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B.X.C Songs
"You been watching the news lately, dog? Man, it's getting' crazy out here." There's no doubt about it—the times, they're a-changing. But what does it all mean? Enter Chi-town duo B.X.C., who...Read More
B.X.C - Sometimes I Just Want to Give Up
Though rappers' competition to produce the grittiest stories of street survival often seems like a game of one-upmanship, the true value of these snapshots of hardship and triumph lies in their applicability to our own...Read More
B.X.C - Beautiful Lovely
Not spotted in the Booth since they brought us Jump back in November of 2010, Disturbing tha Peace duo B.X.C. make their triumphant return to our pages with Beautiful Lovely. Making its world premiere, this delicate, Marc...Read More
B.X.C. - Jump
I know what you're thinking: didn't House of Pain basically close the book on jumping-themed rap records way back in 1992? Perhaps, but let's not be too hasty: they were just jumping around while, as...Read More
B.X.C - Louder [Premiere]
Louder, the latest track from Windy City twosome B.X.C., may be making its exclusive world premiere right here in the Booth, but don't get it twisted; the track's natural environment is the street, blaring at...Read More
B.X.C ft. 4-Ize - Cross the Street
Can a hip-hop act remain dope while setting a good example for their youngest fans? Lyriq and Commando of Disturbing tha Peace twosome B.X.C. think so and, on this newly-leaked mixtape cut (making its world premiere right...Read More
B.X.C ft. Ludacris - Open Wide
In a well-known Biblical tale, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt by parting the Red Sea, allowing his people to flee to safety as the Egyptian armies were engulfed in walls of water. Now, a few thousand years later, an...Read More
B.X.C - Right Here With Me
As they work overtime to make a name for themselves, B.X.C are following the oldest (and most reliable) plan in the book: make hits, hits, and more hits. Though none have gotten national chart positioning yet, the duo have...Read More
B.X.C - BangMufukas
The 51st entry in our DJBooth.net Freestyle Series comes courtesy of B.X.C. (formerly known as Block Xchange), the Disturbing tha Peace duo who made their Booth debut with T-Pain collabo Swoll. On their brand new,...Read More
B.X.C ft. T-Pain - Swoll
When B.X.C made their Booth debut with Loose Cannon, our own DJ Z complimented their discography, claiming they "have radio hits for days." If this newly-leaked record is any indication, his assessment was dead...Read More
B.X.C ft. Ludacris - Loose Cannon
After over a year on Disturbing tha Peace and three appearances in the Booth (In Love Wit The Music, DJ Pharris' Head Noddin', and Computer Love '08), the Chicago-area duo formerly known as Block Xchange are...Read More
Block Xchange - Computer Love 2008
In 1985, Zapp & Roger (who used the voice box over twenty years before T-Pain) released their song Computer Love; a resounding success, it would later be sampled by the likes of 2Pac, Blackstreet, Donnell Jones, and...Read More
DJ Pharris ft. Ludacris & Block Xchange - Head Noddin'
Though Ludacris was raised in Atlanta and steadfastly reps the city as his hometown, the Grammy award winning rapper was actually born two hours south of Chicago in Champaign, Illinois. Also south of the city is Country...Read More
Block Exchange ft. Twista - In Love Wit The Music
After Shawnna's unexpected departure from Disturbing tha Peace, many fans feared that the label would no longer have any of that good ol' Chicago swagger. Out to reassure those fans of otherwise are...Read More


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A month in OpenStack Diablo: the diablo-1 milestone
Back at the OpenStack Design Summit in Santa Clara, we decided to switch from a 3-month cycle to a 6-month coordinated release cycle, with more frequent milestones delivery in the middle.
Lately we have been busy adapting the release processes to match the delivery of the first milestones. Swift 1.4.0 was released last Tuesday, and today sees the release of the diablo-1 milestone for Nova and Glance.
What should you expect from diablo-1, just 4 weeks after the design summit ? In this short timeframe lots of features have been worked on, and the developers managed to land quite a few of them in time for diablo-1.
Glance's API was improved to support filtering of /images and /images/detail results and limiting and paging of results. This made support of API versioning necessary. It also grew a new disk format ("iso") that should ultimately allow to boot ISOs directly in Nova.
On Nova's side, the most notable addition is support for snapshotting and cloning volumes with the EC2 API. The XenServer plugin now supports Open vSwitch, and pause and suspend capabilities have been added to the KVM hypervisor.
Now keep your seatbelt fastened, because diablo-2 is set to release on June 30th.
OpenStack Nova: Main themes for Diablo
A few weeks after the OpenStack Design Summit in Santa Clara, we are starting to get a better picture of what should be in the next version of OpenStack Nova, codenamed Diablo, scheduled for release on September 22.
One big priority of this release is to separate code for the network and volume services, and refactor nova-network code to add a clear internal API. This will allow to plug separate network and volume service providers, and pave the way for integration with future OpenStack projects like Quantum/Melange/Donabe and LunR. In preparation for this, we'll push changes to rely more on the queue (and less on the database) to pass information between components. In the same area, we need some more changes to support multiple NICs and should also provide a client OpenStack API for directly interacting with volumes.
A second theme of the Diablo release is the new distributed scheduler, which should be able to schedule across zones and taking capabilities into account. This will need changes in the way we reference instances, as well as some changes for EC2 API compatibility.
On the API side, we should finalize OpenStack API 1.1 support, including work on floating IPs and shared IP groups. For administrators, instance migration and account administration actions should be added. We'll also ensure good AWS API compatibility and validation.
Support for snapshotting, cloning and booting from volumes should land early in this cycle, as well as new ways of communicating configuration data between host and guest. We also need to integrate with AuthN/AuthZ with the new common Keystone authentication system. Lots of other features are planned (and others might be added before the end), you can check out the blueprints plan for more detail.
Last but not least, on the QA side, we should have continuous automated testing across a range of reference architectures and increase our unittest and smoketest coverage among other efforts to build-in quality.
The first milestone for this cycle, diablo-1, should be released on June 2nd.
OpenStack @ Ubuntu Developer Summit
Last week I attended the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Oneiric in Budapest. This was the first time I attended UDS as an upstream representative rather than as a Canonical employee. I very much enjoyed it: not being a track lead or a busy technical lead actually gives you desirable flexibility in your agenda :)
First of all, a quick comment on the big announcement of the week, which the Twittersphere is not done retweeting yet: "Ubuntu switching from Eucalyptus to OpenStack". I think it would be more accurate to say that Ubuntu chose to use OpenStack as its default cloud stack for future versions. Comparing Eucalyptus and OpenStack is like comparing apples to apple trees: OpenStack provides several cloud infrastructure pieces (of which only OpenStack Compute -Nova- covers the same space as Eucalyptus). I suspect the wide scope of the project played a role in OpenStack being selected as the default stack for the future. Eucalyptus and OpenStack Nova should both be present as deployment options from 11.10 on.
On the UDS format itself, I'd say that the "one blueprint = one hour" format does not scale that well. The numbers of hours in the week is fixed, so when the project grows you end up having too many sessions going on at the same time. Lots of blueprints do not require one hour of discussion, but rather a quick presentation of plan, feedback from interested parties and Q&A. That's what we do for our own Design Summits, but I'd admit it makes scheduling a bit more complex. On the good side, having the floor plan inside our UDS badges was a really good idea, especially with confusing room names :)
The Launchpad and bzr guys were very present during the week, attentive and reactive to the wishes of upstream projects. They have great improvements and features coming up, including finer-grained bugmail and dramatic speed improvements in bzr handling of large repos.
Last week also saw the rise of creampiesourcing: motivation of groups of developers over bets ("if the number of critical bugs for Launchpad goes to 0 by June 27, I'll take a creampie in the face"). Seems to work better than karma points.
Finally, Rackspace Hosting was co-sponsoring the "meet and greet" event on the Monday night, promoting OpenStack. I think offering cool T-shirts, like we did at the previous UDS in Orlando, was more efficient in spreading the word and making the project "visible" over time: in Budapest you could see a lot of people wearing the OpenStack T-shirts we offered back then !
Coming up in OpenStack Cactus…
In a bit more than a week, we will hit FeatureFreeze for OpenStack "Cactus" cycle, so we start to have a good idea of what new features will make it. The Cactus cycle focus was on stability, so there are fewer new features compared to Bexar, but the developers still achieved a lot in a couple of months…
Swift (OpenStack object storage)
The Swift team really focused and stability and performance improvements this cycle. I will just single out the refactoring of the proxy to make backend requests concurrent, and improvements on sqlite3 indexing as good examples of this effort.
Glance (OpenStack image registry and delivery service)
Bexar saw the first release of Glance, and in Cactus it was vastly improved to match standards we have for the rest of OpenStack: logging, configuration and options parsing, use of paste.deploy and non-static versioning, database migrations… New features include a CLI tool and a new method for client to verify images. Glance developers might also sneak in an authentication middleware and support for HTTPS connections !
Nova (OpenStack compute)
A lot of the feature work in Nova for Cactus revolved around the OpenStack API 1.1 and exposing features through XenServer (migration, resize, rescue mode, IPv6, file and network injection…). We should also have the long-awaited live migration feature (for KVM), support for LXC containers, VHD images, multiple NICs, dynamically-configured instance flavors or volume storage on HP/Lefthand SANs. XenAPI should get support for Vlan network manager and network injection. We hope support for VMWare/vSphere hypervisor will make it.
The rest of the Nova team concentrated on testing, bugfixing (already 115 bugfixes committed to Cactus !) and producing a coherent release, as evidenced by the work on adding the missing Ipv6 support for FlatManager network model. I should also mention that the groundwork for multi-tenant accounting and multiple clusters in a region also landed in Cactus.
Over the three projects branches, last month we had more than 2500 commits by more than 75 developers. Not too bad for a project less than one-year-old… We'll see the result of this work on Cactus release day, scheduled April 14.
Upstream projects vs. Distributions
You can globally split open source projects into two broad categories. Upstream projects develop and publish source code for various applications and features. Downstream projects are consumers of this source code. The most common type of downstream projects are distributions, which release ready-to-use binary packages of these upstream applications, make sure they integrate well with the rest of the system, and release security and bugfix updates according to their maintenance policies.
The relationship between upstream projects and distributions is always a bit difficult, because their roles overlap a bit. Since I'm sitting on both sides of the fence, let's try to find common ground.
Overlapping roles
In an ideal world, everyone would install software through distribution packages, and the roles wouldn't overlap. In the real world though, upstream projects need to deal with distributions that don't provide packages for your software, or provide old buggy versions with no mechanism for getting fresh ones. That's why they need to care about manual installation or update mechanisms. On the other hand, in their rush to release fixes, distributions sometimes carry patches without sending them upstream immediately. Both want to provide bugfix updates to stable versions. In all cases the overlapping roles end up duplicating work and creating unnecessary friction.
Splitting the roles
In my (humble) opinion, upstream projects should encourage the use of packaged software wherever possible, rather than resisting it. They should concentrate on their core competency: working on producing new releases of their code. Dealing with distribution issues, environment specificities or maintaining stable branches is a different type of work, and one that distributions excel in. So the key seems to be in splitting the roles more cleanly.
Upstream projects should release code, together with good documentation on how to manually deploy it: dependencies, startup and upgrade mechanisms, open bug trackers with links to patches… This documentation can be reused by manual deployers and distribution packagers alike. They should stop short of providing installers, auto-updaters, dependency bundles, etc. They should limit the release of point release updates only to critical issues (data loss, security…).
Distributions should be responsible for proper packaging (easy way to install the software and its dependencies, together with startup scripts and other system integration), and would be responsible for more general bugfix updates that match their maintenance policy.
With such a split, you obviously will end up with a subpar user experience if you try to manually install the software from the released code. But you facilitate packaging, so you should end up being packaged in more distributions. I think time is better spent contacting distributions to get packaged rather than trying to improve the manual installation to the point where it is actually usable.
One case where you end up doing manual installations (even on supported distributions) is to get the latest released code running on already-released distributions. Due to stable release policies in distributions, they will release bugfix updates for the version that was available when they released, but usually won't provide a whole new version of a package.
The solution is in specific distribution archives that track the latest upstream releases (like PPAs in Ubuntu) and make them available for users of already-released distributions. Those are usually co-maintained between distributions and upstream projects.
Reference distributions
At this point, it is worth taking collaboration one step further, and have developers that are involved in both projects ! Those can make sure the distribution includes the packages and patches you need for your software to run properly. Those can make sure the distribution is one on which your software is up-to-date, runs properly and gets appropriate bugfix updates. Those can maintain the specific distribution archives for the latest upstream releases.
That distribution can then become a reference distribution for the upstream project, one that is tightly integrated with the upstream project and lives in harmony.
Two closing remarks:
- You can have multiple reference distributions. That said, one way to limit friction and increase freshness is to have somewhat-synchronized release cycles, which may not scale very well.
- I realize the proposed role split and reference distro scheme might not be generally applicable to all open source upstream projects. In my experience it worked well with server software.
In OpenStack, having a few Ubuntu core developers in the project (and the Ubuntu server team supporting us) allows us to use Ubuntu as a reference distribution. We have packages up for other distributions, but those are not (yet) official distribution packages. Any other distro developers interested to join ?
Agile vs. Open
I've been asked multiple times why open source project management does not fully adopt agile methodologies, which are so great. Or what are the main differences between the two.
Agile is good for you
So first of all, I'd like to say that I think Agile methodologies are great. Their primary value to me is to allow software development groups to handle their stakeholders requirements in a sane way. By involving developers more in the center of game, they contribute to use Autonomy (one of the three main intrinsic motivators that Dan Pink mentions in his book Drive) as a way to maximize a development team productivity.
Agile vs. Open
That said, applying pure Agile methods doesn't really work well for open source project management. Some great concepts can be reused, like frequent time-based releases, peer review, or test-driven development. But most of the group tools assume a local, relatively small team. Doing a morning stand-up meeting with a team of 60 in widely different timezones is a bit difficult. It also assumes that project management has some direct control over the developers (they can pick in the backlog, but not outside), while there is no such thing in an open development project.
The goals are also different. The main goal of Agile in my opinion is to maximize a development team productivity. Optimizing the team velocity so that the most can be achieved by a given-size team. The main goal of Open source project management is not to maximize productivity. It's to maximize contributions. Produce the most, with the largest group of people possible.
That's why open source project management is all about setting the framework and the rules of play (what can get in trunk and how), and about trying to keep track of what is being done (to minimize confusion and friction between groups of developers). That's why our release cycles are slightly longer than Agile sprints, to have a cadence that is more inclusive of development styles, and to enforce time to focus, as a group, on QA before a release.
Agile devs in Open source
It's difficult for Agile developers to abandon their nice tools and adopt seemingly-more-confusing open source bazaar ways. But in the end, I think open source is more empowering, by addressing the two other Dan Pink types of intrinsic motivators, Purpose and Mastery. Working on an open source project and contributing to the world's amount of public knowledge obviously gives an individual a sense of purpose to his work, but even more important is mastery.
Each developer in an open source project actually represents himself. With all proceedings and production being public, in the end his personal name is attached to it. He builds mastery and influence over the project by his own actions, not by the name of the company that pays his bills. Of course his employer has requirements and usually pays him to work on something specific, but the developer acts as the gateway to get his employer's requirements into the open source project. That way of handling stakeholders requirements places individual developers at the very center of the game, even more than Agile does. You end up with the highest number of highly-motivated individuals, which in turn leads to lots of stuff getting done.
Agile subteams
Finally, nothing prevents an open source project to have Agile development subgroups contributing to it. These subgroups can have user stories, planning poker, feature backlogs, pair programming and stand-up meetings. There are multiple challenges though. Aligning agile sprints with the open source project's common development schedule is tricky. The Agile work schedule needs to be adapted to make room for generic open source project tasks like random code reviews or pre-release QA. Some other group may end up implementing a feature from your internal backlog, and communicating the backlog outside the group can be bothersome and challenging.
I'd like to find ways, though. What do you think ? Can Agile and Open live in harmony ? Should they try ?
Bleeding edge OpenStack Nova on Maverick (updated x2)
Want to test the latest cloud goodness ? Thanks to the new Nova trunk PPA, it's really easy to run the freshest code from OpenStack Compute (Nova) on Ubuntu 10.10. Here is how.
We will install everything on the same machine, one that has VT extensions enabled and therefore can run KVM. My test laptop with 2Gb of RAM has been a bit struggling, but it worked. You should have Ubuntu 10.10 installed on that box.
Dec 9, 2010 UPDATE: rabbitmq-server should be installed before the nova packages, and we should use images with ramdisks at this point.
Feb 25, 2011 UPDATE: Ubuntu cloud images are supported, switch tutorial to using those.
Package installation
First you should enable the PPA:
$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nova-core/trunk $ sudo apt-get update
Install RabbitMQ first:
$ sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
Then install Nova and dependencies [1]:
$ sudo apt-get install nova-api nova-objectstore nova-compute nova-scheduler nova-network euca2ools unzip
Congratulations, you just created a cloud.
You should restart libvirt, especially if you had it installed before, to make sure it realizes that ebtables is now installed:
$ sudo service libvirt-bin restart
Create a specific network for your VMs, here I used my unused 10.0.0.0/8:
$ sudo nova-manage network create 10.0.0.0/8 1 64
Create a user, a project, download credentials and source them:
$ sudo nova-manage user admin ttx $ sudo nova-manage project create myproject ttx $ sudo nova-manage project zipfile myproject ttx $ unzip nova.zip $ . novarc
Register an Ubuntu cloud image
Download an Ubuntu cloud image, then use uec-publish-tarball to register it:
$ r="maverick" $ wget http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/$r/current/$r-server-uec-amd64.tar.gz $ uec-publish-tarball $image mybucket
It should output 3 references [2]: emi, eri and eki. You need to use the emi value in the next section (I got "ami-lvdliy0″).
Running an instance
First, create a keypair if you haven't already one:
$ euca-add-keypair mykey > mykey.priv $ chmod 0600 mykey.priv
Allow the connection to port 22 of the instance (SSH), using the following command:
$ euca-authorize default -P tcp -p 22 -s 0.0.0.0/0
Then start the instance (replace $emi with the value from uec-publish-tarball above):
$ euca-run-instances $emi -k mykey -t m1.tiny
This will return an instance ID (I got "i-1objiev"), an IP address (I got "10.0.0.3"), and the instance will be scheduled and launched. You should check the status with:
$ euca-describe-instances
The instance should quickly go from "launching" to "running", and you should be able to connect to the ubuntu user through SSH (replace $ipaddress with the one you got from euca-describe-instances):
$ ssh -i mykey.priv ubuntu@$ipaddress
When you are done playing, you can tear the instance down using the following command (replace $instanceid with the instance ID from above):
$ euca-terminate-instances $instanceid
Enjoy !
- For this simple tutorial I left nova-volume out, since it requires more configuration setup (like setting up LVM volume groups) before it can be used.
- All references are "ami-": it should be ami, ari and aki. This is a bug that will be fixed (bug 658234)
My desktop backup solution
I was inspired by a good blogpost by Martin Pitt to setup my own desktop backup solution. I liked the idea of not requiring the computer to be on all the time, and having the backup pushed from the client rather than pulled from the server. However, my needs were slightly different from his, so I adapted it.
His solution uses rsnapshot locally, then pushes the resulting directories to a remote server. I didn't want to use local disk space (SSD ain't cheap), but I had a local server with 2Tb available. So in my solution, the client rsyncs to the server, then the server triggers rsnapshot locally if the rsync was successful. This is done over SSH and the server has no right whatsoever on the client.
In the examples the client to back up will be called mycli and the server on which the backup will live is named mysrv. As a prerequisite, mycli will need rsync and openssh-client installed. mysrv will need rsnapshot and openssh-server installed. OpenSSH needs to have public-key authentication enabled.
SSH setup
On the client side, generate a specific passwordless SSH key for the backup connection:
mkdir ~/.backup ssh-keygen -f ~/.backup/id_backup
On the server side, we'll assume you want to put backups into /srv/backup. First of all, create an rbackup user that will be used to run the backup serverside:
sudo mkdir /srv/backup sudo adduser --home /srv/backup --no-create-home --disabled-password rbackup
Next, add your backup public key (the contents of mycli:~/ .backup/id_backup.pub) to mysrv:/srv/backup/.ssh/authorized_keys. The trick is to prefix it (same line, one space separator) with the only command you want the rbackup user to perform via that SSH connection:
command="rsync --config /srv/backup/rsyncd-mycli.conf --server --daemon ." ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaLwm0ckRdzotb3...5Mbiw== ttx@mycli
Finally, you need to let rbackup read those .ssh files:
sudo chgrp -R rbackup /srv/backup/.ssh sudo chmod -R g+r /srv/backup/.ssh
rsync setup (server-side)
Now we need to set up the rsync configuration that will be used on those connections:
# /srv/backup/rsyncd-mycli.conf max connections = 1 lock file = /srv/backup/mycli/rsync.lock log file = /srv/backup/mycli/rsync.log use chroot = false max verbosity = 3 read only = false write only = true [mycli] path = /srv/backup/mycli/incoming post-xfer exec = /srv/backup/kick-rsnapshot /srv/backup/mycli/rsnapshot.conf
The post-xfer exec command is executed on successful transfers to /srv/backup/client/incoming. In our case, we want rsync to trigger the /srv/backup/kick-rsnapshot script:
#!/bin/bash if [ "$RSYNC_EXIT_STATUS" == "0" ]; then rsnapshot -c $1 daily fi
Don't forget to make that one executable :)
rsnapshot setup (server-side)
rsnapshot itself is configured in the /srv/backup/mycli/rsnapshot.conf file. This is where you specify how many pseudo-weekly copies you want to keep (read rsnapshot documentation to understand the interval concept):
# /srv/backup/mycli/rsnapshot.conf config_version 1.2 snapshot_root /srv/backup/mycli cmd_rm /bin/rm cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger interval daily 6 interval weekly 6 verbose 2 loglevel 3 lockfile /srv/backup/mycli/rsnapshot.pid rsync_long_args --delete --numeric-ids --delete-excluded link_dest 1 backup /srv/backup/mycli/incoming/ ./
Now you just have to create the backup directory hierarchy with appropriate permissions:
mkdir -p /srv/backup/mycli/incoming chown -R rbackup:rbackup /srv/backup/mycli
The backup (client-side)
The client will rsync periodically to the server, using the following script:
#!/bin/bash set -e TOUCHFILE=$HOME/.backup/last_backup # Check if last backup was more than a day before now=`date +%s` if [ -e $TOUCHFILE ]; then age=$(($now - `stat -c %Y $TOUCHFILE`)) else unset age fi [ -n "$age" ] && [ $age -lt 86300 ] && exit 0 nice -n 10 rsync -e "ssh -i $HOME/.backup/id_backup" -avzF \ --delete --safe-links $HOME rbackup@mysrv::mycli touch $TOUCHFILE
That script ensures that at most once per day, you will sync to the server. You can run it (as your user) as often as you'd like (I suggest hourly via cron). On successful syncs, the server will trigger rsnapshot to do its magic backup rotation ! Using the same model, you can easily set up multiple directories or multiple clients.
Like with Martin's solution, you should set up various .rsync-filter files to exclude the directories and files you don't want copied to the backup server.
The drawback of this approach is that the server keeps an extra copy of your backup (in the incoming directory). But in my case, since the server has plenty of space, I can afford it. It also does not work when you are away from your backup server.
I hope you find that setup useful, it served me well so far.
The art of release management
Last week I started a new job, working for Rackspace Hosting as the Release Manager for the Openstack project. I'm still very much working from home on open source software, so that part doesn't change. However, there are some subtle differences.
First of all, Openstack is what we call an upstream project. Most of my open source work so far involves distribution work: packaging and delivering various open source software components into a well-integrated, tested and security-maintained distribution. This is hard work, one that is never completely finished or perfect. It is also a necessary part of the open source ecosystem: without distributions, most software would not be easily available for use.
Upstream work, on the other hand, is about developing the software in the first place. It's a more creative work, in a much more controlled environment. The Openstack project is the new kid on the block of cloud computing software, one that strives to become the open source standard for building cloud infrastructures everywhere. It was announced in July, so it's relatively young. There are lots of procedures and processes to put in place, an already-large developer group, and an ever-growing community of users and partners. The software itself is positioned to run in high-demand environments: The storage component is in production use at Rackspace, the compute component is in production use at NASA. Openstack is planned to fully replace the current Rackspace Cloud software next year, and a number of governments plan to use it to power their local cloud infrastructure. Those are exciting times.
What does an open source project Release Manager do ? Well first, as it says on the tin, it manages the release process. Every 3 or 6 months, Openstack will release a new version of its components, and someone has to make sure that that happens. That's OK, but what do I do the other 50 weeks of the year ? Well, release managers also manage the release cycle. A cycle goes through four stages: Design, Development, QA and Release. It is the job of the release manager to drive and help the developer community through those stages, follow work in progress, making sure everyone knows about the steps and freezes, and granting exceptions when necessary. At the very end, he must balance between the importance of a bug and the risk of regression the bugfix introduces: it's better to release with a known bug than with an unknown regression. He is ultimately responsible for the delivery, on time, of the complete release cycle. And yes, if you condense everything to 3 or 6 months, this is a full-time job :)
My duties also include ensuring that the developers have everything they need to work at their full potential and that the project is transparent. I also have to make sure the developer community is a welcoming environment for prospective new contributors, and present the project as a technical envangelist in conferences. And if I still have free time, I may even write some code where I need to scratch an itch. All in all, it's a pretty exciting job, and I'm very happy to meet everyone this week at the Openstack design summit in
Orlando San Antonio.
Introducing UDS-N Cloud Track
On Monday in the sunny Orlando will start the Ubuntu Developers Summit for the Natty Narwhal development cycle, which will result in the Ubuntu 11.04 release. UDS is divided into tracks: in this post I will introduce the "Cloud" track, which I'm very happy to lead. The schedule might still be changed for last-minute imperatives, so you should definitely doublecheck it using the dynamic track schedule.
As you know, Ubuntu Server's strategy for cloud computing is twofold: be the best operating system to run in the cloud (through our official cloud images), and make available the best of the available open source software to run a cloud (through the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud product).
On Monday, we'll start with a quick introduction where all the session leads will present their subjects for the week. Then we'll dive into the heart of the subject with a session on the future improvements of our cloud images. The afternoon will be dedicated to what will happen with Eucalyptus in Natty Narwhal, followed by a two-hour session to brainstorm an installation service for physical cloud nodes.
Tuesday morning we will continue on the same subject, seeing how Puppet can be used to fully bootstrap and maintain that infrastructure we installed. Then we'll discuss how the components of the Openstack project can be packaged and integrated into Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC). The afternoon will discuss the future of awstrial, the open source project behind the cloud 10 try-Ubuntu-Server-for-one-hour-for-free event, followed by a session on EC2 compatibility for UEC, and finally a session on cloud utilities, in particular the image rebundling tools.
Wednesday will start with a session on systems monitoring, followed by a session on cloud outreach campaigns. At 11:00 we should have a session on web scaling technologies (accelerators, NoSQL datastores, message queues, etc.), followed by a session on Hadoop packaging ! After lunch we'll discuss desktop cloud images, networking in the cloud (in particular the OpenvSwitch project), and the last session of the day will be an OpenStack gap analysis discussion.
Thursday we will start with a session on distributed logging, followed by a session on the Hudson continuous integration system. After the break we will have a session on the UEC Web interface improvements in Natty, followed by a session on how to make the most use of LXC containers. Containers will still be there after lunch, with a discussion on how to containerize ptrace and kill, concurrently with a session on UEC QA and testing efforts. The containers sessions continue with a discussion on how to use containers in UEC. The day ends with a session on hypervisor technology (improvements in KVM and libvirt).
Friday, last day… There is some room for additional sessions, should one subject need more discussion. Already scheduled are sessions on improvements in our cloud-init and cloud-config cloud image bootstrapping system, automated server testing using Hudson, and a best practice guide for cloud applications.
All in all, a very interesting and complete schedule ! If you want more details, see this list of the sessions, with the links to the blueprints (where you can leave comments on the whiteboard section). Remember that UDS attendance is free, so I hope you will be able to participate to these sessions, either locally or remotely ! See you there…


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News: "If My Set Is Ever Cut Short At Any Show, I'm Trashing The Stage"
Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012 2:00PM
G.O.O.D. Music's Kid Cudi has stepped forward to clear the air on making weekend headlines after trashing a stage set in Australia and vowed to do the same if he ever experiences similar incidents.
Writing on his Tumblr blog, Cudder defended his media-generating actions and blamed on-stage occasions for sparking a fury.
"If my set is EVER cut short at any show, im trashing the stage. Not out of anger, it takes a lot to get me furious nowadays, but out of principle. The fans always deserve a full set at all shows, especially when they spend their hard earned money on expensive tickets. A lot of artist wouldnt do what I did in Australia, but I will. Spread the word. No matter the circumstance, cut my set short, im breaking shit. And next time im startin a riot. Me and my fans. Cause promoters will sometime take advantage of the artists, and u gotta let em know what time it is. Cutting nobody any slack." (Kid Cudi's Tumblr)
Coverage of his on-stage antics have spread online over the past 48 hours.
Footage, which captures him trashing the stage, has hit the web. According to the uploader, Cudi was asked to end his set a half hour early, but refused to do so and kept performing. His mic got cut, prompting him to try to use one of the drum mics. When it didn't work out either, Cudi lost it. He proceeded to knock over the properties including lights and sound equipments, drawing loud cheers from the crowd. At one point, he disappeared to the backstage but his band continued playing the music. (Ace Showbiz)
Cudi's shortened set also sparked a negative reaction from fans.
According to Tonedeaf, midway through his performance, Cudi flew into a rage when organizers cut off his mic before he could perform his big hits like 'Day 'n' Nite' and 'Pursuit of Happiness.' In anger, the rapper knocked down lights and speakers before exiting the stage. This didn't sit well with concertgoers who began throwing plastic water bottles and debris and chanting "Cudi, Cudi, Cudi." Security was able to get the crowd to disperse from the scene but only after the stage was littered with garbage. (Pop Crush)
Outside of stage antics, Cudi's upcoming WZRD joint album is slated to drop next month.
Kid Cudi rolls out the tracklisting for his rock album WZRD, a collaboration with "Day 'N' Nite" producer Dot Da Genius. The 10 tracks include the singles "Brake" and "Teleport 2 Me, Jamie," named after Cudi's girlfriend Jamie Baratta. 1. "The Arrival" 2. "High Off Life" 3. "The Dream Time Machine" 4. "Love Hard" 5. "Live & Learn" 6. "Brake" 7. "Teleport 2 Me, Jamie" feat. Desire 8. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" 9. "Efflictim" 10. "The Upper Room" (Rap-Up)
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Rumors of Urban Meyer taking over as the coach of a major Big Ten program stirred up almost as soon as he left the Florida Gators. His personal ties to both the Ohio St. Buckeyes (he grew up in Ohio, plus his first gig was as a Buckeyes coach) and Penn St. Nittany Lions (he's a longtime Joe Paterno friend and admirer) made for the clearest storylines.
When Jim Tressel left Columbus, that made for UrbanWatch, Round 2.
Now a report by former Buckeyes beat writer Jeff Rapp, one of the more respected Ohio State media members according to Buckeyes fans, lists Penn State, Ohio State and Texas as potential destinations for Meyer. According to Rapp, the former two both share mutual interest. Though the Nittany Lions look like the front-runner at the moment:
Meyer was in State College to conduct a preseason interview with Penn State linebacker Mike Mauti, now out for the year with a torn ACL, and reportedly met with school president Graham Spanier and athletic director Tim Curley while on campus. Those talks apparently were productive.
"Urban would love to have that job," the source said. "Keep in mind, though, that he doesn't want to be known as the guy who forced out Joe Paterno. It would have to be done in the right way. I think they could appeal to Joe Pa's best interests and allow him to be the king-maker."
All three programs have coaches, technically speaking, though one has to doubt Luke Fickell will be given much of a chance to remove the interim from his title. But Mack Brown and Paterno are getting up there in years (you might've heard?). Texas had its successor in place until Will Muschamp left to take over for Meyer in Florida, and we've gone full circle before we've ever actually gone anywhere.
For more on these schools, visit Penn State blog Black Shoe Diaries, Ohio State blog Along The Olentangy and Texas blog Burnt Orange Nation.


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HoopsHype Jerry Sloan rumors
What do you think about the Jazz honoring coach Jerry Sloan and putting his name in the rafters? Andrei Kirilenko: They should have done it a long time ago. He definitely deserves it. Coach Sloan, Karl Malone, John Stockton ... that's a huge era for Jazz basketball and it definitely needs to be shown here in Salt Lake City. I give huge credit to Utah. It's always been a team who really worried about team chemistry, being a family, rather than just teammates. The tradition continues. Of course it's a little bit different, but all the memories are still there. Deseret News
Back working for the Utah Jazz this season — after more than two years away following his abrupt resignation in February 2011 — Sloan isn't about to make any long-term promises this time. "I don't think it's a number of years thing," the Hall of Fame coach said Friday. "I think it's just a day-to-day thing, as far as the way I look at the whole thing. I'm Utah Jazz, I think everybody knows that. But the light gets a little dimmer as time goes by because I'm 71 years old." Salt Lake Tribune
So far, Sloan's job has consisted of some scouting duties and providing some insight to his replacement, Jazz coach Ty Corbin. "I'm here to help any way they might ask me and to be out of the way when it's my time to be out of the way," Sloan said. Sloan has indeed been hesitant to impose. "Too much so," Corbin said. "The one thing especially early on that I didn't want to happen, and I know how much he loves basketball and loves the Utah Jazz, is for him not to come around because he was afraid of getting in my way. I love having him around because he's a great guy." Salt Lake Tribune
Asked Friday night if he had any regrets looking back on his coaching career and the Hall of Famer quipped, "I'd have called a different play when we played Chicago [in the NBA Finals] coming down the stretch." Sloan is without question of the game's all-time greatest coaches and, after coming up short against the Bulls twice, he may be the greatest to have never won a championship. Salt Lake Tribune
But Sloan said that he doesn't play what-if with that either. "I don't play that game," he said. "Our guys put everything they had into it. Chicago beat us the first time. The hardest thing after that happens, after being beaten, is to come back and try it again. Salt Lake Tribune
Jody Genessy: Jerry Sloan once hit a recorder out of my hand while showing how to get through a screen. I'm lucky he wasn't teaching how to take a charge. The recorder hit the court and pieces scattered. Sloan: "If I broke that #%*@ing thing, I'll buy you a new one." The lesson then continued. Twitter @DJJazzyJody
Deron Williams chooses to remember his first 438 games with Jerry Sloan more than the last one. Nearly three years after a halftime dispute with Williams triggered Sloan's resignation, the Jazz will raise a banner in the coach's honor at EnergySolutions Arena during Friday's game with Golden State. "A big part of my success early in my career was due to him and the things he kind of instilled in me," said Williams, who now plays for the Brooklyn Nets. "So I'm definitely happy for him, and it's going to be a special moment. The fans there just love him to death." Salt Lake Tribune
During that February 2011 game against Chicago, "We got into a little argument — nothing more than we've ever done," Williams told The Salt Lake Tribune, following a tough loss to Toronto at the Barclays Center. "So the way the fans perceive it is just one thing I can't really control. Like I said, there's no hard feelings on my end, and I enjoyed playing for him. I miss playing for him." Williams was traded to the then-New Jersey Nets, two weeks after Sloan resigned and Tyrone Corbin became the Jazz's coach. Salt Lake Tribune
Jody Genessy: Utah Jazz will raise a banner with 1223 on it to honor Jerry Sloan. That's how many Jazz wins Sloan had in regular season and playoffs. Twitter @DJJazzyJody
A banner bearing his name will be raised into the EnergySolutions Arena rafters alongside retired jerseys belonging to John Stockton, Karl Malone, Pete Maravich and other Jazz greats. "It's amazing to me that hasn't been done yet," Adelman said. "But I'm glad it is being done. It needs to be up there. Anybody in this professional-sports world who was in the same place that many years deserves to have a lot of jerseys up there." Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Sloan is third among the NBA's all-time winningest coaches, with 1,221 career victories that place him behind only Lenny Wilkens and Don Nelson. All but 94 of those victories came with the Jazz. "He really imposed himself onto his teams, and he had the people who would follow," Adelman said. "I'm happy for him. He's in the Hall of Fame and certainly he should be up there, too." The Jazz hasn't honored Sloan until now because he didn't want the team to make a fuss about him. "That figures," Adelman said. "That sounds like Jerry." Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Chris Haynes: The Utah Jazz announce they will honor Jerry Sloan on Jan. 31 by raising a banner with his name on it. Twitter @ChrisBHaynes
The Utah Jazz announced tonight that the team will honor legendary former head coach Jerry Sloan in a special halftime ceremony when the Jazz hosts the Golden State Warriors on Friday, January 31, 2014, in a game that will be nationally televised by ESPN. "On behalf of the Jazz organization and Miller Family, I am thrilled to announce our plans to retire a jersey and celebrate the enduring legacy of Jerry Sloan, one of the greatest and most respected coaches in NBA history," said Steve Miller, President of Miller Sports Properties. "We welcome Jazz fans to join us as we honor Jerry for his accomplishments and recognize his countless contributions to the Jazz franchise and state of Utah." NBA.com
SI.com: Did you like playing for Jerry Sloan? Stockton: Loved it. It was an absolute honor. Frank Layden was the perfect guy for me to start with, but Jerry was the perfect guy for all of us to expand. Frank turned the Jazz from a perennially losing team to a team that started to win. Jerry took the winning team he set up and made us believe we could be champions. He was a no-excuse guy. He was demanding but not unreasonable. I can't give him enough compliments. He took the Jazz to a whole new level and put us on the brink of a couple championships. It would have been difficult without him. SI.com
"He was a terrific player," said former Jazz coach Jerry Sloan, who played against Beaty as a member of the Chicago Bulls. "Zelmo was big and strong and nasty — the kind of guy you wanted on your team." Sloan remembered playing the Hawks once during the 1968-69 season when a Beaty elbow cost Tom Boerwinkle, Chicago's rookie center, "about 10 teeth." Sloan laughed and said, "It was unintentional, I think. Welcome to the NBA." Salt Lake Tribune
Even more troublesome: Some new teammates began to grumble about their roles behind Stockton and Malone. They complained of favoritism coach Jerry Sloan allegedly showed his 40-something stars by not making them participate in every practice. "Things just started to add up," Stockton said. "Things that started to worry me had never worried me before. Things that started to bother me had never bothered me before. The aches and pains I felt, I had never felt before. My reaction to it — instead of attacking it — was an indication it was time [to retire]. That was the message." When told it sounded like his final season was a truly unhappy one, Stockton said, "I don't want people to feel sorry for me. I had a great time. It was a great part of my life. But you can't play forever." Salt Lake Tribune
Jody Genessy: Hall of Fame coach/senior basketball adviser Jerry Sloan is sitting behind the Utah Jazz's bench here at the Orlando Pro Summer League. Twitter @DJJazzyJody
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MARLIN LANE. Sure, it would be easy to give the award to Tyler Bray on his record-setting day or to Cordarrelle Patterson/Justin Hunter for their epic performances. But that's the boring thing to do, isn't it? All of those guys had great days -- record-setting days -- but this isn't necessarily a game MVP award. This is one handed out for somebody who had a career day. For me, the game ball goes to Lane. I'm a big fan of power running, and the sophomore from Daytona Beach ran all over Troy. He powered his way to a career-high 132 yards on 19 carries with a couple touchdowns. That's an average of nearly 7 yards per carry. He was a Boss, and we'll need him down the stretch.
DANIEL GRAY. Honestly, Tennessee never meant to have to depend on Gray [or classmate Deion Bonner] this year. So, this is absolutely not his fault. Every young cornerback goes through what he did on Saturday, but Gray -- who is blazing fast and has a bright future -- simply got tangled up several times and ultimately burned because his technique and pivot isn't quite where it needs to be yet. We're so painfully slow in the secondary that Derek Dooley was trying to do something to assist his incompetent defensive coordinator. It didn't work out against the high-flying Trojans.
JOSH CONKLIN. He's Tennessee's safeties coach, and while it's not like UT's secondary has been anything to write home about yet this season, Conklin has a couple things going for him: A) He has been a college defensive coordinator before and B) He isn't Sal Sunseri. When Dooley says there will be major defensive changes this week, maybe that means he'll let Conklin call the defensive plays and for Sunseri to be an $800,000 linebackers coach. Hey, at this point, it can't get worse, right?


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- (WDRB) -- Louisville police are asking for help in catching two men responsible for a home invasion that has a neighborhood on edge.
The home invasion and robbery happened on November 11, but the investigation has hit a dead-end. Now police are asking for the public's help in identifying the suspects.
It happened on Algonquin Parkway near Cane Run Road at 2:00 in the afternoon. Police say a couple in their 60s had just arrived home from church when two men followed them inside.
Police released composite sketches of the suspects based on the victims' descriptions. One man pulled a gun and forced the victims to the floor.
"The second assailant went into the kitchen, grabbed a large butcher knife and held them down on the ground. They ended up taking a large amount of money and also some pill bottles," said LMPD detective Ryan Scanlan.
Police say it's unclear whether this was a random attack or whether the couple had been specifically targeted. The victims did not want to be interviewed. But folks who live in the area say they are increasingly concerned about crime in their neighborhood.
"I stay concerned about it because my fiance and my adopted son here, they have to come in and out during the evening. You never know what's going on out here. The economy's so bad, it's getting worse by the day," said Donald Craig.
"I'm ready. I protect myself around here," said Carlton Daniels.
Daniels has lived there for more than 40 years. He has seen crime slowly increase, and has installed an alarm system in his home.
"Nowadays, a homeowner has to protect himself, you know. Because you have a generation out here that doesn't care. They just knock on the doors looking for some pills and kill you for nothing."
Investigators say the two suspects did not hurt the victims during the robbery. But they say it's urgent that they be caught.
"They're very upset. It's close to the holidays, so I would like to try to help them have a little bit more reassurance that these people have been caught and it's not going to happen to them again," said Scanlan.
If you recognize either of the two suspects, you're asked to call the anonymous tip line, 574-LMPD.
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This is not usually how I use this space, but Knott's Berry Farm has been tweeting a lot lately about job openings.
Knott's posts its opening on an easy-to-find web page. Its current listing range from food service to Soak City lifeguards.
Some of the jobs are open to teenagers 16 and older and some require no experience.
Right now I have a dream job writing about places like Knott's, but if I was 16 and 5-foot-2 I would love to be Snoopy.
Knott's requirements for walk-around charcters include being "able to stand, move and perform minor choreography in full character costume for a minimum of thirty (30) minutes at a time, several times a day. In addition, you must have good body flexibility and love to work with children. Dance or acting experience is a plus, but not a requirement. Cannot wear glasses in costume."


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Big East Tournament, Connecticut News, Marquette News, Pittsburgh News, West Virginia News
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IMHO you can throw out just about everything about the first game between these two, a 78-63 Pitt win at home.
Just about everything, but not everything.
Pitt would love for the game to get to a point where Kemba Walker feels like he has to take 27 shots to give his team a chance to win. Walker scored 35 in that game but UConn, despite the fact that they were always within a run of winning the game until late, never once threatened to win it.
But that UConn team hasn't existed for quite some time.
Walker was magnificent yesterday and made the most impressive play I've seen so far in this tournament when he closed on the much bigger Hollis Thompson of Georgetown, tracked Thompson as he drove to the elbow area and then elevated to block the 6'8″ forwards shot and gain possession all in the span of maybe 2 seconds. That in itself would've been impressive enough but the human jet then went coast to coast and finished through contact for the and one.
Walker is making those kinds of plays but the difference is the young bucks around him, at least yesterday, are playing with a great deal of confidence and have the requisite talent to make that confidence scary. If freshmen Jeremy Lamb, Shabazz Napier, Roscoe Smith play freely and smart, and sophomore Alex Oriahki continues to go to the glass with a possessed mind state they are capable of beating anyone…including a Pitt team that's coming into a noon game a bit cold compared to the Huskies.
And that's the key for Pitt IMHO –to get off to a decent start so they don't find themselves in a hole early.
Has the makings of a helluva game…and a helluva day.
Main Note On Last Night:
Marquette's Junior Cadougan was incredible, coming up with clutch baskets each time the Warriors needed one and being an intelligent, calmning influence when it seemed his mates might succumb to the chaos that results when all hell breaks loose in a 1-2 possession game this time of year. Marquette bounced WVU mainly because of Cadougan's play, he was that big. Now Buzz Williams and his bunch get another shot at Louisville, a team that they self-destructed against earlier this season. I said on radio two days ago that Marquette was my darkhorse to go deep into the week. A win tonight against the Cards will make them the people's favorite no doubt.
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Goals for BLC19!
1. Get my 30 meals solidified and in sparkrecipes.
2. Finish out my Turbo Fire schedule with 95% completed.
3. Lose 10 inches
4. Get down to 165
5. Pay attention to my calories ~ stay in range most of the time
6. Don't give up on ME!!! Enjoy and love myself through the journey!
I have been thinking about the goals I wanted to make for the 2 weeks since BLC 13 started. I even wrote them down in a notebook. Only problem is I was the only one seeing them. And I need more accountability
So My short term goals are:
1. Exercise 20 min 6X week. To stay on the streak.
2. I will log my food at least 5X week.
3. I will drink my water daily.
4. I will concentrate on freggies.
5. To stay in calorie range 80% of the time.
Long term (12 week) goals:
1. To lose 15-20 pounds
2. I will finish C25K training.
3. I will RUN my 5K on July 3rd with no walking.
Sadly I only finished up to day 65 of P90X. Life took over and I allowed myself that. I am ready to get myself back into the habit after taking off the whole month of December. And boy! do I feel it everywhere! My clothes are tighter than they have been for 2 years, and I feel blah.
I can tell that it has really been nice-even if I didn't look exactly like I wanted-to be fit and know that I was doing good by me.
That is the feeling I am striving to keep.
P90X Day 60 measurements....
Weight: 174.2
Waist: 35.75 (-.25)
Bust: 40 (0)
Hips: 42 (-.25)
Neck: 13.75 (-.25)
Arms: L-12.25 (0) R-12.25 (-.25)
Thighs: L-24 (-.25) R-24.25 (-.25)
Calves: L-15.25(+.50) R-15.5 (+.25)
Not great. As I have not been "bringing it"
But I have kept going. And right now I am counting that as success in itself.
Yesterday was Day 30!!!
To be absolutely truthful I was sick last week so I did 2 days and then skipped the yoga, stretch, and last cardio day for last weeks recovery week. But I figured it was better to get my body well.
But I did my measurements today:
P90X Day 30 measurements....
Weight: 171.8
Waist: 36 (-1)
Bust: 40 (+.25)
Hips: 42.25 (-.75)
Neck: 14 (0)
Arms: L-12.25 (-.25) R-12.5 (0)
Thighs: L-24.25 (-.75) R-24.5 (-.25)
Calves: L-14.75 (-.75) R-15.25 (-.75)
Total down is 4.5 inches!!!! (I am not counting the bust...DH counts that as a bonus anyway:) and 1.8 pounds


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Jack Black's band with Kyle Gass, Tenacious D, is confirmed to both perform a live concert, and promote the new web series Ghost Ghirls during this year's SXSW festival in Austin next month. Tenacious D has partnered with Shine America for the event.
Shine America produced and is distributing the web comedy series, Ghost Ghirls to Yahoo! Screen this spring. The web series follows two inept female ghostbusters who try to solve mysteries of the supernatural variety, often times in a hilarious fashion. It stars Amanda Lund and Maria Blasucci as the two paranormal investigators. It also features great cameos from comedian Molly Shannon, Jason Schwartzman, New Girl star Jake Johnson, and Jack Black. It was created by Jeremy Konner, along with the stars Amanda Lund and Maria Blasucci.
Jack Black released a statement that said,
"There is no better place to unleash the beast that is Ghost Ghirls on an unsuspecting audience. Austin knows how to rock, and how to party, and how to marvel at the supernatural forces that inhabit our world. I'm so proud of this show, and I will be there with bells on, to bask in the glory."
The event, hosted by Yahoo! will take place March 13th at SXSW.


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Today's weather forecast: August Gloom
The first time I met bartender Beau du Bois was on Sunset Boulevard when he was working the RH Bar at the Andaz West Hollywood. It was during a madhouse of an '80s blogger prom in 2009. I never really got to talk to him. But I always remembered him for his hospitality and bartending skills in the face of a hundred thirsty bloggers. He went on to launch the cocktail program at David LeFevre's MB Post when it first opened in Manhattan Beach and impress the bloggerati with his modern, crafty twists on classics. And now he's thankfully moved more inland (closer to me!), settling into the Corner Door in West L.A. There he comes up with straightforward cocktails of unusual flavor combinations and funky names, using housemade cordials and infusions. Earlier this year Zagat tagged him as one of 30 up-and-comers under 30 for 2013.
I was able to catch up with him for my recurring Q&A with L.A. bartenders. Here are his quick answers.
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BALLS Professor Maddux lectures the Phillies in a gem while Moyer prances through the Padre lineup like so much springtime meadow. Padres fail to score runs. Needlebutt's mark remains. Talk...
We're saved! True story: I got an IM from the former Davidlizerblog saying Dykstra had been signed and I responded back: Allan Lenny Dykstra's too old to get excited about. JK!...
"The Padres and first-round draft pick Allan Dykstra have agreed to terms, beating tonight's major league deadline for clubs to reach terms with any unsigned draft selections " Let's hope his hip injury is a non-issue.
KT is in San Diego. Scott's pissed about the phone line. KT doesn't know what the budget will be like next year. Giles wasn't interested in the Red Sox so they didn't even get to talk about players. KT thinks the leak came from the clubhouse. This off season, he, Sandy, and John will get together and decide who fits into the budget. Nobody said anything about a $40m payroll. We lack team speed, we need to add depth to our lineup, bullpen. Miss Brocails and Linebrinks. Seriously, there wasn't discussion about Giles going to Boston, he never wanted to go, KT could tell from the beginning. The Padres will inform Bick/Giles if they're going to re-up him at the end of this season. Dykstra deal may be a stare-down 'til the deadline. We've lost considerable time due to #1 picks suffering injury, that's why it's taking so long.
Twelve first-round picks remain unsigned as of now, but I think the only one who might not come to terms is Wake Forest first baseman Allan Dykstra. Dykstra and the Padres had agreed on a $1.4 million bonus, but a subsequent physical has the club concerned about his right hip, which required surgery in high school. San Diego is worried that it's a degenerative condition, while Dykstra got a second opinion from Angels medical director Dr. Lewis Yocum, who cleared him. Add in the Scott Boras Corporation, which is advising Dykstra, and it may be difficult to resolve the situation to both sides' satisfaction.Jim Callis from Baseball America doesn't see the Padres signing first round pick Allan Dykstra.
For what it's worth, heard from multiple people the Diamondbacks were really high on Allan Dykstra, the big Wake Forest first baseman who went three picks before them to the Padres.via azcentral.com blogger We're in yer base, draftin' yer doods.
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Murfreesboro, TN (Sports Network) - The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders rushed for 302 yards as they defeated the Florida Atlantic Owls, 31-17, in the Sun Belt Conference opener for both teams at Floyd Stadium.
Jordan Parker (117 yards) and Drayton Calhoun (104 yards) led the way for the Middle Tennessee (1-1, 1-0 Sun Belt) rushing attack. Quarterback Logan Kilgore finished 10-of-14 for 178 yards and two touchdowns through the air. Both passing scores went to Anthony Amos, who caught four balls for 102 yards.
For Florida Atlantic (1-1, 0-1), Graham Wilbert completed 25-of-32 passes for 260 yards and a pair of scores. William Dukes and Travis Jones each caught six passes.
After a scoreless first quarter, Middle Tennessee lit up the scoreboard early in the second quarter when Kilgore connected on a 38-yard touchdown pass to Amos, the lone score of the first half.
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Vinny Zaccario put the Owls on the scoreboard a few minutes later with a 39- yard field goal.
Carlos Lopez responded with a field goal of his own (36 yards) late in the third quarter to bring Middle Tennessee's lead back to two touchdowns, 17-3.
The Blue Raiders made it 24-3 at the tail end of the third quarter following another Kilgore-to-Amos touchdown hook up, this time for 26 yards.
FAU scored its first touchdown early in the fourth quarter when Wilbert connected on a four-yard touchdown pass with Damian Fortner to bring the game within striking distance, 24-10.
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"Valley Center deputies attempted to stop a Honda Civic and the suspect failed to pull over and deputies pursued," Vickery said. "The pursuit went to Interstate 15 and Deer Springs Road, where the CHP took over the pursuit with the assistance of a sheriff's canine unit. Speeds during the pursuit reached more than 95 miles per hour on southbound 15."
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text: I first bought the cassette of Metal Church's "Blessing in Disguise" in 1990 when I was in Jr. High. A neigborhood bully beat me up & stole it. Just last month, I bought the album again on CD & I am still amazed at its timelessness. From the first to last song, "Blessing in Disguise" is a great sample of what heavy metal should be. In my personal collection of over 400 metal/rock CD's, I rank it as a standard by which to judge others.The lyrical content is still serious like Metal Church's previous efforts, but it's a little more realistic (no more "Merciless Onslaught", "Gods of Wrath", or "Battallions"). Songs center mostly around social and historical issues like "Fake Healer", "Rest in Pieces (April 15, 1912)", and "Anthem to the Estranged". Also, Mike Howe more than adequately replaces David Wayne. As a matter of fact, I prefer Howe's melodic touches to Wayne's abraisive Accept-like screeches. I love the arena-like sound that Terry Date gave the album (similar to Bob Rock's work on The Cult's "Sonic Temple"). One can hear its effects in the echoes of Howe's voice and Kirk Arington's doom-booming drums.My favorite tracks are "Rest in Pieces", "Badlands", the instrumental "It's a Secret", & the closer "The Powers that Be" – a really positive ending to the album.The only real drawback is that the album cover is a bit bland and unoriginal, but in this case, definitely don't judge an album by its cover.This is a "must-have" for any serious metal collector.


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By Michèle Alexandre
Sexual profiling is alive and well in our society. It thrives not only because of pervasive gender discrimination, but also because of subtle perpetuation of toxic assumptions regarding gender roles and behaviors.
In previous works, I have defined sexual profiling as the persistent patterns of punishment and legal sanctions levied against individuals who fail to conform to accepted gender norms. Destructive stereotypes associated with these pervasive norms and gender biases perpetuate inequities in the enforcement of laws against non-conforming women.
Such inequities, unfortunately, have remained unchecked. Though some might be aware of the ongoing occurrence of gender discrimination, few of us question our daily assumptions regarding gender. Take for example, the Casey Anthony case as it relates to societal views of women who commit infanticide. These cases present an agglomeration of the sort of profiling trappings that often render our society incapable of equitable evaluations. From the Andrea Yates case, to the Casey Anthony drama, to, more recently, the Shakara Dickens case, infanticide cases showcase front and center our deep-seated stereotypes about women and motherhood. Moreover, they highlight the complex hierarchical nature of maternal stereotypes.
These biases are based on assumptions that women are inherently sacrificing and virtuous mothers at the expense of all other aspects of their identity. As such, they place insurmountable burdens on women, particularly those who undergo such illnesses as postpartum depression. Saddled by impossible expectations that they handle all caretaking alone, these women tend to suffer in silence. Judged severely when these infanticide cases come to light, little attention is paid to the disproportionate burdens placed on those mothers. Instead, they are viewed as either "bad" or, if lucky, "mad". These women are then routinely labeled as "bad breeders" and/or as "monsters".
The case of Andrea Yates is one such case. Well before the tragedy, signs of depression and mental instability were present in Yates's life. She began to suffer from postpartum depression after her earlier pregnancies, but never received adequate assistance. Despite a medical diagnosis of instability, pressure for maternal perfection overtook Yates. Striving to hold herself to the standard of the ideal mother, Yates's condition worsened. Thus, despite being overwhelmed by her earlier pregnancies, she continued to have children.
In light of society's attitudes toward women who don't conform to the ideal of motherhood, it is not surprising that a jury of her peers harshly convicted Andrea Yates. She only escaped a lengthy prison sentence by a miraculous reversal on appeal.
Controversy aside, the Casey Anthony case presents similar patterns of profiling. Casey Anthony seemed to be a terrible mother. She was seen partying and behaving recklessly as her child was missing. What more, her stories were so inconsistent that she had no credibility. As such, Casey Anthony represented the prototype of the deviant woman; one who completely abdicates her responsibility as a mother, and by such acts, becomes unworthy of any protections.
As the case evolved, however, the facts did not lend themselves to a legal determination that Anthony had killed her child. That realization angered many. Called "Tot Mom" or "Baby Killer" by some, Anthony's case divided the country. As reported by the Huffington Post on July 5, 2011, upon the announcement of the verdict, "outside the courthouse, many in the crowd of 500 reacted with anger, chanting, "Justice for Caylee!" One man yelled, "Baby killer!" No matter the facts, it seemed unfair to many that such a bad mother would escape a long jail sentence. Wherever you go in America today, the name Casey Anthony continues to spark controversy and trigger intense anger.
Still, Anthony was luckier than many women of color stereotyped as "deviant". Unlike these women, in Anthony's case, a jury of her peers decided to dutifully apply the "beyond a reasonable doubt standard" of criminal prosecution. Unfortunately, many women of color are often not afforded that basic consideration. Moreover, women of color are confronted with the added stereotype of being promiscuous baby killers. Such stereotype has fueled the impulse to prosecute disproportionately pregnant women of color suffering from addiction. It also underlies the uneven approach and treatment of black women who commit infanticide compared to their white counterparts. In a world that treats imperfect mothers harshly, Anthony's case, compared to those of some black women, exemplifies the relative privilege that exists even in these restrictive contexts.
Consider the case of Shakara Dickens, an African-American woman in Memphis, TN. Like Anthony, the disappearance of Dickens's daughter was first surrounded with uncertainty and incredibility as to what really happened. Dickens claimed that she gave her 9-month-old daughter to a friend of the baby's father. Like Anthony, Dickens went to a nightclub and bought new clothes days after her daughter's disappearance. Similarly, she did not report her daughter missing for a week. After a trial in 2012, in which she was convicted, Dickens was sentenced in June 2012 to 19 years without parole.
Unlike Yates, Shakara Dickens was not viewed as suffering from a debilitating illness warranting treatment. Like Anthony, she exemplified the prototype of bad motherhood deserving of punishment, but unlike Anthony, she did not receive the benefit of the doubt from her jury.
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text: Championship pedigree,possibly a top 5 all time great.The Clippers bit off a whole lot of something something this round.It is a whole lot to ask for a young developing team to take something away from a team with so much to throw back at you.But taking it from the Spurs is what they will have to do,because TIMMY ain't giving up nothing.Your going to have to take it from him.Can the Clippers do it? Do they have it in them to fight for it? Who wants it more?Tonight will be a huge test for this young team.Can they stand toe to toe with the Spurs and not get throttled? They don't necessarily have to win but they had better fight like hell.This is a 12 round fight with Timmy's Spurs.He ain't playing around.He will be looking for the death blow tonight.C'mon Clippers stand up to Timmy punch him in the mouth.Don't think for a minute he ain't looking for the Confidence Crusher tonight.Don't let the nice guy persona mislead you you are in there with a warior.Hope you guys at least punch him back.Don't let him get in your head just keep punching back. If you keep punching back you have a fighters chance.I hope for the best,hey guys just keep punching him.Who knows maybe you can slay the Dragon.


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There are somethings this weekend we all need to really pay attention to for to see the state of the Dolphins going forward right now.
1st of course we are going to look at the Dolphins to see if our Oline will hold up like last week, if we can get the run game going and if Hartline is the #1 guy here now, plus seeing if Tann can see if Hartline is covered will he find the next best thing.
We need to see if our D will hold up. We have the top running D but our passing D is suspect but honestly lets look at it, its not as bad as you may believe because if a team cant run they have to throw the ball period. Our secondary needs to be in position to knock balls down and possibly pick them off. Alot of yards are going to the TEs again but it seems thats the thing in the NFL now, TEs.
2ndly we need to pay attention to Green Bay because if GB & Rodgers continues struggling offensively, IMHO, its not because of defenses its because Philbin may not be there anymore with his system, and if thats the case then I think the state of the Dolphins are in good hands with Philbin because it will show that he was the reason their offense ran as smootly as it did and now with him as our coach then it could mean that we can get the same type of offensive fluidity here, not saying we will be better than them but our offense will flow through the passing and running game not just Wanny, Sporano, stall ball, run run run scared to open the game up. And thats something I think as fans we will greatly appreciate and enjoy here if that is the case.
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The director of the Alabama Department of Public Health, Dr. Don Williamson, says federal changes will add $30 million to the state's Medicaid funding needs for 2014.
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Having someone chauffeur you around town can feel pretty luxurious. For 75-year-old Artis Hoiland, having a chauffeur is a must.
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She had open heart surgery in her 50s, and a stroke left her with poor vision in her right eye. Without Active Generations' "Workers on Wheels" program, Artis wouldn't be able to get to her doctor's appointments.
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on May 30, 2013 at 9:03 pm
That's great but it's not legal. They have to give the money back, not require parents to request a refund. The email is an admission that they could not charge and that the charge was illegal. That means that the district must refund all fees collected in violation of the law, and then can solicit donations later if they desire.
Where do they get these ideas? It's legal if we only charge for credit classes...it's legal if we offer scholarships...it's legal if high school is free but we charge for elementary and middle school. Who is giving this kind of ridiculous legal advice to the district and how dumb do you have to be to keep following the advice of people that is proven to be bad and wrong over and over. Sheesh.
on Jun 1, 2013 at 12:00 am
When was this law supposed to be in effect? How many years have I been paying hundreds of dollars I could ill afford for illegal fees?
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I don't really get why the district is making so many mistakes. I heard a former board member grumbling about how she wished that people would stop criticizing the district. Not good for property values and whatnot. But I wondered to myself why the district doesn't straighten up and fly right. Who is going to bear the cost of refunding the money that shouldn't have been charged? The taxpayer. Who is going to bear the cost of the lawyers due to the OCR mess? The taxpayers. Why aren't district officials interested in improving their performance to an acceptable level? Because the taxpayer is footing the bill for all these errors. I would rather my money went to educating students not cleaning up after all these messes and whatnot.


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Williams: 'Smart' Say Tornadoes a Reaction to Abuse of Earth
I talked to three people, casual conversation today, all of them smart, saying "I don't know, we must be doing something to our Earth."Karins gently corrected him: "Well, there are correlations that can be made. Global warming not quite one of them. La Nina, more likely."
The not so in depth "In Depth" segment on the Monday, May 12 NBC Nightly News:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: We're back with NBC News In Depth tonight. Tornado season, especially vicious this year. As we reported earlier in the broadcast, this has been one of the most active, deadly tornado seasons in a long time. So we asked Bill Karins, meteorologist with NBC Weather Plus, to join us tonight to explain why this might be happening now.
You heard the stats in Al Roker [soundbite in earlier story]. They're already at August levels. I talked to three people, casual conversation today, all of them smart, saying "I don't know, we must be doing something to our Earth." So once and for all, what's going on?
BILL KARINS: Well, there are correlations that can be made. Global warming not quite one of them. La Nina, more likely. I'll get to that in a second. Let's first talk about the numbers out there so far: 850 tornadoes. Let's just compare that to the last three years at this point in May. Well above 250 last year. If you look at 2005, we're about 600 above that. And. Of course, these are just the number of touchdowns. The important number the deaths, the deaths are also way up this year. We already had 96. In 2005 everyone was happy saying our Doppler radars and warning services were doing the job. Now the question is what are we doing wrong?
WILLIAMS: What do we do in the future? There's no way to predict these numbers trending up and down.
KARINS: All we can really try to do is find what the triggers are, try to give people the most warning possible. One of the new studies that came out was talking about the connection to the La Nina. Now that's actually cooler water in the Pacific. We just got done with that. What these storms do is they tend to produce larger tornadoes. This is kind of like a new theory and a new thinking that's come out. And what happens is we get big tornadoes, the ones that wipe the foundations clean. It doesn't matter if you're in your safe room or in you're tub. You have to all be in a storm shelter. You can't survive those. Those are the ones we've seen this year.
WILLIAMS: Absolutely monstrous. Bill, thank you for joining us, clearing this up. Something tells me we'll have you back on talking about the same thing.
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