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HERSHEY, Pa. – As mundane as it seems, Barry is just trying to play it stroke by stroke. So far, it's working for the No. 2-ranked Buccaneers men's golf team, who hold a 10-stroke lead over Nova Southeastern after two rounds at the NCAA Division II National Championships.
"All we're trying to do is hit one shot at a time," Barry coach Jimmy Stobs said. "That's what we've been trying to do all year."
Barry shot the low round (288) for the second straight day of the stroke play competition on the par-71, 6,984-yard Hershey Country Club course. The Buccaneers' two-round total of 4-over 572 topped that of Nova's 582 on a day where course demands increased. Florida Southern is third at 19-over 587 entering Wednesday's final round of stroke play. South Carolina-Aiken is fourth, 18 strokes behind the Bucs, and Lynn is fifth at 591.
The top eight teams advance to match play Thursday in a bracket-style playoff featuring a player-vs.-player format. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played Thursday with the match play finals set for Friday.
"The golf course played real hard," Stobs said. "We had some silly bogeys and double bogeys. As the scores are indicating, it's a tough golf course."
Barry senior Marcus Segerstrom was ready for the challenge, responding with a 1-under 70 in the second round. Segerstrom had three birdies and two bogeys in a steady round that moved him six spots up the leaderboard into a tie for third place with teammate Adam Svensson and Grand Canyon's Jimmy Kozikowski at 1-under 141.
"Marcus played real solid," Stobs said.
Svensson, a freshman, shot 2-over 73, and along with Segerstrom, is three strokes behind leader Rob Damschen of California State University-Stanislaus. Damschen shot a 3-under 68 Tuesday, and stands at 4-under 138. He has a one-stroke lead over South Carolina Aiken's Matt Atkins, who shot 69. Svensson had four birdies and six bogeys in the second round.
Both Segerstrom and Svensson have eight birdies, which trail Kozikowski and Nova's Hunter O'Mahoney's nine for the tournament lead.
Barry junior Scott Smyers ripped off four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the front nine before settling for four bogeys and another birdie on the back nine to finish even for the day. Smyers, who has seven birdies in the two rounds, is tied with Nova's Ricardo Celia for ninth at 2-over 144.
Bucs junior Jared Dalga was 3-over in a round he paired three birdies with four bogeys and a double-bogey for a 74. He is tied for 15th with six others. The top 15 golfers following Wednesday's final round of stroke play earn All-American honors.
Barry senior Simon Forsslund shot 77 behind four birdies, five bogeys, a double- and a triple-bogey. He is the only Buccaneer with an eagle thus far in the tournament. He sits in an eight-way tie for 39th at 151.
"We're trying to get better every day," Stobs said.
Barry will tee off at 12:50 p.m. Wednesday from the first hole.


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The query about Westall's brought replies from ice cream lovers and more stories about the telephone company.
Shirley Hull said that Westall's was where Chopmist Charlie's is today. She related that when you went to the barber shop in the Hunt Block to get your Dutch haircut, the barber, Pete, would give you a nickle to buy ice cream at Westall's. She added that there was a small building where fireworks were sold between Westall's and the old post office.
Lenore MacLeish, who now lives in Philadelphia and grew up on the island and still thinks of it as home, wrote, "In my childhood days in Jamestown, Westall's Ice Cream Shop was on the north side of Narragansett Avenue between the telephone office and the post office. One day my mother picked up the phone and gave the operator the number of Wharton Shipyard. The operator said, 'Mrs. MacLeish, are you trying to call Charlie Wharton?' My mother said she was and the operator said, 'He just drove up the street towards the post office. When I see him driving back, I'll give him enough time to get to the shipyard and then I'll put you through.' The post offi ce was where it is now located at what we used to call Four Corners back in the day, and it was, obviously, before dial phones."
Patty Vandal remembers Westall's and wrote, "Another telephone operator's story. My mother called my father at his offi ce at school. The operator said, 'He's not there, Mrs. Miller. I just saw him drive by.' You've got to love a small town."
Jim Pemantell wrote, "Westall's was where Chopmist Charlie's is and they also had a store in North Kingstown that was in the area of where the parking lot is south of Heffie's. Both had the best ice cream around. And, next door to Westall's in Jamestown there was a very small building that sold, believe it or not, fireworks."
Laurie Sheehan said, "I can remember using the phone after school and the operator saying, 'Does your mom know you're on the phone, because I think she is still at work.' Not much you could get away with back then."
And, from Mary Webster, "Westall's ice cream was in the building now called Chopmist Charlie's. It was a one-story bulding then. It also was the location of the Islander restaurant. When it was Westall's, I remember that there was a large square grate in the floor in front of the counter with the cash register. The grate served two purposes: it dispursed hot air from the furnace, and, it caught change that people dropped, but could not retrieve. I suspect it was taken up once a year for cleaning at the end of the heating season and for collecting the loose change.
"The former location of Baker's Pharmacy (now home of The Chemical Company) was a small grocery store owned by Mr. Pinto and his two sons. The Pinto store had previously been located on the corner of Green Lane and Narragansett across from the Narragansett Cafe. This store location was later occupied by Mr. Santos who moved his grocery store from Southwest Avenue. Mr. Pinto had tubs of penny candy by the door below the cash register. One would stock up on candy there and take it across the street to the Bomes Theater where admission to the Saturday matinee double feature was 25 cents."
Thanks, guys!
There was also a Westall's on The Point in Newport. They were all owned by Jamestowner Charles Westall and going to one of his places was a special treat. My favorite was orange ice.
Mary Webster asks, "Where was Mr. Barker's homemade sausage sold?"
........I'll tell the world I love you....
Congratulations to islander John Stanford and former Jamestowner Mark Munro on the discovery of the 125-foot sailing bark Trajan that sank outside Newport Harbor in 1867. The two wreck divers and maritime historians found the remains of the ship in 30 feet of water.
Several Jamestowners were named to Southern Rhode Island Newspapers Fall Sports All-Area Teams: Ryan Morris and Brian McDevitt, football; Meghan Greene, Victoria Dolce and Hannah Farrelly, field hockey; and Julie Maguire who was named field hockey coach of the year, all at North Kingstown High School.
Well, it was a long time coming, but the Ocean State is finally number one nationally. The New York Times reports that in a survey of state house reporters nationwide, Rhode Island was voted tops in government corruption followed by Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Delaware.
But, as the paper points out, there are other means of measuring wrong doing. In a Department of Justice tally covering the last decade, our state drops to 49th in the number of guilty officials. Leading the list is Florida but there is no adjustment in the study for population so the larger states will pile up the numbers.
In a survey of convictions per million residents per year, Rhode Island rates 34th. The District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands top this one.
So, after all is said and done, our number one ranking is pretty shaky. But, let's enjoy the limelight, number one is number one and it's better than always being compared in size to some other state's county.
A Snapple cap moment: The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
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Incoco appliques are super easy to apply, there are directions that are SO much better than I could write on Incoco's website! Also, please excuse my super white almost see through skin in these photos. I swear I get more pale everyday....soon you'll just see polish and no finger because I'll have gotten completely see though...thanks Dad for the Irish blood that makes me Casperlicious.
Here are the appliques before I put them on. I love that they actually have cute things written in the hearts!
Incoco's Valentines designs can be purchased on their website, here. They are $10.50 each, they also have some of their pink & red appliques on sale right now! Even though this design is very very Valentines I think it's something that would be cute whenever!
Hope you all have a great Valentines Day today, the handsome guy below is my Valentine lol!


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The oaths of office
Most Americans are unaware that many of the civil liberties of our young service members are rescinded when they swear or affirm the oath of enlistment for the armed forces of the United States. Established within Public Law 87-751 in 1962 this oath says: "I, (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to obey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." These words constitute a yielding of basic civil liberties by a commitment to defend the very laws that provide them. Required by Congress in April 1790, all officers and enlisted personnel affirmed to the same oath until 1861. With regards to our branches of government, Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution only required affirmation to an oath of office by the president prior to the Civil War. Before April 1861, when President Abraham Lincoln ordered all federal civilian employees within the executive branch to take an expanded oath, members of Congress affirmed a simple 14 word oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States."
Signed into law on July 2, 1862, a war-inspired "Ironclad Test Oath" was required for every person elected or appointed to any office under the government of the United States, excepting the president, who had been previously bound since 1789. At the start of each new Congress, in January of every odd year, all members of the House and one third of the Senate affirm this oath.
Established by the 37th Congress in 1868, the following oath is currently affirmed by all members of our government and military officers: "I, (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." This oath of office has withstood the test of time. Although its words have gone through many transformations since 1789, the significance placed upon it by the Founding Fathers has remained the same.
The oath of 1789 merely addressed support of the Constitution. George Washington expressed the notion of support in his farewell address: "The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution, which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government." The words "and defend" were added in 1862, when defense and preservation of the nation became paramount. A passive pledge to support acquired an active requirement to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
The terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001 caught America off guard. Our nation's leaders can no longer simply maintain the status quo. They must identify emerging trends and develop capabilities to counter all threats. It is apparent that our current capability to respond to and, more importantly, prevent a future asymmetric attack is inadequate. Our government must address and be prepared for all adversaries and contingencies. American residents, citizens or not, in direct contact with foreign agents engaged in plotting potential assaults on our freedom are domestic enemies.
This oath, taken by all members of Congress, clearly mandates their support and defense of the Constitution and all of the ideals succinctly highlighted within its preamble. Death negates our constitutional liberties. Congress should stop playing politics and should act instinctively to ensure our national security elements have all tools necessary to defend the Constitution of the United States and its people.
Thomas J. Bembenek, U.S. Navy retired, Jamestown


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Hi all,
It's been waaay to long since we've put anything out. I've been pretty busy, and unfortunately the rest of the crew and I haven't been able to even talk lately, much less game. However…
Erin and I will be at Gen Con, and the plan had been for Mario and Dan to make it as well. I haven't talked to them in a while, so I don't know if schedules changed for them at all. I hope to meet up with them this weekend, and perhaps some of you.
I'll be running four games of Hellas (all sold out according to Gen Con), on Thursday and Friday morning and afternoon. Then playing Sparks (Star Wars d6) with Erin on Saturday. The rest of the time I hope to be putting in hanging out with people, gaming, and perhaps meeting Wil Wheaton. (I'd like to game with that guy if I could. It would be awesome if he could play Time and Temp with us. 🙂 )
So if any of you are coming, comment below! I'll read them and see about meeting up with people. If not, I hope to have lots to talk about after I get back.


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The phylum Mollusca contains some of the most familiar invertebrates, including snails, slugs, clams, mussels, and octopuses. In contrast to these well-known molluscs, however, others are almost never seen, such as the aplacophorans and monoplacophorans, the latter of which which were only known from Paleozoic fossils until the first live specimen was discovered in the deep sea in 1952 (UCMP 2008).
Except for the aplacophorans, most molluscs have a well-developed, muscular foot. This structure is used in a multitude of ways, for example: locomotion, clinging to surfaces, burrowing, anchoring in sediment, swimming, and grasping (modified into prehensile tentacles in octopuses). The vast diversity of foot adaptations exemplifies the huge morphological diversity of the mollusc form.
A layer of epidermal tissue called the mantle surrounds the body of molluscs. Specialized glands in the mantle are responsible for the extracellular excretions that form shell structures. In all molluscan groups the shell is produced in layers of (usually) calcium carbonate, either in calcite or aragonite form.
Molluscs have adapted to terrestrial, marine and freshwater habitats all over the globe, although most molluscs are marine. Nearly 100,000 mollusc species are known (excluding the large number of extinct species known only as fossils) and it is clear that many thousands of species of extant species remain undescribed. Around 80% of known molluscs are gastropods (snails and slugs).


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At 21 years old, NYU undergrad Scott Gamm is not your typical co-ed. Since the ripe age of 17, Gamm has been an avid student of all things finance.
He launched a blog, HelpSaveMyDollars.com, soon after the recession took hold as a way to help people his age grow into conscious, responsible spenders and savers.
"You know, my parents' finances were one of the main causes of their divorce, and right after that [happened], there was the recession," Gamm told Business Insider. "Those were two reminders within a few years of each other that finance is a serious topic and it's not something I want to leave up to trial and error."
Gamm released his debut personal finance book, "More Money, Please: The Financial Secrets You Never Learned in School," on Tuesday. We asked him to share a few tips that every 20-something should learn to master their finances early:
1. Ignore the minimum payments on credit cards.
The only way you should be using a credit card is by paying off the entire balance every month –– no matter what your minimum balance says. By paying the minimum payment, you'll wind up leaving a balance on the card and your interest rate will kick in. Minimum payments are calculated to keep you in debt. Ignore the minimum and pay the entire balance, or at least as much of it as you can.
2. Use credit cards for one or two small expenses.
You're young and you're just starting to build up you credit history. So use credit as a useful tool to get there –– not as a free pass for a fancy lifestyle. Do that by picking one or two small expenses each month to charge on your credit card. And try to keep your spending under $100 per month. That's at least a manageable amount of money to be able to pay off the bill in full. A good rule of thumb: Never spend more than you earn.
3. Prepaid cards are stupid. Don't you forget it.
If you're looking to build up a solid credit history, you won't have any luck by signing up for a prepaid debit card. Why? Because none of the activity on a prepaid card is reported to the three credit bureaus (Experian, Equifax and TransUnion). Plus, you're going to get slammed with fees on prepaid cards like monthly fees, dormancy fees and, get this, a fee just to load money onto the card –– that's the entire point of a prepaid card!
4. Stop paying bank fees.
The days of free checking are disappearing. And unless you maintain the bank's minimum balance requirement, which can be $1,000-$1,500, you're throwing away $10-$12 per month. If you've been charged this fee before, consider switching to an online bank or a credit union. You'll find there are either no or fewer fees to deal with.
5. Do yourself a favour and unsubscribe from store emails.
When you get an email from your favourite store letting you know they're having a sale, this reminds you to head over to the store. If you hadn't received that email, the store wouldn't have even been on your mind. Unsubscribe. The same goes for those daily deal sites – unless you're in the market for something specific (a trip to Europe, new shoes or a restaurant deal), being reminded of random flash sales is a sure-fire way to start spending beyond control.
6. Negotiate a higher salary.
Most of us are too scared to ask for a higher salary. But if you don't, you're leaving money on the table. Negotiating on your first job out of college might be a tad risky, but don't feel afraid to ask for more money on future job offers. Plus, negotiating reflects persistence and that "stop at nothing" attitude that employers expect. Do some research in your field to find out what someone at your level is earning, so you'll know whether to ask for more during the hiring process.
7. Face it –– 401(k)s aren't that into you.
If your employer contributes to your 401(k) (a retirement account that lets you automatically contribute a portion of each paycheck), then you should contribute, too – up to the employer's match. If you don't, you're basically throwing away free money. If they don't contribute anything, you might be better off going a different route.
The fees are exorbitant (employers hire large asset managers to take care of the employee's 401(k) accounts, and that isn't free). In fact, a survey last year from Demos showed that on average, a couple could spend $155,000 in 401(k) fees over a lifetime. Instead, take 10 minutes and open up a Roth IRA online from a discount brokerage firm. This is an account where you contribute money that you've already paid taxes on and your money will grow tax-free. Who knows where tax rates are headed (probably up), so get the taxes over with now.
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Big East M5: 12.05.12 EditionPosted by Dan Lyons on December 5th, 2012
- St. John's 81-65 loss on the road at San Francisco may have seemed like just another non-conference game in preparation for the Big East gauntlet which kicks off in early January. To Steve Lavin, though, this game meant a whole lot more. Steve's father Cap Lavin played guard at San Francisco in the early 1950s, and was inducted into the school's athletic hall of fame in 1997. With his son's trip out west, the school honored Lavin at halftime. San Francisco Chronicle writer Steve Kroner's piece on this father-son relationship is an excellent read. Where many sporting parents may push their children towards athletics, Cap never put any pressure on Steve, but instead made sure that his career goal of becoming a basketball coach wasn't him taking "the path of least resistance." Steve's relationship with Cap was also instrumental in helping him triumph in his recent bout with prostate cancer.
- The Big East Tournament has always been a big event for Connecticut faithful, and this spring's tournament, with the impending departure of rivals Syracuse and Pittsburgh, promised to be even more meaningful… until, of course, UConn was banned from all postseason play for poor APR scores. School president Susan Herbst is still fighting the ruling, citing the school's stronger, more recent APR scores as evidence that the program has learned and improved upon past academic failures. Hartford Courant columnist Jeff Jacobs theorizes that if UConn wants to overcome the "chaos" that has befallen the program and be readmitted to the Big East Tournament — and on a larger scale, be seen as having a strong athletic department again — they need to quiet Jim Calhoun. As we discussed in yesterday's Big East M5, Calhoun recently stated that he would "never say never" in ruling out a return to coaching. Jacobs believes that Calhoun's thirst for attention, which doesn't seem to have dissipated even after his very public and odd retirement, is undermining the program.
- While the Syracuse low-post trio of Rakeem Christmas, Dajuan Coleman, and Baye Moussa Keita have combined for a solid 18.2 points, 15.6 rebounds, and nearly four blocks per game this season, Jim Boeheim still believes that this group is the one that must progress the most if the team wants to make a championship run this season. The Orange's 2-3 zone has been especially active and long this season to the tune of 81 steals through six games, but their corresponding interior defense has been a bit weak at times. Boeheim is worried that a good mid-range jump shooter or a strong offensive big man could do some damage against his defense. Syracuse could also use a strong presence inside on offense when the shooting stroke from outside runs cold, as it did for stretches against Eastern Michigan on Monday.
- USF (the Big East one this time) seems to be gaining its sea legs after a rough few games to start the year, and are prepared to take on #23 Oklahoma State in Stillwater tonight. One can point to the improved health of Anthony Collins as one reason for the Bulls' improved play. After missing a game against Stetson due to a lingering calf injury, Collins had one of his best games of the year against Georgia, scoring 17 points and adding 10 assists. A win in Stillwater would give USF a solid non-conference road win, and re-energize the thoughts of a second straight NCAA Tournament berth. After the Oklahoma State game, USF has a 13-day break to focus on practice and schoolwork, so look for the Bulls to come out with a very strong effort knowing that rest is on the way.
- Pittsburgh could get back junior swingman Trey Zeigler as early as tonight for the Panthers' City Game against Duquesne. Zeigler, who transferred from Central Michigan after his father Ernie was fired as head coach, was charged with a DUI on November 26 and was suspended indefinitely from the team. The scoring guard was a highly recruited player coming out of high school and had averaged 6.2 points per game for Pitt before his suspension — during his two years with the Chippewas, he averaged around 16 points per game so he could provide a great offensive spark for the Panthers if he gets back into a rhythm.


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Carlisle Floyd is one of the foremost composers and librettists of opera in the United States today. Born in 1926, Floyd earned B.M. and M.M. degrees in piano and composition with Ernst Bacon at Syracuse University, studying piano additionally with Sidney Foster and, at the Aspen Institute, with Rudolf Firkusny. He began his teaching career in 1947 at Florida State University, remaining there until 1976, when he accepted the prestigious M. D. Anderson Professorship in the University of Houston. In addition, he is co-founder with David Gockley of the Houston Opera Studio, a training and performance program for young singers and coaches-accompanists, jointly created by the University of Houston and Houston Grand Opera.
Floyd's operas are regularly performed in this country and in Europe; at least two of them have entered the permanent operatic repertoire. He first achieved national prominence with the New York premiere of his opera,Susannah, by the New York City Opera in 1956 after its world premiere at Florida State University in 1955. In 1957 it won its composer the New York Music Critic's Circle Award and subsequently was chosen to be America's official operatic entry at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. In 1966 it was the only contemporary opera to be included in the inaugural season of the Metropolitan Opera's National Company. In the years since its premiere it has been seen in every major American city as well as in England and Germany, and has been produced countless times by professional companies as well as in universities and colleges; the opera has had four separate productions and revivals by the New York City Opera alone since its premiere there. In 1993, the Lyric Opera of Chicago mounted a new production of the opera with Renee Fleming and Samuel Ramey in the leading roles. The following year, Virgin Classics issued a recording featuring Kent Nagano conducting the Lyon Opera Orchestra and Chorus with Cheryl Studer, Samuel Ramey, and Jerry Hadley in the principal roles. The release won international acclaim and a Grammy for Best Opera Recording, an honor rarely given to a work by a living composer. In March 1999, Susannah made its Metropolitan Opera debut featuring Renee Fleming, Samuel Ramey, and Jerry Hadley.
Of Mice and Men is Floyd's other most frequently performed work. In the 1998-99 season alone it was presented by New York City Opera, Utah Opera, San Diego Opera, and Cleveland Opera. Based on the Steinbeck novel, it was commissioned by the Ford Foundation and was given its premiere by the Seattle Opera in 1970. It has also been produced in Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Miami, Cincinnati, and Boston, ran for two weeks at the Kennedy Center, and enjoyed an extraordinary success at Ireland's famed Wexford Festival where it was broadcast live over the BBC. In June 1976 it was performed by the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague where audiences saw their country's official operatic salute to America's bicentennial.
Floyd's more recent operas, Bilby's Doll (1976) and Willie Stark (1981), based on Robert Penn Warren's novel, All The King's Men, were both commissioned and produced by the Houston Grand Opera, the latter in association with the Kennedy Center where again it was performed in a limited run. A televised version of the world premiere production of Willie Stark opened WNET's Great Performances Series on the PBS network in September of 1981 and was shown again two years later. In 1990 he completed a new version of The Passion of Jonathan Wade, initially commissioned by the Ford Foundation for the New York City Opera which gave it its world premiere in 1962. The new version, which involved extensive revision of the libretto as well as a virtually new musical score, was a co-commission of the Houston Grand Opera and the Greater Miami Opera, and had its world premiere in Houston in January 1991, followed by performances in Miami in March, San Diego in April, and Seattle in November of 1992. The production, designed by renowned designer Gunther Schneider-Siemssen, was staged by the librettist-composer.
Floyd's latest opera, Cold Sassy Tree, based on the best-selling novel by Olive Ann Burns, received its premiere at Houston Grand Opera in April 2000. Subsequently, it has been performed by Austin Lyric Opera, Central City Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Carolina, Opera Omaha, San Diego Opera, and Utah Opera.
Mr. Floyd has also increasing attention for his non-operatic works. 1993 saw the New York premiere of Floyd's orchestral song cycle, Citizen of Paradise, based on poems and letters of Emily Dickinson, given by the young leading mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, Suzanne Mentzer. Floyd also completed a large-scale work for chorus, bass-baritone soloist, and orchestra entitled A Time to Dance, commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association and performed by the famed Westminster Choir and the San Antonio Symphony at the Association's Biennial Convention in March 1994.
Floyd has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards: a Guggenheim Fellowship (1956); Citation of Merit from the National Association of American Conductors and Composers (1957); the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award from the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce (1959); the distinguished professor of Florida State University Award (1964); a Resolution of Appreciation by the State of Florida Legislature (1972); selected as one of Florida's first group of citizens designated as Patriots for the Bicentennial; an honorary doctorate from Dickinson College (1983); and the National Opera Institute's Award for Service to American Opera, the highest honor the institute bestows, also in 1983. He served on the Music Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1974-80 and was the first chairman of the Opera/Musical Theater Panel when that program was created by the Endowment in 1976. Major commissions have come from the Ford Foundation and the Kennedy Center Foundation, as well as from the New York City, Santa Fe, Houston, and Greater Miami opera companies. Mr. Floyd was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001, and in 2004 was awarded the National Medal of Arts in a ceremony at the White House. Mr. Floyd was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001, and in 2004 was awarded the National Medal of Arts in a ceremony at the White House.
Carlisle Floyd is published exclusively by Boosey & Hawkes.


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PORTLAND (AP) — Maine public health officials say the flu continues to spread across the state.
According to the latest statistics from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday, there have been 125 flu outbreaks reported so far this season, about four times the normal number.
Although individual flu cases don't have to be reported in Maine, schools and nursing homes are required to report outbreaks.
Agency director Dr. Sheila Pinette told The Portland Press Herald there could be another surge ahead.
The flu has killed 20 children nationwide, including a 6-year-old Maine girl.
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Shameful: Obama's Benghazi dishonesty
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President Obama took the low road on Monday and tried to use U.S. diplomats serving overseas as human shields in what is becoming an intense barrage of questions about how his administration handled the Benghazi attacks of last year and their aftermath.At a press conference, he deployed his long-standing three-part system for deflecting criticism. Part 1: All criticism of me is a distraction: "The whole issue of talking points, frankly, throughout this process has been a sideshow."Part 2: All criticism of me is rooted in partisanship: "The fact that this keeps on getting churned out frankly has a lot to do with political motivations."
Part 3: Shame them into changing the subject: "We are making sure we do everything we can to prevent it, in part because there are still diplomats around the world who are in very dangerous, difficult situations. And we don't have time to be playing these kinds of political games here in Washington. We should be focused on what are we doing to protect them.... We dishonor them when we turn things like these into a political circus."This is shameful. We owe it to the four American victims in Benghazi and all Americans serving overseas to discover the truth about those fatal attacks and why the administration willfully and methodically misled the people about them. The administration dishonored them by not telling the truth from the outset, and it dishonors them further by using them and their fellow public servants in a dishonest attempt to prevent the media and Congress from revealing the truth.


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Late March on the calendar typically means the majority of eyes are focused directly on the NFL draft. Rightfully so, as free agency has usually begun to slow down and the draft enters its last month of preparation.
However, this time of year also provides a chance to take a glance back, particularly at some unknowns from the season before. Seemingly every year, a mostly forgotten-about player from the previous season surprises by making an impact during the next.
The Packers may have a few names that fit that profile. Rarely seen last season, these four players have the opportunity to seize much bigger roles for Green Bay in 2013:
ILB Terrell Manning
Despite significant injuries hitting the inside linebacker position, Manning appeared in just seven games and played zero defensive snaps in 2012. However, it's easy to forget that Manning arrived at training camp with a mystery stomach illness that caused him to lose 15 pounds, and his chances of making an impact as a rookie all but evaporated in the summer heat. Given a full offseason and a healthy start to camp, Manning could surprise.
Remember, the Packers did move up in the fifth round last April to snag Manning, who was an athletic (4.63 40-yard dash) and aggressive defender at NC State. He also had collegiate experience rushing the passer and could have went in the top 75 or so picks had he stayed in school another year. Desmond Bishop (hamstring) and D.J. Smith (anterior cruciate ligament) will head into next season with major injury question marks, and Brad Jones could still leave in free agency. There may be a golden opportunity to be had for Manning in 2013.
CB Davon House
A shoulder injury during the 2012 preseason sapped House of the opportunity to play a significant role last season. However, his early camp showings haven't been forgotten by head coach Mike McCarthy, who raved about House during the NFL owners meetings in Arizona this week. He went as far as to call House the "best cornerback we had" during the first three weeks of camp.
The Packers remain deeper at cornerback than any other defensive position, with Tramon Williams, Sam Shields and Casey Hayward capable of being the starting three next season. Don't count out House making a run at one of those spots. He has ideal size (6-1, 195 lbs.) to play press-man, as evidenced by the way he man-handled receivers at the line of scrimmage early in camp. His top-end speed isn't great, but that isn't a make-or-break requirement to be a very good boundary cover man. Another full offseason and a healthy shoulder could give House a real chance to jump one of the cornerbacks (Williams?) for playing time next season.
TE Andrew Quarless
The road to recovery has been a long one for Quarless, who tore up his knee in December 2011 and still hasn't played a snap since. Despite the lengthy time off, McCarthy sounded very confident at the owners meetings that Quarless will be back and healthy in 2013. While expecting the former fifth-round pick to be productive after nearly two years on the shelf might be overly optimistic, his 2011 film was very promising.
No offense to recently-departed tight end Tom Crabtree, but Quarless was the team's best in-line blocker when his knee went out in New York. He also showed more flashes of receiving ability over his first two seasons than we've seen from helmet-and-shells All-Pro D.J. Williams. Losing Crabtree to Tampa Bay has obviously opened up the competition to be the offense's blocking tight end, and Quarless, Williams, Ryan Taylor and a potential draft pick will all get a crack at winning it. But if Quarless is anywhere near where he ended 2011, this could be his job to lose.
S Sean Richardson
A neck injury that put Richardson on IR to end last season is worth monitoring, but barring a setback, he's expected to be ready by the start of training camp. If he is, Richardson might have a chance to emerge as a candidate to play alongside Morgan Burnett at safety in 2013.
At 6-2 and 215 pounds, Richardson ran the 40-yard dash in 4.47 seconds at the NFL combine. That combination of physical attributes could help a Packers defense that so obviously lacked speed, size and toughness against top teams last season. Neither M.D. Jennings or Jerron McMillian—who each saw significant playing time at safety in 2012—can provide what Richardson can from a physical standpoint.
Obviously, Richardson is still raw after entering the NFL as undrafted free agent. But if the Packers can get him on the right page mentally, the physical skills are all there. Taking a few big strides in next year's camp could make it difficult for Dom Capers to keep him off the field.
Zach Kruse is a 24-year-old sports writer who contributes to Cheesehead TV, Bleacher Report and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He also covers prep sports for the Dunn Co. News. You can reach him on Twitter @zachkruse2 or by email at [email protected].
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Odds are this topic has been blogged to death already, but sometimes I need to write things down so not to forget them. Also, there are times when the command line is the only option. Then again, in my opinion, one should start using the command line and then move on to GUI applications.
Ettercap is tool for computer network protocol analysis and security auditing. It's capable of intercepting traffic, capturing credentials and conducting active "eavesdropping" against a number of common protocols. If you wish to know more, Google "Ettercap" and you'll have lots of links referring to this tool.
Using Ettercap is a quick and easier alternative then using the "arp" command to arp poison your target(s) and redirecting traffic to you own network adapter, then re-forwarding those packets to their original destination. Again, it's always good to be aware and able to use the "arp" command seeing that every situation is different and Ettercap may not always be available.
Imagine a simple scenario: Computer A, on the local LAN, connects to Computer B using the FTP protocol to retrieve a file. Our goal is to sniff the traffic between these two computers, retrieve either the username and password, or the file he/she is transferring over FTP. Do accomplish this we need to "arp cache poison" our victim's machine, so to redirect traffic to our machine, sniff the traffic and then send it out to its original destination. Of course, let us assume this is on a switched environment. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of "arp cache poisoning", I suggest you look it up… I'll provide links at the end of this blog to push you in the right direction.
The simplest way to do this using ettercap from the command line is this:
ettercap -T -w dump -M ARP /xx.xx.xx.xx/ // output:
Where 'xx.xx.xx.xx' is our target machine's IP address.
This will poison his arp cache, replacing the MAC address with our own. Of course, this is a very basic example. There are far more complex and more precise usage of this command, which are beyond the scope of this blog entry.
Let us continue…
" –T" switch is for using the text based GUI only.
"-w dump" writes to file our packet capture session to a file called "dump"
"-M ARP" is the type of attack, in our case a "man in the middle"
"/xx.xx.xx.xx/ //" is our target's IP address and port. Notice I have not entered any ports. So we'll just grab everything.
"output:" just outputs everything on the screen. A "-q" or "-Tq" would've provided with less information on the monitor, but I always choose to see as much as possible.
Press "enter", Ettercap will scan the network and start doing out bidding. Let it run for as long as you wish. Once you feel you have gathered enough, hit the "Q" key and ettercap will return our target's arp cache table to its original state.
Now all you need to do is analyze the dump file. This can be done with "etterlog" or wireshark. To use wireshark, you may need to rename the file to "dump.pcap". As for "etterlog" you'll have to convert it to the proper format. Type "etterlog –h" and see all the wonderful options, it's very complete. Once you have your capture file, you can use tools such as chaosreader or network miner to retrieve the information. Or you could do it manually using wireshark.
Later on, I may just post something about filters and more "advance" methods. For now this will have to do. All the information is already on the Internet, and is readably available for anyone that takes the time to search and read.
On another note, we at Kioptrix.com are leaving for the HackUS.org CTF event this weekend. I'll report back next week with a report. Also don't forget that Hackfest.ca is accepting papers for the convention being held in November of this year (2010) in Quebec City Canada. Kioptrix should come out with episode 3 of our monthly podcast (French only) a week or so after the CTF in Sherbrooke. New VM images soon to be released (hint). Should be out within the next 2 weeks.
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A Personal Reflection on Agile Ten Years On
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This article is part of the Agile Manifesto 10th Anniversary series that is being published on InfoQ.
I was astonished to be invited to what became the meeting that originated the Agile Manifesto because my work had always been based around building models. The Structured Development for Real-Time Systems trilogy with Paul Ward and the pair of Object-Oriented Analysis books with Sally Shlaer all focused on analysis and design, placing much less emphasis on the coding and testing favored by agile practitioners.
Moreover, I had recently read Kent Beck's Extreme Programming and I was horrified by the lack of emphasis on up-front thinking, abhorrence of models and the deprecation of documentation. However, it was clear that lightweight, extreme, or agile approaches were gaining traction, so I resolved to attend the meeting. The fact that it was in the Rockies in winter had nothing to do with it.
I introduced myself as a spy who hoped to derail their evil plans. While I found many of the positions taken regarding process to be sound (talking to the customer, for example, or timeboxing), the rejection of models was surely unjustified. Yes, there had been an overemphasis on "big design up front," but surely models had some value. Yes, writing documents (and models) had come to be seen as an end in itself, but surely the correct response is not to throw the productivity gains from modeling out with the dirty documentation.
So just why are models so bad? Because they don't execute, I was told. Yet my work over the preceding decade had been all about building executable models. Over the few days of the meeting I had the conversation shown in the figure below with almost all of the signatories, sometimes more than once.
This intellectual passing-in-the-night comes about because we had differing ideas about what the word "model" means. Some signatories viewed models (if they thought about them at all) as sketches, to be drawn on napkins for communication purposes then thrown away. What drew the most ire was the view of a model as a blueprint to be thrown over the wall to developers who did as they were told. I held neither of those views. I thought models ran.
Though we were executing models in 2001, it was with our own action language. I heard repeatedly at the meeting that you could not write a program to say "Hello World!" in the Unified Modeling Language (UML). And although you could, in fact, say "Hello World!" in UML, it certainly wasn't easy. In fact, it was an advertisement for writing code. This had to be addressed if modeling was to become widely viewed as executable.
In 1997, when the UML was accepted as a standard, there were but seven actions you could carry out in a model, and one of those was "uninterpreted string." (You can certainly forgive the signatories for thinking that models couldn't execute!) I proposed a standard Action Language for UML. Some folk immediately suggested standardizing on Java. Or Smalltalk. Or …
But an existing programming language is insufficient because it at too low a level of abstraction. It therefore mixes (to some degree) application concepts with their implementation. For example, when we build a particular data structure (a list of Customers, say, with pointers to lists of Accounts), we have made a decision about implementation. In the UML, we would instead express this is as an association, but we would not specify its implementation.
Moreover, when we come to operate on this data in code, we have to take into consideration the implementation we have selected. For example to sum up all the account balances for a specific customer, we are required to traverse the linked list. It would be simpler to say (somehow) "sum all of the account balances for this customer."
It's not so much that we want to be able to execute models in UML—we could just add code to achieve that. It's that we want the higher productivity that comes from operating at a higher level of abstraction away from the implementation. We also want to be able to change our minds about the implementation without changing the description of the problem. The UML model would have the same application meaning if we put Customers and Accounts into a database implementation.
Over the following twelve years, we (the members of the Object Management Group, the organization that standardized UML, and especially Ed Seidewitz from Model Driven Solutions) have produced a series of standards that define the kinds of actions permissible in UML; defined a subset of UML for execution; defined the semantics of that subset precisely; and (finally!) defined a standard Action Language for UML.
In that language, the example above would be written:
myCustomer.account.balance -> reduce '+'
where "reduce" is an operation that "reduces" the collection of balances produced by traversing from myCustomer to all their accounts by applying a binary operation, in this case '+' repeatedly until only a single value remains. Of course, that can then be translated into an implementation using linked lists. Or a database. Or anything else. There are no lists in the specification, nor any traversal of them, just a very compact statement of what needs to be done. (By the way, one design requirement for the language was that it be easily accessible to Java programmers, so much of the syntax looks like Java. The example here was chosen not to obfuscate but to illustrate the power of moving away from the implementation.)
The other signatories were kind enough, back in 2001, to write the manifesto using the word "software" (which can include executable models), not "code" (which is more specific.) As such I felt able, in good conscience, to become a signatory to the Manifesto while continuing to promote executable modeling. Ten years on we have a standard action language for agile modeling.
We rarely see the words "agile" and "model" in the same sentence, but they are not at all in conflict. Rather, modelers can learn a lot from the agile folk (building tests for models early, for example) and those following an agile process can benefit from the increased productivity and eased customer communication that come from sharing executable diagrams with their pair-modeling customers. Surely that's a win for everyone.
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About the Author
Stephen J Mellor is an independent teacher and consultant focused on methods for the construction of real-time and embedded systems. He is the author of Structured Development for Real-Time Systems (way back in 1985), Object Lifecycles, Executable UML, and MDA Distilled. He is also (perhaps surprisingly) a signatory to the Agile Manifesto. Until recently, he was Chief Scientist of the Embedded Software Division at Mentor Graphics, and founder and some-time president of Project Technology, Inc., before its acquisition. He participates in multiple UML/modeling related activities at the Object Management Group, and was a member of the OMG's Architecture Board, which is the final technical gateway for all OMG standards.
Mr Mellor was the Chairman of the Advisory Board to IEEE Software for ten years and a two-time Guest Editor of the magazine, most recently for an issue on Model-Driven Development. He is also adjunct professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, ACT, Australia.
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Full agree
Pedro J. Molina
Nothing is more agile than an executable model that needs no coding at all.
Executable model - a utopia?
Udayan Banerjee
But, agile approach also has a problem which is currently not very fashionable to talk about. The question is "can a coherent solution always emerge by adding individual features?"
Executable UML - A misunderstanding of boundaries?
Adam Nemeth
However, I think executable UML itself is a serious misunderstanding in itself. Once you execute something, it is a programming language. That means, either through libraries, language constructs, or code conventions, you deal with the same problem: get your abstract thoughts to actual implementation.
Therefore, its model is just as complex as in any programming language: it's not the model anymore, but the whole system.
Simply the laws of complexity regarding to the Turing machine kick in...
How could this happen?
I think our communities have two misunderstood boundaries, and maybe they are related to each other.
The first misunderstood boundary is of the position of plans in engineering. Never ever any single building was built purely based on its plans I believe. A plan is a rough understanding on what we want to achieve.
The sole existence of Software Engineering is based on the assumption that you should think it over before you try to make it run; going straight to coding is just as nonsense in this regard than trying to run the plans. I think that on the above discussion, I would take a position which is opposite to both parties: you shouldn't run your models, but you should have a - disciplined - method to think through what you want to do first!
The more advanced a building gets, the less formal are the plans: I remember, when we built our house, structural plans were taken with rigor; but then, the size of the toilett was measured by the mason by sitting on a chair, instead of tools. Interior plans were nearly never taken seriously.
The more we go into details, the less elaborate the plans are, and, I believe, the less elaborate they should be. UML taught me what are the crucial things which won't change:what to look for at the first day, how to build something when we don't have too much information, which will still stand the time. Not considering implementation details when dealing with the details - like, not considering what kind of data structure should we use when we're dealing with a reduction - would be irresponsible in my point of view. We should use a model which express this: the model encoded in the programing language.
The second misunderstood boundary is: who's the mason of this building? Who is the mason of the electric dreamcastles we build? For years, we thought it's the low-level programmer. This is simply not true!
Every single computer language is an abstraction on the electronic runtime, of sparks and silences. We don't give a computer a castle: we give a computer a full blueprint of a castle: hey,computer, when they request you to build such a castle - by clicking program.exe - this is what you should do!
So, every single programming language is therefore a full modeling language on its own right, with a full range of abstractions.
Now I understand that Java has a lot of implementation details in it always, even if it hides some of them. To the contrary, python has less of them, for example.
I don't like the level of abstraction of Java personally, but I think every single programmer would agree with me - even Kent Becks, I'm sure, after reading Implementation Patterns from him - that even in code we should build different abstraction layers.
I don't think java should be the modeling language where we express rough understanding of use cases; but on the other side, I don't think UML or anything coming from the modeling/ system engineering community should be the language where we discuss the details, let alone try to execute it, horribile dictu, in production, not just in simulations.
As the fight we should have for modeling is not what kind of end-to-end language we should use: the fight is about how to think about unknown territories.
End to end feedback
Thoralf Klatt
Very early feedback on understanding need/business process model, workflow, functional UX (user experience), applicability of an algorithm
-> simulate solution on meta level (e.g. UML, BPA/BPM, ...)
Verify earned business value on technical solution in a few weeks including design feasibilty, architectural viability, non-functional behavior incl. performance aspects of UX, immediate Re-action on e2e feedback, shifting technological platforms
-> proof-of-concept / iterative e2e story development on target
So choose or do both (incl. set-based concurrent design for the latter)
Mixing Agile & Models
Rodrigo Coutinho
At OutSystems, the company I work for, we build the Agile Platform, which allows building enterprise web applications using models. To make sure our projects run smoothly, we use Agile methodologies to manage them - and we've been very successful with this approach.
The language we use is a DSL, not UML. It can be argued that this is merely an abstraction or a graphical representation of the code of the application, as Adam already mentioned in the comments. But that's fine!
The goal of these models and DSLs is to raise the level of abstraction so that developers can spend more time focusing on what the business needs, instead of struggling with the details of the system. The big challenge is for developers to trust the applications and code generated by these platforms as much as they trust the JVM.
Once they do, they can be way more productive, deliver software with higher quality, and quickly deliver and adapt applications as the customer needs... Or, to put it in another way, they can become more Agile! :)
Nothing wrong with DSLs
Adam Nemeth
What I am opposed to is having general-purpose execution languages which claim to be better than state-of-the-art programming languages: at that moment, the "restricted view" definition of the model disappears for me.


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How To Install Cork Floor Tiles
When we undertook a large remodel project this year, we spent a lot of time researching the best flooring options. For us, the winner turned out to be cork. A sustainable and renewable material, cork has a unique cellular structure that is comfortable to stand on, warmer than wood floors and quieter. It also contains a natural substance called suberin, which acts as an anti-microbial agent. Cork flooring typically comes in click-together planks and glue-down tiles. We chose glue-down 12x12 tiles in a dark brown color (achieved through a steaming process). We had a big space to cover (about 500 square feet), but a single room could easily be done in an afternoon. Just remember, preparation is key!
What You Need
Cork tiles (we used Capri Cork)
Cork adhesive (check with the cork manufacturer to see what they recommend)
Chalk line
Skinny, low nap rollers
Paint tray
Roller extension rod (for applying the glue to the floor)
Soft blow rubber mallet
Utility knife
Straight edge
Cutting mat
100 lb roller (we rented ours for $20)
Small hand roller
Knee pads (recommended)
1. Prep the floor. (Cork can be applied over different subfloors, but the surface must be level and flat or the imperfections will telegraph through. We used a self-leveling compound to fill any crevices and divots in our plywood subfloor.)
2. Determine where you will start and snap two perpendicular chalk lines to mark where the first tile will go. (Make sure your lines are parallel to the walls.)
3. The adhesive acts like contact cement. Apply a thin coat to both the floor and back of tiles.(We found that rolling the glue on the diagonal kept the roller from slipping off and getting glue on the edges.) When the glue is transparent but still tacky, it's ready to go.
4. Place the first tile and set in place with a rubber mallet.
5. Install the next tile by setting it in at a slight angle next to the first tile to ensure a tight fit.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5. Every hour or so, use the 100 LB. roller to press the tiles firmly to the floor.
7. At the edges of the room, use a utility knife and straight edge to cut tiles to fit.
8. For edges and hard to reach areas, use a hand roller instead of the 100 LB. roller to ensure the tiles are fully adhered.
9. Celebrate, you're done!
Additional notes: Our tiles came unfinished (we had a wax finish put on later), but they are commonly sold with a water-based polyurethane finish.
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U.S. officials condemn photos of troops posing with Afghan insurgent mangled corpses
Photographs appeared in an American newspaper of U.S. soldiers posing with the maimed bodies of dead Afghan insurgents.
Already tense U.S. and NATO ties with Afghanistan were dealt another blow on Wednesday with photographs appearing in an American newspaper of U.S. soldiers posing with the maimed bodies of dead Afghan insurgents.
Senior U.S. officials and NATO's top commander in the country, U.S. General John Allen, moved quickly to condemn the pictures even before they were published by the Los Angeles Times, which received the photos from another soldier.
"The actions of the individuals photographed do not represent the policies of International Security Assistance Force or the U.S. Army," Allen said in a statement, adding an investigation into the incident was underway.
The appearance on the LA Times website of some of the 18 pictures, taken in 2010, comes at a sensitive time in U.S.-Afghan relations, following release of a video in January that showed four U.S. Marines urinating on Afghan insurgent corpses.
The inadvertent burning of copies of the Koran at a major NATO airbase also triggered a week of riots that left 30 dead and led to the deaths of six Americans.
And in March a U.S. Army sergeant went on a nighttime shooting rampage in two southern Afghan villages, killing 17 civilians and prompting Afghan President Hamid Karzai to demand foreign soldiers confine themselves to major bases.
Taliban insurgents launched suicide attacks in Kabul and three other provinces at the weekend, claiming the assault was launched in retaliation for all three incidents.
In one of the pictures a paratrooper posed next to an unofficial patch placed beside a body that read "Zombie Hunter", while in another soldiers posed with Afghan police holding the severed legs of an insurgent bombers.
Two soldiers in another frame held a dead insurgent's hand with the middle finger raised.
The LA Times said the 82nd Airborne Division soldiers had been at a police station in Afghanistan's Zabol province in February 2010, and revisited several months later. The pictures were taken on both occasions.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a statement released by departmental spokesman George Little that publication of the pictures could prompt further attacks against security forces ahead.
"The danger is that this material could be used by the enemy to incite violence against U.S. and Afghan service members in Afghanistan," Panetta said. "U.S. forces in the country are taking security measures to guard against it."
The U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Ryan Crocker also condemned the photographs, calling the actions of the soldiers "morally repugnant" and saying they "dishonor the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers and civilians who have served with distinction in Afghanistan".
The Times defended the distribution of the photos, which U.S. military officials asked the Times not to publish.
"After careful consideration, we decided that publishing a small but representative selection of the photos would fulfill our obligation to readers to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the American mission in Afghanistan," Times Editor Davan Maharaj said in the newspaper's article.
The photos are likely to stir up more anti-Western sentiment in Afghanistan as NATO combat troops look to exit the country in 2014 and strengthen fragile security in the country.
Such incidents have complicated U.S. efforts to negotiate a strategic partnership agreement to define its presence once most foreign combat troops pull out by the end of 2014.


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Release Notes for Cisco Aironet 1410 Wireless Bridges for Cisco IOS Release 12.3(11)JA4
Upgrading to a New Software Release
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Release Notes for Cisco Aironet 1410 Wireless Bridges for Cisco IOS Release 12.3(11)JA4
July 27, 2007
This release is a maintenance release and contains no new features. These release notes list open and resolved caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.3(11)JA4. This document also provides important information about the Cisco Aironet 1410 Wireless Bridge (hereafter called bridge).
These release notes contain the following sections:
•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
The Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Bridge is a wireless device designed for building-to-building wireless connectivity. Operating in the 5.8-GHz UNII 3 band (5725 to 5825 MHz), derived from the 802.11a standard, the bridge delivers 6 to 54 Mbps data rates without the need for a license. The bridge is a self-contained unit designed for outdoor installations, providing differing antenna gains as well as coverage patterns and supports both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations.
The bridge uses a browser-based management system, but you can also configure the bridge using the command-line interface (CLI) through a Telnet session, Cisco IOS commands, or Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
System Requirements
You can install Cisco IOS Release 12.3(11)JA4 on all 1400 series bridges.
Finding the Software Version
To find the version of Cisco IOS software running on your bridge, use a Telnet session to log into the bridge and enter the show version EXEC command. This example shows command output from a bridge running Cisco IOS Release 12.3(11)JA4:
bridge> show versionCisco Internetwork Operating System SoftwareIOS (tm) C1410 Software (C1410-K9W7-M), Version 12.3(11)JA4Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
You can also find the software version on the System Software Version page in the bridge's web-browser interface.
Obtaining the Software Image
To obtain the Cisco IOS software for your bridge, follow these instructions to reach the Cisco IOS Software Center on Cisco.com:
Step 1 Follow this link to the Cisco wireless document home page:
Step 2 Scroll down to the Outdoor Wireless section.
Step 3 Click Cisco Aironet 1400 Series. The Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Introduction page appears.
Step 4 Click Download Software. The Software Download page appears.
Note You must register or be a registered user to obtain the software image. Follow the registration instructions.
Step 5 Click Cisco Aironet 1400 Wireless Bridge and the software release page appears.
Step 6 Click 12.3(11)JA4 > Wireless LAN > Download and the Software License Agreement page appears.
Step 7 Read the agreement, click Agree, and enter your username and password on the Log In screen.
Step 8 Follow the prompts to save the software on your PC.
Upgrading to a New Software Release
For instructions on installing new software for your bridge:
Step 1 Follow this link to the Cisco wireless document home page:
Step 2 Scroll down to the Outdoor Wireless section.
Step 3 Click Cisco Aironet 1400 Series. The Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Introduction page appears.
Step 4 Under the Configure section, click Configuration Guides. A list of configuration documents appears.
Step 5 Click Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide for Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridge.
Step 6 Navigate to the Managing Firmware and Configurations chapter.
New Features
No new features for the bridge are introduced in Cisco IOS Release 12.3(11)JA4.
This section lists open and resolved caveats for the bridge.
Open Caveats
These caveats are open in Cisco IOS Release 12.3(11)JA4:
•CSCed36462—Per-VLAN crypto settings are nonfunctional with wireless bridges.
On wireless bridges, all VLANs traversing the bridge link must use the same encryption settings. To avoid confusion, do not use the "vlan <vlan-id> keyword on the encryption command as shown in the following example:interface dot11radio0 encryption key 1 size 128bit AAAAABBBBBCCCCCDDDDDEEEEEF transmit-key encryption mode wep mandatory mic
•CSCsd91189—Bad cookie is returned from driver resulting in loss of client association.
Resolved Caveats
These caveats are resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.3(11)JA4:
•CSCsh58082—When receiving a series of packets destined for port 5060, Cisco devices running an affected version of IOS that supports Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) may be required to reload the device. This issue is compounded by a related bug that allows traffic to TCP 5060 and UDP port 5060 on devices not configured for SIP.
•CSCsi78162—A router that has the SNA Switch feature enabled can generate several messages along with tracebacks.
•CSCsj16292—After an upgrade to 12.2(18)SXF9, the following message is displayed:%DATACORRUPTION-1-DATAINCONSISTENCY: copy error-Traceback=
•CSCsj18014—The caller ID is received with extra characters.
•CSCsj44081—Cisco IOS Software has been enhanced with the introduction of additional software checks to signal improper use of data structures. This feature has been introduced in select Cisco IOS Software releases published after April 5, 2007.
Details: The %DATACORRUPTION-1-DATAINCONSISTENCY error message is preceded by a timestamp: May 17 10:01:27.815 UTC: %DATACORRUPTION-1-DATAINCONSISTENCY: copy error. The error message is then followed by a traceback.
•CSCse56501—A device running Cisco IOS software that has Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) enabled may be subject to a denial of service (DoS) attack. For the device to be affected by this vulnerability the device also has to have certain Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) User Datagram Protocol (UDP) services enabled. To exploit this vulnerability an offending IPv6 packet must be targeted to the device. Packets that are routed throughout the router can not trigger this vulnerability. Successful exploitation will prevent the interface from receiving any additional traffic. The only exception is Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) service, which if exploited, will cause the device to crash. Only the interface on which the vulnerability was exploited will be affected.
Cisco is providing fixed software to address this issue. There are workarounds available to mitigate the effects of the vulnerability.
This advisory is posted at http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20080326-IPv4IPv6
If You Need More Information
If you need information about a specific caveat that does not appear in these release notes, you can use the Cisco Bug Toolkit to find select caveats of any severity. Click this URL to browse to the Bug Toolkit:
(If you request a defect that cannot be displayed, the defect number might not exist, the defect might not yet have a customer-visible description, or the defect might be marked Cisco Confidential.)
Related Documentation
These documents describe the installation and configuration of the bridge:
•Quick Start Guide: Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridge
•Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridge Software Configuration Guide
•Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridge Hardware Installation Guide
•Cisco IOS Command Reference for Access Points and Bridges
•Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridge Mounting Instructions
•Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridge 9-dBi Omnidirectional Antenna
•Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridge 10-dBi Sector Antenna
•Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridge 28-dBi Dish Antenna
•Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridge Roof Mount Assembly Instructions
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:
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