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A beginner can succeed when fishing for trout in streams and small rivers by learning basic trout fishing techniques, includes worming for trout and a worm gang-tying technique diagram.
"The old drunk told me about trout fishing . . . he had a way of describing trout as if they were a precious and intelligent metal. " (Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America.)
There have probably been more words committed to print in praise of trout than have been set down in tribute to all other types of fish combined. And, likely at least in part because of the good press enjoyed by these members of the salmon family, many anglers—novices and old hands alike—avoid trout fishing . . . apparently thinking it's the type of sport that one can't be successful at without years of painstaking indoctrination and study.
That notion is an unfortunate one, too, because not only are trout delicious but—and perhaps more important—the experience of fishing for them (especially along streams and small rivers, which is precisely the kind of angling that this article will deal with) can be one of the most relaxing and soul-satisfying forms of outdoor recreation imaginable. Furthermore—although there's no doubt that continual practice, and study of the habits and habitats of these fascinating creatures, will result in ongoing improvements in an angler's skill, success, and enjoyment—there's no reason why a complete novice, using relatively inexpensive equipment and after only a day or two spent learning basic techniques, can't start right in catching trout . . . some of which might well be big enough to inspire the envy of folks who've spent years stalking the same streams!
Almost anyone who's had even the slightest exposure to the mystique surrounding trout angling probably knows that fly fishing—that is, using artificial lures of fur and feathers that are designed to look like the insects and such that make up a trout's diet—is generally considered the highest form of the art. In fact, some anglers are openly contemptuous of folks who employ such baits as metal spinners, live minnows, grasshoppers, or even (one can almost hear the purists gasp at the very thought) lowly earthworms.
However, although fly fishing is both enjoyable to participate in and beautiful to watch (and should certainly be attempted by anybody who finds pleasure in angling), "worming" can, when done properly, be every bit as challenging as fishing with artificial flies (and often a dang sight more productive). The key word here, of course, is "properly". You see, all too many worm anglers show little or no consideration for either the demands of the water in which they're fishing or the fears and appetites of the trout they're trying to catch. Typically, the worming for trout technique used consists of little more than dropping a large night crawler—weighted with a hefty sinker—to the bottom of a spring-roiled river . . . and sitting back to wait for a trout to discover the offering.
That doesn't have to be the case, though. In fact, by simply being conscious of the sensitivity and skittishness of most trout—and trying to do whatever is necessary to minimize the chances of spooking them—the person who chooses to fish with worms can open a door to a world of angling that offers not only quick reinforcement, but also a lifetime's worth of room to learn and to improve his or her ability. To put it simply, this method can be reduced to choosing appropriate tackle, mastering the techniques necessary to use it with some precision, and developing "stream sense".
Your worming equipment, first and foremost, must allow you to deliver that wiggler in such a way that it'll drift past the nose of a waiting fish, bumping along the stream bottom in the same manner that the worm would were it not attached to hook, line, and sinker. When choosing a rod-and-reel combination, then, comfort should be among your first considerations. After all, if you find your tackle difficult to handle, you'll soon become frustrated . . . and an irritated individual isn't likely to fish a trout stream carefully enough to avoid alerting the quarry long before it's within wormcasting range.
On the other hand, though, there are very great advantages to using as long a rod as you can manage with comfort. And since that piece of equipment should be limber as well as lengthy—both to allow you to play the fish with greater control and to give you the spring needed to flip a tiny worm through the air—the best choice is likely a fly rod equipped with a simple, inexpensive fly-fishing reel (which will generally do little more than hold the line in this sort of angling).
Happily enough, since the advent of the present state-of-the-art graphite fly-tossers, it's quite often possible to pick up fiberglass rods at very reasonable prices (the 'glass units were all the rage just a few years back, too, and should serve you well for both worming and, if you choose to try it, fly casting). The best bet is probably to visit a sporting goods store, where you can handle (and price) a few to get a feel for the length (8-1/2 feet is about all most people can comfortably manage over the course of a day's fishing) and flexibility that appeal to you. Then, if you're not too impatient to get out on the stream, check the local shopper tabloid—or even place a "wanted" ad of your own—until you find appropriate and inexpensive used equipment.
Bear in mind, though, that a fly rod is far from essential to successful worming. It'd be perfectly possible to make good catches on a simple bamboo pole with a crude reel attached (although a good bit of the pleasure would likely disappear from the sport if such insensitive gear were used). There'll be times, too, when the challenges presented by a specific stream will make it all but impossible to manipulate a long fly rod. For example, a lot of good trout are found in streams that are as narrow as 2 feet across and almost closed in by overhanging branches. An ultralight spinning rod of 5 to 5-1/2 feet long—equipped with an openface spinning reel—is about the only way to fish such waters without constantly tangling your line in the boughs.
Since almost every step of the successful worm angler's technique has as its underlying purpose the need to avoid alarming the trout, it stands to reason that tackle choice becomes more critical as we reach the equipment that'll actually be in the water with the fish. Whether using a long or a short rod, a fisherperson can expect to get good results only with very light lines, tiny hooks and sinkers, and small worms.
Although water clarity—and the size of the fish you hope to catch—will certainly have some influence upon your choice of line, you'll hook a lot more trout if you stick to 6-pound-test (or finer) monofilament . . . with approximately 6 feet of lighter leader between it and your hook (try a 4-pound leader when the water is a bit discolored, but go down to a 2-pound on typically clear summer streams). Of course, the use of such delicate line means that you'll lose some fish and have to sacrifice a good many hooks and sinkers to snags and the like. But the truth is that if you're not losing any tackle, chances are you won't be catching any fish!
At the end of that delicate leader will be your hook, with a sinker affixed approximately 6 inches ahead of it. Probably the best terminal tackle combination possible is that described in an out-of-print book called Worming and Spinning for Trout (A.S. Barnes and Company, 1959) by a gentleman named Jerry Wood. Wood favored thin strips of lead for sinkers. These can be bought in many sporting goods stores, or you can make your own from the heavy metallic seals that can still be found on some bottles of wine. The value of the thin sinkers—whether purchased or homemade—is both in their adjustability (which allows the angler to add just enough weight to get the cast bait to the bottom, but not too much to prevent it from rolling along naturally once it gets there) and in the fact that they can be tightly wrapped, in a spiral pattern, around the line (which makes them far less likely to hang up on the bottom than would more conventional split shot). Jerry Wood also believed that the small bits of lead sometimes attract fish that mistake them for insect larvae!
While it's possible to purchase your sinkers ready made, you won't be using the most effective worming hooks unless you craft them yourself. Rather than relying on a single fishcatcher, you see, you'll want to be using a two-or three-hooked "gang" similar to those shown in the photo.
Fortunately, they're not hard to make . . . in fact, the most difficult part of the whole gang-fashioning project will probably be finding the right raw materials. You'll need to locate longshanked hooks of size 14, 16, or 18 (don't let the tiny No. 18's fool you . . . a good many hefty trout have been brought in on the almost hair-thin hooks). Since these are normally used by flytiers, try to find a shop that caters to the angling craftsfolk. And, if you're lucky enough to find 18's, buy several boxes . . . they're often pretty hard to come by.
Now, to make a two-hook gang (see the worm gang-tying diagram in the image gallery), take a pair of pliers or wirecutters and snip the eye of the hook that'll form the bottom of your wormholder. Then set that hook and an unaltered one aside while you cut an approximately 1 inch to 1-1/2 inch length of 6-pound-test line. Melt both ends of the scrap of monofilament to produce little knobs on the material . . . these will help hold the hooks in place. With that done, use a drop of clear nail polish to "glue" the two hooks to the piece of line, as shown in Figure 1.
Let the adhesive dry, and then—using fine "worm-colored" thread—wrap the shanks of the hooks to the line, as shown in Figures 2 and 3. When they're in place (try to get the wrapping as smooth and even as your fingers, eyesight, and patience will allow), tie off the protruding ends of thread (Figure 4), snip them, and coat your finished worm-gang's wrapping with another drop or two of nail polish.
Of course, there'll be times when you won't be able to prepare hook gangs, or perhaps even find a supply of lead-strip sinkers, in time for a fishing outing. In such a case, you can make do with the smallest gold-plated "salmon egg" hooks and the tiniest split-shot sinkers available.
Just as your hooks are small, so should the bait be. Try little (no more than 2 inches long) red wigglers, putting the forward hook at the head of the worm—preferably right below the collar—and the rear one just far enough down to keep the wiggler from balling itself up, but leaving at least a bit of the tail free. You'll certainly be tempted to try larger bait on occasion . . . and, especially when you simply can't get small redworms, there's no harm in experimenting. In general, though, the little wigglers will be easier to cast with a minimum of splash, and will look more like the worms that the trout are accustomed to seeing fall from the stream banks.
There are, of course, any number of other pieces of equipment that you could buy . . . including a creel (a wet burlap bag, tucked in your belt, will do), polarizing sunglasses, a net (it'd be necessary only for really big fish, and even they can usually be led to shore if you're patient), a fishing vest, a wading staff (just pick one up from the woods when you need to), and waist-high "wader" boots (an old pair of sneakers and snug pants won't keep you quite as warm, but you'll be surprised at how quickly cold water becomes tolerable when the fish are biting). It's probably best to start out with the least possible equipment—rod, reel, line, leader, sinkers, hooks, and bait—and then let your own experience teach you what else, if anything, you really need.
Entire books have been devoted to explaining the science of "reading" a stream or river . . . that is, looking at each section of water and determining the spots most likely to contain fish. You'll consistently find trout, though, if you simply keep in mind the environmental factors that are most important to your quarry: availability of food, access to shelter, shade (especially in the hot summer months), sufficient water depth (this consideration is taken all too seriously by most fisherfolk, however . . . given the other requisites, a large trout will be happy if it has enough water to cover its back), and (again, fish often break this "rule") current flow that's less violent than that in the surrounding water.
While every stream or river will present its own series of puzzles to the angler, you'll get a head start at solving the mysteries of your favorite waterway if you can at least recognize the more common "hot spots". Look first for any obstructions that cause an interruption in the flow of the water. A half-submerged log, a rock large enough to create an eddy, and a roil-bordered hole caused by a bend in the stream bank are all likely places to drift a worm into.
Furthermore, remember that the best spots to cast to are often those that are the most difficult to reach. Tangles of tree roots, underwater brush piles, and the like will cost you a lot of snagged hooks and sinkers, but they'll also occasionally pay off in trout that have survived years of angling simply because few people wanted to risk fishing in such imposing lairs.
Of course, being able to pick out the most promising areas along a river or stream won't do you a bit of good if you can't fish those prime locations without spooking any trout in residence there. There are essentially three ways to frighten one of the wary fish: [1] by letting it hear you, [2] by letting it see you, and [3] by letting it encounter your bait while the worm is moving through the water in an unconvincing manner (this last rule won't always hold true ... smaller trout, especially, sometimes seem to prefer a worm that's being pulled against the current).
As you begin to work your way along a body of water, then—moving upstream, unless it's absolutely impossible to approach a likely hide from that direction, since feeding trout typically face into the current—you must constantly be figuring how to present your bait in a natural manner to each likely spot . . . without getting within eye-or earshot of the fish.
First and foremost, move cautiously and deliberately. The angler who splashes upstream, or stomps and stumbles along the bank, will find strikes few and far between. Whether you're walking in the water or on shore, go slowly and—as you approach a likely spot—stand still for a few minutes before actually casting your worm.
Be aware, too, that as a result of light refraction and surface ripples, a trout views the out-of-water world through a somewhat restrictive window. This area of visibility will be roughly circular. Imagine a cone beginning at the trout's eye and expanding, at an angle of between 95° and 100°, toward the surface of the water. The circle formed by the top of that cone will be the surface area that (if the water is unrippled) the fish is able to look out of. By keeping your silhouette as low as possible (successful trout fisherfolk often resort to walking in a crouch or on their knees—or even crawling—to stay out of that window of visibility), you can often get quite close to a fish without alerting it to your presence. It's also helpful to wear colors that blend with the environment. Camouflage gear, for example, can be effective when you're working a brush-lined creek.
Once you've sighted a spot that's likely to hold a trout, then walked quietly to just beyond the fish's window, and waited for a few minutes for any small disturbance that you might have created to be forgotten . . . you're finally ready to offer your worm to the fish. There are probably any number of ways to cast that wiggler, but the easiest—and often most useful—method to learn is done with a simple sidearm motion. Just let the length of line that you'll need, up to an amount equaling the length of the rod, drift back behind you in the water (or swing it back through the air) . . . then point the rod tip slightly backwards and—as the current (or its own momentum) straightens the exposed line—use your wrist to flip the bait forward. (In situations where it's necessary to cast farther than a rod's length of line, simply coil the extra monofilament in your free hand and release it as the cast line flies toward your target.)
While the cast itself is fairly easy to learn, it is also the component of the worming technique that demands the most practice. A timid trout will often refuse to move more than inches from its lair. Therefore, if your bait is consistently landing a foot away from the spot you're aiming for, it may well be eyed by many fish but taken by very few.
Of course, there will be occasions when casting is either unnecessary or downright impossible. Sometimes, for instance, you'll find a target that's completely enclosed by streamside brush. In such a case it'll often pay off to thread your rod tip through the "jungle" and simply let the weighted worm drop into the current.
Some people say that it's impossible to learn fishing from a book. And though the tips presented here will certainly—if practiced—catch fish where there are fish to be caught, they're not intended to be followed blindly. Be ready to learn from the stream you frequent, from the trout you catch (as well as from those you lose or only see streaking for cover after you've inadvertently spooked them), and from other anglers you encounter. Remember, too, that fishing can provide a rare and wonderful chance to study the ecology of a fascinating watery world . . . and that your impact upon that environment can either lessen or increase the pleasure that you, and others, will be able to find in the experience in the future.
As a conscientious angler (and we'd assume that MOTHER-readers would be), you'll have to give some thought to the damage you might be doing to fish that won't end up on your dinner table . . . usually those that are caught and then released because they're too small. It's possible to reduce the harm that might be done to undersized trout in several ways. First, you might want to consider filing off—or crimping down with pliers—your hooks' barbs. Furthermore, whenever there's evidence of a strike (that is, if your drifting line stops, moves sideways, or does anything out of the ordinary), lift the rod tip to set the hook immediately . . . if you delay, you run the risk of gut-hooking a fish that's swallowed your worm. Finally, if you do land a trout that must be released, handle it as little as possible, and do so only with well-wetted hands.
However, the fact is that many "rejected" fish swim off to die no matter how carefully they're dealt with. It has been speculated (in Richard S. Wydoski's study "Relation of Hooking Mortality and Sublethal Hooking Stress to Quality Fishery Management') that of all fish hooked and then released by anglers using live bait, 60% die. It's best, then—if your state laws permit it—to make up your catch from the first group of trout you bring in, regardless of their size, and to stop when you've got your limit . . . or better yet, to quit as soon as you catch enough to make up that next dinner. (After all, fish is a whole lot tastier fresh than it is after freezing, and a knowledgeable angler like you can always go back to the stream and bag a few more the next time your family hankers for a fish fry!)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Since seasons, licensing regulations, size and bag limits, and allowable baits will vary from area to area and even from one section of water to another, make sure that you know the local laws before you set out on any trouting expedition!


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Kevin Rhoads is entering his ninth season as the Harvard women's head coach and is also taking the reins as the Crimson men's head coach (Harvard Athletic Communications).
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I am excited and proud to announce that Kevin Rhoads will be taking the helm as the Head Coach of both the Men's and Women's golf teams this year.
Kevin has coached the Women to three Ivy League Championships in the last five years and is entering his ninth season as the Head Coach of the Women's team. This will be his inaugural year as the Head Coach of the Men's team. Kevin, who also serves as the Teaching Professional at The Country Club, is highly decorated as a teacher. He is one of fewer than 350 Master Professionals in the country, was the 2008 New England PGA Teacher of the year and, in 2010 was rated as one of the top 40 teaching professionals in the country under 40 years old by Golf Digest.
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Daniel, a graduate of Penn State University's Professional Golf Management program, is an Assistant Golf Professional at The Country Club. Having worked at TCC for the past five seasons, Daniel has gotten to know Kevin and the Harvard golf team quite well. Emblematic of his pursuit of excellence, Daniel has sought out employment at the best facilities working with the best mentors available. In addition to working with Brendan Walsh at TCC, Daniel has worked at Pebble Beach Golf Links, and with Bob Ford at both Oakmont Country Club and Seminole Golf Club. Last winter he worked at Augusta National Golf Club.
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When Jeanie Mullins starts classes as a first-year student this fall, she'll have more than the usual campus support. She's the youngest of four sisters to attend Lewis & Clark College in the last six years.
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Oftentimes you need to know what MySQL is doing right now and furthermore if you are handling heavy traffic you probably have multiple instances of it running across many nodes. I'm going to start by showing how to take a tcpdump capture on one node, a few ways to analyze that, and then go into how to take a distributed capture across many nodes for aggregate analysis.
Taking the Capture
The first thing you need to do is to take a capture of the interesting packets. You can either do this on the MySQL server or on the hosts talking to it. According to this percona post this command is the best way to capture mysql traffic on the eth0 interface and write it into mycapture.cap for later analysis:
% tcpdump -i eth0 -w mycapture.cap -s 0 "port 3306 and tcp[1] & 7 == 2 and tcp[3] & 7 == 2"
tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
47542 packets captured
47703 packets received by filter
60 packets dropped by kernel
Analyzing the Capture
The next step is to take a look at your captured data. One way to do this is with tshark, which is the command line part of wireshark. You can do yum install wireshark or similar to install it. Usually you want to do this on a different host than the one taking traffic since it can be memory and CPU intensive.
You can then use it to reconstruct the mysql packets like so:
% tshark -d tcp.port==3306,mysql -T fields -R mysql.query -e frame.time -e ip.src -e ip.dst -e mysql.query -r mycapture.cap
This will give you the time, source IP, destination IP, and query but this is still really raw output. Its a nice start but we can do better. Percona has released the Percona Toolkit which includes some really nice command line tools (including what used to be in Maatkit).
The one we're interested in here is pt-query-digest
It has tons of options and you should read the documentation, but here's a few I've used recently.
Lets say you want to get the top tables queried from your tcpdump
% tcpdump -r mycapture.cap -n -x -q -tttt | pt-query-digest --type tcpdump --group-by tables --order-by Query_time:cnt \
--report-format profile --limit 5
reading from file mycapture.cap, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet)
# Profile
# Rank Query ID Response time Calls R/Call Apdx V/M Item
# ==== ======== ============= ===== ====== ==== ===== ====================
# 1 0x 0.3140 6.1% 674 0.0005 1.00 0.00 shard.images
# 2 0x 0.8840 17.1% 499 0.0018 1.00 0.03 shard.activity
# 3 0x 0.1575 3.1% 266 0.0006 1.00 0.00 shard.listing_images
# 4 0x 0.1680 3.3% 265 0.0006 1.00 0.00 shard.connection_edges_reverse
# 5 0x 0.0598 1.2% 254 0.0002 1.00 0.00 shard.listing_translations
# MISC 0xMISC 3.5771 69.3% 3534 0.0010 NS 0.0 <86 ITEMS>
Note the tcpdump options I used this time, which the tool requires to work properly when passing –type tcpdump. I also grouped by tables (as opposed to full queries) and ordered by the count (the Calls column). It will stop at your –limit and group the rest into MISC so be aware of that.
You can remove the –order-by to sort by response time, which is the default sort order, or provide other attributes to sort on. We can also change the –report-format, for example to header:
% tcpdump -r mycapture.cap -n -x -q -tttt | pt-query-digest --type tcpdump --group-by tables --report-format header
reading from file mycapture.cap, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet)
# Overall: 5.49k total, 91 unique, 321.13 QPS, 0.30x concurrency _________
# Time range: 2012-01-08 15:52:05.814608 to 15:52:22.916873
# Attribute total min max avg 95% stddev median
# ============ ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= =======
# Exec time 5s 3us 114ms 939us 2ms 3ms 348us
# Rows affecte 316 0 13 0.06 0.99 0.29 0
# Query size 3.64M 18 5.65k 694.98 1.09k 386.68 592.07
# Warning coun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
# Boolean:
# No index use 0% yes, 99% no
If you set the –report-format to _queryreport you will get gobs of verbose information that you can dive into and you can use the –filter option to do things like getting slow queries:
% tcpdump -r mycapture.cap -n -x -q -tttt | \
pt-query-digest --type tcpdump --filter '($event->{No_index_used} eq "Yes" || $event->{No_good_index_used} eq "Yes")'
Distributed Capture
Now that we've taken a look at capturing and analyzing packets from one host, its time to dive into looking at our results across the cluster. The main trick is that tcpdump provides no option to stop capturing – you have to explicitly kill it. Otherwise we'll just use dsh to send our commands out. We'll assume you have a user that can hop around in a password-less fashion using ssh keys – setting that up is well outside the scope of this article but there's plenty of info out there on how to do that.
There's a few ways you can let a process run on a "timeout" but I'm assuming we don't have any script written or tools like bash timeout or the one distributed in coreutils available.
So we're going off the premise that you will background the process and kill it after a sleep by grabbing its pid:
( /path/to/command with options ) & sleep 5 ; kill $!
Simple enough, except we'll want to capture the output on each host, so we need to ssh the output back over to the target using a pipe to grab the stdout. This means that $! will return the pid of our ssh command instead of our tcpdump command. We end up having to do a little trick to kill the right process, since the capture won't be readable if we kill ssh command that is writing the output. We'll need to kill tcpdump and to do that we can look at the parent pid of the ssh process, ask pkill (similar to pgrep) for all of the processes that have this parent, and finally kill the oldest one, which ends up being our tcpdump process.
Then end result looks like this if I were to run it across two machines:
% dsh -c -m web1000,web1001 \
'sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth0 -w - -s 0 -x -n -q -tttt "port 3306 and tcp[1] & 7 == 2 and tcp[3] & 7 == 2" | \
ssh dshhost "cat - > ~/captures/$(hostname -a).cap" & sleep 10 ; \
sudo pkill -o -P $(ps -ef | awk "\$2 ~ /\<$!\>/ { print \$3; }")'
So this issues a dsh to two of our hosts (you can make a dsh group with 100 or 1000 hosts though) and runs the command concurrently on each (-c). We issue our tcpdump on each target machine and send the output to stdout for ssh to then cat back to a directory on the source machine that issued the dsh. This way we have all of our captures in one directory with each file named with the target name of each host the tcpdump was run. The sleep is how long the dump is going to run for before we then kill off the tcpdump.
The last piece of the puzzle is to get these all into one file and we can use the mergecap tool for this, which is also part of wireshark:
% /usr/sbin/mergecap -F libpcap -w output.cap *.cap
And then we can analyze it like we did above.
Further Reading
Breaking the distributed command down further
Just to clarify this command a bit more, particularly how the kill part works since that was the trickiest part for me to figure out.
When we run this
$ dsh -c -m web1000,web1001 \
'sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth0 -w - -s 0 -x -n -q -tttt "port 3306 and tcp[1] & 7 == 2 and tcp[3] & 7 == 2" | \
ssh dshhost "cat - > ~/captures/$(hostname -a).cap" & sleep 10 ; \
sudo pkill -o -P $(ps -ef | awk "\$2 ~ /\<$!\>/ { print \$3; }")'
on the server the process list looks something like
user 12505 12504 0 03:12 ? 00:00:00 bash -c sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth0 -w - -s 0 -x -n -q -tttt "port 3306 and tcp[1] & 7 == 2 and tcp[3] & 7 == 2" | ssh myhost.myserver.com "cat - > /home/etsy/captures/$(hostname -a).cap" & sleep 5 ; sudo pkill -o -P $(ps -ef | awk "\$2 ~ /\<$!\>/ { print \$3; }")
pcap 12506 12505 1 03:12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth0 -w - -s 0 -x -n -q -tttt port 3306 and tcp[1] & 7 == 2 and tcp[3] & 7 == 2
user 12507 12505 0 03:12 ? 00:00:00 ssh myhost.myserver.com cat - > ~/captures/web1001.cap
So $! is going to return the pid of the ssh process, 12507. We use awk to find the process matching that, and then print the parent pid out, which is then passed to the -P arg of pkill. If you use pgrep to look at this without the -o you'd get a list of the children of 12505, which are 12506 and 12507. The oldest child is the tcpdump command and so adding -o kills that guy off.
So if we were only running the command on one host we could use something much simpler
ssh dbhost01 '(sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth0 -w - -s 0 port 3306) & sleep 10; sudo kill $!' | cat - > output.cap


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How to Win the Battles You Face
- Whitney Hopler Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2013 18 Jun
Editor's Note: The following is a report on the practical applications of Bo Stern's new book, Beautiful Battlefields (NavPress, 2013).
Life in this fallen world is full of suffering that tests our faith in God – from illness and financial crises to broken relationships and the loss of dreams. You can do more than just try to get through these battles, however: You can emerge from them with stronger faith.
Here's how you can rely on God to help you win the battles you face in life:
Discover beauty that only comes from battles. One of the most valuable results of engaging in battles is finding beautiful blessings hidden within the struggles that you couldn't find any other way. Choose to look at the battles you're facing from a positive perspective, expecting to discover blessings beyond the pain.
Keep in mind that God has good purposes for the suffering He allows to enter your life. While God never causes suffering, He does allow everyone in this fallen world to experience it whenever doing so will accomplish good purposes in their lives. Ask God to show you the good purposes behind the suffering He let enter your life, and to help you learn whatever lessons He wants you to learn through your suffering, so you can emerge from it with stronger faith. Keep in mind that God often uses your suffering to fulfill good purposes not just in your own life, but also in the lives of other people who are watching to see how you'll respond to it and how God works in your life as a result.
Trust God day by day to provide what you need. Follow Jesus' advice to live one day at a time. Rather than worrying about what you anticipate you'll need far into the future, rely on God to faithfully provide what you need every day as each day arrives. God wants you to walk closely beside Him daily, so He provides for you on a daily basis to encourage you to focus on developing a closer relationship with Him every day.
Notice how your battles reveal God's strength. Trusting God to fight for you during your battles helps you learn how strong He really is. Unless you're faced with battles that go beyond your own ability to fight, you'll never see God's power at work in ways that will grow your faith. Expect God to empower you to face any battle, because He is more than strong enough for any challenge you'll ever face.
Develop greater endurance. If you don't try to escape from your suffering while it's God's will for you to endure it, you'll develop endurance during your time on the battlefields of life. Endurance will then produce character in you, which will in turn produce hope.
Ask God to give you an eternal perspective on the battles you're fighting right now. Pray for the ability to understand the full significance of the challenging events that are currently happening in your life. Approach your battles with an eternal perspective in mind, willing to take whatever risks of obedience God calls you to take because you believe that doing so will be worthwhile in the end.
Discover the blessings of sorrow. Rather than trying to avoid the sorrow that you encounter during battles, discover the blessings that can result from experiencing sorrow. Realize that sorrow: connects you to the comfort of God's presence, helps you learn more about Jesus' compassionate heart for a suffering world, and makes you more effective as you minister to other people who are suffering.
Fasten your heart to God's love. Don't let your suffering obscure your ability to experience God's great love for you. In every situation (no matter how difficult), you can still know that God loves you completely and unconditionally. Rather than using your circumstances as a way to try to measure God's love for you, gauge God's love for you on the basis of Jesus' ultimate for you in the cross. Keep in mind that God doesn't just give love; He actually is love, and you can always count on His love in your life.
Make obedience your battle strategy. The most effective battle strategy in every situation is simply obeying whatever God leads you to do next. Choosing to obey, without delay, strengthens your dependence on God and gives you access to supernatural resources and results that have eternal value.
Enlist an army of friends to help you. Ask God to help you identify friends whom you can trust to encourage and support you during your battles. Caring, trustworthy friends help keep you honest, see the big picture during your struggles, and share your burdens to lighten your load. Rather than assuming that your friends know how to help you, ask them for the specific types of help you need. Try to stay away from people who tear you down and surround yourself with people who strengthen you.
Be generous even while you're suffering. If you answer God's call to be generous all the time – even in the midst of difficult circumstances – you'll experience God's blessings as a result. Choose to be generous with your resources (time, money, and energy) and to freely give other people grace, mercy, and forgiveness. As you bless others, God will bless you.
Find refuge in God's Word. Turn to the Bible – God's Word – to reliably guide you to the truth during your battles. While your circumstances are constantly changing, the Bible remains the same. You can always count on God to speak to you through His Word, guiding your decisions and behavior. So engage the Bible regularly by reading it, meditating on it, speaking it, singing it, or studying it.
Escape the weight of bitterness. Ask God to show you any bitterness that may have crept into your soul during your suffering. Then let go of your bitterness by following God's command to forgive people who have hurt you, and by regularly expressing gratitude to God for who He is and how He has redeemed you.
Speak words of strength. Since words contain the power to bring either healing or destruction into your life, make sure that the words you speak to yourself and to others in your life reflect biblical truth, build people up (rather than tearing them down), and express a worshipful attitude toward God.
Become outrageously brave. Invite God to use your fear during battles to help you develop more courage. As you take the opportunities that God gives you to trust and rely on Him completely during suffering, fear will have less power over you and you'll gain the faith you need to overcome it.
Adapted from Beautiful Battlefields, copyright 2013 by Bonita Stern. Published by NavPress, Colorado Springs, Co., www.navpress.com.
Bo Stern knows the most beautiful things can come out of the hardest times. Her Goliath came in the form of her husband's terminal illness, a battle they are still fighting with their help of their four children, a veritable army of friends, and our extraordinary God. Bo is a teaching pastor at Westside Church in Bend, Oregon.
Whitney Hopler, who has served as a Crosswalk.com contributing writer for many years, is author of the new novel Dream Factory, which is available in both paperback and ebook formats. Visit her website at: whitneyhopler.naiwe.com.
Publication date: June 18, 2013


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Voting started today in Facebook's first stab at democracy.
Users of the popular social networking site are being invited to cast a ballot to determine which privacy policy reigns supreme.
The election came after Facebook made changes to its terms of use in Februrary that prompted a grass roots revolt over privacy concerns. Under fire, management stepped in and restored the old terms of use and promised a public vote for any future changes.
Now's your chance to make your vote count, so to speak. Here's the choices, as described in blog post by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg:
1) The new Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR), which incorporate feedback from users and experts received during the 30-day comment period.
2) The current Terms of Use, which were developed by Facebook and did not go through an outside comment period.
Links to all the documents can be found here.
If these new documents are approved, Facebook said: "all future changes to the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities will go through the same process of notice and comment, and may be put to a vote if enough people comment. Even if these new proposed documents are defeated, we will still find ways to involve you in the governance process; however, this involvement will need to be explicitly stated in a future version of the Terms of Use."
The rules Facebook established for the vote don't exactly scream democracy. At least 30 percent of all active users – around 60 million people – must vote for the election to be official.
In other words, if there aren't enough votes, Facebook will be able to do what it wants. However, Barry Schnitt, a Facebook spokesman, said that Facebook is very responsive to user sentiment and has rolled back adjustments to the site based on a small minority complaining.
Voting is open until 11:59 a.m. PDT on April 23. An independent auditor will then review the results for accuracy.


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Climatologist: South Dakota Weather Changing More Rapidly
MITCHELL - A state climatologist says that South Dakota's weather has become more volatile and could make flooding and drainage issues more difficult to manage in the future.
Climatologist Dennis Todey said Monday that South Dakota's precipitation has been trending upward for decades - especially in the few years leading up to last year's drought. Todey tells the Daily Republic in Mitchell that the changes are coming faster now than ever before.
Todey spoke to the 14-member Regional Watershed Advisory Task Force that was created by the Legislature last year to study water and drainage issues.
Todey says that while precipitation in South Dakota has been increasing since the 1930s, the period between 2007 and 2011 was especially wet. That has led to more soil loss and water runoff.
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timpet necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 72 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
We are a new premium juice and soda brand. We'll be rolling out real fruit juices and smoothies and fruit-based sodas later this year.
Everyone loves juice. Our target market is 8 to 80, male and female! We don't want to alienate anyone in that segment so nothing too funky for an 80 year old or too adult for an 8 year old.
Our core target market will be 18 to 40 year olds.
We want a brand (font) treatment for our brand name "Joove" and ideally a logo or character (perhaps a fruit brought to life or a groover who is getting down to 'joove').
Joove is a fun and funky made-up word. But for rationale you can think of it as coming from 're-joove' which is a misspelled and shortened version of rejuvenate.
Most importantly the lovely curvaceous "J" and "o"s should give plenty of creative space to 'play' with the word.
Colour palette is up to you although you could use the colours of fruit as a starting point.
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EDITORIAL We hate to pick on Scott Wiener, who is a polite guy who always takes our calls and takes public policy seriously. He's got an extensive legislative agenda — good for him — and he's effective at getting bills passed. We're with him on nightlife, and even on nudity towels in the Castro.
But he's been taking on some more disturbing causes of late — he's managed to tighten the rules for the use of Harvey Milk Plaza and now he's asking for an audit of the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force that looks at how much each city department spends responding to sunshine requests. We're not against audits or government efficiency, but this could lead to a lot of mischief.
There are plenty of problems with the task force, which hears complaints against city agencies that are denying the public access to documents. The biggest problem is that the task force has no enforcement authority — when the members find an agency or official to have willfully defied the law, the best they can do is turn those findings over to the Ethics Commission, which simply drops the case. Nobody ever gets charged with anything or gets in any trouble for refusing to follow what every public official in town piously insists is an excellent law.
And yeah, the meetings run long, and sometimes city employees have to sit around for hours waiting for their cases to come up. (Activists who testify before city commissions are used to that, but city employees are on the clock, and Wiener's worried that it's running up a large bill.)
But nobody's talking about the money that the city has saved by those annoying government watchdogs keeping an eye on public spending — through the use of the Sunshine Ordinance. Nor is anyone talking about the immense amount of time activists and journalists have to spend fighting over records that should have been public in the first place — or how much money the Task Force has saved the city by creating a forum for resolving these issues out of court.
We can see the outcome here: The audit will show some large number, some cash amount with a bunch of zeros behind it, and the Chronicle will run a big headline about the high cost of this sunshine bureaucracy — and someone will suggest we find ways to streamline the process by clipping the task force's wings.
That's the wrong approach — particularly when there's a much easier answer. Why not do what sunshine activists have suggested for years — make electronic copies of every document created by any city agency and post them in a database on the web? No more secrecy, no more hassle. It's easy — if anyone at City Hall is serious about saving money on sunshine requests.


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Polish lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to reject a proposal by an anti-abortion group that would have imposed a total ban on abortion, caving in to massive outrage by women who have been dressing in black and waging street protests across the country.
The mostly Catholic nation already has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe, with abortion only allowed in rare cases — rape or incest, when the mother's life is in danger or the fetus is badly damaged.
The proposal for further tightening the law came from a citizens' initiative that gathered some 450,000 signatures in this nation of 38 million. It was supported by the Roman Catholic church. But it was highly unpopular with most Poles, with people balking at the idea that a teenage rape victim should be forced to have her baby, or that a woman whose health was badly compromised would be forced to carry to term. The proposal had also called for prison terms of up to five years for women who sought abortions.
U.S. & World
With abortion already illegal in most cases, many women said what frightened them the most in the proposal was that it could have led doctors to be afraid to perform prenatal tests or that women who suffered miscarriages could start to fall under criminal suspicion.
Initially many members of the conservative ruling party, Law and Justice, supported the proposal. Two weeks ago a majority of lawmakers voted to consider it, sending it to a commission for further study. But the party backed away from it under massive social pressure, and lawmakers voted against it 352-58.
The outcome of the vote is a blow to the ruling party, which has a core of ultra-conservative Catholic voters that wanted to see further restrictions to the abortion law. But the party also came to power thanks to centrist voters and young people who were attracted by the party's welfare program, with its promises to help the poor and even out the vast economic differences of the post-communist era.
Many in that latter group have been taking to the streets in recent days, and opinion polls show that the party's support has now fallen to its lowest point since it won elections a year ago.


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Lol, that pose in the last panel is fantastic
This last panel just tickles me. The expression on his face is PERFECT! He looks so suspicious! XD
By the way, your avatar is the best. I don't think I've mentioned this before. But it's kind of awesome. :)
I agree with you jesse, It is all kinds of awesome.
Sorry about that, my keyboard failed. As I meant to say, I love the fact that Ben's not afraid to rock a man-purse or man-bag or whatever you call it. Maybe it's more of a satchel. Anyway, it's awesome.
Absolutely. Especially with that almost flouncy pose as he's skipping away :3 Heehee. This is why Ben is cool.
It's a SATCHEL. Indiana Jones has one.
Lol, I dont know if that's what Ben really has, but it was a perfect place to quote The Hangover :P
Teeeeeheeeeeee! Poor Davy.
OMGOODNESS! suspicious davy face is the BEST!!! hahahaha XD
Slight correction: Suspicious Davy Face while clutching a rifle as Ben goes running/ flouncing away carrying a man-purse is the best.
just read through the archives!
This comic is amazing, I've enjoyed every minute :D
Welcome! And thanks so much for reading! :D
I'm reading the archives and just wanted to say great comic!
Hahaha. Davy always shows up at the best times :)
I've been meaning to ask this for a while, but what's the significance of the poncho-like thing Davy's wearing? I noticed both he and the Union ghost wear them, but Jeremy and the other Union re-enactors wear them. Is it a sort of rank thing for drummers?
*Jeremy and the other re-enactors *don't* wear them


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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Bra One Done!
For the past few weeks I've been taking part in a Bra-Making Sew Along led by Amy of Cloth Habit. So much fun! Sewing lingerie is much easier than one might expect.
I'd say that, for me anyway, that fiddling around with fit has been somewhat tedious. I imagine my fellow sew-alongers may have similar feelings. However, with expert guidance from Amy and Norma the seemingly mysterious art of bra-making has been made accessible! Thank you so much ladies :D!
Bra one is now complete, and a couple amateur moves on my part resulted in a bit of a snug fit in the upper cup. Easily tweaked and remedied for round two though. And though the fit is slightly off, I am pleasantly surprised by how great the finished garment looks!
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That looks really good! What pattern did you use?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2013 at 7:11 PM
I think you did a great job and your enthusiasm to move along to the second fit despite the minor errors :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful bra. Thanks for stopping by my blog and for your suggestion. I did move my strap in about 1" but maybe I need to move it even more. I got Kwik Sew 3300 in the mail today so and will be trying it next. I'm going to only use the cup and will be using the band, straps, and bridge from `Elan 530. Wish me luck.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks! My second one definitely fits better than this one, though unfortunately it is blah white --- I do so want some wild undies LOL!Delete
I'm just so smitten with bra-making that I'm currently reading every blog mentioning it that I can locate --- and was so delighted to find you today, I'll be visiting regularly :D.
Good luck with the KS3300! I recently added that one to my bra pattern collection, but who knows when I'll get around to trying it, but will be avidly reading any posts you write about it.


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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- 1 Spike Detection
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- Mobile Crowd Sensing in Edge Computing Environment
- The Effect of Disability on Subjective Well-Being across the Adult Lifespan: The Moderating Roles of Age at Disability Onset and Disability Type
- Mechanically Active Heterogeneous Polymer Matrix Composites
- Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control over Sensitive Data
- 并购背景下教育行业品牌价值研究
Interictal spikes, together with seizures, have been recognized as the two hallmarks of epilepsy, a brain disorder that 1% of the world's population suffers from. Even though the presence of spikes in brain's electromagnetic activity has diagnostic value, their dynamics are still elusive. It was an objective of this dissertation to formulate a mathematical framework within which the dynamics of interictal spikes could be thoroughly investigated. A new epileptic spike detection algorithm was developed by employing data adaptive morphological filters. The performance of the spike detection algorithm was favorably compared with others in the literature. A novel spike spatial synchronization …
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THUMBS UP to the good works done by Faye Boswell in her role as founder of the Hospice League and with the Hospice Flea Market. Boswell is stepping down as chairlady of the Hospice Flea Market after serving 25 years, but she is far from resting. Her newest brainchild is �My Picture Book.� Boswell said the genesis for this project came to her 14 years ago when she went to a funeral viewing where an eight-year-old boy told her he didn�t have a picture book to remember his father. Boswell is working to find building space and shelving to use as her studio for the new business. We hope she is as successful at this endeavor as she has been with helping the many families hospice has assisted and comforted over the years.
THUMBS UP to the Burlington Police Department for its attempt to increase transparency with the public. The department is instituting the �Citizens Police Academy,� a free 10-week course in October for 25 people over the age of 18. Jeffrey Smythe, police chief, who also introduced �ride-alongs� lately, said this academy will offer a more comprehensive view of the department with �30 hours� worth of open door access� to how the agency operates. Among the activities enrollees will experience are an agency tour, overview of the criminal justice system, emergency dispatch, traffic and DWI enforcement, K-9 demonstrations, gang awareness, arrest procedures and much more.
THUMBS UP to the efforts of Allied Churches of Alamance County and the Salvation Army of Alamance County to take up the slack in feeding the hungry on the heels of Loaves & Fishes shutting its doors. The Salvation Army expanded its hours to distribute emergency food boxes and Allied Churches has renovated space to accommodate a food pantry and added personnel to include a dinner meal in addition to lunch, thanks to an emergency funding request to United Way of Alamance County. Food, food and more food is always needed. We know the community, its churches, citizens and civic groups will respond.
THUMBS UP to the announcement recently that Ron Parrish has been hired to fill the position of Gibsonville police chief, which was left vacant after former chief Mike Woznick passed away suddenly in May. Parrish will start Tuesday. He comes to the job with 31 years of law enforcement experience, 25 of which were spent in North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement and six years with the Alamance County Sheriff�s Department as a major of administration. Parrish has been an asset to state and local law enforcement and should serve Gibsonville admirably.
THUMBS DOWN to the customers of The Scooter Store who are left high and dry by the sudden and under-announced closing of the stores nationwide. Local customers were shocked to hear the Texas-based company had gone out of business and would no longer be servicing their scooters. According to an article by the Associated Press, The Scooter Store�s announcement followed a notification by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that the company would lose its federal contract for reimbursement of its products� sales, effective Oct. 26.
THUMBS UP to Jody Gaedtke, who will receive the Maxine Swalin Award from the North Carolina Symphony as an outstanding music teacher in June. She came to Turrentine in 2000 and turned the orchestra program around, according to one of her letters of recommendation for the award. Her style, she admits, is more an extension of her personality. The award recognizes a teacher who �makes a lasting difference in the lives of students of all abilities and backgrounds, serves the community in an exemplary manner as a role model in music education, instills a love for music in children, and inspires students to reach appropriately high musical standards.� We offer our congratulations as well. We�re singing as we write this, you just can�t hear us.


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Consensus Report
Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises (2002)Ocean Studies Board
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
The climate record for the past 100,000 years clearly indicates that the climate system has undergone periodic--and often extreme--shifts, sometimes in as little as a decade or less. The causes of abrupt climate changes have not been clearly established, but the triggering of events is likely to be the result of multiple natural processes. This report looks at the current scientific evidence and theoretical understanding to describe what is currently known about abrupt climate change, including patterns and magnitudes, mechanisms, and probability of occurrence. It identifies critical knowledge gaps concerning the potential for future abrupt changes (including those aspects of change most important to society and economies), outlines a research strategy to close those gaps, surveys the history of climate change, and makes a series of specific recommendations for the future.
Key Messages
- Abrupt climate changes in the last few thousand years generally have been less severe and affected smaller areas than some of the changes further back in the past. Nonetheless, evidence shows that rapid climate changes have affected societies and ecosystems substantially, especially when the changes that brought persistent droughts occurred in regions with human settlements.
- Increased knowledge is the best way to improve the effectiveness of response, and thus that research into the causes, patterns, and likelihood of abrupt climate change can help reduce vulnerabilities and increase our adaptive capabilities.
- The earth's climate system is characterized by change on all time and space scales, and some of the changes are abrupt even relative to the short time scales of relevance to human societies.
- There is no reason to believe that abrupt climate changes will not occur again.
About this Report
Primary Board:Ocean Studies Board
Collaborating Unit(s):Polar Research Board
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate


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- 1. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED Evidence Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
By Julie Von Vett and Bruce Malone
Published by Search for the Truth
As stated on the cover of HAVE YOU CONSIDERED Evidence Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, "For over 200 years, the American judicial system has upheld a standard so strong that a person's very life can be ended based on this level of confidence. It is a verdict supported by evidence that is 'beyond a reasonable doubt'... This book is the third in a series of unique devotions presenting evidence for every day of the year that demonstrates it is beyond ANY reasonable doubt that we have a Creator."
Topics cover Anatomy, Biblical Accuracy, Biology, Botany, Christian Truth, Geology, God's Design, History, and Paleontology. Below are eight summaries from 365 more detailed daily devotionals covered in this extraordinary book.
January 25: Again and again, archeology confirms that the Scriptures are true. The Bible tells of slings and stones being used as deadly weapons. David used them when he killed Goliath (1 Samuel 17), and 700 Benjamites used slings and stones and never missed (Judges 20:16). So, what have archeologists discovered? They now recognize that the ancient armies' most important weapon was the sling. See Ancient Slingshot Was as Deadly as a .44 Magnum and Slings and Stones.Click here to read more
- 2. In the Hands of Providence - Col. Joshua Chamberlain
by Karen Horne
As we commemorate the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, it seems appropriate to reflect on the leadership and courage of Joshua Chamberlain without whom the South may have very well won the battle of Gettysburg and consequently the war.
On July 2, 1863 Colonel Chamberlain with his 20th Maine Regiment was positioned at the end of the Union line. He was informed that a "desperate attack" was expected to commence on that position at any moment and was told to: "Hold that ground at all hazards." As the battle wore on his regiment ran out of ammunition. Remembering those words, "hold that ground at all hazards," Chamberlain had his men fix their bayonets and charge the enemy stopping their assault on that position and denying them the opportunity to place themselves behind the Union line and its supplies and ammunition.
He continued to serve well during the Civil War. Wounded several times during the war, the most severe was at Petersburg, Virginia, where it was thought he would not survive. He had been leading an attack when wounded. Fearing that his men would fall back if they saw him fall, he stuck his saber in the ground to hold himself upright.
After a long recovery period he returned to the Army of the Potomac and was chosen by General Grant to accept the arms and colors of Lee's defeated army at Appomattox. When the Confederate soldiers marched by, Chamberlain had his men salute them as a show of respect.
After the war he returned to teaching at Bowdoin College for a brief time and then went on to serve as Governor of Maine for four terms.
You can learn more about this incredible man by reading In the Hands of Providence by Alice Rains Trulock.Click here to read more
- 3. INJUSTICE: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department
Author: J. Christian Adams, former attorney for the Voting Rights Section of the Department of Justice. 2008. Regnery Publishing, inc. (You may order this book via the Gilbert Watch "click-through" ad for amazon.com. Gilbert Watch receives a small commission, and it doesn't cost you any more!)
If you are a Republican who believes that Sheriff Arpaio should be voted out of office, then you should read this book before you cast your vote. If Arpaio loses the next election as the result of the "show trials" that have been waged down at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meetings by leftist radical publicity hog Randy Parraz, you will have witnessed Soviet style justice prevailing in what used to be the United States of America. And you will have been suckered by a "mainstream" media that reports every one of Parraz's indignant outrages, and those of his leftist cult followers.Click here to read more
- 4. "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto"
"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny." Abraham LincolnClick here to read more
- 5. The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate
Consider this: What if Obama's birth certificate was the least of one's worries when it comes to the credibility, capability, and agenda of Barack Obama? The birth certificate issue pales in comparison to well documented facts about Barack Obama that are just as serious. David Freddoso wrote his meticulously documented book because of the unwillingness of the media to examine Obama's record prior to the 2008 election. Freddoso's goal was to expose the difference between Obama's rhetoric and the reality in which he lives, and so Freddoso carefully scrutinized Obama's record paying close attention to the details.Click here to read more
- 6. THE BLUEPRINT: How the Democrats Won Colorado
Were you paying attention in 2010? While the TEA Party-inspired conservative wave took out Democrats in state after state, Colorado retained its Democrat Senator Michael Bennett (D) over TEA Party-Conservative favorite Ken Buck. Did you wonder why "down-in-the-polls" Harry Reid managed to pull out and get re-elected in Nevada?Click here to read more
- 7. "The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government will Shape America's Future," by Arthur G Brooks
This new book should be read right now by constitutional conservatives. The author is Arthur G Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute.
The reason I strongly recommend this 128-page book is because it provides the tools that conservatives and constitutionalists need to push back against the Progressives and their domination of the debate through the media and our educational system. They have successfully marginalized conservative Republicans as "rich," "heartless," and "unfair." They have been successful in perpetuating the lie that we "care more about money and special interests than we care about people."Click here to read more
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Authorities have arrested a man suspected of being the would-be bank robber who walked away after a New Jersey bank teller asked for some identification.
A man wearing a hooded sweatshirt walked into the Santander Bank branch along Brewers Bridge Road in Jackson Township Wednesday afternoon and handed the teller a note asking for money.
Lt. Steven Laskiewicz told the Asbury Park Press the teller told the man to remove the hood and show some ID.
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"It was reported that a male subject had entered the bank and passed a note to a teller asking for a sum of money. When the teller told the male, who was wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt, to remove the hood and also asked for identification, the male claimed he did not have any and then left the bank," Laskiewicz told the paper.
Ryan Higgins of Jackson was arrested and held on $100,000 bail, charged with attempted robbery.
Laskiewicz told the paper the 40-year-old was arrested Thursday after police received multiple tips from people who saw a photo from bank surveillance cameras.
The same bank was robbed on Valentine's Day.


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I need to write some simple server Winsock code. (Yes, I understand the irony.) One thread, one connection, host A to host B, non blocking. I don't have the expertise to take these do everything multi-threaded example classes and merge them into my MFC project. Where can I find a simple description or example?
I used a vendor starter application (MFC, C++ project template) to fetch telemetry data from the vendor A's application. Now I need to send the telemetry data, one to three megabytes per second, directly to vendor B's server application for display. The vendor B system is a server to multiple client display computers, but turns out that it expects my application to take the role of server to its client. (Makes sense, my app is providing the data, it is consuming the data.)
Vendor B has an example TCP class for my server end but it uses blocking mode and there are several difficulties. Their client receiving app is not robust and intentionally breaks the connection as least once, and maybe frequently. The code keeps getting hung somewhere and determining the problem is quite difficult. It seems to me that if the code on my end were non-blocking I could get it to update the dialog and tell me what it is trying to do. Vendor B is not sympathetic to my request for non-blocking advice. Wiresharking the packets to find the error in my application is proving difficult.
I can find and read about all the asynchronous calls, but don't know how to set up the callbacks and messages needed for the Winsock class to sense problems with the connection and take action. Integrating into an existing MFC project is difficult.
Pointers to some good explanations and tutorial are requested. In the meantime, I continue searching and reading.
Edit: Oops, left out: Windows XP Pro, Visual Studio 2008, MFC, C++, TCP/IP communications


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Pawcatuck man charged with threatening judge in grocery store
A Pawcatuck man appeared in New London Superior Court Tuesday to face a charge that he threatened Superior Court Judge John J. Nazzaro during an incident last month in the self-checkout lane of the local Stop & Shop grocery store.
Justin N. Lanoie, 43, of 58 Stewart Road was charged June 23 with second-degree threatening.
Nazzaro, who lives in Pawcatuck, was behind Lanoie in the self-checkout lane with his daughter when Lanoie, who was with his son, attempted unsuccessfully to scan trash bags and toilet paper, according to Lanoie's attorney, Assistant Public Defender Jennifer B. Nowak.
Nazzaro asked Lanoie if he needed help, Nowak said, before apparently thinking that Lanoie was attempting to steal the items. He then identified himself as a judge and told Lanoie that people go to jail for shoplifting, Nowak said.
Lanoie allegedly responded by saying, "Snitches like you end up in cemeteries."
Nazzaro reported the incident to Stonington police, who arrested Lanoie at his home.
Nowak said Lanoie, a single father who has no criminal history, would be applying for accelerated rehabilitation, a pretrial diversionary program that would enable him to get a full dismissal if he stays out of trouble.
Attorney Michael E. Kennedy, the supervisory prosecutor at the Broad Street courthouse where Lanoie's case is being heard, is requesting that the case be transferred to Middlesex Superior Court. He declined to comment.
Nazzaro, who practiced law locally before being appointed to the bench in 2007, presided over criminal cases at the New London courthouse, known as Geographical Area 10 or G.A. 10, from September 2012 to April 2013.
He is now hearing civil cases in New Haven Superior Court.
Nowak, the public defender, said she would oppose the motion to transfer the case at Lanoie's next court appearance, which is scheduled for Aug. 7. She declined to comment further.
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This week, Microsoft will finally give Windows 8 a public debut, showing off the next version of its flagship operating system at its Build Conference here in Anaheim, Calif. Sure, Microsoft has provided some glimpses of Win8, most notably the tile-and-text-based design of its tablet interface, dubbed Metro.
We've also learned about the inclusion of Hyper-V, a virtualization technology; the controversial decision to top the Windows Explorer file manager with the same ribbon found in Office 2007 and 2010; tweaks to the way files are copied, moved and managed; built-in support for USB 3.0; and one of the most intriguing – finally bringing truly fast boot times to Windows, as seen in this video.
Note that this is not necessarily done as a traditional "cold boot", but rather relies on a different approach to startup and enhanced by the use of technology known as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface and designed to replace the older BIOS system. (Apple has been using EFI to boot Macs for some time.) If you install Win8 on a legacy system with a BIOS, don't expect to see this kind of startup performance.
While the features listed above are intriguing, taken as a whole they don't yet make for a compelling upgrade. The devil, as they say, will be in the details, and that's what we'll learn about this week.
Microsoft clearly must advance its Metro UI aimed at tablets in order to gain a foothold in that market, which at the moment is passing the company by. But in order to get its core customer base – businesses that buy PC licenses by the truckload – it has to offer something that makes a stronger argument for upgrading.
That's not going to be the easiest of sells.
Right now, the switch is on at many companies to Windows 7 from the decade-old Windows XP. Such shifts are expensive on many levels – hardware upgrades, license purchases, application upgrades, training and support all have significant costs. Businesses traditionally move slower than a glacier on a cold day when it comes to technology upgrades, so Windows 7 is going to remain the target of choice for many who have decided they've had enough of creaky, insecure XP.
But Microsoft's business model relies on getting enough customers to upgrade with each new OS release. That becomes increasingly harder to do as Windows gets better overall. There's a reason why companies have stuck with XP for 10 years, beyond just the spectacular failure that was Windows Vista. XP was "good enough", and that's all most businesses need. Windows 7 is markedly better.
Because of this, Windows 8, expected to be released next year, probably won't factor into most corporate upgrade plans until 2014 . . . about the time Windows 9 is starting to be hyped.
I think we'll see lots of interesting things for consumers this week, and I expect I'll get my hands on at least one very thin, very cool tablet running the Metro UI version of Windows 8. But in terms of Microsoft's ultimate success, its corporate customers must be thrown some very red meat, and I think that could end up being one of the most interesting stories here.
The public events begin Tuesday at 9 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. CDT. I'll have a live blog going from the keynote, and will be writing about Windows 8 all week.
Related, from Ed Bott: What I expect from Windows 8


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TJ Grossi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 140 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
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A pawnbroker (or pawnshop) is an individual or business that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The pawnbroker's symbol is three spheres suspended from a bar. You can google "pawn shop symbol" to see a representation. We give title loans on motorcycles only. We promote this business by sponsoring a motorcycle racing team, and we need a cool logo to use for the sponsor stickers.
Target audience is anybody who has a motorcycle, that may consider temporarily encumbering it in order to unlock it's monetary value. This is a virtually untapped market, as title loan operations are rare in this area. The typical person would be male, not female. Other than that we get customers from all walks of life, upper to lower class.
The name "3 (or "three") Balls Racing" must be used. Lets try grey metallic colors first please, 2 or 3 dimensional. The "pawn broker symbol" must be utilized in the design, whether behind, in front of, behind, or before the name. Lets try gold or yellow metallic colors for the balls, with a grey metallic for the bars, either 2 or 3 dimensional also. We may only want those two things with no other graphic, like a motorcycle, or stars or something like that. Don't be too afraid to put something else in there though, as the 3 balls graphic and name can still be correct, we'll just ask to revise it without the other stuff. Also if you do add a motorcycle, it should be a sportbike and not a harley or cruiser type bike. I'd like to see freely available fonts used and the end product should be a VECTOR file and also as a jpeg file.
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Robert Pattinson Speaks Out on Indiana Jones Rumorsby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Robert Pattinson has addressed rumors that he is set to take over the role of Indiana Jones in the franchise's next film.
"I don't know why. Why is that coming out?" Pattinson replied on Thursday, June 12, while walking the red carpet for his latest film, 'The Rover.' (Quotes via PEOPLE). "I honestly don't understand what it's all about. Man, I wish!"
While we were skeptical about the rumors from the start, it looks like the former 'Twilight' hunk just confirmed what we all thought — he won't be donning that famous fedora or cracking that whip in the near future.
Pattinson is also rumored to be taking over another iconic Harrison Ford character — Han Solo — for a film centering on the robust 'Star Wars' character. But it looks like this is yet another unfounded rumor, as the actor seemed pretty puzzled about the idea.
"I didn't even know there was a Han Solo spinoff coming out," Pattinson revealed. "Sounds like a cool spinoff. I'll watch it." He'll watch it — but not star in it.
Sorry to burst your bubble, R. Pattz fans — but it looks like the actor won't be filling Harrison Ford's shoes in either role any time soon.


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Matt Yglesias wrote an important post today about why Pete Peterson's ongoing crusade to cut the deficit is killing us. He notes that many serious liberals dismiss the (dirty hippie) idea that the focus on long term deficit reduction is wrong in itself in favor of the idea that it's simply wrong for the current situation. Being one of those who have been saying for years that focusing on long term projections (which are notoriously unreliable and always unenforceable) is a fools game, I appreciate the fact that Yglesias has taken another look at this:
That is all, I think, correct. But I'd like to push the idea that the deeper critique is also correct—the focus on long-term fiscal policy is misguided and it's the misguided nature of this focus that helps drive the odd interventions into partisan politics.
To see why, think about the deficit reduction deals of 1990 and especially 1993. Those were deals that conservative viciously opposed, and the backlash against moderate Republican support for the 1990 deal is the essential context for the budget gridock of the subsequent 20 years. But another thing to note about those deals is that they weren't deals about long-term fiscal policy. Chait complains that deficit reduction groups were insufficiently enthusiastic about this deals:
Because Republicans opposed both laws so hysterically, they successfully turned them into symbols of phony government thumb-twiddling while the deficit raged out of control. Accordingly, Karl raged (in his Gen-X way) against Clinton's plan, "that deficit reduction is a myth." And the speaker before him denounced the 1990 deficit reduction bill. But both plans worked incredibly well! By the end of Clinton's term, we were running surpluses, which allowed conservatives to take power in 2001, argue that the surplus represented a nefarious overtaxation, and bring us back into structural deficits.
But this simply reflects the fact that "the deficit" means two different things. The deficit that George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton targeted was a short-to-medium-term affair. The problem that they were trying to solve was that loose fiscal policy was inducing the Federal Reserve to maintain relatively high interest rates in order to contain inflation, creating a situation in which potentially valuable private sector investors were being crowded out by government borrowing. You might think that maintaining low taxes or high levels of military spending or high levels of social services are more important than that goal of promoting lower central bank interest rates, but it's perfectly comprehensible disupute among competing priorities. And the deficit reduction packages achieved their goals in that sense. Interest rates declined without inflation surging.
That is correct. You'll all recall the famous Bill Clinton line:
"You mean to tell me that the success of the economic program and my re-election hinges on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of fucking bond traders?"
Yglesias explains how Peterson is doing something completely different and that he's dragged the political establishment along with him:
Pete Peterson, by contrast, is wrestling with a question that's either much deeper or much shallower than something as petty as managing aggregate demand. One way of looking at it is that he's concerned that in the future too much economic activity will go toward bolstering the living standards of unproductive retirees rather than toward growth-boosting investments. This, however, is too deep a problem to solve. No matter how much we scrunch our eyes together and promise really really hard, we can't force the political system of 2040 to avoid overspending on health care services for my eightysomething dad rather than on private sector capital investments that will increase the productivity and wages of hypothetical thirtysomething kid. It simply can't be done.
What we can tackle is the shallow problem of CBO scores. Right now, the way the CBO scores things shows gigantic future deficits. If you pass a law saying "if the cyclically-adjusted budget deficit goes above 3.5 percent of GDP , Medicare reimbursement rates will automatically fall to eliminate the deficit" then you solve the CBO score problem.
It goes away like magic. But that's a dumb plan. Or, rather, it's not a plan at all. It's just a scoring rule. But if you peer into the details of different deficit reduction plans this is how they all work. Because the only way to change a long-term CBO score is to change a scoring rule. It's a bit of a postmodern game in which there's nothing outside the text. The way CBO scoring is supposed to be useful is that a member of congress might have an idea he's genuinely enthusiastic about and want a credible analysis of what that proposal would cost. He might then also want credible analysis of which tax measures would or wouldn't raise an appropriate amount of revenue. But the CBO doesn't employ fortune-tellers who can assess conjectures about the future application of information technology to health care, about the military situation in the Pacific Rim, or about the political economy of tweaks in program design. So all the long-term plans end up relying on scoring rules. You direct the CBO to assess a situation in which congress "isn't allowed" to spend more than X on domestic programs or Y on the military or automatically applies cuts to hospitals. But giving the CBO those instructions doesn't change anything in the world, it's just an accounting exercise.
Excessive focus on these issues distracts crucial attention from meaningful budget questions which play out on a much shorter time frame. Right now, fiscal policy is set to be much too tight in 2013 with terrible growth effects that are being ignored by the political system. In 1993, fiscal policy was too loose and the president who cut the deficit didn't get any credit from the deficit scolds because they were too busy worrying about long-term problems that the Clinton administration didn't solve because they can't be solved. To assess fiscal policy correctly, you have to get off the focus on the long-term and instead pay attention to what politicians actually control.
I would just suggest that Peterson and his Masters of the Universe pals may not be quite as ingenuous about their "worries" as Yglesias imagines. It's true that's what they say. But Peterson and his friends were all for privatization, which would have the same economic effect on protecting living standards of the elderly at the expense of greater economic activity. So I'm just not convinced that old Pete is being entirely above board. But none of that changes the fact that this all based upon magical thinking. Peterson may be worried about his grand kids (insufferable privileged jerks that they are) but I suspect he's mostly worried about the fortune he's bequeathing them.
And keep in mind that these people who are so convinced that these projections have been sent down from Mt Sinai are many of the same people who deny that climate change exists and are perfectly content to wait to see if the catastrophic droughts, famines and massive refugee crises actually develop.
As for economic projections, it's difficult to even get the current ones right:
The estimated deficit is $38 billion below what CBO projected in its August Budget and Economic Outlook because revenues were higher and outlays were lower than expected near the end of the fiscal year.
Building up projected long term deficit as the greatest threat to America's future, especially in the middle of an economic slump, is truly malicious. At a time when smart people should be putting everything they have into figuring out how to create growth and restore a sense of security among the American people, our leaders are tilting at phantom windmills of the distant future. They are basically doing exactly the wrong thing. Well played, Mr Peterson.
*Sorry for the long copy and paste of Yglesias' post. Please click over to Slate to read the rest.


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Amarantus BioSciences Acquires Option to License LymPro Alzheimer's Diagnostic Blood Test
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Amarantus BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: AMBS), a biotechnology company developing new treatments and diagnostics for Parkinson's disease and Traumatic Brain Injury centred on its proprietary anti-apoptotis therapeutic protein MANF, today announced that it has acquired an exclusive option to license the LymPro Alzheimer's Diagnostic Blood Test from Memory Dx, LLC (MDx), formerly known as Provista Life Sciences, LLC. Under the terms of the agreement, Amarantus agreed to pay 500,000 restricted shares of its common stock to MDx for exclusive negotiating rights through December 31st, 2012 to the LymPro blood test.
"Coming off our recent success in securing the license for the NuroPro Parkinson's Diagnostic Blood Test, the LymPro Alzheimer's Diagnostic Blood Test option agreement will give Amarantus additional leverage over the next few months in negotiations as we look to partner our diagnostic assets," said Gerald E. Commissiong, President & CEO of Amarantus. "The market opportunity for a minimally-invasive Alzheimer's blood test capable of detecting the disease early on is tremendous given recent Phase III clinical data produced by Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly all suggesting that patients with mild cases of Alzheimer's disease are the best sub-population of clinical candidates for beta-amyloid targeting disease-modifying treatments, a potential blockbuster target for each of these companies. We expect that NuroPro and LymPro will create a compelling investment package for potential partners."
The LymPro Alzheimer's diagnostic blood test works by identifying immune-based biomarkers in the blood of Alzheimer's patients. It allows physicians to differentiate Alzheimer's disease from other forms of dementia based upon these biomarkers; potentially making it an invaluable tool in patient recruitment for Alzheimer's disease therapeutic clinical trials where there has been a well-documented history of patient recruitment miscues.
LymPro originates with the University of Leipzig in Germany and has been funded primarily through private investors and research grants from the National Institutes of Health ("NIH"). LymPro has completed two human clinical studies to date, and is set to move immediately into the Phase 2 validation study required to begin generating revenue as a laboratory developed test ("LDT") at an already-selected Certified Laboratory Improvement Amendments ("CLIA") certified laboratory. Thereafter, we anticipate LymPro will begin its regulatory process with the Food and Drug Administration towards approval.
About Amarantus BioSciences, Inc.
Amarantus BioSciences, Inc. is a development-stage biotechnology company founded in January 2008. The Company has a focus on developing certain biologics surrounding the intellectual property and proprietary technologies it owns to treat and/or diagnose Parkinson's disease, Traumatic Brain Injury and other human diseases. The Company owns the intellectual property rights to a therapeutic protein known as Mesencephalic-Astrocyte-derived Neurotrophic Factor ("MANF") and is developing MANF-based products as treatments for brain disorders. The Company also is a Founding Member of the Coalition for Concussion Treatment (#C4CT), a movement initiated in collaboration with Brewer Sports International seeking to raise awareness of new treatments in development for concussions and nervous-system disorders. For further information please visit www.Amarantus.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the possible benefits of MANF therapeutic applications and/or advantages presented by Amarantus' PhenoGuard technology, as well as statements about expectations, plans and prospects of the development of Amarantus' new product candidates. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including the risks that the anticipated benefits of the therapeutic drug candidates or discovery platforms, as well as the risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to the development of Amarantus' new product candidates, including those identified under "Risk Factors" in Amarantus' most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and in other filings Amarantus periodically makes with the SEC. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements Amarantus does not undertake to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect a change in its views or events or circumstances that occur after the date of this presentation.
Amarantus BioSciences, Inc.
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The World Bank's IDA Resource Allocation Index (IRAI) is based on the results of the annual CPIA exercise that covers the IDA eligible countries.
The CPIA rates countries against a set of 16 criteria grouped in four clusters: (a) economic management; (b) structural policies; (c) policies for social inclusion and equity; and (d) public sector management and institutions. The criteria (pdf) are focused on balancing the capture of the key factors that foster growth and poverty reduction, with the need to avoid undue burden on the assessment process. To fully underscore the importance of the CPIA in the IDA Performance Based Allocations, the overall country score is referred to as the IRAI.
The 2018 results
The IRAI and its sixteen component scores are presented below:
Summary Table (PDF | XLS)
For comparison purposes, detailed country scores along with the IDA averages are provided in country sheets for each IDA eligible country:
For more details on how these ratings are prepared, please see Frequently Asked Questions (pdf).
These scores are a product of the staff of the World Bank and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board of Executive Directors or the governments they represent.