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President Barack Obama's jobs council, headed by GE CEO Jeff Immelt, is calling on the federal government to offer more loans like the one given to the failed solar company Solyndra, in order to promote job creation.
The 49-page report lays out recommendations for Obama and Congress to act in order to create lasting jobs, including the creation of a new government "financing institution" funding by up to $8 billion from the Treasury to "boost and maintain annual energy investments" to $30 billion or $40 billion annually.
The Jobs Council branded the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program, which provided Solyndra with over $500 million in loans before the company went bankrupt, a success.
"The loan program has also shown how less than $2.5 billion in federal funds could catalyze over $25 billion of capital investment in about 30 energy and manufacturing projects, helping create thousands of jobs," the council-members write.
They propose establishing the "Clean Energy Deployment Administration" as proposed by Senate Democrats, saying that if properly funded, it could create more than 100,000 jobs.
Solyndra is the only loan of nearly $20 billion that soured, but it was the program's marquee name — and Congressional Republicans and the Department of Justice are investigating whether the loan was fast-tracked due to pressure from the White House.
The jobs council report includes this chart to explain how the government can leverage public and private funding to promote growth in the clean-energy sector — in an identical fashion to Solyndra.
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Please decide for yourself whether you can speak from a professional point of view.
Thank you very much for your understanding.
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If any further proof were needed of the benefits of going digital with content, the launch last week of David R. Godine Publisher's first app should convince those still on the fence. The house has digitized its 1981 book Crime & Puzzlement, the first installment in an eponymous series by Lawrence Treat, a founder of the Mystery Writers of America. "Who would think that we would ever be so 21st century, and so early in the century, too?" asked publicist Sue Ramin, referring to the press's insistence on high-quality paper, printing, and binding since its founding more than four decades ago. While it's too early to see the effect on book sales—there are 50,000 copies in print after a recent 11th printing of 5,000 copies—app sales are going strong.
In the first four days since its release, the Crime and Puzzlement app rose to the Top 10 slot in iPhone and iPad apps in Japan, Top 20 in Germany, and Top 100 in the U.S. The app was developed by Bangor, Maine-based newcomer AppEndix, the Interactive Book Company, which had approached Godine with the idea of turning Treat titles into apps. The series fit owner Martin van Balkom's goal of moving gamebooks from the 1980s and '90s into the 21st century, as mobile apps. He'd read the Treat books as a child, and he says that he was drawn to their mix of picture mystery/hidden object game, crime short story, and puzzle, all elements found in apps today. AppEndix will release the entire Crime & Punishment series from Godine and is in discussions with the press for a separate book from another author.
Not that Godine is exactly rushing headlong into the digital world. Godine himself describes it more as "a snail's pace adaptation." To date, the company has converted nine titles into e-books over the past two years, but the process could speed up starting in 2013 thanks to a new contract with INscribe Digital and a concerted effort to clear electronic rights for backlist titles. Part of the reason that Godine chose INscribe, according to new media marketing assistant Kristin Brodeur, is that it offers a fixed layout e-book that works well for converting picture books. Previous children's titles released as e-editions included The American Girls Handy Book and The American Boys Handy Book, which are available as PDFs on Google Play.


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aptain Edward Penniman steps outside his house on Fort Hill in Eastham, Massachusetts in the late summer of 1881. He can feel the chill of the winds blowing off the Atlantic Ocean. He can smell and taste the salt air. By habit, he scans the white-capped horizon in search of a whale's spout. Soon he would leave on his fifth voyage across the world's oceans, to hunt these "leviathans of the deep." The voyage could last for four years. Would his wife Gustie come along this time? Would any of their children accompany them? Where would he find his crew? Would this whaling voyage be successful? It was the whaling industry, or "whale fishery," as it was known then, that satisfied Captain Penniman's adventurous spirit and offered him an opportunity to earn enough money to support a family and to construct an impressive home in Eastham.
Captain Penniman built his French Second Empire style house on Cape Cod in 1868. Today, over 100 years later, the Penniman House is a National Historic Site owned and interpreted by the National Park Service as part of Cape Cod National Seashore. The house holds the Penniman family's written records and artifact collections, which provide glimpses of the places and people that the family visited on their whaling voyages. Theirs is a true life whaling story representative of hundreds of other whaling captains and their families that traveled the globe to pursue whale fishery.
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Prime Minister of Canada
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Recent years have offered us a glimpse into the incredible power of digital technologies to improve the quality of our lives, the productivity of our businesses and the strength of our economy.
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An immigrant cabdriver from Kyrgyzstan who was friends with the Tsarnaev brothers has been indicted in connection with destroying evidence from his computer and lying to the FBI about his relationship with the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, federal authorities announced Friday.
Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, of Quincy, Mass., appeared in federal court here, charged with obstructing the FBI's investigation of the two bombings at the April 2013 marathon that killed three people and injured more than 260.
The indictment does not charge Matanov with knowing or participating in the attacks, but it quoted him as saying that he would support the bombings if it turned out that they were "done in the name of Islam" or "by the Taliban." And while expressing sympathy with victims, Matanov also reportedly said he could "explain away the significance of the victims' deaths on the ground that everyone must eventually die."
Matanov appeared at a brief afternoon court hearing, wearing jeans and a white shirt with "Levi's" written in red. He was nervous and shaking, telling the court in a slight accent that he did not need a translator. A detention hearing was scheduled for next week.
His court-appointed defense attorney, Edward Hayden, said after the hearing that Matanov was arrested Friday morning in his apartment with $500 in his wallet. He said Matanov was in this country under a student visa and a grant of asylum.
Hayden said that the indictment included "a lot of unsubstantiated allegations" and that Matanov had "no intent to mislead the FBI." When asked why Matanov was arrested more than a year after the bombings, the attorney replied, "That's the million-dollar question." Hayden added, "He's very frightened. He's very nervous."
Matanov is charged with destroying, altering and falsifying records, documents and other "tangible objects" in the FBI's investigation, including files "that contained violent content or calls to violence." Further, prosecutors said, Matanov "shared the suspected bombers' philosophical justification for violence."
He is also accused of making "false, fictitious and fraudulent" statements to federal agents.
Prosecutors said Matanov realized the FBI wanted to interview him, especially after federal agents learned that he had phoned Tamerlan Tsarnaev and talked to him for two minutes — 42 minutes after the midday blasts at the marathon's finish line. That evening, the indictment said, he picked up Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his cab, driving to a local restaurant for dinner.
"The three discussed the bombings at the restaurant," the indictment said, and Matanov said that Tamerlan did not admit his role in the attack but said "that he did not believe that Al Qaeda was responsible because Al Qaeda usually issues a statement accepting responsibility within two hours of an event, and had not made a statement about the bombing."
When Matanov brought up the bombings again, "neither brother seemed interested in talking about them," he told investigators.
In the days that followed, the indictment said, Matanov repeatedly tried calling the brothers, and visited Tamerlan at his home with his wife and child.
Matanov entered the U.S. in 2010 and has lived in Massachusetts. He drove for Checker Cab in Braintree, Mass., where fellow workers recalled him as a devout Muslim.
Mike King, 26, who lives in the same apartment building as Matanov, said he was not surprised by the police activity this morning. King said he had exchanged little more than hellos with Matanov in the hallway.
Police came to the apartment the week after the marathon, he said, and a police officer sat outside the building all day during this year's marathon.
King said that when he left his home at 4:45 a.m., all was quiet. But an hour or so later, he got a text from his roommate saying that someone had been arrested.
"I kind of figured it was the guy who didn't speak English," he said.
The apartment building, a small brick unit with two-bedroom apartments with balconies, is on a quiet street in Quincy, near spacious mansions, including the birthplace of President John Quincy Adams. Matanov's cab, a minivan, was parked in the driveway.
The indictment said Matanov participated in a variety of activities with Tamerlan, including discussing religious topics and hiking up a New Hampshire mountain to train like Islamic militant fighters. If he is convicted, he faces a maximum of 31 years in prison.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a police shootout four nights after the bombings, and Dzhokhar, his younger brother, was arrested the next day.
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– William Regal tweeted the following about working the WWE European tour this week:
"Not on here much for the next week but thank you to everyone at every venue this week.You made an old Villain feel very wanted. Again,I've never once said I'm retiring.Just not competing much anymore."
– It sounds like Daniel Bryan's relationship with Brie Bella will be featured on E's new WWE Divas reality show. Bryan tweeted on Monday night:
"They introduced a new WWE Divas show tonight on #EUpfront, in which I will be making brief appearances to support @nicoleandbri!"
– WWE announced that Jack Swagger vs. Alberto Del Rio in a No DQ Match will take place on SmackDown this week.
– AJ Lee won a battle royal on last night's RAW from England to become the new #1 contender to the WWE Divas Title. She will likely get the shot against Kaitlyn at Extreme Rules next month.


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Mayor Coleen J. Seng today thanked U.S. Senator Ben Nelson for his work to secure federal grant funding for 10 new full-time officers in the Lincoln Police Department. Lincoln will receive an estimated $750,000 from the Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS) in the U.S. Department of Justice.
"Public safety is one of the top priorities of local government, but with budget constraints, we have not had the funds to add as many officers as we would like," said Mayor Seng. "Senator Nelson's assistance in securing this grant will mean better protection for Lincoln citizens."
Lincoln is one of 93 local law enforcement agencies to be awarded grants under the COPS Universal Hiring Program, which supports community policing and homeland security activities. The grants cover up to 75 percent of the salary and benefits of new officers over three years. Part of the funds will be used to help cover the cost of the two new police officers included in Mayor's Seng's budget for the 2004-2005 fiscal year. The rest of the grant funds will be available for future hiring.
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One week. One more week before she could call herself Mrs Potter. Seven short days until the big day, the first of August, Lughnasadh. And she didn't even have a dress yet. Nor had she taken care of the catering or chosen a Maiden.
"Relax, Ginny," Gudrun said in-between bites. "We'll help you sort all of this out. First off, you need to pick your bridesmaids and maid or matron of honour."
"Isn't that a Muggle custom?" Galatea asked, while she gently turned seven-week-old baby Henry around to give him access to her other breast.
"No, darling," a pregnant Janice Cliff-Faust said while she tried to feed her very stubborn eleven-month-old son, Peter. "Bridesmaids and groomsmen are a Roman tradition. They served as witnesses, and to make it harder for the evil spirits to find the real couple."
"I had something else in mind. Aside from the priest, Harry, and I, only six people are allowed to be in the inner circle during the ceremony. I still need to find four people to fill special roles in the ceremony. I suppose it could be two men and two women to keep it all even. And I have no idea who should give me away. I also still need a Maiden."
The three other women exchanged surprised looks.
"Haven't you asked Hermione?" Gudrun asked.
"I was going to, but it slipped my mind," Ginny said miserably. "She won't be back until two days before the wedding. And you know how she hates being given last minute notice like this."
"Speaking about late requests, I have one of my own," Galatea said. "My father was supposed to be in England to meet with a fellow botanical expert, but the wizard in question got an invitation to this wedding and—"
Ginny raised her eyebrows. "Neville?"
"Yes, Neville Longbottom."
Ginny nodded. She'd received a letter from him a week ago, in which he told her that he might not make it on account of a very important deal with a Muggle-born botanist. In a visit to Concordia the previous summer, Neville had discovered that the fruits of a Mirror Realm plant called Assassin Vine, a carnivorous plant, could make for a good but heady wine. The only problem at the time seemed to be that its fruits were just a tad too toxic. But Neville had also discovered that some specimens were more docile than others, and that their berries were less toxic. He'd been planning to cross-pollinate those specimens in the hope of creating a subspecies docile enough to harvest good grapes from. "So he was talking about your father!"
"Yes. Your friend chose my father because they get along well, and because my father has profound knowledge of wines since his relatives have been in the business for a very long time. My father says that he didn't want to keep your friend from attending the wedding, but due to their busy schedules, next week would be the only time they could meet and discuss business. They are in a hurry because someone else had the same idea, and could beat them to the creation of the product if they didn't get to work as soon as possible. But my father couldn't bear to deprive Mr Longbottom from attending the wedding of such dear friends, so he is asking if you could extend an invitation to him and his wife also."
There were many bad people out there who wished her and Harry harm—not that anyone stood a realistic chance of beating Harry, but many bystanders could be hurt during such an attempt. That was among the reasons why Concordia had been chosen as the location for the wedding. And in order to give potential evildoers as little time as possible to prepare, the invitations had been sent out as secretly as possible, and a mere month before the date of the wedding. Since access to Concordia required a six-month waiting period, the invitations also served as passes into the city.
"Couldn't Commander Ironheart arrange passage?"
Galatea shook her head. "Maybe if someone had died, or for reunification of long lost family. Not for a reason like this, and certainly not on such short notice. There are limits to his influence."
Ginny smiled. She was sure that Harry would be all right with this. He'd be helping Neville, and Galatea's dad would be able to see his youngest grandson, while his new wife, who happened to be Heidi's mum, would get to visit her daughter. "Just tell me where the invitation should be sent."
"Are you going to eat that?" Gudrun asked. She'd already finished eating the last of her breakfast and was hungrily eyeing a slice of Galatea's French toast.
The house-elf who had been entertaining Little Robert and Rachel by making their toys zoom around the kitchen, piped up, "Hoover can make toast for mistress."
"There's no sense in wasting good food," Galatea said. "Go ahead."
Ginny giggled. She knew that Gudrun was eating for two again. "When are you due?"
"Late December or early January," Gudrun said, before taking a large bite of toast. She finished chewing and swallowed. "We've decided to call him Nathaniel."
Galatea gasped. "It's a boy?"
Gudrun beamed and nodded. "Matt saw it on the tapestry."
"We're lucky that things have been quiet and that we've had nice, large groups of recruits last year and this year," Janice said. "After Peter was born, Matthias told me that we'd possibly have to wait a while before we could have the next one, because Nehanda and Donovan had been pondering a restriction due to the strain our maternity leave caused the Order."
"That's not fair!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Nor is the fact that the others have to work their arses off because we want to pursue our personal happiness in the short term." Gudrun shrugged. "At least it doesn't harm our chances for promotion in the long run, like it does with women's chances in the Muggle world. Being a Ranger and having a normal domestic life is a difficult combination. We were all very lucky to have your sister-in-law as a nanny when we're not around to look after our kids."
It was true. Jasmine had contributed greatly to the Order by looking after Robert, Rachel, and more recently, Peter, when their mothers went back to work after six months of maternity leave. "Bless her," Ginny said.
"Or you can put off children until you're retired, or almost retired, like me," Janice said.
"Does that mean you're calling it quits?" Gudrun asked.
"After twenty-two long years, I've decided to stop," Janice nodded. "October eleventh. I'll have about a month to prepare for this one's arrival," she said, stroking her belly. "When Peter and this baby are old enough, I'll help Jasmine take care of the children if both parents are unavailable."
"Did someone call?" Jasmine asked as she appeared from the living room. She was holding her thirteen-month-old daughter Rose, about whom everyone agreed that she could have been Ginny's daughter, such was the likeness. Rosie was positively all Weasley. Her big brown eyes lit up as she saw Ginny, and she smiled broadly, flashing an incomplete set of teeth. She whined and extended her little arms in Ginny's direction, and Jasmine indulged her by handing her to Ginny before she took her place at the table.
Rosie smelled of baby powder and milk, and the scent loosened an emotion deep within Ginny. She knew she didn't want to wait too long to have some of her own.
"We were just talking about how grateful we are that you're looking after our brood when neither us nor the fathers are around," Gudrun said. "I wish Matt and I didn't have to lean as much on you as we do, but I don't have a husband who can multiply himself and help out," she added, giving Galatea a quasi-jealous look.
The women laughed at that. Over the past couple of years, Wolfe had improved his powers tremendously, acquiring no less than thirty-two Animagus forms, multiplying himself nine times and sustaining a single copy for up to seventy-two hours. Consequently, when both he and Galatea had been scheduled to be at the Citadel, after Galatea's maternity leave for little Robert had passed, sometimes he made a double that would stay behind and look after Robert. Now that Galatea was on maternity leave again, it wasn't necessary.
From upstairs, a shriek that would have put many a banshee to shame echoed through the house, followed by two pairs of feet pounding the stairs. Charlie junior came darting into the kitchen, triumphantly clutching a brassiere, something Muggles and Muggle-born witches tended to wear instead of corsets.
"Come back here, you little sicko!" Mary screamed, hot on his tail.
The seven-year-old boy nimbly leapt over Hoover, Robert and Rachel, and exited through the kitchen door, towards freedom. Unwilling to risk trampling her little sister and Robert, probably unable to duplicate Charlie's athletic feat, and no doubt aware that she was still in her nightdress, Mary gave up pursuit and opted to let loose a string of curses that would have made Lilia proud. Charlie did a victory dance some twelve feet away, taunting Mary and challenging her to come out after him.
"Charles Weasley Junior!" Jasmine said sharply, causing her son to go pale under his freckles.
He reluctantly came back into the house. Mary snatched her brassiere back as soon as he was in range and grabbed his ear with her other hand.
"Mary, it's not your place to punish him," Gudrun warned, and her daughter released Charlie with much reluctance.
"Charlie, don't you have something to say to Mary?"
Charlie muttered something that was probably supposed to pass for an apology.
"I don't think she heard you."
"I'm sorry, Mary."
"That didn't sound very convincing. Maybe I ought to take you out of the gobstones club."
"Mum, I said I was sorry!" Charlie protested.
"I know you didn't mean it. Now, try again."
"I'm really sorry," Charlie said, sounding more regretful this time.
"Much better. I think a two-week grounding ought to be enough. No broomsticks, carpets or gobstones. And you'll stay at home when we go swimming with the family."
"No!" Charlie looked very distressed now, tears threatening to spill forth out of his eyes. "Mum, please." He turned to Mary. "I'm really, really, sorry. I won't do it again, ever. I swear."
Mary's heart was as big as her fuse was short, and Charlie's pleas didn't fall on deaf ears. She looked at Jasmine uncertainly, and the woman's severe expression lessened.
"If Mary forgives you, you're allowed to go swimming with the family," Jasmine said.
Marry rolled her eyes. "Oh, why not? You're forgiven."
"Thank you!" Charlie threw his arms around Mary's middle and hugged her fiercely, reminding Ginny of how Dobby used to hug Harry. Mary tousled his already messy curls even further as she smiled down at him. "Okay, that's enough. I don't want your cooties." Then she pried his arms loose and headed to the living room, where she took the stairs to the second floor.
Jasmine frowned at her son. "Charlie, why did you take her bust-holder?"
Charlie blushed. "I told David Golan that Mary's boobies are bigger than his sister's but he didn't believe me because his sister is fifteen and Mary's eleven so I had to prove it," he rattled.
Galatea looked at him oddly. "Batya Golan?"
Gudrun shook her head. "That's Mary's friend. She's eleven too, but she's barely got any curves. I think he means the older sister, Sabra."
"Yeah, Sabra," Charlie confirmed.
"So he told you to nick one of Mary's bras so you could compare them?" Ginny asked.
Charlie nodded.
Ginny shook her head. "Boys."
"I've seen Batya and David's sister around," Gudrun said. "You can tell David that he can take my word for Mary having bigger—boobies—than his sister."
At eleven, Mary certainly didn't look it anymore. She'd always been very tall for her age, and she'd already begun developing curves around her ninth birthday. "I barely had any curves when I was her age."
Gudrun laughed. "I bet you were a foot shorter too."
At five feet and four inches, Mary was tall for her age, and save for her youthful face and expression, she could easily be mistaken for a much older girl.
"The kids these days grow up much too early," Gudrun sighed. "I went to see a Healer to check if Mary had some sort of hormonal imbalance. She couldn't find anything, so she put it down to nutrition and heritage. Since she doesn't get it from my side of the family, I asked Matt about his. Turns out his Aunt Betty is six-foot-two and measures at least fifty inches around the bust. His Aunt Zelda isn't poorly endowed either."
Cliff looked sceptical. "Fifty inches?"
"At least. Matt described her as looking as though she had a pair of Quaffles stuffed under her robes. Mary seems to take after Lynette a bit too, so I don't think she'll expand that much. Anyway, at first I just thought I was being paranoid, but when the school term ended and the teenagers came back home, I noticed a lot of boys of about fourteen to sixteen walking past the house several times. One of them must've seen her and spread the word about a babe on the block quickly. I bet they don't know she's only eleven."
"Knowing boys that age, I bet it won't matter," Janice warned. "I'd keep a close eye on her if I were you."
"If I were around all the time, I would. Mary doesn't realise that those boys are after only one thing. Maybe I ought to send her to Caer Sidi until school starts. Thank goodness she's going to a girls' school."
"Doesn't she know the facts of life?" Ginny asked.
"My mother took care of that years ago," Gudrun smiled and glanced over at little Rachel. "In a few years I'll have do it myself, though. They grow up too fast."
Galatea frowned. "I'm not sure about the Salem Witches' Institute, but going to Southern Cross wasn't fun at all. They wouldn't let us have any contact with boys whatsoever. A little lips-on experience with boys isn't necessarily a bad thing, you know. It would have made my life after school much easier."
"Salem isn't that bad. A few years ago, they started getting the boys and girls together on Halloween, Yule and Easter. They have dances and things like that."
"Isn't that why she wanted to go there in the first place?" Ginny asked, while she pried open her niece's clenched fist and freed the lock of hair Rosie had been tugging at.
"Yeah, that way she'll see Nicolai a little more often than just the Christmas and summer holidays. It's a good school, and I don't want to deprive my daughter of necessary experiences, so we signed her up there. I want to shield Mary from older boys who are much smoother and want much more than a kiss. She isn't ready for any of that, but from what I've seen so far, she tends to attract their attention. Younger boys are intimidated by her size—oh, look, there's another one." Gudrun nodded to the window, where another teenaged wizard of about fifteen walked past, hoping to catch a glimpse of the inside of the house. He averted his gaze quickly when he saw the women staring back at him.
"Has Harry picked a best man yet?" Janice asked Ginny.
"I assume Ron will be the Guardian. But I'm not sure."
"Well, that's Harry's concern, not yours. I'm sure Hermione will consent to being the Maiden. Knowing Hermione, she has probably anticipated it," Gudrun said. "Right now, we've got to get you a dress, so we need someone who has rubbed shoulders with the best dressmakers and knows what would suit you."
Janice nodded. "We don't want the dressmaker to waste your time with eccentric designs."
Gudrun leaned back in her chair. "Where is Heidi right now?"
"I'm really going to hate this, aren't I, Ron?" Harry asked, as he sat down in a booth at The Barrel with Ron and Wolfe. "No, I don't have to read your mind for this. It's written all over your face."
Ron sighed. "Remember how I told you it was a bad idea to send Percy's invitation to the Ministry?"
Harry groaned. "What happened?"
"Word leaked," Wolfe said. "One of our people was in London two days ago and heard about it. Ironheart told me this morning."
Vesta Gaal appeared at their table and beamed at Harry. He'd rid her of a parasitic personality two years ago and she'd been eternally grateful, offering a drink on the house every time he was in The Barrel. But even her dazzling smile couldn't erase the sense of dread mounting inside him.
"Hey, Vesta. Fire Whiskey for me and Wolfe, and hot chocolate for Harry," Ron said.
"Fire Whiskey in the morning?" Harry asked. Whatever Ron was about to tell him would have to be really bad.
"Better make the whiskeys doubles, and give them to Harry," Wolfe said.
"Because of your status in the wizarding world, when people got wind of the wedding, lots of them felt snubbed for not being invited," Ron began.
"They felt they ought to be invited because—" Wolfe had sensed his question and would have begun to answer it, but he was at a loss for an explanation.
Ron took over from Wolfe. "You've saved the world, and as representatives from the governments, they chose to invite themselves. It would do wonders for many of their careers to be seen at your wedding. Treaties with Concordia allow them to get in at will, so the six month advance notice rule can't keep them out."
"The Lord Mayor sympathises with your plight, but he couldn't turn these opportunists away," Wolfe said. " The timing is simply too convenient to seal some very lucrative contracts with said government representatives, and in the end he has to think about his re-election too."
"How many people are we talking about?" Harry asked. He'd resigned himself to the presence of the unwanted guests.
"It isn't all bad," Ron said quickly. "Here in Concordia the news was received with great enthusiasm. We've got lots of people volunteering services and goods for the wedding, free of charge, and—"
"How bad is it?" Harry repeated.
Wolfe grimaced. "On a scale of one to Korumu's stone, it's about—heck, kid, just elope."
"That bad?"
Vesta arrived at their table, bearing the drinks on a tray.
Harry gave her a rueful smile. "Keep the drinks coming, please."
"C'mon, Harry, it isn't that bad. I bet a game of Quidditch would take your mind off things," Ron said.
"Do we have a team?"
"No, but Wolfe can multiply himself and play the Chasers and Beaters."
Harry chuckled and looked at Wolfe. "You know, I always thought you got the better end of the deal with that power."
"Would you trade it for flying?" Wolfe asked.
"Not a chance."
"Then what are you complaining about?"
Ron cleared his throat. "If the super wizards would momentarily cease boasting about their powers, we've got to do some wedding planning. Hermione sent me a message to remind me."
"Hermione, I should have known," Wolfe chuckled. "So, what did she say?"
"First off, she wants to know if she'll play a role in the ceremony."
Harry frowned. "Didn't Ginny ask her to be the Maiden?"
"Apparently not. She also wanted to know if you've picked the Guardian yet?"
Harry sighed. He didn't quite know how to tell Ron this. "You're my best mate, but I was thinking about asking Wolfe to be the Guardian. I mean, the things he did to get Ginny and me together—"
Ron laughed. "You don't have to look so guilty. I think it's a great idea. It completes the circle, you know. You were my Guardian, I was Wolfe's, and now Wolfe is yours."
Harry's shoulders sagged with relief. "Thanks. I was thinking that you might want to give Ginny away instead?"
Ron blinked, clearly taken aback by the request. "I'd be honoured, but I had a different idea. If we can find someone else who'd give Ginny away, my brothers and I could cover the points of the compass."
Ron clearly wanted to give his brothers an equal share in the ceremony. "D'you think your mum would do it?" Harry asked.
"No, Mum thinks a man should give Ginny away. She's old-fashioned like that."
"What about Aberforth?" Wolfe asked. "He's got a special relationship with Ginny."
"I don't know. I'll have to ask Ginny about it," Harry said. "We'll have to talk about all of this. Maybe she wants some of her friends to have a part in the ceremony too, so I wouldn't hand out the points of the compass to your brothers just yet? I'm sure Hermione would object to being the only woman in the ceremony's inner circle."
"Yeah, you're probably right," Ron said. "Anyway, let's take this one day at the time. First we'll have to survive the madhouse my family will create when they get here on the 30th."
Harry smiled. The Weasleys would arrive two days before the wedding so they could go on a grand family outing to the lake the day before the wedding, Harry's birthday. Now that everyone owned a home in Concordia, Charlie, Ron and Ginny had decided to divide the family among themselves. Angelina, her kids, and Mrs Weasley would stay at Ron's, because he had the most room available. Percy, Hannah and their two daughters would be staying at Charlie's, while Bill and his family would stay at Harry and Ginny's. "I hope Fleur doesn't tie up the bathroom too much with her preening."
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
Plagiarism - It could happen to you
Very Messy Apple Pie
The first story involved a blogger/web writer who wrote a blog post about medieval apple pies complete with recipes and a bibliography. The editor of Cooks Source Magazine used the article without permission and reprinted the article in both Cooks Source online and in the printed version.
The author of the original internet article took to the internet to protest when she discovered the theft. Later, NPR wrote a story about the resulting internet outing phenomenon.
In this particular case, the editor of the magazine [erroneously] stated that everything on the internet is in the public domain.
Discontented Spirits
In the second case, Mindie Burgoyne on the Who Cares What I Think? blog wrote the history of how one of her blog posts was stolen and used by a Colorado university professor without permission or proper attribution. This particular blog was on the rather unusual topic of "thin places" which according to Mindie is "a place where connection to that [spiritual] world seems effortless, and ephemeral signs of its existence are almost palpable." Definitely, a unique topic that is easily identified.
This article is particularly interesting because it details how Mindie confronted and dealt with the theft and the how the professor responded. Most of this article revolves around lack of permission but more importantly lack of proper citation and attribution.
Genealogists on the web
Genealogical writers also need to be concerned about copyright, whether they write for print publications or the web. Writers need to be diligent that their work is appropriately credited and attributed.
The main copyright reference for genealogists so far has been Carmack's Guide to Copyright & Contracts by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack. This is a short, easy-to-read book that is a must read for any genealogical writer.
There is also a chapter by Val D. Greenwood, J.D. called "Copyright and Fair Use" in the book Professional Genealogy, edited by Elizabeth Shown Mills.
While both of these works are excellent and will get you on the right path, the waters have gotten much murkier for those publishing on the internet.
Addressing today's online issues
The realm of publishing on the internet is confusing to say the least. Protecting your work when it can be easily copied and pasted is much more difficult. And there are two battlefronts here: 1) outright theft like the two examples above and 2) stealing of content by splogs that do attribute and provide links back to original sources but do so without permission on sites that earn revenue from advertising.
Thomas MacEntee of GeneaBloggers has been at the forefront of leading the charge against sploggers and internet plagiarists for genealogists. He calls out the theft of content against genealogical bloggers and assists with getting the stolen content removed from the offending sites. He has used "Content Theft" and "Copyright" tags to make it easy to locate his posts on those topics.
Where do we go from here?
Thomas has made a great start but it is not enough and he can not do it alone. I believe it is time for a new publication to help genealogical writer's address the questions they have about online copyright and plagiarism. We need to understand how to protect our work online and how to handle it when theft occurs.
I hope that a member of the genealogical community will produce a publication such as this. Preferably it would be written by a copyright lawyer or a genealogist working in conjunction with a copyright lawyer.
What do you think? Has the online copyright issue impacted you? Do you want to know more about this topic so that you can protect your work?
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I have had personal narratives stolen - which is infuriating. While I throughly enjoy sharing my genealogy work, copying and pasting entire paragraphs, as if the other person is doing the work, is another kettle of fish.ReplyDelete
I put a lot of my genealogy information on the internet. I believe that it is meant to be shared. I don't mind when people attach my stories and photos to their trees on Ancestry.com. This week a blogger nicked one of my gravestone photographs to use in her blog, and it was used without attribution. I contacted the author who has now given attribution for the photo. Many years ago, I had a boss who took publications that I had written and edited and put them in his portfolio when he applied for a job. I couldn't believe that he even had the nerve to show me. His justification was he could do that because he was my boss when I did the work. That was probably the most egregious theft of my work that I've experienced. This is a great post, I was pretty shocked when I read the NPR article yesterday. Thanks for bringing this to people's attention. This comment is copyright 2010 Susan P. ;-) That is definitely said with a wink!ReplyDelete
Thanks Marian - and I agree with you that an updated publication on copyright and genealogy is needed. Still today I am getting comments from people who don't understand all the fuss and that everything on the Internet is free for the taking.ReplyDelete
I agree with Thomas. A distinction also needs to be made between using information you discover online to further your own research as compared to taking information and republishing it - with or without attribution.ReplyDelete
Susan - I think there is nothing wrong with sharing or wanting to share your genealogical information, as you mention. I think it is all about the intent. Authors need to post on their blogs when the material is free for the taking (with attribution) or copy written. The problem with copyright and plagiarism is that the topic is so complex that people get easily confused.ReplyDelete
I posted a bit of information gleaned from a cousin on my blog, only to have someone contact me a year later to complain that I took it from their website! We have to remember that this issue goes both ways. As bloggers, don't forget to find out the source of information people share and what you post or re-post. I updated my post, cited the sources and the original website, and wrote a lengthy appology to the author. He was correct to be upset. Phew!... This is true confessions time!ReplyDelete
Heather - very good point! I hadn't considered that. A good reminder that we need to know for sure where the information we are posting comes from. Thanks Heather!ReplyDelete
Interesting post Marian.ReplyDelete
Sploggers frustrate the heck out of me. I've made my copyright statement pretty restrictive as far as using my material to generate income. I choose not to use ads on my blog, and I don't want someone else making money off of what I write. I don't mind people using the factual information I offer on my blog as long as it is properly atributed. I also think I have a pretty distinct style of writing. I don't want anyone lifting what I see as my creative work. The photos I post are important to my blog and to me personally, and it does concern me that they might end up in the wrong hands. I don't want to attribute this incorrectly, but I think Kerry Scott at Clue Waggon recently asked, are we feeding our ancestors to the Internet? I've wondered the same thing myself.
Thanks for the thought provoking post.
Oops, gosh darn it. I meant Kerry Scott at Clue Wagon. Please excuse my spelling error. Zeesh...ReplyDelete
Here's a followup article by CNN on the theft by Cooks Source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/11/05/cooks.source.plagiarism/ReplyDelete
I've had photos and content stolen without attribution. I think a document on copyright and plagiarism is a good idea.ReplyDelete


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My first taste of southern Africa was a delight; Zambia. The 1000km cycle along the Great North Road was a tour through the wilds that came to an explosive halt. Lusaka provided the backdrop for my recovery, a long awaited rendezvous and the chance to get involved with a fantastic local project; Appleseed School.
Africa, how it should be
Having disembarked the MV Liemba in the exotically named Mpulungu I had over 1000km to cycle along Zambia's Great North Road to Lusaka for my rendezvous with Manu.
Straight away there were subtle yet noticeable differences to East Africa. Zambia seemed gentler, quainter; the little mud-built homes now often adorned with glass windows and painted decoration; people seemed less crazed by my appearance; less 'Mzungu!' more 'How are you?'. My impression was: 'Africa, how it should be'. A terribly archaic and romanticised image conjured from two-generation old books and films, yet a nevertheless pleasing one: a simple yet satisfied rural life; long grasses blowing in the breeze, cows and goats milling about and wide-eyed innocent children cavorting with imaginary lions. Zambia felt homely and I took an almost instant liking to it.
The landscape like the people seemed more genteel. Gone were the brutal ascents of Rwanda and Burundi, the plane of the gods had smoothed a land for more leisurely living, where knoll and vale swung softly together.
The first days rolled by with hearty hand-waving and smiles, hundreds of kilometres drifting by. There were endless open spaces. Camping was very comfortable, my tent open to the starts, with the cool night air making my sleeping bag an even greater haven of cosiness. That was until one night I woke with a fitful start.
Finding water in the small towns hadn't been easy so I often stopped in small villages to refill. 'If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me' is normally a reasonable assumption when drinking local water, however on this occasion I doubt the water shared with me by a kindly shopkeeper did either of us any good.
At midnight that evening violent eruptions ejected from every orifice of my edifice; the velocity and volume of which were stupefying. The outburst continued unrelenting all night. I'm sure armies on the march have left less mess. I pitied the poor soul on whose land I'd camped, so much so that I tucked a small peace offering beneath a nearby brick mould hoping the discovery of a few precious Kwacha might offset the disillusionment of the newly created sewerage facility.
The first light of dawn brought considerable relief. With an effort usually only spared only for monumental tasks, I packed up my tent, loaded the bike and wheeled out of the bush. I was severely dehydrated the only water I had, I knew to be contaminated. In half light, in the middle of nowhere, with a bedraggled zombie-like being waving at you, you'd forgive anyone for not stopping, yet the first car that passed pulled-over and offered me water, and stayed with me until the second vehicle passed – a pick-up – with space enough to carry me the 100km to the nearest town. Can you imagine that at home?
I spent the next days curled up, shivering; trying and failing to stop the exodus. The town had little comforts or medication to offer. After four days I decided to hitch a lift into Lusaka to get some proper medication and nutrition.
Reunion & Recovery
Arriving in Lusaka was a huge relief. Manu greeted me from the bus station. While I'd been cycling Rwanda, Burundi and northern Zambia, she'd been volunteering for a children's home in Namibia, while her knees were recovering. The time apart had been a healthy break for us both from some of the ardours of living side-by-side 24/7.
On my cycle south I'd been dreaming of our reunion and we fell into each other's arms. Amid all that changes on our journey, Manu's arms feel like home.
We'd arranged to volunteer at Appleseed, a community school in a deprived neighbourhood of Lusaka. Joy & Ken Hoffman - the founders of the school - were teachers at the nearby American International School Lusaka (AISL), they hosted in their home on campus.
It took a further week until I'd fully recovered. As Kenny said to me 'you've been dealt some bad cards with your health on this trip' – it has felt like it. Ill-health dampens anyone's enthusiasm for adventure and at times more recently my maladies left me with a feeling that I just want to get the trip done, before the next ailment nails me. However it's not a sentiment that lasts for long.
AISL: Special Guests
Manu and I had agreed to give a talk to the kids as AISL, so one early Friday morning we stood in front of a mass of several hundred school children to invite them, for a few minutes, along for the ride. The presentation went down very well, particularly my recollection of eating bulls' testicles in Slovenia (which prompted an unscheduled anatomy lesson for one teacher). The theme of the talk had been to challenge convention, to make conscious choices and make the most of the opportunities for a life less ordinary.
The talk seemed to spark some interest in students and teachers alike. Subsequently Manu and I visited several classes with kids of all ages, covering language to theory of knowledge. We both enjoyed the enthusiasm and curiosity of the kids. One class' homework was to summarise what they'd learnt. The next day this inspiring insight was forwarded on to me:
Today at AISL, we were fortunate to have a guest speaker present to us his incredible story. This man, named Dan Harrison, spoke to us of his travels bicycling from the UK, through the Middle East and downwards through Africa.
He began by telling us about his job in London. A typical 9-to-5 focused heavily on the money earned at the end of the day. Despite success in his career and a university degree, he felt dissatisfied, unfulfilled. Taking into account his displeasure related to his life situation, he came to the idea of getting away. Of cycling through Africa. After planning and considering the idea, he left his London home in 2009 and has been traveling ever since.
Despite the obviously incredibly inspirational side of his story, there was something about it that made you question your own life. Living in a foreign and international community, the students of aisl are already unbelievably lucky to learn about and experience other cultures. However, regardless of the unbelievable life we are living, we still are expected to follow standard protocol: go to school, get good grades, go to university, get a good job, etc. Yet today, we were presented with the story of a person who decided that this wasn't enough. Who believed that there is more to life. It forces you to asked profound questions: what is the purpose of our lives? Why were we put on this earth? What are we supposed to achieve? What makes a good life? There has got to be something more to it, yet that is up to each one of us to discover. Our individual purpose, our sense of meaning, what makes us happy. And whatever that is, whether it be working in an office or cycling through Africa to give back to the less fortunate, we should strive to achieve it. And don't ever give up.
Johanna Ledgerwood - Vincze
… far more profound than I'd been myself.
Joy and Ken arrived in Zambia in July 2011 to teach at the American International School. Shortly after arriving they joined their housekeeper, Mary to visit her local neighbourhood, the Bauleni Compound and they began visiting regularly to play, sing and offer classes the local kids. Most of the children were not attending school yet they had a tremendous appetite for learning. Inspired by the enthusiasm of the children – Joy, Ken and Mary rented a building and opened RHO Appleseed School.
Like many good causes Appleseed started as personal social project, founded on compassion and now, in order to achieve its goals, is faced with the challenging transition to a professional not-for-profit/NGO.
I set about helping Joy and Ken to structure their ideas into a plan on how to grow the organisation, building into a five year strategic plan with step-by-step actions to see a purpose built school erected for 250 children. Our discussions tried to weigh compassion with pragmatism, emotion versus objectivity. It was tricky to find the right balance but in the end we produced a very useful plan which should hopefully provide the catalyst for Appleseed to get more professional support it needs to grow.
Manu and I visited the school a number of times and while I was planning and writing, she conjured up another fantastic video to help promote Appleseed from the footage we shot while we were there. It gives a great introduction to the project and combined with the plan should provide great support to the Appleseed fundraising efforts.
The kids at the school loved watching the video too...
As our stay neared an end we were invited to the British High Commissioner's Residence for a press call to highlight our work and a few drinks. His Excellency – or Simon as he'd rather be called - was a very pleasant host and we shared a few tales of the Better Life Cycle with him, his family and some reporters.
We'd really enjoyed our stay with the Joy, Ken and their daughters – Ally and Emma - who were great hosts, as well as the warm welcome from several of the AISL staff. We were given a parting gift from the school which we have donated to Appleseed. Find out more and support the project at www.RHOappleseed.org
With a good amount achieved, Manu's bike reassembled, her knees strong and my gut recovered, we were set to hit the road again. Next stop, Victoria Falls.


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I had mentioned the Guardian's data blog and the need for more data journalism earlier here. What I really like about the Guardian's approach in particular is that they share the data of their articles and encourage readers to use it.
Of course there are perfectly valuable reasons for only displaying a chart and not making the underlying data available, e.g. to generate leads, as potential customers may get in touch with you asking for the underlying data, or technology issues that don't allow you to upload data, etc.
I personally believe that when I show a chart I should also make the underlying data available. Pretty pictures give you the attention, but the underlying data will offer you an opportunity to engage with your reader on a different level. This might be similar to open source software. In most cases users don't want to see and read the code, but having the knowledge that they could provides more credibility.
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Here is another reason why I should make the data available: Because it is easy to extract the data from a chart anyhow, thanks to digitizing software like the Java application plot digitizer. While in the past I may have used graph paper and a ruler, nowadays it only takes a few minutes to extract the information.
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- Plugin version: v9.1.1
- Released on: 2018-04-06
- Changelog
For other versions, see the overview list.
To learn more about Logstash, see the Logstash Reference.
For questions about the plugin, open a topic in the Discuss forums. For bugs or feature requests, open an issue in Github. For the list of Elastic supported plugins, please consult the Elastic Support Matrix.
Compatibility Note
Starting with Elasticsearch 5.3, there's an HTTP setting
http.content_type.required. If this option is set to
true, and you
are using Logstash 2.4 through 5.2, you need to update the Elasticsearch output
plugin to version 6.2.5 or higher.
This plugin is the recommended method of storing logs in Elasticsearch. If you plan on using the Kibana web interface, you'll want to use this output.
This output only speaks the HTTP protocol. HTTP is the preferred protocol for interacting with Elasticsearch as of Logstash 2.0. We strongly encourage the use of HTTP over the node protocol for a number of reasons. HTTP is only marginally slower, yet far easier to administer and work with. When using the HTTP protocol one may upgrade Elasticsearch versions without having to upgrade Logstash in lock-step.
You can learn more about Elasticsearch at https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch
Index template for this version (Logstash 5.0) has been changed to reflect Elasticsearch's mapping changes in version 5.0.
Most importantly, the subfield for string multi-fields has changed from
.raw to
.keyword to match ES default
Users installing ES 5.x and LS 5.x
This change will not affect you and you will continue to use the ES defaults.
Users upgrading from LS 2.x to LS 5.x with ES 5.x
LS will not force upgrade the template, if
logstash template already exists. This means you will still use
.raw for sub-fields coming from 2.x. If you choose to use the new template, you will have to reindex your data after
the new template is installed.
The retry policy has changed significantly in the 8.1.1 release. This plugin uses the Elasticsearch bulk API to optimize its imports into Elasticsearch. These requests may experience either partial or total failures. The bulk API sends batches of requests to an HTTP endpoint. Error codes for the HTTP request are handled differently than error codes for individual documents.
HTTP requests to the bulk API are expected to return a 200 response code. All other response codes are retried indefinitely.
The following document errors are handled as follows:
- 400 and 404 errors are sent to the dead letter queue (DLQ), if enabled. If a DLQ is not enabled, a log message will be emitted, and the event will be dropped. See DLQ Policy for more info.
- 409 errors (conflict) are logged as a warning and dropped.
Note that 409 exceptions are no longer retried. Please set a higher
retry_on_conflict value if you experience 409 exceptions.
It is more performant for Elasticsearch to retry these exceptions than this plugin.
Mapping (404) errors from Elasticsearch can lead to data loss. Unfortunately mapping errors cannot be handled without human intervention and without looking at the field that caused the mapping mismatch. If the DLQ is enabled, the original events causing the mapping errors are stored in a file that can be processed at a later time. Often times, the offending field can be removed and re-indexed to Elasticsearch. If the DLQ is not enabled, and a mapping error happens, the problem is logged as a warning, and the event is dropped. See dead-letter-queues for more information about processing events in the DLQ.
This plugin attempts to send batches of events as a single request. However, if a request exceeds 20MB we will break it up until multiple batch requests. If a single document exceeds 20MB it will be sent as a single request.
This plugin uses the JVM to lookup DNS entries and is subject to the value of networkaddress.cache.ttl, a global setting for the JVM.
As an example, to set your DNS TTL to 1 second you would set
LS_JAVA_OPTS environment variable to
Keep in mind that a connection with keepalive enabled will not reevaluate its DNS value while the keepalive is in effect.
This plugin supports request and response compression. Response compression is enabled by default and
for Elasticsearch versions 5.0 and later, the user doesn't have to set any configs in Elasticsearch for
it to send back compressed response. For versions before 5.0,
http.compression must be set to
true in
Elasticsearch to take advantage of response compression when using this plugin
For requests compression, regardless of the Elasticsearch version, users have to enable
setting in their Logstash config file.
This plugin supports the following configuration options plus the Common Options described later.
|Input type
a valid filesystem path
a valid filesystem path
string, one of
a valid filesystem path
a valid filesystem path
string, one of
Also see Common Options for a list of options supported by all output plugins.
- Value type is string
- Default value is
Protocol agnostic (i.e. non-http, non-java specific) configs go here Protocol agnostic methods The Elasticsearch action to perform. Valid actions are:
- index: indexes a document (an event from Logstash).
- delete: deletes a document by id (An id is required for this action)
- create: indexes a document, fails if a document by that id already exists in the index.
- update: updates a document by id. Update has a special case where you can upsert — update a
document if not already present. See the
upsertoption. NOTE: This does not work and is not supported in Elasticsearch 1.x. Please upgrade to ES 2.x or greater to use this feature with Logstash!
- A sprintf style string to change the action based on the content of the event. The value
%{[foo]}would use the foo field for the action
For more details on actions, check out the Elasticsearch bulk API documentation
HTTP Path to perform the _bulk requests to this defaults to a concatenation of the path parameter and "_bulk"
The .cer or .pem file to validate the server's certificate
doc_as_upsert for update mode.
Create a new document with source if
document_id doesn't exist in Elasticsearch
The document ID for the index. Useful for overwriting existing entries in Elasticsearch with the same ID.
- Value type is string
- There is no default value for this setting.
- This option is deprecated
Note: This option is deprecated due to the removal of types in Elasticsearch 6.0.
It will be removed in the next major version of Logstash.
This sets the document type to write events to. Generally you should try to write only
similar events to the same type. String expansion
%{foo} works here.
If you don't set a value for this option:
- for elasticsearch clusters 6.x and above: the value of doc will be used;
- for elasticsearch clusters 5.x and below: the event's type field will be used, if the field is not present the value of doc will be used.
- Value type is array
- Default value is
Set the Elasticsearch errors in the whitelist that you don't want to log.
A useful example is when you want to skip all 409 errors
which are
HTTP Path where a HEAD request is sent when a backend is marked down the request is sent in the background to see if it has come back again before it is once again eligible to service requests. If you have custom firewall rules you may need to change this
- Value type is uri
- Default value is
Sets the host(s) of the remote instance. If given an array it will load balance requests across the hosts specified in the
hosts parameter.
Remember the
http protocol uses the http address (eg. 9200, not 9300).
["https://127.0.0.1:9200/mypath"] (If using a proxy on a subpath)
It is important to exclude dedicated master nodes from the
hosts list
to prevent LS from sending bulk requests to the master nodes. So this parameter should only reference either data or client nodes in Elasticsearch.
Any special characters present in the URLs here MUST be URL escaped! This means
# should be put in as
%23 for instance.
Enable gzip compression on requests. Note that response compression is on by default for Elasticsearch v5.0 and beyond
- Value type is string
- Default value is
The index to write events to. This can be dynamic using the
%{foo} syntax.
The default value will partition your indices by day so you can more easily
delete old data or only search specific date ranges.
Indexes may not contain uppercase characters.
For weekly indexes ISO 8601 format is recommended, eg. logstash-%{+xxxx.ww}.
LS uses Joda to format the index pattern from event timestamp.
Joda formats are defined here.
The keystore used to present a certificate to the server. It can be either .jks or .p12
Set the keystore password
From Logstash 1.3 onwards, a template is applied to Elasticsearch during
Logstash's startup if one with the name
template_name does not already exist.
By default, the contents of this template is the default template for
logstash-%{+YYYY.MM.dd} which always matches indices based on the pattern
logstash-*. Should you require support for other index names, or would like
to change the mappings in the template in general, a custom template can be
specified by setting
template to the path of a template file.
manage_template to false disables this feature. If you require more
control over template creation, (e.g. creating indices dynamically based on
field names) you should set
manage_template to false and use the REST
API to apply your templates manually.
- Value type is hash
- There is no default value for this setting.
Pass a set of key value pairs as the URL query string. This query string is added to every host listed in the hosts configuration. If the hosts list contains urls that already have query strings, the one specified here will be appended.
- Value type is string
- Default value is
For child documents, ID of the associated parent.
This can be dynamic using the
%{foo} syntax.
Password to authenticate to a secure Elasticsearch cluster
HTTP Path at which the Elasticsearch server lives. Use this if you must run Elasticsearch behind a proxy that remaps the root path for the Elasticsearch HTTP API lives. Note that if you use paths as components of URLs in the hosts field you may not also set this field. That will raise an error at startup
- Value type is string
- Default value is
Set which ingest pipeline you wish to execute for an event. You can also use event dependent configuration
here like
pipeline => "%{INGEST_PIPELINE}"
- Value type is number
- Default value is
While the output tries to reuse connections efficiently we have a maximum. This sets the maximum number of open connections the output will create. Setting this too low may mean frequently closing / opening connections which is bad.
- Value type is number
- Default value is
While the output tries to reuse connections efficiently we have a maximum per endpoint. This sets the maximum number of open connections per endpoint the output will create. Setting this too low may mean frequently closing / opening connections which is bad.
- Value type is uri
- There is no default value for this setting.
Set the address of a forward HTTP proxy. This used to accept hashes as arguments but now only accepts arguments of the URI type to prevent leaking credentials.
- Value type is number
- Default value is
How frequently, in seconds, to wait between resurrection attempts. Resurrection is the process by which backend endpoints marked down are checked to see if they have come back to life
- Value type is number
- Default value is
Set initial interval in seconds between bulk retries. Doubled on each retry up to
- Value type is number
- Default value is
Set max interval in seconds between bulk retries.
- Value type is number
- Default value is
The number of times Elasticsearch should internally retry an update/upserted document See the partial updates for more info
A routing override to be applied to all processed events.
This can be dynamic using the
%{foo} syntax.
- Value type is string
- Default value is
Set script name for scripted update mode
output { elasticsearch { script => "ctx._source.message = params.event.get('message')" } }
- Value type is string
- Default value is
Set the language of the used script. If not set, this defaults to painless in ES 5.0.
When using indexed (stored) scripts on Elasticsearch 6 and higher, you must set this parameter to
"" (empty string).
- Value can be any of:
- Default value is
Define the type of script referenced by "script" variable inline : "script" contains inline script indexed : "script" contains the name of script directly indexed in elasticsearch file : "script" contains the name of script stored in elasticsearch's config directory
- Value type is string
- Default value is
Set variable name passed to script (scripted update)
if enabled, script is in charge of creating non-existent document (scripted update)
This setting asks Elasticsearch for the list of all cluster nodes and adds them to the hosts list.
For Elasticsearch 1.x and 2.x any nodes with
http.enabled (on by default) will be added to the hosts list, including master-only nodes!
For Elasticsearch 5.x and 6.x any nodes with
http.enabled (on by default) will be added to the hosts list, excluding master-only nodes.
- Value type is number
- Default value is
How long to wait, in seconds, between sniffing attempts
HTTP Path to be used for the sniffing requests the default value is computed by concatenating the path value and "_nodes/http" if sniffing_path is set it will be used as an absolute path do not use full URL here, only paths, e.g. "/sniff/_nodes/http"
- Value type is boolean
- There is no default value for this setting.
Enable SSL/TLS secured communication to Elasticsearch cluster. Leaving this unspecified will use whatever scheme is specified in the URLs listed in hosts. If no explicit protocol is specified plain HTTP will be used. If SSL is explicitly disabled here the plugin will refuse to start if an HTTPS URL is given in hosts
Option to validate the server's certificate. Disabling this severely compromises security. For more information on disabling certificate verification please read https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
You can set the path to your own template here, if you so desire. If not set, the included template will be used.
- Value type is string
- Default value is
This configuration option defines how the template is named inside Elasticsearch. Note that if you have used the template management features and subsequently change this, you will need to prune the old template manually, e.g.
curl -XDELETE <http://localhost:9200/_template/OldTemplateName?pretty>
OldTemplateName is whatever the former setting was.
The template_overwrite option will always overwrite the indicated template in Elasticsearch with either the one indicated by template or the included one. This option is set to false by default. If you always want to stay up to date with the template provided by Logstash, this option could be very useful to you. Likewise, if you have your own template file managed by puppet, for example, and you wanted to be able to update it regularly, this option could help there as well.
Please note that if you are using your own customized version of the Logstash template (logstash), setting this to true will make Logstash to overwrite the "logstash" template (i.e. removing all customized settings)
- Value type is number
- Default value is
Set the timeout, in seconds, for network operations and requests sent Elasticsearch. If a timeout occurs, the request will be retried.
The JKS truststore to validate the server's certificate.
Use either
:truststore or
Set the truststore password
- Value type is string
- Default value is
Set upsert content for update mode.
Create a new document with this parameter as json string if
document_id doesn't exists
Username to authenticate to a secure Elasticsearch cluster
- Value type is number
- Default value is
How long to wait before checking if the connection is stale before executing a request on a connection using keepalive. You may want to set this lower, if you get connection errors regularly Quoting the Apache commons docs (this client is based Apache Commmons): Defines period of inactivity in milliseconds after which persistent connections must be re-validated prior to being leased to the consumer. Non-positive value passed to this method disables connection validation. This check helps detect connections that have become stale (half-closed) while kept inactive in the pool. See these docs for more info
The version to use for indexing. Use sprintf syntax like
%{my_version} to use a field value here.
See https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-versioning-support.
- Value can be any of:
- There is no default value for this setting.
The version_type to use for indexing. See https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-versioning-support. See also https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-index_.html#_version_types
The following configuration options are supported by all output plugins:
- Value type is codec
- Default value is
The codec used for output data. Output codecs are a convenient method for encoding your data before it leaves the output without needing a separate filter in your Logstash pipeline.
Disable or enable metric logging for this specific plugin instance. By default we record all the metrics we can, but you can disable metrics collection for a specific plugin.
Add a unique
ID to the plugin configuration. If no ID is specified, Logstash will generate one.
It is strongly recommended to set this ID in your configuration. This is particularly useful
when you have two or more plugins of the same type. For example, if you have 2 elasticsearch outputs.
Adding a named ID in this case will help in monitoring Logstash when using the monitoring APIs.
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It was a very rare development in New York: Stock markets closed Monday because of Hurricane Sandy barreling up the East Coast.
Stock markets almost never close outside of their limited holiday schedule, which recognizes only the grandest and most deeply rooted national holidays. Only the majors: Christmas, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, New Years Day and the like stop the wheels of commerce from turning in the nation's financial capital.
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The monster storm (some are calling it "Frankenstorm" ) expected to hit New York City Tuesday morning had already caused the city to close its mass transit system -- something also rarely done before a weather event.
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Hurricane Sandy was expected to raise seawater levels by up to 11 feet, which could flood the city's subway system.
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Some of the city's residents said they were nervous while others said they were excited.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "This is a serious and dangerous storm." And the National Hurricane Center warned that the potential floods were "life-threatening."
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In international markets Monday, the Nikkei 225 index in Japan shed 0.04 percent and the Shanghai composite index in China lost 0.35 percent. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was off 0.16 percent and the Sensex in India was flat, rising 0.06 percent.
The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia rose 0.1 percent.
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The requirements of the new zoning ordinance may fall primarily on architects and developers, but if you live within city limits, the new law affects you too. Here's how:
City residents, with the exception of those around the university, may now put one "accessory apartment" on their property, as long as they use the property as their own primary residence.
Now that entry corridors are zoned mixed-use, people looking for apartments will have more opportunities to rent above shops.
Some buildings are going to get taller– a lot taller. On West Main and around the University, you might soon have to be craning your neck to see the tops of new mixed-use buildings. Depending on the zoning and use, you might say the sky's the limit.
Shopaholics may soon have even more reason to spend: With mixed-use, small shopping centers are likely to spring up on entrance corridors all over town– and those that already exist are likely to expand and move closer to street front.
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