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Whistleblower: Hillary Was 'The Only Person' Who Could've Authorized More Benghazi Security
CNS News
Benghazi whistleblower Eric Nordstrom said the Benghazi consulate was listed as "high threat" before the attacks and the only person who could add more security personnel to a facility that does not meet standards is the Secretary of State – Hillary Clinton – at the time.
Nordstrom was asked: "By statute, Mr. Nordstrom, who has the authority to place personnel in a facility that does not meet the minimum OSPB standards?"
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Benghazi a premeditated terrorist attack, not a response to anti-Muslim video, say whistleblowers
Natural News
For weeks after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other operatives were killed, President Obama and his administration told the American people and the world that it all went down because of an anti-Muslim video made by a hapless California man.
"While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants," Obama said immediately following news that the ambassador and some of his security staff had been killed on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks (Note: historical dates have significance in the world of Islamic terrorism).
In the days that followed, the administration circled its wagons around the narrative that the video, titled, "Innocence of Muslims," was responsible.
Top U.S. Diplomat in Libya Knew Benghazi Was Terrorism
Daily Beast
For eleven days after the 9/11 anniversary assault on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, top Obama administration officials told the public that the assault stemmed from a protest of an anti-Muslim YouTube video. That was the public line from the White House in the closing weeks of a presidential election season, but it was not the view of several State Department officials at the time or the U.S. personnel on the ground in Libya.
At a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Benghazi Wednesday, Trey Goudy, a Republican from South Carolina, read into the record an email from Beth Jones, the acting assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs. The September 12 email—disclosed for the first time on Wednesday—said Jones had spoken to Libya's ambassador to Washington who said the attack was the work of former Gadhafi regime loyalists. Jones said she told the ambassador: "The group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia, is affiliated with Islamic terrorists."
Jones was not the only one who viewed the attack as the work of terrorists. Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli at the time, said there were no reports from U.S. personnel in Libya there was a demonstration. In often-dramatic testimony, Hicks provided new details of the attack in the evening of Benghazi. He said he had no doubt the assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi at the time was a terrorist attack, noting that Ansar al-Sharia had claimed credit for the assault on its twitter feed. Indeed, the U.S. embassy in Tripoli believed it would be attacked next. Hicks said embassy personnel smashed hard drives, loaded weapons into armored vehicles and that the 55 embassy employees in Tripoli that evening were gathered in a safe annex all in anticipation of the attack.
FLASHBACK: Obama and his Press Secretary Blaming the Video for the Benghazi Attack
Hicks just said that UAV was flying in Libya the night of the attack
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) May 8, 2013
Benghazi witness: State Department told me not to speak to members of Congress
Washington Examiner
During today's House and Oversight Committee hearing, Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya, confirmed that he was told by the State Department not to speak to members of Congress while they were investigating the details of the Benghazi consulate attacks.
Hicks testified that State Department lawyers instructed him to avoid an interview with Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who traveled to Libya to investigate the attacks.
"I was instructed not to allow the RSO, the acting deputy chief of mission and myself to be personally interviewed by Congressman Chaffetz," Hicks replied when questioned by Rep. Jim Jordan R-Ohio.
Whistleblowers give Congress blow-by-blow account of deadly diplomatic attack
Washington Times
Former Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton was the only person empowered by law to authorize the occupation of U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya before the deadly terror attacks there last year, because the buildings did not meet State Department security standards, a House hearing heard Wednesday.
"It's my understanding only the secretary of state could waive those requirements," said Eric Nordstrom, who was regional security officer for the embassy in Libya until a few months before the attack.
The security standards were introduced after the bombing attacks against U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, he said.
Benghazi "whistleblowers" head to House committee
Hoping to funnel into one chronological timeline the rampantly varying accounts of how President Obama's administration responded last Sept. 11 in the wake of an attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday will hear from three "whistleblowers" expected to offer testimony enormously at odds with the administration's characterization of a strike that killed four Americans.
Testifying are Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant Secretary of State for counterterrorism; Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya; and Eric Nordstrom, former regional security officer in Libya. Excerpts of an interview Hicks did with investigators that were released to CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday boomeranged the Benghazi politics back into the spotlight four months after hearings on the issue in the House and Senate.
According to Hicks, "everybody in the mission" believed it was an act of terror "from the get-go." But on Sept. 16 – five days after the attack – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice hit the Sunday show circuit, peddling the theory that the strike began "spontaneously" out of protests in Egypt and was not a premeditated terrorist act. Rice's spot on "Face the Nation" that day was preceded by the new president of Libya, Mohammed al-Magariaf, who said his government had "no doubt that this was pre-planned, predetermined."
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Dem. Congressman: We Have To Protect 'Your Fellow Employees'
Weekly Standard
Elijah Cummings, the Democratic ranking member at the Benghazi hearing, told a State Department whistleblower that he has to "protect your fellow employees" at today's hearing.
FLASHBACK: Arms Flow to Syria May Be Behind Benghazi Cover-Up
The day after the big Obama-Romney debate, as media and politicians were engaging in the usual after-action assessment frenzy, some of the most important issues surrounding the September 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, remain unaddressed.
While it clearly matters (a lot) if and when the President told the truth to the American public about the terrorist nature of that attack and why the Department of State refused repeated pleas from its own diplomats in Libya for more and better security, the deeper, unaddressed issue is about the relationship of the U.S. government, Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya with Al Qaeda.
During the 2011 Libyan revolt against Muammar Qaddafi, reckless U.S. policy flung American forces and money into the conflict on the side of the rebels, who were known at the time to include Al Qaeda elements. Previously the number two official at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Christopher Stevens was named as the official U.S. liaison to the Libyan opposition in March, 2011.
FLASHBACK: "Webster Tarpley: CIA Has Fingerprints All Over Benghazi Assault"
Oct 20, 2012
The prime suspect in the death of Ambassador Stevens and his three colleagues is Sufyan Bin Qumu, an obvious US double agent who spent several years in Guantanamo and who doubtless swore eternal obedience to the CIA to get released.
The CIA's Benghazi Role
The various accounts of the Sept. 11 Benghazi incident in which four Americans died demonstrate that there is a profound misunderstanding of what the Central Intelligence Agency does and how it interacts with the State Department overseas. The U.S. ambassador in any country is the personal representative of the president of the United States, and he is nominally in charge of all the American officials posted to the country. But the key word is "nominally."
The Chief of Station is the senior CIA representative, and he directs the activities of the intelligence personnel. His direct line of command is to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia—not to the State Department—and that is the relationship that provides him with his authority. Normally, the ambassador has little desire to learn what the CIA is doing because he has no real need to know about the details of operations and is only interested in oversight relating to situations that might cause serious damage to Washington's relationship with the local authorities. Apart from that, the CIA operates independently and only shares partial information on what it is doing if the ambassador seems interested and there is a good reason to do so.
To cite one example from my own experience, the agency had a hidden microphone in the office of a top Italian Communist official in the 1970s, which enabled Washington to know exactly what the Partito Communista Italiano was planning. The information obtained was shared through an unsourced "eyes only" memo to the ambassador, who assumed the source was a CIA agent present at the Communist meeting and asked how accurate the person's recollection was. The Chief of Station answered that the information was completely reliable but there was no one else in the room—avoiding having to say that it was a highly sensitive technical intrusion and letting the ambassador work out the meaning of the reply.
Benghazi has been described as a U.S. consulate, but it was not. It was an information office that had no diplomatic status. There was a small staff of actual State Department information officers plus local translators. The much larger CIA base was located in a separate building a mile away. It was protected by a not completely reliable local militia. Base management would have no say in the movement of the ambassador and would not be party to his plans, nor would it clear its own operations with the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli. In Benghazi, the CIA's operating directive would have been focused on two objectives: monitoring the local al-Qaeda affiliate group, Ansar al-Sharia, and tracking down weapons liberated from Colonel Gaddafi's arsenal. Staff consisted of CIA paramilitaries who were working in cooperation with the local militia. The ambassador would not be privy to operational details and would only know in general what the agency was up to. When the ambassador's party was attacked, the paramilitaries at the CIA base came to the rescue before being driven back into their own compound, where two officers were subsequently killed in a mortar attack.
Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, is executive director of the Council for the National Interest.
Oath Keepers Founder Attending Benghazi Hearing in DC Today and at Boston Bombing Hearing Tomorrow
Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes is in DC and is attending the House Benghazi Hearings today, where three key witnesses will testify. Also attending are Richard Frye and Jeff Lewis of Patriot Coalition.
As the founder and President of Oath Keepers, a national organization of current serving military, police, and first responders, as well as veterans, all dedicated to defending our Constitution, I felt compelled to be here in support of those who kept their oaths and to demand accountability from those who failed to support them.
It is now looking like they (including Obama himself) intentionally and callously withheld crucial military support, watched good men die on their screens, and then punished and purged those who tried to help them.
Fourth Benghazi witness gagged by red tape
Obama administration officials are finally letting the attorney for a Benghazi whistle-blower get a security clearance — but the clearance is at such a low level that it will probably slow the congressional probe of how the administration handled last year's terrorist attack on the embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
Victoria Toensing represents an unnamed government official who can help explain the reaction of top government officials to the jihadi attack on the U.S diplomatic site in Benghazi and killed four Americans last Sept. 11.
The official may also be able to explain if officials rewrote intelligence reports and took other actions to minimize media coverage of the administration's errors and the perceived role of Al Qaeda jihadis.
The Benghazi Scandal Is Not Like Watergate–It's Worse
It's clear that the Benghazi scandal is not like Watergate. It's worse. While there are many similarities in process, e.g. possible cover-up, stonewalling, etc., as far as we know no one died in the Watergate scandal. So as I await the hearing in about one hour from now, my interest is in process. And it takes the form in the following questions—I believe—need answers:
Benghazi victim's mother tells CNN she blames Hillary Clinton for her son's death
The mother of one of the four Americans killed in the September 11, 2012 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya told CNN's Jake Tapper that she blames former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her son's death.
Pat Smith's son, State Department Information Officer Sean Smith, was one of the four Americans who perished when Islamic terrorists destroyed the consulate compound on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York City and Northern Virginia.
'You blame Secretary of State Clinton?' Tapper asked Smith? 'Yes,' she replied.
House Benghazi hearing gets going, with fireworks expected
A House hearing exploring the aftermath of the attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans got under way Wednesday.
The session is focused on the Obama administration's handling of the aftermath of the Benghazi terror attack, which has long sparked outrage from Republicans on Capitol Hill and fueled conspiracy theories on talk shows and across the blogosphere.
Three current State Department employees are expected to contradict their leadership, stances expected to touch off fireworks and sharp disagreement between Republicans and Democrats.
Whistle-blowers testify on Benghazi attacks, Issa says families of victims 'deserve answers'
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said Wednesday, as the oversight committee he chairs launched into a high-profile hearing on the Benghazi attacks, that lawmakers continue to probe the strike because the families of the victims "deserve answers."
He spoke at the start of a major hearing where three whistle-blowers are testifying and expected to shed new light on that deadly assault. Issa called them "actual experts on what really happened before, during and after the Benghazi attacks," who "deserve to be heard."
The three witnesses are Greg Hicks, deputy chief of mission in Libya who became top U.S. diplomat in the country after Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed in the terror attack; Mark Thompson, an official with the State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau; and Eric Nordstrom, a diplomatic security officer who was formerly the regional security officer in Libya.
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WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA9) -- An all American hamburger chain closed and restaurants with roaches and rodents. Those and five other suspensions in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
Click here to see photos from this week's Restaurant Alert and hundreds of other DC area closures.
Inspectors temporarily closed: Cafe Asia, 1720 I Street, NW, DC; ConeE Island, 2000 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, DC; Paul Bakery, 2000 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, DC; Johnny Rockets 2000 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, DC; Fu Lin Restaurant, 2235 Bel Pre Road, Wheaton, Md.; La Mexicana, 13016 Middlebrook Road, Germantown, Md.; China Sub Shop, 6561 Ager Road, Hyattsville, Md.; Kent Deli and Fish Market, 7535 Landover Road, Landover, Md.
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China Sub Shop
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WUSA9 did not find any evidence of rodents when we looked around. The owner said he fixed all the other violations and is in compliance.
Kent Deli and Fish Market
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Fu Lin Restaurant
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La Mexicana
In Germantown, inspectors closed La Mexicana on Middlebrook Road, citing 14 violations including operating with inadequate refrigeration and unsanitary conditions like very sticky and soiled areas of the restaurant.
La Mexicana's owner, Rai Sawney, would not allow WUSA9's cameras in but said someone accidently left the refrigerator door open right before the inspector arrived and the unit is cooling properly now.
Cafe Asia
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In the heart of Foggy Bottom, inspectors closed 3 restaurants in one stop at The Shops at 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.
Johnny Rockets
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Mr. Balbuena said, "I went straight to the health department, got my card, show him my card, he reopened the store."
Paul Bakery
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When Paul Bakery management showed us around the facility, the refrigerator was cooling at a safe 40 degrees.
Inspectors also cited the bakery for not having a DC certified food manager.
A manager said his employee was renewing his food safety manager's card and he was under the impression he had five business, not 5 calendar days, to comply.
Cone E Island
In the same shopping area, inspectors also closed Cone E Island ice cream citing no thermometer for the ice cream freezer and no DC certified food manager.
The shift manager we spoke with said, "It was just like a managerial thing and once he got that certified, he was retested and once that got reissued, we opened the next day."
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CHICAGO - Future Hall-of-Famer Jim Thome has joined the Chicago White Sox as a special assistant to Rick Hahn, the club's senior vice president/general manager.
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Thome batted .276 (2,328-8,422) with 612 home runs, 1,699 RBI, 1,583 runs scored and 1,747 walks in 2,543 games over 22 major-league seasons with Cleveland (1991-2002, '11), Philadelphia (2003-05, '12), the White Sox (2006-09), Los Angeles-NL (2009), Minnesota (2010-11) and Baltimore (2012).
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Young onset dementia
When symptoms of dementia start before the age of 65, we use the term young onset dementia. Young onset dementia accounts for an estimated 2-8% of all dementia cases. While rare, 16,000 Canadians under the age of 65 are living with young onset dementia. A dementia diagnosis is difficult for anyone, but comes with unique challenges when you're in your 40s or 50s, such as:
- still working at the time of diagnosis
- having dependent children or parents living at home
- having major financial commitments (mortgage, tuition fees, etc.)
- still being very physically fit
- being very aware of your symptoms
- having difficulties getting an accurate diagnosis
- finding it hard to accept losing skills
- not being able to find information, support, financial aid and services adapted for younger people with dementia
What to do if you have young onset dementia
Get a diagnosis
It can take a long time to diagnose dementia in younger people, mostly because there is a lack of awareness that dementia can happen in younger people. Take note of your symptoms if you suspect that something might be wrong and see your doctor right away. Here's a helpful tool to help you prepare for your doctor's visit.
Plan ahead
Think about talking to a financial advisor and a lawyer. Be part of the decision-making about your financial and legal affairs, while you are able to make decisions and sign legal papers. Make sure someone you trust is in control of your money. A power of attorney will authorize someone to legally make decisions on your behalf once you are no longer able to.
Reassure your children
If you have children, tell them you're still here for them and that you understand how this can be difficult. They may feel they are not getting the support and stability they need. Assure them that the changes they are seeing in you are due to the disease and that no one is to blame. Consider talking to your children's teachers - they may be able to provide additional support.
Find activities to do together and encourage open communication. If possible, engage your children by letting them help and support you. See more about helping children and teens.
If you're still working
First, research your employee insurance and health care benefits, and find out if they offer an Employee Assistance program. Once you know about your options, consider talking to your employer about your diagnosis. Discuss the possibility of reducing hours and/or tasks and adapting your job duties. Consider retiring early and start to plan for a time when you cannot work.
If you own your own business, think about its future and succession planning. You can also contact Services Canada to find out if you are eligible for Disability Benefits under the Canada Pension Plan.
Be safe
If you're unsure about your driving abilities, start thinking about safer ways to get around.Stay independent longer by adapting your home for your changing abilities. An occupational therapist may be able to help – find one near you.
Living with young onset dementia can be very challenging, but help is available. Contact your local Society to find out about services for people with young onset and resources available in your community.
Share your story
Help reduce the stigma around dementia by talking openly about the changes and challenges that come with living with young onset dementia. Let your friends, colleagues and family members know that people with dementia still want to be a part of their communities and live life to the fullest.
Live well
Make healthy lifestyle choices to feel better and potentially slow the progression of the disease. Stay connected, eat well, be active, reduce stress, avoid harmful habits like smoking, get enough sleep and meet regularly with your doctor for checkups and to explore treatment options.
More information and resources
Living with Young Onset Dementia: Let's have a conversation!
People living with young onset dementia face unique challenges. In the webinar below, you will hear directly from two women living with young onset dementia, about their experiences working with the health care system, including their challenges and successes.
This webinar is facilitated by Dr Carole Cohen, geriatric psychiatrist, featuring Faye Forbes and Mary Beth Wighton, and brought to you by brainXchange in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Canada and the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).
The importance of Social programs for People Living with Young Onset Dementia
This webinar touches on the importance of recreational programs specifically designed for people living with Young Onset Dementia (YOD) and their care partners. Participants learned about The Alzheimer Society of Toronto's Boomers Club, a weekly social program for YOD and their families and explore ways to support the unique needs of this population.
This webinar is facilitated by Romina Oliverio, Community Partnerships Manager at the Alzheimer Society of Toronto, and brought to you by brainXchange in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Canada and the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).
Fact sheets
- Early Onset Dementia: Advice for Caregivers, National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly
- Early Onset Dementia: Advice for Couples, National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly
- When Dementia is in the House: Advice for Parents, National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly
- I have younger onset dementia: Information and ideas for you to consider, and types of support, Dementia Australia
- Young-onset dementia, Alzheimer's Society UK
- What is young onset dementia? Alzheimer Society UK
- Younger people with dementia: Living well with your diagnosis, NHS Health Scotland
Other links
- Young Onset Dementia: Facilitators Resource Manual – People with young onset dementia and their families often face unique challenges. Check out this user-friendly guide to help you create clubs and groups designed especially for them!
- Young onset dementia: An inspirational guide for people like us with early-stage memory loss – This guide was created by people living with young onset dementia for people living with young onset dementia. It offers coping tips and strategies for adapting to the challenges and changes associated with young onset dementia.
- Resources for young carers
- Young Onset Dementia Information Gap Analysis: Executive Summary
- Young Onset Dementia Information Gap Analysis: Report
- Frontotemporal dementia


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The myth in regards to the birth of Zeus dictates that he was born in the Dikteo Andro Cave on the plateau Lasithi. The first traces of life are dated to the Neolithic period whereas in 2700 B.C. tribes from Africa and Asia invaded the area. The creation and peak of Minoan civilization followed until its destruction in 1700 B.C. Afterwards the Doris came to the island around 1450. The ancient cities of Lato, Olous, Ierapetra and Presos reached their peak. In 66 A.D. the area was conquered by the Romans and in 393 it was annexed to the Byzantine state while in 824 it was occupied by Arabs and Saracenes and finally Venetian and Turkish rule followed.
The inhabitants of the prefecture of Lasithi resisted the German army during occupation in the Second World War, writing their own epic, of which historic monuments are a witness of.
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In a foray into the retirement marketplace, J.P. Morgan Asset Management announced Wednesday that it has developed a way for defined-contribution plan participants to engage more actively with their plans while saving more by gaining exposure to sophisticated alternative investments.
Called Core Menu Innovation (CMI), the newly created J.P. Morgan approach replaces "overly complex and redundant fund line-ups" with a menu of just three investment portfolios, according to the company's news release. One portfolio consists of diversified stock strategies, another one uses diversified bond strategies and a third one invests in diversified cash alternatives.
"We think it's a significant change. We think it's a radical change from the core menus available today," said Michael Falcon, J.P. Morgan Asset Management's head of retirement, at a media breakfast in New York.
The CMI developers expect the approach to start being implemented by defined-contribution plan sponsors in 2012. During the development stage, J.P. Morgan spoke with dozens of DC sponsors and interviewed plan participants to learn what they want in a retirement plan.
Mega-fund DC clients with plans of $500 million or greater liked the idea of reducing the number of investment plan options down to three, but CMI's introduction has been slowed by clients' questions about fiduciary responsibility, said John Galateria, head of Defined Contribution Investment Solutions.
"But they immediately get it," Galateria added. "Investors are overwhelmed by too much choice."
In a written statement addressing clients' fiduciary concerns, Galateria said: "As the investment and regulatory landscape has become drastically more complex, plan sponsors are increasingly under scrutiny to ensure they fulfill their legal obligations and act with responsibility for the prudence and suitability of participant investment decisions. The investment thinking and participant research driving CMI is aligned to support those fiduciary responsibilities."
In its research supporting the CMI, J.P. Morgan found that the average 401(k) plan's core investment line-up includes at least 18 fund choices.
"When participants are presented with complex or too many choices, they are most likely to make no choice at all or an uneducated choice—either of which leaves them inadequately diversified and overexposed to individual investment strategies," according to the news release.
Anne Lester, portfolio manager for J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Global Multi-Asset Group, said at the breakfast that the CMI's three core menus free up DC plan design to migrate from many retail-branded funds to fewer institutional products.
For example, the core menu that invests in a diversified stock portfolio would include large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap U.S. equities along with real estate investment trusts and international and emerging market equity.
Lester acknowledged that DC plan participants may not understand the risks that come from more sophisticated alternatives, but she said J.P. Morgan developed its core managed portfolios to achieve better risk-adjusted returns.
"If you oversimplify things, you're actually making it harder to get there," Lester said, adding that one plan participant in a focus group said she used an "eenie, meenie, miny, mo" approach to picking the funds in her DC retirement plan—a sure way to take on unintended risk.
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Well, I have to say it's almost a little embarrassing to be back after such a long, unannounced hiatus. I think that the time has come again to shift gears slightly to keep this blog going and relevant, as my experimentation is becoming a bit less frequent due to an overall increase in the complexity of the work. More on that in a future post.
In the past months as I have mentioned I have been increasingly interested in the possibilities of kind of free improvisation. As I have been reading and thinking and opening my ears this past year, I have come to a nearly complete acceptance of all sounds. I am finding music everywhere now. Just being alive and walking around has become a new and exciting experience, as now I'm always looking for interesting sounds. Of course, now I'm tempted to carry a recording device constantly to try to capture these things, but I'm wary of the obsession that could become, and the possibly frustrating results.
In thinking recently about what makes sounds acceptable to myself and others, I have been fascinated by people's approach to feedback. Well deployed feedback during the swell to crescendo in a rock show, can make people ecstatic, whilst the unintentional feedback of a microphone on a stage at a seminar, can make people recoil – and even think the speaker a hack for somehow not being able to control the main tool of his trade!
I think what makes most people adverse to, or even afraid of feedback, is what excites me about it – it's unpredictable behavior. In a way, working with feedback is like sculpting. There's a real physical component to it that can be shaped and manipulated if one is careful… but there is always the danger of it collapsing in on itself into uncontrollable high-pitched squeal. But is the squeal so bad really? Or are we just convinced to think that it's bad by the behavior of those around us in response to it.
I decided last saturday, that I was going to set up a stereo-feedback system and record myself basically wrestling with it. Sometimes trying to control it, but other times letting it loose and then dealing with the results. I set up two amps about four feet apart, facing eachother. I connected two contact mics one to a thin brass bowl, one to a cup made of tin-foil, and plugged them into a couple overdrive pedals and to my mixer. I ran lines out of the mixer, left and right, one to each amp, and another set, out to my recording device. I hit record and started grappling. Through the course of the improvisation, I tested various movements, treatments, etc. Due to the system being stereo, I had the option of panning feedback between the two amplifiers. With the fuzz boxes, I had various levels of overdrive to experiment with. So I played, and tested, and pushed, and pulled, and waved my arms around, feeling the sounds actually bouncing off my hands, shaping them by redirecting sounds with other vessels or body parts.
Most importantly for me, I faced the squeal head on. Sometimes I would sit there and let it burn my ears for a minute, like hot sauce on the tongue, looking inside it for some kind of aspect I had missed before. Looking for what was bad about it, and what was good.
The improvisation lasted around 25 minutes, which was a surprise to me, as I would have guessed more like 10 minutes if you'd asked. The results range from droney, to gurgling, to ear-cleaningly shrill, but there's something else. I don't know if it's my continued intrigue with this substance, but I can't stop listening to this recording. In fact, I think I may actually release it in some form. I have been thinking about starting some kind of net-label, and this may be a good first release.
Anyway, for now, you get it for free (and probably for the foreseeable future, as I'm not at all into the idea of depriving people of experience). Play this loud and on a stereo if you can, at least for the first go. There are some pretty beautiful timbres and sonorities in here if you are willing to look. The sound is physical, so walk about in the room while you listen, It enhances your interaction with the piece. Please enjoy!


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Earth from Space: Further break-up of Antarctic ice shelf
This animation, comprised of images acquired by Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR), highlights the rapid loss of ice on the Wilkins Ice Shelf from 26 February to 7 March 2008.
Between 28 and 29 February, an area of about 400 sq km disintegrated into large and small icebergs within 24 hours. The break-up was preceded by the formation of a new rift appearing first in Envisat ASAR and in Japan's ALOS PALSAR imagery from July 2007.
As a result of the recent collapse, the remaining shelf, which totals about 14 500 sq km, is now only supported by a 6 km strip of ice. This strip is already rifted and during the recent break-up event the rift was connected to previously existing rifts on the shelf.
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a broad plate of floating ice south of South America on the Antarctic Peninsula. Since the ice shelf is already floating, this event will not cause a rise in sea level. However, ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula are sandwiched by extraordinarily raising surface air temperatures and a warming ocean, making them important indicators for on-going climate change.
Thousands of years of accumulated and compacted snow on the Antarctic central plateau have formed a mighty ice sheet which flows under gravity towards the coastal plane. Along the coast the ice gradually floats on the sea – to form massive ledges known as ice shelves. But as the temperature has increased, several ice shelves have broken up and disintegrated.
Within days of its launch, Envisat captured the disintegration of the Larsen-B ice shelf in Antarctica on 18 March 2002. Scientists estimate Larsen-B had been stable since the last ice age 12 000 years ago.
ASAR is able to produce high-quality images of icebergs and ice sheets and is capable of differentiating between different types of ice because it is able to see through clouds and local darkness – conditions often found in polar areas.
These ASAR images were acquired as part of ESA's support to the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008, a large worldwide science programme focused on the Arctic and Antarctic. Matthias Braun from the Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces, Bonn University, and Angelika Humbert from the Institute of Geophysics, Münster University, accessed, processed and analysed these ESA images as part of their daily IPY monitoring activities on the state of the ice sheet.
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ZTE Nubia Z5 which will be going to release on December 26 actual images leaked with Benchmark Score.A leaked picture of the ZTE Grand Nubia Z5 revealed the model number of phone as the ZTE L98?while we unable to find the last number as that number is blurred.
The Full frontal of phone is almost same as that of HTC one smartphone and according to sources,ZTE Nubia Z5 will be the world's thinnest Full HD Smartphone with only 7.6mm thickness.
The phone has been designed by Italian Designer Stefano giovannoni
Specifications of phone are:
- 1.5 GHz quad-core APQ8064 QualcommSnapdragon S4 Pro processor
- 5 Inch Full HD Display with 440ppi
- 13Mpx Camera
- 7.6mm thin
- Back has dual speakers
- Unibody Chasis
- Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean
- 2500mAh Battery
In the benchmark score,ZTE Nubia Z5 is at top position by scoring 20765,which proves that phone is truely a winner.According to our sources the price of the phone will be around $500.There's no world whether the phone is available outside mainland China,But we may expect this phone will be released worldwide as ZTE is now the world's fourth largest smartphone manufacturer and ZTE wants to continue their momentum,which made them world's fourth largest smartphone manufacturer


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The Jew Hater
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation
In August 1978, an enterprising French journalist, Philippe Ganier-Raymond, tracked down a nearly forgotten eighty-one-year-old French exile in Madrid named Louis Darquier de Pellepoix and cajoled him into conversation. Ganier-Raymond had brought along a tape recorder concealed in a fan.
The resulting interview was published in the French newsweekly L'Express on October 28, 1978, under a sensational title: "At Auschwitz They Gassed Only Lice." Louis Darquier (the "de Pellepoix" was fake, like a great deal else in his life) had been the Vichy French government's second commissioner for Jewish affairs between May 1942 and February 1944.
Darquier's unrepentant diatribe was, in the words of historian Henry Rousso, a "trigger"1 that set off one of those periodic national shouting matches that have, since the early 1970s, driven forward an enduring French fascination with the Vichy regime. Darquier's outrageous words had multiple effects. They helped place French anti-Semitism at the center of debates about Vichy, a position which that subject has never lost, at some cost to historiographical balance. They gave a decisive boost to the efforts of French lawyer and Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld to bring some responsible Vichy French officials to justice, in formal recognition of Vichy's complicity in the deportation of Jews from France.
In the aftermath of the Darquier scandal, France became the only major participant in World War II other than Germany to prosecute any of its own citizens for crimes against humanity. In 1979, Jean Leguay, the representative of the Vichy chief of police in the occupied zone, was the first of several senior French civil servants to be indicted on this charge. Leguay had helped organize the notorious arrest by French police and internment under dreadful conditions of 12,884 Jewish men, women, and children in the Vélodrome d'Hiver, a Paris bicycle stadium, on July 16 and 17, 1942, whence they were deported to Auschwitz. Leguay died in 1989, before his case came to trial, but his boss René Bousquet, Vichy police chief, whose direct responsibility for the Vél d'Hiv arrests Darquier had underlined, was indicted in 1991.
Darquier's interview finally gave several French polemicists, led by the University of Lyon literature professor Robert Faurisson, the opportunity to make their case, in major newspapers, that the Final Solution never happened. This intensified the debate over whether Darquier's brand of anti-Semitism is something permanent and deep in French culture that persists today.
In London, the editor and writer Carmen Callil was already tracking Darquier, for she had been treated by the Jungian analyst Anne Darquier, who had died of alcohol and sleeping pills. Soon after Ann Darquier's death, Carmen Callil was startled to see a monocled bully with the same name as her friend in Marcel Ophuls's brilliant 1972 documentary film about Vichy, The Sorrow and the Pity. Could the monstrous Louis Darquier de Pellepoix be related to Anne? Carmen Callil set off on a quest that became a consuming passion, to find out everything about this talented young woman and about the parents who had deserted…
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The Rhine has long been the at heart of life for the people along its banks. On the Rhine Cycle Route, you can explore the history and culture of the river from its source in the Alps to its estuary on the North Sea coast.
The importance of the Rhine is regularly documented along its riverbanks in the form of castles, fortresses, churches and historical towns and cities. Many of these are on the list of UNESCO World Heritage. The Rhine is also a major commercial transport route in Europe. Dozens of docks handle its busy shipping traffic. The picturesque Middle Rhine Valley, home to the famous Loreley rock, is one of many scenic stretches along the route. As well as the delicious local cuisine, you can enjoy wine made in the vineyards on either side of the valley and a host of cultural attractions.
Terrain: flat, family-friendly route along the banks of the Rhine. Predominantly asphalt, some sections paved or on crushed brick/stone. Mostly free of cars.
Scenery: the route follows the Rhine from its source in the Alps to its estuary in the North Sea, crossing a huge variety of landscapes from mountains to plains.
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With respect to applying directly through Payoneer, please explain which US regulations prevent United States residence from signing up directly with Payoneer. On top of that, how are those same US regulations over-looked if I decide to sign up with a website that pays through Payoneer ? ... Do the regulations just vanish or is it one day I wake up and my account and earnings are frozen ?
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Rural Development Acting Under Secretary Doug O'Brien today announced that USDA is accepting applications for grants to help rural public television broadcasters complete the transition to digital signals. Funding is available through the Department's Public Television Station Digital Transition Grant Program.
Today's announcement of almost $2.8 million in available funding is part of USDA's continued support of telecommunications and broadcast services in rural areas. Funds can be used to acquire, lease or install equipment or software necessary to complete the digital transition.
For example, in 2011, Northern Minnesota Public Television Inc. was awarded a grant to complete the digital transition of KAWE-TV's transmitter in Bemidji as well as the purchase of digital production equipment. The project ensures that the benefits of digital TV are extended to all of the station's customers in northern and central Minnesota, including five Native American reservations.
The Federal Communications Commission required television broadcasters to convert transmitters to digital signals in 2009, but the deadline for analog-to-digital conversion of translators is September 1, 2015. As a result, many rural stations have not completed full digital transition of their stations across all equipment. Continuation of reliable public television service for all rural residents remains a priority for many rural broadcasters.
The deadline for applications is August 30. For additional information, see Page 42487 of the July 16 Federal Register, or go to http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-07-16/pdf/2013-16953.pdf.
President Obama's plan for rural America has brought about historic investment and resulted in stronger rural communities. Under the President's leadership, these investments in housing, community facilities, businesses and infrastructure have empowered rural America to continue leading the way – strengthening America's economy, small towns and rural communities. USDA's investments in rural communities support the rural way of life that stands as the backbone of our American values. President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack are committed to a smarter use of Federal resources to foster sustainable economic prosperity and ensure the government is a strong partner for businesses, entrepreneurs and working families in rural communities.
USDA, through its Rural Development mission area, has a portfolio of programs designed to improve the economic stability of rural communities, businesses, residents, farmers and ranchers and improve the quality of life in rural America.
USDA has made a concerted effort to deliver results for the American people, even as USDA implements sequestration – the across-the-board budget reductions mandated under terms of the Budget Control Act. USDA has already undertaken historic efforts since 2009 to save more than $828 million in taxpayer funds through targeted, common-sense budget reductions. These reductions have put USDA in a better position to carry out its mission, while implementing sequester budget reductions in a fair manner that causes as little disruption as possible.


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I know that this an old thread, but if anyone needs carb boots for a 750A, I am making them. I looked for new boots for a long time, mine were cracked and no amount of softening was going to fix that, besides they were rock hard and impossible to get on. After looking for a viable source of some kind of replacements, I came up empty handed. I decided to make my own and have enough extras to sell a few sets. If you're interested, send me a pm and I'll send you some pictures and onfo............Paul
A while back, someone posted about this using some home made concoction that included "mint oil" or something like that. I tried to search for it last night and came up empty. Who posted this?
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Ham & Asparagus Puff Pancake
Turn any morning into a special occasion by serving this fluffy and flavorful puff pancake filled with hearty ham and tender asparagus.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Greendale, Wisconsin
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes6-8 servings
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon white pepper
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 3/4 pound (1-1/2 cups) chopped fully cooked ham
- 1/2 pound fresh asparagus spears, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- Preheat oven to 425°. Place the butter in a 10-in. ovenproof skillet; place in oven 3-4 minutes or until melted. In a bowl, beat flour, eggs, milk, salt and pepper until smooth. Pour the mixture into prepared skillet. Bake 22-25 minutes or until puffed and golden brown.
- Meanwhile, in a saucepan, melt butter. Add ham and asparagus; cook over medium-high heat 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in flour until blended. Gradually stir in milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 3 minutes. Reduce heat; stir in sour cream, lemon juice and pepper sauce.
- Spoon into center of puff pancake. Sprinkle with cheese. Cut into wedges; serve immediately.
Nutrition FactsNutrition Facts: 1 serving (1 each) equals 309 calories, 19 g fat (10 g saturated fat), 168 mg cholesterol, 783 mg sodium, 18 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 15 g protein.
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This has become one of our family favorites, and gotten us to eat asparagus! I leave out the hot pepper sauce, but still a wonderful lemony sauce.
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Want Better Security? Get Windows 8
The new OS and Internet Explorer 10 protect applications and limit the fallout of exploits.
Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 may prove to be Microsoft's most secure OS and browser to date. The company began repairing its dismal reputation for security with Windows 7; this latest version takes significant steps to provide a more secure operating environment for PCs. Our advice? Upgrade desktops and laptops as soon as you can, especially if you're among the 20% of respondents to our latest InformationWeek Windows 8 Survey still clinging to Windows XP -- a bad plan for multiple reasons.
Leading the list of improvements driving us to make this recommendation: enhanced application controls via a platform named AppContainer, in which Microsoft borrows a page from the mobile OS security playbook by forcing application developers to explicitly define what an app is allowed to do. Microsoft also introduces or enhances other security features, including a robust anti-malware package that comes standard with the OS -- and must be giving antivirus vendors agita -- and a new feature to make passwords easier to remember but harder for attackers to crack. Read full story on InformationWeek
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Building a Search Statement
Reviewing what you've learned
The easiest way to build a search statement is to:
- identify your main search terms
- get rid of the "little" words and "fuzzy" words
- insert the Boolean Operator AND in between the remaining words
- put phrases in quotation marks
- use the truncation symbol where appropriate
Here are examples of basic search statements (Notice the * (asterisk) has been used as a truncation symbol.):
- pet* and therapy and elderly
- "health care" and child*
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== virsh XML commands ==
== virsh XML commands ==
'''net-edit''' -
'''net-edit''' - XML configuration of a virtual network. net-edit launches editor defined in ''$EDITOR'' environment variable passing it temporary copy of the XML configuration file for the virtual network. When user editing, net-edit temporary file for and errors and the virtual network.
Usage: net-edit [--network] <network-identifier>
Usage: net-edit [--network] <network-identifier>
'''net-create''' - Creates a running transient virtual network. Command takes one argument,
'''net-create''' - Creates a running transient virtual network. Command takes one argument, full path to XML file network settings.
Usage: net-create [--file] <file-name>
Usage: net-create [--file] <file-name>
'''net-define''' - Creates a persistent virtual network, without starting it, from given XML file. To start network use net-autostart and/or net-start.
'''net-define''' - Creates a persistent virtual network, without starting it, from given XML file. To start network use net-autostart and/or net-start.
Usage: net-define [--file] <file-name>
Usage: net-define [--file] <file-name>
Revision as of 13:25, 20 May 2014
- 1 Virtual Networking
- 1.1 Virtual network switches
- 1.3 Other virtual network switch routing types
- 1.4 Routed mode
- 1.5 Isolated mode
- 1.6 The default configuration
- 1.7 Restricting virtual network traffic to a specific interface
- 1.8 Examples of common scenarios
- 1.9 The Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)
- 1.10 Basic command line usage for virtual networks
- 2 Advanced
Virtual Networking
How the virtual networks used by guests work
Networking using libvirt is generally fairly simple, and in this section you'll learn the concepts you need to be effective with it.
Also please bear in mind that advanced users can change important parts of how the network layer operates, far past the concepts outlined here. This section will be enough to get you up and running though. :)
Virtual network switches
Firstly, libvirt uses the concept of a virtual network switch.
This is a simple software construction on a host server, that your virtual machines "plug in" to, and direct their traffic through.
On a Linux host server, the virtual network switch shows up as a network interface.
The default one, created when the libvirt daemon is first installed and started, shows up as virbr0.
If you're familiar with the ifconfig command, you can use that to show it:
$ ifconfig virbr0 virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1A:D4:92:CF:FD:17 inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:3097 (3.0 KiB)
If you're more familiar with the ip command instead, this is how it looks:
$ ip addr show virbr0 3: virbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/ether 1a:d4:92:cf:fd:17 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.122.1/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global virbr0
Showing it in context, with the other network interfaces on the host:
$ ifconfig -a lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:892 (892.0 b) TX bytes:892 (892.0 b) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:21:43:33:30 inet addr:10.10.10.190 Bcast:10.10.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21b:21ff:fe43:3330/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1942 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:829 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:985906 (962.7 KiB) TX bytes:142753 (139.4 KiB) Memory:fbea0000-fbec0000 virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1A:D4:92:CF:FD:17 inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:3097 (3.0 KiB)
$ ip addr show 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:1b:21:43:33:30 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.10.10.190/16 brd 10.10.255.255 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe43:3330/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: virbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/ether 1a:d4:92:cf:fd:17 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.122.1/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global virbr0
Network Address Translation (NAT)
By default, a virtual network switch operates in NAT mode (using IP masquerading rather than SNAT or DNAT).
This means any guests connected through it, use the host IP address for communication to the outside world. Computers external to the host can't initiate communications to the guests inside, when the virtual network switch is operating in NAT mode.
WARNING - The NAT is set up using iptables rules. Be careful if you change these while the virtual switch is running. If something goes wrong with the iptables rules, your virtual machines may stop communicating properly.
Each virtual network switch can be given a range of IP addresses, to be provided to guests through DHCP.
Libvirt uses a program, dnsmasq, for this. An instance of dnsmasq is automatically configured and started by libvirt for each virtual network switch needing it.
Other virtual network switch routing types
Virtual network switches can operate in two other modes, instead of NAT:
Routed mode
With routed mode, the virtual switch is connected to the physical host LAN, passing guest network traffic back and forth without using NAT.
The virtual switch sees the IP addresses in each packet, using that information when deciding what to do.
In this mode all virtual machines are in a subnet routed through the virtual switch. This on its own is not sufficient. because no other hosts on the physical network know this subnet exists or how to reach it. It is thus necessary to configure routers in the physical network (e.g. using a static route).
If you are familiar with the ISO 7 layer network model, this mode operates on layer 3, the Network layer.
Isolated mode
In this mode, guests connected to the virtual switch can communicate with each other, and with the host. However, their traffic will not pass outside of the host, nor can they receive traffic from outside the host.
The use of dnsmasq in this mode is possible and in fact needed since it is used to answer DHCP requests. However, even if this network is isolated from any physical network, DNS names are still resolved. Therefore one can get into the situation where DNS is resolved but guests are unable to ping.
The default configuration
When the libvirt daemon is first installed on a server, it comes with an initial virtual network switch configuration. This virtual switch is in NAT mode, and is used by installed guests for communication. (ie to the outside network)
The libvirt daemon puts this configuration into effect when it starts up, so if you have the libvirt daemon set to start automatically on each boot it should always be present.
If the libvirt daemon is only started manually instead, this is when the default virtual network switch will become available on the host.
Restricting virtual network traffic to a specific interface
As stated above, a virtual network can be connected to a physical netwok. Its traffic might be restricted to use a specific interface, e.g. on a system with eth0/1/2 one can limit the virtual network to use eth0 only. However, this only makes sense in routed and nat modes. The restriction can be defined in XML (dev="" attribute) or in virt-manager when creating a new virtual network.
Examples of common scenarios
Routed mode
Suppose, there is a network where a node or bunch of nodes need to be in special subnetwork for let's say security reasons. This is called DMZ - Demilitarized Zone. How this networks look like is shown in the picture:
Hosts in DMZ provide services both to LAN hosts and WAN. Therefore, they need to be accessible by other computers on the intranet and also by computers in the internet. Since it wouldn't be secure to have them on LAN (attacker could access LAN after successful attack), they are in special subnet. In addition, it is obvious they can't be in NAT or isolated mode.
Other scenario where routed mode is suitable is this. Consider virtual server hosting company. Each host have two physical network connections. One is for general management, accounting etc. The other is for the virtual machines to use. Each virtual machine has its own public IP address. Hosts however use private IPs, because virtual machine management is allowed to company administrators only. Whole scenario is shown in the picture:
Again, it is obvious virtual network switch can't operate neither NAT nor isolated mode. Special case of this is another example. Host has public IP and virtual machines have static public IPs. But one can't use bridged networking, since provider accept only packets from the MAC address of the host. Whole situation is shown in the picture:
NAT mode
This is the default mode and requires no additional configuration at all. It can be used anywhere where there is no need for 'being seen on the network'. For instance, a web developer who optimizes web pages for different operating systems and web browsers. Or any other developer, who need to try things out in different configurations, environments, or operating systems.
Isolated mode
An example where this mode would be useful is running simulations in the security field, where the spread of malware is being watched. Virtual machines can communicate with each other, but since they are cut off from the physical network, no real damage can be done.
The Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)
In virt-manager is possibility to view and manage virtual networks. Information available through virt-manager can be seen in this image:
- Need to include which versions of virt-manager have this (ie from 0.x.y onwards)
- Also need to list which drivers support this. ie qemu+ssh:// might, whereas qemu:// might not (that's an example only, but recent quick testing showed up some unexpected things here)
Creating a virtual network
Creating virtual networks is easy when using the Virtual Machine Manager GUIT.
The following pages take you through the steps for each of the main network types:
- Creating a NAT Virtual Network
- Creating a Routed Virtual Network
- Creating an Isolated Virtual Network
Starting a virtual network
In virt-manager by clicking Start Network, or in virsh net-start. This command takes one mandatory argument, the network name. When starting a virtual network, libvirt will automatically set iptables and dnsmasq. However, transient networks are created and started at once.
Stopping a virtual network
Stopping virtual network can be done by clicking the appropriate button in Virtual Manager or by net-destroy. If it is a transient network being stopped, it is also removed.
Removing a virtual network
Again, removing a virtual network is possible in Virtual Manager or in virsh by net-undefine. Please keep in mind, only inactive networks can be removed.
Changing a virtual network
Making changes is only available via the virsh console tool. 'The 'net-edit command allows the user to edit the XML configuration of a virtual network.
- Stats collection in virt-manager
- Need to include which versions of virt-manager have this (ie from 0.x.y onwards)
- Implications of stats collection (performance impact?)
- How to enable/disable collection of stats in virt-manager
- Display of stats
Basic command line usage for virtual networks
Introduces the basic virsh net-* commands for virtual network management. Here, the <network-identifier> stands for either network name or network UUID.
net-list - List the virtual networks libvirt is aware of, along with some basic status and autostart flag information. Used without parameters it shows active virtual networks only.
Usage: net-list [--all] [--inactive].
net-start - Starts an inactive, previously defined virtual network.
Usage: net-start [--network] <network-identifier>
net-destroy - Stops an active network and deallocates all resources used by it, e.g. stopping appropiate dnsmasq process, releasing the bridge. The virtual network being stopped can be persistent or transient.
Usage: net-destroy [--network] <network-identifier>
net-undefine - Removes an inactive presistent virtual network from the libvirt configuration.
Usage: net-undefine [--network] <network-identifier>
net-autostart - Marks or unmarks automatic startup of a persistent virtual network. Networks with the autostart flag enabled are started whenever libvirt daemon starts. To disable autostart use the --disable switch.
Usage: net-autostart [--network] <network-identifier> [--disable]
net-name - Returns the network name corresponding to the given UUID.
Usage: net-name [--network] <network-uuid>
net-uuid - Returns the UUID corresponding to the given network-name.
Usage: net-uuid [--network] <network-name>
net-dumpxml - Outputs the XML configuration for a virtual network.
Usage: net-dumpxml [--network] <network-identifier>
Further dnsmasq info
- dnsmasq does more than just plain DNS forwarding. It also includes the entries from /etc/hosts (on the virtualization host) as replies to DNS queries. This is a useful way to easily create local DNS entries, or override upstream DNS ones.
Persistent vs non-persistent virtual networks
Libvirt allows a virtual network to be persistent or transient. A transient network, once created (using net-create) lasts until destroyed or the libvirt daemon restarts.
The alternative is a persistent network (net-define) which lasts until explicitly destroyed. Persistent networks, in addition, can be autostarted. This means when the libvirt daemon is starting up it will also run the virtual network.
XML format
The root element required for all virtual networks is named 'network' and has no attributes. The first elements provide basic metadata about the virtual network.
<network> <name>default</name> <uuid>f01bd721-af12-4d20-9cf2-390c7375b17c</uuid> ...
- name - The content provides the name for the virtual network. The name should contain only alpha-numeric characters and is required to be unique within a single host, because it is used for the filename for storing the persistent configuration file.
- uuid - The content provides a globally unique identifier for the virtual network. The format must be RFC 4122 compilant. If not specified when defining or creating a new network, a random UUID is generated.
The next two elements defines the virtual network's connectivity to the physical network (if any).
... <forward dev='eth0' mode='nat'/> <bridge name='virbr0' stp='on' delay='0' /> ...
- forward - This element is optional. When not defined, the virtual network will work in isolated mode. However, inclusion of this element indicates that the virtual network is to be connected to the physical network. The element can have two attributes, 'mode' and 'dev'. The first one specifies the mode in which will the virtual bridge operates. Allowed values are 'nat' and 'route'. The second attribute is used whenever one wants to restrict forwarding to the named device only. If no attributes are set, NAT forwarding will be used for connectivity. Firewall rules will allow forwarding to any other network device.
- bridge - The 'name' attribute of this element defines the name of a bridge device which will be used to construct the virtual network. The next two attributes specify whether the Spanning Tree Protocol is used on the defined bridge to prevent bridge loops and forward delay.
The final set of elements define the IPv4 address range available and optionally enable DHCP.
... <ip address="192.168.122.1" netmask="255.255.255.0"> <dhcp> <range start="192.168.122.100" end="192.168.122.254" /> <host mac="00:16:3e:e2:ed" name="foo.example.com" ip="192.168.122.10" /> </dhcp> </ip> ...
- ip - The attributes of this element define an IPv4 address for the bridge and the subnet.
- dhcp - This optional element enables DHCP services on the virtual network. It can have one or more 'range' child elements.
- range - Two attributes specify the boundaries of a pool of IPv4 addresses to be provided to DHCP clients. The whole range must lie within the scope of the network defined on the parent 'ip' element.
- host - This element is optional and may occur zero or more times within the 'dhcp' element. It is used for static DHCP, when one wants to always assign the same IP address and name to some interface.
Location of XML files on the host
XML definition files of presistent virtual networks are stored in the /etc/libvirt/<hypervisor>/networks/ directory. In addition, if the network is marked as autostart, the symbolic link to its XML file is created under the autostart/ subdirectory.
virsh XML commands
net-edit - Edits the XML configuration of a virtual network. net-edit launches the editor defined in $EDITOR environment variable passing it a temporary copy of the XML configuration file for the virtual network. When the user finishes editing, net-edit checks the temporary file for changes and errors and redefines the virtual network.
Usage: net-edit [--network] <network-identifier>
net-create - Creates a running transient virtual network. Command takes one argument, the full path to an XML file containing network settings.
Usage: net-create [--file] <file-name>
net-define - Creates a persistent virtual network, without starting it, from the given XML file. To start the network use net-autostart and/or net-start.
Usage: net-define [--file] <file-name>
brctl commands
The bridge control commands (brctl) should definitely be covered, as they're used to understand how the network topology is put together.
Also, some people will want to know how to set up their own bridges manually, rather than have libvirt do it.
This should probably go into it's own sub-section, as there's a decent amount of topic in it to cover properly.
Another idea might be to read some manual page about brctl.
NOTE - When covering the brctl addbr command, specifically point out that a random MAC address will be displayed for it if ifconfig is used, even though the bridge interface doesn't actually have a MAC address. It is important, as it's misleading and can confuse a person that is wondering "how/why ARP is propagating through this, when it has a MAC address? ARP isn't supposed to propagate..." (this caught me out). When the bridge has its first network interface assigned to it, it will then use that interface's MAC address from then on. (It only uses the MAC of the first interface, not of any further interfaces plugged in).


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