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An inclined beams arrangement is being used to measure the absolute cross section for electron impact excitation of the C2+ (2s2p 3Po - 2p2 3P) transition for energies below threshold to 15 eV above. These cross sections determine the EIE rate coefficients required for astrophysical applications. Ions are produced in a 5 GHz Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion source. A modulated beams technique with inclined electron and ion beams is being used. The radiation from the excited ions at a wavelength of 117.5 nm is detected using an absolutely calibrated optical system that subtends slightly over pi steradians. The population of the C2+ metastable state in the incident ion beam is determined experimentally. The measured cross sections will be presented and compared to those predicted by theory. This work is supported by NASA Supporting Research and Technology grants NAG5-9516 and NAG5-12863 in Solar and Heliospheric Physics and by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
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What is it with Sunderland and strikers these days? And I don't mean the ones who may hold them up in passport control as they return from the Peace Cup in South Korea.
The love-hate relationship with Asamoah Gyan ended a few days ago, with the club recouping their outlay as he signed for Al-Ain in the UAE. I do feel let down by the guy and his agent, as he was part of one of our most dramatic wins in recent times, the November 2010 3-0 rout of Chelsea.
But former manager Steve Bruce ultimately lost his job by not being able to provide consistent goalscoring in the first team, which along with the Darren Bent saga, resulted in what was a real slump for the team in 10 of the 12 months of 2011.
Bruce brought in former Birmingham loanee Nicklas Bendtner a year ago, and although I really liked him when he was fired up and playing well, as he often is for the Danish national team, he could often cut a frustrated figure. As the Sky commentator suggested in December after he missed when put clear by Sessegnon against Manchester City: "He does not really add up as a goalscorer". I do wish the guy well, though, as he seeks a new club; tardiness and immaturity also cost him at Sunderland and he has no wish to return to Arsenal.
Every team, every chairman and, of course, every manager desperately wants strikers who can be the 20-goals a season men, but proven goalscorers are hard to find. Look at the current chase for Robin van Persie, who equalled Kevin Phillips' 30-goal Premier League haul last season – all the top clubs want him.
In reality, finding the best strikers is like looking for hen's teeth. The best ones want to be at the top clubs, and who can blame them. But with our owner, our manager, our fans and our set-up at Sunderland, we are a high-profile club, with short-term ambitions to be in the top six in the best league in the world. We should be able to attract a top striker, and I am sure Martin O'Neill has a cunning plan…which he will not reveal until the deal is signed.
We have four front men in the present squad, Stephane Sessegnon, who we all know and love, and who could play at any level; Frazer Campbell, an England international, then there is Connor Wickham, who has only scored once for the first team (last October versus Villa at the SSOL) and then Ji-Dong Won, who scored twice last season. These were both goals against top teams – Chelsea and City, and these two young lads show plenty of potential. But the question is, have they developed far enough to be top Premier League strikers? The academy product Ryan Noble is also knocking on the door.
Looking at the squad at Sunderland, we have a great midfield, the defence is very solid – we had just a couple of uncharacteristic capitulations on the pitch last year, and it has been strengthened by Carlos Cuellar as Martin O'Neill's first permanent signing at the club.
The Sunderland Echo invariably has its finger on the pulse at the SSOL, and reported the manager's striker search as follows:
MARTIN O'Neill batted back claims that he is poised to sign Stephen Warnock and James Collins by pointing out that his need at the moment is for attackers. The Sunderland manager refuses to discuss individual targets, although it can be assumed he is an admirer of both players, having signed them for Aston Villa during his time in charge at Villa Park.
But former Liverpool left-back Warnock may only be being linked recently because it is known the Black Cats are looking to strengthen that position. And the recruitment of ex-West Ham centre-back Collins seems unlikely, with Sunderland having recently brought in his team-mate Carlos Cuellar. The Wearsiders currently have five centre-halves to call upon, without dipping into the younger ranks where John Egan and Louis Laing are looking to progress.
The manager told the Echo: "Undoubtedly, what is focusing my mind more than anything else is the need to strengthen our attacking options. We have lost Nicklas Bendtner after his loan, we have lost Asamoah Gyan from our squad list and we need to bring in strikers. What I am looking to do is bring in attacking players who have quality and who have more experience than we have now, because, when you look at our squad in terms of attackers, we are short on experience and it's something we need to try to address."
The manager and the rest of his squad were flying home from South Korea today, but O'Neill is hopeful that he will soon be able to announce a breakthrough in the transfer market. "There may be something I can tell you very soon, but I really don't want to say anything until players are actually signed," added the Irishman. Meanwhile, O'Neill's eagerness to add experience to his forward line would appear to rule out a move for Argentine striker Facundo Ferreyra. Reports in Argentina over the weekend linked Sunderland with a move for the 21-year-old, who has come through the ranks at Buenes Aires outfit Club Athletico Banfield.
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We certainly need a striker more than anything.
I was hoping to get Cisse before Ncle snapped him up. The other ones mooted like Fletcher don't particularly inspire me, but he'll get into double figures and maybe about 15 goals per season which is pretty ok for a player worth 10mil.
However, if we have an ambition we will need to plump for a Darren Bent-like figure.... and that will cost us upwards of 15-20mil.
Facundo Ferreyra? With all due respect to him, I don't think signing another young, relatively unknown player would do the Black Cats any good going forward.
You guys might as well roll with Sessegnon playing off either Ji or Wickham. If I was a Sunderland fan I'd rather see Wickham - the bigger and stronger player - lead the line, and Ji - the better finisher and smarter player - come on as an impact sub. He's proven that he can score against any opposition and in matches of any scale.
Your striker situation may need a bit of help but certainly isn't dreadful. Hope you guys take that last European slot away from Liverpool, hehehe.
I've read rumours that Oscar Cardozo has a £16m price tag from Benfica (which isn't surprising considering it's Benfica)... but I think he'd be a great buy for Sunderland. Perhaps Carlton Cole would be a decent, cheaper option? I think Sunderland could go a little higher-profile, higher-quality though.
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How old is Isamu supposed to be? Maybe it's just art evolution but in the recent scans I've seen he looks older.
How old is Isamu supposed to be? Maybe it's just art evolution but in the recent scans I've seen he looks older.
Looking for advise on which pokemon manga set I could start reading? any advise?
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Start with the original adventure series, they were the most enjoyable.
A random thought (I think there's no problem with bumping the thread, since it's still a sticky).
The more I think about it, I get the feeling that the "unknown Bug" that Red caught in Viridian Forest in the first volume was just a poorly-drawn Diglett.
It's obvious that in the first volume of PM that Anakubo wasn't familliar with Pokemon artworks back then (and probably didn't fully understand what was going on in the games - otherwise he wouldn't have put Mewtwo in Viridian Forest) and most Pokemon look kind of deformed (like that three-eyed Persian) because they're drawn solely from Red/Green sprites.
Looking at Diglett's RG sprite, I find it fully plausible that someone not familliar with this Pokemon's nature, and knowing it only from a tiny Game Boy graphic could easily mistake the "patch" of ground beneath it as some kind of centipede legs.
And I don't know why everybody (including Bulbapedia with their "Bulbadenial" policy) takes as a given that this Pokemon was a Bug-type. This was never stated. It's just a fan assumption.
By the way, someone delete those spambot posts, please.
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There will be minor quibbles for sure, but nothing like 2000. Why do people think that's going to happen again anytime soon?


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Key elements of snow and ice control: safe roads, money and the environment
Kathleen Schaefer
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What are the key elements of snow and ice control? The traditional answer to that question has been balancing safe roads (meeting the level of service expected by the public) while staying within your budget. As though that's not enough, we now have another element that must be considered: protecting our lakes and rivers. It might seem that adding another consideration would hopelessly complicate our winter maintenance operations, but that doesn't have to be the case. In fact, measures taken to improve service and protect the environment can actually result in money saved.
At this year's Road Salt Symposium in St. Cloud, Minnesota, an annual event sponsored by the Minnesota Freshwater Society, Minnesota Local Technical Assistance Program and Fortin Environmental Consulting, Inc. environmental leadership awards were given to agencies that have successfully managed to maintain safe roads, reduce costs and protect the environment.
Ramsey County Public Works Department
In October of 2003, Ramsey County Public Works moved to a new state-of-the-art facility in Arden Hills, Minnesota. The old facility had very limited covered storage space; less than 1/8 of the total annual salt and sand could be stored inside. Prior to 2003, the County also applied sand mixed with salt to roadways. In earlier years, an 80% sand, 20% salt mix was used. This was changed to a 50/50 mix in the late 1990s. Using the salt/sand mixture required the hauling of additional thousands of tons of sand each year, anywhere from 8,000 tons to 20,000 tons depending on the salt/sand percentage.
The County's new facility now has two covered storage buildings. Presently about half the space is used for salt (NaCl) storage; the remainder is available for other materials as needed. This includes a limited amount of sand as well as ice-melting products that are being used on a trial basis to determine costs and benefits of alternative materials.
With the move to the new facility, the decision was also made to move from a sand/salt mixture to use of 100% salt in most situations. In order to control costs and minimize environmental impacts of salt, a careful program to calibrate all truck material spreaders was begun in 2005 and 2006 (30 trucks). With the change of material, all crews were trained on the importance of lower application rates. Most of the truck operators were closely involved with the calibration operations, so they would understand the procedure and would buy into the intent of the program.
Two years of experience has shown a number of significant advantages to the move to 100% salt along with the calibration program. The elimination of most sand use has greatly reduced spring road sweeping, and pavement markings last much longer and are more visible during winter and spring months.
Preliminary results show that the amount of salt used per lane mile, per event, has not increased, while the amount of sand used has decreased to near zero. Besides the benefits discussed above, the wear and tear on plow trucks has decreased because of the reduction in materials hauled and spread.
Ramsey County plans to continue their annual calibration program while looking for further improvements in materials and equipment. They consider their efforts a success as they continue to provide high-quality public service while controlling costs and mitigating environmental impacts.
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The campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth covers 270 acres and is divided by two watersheds, Oregon Creek and West Tischer Creek (Tischer Creek is a trout stream). UMD has sought out training and enthusiastically participated in reviewing both equipment and methods to determine how salt could be reduced while still providing safe sidewalks, streets and parking lots on campus.
UMD has worked hard to redesign and calibrate equipment to apply salt at much lower rates. They altered methods to include more mechanical snow removal in order to reduce salt usage. Sidewalks are now swept after plowing to remove even more snow, which has resulted in a reduction in deicers. UMD has also adopted proactive methods such as anti-icing.
Prior to 2001, UMD used an 80% sand, 20% salt mixture. Between 2001 and 2003, they reversed the ratio to an 80% salt, 20% sand mixture. In 2004, they began applying 100% salt, pre-wetted with Caliber M2000 to the streets, parking lots and sidewalks. That same year, they also began an anti-icing program using Caliber M1000.
These changes have resulted in a dramatic reduction in the amount of deicers applied. In previous years, the average amount of NaCl used was about 550 tons of pre-wetted salt and 100 tons of MgCl. During the winter of 2006-2007, crews applied 180 tons NaCl and 18 tons MgCl, well over a 50% reduction in deicers.
Safety and lawsuits were the driving factors for using so much salt in the past, but they found the campus to be just as safe even with the lower rates. In addition to reducing salt in stormwater runoff, UMD Facilities Management is working to reduce salt damage to trees and vegetation on the campus.
City of St. Cloud, Minnesota
The City of St. Cloud Public Works Department maintains a proactive winter maintenance program. Prior to 2003, the City used an average of 10,000 tons of a 50/50 salt-sand mixture per year. The cost of spreading this material and sweeping it up, not to mention the amount that went into storm drain systems and rivers, was a driving factor toward change. Since 2003, the City has switched almost exclusively to 100% salt. To reduce their application rates, they calibrate their sanders at least once a year with a goal of 300-400 pounds per lane mile.
Over ten years ago, St. Cloud realized wet salt worked much better than dry salt, so they developed their own homemade brine-making system and equipped most trucks with onboard pre-wetting systems. In 2003, the City added a large anti-icing tank to its fleet for spraying bridge decks, arterial roads and hazardous areas. The results were great; there were no callouts for bridge deicing, and they saw less bonding of snow and ice to roads and fewer accidents at curves. With the demonstration of these benefits, the City was able to add an Epoke, a specialized sander/anti-icing and pre-wetting truck to their fleet. With this unit, the City can closely track the amount of salt and liquid applied. St. Cloud has reduced their usage of aggregate sand by 50% or more, and has reduced their salt usage by 850 tons, a 33% reduction.
Crews attend winter maintenance training classes, and stay up-to-date on the latest advances in winter maintenance. The motto "more is better" has been put to rest through detailed training on application rates along with the help of good field results, a culture of inclusiveness, and teamwork.
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Over the past few years, the University of Minnesota recognized the need to become much more environmentally conscious with regards to winter maintenance, stormwater management and the campus environment.
In 2005-2006, they implemented many changes in their snow removal program. Two key areas were employee training and calibration of equipment. By increasing awareness of proper application rates, they were able to significantly reduce the amount of deicing chemicals used.
In 2006-2007, they started an aggressive anti-icing program with liquid magnesium chloride for sidewalks and salt brine for the streets and loading docks. The pre-storm applications were extremely successful in reducing the bond of snow and ice to walks, as well as affording an increase in response time on the front end of snow events. Mechanical removal of snow was also stressed over the "burn-it-off" approach. The university dramatically reduced the use of sand which saved time and money in spring cleanup, and long-term savings are expected in storm sewer maintenance. Small amounts of sand are still used as pattern indicators for sidewalk trucks and for use during extreme cold weather.
Due to the changes from 2005 to 2006, the university saw a total material reduction of 985 tons:
The total material savings was $65,071; with an investment in equipment of $10,000, the university saw a net savings of $55,071.
The numbers speak for themselves; through a combination of calibration, training, anti-icing and pre-wetting, along with an attitude accepting of new ideas and changes, an agency can do all three: maintain safe roads, save money and protect the environment.
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JERUSALEM, Israel - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will inform President Shimon Peres Sunday that she has been unable to form a coalition and recommends going to early elections.
Livni's decision followed meetings with her advisors Saturday evening at her Tel Aviv home.
Precipitating the late-night meetings was Shas chairman and Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Eli Yishai's announcement Friday morning that they would not join the government.
Yishai cited child welfare allocations and Livni's refusal to clarify her position on Jerusalem as the two main issues that fostered their decision.
"Jerusalem is not for sale," Yishai said, a statement welcomed by Likud chairman and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu.
"There was a failure of leadership and poor decision making," a Likud spokesman said.
"She was willing to give in on everything, except for keeping Jerusalem united. These sorts of failures prove that we need new leadership, which will indeed be elected," he said.
While negotiations with the left-wing Meretz party looked promising, Livni also needed to bring either the Pensioners Party or United Torah Judaism (UTJ) into the coalition.
Both turned her down over the weekend.
UTJ faction chairman MK (member of Knesset) Yaakov Litzman said his party would not enter a government that refused to take a clear stand on Jerusalem.
Pensioners party chairman MK Rafi Eitan said Livni was just using his party to bolster the coalition without really caring about his constituent's needs.
Kadima negotiator MK Tzachi Hanegbi remained confident to the "last minute" that they would be able to pull a government together.
"It isn't too late," Hanegbi said told Channel 2 television. "If we can establish a functioning government, it will be established," he said.
Outside of Meretz, most of Livni's associates, including Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, were leery of a razor-thin coalition.
Livni was also concerned that her image would be damaged by continuing to negotiate, while calling for early elections would make her appear a decisive leader who would not give in to extortion.
Her decision made, Livni informed Labor Party chairman and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, with whom she had worked out a quasi power-sharing deal, and Meretz chairman Haim Oron. She also called Knesset speaker Dalia Itzik.
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The president will now have three days to determine if another party leader could form a viable government. If that fails, the Knesset has three weeks to find someone to lead the government or to dissolve the current parliament and set a date for general elections.
In the interim, Ehud Olmert will continue to lead a transitional government, while major policy decisions will be put on hold until new leadership is in place, sometime between mid-January and mid-February.
Livni's decision virtually ends U.S. President George Bush's push for an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority before his term in office ends.
Also on hold are negotiations for the release of captured IDF Corporal Gilad Shalit, as the transitional Cabinet doesn't have the authority to approve a list of Palestinian prisoners for a swap.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has postponed his decision on indicting the outgoing prime minister for two of the six open investigations against him while he's serving as head of a transitional government.
Sources: Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, YNet news, israel national news
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AUGUSTA - It's as if some old guys met secretly inside Butler Cabin - Masters honorary starters Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. As if they got heavenly input from Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson and Sam Snead to handle final arrangements.
OK, Augusta, no Tiger Woods?
We'll give you quirky good 'ol boy Bubba Watson, the most popular golfer in the Peach State. Even if he only wears his red University of Georgia gear to football games and not on Sundays in Augusta.
We'll add Jordan Spieth, 20, the next big thing. Just watch the poised Texan seize a two-shot Sunday lead while calling everyone "Mister."
Want Euro-Grits appeal? We offer 29-year-old former Swedish hockey player Jonas Blixt, Florida State's very own.
And throw in one of the most interesting men in the world, Miguel Angel Jimenez. He is 50. But looks 70.
"I never expected to make it again this far," a humbled Watson said late Sunday after besting Augusta rookies Spieth and Blixt by three shots to win his second Masters in three years. "To make the PGA Tour was a blessing and now six wins, two green jackets. It's pretty remarkable. You know what I'm telling you?"
Watson, the trick-shot artist who taught himself all about golf in tiny Bagdad, Fla., unleashed signature nuttiness on the 15th hole. When the book said to play safe with a lead, the 35-year-old whistled a risky 6-iron shot through the pines to the back of the green and saved par.
"Bubba golf," said Ted Scott, Watson's caddy.
Of course, any tournament is better with Woods; TV ratings will drop without the injured star. But this is a time to embrace the two-decade "Tiger Era." We can appreciate a dominant African-American, Asian-American - mostly butt kicking American - golfer with multi-continent appeal.
And enjoy what's new and different.
The Stadlers, the quesadilla
Bubba vs. Spieth and Blixt was just part of a week of contrasts as sharp as dogwoods and pimento cheese sandwiches.
Jimenez, the cigar-chomping, pony-tailed Spaniard, shot a third-round 66. That tied Hogan and Fred Couples for best round by a player 50 or older.
Non-competing marker Jeff Knox, an Augusta National member, shot a 70 on Saturday to beat playing partner Rory McIlroy by one stroke.
It was the last Masters for 1982 champion Craig "The Walrus" Stadler. He missed the cut and said he played "like a moron."
It was the first Masters for 34-year-old Kevin "I Am Not The Walrus" Stadler, Craig's son. The 5-10, 250-pound Kevin finished at even par.
Ian Poulter was fun to watch. The Englishman was mad Saturday when he bonked a shot into the woods on No. 11.
"Oh!" Poulter shouted. "Get out of there, you pig!"
Greenville's Bill Haas, the first-round leader, gave part of the credit to a caddie switch. Haas fired his brother, Jay Haas Jr., and hired Scott Gneiser.
The course was tough, and not just for the golfers.
Olympic gold medal skier Bode Miller attempted to take a quesadilla onto the course from Berckmans Place, Augusta National's spiffy year-old hospitality facility. He was stopped.
"If you pay $7,500, you ought to be able to bring out a quesadilla," Miller reportedly complained.
A young blonde woman hurried barefoot across the 10th green Saturday.
She was ejected.
Bubba's brilliant luck
Through it all, Spieth almost pulled it off, which wasn't surprising to those who have tracked his ascent the last few years. He won the 2013 John Deere Classic at 19, before he had his PGA tour card. He's already started the Jordan Spieth Charitable Trust.
"I was nervous but I enjoyed it," Spieth said of his final round. "I had adrenaline and I was taking less club. I had a great time out there today."
To stay grounded, Spieth brought four friends from high school to Augusta, plus his family and girlfriend. He talks to himself constantly on the golf course.
"I validate what he's saying," said Spieth's caddy, 36-year-old Michael Grenner, who was a sixth-grade teacher for 10 years. "If he's too tough on himself after a little bit, I'll give him a good kick in the butt and reframe him in a positive way."
Sometimes, Augusta is about luck.
"His drive on 13, I'll never forget," Spieth said of Watson's 350-yard blast. "I thought it was out-of-bounds 70 yards left, and it was perfect."
Spieth wasn't aware that Watson's shot glanced off a tree into the fairway until his post-round news conference.
"That's his day, I guess," Spieth said.
Just one of many Masters' moments not including Tiger Woods.
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Randy Couture grapples with Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza. Photo courtesy of the PSL.
Submission Grappling an Olympic sport? It's not as far-fetched as it may seem.
In an article posted yesterday on ESPN.com, Jay Weiner dives into the sport of wrestling, and how submission grappling and many of the techniques used today in the sport of mixed martial arts, might actually end up saving wrestling, which is continuing to experience the loss of it's programs in various schools and towns across the country.
"There is a school of thought among traditionalists that our sport will exist in its current form forever," USA Wrestling executive director Rich Bender said in the article. "But even those within that traditionalist community would have to admit our sport has changed. We have to keep our eyes wide-open."
Last year, the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles sponsored the 2007 World Grappling Championships in Turkey, of which the United States ran away the winners. Bender took notice, and became part of the decision to hire Jason Towsend, the coach of the U.S. team and the former wrestling instructor at Xtreme Couture, to oversee the development of various styles within USA Wrestling.
Townsend strongly believes that submission grappling could eventually become an Olympic sport, even as early as 2016.
"If I'm going to sit here and play wizard for a day, there's a high probability grappling can be an Olympic sport," Townsend said in the article. "I don't know how the wrestling landscape can change. Twenty years? I'd bet it could change pretty dramatically and sooner than you think."
I completely agree with him. If USA Wrestling has already made the decision to infuse submission training into their regimen, who says other countries haven't already followed suit? Getting the rest of the world to evolve as well shouldn't be that hard. Grappling is extremely popular in Brazil, Russia, Japan, etc.
Even more exciting for Bender and company is the premise that the International Olympic Committee wants to modernize certain sports in order to attract a younger audience according to the article. Example: BMX will debut as an official event in Beijing this summer.
With the massive explosion of MMA here in the States and around the world, it's only a matter of time before submission grappling gets a good look from the IOC. Judo has been an Olympic sport since the 60's, why not jiu-jitsu?
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Surprise! Surprise! A judge that exercises "common sense." Pennsylvania's Voter ID law stays in effect.
The left's arguments that Voter ID laws hinders citizens from voting is nothing but B.S. and an emotional ploy to undermine our democracy.
We as U.S. citizens need our rights protected from those who would undermine the "one person (actual citizen) one vote" basis for our democracy.
Remember A.C.O.R.N., a Democrat Party-affiliated organization that violated election law?
It appears that the Democrats need dead people, illegal aliens, felons, non-citizens, dogs, cats and persons voting more than once to win elections.
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- Use the circle cutter to cut shapes from the tissue paper. Cut several circles of various sizes.
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- Continue Mod Podging tissue paper around the jar until you are satisfied with the pattern – you can even overlap some circles. Allow to dry for 15 – 20 minutes.
- Mod Podge around the entire jar to seal, allow to dry and then give a second coat. Allow to dry for 24 hours before using.
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"Shell's worldwide LNG supply position and customer base means we are uniquely positioned to add value to Repsol's LNG portfolio, including through Shell's trading capabilities," said CEO Peter Voser in a statement today. "By optimizing the combined portfolios, we will increase our ability to bring LNG to areas that need it the most, adding value for Shell, our partners, and our customers."
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9 July 2009: The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has reached an agreement with Qualcomm Incorporated to help improve emergency communications for disaster preparedness and response.
Under the agreement, Qualcomm, a US-based wireless services provider, will donate to the ITU a Qualcomm Deployable Base Station (QDBS) valued at nearly US$500,000. The QDBS is described as a compact, quickly deployable and easy to operate mobile solution for providing first-responder communications, and is expected to enhance the ITU's capacity to deploy mobile telecommunications to assist countries in preparing for disasters and in strengthening their response and recovery mechanisms. [ITU press release] [UN press release]


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WHEN THE preliminary box-office numbers are announced each Sunday, Hollywood likes to put a positive spin on them, even if the week's top movie is an oven-roasted turkey.
This week, however, the discussion really was about which movie was the bigger bomb?
The contestants were "John Carter" and "A Thousand Words."
"John Carter" cost an astronomical $250 million - remember when Disney said that it was no longer going to make big-budget movies? - and there were hopes that it would jump-start the box office for the summer tentpole releases and kick off a franchise.
"A Thousand Words," from the director and star of "Norbit" and the writer of "Jack and Jill," would have made major news had it been a hit. Critics needed only one word to sum it up.


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There has been much discussion about how the U.S. military treats prisoners of war.
From reading, listening to the radio and speaking to former members of the armed forces, I understand that in isolated instances, some psychological techniques are used.
This is done only to the worst of the worst, to get information that has saved numerous lives.
These people, who are not hurt enough to even require a Band-Aid, wear no uniforms and have no rules.
By and large, in my opinion, these prisoners are coddled; given special consideration regarding religion, food, etc.; and generally are getting better meals and accommodations than our soldiers in the field.
Prisoners are provided reading materials, radio, TV, exercises and games. They receive visits from international groups, checking to see if we're treating them well.
America always has treated its POWs far better than ours are treated. Which begs the question:
How are American POWs being treated? Why, this is the first war in which there are no American POWs.
Because every American captured is tortured to death or beheaded.
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Concluding their several days of non-stop parting, performing and people-watching, the tropical grit pop duo (Josh Ocean and Eric "Doc" Mendelsohn) took a break from their recovery process to give our readers an insider's look at highlights from the weekend.
Capping off a week that included a run-in with Elvis impersonators and catching a Spice Girls cover performance by BFF Betty Who, the guys kicked off Friday with a much-needed caffeine jolt.
"At SXSW, the days get more and more fun as the week continues, so by Friday things were getting really good," Ocean says. "First we went to our favorite new coffee shop, Houndstooth. This is the best coffee spot in Austin. They know exactly what you're looking for, even when you don't."
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Fully charged and ready to dominate the day, the guys made their way to the BMI + Billboard brunch and caught up with fellow folks in the music industry, while taking in another Betty Who performance, along with American Authors, who took center stage as well.
"The buffet and acoustic show was a welcome break from all the craziness in town," Mendelsohn says, adding that Empire Auto was the next place to be.
"We went to the Future Classic showcase where we saw Australian group Seekae perform a hypnotizing set," he says. "If you don't know them already, get familiar. We were blown away, almost literally, by the heavy bass."
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By nightfall, all signs pointed to the All Things Go and Indie Shuffle party at Maggie Mae's Rooftop.
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"This was one of our favorite venues all week," Ocean says. "These guys really know how to throw a great party. The lineup was amazing with Great Good Fine OK, Joywave, COIN, Wolf Alice, Lowell and ourselves. The dance floor was electric during our set and it was a wild last live show for us. We had people crowd surfing, jumping and moshing. Basically, the security guys' worst nightmare, but amazing for us and the crowd."
Video: Ghost Beach Performs at SXSW Party
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And following what has seemingly been occurrences for the guys, the very end of the night was once again the most random.
"Finally as we were loading our van, we passed by a guy performing beat boxed pop songs through a traffic cone," Mendelsohn says. "He did a perfect rendition of 'Blurred Lines.' It was weirdly impressive. Only in Austin!"
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By the time Saturday rolled around, the guys were wiped, but still managed to muster up the energy for one final day of letting loose with their musical peers.
"Saturday at SXSW is always epic and this year was no exception," Ocean says, adding that they kicked off the day with a BBQ feast at Salt Lick, 30 minutes from downtown. "Usually, you have been partying straight for days and are not sure how you can find the strength to do it one more night."
Courtesy Ghost Beach
After they ate and conducted an interview to promote their new album Blonde, they headed to Cheer Up Charlies for the Wild Honey Pie party.
"The lineup was solid," Mendelsohn says. "We caught Oberhofer and Pure Bathing Culture. The decor really transported you to the backyard party of your dreams."
Video: Pure Bathing Culture Performs at SXSW Party
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Next up? Catching some of their pals' deejay sets at Le Green Room at Brew Exchange.
"We had heard the [hype] all week about the party, thrown by The Most Definitely and Beautiful Buzz," Ocean says. "We arrived to watch our buddies The Knocks crushing to a packed house. The energy at that venue was on fire, a sure sign those promoters were doing something right."
And lastly, "The night peaked with the SXSW debut of DJ Dart Party, who brought the energy of the night to a massive high," Mendelsohn says. "Craving even more music, we soon found ourselves closing out the night in a South Austin dive bar with some amazing live blues. It was a great way to end this incredible week.
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Memo to all candidates in Tuesday's elections: Clean up your signs. Pronto. We've seen enough of them. Especially those "strategically" placed at busy intersections, There are enough driving distractions out there to begin with.
Signs were placed by the hundreds around our area in support of political candidates and issues. Even though Salem did not have any city-related elections going on this time around, signs are aplenty throughout town.
While we share some of the distaste many local residents have about political signs, they are proof of the health of our system of government, and of the First Amendment -freedom of speech - to our Constitution. Hard-fought campaigns for office are part of what makes our nation great.
But the shelf life of the latest batch of political signs ended yesterday evening with the closing of the polls. Leaving the signs in place after an election amounts to no more than littering. As it seems every election season, there are at least a few candidates, whether they win or lose, who don't seem to worry about removing their promotional signs.
And shame on anyone who prior to the election went around removing or destroying signs. Sometimes it's just punks being punks, committing random acts of vandalism. Other times it could be opposition to a certain candidate or issue. We were told of such an instance in Salem. In any event, political signs should not be left in place more than a few days tops after the election.
Removing one's campaign signs promptly after an election is a demonstration of responsibility. Leaving them in place for weeks or months is a signal of irresponsibility, on the other hand - and should be avoided.
And let's hope those ceaseless direct mail political campaign pieces we received seemingly by the ton each and every day - did anyone out there actually read each one received? - all end up being recycled and not crammed into landfills. After all, candidates are going to need at least that much more paper come next election campaign season.


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Calendar of Events now available
The Snohomish County Tourism Bureau's "2000-2001 Fall-Winter Calendar of Events" is now available. The new calendar features events, fairs, festivals, performing and visual arts, music, museums, crafts, markets and attractions from October 2000 through and including March 2001.
For a free copy of the calendar visit your local chamber of commerce, visitor information center or public library. Or, call (425) 348-5802.


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The Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is a set of seamlessly integrated applications that work together as one platform for managing the complete lifecycle of your development projects. The application and lifecycle data that your teams create collaboratively for their projects is provided to you for reporting by CLM in a data warehouse.
Although CLM applications include more than 200 sample reports, with the additional IBM® Rational® Reporting for Development Intelligence component ("Rational Reporting" hereafter) or with IBM® Rational® Insight performance measurement and management software, you have access to powerful report design tools for customizing CLM samples and creating your own reports. With these tools, you have access to the data in the warehouse, which is mainly grouped into two categories: operational data (ODS) and metrics. There is already detailed instructional material available for creating ODS reports (see citations 2, 3, and 4 in Resources), so this article gives you a more in-depth look at the metrics available and how to use them. It focuses less on the authoring experience, which is covered by a new set of video tutorials (citation 5 in Resources). Instead, this article answers these frequently asked questions about metrics and CLM:
- Which metrics provided by the product-independent warehouse are recommended for use with CLM applications?
- What do the metrics' measures and dimensions mean in CLM terms, and where does that data come from?
- Which metrics are provided through the CLM Data Collection jobs, and which require the Rational Insight Data Manager?
If you had no exposure to the warehouse metrics until now, you might wonder why these questions come up when authoring reports for CLM. The main reason is that the warehouse used by CLM follows the same schema that Rational Insight uses. This schema has been designed to provide a product-independent representation of development data so that it can be used with all Rational software, as well as external products that Rational software integrates with. In addition to the schema, we also provide a common core Reporting Data Model, which is the model that provides end users access to the warehouse data with user-friendly and localized names that you see in the report design tools. This Reporting Data Model defines its own product-independent terminology, which does not necessarily match your applications' terminology, because different applications use different terms for similar things. Moreover, not all warehouse tables are populated by all applications in the same way, because each application stores different data even if they operate in the same domain.
For example, you find different information in the warehouse, such as requirement attributes, when you use IBM® Rational® Requirements Composer, IBM® Rational® DOORS®, or IBM® Rational® RequisitePro®. Another example is that work items from CLM's change and configuration management (CCM) application, IBM® Rational Team Concert™, are represented in the same warehouse table, called Requests, as change requests that are managed in IBM® Rational® ClearQuest®. Both of those applications are highly customizable; therefore, some data columns can be used differently by each application.
However, there is also often a very large intersection of data that is common. This intersection can then be used for creating common reports that can show data from all apps together, based on the data from this one warehouse. For example, the IBM® Rational® Quality Manager, the QM application for CLM, integrates with all of the requirements management applications listed above, and all sample reports provided with Rational Quality Manager can show requirements data linked to test artifacts from any of these applications. You can even show a mix of these if you use more than one of these requirements applications.
The warehouse can also grow with your integration needs. You might start with CLM and Rational Reporting, and then later add more Rational or external applications to the mix. As mentioned before, the CLM warehouse uses the same core warehouse schema and Reporting Data Model as Rational Insight. (Insight and CLM have some private schemata as well, but these also fit nicely into the scenarios described here.) Rational Reporting currently supports only the three CLM applications, but by switching to Rational Insight, you can expand your existing CLM warehouse to become an enterprise-wide warehouse that also stores data from other applications, such as the ones mentioned in the previous paragraph. In addition to supporting data from applications other than CLM, Rational Insight provides more sample metrics than CLM does. See citation 6 in Resources for the Rational Insight overview of these metrics. CLM provides data for a subset of these metrics, and this article tells you which additional metrics you get when using Rational Insight.
To summarize this background discussion, the advantage for report authors is that their reports can work with the data from different applications. But the challenge is to map the terminology used by the Reporting Data Model, as well as to know which items of this Reporting Data Model are populated by CLM or any other application. This is true for operational data, as well as metrics. For operational data, you can find detailed documentation in the Rational software information center: Reporting > Reference information for reporting > Reporting data dictionaries. For metrics, we provide this article.
The benefits and risks of using metrics
As mentioned previously, there are two categories of data in the warehouse:
- Operational data (ODS stands for Operational Data Store), which is typically used for query-like list reports that show a representation of the raw application data in the warehouse, such as the list of test cases and their attributes.
- Metrics, which provide an analytics view of the data. In other words, they represent processed data by taking the ODS data as input and aggregating this data into measures, based on some interpretation of it. Measures are typically counts of data items, such as the number of requests, or the number of test execution results. They can also be aggregated sums of numeric data, such as the sum of all weight points of test case execution records. To qualify these measures, they are collected in relation to a number of dimensions. You can use these dimensions to get to the specific numbers that you are looking for quickly.
Figure 1 shows you how such a metric is represented structurally in the report development tools. You see a breakdown of the Request metrics into measures, indicated by the ruler icons, such as Actual Work and Total Requests, as well as dimensions, such as Category or Date, indicated by the axis icons. When you create reports, you basically drag and drop from this tree into a report component, such as a chart graph. You use the dimensions, for example, for a metric in which you might want to filter the Total Number of Requests to the ones that are owned by Project X, are of the Defect type, are in the Open state, and have no owner assigned (owner is referred to by the metrics as Resource in Figure 1). Hence, project, type, state, and owner would be dimensions of a Request metric, with the measure number of requests. You can then call the application of this metric with this set of dimensions a report that shows the "Number of open defects that have no owner."
Figure 1. The structure of a metric showing the measures and dimensions
Metrics are collected at regular intervals. In the CLM case, they are collected daily, so they provide not only the most recent view of the data but the trends over time. Using the previous "Number of open defects that have no owner" example, the collected trend information of this measure would then allow you to plot a graph in a report showing the number of defects with no owner over time, using the Date dimension. Therefore, you can provide information about the consistency in which incoming defects are triaged to owners.
The interpretation and usefulness of this metric and the reports that show it are now very much dependent on your development process. If your process values the consistent allocation of defects to owners to encourage immediate fixing, then this report is more useful than if your team just picks defects from a ranked backlog whenever they work on defects in allocated time slots. Those who read this report also need to understand that it shows only the trend of open defects, not the rate of incoming new defects nor the time it takes to assign them. So you might require multiple metrics to support the goals of your development process.
As already mentioned, the use and usefulness of metrics is highly dependent on your development process, and metrics included with a CLM application could be either very process-specific or fairly general, so that they work in many cases. The authors of the metrics available in the CLM solution and Rational Insight chose the latter approach. The dependency of the metrics against the process also holds true for the definition of the metrics. In the example above, the process might change what actually constitutes a defect. For example, a process in Rational Team Concert that provides the input here for counting requests might define completely different types of work items, where the mapping to Defect might be difficult. In the simplest case, defects might be called bugs or, in another case, the type of the work item might be generic, such as Change Request, so that it is not immediately possible to distinguish defects from enhancement requests. Moreover, the notion of the Open state could be different in each process, because the workflow of work items in Rational Team Concert or requests in Rational ClearQuest can be completely user-defined. Given that each project contributing to the warehouse might use a different process, designing a warehouse that provides useful metrics that work with any kind of process is a major challenge. As a user of metrics, you need to evaluate each metric in terms of these criteria:
- What data does it use from each application that provides data in that domain?
- Which development process and application customization were used to create the data, and what does that mean for the metric?
- Which process is used to interpret and use the metrics?
Getting started with metrics
You write reports that use metrics by selecting a measure and dimensions and then applying them to various report components in the report design tool, such as graphs or cross-tabs. You also define prompts that remind you to enter filter values on the dimensions. In the previous example, this could be the specific state to be used (which would eliminate the problem mentioned above of defining what Open means), the projects to focus on, and so on. Because it is generally well known that a picture tells more than thousand words and a video tells more than ten thousand words, we have prepared a couple of demonstration videos that walk you through the report-writing steps. Therefore, if you have not seen these videos on YouTube yet, please stop reading now, watch them, and return here afterward:
- "Introduction to IBM Rational RRDI v2.0 Report Authoring"
- "Using the IBM® Cognos® Query Studio v10.1 User Interface and Data Package"
- "Build a list report in Cognos Query Studio v10.1"
- "Build a Crosstab and Chart in IBM Cognos Query Studio v10.1"
Welcome back! The video titled "Build a Crosstab and Chart in IBM Cognos Query Studio v10.1" showed you how you can write a cross-tab and bar chart report by using a metric that counts test execution results. It used the Query Studio tool that allowed dragging in query items and immediately ran the current report.
To start your own exploration of the metrics available, we recommend that you use this same tool and begin experimenting. Using the sections that follow, you can start creating similar reports by using the metrics that you are interested in with your own data. While exploring the metrics with your own data, you can better judge how well each metric fits into your development process and what data you have available in your application setup.
A review of metrics for CLM
The following sections provide a review of key metrics that we think provide relevant data for use with the CLM solution for a range of interesting scenarios. In the Rational Reporting and Rational Insight report design tools, metrics are presented by the Reporting Data Model in a tree browser view that groups metrics by domain:
- Change Management
- Configuration Management
- Project Management
- Quality Management
- Requirement Management
Figure 2. Metrics are grouped by these domains
This mapping might not meet your expectations sometimes, because many metrics use data from more than one domain. The rule of thumb for locating a metric is that the data used for the metric's measures comes from that domain. For example, "Request Metrics with Test Plan" would be used primarily for Quality Management reports. However, because it provides measurements of requests (counting defects found during testing of specific test plans), it has been placed in the Change Management group.
The following sections review each of these groups except the Project Management one, which is not used by CLM. In the Configuration Management group, only the Build metrics provide data related to CLM, but those will not be discussed here either.
Common dimensions
Before you review the individual metrics, however, go through the list of common dimensions as they are used throughout the groups. The focus of Table 1 is on dimensions where the mapping from CLM terminology is not obvious or where additional considerations are required. It is an exhaustive but not complete list.
Table 1. Common domains used by the metrics
|Dimension name
|CLM data source
|Work Item Category
|In the Rational Team Concert UI for work items, it is shown as the File Against field.
|(not applicable, N/A)
|This dimension indicates the origin and type of data such as RTC Work Item (Rational Team Concert), RRC Requirement (Rational Requirements Composer), or RQM Execution Result (Rational Quality Manager). Therefore, it lets you distinguish requests coming from Rational Team Concert from the ones from Rational ClearQuest and distinguish requirements from Rational Requirements Composer from those in Rational RequisitePro, and so on.
|Work Item Creator
|The Creator role, meaning the user who created a work item, has been added to all Request metrics in the CLM 2012 release.
|(See comments)
|If the word Date is in the name of the metric (Execution Result Date metrics, for example), the actual creation or change dates of the ODS data element mentioned in the metric name is used (the actual start date of the execution results). In rare cases, the word Date is not in the metrics name, but then the date dimension is actually called differently, such as Closure Date in the Request Closure metrics. In all other cases, the Date dimension represents the data collection date, meaning the date when the data was loaded into to the metric's fact table. Therefore, most metrics provide trend data over these collection dates, thus a snapshot of the data at the time of the daily data collection.
|Work Item Planned for Test Plan Phase (Iteration)
|Depending on which metric you are using, this dimension refers either to the Planned For iteration for which a work item is to be resolved or the time period in which tests assigned to a test plan are to be executed within the plan's test schedule. Generally, if a metric has "with Test Plan" in the name, Iteration refers to the test plan schedule in CLM 2012. If such a metric provides measures on requests, the Iteration dimension indicates the test phase in which the request were created, or the phase in which defects were found during testing. In CLM 2011, these "with Test Plan" metrics were broken, and the Iteration dimension cannot be used here.
|Project Area
|This dimension will reference the project area of the artifact for which the measures have been defined. For example, in Request Metrics with Test Plan option, Project will be the project area of the work items that populated the Request table, not the project area of the test plan.
|Work Item Found In
|Release is populated with the work item's Found In information. The source of the values are defined as Releases for a Team Concert project area.
|Request Priority
|Work Item Priority
|Represents priorities defined for work items. Each Rational Team Concert project area can potentially define its own set of priorities for its work item types, and all priorities are regarded as individually different. In other words, when you use this dimension, you might find many results for High, Medium, Unassigned, and so forth, because each project's priority will be grouped individually.
|Request Severity
|Work Item Severity
|Represents the severities defined for work items on a project basis. The comments above about Priority apply.
|Request Status
|Work Item State Groups
|States are grouped in Rational Team Concert into state groups. This makes work item states somewhat comparable across the individually customized states of each project. Therefore, this dimension should be used for state-based reports that show data from more than one Rational Team Concert project area.
|Allows you to show measured data, such as execution results to be grouped by linked requirements. In CLM, requirements are linked to test cases and to test plans through collections, as well as so-called Implementation Requests, which are Stories in the Scrum process template.
|Resource is the data warehouses name for user. Its usage is different, depending on the metric. In most cases, however, it represents the owner of the measured artifact, thus the owner of a work item. (See the Creator dimension, which is another dimension for users.) But here, the meaning is clear by the name.
|Work Item State
Test Case State
|State is the project area-specific state of artifacts. In CLM 2012, this dimension covers work item states in Request metrics and test cases in Test Case metrics.
|Team Area
|This dimension represents team areas of the project area of the artifact that the measures are related to.
|Test Case
|Test Case
|Allows you to show measured data, such as execution results to be grouped by linked test case.
|Test Plan
|Test Plan
|Allows you to show measured data, such as execution results or defects (requests) to be grouped by linked test plans.
|Work Item Type
Requirements Type
|Represents the project area-specific work item or requirement type. If you want to write a report that measures Defect, you would define a filter here. But you need to be aware that every project area might have its own set of work item types, and it is possible that not all of those label defects as Defect.
|Execution Result Actual Result
|This dimension represents the test result categories such as Passed, Failed, and Deferred that are available for Rational Quality Manager execution results. Although they are customizable on a per-project basis, the current implementation of the data collection assumes one set of values, because they are provided by the default process template for Rational Quality Manager projects.
Table 2 shows dimensions that you would, perhaps, expect to provide data from CLM, but they do not. If you add them to your reports, you will typically get an empty result or the result will show "Info not Available." Therefore, these dimensions should not be used for CLM-specific reports.
Table 2. Domains that are not populated by CLM data
|Dimension name
|Not the SCM components from Rational Team Concert. Not used by CLM.
|Fixed in Release
|Does not provide values in CLM, because work items are resolved in iterations, and the link to the release is missing in the data provided by CLM to the data warehouse.
|No information for platform is provided by CLM.
|This dimension does not provide data from CLM.
|Project (by Portfolio)
|This assumes the grouping of projects by portfolio. However, CLM does not use portfolios.
Change management metrics
Change management metrics provide you with measures relevant to your Rational Team Concert work items. They can be used for scorecards or bar charts that give you counts on open defects, as well as for trends of the creation or closure of defects or work items of any type. Figure 3 shows a sample report that is included with Rational Quality Manager (with data from our own use of Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager for development and testing of these products).
The report uses the Request Creation and the Request Closure metrics that you see documented further down in Table 3. This report compares the number of arriving and resolved defects linked to testing that follows a test plan. It can be used to evaluate the quality and team efficiency in being ahead of fixing defects compared to discovering new defects during testing.
Figure 3. QM sample report: Defect Arrival and Resolution Over Time
The following table reviews each of the Change Management metrics that can be used with CLM. For each metric, this table lists which measures work with CLM data and points out any specifics that report authors need to know. There were changes to these metrics between CLM 2011 and 2012 (IBM Rational Insight 184.108.40.206 and 1.1 and Rational Insight 1.1.1, respectively), and those are mentioned here. The table also tells you if a metric is available with CLM Data Collection jobs or if it requires the installation of IBM Rational Insight and its Data Manager ETL.
Table 3. Configuration and change management metrics that provide results with CLM data
|Metric name
|Measures that use CLM data
|Measures that do not work with CLM
|Requires Rational Insight ETL
|Release Request Metrics
|Total Request of Pre- Release,
Total Request of Post Release
|Total Work
|The two measures for pre- and post-release look at the time difference between the availability date of the release versus the creation of the work item to determine whether the request was found before or after the release. However, this metric has only a limited usefulness, because it looks only at dates and always considers all work items without boundaries of a project area, because work items are not associated with the release. Therefore, the sums of post-and pre-release will always be the same: the number of all work items in a project.
|Release Request Turnaround Metrics
|This metric follows the approach of the metric above, but it looks at specific statuses (see Status dimension above) and the time that work items stayed in these statuses. The measures provide information about the maximum, average and minimum days for a work item to move from Submit state to Resolve state pre- and post-release. The measurements include total number of requests, maximum, minimum, and total days requests spent before and after the release.
|Request Aging Metrics [with Test Plan]
|This metric provides information about the maximum, average and minimum days that requests spend in a particular state. It uses process-specific states, not the status, in this case.
The "with Test Plan" variant of this metric adds the test plan dimension to the metric. That dimension is essential for testers to group work item (defect) measures with test plans. To address the needs of testers, the Iteration dimension here refers to the test plan schedule and the iterations defined in Rational Quality Manager; whereas, the other metric's Iteration dimension refers to the Rational Team Concert iterations assigned to the work items as Planned For values.
|Request Closure Metrics
[with Requirement][with Test Plan]
|This metrics provides information about the closure rate of requests. Closed refers in this case to the Closed work item group and not specific states with the name Closed. In other words, the measurement is total number of requests that are in the Status of Closed (see Table 1 for more details about the Status dimension). The Date dimension is used for this metric to express the actual date when request where moved to a state in the Closed state group. The metrics variants with Requirement and with Test Plan allow you to access the measure for a specific (set of) requirement or test plan.
"Note: The Request Resolution metrics are not listed in this table, because they do not work for CLM as there is no work item state group called Resolved. States with the name Resolved are typically added to this Closed state group.
|No, for the base metrics
Yes, for the two variant metrics
|Request Creation Metrics [with Requirement]
[with Test Plan]
|Actual or Planned Duration, Story Points
|Similar to the closure metrics, this metric uses the Date dimension to count requests created by using the Arrival measure.
|No, for the base and Test Plan variant
yes, for the requirement variant
|Request Failure Metrics
[with Requirement][with Test Plan]
|Total Requests
|This metric will work with your CLM data if you have a work item type that is spelled Defect. Localized names will not work. For these requests, it counts the ones where Status was transitioned from Closed to Open (see Table 1 for more information on Status). The interpretation of this measure could be that these defects failed validation or re-testing and had to be reopened.
|Request Metrics [with Requirement]
[with Test Plan]
|Total Requests, Actual Work, Planned Work
|Total Blocking Requests
|This is a basic metric that counts requests (work items, for example) by using key dimensions, including variants that include linked test plans (to report on defects found during testing of a plan) or linked requirements. It also provides measures for actual and planned work, which can be used for iteration burndown charts that are based on the work items Estimate, Correction, and Time Spent fields. Divide the measure by 3600 to get to hours. The Blocking measure does not work with CLM, because it does not provide this information in the ODS Request table column, and the metric relies on that information.
|Request Turnaround Metrics [with Test Plan]
|This metric provides information about the maximum, average, and minimum days for a request (could be a defect related to a test plan when using the variant metric) to move from the Open status to Closed.
|Story Metrics
|Total Story Points, Total Comments, Total Subscribers
|Total Tags
|This metric provides various measures for work items for the type that is spelled Story. Localized names will not work. You need to use at least Rational Team Concert 188.8.131.52 or later for the metric to work. For these Story work items, you can then report on the total number of stories, the number of comments submitted against the story, and the number of subscribers. The Total Tags measure actually provides only the number of work items that have tags and does not count the number of tags assigned to work items.
Quality management metrics
Quality metrics refer mainly to test execution results and trends, but they also cover areas such as the use of lab assets or the status of test case authoring within a project. Figure 4 shows the Execution Trend, a very popular sample report included with Rational Quality Manager that uses these metrics:
- The Execution Result Points metrics with the iteration
- The Execution Work Item metrics with the iteration
- ODS tables that contain plan data to show a team's test execution performance
The report in Figure 4 plots points for executed tests (points: a metric that allows expressing the effort of running tests), comparing attempted points to completed points for each week. It presents three pairs of these trends:
- Planned, which was an allocation of estimated points over time in the test plan schedule (see the "Building a Report in Rational Common Reporting" video cited in Resources).
- Computed, which is a summation of the points estimated for each test case execution record assigned to the plan and milestone provided by the second metric
- What the team actually executed by a certain date provided by the first metric.
Figure 4. Execution Trend report shows a teams estimated vs. actual test performance
The following table lists all metrics that can be used with CLM data, following the same schema as the CCM metrics discussion.
Table 4. QM metrics that provide results with CLM data
|Metric name
|Measures that use CLM data
|Measures that do not work with CLM
|Requires Rational Insight ETL
|Execution Result Date Metrics
|This metric provides a summary of execution results, using the result's actual start date for the Date dimension. Other execution result metrics populate the Date dimension with the data collection date and count all of the results available at that date. his metric counts results in relation to the actual start date of the execution, instead. Therefore, it counts only results started at that date. The measures provided reflect the individual execution result's verdicts, such as Attempted, Failed, or Deferred, as allocated by the tester, using the sliders in the execution result web UI.
|Execution Result Metrics [with Iteration]
|Total Execution Results
|A simple metric that allows you to count the absolute number of execution results available at the time of collection. You can use the Verdict dimension to focus on specific results, such as Attempted or Failed. The "with Iteration" variant of the metric requires use of the Iteration dimension, which refers to a test phase in the schedule of a test plan.
|Execution Result Point Metrics [with Iteration]
|This is one of the metrics that is used for the Execution Trend report shown in Figure 4. It is used to provide the Actual values of the graph. It provides measures for performed execution points by verdict available at the time of the data collection. The iteration variant requires the use of the iteration dimension in the same way as discussed in the row above.
|Execution Work Item Metrics [with Iteration]
[with Requirement]
|Total Execution Work Items
Total Weight
|This is the other metric used by the sample report of Figure 4. It is used to provide the Computed values. It provides measures that count the total number of test case execution work items available, as well as their total weight. Therefore, when using the Iteration variant of the metric, it can be used to access the number of execution work items and their specific sum of points allocated to a particular iteration. You can use the other variant, "with Requirement," to filter the metric with sets of specific requirements to write reports that show when requirements are planned for testing.
|Total Number of Job Results
|This metric provides information about a job execution result based on a lab resource.
|Lab Utilization Metrics
|Total Number of Machines
Reserved Machines
|This metric provides information about use of lab resources, based on their reservation date.
|Test Case Metrics [with Iteration]
[with Requirement]
|Total Test Cases
|This is a simple metric that counts the total number of test cases. But with various dimensions, it can be used for reports that show the trends of the state of the test cases for specific test plan iterations, as well as considering linked requirements.
Requirements management metrics
This final section walks you through the requirements metrics that work with CLM data. In general, Rational Requirements Composer does not provide any data about changes and requirements versions. Therefore, no measure that refers to changes works, currently.
Table 5. Requirements management metrics that provide results with CLM data
|Metric name
|Measures that use CLM data
|Measures that do not work with CLM
|Requires Rational Insight ETL
|Child Requirements Metrics
|Total Children Requirements
|This metric counts the number of requirements that have a parent requirement.
|Requirement Metrics [with Test Case]
[with Test Plan]
|Total Requirements
|Total Changes
|These three metrics provide counts for the total number of requirements and requirements that are linked to test cases or test plans through requirements collections. The latter would also count requirements directly linked to test plans, but that is not supported by CLM's requirements management application, Other requirements management tools, such as RequisitePro, do use this relationship.
Note: Several dimensions of these metrics might not work with your requirements management project, because all attributes in requirements management are custom-defined. Only if you have attributes such as Priority or Stability that are spelled exactly as the dimension names will they provide data for these metric dimensions.
|Requirement Traceability
|This entry in the tree is actually not a metric, but you can use it to access various ways of requirements that trace to other CLM artifacts. As with the metrics and dimensions listed above, not all entries here are supported by CLM data. Traces to Activities, Customer, and Tasks are not available, because CLM does not cover those concepts.
Conclusions and next steps
This article walked you through the relevant metrics available to you using Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence or Rational Insight with CLM. You also learned which parts of the metrics work, which parts do not because the required data is missing in CLM reportable REST APIs. For easy reference later, tables also listed which metrics are available when using CLM Data Collection and Rational Reporting and which metrics require the extended Rational Insight ETL for data collection.
As a next step, start exploring these metrics. Use Query or Report Studio as show in the videos (see the YouTube videos playlist, in Resources), and start creating reports that use the metrics listed in this article. Experiment with various dimension filters.
It will also be helpful to review the more than 100 Cognos sample reports that are included with CLM. They use most of these metrics in various ways. Open these reports in Report Studio and try to understand the queries that are used to build them.
I want to thank my colleague Ashish Apoorva for creating an early version of the Quality Management metrics review and Jun BJ Wang for feedback on those. Thanks to Amanda Brijpaul for feedback on the article and for recording the videos.
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