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I was born in Killyleagh, a small town six miles from the county town of Downpatrick in County Down, Northern Ireland. The only place in the world where you can go up the Down road. I was raised in the backstreets of the town and destined to work in either the local linen mill or as a farm labourer except for the influence of the headmaster of the local elementary school, a Mr James Smith, to whom I am eternally indebted. He recognised in me an aptitude, and through his influence I obtained a scholarship to the high school in Downpatrick. After graduating high school I moved to Birmingham, England for 10 years before emigrating to Toronto, Canada where I graduated as a Certified Management Accountant. I have worked in that field for a few companies and have travelled extensively. I am still living in the Toronto Area with my family, but also have a home in Seminole, Florida where I spend most of the winter.
I graduated from the University of Toronto with a diploma in Business Administration, and at the same time studied and graduated as a Management Accountant while holding down a full time job. I have also taken several seminars and coarses in various subjects inproving my knowledge and outlook on life.
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Kate Middleton Pregnant: Princess Diana's Best Mommy Moments (PHOTOS)
Since William and Kate's lavish royal wedding in 2011, the young newlywed has often been compared to her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana. Now that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are officially expecting their first child, Celebuzz is taking a look back at Princess Diana's best mommy moments with her little princes.
Even 15 years after her death, Princess Diana is still remembered for her remarkable poise during her time in the limelight, especially amid her very public divorce from Prince Charles. But if there was one thing the People's Princess was most proud of, it was her role as a mother.
Despite their royal blood, Diana wanted her sons Prince William and Prince Harry to have normal upbringings. She took them to places like Walt Disney World and McDonald's and bought them video games. In addition, they also visited AIDS clinics and shelters for the homeless with their charitable mother.
When William popped the question to Middleton in 2010, he did so with Diana's 18-carat sapphire and diamond engagement ring. The ring has a significant emotional significance for William as Diana chose it after she got engaged to Prince Charles in 1981.
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Microfabricated palladium-silver alloy membranes and their application in hydrogen separation
Tong, H.D. and Gielens, F.C. and Gardeniers, J.G.E. and Jansen, H.V. and Rijn, C.J.M. van and Elwenspoek, M.C. and Nijdam, W. (2004) Microfabricated palladium-silver alloy membranes and their application in hydrogen separation. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 43 . pp. 4182-4187. ISSN 0888-5885
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Abstract: | A submicron-thick and defect-free palladium-silver (Pd-Ag) alloy membrane is manufactured using microfabrication technology. The microfabrication process creates a robust wafer-scale membrane module, which can easily be integrated into a holder with gastight connections. High separation fluxes of up to 4 mol of H2/m2·s with a minimal selectivity of 1500 for H2/He at 450 C and 83 kPa of H2 retentate pressure were obtained with this setup. The developed membrane technology has great potential for hydrogen purification and in applications such as dehydrogenation. |
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Ever since Dai Hong Lau(sp?) on Mott Street went belly up. I have been seeking a replacement peking duck place in Chinatown that serves fatty duck with crispy skin on SOFT BUNS! Health reasons aside, peking duck (Peking field duck) is supposed to be fatty, they take the fattest ducks from the field, slightly separate the skin from the layer of cellulose BEFORE roasting it so that the duck is juicy but the juice doesnt make the skin soggy. That being said, you cannot eat a juicy, fat filled piece of duck with pancakes that do not absorb the fat, it just creates a big mess. So, please dont post about Peking Duck House or any other restaurants that serve duck on a pancake. Yes, its done in China too, but guess what thats done in restaurants that don't serve their duck plump and juicy like how it should be. Bottom line, fat and juicy and crispy skin that melts in your mouth and a bun that absorbs the juice. Let me know.
Peking Duck House
236 E 53rd St, New York, NY 10022
Although you don't seem to be a fan of Peking Duck House they do have the buns you seek. All you have to do is ask and they will kindly bring you steamed buns for the duck...at least they did when I ate there last year.
They'll also make a soup with the carcass if you want, though it was loaded with MSG.
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Amazing 66 serves peking duck with soft buns.
Amazing 66
66 Mott St, New York, NY 100130-
re: fm1963
Thank you, I will try doing that. I only went once to Peking Duck House, and I was a guest so I did not ask for anything. I didn't know you could ask. I have read some good things about Amazing 66, so I will give that a try as well.
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66 Mott St, New York, NY 10013Peking Duck House
28 Mott St, New York, NY 100130-
re: JonWu
No problem. Like you, I also prefer the steamed buns with my peking duck, anyways, I just wanted to let you and anyone else who prefers the steamed buns know they have them if you ask. Fyi, not that it should matter, but I ate at the Mott street location, not the one uptown so I can't be sure both locations carry them.
I also enjoy Amazing 66, especially the short ribs cooked in pumpkin.
Amazing 66
66 Mott St, New York, NY 100130-
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Yes I love the short ribs cooked in pumpkin. Also the fried chicken!
re: fm1963
Peking Duck is a combination of three dishes; one which is the duck meat and skin in a soft bun. That is, IIRC, it always comes in a soft bun; so you are essentially looking for a nice PD specialist. :-)
I like Amazing 66 in general, but I don't think their PD is good enough: they are southern through and through.
Amazing 66
66 Mott St, New York, NY 100130
I actually went to Amazing 66 Thursday evening. It was really crowded, but I got there just before the rush and got a table right away. The Peking Duck was decent, but not great. They served way too much of the meat with the duck. I would have rathered they sliced it closer to the skin with less meat. The buns stuck to the bottom of the bamboo steamer it came in so you had to dig at it to get it off, and sometimes it broke apart. And of course its self serve, which I expected here in Manhattan. Overall it was not a bad experience, although I am still on the lookout for a better alternative.
Amazing 66
66 Mott St, New York, NY 100130-
re: JonWu
they serve it at hsin wong and they advertise it on the wall if you go in. i've seen people order it and it looks pretty good. i'm a big fan of the cantonese version, which is actually a roast duck and give you mantou (buns) as opposed to pancakes. I've been meaning to try it soon, so i'll let you know how it is when i go
Try Oriental Garden.
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As Facebook files for what is likely to be a historic initial public offering of stock, a big question looms for its millions of loyal users.
Will they be able to get in on what could be the hottest deal in years – or will they be left with their noses pressed against the glass, as individual investors typically are in coveted IPOs?
Ordinary investors are normally relegated to the sidelines in red-hot IPOs, with Wall Street brokerage firms that handle the deals parcelling out shares to hedge funds, mutual funds and some ultra-wealthy individuals that generate big trading commissions.
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Who gets shares is one of many questions that eager investors, devoted Facebook aficionados and the just plain curious hope to have answered when the company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO that could take place in the spring.
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The effect of immature oocytes quantity on the rates of oocytes maturity and morphology, fertilization, and embryo development in ICSI cycles. | |
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PURPOSE: The goal was to evaluate the role of the number of retrieved immature oocytes on mature oocyte counts and morphology, and also the rates of fertilization and embryo development in ICSI cycles. METHODS: 101 ICSI cycles were included in this prospective evaluation. Patients were divided into 2 groups of A (≤ 2 immature oocytes) and B (> 2 immature oocytes). In sub-analysis, the impacts of the number of GV and MI oocytes were assessed on the rates of fertilization and embryo development. Also, correlations between the numbers of immature and mature oocytes, as well as maternal age between two groups were analyzed. Assessments of oocyte morphology, fertilization, embryo quality and development were done accordingly. RESULTS: There was no correlation between the immature oocytes quantity with the number of mature ones. There were insignificant differences for embryo development between two groups, but fertilization rate was higher in group A (P = 0.03). In sub-analysis, insignificant differences were observed between two groups of ≤ and >2 GV and MI oocytes for rates of fertilization and embryo development. Also, the rates of clinical pregnancy and delivery were insignificant between groups. The rate of morphologically abnormal oocytes had no significant difference between two groups, except for wide perivitelline space (PVS) which was higher in group A (P = 0.03). There was no significant difference for maternal age between two groups. CONCLUSIONS: In cases with few retrieved immature oocytes, rates of fertilization and incidence of wide PVS may increase, although immature oocytes may not have any negative impacts on early embryo development, or the rates on number of mature oocytes. |
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Issue of subsidiary strata certificates of title for flats with subsisting leases registered under Registration of Deeds Act where land is vested in flat-owners as tenants-in-common
—(1) Where there are subsisting leases of flats registered under the provisions of the Registration of Deeds Act (Cap. 269) and the registered estate or interest in the land on which the flats are erected is vested, subject to the provisions of the Land Titles Act (Cap. 157), in the lessees of the flats as tenants-in-common in the shares shown in the land-register, the registered lessees of those flats who altogether own not less than 25% of the total number of those flats may lodge with the Registrar a strata title application in the approved form.
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(2) A strata title application submitted under subsection (1) shall not be registered unless the strata title plan has been lodged with and approved by the Chief Surveyor under the Boundaries and Survey Maps Act (Cap. 25).
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require a notice in the form approved by him to be inserted once in one or more daily newspapers to the effect that the Registrar will issue the subsidiary strata certificates of title under this section to the registered lessees of the flats as shown in the records maintained at the Registry of Deeds or the Land Titles Registry after the expiration of 6 weeks from the date of publication of the notice if no valid objection is received by the Land Titles Registry; and
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(5) Where the Registrar is satisfied that all the necessary documents are in order, the Registrar may issue subsidiary strata certificates of title for the flats after the publication of the notice referred to in subsection (4).
(6) Any subsidiary strata certificate of title issued by the Registrar under subsection (5) may be qualified as to its title or its boundaries and dimensions, and sections 25 and 165 of the Land Titles Act (Cap. 157) shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to such subsidiary strata certificate of title.
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(8) It shall be the duty of the management corporation to determine the amount of contributions payable by the subsidiary proprietors of the lots in the subdivided building concerned to its management fund to meet the expenditure referred to in subsection (7) and any contributions so levied by the management corporation shall be deemed to be contributions levied under section 39 of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act (Cap. 30C).
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The ubuntu project "ensemble" is now publicly known as "juju". This is a repost of an older article Painless Hadoop / Ubuntu / EC2 to reflect the new names and updates to the api.
Thanks Michael Noll for the posts where I first learned how to do this stuff:
I'd like to run his exact examples, but this time around I'll use juju for hadoop deployment/management.
install/configure juju client tools
$ sudo apt-get install juju charm-tools
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run hadoop services with juju
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(you can add/remove these later too)
Scaling is so easy there's no point in separate standalone -vs- multinode versions of the setup.
Load your data and jars
$ juju ssh namenode/0
ubuntu$ sudo -su hdfs
hdfs$ cd /tmp
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hdfs$ tar xjvf gutenberg.tar.bz2
copy the data into hdfs
hdfs$ hadoop dfs -copyFromLocal /tmp/gutenberg gutenberg
run mapreduce jobs against the dataset
hdfs$ hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/hadoop-examples.jar wordcount -Dmapred.map.tasks=20 -Dmapred.reduce.tasks=20 gutenberg gutenberg-output
That's it!
Now, again with some more details…
Install juju client tools onto your local machine…
# sudo apt-get install juju charm-tools
We've got the juju CLI in ports now too for Mac clients (Homebrew is in progress).
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control-bucket: juju-<hash>
admin-secret: <hash>
access-key: <your ec2 access key>
secret-key: <your ec2 secret key>
default-series: oneiric
In real life you'd probably want to specify default-image-type
to at least m1.large
too, but I'll give some examples of that in later posts.
Make a place for charms to live
$ mkdir charms/oneiric
$ cd charms/oneiric
$ charm get hadoop-master
$ charm get hadoop-slave
(optionally, you can charm getall
but it'll take a bit to pull all charms).
Spin up a juju environment
$ juju bootstrap
wait a minute or two for EC2 to comply. You're welcome to watch the water boil with
$ juju status
or even
$ watch -n30 juju status
which'll give you output like
$ juju status
2011-07-12 15:20:54,978 INFO Connecting to environment.
The authenticity of host 'ec2-50-17-28-19.compute-1.amazonaws.com (220.127.116.11)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is c5:21:62:f0:ac:bd:9c:0f:99:59:12:ec:4d:41:48:c8.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
0: {dns-name: ec2-50-17-28-19.compute-1.amazonaws.com, instance-id: i-8bc034ea}
services: {}
2011-07-12 15:21:01,205 INFO 'status' command finished successfully
Next, you need to deploy the hadoop services:
$ juju deploy --repository ~/charms local:hadoop-master namenode
$ juju deploy --repository ~/charms local:hadoop-slave datanodes
now you simply relate the two services:
$ juju add-relation namenode datanodes
Relations are where the juju special sauce is, but more about that in another post.
You can tell everything's happy when juju status
gives you something like (looks a bit different, but basics are the same):
$ juju status
2011-07-12 15:29:20,331 INFO Connecting to environment.
0: {dns-name: ec2-50-17-28-19.compute-1.amazonaws.com, instance-id: i-8bc034ea}
1: {dns-name: ec2-50-17-0-68.compute-1.amazonaws.com, instance-id: i-4fcf3b2e}
2: {dns-name: ec2-75-101-249-123.compute-1.amazonaws.com, instance-id: i-35cf3b54}
formula: local:hadoop-master-1
relations: {hadoop-master: datanodes}
machine: 1
hadoop-master: {state: up}
state: started
formula: local:hadoop-slave-1
relations: {hadoop-master: namenode}
machine: 2
hadoop-master: {state: up}
state: started
2011-07-12 15:29:23,685 INFO 'status' command finished successfully
Log into the master node
$ juju ssh namenode/0
and become the hdfs user
ubuntu$ sudo -su hdfs
pull the example data
hdfs$ cd /tmp
hdfs$ wget http://files.markmims.com/gutenberg.tar.bz2
hdfs$ tar xjvf gutenberg.tar.bz2
and copy it into hdfs
hdfs$ hadoop dfs -copyFromLocal /tmp/gutenberg gutenberg
Similar to above, but now do
hdfs$ hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/hadoop-examples.jar wordcount gutenberg gutenberg-output
you might want to explicitly call out the number of jobs to use…
hdfs$ hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-0.20/hadoop-examples.jar wordcount -Dmapred.map.tasks=20 -Dmapred.reduce.tasks=20 gutenberg gutenberg-output
depending on the size of the cluster you decide to spin up.
You can look at logs on the slaves by
$ juju ssh datanodes/0
ubuntu$ tail /var/log/hadoop/hadoop-hadoop-datanode*.log
ubuntu$ tail /var/log/hadoop/hadoop-hadoop-tasktracker*.log
similarly for subsequent slave nodes if you've spun them up
$ juju ssh datanodes/1
$ juju ssh datanodes/2
To resize your cluster,
$ juju add-unit datanodes
or even
$ for i in {1..10}
$ do
$ juju add-unit datanodes
$ done
Wait for juju status
to show everything in a happy state and then run your jobs.
I was able to add slave nodes in the middle of a run… they pick up load and crank.
Check out the juju status
output for a simple 10-slave cluster here
// November 8th, 2011 // Comments Off // Uncategorized
NOTE: Repost
The ubuntu project "ensemble" is now publicly known as "juju". This is a repost of an older article Monitoring Hadoop Benchmarks TeraGen/TeraSort with Ganglia to reflect the new names and updates to the api.
Here I'm using new features of Ubuntu Server (namely juju) to easily deploy Ganglia alongside a small Hadoop cluster to play around with monitoring some benchmarks like Terasort.
Deploy hadoop and ganglia using juju:
$ juju bootstrap
$ juju deploy --repository "~/charms" local:hadoop-master namenode
$ juju deploy --repository "~/charms" local:ganglia jobmonitor
$ juju deploy --repository "~/charms" local:hadoop-slave datacluster
$ juju add-relation namenode datacluster
$ juju add-relation jobmonitor datacluster
$ for i in {1..6}; do
$ juju add-unit datacluster
$ done
$ juju expose jobmonitor
When all is said and done (and EC2 has caught up), run the jobs
$ juju ssh namenode/0
ubuntu$ sudo -su hdfs
hdfs$ hadoop jar hadoop-*-examples.jar teragen -Dmapred.map.tasks=100 -Dmapred.reduce.tasks=100 100000000 in_dir
hdfs$ hadoop jar hadoop-*-examples.jar terasort -Dmapred.map.tasks=100 -Dmapred.reduce.tasks=100 in_dir out_dir
While these are running, we can run
$ juju status
to get the URL for the jobmonitor ganglia web frontend
and see…
and a little later as the jobs run…
Of course, I'm just playing around with ganglia at the moment… For real performance, I'd change my juju config file to choose larger (and ephemeral) EC2 instances instead of the defaults.
Let's grab the charms necessary to reproduce this.
First, let's install juju and set up a our charms.
$ sudo apt-get install juju charm-tools
Note that I'm describing all this using an Ubuntu laptop to run the juju cli because that's how I roll, but you can certainly use a Mac to drive your Ubuntu services in the cloud. The juju CLI is already available in ports, but I'm not sure the version. Homebrew packages are in the works. Windows should work too, but I don't have a clue.
$ mkdir -p ~/charms/oneiric
$ cd ~/charms/oneiric
$ charm get hadoop-master
$ charm get hadoop-slave
$ charm get ganglia
That's about all that's really necessary to get you up and benchmarking/monitoring.
I'll do another post on how to adapt your own charms to use monitoring and the monitor
juju interface as part of the "Core Infrastructure" series I'm writing for charm developers. I'll go over the process of what I had to do to get the hadoop-slave
service talking to monitoring services like ganglia
Until then, clone/test/enjoy… or better yet, fork/adapt/use!
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A while back I started experimenting with Juju and was intrigued by the notion of services instead of machines.juju-log "$JUJU_REMOTE_UNIT joined"
natty/hadoop-masternatty/hadoop-master/metadata.yamlnatty/hadoop-master/hooks/installnatty/hadoop-master/hooks/startnatty/hadoop-master/hooks/stopnatty/hadoop-master/hooks/hadoop-master-relation-joinedThis charm should now be complete... It's not too exciting yet as it doesn't have the hadoop-slave counterpart to it but, it is a complete charm.
// November 5th, 2011 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized
It's late, I'm tired, so this is going to be brief. But if I didn't put something up now, chances are I'd procrastinate to the point where it didn't matter anymore, so something is better than nothing.
So the buzz all week was about Juju and Charms. It's a very cool technology that I think is really going to highlight the potential of cloud computing. Until now I always had people comparing the cloud to virtual machines, telling me they already automate deploying VMs, but with Juju you don't think about machines anymore, virtual of otherwise. It's all about services, which is really what you want, a service that is doing something for you. You don't need to care where, or on what, or in combination with some other thing, Juju handles all that automatically. It's really neat, and I'm looking forward to using it more.
Summit worked this week. In fact, this is the first time in my memory where there wasn't a problem with the code during UDS. And that's not because we left it alone either. IS actually moved the entire site to a new server the day before UDS started. We landed several fixes during the week to fix minor inconveniences experienced by IS or the admins. And that's not even taking into consideration all the last-minute features that were added by our Linaro developers the week prior. But through it all, Summit kept working. That, more than anything else, is testament to the work the Summit developers put in over the last cycle to improve the code quality and development processes, and I am very, very proud that. But we're not taking a break this cycle. In fact, we had two separate sessions this week about ways to improve the user experience, and will be joined by some professional designers to help us towards that goal.
Ubuntu One eBook syncing
So what started off as an casual question to Stuart Langridge turned into a full blown session about how to sync ebook data using Ubuntu One. We brainstormed several options of what we can sync, including reading position, bookmarks, highlights and notes, as well as ways to sync them in an application agnostic manner. I missed the session on the upcoming Ubuntu One Database (U1DB), but we settled on that being the ideal way of handling this project, and that this project was an ideal test case for the U1DB. For reasons I still can't explain, I volunteered to develop this functionality, at some point during the next cycle. It's certainly going to be a learning experience.
Friends! It sure was good to catch up with all of you. Both friends from far-away lands, and those closer to home. Even though we chat on IRC almost constantly, there's still nothing quite like being face to face. I greatly enjoyed working in the same room with the Canonical ISD team, which has some of the smartest people I've ever had the pleasure of working with. It was also wonderful to catch up with all my friends from the community. I don't know of any other product or project that brings people together the way Ubuntu does, and I'm amazed and overjoyed that I get to be a part of it.
// November 4th, 2011 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized
If you've been doing anything with Ubuntu lately, chances are you've been hearing a lot of buzz about Juju. If you're attending UDS, then there's also a good chance that you've been to one or more sessions about Juju. But do you know it?
The building blocks for Juju are it's "charms", which detail exactly how to deploy and configure services in the Cloud. Writing charms is how you harness the awesome power of Juju. Tomorrow (Friday) there will be a 2 hour session all about writing charms, everything from what they do and how they work, to helping you get started writing your own. Questions will be answers, minds will be inspired, things will be made, so don't miss out.
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// November 3rd, 2011 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized
Amazon just announced that the AWS MFA (multi-factor authentication) now supports virtual or software MFA devices in addition to the physical hardware MFA devices like the one that's been taking up unwanted space in my pocket for two years.
Multi-factor authentication means that in order to log in to my AWS account using the AWS console or portal (including the AWS forums) you not only need my secret password, you also need access to a device that I carry around with me.
Before, this was a physical device attached to my key ring. Now, this is my smart phone which has the virtual (software) MFA device on it. I already carry my phone with me, so the software doesn't take up any additional space.
To log in to AWS, I enter my password and then the current 6 digit access code displayed by the Android app on my phone. These digits change every 30 seconds in an unguessable pattern, so this enhances the security of my AWS account.
I started by using Amazon's AWS Virtual MFA app for my Android phone, but had some complaints about it including:
You have to click on an account name to see the current digits instead of just having them shown when the app is run. There's nothing else for the app to do but show me these digits. Just do it!
The digits disappear from the screen too fast. Sometimes I want to glance back and see if I typed them in correctly, but they're gone and I have to click again, hoping that they haven't changed yet.
It's hard to choose your own account names so that you know which entry to use for different AWS accounts.
I then noticed some cryptic information in the announcements: the new feature will work with "any application that supports the open OATH TOTP standard".
Sure 'nuff!
I already use the Google Authenticator app on my Android phone so that my Google logins can use MFA. As it turns out, Google Authenticator also works seamlessly with AWS Virtual MFA.
Google Authenticator shows the codes as soon as it is run with a little timer showing me when they will change.
Google Authenticator lets me easily edit the displayed name so that I know at a glance which code is for my personal AWS account and which one is for my company AWS account.
This also means that I only have to run one app to get access to my devices for Google accounts and for AWS accounts. Amazon may improve their Android app over time, but by using open standards users can pick whatever works best for them at the time.
I love the fact that Amazon now supports Virtual MFA. I've already thrown away my hardware token and my pocket feels less full.
I love the fact that Amazon implemented this as a service based on existing standards so that I can use Google's Android app to access my account.
I love open standards.
Update: I just found this great starting page which even links to Google Authenticator as a client for Android and iPhone:
Original article: http://alestic.com/2011/11/aws-virtual-mfa
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Are you both an Ubuntu user and a bibliophile? Want to keep your ebooks synced between all your connected devices, including bookmarks and reading position? If so, join us for this UDS session Thursday, Nov 3rd, where we'll be talking about how to add that functionality to Ubuntu One.
// November 2nd, 2011 // 4 Comments » // Uncategorized
Today HP announced Project Moonshot - a programme to accelerate the use of low power processors in the data centre.
The three elements of the announcement are the launch of Redstone – a development platform that harnesses low-power processors (both ARM & x86), the opening of the HP Discovery lab in Houston and the Pathfinder partnership programme.
Canonical is delighted to be involved in all three elements of HP's Moonshot programme to reduce both power and complexity in data centres.
The HP Redstone platform unveiled in Palo Alto showcases HP's thinking around highly federated environments and Calxeda's EnergyCore ARM processors. The Calxeda system on chip (SoC) design is powered by Calxeda's own ARM based processor and combines mobile phone like power consumption with the attributes required to run a tangible proportion of hyperscale data centre workloads.
The promise of server grade SoC's running at less than 5W and achieving per rack density of 2800+ nodes is impressive, but what about the software stacks that are used to run the web and analyse big data – when will they be ready for this new architecture?
Ubuntu Server is increasingly the operating system of choice for web, big data and cloud infrastructure workloads. Films like Avatar are rendered on Ubuntu, Hadoop is run on it and companies like Rackspace and HP are using Ubuntu Server as the foundation of their public cloud offerings.
The good news is that Canonical has been working with ARM and Calexda for several years now and we released the first version of Ubuntu Server ported for ARM Cortex A9 class processors last month.
The Ubuntu 11.10 release (download) is an functioning port and over the next six months and we will be working hard to benchmark and optimize Ubuntu Server and the workloads that our users prioritize on ARM. This work, by us and by upstream open source projects is going to be accelerated by today's announcement and access to hardware in the HP Discovery lab.
As HP stated today, this is beginning of a journey to re-inventing a power efficient and less complex data center. We look forward to working with HP and Calxeda on that journey.


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WEDNESDAY, June 20 – Weight-loss surgery may reduce the risk of kidney disease in obese people with diabetes, according to a small study. The study included 52 patients, mostly female, who were obese and had type 2 diabetes. Nearly 40 percent of the patients had diabetic nephropathy, a form of kidney damage that can require dialysis and lead to kidney failure. All of the patients underwent bariatric surgery, intended to help people lose weight. Most had a type of bariatric surgery known as gastric bypass, in which the stomach is stapled to make it smaller, and the small intestine is rerouted to the smaller pouch. Five years after surgery, nearly 60 percent of the patients who'd had diabetic nephropathy no longer had the condition, the researchers said. They also found that only 25 percent of those who did not have diabetic nephropathy at the time of surgery eventually developed the ... Read more
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TUESDAY, June 21 – The frequency of diabetic kidney disease has increased in line with rising rates of diabetes in the United States over the past two decades, a new study finds. About 40 percent of people with diabetes develop diabetic kidney disease (DKD), which is a leading cause of chronic kidney disease and accounts for nearly half of all new cases of kidney failure in the United States, according to background information in the study in the June 22/29 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The researchers analyzed national data from the past two decades, and found that the prevalence of DKD in the U.S. population was 2.2 percent in 1988-94, 2.8 percent in 1999-2004 and 3.3 percent in 2005-08. The demographically adjusted increase in DKD prevalence was 18 percent from 1988-94 to 1999-2004 and 34 percent from 1988-94 to 2005-08. The estimated number of people ... Read more
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TUESDAY, April 27 – High-dose vitamin B therapy is dangerous for diabetics with kidney disease, and patients on this regimen should stop immediately, says a new study. When the researchers began the study, they believed it would show that high-dose vitamin B therapy (folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12) would improve patients' kidney function and reduce their risk of heart attack and stroke. But it turned out that patients on high-dose vitamin B therapy had significant worsening of kidney function, and twice as many heart and stroke incidents as patients taking a placebo. "Because B vitamins are water soluble, we suspect that while healthy people would excrete excess vitamins in urine, those with renal failure would not be able to do so, perhaps causing the adverse effects we have seen in this study," Dr. David Spence, of the University of Western Ontario in Canada, said in a ... Read more
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TUESDAY, Dec. 29 – The incidence of end-stage kidney disease, one of the most serious complications of diabetes, rose steadily in people with diabetes for decades. But, in 1996, the rate of diabetes-related end-stage kidney disease finally began to decline. Since that time, the incidence has dropped steadily – about 3.9 percent a year, a new government study finds. "The incidence had decreased for all age groups and for both men and women," noted study author Nilka Rios Burrows, an epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the study was not designed to find the cause behind the decline, Burrows said that based on other studies, they believe that early detection and treatment of kidney disease in people with diabetes is likely one factor behind the decline. In addition, better control of diabetes and high blood pressure – especially the use of ... Read more
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