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The Defense Department on April 22 issued a new directive outlining the roles and responsibilities of the Pentagon's chief information officer, updating nearly decade-old governance to include some of DOD's most pressing concerns.
Perhaps most notable in DOD directive 5044.2 is the specific injection of cybersecurity, a phrase that does not appear in the directive's previous iteration, issued in 2005. In the interim there have been some updates – in particular, the disestablishment of the position of assistant secretary of defense (networks and information integration). The powers of ASD (NII) were officially transferred to the DOD CIO job under a January 2012 memo from Ashton Carter, deputy secretary of defense.
A DOD spokesman said the directive is just part of routine housekeeping, but the newly issued governance and its emphasis on cybersecurity, including collaboration and information-sharing, seems to represent an update in the priorities of the defense secretary's top adviser for all things IT.
Read Directive 5044.2
The CIO "directs, manages and provides policy guidance and oversight of the DOD cybersecurity program, which includes responsibility for the Defense Information Assurance Program...and information security," the directive states.
The governance directs coordination on cybersecurity in a number of different ways, including participation in oversight groups dealing with cybersecurity, as well as specific orders to work with the commander of U.S. Cyber Command "on all matters under the commander's purview related to the authorities, responsibilities, and functions assigned in this directive, including...requirements and capabilities for cyber operations, information network defense and monitoring, and cyberspace threats and domain requirements."
The evolution in coordination between DOD components – as well as roles and responsibilities that are similarly changing with the times – is something the DOD CIO herself, Teri Takai, addressed April 23 at an industry event in Arlington, Va.
"As we change the architecture, who in fact does cybersecurity, who does defense, who is able to see into networks – that is going to be evolving, and that has to do with what we're doing with CyberCom, how CyberCom operates with [the Defense Information Systems Agency], and how both of those organizations operate with the services and combatant commands," Takai said. "I say it's evolving because it's not something that we can set in stone today, because it's very much based on what infrastructure we have to operate in." Other new-era provisions in the directive include a measure to tackle the much-discussed shortage in cybersecurity professionals, an issue that was not mentioned in the 2005 directive.
Under the new directive, the DOD CIO "provides guidance and oversight with regard to the recruiting, retention, training and professional development of the DOD IT and cybersecurity workforce," the text notes. "The DOD CIO will assess the requirements for agency personnel regarding [information resources management] knowledge and skill and conduct formal training programs to educate agency program and management officials about IRM."
The directive also defines the government officials and other parties with which the CIO does and does not directly interface, another provision that did not appear in the 2005 measure.
According to the directive, the CIO is to "communicate with other executive branch officials, state and local officials, representatives of non-governmental organizations, members of the public and representatives of foreign governments, as appropriate, in carrying out assigned responsibilities and functions."
And while 2005's guidance described the CIO role as a DOD representative to the legislative branch, the new directive prescribes that "communications with representatives of the legislative branch must be conducted through the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs or the [DOD comptroller], as appropriate, and be consistent with the DOD legislative program."
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Middlemarch Book 1, Chapter 7 Summary
- Mr. Casaubon spends a lot of time at Tipton Grange during the period leading up to their marriage. He doesn't enjoy it, though – it's time taken away from his scholarly work.
- Dorothea, meanwhile, is eager to prepare herself for her duties as Mrs. Casaubon. She asks him whether she should start learning Greek or Latin, in order that she might better be able to help him with his work. Learning Latin and Greek sure is fun (no, seriously!), but Dorothea might not have the best reasons.
- Mr. Brooke isn't sure that learning Latin or Greek will be good for her – female minds being weak and all that.
- He thinks women should stick to music and light reading.
- Mr. Casaubon doesn't like music much, anyway – he's happy for Dorothea to learn to copy Greek characters so that she'll be able to copy manuscripts for him, and save his eyes.

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California becoming puck country
Devils' Miller proof of hockey's growth in Golden State
Friday, 06.25.2010 / 9:41 PM ET / Draft
By Eric Marin
|Miller on Draft day, 2006.
"I was just showing my wife what I went through in Vancouver four years ago," Miller said during Friday's first round. He recalled how the Draft day experience can be an emotional time for a young prospect.
"It's pretty intense," said the Devils' fourth-round pick, 107th overall, in 2006. "Sitting there in the seats, it's nerve-wracking, especially when there's a team up there that you've been talking to. You just want to hear your name called. You hope it goes well for you."
Miller, 23, hails from Placentia, Calif., roughly a half-hour away from downtown Los Angeles. (It's worth noting that Google Maps advises the drive can take close to two hours in traffic, and if this year's trip to the Entry Draft has proven anything, it's that there's always traffic in L.A.) He's proof of hockey's growth in this area known more for picture-perfect weather than frosty ice rinks.
But maybe it's time that perception changed. There were eight California-born players ranked by Central Scouting in 2010. Not coincidentally, many of them grew up watching hockey during Wayne Gretzky's tenure with the Los Angeles Kings.
"Obviously, the 'Gretzky Effect' had a lot to do with it," Miller said. "That's what got me started. After that, as the Gretzky generation got older, my younger brothers, they got into it, too, which is good. Hockey's going pretty good out here."
In California, where there's no shortage of sun, sand and surf, the path to becoming an NHL prospect often begins on wheels.
"It's kind of different out here because obviously you get started with roller hockey; it's a lot more inexpensive," Miller explained. "Playing ice hockey out here is not cheap. Once you get into the hockey community, people are playing ice hockey while you're playing roller hockey, and then you eventually make the switch. That's how I did it growing up. It is something that you have to push your parents into because it's a big investment."
So hockey culture is gathering steam in the Golden State, though no one would compare it to the traditional hotbeds in the Midwest and on the East Coast. Not yet, anyway.
"It's not as big as, obviously, most parts [of the country], but it's growing and it's grown significantly since I've been away for college," Miller said. "It's getting big."
Speaking of big, Miller, a 6-4, 230 lb. blueliner, is coming off of a productive senior year at Northern Michigan. He tallied a career-best 15 points (4g-11a) in 39 games as the Wildcats finished fourth in the CCHA and reached the title game before narrowly losing to Michigan.
"Playing healthy for a year, that helped," he said. "I did have a good year, I thought – solid. Northern, in general, had a good year, made it to the tournament for the first time in quite a few years, which helps everybody on the team through the exposure of moving on through the different rounds."
With Devils team personnel in L.A. this week, Miller took a fitness test on Thursday. He was satisfied with his results, which he said improved from four years ago. He'll be attending next month's rookie camp at Prudential Center.
"I've been around [the organization] for a while," he said. "This will be my third prospect camp. I know all the guys there; they're all great guys and it's a good hockey family to be a part of."


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Respawn Entertainment's upcoming shooter Titanfall will only have 12 gamers at most in its multiplayer matches. Computer-controlled bots will fill out the rest of the world.
Titanfall will feature 6-on-6 team-based matches, according to Respawn boss Vince Zampella. The developer noted that 12 humans battling it out provides the right balance for competitive play. In addition to player characters, Respawn will fill out matches with bots controlled by artificial intelligence.
@MrClutch514 @Respawn 6v6 is max player count. Turned out to be the best balance with ai for us.
— Vince Zampella (@VinceZampella) January 8, 2014
Titanfall is the first game from Respawn Entertainment. It has Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC gamers controlling a foot solider in the future that can also call in and pilot a giant robot suit. It's due out March 11 in North America.
While 12 players is tiny compared to the 64-player count that Electronic Art's Battlefield 4 supports, it is not automatically a negative strike against the shooter. The Call of Duty franchise supports up to 18 players in one of its modes, but most Call of Duty game types focus on the six-person teams. That's not hurting the Activision franchise.
"We had [the player count] higher at points in testing, but this felt best," Zampella wrote on Twitter. "A 6-on-6 game can be a crazy experience — very fun. It is what we find most fun. There are other games with higher player counts if that's your metric."
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BERKELEY -- Every day, up to 10 double-strand DNA breaks occur in each of the 70 trillion cells making up your body. It's a natural part of aging and the body has a built-in repair kit. But eat too many french fries, get an X-ray, breathe truck exhaust during a morning traffic jam or just lose out on the genetic lottery: your body's natural repair mechanism could go haywire, leaving trillions of broken helixes, potentially causing havoc.
Scientists know that genetic, lifestyle and environmental forces trigger the DNA damage linked to diseases like cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's. What they do not know, is which factors are most important and how much any one person can do to control the damage.
Exogen Biotechnology, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory spinoff led by biophysicist Sylvain Costes, thinks it has a way to find the answers. Although the 43-year-old scientist's expertise in radiation risk modeling, a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in nuclear engineering and his tendency to see a home tiling project as "mathematics on the floor" are key to the startup company's novel breakthroughs, Costes predicts the answers will come from a unique source: you.
Enrolling citizen scientists in the quest to map geographic patterns and better determine individual DNA damage risk factors, Costes and EB co-founder Jonathan Tang are building the world's first DNA damage database. A $70,000 Berkeley Lab Innovation Grant refined the six-piece kit Exogen developed in the lab's biohacker location. Costes, in an interview at LBNL, said a large cohort is necessary -- up to 100,000 people, if big data is to track patterns correlating to big problems, like cancer. For that, EB will need angel investors with seed money and, eventually, FDA approval.
In the meantime, an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign raised $50,000 in under 10 days and is ongoing.
Individuals pay $99 ($204 for international participants; $999 for one-year monthly tracking) for the kit that safely collects three drop-sized blood samples.
Using a sterilized lancet, participants place the samples in vessels filled with fixative solution, answer a few questions at EB's secure, online registry and drop the package in a FedEx box.
"Voilà," says Costes, a native of France, "It's like a home cholesterol test. We analyze and make the results available to you via a secure login." Results show the participating citizen scientists where they fall in their demographic. Exogen provides no medical advice and, at this point, none of the researchers make any money. "It's a scientific endeavor, not a business," Costes says.
If it's that easy, one wonders, why hasn't it been done before? Costes says the current DNA damage assessment system is not easy: it's time-intensive and subjective. Lab workers use eight-prong, hand-held dispensers, laboriously pumping samples into tiny indentations in a tablet.
Under the microscope, images are fuzzy, leading to human error.
Costes' research showed that two people looking at the same image came up with different DNA break counts. And even the same person, asked to view a single image on two different days, provided different totals.
Reducing manual processing with robot handlers is Costes' future dream, but his automatized image scanning, analysis, and an algorithm for plotting results has already streamlined the process and translates into results with meaning.
Costes expects the technology will benefit special populations--identifying and protecting people who are ultrasensitive to ionizing radiation--and the general public.
"Green tea -- we are now reading studies that show it isn't so effective. But we have no data," he says. "Wouldn't it be good to know for sure? And antioxidant creams: they tell you they will cause you to age slower. We can tell you whether or not they work. Is that crossword puzzle slowing my Alzheimer's? Is what I am doing affecting my DNA?"
Privacy and scientific progress are often at loggerheads and Costes says EB has moved aggressively to address those concerns. The collected data is split on three servers to disconnect the information from the individual. Each database is encrypted. "Even if you are a very smart hacker, it would be a lot of work for information that will not tell you anything," Costes says. Exogen's long term goal is to generate enough data for the kit to become an FDA-approved diagnostic tool. After all, he suggests, Google proved the power of data and -- combined with a hacker nation of citizen scientists determined to command their own (DNA) destiny -- anything is possible.
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Issue 448: 2 / 4 / 2013
The Spring 2013 "Brown Bag Lunch" Series to Be Launched
The Honors Academy's first Brown Bag Lunch for Spring 2013, featuring a presentation on Romare Bearden – a major 20th Century-American artist, will be held on February 15. "We are experimenting with having these events on Friday afternoons, and your presence can help make this a great success," said Honors Academy Coordinator Doug Branch.
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Curator Stanton Thomas will present a talk on Bearden in conjunction with an upcoming exhibition at the Brooks. Bearden was a "descendent" of the Harlem Renaissance, having produced much of his work in the decades after that movement. The bright colors and jarring juxtapositions of his work reflect black history and music, especially jazz, which we can imagine as an acoustic equivalent to his paintings and collages.
"Thomas has spoken to us before, and he's a lively, knowledgeable speaker. I know you will not want to miss this," said Branch.
Brown Bag Lunch – "Romare Bearden at the Brooks: A Preview"
- February 15
- Noon
- Macon Cove Campus, Fulton Building, Room 400
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Apparently the trial is happening in the next two weeks. Based on the decisions made on preliminary motions, it appears that the most likely outcome is that each company will be in a position to block the other from the FFR business. So a negotiated settlement appears likely.
even better , volcano won.
That is nice. If I recall (I won't read documents again until after the CC) there is at least one more lawsuit involving St Jude. The decision in this one seems strong enough to put Volcano in a workable position no matter how other suits come out (And if I recall properly that at least one involves a laser light source, and Volcano has been generating IP in that area since the (ahem) dark ages, I like our prospects)


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One thing to keep in mind when you are reading tdarren's posts: He has no position in NVIV, either short or long.
So every time you read something from him ask yourself this question: Why would he take valuable time out of his day to post messages on this board?
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Btw......I always tell myself when reading anyone's post .....that is just one persons opinion. Especially, if I'm unfamiliar with the writer. Overtime ,I accumulate my own personal book of knowledge and intuition on said subjects. I also always have been a seeker of knowledge and information. He does seem to have some knowledge and intelligence . Don't know at all what motivates him or why he came back to board after being gone so long.Hmmmmmm.....
Well, let's see(being the seeker of knowledge that I am).
Shout out to Tdarren.....with all due respect ....why did you come back after so long???
Thank you,
I cannot speak to the medical side of tdarren's comments, but with regards to the finances he stated on 12.06 that: "Traditionally companies like NVIV are privately held and/or held by venture capital firms that are fully aware of the risks involved. "
Well,they did. From 2005-2010 this is exactly what they did prior to going public.
This makes me rather suspect of all of his other "research" into NVIV as tdarren clearly missed the boat on the financial side of the house. This company was a long time in the making prior to going public to access public markets.
Well said, all three of you!!!
I wouldn't listen to him anyway--one of the reasons I invested in NVIV is the outstanding team they have assembled-especially Dr. Robert Langer---just read the recent NY Times article on his work (11/24/12)--he has helped start 25 companies and has 811 patents (issued or pending). In fact more than 250 companies have licensed or sublicensed Langer Lab patents. He wouldn't be sitting on the board of directors at NVIV if he thought their work was going nowhere--when it comes to presenting your work to the FDA having Dr. Langer on your team will almost guarantee success---so whatever tdarren argues against NVIV doesn't mean anything to me
Good point - Dr. Langer, with his NY Times article on November 24, 2012, is on the record as helping start 25 companies, with a total of 811 patents - current or pending. Amazing that 250 companies have licensed his patents. I agree he wouldn't be on the BOD unless this company had a very high probability of success. Who would know better than the ex-chairman of the FDA's science board.


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Yay LJ gets to go home today! Curvy I used to wonder the same thing, especially after 9 yrs, and now I agree with Adrienne. They each will hold such a special peace of you it is insane. But I wouldn't have it any other way, I them boys.
My flight got cancelled and they put me on the 4pm flight. I got to the airport early cause I wanted out of that hotel. I ended up getting bumped to an earlier flight that was supposed to leave 20 minutes after I got there...Ended up sitting on the tarmac for an hour and a half...
I'm going to bed.
Shiloh Xavier born 11/9/2009 at 9:07p.m
Judah Elyse born 5/4/2013 at 2:02p.m
YAY Curvy and LJ!!!
OK so Octomom is obviously no model parent but she did say one time that you don't have to make room in your heart for more kids, your heart just gets bigger. I remember that on days when I think to myself how will I ever love this LO as much as I love me some LJ.
*sigh* I miss him. I wish they would hurry back.
Bahahaha Jenn stooooopid!
I like to think I was my granny's favorite. I mean she didn't take the other 2 heathens on a cruise. mmmmmhmmm
Ivy is volunteering in the special needs class. She now wants to deliver babies and work as a special needs teacher.
But we keep the gift LOL
Hubby (33) + Me (Still 25...)= Jason "Chunka/LJ" Jr. 9/25/2012
Enjoying the greatest gift God could have bless us with!!!
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October 12, 2010 - Jennifer Houtman
Writing a good headline isn't easy. We are lucky to have some talented, veteran headline writers at The Marietta Times. Sometimes we nail it, and sometimes we don't. But every day, we get to do it all over again.
Take Monday's printed edition of The Marietta Times. We got it wrong, and we heard about it. We heard from readers about the headline: "Elderly woman injured trying to allude dogs." What we meant to say was she was trying to "elude" the dogs. Well, mistakes happen. Our reporters and editors are human, they aren't computers and they aren't robots. Misspellings occur, and sometimes the wrong word is used. When it happens, we talk about it, learn from it and move on.
Often people assume the reporter who writes the story also writes the headline. That's not the case. Once a reporter files a story to be edited it is out of their hands and passed on to the copy desk. A copy editor whose job it is to lay out a specific page then has the task of writing headlines for the stories that appear on that page.
Are there no proofreaders you ask? Well, not like there used to be. Years ago newspapers had people on the payroll whose main job was to proofread, but that isn't the case anymore. We spell check stories and headlines, and editors will proof each other's pages, but sometimes a mistake still gets by.
We understand that can frustrate readers. It frustrates me, too. But I also understand that an occasional mistake comes with the territory.
Writing a headline can be a lot of fun, but it can be stressful, too. The number one goal is to be accurate and to reflect the news of the story. A headline should have the right tone and shouldn't be too cute or clever. But that doesn't mean a good headline can't be entertaining.
We appreciate the fact that some readers on Monday called to point out our mistake (just in case we missed it.) I'm glad you're reading the paper and care enough to call. We, like you, are frustrated when mistakes happen and we will work hard to avoid those mistakes as much as possible.
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Police say a 23-year-old woman later identified by rapper and record-producer T-Pain as his niece was fatally stabbed outside a drug store in Tallahassee.
There they are: 52 Miss America contestants in Atlantic City
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There they are: the 52 Miss America contestants, on the Atlantic City Boardwalk — and not a moment too soon for a city that could use a happy diversion.
Chicago lawmaker proposes cracking down on Pokemon Go sites
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Invasive weeds have long threatened to erode dunes on a portion of the Chicago lakefront, but the area recently had to contend with a virtual invasion: "Pokemon Go" characters.
Nonprofit group surprises Flint kids with free backpacks
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A nonprofit group is giving backpacks filled with school supplies to all 5,500 students in Flint's public school district, the latest philanthropic effort aimed at helping the city dealing with the aftermath of a lead-tainted water crisis.
Fall Preview: Warren Beatty's Hughes film finally takes off
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Warren Beatty is standing outside an early screening of his new film, "Rules Don't Apply" — definitely NOT a Howard Hughes biopic, he wants to make clear — discussing his connection to the famously reclusive industrialist and movie mogul.
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Sure, Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte made up an incident in Rio de Janeiro and is facing charges from Brazilian police that he filed a false robbery report and is losing sponsors who think his image has been tarnished.
Skyscraper-filled Dubai burnishes arts scene with new opera
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Already filled with towering skyscrapers, Dubai will soon offer soaring arias inside a new opera house.
Comic performer Gene Wilder kept his serious side off camera
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Revered as a comedic and storytelling genius by Hollywood's top entertainers, Gene Wilder was a humble man who downplayed his comic gifts, was a serious director and remained deferential to his longtime collaborator, Mel Brooks.
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London police arrested 454 people during the two-day Notting Hill Carnival as stabbings and drug offenses marred the Caribbean-inspired street party.
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New management team expands services at Inn at Sawmill Farm
By CHRIS MAYS / Reformer Staff Brattleboro Reformer
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WEST DOVER -- As the new general manager, Marco Tallini is constantly looking for ways to expand services that the Inn at Sawmill Farm provides its visitors. For years, the inn had been known as a high-end destination. But now, there is a more casual atmosphere, where guests no longer feel required to wear a suit and tie at dinner. "We're a country inn with elegant rooms, elegant ambiance but people can still be casual and laid back at the same time," said Tallini.
Located off Route 100 at 7 Crosstown Road in West Dover, the inn has 28 acres of grounds, which are
used for weddings, group gatherings and business meetings throughout the year. Celebrities, such as talk show host Oprah and actor Paul Newman, have been guests. In September, its grounds were used for a screening venue at the Independent Television and Film Festival. The inn's owners were asked to be part of next year's festival, too.
A wedding planner had approached the inn's staff about hosting a wedding for a woman who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease. The national organization Wish Upon a Wedding had received a request for the event. The woman had always wanted a wedding in Vermont.
"It was nice to be able to do something nice for somebody," said previous general manager Philip Waller.
"Everybody enjoyed that day."
In June, Tallini took over the position as general manager. He had grown up in the restaurant business. His family first owned a French restaurant in the North Shore of Long Island then opened an Italian restaurant. For nearly two decades, Tallini worked in the corporate arena before ultimately deciding to move his family up to Vermont. Waller approached him about the position after collaborating with Tallini, who was working in the property management field.
The duo continues to think ahead in regards to keeping the inn and property in good condition. The building itself has been around for nearly 100 years. "We have been heavily engaged on the physical aspect of the building property," said Tallini. "Our guests are seeing that. They are very happy with the way things are looking."
The dining section known as Nonna's Italian Restaurant features classic dishes that vary from Northern
Italian to Southern Italian and depend upon the season. The inn's chef Jeff Collins has been actively assisting with updating the menu. Tallini told the Reformer that since the summer, the restaurant has offered more farm to table choices. "We're buying meat and produce from local vendors," said Tallini. "We're going to be buying free range
chickens for this season." He also has been in discussions with local artisans such as Cynthia Cohen about offering local products in the gift shop. There has also been talk about holding various workshops and classes in the building.
In November then again during mud season, the Inn at Sawmill Farms closes to the public. Some general grounds keeping and housekeeping is conducted before the doors are opened again. When it reopens for the ski season, there will be a winter menu, a new Sunday brunch and various apres ski activities. All of which are open to the public, not just guests. The inn also holds a New Year's Gala, with musical performances and Jay the Magician. "We have a lot of repeat winter guests we're seeing," said Tallini. "We're looking at ways of increasing our visibility as a destination." He mentioned that this summer, the inn had seen a surge of visitors, which he attributes to people recognizing the amount of activities that go on after the ski slopes close. "People are starting to realize how beautiful a place it is for the summer," said Tallini.
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400 Lb. alligator caught on Gulf Coast
Man spots gator near apartment complex
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A 400 Lb. alligator was caught on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
A man in Biloxi was walking to work and spotted the 10-foot-long alligator in a ditch near an apartment complex, according to WLOX.
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The man called police, who then called an alligator trapper.
The reptile put up a big fight for several minutes but was finally caught.
It took five men to reel in the massive alligator Wednesday
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Purpose: Through this project partners restored prior converted agricultural land to managed emergent wetlands for wintering waterfowl in the North River floodplain of Northeastern North Carolina. Ditching, draining, and clearing of hardwood swamps for agriculture purposes have drastically altered this river system. This project, along with other conservation efforts funded by a North American Wetlands Conservation Act grant, will begin to compensate for changes in wetland function that have been detrimental to migratory bird populations. Waterfowl that will benefit from this project include pintails, mallards, black ducks, lesser scaup, and Southern James Bay Canada geese. Other bird species benefiting include little blue heron, northern parula, and Swainson's warbler. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission will manage the property to benefit waterfowl and will allow public use of the area including hunting.
Location: Camden County, Approximately 14 miles northeast of Elizabeth City, NC
Acres Impacted: 53 acres of wetlands
Habitat Type: Emergent wetlands, moist-soil habitat
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I thought it was interesting that the man on the cover of Tuesday's Mail Tribune tried to escape the police on a bicycle. That plan didn't work too well for him! I was wondering, since it appears he may be going to prison for a while, what is going to happen to his bicycle? It raises a bigger question: What happens to the property of offenders who are sent to prison who don't have family and friends in the area? Do the police have to keep this property until the offender is released?
— Donna S., Medford
Unless suspected bank robber Joe David Campos, 39, has someone to give his bike to until he is released, he stands to lose his ill-fated mode of transportation, Medford police Lt. Mike Budreau said.
"The bicycle in this case is evidence, so we will keep it until the case is adjudicated," Budreau said.
Campos is accused of attempting to rob the Key Bank Branch on East Main Street on Monday. He was caught moments afterward trying to pedal away on his black bicycle, police said.
Medford Police Department policy requires that a suspect who faces significant prison time should find someone to take any property seized by the police during an arrest.
Budreau said this is not an issue most of the time. Family and friends will take a suspect's property and hold it.
However, for those who don't have a third party to accept the property, it will be sold at auction or destroyed, depending on the value of the item, Budreau said.
"If it's an old backpack or something, we'll destroy it," Budreau said.
The department has only limited storage space, which is why it can't store a suspect's items for years until he or she is released from prison.
The proceeds from auctioned items go to the city of Medford, Budreau said.
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Both the UTB "A" and "B" teams
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The tournament began Monday. Each team will play six rounds, with the final round scheduled Thursday, Dec. 30.
UTB "A" team (2612 average rating) def. Miami-Dade College (1967) 4-0-0.0
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Trial begins for man accused of hitting officer at outlet mallUPDATED 6:58 PM EST Nov 21, 2013
Jamarcus Brown was in a Warren County courtroom Thursday to face three felony charges in connection with an incident at the Monroe Outlet Mall.Video Transcript
THE TARGET... A MONROE POLICE OFFICER. GOOD EVENING I'M MIKE DARDIS. I'M SHEREE PAOLELLO. THE OFFICER... ENDED UP ON THE HOOD .... FIRING SHOTS AT THE SUSPECT... NOW... JAMARCUS BROWN IS ON TRIAL... FACING 3 FELONIES. WLWT'S KARIN JOHNSON... IS LEADING THE WAY... WITH TONIGHT'S BIG STORY. KARIN. . FOR THE FIRST TIME TONIGHT.... WE ARE HEARING FROM THE OFFICER... HE EXPLAINED IN COURT TODAY HOW HE ENDED UP ON THE HOOD AND WHY HE STARTED SHOOTING AT JAMARCUS BROWN. THE DEFENSE SAYS ... BROWN NEVER INTENDED TO HARM ANYONE AND WAS JUST TRYING TO GET AWAY. ONE OF THE LAST TIMES THESE 2 MEN---MONROE POLICE OFFICER CHAD CAUDILL AND DEFENDANT JAMARCUS BROWN---WERE IN SAME ROOM TOGETHER WAS BACK IN AUGUST... AT THE SUNGLASS HUT IN THE CINCINNATI PREMIUM OUTLET MALL. (no super: will you tell us what we're seeing there. Myself and mr. Brown entering the store) BROWN... WEARING THE WHITE HAT. AT THIS POINT HE WAS BEING QUESTIONED FOR THEFT... AFTER GIVING CAUDILL A WRONG NAME. BUT AS SEEN IN THE VIDEO, BROWN DOESN'T HANG AROUND. (COVER: kinda starts to do a classic spiral, it's very classic) AND OUT THE DOOR HE GOES... BROWNS ATTORNEY ADMITS, HE IS GUILTY OF COUNT ONE... FAILING TO COMPLY WITH A POLICE OFFICER. (JENNIFER GETTY/DEFENSE ATTORNEY:"at the time, he was scared and he ran and we're not denying that") JENNIFER GETTY ARGUES, BROWN IS NOT GUILTY OF WHAT HE'S ACCUSED OF DOING NEXT---ASSAULT AND FELONIOUS ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER. THE TWO END UP IN THE PARKING LOT... BROWN JUMPS IN A CAR. CAUDILL DRAWS HIS GUN... (OFFICER CHAD CAUDILL/MONROE POLICE: My left shin was basically touching the front of the bumper when I was looking down to the get plate) CAUDILL SAYS HE ORDERS BROWN OUT OF THE CAR, BUT INSTEAD .... (CAUDILL: he continued to accelerate forward. JOHN ARNOLD/ASST. PROSECUTOR: Why did you feel in that split second that you couldn't jump left or right? CAUDILL: I just wasn't in a positioning for, my body physically could not move that way enough to get out of the way of the vehicle) ("I went up and the car, it almost compelled you forward onto the hood.") ONLY AFTER FIRING TWO SHOTS... ONE WHICH HIT BROWN IN THE LEG ... DID THIS ALL COME TO AN END. THE DEFENSE SAYS THE SHOOTING.. WAS UNNECESSARY. (GETTY: "The only substantial risk of serious harm was created by actions of officer caudill") THE DEFENSE ALSO TOLD JURORS... THIS ALL STARTED BECAUSE BROWN WAS BEING ACCUSED OF THEFT---A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT. BUT ADMITS HE WAS RUNNING FROM POLICE BECAUSE HE HAD A WARRANT OUT FOR HIM. LIVE IN LEBANON, KARIN JOHNSON, WLWT NEWS 5. THE TRIAL IS EXPECTED TO WRAP UP TOMORROW.
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- Grading the 49ers' victory over the Atlanta Falcons
- 30 arrested at 49ers' last Candlestick game; some seats stolen
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- Kawakami: NaVorro Bowman provides another memorable moment for Candlestick
- Thompson: NaVorro Bowman's interception return for touchdown adds to 49ers' Candlestick lore
- 49ers close out Candlestick with victory
- 49ers' Brock does more than 'make a play'
- 49ers' Mario Manningham out for Candlestick finale
- 49ers hoping to leave Candlestick Park on a winning note against Falcons
SAN FRANCISCO -- Before they waved goodbye to Candlestick Park on Monday night, people sure did a lot of pointing.
Eddie DeBartolo pointed to a spot in the second deck, near Section 27, the historic site of the beer that bounced off Eddie D's head in 1977.
"Yeah, it was right up there," said DeBartolo, laughing as he stood on the field near the south end zone a few hours before the 49ers beat the Atlanta Falcons 34-24. "It was the first time I came to Candlestick Park. I went up with a photographer to take a picture. And some guy crowned me with a full beer.
"I mean, I really felt it. And I turned around to the guy and said, 'You could have at least drank it first!' "
Suffice to say, things got better after that. And DeBartolo, like everybody else, came back Monday to drink in Candlestick Park memories one last time.
They flocked back, in fact -- football icons such as DeBartolo, Jerry Rice and Roger Craig; baseball icons such as Willie Mays and Willie McCovey; and 69,732 fans with stories to tell.
Everyone was doing the Candlestick point.
Larry Baer pointed toward what used to be the right-field line. It was there, near the border of Section 17 and Section 19, where the future Giants' CEO used to sit as a kid.
Baer's first trip to Candlestick Park was in 1963, for his sixth birthday party at a Giants' exhibition game. So out of nostalgia Monday, he climbed into his car and took his kids along the old bus route he used to travel with his dad ... past 19th Avenue ... past Geneva & Mission ... past the Cow Palace ... past Crocker-Amazon ... Baer's only complaint Monday was the weather: It was too good.
"It's un-Candlesticky," Baer joked. "It's not appropriate."
Steve Young pointed toward his heart. A few hours before the game, he threw another touchdown pass to Rice, for old time's sake. When the crowd went crazy, Young touched his chest a few times to show it meant something special.
Both of Hall of Famers are in their early 50s, and both were dressed in suits for ESPN duty.
But they recognized this was their last chance to say a proper goodbye, so Young grabbed a ball and let a tight, 25-yard spiral fly toward the end zone, where Rice, his smile beaming like a light tower, caught the ball gliding through the end zone.
Joy and Tom Gwinn, two Reno residents, pointed toward the upper deck. Somewhere up there was where the two came on their first date, to see the 49ers play New Orleans. Details get hazy after that. ("We were making out the whole time," Joy explained.) They were married three years ago. This was their Christmas present to each other.
"It's just the history," Tom said. "Everybody mentions The Catch, but there's so much more. The bad times. The good times. It's an amazing park."
Gary Carucci, a Sunnyvale resident who grew up in San Francisco, started attending games in the mid-1970s. In his first game at the 'Stick, he saw the 49ers take on Joe Namath and the New York Jets.
"Here's the thing: You can take away Candlestick, but you can't take away the memories," Carucci said.
DeBartolo said essentially the same thing. Though he called the night "emotional," and though his voiced quickened as he recalled the genius of Bill Walsh and the magic of Joe Montana, he didn't mind seeing the end of the building itself.
Still, he planned a visit to the most famous patch of real estate in Candlestick Park history, the north end zone where Dwight Clark came down with The Catch in the NFC title game on Jan. 10, 1982.
"We're going to go after the game, Dwight and I, and relive some old memories," DeBartolo said. "Probably with a drink."
Here's guessing it goes down easier than that beer in 1977.
Executive sports editor Bud Geracie contributed to this report. Follow Daniel Brown on Twitter at twitter.com/mercbrownie.


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UK establishes plant for sustainable biotech production
London – The UK has established the National Industrial Biotechnology Facility in Wilton as a testbed for developing cleaner and more sustainable biotech-based processes to replace traditional methods for manufacturing chemicals. The 17 million-euro NIBF facility is sited at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), which builds on the area's tradition of chemical manufacturing with work on functional materials, advanced processing and fuel cells. CPI and other stakeholders planned the NIBF as an integrated facility at which companies use a "gene to kilo" approach to test ideas for commercial feasibility, explains Chris Dowle, CPI's director of advanced processing. Funding from The Northern Way, of Newcastle upon Tyne, and the regional development agency One Northeast supported building and equipping the facility.


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Paranormal Brighton and Hove
By Cameron, Janet
From the publisher's website: The first book to explore, in depth, the complete range of paranormal phenomena reported in Brighton & Hove. Here you will find accounts of well-known hauntings, as well as many previously undiscovered locations.
This fascinating account of local 'sightings' looks at traditional historical legends as well as modern day experiences, providing fresh knowledge together with the author's personal accounts of new and traditional stories.
Janet Cameron's ghostly tour of the area is illustrated with many of her own photographs.
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Police say an intruder was fatally shot early Sunday when he held East Oak Cliff apartment residents at gunpoint and tried to rob them.
The 28-year-old man attempted to rob apartment residents in the 3500 block of E. Overton Road, police spokesman Juan Fernandez said. He was holding them at gunpoint when a man pulled a gun from under the couch and fired it at him.
The 28-year-old man, whose name has not been released, died from gunshot wounds.
Detectives are interviewing apartment residents and the 21-year-old man who fired the gun, Fernandez said. His name has not been released.
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The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
At a Glance - Finding Derivatives
The second FTC states that a function of the form
is an antiderivative of f(x). This means F '(x) = f(x). Using Leibniz notation,
Sample Problem
The second FTC says that the integral expression
is an antiderivative of eex. This means the derivative of is eex. In Leibniz notation,
In the previous example, all we had to do was write down the integrand, replacing t with x. This works so long as the lower limit of integration is a constant and the upper limit of integration is x all by itself.
We could also change the letters around. If we're using t as the upper limit of integration, then we have an antiderivative F(t) and its derivative will also be a function of t.
Sample Problem
This question is asking for the derivative of
Since F is a function of t, its derivative is also a function of t. All we have to do is write down the integrand, replacing x with t so that we end up with a function of t.
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Time For A Grown-Up Server: Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Capistrano and You
More and more Rails developers are finding out that deploying a Rails application isn't as simple as upload and rename; Rails apps work best when running all the time, and many Rails programmers are moving from traditional, shared hosts, like Dreamhost, to virtual private servers, like Rimuhosting, which allow them full control (and responsibility) of production servers.
Given this freedom, there are now a huge number of options available for deploying a Rails application, which is rare for such a new technology. So what to use? Apache + FastCGI? Lighttpd + FastCGI? SCGI? Apache 2? Litespeed? Mongrel? In what configuration? So many questions, so few answers. Here's what I've been deleriously happy with, and how to do it yourself: Mongrel, Apache 2.2, and mod_proxy_balancer, using Capistrano to keep everything at your fingertips.
What the hell is Mongrel?
Mongrel is the hot new kid on the block. It's a hybrid Ruby/C HTTP server designed to be small, fast, and brutally secure. It's written by Zed Shaw, who is easily one of the most entertaining and delightfully cranky programmers I've ever read. (Zed, if you're ever in the Bay Area, I owe you a pint.) While it's a general purpose library, Mongrel is shaping up to be an amazing application server for Rails.
Sounds sweet. What's Apache got to do with it?
Well, horses for courses. Mongrel is awesome at being a tight little application server for Rails, but when it comes to configurability, speed serving static files, and stability, Apache 2.2 beats the pants off Mongrel. But the main reason is that Rails does not play well with concurrency, and unless your code somehow magically gets around this, it will eat flaming death if it tries to do two things at the same time. So just Mongrel by itself would be slow at serving up static content like images, CSS files, etc., and it would necessarily be limited to a single request at a time, unless the main point of your Rails application was to publicly eat flaming death. ("It's a feature!")
So we're going to be using Apache 2.2 as the front-end for Mongrel, which allows us to both serve up static content like it's going out of style, but also to use a huge wealth of modules, like mod_deflate, which will improve your site's responsiveness and download time. We'll run a cluster of Mongrel servers locally, and route requests through Apache's mod_proxy_balancer, which uses a sophisticated algorithm to make sure all the Mongrel servers feel equally loved.
Why not (Lighty|Pound|Litespeed|A Large Begonia)?
Apache is the heavy-weight in the web server world, and for good reason. It's stable, fast, extensible, free as in Beery Speech, and all sorts of enterprisey. It's gotten a bad rap in the Rails world, though, mainly due to its patchy FastCGI performance. It's true, Apache + FastCGI is a horrible, horrible solution, unless your problem is "how can I waste my time on a dodgy server config?" in which case you shouldn't be using the Intarweb while drunk. Finally, Apache currently has a great proxy balancer, which is why we're using it.
This is not to speak ill of other front-end web servers, and you should feel free to use whatever you're comfortable with. This article, though, is about how to set up what I've got set up, because I can vouch for it being awesome. Chip in on the comments if you've got a Mongrel band with a different lead singer and let us know how it's going for you.
Okay, so what do I need?
I'm going to assume you've got Apache 2.2, Ruby 1.8.4, Subversion, and whatever database backend you need installed. That all depends on your operating system. Personally, I've had a great experience with Fedora Core 5, but I won't make fun of you if you use Gentoo, Ubuntu, RHEL, Debian, FreeBSD, or whatever. Just make sure you can install and easily maintain your various pieces of software. Also, make sure you've got all the various low-level development tools, like a compiler or two, and the development packages for Ruby and such.
Your application has to be using either ActiveRecordStore, SQLSessionStore, or MemCached to keep track of session data. Files are the worst possible way to deal with sessions, and when you have more than one server reading and writing from the same file-based session store it's gonna blow up big.
You should have a Capistrano script which will at least run the setup tasks correctly. If you need help with that, there are many blog articles and even a full-blown, if slightly outdated, manual on the damn thing.
Finally, none of this is going to work without root access (or an impossibly permissive server), and you'll just piss off your admins if you try otherwise.
At this point you should have an Apache 2.2 "Welcome to Apache" style installation, and your Rails application should work just fine in WEBrick mode. If that doesn't work, you've got problems which are best dealt with by tech support, IRC vets, or Friends Who Owe You Favors. If you aren't at that stage yet, bookmark this page and get to work. I'll wait until you're ready.
Ready? Go!
1. Install Mongrel & Friends.
Because otherwise, the rest of this how-to is just going to be super awkward:
[server]$ sudo gem install daemons gem_plugin mongrel mongrel_cluster --include-dependencies
This will download, compile, and install Mongrel and its dependencies, daemons, a library which allows Mongrel to curl up at your server's feet like a good little poochy poozle, and gem_plugin, which allows folks like yourself to write gem-based, module add-ons to Mongrel. It will also install mongrel_cluster, which contains a few tools which make managing a cluster of Mongrel servers easier.
Be sure to install at least mongrel_cluster (and thus, Mongrel) on your workstation–deployment via Capistrano will be complicated, otherwise, since you'll have to reimplement all the code they've thoughtfully laid out for you already.
At this point you're ready to get your Mongrel configuration on.
2. Mongrel: Sit! Lay! Restart!
First, you need to figure out how much memory you've got to spare, how much traffic you're expecting, and how much money you're willing to expend. An average Mongrel process can use between 15MiB and 40MiB of memory, depending on what your application does, and you need to figure out how many you can stuff into your server without popping it at the seams. Right now I'm running a decently-sized application with Apache, MySQL, and a cluster of three Mongrel servers in a 128MiB virtual private server with a bit of padding on top to keep the lid on. My advice is to start with two or three and build up to it. As you'll see later, adding more clusters is stupid-easy. For now, we'll assume that a cluster of three will do nicely.
Configuring the cluster
Pop open a terminal window, amble on over to your Rails project directory on your workstation, and crank out a cluster config file:
[workstation]$ mongrel_rails cluster::configure -e production \\
-p 8000 \\
-a 127.0.0.1 \\
-c /path/to/your/capistrano/setup's/current
This will add a file, mongrel_cluster.yml, to your config directory, which, when run, will launch a cluster of three Mongrel servers, starting on port 8000, listening on the local interface (and not to evil meanies on the internet).
Before we get to using it, however, we'll need to make one small change for testing purposes. Open up mongrel_cluster.yml, and comment out the line with address: 127.0.0.1 on it (it's YAML, so just add a hash at the beginning of the line). We'll add this back in later, but for now we'll want to make sure our cluster is behaving properly. Add mongrel_cluster.yml to Subversion, and check it in.
Configuring Capistrano
Mongrel_cluster comes with some drop-in replacements for Capistrano's restart and spinner tasks. Open your deploy.rb and add the following to the top:
require 'mongrel_cluster/recipes'
Now add the following to your deploy.rb settings:
set :mongrel_conf, "#{current_path}/config/mongrel_cluster.yml"
Make sure you don't have any old code in your deploy.rb obscuring the dark, shining beauty of mongrel_cluster. Also be sure you add the :mongrel_conf statement after setting :deploy_to. Otherwise, as Jesse Clark notes in the comments below, you're in for some weirdness.
Configuring the services
Finally, we need to register your Mongrel cluster as a system-level service, which will allow us to make sure it pops back up when your server reboots.
First, open a terminal window in your server's services script directory. For most of you, this will be /etc/init.d/. Link the mongrel_cluster script from the gem directory to the services directory:
[server]$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel_cluster-0.1.3/resources/mongrel_cluster mongrel_cluster
[server]$ sudo chmod +x mongrel_cluster
Those you on Red Hat-based systems should add mongrel_cluster as a recognized service:
[server]$ sudo /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 mongrel_cluster on
If you're running a Debian flavor, Ben Curtis assures me this works:
[server]$ sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d mongrel_cluster defaults
Those of you using otherwise will have to fend for yourselves. (Let me know how!)
Finally, link your mongrel_cluster.yml from your app's config directory to /etc/mongrel_cluster:
[server]$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/mongrel_cluster
[server]$ sudo ln -s /your/rails/app/config/mongrel_cluster.yml /etc/mongrel_cluster/yourapp.yml
At this point, your server is rarin' and ready to go.
Testing your cluster
Well, time to deploy, eh? Almost.
Before you begin, make sure your server can access your Subversion repository. Capistrano unfortunately doesn't allow you to enter a password when Subversion prompts you for one, so go to a temporary directory and check out the entirety of your application. Subversion will remember your passwords once you've entered them.
Got your server playing well with Subversion? Then you're ready to go!
In a loud voice, say something profound and memorable ("That's one small step for Rails…"), and deploy that bastard:
[workstation]$ cap cold_deploy
This should checkout the latest version of your code, set up all the symlinks and other fun stuff, and finally start the Mongrel cluster. If it doesn't, try running it with
--trace and see what's going on. Nine times out of ten, it's some fiddly bit you forgot about in your haste to get this thing up and running.
If all went well (or was fixed after you let the magic smoke out), you should have three web servers running on your server:
- http://myserver.com:8000
- http://myserver.com:8001
- http://myserver.com:8002
Visit each one in your web browser, and make sure everything works. Fix all the problems you see until each works fine.
Closing up the cluster
Once everything is to your satisfaction, open config/mongrel_cluster.yml back up again, and uncomment the address: 127.0.0.1 line. Save and check in your changes, and re-deploy:
[workstation]$ cap deploy
Everything should go smoothly. Make sure the three 800x ports on your web server are no longer accessible–the only public entrance to your web site should be through Apache!
Now your cluster backend is done! Congrats. Go get a beer, or whatever refreshing beverage the grown-ups let you have. Time to get to work on the front-end.
3. Putting The Inukchuk In Apache
First, find out where your Apache config files are. If your distro isn't a total crazy-pants, it'll be something like /etc/httpd/ or /etc/apache2. Within that directory should be conf.d, which is where all of your server-specific config files go. We're going to take a DRY approach to all this, and try to reuse as many bits of our config files as possible, to avoid the all-too-common problems associated with overlapping anything. Now, all files in the conf.d directory which end in .conf will be automatically included. Keep that in mind.
Removing the cruft
Your Apache installation no doubt includes a certain amount of cruft. Some of that you will need to remove immediately, like config files which block what we're trying to do, and some of it you'll want to remove later, like modules you don't need.
In my installation, at least, the 'Welcome to Fedora Core 5′ page that every URL produced was created by a default file, welcome.conf. It's in the way, so out it goes:
[server]$ sudo mv welcome.conf welcome.conf.disabled
Let's lay out the file structure I've been using to keep my config files sane:
- myapp.common
- The common portions of our configuration. Refactoring this out makes it easier to add additional VirtualHosts down the road (e.g., SSL) while still maintaining exactly the same configuration.
- myapp.conf
- The main entry, tying everything together to produce a working Rails app.
- myapp.proxy_cluster.conf
- A proxy balancer with which to interface with the Mongrel cluster.
- myapp.proxy_frontend.conf
- An (optional) HTTP front-end for managing the proxy load balancing configuration on the fly.
Feel free to replace 'app' with the actual name of your application.
And now, for the meat.
The common bits of configuration. This links a Directory or VirtualHost with the proxy-balancer, includes the proper mod_rewrite configuration for Rails, adds support for Capistrano's enable_web and disable_web commands, and enables mod_deflate for most compressible formats.
ServerName myapp.com
DocumentRoot /var/rails/myapp.com/current/public
<Directory "/var/rails/myapp.com/current/public">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
RewriteEngine On
# Make sure people go to www.myapp.com, not myapp.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myapp\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myapp.com$1 [R=301,L]
# Yes, I've read no-www.com, but my site already has much Google-Fu on
# www.blah.com. Feel free to comment this out.
# Uncomment for rewrite debugging
#RewriteLog logs/myapp_rewrite_log
#RewriteLogLevel 9
# Check for maintenance file and redirect all requests
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/system/maintenance.html -f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !maintenance.html
RewriteRule ^.*$ /system/maintenance.html [L]
# Rewrite index to check for static
RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [QSA]
# Rewrite to check for Rails cached page
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
# Redirect all non-static requests to cluster
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://mongrel_cluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
# Deflate
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml text/javascript text/css
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \\bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# Uncomment for deflate debugging
#DeflateFilterNote Input input_info
#DeflateFilterNote Output output_info
#DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio_info
#LogFormat '"%r" %{output_info}n/%{input_info}n (%{ratio_info}n%%)' deflate
#CustomLog logs/myapp_deflate_log deflate
This is pretty simple, it just ties the settings in myapp.common to a VirtualHost on port 80.
<VirtualHost *:80>
Include /etc/httpd/conf.d/myapp.common
ErrorLog logs/myapp_errors_log
CustomLog logs/myapp_log combined
This is loaded by Apache to configure a mod_proxy_balancer cluster mapped to the internal Mongrel servers.
<Proxy balancer://mongrel_cluster>
BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8000
BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8001
BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8002
This provides a front-end for the proxy load balancing, which you can access from inside your server at http://localhost:8080.
Listen 8080
<VirtualHost *:8080>
<Location />
SetHandler balancer-manager
Deny from all
Allow from localhost
4. Reboot And Go!
Time to kick over httpd and see if everything worked.
[server]$ sudo /sbin/service httpd restart
If all goes well, your web server is now configured as a Mongrel cluster backend to an Apache 2.2/mod_proxy_balancer frontend. You should feel happy.
5. Bonus Round! Secure server!
This one will depend greatly on your distro, but it does contain one super-important tip for getting a TLS/SSL version of your Rails app working in this setup.
Install mod_ssl, if you haven't already
[server]$ sudo apt-get install mod_ssl
Replace the defaults in /etc/httpd/conf.d
My install added a file, ssl.conf to the conf.d directory. We'll use this as a starting point, but let's do it on our own terms:
[server]$ sudo mv ssl.conf ssl.conf.original
[server]$ sudo cp ssl.conf.original myapp.secure.conf
Now open myapp.secure.conf in your favorite editor (vi, right?), and scroll down to the VirtualHost it adds on port 443 (with Fedora Core 5, this was line 81). Inside the VirtualHost, add this:
Include /etc/httpd/conf.d/myapp.common
# This is required to convince Rails (via mod_proxy_balancer) that we're
# actually using HTTPS.
RequestHeader set X_FORWARDED_PROTO 'https'
That last bit is super important, especially if you're using the ssl_requirements plugin from 37signals (and why wouldn't you?). Otherwise, the Mongrel servers won't know if an incoming request came in secure or not, which means you'll have no way of knowing if you really should be processing that credit card or not.
Configure the certificates
Now, either look up the SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile entries in myapp.secure.conf and replace those files with your cert and key, respectively, or edit the entries to point to where you have your cert and key stored.
Restart the server and test
[server]$ sudo /sbin/server httpd restart
Now see if that puppy works!
How well does this actually work?
Personally, it's worked incredibly well. My "banging tin pots together" benchmarking with httperf indicated that where the Apache1.3+FastCGI setup on Dreamhost could handle ~30 reqs/sec before it would start dropping connections, the Apache2.2+Mongrel setup on a 128MiB Rimuhosting VPS can handle ~90 reqs/sec before things get hinky. In addition, the amount of downtime due to lost worker threads or fudged FastCGI connections was nil. The only times the site went down could be directly traced to me cutting first and measuring second.
Apache+Mongrel is shaping up to be the preferred deployment platform for Rails applications. Recently, the official Ruby On Rails site moved to Apache+Mongrel for their blog, wiki, and manuals site, all of which are much more responsive and have much lower downtimes. Rails Machines, an exciting new "rapid application deployment" hosting service for Rails applications, is using Apache+Mongrel for all their services. Rick Olsen, Rails Core member, has been running both his blog and Rails Weenie on
ApacheLitespeed+Mongrel recently, and some people like Jonathon Weiss have moved large sites over to this architecture.
The great thing about this deployment architecture is that it leverages one of Rails' greatest strengths: share-nothing scaling. All you have to do is add more boxes, and Apache+Mongrel makes that as easy as changing your deployment recipe and your myapp.proxy_cluster.conf file, then restarting the services. Your Mongrel clusters can span boxes and networks, making scaling a simple matter of plugging in hardware.
Long story short: it's golden.
Thanks to…
I cribbed much of the initial Apache configuration and Mongrel ideas from Bradley Taylor's Fluxura blog, as well as Jonathan Weiss's article. Any errors I'm willing to acknowledge as my own, but leave a comment if you find something that doesn't work for you! Finally, thanks to all the commenters with questions, corrections, and thanks. This article wouldn't be nearly as accurate without you all. Thanks for trying to follow my instructions. ;-)


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Sunday, July 29, saw the Sakura Bana Budo hold its winter grading.
More than 40 students attended and over 40 students were graded in Aikido and Jodo, with two students receiving their black belts.
Senior students Brent Harding received his black belt in Aikido and Jordon Root received her Ni-Dan in Aikido, congratulations to both.
The juniors had a very exciting day.
All juniors were graded in Aikido and all juniors competed in three martial arts competitions.
The results from the competitions were:
Karate Kata Competition
Boys 1st Mcausland Tebbut, 2nd Sol Woodward, 3rd Jacobe Hankey
Girls 1st Emma Owens, 2nd Erin Tebbut, 3rd Oliva Chopping
Ground Work Competition
Boys Small 1st David Hankey 2nd Ben Chappel
Boys Medium 1st Jed Collis 2nd Sol Woodward
Boys Large 1st Brandon Cassin 2nd Mathew Wheeler
Girls Small 1st Emma Owens, 2nd Sarah Wheeler
Girls Medium 1st Pheobe Drury 2nd Erin Tebbut
Girls Large 1st Oliver Chopping 2nd Elanor Drury
Sumo Competition
Boys Small 1st Nazar Eltoby 2nd Ben Chapple
Boys Medium 1st Jed collis 2nd Sol Woodward
Boys Large 1st Brandon Cassin 2nd Kurt Blair
Girls Small 1st Emma Owens, 2nd Sarah Wheeler
Girls Medium 1st Mckenzie Creech 2nd Erin Tebbut
Girls Large 1st Elanor Drury 2nd Oliver Chopping
Senior Improvement was awarded to Cody Hewitt
Senior Achievement was awarded to Lilly Richardson
Senior Achievement was awarded to Dylan Henry
Best Ukemi was awarded to Sarah Wheeler and Zach Jefferies
A new junior beginners class will be held on Wednesdays at 4.30pm at the Milton/Ulladulla Basket Ball stadium, starting August 22.
Anyone interested in learning Aikido, Jodo or tai chi can contact Sensei Mick Smalley on 0439 278 756.


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Our electronic document management services, provide the centralized storage, the security settings to share and retrieve the documents from the digital archive as well as letting users work whilst preventing other people from making changes, we also provide workflow configuration in order to automate the document routing and provide to users email notification on document status changes. Our services also include CD/DVD production for long term digital preservation.
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Lower South Liberty 12U Tryout schedule for this week is set below. Practice and tryouts will be in Woolwich Twp(Swedesboro, NJ) near Kingsway HS. We are convenient to I-295 and NJ turnpike. We will participate in Fall tournaments and scrimmages, Winter workouts 2x per week beginning January and a competitive Spring schedule. Team workouts will begin late August in preparation for the Fall Season.
Official tryout dates are at: Gen Charles G Harker School (GPS: 1771 Oldmans Creek Road, Woolwich Twp, NJ 08085).
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Manoj Pant
In this column last month, I had noted that the emerging countries' trade during 1995-2007 was sustained more by growth in trade amongst themselves than with the developed world ( Brics: Politics as Economics, ET, May 11).
This was remarkable given that in this period - and especially after 2000 - the developed world had been growing at fairly robust rates so that the growth of trade amongst emerging economies must have been based on underlying economic fundamentals. In other words, intra-emerging country trade was not a temporary phenomenon.


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Alice in Wonderland Shadow Box
Whenever your life starts to feel a little mundane … open the cover and peer inside for a peek into Wonderland.
Print out the shadow box on cardstock and cut out all of the pieces. Do not cut along the dashed lines -- this is where you will fold the paper. Use a craft knife to cut out the white shape on the Top Cover, Top Liner, and Frame. Do not allow children to use the craft knife.
Stage and Backdrop: Fold all the tabs away from you on the stage except for the F tabs -- fold those two tabs toward you. Glue the E and C tabs to the white side of the D tabs and then tuck and glue the B and A tabs like a box. Fold the A tab of the backdrop towards you and glue it to the white side of the part of the stage with the grass design. Now glue the F tabs to the back of the sides of the backdrop. Glue down the floor of the stage to secure it. Set aside these completed pieces for later.
Top Cover and Top Liner: Make all of the folds in the top cover away from you. Cut a piece of white tissue paper (the kind used in a gift bag) and glue it to the back white side of the top cover over where you cut out the heart. Make the folds in the top liner towards you and glue it over the tissue paper to secure it by gluing the A tab to the top liner. Make sure the point in the cut-out on the top liner lines up with the heart's point.
Box Wrap and Frame: Make all of the folds in the box wrap and frame away from you. Use a craft knife to cut a slit in the latch on the frame so that you can slip the cover tab into it later. Glue the A tab of the frame to the bottom of the middle side of the box wrap. Glue the A tabs on the box wrap to the white side of the base of the frame.
Drop the completed stage and backdrop piece into the box and close it by gluing the B and C tabs on the frame to the inside of the box. Glue the cover piece to the top by tucking and gluing the B tabs on the cover to the inside of the top of the box. Glue down the flap on the back of the cover to the outside of the back of the box. Use the tabs on the characters to glue them to the stage floor. You're finished!