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First things first: Kentucky is not better than the Charlotte Bobcats. Every time a great, star-studded basketball team begins to roll through the NCAA Tournament, we undergo the "Could [Great College Team A] beat [Really Bad NBA Team B]?" debate. It is a fun time-waster, but it is silly. Rotation players on even the worst NBA teams were still college stars, right?
Let's compare the lineups of this Kentucky team and the Charlotte Bobcats, using each Bobcat's stats from his final college season:
- 1: Marquis Teague (32.5 MPG, 10.0 PPG, 2.6 RPG, 4.8 APG) vs. D.J. Augustin (37.3 MPG, 19.2 PPG, 2.9 RPG, 5.8 APG). Advantage: Charlotte.
- 2: Doron Lamb (31.0 MPG, 13.6 PPG, 2.8 RPG, 1.5 APG) vs. Kemba Walker (37.6 MPG, 23.5 PPG, 5.4 RPG, 4.5 APG). Advantage: Charlotte.
- 3: Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (31.2 MPG, 12.0 PPG, 7.6 RPG, 1.9 APG) vs. Gerald Henderson (29.7 MPG, 16.5 PPG, 4.9 RPG, 2.5 APG). Advantage: ...wait, Gerald Henderson is a starter on an NBA team? [Looks up stats] Wait ... Gerald Henderson is playing 33 minutes per game for an NBA team? Advantage: Kentucky.
- 4: Terrence Jones (29.2 MPG, 12.6 PPG, 7.2 RPG, 1.4 APG) vs. Corey Maggette (17.7 MPG, 10.6 PPG, 3.9 RPG, 1.5 APG), I guess. Or Tyrus Thomas. Your choice. Advantage: Charlotte, by a small margin.
- 5: Anthony Davis (31.7 MPG, 14.3 PPG, 10.1 RPG, 1.1 APG) vs. Byron Mullens (20.3 MPG, 8.8 PPG, 4.7 RPG, 0.3 APG). Advantage: ...you're kidding, right? Byron Mullens is averaging 20 minutes per game? And his primary backup is something called Bismack Biyombo? Yeah, there are too many damn NBA teams. Advantage: Kentucky.
Okay, so that was closer than I anticipated. Let's just move on before I start aching any further for the remaining NBA fans in Charlotte.
Kentucky head coach John Calipari mourns the NBA's one-and-done rules, but he isn't going to stop playing the one-and-done game. That he has built three consecutive great teams in Lexington with what feels like 100 percent turnover from year to year is amazing. Also amazing: the maturity with which this young team has played in the NCAA Tournament. They better be on their game to get past what is a salty, athletic, peaking Louisville team, but it is very obvious why they are the favorites. They not only have the best player, but they also have the most good players, too. Despite the same meager depth that faces Kansas and Ohio State, this is a great, great team with a wealth of weapons. But they still have some work to do.
Kentucky (36-2)
Opp. | |
Pace (No. of Possessions) |
65.0 | |
Points Per Possession (PPP) |
1.20 | 0.93 |
Points Per Shot (PPS) |
1.38 | 1.02 |
True Shooting % | 58.3% | 46.0% |
UK | Opp. | |
Assists/Gm | 13.4 | 10.6 |
Steals/Gm | 6.1 | 5.4 |
Turnovers/Gm | 11.3 | 11.7 |
Ball Control Index (BCI) (Assists + Steals) / TO |
1.73 | 1.37 |
UK | Opp. | |
Expected Off. Rebounds/Gm | 11.4 | 13.9 |
Offensive Rebounds/Gm | 12.3 | 12.0 |
Exp. Rebounding Margin | +2.8 |
Aside from perhaps a few deficiencies in the ball-handling game (defense, not offense), it is difficult to find much of a weakness in these numbers. They shoot the ball well from inside and beyond the arc. They don't turn the ball over. They out-rebound opponents by a fair margin (though in going for blocks -- they lead the nation in blocks, by the way -- they occasionally leave themselves vulnerable to offensive rebounds). They shoot 3-pointers almost as well as they allow their opponents to shoot 2-pointers. This is a wonderfully well-rounded team. If you are going to beat them, you almost definitely have to exploit their vulnerability on the glass and in the simple fact that they won't turn you over very much. It also might help to win the 3-point battle, which is easier said than done.
In Kentucky's two losses, they allowed Indiana and Vanderbilt to grab 26 offensive rebounds. As a bonus, Indiana made nine of 15 3-pointers against UK, while Vanderbilt held the Wildcats to 6-for-28 shooting beyond the arc in the SEC Tournament. (As much as a defense can "hold" an offense to poor 3-point shooting, anyway.) The 3-pointer is certainly an equalizer, and it can turn on teams at random times. The good news for Kentucky against Louisville, however, is that the Cardinals, while streaky, are on average rather terrible from the 3-point line.
Ken Pomeroy Stats
UK Offense vs UL Defense Ranks |
UK Offense | UL Defense | Advantage | |
Efficiency | 2 | 1 | Push |
Effective FG% | 13 | 3 | Push |
Turnover % | 20 | 34 | Push |
Off. Reb. % | 18 | 236 | UK Big |
UL Offense vs UK Defense Ranks |
UL Offense | UK Defense | Advantage | |
Efficiency | 102 | 11 | UK |
Effective FG% | 225 | 1 | UK Big |
Turnover % | 217 | 298 | UL |
Off. Reb. % | 56 | 104 | UL |
FTA/FGA | 164 | 8 | UK Big |
Where the Wildcats are weakest
They indeed do not force turnovers; it is not part of the defensive gameplan. They rank just 298th in Def. TO% and 200th in steals, which means they will most likely fail to take advantage of one (of many) of Louisville's offensive deficiencies. They also rank 187th in Def. FT%, which means they send guards to the line quite a bit.
Peripherally speaking, Kentucky also has an issue with depth (322nd in Bench Minutes) and experience (340th in Pomeroy's Experience measure). But it hasn't cost them to date, and it probably won't this weekend.
Where they are best
Everywhere else. On offense, they shoot well -- 21st in offensive 2PT%, 37th in offensive 3PT%, 59th in offensive FT% -- and don't give up costly steals. On defense, they block more shots than anybody in the country, they hold opponents to the second-lowest 2PT% in the country, and they tend to defend the 3-point line well, too. They are also 12th in the country in Effective Height (which probably goes without saying considering the blocks).
Kentucky Season to Date
- Wins Versus Top 100 Teams (Team Rank is from KenPom.com)
vs. No. 4 Kansas, 75-65
No. 7 North Carolina, 73-72
vs. No. 11 Indiana, 102-90
No. 12 Florida, 78-58
at No. 12 Florida, 74-59
vs. No. 12 Florida, 74-71
No. 15 Louisville, 69-62
at No. 16 Vanderbilt, 69-63
No. 16 Vanderbilt, 83-74
vs. No. 17 Baylor, 82-70
vs. No. 27 Iowa State, 87-71
No. 30 Alabama, 77-71
at No. 62 Tennessee, 65-62
No. 62 Tennessee, 69-44
No. 88 Ole Miss, 77-62
at No. 89 Mississippi State, 73-64
at No. 98 LSU, 74-50
vs. No. 98 LSU, 60-51
vs. No. 99 Old Dominion, 62-52 - Losses
at No. 11 Indiana, 72-73
vs. No. 16 Vanderbilt, 64-71
10-2 versus the Top 20, 19-2 versus the Top 100. That isn't bad. They did have some near-misses -- on back-to-back Saturdays, they barely got past Tennessee (in Knoxville) and Alabama (at home). But that was in January. Aside from Florida in the SEC Tournament, no team not named Vanderbilt has stayed within even eight points of the Wildcats since the calendar flipped to February.
Kentucky Player Stats
Player | AdjGS*/Gm | GmSc/Min | Line |
Anthony Davis (6'10, 220, Fr.) | 20.5 | 0.65 | 31.7 MPG, 14.3 PPG (67% 2PT, 15% 3PT, 71% FT), 10.1 RPG, 4.6 BPG, 1.3 SPG, 1.1 APG |
Terrence Jones (6'9, 252, So.) | 13.1 | 0.45 | 29.2 MPG, 12.6 PPG (53% 2PT, 33% 3PT, 64% FT), 7.2 RPG, 1.8 BPG, 1.4 APG, 1.3 SPG, 1.7 TOPG |
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (6'7, 232, Fr.) | 12.2 | 0.39 | 31.2 MPG, 12.0 PPG (53% 2PT, 26% 3PT, 76% FT), 7.6 RPG, 1.9 APG, 1.0 SPG, 2.2 TOPG |
Doron Lamb (6'4, 210, So.) | 10.9 | 0.35 | 31.0 MPG, 13.6 PPG (47% 2PT, 47% 3PT, 83% FT), 2.8 RPG, 1.5 APG, 1.0 TOPG |
Darius Miller (6'8, 235, Sr.) | 8.4 | 0.32 | 26.0 MPG, 10.0 PPG (57% 2PT, 38% 3PT, 79% FT), 2.7 RPG, 2.2 APG, 1.4 TOPG |
Marquis Teague (6'2, 189, Fr.) | 7.8 | 0.24 | 32.5 MPG, 10.0 PPG (44% 2PT, 31% 3PT, 72% FT), 4.8 APG, 2.6 RPG, 2.8 TOPG |
Kyle Wiltjer (6'9, 239, Fr.) | 3.7 | 0.31 | 11.9 MPG, 5.1 PPG (44% 2PT, 43% 3PT, 82% FT), 1.8 RPG |
Eloy Vargas (6'11, 244, Sr.) | 0.9 | 0.14 | 6.3 MPG, 0.9 PPG, 1.8 RPG |
* AdjGS = a take-off of the Game Score metric (definition here) accepted by a lot of basketball stat nerds. It redistributes a team's points based not only on points scored, but also by giving credit for assists, rebounds (offensive & defensive), steals, blocks, turnovers and fouls. It is a stat intended to determine who had the biggest overall impact on the game itself, instead of just how many balls a player put through a basket.
- Highest Usage%: Jones (23%), Wiltjer (22%), Kidd-Gilchrist (21%), Lamb (20%)
- Highest Floor%: Davis (52%), Lamb (44%), Jones (42%), Miller (42%)
- Highest %Pass: Teague (67%), Miller (55%), Kidd-Gilchrist (44%), Lamb (40%)
- Highest %Shoot: Wiltjer (53%), Davis (42%), Lamb (42%), Jones (41%)
- Highest %Fouled: Davis (20%), Jones (15%), Kidd-Gilchrist (15%), Lamb (14%)
- Highest %T/O: Wiltjer (9%), Kidd-Gilchrist (8%), Jones (7%), Teague (7%)
The whole "100 percent turnover from year to year" thing is made easier when you bring in freshmen as good as Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. The two have combined with sophomores Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb to create the most fearsome foursome (sorry) in the country this season. Throw in steady role players like Darius Miller (nail open shots, pass to the open man), Marquis Teague (dish to the open man, often in lob form), and Kyle Wiltjer (nail open shots), and it isn't hard to see why the Wildcats have lost just twice this season.
That said, this isn't a flawless team.
1. There is no true go-to scorer -- Kidd-Gilchrist and Lamb have obviously had plenty of moments, but their Usage Rate suggests that neither has just a ton of experience when it comes to "We need a basket, and I'm putting this team on my shoulders." Even distribution is often a good thing, and with nobody over 23 percent Usage, that's what Kentucky has here, but having a go-to guy is obviously quite nice come Final Four time.
2. They can sometimes lose the plot on offense. Anthony Davis and Terrence Jones have combined to take 68 3-pointers this year despite the fact that they make only 28 percent of them. Marquis Teague has suffered through turnoveritis at times (six versus Old Dominion, six versus Lamar, five versus Tennessee, five versus Florida, four in the Elite Eight versus Baylor). And again, they couldn't find the range on their 3-pointers versus Vanderbilt (4-for-16 in the first half) but just kept right on taking them (2-for-12 in the second). This is still a young team. But they have won big this year because their bouts with immaturity tend to only last possessions at a time, not halves at a time.
3. If something happens to Marquis Teague ... what happens? Only eight players have logged more than 50 minutes of game time for the Wildcats this season, only two of whom could even pretend to be point guards. Darius Miller might be the second-best passer on the team. Teague has handled the stresses of playing point for a big-time team quite well for a freshman; he does average nearly three turnovers per game, but in almost 33 minutes per contest. But if something happens to him -- he picks up a second (or third) foul early, he tweaks an ankle -- I'm not sure what the backup plan is. Kentucky is explosive enough to potentially survive without a primary distributor (after all, they do it for at least 7.5 minutes per contest). But with Louisville's aggressive backcourt, it could be an issue.
4. They are not necessarily battle-tested in the crunch time department. They have played only seven games all season that were decided by six points or fewer or in overtime. Final Four opponent Louisville has played 11. This only matters if Louisville can keep it close into the final minutes, of course, but it is still at least a small concern.
5. Anthony Davis' ankle is only 90 percent. But we're sort of grasping at straws now.
Again, they are the favorites for a reason. Saturday's game versus Louisville will be the most intense this batch of freshmen and sophomores has ever played, but they have passed every test to date. The only reason to truly doubt them at this point is to point out that they are young, or point out that John Calipari hasn't won a national title yet. Neither of those reasons has to do with this specific collection of players.


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In Katherine Mansfield's story "The Fly," what does the fly represent?
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The "boss" cannot get over the grief of losing his son in the war, but one day after the visit of a friend who shares the same fate, he distractly plays with a fly landing on his desk in his office. He teases the fly by letting a drop of ink fall on it, then watches it struggle to get free. He repeats the exercise another time, then another, encouraging it on, but the fly eventually drowns and dies.
The fly represents man in his frailty, who is no equal match against fate, which always wins in the end. He realises, at least on a subconscious level, a certain absurdity and non-reason of existence. It is no one's fault his son died, it could not be helped; and the only thing he can do at present is accept his son's death and get on with his own life.
It is interesting that "the boss" promptly forgets what he was preoccupied with when interrupted. Perhaps this is the first step indeed towards inner healing.
Posted by parkerlee on September 18, 2008 at 11:28 PM (Answer #1)
The fly represents more then just man. It represents the boss and his struggle for control. "the boss" had everything set up for his son to take over, he thought he was in control of everything. It was only an illusion to him. In the end he is destroyed( as the fly) as that represents his life. With out his sence of control he has nothing. His desire to control is what destroys him. In reality he has no control. Woodifield is a foil to the boss as aslo does not have control. katherine masfield uses the foil of Woodifield to help the reader understand the bosses situation. In the end when he forgets it is not that he has overcome his grief, it to show how he is the same as woodifield and that he does not have any control; woodifield has no control over his mind as he could not prevent his mind from havinig a stroke.
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The fly represents the frailty of life. If you get knocked down hard enough too many times then you cannot get back up.
To this end the death of the son is like a drop of ink being placed on the man. Therefore the fly represents the man -- A man who is distraught and forgetful which is caused by a tragedy in life. Another such tragedy, a drop of ink, will kill the man just like it did the fly.
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Scripture gives us multiple ways of looking at things, and a classic example of this is the parables of Jesus. Many of these involve looking at nature. For example, natural events like seeds growing—and what Jesus seems to be saying is look there is a surface reading of nature—and then there is the deeper reading, where you begin to realize there are levels of meaning that we don't pick up on our first acquaintance.
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Jovan Belcher Threatened to Kill Girlfriend Months Before: Report
NFL linebacker told pal he'd shoot Kasandra Perkins if she continued to press his buttons.
According to newly released documents, Jovan Belcher threatened he'd shoot girlfriend Kasandra Perkins, months before he killed her and then himself Dec. 1. According to the Kansas City Star, the NFL linebacker sent a text to a "secret girlfriend" that read that he "would shoot" Perkins "if she didn't leave him alone." The girlfriend thought Belcher was only joking, the newspaper reported.
It tuned out to be no idle threat. On Dec. 1, Belcher, who played for the Kansas City Chiefs, shot Belcher multiple times with a .40-caliber handgun before driving to the Chiefs' football stadium where he took his own life. The 60-page report by investigators sheds light on what was apparently a tumultuous relationship, plagued by "trust issues," financial problems, and arguments over their 3-month-old daughter.
Belcher's mother, Cheryl Shepherd was in the home at the time of the murder and told investigators the argument that led up to the killing "was in regard to one or both of them going out as in to a club or partying." The document also laid out some of Belcher's final words before he shot himself in the head in front of team management. "I'm sorry Scott," Belcher said to general manager Scott Pioli. "I've done a bad thing to my girlfriend already." (NewsOne)


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Autumn Muertita is one of four sculptures that represent the seasons. This Muertita is the crowned sentinel of the harvest, feasts, and remembering the lives of those who are no longer with us.
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Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports the terms of B.J. Upton's contract with the Braves: 5 years, $75.25 million.
B.J. Upton's official deal: 5 years, $75.25 milliion! #Braves
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AntriaBio's lead product candidate, AB101, is a once-a-week injectable basal insulin in preclinical development. AB101 is administered by subcutaneous injection and targets patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes who require basal insulin for the control of hyperglycemia. The formulation has been designed to release insulin slowly and uniformly over a period of approximately one week.
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Oven-steamed halibut"Eat less meat." That was one of my resolutions for 2013, and so far, I've kept it. (Yes, that statement gives me a lot of leeway, but it's a start.) And with the recently released study reinforcing the heart-healthy benefits of the Mediterranean diet (less red meat, lots more fish, veggies, fruits, nuts, and olive oil) I feel like I have a new-found impetus to keep it up.
I have plenty of company: From the families, schools, corporations, and chefs across the country who are supporting the Meatless Monday campaign, to those who've decided to embrace a vegetarian, or even vegan, diet, piling on more vegetables and grains on your plate just makes sense.
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Want to join in? To start you off, here are 5 hearty, tasty, easy meatless recipes that will help to get you on the right track, and still satisfy your family.
Sweet potatoes and lentils are a natural pairing - serve over rice and you're set for dinner
Colorful and veggie packed, this ultra-fast stew gets a hint of sweetness from raisins and carrots.
This black bean picadillo will save you a trip to the grocery store-chances are you'll find most of the ingredients already in your kitchen.
Not quite ready to go all the way to vegetarian? The health benefits of eating more fish are undeniable, so hit the fish counter!
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The recipe (pictured above), made with sustainable Alaskan halibut and served over quinoa, gets crunch and extra flavor from a tomato, cuke, and apple relish.
Salmon roasts at the same time as green beans to get dinner on the table in a little over half and hour.
Whether you decide to go meatless for just a day-or a lifetime of meals--it's an investment that pays dividends.
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ParkLands Nature Preserve
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From Interstate 55, take IL Route 9 west to the Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area near the Village of Mackinaw. The preserve lies within this site.
This site along the Mackinaw River was established to protect the habitat of the heart-leaved plantain which inhabits the gravel beds of the tributaries of the river. This plant once grew in 20 counties, but its populations have declined precipitously, and it is now known from only four counties. The populations in the stream beds at ParkLands are located within forests. These forests are beneficial to the plantain because they reduce erosion and slow the runoff of water during rains. Although these forests are not old growth, they do contain a high diversity of woody and herbaceous plant species. The Mackinaw River, at this location, is very scenic and its waters are clear as they flow over sand and gravel.
Ownership: Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Dedicated: April 1990
Size: 40 acres
Topo Map: Mackinaw 7.5
For Further Information Contact: Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Jubilee College State Park, District Natural Heritage Biologist, 13921 W. Route 150, Brimfield, Illinois 61517 (309-446-9181).
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Shared Responsibilities Sprinkler and fire alarm interconnections
NFPA Journal®, November/December 2010
The Life Safety Code® and building codes allow for certain modifications in their construction requirements when a "supervised" automatic sprinkler system protects a building. The Life Safety Code states that "supervisory attachments shall be installed and monitored for integrity in accordance with NFPA 72®, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, and a distinctive supervisory signal shall be provided to indicate a condition that would impair the satisfactory operation of the sprinkler system. System components and parameters that are required to be monitored shall include, but shall not be limited to, control valves, fire pump power supplies and running conditions, water tank levels and temperatures, tank pressure, and air pressure on dry-pipe valves. Supervisory signals shall sound and shall be displayed either at a location within the protected building that is constantly attended by qualified personnel or at an approved, remotely located receiving facility." The code goes on to state that "waterflow alarms shall be transmitted to an approved, proprietary alarm-receiving facility, a remote station, a central station, or the fire department."
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March - April 2010 Other codes and their interaction with NFPA 72
January - February 2010 New alarm requirements to better protect the hearing-impaired
These requirements initiate the shared responsibilities between the automatic sprinkler and fire alarm systems. NFPA 72 does not, by itself, require the facility to connect waterflow and valve supervisory switches to the fire alarm system. Once the Life Safety Code or building code requires a supervised sprinkler system, however, the 2010 edition of NFPA 72 allows the connection of alarm and supervisory devices to the control unit of a building fire alarm system or dedicated-function fire alarm system. The use of a dedicated-function fire alarm system allows the supervision of an automatic sprinkler system without requiring the installation of a complete fire alarm system in the building.
NFPA 72 restricts the number of supervisory devices and waterflow switches that may connect to an initiating device circuit to 20 and 5, respectively. These restrictions are intended to reduce the number of specific initiating devices that individuals responding to the signals must investigate before they find the precise sprinkler system or valve that has initiated the signal. For example, upon receipt of a waterflow alarm signal, the responding fire department should not have to deal with excessively large zones. Nor should maintenance personnel responding to a signal from a closed sprinkler control valve have to search many valves to find the closed one.
Ideally, in order to more accurately pinpoint the source of a signal, the facility will connect even fewer alarm or supervisory switches than the maximum allowed.
To provide even more accurate information about the location of the source of an alarm or supervisory signal, switches may connect to a signaling line circuit interface (SLCI). This interface will transmit multiple signals with signal-specific addresses to an addressable fire alarm system control unit.
The initiating device circuits that extend from the switches to the SLCI module must meet the same limitations as other initiating device circuits. In order for the fire alarm system to then transmit the alarm signal off-premises, NFPA 72 requires that the actuation of the waterflow initiating device must occur within 90 seconds of the beginning of a flow of water equal to, or greater than, that from a single sprinkler of the smallest orifice size installed in the system. The built-in time delay helps avoid false alarms from the movement of water due to waste, surges, or variable pressure in the water supply system.
Understanding the shared responsibilities between the automatic sprinkler and fire alarm systems becomes an important factor in ensuring that these systems provide the benefits expected by the fire protection community and building owners.


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American pianist Van Cliburn and Soviet conductor Kiril P. Kondrashin plant a lilac bush at the grave of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff in May 1958 at Kenisco Cemetery in New York's Westchester County. The bush was a gift to Cliburn from Moscow students after one of his performances there.
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Nikon's AF-S DX Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens is a welcome addition to the Nikon DX-format DSLR systems, and an ideal counterpart to the D90 DSLR. This versatile optic offers much of the benefits of the enormously-popular 18-200mm VR lens but in a lighter, smaller body that takes a smaller filter as well.
The AF-S Silent Wave Motor in the 18-105mm VR yields speedy, silent, on-the-money AF performance with fulltime manual focus override. In particular, the AF-S motor keeps up with skittish, erratic subjects that overwhelm normal camera-driven-motor AF systems. You'll get more 'keeper' images of those fast-moving animals, athletes, children, vehicles and the like.
Along with the SWM (Silent Wave Motor), the 18-105 benefits from the VR Image Stabilizer built in to the lens, which will give you the ability to handhold the camera at shutter speeds up to three stops slower than would otherwise normally be possible. Always a benefit to a handheld pic, this is of particular usefulness whenever you're photographing slow-moving subjects in low light. The benefit of in-lens stabilization is seen in the viewfinder, making composing and capturing the image easier as well.
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Magnification | 0.20x |
Maximum Reproduction Ratio | 1:5 |
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Endodontics (from the Greek endo "inside"; and odons "tooth") is the dental specialty concerned with the study and treatment of the dental pulp. Endodontists perform a variety of procedures including endodontic therapy (commonly known as "root canal therapy"), endodontic retreatment, surgery, treating cracked teeth, and treating dental trauma. Root canal therapy is one of the most common procedures. If the dental pulp (containing nerves, arterioles, venules, lymphatic tissue, and fibrous tissue) becomes diseased or injured, endodontic treatment is required to save the tooth. Endodontics is recognized as a specialty by many national dental organizations including the American Dental Association, Royal College of Dentists of Canada, and Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons.
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Paranoid Penguin - Building a Secure Squid Web Proxy, Part II
Last month, I began a series of articles on Squid Web proxy security by introducing the theory, benefits and architecture of Web proxies. This month, we dive right in to basic Squid installation, configuration and testing, and begin hardening our Squid proxy.
As you'll recall from last month, a Web proxy provides a control point for restricting which external Web sites your users can reach. It allows you to permit Web access without allowing non-Web traffic (or even publishing a default route to the Internet), and it provides a convenient place to perform content filtering and transaction logging.
As you also may recall, unlike a firewall, a Web proxy doesn't need to be a physical choke point through which all traffic must pass for a physical path to the outside. Instead, you can use firewall rules or router ACLs that allow only Web traffic, as a means of ensuring your users will use the proxy. Accordingly, your Web proxy can be set up like any other server, with a single network interface.
This is the case with the Web server I show you how to build in this and subsequent columns. This month, we focus on Squid itself; we'll cover add-ons like SquidGuard in future columns.
So, where do you get Squid software? Naturally, the Squid Web site (see Resources) is the definitive source. But, because Squid has been the gold standard for Linux Web proxies for so many years, chances are it's a fully supported package in your Linux distribution of choice. If so, that's how I recommend getting it; it's easier to keep it patched that way, and you'll have greater assurance of stability and compatibility with the other things on your system.
On Ubuntu and other Debian variants (not to mention Debian itself), you need the packages squid and squid-common. On Red Hat and its variants, you need the package squid. And, on SUSE and OpenSUSE systems, you need squid.
At the time of this writing, all three of these families of distributions (Debian, Red Hat and SUSE) are maintaining separate packages for Squid version 3; the packages cited above are for version 2. This is because although the Squid development team recently declared Squid 3.0 to be a stable release (in November 2008), at the time of these three distributions' most recent production releases, Squid 3.0 still was considered to be a beta code branch, with 2.6 or 2.7 as the preferred production versions.
On the one hand, by the time you read this, Squid 3.0 (maybe even 3.1, which is in beta right now) may be mainstreamed into your Linux distribution of choice. On the other hand, maybe not. So for now, I'm going to use examples from Squid 2.6.18, the version on my Ubuntu system. They still should be perfectly valid for later versions—generally, later versions have additional options and features, not replaced options. I can cover Squid 3.0 in a future column.
I leave it to you to use the package manager of choice to install Squid packages on your RPM-based system, but on Debian-based systems, the most direct way is usually with the command:
bash-$ sudo apt-get install squid
(apt-get automatically will determine that it also needs squid-common and will install that too.)
By the way, you do not need to install Apache or any other Web server package on your Squid server, unless, of course, you're also going to use it as a Web server or want to use some Web-based administration tool or another. Squid itself does not need any external Web server software or libraries in order to proxy and cache Web connections.
Creating a basic, working configuration for Squid isn't much harder than installing it. Like so much else in Linux, it's a matter of making small changes to a single text file, in this case, squid.conf. In all three distribution families I mentioned, its full path is /etc/squid/squid.conf.
To get started, first open a command window, and back up the default squid.conf file (non-Ubuntu users can su to root and omit the sudo from these examples):
bash-$ cd /etc/squid bash-$ sudo cp squid.conf squid.conf.default
Next, open squid.conf with your text editor of choice. You actually may prefer a graphical editor, such as gedit, but I've always used vi for its simplicity and ubiquity—if it's UNIX-like, it's got vi.
(Note to the emacs-loving alpha geeks among you: yes, emacs is more powerful; it's written in LISP; God kills a kitten every time someone installs Gvim; you win! But, I still like vi.)
Believe it or not, all you need to do to get Squid running is add two lines to the ACL (Access Control List) section of this file: an object definition that describes your local network and an ACL allowing members of this object to use your proxy. For my network, these lines look like this:
acl mick_network src 10.0.2.0/24 http_access allow mick_network
The first line is the object definition. The acl signifies that I'm about to define an ACL object. mick_network is the name I've chosen for this object. src means that it represents the IP address or range of addresses of hosts initiating TCP transactions with my proxy (that is, proxy clients). Finally, 10.0.2.0/24 is my LAN's network address in CIDR notation, which in this case translates to "the range of IP addresses from 10.0.2.1 through 10.0.2.254".
The second line declares an actual ACL: allow transactions involving the object mick_network—that is, transactions initiated by hosts having IP addresses in the range 10.0.2.1 through 10.0.2.254.
If more than one network address comprises your local network, you can specify them as a space-delimited list at the end of the acl statement, for example:
acl mick_network src 10.0.2.0/24 192.168.100.0/24
Because ACLs are parsed in the order in which they appear (going from top to bottom) in squid.conf, do not simply add these acl and http_access lines to the very end of squid.conf, which will put them after the default "http_access deny all" statement that ends the ACL portion of the default squid.conf file. On my Ubuntu system, this statement is on line 641, so I inserted my custom acl and http_access lines right above that.
In case you haven't guessed, all is a wild-card ACL object that means "all sources, all ports, all destinations" and so forth. Any transaction that is evaluated against any http_access statement containing any will match it, and in this case, will be dropped, unless, of course, it matches a preceding http_access line.
Now that you've created an object and ACL for your local network, you should save squid.conf and then restart Squid by typing this command (see earlier note about su root shells vs. sudo):
bash-$ sudo /etc/init.d/squid restart
In fact, if you're editing squid.conf from a sudo vi squid.conf session, you don't even need to leave your editing session; just do a :w to save your work, then type :! /etc/init.d/squid restart to restart Squid from within vi.
To test whether things are working, you need to configure a machine other than the proxy itself to use your proxy. (Squid comes configured by default to allow transactions from 127.0.0.1, the local loopback address, to be proxied.)
Figure 1 shows the dialog for setting up Firefox to use our example proxy.
In Figure 1, we've selected Manual proxy configuration and entered in an HTTP Proxy address (which can be either a hostname or IP address) of 10.0.2.2 and Port number 3128, which is Squid's default listening port for client connections. We've also selected the box to Use this proxy server for all protocols, resulting in the same values being copied automatically to the subsequent settings for other types of proxies.
We've left No Proxy for: at its default value of localhost, 127.0.0.1. The reason for not proxying connections to Web pages hosted locally on the client system is probably obvious, but you can additionally list URLs or IP addresses elsewhere on your local network that there's no need to use the proxy to reach.
At this point, you may be wondering, what does the connection between a client and a Web proxy look like? Is there some special protocol, or maybe a subset of HTTP commands or flags?
In fact, proxy connections are simpler than you may think. Normally, when you click on a hyperlink or enter a URL, your browser resolves the URL you typed or clicked on, using its own local DNS capabilities. It then takes the IP address and sends an HTTP/HTTPS request to that IP address, with the original (non-resolved) URL in the body of the request.
A proxied connection is the same without any DNS resolution. Your browser simply sends its HTTP/HTTPS request to the proxy server without trying to resolve the URL. The body of that request is identical to the one it would otherwise send directly to the Web server you're trying to reach.
Instead of configuring your Web browser's proxy settings directly, if you use the GNOME desktop on your client test system, you can set global proxy settings that can, in turn, be used by Firefox and other Internet applications. Note, however, that the proxy settings you set in GNOME will be applied only to applications that are, in turn, configured to use system settings—for example, by selecting the option Use system proxy settings shown in Figure 1. Other applications will continue to use either their own proxy settings or no proxy at all.
GNOME's Network Proxy Preferences applet, which should appear in your System→Preferences menu, is shown in Figure 2.
It may seem like I'm spending a lot of ink explaining client-side configuration just for testing purposes, given that this is an article about building Squid servers. But, of course, the way you set up a proxy client for testing is the same as for one in production, so I would have had to explain this sooner or later anyhow.
In fact, future installments in this series may go further in covering client configuration topics. Autoproxy.pac files, for example (which is what Figure 1's Automatic proxy configuration URL setting is for), can be very handy in managing very complex or very highly scaled proxy environments.
Once you've configured your test client system to use your Squid proxy, you can attempt to navigate to some Web page to see if everything works. It's a good idea to tail Squid's access log simultaneously. To do so, enter this command on your Squid system:
bash-$ sudo tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log
If browsing works but nothing zings by in this log-tailing session, your client-side configuration is incorrect—it isn't actually using the proxy. If browsing doesn't work, you may see some useful server-side message in the log-tailing session. Squid usually returns fairly useful messages directly to client browsers as well.
If things don't work, your browser session is simply timing out and nothing is showing up in access.log, try using the ping command from your client to your proxy and vice versa. If pinging doesn't work, the problem is at the network level and has nothing to do with Squid.
all is not a wildcard
I first read this article back in late November 09. I took as gospel the statement that "all is a wild-card ACL object", particularly for it to mean that it was predefined inside the squid exe, so when I came across a line in squid.conf that appeared to redefine the all keyword I deleted it. Then nothing would work.
It was only after going to several other places on the 'net that it was pointed out to me that all needed to be defined at least once in the squid.conf for any other usage to be valid; i.e. your first acl should be:
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
a better phrasing of your statement would be
"all is an ACL object that is defined in squid.conf and can be used as a wildcard meaning all sources, all ports, etc"
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Completely stock, with a 5.0 L V8 engine and automatic 4-speed transmission, this numbers-matching "Fox Body" convertible is a cruise-ready all-original classic! It comes... More
MUSTANG: 1985 GT, red, 5-speed, every factory option, 30K original miles, asking $13,500 obo. 260-748-4040, IN.... More