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Virtualizing network-based services and resources yields Cisco IT greater applications availability, agility, resiliency, and broad cost savings.
The inherent constraints of any physical component in terms of failure, provisioning, and limited utilization have always constituted an obstacle to optimizing the application hosting environment. Now, with network-based virtualization, this obstacle can be practically eliminated for both network resources and application services—with impressive results. Network-based virtualization yields greater availability because the uptime no longer depends on an individual physical component. As virtualization turns a hard resource into a soft one, most of the operations associated with its lifecycle are transformed from manual tasks to configuration changes, enabling automation and fostering increased agility and resiliency. And the increased flexibility to deal with limited capacity leads to better utilization, which is a core enabler for consolidation, rationalization, and pervasive cost savings in the data center.
Cisco IT defines virtualization as the decoupling of logical and physical entities, and categorizes virtualization on two levels: resource (or infrastructure) virtualization and service (or application) virtualization. In resource virtualization, physical resources such as network, compute, and storage resources are segmented or pooled as logical resources. An example of resource virtualization: Sharing a load balancing device (hardware) between multiple applications virtualizes the infrastructure. In service virtualization, on the other hand, multiple physical service instances are grouped to act as one logical instance. Service virtualization includes application services (fully functional application instances) and network services (application component instances that are used to build fully functional applications). An example of service virtualization: Load balancing an application (service) between two servers virtualizes the application and enables high availability. With virtualization, the role of the network is twofold: the network resources themselves are virtualized, and the network also acts as an enabler for service virtualization.
Since 2000, Cisco IT has virtualized five network-based resources and services:
- Server load balancing
- Firewalling
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption and decryption
- Web services gateway
- Global site selection
For Cisco IT, virtualizing load balancing alone has increased utilization of the hardware involved from 5 to 75 percent. Simultaneously, the physical footprint for the load balancers decreased by 50 percent while the total number of virtualized applications increased sixfold. Load balancing was, in fact, the first shared network service Cisco IT offered across the network that severed the one-to-one link between application and device.
"Before 2000, everything was siloed," says Wilson Ng, network engineer in the IT Networking Design and Engineering group at Cisco. "If a client wanted load balancing, IT would procure the system, go through a learning curve on how to use it for the particular application, and finally deploy it. The whole process would take two to three months."
Multiple load balancing systems were increasingly becoming harder for IT to manage and maintain and produced low average utilization. Moreover, the number of application environments that required load balancing was doubling each year. By 2003 the group was operating 14 pairs of load balancers. "We concluded that this was not the way we should provide the network service," Ng says.
So in 2003 Cisco IT introduced a virtualized, horizontal load balancing service using the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Content Switching Module (CSM) and partitioning techniques to create logical, individual load balancers. The first application to use a virtualized load balancer was the Cisco employee intranet; the CSM was located in a data center at the company's headquarters in San Jose, California. With the success of that application, Cisco IT migrated other applications to the virtualized load balancing service.
Today one pair of CSM modules has been configured to handle the entire production load balancing required across the Cisco data center at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Where only 5 percent of capacity was being used on average with the 14 pairs of load balancers, now up to 75 percent of the CSM (paired for redundancy) capacity is used.
The virtualized load balancing service was the first instance of bringing a service into the IT infrastructure rather than having it reside on dedicated systems paid for by application owners. It became the model and motivation for Cisco IT to virtualize other services.
Now Cisco IT is migrating from the CSM to the Cisco Application Content Engine (ACE) Module, which can divide resources into 250 different virtual partitions. Each partition can be defined by application, customer, or business organization, and resource allocations such as bandwidth or number of connections can be defined for each partition. In addition, role-based access control (RBAC) in the ACE Module allows each virtual partition to be managed by the appropriate IT team.
With the ACE Module, even large applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) can be served by up to 250 virtual load balancers, with a percentage of the module's load balancing resources dedicated to ERP when needed.
Next, Cisco IT initiated the virtualization of firewalling, deployed on a Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Firewall Services Module (FWSM). Like the ACE Module, the FWSM can be partitioned into multiple logical firewalls assigned to specific applications. It, too, runs horizontally across the data center.
Eliminating various siloed load balancing appliances has given Cisco IT consistent configuration, deployment, and monitoring capabilities, and has also significantly increased service availability and load balancing infrastructure utilization. What's more, requests for load balancing can be satisfied in hours, rather than months.
The CSM and ACE Module are also the key enabling technologies for application service virtualization. Cisco's primary Internet presence, Cisco.com or www.cisco.com, consists of multiple server farms, each with multiple physical servers, which have been optimized for specific application functionality. For example, one server farm serves static content, a second serves dynamic content, and a third provides a supporting authentication role. To the outside world, however, the Internet presence appears as one giant server. In addition, physical server failures and server maintenance can be hidden from end users. This deployment of application virtualization enables greater availability, agility, and operability.
The next two services that Cisco IT sought to virtualize require more involvement from application owners: SSL encryption and decryption and an XML Gateway. SSL encryption and decryption, using the Cisco Catalyst 6500 ACE Module or the earlier SSL Service Module (SSLSM), was first used in 2004 to enable content switching of encrypted HTTP traffic in the Java 2 Enterprise Edition environment. This environment hosts more than 40 percent of Cisco's internal and external applications and is mission-critical to Cisco's business.
Later, in 2006, it was adopted to support employees who use a non-Windows-based operating system, such as UNIX, and who need access to Windows-based e-mail. The SSLSM offloads the encryption and decryption required from the e-mail server, resulting in much faster access for the employees. This functionality is being transitioned to the newer, more scalable ACE Module, which integrates it better into the load balancing and content switching function.
The application owner's involvement with this service must increase because there is more integration work, according to Koen Denecker, IT architect in the Network and Data Center Services group at Cisco. "There is the benefit to the owner of not paying for the hardware, but the owner must sit down with IT to discuss the application's specific needs."
The SSLSM has been installed in all major Cisco IT production centers, and Cisco IT is using it to support other services in a virtual way. Additionally, Denecker says, IT now uses the SSLSM to support application environments, not just individual applications, for example, the Java-to-enterprise environment. "We use the SSLSM to encrypt and decrypt for hundreds of applications by putting it on that single environment," he says.
Cisco IT is also using the SSLSM with the CSM to enable back-end migration and vendor transition in the Java 2 Enterprise Edition environment, which hosts the bulk of the internal and external HTTP-based applications. Because these communications include queries about personnel matters, the entire payload, including incoming URLs, is encrypted and must be decrypted before the application can go to the appropriate application server selected by the content switch. The SSLSM performs the first task; the CSM performs the second. Today, both functions can be performed within a single pair of ACE Modules.
The Cisco ACE XML Gateway is another example of network-based service virtualization. It provides a virtual web services gateway to the Internet for a broad range of users whose applications need XML links to other software, to databases, or other systems to do their jobs.
"The ACE XML Gateway can act as a virtual front door for B2B [business to business] interactions within Cisco," says Sandeep Puri, IT architect in the Platform Services and Support group at Cisco. "This gives us one interface point through which our partners may talk to us. The XML Gateway can transform different data formats involved in B2B interactions on the fly to what we use at Cisco. The appliance gives us a central point to enforce different service policies that we may have for services that Cisco hosts. In addition, the gateway can be positioned to add an additional layer of security by using the appliance's XML level firewall policies," he explains.
The latest service to be virtualized is as much an enabler of the technology as a use of it. The Cisco ACE GSS 4400 Series Global Site Selector (GSS) performs global server load balancing. It distributes client requests for applications to different geographic instances of those applications.
"Users anywhere in the world can reach the nearest instance of an application for faster access and response times–it's a form of application acceleration," says Jon Woolwine, IT architect in the IT Networking Design and Engineering group at Cisco.
It is also very useful for disaster recovery and even routine maintenance and software upgrades. When a system goes down, whether planned or not, the GSS can reroute application requests from clients to an application instance in a different geographic location.
Global server load balancing, like local server load balancing and firewalling, have been easy to pitch as virtualized network-based services. Whether easy to pitch or not, any virtualized service must be undertaken only after considerable planning.
Woolwine, who has worked closely with applications teams within Cisco IT and with application owners, believes that it is imperative to bring both these groups together with network engineers and architects. This collaboration, he says, is required "to get an end-to-end perspective and an understanding of all the complexities of a given application, its dependencies, how it links to servers and storage, and other intricacies, along with how they will be affected by virtualizing a given service. That is a challenge, because typically people are from one camp or another."
Cisco IT chose to employ this process not for all of the thousands of applications it uses, but rather for the large and critical ones and those with common environments or front ends.
Virtualizing network-based services might also require the convergence of technologies and multiple groups within a company, not unlike that seen when voice and data converged. "The server, storage, and network teams need to work together to develop policies and standards for areas that will be virtualized," says Ng. "For example, when using VMware, the network and server teams had to standardize to 801.1Q trunking for VMware servers. This allows virtual server provisioning and network service access."
When integrating services into the network, IT staff should also look for opportunities to maintain the current data center architecture and keep existing logical components. Cisco IT took advantage of the flexibility built into the CSM, ACE, SSL, and FWSM modules to deploy them without any change to the application's server. The IT group also kept the same access controls, spanning tree protocols, and other data center provisions.
In addition, the costs to virtualize should be factored in at the beginning. "Virtualization makes operations more complex, and tracking down a complex network application integration problem may take significantly more resources and last longer if the support staff has not been trained appropriately," says Denecker. "It is critical to accompany the introduction of new technologies with the appropriate organizational evolution and skillset developments." Some tasks, he adds, increase in importance, such as capacity planning, fault containment, testing, quality management, monitoring, dependency management, and change management. Then again, virtualization increases cross-functional collaboration and avoids silos of technical expertise.
Even so, says Denecker, "The value of the increased availability that virtualization brings will outweigh the cost issues and risks. Increased utilization, availability, resilience, operability, and agility simply outweigh all the overhead associated with adoption of the new technology."
And very tantalizing are the possibilities inherent in the level of service integration attainable with virtualization, when services are abstracted from applications and components (e.g., a reusable pricing module in an ordering tool) may be distributed among many locations and shared with many applications.
This abstraction gives IT enormous flexibility in provisioning and even compiling applications. "We can begin to build services in a service-oriented architecture," says Denecker. "We might take one component from one application, another from a second, and so on to compile a new application, as long as all the parts operate within the same environment. This is how Cisco IT sees the data center becoming the computer with the network as the enabling platform."


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The result can be that the case may run into April now.
Aitzaz submitted a sick leave application to the Supreme Court (SC) citing 'food poisoning' as the cause behind his absence, maintained his assistant Barrister Gauhar.
A seven-member bench headed by Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk was due to hear the case today.
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Aitzaz had then insisted that he be spared from Monday's hearing.
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The SC initiated contempt proceedings against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for failing to act on the apex court's orders to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari in Switzerland.
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Louise Bourgeois's hands are the subjects of portraits taken by Dutch artist Alex Van Gelder. At Bourgeois's invitation, Van Gelder photographed her at her New York townhouse during the last year of her life. The resulting portfolio of eighteen photographic prints, which are stunning, fascinating and humbling, will be on display at Hauser & Wirth, Zürich until 14 May 2011.
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Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.), a member of the Joint Economic Committee, today issued the following statement regarding President Obama's remarks this morning that "the private sector is doing fine."
"It is disturbing, frankly, that after 40 consecutive months of national unemployment over eight percent, President Obama somehow believes that "the private sector is doing fine.' I think the millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans that wake up every day without a job would disagree with the president's comments.
"President Obama's remarks today completely ignore our economic realities. When I meet with Hoosier business owners and job seekers, I hear a common concern that Washington is creating many of the obstacles to economic growth, rather than providing solutions that support innovation and entrepreneurship. The private sector needs more certainty, not more government."
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Hi Doug, those two are very cool events. Thanks for posting...
Tue 23 Mar 2010
Tue 23 Mar 2010
Hi Doug, those two are very cool events. Thanks for posting...
Wed 24 Mar 2010
Hello folks,
As a newbie I will start with my name, Christa Boarini, my location, New York, and my deal: I am a filmmaker working on my fist feature documentary, The View From Bellas Luces http://www.theviewfrombellasluces.com
This community came very highly recommended to me by panelists in at a doc seminar and this is the first thing I am doing upon getting home.
Wed 24 Mar 2010
Hi All,
I'm pleased to have found you.
I'm currently working on several projects that are in the early stages while also in the final throes of distribution of The Edge of Never (www.edgeofneverfilm.com), a feature doc that is playing on Showtime right now. The film is based on a book I wrote of the same name.
We finished it in Sept. 2009, bought an old Airstream bus and hit the road with it. We did 45 shows from coast to coast (we rented the theaters, bought the advertising, did the PR, and charged at the door) over the course of three months. During that time we sold US pay TV rights to Showtime. We're working on getting onto iTunes, etc. with Distribber (Adam C. recommended this forum), have representation for foreign TV (beginning at MIPDOC and MIPTV), and are seeking a bricks and mortar distributor.
Though I've been involved with other projects – the last one, Steep, was sold to Sony Pictures Classics – this is the first where we've tried the hybrid distribution model. It's been a trial and error so far, but it beats the hell out of the all-rights deal.
Looking to learn from others about the many things that I don't know about, and if I do know anything useful, to share it.
Wed 24 Mar 2010
Edited Wed 24 Mar 2010 by Ben Kempas
Welcome to The D-Word, Christa and William.
Bill, what a great approach to distribution! See you in our Business Topics.
Wed 24 Mar 2010
Hi everybody,
I'm a film editor, editing (&loving) mostly documentary films, because i think its the greatest editing challenge you can get. I'm glad to have found this site with so many colleagues and film professionals, and i will contribute where i can.
All the best
Wed 24 Mar 2010
Welcome on board!
(Thomas is a bit modest and doesn't mention he edited BURMA VJ.)
Wed 24 Mar 2010
The extraordinarily well edited, Burma VJ, I should add. Welcome, Thomas, and Bill and Christa, too.
Thu 25 Mar 2010
I have just joined D-Word which came highly recommended by a friend. I make doc's and I organise film festivals so I'm super exited about joining, learning and adding in from my experiences!
Thu 25 Mar 2010
Great having you here, Yasmin. Get thee to the Festivals topic right away. You'll find it super interesting.
Thu 25 Mar 2010
I'm the new Executive Director at Full Frame! We kick off two weeks from today with DA Pennebaker and Chris Hedgedus' US Premeire of "King fo Pastry"!
Come down to Durham for the best docs and a great fun festival! April 8-11...
Thu 25 Mar 2010
Edited Thu 25 Mar 2010 by Doug Block
Great to have you here, Deirdre. We've put up a special Full Frame topic for those attending (there's a whole bunch of us) and those wanting to attend virtually. So feel free to drop in and post there, as well.
On a personal note, can't wait to be there and meet you.
Fri 26 Mar 2010
I have made a series of documentaries involving public nudity, including Mardi Gras, Key West Fantasy Fest, and Biker Rallies. Always looking for ideas on how to improve my work and find a market for it. I recently self-published a book, "WildLife – Naked Outdoors" available on Blurb.com
Fri 26 Mar 2010
You're welcome at The D-Word, Stephen, whatever the state of your attire.
Fri 26 Mar 2010
as far as finding a market for it, HBO and Showtime love nudity... in fact, their "premium subscribers" demand it. that's what one of their CE's told me one time.
Fri 26 Mar 2010
I certainly demand it.
Sat 27 Mar 2010
Hello everyone,
My name is Ruchi, I love documentary, I want to make documentaries. I'm a student in the Media Studies program at The New School here in NYC and now, happy to be a part of this community. I found you through the strange, but usual, confluence of things. At a talk at school the other day, two filmmakers mentioned Doug Block's 51 Birch Street, and I thought, I'd like to see that. Then the next day I got an email about a screening of the film in my neighborhood. A click on a link, and here I am.
I recently completed a short doc entitled Making the City that showed at the US Super 8 Film and DV Festival. If anyone is interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XCcKCKu4s
Sat 27 Mar 2010
Edited Sat 27 Mar 2010 by Doug Block
Wow, Ruchi, and here I am. Life sure is strange. Hope I'll get to meet you at the screening on Sunday (if not you can always rent 51 Birch on Netflix). But welcome to The D-Word, regardless.
Sun 28 Mar 2010
Hi D-Word'ers,
I just signed up. It's great finding this community. After surfing through several of the forums I'm blown away by the quality of the discussions and the good solid advice being passed around.
While I do have a doc on the back burner – I'm a post-production guy who does a lot of work with documentarians. Doc work is my most satisfying work... and often the most challenging.
I run my own boutique post house in NYC, specializing in Final Cut Studio workflows. I am also the President of The Moving Pictures Collective of NYC ( www.mopictive.org ), which is 501c3 and a D/B/A of the NY FCP User Group. Its mission is educating digital filmmakers through monthly meetings and educational events.
Since I'm a vendor-type guy as it relates to docs, I'll cut short the details of my business life and just say: Thanks for having me! I look forward to helping out when I can. And I'm sure I'll have some questions for all of you!
Sun 28 Mar 2010
Good to have you here, Patrick. Glad you found us. Feel free to jump right into the discussions.
Sun 28 Mar 2010
Hi everyone,
I'm a filmmaker from Zimbabwe and I've been in the industry for almost 5 years. I've been researching two docs for about a year now both focusing on our capital city, Harare – one on water and the other on garbage/waste management, both hot topics here. We hope to start shooting in the next couple of weeks.
It's really exciting to find such an incredible resource on the web – thanks so much to all of you D-Worders who make it happen.
Sun 28 Mar 2010
Welcome to The D-Word, Patrick and Nigel.
Nigel, you might want to connect to our other man in Harare.
Sun 28 Mar 2010
Welcome to Nigel and Patrick. I remember your posts at Creative Cow, Patrick, your expertise is welcomed. As Ben says, you're our second member in Zimbabwe, Nigel, so go out and spread the D-Word!
The hidden section? Oh yes...
Sun 28 Mar 2010
Good day to all, I am fuelled! Is that the way I should begin? I have written a book and script which tells true accounts of the wrongs within the justice system. There has been a great deal of interest in hearing this story. Now I am searching for direction as to how to get this very important film out there. After reading many of the posts, I am confident that forum will help me acquire knowledge that will guide me.
...and for now, I thank you
Sun 28 Mar 2010
No rules on how to begin, Marian. Good day is as good as any ;-)
Is your script for a fiction film or doc? Is it finished?
Mon 29 Mar 2010
In reply to Nigel Hulett's post on Sun 28 Mar 2010 :
Hello Nigel!!
(I didn't even tell him about D-word, I swear. I was keeping this secret all to myself.)
Nice work with Mana by the way – Nigel is quietly going about saving our most beautiful National Park from being destroyed.
And he lent me a spare battery and some filters for my recent trip to Mozambique.
And he organised the Age of Stupid screening here.
And other good stuff.
D-word rules!


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The performance will mark the second time the Elmhurst College Jazz Band has played at the Chicago Jazz Festival. In 2001, the Jazz Band took center stage when legendary vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater invited them to accompany her.
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what is the phase problem? x ray crystallography
hey people.. can anyone give a succint definition of the phase problem in x ray crystallography? we've started looking at it in our course, but it hasn't really been defined. i've looked high and low on the web as well, but i have been unable to find any decent definition. also,, why is it a problem, in terms of determining protein structure? obviously it is, but i'm not sure why.
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In order to calculate electron densities from a diffraction experiment you need three pieces of information, only two of which can be determined directly by the experiment. Those three things are the indicies of a reflection (h,k,l), the intensity of the reflections, I(hkl), and the phase angles of the reflections, α(hkl). Now the indices of a reflection will be determined by the symmetry of the crystal and by convention, and the intensities can be measured by some detection device: a photon counter of some sort, a piece of film, or an image plate, or ccd, for example. The phase of a reflection is analogous to phase differences between sine or cosine waves or the diffraction of photons in a double-slit experiment, and comes from the interference between radiation diffracted by different hypothetical planes within the crystal (see a discussion of Bragg's Law). You need the phases of the reflections in order to caluclate the electron density within the crystal, but you can't determine them simply by measuring the I(hkl)s. You have to do something more. Therefore, the phase problem refers to this doing "something extra" to somehow extract phase information from the diffraction experiment.
Once you have estimates of the intensities and phases of the reflections, you can calculate the electron density within the crystal and build a model by placing atoms into density as appropriate. To see how well your model explains the data, you "back" calculate the diffraction pattern you expect to see, given your model, and compare it to the diffraction you actually see. By cycling back and forth between structure factors and electron densities (by fourier and inverse fourier transformations) you gradually build a better model that (hopefully) explains more and more of the diffraction, until finally you decide you can't improve the model any further with the data in hand, and you stop, saying, "Here is the crystal structure of…"
These are perhaps more than you want.
http://www.mineralogie.uni-wuerzburg.de ... /teaching/
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/sfap ... intro.html
The "phase problem" is a problem for both small molecule and protein structures, but it's a little more of a problem for proteins as there aren't so many ways to derive the phases, and the resolution of the data usually aren't as good—typically 2-3 angstroms resolution for proteins compared to 0.7-1 angstroms for a routine small molecule crystal structure. Nowdays, most small molecules can be solved by direct, ab initio methods using only the intensity data and formalized chemical intuition. Direct methods are possible for protein structures, but it gets harder to apply the method as the number of atoms in the unit cell gets larger and the resolution of the data gets worse.
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thanks very much for that. it clears things up a great deal.
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Proteins vary in every nature. Specificity is suggested to be reliable in terms of identifying, sorting, isolating (and the like) proteins.
Compare I think, isolation of protein techniques with that of x-ray crystallography.
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feature include a remote kill switch. A small but revealing piece of the Android Market terms of service has revealed that the remote removal of an application may be possible.
"Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement . . . in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion."
Hopefully this will be used for apps that may do some damage, or cause issues with the handset and not for apps that T-Mobile does not want.
But aside from just what may be killed, it will be a little more interesting to see just how quickly someone develops an app that will be able to kill or at least disable the kill switch. Similarly, the iPhone has such an app, it is part of Boss Prefs which is available through Cydia for jailbroken phones.
A nice part of the kill switch in Android is that it may possibly help to get rid of a malicious application because unlike the App Store, the Android Marketplace does not have the same scrutiny before the apps are listed. While I hate to agree with the kill switch, I think that at least in this case it may do more good than harm.
In regards to any paid apps that are killed, Google has stated that they will make "reasonable efforts to recover the purchase price of the product . . . from the original developer on your behalf." Of course, as of now, all of the apps in the Android Marketplace will be listed for free, so that should be something to worry about down the line.
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Octopus rubescens Berry, 1953
Common name(s): Red octopus
|Synonyms: Octopus pricei
|Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
|Octopus rubescens from intertidal, San Simeon, Ca
|(Photo by: Dave Cowles May 1997). Caution: This species often bites!
How to Distinguish from Similar Species: Enteroctopus dofleini is larger (also red), male has a larger hectocotylus (about 1/5 the length of the arm vs 1/10 for O. rubescens (photo)), and its skin has abundant wrinkles along with the papillae. It is also said that Enteroctopus dofleini does not have the three cirri that are found below the eyes of O. rubescens (photo).
Geographical Range: Alaska to Scammon's Lagoon, Baja California and in Gulf of California. Most common intertidally in the southern part of the range. The commonest small intertidal octopus in some areas (especially northern California) but in Washington E. dofleini seems more common.
Depth Range: Intertidal to 200 m.
Habitat: Kelp beds (juveniles often washed ashore in kelp holdfasts), rocky areas, sandy mud bottoms, under stones on low intertidal.
Biology/Natural History: The sixth pair of suckers is enlarged on all but the ventral arm of males. Male hectocotylus is conspicuous, about 1/10 the length of the 3rd right arm, where it is located (photo). The ink is reddish or red-brown. The larvae have a double row of chromatophores on each arm (E. dofleini has only 1 row/arm). Adults eat crustaceans, mollusks, and fishes. They especially seem to prefer to eat small crabs and hermit crabs. Females guard egg clusters intertidally or shallow subtidally from late spring through early winter in rocky areas. Peaks in breeding are in August and September. Young hatch in 6-8 weeks, spend a brief period in the plankton, and settle as juveniles in the kelp beds. Larger individuals migrate farther offshore on sandy mud bottoms. They mate in deep water in late spring, then move inshore again. They ae often found in prawn traps.
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Niesen, 1994
Ricketts et al., 1985
Scientific Articles:
Anderson, RC., P. D. Hughes, J.A. Mather, and C.W. Steele, 1999. Determination of the diet of Octopus rubescens through examination of its beer bottle dens in Puget Sound. Malacologia 41: 455-460
Anderson, Roland C. and Eliza A.H. Little, 2006. Observations of a brooding Octopus rubescens (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae). The Festivus 38:1 pp 10-12 (San Diego Shell Club)
Hochberg, F.G., 1998. Class Cephalopoda: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and the Western Santa Barbara Channel. Volume 8 part 1: The Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda, pp. 1-250. P.V. Scott and J.A. Blake, Editors. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA, USAMather, J.A. and R.C. Anderson, 1993. Personalities of octopuses (Octopus rubescens). J. Comparative Psychology 107:3 pp 336-340
Student Projects:
Thomas, Jeremy and Lyndsi Hersey, 2006. Remote chemosensory and feeding in Octopus rubescens near Deception Pass, Washington. Jeremy and Lyndsi tested whether this species would use its chemosensory powers to respond to the smell of prey. Using two different red individuals, they repeateadly placed either two clear plastic tubes or two opaque plastic tubes into their aquaria, then placed a crab into one of the tubes while out of sight of the octopus. The water inlet was flowing through the tubes so that the smell of the prey should enter the water. They observed the octopus' behavior for 20 minutes after placing the prey in the tube. The showed little special interest in the opaque tubes. They occasionally contacted the tubes or even climbed on top of them and reached their arms partly inside, but never encountered or captured the prey. On several occasions the octopus actually entered a tube but it happened to be the empty one. With the clear tube (through which they could see the prey) the octopus several times quickly swam to the tube and embraced it, but could not seem to figure out that they had to go to the end of the tube to capture the prey. More often they would ignore the prey, which was standing mostly immobile at the bottom of the tube, even though the prey was clearly visible to them. As soon as prey were released free into the tank, the octopus quickly captured them. The students concluded that this species does not seem to use smell to find prey, but need to see the prey moving and/or actually touch the prey in order to be stimulated to capture it.
I have seen this species swimming at about 500 m depth in Monterey Bay in late spring (observations using the MBARI Ventana ROV). Presumably these individuals were adults which had swum out to deep water to breed.
This individual is trying to sneak away through the intertidal algae. Dave Cowles, San Simeon, CA 1997
This individual has about a 20 cm arm spread. Captured near Rosario. This individual is a male. It usually keeps its hectocotylus arm coiled, as can be seen on the
left in this view. The hectocotylus arm is the third arm on the animal's right side. The first and second arms on the right are straight and the third arm is coiled in this view.
Photo by Dave Cowles, June 2006
|Photo by Dave Cowles, July 2006
|Photo by Kirt Onthank, April 2007
|Photo by Kirt Onthank, April 2007
|It is said that one way to distinguish Octopus rubescens from small Enteroctopus dofleini is that O. rubescens has three distinct cirri below the eye, as seen in these views.
In this photo, the same individual shown in the tank above has eaten an oregon cancer crab Cancer oregonensis which was nestling within the plates of a dead barnacle, then took over the barnacle. Notice the mottled camouflage appearance and the three cirri clearly visible below the eye.
This photo shows a female Octopus rubescens (right and bottom) tending her eggs (center) which she has laid inside a beer bottle.
The bottle is encrusted with barnacles and tubeworms. Photo by Kirt Onthank, 2007.
The beak of an Octopus rubescens adult is about 1 cm long.
This is the beak of the brooding female from the picture above, which died after brooding her eggs for 3 months.
Many of the eggs had become cloudy and did not appear viable after the 3 months.
Photo by Kirt Onthank, March 2007
|Here are several more photos of an O. rubescens which
has become accustomed to handling, showing some of the different color
patterns and textures it can take on within a few minutes.
Photos by Kirt Onthank, April 2007


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My friend, the playwright Robert Heide, posted this excellent article on LGBT culture in 1960s NYC.
As Heide wrote in The Villager on June 25, 2015, "The evening of June 28, 1969, is the starting point of the gay revolution at what was once seen as a notorious mafia-run gay hustler bar by some uptight Villagers — and in particular by the New York Police Department — the Stonewall Inn, at 51 Christopher St.
The place was originally a horse stable, almost 200 years old in 1930 when it was converted into a rental hall for business banquets, birthday and wedding parties. In the '60s it opened as a gay bar and attracted a mix of wild drag queens and young gay men.
Drags and transvestites were often excluded from the more exclusive gay men's Village spots, like Julius' and Lenny's Hideaway, both on W. 10th St., and the Old Colony and Mary's, on Eighth St. The cellar dive that was known as Lenny's is now Smalls Jazz Club.
I myself hit the Stonewall a few times back in the early days with a brownette, pointy-toothed Candy Darling. This was before he/she was given a makeover by the flamboyant Off Off Broadway theater director Ron Link, who taught Candy how to do her makeup in 1930s movie-star style.
The newly glamorized Candy was presented in a show written by Jackie Curtis at Bastiano's Cellar Studio Theater in the Village called Glamour, Glory and Gold, which featured in his first stage role a young actor named Robert De Niro. For the Candy transformation, Link got out a white henna powder concoction that, when mixed with peroxide and pure ammonia and applied to dark hair, turned it platinum-white blonde, thus changing a drab Candy into a Kim Novak/Jean Harlow blonde bombshell.
Eventually, Candy went on to become a Warhol Superstar: for the final makeover touch Warhol paid to have Candy's teeth capped pearly white. At about the same time, drag performers Jackie Curtis and Holly Woodlawn also jumped into the Warhol superstar film scene at the Factory.
There are many stories and myths about the rebellion at the Stonewall and the riots that followed and one of them has a Stonewall regular, a black drag named Marsha, hitting a cop over the head with a high-heeled shoe on the first night of the famous police raid.
Some of the Black Marsha myth may have been concocted or exaggerated by the three-day protest crowd. It is known that at one point the police were actually locked (along with Howard Smith, the Village Voice columnist) inside the place by the angry drags and queens and their sympathizers fed up with the constant raids and continuous harassment.
My partner, John Gilman, and I watched some of the big happenings from Christopher Park, not realizing at that time the full importance these events would ultimately have on gay history, gay identity, the gay revolution and the gay liberation that followed. Now, same-sex marriage is O.K. and, in the summer of 2015 with Olympian Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn Jenner, sex change has become the new 'normal' in America, leading us to a completely different way of looking at the world of transgenders, transsexuals and transvestites."
Bob Heide's play The Bed – a scene is pictured above, with John Gilman, Bob's partner – was one of the key works of the era, and was eventually filmed by Andy Warhol, and archived in The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Bob and John still live on Christopher Street in Manhattan, and continue to push for LGBT rights and recognition, while still writing books and plays – and excellent articles like this one. It's a really authentic account of what went during this crucial era in American culture. You want to know how it really was? Check it out.
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Rush hour recycling yields 40 tons of old electronics
Indianapolis - A local recycling effort has brought in 40 tons of old electronics and cardboard.
Hoosiers dropped off the computers, printers, keyboards, hard drives and televisions Thursday morning at the final "rush hour recycling" event for the fall. Organizers say the program has been very popular.
Workers dismantle the electronics and recycle every component, including the plastic, glass and metal.
"Recycling electronics is especially important because some electronics have toxic materials. For instance, televisions that have been dropped off today that we're collecting have lead tubes. Those lead tubes need to be disposed of properly rather than putting them in a landfill where that lead can get into our ground water," said Renee Sweany, Green Piece Indy.
You can recycle old televisions and computer equipment until 4:30 pm today at 754 North Sherman Drive, Suite 220 in Indianapolis. If you can't make it today, you can drop off items at Indianapolis' new permanent recycling center.


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WASHINGTON – Japanese and U.S. science and technology bodies agreed Wednesday to help both countries develop a next-generation information transmission network that could replace the Internet.
The government-affiliated organizations said they will try to establish future standards for a global information network in place of the current Internet, which faces chronic security problems and a looming risk of enormous power consumption due to the rapid increase of transmitted data.
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Japan and the National Science Foundation of the United States will assist bilateral research on sectors such as creation of networks using optical fibers and mobile computing in the coming four years, they said..


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February 21, 1676; Indian War broke out with about half the houses at Medfield burned and seventeen persons killed. The residents present at this time on the w side of the river at Medway were; George Fairbanks Sr., George Fairbanks Jr., Joseph Daniell, Jonathan Adams, William Allen, and Peter Collyr. Perhaps John Fussell, in all thirty persons. Of these, Joseph Daniell, Jonathan Adams, William Allen and probably Peter Collyr had their houses burned. The Fairbanks were living in the stone fort at Boggastow Pond at the time. (History of Norfolk Co., Massachusetts - D. Hamilton Hurd)
1678; George Fairbanks Jr. gave one shilling and one bushel of corn and Joseph Daniell gave two shillings sixpence and two bushels of corn as a contribution towards the "new college in Cambridge." (History of Norfolk Co., Massachusetts - D. Hamilton Hurd)
1682, inherited homestead Sherborn.266
Was selectmen in 1693, & prominent in the formation of Medway.265
1693; Tax list from w side of Charles river at Medway; John Adams, John Ellis, Abraham Harding, John Clark, Jonathan Adams Sr., Jonathan Adams Jr., Peter Adams, Josiah Rockett, John Partridge Jr., John Richardson, John Rockett, Samuel Hill, George Fairbanks Jr., Jonathan Fisher, Joseph Daniell, Joseph Daniell Jr. (History of Norfolk Co., Massachusetts - D. Hamilton Hurd)
1693; George Fayerbanke and Joseph Daniel two of the selectmen of Medfield. (Handbook of Medway History 1713 - 1913)
1702; The laying out of Black Swamp at Medway was ordered, 27 of the 123 proprietors were residents of the west side of the Charles; Jasper Adams, John Adams, Jonathan Adams, Jonathan Adams Jr., Peter Adams, Benjamin Allen, William Allen, John Clark, Theophilus Clark, Timothy Clark, Ebenezer Daniell, Joseph Daniell, Joseph Daniell Jr., John Ellis Sr., George Fairbanks, Jonathan Fisher, Henry Guernsey, Abraham Harding, Samuel Hill, John Partridge, Samuel Partridge, Widow Rebecca Richardson, John Richardson, John Rockwood, Vincent Shuttleworth, Ebenezer Thompson. (History of Norfolk Co., Massachusetts - D. Hamilton Hurd)
1705; Medfield votes to build a new Meeting House.
"The inhabitants on the West Side of the river shall have half their pay
toward building refunded if they build a Meeting House on that side within
twenty years." George Fayerbanke and Joseph Daniel are appointed and act
this committee in charge of building the new Meeting House. (Handbook of Medway History 1713 - 1913)
October 25, 1713; "....Mr. George Fairbanks, a principle Inhabitant of the said Town of Medway, is hereby Directed and Impowered to Notify and Summon the Inhabitants duly Qualified for Voters to Assemble and meet together for the Choosing of Town Officers to stand until the next Annual Election according to Law." (History of Norfolk Co., Massachusetts - D. Hamilton Hurd)
October 25, 1713; Of the original 48 founders of the town of Medway, MA; Daniel Adams, Jasper Adams, John Adams, Jonathan Adams Jr., Joseph Adams, Obadiah Adams, Peter Adams, John Bullard, Malachi Bullard, Ebenezer Daniell, Jeremiah Daniell, Joseph Daniel, Joseph Daniel Jr., Samuel Daniel, George Fairbanks, Abraham Harding, Abraham Harding Jr., John Harding, Thomas Harding, Samuel Hill, Samuel Hill Jr., Ephraim Hill, Michael Metcalf, Samuel Metcalf, Benoni Partridge, John Partridge, Jonathan Partridge, Samuel Partridge, Daniel Richardson, John Richardson, John Rockwood, Josiah Rockwood, Ebenezer Thompson, Nathaniel Whiting, Nathaniel Wight. (History of Norfolk Co., Massachusetts - D. Hamilton Hurd)
October 29, 1714; At a meeting at the house of Peter Adams in Medway, MA it was voted that the burying ground should be upon Bare Hill within 40 rods of the meeting house. Committee of Captain George Fairbanks and Zackri Partridge and John Richardson was chosen to lay it out. (History of Norfolk Co., Massachusetts - D. Hamilton Hurd)
October 16, 1715; Grant of land at Douglas. (Sherborn Town Records)
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1730, drew lands in Douglas, Massachusetts267
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|Ruggedness Within Reach: Olympus' New L Series Vanta™ Handheld XRF Analyzer
WALTHAM, Mass., September 19, 2017 — Olympus' new L Series Vanta™ handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer is designed for customers who demand the ruggedness, power, speed and ease of use that Vanta analyzers provide in a cost-effective Si-PIN X-ray detector model.
|New Olympus Ultra-Portable EPOCH 6LT Flaw Detector Provides Comprehensive Flaw Detection Capabilities for Rope Access and High Portability Inspections
WALTHAM, Mass., June 27, 2017—Optimized for single-handed operation, the EPOCH 6LT flaw detector combines a leading-edge ergonomic design with powerful ultrasonic functionality in an instrument built specifically for rope access and high portability applications.
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|Olympus Employees Donate Nearly 1,200 Volunteer Hours to Greater-Atlantic City Charities
Olympus, a global technology leader in designing and delivering innovations in life science and industrial solutions, among other core businesses, announced today that over 250 of its employees from around the country participated in a Day of Caring in Greater-Atlantic City, donating nearly 1,200 hours of volunteer time to local charities. Olympus recognizes the importance of supporting community organizations and is passionate about giving its employees opportunities to get involved.
|The New Vanta Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analyzer for RoHS and Consumer Safety Delivers Confidence when Screening for Toxic Metals
WALTHAM, Mass., March 21, 2017 ー Olympus' latest addition to the Vanta series of handheld XRF analyzers is optimized to help ensure compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) and local or international regulatory laws. Like every Vanta analyzer, this new model combines fast, accurate results with a durable design for maximum uptime and a lower cost of ownership.
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|Olympus LC30 Color Microscope Camera Delivers Value and Performance
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WALTHAM, Mass., September 20, 2016 - The first three production units of Olympus' new Vanta portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer have been sold to CSIRO.
|Rugged, Revolutionary and Productive: Olympus' New Vanta Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analyzer Delivers Accurate Elemental Identification in the Toughest Working Conditions
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|Olympus Receives Gold Supplier Award - Recognized for consistent on-time delivery and quality
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|The Olympus IPLEX NX Videoscope Features Industry-leading Image Quality to Locate Previously Undetectable Flaws
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BEREA — Carson Palmer has an extra reason to hang a towel from his uniform pants Sunday: He'll need something to wipe the drool off his chin.
The Bengals Pro Bowl quarterback will face a Browns defense he torched for 627 yards and five touchdowns in two games last year. The Browns made improving the secondary a priority in the offseason, but it debuted by allowing a career-high four touchdown passes to Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger.
"Mentally I guess we weren't prepared for what they did, or weren't in tune for what they did," cornerback Leigh Bodden said. "Things happen, but giving up four (touchdowns) is just crazy."
The Browns rank seventh in the NFL in pass defense after Week 1. That has to be the most misleading stat in the league. The ranking is based on yards allowed, and the Browns "only" gave up 159 yards passing to the Steelers. But five turnovers gave the Steelers great field position and limited their opportunities.
The Steelers took over at the Cleveland 22-yard line on the first drive and gained 24 through the air – they lost 2 yards rushing. On another drive, they needed just one pass to cover 40 yards for a touchdown. Oh, yeah, Pittsburgh didn't throw a pass in the fourth quarter.
No wonder Cincinnati receiver Chad Johnson's dreaming of jumping into the Dawg Pound after scoring a touchdown.
"It's my responsibility. He's not going to get in the end zone," Bodden said.
Even if Bodden, who didn't practice Friday and is listed as questionable with an injured groin, puts the clamps on Johnson, that doesn't mean the Bengals will be silenced. T.J. Houshmandzadeh is a great No. 2 receiver and running back Rudi Johnson gives the Browns fits, especially when Palmer audibles to a run when the defense is spread out.
The Bengals could miss third receiver Chris Henry, who's serving a league suspension. He had 10 catches for 154 yards and two touchdowns in two games vs. the Browns last year.
"I still think they have a lot of ability," defensive coordinator Todd Grantham said. "They have some tools to work with and they have an excellent quarterback who gets them in the right play at the right time.
"I expect — with Leigh there and Eric (Wright) — that we have a little more talent there."
Bodden was slowed by injuries last year and Wright is a rookie. He allowed an early touchdown to Hines Ward on a difficult catch last week, but looked fine otherwise. With Bodden and Wright starting, Daven Holly as the nickelback and free-agent signee Kenny Wright coming off the bench, the Browns feel they are better suited to handling Cincinnati's multiple-receiver sets that dominated them last year.
"I think we have some good corners and I think we match up very well against these guys," safety Brodney Pool said.
Pool was in the middle of – or a few steps behind – the biggest defensive breakdown Sunday, as Santonio Holmes beat him on a post for the backbreaking 40-yard touchdown.
"I'm not thinking about last week. It's over," he said.
Pool is a new starter, replacing departed veteran Brian Russell, who was a master of setting the defense and preventing the deep ball.
"Brian Russell was the quarterback of our defense. Brodney Pool and Sean Jones are now," Bodden said. "They do a pretty good job. They're not where Brian Russell was.
"Athletically they're great and talented, they just have to work on the mental aspect of it and they'll be fine."