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email@example.com wrote: > ---- email@example.com wrote: >> ---- "André Warnier" <email@example.com> wrote: >>> firstname.lastname@example.com wrote: >>>> ---- "André Warnier" <email@example.com> wrote: >>>>> firstname.lastname@example.com wrote: >>>>> >>>>> .. re-synchronising.. >>>>>> I've made some progress. I have a VirtualHost, so I had to add a "JkMountCopy 'on'" inside the <VirtualHost>, and now, it's at least proxying through to the Tomcat using mod_jk!! >>>>>> >>>>>> BUT, it's still not logging me into the Tomcat :(... >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't want to post the entire jk.log, so can someone point me to what to look for in there, maybe? >>>>>> >>>>> Ok, so let's now continue on the mod_jk track, since you've got that part running. >>>>> >>>>> What you are looking for, is an AJP "request attribute" named "remote_user" (lowercase), >>>>> in the packets which mod_jk sends to Tomcat. >>>>> I don't know if that would be in the log, nor if there is any way to coerce mod_jk into >>>>> putting it in the log. >>>>> >>>>> But since your Tomcat is not authenticating, chances are that it isn't there. >>>>> >>>>> So let's try to cheat, and force it to be there. >>>>> In your Apache configuration, add this line : >>>>> >>>>> JkEnvVar remote_user "blablabla" >>>>> >>>>> and let's see what happens. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> (and after that, we'll try mod_rewrite or a combination) >>>>> >>>> >>>> Andre, >>>> >>>> I had already tried including a "JkEnvVar" as you suggested in my httpd.conf, in order to try to hard-code getting SOMETHING to show up, but no joy :(... >>>> >>>> I've also tried a bunch of other variants: >>>> >>>> JkEnvVar REMOTE_USER >>>> >>>> also: >>>> >>>> JkEnvVar remote_user "foobar" >>>> >>>> also: >>>> >>>> JkEnvVar AJP_REMOTE_USER "foobar" >>>> >>>> Nothing works :(... >>>> >>>> This is really getting discouraging :(. It almost seems to me like that 'tomcatAuthentication' functionality doesn't even exist at all. >>>> >>>> I've searched the jk.log for multiple things, "attr", "remo", etc., and find nothing relevant/significant at all in there... >>>> >>> Do not get discouraged. I can guarantee that the tomcatAuthentication="false" works, when >>> the Apache front-end really does authenticate the user. I use this all the time. >>> (Just not with the same SSO mechanism as you). >>> >>> I also know that "JkEnvVar" does work in general for setting request attributes at the >>> Apache level, and have them passed to Tomcat by mod_jk, because I also us that regularly. >>> (And there exists a similar functionality in mod_proxy_ajp). >>> >>> What may not work in the trials above, is that specifically this "remote_user" request >>> attribute may be overwritten by mod_jk or mod_proxy_ajp, even when you have set it >>> explicitly in Apache. >>> >>> After all, this feature is designed to do one thing : examine the "request record" of >>> Apache for an authenticated user-id, and if one is set, pass it along to Tomcat over the >>> AJP channel. If mod_jk/mod_proxy_ajp do not find such a user-id in the request record, >>> they may just /clear/ the remote_user attribute, thus voiding our attempts at cheating. >>> >>> To verify this is relatively simple. >>> Create the following <Location> section in Apache : >>> >>> <Location /sampleajp> >>> AuthType Basic >>> AuthName "toTomcat" >>> AuthUserFile /some-path/passwords >>> Require user testuser >>> SetHandler jakarta-servlet >>> SetEnv JK_WORKER_NAME tomcatA (<- or whatever name your worker has) >>> <Location> >>> >>> Note: the SetHandler and SetEnv lines above, in that <Location>, are equivalent to saying : >>> JkMount /sampleajp/* tomcatA >>> >>> Then follow the instructions here to create the password file and the user "testuser" in it : >>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html >>> section : Getting it working >>> >>> If you try to access such a URL "/sampleajp/*", the browser will popup a bssic auth dialog >>> and force you to login. >>> This will result in the request being duly authenticated for Apache, which /will/ result >>> in the Apache user-id being passed to Tomcat. >>> >>> Then, once you have verified (in Tomcat) that it is so, have another look at the mod_jk >>> logfile, to see if then you spot the attribute being passed. >>> (You will know that it is passed, but it may still not show up the logs). >>> >>> If all of that works, then we know that in order for your scheme to work, you must somehow >>> force the user-id obtained by your SSO system, to be also set in the Apache request >>> record. Which should be a solvable problem. >>> >>> And if not, then you still have your Valve.. >>> >> >> Andre, >> >> I haven't tried your full suggestion yet, but I removed all of the OAM SSO stuff out of my Apache httpd.conf, just to see what happens, but even after that, still am not getting logged into Tomcat, so it may be as you suggest, that mod_jk tries to get the userid from somewhere deep inside of Apache. >> >> So, I will try adding what you suggested, to get authenticated with just the Apache, and then see what happens, and will post back. If that works, we can go from there. >> >> Thanks for following up with this! >> >> Jim >> >> > > Hi Andre, > > I configured the <Location> as you suggested, and guess what? > > It WORKS! > > That was good, BUT, recall that I had removed the OAM stuff from the Apache .conf earlier. > > So, after confirming that, without the OAM stuff, and with your suggested <Location>, that it worked, I then went and uncommented the OAM stuff, i.e., added back the OAM agent. > Well, you should have one OR the other, not both. Comment-out the Basic authentication stuff, as below, and /then/ add your OAM stuff inside the location instead. <Location /sampleajp> # AuthType Basic # AuthName "toTomcat" # AuthUserFile /some-path/passwords # Require user testuser # leave these as they are : SetHandler jakarta-servlet SetEnv JK_WORKER_NAME tomcatA (<- or whatever name your worker has) # add the OAM stuff here : </Location> (and show us an example of the OAM setup , passwords etc. removed of course) (Maybe also, if you have a pointer to some documentation explaining the OAM setup, that may be helpful too). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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Fry survival in marine fish hatcheries rarely exceeds 50%, even for commercially developed species, and with new species where hatchery protocol development is still underway, fry survival is often less than 20%.
Through applied research on the farm—including trial and error—survival will likely increase, however, the goal of full commercialization is not only to optimize larval and fry survival and maximize production in an economical way, but to have consistent and stable results, cycle after cycle.
King notes that consistency and stability in hatchery performance can only come from a quality management program that sets measurable performance standards and accordingly minimizes risk. Protocols must arise from the methodical investigation of a predictable, calibrated system. Otherwise, the results will be too random, and the protocol will become unnecessarily complex and open to instability.
An evidence-based hatchery health plan, he says, can identify the pathogens present in the facility and the risks they present. Some pathogens — such as parasites — may affect hatchery performance and program stability even if they are only present in small numbers and do not rise to the level of a disease outbreak. Thus, an effective hatchery health-monitoring program should survey the facility for underlying bacterial, viral, parasitic and non-infectious diseases at critical points in the production cycle. This provides the foundation for biosecurity decisions that will ultimately minimize risk.
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So how can that be done in a cost-effective manner? King suggests that sampling a fish population for pathogens or parasites requires that a sufficient number of fish be killed to provide a statistically meaningful result. A sample that gives 95% confidence of pathogen detection is recommended by the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) and American Fisheries Society-Fish Health Section, which aim to detect assumed pathogen prevalence levels (APPL) of 2-10% in the total population. Most often, it is assumed that we need to know when APPL is at 5%. For example, in a lot of 2,000 fish, sixty fish should be sampled to give 95% confidence that a pathogen would be detected, and 145 fish for detecting pathogens at 2% prevalence. The sample sizes do not change much for larger populations: numbers for a stock of 100,000 fish are 60 and 150 at 5% and 2% prevalence respectively.
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An organisation I have recently been working with has a problem.
They have used a Capability Maturing Modelling approach to measure the impact of their Knowledge Management program for a number of years, apparently very successfully. The majority of teams/departments that take part in the analysis appear to be achieving very high levels of competency (80%+) leaving little room for cross-department improvement. The organisation asked if there were alternative 'light-touch' methods of measuring the impact of their Knowledge Management program.
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I looked at measurement in intangible organisational assets that are analogous to KM, in particular HR and Corporate Social Responsibility.
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A common CSR method is 'The Reputation Index'. Whilst rich in data, this cannot attribute CSR to organisational performance.
Warwick Business School has an excellent article from Prof Kamal Mellahi on measuring CSR impact. In particular note his final 'cautionary tale' sentence.
Some organisations have adapted Delphi Analysis , but this is more suited to forecasting than performance management.
Ideas from HR
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The leading HR forum is CIPD. They have a sophisticated measurement tool, that relies on users level of agreement with statements. Again, the results look very much like a maturity model with an associated action plan.
This article gives a useful representation of cause and effect from HR. Step 5 emphasises the need to set the level of attribution correctly. This is also shown in the Andrew Mayo diagram below, which we examined at the last KIN Roundtable in May.
Organisational Network Analysis
Other than maturity modelling, the other approach that meets almost all the requirements list above in Organisational Network Analysis, or SNA. The exception may be Point 5, cost.
Andrew Parker at Grenoble University and Rob Cross at the University of Virginia are the 'go-to people for ONA. Rob has an excellent ONA primer here.
KIN Facilitator Steve Dale is also qualified in SNA modelling.
Other KIN Members' insights
Below is a mindmap synopsis of the major 'Take-aways' from a previous Roundtable I ran on KM measurement.
Assuming that you agree with the criteria I set out at the start…
I have not come across anything that is better than Capability Maturity Modelling that is suited to what the organisation is trying to achieve. My recommendation was therefore that they significantly refresh their maturity modelling process and re-benchmark. The re-benchmarking is needed as I suspect there was 'grade inflation' to borrow the phrase from education. If there is a small differentiator between departmental KM performance, this should be re-baselined and exposed to identify gaps and re-invigorate competition.
SNA is a sophisticated alternative that meets most of the criteria. It could be used to measure KM interactions through careful wording of the SNA questions. Strength, direction, density and centrality of bonds can be analysed and teams/departmental KM performance inferred. The resulting network infographics can be particularly useful in presenting results in an empirical way to senior managers. If you have not tried SNA before, this would be worthy of a trial. SNA software is now inexpensive (in some cases free) , although proper set-up and analysis can still take a lot of expert input.
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Tomasz Kuszczak (Pol.)
The difficult "szcz" denotes a sound close to "shch" in "fresh cheese": [tomash kushchak].
Tor Hogne Aarøy (Nor.)
In Norwegian language the double "аа" is [o], the "о" is often read as [u], the "g" before "n" sometimes is read as "y", while "ø" after consonants is read as French "eu": [tur huine orøy].
Tuncay Şanlı (Tur.)
In Turkish language the "c" mean English "j". So, he is "Tunjay", not "Tunkay", as many think. While "Ş" is a Turkish [sh]: [tunjay shanli].
Václav Mrkvička (Czech.)
Czech "c" is [ts]. As for the surname, it has a hidden syllable: [vatslav m(o)rkvichka].
Vedran Ćorluka (Croat.)
Often the special sign over the "c" is omitted, which leads to a mispronunciation. Should be: [vedran chorluka].
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Some tips:
- If you have a hard cover suitcase then your possessions are more protected, let's it the people handling your luggage isn't wearing silk gloves.
- Fill hollow props, like my Tali shoes. Inside I have stored the arm gauntlets for Tali and Liara, thus protecting them and supporting the shoes.
- Use plastic boxes, the Asari head piece color off on clothes and shouldn't be squashed. The same goes for my Tali helmet and the M5 Phalanx gun; they would crack or get destroyed in impact.
- The asari head piece and the helmet still smell of chemicals due to last minute touch ups before flight, the boxes keep that smell away from the rest of the suitcase content.
- Disassemble, I was able to take off the visor of the Tali helmet, making it easier to store. Try to plan out possibilities to disassemble when designing your prop. See BettcanardDesign, she made the chainsaw from Lollipop Chainsaw and was able to take of the blade.


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Welcome To My Happy New Year!We've all been saying Happy Niu Year to make a pun on the Chinese word for Ox (Niu) as the Chinese Year of the Ox kicked off a week or so ago, but today's MY birthday, so it's kind of my personal Happy New Year.
There's lots good about it being my birthday today, but I have to say, the temperature this morning at -1F is a little daunting. But then that's the secret of February babies, just count back 9 months .... we were dreamed up on a lovely May or June day or night, just imagine what a sweet place we came from, and then delivered into the harsh reality of the coldest time of year. A good life lesson there, for sure. Our sunny personalities help all around us make it through the bleak days, with a promise of warm days to follow.
We can be a bunch of Pollyannas, us wacky Aquarians. We love to look on the bright side. For instance, I have a most excellent cup of real English Breakfast loose tea from Tealuxe (in Harvard Square) brewing in my big tea pot on the counter. I have a great day ahead, full of family, friends, fitness and fun. I might even find a piece of cake at the end of this brand new day ... I'll let you know.


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Resort Report 2010: Dior
When John Galliano was working on Dior resort, he had a very specific inspiration in mind: the fabulous look (and equally fabulous life) of Mitzah Bricard, who was muse to Monsieur Christian Dior, way back in the day. In fact, Galliano's inspiration gets even more specific. Bricard had a birthmark on her wrist, and she turned what she saw as a defect into a style statement, tying a sliver of leopard-print silk around it to cover it up. She had quite a thing for leopard, it seems, and for lilac too. Galliano obviously shares those fixations, as both turned up in a major way in this collection. The feline print was used on everything from a square-cut top with a glittering bow brooch to a belted, full-skirted coat to the trim on a chic strappy shoe with a sky-high stiletto heel that was supported by an architectural strut. The lilac, meanwhile, was mixed with the leopard for a double-breasted flared coat, or a polka-dot-print sheath dress. By focusing on a distinctly fifties silhouette—a lean gray suit with a wrapped neckline, say, or an exquisite black lace dress with a nude slip—he played to his own strengths too; a timely reminder of the scalpel-sharp cut of his jackets, or the elegance he can muster for evening.


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Say goodbye to Khroma and hello to Kardashian Beauty! America's most famous trio was forced to change the name of their cosmetics line after losing a legal dispute to Kroma Beauty, a Florida-based company.
How Brody Jenner Will Improve 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians'
"Boldface, along with Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, are looking to the future and see this change as a positive move forward," said Nicole Ostoya, chief executive officer of Santa Monica, Calif.-based Boldface. "We're confident that it's not the name that matters to our fans, but the Kardashian sisters' commitment to making this line a true reflection of their love for cosmetics."
Scott Disick Says He's Decided Against Marriage— Why Do We Care So Much?
What do you think of the name change? Will you still buy the girls' bronzers, lipsticks, and eye shadows? I personally think it's more on brand with the rest of their trademarked Kardashian–everything businesses, but tell me your thoughts in the comments below or on Twitter @OKMagazine!


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UNT's Adventures in Autism Conference unites professionals, parents
|Guests and presenters at the conference included guest speaker Paul Collins (second from left); Keturi Beatty, director of development for the UNT College of Education (center in stripes); Smita Mehta, UNT professor of Educational Psychology (center in black and white); Kristin Farmer, UNT College of Education graduate, founder of ACES (Comprehensive Educational Services Inc.) and benefactor of the UNT Kristin Farmer Autism Center (back row, behind Mehta); Bertina Combes, interim dean of the UNT College of Education (third from right); Kevin Callahan, executive director of KFAC; and Miriam Boesch, UNT assistant professor of Educational Psychology.
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More than 200 teachers, parents and clinicians ready to learn about new developments and methods in the Autism Spectrum Disorder community gathered at UNT July 30 for the 2016 Adventures in Autism Intervention and Research Conference, organized by the UNT Kristin Farmer Autism Center.
Bertina Combes, the UNT College of Education's interim dean, said the university has the expertise and passion needed to make the conference relevant and successful every year. Combes said UNT has also historically responded to the needs of the community.
|Smita Mehta, UNT professor of Educational Psychology, leaqds a seminar at the conference.
"I think the increasing number of individuals who have ASD creates a need to examine it more closely, and to investigate not only identification, assessment and intervention strategies, but also ways to support families of individuals with autism with the long-term goal of seamless integration into society," Combes said. "I think as an institution, one of the oldest and largest in the stat
e founded to prepare teachers, we have a responsibility to the North Texas area to provide quality training for those working with individuals with autism, whether it be through education or through community services. It is our duty and responsibility to be sure that we provide quality training to the individuals and professionals who are going to be providing direct services to kids with autism."
College professors, researchers and clinicians gathered from across the country to give presentations about what's new in ASD research and intervention.
Conference speakers this year included Connie Kasari, professor of human development and psychiatry at the University of California; Smita Mehta, professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at UNT; CJ Conard, BCBA-D at Autism Comprehensive Education Services; Lauren Mathews, senior lecturer in Speech Language Pathology at UNT; Paul Collins, professor in the Department of English at Portland State University; and many others.
Kristin Farmer, a UNT College of Education graduate, founder of ACES (Comprehensive Educational Services Inc.) and benefactor of the UNT Kristin Farmer Autism Center, said she hopes conference attendees were reminded of the importance of research and of helping those affected by ASD — particularly the population that is more severely impacted by the disorder — lead fuller lives.
"I'm hoping that people will gain new knowledge of how to treat autism and gain new ideas or even be reminded of the i
mportance of serving the entire population of autism, from high-functioning to those who are more impacted," she said.
Kevin Callahan, executive director of the UNT Kristin Farmer Autism Center, said the conference provides hope for changing lives and making a difference in the futures of families. And Mathews said it unites autism professionals in a meaningful way.
"Interdisciplinary work is so important in this field, and this conference brings together nearly every kind of professional who works with people with autism," she said. "I just think that's fantastic. It takes a group to really holistically work with someone with autism, and I feel like this conference embodies that."


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Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has revealed that he will leave the club at the end of summer.
The defender has been a loyal servant for the club and has won a plethora of titles under the stewardship of Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired last summer.
The England international has won six league titles with the Red Devils, two League Cups and a Champion League trophy during his tenure at Old Trafford and is heralded as one of the best defenders to have plied his trade at the club.
United currently have a host of young faces in the squad, with the likes of Chris Smalling, Jonny Evans and Phil Jones expected to take over.
Ferdinand will join his partner Nemanja Vidic on his way out of the club, with the Serbian leaving the club for Inter Milan after his contract expired this summer.
It is the end of an era for United who have been ruling English football for major parts over the last two decades and Ferdinand's departure opens the door to a new dawn at Old Trafford.
"I joined Manchester United in the hope of winning trophies, and never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined how successful we would be during my time here.
"There have been so many highlights, playing alongside some great players who have become good friends, winning my first Premier League title and also that fantastic night in Moscow are memories that I will cherish forever," Ferdinand told United's official website.
"Circumstances didn't allow for me to say goodbye the way I would have liked but I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my team-mates, staff, the club and the fans for an unbelievable 12 years that I'll never forget. Winning trophies I dreamed about as a kid came true at this great club.
"I am feeling fit and healthy, ready for a new challenge and looking forward to whatever the future holds for me," he concluded.


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Three middle-aged sisters gather to consider the fate of their family property on Martha's Vineyard.
How does one family cope with the trauma of losing a 15-acre seaside spread that has been theirs since Colonial times? Especially if they are descended from the Daggetts, one of the founding families of Martha's Vineyard? After their mother passes away, the McCarthy sisters, Dar, Delia and Rory, converge on Daggett's Way, their rustic vacation home, to pack up memorabilia. Daggett's Way is listed for sale because the sisters can afford neither to maintain it nor pay spiraling property taxes and inheritance taxes. There is an offer on the table from obnoxious buyers who plan to tear the historic place down and construct a vulgar facsimile of a French chateau, complete with indoor pool. Particularly hard hit by the prospect of losing her birthright is eldest daughter Dar, a graphic novelist whose manga altar ego Dulse can affect reality in ways Dar can't. As for her sisters, Delia's marriage is threatened by son Pete's meth addiction. Rory, mother of three, compulsively cyberstalks her ex, Jonathan, who left her for a younger woman. Years before, the sisters' father, Michael McCarthy, an Irish immigrant boat-builder who always felt threatened by his Daggett in-laws' wealth, disappeared after a solo voyage to Ireland aboard his hand-crafted sailing sloop. Dar recalls that her father had some crazy notion that in 1625 or so King Charles I had granted his family a tract of land within the Daggett parcel's boundaries. Not stopping to worry about how it's going to help them prove that they have an ancient title to land they already own, the sisters head off to Ireland, where they learn that Michael's madness was indeed methodical. Rich veins of conflict go unmined, and the most interesting characters are peripheral, including Harrison, a dispossessed Vineyardite who copes in a most original way with the loss of his own family fiefdom.
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Were it not for William Ware "Mack" Brazel (1899-1963), there would never have been a Roswell Incident – at least not one known to the general public. In July 1947, the 48- year-old Brazel was scratching out a living as foreman of the J. B. Foster sheep ranch located 30 miles southeast of the small cattle town of Corona, New Mexico. The family lived in Tularosa, while Mack stayed on the ranch in a shack without a telephone, electricity, or even running water. The nearest neighbor was 10 miles away.
As has been reported many times before, one day he discovered a mass of material strewn over a section of the vast hardscrabble grazing grounds and thought it strange and significant enough to warrant notifying the Chaves County sheriff, probably on July 6, who in turn called the Roswell Army Air Field. He did this not just because of a sense of patriotism, but also because the material was interfering with ranch operations, as the sheep wouldn't cross the debris field.
The military, in the persons of Maj. Jesse Marcel and Capt. Sheridan Cavitt, followed Brazel back to the ranch that same day. After spending the night, they spent the next day inspecting and collecting the debris, which they took to the base by the early morning of July 8. In short order, Col. William Blanchard, the commanding officer at Roswell, issued a press release stating that a "flying disk" had been recovered. Almost immediately after Blanchard's astonishing claim, Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey, his superior in the chain of command, held a press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, in which a battered balloon-borne radar reflector was said to be the "disk" found by Brazel. A follow-up article in the Roswell newspaper on July 9 is the only contemporary published record of what Brazel said ("Harassed Rancher Who Located 'Saucer' 'Sorry He Told About It"). It was based on an interview conducted in the offices of theRoswell Daily Record on the afternoon of July 8. The description of the debris he furnished sounds much like a small part of a Project Mogul balloon array, similar to that from weather balloons, which is the accepted skeptical explanation today for the event. Though Project Mogul was indeed a top-secret project, the neoprene rubber balloons and paper-backed aluminum foil radar targets used in it were not. In the article, Brazel describes a collection of "tinfoil", "tape," "sticks," and "rubber," which was so limited in size that it could be rolled up in a small bundle. But then he said the debris took up an area about 200 yards in diameter, vastly greater than the remains a Mogul array would produce. Apparently unnoticed and certainly unappreciated by reporters at the time were Brazel's final comments. The article concluded by noting that Brazel had previously found weather balloons on the ranch on at least two occasions, and he firmly stated, "I am sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon."
Brazel concluded by venting obvious frustration, saying that with the possible exception of a bomb, he would never report another object found on the ranch. The contradiction between his mundane description of the debris and his claim that this was not a weather balloon would reverberate almost endlessly when the Roswell controversy exploded into public consciousness.
The Historical Mack Brazel
With that, Brazel and the Roswell disk faded into obscurity. It was not until 31 years later that Marcel spoke out, saying that what he found at the Foster ranch was "not from this Earth." Roswell was revisited by researchers, who produced persuasive circumstantial evidence indicating that the original Blanchard disk story was closer to the truth than he weather-balloon explanation.
What follows is an attempt to piece together the historical Mack Brazel and his role in the Roswell events. To this end, we have relied on the recollections of family, friends, and the few others who had contact with him during the critical days of July 1947. You may have read some of this information before, but in this article we refine our picture of Brazel's role and present new findings about what he may have discovered.
In preparing this overview, we have relied on the original interviews made and published by William Moore, Stanton Friedman, Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt when he was Randle's research partner, as well as our own recent field work.
W. Ware "Mack" Brazel
We'll begin with his nickname. Most accounts refer to him as "Mac," partly because researchers heard the name and applied the most logical phonetic spelling. And his family tells us he was so named after former President William McKinley. However, family documents show that the spelling "Mack" was always used. Indeed, the inscription on his tombstone reads W. Ware Mack Brazel.
In addition to the first-person interview with Brazel at the Roswell Daily Record, we know of three other interviews. The first was done on the spur of the moment by Roswell radio station KGFL announcer Frank Joyce on Sunday, July 6. Joyce made it a practice to call Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox for new leads.
It happened that Brazel was in Wilcox's office at the time, relating his discovery of strange debris. Wilcox put Brazel on the telephone, and Joyce proceeded to interview him.
The second instance was an interview conducted at the home of Walt Whitmore, the owner of KGFL. This was probably done late on Monday, July 7. The interview was recorded on a wire recorder, the technology available at the time. The interview was meant to be aired as a scoop, but was never played on the air. Unfortunately, the recording has been lost to us because it was confiscated by the Army on the afternoon of July 8 and never returned during their operation to kill the original disk-retrieval story and remove all contrary evidence.
The third and last interview was conducted by an El Paso radio station. We know only that it took place, and can only guess that Brazel repeated the story he gave the Roswell Daily Record.
Based on our investigations and reasonable deductions, it seems almost certain that the Joyce and Whitmore interviews presented Brazel's story in honest, undistorted fashion. At some point on July 7-8, Brazel was placed in military custody at the base. His statements during this period are therefore suspect and may be the result of coercion. Family members believe that Brazel was frightened or bought off by the military, and that his July 8 Roswell Daily Record interview, in particular, was at least in the main outlines, dictated to him by the Army. One of the goals of our reinvestgation of Brazel has been to determine why he, alone among Roswell witnesses, was detained by the military.
The Harrassed Rancher
Mack Brazel's name first surfaced in public in the July 9 Roswell Daily Record article. Although the paper did not print a photo of Brazel, many other papers throughout the country did. Apparently his picture was the first Wirephoto electronically transmitted fro Roswell. When this picture appeared in the Albuquerque Journal, it alerted his son Bill, Jr. to the fact that his father was the center of a large controversy and that he might need some help.
The same page of the Journal carried the debunking story from Ramey's Fort Worth office, headlined "Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer." Brazel is also mentioned by name in this article.
Family Lore
Mack Brazel died in 1963 at the age of 64, and his wife Maggie died in 1975 at the age of 73. Thus both were dead well before any rersearcher could interview them about the events of 1947.


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When Andy MacDonald scored six minutes into Sunday's game, few inside the Nassau Veterans Coliseum could have guessed that would have stood as the winning goal.
Unfortunately for the Panthers, that one goal was enough to beat them.
Florida's scoring woes continued Sunday as the Islanders got MacDonald's early goal then tossed two more into an empty net late to snap a three-game losing streak with a 3-0 win against the Panthers.
The Panthers have now been shut out five times and have scored one goal or fewer in 13 of 33 games this season.
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Florida finishes this five-game roadie Tuesday in Toronto. Before Sunday, the Panthers hadn't been shut out since the Leafs did it on Feb. 18. The Panthers have lost two in a row after opening the trip with wins in Carolina and New York.
"We've given up four goals in the past three games," coach Kevin Dineen said, adding he doesn't count the empty-net ones.
"We have to find some production and encourage some of the plays that are creating chances. But we need some finish right now. We need some opportunistic guys to see the opportunity to produce right now."
The Panthers didn't offer Jacob Markstrom much support, again, as he has given up 23 goals during his nine starts this season. The Panthers have scored just 20 goals in those games.
Sunday, Markstrom was sharp for much of the night as New York's first goal came with Filip Kuba serving a penalty as MacDonald rifled in a shot from 35 feet out on the Islanders' fourth shot of the night.
"It was a tough game for us," said Markstrom, who is 3-6-1 and made 34 saves Sunday. "We had a good push at the end but we couldn't get the puck in. It's a hard way to lose."
Evgeni Nabokov faced just four shots in the opening period and made a total of 26 saves to earn his 55th career shutout.
The Islanders' goal total was pumped up by empty-net goals by John Tavares with 31 seconds left and Casey Cizikas with 13 remaining.
"It's frustrating. We didn't have the greatest start, but we had chances in the second and third," Shawn Matthias said. "It felt like we were right there in the end. We had them running around. We just couldn't get it done."
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Colby Robak admitted he had a bit of a sleepless night not knowing whether he would face further discipline from the league for his soft shove of New Jersey's Tim Sestito on Saturday.
Sestito lost his balance and rammed into the glass and ended up leaving the game midway through the third period. Robak was hit with a five-minute penalty for cross-checking and was ejected from the game. The league did not offer up any more penalties, and Robak played Sunday.
"It looked a lot worse than I anticipated it would be," Robak said. "We were going for a puck and I thought I'd give him a nudge on the hip to get a step on him. I guess I pushed him a little harder than I thought. It's not something you want to see."'
Winger Jack Skille left Saturday's game with a mysterious "upper body" injury Dineen did not expound on. Dineen said Skille was sent back to South Florida to be checked out by doctors and that the injury was something "that happened a couple days ago. He's not sure."
Skille missed big chunks of last season with shoulder injuries.
Greg Rallo, who played in one game with the Panthers last season, was recalled from AHL San Antonio. Rallo leads the Rampage in goals with 22.
Matthias said he didn't know how many stitches it took to close a large cut above his left eye after being struck by a puck Saturday night. The area around Matthias' eye is discolored and swollen. He said he couldn't open it Sunday morning.
Matthias not only returned after being stitched up Saturday but played 23 shifts Sunday.


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John 7:37-39
"'Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water.'" Now he said this about the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit, Jesus says, like living water, will flow out of the believer's heart.
It won't just be the trickle of a low-flow spigot, he says; but rivers.
Is this what we see in churches today? When we look around, do we see rivers of living water flowing forth from Christians, quenching the spiritual thirst of this parched land?
Yes, our land is parched. Yes, we're thirsty.
We see spiritual thirst, for instance, in our individualism.
Culture tells me to be independent, self-sufficient, and confident in my own abilities. It's a tempting message, especially when society is so accommodating to my independence.
I get in my car. I drive to the Starbucks I choose. And I order a café mocha, my favorite drink, except not as it appears on the menu but as I prefer it, with half the sweetener and twice the chocolate! Then I return to my home to watch my TV programs that I've pre-recorded to suit my schedule—after I run through my favorite apps that I've customized to my iPhone.
Ever wonder why it's called the "i" Phone?
But, notice. This message is not all it's cracked up to be. The "i" on the iPhone is lower case. You are actually quite dependent on others, whether you care to admit it or not.
And have you seen what this message does to relationships—or, should I say, to individuals trying to have relationships with other individuals?
"It is not good for the man to be alone," God said. And yet that's all most people seem to want anymore: to be left alone.
In the end, the water that independence sells us leaves us thirsty.
Likewise, there's spiritual thirst in society.
Perhaps our societal spiritual thirst is seen best in the decline in mainline church attendance over the last four decades. Other spiritual are waters out there—spiritual waters that today seem more attractive than church. Their sellers have done a good job at marketing them, at making them more attractive.
I think we Christians are more to blame for this decline than those sellers though. For, if the unchurched or de-churched could actually see our living water, like the woman at the well, they would want it.
But they don't see it. Which is our fault. Because—my thinking anyway—it's not flowing out of us.
Oh, it's there all right—living water. It's just not flowing out of us. Instead, it's bottled up inside our independent selves.
Thus we see spiritual thirst all around us; thirst that can only be quenched by the living waters of the Holy Spirit, by the living waters that we possess. So, let's get it out there already!
Speaking of the Holy Spirit, today is Pentecost Sunday. It is the day in the Church when we recall the Holy Spirit descending from heaven and entering all peoples.
This is a big day on the Church calendar, right up there with Christmas and Easter!
Now, God sent his Son to be Incarnate from the Virgin Mary. And we definitely see this remembered and celebrated in our churches today—also in the world around us. Christmas and Easter festivities abound!
But God sent the Holy Spirit too. And the Holy Spirit is a lot like Jesus: another Advocate; God dwelling with us.
So, when's the last time you walked into CVS and heard Pentecost carols playing from the speakers overhead? (For that matter, just between us, Pentecost hymns in our own hymnal are few and far between–and not very catchy!)
When's the last time you walked down the greeting card aisle to buy some Pentecost greeting cards to give to your beloved friends and family members?
And why don't we practice longstanding cultural traditions that involve a big, cuddly dove? A dove to descend our chimneys, maybe, and give us gifts? Doves fly better than reindeer, after all. Or red plastic dove egg hunts in our church courtyards? Doves actually lay eggs, after all, unlike bunnies.
No, by and large, we forget about Pentecost.
Maybe we should just get rid of it then, eh? Time to move on already—get with the times! Maybe we should just give up trying to figure out who or what the Holy Spirit is and just eliminate him, her, or it from our theology, liturgy, and practice.
Who is the Holy Spirit anyway? Or, to frame it another way, what if we were just to get rid of the Holy Spirit altogether?
The Creed tells us who the Holy Spirit is. We say the Creed together most Sundays, including that section about the Holy Spirit: "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son," and so on.
But what do these words really mean? They all seems rather nondescript.
There's this line: "He has spoken through the Prophets." I get that one. Sort of. I mean, there were these fringy people in the Old Testament stories who stood their ground against dictators and despots; and how could anyone have done that unless they were empowered by something divine—or at least something supernatural, or unnatural?
But how do we make sense of the lines that follow?
"We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. / We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. / We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come."
What in the world do these words have to do with the Holy Spirit?
Maybe nothing. Maybe they're just some important bullet points that the Creed compilers felt compelled to include somewhere—like a kind of faith appendix statement.
Anyway, why couldn't the Creed compilers have been more concrete, like they were with respect to Jesus?
Jesus! He was born of the Virgin Mary, tried before Pilate, crucified, died, and rose again on the third day. Also, he will come again to judge the living and the dead.
Yes, Jesus is easy to believe in. It's all right there in the Creed, concrete, before our eyes.
So why do the words about the Holy Spirit have to be so abstract?
To which I say, yes, they are abstract. The Holy Spirit is a bit confusing—and has been for the entire history of the Church.
But notice this: everything about the Holy Spirit in the Creed has a communal focus.
The Holy Spirit spoke through individual prophets, yes. But why? It was to rouse a collective people, a nation: to pray as a people; to convict a nation of its societal sin; to rouse the nation to justice—which is just the profile of corporate love's face.
And as for those other statements?
One holy catholic and apostolic Church means our communal faith with all the saints of all the ages.
Our baptism is our entrance rite into the one fold of God.
And as for the resurrection of the dead? Every single person who walks this earth will die. You cannot get more communal than that!
So, what happens if we just get rid of the Holy Spirit altogether?
We lose our prophets, our teachings, our conviction, our prayers, our communion, our baptism, our justice, our love.
You see, a god without the Person of the Holy Spirit is like a swimming pool without water. What's the point? It has form and function but fails to serve its purpose.
If the Holy Spirit is not flowing from us like rivers of living water, what's the point? We might testify of God's form and function; yet what good are our testimonies when we fail to accomplish Christ's mission?
So, how do we get the living water of the Holy Spirit to flow out of us?
Well, it looks like the stuff I just mentioned—Spirit stuff, I call it: corporate belief, prayer, communion, baptism, justice, and love. Or, to use the words of our patron, it looks like "love, joy peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control"—the things St. Paul calls "the fruit of the Spirit."
And that starts with each of us, as individual followers of Christ.
What? Did I just say individuals?
I know many of my messages talk about our salvation, faith, belief, and so on in a corporate way. I'm not waffling on this theme! The Bible is clear throughout: Jesus' mission is not to save individual souls from a world that is hellbound; but to save the world, the cosmos, all of it, by redeeming and restoring it to its rightful state. He's already redeemed it, by the way; and now it's up to us, his corporate church, to restore it.
But here's the thing.
Do you remember what I said about that spigot? Jesus did not say, "Out of the believer's heart shall flow a trickling spigot of living water." He said rivers.
But an individual, trickling spigot is better for a dry and parched land than nothing at all.
The living water of the Holy Spirit starts with each one of us. Each one of us would do well to live a life characterized by the fruit of the Spirit. See what this looks like in Galatians 5. And to help us, St. Paul also includes a contrasting list, "the works of the flesh," he calls them, the things that shouldn't flow from us.
And when this living water begins to trickle from you, even if you are a low-flow spigot, well, hey, at least it's something! And when a second low-flow spigot opens up nearby, why, its trickle joins yours and the two become a bigger flow.
And a third trickle combines to make the flow bigger still.
And so on, each one of us intentionally committing to live a life characterized by the fruit of the Spirit, until our individual, low-flow trickles become a brook; our brooks a stream; our streams a creek; and our creeks, eventually, mighty rivers of living water, to renew and revitalize a parched and dry land.
Come, Holy Spirit!


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7th and 8th grade students will perform the classic story of Charlotte's Web. A great story for all ages.
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Bob is a quiet guy in interviews, but for the most part he'll tell the other guys just about anything they want to know. That said, there are limits, things he knows better than to mention, because he doesn't really want to spend the rest of his life being mocked. Or, at the very least, he wants to cut down on the level of mockery that he could be open to.
It is for this reason that he keeps his deepest and most long-lived kink a secret more well-guarded than most national security codes.
Bob can't really listen to a British accent without getting hard.
He's tried.
He blames it on his mom's affinity for the Beatles and the fact that his first wet dream was definitely all about John Lennon.
Whatever the cause, there is nothing to be done for it now. Nothing at all.
It makes touring in England a bitch, because Frank has eyes like a hawk and a tongue twice as sharp, but Bob has learned his own ways to be clever. Mostly hiding behind Mikey, whom Frank never goes through to get to him.
The problem is, a guy doesn't expect to be ordering coffee in a Starbucks in LA--the coffee's not even for him; he's taken mercy on Gerard, who really is going to pass out if he doesn't get a hit, and Bob is recognized less when out in public--and to hear pretty much the most refined, layered, luscious British accent ever to have been given to a human behind him, ordering a tall chai latte.
Bob hates sneak attacks.
The good news is, Frank is nowhere around and Bob is wearing fairly baggy jeans. The bad news is, he can't stop listening.
He knows he shouldn't but he turns to see the body the voice is wearing and oh, that's a mistake. Bob tries to turn to wipe his brain clean of the image of tall and fit and so fucking pretty Gerard would have to stand aside.
His brain is determined to stay utterly filthy.
Bob hates his brain.
In his mind, Ray is saying, "You unbelievable pussy, just get his digits."
It has to be Ray, because nobody else has used the word "digits" since around the time the telephone was invented.
Bob says, "Is that good? The chai thing?"
Bob also sucks at come on lines. When he was in high school, nothing was going to get him laid and then later, he was either going to get laid because he was with the band or he wasn't.
English blinks at him. "Ah. Well. It's sort of tea-like but it has cinnamon in it and so better than tea even though biologically I should be pre-disposed to think nothing better than tea, but I much prefer coffee, if truth is told and chai is sort of in between, not quite so bad for you, not great, either, mind, but-- Er. I enjoy it."
English blushes and Bob bites the inside of his cheek to stop himself from saying "keep talking." Instead he says, "I'm Bob," and whoa if that isn't a calculated risk, but English doesn't look like the type to be listening.
English offers his hand. "Wesley."
Bob shakes it. "Nice to meet you."
Wesley smiles. "Even after that stunning treatise on my wayward British habits?"
Bob is pretty much going to come right there. He's not proud of it. "Particularly, after."
Bob can see the moment where Wesley reconsiders him. "Were you going to drink your coffee here?"
Fuck. "Um. It's actually for a friend. I'm sort of skipping out of work. But maybe-- Do you work around here, too?"
Wesley nods.
"Maybe I could try that chai thing out later, get you another one."
"Seven," Bob says.
"My job's a bit unpredictable."
That's a bit of a surprise. He comes off as a nine-to-fiver. "Have a cell phone?"
Wesley says, "Yes, of course."
Bob steals a pen from the cash register and writes his number on a napkin. "Call me if you need to make it later."
He watches as Wesley programs the number in.


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By the mid-1930s, gray wolves had been exterminated across most of the lower 48 states. In the following decades, Mexican gray wolves and red wolves also disappeared from the wild.
Thankfully, that wasn't the end of the story. A captive breeding program and reintroduction rescued red wolves from their brush with extinction, paving the way for similar efforts with other wolves. The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s marked for many the true return of wolves to the West.
We've come a long way since then. Decades of work from state and federal agencies, and our own organization as well as countless others, have helped wolves rebound. In that time, we have seen reactions to wolves run the full gamut between loathing and reverence. We've seen states' aggressive attempts to drive wolf numbers down, and privately-run "wolf derbies" designed to kill as many as possible. But we've also seen wolves return to habitats where they haven't set foot in decades. We've seen communities learn to adapt to life in wolf country, and formed groundbreaking collaborations with livestock producers that keep wolves on the ground safe.
We're proud of the work that's behind us – but also know that this work is never done. We want to see wolves thriving in healthy habitats across North America, fulfilling their crucial role as top predators, maintaining the health of wildland ecosystems, and valued as an iconic species of wildlife. So what's next?
Wolves of the Rockies – Colorado Here We Come!
Gray wolves have returned to most of the northern Rockies. Each state manages wolves their own way, and our experts keep a close eye on implementation of and changes to state management plans and practices so that we can take advantage of every opportunity to advocate for wolves. We're also promoting coexistence with ranchers in the region – encouraging them to use nonlethal methods of keeping wolves away from livestock and saving the lives of wolves.
The southern Rockies are a different story. This region has some of the best wolf habitat in all the lower 48 states. What it doesn't have is wolves – a fact we hope to change. Our team in Colorado is working to build support for wolves in the region, teaching residents about the value these animals bring to the landscape, and reaching out to state wildlife officials to develop new policies that would make it safer for wolves to return to the state. We'll also be working with ranchers to help them understand the nonlethal options they would have to prevent conflict with their livestock, so that they can also be among our allies as wolves begin to return.
Restoring wolves to the southern Rockies would be an incredible achievement. It would mean that wolves – a top predator incredibly valuable to native ecosystems – have been restored along the entire spine of the continent, from the Arctic all the way down to Mexico. That's the long-term vision for wolves that we hope to achieve. We know it won't happen quickly, but we're up to the challenge.
West Coast Wolves – Focus on Coexistence
In Washington, Oregon and California, wolves are still returning.
Washington (which currently holds about 90 wolves) and Oregon (about 110 wolves), are both in the process of learning how to manage both wolves and livestock on the landscape. We're glad to be a part of this process, pushing for use of the nonlethal methods of avoiding conflict that we have seen work so well in other states. Happily, this is making a big difference for wolves on the ground. The states' policies are evolving to better protect wolves, and in Washington in particular, the number of livestock producers using nonlethal tools instead of calling for wolves to be removed has more than tripled over the past few years.
Of course, we were all thrilled last year when California was found to finally have its own wolf pack! Wolves in the Golden State are still protected under the Endangered Species Act, but that could change if the Fish and Wildlife Service moves forward with the national delisting proposal it introduced in 2013. That's why our California team led the way in lobbying the state to protect gray wolves under the state Endangered Species Act, giving the animals an extra layer of protection if they should need it. With that goal achieved, we're pushing for a strong, science-based conservation plan from state officials, and laying the groundwork for the same kind of coexistence work we are pursuing throughout the west.
Red Wolves – Holding FWS Accountable
This species of native wolf, found today only in a small corner of North Carolina, is in dire straits. Though the red wolf recovery program was once the model for wolf reintroductions across the U.S., the Fish and Wildlife Service has bowed to politics in recent years, all but abandoning the program, and causing the red wolf population to crash from 150 down to fewer than 45 wolves on the ground. Recently, FWS proposed a plan in which they would effectively doom red wolves to extinction in the wild, rounding up most of them up for capture to bring into captivity.
Defenders and several other wolf advocate groups are working hard to make sure this doesn't happen. Our team on the ground is working to raise awareness and support for the red wolf recovery program in every corner of North Carolina and beyond, reaching out to citizens and landowners as well as decision makers in the state capitol and wildlife agency. We're calling on everyone who cares about red wolves to tell the FWS to do its job and recover endangered species in the wild, not just in captivity. We're also pushing for FWS to find more sites for red wolf reintroductions, and will do everything we can to ensure that the howl of the red wolf continues to be heard.
Mexican Gray Wolves – Pushing for More Wolves, Less Politics
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On the other side of the country, politics has also taken hold of the Mexican gray wolf, a smaller, more timid subspecies of gray wolf. Regular wolf releases are desperately needed to bolster the still-recovering wild population. But in the last seven years, only four new wolves have been released from captivity. Of these, three are dead and one has been recaptured.
The states of Arizona and New Mexico (in collusion with anti-wolf congressmen) are interfering with Mexican gray wolf recovery, pushing for the effort to fall to the states instead, even though both states have repeatedly given way to anti-wolf special interests. We are fighting back with every tool we have, pushing the Fish and Wildlife Service to continue its recovery efforts for this key species, and even defending the agency's right to do so in court. At the same time, our team on the ground is gathering support for Mexican gray wolves across the landscape, and working with ranchers and other stakeholders to promote nonlethal tools so that we don't continue to see these valuable wolves lost because of wolf-livestock conflicts that could have been prevented.


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Mopping up operations were underway at a building in Srinagar's Karan Nagar area with security forces killing two terrorists, officials said today. The encounter between militants and security forces, which began yesterday after the ultras tried to attack a CRPF camp, resumed this morning after an overnight lull.The identity and group affiliation of the slain militants were not immediately known. Security forces had launched a final assault on the terrorists hiding in an under construction building in Karan Nagar area this morning, officials said.The incident came two days after Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists attacked an Army camp in Sunjuwan area of Jammu, killing seven people, including six Army soldiers.Three terrorists were also killed in retaliation by the Army.