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Warwick Vets lost five key contributors to graduation from last year's team and will have only two seniors on the roster this year. The starting lineup for last night's non-league opener was set to include three sophomores.
But the 'Canes are more experienced than they seem – with young players who have played a lot of basketball – and this year could be the beginning of something big.
"I like what I've seen," said head coach Chris LeBlanc. "Things are going as expected. The guys did a lot of work in the summer and in the fall, so I think we're a little bit ahead of schedule."
The 'Canes went 5-13 in Division III last year, never quite getting over the hump. But the season was a valuable learning experience for the team's young players, several of whom began to emerge as standouts late in the year. With more young players in the fold – and summer league and fall league experience under everybody's belt – there's reason to think the 'Canes can get over the hump this year.
"We're looking to be competitive in every game," LeBlanc said. "We were competitive last year, but we want to pick up a few more wins. That's always the goal."
The 'Canes have two seniors on the roster – guard Carter Thomas and power forward Colby Menard. Both contributed a lot last year and should be ready for even bigger roles this season.
Thomas is serving as a captain, along with juniors Scott Camara and Will Remak. Camara, a guard, and Remak, a forward, had breakout sophomore seasons last year and will be looking to take things to another level. Both are good shooters with loads of potential.
"They did very well last year," LeBlanc said. "And they have that experience. At practice, I was getting on some guys about not cutting the right way. You don't have to worry about that with these guys."
Three sophomores will be trying to emerge in similar fashion this year. Guards Josh Muto and Israel Thomas and big man Shane Kittila are all penciled into the starting lineup.
"They're ready," LeBlanc said. "They had a very successful summer. In the fall, we played all Division I teams and we competed. They have a lot of experience. They've played a lot of basketball."
The 'Canes have several other players in the mix, including junior Justin Batista and sophomore Jeremy Batista, who were both on the varsity roster last year. Junior Tim Hogan will provided depth inside, and sophomore Kyle Rice is looking to make an impression.
"We have a lot of depth and a lot of interchangeable parts," LeBlanc said.
That should allow the 'Canes to continue playing the up-tempo style that helped them win 11 games in the 2010-11 season.
"We're deep so we can keep pushing the ball," LeBlanc said. "I think the kids like playing that style and I enjoy coaching that style. That's what we're going to do."
And though they're young, the 'Canes know what they need to do to make that style work. If all goes as planned, they could be taking a first step into contention.
"This group has to take care of the ball and rebound," LeBlanc said. "Those are the two biggest things. If we do that, I think we'll be right there."
Vets will open league play on Tuesday when it hosts Toll Gate at 7 p.m.


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After three years of testing cotton performance in the field, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station agronomist says subsurface drip irrigation is a workable option for Rolling Plains crop producers.
"Drip is the preferred way to irrigate in many other crop-producing regions," said John Sij, Experiment Station agronomist based at Vernon. "Research has proven it is the most efficient water delivery system available today.
"But is it feasible in the semiarid climate we have here on the Rolling Plains? Answering that question is the rationale behind our research."
So far, the Rolling Plains project has focused on evaluating plant productivity and lint quality of irrigated cotton grown in conventional and conservation tillage systems. Results were then compared to cotton grown with traditional furrow irrigation.
The site for the first three years of this research was a 28-acre field in Munday, Texas. Subsurface drip-irrigation lines were installed 12 to 14 inches deep, using 40- and 80-inch spacings. This allowed the researchers to divide the field into 66 plots, each slightly smaller than one-half acre, which could be individually watered and monitored.
"We installed water meters to record actual crop water use in each plot," Sij said. "We planted our conservation-tillage study into a terminated rye cover crop. The planting dates for each study ranged from early May to early June.
"We used SureGrow 215 bollgard/roundup-ready cotton in all the plots, seeded at five plants per foot of row on 40-inch rows. We used a combination of hand-hoeing and herbicides to control weeds."
A well producing more than 200 gallons per minute provided irrigation. Wells of this caliber are common in the region, Sij said.
"We had some leaks in the system and a minor rodent problem right after the system was installed," Sij said. "Even with some labor involved to fix the leaks and take care of gophers, the subsurface-drip system has proven more labor-efficient than a traditional furrow-irrigation system.
"Installation cost is a factor when you compare drip systems to furrow or sprinkler irrigation," he said. "Drip is more labor-efficient, but it can cost from $700 to $1,200 per acre to install. The ability to intensively manage the crop and the land compensates for the higher installation cost."
In the 2003 study, there was no yield difference in cotton regardless of irrigation line spacing or tillage systems. The terminated rye cover crop used in the conservation-tillage study did not contribute additional soil moisture as Sij had hoped.
"There was very little precipitation in 2003, so we didn't see any effect from using a cover crop," he said. "Our drip-irrigated cotton did, however, produce significantly more cotton than our furrow-irrigated plots. Our drip plots averaged 3.7 bales per acre, while the furrow-irrigated plots averaged about 2.5 bales per acre - a 48 percent yield advantage."
In 2004, Mother Nature turned the tables on the studies by adding abundant precipitation to the cotton equation.
Cotton root rot, possibly encouraged by ample soil moisture, knocked yields of drip irrigated cotton back to 2.9 bales per acre. No yield difference was found between 40-inch and 80-inch drip line spacings with conventional tillage. But cotton grown in a terminated rye-cover crop outperformed conventional-tillage cotton by six-tenths of a bale per acre.
"In a wetter year, the terminated rye cover crop boosted yields significantly," Sij said.
He also conducted a study comparing deficit irrigation to full irrigation in 2003 and 2004 on 40-inch drip line spacings. Full irrigation was based on 100 percent evapotranspiration replacement. Reducing irrigation water by 50 percent, to 50 percent evapotranspiration replacement, reduced yields in conventional and conservation tillage studies but not as much as expected.
"We noted a 9 percent yield reduction in conventional tillage cotton and an 18 percent yield reduction in cotton grown in a terminated rye cover crop," Sij said. "That tells us that the cover crop extracted some subsoil moisture. At the same time, a cover crop protects young plants from weather-related damage and reduces erosion damage that can mean re-tilling or entirely replanting a field."
With two years of comparative data at hand and one year's data still in review, Sij feels subsurface drip irrigation has proven its worth on the Rolling Plains.
"We achieved a labor savings, used our water more efficiently and brought in higher yields in two tillage systems, compared with traditional-furrow irrigation," he said. "In two years of our study, the loan value (lint quality) was the same for cotton grown with subsurface-drip lines on 40-inch spacings using 50 percent evapotranspiration replacement and 100 percent evapotranspiration replacement.
"That tells us that we can produce very respectable yields and lint quality using less water. We plan to continue this study to see how far we can go with deficit irrigation in this region without significantly hurting yields. We also want to see if it is really necessary to pre-water cotton fields to ensure a stand when we use subsurface-drip irrigation."
In 2006, the research will move from Munday to a 15-acre site at Chillicothe, the agronomist said.
With a similar well and drip irrigation system installed at that site, Sij and other researchers at the Texas A&M University System Research and Extension Center at Vernon hope to expand the study.
"We would like to look at cotton rotations with grain sorghum and wheat using drip irrigation, and compare overall system costs to traditional furrow irrigation and sprinkler irrigation," Sij said. "We would also like to see how drip irrigation performs with high-value vegetable and melon crops, and intensively-managed forages."
This research was funded by contributions from the Texas Water Resources Institute, the Cotton Foundation, the Texas Water Development
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SABINA, OH -- For the first time in four decades, Iowa's influential newspaper endorsed a Republican candidate for president as The Des Moines Register announced Saturday night its support of Gov. Mitt Romney in the November election.
The Register, in an editorial that will run in Sunday's paper, asks voters to give Romney "a chance to correct the nation's fiscal course and to implode the partisan gridlock that has shackled Washington and the rest of America."
In 2008, the Register endorsed Barack Obama. The last Republican to win the support of the paper was Richard Nixon in 1972.
"Barack Obama rocketed to the presidency from relative obscurity with a theme of hope and change. A different reality has marked his presidency. His record on the economy the past four years does not suggest he would lead in the direction the nation must go in the next four years," the editorial posted on the Register's website said.
"Voters should give Mitt Romney a chance to correct the nation's fiscal course and to implode the partisan gridlock that has shackled Washington and the rest of America — with the understanding that he would face the same assessment in four years if he does not succeed," the editorial piece ended.
The announcement from Iowa's largest newspaper comes just days after President Obama had an off-the-record then turned on-the-record conversation with the publisher and editor of the Register that prompted an op-ed from the paper about the condition of the interview.
Romney has some ground to make up in the state, which awards six electoral votes, as last week's NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll of Iowa showed Romney trailing Obama in the state -– 51 percent to 43 percent. Romney narrowly lost the Iowa Caucus back in January to former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.
When voters receive their Sunday paper in the morning, they will not only find the editorial endorsing Romney but also a copy of the "Mittzine"-– a pro-Romney superPAC publication about the GOP nominee and being dropped in five battleground states
Romney travels to Davenport, Iowa, on Monday for a rally. His running mate, Paul Ryan, is also expected to head back to the Hawkeye State within the next nine days leading up to the election.


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Internetwork Design Guide -- Multicasting in IP and AppleTalk Networks
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Over the past few years, the concept of end-users being able to send and receive audio and video (known collectively as multimedia) at the desktop has gained considerable attention and acceptance. With high-performance 486, Pentium, and PowerPC CPUs, more than 80 percent of the personal computers sold during 1995 were multimedia capable. Today, it is not uncommon for end-users to run video editing and image processing applications from the desktop.
The proliferation of more and more multimedia-enabled desktop computers has spawned a new class of multimedia applications that operate in networked environments. These network multimedia applications leverage existing network infrastructure to deliver video and audio applications to end users. Most notable are videoconferencing and video server applications. With these applications, video and audio streams are transferred over the network between peers or between clients and servers. There are three types of multimedia applications:
- Unicast-Unicast applications send one copy of each packet to each host that wants to receive the packet. This type of application is easy to implement, but it requires extra bandwidth because the network has to carry the same packet multiple times-even on shared links. Because unicast applications make a copy of each packet, the number of receivers is limited to the number of copies of each packet that can be made by the CPU that runs the unicast application.
- Broadcast-Broadcast applications send each packet to a broadcast address. This type of application is easier to implement than unicast applications, but it can have serious effects on the network. Allowing the broadcast to propagate throughout the network is a significant burden on both the network (in terms of traffic volume) and the hosts connected to the network (in terms of the CPU time that each host that does not want to receive the transmission must spend processing and discarding unwanted broadcast packets). You can configure routers to stop broadcasts at the LAN boundary (a technique that is frequently used to prevent broadcast storms), but this technique limits the receivers according to their physical location.
- Multicast-Multicast applications send each packet to a multicast group address. Hosts that want to receive the packets indicate that they want to be members of the multicast group. This type of application expects that networks with hosts that have joined a multicast group will receive multicast packets. Multicast applications and underlying multicast protocols control multimedia traffic and shield hosts from having to process unnecessary broadcast traffic.
This case study examines multicast protocols that have been developed for the Internet Protocol (IP) and for AppleTalk, as well as Cisco Internetwork Operating System (Cisco IOS) features that can help your network deliver video and audio smoothly.
Implementing Multicast Applications in IP Networks
Currently, support for IP multicasting comes from three protocols:
- Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
- Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM)
- Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)
Network multimedia applications for IP use IGMP to join multicast groups. PIM and DVMRP use IGMP to determine the location of hosts that have joined a multicast group.
This section covers the following topics:
IP multicasting applications use Class D addresses to address packets. The high-order four bits of a Class D address are set to 1110, and the remaining 28 bits are set to a specific multicast group ID. Class D addresses are typically written as dotted-decimal numbers and are in the range of 126.96.36.199 through 184.108.40.206.
Some multicast group addresses are assigned as well-known addresses by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). These multicast group addresses are called permanent host groups and are similar in concept to the well-known TCP and UDP port numbers. Table: Multicast Addresses for Permanent Host Groups lists the multicast address of three permanent host groups.
Table: Multicast Addresses for Permanent Host Groups
Permanent Host Group
Multicast Address
Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Silicon Graphics' Dogfight application
Internet Group Management Protocol
The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) uses IP datagrams to allow IP multicast applications to join a multicast group. Membership in a multicast group is dynamic-that is, it changes over time as hosts join and leave the group.
Multicast routers that run IGMP use IGMP host-query messages to keep track of the hosts that belong to multicast groups. These messages are sent to the all-systems group address 126.96.36.199. The hosts then send IGMP report messages listing the multicast groups they would like to join. When the router receives a packet addressed to a multicast group, it forwards the packet to those interfaces that have hosts that belong to that group. If you want to prevent hosts on a particular interface from participating in a multicast group, you can configure a filter on that interface by using the ip igmp access-group interface configuration command.
Routers on which GMP is enabled periodically send IGMP host-query messages to refresh their knowledge of memberships present on their interfaces. If, after some number of queries, the router determines that no local hosts are members of a particular multicast group on a particular interface, the router stops forwarding packets for that group and sends a prune message upstream toward the source of the packet.
You can configure the router to be a member of a multicast group. This is useful for determining multicast reachability in a network. If a router is configured as a group member it can, for example, respond to an ICMP echo request packet addressed to a group for which it is a member. To configure the router as a member of a multicast group, use the ip igmp join-group interface configuration command.
Protocol-Independent Multicast
Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) is an IP multicast protocol that works with all existing unicast routing protocols. PIM has two modes that allow it to work effectively with two different types of multicast traffic distribution patterns: dense mode and sparse mode.
Dense mode PIM is designed for the following conditions:
- Senders and receivers are in close proximity to one another.
- There are few senders and many receivers.
- The volume of multicast traffic is high.
Sparse-mode PIM is designed for the following conditions:
- There are few receivers in a group.
- Senders and receivers are separated by WAN links.
Dense Mode
Dense-mode PIM uses a technique known as reverse path forwarding. When a router receives a packet, it sends the packet out all interfaces except the interface on which the packet was received. Reverse path forwarding allows a data stream to reach all LANs, possibly multiple times. If the router has interfaces for which no hosts are members of the multicast group for which the packet is intended or for which no downstream multicast router on that LAN has joined the group, the router sends a prune message up the distribution tree to inform the sender that it need not send subsequent packets for this multicast group. Figure: PIM dense-mode operation shows how PIM works in dense mode.
Figure: PIM dense-mode operation
In Figure: PIM dense-mode operation, Router A receives multicast traffic from Host A on Ethernet interface 0, duplicates each packet, and sends the packets out on Ethernet interface 1 and Ethernet interface 2 to Routers B and C. Routers B and C duplicate the packets and send them out to Routers D, E, and F. Router D has a host that is a member of Group 1, so Router D does not send a prune message. Router E also has a host that is a member of Group 1, but because it receives the packets on two interfaces, Router E sends a prune message to Router C. (The decision about which router should be pruned is reached through a negotiation process conducted by Router B and Router C. If the connection between Router E and Router B had been a point-to-point link, the prune message would have been sent to Router B automatically, thereby eliminating the need for Routers B and C to negotiate an agreement.)
Router F does not have any hosts that are members of Group 1, so it sends a prune message to Router C. Router C sends a prune message to Router A. After the prune messages are received, Router A sends multicast traffic for Group 1 to Router B only.
When you configure PIM in dense mode, you should enable IP multicast routing on every router over which multicast traffic will flow. The following commands configure dense mode PIM on Router B:
ip multicast-routing interface ethernet 1 ip pim dense-mode ! interface ethernet 2 ip pim dense-mode
The ip multicast-routing global configuration command enables IP multicast routing. You should include this command on every router that you want to participate in PIM. If some routers cannot be configured for IP multicast routing (for example, if they do not run a version of the Cisco IOS software release that supports PIM), you need to configure a tunnel so that multicast packets bypass these routers.
The ip pim interface configuration command enables PIM on the specified interface, and the dense-mode keyword enables dense mode. When you configure PIM in dense mode, you should apply the ip pim command with the dense-mode keyword to every interface that you want to forward multicast traffic.
|Enabling PIM automatically enables IGMP.
In dense mode, the PIM-configured interface with the highest IP address on a LAN (subnet) is responsible for sending IGMP host-query messages to all hosts on the LAN. By default, the router that is responsible for sending PIM router-query messages sends them every 30 seconds. If you want to modify this interval, use the ip pim query-interval interface configuration command.
By default, a PIM-configured interface forwards all multicast packets. If you want to control the forwarding of packets, use the ip multicast-threshold ttl interface configuration command. The ip multicast-threshold ttl command changes the value of time-to-live (TTL) threshold, which the router compares with the TTL field in the IP header. Only those multicast packets that have a TTL greater than the TTL threshold are forwarded. You might, for example, want to set the TTL threshold to a very high value (such as 200) to prevent multicast packets from exiting an area.
Sparse Mode
Sparse-mode PIM is designed for environments in which many multipoint data streams go to a relatively small number of the LAN segments. For this type of environment, dense mode PIM would use bandwidth inefficiently.
Sparse-mode PIM assumes that no hosts want to receive multicast traffic unless they specifically request it. In sparse-mode PIM, a router is designated as a rendezvous point. The rendezvous point collects information about multicast senders and makes that information available to potential receivers. When a sender wants to send data, it first sends the data to the rendezvous point. When a receiver wants to receive data, it registers with the rendezvous point. When the data stream begins to flow from sender to rendezvous point to receiver, the routers in the path automatically optimize the path to remove any unnecessary hops. Figure: PIM sparse-mode operation shows how PIM works in sparse mode.
Figure: PIM sparse-mode operation
In Figure: PIM sparse-mode operation, Routers A and D are leaf routers. Leaf routers are routers that are directly connected either to a receiver or sender of multicast messages. The sparse-mode configuration of a leaf router designates one or more routers as rendezvous points. In this example, Router B is designated as the rendezvous point.
The leaf router that is directly connected to a sender (in this case, Router A) sends PIM register messages on behalf of the sender to the rendezvous point. The leaf router that is directly connected to a receiver (in this case, Router B) sends PIM join and prune messages to the rendezvous point to inform it about group membership. The following commands configure Router A for sparse mode:
ip multicast-routing ip pim rp-address 10.8.0.20 1 ! interface ethernet 0 ip pim sparse-mode ! interface ethernet 1 ip pim sparse-mode ! access-list 1 permit 184.108.40.206
The following commands configure Router D for sparse mode:
ip multicast-routing ip pim rp-address 10.8.0.20 1 ! interface ethernet 0 ip pim sparse-mode ! interface ethernet 1 ip pim sparse-mode ! access-list 1 permit 126.96.36.199
The ip multicast-routing global configuration command enables IP multicast routing. When you configure PIM, IP multicast routing must be enabled on every router over which multicast traffic will flow. If some routers cannot be configured for IP multicast routing (for example, if they do not run a version of the Cisco IOS Software that supports PIM), you need to configure a tunnel so that multicast packets bypass these routers.
The ip pim rp-address global configuration command specifies the IP address of an interface on the router that is to be the rendezvous point and specifies that access list 1 is to be used to define the multicast groups for which the rendezvous point is to be used. The ip pim rp-address command must be configured on every sparse-mode router.
The ip pim interface configuration command enables PIM on the interface, and the sparse-mode keyword enables sparse mode. When you configure PIM in sparse mode, you should apply the ip pim command with the sparse-mode keyword to every interface that you want to forward multicast traffic. The access-list global configuration command defines a standard IP access list that permits traffic using the multicast address 18.104.22.168 (the Silicon Graphics Dogfight application).
In sparse mode, the PIM-configured interface with the highest IP address on a LAN (subnet) is responsible for sending IGMP host-query messages to all hosts on the LAN and for sending PIM register and join messages toward the rendezvous point.
Interoperability with Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
The Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) is another multicast protocol that has been developed for IP. DVMRP is similar to dense-mode PIM in that it uses reverse path forwarding. When a router receives a packet, it sends the packet out all interfaces except the interface that leads back to the source of the packet. If the router has interfaces for which no hosts are members of the multicast group for which the packet is intended, the router sends a prune message up the distribution tree to inform the sender that it need not send subsequent packets for this multicast group.
Although the Cisco IOS software does not support DVMRP, it does support interoperability with DVMRP-configured routers. PIM-configured routers dynamically discover DVMRP-configured routers on attached networks. When a DVMRP neighbor is discovered, PIM-configured routers periodically transmit DVMRP report messages advertising the unicast sources that are reachable in the PIM domain. By default, directly connected subnets and networks are advertised. The PIM- configured router forwards multicast packets that it receives from DVMRP routers into the PIM domain and, in turn, forwards multicast packets from the PIM domain to DVMRP routers.
|When PIM-configured routers are directly connected to DVMRP routers or interoperate with DVMRP routers over a tunnel, the DVMRP routers should run mrouted Version 3.8. (The mrouted protocol is a public domain implementation of DVMRP.)
Interoperability Between Directly Connected Routers
Figure: PIM and DVMRP interoperability illustrates a topology in which a PIM-configured router is directly connected to a DVMRP-configured router.
Figure: PIM and DVMRP interoperability
The following commands configure the PIM router for interoperability with the DVMRP router:
ip multicast-routing ! interface ethernet 0 ip address 172.16.14.63 255.255.0.0 ip pim dense-mode ip dvmrp metric 1 list 1 ip dvmrp metric 0 list 2 ! access-list 1 permit 192.168.35.0 0.0.0.255 access-list 1 permit 192.168.36.0 0.0.0.255 access-list 1 permit 192.168.37.0 0.0.0.255 access-list 1 deny 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 access-list 2 permit 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255
The ip dvmrp metric interface configuration commands configure the metric that is to be associated with a set of destinations for DVMRP reports. The first ip dvmrp metric command causes the routes specified by access list 1 to be advertised to the DVMRP router (in this case, networks 192.168.35.0, 192.168.36.0, and 192.168.37.0). The second ip dvmrp metric command indicates that the routes specified by access list 2 are not to be advertised (in this case, all other routes). If you do not specify the routes that are to be advertised, only those subnets and networks that are directly connected to the PIM router will be advertised.
Interoperability over a Tunnel
DVMRP tunnels are used when one or more routers on a path do not support multicast routing. The router then sends and receives multicast packets over the tunnel. This allows a PIM domain to connect to a DVMRP router.
When a PIM-configured router interoperates with DVMRP over a tunnel, it advertises source routes in DVMRP report messages. In addition, the router caches any DVMRP report messages that it receives. The router uses the cached report messages as part of its reverse path forwarding calculation. This allows the router to forward multicast packets that it receives over the tunnel. Figure: PIM and DVRMP interoperability over a tunnel interface illustrates interoperability with DVMRP over a tunnel interface.
Figure: PIM and DVRMP interoperability over a tunnel interface
The following commands configure the PIM router:
ip multicast-routing ! interface tunnel 0 ip address 192.168.47.1 255.255.255.0 ip pim dense-mode tunnel source ethernet 1 tunnel destination 192.168.92.133 tunnel mode dvmrp ! interface ethernet 1 ip address 192.168.23.23 255.255.255.0 secondary ip address 192.168.243.2 255.255.255.0 ip pim dense-mode ip dvmrp accept-filter 1 ! access-list 1 permit 192.168.48.0 0.0.0.255 access-list 1 permit 192.168.49.0 0.0.0.255 access-list 1 permit 192.168.50.0 0.0.0.255 access-list 1 deny 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255
The interface tunnel global configuration command creates a tunnel (that is, a virtual interface). The tunnel source interface configuration command specifies the interface that participates in the tunnel. The tunnel destination interface configuration command specifies the IP address of the mrouted multicast router at the other end of the tunnel.
The tunnel mode interface configuration command uses the dvmrp keyword to configure the tunnel as a DVMRP tunnel. The ip address interface configuration command assigns an address to the tunnel to enable the sending of IP packets over the tunnel and to cause the router to perform DVMRP summarization. Alternatively, the ip unnumbered interface configuration command can be used. Either method allows IP multicast packets to flow over the tunnel. If the tunnel has a different network number than the subnet, subnets will not be advertised over the tunnel. In this case, only the network number is advertised over the tunnel.
By specifying the dense-mode keyword, the ip pim interface configuration command configures dense-mode PIM on the interface. The ip dvmrp accept-filter interface configuration command configures an acceptance filter for incoming DVMRP reports. Routes that match the specified access list (in this case, access list 1) are stored in the DVMRP routing table (in this case, 192.168.48.0, 192.168.49.0, and 192.168.50.0). If a Cisco router is a neighbor to router running mrouted Version 3.6, the Cisco router can be configured to advertise network 0.0.0.0 to the DVMRP neighbor by using the ip dvmrp default-information command and specifying the originate keyword.
Using AppleTalk Multicasting
For AppleTalk, the Simple Multicast Routing Protocol (SMRP) supports the routing of multicast packets to multicast groups, with packet replication occurring only on those interfaces that have hosts that belong to the multicast group.
Network multimedia applications, such as QuickTime Conferencing (QTC), allow two or more hosts to participate in a QuickTime Conferencing session. End-users join the multicast group for the multicast transmissions they want to receive. SMRP conserves bandwidth by routing AppleTalk packets to all members of a multipoint group without producing duplicate packets on a particular network segment. Figure: SMRP in an AppleTalk network shows how SMRP works in an AppleTalk network.
Figure: SMRP in an AppleTalk network
Router A receives a multicast packet from Host A and sends it to Router B. Two interfaces on Router B have hosts that have registered to receive this multicast transmission, so Router B duplicates the packet and sends one packet out on Ethernet interface 1 and the other packet out on Ethernet interface 2. Only one interface on Router C has hosts that have registered to receive this multicast transmission, so Router C sends the packet out on Ethernet interface 1. The following commands configure SMRP on Router A:
smrp routing ! interface ethernet 0 smrp protocol appletalk ! interface ethernet 1 smrp protocol appletalk
The following commands configure SMRP on Router B:
smrp routing ! interface ethernet 0 smrp protocol appletalk ! interface ethernet 1 smrp protocol appletalk interface ethernet 2 smrp protocol appletalk
The following commands configure SMRP on Router C:
smrp routing ! interface ethernet 0 smrp protocol appletalk ! interface ethernet 1 smrp protocol appletalk ! interface ethernet 2 smrp protocol appletalk
The smrp routing global configuration command enables SMRP routing. The smrp protocol interface configuration command enables SMRP on the interface, and the appletalk keyword specifies AppleTalk as the OSI Layer 3 protocol for SMRP.
Multicasting over WAN Connections
For the most part, users cannot detect the irregular arrival of data packets, but they can easily detect the irregular arrival of multimedia data, especially when that data includes an audio portion. Irregularly delivered video data is characterized by visible jitter and audible distortion. Smoothing jitter and distortion is especially desirable when multimedia data shares a low-bandwidth link with data traffic, as shown in Figure: Multicast over WAN connections.
Figure: Multicast over WAN connections
The Cisco IOS software provides three queuing algorithms that you can use to ensure that multicast traffic arrives at its destination without jitter and distortion: weighted fair queuing, priority queuing, and custom queuing. The queuing algorithm that is best for any particular network depends on the traffic flow characteristics of that network. You might want to try all three algorithms to determine the algorithm that provides the smoothest delivery for your particular network connection.
Weighted Fair Queuing
Weighted fair queuing (introduced in Cisco IOS Software Release 11.0) is enabled by default for all interfaces that have a bandwidth less than or equal to 2048 megabits per second (Mbps) and that do not use Link Access Procedure, Balanced (LAPB), X.25, PPP, or Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) encapsulations. (Weighted fair queuing cannot be enabled on interfaces that use these encapsulations.) Weighted fair queuing is a traffic priority management algorithm that identifies conversations (traffic streams) and breaks them up to ensure that capacity is shared fairly. The algorithm examines fields in the packet header to identify unique conversations. For example, for AppleTalk, the algorithm uses the source network, node, and socket number; the destination network, node, and socket number; and the type. For IP, the algorithm uses the protocol, source and destination IP address; source and destination port number; and the TOS (type of service) field.
The weighted fair queuing algorithm sorts conversations into two categories: those that have high bandwidth requirements with respect to the capacity of the interface (such as FTP traffic) and those that have low bandwidth requirements (such as interactive sessions). For streams that have low-bandwidth requirements, the algorithm provides access with little or no queuing, and it shares the remaining bandwidth among other conversations. In effect, weighted fair queuing gives low-bandwidth traffic priority over high-bandwidth traffic, and high-bandwidth traffic shares the transmission service proportionally.
When weighted fair queuing is enabled on an interface, new messages for high-bandwidth conversations are discarded when the congestive-messages threshold is reached (the default congestive-messages threshold is 64 messages). To change the congestive-messages threshold, enter the following command, in which number is a value between 1 and 512:
fair-queue number
Priority Queuing
Priority queuing allows you to establish queuing priorities based on protocol type. When you enable priority queuing on an interface, weighted fair queuing is disabled for that interface automatically. The following commands configure priority queuing to ensure a certain quality of service level for Intel ProShare videoconferencing on Router A in Figure: Multicast over WAN connections.:
interface serial 0 ip address 10.8.0.21 255.0.0.0 priority-group 1 ! access-list 101 permit ip any any ! priority-list 1 protocol IP high UDP 5715 priority-list 1 protocol IP medium TCP 25 priority-list 1 protocol IP normal TCP 20
The priority-group interface configuration command assigns priority list 1 to serial interface 0. The priority-list protocol global configuration commands establish a priority list that is associated with priority group 1. The priority list gives high priority to UDP packets destined for port number 5715 (the port number used by Intel ProShare), medium priority to TCP packets destined for port number 25 (SMTP mail), and normal priority to TCP packets destined for port number 20 (FTP data).
Custom Queuing
Another way to assure the timely delivery of multicast packets is to use custom queuing. With custom queuing, you can define up to 16 queues, assigning normal data to queues 1 through 15 and assigning system messages, such as keepalive messages, to queue 16. The router services each queue sequentially, transmitting a configurable percentage of traffic on each queue before transmitting packets from the next queue.
Custom queuing guarantees that mission-critical data is always assigned a certain percentage of the bandwidth, and it also assures predictable throughput for other traffic. For that reason, custom queuing is recommended for networks that need to provide a guaranteed level of service for all traffic.
When you enable custom queuing on an interface, weighted fair queuing is disabled for that interface automatically. The following commands configure custom queuing for Router A in [[Internetwork Design Guide -- Multicasting in IP and AppleTalk Networks#Figure 6:
interface serial 0 ip address 10.8.0.21 255.0.0.0 custom-queue-list 1 ! access-list 101 permit ip any any ! queue-list 1 queue 1 byte-count 57900 queue-list 1 queue 2 byte-count 19300 queue-list 1 queue 3 byte-count 19300 ! queue-list 1 protocol IP 1 UDP 5715 queue-list 1 protocol IP 2 TCP 20 queue-list 1 protocol IP 3 TCP 25
The custom-queue-list interface configuration command assigns custom queue list 1 to serial interface 0. The queue-list queue byte-count global configuration commands specify the size in bytes for three custom queues (in this case, 57,900, 19,300, and 19,300). Together, these queue-list queue byte-count commands have the effect of assigning 60 percent of the interface's bandwidth to packets in queue 1, 20 percent of the interface's bandwidth to queue 2, and 20 percent of the interface's bandwidth to queue 3.
The first queue-list protocol global configuration command assigns UDP packets destined for port 5715 to queue 1. The second queue-list protocol command assigns TCP packets destined for port 20 (SMTP mail) to queue 2, and the third queue-list protocol command assigns TCP packets destined for port 25 (FTP data) to queue 3.
The current popularity of network multimedia applications, such as videoconferencing, is driving the development of protocols that channel the flow of multicast packets to the networks and hosts that want to receive them. As multicasting protocols are deployed, unicast and broadcast applications will be upgraded to take advantage of multicast support, and new multicast applications will be developed.


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Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
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|Diocese type
|Current bishop
|Metropolitan John (Stinka) of Winnipeg, Archbishop Yurij (Kalistchuk)
|Winnipeg, Toronto, Edmonton
|Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
|Liturgical language(s)
|Ukrainian, Church Slavonic, English
|Musical tradition
|Ukrainian Chant
|Population estimate
|About 12,000
|Official website
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC) is a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Canada, primarily serving Ukrainian Canadians.
It has cathedrals in the cities of Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, and Montreal. The Metropolitan Cathedral, seminary (St. Andrew's College), and central administrative office are all based in Winnipeg. Its membership is about 12,000, and the current primate of the church is Metropolitan John (Stinka).
Most ethnic Ukrainians moving to Canada from Western Ukraine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were Greek Catholics, and were tended early on by the local Roman Catholic hierarchy. At the same time, a smaller group of settlers arriving from Bukovina were mostly Orthodox. Initially served by the Russian mission, by then established in the northwest of North America through Alaska, the Orthodox settlers sought a native Ukrainian church, which they organized in the summer of 1918 in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
The UOCC had strong ties to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church after 1921, when that body was established in Ukraine. In 1990, it became a canonical church by being accepted into the Church of Constantinople.
In July 2005, at the Twenty-first Sobor of the UOCC, Metropolitan (then Archbishop) John (Stinka) was elected Archbishop of Winnipeg and Metropolitan of All Canada. In late 2005, Archbishop John finally replaced Metropolitan Wasyly (Fedak) after the former's acceptance by the holy synod of bishops. Metropolitan Wasyly, who died in January 2005, had served as metropolitan for nearly 20 years.
Currently, the UOCC has just two bishops; this number is fewer than preferred, as three bishops makes a council of bishops, and the UOCC prefers to have four bishops to help them better look after their flock. To help resolve this situation, the Twenty-first Sobor chose Very Rev. Fr. Michael Skumeda as bishop-elect, and an Extraordinary Sobor will be held in July 2007 to elect at least one bishop. In July 2006, Metropolitan John will be enthroned as Archbishop of Winnipeg and the Central Diocese.
In Ukrainian (Slavic) Tradition, the metropolitan is the primate of the church, and then followed by the archbishops and bishops.
In the UOCC, the metropolitan is styled the Archbishop of Winnipeg, of the Central Diocese, and All-Canada, while the next two bishops are styled (Arch)bishop of Edmonton, and the Western Diocese and the (Arch)bishop of Toronto, and the Eastern Diocese. When the Church has 4 Bishops, the 4th is always styled the Bishop of Saskatoon, and Vicar of the Central Diocese. Usually the church only has four bishops, but if there is a need for more, then the titles available are Bishop of Montreal, and Vicar of the Eastern Diocese, and Bishop of Vancouver, and the Vicar of the Western Diocese.
List of bishops, past and present, who served in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada:
- Abp. Mstyslav (Skrypnyk) (later Archbishop, and Metropolitan of UOC of USA, and in 1990-93, Patriarch of Ukraine in the UAOC), deceased
- Metr. Ilarion (Ohienko) of Winnipeg (first metropolitan in the UOCC) (1950-1972 as metropolitan), deceased
- Metr. Michael (Khoroshy) of Toronto (1950-1977), metropolitan from 1972 to 1975 (at the XV Sobor in 1975, Metropolitan Michael resigned as Metropolitan, as he wished to remain in the Eastern Diosese), deceased
- Metr. Andrew (Metiuk) of Winnipeg (d. 1985), metropolitan from 1975 to 1985 (first Bishop of Edmonton), deceased
- Abp. Boris (Yakovkevych) of Edmonton (first Bishop of Saskatoon), deceased
- Abp. Nicholas (Debryn) of Toronto, deceased
- Metr. Wasyly (Fedak) of Winnipeg (1978-2005), metropolitan from 1985 to 2005, deceased
- Metr. John (Stinka) of Winnipeg (1983-present), metropolitan from 2005 to present
- Abp. Yurij (Kalistchuk) of Toronto (1989-present)
See Also
External links
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
- History of UOCC: "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" by Rt. Rev. Dr. Oleh Krawchenko from the Orthodox Research Institute
- "Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada" at Wikipedia
- St. Andrew's College in Winnipeg
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Police have unnamed suspect in shooting of cattle
According to a news release from the Orange County Sheriff's Office, investigators have a suspect in the livestock shootings that occurred in a private property area of Mansfield Ferry Road in Vidor. Fifteen cows and calves were found fatally shot on Monday, April 15, at approximately 8:50 a.m. A concerned citizen traveling past the field where the cattle lay dead and dying called authorities, Sheriff Keith Merritt said on the morning of the discovery.
Livestock/animal control officer Deputy Rocky Bridges said then that a necropsy would be performed on the deceased animals in an effort to find evidence against the person or persons responsible for the slaughter, the offender(s) facing felony charges for 15 counts of animal cruelty.
Caretakers of the deceased livestock were at the scene in the early afternoon of April 15, searching for clues as to who may have committed the livestock killings and waiting for a local veterinarian to arrive and examine the animals. Judy Williams, one of the caretakers at the property, said those slaughtered were more than just cattle to her; she had genuine affection for them.
"We nursed one of the calves from birth, bottle-feeding it," she said that morning, adding that she had no idea who would want to harm the cattle. "I tried nursing them (the dying cattle) back to life, but it didn't work this time."
Williams said in addition to the slaughtered cattle, two bulls were missing from the property. They are marked with the bar double-aught brand, a bar with two circles under it, and one is a registered Charolais.
"They were not among the dead," Williams said. "We can't find them on the property anywhere...They were either taken off the property or broke through the fence when they were frightened by the gunshots."
The bulls were later discovered hiding on the property, according to Williams. Williams said she walked along the fence line of most of the property and found no bullet casings and no evidence the fence was down. She confirmed there are still cattle on the property and described some of them, particularly the females whose calves were shot, as "very traumatized" by the violent slaughter. According to Williams, everyone in the neighborhood, especially livestock owners, are concerned about the shootings. She said she was questioned by investigators initially after the incident but did not know there was a suspect in the shootings until May 23. Investigators were able to confirm that she is not a suspect in the shootings.
Deputy Bridges said Tuesday, April 16, the initial necropsy revealed the cows died of multiple gunshot wounds, but he was not able to release the caliber of the gun used in the incident. He said evidence is being examined at the crime lab, and several people are being interviewed regarding the crime. A neighbor reportedly heard gunshots sometime during the night of the incident, and law enforcement officers were following up on leads at that time.
"I just want us to find out who did it," Bridges said on April 16.
As of May 23, investigators hope they are one step closer by identifying a possible suspect. The case has been forwarded to the Orange County District Attorney's Office for review and disposition. The name of the suspect is not being released at this time as that person has not been officially charged with the crime.
As of May 29, the investigation continues. No arrest warrants have been issued yet. OCSO Deputy Chad Hogan said he expects the Orange County D.A.'s office to bring the felony case in front of a grand jury for indictment once they look over the file to ascertain its completeness. Then, an arrest warrant would be issued and the identity of the suspect revealed.
Anyone with information about the livestock shootings should contact the sheriff's office at (409) 883-2612.


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As someone who has hired a number of people, I would not view a lack of a reference from one's immediate previous industrial supervisor to be a problem - after all, it is uncommon to announce that you are looking for a position. I would be a bit concerned if there were not references from supervisors or colleagues from a previous position.
On the other hand, if someone coming to me from academia did not have references from either a PI or, in the case of a graduating PhD, from thesis committee members, this would cause me a great deal of concern. I would specifically be concerned that this person could not "play well with other children", and would probably look at alternative candidates.
As far as DX' comment that company personnel do not go out of their way to sabotage other's careers, that is absolutely true. There is, however, the power of the hiring manager's network - for example (true story), I was interviewing X for a sales position. I also had an trusted acquaintance who had worked with X at another company. I asked about X and how X fit in. The reply - "X is good enough, although not great. However, at trade shows, X is generally found at the hotel pool - especially when there is set-up or tear-down to be done." Guess what - X did not get the job due to questions about work ethic.
As is often stated on this forum, there are many, many applicants for every position. Anything that raises a question about an employee's fitness for the position may be enough to derail an application.
You also suggest the possibility of legal action in certain cases. I am aware of a situation where an applicant actually informed the hiring manager that the applicant had sued a previous supervisor for harassment. According to the manager, based on what the candidate divulged, the supervisor deserved it. However, the hiring manager told me that when she polled all of the other interviewers, words like "brittle", "overly sensitive", "potential for problems" and the like were used. Someone else got the position. If you are in the unfortunate position of taking legal action against a supervisor, the word will get out and it will negatively impact your career.
Thanks Dick for the advice. Have you heard or been in situation where your boss was asked to leave because his superior disliked him and then wanted to get rid of anyone associated with him. So then your boss's supervisor took it one step further out of anger at your boss to blacklist any of your former boss's employees from reapplying to the University. This was accomplished through a mechanism whereby when you list your former employer and department on an application; HR calls the former department and coordinates a check between the old department and new prospective department done by an administrative HR representative that works in the departments. Apparently, your boss's supervisor puts the word out through his HR department administrator not to hire anybody associated with your boss; even after 4 years. You asked the boss's supervisor about this in a polite way who says you are guilty by association but you didn't do anything else wrong. You push him by saying this has nothing to with me; I can't control my boss's behavior and how well the two of you get along. Of note, your boss is a difficult person to get along with and you can understand where the boss's supervisor is coming from and why he asked him to leave. However, you accomplished a lot for him and he is a PI listed on your publications. Because of this silly disagreement, your former PI of many years will not provide an accurate or honest reference for any of the five people who stayed behind. Or not provide one at all. Some former employees have gotten the former supervisor to say nothing and the University likewise will now say nothing; but the boss's supervisor still has his block in place (since he and his HR supervisor are still there).
There is more to the backstory of why the two professors don't get along but nobody will talk openly after 4 years. It is all rumors and gossip. Even former residents seem fearful to talk about it. When the former employees left behind ask senior administrators about it, they dodge the questions and seem annoyed that you asked. Nobody among the administrators has said you or the five left behind did anything wrong; but some say they agree with supervisor's BS about "guilt by association."
However, you are trying to compete elsewhere in the University but you have this supervisor block and no letter from your former PI and thesis advisor. You have obtained two positions since then and you have the support of all your former coworkers/and other thesis advisors. Further, you have your former supervisor's evaluations which are positive. You have 3 publications to show. How can you explain this situation without disparaging your former boss or his supervisor while sounding professional?
What would you do in this situation? Does the supervisor (or former boss) have a right to interfere in my career over something as silly as this? How do you get people involved to talk about this?
{these two guys are really unreasonable and some senior administrators at this University are "feel" like they are beyond reproach}


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A relaxed, all-season Colorado destination
Pagosa Springs is an emerald oasis nestled up against the San Juan Mountains. It's lush in the summer, and in winter, a delightful place to enjoy hot springs and skiing at nearby Wolf Creek. Despite the year-round allure of the steamy pools, the town has a laid-back vibe that keeps it from feeling too touristy. There are swanky hotel accommodations at The Springs Resort and Spa and serene creek-side campsites in the San Juan National Forest, so choose your own adventure.
I stayed about 20 miles outside of town at Bridge Campground. To get there I took County Road 600, a well-maintained dirt road that winds its way through valleys and pastures to the San Juan National Forest. At the campground there were 19 sites hugging the banks of Williams Creek. I spent hours relaxing in my hammock while my dog played in the water. This sunset scene was well-complemented with a growler of Powder Day IPA from Pagosa Springs Brewery.
With a light rain falling on my tent, I slept soundly and was up early looking for sunshine. Summertime activities in Pagosa Springs revolve around the San Juan River. Early in the season when the spring snow is melting, white water rules. Rafting the river when its flow tops 400 cubic feet per second is a serious sport. It's best to take a rafting trip or white water kayak lessons from a local outfitter like Pagosa Outside. Later in the summer, the river slows, and tubes are the way to go. You can rent them from an outfitter and take a shuttle north of town for a two-hour float. Or, to do it on the cheap, just rent a tube ($25 for the day) and follow the locals.
When I arrived with my tube at the Town Park (just off Hot Springs Blvd. and across the street from the Visitor's Center) there was an event underway. Apparently, I'd stumbled upon an annual competition: Cruise-A-Thong, "a race for the average Joe." The festivities kicked off with a Bloody Mary-making competition and were followed by a quirky, triathlon-style event where contestants were given sweatbands painted with names like (Higgs Boson, IPA, and EZ-E) instead of race numbers. I was informed that the point of the exercise was to come in with the most average time.
As the sun grew higher in the sky there was a circus atmosphere of costumed racers, decorated bicycles and ridiculous inflatable animals—which participants would be using to float the river. At the start, competitors loaded up the provided water bottles with their adult beverage of choice and set off, slowly, in costume, down the bike path for a 4-mile ride along the river.
This parade of absurdity rode a loop around the park. I sat watching in awe and wonder, then decided to join the fun and float the river with the racers. The slow and bumpy journey was punctuated with people riding various novelty floats, like killer whales and piranhas. I think I even saw a guy float by riding a giant tiki pole.
When the contestants finished at the park, there were awards and barbecue and live music. It was the perfect end to a weekend of solitude and silliness in Pagosa Springs, a town that I can assure you does not take itself too seriously.


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My good buddy and editor Joshua Essoe has succeeded in pulling me out of guest blog hibernation. The result is this incredibly strange post I wrote over at The Fictorians for those considering going indie. It features some good resources, and even a little advice (warning: the advice comes from me).
I need to add a lot of new bloggers' reviews of The Black God's War to my 'book' page above, but here's one I have to share today. This one felt like a soul kiss. Thank you, Nina Post! It's all good. We're both married.
p.s. the email notifications haven't been working on my blog recently. If you got an email about this one, there are three recent posts you may have missed, including a post about where the heck I've been for the last five months. EDIT: Those darn notifications still aren't working. Hmph.
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USA Uses Seventy-Shot Barrage To Swamp Sweden Monday In Sochi
The United States women used a 70-shot outburst to sink Sweden 6-1 Monday morning in Sochi, Russia. St. Cloud native Anne Schleper did not score a point in the win but took three shots in the game and was a +1 rating.
The US took a 3-0 lead after a first period in which they outshot the Swedes 29-1. Alex Carpenter, Kacey Bellamy and Amanda Kessel each had goals in the opening period for Team USA.
Monique Lamoreux and Megan Bozek scored in the second period for the US to give them a 5-0 lead at the second intermission. Shots were 51-6 through two periods of play.
Sweden got on the board with a goal at 13:04 from Anna Borgqvist, but the United States responded with a Brianna Decker goal at 16:58 to cap the scoring. Final shots on goal favored the US 70-9.


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In the Winter 2015 edition of PIJAC's PetLetter we discuss the year that was 2014, the upcoming 2015 Top2Top, and the benefits of PIJAC membership among other articles.
The June 2014 edition of the PetLetter includes a legislative session review, focus on reptile legislation, and news on the recent pet sale bans showing up across the country.
The Winter 2014 PetLetter includes updates on the Top2Top, a letter from the President & CEO, and information about building coalitions at ALEC's State & Nation Policy Summit.
Topics in this edition of PIJAC's PetLetter include the LDF, "wild" or "exotic" animal legislation, PIJAC's new website, The Pet Effect, PIJAC Avian Care Certifications, and What attendees thought about the Top2Top.
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- Letter from the President & CEO
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Sobia Salon is successfully working to give many people a look, which is both natural yet dreamy. Sobia is the creative stylist behind Sobia Salon
Fashion stylist Sobia is a renowned beautician who is also a proud member of the faculty of PAF (Pakistan Air Force) finishing school. With her vast diversified experience, she has imparted the know how to young emerging ladies. She has a very selective team of trained beauticians who over the period of time have been skillfully trained to offer their best services.


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Trial date put off in NYC 1979 missing-boy case
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York murder trial for a suspect in one of the country's most prominent missing-child cases is being postponed for months as psychiatric exams and other preparations continue.
Pedro Hernandez had been tentatively set to go on trial in April in the case surrounding Etan Patz. But a judge said Wednesday he now anticipates the trial starting in September.
Six-year-old Etan disappeared while walking to his school bus stop in 1979. He was one of the first missing children to appear on a milk carton. The anniversary of his disappearance became National Missing Children's Day.
Hernandez was arrested in 2012 after police got a tip. The 53-year-old New Jersey resident gave authorities a confession, but his defense argues it was false and prompted by mental illness.


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I know that not so long ago some folks were up in arms over Cafe Hon owner Denise Whiting's efforts to trademark the "h" word." Yet there was no malice in my heart when I went there recently for supper. I just wanted a good meal, and I got one.
Sitting near the feather boas and the shelves selling mugs and key chains emblazoned with Baltimore's favorite term of endearment, my wife and I had a pleasing appetizer, a good burger, an exceptional pot pie and two quality desserts.
Granted, the decor is theatrical. The leopard skins covering the booths and some of the waitresses are faux, but the food is real. The main dining area is noisy, what with the wood floors, the soda fountain, the close-together tables. A romantic hideaway it is not. But our table had a good view of the homemade pies and cakes, and that stirred my soul.
The crab dip appetizer ($9.99) featured a platter of hot, cheesy dip that had genuine crab flavor and amazing elasticity. Each time I dipped a piece of toasted French bread into this mixture, it held tight and did not want to easily relinquish the bread. I liked this little tussle mainly because winning it proved to be so rewarding. I wrestled every dollop of crab dip off the plate, working the crevices with the bread.
The chicken wings ($8.99) with Old Bay, which the menu promoted as award-winning, were pleasant enough. They were served very hot, which I appreciated, but they made me wonder if every eatery in Baltimore has won some award for its wings.
The star of our supper was the chicken pot pie entree ($13.99). This was a thick, creamy mixture of chicken, onions, peas, carrots, potatoes and celery, served in a bowl covered with a square of perfect puff pastry. In addition to a remarkable texture, the pot pie had vivid flavors. It is easy for pot pie ingredients to get overcooked, but the chicken and vegetables here still had plenty of life. The accompanying salad, composed of fresh greens and topped with Cafe Hon's dill vinaigrette, was also noteworthy.
Jen's Hon burger ($9.99), ground beef topped with applewood-smoked bacon, feta cheese and baby greens bathed in a dill dressing, was a keeper. Cooked the way I had requested, medium rare, the meat was moist and flavorful. The bun was substantial and the bacon, cheese and greens toppings allowed the burger to be a burger while still delivering interesting side notes.
I had had my eye on the dessert case most of the meal, and I was looking forward to ordering. I was not disappointed.
Dottie's bread pudding ($5.99) was also promoted as an award-winner — a judgment I agreed with. A deep, dark cake had rich flavors of brown sugar and caramel. At our house, we make a bread pudding from a Paul Prudhomme recipe, using lemons, Chantilly cream, raisins and nuts. The Cafe Hon bread pudding finished second, but a close second, to the one we make at home.
The cherry pie ($5.99 a slice) was also made on the premises. It had a respectable crust, but its winning feature was the cherry filling. Unlike so many cherry pies, these cherries were not sickeningly sweet. Instead, they were delightfully tart, the way God and Mom intended.
Service was professional. Everything we ordered was delivered as we had ordered it, in a timely fashion. When our waitress was swamped, one of her co-workers slipped into the bar and picked up our beverages, a glass of house chardonnay ($5) and a large glass of Resurrection Ale ($6). That is my kind of teamwork.
Maybe not everyone in Hampden is fond of Cafe Hon. But for a casual (if kitschy) restaurant, I found the food good and the service smooth. One more thing: No one called me Hon, and that was a plus.
You be the critic: Have you been to Cafe Hon? Write a review.
Where: 1002 W. 36th St., Hampden
Contact: 410 243-1230, cafehon.com
Open: 7 a.m.- 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday. 9 a. m.-10 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday
Credit cards: All major
Appetizers: $5.99- $15.99
Entrees: $7.99-$27.99
Food: ✭✭✭
Service: ✭✭✭
Atmosphere: ✭✭✭
[Key: Outstanding: ✭✭✭✭; Good: ✭✭✭; Fair or Uneven: ✭✭; Poor: ✭]


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Bangka is a group of islands off the coast of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. These include Bangka itself as well as Gangga and Talise.
The Bangka area is one of Indonesia's most famous dive areas, and it draws scuba divers from all over the world. In addition to Bangka itself, a beautiful lush island, the area includes the neighboring islands of Gangga, Talise, and Sahaung.
Flora and fauna
Except for the very largest pelagics, nearly everything can be found at Bungka. Reef inhabitants include white and black tip reef sharks, giant sea turtles, napoleonfish, pygmy seahorses and dugongs.
You may frequently run into dolphins, and occasionally schools of whales.
On the Island Bangka you can even see wild dear, the tarsius and the maleo.
Get in
Bangka is about 90 minutes Manado, using a combination of car and boat. Most resorts will arrange transfers from the airport for their guests. Alternatively, a public boat leaves daily except Sunday around 4 PM from Likupang, or you can charter a boat anytime.
Bangka area is not part of the Bunaken Marine park, so there is no fee or permit. However, most resort offer diving in the neighboring dive area's, Bunaken and Lembeh Strait, as well as these are only about an hour away by boat.
Get around
There are no real roads on Bangka, and only a couple of villages. The best way to go from a resort to one of the villages or by boat. Watch out if walking along the coastline, as the beach may disappear when the high tide rolls in.
Dive, dive, dive. Diving around Bangka is very varied and possible for both beginning and advanced divers. There are also good opportunities for snorkeling.
There are no restaurants on Bangka, but all resorts have their own restaurant. Dishes include lots of traditional Indonesian food but usually they also have some western meals. Since you're on an Island it's fish almost every day, but the resorts usually have some meat as well.
Natural Drinking water is available in some resorts, but not all! All resorts offer bottled mineral water, so if you don't trust the source you can ask for bottled water. Local spirits Cap Tikus literally "rat brand" made from distilled palm wine (a type of moonshine), actually quite nice "on the rocks with a slice of lemon".
Most people choose to sleep at their dive resorts, almost all of which offer full board and attractive package offers.
Stay safe
There are no unusual health risks in the park, aside from the standard set of easily avoided venomous marine critters. Sharks and crocodiles are both absent, and jellyfish are found only occasionally, primarily during the change of the seasons in spring/fall.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Facility Failed to Protect Workers From Abusive Patients, Federal Agency Charges
HOUSTON – A Houston-area home health care provider violated federal law by failing to protect its workers from sexual harassment by a patient, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, (Civil Action No 4:10-cv-03484), filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Defendant Beacon Hill Investments Corp., doing business as Synergy Home Care, failed to prevent Tammie Bush, Verndette Hosea and other employees from being sexually harassed by a patient. On or about April 2008, a patient assigned by Synergy to the care of Bush and Hosea began sexually harassing them, the EEOC said. The harassment, which included groping them while they slept in their private quarters, continued even after they and other employees complained about the patient's sexual harassment to several company officials. The EEOC said the harassment became so severe that Bush and Hosea were forced to quit their jobs in about June 2008.
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination, which violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC is seeking a permanent injunction prohibiting the company from engaging in employment discrimination and retaliation, as well as back pay, compensatory damages and punitive damages.
"Sexual harassment is a form of psychological abuse that undermines an employee's ability to work, affecting her productivity and morale," said R.J. Ruff, director of the EEOC's Houston District Office.
EEOC Regional Attorney Jim Sacher said, "If employees are not protected from sexual harassment at the hands of a company's clients, Congress's commitment to a fair workplace will be flaunted."
Anyone who believes he or she has been subjected to a discriminatory employment practice is encouraged to contact the EEOC's Houston District Office at (713) 209 3372 or visit its downtown Houston location on the sixth floor of the Mickey Leland Federal Building at 1919 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Additional information about the EEOC is available on the agency's website at http://www.eeoc.gov.


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Sabers rattled once more over the Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort as the American Farm Bureau Federation filed suit on Jan. 10, challenging the TMDL or total maximum daily load component of the Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration Act of 2010.
The latest of a number of complaints was filed by the American Farm Bureau Federation and one of its members, the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, in a federal court in Harrisburg, Pa.
Currently, the federal EPA has the authority under the Clean Water Act to implement maximum daily levels for nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment. Farmers in Virginia and other affected states contend the data used to establish TDML (total daily maximum loads) is seriously flawed.
Among other criteria, farmers and farmer advocate groups disagree with EPA's contention that 15 percent of farmland bordering streams that feed into the Chesapeake Bay are under conservation-tillage. Virginia farmers contend over 90 percent of the acreage in question is in conservation-tillage, much of it in long-term no-till.
Farm bureaus in each of the six states impacted by Chesapeake Bay cleanup have challenged various components of the federal act, claiming the federal government's speed-up of the Chesapeake Bay cleanup will force some farmers out of business.
Mandatory fencing of all streams that feed into any stream that eventually ends up in the Chesapeake Bay is another sticking point for farmers. The high cost of fencing — the Virginia Farm Bureau says $30,000-$40,000 — agriculture support organizations claim would put dozens of family-owned dairy, swine and cattle operations out of business.
Were costs exaggerated?
In response to recent publication of the fencing issue, Libby Norris, Virginia Watershed Restoration Scientist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Richmond, Va. office says, "The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is concerned that recent statements made by the Virginia Farm Bureau and quoted by Southeast Farm Press exaggerate the cost to the average farmer for helping clean up the Chesapeake Bay.
The Farm Bureau's cost estimates (1) fail to recognize the financial benefits that stream fencing offers livestock producers; (2) appears to reflect the most costly scenarios, i.e., farmers who to date have taken few steps to reduce farm runoff; and (3) neglect the significant funding assistance provided by popular state and federal cost-share programs that defray most of the out-of-pocket expenses for constructing farm conservation practices."
Ms. Norris says the following agencies and contact personnel could provide cost sharing funds to help farmers comply with the fencing component of the proposed legislation:
• Jack Bricker, Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), 1606 Santa Rosa Road, Suite 209, Richmond, Va. 23229.
• David Johnson, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, 203 Governor Street, Suite 206, Richmond, Va 23219.
• Low interest loan program: David Paylor, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, 629 East Main Street, Richmond, Va. 23218.
The Jan. 10, American Farm Bureau Federation suit challenges three components of the proposed TDML rule:
• AFBF believes that the rule unlawfully "micromanages" state actions and the activities of farmers, homeowners and businesses within the six-state Chesapeake Bay watershed. EPA's plan imposes specific pollutant allocations on activities such as farming and home-building, sometimes down to the level of individual farms. The Clean Water Act, the AFBF action contends, requires a process that allows states to decide how to improve water quality and take into account the economic and social impacts on businesses and communities in the states.
• To establish the TMDL, EPA relied on inaccurate assumptions and on a scientific model that EPA itself admits was flawed, AFBF noted. AFBF claims that the TMDL violates the Administrative Procedures Act's prohibition of "arbitrary and capricious" agency action.
• AFBF asserts that EPA violated the requirement that agencies allow meaningful public participation on new rules. The suit alleges that EPA failed to provide the public with critical information about the basis for the TMDL and allowed insufficient time (45 days) for the public to comment on the incomplete, but highly technical, information that EPA did provide.
"We all want a clean and healthy Chesapeake Bay," says AFBF President Bob Stallman. "This lawsuit is about how we get there. Farm Bureau believes EPA's 'diet' for the Chesapeake is dangerous and unlawful.
"Our laws require agencies to show the public what their actions are based on, so the public can tell the agencies if they are getting it wrong. In this instance, EPA failed to provide critical information," Stallman adds.
EPA finalized the TMDL on Dec. 29, 2010 despite documented discrepancies in the data it used to establish the TMDL, AFBF said. The six states in the Chesapeake watershed (Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia) must now follow very detailed watershed plans, or else EPA could block necessary permits and cut federal funding to the states.
"Farmers and ranchers already are taking real, on-the-ground actions every day to improve water quality, actions that have been shown by USDA reports to reduce soil erosion and provide other environmental benefits," Stallman says. "Those actions will continue, regardless of what happens with this lawsuit."
At stake are billions of dollars in the Chesapeake Bay border states. Cost estimates for the 15 year program run the gamut, depending on which economist makes the claim. Virginia officials claim their cost could exceed $7 billion, while Pennsylvania contends their state tab could top $2 billion.
These staggering costs are miniscule compared to the cost nationwide, if the Chesapeake Bay cleanup becomes a model for watersheds across the U.S.


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Upper Hunter Shire Council
The NSW Electoral Commission has been selected by the Council to manage the 2016 Local Government Election.
Total Number of Electors: Residential and non-residential electors enrolled in this Council area on 1 August 2016 was 10,094. Electors may continue to enrol up to and including Election Day.
Upper Hunter Shire Council is an undivided local government area and has no wards.
Election Results
The following election events were conducted in this Council area, click on the links to see the results.
|Election of 9 Councillors for the whole Council area
|1 Question


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WORCESTER, Mass. – MIT opened the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference portion of its men's tennis schedule today, edging past Clark University, 5-3. The Engineers improved to 6-3 with the victory, while the Cougars saw a nine-match win streak snapped as they fell to 9-2 overall. Junior Matthew Skalak (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.) won at both double and singles for MIT.
After splitting the Nos. 1 and 2 doubles matches, a close victory at No.3 gave MIT the early lead in the match. In a closely contested battle that went down to the wire, the Engineer team of senior Max Nelson (Medicac Lake, Wash.) and freshman Christopher Hunter (Melville, N.Y.) outlasted juniors Phillip Porter (Cortland Manor, N.Y.) and Dan Hall (Sutton, Mass.) 9-8 (7-4). Skalak picked up his first win of the day with sophomore Edwin Zhang (Falls Church, Va.) at No. 1 doubles, with the duo downing Clark's team of junior Diego Angel (Lima, Peru) and freshman Zack Goodstein (Columbus, Ohio), 8-2.
Moving to singles play both Nelson and Hunter picked up victories and Nos. 5 and 6 while Clark came through with a win at No. 3 before rain came that forced the match indoors. Nelson held off junior Dan Paradee (Gardiner, Maine) in the first set and went on to take a 7-5, 6-3 win in the No. 5 match. Hunter was also a winner in straight sets, taking a 6-3, 6-2 decision over freshman Joel Simonson (Waterford, Conn.).
With MIT in front 4-2 after the move indoors, Skalak took the deciding match for the Engineers. In the No. 2 contest he came back from a 6-4 setback in the first set to sophomore Dan Stein (Newton, Mass.) to take a match-clinching 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win.
MIT will step out of conference on Thursday for a match at Brandeis University at 3:00 p.m. while Clark will also play on Thursday, hosting the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts at 4:00 p.m.


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Kelly Clarkson + Boyfriend Bring Public Displays of Affection to 'The Voice' Set
Now that Kelly Clarkson and boyfriend Brandon Blackstock have gone public with their relationship, they aren't hiding it. At all. Word is they engaged in a PDA sesh on the set of 'The Voice' — even though Clarkson is no longer mentoring on that show since she has her own reality singing competition in the form of 'Duets.'
So why were Clarkson and her BF canoodling on another show's set?
Well, Blackstock manages 'The Voice' coach Blake Shelton. So when Clarkson visited her old haunts to see her new boyfriend as he tended to his client, they engaged in lovey dovey behavior. We're happy that Clarkson is happy, even if she did turns heads with a smooch fest.
A source told Radar Online, "They kissed hello. It was pretty adorable and you can tell they're passionate about one another. She just wanted to support her man and watch him in action. Plus, she's become good friends with Blake, so she wanted to say hi to him as well. They seemed pretty buddy-buddy; they hang out a lot."
Even though Clarkson was walking wounded, having injured her foot recently, she still hobbled around on set. Where there's a will, there's a way! "She could have easily stayed home," the source said. "She wanted to be there though and be by his side." Sounds like the 'Dark Side' singer is totally in love.
Blackstock is a good BF, it seems, at least according to the insider who witnessed their PDAs. "He was super cute, opening all her doors and making sure she was comfortable and felt at home on set," the source admitted. "He was completely doting on her and she couldn't have been happier. Their love is real."
Too cute!
Watch the Kelly Clarkson 'Dark Side' Video


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Surprise: Rep. Bob Goodlatte Thinks The Justice Department Is Too Cozy With Hollywood
from the didn't-see-that-coming dept
While he isn't talking about the cozy relationship that worries us -- the domain seizures, the willingness (and eagerness) to act as Hollywood's personal police force, and the revolving door between DOJ lawyers and big entertainment lobbying and litigation firms -- it is still interesting to see Goodlatte less than happy about some aspect of the DOJ and Hollywood's close and personal relationship:
Tax dollars are also used at the department to help the entertainment industry. The FBI has its own Investigative Publicity and Public Affairs Unit, which is dedicated to helping Hollywood make movies and TV shows, including "The Kingdom," "Fast and Furious 4," "CSI," "Numb3rs" and "Without a Trace." This perk for Hollywood comes with an annual price tag of $1.5 million to the American taxpayer.We actually agree that this is a sickening waste of taxpayer funds. And while it's less concerning than those things we mentioned above, it does serve to provide more reasons why the DOJ seems so eager to buddy up with Hollywood when it comes to law enforcement. They're star-chasing. Either way, kudos to Goodlatte for calling out this point, and hopefully it will also lead to him recognizing that the improper relationship between Hollywood and the DOJ goes well beyond making TV shows.


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Oakland Gardens, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/05/2014 -- Individuals suffering from Herpes keep hearing that they will have to live with herpes for their entire life and are scared enough to know that they can never get rid of herpes. On top of this, their doctors casually tell them to avoid having sex. The Ultimate Herpes Protocol by Melanie Addington is just what the victims of Herpes need. This eBook can be their ultimate hope to curing the problem of Herpes. It provides natural, safe and effective herpes remedy that quickly relieves HSV 2 symptoms, provides an effective HSV 2 & 1 remedy, and stops future outbreaks.
The Ultimate Herpes Protocol as the the name suggests, is a complete guide or an e-book that is written especially to treat HSV 2. The e-book also discusses the remedies and steps that one should add to their health and lifestyle. This is a comprehensive guide that not only contains remedies and preventive measures but also contains different health tips which can be useful in living a healthy life.
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