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What's New in Firefox OS?
This article is no longer maintained, so its content might be out of date.
Here's an overview of all the great new features included in your Firefox OS device.
- Not sure what version of Firefox OS you have? Here's how to find out.
- Learn how to check for updates and install them.
Note: Your device manufacturer, together with your service provider, is responsible for providing Firefox OS system updates to you.
Table of Contents
- 1 Add Smart Collections to your home screen
- 2 New email features - attachments, notifications and POP3 accounts
- 3 Better messaging - add a subject line and forward messages
- 4 More calling options - redial, conference calls, and dual SIM features
- 5 Custom ringtone features
- 6 Improved music controls and streaming media capabilities
- 7 Camera and photo features - flash, continuous focus and an organized gallery
- 8 Export and share your contacts - share over bluetooth plus export to SIM or memory card
- 9 Transfer files easily through bluetooth or NFC
- 10 Improved Messages app now has MMS features
- 11 Download files from the browser
- 12 Adaptive Search now on the home screen
- 13 Search your music
- 14 Import contacts from more places
- 15 Share files over Bluetooth
- 16 Find a lost device
Add Smart Collections to your home screen
Organize your favorite apps by topic or discover new ones according to your interests.
- Choose a ready-made Smart Collection: Tap and hold on the home screen and then choose
- Create your own Smart Collection: On the home screen, enter a search for anything that interests you (examples: recipes, sports, news) and Firefox OS will suggest apps for you. Tap the star icon under the search bar to save your search as a Smart Collection.
New email features - attachments, notifications and POP3 accounts
- Add audio or video attachments to your emails.
- Turn on email notifications: Open the email app settings, tap the account you want to turn on notifications for and enable Display notifications for new messages.
- For more information, see Email notifications and inbox sync.
- Add POP3 email accounts to your phone: Tap the Manual setup link on the new account screen. Under Account type, tap .
- For more, see Send and manage email.
POP3 email accounts are supported on Firefox OS 1.3 and higher
Better messaging - add a subject line and forward messages
- Forward sent or received messages.
- Add a subject line to messages: tap on the menu on the top right corner of the message screen. Choose .
- See Send messages for more information.
More calling options - redial, conference calls, and dual SIM features
- To redial the last number called, tap the green call button to load the number and then tap it a second time to place the call.
- Add up to 5 participants to a call. Once you've called one person, tap the
- To learn more, see Calls and voicemail.
- If you have two SIM cards in your phone, the new Dual SIM Stand By (DSDS) feature lets you receive calls on either of them when they're not actively in use. See Dual SIM cards for more details.
DSDS features are available on Firefox OS 1.3 and higher.
Custom ringtone features
- Firefox OS offers a truly personalized experience by letting you add your own ringtones. Learn how to set your favorite song as your ringtone: Ringer, sound and vibrate settings.
Improved music controls and streaming media capabilities
- You can now skip and pause songs directly from the Notification tray or on your screen - even while your screen is locked.
- Want to listen to the built-in radio without wearing your headphones? Firefox OS lets you listen to the radio using the speaker out option. Just tap the speaker icon to toggle it on or off.
- See Listen to the radio for more details.
- You will still need to plug in your headphones to receive a radio signal, but you don't need to wear them while the speaker is turned on.
- Firefox OS now supports the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), so you can stream audio or video feeds directly on your phone without downloading extra software.
Camera and photo features - flash, continuous focus and an organized gallery
- Firefox OS offers the following capabilities if your hardware supports it:
- Turn your flash on, off or set it to automatic.
- The continuous focus feature makes it easier to take clear pictures of moving objects.
- Got a lot of photos? The Gallery app lets you view your photos by the month they were taken. You'll also be able to see file information - just click on one to see the details.
- Focus the camera on your subject by touching the screen.
Export and share your contacts - share over bluetooth plus export to SIM or memory card
- From the contacts app, tap the settings gear in the upper-right corner and then choose
- For details, see Add, manage and share contacts.
- You can now import contacts from more than one SIM card if your device has dual SIM capabilities.
Transfer files easily through bluetooth or NFC
- Transfer multiple files on bluetooth: Follow these steps to transfer your files. While your first file transfer is in progress, repeat the steps to add additional files to your transfer queue.
- Near Field Communication (NFC) capabilities: Transmit information on your device without the need for pairing or extra apps. Just tap your phone on an NFC-enabled device or tag.
Improved Messages app now has MMS features
- Add pictures, audio and video to your messages - just tap the paperclip button to the left of the message field.
- Chat with a whole group - use the contacts button to add multiple people to a message.
- Type a URL in a message and it automatically becomes a working link that will open in the browser.
To learn more, see Send messages.
Download files from the browser
- Long-tap on a music, image or video file to download it to the Music, Gallery or Video app. For the details, see Download music, photos and videos
Adaptive Search now on the home screen
On some devices with Firefox OS v1.1, Adaptive Search has moved to the home screen. Just unlock your phone and it's right there - no need to swipe to the right. Learn how it works.
Search your music
- Pull down on any screen in the Music app to reveal the new search bar. For more, see Play and manage music.
Import contacts from more places
- Now you can import contacts from Gmail, Outlook and Hotmail.
- Easily add new contacts from phone calls, messages or email.
To learn how, see Add, manage and share contacts.
Share files over Bluetooth
- Bluetooth transfer is now available in the share menu of the Gallery and Video apps.
To learn how to pair a device and share files, see Share files using Bluetooth.
Find a lost device
- Find my Device lets you locate a lost phone using your computer and your Firefox Account. You can even lock or erase your information remotely to protect your information. See Find My Device for Firefox OS.


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of the latest release and customize your website further for an enhanced visitor experience.
We've added dynamic thumbnail grids. Now you have many new ways to present thumbnails on
your homepage and inside your galleries. You can show them in responsive rows or columns
or even in a neat grid where you have control of thumbnail sizes and spacing between them.
You also have new ways of displaying gallery titles. Social media and Buy buttons can now
be added directly to your thumbnails. These buttons can be placed over photos in elegant
overlays, below photos, above photos, or displayed only when photos are hovered.
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Show off your best work with new portfolio and full-screen photo page layouts. All layouts,
new and old, can now benefit from a new smooth image-scaling option. The photos will
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You can enable image scaling under Layout Options in the Customize Visitor View, or wait
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setting in Customize Visitor View, under Page Elements. These banners can include a photo,
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You now have control over the positioning of photos within resizable spotlight areas,
keeping important parts of each image always in view.
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elements and giving you control over their size. You can even create a completely
customized header. Logo images can also now be added directly to the header and footer
along with social media buttons and custom content.
A new configurable, multi-column layout for the footer is also available, which includes
a client access area, contact area, site menu, and more. Add your accreditations, professional
affiliations and anything else you choose in a new custom content area in the footer.
Skip the photo page and go directly to the Dim-the-Lights mode to show off your photos
without any distractions. You can configure this option in the Thumbnails Page tab of the
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selecting favorites, downloading, or even buying photos.
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Sitting on a bus packed with torch bearers today I began to think of the interwoven events that had resulted in me sitting on the bus. It had all started two years ago, bored and between starting a new career path, I had nothing to do. I needed something to fill my time.
I was also feeling a little pudgy so thought some sort of fitness regimen might be appropriate. Running seemed like a good idea as it was cheap to do so I could just lace up some shoes and head outside. Now that perhaps sounds like quite an easy step, but being blind since the age of 17 meant it was a little tougher than just stepping outside of the door and running for it.
I turned to technology to help me along the way, and armed with my trusty iPhone, I headed to some football fields and took my first steps into running. Using RunKeeper I ran up and down some football pitches and logged my runs. This quickly became boring so I wondered if I could pair RunKeeper with tactile feedback through my feet.
I began these tentative steps by practicing on a closed road. This suited me well for a while until boredom again set in. With boredom as a driving force, one day I just decided to step out onto the road and run. Feeling the camber underfoot and pairing that with distance markers from my phone, I ran the roads for the first time. Proving the concept, I spent the next few months practicing this technique through running into posts and obstacles and remembering where they were so I didn't do it again! After a few months I had it perfected, and I was running alone.
How far could I take this, I wondered? I decided to aim to run at the ultra distance: It would be something that kept me occupied and kept that pesky boredom away. As I began to run farther and farther I decided to talk about my unique use of the iPhone and RunKeeper. This started a huge chain of events. Writing that article began to create interest around what I was doing. Before I knew it I was doing media pieces and even writing for Wired Playbook!
Beginning to compete at the ultra distance I paired with guide runners and began to compete. This would give me the honor of a torch-bearer nomination. It also caught the attention of ASICS, which created a commercial about me! As time went on, media interest grew, and I continued to talk about my story. The chain of events continued with my successful nomination to be a torch bearer, which placed me on this bus.
Two years ago I would never of dreamed of being in this situation. With thebus driving through the streets passing the crowds of people, the excitement began to build. I would be getting off the bus soon into this mass of spectators!
As the bus slowed and it was my turn to pick up my torch the bus came alive with applause and I entered the crowd. Immediately I was surrounded by people snapping pictures. Left and right, everyone wanted a photo. It was great to share my moment with the community and give people a chance to have a sneaky touch of the torch.
I received a tap on my shoulder telling me it wouldn't be long before it was time to run with the torch. The pictures continued and I received another tap, the torch that would light mine had arrived! We did a quick torch kiss and it was time for me to run my section of the relay.
I decided to begin by walking so I didn't rush my moment, however time seemed to slow down as I took a gentle run down the street. The crowds were huge and at one point had made it impossible to get through, so the police had to move the crowds back so I could continue my relay. The sheer amount of people that had come out to see me carry the torch was amazing.
As I continued to carry the torch down the road, I was beginning to think I had been running a long time. It turned out I had! I had run past my finishing point. But seeing as I was the last person on the leg, the police seemed to let me carry on running. So finishing with a sneaky extra bit, it was time to pass my flame onto the lantern. In order to transport the flame to the next town they use a lantern instead of a torch so they can transport it quickly.
As I boarded back on the bus I was met with another round of applause and again went back to thinking of the chain of events. Boredom had driven me to challenge what I was capable of and along the way had created a new direction in my life. Running became a new pathway to challenge myself and redefine my own limits. I am thankful to everyone along the way who played a part in my journey. In two years I seemed to have achieved things I would never of dreamed of, and carrying the torch is something I will remember forever, and more importantly, something I can talk to my son about and hand down the torch to him one day.
I struggle now to describe what carrying the torch has meant for me. It has signified a difficult journey I have made and hopefully acts as motivation for me to continue that journey so in another two years, I will again be amazed at where I am.
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This section describes developer interfaces for use of CPU Performance counters (CPC). Oracle Solaris applications can use CPC independent of the underlying counter architecture.
This section describes the additions to the libcpc library. For more information about older interfaces, see the libcpc(3LIB) man page.
An application preparing to use the CPC facility initializes the library with a call to the cpc_open() function. This function returns a cpc_t * parameter that is used by the other interfaces. The syntax for the cpc_open() function is as follows:cpc_t*cpc_open() int ver
The value of the ver parameter identifies the version of the interface that the application is using. The cpc_open() function fails if the underlying counters are inaccessible or unavailable.
The hardware query interfaces allow you to access process details such as counter information and events supported by the processor. The following are the hardware query interfaces:
uint_t cpc_npic(cpc_t *cpc); uint_t cpc_caps(cpc_t *cpc); void cpc_walk_events_all(cpc_t *cpc, void *arg, void (*action)(void *arg, const char *event)); void cpc_walk_events_pic(cpc_t *cpc, uint_t picno, void *arg, void(*action)(void *arg, uint_t picno, const char *event)); void cpc_walk-attrs(cpc_t *cpc, void *arg, void (*action)(void *arg, const char *attr));
The cpc_npic() function returns the number of physical counters on the underlying processor.
The cpc_caps() function returns a uint_t parameter whose value is the result of the bitwise inclusive-OR operation performed on the capabilities that the underlying processor supports. There are two capabilities. The CPC_CAP_OVERFLOW_INTERRUPT capability enables the processor to generate an interrupt when a counter overflows. The CPC_CAP_OVERFLOW_PRECISE capability enables the processor to determine which counter generates an overflow interrupt.
The kernel maintains a list of the events that the underlying processor supports. Different physical counters on a single chip do not have to use the same list of events. The cpc_walk_events_all() function calls the action() routine for each processor-supported event without regard to physical counter. The cpc_walk_events_pic() function calls the action() routine for each processor-supported event on a specific physical counter. Both of these functions pass the arg parameter uninterpreted from the caller to each invocation of the action() function.
The platform maintains a list of attributes that the underlying processor supports. These attributes enable access to advanced processor-specific features of the performance counters. The cpc_walk_attrs() function calls the action routine on each attribute name.
The configuration interfaces allow you to perform tasks such as create an empty set, add requests to a set, and change the preset value of a request. The following are the configuration interfaces:
cpc_set_t *cpc_set_create(cpc_t *cpc); int cpc_set_destroy(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_set_t *set); int cpc_set_add_request(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_set_t *set, const char *event, uint64_t preset, uint_t flags, uint_t nattrs, const cpc_attr_t *attrs); int cpc_set_request_preset(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_set_t *set, int index, uint64_t preset);
The opaque data type cpc_set_t represents collections of requests. The collections are called sets. The cpc_set_create() function creates an empty set. The cpc_set_destroy() function destroys a set and frees all the memory used by the set. Destroying a set releases the hardware resources the set uses.
The cpc_set_add_request() function adds requests to a set. A request has the following parameters:
A pointer to an array of cpc_attr_t structures.
A string that specifies the name of the event to count.
The results of the logical OR operation applied to a group of request flags.
The number of attributes in the array that attrs points to.
A 64-bit unsigned integer that is used as the initial value of the counter.
The following list describes the valid request flags:
This flag enables counting of events that occur while the CPU is executing in user mode.
This flag enables counting of events that occur while the CPU is executing in privileged mode.
This flag requests notification of hardware counter overflow.
The CPC interfaces pass attributes as an array of cpc_attr_t structures.
When the cpc_set_add_request() function returns successfully, it returns an index. The index references the data generated by the request added by the call to the cpc_set_add_request() function.
The cpc_set_request_preset() function changes the preset value of a request. This enables the re-binding of an overflowed set with new presets.
The cpc_walk_requests() function calls a user-provided action() routine on each request in cpc_set_t. The value of the arg parameter is passed to the user routine without interpretation. The cpc_walk_requests() function allows applications to print the configuration of each request in a set. The syntax for the cpc_walk_requests() function is as follows:
void cpc_walk_requests(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_set_t *set, void *arg, void (*action)(void *arg, int index, const char *event, uint64_t preset, uint_t flags, int nattrs, const cpc_attr_t *attrs));
The interfaces in this section bind the requests in a set to the physical hardware and set the counters to a starting position.
int cpc_bind_curlwp(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_set_t *set, uint_t flags); int cpc_bind_pctx(cpc_t *cpc, pctx_t *pctx, id_t id, cpc_set_t *set, uint_t flags); int cpc_bind_cpu(cpc_t *cpc, processorid_t id, cpc_set_t *set, uint_t flags); int cpc_unbind(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_set_t *set);
The cpc_bind_curlwp() function binds the set to the calling light-weight process (LWP). The counters of the set are virtualized to this LWP and count the events that occur on the CPU while the calling LWP runs. The only flag that is valid for the cpc_bind_curlwp() routine is CPC_BIND_LWP_INHERIT.
The cpc_bind_pctx() function binds the set to a LWP in a process that is captured with libpctx. This function has no valid flags. For more information, see the libpctx(3LIB) man page.
The cpc_bind_cpu() function binds the set to the processor specified in the id parameter. Binding a set to a CPU invalidates existing performance counter contexts on the system. This function has no valid flags.
The cpc_unbind() function stops the performance counters and releases the hardware that is associated with the bound set. If a set is bound to a CPU, the cpc_unbind() function unbinds the LWP from the CPU and releases the CPC pseudo-device.
The interfaces described in this section enable the return of data from the counters to the application. Counter data resides in an opaque data structure cpc_buf_t. This data structure takes a snapshot of the state of counters in use by a bound set and includes the following information:
The 64-bit values of each counter
The timestamp of the most recent hardware snapshot
A cumulative CPU cycle counter that counts the number of CPU cycles the processor has used on the bound set
cpc_buf_t *cpc_buf_create(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_set_t *set); int cpc_buf_destroy(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_buf_t *buf); int cpc_set_sample(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_set_t *set, cpc_buf_t *buf);
The cpc_buf_create() function creates a buffer that stores data from the set specified in cpc_set_t. The cpc_buf_destroy() function frees the memory that is associated with the given cpc_buf_t. The cpc_buf_sample() function takes a snapshot of the counters that are counting on behalf of the specified set. The specified set must already be bound and have a buffer created before calling the cpc_buf_sample() function.
Sampling into a buffer does not update the preset of the requests associated with that set. When a buffer is sampled with the cpc_buf_sample() function, then unbound and bound again, counts start from the preset of the request as in the original call to the cpc_set_add_request() function.
The following routines provide access to the data in a cpc_buf_t structure.
int cpc_buf_get(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_buf_t *buf, int index, uint64_t *val); int cpc_buf_set(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_buf_t *buf, int index, uint64_t *val); hrtime_t cpc_buf_hrtime(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_buf_t *buf); uint64_t cpc_buf_tick(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_buf_t *buf); int cpc_buf_sub(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_buf_t *result, cpc_buf_t *left cpc_buf_t *right); int cpc_buf_add(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_buf_t *result, cpc_buf_t *left, cpc_buf_t *right); int cpc_buf_copy(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_buf_t *dest, cpc_buf_t *src); void cpc_buf_zero(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_buf_t *buf);
The cpc_buf_get() function retrieves the value of the counter that is identified by the index parameter. The index parameter is a value that is returned by the cpc_set_add_request() function before the set is bound. The cpc_buf_get() function stores the value of the counter at the location indicated by the val parameter.
The cpc_buf_set() function sets the value of the counter that is identified by the index parameter. The index parameter is a value that is returned by the cpc_set_add_request() function before the set is bound. The cpc_buf_set() function sets the counter's value to the value at the location indicated by the val parameter. Neither the cpc_buf_get() function nor the cpc_buf_set() function change the preset of the corresponding CPC request.
The cpc_buf_hrtime() function returns the high resolution timestamp that indicates when the hardware was sampled. The cpc_buf_tick() function returns the number of CPU clock cycles that have elapsed while the LWP is running.
The cpc_buf_sub() function computes the difference between the counters and tick values that are specified in the left and right parameters. The cpc_buf_sub() function stores the results in result. A given invocation of the cpc_buf_sub() function must have all cpc_buf_t values originate from the same cpc_set_t structure. The result index contains the result of the left - right computation for each request index in the buffers. The result index also contains the tick difference. The cpc_buf_sub() function sets the high-resolution timestamp of the destination buffer to the most recent time of the left or right buffers.
The cpc_buf_add() function computes the total of the counters and tick values that are specified in the left and right parameters. The cpc_buf_add() function stores the results in result. A given invocation of the cpc_buf_add() function must have all cpc_buf_t values originate from the same cpc_set_t structure. The result index contains the result of the left + right computation for each request index in the buffers. The result index also contains the tick total. The cpc_buf_add() function sets the high-resolution timestamp of the destination buffer to the most recent time of the left or right buffers.
The cpc_buf_copy() function makes dest identical to src.
The cpc_buf_zero() function sets everything in buf to zero.
This section describes activation interfaces for CPC.
int cpc_enable(cpc_t *cpc); int cpc_disable(cpc_t *cpc);
These two interfaces respectively enable and disable counters of any set that is bound to the executing LWP. Use of these interfaces enables an application to designate code of interest while deferring the counter configuration to a controlling process by using libpctx.
This section describes CPC's error handling interfaces.
typedef void (cpc_errhndlr_t)(const char *fn, int subcode, const char *fmt, va_list ap); void cpc_seterrhndlr(cpc_t *cpc, cpc_errhndlr_t *errhndlr);
These two interfaces allow the passage of a cpc_t handle. The cpc_errhndlr_t handle takes an integer subcode in addition to a string. The integer subcode describes the specific error that was encountered by the function that the fn argument refers to. The integer subcode simplifies an application's recognition of error conditions. The string value of the fmt argument contains an internationalized description of the error subcode and is suitable for printing.


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The Chicago Fringe Festival announces its application dates for designers interested in submitting work to the 2013 Fringe Festival Design Contest. The winning design appears on all of the marketing and promotional materials for the 2013 Chicago Fringe Festival, August 29 - September 8. Submissions are accepted from individuals or more than one individual through March 15 with the winning design announced in April. For more information go to Chicagofringe.org or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Chicago Fringe Festival requests a single design that is emblematic of Chicago Fringe 2013.
· The design should capture (or at least not contradict) some of the other key characteristics of Chicago Fringe theatre. To learn more about what Chicago Fringe is, visit http://chicagofringe.org/about.php.
· The design should reflect, suggest, embody, convey or otherwise relate, directly or obliquely, to the 2013 festival theme: Pack a Lunch. The design should not include these words. The Fringe encourages designers to create an idea that Fringe is an experience - for people to expect to attend more than one show. Many of the most enthusiastic Fringe audience members come prepared, with schedules, notebooks and a plan. Designs should reflect this feeling of hours- long excitement.
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Naomi Watts is concerned her portrayal of tragic royal Princess Diana will upset her sons, Princes William and Harry.
The Impossible actress plays the late Princess of Wales in new biopic Diana and went to extremes to perfect the beloved royal's look and mannerisms, but she fears that might not be enough to win over her sons.
Watts reveals she agonised over accepting the role because she is a mum of two boys and would hate to think that she is responsible for causing the princes any grief.
She says, "The biggest reason that made me pause was how the princes were going to be feel about this. There was actually quite an eerie moment in London when I did see Prince William in a restaurant, and I got very nervous, because if I caught his eye I didn't want to interpret a look and think he had a negative feeling about this idea, so I made sure not to look.
"I do care deeply about how the princes feel, of course. I am a mum of two boys. But it was a story that was bound to be told at some point, and it's possibly fresher than people expected."
Watts initially turned down the role twice, but was too intrigued to say no a third time.
She explains, "I was a little bit torn, but once I'd said no, I wasn't completely at peace. Sometimes when you say no, you feel free, but it just wasn't the case.
"There was something very intriguing about this woman's life. It was extraordinary. She always lived a privileged life, but there was nothing ordinary about the construct she moved into. I liked the idea that there was this fame – no one at that level can really survive it, I think."
Diana will hit cinemas in November.
Naomi Watts is concerned her portrayal of tragic royal Princess Diana will upset her sons, Princes William and Harry.


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Just in case you were worried that Square Enix hasn't released enough pricey mobile games over the past few weeks, here's another!
Above is a trailer for Drakerider, a new RPG for iOS and Android. You can download the first chapter for free today, then buy chapters two through five for about $8 each or the whole thing for about $22.
Here's Square Enix's description of the game:
You play as Aran Lawson, on a quest to save the world from destruction by the Dread, after stumbling into a pact with a dragon in the course of your regular work.
Ride into battle on your dragon's back, keeping the mighty steed under control with reins of steel.
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Washington • Utah's two senators split over CIA nominee John Brennan, who secured his confirmation Thursday on a vote of 63 to 34.
Sen. Orrin Hatch and 11 other Republicans supported Brennan, who has been President Barack Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser. He served as interim director of the National Counterterrorism Center under President George W. Bush.
Sen. Mike Lee voted against the nominee, a vote that had more to do with the administration's drone program than any concern he had with Brennan.
Lee had participated in Sen. Rand Paul's nearly 13-hour filibuster of Brennan's nomination on Wednesday complaining that the White House hasn't clarified its stance on using drones within the United States.
Attorney General Eric Holder responded to Paul on Thursday saying the president does not have the authority to kill an American who is "not engaged in combat."
Lee doesn't believe that goes far enough and has demanded access to the administration's full justification for the potential use of drone strikes against American citizens the government considers enemy combatants.
Hatch said he understands the debate, but believes Brennan "will do a good job as the next CIA director."
"I'm going to work with my colleagues to make sure he and the agency are accountable to Congress and the American people," Hatch said. "I've known John Brennan for many years during my time on the Intelligence Committee and I know him to be someone who's focused on protecting Americans within the confines of the Constitution."


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Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed multi-model database. Azure Cosmos DB was built from the ground up with global distribution and horizontal scale at its core. It offers turnkey global distribution across any number of Azure regions by transparently scaling and replicating your data wherever your users are. Elastically scale throughput and storage worldwide, and pay only for the throughput and storage you need. Azure Cosmos DB guarantees single-digit-millisecond latencies at the 99th percentile anywhere in the world, offers multiple well-defined consistency models to fine-tune performance, and guarantees high availability with multi-homing capabilities—all backed by industry leading service level agreements (SLAs).
Azure Cosmos DB is truly schema-agnostic; it automatically indexes all the data without requiring you to deal with schema and index management. It's also multi-model, natively supporting document, key-value, graph, and column-family data models. With Azure Cosmos DB, you can access your data using APIs of your choice, as DocumentDB SQL (document), MongoDB (document), Azure Table Storage (key-value), and Gremlin (graph) are all natively supported.
Microsoft makes security a priority at every step, from code development to incident response. Azure code development adheres to Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) - a software development process that helps developers build more secure software and address security compliance requirements while reducing development cost. Azure Security Center makes Azure the only public cloud platform to offer continuous security-health monitoring. Azure is ubiquitous, with a global footprint approaching nearly 40 geographical regions and continuously expanding. With its worldwide presence, one of the differentiated capabilities Azure offers is the ability to easily build, deploy, and manage globally distributed data-driven applications that are secure.
DocumentDB has a number of powerful security features built-in. To secure data stored in an Azure DocumentDB database account, DocumentDB provides support for a secret-based authorization model that utilizes a strong hash-based message authentication code (HMAC). In addition to the secret based authorization model, DocumentDB also supports policy driven IP-based access controls for inbound firewall support. This model is very similar to the firewall rules of a traditional database system and provides an additional level of security to the DocumentDB database account. With this model, you can now configure a DocumentDB database account to be accessible only from an approved set of machines and/or cloud services. Once this configuration is applied, all requests originating from machines outside this allowed list will be blocked by the server. Access to DocumentDB resources from these approved sets of machines and services still require the caller to present a valid authorization token. All communication inside the cluster in DocumentDB (e.g., replication traffic) is using SSL. All communication from Mongo (or any other clients) to DocumentDB service is always using SSL.To learn more about securing access to your data in DocumentDB, see Securing Access to DocumentDB Data.
The table below maps current DocumentDB features to the security checklist that MongoDB recommends.
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Enable Access Control and Enforce Authentication
Enabled by default
Only discovery/authentication commands like IsMaster/GetLastError/WhatsMyUri are supported before authentication
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Each DatabaseAccount has its own key.
Support for ReadOnly keys to limit access.
No default user/account present.
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We do not allow non-SSL communication – all communication to service is always over SSL.
DocumentDB requires TLS1.2 which is more secure than TLS1, SSL3
Encrypt and Protect Data
Encryption at rest
Limit Network Exposure
IP Filtering
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Run MongoDB with a Dedicated User
DocumentDB is a multi-tenant service so no account has direct access to the core operating system resources.
Run MongoDB with Secure Configuration Options
DocumentDB only support MongoDB wire protocol and does not enable HTTP/JSONP endpoints
The capabilities offered by DocumentDB span beyond that of traditional geographical disaster recovery (Geo-DR) offered by "single-site" databases. Single site databases offering Geo-DR capability are a strict subset of globally distributed databases. With DocumentDB's turnkey global distribution, developers do not have to build their own replication scaffolding by employing either the Lambda pattern (for example, AWS DynamoDB replication) over the database log or by doing "double writes" across multiple regions. We do not recommend these approaches since it is impossible to ensure correctness of such approaches and provide sound SLAs.
DocumentDB enables you to have policy-based geo-fencing capabilities. Geo-fencing is an important capability that ensures data governance and compliance restrictions and may prevent associating a specific region with your account. Examples of geo-fencing include (but are not restricted to), scoping global distribution to the regions within a sovereign cloud (for example, China and Germany), or within a government taxation boundary (for example, Australia). The policies are controlled using the metadata of your Azure subscription.
For failover, you can specify an exact sequence of regional failovers if there is a multi-regional outage and you can associate the priority to various regions associated with the database account. DocumentDB will ensure that the automatic failover sequence occurs in the priority order you specified.
We are also working on encryption-at-rest and in-motion. Customers will be able to encrypt data in DocumentDB to align with best practices for protecting confidentiality and data integrity. Stay tuned for that.
Moving to DocumentDB doesn't require you to rewrite your apps or throw away your existing tools. DocumentDB supports protocol for MongoDB, which means DocumentDB databases can now be used as the data store for apps written for MongoDB. This also means that by using existing drivers for MongoDB databases, your applications written for MongoDB can now communicate with DocumentDB and use DocumentDB databases instead of MongoDB databases. In many cases, you can switch from using MongoDB to DocumentDB by simply changing a connection string. Using this functionality, you can easily build and run MongoDB database applications in the Azure cloud - leveraging DocumentDB's fully managed and scalable NoSQL databases, while continuing to use familiar skills and tools for MongoDB. Furthermore, we only support SSL for Mongo (not http) for the benefit of all users. Other benefits that you can get right away (that you can't get anywhere else) include:
We're thrilled you're going to be helping us define our NoSQL product (which capabilities to add, which APIs to support, and how to integrate with other products and services) to make our service even better. DocumentDB powers the businesses of banking and capital markets, professional services and discrete manufacturers, startups and health solutions. It is used everywhere in the world, and we're just getting started. We've created something that both customers and developers really love and something we are really proud of! The revolution that is leading thousands of developers to flock to Azure DocumentDB has just started, and it is driven by something much deeper than just our product features. Building a product that allows for significant improvements in how developers build modern applications requires a degree of thoughtfulness, craftsmanship and empathy towards developers and what they are going through. We understand that, because we ourselves are developers.
We want to enable developers to truly transform the world we are living in through the apps they are building, which is even more important than the individual features we are putting into DocumentDB. Developing applications is hard, developing distributed applications at planet scale that are fast, scalable, elastic, always available and yet simple - is even harder. Yet it is a fundamental pre-requisite in reaching people globally in our modern world. We spend limitless hours talking to customers every day and adapting DocumentDB to make the experience truly stellar and fluid. The agility, performance and cost-effectiveness of apps built on top of DocumentDB is not an accident. Even tiny details make big differences.
So what are the next steps you should take? Here are a few that come to mind:
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With rotating celebrity ensembles reading gay-themed vignettes by acclaimed playwrights like Moisés Kaufmann, Paul Rudnick, and Doug Wright, Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays has become one of the most engaging efforts to raise funds and awareness for the marriage equality fight. After a limited run at Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles earlier this year, producers Stuart Ross and Joan Stein have brought Standing on Ceremony back for a stint at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Renberg Theatre, where a portion of all proceeds will support Vote for Equality, the Center's political organization and research program. Scheduled for select Monday nights through June 27, the new incarnation opens May 9 with Peri Gilpin, Julie Hagerty, Rachael Harris, Peter Paige, John Rubinstein, and Jon Tenney. Mr. Ross, who's currently grooming Old Jews Telling Jokes for off-Broadway, affirms his personal commitment to the matrimonial cause.
By Brandon Voss
Advocate.com: Standing on Ceremony was originally conceived and commissioned by Attic Theatre artistic director Brian Shnipper and presented as a one-night benefit in 2009 at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre. When did you join the project as a producer?
Stuart Ross: I saw that benefit in '09, and afterward I told Brian and his producer, Allain Rochel, that I liked their sensibility and thought the show deserved to go to New York. They got excited, so I called up some theaters. New York Theatre Workshop agreed to produce another benefit last summer, which was great, because we were able to expand the show with more plays from some of their playwrights.
Why was it important for you to get involved?
I got married to my partner in the little window before the book snapped shut because of Prop. 8. We had been so happy, but then, of course, we got very upset. What I loved about Standing on Ceremony was that there was nothing else like it that I'd ever seen in the theater — nothing where a group of artists had come together to write plays about a political issue that actually affected me. The play did what it was supposed to do: It was like a little lightning bolt for me where I knew I had to get involved and do something. And then I thought, Wow, if it can do that for me, maybe it can do that for other people.
How has the show evolved since its premiere?
Even when I first saw it, I was already envisioning it with just music stands and six people playing all the different roles, so that it could be sustained as an ongoing thing. And now it's a tight hour and 25 minutes with nine plays as opposed to 14. But we still have a little reception after the show, where people can eat wedding cake and talk about different organizations and different ways that they can volunteer and help put a face on the fight for marriage equality.
Considering that you're staging gay plays at a gay venue, how can you ensure that you're not just preaching to the choir?
We tell people to pass the word on not just to friends but people who aren't friends. We ask people not to be afraid to tell other people to come see these plays, using it as an introduction for those who aren't sure yet about gay marriage. I actually just met with Zach Wahls, the University of Iowa student with two moms who testified before the state house of representatives against the repeal of marriage equality, because I'm adapting his speech for the show. He's going around trying to find ways to make sure we're not just preaching to the converted by telling the converted that they have to go out and spread the word.
Are other new pieces making their debut with this run?
Yes, we have a new piece about a Christian evangelist and a gay hustler by the amazing Joe Keenan, who has written a few very funny gay novels and who worked on Frasier and now works on Desperate Housewives. Wendy MacLeod, who wrote The House of Yes, wrote a new piece for us, and Jenny Lyn Bader from the Women's Project has a new piece going in as well. The Gay and Lesbian Center has also been going out canvassing, asking people how they voted on Prop. 8 and how they would vote now, so we're adapting those interviews into a piece about the non-converted. Many of the people interviewed have either changed their minds or are willing to rethink their position when the time comes.
Do you have a favorite piece?
I love all my children! [Laughs] I love the Jeffrey Hatcher piece called White Marriage. It's about a straight couple, but the husband has always had a gay sense of humor. Their son's getting married, so they start questioning and analyzing what happens when you marry someone you aren't supposed to marry because you can't marry the person you're meant to marry. It's quite brilliant. But what I love about all the plays is that you could actually do most of them straight, as if they were about straight couples. That's sort of the thrill, because they present the normality of what life will be like when gay marriage is legal everywhere. They show that gay people go through some of the same issues as everyone else.
Do your actors volunteer their talent and time?
Yes. We try to cover costs for dinner, car service, parking, and gas, but that's it, and we want to keep it that way. We want to make sure the money we raise goes to the right place. I've worked on benefits for just about everything, and it always bothered me how much money you have to spend on benefits.
Have you been met with any hesitation from actors or their publicists who are afraid to be associated with a gay benefit?
Yeah, there's been a lot of that. We only hear it from the casting director, so we never hear, "I don't want to kiss somebody on stage," but there have been actors who just aren't interested. For some reason, a lot of the more famous gay actors have not responded very favorably to us — "he's busy, she's busy" — but we have had amazing gay actors like Jesse Tyler Ferguson, John Benjamin Hickey, and Peter Paige participate. We try to get a good mix of openly gay talent and straight allies. But gay or straight, everyone we've gotten to participate has been fantastic.
Not only might they need to kiss other men, male actors might also have to deliver lines like "I love cock" in Neil LaBute's contribution, Strange Fruit.
Oh, our actors just love that line, and you should hear some of the interpretations we've gotten. Some guys really get into it. And the kisses have never a problem. Well, they always end up sincere in performance, but sometimes actors do get a little shy and goof on it a little in rehearsal. Actually, straight actors are sometimes bolder than gay actors.
Which actors are on your wish list to do the show?
Daniel Craig and Meryl Streep. I also love Daniel Sunjata. And Denis Leary is someone who would really make people take notice, and he would just sound amazing doing these plays, especially the Neil LaBute play. Who else? Taye Diggs. Sean Connery. Samuel L. Jackson. Vin Diesel. Honestly, the butcher, the better — and the sweeter, as I've found.
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S9630, Medroxyprogesterone in Treating Women With Breast Cancer
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00002920
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 27, 2003
Last Update Posted : October 31, 2012
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RATIONALE: It is not yet known whether medroxyprogesterone is effective in preventing endometrial disorder in patients with breast cancer who are taking tamoxifen.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to study the effectiveness of medroxyprogesterone in preventing endometrial disorder in postmenopausal women who have ductal carcinoma in situ, lobular carcinoma in situ, Paget's disease of the nipple, stage I breast cancer, or stage II breast cancer and who are taking tamoxifen.
|Condition or disease
|Breast Cancer Endometrial Cancer
|Drug: medroxyprogesterone Drug: tamoxifen citrate Procedure: adjuvant therapy
|Phase 3
- Compare endometrial pathologic diagnoses (proliferative changes, simple or cystic hyperplasia, complex adenomatous hyperplasia, hyperplasia with atypia, and carcinoma) in postmenopausal women with breast carcinoma treated with adjuvant tamoxifen who are randomly assigned to medroxyprogesterone acetate (MA) vs observation.
- Compare endometrial pathologic diagnoses (persistent endometrial hyperplasia, atypia, or carcinoma) resulting in tamoxifen discontinuation and intermittent bleeding in patients treated with these regimens.
- Characterize the incidence of spontaneous regression and progression of simple or cystic hyperplasia in these patients.
- Characterize endometrial biopsy results using different endometrial stripe width cut-off points, for cases in which the width is at least 5 mm by endovaginal ultrasound in patients receiving tamoxifen.
- Compare changes over time in endometrial oncogene expression (e.g., c-fos, c-jun, p53, IGF1) and receptor status in patients receiving tamoxifen with or without prior chemotherapy who are randomly assigned to MA vs observation.
- Describe the associations among change in gene expression, receptor status, endometrial abnormality, length of tamoxifen exposure, and prior chemotherapy in these patients.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to adjuvant chemotherapy (yes vs no), number of positive nodes (0-3 vs at least 4), and endovaginal sonogram endometrial stripe (less than 5 mm vs at least 5 mm). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.
All patients receive adjuvant oral tamoxifen daily for five years.
- Arm I: Patients undergo observation.
- Arm II: Patients receive oral medroxyprogesterone acetate on days 1-14. Treatment repeats every 3 months for 5 years.
Patients are followed every 6 months for 2 years and then annually thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 330 patients (165 per arm) will be accrued for this study.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|313 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Comparison Of Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (MA) And Observation For Prevention Of Endometrial Pathology In Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Patients Treated With Tamoxifen, Phase III
|Study Start Date :
|March 1997
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2006
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2009
Active Comparator: Tamoxifen alone
Tamoxifen alone x 5 years
Drug: tamoxifen citrate
Procedure: adjuvant therapy
Experimental: Tamoxifen plus MPA
Tamoxifen Plus Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (MPA) x 5 years
Drug: medroxyprogesterone
Drug: tamoxifen citrate
Procedure: adjuvant therapy
- Endometrial pathologic diagnosis [ Time Frame: 2 years after registration ]Endometrial pathologic diagnosis at 2 years after registration
- Endometrial pathologic diagnosis [ Time Frame: 5 years after registration ]Endometrial pathologic diagnosis at 5 years after registration
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
One of the following histologically proven diagnoses:
Primary invasive adenocarcinoma of the unilateral or bilateral breast
- Stage I, IIA, or IIB (T1-3, N0-1, M0)
- No recurrent invasive breast cancer
- Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
- Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) with microinvasion
- Paget's disease of the nipple
- No sarcoma, lymphoma, or apocrine, adenocystic, or squamous cell cancer of the breast
Currently free of breast cancer (no evidence of disease)
- No evidence of distant disease on chest x-ray or chest CT scan and mammogram of the opposite breast within the past year
Prior definitive local treatment of primary lesion (mastectomy or breast-sparing procedure with radiotherapy) and either axillary node or sentinel node biopsy
Surgical margins clear of both infiltrating carcinoma (any type) and DCIS
No gross or microscopically positive margins except:
- Invasive cancer or DCIS at the focal margin treated with definitive radiotherapy
- Gross or LCIS at the final margin
- Biopsy requirement waived for DCIS or LCIS with minimal microinvasion
- Patients with breast-sparing procedure must have received or be planning to receive radiotherapy at start of tamoxifen treatment
- No endometrial simple or cystic hyperplasia, proliferative changes, complex (adenomatous) or atypical hyperplasia, or carcinoma
Patients must be planning one of the following:
- Starting adjuvant tamoxifen for five years OR
- Started tamoxifen within 28 days prior to study and planning to receive adjuvant tamoxifen for five years
Hormone receptor status:
- Candidate for adjuvant tamoxifen therapy
- Adult
- Female
Menopausal status:
Postmenopausal defined as:
- At least 1 year since last menstrual period
- At least 2 months since bilateral oophorectomy prior to breast cancer diagnosis
- 4-12 months since last menstrual period and FSH elevated to postmenopausal range
- Postmenopausal estrogen therapy and 55 years of age or older
Performance status:
- Not specified
Life expectancy:
- Not specified
- Not specified
- Not specified
- Not specified
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for at least 2 months after study
- No other malignancy within the past 5 years except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or stage I or II cancer currently in complete remission
- No concurrent nonmalignant-related illness that would preclude study
Biologic therapy:
- Not specified
- Adjuvant chemotherapy allowed
- No concurrent chemotherapy
Endocrine therapy:
- See Disease Characteristics
- No prior hormonal treatment for breast cancer (except tamoxifen)
- No concurrent postmenopausal estrogen therapy
- See Disease Characteristics
- See Disease Characteristics
- No prior or concurrent hysterectomy
- No prior or current participation in an adjuvant intergroup trial
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00002920
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|Study Chair:
|Ronald K. Potkul, MD
|Loyola University
|Study Chair:
|Barbara L. Smith, MD, PhD
|Massachusetts General Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Southwest Oncology Group
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00002920 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
CALGB-49901 ( Other Identifier: CALGB )
S9630 ( Other Identifier: SWOG )
U10CA037429 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
U10CA032102 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|January 27, 2003 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 31, 2012
|Last Verified:
|October 2012
endometrial cancer
stage I breast cancer
stage II breast cancer
ductal breast carcinoma in situ
lobular breast carcinoma in situ
Paget disease of the breast
Breast Neoplasms
Endometrial Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Uterine Neoplasms
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Uterine Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Medroxyprogesterone Acetate
Estrogen Antagonists
Hormone Antagonists
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Antineoplastic Agents
Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators
Estrogen Receptor Modulators
Bone Density Conservation Agents
Contraceptives, Oral, Synthetic
Contraceptives, Oral
Contraceptive Agents, Female
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J21WwPCtF3c] Sydney Harbour, the day after we got home.
1,449 days since heading out there I am back again, just ten days short of an even four years away.
It was 1,399 days, or just a day less than 200 weeks, from my arrival in the US to my departure from San Francisco last Sunday. I landed in New York in June 2008 after a near-36 hour day traveling from Bangkok before catching the train to Washington DC, the first of many times I would travel that corridor past the broken factories and over the inlets of the East Coast.
I arrived knowing only a handful of people, unsure of what I would do next or where exactly I would end up. I had only a few weeks to figure things out and secure a job offer which would lead to a visa before K caught up with me, just a few weeks to justify the decision to leave so much behind in Australia and strike out to live my dream of working in the US.
We spent two years in Washington DC, meeting incredible people and having many side adventures and wonderful experiences. I went through significant adaptation pains at Ashoka, learning to work inside a large established non-profit after ten years as an entrepreneur while teaching an old organization new tricks, but relished the opportunity I had as the first social media director of such an influential and groundbreaking organization, pushing myself, constantly learning new things, working with amazing colleagues and experimenting with emerging forms of media and communications. I am really proud of all that was accomplished during that time, including launching and growing Ashoka's Twitter account to over 600,000 followers, publishing three ebooks, crowdsourcing a promotional video and generally introducing Ashoka's many departments and country offices to the power and potential social media and how it could help achieve the mission of creating an everyone a changemaker world.
After two years in DC it felt like time to keep moving. We considered New York but decided San Francisco was more our kinda town, a decision we never doubted once we got there. Over two years in the Bay I worked with a number of non-profits to connect their missions with social technologies before launching social good crowdfunding start-up StartSomeGood with my friend Alex Budak who I met at Ashoka, which I'll be continuing to work on from Australia.
We loved San Francisco: the people, the culture, the environment. San Francisco combines the most ambitious people on earth with the most relaxed in a unique, harmonious ying/yang. We got out into the countryside at every opportunity, exploring the hills of Marin and the wineries of the Russian River, staying in Paso Robles, Yosemite and Big Basin Redwoods Forest, driving Highway 1 and hiking Mt Tam. We made and deepened some great friendships, meeting some incredible entrepreneurs, creatives, visionaries and festivalists. We adored our part of the city, the Mission District, which reminded us so much of Newtown, where we had lived in Sydney.
And now, somewhat astonishingly, this chapter is over and I'm left trying to make sense of it all.
Over the past four years I got married and got my scuba diving license, jumped out of a plane and learned to drive a car, founded a Burning Man theme camp and visited 11 countries, worked for someone else for the first time in eight years and founded a new company, drove across America and bought my first road bike, was granted four different visas and denied re-entry once. I visited 20 American states and wish I'd made it to more (namely: Utah, South Dakota and Louisiana). K made it to 30 over the course of selling her families wine.
We had, to sum it up, a really good time. But not without its challenges and set-backs, its moments of frustration, fear and doubt. Such is the rich tapestry of life.
Homecoming is always an emotionally-complicated experience. I'm excited to explore Sydney and can't wait to spend time with my old friends, while at the same time being sad to leave San Francisco and missing my friends back there. Everything is so familiar but at the same time different. I'm obviously older and I hope I'm a little wiser as a result of all these experiences. The relationships I formed will stay with me and I'm so grateful for them. The ideas I've been exposed to and inspiration I have gained will inform whatever happens next. Now I want to contribute to the burgeoning social innovation scene in Sydney and while continuing to grow a global community of social entrepreneurs on StartSomeGood.
K and I brought something else back with us as well, our first child-to-be, due in August. We never contemplated for a moment taking this next step in our relationships and our lives anywhere other than Sydney, with universal healthcare and our families and friends here to support us.
And so on to the next stage. While this particular chapter is over the adventure continues always. Onwards and upwards!


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Posted by: John Kerry, the 68th Secretary of State
"It was so terrible. It was hard for the mind to absorb it." Those were the words of U.S. Master Sergeant Marvin Josephs as he entered Buchenwald on April 12, 1945, along with military chaplain Rabbi Herschel Schachter.
Decades later, Josephs still remembered vividly the words "You're free" reverberating from Rabbi Schachter's bullhorn. He remembered seeing the crematoria and the house of the commandant and his notorious wife, Ilse Koch, the "Beast of Buchenwald." Above all, he remembered the survivors — emaciated and tortured — coming forward at the sound of the rabbi's bullhorn.
The scenes of liberated prisoners were so overwhelming that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered every man in the U.S. 4th Armored Division to walk the grounds of Buchenwald. Josephs immediately understood why: "He didn't want people to ever deny what happened."
Nearly 70 years after World War Two ended, 70 years after the world's collective horror at the Holocaust, anti-Semitism remains a global menace. It is not enough to remember the millions of innocent lives lost in one of the darkest chapters in all of world history. We must reaffirm our vow never to forget the evil that comes from bigotry and intolerance and turn that commitment into action.
Many of us in the United States have personal and family connections to this difficult history – and to the cause of action now. My brother's interest in our family's genealogy took him back to the Czech Republic just months ago to learn more about the history of ancestors we had never even heard about until the last decade, stories of a great uncle Otto and his sister Jenni who perished in the Holocaust.
I'll never forget, on my first trip to Berlin as Secretary of State, meeting with a group of young Germans. They told me something I never knew about the city where I'd spent time growing up in the aftermath of World War Two. Throughout the city, they've placed "stumbling stones" to mark where Jews were murdered in the streets and other victims of the Holocaust. Every day, passers-by remember what happened — and equally important — they never forget or deny it.
Holocaust Remembrance Day calls us to condemn anti-Semitism in every form – whether it's the disturbing rise of xenophobic and anti-Semitic parties in Europe or the uptick of violence against Jewish people anywhere in the world.
The EU's Agency for Fundamental Rights 2013 Report on Anti-Semitism underscores the stakes. One third of those surveyed experienced some form of anti-Semitic harassment over the past five years, with 26 percent enduring verbal assault or harassment over the past year alone — just because they were Jewish.
What's more, 4 percent reported physical violence and 23 percent said they avoid Jewish events or sites because they don't feel safe.
Of course, the numbers don't tell the full story.
In Italy, police are tracking down the culprit who sent pig heads last week to Rome's Grand Synagogue, the Israeli Embassy, and a museum sponsoring a Holocaust exhibit.
In Romania, a government-owned television channel aired a profoundly anti-Semitic Christmas song, which claimed that Jews are only good "in the chimney as smoke."
If these acts of hate don't hit you in the gut, I don't know what will. If this isn't a call to action, I don't know what is.
We need to be forceful about what is right and what is wrong. But we also need to work to recognize our common humanity in others, and to start the conversations that will help others recognize ours.
That's why the Obama Administration has launched the Atrocities Prevention Board. That's why we're working hand in glove with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for the Prevention of Genocide so that we can detect and highlight this global scourge.
And that's why, last year, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Ira Forman and President Obama's Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Rashad Hussain joined an historic interfaith visit to the concentration camps at Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The United States is committed to having the difficult conversations across cultures and religions that can actually change people's opinions. Pope Francis calls it "the dialogue of life," and we reaffirm today that there are indeed millions of lives that depend on it.
We — each of us — have a responsibility to stand up and affirm human dignity. In an interconnected world, anti-Semitism that goes unanswered anywhere is a threat to people everywhere. That is a collective challenge we all face in the 21st century.


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The device id address.
The devid and minor_name represented as a string.
The first of two device id addresses to be compared calling ddi_devid_compare().
The second of two device id addresses to be compared calling ddi_devid_compare().
A dev_info pointer, which identifies the device.
The following device id types may be accepted by the ddi_devid_init() function:
World Wide Name associated with SCSI-3 devices.
Vendor IDand serial number associated with a SCSI device. Note: This may only be used if known to be unique; otherwise a fabricated device id must be used.
Device ID of another device. This is for layered device driver usage.
Fabricated device ID.
The minor name to be encoded.
The length in bytes of device ID.
The return address of the device ID.
The return address of a minor name. Free string with ddi_devid_str_free().
Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI).
The following routines are used to provide unique identifiers, device IDs, for devices. Specifically, kernel modules use these interfaces to identify and locate devices, independent of the device's physical connection or its logical device name or number.
ddi_devid_compare() compares two device IDs byte-by-byte and determines both equality and sort order.
ddi_devid_sizeof() returns the number of bytes allocated for the passed in device ID (devid).
ddi_devid_init() allocates memory and initializes the opaque device ID structure. This function does not store the devid. If the device id is not derived from the device's firmware, it is the driver's responsibility to store the devid on some reliable store. When a devid_type of either DEVID_SCSI3_WWN, DEVID_SCSI_SERIAL, or DEVID_ENCAP is accepted, an array of bytes (id) must be passed in (nbytes).
When the devid_type DEVID_FAB is used, the array of bytes (id) must be NULL and the length (nbytes) must be zero. The fabricated device ids, DEVID_FAB will be initialized with the machine's host id and a timestamp.
Drivers must free the memory allocated by this function, using the ddi_devid_free() function.
ddi_devid_free() frees the memory allocated for the returned devid by the ddi_devid_init() and devid_str_decode() functions.
ddi_devid_register() registers the device ID address (devid) with the DDI framework, associating it with the dev_info passed in (dip). The drivers must register device IDs at attach time. See attach(9E).
ddi_devid_unregister() removes the device ID address from the dev_info passed in (dip). Drivers must use this function to unregister the device ID when devices are being detached. This function does not free the space allocated for the device ID. The driver must free the space allocated for the device ID, using the ddi_devid_free() function. See detach(9E).
ddi_devid_valid() validates the device ID (devid) passed in. The driver must use this function to validate any fabricated device ID that has been stored on a device.
The ddi_devid_str_encode() function encodes a devid and minor_name into a null-terminated ASCII string, returning a pointer to that string. If both a devid and a minor_name are non-null, then a slash (/) is used to separate the devid from the minor_name in the encoded string. If minor_name is null, then only the devid is encoded. If the devid is null, then the special string id0 is returned. Note that you cannot compare the returned string against another string with strcmp() to determine devid equality. The returned string must be freed by calling devid_str_free().
The ddi_devid_str_decode() function takes a string previously produced by the devid_str_encode(3DEVID) or ddi_devid_str_encode() function and decodes the contained device ID and minor_name, allocating and returning pointers to the extracted parts through the retdevid and retminor_name arguments. If the special devidstr id0 was specified then the returned device ID and minor name will both be null. A non-null returned devid must be freed by the caller through the ddi_devid_free() function. A non-null returned minor name must be freed by calling ddi_devid_str_free().
The ddi_devid_str_free() function is used to free all strings returned by the ddi_devid functions (the ddi_devid_str_encode() function return value and the returned retminor_name argument).
ddi_devid_init() returns the following values:
ddi_devid_valid() returns the following values:
ddi_devid_register() returns the following values:
Failure. The device ID is already registered or the device ID is invalid.
ddi_devid_valid() returns the following values:
ddi_devid_compare() returns the following values:
The first device ID is less than the second device ID.
The first device ID is equal to the second device ID.
The first device ID is greater than the second device ID.
ddi_devid_sizeof() returns the size of the devid in bytes. If called with a null, then the number of bytes that must be allocated and initialized to determine the size of a complete device ID is returned.
ddi_devid_str_encode() returns a value of null to indicate failure. Failure can be caused by attempting to encode an invalid devid. If the return value is non-null then the caller must free the returned string by using the devid_str_free() function.
ddi_devid_str_decode() returns the following values:
These functions can be called from a user or kernel context.
devid_get(3DEVID), , libdevid(3LIB), attributes(5), attach(9E), detach(9E), kmem_free(9F)


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Unique job opportunity for a talented Systems/Web developer
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Thomas Adès joined the likes of Andrea Gheorghiu and Bryn Terfel on the glitzy red carpet in order to receive his award as 'Composer of the Year' for the EMI recording of his 2nd opera 'The Tempest', at this season's televised awards ceremony. Read more
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) was one of the most prolific symphonists of the last century, writing 67 in total, many of them drawing on his Armenian heritage. 8 March 2011 sees the centenary of the US composer's birth. The Peermusic catalogue includes some of his finest works. Read more


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We all have hundreds of fleeting thoughts throughout the day, and the ability to capture and coalesce those ideas is critical to many of our workflows. Yet there's no easy way to snapshot thoughts as we have them – and that's why we created Squarespace Note.
Squarespace Note is a clean, minimalist, note-taking application that can push your thoughts to email, Evernote, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, and, yes, Squarespace. Note is unique from most existing note applications in that it's not used as a database, but a passthrough. It becomes the first place you go to push text to various services.
The Note app is free and does not require a Squarespace account. Note is already an integral part of our day-to-day workflow here at Squarespace – many of us save thoughts to email and Squarespace a few times a day using Note. We think it makes us more effective thinkers, doers, and publishers.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
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