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The dream of academia
To anyone thinking of being an academic, I highly recommend it. The flexible hours, the long holidays, the international conferences, not having to wear a suit: yes, being an academic is fantastic. Becoming an academic, however, is a nightmare. That's the whole point. How could we academics feel so privileged and superior if anyone could do it? In fact, we go much further than that. We get a truly wild giddy joy from the knowledge that practically no-one can do it. How do we know that? We repeat over and over the experiment of convincing smart, creative, ambitious, hard-working young people to begin a career in academia, and then watch them fail.
Is it cruel to encourage these hopeless dreams? Not at all. Having your infantile dreams relentlessly beaten out of you is what growing up is all about. Plus, when you do finally face reality, there are plenty of perfectly fine normal jobs waiting for you. That's the difference between trying to become an academic and trying to become a movie star. Budding movie stars flock to Hollywood. They work until they drop, demean and degrade themselves, forgo any hint of a personal life, alienate their family and betray their friends, and do that for year after year after year, until finally they either give up entirely and become a gibbering loser back in their old home town; or they enter the porn industry. Academia is just like that, except that the loser bit is replaced by, "respectable well-paying job", although sometimes still with the gibbering. The equivalent of the porn industry varies between disciplines; for failed physicists it's Finance.
Also: they are all given plenty of warning. Usually it comes just before that dire decision to begin a PhD.
I was warned early. When I was still at high school a chemistry teacher told me, "You don't want to do a PhD. You'll be 30 and still living in a dingy flat with mis-matching furniture." But who would ever trust the career judgement of someone who became a schoolteacher?
Later, as I was completing my undergraduate physics degree, a professor called me into his office and gave me more anti-PhD and anti-academia warnings. With tears in his eyes he told me tales of idealistic and brilliant young scientists who were now many years into temporary postdoctoral research posts, with families to support and no permanent job on the horizon. I waved aside his objections and walked out of his office. If I'd stayed I'm sure he would have signed me up to go door-to-door raising money for the "Help the physicists" charity, aimed at supporting those impoverished physicists who had reached the very edge, who could barely hold on any longer and who were, quite honestly, on the verge of giving up and getting rich. He probably expected the standard response to be, "Damn, I've just given all my money to help the blind and cure cancer; I should have kept it for you!"
People tried to save me even after I moved to America to start my PhD. I was alerted to the dangers by a senior postdoc, who was reputed to be a true genius who had done incredible work in quantum gravity, but had been a postdoc for over a decade. He was holding out for the permanent job that his supervisor had promised to arrange for him, but unfortunately his supervisor's raving-lunatic act turned out to be more than an amusing affectation, and no job was forthcoming. He told me, "If you love physics and want to do a PhD just for the fun of it, that's fine, so long as you're sure you don't mind wasting five years of your life." He clearly had no idea what he was talking about. I knew what I was doing. Not only was I being paid to live and travel in the United States, I was even given a high-speed internet connection during those blissful first years of Napster. I had my priorities clear.
Once the PhD is complete, there are no more warnings. If you don't quit then, everyone realises that you're beyond hope. Now it's just a waiting game. Will you successfully perform the mental contortions necessary to extricate yourself and at the same time believe that this was what you had planned all along, or will you just scream "Fuck it!" one day and remain twisted and scarred for the rest of your life? For the successful academics watching, this is the most tense and fascinating part. It's so rich in excessive human drama that I was tempted to write this entire blog in the guise of a frustrated and bitter ex-postdoc, venting his hilarious rage and riling against the evil machinations of the "system". But that seemed a little hypocritical. I thought of all the ex-physicists out there who would read it and think, "Shit! We quit academia, and he's still stealing our material!"
Is success possible? Certainly. But only if you remain fantastically naive. It is essential that, at each step, you weigh your options as honestly and carefully as possible, and then choose the most irresponsible path. Your worst enemies are clear-sightedness, a level head, and a sense of perspective. Your friends are arrogance, blindness and immaturity. And don't underestimate the importance of good advice: you need something to rebel against. The darkest days will be when you've discovered that you have become obsessed, think of nothing but work, can barely sleep, you are jealous and spiteful of all of your colleagues, your wife has started taking painkillers along with the booze, your kids are in counselling, and you have become utterly convinced to the depths of your miserable soul that permanent jobs go only to those who are limitlessly unscrupulous, sycophantic, and, ultimately and most galling of all, lucky.
That's the final hurdle: the question, "If I do get a permanent job, how will I ever live with myself, thinking of those crowds of the more talented and more deserving, who didn't make it?" Fear not. The human capacity for self-delusion is unbounded. The moment you achieve academic nirvana, the full truth will be revealed to you. "Yes!" you'll cry. "The system really does work after all! How just and fair and good it is! Now, get away from me you snivelling losers!"
There may be nagging pangs of guilt, but they will soon be pushed aside by a whole new problem: the rewards of academia aren't quite living up to your exalted expectations. Yes, you can stroll into the office at whatever hour you wish, or even decide to "work at home" whenever you feel like it. But you can also stay up all night writing grant proposals, and work all weekend preparing classes, and in fact you'll have to if you want to keep doing any of that exciting research that you were so gung-ho about all those years ago. In fact, you'll have to work in the evenings and on weekends and forgo many of that generous number of holidays you've been given, even if you don't bother to try and get any research done. And meanwhile the "losers" who quit appear to be living in much bigger houses in much swankier suburbs, and instead of getting "free trips" to glamourous locations to attend conferences, they can afford to spend their own money to go to the same places to see tourist sites other than the local convention centre. The only perk you seem to be left with is that you don't have to wear a suit -- at least not until you're put on an academic advisory panel, or a university committee, or... Ok, in the end, you probably get the suit as well.
At this point, we discover the true reason why all of that intellectual cannon fodder is necessary: to make us academics feel better. So long as there's a steady stream of suckers who we can ensure will always, deep down, bitterly regret that they can't be like us, we can live with the fact that they have otherwise much better lives.
[Update: further thoughts in this guest post, as part of my Adventures in Real Science Fiction.]
More on academia...
1. What's wrong with science seminars, and
2. How to (radically) fix them
SInce you are new, please consider changing to anything but white text on black. It is unreadable.
-drl
Mark Hannam 29 April 2014 at 00:27
Thanks for the suggestion. Does anyone else have this problem?
Zhiming Wang 29 April 2014 at 02:04
Yep, I've got to paste it to somewhere else to read. My eyes hurt.
Richard Gaylord 29 April 2014 at 10:59
yes. i am unable to read white on black. increasing the font size would also help a lot.
Yes, cange. But not blue on white!
It's actually very trippy, but completely unreadable.
Mark Hannam 11 June 2014 at 11:45
Six weeks later, I've finally changed the colour scheme.
(And in the process, made all of these old comments very confusing...)
Yes. White on black in indeed unreadable.
Nope! I find the text much less of a strain on the eyes than the standard blinding white background.
Thanks for this post, which I was directed to by Peter Woit's blog. I'm a grad student in math and I'm finding myself at in the throes of an existential crisis similar to what you're describing. My motivation for getting a PhD was simply a love for mathematics, and the impression that academia was the career that would allow me to "do mathematics," whatever that means to me, at work. Now it seems like there's always going to be one more hurdle to clear before I get to actually do what I love- maybe if I get through the postdocs, the publishing, the networking, the job-finding, the tenure-earning, maybe THEN I can find the time to pursue the intellectual challenges I sought out in the first place. So, maybe when I'm 50 or so? I know delayed gratification is an inescapable part of being a student, but at some point delayed gratification becomes unsustainable delusion.
Thanks for letting me know where all this sudden traffic is coming from. If anyone sees Peter Woit, give him a big hug from me.
A PhD can be a drag, and sometimes a nightmare, but what else are you going to do with your time?
I hear this guy decided to try doing a startup instead.
Ask a silly question...
Dude, you live on an academic salary in CARDIFF and you think your ex-students bitterly regret not being like you? What the f*** are they doing? A lot of the ex-physicists I know are currently in San Francisco with their choice of Silicon Valley jobs. Where they also have flexible hours, no suits, ludicrous perks, more than 3 days of sun per year, and pretty interesting jobs in neural nets, for example. And a better than even chance of being retired by 45. Don't think Cardiff is high on their list of regrets.
I'm sorry to hear about the failures of your ex-physicist friends. I hope their wealth is some comfort. That wouldn't work for me, of course, because I shun all material wealth and live a life of intellectual purity. But if there are any openings, let me know...
And I take exception to your nasty lies about Cardiff. We have FOUR days of sun per year.
I for one love the white on black
Arun 29 April 2014 at 13:01
Great post! I too dislike white on black. If black on white is too dazzling, black on some other lightly colored background might work.
Robert F. 29 April 2014 at 18:34
From "The Hunger Games":
It is the only thing... stronger than fear.
A little hope is effective.
Exactly what you say. Exactly my impression.
Greetings from J-Town.
Or Tolkien.
- "We have no hope."
- "Then we must continue without hope."
The Lord of the Rings (every 20 pages or so)
You have written the most honest, gut-wrenching account of the process of becoming/failing to become an academic I ever read. You should consider quitting whatever it is that you are doing and become a writer (even harder I hear). Your blog is in my favorite list now. Good luck!
Oh, one more thing, may I suggest yellow on green?
Thanks! I'll consider your advice -- both on career and colours.
amused 29 April 2014 at 21:11
Bravo, nice one!
It's all too true, as I can attest to after finding against the odds a tenure-track faculty position a few years ago after a ridiculous number of years postdoccing.
I'd just like to add to your astute observations that finally getting the elusive faculty position brings another great reward: you get to experience what it is like to be treated as a human being by the academics after all those years of being a piece of dirt. The novelty of that only lasts about a year though. After that the memory of being a piece of dirt starts to fade, and you become conscious of the fact that while yes you are now a human being you are nevertheless a very small, insignificant and expendable member of that species. Your tenured colleagues will happily expend you later without a second thought if they find your talent for sycophancy to be lacking. It can be compared to going from 10+ years of being an intern (postdoc) to finally gaining an entry level position in a large corporation. Wonderful!
Arash Arabi 30 April 2014 at 06:28
Really beautifully written - I'll be looking fw to more on your blog.
All best!
But now on reflection I'm a bit confused - I assumed this post was a kind of satire written a senior postdoc (you are on some fellowship there in Cardiff, right?). But in another post you describe yourself as having a permanent position. In the latter case, some of what you write seems to be sending a message along these lines:
"Despite what people say, pursuing the academic career path (PhD, postdocs) is not so bad because even though you probably wont get a faculty position at the end of it you will still find a nice job outside academia which allows you to live better (more money, better working conditions) than a typical academic."
I don't know if this is what you meant to say (it's a bit hard to tell when you are being satirical or serious or both at the same time). But in case it was an intended message it's important to add some caveats:
1) If you want to get that nice well-paid quant job in finance you better have the right background. In the UK this means your undergraduate degree should be from Oxford, Cambridge or Imperial. Then they will say "Ah, he's one of us, let's hire him" (or her). If you're degree isn't from one of those universities then I suppose you might still have a chance if in your research you have built up strong expertise in useful topics - numerical analysis, computer-related stuff, etc. (Although in that case your quant boss will hold his nose while signing your contract. And I wouldn't want to be you when the retrenchments start.)
In USA it is worse since they have this silly and annoying cultural expectation of competence - ivy league university background by itself is not enough; they also expect you to be able to do something useful for them.
Former postdocs who don't have the aforementioned background can look forward to considerably less nice jobs when they leave academia. Maybe being a regular computer programmer. Or teaching high school kids how to differentiate polynomials. Their salaries, work conditions etc are not going to be better than a university academic (permanent faculty) in general. And it's the majority of former postdocs whole fall into this category in fields such as theoretical particle physics and many other fields too I imagine.
2) Remember we are talking about "smart, creative, ambitious, hard-working young people" In fact some of the smartest, most creative, ambitious and hard-working young people in society. In normal circumstances they should aspire to and expect to get "very nice" jobs, not simply "nice" ones that pay them better than a measly academic salary. So to suggest that it is an acceptable career outcome for them to get a nice (or simply average) job after doing PhD and many years on the postdoc treadmill is just insulting. It's a continuation of the message academia beats into them throughout their PhD and postdoc years: "You are dirt, so be grateful for any little scrap you get."
Finally, here's a question for you: When your son grows up, and, after having excelled in academics and shown himself to be a very smart kid, declares that he wants to follow in dad's footsteps and join the theoretical physics priesthood, what will you say to him?
Will you tell him "Sure son, go for it. You probably won't succeed, but don't worry, you won't end up being a taxi driver at the end of it either so it's all good." Or will you tell him something completely different?
Will there be any difference between what you tell him and what you tell prospective PhD students who come to you for advice about the academic career path?
Mark Hannam 1 May 2014 at 16:07
What do I do if my son decides to become a theoretical physicist? I love it -- that sounds like a great idea for a blog post. Or a book.
Of course I have a permanent position -- what postdoc would be crazy enough to waste their precious paper-writing, job-applying, self-promoting, sucking-up time writing a whimsical blog!
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Fall is fully underway and I must say this is my favorite season to dress. The weather is comfortable and I get to wear more layers. I can just pile on the fashion. I wanted to chat a little bit about my favorite trends happening for fall right now and possible bra options for each look. I am a firm believer in the right bra for each look.
The first trend that has me drooling is winter white. It's such a clean look. One thing about winter white is that the color loves to highlight any bump or roll one may have. I paired the winter white with Curvation's back smoother bra, so that it can smooth out any issues that may arise from this unforgiving color. The second trend is houndtooth. This is a prevous look for fall that I wore. I thought the lift and support would be the perfect bra. Since this look is belted you want to make sure the girls aren't falling past the belt line. Finally, I am totally gushing over the velvet trend. Since this dress has a deep scoop neck I decided to pair with a strapless bra. Those deep scoop necks tend to be so wide at the shoulder that they tend to show the bra straps. A strapless bra kills any strap visibility issues.
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Why Three Rock Legends Were Once Told Not to Look at Prince
Allison Rapp Published: October 18, 2021
Adrian Borromeo, UCR
When Prince walked into a room, his presence was palpable.
Alice Cooper learned this firsthand one year at the Grammy Awards. "I'm standing at the Grammys backstage it's [David] Bowie, Elton [John] and myself, I forget who else," Cooper tells UCR. "All of a sudden, these five big guys walk by and they go, 'Don't look at Prince. Don't look him directly in the eye.' We all looked at each other, and we went, 'The Prince of Wales? The Prince of India? What?' They said, 'You know, Prince.' All of us looked at each other like, 'Prince who?' [Laughs] And it was Prince! He walked by, and you couldn't see him anyway, because these guys were all 6' 8" and he's [not very tall]."
Cooper may not have caught a glimpse of the Purple One that evening, but he did witness Prince's magic up close a few years ago.
"I saw [him] play at a club in New York City," Cooper recalls. "There was no stage, and he was in his underwear. Just his underwear. He was the lead singer in this band. I don't know where it was, but I remember seeing this little guy in his underwear, and he was kind of half James Brown and he was kind of half this and that. He was great."
It was Prince's guitar playing in particular that stood out ... plus his attempt to swipe Cooper's guitar player, Orianthi. "The guy was so talented," Cooper notes. "He never got his due as far as [being] a guitar player. I thought he was a great guitar player. People never really connected him as being a virtuoso guitar player. He always used to call up Orianthi when we were on tour, trying to get Orianthi in his band. I would hear her talking on the phone, and I'd say, 'Is that Prince?' She'd go, 'Yeah.' I'd say, 'Prince! Wait for two more years. She's in my band for two years.' You could just hear him laughing on the other side, because he was trying to coax her out of my band and into his."
John also admired Prince's talent through the years. "I like to think that if you're a real musician, you recognize quality when you see it," John wrote in a foreword for the new book Prince and the Parade and Sign O' the Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985 and 1986. "But you didn't need to be a musician to recognize that in Prince you had quality that was extraordinarily high. You just needed ears and eyes."
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Shoplifters are some of my favorite criminals. Various times over the years I've gone with the Arlington police to pick them up in the big Pentagon City department stores. These are a favorite destination for shoplifters from Washington and PG County. The security forces catch them, but the cops have to take them away.
Lots of them aren't real sophisticated. They wear baggy clothes, don't look at all as if they belonged in Nordstrom's, and end up being watched on a lot of screens in the security room. There was an old black guy in a wheel chair who, miraculously cured for a moment, put a VCR in its box on his chair seat, sat on it, and covered his lap with a rug. It was a good idea, but didn't work. There was the scruffy white guy who, caught lifting cigarettes, grabbed a can of Mace from a counter and began spraying people to cover his flight.
Most shoplifters seem to regard getting caught as just a cost of doing business. Lots have long records, have been banned in several stores, and travel the metro area by subway in search of places where they won't be recognized.
The most interesting case I know of I didn't see myself. A friend of mine in Chicago was doing undercover narco work some years back. There was a black guy who was a major dealer. (The drug industry is an instance of racial cooperation: Brown people grow drugs, black people sell them, and white people buy them.) Anyway, my friend was following the guy's wife for reasons related to the drug dealing.
It turned out that she had a lot of friends, black and white. It turned out that she liked to shop. After following her into several department stores, my buddy realized that she was the brains behind a really clever shoplifting scheme.
She would go into the store with several downscale and suspicious-looking black women. These would proceed to look like shoplifters. They hung around counters of small expensive goods. They brushed up against things. They picked up pricey merchandise, walked around with it, put it down somewhere else. They looked around them slyly to see whether they were being watched.
The store's security people were onto them in a heartbeat and watched them like hawks. I mean, these women had all the hallmarks of shoplifters. A blind man would have noticed.
Meanwhile a respectable-looking young white woman, part of the gang, walked around other parts of the store. She was wearing what my friend describes as looking like a square-dancing skirt — lots of flair. Under it she had, guess what, booster bags. Lots of them. While the security people were following around the pseudo-boosters, who of course didn't steal anything at all, she stole practically everything in the store and left.
It worked like a charm. My friend went to the security office and explained what was going on, so the gang got busted — but it wasn't because the store caught on to them. They weren't stealing cheap stuff, either.
Other scams abound. As I guess everyone knows, a standard technique is to put on clothes in the dressing rooms and then walk out wearing them. It's also a fairly good way to get caught.
An improvement is to buy an expensive shirt, say, and get a receipt. You take it out of the store and put it in your car or, much smarter, in a friend's car. You go back in, put on an identical shirt in the dressing room, and walk out of the store. If you don't get caught, you put it in the car, and go back for another.
If you do get caught, you whip out the receipt, act indignant, and threaten to sue. If you are, say, Latino, you complain of racial discrimination and say you're going to call the media. The store will back down instantly, even if the security suspect you of working the receipt scam.
Finally, there were the college students hired by a store to re-price several aisles of goods. They simply stole large numbers of price tags and gave them to friends, who put them on more expensive goods and bought them. They got caught by pushing too hard — putting a seven-dollar tag on a power drill. I haven't seen a careful study, but people in stores have told me that middle-class white kids from good families often see nothing wrong with stealing from employers these days.


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ReviewBack Protector ReviewsBMW Motorrad
BMW Back Protector 2 Review
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BMW Back Protector 2
The BMW Back Protector 2 is thin enough to fit under most motorcycle jackets.
It also covers a large area of the back.
The lining is comfortable (relatively speaking) and the Back Protector 2 seems to be more flexible than other back protectors.
It's also a lightweight at only 1.75 lbs. (for size medium).
We're still surprised at the positive reaction of many webBikeWorld visitors to our series of articles covering back protectors and other protective gear.
Could it be that motorcyclists are becoming more concerned about safety?
This is a good thing and a strong interest in safety gear will only help convince the manufacturers to bring more of it to market.
Several visitors asked about the BMW Back Protector 2, the subject of this review. To be honest, I didn't even realize that BMW made a back protector, so I have no idea what "Back Protector 1" looked like, or if there even was such a thing.
So we placed an order for a Back Protector 2, even though I'll admit to doubts about how much a motorcycle manufacturer would know about the subject.
But then again, BMW makes some excellent riding apparel (in addition to motorcycles), so why not?
After all, I have always suggested to riders who can't find some of the other name brand gear that is featured on these pages that they could do a heck of a lot worse than stopping by their local BMW dealer to get fully outfitted.
So what's different about the BMW Back Protector 2? The most obvious difference is the protection around the collarbone, which can be seen in these photos. At first I though it was a gimmick, but after wearing it for a while, I'm not so sure.
BMW and collarbone padding rang a bell in my dusty memory banks, until I remembered a press release that we featured in a webBikeWorld news article back in October of 2005.
The subject was a new type of spine protector developed by BMW and KTM, which was designed to "reduce the risk of injury to the neck, the cervical spine, the spinal cord and the collar bone in the event of a serious fall".
Check out that article and then take a look at the Back Protector 2, which looks like a greatly toned down version.
Although I don't know this for a fact, I'd say that there's a lot of that spine protection research that's gone into this production version.
Although there's no way we can offer anything but a subjective evaluation of the Back Protector 2 (or any back protector or safety equipment, for that matter), I'd like to think that the collarbone padding will add a little extra protection when compared to other back protectors.
My first impression upon seeing the photos of the Back Protector 2 was that it would somehow interfere with the normally tight collars on motorcycle jackets, but this hasn't been the case.
Now don't get too excited about the added collarbone protection, because it really doesn't seem to be much more than a couple of sections of padding stitched under the collar, as you can see in this photo:
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But what is very nice about the Back Protector 2 is the way the entire neck section is designed.
I'd have never guessed, but having this extra support that extends over the shoulders and around the neck makes this, in my opinion, the most comfortable back protector yet.
(See the links to the reviews of other back protectors and riding gear in the right-hand column of this page).
The entire neck section keeps the Back Protector 2 securely in place, where it can do its job, and the added support and the way the elastic straps are designed keeps it from moving around and distributes the weight more evenly.
And speaking of weight, there's not much of it, as this Back Protector 2 weighs only 1.75 lbs in size medium.
The size medium is recommended by BMW for a torso length of 51 to 54 cm (~20 to 21.3 inches) and a body height of 172 to 184 cm (72.4 to 77.2 inches, or 6.0 to 6'4″ tall). Although according to BMW's figures I should be wearing a small, the size medium seems to fit my 5'11" body perfectly.
BMW also offers a size small, recommended for a torso length of 46 to 50 cm, which is about 18.1 to 19.7 inches and a body height of 160 to 172 cm, or 63 to 67.7 inches.
The size large is recommended for a torso length of 55 to 59 cm (21.6 to 23.2 inches) and a height of 184 to 196 cm (72.4 to 77.2). How they measure the torso length is not specified in the owner's manual.
The fabric that is located towards the rider is about as comfortable as it gets for back protectors and feels about the same as the Bohn and Knox protectors we've tried. There's a bit of padding underneath the lining.
BMW recommends that the Back Protector 2 is cleaned "using a damp cloth only" and they don't specify whether that means the outside, the inside or both. I'm assuming both… Here's a photo of the lining, also showing the European safety standard labeling:
Protective Standards
BMW claims that the Back Protector 2 meets the more stringent "Level 2" European standard for back protectors.
Can that be what the "2" in "Back Protector 2" means? Or does the "prEN 1621-2" designation signify that it meets Level 2 standards?
We covered this topic in our comparison review of the Bohn vs. T-Pro back protectors, but those came with a specific laboratory test report certifying that they met the standard.
The BMW product, or at least ours, did not come with a lab test certification, so I'll have to take BMW's word for it in their marketing materials that the Back Protector 2 does in fact meet the Level 2 standard.
In any case, this is yet another one of those "who knows?" deals, where the consumer gets confused over what really is best. Who knows if Level 2 is really better, in reality, than Level 1?
As far as I'm concerned, any back protector is 100% better than none, safety standards notwithstanding.
Each underarm shoulder strap on the Back Protector 2 is adjustable, as is the short elastic strap with buckle that comes across the neck.
The waist strap is typical in its design; that is, it comes across the stomach, which is one of the worst features of all of these back protectors, in my opinion. People don't mind having a strap (aka "belt") around their waist, but the stomach?
No thanks. I guess one gets used to it, but I'm not sure how it will feel on riders with big guts.
The Rückenprotektor 2, as it's known in German, seems more flexible than the other back protectors, even though the business side has a long strip of plastic-like material covering the spine.
The plastic is divided into four separate sections, allowing it to bend with the rider's back while it offers resistance to bending the other way.
As I mentioned above, the surprise is that the neck seems to fit under the neck of various types of motorcycle jackets without problems.
This is because it fits down on the collarbone rather than around the neck, which would probably be an uncomfortable location anyway.
Here's a photograph of the Back Protector 2 being worn underneath the Olympia vented leather jacket, which is typical of two-piece motorcycle leather wear:
Either I'm getting used to wearing back protectors or the BMW Back Protector 2 is the most comfortable of the bunch. I'll go with the latter…
I like the BMW product; it's comfortable, the price is reasonable, it seems lighter than the rest and although the jury's still out on the efficacy of the collarbone protector.
BMW claims that the product "has a measured residual force of less than 2 kN", which, I take it, is a good thing.
By the way, we promised to report back (pun intended) on the back protectors once the weather turned warm.
The bottom line is that all of these will add a bit of discomfort and a sweaty back — there's simply no getting around it. But what price safety?
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Manufacturer: BMW Motorrad List Price (2006): $149.00
Colors: Black with Yellow piping Made In: Hungary
Review Date: May 2006
See details on submitting comments.
From "J.U.": "I just tried on (and purchased) a BMW Protector 2 back protector. My comment relates to sizing: I tried on a medium size, with my BMW Savanna 2 jacket (size 42) and then sat on a BMW in the showroom.
Although I am 5′ 9″ tall of average build, and wear a size 40 (US) dress coat, the size medium BMW back protector was a little small, as I had all adjustment straps let out all the way, and the device seamed short for my torso.
The dealer did not have a large size in stock, so I had them order one for me.
I would recommend that anyone buying this type of device (clothing?) To try before buying. I strongly applaud your advocacy of this article of safety gear."
From C.B.: "As you point out in your review of the BMW Back Protector 2 it's very difficult for a consumer to compare and make an educated decision on back protectors.
I've been trying to decide between the TPRO Forcefield, Dainese Wave, Helimot TLV, and now the BMW Back Protector 2. All apparently meet the prnEN1621-2 Level 2 CE standard.
There's a lot of conflicting information out there. For example:
1. Dainese specifies "Maximum Average Force Transmitted" as 16 KN.
2. BMW specifieds "measured residual force of less than 2 kN"
3. The prEN1621-2 CE standard specifies 9 KN as maximum transmitted force (for 50 Joule test)
It's interesting that the TPRO is a soft protector while the Dainese and BMW have plastic external shells. TPRO says most back injuries are the result of either hip or shoulder impacts and that a hard shell can increase injuries.
Other "experts" indicate that a hard shell will prevent twisting of the spine.
The British Magazine Ride has an interesting product comparison that ranks TPRO the best, however it appears rather subjective to me.
So, in order to make a decision, I've been trying to find actual CE test results. Do you know if these results are available to the public ?
Keep up the great work at WebBikeWorld.com. You rock !"
Editor's Response: If I recall, one of the back protectors we reviewed (I think the T-Pro) came with a certificate from the testing labs, but it wasn't the full test with all the data.
There's just no way to compare these (and other) motorcycle safety products, unfortunately. So I figure if they meet and are approved by a recognized standard, that's about all we can do. Like Burn says in the article, any back protector is 100% better than none (at least I think he said that!).
To be honest, I try not to get too hung up on these type of technical details that I'd never be able to compare anyway.
For example, even if you did have access to the tests, other than comparing all the numbers, which I'm sure would be all over the place with some pluses and some minuses for each product, in the end, you'd still never know which one was "best" unless you crashed using each protector in identical situations!
So my advice is to do the one thing you do have control over.
Find the back protector that is most comfortable for you and that you will use most often. In the end, I think that will provide you with the best protection.
You may find one that, for example, is 10% "better" in some tested areas. But if it's not comfortable, doesn't fit correctly or you aren't wearing it the one time you crash, what good is it? Ride safe — Rick.
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O poveste despre o familie care supraviețuiește tsunami-ului din 2004 din Oceanul Indian.

Maria, Henry și cei trei copii își încep vacanța de iarnă în Thailanda, așteptându-se la câteva zile de relaxare într-un paradis tropical. În dimineața zilei de 26 decembrie, în timp ce familia se afla la piscină, se aude un zgomot asurzitor. Imediat după aceea, un val uriaș se îndreaptă spre toți cei de acolo.

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 Naomi Watts in rolul lui Maria Bennett
 Ewan McGregor in rolul lui Henry Bennett
 Tom Holland in rolul lui Lucas Bennett, fiul de 12 ani al celor doi
 Samuel Joslin in rolul lui Thomas Bennett, al doilea fiu al celor doi
 Oaklee Pendergast as Simon Bennett, al treilea fiu al celor doi
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Home/Product Development/Allingham Games eyes UK and international distributor for award-winning The Good Life board game
Allingham Games eyes UK and international distributor for award-winning The Good Life board game
Robert Hutchins 22nd October 2020	Product Development 1,715 Views
Allingham Games, the independent design and publishing outfit behind the Play for Change Bronze award-winning tabletop gaming title, The Good Life, is eyeing partnerships for international distribution for the game championed for promoting the message of sustainable living and the 'grow your own' culture.
The Good Life taps into the ever-increasing awareness around sustainable living by placing players at the centre of an allotment eco-system. Players use their wheelbarrow to move around the board, collecting and trading fruit, vegetables, pigs, and chickens along the way.
The winner is the first to fill their garden and allotment to become 100 per cent self-sufficient, all while negotiating the twists and turns dealt out by the Green Fingers cards, dodging foxes, avoiding things like drought or bird flu, and preventing their animals from escaping.
A multi-award winning tabletop title, The Good Life board game was most recently recognised by the Toy Industries of Europe inaugural Play for Change awards in which it received a Bronze award in the Sustainability category. It's also received a seal of approval in Imagination Gaming's Family and Education Awards, and a Good Toy Guide approved stamp of recommendation.
"We saw a niche in the market for a quality, easy to play, fun board game that would entertain, and engage three generations, whilst educating our customers about the sustainability crisis," Richard Taylor, co-founder of Allingham Games and one half of the development duo behind the game told ToyNews.
"As a graphic designer, and with a PR background, we had a huge advantage in developing the game into a highly finished prototype – and could organise artwork and printing. Also one of my partners had spent over 25 years working for Waddingtons and Hasbro, so the combination was a perfect fit."
While the title itself deals directly with the message of self-sufficiency, Allingham Games insists it isn't a one note board game with a primary objective 'of green flag waving,' but a game designed first and foremost to be an enjoyable, family tabletop title.
"The game has to be fun," added Taylor. "If it's not, then why bother to play the game in the first place? We can't lose sight of the fact that the reason families play board games is (hopefully) to enjoy quality time together, with friends and family. If we fail at that level, then no amount of 'Green flag waving' will have any impact whatsoever.
"So, we've had to be quite hard on ourselves that we can never get distracted by 'the message'. The reason for producing the game was to combat the tidal wave of electronic, computer based entertainment that every parent struggles with. But more importantly, we have to be realistic. Does this game deliver what it says it will, in a very competitive market?"
Early reception from the critics, and the retailers and consumers it's managed to shift its initial run of 5000 games through since its launch last year suggests that this is a title on route to delivering. The response to the game has so far, according to Taylor, been 'fabulous', even if it has been somewhat subdued by the global pandemic.
"I sympathise with retailers that they are taking on an unknown game, without the marketing push of 'the big boys'," continued Taylor. "Lockdown – as I'm sure we all know – has relighted an interest in games and puzzles. But the downside was that many of our new retail suppliers were unable to fulfil their commitment to ordering games that they had originally offered to take.
"For example, we were lucky enough to secure a great deal with The National Trust, who were keen in January of this year, to commit to a sizable order. Then, out of the blue we had an email saying they would not be buying any new stock. And I'm sure I would have done the same thing."
What Taylor and the Allingham Games outfit is looking for now, then, is a partnership that will give the game the marketing clout it deserves in order to cut through the competitive marketplace and find shelf space across the UK and beyond. The fact that the growing media attention around the title happens to coincide with a key moment of change among the consumer mindset only goes to help the cause in bringing the title to the masses.
"The fact that the 'Play for Change' awards organised by TIE, is proof that the industry is embracing environmental awareness. I'm sure ten years ago, this would have been unthinkable," Taylor said.
"The 'green' movement and awareness of how we treat our resources, and the planet, has been steadily growing, and I don't think this will abate. This isn't going to go away – especially with the way that young people have embraced it. I'm always amazed at how my kids (aged 10 and 12) know far more about this than I do. And even more interestingly, the whole subject of sustainability is used (sometimes with the best intentions, sometimes not) as a very persuasive marketing tool."
Right now, Allingham Games is focused on building up a client base of retail outlets, while continuing to push the PR and promotional campaigning across the online space, all in a bid to hit that Christmas shopping rush.
"We know we are onto something special. What we really want now is a switched on distributor, (who also embraces green issues) who understands where we are coming from, and who we are selling to, and potential licensees to 'take the batton' into different territories," Taylor concluded.
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An old-fashioned, hand-crafted, CPU-to-table recipe for the CoNLL2017 Shared
Task.

## Ingredients

*   3 layer-normalized LSTM networks
*   1 layer-normalized feed-forward cell
*   1 treebank for training
*   1 treebank for tuning
*   1 DRAGNN framework cooking dish (non-stick)
*   1 TensorFlow™ non-convex, stochastic oven (ADAM configuration)
*   Generous helpings of CPU time

## Directions

_First, assemble your network inside your DRAGNN dish:_

*   Put the first LSTM directly on top of your treebank's characters. Use a
    spatula to mark the word boundaries for the rest of the model.
*   Next, lay the second LSTM backwards across the top of the first. Don't
    forget to project the hidden layer down by 1/4 with each LSTM you add to the
    pan. Remember, you only need to put an LSTM cell down just once for each
    word you marked in the previous step.
*   Now lay down your final LSTM running in the forwards direction. Sprinkle
    with POS tags at a ratio of 1:8.
*   Finally, gently put the feed-forward cell down on top. Carefully braid the
    three inputs of the feed-forward layer into the topmost two LSTMs in the
    pan. You'll need to follow the dependency arcs laid out in your training
    treebank to get it just right. (Don't worry -- once baked, your model will
    be able to do this part itself.)
*   Use a good pair of L2-norm scissors to clip any gradients you find that have
    greater than unit norm. (Your gradients should all fit inside the L2 unit
    ball.)
*   Always double check your work before baking!

_Baking instructions:_

*   Prepare your TensorFlow™ brand ADAM-style oven: set temperature to
    beta1=0.9, beta2=0.9, eps=0.0001, and learning rate of 0.001.
*   Par-bake your LSTM crust: Place your assembled dish inside your oven. Bake
    only with POS tags for 10K iterations.
*   Finish cooking the top layers: Next bake for at least 100-200K iterations,
    up to about ~900K iterations for parsing.
*   To speed up convergence, group your training examples into minibatches of
    size 4, and put 4 of them in the oven at a time.
*   Pull your dish out of the oven when you notice holdout set accuracy is no
    longer increasing. Your parser is now ready to serve!

## General cooking tips

Sometimes your dish just doesn't come out right. If this happens to you, just
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import java.util.Random;

public class TestPriorityQueue extends LuceneTestCase {

    private static class IntegerQueue extends PriorityQueue<Integer> {
        public IntegerQueue(int count) {
            super();
            initialize(count);
        }

        @Override
        protected boolean lessThan(Integer a, Integer b) {
            return (a < b);
        }
    }

    public void testPQ() throws Exception {
        testPQ(atLeast(10000), random);
    }

    public static void testPQ(int count, Random gen) {
        PriorityQueue<Integer> pq = new IntegerQueue(count);
        int sum = 0, sum2 = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
        {
            int next = gen.nextInt();
            sum += next;
            pq.add(next);
        }

        //      Date end = new Date();

        //      System.out.print(((float)(end.getTime()-start.getTime()) / count) * 1000);
        //      System.out.println(" microseconds/put");

        //      start = new Date();

        int last = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
        {
            Integer next = pq.pop();
            assertTrue(next.intValue() >= last);
            last = next.intValue();
            sum2 += last;
        }

        assertEquals(sum, sum2);
        //      end = new Date();

        //      System.out.print(((float)(end.getTime()-start.getTime()) / count) * 1000);
        //      System.out.println(" microseconds/pop");
    }

    public void testClear() {
        PriorityQueue<Integer> pq = new IntegerQueue(3);
        pq.add(2);
        pq.add(3);
        pq.add(1);
        assertEquals(3, pq.size());
        pq.clear();
        assertEquals(0, pq.size());
    }

    public void testFixedSize() {
        PriorityQueue<Integer> pq = new IntegerQueue(3);
        pq.insertWithOverflow(2);
        pq.insertWithOverflow(3);
        pq.insertWithOverflow(1);
        pq.insertWithOverflow(5);
        pq.insertWithOverflow(7);
        pq.insertWithOverflow(1);
        assertEquals(3, pq.size());
        assertEquals((Integer) 3, pq.top());
    }

    public void testInsertWithOverflow() {
      int size = 4;
      PriorityQueue<Integer> pq = new IntegerQueue(size);
      Integer i1 = 2;
      Integer i2 = 3;
      Integer i3 = 1;
      Integer i4 = 5;
      Integer i5 = 7;
      Integer i6 = 1;

      assertNull(pq.insertWithOverflow(i1));
      assertNull(pq.insertWithOverflow(i2));
      assertNull(pq.insertWithOverflow(i3));
      assertNull(pq.insertWithOverflow(i4));
      assertTrue(pq.insertWithOverflow(i5) == i3); // i3 should have been dropped
      assertTrue(pq.insertWithOverflow(i6) == i6); // i6 should not have been inserted
      assertEquals(size, pq.size());
      assertEquals((Integer) 2, pq.top());
    }

}


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Assassin's Creed is the action adventure game that has been developed by Ubisoft Montreal and can be played easily on platforms like Mac, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 systems.
The main dispute in the Assassin's Creed series is established between two rival schools of thought that became different orders. In spite of trying to find for the same end, the assassins and Templars attack bitterly for gaining that end all through history.
The different persuasions of the Assassin's and Templars put them into the battle against each other.
Playing the games based on historical background is always adventurous, and if you love to play the Assassin's Creed and searching for the games like Assassin's Creed that offers you more exciting gameplay and techniques, then you are on a right place.
No doubt Assassin's Creed is one of the popular games but if you want or in search of games that are similar to it then today we are providing you with the best games like Assassin's Creed.
List of Best Games Like Assassin's Creed To Play In 2019
1. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Prince of Persia the forgotten sands is introduced as the next installment of fan-favorite series i.e., sands of time universe. The game is about to visit the brother's kingdom including an experience of adventure in his journey to Azad.
In this game, the prince of the kingdom gets to knows that their palace is under seize by the massive strong army on its demolition. The decision has been taken to make use of the ancient power of the sand for saving the kingdom from all the destruction.
The prince of the kingdom then begins his journey on a wild adventure where he will learn to take the responsibility of authentic leadership and get to know that excellent powers come with the significant cost.
So get ready to take blockbuster experience by the advanced technology! And celebrate the return of fans favorite franchise.
NOTE: You must have a permanent high-speed data connection and valid credentials of Ubisoft account to play this game.
Platforms Required: Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2) and Windows 7
2. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
The Deus Ex: Human revolution is next in the list of games like Assassin's Creed. This is the game where you have to play the role of Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who has been specially selected for inspecting the defensive requirements of one of the best American Biotechnology firms.
You are on duty to protect all the confidential information of the company, but there is a time when the black ops team breaks in and kills almost all the scientists you have appointed for the protection purpose.
Overall we can say that the game is the perfect combination of action and role-play where it offers the vital formation of character buildup and update them with the many weapons.
Platforms Required: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Steam.
3. Prototype
You are a prototype, Alex Mercer, a man with no memory equipped with surprising shape-shifting skills, shooting for your path to the heart of a secret plan which made you; making that responsible pay.
The game is based on fast and deadly shape-shifting Combat in which you have to reconstruct your body according to the situations you face in this game. You have to make the right choice of the weapons whether it may be from hammers to whips or claws to blades.
You will wake-up as a man who lost his memories and with some mysterious powers and connection to the city in Idaho. Consume your unique abilities anytime anywhere and hunt a path to get the victory.
Platforms Required: – Windows XP (with service pack 3) or Windows Vista
Price: – $ 3.74
4. Dying Light
Day Light is the first person survival game that is developed by Techland and published by Techland Publishing. The game has set in the post-apocalyptic open world that has been run by zombies. The game has been introduced by the designers of the popular game titles call of Juarez and Dead Island.
While playing this game, you have to learn the skills to survive in the town beset by the Zombie Virus. You have to explore the difficult choices that have to be made on your undisclosed mission.
Travel around the city with outstanding freedom and enjoy its unique atmosphere. You can scale every building by using parkour and reach the outlying area. Explore countless options to face your opponents and get busy in gory Combat. It has a day and night feature that gives you an experience of dramatic shifts in the world.
Platform Required: Windows 7, 8 & 8.1, Mac OS X, and Linux.
5. Shadow Of Mordor
If you are looking for the games similar to Assassin's Creed, then the Shadow of Mordor will be the best alternative to play. In this game, you have to fight through the Mordor and unveil the fact of the Spirit that forces you.
As the game is based on the lords of Ring book so you have to find out from where the rings of powers are generated. Build your iconic superstars and encounter with the evil of Sauron in this brand new history of Middle-earth.
Platforms Required: Windows 7, 8.1, Vista, Mac OS X, Linux
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Source – https://impactresearch.org/games-like-assassins-creed/
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The number of SMEs looking to establish operations overseas to make sure they can avoid the worst consequences of a hard Brexit has reached the level of 1 in 3.
Figures from the Institute of Directors (IoD) indicated that 29% of those firms its surveyed had moved operations out of the UK or were planning to do so.
Those findings come on the back of research from Agilitas IT Solutions which reported back in September that 52% of UK channel businesses were actively looking to expand their business internationally.
Most of the firms that the IoD spoke to were looking to open offices in the EU and there have already been moves from some in the channel to do just that, with both Softcat and Computacenter opening Dublin offices.
With just weeks left until the UK exits the EU it is still unclear what sort of departure it will be with the odds of a hard Brexit increasing due to the ongoing impasse over the question of the border between Northern Ireland the the Republic.
"It brings no pleasure to reveal these worrying signs, but we can no more ignore the real consequences of delay and confusion than business leaders can ignore the hard choices that they face in protecting their companies," said Edwin Morgan, interim director general of the Institute of Directors.
"While the actions of big companies have been making headlines, these figures suggest that smaller enterprises are increasingly considering taking the serious step of moving some operations abroad. For these firms, typically with tighter resources, to be thinking about such a costly course of action makes clear the precarious position they are in," he added.
Along with many others Morgan called for more clarity from the government to provide business leaders with some clear ideas of what is going to happen so that those still wavering about the future could make decisions.
"We still have a chance to stem the flow, and provide enough certainty to the firms that are considering moving but haven't yet done so. The UK's hard-won reputation as a stable, predictable environment for enterprise is being chipped away," he added.


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Due to habitat loss, the American Kestrel's population has been decimated. The population has declined by 60 percent in the last 50 years. I was given the opportunity by Miller Ecological Park to help build up the American Kestrel's population. For my Eagle Scout Project I built 6 bird boxes for the American Kestrel, three are located in Miller Park and three are located in Colonial Park. Hopefully the birds will find my boxes and everyone can enjoy the sight of this beautiful bird.


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Oil Gas Company, Lime Street - Watercolour on Paper
Peter Pearson is best known for his evocative paintings of cities and architectural subjects, principally of Dublin, his native city. He has however other strands in his painting including landscape and seascape, and an element of symbolism and the surreal are also sometimes found in his work.
Many of the city subjects depict the changing city, portraying decay, loss of identity along with haunting beauty of the older houses and buildings. Cranes and traffic, often painted in winter light or by night are favourite features, and give the pictures a contemporary character.
Far from being merely topographical, Pearson's pictures evoke the mood of the city and celebrate its historical symbolism and heritage issues, which the artist has been campaigning to protect for over thirty years.
His first significant solo exhibition was in Venice in 1978 where he had been studying on an Italian Government Scholarship for painting. He has been exhibiting his work continuously ever since and his paintings are to be seen in many public and private collections.
Oil Gas Company, Lime Street
Watercolour on Paper, Framed
24cm x 38cm (9.5" x 15")
Dublin Quay
33cm x 19.5cm (13'' x 7.5'')


Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) technology provides the capability to insert Layer 4 through Layer 7 functions using an approach called a service graph. The industry normally refers to the capability to add Layer 4 through Layer 7 devices in the path between endpoints as service insertion. The Cisco ACI service graph technology can be considered a superset of service insertion.
This document describes the service graph concept and how to design for service insertion with the service graph.
As Figure 1 shows, Layer 4 through Layer 7 services can be physically located anywhere in the fabric, and they can be running as physical appliances or as virtual appliances.
One of Cisco ACI's several innovations in the area of service insertion is that Cisco ACI allows you to concatenate functions offered by individual Layer 4 through Layer 7 devices instead of simply connecting discrete boxes in sequence.
Appliances don't need to be placed in any particular place in the fabric. They can run as physical appliances connected to any leaf, or as virtual appliances running on any virtualized server.
Physical appliances can run with multiple virtual contexts as well. Cisco ACI can model this concept in the construction of the policy.
Note: At the time of this writing, virtualized appliances can be deployed with VLAN as a transport between VMware ESX servers and leaf nodes and can be deployed only with VMware ESX as the hypervisor.
A service graph is a variation of the concept of a contract. In the Cisco ACI policy model, a contract connects two endpoint groups (EPGs). A contract can also offer functions such as traffic filtering, traffic load balancing, and SSL offloading. Cisco ACI locates the devices that provide such functions and inserts them into the path as defined by the service graph policy.
As Figure 2 shows, a sequence of Layer 4 through Layer 7 functions can be used to connect two EPGs.
Virtual appliances are automatically inserted into the Cisco ACI fabric by the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).
Cisco ACI can locate the virtual network interface card (vNIC) of the virtual firewalls and virtual load balancers and automatically connect them to the correct EPG.
The user can define configurations on Cisco APIC in several ways (Figure 3). These configurations can include the definition of the service graph. Cisco APIC communicates with the load balancers and firewalls to allocate the necessary network path to create the desired service graph path.
The concept of service graph is different from simply doing service insertion. A service graph is a concatenation of functions (and not of network devices). The service graph specifies that the path from one EPG to another EPG must pass through certain functions.
Cisco APIC translates the definition of the service graph into a path through firewalls and load balancers, called rendering.
As Figure 4 shows, Cisco APIC is aware of the pool of load balancers and firewalls (concrete devices) and can translate the user intentions expressed in the service graph by using the available pool of resources.
Therefore, the service graph is more like a template, which can be ported to different data centers and rendered with locally available resources.
The rendering involves allocation of the necessary bridge domains, configuration of IP addresses on the firewall and load balancer interfaces, creation of the VLAN on these devices to create the path for the functions, and performance of all the work necessary to make sure that the path between EPGs is the path defined in the service graph.
Cisco APIC communicates with the firewalls or load balancers to render the graph defined by the user. For Cisco ACI to be able to talk to firewalls or load balancers, it needs to speak to their APIs. The administrator needs to install plug-ins on Cisco APIC that enable this communication.
A plug-in is referred to as a device package, and the vendor of a firewall and load balancer must provide it so that Cisco APIC can communicate with it.
As shown in Figure 5, the device package includes a description of the device and lists the parameters it is exposing for Cisco APIC configuration and the scripts that allow Cisco ACI to talk to this device.
Before performing any configuration based on service graphs, you need to install the plug-in on the Cisco APIC to enable communication between Cisco APIC and the device.
Figure 6 illustrates how you can import the device package in Cisco APIC.
This section describes how to define workload connectivity with services in Cisco ACI.
The service graph is a sequence of functions. The administrator can define these functions either using XML format or using the GUI. The GUI allows you to choose the functions exported with the device package and to concatenate them.
Figure 7 shows the list of functions that that Citrix NetScaler exports with the device package.
The administrator can pick functions individually and stitch them together through the GUI, as shown in Figure 7. Note that the function or device that is inserted is a metadevice: that is, it is not a specific load balancer or firewall, but instead is simply a load balancer or firewall of a certain type.
The association of the metadevice (for example, a function from a load balancer of type Citrix or F5 or from a firewall of type Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances [ASA]) with an actual device connected to the fabric is performed in the rendering stage.
The service graph also defines the virtual services and server pools that you want Cisco ACI to program on the load balancer or firewall when the graph is instantiated. Figure 8 shows the parameters that the administrator can add to the load balancer used in this example.
Not all parameters need to be hard-coded IP addresses. You can also define parameters that are populated by the appearance of new endpoint in a particular EPG in the fabric.
The graph is rendered when it is associated with a contract, as shown in Figure 9.
When the graph is rendered, you will see configurations appear in the device that is part of the graph. For instance, in the case of an F5 BIG-IP load balancer, you may see Self IP appear in the interface and a server pool being programmed.
To know whether the graph was rendered, you can check the GUI (Figure 10). The Faults tab shows you which configurations weren't applied and why.Figure 10 shows the "Graph Instances". If the service graph has been rendered it will be listed in the Graph Instances section of the GUI.
Service graphs are composed of abstract nodes, which are metadevices.
Cisco APIC can translate the intention expressed by the user in the abstract graph into a sequence of concrete devices that are actually connected in the fabric.
Firewalls and load balancers are never deployed as single devices. Instead, they normally are deployed as clusters of active-standby pairs. Cisco ACI provides an abstraction to represent these clusters. Cisco ACI calls this abstraction a device cluster or a logical device.
The administrator must help Cisco ACI perform the mapping between the service graph and the clusters of firewalls and load balancers. The administrator also needs to tell Cisco ACI which pairs of concrete devices constitute a cluster.
The GUI simplifies this process, guiding you through the steps to define each cluster of firewalls or load balancers.
Figure 11 provides an example of the configuration of concrete and logical devices. The various fields in this figure refer to the management information about the cluster of devices. The virtual address is the management address to be used when the pair of firewalls or load balancers is operating in active-standby mode.
The GUI also asks you to configure logical interfaces. A logical interface defines a naming convention for the building block of the cluster and its mapping to the concrete device and to the metadevice.
For example, the metadevice of an F5 load balancer defines an external and an internal interface. The cluster model in Cisco ACI defines two interfaces and lets you choose the name (logical interface [Lif]). Each interface maps to a metadevice interface and also to a physical (concrete) device interface. This process allows Cisco ACI to correctly render the graph.
Figure 12 shows an example of a mapping of a logical interface to a concrete device interface.
The interface naming process may seem complicated at first. Cisco ACI allows you to model concrete devices into clusters of devices and then to select these clusters of devices to render the service graph policy. In addition, the interfaces have different names on the service device itself. For instance, in the case of F5 the interfaces are numbered as 1.1, 1.2, etc. In the case of Cisco ASA, they are numbered Gig0/0, Gig0/2, etc. Cisco ACI allows you to reference these interfaces using the character "_" as a replacement for the "/" and "." characters. For example, F5 interfaces are referred to as 1_1 and 1_2, and Cisco ASA interfaces are referred to as Gig0_0 and Gig0_1.
For help with the mapping, you can refer to Table 1. Table 1 also provides the correct naming convention from the XML object model.
To help Cisco ACI render the service graph, you need to indicate which cluster of devices (logical devices) can be used for which purposes. This configuration is called the logical device context or cluster device selector.
Figure 13 shows the fields that you can program in Cisco APIC for the mapping. The selector lets you indicate the name of the graph, the name the contract, the name of the node in the graph, and the device cluster that should be used to render this graph.
The device cluster selector also lets you indicate which interface should be associated with which bridge domain and the mapping of the connector in the graph with the logical interface (Figure 14).
For traffic to flow through service devices correctly, you need to make sure that bridge domains and Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instances are correctly provisioned.
● Split the bridge domain (and create an EPG shadow).
● Disable IP-based forwarding on the bridge domain.
● Enable MAC address proxy.
● Enable MAC address-based forwarding.
● Create a VRF split and a bridge domain split.
● IP-based forwarding is OK, unless the next bridge domain leads to a GoThrough service.
Cisco ACI adds the static routes on the service device and on the VRF instances in the Cisco ACI fabric.
● Configure the management IP address for the pair of load balancers or firewalls.
● Connect the management interface to a management EPG that you configure, or use out-of-band connectivity.
● Configure the service devices in active-standby or active-active mode.
● Alternatively, install the virtual appliance on a virtualized server and make sure that the management vNIC is connected to a network that can be reached by Cisco APIC.
● Make sure the device package is installed on Cisco APIC.
Furthermore, you should split the bridge domain as needed and associate subnets with it to help ensure that the forwarding path is ready for the deployment.
● Create a logical device.
● Create the associated concrete devices.
If the concrete devices are virtual appliances, provide the name of the virtual machine, the vNIC name (with the exact spelling and capitalization of the network adapter, with spaces: for instance, Network adapter 2), and the name of the VMware vCenter configuration (as defined in Cisco APIC). See Figure 15.
● Create a service graph.
● Create selection criteria (logical device context) to render the service graph.
● Associate the service graph with a contract.
● Configure the logical device vnsLDevVip.
● Configure the concrete device vnsCDev under vnsLDevVip.
● Create the logical interface vnsLIf vnsLDevVip.
● Create the graph vnsAbsGraph.
● Configure the logical device context vnsLDevCtx to define the way that the graph will be rendered.
● Attach the graph to a contract.
The vnsRsCIfPathAtt configuration points to a specific port on the fabric or to the name of the vNIC.
The selection of each individual logical device is based on the definition of a context, which is a set of metatags to create a menu to be used later. The metatags are contract name, graph name, and node label.
This configuration also includes the subnets that the logical device needs to find to plug itself into the graph.
The following configuration specifies that the cluster of load balancers called cluster-of-F5 can render the node F1 in the service graph slbgraph1.
This configuration also specifies that the interface that has a label of inside-SLB1 in the graph can be rendered by the cluster-of-F5 interface called lIf-clusterintf2.
Figure 16 shows the naming of connectors on the metadevice.
The following is a sample configuration of a service graph in XML format.
● The service graph is contained within an abstract container.
● The service graph container starts with AbsTermNodeProv-<name>/AbsTConn.
● The service graph container ends with AbsTermNodeCon-<name>/AbsTConn.
● The connectors are typically referred to as C1 and C2.
Before looking at the complete configuration, you need to understand vnsAbsNode and vnsAbsConnection.
Each node in the graph has a name and connectors, as shown in Figure 17.
The vnsAbsConnection configuration creates an object with an arbitrary name chosen by the user. This object has the two entities that need to be stitched together to create a connection.
This configuration attaches the node SLB1 to the provider side of the contract by using the only connector, AbsTConn.
Figure 18 shows the relationship between the various elements of the service graph.
The following configuration shows how to associate a service graph with a contract. Figure 19 illustrates the configuration.
Cisco ACI provides an advanced data center networking methodology that abstracts networking constructs from application deployments. In addition, it provides a robust set of network telemetry, security, and Layer 4 through Layer 7 automation functions.
The service graph is a concept that allows the definition of a sequence of functions such as SSL offloading, load balancing, and traffic filtering in a way that can be abstracted from the concrete implementation in a given data center.
Cisco APIC communicates with the service devices to render the service graph by using the resources that are available in the fabric.
These functions can be implemented using the GUI or programmatically in Python and can be automated using the REST API.
For more information about Cisco ACI and service graphs, please refer to http://www.cisco.com/go/aci.


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