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The results of last year's round of statewide testing have been published. They include the Mississippi Curriculum Test for elementary students and subject area testing for high school students.
The results are that Lauderdale County schools were uniformly above the state average. Meridian schools were uniformly below it.
"We are extremely proud," said Lauderdale County superintendent Randy Hodges. "It is time to celebrate in Lauderdale County Schools."
Lauderdale County scored higher than the state average on every test, a feat Hodges says is proof teachers are definitely doing something right.
"The teachers are the key. If you have good test results, the credit goes to the teachers," Hodges said.
And while the district is taking time to congratulate staff and students, district leaders are also looking for ways to improve. Hodges is evaluating how the district did this year compared to last. In fact he says he has only started breaking down the numbers.
"What you have to do is look at your strengths and weaknesses and there were also some areas we could improve in," said Hodges.
On the other end of the spectrum, Meridian's numbers are below the state averages. By phone, Meridian superintendent Charlie Kent addressed the district's scores by saying he isn't pleased with them.
However, Kent says the district has a plan in place to address school improvement, which includes professional development for teachers to help them teach to the state's curriculum framework. Hodges said he believes test scores are important but he tries to look at the larger picture as well.
'I think the tests are important, but you must keep a balance," said Kent. "You approach them as very important but also we want our students to have a rewarding, exciting experience at school."
State officials say scores across Mississippi were up slightly from last year, the first time the MCT2 was given.
Interim state school superintendent James Jordan said there is still much work to do to get Mississippi students up to national standards.
The test results will help the state give new labels to districts and schools across the state. Each school will be rated from successful to failing.
Also released this week are ACT scores. The state average is 18.9. Lauderdale County averaged 20, while Meridian averaged 18.2.
Click below to visit the Mississippi Department of Education Web site and view the results for any district.


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Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 3:57 p.m.
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Court Appointed Special Advocates of Terrebonne needs volunteers. The organization will hold its Spring Volunteer Training session 6 p.m. Jan. 29, at 309 Goode St., Suite D in Houma.
Volunteers will be trained on how to advocate for abused or neglected children of the parish in court.
To reserve a spot call 876-0250.
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What is a Endocrinologist? A subspecialty certification by the Board of Internal Medicine; practitioners treat disorders of the internal (endocrine) glands such as the thyroid and adrenal glands. Endocrinology also deals with disorders such as diabetes, metabolic and nutritional disorders, pituitary diseases, and menstrual and sexual problems.
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Humberto R. Bruschetta
Mcallen Primary Care
110 E Savannah Ave Bldg A204
McAllen, TX 78503
(956) 686-4040
- 34 years experience
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Donald Roa MD PA
1821 S Sesame Sq Ste 9
Harlingen, TX 78550
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900 S Bryan Rd
Mission, Texas 78572
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301 W Expressway 83
Mission, Texas 78503
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301 W Expressway 83
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Mission, Texas 78539
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Mission, Texas 78539
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2655 Cornerstone Blvd
Mission, Texas 78539
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Mission, Texas 78539
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Mission, Texas 78539
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Mission, Texas 78596
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We are hitting that stressful point of the semester where classes are starting to wrap up and now everything is getting crammed in at once. From papers, to group projects, to presentations, and the not-to-be-mentioned final exams – it is understandable to be feeling pressure right now as a college student. When I am starting to feel the heat, I like to listen to music to reduce stress and have a little fun. Here are three hip-hop artists that I am enjoying and that you may be too. If not, these are three you must find out about:
1. Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar is perhaps one of the hottest artists in the genre right now. After releasing four mix-tapes and two albums, he has now skyrocketed in popularity. It seems like every other rapper who wants to make waves at the moment features Kendrick in their songs. He has collaborated with several big names such as A$AP Rocky, 2 Chainz, Drake, Pusha T, and even Eminem and Dr. Dre. His lyrics are intelligent and emotionally charged that paint a picture of a dangerous life living up in the projects of Compton, Los Angeles, and his struggle to rise above it. Deeply personal, as well as lyrically masterful, Kendrick Lamar is on his way up to the top.
2. A$AP Rocky
When A$AP Rocky hit the scene, he hit it hard and hit it fast. After joining the group A$AP Mob (Always Strive and Prosper) his hit single "Peso" was leaked and received some national attention. Soon after, he released a mix-tape titled Live.Love.A$AP and shortly after started his own record label and was named BBC's Sound of 2012. This Harlem rapper is unique because his music, though popular, doesn't fit the mold of most New York City rap. The pairing of slow tempo, melodic effects with a pounding, rhythmic base is masterful in quality and mesmerizing in effect.
3. Cal Scruby
With two mix-tapes out and a modest but growing YouTube following, Cal Scruby is one of the freshest and most talented hip-hop artists right now. Hailing from Ohio, some would consider his music to be pop or "frat rap" (white rappers imitating "real rap") but don't let that skew your judgment. Cal Scruby's music can range from hype to relaxing, but his flow is seamless and his hooks are catchy. His lyrics are full of pop culture references and vary between celebratory and positive messages to content regarding the darker sides to life. In my opinion, Cal Scruby is the next Mac Miller and deserves his recognition as Ohio's rap prodigy.
Hopefully you check out these three artists if you don't know who they are already. Or, if you are not into hip-hop, listen to whatever music genre you do like to help you relieve stress during this crazy time in the semester.
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CORPUS CHRISTI - Graduated senior outfielder Matt Holland has been named a 2011 American Baseball Coaches Association Third Team All-American, the organization announced today. It is the second All-America recognition for Holland this year, as he was also honored by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
"Regardless of these awards, we knew how amazing a season Matt Holland had for our team," Head Coach Scott Malone said. "That said, it's always great for him to be recognized, particularly by my peers who had to coach against him. Matt deserves every award that he receives for his performance this past year."
Holland, who also was named First Team All-South Central Region, was one of three Southland players to earn All-America status from the ABCA, joining Stephen F. Austin's Bryson Myles (Second Team) and Texas State's Casey Kalenkosky (Third Team). Holland is the second player in Islanders lore to have earned All-America laurels from the ABCA, joining Humberto Aguilar, who was honored in 2003.
The Watkins, Iowa, native was drafted in the 22nd round by Philadelphia, and began his professional career this week after signing with the Phillies. He reported to the Gulf Coast League, where he is on the roster with the GCL Phillies, who opened their season yesterday.
Just two years removed from an arm injury that ended his career as a pitcher, Holland worked hard in the weight room to bulk up to 210 pounds heading into his senior season, and the results were palpable. The lefty slugged 10 home runs, the eighth different player in school history to do so, and matched the school record with 20 doubles. His 149 total bases set a new school mark as well.
A First Team All-Southland Conference honoree, Holland was second in the league with his .391 average and 93 hits, while his 53 RBI were sixth in the conference. His .626 slugging percentage was the second highest of all Southland players and he finished seventh in the league with a .445 on-base percentage. He also scored 44 runs, stole seven bases, and posted a 16-game hitting streak at the end of the season.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi set school records for wins (37) and Southland Conference wins (19) in advancing to the final day of the SLC Tournament for the first time. The Islanders concluded the year having won 15 of their final 18 contests, and were over .500 from start to finish in the 2011 campaign.


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Robert "Bob" C. Reeves, 78, of Tecumseh, passed away Monday, March 18, 2013, in Shawnee.
Visitation will begin 9 a.m., Wednesday, March 20, and continue through service time. Family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 21, at Cooper Funeral Home.
Service will be 2 p.m., Thursday, March 21, at Cooper Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Bill Crawford and Pastor Lee Nirschl officiating. Burial will follow at Tecumseh Cemetery under the direction of Cooper Funeral Home of Tecumseh.
To share memories, or to sign the guestbook online, go to www.cooperfuneral.com.
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Allow JMX connection on JVM 1.6.x
By Martin Müller on Apr 11, 2012
While trying to monitor a JVM on a remote system using visualvm the activation of JMX gave me some challenges. Dr Google and my employers documentation quickly revealed some -D opts needed for JMX, but strangely it only worked for a Solaris 10 system (my setup: MacOS laptop monitoring SPARC Solaris based JVMs) On S11 with the same opts I saw that "my" JVM listening on port 3000 (which I chose for JMX), but visualvm was not able to get a connection. Finally I found out that at least my S11 installation needed an explicit setting of the RMI host name. This what finally worked:
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote=true \
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false \
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=3000 \
-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=s11name.us.oracle.com \
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GNU/Linux can be scary to a new user. After all, what if you mess up? What if you end up corrupting your hard drive so badly that you need to format it to get rid of GNU/Linux? The solution is to use virtualization technology. A virtual machine creates a virtual hard drive as well as a virtual computer, so you can install and run it from within another operating system. If you want to get rid of the virtualized (also known as the guest) operating system, just delete the virtual hard disk from the real (host) computer's hard drive.
First, choose which virtualization tool to use. Right now, there are four big ones: Parallels, VMWare, QEMU, and VirtualBox. Parallels is commercial at US$49.99 for Windows and GNU/Linux. For me, that is way too expensive. That leaves us with VMWare, QEMU, and VirtualBox. VMWare has two freeware versions. One (called a player) runs pre-built operating systems (known as appliances). The other one (called a server) will make machines, but isn't as fast as the professional version. The problem with QEMU is that it is completely command-line (there are GUIs made for it, but they never worked for me). Therefore, it is extremely complicated to create a new virtual machine with it. Besides, it just can't do some basic things that the others can (like pause a virtual machine, for example). That leaves us with VirtualBox.
VirtualBox is free software. It is cross-platform (runs on Windows and GNU/Linux, with an Intel Mac version in beta). It runs Windows, OS/2, GNU/Linux, BSD, Netware, Solaris, and L4 guests. And on certain guests, you can install VirtualBox Guest Additions, which lets you share files and more between the guest and the host. The next version, coming soon, will include support for running the pre-built VMWare appliances [1]. It simply works.
Getting VirtualBox
Getting VirtualBox varies from platform to platform. There are binaries on the download site for Windows, Ubuntu 6.06-7.04, Debian 3.1-4.0, openSuSE 10.2, Mandriva 2007.1, Red Hat Enterprise 4, and the Univention Corporate Server 1.3-2. The SimplyMEPIS site has a guide to installing VirtualBox here. If you run Ubuntu or MEPIS, you can install Automatix, which will install VirtualBox for you. Lastly, there is also a generic installer for GNU/Linux on the download page. Unfortunately, there are two versions of VirtualBox: one is freeware and one is free software. These binaries are for the freeware version, rather than the free software version. For some reason, Innotek (the company behind VirtualBox) hasn't released open-source edition binaries. I'm not really sure why hackers haven't released any binaries using the source code (the exception is one by a Macintosh programmer, who created an unofficial free software OS X 10.4 binary here). However, I am sure binary versions of this fantastic piece of software will eventually appear for many different distributions.To compile, visit the Build_instructions page at the VirtualBox wiki. GNU/Linux and Windows are supported, with Macintosh OS X (Intel-only) and OS/2 in testing.
Setting up your first virtual machine
Now that VirtualBox is installed, create your first virtual machine. Your first guest will be the well-known Ubuntu. Download the 7.04 Desktop edition CD image here. When it finishes downloading, open VirtualBox (on GNU/Linux,
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./VirtualBox, on Windows, run
VBoxSDL.exe in the folder you compiled it in).
Select the "New" button (or hit
Ctrl + N). A "New Machine Wizard" window should pop up (figure 1).
Click "Next". Then, type a name for the virtual machine (I typed Ubuntu). Choose Linux 2.6 (the standard for most modern Linux distros) for the OS type, then hit "Next". You will be asked how much memory to give. Choose 256MB. For most GNU/Linux distros, you'll need at least 256MB of RAM to be comfortable (you'll also need to make sure you have at least 512MB of total physical RAM and have all possible programs closed). Next, you will be confronted with an option to create a hard disk (figure 2).
Click "New", and yet another window opens. Click "Next". Now, you have an option to create a dynamically expanding image (hard drive) or fixed-size. Fixed size stays a certain size, while a dynamically expanding one gets bigger or smaller depending on what's on it. For now, choose dynamically expanding. The next dialog asks you how big you want the hard drive to pretend to be (actual size will vary as mentioned before). Choose 5GB. Next, make sure all details are correct, then click "Finish" to exit the virtual disk wizard. Hit "Next", confirm everything is correct, then "Finish" to exit the new machine wizard.
Now, click "Ubuntu" once, then click "Settings" (figure 3).
Select "CD/DVD-ROM". Then, check the "Mount CD/DVD Drive", select "ISO Image File", then click the folder icon. The Virtual Disk Manager will pop up. Click "Add", browse to the place where you saved the Ubuntu file, then highlight it and click "Open". Now, click "Select" to assign the Ubuntu CD to the Ubuntu virtual machine. You may also want to make sure the "Enable Audio" under the Audio section is checked, so your audio is working.
You are now ready. Click "Okay" and then double-click the "Ubuntu virtual machine". A new window should launch (figure 4).
Select "Start or Install Ubuntu", with the arrow keys, then hit "Enter". Clicking inside of the window will capture the mouse so you can use it in the virtual machine. To release it hit the right control (Ctrl) key. Wait for Ubuntu to load the desktop. Then, double-click on the "Install" icon. Select a language, then a city, then a keyboard layout, and give some personal info. When you are asked to prepare disk space, choose to erase the whole disk, then hit "Next". Verify everything is correct, then hit "Install". Wait for Ubuntu to finish installing (this will take a very long time). Then, restart when it prompts you to. It will tell you to remove the CD. Click the "Devices" menu at the top of the window, and click "Unmount CD/DVD-ROM". Then, hit "Enter". Ubuntu will finish restarting. Now, you are done! You can delete the CD image by taking the following steps: first stop the virtual machine by shutting it down (click the power button in the top right corner in Ubuntu). Then click on the Virtual Disk Manager ("File→Virtual Disk Manager" in the main VirtualBox window), then the CD/DVD Images tab, then click "Release", then "Remove". Then, delete the actual CD image.
More advanced usage
Now that Ubuntu is up and running, do some more advanced things with it. You can integrate the mouse (in other words, you won't have to keep hitting the right Ctrl key to release it) by installing Guest Additions. Guest Additions will also improve your video support and synchronize your time with the virtual machine's time. Here's how to install it: open the Ubuntu virtual machine, click "Devices" at the top of the window, and then "Install Guest Additions". Then go to "Accessories→Terminal", type
cd /media/cdrom0. Then type
sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run and hit "Enter". Follow the on screen instructions. Then, restart (hit the power icon in the top right corner). Now, the cursor isn't trapped inside the virtual machine!
Another powerful tool that VirtualBox offers is the pause feature. If you close the virtual machine, it will pop up a message asking whether to power off or save machine state. Powering off is the equivalent of unplugging the power cord to the virtual machine. Saving the virtual machine state basically pauses it. It is sort of like hibernating. When you open up a saved machine, it will automatically pick up from where it left off. This is particularly useful when you are installing a new operating system, and want to turn it off without messing up the install.
Where to go from here
Ubuntu isn't the only GNU/Linux distribution (or operating system) that VirtualBox can run. It can run Windows, SuSE, Linspire, and much more (see the Guest OSes page at the VirtualBox wiki for more). It's a great way to test out GNU/Linux distros before you install them for real. It's great for security: getting viruses in the virtual machine doesn't affect the host machine. And GNU/Linux users can run it and Windows at the same time without paying a cent. All in all, VirtualBox is a powerful program that is worth the download.
A linux 64 bits box.
Dear Andrew,
Unfortunately, virtualbox doesn't run on a 64 bits box.Therefore, Vmware is the only available option.
From VIrtualbox wiki website:
VirtualBox does not yet support 64-bit hosts. This is actively being worked on. (And no, you can't install the 32-bit version on a 64-bit host.)
Guess what?
VirtualBox must have heard you, since 1.4 was just released WITH support for 64 bits.
Andrew Min
Using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu and any other operating system
see http://hotshadow.com/Using_VirtualBox_to_run_Ubuntu.aspx
added support for AMD64 hosts
Jun 5, 2007 VirtualBox 1.4.0 released!
With version 1.4.0 innotek added AMD64 machines as host.
Downloads can be found here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Change log here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
64 bit + virtualbox
i am running it fine on my 64 bit amd 3600 core2, had more trouble with vmware server, virtualbox will run on 64bit box, but it will only run 32 bit os's
The author has incomplete knowlege of QEMU
QEMU has long supported "pausing" a virtualized OS. QEMU is not extremely complicated, except perhaps for compiling the kqemu kernel kernel for hardware accelleration in x86 environments. But if you have to compile the kernel module for VirtualBox, I don't see why
it would be "extremenly complicated".
It might not be "easy", but is not more difficult than using cat, less, grep or any command line software. Since the author seem to call "easy" only something with a point&click interface.
In my opinion QEMU is far easier than setting up Xen por example.
qemu-img create MyVirtualHardDisk.img 10GB
qemu -hda MyVirtualHardDisk.img -cdrom /dev/hdb -boot d -m 128 -monitor stdio
On 2 lines its already running booting from CD with 128MB of ram with standard I/O for controling fine tuning.
QEMU has long supported "pausing" a virtualized OS.
Really? How?
It might not be "easy", but is not more difficult than using cat, less, grep or any command line software. Since the author seem to call "easy" only something with a point&click interface.
Is it easier to teach a new GNU/Linux user how to use a GUI, or learn the command line? I personally love the command line for certain things, but not every new GNU/Linux user does.
In my opinion QEMU is far easier than setting up Xen por example.
Agreed, but is it easier than VBox?
Andrew Min
Here's how
I can only speak about running qemu on linux:
On the fake monitor, if you type alt-ctrl-2 (not F2), you will get to a command line interface... qemu's CLI. There you can send keyboard combinations (like alt-ctrl-del, so you can restart your virtual computer) send a power down, or reset, or use commands like 'stop' to make the VM stop.
After stopping, you can save the VM state into a file (with savevm) so you can "reload" it for later execution (that's why you have the qemu -loadvm option).
There's also a help command that can tell you the commands you have available.
The info about this "hidden" CLI is in qemu's man page.
qemu gui
i am using qemu-launcher and qemuctl in debian testing & ubuntu feisty.
i had some problems with the version of qemu-launcher in ubuntu launching qemuctl, but i didn't try to debug it as i created a wrapper for qemu (if $DISPLAY, then run qemuctl, else qemu) and that works. the qemu-launcher in debian is newer, has a better interface, and i don't remember having any problems setting it up.
i don't use qemu-launcher or qemuctl much beyond the simple use cases because i initially learned to do everything manually and often revert to that.
i would like to try virtualbox to compare it against qemu, but until the debian package progresses to a buildable state, i'll stick to qemu. http://bugs.debian.org/406992
virtualbox on debian & ubuntu
i've been using the debian virtualbox packages (originally "virtualbox", now "virtualbox-ose") for a month or so now and i'm really impressed by the speed. my desktop is an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1700 MHz K7), about 5 year old technology, and qemu was slow and almost unbearable. the worse part is that i couldn't enable guest-supervisor-acceleration in kqemu (only guest-userland) without my windows guest spontaneously rebooting, blue-screening, or unexplainably failing windows updates. with near daily use, i've only had virtualbox crash a guest on me once.
i recompiled the debian packages for ubuntu feisty/7.04 for my wife (only needed to recompile debian's kbuild package for feisty to satisfy virtualbox-ose's build-depends), but the speed-up over (k)qemu isn't as noticable on her hardware (AMD Athlon 64 3000+; 1800 MHz K8). neither is virtualbox's user-friendlier interface an improvement over qemu for her as she only used virtualization for one windows application and she didn't need to mount media, create shared folders, manage snapshots, launch multiple guests, etc (though i appreciate being able to do that from a gui instead of through a terminal and the filesystem). so if you are on fast hardware and have simple use-cases, then (k)qemu is sufficient.
my only want/need is for virtualbox to support compaction/compression in their disk format (guest-integrated by vmware or semi-manually like qemu). i would also be nice to branch snapshots to support different guests (like with qemu's base_image support, where an image can be the base for one or more new images).
if you found (k)qemu too slow or manually intensive, may i recommend virtualbox ose (open source edition).
Virtual Box and Dual Boot
I have a Win/Linux dual boot machine at work with two hard disks.
Is there a way I can use Virtual Box or Qemu to boot using as guest the OS installed in the other physical hard disk and Linux or Windows as host?
Sort of...
I believe VirtualBox has support for "raw disks", but I don't know how to use it. VMWare Server has support, but I never got it to work (plus, VMWare Server is proprietary, only free as in beer).
Andrew Min
I guess you can with qemu...
Just remember that if you tell qemu to boot using one of those disks (using the disk raw device: /dev/hda or /dev/hdb or whatever... which already means you face a permission problem), qemu will probably boot the system... BUT qemu is in itself a different computer from the one you are running... so no matter what OS you will try to boot, there will be driver recognition involved, if not full stop (like XP would do because it's a different computer from the one it's installed on, right? XP's license is bound to the computer, not the HD).
It _could_ be something like:
qemu -hda /dev/hda
In case you do try.. keep me posted. :-)
PS I must sound like a qemu fan by now.... but I'm not... not yet, at least. It just happens to be the tool I've been fiddling with lately.
If you figure something out, I'd like to know too (neither VBox or VMWare worked, though that could be because it's trying to boot something on the same hard drive as an active one...)
Andrew Min
Both VMware and VBox work,
Both VMware and VBox work, and XP detects VMware and allows you to run without having to activate again. You must be doing something wrong.. simply set them to boot from the physical partition (C:, /dev/hda1, etc etc); very easy.
Virtual Box works with real hard drives
In PDF user manual for Virtual Box section 9.9 there is very good explanation how to access physical hard drives.
qemu & "host drives"
QEMU can directly access host devices
- http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC20
Ubuntu also installs and works just fine on Micro$oft's VirtualPC under XP, now a free download.
Problem with VirtualPC...
...is that it is REALLY slow. After all, it's optimized for Windows. VirtualBox can be optimized for several operating systems (different flavors of GNU/Linux, BSD, Windows, etc).
Andrew Min
I would disagree
... Virtual PC doesnt play very well with Ubuntu or linux in general, but if theres a will theres a way. First of all, vpc will crash if you try to run it in normal mode, so only safe mode works - this may be due to the graphics drivers but I doubt it as virtualbox works fine, plus I tried it independently on 3 machines; win xp/dual xeon/nvidia, win xp/intel4/ati and a vista pentium dual core laptop computer with an ati graphics card.
Second, the mouse doesn't work in ubuntu which is due to some problem with vpc's way of interfacing the mouse driver to the OS.
In conclusion, it is WAY easier to just go with virtualbox, since its both faster and easier.
Wubi is probably the easiest
Wubi is probably the easiest way to try Ubuntu today. And it runs it at full speed with full hardware access.
well, i would stay with
well, i would stay with virtualbox and/or vmware to do deeper messing stuff with any OS children :)
here is my 2 cent of installing virtualbox with fedora
You All Miss The Most Important Point
Ease of use, GUI's, freeness and so forth are pointless. The most important feature for a virtual machine is SPEED! Which virtual machine performs the fastest and the closest to native hardware speeds. I don't understand how all of these articles about virtualization can and do completely ignore this most important attribute.
In this article the closest mention of speed is where you say that the free VMWare server is not as fast as the professional version, which isn't discussed at all in the article. Talk about a pointless and arbitrary benchmark. Nowhere do you compare the speed of VirtualBox to Qemu or VMWare.
I don't care if the product is gratis, libre, $1,000,000, easy or hard. These attributes are pointless in comparison to the most important and most ignored issue. Is the virtual machine the fastest available?
you missed the most important point...
...of this website.
This is the FREE software magazine website, and not necessarily the "fast", "featureful", or even "feel-good" website. maybe "fanatical", but that might just be me.
heck, the first goal of this website is "to promote free software and its use" (see for yourself @ http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/about).
maybe you meant to visit:
you might even like http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
but definitely stay away from http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html
You're Right!
Forget about performance and forget about which tool is better for the very specialized job and forget about features. The important thing is to feel good about FREE software. Forget about its shortcomings. Avoid discussing its deficiencies and possibly effecting improvement. This is Free Software Magazine so, you should all bury your heads in the sand and ignore the outside world completely. Better you spend time reading FLOSS licenses and reciting the mantra so as to reinforce your banal philosophy. Get over yourself!
The article is about VirtualBox. That's great. The article rightly contrasts VirtualBox with the other major players in the virtualization field. That's fine and is the proper way to write such an article. But, the article and all the other articles about virtualization software completely ignores the most important attribute of virtualization software and that is performance. It doesn't matter how many features it has if it doesn't perform. It doesn't matter if it is free or even if it is made out of platinum. What matters is how it performs compared to other virtualization software and/or running natively on the hardware.
Your self confessed fanaticism makes you ignorant. Enjoy.
feedin' the trolls
Forget about performance and forget about which tool is better for the very specialized job and forget about features.
when did i ever say that performance, features, or applicability are irrelevant? hint: i didn't. but that is what the parent post said regarding performance: "forget about software license and forget about which tool is better for the specialized job and forget about features" (paraphrased in your terms). i merely pointed out that as this is a self-proclaimed free software web site, don't expect performance to be the only criteria, or even the most important one.
The important thing is to feel good about FREE software.
i specifically said the F in FSM stands for "free", not "feel-good".
Forget about its shortcomings. Avoid discussing its deficiencies and possibly effecting improvement. This is Free Software Magazine so, you should all bury your heads in the sand and ignore the outside world completely.
feel free to discuss it's shortcomings. i myself mentioned the shortcoming of no official debian packages. i even disagreed with statements made by the article's author about the functionality of qemu graphical front-ends. please, if you think performance comparisons are missing from this article, then run some benchmarks and publish your findings here as a comment. saying "performance is all that matters and it sucks!" is provably wrong (because if performance was really all that mattered then we would be running native hardware) and doesn't "effect improvement".
The article rightly contrasts VirtualBox with the other major players in the virtualization field. That's fine and is the proper way to write such an article.
in an article about "Using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu and any other operating system" you expect a product review/comparision? this wasn't a software virtualization product comparison, or even a virtualbox review, but an introduction on how to use virtualbox. it just happens to mention in the introduction how the author decided upon virtualbox. so why are people expecting performance reviews & comparisons?
But, the article and all the other articles about virtualization software completely ignores the most important attribute of virtualization software and that is performance.
"most important"? don't make the logical fallacy of projecting your situation onto everybody else. for me virtualization just has to be "fast enough", with higher importance put on software license, community support, cost, customizability, etc.
when i'm required to use windows, i use vmware. it's free, has a decent user interface, a sizable community, and is fast enough. is it faster than virtual pc? i don't know and don't care as vmware fulfills my performance criteria and virtual pc doesn't fulfill all of my other criteria. on linux i refuse to use binary kernel modules and refrain from using closed source. i've done a cost/benefit analysis and the cost outweighs the benefit, so i use qemu. once official debian packages become available (even in prerelease form from the debian developer) i'll try virtualbox. only if virtualbox is equal to qemu in all higher priorities will performance be the deciding factor.
It doesn't matter how many features it has if it doesn't perform. It doesn't matter if it is free or even if it is made out of platinum. What matters is how it performs compared to other virtualization software and/or running natively on the hardware.
no, what matters is how it performs compared to requirements. you need the fastest solution? run real hardware. oh, so something slower than native hardware is "fast enough" when balanced against other higher priorities? funny that.
performance is not my top priority and probably isn't for a few other regular readers of free software magazine. as long as it performs "fast enough" for my particular use, i don't care if it is the fastest.
Your self confessed fanaticism makes you ignorant.
humorous that i'm labeled a "fanatic". i'm not the one making self-proclaimed, narrow-minded, absolute statements (ie "the most important attribute of virtualization software... is performance").
I have tried virtual box and would stick with vmware
I am using vmware server and vmware workstation, tried virtual box and the interface and features of it are vmware rip off in my opinion, i had vmware workstation and virtual box on my gentoo and the system hung after some time. so i removed the virtualbox and is working fine (my gentoo laptop)
I had also dualboot windows vs gentoo and vmware server in both to boot the other. On gentoo you have to compile kernel that fits the physical and also virtual hw. On Windows you should have Hw profiles created. the only problem with running the windows from the physical partition is the blue screen with inaccessible boot device error code 0x000008b (not sure bout the correct code right now)
speed is all that counts
speed of I/O that is. One of the things that drives me absolutely insane about VMware is that if you have multiple virtual machines accessing a disk, load average climbs through the roof and performance really drops. Any ideas on that?
With regard to QEMU, and thinking about using it to provide virtual machines in a firewall context. The thought is, each virtual machine would hang off of the DMZ interface and be treated as if it were a machine on the DMZ. I wasn't able to get any feedback on the qemu forums as to whether or not this was practical about them hoping I'll have the time to do so in the next few weeks.
VirtualBox doesn't work under WinXP SP2!
I tried installing 5 very different Linux and Unix-Like operating systems under VirtualBox, and it failed miserably on each one - 0% success.
I am not a n00b when it comes to virtualisation, but this program needs months (years?) more testing and improvement before being unleashed on an unsuspecting public - at least QEMU works as advertised.
i has no problem on that version of Windows, even it's the most tested one! you can try testing a LiveCD distro like DSL or Puppy Linux to test it.
Odd, because half of the testing WAS done under XP SP2.
Andrew Min
Recently I tried Wubi, it is also a great thing.
Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application. If you heard about Linux and Ubuntu, if you wanted to try them but you were afraid, this is for you.
Wubi & Ubuntu
I tried to install Ubuntu using Wubi on my three pcs. Had no success at all. these are configurations
(a) Pentium IV, 2 320GB SATA , one 250GB Firefly HDs, 2GB RAM
(b) Pentium IV, 2 120 GB HD, 500 MB RAM
(c) Pentium III, 1 120 GB HD 1 300GB HD 500MB RAM
In all cases installation of Wubi succeeded but Ubuntu failed in each case.
I followed all instruction in letters. No luck.
Dr P Singh
Full Screen
I am pretty well a newbie, and tried virtual box. It was really simple to setup and get going. I had two problems though.
1 - I hit "full screen" and cannoit figure out how to get out of it.
2 - I cannot get USB working.
Any help would be appreciated.
Same here; I cannot figure out how to exit full screen. This is silly...
Try Host Key+F (usually Right Ctrl + F).
Andrew Min
VBox and USB support...
I have successfully gotten USB to work on my Linux host with an MS Swindles guest by putting an entry to mount the /proc/bus/usb in the /etc/fstab file on an Unbuntu/Debian machine which isn't the way it is supposed to work on these distributions. The Unbuntu/Debian way just didn't work but when I modified the fstab it worked perfectly.
Also you have to install the host additions on the guest OS.
My big gripe with VirtualBox is on my WinXP host running Ubuntu I can't seem to get USB to work and there seems to be no one else with this problem and a fix yet either.
I have tried VMware, Xen, Virtual PC (Puke and Choke), and VirtualBox.
VMWare on a Windows host seems to work with little or no fiddling. However when I installed VMWare on a Linux host I spent days configuring a fixing their install. I also had many annoying minor bugs like an marker file named "not_configured_yet" (or something similar) showing up everytime I booted the host machine. The guy who wrote the rc script I think might have been from the seventies and suffering from LSD flashbacks. His shell scripting was a nightmare to follow and I taught Unix for years.
VirtualBox however installs and runs on a Linux host flawlessly (at least for me it did.) But I did not feel VirtualBox was a good choice on a Windows host. This may only be because Windows does not play well with other operating systems.
Xen was arcane and complicated to setup and I had to run Ubuntu's Xen kernel which mean I would have had to re-compile a boat-load of support plus tweek stuff for a week so I didn't try.
Virtual PC (Piece of Crap) was horribly slow loading from the CDROM. I spent an hour trying to figure out how to mount an ISO file which helped a bit. By the way, it only supports 16 color/pixel display which is why Ubuntu needs to be loaded in the Safe Mode (Ubuntu's default color depth is 24 color) and navigating with no mouse is painful at best. In order to get a mouse support or sharing between the host and the guest you need to load the host/guest additions software but, you probably can guess that Microshit doesn't supply a Linux version. Go figure huh, with everybody gagging on Vista you would think they would prefer you to run Linux on Windows not the otherway around. But I guess when you think you are the only game in town you get a false sense of security.
Great Post
I've been running vmware and virtualbox off and on, but I keep coming back to virtual box. Even with 4 gigs of ram (2 for my host and 2 for my virtual) vmware is still laggy all over the place. Virtual box screams though :)
Using local Windows Install as VirtualBox image?
Has anyone scucessfully been able to achieve this? I have a dual boot of Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04 and wanted to find out if there is a way to use the Windows XP installation from the hard drive as a VirtualBox image from within Ubuntu.
It is certainly possible,
It is certainly possible, but not without risks. You can corrupt the partition or invalidate your windows license. If you want to do so, you have to create a second hardware profile in windows and then lookup how to use a raw harddrive in vbox.
google says...
googling for "virtualbox raw disk" (http://www.google.com/search?q=virtualbox+raw+disk) returns as the first hit this applicable thread from gentoo forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579333.html?sid=01bff5731bac344dec7....
it's amazing what the right search terms can do for you. ;-)
additions will not install in ubuntu
running the .run file in ubuntu fails to install additions and the VB forum has many users tuck in same way.
Any idea how to get "Then type sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run and hit "Enter". Follow the on screen instructions."
to work ?
works for me
host (debian testing/lenny):
[email protected]:~$ dpkg -l | grep virtualbox
ii virtualbox-ose 1.5.0-dfsg2-2 PC virtualization solution
ii virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.21-2-vserver-k7 1.5.0-dfsg2-1+2.6.21-6 VirtualBox modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.21-2-vserver-k7)
ii virtualbox-ose-source 1.5.0-dfsg2-2 Source for the VirtualBox module
[email protected]:~$ wget -N http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.0/VBoxGuestAdditions_1.5.0_OSE.iso
guest (ubuntu feisty/7.04):
[email protected]:/media/cdrom# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.5.0 Guest Additions for Linux installation......................................................................................................................................
VirtualBox 1.5.0 Guest Additions installation
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel module...
Building the shared folder support kernel module...
Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Successfully installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions.
You must restart your guest system in order to complete the installation.
[email protected]:/media/cdrom# /etc/init.d/vboxadd start
[email protected]:/media/cdrom# /etc/init.d/vboxvfs start
[email protected]:/media/cdrom# /etc/init.d/vboxadd-timesync start
[email protected]:/media/cdrom# pkill -USR1 gdm
everything works after logging out and back in on the guest (ie you don't have to restart the guest as the installer says). well, everything but the vboxvideo driver doesn't produce a resolution higher than 1024x768 without manually editing xorg.conf and adding the desired resolution(s) to a "Modes" line, but that's regardless of rebooting and really a missing "feature" than a "bug".
edit: reformatted the post because a blank line within a <code> block will prematurely end the <block> as the blank line generates a <p>.
VirtualBox has not passed Windows Logo testing
In the middle of installation, I get a dialog box stating that VirtualBox has not passed Windows Logo testing. Is this normal? Has anyone encountered the same?
Also, I don't see any "freeware" version or "free software" version. I only see one binary download (msi file) for VirtualBox 1.5.2 for Windows hosts x86.
FOSS VirtualBox on Win32 Host
1. download the source
2. build the binary
do those two steps and you'll have a binary of virtualbox ose (gpl).
afaict innotek does not provide binary versions of virtualbox ose. doesn't surprise me as most linux distributions will want to build it themselves to guarantee that it conforms to their standards. and most windows users don't care whether it's foss or freeware as long as it's a free download, so only the personal/trial version is provided.
Running like a dream on Vista 32 bit
I had never used linux or a virtual anything before but using this article I installed virtualbox on my windows vista home premium 32 bit, then installed ubuntu 7.10 desktop on VB and everything went great! Thanks for the helpful article!!!
Running like a dream on Vista 32 bit
I had never even looked at a linux anything before but using this article I was able to easily install vb and then Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop on my windows vista home premium 32 bit and it runs great! Thanks so much for such a helpful article!!
not able to compile c programs on vm unbuntu
it says file not in bash.. wen i compile a c program... in .. vm .. unbuntu.. how do i compile...pl help very urgent
best lightweight gui distro for virtualbox
This thread has been inactive for several months, so maybe nobody will hear me, but here goes. I used to use vmware exclusively. Now, I am messing with new (to me) contenders in the arena. So far, I like Xen. But, I am also intrigued by VirtualBox. Seems very nice. Even though it is probably not as fast as baremetal Xen, it's got some real positives. Which leads to my question. If I wanted to install VBox on a light distro with minimal gui, what would you suggest? I started out with Ubuntu server & headless install (which I have not completely ruled out), then moved to Ubuntu desktop, then onto Xubuntu in the hopes of gaining some speed. I messed with Arch Linux some, but gave up after being unable to make nvidia ethernet on the mobo work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. While headless VBox is an option, it will be easier to delegate admin duties if a lightweight gui was available.


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Semis in Madrid
Roger advanced to the semi-finals of the Madrid Open, battling past Andy Roddick 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-1 today.
It was Roger's first career meeting with Andy Roddick on clay; he has now improved improved his record against the American to 18 wins and two defeats. Roddick, who received a walkover after Nikolay Davydenko had to withdraw due to a leg injury, broke in the second game to take a 2-0 lead. But that was just reason enough for Roger to break right back and hold for 2-2. He broke once more later in the 11th game and served out the set. Roger never managed to take the lead in the second set despite four break balls, eventually losing the tie-break after an initial 2-0 lead. Roger pushed to a higher gear in the last set, dominating the set entirely and showing some stunning tennis.
Roger will face the winner of the quarter-final between fourth seed Andy Murray and fifth seed Juan Martin Del Potro.
hoping u to play agains nadal in the same way!
All the best and good luck for tomorrow's final
God bless u!
It was a great match, you were very confident and you're ready to go for it.
Good luck! We're right behind you.
That's great, now is Nadal just focus every single point and Insha Allah u will be the winner.
Plz try ur best 2 beat him.
Beat that Bull!!!!!
He could recover or not tmr, I'm not sure, perhaps you know it better than anyone do.
Until tomorrow...
Roger came out with deadly intent today. I think DelPo was a bit drained also, but it was simply beautiful to watch Roger's graceful and elegant play.


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VAIL - You notice a few things when the Vail Veterans Program brings the latest group of Wounded Warriors to town.
First, as the wars are supposed to be winding down, the groups are getting bigger, and their injuries are getting worse.
Second, there's nothing they can't adapt to or overcome, and the same is true of the businesses and guide services that host them.
Third, they're young, and they have their whole lives before them, but they nearly died before their time.
Their largest summer group, 29 warriors, was in town this week. Throw in a few wives, some children and relatives, and that presents a world of possibilities.
A quadruple amputee wanted to go rafting. They made it happen. There was also ziplining, which creates its own set of challenges, but nothing the guides and warriors can't overcome.
"There's not one business or guide service that doesn't think this is the best group they have all year," said Cheryl Jensen, who runs the veterans program.
Of the 29 Wounded Warriors, more than half have been injured within the past year.
"We've witnessed an increase in the number of Wounded Warriors and their levels of injury over the past couple of years," said Harvey Naranjo, an occupational therapist at Walter Reed National Medical Center. "Vets are returning with multiple limb losses and secondary medical issues."
Heather Miller is a recreational therapist working with military personnel in San Antonio. She has been sending warriors to the Vail Veterans Program for years, and this summer she finally came along.
She calls it "divergent ther-apy." She also calls it fun.
"The endorphins are pumping all day. They're not talking about or thinking about their injuries or their pain," Miller said.
The Vail Veteran's Program is a Colorado nonprofit providing rehabilitative sport programs to recently wounded United States military personnel who have been severely injured while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the troops that support those efforts. Wounded warriors and their families are provided, free of charge, the opportunity to spend time together away from the hospital in the Colorado outdoors.
A soldier's story
Getting hit is so quick, and rehab is so slow.
On Army Specialist Chris Tarte's left leg is a contraption that adjusts to help bones that were broken in 10 places grow back together slowly. He adjusts it a little and they grow a little, healing a bit at a time.
It's a metaphor for the whole Wounded Warriors program.
Tarte had been in the Army less than a year and "down range" in Afghanistan for two months. On Oct. 29, 2011, he was riding in a MRAP - Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle.
He and his crew were assigned to clear a route for other vehicles and troops. That means locating improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, so they could travel safely.
"We found one!" Chris said laughing, recounting the story of his Alive Day during breakfast Friday morning in the Marriott. Alive Day is the day they were hit but didn't die.
An MRAP is not supposed to blow up when explosives and small arms fire hit it. Theirs didn't. If it had, or if Tarte and his crew had been in some other type of vehicle, they'd all be dead. They're not. Tarte was the most severely injured of the four-man crew.
"I can't complain," he said, and then doesn't.
He said he's grateful his crew survived and that he was the most severely injured. He's grateful his wife, Natalie, took it so well when he called from Afghanistan, which the Army made him do.
"I was asking, 'What am I supposed to tell her?'" Tarte said. "They tell you everything else you're supposed to do."
Of course he was in agony, and of course he was scared to death. It was 7:30 a.m. at home. Hours after he'd been hit, he picked up the phone and dialed his wife's phone number. She was pregnant with their third child. Both she and the other two were sleeping when the phone rang. She picked it up and heard that it was Chris.
"How's your day?" he asked.
"Well, it's 7:30, so it hasn't really started yet," she said.
He stopped, hesitating before plunging ahead.
"Well, I don't have my right foot any more," he told her.
She said she thought he was joking, remembering the time he'd called to tell her he broke his finger in a basketball game. With all that rolling around in her head, she thought, "How did you lose your right foot in a basketball game?"
It wasn't a game, and it still isn't.
Yet a few weeks ago, he stood on a surfboard for the first time. This week, with the Vail Veterans Program, there's rafting, golf, ziplining and so much else.
He says Natalie is supportive and
Like the time his doctor told him he could walk a little on his crutches, so Natalie set his wheelchair about 10 feet from the car, reminding him what the doctor said.
"But I can't walk that far," he told her.
So she moved it two feet closer.
Chris' eyes light up and he smiles at Natalie when he tells the story, talking about how lucky he is, how he and Natalie are getting through this together, but how she will have no part of babysitting him and how good that can be.
The enemy had made this IED almost invisible, hiding it under the road and cleverly disguising its location, and theirs.
"They're getting better," Tarte said. "Some people seem to think they're stupid. They're not."
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I'm glad that I had a few weeks of bread baking under my belt before attempting this. And here's why. I've finally discovered why bread baking can be such a challenge if you've had minimal experience with it. The book's author, Peter Reinhart, uses terms such as sticky, tacky, smooth, pliable and supple to explain what the dough should look and feel like as we're lovingly kneading it to perfection, but it's only after experiencing those characteristics with our own senses that we are able to really "get it." Experience really is the best teacher. (To all three of my kids: This is why I made you drive 5000 miles with me in the car before I turned you loose on your own!)
Experience then, is what helped me realize that my dough was entirely too stiff. This was the first of this challenge's recipes that I didn't have to add extra flour to. In fact, because I was certain that my dough was a little on the stiff side, I ended up adding at least two tablespoons more water. And I really put some time into getting all the butter incorporated into the dough and assuring myself that I had kneaded it enough. I'm guessing it took me about 15 minutes between hand kneading and Kitchen Aid to get the job done. Now for my take on the tasty add-ins. Instead of salami, I opted for pepperoni. My cheese was extra sharp cheddar, and I decided at the last minute to also add in about a quarter cup of sundried tomato bits. That was a good call.
I proofed my loaf in an 8" cake pan with a parchment collar attached to support it as it rose. (Look at me acting all like I know what I'm doing!)
OK, fine. Of course I didn't come up with this method on my own, I'm not quite that brilliant. I got the parchment tip from fellow Bread Baker's Apprentice, BuffaloBaker over at "At The Very Yeast." Thanks, BuffaloBaker. I initially thought I was going to be a big girl and try to braid it like Susie did, but I chickened out. I'm probably going to have to practice braiding on the dog or something before next week's Challah challenge though...lol
Great tasting bread, I must admit. It made a HUGE loaf and I was thankful that the kids were here this weekend to share it with me. I served it with my homemade pasta salad yesterday for lunch (post to follow later this week.)


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"Movember" gives men an excuse to grow ridiculous mustaches during the month of November by raising money and awareness for men's health issues such as prostate and testicular cancer. Nick Offerman, aka Ron Swanson of "Parks & Recreation," rocks a rather illustrious mustache, and in this video offers support to those men (like, me) who can't say the same.
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When are we going to make Concurrent Pay a high priority. I fought and got mine. But, this is taking large amounts of retirement dollars out of the pockets of retiree's.
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Many of the Veterans at the Dayton VA Hospital are in need of Dental Care. that they can not afford from outside Dentists.
These Veterans, and all Verterans would benefits greatly from the addition of Dental care to their Helth Plans.
Dentists and Doctors will tell you that basic Dental Care is the foundation of Good Health.
For all the things the American Legion does to help us Veterans, I want to say, "THANK YOU VERY MUCH" to our American Legion.
Yes, the military jobs bill passed in the House, but fell short in the Senate because it would cost one billion dollars and that was considered too much (not to mention the usual two-party bickering). How much money did Congress spend on past wars to create these Veterans? It's a small price to pay when our people in uniform can translate their military experience (tested and forged under fire) into those pieces of paper that are required in the civilian world. In the long run, this would save the government (and the Veterans) money utilized in re-education in order to get those civilian credentials. That's why most Veterans end up in a profession much different than what they were trained to do in the military. We're forced to re-invent ourselves in order to adapt to a strange and unforgiving world after military service. We're not asking for a hand-out, simply a "leg-up." We only want credit for services rendered; nothing more.


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Medicare Part D Open Enrollment Kicks Off Today
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Across the nation, millions of seniors and disabled Americans have access to innovative medicines through the Medicare prescription drug program (Part D). This year, we're celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the program's enactment, as well as taking note of the important feedback provided by those individuals who rely on it. In short, the December anniversary presents an opportunity to reflect on the positive and far-reaching impact of Part D, while assessing areas for improvement going forward.
Today kicks off the annual Open Enrollment season, in which Part D beneficiaries (and those newly eligible for coverage) are able to sign up for a new plan or switch from an existing one. A recent survey from Medicare Today found that 90 percent of seniors are satisfied with their Part D coverage, with 95 percent of seniors reporting that it is convenient – a six percent increase compared with 89 percent in 2006. Without question, the program is a beacon of hope and efficiently delivers the services and treatments that it promised in 2003.
While the program is succeeding by nearly every metric, we all must strive to reach 100 percent satisfaction. Since its implementation, Part D has become widely available, with at least 28 plans offered in every region of the country. It is also cost effective, saving seniors nearly $300 in projected out-of-pocket costs, according to a study of 2006-07 data finding annual savings on out-of-pocket costs for those who switched plans (not projected). With a $31 average monthly premium expected for 2014, average premiums will be less than half of the $64 originally projected.
As policymakers debate broader fiscal issues, it's also worth noting Part D's overall cost savings performance. The non-partisan Congressional Budget office (CBO) recently announced a major change to its scoring methodology to reflect evidence that increased prescription drug use leads to offsetting reductions in Medicare spending for other medical services. CBO figures also show that total Part D program costs are on track to be $348 billion (or 45 percent) less than initial 10-year projections.
For those looking to sign up for or change a plan, there are several great resources that can help you find the plan that best fits your needs:
- Visit Medicare.gov or call1-800-MEDICARE for more information about the Part D program and available plans
- The Medicare Plan Finder allows you to search for available plans online by entering your 5-digit zip code
- Request a mail or electronic copy of the Medicare & You Handbook to learn everything you need to know about the Medicare Part D Open Enrollment period
Are you on Medicare Part D? If so, we'd love to hear about your experience, especially as it relates to navigating plan options. We can all be better informed when it comes to working with the program, and firsthand experiences are the best source of learning from one another. As always, feel free to share additional thoughts or perspectives in the comments section below.


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The ATJRN seeks to promote and encourage transitional justice research in Africa through the development of research capacity, the building of transitional justice content knowledge, and the creation of spaces for practitioners and researchers in Africa to share experiences, expertise, and lessons learned. The goal is to ensure that the transitional justice agenda in Africa is locally informed and owned.
The Network consists of four main elements:
- the ATJRN website;
- the TJNetwork listserv which networks individuals in the transitional justice field globally to facilitate dialogue and the sharing of research, opportunities, and knowledge;
- a quarterly e-newsletter;
- capacity building workshops on transitional justice research to be conducted in various regions across the African continent
Key Objectives of the ATJRN
- Create spaces for dialogue, knowledge-sharing, and coalition-building amongst African civil society engaged in or interested in transitional justice issues.
- Strengthen the ability of local researchers in Africa to conduct effective research to inform, monitor, and evaluate transitional justice mechanisms on the continent.


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"I hadnt even known about Phish for long. My mate Stuart had given me a compilation tape 1 Hour Of Phish that I listened to in my car a few times on my daily commute to work and found it strangely growing on me - despite not being at all like my usual preference for all things Brit Invasion-influenced and power-pop. The songs were long, and veered dangerously close to unhip prog, and where there were lyrics I found them a bit silly if not to say embarrassing. Oh, and the singer didnt have much of a voice either.... but still I kept being drawn back to this tape and particularly the longest track You Enjoy Myself. How do you describe this music? Its not really a song is it certainly not in the classic verse/chorus/middle eight/chorus sense.
I was unaware that they had already played in London twice in the preceding 12 months and was again (and eternally) indebted to Stuart who bought prime location box tickets for their Summer Tour 97 show at the Royal Albert Hall. I still knew nothing really about the band although by now I had copies of Billy Breathes and Hoist.
My memory of the night has faded over time of course we were pretty smoked up by showtime but what stuck in my head was....
- An unusual (but nice) vibe outside the venue. An earlier start time than I was used to still light outside on a pleasant Summer evening and a different crowd milling around. A lot of American accents , a lot of college kids on tour, plenty of girls, and a smattering of hippies
- A great vantage point from our box on stage right. Box 32 is recognised as one of the best tickets in the Albert Hall - perfect for a group of friends to see all the action, in comfort, without distraction
- I recognised almost none of the songs, didnt get the YEM or Stash that Id been hoping for, and my concentration drifted for long periods at a time as I looked around the hall and just thought how strangely different this was to the last time I was there, or to a typical gig experience of the time which would have been something like Oasis or Primal Scream.
- I strongly remember the red-uniformed old men and ladies trying to make everyone sit down in their seats and how unjust it was when they occasionally escorted someone out for smoking in the hallowed hall. What a pisser to miss the gig just for smoking a bowl at a Phish concert cmon
- I came away thinking that Id seen something Id never seen before. Now, I would describe it in terms of tension and release and I would have much more of a sense of the song selection, and the crowds awareness of old classics, bustouts, debuts, and the general flow of the set, but then I was left fascinated by what it was that the band were doing that caused a song to slowly and almost imperceptibly rise up in intensity, carrying the audience mood with it, with the band and the audience feeding off each other, until hitting an orgasmic peak... then calming again until at some point later slowly building again. How did they know to come back in from a jam at just the right moment? They seemed to have a telepathic understanding with each other.
- I tried to describe to people afterwards how this was such an unlikely band to have such a devoted following. This was not a hot-looking NME band of trend-setters. This was 4 scruffy, bearded, relatively-old (or old-looking) musos, with very little show and virtually no spoken interaction with the audience.... yet there seemed to be an unusually high percentage of females in the audience. The thing I find most strange now is that I dont particularly remember anything regarding the lightshow. Was CK5 around for that tour?
Looking back on it now with the benefit of another fifteen years and an audience tape of that night, what an amazing show to be at.... and a stat collectors dream. 19 songs 8 of which hadnt been played before the two Dublin shows a few days earlier. The first (and there has only been 1 other ever) performance of I Dont Care, the second-ever performances of Water In The Sky, Olivias Pool (or Oblivious Fool at this point), Ghost, Wading In The Velvet Sea and Dirt, and the third-ever performances of Dogs Stole things and Limb By Limb not to mention only the seventh-ever performance of Beauty Of My Dreams. Have there ever been shows with anything like the number of bustouts as those first three Summer 97 shows?!?
Highlight of the show is a Reba, which is just beautiful and is the jewel of a second set of all new songs before closing with a majestic Hood. Everyone was convinced they would encore with A Day In The Life but having done that at the Shepherds Bush show the previous July they went for Cities instead - Think of London... - before a romp through Poor Heart to close.
A review on Phish.net says .Overall not a bad show, playing was good I just thought it lacked inspiration which I thought would be the easy part being in Royal Albert Hall...... and it does feel slightly lack-lustre, which may actually have had something to do with the setting. The Albert Hall is an amazing venue in many ways after Taste, Trey says Thank you, what a beautiful room, thank you for being here, its just incredible... - but it can also be a bit intimidating and sterile. It is also almost-always a sellout, but for this show was only half-full (max capacity 5,250 on return to the States, Phish would go back to playing to 20,000 every night).
Outside afterwards, I scored a Doniac Schvice very impressed that this unknown band had such a cool publication. I dont think we hung around long and I dont remember us talking with any of the heads thereabouts so I didnt really appreciate how many of them must have already been to the two Dublin shows and would be setting off in the morning for the next show, 3 days later in Vienna. I was also unaware at that point that I was on my way down the rabbit hole towards a full-scale addiction to the Phish"


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The Oakland city attorney's race took a surprise turn Sunday when council member Jane Brunner, who has long been on the offensive against her opponent, Barbara Parker, announced that she will sue Parker for libel over a last-minute mailer.
Parker's campaign piece, which arrived in mailboxes Friday, stated that Brunner "has been suspended from practicing law by California State Bar."
Brunner, who joined the bar in 1988, lost her eligibility to practice law in July, 1995, for not taking required continuing education classes. She regained it in January 1997.
Brunner said she had taken a break from legal work during that period to mount her first council campaign in 1996, and thus hadn't taken the required coursework.
"Being inactive in the bar is very different from being suspended," she said. "This is as dirty politics as you can get. It ruins my reputation as an attorney to imply that I have been suspended."
Representatives for Parker pointed to a California Bar Journal article that referred to attorneys who lost their eligibility because they failed to take the required classes as being "suspended." They also said Brunner's time away from law practice rendered incorrect her official campaign statement that she has practiced law for 25 years.
"This is a desperate political stunt by Jane Brunner at the last minute before Election Day," Parker's campaign consultant Doug Linney said in a prepared statement.
Brunner, a four-term council member, is challenging Parker, who the council appointed City Attorney last year to fill out the term of John Russo.
Brunner and her allies in the police union had previously sent out mailers with accusations against Parker that opponents said were untrue.


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SANTA CLARA -- Soccer was the first love of 49ers safety Eric Reid, so it's no surprising he's rooting hard for the United States to advance Thursday in the World Cup.
"They can make it through, and hopefully they keep playing great," Reid said Wednesday in a phone interview while promoting Gatorade's "Beat The Heat" hydration campaign.
Before becoming the star safety that earned Pro Bowl honors as a 49ers rookie last year, Reid's grew up a soccer fan in Geismar, La. He started playing at age 6 alongside his two younger brothers, one of whom, Ryan, is a University of Maryland sophomore forward.
"It's funny, you'll probably find me more often watching soccer than a football game, because I get enough football in my daily schedule," Reid said. "It's really exciting for me and my brothers to watch the World Cup."
Reid stopped playing soccer upon entering ninth grade (Dutchtown High-Geismar). A 2013 first-round draft pick out of LSU, Reid started every game last season and was the 49ers' lone representative at the Pro Bowl (eight other 49ers skipped the game with injuries).
Reid will be watching on television Thursday when the United States seeks a win or tie against Germany to advance out of the World Cup's group stage.
"I'm definitely supporting them," said Reid, admiring how Clint Dempsey is playing with a broken nose "and sucking it up for the team."
Reid admittedly doesn't follow soccer as closely as he did as a youth but he's paid more attention since the 49ers finished their offseason program last Thursday.
"We lost a great player in (forward Jozy) Altidore to injury, but hopefully we can get him back to make a push in the next round," Reid added.
Reid's push Wednesday was to promote Gatorade, and he praised the company's efforts in teaching proper hydration to youth players.
"Being from Louisiana, I'm very familiar with the heat and what it can do to you if you don't take care of your body," Reid noted. "I'm happy to team up with (Gatorade) and let kids know how important it is to hydrate, especially during the summer."
For Reid, that meant taking water breaks in his days as a youth soccer player.


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It isn't often that a study is published that speaks directly to foods that extend longevity. Of course we understand that our lifestyles play a significant role in our life span, as does our genetic history. But a recent study has reported that supplementing our diets with cranberries can have an influence on life span, and it's pretty fascinating.
Published last month in Experimental Gerontology, researchers report that cranberry supplementation reduces cancer-causing oxidative damage and oxidative stress response in fruit flies. The health benefits of the supplement were significant enough to lower age-specific mortality rate and extend the lifespan of the fly during any of the three life stages of the insect; health, transition, and senescence. In humans, these stages equate to young adulthood, middle age, and old age.
Researchers felt that the long-lasting effect of cranberry supplementation is probably to to its ability to change signaling pathways and epigenetic status. The findings suggest that cranberries may be a viable option for aging interventions in humans of different ages. The three life stages in question reflect distinct changes that occur as we age. At the molecular level, these adjustments involve gene expression and oxidative damage to important molecules in our body. These stages pertain to how our cells become less able to handle metabolism and stress over time. The behavioral and cognitive aspects to aging are associated with a decline in locomotor activity, learning and memory.
Authors noted that it's challenging to develop effective aging interventions. Often an intervention starting in young adulthood might be costly and impractical to implement and may miss interventions that are effective in certain life stages.
For example, curcumin — a substance in the popular South Asian spice turmeric — was discovered to be beneficial when implemented early in life (the health stage) but harmful if given late in late life (the transition or senescence stage). Conversely, the molecule sodium butyrate was shown to have the opposite effect by increasing lifespan when given during later life stages of the fruit fly, but not earlier.
In the current study, researchers fed a high-sugar diet supplemented with 2 percent cranberry extract to groups of 100 to 200 flies that were sequestered in separate vials. Flies that were given the cranberry supplement during the health stage had a 25 percent longer lifespan than flies that didn't receive any cranberry in their diet. Flies in the transition and senescence phases of their lives also benefited from having cranberry in their diet, living 30 percent longer than controls.
Overall, the study was the first to show the beneficial effects of cranberry supplement regardless of age. "To our knowledge, cranberry is the first case showing that a pharmaceutical or nutraceutical can promote longevity when administered during any of the three distinct life stages," the authors concluded. "Future studies are warranted to determine how cranberry extends lifespan during different life stages. Such studies are important because different mechanisms may be involved during different life stages."
So if cranberries are a part of our regular diet throughout our lives, there may be significant benefits for our life span. That's a big advantage to be gained from such a small berry. And FoodFacts.com likes the idea that we can cook with the fresh berries, or add some dried to our salads and vegetable dishes, or enjoy a good quality cranberry juice. Antioxident power. Tart, interesting flavor. Great color and texture. And now cranberries might help us live longer, too!


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Following a spate of hit-and-runs allegedly perpetrated by celebrity drivers (well, two celebrity drivers to be exact), Ben Affleck has stepped up to show he fellow reckless celebs how to handle a minor vehicular skirmish.
The actor accidentally sideswiped a car in Santa Monica on Saturday, knocking off its driver-side mirror. He immediately exited his own car and left a very apologetic note on the victim's windshield with his contact info and a promise to "cover everything."
Good on you, Ben! Keep up the law compliance.
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For sheer emotional power, President Barack Obama's oration on gun regulation was the high point of his fifth State of the Union address Tuesday. But his broader messages about job creation -- rebuilding the American middle class -- and reforming the tax code and immigration laws were encouraging as well.
Fresh from a decisive re-election, this is the time for an ambitious agenda. Midterms are a year away and partisan walls, which may be cracking on immigration and a few other issues, will be bricked up again.
"They deserve a vote" was the president's mantra for gun control, challenging lawmakers in the National Rifle Association camp to at least let sensible proposals from him, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and others to come to the floor of the House and Senate. It resonated with a crowd frustrated by Republicans' propensity to prevent votes on topics they don't want to deal with, and since filibuster reform in the Senate fizzled, the tactic can continue.
By just calling for a vote on gun proposals, which would place everyone on the record, Obama avoided the need to argue for regulation. The crowd carried the rest of the argument, with its sympathetic guests -- including the parents of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, who performed at Obama's inauguration and was cut down by gunfire in Chicago a week later.
Before the speech, Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino tweeted five issues that local industry hoped to see addressed: immigration reform, comprehensive tax reform, education, cybersecurity and infrastructure such as transportation and water systems. Obama hit all of them.
Progress on immigration policy still appears possible, thanks to growing Latino clout. Both parties now say tax reform is needed. And while there are probably political divisions on cybersecurity, it's hard to imagine what they might be. Who's not worried about identity theft?
Obama's "fix-it-first" ideas for some 70,000 substandard bridges and other deteriorating infrastructure makes the utmost sense to help commerce, create productive jobs and save money in the long run, although new spending will be a hard sell in the House.
Perhaps most intriguing is Obama's plan to work with states to provide pre-school for all. The spotty record of Head Start has given government early education programs a bad name, but there is no greater predictor of academic success than quality pre-school.
The Clintonesque clutter of ideas in Obama's talk almost obscured what in other years might have been the headline: The war in Afghanistan is winding to a close -- the second of two wars this president inherited. That prospect gives him all the more opportunity to focus on rebuilding America and making it safer.


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The New Hampshire-based start-up has been on Silicon Valley radars since January, when VC firm Andreessen Horowitz lead a $30 million investment round. That was on top of the $12 million Data Gravity nabbed out of the gate when it launched in June, lead by Charles River and General Catalyst, making $42 million total.
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It's been a while, but we're back with an all new Living Vegan and we've got lots of exciting new features and improvements to tell you about. This is our biggest update since we've launched and things are only going to get better. Find out what's new and what you have to look forward to.


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Black tea from Sri Lanka, Ceylon Kenilworth is highly prized for its creamy character, subtle perfumed notes and rich-body. Grown at high elevation, at the esteemed Kenilworth estate in the western hills of Sri Lanka, this tea is great hot or iced.• 4 oz. loose tea in bag • 1 rounded tsp. per 12 oz. cup • Makes 35-40 cups
Ceylon black tea
Wiry black and goldleaves
Floral-honey nose
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The quality of tea is affected by the quality of water used to prepare it. Using filtered or bottled water is best. If possible, avoid brewing tea with tap, distilled or mineral water. Never over-boil water, as it results in flat-tasting tea.
1) Heat filtered or bottled water to a rolling boil or to 205 F. 2) While the water is heating pour hot water into your teapot and cups, let sit and then drain completely. A warm teapot will maintain the requisite temperature for superior tasting tea.
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1. For a larger serving, prepare a iced tea concentrate by bringing one quart of cold water to a rolling boil in a tea kettle.
2. Remove from heat and add 8-10 teaspoons per quart of brewed tea.
3. Steep 3 - 5 minutes or to desired strength.
4. To serve immediately, pour over ice in a tall glass, or add another quart of cold water to the concentrate and chill in refrigerator.
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Black tea contains an abundant source of natural plant-derived antioxidant compounds called polyphenols that aid in fighting harmful free radicals. Research shows that these free radicals can cause heart disease, cancer and increase the risk of strokes. Drinking black tea with its high antioxidant levels may help protect the body by combating harmful free radical activity.
Further health benefits of black tea may include lowering cholesterol, strengthening the immune system, promoting healthy blood vessel functionality and even protecting teeth and bones. In addition, black tea provides a source of nutrients including magnesium, Manganese, potassium, calcium, and the vitamins C and K all in trace amounts.
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