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Promising Hard SF debut
Up Against It is my most anticipated debut this year. M. J. Locke paints a picture of space colonization in a not to far future in this thrilling story of a criminal takeover attempt of Phocaea, a strategic and independent asteroid colony.
There are two main characters Geoff and Jane. Geoff is coming of age as he and his young rocketbike-riding friends become central to the events. He witnesses how his beloved brother Carl is killed in the mysterious accident that destroys the colony's supply of methane and water. Jane is the city administrator in charge of supplies and she soon discovers that there is more to the accident and starts to suspect the Martian Mafia is behind it all, since they conveniently have the only load in range to save the colony. She also has been through it all before on Vesta when the Mafia took over there. Jane has to struggle both with the Mafia and her fellow administrators.
The tale follows the two main characters as they in their own ways try to save the colony. There is some teen love, a mysterious trans-human cult, lots of action on the asteroid and in space, kidnappings, and a fleet of thugs on their way. The accident also spawns a feral AI that complicates things.
The world building is good and quite interesting. We get glimpses here and there that hints at the greater universe. Earth is a refugee camp after an ecological breakdown and people in space have a better life but life outside the atmosphere is dangerous as the events here show. Life in the colonies are televised to earth by small mobile cameras that are everywhere, the colony managements have an allotment of privacy minutes every week.
I really like the characters and the world building and I hope M. J. Locke is going to write more in this world. It is a straightforward hard sf read where the mysteries and characters keep you interested. It reads a bit like classic science fiction but with modern ideas and people. It is a standalone novel but it has many interesting people and events that leave the range open for sequels I really want to read.
I give Up Against it a strong recommendation.
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Up Against It by M. J. Locke (Tor March 2011) – Amazon US | UK – Bought it myself
Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes that are the million eyes of 'Stroiders, a reality-TV show whose Earthside producers have paid handsomely for the privilege of spying on every detail of the Phocaeans' lives.
Life isn't as good as it seems, though. A mysterious act of sabotage kills Geoff's brother Carl and puts the entire colony at risk. And in short order, we discover that the whole thing may have been cooked up by the Martian mafia, as a means of executing a coup and turning Phocaea into a client-state. As if that wasn't bad enough, there's a rogue AI that was spawned during the industrial emergency and slipped through the distracted safeguards, and a giant x-factor in the form of the Viridians, a transhumanist cult that lives in Phocaea's bowels.
In addition to Geoff, our story revolves around Jane, the colony's resource manager — a bureaucrat engineer in charge of keeping the plumbing running on an artificial island of humanity poised on the knife-edge of hard vacuum and unforgiving space. She's more than a century old, and good at her job, but she is torn between the technical demands of the colony and the political realities of her situation, in which the fishbowl effect of 'Stroiders is compounded by a reputation economy that turns every person into a beauty contest competitor. Her manoeuverings to keep politics and engineering in harmony are the heart of the book.


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Welcome to Oklahoma's eGovernment News Report. We hope you enjoy the monthly report providing you with up-to-date information on Oklahoma's eGovernment achievements.
State of Oklahoma Internship Opportunities Now Available Online at CAPIP.OK.gov
Applying for an internship with the state of Oklahoma just got easier with the new Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Carl Albert Public Internship Program (CAPIP) online application system. Prospective interns can visit http://CAPIP.OK.gov to use the new online application.
"This new online system will be providing efficiencies in many areas of our CAPIP program," said Denae Edwards, Carl Albert Public Internship Program Coordinator. "Not only are we offering an online process to college students, but the process is extending to all state agencies, providing for less paperwork, increased competition, and less man-hours devoted to the internship hiring process."
Visitors to the site can view all state of Oklahoma internships with participating agencies and can create an account to apply. The visitor must then complete an online application and specify if they are seeking a graduate, senior undergraduate, or an undergraduate internship. Once OPM approves an online application, state agencies can view the interested applicant and contact those who meet the criteria for their internship.
All Oklahoma state agencies have the ability to upload internship descriptions through the same system by contacting OPM to receive an account. State agencies can contact OPM CAPIP Coordinator, Denae Edwards at (405) 522-1737 or email@example.com.
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Oklahoma Department of Commerce Unveils New Web Site
The Oklahoma Department of Commerce has redesigned its Web site, OKCommerce.gov, in hopes users will find the experience easier to navigate as well as providing a wealth of updated information to Oklahoma businesses and communities. The redesigned site features a new and improved Oklahoma buildings and sites database which includes more than 250 buildings with GIS-mapping features, including the ability to view proximity to transportation and resources. The new site, nearly 2 years in development, offers visitors hundreds of pages of useful information along with hundreds of downloadable documents. Commerce's new Web site is focused on assisting business location consultants, business owners (both start-ups and existing), communities, those developing Oklahoma's workforce, as well as anyone seeking statistical data about the state or communities within it. Users will find these new and improved areas:
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The Pre-Employment Screening Program is the result of federal legislation requiring FMCSA to provide employers of commercial drivers with electronic access to crash and inspection data in FMCSA's Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS). The information will assist employers when assessing a driver's safety history as part of the pre-employment screening process. The new PSP Web site, www.psp.fmcsa.dot.gov, provides details about PSP data, the PSP online system, and answers to frequently asked questions.
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The Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority and the City of Oklahoma City are seeking citizen input through a series of public meetings and online forums to begin planning for enhanced public transit in downtown Oklahoma City.
COTPA will launch www.LetsTalkTransit.com and host the first "Let's Talk Transit" public discussion on March 29 to collect input about the initial five-mile modern streetcar routes in downtown Oklahoma City. Together, the public and COTPA will work through the process to identify destinations and routes that will best serve downtown's public transportation needs. Included in the area of focus will be various downtown districts such as the Automobile Alley, Bricktown, Central Business District, Deep Deuce, Film District, Oklahoma Health Center, Midtown and the Core to Shore area.
"This is the first step toward a new transit vision for our City," said Mayor Cornett. "We're encouraging every citizen to offer input. These meetings will help us identify the service areas that are most important to those who work in, live in and visit our downtown."
Citizens can provide their input online or through a series of Let's Talk Transit public meetings. Meetings will be held:
The agenda for each of the five meeting dates will change because it will build on the information and input from the previous meeting. On the first and last dates the community will have the option to attend a morning or an evening meeting with the same agenda.
This accelerated process is necessary to identify what streets the streetcar may travel and to coordinate the plan with Project 180 - Oklahoma City's downtown streetscape plan starting in May 2010. Through cooperative planning, the projects will minimize disruption due to construction and maximize cost savings.
Included in MAPS 3, passed by Oklahoma City voters in December 2009, is approximately $130 million in funding for public transportation. The transit package includes approximately five miles of downtown streetcar and a multimodal transit hub in downtown.
"Five miles of streetcar will only allow us to cover a limited area," said Rick Cain, Administrator of COTPA and Director of Public Transportation and Parking for the City of Oklahoma City. "That's why it's critical we get input from citizens about their preferred destinations and routes in downtown Oklahoma City."
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Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center has acquired three significant gifts of American art, securing a solid place in the museum's permanent collection of major 20th century works.
The museum has received painter Richard Diebenkorn's sketchbooks, which were donated by his wife, Phyllis Diebenkorn; the Gabrielle Reem and Herbert Kayden Collection of works by painter Jacob Lawrence; and Andy Warhol's archive of contact sheets and negatives, museum officials announced on July 24.
Each artist holds an important place in the history of art. Diebenkorn is a key figure in the Bay Area figurative movement as well as abstract expressionism and color field painting. Lawrence, an acclaimed African-American artist, is a leading figurative painter of the 20th century. Warhol is arguably the most influential artist in the last century, museum officials said.
Connie Wolf, museum director, has been seeking opportunities to build the Cantor's collections since she took the helm in 2012.
"Thanks to the generosity of several visionary donors -- the Kayden family, the Diebenkorn family and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts -- the museum's permanent collection is now an even more vital resource for study and teaching. These singular works by Lawrence, Diebenkorn and Warhol will support new interdisciplinary approaches to 20th-century American art and culture here at Stanford, and I couldn't be more thrilled," she said in a statement.
The museum now has 26 of Diebenkorn's sketchbooks. They contain an estimated 1,200 to 1,400 drawings, spanning the artist's career and representing the range of styles and subjects he explored. The sketchbooks, which have never before been shown or studied, provide invaluable insight into the artist's creative and intellectual processes, museum officials said. The books will enhance the two drawings, four prints and four paintings by Diebenkorn that are already in the Cantor's permanent collection.
Cantor staff will catalog and digitize the sketchbooks so they may be made widely accessible for study as individual images and as interactive digital sketchbooks within the context of their original pagination, with links to biographical information and finished works, museum officials said.
Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Cantor's curator of prints, drawings and photographs, plans to feature a selection of the sketchbooks in the exhibition Artists at Work, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2015 to coincide with the opening of the new McMurtry Building for the Department of Art and Art History.
Diebenkorn is also an important California artist. He was born on April 22, 1922, in Portland, Oregon, and died March 30, 1993, in Berkeley. He grew up in the Ingleside Terraces neighborhood of San Francisco and attended Lowell High School. He graduated from Stanford in 1949.
Longtime supporters of Cantor and Stanford arts education Dr. Herbert J. Kayden of New York City and his daughter Joelle Kayden, a Stanford graduate of Washington, D.C., donated the 26 works by Lawrence, plus one by his wife, Gwendolyn Knight. The gifts were donated in memory of Dr. Gabrielle H. Reem, Herbet Kayden's wife and Joelle's mother. The collection includes 11 drawings, five paintings, nine prints and one illustrated book by Lawrence; one painting by Knight; and an archive of collection-related materials.
Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1917 and died in Seattle, Washington, in 2000. He became deeply involved in the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s. He later described his work as "dynamic cubism" for its bold colors and shapes. His narrative paintings often reflect his personal experience or depict key moments in African-American history, including the accomplishments of figures such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman and the achievements of the American civil rights movement.
The new Cantor collection spans Lawrence's career, from the 1940s through the 1990s. Of particular significance are the iconic painting "The Ordeal of Alice" (1963) and drawings such as "Poster Design for the Whitney Exhibition" (1974), which demonstrate his mastery of color and form, Cantor officials said. The gift makes the Cantor collection the largest of Lawrence's works on the West Coast.
An early 2015 show will be the first Bay Area solo exhibition of Lawrence's work since 1993, museum officials said. The exhibition will grow out of a Stanford course, "Anatomy of an Exhibition," that Mitchell is teaching next year. Undergraduate and graduate students will design the installation and write the texts to accompany the exhibit, according to a press release.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts selected the Cantor Arts Center as the permanent home of Warhol's archive of contact sheets and negatives after an invitation-only competition among some of the nation's leading art museums.
From 1976 until his death in 1987, Warhol used his Minox 35EL camera to document his daily life. The acquisition of 3,600 contact sheets and corresponding photographic negatives represent the complete range of work and include images of celebrities and artists of that era, such as Truman Capote and John Lennon.
The photographic archive builds upon the Cantor's existing collection of Warhol works and adds to the university's preeminence in the study of the history of photography, from Eadweard Muybridge to Carleton Watkins to Andy Warhol to Robert Frank to Lee Friedlander. The inaugural exhibition and a major international symposium are scheduled for 2017, the 30th anniversary of Warhol's death.
Funds are being raised for a permanent, restricted endowment dedicated to the archive's storage, conservation, digitization and staff. The Cantor will digitize the full archive and make it accessible online.


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Christie: N.J. to honor Gandolfini
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Monday in memory of "Sopranos" star and New Jersey native James Gandolfini.
Gandolfini died Wednesday in Rome at age 51.
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The governor's order says Gandolfini was an iconic actor who "left a timeless impact upon television and film in the state of New Jersey and across our nation."
( PHOTOS: Jersey boys: Christie and Booker)
Gandolfini was born in Westwood, N.J., grew up in Park Ridge and attended Rutgers, the state's flagship public university.
The governor says the actor acclaimed for his role as mobster Tony Soprano was also an advocate, in two documentaries, for U.S. servicemen and women and veterans.
Christie has called Gandolfini a "New Jersey treasure." Earlier in his tenure, the governor ordered flags flown at half-staff for two other New Jersey entertainers, singer Whitney Houston and musician Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
On Sunday, a family spokesman said Gandolfini's body may be repatriated as soon as Monday. Michael Kobold told reporters that the "provisional plan" is to depart Rome on Monday afternoon for the United States, several days earlier than anticipated. He did not specify which U.S. airport.
Kobold thanked Italian and U.S. authorities, including Secretary of State John Kerry, his predecessor Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton for helping with arrangements.
Kobold has said an autopsy revealed the cause of death was a heart attack. Authorities have not released the report.


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Once upon a time, back in the time that Illidan reigned supreme, there was a druid who was sick of being a kitty cat and decided to toughen it up and transform into a bear. Though he was nervous and didn't know what to expect or what to do, he gave it a shot anyway. Through trial and error he crawled his way through the Slave Pens and climbed the steps of Medivh's tower. Eventually he went into Serpentshrine Caverns and faced off against the mighty Morogrim Tidewalker. He grew comfortable in his skills and decided he needed a new challenge. And thus a paladin was born. This shield carrying defender of the Light progressed even further, with his largest achievement to slay the Lich King himself! After doing that impossible deed and seeing all that was wrong with Azeroth, he lost his faith in the light and only rage remained.
The warrior was the only thing alive in him and he decided that he would protect all life, without the help of the Light. And he pressed on, even with the world shattered, and swore that he would get vengeance on the creation that caused this.
After this introduction story about my life as tank, I want to talk about tanking and how to start doing it, why people would even want to tank, and what tanking can do for you.
The easiest part of this is how to start tanking. The simplest advice I can give you here is: slap together a tank-spec and just try it. Now, I'm not saying you should just go in without any information, but what I'm trying to tell you is that you learn best through trial and error. Just go and slap on some tanking gear, if you don't have any get some crafted, and hit a random normal.
Now about the why you'd want to tank. The reason that springs to mind first is faster queues. If you just want to have faster queues, than I'm not even sure why you bother reading blogs like these. Reasons for why you'd want to tank could be:
- A change of pace from DPSing/healing
- More responsibility
- RP reasons: you want to protect the innocent
- You like getting hit on
And now, the tricky part about what tanking can do for you and your gameplay. What I personally noted was that I got a lot more situational awareness. Even though I really had trouble with tunnel-vision in the beginning, after some practicing, I started to notice a lot of extra things happening around me. As DPS I never paid attention to the patrol moving around, whereas as tank I HAD to notice them and did so. Another thing I found out was that I took charge more often. I grew more confident in my gameplay and as I found out what I could and could not do, I began to size up situations and began to be proactive instead of reactive. My decision making got faster due to the many ninjapulls I had happen where I had to pick up mobs. Thinking ahead became the name of the game for me, predicting what would happen next was a sort of game.
To sum it up, starting to tank was like a mountain to be climbed: it really seems hard from the bottom. But once you start climbing, it doesn't seem all that bad and you keep getting higher and higher. Once again, my advice: just do it.


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U.N. inspectors reach Syria gas victims, despite coming under fire
(WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT) Aug. 26 - The U.N. team has begun interviewing victims and doctors of the alleged chemical weapons attack outside Damascus last week. Nathan Frandino reports.
**CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES** After taking fire from snipers in Damascus, the U.N. team of chemical weapons experts reaches a medical clinic where victims of an alleged gassing are believed to be recovering. Amateur video, which Reuters cannot independently verify, appears to show the U.N. members examining the victims alongside doctors. The U.N. had arrived to investigate other reported chemical weapons attacks, but when video surfaced last week showing this apparent attack, the team demanded access. Men, women and children could be seen gasping for air. That video also could not be independently verified. Estimates of the attack's death toll range from 500 to more than 1,000. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has condemned both the chemical weapons attack and the firing on his investigators. Meanwhile, the U.S. is already weighing options for a response, including possible military action. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNITED STATES DEFENSE SECRETARY CHUCK HAGEL SAYING: "We will get the facts. And if there is any action taken it will be in concert with the international community and within the framework of any legal justifications." Syrian ally Russia says rebels may have been behind the attack. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV, SAYING: "If anybody thinks that bombing and destroying the Syrian military infrastructure, and leaving the battlefield for the opponents of the regime to win, would end everything - that is an illusion." Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has denied all responsibility for the attack.


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The battle between the Hudson family and Williamstown Township has been going on since November. A cease-and-desist letter from the township's attorneys, Wednesday, brought it to a new level.
"We had to come into compliance with the zoning ordinance, which essentially means we have to get rid of our animals, or they will file suit in court," said Jessica Hudson.
It started when the Hudson's bought their home, last August.
Jessica Hudson says she was given the 'OK' by the township to raise farm animals on the property to sell products and help manage the severe food allergies of her five children.
"They're allergic to dairy, so cow's milk, soy, corn...," said Hudson.
Three months later, Hudson found out the animals were in violation of a zoning ordinance. The township said no one at its office ever gave the 'OK' for the animals.
Last week, when the board voted to take the family to court, Hudson took the story to her farm's Facebook page and website.
"It just went crazy," she said. "People started picking it up and flooding every social media network."
The result was several letters and $15,000 in donations for legal defense. Hudson says, the law is on her side.
"As long as you're selling something on your farm, then you're protected by the Right to Farm Act," she said.
Township attorney Gary Bender told News 10, Friday, the family isn't protected because they moved into the R-1 zone, where animals like goats and pigs aren't allowed. Then, they built their farm. If they had built the farm and the land was re-zoned to R-1, the story would be different.
Now, the Hudson family has until Friday, March 29 to comply or Bender says, he will file suit immediately.
Hudson says she doesn't plan on giving up her animals.
"I guess, I have to take them to court for them to listen."
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Effective immediately, I am changing the way I use this site's Twitter account (@networkingforum).
I have stopped the RSS -> TwitterFeed -> which resulted in 61,000+ Twitter updates which are links to/dupes of content on the forum. From now on, I will tweet when a site announcement or blog post is made or other significant event occurs.
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Let's face it, watching Justin Bieber attempt to pull off a dance number ala Michael Jackson at the Grammys last night was painful. Jackson had at least twice the talent at half the age, and Bieber wasn't even close to Justin Timberlake's class.
So a lot of people were happy when someone with actual musical chops–jazz singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding–defeated the 16-year-old sensation for Best New Artist, becoming the first jazz artist to win in that category. The 26-year-old from the bad part of Portland is today's most Googled search term.
Angry Bieber fans apparently vandalized Spalding's Wikipedia page, posting her middle name as "Quesadilla." There followed a 13-minute war between Bieber fans and haters before Wikipedia locked the page, which is now back, presumably accurate.
She's also the subject of an NPR profile:
"About that talent. As a bassist, she was tapped to teach at Berklee College of Music — her alma mater — at age 20, and plays in bands with today's top-tier jazz musicians. As a singer, she has an exuberant, chirpy gusto. As a composer, her music touches on R&B, Brazilian music and classical chamber music, but is rooted in structure and improvisatory feeling. And as a performer, she exudes stage presence and charisma. She seems to innately understand the character of pop and rock music, and far from being against it, embraces its rhythms, stagecraft and energy — especially on her breakout album, 2008′s Esperanza. (Q-Tip says he's producing her next album.)"
Here she is in a pure-jazz clip from a White House tribute for Stevie Wonder in 2009.
And here she shows off her vocals in an appearance with Stevie himself (he introduces her at 7:34).
In part 2, she displays her bass virtuosity.


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It's become one of the more overused words in the marketing lexicon: authentic. Yet there's no denying that many consumers are looking to support brands that don't seem to have been fabricated in a corporate conference room, that have something real about them – whether the persona of their founders, their local provenance or their retrieval of an age-old tradition – that might seem to help ground the users' own existence. In beverages, how does it apply?
The New York Times offered an intriguing take on authenticity a few weeks ago, noting how the word lately is so often used by politicians, celebrities, social media coaches and college admissions advisers as to be approaching meaninglessness. "What you can't do is be told by a social media guru to act authentic and still be authentic," Jeff Pooley, a media and communications professor at Muhlenberg College, told the paper. He said authenticity today is more accurately described as "calculated authenticity" — "stage management" is how the Times paraphrased it.
I like "stage management," because that's generally what we're talking about when discussing beverage brands as authentic. To me, a lot of it comes down to having a memorable reasonably true story behind the brand, and sticking to that story reasonably consistently as things develop. I like to refer to these origin stories as "creation myths," (though "myth" often gets me in trouble with brand founders who phone me to complain – although at least a few of them made it up, and you know who you are!) But I mean the phrase more in an archetypal sense, as a compelling story upon which consumers can hang their perceptions, emotions and disposable incomes.
The process seems most straightforward for the craft beer category, where it's sometimes sufficient just to have a genuine passion for brewing and a willingness to experiment. That story has been retold, oh, about 2,000 times lately as craft breweries have proliferated. Consumers clearly like hearing it, but for craft brewers the task of being authentic has also gotten less complicated — after all, during the 1990s craft boom, quasi-religious wars were waged between microbrewers who produced their own suds and contract brewers like Sam Adams and Pete's Wicked Ale who were attacked as inauthentic for relying on others for the bulk of their production needs. That issue has nearly dissipated, with the market accepting Sam Adams founder Jim Koch's old rejoinder: "If Julia Child comes to your kitchen and cooks a great dinner, is it your dinner or Julia Child's?" Even the identity of Blue Moon as a Coors brand or the acquisition of Goose Island by Anheuser-Busch don't seem to have unduly upset the perception of those brands as authentic.
It gets murkier on the non-alcoholic side, where the opportunities for hands-on craftsmanship and differentiation are fewer and there's a more established tradition of snake oil salesmanship. Those factors seem to put an even higher premium on having an effective creation myth. But it doesn't have to be a brand new myth for every new brand.
What are some compelling tropes? One is the Everyman who doesn't like the choices in a given segment and creates a better alternative – Darius Bikoff, for instance, rummaging for bottled water in Manhattan when his water was cut off and having the insight that led to the creation of Smartwater. A particularly endearing subset of this myth is the parent – moms work best – who detests the horrid beverage choices available to her children and sets out to create a healthier one right in the kitchen. That sonata has been played with wonderful rubato flourishes by a long list of entrepreneurs, lately including Hint water creator Kara Goldin.
Another is the intrepid seeker who treks to the far reaches of, say, the Amazon rainforest, to bring back healthful super-fruits or herbs that can be bottled for the American public, often simultaneously empowering and enriching the indigenous people who grow and harvest the plants. The founders of brands like Sambazon acai and Guayaki yerba mate have skillfully heralded that role, and the combination of adventure, exoticism and uplift seems really appealing to a lot of consumers.
If you can harness a strong creation myth like one of those, it can give you a great leg up. But there are some corollaries: For one, you need to capture that story at the outset, rather than trying to graft a good story onto your brand down the line. That seems to have been a flaw in the plan of the otherwise well-crafted New Leaf Tea, which years into its existence strained to add instant personality via such unconvincing efforts as proclaiming itself "the official tea of taste" and having its employees strut around its trade show booths in referee shirts.
Also, consistency matters. If you're buying a brand where the founder is at the center of your creation myth, then it helps to keep that founder around for a while, even once most of the realwork migrates to professional managers. Coca-Cola has been smart to keep Honest Tea founder Seth Goldman in the mix — I wouldn't be surprised if down the road, once the brand is fully established, the company doesn't offer Goldman a broader role where his "brand" can authenticate other Coke moves toward healthier, sustainable products. By contrast, the departure of Clayton Christopher – who famously brewed his first batches of Sweet Leaf Tea from his grandmother's recipe using pillowcases as giant teabags – from the now-Nestle Waters-owned brand may rob it of some of its down-home mojo. Nevertheless, NWNA has shown consistent mastery at taking purified municipal water and wrapping it in brands that represent a seemingly infinite series of pastoral springs, parks and mountains, so as Christopher's "Granny" goes national, it'll be interesting to see how the trip treats her.
Longtime beverage-watcher Gerry Khermouch is executive editor of Beverage Business In- sights, a twice-weekly e-newsletter covering the nonalcoholic beverage sector (Subscription information)


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R&B star Brandy is set to welcome in 2013 with a ring on her finger after accepting a proposal from music executive Ryan Press.
Reports suggest the 33-year-old agreed to become Mrs. Press earlier this month, but the couple waited until Christmas to go public with the happy news.
Brandy recently told Us Weekly magazine that Press was her perfect guy, revealing, "I had given up on love a long time ago. It just didn't seem to work for me, so I was single for a very long time. I stopped looking for love and then I ran into my boyfriend.
"He just loves me for who I am. I don't have to camouflage anything for him or put on a mask. I can completely be myself and he loves me so much and I love him just the way he is, too."
This will be the singer's first real marriage – she lied about a union with ex-boyfriend Robert Smith a decade ago when she found herself pregnant with his daughter, Sy'rai.
She later confessed, "I lied because of the fear of what people would think and the pressure to be a good role model. Our relationship was very real – we just weren't legally married."


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- FBI investigates why Tien Phuoc Nguyen, vacationing with family, jumped off cruise ship
- Adventure of the Seas was about 15 miles east of Mona Island, Puerto Rico
- Nguyen went overboard near the end of a weeklong cruise
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching off the coast of Puerto Rico for a Canadian who witnesses say jumped off a cruise ship Saturday night.
The FBI is investigating why Tien Phuoc Nguyen, 26, jumped overboard while on a cruise with his family, a Coast Guard news release said Sunday.
Adventure of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean International cruise ship, was about 15 miles east of Mona Island, Puerto Rico, when Nguyen jumped into the water, the Coast Guard said.
A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and the Coast Guard Cutter Cushing were sent to the area to search late Saturday.
The cruise ship, which was sailing to San Juan, immediately turned around to search for the missing passenger, a statement from Royal Caribbean International said.
"A review of the ship's closed-circuit camera footage observed the guest going overboard," the cruise line said. "The location of the ship at the time the guest went overboard was marked on the ship's Global Positioning System and the ship, along with the Coast Guard, conducted a search for the missing guest."
The cruise to San Juan resumed Sunday morning, leaving the search to the Coast Guard, the statement said.
The Adventure of the Seas was near the end of a weeklong cruise that began in San Juan.


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Switzerland is recognized around the world for its unmatched ski slopes, its quiet picturesque scenery, and its cheese.
Now, it's also the best place to be born.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of The Economist, recently revealed a list of the best countries to be born in 2013—and Switzerland took the number one spot.
The EIU polled people in 80 countries to find out which countries have the highest quality of life and which countries would give babies a "healthy, safe, and prosperous life." The rankings were based on a series of life satisfaction surveys that factored in 11 different economic, political, geographic, and demographic indicators.
When all was said and done, Switzerland scored the highest with a score of 8.22 out of 10 for its high quality of family and community life, job security, political freedom, and safety. Australia came in second with a score of 8.12. Scandinavian countries also scored high, with Norway (8.09), Sweden (8.02), and Denmark (8.01) coming in third, fourth, and fifth respectively. Nigeria scored the lowest of the 80 countries surveyed, with a score of 4.74.
But most surprisingly, the U.S. didn't even break the top ten. It came in 16th with a score of 7.38—probably because American "babies will inherit the large debts of the boomer generation," according to The Economist. The last time the U.S. took the number one spot on this survey was in 1988.
Because of the subjective nature of the surveys, the index's ratings are far from perfect—though Switzerland may disagree.
Scroll down for the full results of the survey.


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This article explains how to create and work on course skeletons. The explained concepts follow the course life cycle and we refer to technical terms from that description. For creating skeletons or working at existing ones Artikulate must be configured to work on a course repository. If that is done, you can open Artikulate and use the internal course editor as explained in the following.
A skeleton plays the role of a course prototype the can by used to keep courses for different languages in sync with respect to the content. Currently Artikulate uses one skeleton (called the "basic skeleton") that serves as a general purpose skeleton for courses aimed to the average user. However we expect that there will be a need of creating additional skeletons that will cover more advanced or more specialized topics, like e.g., medical vocabulary. Adding new skeletons is not available in the current version of the program. It has been reported as a bug on bugs.kde.org.
To add new units to an existing skeleton you must perform the following steps:
Please save your changes when closing the skeleton by pressing the "OK" button. (The OK button is at the top menu bar.) As a rule of thumb, for the artikulate-data repository we follow the convention that every unit should contain about 50-100 phrases forming a homogeneous topic.
This is quite similar to the procedure how to add new units. You have to perform the following steps for this:
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Chemotherapy Exposure During Pregnancy
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I am an oncology nurse in Seattle and am 21 weeks pregnant. I recently had a skin exposure to 5FU and was wondering about the implications of that. It was approx 5ccs and I washed the affected area well within 5 minutes. What concerns should I have?
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
Most of the data on chemotherapy exposure in pregnancy is in the form of case reports, or small case series of patients undergoing therapeutic doses of chemotherapy for cancer treatment. While 5-FU is absorbed through the skin, your exposure was relatively small by comparison.
Looking at some of the data for women getting therapeutic doses in pregnancy, there have been two recent case series reported.
A recent study reported in 2006 in the journal Cancer prospectively treated 57 pregnant breast cancer patients with combination 5-FU, cyclophosphamide, and doxorubicin. All patients who delivered had live births. One child had Down's syndrome (this is of course, not related to chemotherapy exposure), one had club foot, and one had ureteral reflux (these are also unlikely to be related to chemotherapy). All children were healthy, and those old enough to be in school were doing well, though 2 had special education needs.
Another study reported in 2005 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reviewed the 18 year experience at 5 London hospitals for women who received treatment for breast cancer during pregnancy. Of 28 women identified, all but 1 received treatment in the second and third trimesters. Twelve patients received 5-FU containing regimens. Of the patients receiving treatment in the second and third trimesters, fetal outcomes were very good. Median gestational age at delivery was 37 weeks (considered term), and the only anomaly reported was a hemangioma on the abdomen of one child, which was not felt to be related to chemotherapy. None of the children had birth weights below the 10th percentile for gestational age.
Overall, more serious effects are seen after exposure during the first trimester when fetal organs are developing. But even for women receiving therapeutic doses of 5-FU, chemotherapy appears to be safe for both fetus and mother during the second and third trimester.


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(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a Merck & Co cholesterol lowering pill that combines a generic version of Pfizer Inc's Lipitor with its own Zetia, Merck said on Friday.
The new combination drug will be sold under the brand name Liptruzet and will begin shipping to wholesalers next week, the company said.
Merck already sells a two-drug cholesterol fighter called Vytorin that combines Zetia, known chemically as ezetimibe, with Merck's older LDL lowering medicine Zocor. Lipitor, known chemically as atorvastatin, is considered to a more powerful statin than Zocor.
Vytorin, which had sales of $1.75 billion in 2012, is currently undergoing a long-term trial to prove that it can reduce heart attacks and strokes better than Zocor (simvastatin) alone. While results of that study should definitively determine the value of Zetia to patients, the drug on its own rang up sales of $2.67 billion in 2012.
"No incremental benefit of Liptruzet on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality over and above that demonstrated for atorvastatin has been established," Merck said.
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Drew Peterson carefully appraised every prospective juror who took a seat in a Joliet courtroom Tuesday, then later nodded or shook his head when his attorneys asked whether to fight to keep them.
He remained closely involved as the final jurors were selected, setting the stage for opening statements and testimony in his murder trial next week.
Though Peterson's defense team had aired concerns early on about being able to find an impartial jury for the highly publicized case, the 12 jurors and four alternates were selected from the first 47 candidates, part of an unusually large pool of more than 200 convened three years ago.
Peterson, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant, is charged with the 2004 drowning death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. He is the sole suspect in the 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy, but has not been charged.
As he did Monday during the first day of jury selection, Peterson stood to greet the second pool Tuesday. He wore a navy sports jacket, a plaid tie and -- after the proceedings were delayed briefly so he could get a pair that fit -- gray pants.
"Good day, ladies and gentlemen," Peterson said after being introduced by his attorney Joel Brodsky. "As they said, my name is Drew Peterson. I'm the defendant in this case. I'd like to take this time to thank you for your time and wish you all a nice day."
Attorneys on both sides said they were happy with the jurors selected to hear the trial, scheduled to begin with opening statements Tuesday.
"We're anxious to get the trial started," said Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow. "We've finally come to the point where we've all been aiming for."
Peterson will spend the next few days meeting with the defense team, reviewing witnesses and testimony, Brodsky said.
"He's all business now. He's getting ready. The quipping is over," Brodsky said. "When it's time to be funny, he's funny. When it's time to be serious, he's serious."
The jury of seven men and five women includes a divorced secretary who writes poetry, a semiretired Lockport crossing guard who likes reading mystery novels, a Plainfield man who sold his construction company and enjoys flying, and a college student who lives with his parents.
Nancy Marder, a Chicago-Kent College of Law professor and author of "The Jury Process," said jurors tend to obey instructions to base their decisions on the evidence presented at trial. Members of the public often don't follow news stories in great detail, she said.
"Even in a high-profile case, you can find people who haven't been saturated by the coverage," she said.
The tension between Glasgow and defense attorney Steve Greenberg flared again at day's end during a discussion that started over how objections would be handled at trial.
Glasgow became annoyed when Greenberg mispronounced his last name and then asked Judge Edward Burmila to ban Glasgow from emphasizing his role as the county's chief prosecutor during opening statements.
The state's attorney is appearing in court as the lead attorney on the case.
"Mr. Glasgow can say, 'I am the state's attorney of Will County,'" Greenberg said. "Anything beyond that, Judge, I think is improper."
Glasgow responded by saying he wouldn't engage in "this rambling nonsense" that had happened in other top prosecutors' opening statements that Greenberg cited.
"I'm not going to introduce myself (that way)," he told the judge. "I'll say, 'I'm Jim Glasgow.'"
Burmila said he wasn't going to issue a "road map" for either side to use in opening remarks and tried to get the attorneys to behave a little more politely.
"We're done commenting on each others' comments," he told the attorneys.
Some faces that were present for the first trial, which had been set to start in 2010 before a long appeals process over hearsay statements, were back in court observing Tuesday. Andrew Abood, a former Peterson defense attorney, and Domenica Osterberger, a former Peterson prosecutor who is now a Will County judge, sat in the courtroom gallery.
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But most of the time it will refer to the title of the document.
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The Royal Opera House cinema season continues this month with Adriana Lecouvreur which will be screened in over 700 cinemas in 22 countries. To celebrate we're counting down our top 20 films featuring opera. If you missed earlier blogs, take a look at the films that made it in between 20 and 16, 15 and 11 and 10 and 6. On with the show...
5. What's Opera, Doc? (1957) Dir. Chuck Jones featuring various Wagner operas
Whilst not a full length film, its influence as one of the first experience youngsters have of opera means that we couldn't avoid including this short masterpiece. A pastiche of various Wagner operas, we're treated to Elmer Fudd hunting 'Wabbits' to pieces from the likes of Die Walküre and Tannhäuser before falling for a rather familiar looking Brünnhilde…
4. Philadelphia (1993) Dir. Jonathan Demme featuring Andrea Chénier
Hailed as one of Tom Hanks's finest performances, Philadelphia was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to tackle issues around HIV/AIDS and homophobia. Inspired in part by true story of Geoffrey Bowers, the film tells the tale of a lawyer's fight in the courts for wrongful dismissal through discrimination.
In this clip, the severely ill Andrew Beckett (Hanks) waxes lyrical to his attorney Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) about the power of opera and in particular Maria Callas's rendition of La Mamma Morta from Andrea Chénier. Passionately translating the libretto, Miller is clearly moved, afterwards making his excuses to return home and embracing his daughter and wife, realising how fortunate he is…
3. Apocalypse Now (1979) Dir. Francis Ford Coppola featuring Die Walküre
A masterpiece of cinema, Vietnam war classic Apocalypse Now (based on Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness) tells the tale of Captain Willard, sent deep into the jungle to assassinate the deranged renegade Kurtz who has set himself up as a God to the local people.
This clip with the use of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries employed to devastating effect by the twisted Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, who attaches speakers to the helicopters and plays the piece to soundtrack a horrific napalm strike.
2. Pretty Woman (1990) Dir. Garry Marshall Featuring La traviata
No not Pirates of Penzance, it's a performance of La traviata that high flying businessman Richard Gere takes prostitute Julia Roberts to see on her journey from pavement to penthouse.
This scene features one of the most famous opera in pop culture quotes courtesy of Gere: "People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul."
La traviata is, of course, the story of fallen woman Violetta ends up dying tragically in her lover's arms. Thankfully, Pretty Woman features a rather happier ending…
1. Shawshank Redemption (1993) Dir. Frank Darabont featuring Le nozze di Figaro
Wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife and her lover, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) gives comfort in the face of adversity to his fellow prison inmates by breaking into the warden's office and playing the beautiful Sull'aria...Che soave zeffiretto from The Marriage of Figaro.
Single-handedly stopping everyone the prison in their tracks (exemplified with a stunning crane shot of the yard), Dufresne ended up in solitary for the stunt. Still, it was worth it - friend Red (Morgan Freeman) testifies; "It was like some beautiful bird flew into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments every last man at Shawshank felt free". Ironic, as the duet features duplicitous love letter to expose the infidelity of Count Almaviva…
That concludes our countdown. Did we miss your favourite opera in film moment?
Do you have any thoughts on our top 20? If so, tell us via the comments below


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Sept. 27, 2005
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - The MIT men's soccer team ended a three-game losing streak by defeating Gordon College, 3-1, on Tuesday. The Engineers, whose record improves to 3-4 on the year, saw six different players tally at least one point in the win.
Shane Mueller put the Fighting Scots (6-2) on the board 8:30 into the contest when he lobbed a shot from 40 yards out that just snuck over MIT netminder Thomas Caldwell's hand. Tech recorded the equalizer in the 25th minute on a goal by James Zorich. Michael Allshouse found Zorich, who split the defense and lofted the ball to the top right corner of the net. The game would remain tied at 1-1 through halftime.
MIT continued to attack in the second stanza and finally found success at 60:56 when Walter Song set up Chase Lochmiller for what proved to be the game-winning goal. Exactly 30 seconds later, the Engineers struck again as Andrew Bishara connected on a pass from Ryan Sheffler.
Gordon's offensive pressure was relentless throughout the remainder of the game as it piled on 10 of its 13 shots in the second half. However, Caldwell turned back each of these attempts as he collected eight saves in the win. Peter Hassler finished the day with fives saves for the Fighting Scots.
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) Atlanta Falcons receiver Julio Jones missed practice for the second straight day with an ankle injury on Thursday and will be a game-time decision against Arizona.
Jones was injured in last week's loss at New Orleans.
Coach Mike Smith did not say which ankle is bothering Jones.
Linebacker Sean Weatherspoon is rehabbing a sprained right ankle and hopes to avoid missing his third straight game.
Defensive end John Abraham (back), defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux (thigh), receiver Harry Douglas (ankle), tight end Tony Gonzalez (shoulder), linebacker Stephen Nicholas (groin), running back Michael Turner (groin) and defensive tackle Vance Walker (ribs) were all limited in practice.
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Chris Brown Spends New Year's With Girlfriend Karrueche
So much for rekindling a flame with Rihanna — Chris Brown was spotted on the red carpet prior to a New Year's Eve event at Pure nightclub in Vegas … Looking very content with his girlfriend Karrueche Tran under his arm.
Breezy was on hand to host the ring-in-the-new-year event, and while there, performed his famous tracks 'Yeah 3X' and 'Beautiful People,' as well as 'Strip' from his forthcoming new album, 'Fortune.'
Apparently, welcoming 2012 with Karrueche, his girlfriend of several months, was therapeutic for the famously aggressive singer. "Goodbye 2011. Let 2012 bring as much peace positivity and happiness as possible!" he tweeted the next day, anxious to wipe the slate clean once and for all.
While Brown was partying it up publicly on NYE, Rihanna was laying low elsewhere. The 'We Found Love' songstress strode into Diddy's Miami Beach, Fla. estate to rub elbows with Gayle King, Star Jones and Vivica A. Fox. Perhaps Breezy's night out with his lady friend — separate from his ex — debunks the rumors that they are trying to reheat the pot, after all.


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Welcome to the ORCA-BEN Project
ORCA is a Control Framework to provision virtual networked systems via Secure and Distributed management of Heterogeneous Resources over Federated substrate sites and domains. It was originally developed by the NICL Lab at Duke University, and is currently being developed jointly with Duke University by the Networking Group at The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI).
ORCA is the control framework for the ExoGENI testbed. ORCA is tightly integrated with OpenStack and Eucalyptus via special extensions to both for provisioning virtual machines. ORCA is also integrated with xCAT to support baremetal node provisioning. ORCA acts as a multi-layer dynamic network provisioning service for BEN optical network.
Using ORCA
- Introduction to ORCA
- Overview
- Deploying ORCA
- In emulation
- In production
- Doclets (document snippets) containing configuration documentation (these are not structured, instead they are referenced in the docs above)
- Container configuration files
- Actors XML file format
- Compatibility of various components and ORCA releases
- Configuring your container to use the ORCA Actor Registry
- Using NEuca with ORCA
- Using Shorewall DNAT Proxy with ORCA
- Using ImageProxy with ORCA
- ORCA Web Portal ORCA 3.x
- ORCA XMLRPC Controller with native ORCA and GENI AM API
- Using GCF OMNI with ORCA
- ORCA Recovery features
- Configuring ORCA OSCARS/ION handler
- Configuring ORCA NLR Sherpa handler
- Best practices for setting up distributed production environment
- Configuring container with Service Manager to use a known default broker
- Configuring common authority actors SOMEWHAT OLD
- Using ORCA with Flukes GUI
- ORCA and GENI RSpec
- Creating and Using Virtual Machine Images
- Using SM whitelists for fine-grained access control
- Troubleshooting and error handling
- Publishing manifests from SM to XMPP
- Using Velocity templates in post-boot scripts
- Creating guest images for use with NEuca.
- Building, configuring and deploying ORCA
- Prerequisites for building ORCA
- Building
- ORCA 3.x
- ORCA 4.x
- Configuring
- ORCA 3.x
- ORCA 4.x
- Deploying
- Help
- FAQs
- Search through the tickets
- Visit http://groups.google.com/group/geni-orca-users
- Try geni-orca-users @ googlegroups.com
- To subscribe please indicate the project you are with, so we know to approve your membership.
ORCA Software releases
ORCA public releases are named after locations where Orca whales are typically sighted.
- Dungeness (4.0) Expected Feb 2013
- Camano (3.1-extended) Expected Mar 2012
- Camano (3.1) Dec 2011
- Camano (3.0) May 2011
- Bella (2.2) Dec 2010
- Bella (2.1) Sep 2010
- Bella (2.0) Feb 2010
- Anacortes (1.2) Oct. 2009
- Anacortes (1.1-alpha) June 2009
- Pre-alpha tarball March 2009
Future names: Dungeness, Eastsound, FourWinds
Setting up and configuring substrate
- Compute
- xCAT
- Configuring head node for Orca handler
- OpenStack
- See NetworkedClouds website
- NEuca - modified OpenStack and Eucalyptus that allow guest VM configuration: extra network interfaces connected to VLANs or host physical interfaces, post-boot configuration actions and more
- Overview of NEuca functionality on OpenStack and Eucalyptus. PLEASE NOTE: Eucalyptus notes are outdated and are retained only for legacy reasons.
- NEuca extensions for OpenStack (Diablo, and Essex, using Quantum API) as well as older Eucalyptus patches
- Guest VM Images
- Known good images with NEuca guest tools installed (usable on ExoGENI)
- Windows guest images
- Substrate proxying overview
- ImageProxy - permits remotely registering images at several clusters
- xCAT
- Network
- Cisco 6509
- Cisco 6509 VLAN configuration - notes on VLAN setup using 6509 and XEN
- Cisco 6509 VLAN mapping configuration notes - notes on VLAN translation specific to Cisco 6509
- Cisco 6509 QoS configuration notes - notes on QoS configuration specific to Cisco 6509
- Cisco 3400
- 3400 configuration - notes on configuring VLANs on Cisco 3400 switch
- Juniper EX3200
- EX3200 configuration - notes on configuring VLANs on Juniper EX3200 and sending and receiving commands using SSL-over-TCP
- OpenFlow
- FlowVisor
- FlowVisor source repo
- FlowVisor
- Cisco 6509
- Monitoring
- Using OMD, the Open Monitoring Distribution, to create a dynamic monitoring system capable of re-configuring itself while monitoring your cluster
- Compile OMD Howto - How to get the OMD source and compile it
- How to install OMD from RPM and perform initial setup
- OMD Post-Install Checklist - List of things to fix or tweak following a clean RPM install of OMD
- OMD Configuration - How to configure your OMD installation for your Eucalyptus cluster
- How to check KVM hypervisors with Check_MK
- Using Eventhandlers with OMD -- How to enable dynamic monitoring using event-based triggers
- Using OMD to monitor log files -- When Eucalyptus, or Neuca, writes errors to log files, let OMD alert you
- OMD LDAP Authentication -- Controlling authentication and authorization to your OMD site
- Using OMD to monitor switches with SNMP? -- Monitoring Cisco and Openflow switches
- Using OMD, the Open Monitoring Distribution, to create a dynamic monitoring system capable of re-configuring itself while monitoring your cluster
ORCA papers and detailed documentation
- ORCA-BEN Papers
- ORCA Book.pdf - ORCA Architecture and Internals
- ORCA Documentation Statically built documentation. Howtos, manuals and customization.
- ORCA Reading List provides a list of papers/documents essential to understand GENI requirements and ORCA design.
- Working paper: Authorization and Trust Structure in GENI: A Perspective on the Role of ABAC
- Working paper: OpenFlow on Demand
Semantic Web
- Semantic resource descriptions in ORCA
- NDL-OWL in the resource representation life cycle: Overview
- Resource allocation and slice stitching: API and Policies
- Converting other resource descriptions to NDL NEW!
Deployed ORCA infrastructure
- Production actor registry
- Resource description format converter (also available as XMLRPC services)
Developing ORCA
- ORCA development environment
- Policies and Controls
- Develop new plug-ins for ORCA
- Network driver development HOWTO - NEW!
- Driver (without Node Agent) development HOWTO - USE WITH CAUTION
- Driver (using Node Agent) development HOWTO - USE WITH CAUTION
- ORCA APIs
- New inter-actor communication model Camano 3.0+
- ORCA Bella 2.0 Substrate API
- Aydan's presentation on Bella 2.0 features from GEC7
- Porting from ORCA Anacortes 1.x to ORCA Bella 2.0
- ORCA 1.2 Anacortes Substrate API Notes
- Development resources
ORCA events
- GENI GEC8 July, 20-22 2010
- GENI GEC7 Mar. 16-18 2010
- GENI GEC 6 Nov 2009
- GENI GEC 5 July 2009
- ORCA NLR-BEN VLAN demo July 2009
- ORCA-fest May 2009
Outdated Notes
Trac Reference
- TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
- The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
- Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
- TracSupport -- Trac Support
For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.
ORCA Book.pdf
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Ruler: Grand Duke Henri (2000)
Prime Minister: Xavier Bettel (2013)
Total area: 998 sq mi (2,585 sq km)
Population (2014 est.): 520,672 (growth rate: 1.12%); birth rate: 11.75/1000; infant mortality rate: 4.28/1000; life expectancy: 80.01
Capital and largest city (2011 est.): Luxembourg, 94,000
Monetary unit: Euro (formerly Luxembourg franc)
- Luxembourg Main Page
- Prime Minister Resigns after Being Implicated in Spying Probe
Luxembourg is about half the size of Delaware. The Ardennes Mountains extend from Belgium into the northern section of Luxembourg. The rolling plateau of the fertile Bon Pays is in the south.
Constitutional monarchy.
Luxembourg, once part of Charlemagne's empire, became an independent state in 963, when Siegfried, count of Ardennes, became sovereign of Lucilinburhuc ("Little Fortress"). In 1060, Conrad, a descendant of Siegfried, took the title count of Luxembourg. From the 15th to the 18th century, Spain, France, and Austria held the duchy in turn. The Congress of Vienna in 1815 made it a grand duchy and gave it to William I, king of the Netherlands. In 1839, the Treaty of London ceded the western part of Luxembourg to Belgium. The eastern part, continuing in personal union with the Netherlands and a member of the German Confederation, became autonomous in 1848 and a neutral territory by decision of the London Conference of 1867, governed by its grand duke. Germany occupied the duchy in World Wars I and II. Allied troops liberated the enclave in 1944.
Luxembourg joined NATO in 1949, the Benelux Economic Union (with Belgium and the Netherlands) in 1948, and the European Economic Community (later the EU) in 1957. In 1961, Prince Jean, son and heir of Grand Duchess Charlotte, was made head of state, acting for his mother. She abdicated in 1964, and Prince Jean became grand duke. Luxembourg's parliament approved the Maastricht Accord, paving the way for the economic unity of the EU in July 1992. Crown Prince Henri was sworn in as grand duke in Oct. 2000, replacing his father, Jean, who had been head of state for 26 years.
Prime Minister Resigns after Being Implicated in Spying Probe
On July 11, 2013, Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker resigned. Juncker was the longest-serving head of government in the European Union and led the euro finance ministers group until early 2013. Juncker said he decided to resign after his socialist party coalition asked for early elections.
Juncker had been recently implicated in a spying probe. On July 5, 2013, Parliament was sent a report that said Juncker had failed to inform lawmakers of "irregularities and supposed illegalities" by the State Intelligence Service. Early elections were set for October 2013.
Early general elections were held on October 20, 2013. Juncker's Christian Social People's Party lost three seats, but still remained the biggest party in the Chamber of Deputies, keeping 23 of 60 seats. However, it was the party's worst election since 1999. Immediately following the election, Juncker's opponents worked to form a coalition, but a new prime minister had not been named yet.
Five days after the election, Grand Duke Henri bypassed Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker and named Xavier Bettel, the current Mayor of Luxembourg City, "formateur" responsible for organizing a coalition government. On December 4, 2013, Bettel was sworn in as prime minister.
See also Encyclopedia: Luxembourg .
U.S. State Dept. Country Notes: Luxembourg
National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies .


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Lyndon LaRouche is a very insidious Zionist disinformation agent, constantly talking about a British conspiracy, saying Britain is controlling Obama.
Here's what Dr. Stan Monteith, an avowed Christian Zionist, with sincere (albeit misguided) Zionist beliefs said, that LaRouche is part of the controlled opposition.
He keeps saying Obama needs to be impeached, or else WWIII is coming, acting as if it matters much who the figurehead is when it's the same people behind the scenes running things, and Joe Biden would become the next President anyway.
Here's a summary I made of some of his disinfo on the March 26, 2014 episode of the Jeff Rense Show. It's only entertaining when you realize it as being disinfo.
8m – Claims Cheney covered up 9/11 that Saudis did with British backing
20m – Said European Union is a colony of the British Empire
28m – Said the only thing stopping Obama going to thermonuclear war are generals around him
29m – Rense asked about Biden taking over, but LaRouche said forget about him, it goes beyond personality
31m – Says the British Empire is the new Roman Empire – says it was designated so when we (U.S.) went to war against them
32m – Said it's a fact that most U.S. presidents were agents of the British Empire
33m – Said President Wilson was a wild Ku Klux Klaner
34m – Said FDR was a good president
38m – Said we can defeat long period of death of civilization if we pass Glass-Steagall and have a thermonuclear fusion project
So they were dancing Saudis and British and not Dancing Israelis on 9/11? And Michael Chertoff and others are actually dual citizens of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia?
His claim that the European Union is a British colony is so laughable when you consider that Britain's application to the European Community was vetoed twice by DeGaulle and Britain is one of the most, if not the most, Euroskeptic nation in the EU, and they aren't even part of the Euro, plus they have common law unlike the civil code in continental Europe.
His claim that the British Empire is the new Roman Empire is so laughable when you consider the subservient role Churchill took to FDR during WWII, and that the U.S. had the world's largest share of GDP at the time, as China and India did at the start of the 1700s. The UK Pound lost its world reserve currency status after WWII, they lost control of so many colonies, they were told to get out of the Suez Canal.
For more on LaRouche's past appearances, see my articles:
04/09/11: Lyndon LaRouche jumps off the deep end on Alex Jones
08/21/11: More monetary misinformation from Lyndon LaRouche on the Alex Jones Show


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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2013--
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Basic authentication requires users to enter a username and password to access your web server or web site. Basic authentication is the default setting and in order to use it, you must create and store a list of users and groups in an LDAP database, such as the Sun Java System Directory Server, or in a file. You must use a directory server installed on a different server root than your web server, or a directory server installed on a remote machine.
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