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As far as I'm concerned, network management is about knowledge. If you know what your network and servers are doing, making decisions is easy. I make heavy use of SNMP and MRTG to provide information I consider necessary on my network. Getting a new hard drive from management is much easier when you can say "Our fileserver usage grows by 2GB a month, so we need a new disk installed within six months," as opposed to "Our fileserver ran out of space; we need a new disk now!"
This helps, but MRTG doesn't provide any detail about what the network is actually doing. So your T1 is 90% full? What hosts are responsible, and what services are they using or providing? If you have MRTGified your network down to the switch level you can tell which host is using that traffic, but that's all. You then have to fire up tcpdump or investigate that host in a more painstaking way.
Netflow provides a session-level view of network traffic, recording information about every TCP/IP transaction that occurs over your network. It might not be as complete a record of network traffic as tcpdump can provide, but it's also much easier to manage and much more informative when aggregated.
By session data I mean "which host talked to which other host, on which ports, and how much data did they exchange?" One session is a flow. Netflow can easily tell you if that 1.5Mb/s to your Web server is honest Web traffic, or if your system has become part of a botnet and is providing vital assistance in the destruction of ONLamp.com. Once you have Netflow running, you'll wonder how you ever survived without it.
The downside of this visibility is that Netflow is more complicated to set up than MRTG or other SNMP-based monitoring software. The vast array of obsolete and irrelevant documentation still available on abandoned Web sites and ancient mailing list archives only confuses the issue. The setup is more than worth it, however.
A Netflow system has three major components: a sensor, a collector, and some sort of reporting system. The sensor (also known as a probe) is a daemon that listens to the network and captures your session data. Just as with Snort or any other IDS system, the collector needs to connect to a hub, "mirrored" switch port, or other device where it can see all the network traffic. If you're running a BSD or Linux firewall, this is an excellent place to run a Netflow collector--all the traffic has to pass through this device anyway! This sensor bundles up the session information and tosses it at the collector.
The collector is a second daemon that listens on a UDP port of your choice for reports from the sensor and dumps them into a file for later evaluation. Different collectors store their data in different file formats.
Finally, the reporting system reads the files generated by the collector and produces human-readable reports. The reporting system must be able to read the format used by the collector.
Because there are a wide variety of sensor software, collector daemon, and reporting systems available, you can forgive a newcomer for thinking that Netflow is too complicated to begin to set up. I'd like to sidestep this problem by choosing a single specific scenario that will fit 90% of network environments immediately, and that can work for most of the remainder with only minor changes. Assume that:
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The easiest software to install is the sensor. First, make sure that your
sensor hardware can listen to all network traffic. Once you have that you can
install sensor software. I recommend
Sortflowd runs out-of-the-box with a simple
make all install clean
on BSD and Linux, requiring only libpcap. (FreeBSD includes the
ng_netflow netflow system, but as I have sensors running on Linux
as well, I don't use it. I prefer to use a single piece of software on every
operating system whenever possible.) Once you have softflowd installed, you
only need the interface name you want to monitor and the IP address and UDP
port where your collector is listening. For example, to listen on the
em0 interface and send the collected data to 172.16.13.5, port
8818, run:
# softflowd -i em0 -n 172.16.13.5:8818
The sensor will immediately begin listening to the network and sending session information to the collector. Make sure that this program starts at boot!
Softflowd includes a control program,
softflowctl(8), that
allows you to issue commands to a running softflowd. To make sure that the
software is actually working, check the softflow statistics after softflowd has
been running for a few moments.
# softflowctl statistics
softflowd[40475]: Accumulated statistics:
Number of active flows: 2298
Packets processed: 268086
Fragments: 0
Ignored packets: 867 (867 non-IP, 0 too short)
Flows expired: 3103 (0 forced)
Flows exported: 6206 in 214 packets (0 failures)
The important output here is the second line, which tells you how many flows
are active at the moment, and the
exported line, which tells you
how many flows softflowd has exported to the collector.
If you search, you can find a wide variety of sensors. Cisco routers can export Netflow data--at the expense of your router's precious CPU time. If you have a complicated router setup, or if you have a very low-end router, this can overload your router. Cisco would be very happy to sell you a router upgrade so that you could properly export Netflow, mind you, but generally a Unix-like box is more cost-effective. Many other devices also speak Netflow; check your documentation if you're interested.
If you have Ethereal or tcpdump installed, I recommend using it at this
point to confirm that you are actually receiving Netflow data at your
collector. If not, confirm that softflowd is running and perhaps try the
-D (debug) flag to see if there are any problems with your
Softflowd only sends flow information to the collector once the flow has
ended--for example, when the FTP session ends, when the Web page has been
delivered, and so on. This means that at any moment, softflowd will have a
cache of connections in progress. When you stop softflowd, run
softflowctl shutdown so that softflowd will expire those flows and
send them to your collector immediately. Simply shutting down the server
running softflowd will cause you to lose the active-but-incomplete flows.
You're going to lose some information anyway if you reboot your sensor, but you
might as well keep that loss as minimal as possible.
Your collector gathers the data exported by the sensor and stores it on disk
for long-term reference. If possible, install your collector on a Web server;
it will make reporting much nicer and easier. I recommend flow-capture, a very
popular Netflow collector included in the
flow-tools package. On
FreeBSD, flow-tools is in the Ports tree at
/usr/ports/net-mgmt/flow-tools. Install it with the usual "make all
install." Do not type
make clean! You might have to
rebuild some components by hand. For the same reason, don't use a precompiled
flow-tools package.
Make a directory for flow-capture to keep its records. I usually use /var/log/netflow, but anywhere you have space works. On a multimegabit network, Netflow files can fill several GB of disk over a few weeks. I also recommend creating a saved subdirectory under your log directory, for the reporting system to use.
Now you need a startup script so flow-capture will run automatically at boot. A command like the following works nicely:
# /usr/local/bin/flow-capture -p /var/run/flow-capture.pid -n 287 \
-N 0 -w /var/log/netflows/ -S 5 0/0/8818
Most of this you can use unchanged. The
-w flag tells
flow-capture where to place its files. The final argument tells flow-capture
which local IP to listen to, which remote IP to listen to, and which UDP port
it should listen on. In this case, 0/0/8818, the collector listens on all
local IP addresses, for requests from any remote IP address, on port 8818. If
you can receive random Internet traffic on your collector, specify a particular
sensor IP in the middle value. (My collector is behind a firewall, and anyone
who can sneak past the firewall would have no trouble deceiving flow-capture as
well.) Flow-capture needs the
-n 287,
-N, and
-S 5 arguments to interoperate with the reporting package, so
leave them alone.
Once you start flow-capture, flow files will appear in your log directory. The names of these files come from the version of Netflow data they're gathering and the date and time at which this data began. For example, the filename tmp-v05.2005-04-28.201001-0400 indicates a temporary file, containing Netflow version 5 data, collected on April 28, 2005, starting at 20:10:01 (or 1 second after 8:10 p.m.), at -4 hours from GMT. Every five minutes, flow-capture moves the temporary file to a permanent location and starts a new temporary file. Permanent files begin with ft instead of tmp, but otherwise the names are exactly the same.
To confirm that your flow-capture install is actually collecting something, see if the temporary file grows. This should happen quickly, within a few minutes on a busy network.
The information in these files is in a binary format requiring special tools to read. Many of those tools use Cflow.pm.
Many different Netflow reporting tools use the Cflow.pm perl module to read
Netflow files. This includes a library and command-line tool for viewing and
manipulating flow files. The hard part is that each collector has its own
storage format. While the original purpose of Cflow.pm was to process
cflowd(8) files, Cflow.pm can support other formats if properly
This part is where most people give up on Netflow. Follow the directions carefully. Be sure to verify your work when your Cflow.pm install is complete.
On some recent versions of FreeBSD, /usr/ports/net-mgmt/p5-Cflow
automatically detects the presence of the flow-tools libraries. Cflow links
this library as
-lnsl, and if the build process doesn't find it
during the configure process you'll see a warning like:
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lnsl
This warning is not harmless; it means that this Cflow build will not work
for you. If you don't see this line, just install Cflow and see if it works.
Cflow includes
flowdumper(1), a program to read flow files on the
command line. Check the largest flow file you have, so that you can be sure
the record includes something to view.
#flowdumper -s ft-v05.2005-04-28.201501-0400 | more
Each line is a flow. This records the source and destination IPs of assorted TCP/IP transactions. You might notice that this particular snippet of four lines is actually only two TCP/IP sessions. The first line indicates that traffic is coming from 172.16.30.247, port 80, to the host 220.127.116.11. The next line shows traffic from the second host going to the first.
If your Cflow install is faulty, flowdumper will return either silence or an error. You cannot proceed until you resolve this error--at least, you can't proceed if you want your reporting tools to work! Uninstall your current p5-Cflow package and build it another way.
Remember how I said to not clean the flow-tools port? Go back to the port directory, cd to the work subdirectory, and go to the source code directory. There is another Cflow tarball in a subdirectory named contrib. Extract it.
# cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/flow-tools/work/flow-tools-0.67/contrib
# tar -xzvf Cflow-1.051.tar.gz
Cflow frequently picks up the proper library when installed from this location under a compiled flow-tools package. (This means that you have to have a built flow-tools in the directory above you; this is why I told you not to do a make clean.) Just follow the usual Perl module building process.
# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make install
Try flowdumper again, and it should work.
On occasion, I've had even this fail. In that case, use brute force. Flow-tools installs libft.a under /usr/local/lib. Edit the section of Cflow.pm's Makefile.PL where it checks for the flow-tools library:
sub find_flow_tools {
my($ver, $dir);
my($libdir, $incdir);
if (-f '../../lib/libft.a') {
$dir = '../../lib';
$incdir = "-I$dir -I$dir/..";
$libdir = "-L$dir";
Edit the line that reads
if (-f '../../lib/libft.a') {
to read
if (-f '/usr/local/lib/libft.a') {
If this fails, there's something seriously wrong with your Perl install.
Now, run
make and
make install. You now have a
flow-tools aware flowdumper, which indicates that the Cflow.pm Perl module
underlying it works correctly with your collector.
You can probably easily imagine a whole slew of Perl scripts that would take this data and generate pretty graphs and reports on usage, or identify peak bandwidth consumers. Other people have already done the heavy lifting on this one, however. My next article will look at creating pretty pictures from Netflow data.
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Mr. Bargains was very happy to see SEVEN recipes under the "Bacon" section. Bacon IS yummy, but I don't find that quite as exciting as he does!
Peg Bracken is the brains behind the I Hate to Cook Book. It was originally published 50 years ago and was
updated and revised to reflect kitchens and pantries of today . She throws wit and humor in pinches and dashes all through the book. Love it. Anything that makes cooking more fun or less stressful is great, in my house. You want to have this book in your collection. This Mama Loves it. Peg's daughter, Jo, has helped to pen the 50th Anniversary of I Hate to Cook and apparantly, the humor gene does run in families.
I made the Swiss Loaf on page 12-13. I only altered it a little by "pulverizing" the pepper and onion- I hate the texture of both of these, so I kind of go overboard when chopping. The Swiss Loaf was the closest thing to meatloaf in this book and my whole family likes my meatloaf, so it was a safe starting point. I think later this week I may go OUT of my comfort zone and try something crazy like Turkey Divan on p. 48.
At the end of the book are the usual suspects with Ms. Bracken's wit mixed in for measuring equivalents, etc. and also some Household Hints. I love things like this at the end of books!!
Now that you know a little about this book, wouldn't you like to check the rest of it out? (I know you do). It will be available for purchase on July 26th but you can *win* a copy right here!!
As a mandatory entry, I want for you to share with me what your grandma and/or mom used to have for dinner when growing up. My mom used to make liver and onions with bacon and gravy. As if ruining perfectly innocent bacon and dumping fattening gravy on top could improve the horrifying taste of liver and onions. See? You CAN ruin bacon! It takes effort. (Please note that as we kids got older and perhaps less demanding of my mom's attention she found she enjoyed cooking some and as she gained confidence, she gained skills, and actually had some fantastic dishes she made until she got too sick too cook – and even then directed my dad on how to cook her favorites from her bed so she could still enjoy them!)
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By now you have possible heard and read about the New York Times story by David Segal, which talks about how JC Penney cheated Google's ranking system to become the number one spot for several keywords and phrases.
David Segal contacted me in mid of January about a "dresses" link to the JC Penney website on this blog. At first I was highly skeptical if this is some sort of joke. A little research later and I was ready to talk to David. Over a day or two I explained to him, how that "dresses" link appeared on my website, who put it there, for how long it was there and why somebody would put links like them.
I have a rule: If you get caught, tell everything.. And I am somebody who likes to share my learnings and knowledge. So why not share what I know with David then and with his readers now?
The Who
I use a system called TNX.net. They are like a marketplace for buying backlinks and selling adspace. As a publisher (website owner) I include a little PHP script to my website or WordPress installation. This scripts then connects to the TNX servers and requests links to be included to the current website. Those links are then included as HTML in my blog. What this means, is that it is without knowledge of the PHP code not possible to determine, if the links were added manually or with any kind of system. This makes the links viewable for the Google Indexing Bots. But for this to work, those links are expected to not have the rel="nofollow" tag defined. The idea of the nofollow-tag is, that if a website owner/editor/writer links to another website, the nofollow-tag tells the indexing bots to ignore and not follow those links. If used, the whole TNX and paid backlinks eco-system would not really work.
The Why
The TNX system trades points for each link added to the publishers website. Some links on cocaman.ch generate 9 points/month, others up to 810 points (see "Google Testing Platypus", my most successful entry).
This blog currently hosts 307 links. So over 100 links less then in mid January.
These points can be exchanged in two ways:
- You can either request a payout. Every TNX point is worth $0.95. The money is transferred to your PayPal account.
- You can exchange your points for own backlinks.
I only did the second option. I am an experimenter. In the past couple of years I played with different things. And for such things to be successful, you need traffic and users. Because most of website users come from search engines, you need to rank very high for a given keyword. So I used the TNX system myself to create backlinks to my site. I exclusively used it for my cooking websites. TNX offers you a small convenient wizard, which sets up your backlink texts including anchor text, the amount of backlinks you want and how many TNX points you want to spend per month.
From here on the system is automatic. It now distributes your backlinks on the sites, which fit your selection (eg. category, Google PageRank, …). After a couple of days you can log in to TNX and check out the results.
A total of 9 backlinks was placed to my site. Not so much. But at its highest, I had a couple of hundred backlinks. And this worked very, very good. In a highly competitive query with over 2 million results, I have managed to grab the positions around #6 on Google and position #2 on Bing. And this over a long period of time.
You see, the "playing Google" system is pretty effective. For me personally this is of course good and bad. Good because I could make a few dollars a month while being a full-time student. On the other hand, as a Google user (and fan) this is worrying me. Very often it happened that I did not get the results I was actually looking for. And I really hope Google can fix the whole "black hat SEO game". Including those eHow, HuffPo, Demand Media guys, who do this kind of search engine optimization on a much, much larger scale.
As promised, I will remove all those links from my websites and blogs. I knew it was wrong. I knew I can get caught. But as so often, you tell yourself "nobody will notice" and "oh that ain't so bad, others do the same". But I got caught and burned. Of course Matt Cutts is right, I violated Google's guidelines. Of course they can and possible will drop me from their index. But differently than others, this is not my business, it is only a hobby and a learning experience for me. I am just a small fish.
JC Penney got burned to. And their agency SearchDex got burned. Have you checked out their website? Last news was from 2007, were they talk about signing up JC Penney for four years. Funny, the contract is up next month. Hey, I am just saying ;-).
Final words. Congratulations to David Segal of the New York Times on this great article. I have never expected it to be such a long article, with so many interview partners and technical details. And it is good to see that Google tries to fight shady black hat SEO. It is of course pretty hard, but I believe in the smart people at Google to solve or dramatically reduce the problem.
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A recently published article indicates that a death row inmate who raped and killed a three year old is asking for mercy because he was abused by his father. (He is just now remembering the incidents). The news article says he long denied being abused by his father and is now recalling the events. (HA).
WHO CARES? Not me. My only concern is the three year old victim.
I'm tired of hearing excuses such as:
He or she was molested by a relative.
He or she was drunk or on drugs.
Mental incompetence.
Keep in mind that the drug or alcohol user CHOSE to abuse substances.
No one held them down and forced them to use or overuse anything.
As far as mental incompetence, I'm concerned about one issue, "Did he or she commit the crime?"
William J. Patsche
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AdvoCare Donates $35,000 on Behalf of NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion Austin Dillon
December 3, 2013
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Dec. 3, 2013) – AdvoCare International, LP (AdvoCare), a leading health and wellness company, is donating $35,000 to the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma based on the performance of Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion Austin Dillon, driver of the No. 3 AdvoCare Chevrolet. The Childress Institute's goal is to prevent the death of seriously injured children by funding research, education and awareness to improve treatment.
"Nearly 10,000 kids die every year from life-threatening injuries – more than all other causes combined," said Richard Childress, president and CEO of Richard Childress Racing and co-founder of the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma. "It's the number one killer of children in America, and it can happen anywhere, at any time, to any child. We appreciate AdvoCare's support and their commitment to helping raise awareness and funds for the care of injured children throughout the season."
AdvoCare pledged $5,000 for every win, $2,000 for every top five finish and $1,000 for every top 10 finish Dillon had throughout the 2013 Nationwide Series. In appreciation of the Childress Institute's mission and AdvoCare's contribution, Dillon and the No. 3 AdvoCare racing team visited children at several hospitals across the U.S. during the race season, including Phoenix Children's Hospital, Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, Brenner Children's Hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Children's Hospital of Richmond (Va.) at VCU.
Fans can help save the lives of injured children by making their own contribution to the Childress Institute in two ways: join the Childress Champions by donating $33 in honor of Dillon at InjuredKids.org or visit NASCAR.com/foundation to bid on the Childress Institute's holiday auction. The auction features a variety of autographed memorabilia including race-used autographed sheet metal and other items from RCR.
"AdvoCare is proud to support the research and awareness The Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma facilitates. Austin had a great season, and we are excited about what this contribution means to the organization," said Mike Vaught, AdvoCare Director of Sponsorships.
To learn more about the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma, visit www.InjuredKids.org, or find the Childress Institute via social media on Twitter @injuredkids, www.facebook.com/ChildressPediatricTrauma and www.YouTube.com/ChildressInstitute.
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The Childress Institute's goal is to lead national efforts to reduce death and disability following injury to children less than 18 years of age. It is dedicated to improving outcomes for critically-injured children across the U.S. by investing resources in research, education and awareness. The Institute helps injured kids get the best care, when they need it the most. Life-threatening injury is the No. 1 killer of kids in America. Nearly 10,000 children die each year - more than all other causes combined. The Childress Institute invests resources in research, education and awareness to improve the treatment for critically injured children in the U.S. The Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma was founded at and receives considerable support from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The Institute was established through the generosity of Richard and Judy Childress. For more information, please visit www.InjuredKids.org.
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Obama's Freudian slip
Last week on Univision while during an interview aimed at Hispanics, President Obama referred to Republicans as "enemies". As you might imagine, that raised a bit of a stir on the right side of things.
Said Obama:
'We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us' — if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election — then I think it's going to be harder. And that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2nd."
Knowing he was going to take heat over the word used and before House minority leader John Boehner could deliver a well deserved scolding, Obama attempted to defuse the situation.
"Now the Republicans are saying that I'm calling them enemies," Obama said during a get-out-the-vote to The Michael Baisden Show. "What I'm saying is you're an opponent of this particular provision, comprehensive immigration reform, which is something very different."
Well actually, no, it's not. It is certainly a rather poor attempt at damage control, but it is clear in a interview in which Obama was attempting to rally that particular base constituency during an election season that the object of the "enemies" remark was the GOP. And, the use of the word "enemies" was purposeful and calculated. It was meant to convey a message that the opposing party was an "enemy" of that which Hispanics wanted and it was important that they understand that message and act on in Nov. 2nd.
This wasn't some unscripted slip of the tongue or poorly phrased appeal as he's trying to spin it now. It was exactly how the post-partisan president views the political landscape and the other party.
Now the "smartest man in the room" is attempting this transparent and rather weak counter to his "enemies" remark.
I on the other hand have no problem attaching the word "enemy" to those on the left who would take my liberty and trash my rights. Same for those on the right with the same inclinations.
The fact that Obama used the word, however, is telling. It is another indicator to me that he has no intention of doing what Bill Clinton did when he and the Democrats lost the House in 1994. Obama is an inflexible ideologue who will go down with his leaky ship rather than do what is necessary to work across the isle. The "enemies" remark does more than any other to finally pop the "post-partisan" bubble of nonsense he spun on the campaign trail. And while I'm sure he'll attempt to pin the failure of bi-partisanship on the right, it is clear, at least to me after watching the last 2 years, that there never was any serious desire or attempt on the part of the administration to make bi-partisanship work.
As it turns out – that's fine with me. But let's put the claim that it is something desired by this president and administration to rest once and for all.


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Aviva Investors CIO departs
Aviva Investors' chief investment officer Shahid Ikram has left the firm as part of the company's recent business review.
He left in December, according to a person familiar with the situation. Ikram could not be reached for further comment.
Jean-François Boulier has since taken the role of chief investment officer of fixed income in addition to his role as chief executive of Aviva Investors Europe, the person said. He will be tasked with the development of the global fixed-income team.
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Melinda A. LaBarre of Springfield brings more than 40 years of expertise in the education field to the board. She started as a teacher in Springfield District 186, where she went on to serve as a principal for two schools in the district and later as a consultant for the Ball Education Foundation. LaBarre served as a member of the Springfield School Board from 2003 to 2009.
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Two East Texans were arrested after a caller claimed a woman was hiding inside their mobile home wall.
Laura Leigh Hollis, 28, and Daniel Scott Homan, 35, both of Livingston, have been charged with multiple crimes, according to Livingston Police Department Lt. Matt Parish.
At around 7:45 a.m. Saturday, officers were dispatched to Allie Bean Drive after a woman told police her boyfriend was hiding another woman in the wall. Once authorities arrived, Hollis, whom appeared to be intoxicated, met law enforcement in the driveway and led them inside the home.
When officers stepped in the house, drugs and paraphernalia were in plain view.
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I have tons of breastmilk frozen, so she always gets ebm. My dh tried to talk me into sleeping and letting him give dd a bottle, but I'm afraid that my milk supply will drop if I don't feed at every opportunity when I'm home.
I guess I just needed a safe place to vent. My family isn't supportive of bfing and dh is trying, but he doesn't get it. My sitter is tolerant, but not thrilled with using the breastmilk. She thinks formula is easier. This is just harder than I thought it would be.


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Eastern Illinois head coach Dino Babers told CBS Sports' Bruce Feldman that senior QB Jimmy Garoppolo runs the school's offense at the line of scrimmage.
Clemson junior QB Deshaun Watson completed 23-of-34 passes for 288 yards, three touchdowns and an interception in Saturday's 42-35 win over Virginia Tech in the ACC Championship Game.
Wisconsin senior RB Corey Clement rushed for 164 yards and a touchdown on 21 carries in Saturday's 38-31 loss to Penn State in the Big Ten Championship Game.
Penn State redshirt sophomore QB Trace McSorley was brilliant in Saturday's 38-31 win over Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game, throwing for 384 yards and four touchdowns.
San Diego State senior RB Donnel Pumphrey rushed for 110 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries in Saturday's 27-24 win over Wyoming in the Mountain West Championship Game.
Arkansas State sophomore RB Warren Wand rushed for 135 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries in Saturday's 36-14 win over Texas State.
Wisconsin redshirt freshman QB Alex Hornibrook (head) is not starting Saturday's Big Ten Championship Game against Penn State.
Oklahoma redshirt junior QB Baker Mayfield announced that he's coming back for his final season next year.
Alabama redshirt sophomore RB Bo Scarbrough rushed for 91 yards and two touchdowns on 11 carries in Saturday's 54-16 dismantling of Florida in the SEC Championship Game.
West Virginia junior RB Justin Crawford rushed for 209 yards on 28 carries in Saturday's 24-21 win over Baylor.
ESPN's Brett McMurphy reports that Oregon has interviewed Boise State HC Bryan Harsin and South Florida HC Willie Taggart for their open head-coaching position.
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Probably the most important part of the students life in the Wilkes Honors College is the relationships they build with their fellow students and with their professors. You will share classes with students who are interested in the same challenges that excite you, and you will be studying with faculty members who will serve, not just as your teachers, but as your mentors. The first public honors college designed from the ground up in the United States, the Wilkes Honors College has been built for students just like you. It s a college that will transform your life.
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|circa 1910 Jabez Burns McPherson "Dude"
Rockford, Illinois
Courtesy of the Margaret B McPherson Burmeister Family
Jabez Burns, Jr., born on the 18th of November, 1873 in Mt. Vernon, Wisconsin, was the first-born of Jabez Burns McPherson, grandson of James Peter McPherson, and great grandson of Peter McPherson of Scotland. He was also the grandson of Mary Burns McPherson, great gandson of William Gibson Burns, the great-great grandson of Joseph Burn and the grand nephew of Jabez Burns, the Baptist minister.
As previously noted, his mother Mary Housel McPherson died shortly after the birth of his baby brother James Berdetta McPherson. Jabez, Jr.at nineteen and as pictured below, was the oldest of the six children. He was closer in age to his aunt Margaret Burns McPherson than he was to his younger siblings, Furman and LeRoy, eight and ten, respectively. His aunt Margaret, who was just seven years older, referred to him fondly throughout her life as "Dude."
|circa 1891 Jabez Burns McPherson, Jr.
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
Courtesy of the Margaret B McPherson Burmeister Family
California called Jabez to it's warm climate. Jabez, Jr., registered for the WWI draft on September 12, 1918 while living in West Imperial, California. At that time he listed his wife as Leila J. McPherson and his occupation as a laborer for the Imperial Water Co. #5. It was during this period in the Imperial Valley that Jabez, Jr., met up with another Jabez Burns McPherson (my grandfather). As the story was reported by my Uncle Ralph Jabez McPherson, Jabez, Jr., stopped Ralph on a dusty street in Calipatria and asked if he was related to Jabez Burns McPherson. "Yeah, that's my dad," replied Ralph. "Well, I'm Jabez Burns McPherson too, and I got a letter here, but it's not for me. So I figured I had kin nearby," replied Jabez, Jr, "so I started lookin."
I don't know if there was much contact between these two Jabez Burns McPherson cousins. My grandfather and his family stayed in Calipatria for several more years and Jabez, Jr., appeared to move further west.. By 1920, Jabez, Jr., lived in San Bernadino, California with his wife Leila J., who was born in Kentucky, and was 10 years younger than Jabez; her being 26, to his 36 years of age. Apparently, Jabez's Illinois marriage to Lulu did not last, for whatever reasons. In San Bernadino, he again worked as a barber and she as a dressmaker. It is also interesting to note that Jabez, Jr.'s father Jabez Burns McPherson, was also living in San Bernadino, while working as a placer miner. I would assume that father and son made contact during these years, but perhaps that is just wishful thinking.
By 1930, Jabez, Jr., and Leila had moved to Los Angeles. In 1930, Jabez still worked at his barbering trade, while Leila worked as a merchant in dry goods. They would live out their rest of their lives in Los Angeles.
Jabez, Jr., died on March 25, 1954 in Los Angeles, California. Leila died on March 5, 1979 in Los Angeles. They had no children.
Obituaries for Mary Housel McPherson
1880 Federal Census, Dodgeville, Iowa County, Wisconsin
1897 Illinois marriage record for Jabez McPherson and Lulu Dunham
1900 Federal Census, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois
1918 WWI Registration Card, West Imperial, California
1920 Federal Census, San Bernadino, San Bernadino, California
1930 Federal Census, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Pictures, courtesy of the Margaret B. (McPherson) Burmeister Family and the JGH/Roots'n'Leaves Archives.
Jabezes, Part 1
Jabezes, Part 2
Jabezes, Part 3
Jabezes, Part 3, Addendum
Jabezes, Part 4
Jabezes, Part 5
Sad and Untimely Death Of Mary Housel McPherson
Housel family in Springdale
Burns Brass Band
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Second day on 50 mcg - can't tell any difference yet. What is it supposed to feel like?
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Second day on 50 mcg - can't tell any difference yet. What is it supposed to feel like?
How's your appetite? That's one of the first things to go in my experience.
For me, nothing really. A little raise in body temp and slightly more sweat during activities. But I lost 10lbs in the first two weeks of taking T3 at 75mg/day
T3 makes me sweat a lot.
I sweat a lot. Cardio is great on it.
i notice nothing and i have used two diff brands one was bluesky and now purchase pep.both are working at keeping me lean but i dont fell any thing at all even at 100mcg.i all ways never would use t3 or anything like that because i thought they made you fell all crack out and stuff like clen does or something.but not true for me with t3 and i can not even take pre work out stuff so if that tells you something.
I upped it to 75 today, and I still can't really feel a difference. I am sweating a lot, but that could be the tren. I have Clen for later, too.
I have been taking this all in one dose in the morning. Is that how the rest of you do it, or do you split it up throughout the day?
all in the morning first thing empty for me.
I split up. Prescribed t3 says doses should be taken no sooner than 4 hours apart and no later than 12 hours.
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And did you both have good results taking it two different ways (all at once or splitting it up)?
I took it all in the morning for 2 years.
I'd be careful upping the dose to quickly,t-3 will burn through muscle too.
yea i would not be taking t3 unless i am on a heavy cycle.and yes i have gotten good results from taking t3 all in am i would not take anything like that in the evening for me might hurt my sleep.
As for the T3, I think it increases my resting heart rate . . .
Shirt was soaking wet after cardio this morning, and THAT is a first.
I'm near the same dose at 1g/375/300 and I'm on 125mcg of clen and 25mg of t-3 and my weight is slowly coming down.
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My bed sheets are soaked in the morning though.
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Not wise taking tren and deca together. You might want to look into the side effects from taking both concurrently. Prolactin levels can sky rocket and you could wakeup next week with boobs.
I have lost a few pounds, and I am visibly leaner. You can actually see abs now, even if they are not visually impressive yet. I was smooth across the belly when I started.
The ironic thing is that everybody thinks I am getting bigger and heavier. "Hey, you are really bulking up," are the kind of comments I keep hearing. "Nope, I have actually been losing weight . . ." I respond.
I keep getting stronger even while my bodyweight is dropping.
Sounds like you are on track brother. I would NOT increase the Clen or T3 doses any further though. You are on stout doses.
This should only be taken while youre on right? To stop it from wasting your muscle? T3 is one thing im not very familiar with, but im interested in it for the back end of a cycle
I'm on it now. I can't stop sweating. I have good energy. I'm gradually increasing the dose.


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By David Irvin
The top names from New Mexico's leadership and the eastern New Mexico community walked into Marshall Junior High School auditorium Friday with a singular mission: Convince the Base Realignment and Closure commissioners that Cannon Air Force Base should not be shut down.
Judging from the boisterous mood at a press conference after the hearing, the group believed it was a success.
"We all have been working for years knowing that this day might come," said Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M. "This is what I would call a home-run presentation. I think that everyone who came up to the plate hit a home run."
Even the BRAC commissioners said the presentation was put together well, and Commissioner James Hansen called the arguments made by Cannon supporters "compelling."
Nine supporters from the state, federal and local levels spoke on behalf of Cannon at the hearing.
However, the task ahead of the commissioners is not simple, they said after the hearing. In part this is because all the "low fruit" have been plucked from America's arsenal during former BRAC rounds.
"We have tougher decisions to make than any other previous BRAC," said Commissioner James Bilbray. "Cannon is wonderful, but I guarantee I've been to five other bases scheduled for closure that actually have hundreds of millions of dollars of new infrastructure on those bases. … So you're one of the best, but there are about five or six other ones that are great bases too, so that's what we've got to analyze."
Hansen said Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told the Commission the road would be hard.
"I still remember when Secretary Rumsfeld stood in front of our group. He said, 'We have no bad bases. We just have too many bases.' And that was the issue," Hansen said.
Part of the logic behind having a BRAC round at this time, Hansen said, is to accommodate the future needs of the military and plan to confront military threats 20 years in the future.
To illustrate that point, Hansen spoke about a meeting he had with generals and admirals of the former Soviet Union's military following the fall of communism.
"They said 'We cannot run with you people, because your technology is so far ahead of ours,'" Hansen said.
Despite the odds against a Cannon removal — historically about 85 percent of bases slated for closure have been shut — New Mexico's delegation and governor remained upbeat after the hearing.
"I think at the minimum we have truly created some questions in their minds," said Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M.
Rather than lay blame for what the delegates and other Cannon supporters have called "flawed" data, Domenici said the Pentagon faced a gigantic task and perhaps that's how mistakes were made. Adding to that, he said the DoD's case against Cannon was "clearly challenged, if not actually disavowed" by Friday's presentation.
Gov. Bill Richardson said Cannon's situation was considerably improved — "a month ago Cannon was on life support," he quipped — but he continued to call the fight to save Cannon an "uphill battle."
When asked what's next in the process, Richardson answered, "We line up five votes, that's what's next."
Compounding the difficulty of lining up those votes — and for the commission, taking a base off the list — is the domino effect that any base removal has on the entire Pentagon's recommendations, commissioners said.
"It's like playing checkers, you wonder where it's going to stop," said Hansen. "So all of these are going to be a little more difficult, in my mind, for this commission to deal with."


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