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FamiLAB 10x
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FamiLAB 10x is the working name of our new space! The name stems from the fact that it's 10 times the size of our previous space.
- 1 New Address
- 2 Preliminary Rules
- 3 Current Layout
- 4 Utilities / Services
- 5 Stuff to purchase
- 6 Stuff being donated or "leased" to FamiLAB
- 7 Potential Zones of Workspace
- 8 Personal Work Carts
- 9 Proposed modifications
New Address
1355 Bennett Dr. Unit 129 Longwood, FL 32750
Preliminary Rules
We'll get together to agree on a set of rules for the new space. For the time being, please adhere to the following:
- No modification of walls, electrics, plumbing, etc. until we have a process in place. We need to build consensus on any changes.
- We have to run modifications by the landlord (who is also a member).
- During the move, we are only bringing in what is in the existing space. Anything above and beyond that should be agreed to by the membership. Ten times more space doesn't mean ten times the junk.
- Don't "claim" space. Again, we need to come up with a process to balance personal property with the needs of the space, and get everyone to agree on it.
- Don't fill up the dumpster at either the current space or the new one.
Current Layout
Updated 12/1/11 by David Woods. (note: A/C Units in offices are above ceiling.)
Utilities / Services
- See Treasurer (Ian) for details / questions
- Dumpster (Locking) - 2 cubic yard dumpster, every other week pickup, $45 ($35 + fuel charge) per month starting Dec 1st. UPDATE: Delivered.
- Liability Insurance - $1M policy, effective Dec 1st
- Progress Energy - We pay 6.173 cents / KWH energy charge, 4.776 cents / KWH fuel charge + 25.22% fees / taxes - which means approx. 13.710 cents / kwh... PLEASE CONSERVE POWER - THIS IS OUR LARGEST MONTHLY FINANCIAL RISK!
- Internet - 8 down, 1.5 up (possible static ip), being funded by the building owner. In return, we will manage an internet-connected security system. Installed Dec 1. UPDATE: Installed. 8/1Mbit dynamic IP
Stuff to purchase
- Ian started an Amazon Wishlist for FamiLAB 10x - http://amzn.com/w/FC8KA1DVJMEC email him to add stuff, or post links here :)
- Folding chairs + rack to store/move them
- Banquet tables
- Full size refrigerator
- Parts Storage: Extreme Makeover Lab Edition
- Raw materials rack (for plywood, acrylic, etc)
- Railing or similar preventative measure for dock high area
Ball pit
- Short throw projector for classroom area
- Open/Closed sign for the public? Maybe a FamiLAB custom build?
Stuff being donated or "leased" to FamiLAB
- Pledged Equipment - Can get preliminary approval to bring this stuff to the lab from the membership?
Potential Zones of Workspace
- "Store Front" for visitors and first impressions
- Brochures and membership packets
- RFID registration capability
- Finished project museum
- Classroom & Presentation room
- "Think Lab" for coworking and basic hand tool use
- "Make Lab" for high end equipment
- Soft hacking area (sewing machines, kiln, etc)
- Soldering & Rework area
- 3d printer village
- Stage for famiband & DJ booth
Personal Work Carts
Personal Work Carts <- This concept now has its own page!
Proposed modifications
Member Input
More Power
- Any electrics must be up to code. In conduit at a minimum.
- 3 phase available, not in our panel.
- Dave Woods has an electrician.
Kitchenette Area
- Sink
- Fridge
- Microwave, Toaster
- Outlets (GFCI)
Door to shop
- The current opening is an "exact" fit (more or less) for a standard sliding patio door. This means we could avoid any significant framing or drywall work. Simply install the door and trim it.
- This would give us a nice "fishbowl" into the shop so people could see what's going on. Would also provide a nice experience for people touring the shop.
- Matt has looked into used doors from various sources but they are difficult to find and will be of questionable quality.
- Lowes sells a double-glazed, insulated door for $269 that is buttery smooth and would do nicely :) Link
- Occupancy limits
- Structural improvements (stairs!) - good links on building stairs - http://www.woodworkersworkshop.com/resources/index.php?cat=469
- Signs
- More fire extinguishers
- More eyewash
- Directions to the hospital http://g.co/maps/jtne5
RFID Access Control
Front door to start - Aaron has the lead-- Initial install and set up complete
Parts to be ordered
Will use off the shelf HID reader with Arduino backend
- Later: Nanode + web enabled RFID activate/deactivate/monitoring
- Later: door to shop
- Later: major equipment control
Energy Monitoring
- Project to monitor our electrical consumption and avoid power bill surprises
- Some great open-source projects out there - see http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/ for one example
- Need someone to propose a budget and then own the project - this will be a huge part of how we maximize our funds!
- Ian will donate a Nanode to this cause...
- Skycraft has some nice big transformers for current monitoring, I think
Fun Stuff
- Glass/acrylic blocks in lounge area. Giant VU meter, restroom occupancy sensor, etc.
- Walk / Don't walk sign to indicate restroom in use...
- Decorate front "lounge" room
- Mural in shop area
- Pulley / Cable system to allow art to be done on thin plywood, then hung high on the walls. Pulleys + cables allows changing / working on the art without ladder or lift...
Classroom/Conference Room
- Classroom project headed up by Mike K.


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The OpenStack Grizzly Release All-In-One (AIO) model builds off of the Cisco OpenStack Installer (COI) Multinode instructions. The primary difference is in how the Puppet site.pp manifest is defined and, of course, the number of OpenStack nodes. This document is not meant to be a full replacement of the COI instructions, so you should begin with that documentation to get a better understanding of the components used in the COI.
This document will cover the deployment of several AIO scenarios to include:
- Model 1: All-In-One (Control/Compute/Storage/Network) node using the local file system for Glance and the Provider Router with Private Networks model (FlatDHCP + FloatingIPs using Quantum Router)
- Model 2: All-In-One node using Ceph RADOS Block Devices (RBD) for Glance and the Provider Router with Private Networks model
- Model 3: All-In-One node using either storage model from above with the Provider Network Extensions model (VLANs trunked into Compute node from ToR switch)
- Model 4: All-In-One node using either storage model from above with the FlatDHCP Networking model (FlatDHCP, no FloatingIPs, no Quantum Router)
Figure 1 illustrates the topology used in Models 1-2
Figure 1: AIO Provider Router with Private Networks Diagram
Figure 2 illustrates the topology used in Model 3
Figure 2: AIO Provider Network Extensions Diagram
Figure 3 illustrates the topology used in Model 4
Figure 3: AIO FlatDHCP Networking Diagram
Building the environment
This section describes the process for deploying OpenStack with the Cisco OpenStack Installer in an All-In-One node configuration. In this document a build server will be deployed and used as the launching point for the AIO node.
Although other configurations are supported, the following instructions target an environment with a build node and an AIO node that is operating the OpenStack controller, compute, storage (Glance/Ceph) and network roles. Additional compute nodes may optionally be added.
Also, these instructions primarily target deployment of OpenStack onto UCS servers (either blades or rack-mount form factors). Several steps in the automation leverage the UCS manager or CIMC to execute system tasks. Deployment on non-UCS gear may well work, particularly if the gear has functional IPMI, but may require additional configuration or additional manual steps to manage systems.
Cisco OpenStack Installer Grizzly requires that you have two physically or logically (VLAN) separated IP networks. You must have an external router or layer-3 switch that provides connectivity between these two networks. This is required in order to support Quantum and the Cloud-Init metadata server for Provider Router based deployments (similar to FlatDHCP + Floating IP support in the nova-network model).
One network is used to provide connectivity for OpenStack API endpoints, Open vSwitch (OVS) GRE endpoints (especially important if multiple compute nodes are aded to the AIO deployment), and OpenStack/UCS management. The second network is used by OVS as the physical bridge interface and by Quantum as the public network
Creating a build server
To deploy OpenStack with COI, first configure a build server. This server has relatively modest hardware requirements: 2 GB RAM, 20 GB storage, Internet connectivity, and a network interface on the same network as the eventual management interfaces of the OpenStack cluster machines are the minimal requirements. This machine can be physical or virtual though validation testing is done only using physical hardware.
Install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS onto this build server. A minimal install with openssh-server is sufficient. Configure the network interface on the OpenStack cluster management segment with a static IP. When partitioning the storage, choose a partitioning scheme which provides at least 15 GB free space under /var, as installation packages and ISO images used to deploy OpenStack will eventually be cached there.
When the installation finishes, log in and become root:
sudo -H bash
NOTE: If you have proxies, or your control and compute nodes do not have internet access, please read the following:
If you require a proxy server to access the internet, be aware that proxy users have occasionally reported problems during the phases of the installation process that download and install software packages. A common symptom of proxy trouble is that apt will complain about hash mismatches or file corruptions when verifying downloaded files. A few known scenarios and workarounds include:
- If the apt-get process reports a "HASH mismatch", you may be facing an issue with a caching engine. If it's possible to do so, bypassing the caching engine may resolve the problem.
- If you do have a proxy, you will want, at a minimum, to export the two types of proxies needed in your root shell when running fetch commands, as noted in the relevant sections.
- You will also want to change the $proxy setting in site.pp to reflect your local proxy.
Another possible change is if you don't have "public" Internet accessible IPs for all of your machines (build, AIO) and are building this in a controlled environment. If this is the case, ensure that $default_gateway is *not* set in site.pp and all of the files required for installing the AIO node will be fetched from the boot server.
IMPORTANT: If you have proxies, and you set your proxy information in either your .profile or in a file like /etc/environment, you will need to set both http_proxy and https_proxy. You will also need to set a no_proxy command at least for the build node. An example might look like:
http_proxy=http://your-proxy.address.com:80/ https_proxy=https://your-https-proxy.address.com:443/ no_proxy=your-build-node-name,*yourbuild.domain.name,127.0.0.1,127.0.1.1,localhost
You have two choices for setting up the build server. You can follow the manual steps below, or you can run a one line script that tries to automate this process. In either case, you should end up with the puppet modules installed, and a set of template site manifests in /etc/puppet/manifests.
Method 1: Run the Script
To run the install script, copy and paste the following on your command line (as root with your proxy set if necessary as above):
curl -s -k -B https://raw.github.com/CiscoSystems/grizzly-manifests/g.3/install_os_puppet | /bin/bash
With a proxy, use:
https_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:80/ curl -s -k -B https://raw.github.com/CiscoSystems/grizzly-manifests/g.3/install_os_puppet > install_os_puppet chmod +x install_os_puppet ./install_os_puppet -p http://proxy.example.com:80/
Note that the commands above install the g.3 release version of the top-level manifests. You can now jump to "Customizing your build server". Otherwise, follow along with the steps below.
Method 2: Run the Commands Manually
All should now install any pending security updates:
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y && apt-get install -y puppet git ipmitool
NOTE: The system may need to be restarted after applying the updates.
Get the COI example manifests. Under the grizzly-manifests GitHub repository you will find different branches, so select the one that matches your topology plans most closely. In the following examples the multi-node branch will be used, which is likely the most common topology:
git clone https://github.com/CiscoSystems/grizzly-manifests ~/cisco-grizzly-manifests/ cd ~/cisco-grizzly-manifests git checkout -q g.3
With a proxy:
https_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:80 git clone https://github.com/CiscoSystems/grizzly-manifests ~/cisco-grizzly-manifests/ cd ~/cisco-grizzly-manifests https_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:80 git checkout multi-node
Copy the puppet manifests from ~/cisco-grizzly-manifests/manifests/ to /etc/puppet/manifests/
cp ~/cisco-grizzly-manifests/manifests/* /etc/puppet/manifests
Copy the puppet templates from ~cisco-grizzly-manifests/templates/ to /etc/puppet/templates/
cp ~/cisco-grizzly-manifests/templates/* /etc/puppet/templates
Then get the Cisco Edition puppet modules from Cisco's GitHub repository:
(cd /etc/puppet/manifests; python /etc/puppet/manifests/puppet_modules.py)
With a proxy:
(cd /etc/puppet/manifests; http_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:80 https_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:80 python /etc/puppet/manifests/puppet-modules.py)
Customizing the Build Server
In the /etc/puppet/manifests directory you will find these files:
clean_node.sh cobbler-node.pp core.pp modules.list puppet-modules.py reset_nodes.sh site.pp.example
At a high level, cobbler-node.pp manages the deployment of cobbler to support booting of additional servers into your environment. The core.pp manifest defines the core definitions for OpenStack service deployment. The site.pp.example manifest captures the user modifiable components and defines the various parameters that must be set to configure the OpenStack cluster, including the puppetmaster and cobbler setup on the build server. clean_node.sh is a shell script provided as a convenience to deployment users; it wraps several cobbler and puppet commands for ease of use when building and rebuilding the nodes of the OpenStack cluster. reset_nodes.sh is a wrapper around clean_node.sh to rebuild your entire cluster quickly with one command.
IMPORTANT! You must copy site.pp.example to site.pp and then edit it as appropriate for your installation. It is internally documented. See the sections below for information on how the site.pp was modified for each model discussed in this document.
cp /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp.example /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp vi /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
Read each example deployment section below on how the site.pp file was modified for each scenario. Once you have modified the site.pp file to match your environment, continue on with the steps in "Applying the site.pp Manifest" section.
Example AIO Models and site.pp Notes
You can find example site.pp files for each of the four previously mentioned models by browsing here:
- Model 1: https://github.com/shmcfarl/docwiki-manifests/blob/master/aio-filebackend.site.pp
- Model 2: https://github.com/shmcfarl/docwiki-manifests/blob/master/aio.cephbackend.site.pp
- Model 3: https://github.com/shmcfarl/docwiki-manifests/blob/master/aio.filebackend.provider.site.pp
- Model 4: https://github.com/shmcfarl/docwiki-manifests/blob/master/aio.cephbackend.flat.site.pp
Model 1: AIO with Filesystem as Backend to Glance using Provider Router with Private Networks
Figure 1 from the diagrams section shows the topology of Model 1. In the example site.pp file for Model 1 there are a few things that need to be highlighted that set this example apart from the Ceph/RBD backend example. Not all lines of the site.pp are discussed in this document as the site.pp file is internally documented but there are a few settings that need to be called out so you understand what defaults have been changed in the file:
- In all of the site.pp examples listed above, no proxy configuration is set. Pay close attention to the instructions in the document if you do use a proxy.
- Example build-server IP address information (aligns with previously show diagram):
$cobbler_node_ip = '10.121.13.17' $node_subnet = '10.121.13.0' $node_netmask = '255.255.255.0' $node_gateway = '10.121.13.1'
- OpenStack variables for the AIO node (known in site.pp file as the 'controller'). Ensure that the $controller_node_address value and the $controller_hostname values are consistent throughout the site.pp file:
$controller_node_address = '10.121.13.52' $controller_node_network = '10.121.13.0' $controller_hostname = 'aio-server' $db_allowed_network = '10.121.13.%'
- The COI default site.pp (site.pp.example) uses the filesystem as the backend for Glance. In Model 1, this is left at its default:
$glance_backend = 'file'
- Here is the example cobbler node definition that includes the eth0 MAC address for the PXE boot process, the IP address being assigned to the aio-server on eth0 and the CIMC IP address, user, password and powertype that will be used to remotely power-on/reboot the node so that the PXE boot process can begin:
cobbler_node { 'aio-server': mac => '00:10:18:CF:A6:A0', ip => '10.121.13.52', power_address => '10.121.12.106', power_user => 'admin', power_password => 'password', power_type => 'ipmitool', }
- Ensure the node definition has the correct hostname and using the 'allinone' class:
node 'aio-server' inherits os_base { class { 'allinone': }
Applying the site.pp Manifest
Once the site.pp file is as you want it, use the 'puppet apply' command to activate the manifest:
puppet apply -v /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
When the puppet apply command runs, the puppet client on the build server will follow the instructions in the site.pp and cobbler-node.pp manifests and will configure several programs on the build server:
- ntpd -- a time synchronization server used on all OpenStack cluster nodes to ensure time throughout the cluster is correct
- tftpd-hpa -- a TFTP server used as part of the PXE boot process when OpenStack nodes boot up
- dnsmasq -- a DNS and DHCP server used as part of the PXE boot process when OpenStack nodes boot up
- cobbler -- an installation and boot management daemon which manages the installation and booting of OpenStack nodes
- apt-cacher-ng -- a caching proxy for package installations, used to speed up package installation on the OpenStack nodes
- nagios -- a infrastructure monitoring application, used to monitor the servers and processes of the OpenStack cluster
- collectd --a statistics collection application, used to gather performance and other metrics from the components of the OpenStack cluster
- graphite and carbon -- a real-time graphing system for parsing and displaying metrics and statistics about OpenStack
- apache -- a web server hosting sites to implement graphite, nagios, and puppet web services
The initial puppet configuration of the build server will take several minutes to complete as it downloads, installs, and configures all the software needed for these applications.
Once the site.pp manifest has been applied to your system, you need to stage puppet plugins so they can be accessed by the managed nodes:
puppet plugin download
After the build server is configured, the systems listed in site.pp should be defined in cobbler on the build server:
# cobbler system list aio-server
And now, you should be able to use cobbler to build your AIO node:
/etc/puppet/manifests/clean_node.sh {node_name}
NOTE: Replace node_name with the name of your AIO.
clean_node.sh is a script which does several things:
- Configures Cobbler to PXE boot the specified node with appropriate PXE options to do an automated install of Ubuntu
- Uses Cobbler to power-cycle the node
- Removes any existing client registrations for the node from Puppet, so Puppet will treat it as a new install
- Removes any existing key entries for the node from the SSH known hosts database
You can watch the progress on the console of your AIO node as cobbler completes the automated install of Ubuntu. Once the installation finishes, the AIO node will reboot and then will run puppet after it boots up. Puppet will pull and apply the AIO node configuration defined in the puppet manifests on the build server.
This step will take several minutes, as puppet downloads, installs, and configures the various OpenStack components and support applications needed on the AIO node. /var/log/syslog on the AIO node will display the progress of the puppet configuration run.
NOTE: It may take more than one puppet run for the AIO node to be set up completely, especially if there are proxies in the path as some proxies can have issues with apt-get installs and updates. Observe the log files (/var/log/syslog on the controller node) to verify that the AIO configuration has converged completely to the configuration defined in puppet. If you use the Ceph/RBD backend configuration then you will need to re-run the puppet agent a minimum of three times in order for the drives and relevant Ceph configuration to be completed. You can re-run the puppet agent manually by using the following command:
puppet agent -t
Once the OpenStack AIO node has been built using cobbler, run puppet on the build node a second time:
puppet agent -t
This second puppet run will gather information about the individual OpenStack nodes collected by puppet when they were being built, and use that information to set up status monitoring of the OpenStack cluster on the build server.
Testing OpenStack
Once the nodes are built, and once puppet runs have completed on all nodes (watch /var/log/syslog on the cobbler node), you should be able to log into the OpenStack Horizon interface:
http://ip-of-your-control-node/ user: admin, password: Cisco123 (if you didn't change the defaults in the site.pp file)
You will still need to log into the console of the control node to load in an image using user: localadmin, password: ubuntu. If you SU to root, you will need to source the openrc auth file which is in the root's home directory (run "source openrc" in /root/), and you can launch a test file in /tmp/nova_test.sh.
Deploy Your First VM
The following deployment steps should be used after completing clean puppet runs on OpenStack Nodes and restarting quantum-server and quantum-plugin-openvswitch-agent services.
Manual Process
1. Create quantum public network.
quantum net-create public --router:external=True
2. We are using 192.168.221.0/24 as our external network. Note: The eth settings on the Controller Node associated to this network should not have an IP address assigned to it as it will function in bridged mode.
quantum subnet-create public 192.168.221.0/24
NOTE: If there are upstream routers/L3 switches that use HSRP/GLBP/VRRP that use low-order IP addresses such as .2 and .3 then the default subnet address assignments used by Quantum for this subnet (such as floating IP addresses and the Qrouter interface [default is .3]) will directly conflict with these real IP addresses on the upstream first hop routers. You can alter these default address assignments for the Quantum subnet by using the the "--allocation-pool" range when creating the Quantum subnet. The example that follows will use the default upstream router address of .1 (in this example the upstream HSRP address would be 192.168.221.1) and the first addresses for floating-IPs will begin at .10:
quantum subnet-create --allocation-pool start=192.168.221.10,end=192.168.221.250 public 192.168.221.0/24
3. Create the internal (data) network used for Tenants. Create additional networks and associated subnets as needed. In the example below, we are assigning specific DNS servers that will be used by the instances.
quantum net-create net10 quantum subnet-create net10 10.10.10.0/24 --dns_nameservers list=true 126.96.36.199 18.104.22.168
NOTE: Replace 22.214.171.124 188.8.131.52 with the IP address(es) of the DNS server or servers virtual machines should use.
4. Create a virtual router and an associated interface used for the subnet created in the previous step:
quantum router-create router1 quantum router-interface-add router1 <net10-subnet-uuid>
5. Connect the virtual router to your external network:
quantum router-gateway-set router1 <public-net-id>
6. Download an image and add it to Glance:
For Ubuntu Precise:
wget http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img glance add name="precise-x86_64" is_public=true container_format=ovf disk_format=qcow2 < precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
For Cirros Cloud Image:
wget http://download.cirros-cloud.net/0.3.1/cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-disk.img glance add name="cirros-x86_64" is_public=true disk_format=qcow2 container_format=ovf < cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-disk.img
7. Create an SSH keypair and add the public key to Nova. Make sure you create a key-pair for your Network and Controller Nodes. Note: leave the passphrase empty when creating the keypair:
ssh-keygen cd /root/.ssh/ nova keypair-add --pub_key id_rsa.pub <key_name>
- Example> nova keypair-add --pub_key id_rsa.pub dkp
8. Boot an Instance (Precise image example):
quantum net-list nova boot --image precise-x86_64 --flavor m1.tiny --key_name <key_name> --nic net-id=<quantum-net10-id> <your_instance_name>
Cirros Image Example
nova boot --image cirros-x86_64 --flavor m1.tiny --key_name <key_name> --nic net-id=<quantum-net10-id> <your_instance_name>
Verify that your instance has spawned successfully:
nova show <your_instance_name>
9. Verify connectivity to Instance from the node running Quantum L3 Agent (Controller Node). Since we are using namespaces, we run the commands from the context of the qrouter using the "ip netns exec qrouter" syntax. Below, we list the qrouter to get its router-id, we connect to the qrouter and get a list of its addresses, we ping the instance from the qrouter and then we SSH into the instance from the qrouter:
quantum router-list ip netns exec qrouter-<quantum-router-id> ip addr list ip netns exec qrouter-<quantum-router-id> ping <fixed-ip-of-instance> ip netns exec qrouter-<quantum-router-id> ssh ubuntu@<fixed-ip-of-instance>
NOTE: You can get the internal fixed IP of your instance with the following command: nova show <your_instance_name>
10. Create and associate a Floating IP. You will need to get a list of the networks copy the correct IDs:
quantum net-list quantum floatingip-create <public/ext-net-id> quantum floatingip-associate <floatingip-id> <internal VM port-id>
or in a single step:
quantum net-list quantum port-list quantum floatingip-create --port_id <internal VM port-id> <public/ext-net-id>
11. Enable Ping and SSH to Instances:
quantum security-group-rule-create --protocol icmp --direction ingress default quantum security-group-rule-create --protocol tcp --port-range-min 22 --port-range-max 22 --direction ingress default
12. Ping and SSH to your Instances from an external host.
Using Scripts to Setup a Test Quantum Network and Launch Instances
A "quick" way to get a similar environment to the one listed above running is to use the scripted quantum tests.
Clone the test repository:
git clone https://github.com/CiscoSystems/quantum-l3-test
Then follow the instructions in the README.md or follow these steps:
There are a few assumptions being made in this script:
- The script creates keys and places them in the /root/.ssh/ path therefore we are assuming you are running this script as root. If you are not running as 'root' then you need to change the path in the 'create_vm' file for the ssh-keygen line.
- If you have existing files in the /root/.ssh/ path then the script will see them and prompt you to overwrite. If you do not select to overwrite the existing keys then you may encounter a "permissions denied" error when SSH'ing into the test instance. If this happens then ensure that the key being referenced during the nova keypair-add step in the 'create_vm' script is correct.
1. cd into the quantum-l3-test directory you just cloned:
cd quantum-l3-test
2) Run: ./create_vm this will run net_setup on its own
3) You will be prompted to enter your specific network values for the public/private networks as well as altering the default path where the Ubuntu Precise image is downloaded from (i.e. your own local mirror).
4) You should be able to log into the instance:
ssh ubuntu@{fixed or floating ip of instance}
To reset the Quantum settings created by the script and relaunch the test VM from scratch:
./reset ./create_vm
Deploying Swift
Cisco OpenStack Installer's Grizzly release also includes support for Swift. To deploy Swift, simply uncomment and adjust the swift-proxy and swift-storage node definitions in your site.pp file. In general, you will want at least 3 Swift storage nodes, each in a different zone. Once you've configured your site.pp file, you'll need to bring the Swift nodes online in a particular order.
- First, bring up the storage nodes by running "clean_node.sh [storage node name]" for each storage node. Allow the operating system to be installed and for the puppet agent to complete it's first catalog run.
- Next, bring up the Swift proxy node by running "clean_node.sh [proxy node name]". Allow the operating system to be installed and for the puppet agent to complete it's first catalog run.
- Finally, allow puppet to make another catalog run on each storage node.
For more information, refer to the "Deploying Swift" section of the puppet-openstack README file.
Deploying Ceph
As of the g.1 release or later, Cisco OpenStack Installer supports provisioning of Ceph, a distributed storage system. You can choose to enable Ceph RBD as a backend for Glance and/or use it for persistent Cinder volumes. For instructions on setting up Ceph with COI, please click here. Please review the release notes for the version of Cisco OpenStack Installer carefully for any caveats.
Congratulations! You have now completed a basic setup and should have a functional environment.
Next Steps
System and service health monitoring of your OpenStack cluster is set up as part of the puppet deployment process. Once you have created your first VM, you should start seeing OpenStack status information show up in the health monitoring. To view Nagios health monitoring, log into the web page at:
using username admin and password Cisco123.
To view Graphite statistics, access the web page at:
You may also wish to read the OpenStack operations documents on the OpenStack documentation site. Many users find the OpenStack Operations Guide published in March of 2013 to be particularly helpful.
Need help?
Cisco does not currently provide TAC support for Cisco OpenStack Installer. However, you may contact our developers at firstname.lastname@example.com for best-effort technical help. For general OpenStack questions, you may also wish to peruse http://ask.openstack.org and ask your question there to solicit a wider audience.


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Watergy - Connecting Water with Energy
A version of this article appears in the Water/Energy: Linking Efficiency Efforts (Special Edition) issue of Home Energy Magazine.
June 07, 2007
This special edition of Home Energy is dedicated to raising awareness of the important relationship between water and energy. I like the term "watergy," which I thought I had invented until I found that the Alliance to Save Energy had gotten there first. For too long the conservation and efficiency efforts of government, utilities, and consumers have been singularly focused—either on energy or on water, but rarely on both. Hopefully, this is all water over the dam, and now we can begin to apply our efforts toward a more comprehensive approach of maximizing the planet's resources and saving ourselves some bucks in the process. Is water not the most precious commodity on this earth? Is energy not a prerequisite to help us move, treat, heat, and dispose of water? Are there not opportunities to reduce both water use and our energy use? This special edition of Home Energy sheds light on how various businesses and organizations are viewing the water-energy nexus and are benefiting from efficiency opportunities.
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Behind the Scenes: Our Catering Team
As one might easily suspect, cooking at a gourmet retail shop like Formaggio Kitchen is unlike cooking in any other professional kitchen. If you've ever been in to visit our cheese caves, you would have walked through our cooking space – blink and you'll miss it (or fall down the stairs!). A number of amazing things come out of such a small space: Chef Eduardo's nightly meals are delicious and comforting, Eric's award-winning BBQ attracts crowds that fill the sidewalk, Julie's carefully crafted charcuterie is in a league of its own and our sandwiches – weekly paninis, Sunday mini sandwiches and Saturday Reubens – rival those from the best delis around. And, as the Catering Manager, I get to be right in the middle of it all!
Formaggio Kitchen catering is unique because it highlights the best we have to offer at the shop in one easy-to-serve, ready-to-eat platter. Our menu is geared to accommodate any catering request: corporate lunches, afternoon picnics, hors d'oeuvres for an evening cocktail hour and full-scale sit-down dinners. On any given weekday, I send our drivers out with countless trays of sandwiches, sliced fruit, cheeses, meats and cookies for department lunches and welcome receptions at Harvard and MIT then into the neighborhoods of Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline with entrées and side dishes for personal meals and dinner parties.
Our private clients turn to us for a variety of events, ranging from bridal showers, bachelorette parties, wedding receptions and family reunion picnics, to in-home dinners. The bulk of our ingredients are sourced from small farms and butchers like Sparrow Arc Farm (ME) and Jamison Farm (PA), so creating a delicious dish is often as simple as adding adequate seasoning and keeping an eye on it while it cooks. Customers regularly bring in their own platters for us to use, which gives the food a slightly more personal touch and allows some to even pass it off as their own cooking! And, when an order is paired with wine or beer by Gemma or Eric, our expert buyers, the meal takes on a whole new dimension.
Another aspect of our kitchen and catering department are our holiday menus, which come out in advance of a number of the year round holidays. For traditional meals on Easter, Rosh Hashanah, Thanksgiving or Christmas, Eddie and Alice (our head chef and baker, respectively) are busy planning and preparing dishes that have a loyal following.
At this time of year, my days follow a similar pattern as they do in the spring and summer but at a much more frantic pace. On any given day, Adrienne and I can be found cooking and packaging stocks and sauces for the freezer, making salads for the deli case, assembling sandwiches, arranging cheese and meat platters, piping gougères and stuffing mushrooms, taking phone calls from customers about upcoming orders and sending quotes or confirmation emails in the office.
One of the most significant things that differentiates this position from those I've had as a line-cook in restaurants is the extreme necessity for organization. At the end of each shift, I set myself up for the next couple of days – writing a prep list to organize necessary tasks to complete orders for the following day, pulling drinks to chill overnight in the walk-in, meeting with my driver to hash out his delivery schedule for the rest of the week and sending emails to confirm orders and make any necessary changes.
We are a 2-person catering team within a 5-person kitchen – it's hard work but have a lot of fun doing it. Working in such a small and specialized department means that, with enough notice, we have the ability to go off-menu and tailor a meal to fit each customer's palate or dietary needs. One of the most rewarding things about working in the catering department at Formaggio Kitchen is the chance to get to know the preferences of our customers and create a personalized menu that results in a truly enjoyable experience. The greatest compliment we can receive is to see a catering customer return to browse the shelves or having them, or one of their guests, call in for a repeat order.
So, the next time you are heading to a party or are dreading the thought of hosting your own, take a look at our catering menu and give us a call – we'd love to help you out in any way we can!
Tacy Taylor is the Catering Manager at Formaggio Kitchen Cambridge. She is completing her Masters in Gastronomy at BU and is also an avid sports fan, supporting the Sox, the Pats and the Bruins in her time off.


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Today's Red Leaf Tea Special
My samples finally arrived late this afternoon and I sent my review. I am highly caffeinated. Is unflavored going to be an option for the mixes?
Finished my survey! It was hard to pick a favorite, they were all so good.
Just submitted my survey. Can't wait to see what you think of next!
My survey will hopefully be in end of this week. I caught a cold and my sense of taste is off. Really sucks, especially being a tea blogger!
I just received my samples today – I thought I'd do the cold ones today and the hot ones tomorrow (so I'm not caffeine crazy).
For the cold drinks, is it necessary to use a blender, or is it ok to mix it with a spoon? I've never had matcha before, so I thought I'd check with those who've already done the samples.
I still didn't get mine :(
Question on survey:
for size options, the 5oz and the 16oz – approximately how many servings is that for each size?
10 & 30
Oh, heres photo evidence / appreciation photo of testing the Matchaccino!
Nice! I did the same thing!
(This was my first time mixing matcha by the way – it was really good!)
Thank you. That looks very nice :-)
Hello! My matcha latte samples finally arrived today! Matcha smoothies for supper!!
I just finished doing the cold review, once I do the hot ones tomorrow I will send in my completed survey. I made notes so I wouldn't forget my conclusions from today.
So far I like 3 and 4 the best because I find the matcha taste most noticeable there. (and the caramel too! Just more flavorful in general I guess) And if I didn't want to taste the matcha I probably shouldn't be drinking this in the first place :)
Yum all around though!
PS I used my magic bullet to mix and oh man! So thick and creamy and smooth and frothy and awesome!
Screw you, Starbucks!
I also use blender which gives this a very nice froth. Not sure about others, but I like my ice cream at the point that it's already melting, so when I add a few extra ice cubes to my blender, I get nice thick shake consistency. My wife's family came over this Easter and they all tried it and loved it, especially kids, (we told them it was ice cream, ha ha) They did not question this, and it had much less calories than shake, so parents were happy as well.
Mine should be here tomorrow if all goes according to plan. If so, i'll get hopped up on match the same day to get those rsults back to you asap. stupid travel times!
Thank you for the updates as well as suggestions.
From the comments we have received so far, it looks like some of you like more matcha flavor and some of you do not need it as much. What to do, what to do? :-)
We decided to make this product the most customizable of them all. Now you will be able to choose, in addition to strength of the flavor, strength/amount of Matcha in your mix. This way everyone will get what they want.
Someone has also mentioned an idea about single pre-measured packs that you could carry in your purse or package to work or anywhere, and maybe sell packages of different flavors for each single serve packet. – Great idea. As soon as the sales get to higher level, we can start working on it.
Thank you very much for all the help.
Also, here are some notes I got so far:
The good news is that we'll be keeping the basic price low – $0.99 per serving. For those that may think this price is still too high, consider this: Our price is in the middle of the competition, which does not offer flavors, 100% natural ingredients, and any way for you to customize it. Our mix contains a LOT of matcha comparing to our competition mixes and unfortunately this drives the cost up a bit. It would be easy to substitute this with some artificial ingredients to save money, but we rather go for quality.
Also, there will be a new line of accessories done just for this new product. I'm so excited…(or maybe I just had too much of Matchaccino today :-)
I agree, I loved both three and four. Six months ago I would have preferred three because I wasn't used to matcha yet. Now number four wins by a hair, but both were great. The flavor was plenty for me, and I also shared it with my son and my best friend. They both enjoyed it, and my son has only just started drinking matcha lattes. His favorite is your almond flavored! Can't wait to see the accessories! I am all about the doodads and paraphernalia! :)
If one day Matchaccino comes in premeasured packs, I'll retire all the crystal lite packets in my purse!
got my survey in. Had my other half drink them with me today so i could get the opinion of someone who doesn't drink lattes, matcha or even tea hahaha
I sent mine in last night!


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NORTHPORT | The Northport City Council plans to interview four finalists for the position of police chief on Tuesday. All four candidates are members of the Northport Police Department.
NORTHPORT | The Northport City Council plans to interview four finalists for the position of police chief on Tuesday. All four candidates are members of the Northport Police Department.
The candidates include Capt. Kevin Leib, who has worked in the department since 1983; Lt. James Carpenter, who joined the department in 1997; Lt. Tommy Kimbrell, who has been with the department since 1995; and interim chief Kerry Card, who has been with Northport Police since 1990.
The council will start interviewing the candidates at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Northport City Hall.
The council had initially planned on posting the position regionally and interviewing candidates from within the department and outside of West Alabama. But in January, Mayor Bobby Herndon asked the council to keep the search within the ranks of the Northport Police Department.
"I've been contacted by several people who said they would like to see the chief hired from within the department — from within the ranks," Herndon said at the time, pointing to what he described as improved morale within the department since former Northport Police Chief Robert Green left in July.
If the council decides not to hire one of the four internal candidates, it can expand its search. That recommendation was made in a study of the Northport Police Department done for the city last year by Colorado-based CWH Research. CWH Research said it would assist the city in a regional search, but it would cost the city $46,000.
"It's the pleasure of the council, up to you what you want to do," City Administrator Scott Collins told the Council on Feb. 18.
One benefit of interviewing internally first is that the city knows each candidate well, Collins said.
"I think that is one thing with internal candidates ... we know the candidates and their history," he said. "We know those employees as an institution, and can offer some insight there."
If the council ultimately decides to interview outside the department, Collins urged the council members to hire CWH or some other hiring firm to assist with the process. It was something that Northport should have done before the council hired former Police Chief Robert Green, said Collins, who was a councilman when Green was hired.
CWH, which has worked with the Tuscaloosa and University of Alabama police departments, was hired by Northport last year to do an audit of the police department. The audit found that Green used coercion, threats and punishment as "power tools of intimidation" to run the department. CWH's recommended that Green be fired and that the city conduct a nationwide search for his replacement.
Green was put on administrative leave before the audit. He officially retired on July 1, just before CWH's recommendations were made public.
"I like the opportunity to look in house, and then go from there," said Council President Jay Logan.
Interim chief Card is making Green's former salary of $83,000 annually. But the city could increase the salary to the $90,000 range for the right candidate, Collins said.
The person who is chosen for the position needs to have a clear understanding of the need to do an overhaul, including improvement of employee morale and communication, improvement of officer training and the creation of an environment in which officers can move up within the department ranks during their career, Collins said.
During the public interviews, candidates will be asked a list of questions compiled by council members and the mayor. The interviews are expected to last about 45 minutes per candidate.
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RIP the incandescent light bulb.
RIP another piece of our liberties.
RIP the incandescent light bulb.
RIP another piece of our liberties.
Congress, which has the approval rating of Pied Piper's rats, decided in 2007 that we Americans were not capable of making a rational decision and voted strict minimum efficiency standards that, in effect, forced the end of the 40 and 60-watt bulbs. In their place are more efficient and certainly more expensive CFL and LED bulbs.
We're told the CFL and LED bulbs last many, many more hours and thus the rationalization to us barbaric consumers for making the switch.
Other less publicized reports claim the new generation of bulbs is worse for the environment, and thus our health. According to an article in Scientific American, a study published in late 2010 in Environmental Science and Technology found that LEDs contain lead, arsenic and a dozen other potentially dangerous substances.
It all happens Jan. 1 when it will become illegal to manufacture or import the 40- and 60-watt incandescent bulbs. The push behind the light bulb movement is to conserve energy, and thus save us money. The law says that 40W bulbs must draw only 10.5 watts of electricity, and 60W bulbs 11 watts.
The curly-cue compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs and the newer LED bulbs are far more efficient.
Yeah, whatever.
Regardless, it's yet another example of "we the people" losing yet another sliver of our freedom. Lest I remind you of the health care mandate (aka ObamaCare) that is being forced on us? Or Transportation Security Administration (TSA) procedures that allowed strangers to touch is in places we don't want to be touched, and the development x-ray machines that stripped us of our dignity? Or NSA spying from the sky and eavesdropping on our emails and phone calls? Or forcing the food industry to remove trans fats from food?
These are personal choices being taken away one pixel at a time by a government that can't tie its proverbial shoe.
How very, very sad.


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Riding out the storm, the evening after, 12 September 2001, Ostend.
Riding out the storm, the evening after, 12 September 2001, Ostend.
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3Site to be confirmed in due course.
Updates will be posted on this site and also on my Facebook page.
Do note that as spaces for the visits are limited due to conditions on site, slots for these visits are often taken up in a matter of minutes.
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51 photographs taken in Singapore that take you away from Singapore
The Lost Elegance of Singapore
Unmanicured Spaces
Mysterious Places
Haunting Spaces
(See also My Shanghai Story on omy.sg)
A weekend's adventure in exciting Shanghai thanks to Spring Airlines, which now flies from Singapore to Shanghai Pudong.
Together with 9 other bloggers and thanks to Tigerair Philippines and the Philippine Department of Tourism, I found myself on a dream trip to Boracay in July 2013. Read about the fantastic experience I had at Boracay Island Escapade or on my blog.
A finalist in the Singapore Blog Awards (SBA) for four years, The Long and Winding Road has been named as the best photography blog in the SBA for two years running in 2011 and 2012.
To also read about my (and 9 other bloggers') wonderful experiences in Macau courtesy of the Macau Government Tourist Office and Tiger Airways, click on the graphic below:
My experience on this site:Macau Tower Fireworks! Streets of Happiness Wine, Fast Cars and Butterflies Where old meets new The House of Dancing Water Sky 21, a Luxury Destination Minus 8 degrees Celcius in Macau Coloane Village and Egg Tarts Colours of Macau Taipa, Food Street and Pork Chop Buns
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At least nine Dragon (or Snake) Kilns were once found along the 13th to 18th Milestones of Jurong Road, attracted by the availability of Jurong White Clay - ideal material for clay latex cups. The cups were fired by the kilns to feed a huge demand from the rubber estates in the area. Over the years, most of the kiln closed due to the vanishing demand as the estates gave way to urban development. Only two, both of which have stopped operating commercially, have survived. The area the two, the Jalan Bahar and Thow Kwang kilns, are in is slated for development as a CleanTech Park, and the future for these kilns now looks bleak.
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Trailer for BUKIT BROWN VOICES. The a short independently-made documentary tells the story of Singapore's oldest Chinese cemetery on the cusp of major change. Filmed during what is the last Qing Ming (grave sweeping) festival for some families whose ancestors are buried there, we hear their thoughts and memories about what the place and the customs they practise mean to them (a Film by Su-Mae Khoo & Brian McDairmant of Two Chiefs).
A Road, but not the End of the Road
9 Oct 2013 : Bukit Brown Cemetery named on global list as a site at risk (Melody Zaccheus in the Straits Times)
25 Mar 2012 : Bukit Brown and the soul of Singapore (Ignatius Low in the Sunday Times)
19 Mar 2012 : Announcement on Road Alignment through BBC
05 Mar 2012 : Speech by MOS(ND) Tan Chuan-Jin during Budget Debate
16 Feb 2012 : URA Reply to Letter to Today on Drainage Impact Assessment
20 Nov 2011 : Bukit Brown Road Project 'Can't Wait': LTA
12 Sep 2011 : Announcement on Construction of the Road
19 Jun 2011 : ST: An Uphill Struggle Saving Bukit Brown
18 Jun 2011 : URA Reply to Letter to ST on Destroying Natural Habitat
11 Jun 2011 : URA Reply to Letter to ST on Shutting Window to History
The out-of-this-world 54 ha. Bay South Garden of the massive Gardens by the Bay was officially opened by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on 28 Jun 2012. It opening its doors to the public the following day attracted huge crowds on opening weekend. The series of posts here are from several media previews, opportunities to photograph the gardens before it was opened to the public, and of the official opening during which I had a better view of the completed Cloud Forest - one of two cooled conservatories at the garden. Two photographs that I took prior to the opening were among 20 that were selected for a roving exhibition.
Oct 2012 : An Autumn Harvest by the bay
Jun 2012 : Official Opening
Jun 2012 : Where Wonder Blooms
May 2012 : In the merry month of May
Apr 2012 : Ascent into the Clouds
Nov 2011 : New Light in the Old Harbour
Nov 2011 : Sneak Peek at the Gardens
Share your personal memories on the Singapore Memory Portal - an initiative by the National Library Board (NLB) as part of the Singapore Memory Project (SMP). The SMP is a national initiative started in 2011 to collect, preserve and provide access to Singapore's knowledge materials, so as to tell the Singapore Story and aims to collect 5 million personal memories by 2015.
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Jun 11: A Tearful farewell to Romance
Jun 11: That One Man Isn't Alone
Apr 11: Sea of Light
Jan 11: Wonderland without Glasses
Sep 10: Keeping Track of Time
Aug 10: Tides of Yesterday
Nov 09: School Days in Singapore
School Days in Singapore was ranked #2 among the top ten stories of 2010 on asia!
Beyond the Slumber (Sembawang - 27 Mar 2011)
Highlights of a heritage tour of Sembawang, with a focus on the Sembawang that I was familiar with in the 1970s. The two and a half hour tour included a visit to the last kampung mosque in Singapore, as well as to several other points of interest in Sembawang. Information relating to the walk and some of what we saw or were transported to can be found in the post "Sembawang beyond the Slumber".
One Hundred Steps to Heaven (Central - 26 Feb 2011)
I took participants on a walk with the NLB up a hundred steps to the heavenly world of Mount Sophia that was home to the fairy-tale like mansions such as Eu Villa (demolished in 1981). We also explored the neighbouring Mount Emily, the site of Singapore's first public swimming pool and along with that, some of the areas that were once part of a Jewish and then Japanese quarter. Information relating to the walk and some of what we saw or were transported to can be found in the post "One Hundred Steps to Heaven".
A Journey through Time (ToaPayoh - 20 Nov 2010)
I took an enjoyable walk back in time with several participants in a heritage trail at the Toa Payoh Library, to a Toa Payoh that was taking its first steps as the first planned satellite town. Details of some of the places we visited can be found in the post "A journey through time: a heritage trail through Toa Payoh".
Journeys through Tanjong Pagar
Journeys on the railway out of Tanjong Pagar and adventures in and around the railway corridor.
Preserving the memory of the railway through Singapore
Explorations through the railway corridor which the Nature Society (Singapore) proposes should be retained as a Green Corridor.
The Singapore of my younger days
A collection of posts related to that old Singapore that I grew up having so many wonderful experiences in.
My fascination with all ships big and small.
The day in 1972 when the Queen of England visited my humble HDB flat.
Remembering the National Stadium
Remembering the National Stadium which is in the process of being demolished to make way for the new Sports Hub.
My Melbourne Experience
An adventure in springtime Melbourne courtesy of Tourism Victoria, Jetstar and omy.sg with nine other bloggers. My set of experiences can be found on this site or at the Colours of Melbourne omy site.
Courtesy of the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB), I had the opportunity to have a 4 day adventure in Hong Kong with 9 other bloggers. To read our collective Hong Kong Travel Blog entries, please click on the icon below:
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The Christmas of 2005 was mostly important to me for one reason: It was my last at home. I was absolutely itching to get the hell out of their parents' house and into the relative freedom of a dorm room while also caught in this sort of pre-nostalgia about leaving my family and my room and my pets and all the other comforts of home.
So there were the typical "last Christmas" gifts. From my mom, a set of luggage (which I still think screams "it's been real, now away with you"), from my sisters an embarrassing amount of framed photos of the three of us, from my dad a lifetime supply of pepper spray (a half-joking, half-"I really don't want you to get assaulted" gift), and from Santa – yes, my family still does Santa presents, it's fine, everybody be cool – a digital camera.
The Canon PowerShot A85, to be exact. A beauty, in its day, now a hilariously clunky piece of plastic. I was something of a darkroom, film photography nut at the time, and had never expressed even the slightest interest in digital cameras except to say they were "neat" and I'd probably get one "someday." But my room was covered in film prints I'd taken with my analog, Minolta XG-M and developed myself.
Still, my parents – I'm sorry, "Santa" – had the foresight to bring me into the new age of photography before I went off the college.
Despite my skepticism, digital cameras stuck. I went on to take classes in college, and even won an award for my work at a university magazine. I'm something of a camera hoarder at this point, keeping all my ancient models and admiring how at one point I reveled at their 8 megapixel sensors and 6x optical zooms.
Now I usually rock my Canon Rebel XTI, but it all comes back to that first step into digital with the A85. If I may, a trip down specification memory lane. The A85 featured:
- A 4 megapixel, 1/2.7 inch CCD sensor
- A 3x optical zoom, 3.6x digital zoom for an 11x combined zoom
- A "large" (according to the original listing) 1.8 inch, 118K pixel LCD display
- A 9 point intelligent auto focus system
- ISO range of 50-400
Now I just happened to enter college in the fall of 2005 – meaning I was one of the early inductees to Facebook and the days when it was college only. Thus many of my A85's first outings were captured for eternity. So my gift to you is a trip through my embarrassing first attempts at digital photography. The photos are fuzzy, pixelated, shaky, full of orbs and shadows and other exposure and saturation flaws – but they are what they are. Happy holidays, and may we all treasure the massive sensors and ISO range our digital cameras offer today.
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A Oildale man is in jail after he was arrested by Kern County Sheriff's deputies when returned a second time to a Dustin Acres home that had been burglarized.
Deputies think Mike Milam, 20, was involved in a burglary at the home on the 27000 block of Tank farm road that was reported on Dec. 30.
They were called to the scene by the victim who told them someone had entered the home and stolen numerous items, including firearms, jewelry and household items, Sgt. Martin Downs said.
They conducted an investigation and interviewed witnesses, who told them a white four-door sedan was seen at the house.
On Jan. 1, deputies were called back to the same house about 3:45 p.m. to a report of a burglary in progress and when they arrived they saw a white sedan at he scene.
The deputies spoke to a man later identified as Milam, who told them his car had broken down in the area, but Downs said they also saw items taken from the first burglary in the vehicle.
He was detained ad taken to the Taft substation for questioning.
The deputies later searched Milam's Oildale home and discovered more items reported stolen from the Dustin acres home, Downs said.
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FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia-based soldier sent an old girlfriend a text message saying "we'll have plenty of money" a few hours before his pregnant wife died, allowing him to collect more than $500,000 in life insurance and benefit payments from the Army, a military investigator testified Monday.
Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, 22, has been charged by the Army with murdering his wife, Sgt. Deirdre Aguigui, and with causing the death of their unborn child in July 2011. A preliminary hearing at Fort Stewart will ultimately determine whether the case goes to a court-martial and, if so, whether commanders will seek the death penalty. Investigators say the young couple had been separated until not long before the 24-year-old woman died.
"She had kicked him out of the house for reasons of infidelity and drug use," said Chief Warrant Officer Justin Kapinus, an Army criminal investigator. "It was very evident they had a rough marriage."
Isaac Aguigui of Cashmere, Wash., is already facing the death penalty in a Georgia civilian court. Prosecutors in neighboring Long County say he ordered the deaths of two people in December 2011 to help protect an anti-government militia that he organized by recruiting disgruntled soldiers and funded with the money he received from his wife's death.
Aguigui called 911 on the evening of July 17, 2011, saying he found his wife unconscious and unresponsive on the couch, with chunks of a potato she'd eaten for dinner in her mouth, Kapinus said.
Kapinus testified that initial results of an autopsy on Deirdre Aguigui were inconclusive, with no cause or manner of death given. Her husband wasn't charged with her killing until this past April, when a second look by a medical examiner for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation concluded someone killed the woman by choking her or otherwise blocking her airway, Kapinus said.
When she died, Deirdre Aguigui had small cuts and abrasions on her wrists and investigators found a pair of handcuffs on the bed, Kapinus said. The bed was also covered with sex toys, leg restraints and other paraphernalia. The investigator said Isaac Aguigui told investigators he and his wife had used the handcuffs and other items during sex a few hours earlier. Kapinus said he suspects the bedroom scene was staged. He said, "It seemed excessive."
The day his wife died, Aguigui had just returned to Georgia from a weekend trip to South Carolina with an Army buddy, Michael Schaefer. Now in jail awaiting trial on an unrelated robbery charge, Schaefer testified by phone that they had barely hit the road when his friend started complaining bitterly about his marriage.
"He said he'd be better off if she was gone," Schaefer said. "And I took it as him saying he wished she was dead. And I remember telling him that's what divorce is for."
Schaefer recalled Aguigui told him and others that a blood clot killed his wife. Samantha Thacker, a fellow soldier who struck up a romance with Aguigui in 2010 while they were training in Arizona, said he told her that his wife died in a car crash and to stop asking him questions.
Thacker confirmed Aguigui sent her a text message about eight hours before his wife's death to tell her he would never have to work again.
"We'll have plenty of money," said the message to Thacker, which prosecutors read aloud in court. "All I need is your body whenever I want it."
Isaac Aguigui's defense attorneys insisted that while there was evidence he cheated on his wife, prosecutors had little proof that he killed her.
Capt. William Cook, an Army defense attorney, said the death of Aguigui's wife was "still a mystery."
The soldier's Article 32 hearing is similar in several ways to a civilian grand jury. The presiding officer, Maj. John McLaughlin, will report to Fort Stewart commanders whether there's enough evidence to try Aguigui in a court-martial. The hearing was scheduled to continue Tuesday.
Authorities jailed Isaac Aguigui nearly eight months after his wife's death, but for a different crime. On Dec. 5, 2011, fishermen found the bodies of former Army Pvt. Michael Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Tiffany York, in the woods of rural Long County near Fort Stewart. Both had been shot in the head just two days after Roark was discharged from the Army.
Investigators arrested Aguigui and three other soldiers — Sgt. Anthony Peden, Pvt. Christopher Salmon and Pfc. Michael Burnett — and charged them with the deaths about a week after the bodies were found.
Burnett struck a plea deal with civilian prosecutors and testified last summer that Aguigui led an anti-government militia group he'd formed inside the military called F.E.A.R. — short for Forever Enduring Always Ready. Civilian prosecutors say the group talked of bombing a park fountain in nearby Savannah, poisoning apple crops in Washington state and even killing the U.S. president.
Burnett said Roark and York were killed because Roark had just left the Army and the couple knew too much about the group.
At least 11 suspects — most of them current and former soldiers — have been arrested in connection with the militia group on charges ranging from theft and drug dealing to murder. But none have been charged with committing or plotting acts of terrorism.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill pleaded to be released from jail Monday to resume his music career and support his son and 30-person entourage, but the judge who jailed him on a parole violation last month was unmoved.
She ordered the 27-year-old to take anger management classes for what prosecutors called a parole office "tantrum" over travel restrictions, and a Twitter rant aimed at a parole officer and prosecutor.
"I wanted him to be able to grow and get to the next level (of his career)," Common Pleas Judge Genese Brinkley said. "But I can't do that with him thumbing his nose at me."
Mill, born Robert Williams, has been on probation for about five years following a 2009 drug and gun case conviction, for which he served about a year of house arrest. He has since emerged as a gifted rapper who has been tapped to perform with Jay-Z.
But his career has been interrupted the past two years by what he considers an increasingly fraught relationship with a new parole officer.
"We never clicked 100 percent," Mill said Monday, his voice sounding ready to crack.
He has not committed any new crimes while on probation, but was flagged this year after failing a drug test and appearing to use a gun in a music video. Defense lawyer Dennis Cogan said Mill had a prescription for the OxyContin after spraining his ankle, and said the video prop was a water pistol.
He also said his client's tweets, however unwise, were protected free speech.
"You never said, 'As a condition of probation, you can't speak outside the courtroom about the district attorney or the probation officer,'" Cogan argued to the judge.
He has asked the state Supreme Court to intervene and grant bail.
A prison official, a music promoter and a professor of race relations spoke on Mill's behalf Monday, and spoke of the difficulty of growing up fatherless — Mill's father was killed when he was young — and staying out of the crosshairs of the parole system.
"It's not set up for a man to win in society — a black man," said local music promoter and mentor Charles Alstin, known as Charlie Mack.
Mill, lean, lanky and baby-faced, has been kept in protective custody at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, but complained Tuesday that his neighbors on the high-security block are rapists and murderers. He also questioned whether he would be able to take the required anger management class there.
Brinkley said she had called the warden last week about the plan. She agreed to rescind her protective custody order, but warned Cogan "if something happens ... it's going to be on you."
Mill released his debut album, "Dreams & Nightmares," in late 2012.
The album's launch party was delayed when Mill and three others — including an Atlantic Records executive and a police officer friend — were stopped in a Range Rover and detained by Philadelphia police for several hours. No drugs were found and no charges filed.
Meek sued the city over the arrest, but a mostly-white federal jury in Philadelphia this spring rejected the civil rights lawsuit.