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I just received and roasted the beans I ordered from Sweet Maria's! I got two kinds of beans from Ethiopia, both dry processed, and both super delicious.
The first bean I roasted was the Grade 3 Yirga Cheffe. I roasted a pound at a City Roast and another pound at a Full City roast. A City Roast is were you stop the beans right after the end of the first "crack" and is in general the lightest roast you can make a coffee. The Full City roast is a bit trickier because you stop roasting the coffee right before the second "crack" starts. This at times is hard to tell and takes some practice but the Yirga Cheffe at Full City was most definitely my favorite out of the two. The City had an amazing peanut butter aroma and tasted pretty good too, though it could not compete with the body and aftertaste of the Full City Roast.
The second bean I tried from Ethiopia was the Bench Maji Biftu. This bean I roasted at a Full City + roast, which is basically stopping the roast at 2 or 3 cracks into the second "crack." This made it a bolder roast than the Yirga Cheffe and I was blown away with how strong the body was in my cup. I might try the other pound I got of this coffee at a City + roast next time I roast just to see the difference, but at a Full City + it was still pretty tasty and kind of fruity.
My Ethiopian coffee experience overall was pretty good. I loved both beans and will definitely be ordering them again from Sweet Maria's. Here are some pics! Peace!
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US5133920A - Method for forming composite simulated ivory materials - Google PatentsMethod for forming composite simulated ivory materials Download PDF
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The present invention relates to composite materials which simulate natural ivory in their appearance and physical properties, and a method for forming such materials. More particularly, this invention relates to ivory-like composite materials consisting of synthetic polymers, such as polyamino acids, and a mineral filler, such as calcium phosphate, which may be formed from an in-situ polymerization process.
Natural ivory is a material prized by many because of its distinguishing characteristics. It is relatively soft and characterized by a unique striped coloring which ages distinctively. The ivory may be carved and polished so as to form smooth decorative surfaces. Natural ivory also has a relatively high thermal conductivity, such that it remains cool to the touch. Further, it is a porous material, capable of absorbing liquids. These last two features are especially desirable for concert pianists and other musical performers, whom require cool, dry instrument keys even after long periods of heated, sweaty contact with the keys during performances.
However, the source for natural ivory, elephant tusks, is becoming increasingly more scarce and therefore difficult to obtain. Firstly, the world-wide population of elephants is rapidly diminishing due to the widespread killing of these elephants by poachers in search of the prized and valuable ivory tusks Secondly, many countries have banned the import of natural ivory, even if legally obtained, in hopes of curtailing the illegal poaching. It is clear that a substitute for the natural ivory is needed which simulates the desired characteristics of natural ivory, so as to eliminate the needless killing of the elephants while also providing an adequate substitute for the many items of commerce which require natural ivory.
Many substitutes have been proposed by the art to replace natural ivory. The prior art teaches that artificial ivory or ivory-like substances may be prepared from mineral fillers and various types of polymers. U.S. Pat. No. 4,508,575 to Oshima is an exemplary disclosure of an artificial ivory formed from a natural type polymer, like the protein casein, with a mineral filler. U.S. Pat. No. 3,443,261 to Battista et al. illustratively discloses the use of collagen, another natural type polymer, with a mineral filler for the formation of an ivory substitute. Lastly, cellulose, still another natural type polymer, has been used to make ivory-like piano keys, as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,840,104 to Ishida et al. Mineral fillers have also been used with other materials, such as nylon, plasticized amino resins, polyester resins and others, to form an ivory-like substitute. In addition, ivory-like substitutes have been formed using various ceramics without the addition of any other type of filler, and also various polymers acting alone.
As can be seen by the prior art, many attempts have been made to form a suitable ivory-like substitute. However, even though the prior art teaches the use of natural polymers, particularly the proteins, with a mineral filler for formation of an ivory substitute, there is no mention by the prior art of polyamino acids with a mineral filler for the formation of an ivory-like material.
Rather, this combination of materials, the polyamino acids and mineral fillers, has been taught for bone prothesis. Composite materials for bone prosthetics, which utilize polyamino acids with a mineral filler, are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,192,021 to Deibig et al. and U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,636,526, 4,698,375 and 4,842,604 to Dorman et al. These references all disclose the use of polyamino acids with mineral fillers, but for the preparation of bone-replacement prosthetic materials. These prosthetic materials are characterized by relatively high porosity, wherein the individual pores are also relatively large, and a high degree of biodegradability. Both of these features are required for bone prosthetics so as to promote and ensure tissue regrowth when the prosthetic is surgically implanted into a body.
Since bone and ivory share similar properties and common ingredients, namely collagen and hydroxyapatite, it would seem that the bone prosthetic material should have physical properties similar to a simulated ivory material. However, this is not the case. As stated above, bone prosthetics require a certain degree of porosity to function satisfactorily within the body. Porosity is not necessarily desirable within an ivory substitute, since the porosity would detract from the natural beauty of the ivory and would also make carving or other shaping of the ivory-like material more difficult. Therefore, even though they have a similar chemical make-up, in actuality, the bone prosthetics and the ivory-like materials are differentiated in nature and in their application. As an illustrative example, the present shortage of elephant ivory is not assuaged by the abundance of animal bones from animals of commerce.
Therefore, even though composite materials utilizing a mineral filler and polyamino acids may be utilized in the bone prosthetics art, these materials are characterized by properties which are substantially different than natural ivory and therefore are not suitable replacements for natural ivory. Accordingly, it would be desirable to provide a suitable replacement for natural ivory, such as wherein the replacement material is a composite consisting of a polyamino acid and a mineral filler. Further, it is desirable that such a composite material be manufactured without undue effort or difficulties, such as by using a facile, in-situ preparation method.
It is an object of this invention to provide a composite material which is characterized by ivory-like properties and accordingly which is a suitable replacement for natural ivory.
It is a further object of this invention that such composite material be formed from a polyamino acid and a mineral filler.
It is still a further object of this invention that such a composite material be formed using in-situ preparation techniques.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of this invention, these and other objects and advantages are accomplished as follows.
The present invention is directed to a family of composite materials consisting of a mineral filler and a synthetic polymer. The composite materials are characterized by properties similar to natural ivory. The ivory-like composite material contains about 25 to about 75 percent by weight of the mineral filler, preferably about 50 weight percent of a calcium phosphate. In addition, the composite material contains about 75 to about 25 percent by weight of the polyamino acid, preferably about 50 weight percent of an α-amino acid such as poly(gamma-methyl L-glutamate).
An inventive feature of the present invention is that the composite material is formed using in situ polymerization techniques, thereby ensuring intimate and homogeneous blending of the mineral and polymer phases as well as facile preparation at ambient temperatures. In addition, the ivory-like composite material is molded using an isostatic compression molding technique. The composite material may be molded to form virtually any desired shape for decorative or practical purposes, or for subsequent carving. The resulting ivory-like composite materials are characterized by properties similar to natural ivory and with pore sizes of no greater than about 100 micrometers.
Other objects and advantages of this invention will be better appreciated from a detailed description thereof, which follows.
A family of ivory-like composite materials are provided which are composed of polyamino acids and mineral fillers. These composites are formed using an in-situ polymerization technique and may be molded using isostatic compression molding techniques. The α-amino acids utilized in the preparation of the preferred composite materials of the present invention may be any of the common, naturally occurring or synthetic α-amino acids. Preferred are those α-amino acids capable of undergoing polymerization through the corresponding reactive α-amino acid N-carboxyanhydride monomer (for convenience hereinafter referred to as α-amino acid NCA).
Examples of the α-amino acids which can be used for preparation of the preferred composites include compounds such as aspartic acid, glutamic acid, lysine, arginine, alanine, valine, leucine, serine and the like. The α-amino acids used herein may be present in the D or L configuration or in the D,L configuration. Preferred are those α-amino acids exhibiting the L configuration.
It is necessary to ensure that during the α-amino acid NCA polymerization, no side chain reactions or interactions between amino and carboxyl functions of different amino acids occur. Such situations may be prevented by carrying out the reaction in such a way so as to avoid these interactions or by using α-amino acids wherein protecting groups have been added to the side chain, amino and/or carboxyl functions. Amino acids having such protected functionalities are readily prepared by known techniques or are commercially available See for example the following publications Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis, J. Stewart and J. Young, W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1969; Synthetic Peptides, G. Pettit, Vol. 1 (1970) and Vol. 2 (1971), Von Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York; and The Peptides, Analysis, Synthesis, Biology, E. Gross and J. Meienhofer, Academic Press, New York, 1979.
Of the α-amino acids which may be used in this invention, glutamic acid is preferred. Glutamic acid may be polymerized by known techniques without the addition of the above-described protecting groups, or alternatively derivatives of glutamic acid may be used. Especially preferred for use herein are the gamma-ester derivatives of glutamic acid of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R represents alkyl or aralkyl. As used herein, the term "alkyl" refers to aliphatic, straight or branched chain radicals of from about 1 to about 10 carbon atoms or cyclic aliphatic radicals of from about 3 to about 8 carbon atoms; "aralkyl" refers to radicals such as, for example, phenylethyl, benzyl, ring-substituted benzyl and the like. Most particularly preferred for use here are those compounds of formula I wherein R is methyl or benzyl.
The α-amino acid NCA referred to above is prepared by the reaction of the desired α-amino acid with phosgene via procedures known to the art. Illustrative examples of these procedures are U.S. Pat. No. 3,658,831 and Fuller et al., "A Procedure for the Facile Synthesis of Amino-Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides" (Bipolymers, Vol. 15, p. 1869, 1976) which are incorporated herein by reference. For purposes of illustration, the N-carboxyanhydride of a compound of Formula I is prepared by the following reaction sequence (where R is as defined for Formula I): ##STR2##
The α-amino acid is then readily polymerized into the α-amino acid polymer as represented by the following: ##STR3## wherein R is as defined for formula I and n is a positive integer. The other α-amino acid polymers alluded to herein may be prepared in a manner analogous to the above-described reactions; the use of compounds of Formula I is merely illustrative. Further, one skilled in the art will appreciate that α-amino acid polymers may be prepared by techniques other than as described herein (i.e., by methods other than polymerization of an α-amino acid NCA monomer) such as by the use of active esters or triphenylphosphite with imidazole and the like.
In preparing the composites of this invention, the synthetic polymer can be pre-polymerized and mixed with powdered unsintered calcium phosphate or the composite can be prepared by impregnating pre-formed unsintered calcium phosphate with monomer, prepolymer or polymer followed by polymerization if necessary. The most preferred method of preparing the composites of this invention is in situ polymerization of the monomer in the presence of the powdered unsintered calcium phosphate. Alternatively, sintered calcium phosphate may also be utilized with satisfactory results obtained.
Satisfactory results have also been obtained using other mineral fillers, such as barium titanate (BaTiO3), magnesium aluminum hydroxide (MgAl2 (OH)8 and alumina (Al2 O3). These alternative mineral fillers would be processed and the resulting ivory-like composite material formed using techniques similar to that described above for the calcium phosphate, incorporating appropriate modifications known to the art.
The calcium phosphates of the composites of this invention may be one or more unsintered or sintered calcium phosphates such as, for example, calcium phosphate tribasic (Ca10 (OH)2 (PO4)6) also known as hydroxyapatite or simply apatite; tricalcium phosphate (Ca3 (PO4)2); or various calcium pyrophosphates. The composite materials may contain from about 25 to about 75 percent by weight, preferably from about 40 to about 60 percent by weight, of one or more of the calcium phosphate materials, preferably unsintered hydroxyapatite, unsintered tricalcium phosphate or mixtures thereof. Alternatively, calcium phosphate which has previously been sintered, may also be utilized as a starting material with satisfactory results obtained.
In the composites containing α-amino acid polymers, various combinations of α-amino acids may be polymerized with one or more calcium phosphate biomaterials. By so doing, the characteristics of the resulting composite material may be modified so as to vary the physical properties of the resulting ivory-like composite, thus allowing one skilled in the art to design a given composite for highly specific applications.
In the in situ preparation of the preferred composite materials containing α-amino acid polymers, the desired α-amino acid (having, if necessary, protected side chain, amino and/or carboxyl functionalities) is treated with phosgene to from the reactive α-amino acid NCA monomer. While various phosgenation processes are known to the art, it is preferable that a process substantially the same as that described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,658,831 be utilized in order to prepare an α-amino NCA of the desired purity. It is important to obtain very highly pure α-amino acid NCA in order to prepare α-amino acid polymers having a high degree of polymerization and high quality. The α-amino acid NCA thus obtained is then admixed with one or more of the desired calcium phosphate materials in a suitable inert organic solvent such as chloroform, dioxane, tetrahydrofuran (THF), methylene chloride or mixtures thereof. Preferably, the inert organic solvent utilized is dioxane, THF, or mixtures thereof. For in situ polymerization the calcium phosphate material must be in a powdered or particulate form. Typically the calcium phosphate particles are between about 0.05 micrometers (μm) and 10 μm in diameter and preferably about 1 μm in diameter. As noted earlier, the composite material may be composed of from about 25 to about 75 percent by weight preferably from about 40 to about 60 percent by weight of one or more calcium phosphate materials, preferably unsintered hydroxyapatite, unsintered tricalcium phosphate, or mixtures thereof. Correspondingly, the α-amino acid polymer represents from about 75 to about 25 percent by weight, preferably from about 60 to about 40 percent by weight of the composite formed. Typically, the α-amino acid NCA and calcium phosphate material mixture is stirred for a period of time sufficient to effect formation of the desired composite material (usually from about 2 to about 12 days) at a temperature of from about 18° C. to about 30° C. It is preferred that the mixture be stirred for about 3 to about 6 days at ambient temperature and pressure.
Notably, the above-described in situ polymerization of the α-amino acid NCA and calcium phosphate material proceeds spontaneously at ambient temperature without the need for initiators. Further, it is unnecessary to use a solvent system in which both the α-amino acid NCA monomer and resultant α-amino acid polymer are soluble. For example, poly(gamma-methyl)-L-glutamate is insoluble in dioxane or THF, two solvents frequently used for the polymerization. The in situ polymerization process of the preferred composite materials results in an intimate bonding between the resulting α-amino acid polymer and unsintered calcium phosphate material, not merely a mixture of these components.
Once the preferred composite material has been prepared by the in situ method, it can be molded to virtually any desired shaped while maintaining the complete integrity of the composite material. Therefore, one skilled in the art could mold any desired shape of this ivory-like material, whether for practical or decorative purposes.
The following examples are provided as a means of illustrating the present invention and are not to be construed as a limitation thereof.
The preferred α-amino acid polymers were formed using techniques known in the art, see specifically Examples 1 through 7 of U.S. Pat. No. 4,636,526 which is incorporated herein by reference. Those preferred α-amino acid polymers are gamma-Benzyl L-Glutamate; gamma-Benzyl D,L-Glutamate; gamma-Hexyl L-Glutamate; gamma-Methyl L-Glutamate; gamma-Methyl D,L-Glutamate; gamma-Benzyl L-Glutamate N-Carboxyanhydride; and gamma-Methyl L-Glutamate N-Carboxyanhydride.
5.0 g of gamma-methyl L-glutamate N-carboxyanhydride was added to 50 ml of a mixture of dioxane-THF (3:1). Upon solubilization, 5.9 g of dry unsintered calcium phosphate tribasic (i.e., hydroxyapatite) was added and the mixture was stirred at room temperature for seven days. The mixture was then poured with stirring into 300 ml of methanol and the product composite was collected by filtration, washed with methanol and dried in vacuo at 80° C. for 6 hours. 9.58 g of a soft, white, homogeneous solid was obtained and subsequently identified as hydroxyapatite-poly(gamma-methyl L-glutamate) composite consisting of 61% (by weight) hydroxyapatite. This composite material was easily ground to a fine powder.
Following a procedure substantially the same as that described in Example 8, 65.2 g of gamma-methyl L-glutamate N-carboxyanhydride, 50 g of unsintered hydroxyapatite and 675 ml of a mixture of dioxane-THF (3:1) were stirred continuously for 5 days. Two liters of methanol were then added to the mixture and the desired composite material was recovered as described in Example 1. 98 g of the desired hydroxyapatitepoly(gamma-methyl L-glutamate) composite material consisting of 50% (by weight) hydroxyapatite was subsequently recovered.
72.6 g of gamma-benzyl L-glutamate N-carboxyanhydride, 40 g of unsintered hydroxyapatite, and 700 ml of a mixture of dioxane-THF (3:1) were continuously stirred for four days. The reaction mixture was then poured with stirring into 2500 ml of ethanol and collected by filtration. The residue from the filtration was washed with ethanol, air dried and then dried in vacuo at 60°-70° C. for six hours. 98 g of the desired hydroxyapatite-poly(gamma-benzyl L-glutamate) composite material (60 percent by weight hydroxyapatite) was obtained as a white, short fiber-like solid.
Molds for green state formation were constructed from rubber. A urethane rubber mold, 12 mm diameter (outer diameter 25 mm)×45 mm depth inner diameter, was charged with 2 g of powdered composite (poly(gamma-methyl L-glutamate)/ calcium phosphate (50:50 wt %), then closed with a form-fitting piston-like cap, the piston of which extended about 20 mm into the chamber giving an inner column of powder, ≈27 mm, which compressed in place. The filled mold was then wrapped tightly and tied with rubberized tape while the cap was held snugly in place. The mold was then placed in an Autoclave Engineers cold isostatic press and pressurized to 44,000 psi for several minutes at room temperature while suspended in an oil/water emulsion. The now smaller green state compacted piece was recovered and then sealed in a cocoon of silicone (Dow Corning RTV Sealant 732). This was achieved by applying a layer (¢2-4 mm) of silicone to tissue paper and then surrounding the green state composite piece with the silicone side. The fully coated piece was placed in a hood for curing of the silicone. When the silicone was cured, the coated green state composite piece was placed in a graphite dish and lowered into a graphite chamber of an Asea hot isostatic press, model QIH9. Excess space in the chamber was filled with pieces of graphite. The chamber was sealed and the composite piece was pressurized with nitrogen gas, and heated, such that a maximum pressure of 29,800 psi was achieved at a maximum temperature of 220° C., which was sustained for about 10 minutes. Pressurization was reduced slowly while the chamber was cooled. After removal of the silicone cocoon and removal of residual silicone by rubbing with a toluene-soaked cloth, the recovered molded piece was about 9.5 mm in diameter×20 mm. The molded piece could be further cleaned with fine-grit sand paper or emery cloth to result in a clean, white, smoothly polished ivory-like material.
Following a procedure substantially the same as that described in Example 11, the following ivory-like composite was also prepared.
Another mold, 30 mm diameter inner diameter (outer diameter 20 mm)×50 mm depth and closed at one end with a no. 7 size rubber stopper, was charged with 9 g of composite powder. The open end was stopped giving a net inner column height of approximately 27 mm. After removal of the silicon cocoon and removal of residual silicone by rubbing with a toluene-soaked cloth, the recovered molded piece was about 21 mm in diameter×15 mm. Again, the composite piece could be further cleaned with fine-grit sand paper or emery cloth to produce a clean, white, smoothly polished ivory-like material.
With this isostatic compression method for molding the composite material, the resulting material is dense and exhibits very little porosity Further, the individual pores are presumably very fine in size, much smaller than the comparable composite materials used for bone prosthetics which are characterized by pore sizes greater than about 100 micrometers diameter. The ivory-like composite materials were characterized by an ivory-like appearance in color and texture. The ivory-like composite materials may be molded into practically any desired shape, and may be subsequently carved. Therefore these composite materials may be used for useful and decorative purposes, such as for jewelry, items of art, or carved personal seals for use in the Orient.
This invention readily facilitates the facile manufacture of an ivory-like composite material, wherein the materials utilized may be easily modified to adapt to a given application. Therefore while our invention has been described in terms of preferred embodiments, it is apparent that other forms could be adopted by one skilled in the art, such as by substituting other appropriate polymers or mineral fillers, or by varying the processing and manufacturing parameters. Accordingly the scope of our invention is to be limited only by the following claims.
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Have you been tasked with extending your VMware vSphere virtualization infrastructure into the realm of virtual desktops? Learn to install, configure, and manage the components in... Read more
VMware Horizon 7 Desktop and Mobility (VCP7-DTM)
This series introduces the concepts required to implement, configure, and manage VMware Horizon 7 while exploring content relevant to the VCP7-DTM exam.
VMware Horizon 7: Introduction
Mar 15, 2017 / 51m
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You've skilled up on server virtualization and you've migrated your physical machines onto VMware's vSphere platform. You're ready to virtualize your users' desktops. VMware Horizon 7 is an enterprise-ready platform for accomplishing the task across a wide range of use cases. In this course, VMware Horizon 7: Introduction, you'll first be introduced to the major topics to be discussed in this extensive learning path on VMware Horizon 7. Next, you'll learn about the details on how to build your own environment for following along with the courses to follow. Finally, you'll look at the intended audience for the learning path. By the end of this course, you will be ready to jump into the the rest of the VMware Horizon 7 learning path.
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- Introduction29m 20s
- Building Your Lab Environment21m 54s
VMware Horizon 7: Install and Configure Horizon Server Components
Mar 15, 2017 / 4h 3m
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VMware Horizon 7 arrives as an extensive set of individual components, all of which require assembly before you ever start deploying desktops. In this course, VMware Horizon 7: Install and Configure Horizon Server Components, you will first step through the install and config tasks for the Connection and Composer Servers on the inside LAN. Next, you will step through the install and config tasks for the Security Server and Access Point appliances out in the DMZ. Finally, you will finish up all the other installing, configuring, and integrating components that make up the the Horizon 7 infrastructure. By the end of this course, you will be prepared for the next part in this learning path where you will build and deploy virtual desktops and applications.
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- Course Overview1m 55s
- Introduction5m 4s
- Describe Techniques to Prepare Environment for Horizon28m 30s
- Determine Procedures to Install Horizon Components53m 31s
- Determine Steps to Configure Horizon Components1h 21m 52s
- Analyze Horizon Client and Display Protocol Requirements46m 50s
- Diagnose Connectivity Issues Between Horizon Server Components26m 10s
VMware Horizon 7: Create and Configure Pools
Apr 5, 2017 / 2h 56m
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Building that Horizon 7 infrastructure is obviously only the first step. Next up is understanding how best to use it in deploying desktops to users. In this course, VMware Horizon 7: Create and Configure Pools, you'll learn how to create and configure pools in VMware Horizon 7. First, you'll explore the steps in preparing VM images to be Horizon templates. Next, you'll understand which type of desktop pool should be used based on requirements. Finally, you'll get an introduction into managing the user data in each VM. By the end of this course, you'll be ready to create Horizon desktop pools for servicing users.
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- Course Overview1m 29s
- Introduction4m 58s
- Build and Customize RDSH Server and Desktop Images46m 20s
- Configure Horizon Pools1h 6m 12s
- Manage Horizon Pools28m 25s
- Configure Windows Roaming Profiles and View Persona Management29m 20s
VMware Horizon 7: Configure and Manage User Environment Manager
Apr 17, 2017 / 1h 33m
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Windows Roaming Profiles and Horizon Persona Management are tools for centralizing user data, and roaming it across user sessions. However, these tools don't do much for controlling what data gets captured. In this course, VMware Horizon 7: Configure and Manage User Environment Manager, you'll explore how to use VMware User Environment Manager, which separates out application configurations from regular user files. First, you'll develop an understanding on how the tool brings control to the content in user profiles. Next, you'll learn how to utilize the tool by discovering and managing application configurations, a process that involves more time and effort. Finally, you'll explore the consoles of the tool, and how it manages user profiles through its focus on application configurations. By the end of this course, you'll be prepared to reduce your user profile sizes, and decrease login times with some creative UEM management of application configurations.
Table of contents
- Course Overview1m 36s
- Introduction4m 58s
- Install and Configure User Environment Manager34m 31s
- Manage VMware User Environment Manager52m 9s
VMware Horizon 7: Configure and Manage App Volumes
Apr 24, 2017 / 1h 10m
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The age-old practice of installing applications just doesn't scale with the needs of a VDI environment. Even automating the process with traditional application delivery tools doesn't solve the problem well. VMware App Volumes is a simple, but remarkable, solution for virtualizing apps into VMDK virtual disks and quite literally attaching them to virtual machines. In this course, VMware Horizon 7: Configure and Manage App Volumes, you'll explore App Volumes' almost-uninterestingly simple installation. First, you'll package up a set of applications into VMDK virtual disks that can be assigned to any VM to which a user connects. Next, you'll see how writeable disks are layered over the top to maintain the capture of user settings. Finally, you'll discover how to package up a couple of apps. By the end of this course, you'll be ready to package and just-in-time deliver all manner of apps into your VMs right as their users login.
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- Course Overview1m 46s
- Introduction4m 29s
- Install and Configure VMware App Volumes (v2.x)35m 10s
- Manage VMware AppStacks and Writeable Volumes (v2.x)28m 35s
VMware Horizon 7: Configure and Administer VMware Mirage
May 16, 2017 / 2h 5m
Intermediate • 2h 5m
Standing a bit offset from the rest of VMware's Horizon 7 portfolio, VMware Mirage focuses its attentions predominantly on physical desktops. Arriving as a kind of a backup-and-recovery solution alongside some clever "layering" technology, Mirage offers the ability to centralize desktops against a common OS and app baseline. In this course, VMware Horizon 7: Configure and Administer VMware Mirage, you'll learn how to install and configure VMware Mirage in a simple single-server architecture. First, you'll walk through its relatively lightweight integrations with the rest of VMware Horizon. Next, you'll centralize some example desktops. Finally, you'll use those example desktops as a starting point for both OS and App layers. By the end of this course, you'll gain an appreciation for where this solution fits within VMware's greater EUC portfolio.
Table of contents
- Course Overview1m 52s
- Introduction7m 25s
- Install and Configure VMware Mirage Components48m 39s
- Configure and Manage Mirage Endpoints31m 15s
- Configure and Manage Mirage Layers36m 35s
VMware Horizon 7: Configure and Manage VMware Identity Manager
May 23, 2017 / 1h 4m
Intermediate • 1h 4m
VMware Identity Manager is an identity federation solution that arrives in a dizzying array of editions and delivery formats, including a cloud-based version linked to VMware's AirWatch solution and an on-premises version typically bundled with VMware Horizon. This course focuses on installing and configuring the simplest of use cases using Identity Manager's on-premises version, narrowly focusing on it's integration with VMware View desktops. In this course, VMware Horizon 7: Configure and Manage VMware Identity Manager, you'll explore the setup and initial configuration of an on-premises Identity Manager appliance. First, you'll integrate it with VMware Horizon View. Next, you'll get a quick look at centralizing authentication for web services. Finally, you'll discover SaaS-delivered cloud apps and ThinApp packaged applications. By the end of this course, you'll get an introduction into how Identity Manager offers users a single, central "front door" for many of your enterprise applications.
Table of contents
- Course Overview1m 56s
- Introduction4m 23s
- Install and Configure VMware Identity Manager28m 20s
- Manage VMware Identity Manager29m 36s
VMware Horizon 7: Configure vRealize Operations Manager
Jun 2, 2017 / 28m
Intermediate • 28m
You may have noticed that this course is by far the shortest in our eight-course learning path on VMware Horizon. That is by no means to presume that vRealize Operations is the least important. Rather, monitoring a complex environment with dozens of moving parts is arguably your most-important task once Horizon's components are assembled and VMs get provisioned to users. That task is best left to another solution in vRealize Operations Manager or vROPS, which we assume here is already monitoring your hypervisors and vCenter Servers. In this course, you'll explore the discrete tasks in integrating that already-existing vRealize Operations infrastructure into the Horizon View components we've built so far. You'll install the necessary broker agent on your connection server, create a vRealize Operations for Horizon adapter, and you'll leave with a quick-and-dirty overview of the new dashboards and reports vROPS now offers to dig into your VDI environment's deepest behaviors.
Table of contents
- Course Overview1m 58s
- Introduction4m 33s
- Manage vRealize Operations Manager22m 20s
What you will learn
- How to install and configure VMware Horizon 7 server components
- How to create and configure VMware Horizon 7 desktop pools
- How to configure and manage VMware User Environment Manager
- How to configure and manage App Volumes
- How to configure and administer VMware Mirage
- How to configure and manage VMware Identity Manager
- How to configure vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon 7
It is recommended that you have previous experience working with vSphere 6.x and are familiar with the concepts and applications introduced in the vSphere 6 Foundation path.


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Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality. Evan has agreed to answer some basic questions that so many of us are being asked in this election year about marriage equality.
Evan Wolfson is Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, the gay/straight partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Before founding Freedom to Marry, Evan served as marriage project director for Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, was co-counsel in the historic Hawaii marriage case, and participated in numerous gay rights and HIV/AIDS cases.
Evan previously served as Associate Counsel to Lawrence Walsh in the Iran/Contra investigation, and as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. Between Yale University and Harvard Law School, Evan spent two years with the Peace Corps in West Africa.
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Evan Wolfson's first book, Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry, was published by Simon & Schuster in July 2004 and was re-released in paperback with a new foreword in June 2005.
1. Do you think to be for marriage equality is a liability for Presidential candidates in 2008?
No, but I think having to reply to questions again and again without providing a convincing or coherent answer could be. Being drawn into repeated expositions that lack authenticity or logic makes a candidate less appealing (even to people who would respect leadership and a position they don't fully agree with). Half-answering over and over is a distraction from a campaign's preferred focus on central questions more significant to more voters, such as war and national security, economy and the increasing wealth gap, health care and education, and so on. In back-to-back pieces on The Huffington Post, I recently marshaled evidence that politicians can vote right on marriage and prevail, and laid out the best way to answer the marriage question — not just because it's in our interest that they get it right, but because it's in theirs, too. The Democrats will never be anti-gay enough to satisfy the opponents, and there is no evidence that they will lose voters who agree with them on the "what" of "equality" (which they all profess to favor) but then reject an honest stand on the "how" of marriage equality.
2. Why should a candidate be for repealing DOMA?
Because the so-called "DOMA" or federal anti-marriage law passed in 1996 was a radical and cruel departure from 200+ years in which the federal government honored the marriages of Americans without discrimination. So-called DOMA creates two classes of marriage, first-class marriages for those the federal government likes, which receive more than 1000 legal protections and incidents, and second-class marriages, for those the government doesn't like, which get no access to this important safety-net that matters to couples, kids, and those interacting with them. In the United States, we don't have second-class citizens, and we shouldn't have second-class marriages, either. Government has no business putting obstacles in the path of Americans seeking to care for one another -- gay or non-gay.
3. What is Section Three of DOMA, which Senator Clinton wants to repeal, and what would remain if that section is taken out?
Senator Clinton, like all the other Democrats running for president, favors repeal of the worst provision of the federal anti-marriage law, the part that says that the federal government will not honor the lawful marriage of a taxpaying same-sex couple, thereby withholding from the 1138+ federal protections and responsibilities that marriage triggers. These include your family's access to your Social Security, fair treatment for your family under immigration law, fair treatment under tax laws, access to veteran's coverage, etc. What Senator Clinton has not yet addressed is the other part of so-called DOMA, which says that states can dishonor and destabilize marriages of people from other states. People should not have to worry whether their marriage will be honored and their family protected depending on where they are parking that day.
4. Are the candidates being politically wise in being for civil unions and not for marriage equality and should we support them in that political strategy?
No, and no, as discussed in my Huffington Post pieces above. Civil union, let alone the freedom to marry, doesn't just happen. Support for increments along the way comes through the engine of fighting for the freedom to marry, and the powerful, resonant, humanizing, shared vocabulary of marriage. It's not as if the candidates or society are generously offering civil union or partnership, etc., and we are somehow unreasonably asking for more; rather, it's our engagement -- asking for, fighting for, making the case for -- the full that has moved them on the partial. Marriage is the tug, and when gay people undercut that tug, it doesn't help our cause, or the candidates either. Those who are giving early support to particular candidates may have good reasons for doing so, but when we too quickly say "it's okay" for them not to support full equality (and even fudge what full equality is), it's not helpful. You can't get people to care if you begin by saying "I don't care," as in "I don't care what we call it," etc. And if we drop down, if we fail to do the heavy lifting (particularly at this very early stage of an unusually long presidential cycle), we do the candidates, our cause, couples, kids, and the country the disservice of not creating the space in which America (and its politicians) can rise to fairness.
5. Aren't civil unions the same thing as marriage with a different name?
No. Marriage, in the US, is a civil union -- a legal institution and a legal (or civil) status created through a license issued by the government. But "civil union" is pointedly, deliberately, not marriage, when offered as a separate and lesser alternative for same-sex couples denied the same freedom to marry the candidates professing support for equality all have. I discuss this more fully here and in my book, Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry. One of the main protections that comes with marriage is the word marriage; everyone knows who you are in relation to the primary person you are building your life with, and so much flows from that, tangibly and intangibly. We need to explain this, patiently, to people (which means we all should do a little homework to know how to explain the differences clearly and simply. Marriage is a system that provides meaning, clarity, and security through a tangible safety-net and intangible vocabulary and shared experience and aspirations. "Civil unions" or "partnership," etc. are not a system; they are varied legal mechanisms springing up in response to our fight for the freedom to marry. They are a step in the right direction, certainly better than nothing, but far short of marriage and all that it brings. Would any of the married candidates swap their marriage and the freedom to marry for a civil union? Why should other Americans have to?
6. Do we have to compromise on marriage equality in order to win the 2008 election?
On Election Day one makes decisions whom to vote for by determining which outcome in a (usually binary) choice will better advance one's interests and values, and the well-being of our loved ones, our country, etc. As Barney Frank wisely says, voting is not dating; you may have to accept imperfection. But at this stage in the campaign, there is no need to dumb down or write off the possibility of getting that binary choice as good as possible, and improving the climate in the meantime so that post-election we are best placed to advance. We cannot put all our eggs in an election basket, and particularly not when that election is more than a year of work, possibility, and change away. Regardless of how we ultimately vote, or even what we decide to do at various points, why give up on doing better now?
7. Didn't marriage cause the Democrats to lose in 2004 in places like Ohio?
No, that myth has been refuted over and over -- not just by the Task Force and HRC, but by political, academic, and media analysts as well. Some of those analyses are collected here. And, of course, 2008 is not 2004. The country, as Senator Clinton put it regarding her position on marriage, continues to "evolve." As Senator Edwards has put it regarding his position on marriage, Americans are on a "journey." Those of us who are not running for president have the obligation to continue that movement, not count on time or others to allow fairness to simply waft in. There is no marriage without engagement; it is our job to engage. And the Democrats lose when people sense they stand for nothing. In this case, given the party's history of fighting for inclusion and civil rights, the stands state Democratic parties have taken in favor of the freedom to marry, the votes most Democratic legislators have cast (including those in MA and CA who voted for marriage and all got reelected), and the current candidates' positions on gay "equality," the public rightly believes the Democrats are the party of marriage equality. The only ones who haven't admitted it yet are the leading presidential contenders, even though they demonstrably cannot explain why they don't support the freedom to marry. This election will not be decided on gays or marriage (and nor was the election of 2004). But how candidates deal with important questions such as equality, protections for all, standing up to discrimination, and the values of marriage (love, commitment, fairness, freedom) can be symptomatic of how they address dispositive questions and win over or alienate voters. Hence the word "yet." They all have a chance to get this right -- and we all have the chance now to help them.


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Dear Leader Brings It On
By Robert Scheer
Tuesday 10 October 2006
Well, Bush showed them, didn't he?
Over the past six years, our "my way or the highway" president blew up a crucial nonproliferation agreement which was keeping North Korea's plutonium stores under seal, ended bilateral talks with Pyongyang, squashed Japan's and South Korea's carefully constructed "sunshine policy," which was slowly drawing the bizarre Hermit Kingdom back into the light, and then took every opportunity to personally insult the country's reportedly unstable dictator because it played well politically at home.
If you shun them, they will shape up - this was the essence of President Bush's non-diplomacy, as it was in regards to Iran, Lebanon and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The result? Cold War-style brinkmanship that has left the United States helpless.
Thank you, Mr. President. I feel so much safer now that we have a wannabe cowboy in charge of the free world.
In the ongoing story of Bush and Co.'s dangerous leadership, the North Korea chapter is one of the least understood - and potentially the most disastrous. And, as with the sordid saga of Iraq and the "missing" weapons of mass destruction, the devil is in the details obscured by the ugly glare of tyrants such as Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Il.
Republican cheerleaders are now making the case that, as with every other problem in the world, this is all Bill Clinton's fault; the line is that former President Clinton caved to the North Korean communists, who then broke their agreements. Nothing could be further from the truth.
In fact, what happened is that Jimmy Carter, on Clinton's behalf, had negotiated an historic deal back in 1994 to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to seal Pyongyang's plutonium in exchange for major energy assistance in the form of fuel-oil shipments and the building of safe nuclear reactors. (Incidentally, Donald Rumsfeld was a director of one of the companies that profited from the reactor deal.)
Clinton then followed the lead of Japan and South Korea in trying to lead paranoid North Korea into the world community through baby-step agreements.
Nearly a decade later, with the plutonium still safely under seal, however, Bush repudiated this approach, effectively driving North Korea to abandon all agreements and return to its pre-1994 pursuit of plutonium-based nukes. The White House rationale was that North Korea had broken the agreement by trying to enrich uranium enough to use it in weapons. However, not only are any such intelligence claims coming from this administration now highly suspect, but such a program would take a level of energy production and technical ability that seems to be beyond Pyongyang.
In any case, now Kim Jong Il and his scientists don't have to worry about the enormous difficulties posed by enriching uranium: They have back their far, far more dangerous plutonium reserves - thanks to Bush - with enough material to make between four and 13 bombs - and have missiles capable of carrying them into Alaska. Even worse, we know now that this rogue nation also benefited from key nuclear technology training provided by Pakistani nuke scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who then inexplicably was pardoned by our "war on terror" allies in Islamabad and has never been made available to U.S. investigators.
What did tough-talk Dubya do in response to this international outrage? He dropped the sanctions previously imposed on Pakistan because of that country's nuclear weapons program.
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
I concede he shares in the blame, but certainly not all of it.
The confessed proliferation took place between 1989 and 2000, though it is suspected that proliferation activities to North Korea continued after that date. The network used to supply these activities is global in scope, stretching from Germany to Dubai and from China to South Asia, and involves numerous middlemen and suppliers


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Tampon Mystery Solved!
I take so many pills every day. Very few prescription ones, but various supplements and things that are supposed to help you absorb the nutrients from food, help your skin and hair (I don't personally care about the nails), all vanity- or feel-good-based, nothing because I actually care about my long-term health or anything like that. Same with my reasons for yoga, Pilates, occasional running, etc. All for superficial or mood-enhancing reasons. Plus I'm not afraid of dying, so don't have much incentive on the longevity front (other than my daughter, who I'd feel guilty being dead about).
Anyway, as I'm typing this on my dang (though much-appreciated) touchscreen, I will keep it short(er):
I take around 5-10 pills per meal. The pills are such a part of my life that I crave them after a meal the way some people might crave chocolate or a cigarette. And such a part of my being that when I asked you whether or not to insert the tampon with green stuff on the top, it didn't even occur to me that the green stuff could be from a pill. In this case, an Aleve liqui-gel (here is the broken sucker pictured) mixed with the coating from, I think, a Kerastase hair-helping pill. NOW should I insert it?? Thanks in advance, team!


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Michael Showalter and Bravo Taunt Us With Promises of a Wet Hot American Sequel
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Michael Showalter was Watch What Happens Live! on Bravo last night, where he gave the impression that a Wet Hot American Summer sequel would really be happening. Just as we were all trying on our Camp Firewood uniforms to see if they still fit, though, Michael Ian Black tweeted, "I just found out there's going to be a "Wet Hot American Summer" sequel from @mshowalter on TV. Apparently, I'm not in it." Alas! There go our once-buoyant hopes, dashed against the merciless rocks of reality. Why can't they just make this movie already?


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