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It's only been a year, but what a year it's been.
When University Communications launched a UCLA channel on YouTube in September 2008, no one could have guessed that a minute-and-a-half-long video of UCLA's women's rugby team playing its macho sport in prom dresses would rocket to the top of the charts with a quarter-million views.
Or that a tribute to UCLA's Fields Medal winner, mathematician Terrence Tao, complete with snapshots from his early years as a child prodigy in Australia, would capture 55,137 views.
t's not surprising, then, to hear that UCLA's YouTube channel just logged its millionth view, a milestone for the team of people in External Affairs who have worked hard to broaden the channel's appeal with faculty lectures, fresh features, profiles of researchers explaining their work, glimpses of student life, performances and other special events. Departments from across the campus have all contributed to this success by posting more than 880 videos so far.
Prom Dress Rugby is the most viewed video on UCLA's YouTube channel. Shot by Seth Odell of Newsroom, it became the top sports video on YouTube on the Saturday after it was posted.
Visitors to UCLA's YouTube page this week can share the exuberance of Coach Rick Neuheisel celebrating a victory with his wildly cheering football players in their locker room; see Assistant Professor Aydogan Ozcan explain how he is incorporating microscopes in cell phones to make remote diagnoses of diseases possible; or relive the rush of UCLA Volunteer Day through the eyes of students.
The variety of videos, ranging from lighthearted entertainment to serious academics, is what's keeping everyone watching.
One viewer, Vinay Kumar, a graduate student at Columbia University, was having trouble following the concepts of Bayesian Inference and graphical models in his class in machine learning because he hadn't taken a course in probability, he said. So over three days, Kumar hunkered down and watched the first 13 lectures of UCLA Professor Emeritus Herbert Enderton's class on probability, through the university's YouTube channel for UCLA courses.
"That has given me a lot of confidence and knowledge," Kumar told Enderton in an e-mail thanking him and UCLA for posting the video lectures. "Machine learning has been relatively smooth sailing after that. I am eagerly waiting for summer break, so that I can finish watching the remaining 15 videos."
It's the array of subjects, from political science and psychology to modern civilization, that keeps people coming back to the channel. There are now 3,000 people who have signed up to become subscribers to the channel and get UCLA content delivered to them as it is being uploaded.
"Viewers have responded to the channel because departments from across campus have come together to share interesting videos," said Genevieve Haines, director of Integrated Communications, who leads the YouTube project for the Marketing and Communications Services in External Affairs. "The departments benefit because they find a larger audience for their content. And alumni, current students, prospective students and fans benefit from access to a one-stop shop for UCLA videos."
One of the initial challenges for the new channel was amassing a selection of videos that was large enough to attract attention.
"Working with partners from across the campus gave the channel a critical mass of videos — meaning that videos on the youtube.com/ucla channel are less likely to get lost in the sea of video content on YouTube," Haines said. "The upshot is that UCLA faculty and staff now have a way to deliver UCLA videos directly to an audience of people who are eager for our content."
The vastness of that audience became clear to Professor Robert Goldberg when he started getting feedback from YouTube viewers from all over the world to his course on the controversial topic of genetic engineering. "The positive aspect of having your course on YouTube is that it gives you a broader audience. You're getting reaction from different parts of the world. The people who view the class say my class is very different from anything they've seen before."
YouTube viewers' responses are primarily non-scientific, gut-level reactions that range from "How can you say that? These kinds of things are poison!" to "I would love to take a class from a professor like you." He also has his lectures webcasted. Those tend to be viewed by people who are more attuned to the science, he said. The viewers of YouTube, he said, tend to be more diverse and reflect the general population.
A UCLA distinguished professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology, Goldberg was recently featured in Newsweek in an article headlined, "In Search of Great Professors." One of his undergraduate courses made it onto the list of "America's 10 Hottest Classes" compiled by the Daily Beast, a website founded by former New Yorker editor Tina Brown.
UCLA recently adopted YouTube's new channel format that allows folks to browse through and watch new uploads, favorites and playlists — all without leaving the channel. So people who start watching videos on UCLA's channel are more likely to continue watching more UCLA videos. "Of course, that's good news for us," Haines said.
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Wow, kind of wish I was still in Texas to see that.
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Dallas weather has been all over the news. I'm vacationing down in SA and Austin and everything has missed us here.
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Speaking of that, the season finale of LOST kept getting interrupted by weather updates. It was annoying.
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Realistically, the only way for most tourists to reach Antarctica is by ship. Even that was not possible before 1968, when the Lindblad company first chartered the Magga Dan for tourist cruises from Australia and New Zealand. Now many companies are operating ships of many types. Which you take will depend on your interests, your comfort preferences, and the depth of your pocket: there is no such thing as a 'right answer' for everyone.
A passenger cruise liner with over 1000 passengers may be less expensive and more comfortable, but I understand that the arrangements for Antarctic tourism do not provide for any landings by ships with over 500 passengers: would that concern you? Slightly smaller but still in cruise-ship style, there are cruises by ships with up to 500 passengers: these usually provide for some landings, but you may have to wait your turn for landings as the maximum numbers allowed ashore at a given time are sometimes limited to under 100. At the smallest end of the spectrum are the 'expedition' style ships, usually carrying no more than about 100 passengers. If you wish to maximise your time ashore, skip around in zodiacs, or undertake various kinds of 'adventure' activities, these are for you: the downside may be the cost and fewer 'luxury' touches. Do you really need a grand piano with you when you go to Antarctica?
In this photo, you see our ship 'parked' intentionally among thick sea ice, while passengers walk about exploring the frozen landscape of icebergs (such as the one in the background) and wildlife - at the same time, others were off in one of the ship's helicopters (the other is on the top deck).
Our trip in 2005-06 was on a Russian 'expedition style' ship, the Marina Svetaeva operated on charter by Aurora Expeditions, who also operate a slightly smaller ship the Polar Pioneer from South America.
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As you can see in the main photo (taken near the French base at Dumont d'Urville), when there is something worth photographing, it all becomes a little busy! In these circumstances, it is a matter of passengers applying mutual courtesy in their movements.
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Butler placed third in the NCAA Division I Women's Cross Country Championship, giving the Bulldogs 10 points in the Capital One Cup competition. Maryland also earned 10 points and shared the No. 20 spot. BIG EAST women's cross country champ Providence is tied for 12th in the standings with 20 points.
Penn State leads the women's competition after the fall
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The Capital One Cup honors the top Division I men's and women's athletics programs in the country. Schools earn points based on their teams' top 10 finishes in the NCAA Division I championships and in final official coaches' polls across 20 women's and 19 men's sports as they compete to win the Capital One Cup trophy and a combined $400,000 in scholarships for student-athletes.
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Edmonton – Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Women's League honoured pioneer members of their council at their annual Christmas gathering Dec. 10 in the church hall.
VATICAN CITY – The lights glowing on the Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square, like Christmas lights everywhere, are reminders that Jesus is the light of the world, Pope Francis said.
In another wide-ranging interview with an Italian journalist, Pope Francis denied he was a Marxist but said he took no offence at the label; dismissed the notion of women cardinals; and reflected on Christmas as an occasion of joy, tenderness and hope.
Charitable appeals made in parishes across the Edmonton Archdiocese will be rolled into one starting in Lent 2014.
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"Go, you!" :
My new "thing" to do lately (I mean, besides sleeping for 12 hours haha) is to say "Go, you!" when I see someone working really hard at the gym (or outside running or walking). I don't say it loud enough for anyone to hear me, but I feel like it's a little extra positive energy in the room. It motivates me, mostly.
It's not worth getting jealous about someone else. It's definitely not worth putting someone down (out loud or not). That's not the kind of energy you need (regardless of if a person's attitudes affects others or not) because it only makes you feel badly about yourself.
I'm done (at least I'm trying to be) comparing myself to others. Sure, I want to have thighs like some of the girls I see... but I also know that I have a different lifestyle, genetics, and goals. I didn't grow up with healthy parents or grandparents as examples. I'm done using that as an excuse, too. I'm happy being me, and I'm happy knowing what I'm doing to make my life healthier. People at the gym only see me on the treadmill for a few hours a week (if they're there every night like me). They don't know that I eat fruit every day, that I WALKED to the gym for an extra mile of exercise, that I bring a lunch to work every day that's healthy.
They don't know those things about me, and I don't know anything about the other women I see (or men, honestly).
Next time you see someone working hard for their goals, cheer them on a little bit. Hopefully, it'll lift your mood that same way it does for me.
I cut my hair last night.
This is nothing new. I actually trim it every month myself.
But last night... I don't know. I thought I had gone crazy when I saw the big long chuck I had cut off to make side bangs...
Oh. No. Ohhhh. F.
It was rough. So I brushed it out... and saw this limp chunk of hair hanging by my ear (I made sure to cut them at least that long). It looked bad.
BUT. whew, thankfully...
After a shower and a deep condition, it felt better. Looked better, even wet.
I put some gel in it and hoped for the best in the morning.
Ta-da! It worked out. It curls wonderfully. And the body of it is thinned out quite nicely.
I won against the scissors. Haha.
It was scary last night though.
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My friends refer to my place as the Aldi house. From cheap groceries to small appliances to fitness products and patio furniture - I've got it.
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Yup, I sure would! I'm all about frugal shopping.
Aldi focuses on select products and offers private label goods (in addition to a few national brands). The quality is top-notch and, although I can't do ALL of my shopping in one place, I'm able to get the majority of my shopping done there.
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The Open Road Adventures in Open Source and Cycling https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/feed/entries/atom 2015-03-04T07:41:50+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/the_opensso_docs_wiki_heats The OpenSSO Docs Wiki Heats Up dgolds 2009-05-15T13:21:39+00:00 2009-05-15T20:21:39+00:00
 If you haven't visited the OpenSSO Resource Center lately, go have a look. My colleagues on the docs team have been doing a fantastic job of posting high quality information there. The site gets richer and richer every day.

 Today, the site hit the mother lode when Gina from the OpenSSO writers team exposed a wealth of troubleshooting tips and FAQs based on support cases on the Community Contributions page of the Resource Center. Together with the How To's and White Papers already present on the page, this makes for extremely interesting reading.

 I gotta say, I love working on a technology that has this quality and quantity of informaton available out in the open.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/opensso_training_is_now_available OpenSSO Instructor-Led Training is Now Available dgolds 2009-05-15T10:23:38+00:00 2009-05-15T17:25:54+00:00
 The OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0: Deployment Essentials course - which I developed last winter - is now available as an instructor-led class from Sun. The Sun course code for this class is AM-3800.

 Classes have started to appear on the Sun US training calendar and to other Sun training calendars around the world. More classes will be added to the calendars in the very near future.

 In this course, you build up a complex OpenSSO deployment - complete with SSL, multiple web containers, and session failover. Then you use that deployment to exploit OpenSSO capabilities like authentication, authorization, customization, and audit logging. At the end of the week, you deploy a simpler federated identity environment and enable SAML 2 and fedlets.

 One of the really nice things that happened during course development was that I was able to get a great set of beta testers from the OpenSSO community. I ran a live class in San Francisco, with people from the community, and held a number of remote trials with other community members. So like everything with OpenSSO, it really was a community effort.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/mind_blowing_opensso_on_the Mind-Blowing - An OpenSSO App for the iPhone dgolds 2009-04-30T18:10:48+00:00 2009-05-12T16:19:36+00:00
 An amazing demo came out today - a new iPhone app called POssO:

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 This app lets you perform basic help desk administration tasks like create user, change password, and reset password right from your phone. It's got built-in VPN support (a Cisco client), which enables intranet access from the phone with your token card. It also has built-in password policy management, notifications, and log management features.

 The transport protocol is encrypted (SSL), and with SSL over VPN the data is safe. The app also enforces all RBAC policies set up on the server.

 Best of all, the app is absolutely free - with no ads.

 Update - May 12, 2009 - POssO is now available at http://itunes.com/apps/POssO
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/a_great_gift_for_the A Great Gift for January 20, 2009 dgolds 2008-12-25T16:10:42+00:00 2008-12-26T00:12:32+00:00
 Today, time to blog about something fun.

 Shortly after the recent elections, I came across a new book, Feisty First Ladies (and other unforgettable White House Women) by Autumn Stephens.

 I love history, and this little volume puts a fun and somewhat irreverent spin on the wives, mistresses, mothers, and other women who have left their own imprint on our nation's history by virtue of their personalities - or lack thereof.

 The book includes essays on:

All of the wives of all the presidents who have been married (can you name the one President who was never married?)

Women who served as the White House hostesses during periods in which the President was unmarried

Other women who influenced presidential politics in some interesting ways

 Feisty First Ladies has a lot of fun information to share with your friends. For example:

In a letter to her sister, Martha Washington described being first lady as "being more like a state prisoner than anything else."

Rachel Jackson was simultaneously married to two men for a short period. Andrew Jackson's opponent, John Quincy Adams, smeared her during the election of 1828 as an adulteress, a bigamist, and an American Jezebel.

Mary Lincoln stopped in New York to order 16 fancy frocks - at the height of the Civil War. The unpopular wife of Honest Abe is quoted as saying "I intend to wear what I please."

It is rumored that Florence Harding, bent on saving her husband from the humiliation of the Teapot Dome scandal and other cabinet corruption, did Warren in. No autopsy was ever performed, and she torched as many of his presidential papers as she could get her hands on.

Nancy Reagan, aka "the iron butterfly" and "the Evita of Santa Barbara," is quoted as saying "I'd never wear a crown. It would mess up my hair."

After her $150,000+ post-nomination shopping spree, the Huffington Post described Sarah Palin as a "Neiman Marxist."

Michelle Obama was assigned as as advisor to summer associate Barack when he did his internship out of law school. She refused offer after offer of a date with him, finally relenting after a month to go out for dinner and a movie (for the record - Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee).

 A great read in advance of the upcoming Obama inauguration. I noticed it's already available at Amazon.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/changing_default_glassfish_port_numbers Changing Default GlassFish v3 Prelude Port Numbers 4848, 8080, and 8181 dgolds 2008-12-22T17:27:44+00:00 2009-01-21T02:51:46+00:00
 When you create courses, you sometimes do crazy things like installing multiple GlassFish domain administration servers (DAS) in a single host.

 When you install GlassFish, it gives you default port numbers of of 4848 (for administration), 8080 (for the HTTP listener), and 8181 (for the HTTPS listener). But what do you do if you want to change them?

 I got a few ideas googling "asadmin port number" and the like but couldn't really find a good example. So, I figured out how you do it and thought I would post an example in case anyone finds themselves in the same predicament as I did today.

 Here are some examples that work in GlassFish v3 Prelude:

 To change the HTTP port to 10080:

 asadmin set server.http-service.http-listener.http-listener-1.port=10080

 To change the HTTPS port to 10443:

 asadmin set server.http-service.http-listener.http-listener-2.port=10443

 To change the administration server port to 14848:

 asadmin set server.http-service.http-listener.admin-listener.port=14848

 It's handy to know you can grep for server properties in GlassFish v3 Prelude as follows:

 asadmin get server | grep listener

 shows all the properties with the text "listener" in them.
 In GlassFish v3 Prelude, you can set port numbers for administration and the HTTP listener in the installer - but not for the HTTPS listener. You might find yourself needing to explicitly specify the administration port in your asadmin command. For example:

 asadmin set --port 14848 server.http-service.http-listener.http-listener-2.port=10443

 For GlassFish v2, use the asadmin get command as described here.
 Hope this is helpful to someone.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/installing_opensso_enterprise_8_0 Installing OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 on GlassFish v3 Prelude Release dgolds 2008-12-10T09:50:44+00:00 2008-12-10T17:50:44+00:00
 I've been building some training for OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0, and I want to use GlassFish v3 Prelude Release as my OpenSSO web container for this training.

 So I pulled down the GlassFish release, installed it, deployed OpenSSO, started up the OpenSSO console, and logged in. But instead of seeing the console main page, the login page appeared a second time, with the user name and password fields blanked out.

 The issue has to do with cookie handling. Dennis noted it in his blog entry here.
 Well, it turns out getting OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 to run on this release of GlassFish is a snap - if you know the workaround. Here are the steps for Solaris OS:

Obtain the GlassFish v3 Prelude Release from https://glassfish.dev.java.net.

Run the glassfish-v3-prelude-unix.sh command (which is what you obtained when you downloaded GlassFish). Specify installation options as needed. The rest of these instructions assume that you specified /opt/glassfish as your installation directory.

Start the domain administration server: /opt/glassfish/bin/asadmin start-domain domain1

Start a browser, then start the GlassFish administration console (http://zone04.example.com:4848) and log in to the console.

Click Application Server (in the left window pane), then the JVM Settings tab, then the JVM Options tab.

Click the Add JVM Option button. A new line opens up.

Add the following option: -Dcom.iplanet.am.cookie.c66Encode=true (this is the workaround).

Change the -client option to -server, and change the -Xmx512m option to at least -Xmx1024m (as documented in the OpenSSO Installation and Configuration Guide.

Log out of the GlassFish admin console.

Restart the GlassFish DAS:

/opt/glassfish/bin/asadmin stop-domain domain1

/opt/glassfish/bin/asadmin start-domain domain1

Deploy the OpenSSO web application and configure it.

Start the OpenSSO console and log in. This should take you to the console's main page.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/opensso_deployment_screencasts_are_on OpenSSO Deployment Screencasts Are on YouTube dgolds 2008-09-26T14:31:56+00:00 2008-09-29T16:05:33+00:00
 I was cruising through YouTube and happened to come across these screencasts of the OpenSSO Deployment course, WSPL-AM-3508-D. Check them out!

 Thanks to Waylon in New Zealand for putting these up. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them!

 Lab 1, Exercise 1

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 Lab 1, Exercise 2

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 Lab 1, Exercise 3

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 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/three_two_one_go Three, Two, One ... Go! dgolds 2008-08-18T15:19:21+00:00 2008-08-18T22:19:21+00:00
I'm pleased to be able to let you know that training for the OpenSSO Early Access Release is now available at https://opensso.dev.java.net.

The training comprises five self-paced, downloadable labs that take you through a complex OpenSSO deployment. You deploy two Apache Tomcat servers, SSL-enable them, install a software load balancer, install OpenSSO into the environment, and configure OpenSSO for session failover. Then you install an example web server and an example application server, and install Policy Agent software to see how OpenSSO protects web sites and J2EE applications.

Go to the OpenSSO site and click Training on the blue bar on the left. Follow the links that take you to the Sun Learning Services Online Lab Community.

 From there, you will be able to get the labs, at no cost. The only thing you need before you can access the labs is a login ID at My Sun.
After following the setup instructions, you'll have:

A PDF-format workbook that contains the step-by-instructions for doing the labs

A Solaris 10, Update 5 virtual machine preconfigured with all the software you need to do five labs. This virtual machine has some interesting capabilities:

Four whole root zones, so scenarios requiring multiple hosts can be easily and quickly configured

All the zones are fully encapsulated in ZFS file systems. A script that exploits ZFS features lets students roll the virtual machine forward or backwards, to do any lab in the workbook. For example, if you are interested only in configuring session failover, you could roll the machine forward to Lab 3 (the session failover lab).

 If you then changed your mind and decided you wanted to do the lab in which you run the OpenSSO configurator, you could roll the machine back to the start of Lab 2. And, if you were then to decide you wanted to do the labs from scratch, you could roll the machine back to the starting point for Lab 1.<br/

 Don't want to do the labs at all - just need to build OpenSSO demos? Roll the machine forward to the start point for Lab 6.<br/
 The idea behind this type of learning is flexibility: "just in time, just enough, just for me."

 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/and_now_the_opensso_early And Now, The OpenSSO Early Access Release dgolds 2008-08-09T19:08:51+00:00 2008-08-10T02:08:51+00:00
 An Early Access release of OpenSSO is now available in the form of OpenSSO Express Build 5.

 Participate in this program and help Sun make the first commercial offering of OpenSSO as good as it gets.

 If you're not familiar with OpenSSO, here are some selected quotes from Felix Gaehtgens' very nice review of OpenSSO for Kuppinger Cole:

The development of OpenSSO is lively, and the product has improved dramatically over the years.

The initial teething problems have long been overcome - specifically the limited amount of "committers" ... Nowadays, the OpenSSO project has around 60 committers, 10 of them being external, i.e. non Sun-employees. The community and Sun engineers now have a reputation for being quite responsive in helping community members while in development.

This new announcement (of the OpenSSO release model) is a very good step forward for Sun's customers ... Customers have the best of both worlds – a very innovative product with a large and active engineering base, together with professional support.

 Nice stuff. Nice product. Developed by the nicest engineering team I've had the privilege of working downstream from, and I've worked downstream from a lot of engineering teams over the years. And the most responsive - Felix sure got that one right.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/opensso_express OpenSSO Express dgolds 2008-07-23T13:24:28+00:00 2008-07-23T20:24:28+00:00
 Today, Sun announced support for OpenSSO Express.

 For all of us in the OpenSSO community, this is a big deal. It's the first supported release of the open source version of the product formerly known as Sun Java System Access Manager.

 We're still getting our terminology straight, but generally speaking:

OpenSSO is our shorthand for the OpenSSO project, with its nightly builds.

OpenSSO Express refers to versioned, supported, fully indemnified builds. The first build of OpenSSO Express, announced today, is OpenSSO Express V1 Build 4.5.

 Those of you who follow the firstname.lastname@example.com mailing list have probably already guessed that I've been working hard at building training based on OpenSSO Express. More to come about that later.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/access_manager_training_january_2008 Access Manager Training January, 2008, and Beyond dgolds 2007-12-18T14:06:17+00:00 2007-12-18T22:08:57+00:00
I send out a monthly e-mail within Sun to let people know about the availability of classes on Access Manager. Michael suggested that I post some of the details to let people who follow this blog know what's out there and available.
Sun currently has one instructor-led training offering for Access Manager: course number AM-3480, Access Manager 7.1 Configuration and Customization. The class is a week long. There's a description of this training course here. The course is offered worldwide. Upcoming teaches in 2008 include:

January 14 - Heimstetten, Germany

January 14 - San Francisco, CA

January 21 - Tokyo (Chofu), Japan

January 28 - Seattle, WA

February 4 - Oslo, Norway

February 4 - Sacramento, CA

February 4 - Tampa, FL

February 4 - Edison, NJ

February 4 - Houston, TX

February 18 - Guillemont Park, UK

February 18 - Cary, NC

February 25 - Burlington, MA

March 3 - Brussels, Belgium

March 24 - Tokyo (Chofu), Japan

March 31 - Ratingen, Germany

May 19 - Guillemont Park, UK

May 19 - Nieuwegein, Netherlands

June 2 - Paris, France

Some things to be aware of with regard to these classes:

You can enroll by using the Sun website for the country in which the class in being held, or by calling Sun Training in that country.

If there aren't more than a couple or three students who want to attend any given class, the class might be canceled. (So, bring your friends to Access Manager training.)

 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/opensso_store_now_open OpenSSO Store Now Open dgolds 2007-11-27T16:11:32+00:00 2007-11-28T00:11:32+00:00
This just in - you can now buy cool OpenSSO stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/opensso.

I want a dog t-shirt. Even if I don't have a dog.
  https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/adventures_with_missing_memory Adventures with Missing Memory dgolds 2007-11-19T07:58:35+00:00 2007-11-19T15:58:35+00:00
I recently installed Ubuntu Linux 7.10 on my Ultra 40 at home. When I ran any command that reported memory (free, top, system monitor, etc.) it reported that 2.5 GB was available on my system. The problem with this is that my system has 3 GB.
I did a lot of searches on "missing memory," "underreported memory," etc. and never came up with anything. But after running the dmesg command today on an unrelated matter, I noticed this message:
Use a PAE enabled kernel
After a few searches, I determined that Ubuntu had chosen the wrong kernel for my machine. I needed the bigsmp flavor. Previous Linux variants had installed this by default but not Ubuntu 7.10. It was not easy to figure out how to get that kernel, either. A search in Synaptic for bigsmp yielded nothing. So back to Google, where I was able to find the advice to install the linux-image-server package. So I did, restarted my system, and the bigsmp kernel came up in my grub boot list.
So I booted it.
Now some more fun - gnome wouldn't come up in high resolution. Seems this kernel is incompatible with the nvidia video driver I had installed. gnome put me in 800x600 mode. So I went to the Restricted Drivers panel to disable my nvidia drivers.
More fun. I got a message telling me that this panel wouldn't start up without the linux-restricted-modules-2.6-22.14-server

So I go to Synaptic and look for the package. It's not there! Back to Google, more searching around, appears the package doesn't exist but I can get it if I recompile things on my system. I don't feel like it, so no more nvidia drivers and no more nice compiz for this release.
Sigh.
So one more power down, then reboot into the generic kernel, where it nicely lets me disable my generic driver. Then a final reboot into the bigsmp (aka server) kernel, where I now have access to the full 3 GB on my system. https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/access_manager_makes_it_into Access Manager Makes It Into Gartner's Leaders Quadrant dgolds 2007-11-12T19:35:08+00:00 2007-11-13T03:38:07+00:00 Today was a big day for a lot of us who have worked with the Sun Java System Access Manager product, which is the progenitor of the OpenSSO product.
 Gartner Group promoted Access Manager from the challenger quadrant to the leaders product.
 There's a nice article about it here.
 It's been a great experience to watch this product grow and mature into what it is today. And, there are some really great things coming on the horizon, all open source.
 Congratulations to Jamie Nelson and his fine team. I have worked with these folks for several years now, and they're one of the best engineering teams I've had an opportunity to interact with during my career in software engineering, consulting, training, and instructional design. Just a really nice group of very talented people. Way to go, guys! https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/zfs_and_file_system_state ZFS and File System State Management dgolds 2007-10-09T10:16:25+00:00 2007-10-09T17:17:53+00:00
ZFS, available from Solaris 10 update 2 on, is one amazing piece of technology. Bloggers like Drew get what I get about ZFS, which is that once you grok its features and start combining them, you can do some weird and wonderful things.

State management of training machines is something I've been trying to do well for about 15 years now. I've been through a lot of technologies like Norton ghost, scripting, jumpstarting, and OS virtualized images and while they all work, they also have limitations that often make me have to settle for less than what I really want to do.

So I was playing around with a VMware Solaris 10 Update 2 a couple of months ago that had /z, a big ol' ZFS file system, about 5 GB on it, and a whole root zone completely encapsulated within the ZFS file system. Here's what I was able to do with it:

First, I took a ZFS snapshot called z@machinestartstate.
I booted and logged into the whole root zone.

I set the zone up to have the start state for one of the classes for which I am responsible. Let's call it class 1.

I took another ZFS snapshot called z@class1startstate.

I saved the deltas between the two snapshots: zfs send -i z@machinestartstate z@class1startstate > machinestartstate.class1startstate.

I did Lab 1.

I took another ZFS snapshot called z@class1lab1endstate.

I saved the deltas between the two snapshots: zfs send -i z@class1startstate z@class1lab1endstate > class1startstate.z@class1lab1endstate.

I did Lab 2.

I took another ZFS snapshot called z@class1lab2endstate.

I saved the deltas between the two snapshots: zfs send -i z@class1lab1endstate z@class1lab2endstate > class1lab1endstate.class1lab2endstate.

I followed the same steps for Labs 3 through 10, and then did the same things for 5 other classes I am responsible for.

 Now look at the possibilities I have. As long as I can get back to my original virtual machine image, I can play the delta files back to any state I want:

zfs rollback -r z@machinestartstate always takes me back to the original virtual machine state.

zfs recv < machinestartstate.class1startstate
 restores the start state for class 1.
zfs recv < class1startstate.class1lab1endstate
 restores the end state for Lab 1 of class 1.
 and so forth. In subsequent blog entries, I'll be writing about how to create a Solaris 10 VMware virtual machine for this setup, and provide workarounds for some issues I found while getting this working. https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/geekfest_in_san_francisco Geekfest in San Francisco dgolds 2007-10-08T06:42:14+00:00 2007-10-08T18:19:18+00:00
My friends Rick, Brandon and I rode "Paradise Loop" yesterday. This is an outlandishly beautiful bike tour that takes you around the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, north of San Francisco. The David-modified version of this loop includes a detour to Larkspur before the final climb of the day up Camino Alto. The reason for the detour is a trip to Caffe Rulli, a place that makes you feel as though you've left California and entered Siena.

So we were enjoying our cappuccinos, cake, and gelato after our nice 27 mile ride, when Rick and Brandon started arguing whether I was really a geek.

Brandon: Well, he actually enjoys talking about virtualization.

Rick: Yeah, but he doesn't play video games.

David: Yeah, and I don't like Star Trek either, but I do like The Simpsons. Especially that episode where Brandine tells Custis, "You're the best husband and son I've ever had."

Brandon: He's too athletic to be a geek. He's this kind of weird combination of bike rider / techie.

David: Athletic? I was always the one picked last at sports.

Brandon and Rick, almost in unison: So was I...

Rick: Well, he's kind of geeky.

I brought that conversation home with me after the ride, because my desk looked like this:

There I was with my geek stuff all spread out, trying to figure out how to get my new laptop hard drive to have the same files on it as the old hard drive.

My favorite new toy is the Vantec SATA / IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter. Our group's lab services guy, Chris, had suggested it and sent me his as a loaner. This thing is pure genius. First you pull the old drive out of the laptop. Then you stick the new drive in and format it. I did this by doing a quick and dirty SuSE 10.2 installation. During installation, I partitioned the drive as I wanted (I wanted bigger /home and /vm partitions) but made sure to keep the size of the root partition the same size as the root partition on the old drive. I instinctively thought it would help - my inner geek was speaking to me loud and clear on that one.

The installation was simple and took about half an hour. Aren't modern Linux distros wonderful? Next, I cut a Fedora 7 rescue CD. If you've never used one of these things, it's worth knowing about. The rescue CD lets you boot from the CD, then mounts the root directory from your hard drive (if it can access it) under /mnt/sysimage so you can fix things like /etc/fstab or /boot/grub/menu.lst. Turns out this rescue CD is smart enough to know how to mount a USB device, too.

So I attached the old drive (which at this point was out of the laptop) to the Vantec adapter, stuck its USB cable in my laptop's USB port, and booted my system from the rescue CD. It worked like a champ - after boot up finished, I could see all the partitions on my new drive (which by this time I had installed in the laptop), and could mount partitions on the old drive.

Then it was time to move the data over to the new drive. I only have 3 partitions on the drive, and I got the data over using the following technique:

dd if=/dev/sdb2 of=/dev/sda2 to copy the root partition

mkdir /mountpoint to create a mount point

mount /dev/sdb6 /mountpoint to mount the /home directory from the old drive

cd /mountpoint

find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt/sysimage/home to copy all the files in /home from the old drive to the new drive

umount /mountpoint

mount /dev/sdb7 /mountpoint to mount the /vm directory from the old drive

find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt/sysimage/vm to copy all the files in /vm from the old drive to the new drive

Modified the /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab and /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/menu.lst files so that system would be able to boot and all the file systems would be mounted correctly

grub-install /dev/sda to write the boot loader to the new drive

I rebooted the laptop, this time from the hard drive, and it came up looking exactly like it did with the old drive, except with bigger /home and /vm partitions just as I wanted.

I did go down one wrong path, which was to copy the files in the root partition to the new drive with the find | cpio command instead of dd. After doing this, the system booted but none of the passwords worked so I couldn't log in as any user. I don't know why I had problems, perhaps there was some cruft left over from the quick and dirty SuSE 10.2 install caused problems. But when I switched dd to copy the root partition, the problem went away.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/fedora_7_vmware_workstation_6 Fedora 7, VMware Workstation 6, and Solaris 10 Update 3 dgolds 2007-07-10T16:30:47+00:00 2007-09-07T15:15:06+00:00
 Sheesh, I haven't blogged since February?

 Well, I've been busy. Last spring I was putting in 120-150 miles per weekend preparing for doing AIDS/LifeCycle 6. All that training paid off, and I made it all the way. Every. Single. Mile. 2,300 riders raised a total of 11 million dollars, and I'm proud to have been a part of that.

 This is me with the Cookie Lady. Out of the goodness of her heart, the Cookie Lady bakes (yes, by hand) one cookie for each rider, then sets up a table somewhere along our route, at a point when we've been riding about 80 or 90 miles that day. Then as the riders come through, we stop, get a cookie, and sometimes get our pictures taken with the Cookie Lady.

 Oh, and I got a new laptop. I love taking my time setting up a machine the way I want it, everything just right. As a Linux user, this can be a challenge. I went to install Ubuntu on it. Seems like I always get bit by screen resolution problems with Ubuntu. Same with this version on this laptop. Sigh, maybe one day they will get that right. I actually have liked the distro when I've been able to get it to work. Next SuSE 10.2 - great, except that ssh did not work correctly and I couldn't display X windows back to my laptop from my server at the office. Since being able to do that is critical to my day to day work, no SuSE.

 So I downloaded Fedora 7. I haven't used a Red Hat-based Linux variant since Red Hat 9 days. Well, Fedora 7 installed and worked just fine, once I figured out how to get all the little bits and pieces that I like to use, like Flash and Acrobat Reader. Heck, the updater even works. Well, sort of. As long as it doesn't run into dependency problems. For example, it will tell me I have 17 packages to update, but if one of them has a dependency issue, it will stymie the entire update. Brilliant.

 OK, so now I've got this really interesting new project to work on. More about it in a later entry, but the first task involves creating a Solaris 10 Update 3 VMWare image. I install VMWare no problem. I cut a Solaris 10 U3 DVD. I create a new virtual machine for Solaris 10 and then boot it.

 And it crawls through the installation. I mean really crawls. 3 hours to install Solaris 10. It all works, but man, is it slow.

 It try the obvious stuff. Bump up memory. Still slow. Try preallocating the disk space. Still slow. Google. I find an entry that suggests creating an ISO file, putting it on your hard drive, and pointing the virtual CD-DVD drive at the ISO file instead of using the real DVD.

 So I do it.

 Bingo! Solaris installs in a very reasonable amount of time. Same laptop, same everything.

 After installation, I remove the DVD and reboot the OS. And wait. And wait. And wait. Solaris takes about 15 minutes to come up.

 So, no longer clueless, I reconfigure the virtual machine so that it is running with the virtual CD-DVD drive disconnected. Once again, I reboot.

 Voila! Now Solaris boots up under VMWare Workstation 6 in a very reasonable amount of time, just a minute or two.

 I've obviously hit some bug where Solaris 10 does not handle my stock ATAPI CD-DVD drive on my stock laptop very well. I think it might be this one: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6227829. I have not tried playing around with the dma-enable settings as the bug circumvention recommends, mainly because disconnecting the virtual CD-DVD drive seems to have done the trick and is acceptable. It is unlikely that I will need the drive for the particular solution I'm building, but if I do need it, I can always re-enable it in VMWare Workstation, use it as needed, then disconnect it again. https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/a_fun_new_toy_part A Fun New Toy, Part 1 dgolds 2007-02-06T08:28:01+00:00 2007-02-06T16:28:01+00:00
 No, not the carbon fiber bike I've been lusting over. This time, my toy is a fun new site on the web.

 SSOCircle is a site developed by Hu Liu, a consultant based in Steinbach, Germany. As it says on SSOCircle's home page, "SSOCircle is for those who want to federate their applications or just want to get some SSO experience. SSOCircle provides a ready to use Identity Provider."
 My plate has been very full at work lately - I've been updating the Access Manager training course, AKA AM-3480 for Access Manager 7.1 among other things - but when I saw the February 2 entry on Pat's blog, I couldn't resist giving this thing a try.

 Hu Liu has set up a SAML 2.0 identity provider based on the OpenSSO project. It should work with any SAML 2.0-compliant service provider (SP), and there's functionality at SSOCircle to add your own SP to the SSOCircle circle of trust (CoT). For demonstration purposes, I used the the sample service provider site that Pat mentions in his blog entry. This site has already been set up as an SP in the SSOCircle CoT. (Setting up an SP to go in the SSOCircle CoT is now on my "to do" list, and when I get around to doing it, I'll blog about it.) It took all of two minutes to set up my account at SSOCircle and federate with the sample SP site. Here are the steps I followed, if you want to try it out:

From the SSOCircle home page, I click Login / Register and register as a new user.

I wait for my registration confirmation e-mail to come back, and when it does, I follow the instructions in it to complete the account registration process.

I go back to the SSOCircle home page and log in.

I look at my cookies (because it is always a good idea to look to the cookie) and find a cookie named iPlanetDirectoryPro with a reference to an SSO token - a sure sign that OpenSSO is in the house.

So at this stage, I'm authenticated with the identity provider, and have the SSO token reference to prove it. Now I go to the SP site. It is important to notice that the page heading reads "ZXID SP Federated SSO (user NOT logged in, no session)."

I click Login to idp.ssocircle.com (SAML20: Artifact).

A new screen comes up with the title, "ZXID SP Management (user logged in, session active)."

 So, voila, I'm an authenticated user at the SP without having had to log in there. The SP delegated authentication to the IdP. I have an account at the IdP but not at the SP, but I am still able to use the SP's site. That's Internet SSO functionality - one of the basic features of federated identity.

 Imagine if you are the administrator at the SP. Your company or organization has established a business relationship with the identity provider that says that you trust anyone who has authenticated to the IdP to let them use your web services. No provisioning, no account maintenance, and - we hope - a very quick ramp up time.

 I'll check out the ramp up time - how long it takes me to set up an SP and enter the SSOCircle CoT - in a future entry.
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 Stacy Thurston asked me to record a short presentation about Identity Federation last month. This presentation is going to be used in the new Hot Topics series.

 More about Hot Topics when my presentation is available on the web.

 I've posted the slides I used here.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/an_unusual_experience_with_opensuse An Unusual Experience With openSUSE 10.2 dgolds 2006-12-10T09:26:31+00:00 2006-12-10T17:26:31+00:00
 Yesterday was a gray, rainy day in the Bay Area. No chance for a bike ride, and I procrastinated until it was too late to go to the gym and take a spinning class. I've been wanting to upgrade my OS on my home computer, a screaming, dual-Opteron Sun Ultra 40, for a while now but didn't have the free weekend I figured I'd need to do it. But now with all this free time on my hands...

 I considered trying Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) but remembered what happened the last time I tried installing Ubuntu. I booted up the install CD and the OS froze when it got to the screen when you click the icon to install the thing. Seems as though the Ubuntu installer it didn't like my Logitech diNovo Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse. I couldn't find anything about this problem on Google, and I didn't have another mouse and keyboard I could switch out for the installation. So I decided I liked my diNovo more than I liked Ubuntu, so I decided to try SUSE 10.2.

 SUSE 10.1 has been reasonably good, although there were problems with the software updater early in the release cycle. Fairly early on, maybe a couple of months into the release cycle, the problems got worked out and it has operated flawlessly ever since.

 So yesterday I decided I still liked my diNovo better than Ubuntu, so why bother with Ubuntu? I downloaded SUSE 10.2, burned a DVD, and started the installation.

 That's when I had my unusual experience.

 SUSE 10.2 installed flawlessly, and I did not encounter a single problem getting all my software and hardware working with it.  (Well, there was one minor issue with Thunderbird. More below.)

 This was something I had never had happen with a Linux distribution. I usually allow a full day for installing and working out issues, then a few days to get everything just right. In this case, I started the installation at around noon, and was done with all my system configuration around 2.

 Kudos to whoever at SUSE is responsible for making 10.2 so easy to get up and running!

 There seems to be a drumbeat among Linux tech types lately that "Ubuntu is the distribution you want to have." I don't get it. I like Ubuntu, but I don't think it is any better than SUSE. And, I have run into problems getting it to install with my diNovo, and getting it to display in the screen resolution I want (a well known issue with Ubuntu), and I don't care for the look and feel (all that brown - yuck - looks so seveties). When I first used Ubuntu, apt-get was a compelling reason to switch to this distro. But now that zen seems to be working well in SUSE (probably just in time to switch to yet another package installer in SUSE.next), that advantage has gone away.

 Here are some things I really like about SUSE 10.2:

It installs non-OSS packages that I need, like Acroread and Flash

zen installer works well (with one exception - see below)

You can now get an ISO for the OS on a single DVD - no more 5 CD sets

Nice clean default look and feel

Everything works

 Here are some SUSE 10.2 lessons learned:

You can't install Thunderbird using zen. You have to go to YAST for some reason.

You now add fonts to /usr/share/fonts instead of the old X11R6 location. I suppose this is part of the Xorg upgrade.

 Here are general things that you might find helpful if you are installing SUSE:

If you need to add a user with a user number greater than 60000, you have to use the CLI. The GUI tools do not let you add users with high user numbers.

If you want to use CUPS from a browser, you have to add a user with lppasswd.

If you use VMWare, make sure you have the most current update before installing a new Linux kernel.

If you hate beagle (desktop indexer) like I do, disable it by removing the cron script out of /etc/cron.daily. I created a directory called /etc/cron.never just for this pig, which SUSE installs and has you run by default. You can get rid of all the files in your .beagle directory. I had 2 GB of these on my system before I removed them, and they were all little bitty files that made my system backups take forever. Couldn't someone come up with something better?

 It's still raining. Off to spinning class.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/san_fancisco_to_san_jose San Francisco to San Jose dgolds 2006-11-29T10:02:03+00:00 2006-11-29T18:02:03+00:00
 My friend and co-worker Blair is a member of the Almaden Cycle Touring Club, a very nice bunch of folks that organize group rides in the South Bay. They were taking Caltrain up to The City this weekend, then riding back down, and Blair asked me if I'd like to join. I'd ridden from Sun's Santa Clara campus up to San Francisco a couple of times, and it had practically killed me, but since it was a long weekend, I figured I'd at least have a couple of days to recover.

 The ride leader, Benjamin, took a really nice route:

Up Townsend to 7th Street

Up 7th to McAllister

Up McAllister to Baker

Down Baker into the Panhandle, and then across Golden Gate Park to 35th Avenue

Down 35th and over to Skyline

Down Skyline, up the big hill, into San Bruno Park

Into the park system and down the Camp Sawyer Trail

Down the trail, back onto Skyline across 92, then down Canada Road, into Woodside, and down Mountain Home

Down Arastradero, Page Mill, Foothill, and working our way across the Santa Clara Valley until we got back to the Caltrain station at Santa Clara, where most of the folks had parked

Down El Camino to San Jose Caltrain

 Total ride distance, approximately 68 miles.

 Gorgeous day, nice people, great ride leader, a lot of fun. And not too sore the next day!

 Here are some pictures:

 Members of the Almaden Cycle Touring Club on their way up to San Francisco on Caltrain.

 In front of a Victorian in the Western Addition after a short climb up McAllister.

 Lunch next to the Crystal Springs watershed in the San Mateo County park system.

 Detail from the Pulgas Water Temple. A few of us who had never been there before made a short stop to have a look.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/open_federation_comes_on-line Open Federation Comes On-Line dgolds 2006-11-14T11:52:25+00:00 2006-11-14T19:52:25+00:00
 The Open Federation effort, part of the OpenSSO project, came on-line today. To view the announcement, click here. https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/a_very_cool_time_to A Very Cool Time to be Working at Sun dgolds 2006-11-13T07:21:11+00:00 2006-11-13T15:21:11+00:00
 Wow. Second day out blogging about open source, and this news about Java becoming available under GPL v2 comes out.

 So now we've got OpenSSO, OpenSolaris, GlassFish, OpenOffice, and Netbeans. I guess that makes us far and away the biggest contributor to the open source movement.

 It's a very cool time to be working at Sun.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/openroad/entry/heading_out Heading out dgolds 2006-11-12T07:07:30+00:00 2006-11-12T15:07:30+00:00
 Hello, world. I'm David Goldsmith, a training course developer at Sun, and, lately, I've been finding myself doing a bunch of new things at work and at play:

Writing a blog

Working with an open source project - OpenSSO

Training to ride a bicycle 560 miles next June

 I'm going to write about my adventures (and misadventures) in these three areas in The Open Road, and about other topics that pique my interest. To start:

Blogging

 I've never written a blog before. Most of the writing I do is technical, wonky stuff. I write lab instructions, develop lecture slides, and write course notes. I spent most of my career in engineering and don't really see myself as a writer, more a programmer who happens to know how to write. So blogging is a new experience.

 I hope I can come up with something interesting for you.

Open Source

 I've used open source products for four years now. On my Sun Ultra 40 (a beautifully-designed, screeching-fast, dual-Opteron system that I bought a few months ago with my employee discount), I run SuSE Linux 10.1 with OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, gnucash, the Gimp, ImageMagick, k3b, and all my other favorite freeware. I also have a license for VMWare Workstation 5.5. At work, on my Sun Java Workstation W2100z, I run all the same software, plus multiple versions of Solaris.

 At home, I have been "Microsoft-free since 2003." Well, with one exception. I still have a VMWare image running my trusty, rusty old copy of Windows 2000, which I bring up once a year when I do my taxes. I haven't figured out a pleasing way to do my taxes in Linux yet, other than using tax software for the Web, which doesn't sound like a great idea.

 Why Linux instead of Solaris? I use Linux as a host OS for virtualizing operating systems using VMWare. That's the only reason. I like Solaris better than Linux, even on the desktop, but VMWare does not support Solaris as a host OS. Xen does, but I prefer VMWare, so I'm sticking with Linux. For now.

 Although I've used a lot of open source software, I've never before been involved in the development of an open source project before, and that's the big new adventure. The technologies I work with - access management and federation - are in the process of going open source. While I don't engineer those products, I do work extensively with them. So like everyone else on the Sun Java System Access Manager and Federation Manager team, open source is a big new part of my life.

Cycling

 I'm training to ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles - 545 miles on a bicycle - in the sixth AIDS Lifecycle, which takes place from June 3-9, 2007.

 This ride is a big fundraiser for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. It brings in millions of dollars, which this organization depends on to provide vital services to people living with AIDS and their friends and families.

 I had hoped to do this ride in 2006 but a bad bicycle accident got in the way. I am fully recovered from the wreck now, and think I am ready to take on a 545 mile ride.

 If you would like to read more about my personal reasons for doing this ride, or, even better, help me raise money for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation by sponsoring my efforts, click here.

 Well, time to hit the road. I'm going over to Marin today, at least up to the Panoramic Highway and maybe as far as the Pantoll Ranger Station on Mt. Tam if my riding partner and I are up for the climb.


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I didn't mind the episode. When I heard that they were doing Justin Bieber in the episode I was a little mad at first, and even more mad when they had said that no one's more rock and roll than him. D:< That doesn't even make sense! He doesn't even sing rock and roll! Anyway I think they cancelled out the fact with Justin Bieber by making fun of him. I really do hope Sue doesget her on the Cheerios. :D
Also I loved Sing. Truly amazing anthem choice, and you can just hear the emotion rolling out their mouths when they sing it. Not as good as the original though, but still great. :o
As for the whole Blaine singing thing, I'm not a huge fan of it. sure he's a great singer and all, but I guess the thing I don't like is that Blaine seems to get every single solo for the Warblers and that doesn't seem right to me.
One more thing, Lauren Zizes is still amazing in the show. They better as hell make her a regular.
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I LOVE the kangaroo, the turtle, and the koala:) so cute!!
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Pretty sure the second from last is just a white Boxer and not an albino…hard to tell with the eyes closed but white Boxers are not uncommon…
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The biomarker is a serum biochemical signature that is believed to predict progression to Alzheimer disease (AD) months or even years before the disorder's first symptoms occur. VTT and GE Healthcare hope to develop the biomarker into a clinical assay.
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Credit Channels in a Liquidity Trap
We study liquidity trap dynamics driven by nonfundamental shifts in expectations in a model with nominal rigidities, housing, credit frictions and a Taylor rule. Highly leveraged borrowing through nominal debt backed by real estate collateral greatly magnifies the decline in output and house prices during a liquidity trap recession. The amplification mechanism is much smaller when there is no feedback from house prices to the borrowing constraint, when debt is real rather nominal, and when leverage is small. We argue that the liquidity trap dynamics share some important features with the recent US recession and that high levels of leverage may have made the economy sensitive to expectations induced liquidity traps.
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Camera Shopping in Tokyo Pt. 2 – Ginza In part 2 of this series we are going to talk about an area that is very close to my heart, as it is where I first got the chance to be JapanCameraHunter. We are talking about Ginza of course.
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