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A's drop series to Mariners as tough road trip comes to an end
SEATTLE -- The A's managed to take two of three from the Yankees in New York last weekend, but the remainder of their lengthy road trip didn't prove nearly as enjoyable.
They were swept away by the Indians during a frustrating four-game stay in Cleveland, and two more losses awaited them in Seattle, where they dropped a 6-1 contest on Sunday.
"Yeah," said manager Bob Melvin, "It didn't work out as well as we would've liked."
Now the A's, who started the season 12-4, have won just seven of their last 23 games, and they're back under the .500 mark, in second place in their division with just a half-game lead over the Mariners.
"If we had come out with the win today, it would have been a 4-6 road trip, which all things considered wouldn't have been nearly as bad as it seemed," said Brandon Moss, who struck out four times. "But 3-7 sounds a lot worse than 4-6, especially the way we played the better part of this week.
"You go through ups and downs but this is not very fun right now. We have a new series tomorrow at home against a tough team, and we just gotta keep playing."
Perhaps Oakland could do well by an off-day, but that won't come until Thursday. First, the A's must deal with the first-place Rangers, who just happen to enter Oakland for a three-game set as baseball's best team, carrying a six-game lead over the A's.
Texas is slated to start Justin Grimm, Derek Holland and Alexi Ogando, a trio who have combined for a 3.03 ERA. In front of them will be an Oakland offense that was outscored 44-25 on its 10-game road swing. Hitters compiled a .205 average in that time, and the A's are now batting .238 as a team.
And the pitching staff? Well that group put together a 4.55 ERA on the trip, including a 5.17 ERA by its starters, following Tommy Milone's five-run outing over five innings Sunday.
So it's hard to point fingers right now, making it easy to use a crowded disabled list -- the A's are currently without Brett Anderson, Josh Reddick, Coco Crisp and Chris Young -- as something of an excuse. But that's not an option, Melvin says.
"There are other teams that have injuries too," he responded. "We have to grind through it, find ways to win some games, and then get our guys back. That's what we're trying to do right now. You can't look back and make excuses based on the personnel you have now."
"I don't know what it is," Moss said. "I feel like we haven't played that terrible on defense, but when we make a defensive mistake, it's capitalized on. We haven't hit that terrible, but we haven't put anything together either. We haven't pitched that bad, but when we do pitch good, we don't hit. It's just one of those times in the season where you gotta make it through it and not let it define your season."
Moss, the lone lefty in Oakland's lineup against southpaw Joe Saunders on Sunday, was paralyzed at the plate, with his four strikeouts spanning just 14 pitches -- making him the "poster child" for another rough day, as he said.
"Can't feel much worse," Moss said. "That was the most overmatched I've ever been in baseball right there, and it wasn't overmatched by stuff, just location of the pitches."
Back-to-back doubles off the bats of Josh Donaldson and Luke Montz in the second inning produced Oakland's only run, as Saunders limited the A's to just three other hits in 6 1/3 innings of work.
Milone didn't fare nearly as well, surrendering a three-run homer to Kendrys Morales -- each of his other six home runs allowed were solo shots -- with one out in the first inning.
"I was getting behind in the count, and then I was pretty much having to throw the ball over the plate to get back into the count," he said, "and they were waiting for it."
He recovered with a pair of clean bounce-back innings, before finding trouble again in the fourth and fifth, which would be his last.
The A's went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position on the day and left eight on base, including four in the first three innings, their lack of production somewhat ill-timed given their upcoming schedule.
"It seems like every series will be more important when you're not playing as well, but it is a long season, and we're one game under .500," said Melvin. "It's not like we're 15 games below. At some point in time, we're going to play better, and we're going to win a lot of games. That's my opinion.
"It certainly is a big series because Texas is ahead of the whole division, so we'd like to play well in that series."
"We definitely need to pick it up, play better baseball and keep believing we're going to come out of it," Moss added, "because we're a much better team than the way we're playing. We really are."
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Table Of Contents
Supported Standards, MIBs, and RFCs
SNMP for Stateful Switchover
Feature History
This document describes the enhancements and modifications made to the Cisco IOS Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) infrastructure in order to support stateful switchover (SSO) for Route Processors (RPs). It includes the following sections:
•Supported Standards, MIBs, and RFCs
Feature Overview
The SNMP and stateful switchover feature helps to improve the availability of networks made up of Cisco IOS-based networking devices. Using SSO, a networking device with redundant RPs will continue forwarding traffic, continue operating as a routing protocol peer, and remain manageable under a set of circumstances that ordinarily would cause an interruption in service.
The SSO feature allows one of the processors on the networking device to operate as the active RP, which passes the necessary system, routing, and application state information to the standby RP. Upon switchover, the standby RP quickly assumes the role of active RP. The goal of SNMP network management with SSO functionality is to provide an uninterrupted management interface to the end user during and after a switchover. For more information about the SSO feature, see the Related Documents section.
Network Management for SSO
Network management support for SSO is provided through the synchronization of specific SNMP data between the active and standby RPs. From a network management perspective, this synchronization helps to provide an uninterrupted management interface to the network administrator.
Note Synchronization of SNMP data between RPs is available only when the networking device is operating in SSO mode.
Network management services for SSO address a number of issues, which are described in the following sections:
Uninterrupted Service
When a networking device uses SSO, the network management engine of the standby RP should be indistinguishable from the network management engine of the active RP. A network management system (NMS) should not interpret a switchover to mean that a new device has come up.
The sysUpTime MIB object reports the system uptime. To prevent a switchover from being flagged as a restart, this object is synchronized between the active and the standby RPs. As a result, no coldStart or warmStart traps will be generated as a result of the switchover—the ciscoRFSwactNotif notification is used to signal a switchover.
Communication with the NMS
Counters and Statistics
The various counters and statistics maintained in the RP are not synchronized because they may change often and the degree of synchronization they require is substantial. They also are not critical to the system operation. Because of this lack of synchronization, counter objects experience a discontinuity after a switchover. The cRFStatusFailoverTime will be the value of sysUpTime when any one or more of the counters experiences a discontinuity.
Switchover Notification
The ciscoRFSwactNotif notification informs the NMS about a switchover. This notification provides information regarding the unit ID of the originator of the notification, the newly active redundant unit, the sysUptime data, and reason codes for why a switchover has occurred. The NMS can then use the ciscoRFSwactNotif notification to resynchronize the counter statistics values, if necessary. For more information, see the "CISCO-RF-MIB Support" section.
Only notifications generated on the active RP are sent to the notification destination. None of the notifications generated on the standby RP are sent to the notification destination. Furthermore, notifications might be lost if they were generated on the active RP before a switchover. The NMS should be aware of these constraints.
SSO MIB Support
This section describes the level of synchronization supported by the MIBs Cisco IOS release 12.0(22)S. MIBs that are not listed in this section do not synchronize data between the redundant units. MIB synchronization for SSO only occurs when the system is in SSO mode.
SSO MIB support has three parts:
•SNMP Configuration MIBs
•Core MIBs
SNMP Configuration MIBs
All the objects in the following MIBs that contain SNMP configuration data are synchronized between the active and standby RPs:
Core MIBs
Core MIBs are as follows:
•ENTITY-MIB—After a switchover, there will be no change in the data reported by the ENTITY-MIB object. This lack of change is result of the entPhysicalIndex and its associated objects being synchronized between the active and the standby RPs. The associated objects of the entPhysicalIndex are as follows:
•IF-MIB—The ifIndex is synchronized between the active and standby RPs, along with the ifNumber, ifTableLastChange, ifAdminStatus, ifLinkUpDownTrapEnable, ifAlias, ifLastChange, and ifStackLastChange objects.
CISCO-RF-MIB Support
The CISCO-RF-MIB provides configuration control and status for the redundancy facility (RF) subsystem. The CISCO-RF-MIB has been modified to support SSO functionality. A new cRFHistory subgroup has been added in this release. The subgroup consists of one table (cRFHistorySwitchOverTable) and three objects (cRFHistoryTableMaxLength, cRFHistoryColdStarts, and cRFHistoryStandbyAvailTime), as follows:
•The cRFHistorySwitchOverTable has been added. This new table tracks the history of switchovers that have occurred since system initialization. New objects that have been added as part of this table are as follows:
–cRFHistoryPrevActiveUnitId—A read-only object that indicates the active RP that went down. The value of this object is the unique ID of the active RP that has gone down. The ID can be the slot ID, the physical or logical entity ID, or a unique ID assigned by the RF.
–cRFHistoryCurrActiveUnitId—A read-only object that indicates the standby RP that took over as the active RP. The value of this object is the unique ID of the active RP. The ID can be the slot ID, the physical or logical entity ID, or a unique ID assigned by the RF.
–cRFHistorySwitchOverReason—A read-only object that indicates the reason for the switchover. The reasons for the switchover from the active RP to the standby RP can be any of the following:
- unsupported—This feature is unsupported.
- none—No switchover has occurred.
- notKnown—The reason is unknown.
- userInitiated—A safe, manual switchover was initiated by the user.
- userForced—A manual switchover was forced by the user. Preconditions, warnings, and safety checks were ignored.
- activeUnitFailed—An active RP fault caused an automatic switchover.
- activeUnitRemoved—The active RP was removed, which caused an automatic switchover.
–cRFHistorySwactTime—A read-only object that indicates the date and time the switchover occurred. The value of this object is a time stamp with the date and time the switchover occurred.
•cRFHistoryTableMaxLength—A read-write object that indicates the maximum number of entries permissible in the history table. The value of this object is an integer that is more than 0. A value of 0 results in no history being maintained.
•cRFHistoryColdStarts—A read-only object that indicates the number of system cold starts including the number of system cold starts due to switchover fault and the number of manual restarts.
•cRFHistoryStandByAvailTime—A read-only object that indicates the cumulative time that a standby redundant unit has been available since the last system initialization.
Two objects related to switchover status have been added:
•cRFStatusFailoverTime—A read-only object that indicates the sysUpTime value when the primary redundant unit took over as active. The value of this object is 0 until the first switchover.
•cRFStatusPeerStandByEntryTime—A read-only object that indicates the sysUpTime value when the peer redundant unit entered the standbyHot state. The value of this object is 0 on system initialization.
SNMP network management with SSO functionality ensures an uninterrupted management interface to the end user. The network administrator can differentiate a switchover from a system restart based on the notification type (for example, ciscoRFSwactNotif for switchover and coldStart or warmStart for system restarts). Uninterrupted service also includes synchronizing the SNMP configuration and data from core MIBs such as IF-MIB and ENTITY-MIB to the standby RP.
Counter and Statistics
Statistics and counter values will not be synchronized from the active to the standby RP.
MIB Limitations
No MIBs other than the ones mentioned in the "MIB Support" section are synchronized between the active and the standby RPs.
Possible Failure of SNMP Requests
SNMP requests might fail during the switchover process, that is, while the standby RP is taking over as the active RP. Data in the unsynchronized MIBs may be out of synchronization, and the information in these MIBs might be lost on a switchover.
Related Documents
•Stateful Switchover for the Cisco 7500 Series Routers, Cisco IOS Release 12.0(22)S feature module
•Stateful Switchover for the Cisco 10000 Series Routers, Cisco IOS Release 12.0(22)S feature module
•Stateful Switchover for the Cisco 12000 Series Routers, Cisco IOS Release 12.0(22)S feature module
•The "Configuring SNMP Support" chapter of Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Configuration Guide, Release 12.2
•The "SNMP Commands" chapter of Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference, Release 12.2
Supported Platforms
•Cisco 7500 series
•Cisco 10000 series
•Cisco 12000 series
Determining Platform Support Through Cisco Feature Navigator
Cisco IOS software is packaged in feature sets that support specific platforms. To get updated information regarding platform support for this feature, access Cisco Feature Navigator. Cisco Feature Navigator dynamically updates the list of supported platforms as new platform support is added for the feature.
Cisco Feature Navigator is a web-based tool that enables you to quickly determine which Cisco IOS software images support a specific set of features and which features are supported in a specific Cisco IOS image. You can search by feature or release. Under the release section, you can compare releases side by side to display both the features unique to each software release and the features in common.
To access Cisco Feature Navigator, you must have an account on Cisco.com. If you have forgotten or lost your account information, send a blank e-mail to email@example.com. An automatic check will verify that your e-mail address is registered with Cisco.com. If the check is successful, account details with a new random password will be e-mailed to you. Qualified users can establish an account on Cisco.com by following the directions at http://www.cisco.com/register.
Cisco Feature Navigator is updated regularly when major Cisco IOS software releases and technology releases occur. For the most current information, go to the Cisco Feature Navigator home page at the following URL:
Supported Standards, MIBs, and RFCs
No new or modified standards are supported by this feature.
The following MIBs are supported with SSO in regard to state maintenance across a switchover:
•CISCO-RF-MIB—This MIB has been modified for this release. The MIB contains several new MIB objects.
To obtain lists of supported MIBs by platform and Cisco IOS release, and to download MIB modules, go to the Cisco MIB website on Cisco.com at the following URL:
•RFC 1907, Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol
•RFC 2233, The Interfaces Group MIB Using SMIv2
•RFC 2571, An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks
•RFC 2573, SNMP Applications
•RFC 2574, User-Based Security Model (USM) for Version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)
•RFC 2575, View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
•RFC 2737, Entity MIB
The router must be in SSO mode.
Configuration Tasks
To configure the router to run in SSO mode, refer to the documents listed in the "Related Documents" section for your specific platform. For further information on configuring SNMP support, refer to the "Configuring SNMP Support" chapter of Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Configuration Guide, Release 12.2.
Verifying SSO
To verify that the router is running in SSO mode, refer to the documents listed in the "Related Documents" section for your specific platform.
Troubleshooting Tips
•Use the show redundancy switchover history command to see the switchover history.
•Use the debug snmp sync command to debug SNMP synchronization and faults in synchronization.
Configuration Examples
For SSO configuration examples, refer to the documents listed in the "Related Documents" section for your specific platform.
Command Reference
This section documents modified commands. All other commands used with this feature are documented in the Cisco IOS high availability stateful switchover publications for various releases.
debug snmp sync
To debug Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) synchronization and faults in synchronization, use the debug snmp sync command in privileged EXEC mode. To disable the display of debugging output, use the no form of this command.
debug snmp sync
no debug snmp sync
Syntax Description
This command has no arguments or keywords.
Command Modes
Privileged EXEC
Command History
Usage Guidelines
The debug snmp sync command can be used to debug SNMP synchronization and faults in synchronization. The standby Route Processor (RP) may sometimes reset as a result of synchronization faults. If the fault occurs when SNMP activities such as SNMP sets are in progress, enter the debug snmp sync command to identify whether a synchronization fault caused the reset.
SNMP synchronizations (dynamic and bulk) are performed only if the router is configured to be in stateful switchover (SSO) mode.
The following example enables debugging of SNMP synchronization activity:router> debug snmp sync
Related Commands
Command Description
debug snmp packets
Displays information about every SNMP packet sent or received by the networking device.
Configures the redundancy mode of operation.
show redundancy
To display the current redundancy mode, use the show redundancy command in privileged EXEC mode.
show redundancy [clients | counters | history | states | switchover]
Cisco 12000 Series Internet Routers
show redundancy [all | arbitration | clients | counters | history | negotiation | switchover | standby-cpu | states | trace | trace all]
Syntax Description
(Optional) Displays all of the redundancy mode output.
(Optional) Displays details of the Redundancy Facility (RF) arbitration scheme.
(Optional) Displays the RF client list
(Optional) Displays the RF operational counters.
(Optional) Displays the RF history.
(Optional) Displays details of the RF negotiation.
(Optional) Displays details of the current standby device.
(Optional) Displays the RF states.
(Optional) Displays switchover history information.
(Optional) Displays a trace of the main events for the redundancy finite state machine.
trace all
(Optional) Displays all basic and latest event traces.
Command Modes
Privileged EXEC
Command History
Release Modification
This command was introduced.
This command was modified to show information on Route Processor Redundancy (RPR).
This command was modified to add the switchover keyword on
Cisco 12000, 10000, and 7500 series Internet routers.
Usage Guidelines
Use this command to display the redundancy of a Cisco IOS series Internet routers.
The following example shows redundancy switchover history information:router# show redundancy switchover historyIndex Prev Active Curr Active Swact Reason Swact Time1 1 0 unsupported 8:03:52 UTC ThuNov 29 20012 0 1 unsupported 08:07:00 UTC ThuNov 29 2001
Table 1 describes the significant fields shown in the display.
Table 1 show redundancy Field Descriptions
Field Description
Prev Active
Slot number of the previously active unit.
Curr Active
Slot number of the currently active unit.
Swact Reason
Reason for the switchover.
Swact Time
The date and time the switchover occurred.
Related Commands
Command Description
clear redundancy history
Clears the redundancy event history log.
Configures the redundancy mode of operation.
Enters redundancy mode.
redundancy force-switchover
Switches control of a router from the active to the standby RP.


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After breaking open two safes inside an Illinois car, Mebraska State Troopers found dozens of stolen credit cards, a bundle of cash and some fake IDs.
Kenneth Lewis, 30, Evelyn Barnes, 47, and Sonya Phelps, 46, were speeding east on Interstate 80 Sept. 21 when they were stopped by Nebraska State Trooper Ryan Hayes.
Hayes took the stand Thursday in Lincoln County Court to talk about the arrest.
Hayes said the car was going 87 miles an hour. He stopped it a couple miles from the Hershey interchange and questioned the driver, Sonya Phelps. Hayes said he thought her story sounded suspicious, so he also questioned both passengers, who also seemed to have trouble getting their stories to match.
Hayes said he asked for permission to search the vehicle. They refused, so he called for help, and Trooper Jeremiah Johnson arrived with a drug-detection dog. The dog indicated the odor of drugs, giving the troopers probable cause to search the vehicle.
Hayes said he put Phelps in the front seat of his cruiser and Lewis in the back. Barnes was in Johnson's patrol truck. Hayes said he activated the video cameras and microphones in his cruiser while he searched their car.
He said he found two small black safes, one in a duffle bag and another in a suitcase.
Hayes said Lewis claimed to own a duffle bag, but not the one with the safe, and Barnes claimed to have a suitcase, but not the one with the safe.
He said both safes were locked. He found a key during the search but it didnt fit, so he asked Lewis to open the safes. Lewis said he didnt have the keys, so Hayes took the car to a repair shop in Hershey.
Hayes testified that the safes were forced open at the shop, and found 15 credit cards, a fake Missouri drivers license and $17,000 cash in one of them.
And, he said the safe from the suitcase contained even more credit cards and another fake Missouri license in the name of Ann Hall. He said he checked the numbers on the credit cards and found them listed as stolen.
Hayes also testified that the video in his cruiser recorded Lewis asking Phelps if he should toss them (the keys) or what? Lewis took keys out of his pocket and passed them through the security screen of the cruiser to Phelps in front. Hayes said the camera showed Phelps looking for a place to hide them.
And, the keys to the safes were later found under the carpet near the center console of the cruiser, Hayes said.
Defense attorney Amanda Speichert asked Hayes if he read the Miranda rights to the suspects when he confined them in his squad car.
Deputy County Attorney Austin Leighty objected.
Lincoln County Judge Kent Turnbull overruled the objection and allowed Hayes to answer.
Hayes said he did not read the defendants their rights in the car. He said they were detained at that point but not under arrest.
There was no question that Hayes read the three their rights when he arrested them after opening the safes.
All three were initially cited for possession of a forged object, criminal impersonation, ID theft and fraud.
Currently, Barnes and Phelps are just charged with possession of a forged object, according to sheriff's records. Lewis is charged with possession of a forged object, criminal impersonation, ID theft and fraud.
Speichert moved to dismiss those charges against Lewis. She said the prosecution did not prove that Lewis ever had possession of the cards or ever used them.
Turnbull ruled that the evidence was overwhelming and showed probable cause to bind the case over to district court.
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IIRC, the magazine tube exterior shouldn't be lubed.
While I don't have an A-5, I have two other long recoil autos ( A Franchi AL-48 & a Remington 11-48) which run just fine with a dry tube.
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The industry will not escape unscathed from mandated sequester cuts in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies.
The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service said in mid-March it is suspending several reports for the balance of the fiscal year because of budget cuts caused by sequestration. Of those important to the industry, the USDA said it did not plan to issue the potato stocks report and those for all non-citrus fruit, nut and vegetable forecasts and estimates.
The list of suspended fruit crop estimates includes the closely watched first estimate of the 2013 apple crop, released in August.
What's more, export promotion funds in the Market Access Program for U.S. fresh produce exports were cut by 10% by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.
Of course, this says nothing of expected cutbacks in border service by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in coming weeks.
The by-now familiar sequestration cuts were put in motion during the 2011 debt ceiling negotiations, as a plan to motivate lawmakers to stop disagreements over the federal budget from being kicked down the road indefinitely.
It hasn't worked, of course, but that is no reason to hold U.S. agriculture hostage to Washington's dysfunction.
The industry may find these coming lapses in services a valuable accounting tool in measuring the value of services that government provides.
The increasing pain and cost of sequester cuts to the fresh produce industry — and other industries — should push lawmakers to act sooner rather than later to find a way forward without cutting essential services.
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ISA100 Meets in Canada
The ISA SP-100 standards committee met for three days following ISAs Wireless Summit. The first SP-100 committee ballot is scheduled to follow this years ISA Conference and Expo in Houston, Texas, October 2-4. The committee plans to demonstrate the ISA100 at the Expo stressing the readiness of the networking technology, and the cooperation among potential suppliers.
The ISA SP-100 standards committee met for three days following ISA's Wireless Summit held in Vancouver, BC. Several major goals for the standard to be named ISA100 have been met, with the prospect of the first SP-100 committee ballot scheduled to be following this year's ISA Conference and Expo to be held in Houston, Texas, October 2-4. The committee is planning to hold a demonstration of ISA100 at this Expo to stress the readiness of the networking technology, and the cooperation among the potential suppliers, most of which are participating in the demo.
The committee has now agreed upon all of the major sections of the Principles of Operation, an overview of the protocol describing how each layer will accomplish its goals. A more detailed version of this document is already completed and is called the Functional Description, which will serve as the framework for the ISA100 standard itself. Each of the layers now appears to be completely defined using as much standard technology as possible.
At the lowest layer, the PHY/MAC, is based on the use of IEEE 802.15.4:2006 chips that are also used for both WirelessHART and ZigBee. This layer was chosen because these chips are designed for use in very low power, battery-operated networks, and have the speed and range required for industrial wireless networks. ISA100 only uses the 2.4 GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific, and Medical) band supported by these chips, which are available at low cost from several silicon suppliers. The MAC layer is the portion of the Data Link Layer (DLL) that is necessary to support these chips.
The Upper portion of the Data Link Layer (UDLL) immediately above the PHY/MAC has been originally designed by this committee for the channel hopping that will be needed to provide frequency diversity necessary to overcome the multipath reflections expected in processing areas often referred to as "canyons of steel." The UDLL also has used the 16 channels that were defined by IEEE 802.15.4 so that ISA100 will avoid interference with WiFi or IEEE 802.11, which will often be used in manufacturing areas for both supervisory and other data networks.
One of the most far-reaching decisions reached at the Vancouver meeting was the selection of an Internet draft standard, 6LoWPAN, as the Network layer protocol. This forward-thinking technology is based on Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), but in a reduced form suitable for low power networks. The significance of this choice is that ISA100 will be able to communicate with common IP-based protocols such as UDP, SMTP, and FTP. For example, FOUNDATIONTM Fieldbus HSE is based on the use of UDP.
6LoWPAN at the network layer allows the use of a simple well-defined protocol, RDP at the Transport Layer. RDP (Reliable Data Protocol) is also an Internet standard (RFC 1151) last updated in 1990. RDP is simple subset of TCP, the most common Transport layer protocol. Simplicity in this case means not implementing those features of TCP that are only useful on large high speed networks such as the Internet. Using existing but simple internet protocols at the network and transport layers is very important to ISA100 since it will enable many future applications such as location of a web server in wireless field devices as wireless and battery technologies advance. The committee evaluated both 6LoWPAN and RDP to be sure that they did not introduce excess overhead to ISA100 messages. ISA100 does not implement either the Session or Presentation layers of the ISO seven-layer data communications model.
The Application layer remains as an object-oriented data transfer mechanism using EDDL to make it compatible with FOUNDATIONTM Fieldbus, Profibus, HART, and OPC. Each of these consortiums support EDDL and are expected to create interfaces to the ISA100 Application layer. So far, only the Fieldbus Foundation has made a formal announcement that they will support ISA100. Additionally, a full data encapsulation protocol has been defined to tunnel messages between wireless field devices and their host systems that do not use EDDL. Tunneling will be used to allow Modbus, DeviceNet, EtherNet/IP, and other such common wired industrial network protocols access to the wireless network.
Network security is being addressed for both the process of forming the network (joining) as well as for integrity of the data being transferred. Both operations will be encrypted to assure that only authorized and properly configured units are admitted to the field network, and that data exchanges will be protected from interception. Details of the security protocols are still being worked out, but will use well-accepted practices defined in the ISA99 draft standard.
The issue of WirelessHART continues to be debated at these meetings. Users have consistently indicated their dissatisfaction with the fact that WirelessHART and ISA100 will be different and not interoperable. Previously, the users were assured that each network, both operating at 2.4 GHz, could be assigned a set of the 16 available channels to avoid interference, if that ever becomes a problem. While this suggestion is technically workable, dissatisfaction remains. Users continue to press for greater cooperation from both organizations, and meetings between SP100 and the HART Communications Foundation continue. The SP-100/HART collaboration committee released this statement: "An active dialog is underway between ISA100 and the HART Communications Foundation to define how collaboration between the two organizations can best be accomplished to satisfy the acknowledged needs of industry for clear and understandable wireless standards."
As part of the ISA100 process of forming its mesh network, called discovery, a unique format for ISA100 devices has been defined to differentiate from WirelessHART, ZigBee, or any other message using IEEE 802.15.4 chips. At least this will allow manufacturers that wish to build devices recognizing multiple protocols (such as ISA100 and WirelessHART) to be able to use their ISA100 stack for ISA100 messages. Cooperation with the HART Communications Foundation continues in order to find a better way integrate ISA100 with WirelessHART. The technical problem is the protocols used by ISA100 at the layers above the PHY/MAC must be robust enough to be used for many industrial applications intended for ISA100, whereas WirelessHART needs only to provide relatively limited HART data. Several suppliers have already indicated their intentions to build adapters to interface wired HART field devices with ISA100 networks (referred to as "HART over wireless.") Most of them have also indicated their intent to build WirelessHART devices and adapters for wired HART transmitters and valve positioners. The users working on the ISA100 standard are pressing for a less confusing situation than to install and configure two different networks in their plants.
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Continuing his latter-day creative renaissance, Dylan offers up his most emotionally direct work in quite awhile, finding focus – and solace – in love while living in a fucked-up world. The sound is equally direct, an earthy blend of tough roadhouse blues inspired by '50s-era Chess Records (particularly Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf) and Southwestern border country (the accordion of Los Lobos' David Hidalgo is as prominent as Mike Campbell's rumbling electric guitar). Dylan uses his battered croak like the wily old bluesman he is on these deceptively simple songs, intensifying their sly blend of comedy and tragedy, sincerity and sarcasm, plain-speak and profundity. 4/23/2009 - Don Yates
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It's about time; iconic East Falls clock tower repaired after months of motionless hands
Time is once again on the side of kids, residents, and certain community news editors with the completion of restoration work on Thomas Mifflin Elementary School's clock.
As lamented by NewsWorks editor Brian Hickey in September, the Mifflin School's clock had malfunctioned, resulting in a clock that was accurate only twice a day, with neither moment occurring when said editor was relaxing on the back deck of his East Falls home and desirous of an accurate marker of the passing hours.
Hickey was miffed by the broken clock, especially since he often used it as a BBQ timer, so he wrote about it in a NewsWorks essay.
Reaction appeared to be nominal, and perhaps in spite of the clock's inert hands, time slowly passed. Then, one day – indeed, one fateful day – the hands were gone. Vamoose. Vanished sans fuss or fanfare!
Vandals, was it? A clock robber perhaps, stealing time? Or maybe Father Time himself descended from on high, freeing his minions from their servitude as sentinels of public promptness.
In truth, all the while there was a man lurking in the shadows, waiting for precisely the right moment to strike.
Bringing the clock back to life
"Are you the guy who wrote the story?" asked Bob Desrochers when reached by NewsWorks. Desrochers, 66, is a well-regarded clock and watch repairer who lives in Lititz, Pa. who was tasked with repairing Mifflin's timepiece.
This reporter demurred, but Desrochers indicated that Hickey's essay triggered the recent restoration.
Desrochers first go-round at Mifflin occurred about seven years ago, when he installed new hands and glass. He said it ran well for a number of years, but as with any mechanical device, regular maintenance is essential, so he called and called and called school administrators about the clock's well-being.
For several years, he said, no one wanted to talk about the clock. That changed when a certain NewsWorks editor got a little wound up about it.
With the go-ahead from the school district and the help of a steeplejack – a craftsperson skilled at high-level maintenance – Desrochers removed the hands and spent about a week repairing and rebuilding the innards of the clock.
With the parts in his possession, Desrochers discovered that several of the clock's universal joints had cracked, split from years of stress.
He corrected this, and with the help of his trusty steeplejack colleagues, Desrochers returned to East Falls a few weeks after first removing the mechanism and brought the clock back to life.
"I assume it's still running," he said.
$4,500 in repairs
Desrochers is the go-to guy for a number of municipal timepieces in the city – he keeps City Hall's clock ticking – but says that among the many faces with which he is familiar, Mifflin's clock and the architecture and history of the school itself stand out.
"The school was built at a time when money was still being spent," he said of Mifflin.
Philadelphia School District spokesman Fernando Gallard reported that approximately $4,500 was spent on the repairs, with the cost being shared by the school district and two private companies. While he did not identify either business, he praised their generosity, noting that it was a prime example of businesses and communities working together toward a common goal.
George Matysik, co-chair of the Friends of Mifflin School committee, said that the restored clock was representative of another common goal: The focal point of a community rallying around its school.
For Desrochers, the role of public clocks is more important now than ever, observing that fewer people are wearing watches. It's a behavioral observation that keeps his practice busy and inspires the precision of his work.
"I'm a stickler for how things ought to be done," he said. "I really want it right."
'It sends a message that not everything's broken'
And that desire to do it right appears to be appreciated.
"I'm happy to hear that another NewsWorks story has affected positive change in Northwest Philly," said Hickey. "But, this isn't about me or my desire to barbecue assorted meats properly. This is a victory for everyone who values punctuality."
Mifflin Principal Leslie Mason said that she's "very happy" with the repair, noting the clock's symbolic representation of school and community.
Gina Snyder, executive director of the East Falls Development Corporation, echoed Mason's sentiments, noting that schools are a very visual symbol of a community and its investment in public education.
"It sends a message that not everything's broken," Snyder observed.
Gallard was unsure of the exact circumstances of his notification about Mifflin's malfunctioning clock, but when asked, believed that Hickey's essay was the likely tipping point.
Referencing the sagging finances of the school district, Gallard said it was difficult for the district to complete all the repairs it hopes to, but said that every now and again, especially with the additional support of business and community members, a small project like the Mifflin clock can come to the forefront.
"Sometimes we're able to do the little things that are important to a community," he said.


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It turns out that most family game experiences come down to four specific points. If you know how to evaluate these four things for a board or card game, you'll quickly figure out whether it's the kind of game that works well with your family's temperament, interests, and skill levels.
So, what are the four mysterious keys to matching the right game with your family? In order of importance, they are:
* type of competition
* luck vs. strategy
* playing time
* player elimination
We'll start with the type of competition, because that's arguably the most important. Next week, we'll tackle another.
Type of competition
All board games are competitions, right? Well, sort of. Almost every game involve a competition of some kind, but competition itself comes in three specific flavors: direct, indirect, and cooperative.
Direct competition is the one most people know about because it's the easiest one to build into a game.
These games behave like a children's teeter-totter. If you're doing well in the game, then your end is up, which brings my end down. If I help my position, then I hurt your position. The teeter-totter is always moving.
Indirect competition looks a little different. The players are still trying to win the game, but instead of being on a teeter-totter, it's more like a race. We're all running hard, but what each of us do doesn't directly impact the others. Several of us might even be winning — or losing — at the same time.
Finally, there are cooperative games. The last type of game turns the tables on traditional competitive games by putting everybody on the same team, and then throwing us all against a shared challenge.
The challenge we face is bigger than any of us can tackle alone, but if we work together, we might just win. Then again, even if we stay focused, organized, and helpful, there's still a very real chance the game might take us down.
The prospect of shared defeat is an interesting motivator in these games, and can turn otherwise competitive players into a wildly creative team. (It's awesome fun to watch the transformation, too.)
What's right for your family?
Every family has a unique dynamic when it comes to competition, but I never met a family that was entirely focused on one kind of competitive play.
Your family probably has a preference in one direction or another. Recognize that preference and feed it.
But at the same time, try something that runs against your main preference every now and then. When you do, watch how everyone interacts during the game. You'll probably see some new things happen!
Perhaps the kid who's usually quiet becomes a creative problem-solver when faced with a cooperative challenge. Or the go-for-the-jugular competitive player finds a new joy in the individual race for the win.
And those are great discoveries to make, because they create stories that last through retelling after retelling.
What kind of competition fits your family the best? Has competition ever been a problem? Share your thoughts and challenges. I want to hear from you!


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Kids love playing around in the sand and so a fun party game that can have everyone involved at once is hunting for buried treasure - the perfect game to play in the backyard sandpit or at the park or beach.
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NEW YORK -- Chicago Bulls general manager John Paxson was fined $15,000 by the NBA on Thursday for verbally abusing referees after a loss to Denver.
Paxson tried to confront the officials after the Nuggets beat the Bulls 97-94 Monday night in Chicago.
The Nuggets attempted 41 foul shots to the Bulls' 12 in the game.
Can you just imagine DW running out onto the floor to confront a ref? Grabbing him by the jersey and getting in his face?
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ANTIOCH — Higher rates for sewer service are in the pipeline for residents throughout East Contra Costa County.
The Delta Diablo Sanitation District board this week unanimously approved a 6.5 percent increase, meaning that Pittsburg, Antioch and Bay Point residents will pay an additional $1.49 per month, or $17.88 per year, for wastewater treatment.
More than half of the rate increase is aimed at covering expenses Delta Diablo has no control over, such as chemicals and electricity, along with replacing aging pipes and pump stations, said Karen Ustin, the district's business services director.
"This plant has been here for close to 40 years now, and things are starting to wear out. We must maintain those to provide the service to protect public health and the environment," Ustin said.
The remaining amount will be set aside to build a $125 million facility to meet new regulatory requirements to remove ammonia and other nutrients in water treatment.
If it had waited until the "eleventh hour," that would have meant a one-time rate spike of 40 percent, or $120, Ustin said. But by "smoothing it in," the increase is about 22 percent over eight years.
Of the 52,800 district residents notified about the increase, only 10 protested the hike via letter or in person. Most were seniors saying they are on fixed incomes.
Antioch Mayor Wade Harper commended Delta Diablo's efforts to defray costs for ratepayers, including adding solar projects, obtaining grant funds and reducing employee retirement costs.
"I believe in what Delta Diablo is doing and providing a high quality of life for our residents," Harper said.
Pittsburg Councilwoman Nancy Parent said that other East Bay agencies are increasing rates more for less work than Delta Diablo is considering.
Delta Diablo will charge Antioch residents $296.56 annually on their property taxes; Pittsburg residents $301.22; and Bay Point residents $421.44. Bay Point's rates include wastewater collection from homes to pumping stations. Pittsburg and Antioch have their own pipes for that, which determine the fees that residents pay.
Delta Diablo's charges include a monthly street-sweeping service. Pittsburg chose to have streets swept twice a month, so residents pay double, or $10.26 each year. Ironhouse Sanitary District increased its rates 3 percent earlier this month for Oakley and Bethel Island property owners, from $618 to $637.
Brentwood's sewer rates will also increase 3 percent, part of a five-year plan the City Council passed last November. Discovery Bay rates for sewer will go up 4 percent, part of a four-year plan by the town's Community Services District.
Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulburgarino.


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great looks like Cassius Vaughn is going to be taking over for him for probably 4-5 weeks
You have to consider the Colt-injury factory. Whenever a Colt is injured you can usually add about 2-3 weeks onto the normal recovery time, simply because the Colts seemingly always lead the league in injured players.
Mathis walked off the field on his own against the Packers, waved at the crowd and yelled "I'll be back!" Three weeks later we're still waiting.
That's not good
Smothered Chicken!
I feel for him because you know that he wants to be on that field and throw a little payback at the Dolphins.
I think I want that second round pick back......
Yeah, I have a bad feeling that we will be regretting this in April...........
hey, lets not be too quick to judge the trade just yet, remember we still have him next year too, and his past couple of games he has been pretty good, we just need him healthy because he is our #1 corner
remember also, I think Vontae Davis will be much better at the end of the year because Robert Mathis will be back and Dwight Freeney will be healthy and Cory Redding has been very good, when the Colts upgrade their D-line this off season then we can judge Vontae Davis next year, we hardly ever get pressure and our corners can't cover all day
Yeah but he has no decent receiver to cover since the Dolphins have no good WRs. They just have Bush
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About a year ago I started being contacted by promoters in Bogota, Colombia for a possible booking. At first I thought jeez I'm going to end up kidnapped eating cocaine leaves in the jungle. Since then some of my good friends played down there and loved it. I also realized they are into a lot of the music I'm into and certainly the show would fit. So if all can be arranged I'll head way south at some point this year. One of the promoters known as Bluekim Tanzdiktator has a nifty EBM DJ sets that I thought I would share.
"Today she is part of the Complejo Industrial Crew (Bogota) and she is the official Dj of the french label managed by Dj Stamba "Deviation Sociale" in which she will be releasing her tracks soon."
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I've been looking at Under Armour (UA) lately, and I can make a case for a short position here, given its series of lower lows and highs since the Sept. 14 high. Within this bearish pattern in place, I'm seeing a Fibonacci price cluster of resistance that the stock is currently testing at the $55.14-to-$56.35 area.
The levels overlap each other quite well here, so you will not be able to read them -- which is why I have labeled them on the chart. This zone includes the coincidence of at least five price relationships that come together within a relatively tight range, with two of those representing 100% projections of prior rally swings. Oftentimes a market will stall or terminate a move around these projections. Also note the similarity of this last 13-session $6.30 swing and the $6.24 climb into the Sept. 14 high, which likewise lasted for 13 trading days.
Now let's drill it down to a 30-minute chart. Before I consider any trade entry, I want to see some sort of reversal indication against the zone, as that would indicate it's worth placing a bet against this price area.
In this case, I have seen some reversal indications. First Under Armour took out the prior swing low at $53.72. Second was the moving-average crossover to the downside that I like to see -- the eight-day exponential moving average over the 34-day EMA. Once both of these things have occurred, my trading plan allows for a short position. The risk here is defined above the recent swing high into the $55.20 zone.
When I'm patient enough to refine an entry, I will wait for a pullback following the initial sell trigger. The decline I'll seek should be anywhere from a 50% retracement to a 0.786 retracement of the prior swing -- $54.18 to $54.76. In Friday's session I will look at a bearish options strategy in Under Armour, with my risk defined above the $55.20 swing high.
For those who want to give it a little more room, a stop can be defined above the high end of the cluster zone, or above the $56.35 area. The downside potential, if this setup plays out fully, is to the $47.19 area. If the trade starts to move in your favor, though, I suggest getting to a breakeven stop as soon as possible, and then to trail a stop as you go. If you get stopped out, then of course you should move on to the next trade setup!
The risk-reward scenario, or "pot odds," looks good on this one.
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text: Houston, Garden Ridge will close its second-oldest store in the chain, and will relocate it later in 2006. The 35-store Garden Ridge chain lost its Airtex store lease, and will close its doors in January. "This is a bittersweet moment in the history of Garden Ridge," said CEO Tom Kibarian. "Closing one of the original stores in the chain is hard on everyone, but with Airtex store sales representing less than 2% of the chain, we feel it's time to relocate the store to achieve continued growth and future expansion." The store will stay in the Houston area.


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Observational studies suggest that male circumcision may provide protection against HIV-1 infection. A randomized, controlled, intervention trial was conducted in a general population of South Africa to test this hypothesis.
|HIV Infections Herpes Genitalis Venereal Diseases
|Procedure: Male Circumcision
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Effect of Safe Male Circumcision on Incidence of Infection by HIV, HSV-2 and of Genital Ulceration
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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDSU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Measure the protective effect of medicalized male circumcision on HIV infection [ Time Frame: M3, M12 and M21 ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Measure the protective effect on infections by the genital herpes agent Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) [ Time Frame: M3, M12 and M21 ]
- Measure the protective effect on the incidence of genital ulcer disease [ Time Frame: M3, M12 and M21 ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2002
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2005
This study is a randomized controlled intervention trial. This multi-centre study will take place in 3 centers located around Johannesburg, in the areas of Orange Farm, Sebokeng and Evaton. The intervention group patients (circumcised at the beginning of the trial) and the control group (uncircumcised men) will be followed during 21 months (from M.0 to M. 21). Randomization and medicalized circumcision will be performed at M.0 in the intervention group and might be optional in the control group at end of study. The medicalized circumcision effectiveness will be evaluated on and after M.3 (3 months after medicalized circumcision). Incidences (of HIV, HSV-2 infections and genital ulcer disease) will be compared from M.3 to M.21 between the intervention group and the control group. An intermediate analysis will take place at M. 12.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 24 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Uncircumcised men aged 18-24 years
- Be in good general condition with normal physical and genital examinations
- Consenting to participate in the trial and to sign an informed consent
- Consenting to randomization of the medicalized circumcision schedule (performed at the beginning of study for the treated group, optional at the end of study for the control group)
- Consenting to avoid sexual contact (except with condom protection) during the 6 weeks following the medicalized circumcision
- Consenting to blood tests at M.0, M.3, M.12 and M.21 tested for HIV, HSV-2 and syphilis.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Men with AIDS
- Men with contraindication for circumcision
- Men thinking of moving away from the trial sites within the 21 months following inclusion
- Men with clinical sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) (those men could be included after treatment)
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00122525
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00122525
|South Africa
|MC Centre
|Orange Farm, Johannesburg, South Africa
Sponsors and Collaborators
French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis
|Study Chair:
|Bertran Auvert, MD
|Hôpital Ambroise-Paré (AP-HP); Inserm U687
|Principal Investigator:
|Adrian Puren
|NICD, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Additional Information:
Auvert B, Taljaard D, Lagarde E, Sobngwi-Tambekou J, Sitta R, Puren A. Randomized, controlled intervention trial of male circumcision for reduction of HIV infection risk: the ANRS 1265 Trial. PLoS Med. 2005 Nov;2(11):e298. Epub 2005 Oct 25. Erratum in: PLoS Med. 2006 May;3(5):e298.
Sobngwi-Tambekou J, Taljaard D, Nieuwoudt M, Lissouba P, Puren A, Auvert B. Male circumcision and Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis and Trichomonas vaginalis: observations after a randomised controlled trial for HIV prevention. Sex Transm Infect. 2009 Apr;85(2):116-20. doi: 10.1136/sti.2008.032334. Epub 2008 Dec 15.
Sobngwi-Tambekou J, Taljaard D, Lissouba P, Zarca K, Puren A, Lagarde E, Auvert B. Effect of HSV-2 serostatus on acquisition of HIV by young men: results of a longitudinal study in Orange Farm, South Africa. J Infect Dis. 2009 Apr 1;199(7):958-64. doi: 10.1086/597208.
Auvert B, Sobngwi-Tambekou J, Cutler E, Nieuwoudt M, Lissouba P, Puren A, Taljaard D. Effect of male circumcision on the prevalence of high-risk human papillomavirus in young men: results of a randomized controlled trial conducted in Orange Farm, South Africa. J Infect Dis. 2009 Jan 1;199(1):14-9. doi: 10.1086/595566.
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Mehta SD, Gray RH, Auvert B, Moses S, Kigozi G, Taljaard D, Puren A, Agot K, Serwadda D, Parker CB, Wawer MJ, Bailey RC. Does sex in the early period after circumcision increase HIV-seroconversion risk? Pooled analysis of adult male circumcision clinical trials. AIDS. 2009 Jul 31;23(12):1557-64. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32832afe95.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00122525 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|July 19, 2005
|Last Updated:
|April 29, 2009
Keywords provided by French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis:
Male circumcision
Sexual behavior
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Herpes Genitalis
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Herpes Simplex
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Genital Diseases, Male
Genital Diseases, Female
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New Federal Theatre Presents KNOCK ME A KISS, 8/2 - 4
Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre's acclaimed production of Knock Me a Kiss by Charles Smith will be featured at this year's National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Performances will be August 2nd to 4th only.
Chuck Smith directs a cast that features Erin Cherry, André De Shields, Gillian Glasco, Morocco Omari, Sean Phillips, and Marie Thomas. Tickets will be $40 and can be purchased by visiting www.nbtf.org.
The New York Times called Knock Me A Kiss "a dandy play about the ill-advised marriage of W. E. B. Du Bois's daughter," and went on to say "such rollicking fun that you may find yourself worrying at the intermission about whether there's any way this production can successfully work itself around to the serious part of the story that you know lies ahead. But somehow it does, keeping its sense of humor but muzzling it just enough to allow some drama and poignancy to enter the mix. There are moments in the second act when the play seems less like a work about the past and more like a work from the past... an engaging, well-acted production that deserves a better theater and a longer run."
Knock Me a Kiss is a fictional account inspired by the actual events surrounding the 1928 marriage of W.E.B. Du Bois' daughter Yolande to one of Harlem's great poets, Countee Cullen. The marriage marked the height of the Harlem Renaissance and was viewed as the perfect union of Negro talent and beauty. It united the daughter of America's foremost Black intellectual, cofounder of the NAACP and publisher of Crisis Magazine, with a young poet whose work was considered to be one of the flagships for the New Negro movement. The marriage is a triumph of pomp and pageantry but fails to be a union of man and woman.
Larry Leon Hamlin founded the National Black Theatre Festival® in 1989. His goal was to unite black theatre companies in America and ensure the survival of the genre into the next millennium. With the support of Dr. Maya Angelou, who served as the Festival's first Chairperson, NBTF was born. The '89 Festival offered 30 performances by 17 of America's best professional black theatre companies. It attracted national and international media coverage. According to The New York Times, "the 1989 National Black Theatre Festival® was one of the most historic and culturally significant events in the history of black theatre and American theatre in general." Over 10,000 people attended. It lived up to its theme: An International Celebration and Reunion of Spirit. The NBTF enables Black theatre professionals to express cultural values and perspectives inherent to the African Diaspora candidly, dramatically and powerfully. Staged components of the NBTF foster the creation and sharing of new works while educational components document and preserve the history and traditions of the genre. Intense week-long interactions focus on renewing their commitment to preserve professional Black theatre and to revitalize its genre. Held biennially, the NBTF attracts more than 65,000 people during the six-day event. The 2011 National Black Theatre Festival will be held in Winston-Salem, NC, August 1 - August 6.
Playwright Charles Smith is a member of the Playwrights Ensemble at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, alumni playwright of the Tony Award-winning New Dramatists in New York, and Head of the Professional Playwriting Program at Ohio University. His plays have been produced Off-Broadway and around the country by theaters such as Victory Gardens, The Acting Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, People's Light & Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Penumbra, Ujima Theatre Company, St. Louis Black Rep, New Federal Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Berkeley Repertory Theater. His work has also been produced for the HBO New Writers Project, the International Children's Theater Festival in Seattle, and the North Carolina Black Arts Festival. His play Pudd'nhead Wilson enjoyed a 22 city national tour and his plays Takunda and City of Gold enjoyed tours of the west coast. His other plays include Free Man of Color, which recently premiered in Australia after being awarded a Joseph Jefferson Award and John W. Schmid Award, both for Outstanding New Work. He is also author of two Emmy Award-winning teleplays, "Fast Break to Glory" and "Pequito." A graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and recipient of the 2008 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, Smith has received commissions from Victory Gardens, The Goodman, Seattle Rep, Indiana Rep, The Acting Company, and Ohio University. His most recent work, The Gospel According to James, was a commissioned by Indiana Rep and is the result of a Joyce Award. The Gospel According to James received its World Premiere production at Indiana Rep and was subsequently be produced by Victory Gardens in Chicago.
Director Chuck Smith has had 25 years of experience in African-American theater. He is resident director of the Goodman Theatre, where he has directed Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, A Christmas Carol, and Vivisections from the Blown Mind. Smith is a founding member of the Chicago Theatre Company, where he was artistic director for four seasons, staging plays including Sizwe Banzi is Dead, Fathers and Other Strangers, Suspenders, the Jeff-winning musical Po', and The Meeting. He has also directed at Fleetwood-Jourdain, The New Regal, Kuumba, Pegasus Players, New Federal Theater, ETA Creative Arts, Columbia College, and Chicago Black Ensemble Theater. He is also artistic director of the Chicago Historical Society's Voices in History program and an artist-in-residence at Columbia College Chicago, where he facilitates the Theodore Ward playwriting contest.
Woodie King Jr. is the Founder and Producing Director of New Federal Theatre. Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre has presented over 200 productions in its 40-year history. Mr. King has produced and directed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in Regional Theatres, and in universities across the United States. He co-produced For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (first produced by NFT and Joseph Papp's Public Theatre), What the Wine Sellers Buy, Reggae and The Taking of Miss Janie (Drama Critics Circle Award). His directional credits are extensive and include work in film as well as theater. For more information, visit www.newfederaltheatre.org/


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The Dallas session of Nike's Elite Youth Basketball League was certainly an entertaining one. Almost 60 percent of the players currently ranked in the classes of 2014 and 2015 were on hand and many of them were playing at a really high level. After taking a few days to digest the action, here's a look back at what we learned.
Newman the new man at No. 1?
Make no mistake about it, Ivan Rabb and Stephen Zimmerman are elite prospects and are having great springs. However, as the two players currently ranked ahead of Malik Newman in the class of 2015, they are probably feeling a little heat.
A 6-foot-4 combo guard from Jackson (Miss.) Callaway, Newman was fabulous for the Jackson Tigers. Equal parts Ben and Eric Gordon with a little of O.J. Mayo thrown in when it comes to playing style, Newman is the quintessential combo guard. You can't really call him a point because he doesn't initiate the offense on a regular basis but you can't label him an off guard because he is very comfortable with the ball in his hands and is certainly a ball-dominant guard.
Newman is strong, he's athletic, he's quick and best of all he is quite skilled. His shot selection can be a little poor at times and he can get a little overzealous with the dribble, but he can make shots. Newman can make all kinds of shots, too. Floaters, pullups, deep jumpers and conversions at the rim are all a part of his scoring repertoire.
Of course, Newman has to keep working hard and developing over his next two years of high school. But at this moment, he has made a strong case to be considered best in the class. Newman's father Horatio Webster said Newman has been offered by basically the entire SEC -- save for Kentucky, which seems right on the verge of an offer -- and that Arizona, N.C. State, North Carolina and Michigan have inquired.
Houston Hoops an impressive group
After three sessions of the EYBL, the Houston Hoops' record stands at 12-1. Surprisingly, that's only good enough for second place in a loaded Division C of the League, where D.C.-based Team Takeover is sitting at 13-0. The Takeover bunch is outstanding as well. They are deep, tough and very talented. Takeover has to be one of the favorites to take home the Peach Jam title. But for right now, we are going to focus on the Hoops, mostly because we got a better look at them than Takeover in Dallas.
Like Takeover, the Hoops have to be considered one of the early favorites for the Peach Jam. They have a high-end trio of wings from the class of 2013 in No. 10 Justise Winslow, No. 14 Justin Jackson and No. 27 Kelly Oubre and those three have all lived up to their billing. Winslow is an impressive wing because of his toughness, versatile game and all-around playmaking. Jackson is arguably the most efficient offensive player in the EYBL while Oubre is a tall, shot-making wing and has some strength at the rim. The Hoops are more than just those three, though.
Big man Khadeem Lattin is a four-star, shot-blocking center who ranks No. 85 in the class of 2014. He can run the floor and is an excellent last line of defense. Combo-forward Leon Gilmore was relatively unknown to the recruiting world until recently. Now the three-star is getting looks from upper-major schools and probably deserves consideration for the 2014 Rivals150 when it gets updated.
The Hoops also have two outstanding freshmen in big man Khalea Turner and scoring point guard DeAaron Fox. Bottom line, the Houston Hoops are stacked and have performed every bit as good as anybody could have expected.
Grown man basketball
In each class, there are a few guys who play "grown-man" basketball. They are physical bulls, they have an old-school feel for the game and they are tough on both ends of the floor. Last year Wayne Selden was one of those guys and this year Stanley Johnson has established himself early as a grown-man-style player. Go ahead and put JaQuan Lyle the Spiece Indy Heat into that category.
A tall and strong combo guard, Lyle is skilled, versatile and can do a number of things. He can get others involved, he can lead a fast break and he go into scoring mode and get you buckets at the rim, from the mid post and with his jumper. He's also a pretty good defender and rebounder. Watching him play, he doesn't ever seem to be in a rush and at times he almost seems to purposely be going as slow as possible just so he can toy with defenders.
Some worry that his strength is currently masking a lack of high-end athleticism or that his attitude can get the best of him. Those are fair things to wonder about. However, his overall skill and understanding of the game of basketball are much more valuable and his four game output in Dallas was sensational. While shooting 67 percent from the field and only turning the ball over six times in four games, Lyle averaged 19.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.8 assists.
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Music update! Singles & Albums Top 10 August
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Do you know a responsible teen who would be interested in serving on the Youth Council for Henderson County?
The purposes of the Youth Council include learning about local government and providing a way for teens to have a voice in the community. Candidates should be high school freshmen, sophomores, or juniors this year and have a GPA of at least 2.5. They will need transportation to monthly meetings on Monday evenings.
The council is open to all Henderson County youth. Representatives are needed from each of the high schools, each municipality, different youth organizations and the different cultures in the county.
Youth Council applications are due Jan. 31. Please encourage teens to apply. The Youth Council is not a 4-H club, but because it operates under the umbrella of 4-H, members may have the opportunity to participate in statewide citizenship events.
More information about the Youth Council can be found at http://henderson.ces.ncsu.edu/4-H.
Kristen Keck, age 18, one of the founding members of the Henderson County Youth Council, reports: "There were many important benefits I received though being a part of the Youth Council, the greatest of these being learning an exceptional amount of information about county government both through workshops I was able to attend, such as the Citizenship Focus event in Raleigh, as well as personally by being introduced to our county commissioners and county workers when I attended the County Commissioners Association event and County Government Day. This invaluable experience has helped to shape me as well as my future plans and aspirations."
Kristen is interested in pursuing a career in government.
Applications are also being accepted for one Youth Council leader and Advisory Committee members. Leaders will meet with the Youth Council at least once a month and help facilitate the workings of the Youth Council. Advisory Committee members will meet at least four times a year, and help promote the Youth Council in the community. Advisory members will also meet with the Youth Council at least once a year.
Advisory and leader candidates should be interested in youth initiatives, willing to work with others objectively, have good communication skills, and be familiar with local youth needs and issues.
Sewing classes
Sewing classes for ages 7 to 18 will be offered at the Cooperative Extension office in Jackson Park on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, Jan. 24–April 20. Participants do not need to be 4-H members.
They will make a simple garment to wear and model in the 4-H Fashion Revue on May 3. Beginners usually make a skirt or pants with elastic waist. Children who have sewn several simple garments before may be able to make a more detailed garment depending on their level of experience.
Teachers will help them choose their pattern at the first session. Volunteers are needed to help teach these classes. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Gang and drug prevention/safety
Gangs and drugs are things we don't like to think about, but they are a part of life in Henderson County. Emanuel Zaragoza, with the Henderson County Sheriff's Office, will teach about how to keep your kids out of gangs and away from drugs.
This program is open to the public and will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29 at the N.C. Cooperative Extension's Henderson County Center, across from the ballfields in Jackson Park. RSVP to Barbara or call 828-697-4891 by Monday, Jan. 28.
Recycle your Christmas lights
Bring Christmas lights to the Cooperative Extension Office in Jackson Park to be recycled. A 4-H teen will take them to be recycled and use the proceeds to benefit local charities.
Denise Sherrill is the 4-H Agent for Henderson County. 4-H is the Youth Development Program of N.C. Cooperative Extension, which is a division of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NCSU. Visit http://henderson.ces.ncsu.edu/4-H, call 828-697-4891 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to learn more about 4-H activities or endowments.
Opportunities with the Henderson County Youth Council
Do you know a responsible teen who would be interested in serving on the Youth Council for Henderson County?


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DAVID Hockaday has made it down to the final three for the top job at Leeds United.
The former Forest Green boss is one of a trio of British coaches, who are set to meet left field chief Massimo Cellino in Yorkshire on Saturday.
Former Leeds United manager Gary McAllister is also one of three British candidates set to be interviewed for the head coach's vacancy at the club.
The club's Italian owner, who has been seriously considering handing the job to Hockaday, is assessing his options following Brian McDermott's departure from Elland Road.
Hockaday – a former Watford coach – guided the Hornets into the Premiership in 2006, when they ironically defeated Leeds in the play-off final at the Millenium Stadium.
However, Cellino is understood to have been angered by the flurry of betting last weekend which brought Hockaday's name into the open.
Cellino told Sky Sports: "I am meeting three British coaches for talks (tomorrow) and want to get someone in place soon.
"I have always said I wanted a British coach. I am a man of my word and that is still the case.
"I want someone to take care of the preparation of the team, the training, the tactics, not the recruitment or the contracts – which I will take care of. The job is a coach, not a manager, which is an important difference."
Had it confirmed tonight that Dave Hockaday definitely is one of Cellino's three candidates for the #lufc job.— Phil Hay (@PhilHayYEP) June 6, 2014


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Perfect Hard-Cooked Eggs: Steam-Cooked Eggs
You can use any type of Vegetable Steamer or Steamer Insert for steamed eggs, and I used the wonderful steamer I got from my late stepmother Norma. Here's how to steam the eggs. (By the way, you can make hard-boiled eggs in a pressure cooker, which is also a steaming method.)
- Only put enough eggs to fit in a single layer.
- Put a couple of inches of water in the bottom of the steamer, as much as you can fit without the water touching the eggs.
- When the water comes to a boil, steam eggs 20-22 minutes. (I live at a high altititude so my eggs needed a couple more minutes, but 20 minutes will be perfect for most places. You might need to do a test batch to decide what the perfect cooking time is at your altitude.)
- While the eggs are steaming prepare a bowl with ice and water.
- When eggs are done use a large spoon to immediately transfer them to the ice water bath.
- Let eggs sit in the ice water about 10-15 minutes, then peel. (If you're eating them hot, just leave in the water for a minute or two.)
Perfect Hard-Cooked Eggs: Boiling-Water Soak Method
- Eggs that are too fresh are difficult to peel, so always keep eggs in the refrigerator for a week or two before making boiled eggs.
- For best results, take eggs out of the refrigerator and let them come to room temperature before cooking.
- Put eggs in a pan large enough to hold all the eggs in a single layer, with water to cover eggs by at least an inch.
- Bring water to a boil. As soon as it boils, turn off heat and cover eggs. Set timer for 12 minutes.
- After 12 minutes, drain eggs, and add cold water with a couple of ice cubes. Let eggs cool at least 10 minutes in cold water, then drain and store in refrigerator.
What Do I Make with Hard-Boiled Eggs?
Fun Ideas for Easter Eggs:
Hard-Boiled Ruby Eggs from A Veggie Venture
Marbled Beetroot Eggs from Nami Nami
How to Make Golden Chocolate Easter Eggs from The Kitchn
Deviled Eggs of Every Type:
50 Deviled Egg Recipes from Taste and Tell
99 Deviled Eggs Recipes from CopyKat Recipes
32 Ways to Make Deviled Eggs from Carrie's Experimental Kitchen
25+ Deviled Eggs Recipes from No Biggie
15 Deviled Egg Recipes for Spring from A Spicy Perspective
Delicious Egg Salad Variations:
Egg Salad from David Lebovitz
Lemon-Dill Egg Salad from The Perfect Pantry
12 Eggs-Cellent Egg Salad Recipes from A Family Feast
A Tale of Two Egg Salads from FoodieCrush
Cottage Cheese and Egg Salad from Nami Nami
This post was updated March 2015 with better photos and new information. Let us know in the comments if you have another great idea for using boiled eggs.


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Well when I mentioned the larger markets I only meant in the NBA. The NFL has long shattered the idea that only large markets work well. Also, the Nets are in a fairly large market, obviously not NY or LA but much bigger than a lot of other markets.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
However, I actually agree with you on a lot of your post. I've always felt that teams like the Lakers are ran VERY well. I'm a big believer that you make your own luck, and the Lakers have definitely done that over the past 30 years or so. They get the very best when it comes to their FO, as well as their coaching staff. When you add those factors to the fact that they also are VERY aggressive, they easily make their own success.
With that said, it makes it a lot easier to do these things when 1. your television market helps the money flowing in, and 2. your owner is willing to go well over the luxury tax threshold and will spend inordinate amounts of cash in order to keep your team in championship contention. These are the only true advantage I see a bigger market team has over a smaller market team.


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Topic: Poker fundraiser in the works: need info
I decided to use my poker contacts to have a Benefit. There will be a buy in and prizes, with the rest of the donations going to cc.org.
But I need the I'd # for the organization and whatever other pertinent info... Not sure what all I need. Can I get some help?
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