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The Sun JavaTM System Access Manager Policy Agent 2.2 software set includes J2EE agents and web agents. This guide discusses web agents, the functionality of which has increased for this release. This chapter provides a brief overview of web agents in the 2.2 release as well as some concepts you need to understand before proceeding with a web agent deployment. For a general introduction of agents, both J2EE agents and web agents, see Sun Java System Access Manager Policy Agent 2.2 User's Guide.
Topics in this chapter include:
Web agents function with Sun Java System Access Manager to protect content on web servers and web proxy servers from unauthorized intrusions. They control access to services and web resources based on the policies configured by an administrator. Web agents perform these tasks while providing single sign-on (SSO) and cross domain single sign-on (CDSSO) capabilities as well as URL protection.
Web agents are installed on deployment containers for a variety of reasons. Here are three examples:
A web agent on a human resources server prevents non-human resources personnel from viewing confidential salary information and other sensitive data.
A web agent on an operations deployment container allows only network administrators to view network status reports or to modify network administration records.
A web agent on an engineering deployment container allows authorized personnel from many internal segments of a company to publish and share research and development information. At the same time, the web agent restricts external partners from gaining access to the proprietary information.
In each of these situations, a system administrator must set up policies that allow or deny users access to content on a deployment container. For information on setting policies and for assigning roles and policies to users, see the Sun Java System Access Manager 7 2005Q4 Administration Guide.
When a user points a browser to a particular URL on a protected deployment container, a variety of interactions take place as explained in the following numbered list. See the terminology list immediately following this numbered list for a description of terms.
The web agent intercepts the request and checks information from the request against not-enforced lists. If specific criteria are met, the authentication process is by passed and access is granted to the resource.
If authentication is required, the web agent validates the existing authentication credentials. If the existing authentication level is insufficient, the appropriate Access Manager Authentication Service will present a login page. The login page prompts the user for credentials such as username and password.
The authentication service verifies that the user credentials are valid. For example, the default LDAP authentication service verifies that the username and password are stored in Sun Java System Directory Server. You might use other authentication modules such as RADIUS and Certificate modules. In such cases, credentials are not verified by Directory Server but are verified by the appropriate authentication module.
If the user's credentials are properly authenticated, the web agent checks if the users is authorized to access the resource.
Based on the aggregate of all policies assigned to the user, the individual is either allowed or denied access to the URL.
Terminology: How Web Agents Work
The ability to access resources can be divided into levels. Therefore, different resources on a deployment container (such as a web server or proxy server) might require different levels of authentication
Access Manager is made of many components. A service is a certain type of component that performs specific tasks. Some of the Access Manager services available are Authentication Service, Naming Service, Session Service, Logging Service, and Policy Service.
An authentication interface, also referred to as an authentication module, is used to authenticate a user on Access Manager.
Roles are a Directory Server entry mechanism. A role's members are LDAP entries that possess the role.
A policy defines rules that specify access privileges to protected resources on a deployment container, such as a web server.
Several important features have been added to the web agents in the 2.2 release as follows:
Additional Method for Fetching the REMOTE_USER Server Variable
Before this release of web agents, header and cookie information was retrieved, or sourced, solely from user profile properties. Now, header and cookie information can also be sourced from session properties.
Use the following property to choose how you want session attributes retrieved:
For the preceding property, the following modes are available as retrieval methods:
The following example illustrates this property with the retrieval method set to HTTP_HEADER:
com.sun.am.policy.agents.config.session.attribute.fetch.mode = HTTP_HEADER
The source of header and cookie information is controlled by the following configuration property from the web agent AMAgent.properties configuration file:
This configuration property has the same format as an LDAP header property. The following is an example of how this configuration property can be set:
com.sun.am.policy.agents.config.session.attribute.map = name-of-session-attribute1|name-of-header-attribute1, name-of-session-attribute2|name-of-header-attribute2
Where name-of-session-attribute1 and other similarly named properties, or attributes, in the preceding code represent actual property names.
Benefit - Support for Fetching User Session Attributes: The benefit of this feature is that session properties can be more effective for transferring information, especially dynamic information. Prior to this release, agents could only fetch users' profile attributes, which tend to be static attributes. However, session attributes allow applications to obtain dynamic user information when necessary. Since this feature allows you to fetch non-user profile attributes, you can fetch attributes such as SAML assertion.
Starting with this release of web agents, when the current log file reaches a specific size, a new log file is created. Log information is then stored in the new log file until it reaches the size limit. This default behavior is configurable. Therefore, log rotation can be turned off and the size limit can be changed.
The type of information stored in log files has not changed in Policy Agent 2.2. The following types of information are logged:
Troubleshooting information
Access denied information
Access allowed information
The troubleshooting, or diagnostic, information is stored in log files, locally, with the web agent. The access denied and access allowed information, which is often referred to as audit-related information, can be stored both locally and with Access Manager.
Configuration that relates to the local log files is performed in the web agent AMAgent.properties configuration file. Configuration that relates to the audit related logs stored with Access Manager is performed in the Access Manager AMConfig.properties configuration file.
The log rotation described in this section refers to logs that store troubleshooting information locally.
Log rotation is controlled by the following configuration property in the web agent AMAgent.properties configuration file:
Log rotation occurs automatically since the default value of this property is true. When this property is set to false, no rotation takes place for the local log file.
The following example shows this configuration property set to true:
com.sun.am.policy.agents.config.local.log.rotate = true
The following properties are also related to log rotation:
The value for following configuration property indicates the location of the debug file:
The value of following configuration property indicates the maximum number of bytes the debug file holds:
The following code example demonstrates how to set the property that controls log file size so that a new log file is created when the current log file reaches a specific size.
com.sun.am.policy.agents.config.local.log.size: n
Where n represents the size of a file in bytes. The file size should be a minimum of 3000 bytes. The default size is 10 megabytes.
By default, the log file size property is not exposed in the web agent AMAgent.properties configuration file. If you want to change the default size, add a line to the file setting this property to the file size desired.
When a new log file is created an index appends to the name of the log file as such:
amAgent-1 amAgent-2
Where amAgent represents the fully qualified path name to the log files excluding the appended number. The numbers 1 and 2 represent the appended number. The appended number indicates the chronological order in which information of a given size was filed away into its respective log file. There is no limit to the number of log files that can be rotated.
Benefit - Log Rotation: Prior to this release of web agents, all logging messages were written to the same log file. However, saving all log information to a single log file has the potential of exhausting disk space. The log rotation feature solves this problem.
Starting with this release of web agents, a new method is available for retrieving LDAP user attributes based on Access Manager policy configurations.
Policy-based response attributes take advantage of functionality now available in Access Manager that involves querying policy decisions. In previous versions of Access Manager, header attributes could only be determined by the list of attribute-value pairs in the agent configuration. Now, header attributes can also be determined by Access Manager policy configurations. With policy-based response attributes you can define attribute-value pairs at each policy definition as opposed to the method used in prior versions of Access Manager, which only allowed pairs to be defined globally in the agent configuration. For more information on policy-based response attributes, see Providing Personalization With Policy-Based Response Attributes
Benefit - Policy-Based Response Attributes: The benefit of policy-based response attributes is that they allow for personalization, improve the deployment process, allow greater flexibility in terms of customization, and provide central and hierarchical control of attribute values.
Personalization is provided in that an application can retrieve specific user information, such as a name, from a cookie or HTTP header and present it to the user in the browser.
Defining attribute-value pairs at each policy definition instead of at the root level allows an attribute value to be distributed only to the applications that need it. Furthermore, you can customize attribute names allowing the same attribute name to have entirely different property values for two different applications.
Starting with this release, web agents provide a composite advice feature. This feature allows the policy and authentication services of Access Manager to decouple the advice handling mechanism of the agents. This allows you to introduce and manage custom advices by solely writing Access Manager side plug-ins. Starting with this release, you are not required to make changes on the agent side. Such advices are honored automatically by the composite advice handling mechanism.
Benefit - Composite Advice: A benefit of composite advice is that you can incorporate a custom advice type without having to make changes to an agent deployment. Prior to the 2.2 release of web agents, no interface existed on the client side to write client-side plug-ins.
Prior to this release of web agents, the only method for fetching the value of the REMOTE_USER variable set by an agent was from session properties. Starting with the 2.2 release, the value can also be fetched from user profiles. This fetching process uses LDAP.
By default the value for the REMOTE_USER is fetched from the session. If the value needs to be fetched from LDAP, the following property needs to be defined in the web agent AMAgent.properties configuration file:
com.sun.am.policy.am.userid.param.type = LDAP
The following property can still be used to configure the key (key refers to the value assigned to this property) that needs to be searched. In addition to setting the preceding property, you need to give the correct LDAP attribute name for the following property.
For example the property will be set as follows:
com.sun.am.policy.am.userid.param = ldap-attribute-name
where ldap-attribute-name represents the name of an LDAP attribute.
To enable the REMOTE_USER setting for a globally not-enforced URL as specified in the web agent AMAgent.properties configuration file (this is a URL that can be accessed by unauthenticated users) you must set the following property in the web agent AMAgent.properties configuration file to true. While the following example, has the value is set to true, the default value is false:
com.sun.am.policy.agents.config.anonymous_user.enable = true
When you set this property value to true, the value of REMOTE_USER will be set to the value contained in the following property in the web agent AMAgent.properties configuration file. In the following example the value is set to anonymous, which is the default:
com.sun.am.policy.agents.config.anonymous_user = anonymous
Benefit - Additional Method for Fetching the REMOTE_USER Server Variable: The benefit of this feature is that it gives better customization for end users since the REMOTE_USER server variable can now be obtained from either session attributes or user profile attributes.
Also, you do not need to write server-side plug-in code in order to add session attributes after authentication, which is necessary when this value is fetched from session properties.
Starting with this release of web agents, malicious header attributes are automatically cleared.
Benefit - Header Attributes Set by Agents Automatically Cleared: The benefit of this automatic clean up is that security is improved. Header information that is not automatically cleared has greater risk of being accessed.
Starting with this release of web agents, the default agent host port and protocol settings can be overridden to enable load balancing. For more information, see Enabling Load Balancing.
Benefit - Load Balancing Enablement: The benefit of this override capability is that you do not need to manually change the hostname, port, and protocol settings to enable load balancing.
Starting with this release of web agents, you can install different types of agents on the same machine. Prior to this release, you could not install web agents from different product groups on the same machine. For example, previously, an agent instance for Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 and an agent instance for Apache 2.0.52 could not be installed on the same machine. Now, they can.
Benefit - Support for Heterogeneous Agent Types on Same Machine: The benefit of this feature is that a deployment that has agents in a multi-server scenario requires fewer hardware sources.
Starting with this release, fully qualified domain name (FQDN) mapping of HTTP requests can be disabled. In prior web agent releases, the methods employed for checking if a user is using a valid URL could not be turned off.
This checking capability is controlled by the FQDN default and the FQDN map properties in the web agent AMAgent.properties configuration file as follows:
A toggling capability has been introduced that allows FQDN checking to be turned off. The following property allows for this toggling:
The following property specifies whether the request URLs that are present in user requests are checked against the FQDN default and the FQDN map properties by the web agent:
The valid values are true and false.
The request URLs that are present in user requests are checked against FQDN values.
No checking occurs against FQDN values.
The default value is true. If no value is specified, then the default value, true, is used.
Benefit - Support for Turning Off FQDN Mapping: This feature allows you to turn off or on FQDN mapping comparison. This feature can be beneficial when a deployment includes a number of virtual servers for which the agent is configured using FQDN mapping.
Policy Agent 2.2 is backward compatible with Access Manager 6.3 Patch 1 or greater.
Policy Agent 2.2 is only compatible with Access Manager 6.3 when the Access Manager patch has been applied.
Be aware that Policy Agent 2.2 takes advantage of certain features that exist in Access Manager 7 that do not exist in Access Manager 6.3, such as "composite advices," "policy-based response attributes," and others.


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Priest attacked at Phoenix church will recover
PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix priest who was badly beaten in an attack that killed another clergyman at a Roman Catholic church in downtown Phoenix is expected to make a full recovery, church officials said Sunday.
The Rev. Joseph Terra was moved out of a hospital intensive care unit Saturday night but will need time to recuperate after the Wednesday night attack, said the Rev. Carl Gismondi, a pastor visiting from San Diego.
Gismondi, who led the Sunday morning Mass, said he visited Terra, 56, at the hospital.
"He was in good spirits," Gismondi said after the service. Authorities were initially worried Terra wouldn't survive his injuries.
More than 100 parishioners at Mother of Mercy Mission gathered to mourn the Rev. Kenneth Walker, 28, who was shot to death by a suspect police are still pursuing.
Police are searching for a white male between the ages of 40 and 49 years old. Investigators have been analyzing forensic evidence from the crime scene and Walker's car. But with few leads, they have gone door to door looking for witnesses.
Gismondi asked parishioners to pray for Terra's recovery, for Walker and even the unknown suspect. Though people want to "see him brought to justice," Gismondi said being Catholic means to "pray for those who cause us harm."
Marisa Martinez, who was visiting with her mother from Houston, Texas, said they stopped by to pay their respects.
"It was definitely very real when you come here and see the flowers and the policeman out in front," Martinez said. "To hear of anyone being murdered, especially a priest, it is very tragic."
Elizabeth Papandrea, a regular parishioner, came to Mass like always with her husband and six kids. She said her two sons adored Walker, and not seeing him at church was difficult.
"This isn't the way it's supposed to be," she said. "It's very hard not seeing Father Walker, especially on Father's Day."
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There's a certain bite in the air as we bid farewell to warm weather and sunny skies. A cold front has hit parts of the Highveld and winter is definitely coming. The South African Weather Services has warned that we can expect more-than-average rainfall during the autumn months. So not only are certain parts of the country experiencing a drop in temperature, but there will be a little rain sprinkled in the air. Here are some life hacks that might just help you find comfort and warmth:
1. If you want to get comfy before going to bed
Nothing beats a warm bed during colder conditions but if you do not have an electric blanket, how on earth can you achieve that? Well a cheap and effective way to get your bed warm is to use a hair dryer on heat mode and fan your sheets before getting into bed.
2. When you want to prevent a foggy windscreen?
Put a blanket on your windscreen and it will prevent your windows from getting icy and foggy on winter mornings.
3. How about make-shift thermal underwear?
Thermal underwear can be quite expensive so why not opt for a cheaper version by getting cotton leggings or stockings to wear under your pants or jeans when it's cold.
4. If you want your wet shoes or boots to dry quicker
If your shoes or boots get wet from walking in the rain, stuff newspaper in them when you take them off to absorb the water more quickly. Place your shoes in front of a heater or fireplace for them to dry even quicker.
5. When you want a little heat in the kitchen
Open your oven slightly after cooking or baking and let the heat escape to the rest of the kitchen and maybe it'll even reach another area of the house.


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Congratulations, Worcester Regional Airport and JetBlue, for selling 50,000 airplane tickets in five months.
JetBlue's two daily non-stop flights to Florida on 100-seat planes from Worcester have been flying at around 80 percent capacity, and passengers seem pleased with the service despite slightly higher prices and many fewer flights compared to Logan Airport in Boston and T.F. Green in Providence. (Worcester does have much lower parking prices).
So often in this region, we focus our magnifying glasses on our failures and perceived shortcomings. When something really good happens, we take it for granted.
"Chronicle," the long-running, magazine-style television show on WCVB Channel 5, recently featured Worcester, and led with the good news at the airport. The half-hour segment was chock-full of good news about Worcester.
When the Boston media turns its lenses to this region, it is usually to mock us for our empty airport good for only Tom Cruise movie sets, or to rubberneck at some shocking crime or a five-alarm fire. We've come to accept this negative attention as the norm. When the news is positive, we downplay it, secretly wondering what open manhole cover awaits around the next corner.
Hitting the 50,000-passenger figure in five months proves, once again, that demand for air travel in Worcester exists. What commercial airlines have struggled with is: How big is that demand? Is it a good gamble?
When Direct Air was still in business, Worcester was one of its busiest destinations. Despite terrible service and a record of unreliability that ended in a sudden shutdown in Feb. 2012, there was little doubt about the local demand for the service. It was strong. It was real. People showed up and paid their money despite the fact that Direct Air did terrible things, including taking customers' money for future flights when ownership knew bankruptcy was in the works.
JetBlue has been a breath of fresh air, a professional airline with stable routes and a reputation for reliability. They do have this odd habit of canceling flights at Logan, Worcester and T.F. Green when it rains; and of course they had a spate of days this winter when they could not get in or out of Worcester because it was fogged over. But that's the weather, what can you do? Massport is working out solutions to the fog problem, with a short-term fix and an expensive, long-term upgrade of its landing system.
But all is not rosy in the airline business nationally, and one trend in particular is not promising.
A report from the Government Accountability Office, released this week, said flights to regional U.S. airports have declined nearly 24 percent since 2007. The number of seats on flights to regional airports has declined 18 percent. While flights were also down 9 percent and total seats down 7 percent at major airports, it has less of an impact because so many more flights go through the major airports.
"Medium-hub and small-hub airports have proportionally lost more service than large-hub or non-hub airports," the report said.
Why are small and regional airports losing flights?
The GAO report said, "Air service to small communities has declined since 2007 due, in part, to higher fuel costs and declining population, and for some communities, compounded by more attractive service (i.e., larger airports in larger cities) within driving distance."
Andy Davis, Worcester Regional Airport's executive director, said Worcester is bucking that national trend. (A Massport spokesman also told me Logan Airport has had three record passenger totals in a row through 2013).
"When Direct Air was here, we had increases year-over-year for every year they flew out of here," Mr. Davis said. "JetBlue has been very pleased with the response to its service. The demand has been strong, it demonstrates the region is supporting it."
The passenger numbers at Worcester Regional Airport since 2007, although erratic, bear this out.
In 2007, Worcester Regional Airport served only 891 passengers. In 2008, total passengers shot up to 5,642, when Direct Air launched service in Nov. 2008.
Passengers using the airport shot up to 51,062 in 2009, continued an upward trend to 72,572 in 2010, peaked to 104,286 passengers in 2011 and dropped to 26,865 in 2012, when Direct Air suddenly folded.
JetBlue flew 14,980 passengers in 2013 and another 37,522 so far this year, according to Massport.
The GAO report explained that the decline in flights and seats to regional airport is due, in part, to airlines merging, leaving fewer carriers to service regional and small airports.
But the biggest factor is the price of jet fuel, which has "more than quadrupled from 2002 through 2012 in nominal terms, and endured a temporary spike where the price doubled over the 2007-2008 period," the report said. "As a result of increased fuel prices, fuel costs have grown to become airlines' single largest expense, at nearly 30 percent of airline operating costs in 2012. According to a study by MIT, regional aircraft — those mostly used to provide air service to small communities with between 19 and 100 seats — are 40 percent to 60 percent less fuel efficient than the aircraft used by their larger, mainline counterparts — those with more than 100 seats."
JetBlue flies 100-seat planes out of Worcester Regional Airport, which are at the edge of the range the GAO report mentions as inefficient. JetBlue also has 150-seat planes in its fleet; the company could decide to start flying the larger planes out of Worcester Regional Airport.
One other item of note in the GAO report: The federally funded Essential Air Service program "received about $232 million in 2013, provided subsidies to airlines that served 117 eligible non-Alaskan communities." The federal government subsidizes airlines that fly to rural and remote airports. In New England, the only airports receiving EAS subsidies are in Maine (Bar Harbor, Presque Isle, Augusta/Waterville and Rockland) and Vermont (Rutland). Several upstate New York airports, like Plattsburgh and Watertown, received subsidies as well.
I mention this not because I am advocating that Worcester Regional Airport receive EAS subsidies. I mention this because this year, JetBlue has received an $800,000 subsidy for its Worcester service, a combination of federal, state and city funds. JetBlue is using the money to promote the new service.
I think it is unlikely that JetBlue will receive a similar subsidy in 2015. How will it fare when it has to fly without the government money?
Time will tell.
Aaron Nicodemus can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @anic89.


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Malli wrote:The dog doesn't have mange, he has a FUNGAL infection on his skin.
I'm trying not to be harsh, but think of it this way : If anyone here would like to treat their own yeast infection with something that may or may not work and have to wait to see if it works, then please, let me know.
I'm all for trying alternative preventative treatments, but with the severity of the infection the dog has, now is NOT the time to start. It isn't fair to the dog at all.
Malli wrote:I don't know that, but if he does have mange, he is that much less likely to be able to fight off secondary infections(suppressed immune response), so the medication he is on now will be that much more helpful.
call2arms wrote:Dr Blaaabs! Where are you??
I have no real advice to add though, but an allergy test would be a great investment... Hang on, and good luck.
lellis34 wrote: Kings puppy, Magnus, inherited his allergies and unfortunately didn't get proper treatment in time. His skin issues became so bad that the friday before his allergist appointment his sores on his neck opened up and they couldn't control the bleeding and was put down.
iluvk9 wrote:lellis34 wrote: Kings puppy, Magnus, inherited his allergies and unfortunately didn't get proper treatment in time. His skin issues became so bad that the friday before his allergist appointment his sores on his neck opened up and they couldn't control the bleeding and was put down.
Oh, how sad!
lellis34 wrote:iluvk9 wrote:
Oh, how sad!
It really was, and is yet another reason why I tell people to avoid the Petsmart/Banfield vets like the plague. They kept telling his mom that to see their allergist was going to be like $1500 and she couldn't afford that so she kept putting it off and going to them and getting bandaid fixes for him. I saw him early in the week that he was put down and called my allergist for an emergency appt. They didn't have anything but put him at the top of the list and called me back to say they had cancellation and could see him on the following Monday. In the meantime his neck flared up so bad it looked like hamburger. It started bleeding so bad on Thursday night that he was going through wads of gauze every hour. On Friday morning she took him to Banfield and they said he was loosing too much blood and they couldn't stop it. It just makes me so angry because they had to know there was an allergist not 5 miles from them. Granted, not THEIR allergist, but when an animal is suffering and is constantly in there you owe it to the animal to see that they get treatment somehow - make recommendations to other facilities. SOMETHING!! But all they saw was their profit margin as part of a big box pet store. *uckers!
lellis34 wrote:OMG I can't believe it!! That's outrageous. And I live in one of the most expensive areas of the country. HOLY MOLY. Maybe because we have a couple in our area (meaning the state of Maryland) they have to be competitive with each other.
call2arms wrote:Whoaaa... Not an allergist, but the typical subdermal injections for allergy testing is 300$ + consult fees, at the referral center I'm doing my externship at.
1500$?? That's crazy, what exactly do they do for that price?
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We rank the places with the some of the worst educational options for families. When it comes to graduation rates, test scores, per-pupil spending and more—these are the worst cities around the U.S.!
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One of the toughest decisions to make when choosing a place to live is determining which school will best suit your children. While parents rank factors like class size and special programs differently, in the end we all want our kids to get the skills they need for a successful future. Unfortunately, the recession has led to major cuts in education spending, including a reduction in the amount allocated to training teachers. A 2011 report from the Secretary of Education outlined troubling trends in our children's achievement, predicting that if we don't improve our education system "the next generation will not be ready to be world-class inventors, doctors, and engineers." When we looked at specific measures such as graduation rates, math and reading scores, per-student spending and class sizes, we came up with the following list of poor performers.
1. Las Vegas, Nevada
When tough economic times hit a city, the school districts feel the pain. Thanks to Las Vegas' declining tax revenue and state aid, the school district was recently downgraded by both Standard & Poor's and Moody's, thereby thwarting plans for $5.3 billion in school maintenance needed over the next decade. Meanwhile, the school district was at the bottom of our list for pupil/teacher ratio and was in the bottom third for per-pupil spending.
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2. Jackson, Mississippi
With a higher than average pupil/teacher ratio, and paltry spending per student, Jackson also has the distinction of a location in the state of Mississippi, which scores low for proficiency in math and reading as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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3. Mobile, Alabama
One of two Alabama cities on this list thanks to the state's overall low proficiency in math as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Mobile also has the sorry distinction of low per-pupil spending and big class sizes.
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4. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
A below-average graduation rate and low spending per pupil pushed Oklahoma City into fourth place on this list. Not helping matters is the state's spot in the bottom third for math and reading proficiency as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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5. Phoenix, Arizona
Two Arizona cities made this list; the state admittedly has fallen behind the rest of the country when it comes to science, prompting Arizona companies to express concern about a lack of potential qualified workers in the state's pipeline. Phoenix scored in the bottom third for both its high pupil/teacher ratios and low accredited day care centers per capita.
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6. Billings, Montana
With the lowest ranking on our list when it comes to pupil-teacher ratios and a poor spending per student, Billings has the unfortunate combination of small city budget with big city class sizes. Not helping matters is the utter lack of National Association for the Education of Young People accredited day care centers and the comparatively high expense of day care as a percentage of income.
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7. Tucson, Arizona
This is the second Arizona city to make an appearance on this list due to the state's overall low score, due to higher child/staff daycare ratio and high percentage of income for the cost of full-time care. Tucson is also near the bottom of the list when it comes to per-pupil expenditures and unfavorable pupil/teacher ratios.
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8. Fresno, California
Coming in at the bottom for both spending and class sizes, Fresno also ranked low for proficiency in math and reading for eight-graders, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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9. San Antonio, Texas
Near the bottom of the rankings for spending per pupil, San Antonio also scored in the bottom third for its graduation rate, a problem that state officials are taking note of. According to the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, population projections in the state point to a less educated work force if things continue on this path. And a less educated workforce means it will be harder for Texas to keep businesses in the state.
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10. Birmingham, Alabama
Along with Mobile, Birmingham secured a spot on our list due to its state's dismal ranking on our list when it comes to proficiency in math as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.


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TomTom and AutoNavi first to market with premium real-time traffic in rapidly growing Chinese market
AMSTERDAM and BEIJING, 15 February, 2012 – TomTom, the world's leading provider of location and navigation solutions, and AutoNavi Holdings Limited ("AutoNavi"), a leading provider of digital map content and navigation and location-based solutions in China, today announced that together they will introduce HD Traffic, a premium real-time traffic solution, to drivers across China.
Through the joint-venture TomTom and AutoNavi will enable their customers in automotive, wireless and enterprise markets to deliver solutions based on the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date traffic information.
"This agreement is an important step in enabling drivers to save time and money when finding their way to destinations on the increasingly congested Chinese roads," said Ralf-Peter Schäfer, Head of TomTom Traffic Product Unit. "In addition to the cost savings, TomTom HD Traffic can help reduce CO2 emissions and improve driving experiences."
"Partnering with TomTom to deliver HD Traffic demonstrates our ongoing commitment to providing the highest quality products in the industry and reflects our position as a valued partner," AutoNavi's Chief Executive Officer Mr. Congwu Cheng commented. "The combination of TomTom HD Traffic's superior technology along with AutoNavi's data acquisition capability through our tens of millions of mobile device users, and our hundreds of thousands of fleet probes, will enable us to deliver cutting-edge traffic services to our customers and end-users. Our dynamic, real-time and integrated navigation and location-based products and services continue to improve China's navigation landscape while providing an unmatched driving experience to our rapidly expanding user base across multiple devices and mediums in China."
TomTom's award winning HD Traffic is derived by combining information used anonymously from multiple GPS probe data sources. This produces precise delay times and indicates the exact location of congestion on the road network. HD Traffic will use industry standards TMC and OpenLR, TomTom's open source dynamic location referencing technology which brings unique coverage on highways and all major roads including city roads. HD Traffic will be rolled-out as a nationwide service, covering up to 30 important Chinese cities by the end of 2013.


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NARAHA, Japan (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will take a firsthand look at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, aiming to quell public unease over radiation-contaminated water that is leaking from the complex into the Pacific.
Officials say that during a three-hour plant tour Thursday, Abe will look at some tanks containing radioactive water, water treatment equipment and other plant sites, and talk with workers.
Abe's adamant reassurance to the International Olympic Committee earlier this month that the leaks are "under control" backfired at home, as many Japanese believe he was glossing over problems at the plant.
Japanese officials have acknowledged that the ground water contaminated with radioactive leaks have been seeping into the Pacific since soon after meltdowns and explosions following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.


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Successful iPhone game development company developing a social game (look at farmville on Facebook) for the iPhone.
The concept is a game that allows the player to run a virtual night club. For the game play and style think Farmville meets The Sims. The avatars should be more realistic (like The Sims). However, the game avatars and environment are 2D like Farmville. If you have not played Farmville, you'll need to play it for a few minutes to understand this project. You can see it at http://www.Farmville.com.
All interaction will be through the iPhone, but it will post to Facebook and other iPhones. ***The winner of this contest will be offered a very large contract job to design the art for this major game backed by a major consumer beverage brand.***
Young adults 18 - 30. Very style concious. Facebook users. College students. Players of The Sims. Players of Farmville.
Show us how the game should look in a few images. Show us what you think the avatars should look like. Some clothing styles, hair styles, etc.
Avatars will need lots of customization options: hair styles, hair color, tattoos, pants, shirts, jewelry, designer jeans designs, designers shirts, tattoos, type of car that drops them off and picks them up, different styles of drinks, different dance moves, etc.
This is Farmville: http://www.farmville.com/
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Jennifer Hudson: Michelle Obama's 50th Birthday Party Attendee!
Jennifer Hudson is an orange slice of heaven while arriving at DCA on Saturday (January 18) in Arlington, Virg.
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I am offering Y-DNA testing scholarships for men named Driscoll or Collins with paternal ancestry from Cork. The eligibile tester must know *unequivocally* the townland of origin. West Cork men named Cadogan are also of interest.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Patrick Collins and Catherine Collins of Bawnnahow South
Patrick and Catherine both came from Collins families outside Drimoleague, one of the *many* Collins families I am investigating in the area.
I think Catherine was the daughter of Michael Collins and Mary Donovan of Lower Lissane. The 1911 census says she was 78, which would fit with an 1833 birth year. (Her age seems way off in the 1901 census.)
In a prior post I "assigned" a Catherine Collins, born 1820 in Lissane, to a Donovan family in Lissalohorig. Now I am assigning another Catherine Collins, born 1833, to this Bawnnahow family. Their fertility windows are being taken into account, with an assumption that women stopped having babies somewhere between 45 and 50. Beyond 50 is starting to push the limit.
There was a 13 year span for the births of the Lissalohirig children: 1852 - 1865.
There was a 15 year span for the Bawnnahow family: 1860 - 1875. It is considerably more difficult fitting 1820 Catherine in this scenario, having nine children between the ages of 40 and 55. 1833 Catherine is a much better candidate.
Patrick's original family is a bit harder to pin down, but since this family lived in Bawnnahow South that's where I have started to look. The godparents of Pat's and Catherine's second child Mary (1861), were Simon Collins and Johanna Driscoll. Simon and Johanna had a son Patrick baptized in 1834. Patrick's and Catherine's first child, Johanna (1860), could have been named after Johanna Driscoll. But they didn't have a known son named Simon. So maybe Simon Collins and Johanna Driscoll were a related family.
There was another family, Patrick Collins and Mary Cadogan, who also had a son Patrick in 1834. Since Patrick's and Catherine's first son was Patrick, this appears to be a better fit. But if Patrick and Catherine both had mothers named Mary, it doesn't explain how their first child was named Johanna. If these are the correct families for Patrick and Catherine, there must have been another reason for how Johanna came to be named.
The Bawnnahow children were: Johanna (1860), Mary (1861), Catherine (1862), Patrick (1867), James (1868), Honora (1871), John (1873), Patrick again (1874), and Humphrey (1875). I will have to verify the two Patricks when I have a chance to look at the civil registration records.
The witnesses to the church events of the Bawnnahow family were: Michael Collins (her father?) and Catherine Collins; William Harnedy and Ellen Neill; Simon Collins and Johanna Driscoll; James Collins and Mary Collins; Pat Donovan and Honora Collins; James Collins and Ellen Hurley; Patrick Donovan and Johanna Mahony; John Sullivan and Hannah Collins; William Harnedy and Eliza Hourihan; and Daniel Harnedy and Honora Sullivan. (Notice there are no Cadogan witnesses.)
A sticking point is the presence of son Humphrey in 1875 (who, incidentally, is grossly mistranscribed as "Helen" in the online church records). If I have found the correct Catherine as the mother, she had an older brother (a rather mysterious character) and probably an uncle named Humphrey (deceased by the the time his grand-nephew was born), and so her son could have been their namesake. Why didn't Patrick and Catherine use the name Michael, after her father, prior to using the name Humphrey ? Maybe they thought there were too many Michaels running around - but Humphrey would stand out.
Humphrey became a priest and taught at Niagara University in the United States. He died during the flu epidemic in 1919.
Son James married one Mary McCarthy before 1901. The family is in both Ireland censuses. Son Humphrey (1910) became a local Drimoleague creamery manager, married Ellen McCarthy, and died in 1975.
The Family Search ID of Catherine Collins is KCDY-BC8. She and her original Lissane family are in Family Search Family Tree. No family data for Patrick Collins has been entered yet as his family is still being researched.
Posted by sb10 at 3:09 PM 2 comments
Labels: Bawnnahow South, Collins, Lissane Lower
Friday, July 17, 2015
Catherine Collins Donovan of Lissalohorig
Catherine was probably the daughter of (and first child of) Humphrey Collins (1785 - 1873) and Johanna Barnane (BD dates unknown), baptized 02-Dec-1820. On Catherine's baptism record, I think the father's and godfather's names were transposed.
Another possible wedding witness named Humphrey could have been Catherine's cousin or close relative, Humphrey Collins bap. 01-Aug-1831. Honora could have been Catherine's sister, Honora (Norry), bap. 17-Dec-1829.
The known children of Denis and Catherine were all baptized in Skibbereen R.C. parish. They were:
Julia, bap. 20-Dec-1851. Godparents Daniel Donovan and Honora Collins.
Mary, bap. 05-Dec-1852. Godparents John Donovan and Johanna Collins. Johanna could have been Catherine's younger sister, bap. 07-Dec-1835.
Johanna, bap. 27-Nov-1853. Godparents Daniel Regan, Johanna Cadigan.
Honora, bap. 11-Oct-1855. Godparents Mick Collins, Catherine Collins.
Cornelius, bap. 11-Nov-1859. godparents Dan Donovan, Catherine Bohane.
Ellen, bap. 23-Apr-1864. godparents Daniel Donovan, Margaret Coakley. Coakley is a very Lissane name.
Catherine, bap. 25-Jun-1865. godparents Patrick Regan, Norry Cady (Keady).
Catherine Collins Donovan and her family are entered in Family Search Family Tree (registration is free). Her ID # is LKCD-M3S. Her father, Humphrey Collins is ID # LKC8-BYD and her nuclear Collins family are entered there.
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Labels: Abbeystrowry, Caheragh, Collins, Donovan, Lissalohorig, Lissane
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Derby Connolly and Susanna Fuller of Drinagh
Derby Connolly (likely a Jeremiah) was probably a brother or other close relative of my 3g-grandmother, Ellen Connolly McCarthy Knuck of Garryglass. Notably, his wife Susanna Fuller showed up as a godparent of one of McCarthy Knuck children. There were lots of men named Derby Connolly in Drinagh around that time, but for this particular Derby, his wife Susanna helped him stand out.
Derby and Susanna had a relatively colorful history, when all you have to view them by is ordinary church records. There is a marriage record 26-Jan-1828 in Drimoleague & Drinagh R.C. Parish. The record says they eloped 12 months earlier! Las Vegas wasn't exactly near by, so I wonder where they went.
The first child, transcribed as "Patrick", was baptized 24-Feb-1828. The baptism record is difficult to read and I question whether the child was really a "Patrick."
Yes, I could see where Derby and Susanna had some explaining to do to the local priest when they asked about getting their marriage on the books a month before the birth of their first child.
Susanna was received into the Catholic Church 11-Oct-1829, with only Connollys as witnesses. The surname Fuller shows up in Church of Ireland records, so perhaps there is an original baptism for her lurking there, and perhaps even the original marriage record for her and Derby.
Two more Connolly children have been found: Mary, baptized 20-Sep-1830, and Mick, baptized 10-Mar-1833. After that, this Susanna Fuller disappeared. Searching for her was a challenge - in one instance her surname was recorded as "Tuller" - in another case her first name was "Suan."
These Connolly and McCarthy families are recorded mostly in Garryglass, but some residences are recorded as Curraghalicky, right next door.
A Patrick Connolly does show up as a godfather later to a child of Charles McCarthy (1826 - ?) of Garryglass. If Patrick Connolly was "real", he would have been Charles McCarthy's cousin.
Not a single Fuller ever showed up on a Connolly church event. It certainly makes me wonder if Susanna severed ties with her Fuller family when she eloped with Derby.
In my quest to find out more about my Connollys in Drinagh, I did discover that some Connollys went by "Gackney" (or a spelling variation thereof), and others went by "Brack."
The Connolly-Fuller family tree is entered on Family Search (registration is free).
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Labels: Connolly, Curraghalicky, Drinagh, Fuller, Garryglass, McCarthy
Sunday, February 22, 2015
R.I.P. Margaret Mary Collins O'Brien (1923 - 2015)
My aunt passed away on February 19, 2015. She was 91 years old.
I think of Aunt Peg as "Miss Skibbereen." Her memory was sharp and clear to the end. She had so many stories to tell - of her brother Humpsey as a baby, sitting in the dirt by the gate in Derryduff; of Grandmom taking her to Cullomane East, on one of those visits playing with Roggie and Pitchie, on another visit entering her dying grandfather's room; of Granddad pedaling off on his bike to the creamery, rain or shine; of visiting the creamery and getting candy from Abie Jagoe, Granddad's boss; of skipping school to play hooky at Mary Maher's house; of dressing up to visit relatives in Carrigbaun and Adrigole; of sewing dresses with my mother late at night, laughing and giggling, until Grandmom yelled at them to go to bed; of wearing those dresses on Easter Sunday, looking like a million bucks; of a visit to Kenmare for a day at the races with distant cousins; of being a checkout clerk in a grocery store in Toronto; of moving with her family to Connecticut and living near Uncle Dan and Aunt Bea.
Without Aunt Peg there would have been no genealogy endeavor in my family. My one wish is to get it all down on paper.
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If you choose to scope your reserved instances to a specific availability zone, they are locked to a specific instance type . This requires you to understand and plan your compute requirements in two dimensions:instance type availability zones
These require you to predict both how your application load will grow and how dense your cluster will be be years into the future. Any miscalculation means you'll pay for reserved instances that you won't actually use.
Compute power varies by the size of each instance: for example, nine c5.xlarge instances on AWS provide the equivalent computer power of one c5.9xlarge instance.
AWS divides its infrastructure into several regions, which include many availability zones. If you choose to scope your reserved instances more broadly by region, AWS allows you to deploy instances of any size , as long as the compute power matches what you've reserved. This allows you to purchase high-powered instances up-front and deploy lower-powered instances later on. Even better, AWS will automatically apply the budget you've allocated toward reserved instances to as many instances in that region as possible.
To adopt reserved instances, you first need to estimate your cluster's total compute requirements. This is the hardest part of capacity planning. AWS defines a scale for compute power of all it's server sizes: we can use this to calculate an aggregate value. (We've provided an example of a SQL query that could generate this report below.)
By choosing regional scope, we naturally define three properties across all our reserved instances: the scope, instance size, and instance family. Once we decide on an exact configuration, we execute a purchase in the AWS console and the reserved instance pricing is instantly applied to our fleet.
Because our fleet can dynamically grow, shrink, or change in compute requirements, we need to be more flexible with how we set the target number of reserved instances to purchase. Instead, we choose an acceptable range for a mix of reserved and on-demand instances in our fleet.
To automate this, we built an ETL process in SQL and Python that detects when we fall outside this band and automatically prepares a purchase for us to approve. This is an evergreen process: the ETL process will continue to analyze and suggest purchases over time as the fleet dynamically scales up and down in compute requirements. We purchase reserved instances once a month.
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Next, we select relevant data on usage for our existing reserved instances from our fleet's total usage:
Finally, we compute the number of additional reserved instances we'll need to purchase to remain within our acceptable range:
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Kelly Clarkson, Anti-Pop Star, Covers Lucky
Kelly Clarkson covers the August issue of Lucky, showing off that svelte, hard-earned new figure in skintight jeans and a cropped red blazer, which she paired with her usual light brown hair. Clarkson actually lightened to blonde last month, but she looks gorgeous either way. In this spread, she comes off as a normal gal and that's just how she prefers it. She's Kelly Clarkson: Anti-Pop Star.
Even more standout in the cover shot is her ear-to-ear grin, an "accessory" that is no doubt a result of her new relationship with Brandon Blackstock, who is the stepson of country queen Reba McEntire. Clarkson wears her smile well. Yeah, love'll do that to ya.
The slimmed down 'Stronger' singer also sounds better than ever as she sings her heart out each week on 'Duets,' the reality singing competition of the summer.
In the feature, Clarkson is adamant that while she jockeys for position on the charts with elaborately costumed divas like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, Clarkson isn't interested in battling them in the style department by donning beef jerky dresses or lollipop bras. She said, "Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer." That is, she dresses down and is more about engaging in slices of real life as opposed to always being "on" or putting on a show for fans, even when offstage.
Despite the pressure that female pop stars deal with to be thin and to stand out via outrageous outfits, as opposed to honing their voice or talent, Clarkson isn't caving. She says, "The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star, and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'"
Pop or not, Kelly the rule breaker rocks our world to the core.
As for fashion and beauty, which are cornerstones of the pop world image, Clarkson isn't having any of those dangerous, dagger-like nails that Gaga and Rihanna favor. She's following a simpler routine. "I just blow-dry my hair and put on mascara and lip gloss, and I'm ready to go." She admits that the knife-like nails elude her, saying, "I really don't get long nails. They're so Edward Scissorhands."


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Iowa Pastor Arrested For Having Sex With Boys To "Help Rid Them Of Homosexual Urges"
A horrific story has emerged out of Council Bluffs, Iowa, where youth pastor Brent Girouex, 31, has been arrested on 60 counts of sexual exploitation.
After several complaints from young teen boys in the area, Girouex confessed to having sex with the boys because he was sure it would help "with homosexual urges by praying while he had sexual contact with [them]."
Girouex admitted to police that he began his "sexual purity cleansing" back in 2007 with four teenage boys, but at least eight other victims have come forward since then. He insists the actions with teens as young as 14 were mutual, with one "relationship" lasting nearly four years.
"When they would ejaculate, they would be getting rid of the evil thoughts in their mind," Girouex, who is free on a $30,000 bond, said.
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LANCASTER, Pa. - February 11, 2013 --Officials at a central Pennsylvania college say a student collapsed in a dormitory and could not be revived.
Franklin & Marshall College officials say 20-year-old Eric Phillips was pronounced dead at a hospital early Sunday.
College spokeswoman Cass Cliatt tells the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era that police are investigating.
Cliatt says Phillips was hanging out with friends in a common area of the dorm when he collapsed. Students quickly called college security officers.
Phillips was a sophomore from Oakland, Calif. The Lancaster County coroner says an autopsy will be performed Monday morning.
Franklin & Marshall is a small liberal arts college serving about 2,300 students in Lancaster.
Information from: Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era , http://lancasteronline.com


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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — The key to a good outcome — whether you're trading stocks or drinking at your local pub — is knowing when enough is enough. Has that time been reached with beer stocks?
It's a timely question, since the industry is having a very good year. The Dow Jones U.S. Brewers Index sports a year-to-date gain of 32.2%, in fact, and the closely-related Dow Jones U.S. Distillers & Vintners Index has gained 27.8%. The S&P 500 index SPX, -0.04% in contrast, has gained "just" 6.9%.
The top-performing advisers I monitor are — in effect — reminding us of the virtue of moderation: While they are not adding more brewers' stocks to their portfolios, they also are not selling any of these stocks that they have previously been holding.
That's what I found upon turning to the group of top performers on whom I focus each week in my companion service, Hulbert On Markets. That group contains those advisers on the Hulbert Financial Digest's monitored list who have beaten a buy-and-hold in the stock market over the last 15 years. I then restrict the group even further to include just the 15 of them with the best returns over the trailing 12 months.
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While brewers didn't make this list, the good news is that this sector wasn't at the bottom of the ranking either — where industries appear that the top performers are most aggressively downgrading and/or selling.
Which beer stocks do these top performers continue to hold in their portfolios? Constellation Brands STZ, -0.96% is owned by two of the 15 top performers in my select group, and Molson Coors Brewing TAP, +1.58% is owned by one of them.
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Report: Britain hacked Belgian telecom operator
BRUSSELS (AP) — A news magazine is citing documents leaked by Edward Snowden as saying that Britain's spy services were behind a sophisticated cyber-espionage scheme targeting Belgium's main phone operator.
Germany's Der Spiegel reported Friday that classified documents obtained from Snowden indicate Britain's GCHQ signals intelligence agency was behind the spying attack on Belgacom's IT system that Belgium revealed last week and which apparently stretched over the past few years. The firm also serves European Union institutions based in Belgium.
Belgian Prime Minister Elio di Rupo said the investigation into an apparently sophisticated cyber-espionage case was ongoing; he added the report will be "closely examined."
"If the hypothesis involving another country is confirmed, we will of course undertake the necessary steps," he said. He did not specify possible retaliation.
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BERLIN (AP) — Some 800,000 employees of Germany's state governments have won a pay increase totaling 5.6 percent over two years.
The pay deal for employees including police officers, firefighters and workers at ministries in all but one of Germany's 16 states was concluded Saturday.
It features a 2.65 percent pay rise backdated to Jan. 1, to be followed next January by a further 2.95 percent increase. That's above Germany's 1.5 percent annual inflation rate but well short of unions' initial demand for a 6.5 percent raise over one year.
Germany's economy has grown in recent years while many other European countries have struggled. The growth has fueled calls for big pay rises after years of relative restraint; last March, federal and municipal employees won a 6.3 percent raise staggered over two years.


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I didn't know that I was in pain for the first 20 years because I had never not been.
amazincc wrote:I am not a cruel person, and I would never knowingly hurt an animal or prolong suffering on purpose.
I am also not offended by any of the opinions posted... sometimes things need to be said and/or pointed out by someone who isn't right in the midst of all the emotional stuff that comes w/a situation like this.
I am going to let this boy have a few *happy days* here so he can experience a little bit of human kindness, even if that comes across as pure selfishness on my part.
But, in the end, I will do what's best for him... since that was my intention in the first place.
Malli wrote:oh my. And I am even shocked.
Growth plates are the reason that most broken bones on puppies require fancy orthopedic surgeries and can't simply be splinted, because - I think, anyway- the bones kind of grow at different rates so it's very easy for them to have difficulty healing or heal at odd angles. Thats the jist of it anyway I think...
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Scaly Surprises (Science World)
Did you know that a snake's skin includes see-through scales that cover its eyes. Or that chameleons have sticky tongues to pull in their prey? Examine squamates and their remarkable adaptations.
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This online article is from the Museum's Science Explorations, a collaboration between AMNH and Scholastic designed to promote science literacy. Written for students in grades 6-10, this article from Science World magazine has the following content.
- An interview with AMNH curator Darrel Frost, in which he discusses his interest in squamates, some of their adaptations, and the Lizards & Snakes: Alive!exhibit he curated.
- Web links that offer further opportunities for learning about squamates and their many, remarkable adaptations
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Teacher Tip
Supplement a study of biology with an activity drawn from this online Science Explorations article.
- Send students to this online article, or print copies of it for them to read.
- Working individually or in groups, have students select a snake or lizard species to research for a classroom presentation. They should focus on the squamate's adaptations and how they are related to its environment.


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We got a witch war, people! And Marie Laveau is raising a zombie army to fight it in "Fearful Pranks Ensue," the fourth episode of "American Horror Story: Coven."
Spoilers: Stop reading if you are not caught up.
Marie's none-too-pleased with Fiona Goode, who sent her Minotaur back to Marie's salon, all packed up and minus his body. (Is this a nod to the "[Bleep] in a Box" video?)
The episode was heavy on flashbacks, which gave us a chance to learn more about the conflict between the voodoo witches and the descendants of Salem. Back in the 1970s, Afro-out-to-here Marie and then-Supreme Anna Leigh Leighton signed a truce to bring all hostilities to an end.
But Fiona's threatening visit to Marie a few episodes back pissed the voodoo queen off enough to send Bastien the Minotaur to Witchwarts. Apparently it's tit-for-tat with witches, so take that, except ... Fiona interrupts the bull-man (man-bull?), saves Queenie and slices off his head. We didn't get to see it, unfortunately, but that must be what happened. Or maybe Queenie sliced off her head—she is a living voodoo doll after all.
Anyway, Delia nurses Queenie back to health only after Fiona uses her last bit of strength to breathe life back into her.
Speaking of Delia, remember Hank, that jean-jacket-wearing hubby of hers? He claims to be on a business trip and meeting up with some dude named Phil Underwood. Who comes knocking on his door? Not Phil Underwood, unless he's a she named Kaylee (played by Alexandra Breckenridge from Season 1).
Hank has Catfished this poor girl he met online, telling her he's a USDA inspector or some damn thing. Anyway, didn't think this was possible but they have sex and it's weirder than when he and Delia did it on the floor with a bunch of snakes slithering around. I mean, this guy has a crazy, scary sex demeanor and O-face.
After their headboard-breaking romp, Kaylee tells him, "Halloween gives people the permission to be who they really want to be." In his case, a serial killer!
Oh yes, he bopped and then shot her brains out.
Back at Miss Robichaux's Academy, the Council on Witchcraft shows up to haunt Fiona about Lilo Junior's disappearance.
We all know that Fiona killed Madison, but we get a little extra info on her whereabouts—and just how houseman Spalding is. He likes to dress up like a doll and have tea parties with the thousands of actual dolls in his room. Oh, and with Madison, who he also has dressed up as a doll.
Super creepy much, Spalding?
The Council on Witchcraft is made up of Myrtle Snow (Frances Conroy), who accompanied Zoe to Witchwarts in the premiere; "vicious old queen" Quentin (played by Leslie Jordan, which means another diva on this show!), and Pembroke, who's fairly forgettable (just ask Fiona).
Fiona immediately bares her claws, saying, "Myrtle Snow, look at you developing a sense of style when no one was paying attention."
Myrtle has been Fiona's rival for 40 years. She was the first and maybe the only to suspect Fiona offed Anna Leigh. And boy, time has not mellowed her desire to prove her suspicions. She wants Fiona to burn, and has the matches to start that fire.
Flashback to 1971, Myrtle enchants Spalding's tongue so that he will be forced to tell the truth about who killed Anna Leigh. He overhears her telling someone this, and instead of ratting on the love of his life, Fiona, he cuts out his own tongue!
Spalding still doesn't give up the ghost in present day, either. When Myrtle presses him to write the name of the person who killed Madison, he jots down her name. She freaks out, claiming that Fiona killed Madison because she was to be the next Supreme.
That's when Delia comes to her mother's defense, revealing that Madison wasn't the future Supreme after all. Bet you're not feeling so revitalized now, Fiona! The Supreme must have "glowing radiant health," Delia says, and Madison was hiding the fact she had a heart murmur.
Oops Fiona, you [bleeped] that up. So if Madison wasn't the next Supreme, who is?
Could be Zoe, she of the Killer Vagina. Although speaking of not being memorable, this witch is nothing but annoying so far. And she had very little to do in this episode, except stop Frankenboy from pounding his head into the bathtub after he killed his inappropriate mother last episode. In a perfect Zoe move, she decides that a bowl of tuna salad will cure what ails Kyle, who says he's not Kyle. Glad you've caught up brother!
Feeling bad about what she's done to him, Zoe spikes the tuna with rat poison and goes back to the bathroom to feed it to him. But he's gone. Oops.
With a stumble-bum record like hers, Zoe can't possibly be the next Supreme. Right? But who is?
That's exactly what Fiona asks Delia when they go out drinking Halloween night. She also tells her daughter that Hank "reeks of bullshit." Right? Because he's a serial killer!
Then things get really ugly because Delia can't hold her liquor. She's prays to the porcelain goddess—seriously, can't a witch just twitch her noise and stop the room from spinning? Anyway, she wipes that crud off her face and turns around to find a spook standing behind her with a Mason jar full of acid or something.
Instead of running, she just stares at this stranger, who throws the acid in her face.
That could be Marie's work, but I'm thinking it's another foe we have yet to formally meet. Marie seems to have a more macabre style. She pulls out the snakes and does some voodoo hoodoo to raise the dead, including Delphine's daughters—and we get an homage to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" at the end of the episode.
But I'm sure no snakes were harmed in the making of the episode.
Lessons learned in "Fearful Pranks Ensue:"
- Never leave a Frankenboy you rebuilt unsupervised—he'll go trick-or-treating.
- Don't ask a doll-loving crazy man to rat out the woman he loves.
- If someone in a black hood carrying a Mason jar with undetermined liquid in it walks up behind you in a public restroom, run!
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NEW YORK (AP) — More good news on the economy Tuesday drove the Standard & Poor's 500 index to within two points of its record closing high.
The S&P rose 12.08 points, or 0.8 percent, to 1,563.77. Its record close of 1,565.16 was on Oct. 9, 2007, before the Great Recession and ensuing financial crisis battered markets.
Rising home prices and orders for manufactured goods drove all other major indexes higher as well. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 111.90 points, or 0.8 percent, to another record high — 14,559.65.
"Unless something major comes along to derail this rally, it just seems like the market is going to keep climbing higher," said Marty LeClerc, the managing partner of Barrack Yard Advisors, an investment firm in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Factory orders surged in February, helped by stronger demand for commercial aircraft. Overall orders for durable goods, a catchall term for products ranging from refrigerators to jumbo jets, jumped 5.7 percent from the previous month, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. It was the biggest increase in five months.
All 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 rose, led by health care and energy companies. But smaller companies, which have been beating the market all year, didn't do as well Tuesday. The Nasdaq composite rose 17.18 points, or 0.5 percent, to 3,252.48, and the Russell 2000 rose 3.97 points, or 0.4 percent, to 949.82.
Big-company stocks and small-company stocks often part ways, said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago. Recently, Europe has been the reason. Big corporations generally do more business in Europe, and their stocks had wavered over the past week as traders watched negotiations to rescue Cyprus.
After a deal was announced Sunday, there was still uncertainty on Wall Street Monday. But by Tuesday, investors seemed back to focusing on the U.S. economy, and stocks of big companies rose the most.
By contrast, smaller companies are less exposed to the rest of the world. "That's part of the reason small-caps have outpaced the market this year," Ablin said. The Russell 2000 is up 11.8 percent this year, compared with 9.7 percent for the S&P 500.
European markets rose modestly as investors gained confidence in the new bailout plan arranged for Cyprus and its banking system. Cyprus decided to keep its banks closed for another two days in an attempt to ward off panicked withdrawals.
Netflix surged 5 percent, leading the S&P 500, after an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities said the stock will likely climb as the company continues to add subscribers. Netflix's database of its members' viewing habits should give it an edge in creating shows and draw more people to sign up for its video-streaming service, the analyst said. Netflix rose $9.82 to $190.61.
Housing prices rose in January at the fastest pace since the summer of 2006, before the housing bubble popped. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index of prices in 20 cities was up 8.1 percent over January 2012. That compared with a 6.8 percent year-over-year increase in the index in December. Prices rose in all 20 cities, led by 23.2 percent in Phoenix and 17.5 percent in San Francisco.
The economic reports out Tuesday added to evidence that the economy is slowly improving, and that's what many investors want right now, LeClerc said. Slow growth and continued low inflation mean it could be a long time before the Federal Reserve starts unraveling its bond-buying program and raising interest rates.
In the market for U.S. government bonds, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note slipped to 1.91 percent from 1.92 percent late Monday.
Among other stocks making big moves Tuesday:
— Drive-in restaurant chain Sonic jumped 10 percent after reporting that its quarterly earnings more than doubled. Revenue was flat, but Sonic said it expects improvement. Its stock rose $1.14 to $12.87.
— Supervalu rose after announcing plans to lay off more than 1,000 people, roughly 3 percent of its workforce. The supermarket operator said its recent sale of five grocery chains means it needs fewer workers. Supervalu's stock gained 7 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $5.12.
— Children's Place Retail Stores sank 3 percent after the company reported weaker quarterly earnings. The retailer also said bad weather would crimp revenue. The company's stock lost $1.48 to $44.51.


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No. 2 goes down: Arcidiacono's 3 with 10 seconds left lifts Villanova over Kansas, 63-59
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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas – Ryan Arcidiacono's 3-pointer with 10.1 seconds left put Villanova on top for good, and the Wildcats upset No. 2 Kansas 63-59 in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis on Friday night.
Arcidiacono had missed all five of his previous shots, but made the one that counted — the only field goal for the Wildcats in the final 7 minutes.
Darrun Hilliard and Dylan Ennis each scored 14 for Villanova (6-0), which meets Iowa in Saturday night's championship game. JayVaughn Pinkston scored 13 and James Bell added 10 for the Wildcats.
Frank Mason scored 12 for Kansas (5-1). His three-point play with 34.2 seconds left gave Kansas its first lead in more than 25 minutes, but the Jayhawks couldn't hold on in the final moments.
Perry Ellis scored 11, while Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid added 10 each for Kansas, which plays Texas-El Paso in the third-place game Saturday.


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