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By Shadespyre
Hello Reaper friends! You might remember I did a whole tribe of Hill Giants on a display board, with hex bases?
This is my follow up to that, this time: Stone Giants.
Errrm, it all got a bit out of hand, and I'd LOVE some input from you all, please
This is where I'm at after a week and I'm a bit stuck tbh.
I think I need to decide more about what the "finish" will look like before I go a lot further. Once I cover that foam with more than paint it's going to be harder to make changes. I'm thinking of sort of "cladding" it in pieces of slate, with sculpted bits / groundwork in the gaps?
I'd also love to hear suggestions for other miniatures and features to add to the scene to break up those big open rocky spaces. Current extra bits and bobs are just there for a sense of scale and how extra minis might "interrupt" or "enhance" the scene.
Some next steps though:
- cork around the hexes on the platforms for the bases to fit into
- some sort of "door frame"
- "box in" the sides (which are cut out of a continuing mountainside, in my head at least)
Please, rain your ideas and encouragements upon me!
By MoonglowMinis
Help! I'm hating this paintjob.
I grabbed this demilich thinking it'd be a fun and easy paintjob. But everything I do makes me hate it more.
I was trying to go for a green flame look, so yellow on the inside, and gradually darker green highlights on the outside. These were drybrushed and then cleaned up by hand. I think this is where the problem started because it's not reading as fire. It just looks like a blobby mess?
Should I just scrap it and start over with more of an ethereal glow that's darker in the middle and lighter on the edges?
I also am not happy with the base. I've never painted a 2D base before, I've always added some kind of texturing material. And although I'm reasonably satisfied with how the base looks on the summoning circle behind the demilich, it looks so bad on the demilich base. And I think my green glow isn't helping.
And finally the Bones. I imagined that if there was a green light behind the Bones then they'd be tinted green and darker on the outside. Again .. this just doesn't look right.
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This is my filthy first.
I finally gave in and purchased one of the Bones figures. It is the otyugh-ish filth beast by Bob Ridolfi.
It is a big change from the metal minis I usually purchase. The material is way bendy, almost like a green Gumby toy.
The coolest thing is the way it is baka yoke, and all the pieces are "keyed" to a hole. I would have to try really hard to mess up the assembly on this one!
By MoonglowMinis
First time showing something off on the forums! Normally only post to my instagram @MoonglowMinis
Had a blast painting this one up! Had to tap into my painterly side to get the glow effect I wanted and to transition the plating down to the end of the tail where there was no sculpted detail.
Hope you all like it!
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Almost 70% of married men say they make financial decisions primarily by themselves, but their wives might have a different story, according to a survey released Thursday by BMO Private Bank. When asked if their spouse was the primary financial decision maker in their household, only 13% of married women agreed.
A similar gap appeared when the questions were reversed. Although fewer women identified themselves as the primary decision maker (38% versus 69% of men), only 5% of men said their spouse was calling the shots on financial decisions. Forty-six percent of women said they share financial decision making equally with their spouse.
BMO Private Bank polled 748 investors at the end of April. Although all identified themselves as married, they weren't necessarily married to each other.
The survey found men and women also disagreed over who was in charge when it came to which financial institutions to use or big purchases like new cars or renovations to a house. Almost 70% of men said they were the primary decision maker on which financial institution to use; just 9% of women said their spouse made that call. The same percentage of women said their spouse made the final call on big purchases, although 62% of men said they were the primary decision maker.
With such dramatic differences in the way investors perceive financial responsibility, the importance of communication is obvious. "Men and women have unique financial needs, and finding the right advisor who can listen to those respective needs and respond with clarity while delivering value can make all the difference in the world," Mary Jo Herseth, national head of banking for BMO Private Bank, said in a statement.
She stressed that input from an objective outsider can prevent money problems from becoming marital problems.
"Going from 'my' money to 'our' money can be difficult process and arguments about money can cause serious issues for a marriage," Herseth said. "Bringing a third individual into the discussion, such as a financial advisor, can help provide an objective perspective."
In a phone interview with ThinkAdvisor, Herseth noted that women control roughly one-third of assets under management in the United States. "Retailers and banks are recognizing how important they are to their markets," Herseth said. "Men think they're dominant, but women are rising in how comfortable they are making financial decisions."
She noted that women are more risk averse, but are more "thoughtful" about their finances. "They want a lot of information and want to hear about how their strategy will affect them long-term," Herseth said, while men tend to be more transactional.
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A Catholic Finds Faith at Oxford
Colleges Week feature: How daily Mass at the Oxford Oratory made all the difference for an Anglophile college student.
Three years ago, I entered my freshman year at Hillsdale College. Although Hillsdale is nestled in Midwestern cornfields 700 miles from my Connecticut home, I was content with my school of choice. With excessive paper writing and a tendency to recite whole chapters of Strunk & White's Elements of Style at unsuspecting passersby, I was shaping up to be quite the Hillsdale English major.
But something was missing.
The Harry Potter series, the complete works of Jane Austen and British television had made me weak. I was a closet Anglophile, and I secretly longed for the kind of collegiate experience that would turn Sebastian Flyte green with envy. Yes, my first two years at Hillsdale were full of thoughts of the oldest university in the English-speaking world: Oxford.
Oxford. That mythical village. That quaint little country lane scattered with quaint little tea rooms and 38 quaint, little ivy-covered colleges. Where lines of edifying poetry drip from your pen the moment you step within the town limits. Where the men look like Colin Firth and write like T.S. Eliot and pray like John Henry Newman and a handful of brainy women pick and choose among them. Where the sun ever shineth and the boats ever punt-eth.
Oxford was where it was at. No mortal could convince me otherwise.
And, lo and behold, Hillsdale just happened to have a study-abroad program that would allow me to attend — however briefly — this hallowed institution. (Coincidence? I think not.) After filling out mountains of paperwork, receiving that prized acceptance letter, and parting tearfully with every last penny to my name, I boarded a plane for jolly old England.
The first in a succession of mild heart attacks occurred the moment I rode into town. Oxford is not a quaint, little country village. In fact, it's a rather bustling city with rather a lot of homeless people.
"Know your place," advised our English liaison. "Many of these students can trace their pedigrees to royalty." Needless to say, I made few friends among the full-timers.
Nor did I win the heart of any Oxford faculty member. Excepting one extraordinarily kind tutor, my efforts to charm and amuse were met with various degrees of throat clearing and dour expressions. Dreams of conversation over tea and crumpets with fussy, loveable old Englishmen perished after the first tutorial.
And the preparation required for these sessions began to make Hillsdale look like Hooked on Phonics. Each week, an 800-900 page novel had to be read, digested and dissected in a 12-page paper for one tutorial, a hearty dose of textbook reading and another 12-pager for the other.
To add insult to pedagogical injury, the Oxford powers that be placed me in a flat two miles from the city center, complete with a front door that wouldn't shut, a dryer that wouldn't dry, a bathtub that leaked like a sieve, and outlets that refused to emit electricity.
But the biggest shock of all was my astonishingly bad luck in the roommate lottery.
The Kodak-worthy Oxford experience of my dreams was officially debunked.
In an effort to salvage my stay, I made time for daily Mass at my adopted parish, the Oxford Oratory, run by a community of priests known for their orthodoxy and expository preaching. Sunday Masses had been standing-room only, but weekdays proved far more intimate.
Before long, I had met a Dickensian group of 6:30 "dailies," which included, among others, a middle-aged Irish couple, two elderly Italian widows named Maria, one mantilla-wearing mom with six children, and a dapper old gent with a silver-plated cane. When "mantilla mom" invited me to a Lenten retreat at the parish center, I had unwittingly gained entrance to Oxford's underground Catholic community.
On the day of the retreat, I was greeted at the door by a middle-aged Englishwoman wearing five or six multicolored scarves and a large black raincoat, hot to the touch from spring sunshine. She grabbed me a heaping plate of orange-flavored Jaffa cakes with one hand and pushed me toward the tea table with the other, exclaiming, "Darling, they've told me all about you! You're the American!"
All my 6:30 friends were in attendance, along with dozens of parishioners from every conceivable walk of life. Spaniards, Nigerians, Welshmen, Oxford dons, graduate students, college porters, waitresses etc. And to each one, the woman in the black raincoat announced, "Here she is, the little American girl! Let's all make her feel very welcome!"
After weeks of thwarted dreams, I had finally assimilated into a segment of Oxford society. Perhaps it was not the most typical segment, nor the most glamorous, but I'll be darned if it wasn't the most interesting. My new friends were a heterogeneous crowd, but all were firmly devoted to their faith in a decidedly irreligious setting — none more so than the English, who now fight a more toilsome battle against atheist neighbors than they had waged against centuries of Protestant persecution.
Suddenly, summer arrived in Oxford. Flowers fell out of window boxes and filled the city's many gardens. I trekked through Oxford's narrow streets, visiting Shelley's old stomping grounds and C.S. Lewis' favorite pub, The Eagle and Child. And I spent as much time as possible with the motley crew at the oratory, where, I discovered, a young student named Gerard Manley Hopkins had also attended daily Mass many years ago.
When the time came, I was sorry to leave. For those last weeks, I had loved living in Oxford. But I confess I didn't love learning there.
The following term, I returned to the Midwest a little more grateful and a little more humble. And I had Oxford to thank.
Erin O'Luanaigh is a senior at Hillsdale College.
Her hometown is Cheshire, Connecticut.
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Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
Syed, sportswriter and columnist for the London Times , takes a hard look at performance psychology, heavily influenced by his own ego-damaging but fruitful epiphany. At the age of 24, Syed became the #1 British table tennis player, an achievement he initially attributed to his superior speed and agility. But in retrospect, he realizes that a combination of advantages—a mentor, good facilities nearby, and lots of time to hone his skills—set him up perfectly to become a star performer. He admits his argument owes a debt to Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers , but he aims to move one step beyond it, drawing on cognitive neuroscience research to explain how the body and mind are transformed by specialized practice. He takes on the myth of the child prodigy, emphasizing that Mozart, the Williams sisters, Tiger Woods, and Susan Polgar, the first female grandmaster, all had live-in coaches in the form of supportive parents who put them through a ton of early practice. Cogent discussions of the neuroscience of competition, including the placebo effect of irrational optimism, self-doubt, and superstitions, all lend credence to a compelling narrative; readers who gobbled up Freakonomics and Predictably Irrational will flock to this one. (May)
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When people think about off-road, people think of Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram. Producing vehicles that are rugged and sturdy but also able to offer up smooth, comfortable driving experiences, Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram has set the bar pretty high. In keeping with that gold standard, the 2018 Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Cherokee is top of its class in every department. If you want something that can seamlessly switch to city driving to off-road and back again, the new Cherokee is right for you.
This crossover sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a perfect blend between urban versatility and rural stability. It is great for the everyday commutes and chores of Bismarck families, but also excels at exploring other parts of Bismarck ND during vacations or road trips. With the Selec-Terrain Traction Management System, you get four modes to choose from in order to get the best control in different terrain: Auto, Sand/Mud, Sport, and Snow. The Cherokee's innovative Active Drive 4x4 system works in tandem with the Brake Lock Differential in order to further improve control – regardless of exterior weather or road conditions.
There are two engine choices for both 4x2 and 4x4 models. The 2.4 liter (L) Tigershark Multiair 2 engine will get you 184 horsepower (hp) and 171 pound-feet (lb-ft) of torque, while the 3.2 L Pentastar V6 will put out 271 hp and 239 lb-ft of torque. The Cherokee is no slouch in the towing department - the 2.4 L engine (with a nine-speed automatic transmission) can tow up to 2,000 pounds (lbs). The 3.2 L engine (nine-speed automatic), equipped with the Trailer Tow or Trailer Tow Prep Groups, is capable of towing up to 4,500 lbs. If you want to haul your bike/ATV/boat out for a nice weekend away from the city, the new Cherokee is ready and able to do the job.
Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram has always made safety a top priority in their vehicles, and the Cherokee is a sign of that. A body composed of advanced high-strength steel minimizes collision damage and enhances occupant protection. There are 10 airbags in total, including passenger and driver front knee airbags and full length side curtain airbags. In regard to safety tech, this SUV has some of the best available, including the Blind Spot Monitoring system, which makes use of dual radar sensors to detect if another vehicle enters your blind spots. If so, visual and audio warnings will alert you so that you can take the necessary precautions. Forward Collision Warning with Active Braking also uses radar sensor to detect if you are approaching another vehicle too fast and will alert you via a noise. If you are not applying the necessary amount of brake pressure, Advanced Brake Assist will add additional pressure in order to prevent impact. LaneSense Lane Departure Warning with Lane Keep Assist alerts you through video and auditory cues in the event that you accidentally drift from your lane and, if you don't respond, will autonomously correct your course. The Parkview Rear Backup Camera helps you back into those tight spots by providing you with a clear image and guide lines.
It is rare that a crossover SUV offers as much utility as the new 2018 Cherokee does. It is not only for families, it is for people who do a lot of towing, people who like to get out of the city limits, and people who like to explore. It is hardy, but it is also convenient. Because it can do so much, we here at Eide Chrysler are eager to show it off to customers who are looking for that vehicle that excels at everything.
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State Senator LeRoy Stumpf (DFL-Plummer) urges area two and four-year colleges, universities and technical schools to apply for a new grant program designed to help increase graduation rates for at-risk students. The College Success grant provides schools up to $300,000 in grants to implement programs to help students stay in college and earn a degree.
More students from traditionally underserved backgrounds are entering college than ever before, but many of these students face unique obstacles that prevent them from completing their studies. As a result, college completion rates have not increased at the same rate as college enrollment. "The goal of the College Success grant is to help students who enroll in college, stay in college until they graduate," Sen. Stumpf said. "These grants help students from low income backgrounds, and those who are first in the family to attend college receive the additional support they need to stay in college and complete their studies."
Successful schools must meet the following criteria: Serve undergraduate students from traditionally underserved backgrounds (students of color, those from low-income backgrounds, and/or first generation students); provide ongoing services designed to increase the retention and persistence rates for a defined group of students; track semester-to-semester enrollment (retention rates) and year-to-year enrollment (persistence rates).
Nationwide, only 10 percent of students from low-income families earn a bachelors degree by age 24; for students from upper-income families, that number is 71 percent. For students who develop connections to their peers, faculty, and staff, college completion is much more likely.
Sen. Stumpf encourages interested higher education institutes to apply for the grants at: mygreatlakes.org/community. The application deadline is March 14, 2013.
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Martin Luther declared that the buildings in Torgau were more beautiful than any from ancient times. That is still true today. With five hundred Renaissance and late-Gothic buildings, Torgau in Saxony is an architectural gem of international standing.
A highlight of this impressive architectural ensemble is Hartenfels Palace with its grand staircase. The stone spiral stairway elegantly winds its way upwards and at the top is the oldest sculpture of Luther.
The palace chapel was consecrated by the great reformer himself in 1544. However, it is not just Luther himself who is honoured in Torgau. In 1552, to escape the plague, his widow, Katharina von Bora, fled with her children to Torgau, where she died a short time later. A museum in the house where she died commemorates the 'most famous clergyman's wife in the world'.
A stroll through the historical old quarter of Torgau is like taking a step back in time to the Renaissance. The market square with the Renaissance town hall and the ensemble of magnificent patrician town houses is particularly impressive. The town is also home to the oldest toy shop in Germany and one of the oldest pharmacies in Saxony, the Mohrenapotheke. If you want explore the town under your own steam, there is a colour-coded route to help you get your bearings.
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Orange-Bioinformatics 2.5a8
Orange Bioinformatics add-on for Orange data mining software package.
Orange Bioinformatics extends Orange, a data mining software package, with common functionality for bioinformatics. The provided functionality can be accessed as a Python library or through a visual programming interface (Orange Canvas). The latter is also suitable for non-programmers.
In Orange Canvas the analyst connects basic computational units, called widgets, into data flow analytics schemas. Two units-widgets can be connected if they share a data type. Compared to other popular tools like Taverna, Orange widgets are high-level, integrated potentially complex tasks, but are specific enough to be used independently. Even elaborate analyses rarely consist of more than ten widgets; while tasks such as clustering and enrichment analysis could be executed with up to five widgets. While building the schema each widget is independently controlled with settings, the settings do not conceptually burden the analyst.
Orange Bioinformatics provides access to publicly available data, like GEO data sets, Biomart, GO, KEGG, Atlas, ArrayExpress, and PIPAx database. As for the analytics, there is gene selection, quality control, scoring distances between experiments with multiple factors. All features can be combined with powerful visualization, network exploration and data mining techniques from the Orange data mining framework.
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Time to think before you jump into law school
As their final semester of college arrives, many seniors are pondering thoughts of law school. For some, this is more than a "ponder", it's a set goal that they have had for many years. For others, it's a way to delay jumping into a down economy or simply to avoid facing the "real world". Whatever a student's motivation, this is the year to stop and think before enrolling in law school. According to the New York Times article "Is Law School a Losing Game?" , recent law school grads are facing unanticipated rates of un-and-under employment, and are left shouldering tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
So, does this mean don't go to law school at all? No, but do know why you are going, what you can reasonably expect upon graduation, and how you will fund it– now and when the loans are due. Carefully consider where to enroll– this article had a focus on a struggling graduate from a "fourth tier" institution. If in doubt, wait it out. Work a year, or two, then reassess if law school is for you.


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The British Geological Survey is home to more than three million fossils collected over two centuries and catalogued with enormous precision.
However, as generations of curators have come and gone, a few collections have lain forgotten and their significance has gradually passed out of memory.
Recently, a collection of 'unregistered fossil plants' was found in one of the Survey's windowless vaults in Keyworth, in central England.
These comprise hundreds of beautiful thin sections of fossil wood dating from the early nineteenth century.
The collection was assembled by botanist Joseph Hooker (Darwin's best friend) while he was briefly employed by the Survey in 1846.
The material includes some of the first thin sections ever made by William Nicol, the pioneer of petrography, in the late 1820s, as well as specimens picked up by Darwin and Hooker on their round the world voyages in the 1830s and 1840s.
The collection is particularly interesting in the way it sheds light on the vibrant and sometimes murky world of early nineteenth century science. This is the story of these fascinating fossils:
This is part of an edited transcript of the following article:
FALCON-LANG, H J. 2012. Fossil 'treasure trove' found in British Geological Survey vaults Geology Today 28 (1), 32–36. Reprinted by permission of Wiley-Blackwell
Kevin D'Souza of Royal Holloway, University of London kindly photographed all of the specimens in this online collection.
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Data sharing is essential for expedited translation of research results into knowledge, products and procedures to improve human health.
The Final NIH Statement on Sharing Research Data was published in the NIH Guide on February 26, 2003. This is an extension of NIH policy on sharing research resources, and reaffirms NIH support for the concept of data sharing. The new policy becomes effective with the October 1, 2003 receipt date for applications or proposals to NIH.
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From daytime diva to nighttime talker, Oprah Winfrey is going nocturnal.
Winfrey will announce Thursday the launch of "Oprah's Next Chapter". The program will reportedly run two to three nights a week on the soon-to-launch OWN network.
"Oprah's Next Chapter," dispenses with the studio format that made Oprah famous.
"I'm going to take viewers with me, going to take celebrities I want to interview with me," she said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in advance of a presentation of OWN's programming plans to would-be advertisers.
The show is expected to be a key ingredient of the Oprah Winfrey Network, and guarantees Winfrey will regularly appear on the 24-hour network she'll be largely programming from behind the scenes.
It also pits Oprah against other night time personalities. What will Larry King do now?
The show will pair with another Oprah-based show on the network. The OWN network will launch with "Behind the Scenes: Oprah's 25th Season," a weekly reality show about the final season of her syndicated network talk show.
The behind-the-scenes show is billed as "a one-hour primetime docu-series featuring a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of The Oprah Winfrey Show."
A joint venture of Winfrey's Harpo Inc. and Discovery Communications Inc., the network signs on Jan. 1 in approximately 80 million homes. Winfrey will end her weekday syndicated talk show at the close of its 25th season in late 2011.


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Y'ulz, I so bad wanna be awesome.
I just want ppl 2 look at me & think "wish I was that sisbro".
Just want ppl 2 covet my Opel Corsa that now looks like a 'real car' (via all cars looking like the Peugot 206)
Just want ppl 2 look at my real leather hand / manbag and think 'wow that's a bro who srsly knows their quality shiz, must stop buying Mr Pricebro'
Just want ppl 2 know that I buy Country Road when they finger the thick seams & say "but who BUYS this stuff?!"
So bad just wanna be awesome.
Y'ulz, I so bad just wanna be awesome.
Gonna get super tight jeans that "cre8 a camel-toe ambience" & wear them in front of my chubby sister,
See how she likes 'getting the brains in the family' now
Gonna move into a house with "all my best guy friends" (via being a guys'-girl / the village indie bicycle)
Gonna sleep with them all (via parental divorce-issues), even though all of them have girlfriends, some of whom are my best friends forever y'all! (via going 2 film school 2 getha)
Gonna sleep with them all and 'be besties & climb lions head on adventures!' with them all
So bad just wanna be awesome y'all!
Y'ulz, I am fucking desperate 2 be awesome.
Gonna make peace signs while I do cheap coke off the toilets at Assembly while taking a self-portrait profile shot 4 my blog
Gonna wear empty-lensed paedo-glasses 2 'invoke the nerd look' (via looking like a tard)
Gonna wear an Indian head-dress minus feathers 2 'give them something 2 talk about' (via yawning) so my head looks like a phimosis-victim (via Google it)
Gonna take a non-paying job in a crap magazine that had street-cred in 1994 (via articles on drugs via back then ppl not knowing that drinking / taking drugs / being 'reckless with your body' makes you 'lose ur looks')
So fucking desperate 2 be awesome!
Y'ulz, basically, I would do anything 2 be awesome.
Gonna housesit my bestie's house & 'trash the place' (how awesome? Bro…)
Gonna 'get pregnant' with my b/f's babybro & then 'lose the baby' on a coke binge
So I can be "hot pregnant chick" minus "all that baby admin"
Y'ulz, gonna "turn down paying design jobs" 4 "jobs that are awesome" (via getting free entrance 2 clubs where the band whose flyer I designed is playing at)
Y'ulz, I'm gonna be awesome.
Can't wait!


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Commencal Canada are extremely proud to announce their factory race team for 2008. Commencal is dedicated to giving athletes all the tools they need to make it to the top level of mountain bike racing across Canada.
"Our season couldn't have been better, we had Matt Zdriluk secure the Junior Expert podium at both O-Cup and C-cup races. Plus our new elite riders were pushing some of the veteran elite racers of their usual podium spots!" Said Peter Appleton. Not only did the team succeed on the race course but they gave back to the cycling community by implementing a FREE race day skills clinic for new and old DH racers. Over 60 riders attended and all of them left with some new skills and a couple tricks to take a second or two off their times!
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Are those the only two options? See wikipedia for a longer list of styles. I use banner style, and I also have my reasons to use it: I thought about it. I'm afraid a lot of fresh coders just follow what they were fed at school or what their editor-of-choice gives as prefered style.
WAY more important than what style is used, is that the style is used consistently and by all members in the team.
FWIW I do not think this would be a good poll. It would lead to flame wars.
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That's the question. Both look good. I have a Saiga but am considering a VEPR conversion as well after my other gun "needs" and "wants" are satisfied.
I have seen a few Saiga conversions that look good like the Tromix version. May be in the market in the next few months.
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The World Cup has been pretty damn entertaining so far but let's face it: It would be even better were Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic there. This is an excerpt from his hilarious (and surprisingly well-written) memoir, I Am Zlatan.
Helena and I would drive around here and there and rate the houses. It was this fun thing we did. We made top-10 lists, and which house do you think came in at number one? The pink one in Limhamnsvagen, of course, and it wasn't just because of my old dreams. That house was really marvelous. It was the nicest one in Malmo, but, of course, there was one problem.
There were some people living there, and they didn't want to sell, and what can you do? That was the question. We decided not to give up. Maybe give them an offer they couldn't refuse. Not that I was going to send some Rosengård guys their way, exactly. This had to be handled with style, but, even so, we decided to go on the offensive. One day, Helena was at IKEA.
She bumped into a friend there, and they got to talking about the pink house.
"Oh, some good friends of mine live in that pile," her friend said. "Set up a meeting. We want to speak to them," Helena told her.
"Are you joking?"
"Not at all," and so she did.
The friend called and explained the situation, and was told that the couple really didn't want to sell, no way. They liked living there and the neighbors were so nice and lovely and the grass was green, and the view toward Ribersborg Beach and the Øresund Strait was terrific, blah blah blah. The friend had been given her instructions and told them that we weren't going to take that as an answer from her. If they wanted to stay there, no matter what we were willing to pay, they'd have to tell us to our faces, and wouldn't it be fun to meet Zlatan and Helena over a cup of coffee? Not everyone got to do that.
They clearly thought that would be fun, so Helena and I went over, and I knew right away that I had the upper hand. I am who I am, but even so, I was of two minds. As I walked through those gates, I felt big and small at the same time, both the kid who gawked at those houses during the Mile and the guy who was a huge star. At first, I just went with Helena and checked it out, "Very nice, very nice, what a lovely place you've got here." I behaved and was polite, and all that. Over coffee, I couldn't restrain myself any longer.
"We're here because you're living in our house," I said, and the man started laughing, as if to say, How funny, and sure, I had a gleam in my eye. It was a sort of joke, a line from a movie.
Then I continued, "You can take it as a joke if you want. But I'm serious. I intend to buy this house, I'll make sure you're happy, but we're going to have it," and then he went on, saying it wasn't for sale, not under any conditions.
He was adamant—or rather, he pretended to be, but now I could hear it. It was just like on the transfer market. It was a game. The house had a price for him. I could see it in his eyes and I could sense it in the atmosphere, and I explained my thinking: I don't want to do things I don't know how to do. I'm a soccer player. I'm not a negotiator. I'll send a guy to do a deal.
There's got to be a limit somewhere. I sent a lawyer, and don't think I'm a fool who just pisses his money away. I'm a tactician. I'm careful. There was no, Get it at any price, none of that. It was, Make sure you get it for as little as possible.
Afterward, we sat at home waiting. It was a bit of a drama. Then the call came. "They'll sell for 30 mil"—and there was nothing to discuss. We bought it for 30 million kronor (around $3.5 million), and honestly, for that kind of money I bet that couple went skipping out of the house.
I'd done it. Sure, it wasn't free. We'd paid to be able to kick them out. This was just the beginning. We went mad renovating the place. We didn't cut any corners. We couldn't make the garden wall higher. The council said no. What could we do? We wanted a higher wall so no fans or stalkers could stand out there and look in on us. So we dug ourselves deeper instead. We lowered the level of the plot. There were loads of things like that. We really went to town, and that wasn't always popular.
The houses in that neighborhood are usually passed down as inheritances. Daddy's money pays, and nobody from my sort of back- ground had moved in before. It's all ritzy people, and there's nobody who speaks like me, who says stuff like "the wickedest house," and that. Here they use words like "distinguished" and "extraordinary."
I wanted to show that a guy like me could get in here with his own money. That was important to me right from the start, and I hadn't expected everybody to give me a round of applause. Even so, I was still surprised at the neighbors: What, they're going to do this and that? They carried on like that constantly. They moaned. We didn't care, though, and we made that house just the way we wanted it.
It was Helena who worked at it. She was incredibly thorough and got help from various museums and whatever. I wasn't as involved as she was. I don't have the same instinct for those things, but there was one thing I contributed. On the red feature wall in the foyer, I hung a big picture of two dirty feet. When my friends came by, they were all like, Awesome, wicked, cool place you've got here.
"But what are these disgusting feet doing here? How can you have this shit on your wall?"
"You idiots," I said. "Those feet have paid for all of this."
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Apple May Connect the Smart Home of Your Dreams
May 27, 2014 3:22 PM PT
The hottest tech rumor of the week already happened, and it's only Tuesday: Apple is finally breaking into home automation. That's right -- connected lights, thermostats, security systems and home appliances. And the key? the iPhones that already are carried by millions of consumers.
The Financial Times unleashed the rumor Monday, and it's exploded with a flurry of newsy posts and opinions. So where did the rumor come from? And why now?
The now is easy: Next week Apple will hold its Worldwide Developers Conference, which is where it typically reveals new Mac OS X, iOS and developer-focused ecosystem initiatives.
The new Apple home effort clearly would interest developers who might build apps beyond the smartphone that could integrate with a smart home.
The Smell Test
As for sources, FT is extraordinarily vague, noting only that "Apple has been talking to a select group of other device makers whose smart home products will be certified to work with its forthcoming new system and then be sold in its retail stores."
The report doesn't even outright say that third-party device makers were sources. So is this true or just wishful thinking?
It smells true. When you connect rising home automation interest with a player that can be the catalyst the home automation niche needs to break into the mass market -- Apple -- the rumor takes on a life of its own. As for importance, is this rumor overblown? No way. Here's why Apple has the power to very quickly amp up the home.
The iPhone Is the Key - and the Remote Control
With millions of iPhones in the hands of homeowners and renters, a single mobile platform has the potential to "just work" with Apple-certified devices -- like light bulbs, security cameras, thermostats or door locks. An iPhone could unlock a door, for example, with or without a Touch ID security print, as well as turn on the lights and queue the music. Thinking farther out, an iPhone could turn up (or turn down) the thermostat when the home owner crosses some predetermined threshold while driving or walking home.
Home devices already use the iPhone for apps, but Apple has the potential -- through a new program -- to consolidate a bunch of discrete apps for different devices into a coordinated system.
Apple Has Ecosystem Experience
Plenty of companies have wanted to jolt the home automation industry with their own ecosystems of products. Google bought the company behind the popular Nest smart thermostat, for example. Samsung is building and shipping smart refrigerators and washing machines.
No company has yet been able to muster a significant wave of app developers and hardware builders to make front door-to-back door home automation real, however. Apple's developer community loves this sort of thing, and Apple can deliver a sizable money-making opportunity.
Retail Stores
Apple's Retail Stores, which put Apple's devices in front of buyers, also can serve as showcases for smart home products.
Positioned in key markets around the world, they can turn an idea for a home product into a tactile, sensory experience. The only downside might be having to endure the wailing of small children who don't want to stop playing with the pretty rainbow of colors shining down from connected light bulbs.
Privacy Built In
While companies like Google mine user data to deliver targeted advertising experiences, not everyone is impressed with the way it scoops up data -- whether it is or isn't used in specifically identifying ways. Apple has a chance to be the one company that could provide controls for a smart home, while simultaneously assuring customers that it's not tracking their bedtime habits and making assumptions to deliver ads.
If millions of homeowners really do care about privacy, this sort of edge has the potential to affect companies that run their business on data.
Ease of Use
Of course, what's driving the Apple home automation rumor juggernaut is Apple's legendary ease of use. Until now, few customers really have been interested in taking the time to automate their homes or invest in expensive, integrated solutions.
However, what if Apple created a home automation ecosystem of products, either made by Apple or certified by Apple? That would open up a whole new level of consumer confidence in this product segment.
Apple's CarPlay effort, for example, is showing promise in a similar way -- it has reignited interest in smart automobile dashboards while at the same time attracting auto manufacturers to use Apple.
In addition, Apple has managed to keep its systems reasonably secure, giving it a foundation of confidence for customers concerned about cameras and sensors in their own homes communicating with hackers or criminals.
Apple's Foot in Door
This Apple home automation rumor is more than an interesting play for a new consumer product. It has the potential not only to elevate the entire home automation industry, but also to destroy the competition.
Why did Apple sell the Nest thermostat in its retail stores but not bother to buy the cool device? Apple likely would rather connect an entire ecosystem of devices than build all of its own hardware for everything. With Apple connecting the experience, millions of consumers will have the confidence to finally act -- by buying into home automation.
At the same time, Apple knows how to tap into emotions and ideas through mass media marketing campaigns. When Apple turns on its advertising lights and spotlights the home, consumers will act.
This has the power to elevate Apple's certified partners and build awareness of an entire industry while obliterating fledgling competition that tries to go it alone.
Of course, none of this is a given. Google is building out its own ecosystem, and Android has the potential to connect many devices in ways similar to iOS. As for Samsung, it has the world's bestselling Android smartphones. Plus, it not only is building appliances for the home right now, but also building its own device operating system -- Tizen.
All that said, as of right now we're still talking rumor. Could it all be revealed at next week's WWDC event? You bet -- or it might not be mentioned at all.


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Ballarat Plaster Fun House burns down
VIDEO: Kara Irving
Update: 7:40am
Fire crews will be on scene at the Plaster Fun House throughout the day.
Ballarat City Fire Brigade senior station officer Neville Collins said the building still had hot spots which could flare up.
Mr Collins said is was surprising no other building had been damaged in the blaze.
Double brick walls between the neighbours of the building ensured damage was kept to a minimum with Mr Collins saying the Provincial Home Living building suffered minor water damage.
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The fire that has has gutted a child play centre in the centre of Ballarat is being brought under control.
Flames engulfed the Plaster Fun House on Grenville Street North as half a dozen fire units battled to control the blaze.
CFA firefighting crews hosed flames several metres high as hundreds of onlookers watched from the car park across the road.
Police were forced to move elements of the crowd back due to fears of toxic fume inhalation.
By 9pm the fire appeared to be contained but not before incinerating both floors of the building.
Marian Baird, an instructor at Absolute Yoga, which operates on the second Floor of the building, said she could smell smoke at about 6pm.
"I was taking a class with about 15 people between 6 and 7pm," she said. "At the start of the class we could smell smoke from the air conditioning but we didn't think anything of it because it was quite mild.
"We went down stairs to see smoke pouring in from the back.
"We didn't panic too much. We were just putting our mats back and then we thought we she leave them and get out in a hurry."
Flames still poured from the front of the stricken building at 8.30pm.
Plaster Fun House proprietor Brad Billings was shocked by the devastation caused by the fire.
"I was notified by a friend there was a fire in the street and came down to be greeted by this," he said.
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The early winter snowstorm that hit the Northeast over Halloween weekend took a greater toll on power grids in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire than did hurricane Irene in August. And, as was the case then, the race to restore power has been slowest in Connecticut.
The storm track for hurricane Irene at least gave utilities regionwide a week to gather resources and call for backup crews from the Midwest and South. The October snowstorm, however, materialized in just a few days.
Some utilities have struggled more than others in the aftermath, according to data from the US Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
- At their peak, power outages in Connecticut hit 831,000 customers. As of Wednesday morning, power had been restored to about 284,000 of those customers – one-third of the peak number.
- In Massachusetts, 450,000 customers – almost two-thirds of the 670,000 peak – had had their power restored by Wednesday.
- New Hampshire was faring even better, with 227,000 customers – 72 percent of the 315,000 peak – restored by Wednesday.
Connecticut's performance in restoring power has been slower than its performance after Irene, which was criticized at the time. In the four days after Irene, 443,000 of the 702,154 outages were restored – about 63 percent. At the time, that was the lowest percentage of any state with outages from Irene.
Damage from the storm was far more extensive than forecast, reports Connecticut Light & Power, which oversees power delivery in about 150 towns statewide.
"This will not be a 'quick fix'.... This may take more than a week to restore all of our customers," said Jeff Butler, president and chief operating officer of CL&P in a statement on Sunday. "There are reports of trees down practically everywhere."
The Connecticut Department of Transportation estimates tree damage to be five times greater than during Irene.
Overall, the snowstorm led to fewer outages than did Irene: 3.2 million residents in 10 states for the snowstorm versus 6.7 million residents in 14 states for Irene, according to the Department of Energy.
But the story in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire was different.
- In Connecticut, the 831,000 customer outages in during the snowstorm topped the 702,154 outages from Irene.
- In Massachusetts, 670,000 customers lost power in the snowstorm, compared with 567,000 in Irene.
- In New Hampshire, the snowstorm caused nearly three times more outages than did Irene: 315,000 compared with 116,000.
Similar to Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire have both been slower to restore power after the snowstorm than after Irene. Four days after Irene, Massachusetts had restored power to 90 percent of the customers who lost it, while New Hampshire had restored 98 percent.


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Health and Fitness for the New Year and a New You!
Get in Shape and Stay in Shape to wear your Beach Body all year long
By Julia Abbott and Robert Cheeke, Vegan Fitness Duo
Happy New Year! I know New Year's Day is still nearly two weeks away, which is precisely why I'm writing now. We usually start the year full of enthusiasm to achieve our new goals and New Year's Resolutions, but it's about this time when our diets are at their worst and we wonder if we're even capable of accomplishing what we had planned in the new year. We may get off to a flying start for a week or two and then falter a bit and sometimes even give up on our goals completely. That's why I'm here, to add structure, focus, and purpose to what really matters to you and help see you through to achievement. I'm going to provide you with the tools and resources necessary to accomplish your goals, combined with amazing levels of support to help keep you motivated and accountable.
To borrow a quote from my book Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness:
"It is my experience that if you truly love something, you will be willing to spend a lot of time doing it, will be willing to work harder than others to achieve it, and will have so much fun throughout the process that you will excel naturally. The joy and fulfillment you get from being regularly engaged in the activity you love will propel you to stand out in your field adapting and improving at rapid rates. You will look forward to practice, rehearsal, application, and action in whatever it is that moves you. Through your discipline and dedication, you will thrive in an environment you created that is perfect for you to succeed in. Because you're doing what you love, you'll be in a positive mood on a regular basis, will find the good in every situation, will get back up when you're knocked down, and will time and time again overcome adversity when others with less passion will give in and give up." - Robert Cheeke
What should be understood is that we all have the power to change something in our lives at anytime, no matter what time of year. As always, now is the best time to start something new. What do you really want to get out of life? What does it really mean to you and how hard are you willing to work to achieve it? What steps need to be taken and when are you ready to say, "Today is the day I'm going to make it happen?"
To create "New Year's Resolutions" that you'll actually stick to, answer the following questions:
1. What are the activities I am most passionate about and that bring me the most joy?
2. What makes me wake up every day excited to do what I get to do for my job?
3. What can I do every day to bring about the most fulfillment in my life?
4. What makes me smile more than anything else?
5. What would I do if money and time weren't limiting obstacles in my life?
6. What does my dream life look like?
7. What steps do I need to take in order to achieve what I really want to in life?
Answer those questions honestly and sincerely.
Your personal best isn't just about motivation and doing what you love to do. It's about being healthy, happy, and well too. My good friend, wellness coach Julia Abbott has some helpful and healthful tips for you to be at your best this year:
Health & Fitness for the New Year – by Julia Abbott
I know winter is far from over, but it's not too early to start getting your beach body back. I know, it's tough to fight the hibernation impulse. A little hibernation is therapeutic, but make it your goal right now to take action, alter stagnating behaviors, and implement a few new tools toward shaping up for the new year. Here are 5 simple steps to get healthier, more fit, and increased energy. What better way to start the new year?
Step 1: Eat fruit for breakfast.
Fruit contains all the components it needs to digest itself and requires little assistance from the body. Fruit for breakfast will awaken the body and stimulate elimination channels. Proper elimination is the most important factor for improved health and weight loss. Breakfast is easy--just grab a piece of delicious, juicy fruit and bite in!
Step 2: Eat at least one green salad every day.
Greens are so important because they contain an array of nutrients in perfect proportion to nourish the body's tissues and cells. They even contain plenty of amino acids to help you build muscle! It can be difficult to eat that green salad every day. I love greens, but I get tired of them too! The solution to getting your greens every day and loving it is the green smoothie. By making my green smoothie every morning, I knock out steps 1 and 2 at the same time: fruit first and greens every day!
This is what my green smoothie was this morning:
- 1 ripe, organic pear
- 1 cup of pomegranate seeds or 1/2 cup of Pom juice
- 1 Meyer lemon
- Big handful of spinach
- 1/2 cup frozen blueberries
I just toss it all into my Vitamix and blend. Making breakfast and eating my greens takes 10 minutes tops. Fantastic! Note that it is important to rotate your greens and get creative with your smoothie ingredients.
Step 3: Find an enjoyable form of physical activity and schedule it into your day.
Exercise doesn't have to take a long time. I do enjoy going to the gym for an hour-long workout, but very often, I just don't have that kind of time. I solve this problem by waking up 15 minutes earlier to perform a quick, high-intensity workout that will get my blood and lymph moving. If you haven't discovered CrossFit yet, check it out because that is exactly what you need if you are short on time. By 9AM, you can have 3 steps knocked out.
Try this quick and simple workout tomorrow morning:
• 5 push-ups
• 10 sit-ups
• 15 squats
Perform this set as many times as you can for 10 intense minutes. No money or equipment necessary.
Step 4: Quit drinking sodas and bottled beverages. These drinks are full of highly refined sugar or toxic sugar substitutes that do nothing but subtract from your overall health.
If you are attached to the fizz factor, try drinking sparkling water with fresh lime. If you are attached to the sugar factor, replace the soda with kombucha, a fermented beverage containing beneficial organisms that aid in digestion and detoxification. When I get post-lunch sugar cravings, drinking kombucha knocks the craving out.
Feel a caffeine headache coming on? Sip Yerba Maté tea, an infusion similar to green tea. When I drink Yerba Maté for an energy boost, I do not experience the negative side effects that come from drinking coffee such as jitteriness, headaches, or nausea.
Step 5: Eliminate fried foods. Fried foods are detrimental for two reasons: they contain trans fat, and they are usually fried in polyunsaturated vegetable oil.
Trans fat is an artery-clogging fat that is formed when vegetable oil is made to be solid at room temperature. Read the labels on any packaged food and look for "Hydrogenated", "Partially Hydrogenated", and "Shortening". Strictly avoid these foods to avoid gradual health decline.
Polyunsaturated oils (canola and soybean, for example) are highly susceptible to heat damage. Heat causes oxidative damage creating free radicals. Translation: these oils after heat exposure become cancer causing.
The bottom line is, there is absolutely no reason your body would want you to eat french fries or doughnuts. There is plenty of healthful, natural food to eat instead. For a mid-morning snack, try a slice of toasted sprouted-grain bread topped with nut butter.
If you start the new year by following these 5 steps, you will be feeling better and looking better in no time. Cheers to your beach body 2012!
-Julia Abbott is a competitive runner, avid weight lifter and Author of The Lemon Letter – A wellness blog dedicated to a holistic approach to ultimate health http://www.lemonletter.blogspot.com/
-Robert Cheeke a competitive bodybuilder, Founder of VeganBodybuilding.com, motivational speaker, and Author of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness – The Complete Guide to Building Your Body on a Plant-Based Diet
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All this information of day 1 is extremely motivating!! Love it! Thanks!
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Thank you Annette!
This is just one of about 7 different daily tips I posted, though this one likely took the longest time to write!
Check back later, Day 2 is coming soon!
This is just one of about 7 different daily tips I posted, though this one likely took the longest time to write!
Check back later, Day 2 is coming soon!
Check out my Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness Book on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Bodybuildin ... 497&sr=1-1
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Keystone is the OpenStack identity service, and is the most foundational Python-based component of OpenStack (that is, ignoring RabbitMQ and any SQL databases you might need). There is a server and client part of Keystone. Typically, Keystone is installed on a server, and the client can be installed anywhere (including the server) and is used to interact with Keystone using the OpenStack Identity API, which uses Web-based protocols as a means of client-server communication. The various components of OpenStack can be configured to connect to Keystone using service users so that they in turn can authenticate and authorize requests.
This section describes the various concepts and definitions that are part of Keystone.
- Tenants
- In Keystone, "tenants" represent logical groups of users to which resources are assigned. Virtual machines (Nova) and containers (Swift) are assigned to tenants, not to users directly. Keystone users can be part of more than one tenant, and can have different types of roles defined for each tenant that they're a part of. Think of tenants as a logical way to organize computing and storage resources without assigning them to user accounts directly. Keystone allows you to create and delete tenants, and also enable and disable them.
- Roles
- A role is a common security concept, where a user is assigned a certain set of privileges. This set of privileges is called a role, has a name, and can be managed independently of the specific user account(s) that are part of the role. Keystone allows you to create and delete roles, add a user to a role for a specific tenant, remove a user from a role for a specific tenant, and of course list all the roles that have been defined.
- Users
- Keystone is used to define users. Users are accounts for specific individuals, and typically have a password and email associated with them. Keystone allows you to list, create, delete, enable/disable, update email addresses, and change passwords of Users.
- Service Users
- A service User is a user account created specifically for a component of OpenStack. Service users are typically added to the services tenant with the Admin role. For example, for Nova, you would create a service User nova. Then you would configure Nova to use this Service User to connect to Keystone so that it can authenticate and authorize requests that it receives. See OpenStack Documentation on Configuring Services for more information.
- Services
- Keystone allows you to define services, which are logical names for parts of OpenStack that provide internal or external capabilities, for things such as identity services, as well as compute and storage services.
- Service Endpoints
- These are URLs that define where particular services can be accessed. Various parts of OpenStack will query Keystone for service endpoints that they require. Service endpoints can be created and deleted, and you can "get" a handle (URL) to a service that has been defined. You can also define region-specific service endpoints, so that different regions will be serviced differently.
- Service Catalog
- Taken as a whole, all the service endpoints defined in Keystone are the service catalog, defining all services available to OpenStack.
First Steps
In Funtoo Linux, Keystone can be merged by typing:
root # emerge sys-auth/keystone
Emerging Keystone will also pull in sys-auth/keystone-client as a runtime dependency. keystone-client (which provides the keystone executable) is now maintained in a separate GitHub repository, and connects to Keystone using the OpenStack identity API. Once setting up /etc/keystone/keystone.conf and starting the Keystone service, you will use the keystone command to define tenants, users, roles, services and service endpoints.
Configuration File
The configuration file for the Keystone service is located at /etc/keystone/keystone.conf. In this section, we will review important configuration file lines, some of which you will need to modify.
DEFAULT Section
- public_port
- This is the TCP port that non-administrators should access, and defaults to 5000. A number of Keystone commands will be disabled by default on this port, including those related to roles, services and endpoints.
- admin_port
- This is the TCP port that administrators will connect to perform regular (identical to public port) as well as administration tasks. All functionality is enabled on this port, and you can access this port without a user, by using the admin token.
- admin_token
- This setting is a literal string that serves as the master password when connecting to the administration port.
sql Section
- connection
- This is an SQLAlchemy connection string specifying what back-end SQL database to use for the Keystone database. A reasonable initial default is sqlite:////etc/keystone/keystone.db.
Initial Server Configuration
Here are the steps you can use to get the Keystone service up and running:
- Copy /etc/keystone/keystone.conf.sample to /etc/keystone/keystone.conf.
- Change the config line connection = to read sqlite:////etc/keystone/keystone.db (four slashes after the colon)
- If desired, change the admin_token so that it is difficult to guess (especially important for production deployments). The examples below will use the default of 'ADMIN'.
- Type rc-update add keystone default to add Keystone to the default runlevel, if desired.
- Type /etc/init.d/keystone start to start the Keystone service so that you can perform further configuration.
Using SQLite as the database back-end like this is not a great idea for production deployment, but for learning about Keystone it works just fine.
Now, initialize the Keystone database:
root # keystone-manage db_sync
The command above will initialize all necessary tables so that they are ready to store data.
Initial Authentication
To perform further configuration of the Keystone service, as well as to query Keystone, we will need to connect to the Keystone service using the keystone client, called keystone. Initially, you won't have any users, tenants, roles, or anything else set up, and this creates a chicken-and-egg authentication problem. How do you authenticate with Keystone before you have your own user account?
We get around this problem by having the admin_token = ADMIN (or other string you specified) setting in /etc/keystone/keystone.conf configuration file. This defines a special administration token that is the literal string 'ADMIN', which can be used like a master password to get full remote control of Keystone so that you can configure it, when you are connecting to the admin port. As long as you know the admin_token, you will be able to administrate Keystone from any system that can connect to Keystone's admin port (which defaults to 35357).
It is not a good idea to have an admin_token defined on a production Keystone installation. Use it for initial setup, and then disable it, and restart Keystone. Then use a user in the 'admin' role for administration via the admin port.
Let's see how this works in practice. First, we will want to define these environment variables in our shell:
user $ export SERVICE_ENDPOINT=http://127.0.0.1:35357/v2.0/ user $ export SERVICE_TOKEN=ADMIN
Above, we are authenticating against the admin port (35357) using the admin token we defined in /etc/keystone/keystone.conf. This grants us full access to the Keystone API so we can perform initial configuration. Let's run a sample command:
user $ keystone tenant-list +----+------+---------+ | id | name | enabled | +----+------+---------+ +----+------+---------+
Above, we ran the keystone tenant-list command, at which point our client used both environment variables to connect to the Keystone service, query for all tenants, and successfully returned an empty list, because we haven't created any tenants yet. If you see this output, then keystone used SERVICE_ENDPOINT and SERVICE_TOKEN environment variables to connect and successfully query Keystone for tenants. This means that Keystone is working properly and ready to be configured further.
Note: To debug authentication issues, type export KEYSTONECLIENT_DEBUG=1 and retry your attempt.
User-Based Authentication
BETA user creation steps:
user $ keystone role-create --name admin user $ kestone tenant-create --name admin user $ keystone user-create --name admin --pass 'mySekr1t' --email 'firstname.lastname@example.com' --tenant_id admin user $ keystone user-role-add --user 0c4a78317f234333a9a1116be1c7b022 --role 805d60f51e03478bbc2cf79ef2d42135 --tenant_id f988b76e5fe546f1a18c08c4d26bcb89
I need to expand on the above commands, but basically what we are doing is creating a role named admin, a tenant named admin, a user named admin (with a password), and then we are adding the admin user to the admin role for the admin tenant. The last command references the user, role and tenant by ID rather than name. This is one of the tricky aspects of the Keystone API -- sometimes you will need to use numeric IDs rather than logical names for some API commands. You can grab the proper ID by issuing user-list, tenant-list, or role-list keystone commands.
Once you have a user named admin created, here is how you will use keystone to connect to the Keystone service. First, we will want to define these environment variables, and it's a good idea to put these in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile:
SERVICE_ENDPOINT and SERVICE_TOKEN must be unset in order to force the client to use user-based authentication. Otherwise it will assume that you are attempting to perform token-based authentication.
user $ unset SERVICE_ENDPOINT user $ unset SERVICE_TOKEN user $ export OS_AUTH_URL=http://127.0.0.1:35357/v2.0/
If you specify port 5000 instead of 35357 in the OS_AUTH_URL above, you will be connecting to the public port, and some administration functions will be unavailable. Using port 35357 will allow you to access the full functionality of the API.
Note that we no longer need to define SERVICE_TOKEN, because we're not using it anymore. Now, here's how we run a Keystone-related query:
user $ keystone --os_username='admin' --os_password 'mySekr1t' user-list +----------------------------------+---------+---------------------+-------+ | id | enabled | email | name | +----------------------------------+---------+---------------------+-------+ | 0c4a78317f234333a9a1116be1c7b022 | True | firstname.lastname@example.com | admin | +----------------------------------+---------+---------------------+-------+
If you get tired of specifying the two extra command-line arguments above, you can export the environment variables OS_USERNAME and OS_PASSWORD and Keystone will use them if defined. Note that it is not a good idea to store your plain-text password in any file.
Also note that when calling keystone, specify --os_username and --os_password first, before the command you are calling, such as service-create. Then, after service-create, you would specify any options related to service creation, such as --region.
Service Catalog
The service catalog is an important concept for Keystone and OpenStack, because this is where you knit all of the various parts of your OpenStack deployment into a coherent whole that works together. So we are going to explore service catalog configuration in detail. There are two ways to set up a service catalog. One is to use a plain-text configuration file, and the other is to store your service catalog in a SQL back-end by using keystone service-create commands. The latter is recommended, but we will cover both approaches:
Plain-Text Catalog
In older versions of OpenStack, the service catalog was defined using a plain-text catalog file. This method is still supported by OpenStack, but I think it's a bit confusing and using the SQL method documented in the next section is recommended. However, I am including documentation on the plain-text catalog because it shows up in a lot of OpenStack documentation so it's helpful to be familiar with how it works.
To enable the plain-text catalog, you would add the following settings to /etc/keystone/keystone.conf:
[catalog] driver = keystone.catalog.backends.templated.TemplatedCatalog template_file = /etc/keystone/service_catalog
You would then define a plain-text catalog at /etc/keystone/service_catalog. An example service catalog is installed at /usr/share/doc/keystone-9999/etc/default_catalog.templates.bz2
Once this is enabled in your configuration, and keystone is restarted, then the service catalog will be defined in Keystone. At this point, it will not be possible to define any services using the SQL method, via keystone service-create.
SQL-based Catalog
The SQL-based service catalog does not require any additional configuration besides ensuring that a SQL backend is configured for Keystone, which is a typical part of the install process.
To create a service endpoint, you would first define the service, using a command like this:
user $ keystone service-create --name=nova --type=compute --description="Nova Compute Service" +-------------+----------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +-------------+----------------------------------+ | description | Nova Compute Service | | id | c3600f9e26be495f9b0ed1328c33a436 | | name | nova | | type | compute | +-------------+----------------------------------+
Now that the service is defined, we can define an endpoint for this service, for region RegionOne:
$ keystone endpoint-create --region RegionOne --service_id c3600f9e26be495f9b0ed1328c33a436 \ --publicurl 'http://127.0.0.1:$(compute_port)s/v1.1/$(tenant_id)s' \ --adminurl 'http://127.0.0.1:$(compute_port)s/v1.1/$(tenant_id)s' \ --internalurl 'http://127.0.0.1:$(compute_port)s/v1.1/$(tenant_id)s'
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