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Presentation Marker allows users to draw on screen directly and zoom into certain portions for quick explanation, so the interpretation or demonstration can be clearer. Moreover, it offers more additional tools Spotlight, Curtain, Screen Digital Clock, Arrow Point, Magnification, Screen Capture etc. Presentation Marker could offer a significant help during a product demonstration or foil presentation when there is a need to make annotation on screen for better illustration. If you give a lot of presentations, product demos, tutorials, and the like, youll definitely want to add Presentation Marker to your toolset.
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Campus Ministry News & EventsCalifornia Province of the Society of Jesus weighs in on ballot propositionsWednesday, Oct. 31, 2012The linked document is the social ministries newsletter from the California Province of the Society of Jesus. In it you will find one resource for informing your position on CA propositions. We hope that this will be one of many resources you seek out.
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Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants: Appendices — Draft Report for Comment (NUREG-1437, Revision 1, Volume 2)
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations allow for the renewal of commercial nuclear power plant operating licenses, depending on the outcome of an assessment to determine whether the nuclear plant can continue to operate safely and protect the environment during the 20-year period of extended operation. Renewal of a nuclear power plant operating license requires the preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS). To support the preparation of these EISs, the NRC published the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants (GEIS) in 1996. The proposed action considered in the GEIS is the renewal of nuclear power plant operating licenses.
The NRC committed to review and revise the GEIS on a 10-year cycle, if necessary. Since publication of the GEIS, approximately 30 plant sites (50 reactor units) have applied for license renewal and undergone environmental reviews, the results of which were published as supplements to the 1996 GEIS. This GEIS revision reviews and reevaluates the issues and findings of the 1996 GEIS. Lessons learned and knowledge gained during previous license renewal reviews provides a significant source of new information for this assessment. In addition, new research, findings, and other information were considered in evaluating the significance of impacts associated with license renewal.
The intent of the GEIS is to determine which issues would result in the same impact at all nuclear power plants, and which issues could result in different levels of impact at different plants and thus require a plant-specific analysis for impact determinations. The GEIS is intended to improve the efficiency of the license renewal process by (1) providing an evaluation of the types of environmental impacts that may occur as a result of renewing the license of a nuclear power plant, (2) identifying and assessing the impacts that are expected to be generic (the same or similar), and (3) defining the number and scope of impacts that need to be addressed in plant-specific EISs. The GEIS revision identifies 78 environmental impact issues for consideration in plant-specific supplements to the GEIS.
In addition to the impacts of continued operations and refurbishment, the GEIS evaluates other consequences of license renewal, including the environmental effects of postulated accidents and the effects of an additional 20 years of operation on the impacts of shutdown and decommissioning and on the uranium fuel cycle. The GEIS evaluates a full range of alternatives to the proposed action, including a no-action alternative (denial of license renewal), fossil energy alternatives, nuclear energy alternatives, renewable energy alternatives, conservation (demand-side management), and the purchase of power. For most impact areas, the proposed action would have impacts that would be similar to or less than impacts of the alternatives, in large part because most alternatives would require new power plant
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VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) and VBAMC (Vaginal Birth After Multiple Cesarean) policy data provided and used with permission by Portland ICAN. All women are invited to ICAN meetings – I recently had a conversation with a leader at ICAN about encouraging more first-time Mamas to go to the ICAN meetings to learn how to prevent that first cesarean in to begin with. I think that's a goal I can get behind! Don't wait until you've been cut to learn about ICAN (International Cesarean Awareness Network). Learn everything you can because knowledge is power in birth!
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DALLAS — Comedic actresses Sherri Shepherd and Cloris Leachman are finding the humor in menopause by headlining the Poise brand's Hot Flash Road Show, a free comedy tour making stops in New York and Los Angeles this fall that was announced Friday by Kimberly Clark. Open to the public, the Hot Flash Road Show is part of The 2nd Talk, an effort led by the Poise brand to start a whole new way to talk about menopause and help women approach this life stage with confidence. With the "first talk" focusing on puberty, few women ever engage in "the second talk."
"The Poise brand has always taken a light-hearted approach to tackling difficult topics," stated Rebecca Dunphey, Poise brand director at Kimberly-Clark. "We believe that having Sherri and Cloris put the spotlight on menopause in the Hot Flash Road Show will help women across the country feel more at ease with talking about the changes they're experiencing themselves."
"I'm no stranger to talking about sensitive topics, so I jumped at the chance to partner with Poise brand for the Hot Flash Road Show," stated Shepherd, co-host of ABC's "The View." "With this comedy tour, I'll help women have 'the second talk' by bringing humor to this lifestage."
"At 86 years young, I definitely have my share of menopause stories that I think every woman will eventually relate to," added Leachman, a nine-time Emmy-Award-winning actress and star of FOX's "Raising Hope." "Eight-in-10 women say it's time to change the way society thinks about menopause, and the Hot Flash Road Show is a unique opportunity to get people to think differently about this life stage."
With the launch of the tour, Kimberly Clark also will be introducing a new line of Poise feminine wellness products designed to work naturally with a woman's body to provide comfort during menopause.
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Residents of Tamworth are being urged to ensure they are registered for the local elections on 2 May. The electoral register is a list of everyone who is registered to vote. You need to be on the register before you can vote in an election. You are not automatically registered, even if you pay council tax. If you are not currently registered you will need to fill out a registration form. Registrations forms are available from the Council offices at Marmion House and via the council's website (please see link on right-hand side) or by calling the Elections Office on 01827 709263 or 709265.
If you will be away on polling day and would like to apply for a postal or proxy vote the applications need to reach the Elections Office by the deadlines below:
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5:00pm on 17 April 2013
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5:00 pm on 24 April 2013
Last day for new applications to vote by proxy on grounds of medical emergency
5:00 pm on 2 May 2013
Further details regarding the elections will appear below in due course.
On Thursday 14 March the Candidates and Agents Meeting for the above elections took place. Below is a copy of the presentation from the evening and links to the guidance and nomination papers.
Candidates and Agents Presentation (pdf)
Staffordshire County Council Election Nomination Pack (pdf)
Wilnecote Ward By-election Nomination Pack (pdf)
Staffordshire County Council Guidance (pdf)
Wilnecote Ward By-election Guidance (pdf)
Electoral Commission Guidance for Candidates and Agents
Tamworth Borough Council is made up of ten electoral wards, each of which is represented by three Councillors. Each Council member is elected for a four year term and a local election is held three years out of four.
Staffordshire County Council elections are held in the fourth year. Information regarding forthcoming elections will appear here in due course.
Tamworth Borough Council is now made up of 18 Conservative members, 11 Labour members and 1 Independent member.
Staffordshire County Council Election
Borough Election
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European Parliamentary Election (to be confirmed)
Parliamentary Election
Notice of Poll for the Staffordshire County Council Election (pdf)
Notice of Poll for the Wilnecote Ward of Tamworth Borough Council (pdf)
Notice of Particulars of Election Agents for the County Council Elections (pdf)
Notice of Particulars of Election Agents for the Wilnecote Ward of Tamworth Borough Council (pdf)
Statement of Persons Nominated - Staffordshire County Council (pdf)
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Home » News » Crime
Public guardian worker charged with embezzling
A woman responsible for managing funds for wards of the state has been indicted for allegedly embezzling $52,000 in public funds, federal prosecutors said.
Heidi Lacerte was indicted on a single count of embezzlement for allegedly taking money from the Office of Public Guardian between February and October 2010, according to prosecutors.
The stolen money was Social Security and Department of Veterans Affairs benefits meant to cover "current medical and fiscal needs" of beneficiaries who were under the public guardian's care, according to the indictment.
The Office of Public Guardian is a nonprofit group established in 1979 to provide advocacy and guardianship for people whose family is unable to serve as a guardian. Part of Lacerte's job as an estate manager required her to manage the finances of individuals who received services from the Office of Public Guardian, prosecutors said. The indictment was filed in U.S. District Court alongside a plea agreement struck with federal prosecutors.
Federal prosecutors said that the funds were kept in an account held by the OPG, so it could be tapped as needed. But around Feb. 23, 2010, Lacerte began pilfering money from the fund by "having checks written to herself drawn against beneficiaries' funds," according to an indictment. Prosecutors say she also purchased gift cards and took cash intended for beneficiary accounts for her own use.
Court documents do not say how Lacerte's alleged theft was discovered. Terms of the plea deal do not reveal what prosecutors may recommend for a sentence, but Lacerte faces up to 10 years in federal prison and up to a $250,000 fine.
The indictment and plea agreement was made public Nov. 8 in U.S. District Court. Lacerte is expected to enter her guilty plea on Nov. 30 before U.S. Judge Steven McAuliffe in federal court.
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Our house is outfitted with furniture and accessories that have been amassed over time and acquired from a variety of sources, but mostly from family, the side of the road (yay for dumpster diving!), and/or thrift shops. Looking around, it seems that every piece of furniture, lamp, picture, etc., has some story/memory behind it- an aspect that I find comforting and meaningful. Anyhoo, one accessory that feels like it has been around fo-eva is a mirror Aaron has had since college. It's a heavy beast and has been repainted by yours truly multiple times in order to fit into whatever decor I have going on at the moment.
I like where we have it hung at the moment, but I just felt like it was still a little plain and simple for my tastes. My first thought was I could age the mirror portion to give it a faux patina using acid. After looking online at some tutorials I nixed this idea, not because it was difficult, but rather because it takes practice to get the technique right and I really didn't want to ruin the mirror. My next idea was to paint a portion of the mirror with chalkboard paint adding a little function to an otherwise stagnant piece. Perfect!
My first steps were to tape off and then apply two coats of chalkboard paint. After letting it cure for 24 hours, we had a chalkboard for dinner menu announcements, grocery lists, reminders, etc.
I am fond of how I left mirror on both sides of the chalkboard- it makes the mirror unique and not so cookie cutter. Three cheers for an easy project with a great end result!


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With an important underground music scene and large international acts coming through regularly, Argentina has a thriving environment for fans of any genre of music. But what happens when being a fan goes beyond just knowing the words to a couple of songs or buying a few albums? For some, being a fan involves anything from following bands on tours, to spending absurd amounts of money on memorabilia, to getting an autograph of your favourite artist tattooed permanently. For some, following a band becomes an obsession and a way of life, regardless of how mainstream or commercially successful it may be. It is here that a cult status begins to form.
Obviously, the definition of a ŌĆ£cult bandŌĆØ is as varied as the bands the label is ascribed to, so the following list is neither comprehensive nor set in stone. What defines a band as ŌĆ£cultŌĆØ is as hard to pin down, but for different reasons, whether their fan base, their musical influence, or the niche market they fit in, the following artists have become cult fixtures in Argentine music and culture.
Patricio Rey y Sus Redonditos de Ricota, better known as 'Los Redondos' for short, is critically acclaimed as one of the most important and influential groups in Argentine rock, and one of the principal figures of the countryŌĆÖs music scene between 1980 and the 1990s.
Formed in La Plata, the group included Carlos Alberto 'Indio' Solari on vocals, Eduardo ŌĆ£SkayŌĆØ Beilinson on guitar, and Carmen Castro, also known as 'The Black Poly', as manager and muse. They remained active between 1976 and 2001 and by the time the group had released its most commercially successful album, 'La Mosca y La Sopa' in 1991, it had already amassed a large, cult-like fan base that called themselves 'ricoteros'.
Known for its experimentation in both music and publicity, the group shied away from large venues and traditional marketing in preference of smaller shows and more homespun advertising. Rather than making official announcements or using the media to spread word of performances, often the group relied on word of mouth to advertise shows to fans. Los RedondosŌĆÖ complex lyrics have been compared to Baroque poets, and deal with everything from women and drugs to politics, their existentialist themes attracting passionate support.
As they gained popularity, the RedondosŌĆÖ sparsely attended theatre shows gave way to jam-packed stadiums. The size of their following often brought sold out and over-capacity shows, and once even caused an Olavarr├Ła mayor to put a stop to a performance in 1997.
Although the group hasnŌĆÖt played a show since its split in 2001, it maintains a huge fan base to this day and is a classic fixture in Argentine rock history.
Although Sumo remained underground and lesser known during its time in the Argentine music scene, the band managed to shape contemporary Argentine rock. Started in the early 1980s by Italian-born Luca Prodan, Sumo combined British post-punk rock with the Argentine rock nacional genre that was prevalent at the time. Add a little bit of reggae on top of that, and you have a sound thatŌĆÖs both addictive and hard to describe.
Their story sounds straight out of a modern day epic poem: Luca Prodan fled Manchester, after years of hanging out with the members of Joy Division, to kick his heroin habit. He started recording songs in 1981 in a homemade studio in the countryside outside of C├│rdoba. After getting tired of the countryside, he moved to downtown Buenos Aires to start performing, but had to be careful because the military dictatorship at the time was on the look out for "subversive" artists and musicians. He then joined up with Germ├Īn Daffunchio on guitar, Alejandro Sokol on bass, and Stephanie Nuttal on drums and began to play at venues around the city.
Because their music was almost exclusively in English, Sumo did not enjoy a lot of radio airtime during their stint as a band. This only added to their mystery and cult status, as their loyal fans sought them out in the underground music scene. In a tragic end to the aforementioned ŌĆ£epic poemŌĆØ qualities of ProdanŌĆÖs life, his rockstar lifestyle caught up with him and he died of a heart attack in 1987, two days after the bandŌĆÖs last show. The early end to such a promising band has added to their mystique, and to this day people talk on forums and Facebook groups about what could have been if Prodan was still alive.
El Mat├│ a Un Policia Motorizado
Living in Buenos Aires, youŌĆÖre more likely to learn of this band through the graffiti bearing its name throughout the city than from hearing them on the radio. La Plata band El Mat├│ a Un Policia Motorizado combines punk rock and noise rock, and draws influence from bands like the Pixies, the Ramones and the Velvet Underground.
The group features Santiago Motorizado on bass and vocals, ŌĆ£Doctor DeathŌĆØ on drums, Pantro Puto on guitar, Ni├▒o Elefante on guitar, and Chatr├Īn Chatr├Īn on keyboard. They released their first EP, ŌĆ£El Mat├│ a Un Policia MotorizadoŌĆØ in 2004, and in 2005 began a trilogy of albums depicting birth, life and death. The trilogy shot the band to a larger audience, setting them off on a tour of South America and Europe, where they played big festivals like Primavera Sound in Barcelona. The group took a four-year hiatus and came back stronger than ever in 2012, to fans that had been awaiting their return. With a small but growing following and frequent shows at cultural centres and alternative venues around Buenos Aires, this band is changing contemporary Argentine rock and developing a steady and dedicated set of fans in the process.
They continue to grow, and in 2012 MexicoŌĆÖs Rolling Stone named their most recent album one of the best of the year, saying: ŌĆ£After four years of absence, the band returned with an album ambitious and risky that dispelled any doubts about their potent sound.ŌĆØ The group is still active and is back touring South America in Spring of 2013, with shows at the club Niceto in Buenos Aires on the 28th and 29th March.
One of the oldest still-active Argentine bands that has kept a strong following is Pez. Formed by Ariel Minimal in 1993, the ŌĆ£hard experimental rockŌĆØ group originally included musicians Alejandro Alez and Pablo Barbieri. It has changed continuously since then, fluctuating between the original trio and a five-piece band with different instruments, experimenting with a variety of sounds. Pez currently has four members, with Minimal the only original member. With its constantly changing line-up of artists, it is difficult to say exactly what Pez's overriding sound is, and that seems to be part of the attraction for many of its fans. Rooted in experimental rock, the group has incorporated everything from tango to punk into their sound and they never stick to one type of music. ŌĆ£Over this long period of time weŌĆÖve shown that Pez is much more than just the sound of one album, our history has been forged over the course of all our albums,ŌĆØ Minimal explained to the music blog Rebvelados.
Doing things their own way has always been the unofficial motto of Pez, who began its own independent, cooperative record label called Azione Artigianale to record its own music.
Perhaps it is the constant change that has attracted such a loyal fan base. Part of the reason the band maintains such a cult-like following is its ability to adapt and evolve to changing technology and the changing music scene. ŌĆ£Since we are an independent band, it is very important to distribute our music over social media and the internet,ŌĆØ Minimal said in a recent interview. He added that the band is always looking for innovative ways to share their music with the world. As long as the band continues to grow and adapt, they are set to retain their cult following for years go come.
Los Brujos
Emerging from the same musical nucleus as the hugely successful Babas├│nicos, Los Brujos carved out their own, less commercial niche in the music scene and has thousands of dedicated fans to prove it. Their hard-to-pin-down, invented genre has kept listeners guessing since their founding in 1988. Their sound has been described as ŌĆ£funkmetalŌĆØ and ŌĆ£funkcoreŌĆØ but the group has opposed these labels.
ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖre pigeonholed into the list of alternative groups, but alternative to what? In reality, although it doesnŌĆÖt bother us to be labelled like that, we prefer to say that we are a group that is constantly changing,ŌĆØ said guitarist Rey Mental.
The group created more than just a musical experience, as their concerts included bizarre costumes and lights, an aesthetic experience specific to Los Brujos. They achieved brief commercial success with their single ŌĆ£Kanishka,ŌĆØ which got a significant amount of radio play and even inspired a Nirvana song after Kurt Cobain heard the tune on a visit to Argentina. The group announced its separation in 1998 but maintains a huge fan base. Fan website Que Vuelvan Los Brujos (Come Back, Brujos) is still updated as of 2013 with information about the band and hopes that theyŌĆÖll return to the Argentine music scene.


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U8 / U10 Blitz June 18th
Goodmayes was the venue for our second Under 8 and 10 blitz on Saturday 18th June. With training going from strength to strength since the last blitz in May, the McCurtains youngsters went into the day with high confidence and a sense of expectancy.
The Under 8's kicked off the day with their first match up against the St Kiernans youngsters. The under 8's team on paper looked extremely strong with John Ryan, Dylan McGovern, Jamie Moran, Guiseppe Palumbo and Lynsey McNamara all coming into the side to compliment the excellent Kieron Williams, Oisin Mulholland and Finnian Moloney. The McCurtains, despite playing against a strong wind, started the game strong with some fine scores from Jamie Moran and Finn O'Sullivan. Lynsey McNamara was dominant in the middle of the park with John Ryan whilst the excellent Kieron Williams marshalled the backline superbly from between the posts. The second game was very similar to the first match as it was the McCurtains side's chance to play with the strong breeze. The youngsters from Goodmayes proved too strong for their opponents and remained unbeaten for the day with two wins from two games on a soaking wet day!
So after an impressive display from the under 8's the pressure was on for the under10's to show their worth. Playing against the strong wind in their first game against the Kiernans proved to be a very entertaining game of Gaelic football. Making their debut for the club was Thomas Carroll, who was undoubtedly the star of the day. George Tewkesbury was excellent in goal and was certainly helped by the non-stop work of Niall Duffy, Ronan Vodica, Toby Williams and Gerrick Clamore. Tommy Grannell was again the inspirational forward marking the day with some superb scores. The first match ended up in a draw, which wasn't too disappointing for the Goodmayes team playing against the ever increasing strong elements. The second game, which gave the McCurtains team the opportunity of playing with the breeze, proved to be very much one-way traffic with the McCurtains completely dominating from start to finish.
Well done to both the under 8's and under 10's. The football, spirit and effort on show was brilliant and really highlighted the development of the players since the last blitz in May. Thanks to everybody involved on the day including parents, helpers and all from the St Kiernans club.
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- Currently, trains from Vienna either have to run directly to Klagenfurt or to Graz. The construction of the Koralm Railway will make it possible for trains to travel from Vienna to Klagenfurt via Graz.
- Furthermore, the current Southern Railway Line and the Rudolf Railway Line from Vienna to Villach can only handle low train weights due to limitations of tonnage and train coupling hook load limits at Semmering and the Neumarkter Sattel, or else they require special operational measures, such as providing additional locomotives in the front, rear or in the middle. At Semmering, load dimension limitations are another handicap. After completion of the Koralm Railway and the Semmering Base Tunnel, heavy-goods trains of up to 2,000 tons will be able to be pulled by only one locomotive, similar to the Western Railway Line.
- According to calculations by the Vienna Technical University, the economic benefits for the region add up to 167 million Euros per year.
- The benefit in terms of tax income generated by the economic stimulus will be seven to eight times the amount invested (calculations by the IHS).
- Stimulation of the job market during the construction period (more than 100,000 jobs) and during operation (about 40,000 jobs) due to the economic impulse provided by the Koralm Railway (according to estimates by the IHS).
- The economic benefit for the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) is based on a long-term perspective, when the raised infrastructure utilisation fee (IBE) will have to be paid according to the Railway Infrastructure Financing Act (SCHIG). The benefits for the national economy are undisputed. The Koralm Railway has always had top ratings in all cost-benefit evaluations.
- As a component of the "Baltic-Adriatic Corridor", the Koralm Railway in combination with the Semmering Base Tunnel forms an indispensible part of the European railway network. This has been documented in a study by the Karl-Franzens University Graz.
- In a report to the EU Commission in July 2006 on the hesitant implementation of this corridor, the coordinator of the Pan-European Traffic Corridor V, Loyola de Palacio, suggested considering a junction of this corridor via Villach - Klagenfurt - Graz as Priority Project No. 6.


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I have a US relative who comes to visit here in Toronto. When he rents a car here, he hangs his home-based handicapped permit on his rear-view mirror. The permit is a legal one -- there's no problem with ethics or anything, but I'm just wondering if he's still liable to get a ticket here for parking in a handicapped spot.
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... US handicap permits are honored equally in Canada... however they are registered to the Person and not any particular vehicle, so that person must be in the vehicle when used...
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Actually what may amaze your friends is how limited "free" street parking is in Canada. everywhere i have travelled in the USA and Europe a disabled driver plaque gets you free unlimited parking ( even at meters) 24/7 except in tow away zones.
Try that in Vancouver and you'll get a ticket. here in Victoria one only gets a free hour after paying the meter.
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AndrewD... US law does NOT allow free meter parking unless the local community passes it as an exception... you just haven't been caught yet...
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well i've parked in seattle, san francisco, santa fe, santa barbara , denver, and salt lake among other places. when i travel to the usa , i always ask an enforcement official and have always been told i can park as long as i need. i've not been everywhere, but it's always been permitted where i've travelled. where do you live where it has not been permitted?
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I just looked up the law for handicapped parking... that's what the law stated... I guess asking an enforcement official gets you free parking...
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[b]It's a fact that virtualization is happening in the data center, not on the desktop. You think a kvm GUI can become a killer application? fine, write one. You don't need any consent from me as kvm maintainer (if patches are needed to kvm that improve the desktop experience, I'll accept them, though they'll have to pass my unreasonable microkernelish filters). If you're right then the desktop kvm GUI will be a huge hit with zillions of developers and people will drop Windows and switch to Linux just to use it.[/b] HA! YOUR WRONG! Completely and totally 150% _WRONG_. So F-ing wrong you should be slapped. :-) Virtualization on the desktop is absolutely and 100% critical. Absolutely freaking fantastic. The reason it has not caught on is because virtualization is such a pain in the ass and desktop market is extremely slow to change. Your not seeing wide-spread adoption of KVM _right_now_ because KVM requires hardware extensions to run correctly and Intel makes it a bitch to find the correct combination of CPU and motherboards to get the most out of it. But that is a purely _temporary_ situation. Eventually even the cheapest of the cheapest computers are going to have VT extensions in them. KVM is a HUGE advantage for Linux becasue support is built in automatically. No drivers to install, no nothing to configure. Install Qemu-KVM and _your_done_. Eventhing else, in comparison, SUCKS. For example... Integrate x86 hardware with Linux-KVM will unleash a HUGE untapped market. Something people can buy and just slap into their network. MS-DOS applications? Win3.11 applications? Solaris applications? SCO applications? Windows XP applications? There are a shitload of those legacy things floating around and around the business market. Mission critical applications, even built on shit-grade systems, are still mission critical applications and they are not going to go anywere simply because the hardware turned to dust. A few examples: Q: Xen + Citrix.... why? A: DESKTOP. Q: Quemerant + KVM + SPICE protocol... why? A: DESKTOP Q: Vmware purchasing Tungstan graphics and being principal developer/contributer to Gallium3D... why? A: DESKTOP Q: Windows Vista and Windows 7's 'XP MODE'... why? A: DESKTOP Q: Parrellels insanely popular on Mac... why? A: DESKTOP Q: Vmware Workstation, Vmware Player, Vmware etc etc... Why? A: DESKTOP etc etc. Probably 90% of the virtualization solutions out there in proprietary-land are specifically designed and created with the expressed purpose of solving desktop issues people are having. Sure much of the big money is going to huge corporate-level solutions like Xen/Citrix desktop stuff, but that is just because that is were the big money is at. I mean, seriously, look at all the years of f-king work that went into things like Wine. Years and years and years of effort to create a open source win32 implementation that can run on Linux. Well I can take KVM and in twenty minutes get something on my Linux desktop that will blow Wine away in terms of performance (except graphical) and compatibility with not only ancient Win16/win32 versions, but the most modern stuff Microsoft is coming out with. And you don't think that is remarkable or important for the success of 'Desktop Linux'. It's not only important, lack of decent desktop integration is a deal breaker. ----------------------------------- As far as Virtualbox goes.... Do you have any idea who owns it? Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) Is it any wonder why there is no contibuters?!! They are still following the shitastic "open source core" + "proprietary add-ons" that worked out so well for tools like Pre-Novell Yast. Virtualbox is not getting love because they are doing a hybrid open source/closed source development model PLUS they are owned by Sun Microsystems. That is the reason for lack of contributions, not because of lack of demand. -------------------- I bet that 70-80% the people on LWN run some form of virtualization on their desktops for one thing or another. The biggest problem for Qemu is that there is no decent desktop support in the actual Qemu project. These add-on solutions like 'Qemuctl' or 'Libvirt/virt-manager' are just shit on the desktop because you cannot make silk out of a pig's ear no matter how many layers of code you want to place over it. Qemu's problems are absolutely solvable, but they need to be solved by Qemu. Things like better sound devices, better USB device support, vastly more user friendly Qemu- monitor, vastly better graphics performances and acceleration options are going to have to be tackled on the Qemu side of things in the Qemu code base. The GUI can be seperate, to be sure, but the GUI and Qemu need to be developed together. And moving Qemu into the kernel sounds pretty dumb, btw.
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Posted Mar 23, 2010 21:49 UTC (Tue) by mingo (subscriber, #31122) [Link]
Nice observations, i agree with most of them.
Just wanted to react to this bit:
And moving Qemu into the kernel sounds pretty dumb, btw. If you meant this as "moving into the kernel as a subsystem" then i agree that moving Qemu into the kernel would be a pretty dumb thing indeed. [*]
And moving Qemu into the kernel sounds pretty dumb, btw.
What i suggested was to move it into the kernel repository (maybe you understood it as such), but still as a user-space project - a'la tools/perf/.
That is a plain user-space tool that lives in the kernel repository. It can be built and installed in user-space by doing:
cd tools/perf/ make -j install
It is an admittedly very unusual development model to maintain a user-space tool within the kernel repository, but for such a tool with such close ties to the Linux kernel as perf there are many advantages, and it worked out well beyond our expectations.
Thanks, Ingo
[*] with the caveat that it does make sense to move certain device emulation and paravirt functionality into the kernel, and not emulate it straight from Qemu. Many performance problems of KVM result from excessive execution in Qemu.
Posted Mar 23, 2010 22:25 UTC (Tue) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]
Posted Mar 23, 2010 22:59 UTC (Tue) by mingo (subscriber, #31122) [Link]
AFAIK it's still quite different from the FreeBSD model.
Last i checked (which, admittedly, was many years ago) in FreeBSD a kernel developer with commit access did not have commit access to a user-space package - and vice versa.
So it's not really a unified repository in the same way that tools/perf/ is.
Plus, most of the user-space packages are imported into FreeBSD and are maintained externally (with local changes applied), so any local changes would have to be contributed back to the upstream project - eliminating most of the unification gains i talked about in the KVM discussion.
In any case, my FreeBSD development model knowledge is pretty outdated, so if the model has changed (or if it never existed in that form) please correct me and educate me ...
Plus, just to make it clear: i find the integrated repository aspect of FreeBSD rather useful, and i think Linux should learn from that.
Minimal userspace for kvm in linux-2.6.git
Posted Mar 24, 2010 0:03 UTC (Wed) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]
As an innocent bystander, I really liked this suggestion that Avi Kivity made and you picked up:
That would make sense for a truly minimal userspace for kvm: we once had a tool called kvmctl which was used to run tests (since folded into qemu). It didn't contain a GUI and was unable to run a general purpose guest. It was a few hundred lines of code, and indeed patches to kvmctl had a much closer correspondence to patches with kvm (though still low, as most kvm patches don't modify the ABI).
If it's functional to the extent of at least allowing say a serial console via the console (like the UML binary allows) i'd expect the minimal user-space to quickly grow out of this minimal state. The rest will be history.
Maybe this is a better, simpler (and much cleaner and less controversial) approach than moving a 'full' copy of qemu there.
I still hope it happens.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 12:14 UTC (Wed) by nescafe (subscriber, #45063) [Link]
It's just not that simple to build userspace binaries that use lots of libraries
Posted Mar 24, 2010 8:45 UTC (Wed) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071) [Link]
That is a plain user-space tool that lives in the kernel repository. It can be built and installed in user-space by doing: cd tools/perf/ make -j install
That's exactly what they can't do, because building real world GUI-using userspace binaries isn't that simple. You need a monster like autoconf or CMake to do the grunt work of locating the large variety of (mostly GUI-related) libraries apps like qemu need to link to to achieve the functionality people expect of them. The day I see a makefile.am and configure.in or a CMakeLists.txt in the kernel tree ...
Look at the output of: ldd `which kvm` to get an idea of the variety of things the kvm executable tends to link to. Now think about hand-writing Makefile rules that work on a reasonable variety of Linux systems (let alone the BSDs, OpenSolaris, and other free platforms) that'll have a reasonable chance of locating and correctly using those libraries. No chance.
ldd `which kvm`
To be able to keep the core kvm userspace code in the kernel tree, they'd probably have to rip up kvm into a core libkvm.so and "the rest". libkvm.so would be usable by an extremely stripped down GUI-less sound-less ....-less kvm-basic that could also be built by simple makefile and stored in the kernel tree. It'd also be used by a full-featured kvm maintained elsewhere and built with regular build tools. It doesn't seem like any improvement to me, it just moves the interface boundary a bit.
I (as joe random) happen to share your general sentiment that some userspace really could use being kept in the kernel. udev or whatever device management daemon of the day is used; module-init-tools; etc. I just don't think it's realistic to put kvm in that group unless it does prove useful to move the interface boundary into a user-space library, ie stable library ABI for library shipped with kernel, unstable kernel ABI for talking to that library. And good luck getting that past the stable-kernel-ABI dragons.
Posted Mar 25, 2010 12:39 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]
You need a monster like autoconf or CMake to do the grunt work of locating the large variety of (mostly GUI-related) libraries...
These days most popular libraries support pkg-config which makes this a whole lot simpler.
Posted Mar 26, 2010 3:32 UTC (Fri) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071) [Link]
At least pkg-config makes version tests, cflags discovery, etc a whole lot easier.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 8:49 UTC (Wed) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071) [Link]
... though re-reading your comment, you're in fact correcting a prior misunderstanding and pointing out that you're *not* suggesting putting it in the kernel tree and by extension kernel build system, just in the kernel repo.
Sorry. Thrown by your analogy to perf - because it's not really like perf at all.
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Posted Mar 23, 2010 23:47 UTC (Tue) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]
What is a client hypervisor?
I assume everyone knows what VMware ESXi is. Ok, want a Linux example? How about Red Hat's RHEV-Hypervisor. Ok, you know what those are, right? Now imagine them built into firmware and put into every desktop and server by default. This is especially a powerful concept when you imagine that a laptop or desktop computer will no longer need to come with an OS because as long as it has a client hypervisor in firmware you can use a generic OS image.
It basically takes the major feature of virtualization as it applies to servers today... that being hardware independence... and applies it to the desktop OS. Pick one or multiple OS images and run them on demand. Combine that with fast networking for booting VMs over PXE for more than just installation. Combine that with remote desktop protocols (SPICE, RDP/RemoteFX, ICA/HSX, PCoverIP, etc) for thin-client access as well... and just imagine what the desktop of the future will look like.
What stands in the way? Getting the client hypervisor working well with the large variety of hardware available in the PC market... or deciding to reduce the hardware supported. Getting accelerated 3D working in VMs painlessly and well. Other than that, the desktop computer as we know it will completely change over the next 2-10 years. You think anyone is interested in that market? :)
Posted Mar 24, 2010 0:01 UTC (Wed) by zamsden (guest, #36686) [Link]
Yes there are many use cases for desktop virtualization and you point them out, but they are all niche markets which specific products have been optimized to target.
The reason desktop virtualization lags behind and has not caught on is not because it is particularly painful to use, it is because the use cases don't generate as much money and therefore vendors are not putting as much effort into it. Server revenue is far more important.
These ad-hoc statistics we see quoted are absolutely useless. 70-80% of people on LWN is not a great market compared to 1% of corporate data centers.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 0:09 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]
Are there more desktops in the world or servers?
If desktop virtualization were built in and the way you ran any OS, which is what client hypervisors are about, it will be a much bigger market.
I'm not saying server virtualization is going away or anything... just that it is going to get much bigger on the desktop.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 0:11 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
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Posted Mar 24, 2010 0:19 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
The reason why Virtualbox and all these other guys (including OpenVZ and Linux-Vserver) are not on every desktop yet is because they all require reading reams of documentation to do even the simplest things.
Why can't a guest be a single file? HW configuration, disk images, etc, all in one large file. Why can't that file be stored anywhere on my filesystem and be opened the way I open all other files?
...$ qemu ~/vms/ie6.kvm
Or even -- gasp -- double click on it.
If I want to clone the guest? cp -r. When the clone boots, the VM notices if it's using a duplicate mac and tells how I can correct it. Why on earth should I have to dig around for virt-clone or equivalent?
If I want to migrate a guest from one machine to another? Shut down the guest, scp guest.img example.com:, fire up the guest on the new computer. There's no need for network daemons or NFS.
Delete a guest? Just rm it! If it's running then its blocks won't be recovered until the file is closed, just like every other file on your filesystem.
Dammit, if I want to run an old copy of Armor Alley, why can't I just scp a single file from a friend and double click on it? Why do I have to click my way through endless guis and google for obscure tools to do any of this?
It's crazy.
Dear qemu/virtualbox/vmware/etc developers, FIRST make the simple stuff simple, THEN add wacky things like COW and live migration, OK? Your tools all feel like they were designed by overcaffeinated VMS dweebs looking for more job security.
Why must libvirt be such a thick shim with such horrible leaky abstractions? Why must it be so difficult to convert a VM from one system to another? Gimp, Photoshop and Inkscape can all share files, why can't KVM, Xen, and Virtualbox? (crazy external conversion procedures don't count of course) And why am I the only person who seems to care?
Today, virtualization on Linux is an absolute mess. If anyone has any explanations for why, I'd love to hear it. (this article hints at one reason of course, but I'm sure there's more to it than what repo stores the userspace code!)
Posted Mar 24, 2010 2:10 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
And the reason that VMs are not stored as single files is that that would be a really dumb idea. VirtualBox uses different files for CD images, hard disk images, configuration files and log files, so i can process the configuration file with xmlstarlet, the log files with grep and so on. Grouping files together is what directories are for; stuffing unrelated things in a single file only makes things more complicated than they need to be.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 3:04 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
I didn't know about export appliance. Glad to hear it, that's a step in the right direction. Not sure why "export" is needed at all though. My whole point is that VMs are usually just a bunch of files, so why can't I manipulate them like files? And, can any other system import VirtualBox appliances?
You mention "VirtualBox --startv foobar"... That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Why --startvm? Why not "VirtualBox foobar"? I'm happy if that brings up the console, then I can hit "Start"?
Also, foobar isn't a file and can't be treated like a file. No command-line completion, no scp, etc.
As for the value of keeping the config file and disk images separate... Sure, that's very true, in the data center. How often do desktop users want to process config files with xmlstarlet? Right, never. They're all going to use the GUI anyway, so why not make that simple?
If you're still not convinced, here are the downsides: get the files mixed up or out of sync and the errors are impenetrable. Lose a file and your VM is unusable. And there's no single thing to execute or double-click.
If the VM consists of a single file, it can be copied, checksummed, backed up, launched, downloaded from a web page, etc at will. See the Armor Alley reference above.
I never suggested putting the log files in the VM image. Yes, that would be daft.
Does this make more sense?
Posted Mar 24, 2010 4:06 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
Using the same file for different things is just a bad idea, since it just makes the file format more complex without a real benefit. Keeping different things separate is the POINT of a file system, and it would be stupid not to use it. And a hard disk image and a configuration file _are_ very different things.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 7:35 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]
scp was an example, as in [insert favorite way to copy files between hosts]. Using it to pretend that bronson was contradicting himself is just lame.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 19:26 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Double-clicking on a file in Dolphin/Thunar/Nautilus == desktop win. Double-clicking on some list in a custom GUI == desktop pain.
"All your other points are made moot by the export appliance feature." I covered this in my previous message. Just imagine if you were forced to store all your OpenOffice documents (or Emacs or Vim or whatever) in a custom database, and were forced to export every time you wanted to attach one to an email or back up to a NAS. As I said, it's is a step in the right direction, but it still sucks.
"And of course an exported VM can be imported on another machine." By "system" I meant VMWare, Xen, Virt-Manager, etc. Can any other virtualization system import a VirtualBox appliance?
"Using the same file for different things is just a bad idea." Sometimes true, often false. Imagine if you had to store each layer in a separate Gimp file. Or had to keep mp3 data in one file and its ID3 tags in another. It would be horrible. Maybe read again the upsides and downsides I mentioned in the previous message?
Posted Mar 24, 2010 19:53 UTC (Wed) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format
Posted Mar 24, 2010 21:02 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
The single unit is just a tarfile so performance would be an issue if one were to execute it directly. Still, I agree, as things mature this could become really useful.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 23:00 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
Furthermore, sending VMs via email etc. is just not a common use case. The common use case is that somebody sets up a machine once, say, to use some legacy windows app, and keeps using that as long as he needs it. Also, all the files are there in ~/.VirtualBox, nothing stops you from backing up that directory. It's not rocket science you know. But it seems you just want to whine about how bad the world is anyway, so i don't see a reason to waste further time with you...
Posted Mar 25, 2010 12:28 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Save As is not the same thing as Export.
Your email example is actually a good argument wrapped in boring vitriol. The difference is that email involves tens of thousands of messages, whereas desktop users only have a few VMs.
Sending MP3s via email was not a common use case 10 years ago, sending 50 MB PPTs and PDFs via email wasn't common 5 years ago... Limiting design to only serve the common use case would make the future a pretty boring place!
Posted Mar 24, 2010 9:50 UTC (Wed) by till (subscriber, #50712) [Link]
alias kvm_iso="qemu-kvm -boot d -k de -m 1024 -usbdevice tablet -cdrom" kvm_iso F13-Alpha-i686-Live.iso
And when I kill the VM, nothing is left behind (log files, stale configs, ..).
Posted Mar 24, 2010 13:42 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
Posted Mar 24, 2010 14:32 UTC (Wed) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]
Dammit, if I want to run an old copy of Armor Alley, why can't I just scp a single file from a friend and double click on it?
To be fair that's exactly how it works these days in wine. Perhaps you don't count wine as 'virtualisation', but from a user's POV it does the same thing: 'runs my Windows programs'. And these days it does it pretty well.
I've been doing a lot of building design recently and the world is _full_ of stupid little programs for Windows to spec beams and tanks and do heat analysis and the only easy-to-drive* no-cost 3D drawing package (Sketchup) has no Linux version. Everything I have tried so far works in wine, somewhat to my amazement (sketchup is cranky due to opengl/video hardware options, but it does work).
This virtualisation stuff doesn't help me at all because it needs a copy of the host OS and I simply don't have any of those.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 3:27 UTC (Wed) by amit (guest, #1274) [Link]
Desktop virtualization, as in desktops that are served from data centres is what Avi is referring to. He thinks that is an important market.
Desktop virtualization, as in running VMs on desktops, is a niche market, and not where the money is. Ingo refers to this market, where the developers are, and where perf improvements will make sense.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 6:36 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]
Posted Mar 24, 2010 8:01 UTC (Wed) by amit (guest, #1274) [Link]
Also, lots of people these days are funded to work on Linux, there aren't many scratch-your-itch types who submit big patches (either for the complexity or the time).
Posted Mar 24, 2010 4:15 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
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Posted Mar 25, 2010 12:46 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]
Likewise there kernel module is not heading into integration into the linux kernel...
Indeed, it's bad enough that Greg didn't want it in staging.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 5:37 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]
I mean, seriously, look at all the years of f-king work that went into things like Wine. Years and years and years of effort to create a open source win32 implementation that can run on Linux. Well I can take KVM and in twenty minutes get something on my Linux desktop that will blow Wine away in terms of performance (except graphical) and compatibility with not only ancient Win16/win32 versions, but the most modern stuff Microsoft is coming out with.
Well I can take KVM and in twenty minutes get something on my Linux desktop that will blow Wine away in terms of performance (except graphical) and compatibility with not only ancient Win16/win32 versions, but the most modern stuff Microsoft is coming out with.
Apples and oranges: with virtualization you need the Windows license and media. I don't have either (except for some ancient version), and don't want to buy them for my home box. Besides it would not even run KVM (slightly too old processor). These days Wine works very well for the few Windows progs I occasionally need.
Wine also allows them to run as normal windows within the Linux desktop, not inside a separate top-level window, like virtualization programs do, and access to native Linux files is painless.
Posted Mar 24, 2010 22:00 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]
Some trickery would be needed for device access, saving and sharing files, etc., but these are solvable problems. The end result would be desktop app isolation, extreme app portability (I can emulate any platform anywhere, in theory) and if you made the iconify button suspend the guest to disk in whatever state it's in at the moment you could carry your work--exactly as you left it--anywhere with little more than a flash drive.
Once this is happening who cares what data centers are using virtualization for!
Posted Mar 24, 2010 22:43 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]
Posted Mar 25, 2010 5:45 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]
If you want to eliminate dependency problems, just bundle the libraries and arrange load paths appropriately. No need to bundle the whole OS as well! I believe PC-BSD and some minor Linux distro I forget already handles packages this way.
It seems to me the current virtualization fad is rather sad. It really is motivated by hardware being better at keeping stable interfaces than software, but results in lots of wasted resources and energy.
Posted Mar 26, 2010 15:54 UTC (Fri) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link]
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