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Sleeping States is one man, Markland Starkie. He likes noisy music and used to be in Norwich skronk heroes KaitO. Now he makes pretty music that's also quite brainy. Not so much different to anything else there, is there? No. There's not. But then you'll listen to Sleeping States and realise that there is a massively advanced level of natural musicality flowing through every work. Not to overly equate the man with dead people, but this gesticulatory flamboyance warrants the term 'composer' more than most people it is lazily thrown at whenever someone uses a clarinet or something. DiScover rushes in like a fool to greet him…
Hello. Tell us about how Sleeping States came about?
When I first moved to London, about five years ago, I moved with the intention of started a noise-pop/rock band, as I'd been in these types of bands for a while before moving and it was more my kind of thing than doing like a singer/songwriter thing. But I couldn't find anyone who was interested or who wasn't already in like four bands already - whilst this was going on I had been recording much quieter stuff on an old four-track cassette recorder, which I really had no intention on developing. It was more like... um, just something therapeutic to do in the evening after work. Anyway over time I built up a large collection of songs and (with some encouragement) started playing them live, and that's when sleeping states started. It was an almost accidental process that just snowballed basically.
You clearly have influences that are much harsher and noisier than your actual sound. Is there some sort of distillation process that your songs go through?
Well when I first started recording under sleeping states I wanted the songs to be as far away from my noise influences, just to really strip the songs down to the barest instrumentation possible and see what I could produce from those restrictions. But the more I've written, the more my noise influences have crept back into the songs. But then I don't feel that noise has to be noisy and loud necessarily - on the last single was a song called 'London Fields' which has these layers of white noise and radio static and noisy tape samples running all through it, but its still essentially quite a quiet melodic folk song. But then also, the live set tends to be a lot noisier/punkier than on record so I guess I channel my influences in that direction.
As a man who has clearly considered music from a more theoretical perspective, could you tell us how you re-inject some blood and sweat into those more academic ideas?
I suppose this comes down to melody - I consider the melodic aspects of Sleeping States to be pretty much at the centre of everything I do. Then once I've got the melody down I can concentrate on hiding it behind composed experimentations, heh heh. But really I don't think that 'cerebral' music or musical theory or whatever has to be mutually exclusive from the blood and sweat aspects of music, in that I feel as though the music theory that informs the stuff I write goes hand in hand with the emotional aspects. I mean you look at Sonic Youth or the Minutemen or newer bands like the Dirty Projectors, and they've all been active in making music that's intellectually stimulating whilst at the same time totally kicking ass.
You seem to be someone on the independent music world's collective lips an awful lot (Klaxons and Grizzly Bear name-drop you all the damn time). What's it like to be lauded so early on?
Ha, well I wouldn't really say it's that early on, Sleeping States has been chugging along longer than Klaxons for instance. But it's nice that the profile's been raised a bit. Having said that it means that I'm totally gonna be old news by the time the album comes out, heh heh…
You cite Stratford-on-Avon as an influence. Last time I was there, there was a little bloke going round the park on a mad multi-coloured bike with shiny bits on ringing a bell at people and trying to strike up conversations. Ever seen him?
Hmm, no I haven't, but it sounds about right. Stratford attracts serious weirdoes, people whose brains are too fried to find their way home after the Bulldog Bash, that kind of thing. I grew up there but I haven't really hung out there properly in a long time so maybe your guy is a more recent addition.
There is a freedom of tempo and dynamic to many of your songs that smack of impressionism. Do you purposely reject restrictions such as these?
Funnily enough these are things I started off actively experimenting with, and then moved away from whilst writing the new album, which I finished last year ('I Wonder' which is on the new single and album is, I think, pretty rigid and metronomic) but am now coming back to again ('Under a Capricorn Sky', also on the single, is a much newer song and, like you say, has a much more rubato feel to it, i.e. is much more free-flowing in terms of tempo and rhythm).
Though it's a hackneyed phrase, a lot of people are going to call you 'lo-fi'. If you had infinite musical resources, would your songs still sound how they do now?
I love a lot of lo-fi music and bands like Beat-Happening have influenced me a lot, and yes, my music has so far had a very lo-fi quality to it. Some of it has been so with theoretical intent (I released a cassette-only EP a couple of years ago that had an intently lo-fi quality to it) but then a lot of it has just had to do with what I've had available to me at the time. If I had infinite musical resources I would definitely get my future music to sound better, using better recording equipment and so forth, but I wouldn't go back and re-record my older stuff. They are documents of myself at that time and the lo-fi aspect is an important part of those documents. It would be weird to hear them sounding different to how they do now.
How do you make all this work in a live situation?
Well the live shows change depending on who's available at the time and the kind of place I'm playing in. I generally split all the guitars and keyboard samples and noises between myself and a friend of mine called Craig Gell, and then more often than not these days I rope in a drummer as well. Some of the songs sound like they do on record and some of them we've drastically rearranged. When I'm writing stuff I tend to swing between thinking "I should really keep the arrangement of this song to how I could play it live" and "fuck it, I want this song to sound a certain way and I'm just gonna worry about how to do it live later on". It's fun though, it keeps me and my band on our toes.
What are your songs about? There's a definite homespun aspect, a fair portion of dislocated drudgery in the lyrics.
Oh wow, well a lot of different things... I have at least fifty songs either released or about to be released so it's hard to generalise, but so far a lot of them have been pretty personal, not necessarily in a tragic emo way, but just about people and/or things that I have known. Little vignettes and stories about my life basically. 'I Wonder' is about a friend of mine whose mother died unexpectedly, and 'Under a Capricorn Sky' is a kind of dream-poem about Brazil.
What, if you had but one day left on this earth, would be the record you'd put on?
Damn, that is a tough one! It would have to be either Head Over Heels by the Cocteau Twins or EVOL by Sonic Youth... something totally goth and self-reflective like that.
Listen to Sleeping States on MySpace, here. 'I Wonder' backed with 'Under a Capricorn Sky' will be released by the Caspian Label on the 30th of July in a limited run of 500 seven inch singles. Label site.


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New research pinpoints a biological barrier that has thus far slowed progress in creating disease-specific stem cell lines using a technique known as nuclear transfer.
New research from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists pinpoints a biological barrier that has thus far slowed progress in creating disease-specific stem cell lines using a technique known as nuclear transfer. Identifying the problem opens up new opportunities for scientists to address and possibly overcome it.
Stem cells created from a patient's adult cells offer scientists the opportunity to study disease processes as cells bearing the patient's own set of genes grow and develop. In a report published online October 4, 2011, in the journal Nature Communications, HHMI scientists offer a biological explanation for why nuclear transfer has so far failed in human cells, even though it has been used successfully to reprogram animal cells.
We've taken it as far as figuring out some of things that have been causing nuclear transplantation to fail in human cells.
Kevin Eggan
Using nuclear transfer, scientists can introduce a set of genes from an adult animal into another cell—usually an unfertilized egg—whose nucleus has been removed. Using the technique in animal cells, scientists have successfully prompted egg cells with transferred nuclei to develop into embryos genetically identical to the individual from which the nucleus was taken.
The technique holds promise for creating lines of stem cells with genes identical to those of individual patients—offering the opportunity to reproduce a patient's disease in the laboratory and learn how his or her genetic makeup affects the function of specific cells and tissues. Many researchers hope that eventually, disease-specific stem cell lines might be directed to develop into healthy tissue to treat diseases such as Parkinson's disease, diabetes, or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease).
So far, however, nuclear transfer has not yet been successful in human cells. Many scientists have turned instead to stem cell lines created by reprogramming adult cells—usually skin cells—taken from patients. Rather than introducing a patients' genes to an egg or zygote, a set of genetic reprogramming factors are introduced to the adult cells, creating cells known as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which, like all stem cells, can be coaxed them into becoming a variety of cell types. The first human iPS cells were created in 2007.
HHMI early career scientist Kevin Eggan uses iPS cells to study the neurodegeneration that occurs in patients with ALS or spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). But he acknowledges that recently, several studies have "reengaged the question" of whether iPS cells might differ from embryonic stem cells in important ways. "Progress is the area of nuclear transfer is a way of making cell lines that could be used to address that question," he says.
In 2006, before iPS cells were available for human cells, Eggan and two colleagues at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute—HHMI investigator Doug Melton and George Daley, who is now also an HHMI investigator—launched an effort to create disease-specific stem cell lines using somatic cell nuclear transfer. "At that time," Eggan explains, "that was the only way to think about making patient-specific stem cells."
Their plan was to adapt the nuclear transfer techniques that had been successful in animals to transfer DNA from skin cells donated by patients suffering from diabetes, blood diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases into unfertilized human eggs.
In accordance with guidelines set forth by the National Academy of Sciences recommending that eggs donated for research should be obtained only from women willing to donate without compensation, donors were offered reimbursement only for expenses they directly incurred by participating in the study. More than 239 women responded to the scientists' request for eggs—but in the end, only one woman committed to the necessary medical procedures. The team's attempts at nuclear transfer with the six eggs that woman was able to provide were unsuccessful.
Because of the challenges in obtaining eggs, Eggan's team, in collaboration with Melton's lab, decided to pursue an alternative: rather than transferring a patient's DNA into an unfertilized egg, they would see if they could achieve the same result by transferring the DNA into an embryo. "We did have success in finding people willing to give us their fertilized, one-cell embryos," he says. In fact, Eggan and his colleagues received more than 4,000 donated embryos from couples who had had embryos frozen after in vitro fertilization procedures. Such procedures typically result in the creation of multiple embryos, with many that are never implanted and not needed clinically.
For their experiments, the researchers isolated the embryos that were still single cells—fertilized eggs that had not yet developed any further. When they transferred nuclear DNA into the embryos, development continued though its early stages, but came to a halt about four days later. This was in contrast to what they observed when they used the identical technique to transfer DNA to single-cell mouse embryos, which developed into more mature embryos expressing the transferred genes.
With further experiments, the team traced the developmental arrest to a specific cellular failure: the embryos never turned on the genes contained in the transferred nucleus. It's not clear what prevents this essential activity from occurring in the human cells, but Eggan says his team's finding could focus the attention of other researchers as they work to make somatic cell nuclear transfer a viable method for producing disease-specific stem cell lines. "We've closed the loop on the experiments that we said in 2006 that we'd do," Eggan says. "We've taken it as far as figuring out some of things that have been causing nuclear transplantation to fail in human cells."
Both Eggan and Melton now plan to focus their attention on iPS stem cell lines—but they encourage ongoing research into somatic cell nuclear transfer as an alternative method of creating disease-specific stem cell lines, which could turn out to be functionally different from iPS cells in physiologically important ways. That research will require researchers to obtain human eggs or embryos to use for their experiments.
While Eggan's team was able to carry out the current study thanks to the couples undergoing assisted reproduction who donated frozen embryos—about 11 percent of which were at the single-cell stage—he says experiments using unfertilized eggs will also be important going forward. But such studies will require researchers to obtain donated eggs from women who must undergo hormone treatments and surgery which, the researchers say, is a major obstacle due to current guidelines that recommend women not be financially compensated for these procedures.
In a paper published October 7, 2011 in the journal Cell Stem Cell, Eggan, Melton, and colleagues detail the challenges of recruiting egg donors under the current NAS guidelines. When the scientists surveyed 52 women who responded to their initial appeal for donors—but ultimately chose not to participate—the absence of financial compensation was mentioned most frequently. The necessary medical procedures—medication, injections, surgery, and side effects—were also a significant concern. Hesitation to participate in stem cell research was not mentioned, the scientists say.
In contrast to the guidelines provided by the National Academy of Sciences, The International Society for Stem Cell Research and the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine have published guidelines that support financial compensation for women who donate eggs for research purposes, the authors of the Cell Stem Cell paper say. In light of their own difficulty in recruiting altruistic egg donors for nuclear transfer experiments, they conclude that wider adoption of these guidelines by academic institutions and funding agencies could significantly accelerate stem cell research.

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Steve Young: Joe Flacco deserves historic contract
- Hall of Fame QB Steve Young said Joe Flacco earned his new contract with his postseason play
- Young cited Flacco%27s 11-0 touchdown-interception ratio as the QB%27s highest achievement
- Young said Flacco can%27t match Tom Brady or Peyton Manning now but could in the future
Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young says reigning Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco is deserving of being rewarded with the most lucrative contract in league history based on winning his all-in bet on himself with the postseason quarterback equivalent of "The Holy Grail.''
The six-year contract is worth $120.6 million. USA TODAY Sports learned the value of the contract from a person with knowledge of the negotiations. That person requested anonymity because the contract has not been signed and details of the pact have not been made public by Flacco's representatives or the Ravens.
Flacco, the Super Bowl MVP, capped his postseason with a three-touchdown performance to lead the Baltimore Ravens to a 34-31 victory over Young's former team, the San Francisco 49ers.
All this, after Flacco walked away from a lesser deal last off-season, opting to gamble that his 2012-13 season would drive up his price. He was right.
"Joe is worth this deal because he did it when it mattered,'' Young, an ESPN analyst, told USA TODAY Sports just minutes after the agreement was announced by the Ravens.
"So did Eli Manning do it when it mattered -- and all the great ones do it when it matters. To play perfect football in January and February is the Holy Grail for a quarterback, right? That's the place.
"When Joe Flacco threw 11 touchdowns with no interceptions in January and Feburary and won the Super Bowl, that's why the Ravens had no choice but to pay him what they did.''
Flacco, who called himself elite before the season began, may not be on the same level as three-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady or four-time league MVP and Super Bowl XLI MVP Peyton Manning in terms of a long-term body of work. But at 28, Flacco has put himself on the right path to potentially match their ultra-exclusive company. And that bright future is what the Ravens bought for their money, Young said.
"Has Joe been as consistent as Tom Brady or Peyton Manning? Not yet,'' Young said. "But the Ravens are paying him not for what he's done in the past. They're paying him for what they believe he'll do. And what they believe he'll do is play just like those guys, Tom and Peyton. Now he hasn't played like them consistently. But the idea is he's turned the corner. And now he will.''
Flacco etched his name in immortality alongside Young's former 49ers teammate Joe Montana with a postseason for the ages. He matched the perfect touchdown-to-interception ratio "Joe Cool'' posted during the 1989 postseason, when Montana led the 49ers to their third title in a Super Bowl XXIII win over Cincinnati.
"The way that it happened this postseason was a great, great thing for Joe and his family,'' Young said.
Flacco's 62-30 win-loss record ranks best in the league since the Ravens selected him 18th overall out of Delaware in the 2008 draft.
Flacco insisted before the season began he was the league's best quarterback when he advised agent Joe Linta to table an offer in the $16-million-per-year range.
Now Flacco has the long-term lucrative contract to back up his boast.
"It looked like it was a bad bet there on himself back in October,'' Young said. "But then Joe did exactly what he needed to do. He was the Super Bowl MVP, won the whole thing. That's how you earn that kind of contract.
"All the credit goes to Joe for pulling it off right when he needed to do it. It's not like he was lucky. There's some timing to it.''
That great timing means the Ravens have resolved their most pressing offseason priority and don't have to apply the $19-plus million exclusive franchise tag to Flacco by Monday's 4 p.m. deadline. They can now pursue other unrestricted free agents in linebacker Dannell Ellerbe, defensive end Paul Kruger, cornerback Cary Williams, safety Ed Reed and others among their 12 remaining unrestricted free agents.
"I'm glad they got it done,'' Young said.


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Quote from: sandiny0ursh0es on April 18, 2013, 11:20:51 PMCard Captor Sakura... That show was great. I remember watching it as a kid and loved it.I have watched some stuff that was pretty bad but stuck with it or ended up being embarrassing to watch but they are not really guilty pleasures to me. One series does come to mind though.Aria the AnimationI love this series. It is not exactly the fastest paced show ever and nothing really happens... at all. I ended up watching every season and never regretted it for a second. The reason it is a guilty pleasure for me is the show does not really fit my personality and I will never mention I watched it to anyone I actually know.
It's interesting peoples' definitions of guilty pleasure. Like, someone mentioned Outlaw Star. To me, that's not a guilty pleasure series. Okay, it may have been years ago when it was all "mainstream" and I had the mentality of an anime elitist hipster with my head shoved up my rectum. But, truth be told, I think it's a fun series. Sure it drags occasionally and the ending is kinda iffy, but the same could be said for a lot of other series. Few stories can end as beautifully as Cowboy Bebop did, ne? I know a lot of people out there are on the "Outlaw Star= poor man's Cowboy Bebop" bandwagon, but I see them as two completely different animals. I have to say, back when Trigun, Outlaw Star, and Cowboy Bebop were on TV was a solid era for televised animated programming.
I really, really like Vandread even though it gets really stupid sometimes. And the nurse is just an awful character.I also enjoy some ecchi shows when they really aren't that good. Highschool DxD and Asobi Ni Ikuyo/Bombshells from the Sky/Cat Planet Cuties (three official titles) for having some good ideas and well animated fight scenes, mixed in with absurd fanservice that drags the series down to guilty-pleasure level.


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Ohio State's Noah Spence suspended for Orange Bowl
Defensive end Noah Spence has been suspended for three games and will not play Friday night for No. 6 Ohio State in the Discover Orange Bowl against No. 11 Clemson.
The all-Big Ten performer violated a conference rule, according to a statement released Wednesday by Ohio State.
The sophomore did not travel with the Buckeyes to Florida because of what the team described as a "personal issue." He leads Ohio State and is second in the Big Ten in sacks with eight and is sixth in the league with 13½ tackles for loss.
There were no details on the infraction, but the statement did say that Spence's family did not agree with the decision: "Spence's parents, who did not agree with the rule violation nor the penalty imposed, were assisted by the Ohio State Department of Athletics in exhausting the appeals process that was available to them with the Big Ten."
Spence also is an academic all-Big Ten honoree and an OSU Scholar-Athlete. He will continue course work toward his sociology degree next semester, according to the school. He will be able to practice with the team this spring, but he will not be eligible to play in a game until Sept. 13, 2014, vs. Kent State.
Earlier this week, Ohio State defensive coordinator Luke Fickell said Jamal Marcus and Steve Miller are among the top candidates to take Spence's spot on the field against the Tigers.
"Those are guys that probably haven't seen nearly as much action throughout the year, but they're guys who have practiced every single day, taken those reps," Fickell said. "That's a part of the game, whether we like it or don't like it. These guys all know it. What that does is puts a little more heat on your guys that are leaders to say, 'Come on, let's continue to move forward.' These guys are here for a reason. They're on scholarship for a reason."
Contributing: The Associated Press


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Education Technology Roundtable
The Educational Technology Roundtable was created as an interdisciplinary group to discuss the current use of educational technologies at St. John Fisher College and to identify common themes regarding the needs for technology looking into the future.
About the Roundtable
The Roundtable is comprised of representatives from each of the five Schools, Lavery Library, and the Office of Information Technology.
Roundtable Members
- Vivek S. Dave
- Lawrence A. Fouraker
- Benjamin Hockenberry
- Nicholas Leifker
- Joellen Maples
- David Pate
- Katie Sabourin
- Jeremy H. Sarachan
- Charlene M. Smith
- Todd M. Sodano
- Carolyn S. Vacca
Educational Technology White Paper
The creation of the Educational Technology White Paper by the Roundtable aligns directly with goal one of the College's 2012-2017 Strategic Plan. Goal one includes a number of tactics addressing pedagogical and student support intended to promote effective teaching and learning. The seventh tactic calls for the development of an educational technology plan that would inform the College's planning and budgeting processes. This white paper is not intended to make specific planning and budget recommendations for specific technologies, but to share the common trends and discussions from faculty across campus that may help to inform future planning decisions as appropriate.
The Roundtable plans to produce a white paper each year, with the specific focus varying from year to year depending on the state of educational technology use at that time.


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MSU Men At Sacramento State Tonight
The Montana State Men's Basketball team (8-6, 2-0) is on the road tonight for a Big Sky Conference match-up at Sacramento State (3-10, 0-2). The Cats will be looking to open their conference schedule with a third straight win. The Hornets are looking for their first Big Sky win.
All the action can be heard tonight on XL Country 100.7 and online at xlcountry.com, starting with the pregame at 7:30pm MST, and the tipoff at 8:00. GO CATS!


text: Bishop Scicluna: Sexual abuse survivor's resolve to help Church fight sexual abuse Malta Independent Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 15:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Marie Collins is not your ordinary papal adviser. Sexually assaulted as a child by a hospital chaplain, Collins went onto become a leading Irish activist demanding justice for the victims of priestly abuse and a fierce critic of the Catholic Church's handling of the scandal. Now she has been named to Pope Francis' commission on setting sex abuse policy, one of eight people — half of them women — who will help craft the panel's scope and advise the church on best practices to protect children. In an interview with The Associated Press, Collins said her top priority was for the Vatican to punish those bishops who have covered up for priests who raped children. "There's no point in my mind of having gold-plated child-protection programs in place if there's no sanction for a bishop who decides to ignore them," Collins said by telephone from her home in Dublin. "The reason everyone is so angry is not because they have abusers in their ranks. Abusers are in every rank of society. It's because of the systemic cover-up." Francis announced the initial members of the commission after coming under fire from victims' groups for a perceived lack of attention to the scandal, which has cost the church its credibility — and billions of dollars — in traditionally Catholic strongholds of the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Church law does provide for sanctions if a bishop is negligent in carrying out his duties, but to date no bishop has ever been disciplined for abuse-related negligence. In its announcement on Saturday the Vatican hinted that might change, saying one part of the commission's remit would be to look at the duties and responsibilities of church personnel. Collins acknowledged that she may be disappointed. But said she felt it was "worth taking the chance" to participate in the commission, even at the risk of losing credibility with other abuse victims. "People are telling me that it means I trust the church. But the fact is, I don't trust them at all," she said. "My reason for saying 'yes' is because I've been criticizing the church for how they do things and the way they treat survivors," she said. "Not to take this opportunity to say those things at the heart of the church would go against everything I feel." Collins was sexually assaulted by the Rev. Paul McGennis in 1960 when she was 13 and in the hospital. He also took lewd photos of her. She battled anxiety, depression and agoraphobia for decades and was in and out of psychiatric hospitals. When she finally summoned the courage to report her abuser, her pastor told her it was her fault. "I disintegrated into 1,000 pieces," she said. "I didn't speak to anyone for 10 years." Eventually civil authorities prosecuted and jailed the priest and he was sentenced two more times for molesting other children. He was stripped of his priestly duties and became a layman in 1997. In 2003, Collins helped the Dublin archdiocese set up its child-protection service and in 2012 she addressed a Vatican-backed symposium at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University to educate bishops on crafting guidelines to protect children. The main US victims' group in the U.S., SNAP, welcomed Collins' participation in Francis' panel, as did the leading church authority on clerical sex abuse, Bishop Charles Scicluna, for a decade the Vatican's chief sex crimes prosecutor. "Her resolve and indeed the very narrative she brings to the table will help forge the determined implementation of policy the church needs at this time," Scicluna said in an email to AP.


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This chapter describes how to configure an lx branded zone on your x64 or x86 based system. The process is basically the same as the procedure to configure a Solaris Zone. A few of the properties are not needed to configure a branded zone.
Before you set up your system to use zones, you must first collect information and make decisions about how to configure the zones. The following task map summarizes how to plan and configure an lx zone.
For Instructions
Plan your zone strategy.
See System and Space Requirements and Resource Pools Used in Zones.
Determine the name and the path for the zone.
Decide what to call the zone based on the naming conventions. A path on a Zetabyte File System (ZFS) is recommended. When the source zonepath and the target zonepath both reside on ZFS and are in the same pool, the zoneadm clone command automatically uses ZFS to clone the zone.
See Resource and Property Types and Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide.
Obtain or configure IP addresses for the zone.
Depending on your configuration, you must obtain at least one IP address for each non-global zone that you want to have network access.
See Determine the Zone Host Name and Obtain the Network Address and System Administration Guide: IP Services.
Determine if you want to mount file systems in the zone.
Review your application requirements.
See File Systems Mounted in Zones for more information.
Determine which network interfaces should be made available in the zone.
Review your application requirements.
See Shared-IP Network Interfaces for more information.
Determine whether you must alter the default set of non-global zone permissions.
Check the set of privileges: default, privileges that can be added and removed, and privileges that cannot be used at this time.
See Resource and Property Types and Privileges in a Non-Global Zone.
Configure the zone.
Use zonecfg to create a configuration for the zone.
See How to Configure, Verify, and Commit the lx Branded Zone.
Verify and commit the configured zone.
Determine whether the resources and properties specified are valid on a hypothetical system.
See How to Configure, Verify, and Commit the lx Branded Zone.
You use the zonecfg command described in the zonecfg(1M) man page to perform the following actions.
Create the zone configuration
Verify that all required information is present
Commit the non-global zone configuration
If you know you will be using CDs or DVDs to install applications in an lx branded zone, use add fs to add read-only access to CD or DVD media in the global zone when you initially configure the branded zone. A CD or DVD can then be used to install a product in the branded zone.
While configuring a zone with the zonecfg utility, you can use the revert subcommand to undo the setting for a resource. See How to Revert a Zone Configuration.
A script to configure multiple zones on your system is provided in Script to Configure Multiple lx Branded Zones.
To display a non-global zone's configuration, see How to Display the Configuration of a Branded Zone.
After you have configured the branded zone, it is a good idea to make a copy of the zone's configuration. You can use this backup to restore the zone in the future. As superuser or Primary Administrator, print the configuration for the zone lx-zone to a file. This example uses a file named lx-zone.config.
global# zonecfg -z lx-zone export > lx-zone.config
See How to Restore an Individual Non-Global Zone for more information.
Note that you cannot use lx branded zones on a Trusted Solaris system where labels are enabled. The zoneadm command will not verify the configuration.
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Set up a zone configuration with the zone name you have chosen.
The name lx-zone is used in this example procedure.
global# zonecfg -z lx-zone
If this is the first time you have configured this zone, you will see the following system message:
lx-zone: No such zone configured Use 'create' to begin configuring a new zone.
Create the new lx zone configuration by using the SUNWlx template.
zonecfg:lx-zone> create -t SUNWlx
Alternatively, you can create a blank zone and explicitly set the brand:
zonecfg:lx-zone> create -b zonecfg:lx-zone> set brand=lx
Set the zone path, /export/home/lx-zone in this procedure.
zonecfg:lx-zone> set zonepath=/export/home/lx-zone
Set the autoboot value.
If set to true, the zone is automatically booted when the global zone is booted. Note that for the zones to autoboot, the zones service svc:/system/zones:default must also be enabled. The default value is false.
zonecfg:lx-zone> set autoboot=true
Set persistent boot arguments for a zone.
zonecfg:lx-zone> set bootargs="-i=altinit"
If resource pools are enabled on your system, associate a pool with the zone.
This example uses the default pool, named pool_default.
zonecfg:lx-zone> set pool=pool_default
Because a resource pool can have an optional scheduling class assignment, you can use the pools facility to set a default scheduler other than the system default for a non-global zone. For instructions, see How to Associate a Pool With a Scheduling Class and Creating the Configuration.
Revise the default set of privileges.
zonecfg:lx-zone> set limitpriv="default,proc_priocntl"
The proc_priocntl privilege is used to run processes in the real-time class.
Set five CPU shares.
zonecfg:lx-zone> set cpu-shares=5
Add a memory cap.
zonecfg:lx-zone> add capped-memory
Add a file system.
zonecfg:lx-zone> add fs
Set the mount point for the file system, /export/linux/local in this procedure.
zonecfg:lx-zone:fs> set dir=/export/linux/local
Specify that /opt/local in the global zone is to be mounted as /export/linux/local in the zone being configured.
zonecfg:lx-zone:fs> set special=/opt/local
In the non-global zone, the /export/linux/local file system will be readable and writable.
Specify the file system type, lofs in this procedure.
zonecfg:lx-zone:fs> set type=lofs
The type indicates how the kernel interacts with the file system.
End the file system specification.
zonecfg:lx-zone:fs> end
This step can be performed more than once to add more than one file system.
Add a network virtual interface.
zonecfg:lx-zone> add net
Set the IP address in the form ip address of zone/netmask. In this procedure, 10.6.10.233/24 is used.
zonecfg:lx-zone:net> set address=10.6.10.233/24
Set the physical device type for the network interface, the bge device in this procedure.
zonecfg:lx-zone:net> set physical=bge0
End the specification.
zonecfg:lx-zone:net> end
This step can be performed more than once to add more than one network interface.
Enable an audio device present in the global zone in this zone by using the attr resource type.
zonecfg:lx-zone> add attr
Verify the zone configuration for the zone.
zonecfg:lx-zone> verify
Commit the zone configuration for the zone.
zonecfg:lx-zone> commit
Exit the zonecfg command.
zonecfg:lx-zone> exit
Note that even if you did not explicitly type commit at the prompt, a commit is automatically attempted when you type exit or an EOF occurs.
The zonecfg command also supports multiple subcommands, quoted and separated by semicolons, from the same shell invocation.
global# zonecfg -z lx-zone "create -t SUNWlx; set zonepath=/export/home/lx-zone"
See Installing and Booting lx Branded Zones to install your committed zone configuration.
You can use this script to configure and boot multiple zones on your system. The script takes the following parameters:
The number of zones to be created
The zonename prefix
The directory to use as the base directory
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to execute the script. The global administrator has superuser privileges in the global zone or assumes the Primary Administrator role.
#!/bin/ksh # # Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. # Use is subject to license terms. # #ident "%Z%%M% %I% %E% SMI" if [[ -z "$1" || -z "$2" || -z "$3" || -z "$4" ]]; then echo "usage: $0 <#-of-zones> <zonename-prefix> <basedir> <template zone>" exit 2 fi if [[ ! -d $3 ]]; then echo "$3 is not a directory" exit 1 fi state=`zoneadm -z $4 list -p 2>/dev/null | cut -f 3 -d ":"` if [[ -z "$state" || $state != "installed" ]]; then echo "$4 must be an installed, halted zone" exit 1 fi template_zone=$4 nprocs=`psrinfo | wc -l` nzones=$1 prefix=$2 dir=$3 ip_addrs_per_if=`ndd /dev/ip ip_addrs_per_if` if [ $ip_addrs_per_if -lt $nzones ]; then echo "ndd parameter ip_addrs_per_if is too low ($ip_addrs_per_if)" echo "set it higher with 'ndd -set /dev/ip ip_addrs_per_if <num>" exit 1 fi i=1 while [ $i -le $nzones ]; do zoneadm -z $prefix$i clone $template_zone > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo configuring $prefix$i F=$dir/$prefix$i.config rm -f $F echo "create -t SUNWlx" > $F echo "set zonepath=$dir/$prefix$i" >> $F zonecfg -z $prefix$i -f $dir/$prefix$i.config 2>&1 | \ sed 's/^/ /g' else echo "skipping $prefix$i, already configured" fi i=`expr $i + 1` done i=1 while [ $i -le $nzones ]; do j=1 while [ $j -le $nprocs ]; do if [ $i -le $nzones ]; then if [ `zoneadm -z $prefix$i list -p | \ cut -d':' -f 3` != "configured" ]; then echo "skipping $prefix$i, already installed" else echo installing $prefix$i mkdir -pm 0700 $dir/$prefix$i chmod 700 $dir/$prefix$i zoneadm -z $prefix$i install -s -d /path/to/ISOs > /dev/null 2>&1 & sleep 1 # spread things out just a tad fi fi i=`expr $i + 1` j=`expr $j + 1` done wait done i=1 para=`expr $nprocs \* 2` while [ $i -le $nzones ]; do date j=1 while [ $j -le $para ]; do if [ $i -le $nzones ]; then echo booting $prefix$i zoneadm -z $prefix$i boot & fi j=`expr $j + 1` i=`expr $i + 1` done wait done
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Display the configuration of a zone.
global# zonecfg -z zonename info
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April 27, 2013
CARY, N.C. –Behind another 4-3 upsetting win, the Florida State women's tennis team is heading to its third ACC Championship Final in school history. The 30th-ranked Seminoles (16-8) defeated No.11- ranked Virginia just one week after falling to the Cavaliers in Charlottesville, Va. 4-0.
Florida State advances to take on fourth-seeded (No.10) Miami at 11 a.m.
"What a day," head coach Jennifer Hyde said. "The amount of heart and guts that we are showing through every match out there is unbelievably inspiring. You can't ever count this team out."
In the first set, Sargeant got out in front before surrendering the lead 5-4 against Li Xi. Sargeant did not trail for long, as she grabbed the next two games, going up 6-5, but Xi forced a first-set tiebreaker by tying the match 6-6.
In tiebreak, Xi was no challenge for Sargeant as she cruised to a 7-2 win, securing the first set 7-6.
Sargeant contested in the second set evenly with Xi, before Xi went up a break and held on to win 6-4, forcing a decisive third.
"I knew that it wasn't going to be easy," Sargeant said. "It was going to come down to me and Kerrie (Cartwright). The girl I was playing started to step up and I knew it wasn't going to be easy."
In the third, Sargeant held serve getting out to a 1-0 edge. However, Xi appeared to put Sargeant away after winning the next four games behind long, intense rallies.
With Sargeant facing a 1-4 hole in the deciding dual, she quickly used her serve to spark a three-game charge to tie the set 4-4.
"Even at 4-1 down I knew that it was a matter of just believing in myself," Sargeant said. "I just needed to hang in there and it was such a high level of tennis that I knew who ever stepped up was going to win."
Xi stopped Sargeant's streak by breaking serve going ahead 5-4, however Sargeant returned the favor, tying it once again 5-5.
"I knew I needed to take control and be the one to dictate the points first." Sargeant added.
On serve, Sargeant looked to put the game away with ease, but a few mistakes and good plays by Xi forced the game to deuce. After two stalemates, Sargeant took advantage and put one of Xi's shots away down the middle to go ahead 6-5.
"I kept telling myself, `you're almost there, one more point' and looking into coach's eyes telling her I got this. I knew that in moments like this you give it your all or nothing at all and know that Kerrie just won it gave me a boost to do this for the team."
Sargeant closed out the match with four quick points for her 28th win on the year, 7-6,4-6, 7-5.
"I'm usually the first one off court," Sargeant said. "So this is a rare occasion for me. But knowing that it came down to me during the Duke match this season and I couldn't pull through, I wasn't going to let this moment pass me by."
In doubles, Florida State grabbed the edge with a convincing 8-1 victory on court two as Mia Vriens and Sargeant defeated Hana Tomljanovic and Julia Elbaba.
Virginia answered on court one as Daneika Borthwick and Francesca Segarelli fell to Stephanie Nauta and Erin Vierra 8-3, leaving the deciding match to court three.
Similar to Friday's match, Kerrie Cartwright and Kristina Schleich fell down a break early, however they tied the match 4-4. The Virginia pair of Xi and Maria Fuccillio won the next three games, taking the lead 7-4.
However, Schleich and Cartwright refused to quit and pulled to within one at 7-6, fighting off a match point in the process.
Looking to break to stay alive, Schleich and Cartwright fended off two more match points but could not pull out the task as the Cavaliers won the match 8-6, capturing the doubles point.
In singles, the Seminoles were able to gain some momentum back after taking four key first set wins in singles, including two in tiebreaking fashion.
Schleich tied the match 1-1 after a controlling 6-0, 6-3 victory on court six against Caryssa Peretz.
"Kristina absolutely dismantled her opponent today after struggling with her a week ago," Hyde said.
Virginia answered by adding two points with wins on courts one and two. Borthwick (No.57) fell to Elbaba (No.12 ) 6-1, 6-4 one court one while Segarelli (No. 96)lost her match to Nauta (No.73) on court two, 6-4, 6-2.
With the Seminoles down 3-1, the four remaining matches all had the edge with first set wins.
Vriens was locked in a battle with Tomljanovic on court three. Vriens teetered with the first set lead before Tomljanovic went ahead 5-4. Vriens knotted it at 5-5, before serving to take the lead 6-5. Once again, Tomlijanovic tied the set, forcing a tiebreak.
In the tiebreaker, Vriens and Tomljanovic traded leads multiple times, before Vriens closed it out 7-4.
In the second, Vriens fought off a heated Tomljanovic to take the match 7-6, 6-4 pulling the `Noles to within one at 3-2 with courts four and five left in play.
"I don't have enough to say about Mia," Hyde said. "She is playing with sheer will right now. She stepped up in such a big way today. She's doing this for the team and I have so much respect for what she is putting out there right now."
On court five, Cartwright got out to a 6-3 first set win over Vierra before dropping the second in a tight 6-4 decision.
In the third, Cartwright took the lead early and wore down Vierra in order to go up a break at 5-3. Vierra made it 5-4 before Cartwright concluded the match on serve, winning 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
"Kerrie's match was toe-to-toe," Hyde said. "It was an absolute dogfight. She stayed calm and cool and stuck to a game plan and got through a tough match for her and this team."
Playing next to Sargeant, Cartwright finished her match once Sargeant was down 4-3 in the third.
The ACC Finals will start at 11 a.m. on Sunday. The Seminoles are 1-2 all-time against the Hurricanes in the ACC Tournament. This will be the first time the two teams have met in the final.
Earlier this season, the Seminoles pulled off an upset in Coral Gables over then No.11-ranked Miami, 4-3 for just the fifth time in FSU history.
"We've got three days behind us now," Hyde said. "We've got one more to go. We'll enjoy this, but we've got one more day on our radar and we're going to be ready to go against Miami."
For more information, check back to Seminoles.com, Facebook and Twitter.
No. 7 Florida State 4, No. 2 Clemson 3
#7 Florida State 4, #3 Virginia 3
2. Stephanie Nauta (VA) def. Francesca Segarelli 6-4, 6-2
3. Mia Vriens (VA) def. Hana Tomljanovic 7-6, 6-4
4. Amy Sargeant (FS) def. Li Xi 7-6, 4-6, 7-5
5. Kerrie Cartwright (FS) def. Erin Vierra 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
6. Kristina Schleich (FS) def. Caryssa Peretz 6-0, 6-3
Order of finish: 6, 1, 2, 3, 5, 4*
1. Nauta/Vierra (VA) def. Segarelli/Borthwick 8-5
2. Vriens/Sargeant (FS) def. Elbaba/Tomljanovic 8-1
3. Xi/Fuccillo (VA) def. Cartwright/Schleich 8-6
Order of finish: 2, 1, 3*


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Guess who has a new master bedroom? Mua. Muah...Moi? Cursed French. It's MEEEE! The long story made short is....my husband turned our previous master bedroom into a home gym. He put the treadmill, weights cage, free weights, benches, etc. in the bedroom so he doesn't have to work out in the freezing cold garage this winter. I know, I'm such a nice wife. But I'm totally happy because our master bedroom had turned into sort of a "catch all" room. Random mismatched bookshelves, storage bins, guitar amps and guitars...you name it, it was probably in our room somewhere. I wanted a room that FELT like a bedroom, ya know? So, I'm TOTALLY not complaining. We moved the girls in together (which they are LOVING) and we moved the master bedroom into Whitney's "old" room. Would you like to see what I did?
First, there was finding a paint color. I wanted something that was in between brown and gray. I chose Better Homes and Gardens 814 Earthy Stoneware. This color ended up PERFECT. Exactly what I imagined! I really wanted some contrast with the white and light robin egg blue.
I wanted something like the hotels have now for bedding...the white coverlet that they just fold the sheets over. I love that it looks so crisp and clean and that it's easy to just throw in the wash.
I got this nice set from Target for around $50. I love climbing into a crisp clean bed!
I made each of the pillows accept for the brown one...(I can't even imagine how long it would take to make the brown one! *GAG*)
All of the fabrics are Premier Print fabrics from Fabric.com. I absolutely LOVE the giant shabby rosette pillows! OH! And do you want to know how I got the size for the blue pillows? All I did was cut a normal queen sized pillow in half and sewed the edge closed! It makes a perfect longer rectangle size. DON'T cut a pillow full of feathers in half...just FYI. Not that I did it or anything...*giggle*
I also covered an old canvas that I had with the fabric and stenciled on a "B". The frames were SOOO easy, too! I just took some old frames and took out the backing and glass and made a bunch of shabby fabric rosettes. Then, I glued them to the frame and that's it! I LOVE, LOVE, LOOOOVE my shabby rosette frames!
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Gomez, as most remember, was the center piece of the much criticized Johan Santana trade between the Twins and Mets. He was the key return for the Twins. At the time, the trade was lambasted as being not enough for the great Johan. Frankly, I agreed. I simply couldn't see the upside in Carlos Gomez, but scouts long predicted improved power as he matured. That power finally emerged in the second half of 2012.
In the second half of 2012, Gomez hit .278/.321/.488 with 14 homers and 26 steals. I'm completely buying into his second half breakout. Others aren't so sure due in part to his first half performance, wherein he hit a less than inspiring .233/.280/.423 with 5 homers and 11 steals. So, which is the real Gomez?
For me, there are a number of indicators pointing to a 2013 breakout, including the following:
- He hit 19 homers last year in somewhat limited duty with 14 of them coming in the second half. I don't really see anything that indicates that the power was a fluke.
- He has good size.
- He has very good swing mechanics.
- He has plus bat speed.
- His fly ball% has risen, which is a big change from his early career ground ball heavy tendencies. His average fly ball plus home run distance has been 288 feet for the past two seasons, a jump from the 274 feet he posted in 2010.
- Last year, he not only hit more homers, but he actually hit homers to the opposite field, which he had never done before.
- He's entering his age 27 season, so he's just now hitting his prime.
- The average distance of his homers has increased, which indicates that they weren't flukey.
- His plate discipline is atrocious, but it's similar to early career Alfonso Soriano and it certainly didn't hurt Alfonso's power production.
To me, the power spike seems legit. And, we've always known the speed is legit. So, 2013 could reveal Gomez to be a very strong combination of speed/power, tools/skills, and plus defense at a premier defensive position. If so, the contract extension the Brewers gave him this offseason could be a steal.
In addition to the above factors, Gomez has one of the a prettiest righthanded swings in the game. Below is a screen capture of a highlight showing two photos, from different angles, of his swing at the same moment in time. It's a very fundamentally sound swing. He has good balance, strong lower body action, and good extension, which allows him to drive an outside corner pitch the opposite way with power.
Given his plus swing mechanics and electric tools, there are a lot of highlights on MLB.com worth watching. Oddly enough, my favorite highlight isn't a tape measure home run, an explosive stolen base, or a crazy diving catch in center. My favorite highlight is actually a take-out slide that broke up a double play and allowed a run to score.
The play demonstrates plus speed, very good technique on the slide (avoiding the base, upending the fielder, and still being within reach of the base), and very good situational awareness. It's the type of play made by a heady player who appreciates the nuances of the game. For comparison, think about Matt Holliday's take out "slide" of Marco Scutaro during the playoffs last year.
Need another reason to believe in Carlos Gomez? Not only does he play the game hard, but he's committed to improving. If you watch the practice sessions of athletes of any caliber, they frequently spend more time practicing their strengths than they do their weaknesses. Why? It's just more fun that way. But, it's also far less valuable. Gomez, on the other hand, did something equal parts unique and wise over the offseason. He identified the big flaw in his game and took steps to improve on it.
Gomez hired a former minor league pitcher to throw him 50 pitches a day in the Dominican Republic. The kicker? He didn't swing at any of them until late in the winter. All he did was track, track, track pitches. Gomez's primary weakness is plate discipline. A large part of plate discipline is pitch recognition. Gomez not only recognized his main flaw, but actively took steps to improve on it. He not only worked harder, he worked smarter. Frankly, I'm surprised more hitters haven't utilized this technique, as I think it might work.
For 2013, most projections have Gomez hitting fewer than 20 homers. If healthy, I'm actually expecting him to hit 25 bombs and steal at least 35 bases. I'll be very surprised if he doesn't hit at least 20 homers. And, I think there's a non-zero chance that there's a very big season on the horizon for Gomez (30/50?, 40/40?) in the next couple of seasons.
If I was a bettin' man (which I'm not) or the Brewer GM (which I'm not), I'd be comfortable betting on the future of Carlos Gomez.


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If Chad Ochcocinco and the Cincinnati Bengals are truly headed for a divorce as speculated on Bengals.com, Hue Jackson's presence as head coach would seem to make the Raiders a potential destination.
If the team's own Web site is floating the possibility, there's probably something there.
When Jackson was hired, Ochocinco said on his Twitter account: "Congratulations 2 Hue Jackson for becoming the Oakland Raiders new head coach. Best receiver coach I ever had."
Earlier this month, there were these tweets:
"I would not care where Hue Jackson got a job. I would go play for him, run through a wall, jump in front of a bus, etc. u get the point."
"Man that was the greatest coach I ever had. Hue Jackson would choke me out, cuss me out, just to make sure I was precise on everything.
"It would be refreshing to be with Hue Jackson again. I know I wouldn't have to worry about being thrown under a bus again."
The "under the bus" reference has to do with his strained relationship with current Bengals coach Marvin Lewis.


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The 2010 campaign for California's governor has taken yet another sharp turn.
Suddenly, critical issues like a record-setting overdue budget, a woeful economy, and an underfunded, dysfunctional public education system have taken a back seat to character. This time the focus is on Meg Whitman, who despite a well-manicured and carefully orchestrated campaign, finds herself in the throes of an issue her money can't fix and she can't control.
The facts are simple enough: Whitman and her husband employed an illegal immigrant for the better part of a decade. According to a recently released IRS form, Whitman's husband and perhaps Whitman were aware of problems relating to the employee's immigration status.
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From there the issues descend to finger-pointing between Whitman and the former employee as to how much Whitman knew and when.
For Whitman, the timing couldn't be worse.
Whitman has worked hard to win over the Latino vote. Now she's in the throes of the thorny immigration issue--something she hoped was behind her in the stretch run. Still, the question emerges, "If you're so much against illegal immigration, how could you knowingly employ an illegal immigrant? Does this not smell of hypocrisy?"
Ouch. That's a no-win situation, whatever the answer.
This leads to a potentially more serious problem for Whitman - character. That's because the immigration issue comes as a successor to recent public relations gaffes regarding a false campaign ad, a physical altercation with a former employee, and distortions about delays in relocating eBay, her former company. Any one of these could easily be dismissed as a faux
pax. Combined, they well may give some people, especially those on the fence, reason to pause.
For his part, Jerry Brown shouldn't get too excited. Character concerns can be fleeting in politics, especially with the press of so many weighty problems in this election season. In fact, all one has to do is look back to 2003, when in the waning days of the campaign, undisputed stories emerged in the press about Arnold Schwarzenegger groping more than a
dozen women over a 25-year period. Schwarzenegger had the last laugh with a convincing victory at the polls.
With so many concerns before the voters, character may not be the deciding factor in this election. Still, for Meg Whitman, it's an issue she'd rather do without in these precious last days of what's becoming an ugly campaign.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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The Dow is now off 33. The S&P is now off about 3.
The pattern has been consistent.
Some green in the morning, and then a fall-off as the day goes on.
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Those with more flexibility bend to a greater degree at the lower part of the spine. In this position, the sit bones manage most of the body's weight with a little pressure on the genital area.
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Saddle comfort is usually given by the shape and foam on top of the base. With Kurve the comfort is given by the base and the surrounding elements. Kurve is formed from four elements; Re:Flex, Wing Flex™, Mobius Rail, Tuner
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Do Angel Investor Equity Seed Rounds Taint VC Series a Rounds?
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-10-24
Tags: Funding Sources Seed Angels M&A Series A
Example VC Pitch Deck with Explanations, Samples
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Posted by KipMcC on 2009-08-26
Tags: Pitching Resources
Recently, I shared this outline & pitch deck example with the Capital Factory companies in Austin, Texas; you may find example slides, download the PPT template file, and read descriptions / discussion for each here:
1. Title Slide
* The get everyone in the room and sitting down slide; Don't roll forward from here until you have everyone in the room and paying attention if you can help it.
2. Agenda + Company Overview
* Make sure you're covering what they want to cover; ask if you're missing anything before launching into the pitch
* This is also the slide to give a quick summary of your company. This summary is important because it will give any other partners at the firm you talking to a "snap shot" of you're company after you're gone; it's helpful for other partners in the firm to have at-a-glace info on what you do, in what market, company details, and so on.
3. Market + Market Context
* Why is your market interesting? Are there any compelling dynamics currently at play?
* How do you fit in? This can help set up your unique competitive advantage / "secret sauce" slide.
4. One-slide company overview: THE SLIDE
* In many cases, your entire pitch will be an interactive conversation while sitting on a single slide; this should be that slide.
* Done right, this allows you to describe what you do, who you do it for, why that's important and your vision for the future.
5. Business Model; How we make money
* How, exactly, does your company make money? Do you have any examples of this working so far?
* Does any part of your business act as a "loss leader" for another, more valuable part?
* Do you have two models running simultaneously? is that good or bad & why? Make sure you clearly describe and delineate between them…and hopefully describe how they benefit and support each.
6. Progress, Mile stones, look into the future
* What you've accomplished so far?
* What you plan to do in the near future? In what timeframe?
7. Competition & your company's "Secret Sauce"
* You relative to others in your space.
* The question that you must answer well: if your company is successful, how will you defend its business from competitors who see your success and want some or all of it for themselves? What can you do differently? What can you do uniquely and realistically for how long? What CAN'T (or is really really hard to) be duplicated? What is your special tech, model, process, team advantage or unique solution?
8. Current Partners, Customers & Pipeline
* Who are you working with today? Who will be your customer tomorrow?
* How, exactly, do you acquire customers? How much does it cost to acquire them? What is your average deal size? How could your business increase the average deal size? What is the average deal size of other companies in this same market? Does this information align with the Market Size / Market Context data from Slide #3 ? (hint: it should) Once you have a customer, can you sell them MORE stuff more easily? Why / why not / how much / when will you have it to sell? What is the expected life-time value of a customer (be careful to think about this relative to the cost to acquire a customer)?
9. Financial Details (revenue, expense, HC, projections)
* What is your current and future headcount (this equates to your burn rate as headcount is almost always the biggest expense)?
* what is your current monthly/quarterly burn rate and how does that ramp over time?
* what is your current revenue and how does that ramp over time?
* How quickly are you approaching a cash-flow breakeven point?
* What's your revenue run-rate 12 months from now? What's the net loss / gain over the same period?
10. Funding "ask" + use of proceeds (timing, other firms)
11. Team Overview
12. Thank you, questions, contact info (no example slide)
High-level guidelines:
* Create your own deck! Create a deck that allows you to tell your story according to your style; name the slides what you want; tell your story with text or pictures (within reason)
* Don't leave out critical information! This outline is my suggestion of a "critical information" list; no rational investor will fund your company without knowing the information suggested by this outline.
* Proactively answer big-ticket questions! If there are obvious, elephant-in-the-room sort of questions regarding your business: address them before they get asked. This is always a better way to go.
* Be passionate and informed! Investors invest in the team – show them your passion and be sure to know data from adjacent or competitive markets, companies, and models.
* Finally, it's really important to have enough white space in your presentation format. I like a white background because it prints and projects cleanly. I like titles that are single-line and as few words as possible; and I try to keep the text/image area "middle part" of the slide as open as possible. In general, right angles are easier to make look clean than circles but your mileage may vary. Less is more when it comes to the presentation template.PRIVATE: Members Only
Angels: VC's in Disguise?
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Posted by Anonymous on 2010-07-05
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Seed Money Available
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-04-13
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Open Source Funding
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Angel Group Requests to Pay First
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Most Business Books are Total Crap
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Get Angel Funding From India?
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Posted by Anonymous on 2008-02-24
Tags: Funding Sources Angels India
We are being invited to travel to India where apperently it is much easier these days to get some angel funding. One of us (a 2-person founding team in the US) is from India and would have strong credibility there. On the other hand, most of our market and prospects who have given us Letters of Intent (large players in the healthcare space) are all in US.
It is probably not quite as easy and also wondering if the SEC requirements etc. would cause the effort to be a huge legal and otherwise time-consuming exercise.
Also, we know of several entreprenurs - including some with deep ties to India- who have been taken advantage of by the investors, in terms of IP and market positioning.
By the way, we have gone through the usual abuse of entreprenurs by the established angel groups in the US and will prpbably shut down the business in the next 60 days if we don't get funding.
Early Stage Investments All but a Myth ?
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Posted by Anonymous on 2010-01-26
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Any Success Raising Funds Via Dpo?
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-10-21
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Texas Emerging Technology Fund (Etf)
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Not Much Peer to Peer Networking on the Site
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Urgent: Should I Trust This Investor and Take His Offer
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-10-05
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VC Want Options to Be Active?
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Posted by Anonymous on 2010-01-15
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Golden Seeds and Other Angels Get Real
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-10-01
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Innovative Abstract Thinking Investors
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-06-12
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Ti Econ 2009 Should I Attend?
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-04-29
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Posted by Anonymous on 2011-09-06
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Warning: "Inside" Rounds
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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-01-25
Tags: Funding Sources Strategy Valuation Crisis
As it is becoming harder to raise capital from venture capitalists, existing investors are facing situations where they need to lead new rounds in their own portfolio companies. This presents a big problem for valuations, especially if an investor only has convertible debt. Recently, I've heard a few stories about existing investors promising to lead a round, then pulling out or dramatically changing the terms. Worse, investors will sometimes string you along with a singed term sheet until you are out of cash, and then completely change the deal to take control.
Here are some tips if you think that you are going to need money in the next 18 months.
Know where insiders stand: You need to know where if your insiders will participate or lead a new financing event, and you should also ask them what their specific expectations are for your company performance. Assume that any inside round will be flat.
Pursue other options: Even if your insiders agree to lead a round, you should do your best to have an alternative financing option available. You will never get a fair price for your equity from insiders, since they are pricing, selling, and buying the equity at the same time and since they see all the warts and bruises.
Raise now, not later: Don't wait to raise money. Raising will take twice as long and will be twice as hard in this market. Try to raise enough capital to operate for more than 48 months, if you can.
When in doubt, do debt: If things are not moving fast enough and you have only three or four months worth of cash left, press your existing investors to do a convertible debt round that will give you eight to twelve months of low growth operating capital.
Insider sheet to attract outsiders: If everything else is failing, you may want to have your insiders draft a term sheet with a lot of room for new investors to participate. It's often easier to find outside investors with a "legitimate" term sheet in hand.
Good luck!PRIVATE: Members Only
Must Read Books for Entrepreneurs
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Posted by Anonymous on 2008-07-12
Tags: Preparation Resources
Early Stage Biopharma
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Posted by Anonymous on 2008-02-23
Tags: Funding Sources
How are early stage biopharma companies getting funded these days" We have good pre-clinical data and are working to raise funds for a Phase I clinical trial. We've talked to several of the larger coastal funds who (for the most part) have been polite but consistently call us too early, which is consistent with their investment history in the sector. We need to raise between $5-7 million and are not on one of the coasts. This seems like an awkward space. I've had the opportunity to present to several of the top-tier VCs. Most of whom have been interested, engaged and polite BUT the truth is that their track record indicates they are not doing these deals. Their biopharma deals tend to be later stage and greater than $15 million. I understand deal flow but it seems like a waste of everyones time and gets back to the question "who funds early stage biopharma" Advise is greatly appreciated.


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It was her speeches that made Mother Jones "the most dangerous woman in America"--dubbed so by a West Virginia attorney. For nearly 50 years, the labor activist traveled the country to be the voice of child mill workers, deported Mexican workers, steelworkers and most famously coal miners. After her husband and all four of her children died from yellow fever in 1867, she took up the cause of labor after she and many others lost everything in Chicago's Great Fire of 1871.
She took charge of more than her introductions. Historians believe she crafted her "Mother" persona right down her old fashioned, lace-trimmed black dresses and spectacles. She claimed to be much older than she really was, and she called her audiences "my boys," alternately hectoring them and sweet-talking them into fighting for better working conditions. The grandmotherly pose did much to free her from the era's expectations for women--particularly the expectation that they should not speak in public, and certainly not in the inflammatory tone that Jones used to rouse a crowd.
Her speeches can come across as rambling and bombastic today, but they worked well in an age without microphones or recordings, when the connection between speaker and audience was intimate. Contemporaries said the intensity of her voice almost could be felt physically. And Jones spoke with one goal in mind--to call her audience to immediate action. She used aggressive and coarse language to incite, rather than to reason. And she was not above name-calling and humor to draw a sharp line between her boys and the company men.
One of her most famous speeches took place in 1912 at a public meeting in Charleston, West Virginia, as Kanawha County coal companies clashed with unionized miners over a new contract. Her words survive because the mine operators had hired a stenographer to take down her public remarks, with the hopes that they could be used to portray her as a violent agitator.
What can you learn from this historic speech?
- Find a way to connect. Jones repeatedly used the words "we" and "us" as she called attention to the shared experiences she had with the miners, going to jail on their behalf, riding the rails to visit their camps, sitting with their families in times of grief. It's a tactic that establishes her right to speak in front of them and on their behalf.
- Let your listeners guide you. Jones didn't speak from a script, but instead let a natural call-and-response develop as she moved through the speech. Watch for the places where this flow gives her the chance to get in a few extra shots against the governor and others, and where it helps her emphasize that patience and protection of property will be important weapons in the strike.
- Add to a speech with a story. How many characters can you spot in this speech? There's the doomed Johnston boys with their meager lunch bucket, the clueless Senator Dick and the mine owner's wife with the pampered dog, to name a few. Each of their stories adds detail and emotion to the call to action.
- Make room for a prop. Props were one of Jones' favorite speaking tools. On another occasion, she reportedly tore up a mine guard's bloody coat and tossed the pieces into the crowd. This time, it's the hat she passes to collect beer money "for the miners who came up here broke." The hat serves both as a reminder of the mine owners' stinginess and as a symbol of the miners' solidarity.
Looking for famous speeches by women? Check out The Eloquent Woman Index of Famous Women's Speeches, with a wide variety of women speakers, types of speeches and topics to inspire your next speech. Each one comes with lessons for speakers, plus video or audio and a transcript, where available.


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28 February 2013: UNITAR is honoured to have recently joined the Hiroshima Research and Educational Institutes Network for Peace. The Network's objective is to share information and expertise with regard to Hiroshima and its role in peace building efforts. Member Institutes include:
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On the occasion of the establishment of the Network, 15 representatives from 10 Member Institutes gathered at the inaugural meeting. The representatives discussed the Network's statute, membership, and upcoming events in the next fiscal year.
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|Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Reams have and will be written about her achievements and the changes she brought about. This post is a personal one and not intended as a general tribute.
I never actually voted for Mrs Thatcher - nor for the Tory party who seemed to me to stand for privilege - in any of the 8 elections for which I have been fortunate enough to qualify. I guess at the time I didn't fully appreciate that her rather uncomfortable, uncompromising approach was exactly what was necessary to change a declining, deeply troubled Britain.
We came to the UK from South Africa at the end of 1976...immigrants like many others. Attracted by the relative freedom and open democracy but fearful of my ability to thrive as an entrepreneur.
The liberalism of Britain was like a breath of fresh air but the country was in a dreadful state. Morale was rock bottom. People could not understand why one would choose to come to a country where nothing worked.
British Steel, British Leyland, British Rail, British Airways were a national laughing stock, labour strikes were crippling. The great in Great Britain was entirely absent.
The winter of 78/79, named the Winter of Discontent brought the country to a standstill.
There seemed to be a complete absence of enterprise, the major industries and institutions were run by the great and the good who went to the right schools and belonged to the right clubs (the aristocracy). They were clueless as to how to deal with industrial relations.
In my view, one of Thatcher's greatest and lasting achievements was the ruthless reduction of the power of the aristocracy - from within the Tory party - through deregulation, privatisation and the unleashing of a meritocracy.
The transformation of Britain was not comfortable nor easy - especially for those with a liberal social conscience. A lot of what Mrs Thatcher did was done in an arrogant and heavy handed way and her demise, 11 years later in 1990 was at least partly due to her stubbornness and divisive style.
Interesting how many of her fundamental economic policies were adopted by Tony Blair and new Labour, enabling him to win 3 terms as PM.
Although the grocers daughter would never have allowed Govt spending to get so out of hand as did in the new century. 'Living within ones means' and 'good housekeeping' were among her favourite mantras.
How different is the UK of today. Today, I believe the UK is the best place in Europe to start and build a business. The nation has its pride back and is, by and large, at peace with itself - in it's multi- cultural and cosmopolitan skin.
The challenges that remain are immense and one does have to wonder whether we have the global leaders today with the clarity of purpose and determination to overcome them.
I guess we have a lot to thank Mrs T for.


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Calling all innovators!
Note: This competition has changed from the top "100" to the Global 250 to reflect AlwaysOn's move to cast a wider net. The 250 companies will be honored at this year's Stanford Summit in July. Additionally, 50 companies will get to present at the conference. And, like all the Vator and AO competitions, the company that wins this particular competition will get to present (for free) at AO's Stanford Summit.
AlwaysOn is the online media company founded by Tony Perkins.
How do you win? The winners are chosen based on five criteria: Innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz, and value creation.
For a better idea of what to include in your pitch, watch Ezra Roizen share his views on what the editorial team looks for in a winning company. Ezra is on the selection committee for AlwaysOn.
AlwaysOn runs more than half a dozen conferences a year, focusing on innovation across media and entertainment (OnHollywood), clean technology (GoingGreen), high-tech (Stanford Summit), and advertising (OnMedia).
In connection to each event, AlwaysOn awards 100 private companies the prestigious title of "AO100 Private Company Award Winner." Some of the past AO100 winners have gone on to achieve great success. Skype, which was purchased by eBay, was an AO100 winner in 2005. YouTube, which was sold to Google in 2006, was an AO100 winner in 2006.
For the Stanford Summit, however, AO will recognizez 250 companies, not 100.
To participate in this competition: If you have a pitch on Vator.tv, just click the tab below, or the big yellow tab on the righ-hand side, that says "participate in this competition." If you don't have a pitch on Vator.tv, just sign up and click "upload a pitch." It's really simple.
Best of luck to those participating!


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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Following the death of a student from bacterial meningitis, staff from the health department will be at Coral Reef Senior High School today to answer questions about the illness.
The discussion will be held from 9 a.m. to Noon on Sunday morning at Coral Reef Senior High School, 10101 SW 152nd Street in Richmond Heights.
Christopher R. Valdes, 18, died at 8 a.m. Friday, Miami-Dade police said. Officials said the teenager had visited an urgent car Thursday, but that the name of the center was being withheld from the public. The teen died within an hour of arriving at a local hospital Friday.
A news conference was held Friday night right after the case was confirmed.
"Not every single person who knew [Valdes] has to be worried," said Dr. Alvaro Mejia-Echeverry. He also said people would have had to be in contact with Valdes' saliva to become infected with meningitis.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools' Student Services Crisis Management Team has been notified and will respond to the school as needed.


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Video: Teaching Facebook to the Elderly
In a new documentary, younger people teach senior citizens how to use email and Facebook. "Cyber-Seniors" director Saffron Cassaday joins Digits to discuss the project.
Also: What to Know for Next Week. The Journal's Scott Austin previews what's ahead in the world of tech, including when Apple might close its proposed $3.2 billion deal to acquire Beats Electronics.