to determine which hosts and switches are in the network and to determine how they are connected. FACT scans an entire subnet at the same time, connecting to each managed Cisco switch and, optionally, to each port.
FACT has four scan types:
- Fabric scan--Finds the static configuration of the network. After collecting a fabric scan, FACT can display the network components and show how they are connected.
- Tech-support scan--Collects information that can be forwarded to a customer-support organization. A tech-support scan includes a fabric scan, which FACT can use, although FACT does not use the additional information. FACT saves that information for an expert to inspect.
- Port-counters scan--Collects port counters from the Performance Manager, in addition to the data collected in a fabric scan. See Using Port Counters for more information.
- Incomplete scan--A scan that has failed, either because of misconfiguration or because devices are not responding. The most common reason for an incomplete scan is either because the configuration does not include the device that is running the master Subnet Manager or because it includes two master Subnet Managers. In either case, change your configuration so that it includes exactly one master Subnet Manager. Alternately, you can force FACT to use the correct master Subnet Manager by setting subnet-manager: in the .fact.conf file or with the subnet-manager hostname command option.
Note: If you are using the High-Performance Subnet Manager, then you must allow FACT to scan the hosts running HSM.
You can use the --trace command option to show FACT communication with each managed node as it scans.
Use the following commands to scan with FACT:
Maintaining the Repository
FACT maintains a repository that contains the results of past scans. FACT considers the last-performed scan in the repository as the current scan, which it uses for queries, annotations, port control, and firmware upgrades. Whenever you scan the network, the new scan becomes the current scan, although the repository has a history mechanism that allows the current scan to be rolled back to an earlier version.
By default, the repository is located at $HOME/.fact.
Use the show history command to view all scans. Each scan has an index number that you use to select any particular scan. Use the select command to change the current scan.
The following example shows that the current scan is scan 6, as designated by the letter "Y":
$ fact fact> show history index current type date subnet-manager ----- ------- -------------- ------------------------- -------------- 1 fabric 2007-12-27 19:37:25 PST ibmg-r1-120-1 2 fabric 2007-12-27 19:39:28 PST ibmg-r1-360-1 3 fabric 2008-01-03 17:09:51 PST kbob-s1 4 fabric 2008-01-03 20:14:50 PST 188.8.131.52 5 fabric 2008-01-08 15:30:29 PST kbob-s1 6 Y fabric 2008-01-08 15:33:52 PST kbob-s1 fact>
From the current scan shown in the previous example, the following example shows selecting scan 4:
$ fact fact> select 4 fact> show history index current type date subnet-manager ----- ------- -------------- ------------------------- -------------- 1 fabric 2007-12-27 19:37:25 PST ibmg-r1-120-1 2 fabric 2007-12-27 19:39:28 PST ibmg-r1-360-1 3 fabric 2008-01-03 17:09:51 PST kbob-s1 4 Y fabric 2008-01-03 20:14:50 PST 126.96.36.199 5 fabric 2008-01-08 15:30:29 PST kbob-s1 6 fabric 2008-01-08 15:33:52 PST kbob-s1 fact>
You can delete old scans by selecting the scan number from the index and using the delete scans command. The following example shows deleting the first three scans from the list in the previous example:
$ fact fact> delete scans 1-3 Proceed with scan delete [Y/n]? y fact> show history index current type date subnet-manager ----- ------- -------------- ------------------------- -------------- 1 Y fabric 2008-01-03 20:14:50 PST 22.214.171.124 2 fabric 2008-01-08 15:30:29 PST kbob-s1 3 fabric 2008-01-08 15:33:52 PST kbob-s1 fact>
Note: After you deleted scans 1 through 3, the scans that were previously listed as scans 4, 5, and 6 have remained, but they have now moved up in the index to become scans 1, 2, and 3.
You can export the current scan to a file with the export scan command, or you can export the entire repository with the export repository command. Similarly, you can import a scan with the import scan command or the import the entire repository with the import repository command.
If you need assistance in troubleshooting your network, you can use the export repository command. You can export the repository, save it to your specified location, and then make a copy to send to technical support.
You can clean out your repository with the delete scans command.
Note: Importing a repository deletes your existing repository and replaces it with the new repository that you import.
Use the following commands to maintain and manage your repository:
Showing Network Information
Use the FACT help command to list all commands that are available. Generally, each query has several different output formats. The common formats are summary, guids, and detail.
The notation "someswitch/M/N" is called a chassis-view port name. The notation shows port N on slot M of chassis someswitch. The notation "someswitch/L:M/N" is a chip-view port name. The notation shows port N on chip L of slot M of chassis someswitch. Some switches require a mapping between external port numbers and chip-level port numbers. The chassis view uses external port numbers, and the chip view uses internal port numbers.
Note: The colon character (":") appears only in the chip view, so its appearance in a string indicates that the string is in chip view notation.
The show ports command shows the ports and also the port neighbors of each port. If a port has no current neighbor, the last-known neighbor is shown. Last-known neighbors appear in square brackets ("[...]").
Using Annotation
When a file is annotated, FACT searches it for numeric constants and presents network components. It adds an annotation to each numeric constant, showing a human-readable name for that component.
FACT can annotate a log file or any file. When a file is annotated, FACT appends each GUID with a short explanation of what that GUID represents, as shown in the following example of an original log:
A port GUID is changed from this
- 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
to this:
- 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 (switch03/4/5=switch03/4:6/7, neighbor switch12/2/3)
The preceding example shows the port chassis view and chip view, followed by the neighbor chassis view and chip view.
A node GUID is changed to this:
- 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 (switch03/4:6)
A chassis GUID is changed to this:
- 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 (switch03)
A LID is changed to this:
- 23 (switch03/4/0, switch03/4:6/0, 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00)
A port GID is changed to this:
- ff:12:60:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:01:ff:33:2b:52 (switch03/4/0, switch03/4:6/0, neighbor host14/1/1)
A Python source file, /usr/local/cisco/fact/annotation.py, contains sets of regular expression patterns for identifying interesting messages, for identifying messages containing node, chassis and port GUIDs and LIDs. Advanced users can edit that file to customize the syslog output.
[Add output here]
You can use the annotation as an element in a UNIX shell pipeline to annotate GUIDs in any command output, as shown in the following example:
- $ ibtstat | fact annotate /dev/stdin
You can pass an entire syslog through FACT annotation, as shown in the following example:
- $ fact annotate follow /var/logs/messages
If you do not provide a specific file with the annotate command, FACT looks for log-file parameters in the master configuration file.
Note: Annotation always uses the current scan.
Using Port Counters
InfiniBand switch chips maintain a set of counters for each port. These counters count the occurrence of various types of errors. You can use FACT to collect and display port counters.
FACT can collect three types of port counter scans:
- Raw—The Subnet Manager does not need to be configured to collect raw port counters. FACT tells the Subnet Manager to enter every switch chip in the subnet to collect its port counters.
- Monitored—The Subnet Manager must be configured to collect monitored port counters. The Subnet Manager can be configured to monitor specified counters or all counters.
- Threshold—The Subnet Manager must be configured to collect threshold port counters. The threshold scan collects just those monitored port counters that have exceeded their error thresholds.
Cisco Subnet Manager can monitor a subset of the counters that the Subnet Manager monitors. (FACT calls them monitored counters.) The Subnet Manager can also be configured to report those counters that have exceeded a defined error threshold. (FACT calls them threshold counters.)
For information about configuring the Subnet Manager, see the ib pm command in the Cisco SFS Product Family Command Reference at this URL: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/server_nw_virtual/2.10.0_release/command/reference/cli210.html
For information about configuring the High-Performance Subnet Manager, see the config pm monitored state' command and the config pm threshold command in the Cisco High-Performance Subnet Manager User Guide at this URL: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6985/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html
FACT can scan the port counters in a network. Viewing the port counters is a three-stage process:
- Reset counters with the reset port-counters command. FACT records the reset in the scan history, which you can view later with the show history command.
- Scan the counters (wait a minimum of 60 seconds or longer for errors to occur). For more information about the port-counters scan, see the "Scanning" section.
- Show the port counters. To show the port counters or to restrict the output to those counters that are non-zero, use the show counters commands.
Consult the Cisco High Performance Subnet Manager for InfiniBand Server Switches User Guide or the Cisco SFS Product Family Command Reference for information about configuring port counter monitoring with the Cisco InfiniBand Subnet Manager.
Use the following commands to use port counters:
Installing Firmware with FACT
You can use FACT to install firmware on Cisco Server Fabric Switches running SFS OS, both on managed and unmanaged switches. Likewise, you can install firmware either on a single switch or on multiple switches simultaneously. (This firmware upgrade feature is not available for the OEM switches: Cisco SFS 7012 or Cisco SFS 7024.)
Note: Because each firmware image is for a specific switch model, if you upgrade firmware on multiple switches simultaneously, all switches must be of the same model for which the firmware file is intended. FACT returns an error message if the firmware image does not match the switch model.
Installing Firmware in Managed Switches
To install firmware on a managed Cisco Server Fabric Switch, perform the following steps:
Step 1 Log in to the host as a superuser.
Step 2 Enter the install command to obtain and install the new firmware image. For an SFS OS switch, FACT instructs the switch to download the firmware from an FTP server, which you must set up in advance. The path argument must be an FTP URL with the following syntax:
Step 3 FACT checks the firmware on each switch that you want to upgrade and prints version numbers to the screen, grouped by version number. FACT then asks for confirmation. Confirm the version by typing y. FACT installs the new firmware on all specified switches.
Note: When you install firmware on an SFS OS switch that is configured to be the master Subnet Manager, wait for at least one minute after the installation for the Subnet Manager to take control of the subnet before rescanning the fabric, or the scan fails and no master Subnet Manager is found.
The following example shows an SFS OS firmware upgrade from build 137 to build 154 on switches 1 through 2. The example shows that while the user attempted to upgrade switch 3, FACT determined that switch 3 was already running the updated build, and FACT disregarded the installation:
$ fact fact> install switch[1-3] from ftp://user:passwd@host/path/Topspin90-TopspinOS-2.8.0-build154.img Checking switch1 Checking switch2 Checking switch3 These switches are running TopspinOS 2.8.0 build 137: switch1 switch2 These switches are running TopspinOS 2.8.0 build 154: switch3 Install [Y/n]?y Installing switch1 Installing switch2 Skipping switch3 Waiting for switch1 Waiting for switch2 Waiting for switch3 switch1 rebooted switch2 rebooted switch3 rebooted Rescan fabric to update switch versions
Step 4 Enter the scan fabric command so that FACT can learn the current version that the switches are running.
Step 5 Enter the show versions command to ensure that the correct version appears in the output.
Installing Firmware in Unmanaged Switches
For unmanaged switches, FACT uses the ibspark tool to install firmware. The ibspark tool transmits the firmware through InfiniBand to the switch, so the tool must run on a host that is directly connected to the InfiniBand network. However, ibspark is not required to reside on the same host as FACT. FACT can use SSH to reach the host with ibspark. (For information about obtaining the ibspark tool, see Obtaining and Installing Optional Software Tools .) (For information about configuring FACT to use ibspark, see About Master Configuration Files.)
To install firmware on an unmanaged Cisco Server Fabric Switch, perform the following steps:
Step 1 Log in to the host as a superuser.
Step 2 Enter the install command to obtain and install the new firmware image. For an unmanaged switch, the file parameter is a regular firmware image file. A firmware image file ends in .img.
Step 3 FACT checks the firmware version on each switch that you want to upgrade and prints the version numbers to the screen, grouped by version number. FACT then asks for confirmation.
- Confirm the version by typing Y. FACT installs the new firmware on all specified switches.
The following example shows a firmware upgrade on unmanaged switches 4 through 6:
$ fact fact> install switch[4-6] from somefile.img Checking switch4 Checking switch5 Checking switch6 These switches are running version 1.2.3: switch4 switch5 Install [Y/n]?y Installing switch4 Installing switch5 Skipping switch6 Switches are rebooting. Rescan fabric after network stabilizes. fact>
Step 4 Enter the scan fabric command so that FACT can learn the current version that the switches are running.
Step 5 Enter the show versions command to ensure that the correct version appears in the output.


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This is a ****ing Nightmare... My Wife was using Her Computer earlier, and was simply playing a game. She said that a Windows Update popped up in the bottom right corner of the screen as it has a million times before, and that two minutes later, the machine's Screen went Blue.
I thought BSOD, but She said this one was different. She said that it was a very short Hex Code compared to normal, without info, and then, once rebooted, it started up like normal, and then, when it got passed the Motherboard's screen to get to BIOS and so on, it shows a Black Screen that says "Windows is loading Files" and then you get to the Recovery screen.
You can't apparently get to a Desktop no matter what, and it says it's trying to fix the Computer, but it can't. It just does this over and over and over again. No matter how many things I've tried, it's the SAME thing, and it's seriously driving me crazy at this point.
Normally I'd just say **** it and reinstall Windows fresh and be done with it, however, there is stuff on that Hard Drive we CAN'T lose.
My Wife had gotten some VERY important Data on the Computer, and because of everything that has been going on, we couldn't make a back up yet. So, there is VERY important Data on the drive we need to get to, or somehow get the Data onto my FTP Server, or another External HD, anything, so that the OS can be reinstalled finally.
I've been googling and reading for HOURS at this point, and I've found plenty of posts from others about this issue, and yet to find something that will work.
That is one of the hundreds of forums I've found with people who've had this problem.
If I look at the little "log" when it fails to repair Windows, it was saying "StartUpRepairOffline " and basically, if you put the Windows 7 Recovery CD the Computer came with in and boot from that, I can't seem to do anything except load the same Recovery Console that loads when you reboot the machine anyway.
When you press the Power Button to turn it on, it will start up, and once you get passed the spot where you can go into BIOS, where normally it would start loading Windows, it instead says that Windows is loading Files, then you see the screen of Windows loading, and it drops you straight to a Recovery Console.
I've tried Restore Points. So far, 14 times. The Restore does NOT work, and even though it says "All System Files have been reverted back to the way they were on this date" once I reboot, it goes RIGHT back to that ****ing Recovery Console.
I'm currently looking for a Bootable CD I can burn that will let me make an Archive of everything on the Hard Drive, and then, use an FTP Client that will let me upload everything to another machine so I'll at least have the Data needed. There's a LOT of Data we need off that machine, and so basically I have to figure out a way to do that.
My Wife was also thinking of trying to find a Bootable CD that would shrink the Hard Drive's Partitions, make a new one, move the Data to that, and then Reinstall Windows 7, and then grab everything from the Partition, but I'm thinking if there's a Rescue CD, or something, that will let me make an Archive of all the Data I need, and then, have an FTP Client, I can just boot from the CD, make the archives, and upload them over FTP to my Server, and then reinstall Windows, and once that's done, grab everything.
God this is a Nightmare...... Has ANYONE ever seen this fixed before? I found one web site for Windows 7 that said to open the Command Prompt, make some back ups of the Registry, and then copy them over and that would work, but once I did it, it just continued doing this.
So that didn't work at all. Using Windows Restore, doesn't work either.
The thing that's REALLY pissing me off other than how this seems almost impossible to fix, is that every time I see someone talking about it, and that they are having the same problem, they all say it started after a Windows Update Popped up on the bottom right of the screen.
I also saw a few people say that it's actually caused by something from that update. I don't have a link or any form of knowing if that's accurate, but it seems that EVERY forum I've looked though for answers says that it starts from this Windows Update. If so, I can't understand how Microsoft would fix this. You can't use FTP from the Command Prompt or Id' have uploaded everything by now, and there seems to be no Network connection with the Command Prompt, so other than bootable CDs with a patch, I don't even know how they would fix this.
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I'd seriously appreciate if anyone knows how to fix this problem.... As I said, there is some VERY important stuff on that drive, so I have to somehow get the Data, and just wow is this driving me crazy.
So far I haven't found a way to fix it, so also, if you know of any good Bootable CDs that have a way to read the NTFS Partitions on the machine, and would allow me to make an Archive of the Data on it, and ALSO contain an FTP Client I could use to upload everything, that would help some too.


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New parking regulations intended to free up on-street parking in Burlington�s downtown will start on July 1, following almost two years of studies and plans.
For years, downtown business owners and residents have complained about some drivers overstaying the on-street parking time limits or performing the �two-hour shuffle,� moving their cars to the next available spots to avoid tickets.
Business owners said the on-street spots were prime real estate and should be made available to downtown visitors to encourage shopping and the local economy, and others complained that some drivers were abusing their handicapped tags to stay in the same on-street spot all day long.
In Oct. 2011, Burlington contracted the consulting firm Carl Walker, Inc., to conduct a study of the existing downtown parking situation, collect public opinion and develop both short- and long-term solutions to the downtown parking drama.
Last year, the city�s staff agreed to use the study to pinpoint specific parking issues raised, and this year the City Council voted to make the following changes to the downtown parking system:
▪ Enforceable hours will change to 8 a.m. through 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays
▪Enforcement will begin in two-hour parking spots in all city lots
▪Enforcement will focus on blocks with the highest turnover issues
▪Drivers illegally using handicap tags could be issued state citations, resulting in fines up to $250
State law prohibits time restrictions on drivers with handicap tags, which allows them to stay in time-limited one- and two-hour parking spaces for as long as they want.
�We hope people who are using those tags are using them for the right reason,� City Manager Harold Owen said.
In addition to the new regulations, the city will convert 92 spaces in city lots No. 11 and No. 2 to all-day parking spaces, and will add lighting and increase visibility by maintaining shrubbery in city lot No. 1, according to a news release.
Burlington will review downtown parking occupancy and turnover on a biennial basis, so adequate parking is consistently available in the downtown area.
�A lot of it is going to depend on how downtown develops,� said Owen. �In some ways, additional challenges are good, because that means business has picked up, too.�
Detailed maps of city lots and parking spaces are available online at www.BurlingtonNC.gov/dtparking. Questions about parking citations should be directed at the Burlington Police Department at 336-229-3503.


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Eight in New Health Care Immersion• May 6, 2013 Share:
Eight Wabash men are taking part this week in the College's first Health Care Immersion Program. The students are learning about the healthcare industry from eight Wabash alums.
"In this program we intend to teach students about health care through a series of presentations by Wabash alumni who are currently working in health care and related fields," wrote Frank Howland, Professor and Chair of the Economics Department. "Health care is a crucial, complicated, and extremely varied sector of our economy. All of the students in the program will be seriously considering careers in health care, and all will benefit greatly by hearing from multiple perspectives on the current health care landscape, the economic, technological, social, and political forces that are driving changes in the field, and the biggest challenges facing people in the sector."
The students will hear three days of presentations then return to campus Thursday for noon presentations in Trippet Hall.
The alums making presentations include: Dr. Barney Niezer '78, Practice Manager, NE Indiana Urology; Dr. Frank Kolisek '82, President/Orthopedic Surgeon, OrthoIndy; Dr. Bernie Emkes '70, Medical Director, Managed Care Services, St. Vincent Hospital; Scott Benedict '98, Vice President of Finance, Tx:Team; Dr. Stephen Jay '63, Professor of Medicine & Public Health, IU School of Medicine; Dr. John Miller '76, New Castle Family & Internal Medicine; Mike Haugh '86, Corporate Strategy, Eli Lilly & Company; Dr. Jim Miller '80, Consulting Manager, IMA Consulting.
The group will make onsite visits and hear speakers at the Hilton Garden Inn, Indianapolis.
Students participating in the inaugural Health Care Immersion are Patrick Bryant '16, Seton Goddard '15, Kenniss Dillon '16, Austin Althoff '14, Hongli Yang '15, Kasey Oetting '15, Ivan Koutsopatriy '16, and Max Gallivan '16.


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Elderly & Disabled Transportation Advisory Committee (E&D TAC)
Purpose and Role
The E&D TAC advises the Regional Transportation Commission and other transportation agencies on the network of specialized transportation services for seniors and people with disabilities in Santa Cruz County as well as about the transportation needs of these members of our community.
In addition, the E&D TAC serves as the local Social Services Transportation Advisory Council (SSTAC), a state-required entity that seeks input — from transit-dependent and transit disadvantaged persons, including seniors, people with disabilities, low income persons, and youth — regarding transit needs in Santa Cruz County.
Annual Unmet Needs List
A list of Unmet Transit and Specialized Transportation Needs is drafted by the E&D TAC and is reviewed and adopted by the Regional Transportation Commission each year. Unmet paratransit and transit needs are those transportation needs which are not being met by the current public transit system, have community support, and do not duplicate transit services provided publicly or privately. The list serves to highlight these needs for decision makers as well as provide instruction about how to prioritize funding for specialized transportation projects.
The E&D TAC has 16 members comprised of citizen, service provider and agency representatives. According to state law, the committee must include the following:
- Potential transit user who is 60 years of age or older
- Potential transit user who is handicapped
- Local social service provider for seniors
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- Local consolidated transportation service agency
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Practitioner Records
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This article is part of a series.
|Overview of Business Records
|Business Owner Records
|Practitioner Records
|Employee Records
|Customer Records
|Locating Business Records
This article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG, CGL, and Ann Carter Fleming, CG, CGL in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
Trades and Professions
Between 1780 and 1870, many of our ancestors became ministers, lawyers, doctors, or other professionals. Another large group became craftsmen. These occupations generated valuable records such as histories and directories in specific areas. Compiled from several sources, they usually contain secondary information prepared by historians.
Most denominations have established an archival facility to maintain their materials, including ministerial records, which may contain valuable genealogical information. Some denominations publish directories of their ministers. Old editions of directories or historical directories, such as the following example, can provide important biographical and genealogical information about an ancestor who was an ordained clergyman or notable church layman.
- Brinkman, Benjamin F., b Graafschap, Mich, May 3, 1863. WTS, 1906. Ord United Presby. Pas Second, Englewood, Chicago, Ill 1906'10; Second, Pella, Ia 1911'17; fin agt Central 1917'20; pas Calvary Cleveland, 1920'21. d Cleveland, Mar 5, 1921.
- Breck, John Randlett, b Newbury, Vt, jun, 1831, s of Jacob R. AB, Rutgers C, 1859; NBTS, 1862. Lic CI Passic, 1862; ord CI Paramus, 1862. Pas West New Hempstead, N.Y. 1862'65; Spring Valley, N.Y. 1865'69; tchr 1869'71. d Marysville, Tenn Aug 7, 1872.
- Brocklos, Albert. Received Presby 1911; pas Ave B, NYC 1911'13; dismissed Meth Ch 1914.
- Brodhead, Jacob, b Marbletown, N.Y., May 14, 1782, s of Charles W. AB. Union C, 1801; NBTS 1804; ord CI Poughkeepsie, 1804. Pas Rhinebeck Flats, N.Y. 1804'09; Collegiate, NYC 1809'13; Crown St, Philadelphia, Pa 1813'26; Broome St, NYC 1826'37; Flatbush, Ulster Co, N.Y. 1837'41; Central, Brooklyn. N.Y. 1841'46. Pres Gen Syn, 1816'17 and 1825'26. d Springfield, Mass Jun 6, 1855.<ref>Peter N. Vandenberge, Historical Directory of the Reformed Church of America, 1625'1965 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Reformed Church in America, 1966), 22.
Researchers can locate the denomination headquarters on the Internet or by using the current edition of the annual The Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches.<ref>The Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches (Nashville: Abingdon Press), annual.</ref> (See Overview of Church Records) This publication may also help determine the current name of a church, which has merged with another. The yearbook also includes lists of 'Depositories of Church History Material and Sources,' arranged by denomination, with an appended 'Standard Guides to Church Archives.'
Lawyers and Judges
Legal professionals have long occupied prominent positions in American society. This profession established the bar as a means of determining each person's qualifications and then required civil registration for those who passed the bar examination. Each state has a state licensing process and a list of currently licensed attorneys available on the state's website.
A valuable source for information about lawyers is the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, an annual publication that lists nearly every practicing lawyer in the country.<ref>Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (Martindale, N.J.: Martindale-Hubbell), annual.</ref> First published in the 1860s, most public libraries have recent editions while many law libraries retain the earliest copies. This source gives some biographical information, as well as residence and affiliation with a law firm. Their website includes the capability of searching for current attorneys by name, location, and law school. However, both Martindale-Hubbell and many other legal directories often are severely out of date. Most American lawyers practice in small firms and the various legal directories do not contact such firms to update information.
In most states and many large cities and counties, books have been written on 'The Bench and Bar of . . .' These books contain biographical information on those practicing law in a locality at the time of and prior to publication. Martin's Bench and Bar of Philadelphia, for example, includes references to most attorneys who ever practiced in Philadelphia and many colonial lawyers who worked anywhere in Pennsylvania.<ref>Martins's Bench and Bar of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Rees Welsh and Co., 1883).</ref> It also includes an alphabetical list of all those admitted to practice in the courts of Philadelphia, both city and county, and death dates and ages at death for those no longer living at the time of publication.
Contrary to common belief among the general public, most American lawyers do not regularly handle court cases. Generally there are three levels of courts in the American legal system: (1) A trial court with one judge where witnesses present evidence and lawyers present legal arguments; (2) an appellate court with three judges that can review trial court rulings to determine whether the law was properly applied; and (3) a supreme court consisting of about nine judges that can review decisions of courts of appeals. Only about three percent of lawsuits filed wind up being appealed and only a small portion of those wind up getting to a supreme court. Decisions of state trial courts usually are not published but decisions of federal trial-level courts often are. Over the years, one company has taken over publication of cases nationwide and now offers a subscription database known as WestLaw. Although subscription rates are much too expensive to make WestLaw a practical tool for genealogy research, most attorneys have access to WestLaw under a flat-rate subscription plan and you may be able to have a friend at a law firm do a quick search for odd names. Case reports routinely identify the lawyers, the judges, the parties, and often witnesses or other persons. I once searched my surname Reinckens and found a 1928 case in which my great grandfather had been a witness. It gave his name, the company he worked for, its location and his occupation. One particularly nice thing about WestLaw is that it has one of the most advanced search engines available anywhere. For instance, (duty /10 care) % (willful malice) & da(last 10 years) meaning "find the word care within 10 words of the word duty, omit cases containing the word willful or the word malice and only search the past 10 years." It allows complex nested searches, so you could look for "cases where Word B is within thirty words of Word A, and where Phrase ABC is within fifty words of that combination".
Similar directories and biographical sketch books exist in many areas for doctors and surgeons (see the References section). Since these professionals, too, were often registered by the government, certificates or licenses should be sought in city, county, and state archives. The Pennsylvania State Archives, for example, has medical licenses from 1894 and dental licenses from 1897.
The American Medical Association has been gathering information on the personal and professional backgrounds of licensed medical practitioners since the late 1800s. The archival collection includes information on more than 350,000 doctors who practiced in the United States from as early as 1804 through 1969, although records prior to 1907 are incomplete. The microfilmed cards are available at the Family History Library and through local family history centers. The attached image shows the entry for William James from the AMA records. The National Genealogical Society maintains the original cards, and copies are available by request for a fee. The Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804'1929 lists almost 150,000 deceased doctors in the two-volume set.<ref>Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804'1929 (Chicago: American Medical Association, 1993).</ref>
Nurses and other medical personnel are also subject to licensing procedures and are listed on each state website. Lists of all licensed professionals are available by state and county within the state, usually through the state board of medical examiners (or its equivalent) website. A Web search should reveal the list for your state of interest. Also, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing provides links to information on each state.
The American Medical Association maintains a list of every physician in the country, which is available on its website. Databases for medical personnel, past and present, are available in some locations. An alphabetical list of Baltimore medical care personnel from 1752 to 1919 is available at http://www.mdhistoryonline.net/mdmedicine/cfm/index.cfm. This list includes dentists, druggists, nurses, and physicians. Another example is in book format, Hospitals and Medical Doctors in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, by J. Boyd Collard.<ref>J. Boyd Collard, Hospitals and Medical Doctors in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma (Lawton, Okla.: the author, 1994).</ref>
To search for a physician or doctor in city directories, try the online entries. Go into Ancestry.com and type in the keyword 'doctor' or 'physician.' The list of people with those occupations will appear. This is a quick way to locate all the doctors in that particular directory.
Professional Licenses
Most states require a license for a variety of professions. As part of its Web information, Wisconsin identifies all occupations that require a license at http://drl.wi.gov/index.htm. Among these, in addition to attorneys and medical personnel, are architects, boxers, and funeral directors.
One state, Colorado, has an online searchable database of all licensing boards. This makes it possible to search for information about a living individual by license number, name, and type of license at http://www.dora.state.co.us/pls/real/ARMS_Search.Set_Up. A typical entry includes the city of residence, license number and type, license status (active or inactive), along with the dates for first issuance, last renewal, and expiration. Another field shows if any complaints have been filed against the individual.
Records for teachers date back to the days of the one-room schoolhouse. Teacher certificates include the name of the teacher, date of certification, grade taught, town of residence, and hometown. An index to teacher certificates granted for Rio Grande County, Colorado, for the years 1874'1893 is online at http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/schools/teachcerts/teachcerts_top.html.
Artisans, writers, and skilled tradesmen are also the subject of biographical sketches in collective biographies. The following example of a silversmith in Staunton, Virginia, is from a book-length study of local professions.
- C. E. EVARD & BROTHER opened a 'New Jewellery and Watch Establishment' in Staunton in June 1849. There were two persons in the silversmith and jewelry business in this vicinity who might have been the principle in this firm. Charles Eugene Evard of Winchester and Charles Edward Evard of Leesburg. This was undoubtedly the Leesburg jeweler, for the same illustration was used in the advertising in Staunton and Leesburg. The name of the brother is unknown. This firm advertised clocks, watches, and jewelry repaired, and warranted at its shop, one door above M. Cushing's Confectionery Store. On July 9, following, the firm had just received from their manufactory a large supply of 'silver Table and Tea Spoons, also Dessert and Salt Spoons, Sugar Tongs, Butter Knives, all superior articles and manufactured especially to order. . . . The public generally are informed that the subscribers will sell all kinds of jewellery and spoons much lower than the Baltimore prices.' How long this firm continued in business here is not definitely known, but on March 1, 1850, C. E. Evard announced to the public of Leesburg that he had returned to and permanently located himself in Leesburg; so that the firm did business in Staunton not longer than nine months.'<ref>George Berton Cutten, The Silversmiths of Virginia from 1694 to 1850 (Richmond: Diete Press, 1952), 172.</ref>
Similar books are available for many of the early states. See List of Useful Business, Institution, and Organization Resources section for other occupational histories.
Other Records
An ancestor need not be prominent to be included in a business record. Many people were recorded by cities because of their occupations. An 1863 register of prostitutes compiled by the Guardians of the Poor in Philadelphia is remarkable for its detail. It includes information about these women's ages, length of time in the city, literacy, marital status, number of children, how long and why they were involved in the profession, other trades they held, parents' occupations, and when, why, and from where they emigrated. Parents' or siblings' names were also recorded. Despite the uniqueness of this particular record, it illustrates the eclectic nature of such records. If a local government was interested in a particular occupation, there are likely to be records among the archives of that government.
A wide range of information is available on other occupations as well that we might not expect to find documented. For example, the Pennsylvania State Archives houses applications for teaching certificates from 1866, a Register of Pilots' Homes and Securities for 1783 to 1876, Philadelphia licenses for peddlers and hawkers from 1820 to 1838, and tavern licenses applied for and granted from 1750 to 1855.<ref>Robert H. Dructor, A Guide to Genealogical Sources at the Pennsylvania State Archives, 2nd ed. (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1998), 114, 119, 155, 168.</ref>


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"A meaningful take-away from this work is how objective measurement techniques, such as heart rate monitoring with a high level of sensitivity to changes in stress, can deepen our understanding of the extent to which individuals trust and are comfortable working with new technologies. This represents an important step in enhancing the design of future technology, improving safety, minimizing stress and contributing to well-being." –Bryan Reimer, associate director of research, New England University Transportation Center at MIT
While these research findings should definitely be filed under the "DUH!" category, it's important to recognize that we now have actual data to examine regarding how certain kinds of in-vehicle technologies can reduce driver stress. That in and of itself is a critical starting point for studying the entire in-vehicle environment not only to see what kinds of systems reduce driver stress but which ones may increase it as well.
The research in question comes from a recently completed nine month study conducted by Ford Motor Co. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) New England University Transportation Center (NEUTC).
This study monitored drivers as they performed perceived "high-stress" tasks such as parallel parking and backing out of parking spaces with restricted visibility. Ford and MIT said both self-reported stress levels and objective "physiological" measures used to monitor driver stress load dropped considerably when drivers used technological aids in these situations, such as Ford's "active park assist" system.
[You can watch Ford's "active park assist" program in action in this clip below.]
Those "physiological" measurements, by the way, refer to the heart rate and other biometric indicators of the human candidates involved in the study – so, yes, these folks were all wired up while behind the wheel conducting these maneuvers.
In researching the "stress effect" of Ford's active park assist system, 42 people candidates were involved, equally distributed between males and females across three age groups, MIT said – drivers in their 20s, 40s and 60s.
Prior to testing, each of the subjects was given an in-depth briefing and demonstration of both the technology at the focus of the study as well as related systems. They then gained experience with the systems prior to the defined assessment period. For example, in the parallel parking study, subjects were given three practice opportunities in a Lincoln MKS sedan to both manually parallel park and use Ford's active park assist feature to grow accustomed to the technology, noted Bryan Reimer (at right), associate director of research for the NEUTC at MIT.
Following this introduction, each of the test drivers was monitored using heart rate as an objective method of assessing driver workload and stress on the road, he said. In addition, a subjective measure was monitored by asking subjects to rate their perceived stress level at the completion of each driving maneuver, with detailed evaluations of their experience and impressions of the technology collected at the end of the experiment.
"The test subjects averaged more than 12 beats per minute lower heart rate when using the active park assist system compared to manually parallel parking the vehicle in what was a highly statistically significant decrease," Reimer noted. "The substantial changes in the objective physiological markers of driver stress, coupled with changes in perceived stress, suggest that the driver's well-being can be increased through this technology."
Data from the initial 10-second anticipatory period prior to initiating the functional maneuvering of parking also had relevant results. During this period, there was a moderate but highly significant difference in heart rate depending on whether the driver was about to use active park assist or park manually, he explained.
During the evaluation trials when drivers were anticipating engaging in a manual parking exercise, mean heart rate was 75.9 beats per minute. During the evaluation trials when drivers were anticipating parking using active park assist, heart rate was 72.5, or 3.4 beats per minute lower. This indicates that prior to the physical work involved in maneuvering the steering wheel to manually park, the anticipation alone associated with undertaking the task was more stressful than when drivers were anticipating parking with the help of technology, Reimer said.
This difference is particularly notable in that it was observed in individuals who had only had the opportunity to develop experience and trust in this technology for a relatively limited period of time, added Bruce Mehler (at left), research scientist at MIT's NEUTC.
"While more than 76% of the participants indicated that the active park assist system made it easier for them to parallel park, developing a better understanding of the participants' other responses can provide important insight into how further gains in technology adoption and stress reduction can be obtained," he said
By the way, it should be noted that this study isn't a "one off" between Ford and MIT – rather, it's an extension of an ongoing alliance between the two to improve driver focus, wellness and safety through the integration of vehicle technology.
[Below, you can view some of the other vehicular work MIT, NEUTC and it's unique "AgeLab" are conducting, particualrly the "AwareCar," which is designed to help better understand the driver's state of mind, the role of health and wellness in driving, plus the use of in-vehicle systems as a means to improve driver performance.]
OK – so this is all great information for car drivers. What about truckers? If a similar series of studies could be done using truck drivers, think of the insight that could be gained: What technologies lower truck driver stress? Which ones might increase it?
Wouldn't it be interesting to find out how driver stress levels react over time to lane departure warning (LDW) indicators? Or blind spot detection systems? How about the response to turn-by-turn on-board navigation by voice technology?
If anything, though, this Ford/MIT study shows that technology – in the right circumstances, after given instruction and training on how to use it – can make the driving experience that much less stressful. That's an insight that should be considered as more in-vehicle systems get ready for prime time with drivers.


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Australian pace spearhead Peter Siddle has reacted with disbelief to reports he was the subject of an unofficial complaint from Sri Lanka about ball-tampering during Australia's first Test victory.
Sri Lankan officials alerted ICC match referee Chris Broad to television footage allegedly showing Australian players lifting the seam of the ball during the tourists' first innings.
While Australia pressed for victory on day five at Bellerive, the real drama was unfolding off the ground as an unsourced media report named Siddle as one of the tamperers.
A Lankan official confirmed a conversation had taken place with Broad, who released a statement saying no formal complaint had been lodged.
Broad then released another statement on Tuesday evening clearing the Australians of any wrongdoing.
A clearly perplexed Siddle described the suggestions as "ridiculous" with "15 cameras" watching his every move.
"Why would I want to jeopardise that when I know we can go out there and do everything in the spirit of the game and win?" he told reporters.
The big-hearted quick, who took the first four Sri Lankan wickets to fall on day five for a match haul of 9-104, said his girlfriend had first alerted him to the reports on Twitter, where a photograph was circulating.
"On Twitter you say what you want and obviously there's no consequences," Siddle said.
"If you took a picture every time I turned around and ran into bowl it's going to look exactly like that same picture.
"If you watched a video of it you'd just see me turning around holding the ball and running in.
"You take a still picture, you can make anything unreal."
Broad said the umpires had inspected the ball after reviewing the video footage on Sunday.
"There was no evidence to suggest that the condition of the ball was changed, or that the video or photographic evidence would support a charge under the code of conduct," he said.
Broad said he had told Australian coach Mickey Arthur the umpires would continue their inspections and then informed Sri Lankan team management of the outcome.
Australian captain Michael Clarke said he was unaware of the alleged incident until Tuesday, but defended his team's sportsmanship.
"I one hundred per cent believe that we always play in the spirit of the game," he said.
"I don't think any of the Australian players would ever jeopardise that and do anything to ruin our reputation."
Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene said there had been no formal complaint to umpires because his players had not witnessed anything on the field.
"We can ask the match officials if we saw something on television whether they saw the same thing," he said.
"When that was asked, they said 'Yes we saw that, we put a note on that'."
Jayawardene said the incident wouldn't sour the good relations between the two sides heading into the final two matches of the series.
Pacemen Mitchell Starc (5-63) and Siddle (4-50) claimed nine wickets to bowl Australia to a 137-run victory late on day five, dismissing the tourists for 255.
Tasmanian quick Jackson Bird has been called into Australia's squad for the Boxing Day Test for Ben Hilfenhaus (side), while Usman Khawaja is on standby for Clarke (hamstring).
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There is a reason that "power up" mangas are popular. If we follow the Nine Arts Dragon where the hell are we going to go with the story? We already know the background of his conflict and he's already super bad ass. What story is left to tell with him besides the mystery of his chica's death. The dude that shot her with the sniper rifle. Are we going to have a other 200 chapters of him beating peoples asses? His disciple creates a place where the story to go.
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Spoiler for volume 10 spoiler question:
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To the mods:
The authors have officially (they announced it on their blog a while ago at the end of part 1) uploaded part 2 of their series on the Korean site daum.net, which means that it's free for everyone to read. Apparently, it'll be a weekly series so we should expect an update every Friday. If you still think the link below should not be posted here, then feel free to edit my post.
Spoiler for chapter 1 of The Breaker New Waves:
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Hi, one of my server's just crashed and it had a RAID 5 array on it. I can see the physical devices in windows and linux, but I can't see the partition's it houses. It should show 3 partitions, from 4 drives.
I can see the partitions and browse it only in the Windows Recovery Console. It seems to work fine in here. But no where else. I would like to move a large amount of the files from here to somewhere else, but copy in Recovery Console only does one at a time.
I have tried using Knoppix 4.0.2 (latest) and mdadm to mount the partition but to no avail, although the guides I was using were using were far less than complete. There is no /proc/mdstat which most guides refer too. I think it could be because of the hardware.
I had to resort to copy file by file from one drive to another and recreating the directory structure to get some critical things up and running. But the rest is killing me.
The hardware RAID is Adaptec AAA-133U2 part of the Adaptec Array1000 Family. We have a non RAID SCSI adapter we can connect it to, if software can emulate the raid. When we connected it to this it detected all the drives, but could not mount the partitions. It does not appear to be a RAID card problem since we swapped it out with an exactly identical card, same model firmware, and bought at the same time.
The software manager for the RAID adapter says it can not detect/communicate with the card, but it has to be possible since we can in Windows Recovery Console.
I am just about to try WinPE and Ultimate Boot CD, in the hopes os salvaging this.
Any ideas? Anyone able to type a consice walk through on how to use linux to mount a raid, without it having been created in Linux (which seems to be the problem).


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One World War II Soldier's Winter Survival Tale: Toughing It Out in a Foxhole
Stuck for days in a hole in the frozen earth that filled each night with snow and ice, wearing cotton garments, no shelter, no stove, no relief, just relentless misery compounded by raw terror – though nearly 70 years have passed J. Niel Spillane of Mystic remembers that awful ordeal as if it were yesterday.
"There was no escape," he said the other day, recalling his experience as a young soldier hunkered down in a foxhole in Germany during World War II. "Everything froze – from our hips to our toes."
I've known Niel for years – he was mayor of the town of Groton when I was a cub reporter – and always regarded him as a hard-working, civic-minded public servant who helped initiate such worthwhile projects as the Pequot Outpatient Medical Center, Ella T. Grasso Southeastern Technical High School and the Pequot Woods Park. Professionally he was a respected administrator at Electric Boat who had been chief of planning for construction of the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine.
But I never knew one aspect of Niel's life: his military record.
"It's not something I like to brag about," he said.
Nevertheless, Niel called me after reading my most recent dispatches about enduring extreme cold conditions while hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire – not to denigrate my recreational experiences, but to compare notes and to reflect on the human capacity to endure.
"We were all kids," he said of the fellow soldiers in his company who took to the foxholes in a forest outside a German village near the French border in February 1945.
"The German winter was bitter, the holes were dug in snow-covered frozen ground, and water would freeze overnight in the hole," Niel, now a spry 88, recalled.
After talking with him on the phone, I drove to Niel's handsomely maintained historic home on High Street, where in his typical, well-organized fashion, he gave me a detailed written account of his wartime exploits, from which I now quote:
"The fun ended abruptly when the Battle of the Bulge commenced and we were tossed into rather violent action in towns abutting the Siegfied Line. The Moselle River was somewhere to our north and our first job was to hold the southern corner of the German arrowhead salient.
"When the German advance was blunted our next order was to penetrate the Siegfried Line and commence the first penetration toward the Rhine River. From a base in Wochern my company and others were sent on attack to a town called Tettingen and a few hundred yards northeast was a German town called Butzdorf. In an intense attack and much street fighting we secured Butzdorf."
Next, Niel's company wiped out a German tank division with machine guns and mines, earning a Presidential Unit Citation.
"I was sent back and forth to Tettingen during the battle to return with re-supply of machine gun ammunition. My journeys earned me a Bronze Star," he said.
Then came those frigid nights in the foxholes, from which there was no relief.
"Movement in the daylight hours invariably drew enemy fire: machine gun, mortar or 88 mm guns. My closest call was from an 88 that hit the berm around my foxhole. Fortunately it hit the side away from the Germans but buried me and my mate neck deep in frozen dirt clumps. I discovered that two pieces of shrapnel, each about 6" by 1" had passed my head perhaps a foot apart and were settled in the opposite side of the hole. My head survived. …
"Late in January we were ordered to make a dawn attack across a wide open field, up a slope and into a defended forest … The attack was bitter with almost face-to-face combat but we did secure the forest only to be met with an intense artillery defense using air bursts into the trees where we suffered huge casualties and I got small bits of shrapnel in exposed wrists...
"Overnight without shelter our overcoats froze solid. I tried to bend mine by laying it across a foxhole… The active remains of the battalion, about 24 men, had been told to continue the attack, but the division surgeon inspected us and ordered us to he nearest field hospital. Thus began my journey to medical care and recuperation in England."
Niel spent the next three months recovering from frostbite, and considers himself incredibly lucky to have survived with his extremities intact.
I never have fought in a war and, thanks to a high lottery number during the days of the draft, never served in the military. The only uniforms I've worn were as a Cub Scout and Little Leaguer.
Every near-hypothermic ordeal I've experienced and chronicled – a January ascent of Mount Washington in blizzard conditions; a night on Camel's Hump at 35 below; flipping my kayak in ice-choked rapids, to name a few – resulted from my own twisted notion of adventure.
As Niel noted – not disdainfully, simply matter-of-factly, I had a choice. He didn't. Plus, nobody was shooting at me.
So before I write again about hardship on the trail or the water, I'll think about those who have endured far worse travails on much nobler missions.
Thanks, Niel, for offering a decidedly different perspective on outdoor survival.
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Maxis GM: Our Vision Is More Important Than Our Customers & Lots Of People Love Our Crappy DRM
from the so,-so-much-wrong dept
So, could we have built a subset offline mode? Yes. But we rejected that idea because it didn't fit with our vision. We did not focus on the "single city in isolation" that we have delivered in past SimCities. We recognize that there are fans – people who love the original SimCity – who want that. But we're also hearing from thousands of people who are playing across regions, trading, communicating and loving the Always-Connected functionality. The SimCity we delivered captures the magic of its heritage but catches up with ever-improving technology.Okay, so it isn't so much a mea culpa as a, "Hey, customers, why don't you go outside and play hide and go f@#$ yourself!" It's difficult to imagine a more tone deaf statement, given the circumstances. To essentially come out and say that you understand lots of people wanted an offline version of this game, and we already know you could have made one quite easily, but you rejected the idea of filling a customer need because it didn't match with your "vision"? I'd suggest that if this launch has been a faithful representation of your vision, it may be time to get idea-glasses.
And can I ask the other obvious question? Where the hell are all the people clamoring for online only mode? I have no doubt that there are folks who wanted and still want online components to the game, but who the hell is asking for a blatant limitation on their game? There's a major difference between offering online components and requiring it be online all the time. Personally, I think Bradshaw is reticulating our splines on that one.
On the other hand, when discussing the need for the servers in Bradshaw's blog post, there was one glaring omission: server resources/calculations. It appears the game's designers have finally decided to stop lying about why the servers in the cloud are needed and instead moved on to suggest that it's just a big part of their customers that are unnecessary instead.


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Simon Pegg conquers fear of spiders
The star, father to two year old Matilda, has worked on overcoming his arachnophobia since her birth in 2009 and is proud of his ability to protect his child and wife Maureen from spiders.
Pegg tells ShortList magazine, "I used to be frightened of spiders, but you have to man up. Since I've had kids I've realised there's no room for irrational fear because you have to be the first line of defence. I'm the spider-catcher in the house now, the alpha male, so I can't be running around screaming at these many-legged things."


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Having ACL surgury in Oct so will have plenty of time on my hands until the Spring season starts. My house could be a decent wind indicator for other kiters, so decided to buy a home weather station I can post rooftop and have live feeds to my computer and (I think?) the internet. There are tons of options out there, just wondering if any of you have had any experience in brands, software, etc... For example, one products lists, "Streams live weather data real time (approximately 3 second updates) to the WeatherUnderground.com Website. Also supports the WeatherBug and Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) Websites."
I remember a few months back someone mentioning setting up a station for "a few hundred bucks" at OB. I don't want to spend a fortune, but want it to work. Any input is greatly appreciated.


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Magnify your options "It's going to be extremely critical for producers to have daily information....It allows producers to manage with binoculars instead of through the rear-view mirror."- Jim Gibb, eMerge Interactive, an information, technology and e-commerce site for the livestock industry. - A2K: Ag Beyond 2000
Combat swine flu To help battle swine influenza, Schering-Plough has received a conditional license for its new inactivated vaccine H3N2. The company has added another isolate of H3N2 to the original vaccine, which it introduced last year with one H3N2 strain.
Until now, H1N1 was the only type of flu affecting U.S. swine herds, according to the company. The H3N2 version was initially found in North Carolina and quickly spread to most U.S. herds. The new strain appears to strike sows harder; producers should suspect H3N2 if their herds have been properly vaccinated against H1N1 but still break out with significant flu.
Vaccinate healthy pigs three to four weeks of age or older with 2 ml, intramuscularly. A second dose two to three weeks later is required for primary vaccination. Contact Schering-Plough Animal Health Corp., Dept. FIN, Box 3182, Union, NJ 07083, 800/211-3573.
Edible vaccines by Roxanne Furlong The company is only three years old, but its development of an antigen inserted into corn as an oral vaccine in grain is way ahead of its time.
Dan Hammes, vice president of operations for ProdiGene, admits that the technology of inserting a gene into seed corn is not new, but says that his is the only company that is using the technology for animals and their feed. ProdiGene's first product will be a vaccine against transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) in young pigs, available next year.
"Field trials have just started," Hammes says. Testing is being done on one-acre fields contracted and managed through Stauffer Seeds. (The companies also hinted at corn vaccines for hepatitis B in humans and for rabies in dogs).
TGEV causes severe diarrhea and death in young pigs. A low-level virus causes poor growth, but it's hard to detect because pigs may not be visibly sick. Hammes expects that the vaccine will be fed to sows toward the end of gestation so the antibodies will be in the mother's milk at birth. He says it also may be offered as a pig starter, in perhaps two to three days' or a week's worth of feed.
"The work actually started at Pioneer," Hammes says. But that's where the connection ends. "Our CEO was able to bring the technology and scientists and also get a license to operate as a separate company."
For more information about future grower contracts (which have been paying $0.50 to $1.00 over commodity price), contact Stauffer Seeds, Dept. FIN, Box 68, Aurora, NE 68818, 888/676-7759 or circle 198. For more information about the TGEV vaccine, contact ProdiGene, Dept. FIN, 101 Gateway Blvd., Suite 100, College Station, TX 77845, 409/690-8537.
Daylight savings Place these lights in your dairy barn to encourage animals to eat more, recommends Luke Mast from IBA of Ohio. "Sunlight is rated at 5,500 kelvin temperature. This is rated at 5,000. So it is the closest thing to daylight you can buy," Mast says. Studies have shown that supplemental lighting can result in an 8% increase in milk production and a 6% increase in feed cost for an income over feed cost of $15.84/day for a 40-cow herd, the company claims. The lights put out 200W of light but use only 36W of energy for good energy efficiency. They are typically spaced 8 to 10 ft. apart, depending on height. Choose among three models to fit your wiring application. Suggested list price: $60 to $67. Contact IBA Inc., Dept. FIN, 27 Providence Rd., Millbury, MA 01527, 508/865-2497.
Control liver abscess in cattle According to the animal health company ImmTech, liver abscesses in cattle cause the loss of an estimated three million cattle livers annually in the U.S., resulting in a loss of $15 million/yr. The company says cattle with abscessed livers have reduced feed intake, reduced weight gain and decreased carcass dressing percentages. The USDA recently approved the company's Fusogard, a bacterin to aid in the reduction of abscesses in feedlot cattle. The company claims it's the first F. necrophorum bacterin designed only for cattle. Fusogard is labeled for vaccination of healthy cattle six months or older. It is given in two doses: one during initial feedlot processing and the other 60 days later. It's available in 10-, 50-, 125- and 300-dose bottles. Contact ImmTech Biologics, LLC, Dept. FIN, 8600 W. 239th St., Bucyrus, KS 66013, 888/466-8325.
Silage inoculant Vets Plus's VP Silage Inoculant contains eight lactic acids that produce bacteria and three enzymes that work during every phase of silage fermentation. It performs under varying weather, temperature and moisture conditions, according to the company. The product decreases the heat buildup in the silage during fermentation to save nutrients, which, in turn, retards spoilage. Contact Vets Plus Inc., Dept. FIN, 102 Third Ave. E., Knapp, WI 54749, 800/468-3877.