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Zachary Warmbrodt is a financial services reporter for POLITICO Pro.
He came from Argus Media, where he split nearly four years between Houston and Washington reporting on energy markets, including a few trips to oil refineries and numerous visits to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
A Texas native, he previously covered business as an intern at his hometown paper The Dallas Morning News, The Oklahoman and the Austin Business Journal.
While attending the University of Texas at Austin, he served as managing editor for The Daily Texan and worked as a Web content producer for the Austin American-Statesman's Virtual Capitol site.


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Movie Stars and Gossip
KELLY CLARKSON says she fully credits her fiance, BRANDON BLACKSTOCK, for her dramatic 30-pound weight loss in the past year.
As you may have noticed, Kelly Clarkson has been"suffering" a dramatic drop in creativity when it comes to her songwriting (not that she's really complaining) and has also been flaunting her new, slimmer bod lately.
And according to the "American Idol" winner herself, it's all thanks to her fiance, Brandon Blackstock.
She told the February issue of Cosmopolitan about her shocking 30-pound weight loss:
"I think that happens when you fall in love or date someone."
She explained:
"If I'm going to be messing around, I gotta look good."
And she didn't do it with the help of a "fad diet"! Kelly shared her secrets:
"I was working with a trainer, and she said, 'You'd be amazed the amount of weight you can drop by halving your portions. I know it sounds crazy, but do it for two weeks and watch what happens.' I just cut back my portions, I stopped eating late at night, and I work out a little more than I used to, and I literally dropped 18 pounds in a month."
She proudly showed off the results last June on the cover of Us Weekly:
But, for Kelly, maintenance is just as important in her diet. She continued:
"I think [weight loss] happens when you get really busy. But when I'm on my off-time — girl, those 18 might come back!"
Now Kelly may be reveling in her recent weight loss success, but she defends her fuller bod that we've previously gotten used to and promised that she is "not willing" to go crazy with her diet.
"I'm willing to work a little bit because I want to be a healthy individual — which I always have been. I've put on weight, but that's just what I'm happy with at that moment."
It also helps that her fiance is a bit of a health buff and likes to get fit, too. Kelly revealed:
"Brandon and I both have bikes on the back of the bus, and we both love the outdoors. Once your lifestyle becomes more active, obviously you drop weight."
You heard her! Now grab your boyfriend or girlfriend and start losing those holiday fats!
Photo Via Cosmopolitan / Us Weekly

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Revelation is perhaps one of the most popular, yet least understood books in the entire Bible. In an effort to correct that, Around the Word has begun offering a new study called "The Seven Churches" by Pastor Travis Loeslie. An introduction … Continue reading
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This Lent I began editing and co-authoring a weekly free, downloadable PDF Bible study with Pr. Bryan Wolfmueller on the Penitential Psalms (6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143) for Around the Word. We've had a number of people tell us how useful they've … Continue reading
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Brentin Mock
Brentin Mock is a staff writer at CityLab. He was previously the justice editor at Grist.
The question that typically pops up when black people are killed by police is whether racism had anything to do with it. Many studies do show that racism plays a part in causing police to pull the trigger more quickly on black suspects. That's usually because of the implicit racial biases of the individual police officer involved. Law enforcement officials often try to rule out racism by arguing that you can't tell what's in a officer's heart when these killings happen.
But what a team of researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health recently endeavored to find out was whether the kind of racism that's woven into laws and policies also informs racial disparities in police violence. Their findings were released in the paper, "The Relationship Between Structural Racism and Black-White Disparities in Fatal Police Shootings at the State Level," which was recently published in the Journal of the National Medical Association.
For this study, a research group led by community health sciences professor Michael Siegel looked at data on fatal police shootings between 2013 and 2017 from the Mapping Police Violence database, and then ran that along five key indicators of systemic racism— racial segregation, incarceration rate gaps, educational attainment gaps, the economic disparity index, and employment disparity gaps—for each state. The worse that African Americans are doing on those five fronts compared to white people, the higher the state's score on what the researchers call a "state racism index." If a state scores high on those five factors, and also happens to have a high per capita rate of unarmed African Americans shot and killed by police, then structural racism serves as a worthy explanation for police violence in those states.
Siegel's team controlled their analysis by considering other factors such as each state's population size, non-homicide violent crime rate, household gun ownership, and proportion of population living in urban areas. They found that structural racism does positively correlate with higher levels of police killings of African Americans. For every ten-point increase in the state racism index there's a corresponding 24 percent increase in the ratio of unarmed black people killed by police compared to white people killed in same conditions. This was true for the nation, when looking at state results in aggregate. Racial segregation was the most significant predictor among the five state racism index factors for this outcome.
Below is a map of how each state scored using this analysis:
Before this study there were two general schools of thought on racial disparities in police killings of unarmed black suspects: The threat hypothesis, which reflects the influence of racism on police interaction with African Americans, and the community violence hypothesis, which supposes that higher rates of violent crime in black neighborhoods might explain higher rates of police shootings of African Americans. Siegel's study says both are contributors, but don't totally explain the disparities.
"Even when controlling for both the overall rate of Black police shootings and Black arrest rates," reads the study, "structural racism was still a significant positive predictor of police shootings of unarmed Black suspects."
The best state examples for seeing how structural racism might influence police violence against African Americans are Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois, which register the highest on the state racism index, and have some of the highest rates of unarmed African Americans shot by police. So, one might apply this study to see if explains the police killing of Dontre Hamilton, an unarmed African American who suffered from a mental disorder who police shot 14 times in 2014; or, the Facebook-lived police killing of Philando Castile in 2016, who was also unarmed when police shot him in an area outside of St. Paul, Minnesota. Or, you could look at any one of the hundreds of police killings that occurred in Chicago, Illinois over the past few years to see if the lessons of Siegel's study applies.
No matter how these matters are reviewed, the racial disparities found in police violence can no longer be written off as a dispute over what was in a police officer's heart when he or she pulled the trigger. There is now empirical data that shows that broader policies perpetuating racism must be considered, too.
In an era of austere federal funding for urban public transportation, light rail seemed to make sense. Did the little trains of the 1980s pull their own weight?
Livability indexes can obscure the experiences of non-white people. CityLab analyzed the outcomes just for black women, for a different kind of ranking.
A different kind of wealth distribution in 17th-century Amsterdam paved the way for its quintessential home design.
The pioneering festival marketplace was among the most trendsetting urban attractions of the last 40 years. Now it's looking for a new place in a changed city.
Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.


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Improviser, guitarist and constructor Han-earl Park (박한얼) (www.busterandfriends.com) has been crossing borders and performing fuzzily idiomatic, on occasion experimental, always traditional, open improvised musics for twenty years. He has performed in clubs, theaters, art galleries, concert halls, and (ad-hoc) alternative spaces in Austria, Denmark, Germany, England, Ireland, The Netherlands, Scotland and the USA.
Park engages a radical, liminal, cyborg virtuosity in which mind, body and artifact collide. He is driven by the social and revolutionary potential of real-time interactive performance in which tradition and practice become creative problematics. As a constructor of musical automata, he is interested in partial, and partially frustrating, context-specific artifacts; artifacts that amplify social relations and corporeal identities and agencies.
Ensembles include Mathilde 253 with Charles Hayward and Ian Smith, Eris 136199 with Nick Didkovsky and Catherine Sikora, and Numbers with Richard Barrett. Park is the constructor of the machine improviser io 0.0.1 beta++, and instigator of Metis 9, a playbook of improvisative tactics. He has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Dunmall, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Mark Sanders, Josh Sinton, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Gino Robair, Tim Perkis, Andrew Drury, Pat Thomas and Franziska Schroeder. He has guested with Gargantius Effect (Murray Campbell and Randy McKean), the Mark Hanslip/Dominic Lash/Phillip Marks Trio, and Swim This (Nick Didkovsky, Gerry Hemingway and Michael Lytle); performed as part of large ensembles led by Wadada Leo Smith, Evan Parker and Pauline Oliveros; and participated in improvisative meetings with Gerald Cleaver, Andrea Parkins, Tom Rainey, Mike Pride, Anna Webber, Jack Wright and Ingrid Laubrock. He has studied with improviser-composers Wadada Leo Smith, Richard Barrett, Joel Ryan, Mark Trayle, Chick Lyall and David Rosenboom, composers Clarence Barlow and Marina Adamia, and interactive media artist Sara Roberts.
Festival appearances include Freedom of the City (London), Sonorities (Belfast), International Society for Improvised Music (New York), dialogues festival (Edinburgh), VAIN Live Art (Oxford), Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology Festival (Los Angeles) and Sonic Acts (Amsterdam). In addition to numerous self-released albums, his recordings have been released by Slam Productions, Creative Sources, Vicmod Records, FrImp, Owlhouse Recordings and DUNS Limited Edition. His music has been featured on anthologies released by Bridge Records, farpoint recordings and Frog Peak Music. He has performed live on Resonance FM (London), Drift Radio (Scotland), and KVMR 89.5 FM (Nevada County), interviewed on RTÉ Morning Ireland and RTÉ Nova (Ireland), and his recordings have been broadcast around the world.
Park taught improvisation at University College Cork (2006–2011 and 2017), and founded and curated (2007–2011) Stet Lab, a space for improvised music in Cork. He is a recipient of grants from the Arts Council of Ireland (2007, 2008, 2009 and 2016), Culture Ireland (2015), and Music Network (2009 and 2010), and of the Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship (1999) and the CalArts Scholarship (1999 and 1999–2000).
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"Guitarist Han-earl Park is a musical philosopher…. Expect unexpected things from Park, who is a delightful shape-shifter…."
— Brian Morton (Point of Departure)
"Kaleidoscopic music, a rubato flux of superimposed noises in which lightning-fast progression from one galvanising sound event (noise thru silence) to another…."
— Tim Owen (Dalston Sound)
"Though short, percussive, hard-to-notate sounds dominate Han-earl Park's sound, he does utilize the totality of the guitar's sonorities—just not in the proportions demanded by the nostalgic (retrospective, reactionary, etc.) owners of major media…."
— Stanley Zappa (The New York City Jazz Record)
"Ein glorioser Bastard aus Noise und süßer Träumerei."
— Rigobert Dittmann (Bad Alchemy)
"Park is the one to pay close attention to… the development of his ideas is fascinating and very logical…."
— Jeph Jerman (The Squid's Ear)
"Park is clearly some kind of obscure genius—either a genius improviser or a genius charlatan, and I'm inclined towards the former…."
— Dave Foxall (a Jazz Noise)
"Pieces of dismantled gestures, destabilizing timbres, and impressive synergy."
— François Couture (Monsieur Délire)
"Han-earl Park's relationship to the guitar is something akin to John Butcher and the saxophone. Both know how to fill a space and manipulate amplification with skill, but there's no way of predicting what sounds will emerge as the next moment approaches."
— Marc Medwin (The New York City Jazz Record)
"Park applies every technique to his detuned ax—tapping, sliding, muting, twisting the machine heads. It's simultaneously disciplined and barbaric."
— Greg Burk (MetalJazz)
"Han-earl Park… is as at home in underground Noise as he is dueting with free jazz heroes like Paul Dunmall. Park uses pedals to smudge and smear chords or rolls out strange robotic grumblings, a technician playing electricity as much as the guitar."
— Daniel Spicer (Jazzwise)
"Remarkable strategies from the guitarist which involve investing each string with a different weight as he coaxes tones from near the machine head all the way down past the bridge."
— Ken Waxman (JazzWord)


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Very hard to see and operate the drill/paver on large rover inside caves
DiGiaCom Tech replied to Nekudotaim's topic in Bug Reports, CrashesGina, this is good news but what about when NOT drive/drilling or driving at all? The follow camera will still get clipped behind vehicles when NOT drilling and this is even tougher when you have a large vehicle carrying large items. First person is needed for ALLOT of other non vehicle related conditions as well (e.g. player tunneling without any vehicle)! As a moderator I realize you don't have any more say/control over development than I do ... so I'm not mad at you in the slightest ... just posting a rebuttal for the developers to see and (hopefully) take in into consideration.
Very hard to see and operate the drill/paver on large rover inside caves
DiGiaCom Tech replied to Nekudotaim's topic in Bug Reports, CrashesI agree ... It may be a feature requested elsewhere, or perhaps I've missed a new feature, but perhaps it's time for a 'First Person' view (or some other HUD centered/oriented view) when using the Paver/Drill combination. Certainly, we need more control keys and/or a better mouse interface! Also, what about adding a slot for an 'Alignment Mod'? Nothing beats a paver that can create a level paved area or road with ease without having to fight with an oversensitive control interface.
Base Foundations & Related Objects...
DiGiaCom Tech posted a topic in Suggestions and IdeasBecause of the never ending terrain smoothing problems ... that begin you use the alignment tool to flatten an area smooth as a pane of glass only to come back later and find it's a total uneven bumpy mess again (I get the issue, floating point round-offs). Perhaps you should add to the crafting menu 'Base Foundations'. These squares (or potentially any geodesic tileable shape) could be laid down over and slightly above the ground, they would of course snap together perfectly (perhaps even tangentially align to the surface). Additional craftable sections could be added such as walls, windows, doorways, ramps, stairs, ceilings/roofs, etc. ... perhaps even a special engineering platform where oxygen & power generation could be connected eliminating the need for tethering and electrical connections (e.g. if a platform is on a foundation that is powered then that platform is powered as well as anything placed on it). This would allow players to build a "Proper" base area vs. continually having to re-flatten the terrain under their bases and fight with the terrain tool.
Multi-Monitor Mouse Issues...
DiGiaCom Tech replied to DiGiaCom Tech's topic in Bug Reports, CrashesOk ... how long is this going to go unanswered? When are the Developers going to chime in and/or correct this very irritation issue? This is game a development 101 issue that should be easy to resolve! https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/21604-how-do-i-lock-the-mouse-to-the-viewport https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/4s2bqp/how_do_you_deal_with_the_lock_mouse_to_viewport/ I guess it's more important to add new craftable stuff and pretty up the scenery than correct basic usability issues.
1.0.3 - steam w10 x64 - terrain tearing/rendering issues
DiGiaCom Tech replied to Lint The Woodpecker of Ennui's topic in Bug Reports, CrashesThis has been a problem FOR A LONG TIME!!! Seems like it gets worse the longer you play and the more multi-players are connected.
Multi-Monitor Mouse Issues...
DiGiaCom Tech replied to DiGiaCom Tech's topic in Bug Reports, CrashesActually No! As I said, these are industry wide GUI design standards. Most desktop apps deal with focus (e.g. what window is active) and movement is allowed because of multi-tasking (switching to and/or copying & pasting between applications). That is, we want to allow the user to freely move from one application window to another (and I don't mean moving from one monitor to another here). In other types of applications, like games, where the mouse is a controlling feature this is undesirable. This is why the code to implement these types of mouse/cursor constraints is built into operating systems so developers can restrict the mouse/cursor to the active window whenever needed. Now look at the industry ... Every other game I've ever played on a computer implements this type of mouse/cursor constraint so why is it not so for Astroneer? Is this by design or is it just an oversight (bug)? If 'By Design' then they are going against the grain and need to rethink as it is a very irritating bug to say the least.
Issues With Rover Seats...
DiGiaCom Tech posted a topic in Bug Reports, CrashesI have noticed a couple things that need to be addressed as follows If you place a single seat on the front bumper of a rover (see link below) the controls are reversed (forward/backward at least) and it doesn't matter how it is rotated (facing up, down , right or left). Perhaps an option would be to create alternate seat models specifically designed for the fronts of vehicles. These could be of a more reclined nature (something like a formula 1 racing car). The player would have to build them -or- the seat could automatically switch to the second design when attached to the front (I prefer the former). >>> Click here for screen shot of rover with seat on the front <<< When you exit a seat like this, you are hurled into the air, fall, and then take damage. I suspect that this is because the game is looking foe a spawn point relative to the seat's orientation vs. the current surroundings. When you place a three person seat on a medium rover you cannot take it OFF and move it to another vehicle. As with most everything else in this game, it would be nice if, ALL modular components could be removed and moves about.
Multi-Monitor Mouse Issues...
DiGiaCom Tech replied to DiGiaCom Tech's topic in Bug Reports, CrashesWell, this is all part of basic 'Graphical User Interfaces' (GUI) design 101 ... and mouse cursors are not restricted to pop-up menus only. That is, when you are Terra forming you get an icon superimposed/projected on the ground telling where and what the tool is doing, as well as all of the in game popup control panels that can be opened by pointing at them ... those are GUI too. Developers need to take these types of issues into account (e.g. new technology and more robust end user equipment) as 'High-End' players aren't the only ones with 'High-End' systems these days ... especially now that monitors are cheaper and inexpensive graphics cards come with allot more memory and multi-monitor capability.
Storm Sounds When Underground/Tunneling...
DiGiaCom Tech posted a topic in Suggestions and IdeasPlease add a function that will reduce the volume level of a storm based on how far under ground the player is. That is, when I'm in a cave two layers down with no exits to the surface anywhere near the player the sound can become DEAFENING when a storm passes directly overhead. As the player is insulated by a thick layer of ground, dirt, rock, whatever the sound from said storm should be substantially muted and or/ non existent. I know this is a game but ... you might want to consider that, it there isn't any air (e.g. we are in a vaccum) or the atmosphere is of some other makeup (e.g. Helium) then the transfer of sounds an they way they would be heard would either be impossible or dramatically different (e.g. Helium) as the sound waves travel at different rated in different mediums which could be accomplished by adjusting the pitch based on planet type and altitude. Would be a nice technical touch to the game sounds IMHO ThanX - DJ
Master Bug List?
DiGiaCom Tech posted a topic in General DiscussionIs there a master list of bugs and/or new feature requests managed by the developers that players can review and check on the status of correction/development??? Inquiring minds want to know ... instead of us just posting and reposing the same bugs over and over
Mouse Moving Outside Game Window
DiGiaCom Tech replied to DiGiaCom Tech's topic in Bug Reports, CrashesPlease review and reply to my updated post @ ... l
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Multi-Monitor Mouse Issues...
DiGiaCom Tech posted a topic in Bug Reports, CrashesI have a multi-monitor system, that is there are three (3) monitors (#1 2560 w x 1440 h, #2 & #3 1080 w x 1920 h) connected to my Windows system and Windows is set to extended mode so it sees them as one contiguous monitor (4720 w x 1922 h) set in a [2][1][3] arrangement . The problem is that, when playing your game full screen, the mouse IS NOT constrained to the game window that is being displayed full screen on the main/center monitor (#1 2560 w x 1440 h) and can move off of that monitor onto either of the two (2) side monitors. If this happens and a mouse button is clicked, whatever is under the mouse at that time becomes the 'Active Window' or application which jumps me out of your game and/or breaks, disrupts, and/or interferes the current action I'm performing in game (e.g. Terra forming). Sometime s when this happens the Terra forming tool locks into whatever state it is in, even after the mouse button is released, and just keeps on Terra forming. Very irritating! As a Unity3D Indie developer I know that it is possible to lock the mouse cursor within the game window so that this issue does not occur. I also see allot of hits in Google concerning this issue with Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) game development. Though I have no experience with UE4 development it appears that this is something you can and should implement within your game. ThanX - DJ
Mouse Moving Outside Game Window
DiGiaCom Tech posted a topic in Bug Reports, CrashesI have a multi monitor system and, when playing full screen on the main monitor, the mouse moves off the monitor onto the other monitors and looses focus on the game window when clicked. Please lock/constrain the mouse to the game window only.
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Launching game also launches SteamVR/Oculus Home
DiGiaCom Tech replied to Apophys's topic in Bug Reports, CrashesNote first that I am not one of the developers of this game ... but I had a similar problem with an game I was developing. That is, I included the libraries for VR in my build thinking that I could have an option to play STD or VR at startup. However, because the VR libraries where in the build when I ran the game on any VR capable system the VR would take over automatically. Once I removed the VR libraries from my build then the game performed as expected. Point is if you are planing to market STD and VR versions you probably needed to create separate builds ... one with VR and another without. BTW ... GREAT GAME SO FAR !!!


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Dreaming about Peace in the Central African Republic
Following the recent signing of the National Recovery and Peacebuilding Plan (RCPCA), the Central African Republic (CAR) finds itself today at the doorstep to embark on a challenging process that is set to propel the country out of fragility and build the foundations for resilience and sustainable peace. However, significant and urgent challenges remain to be addressed, as the CAR starts to recover from more than two years of armed conflict and poor governance.
On 8 June 2017, Cordaid in collaboration with the Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS) and the The Bêkou Trust Fund of the European Commission's Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO) hosted a workshop entitled 'Supporting partnerships for sustainable peace in the CAR' during the European Development Days. The session gave a platform to national authorities and civil society from the Central African Republic, together with the donor community to debate the foundations and needs for building sustainable peace in the CAR using the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States.
"The New Deal principles included in the RCPCA give us the opportunity to dream about peace in the Central African Republic".
In their opening remarks, both Mr. Felix Moloua, CAR Minister of Economy, Planning and Cooperation and Mr. Georges Petro Koni Zeze, High-Commissioner for Decentralisation, Regionalisation and Development in the CAR Government, highlighted how the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States has inspired the planning and content of the three pillar priorities of the RCPCA, in line with the principles of aid effectiveness of country- owned and country-led processes. Since his election, the current CAR President, H.E. Mr. Faustin Archange Touadéra, has continuously encouraged all rebel groups to lay down arms and invited them to the negotiation table to address the most pressing needs of the CAR as well as ways to address the root causes of fragility and instability in the country.
"The New Deal principles included in the RCPCA give us the opportunity to dream about peace in the Central African Republic". A powerful statement by H.E. Mr. Felix Moloua. Furthermore, Mr. Eloi Kouzoundji, CSPPS Deputy Focal Point in CAR, highlighted the strong commitment by civil society to accompany the State in decentralization of state authority outside Bangui and to work on rebuilding the social contract between authorities and its citizens. Mr. Kouzoundji also commended the level of inclusivity civil society enjoyed throughout the planning process of the RCPCA, which took into account youth and women's needs in particular. Mr. Irchad Razaaly, Manager of the European Union Bêkou Trust Fund for the CAR indicated that the European Union (EU) had originally set up the Trust Fund to address the immediate humanitarian needs in the country, while laying the ground for long-term resilience. He also highlighted that The Bêkou Trust Fund was to be managed by and for the Central Africans themselves, and he committed to making these funds available to local civil society.
"the Government of CAR is the sole guarantor of peace and security; while civil society is there to support them".
Elisabeth Pape, Deputy Head of Unit Fragility & Resilience, DG International Cooperation and Development, highlighted the relevance of the New Deal framework being a tripartite dialogue between Fragile and Conflict- affected States (FCAS) represented in the International Dialogue by the g7+, their local civil society (CSPPS Country Team) supported by the CSPPS Global Platform, and donor representatives (INCAF-OECD). The New Deal has had a positive impact in supporting nationally-owned and led development plans as well as in improving greater aid effectiveness in fragile contexts. Mr. Eloi Kouzoundji, concluded that "the Government of CAR is the sole guarantor of peace and security; while civil society is there to support them".
Listen to the Debate of 8 June (in French only) here.


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Oily 'Lone Star' hero has two women, more scams
Bob Allen (James Wolk) is an oil patch grifter who's figured out a way to build a Ponzi scheme out of oil well leases he doesn't own.
While that may be complicated enough for most con men, he's got another scam going - this one with a major oil company run by hard-bitten Clint Thatcher (Jon Voight). To make this all more challenging, he's married in Houston to Clint's daughter, Cat (Adrianne Palicki), but is also keeping house across the state in Midland with his fiancee, Lindsay (Eloise Mumford).
This is not the life he's chosen but was chosen for him by dear old dad, John Allen (David Keith), who wants a score big enough to get him to that "island full of topless women" of his dreams. Unfortunately, Bob wants to go straight. Finally, this: He's in love with both women.
If this episode is any indication, "Lone Star" could become a vertiginous balancing act - not just as Bob veers perilously between both lives as he tries to make things "right," but a balancing act in your head, too. Let's put it this way: How would you make Bernie Madoff sympathetic in a TV show? Well, first, you'd cast a young, attractive actor - Wolk will do nicely. You'd write him as "conflicted" and fundamentally decent and reduce the scale of his crime by a few zeros. (We never quite learn how many millions Allen has scammed - but if he's as skillful as everyone insists he is, figure at least a few mill.) But how to make a two-timing bigamist sympathetic?
Ah, that's the rub. Let's say "Lone Star" has its work cut out for it, and so does Wolk. His portrayal is too nice - too romantic, too good-hearted, too bland - to make Allen interesting, or at least convincing.
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Call for Summer Interns
Position Description: AWAKE summer interns are an integral part of our education and advocacy initiatives. Summer interns will conduct field research around focal policy issues, meet with various community leaders, help teach our educational classes and contribute ideas and insights. Applicants must be self motivated, passionate about our mission, and ready to help with any and all of our nonprofit's various activities and programs.
Expectations: Interns will teach our curriculum to children in our community partners' summer programs. Interns will conduct both field research and traditional research regarding new policy and/or program initiatives as directed by the executive board. Interns will develop surveys and collect data for our initiatives. Interns are also expected to help plan and attend all major AWAKE events that occur during the internship period.
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Ann Florie starts an interview about retiring as executive director of Leadership Birmingham by talking about her predecessors and how much they meant to the organization.
"We're the beneficiaries of what they did," Florie says of Leadership Birmingham's first two directors, Sheila Blair and Elise Penfield.
Those who know her well say that is the essence of Florie: deflecting attention from herself, even as she has been the face of the leadership program for the past 14 years.
"She personally and symbolically is Leadership Birmingham in the eyes and minds of those who have been through the class with her," says Mike Warren, CEO of Children's of Alabama and chairman of Leadership Birmingham's board of trustees.
"To talk about her predecessors and their importance to the organization, that does sound like Ann. It is my great hope that in the recesses of her mind that Ann knows she's done an extraordinary job and we are most grateful for it," he says.
Florie this week announced her retirement, effective Sept. 1.
"I will be 65 in September," she says. "I think it's a good time."
Florie offers no concrete plans for life after Leadership Birmingham other than to say, "I think I'll be involved in something."
Her role as the leadership program's director has allowed her "to be involved in a whole lot of things in the community. I'll miss being in the mix."
To those who know her, it's impossible to imagine Florie not in the mix.
She has been deeply involved in the Birmingham community for decades – as a Mountain Brook school board member, in Junior League, the Downtown Kiwanis Club, the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama, the Women's Fund, Region 2020, the Birmingham Business Alliance, the Freshwater Land Trust, the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, United Way of Central Alabama, McWane Science Center, the Jefferson County Personnel Board, the Birmingham Water Works Board and, of course, Leadership Birmingham.
"Ann is civically obsessed," says Guin Robinson, who is a graduate of Florie's first class in 2005 and a longtime friend. "To people who are civically obsessed, it's almost impossible for them to sit down.
"As long as there's a mix, Ann Florie will be in it," he says.
Florie entered the mix soon after she and her husband, Mike, moved to Birmingham in 1978. The Arkansas native grew up in the tiny town of Weldon and went to school at Newcomb College at Tulane University in New Orleans. She met her future husband in law school there and moved with him to Birmingham for his new job.
Florie began to volunteer, becoming involved in PTA and Junior League and the Mountain Brook school board. She credits growing up in a small town with fueling her passion for community work.
"I literally grew up in a town of 100 people. You operate at a grassroots level. You get to know people," she says, noting that her parents were "very engaged" in the community.
"Growing up in a small town sitting on the sidelines isn't an option," Florie says. "Everyone has to be engaged and everyone has to work together, so I guess I gravitated to what I knew – projects that involved understanding who people are and how they can work together to get things done."
Florie looks back on her career and says she could have been smarter about her career path, but has no regrets for how it turned out.
"It's been incredible. I think working with people around issues I cared about, it's been great, fascinating, interesting – all the things one hopes," she says, adding with a laugh, "I didn't make a lot of money.
"But I got to meet people I would never have known and be involved in things. It was a great gift."
Robinson, the director of community outreach for Jefferson State Community College, chairs the committee tasked with hiring Florie's replacement. Doing so will be a tall order, he says.
"We have to look at what has happened and we have to look at where we are now, and build on the history and the work of Ann Florie and so many others, including the other executive directors," he says. "Let's just say this. I think everyone got it right to this point. We've got to get it right going forward."
Sharon Blackburn, a senior U.S. district judge and a member of the hiring committee, says of Florie: "It's impossible to overstate the impact Ann has had on Leadership Birmingham and our city. During my year in Leadership Birmingham (2011), I was amazed by her enthusiasm and knowledge. I can't imagine it without Ann."
Leadership Birmingham has had few transitions in its own leadership in its three-and-a-half-decade existence. The result of the Birmingham Area Chamber of Commerce's effort in 1981 to start a community leadership program, the first class was selected in 1983. Every year since, Leadership Birmingham has brought together a diverse group of 50 to 60 leaders in the Birmingham area to explore issues including education, government, health care, criminal justice, economic development and quality of life.
"What we hope, what the program is designed to do, is have people leave here having found different perspectives, a broader knowledge about the community, and be able to do whatever they do in a more informed way," Florie says. "We hope we give you the tools to do what you do differently and more effectively, and that it works to the benefit of the community."
She believes Leadership Birmingham works in ways small and large. She has seen the effect the intense, day-long meetings each month can have on the class.
"I've watched people change over the course of a year where they have a better understanding of the community and can apply what they have learned to what they do," she says. "It changes your perspective on what you do. It empowers people to make a difference."
That difference can show up on a large scale. For example, graduates of Leadership Birmingham's 1997 class – including Florie – began Region 2020, which led efforts to promote regional cooperation and citizen involvement across 12 central Alabama counties. Florie was its executive director until she assumed the same role for Leadership Birmingham.
Graduates fill seats on many nonprofit and corporate boards. They have run for, and won, public office. They have played key roles in launching organizations working to improve the Birmingham area. A few examples: Youth Leadership Forum, a community leadership program for high school students; the Birmingham Education Foundation, which works to increase the number of students in Birmingham City Schools who are ready for college and careers; and Heart to Table, which provides food to warming stations at Boutwell Auditorium on winter's coldest nights.
"This program works, in my opinion," Florie says.
Part of the reason it does is because of the connections each class makes – among themselves, but also with graduates of other classes. "That's really the most important thing about this," she says.
Florie's friends say she is the master at connections. Those connections allow Florie to choose from among hundreds of graduates and other subject-matter experts to fill agendas for each new class, Warren says. Florie uses her connections beyond Leadership Birmingham, along with her vast knowledge of the area, to bring people together on projects for the good of the community, Robinson says.
Robert Kelly, president of Kelly Road Builders and a graduate of the 2005 class, says it is Florie's work in the community, on top of her Leadership Birmingham role, that has allowed her to "truly become iconic."
"If you know Ann, you know how much she loves this city. She's been a major cheerleader for the city. She's going to be sorely missed."
But only as Leadership Birmingham's executive director, says Kelly, a search committee member.
"She's not going anywhere," he says. "She's officially retiring, but I guarantee she will be heavily involved in this community. That's her makeup."
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"Bold, Fresh" reading/listening complete! November 27, 2008Posted by Mike C. in Audiobooks, Books, Personal.
It took me two months of reading and listening on and off, but tonight, I finally completed "A Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill O'Reilly.
Next up for me, "Tales from the Dad Side" by Steve Doocy.
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OU's Project Upward Bound gives students inside look at court, potential careers in law
Oakland University's Project Upward Bound (PUB), a multi-faceted college preparatory enrichment program, recently provided 25 high school students with an opportunity to learn more about the court system, including the roles of the judge, prosecutor, defense attorney and witnesses.
"I thought it was fun, and I learned a lot," said Tamara Barnes, a student at the Pontiac Academy for Excellence High School.
Barnes was one of 25 Pontiac- area high school students who visited the 50th District Court in Pontiac on Thursday, June 28 as part of PUB's annual Career Day.
"Most of these students have not had an experience with the court system, so I wanted them to experience that firsthand," said Geraldine Graham, project director for PUB. "Also, when we think about the court, most of the time we just think about the judge. I wanted them to be aware of the other positions that are available, what it takes to get them, and what they need to do now to prepare to be successful in college if they want to pursue some of those careers."
|Judge Cynthia Walker gives advice to "Judge"
Diamond Jackson during the mock trial.
The Project Upward Bound College Prep Academy is under the umbrella of the TRIO Programs, which were established when Congress passed the Higher Education Act of 1965, now known as the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA). A federally funded program, PUB has been in place at Oakland University since 1966 and serves 133 students per year. Its mission is to provide academic, social, cultural, and career enrichment that prepares students to succeed in higher education.
"One of the ways we do that is to provide them with experiences that they would likely not otherwise be able to have," Graham said. "In low-income communities, you don't see role models of careers that require a degree. That's what Career Day is for, it gives them exposure to career options that require a higher level of education."
The students who participated in PUB's annual Career Day event on June 28 spent the morning learning about how the court works, including the layout of the courtroom, the docket for the day, and proper behavior in the courtroom. They also met with the judges — Chief Judge Cynthia Thomas Walker, Judge Ronda Fowlkes Gross, Judge Michael Martinez and Chief Judge Pro-Tem Preston Thomas — who explained what happens in their courtrooms, as well as the roles of the prosecutor and defense attorney in the legal process.
The judges also introduced the courtroom staff, including the court officer, pretrial services staff, court recorder and court administrator, who explained their jobs and the experience, training and education that prepared them for the role.
"I thought it was pretty cool," said Briauna Travis, a student at Oak Park High School. "I really enjoyed talking to the judges, and learning about the different jobs people have in the court."
|Neveah Hogans played a "witness" during the mock trial.
The students also had an opportunity to observe a video arraignment, learn about the importance of jury duty and participate in a mock trial with Judge Walker, who has served on the 50th District Court bench since September 2003 and was appointed its chief judge in January 2010.
"It's so important to engage young people in the legal process," Walker said.
The mock trial featured a man named Tony, played by student Octavio Alvarez, who was accused of breaking his neighbor's windows with rocks. The prosecution — played by students Da'Ron Guthery, Danielle George and Faith Mullen — argued that Tony had been caught in the act with a rock in his hand. The defense — played by students La'Taija Nails, Jy Smith and Tashae Clark — argued that no one had actually seen Tony throwing the rocks.
"I've wanted to be a lawyer since I was 10 years old, so this was a great experience," George said.
After calling several "witnesses" to the stand the defense and prosecution rested their cases, which left Tony's fate in the hands of the "jury," which was also played by students. After several minutes of deliberation, the jury returned with their verdict: not guilty!
"I was so impressed by these students," Judge Walker said after the verdict was read. "We had some serious talent in the courtroom today."
According to Graham, the students' visit to the court was the result of a collaborative effort between Project Upward Bound, Judge Walker of the 50th District Court and Professor David Dulio from the Center of Civic Engagement at OU.
To learn more about Project Upward Bound, visit www.oakland.edu/upwardbound.
|Scholars from OU's Project Upward Bound with Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney Leen Nachawati (left) and Judge
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Duchess Camilla Parker-Bowels, wife of Prince Charles, spoke out yesterday condemning Beyoncé and other artists for the overtly sexual and violent images they spread to young, influential children. The discussion took place between the Duchess and victims of sexual violence while Camilla was touring the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre in Croydon, South London.
The Duchess referenced Beyoncé's latest project "Video Phone (Remix)" with Lady Gaga in which she dances around in skimpy outfits with toy guns.
While she blames the media for much of the overexposure to such images, Parker-Bowels also went onto say "…schools needed to become involved in teaching both male and female schoolchildren 'the value of respect for each other'"(DailyMail)


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Three decades after his Pompidou Center in Paris turned the architecture world upside down and brought him global fame, the British architect Richard Rogers has been named the 2007 winner of the Pritzker Prize, the profession's highest honor.
In the citation accompanying its decision, to be announced today, the Pritzker jury saluted Mr. Rogers for his "unique interpretation of the Modern Movement's fascination with the building as machine, an interest in architectural clarity and transparency, the integration of public and private spaces, and a commitment to flexible floor plans that respond to the ever-changing demands of users."
In a telephone interview from London, Mr. Rogers, 73, said he did not see the award as overdue. "It's not when it comes, it's the gift that matters," he said. (Renzo Piano, his co-architect on the Pompidou Center, received the Pritzker in 1998.)
The award — a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion — is to be presented at the Banqueting House in London on June 4.
Mr. Rogers earned a reputation as a high-tech iconoclast with the completion of the 1977 Pompidou Center, with its exposed skeleton of brightly colored tubes for mechanical systems. The Pompidou "revolutionized museums," the Pritzker jury said, "transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city." Similarly, his 1986 Lloyd's office building in the heart of the London financial district features a inside-out design, with a soaring atrium surrounded by external escalators and elevators.
Asked to describe his own stylistic signature, Mr. Rogers said he was recognized for "celebrating the components and the structure."
"That's how we get rhythm and poetry out of it," he said. He added that he would like to be known for "buildings which are full of light, which are light in weight, which are flexible, which have low energy, which are what we call legible — you can read how the building is put together."
Other high-profile projects by Mr. Rogers include the sprawling Millennium Dome in Greenwich, England, suspended from steel masts and secured by steel cable (1999), and the law courts in Bordeaux, France (1998) — seven "pods" clad in cedar wood surrounded by glass walls under an undulating copper roof.
Mr. Rogers' most recent major undertaking was the $2.2 billion new terminal at Barajas International Airport in Madrid (2005), featuring waves formed by wings of prefabricated steel and a roof covered in bamboo strips. Earlier he designed Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in London.
While he had been largely absent from New York, Mr. Rogers now has four projects under way in the city: an expanded the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the Far West Side of Manhattan; a tower at the World Trade Center site; a complex at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens; and a redesign of the East River waterfront.
Not all of these designs have been well received. Appraising Mr. Rogers's vision for the Javits Center in The New York Times, Nicolai Ouroussoff said its boxy design was "a decent but not particularly dazzling work of architecture."
But he offered glowing praise for Mr. Rogers's reimagination of the East Side waterfront, designed in collaboration with Gregg Pasquarelli of SHoP Architects and the landscape architect Ken Smith.
"The idea is to create a seamless, contemplative environment along the waterfront that embraces both the fine-grained scale of the surrounding communities and the monumental scale of the freeway," Mr. Ouroussoff wrote. "In doing so, the architects shrug off the conflict between Modernists and historicists that absurdly still defines so many urban planning debates in New York."
Mr. Rogers said he was gratified by his New York commissions. He described the Javits project as "the most complex, but also the most exciting potentially — as a public space that could create the regeneration of a large area which is very depressed."
Over the years he has become well known for his philosophy as well as for his buildings. His London firm, Richard Rogers Partnership, has adopted bylaws specifying that the directors get no more than six times the salary of the lowest-paid architect. "I don't believe in the ownership of work," he said.
The firm, which was founded in 1977 and has offices in Barcelona, Madrid and Tokyo, will be renamed Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners next month. "It's time to start to broaden the top," Mr. Rogers said.
He has also been in the forefront of the sustainable architecture movement, designing buildings with the environment in mind. His building for the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff halved the parliament's energy consumption, he said; as chief adviser on architecture and urbanism to the mayor of London he has encouraged the construction of more compact developments around mass transportation.
"It's always been part of our work," he said. "I don't think we realized the limited number of years before were going to have such serious problems, that mankind might be wiped off the earth. Certainly it's become much more urgent."
Mr. Rogers, the 31st Pritzker laureate, was born in Florence, Italy, in 1933. His father was a doctor, and his mother had a great interest in modern design, he said. In 1938 the Rogers family moved to England, where he struggled through the public school system; many years later he received a diagnosis of dyslexia. "I was called backward," Mr. Rogers said. "We didn't know dyslexia."
Just as he was completing secondary school in 1951 — and seriously considering a career in dentistry — the Festival of Britain introduced him to modern architecture. He was captivated by some of the temporary buildings thrown up along the South Bank.
A two-year stint in the British military took him to Trieste, where he became acquainted with the work of his father's cousin Ernesto Rogers, one of Italy's prominent architects, and he decided to attend the Architectural Association School in London.
In 1961 Mr. Rogers traveled to Yale on a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a master's degree in architecture. There he developed an interest in Frank Lloyd Wright ("my first god," he has said).
After working for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York, he returned to England to start his first practice, Team 4, with his first wife, Su Brumwell; Norman Foster; and Wendy Cheeseman.
Mr. Rogers and Mr. Foster each struck out on their own in 1967. By 1971 Mr. Rogers had joined forces with Mr. Piano to create Piano & Rogers. That year they won the commission to design the Pompidou, where Mr. Rogers's work will be featured in an exhibition this fall.
Mr. Piano and Mr. Rogers split in 1978.
Over the years Mr. Rogers has racked up plenty of accolades, including a life peerage in 1996.
But the honors have not convinced him that architects deserve the rock-star status that so many enjoy. Richard Rogers Partnership employs more than 100 people, he pointed out, and he could not achieve what he does without them.
"You are leading a team," Mr. Rogers said. "I've never really understood how architects can think of themselves as an individual."


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WDET-FM (Detroit) is presenting "Essential Conversation with Emery King hosted by Ann Delisi" at the Detroit Historical Museum on May 17. The event is a fund-raiser for the public radio station.
Delisi is a program host at WDET and also works with former NBC White House Correspondent and former WDIV News Anchor Emery King and his production company, Emery King Communications. For the past 10 years they have worked on countless productions together, met with everyone from doctors to legislators and at one time, they shared an office down the hall from Detroit Medical Center CEO (and now Detroit Mayor), Mike Duggan.
Delisi will put her interview skills to work and interview her boss, Emery King, for the first Essential Conversation of 2017. They will talk about Mr. King's time covering the White House, the press, race, his work with the Michigan Film Industry, Mayor Mike Duggan, Mr. King's incredible personal story and how he and Ann Delisi came to work together.
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A trailer for the trailer for Ridley Scott's sci-fi pic Prometheus is now online. It's a 30 second "trailer preview" for the actual trailer that will be released online this Thursday. It's pretty similar to the footage we saw at Comic-Con, as it has some behind-the-scenes footage (as well as a tiny bit of actual footage) interspersed with Scott talking about the film on set (though the grainy stylistic flourish is a tad confusing). It ups the horror aspect of the flick, something I was extremely happy with when we saw the Comic-Con footage. As it has connections to Scott's Alien, it really does look like he's drawing from the horror tone of that pic instead of simply making a sci-fi actioner. While Scott recently stated that the xenomorph will "absolutely not" appear in Prometheus, I'm excited to see what sort of being will pop up in its place.
Hit the jump to check out the trailer preview, and come back to the site on Thursday to view the full-length trailer. The film stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, and Guy Pearce. Prometheus opens June 8th, 2012. [Update: a second trailer preview has been released that shows even more footage from the film. It's included after the jump.]
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A comprehensive study on "China Baby Food and Infant Formula Market Research Report Outlook to 2016" discusses infant formula production and consumption trends and sub-segments of baby food market such as dried baby food, ready-to-eat baby food and juices. It also gives an overview of industry distributors and their share in terms of percentage. Many domestic and international players have a strong presence in the market, of which we have highlighted leading players along with their market share. Industry trends and opportunities help to analyse further scope in the market and SWOT analysis may help present and prospective companies to form strategies accordingly. http://www.bharatbook.com/food-market-research-reports/ch...
China is the second largest baby food and infant formula market in the world and largest in Asia, which constitute of baby food such as- Dry baby food (cereals, bottled baby food), ready-to-eat baby food (canned baby food and snacks for one year and above babies) and baby juices; and infant formula milk segment. Domestic infant formula market had undergone a period of major transition from high demand for milk powder in the domestic as well as in international markets to sudden fall in retail sales from 2008 to 2010. The domestic milk formula market is facing many challenges from foreign brands and had witnessed a continuous fall in demand in recent past.
A continuous rise in consumer spending on China baby food and infant formula industry has been observed, led by surging working women population, rising per capita disposable income and entry of foreign players. Infant formula milk powder, cereals and bottled baby food constitute the major percentage of the total industry demand. Rising number of working mothers has a big role in surging demand for formula milk. Baby formula demand is expected to grow at a steady rate due to low birth rate in the country. The driving factor for this segment will be growing number of foreign workers. Falling birth rate has become a concern for the government which is low from the US and even from developing countries such as India. In coming years, it may cause a demographic problem and may affect baby food and baby goods industry.
Key Findings
- In terms of retail sales by volume, baby food and baby formula milk market had crossed 400 ('000) tones mark and reached 422 ('000) tones in 2010 from 385 ('000) tones in the previous year.
- The China baby food and infant formula milk market retail sales by value was recorded at USD 3,281 million in 2007 whereas in 2009, the segment grew by 20.44%, comparatively lower than previous year results. By 2016, industry is expected to record revenue of USD ~ million to grow at 16.57% CAGR in the next five years.
- Consumer spending on baby food was recorded 0.12% of GDP in 2011 compared to 0.10% in the previous year.
- In China, infant formula has recorded usual growth in volume sales of 14.08% in 2011 relative to the growth of 14.09% and 15.97% in 2010 and 2009 respectively.
- Baby food is a rapidly expanding segment which accounted for 30.05% market share in baby food and baby formula market Baby food market grew by 18.27% CAGR in last five years to USD ~ million in 2011. Revenues generated from baby food products is expected to reach USD ~ million at CAGR 20.43% from 2012-2016.
- Dried baby food market dominates the Chinese baby food industry driven by rising cereals demand which account for 89.62% of the total dried baby food market.
- Baby cereals market is growing at a constant rate year on year from USD 782.10 million in 2007 to USD ~ million in 2011 at a CAGR 18.40%.
- Bottled baby food account for only 8.61% of the total baby food (excluding milk formula) market in value terms.
For more information kindly visit :
China Baby Food and Infant Formula Market Research Report Outlook to 2016
by S. C.
17 july 2012, World News > Asia


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Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers its customers several methods to help configure and manage infrastructure deployed on the AWS cloud. These methods range from AWS-managed configuration management services to third-party AWS Partner Network (APN) products, however it is not always easy to decide between the potential options. This document provides best practices and guidance to consider when choosing configuration management solutions for managing changes to AWS resources, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance operating systems, application stacks, or other infrastructure.
The following sections assume basic knowledge of AWS resource management, Amazon EC2, and operating system (OS) administration, management, and configuration.
There are several best practices to consider when managing infrastructure configuration. First, it is important to understand the types of resources to manage, and their different characteristics that must be accounted for in a configuration management system. For example, the configuration and orchestration of AWS resources (such as security groups, Auto Scaling groups, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc.) is very different than the configuration and orchestration of OS and application stack changes. It is also important to recognize that manual configuration of distributed systems is time consuming, error prone, and can lead to inconsistently configured systems. Therefore, the ability to automate, monitor, and track configuration changes is a key component of any configuration management solution.
When implementing an infrastructure configuration management solution, incorporate the following best practices:
- Ensure the solution covers configuration management for all infrastructure components including AWS resources, OS, and application stacks.
- Provide a mechanism to describe resource configurations in a reusable way.
- Provide version-controlled repositories of configuration templates that can be used and customized as needed.
- Leverage scripting languages and operating systems that an organization is already using or is comfortable developing and maintaining expertise in.
The following sections briefly describe AWS-managed services and third-party tools that AWS customers commonly use for configuration management on AWS. While each of these options can be used independently, most AWS customers leverage a combination of these options to ensure configuration management coverage for both their AWS resources as well as their OS and application stack resources. Additional third-party tools include numerous, but less ubiquitous, open source and commercial configuration management tools.
AWS recommends using the following combination of configuration management tools:
- AWS Config with Config Rules or an AWS Config Partner to provide a detailed, visual, and searchable inventory of AWS resources, configuration history, and resource configuration compliance.
- AWS CloudFormation or a third-party AWS-resource orchestration tool to manage AWS resource provisioning, update, and termination.
- AWS OpsWorks or a third-party server configuration management tool to manage OS and application stack configuration changes.
The following tools help customers identify their AWS resources and how these resources change over time.
AWS Config provides a detailed inventory of the current configuration of AWS resources and continuously records configuration changes, such as the value of tags on Amazon EC2 instances, ingress/egress rules of security groups, and network ACL rules for VPCs (see the AWS Config website for a list of supported AWS resources). Customers can use AWS Config to determine how a resource was configured at any point in time, to view resource dependencies, and to send notifications when the resource configuration changes. AWS Config Rules is a new set of capabilities that allow customers to evaluate whether their AWS resources comply with desired configurations. Customers can use either predefined, AWS-managed rules or define their own, and use these rules to evaluate AWS resource compliance.
The following tools assist with the coordination and management of changes to AWS resources, including resource creation, modification, and termination.
AWS CloudFormation enables customers to model, create, modify, and terminate collections of AWS resources using pre-defined, reusable infrastructure templates. AWS CloudFormation simplifies infrastructure management, allowing customers to provision and manage AWS resources as a single unit, without worrying about resource dependencies. Customers can use change sets to preview how proposed updates to a stack might impact running resources, allowing them to perform updates with more confidence and predictability.
Along with AWS resource creation and management, customers can use AWS CloudFormation to bootstrap Amazon EC2 instances to automate the initial installation and configuration of the OS and application stack, and also of third-party configuration management tools. AWS Service Catalog extends AWS CloudFormation by allowing IT administrators to group related AWS CloudFormation templates into product portfolios to publish to their AWS users, ensuring compliance and organizational consistency.
Note that if AWS CloudFormation is used to instantiate an AWS resource, it must be used for making ongoing changes to that resource. Otherwise, the resource can become out of sync with AWS CloudFormation and cause undesired results when using AWS CloudFormation to make changes in the future.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Elastic Beanstalk) is an AWS managed service for deploying and scaling web applications. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the provisioning and configuration of Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, Auto Scaling, application deployment, and application health monitoring. It also provides the ability to integrate with additional AWS services such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon ElastiCache instances and to retain full control over automatically provisioned AWS resources.
AWS OpsWorks is a fully managed application-stack management service that includes provisioning and configuration of Amazon EC2 instances, Auto Scaling, application deployment, and application health monitoring. It also provides the ability to integrate with additional AWS services such as Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon RDS instances.
AWS offers managed services to assist with the installation and ongoing management of OS and application stacks.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Elastic Beanstalk) environment configuration extensions enable the automatic installation and configuration of advanced OS and application stack settings during application deployment. This allows customers to push infrastructure configuration changes to running instances in conjunction with application deployments. Since infrastructure changes are bundled with application deployments, AWS does not recommend making infrastructure changes independently from application deployments.
AWS OpsWorks allows administrators to implement Amazon EC2 instance configuration changes on demand or automatically based on lifecycle events. Specific events will automatically trigger the appropriate community- or customer-defined recipes to configure the required OS, application stack, or application changes. AWS OpsWorks supports the implementation of infrastructure changes either in conjunction with or independently from application deployments.
AWS customers can select from different AWS Partner Network (APN) configuration management tools to complement and extend AWS managed services. This section discusses common third-party options as well as specific guidance for selecting a stack-level configuration management tool.
AWS Config Partners integrate their configuration and change management products with AWS Config to provide additional visualization, search, and configuration management capabilities for AWS customers. See the AWS Config Partner website for a list and description of these product offerings.
Similar to AWS CloudFormation, AWS Technology Partner HashiCorp's Terraform uses configuration files to describe and deploy AWS infrastructure. Terraform separates infrastructure deployment planning from the execution phase. It refreshes and reviews current resource configuration state before generating an action plan. The plan includes all actions to create, modify, or terminate resources. Once the plan is captured, customers can limit the execution phase to include select actions. HashiCorp also offers Terraform graph, which allows organizations to visualize AWS resource dependencies to better understand the scope of a configuration change before deciding to implement it.
An effective stack-level tool provides a well-defined method to represent and reuse configurations, mechanisms to manage and communicate required changes to EC2 instances, and extensibility to allow for new features and functionality. Third-party tools are often appropriate for customers in the following situations:
- They require customizations or code changes to the tool that an AWS service does not offer natively.
- They require a specific features or functionalities that are not otherwise available.
- They already have existing expertise and investment in a specific tool that they would like to leverage on the AWS platform.
Selecting the right tool involves a number of variables, including programming language and configuration file preference, operating system requirements, and what system the tool uses to manage configurations (see the next section on push and pull models). Additionally, pre-defined templates can significantly reduce a tool's learning curve and jumpstart the amount of time it takes an organization to get started. Therefore ensure to evaluate a tool's community and pre-defined template repositories for templates that are applicable to your organization's OS and application stack configuration requirements.
Generally speaking, these tools operate in a push or pull model. In the push model, a centralized master server pushes configuration changes to all worker nodes. In the pull model, worker nodes are configured to check-in and retrieve configuration details from a central master server.
Deciding on whether to use a push or a pull model depends on the types of systems the tool will manage. If there is a known set of systems that a centralized master server can easily identify, the push model can be effective. To implement this model, all systems must have network connectivity to the master server, and OS firewalls and security groups must allow communication between their instances and the master server.
AWS customers with more dynamic systems, such as those using Auto Scaling, often prefer to use the pull model, where OS firewall and security group settings are only required on the master side. This allows for the management of any instance that has connectivity to the master server.
Common Third-Party Tools
These are some of the most common tools that AWS customers implement for OS and application stack configuration management:
- Chef is written in Ruby and uses Ruby DSL for its configuration files. Chef uses a client pull model by default.
- Puppet is also written in Ruby, but utilizes a custom DSL for its configuration files. Puppet uses a client pull model by default.
- Ansible is written in Python and uses YAML-based configuration files. Ansible is considered agentless because it utilizes SSH and PowerShell for making configuration changes and most closely resembles a push model.
- Salt is also written in Python, but uses a custom format for its configuration files. Salt uses a push model.
AWS offers automated, customizable Quick Start Reference Deployments for Chef Server, Puppet, and Ansible. For more information, see the AWS Quick Starts website.


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Discussion in 'Parramatta Eels' started by 84 Baby, Sep 9, 2017.
I would have said it is more 'periwinkle' than anything else.
Have I broke some sort of rule for supporting a team since I was 5 my family has followed but also keepong some interest in the team in my local area?
Seriously what is Lame is seing bulldog,storm,Souths and roosters supporters in the area for no reason.
If dad and family didnt follow eels yes Panthers would of been my team. I would not of radomly picked who is winning at the time.
50 shades of blue
Starring Gary Gutfull
Today it was cerulean.
You need your eyes tested. It was definitely azure today.
Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?
Well right now it's black...maybe with a little purple in it
If you want to support two teams, fine. but what makes you think that a Parra forum wants to read you jerking off to the Panthers?
There's a forum for that, the Panthers forum.
Support the Eels, we're happy to have you here, but while you're in here, cut the Panthers talk, that's all I'm saying.
Prove it.
You want proof? Here you go.
I tried to take a photo but it's too dark and my neighbours were wondering what I was doing out the front of the house with a camera whilst their 20 year old daughter had her curtains open....
'curtains open' *snigger*
Well really the sky doesn't really have a colour. What you are seeing is the air molecules reflecting the sun's light, most of which are blue.
When you look at the sky, you don't really see sky...you just see light.
The sky isn't really anything.
The sky is plenty of things. Most of them essential to life
It's all just matter trapped in our atmosphere.
I mean, where does the sky begin? 100m up? 1500m up? Or is it right in front of your face?
When you see it you'll just know.
If the Sky isn't there , what holds the clouds up then?
Answer that you sky hating merkins.
Others on here talk about brisbane more.
Separate names with a comma.


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Guard dogJune 25, 2007
Oh, and here are some of the first (and probably last) moving images of one of my latest toys. The darn thing seems to be indestructible, but I'll manage to kill it someday...
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I love this video!
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HIya, Django! just stopping by. maybe you could leave a comment on my blog? my old one messed up. :( so i got a new blogger one, but it's the same address.
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Im a lifetime dog lover. This is one of my favorite.
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A recently-discovered cannabis-like substance naturally produced by our brains could play a role in treating Parkinson's disease.
University of Auckland researchers will attempt to unravel the complex processes involved in the release of dopamine - and how what are called endocannabinoids might influence them.
Dopamine is a chemical transmitter that underlies many of our basic behaviours, including movement, but much about the mechanism that determines the timing and size of its release remains unknown.
This has hampered scientists trying to make breakthroughs in diseases where dopamine is involved, such as Parkinson's disease, which today affects around 13,000 Kiwis.
But Dr Peter Freestone, of the university's Department of Physiology, hopes there will be potential in a unique encannabinoid, called NADA, which can alter the activity of dopamine-producing cells.
NADA was exciting to researchers as it shared a common biosynthesis pathway with dopamine, making it important to the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease.
Previous work had already indicated that endocannibanoids should control the electrical activity of dopamine-producing neurons.
"If [NADA] is controlling the electrical activity, it should also be controlling the amount and timing of the dopamine that's released in the brain - that's where this new project comes in and we now want to take it to that next level."
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The two-year, $150,000 study to be led by Freestone and colleague Professor Janusz Lipski will draw upon a combination of electrochemistry methods that detect dopamine and optogenetic methods that stimulate specific cell types.
"We can actually use light to activate specific cells that we choose ... and that means we can study these networks in much greater detail."
They expect the work - to be carried out on range of experimental models, from living brain slices to freely moving animals - will ultimately reveal how NADA controls dopamine levels and related movement processes, potentially leading to new therapeutic strategies for diseases like Parkinson's disease.
"This new study is going to be filling in the gaps to see whether we can go forward with a clinical study - we'll know whether endocannibanoids regulate dopamine and whether that's something we could target with drugs or treatments in the future," Freestone said.
"I'm hoping... but then previous work suggests it should be at least an option."
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The Unite and GMB unions have called off strike action on Equinor's Mariner platform after accepting a new pay offer.
Last month workers voted in favour of strike action, which was due to take place in Autumn, in a dispute around pay and conditions with Aker Solutions.
However no industrial action will take place on the oil rig, after a new deal was put forward by Aker Solutions management.
75% of GMB members balloted voted in favour of the offer, while 68% of Unite members accepted it.


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Sunday, March 24, 2013
The wait is over.
My hormones are very confused about how to behave. They were usually very reliable about doing their job. I could count out 20-25 days and yup around day 15- 20 I could feel the crankiness coming on and then a few days later I knew I wasn't pregnant. Yippee! I did have a rather short cycle but it was constant. There were times when I was so grateful to see the first spotting, I know you know what I mean. And at other times it was dreaded. Vacation anyone? Was it only me. But every time we made plans to go away my period thought it was invited too! I would try to figure out how to hide from it by forecasting with the calendar, most of the time without success.
The first time I missed a period, besides my 2 pregnancies, I was 45. I remember buying a pregnancy test and holding my breath while praying not to see the + sign. In 2 excruciating minutes I found I was not to have a 3rd child. Whew! I did not want to be "that" woman. Since then I have had many more missed periods. It is becoming normal. I admit it's rather nice not having to deal with pads, tampons, leaks and general yuckiness. On the other hand this means I am ageing. This is a bit harder to stomach. I was at the Dr. last month and was handed a pamphlet about what to expect during menopause. After skimming through it I can tell you there is not much to look forward to besides not having a period. We'll talk about that on another post.
So, although I don't particularly care for my period I am actually almost happy that it's decided to visit with me again like a long lost friend.
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- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 at 3:45 AM
It's facing the fact that I am aging that is the hardest part of facing menopause...oh...and the crazy hormone thing going on! Insomnia, night-sweats and full-blown anxiety! None of which are pleasant on their own but all together even tougher. When I finally decided to face facts and talk to the doctor, I actually found there could be relief from these symptoms that didn't require HRT, which I really wasn't prepared for!ReplyDelete
I am however, looking forward to the day when the periods are gone...the mystery of not knowing when the next will arrive is a little off-putting.
Hang in there! We can be fabulous even after menopause!
Laura, with the help of your blog I know I will look fabulous as long as I follow your advice. The physical changes are happening so fast and that's frightening to me. You mentioned anxiety and I feel relieved that this is another symptom that someone else is experiencing. I thought I was going crazy. There is not much "talk" about anxiety. Thank you for sharingReplyDelete


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Hey Friends, I just added this silly little cocky rooster to my Ebay auctions. He is painted on painted paper background with machine stitching on it. The auction starts tonight.
This painting above was done at the Evergreen Lavender Farm this summer. I will have it at the Centerfest Festival tomorrow in Bedford, Va. along with others.
Hope you can stop in for a visit.
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