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Andrea Mitchell, Guest Scold GOP 2012 Hopefuls for Disagreeing with Obama on Israel
In lockstep with Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, who scolded
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "please don't speak to my
president that way," MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell cautioned of the
"political pitfalls" for Republican presidential candidates who dared to
challenge Barack Obama's speech on the Middle East.
On the May 20 edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports, NBC's chief foreign
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commander-in-chief and bewailed the "angry reception" he's received over
his desire to see Israel surrender territory it acquired in the six-day
Middle East war of 1967.
- Alex Fitzsimmons is a News Analysis intern at the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.1:08 p.m. EDT
ANDREA MITCHELL: The political pitfalls of wading into the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate was on display today, with Republican presidential contenders piling on the president. 2012 hopefuls slamming Mr. Obama for saying that Israel should give up lands occupied since 1967, even as some Senate Republicans offer a more measured reception - those not running for office, not running for president.
John Heilemann is National Affairs editor for New York Magazine and joins us from New York. So first of all, the angry reception that the president got, was that predictable? Whatever happened to politics ending at the water's edge?
JOHN HEILEMANN: Well I think we left that age a long time ago, Andrea, unfortunately. Predictable? I think utterly predictable. I think most Republicans who are running for president believe that it's going to be a very close election in 2012 if they get the nomination and they're looking at states particularly like Florida. And they're looking at what they see as the president's political weakness with Jewish-American community and they're trying to get themselves in a good position to capitalize on that if they happen to be the nominee.
MITCHELL: We had a strong statement from Mitt Romney saying that "President Obama has thrown Israel under the bus. He has disrespected Israel and undermined its ability to negotiate peace." Pawlenty saying "President Obama's insistence on a return to the '67 borders is a mistaken and dangerous demand." The city of Jerusalem must never be re-divided. Michele Bachmann, who could be entertaining a run, "President Obama has again indicated his policy toward Israel is to blame Israel first." That's pretty categorical. Newt Gingrich was also on the bandwagon here.


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Motley Crue Sell Entire Recorded Catalog for Estimated $150 Million
Motley Crue have sold their entire recorded music catalog to BMG in a deal, according to Variety's sources, valued at approximately $150 million.
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"It feels amazing to be collaborating with our new partners at BMG," the group said in a statement. "Their extensive track record of success in rock made them the perfect home to continue preserving and growing our musical legacy, ensuring we always stay at the top."
The acquisition is BMG's largest since its 2008 formation. The band's longtime manager, Allen Kovac, helped Motley Crue acquire their catalog from Elektra Records during a contract renegotiation in the '90s.
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Kovac also argued that owning their own masters allowed Motley Crue to cash in on the financial success of their biopic The Dirt.
The band is scheduled to launch its long-delayed Stadium Tour in June 2022. The all-star U.S. trek, announced in December 2019, also features Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.


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Brad Preber, Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, discusses his first job selling seeds door-to-door, his mentors and what he learned along the way.
Brad Preber
Title: Managing Partner
Company: Grant Thornton
Describe your very first job.
When I was a teenager, I found an ad in the back of a magazine promoting the door-to-door sale of seeds. You earned points that you could convert into prizes or
cash. I used the money I earned selling seeds to my neighbors to buy a lawn mower that I then used to start lawn care business.
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Selling the seeds was a point system and the points were converted into prizes or cash. I was paid $300 a month for doing bookkeeping for the construction company. I also had an opportunity to apply for scholarship money from the company. I was a broke college student so any extra money helped.
Who is your biggest mentor?
I don't really have a single individual that I see as a mentor. Instead, I looked to teachers, coaches, and friends' parents for guidance. I took small pieces of each of them into consideration for what I wanted to be when I grew up. They combined to become big portion of what I am today.
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What advice would you give someone entering your industry today?
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If you weren't doing this, what would you be doing instead?
If I had the time and the capital to pull it off, I would have become an artist. If I didn't have the capital to pull it off, I would have become a fly-fishing guide.


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David Bowie Aylesbury Statue Vandalized 48 Hours After Unveiling
On Sunday (March 25), a David Bowie statue was unveiled in Aylesbury, a small town in Buckinghamshire, England, where the eccentric pop star first debuted his Ziggy Stardust persona in July 1972.
Just 48 hours later, the monument has been vandalized. The culprits spray painted the words "RIP DB" and "Feed the homeless first" on the memorial. David Stopps, the fan who crowdfunded £100,000 and paid for the statue, chatted with Mix 96 about the disrespectful graffiti.
"The paint was on the statue, the wall behind and on the pavement. It was about the homeless – but I do quite a lot for the homeless, which is the irony of the whole thing," he explained.
"The man who created the bronze casting is coming up tomorrow to blow torch it off the statue, which is the only way, and then re-waxing it," Stopps added.
The town's deputy mayor, Mark Willis, says no public money was used. "I want to point out that this statue received precisely £0 of public money," he said.
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The Sydney Morning Herald published the following article 2 days after Qantas CEO Alan Joyce announced a 1st half year loss of $252 million and job cuts of 5,000
Mayday: how Qantas went from national icon to corporate tragedy
28/2/2014 Qantas is a company of tribes at war with itself, and anyone who questions its strategy. It also is suffering from a case of the Boy Who Cried Wolf after so many years of warning that it was close to collapse unless the government bowed to its wishes. At one time, a phrase was coined by Dixon known as "constant-shock syndrome". http://www.smh.com.au/business/aviation/mayday-how-qantas-went-from-national-icon-to-corporate-tragedy-20140228-33rax.html
The SMH article describes how Chairman Leigh Clifford selected Alan Joyce as successor for CEO Geoff Dixon in May 2008. That was the month when oil prices were skyrocketing towards $130 a barrel as a result of extra demand from China for the Olympic Games. After 2 years of declining crude oil production between 2005 and 2007 the world was approaching an Oilympic peak, both in production and prices, fuelled by Saudi Arabia.
Crude oil production up to August 2008, graph prepared for the oildrum blog.
In the World Energy Outlook 2004 the IEA estimated global oil demand to increase by around 1.6% pa (1.2 mb/d) which would have been an additional 4 mb/d of crude oil by mid 2008. Instead, crude production was just back to 2005 levels. This shortage of 4 mb/d was one of the main reasons for the oil price spike in 2008. At that point in time it was immaterial that oil production increased later from US shale oil. The damage to the economy was being done.The Qantas annual report 2008 summed up the situation:
A new aviation environment
"Over the course of the year the crude oil price doubled from US$70 per barrel to US$140 a barrel. Through an effective hedging strategy, Qantas was able to partially mitigate the impact of this cost impost for the 2007/08 year. With fuel now comprising 35% of total cost, Qantas cannot be immune from the impacts of sustained high crude oil prices and higher jet fuel refining margins" "Fuel costs increased by $265.3 million or 8%. The into-plane fuel price after hedging increased by 15.5 %. The volume of barrels consumed increased by 3.9% in line with higher flying hours, increasing costs by $141.7 million. The volume increase would have been $60 million higher had it not been for fuel conservation SFP initiatives delivered during the year. Stronger Australian currency movements reduced fuel costs by 430.6 million." http://www.qantas.com.au/infodetail/about/investors/2008AnnualReport.pdf
2 months after that fateful Mayday in 2008, and while Qantas engineers strike over a pay rise, Dixon – who then had the job to ensure a smooth transition to Alan Joyce – came with another "constant shock" story:
Dixon warns oil shock will cost thousands of jobs
GEOFF DIXON: Because the future is going to be very challenging – and I mean very challenging indeed – and here I will start with fuel because we believe this is where many airlines will end.
Oil of course is a finite natural resource and whether or not the world has reached peak oil is really a matter of debate. But there is no question that the cost of finding and extracting oil will continue to climb.
Today's oil prices also derive from a long period of sustained global economic growth which you would know about, notably of course in China, India, and the Middle East. And this of course is the result of globalisation.
Now I'd say everyone in this room today is feeling the impact of high fuel prices. And while we welcome last week's sudden drop in prices, we know there is no guarantee that this trend will continue.
Dixon's prediction hangs over Qantas ever since. As we know now oil prices dropped until February 2009 but then climbed up again. Since early 2011oil prices remain stubbornly high at around $100 WTI or $110 Brent. In this situation not much can be done with hedging. The last 3 years was the longest period ever when oil prices were that high.
And how about the global oil peak Geoff Dixon thought could be debated? We all know we'll only be able to see that in the rear view mirror. Then there will be another continuing debate about how many years we'll have to wait to be certain the peak is behind us, staring at declining but still zigzagging statistics in a nail-biting exercise. Governments obviously think that we can afford the luxury to wait and sit this out while waiting for technologies and market forces to rescue us. But that's not the way things seem to evolve. What we see is that we have many production peaks or spikes around the over-all peaking and that high oil prices are like road-side bombs exploding here and there, none lethal but wearing the system down over time.
Let's have a look at Qantas' falling share price and compare it with oil prices: Qantas' share price (blue) plotted against Brent (red). Qantas shares were on a long-term declining trend while oil prices went up.
The trend was only interrupted in 2007 by a takeover bid from Airline Partners Australia (Allco Finance Group, Texas Pacific Group and Macquarie Bank, Onex Corporation) which failed in May 2007 when the US hedge fund Samuel Heyman did not accept the offer in time. The drama was described in this article:
Giant bluff goes badly wrong, no hedging it
At that time US hedge funds were busy coming to grips with the impacts of a bursting housing bubble, all made worse by rising petrol prices in the vast mortgage belts of US cities. The subprime mortgage crisis was in the making. The US recession started in December 2007.
The bid involved increasing Qantas' debt 4-fold to $10.7 bn so it never had a chance at a time of an evolving oil shock. It was not just about missing a deadline.
Causes and Consequences of the Oil Shock of 2007–08 (published in spring 2009) http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Programs/ES/BPEA/2009_spring_bpea_papers/2009a_bpea_hamilton.pdf
So how has Qantas and its subsidiaries Jetstar survived that long?
What helped to limit fuel price increases was the high Australian dollar This graph from the Qantas data book 2013 shows the Australian dollar as a commodity currency following movements of oil prices. That protected Australia from the harsh reality but also made it complacent. Years of adaptation have been lost. Only recently did the AUD drop out of this trend, increasing fuel bills.
On the other hand, being in the Asian commodity hot spot, comes at a price:
So there are various factors at work. The result is that at end FY 2014, Qantas' fuel bill will have increased to $4.6 bn. Since 2005, when the process of global peaking started, fuel cost have increased by 138% while the physical product delivered, available seat kms, increased by only 24%
Let's have a look at Qantas' segment data. Qantas International's available seat kms peaked in 2005/06 and declined thereafter 25% by 2013. The load factor of 81.4% in 2007 did not improve in the following years. Jetstar International basically replaced the Qantas decline, but suffers from lower load factors of 76.6% in 2013. The only growth came from Jetstar Asia with a better load factor of 79%. It is a hard job to increase revenue seat kms.
Qantas struggles to fill A380 super jumbos during off-peak seasons
Figures obtained by The Australian show some 484-seat A380s heading to Melbourne in November and early December had more than 200 of their 406 economy and premium economy seats unfilled a day before departure. In one case, more than half the business class cabin's 64 flat-bed seats were also without paying customers as were eight of its 14 high-yielding first-class seats. The figures do not include staff travel or other subsidised tickets.
The situation was less dire on Dubai-Sydney routes where one plane had 131 unsold economy and premium economy seats and another 111. There were 11 business-class seats spare on one flight and just one on another while six and eight of the first-class suites were registered as available.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/qantas-struggles-to-fill-a380-super-jumbos-during-off-peak-seasons/story-e6frg95x-1226782003042# .. Qantas Domestic is basically flat (load factor recently slipped) with all growth taken up by Jetstar Domestic with higher load factor. But that growth in seat kms has not translated into higher earnings:
In the last 18 months Qantas domestic earnings decreased rapidly. Qantas International was much worse off and really bleeding. Even Jetstar's earnings have gone negative.
The competitor Virgin has similar problems as was shown in this post:
Despite growth in passenger numbers Virgin Australia can't make money since 2009 http://crudeoilpeak.info/despite-passenger-growth-virgin-australia-cant-make-money-since-2009
This means that air fares are too low. It seems that market forces (competition) did not and do not solve the problem of higher fuel prices.
This graph from the 1H 2014 investor presentation shows that the fuel price increase and FX changes of $90 m was 36% of the total loss of 252 m. The lower load factor contribution of $112 m reflects subdued demand despite low fares. So a large part of the losses has been caused by high oil prices, directly or indirectly.
The fare problem is not limited to Qantas and Virgin. IATA found that revenue per departing passenger has remained flat since 2012 And IATA has even discovered that since 2008 an indicator for globalisation – after a short dip during the hot phase of the GFC and a rebound – has stayed flat since 2011:
Higher oil prices impact on Qantas in various ways. They
(1) Increase fuel cost for operating aircraft
(2) Limit revenue from passengers who are already under financial pressure from rising fuel prices elsewhere in the economy
(3) Reduce profits and access to money markets to finance new, more fuel efficient aircraft
(4) Make it harder in general to implement a viable growth strategy which is necessary to pay back or roll over debt
Although the final global crude oil peak may still be ahead, a 4-fold increase in oil prices since 2000 is already damaging the airline industry. Furthermore, this article has shown that particular past events during periods of production decline and/or high oil demand can permanently harm the financial position of companies exposed to oil price risks. We also see that the US shale oil boom has not fundamentally changed the situation. It is likely, however, that without US shale oil some airlines would have already gone into receivership. In the Australian context it makes no sense to even think about a 2nd Sydney airport.
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Summer in Australia is the perfect time for eco and botanical dyeing outdoors. During Winter, I like to save little bits of fabrics, lace and papers in a box for Summer dyeing. This is how I rust dye my fabrics….
Many years ago, I collected heaps of metal junk to use for sculpture. As, I no longer weld, I now use the rusty bits and pieces that are scattered all over my property, for my dyeing projects.
The gathering of the metal objects, wrapping them with the fabric spraying with vinegar and binding with rope and wire is quite relaxing. I call it mummy wrapping.
Rust Dyeing Fabric
Fabric: cottons silk… work best
Rusty metal objects: cooking pans, car parts, rusty nails, screws, pipes, copper objects
Wire, string, wool or rope just something to bind the fabric to the rusted item
Plain white vinegar
Rubber gloves
Plastic sheet or bags
1. Gather all the items together wet your fabric and spray with vinegar.
2. Wrap the fabric around and around the rusted object as best you can.
3. Make sure it's tightly bound with the string rope or wire. Cover with plastic so it stays moist.
4. Leave and wait for the magic to happen.
5. This may take an hour or 2 or if you want deeper textures of rust a week or 2. Then un- wrap your beautiful rusted fabric.
6. Once the fabric is dyed to the depth you want, soak for 30mins in warm water with a couple of tablespoons of salt to make the rust dye colourfast.
7. Wash gently in warm water with soap powder rinse dry and voila!
I also rust papers and larger pieces of fabric using a different method that I will share in a future post.
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Carl Heine and Dennis O'Connor present an interactive Flash tutorial and audio lecture to help learners develop a clearer understanding of what constitutes plagiarism. The authors include GREAT! Self-paced Quizzes to Teach Proper Paraphrasing
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Bernard Bull comments on Dr. James Lang's perspective that effective instructional design is essential in developing engaging learning experiences that discourage cheating.
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Doug Johnson has created a very useful graphic that matches up verbs with Bloom's Taxonomy levels to structure personal and engaging assessments which reduce the possibility of plagiarism.
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Keeping Dogs Safe and Contained with Hidden Pet Fencing
When we bought our current house, the first thing we did upon taking possession of the property was build a wooden fence around the back yard. Not to be anti-social, but to let our dogs wander free while keeping them safe and on the property. You'd think a sturdy wooden fence would do just that, but we soon learned otherwise.
A hidden fence helps keep your pets safe and contained
This is the story of why we ended up installing an Invisible Fence® brand pet containment system. (Other brands include Petsafe Instant Fence and Innotek In-Ground Fence.) The electronic fence was installed in addition to our wooden fence in order to truly keep our dogs safe.
The Invisible Fence brand system and other hidden fence systems like it aren't for everyone. Most people install hidden fencing to avoid having to install a regular fence. But the combination of a visible and a hidden fence might just be the best solution for keeping your pets safe on your property. Read through the rest of this Electronic Fence and Pet Containment Guide to hear our story.
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In 1992, the first report of a Silicone Illness hit the media. At that time there was fear that breastfeeding with silicone breast implants would endanger the child. There has been studies performed to show this not to be the case. The main reason being that the silicone molecule is too large to pass into the milk ducts.
Particularly with the belly button approach, the breast tissue and ducts are not disturbed, cut or affected. The procedure literally takes place under all of the breast tissue, not going through it. There is no evidence that silicone from the implant shell enters the milk.
However, with other incision locations and techniques other than the TUBA and trans-axillary, it is quite possible to disrupt the mild ducts and lines resulting in blocked ducts during a pregnancy. This has been known to happen with a peri-areolar technique resulting in additional surgery to unblock the milk ducts. Although, this happens in reductions as well.
Can breast implants achieve some lifting of sagging breasts?
Although breast augmentation implants do not lift up a sagging breast, they do help mildly sagging breasts appear less saggy. They do this in two ways:
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For moderate or severe sag, a lifting procedure or a lifting procedure with implants (breast augmentation + lift) is usually performed.
Do breasts with implants experience sagging over time?
All breasts relax as time passes, because the weight stretches the skin, elasticity is lost with age and the amount of breast tissue often decreases as the person gets older. These three factors mean that breasts can be expected to relax and sag whether or not there are breast implants present. The breast implants add some weight to the breast, which may increase the rate of relaxation, and yet implants and surrounding scar tissue can provide some internal support for the breasts. The overall result is that usually the breasts sag less but more so if you wear a properly fitting bra regularly. A patient cannot expect to go without a bra for the rest of their life once they get breast implants. Especially with larger cup sizes as you will be returning to your plastic surgeon's office consulting for a breast lift (mastopexy).
Someone told me that if I should have dental work after I have had a breast augmentation (breast enlargement), I should pre-medicate - even for a cleaning. Why is this?
Some may consider this a controversial subject and scoff at the idea of a bacteria-induced infection or case of Capsular Contracture (CC). When an individual has dental work, even a routine cleaning, plaque and bacteria are released from their holds and introduced into the blood stream via your gum tissue. The gums are often lacerated, even slightly, during dental work creating a 'doorway' in which bacteria may enter. When a significant amount of bacteria is present in the body, they will seek out weakness in the body to stronghold themselves and replicate. Any foreign presence within our bodies (i.e. breast implants, lip implants, hernia repair mesh, etc.) is a prime target for these infectious intruders. Although it is not technically *proven* that dental work and Capsular Contracture (CC) are related there are increased instances of CC thereafter. but It is even cautioned to those with pacemakers and aorta catheters to take antibiotics when going to the dentist so mammary implant recipients should be no different. And it is often said and is good practice, 'it is better to be safe than sorry'.
Will I have stretch marks after my breast augmentation? How can I keep this from happening?
An individual's elasticity varies. Some patients develop stretch marks from growth spurts during puberty, muscle tissue gain from weight lifting and pregnancy. Some individuals never develop stretch marks and still others are very prone to them. There is still no successful treatment for the removal of stretch marks. Some swear by Shea nut butter, others, olive oil. Some swear by Retin A as a solution to the red lines that may develop in the early stages of stretch mark formation. It must be said that applying topical Vitamin E may have been the advice of yesteryear but according to new dermatological studies, topical Vitamin E can cause contact dermatitis and exacerbate scar appearance in some patients. Incidentally, Vitamin E oil is sometimes instructed not to be taken orally 3 weeks prior to any surgery nor 3 weeks afterwards. Then again some plastic surgeons advise it a week to 2 weeks post op with the addition of manual compression exercises beginning immediately to prohibit capsular contracture (CC). As I have said before different plastic surgeons will have different ideas.
The stretch marks are caused my an abrupt expansion of the tissues. When the expansion is very gradual stretch marks are practically non existent. I can only suggest massaging Shea Nut butter (if you are not allergic to nut oils) and lotions into the tissue beforehand and after until your skin is no longer tight feeling. But still ask your surgeon before doing anything other than what he or she instructs. There is no guarantee that stretch marks will not develop but medical science has faith that a proven method of removal will be discovered, eventually.
Mature stretch marks are very difficult to remove. You can tell a stretch mark is mature by the age of course and by the color - which is usually white. Deep fissures which are purple in color can scarcely be removed with treatments short of excision. This means that those microdermabrasion treatments that you have been getting are probably going to do nothing but empty your pocket book. The white marks CAN be darkened using a flesh-colored pigment implanted using micropigmentation.
Is there much pain associated with breast augmentation? How bad will it hurt?
Although pain thresholds vary - breast augmentation pain is dependent upon the breast implant placement, incision placement and if you choose to take your meds on time, every time. You can also cause yourself more pain by not abiding by your surgeon's instructions and over-exerting yourself.
Many patients report that their discomfort is described as pressure or muscle soreness. If you should experience any discomfort that seems out of the ordinary, contact your plastic surgeon.
Should I wait to get my breast implants until after the weight loss to get the Breast augmentation?
Although you may wish to get your breast implants at any time, if you are considering losing any significant amount of weight (15 lbs. and up) be prepared to notice sag if you lose breast tissue. If you have very small breasts and get implants then lose weight, there shouldn't be a significant problem with sage since your breast envelopes were not large to begin with. You could safely lose the weight and suffer no ill effects to your breasts if this is the case.
Should I wait to get my implants and breast augmentation until after having children?
Although you may wish to get your implants at any time, if you are considering having children within the next year or two, it is advisable to wait since the effects of weight and breast tissue gain and loss will affect the appearance of your breasts. It is up to you and if you plan on waiting on having children , why not enjoy them now? Just know that a postpartum lift is possible.
What age do I have to be to have breast augmentation? Am I too old/too young?
Although there is no set age, it is best to wait until your breasts have finished developing. You can better determine this with your OBGYN if you are a longstanding patient of his or hers. This can vary and although you may think you have finished maturing by 18 or 19 , your breasts will continue to go through changes well into your early twenties.
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Robert Smirke RA was an English painter and illustrator, specialising in small paintings showing subjects taken from literature. He was a member of the Royal Academy.
Smirke was born at Wigton near Carlisle, the son of a travelling artist. When he was twelve he was apprenticed to a heraldic painter in London, and at the age of twenty began to study at the Royal Academy Schools.
In 1775 he became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, with which he began to exhibit by sending five works; he showed works there again in 1777 and 1778. In 1786 he exhibited Narcissus and The Lady and Sabrina ( a subject from Milton's Comus) at the Royal Academy; these were followed by many works, usually small in size, illustrative of the English poets, especially James Thomson.
In 1791 Smirke was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, in which year he exhibited "The Widow". He became a full academician in 1793, when he painted as his diploma work Don Quixote and Sancho. His last contribution to the academy, entitled Infancy, appeared in 1813, but he continued to exhibit occasionally elsewhere until 1834.
In 1804 he was nominated to succeed Joseph Wilton as keeper to the Royal Academy, but George III refused to sanction the appointment on account of his revolutionary political opinions, and the appointment went instead to Henry Fuseli.
In 1815 the British Institution upset many British artists by a preface to the catalogue of their exhibition of Old Masters, The Catalogues Raisonnés, implying rather too strongly that British artists had a lot to learn from them. Smirke is generally accepted as the author in 1815–16 of a series of satirical "Catalogues Raisonnés", which savagely lampooned the great and the good of British art patronage. Of his sons, Richard Smirke (1778–1815), was a notable antiquarian artist. Robert and Sydney both became notable architects and were both elected members of the Royal Academy. His fourth son, Edward was a noted lawyer and antiquary. There is a portrait of Smirke by John Jackson taken from an original picture by Mary Smirke, engraved by Charles Picart. Sir William John Newton painted several miniatures of him.
Smirke died at 3 Osnaburgh Terrace, Regent's Park, London, on 5 January 1845, aged 92, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.


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This is an update to our Silver Window of Opportunity report from December 15, 2012.
In just four trading sessions following the last update, which called for a bearish short-term decline, the price of silver has plummeted nearly 7%, and has raced toward the $29.62 threshold of opportunity previously cited.
Below, circled in blue, we successfully captured the highlighted 29.68 target, (which was good for nearly a 3-pt move). The updated chart also validates prospects of a previously stated support level at the threshold of our $29.61 - $26.65 downside target window. Trading at $30.20 at the start of trade on 12-27, the market is thus far holding a recent print low of $29.62, just a penny above the target window threshold.
Although a window of opportunity exists through January 18 to accumulate additional physical at lower levels, the much longer-term buying opportunity remains here and now, and all the way down (if you're lucky) - to the 26.23 level. Once the minor degree 2 wave bases, it's off to the races toward levels well north of $50 per ounce.
We continue to illustrate support for a near to medium-term upside price target of $47, which shall remain defended so long as the market holds the summer low of 26.07, and maintains closes above the falling green trendline trajectory so noted.
Above the market just north of $34.00, we continue to illustrate a resting 10-pt buy trigger, which is contingent upon price breaking out above the trigger, along with sustained trade and closes above the triggers falling green trendline so noted.
Despite prospects for further declines over the next month, what would kill the extremely bullish long-term opportunity? In the larger sense, nothing - because no matter what paper prices convey, one still needs to have some level of tangible asset assurance. That is to say, one must have a 10-20% portion of one's net worth in hard money in the form of physical gold and silver.
In the strategic and technical sense however, if the anticipated decline is a smaller degree 4th wave, (which is not a favored view), a print below 28.37 would mark a (ko) or key overlap violation of the first wave up at subminuette degree.
If the anticipated decline turns out to be the favored larger-degree and more bullish 2nd wave, the next sign of failure would occur upon a print beneath the summer low of 26.07, although such a breach would simply imply a more bullish shift-right and lower level terminal base for an even larger degree wave (4) base.
Since fifth-waves tend to extend in the commodity arena, and Silver is at or nearing a minor degree 2- wave or an intermediate (4) wave basing-terminal, one must not ignore the possibility that Silver's intermediate (5) of primary 3 wave can easily extend well north of $80 per ounce.


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Vacuum the car, pack a blanket, and join BendFilm for a summer series of drive-in movies under the stars at Deschutes Brewery. BendFilm's Pop Up Drive-In combines the nostalgia of the drive-in era, the crisp Pacific Northwest air, the right amount of physical distancing and innovative presentation elements to create the ultimate outdoor viewing experience. Films in the line up range from adventure stories to throwback classics to blockbusters and more. Many films will also be accompanied by a short film prior to the feature. Enjoy the movie Peanut Butter Falcon directed by Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz.
Venue: Corner of Shevlin-Hixon Rd and Columbia next to the Deschutes Brewery facility
Dates: July 23 – Aug 29
Time: Parking lot opens at 7:00 PM, please arrive by 8:00 PM to get parked before the film rolls at dusk (roughly 8:30 PM)
Ticket Price: $35 per vehicle, space is limited to the first 110 vehicles.
Entry process: Please have your digital tickets uploaded on your phone or printed out to show parking staff upon entry to the Deschutes Brewery parking lot. Smaller cars will be parked in the first three rows with larger/taller cars or those with car top boxes in the back four rows.
Sound info: Sound is streamed through your car radio. The FM radio frequency will be shared on your ticket or as you enter the lot.
Screen/ picture quality: BendFilm gets a little nerdy about the presentation and quality of the picture so guests will enjoy the 900 lumen projector. The screen will be backlit and captivating!
Safety Guidelines: Please practice responsible physical distancing and stay in or next to your car during the film. Please wear a mask if you need to walk to the restrooms.
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White House officials on Friday reported that 50% of the U.S. population is now fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Cyrus Shahpar, the data director for the White House COVID-19 response team, tweeted Friday afternoon that the U.S. had surpassed the 50% milestone.
"50% of Americans (all ages) are now fully vaccinated. Keep going!" he tweeted.
The milestone comes as more Americans seek out shots amid the spread of the more contagious delta variant of COVID-19.
On Thursday, during a briefing by the White House COVID-19 response team, coordinator Jeff Zients reported that the U.S. recorded 864,000 vaccinations on Wednesday — the highest single-day vaccination total since July 3.
Friday just in: +821K doses reported administered, including 565K newly vaccinated. 7-day average of newly vaccinated is up 11% from last week and 44% over past 2 weeks. 50% of Americans (all ages) are now fully vaccinated. Keep going! 🇺🇸
— Cyrus Shahpar (@cyrusshahpar46) August 6, 2021
Zients also noted that there had been a large increase in Americans getting their first vaccine shot, particularly in areas where vaccination rates are low, like Tennessee, Oklahoma and Georgia.
"Clearly, Americans are seeing the impact of being unvaccinated and unprotected," Zients said.
However, the new vaccinations have been prompted by a concerning spike in cases caused by the delta variant. According to the CDC, reports of new cases are higher than they've been since January, and deaths are starting to pick up for the first time since vaccines became widespread.
Health experts have said the vast majority of new hospitalizations and deaths due to the virus are among those who have not been vaccinated. Even with the delta variant circulation, breakthrough cases remain rare, and the vaccines provide near-complete protection from COVID-19 hospitalization and death.


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Exchange Server virtualization
You can deploy Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 in a virtualized environment. This topic provides an overview of the scenarios that are supported for deploying Exchange on hardware virtualization software.
The following terms are used in this discussion of Exchange virtualization:
Cold boot: When bringing a system from a power-off state into a clean start of the operating system, the action is a cold boot. No operating system state has been persisted in this case.
Saved state: When a virtual machine is powered off, hypervisors typically have the ability to save the state of the virtual machine, so when the machine is powered back on, it returns to that saved state rather than going through a cold boot startup.
Planned migration: When a system administrator initiates the move of a virtual machine from one hypervisor host to another, the action is a planned migration. The action could be a single migration, or a system administrator could configure automation to move the virtual machine on a timed basis. A planned migration could also be the result of some other event that occurs in the system, other than hardware or software failure.
The key point of a planned migration is the Exchange virtual machine is operating normally and needs to be relocated for some reason. This relocation can be done via technology (for example, Live Migration or vMotion). However, if the Exchange virtual machine or the hypervisor host where the virtual machine is located experiences some sort of failure condition, the outcome isn't characterized as a planned migration.
Requirements for hardware virtualization
Microsoft supports Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 in production on hardware virtualization software only when all the following conditions are true:
The hardware virtualization software is running one of the following:
Any version of Windows Server with Hyper-V technology or Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Any third-party hypervisor that has been validated under the Windows Server Virtualization Validation Program.
Deployment of Exchange 2016 or Exchange 2019 on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers is supported if all supportability requirements are met. In the case of providers who are provisioning virtual machines, these requirements include ensuring that the hypervisor being used for Exchange virtual machines is fully supported, and that the infrastructure to be utilized by Exchange meets the performance requirements that were determined during the sizing process. Deployment on Microsoft Azure virtual machines is supported if all storage volumes used for Exchange databases and database transaction logs (including transport databases) are configured for Azure Premium Storage.
The Exchange guest virtual machine has the following conditions:
It's running Exchange 2016 or Exchange 2019.
It's deployed on a supported version of Windows Server for Exchange.
For deployments of Exchange 2016 or Exchange 2019:
All Exchange server roles are supported in a virtual machine.
Exchange server virtual machines (including Exchange virtual machines that are part of a database availability group, or DAG), may be combined with host-based failover clustering and migration technology, as long as the virtual machines are configured such that they won't save and restore state on disk when moved or taken offline. All failover activity occurring at the hypervisor level must result in a cold boot when the virtual machine is activated on the target node. All planned migration must either result in shutdown and cold boot, or an online migration that makes use of a technology like Hyper-V Live Migration. Hypervisor migration of virtual machines is supported by the hypervisor vendor; therefore, you must ensure that your hypervisor vendor has tested and supports migration of Exchange virtual machines. Microsoft supports Hyper-V Live Migration of these virtual machines.
Only management software (for example, antivirus software, backup software, or virtual machine management software) can be deployed on the physical host machine. No other server-based applications (for example, Exchange, SQL Server, Active Directory, or SAP) should be installed on the host machine. The host machine should be dedicated to running guest virtual machines.
Some hypervisors include features for taking snapshots of virtual machines. Virtual machine snapshots capture the state of a virtual machine while it's running. This feature enables you to take multiple snapshots of a virtual machine and then revert the virtual machine to any of the previous states by applying a snapshot to the virtual machine. However, virtual machine snapshots aren't application aware, and using them can have unintended and unexpected consequences for a server application that maintains state data, such as Exchange. As a result, making virtual machine snapshots of an Exchange guest virtual machine isn't supported.
Many hardware virtualization products allow you to specify the number of virtual processors that should be allocated to each guest virtual machine. The virtual processors located in the guest virtual machine share a fixed number of physical processor cores in the physical system. Exchange supports a virtual processor-to-physical processor core ratio no greater than 2:1, although we recommend a ratio of 1:1. For example, a dual processor system using quad core processors contains a total of 8 physical processor cores in the host system. On a system with this configuration, don't allocate more than a total of 16 virtual processors to all guest virtual machines combined.
When calculating the total number of virtual processors required by the host machine, you must also account for both I/O and operating system requirements. In most cases, the equivalent number of virtual processors required in the host operating system for a system hosting Exchange virtual machines is 2. This value should be used as a baseline for the host operating system virtual processor when calculating the overall ratio of physical cores to virtual processors. If performance monitoring of the host operating system indicates you're consuming more processor utilization than the equivalent of 2 processors, you should reduce the count of virtual processors assigned to guest virtual machines accordingly and verify that the overall virtual processor-to-physical core ratio is no greater than 2:1.
It's possible that guest virtual machines may be prevented from directly communicating with Fibre Channel or SCSI host bus adapters (HBAs) installed in the host machine. In this event, you must configure the adapters in the host machine's operating system and present the logical unit numbers (LUNs) to guest virtual machines as either a virtual disk or a pass-through disk.
The only supported way to send emails to external domains from Azure compute resources is via an SMTP relay (also known as an SMTP smart host). The Azure compute resource sends the email to the SMTP relay and then the SMTP relay provider delivers the email to the external domain. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is one provider of an SMTP relay, but there are a number of third-party providers as well. For more information, see Troubleshoot outbound SMTP connectivity issues in Azure.
Host machine storage requirements
The minimum disk space requirements for each host machine are described in the following list:
Host machines in some hardware virtualization applications may require storage space for an operating system and its components. Additional storage space is also required to support the operating system's paging file, management software, and crash recovery (dump) files.
Some hypervisors maintain files on the host machine that are unique to each guest virtual machine. For example, in a Hyper-V environment, a temporary memory storage file (BIN file) is created and maintained for each guest machine. The size of each BIN file is equal to the amount of memory allocated to the guest machine. In addition, other files may also be created and maintained on the host machine for each guest machine.
If your host machine is running Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V or Hyper-V 2012, and you're configuring a host-based failover cluster that will host Exchange Mailbox servers in a DAG, we recommend following the guidance in KB2872325.
Exchange storage requirements
Requirements for storage connected to a virtualized Exchange server are as follows:
Each Exchange guest machine must be allocated sufficient storage space on the host machine for the fixed disk that contains the guest's operating system, any temporary memory storage files in use, and related virtual machine files that are hosted on the host machine. In addition, for each Exchange guest machine, you must also allocate sufficient storage for the message queues and sufficient storage for the databases and log files on Mailbox servers.
The storage used by the Exchange guest machine for storage of Exchange data (for example, mailbox databases and transport queues) can be virtual storage of a fixed size (for example, fixed virtual hard disks (VHD or VHDX) in a Hyper-V environment), dynamic virtual storage when using VHDX files with Hyper-V, SCSI pass-through storage, or Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage. Pass-through storage is storage that's configured at the host level and dedicated to one guest machine. All storage used by an Exchange guest machine for storage of Exchange data must be block-level storage because Exchange doesn't support the use of network attached storage (NAS) volumes, other than in the SMB 3.0 scenario outlined later in this topic. Also, NAS storage that's presented to the guest as block-level storage via the hypervisor isn't supported.
Fixed VHDs may be stored on SMB 3.0 files that are backed by block-level storage if the guest machine is running on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V (or a later version of Hyper-V). The only supported usage of SMB 3.0 file shares is for storage of fixed VHDs. Such file shares can't be used for direct storage of Exchange data. When using SMB 3.0 file shares to store fixed VHDs, the storage backing the file share should be configured for high availability to ensure the best possible availability of the Exchange service.
Storage used by Exchange should be hosted in disk spindles that are separate from the storage that's hosting the guest virtual machine's operating system.
Configuring iSCSI storage to use an iSCSI initiator inside an Exchange guest virtual machine is supported. However, there is reduced performance in this configuration if the network stack inside a virtual machine isn't full-featured (for example, not all virtual network stacks support jumbo frames).
Exchange memory requirements and recommendations
Some hypervisors have the ability to oversubscribe/overcommit or dynamically adjust the amount of memory available to a specific guest machine based on the perceived usage of memory in the guest machine as compared to the needs of other guest machines managed by the same hypervisor. This technology makes sense for workloads in which memory is needed for brief periods of time and then can be surrendered for other uses. However, it doesn't make sense for workloads that are designed to use memory on an ongoing basis. Exchange (like many server applications with optimizations for performance that involve caching of data in memory) is susceptible to poor system performance and an unacceptable client experience if it doesn't have full control over the memory allocated to the physical or virtual machine on which it's running. As a result, using dynamic memory or memory overcommit features for Exchange isn't supported.
Host-based failover clustering and migration for Exchange
The following are answers to some frequently asked questions about host-based failover clustering and migration technology with Exchange DAGs:
Does Microsoft support third-party migration technology?
Microsoft can't make support statements for the integration of third-party hypervisor products using these technologies with Exchange, because these technologies aren't part of the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). The SVVP covers the other aspects of Microsoft support for third-party hypervisors. You need to ensure that your hypervisor vendor supports the combination of their migration and clustering technology with Exchange. If your hypervisor vendor supports their migration technology with Exchange, Microsoft supports Exchange with their migration technology.
How does Microsoft define host-based failover clustering?
Host-based failover clustering refers to any technology that provides the automatic ability to react to host-level failures and start affected virtual machines on alternate servers. Use of this technology is supported given that, in a failure scenario, the virtual machine is coming up from a cold boot on the alternate host. This technology helps to make sure that the virtual machine never comes up from a saved state that's persisted on disk because it will be stale relative to the rest of the DAG members.
What does Microsoft mean by migration support?
Migration technology refers to any technology that allows a planned move of a virtual machine from one host machine to another host machine. This move could also be an automated move that occurs as part of resource load balancing, but it isn't related to a failure in the system. Migrations are supported as long as the virtual machines never come up from a saved state that's persisted on disk. This means that technology that moves a virtual machine by transporting the state and virtual machine memory over the network with no perceived downtime is supported for use with Exchange. A third-party hypervisor vendor must provide support for the migration technology, while Microsoft provides support for Exchange when used in this configuration.


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NEW CLIP: Eckhart Tries to Reinstate 'Erased' Life
In his new action-packed thiller Erased, Aaron Eckhart plays an ex-CIA agent who has all records of his existence wiped out as part of a far-reaching international conspiracy.
But as we see in this sneak peek from the film, his character Ben Logan doesn't
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evade authorities in a desperate attempt to avoid "termination."
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Less known is Perelman's collaboration with Ronald Searle. Like Perelman and Hirschfeld Searle had found success illustrating the satirical travelogues of Alex Atkinson published in Punch then later Holiday.
Punch editor Malcom Muggeridge introduced them in London in the early fifties and it seems they instantly clicked, remaining friends for the rest of their lives. 'Perelman had his irascible side. . . but he had a genuine affection for Ronald, triggered at an early meeting when the Enlishman asked his way to 'the cloakroom', a term which delighted Sid by transporting him instantly to his favourite literary territory, amid the rapiers and intrigues of Baroness Orczy.' (-Russell Davies)
'. . . we all went off to a party at Ronald Searle's. . . oddly enough this was practically a counterpart of an evening at the Hirschfelds', made even more uncanny by Searle's having a beard. They live in a four-floor modernische house in Bayswater, top floor of which is his studio, like Al's. It was one of those progressive parties, where waves of people had been piling up since five o'clock and it was now ten-thirty . . . a real bedlam. Finally, though, Searle and I got a few minutes alone in his studio, inscribed books to each other, and had a short interval of sense. He's an extremely talented man, as you know, and among other things I learned that he first learned to draw when he was a prisoner on the Burma-Siam frontier in a Japanese camp, being the only man in his company who ever got out alive . . . '
(Letter from Perelman to his wife Laura Dec 23rd 1953)
Peter Harrington Books is selling a 1st Edition copy of Westward Ha! inscribed to Searle by both Perelman and Hirschfeld in 1953. It's likely this is the book signed by Perelman for Searle in his loft studio in 1953. It's nice to see the esteem held by Hirschfeld for his fellow caroonist in this dedication.
Also, a copy of Perelman's 'The Beauty Part' (1963) 'Inscribed by the author to his friend and collaborator Ronald Searle on the front free endpaper, "For Monica and Ronald, this obstreporous [sic] vaudeville with love from its author, Sid. 14 February, 1968". Includes, loosely inserted, an envelope dated Feb 12 1986 to Searle from Perelman containing an autograph letter giving directions to the appropriate bus stop to reach him in his country residence in Frenchtown, New Jersey, and a bus schedule. A charming artefact of a close friendship.'
'Dear Ronnie, I must tell you at once how pleased I was to receive the books you sent us, Take One Toad and The Square Egg. Take One Toad is a strikingly original job, I was much impressed with the way you handled the period costumes and the whole conception of the book. This is not to downgradeThe Square Egg in any sense; you have some marvelous drawings in that, it goes without saying. The first one, naturally, has a unity that the other as a collection doesn't. At any rate, here's hoping that The Square Egg has more than the modest sale you foresaw in your note to me. . .
(Letter from Perelman to Ronald Searle December 10th, 1968)
'My Life In Scotland Yard' Holiday Magazine April 1968
"It was piquant to learn that I resembled Dr. Crippen, the classic poisoner."
"The subject was murdered by renowned ghouls and I rather wanted to lie down"
"The Black Museum piece was tip-top, you caught every sinister possible facet"
"The subject was murdered by renowned ghouls and I rather wanted to lie down"
"The Black Museum piece was tip-top, you caught every sinister possible facet"
(Letter from Perelman to Ronald & Monica Searle April 8th, 1968)
"The law was guilty of an anatomical booboo"
"The law was guilty of an anatomical booboo"
'Room and Bored' in haunted Irish manor Poltrooney
Holiday Magazine September
Following the decline of Holiday magazine Searle and Perelman sustained their collaboration in the pages of Travel & Leisure magazine, probably commissioned by Holiday's ex-Art Director Frank Zachary who had jumped to the new title. Searle provided lavish illustrations to compliment Perlman's equally exotic travel series 'Nostasia in Asia'. I have the first in the series but if anyone has the rest please contact me at the email address in my Blogger profile.
'Dear Ronnie. . . thank you very much indeed for your drawing of myself being inducted into the Chinese tailor shop in Hong Kong that illustrated the fourth piece in that Travel & Leisure series. As soon as it's framed, it goes up on the wall. . . it'll make a peachy companion pice to one of Andre (Francois)'s covers for The New Yorker, a cafe scene he did a couple years ago; and it will also be cheek by jowl with that marvelous photograph of Toulouse-Lautrec you once gave me.'
(Letter from Perelman to Ronald Searle November 4th, 1974)
Perelman wrote the introduction to a Searle illustrated 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen', published in 1969. The adventures of the mustachioed weaver of tall tales seems to perfectly portray Perelman himself!
I remember the Searles telling me over lunch of a spooky incident involving Perelman's death-in his biography of Searle, Russell Davies quotes Ronald:
'Suddenly an old friend appeared before, looking like a gently spotlit figure on a stage. . . Only one finger moved, to tap ash from an ashless cigarette. (She always tapped more than she smoked.) The apparition was Laura West Perelman. . . she had died in 1970.
But here she was, nearly ten years later, very much alive and looking me straight in the eye. With her usual laconic American drawl, she spoke, coming directly to the point as usual:
'RAHnald, Sid's dead,' she said. Then she was no longer there.
In the morning, before I had even got to my coffee, the telephone rang. My sister-in-law was calling from London.
'Sad news, I'm afraid. I've just heard on the radio that Sid Perelman has been found dead in his hotel room in New York . . . '
Sid had died at the Gramercy Park Hotel during the night of the 16-17 October. Searle describes this as 'a very small ghost story: but it certainly impressed me at the time'. He still awaits Sid's explanation.'
'I Dreamt that I dwelt in Marble Halls'
Holiday Magazine September 1968
An amusing letter between the cartoonist and his friend the humourist Sid Perelman. Searle THANKS Perelman for sending him his newly published Omnibus, "what a marvellous surprise for the Searles who send their warmest thanks not only for the modest inscription but also for momentarily assuaging their ever greedt appetite for SJP".
Searle adds a PS on the back of THE PAGE discussing a hat that Perelman had in a glass case. "I've been worried for a long time about that hat in the glass case" [small drawing of hat]. Searle goes on to explain that it reminded him of a hat in the Hans Andersen museum beside which was a length of rope which Andersen "carried everywhere in case of fire. How anticipatory can you get? Perhaps yours needs a small extinguisher."
(Letter for sale -Sotherans)
From Facebook:
Russell Davies' biography of Ronald Searle
Dorothy Hermann's biography of S. J. Perelman
'Don't Tread On Me' Selected Letters of S. J. Perelman
Holiday Magazine1968
Travel & Leisure Magazine 1973
(Thanks to Josh Lieberman for contributing scans)
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About deployment server and forwarder management
Important: Before reading this manual, you should be familiar with the fundamentals of Splunk Enterprise distributed deployment, as described in the Distributed Deployment Manual.
Splunk Enterprise provides the deployment server, with its forwarder management interface, to manage the update process across distributed instances of Splunk Enterprise.
What is deployment server?
The deployment server is the tool for distributing configurations, apps, and content updates to groups of Splunk Enterprise instances. You can use it to distribute updates to most types of Splunk Enterprise components: forwarders, non-clustered indexers, and search heads.
The deployment server is just a Splunk Enterprise instance that has been configured to manage the update process across sets of other Splunk Enterprise instances. Depending on the number of instances it's deploying updates to, the deployment server instance might need to be dedicated exclusively to managing updates. For more information, read "Plan a deployment".
The deployment server handles configuration and content updates to existing Splunk Enterprise installations. You cannot use it for initial or upgrade installations of Splunk Enterprise or the universal forwarder. To learn how to install and deploy Splunk Enterprise, see Step-by-step installation procedures for full Splunk Enterprise and Install the universal forwarder software for the Splunk Enterprise universal forwarder. To learn how to upgrade your deployment to a new version of Splunk Enterprise, see Upgrade your distributed Splunk Enterprise deployment in the Installation Manual. |
Is deployment server mandatory?
Deployment server is not required for managing forwarders and other Splunk Enterprise instances. If you prefer, you can use a third-party tool, such as Chef, Puppet, Salt, or one of the Windows configuration tools.
What is forwarder management?
Forwarder management is a graphical interface built on top of deployment server that provides an easy way to configure the deployment server and monitor the status of deployment updates. Although its primary purpose is to manage large groups of forwarders, you can use forwarder management to configure the deployment server for any update purposes, including managing and deploying updates to non-clustered indexers and search heads. For most purposes, the capabilities of forwarder management and the deployment server are identical. For more information, see "Forwarder management overview".
Important: If you are upgrading from a pre-6.0 version of the deployment server, your existing serverclass.conf
file might not be compatible with the forwarder management interface. This is because forwarder management can handle only a subset of the configurations possible through serverclass.conf
. In some cases, you might need to continue to work directly with serverclass.conf
, rather than switching to forwarder management as your configuration tool. For details on what configurations are compatible with forwarder management and how to handle deployment server upgrades, see the topic "Compatibility and forwarder management".
What the deployment server offers
The deployment server makes it possible to group Splunk Enterprise components by common characteristics and then distribute content based on those groups.
For example, if you've got Splunk Enterprise instances serving a variety of different needs within your organization, it's likely that their configurations vary depending on who uses them and for what purpose. You might have some instances serving the help desk team, configured with a specific app to accelerate troubleshooting of Windows desktop issues. You might have another group of instances in use by your operations staff, set up with a few different apps designed to track network issues, security incidents, and email traffic management. A third group of instances might serve the Web hosting group within the operations team.
Rather than trying to manage and maintain these divergent Splunk Enterprise instances one at a time, you can group them based on their use, identify the configurations and apps needed by each group, and then use the deployment server to update their apps and configurations when needed.
In addition to grouping Splunk Enterprise instances by use, there are other useful types of groupings you can specify. For example, you might group instances by OS or hardware type, by version, or by geographical location or timezone.
A key use case is to manage configurations for groups of forwarders. For example, if you have forwarders residing on a variety of machine types, you can use the deployment server to deploy different content to each machine type. The Windows forwarders can get one set of configuration updates; the Linux forwarders another, and so on.
Deployment server and clusters
You cannot use the deployment server to update indexer cluster peer nodes or search head cluster members.
Indexer clusters
Do not use deployment server or forwarder management to manage configuration files across peer nodes (indexers) in an indexer cluster. Instead, use the configuration bundle method. You can, however, use the deployment server to distribute updates to the manager node, which then uses the configuration bundle method to distribute them to the peer nodes. See "Update common peer configurations" in the Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers manual.
Search head clusters
Do not use deployment server to update search head cluster members.
The deployment server is not supported as a means to distribute configurations or apps to cluster members. To distribute configurations across the set of members, you must use the search head cluster deployer. See "Use the deployer to distribute apps and configuration updates" in the Distributed Search manual.
Deployment server architecture |
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 8.2.6, 8.2.7, 8.2.8, 8.2.9, 8.2.10, 8.2.11, 8.2.12, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 9.0.6, 9.0.7, 9.0.8, 9.0.9, 9.0.10, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5, 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.2.2