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Agile Results is the name of the system I talk about in Getting Results the Agile Way. It's a simple time management system for meaningful results. The focus is on meaningful results, not doing more things. There are three keys to the Agile Results system:
The Rule of 3 The Rule of 3 helps you avoid getting overwhelmed. It's also a guideline that helps you prioritize and scope. Rather than bite off more than you can chew, you bite off three meaningful things. You can use The Rule of 3 at different levels by picking three wins for the day, three wins for the week, three wins for the month, and three wins for the year. This helps you see the forest for the trees since your three wins for the year are at a higher level than your three wins for the month, and your three wins for the week are at a higher level than your three wins for the day. You can easily zoom in and out to help balance your perspective on what's important, for the short term and the longer term.
Monday Vision, Daily Wins, Friday Reflection Monday Vision, Daily Wins, Friday Reflection is a weekly results pattern. This is a simple "time-based" pattern. Each week is a fresh start. On Mondays, you think about three wins you would like for the week. Each day you identify three wins you would like for the day. On Fridays, you reflect on lessons learned; you ask yourself, "What three things are going well, and what three things need improvement?" This weekly results pattern helps you build momentum.
Hot Spots Hot Spots are a way to heat map your life. They help you map out your results by identifying "what's hot?." Hot Spots become both your levers and your lens to help you identify and focus on what's important in your life. They can represent areas of pain or opportunity. You can use Hot Spots as your main dashboard. You can organize your Hot Spots by work, personal, and the "big picture" of your life. At a glance, you should be able to quickly see the balls you are juggling and what's on your plate. To find your Hot Spots, simply make a list of the key things that need your time and energy. Then for each of these key things, create—a simple list, a "tickler list" that answers the question, "What do you want to accomplish?" Once you know the wins you want to achieve in your Hot Spots, you have the ultimate map for your meaningful results.
You can use Agile Results for work or home or anywhere you need to improve your results in life. Agile Results is compatible with, and can enhance the results of, any productivity system or time management you already use. That's because the foundation of the Agile Results platform is a core set of principles, patterns, and practices for getting results.
The simplest way to get started with Agile Results is to read Getting Started with Agile Results, and take the 30 Day Boot Camp for Getting Results.
When you can speak the language, it's easier to find your way around. One of the key things I've learned at Microsoft is that I can find my way around the platform fast, *if* I know the language. The language usually consists of scenarios or topics, features, and APIs.
The toughest part is usually mapping out the features. The beauty is that if you know the features, they tend to be a token or a handle that connects you to various documentation sets, presentations, samples, and a plethora of other resources. The other value of knowing the feature names is they tend to be unique names, so they are more precise and they help cut to the chase when searching through vast seas of information.
Here is an initial map of the Microsoft Application Platform from a topics, features, and API perspective. It's effectively a language for the Microsoft application platform. Note that while many of the feature or API lists may be out of data, you can use the idea to build your own maps. Once the frame is in place, it's a lot easier to update it with current information. In fact, this would actually be useful as a Wiki map. It would serve as a master map of the application platform, that would make it easy to connect to relevant resources, using a common frame and vocabulary.
The map starts off by focusing on the most common application types, and then walking each core technology building block, then drilling into topics, features, and APIs.
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These are five questions I find help understand where a team is at in terms of their ability to achieve their goals effectively:
#3 is especially interesting. It forces you to analyze and evaluate, demand, throughput, and supply. It raises issues around "push" vs. "pull" strategies. It raises issues around team structure and design. It raises issues around how you split or combine the work, to go along with how you split or combine the team. It also is a great place to use TOC (Theory of Constraints) analysis to find your worst bottleneck and push the bottleneck around (it's always somewhere, and if you know where your bottleneck is, you can decide if it's the best place to be or what to do about it.) This is also a great chance to explore different methodologies, strategies and systems for execution. For example, if you want to be more responsive to demand and "pull" things through your execution engine, then Lean practices are a great place to look.
#4 and #5 are about moving up the stack, once you have the basics in place and can run some water through your pipe.
30 Days of Getting Results is a collection of little lessons you can use to improve your personal productivity and personal effectiveness. It's an off-line version of the 30 Days of Getting Results Boot Camp. If you've already gone through the 30 Days of Getting Results, then this is a great way to refresh what you learned at your finger tips. If you haven't gone through it already, the 30 Days of Getting Results will help you build a strong foundation for personal excellence. You start off by building a rhythm for results for your day and for your week. You then map out the most important things in your work and life. You then learn how to prioritize with skill and spend more time in your strengths. From that foundation, you grow your ability to think, feel, and act your best. You then learn how to add more power hours to your week, as well as creative hours. This empowers you to achieve more in less time, as well as amplify your chance to flow more value to yourself and others, both in terms of getting results, and unleashing your creative ideas.
To get the system on your side, and to learn how to achieve better, faster, simpler results, download the 30 Days of Getting Results. It's free. It's 130 pages. Share it with friends and family and help them make the most of what they've got.
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According to Christopher Alexander, "Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice."
I think the value of patterns is two key things: 1. Concise solution descriptions 2. A common vocabulary
I also think the best way to think about patterns is that they are a simple way to share strategies and principles. By naming them, you give them a simple handle.
Recently, a colleague asked me for a simple pattern template, and I didn't have anything to just point to, so I did a quick roundup of some examples.
Pattern Templates Here are example pattern schemas and pattern templates from a few key sources:
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Pattlets Pattlets were used in Enterprise Solution Patterns to briefly summarize a pattern, without fully documenting it. Here are a few samples:
A page of pattlets is available on MSDN.
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OK, after testing multiple iterations against 7 competing designs, I've updated the Getting Results.com site and the Getting Results Knowledge Base. It should now be a lot easier and friction-free to learn about the Agile Results Time Management System.
Here are key changes:
Hopefully you find the site a lot easier to use and to find your way around. I'll continue to simplify, test, tune, and refine … after all, that's the agile way
Many thanks to Alik Levin, Paul Enfield, Steve Andrews, Tobin Titus, and Will Kennedy for inspiration and ideas on how to take Agile Results and Getting Results the Agile Way to the next level.
Trying to plan for a month can be a challenge, especially if you don't have an approach. I'm going to share with you a very simple way to plan your month. It's simple, but powerful. You can use Agile Results as a way to simplify your monthly planning. Agile Results is the system I talk about in my book, Getting Results the Agile Way.
To plan the month using Agile Results, simply do three things:
The best part is that each month is a chance to turn the page and start fresh. You are the author of your life and you are always writing your story forward. Use each month as a way to add great chapters to your life. When things don't go as planned, carry the lessons forward, and use each day, each week, and each month, as a fresh start on your path of meaningful results.
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This is one of the rules that has served me well, as a Program Manager at Microsoft: Carve out time for what's important.
You don't have time, you make time. If you don't make time for what's important, it doesn't happen. This is where The Rule of Three helps. Are you spending the right amount of time today on those three results you want to accomplish? The default pattern is to try and fit them in with all your existing routines. A more powerful approach is to make time for your three results today and optimize around that. This might mean disrupting other habits and routines you have, but this is a good thing. The more you get in the habit of making time for what's important, the more you'll get great results. If you're not getting the results you want, you can start asking better questions. For example, are you investing enough time? Are you investing the right energy? Are you using the right approach? Or, maybe a different thing happens. Maybe you start accomplishing your results but don't like what you get. You can step back and ask whether you're choosing the right outcomes for The Rule of Three.
Here are some things to think about when you're carving out your time:
This is a tip from my book, Getting Results the Agile Way (now on a Kindle), a time management system for achievers. You can test drive the system by taking the 30 Day Boot Camp for Getting Results, a free time management training course.
Meaningful outcomes are the backbone of meaningful work. Meaningful outcomes help guide and shape your meaningful work.
If you have a vision for the end in mind, then you have something to work towards. To figure out meaningful outcomes, you ask yourself what you want to accomplish. Another simple way to do this is to ask yourself, "What will the wins be?"
One of the challenges is when it feels like your work has no meaning. Keep in mind that you are the ultimate filter for everything that happens in your life. You assign the meaning to your work. Make the work meaningful. One way to create meaning is to master your craft. Do so by focusing on continuous learning and improvement. Teaching your craft and being a mentor for others is another way to both amplify your learning and your impact.
Work on stuff that's valued, and remember that value is in the eye of the beholder. This makes work more meaningful. You should be aware whether it's valued by you, by your employer, or by your customer. It's fine if it's valuable to you but nobody else, but be aware of it, and make it a mindful choice. You may be in the wrong line of work or working on the wrong thing.
Getting Results the Agile Way is a time management system for achievers. It combines some of the best practices for thinking, feeling, and taking action into one simple system to help you make the most of what you've got, and master your time management skills. It draws from software development, project management, positive psychology, and sports psychology.
Free Time Management Training As an introduction to the system, I created a free 30 Day Boot Camp for Getting Results. It's called a boot camp because it's hard-core. It's a 30 day, self-paced time management training course. If you want to take your time management skills to the next level, then take the 30 Day Boot Camp for Getting Results. Keep in mind that because it's self-paced, you could do all 30 lessons in a day, if you choose to. This may be one of the best time management training courses you ever take, and the price is tough to beat.
Time Management Skills Here are some of the time management skills you will learn, tune, and improve as part of the time management training:
You will learn time management tips and strategies as part of a system, each lesson can be used by itself or "better together" with other lessons.
Time Management Training Lessons at a Glance Here are the 30 Lessons at a Glance that make up the time management training:
From the Archives Avoiding Do-Overs – Testing Your Key Engineering Decisions - From what I've seen, the most important problem is failure to test and explore key engineering decisions. By key engineering decisions, I mean the decisions that have cascading engineering impact.
Why 30 Day Improvement Sprints - I get asked this often enough that I think I should distill the keys.
From the Web Time Management Tips for Taking Action - Taking action is skill. It's one of the best skills you can use in conjunction with time management. The trick is to combine your time management skills in a way that helps you take more action. Here are 10 ways to take more action and improve your time management.
Time Management Tips on the Job – How To Be More Productive at Work - Time management is a skill you can use to be more effective at work and life. The trick is to focus on the vital few time management tips that keep improving your time management skills over time. This article shows you the key time management tips to apply to work and life that will keep improving your time management skills over time.
This is a simple hack, but a powerful one. I call it "Sticky Stuff." It puts information at your finger tips, such as To Do Lists, in a sticky way.
Here's what I do. In Outlook 2010, I create a folder called "Sticky Stuff" and I add it to my "Favorites" short list:
In that folder, I create a new "Posts." In Outlook 2010, the way to add posts to a folder is to "New Items", then "More Items", then "Post in this folder." You can then add your To do Lists or any key reference information that you need at your finger tips. If you constantly get a barrage of information, and you need to have quick access to your action items, or if you need to have quick access to information that you constantly look up, this little hack should help a lot.
The beauty of this is it's another pillar of helping me keep an empty inbox or a zero inbox. At Microsoft, where many of us get a few hundred emails per day of stuff we have to stay on top of, that's a very big deal.
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Most Linux distros have moved on to OpenSSL 1.0 and later versions. Couchbase Server (the überpackage) is still linking against a very old OpenSSL, and thus even our latest 2.0 builds don't work against year-old Linux distros out of the box. This will be a bigger problem in April, when Ubuntu Oneric ships and doesn't even have 0.9.8 in it's distro. I know it won't be supported, but developers will try to use it and be cut off from Couchbase Server if we don't resolve the issue.
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$ sudo dpkg -i couchbase-server-community_x86_64_2.0.0-dev-preview-3.deb
Selecting previously unselected package couchbase-server.
(Reading database ... 394120 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking couchbase-server (from
couchbase-server-community_x86_64_2.0.0-dev-preview-3.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of couchbase-server:
couchbase-server depends on libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-5); however:
Package libssl0.9.8 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing couchbase-server (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
Ubuntu Natty (11.10) also have openssl 0.9.8
But next version which is coming soon (Ubuntu Oneiric 12.04) as like
Debian unstable already use 1.0.0e
Generally it isn't a problem now, but in the April
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this is suboptimal but not as bad as may seem. Just like Debian they have old libssl installable.
yes, but in case of Debian, it doesn't allow to install both versions (at least on mine)
Thanks, Aliaksey. it's possible to install both versions of libssl
Should we really call this fixed? It was "won't fix" for 1.8.0. We have a workaround, but it's still not pretty and will affect more users as time goes on. Reopening since the larger question needs to be addressed at some point, and hopefully before 2.0.
Ok, I just wanted to say it is works for me
1.8.0 release does not depend on openssl anymore so the status is "fixed" there.
for 2.0 we depend on openssl and build machine is 10.04 which means it builds on top of openssl 0.998 but ubuntu oneiric ships opensll 1.0.0.
to fix this problem
1- we have to build on ubuntu 10 and ubuntu 11 separately and have seperate deb packages for them
2- build openssl as part of our packaging system which if i recall we can't do that due to some export issues with openssl
so to install couchbase server on ubuntu 11 or 12 the user has to install the right openssl version
let's choose between the two options listed in the last comment
option 1 is the way to go.
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2012-10-11 16:30:41,087 - root - INFO - running command.raw sudo dpkg -i /tmp/couchbase-server-enterprise_x86_64_2.0.0-1823-rel.deb
2012-10-11 16:30:41,256 - paramiko.transport - INFO - Secsh channel 37 opened.
2012-10-11 16:30:41,301 - paramiko.transport.sftp - INFO - [chan 23] Opened sftp connection (server version 3)
2012-10-11 16:30:44,153 - paramiko.transport - INFO - Secsh channel 24 opened.
2012-10-11 16:30:44,294 - root - INFO - running command.raw sudo cat /proc/cpuinfo
2012-10-11 16:30:44,576 - paramiko.transport - INFO - Secsh channel 25 opened.
2012-10-11 16:30:44,869 - root - INFO - command executed successfully
2012-10-11 16:30:44,869 - root - INFO - running command.raw sudo df -Th
2012-10-11 16:30:45,152 - paramiko.transport - INFO - Secsh channel 26 opened.
2012-10-11 16:30:45,444 - root - INFO - command executed successfully
2012-10-11 16:30:45,444 - root - INFO - running command.raw sudo cat /proc/meminfo
2012-10-11 16:30:45,732 - paramiko.transport - INFO - Secsh channel 27 opened.
2012-10-11 16:30:46,020 - root - INFO - command executed successfully
2012-10-11 16:30:46,020 - root - INFO - running command.raw hostname
2012-10-11 16:30:46,306 - paramiko.transport - INFO - Secsh channel 28 opened.
2012-10-11 16:30:46,586 - root - INFO - command executed successfully
2012-10-11 16:30:46,587 - root - INFO - running command.raw sudo /sbin/iptables -t nat -F
2012-10-11 16:30:46,867 - paramiko.transport - INFO - Secsh channel 29 opened.
2012-10-11 16:30:47,161 - root - INFO - command executed successfully
2012-10-11 16:30:47,441 - paramiko.transport - INFO - Secsh channel 30 opened.
2012-10-11 16:30:47,717 - paramiko.transport.sftp - INFO - [chan 30] Opened sftp connection (server version 3)
2012-10-11 16:30:47,963 - root - INFO - command executed successfully
2012-10-11 16:30:47,964 - root - INFO - * Failed to start couchbase-server
2012-10-11 16:30:47,964 - root - INFO - wait 5 seconds for membase server to start
2012-10-11 16:30:48,208 - paramiko.transport.sftp - INFO - [chan 30] sftp session closed.
2012-10-11 16:30:48,450 - paramiko.transport - INFO - Secsh channel 31 opened.
2012-10-11 16:30:48,725 - paramiko.transport.sftp - INFO - [chan 31] Opened sftp connection (server version 3)
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The maximum number of open files for the couchbase user is set too low.
It must be at least 10240. Normally this can be increased by adding
the following lines to /etc/security/limits.conf:
couchbase soft nofile <value>
couchbase hard nofile <value>
Where <value> is greater than 10240.
Erlang R14B04 (erts-5.8.5) [source] [64-bit] [smp:2:2] [rq:2] [async-threads:16] [kernel-poll:true]
Eshell V5.8.5 (abort with ^G)
1> {error_logger,2012,10,11},{14,3,19,"Unable to load crypto library. Failed with error:~n\"~p, ~s\"~nOpenSSL might not be installed on this system.~n",[load_failed,"Failed to load NIF library /opt/couchbase/lib/erlang/lib/crypto-2.0.4/priv/lib/crypto: 'libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'"]}
{error_logger,2012,10,11},{14,3,19,"The on_load function for module ~s returned ~P\n",[crypto,{error,{load_failed,"Failed to load NIF library /opt/couchbase/lib/erlang/lib/crypto-2.0.4/priv/lib/crypto: 'libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'"}},10]}
{"init terminating in do_boot",badmatch,{error,{shutdown,{ns_server,start,[normal,[]]}},[
/opt/couchbase/lib/erlang/lib/os_mon-2.2.7/priv/bin/memsup: Erlang has closed.
Erlang has closed
Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump.10-11-2012-14:03:17.6984
Andrei i have tried installing couchbase on ubuntu 12.04.1 and it failed to install
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of couchbase-server:
couchbase-server depends on libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8k-1); however:
Package libssl0.9.8 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing couchbase-server (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-virtual
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
ubuntu@domU-12-31-39-14-FA-39:~$ ^C
ubuntu@domU-12-31-39-14-FA-39:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS \n \l
In fact Ubuntu 12.04 allows you to install both 1.0 and 0.9.8, just:
apt-get install libssl0.9.8
$ grep -v "#" /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main
deb-src http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main
deb http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main
deb-src http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main
deb http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
deb-src http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
deb http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates universe
deb-src http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security universe
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
It looks like documentation problem because we don't warn users about this dependency.
And apparently CentOS 6.x users by default don't have openssl installed:
$ rpm -i couchbase-server-enterprise_x86_64_2.0.0-1723-rel.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libcrypto.so.6()(64bit) is needed by couchbase-server-2.0.0-1723.x86_64
libssl.so.6()(64bit) is needed by couchbase-server-2.0.0-1723.x86_64
And this helps:
$ yum install openssl098e
Just checking, but the reason for doing packages is so you can describe dependencies, right? This shouldn't be a documentation level issue-- our package should describe these dependencies and thus people won't have DOA servers because they've neglected to install dependencies.
Also note that if we were using repositories, dependencies would be automatically resolved.
If nobody is really fixing this package issue before 2.0 release (options 1 or 2, whatever), it sounds like documentation issue to me. It shouldn't be, but it is.
I don't know, probably we have a plan to fix that. In this case please assign the bug to right person.
assigning to dipti to make the platform support decision, and whether this is testable in 2.0 timeframe, etc.
so Matt is right , the 1.8.0 and 1.8.1 users which upgrade to 2.0 will hit this issue because of openssl dependency.
with proper documentation we will notify the users about this requirement.
one thing it would be nice to fix is not starting any of the pre or post installation scripts if this situation exists.
Just a small clarification:
"1.8.0 and 1.8.1 users which upgrade to 2.0 will hit this issue" only on CentOS 6.x and Ubuntu 12.04.
Actually we have that metadata in our package, for instance:
$ dpkg --info couchbase-server-enterprise_x86_64_2.0.0-1861-rel.deb
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.11), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8k-1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), lsb-base (>= 3.2)
And bug summary is incorrect, installation doesn't succeed:
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
$ dpkg -l couchbase-server
iU couchbase-server 2.0.0 Couchbase Server
In means that only unpack phase passed. As far as I know dpkg doesn't have dependency support.
Package manager triggers couchbase setup if user manually install missing package. And only then upgrade happens.
Smarter package managers work as expected:
$ gdebi --q couchbase-server-enterprise_x86_64_2.0.0-1861-rel.deb
Requires the installation of the following packages:
Couchbase Server
Couchbase Server is the leading distribution of memcached and
couchbase, created and supported by top contributors to the memcached
and couchbase open source projects.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package libssl0.9.8.
(Reading database ... 40101 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libssl0.9.8 (from .../libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-7ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up libssl0.9.8 (0.9.8o-7ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Selecting previously unselected package couchbase-server.
(Reading database ... 40125 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking couchbase-server (from couchbase-server-enterprise_x86_64_2.0.0-1861-rel.deb) ...
Setting up couchbase-server (2.0.0) ...
- Started couchbase-server
when you run dpkg -i on ubuntu or rpm -U centos that does not have libssl098
1- does the installer stop the couchbase-server 1.8.x instance that is running
2- does it extract/overwrite the files before failing due to dependency error ?
On ubuntu 12.04:
1. Installer stops 1.8.1 instance
2. Installer extracts files before failure. This is how dpkg works.
3. upgrade happens only if users run something like this "sudo apt-get install -f"
i see. so in that case the user 1.8.1 installation is going to be unusable and they can't use their cluster after this uness they install libssl.
also does the upgrade process migrate the data ad then it fails ?
As I mentioned before upgrade doesn't start unless you install missing dependencies. And then it succeed.
Can we force users to run:
yum install couchbase-server-enterprise_x86_64_2.0.0-1868-rel.rpm
gdebi couchbase-server-enterprise_x86_64_2.0.0-1868-rel.deb
Why do we suggest to use dpkg and rpm?
As per discussion with Farshid we should recommend our users/customers to use gdebi and yum instead of dpkg and rpm.
So, it's probably documentation issue again.)
First, I should note that previously (as discussed on this issue) the ssl deps had been removed. If they've been re-added, that's great.
Back before I filed this issue, I'd looked into this and the problem is that at least gdebi is not included in distributions by default. That means the first step would have to be apt-get install gdebi (which, for ubuntu 11.x at least seems to come from universe) then gdebi install the couchbase .deb.
It's unfortunate, but there is no OOTB tool that handles dependency resolution from a .deb.
Other alternatives we'd discussed included bundling a script that would do things on the user's behalf. Or, I think one better is that we distribute a package that adds a repo we manage, so it'd be dpkg -i, followed by apt-get install. The benefit here is that they can also obtain other tools like libcouchbase and the cbc tools through this repository. Downside is our packages aren't versioned so an upgrade of a package could break things.
Dipti needs to make the call since it's a user experience issue and timeframe. She did, back in August.
My main advice here would be to do whatever the platform advises. I feel like we're fighting the platform at the moment, and thus we're running into problems that it has solved.
On my mind, the best option for 2.0 is "apt-get install gdebi; gdebi install couchbase..." and "yum install couchbase..."
For post 2.0 releases we should finally switch to own repository as Matt suggests, except maybe I'd prefer something like this:
add-apt-repository ....
apt-get update
apt-get install couchbase...
btw, how do you distribute libcouchbase and other tools?
libcouchbase is through a repository, though we also provide a download of a tarball.
We try to do whatever is most common or the platform recommends for the given target, plus a download of an archive.
Java => Maven
.NET => NuGet
PHP => right now, a download. plans to get it in PECL
Ruby => Gem
C => yum on rpm, apt-get on deb, homebrew on Mac OS (and eventually .zip file for Windows)
Python => pypi (needs updates)
Spoke with Pavel on this. So, re-summarizing this: given a system that does not have the right openssl 0.9.8 pre-installed, when one runs...
dpkg -i couchbase-2.0.deb
- server is stopped,
- files are unpacked (already placed into /opt/couchbase)
- then the dpkg tool detects the missing dependency in the pre-installation script
- then the server is in a state where 1.8.1 will not run (it's no longer installed) and 2.0 will not run (it's never been installed)
- but, the user's data/db files are still there
Pavel reports that updating the debian package control file with explicitly listed libssl 0.9.8 dependency does not help with dpkg -i.
All true. I just want to add that removing the dependency from the package metadata would have us in a worse state. It'd try to start and crash, I believe.
This may be far too late to mention this, but I should also note that doing data migration at the time of package installation is usually not recommended in most packaging guides. Perhaps we don't actually do that though-- I'm not sure.
One other possible option to investigate: remove the SSL feature from whatever is linking against it? We don't use it to my knowledge.
ssl is used in couple of places mentioned here
On more note.
In case of own repository users cannot download *.deb or *.rpm and fail because there is no more download links.
You force users and customers to follow new installation steps as it's the only way to get Couchbase 2.0.
Bin's going to try out centos 6 steps and will report soon (after grabbing a centos 6 VM from farshid/ray)
Pavel got there first. On centos 6, he reports that rpm -i fails early due to early dependency checking.
That is, if the user has an already-installed and already-running 1.8.1 server, with lots of items in their database, and the user does not have openssl098 install already...
Next, running...
i couchbase2.0.0.rpm
Will fail with...
error: Failed dependencies:
libcrypto.so.6()(64bit) is needed by couchbase-server-2.0.0-1723.x86_64
libssl.so.6()(64bit) is needed by couchbase-server-2.0.0-1723.x86_64
And, the 1.8.1 server is still running, 1.8.1 program files and database data files are left untouched.
The fix at this point is to run...
yum install openssl098e
Then the next "rpm -i" attempt should work correctly.
(As an aside, the decision that rpm -i and dpkg -U should upgrade data was a PM decision, and they incorporated into their decision all the developer/engineering feedback that this is an unexpected, surprising, unnatural approach for databases.)
On ubuntu, some ideas / options for a fix (some of them quite ugly)...
1) - Release two packages, one for 12.04, another for 10.04. On this, Pavel reports that he tried compiling everything on 12.04, but the resulting package still depended on the old libssl. (Pavel, if I misunderstood this, please chime in.)
2) - Have a *.deb that's an envelope for another *.deb. The outer, envelope *.deb first checks for critical dependencies before invoking the real *.deb package. (Did I mention "ugly"?)
3) - Have the 'preinst upgrade' script check for critical dependencies and error with an actionable error message that tells the user what to do (e.g., "the upgrade failed because of blah blah. to fix this, please run apt-get install libsslfoobar". There might be possibility that 1.8.1 program files might be already removed at this point, but I don't think that's confirmed.
Pavel, can you check #3? Based on the debian packaging FAQ... http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkg_basics.en.html
This script executes before that package will be unpacked from its Debian archive (".deb") file.
Many 'preinst' scripts stop services for packages which are being upgraded until their
installation or upgrade is completed (following the successful execution of the 'postinst' script).
...I get the impression that perhaps the preinst can abort the upgrade without too much damage. Please see the 'preinst upgrade' state transition graph here, where I do see a pathway where 1.8.1 is left untouched as "installed" (but perhaps not running)...
Actually, instead of Pavel (who has many high priority tasks at the moment), can you lend a hand in this one? Please see my immediately previous comment?
Perhaps you can even borrow Pavel's VM's if he has some ready-to-go?
Actually I used ec2 instance for ubuntu 12.04. Anyway, it could save your time.
to summarize :
this issue needs to be addressed only for ubuntu 12.
for centos 6 use case installer will not start the upgrade process at all ( no overwriting files or data migration ) . it will fail to install without even stopping the existing couchbase installation
$ sudo dpkg -i couchbase-server_2.0.0_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 62363 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace couchbase-server 1.8.1 (using couchbase-server_2.0.0_amd64.
deb) ...
=INFO REPORT==== 22-Oct-2012::11:34:05 ===
Initiated server shutdown** at node email@example.com **
=INFO REPORT==== 22-Oct-2012::11:34:11 ===
Stopped ns_server application** at node email@example.com **
- Stopped couchbase-server
Upgrading cannot proceed before the package 'libssl0.9.8' is installed. Please
run apt-get to install libssl0.9.8
dpkg: error processing couchbase-server_2.0.0_amd64.deb (--install):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/couchbase-server start
- Started couchbase-server
Notice that installer warns users about dependency issue only in case of upgrade.
Otherwise users still get all these unclear errors.
What needs to be documented here?
Are we going to recommend users install openssl 0.9.8 when the installation says it is required?
also for users who are trying to install 2.0 for the first time we need to have this in documentation and the website as well
When installer detects that libssl0.9.8 doesn't exist during fresh installation or upgrade, it will stop installation and give instructions to install the missing libssl0.9.8. And it will be helpful to put it as a prerequisite for ubuntu 12.0 setup.
should user restart manually server after upgrade was stopped?
ubuntu@ip-10-39-13-185:/tmp$ sudo dpkg -i couchbase-server-community_x86_64_2.0.0-1971-rel.deb
(Reading database ... 31678 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace couchbase-server 1.8.1 (using couchbase-server-community_x86_64_2.0.0-1971-rel.deb) ...
=INFO REPORT==== 3-Dec-2012::15:56:42 ===
Initiated server shutdown** at node email@example.com **
=INFO REPORT==== 3-Dec-2012::15:56:48 ===
Stopped ns_server application** at node email@example.com **
- Stopped couchbase-server
No packages found matching libssl0.9.8.
Installing cannot proceed since the package 'libssl0.9.8' is missing.
Please install libssl0.9.8 and try again.
$sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8
You can also restart couchbase as follows:
$sudo /etc/init.d/couchbase-server start
dpkg: error processing couchbase-server-community_x86_64_2.0.0-1971-rel.deb (--install):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
ubuntu@ip-10-39-13-185:/tmp$ ps -ef| grep couchbase
ubuntu 3687 3502 0 16:41 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto couchbase
ubuntu@ip-10-39-13-185:/tmp$ ^C
ubuntu@ip-10-39-13-185:/tmp$ sudo /etc/init.d/couchbase-server start
- Started couchbase-server


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Thread: How Do You Cut Pyrex Tubing?
How Do You Cut Pyrex Tubing?
Hello Everyone?
I have a project that will require me to cut short sections o 1 1/4" OD with 1/8" wall thickness Pyrex tubing. I may be able to buy the lengths pre cut. If not how is it cut? I thought about an abrasive wheel and also thought about a carbide saw on my mill. The first seemed to be a better idea than the second.
This is an important project. My wife is on my a** to fix the landscape lighting in our yard. The globe, for some of the broken lights, seems to be made from Pyrex tube.
Thanks for your help and suggestions.
10-23-2008, 09:06 PM #2Aluminum
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I could be mistaken, but in chemistry class we just scored the glass with a small triangle file and then snapped the glass on a table edge. Be sure to protect your hands with a towel or heavy gloves.
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If you know anyone that does stained glass work, they will probably have a diamond bandsaw and can cut it for you. If you want to buy a diamond saw, google lapidary supply. You can buy 6" diamond saw blades and use them on an arbor either like a table saw or on a bench grinder with a suitable fence.
Thanks Guys
Come to think of it, that is exactly how we did it in chemistry class. I am trying to make it like a hard plastic but it is really glass.
Many years ago, I make some highball glasses from thick wine bottles. I remember cutting the glass with a glass cutter and polishing the edges with a torch. Beyond that, I do not remember much about how I did it. I was in college and most likely drank the wine before I made the glasses; however, the wine I drank in college had a cap and not a cork. The bottles were also thin glass. I think I got the bottles for the glasses from a restaurant.
These fixtures are make mostly from copper plumbing parts. I will try to post a pic tomorrow when I have some light.
Yall may have seen the news reports of the terrible beating of a young newscaster in Little Rock. That happened two blocks from my house. Something like that is an incentive to fix your lights.
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I seem to think you use a wheel cutter like a pipe cutter to score it all around then snap it.
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Landscaping lighting, with globes only 1.25 inch in diameter??
I'd probably chuck the tubing up in the lathe, with rubber sheet under the jaws.
Then put a glass cutter or diamond point in the toolpost and scribe it all around.
Single scribe *only*. Don't go over the first scribe a second time.
Then tap on the cut.
The old trick of wrapping a string soaked in gasoline around the glass and then
setting it on fire, probably won't work with pyrex, given that it has lower thermal
expansion coeficient than most other glasses.
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I don't think Pyrex will break with a score around it like the soft glass used in the things
you have been doing in chemistry class. Better figure on "grinding" it off.
Thanks Jim
Now I remember how I broke the tops off the wine bottles for glasses. It was the string and gas trick. I got the idea for some really neat glasses, made from hand blown bottles, my dad brought back from Italy after the war.
The 1 1/4" globe protects the bulb and there is a 6" wide cover, that looks like a VC hat, over the Pyrex globe. They are are around a sidewalk and patio. They only stick up about a foot and a half.
A 1" piece of copper pipe, with a 1 1/4'-1" reducer on top, sticks out of the ground. The bulb fixture, is held in the large end of the reducer. The Pyrex globe fits in the top (large end) of the reducer. The cover fits on top of the Pyrex globe. I will post a pic tomorrow. I feel this project will go well into the weekend. Digging dog(s) is not good for low voltage lighting.
Thanks again,
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Heavy wall pyrex tubing can be scored then the just under red hot end of a pyrex rod may be pressed onto the score. The thermal expansion will propogate the crack around the tubing. This leaves a sharp jagged edge on the tubing that should be wet ground smooth or at the least fire polished.
The way the cuts are done cleanly is with a wet saw like a Pistorius. These have a large (14-16 inch) fine abrasive blade. The blade is very porus. Water jets on both sides of the blade cool things and wash away the glass dust slurry. There is a slight chip out at the end of the cut. The saw has a sliding table and the glass tubing is held by hand during the process.
The closest thing to the proper saw is a tile saw. You might be able to do the job with a wet tile saw. Everywhere I ever worked we had a Pistorius. We either fire polished the ends, ground them on a wet belt sander, or left them as cut.
Large universities have scientific glassblowing shops that can make quick work of your job. Auto glass shops will have wet belt sanders if you cut the tubing yourself.
Thanks for the additional info. I think I found pieces that will fit from McMaster. I may be able to find some of the missing ones if they were not hit with a lawn mower. I have found, almost, all the tops. Below are two of the three culprits. Fortunately, they have outgrown most of their digging and chewing.
One is a Boykin Spaniel, JD, and the other is a "champion golden retriever", Sikes. Look close at he BYD (big yellow dog). Sikes ain't no champion golden retriever. A yellow lab jumped the fence. We were puppy sitting Sikes for a charity event. The event was canceled, due to an ice storm, three years ago. Aretha Franklin, a BBD (big black dog) is not shown but equally guilty.
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plug the end, fill with light oil to level you want to make the cut, plunge red hot iron in [dont touch the sides] ping it be cut, works on bottles too, you learn some funny skills in a lab.
also gauge glass [picture glass also] immerse in water with a touch [2 drips] detergent, cut wityh a big scissors [underwater]
if stuck with rod/tube/sheet, score with a broken sparkplug, honest the white porcilain bit cuts glass with ease.
store your glasscutter in artists turpentine, makes cutting easy.
Thanks Mark
Thanks Mark
You learn something new every day.
cutting tubing
seems like I remember cutting glass tubing this way. score a stress riser groove around the tube. block one end, water tight. twist a loop of copper wire around the tube, in the scored groove, & twist the ends into a pigtail. not too tight, but snug. secure the tube in a vertical position, inside some sort of vessel, like a bucket, & fill the tube almost to the score with water. allow the tube to sit a minute, you dont want the scored area wet. Now, heat the pigtail with a propane torch, to transfer some heat into the loop of wire. now, the idea is to raise the water level in the tube quickly, above the heated wire loop. maybe plunge a wooden dowel in, which is what we did. you dont want a splash, just a quick rise in water level. The cool water hits the hot groove, & it fractures. how much heat is enough? I don't know, this was many years ago, & I was a spectator, not the operator.There may be a learning curve. And remember, wear eye protection.


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The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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This Excel tutorial explains how to use the Excel ADDRESS function with syntax and examples.
The Microsoft Excel ADDRESS function returns a text representation of a cell address.
The syntax for the ADDRESS function in Microsoft Excel is:
ADDRESS( row, column, [ref_type], [ref_style], [sheet_name] )
Optional. It is the type of reference to use. If this parameter is omitted, it assumes that the ref_type is set to 1. It can be any of the following values:
|Absolute referencing.
For example: $A$1
|Relative column; absolute row
For example: A$1
|Absolute column; relative row
For example: $A1
|Relative referencing.
For example: A1
Optional. It is the reference style to use: either A1 or R1C1. If this parameter is omitted, it assumes that the ref_style is set to TRUE. It can be any of the following values:
|A1 style referencing
|R1C1 style referencing
The ADDRESS function can be used in the following versions of Microsoft Excel:
The ADDRESS function can be used in Microsoft Excel as the following type of function:
Let's look at some Excel ADDRESS function examples and explore how to use the ADDRESS function as a worksheet function in Microsoft Excel:
=ADDRESS(4, 5) Result: "$E$4" =ADDRESS(4, 5, 1) Result: "$E$4" =ADDRESS(4, 5, 2) Result: "E$4" =ADDRESS(4, 5, 3) Result: "$E4" =ADDRESS(4, 5, 4) Result: "E4" =ADDRESS(4, 5, 1, TRUE) Result: "$E$4" =ADDRESS(4, 5, 1, FALSE) Result: "R4C5" =ADDRESS(4, 5, 1, TRUE, "Sheet1") Result: "Sheet1!$E$4"
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Arabian Golden Sparrow (Passer euchlorus) - HBW 14, p. 805
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Taxonomy: Auripasser euchloru s Bonaparte, 1850, "Abyssinia, Arabia" = Kunfuda, Arabia.
This species and P. luteus formerly placed in a separate genus, Auripasser. The two form a superspecies and in the past were often treated as conspecific; some authorities include P. eminibey in this superspecies, but this appears not to be justified. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW tip of Arabian Peninsula, and Djibouti and extreme coastal NW Somalia.
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The Philadelphia 76ers officially ruled out Andrew Bynum's participation in tonight's home opener against Denver, and they have no timetable for his return. "While Andrew and the 76ers are both eager for him to resume game play as soon as possible, given the long regular season and the playoffs, the team intends to act with caution as to the date of his return," the team said in a statement Tuesday. The Sixers will not allow Bynum to practice until his knees are completely pain-free.
Acquired from the Lakers in a four-team trade in August, Bynum has not practiced with the Sixers because of a bone bruise to his right knee.
New York Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire, 29, will have surgery on his ailing left knee and will miss 6-8 weeks.
Stoudemire, who originally was expected to miss 2-3 weeks, will undergo a left-knee debridement, a procedure to remove unhealthy tissue, the team reported Tuesday. Stoudemire, who ruptured a popliteal cyst behind his left knee against Toronto in his preseason debut Oct. 19, ended up missing most of camp because of an ankle injury and his ailing knee, which started as a bone bruise.
The best-case scenario is that the forward will return in late December, if not early January.
Ty Lawson signed a four-year extension with the Denver Nuggets, the team said. The Denver Post reported the deal was worth $48 million. Lawson averaged 16.4 points and almost seven assists last year. … Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger is out indefinitely because of a sore left knee. Team officials said Granger, the Pacers leading scorer last year, will get a second opinion and an update will be provided following that visit. … The Utah Jazz exercised an option that will keep Coach Tyrone Corbin under contract through the 2013-14 season. Corbin was thrust into the job following the abrupt retirement of Jerry Sloan in February 2011.


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What makes the zombie genre so popular? I looked at some reasons for this Halloween story for The Oklahoman.
"Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills. The people it kills get up and kill."
— Dr. Foster ("Dawn of the Dead," 1978)
Arguably the most popular horror subgenre of the past decade has been the zombie tale, with motion picture hits including "Zombieland," "Shaun of the Dead," and the "Resident Evil" series. People have even taken to dressing like zombies in "Zombie Walks" in various parts of the world, including in Oklahoma City. (In 2010, fake blood left by a zombie walk led to a brief police investigation.)
But what has led to the ongoing appeal of these brain-eating, slow-witted monsters? Maybe it's a way of facing our fears.
"I find zombies to be an interesting subgenre of horror because unlike their narrative cousin the vampire, the werewolf or even Frankenstein's monster, zombies don't have individual identities or personalities," said local comics writer and critic Rob Vollmar. "You don't fear an individual zombie so much as you have concern about the phenomena of zombies. Horror tends to be a genre that takes on the fears that we can't face in their primary form and so they mutate into something that we can process. It seems to me that the re-emergence of zombies in film, fiction, etc., was tied to the onset of the War on Terror; a sort of sublimated fear of the unknown horde with no demands that can be satisfied except through mindless killing."
Zombiezonenews.com estimates 45 zombie movies were released in 2010, almost enough to watch a new one every week. The highest-grossing was Milla Jovovich's "Resident Evil: Afterlife." According to Box Office Mojo, it's the second-highest grossing zombie movie of all time, with a $60 million gross, behind only "Zombieland" from 2009 at $75 million.
"The Walking Dead" continues to be a juggernaut on TV and in comic books, with the graphic novels hitting The New York Times Bestseller list. Robert Kirkman created the series and writes the ongoing comics and graphic novels. The first prose novel, "The Walking Dead: The Rise of the Governor" by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga, and "The Walking Dead Chronicles: The Official Companion Book" by Paul Ruditis were released in recent weeks.
"The Walking Dead" follows sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes and a band of survivors following a zombie holocaust.
"The central genius behind the Walking Dead is that zombie narratives are typically very self-contained affairs," Vollmar said.
"It's usually the Night or the Day of the living dead, not here's how we cope with zombies being around for a long time."
The long-running narrative gives more time to explore the world after this major event.
"Kirkman excels at creating characters that people can identify with and so the payoff when one of them has to be sacrificed or gets eaten is always big. I think WD also plays on a generalized anxiety about the direction that the world is heading. Apocalypticism in general is on everyone's mind and, ironic as it may seem, contemplating that through the lens of something that probably won't happen (i.e. zombies take over the world) as opposed to one that might (Western civilization collapses) is a safe and escapist way of dealing with those nagging feelings that won't go away."
"If we hole up, I want to be somewhere familiar, I want to know where the exits are, and I want to be allowed to smoke."
Ed, Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Of course, zombie history goes back farther than the past decade. Zombies first appeared on-screen in 1932 with Bela Lugosi in the film "White Zombie." George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" reinvigorated the genre back in 1968.
Oklahoma City University's Marc DiPaolo wrote about the genre in his book "War, Politics, and Superheroes."
"In many ways, it was no wonder that popular culture was replete with apocalyptic imagery during the first decade of the new millennium, as the civilized world did, indeed, seem to be besieged on every level, and on the verge of total collapse," he wrote. "The zombie apocalypse that George Romero had envisioned as a result of racism, class warfare, and American imperial policies in his 'Night of the Living Dead' (1968 — present) series of films had gradually come to symbolize an apocalypse initiated by any number of causes, from germ warfare to foreign invasion."
The zombies represent fears that we don't know how to tackle head-on, DiPaolo writes.
"One of the appeals of the zombie figure as the physical manifestation of cultural anxieties about a number of abstract issues — ranging from fears of death to economic hardships created by difficult-to-identify culprits — is that they give angry Americans something to shoot at," he writes. "Killing zombies in video games and watching zombies killed in movies may not solve America's social, political and economic woes, but it makes people in the audience feel a little better watching zombies get shot in the head or chopped up by helicopter blades."
Former "Saturday Night Live" writer Max Brooks came to fame in the 2000s with his best-selling "The Zombie Survival Guide." His "World War Z" is in development as a movie.
He told CNN in 2009:
"'You can't shoot the financial meltdown in the head — you can do that with a zombie.'"
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Michael Goforth: Team assembled for Florida Inland Port off to good start with St. Lucie County commissioners and public
Let's make a few things clear upfront. No, I have not been paid off or lobbied by potential developers of an inland port in southwestern St. Lucie County. My passion for the environment and maintaining the quality of life in the county is undiminished.
But, following a presentation on the possible creation of what is now called the Florida Inland Port, my mind is open to the possibility that the project's benefits might far outweigh the negative impacts. Analyses of infrastructure needs and funding, economic factors and effects on the environment may sway me toward opposition, but I'm willing to listen to what the developers are pitching until those details are revealed.
While the project is essentially the same that was pitched to Port St. Lucie which narrowly rejected the proposal, there have been some significant changes in the presentation as it was pitched last week during a meeting with the St. Lucie County Commission.
The project may have been oversold to Port St. Lucie by touting up to 36,000 potential jobs for what was then called the Treasure Coast Intermodal Campus. Skepticism about those numbers led to skepticism about the project overall. No projection of jobs was made during the presentation to county commissioners.
Doubts were also raised as to whether the developers of the site — primarily local owners of agricultural land — had the expertise to pull off the kind of project proposed.
Assembled for the presentation last week was a dream team of representatives from real estate, port development, law and engineering with national and international experience and reputations. Leading the presentation was John Carver, executive vice president of Jones Lang LaSalle, the world's leading real estate services company, who had come in from Los Angeles to demonstrate the seriousness of the project and its potential. (Former NFL star Roger Staubach is an executive chairman of the company, not that it matters very much, though it's interesting.)
As being envisioned, the Florida Inland Port would be constructed on a 4,000-acre site in St. Lucie County and would serve all the deep-water ports in Florida from Jacksonville to Miami. Cargo containers would be shipped by rail to the inland port for warehousing, distribution and parts assembly, if required. The products would then be shipped largely by truck to final destinations, primarily within Florida.
The need for an inland port in Florida is largely due to the anticipated demand for a central site away from the immediate port areas for cargo being shipped through the Panama Canal, which is being expanded to handle larger container cargo ships. The containers need to be moved quickly to make room for other incoming ships.
As I open my mind to the potential benefits, it's a little disconcerting to find myself possibly on the side of state Rep. Debbie Mayfield, R-Vero Beach, with whom I seldom agree.
Mayfield was present for last week's workshop and said, "It's not a matter of whether we're going to have an inland port in Florida, but where we're going to have an inland port in Florida." She said she will be working at the state level to see that an inland port is developed.
The Florida Inland Port could be expected to create thousands of jobs and thousands more spinoff jobs. Private investment would be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Carver said he doesn't anticipate funding for the project to be a significant issue, "We're talking to several parties about Florida and the inland port," he said. "There's plenty of capital out there from the private sector."
Based on the few comments and questions raised by commissioners during the meeting, it appears there may be general support among them for the project. But, it's still early in the process. Commission Chairman Chris Craft said he anticipates "many" public meetings with the developers before any decisions have been made. The developers have not yet even submitted a formal application for the project.
The developers seem to have learned some hard lessons from their failure to get approval for their project from the city of Port St. Lucie. If they hope to get approval from county commissioners, they are going to have to be open and complete in outlining details to the public on both the benefits and potential costs to the people of St. Lucie County.
They got off to a good start last week. But, the harder selling job lies ahead.
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The Nile of Africa, which spans 6,650 kilometers (more than 4,100 miles) and flows northward across several northeastern African countries, is the world's longest river. Over the centuries, the Nile has provided sustenance and livelihood for millions of citizens in the countries it passes through. Currently, Ethiopia is building what will become Africa's largest hydro-power dam on the Nile. It will be a great resource for the area.
Hand Me The Binoculars!
When I was in elementary school my friend Kent and I would often spend time looking at the night sky with a pair of German-made binoculars. We marveled at the stars in the sky and the mountains on the moon. All throughout the evening we took turns saying, "Hand me the binocs!"
Pursuing Holiness
We often see surveys that ask people if they are happy, satisfied with their work, or enjoying life. But I've never seen an opinion poll that asked, "Are you holy?" How would you answer that question?
Solving The Mystery
One of the most popular tourist attractions in England is the giant stone pillars of Stonehenge. These massive pieces of granite are also a great source of mystery. Every year, people travel to Stonehenge with questions such as: Why were they erected? Who accomplished this extraordinary engineering marvel? And perhaps we wonder most of all how they did it. But visitors leave having received no answers from the silent stones. The mystery remains.
When God Is Quiet
I love to take pictures of sunsets at Lake Michigan. Some are subtle shades of pastel. Others are bold strokes of bright color. Sometimes the sun sinks quietly behind the lake. Other times it goes down in what looks like a fiery explosion.
The Wonder Of Sight
On the livescience.com website, I read something pretty amazing: "If you were standing atop a mountain surveying a larger-than-usual patch of the planet, you could perceive bright lights hundreds of miles distant. On a dark night, you could even see a candle flame flickering up to 30 miles (48 km) away." No telescopes or night-vision goggles needed—the human eye is so profoundly designed that even long distances can be spanned with clear sight.
Out Of The Darkness
I don't know what desperate situation gripped Asaph, the writer of Psalm 77, but I've heard, and made, similar laments. Over the past dozen years since I lost my daughter, many others who have experienced the loss of a loved one have shared with me heartbreaking sentiments like these:
In The Neighborhood
It was the buzz of our neighborhood. A famous professional football player had moved in just two houses down from where we lived. We had seen him on television and read about his great skills on the field, but we never thought he would choose to reside in our neighborhood. Initially, our expectations were that we would welcome him into the neighborhood and we would all become great friends. But his life was obviously far too busy for any of us to get to know him personally.
Remember The Wrapping
At our house some Christmas events are the same each year. Among them is my wife Martie's appeal to the kids and grandkids as they attack their gifts: "Save the paper, we can use it next year!" Martie loves to give nice gifts, but she also appreciates the wrapping. Presentation is part of the beauty of the gift.


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By the time the 23-day battle around the base ended, Kalsu was among 75 American dead. He lived 25 years.
The sacrifice is as real as the black granite another yellow-shirted volunteer polishes as visitors walk past.
This is a world away from the pseudo-military ethos that swarms through football today where nothing is more glorified, no compliment higher than a player as a warrior. Play through pain. Risk your health. Battle. Fight. Attack.
Where in a few days Northwestern University will wear Under Armour-designed uniforms against the University of Michigan that are "inspired" by a distressed American flag, but, instead, look as if blood splattered over the helmet, gloves and shoulders. When flags age, they don't look as if they've been covered in blood. No, they fade. All this is supposed to support the Wounded Warrior Project. Supposed to honor veterans. Hyper-patriotic splatters.
Where well-intentioned special-edition adidas cleats autographed by Robert Griffin III to benefit the Operation Renewed Hope Foundation come with a dog tag and are packaged in a replica of an ammo can.
Where players tuck in camouflage towels the same way they tucked in pink ones last month to remind us about breast cancer.
Where salutes, instead of dance moves of questionable taste, celebrate touchdowns.
Where the NFL boasts an "official military appreciation sponsor."
The message isn't subtle: This is much more than a mere game.
"Our cultures are similar in so many ways," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told a group of West Point cadets last year.
The wall tells another story. Games end. They are a diversion, an escape. The wall swallows you.
Down the way from Kalsu's name, a white-haired man in baggy black slacks and a windbreaker strains to start a rubbing.
"Let me get that for you, sir," a volunteer says.
"This is my list," the man says, holding a palm-sized piece of paper covered with names. "This is all of us."
Tears start.


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