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Ticket #10991 (closed defect: fixed)
console.powerDown() hangs if console.powerButton() failed first
|Reported by:
|Owned by:
|VirtualBox 4.0.14
|Guest type:
|Host type:
Assume a virtual machine which, for whatever reason, doesn't react well to ACPI shutdown requests (you can simulate this by changing /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh to something like
#!/bin/sh echo "Ignoring shutdown request" | wall exit 0
On your host, execute the following code (replace UbuntuServer with your vm name).
vmname = 'UbuntuServer' from vboxapi import VirtualBoxManager vbox = VirtualBoxManager(None, None) virtualbox = vbox.getVirtualBox() machine = virtualbox.findMachine(vmname) mgr = vbox.mgr session = mgr.getSessionObject(vbox.getVirtualBox()) machine.lockMachine(session, 1) console = session.console console.powerButton() #this won't raise anything, but the VM won't shut down console.powerDown()
The last call will leave your VM hanging in a shutting down state - kill -9 is needed to get out of it. Expected behaviour: console.powerDown() should be able to turn off the virtual machine regardless of its state.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by frank
I cannot reproduce your problem. Tried this with VBox 4.2.0, a Linux host and a Linux guest. Also: If the guest is ignoring the power button event then this should not influence the VM process in any way.
Please attach a VBox.log file from such a VM session where you had to kill the VM process with 'kill -9'.
comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
Further info:
- Apparently I was mistaken on the VBox version: we're still on 4.0.14
- Closing ipython released my virtual machine and cleaned it up nicely on my laptop
- The server (from where the attached logfile was taken), still has the problem. The code there calls waitForCompletion on the progress object returned by console.powerDown(). In case of problems (try/finally), it calls session.unlockMachine()
comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by frank
- Version changed from VirtualBox 4.2.0 to VirtualBox 4.0.14
I cannot reproduce this problem either with VBox 4.0.14. I use vboxshell.py to first press the virtual power button and then to power-down the VM.
comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
It doesn't seem to happen to all of our VMs, but we just had another one with this problem. Is there anything else I can provide that would help with pinpointing the problem? More logs / lshw output / lspci output / ... ?
comment:5 Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
We've started seeing the issue with only a hard stop as well now (I'll attach 38660.VBox.log from a machine which went into this state without a prior soft stop).
It looks like, when this happens, it always happens to a machine created from the same image, although it doesn't happen to all machines created from this image.
ps aux output shows that there are two VBoxXPCOMIPCD processes - could this be related?
# ps aux|grep -i vbox root 356 4.1 5.3 7240832 7069228 ? SNl Oct07 161:28 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless --comment 38547 --startvm 11a78e00-b042-439e-8128-6ed10a553386 --vrde config root 1274 9.7 5.5 7563152 7317884 ? SNl Oct07 377:31 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless --comment 38525 --startvm da17de49-60d4-4353-b3a0-e0b147178205 --vrde config root 5972 1.7 0.0 40476 3756 ? S Oct06 110:43 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD root 7715 3.6 2.7 3882752 3631600 ? SNl Oct08 130:07 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless --comment 36569 --startvm 4ae09e91-20cc-4c0a-9bdb-732626dad908 --vrde config root 8447 3.6 2.7 3831880 3580608 ? SNl Oct08 127:30 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless --comment 36498 --startvm daf4203a-f5f2-4edf-bfe6-2fa1b7d1816a --vrde config root 9182 3.7 2.7 3780932 3598616 ? SNl Oct08 133:16 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless --comment 31622 --startvm 79cf32ff-02d8-44be-b07e-972f4f30de61 --vrde config root 9926 3.5 4.0 5575512 5330952 ? SNl Oct08 123:37 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless --comment 31159 --startvm 492e62d7-52b1-4874-b120-0545ee3030d3 --vrde config root 10296 3.0 5.3 7320764 7072764 ? SNl Oct08 94:14 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless --comment 31839 --startvm da715602-eae6-4eef-a041-499fca13e11f --vrde config root 10662 3.6 1.3 2015496 1833020 ? SNl Oct08 128:40 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless --comment 36539 --startvm 60b2530a-1f07-47ed-b37b-df954cda2a3b --vrde config root 13516 1.4 5.3 7305776 7126332 ? Sl Oct06 92:33 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless --comment 36244 --startvm 27f40d12-bda3-4f86-b2b7-c806b9b40f5f --vrde config root 14374 1.3 2.7 3806056 3619132 ? Sl Oct06 85:51 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless --comment 36468 --startvm 4f883c43-7d50-40ad-8ad9-b09a4e716549 --vrde config root 19351 7.0 0.0 187332 11164 ? SNl Oct07 275:41 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxSVC --auto-shutdown root 19355 4.4 0.0 40476 3756 ? SN Oct07 174:08 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD root 20298 5.6 1.4 2067064 1878416 ? SNl Oct07 221:51 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless --comment 37931 --startvm 855bf7a0-9714-48c0-aa05-cbd1da7ca8d8 --vrde config <snip>
I'll keep looking for a surefire way to reproduce this, but if you have any suggestions for things I might try, or need any additional information that would help you to investigate this, please let me know.
What's more: we don't dare to use kill -9 on the VBox machine process because we've had cases where all other VBox machines on the node would die together with the one being killed - this leaves us without a workaround, so any suggestions on that front would be appreciated as well.
Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
- attachment 38660.VBox.log added
comment:6 Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
In trying to reproduce, I managed to kill all virtual machines by using kill -9 on one of them.
The situation:
One physical machine with 10 virtual machines, all of which are running. kill -9 on one machine all vmachines go down
I have a script which selects a random VMachine on every run and tries:
- soft stop (powerbutton)
- If this fails: hard stop
- Start the machine again
- Kill -9 the process
- Check whether all machines except the killed one are still running (this was not the case)
- Start the machine again
Attached you'll find a tarball with:
- Logs of all the vmachines at this point (some are aborted, some powered off)
- VboxManage showvminfo for all vmachines
Running vbox-related processes (full output - nothing cut):
ps aux |grep -i box root 8371 0.0 0.0 40476 3704 ? S Oct11 0:23 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
Additionally: should I open a new ticket for this? Would it help if I somehow got the machine's disk to you?
Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
- attachment all_machines_dead.tgz added
comment:7 Changed 7 years ago by achimha
I can see two issues here:
1) a VM does not poweroff after calling the API
2) when killing a VM process with kill -9, VBoxSVC (the communication daemon) and other VMs crash
Both should be looked at. However, in your scenario, you should never have to use kill -9, the poweroff command is designed to always work. So this should be looked into.
I think you will have to provide your complete code that deals with the VM power off so it can be inspected for correct use of the APIs. Then, you should also take process dumps of the VM process refusing the terminate as well as VBoxSVC. This will tell what is being executed and what the internal state is. Note that in case you are not on a standard Linux distribution, you will have to provide your whole Linux environment in order to analyze dumps.
comment:8 Changed 7 years ago by achimha
ps aux output shows that there are two VBoxXPCOMIPCD processes - could this be related?
That is not right, there should be only one instance per user (so total one). This process is started automatically so I wonder how you can end up with two of them.
I notice you run everything as root. While that is possible, it is not particularly nice.
comment:9 follow-up: ↓ 11 Changed 7 years ago by frank
To me it seems that the VBoxSVC daemon crashes and that will make all other VMs terminate (otherwise they would not be controllable anymore). So we should try to find out why VBoxSVC crashes before investigating why the VM does not poweroff (or this could even be the same problem).
So please activate coredumps, see here and reproduce this problem. Then I can either provide you debugging files for generating a better backtrace or I need access to the box where VirtualBox is installed.
comment:10 Changed 7 years ago by frank
And the hang can be debugged in a similar way by triggering a core dump (see my previous comment) of the hanging process.
comment:11 in reply to: ↑ 9 Changed 7 years ago by frank
Replying to frank:
To me it seems that the VBoxSVC daemon crashes and that will make all other VMs terminate (otherwise they would not be controllable anymore).
This can be seen in the VBox.log file of all your VMs: detected unresponsive VBoxSVC (rc=NS_ERROR_CALL_FAILED) -- this caused a clean shutdown of these VMs.
comment:12 Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
I have, so far, only managed to reproduce the "all machines die after kill -9" issue. I'm attaching a core dump of the VBoxXPCOMIPCD process after this happens (the only remaining virtualbox-related process).
I'm also attaching our code which calls the vbox apis.
You can find the Ubuntu we're using (with some kernel modifications) here: http://files.incubaid.com/iaas/qpackages/71/cd/71cd27ef769f4ca68f7c03c309a445cc.gz . It's a tgz archive within a gzip archive.
Extra debs that we install can be found here: http://files.incubaid.com/iaas/qpackages/54/2b/542b59709bc726375bd06964ba2324d8.tgz
I'm still trying to reproduce the hanging VM issue - this time without kill -9 cycles in between.
Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
- attachment VBoxXPCOMIPCD.core.tgz added
Coredump of VBoxXPCOMIPCD after all machines died
Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
- attachment vbox_calls.tgz added
VBox API calls
comment:13 Changed 7 years ago by achimha
I think it would be better to debug the power off hang as that is the first problem you run into. However, if it's easier let's focus on the crash on kill issue -- if that is one is solved, then you have a workable solution.
You need to setup your system to automatically generate core dumps when a process crashes. Depending on how you start VirtualBox, you have to put the right environment settings (ulimit etc., see the docs as pointed out by Frank) at the right place. Once you manage to reproduce the issue, you need to provide core dumps of VBoxSVC and a couple of VBoxHeadless processes.
You can test your core dump setup by doing
kill -SIGSEGV <pid>
From the command line. This simulates a segmentation fault crash and will give you a core dump if your system is configured correctly.
comment:14 Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
Agreed - it would be best to solve the poweroff hang, although the kill issue would be a good workaround.
I've added
ulimit -c unlimited echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/core_uses_pid echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable
to /etc/profile and the vboxdrv startup script and have a clean stop / hard stop script running. Hoping to see something show up before Monday.
comment:15 Changed 7 years ago by achimha
Had a quick look at your Python code. A few remarks:
- between calling IConsole::PowerButton() and checking whether the guest has reacted to it using IConsole::PowerButtonHandled(), there is no delay. I think you should give the guest some time to react to it, maybe poll for it for 3 seconds?
- you use IConsole::PowerDown() to terminate the VM. This API is deprecated (and removed in VirtualBox 4.2). You should not use it but go for IConsole::PowerDownAsync() (which is renamed to PowerDown() in 4.2). This API will let you track the progress.
comment:16 Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
I'll make sure to incorporate your remarks into the code, but I'll hold off on doing so until I've reliably reproduced the issue.
I've had a script run over the weekend to try to reproduce the issue, but it's still happily running. A colleague managed to reproduce it by accident though, and we've coredumped the vbox process at that time. You can find the dump here: http://files.incubaid.com/iaas/virtualbox/core.hung.bz2
comment:17 Changed 7 years ago by frank
Thanks for the core dump! First analysis shows that the power down thread is waiting for the EM thread. The EM thread is executing PDMR3PowerOff() but is waiting for some device to get powered off. This smells like a bug we fixed in a later release, let me check.
comment:18 Changed 7 years ago by frank
Actually, do you still have the corresponding VBox.log file to the core dump you submitted available? I just saw that this case must be slightly different than the original VBox.log file attached to this ticket.
The other problem (VBoxSVC crashes if client is killed with -9) was fixed in VirtualBox 4.0.16.
comment:19 Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
I'm not quite sure - the vmachine was destroyed, but I did find a VBox.log file that might have belonged to it. I don't know if you can get the VM name from the core dump, but if it was 21470, then this is the log file you need.
Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
- attachment 21470.VBox.log added
comment:20 Changed 7 years ago by frank
Thanks for the log file. I think this one does indeed match the core dump. So far it looks like some AHCI thread does not properly terminate. We are currently investigating the core dump.
comment:21 Changed 7 years ago by aeichner
Is it possible to get the raw disk vmdk descriptor files of a hung VM? I'm currently investigating the core dump but it would make things a bit easier if I could have a look at the descriptor files.
comment:22 Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
The machine had three disks (boot, data, swap). I'm afraid the actual disks are lost, but the vmdk files were still around on the system.
21470_0.vmdk should be the boot disk.
Changed 7 years ago by ErikH
- attachment vmdk_files.tgz added
comment:23 Changed 7 years ago by achimha
For the sake of completeness:
The poweroff hang was due to a misbehavior of one of your storage volumes (iSCSI?). It reports that it does not support asynchronous flush operations so VirtualBox performs synchronous flushes. Such a flush was issued as a response to the shutdown but it never completes (it is the first and only flush command for that volume). The volume has seen little access during VM runtime so it could be the swap partition. When trying to do the hard power off, VirtualBox waits for the flush to complete but due to some problem with the underlying storage system, it never does. In the synchronous flush case, VirtualBox did not handle a hanging flush command. This is now implemented.
The following problem when doing a kill -9 on the VM process was already fixed in the current version 4.0.16.
comment:24 Changed 6 years ago by frank
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to fixed


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DURHAM, N.C. – The Duke men's golf team captured the Rod Myers Invitational crown for the second straight season after firing a 12-under 852 over the weekend at the Duke University Golf Club. The Blue Devils blistered the course for a 10-under 278 on Sunday to run away with the team title by 12 strokes.
"There is something to be said for home course advantage, our guys like playing out here," said head coach Jamie Green. "They enjoy the golf course especially when it is setup the way it was. The staff created one of the best tournament experiences that we will have all year and to have it right at home is really special for our guys. They like it, they enjoy playing out here and we had perfect weather and perfect greens and they took advantage of it."
Senior Julian Suri and North Carolina's Clark Palmer battled throughout the day for the individual crown before finishing as co-medalists at seven-under (209). Palmer grabbed momentum on Sunday on the par 5 seventh hole when he holed out from 80 yards to grab a two-stroke lead. He held a four-shot advantage with eight holes remaining before Suri carded birdies on No. 11, No. 14 and No. 17 to grab a one shot lead. Suri chipped in from the back of No. 17. Palmer sank a 12-foot par putt on No. 18, while Suri saw an eight-footer slide by the cup for a tie at the top spot.
"Today was a little odd, it was a test of patience more than anything else," said Suri. "Clark and I go way back and it was fun to go head-to-head with him. I actually think it is kind of fitting it ended in a tie, because we both played really well today."
Duke was the only team in the field to post three under-par rounds with a 287-287-278=852. The Blue Devils were followed in the field by North Carolina (E, 864), Charlotte (+3, 867), Liberty (+8, 872) and Iowa (+9, 873) in the top five. Tulsa (+11, 875), Baylor (+13, 877), Northwestern (+21, 885), East Carolina (+21, 885), Pacific (+29, 893) and N.C. State (+41, 905) completed the field.
"That was a fun thing for our program to have an event that families can come down for," added Green. "They can pencil it in their calendar, they can plan on being here. To have all of our guys out here playing, except one guy who was injured, and their families in full force and they played well. They played well in front of the home crowd. Adam Sumrall came in as the top individual for us and to have him be a senior was pretty special as well."
Duke's Adam Sumrall and Braeden Cryderman (Charlotte) finished three shots back of the leaders with four-under 212s. Brinson Paolini (Duke) and Logan McCracken (Tulsa) were tied for fifth at three-under (213). Freshman Mads Soegaard and Austin Cody also finished in the top 10 for Duke at tied for seventh and tied for 10th, respectively.
Suri began the day with a bogey before settling in with three straight pars. He added birdies on No. 5, No. 6 and No. 9 to make the turn at two-under. After suffering a double-bogey on the par 4 10th hole, Suri rebounded with birdies on No. 11, No. 14 and No. 17 to get to three-under on the day. He dropped a shot with a bogey on No. 18 for a two-under 70.
Paolini had a rocky start to the final round with back-to-back bogeys. The Virginia Beach, Va., native quickly recovered with a birdie on No. 3 and added birdies on No. 6, No. 7 and No. 9 to get to two-under at the turn. Paolini navigated the back nine with eight pars and a birdie on No. 13 to cap off a three-under 69.
Sumrall, playing as an individual, started the day with a birdie on No. 10 and also recorded a birdie on the par 4 13th hole, while dropping a shot on No. 12 to card a one-under, 35, on his first nine holes of the day. Trailing by two strokes and entering his back-nine, the senior suffered a triple-bogey on No. 1 to drop back to two-over par on the day. The South Bend, Ind., native recovered well with a birdie on No. 7 and an eagle on par 5 ninth hole to finish the day with a one-under 71. The tie for third finish was the best of his career.
Soegaard carded a two-under 70 on Sunday to finish with a two-under 214 for the tournament. After carding 10 straight pars to open his round, the freshman from Denmark recorded his first birdie of the day on the par 5 11th. Soegaard added birdies on the par 5 14th and the 16th hole before suffering his lone bogey of the round on No. 17. He now has two top 10 finishes on the season.
Cody, playing as an individual, registered an even-par 72 on Sunday. After recording a double-bogey on the par-four 10th, his opening hole of the day, Cody settled down to play two-under golf the remainder of the way. He carded birdies on No. 11 and No. 9 to finish the tournament in a six-way tie for 10th.
After competing in the World
Amateur event in Turkey last week, senior Tim Gornik registered a three-under
par, 69, in his final round of the tournament. The native of Slovenia collected
four birdies and a bogey on the front nine to make the turn at three-under.
Gornik parred the final nine holes of the day to finish the tournament in a tie
for 18th with a two-over 218.
Freshman Motin Yeung shot a four-over 76 on Sunday to finish tied for 42nd at +10 (226). He carded three birdies but also suffered three bogeys and a pair of double-bogeys in the round.
Sophomores Turner Southey-Gordon and Michael Ricaurte also competed as individuals for the Blue Devils. Southey-Gordon finished tied for 25th with a four-over 220. He birdied three of the final four holes on Sunday to post a three-over 75. His round was derailed on his 11th hole (No. 2), when he suffered a nine on the par 4. Ricaurte finished 64th with a 240.
"It is wonderful for us, obviously have Nancy Myers here and to remember Rod and to have so many coaches, rules officials, volunteers everybody with a tear in their eye and a smile excited to be here," said Green. "On top of it, to have a victory it was even more special. It was something that we know his friends and family like to watch our guys have success. That was a lot of fun for our guys to enjoy today."
Duke returns to action Oct. 19-21 at the United States Collegiate Championship in Alpharetta, Ga.
*** Duke now has two tournament victories on the year, marking the second time in the last three seasons the Blue Devil have won two or more events
*** Head coach Jamie Green now has 24 career tournament wins, including seven at Duke since the spring of 2009
*** Duke claimed a tournament victory at the Duke University Golf Club from the 11th time overall … the Blue Devils have won two of the three Rod Myers Invitational events
*** Suri claimed a share of individual medalist honors for his third career victory … he has now finished in the top 10 in all three fall events for the Blue Devils … Suri also won the 2011 Rod Myers Invitational
*** Suri and Palmer (North Carolina) set a new RMI record with low individual tournaments of seven-under 209 … they were the only players in the field to shoot under-par in all three rounds at the Duke University Golf Club
*** Duke's 12-under 852 was the second lowest 54-hole score in the three year history of the Rod Myers Invitational … the Blue Devils were the only team in the field to shoot under-par in all three rounds … Duke's 10-under 278 in the final round was also the second-lowest 18 hole score in tournament history
*** Duke grabbed a commanding lead in the RMI with some outstanding play to close out the front nine … the Blue Devils were eight-under with 10 birdies on No. 6-9 on Sunday
*** Suri has five under-par rounds on the season and is currently tied for fourth at Duke with 40 career under-par rounds … Paolini has shot even-par or better in six rounds this season and ranked third at Duke with 56 career rounds of even-par or better golf

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Junior Sue Killilea (Abington, Mass.), sophomore Natalia Bouyea (East Longmeadow, Mass.) and freshmen Samantha Hemstock (Northford, Conn.) sparked the Beacons offense with 14 combined hits. Killilea finished the day 4-for-7 with four RBIS and a run scored including two triples. While Bouyea added five hits in eight at bats with a team-high three runs scored and Hemstock went 5-for-8 with four RBIS and two runs scored as the team's designated hitter.
In the first game, freshmen catcher Amanda Perry (Worcester, Mass.) had the key hit. She crushed her team-leading sixth home run of the season with Maria Nasta (Andover, Mass.) aboard to put the Engineers away. Perry added another hit, as she and Bouyea were the lone Beacons to record two hits in the opener.
Head coach Natalia Ardagna switched up her rotation and started freshmen Michelle Zullo (Everett, Mass.) in the first game with great results. Zullo (6-2) earned her fourth consecutive victory with one earned run over seven innings. She also struck out a career-high seven batters, while allowing nine hits and no walks.
The Beacons jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the top of the third inning when Killilea hit the first of her two triples on the day. With one out and Bouyea on second, Killilea crushed the ball to right field to easily score Bouyea, but Killilea would be left stranded.
MIT quickly answered with a run in the bottom half of the inning, but it would prove to be the last run they would score in the opener.
UMass Boston failed to scratch across a run in the next two frames, but managed to put together two big innings to finish the game.
To begin the sixth, Perry walked and Lauren Perra (Taunton, Mass.) pinch ran for her. After Perra took second on a wild pitch and stole third on ball four to put Beacons on first and third with no outs, the Beacons speed gave them the lead. Lisa Polsonetti (Revere, Mass.) took off for second and forced the throw to second, the MIT second basemen then threw the ball away allowing Perra to score the winning run. Hemstock proceeded to knock Polsonetti in with a sacrifice fly and the Beacons led 3-1 after six.
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In the second game, UMass Boston jumped out to an 8-4 lead and had to hang on against the host Engineers.
Bouyea and Killilea both chipped in with three hits apiece, while Hemstock went a perfect 4-for-4 with three RBIS and two runs for the Beacons. Leadoff hitter Jaci Goodwin (Melrose, Mass.) took advantage of the opportunity with a 2-for-5 game and two runs scored.
In the circle, senior pitcher Kara Willis (Burrillville, R.I.) earned her fourth win of the season. She allowed four runs and nine hits over the course of four innings while walking two. Zullo relieved her and allowed two earned runs over the final three innings to close out the game.
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The Engineers managed just one hit in the seventh inning as MIT dropped to 1-3 at home this season.
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Today''s in-house cleaners and building service contractors (BSC) can feel like they are reeling from one demand to another.
They are being held to high standards for cleanliness, while also being asked to contribute to environmental sustainability goals within their facilities — all the while having to keep costs under control.
It can seem like an impossible combination — finding the right solution for each cleaning challenge in a facility without increasing equipment costs and labor time.
Fortunately, new hard floor scrubbers with flexible cleaning modes are available to help cleaning professionals meet every floor cleaning challenge without having to invest in or maintain several pieces of expensive equipment.
Manufacturers of automatic scrubbers recognize that flexibility is the key to facility cleaning today.
In a typical commercial building, 80 percent or more of hard floors require only light cleaning on a regular basis.
Often, these surfaces can be cleaned with a good quality scrubber using only water to release dirt.
But, at least occasionally, these same floors require a little more effort — detergent to cut through petroleum-based or other difficult soils or more down pressure from the scrubber to remove heavy soil or stains.
Any facility will have a variety of floor scrubbing needs, from the more lightly used areas to heavily trafficked entryways, meeting and eating areas and even kitchens where food stains and spills are a regular occurrence.
Technology To The Rescue
Adaptive new automatic scrubbers can handle these differing needs with one piece of equipment and do it without lengthy, expensive operator training.
For instance, some automatic scrubbers provide separate tanks for water and detergent.
An operator can use water only on lightly soiled hard floors and add detergent to the solution when encountering heavier soil.
Push button controls adjust water flow and detergent ratio, eliminating the need to pre-mix the cleaning solution before scrubbing.
This flexibility helps avoid locking in to one detergent type and dilution, allowing operators to make adjustments when and where they are needed.
At St. Michael-Albertville High School in Albertville, Minnesota, head custodian T.J. Zerwas uses an autoscrubber that offers these flexible performance capabilities.
"The onboard detergent system has saved us a ton of time and allows us to really stretch our detergent use a lot further," Zerwas said. "Not only is the system saving us money on detergent costs, but it has helped us clean with less impact to the environment."
In fact, Zerwas'' crew now uses just one gallon of detergent a week at the school, versus five gallons per week with their previous scrubbing routine.
And, not only does the school spend less on detergent now, Zerwas'' staff no longer spends time pre-mixing detergent and water, saving the school labor costs as well.
Also available at the touch of a button is instant cleaning power.
This burst of power allows an operator to apply the added strength needed to clean heavily trafficked areas or difficult stains.
Randy Britton, an operations manager with cleaning contractor Service Management Systems, noted: "We have to approach entryways differently because these areas typically have the dirtiest floors in a building. The scrubbers we use with [flexible performance capabilities] minimize downtime so that we can make adjustments with little time or effort."
With these simple controls, cleaning professionals are able to use the same machine across a wide variety of hard floor cleaning challenges within a facility, applying different solutions for differing needs.
Going Where No Autoscrubber Has Gone Before
The trend in automatic scrubbers is moving toward smaller equipment that uses less water, less storage space, is easier to operate and can get into narrow aisles and tight spaces like elevators.
Even some walk-behind scrubbers can be too cumbersome for these places, thus some manufacturers are developing "micro-riders."
While these agile machines pivot easily to clean and clear tight corners, they also incorporate the power of their larger counterparts along with large tanks to keep solution refilling time to a minimum.
Since labor contributes up to 90 percent of the cost of cleaning, reducing machine maintenance is a big priority.
A new micro-rider introduced in Europe and available soon in the U.S. features a swinging deck that keeps trailing water in the squeegee''s path, eliminating the need for troublesome side skirts that often require adjustments during operation and need to be replaced periodically.
Users of this equipment have been happy to eliminate the consumable skirts, which have a tendency to leave wet trails behind when not perfectly adjusted.
New orbital scrub technology introduced on some automatic scrubbers exceeds 2,000 revolutions per minute (RPM), as opposed to 200-300 RPMs on conventional disc scrubbers.
This scrubbing technology produces deep, even pressure in tiny, circular orbits for consistent cleaning with less water.
Plus, the orbital scrubbing pattern does not sling water to the sides like disc scrubbers, reducing the hazard of wet floors.
But, the amazing capacity of this technology is when it is applied to floor stripping.
With the simple change of a pad, an orbital scrubber can be turned into a heavy-duty, environmentally preferable stripper that uses only water.
While stripping is an occasional need, an orbital scrubber/stripper in a fleet can be used day in and day out — for scrubbing or stripping.
Savvy BSCs have been quick to adopt this technology as a strategic piece of equipment.
Besides the savings in equipment purchases and storage, this scrubber does not require specialized training or caustic chemicals for stripping.
And, users of this technology avoid the inconvenience of having to barricade floor areas and redirect traffic for long periods of time.
The cleaning profession, like most, has become more complicated and demanding.
Both in-house staffs and BSCs should look to their suppliers to help them meet these demands.
Today''s technology has introduced better floor care solutions than ever before, while meeting and even exceeding customer expectations for green, clean and cost control.
Lance Hartmann has spent his career around equipment from payloaders and road pavers, to his most recent tenure in the cleaning equipment industry. Initially, he put his engineering degree to work designing assembly lines for Nilfisk-Advance Inc. before moving into product management, where he was in charge of developing a number of the company''s commercial and industrial products. In 2010, Lance completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) and was named manager of Nilfisk-Advance''s Americas Product Management Team, responsible for development of Advance, Clarke, Kent and U.S. Products. Hartmann has been with Nilfisk-Advance since 2003.


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Hip-hop heads and beat disciples alike have been creaming themselves something rotten over Los Angeles producer-slash-J Dilla heir apparent Flying Lotus since he blazed out of leftfield. The slavering for more material to fill the vacuum after Mr FlyLo released LP Los Angeles is just about ramped up again by latest record, LA EP 2 X 3. Essentially a bunch of post-trip-hop remixes for the smoking crowd – and we're not talking Benson & Hedges, friends – things only get truly interesting with Mike Slott's stuttering retake on 'RobertaFlack'. Better still is the final slaughter of 'Secrets' by Soundmurderer, making you sweat for the Detroit junglist's fine drum programming for a minute and a half before a surround sound meltdown mauling.
Also hot from the Detroit coalface but with a bit more satisfying boom-bap is Black Milk, whose Tronic album is sufficiently Dilla-influenced that the late beatsmith is name-checked inside the first 90 seconds of opening track 'Long Story Short'. Where Flying Lotus takes the instrumentalism of Jay Dee, Black Milk falls on the side of Dilla's best work, providing the undercurrents for sharp spitting acrobatics. The guestlist may be a touch Blue Square Premier Division (take Royce Da 5'9" - no, please, take him), but the rest is top-flight ish.
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Maybe it's because, as their name hints, Foreign Beggars rock origins beyond ol' Blighty that they're consistently one of UK hip-hop's most interesting anomalies. Whatever, they reach out to France's Rouge A Levres with comeback single 'Hit That G@$h' (non-censored answers on a postcard not required, ta) and all is electro-rap fine. The remixes do the job too: Scratch Perverts dude DJ Primecuts gets dubstep on '...G@$h''s ass, and elsewhere our old pal Chester P even rips into spitting action. It's all about as politically correct as Kilroy banging Kerry Katona, which, in this case, equals good work.
Miss Odd Kidd's 'Don't Be Afraid To Sweat/Sperm Donor' is sturdy enough, but only really remarkable for the fact that her PR is under the impression the B-side is entitled 'Sperm Doner'. Wouldn't want to risk their local takeaway. Which merely leaves the opportunity to get excited about the next Clipse album (coming real soon) and Eminem's unfeasibly decent comeback (get your ears around 'I'm Having A Relapse' somewhere online if you haven't already). Roots Manuva's gospel-tastic latest single, 'Let The Spirit', gets a hearty thumbs up too, along with, on the same label, Big Dada new talent Speech Debelle and Xrabit & DMG$.
Back To Bassics
The finest grime-rap crew north of Watford are back with a vengeance: Virus Syndicate's sophomore LP, Sick Pay – the logically-titled, theme-continuing follow up to their fine widescreen debut' The Work Related Illness – is fittingly, erm, sick. It takes a while to get going, but the momentum kicks in with the liquid undulations of 'Vibrator' and barely dips until a closing couple of Various Production remixes. MRK1's production could take on just about anybody in the grime/dubstep game to boot. Manchester 1 London 0.
Make that Manchester 1, USA 1, London 0, because Pennsylvanian producer Starkey has beaten dubstep's home city at its own game with Ephemeral Exhibits, boasting enough dark portent to suggest it's not always sunny in Philadelphia. Honourable mentions elsewhere go to The Bug's latest trouser-wobbling, speaker-worrying 12 'Ganja' with Killa P and the ever-grimy tones of Flowdan, Distance's second album on Planet Mu: Repercussions, Midlands sub-continent-leaning hip-hop boardsmith turned dubstepper Juttla's atmospheric At War With Satan (which includes a timely eski-fied take on the James Bond theme, 'The Spy'), plus King Cannibal's epic crunch through double-A 'Aragami Style/Flower OF Flesh And Blood'. And if you don't hear Canadians Thunderheist's Baltimore club-style single 'Jerk It' in at least one late-night soundsystem this winter, we'll eat our own, well, sense of smugness. On toast. Metaphorically.
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Don't Believe The Hype
Any haters who ripped into Lady 'missing in action' Sovereign may bust an artery or two on witnessing mic-grabbing miss Envy's 'Friday Night', a not-entirely-genius rumination on the perils of hitting the town. As for stealing a moniker from rather fine Japanese post-metallers Envy, that just seals the deal... We would also like to suggest you do a Cruyff turn when faced with most the sub-par tunes Lil Wayne is turning up on right now. And the less said about Adam "Goldie Lookin' Chain" Hussain's Tenants Superman (sic?) project the better, although we will mention that the duo's first record, probably available at a car boot sale near you soon, suggests GLC were operating, comparatively, on a Dickensian level. At least it's possible to get some handle on them, mind. Not so Prodigy of Mobb Deep. Our copy of the currently incarcerated Queensbridge rhymer's new effort, Product Of The 80's (definitely a sic right there), is smothered with so many audio promo drops that a computerised woman becomes the main act with the Mobb Deep man a guest on his own record. Technology is bad, y'all. Don't touch that web browser address, though, huh?


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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
On the Street….Camel Coats, Florence p.2
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3 coats 3 pinstriped suits. Europeans are so much better dressed than Americans.
camel coats. I'm allergic.
Love the coats, but black shoes with a navy suit… ugh!
^ Look at Comme they do a lot of navy with black.
Very beutiful coats! Both men are well-dressed. The one with the buttons behind is fantastic!
I just saw a guy today (waiting for the train here in Chicago) who would have been totally unremarkable except that he had this amazing long, fitted, Camel-colored wool coat. I couldn't stop staring…at his coat.
Nice looking coats, they leave a nice impression.
I think these guys should switch coats lol The slimmer gentleman in front would stand out more wearing a belted back camel coat with wide cuffs, and the bulkier gentleman in the back could've gone with the more simple and trimmer coat the guy in front of him has on. Not to be anal about this, both these gentlemen look great, but from my perspective being a wider torso guy, keeping my coats classic and trimmer really wrks for me. Of course this is open for discussion.
so cool!
des braisers
I am surprised to see that almost all the europeans captured here have cuffed pants which is not that common in North American. It was 10 years ago.
ahhhhhh the back view..love it!
i've been obsessing over camel hair coats all winter and have not found a singel one I liked. The states are well behind Italy.
I love the fit of the coat across the upper back of the gentleman on the left – clean and trim.
I wish some cold…
In Brazil its summer! Not the most ellegant season.
Who on Earth said black shoes don't go with navy suits- the Bravo Network?
the first guy looks like he's in the army/was in the army…his haircut looks like its cut in a military fashion.
Anon is quite right, the black shoes with the blue suit, not so good. His coat really does not fit that well either – notice the bulk in the sleeves. The gent walking in front is well turned out – great choc brown shoes and great fit on the coat. The sleeves are slim, the shoulders trim and tailored and the sleeve length is perfect.
I like the navy with the camel coat,
nice to see that the camel coats move in pairs :)
Years of working in law firms I saw only black shoes with navy suits. To me, brown shoes are less formal, though they can work in the proper setting.
I adore these coats. A relief from funereal black.
they both look nice. but i prefere the left one.
Love these coats! The gentleman in front looks perfect, well fit…the bigger man behind him looks fine too, and although some people don't agree with the pairing of a navy suit and black shoes, I thought it looked fine because his camel coat is in a much lighter shade than the other man's. Maybe he could've gone with dark brown shoes? But it's not so bad.
Beautiful, I love to see the variation! Thanks!
Odd one rarely sees camel coats in England anymore.
Two very different cuts, but both gentlemen seem to be working their own well. The guy on the left has the more fitted, classic-looking coat, which appears to suit his straight-backed, formal posture – whereas the guy on the left appears to have matched a more relaxed fit to his relaxed posture. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it…
So elegants!!!
Gostei dos dois, mas o da frente gostei mais ainda. NĂŁo sou do metier, mas o sapato preto nĂŁo me convenceu.
I do not understand why you don't like navy suit with black shoes.. What would you had him were?
it's, like, the big trend !!
very smart
The one on the right is too classic (old) style , i prefer the left one.
About the cuffed pants, for us (Italian) all the pants generally have to be cuffed but for the smoking and sporty pants(jeans-cotton-summer linen). not a law but it's better to have it.
About the navy suit and black shoes it's correct, i prefer dark brown but it's less formal.
Polo coats are too cool and warm to boot. I have a corded double-breasted coat and might in line to acquire a pristine vintage Hickey Freeman that is reminiscent of Lauren's classic Polo Coat. When you are in a great topcoat, winter bows at your feet instead of around your neck and down your back as it would in lesser gear.
These man look so elegant!
I love the dark hair (especially the little bit of dark grey above his ears) for some reason…maybe because it makes the colour of his coat look more deep?
I was wondering if there is a possibility to make a new movie for Style.com during your stay in Florence or Milano ("The Sartorialist strikes again?") I always love to watch the intersection videos…
Keep up the good work Sart!
Love the coats!
Ahhh, here we go…more beautiful men of all ages, in stylish coats…yum!
These recent photos make me want to go somewhere cold in Europe, just so I can watch handsome men in overcoats walk by!
Camel coat, check.
Fitted slacks, a little too short, check.
Zany leather shoes, check.
Jewel-hued scarf, check.
^^Chic European Menswear^^
Am I right?
The camel jacket is the go to overcoat/topcoat in my opinion. The only style that I prefer more is a herringbone tweed, but if an individual can have only one, then it should be a camel coat.
Sart, I've had a fondness for camel hair blazers for many years. In fact I just bought a new one this season. It stands out and brings in many complements.
re: the gentleman on the left
Hubba Hubba.
Mmmm Mmmmm MmmmmmM!
I've often wondered how much more dapper our American Presidents would look if they wore a handsome camel coat on Inauguration Day….
Compliment to those people that have written that the black shoes are all right with the coat camel navy style! They knows the elegance and the tradition.
But does nobody know that the coat of camel is permitted to wear it with the Tuxedo??? Then with the black shoes.
The brown shoes are not all right with the navy suit.
Does fit matter? Sometimes. Maybe here it doesn't. Maybe it just says that he sexy.
Since I saw Shutter Island, I definitely want one of those camel coats (the two marshals were some at the beggining)
It's really not even fair to compare American fashion with Italy. They're so far ahead, and really, they care a lot more. I don't know many men here who would bother with fashion. These coats are very nice. I really like he one with the buttons in the back. And the black with navy works, I think.
mmm more of these men please……
Love the coats!


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South Dakota Big Game Management Policies Under Review
If you are interested in how South Dakota manages big game, including mountain lions, comment sessions will be held May 14-16 across the state.
Governor Daugaard hired independent contractor, Wildlife Management Institute to gather insight and information from the public as they review big game management policies and practices of South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks. The review will include recommendations to improve the policies and practices.
Here are the dates, times, and locations. The agenda is listed further below. The closest one to Sioux Falls, is in Brookings next Tuesday, May 14th:
Tuesday, May 14: 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. CDT
Northern Plains Biostress Lab Building, Room 103; North Campus Drive, South Dakota State University, Brookings
Wednesday, May 15: 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. CDT
Joe Foss Building, Matthews Training Center (first floor); 523 East Capitol Ave., Pierre
Thursday, May 16: 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. MDT
City School Administration Center Community Room; 300 Sixth Street, Rapid City
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- Introduction to WMI and the review process
- Explanation of meeting structure and purpose
- Public input on: Deer Management Program, Elk Management Program, Antelope Management Program, Mountain Lion Management Program, Additional Public Comments
From my perspective, another wild animal should be a part of this review, the wolf.
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Not good for them, and not good for us.
Citizens are encouraged to submit comments at the meetings, although written comments may be emailed to: firstname.lastname@example.com or sent by standard mail to: Wildlife Management Institute, 1440 Upper Bermudian Road, Gardners, PA 17324.
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Fla. loss exposes Dem ACA disarray
Democrats can't even agree whether Obamacare was the reason for their crushing loss in a Florida special election Tuesday.
Now picture how their messaging plan for the health care law is shaping up for 2014.
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Republican lobbyist David Jolly's victory over Democrat Alex Sink has many Democrats privately worried and publicly split about how to talk about Obamacare.
( Also on POLITICO: Full health care policy coverage)
A few Democrats are advocating a drastic rhetorical shift to the left, by criticizing their own party for not going far enough when it passed the law in 2010.
Other Democrats plan to sharply criticize the Affordable Care Act when running for re-election.
Many plan to stick to the simple message that Obamacare is flawed and needs to be fixed —a tactic that plainly didn't work for Sink.
Taken together, the Democratic Party is heading into an already tough election year divided — instead of united — on the very issue Republicans plan to make central to their campaigns.
( Also on POLITICO: Administration: 4.2 million people signed up for Obamacare plans)
The political tug of Obamacare is neatly encapsulated by Rep. Ron Barber, a Democrat who holds a Tucson, Ariz., area seat. Barber said he's uncomfortable with his party's health care message, and added that you "can't, with a straight face, stand up and say this is a perfect bill." He wishes Democrats would "be willing to be honest about this legislation and to be willing to point out, and not be defensive, and say what's good about it and say what we are willing to change.
But illustrating the tension, Martha McSally, Barber's opponent, appeared at a closed House Republican Conference meeting Wednesday, saying she's "on offense" against Obamacare, and the Florida results prove her race is winnable.
Vulnerable members of the president's party appeared to run from questions about it Wednesday.
( Also on POLITICO: Who says lobbyists can't win?)
Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) — one of the Senate's most vulnerable incumbents — twice waved off a reporter's questions. Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), who will likely face GOP Rep. Cory Gardner in November, said he would prefer to answer a reporter's question by phone to offer a "coherent" response. But his aides did not later make him available for an interview.
Democrats are concerned the health care law's approval ratings won't rebound by the time voters go to the polls in November. Even more significantly, they fear the law's unpopularity — along with President Barack Obama's flagging approval ratings — could keep Democrats home in November, according to conversations with several top lawmakers and aides.
Republicans seem to think they've struck political gold, but Democrats aren't even sure how to interpret the loss. A veteran Democratic fundraiser called the loss a "double whammy," hurting the party with major donors and energizing Republicans. Some senior members of the party say the defeat in a district President Barack Obama won twice means nothing, and Democrats should not fret. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who is likely to have a tight race in November, attributed Sink's defeat to flood insurance legislation, which played a minor role compared to Jolly's nearly singular focus on the health care law.
( Florida special election results)
This all comes as Democrats and Republicans are gearing up for a brutal battle for control of Congress this fall. Jolly's victory over Sink, while not a definitive measure of the political climate, is not a good sign for Obama's party as voters head to the ballot box in less than eight months. Republicans are expected to make some gains in the midterms, but the results in Florida show Democrats could be facing stiffer headwinds than they thought in protecting their five-seat majority in the Senate and chipping away at Republican control of the House.
"Every off-year election, with the exception of two in our history, has been rough on the president's party. And last night in Florida was no exception," said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who is expected to cruise to victory in his reelection bid this November. "Republicans have decided there's only one issue. I think they're wrong — I think they're going to find that horse won't cross the finish line."


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So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case.
Delta Bought Itself an Oil Refinery
Buying jet fuel? That's for chumps. When you're Delta, Lord of the Skies, you buy an oil refinery and make your own goddamn jet fuel. BOW BEFORE DELTA. DELTA RULES THE SKYLANDS.
Showoffs. [Consumerist]
Skype Isn't a P2P Application Anymore
Microsoft is moving all Skype supernodes onto Microsoft-owned Linux servers. And yes, this is only here so I can use "supernodes" in a sentence. Multiple sentences. Supernodes.


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Shane, I've attached a screenshot of Yahoo's OpenID flow for logging into LiveJournal. It seems quite clear that LiveJournal will receive some sign-in information from Yahoo, but there's no particularly apparent notice that Yahoo could learn about user activity on LiveJournal. Do you believe this current UI is sufficient out-of-band consent for Yahoo to learn about a DNT user's post-sign-in behavior on LiveJournal? Thanks, Jonathan On Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Shane Wiley wrote: > > Yahoo! is also an identity provider (OpenAuth & OpenID) and present users with detailed permission details prior to accepting their consent. I believe this group would consider that "out-of-band consent" and therefore any data collection, retention, or use from that point forward is no longer subject to DNT unless there is a new use contemplated where consent was not yet received (which in our world at least we wouldn't engage in until we had updated consent). > > > > > > I've used a few others and they appears to do the same so I'm confused as to what real-world identity provider scenario someone is considering where consent wasn't already obtained? > > > > > > - Shane > > > > > > From: Rob van Eijk [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:52 PM > To: Kimon Zorbas > Cc: email@example.com (mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com); Tamir Israel; JC Cannon (Microsoft); email@example.com (mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com) Group WG > Subject: Re: Identity providers as first parties > > > > > > > > We are talking about the same scenario. JC gave the use case a bit more context: "There may be cases where the identity provider supplies ongoing profile or configuration information on behalf of the user. (...)" > > My point is that I disagree that the general terms & conditions, suffices when it comes to seeing the phenomena in a DNT context. I would rather see normative text on use limitations IF you wanted to bring this use case into the scope of DNT=1. > > Personally I think it fits in the DNT scope nicely. Identity providers have an important role on the Web, and having normative text in the standard that reassures trust makes sense to me. I > > On 15-6-2012 0:25, Kimon Zorbas wrote: > > > Apologies if I miss the point or get the wrong context here. > > > > > > > > > > Are we not speaking about the scenario, where I log-in on website X with my –e.g.- Facebook credentials? If Facebook uses or not the data from the log-in (subsequent data collection on website X) depends on whether I agreed to it in the general terms & conditions / privacy notice with Facebook. (Let aside that users probably think Facebook shares "a lot of data" with website X). [And in Europe that need to be in line with the law (which structured properly,it does).] > > > > > > > > I am not sure what we are trying to achieve in terms of bringing such uses into the scope of DNT. Please enlighten me. > > > > > > > > Kimon > > > > > > > > From: Rob van Eijk <firstname.lastname@example.com (mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com)> > Reply-To: "firstname.lastname@example.com (mailto:email@example.com)" <email@example.com (mailto:email@example.com)> > Date: Friday 15 June 2012 00:08 > To: "firstname.lastname@example.com (mailto:email@example.com)" <email@example.com (mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com)> > Cc: Tamir Israel <firstname.lastname@example.com (mailto:email@example.com)>, JC Cannon <firstname.lastname@example.com (mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com)>, "email@example.com (mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com) Group WG" <email@example.com (mailto:email@example.com)> > Subject: Re: Identity providers as first parties > Resent-From: <email@example.com (mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com)> > Resent-Date: Friday 15 June 2012 00:09 > > > > > > > > I am not proclaiming data silo-ing. Normative text addressing the fact that data must only be used for the purpose intended is useful in my opinion. Purpose limitation doesn't necessarily imply technical safeguards. If a party claims to be compliant with DNT, such normative text can put limits. The carve out you might be looking for is legitimate business interests, under which I see security, in this specific context. So I think it can fly with tailwind: > > Identity providers must not use user data beyond the purpose of identification and authentication unless this user data is needed for a legitimate business interest like for example fraudulent login attempts across multiple third party sites. > > > On 14-6-2012 23:48, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) wrote: > > > Define "help" :-) > > > > > > > I can tell you that as an identity provider, there is no way I would silo this data as that would cause huge problems, e.g. I detect someone trying to compromise your account via one access mechanism and there's nothing I can do because it's siloed off? Or I can't rate limit authentication attempts because each third party is separate? Not going to fly. > > > > > > > > In other words, define what you mean by "those extra things." > > On Thursday, June 14, 2012, Rob van Eijk wrote: > > > identification and authentication is far from our starting point, however an interesting use case. > If identity providers are in the business of using the knowledge for different purposes then what the user intended (ie logging into a service), then for those extra things, the identity providers should be submitted to the DNT preference signal. Would that help? > > Rob > > > On 14-6-2012 19:46, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) wrote: > > > I think this would probably be ok. I want to be clear though that I would not expect data siloing here. E.g. We are going to watch for fraudulent login attempts across multiple third party sites yada yada yada. > > On Thursday, June 14, 2012, Tamir Israel wrote: > > > Would this be workable? > > Treat the IdP as first party for the authentication process itself on the basis of substantial interaction, but leave significant downstream personalization to out-of-band consent (I think this can be acquired as part of the authentication process in those cases where it is envisions a need to do so). > > On 6/14/2012 11:36 AM, JC Cannon wrote: > > No, that's a different scenario. The identity provider is supplying the first-party site information on behalf of the user to simplify transfer of data. > > JC > > From: Tamir Israel [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:35 AM > To: JC Cannon > Cc: email@example.com (mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com); firstname.lastname@example.com (mailto:email@example.com) Group WG > Subject: Re: Identity providers as first parties > > Ok. > > Could/should some of this fall under Jonathan's outsourcing scenario? > > 188.8.131.52 Outsourcing > A first party MAY outsource website functionality to a third party, in which case the third party may act as the first party under this standard with the following additional restrictions. > > With accompanying conditions? > > > On 6/13/2012 10:29 AM, JC Cannon wrote: > There may be cases where the identity provider supplies ongoing profile or configuration information on behalf of the user. > > JC > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tamir Israel [mailto:email@example.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 7:25 AM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com (mailto:email@example.com) > Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com (mailto:email@example.com) Group WG > Subject: Re: Identity providers as first parties > > Hi Ian, > > I'm not certain this is as clear as you imply. The entire concept of a federated identity system, for example, is to segregate the identity provider from any processing tasks beyond identity authentication. I would not expect an OpenID identity provider, for example, to suddenly become a 1st party simply because I used it to sign in). The role of that provider should be completed once my identity has been authenticated. > > Best, > Tamir > > On 6/13/2012 10:13 AM, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) wrote: > > This email is intended to satisfy ACTION-187 and ISSUE-99 > > > > I propose adding to the compliance spec the following: > > > > "If a site offers users the choice to log in with an identity > > provider, via means such as OpenID, OAuth, or other conceptually > > similar mechanisms, the identity provider is considered a first party > > for the current transactions and subsequent transactions for which the > > user remains authenticated to the site via the identity > > > > > > > > > >
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Mimi's Chicken Noodle Soup
>> Thursday, February 6, 2014
This is an old family recipe and it's definitely a family favorite around here! It's rare that we have a meal of which everyone (even the baby!) requests second helpings.
Mimi's Chicken Noodle Soup
for the noodles:
1 1/3 c all-purpose flour
2 eggs
2 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon salt
for the soup:
2 tablespoons olive oil or butter
2 celery ribs, sliced
2 carrots, sliced
1/2 white onion, diced
1 small baking potato, peeled and diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
4-5 sprigs fresh thyme
salt and pepper, to taste
6-8 cups chicken broth
2 chicken breasts, cooked and diced (or you can substitute a store-bought rotisserie)
For the noodles, add flour to the mixing bowl of a stand mixer. In a small bowl, combine eggs, water, oil and salt. Pour liquid into the flour and mix with a spoon until a dough forms. With the bread hook attachment, "knead" the dough for about 10 minutes. (Alternatively, you can do this with your hands if you don't have a stand mixer - I'm sure that's what Mimi did originally!) Cover and let rest an hour.
Meanwhile to start working on the soup, place a large pot over medium-low heat and heat oil or butter. Add celery, carrots, and onion and cook 6-8 minutes, or until vegetables are softened and onion is translucent. Add the garlic, potato, thyme, salt and pepper and cook another 30 seconds to 1 minute, or until garlic is fragrant. Add chicken broth and let simmer while you finish working on the noodles.
After an hour, roll the dough out on a floured surface. (If the dough keeps shrinking, let it rest another 10-20 more minutes.) Roll dough out to about 1/8-inch thick and use a pizza cutter to slice into noodles. Let the noodles dry out another 30 minutes.
Once the noodles have dried, add them and the chicken to the soup. Cook another 10-20 minutes, or until the noodles are cooked through. If the noodles are chewy, let them cook another few minutes.


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|Reg Presley
The Troggs catapulted to fame in 1966, when "Wild Thing" topped the charts in the U.S. and reached No. 2 in Britain. Written by American songwriter Chip Taylor, the song became a staple for garage bands and was famously covered later by Jimi Hendrix. The Troggs scored more hits in the '60s, especially in England, where tracks like "With a Girl Like You" and "I Can't Control Myself" were smash singles. Those songs, as well as the band's 1967 U.S. hit, "Love is All Around," were written by Presley.
In a 2007 interview Taylor expressed his affection for The Troggs' version of his classic rocker. "'Wild Thing' was such an overt expression of sexuality that I was a little embarrassed …," he said, "but the publisher sent it over to England, and The Troggs' version was the last song they recorded for their session on that particular day. I love their record. A lot of people don't understand just how great that record is. When Jimi Hendrix heard it in England, he said it was the best thing he had ever heard. What Jimi did to the song was wonderful, but he was very inspired by The Troggs' version."


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January 1, 1900
Jan Swoope - [email protected]
At its 61st annual Charity Ball Saturday, Junior Auxiliary of Columbus announced the 2011 Ball king and queen and celebrated community service.
Queen Madeline Frances Hardy and King John Thompson Bean III were introduced to a capacity crowd, along with a court of 23 high school seniors who have performed more than 2,000 hours of service in their community, churches and schools.
Junior Auxiliary's year-round service projects impact children throughout Lowndes County. Funds raised through the Report to the Community and Charity Ball help annually provide school uniforms and clothing for several hundred school children, fund scholarships and character-building service projects and school speakers. They also make possible a disability awareness and education program, a child abuse education and prevention program, a reality fair for high school students and ongoing tutoring/mentoring programs such as Junior Auxiliary Mentors and Girls Empowered to Model Success.
About the king
King John Thompson Bean III is the son of Myrrl Hudson Bean and the late John Thompson Bean, Jr. He is married to Kathi Bryant Bean, a Life member of Junior Auxiliary of Columbus.
He is the father of two children, Lindsay Blair Bean and John Bryant Bean, both past court members of the JA Charity Ball. He has been an active supporter of the Pilgrimage/Charity Ball most of his adult life.
Bean is a graduate of S.D. Lee High School and served as president of his senior class. He attended Mississippi State University, where he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity.
In business
Along with his mother and family friend, the late Harvey Seifert, John opened the first Harvey's Restaurant in Starkville in 1982. In 1985, they opened Harvey's of Columbus. Bean and his family have expanded the restaurant business into the Eat With Us group, which includes three Harvey's restaurants, as well as The Grill Restaurants, Sweet Peppers Deli, Sweet Peppers Franchise System and Park Heights. Bean serves the group as president.
He has been a board member of the Mississippi Restaurant Association and served as chairman of the board in 1992-1993. From 1994-2003, he served on the National Restaurant Association board of directors and is presently director emeritus. In 1982, he received the Restaurateur of the Year Award. In 2000, he received the Distinguished Service Award.
Church and civic
Bean is an active member of First United Methodist Church of Columbus, where he has served on the Administrative Board, the Church Council, and the Finance Committee. He also served as chairman of the Board of Trustees. He is an active member of the Usher team, as well.
His commitment to Columbus is evidenced throughout the city. In addition to providing jobs, goods and services through his businesses, his award-winning building renovations and his volunteer work have helped revitalize downtown Columbus.
He is a founding member and supporter of the annual Market Street Festival. His initiative on the Riverwalk Development Committee, coupled with his family's donation of land near Second Street South, led to the Riverwalk's becoming a vibrant and attractive entrance into Columbus.
Bean has volunteered his time, leadership skills and expertise serving United Way as its chairman and as a member of the board of directors. He has also served on the Main Street Columbus Board and the Columbus-Lowndes County Convention and Visitors Board.
He has also served as president of the Columbus-Lowndes Development LINK and is a member of the YMCA Board of Directors. Bean received the Business Person of the Year Award in 1996 and the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2000.
Bean's recent work with the United Way includes serving as the 2010 campaign's Riverine chairman. He also provides for the United Way's "Day to Care" event.
CAFB, youth
To honor Columbus Air Force Base and those who serve Columbus, the restaurateur created "Feed our Men and Women in Uniform Day," an event to honor all military, firemen and policemen by inviting them to eat free at any of his restaurants on Memorial Day. For this event, the National Restaurant Association awarded him the Restaurant Neighbor Award for outstanding Community Service.
Bean is also dedicated to supporting the youth of Columbus and has served as president of the Heritage Academy School Board and on the Mississippi University for Women Culinary Arts Advisory Board.
He is also a member of the advisory board for the MUW Women's Center for Entrepreneurship. Bean also volunteered his time and talents in support of Kids with Character, Camp Rising Sun, The Boys and Girls Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Father's Child Ministry, the Boy Scouts, Habitat for Humanity and the Red Cross. His gifts to the Golden Triangle community and surrounding areas have enhanced the quality of life for many.
About the queen
Queen Madeline Frances Hardy is a native Columbian and the daughter of Mrs. Mary Ann Hardy and the late Mr. Allen Boyd Hardy. She is a 2007 graduate of Heritage Academy, where she was selected class favorite her sophomore year and homecoming maid her junior year.
A member of the 2007 Hall of Fame, Madeline was a member of Mu Alpha Theta and the National Honor Society. She also served as reporter of the Student Government Association her senior year. Madeline won the ACE Achievement Award and was a member of the National Beta Club.
A Fellowship of Christian Athletes member, she was named Best All Around Girl for Tennis her sophomore year. Madeline received the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizenship Award her senior year and was selected to participate in an Academic Betterment Competition for French and AP Biology.
A UDA All Star Dancer, Madeline won an award for maintaining the highest average in French I and II. An Academy Honors student, she won the Patriot Award in tennis and basketball her senior year.
Church, school involvement
A member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Madeline was an active member of her youth group and was very active in aiding Hurricane Katrina victims in Bay St. Louis by traveling with her youth group to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to help clean up after the storm. She was also very active in Vacation Bible School.
Madeline is presently a senior at Mississippi State University and will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications/Journalism and Foreign Languages-French degree in May.
A Society of Scholar member, Madeline has an overall grade point average of 3.97. She is a member of Delta Gamma Sorority and served as vice president of communications and co-director of public relations. She also served the MSU Student Association on the External Events, Public Relations, Environmental Affairs and Graphic Design Committees.
She is a member of Pi Delta Phi French Honor Society and served as vice president in 2008-2009. She also holds membership in Alpha Lambda Delta, Sigma Alpha Lambda, and in Lambda Pi Eta, a communications honor society.
Madeline was named to the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Gamma Beta Phi, and Phi Kappa Phi. She is a member of Mortar Board and Shackouls Honor College and has been a President's Scholar for seven semesters.
Madeline is also a member of the Southern Debutante Assembly in Greenwood.
Serving her fellow man, especially children, has always been important to Madeline. She volunteered her time teaching Palmer Home children to swim, and for two summers, served as a counselor at Camp Rising Sun.
At MSU, she participated in the Chi Omega Limelight, which benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the Delta Gamma Anchor Games, which benefit Service for Sight. She has also participated in the Relay for Life and TOMS Club, an organization that provides shoes to children in need. Madeline has also been a member of Rick's Rowdies and The Big Event, two organizations/events that benefit other
Jan Swoope is the Lifestyles Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.