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Written by Rebecca Leber
On Friday, a gunman "pulled a Smith & Wesson .223-caliber assault rifle from his duffel bag" and opened fire on an airport. Officials have arrested the alleged shooter, 23-year-old Paul Ciancia, who killed a TSA agent and wounded six others at a security checkpoint. The incident is the second airport shooting in six months.
The National Rifle Association has not yet said a word on the tragedy (the day before, the NRA tweeted a story about the so-called "exploitation" of Sandy Hook). But in the past, the NRA has vigorously campaigned to make it easier to bring firearms into airports and criticized TSA agents for their aggressive efforts to ensure guns don't make it onto a plane. Federal law prevents all travelers from transporting firearms beyond checkpoints (they must be unloaded, checked and declared in luggage), but the NRA has been a force in weakening state law to permit guns before the security checkpoint.
Advance laws that allow guns in airport terminals.
Over the last decade, the NRA has repeatedly lobbied against airport firearm restrictions. According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, states including Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin either expressly allow firearms in specific sections or only prohibit firearms in airports beyond checkpoints.
And in California in 2012, the NRA formally opposed Assembly Bill 2182, which would have required a person to be arrested if they brought a firearm into the airport and banned them from entering in the future. The bill never moved from committee. More recently, bills introduced in Virginia, Georgia and Ohio would allow people to carry their weapons inside.
Intimidate TSA agents for aggressively screening for guns.
When the TSA subjected a girl carrying a firearm-shaped purse to extra questioning, the NRA responded that this extra precaution constituted harassment. "We shouldn't be surprised that security personnel who see nothing wrong with humiliating an 85-year-old women at our nation's airports might see a teenage girl sporting a purse with a firearm motif as a potential danger," NRA President David Keene said at the time. "But it should upset us as much as it did her and her parents." The extra scrutiny may be needed: TSA agents have confiscated 30 percent more guns from passengers, many of them loaded, in 2013 compared to last year. Most travelers say they "forgot" they had the firearm, which has made sociologists think the trend is a result of people being permitted to carry their guns virtually anywhere.
Endorse candidates who oppose limiting guns at airports.
The NRA's "A-rated" allies are trying to make it even easier to access guns in airports. Virginia Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli (R) and Virginia Attorney General candidate Mark Obenshain voted against a 2004 bill banning guns in airport terminals (it passed anyway). The NRA has spent more than $500,000 to make Cuccinelli Virginia's next governor.
The NRA will likely argue that this shooting is more proof guns restrictions should be weakened, not strengthened in public areas, since a bystander could intervene in a shooting. All the best research points to this being even more dangerous.
This post was originally published in ThinkProgress
Read more: airports, civil rights, gun control, guns, ken cuccinelli, mark obenshain, national rifle association, nra, second amendment
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Here are 43 really excellent examples from Sept 26 to Dec 13 from this year of how an armed citizenry have made us abetter nation.
An armed citizenry makes for a better nation. Notice that the fear of getting shot lowers crime. We need less regulation. Start with 1st graders and gun safety. What parents used to do now falls on the state to ensure that education comes before handling
Why bother about a gun at an airport (or anywhere else), we all know that guns, as the NRA repeats on every possible occasion, ARE NOT DANGEROUS, and, what's more, with more guns around shootings like we had in Aurora, Newton, Manchester and all the other places now marked forever in history WOULD NEVER HAVE TAKEN PLACE!
At least, that is what the NRA wants us to believe.
The reality is quite different, but the fear combined with this propaganda ensures big sales for manufacturers.
Once more, it's the money that counts, not lives.
True, it's the finger that pulls the trigger that kills, but without a trigger this finger is far less deadly.
Why does the NRA continue to have so much power? Are they really so wealthy that they can buy our politicians and subvert the will of the people? Or is campaign money being funneled through the NRA directly from the gun and ammo manufacturers? I am baffled by this, and angry too. The majority of Americans want gun control, especially after the awful tragedy of Sandy Hook. A pox on "lawmakers" who allow the NRA to get away with murder, literally!
Check out this Mother Jones article, "10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down." http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/pro-gun-myths-fact-check
Guns do not belong in airports....
The NRA are a bunch of gun nuts and need to be put in their place! Guns are too easy to buy without no back ground checks! Their has to be restrictions in place. But then again all those Repuckens have their hands in the pockets of these assholes! We have to stop electing them into office! That's why it's so important to vote in the primary's! And you have to be registered as a democrat or repuken! Independents can't vote in primary's!
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I'm not against responsible gun ownership. If you do feel the urge to own a gun I'd recommend weighing the risks because a gun is most dangerous is the hands of an irresponsible moron. The sad thing is that tragedy's like this one might not be so common if we as a country would fix our lax guns laws, and actually bother to treat the mentally ill. The NRA doesn't give a rat's arse about anyone's safety they just want to make money for the gun manufacturers and they could care less about any of the victims of gun violence. I'd love to the the NRA crash and burn one day. Unfortunately the culture of violence and guns is still alive and well. A girl can dream.
Sure it's so reasonable to expect an ordinary citizen to do a security guard's job. (sarcasm on) That's totally not a recipe for disaster because we all know that an armed bad guy will just drop when faced with an armed good guy. We all remember that (I might be paraphrasing a bit) "a good guy with a gun always stops a bad guy with a guy." (sarcasm off) FYI using a gun to stop gun violence only adds to the problem. I personally would like to see all guns made illegal, but since that's never going to happen I don't see what the problem is with responsible gun ownership. For goodness sake people the NRA works for the gun manufacturers; their goal is to make everyone so scared of their own shadows so people will run out and buy as many guns as they can get their hands on and damn the consequences if they are in fact allowing dangerous weapons to fall into the wrong hands. They don't care if our kids get murdered in school because some poor sick person went off the deep end, they don't care if our kids aren't able to cross the street or trust that they can go to sleep at night without worrying about drive-by shootings, and they certainly don't care about keeping our airports safe. All the NRA cares about is lining its own pockets and intimidating politicians into doing their bidding. If you are a decent law-abiding gun owner then you have no reason to fear background checks, or being required to lock up your guns and ammunition. I hate guns, but I'm not against responsible gun ow
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Canopy Tour, Puerto Vallarta
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My family travels to PV every other year or so.
We are always looking for some new experience. Last march my husband, daughters (13 & 16) & sister in law signed up for a new tour - The Canopy Tour. We took transportation from our hotel to the pick up area. An open air truck out drove us out of the city up to higher elevations. Upon arrival, we were escorted to an area so that we could be fitted for euipment. Then we proceeded to the another area to await safety instructions and learn how you are going to hang from the zip lines and travel from tree to tree.
They start you off small. Thank goodness - I'm afraid of heights. The first platform and zipline is very short. It allows you to get rid of your gitters while getting you picture taken to commemorate your experience. Each zip line gets longer. There is a guide in front of the group and in back of the group to make sure you are secure before proceeding at each point. They also are quick with a joke. I belive there are a total of 13 zip lines with to of the last lines going over a rocky ravene w/water. The experience takes approximately 2 hours but for someone who hasn't done this type of thing before, it will be well worth your time & money. You may also purchase a dvd of your experience and stay for lunch. A small gift shop is also available (hats, t-shirts).
Suggest you wear tennis shoes long shorts or capris or jeans and a t-shirt. It can be a bit chilly in the early morning, but once you start up the hill and walking you will be warm. If you like the water, there is an area for swimming right outside of the resturant and at the end of the zip lines.
The location is beautiful. Set in a wooded area over a large stream. A bit expensive but worth it. You are harnessed onto cables and slide from one platform to another in the trees. There is a special form you must use or else you may get stuck in the middle of a cable hundreds of feet in the air and have to be rescued. Very fun for the whole family. And the staff is very nice.
There are only 14 canopy tours worldwide and two of them are near PV. Ours was with Vallarta Advetures. The ride out - in an open back truck ala the military was very dusty, loud, and gas smelling. The other tour company uses mostly highway to get to their site so the ride was better (I heard from another couple who went to the other tour) but still in an open truck. They use those trucks in the rainy season to get through to the site. February is the dry season so it was very dusty. The tour operators are these 20 something boys who are GREAT! They come from all over the world. On our tour we had to wear helmets and heavy leather gloves (because we do the braking!). My chest muscles were pretty sore in the following 2 days). On the other tour, no helmets, no braking, more hiking around but higher up and over more water and gorges. Hard to say which is better because a) I really enjoyed the team and it was safe and b) I haven't tried the other tour. On the other tour, they just push you out and stop you so you don't control your situation much. I will try the other one next time! Very Fun. Must like heights.
I definitely recommend this tour. I was a little nervous about it as we started to climb the stairs to the first platform. After I made it across the first zip line, there wasn't any hesitation, I couldn't get to the next line quick enough.
The staff is wonderful!
The view is amazing!
As we waited for a dvd of our tour, we had lunch at the restaurant. The owner walked from table to table to introduce himself and see how you liked the tour and the facilities.
Before our food arrived, a man came out with a scorpion, which our friend was the first to let it crawl on his face! Muy loco!!! After lunch, we walked around to see the other animals. We were able to enter a cage with monkeys. They were so cute! They weren't shy at all, they jumped back and forth from my husband and me. They loved crawling on our heads and playing in my hair.
The Canopy Tour at El Eden lets you ride zip lines over the old set of the movie "Predator." The ride across twelve zip cables gets up to almost 50 miles per hour and the lines are up to 1500 meters long. Quite a thrill ride!!! Also at the site is an open air restaurant, though I would probably stay away from everything other than the beer. Get there early as it gets very hot in the jungle. Also, wear comfortable shoes for the small hikes in between the lines.
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Vip mobile: Eco Bus Stations
Background: Eco awareness in Serbia is very low. Belgrade, the capital, is a polluted city. There are many neglected buildings, dirty and with little or no greenery. People forgot how beautiful our city could look like.
Idea: As a part of the Vip Ecomotivation movement, we transformed bus stations in front of grey, messy buildings into beautiful facades, demonstrating how the building behind should really look like.
Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Belgrade, Serbia
Creative Director: Anja Radulović
Art Directors: Miloš Milovanović, Mirjana Popović, Selena Ćurčić, Rade Šaptović
Copywriters: Predrag Simić, Đorđe Janković
Photographer: Siniša Grahovac
Account team: Nađa Dimitrijević, Nataša Radičević, Olga Stevanović, Slavko Knežević
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Shenanigans! My guy weighed more than that, and she said he was in the 95+%; not overweight but healthy. Screw the numbers, and forget what the doctor says. If your baby is eating enough, and is happy & healthy, don't worry about it! JEEZ THESE PEOPLE.
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time for a new pediatrician! Usually if they are overfed, it is pretty obvious- excessive spitting up, etc. Weight gain isn't really an indicator of it. What an idiot.
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We had our 2 month appt today and my little guy was 8lbs4oz 21.5 inches when he was born and is now 14lbs and 24inches (he was 11lbs at 1 month). I"m bf, but was supplementing with formula in the beginning and my Dr. in no way said he was being over fed. He actually told me "good job" !! So I disagree with your Dr. and say its time for a new one!
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- Release Date: Jul 19, 2013
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Jul 18, 2013The bigger surprise is just how clunky and unsatisfying this follow-up feels.
The focus is much more on Sarah, Frank, and their repetitive, ugly dynamic than on the giddy elements that made the first film trashy fun.
Jul 18, 2013How many Oscar winners does it take to save the world? Red 2 gathers together a collection of lauded thespians – from A(nthony Hopkins) to (Catherine) Z(eta-Jones) – and leaves them to float on a sea of action-flick clichés.
How bad could the boneyard be compared to sitting through this execrable piece of non-entertainment? Better dead than RED 2.
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 198 Ratings
User score distribution:
Positive: 35 out of 42
Mixed: 1 out of 42
Negative: 6 out of 42
Jul 19, 2013The plot of Red 2 is surprisingly convoluted, but plot here is about as important as it was in Grown Ups 2. The real idea is that there areThe plot of Red 2 is surprisingly convoluted, but plot here is about as important as it was in Grown Ups 2. The real idea is that there are worse things you can do than spend time in the presence of such luminaries as Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, David Thewlis, and Brian Cox, as they goof around with this sort of material. The first Red had the same basic idea, too. But it also had a jaunty energy and some surprising visual flair, probably courtesy of director Robert Schwentke, an underrated stylist. Now with comedy veteran Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest, Fun with Dick and Jane) at the helm, the new one is more about the jokes. It's funnier than its predecessor, but also less human. Willis and Parker, who had some decent chemistry in the earlier film, are blander this time around. The script doesn't give them much to do with one another besides bicker; otherwise, they seem to just be along for the ride. But there are some nice touches, too. As before, Malkovich makes for excellent comic relief, and there's a mildly adorable ongoing romance between Mirren's British assassin and Brian Cox's ex-Russian secret agent. (Also, Dame Helen looks awfully fetching in camouflage.) But no movie with this much ass-kicking should feel so lifeless. Nothing in Red 2 is actively offensive, but for the most part, it's hard to really care for anything that's happening to these characters. The compositions are so drab that when the onscreen transitions come in which the action freezes into a comic-book frame and then swishes toward whatever foreign destination our characters are headed next the movie seems to be commenting on its own visual flatness. Oh, who am I kidding? Why even try? Old people! Guns! Chuk-chuk!… Full Review »
Jul 19, 2013Simply put if you are a fan of the first movie and how excellent it was done, then you will enjoy the same formula again with Red 2, its aSimply put if you are a fan of the first movie and how excellent it was done, then you will enjoy the same formula again with Red 2, its a wonder again with my attempt to understand critic reviews, I wonder how many of them purchase the same bagel, cup of coffee or meal from their favorite establishment. A movie like Red 2 needs to keep with the same formula as the first because it worked another movie that comes to mind is Taken and Taken 2, same formula used with Taken 2 and just as entertaining. Red 2 gets the job done even with a few scenes of absurdity, but coolness blended in, the movie is entertaining. Go See it.… Full Review »
Nov 21, 2013'Red 2' is so boring I couldn't wait for it to end. First, it has no focus: there are three villains and the main one appears after the middle'Red 2' is so boring I couldn't wait for it to end. First, it has no focus: there are three villains and the main one appears after the middle of the movie. Second, it lacks plausibility, e.g. the protagonists break into the Kremlin through the wall of a toilet or kill all the guards in the Iranian embassy of London without any police chasing them. Third, the jokes are pathetic (the worst is the interrogation scene) and slow the pacing. Fourth, the characters have lost their charm and coolness: Frank has become an inexperienced boyfriend, Marvin talks like a marriage counselor and Sarah is incredibly annoying as she tries to seem smart and useful all the time. The cast is wasted here, 'Red' was much better.
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Toto the Hero
|Toto the Hero
|Directed by
|Jaco Van Dormael
Bénédicte Liénard
(assistant director)
|Produced by
|Dany Geys
Luciano Gloor
|Written by
|Didier De Neck
Pascal Lonhay
Jaco Van Dormael
Laurette Vankeerberghen
|Michel Bouquet
Jo De Backer
Mireille Perrier
Gisela Uhlen
|Music by
|Pierre van Dormael
|Walther van den Ende
|Edited by
|Susana Rossberg
Running time
|91 minutes
|Belgium, France, Germany
Toto le Héros (Toto the Hero) is a 1991 Belgian film (coproduced with France and Germany) by Belgian film director and screenwriter Jaco Van Dormael.
Ostensibly set in the near future, the film tells the life story of an elderly man named Thomas Van Hazebrouck (who has dubbed himself Toto, after a childhood fantasy), looking back on his ordinary, apparently uneventful life in a complex mosaic of flashbacks, interspersed with fantasies about how events might have turned out differently. It is not always possible to tell the difference between embellished or manufactured memories and fantasies, as Thomas is a very unreliable narrator, but some scenes (such as the narrative thread that features Toto as a secret agent) are definitely fantasized.
Thomas firmly believes his life to have been "stolen" from him by Alfred Kant, born at the same time as Thomas, who Thomas believes was inadvertently switched with himself as a baby (characteristically, the film remains ambiguous as to whether this substitution ever actually happened, with Thomas' only substantiation being his apparent vivid memory of the day he was born). Thomas' jealousy of Alfred has overshadowed all his life, often with tragic consequences for his loved ones, and he is plotting revenge. Throughout most of the film, his intended revenge takes the shape of a plot to kill Alfred, but in the end Thomas finds a more creative and surprising way to "take back" his life.
The film's structure is unusual especially in its complex treatment of time, with multithreaded flashbacks and dream sequences arranged according to a complicated, childlike logic in which events at different times are seen to mirror or echo earlier or later events, sometimes obviously and sometimes so subtly that it can only be discerned after repeated viewing.
A characteristic example occurs in the scene where Thomas and Alfred are switched: While the fire breaks out in the maternity ward, the television set coincidentally also shows a fire breaking out (an apparent echo in real time). Later in the film, the fire breaking out on the television turns out to be the same fire in which Thomas' sister Alice is accidentally killed (an echo across time).
The complex temporal structure of the film has been compared with other films that use nonlinear and parallel treatments of time, such as Run Lola Run, but Toto le Héros is exceptional in the degree to which this technique is carried, with scenes at the same time flashing back and flashing forward to other scenes, and sometimes even with the same scene apparently incorporating events from different timelines or different points on the same timeline.
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Paramount Pictures has yet to announce any plans to release the film onto DVD in North America. It is available on DVD in the UK and mainland Europe.
- Michel Bouquet as Thomas (old man)
- Jo De Backer as Thomas (adult)
- Thomas Godet as Thomas (child)
- Gisela Uhlen as Evelyne (old woman)
- Mireille Perrier as Evelyne (young woman)
- Sandrine Blancke as Alice
- Michel Robin as Alfred (old's voice)
- Peter Böhlke as Alfred (old man)
- Didier Ferney as Alfred (adult)
- Hugo Harold Harrison as Alfred (child)
- Fabienne Loriaux as Thomas' Mother
- Klaus Schindler as Thomas' Father
- Pascal Duquenne as Celestin (adult)
- Karim Moussati as Celestin (child)
- Didier De Neck as Mr. Kant
- Christine Smeysters as Mrs. Kant
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Though it hasn't made the headlines here, the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, caused injuries and death miles away in neighboring countries and regions, including Tibet of China, India, Bangladesh and Bhutan. The sudden disaster shifted worlds of happiness into sadness with so many lost...
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The original King Ranch Flight Bag returns to the King Ranch Saddle Shop inventory just in time for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Inspired by bags pilots carried during WWII, the bag retails for $276.
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King Ranch was started in the 1860s by Capt. King, who began crafting his own saddles bearing the Running W brand. (The ranch is said to be the inspiration for the 1956 film "Giant," starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean.) Today, King Ranch, which spans nearly 1 million acres, continues as a working ranch, with more than 60,000 cattle and hundreds of quarter horses. It also has one of the largest citrus groves in the country and more than 365 species of birds.
The Saddle Shop continues the craftsmanship of the early saddle makers, and its leather goods are a King Ranch trademark.
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A telecommunications performance management system for processing, analyzing and abstracting performance data from a traffic machine (3) in real time using a hierarchial structure of a performance agents (10) connected to a user interface (11) to ensure optimum network design and performance. Each agent (10) transmits performance data to a supra agent (10) and operates according to a subscription signal and associated delivery deadline received from the supra agent (10).
1. A telecommunications performance management system having a plurality of performance agents connected in a hierarchical structure in which performance agents at a lower level of the hierarchy transmit performance data to performance agents higher up in the hierarchy, at least one performance agent being connected to a user interface, each performance agent comprising:
means for capturing the performance data from a traffic machine of the system;
means for processing the performance data by assigning a priority indicator of relative importance for a subscription signal received from a performance agent higher up in the hierarchy;
means for analyzing the performance data by calculating performance metrics from received event information, determining the severity of the event information, comparing the performance metrics against pre-defined thresholds, and analyzing trends in the performance data;
prioritizing means for assigning a relative weighted characteristic to subordinate performance agents at a same level in the hierarchy, wherein each assigned relative weighted characteristic is combined with respective calculated performance metrics to bias the respective performance metrics in favor of metrics received from subordinate performance agents having assigned relative weighted characteristics of greater priority;
means for generating exception events based on the biased performance metrics;
means for correlating the exception events with the performance data, to provide metric values having associated severity functions;
a filter for accepting the metric values and associated severity functions of the analysis, the filter including means for deciding what metric values and associated severity functions are to be transmitted to a next performance agent higher up in the hierarchy based on information included in the subscription signal; and
a controller for controlling the operation of the system.
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means for transmitting the performance data to the performance agent; and
means for receiving the subscription signal from the performance agent to determine a mode of operation.
13. A method for managing the performance of a telecommunications system comprising the steps of:
arranging a plurality of performance agents in a hierarchy whereby subordinate performance agents at a lower level transmit performance data to performance agents at a higher level in the hierarchy;
capturing performance data from a traffic machine of the telecommunications system by the performance agents at the lower level of the hierarchy;
processing the performance data by assigning a priority indicator to a subscription signal associated with a performance agent higher up in the hierarchy;
analyzing the processed performance data by calculating performance metrics from received event information, determining the severity of the event information, comparing the performance metrics against pre-determined thresholds, and analyzing trends in the performance data;
assigning a relative weighted characteristic to subordinate performance agents at a same level in the hierarchy, wherein each assigned relative weighted characteristic is combined with respective calculated performance metrics to bias the respective performance metrics in favor of metrics received from subordinate performance agents having assigned relative weighted characteristics of greater priority;
generating exception events based on the biased performance metrics;
correlating the exception events with the performance data to provide metric values having associated severity functions; and
abstracting the performance data by filtering the metric values and associated severity functions to be transmitted to a next performance agent higher up in the hierarchy, based on information included in the subscription signal.
14. The method as claimed in
retrieving raw traffic data produced by the traffic machine in response to traffic handling;
transmitting the retrieved data over a high speed interface to a filter; and
filtering selected portions of the raw data before reformatting the filtered raw data to produce performance data relating to the telecommunications system.
15. The method as claimed in
calculating performance statistics in the performance agent; and
transmitting the performance statistics to the connected performance agent upon receipt of a request from a connected performance agent.
16. The method as claimed in
retrieving interaction information from a local memory to set an activity requirement for the performance agent; and
updating the interaction information to change the activity requirement for the performance agent upon receipt of a subscription signal from a performance agent.
17. The method as claimed in
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identifying a performance data characteristic from the performance data; and
processing the data in accordance with the received real time deadline.
The invention relates to the performance management of a telecommunications network. Such management is very important to ensure that corrective actions are taken when necessary and so that network design can be improved according to usage and performance.
At present, performance management generally involves periodic data capture, and subsequent analysis of the data. The data tends to be captured in very large volumes and in a raw state which is of relatively little benefit to the network manager.
Some improvements have been made and, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,488,715 (Wainwright). In this specification, historical traffic data is utilised for dynamic and trend analysis. The data flows into an interface module and is reformatted by a data format module for input into a relational database. However, there are limitations imposed by the latency associated with the performance data. Also, processing delays can arise in the data format module as a network grows and traffic increases. It must be remembered that the quantities of data involved are huge. U.S. Pat. No. 5,537,611 (Rajagopal) mentions the objective of receiving real time performance data. However, there is little detail as to how this can be achieved.
The invention is therefore directed towards providing a telecommunications performance management system which:
provides selected performance views as required at any particular time by a network manager, and
provides this information in real time.
In this specification, "real time" means that the activities of the system have a temporal meaning. The time at which activities are complete is important. Typically, these temporal constraints are expressed as deadlines.
According to the invention, there is provided a telecommunications performance management system comprising:
a performance agent comprising means for processing, analyzing end abstracting performance data captured from a traffic machine (TM), and
a user interface connected to the agent.
A traffic machine is that part of a network resource which is dedicated to handling of network traffic.
Preferably, the system comprises a plurality of agents connected in a hierarchial manner.
In one embodiment, each agent comprises means for transmitting performance data to a supra agent after performing, processing, analyzing and extracting operations to effectively filter the data.
In one embodiment the operations performed by an individual agent are set by subscription signals which are received from supra performance agents and/or external control systems.
The subscription signal sets the required level of processing in a flexible manner. For example, there may be a large degree of filtering at a low level in the hierarchy, depending on user requirements at particular locations.
It will be appreciated that because the agents are distributed in a hierarchy, the capacity of the management system can be scaled to meet the managed network raw data output and the activities can be distributed in a flexible manner.
Preferably the performance agent incorporates means for processing a priority indicator to assign a relative importance for each subscription.
Preferably each subscription incorporates a delivery deadline.
Ideally each agent incorporates means for dynamically altering the subscription delivery deadline to subordinate agents.
Preferably, performance data is transmitted with event signals transmitted up through the hierarchy from agent to agent.
Ideally performance data is transmitted up through the hierarchy with event signals,
Preferably performance data is transmitted with an event data real time deadline.
In a preferred arrangement the management system incorporates means for identifying a performance data characteristic associated with the performance data and processing said data in accordance with the real time deadline.
Preferably, each agent comprises a database and means for storing data for later analysis where this is required.
Preferably each agent comprises an analyzer having means for calculating metrics determining severity of exceptions, comparing metrics against thresholds, analyzing trends, and correlating exception events and performance data.
Preferably each agent incorporates means for assigning a reliability value to received data in response to the output of the analyzer. Preferably each agent incorporates prioritising means for assigning a relative weighted characteristic for subordinate performance agents. Preferably each agent comprises a filter for filtering received event information based on a set of rules set up by the subscription handler. Preferably the system further comprises a management information repository for storing models of the system, managed resources, definition of performance metrics and event data. Preferably the management information repository incorporates means for dynamically updating said models of the system, managed resources and event data.
Preferably a telecommunications performance management system comprising:
a performance agent comprising means for processing, analyzing and abstracting performance data captured from a traffic machine,
a user interface connected to the agent; and
means for controlling the managed system by receiving real time performance information from the performance agent.
Preferably the controller incorporates means for directing a subscription to a performance agent.
According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a telecommunications management system comprising a hierarchy of interconnected performance agents having a user interface connected to at least one performance agent and each performance agent comprising:
means for processing, analyzing and abstracting performance data captured from a traffic machine;
means for transmitting the performance data to a supra agent; and
means for receiving a subscription from a supra agent to determine a mode of operation.
According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for managing the performance of a telecommunications system comprising the steps of:
capturing performance data from a traffic machine of the telecommunications system by a performance agent; and
processing, analyzing and abstracting the performance data in the performance agent to control operation of the telecommunications system.
Preferably, the step of capturing performance data further comprises the steps of:
retrieving raw traffic data produced by the traffic machine in response to traffic handling;
transmitting the retrieved data over a high speed interface to a filter; and
filtering selected portions of the raw data before re-formatting the filtered raw data to produce performance data relating to the telecommunications system.
Ideally, the method further comprises the steps of:
assigning a weighting factor to a metric component of the performance data to produce weighted performance data; and
communicating the weighted performance data to a supra agent.
Preferably, the method further comprises the steps of:
calculating performance statistics in the performance agent; and
upon receipt of a request from a connected performance agent, transmitting the performance statistics to the connected performance agent.
In one embodiments the performance agent conducts the steps of:
retrieving interaction information from a local memory to set an activity requirement for the performance agent; and
upon receipt of a subscription from a supra agent updating the interaction information to change the activity requirement for the performance agent.
Preferably, the performance agent conducts the further step of identifying a priority indicator and a delivery deadline associated with the subscription and assigning a relative importance to the subscription.
Preferably, the performance agent performs the step of dynamically altering the subscription delivery deadline and transmitting the subscription with the altered delivery deadline to a subordinate performance agent.
Preferably, the method further comprises the step of transmitting performance data up through a hierarchy of performance agents with event signals having an event data real time deadline.
Ideally, a supra agent receiving the event signals performs the steps of:
identifying a performance data characteristic from the performance data; and
processing said data in accordance with the received real time deadline.
The invention will be more clearly understood from the following description of some embodiments thereof, given by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of a performance management system of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the manner in which Information is abstracted in the hierarchy of performance agents;
FIGS. 3 and 4 are diagrams illustrating constructions of agents of the system;
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a subscription process; and
FIG. 6 is a diagram similar to FIG. 2 illustrating a hierarchy control interface formed in accordance with the invention.
Referring initially to FIG. 1, there is shown a performance management system 1 for measurement of the performance of a managed telecommunications network 2 having traffic machines 3. The traffic machines 3 perform traffic handling and produce raw traffic data which is used as the basis for performance data. The raw data is transmitted over a high-speed interface and is received by a filter 22 which forms the logical boundary between the system 1 and the managed network 2. The filter 22 acts as a gateway or mediation device for real time performance of the management system. Thus, unnecessary data may be readily discarded while also reformatting data from the raw format to one which may be used by the management system.
The system 1 comprises a hierarchy of performance agents 10. Each agent 10 is responsible for the processing, analysis and abstraction of the performance data received from the traffic machines 3 or lower level agents 10. Agents 10 at any level of the hierarchy may be connected to a user interface 11 which presents the information to a user. The arrangement of the user interface is quite flexible, for example, there may be an interface associated with each agent and a centralised interface may be connected to more of the agents than is illustrated in is FIG. 1.
An authority is the management system responsible for a domain, the domain being defined as a unit of responsibility of abstraction which may optionally be taken to include any and all sub-ordinate domains in the hierarchy.
The upwardly-directed arrows indicate flow of event signals, whereas the downwardly-directed arrows indicate flow of subscription signals instructing the agents. These subscription signals are described in detail below.
In principle, the level of abstraction increases as one traverses up the hierarchy (indicated by the arrow A) and the amount of global knowledge decreases as one traverses down the hierarchy (indicated by the arrow B). At the sane timer the level of detailed knowledge of the network resources decreases as one traverses up the hierarchy (A). These principles are illustrated in FIG. 2.
Each agent 10 reports a small pre-defined set of performance metrics as a minimum to its parent in the hierarchy, which in turn uses the received data to generate the same set of metrics for itself. This set of metrics taken together with a set of defined threshold values specify a set of states for the network. These states are a meaningful abstraction of the current condition of the network resources and form the basis for network monitoring and control activities.
As each agent 10 at each level in the hierarchy is required to generate the same set of metrics then each agent 10 must understand the contribution of the metric values it receives from its subordinate agents 10 and incorporate these into a value to be sent up to the parent agent 10. This is achieved through use of a weighting function which is best explained through use of an illustrative example. Consider the trivial situation as shown in FIG. 2, where there is a three layer hierarchy of agents 10 corresponding to cells, region and network. If one of the metrics being generated is congestion then each of the agents 10 will be required to generate a congestion value. The value of congestion generated by PA2 will be based on the values received from PA3 and PA4. However, PA3 and PA4 may be cells with very different characteristics, say PA3 is a busy cell in the commercial district of a city, while PA4 is a cell in a low populated rural area. Obviously, the value of congestion generated by PA2 should be biased in favour of the value received from PA3 even if this value is lower than that received from PA4. In this way, a truer picture of the overall congestion in the region related to PA2 is present to PA1.
This means that each agent 10 in the hierarchy which has a set of children must calculate their metrics using a weighted combination of the performance metrics received from its children. This can be expressed mathematically as
in which Wi j is the weight applied by agent i to metrics from agent j.
In addition to the generation of the performance metrics, each agent 10 may also be required to calculate a set of performance statistics. These performance statistics are lower in level than the performance metrics and are only sent to another agent 10 on request. The agent 10 may also calculate some statistics on request and store them locally for future retrieval by another agent.
An important aspect of the invention is the ability to analyze network failure conditions in conjunction with performance information to determine the actual severity of the failure condition. Events relating to failure conditions are called exception events and these events are generated either by the traffic machines when they detect a hardware/software fault, or by an agent 10 when a performance threshold is crossed. Once an agent 10 receives an exception event, it correlates it with the performance information to determine how severe the exception condition is. This correlation is called the severity function and it takes into account the nature of the failure condition, the measured (or anticipated) effect on the performance of the network, the configuration of the underlying ,resources (e.g. a failure of a backup antenna may not be an urgent condition), the weighting factor described earlier (e.g. loss of a rural cell is not as crucial as the loss of a cell in the commercial quarter of a city), in addition to other factors which might be defined by an operator.
Because the management network contains a hierarchy of agents 10, each with a higher level and wider view of the network resources then the severity of a particular exception event could be measured and correlated by different agents 10 at different levels in the hierarchy. Each agent 10 could send its' view of the severity to a maintenance management system which based on the severity will prioritise maintenance activities accordingly.
Depending on how the hierarchy is organised, it may happen that an agent 10 from more than one superior authority is interested in the information being generated by an agent 10 in a lower level authority. This effectively means that an agent 10 could be interacting with more than one superior agent 10. This is not a problem for the hierarchy of agents 10, but it is assumed that a particular agent 10 gives preference in reporting information to its own authority and to the parent authority in the control hierarchy. In other words, the invention is so defined that it is flexible to fit into a strict hierarchy of authorities or a looser network of authorities. How the control hierarchy is arranged is not constrained. However, the relative importance of each subscriber to a particular agent 10 must be represented by the agent. This is achieved by use of a priority rating scheme in each agent 10.
There are two different types of interaction between the agents 10, namely, subscription interactions which set the activity required by an agent and event passing interactions which are used for passing the performance data. A subscription may instruct an agent to store some information in its database such as periodic statistical reports, or an exception event relating to a particular failure condition.
An agent can subscribe to two types of events, namely, periodic performance events and exception events, referred to in the specification as periodic subscriptions and exception subscriptions. In the case of the former, the subscription message must contain a specification of the timing constraints related to the subscription. In some cases, the agent receiving the subscription may find that it is unable to meet these timing constraints due to the extra load that it would place upon the agent and the load already on the agent. For this reason, the subscription interactions are confirmed (i.e. the subscriber receives a reply indicating whether the agent accepts the subscription or not).
In the case of the exception subscriptions the subscriber must specify the nature of the exception event as part of the subscription. An exception subscription effectively tells the receiving agent 10 under what circumstances to generate exception events and where to send them. The subscription could be as simple as a specification of the particular type of events to send, or could contain some filter expression which when evaluating to true the corresponding exception is sent to the subscriber.
In order for agents to tell the agent 10 the particular information which is required, then it is necessary that both share a common notation for describing the performance information and filtering expressions for events. This notation or language is used as part of the subscription messages and describes to the receiver the particular performance information which is required as part of the subscription.
Subscription messages do not have real time requirements on them.
This has the following advantages:
The use of subscriptions between consumers of performance information and performance agents allows significant flexibility to subscribers in gaining access to and specifying the performance information they require.
The use of subscriptions also allows a receiving performance agent to analyze new requirements in terms of the loads they will place upon the agent. This means that the performance agent can ensure that it will meet the subscriptions that it accepts. In this way, the network of performance agents cannot be overloaded by subscriptions which cannot be met.
The passing of performance and exception information between the agents 10 and other agents is achieved by event passing. There are two types of events: exception events which report exceptional conditions in the network (e.g. performance threshold passed, or equipment failure) and periodic events which are evaluations of particular performance metrics at a particular instant in time. The event passing should occur in real (or close to real) time, but as will be seen in the next section the real time requirements differ for periodic and exception events.
The use of events as the medium for reporting of performance information allows the information to be exchanged immediately it is required, rather than being stored and retrieved later as is often the case in current systems.
There is often a confusion between what is meant by a real time system and a high performance system. In a real time system information or tasks have a temporal meaning—it is not just the information or task which is important but also the time at which the information is available or the task is complete. In a high performance system, the information is available or the task is complete in a short period of time. In the real time system, the activity may not be complete in a short period of time, but should complete before a deadline. In other words, the difference between the real time system and the high performance system is that the real time system has timing constraints In the form of deadline which should be met, while a high performance system performs its activities fast but does not give any guarantees about when the activity will be complete.
In general, there are three types of real time systems which are categorised by the deadlines which are required:
1. A hard real time system is one in which it is critical that the system responds to its inputs within the specified deadlines. The consequences of missing a hard deadline are catastrophic.
2. A soft real time system is one in which the response times of the system are important but the system will still function if the deadlines are missed. Thus, a soft deadline will often have a few characteristics which describe the deadline. For example, these could include the deadline itself, the upper bound on the probability of missing the deadline, an upper bound on the lateness of the delivery.
3. A firm real time system is a variation of a soft real time system. The firm real time system will recover from a missed deadline but once the deadline is missed, the activity is stopped. It is important to note that the obvious objective is to meet these deadlines but failure to do so is not catastrophic.
As mentioned above, the real time requirements are purely on the reporting of event based information on the status of the network. The subscription interactions do not have any real time requirements associated with them. There are two types of real time information to be reported and each has different real time requirements:
1. The periodic performance which is generated by each performance agent in response to its subscriptions. It can be seen that the periodic information has firm deadlines, in that, once the data has passed the deadline then it is effectively discarded by the real time system (the same piece of data may be stored for future analysis in a database but this activity does not have a real time requirement).
2. The exception event information which are generated either by the TMs in response to hardware/software failure conditions or by agents 10 when a performance threshold is crossed. The exception information has slightly different temporal requirements to the periodic performance information. The exception information does not have the same ephemeral characteristics as the periodic information. The periodic information (as mentioned above) has a lifetime of some small multiple of the sampling period. The exception events have a lifetime which is (for the most part) the same as the failure condition which raised it. Thus, while it is important to send the exception event to its subscriber as soon as is possible, there is not an implicit deadline associated with an exception. Consequently, we can say that we would like all exception events to be received by their subscribers within some time period of their occurrence. This would essentially form a soft deadline which could be violated, but late exceptions will not be discarded.
Referring now to FIG. 3, construction of a particular agent 10 is illustrated. The following are the components.
A subscription handler 20, which has the responsibility for handling incoming subscriptions and determines whether the agent 10 can deliver the required information. This decision is based on whether the underlying information is available within the agent or from subordinate agents 10 and whether the agent 10 itself is able to meet the deadline associated with the subscriptions. This last decision is taken in conjunction with the scheduler and may also be based on interactions with subordinate agents 10 for source information.
An important part of the subscription handler is mapping from the specification language in the subscription to the underlying information contained in the agent 10. If a subscription is accepted, the handler modifies the parameters of the filter and sets up any required subscriptions to subordinate agents 10,
The subscription handler supports the non real time communications interfaces for agents 10.
An analyzer 21 which calculates the metrics, determines the severity of exception, compares metrics against thresholds, analyses trends and correlates exception events and performance data, each having a certainty value describing the accuracy of the data.
A database 23 which stores the analyzed information and selected raw information as required by the agent 10. The information which is to be stored is specified by supra agents via a subscription, and by the local agent 10 itself. It is assumed that there is a default set of information which each agent 10 stores.
An event handler 24 which performs prioritisation and the scheduling of the transmission of the events to be sent from the agent having regard to the associated certainty value. The event handler supports the real time communications interface for the agent 10.
A task scheduler 24 which is responsible for the scheduling of tasks within the performance agents so that task deadlines are met. The scheduler has the ability to schedule the tasks using a real time scheduling algorithm (e.g. earliest deadline first or least slack time). The scheduler should also understand the relative importance of tasks to each other (i.e. the ability to assign different priorities to the tasks). The scheduler has access to the network clock for consistency of time.
In addition to the components of the performance agent, the following components are assumed to be a part of the underlying authority platform. It is assumed that they are consistent across the whole of the system.
A clock 26 which gives the agent 10 access to the system wide "real time" clock, thus ensuring that the distributed agents all have the same consistent view of time. This is an extremely important part of the invention and is essential for the real time behaviour of the measurement system.
A naming service 27 which provides consistent system wide names for the performance agents and the resources which they manage.
A management information repository 28, which is a database storing the following information:
Model of the management system
Model of the managed resources
Model of the raw traffic and exception event data
Model of the operator defined metrics/states and exception event data.
This database is needed to ensure the consistency of the above mentioned information across the management network.
Also, other management agents such as control agents may use the information repository.
The task of the management information repository (see FIG. 5) is to receive and store the definition of the above mentioned information from the operator and provide it to the agents. Other agents such as a control agent in need of management and managed network information can access this repository. Therefore, the information repository has two distinct interfaces, one towards the GUI/operator and one towards the agents.
The interface towards GUI/operator is used for the definition of the models and metrics/states/exception events.
The interface towards the performance agent is used to respond to queries regarding the management network seen from that performance agent, the resources it monitors, providing metrics/states/exception event expression and updating the performance agent of changes in the management network related to that agent and the monitored resources of that agent. Other management agents may use the repository for information regarding the management network and the managed resources by performance agents.
There are no real time requirements on the activities of the information repository. As agents are working in real time, they may keep a copy of relevant management information. In order to keep consistency of data, each agent can refer only to changes of relevant information in the repository.
The repository provides the advantage of consistency of management information and performance data definition is maintained. It also enables "hot updates"—new measurements can be defined without restarting or recompiling agents.
An important aspect of any real time system is the ability to predict the behaviour of the system. In particular, the prediction of the temporal behaviour of the system is important. For a single performance agent operating on a dedicated computer this is quite challenging, but it is very unlikely that a single performance agent would have a dedicated computer. Instead the performance agents will have to reside with other performance agents on the same workstation and share and contend for the same resources (e.g. processor, communications links, etc.). This means that common aspects of the performance agents should be centralised into a performance agent shell which then offers these facilities as performance agent services. The agent specific logic (i.e. abstraction, and modelling functions) then utilise these services.
An example of the subscription process between the performance agents 10 and the management information repository (MIR) is described in more detail. When an agent requires real time information on a managed resource, the agent sends a request to the responsible performance agent 10. The performance agent 10 queries the MIR to determine how to evaluate the requested data. The performance agent receives a response, containing the elements of the subscription for the specified performance data and managed response if found in the MIR or an error if not located. This error triggers an error in the performance agent which is transmitted to the subscribing agent. Such an error may occur when the performance data is not defined in the MIR. When a suitable response Is received from the MIR, the performance agent continues the subscription process.
The PA first checks if it can meet the requested deadline. If the deadline cannot be met, PA sends a negative answer to the subscribing agent. If the response from the MIR indicates that the PA needs additional data from some of its subordinates, it formulates new subscription requests and sends them to the appropriate performance agents. When formulating the new subscription requests, the PA calculates how much time it can give to its subordinates to perform their part of the task and still meet the deadline. This new deadline is sent in the subscription requests. This process continues until the filter receives the subscription request. An important feature of the invention is the dynamic real-time calculation at available deadlines to subordinate performance agents.
When the filter receives the subscription request, it checks again with the MIR to find out what the requested performance data means and how it should map the performance data generated by TM. If the subscription makes sense and if it can meet the given deadline, it sends a positive acknowledgement to the subscribing agent, otherwise a negative acknowledgement is sent.
Whenever a PA sends a positive acknowledgement, it starts scheduling the activity and continues reporting until the subscription is cancelled.
Referring to FIG. 4, a shell 30 is illustrated on a computing platform 31. The individual components are as described with reference to FIG. 3.
An important aspect of the invention is the fact that agents gather data from subordinate agents, thus allowing filtering of information in a progressive manner and abstraction to the required level. Transmission of the subscription signals sets the operation for a particular agent and this provides a large degree of versatility. For example, a user interface could be connected directly to an agent at a low level in the hierarchy thus providing a large degree of low-level data where this is required. At the same time, there could be a large degree of filtering at an agent in the low level of the hierarchy to provide abstraction at a low level where this is required. The important point is that there is a large degree of versatility with the system.
Referring to FIG. 6, there is shown an alternative arrangement to that described with respect to FIG. 2, wherein similar components are identified by the same reference numerals generally. The performance agents 10 are arranged as before with the same characteristic levels of abstraction and network knowledge. In this case, the performance agents 10 pass information to a control device 40 through an interface 41. This is an important feature of the invention allowing data to be communicated with an external control device. The control device may respond to this information by generating subscriptions.
Because the system comprises decentralised agents, the resources are spread out and are scalable to meet the volume of performance data captured from the traffic machines. This allows true real tune performance and allows resilience to such things as sudden bursts of information which would otherwise cause overload situations to arise. The system of the invention can also provide a view of the network performance which is temporally consistent across the network. Further, measurements activities can be prioritised according to their relative importance.
It will be appreciated that the subscription passing between subscribing and performance agents, must of necessity have a subscription priority indicator. This subscription priority indicator is made up of two distinct components. The first component indicates the relative importance assigned by the subscribing or performance agent to the subscription and the second component defining a precedence level for the agent within the management network.
Another advantage of the invention is the fact that granularity of measurement can be significantly lower than the prior art.
The invention is not limited to the embodiments hereinbefore described, but may be varied in construction and detail.
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FESJC ticker: Ben Crane wins tournament despite final-round 73
3:17 p.m.: Despite three bogeys, no birdies and a final round 73, Ben Crane held on to win the 2014 FedEx St. Jude Classic for his fifth career PGA Tour title.
Crane held on to defeat Troy Merritt by one shot. Merritt, who finished with a final round 71, missed five consecutive birdie putts on the back nine that would have pulled him even with Crane.
11:01 a.m.: With Ben Crane's final round now underway, he's hours away from becoming the FESJC's first wire-to-wire winner since Brian Gay in 2009. The final round is expected to finish about 2 p.m.
After Crane's third round finished, five players sat within five strokes of his 54-hole 13-under score and needed to get out to fast starts in the final round to prevent Crane from capturing his fifth PGA Tour title. Here is a look at Crane and his closest pursuers, with their current final-round score as of 11 a.m.:
Ben Crane (-13) Even by his own admission, Crane's been the surprise wire-to-wire leader of the tournament, saying on numerous occasions he never expected to be in his position. The only blemish on his third round was a bogey on 10 that offset one of his two birdies on the front nine. With the way the course may play today, Crane may need to channel his putter from the first two rounds, where he carded 13 birdies and only one bogey.
Troy Merritt (-11) : Merritt sits in second place, three strokes behind Crane after carding a 67 in his third round and birdieing the 18th hole to make up for a giveaway bogey on the 17th. In his first three rounds, Merritt has kept it interesting on the final three holes, so watch him down the stretch. He's got five birdies in nine attempts on Nos. 16, 17 and 18 but he also had a double bogey Thursday on 18, that bad bogey early Sunday on 17 and a bogey on No. 16 on Saturday, essentially giving two strokes back to the field.
Brian Harman (-9) : Harman kept the momentum from a second round, bogey-free 65 to card a 67 in the third round and throw his name into contention. His eagle on the par-5 16th was the catalyst for a 33 on the back nine in the third round. Add in a birdie to start his fourth round and Harman is perhaps the player with the most momentum on the course.
Matt Every (-8) : After a bogey on the third hole, Every fired back with six birdies to shoot a 5-under 65, the lowest score of the third round. He started his fourth round with a bogey on No. 1, but got it back with a birdie on 4.
Andrew Svoboda (-8): Svoboda's costly bogey on 18 to end his third round didn't stymie his surge. He birdied two of his first three holes in the fourth round – including on No. 3, a hole he double-bogeyed in the first round. His 4-under 66 in the second round proves he has the ability to shoot low and contend with Crane.
Phil Mickelson (-7) : Mickelson has said throughout the week the best preparation for next week's U.S. Open was to stay in contention at the FESJC. He's stayed true to his statement, using three birdies on the back nine to get to 67 for the third round and 8-under for the championship. Mickelson also lamented his inability to get out to a fast start in any of his rounds, and early in his final round he went for the green in two at the par-5 third hole -- but found water and dropped a shot with a bogey.
9:42 a.m.: Tee times at the final round of the FedEx St. Jude Classic were pushed up Sunday morning and the final round is now expected to end at 2 p.m.
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Democrats usually are masters at co-opting language. This year, under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration mandated that church-based institutions provide "access" to birth control (in Obamaland, "access" means free, with no co-payment) to members of their health care plans. The order later was delayed until 2013.
Thus, the Obama White House set up a false dichotomy: Obama, for access to contraception, versus Romney, who opposes Obamacare and its "access" to contraception. Repeat endlessly, and people might start to think Romney wants to prevent women's ability to obtain birth control.
Obama likes to cite his signature of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act to assure women that he believes in equal pay for equal work. Quoth the president: "Women can't wait for equal pay."
At the second presidential debate, Obama pointed out that Romney has declined to say whether he would have signed the measure. Hence, Obama argued, Romney doesn't deliver "the kind of advocacy that women need in any economy."
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As of Wednesday, July 3, 2013
© Copyright 2015 Gwinnett Daily Post
David Greene and Jon Stinchcomb led Georgia to the SEC Championship in 2002.
The Gwinnett County grads will reunite with their former teammates on July 13 in Athens.
Greene, a South Gwinnett grad, and Parkview grads Jon and Matt Stinchcomb will host the eighth annual Countdown To Kickoff, which benefits Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Transplant Foundation.
"We feel like each year the goal is to make it a little better for the fans, who are spending their time and resources," Matt Stinchcomb said.
The event, which has raised more than $1 million dollars, reunited the 1968 national championship team two years ago. This year they've brought the 2002 SEC championship team that finished the season ranked No. 3 in the nation.
"A vast majority of those guys have said they will be there," Matt Stinchcomb said.
Countdown To Kickoff is a three-day event. It begins with the celebrity Dawgleg Golf Classic, which is already sold out, on July 12.
The fan festival at the UGA practice fields will feature the 2002 SEC championship team along with other former UGA players and members of this year's team. Past attendees have included former head coach Vince Dooley, Garrison Hearst, D.J. Shockley, Buck Belue and Rennie Curran to name a few.
This year's fan festival was moved to earlier in the day and will start at noon. Tickets are $25 and a family four-pack can be purchased for $75. The festival includes free food and drinks, games and activities and of course player autographs.
"It's a lot of fun," Matt Stinchcomb said. "It's about the best fan experience you can have."
Countdown To Kickoff concludes on Aug. 23 with the Dawgs for Kids auction party at Capital City Club in Atlanta.
All three events are geared toward raising money for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Transplant Foundation.
"Ultimately, the common theme is children that need it," Matt Stinchcomb said.
Countdown To Kickoff is one of about five charity events Matt Stinchcomb is involved with throughout the year. This event, which benefits people on a transplant waiting list, is dear to his heart. His father, Gary, has been on the wait list for more than a year for a heart.
"It benefits Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and their second chance program," Matt Stinchcomb said. "It goes nicely with our passion and support for the transplant community."
What: Countdown to kickoff
When: July 12-13, August 23
Where: Athens and Atlanta
• July 12: Celebrity Dawgleg Golf Classic in Athens
• July 13: Fan festival at UGA practice fields
• August 23: Dawgs for Kids party at Capital City Club in Atlanta
More info: www.ugakickoff.com
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