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Hey, Katherine Griwert here for a content & coffee with Brafton. If you've been feeling a little lost ever since the disappearance of keyword data from Google Analytics reports, you may find new data in Webmaster tools helps you find keyword insights. Watch the video below, and read on.
Google updated its Webmaster tools to provide a list of the search terms that drive the most impressions and clicks for a particular page. To find the report, you go to the pages tab in Webmaster Tools' search queries report and click the arrow next to any one the top URLs for a list of keywords pointing traffic to that page.
It may seem like Google's giving keyword data back, but this isn't evidence that we should revert back to a keyword-centric content culture. Using the tool to explore top click-driving phrases, I've found a lot of keywords our content marketing team is not even trying to optimize for. While these insights can be a helpful way to refine a core keyword list, marketers should look more closely at the trend or idea behind the phrases rather than get hung up on words themselves – especially if some obscure queries crop up.
In some cases, I've found multi-word search phrases with a high click-through rate aren't even used in consecutive order on the pages earning traffic. But the page is answering the question we can guess the original searcher wanted answered. And we can use these phrases to create more content around those topics.
It may seem like Google's giving keyword data back, but this isn't evidence that we should revert back to a keyword-centric content culture.
This added Webmaster Tools data is a great opportunity to understand how users are discovering pages, and get an insight into the searchers' intent. Exploring which words give a page the highest impressions and clicks in search, and comparing them with the metadescriptions we offer searchers, and the overall insight on the page, is a great way to do a quality check on how content addresses the searcher.
This update won't ease the sting of 'keyword not provided' for marketers who were using that Analytics data to find particular phrases the drove the highest volumes of traffic, or the highest-converting organic traffic. But having this insight at the page level gives marketers another opportunity to succeed in search with content that hits on the topics users want.
You'll find more information on building content around keywords as concepts on Brafton.com. Thanks for tuning in, and happy content marketing.


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Downtown Minneapolis becoming a 'green' magnet -- and needs to be greener still
You're in an airplane, flying over Minneapolis on a sunny summer day. Looking down from 40,000 feet, you see something resembling a gray doughnut hole, surrounded by green. This is downtown Minneapolis.
In a city renowned for its lush natural beauty, downtown has been the exception. The majority of Minneapolis' 1 million trees and 6,500 acres of parkland reside in its neighborhoods, while for decades asphalt and concrete have dominated downtown.
But that scene is starting to change. Downtown leaders are recognizing that investments in greener landscapes, pedestrian-friendly amenities and sustainable building practices are good for business, as well as for the community as a whole.
Appealing streetscapes draw more pedestrians, reducing traffic congestion and pollution from cars, while providing more business for retailers and restaurants. Tree canopies shade and cool paved surfaces, reducing energy costs and the "heat island" effect created by crowded buildings. Another plus: Just one mature tree can reduce storm water runoff by 13,000 gallons a year, decreasing the amount of water streaming from storm sewers into the city's water-treatment plant.
Obstacles can be overcome
For these reasons and more, downtown Minneapolis needs to get greener. Granted, there are challenges — many older buildings need retrofits to become more environmentally efficient, and much of the open space outside is covered by concrete. But with vision and determination, the downtown community can overcome those obstacles.
A prime example: The recent transformation of Marquette Plaza into one of the nation's most environmentally friendly structures. The prominent 40-year-old office building — whose 22 tenants include Xcel Energy, Foley & Mansfield, CenturyLink, Meet Minneapolis and several federal agencies — is the first downtown Minneapolis building to achieve LEED platinum status. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and platinum is the highest level of certification under the program, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.
The most visible sign of Marquette's Plaza's superior sustainability is the one-and-a-half acre "green roof." The grass expanse doesn't just look good — it provides natural insulation from temperature extremes and helps filter pollution from the air and rainwater. Inside the building, property manager Base Management also invested in technology and operational changes that have dramatically reduced water consumption and lowered energy costs. Marquette Plaza now uses 694,000 fewer gallons of water annually. If all Minneapolis buildings followed the same measure, more than 90 million gallons of water would be conserved each year.
Accomplishments, but just a start
Another example is the business community's launch and funding of the Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District (DID). The DID was created in 2009 with a singular mission: make downtown more attractive and inviting to businesses, employees and visitors. One way this has been accomplished is by emphasizing all kinds of greening across the 120-block-area that comprises the DID. Using money raised mostly from charges to commercial properties, the district provides services to make downtown cleaner, safer and greener.
During the DID's first two years, the organization carried out a major clean-up, removing two million pounds of trash and erasing 10,000-plus graffiti tags. It assembled a legion of DID Ambassadors who offer a welcoming and reassuring presence on downtown streets. In addition, the DID is currently sponsoring a pilot outdoor recycling program on Nicollet Mall.
These accomplishments are just a start. Much more must be done to truly turn downtown Minneapolis from gray to green. The DID envisions more tree-filled boulevards, roadside greenbelts, "pocket" parks, and plantings at downtown gateways, such as freeway exits.
All stakeholders needed
Achieving this vision will require the active involvement of downtown's numerous stakeholders. Many already are contributing to the cause, and the DID last year established the inaugural "Greening Awards" to showcase the commitment of these civic associations, businesses and community groups that have created and maintained public green spaces in downtown Minneapolis. The program honored nine recipients at an award ceremony in January.
This summer, the DID undertook a demonstration project to prove that concrete shouldn't stand in the way of green progress. On 10th Street between Second and Third Avenues, it removed concrete along the curb lines and installed trees and perennial grasses.
These projects, like transformation of Marquette's Plaza, are prime examples of what the downtown community in Minneapolis can — and should — do to enhance the environmental and economic health of the city's center.
Sarah Harris is the chief operating officer of the Downtown Improvement District.
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Taken from the "History of Champaign County, Ohio, by Judge Evan P. Middleton, Vol. I, 1917, pps. 433—529.
The Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists 'were the first denominations to be represented by churches in the county. However, small societies of other churches 'were feebly maintained in various neighborhoods at a comparatively early date; among these were the Universalist and Christian churches. The number of denominations in the county has increased until today there are twelve represented by sixty-six active societies which are most zealously carrying on the business of the Master. The historian has attempted to obtain the history of every church organization, past and present, in Champaign county. Immediately following is a list of all these churches, which have been classified into groups of active and discontinued or dormant churches.
Methodist Churches The First Methodist Church, Urbana; Methodist Episcopal Church, Mechanicsburg; Methodist Episcopal Church, North Lewisburg; Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Urbana; Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church; Concord Methodist Episcopal Church First Methodist Episcopal Church, St. Paris; Westville Methodist Episcopal Church; Grafton Methodist Episcopal Church; North Salon Methodist Episcopal Church; Terre Haute Methodist Episcopal Church, Christianburg Methodist Episcopal church; Methodist Episcopal Church, Kingscreek; Treacles Creek Methodist Episcopal Church; Newsom Chapel; Kennard Methodist Episcopal Church; Cable Methodist Episcopal Church; Fountain Park Methodist Episcopal Church; Mutual Grace Methodist Episcopal Church; Local Preachers' Chapel; Union Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, Pleasant Hill; Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, Urbana; St Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church, Urbana African Methodist Episcopal Church, Mechanicsburg; Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, North Lewisburg; Methodist Protestant Church, Mechanicsburg; Methodist Protestant Church, North Lewisburg; Jenkins' Chapel. St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church BAPTIST Churches First Baptist Church, Urbana; First Baptist Church, St. Paris; Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church; Colored Baptist Church, Mechanicsburg; Myrtle Tree Baptist Church; Kingscreek Baptist Church Millerstown Baptist Church; Mount Zion Baptist Church; Honey Creek Baptist Church; Second Baptist Church, Urbana; Mingo Baptist Church. Presbyterian Churches Presbyterian Churches of Urbana and BUCK CREEK Spring Hills Presbyterian Church. United Presbyterian Church Lutheran and Reformed Churches Evangelical Lutheran Church, Urbana; Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, St. Paris; Zerkel Lutheran Church, Thackery; St. John's Lutheran Church, St. Paris; Reformed Church, St. Paris; Reformed Church, Millerstown. Christian Churches Christian Church, Cable; Christian Church, Carysville. United Brethren Churches Rosewood United Brethren Church; Salem United Brethren Church; Bowlusville United Brethren Church. Universalist Churches Universalist Church, Woodstock; Westville Universalist Church. Episcopalian Churches Church of the Epiphany, Urbana Church of Our Savior, Mechanicsburg. Catholic Churches St. Michael's Catholic Church, Mecbanicsburg; Immculate Conception Church, North Lewisburg; Sacred Heart Catholic Church, St. Paris; St. Mary's Catholic Church, Urbana. Friends Churches Friends Church, Urbana; Mt. Carmel Friends Church; Friends Church, North Lewisburg. Miscellaneous Churches Church of the New Jerusalem, Urbana Mennonite Church, Salem Twp. Howard Weaver Mission Urbana Society of the New Church DISCONTINUED AND DORMANT CHURCHES ANTIOCH UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH BETHEL CHRISTIAN CHURCH BUCK CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT CHRISTIANSBURG CHRISTIAN CHURCH, URBANA CHRISTIAN CHURCH, W00DSTOCK DILTZ CHAPEL FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, URBANA TOWNSHIP GERMAN BAPTST CHURCH GLADY CREEK CHURCH HARMONY BAPTIST CHURCH HICKORY GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH MAD RIVER BAPTIST CHURCH MECHANICSBURG BAPTIST CHURCH NEER CHAPEL NORTHVILLE METHODIST CHURCH PLEASANT RUN BAPTIST CHURCH PISGAH METHODIST EPOSCOPAL CHURCH RECTORS CHAPLE SALEM LUTHERAN AND GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH SHARON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SPRING HILLS METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL UNITED BRETHREN CHURGH AT CARYSVILLE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. URBANA WALNUT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH WESLEYAN CHAPEL ZION UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH
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TAMPA — Ramo's revenge.
Karri Ramo tried to play down such talk, but those around the Calgary Flames netminder think he was under-stating what it meant to him.
Ramo's return to Florida to face the Tampa Bay Lightning, the team he bolted from without much resistance some four years ago, was a roaring success, thanks to a dream offensive start and a 31-save performance in Calgary's 4-1 victory Thursday night at the Tampa Bay Times Forum.
"It's good to get a win. There's some familiar faces I saw, not on the ice, so many, and it's nice to get a win here," Ramo said. "That team is playing so well, so for us to come with a couple tough games before it … it was a good game.
"Everybody pitched in."
Everybody pitched in, but Ramo indeed had the biggest hand in the result, especially while his squad was under siege in the final two periods, during which he faced 27 shots before the announced crowd of 17,495.
"Goalies, I think it's easy mental preparation when you're playing against your old team," said Flames head coach Bob Hartley. "As a coach, I always hate to coach against former goalies because you know they want to beat you bad.
"Karri, once again, was very, very solid."
He had to be especially solid. The Flames had a pair of forwards in Matt Stajan and Paul Byron return to Calgary for personal reasons, which added more pressure on those in the lineup.
And with the season-ending shoulder injury to Tyler Wotherspoon, the already depleted defence corps took another hit and ended up needing minor-league defenceman in Chad Billins and Chris Breen to make up their final pairing.
"I think they played pretty well," Flames winger Kevin Westgarth, whose first period goal held up for the winner, said of the Lightning. "They had some chances that Rammer absolutely stole from them.
"I don't think it was one of our best games, execution-wise, but once again the effort's there and playing with that blue-collar mentality and it ended up paying dividends again."
As good as Ramo was between the pipes, he did have some room to play with thanks to goals by Michael Cammalleri and Westgarth just 15 seconds apart midway through the opening frame.
For Cammalleri, it's his 10th goal in 13 games while Westgarth has scored three times in seven outings. Breen collected his first NHL point by assisting on the latter tally.
"Huge," Hartley said to describe what those goals meant to his team, which had dropped the first two games of this road swing. "The Lightning were playing so well, I think one loss in their last 9 or 10 games. You get two goals off your forecheck, it's great.
"Then, we managed to stay in the game. We knew they would keep coming – here is one of the fastest teams in the league, if not the fastest — and our guys deserve lots of credit."
Tampa rookie Ondrej Palat scored his 20th goal of the season to make it a one-goal game heading into the final frame, but Ramo stood tall long enough for Curtis Glencross to provide a late insurance goal and then an empty netter.
"Getting those two goals off the hop, that allows us to play with a little more confidence, be ready for their offensive firepower, which they have in spades," Westgarth said. "Our tendy has been standing on his head. He played great and it's great to see. It's nice to get a win against your old team.
"It's always nice to give a little back there."
You could even say Ramo was dialed in and provided his best performance of the season.
"It's so hot, you just have to stand there and you're sweating, so it's easy to get into the game," Ramo said. "A win is a win. It's tough to pick the best game, but when you let in one goal, you can be happy."
Ben Bishop stopped 21 shots for the Lightning (42-25-9), who went from finishing with the third-worst record last season to earning a playoff spot this time around and are battling Montreal for home-ice advantage in what looks to be a first-round series.
The Flames face the Florida Panthers Friday night in the fourth game of their trip.
Flames (31-38-7) at Lightning (42-25-9)
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
TV: Sportsnet West
RADIO: Sportsnet 960 The Fan
THE MAIN STORYLINE: The Flames, having lost their first two games on this five-tilt trip, face a Lightning team that clinched a playoff spot last outing and runs the risk of being guilty of looking forward to more meaningful clashes down the road.
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LINEUP NOTES: Flames forwards Matt Stajan and Paul Byron have gone home to Calgary for personal reasons. Byron's wife is due to give birth to their second child.
TJ Galiardi and Ben Hanowski will draw into the lineup.
D Tyler Wotherspoon is out for the season due to a shoulder injury that required surgery. The club summoned both Chris Breen and Mark Cundari from the AHL ranks and Breen is slated play tonight.
Karri Ramo will start for the seventh consecutive games.
For the Lightning, Ben Bishop will start in goal and with D Michael Kostka sidelined with a concussion due to a dirty elbow from Montreal's Douglas Murray, the Lightning will insert D Mark Barberio.
BURNING QUESTION: Now that the Flames fallen to 27th in the NHL standings, will they climb back up to 26th or stay there the rest of the way?
PLAYER TO WATCH: Lightning star centre Steven Stamkos is one of the best in the game. Why wouldn't you want to watch him?
FAST FACT: The Flames are first in the league with 12 shorthanded goals. The Lightning are tied for second in the loop with 10.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "I wouldn't say I'm at the level where I was before the injury, quite yet. I think that's going to take some time. I'm excited to be back here playing, trying to help my teammates in any way possible. I think, probably, it's going to take the summer staying on rehab and continuing to train and strengthen the leg and the muscles around that." - Lightning C Steven Stamkos on where he feels from the broken leg that cost him the Olympics.
Flames Lines
Curtis Glencross-Sean Monahan-Joe Colborne
Michael Camalleri-Mikael Backlund-Jiri Hudler
Ben Hanowski-Lance Bouma-Kevin Westgarth
Bryce Van Brabant-TJ Galiardi-Brian McGrattan
TJ Brodie-Mark Giordano
Chris Butler-Kris Russell
Chad Billins-Chris Breen
Karri Ramo
Joey MacDonald
INJURED: D Tyler Wotherspoon (shoulder), RW David Jones (shoulder), D Dennis Wideman (upper body), C Markus Granlund (upper body), Ladislav Smid (upper body)
SCRATCHES: LW Kenny Agostino, D Mark Cundari, C Matt Stajan (personal), LW Paul Byron (personal)
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Grade 4-8-These slim paperbacks are made to look like actual Hogwarts tomes, complete with creased covers and plenty of marginalia scribbled by Harry and other students. Fabulous Beasts, a facsimile of Harry Potter's very own textbook, contains descriptions of 75 magical beasts, written in a wonderfully dry yet droll style by a renowned magizoologist. Quidditch is the facsimile of a Hogwarts library book, which had to be literally pried from the hands of librarian Madam Pince. It gives a comprehensive history of the game and its rules, as well as a rundown of each of the 13 league teams of Britain and Ireland. Harry Potter fans who pride themselves on knowing every minute bit of Hogwarts trivia will devour both books. From Professor Dumbledore's introductions to the price listed on the back cover (14 Sickles 3 Knuts), readers will find a wealth of detailed magical lore and laugh-out-loud humor. Neither book is as gripping as the actual series, of course, but fans who are waiting for the fifth installment will be entertained by these volumes in the meantime.
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Gr. 4-7. Because this is a "Harry Potterless" year, kids in need of a fix may find it in these two volumes. The conceit is that these are Harry's schoolbooks (Fantastic Beasts, by Newt Scamander; Quidditch, by Kennilworthy Whisp), with margin notes by Harry and pal Ron Weasley. The concept breaks down in the introductions: Professor Dumbledore explains that the books are being offered to muggles (because the proceeds of the books are going to British charity Comic Relief, a disclosure that will raise the eyebrows of any reader who undestands the importance of secrecy in the wizard world. Nevertheless, a lot of effort has gone into making these seem like real textbooks. The jackets look torn and faded, the print is (annoyingly) small, and the information is well detailed. Illustrations are in short supply, and not every fan will want to know this much about Quidditch and imaginary beasts, especially when the text is so hard to read. Buy several copies (the money really does go to charity), but expect a few disappointed readers. Ilene Cooper
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Although motion-triggered camera traps have been around for a while now, the new ones are quite advanced. The camouflaged cameras (video) are designed to be rugged enough to withstand harsh weather conditions and wild animals. According to Cambridge Consultants, the cameras also include sensors that detect vibrations from vehicles and can triangulate the sound of gunshots. That means park rangers can immediately find where poachers are and intervene.
So far the cameras are being installed in Kenya's Tsavo National Park, where rangers hope to reduce poaching instances over the next two years. The cameras are connected to the global Iridium satellite communication network and work with the free Instant Wild app, which lets anyone see the photos immediately. The smartphone-wielding public is encouraged to identify any animals in the images as part of a larger effort to help conservationists monitor wildlife.
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After the cameras have been fully installed and are working in Kenya, Cambridge Consultants said it hopes to put them in Indonesia, the Himalayas, the South Pole and Sri Lanka. Camera traps, besides producing some amazing wildlife images, can be an effective way to catch and prosecute poachers. Several years ago, a database containing camera trap images provided strong evidence against tiger poachers in Thailand.
The constant struggle between conservationists and poachers won't go away any time soon, but here's hoping that sneakier the anti-poaching technology can thwart would-be wildlife killers. The trees really do have eyes now.
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JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, the return of a popular mystery series.
When last seen, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins was driving over a cliff, apparently to his death. Rawlins is the fictional private eye who in the course of a dozen books has become one of the best-known, longest-running characters in American literature. His latest adventure is told in the new novel "Little Green."
Author Walter Mosley has written more than 40 books in many genres and received numerous honors. He joined us here earlier this week.
Walter Mosley, welcome.
WALTER MOSLEY, Author, "Little Green": It's good to be here.
JEFFREY BROWN: The return of a dead man, right?
WALTER MOSLEY: Yes.
JEFFREY BROWN: You seemed to kill off your famous hero, and then brought him back to life. Why?
WALTER MOSLEY: Well, it was first-person narrative. He wasn't dead.
He went off the cliff, and everything went black. I didn't say, "I died." I just said he went off the cliff.
I stopped writing the books because I felt I was getting stale writing the character, and I wanted to stop. And then four, five years went by, and I went, I could come back to that and do that again. And so I started over again. I did intend to end the series, but here we are.
JEFFREY BROWN: I see comparisons to Sherlock — you know, Arthur Conan Doyle kills off Sherlock Holmes and brings him back again.
It's hard to kill off a character like this.
WALTER MOSLEY: Yes, it is difficult.
And people want you to rewrite it. And I'm not really sure why Doyle came — I mean, I know he came back and he wrote it again. I don't know if it was because he didn't have money or the people were just bothering him too much. I really want to write about Easy, so …
JEFFREY BROWN: For those who don't know the Easy Rawlins books, they're set in a very particular place, Los Angeles, and particularly in the Watts area, in a time, post-World War II, from the '40s, and now this one up to the '60s.
JEFFREY BROWN: Is all of that by accident, or did you sort of — did you just find a character and you wanted to stick with him, or did you want to explore a time and place?
WALTER MOSLEY: Well, there was a couple of things.
Definitely, that's where I'm from. I'm born in '52 in Los Angeles. My family came in, in 1945-'46, mother and father from different places. And in order to put people inside the culture, you have to be inside the literature. And the black population of Los Angeles just didn't have a literature, really, not much of one anyway.
And so I decided I would write these books, so I could write about Los Angeles. I could write about post-war Los Angeles. I could write about black Los Angeles. I could do all of those things together.
JEFFREY BROWN: You had that in mind, just that there was a vacuum among particularly black literature?
WALTER MOSLEY: Yes. Oh, yes, absolutely.
JEFFREY BROWN: Because one of the running jokes in the book, although it's a serious line, is often when somebody meets Easy Rawlins for the first time and they find out what he does and they say, I never met a black private eye before. And he says, "We're a rare breed."
WALTER MOSLEY: Exactly.
JEFFREY BROWN: Which he is.
WALTER MOSLEY: Yes.
He's a new character for this world. And he's somebody who goes into places where other people can't go, being a black man, because nobody thinks that there's a black detective. So, he says, they don't see me coming. They don't know when I'm there. And they don't know I have left. That's the way he — that's the way his life is.
And it makes him an almost perfect detective.
JEFFREY BROWN: And that allows you to look at various strains of American culture, right, in this case, the '60s. Post-Watts Riots is the setting.
WALTER MOSLEY: And the beginning of the hippy movement, which is a whole other surprising event in California at this time.
JEFFREY BROWN: Yes.
WALTER MOSLEY: You know, if you're in California in 1964, it's one Los Angeles. And if you're there in 1968, there are all these hippies everywhere. Where did they come from? How did they have time to grow that hair? It was pretty amazing.
And I'm really enjoying it because, you know, it's — because so many stories have been told about L.A., but these stories, almost every one is a new story because of the point of view, not because it's a some secret that's being …
JEFFREY BROWN: Because of the new time as well.
WALTER MOSLEY: Yes. Yes. And everybody's like, you know, experiencing a different kind of world. And it's changing so quickly.
JEFFREY BROWN: You — as I said, you write in many styles and genres.
And the Easy Rawlins books are often — well, they're usually defined as crime fiction, mysteries. Do you think of them that way, or do you even think about different genres as you're working?
WALTER MOSLEY: Well, I think about genre somewhat, because once I'm in the genre, I would like to be — I like to be true to it.
JEFFREY BROWN: Right.
WALTER MOSLEY: I don't want to be one of those writers who says, well, I'm not really a mystery writer.
Well, when I write a mystery, it's a mystery. When I write a literary novel, it's a literary novel, science fiction, science fiction.
JEFFREY BROWN: What does being true to a mystery …
WALTER MOSLEY: Well, I mean, that there's a crime that's been committed that exists on a legal level, on a social level, and on a moral level, and, if you're really, really good at it, on a philosophical level.
And there has to be an answer, not necessarily a solution, but an answer to that crime, like, well, who did it? Why did they do it? Should you turn them in? A whole series of questions, and that's what mysteries do.
JEFFREY BROWN: But if you're really good at it, you're saying a level that's beyond the whodunit?
WALTER MOSLEY: Well, if you're really good at it, it makes you think about the nature of the society.
I think, at the end of this book, Easy has to make a few choices. And I — hopefully, it will make you think about the choices he has to make and why. And that goes a little bit beyond the mystery, but it stays right inside the crime. So …
JEFFREY BROWN: And, presumably, a good mystery has to be a good — I mean, qualities of a novel are the qualities of a novel.
WALTER MOSLEY: Yes, good writing is good writing, and bad writing is bad writing.
People say, well — you will say, well, this genre is better writing than this genre. I say, well, how can that possibly be? They both have sentences and words, and they're both in English. How can one be better than the other?
But there are a lot of people who do think like that. My genre, when I'm writing crime fiction, is one thing. But, like, science fiction, people completely eschew. And, romance, oh, my God, that's terrible writing. But it's not necessarily. If you're a good writer, you write a good book.
JEFFREY BROWN: I have talked to biographers who have stayed with one subject for decades. You have done that as well. Is it still fulfilling? Is it still fun?
WALTER MOSLEY: Well, it's an interesting thing. The topic that I stay with the most is black male heroes. And I think …
JEFFREY BROWN: In all these different genres.
WALTER MOSLEY: Yes, and because I'm one of the few people really ever in the history of literature in the West who writes about black male heroes.
There are a lot of protagonists, but I'm talking about heroes. I think it's really important, because every culture has their heroes. It's just that black men, people are kind of afraid of them for various reasons, various guilts, various, I don't know, issues. And so I like to write about them, and I don't think that that's running out of fashion yet.
JEFFREY BROWN: So, will there be more?
WALTER MOSLEY: Oh, yes. I have actually finished the next Easy Rawlins novel.
JEFFREY BROWN: Oh, really?
WALTER MOSLEY: My editor just today, as I was coming here, sent me an e-mail saying he has accepted the new novel. So …
JEFFREY BROWN: OK, more Easy Rawlins. This one is "Little Green."
Walter Mosley, thanks so much.
WALTER MOSLEY: Thank you.
JEFFREY BROWN: My conversation with Walter Mosley continues online, where we ask some of your questions sent in ahead of time. And you can also see him read from his new novel. That's all on our Art Beat page.


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Pinterest: Awesome Super Bowl Party Recipes
A huge bummer about living overseas was watching the Super Bowl on Monday morning when most people were supposed to be at work. And, for those who played hookey, drinking Budweiser (when you live in another country, on these occasions you go as American as you can) at 8am just is physically difficult.
This is our third Super Bowl in the USA, and my husband treats it like a national holiday. I suppose it is, in a way. My big focus is Super Bowl party food. Thank goodness for Pinterest. In addition to a gourmet hot dog bar (if it goes down well, you'll hear about it), I'm making (or would like to make):
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Hot Pizza Dip
I mean it looks like pizza on chips, right?
Source: closetcooking.com via La Jolla Mom on Pinterest
Cheese Bread Pulls
I am intrigued by this:
Source: the-girl-who-ate-everything.com via La Jolla Mom on Pinterest
Or, perhaps this:
Source: plainchicken.com via La Jolla Mom on Pinterest
Jalapeno Popper Dip
Make sure the kids don't get their hands on this one.
Source: closetcooking.com via La Jolla Mom on Pinterest
If I was motivated, I'd also make
Mini cheese corn dogs:
Source: luxefinds.com via La Jolla Mom on Pinterest
And, get ready, BUFFALO CHICKEN WING CUPCAKES!!! Just for the novelty of it, of course.
Source: cupcakeproject.com via La Jolla Mom on Pinterest
Don't forget there are a handful of Super Bowl-friendly recipes on La Jolla Mom:
Bacon Brownies (topped with caramel sauce)
The Best 7 Layer Dip (I really need to take better photos of this gem)
Rice Krispie Treat Footballs
BevMo! Super Bowl cocktail recipes (enter the giveaway here for a BevMo! gift card)
Have a safe weekend and enjoy! All of the recipes and MORE are on my Super Bowl Pinterest board.
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Here' the Question and Answer Portion of the Mutya ng Pilipinas 2013 Finalists.
Question for Asdis Karlsdottir: What moment in your life has molded you?
Asdis' answer: The way my family raised me. They taught me to be warm, kind and hospitable
Question for Nazita Reyhanian: Do you believe that Filipino women are now at par with Filipino men?
Answer of Mutya 31: Doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman. You shouldn't base it on age, gender and ethnicity. I believe that everyone is equal.
Question for Angeli Dione Gomez: What can Western women learn from Filipinas?
Angeli's answer: Western women can learn our virtues and culture
Question for Maureen Ann Montagne: Aside from being beautiful, what makes the Filipina stand out in international pageants!
Answer of Mutya 13: The Filipino determination really does help. A good heart, determination, a beautiful soul.
Question for Catherine Denise Trivino: Do we need more laws more protection of women in the Philippines?
Answer of Mutya 20: We need more laws. I very much appreciate the support for the RH Bill.
Question for Joselle Mariano: As a young Pinay, what should you prioritize?
Joselle's answer: I would prioritize my studies because it helps you compete in pageants with pride and dignity
Question for Zandra Flores: Aside from beauty tourism, what other causes would you like to support?
Answer of Mutya 9: I want to be involved in the security of the place, the cleanliness, that the transport be made easy (sic), easy currency exchange and promote Pangasinan (sic).
Question for Vina Openiano: Who do you think is a role model for Filipinas?
Vina's answer: Janine Tugonon because she brought honor to our country
Question for Koreen Medina: What defines a Filipino woman? Beauty, character or intelligence. Explain.
Answer of Mutya 21: Character. It shows how you were raised. The people around you. Your family is very important.
Question for Kristian Nolasco: How does a Filipina keep up with fast-changing times?
Kristian's answer: Strength of character because it gives you substance, not just a pretty face.


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Claremont High School baseball coach Geoff Ranney was fired on Monday, four games from completing his third season at the school.
When Ranney was relieved of his duties, Claremont had a 3-19 overall record and 2-9 mark in the Sierra League that tied it for fifth place in the six-team league.
"I really felt as if this year we would continue to make progress as a program. Recently I became convinced this was no longer true," Claremont principal Brett O'Connor said in a press release. "Geoff gave all he had to this program 12 months per year for three years. He is very knowledgeable and passionate about baseball. Unfortunately, things didn't work out the way he or I wanted."
Ranney led Claremont to the second round of the playoffs each of his first two seasons after finishing in a tie for second place in the Sierra League last season and a tie for third in 2012. His cumulative league record in his first two seasons was 15-14-1 and his cumulative overall record was 27-24-2.
The timing of Ranney's dismissal, according to O'Connor, allowed for an earlier start to Claremont's search for a new baseball coach.
Ranney has served as a Social Science teacher at Claremont since the beginning of the 2012-13 school year, according to his LinkedIn account.
Claremont junior varsity baseball coach Ryan Roberts will serve as interim coach of the varsity team for the final four games, beginning Wednesday when the Wolfpack hosts Chino Hills.
Ranney led Upland Christian to a CIF-SS Division VII championship in 2007, his second of four seasons at the school. Upland Christian lost a rematch with Calabasas Viewpoint in the CIF-SS Division VII final in 2008.


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Lisbon, Portugal, 2013/02/20 - Contact Center Technology Leader Releases White Paper on Roadmap for Technology - Enabled Improvement - Altitude.com.
Altitude Software, a global leader in contact center technology, has released a new white paper to provide guidance on technology-enabled changes in the contact center that can help organizations respond to critical shifts in customer behavior.
The surveys and research available for major markets worldwide make it clear that customer satisfaction indexes haven't really improved for most industries over the last ten years. In fact, they have only kept steady or even declined. "The art of customer satisfaction has not become any easier to master in the past decade" remarks Miguel Lopes, Executive Marketing Vice President at Altitude Software. "In our new world of transparency, of interconnected people, technology continually disrupts the way companies relate to customers, and costumers are growing more powerful."
Altitude Software's new White Paper "Seven Customer Contact Trends Through 2015" aims to provide guidance on the technology-enabled trends that can help companies improve contact center's ability to deal with this changing reality, better serve customers and improve business.
These key trends are the building blocks of an agenda for technology-driven change in the contact center. This perspective comes from Altitude Software's 20 years of creating the future as a leading vendor of unified customer interactions solutions.
Altitude Software delivers worldwide a robust, modular solution that handles all customer interactions and unifies all touch points throughout the organization in an open, platform-independent solution, based on standards. With 17 offices in four continents and a strong partner network, Altitude Software leverages existing technology investments, adding value without disruption across a wide range of situations with low total cost of ownership.
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ByChip Cummins
By Paul Vieira
Alberta Premier Alison Redford made an unusual television appeal late Thursday night to her resource-rich–but suddenly cash-strapped–province. She warned of a "bitumen bubble" that is squeezing provincial finances and underscoring the severity of the economic pressure from sharply falling prices for Canadian crude.
The fundamental problem: As energy companies ramp up output capacity for oil-sands crude—basically bitumen mixed with quartz sand—they have no place to send it, resulting in a widening gap between U.S. and international oil prices and prices Canadian producers can get for their crude.
In 2011, the province's energy minister at the time, Ron Liepert, warned in a WSJ page-one article that if new pipelines weren't built, Alberta would be "landlocked in bitumen" by 2020. Based on Ms. Redford's warning, the day of reckoning may be coming much earlier.
Thursday night, she warned voters in the western Canadian province that Edmonton faced a dire fiscal squeeze due to the falling prices. But the problem isn't Alberta's alone. Weak Canadian prices are already taking a bite out of Canada's gross domestic product and government revenue, the Bank of Canada said this week. See our story here.
Ms. Redford said the lower prices could reduce provincial revenue in the current fiscal year by roughly six billion Canadian dollars ($5.98 billion), or the equivalent of what the province spends annually on education.
"It means we have to make some very difficult choices," said Ms. Redford. One of those choices, however, isn't raising taxes, she said. "We have to put Alberta's finances on a more stable footing. A province as prosperous as Alberta should not be as susceptible as we are to swings in the price of oil and gas."
The Alberta government had already warned the deficit for fiscal 2013 would swell, from a previously estimated C$800 million to as much as C$3 billion. The revenue hit for Alberta means less money available to build much-needed infrastructure–from roads and highways to schools and hospitals–as its population continues to swell and as immigrants and Canadians flock there in search for work.
Moreover, Alberta's fiscal crunch emerges even though it is one of the more dynamic economies in North America, with the jobless rate at 4.5%, and non-energy sectors such as forestry and construction booming in the province. The question remains, though, how long that can continue with the province's biggest engine of economic output choking on falling oil prices.


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The Keymaster
Roth Larcen
Chief smith at Fort Pelamence
Roth Larcen is the chief smith at the military outpost of Fort Pelamence in Spirilidon. A gruff and impatient man, Larcen is one of the few people in the Fort who will stand up to Commander Hob Bosskins.
Larcen is an aging human with long grey hair and a thick beard. He has large muscles from many years working bellow and anvil.
Larcen was born in Shedhmi, and though he was not the most intelligent child, he quickly developed great strength. He helped his father, a lumberjack, until the town's smith and chandler noticed the boy's power. He hired him as an apprentice, and within a year, Larcen was a full-time smith.
Some years later, a party of soldiers passed through Shedhmi, and left their armour with Larcen to be repaired. So impressed were they by his skill, they asked him to accompany them back to the capital. Larcen accepted, and was soon an official member of the King's military.
Larcen stayed in Marsheusis for many years, until Commander Hob Bosskins personally requested he transfer from the capital to Fort Pelamence. Larcen accepted and has worked at the Fort ever since.


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'Arrested Development' Season 4: Andy Richter Returns, With Conan O'Brien!
Throw some new tallies on both sides of the 'Arrested Development' season 4 board? Last night, the once and future 'Arrested Development' star Will Arnett dropped by 'Conan' in promotion of NBC's 'Up All Night,' but couldn't resist sharing a few secrets of the upcoming 'Arrested Development' reunion, particularly with two of his cast-mates sitting beside him! That's right, not only will Andy Richter return for the revival, but his late night boss Conan O'Brien will put in an appearance as well!


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on 5/31/2015
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Newshosting's newsreader comes free with Newshosting's Usenet service and while it's not as advanced as Newsbin. It does the job well and has usenet search built in. It's only $10/month for the bundled Usenet service, newsreader and search. Newshosting's newsreader covers all the basics like unrar, unzip and unpar so you can just search for what you want on Usenet and download it. Highly Recommended
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25 CFR 517.9 - Fees.
(a)In general. Fees pursuant to the FOIA shall be assessed according to the schedule contained in paragraph (b) of this section for services rendered by the Commission in response to requests for records under this part. All fees shall be charged to the requester, except where the charging of fees is limited under paragraph (d) of this section or where a waiver or reduction of fees is granted under paragraph (c) of this section. Payment of fees should be by check or money order made payable to the Treasury of the United States.
(b)Charges for responding to FOIA requests. The following fees shall be assessed in responding to requests for records submitted under this part, unless a waiver or reduction of fees has been granted pursuant to paragraph (c) of this section:
(1)Copies. The FOIA Officer shall charge $0.15 per page for copies of documents up to 8 1/2 × 14. For copies prepared by computer, the FOIA Officer will charge actual costs of production of the computer printouts, including operator time. For other methods of reproduction, the FOIA Officer shall charge the actual costs of producing the documents.
(i)Manual searches. Whenever feasible, the FOIA Officer will charge at the salary rate (basic pay plus a percent for benefits) of the employee or employees performing the search. However, where a homogenous class of personnel is used exclusively in a search (e.g. all administrative/clerical or all professional/executive), the FOIA Officer shall charge $4.45 per quarter hour for clerical time and $7.75 per quarter hour for professional time. Charges for search time less than a full hour will be in increments of quarter hours.
(ii)Computer searches. The FOIA Officer will charge the actual direct costs of conducting computer searches. These direct costs shall include the cost of operating the central processing unit for that portion of operating time that is directly attributable to searching for requested records, as well as the costs of operator/programmer salary apportionable to the search. The Commission is not required to alter or develop programming to conduct searches.
(3)Review fees. Review fees shall be assessed only with respect to those requesters who seek records for a commercial use under paragraph (d)(1) of this section. Review fees shall be assessed at the same rates as those listed under paragraph (b)(2)(i) of this section. Review fees shall be assessed only for the initial record review, for example, review undertaken when the FOIA Officer analyzes the applicability of a particular exemption to a particular record or portion thereof at the initial request level. No charge shall be assessed at the administrative appeal level of an exemption already applied.
(c)Statutory waiver. Documents shall be furnished without charge or at a charge below that listed in paragraph (b) of this section where it is determined, based upon information provided by a requester or otherwise made known to the FOIA Officer, that disclosure of the requested information is in the public interest. Disclosure is in the public interest if it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of government operations and is not primarily for commercial purposes. Requests for a waiver or reduction of fees shall be considered on a case by case basis. In order to determine whether the fee waiver requirement is met, the FOIA Officer shall consider the following six factors:
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(4) The significance of the contribution to public understanding. Whether the disclosure is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of government operations or activities;
(5) The existence and magnitude of commercial interest. Whether the requester has a commercial interest that would be furthered by the requested disclosure; and, if so
(6) The primary interest in disclosure. Whether the magnitude of the identified commercial interest of the requester is sufficiently large, in comparison with the public interest in disclosure, that disclosure is primarily in the commercial interest of the requester.
(d)Types of requesters. There are four categories of FOIA requesters: Commercial use requesters, educational and non-commercial scientific institutional requesters; representative of the news media; and all other requesters. These terms are defined in Sec. 517.3. The following specific levels of fees are prescribed for each of these categories:
(1)Commercial use requesters. The FOIA Officer shall charge commercial use requesters the full direct costs of searching for, reviewing, and duplicating requested records.
(2)Educational and non-commercial scientific institution requesters. The FOIA Officer shall charge educational and non-commercial scientific institution requesters for document duplication only, except that the first 100 pages of copies shall be provided without charge.
(3)News media requesters. The FOIA Officer shall charge news media requesters for document duplication costs only, except that the first 100 pages of paper copies shall be provided without charge.
(4)All other requesters. The FOIA Officer shall charge requesters who do not fall into any of the categories in paragraphs (d)(1) through (3) of this section fees which recover the full reasonable direct costs incurred for searching for and reproducing records if that total costs exceeds $15.00, except that the first 100 pages and the first two hours of manual search time shall not be charged. To apply this term to computer searches, the FOIA Officer shall determine the total hourly cost of operating the central processing unit and the operator's salary (plus 16 percent for benefits). When the cost of the search equals the equivalent dollar amount of two hours of the salary of the person performing the search, the FOIA Officer will begin assessing charges for the computer search.
(e)Charges for unsuccessful searches. Ordinarily, no charges will be assessed when requested records are not found or when records located are withheld as exempt. However, if the requester has been notified of the estimated cost of the search time and has been advised specifically that the requested records may not exist or may be withheld as exempt, fees may be charged.
(f)Charges for interest. The FOIA Officer may assess interest charges on an unpaid bill, accrued under previous FOIA request(s), starting the 31st day following the day on which the bill was sent to you. A fee received by the FOIA Officer, even if not processed, will result in a stay of the accrual of interest. The Commission shall follow the provisions of the Debt Collection Act of 1982, as amended, and the implementing procedures to recover any indebtedness owed to the Commission.
(g)Aggregating requests. The requester or a group of requesters may not submit multiple requests at the same time, each seeking portions of a document or documents solely in order to avoid payment of fees. When the FOIA Officer reasonably believes that a requester is attempting to divide a request into a series of requests to evade an assessment of fees, the FOIA Officer may aggregate such request and charge accordingly.
(h)Advance payment of fees. Fees may be paid upon provision of the requested records, except that payment may be required prior to that time if the requester has previously failed to pay fees or if the FOIA Officer determines the total fee will exceed $250.00. When payment is required in advance of the processing of a request, the time limits prescribed in § 517.6 shall not be deemed to begin until the FOIA Officer has received payment of the assessed fee.
(i)Payment of fees. Where it is anticipated that the cost of providing the requested record will exceed $25.00 after the free duplication and search time has been calculated, and the requester has not indicated in advance a willingness to pay a fee greater than $25.00, the FOIA Officer shall promptly notify the requester of the amount of the anticipated fee or a portion thereof, which can readily be estimated. The notification shall offer the requester an opportunity to confer with agency representatives for the purpose of reformulating the request so as to meet the requester's needs at a reduced cost.


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Capturing the attention of those domestically and overseas, Mark McNairy held his own, long prior to his recent handing of the reins at Woolrich Woolen Mills. GQ catch up with the American designer through a selection of candid questions which dabble into his life and insights on several current movements. The article can be seen directly over at GQ while a selection of answers are posted below.
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My Roots
"My obsession with shoes started in junior high. I had a hundred pairs of basketball sneakers lined up around my room. All the classics: Chuck Taylors, Jabbars, Nike Blazers, Pro-Keds."
No Middlemen
"I started Mark McNairy New Amsterdam in 2008. We have apparel and shoes. The shoes are a partnership between me and Sanders, a factory in Northampton, England. That's what makes them affordable— I'm not buying them and marking them up again."
Tricks of the Tradesman
"I try to use shoe trees—they help shoes keep their shape and absorb some of the sweat. I don't own a suede brush, though. If you scuff your suede, just rub the two shoes together and it'll buff right out."
God Bless Americana
"There's all this talk of the heritage trend and how long it's going to last. It's more than a trend—it's men going back to wearing classics."
The Present Future
"My first collection for Woolrich Woolen Mills comes out this fall. The references are the U.S. Navy and the Ivy League. I was calling it Naval Intelligence, but then when I was in Puerto Rico, I found this "U.S.S. Oxford" patch at a hat store. It pretty much says it all."


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The injury woes continue for the Calgary Flames.
The team was banged up in Steel City in a 4-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday afternoon, losing veteran forward Curtis Glencross and sturdy rearguard Kris Russell, who both left the game with apparent knee injuries.
"If you look at the replay from yesterday, it doesn't look very good," Flames bench boss Bob Hartley said Sunday after practice about Glencross.
Glencross, who recently returned to action after being sidelined 15 games with a previous injury on the same left knee, fell awkwardly to the ice Saturday after hitting Pens rookie Olli Maatta, and has since been placed on injured reserve.
And losing Russell will be another blow to the Flames (13-17-6), who sit in second-last place in the NHL's Pacific division with 32 points.
"When's the last time you can remember a bad play from Kris Russell that resulted in the goal?" Hartley said. "That's another huge loss."
But where there's injuries, there's opportunity.
Enter Chris Breen.
Since returning Nov. 25 from a conditioning stint with the Abbotsford Heat, the 6-foot-6, 225-lb. defenceman hasn't seen any action during that span and has logged only three pro games this season.
Hartley confirms Breen will get his shot Monday when the Flames host the St. Louis Blues (6 p.m., Saddledome, Sportsnet Flames/Sportsnet 960 The Fan).
"It's tough not to play and have to watch games, but I'm learning a lot with coaches and the other guys at the same time," Breen said. "I've got to make the most of my opportunity and play my game, compete for my spot. That's why I'm here — to push for that spot. And this is my opportunity."
The Flames also recalled defenceman Derek Smith from Abbotsford on Saturday to bolster their depleted blueline, with Dennis Wideman still shelved with a hand injury and Ladislav Smid, who went heavily into the boards against the Pens, not practising with the team Sunday.
While Hartley says Smid's absence was to nurse bumps and bruises, his status for the Blues tilt is uncertain.
If Smith does draw in, he too will look to make a statement and avoid picking up a return ticket to Abbotsford.
"It's an opportunity for us to step up and play bigger roles on this team and try and get some points," Smith said. "With guys going down, it's unfortunate, but you've got to make the most of your opportunity. I've got to show that I belong here, not just to be here but to help this team win and be a big part of it."
With Glencross out, TJ Galiardi, a healthy scratch for the Flames since returning from injury for one game Dec. 12, will be in the lineup Monday.
"It's frustrating when you're not playing, and it's tough to sit out and watch especially when the boys are losing," Galiardi said. "I want to come in and play my game and not worry about anything else."
After Monday's game, the Flames will have three days off before retiring to the Saddledome to host the Edmonton Oilers on Dec. 27.
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The Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) is thrilled to announce publication of Make Your Mark by Freda Lewis-Hall, MD, chief medical officer of Pfizer Inc. Make Your Mark contains inspirational leadership lessons gleaned from Dr. Lewis-Hall's remarkable career in healthcare, as well as inspiration gained from her family, mentors and colleagues. Dr. Lewis-Hall's warm, caring and solid leadership lessons will inspire today's female leaders to create a meaningful career for themselves and others.
Dr. Lewis-Hall is a long-time supporter and member of the HBA and was named the 2011 HBA Woman of the Year. "I'm so pleased to have the honor of authoring the first of a series to be released by the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association," said Dr. Lewis-Hall. "The HBA has been an agent of positive growth for many women who have made significant contributions to the advancement of healthcare."
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In 2010, Dr. Lewis-Hall was appointed by the Obama Administration to the inaugural board of governors for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and in 2012, she was appointed chair of the Cures Acceleration Network Review Board and a member of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) advisory council of the National Institutes of Health. She also serves on the executive committee of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative and on numerous other boards, including those of Harvard Medical School, Save the Children, The Institute of Medicine's Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, and the American Heart Association's "Power to End Stroke" initiative.
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prematurely terminated connection during a large file transfer
Hi all;
I have a server running SuSE 9.3 with OpenSSH v 4.3_p2 with OpenSSL 0.9.8a. I have a bunch of user accounts created, all of which are running chrooted with default user shell being rssh-2.3.2. The server is connected to the Internet. Everything is up and running. The problem, however, is that when I try to transfer a large file, one that's bigger than 2 BG, the connection gets terminated in the middle of transfer. I checked the /var/log/messages file but it doesn't say anything about any disconnected sessions. Is there a file for me to check that would display any information about terminating a connection? Is there a file that contains setting limiting file size? If so, where is it?
I also noticed that I'm being bombarded with false login attempts. What I don't like is that the server allows over 30 login attempts from a single IP address, although on different ports, before discarding that connection. How can I limit login attempts to, say, 5 from a single IP address? I looked in ssh_config and sshd_config but I didn't find anything of that sort.
Thank you so much for your help.
Maybe your sshd is not compiled for large file support?
As root
strings `which sshd` | grep open | grep 64
then I think you have to recompile sshd.
You're not transfering to a fat16 system? otherwise it can't work.
For failed logins, go to security forums, there is a sticky post
no, I'm not transferring to fat16 system. I think it's ext3 or reiser4.
I tried, as root, the command:
strings 'which sshd' | grep open | grep 64
but I get this:
strings: 'which sshd' : No such file
what other command I can use on SuSE 9.3 to see if the daemon supports large file transport?
its ` not ' so it gives:
strings `which sshd` | grep open | grep 64
Thanks for the correction. I typed:
strings `which sshd` | grep open | grep 64
strings `which sshd` | grep open
strings `which sshd`
One other thing, I created an identical copy of the server on a local network. I wanted to see if I'd get the same problem when the connection is via a local network. Well, I transferred 25 GB file with no problem. The only difference is the transfer rate. It took about 4 hrs to do it on a LAN. It would take about 16 hrs to transfer 6 GB file over the Internet. So, maybe it's a problem with the timing not the amount of data? What do you think?
I don't see how time would affect the connection.
From the same client you try on a remote server and then on a local server (exactly the same you are sure?) and only works on a local one? Strange...
strings `which sshd` gives nothing?
which sshd
doesn't give anything ?
which sshd should give you the absolute path and filename of the sshd server.
on my machine it expands to
strings /usr/sbin/sshd | grep open | grep 64
which gives
debian:~# strings `which ssh` | grep fopen
I think you should check your networking switch port speeds. I have found that if the network switch has its ports physically set to "auto-negotiation", it can wreak havoc on Linux system. Also you should set your network card to specifically 10 or 100 Mbs. Setting the NIC and the Switch to the same speed might resolve those issues. Don't forget to set the duplex the same as well.
Hope this helps.
My server is connected to the outside world through a cisco router. I have both the speed and the duplex set to auto. I know how to change those values on the router. But I have no idea how to change it on my server. I looked through the menus on YaST (SuSE configuration utility) but I didn't find anything. How would I change it using the console?
On SuSE I used 'whereis sshd' to give me the absolute path to the sshd. It's '/usr/local/sbin/sshd'. Then I typed:
# strings `/usr/local/sbin/sshd` | grep fopen
As for my servers being the same; the hardware differs (local server is an old-piece-of-junk desktop computer and the remote server is a state-of-the-art, brand-new, industrial-grade server) but the software is exactly the same. So, the only thing that differs is that one is local and the other is remote.
I did something else; at pretty much the same time I connected to the remote server using SFTP client to transfer the large test file, and I connected using PuTTy to look at the files on the remote server. After about 4 hrs of continuous connection on both clients (SFTP and PuTTy), all of a sudden SFTP client reported an error in file transfer. It didn't disconnect. The SFTP client was still connected. It's just the file transfer that was affected. The PuTTy connection was also not affected.
I don't know where to look for the error message on the failed connection. Maybe that could help me troubleshoot the problem. Any ideas? Thanks a bunch.
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