Adding users and giving them access to collections are probably the most common scenario we come across. New users are always added on the fly.
1. Once the user is added on the platform, the best area to manage his/her permissions is by clicking "User" tab located on the top menu.
2. You may find the user by scrolling through the list, or by typing their name or email in the search bar.
3. Select the user. ( You will see a check mark highlighted on the left side of his/her name).
4. The panel on the right will allow you to select the group you would like to add this user to.
Note: The groups have permission to specific collections. Therefore, adding the user to this group will give the user access to any collection permitted to this group.


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When the thermostats tick toward freezing and the hot chocolate mugs come out, it's the perfect time to get together with your book club! Spark up the fireplace for your next group meeting, and gather around to choose from a few of our favorite books to read this time of year, along with intriguing novels of the season. From lush Gothic settings to the soaring backdrop of historical Europe, Book Club Favorites has rounded up the best book club picks for the winter.
Filled with family secrets and conflicting emotions, LONE WOLF may be as cold as its icy winter setting. When Luke Warren suffers from brain damage after a car crash, his children, Edward and Cara, who are estranged, must come together and make a fateful decision. But first, they each reveal to the reader what happened to break apart their family, and how Luke came to form such a close bond with a wolf pack. With its chilly locale, wolf lore, and a strong focus on family, LONE WOLF is perfect for this season!
A life hanging in the balance…a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family secrets, love, and letting go.
On an icy winter night, a terrible accident forces a family divided to come together and make a fateful decision. Cara, once protected by her father, Luke, is tormented by a secret that nobody knows. Her brother, Edward, has secrets of his own. He has kept them hidden, but now they may come to light, and if they do, Cara will be devastated. Their mother, Georgie, was never able to compete with her ex-husband's obsessions, and now, his fate hangs in the balance and in the hands of her children. With conflicting motivations and emotions, what will this family decide? And will they be able to live with that decision, after the truth has been revealed? What happens when the hope that should sustain a family is the very thing tearing it apart?
By Book Club Favorites | December 21, 2021
The School for Good Mothers
Book Club Favorites will be kicking off 2022 with one of the books everyone will be talking about. THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS is an electrifying debut by Jessamine Chan. Frida had a "very bad day," leading the state to question her ability to mother. Faced with the possibility of losing her toddler daughter Harriet, Frida must redeem herself. She is sent to The School for Good Mothers, a place where bad mothers learn to be good. This page-turning dystopic novel from a fresh new voice asks poignant questions about motherhood, race, and ethics. Join Book Club Favorites in reading the buzzworthy THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS all January long. RSVP here!
Jessamine Chan
In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.
Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn't have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents' sacrifices. She can't persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough.
Until Frida has a very bad day.
The state has its eyes on mothers like Frida. The ones who check their phones, letting their children get injured on the playground; who let their children walk home alone. Because of one moment of poor judgment, a host of government officials will now determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother's devotion.
Faced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed. That she can learn to be good.
A searing page-turner that is also a transgressive novel of ideas about the perils of "perfect" upper-middle class parenting; the violence enacted upon women by both the state and, at times, one another; the systems that separate families; and the boundlessness of love, The School for Good Mothers introduces, in Frida, an everywoman for the ages. Using dark wit to explore the pains and joys of the deepest ties that bind us, Chan has written a modern literary classic.
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One Night Two Souls Went Walking
by Ellen Cooney
In ONE NIGHT TWO SOULS WENT WALKING, a young interfaith chaplain, who soothes hospital patients' qualms about their souls, discovers a new companion: a dog who may or may not be a ghost. On that same night while she makes her rounds, she finds that the stories of the sick have provided unexpected healing for her own personal heartbreak. Whether you're pursuing personal introspection this winter as a New Year's resolution or visiting your own ghost of a Christmas past, Ellen Cooney's exploration of the human experience will very likely resonate with you.
Circus of Wonders
by Elizabeth Macneal
Elizabeth Macneal and 1800s England is back with CIRCUS OF WONDERS. Nell, a scared young "wonder," is sold to the ringmaster as a "leopard girl" because of the birthmarks that cover her body. It doesn't take long before Nell rises to fame and, with her, the entire Circus of Wonders. In the spotlight, loyalty is tested and Nell must fight for her place in the world. This novel is a stunning exploration of celebrity, power, and belonging. Don't miss Book Club Favorites' live event with a discussion about this book in February!
Elizabeth Macneal
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the "lush, evocative Gothic" (The New York Times Book Review) The Doll Factory comes an atmospheric and spectacular novel where one woman's life is transformed by the arrival of a Victorian circus of wonders.
Step up, step up! In 1860s England, circus mania is sweeping the nation. Crowds jostle for a glimpse of the lion-tamers, the dazzling trapeze artists and, most thrilling of all, the so-called "human wonders."
When Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as a "leopard girl" because of the birthmarks that cover her body, Nell is utterly devastated. But as she grows close to the other performers, she finds herself enchanted by the glittering freedom of the circus, and by her own role as the Queen of the Moon and Stars.
Before long, Nell's fame spreads across the world—and with it, a chance for Jasper Jupiter to grow his own name and fortune. But what happens when her fame begins to eclipse his own, when even Jasper's loyal brother Toby becomes captivated by Nell? No longer the quiet flower-picker, Nell knows her own place in the world, and she will fight for it.
A gorgeously wrought exploration of celebrity, power, and belonging, this is a historical novel unlike any other, with an unforgettable heroine at its heart.
The Doll Factory
While you wait for CIRCUS OF WONDERS to come out towards the end of winter, you can read Macneal's previous book! THE DOLL FACTORY is an exquisite piece of literary fiction, packed with dark Gothic elements. It's 1850s London, and when aspiring artist Iris is asked to model for the very talented Pre-Raphaelite painter Louis Frost, she doesn't realize that her world is about to completely transform. But there's an evil stalker waiting and watching in the background, and as the days go by, his obsession grows hungrier. Your book club is bound to zip through this lush and compelling novel—and you'll be glad you do!
The #1 international bestseller and The New York Times Editor's Choice
"As lush as the novels of Kate Morton and Diane Setterfield, as exciting as The Alienist and Iain Pears' An Instance of the Fingerpost, this exquisite literary thriller will intrigue book clubs and rivet fans of historical fiction." —A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
"A lush, evocative Gothic." —The New York Times Book Review
"This terrifically exciting novel will jolt, thrill, and bewitch readers." —Booklist, starred review
Obsession is an art.
In this "sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art, and obsession" (Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train), a beautiful young woman aspires to be an artist, while a man's dark obsession may destroy her world forever.
In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment. But for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning.
When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly, her world begins to expand beyond her wildest dreams—but she has no idea that evil is waiting in the shadows. Silas has only thought of one thing since that chance meeting, and his obsession is darkening by the day.
"A lush, evocative Gothic" (The New York Times Book Review) that is "a perfect blend of froth and substance" (The Washington Post), The Doll Factory will haunt you long after you finish it and is perfect for fans of The Alienist, Drood, and Fingersmith.
by Danya Kukafka & Candace Thaxton
When quiet winter nights become too slow, a thriller like GIRL IN SNOW can pick up the pace. The murder of beloved high schooler Lucinda Hayes deeply impacts the lives of three characters: the boy who was obsessively in love with her; the girl who wanted to be her out of jealousy, and the detective assigned to her case who is haunted by his emotional obligations toward the two suspects in her murder. Exploring the lines between love and obsession, and truth and memory, GIRL IN SNOW is a mystery that makes any night spent indoors exciting.
Danya Kukafka & Candace Thaxton
"A perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller…and an incredibly accomplished debut" (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water), about a beloved high schooler found murdered in her sleepy Colorado suburb and the secret lives of three people connected to her.
How can you love someone who's done something horribly, horribly wrong? When a beloved high schooler named Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her community is untouched—not the boy who loved her too much; not the girl who wanted her perfect life; not the officer assigned to investigate her murder. In the aftermath of the tragedy, these three indelible characters—Cameron, Jade, and Russ—must each confront their darkest secrets in an effort to find solace, the truth, or both.
In crystalline prose, Danya Kukafka offers a brilliant exploration of identity and of the razor-sharp line between love and obsession, between watching and seeing, between truth and memory. "A sensational debut—great characters, mysteries within mysteries, and page-turning pace. Highly recommended" (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels). Hailed as "Gillian Flynn of 2017" (Yahoo! Style), compulsively readable and powerfully moving, Girl in Snow is "engagingly told… its endearing characters' struggles linger in memory after this affecting work is done" (The Wall Street Journal).
Hopes, dreams, and an ice rink—BEARTOWN takes you to a small-town high school and the friendships formed on the junior ice hockey team. Unfortunately, the highly anticipated national semi-finals take a wrong turn when an act of violence at the match leaves a young girl traumatized and the whole town in chaos. It's a story about loyalty, disappointment, and how our decisions come to define us—and, in its out-and-out empathy, allows for the warmth of hope to penetrate through the ice.
The Paris Library
by Janet Skeslien Charles
THE PARIS LIBRARY is an ode to books and libraries everywhere. In this dual timeline historical fiction novel, Odile, an ambitious young librarian at the American Library in Paris in 1939, joins the ranks of the French Resistance. Flash-forward to Montana, in 1983, where a lonely teenager named Lily is intrigued by her mysterious old neighbor's past. Your club will love unraveling the dark secrets that connect these two smart and courageous characters.
Janet Skeslien Charles
Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together, perfect for fans of The Lilac Girls and The Paris Wife.
Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet has it all: her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When the Nazis march into Paris, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved library. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. But when the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal.
Montana, 1983: Lily is a lonely teenager looking for adventure in small-town Montana. Her interest is piqued by her solitary, elderly neighbor. As Lily uncovers more about her neighbor's mysterious past, she finds that they share a love of language, the same longings, and the same intense jealousy, never suspecting that a dark secret from the past connects them.
A powerful novel that explores the consequences of our choices and the relationships that make us who we are—family, friends, and favorite authors—The Paris Library shows that extraordinary heroism can sometimes be found in the quietest of places.
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Wintertime is for celebrating family, which happens to be the central theme of THE INHERITANCE OF ORQUÍDEA DIVINA—a novel that alternates between the namesake matriarch's past and her descendants' present. When the Montoyas attend her funeral, they expect to collect both their inheritance and answers to Orquídea's secrets, but instead they leave with more questions than they had imagined. Years later, her gifts have manifested into different blessings and powers for her family, who need to use them to save her bloodline. This tale about the magic of love makes you appreciate spending time with your family even more this holiday season.
Zoraida Córdova
Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, this is a gorgeously written novel about a family searching for the truth hidden in their past and the power they've inherited, from the author of the acclaimed and "giddily exciting" (The New York Times Book Review) Brooklyn Brujas series.
The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won't ever leave their home in Four Rivers—even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed, leaving them with more questions than answers.
Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in different ways for Marimar, Rey, and Tatinelly's daughter, Rhiannon, granting them unexpected blessings. But soon, a hidden figure begins to tear through their family tree, picking them off one by one as it seeks to destroy Orquídea's line. Determined to save what's left of their family and uncover the truth behind their inheritance, the four descendants travel to Ecuador—to the place where Orquídea buried her secrets and broken promises and never looked back.
Alternating between Orquídea's past and her descendants' present, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina is an enchanting novel about what we knowingly and unknowingly inherit from our ancestors, the ties that bind, and reclaiming your power.
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The Forest of Vanishing Stars
by Kristin Harmel
THE FOREST OF VANISHING STARS by Kristin Harmel tells a tale of a powerful female strategically working in defense against the Nazis during WWII. Inspired by a true story of survival, this novel begins with a young woman alone in the wilderness after her kidnapper/caretaker dies. In her solitude, she learns the secrets of the wilderness, and survives all on her own until she happens upon a pack of Jews fleeing the Nazis, who could desperately use her help. Powered with adventure, betrayal, and suspense, this novel is perfect for clubs that loved WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING.
The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis—until a secret from her past threatens everything.
After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest—and in turn, they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her heart after years of isolation. But when she is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied village, her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change everything.
Inspired by incredible true stories of survival against staggering odds, and suffused with the journey-from-the-wilderness elements that made Where the Crawdads Sing a worldwide phenomenon, The Forest of Vanishing Stars is a heart-wrenching and suspenseful novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author whose writing has been hailed as "sweeping and magnificent" (Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author), "immersive and evocative" (Publishers Weekly), and "gripping" (Tampa Bay Times).
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Chameleon is an OpenStack-based research platform for provisioning compute and networking resources.
Chameleon has the capability to create a virtual LAN with hosts stitched over two geographically disparate sites.
In this blog post, we demonstrate how to setup two SLATE clusters at separate sites, stitched together with a VLAN.
We will also run various tests to determine network performance over this stitched link.

For a more basic SLATE-on-Chameleon setup, please see the [Deploying a SLATE Cluster on Chameleon](https://slateci.io/blog/slate-on-chameleon.html) blog post. If you have no experience with Chameleon, we recommend that you read through and follow this blog post first to familiarize yourself with the platform.

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## Requirements

To run a SLATE cluster on [Chameleon](https://www.chameleoncloud.org/), you must first have access to a Chameleon account, as well as be on an existing Chameleon project.
The [Chameleon Getting Started Guide](https://chameleoncloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/index.html) contains lots of useful information regarding this.
Other helpful Chameleon documentation includes [this page](https://chameleoncloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/technical/networks/networks_stitching.html#connecting-stitchable-isolated-networks-across-chameleon-sites) on network stitching.

Additionally, you must have a SLATE account with an access token.

### Chameleon Blazar Client

Due to Chameleon limitations, a stitched network can only be created with the OpenStack CLI.
Install the OpenStack/Chameleon Blazar client for creating leases.
It can be downloaded with the following command:
```bash
pip install git+https://github.com/ChameleonCloud/python-blazarclient.git
```
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It is important to be aware of different client versions, as Chameleon expects version `2.2.2` to be used.

### Application Credential

You must also have an unrestricted application credential for both Chameleon sites, ["CHI@UC"](https://chi.tacc.chameleoncloud.org/project/) and ["CHI@TACC"](https://chi.uc.chameleoncloud.org/project/).

To do this, log into the first site's portal.
1. In the left sidebar, navigate to the "Identity" tab, and click "Application Credentials".
1. Then, click "Create Application Credential", fill out the name field, and check the "Unrestricted" box.
1. Click "Create Application Credential" again, and download the `openrc` file somewhere safe.

Then, repeat these steps for the other site.

## Chameleon Setup

### Network Lease

A stitch-able network lease must be created at each Chameleon site.
First, authenticate with a Chameleon site by running this command:
```bash
source /path/to/openrc.sh
```
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This `openrc.sh` file is the application credential you created earlier.
You should have one for each site.

Then, use the following command to create a network lease:
```bash
`blazar lease-create --reservation resource_type=network,network_name=<network_name_here>,resource_properties='["==","$physical_network","exogeni"]' --start-date <start_date> --end-date "<end_date>" <lease_name>`
```
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Note that the start and end date parameters must include a time as well.
The time and date should be specified with the following format:
```bash
"YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM"
```
The time zone is UTC, and a 24-hour clock should be used.
Additionally, the network lease command needs to have a start time later than the current time, and an end time no later than 7 days after the start time.
Note that the networks we will create are only going to be active during the time the lease is active, so ensure you have allocated sufficient time.

Repeat these steps for the other Chameleon site.
Note that these networks or leases cannot be named the same thing.

Once the leases have instantiated correctly, a network will automatically be created at each site.
This can be verified on the online portal, using the "Networks" tab.

Once both networks are up, a ticket will need to be submitted to the [Chameleon help desk](https://www.chameleoncloud.org/user/help/).
This ticket should request the creation of an AL2S circuit between the sites, and should specify the Project ID, network name, and network ID of each network.
This information can be found by clicking on each network name.
Additionally, the lifetime of the stitched network should also be specified.
Set this lifetime to be the same as the lifetime of your network leases.
This circuit will enable our hosts at different physical sites to talk to each other as if they were on the same LAN.

Submit a ticket containing this information, and wait for it to be approved.

### Network Setup

#### Create a router

Next, a router must be created to serve as a default gateway for our instances to access the rest of the internet.

1. Login to one of the Chameleon portals.
1. Navigate to the "Routers" section under the "Network" tab on the left sidebar.
1. Then, on the right-hand side, click the "Create Router" button.
1. Next, name this router. We like to use `slate-router`.
1. Click the external network drop-down menu, and select "public".
1. Leave everything else as-is, and click "Create Router".
1. Repeat these steps for the other Chameleon site.

#### Create a subnet

Next, we will create a subnet under our existing network.

1. Login to one of the Chameleon portals.
1. Navigate to the left sidebar and select "Network", then select "Networks" underneath this.
1. Locate the network that was already created for you, and click the drop down menu next to your network on the right side.
1. From the drop down menu, select "Create Subnet".
1. The only value that needs to be changed here is the "Network Address" parameter (no subnet name is needed). Use `192.168.1.0/24` for the network address.
1. Following this, click "Next" again. You will be brought to the "Subnet Details" section. Leave this as-is, and click "Create".
1. Repeat these steps on the other Chameleon site/portal.

If you would like to learn more about networks in Chameleon, more information can be found in the [Chameleon documentation](https://chameleoncloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/technical/networks.html).

#### Connect your router to your new network

Here, we will connect the router object we made to our custom network.

1. Login to one of the Chameleon portals.
1. Navigate back to the "Routers" section under the "Network" tab on the left sidebar.
1. Click on the name of the router you created earlier (most likely called `slate-router`).
1. Select the "Interfaces" tab, and then click "Add Interface"
1. Under the "Subnet" drop-down menu, select the network that was created earlier.
1. Leave everything else as-is, and click "Submit".
1. Repeat these steps on the other Chameleon site/portal.

### Instance Setup

Now, we need to launch two compute nodes, on the subnets that we already created.
More detailed instructions regarding creating instances and associating IP addresses can be found in the [Getting Started Guide](https://chameleoncloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/index.html).

#### Launch Instances

1. First, login to one of the Chameleon portals.
1. Click the "Reservations" tab on the left side, and select the "Leases" menu underneath it.
1. Click "Create Lease", and configure a lease for as much time as you need.
1. In the lease-creation box, switch to the "Hosts" tab, and check the "Reserve Hosts" box.
1. Set the minimum and maximum number of hosts to 1.
1. Set the node type property to `compute_haswell` or `compute_skylake`.
1. Click through the remainder of the lease creation wizard, until a reservation is created.
1. Next, navigate to the "Instances" page under the "Compute" menu on the left-hand side.
1. Then, on the right side of the page, click the "Launch Instance" button.
1. Under the "Details" tab, give this instance a name (we like `slate-instance`). Additionally, select the reservation that was previously created.
1. Under the "Source" tab, select "Image" under the "Select Boot Source" drop-down menu. Then, select the `CC-CentOS7` image.
1. Under the "Networks" tab, make sure that the only network that is selected is our new network.
1. Under the "Key Pair" tab, make sure you have configured the correct SSH keys. This is explained in more detail in [this documentation](https://chameleoncloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/index.html#getting-started).
1. Click the "Launch Instance" button, and wait for the instance to spin up. This may take 5 to 10 minutes.
1. Repeat these steps for the other site.

#### Associate Public IP and Log In

To access our instance, we need to NAT a floating public IP to our instance.
1. First, login to one Chameleon portal.
1. Next, go to the "Network" tab on the left and select "Floating IPs".
1. Click the "Allocate IP to Project" button located on the right side.
1. Leave the default settings and click "Allocate IP".
1. Once an IP address has been allocated, click the "Associate" button to the right of the IP address.
1. From the "Port to be Associated" menu, select the instance you created earlier.
1. Click "Associate"
1. Repeat for the other instance on the other Chameleon site.

For more information regarding associating floating IP addresses, visit the [Chameleon Getting Started Guide](https://chameleoncloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/index.html).

To login to any Chameleon node, log in as user `cc`, with `ssh cc@<PUBLIC_INSTANCE_IP>`.
The public instance IP is the floating public IP that we assigned earlier.
This user should have password-less `sudo` access.

#### Disable Firewall

Before you go any further, make sure any firewalls are disabled, as they will impact cluster creation.
On Chameleon, `ufw` is often running, even on CentOS.
Disable it with `sudo ufw disable`.

#### Assign Cluster Hostnames

Our testing software, perfSONAR, requires a DNS name, not an IP address.
To get around this, we are simply going to edit the `/etc/hosts` file on both of our clusters.
Open this file on both nodes, and append the following lines:
```bash
<node_1_internal_ip> cluster1.slateci.net
<node_2_internal_ip> cluster2.slateci.net
```
{:data-add-copy-button='true'}
The internal IP of each node can be found from each node's respective web portal.
These IPs will be assigned from the `192.168.1.0/24` subnet that we created earlier.

## Testing

### Test Basic Connectivity

First, use the ping command on each node to reach the other node.

From the first cluster, run: `ping cluster2.slateci.net`.

From the second cluster, run: `ping cluster1.slateci.net`.

If these ping commands succeed, we have successfully stitched the two Chameleon sites together!

### Testing with iPerf

Next, as a preliminary method of verifying throughput, `iperf` can be used.
If `iperf` is not already installed, it can be installed with:
```bash
sudo yum install iperf
```
{:data-add-copy-button='true'}
Note that both nodes will need to have `iperf` installed.

Afterwards, run an iPerf server on the first node with this command:
```bash
iperf -s
```
{:data-add-copy-button='true'}
Then, run the iPerf client on the second node and connect to the server on the first node with this command:
```bash
iperf -c <node_1_internal_ip>
```
{:data-add-copy-button='true'}
After a little while, the test will complete, and you should see bandwidth results.
If desired, you can run this test in reverse by swapping the locations of the client and server.
Alternately, iPerf's `-r` or `-d` options can be used for running bi-directional tests.

### Testing with perfSONAR

The `perfsonar-testpoint` application can be installed with its default values.
Do this with the following command wherever you have the slate client available:
```bash
slate app install perfsonar-testpoint --cluster <cluster_2> --group <your_group>
```
{:data-add-copy-button='true'}

The `perfsonar-checker` application will require a small amount of configuration.
First, to fetch its configuration file, run:
```bash
slate app get-conf --dev perfsonar-checker > perfsonar-checker.conf
```
{:data-add-copy-button='true'}
Navigate to the `Instance` section, and give your application an appropriate instance tag.
Next, navigate to the `PerfsonarChecker` section, and change the `Dest1` parameter to the appropriate hostname that was set up earlier in `/etc/hosts/`.
The `Dest2` and `Dest3` values can be commented out, or left as-is, if you would also like to run tests to those endpoints.

Now, we are ready to install this application with this command:
```bash
slate app install --dev perfsonar-checker --cluster <cluster_1> --group <your_group> --conf perfsonar-checker.conf
```
{:data-add-copy-button='true'}
After the application finishes installing, an instance ID will be printed out.
Take note of this ID.
Then, give the application some time to run, and check the results with this command:
```bash
slate instance logs --max-lines 0 <perfsonar_checker_instance_id>
```
{:data-add-copy-button='true'}
More information about perfSONAR and the expected results can be found in the [PerfSONAR Checker Blog Post](https://slateci.io/blog/perfsonar-checker.html).

## Other Testbeds

Similar setups can be created on other testbeds as well.
The testing methods outlined in the post will also work on other testbeds.
Additionally, the SLATE Nginx application (without ingress controller) can be used to test.
Host an Nginx instance on both nodes, and access each instance from the opposing node over NodePort using `curl`.

CloudLab-to-CloudLab setups have been verified to work, as well as GENI-to-Chameleon@UC.

More documentation about stitching networks between Chameleon and other testbeds/external domains can be found in the [Chameleon documentation](https://chameleoncloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/technical/networks/networks_stitching.html#connecting-stitchable-isolated-networks-across-chameleon-sites).

## Contact Us

If you have any additional comments or questions, please contact [our team](https://slateci.io/community/)!

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Giampiero Bodino shares his idiosyncratic vision of what it means to be chic. It's all about buying a moment.
Giampiero Bodino is the most famous man in luxury you will have never heard of. But if you've ever worn a Panerai or written with a Montblanc then you will be familiar with his work as creative director of Richemont.
Once encountered, he is not easily forgotten. He has the looks of D'Annunzio, to which he has added a beard of Tolstoyan dimensions. On the day we meet at Villa Mozart, less of a headquarters and more of an oasis of gracious living in central Milan, he is modelling ripped jeans and more keychains than a medieval gaoler.
In other words, he has his own style. But for more than three decades he has sublimated his personal taste to whatever task was at hand. The success of historic brands rests on being able to design convincingly in their discrete idioms; and Bodino has been the ultimate design chameleon over the course of a career that has taken him from car design at Giugiaro via Bulgari to Richemont where he seems to have touched most of the maisons at one time or another. Now, at the age of 56, he has begun to emerge from behind his various assumed personae as a designer of high jewellery.
"If you want to be professional and do a good job, you must be capable of detaching yourself from your taste, and just using a part of it in order to give a very good interpretation of what you are doing for somebody else," he explains. "I was totally fine with this, but there was always the thought at the back of my mind that, if I have the chance, I would like to do something that is my vision."
He was not the only one to feel the world could do with a bit of the Bodino vision. "It was Johann [Rupert, chief of Richemont] who felt the need to start from scratch with something new, which was an extremely interesting point of view because at that time-more than 10 years ago-all the big groups were buying dusty old names and inflating management, inflating communication and inflating investment in order to revamp."
Three years ago, the fruits of this initial discussion became visible with a series of jewels that defy the conventional epithet "collection". They are individual pieces aimed unashamedly at a cultural and economic elite. Typical of the sort of thing that he makes is a one-off necklace with detachable elements based on the adornments of the Renaissance monument to San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples who lived during the third century and who is famous for the annual miracle of the liquefaction of his blood.
Bodino works in a vast pillared hall at the heart of the 1930s Villa Mozart, a tranquil place of soaring ceilings protected by high walls and a big metal gate, found for him four years ago by Carla Sozzani of the cult Milan shop Corso Como. A visit here is a strictly by-appointment experience because it is an experience and not a shop. The place, the macchiato, the exquisite cannoli, the large hyperrealist paintings, the double-doorway-sized fireplaces, and-yes-the occasional vitrine of shimmering jewellery need the man to bring them to life, to animate them and to make sense of them. It is a live performance and I am enchanted by the engaging sight of this dignified figure in his punk rock outfit, moving excitedly between ever grander, more impressive rooms: exhorting me to appreciate the way the afternoon sun illuminates a necklace of spinels; asking me to imagine how terrible this building looked when he discovered it being used as the office of a firm of lawyers with pillars and ceilings hidden under plasterboard and strip lighting; and flicking through piles of Montblanc sketchpads filled with ink drawings and gouaches.
Visiting the Villa Mozart and buying or bespeaking a piece of jewellery is as much a happening as it is a transaction. "I have my vision of what it means to be chic today, that maybe people are not yet ready for," he says. "For me, when you buy something special you don't buy just a piece: you buy a moment, you buy a person, you buy a place. And for me it's very difficult to do that on the Montenapoleone. Maybe you buy something, but, well…it's not exactly my dream."


Exclusive! SAI Defends Music Mogul!
Wired's Seth Mnookin has written an excellent profile of Universal Music's Doug Morris, who in any other era would be the unquestioned king of the music business, as UMG is the biggest label on the planet. But UMG's size doesn't protect it from the forces blowing up the rest of Big Music: piracy, apathy and Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs.
… here's our question to the digerati in the peanut gallery: What music label boss did have a working crystal ball in 1999? And while we're waiting for your answer, another request: Please tell us — which one gets it now? And one more: Say you run one of the major record labels today, so you still make the majority of your money selling compact discs. How do you transition to the digital future, where people buy songs for $1 (if you're lucky) instead of albums for $10?
This last one is most interesting to us, because we've been watching the music business shrivel for 10 years, and we're not sure what other route the major labels could have (realistically) followed. The suggestions that we've heard so far — get into other lines of business, like selling concert tickets and t-shirts! sell your catalogue for pennies and make it up on volume! — have yet to convince us. Can you do better? Sound off in the comments below, or drop us a line at pkafka AT silicon alley insider DOT com.


The Grey Snowflake Sparkle Beanie with Finn Raccoon Pom Pom for women will get you in the wintry spirit. The shell is double lined with a wool blend including nylon and viscose materials. Large dyed Finn Raccoon pom pom is detachable to change up your look. A one size fits all effect makes this cap suitable for women of all ages and sizes. A fashionable snowflake pattern features jeweled accents to jazz up your ensemble. Wear this hat with or without the pom pom for two looks in one you'll absolutely love.


The Mayor of London has given assurances that he is taking serious youth violence and knife crime in Brent "extremely seriously". I wrote to the Mayor to raise my concerns about rising knife crime in my constituency.
The Mayor's Police and Crime Plan, published on Monday (20th March), allows the Met to prioritise work based on local need. In his letter, Sadiq Khan said his Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Sophie Linden, had met with local police and council chiefs to discuss priorities for the borough. He said serious youth violence in Brent had been specifically discussed.
The Mayor's Knife Crime Strategy is due to be published in June. The Mayor has told me that he will focus his resources on tackling London's gangs, cracking down on shops selling knives, and delivering more robust community payback for those found to be carrying knives. Schools and communities will also have a role in knife crime prevention and early intervention.
It is reassuring to receive this strong response from the Mayor. We know that lives have been tragically lost, families are suffering and our community has been blighted, all as a result of knife crime. We need to do everything possible to rid our local area of these awful crimes.
We'll have more information once the knife crime strategy is published this summer, but the Mayor has given a clear indication that he is prepared to take tough action to reverse the rise in knife crime and serious youth violence. I'm particularly pleased that schools and communities will have a role to play in addressing knife crime.


Kofax, a provider of document driven business process automation offerings, has extended its enterprise capture platform with new capabilities.
The new enhancements support new applications and use cases; improve usability, system set up and administration; enhanced enterprise class systems management and control; and is expected to provide customers with increased productivity and return on investment (ROI).
The company said that by extending high volume capture capabilities with improved handling of data; it offers customers a scalable platform for capturing all information as it enters their organisations.
In addition, the company has enhanced its system monitoring capability to better manage and control a broader set of information types and enable accelerated document processing.
Kofax said the new enhanced capabilities captures financial process automation application for accounts payable (AP) and other functions, and provides business users with one click approval or rejection in an easily configurable user interface.
In addition, the company's MarkView for Accounts Payable is re-certified for SAP NetWeaver, which provides the technical foundation for SAP applications.
The company said the enhanced automated ingestion of electronic documents are captured and converted into electronic images by its Capture and Transformation Modules, text and data are extracted from the images, email, faxes and attachments, reducing processing time, costs and eliminating lost or misfiled documents.
Kofax executive vice president of products Jim Nicol said by focusing on and delivering capabilities that accelerate business processes, the company has made it even easier for customers to make their document capture platforms enterprise ready and enjoy increased performance, reduced costs and a rapid, measurable ROI.


Your Margaret River Region is as spectacular underneath the ground as it is on top. Over 100 highly decorated limestone caves lay beneath the surface of the Leeuwin Naturaliste Ridge.
Formed approximately 1 million years ago, a number of these complex and fragile karst systems are open to the public. Go inside and be amazed by these massive labyrinths decorated intricately with limestone crystal formations.
Cave tours range from completely easy 'at your own pace' self-guided tours, guided tours along boardwalks with great commentary, 'off piste' adventure hard-hat tours to extremely adventurous 'abseil your way in' expeditions.
It is difficult to choose the best cave tour in Your Margaret River Region. You can marvel at the reflections on Lake Cave's permanent lake, be dwarfed in Jewel Cave's enormous chambers and take it easy on the Mammoth Cave self- guided tour. At Yallingup's Ngilgi Cave (pronounced 'nilgi'), you will learn the Aboriginal legend as you look up at limestone shawl formations– or delve deeper into the cave on an adventure tour.
Visiting the caves with young children?
Experience the great outdoors on the region's many tracks and trails.
From stunning seascapes to tranquil forest valleys, discover our scenic spots.


The Executive Committee is the one that leads the organization. It is the headed by the President of the National Football Association of Swaziland (NFAS), who is assisted by three (3) Vice Presidents. The other Members of the Executive Committee are the four (4) Chairmen of the Regional Football association, Chairman of the Women Football Association, the General Secretary (GS) of the NFAS and two (2) other Members, who are Chairmen of the standing committees.
Within the NFAS structure, the is a Secretariat, which is responsible for the day-to- day tasks of the NFAS's office under the full guidance of the GS who is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NFAS. The full operations of the Secretariat is under the auspice of the Executive Committee of the NFAS.


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Facebook's Zuckerberg Faces Grilling on Capitol Hill
On the eve of an expected grilling by U.S. lawmakers, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg once again apologized for inadequately protecting the data of millions of social media platform users and highlighted steps the firm is taking to prevent a repeat.
In multiple interviews with news media outlets and in prepared remarks to be delivered on Capitol Hill, Zuckerberg on Monday acknowledged that the tools Facebook provides to promote human interconnectedness were exploited for ill or nefarious purposes.
"It was my mistake, and I'm sorry," Zuckerberg said in testimony released ahead of Tuesday's appearance before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees and Wednesday's appearance before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
"I started Facebook, I run it, and I'm responsible for what happens here," Zuckerberg added.
Zuckerberg was called to testify after news broke last month that personal data of millions of Facebook users had been harvested without their knowledge by Cambridge Analytica, a British voter profiling company that U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign hired to target likely supporters in 2016.
Prior to 2016, Facebook allowed a British researcher to create an app on Facebook on which about 200,000 users divulged personal information that was subsequently shared with Cambridge Analytica. The number of affected Facebook users multiplied exponentially because the app also collected data about friends, relatives and acquaintances of everyone who installed it.
Cambridge Analytica said it had data for 30 million of Facebook's 2.2 billion users.
On Capitol Hill, U.S. lawmakers signaled they want action, not just contrition, from social media executives.
"If we don't rein in the misuse of social media, none of us are going to have any privacy anymore," the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, Bill Nelson of Florida, told reporters after meeting privately with Zuckerberg Monday.
Meanwhile, Facebook announced it is starting to notify tens of millions of users, most of them in the United States, whose personal data may have been harvested by Cambridge Analytica.
The social media giant is also empowering all its users to shut off third-party access to their apps and is setting up cyber "firewalls" to ensure that users' data is not unwittingly transmitted by others in their social network.
For years, Congress took a largely "hands-off" approach to regulating the internet. Some analysts believe that is about to change after the Facebook data breach, as well as a cascade of revelations about Russian cyber-meddling.
"At this point in time, it's really up to Congress and the federal agencies to step up and take some responsibility for protecting privacy, for regulating Facebook as a commercial service which it clearly is," Marc Rotenberg, president of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, told VOA. "We've gone for many years in the United States believing that self-regulation could work — that Facebook and the other tech giants could police themselves, but I think very few people still believe that."
This story was written by Michael Bowman, Ken Bredemeier contributed.
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August 11, 2018 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - 3D printing and other forms of computer-controlled manufacturing have allowed nations, companies and even individuals the ability to go from consumers to producers. As this technology improves and costs drop, access to this technology and the ability of the technology itself will increase, making it possible for virtually anyone, anywhere to make virtually anything.
In May 2018, prominent US-based corporate-funded policy think tank, RAND Corporation, had published an article titled, "Four Ways 3D Printing May Threaten Security." In it, an argument was made about the dangers of 3D printing becoming more accessible, first by citing 3D printed guns as well as drones and other forms of technology it claimed criminals and terrorists could leverage. But then RAND would reveal a threat, particularly to its corporate sponsors, that highlighted the true fears 3D printing invokes among the captains of established industries — decentralization.
The fear of 3D printing "taking jobs" for example, can more accurately be described as taking both jobs and revenue from large corporations and shifting them both to small companies or individual entrepreneurs. Along with this shift, goes the concentration of wealth and influence these large corporations have enjoyed, some since as early as the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
RAND also feared nations targeted by US sanctions being able to easily circumvent them by acquiring the parts and systems required by simply manufacturing them themselves through the use of technology like 3D printing. In reality, RAND and other representatives of established industries seem more concerned about losing their wealth and influence than of any "threat" such technologies might or might not actually pose.
The victory spells the end of an ongoing lawsuit against the US Department of State -- which in 2013, forced Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson to pull down files from the DEFCAD website because they violated International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) protections. The State Department argued that blueprints of Wilson's 'Liberator' pistol, which had already been downloaded more than 100,000 times, were classified as 'exports' and could therefore not be distributed according to law.
The article was shared by Grindhouse, a DIY biohacking group that specializes in human augmentation through the use of biotechnology, another field in which advances in technology are manifesting themselves, quite literally in the hands of ordinary people. Under Grindhouse's Facebook post, a refreshingly complex discussion developed, far beyond the pro-anti gun debate typical in American politics.
Just as RAND and other representatives of corporate monopolies have tried to raise alarm over 3D printing in an effort to protect their respective industries, efforts to register, restrict and constrain the use of 3D printing by citing the possible widespread proliferation of homemade weapons seems very likely to follow Defense Distributed's legal victory.
Manufacturing your own firearms is dangerous. Poorly constructed firearms, or even well-made firearms that are poorly cared for, can cause harm, even death to the operator and bystanders. It is possible that after Defense Distributed's legal victory, interests seeking to restrict 3D printing may use accidents involving 3D printed firearms as a pretext to finally implement stricter controls over 3D printing technology altogether.
August 31, 2017 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) While Americans squabble over irrelevant political diversions, a revolutionary breakthrough in human healthcare has yielded its first FDA approval - a therapy that literally cures otherwise incurable leukemia.
Image: A virtual cure for leukemia - paid for by taxpayers and charity, hijacked and sold for nearly half a million dollars by pharmaceutical giant, Novartis.
What would seem like headline news has instead squeaked through as a whimper - not because it is insignificant - but because of how this monumental breakthrough has been hijacked by special interests and how these interests plan on making Americans pay twice for its development behind a smokescreen of public ignorance.
For the past 20 years, American taxpayers through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) helped fund a revolutionary cancer treatment that sidesteps devastating and ineffective chemotherapy and instead, re-engineers a patient's own immune system to find and destroy tumors.
Image: LLS supporters organize events all over the country to raise tens of millions of dollars for cancer research including the development of therapies and the funding of clinical trials. LLS money was key to what Novartis alleges is its own "breakthrough."
Image: Literally on her deathbed in 2012, Emily Whitehead has been cancer free after receiving treatment in clinical trials funded by charity. The media is now rewriting history, attributing the breakthrough and thriving patients like Emily Whitehead to Novartis.
The revolutionary procedure has paved the way for similar "gene therapies" augmenting the human immune system to fight off and eradicate some of the most confounding diseases of our time.
August 17, 2017 (Tony Cartalucci - LocalOrg) - Urban farmer Curtis Stone who runs a successful urban agriculture business as well as workshops and free online videos to help others join the urban agriculture revolution, has recently put out a very positive message regarding GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in the context of big-agricultural monopolies and what we can do about it.
His underling message is to stop being paralyzed by fear and to start making a real difference by simply getting out from behind our computers, getting our hands dirty, and making with our own two hands the sort of world we want to live in.
He says so as part of a tangible movement producing alternatives to big-ag and big-retail that have turned the tide against monopolies and have given people a chance at building their own value for themselves and their communities.
While his message was specifically about GMOs and the agricultural sector, his wisdom easily carries over to virtually all other aspects of modern socioeconomic activity.
It is a positive message that has been gaining traction as more and more people become frustrated with circular political debates, endless protests, and paralyzing fearmongering, all while the same handful of powerful interests benefit - far removed from the chaos they sow below.
Abusive monopolies are so, simply because they have the wealth and influence to be abusive. This wealth is gained by millions of people in the United States and around the world paying them for their goods and services month-to-month. This concentration of wealth was not accomplished overnight, and it will not be undone in an election, with the passage of a bill, or anything less than its undoing through decentralization and localization.
Reducing the wealth and influence of monopolies - regardless of industry - thus reducing their ability to abuse, requires directing our monthly income away from them and toward local alternatives.
Money channeled to local farmers around the world instead of a handful of ag-giants and retailers, means the wealth these current monopolies use to lobby, manipulate public perception, bribe, and otherwise coerce public policy with, no longer exists. It is wealth through local entrepreneurship that can be used as local people see fit.
Local alternatives create a decentralized version of the centralized monopoly they seek to replace, meaning that no single business has in its own hands the sort of wealth and influence existing monopolies currently enjoy. This creates a better balance of power and deters the sort of abuses excessive disparity invites.
Curtis Stone and others encourage people to create value and wealth for themselves instead of obsessing over political discourse, ideology, and fear. And the more people who choose self-empowerment over circular conflict, the more actual leverage we will have individually and collectively when actors such as agricultural monopolies, tech giants, or the defense industry attempt to coerce a people, a nation, or even a world into action that benefits none but a handful of monopolies.


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Darrell Ankarlo Back On Airwaves After Five-Month Absence
James King | September 15, 2009 | 10:11am
The ultra-"moral" morning man for 92.3 FM (KTAR), and often-deserved punching bag of this paper, Darrell Ankarlo, returned to the airwaves with a vengeance today, after a five-month absence resulting from a car accident that nearly ended his career.
Back in April, Ankarlo was in a collision that left him with traumatic brain injuries that affected his speech, ability to walk, and think.
During his five-month recovery, Ankarlo says he battled depression, and like the conservative Christian he claims to be, had fits of anger so bad that he would have to tell his family to leave the house.
"I was scared out my pants that I was out of a career and I wasn't going to walk again, let alone do sports, and that I would never speak clearly again," he says at a press conference yesterday. "And in five months, for me it's a miracle."
This morning, after a tribute from the stations patriarch Pat McMahon, Ankarlo was back at the mic, ordering his minions to fetch him a danish.
Phoenicians be warned: The morality cop's back on patrol.


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Statement by Yvan Loubier
Yvan Loubier on Speech From The Throne
In the House of Commons on February 28th, 1996. See this statement in context.
Speech From The ThroneRoutine Proceedings
February 28th, 1996 / 6:05 p.m.
Yvan Loubier Bloc Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to take part in this debate on the throne speech. What surprised me most in the throne speech the governor general made yesterday is the way in which the truth was doctored. In the speech from the throne, the government is doctoring the truth when it says that is has honoured its commitments. This is the first comment that came to our minds and it is crystal-clear.
When you examine the speech from the throne, you realize that some of the commitments mentioned in there are somewhat similar to the commitments the federal government made in its inaugural speech, on January 18, 1994. Let us review some of these commitments, one by one. The first commitment made by the government, and it was even mentioned in its platform, was to control the increase of the national debt and to control, through sound management practices, the deficit, year after year.
But, as you well know, Mr. Speaker, to control the annual deficit, the Minister of Finance is not using sound management practices, but rather measures to get out of his responsibilities in terms of public finance. The first of these measures, as we keep telling everyone, is to reduce the deficit by shovelling part of it into the provinces' backyards. These cuts already represent $7 billion in Canada, and almost $2 billion in Quebec, which the provincial government will have to make up for in the next two years.
We also know that, far from controlling the deficit by efficiently managing public finances, the Minister of Finance is stealing the surplus in the unemployment insurance fund, surplus that should reach in the next few years an average of $5 billion a year. What the Minister of Finance is not saying and what does not transpire in the speech from the throne is that the federal government stopped putting money into the unemployment insurance fund several years ago. Since the surplus in the unemployment insurance fund is used for this purpose, I guess we can say that the government is using it as a hidden tax to control the deficit.
Otherwise, the deficit control we were promised in the first speech from the throne and again in yesterday's speech would never come about, because nothing has been done to reduce the deficit in a correct and fair way, through good fiscal management. Nothing has been done to reduce the deficit. This is the first commitment that has not been honoured.
The second commitment that has not been honoured, and we see it again in yesterday's speech from the throne, is the abolition of the GST. The Prime Minister had even made this a major campaign issue in the fall of 1993. The government is dragging its feet. It is searching for a solution to this commitment made by the Prime Minister, and Quebecers as well as Canadians are still waiting for this promise to be fulfilled. So that is another commitment that has not been honoured.
Third commitment. The government is speaking as if it had just arrived in this House.
It says that we need a research and development policy, a policy in the bio-food industry. It says we need a research and development policy because Canada is lagging behind. Canada has been lagging behind for ten years and it has been nearly three years since government members had made this a major issue in the 1993 campaign, even before being elected. I remember the Minister of Finance making a speech in Montreal, as early as 1989, on the
importance of research and development. I remember him saying that year that Canada was lagging behind considerably in this area, which undermined its ability to create in the medium term steady and meaningful jobs.
This government and its spokesperson, the Minister of Finance, are making empty promises. The research and development policy never became reality, the money was never spent, the billion dollars that were promised during the election campaign were never invested, and the government is now telling us in this speech from the throne that it is going to do all that.
What is another commitment from the Liberal government worth when it did not honour its previous commitments in the first half of its mandate? As for the fourth commitment, the government promised to help Montreal get back on its feet. As the Leader of the Opposition was saying this afternoon, Montrealers are still waiting for concrete measures that will help them get out of the slump.
Another commitment, and it struck me as soon as I heard the speech from the throne. Not only have the Liberals not honoured their commitments, but they also have shirked their responsibilities. Regarding the environment, the speech says that "The solutions to many environmental problems lie outside our borders". It is shameful to say such a thing. At the present time, we have a major environmental problem called the raising of the Irving Whale . The Deputy Prime Minister, who recently held the environment portfolio, spent over $12 million on a solution which we knew would fail; now, we have to go back to square one and the whole shoreline of the Magdalene Islands might be polluted. When I see such statements, I am ashamed of this government.
This afternoon, I listened to the Prime Minister. I listened to him religiously since he is the chief of state, the Prime Minister. He urged us to follow up on Canada's success story. He said: "A success which we must continue to build". But on which foundations? The foundations can be found in the throne speech; the first one is national unity. The government wants to continue to build this country by refusing to recognize Quebec's specificity, Quebec's identity, and the existence of a people in Quebec.
The throne speech is nothing but a frame-up; it says that the government wants to entrench the distinct society in the Constitution. But what the Prime Minister does not say, and what the governor general did not say yesterday while speaking on his behalf, is that entrenching an empty shell does not change the fact that it is still an empty shell. This is the kind of distinct society the Prime Minister would eventually like to entrench in the Constitution while trying to convince the other provinces that it would not deprive them of anything. This is what the Prime Minister was saying this afternoon. However what the Prime Minister overlooked is that if that concept does not take away from other provinces and does not offload anything in the provinces' backyards, maybe it means nothing to Quebec. That is what we understood and that is what Quebecers understood last October 30.
Now we see that the Prime Minister did not get that message. Quebecers are no longer looking for symbolism, they want real actions, real measures, a true recognition, and the Prime Minister will not be able to fool them. He asks us to continue building Canada's prosperity on another basis. We find the same thing again in the throne speech on the continuation of jurisdictional fights. What a wonderful program. What a fine perspective. In two different places in the throne speech, they announce that, first of all, the federal government will withdraw from certain areas of jurisdiction it now occupies. We should thank the government, but at the same time, it announces that the measures taken in those areas could be transferred to municipal authorities or to the private sector, that it could bypass the provinces and go directly to those instances.
When the federal government speaks about withdrawing from certain fields, certain areas it now occupies illegitimately, because they are areas of provincial jurisdiction, of Quebec jurisdiction, like occupational training, forestry and mining, it is not offering us a gift. And it is certainly not offering a gift when it says: "Not only do I recognize that I was occupying these areas inequitably, but from now on, I will go over the head of the Quebec government and contact directly its own creations, the municipalities, or I will simply give more power to the private sector in areas falling under Quebec's jurisdiction".
This does not make any sense. We should also thank it for asking us to continue to build on the success of Canada when it more or less says in the throne speech: "From now on, I will continue invading jurisdictions that are exclusively provincial and I will do so with the help of a majority of Canadian provinces".
What it means is that if Quebec, a distinct people, does not want the federal government to implement a Canada-wide program in an area which is its exclusive jurisdiction, it will be isolated if a majority of provinces decide otherwise. This is a way of isolating Quebec. This is what the government calls an invitation to build on this country's success.
The government is also inviting us to continue building this country on the basis of a smaller social security net. Let us not kid ourselves. I almost blew my top when I read that in the speech from the throne. The Governor General started the speech by talking about compassion, he said the government showed compassion. The truth is, this government has shown less compassion that the Conservatives during their nine year rule. Liberals did their utmost to shrink the social security net. How else would you interpret the reform of social programs? How else would you interpret the general dissatisfaction throughout Canada about this reform of
social programs? How else would you interpret this systematic attack against the unemployed?
Quebecers, like Canadians, know that between talk and action, between commitments and what is actually being done, the government has left a large gap, and it will remain during the second part of its mandate.
How could it ask us, ask Quebecers, to continue to build a country on the basis of a systematic squandering of public funds? How can it ask us to continue working within a system which has recently allowed spending $2 billion to buy armoured vehicles in peacetime? We should be grateful that we are at peace. How can we continue building a country which is buying 1,600 antitank missiles at a cost of $23.6 million out of a total program of $230 million in peacetime? Is this the way to success, to continue building a country on the basis of continuing fiscal inequities? We can only repeat that popular phrase: "No thanks".
It is incredible that a government whose spokespersons have been talking about compassion, social justice, fiscal justice and equity for two years, would have come to a point where it refuses to examine the whole system of tax exemptions, a system benefiting mostly large corporations which have the means to take advantage of it. The government readily accepts that Revenue Canada does not even know how much half of the more than 250 such exemptions are costing the federal government. We know the value of about half of these exemptions.
According to the Department of Finance, these exemptions to large businesses cost taxpayers in Quebec and Canada more than $17 billion a year. But for the other part, the other hundred or so exemptions, the finance minister and all the government representatives have systematically refused for the last two years and a half that the House examine their content, their scope, their objectives and their costs. Why? In order to continue to build this country on the flouting of democratic rules. We also say no thanks, Mr. Speaker.
A country where, from the very first pages of the throne speech, the government says that it respects the October 30 verdict and then says: "But if that happens again, we will not respect it, we will not allow Quebecers to choose their future for themselves, we will hold a referendum or a Canada-wide consultation to do that", is a country that does not make any sense. It is a country I have more and more trouble relating to. It is a country that accepts a democratic verdict one day, when it suits it, and at the same time decides, through its political representatives, that, if Quebecers were to decide tomorrow to choose a country for themselves, perhaps it would not recognize this verdict or perhaps it would hold a Canada-wide consultation so that Canadians from the other provinces can determine Quebecers' fate and future.
In conclusion, I was listening to the Prime Minister who was saying earlier, and I quote: "The world sees Canada very much as a real country". I wondered that he meant by that. We never doubted that Canada is a real country. But what the Prime Minister has failed to understand is that, next time, Quebecers will also choose a real country for themselves, a country where they will feel at home, a country where they will not feel increasingly crowded in, for a increasing majority of them, a country that they will also be proud of, a country where values of compassion, fairness and social justice will be expressed in policies on employment, the fight against poverty, economic growth and tax reform. That will be a real country.


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Q: Process a file before opening in custom Eclipse text editor plugin I'm creating a plugin to edit encrypted contents of a run.properties file. I've got the editor window able to open properties files, but I'm unsure how to implement the code to process (read decrypt) the selected file. I need to get my selected file, use my decryption code to get it to readable plain-text, then open the file in the editor window
Currently, I have my class TextEditor extending AbstractTextEditor. My ISelection object is null in the following code snippet
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A: I found the answer to my question. TextFileDocumentProdiver extends FileDocumentProvider which has a method named createDocument().
I created MyDocumentProvider to extend FileDocumentProvider and override the createDocument() method. Here is the code
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{
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    {
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        if(doc != null)
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A: You could have got contents of your editor input in init() method of your editor . And you could have manipulated the text of your editor input according to your decryption

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Wessex celebrate winning Best Motivational Campaign Award
STAFF at our Pennywell Road dealership in Bristol are celebrating this week (December 1, 2015) after winning the Best Motivational Campaign at the Travel West Business Awards 2015.
We were presented with the award on November 26 at the Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare for incentivising staff to make and sustain behavioural change and adopt more sustainable modes of travel.
Kate Hancock, our Business Specialist, said: "We're delighted to have won the Best Motivational Campaign at this year's awards. Having won 'Best Newcomer' at last year's awards we wanted to ensure that we didn't lose momentum and continued to encourage our staff to think green.
"During the past 12 months we worked on a programme to incentivise and motivate our staff to adopt more sustainable modes of travel to work. We gave our staff the ability to renegotiate their contracted hours if they wanted to share a vehicle and therefore need the same hours as other members of staff or need specific hours in order to catch a specific mode of public transport.
"To incentivise electric vehicles as an option for our employees we subsidised them and provided specialist parking spaces for electric vehicles for our staff to use.
"In order to encourage our Cycle to Work scheme and following our success at our Pennywell branch we are in the process of rolling out cycle facilities including cycle parks and showers at all of our branches. We have also given those who cycle the option to amend their hours to suit, if they would like to start or leave earlier to cycle in less traffic and have time to shower upon arrival."
The size of Wessex Garages fleet of electric vehicles has also increased so that the majority of internal journeys made by staff between its branches are carried out in electric vehicles.
Kate explained: "This has saved us £1000's in fuel costs per month and also drastically reduced our carbon footprint. This has been a major part of our 'lead by example' campaign and our staff have been able to see the benefits to the company, which has encouraged a significant number to switch to electric vehicles.
"To add to this we also use electric vans within our parts departments, so that the majority of parts deliveries are now made by electric vehicles.
"We believe all of this has contributed to a huge reduction in the number of staff vehicles on-site at Pennywell Road, contributing to less congestion in the area and reducing our carbon footprint. We will continue to do all we can to encourage our staff to adopt more sustainable modes of travel."
The company also heavily invested in Bristol Green Capital 2015 providing it with five electric cars.
Kate added: "Through the partnership with Bristol Green Capital 2015 we sponsored and provided the Nissan Leaf for the Bristol Half Marathon and the Bristol Grand Prix Cycle race, encouraging our staff to enter both and also to volunteer."


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Sexuality Education: Promoting safe sexual behaviour among university students in Kenya.
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Carbon Black wanted their new 5,500ft space to have a modern industrial look and feel to complement the buildings exposed services, whilst also reflecting the company's brand identity.
This GTA Interiors achieved through utilising the blacks and greys of Carbon Blacks branding, with the brand's blues and oranges used as accents throughout. Momenta Black Slate and Momenta Metallic Grey vinyl tiles proved the perfect choice for the feature breakout area. The colour choice was perfectly aligned to the design brief and enabled a high degree of creativity, to stunning effect.
Momenta is available in a range of beautiful traditional wood and stone colours, but the range also lends itself to achieving a very different look when combing Metalic Grey (or Metallic Rust) with stone designs, as in this case. All of the Momenta range can also be purchased in small Herringbone pieces, allowing for even greater originality with this versatile and hard wearing range.


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London Airports for Private Jets
Did you know that more than 90.000 Private jet movements are performed in London every year? That makes London one of the busiest cities for private jet charter. Let's see which London's Airport is the most suitable for Private jets.
London Luton Airport
London's busiest private jet spot
Also, Luton Airport has been Europe's and Uk's top private jet airport last couple of years. Better known as a budget airline hub.
London Luton Airport offers a choice of private jet FBOs and cost-effective landing fees. Trip to London by train will be around 25 minutes (1 hour by car)
Due to the airport's growing number of airline flights, it's popularity has started to decline in recent years, with runway availability to private jet customers becoming an issue. And while it is usually open 24-hours, during the peak summer months of June – September night time flights are banned in the summer.
London Biggin Hill Airport
The Biggin Hill Airport (a former RAF military base), offers aviation heritage for private jet users looking to access the south side of London. It also offers cost-effective landing fees and quiet flexible airport slots. Biggin Hill is DEFRA approved to accept entry with pets. The airport open hours are from 06:30 to 23:00LT and undergoing a £15M investment program.
The Biggin Hill airport offers helicopter shuttles to central London for those who are in a hurry. Its location is not ideal for everyone, due to its slower road links to London.
London City Airport
London City Airport is situated less than 10 minutes by car from Central London, nearby Canary Wharf, and also offers the fastest departure and highly-efficient VIP customer service.
In the last few years, London City Airport has dropped its landing fees for business and private aviation, making it more competitive. And an increasing number of larger aircraft are now able to land on its steeply-approached runway.
But the cost still remains higher than in other London airports. So to use Luton, Farnborough, or Biggin Hill will be cheaper.
London RAF Northolt Jet Centre
Riyal Military airport that also accepts private jets
As its military usage is reducing, RAF Northolt Airport is also accepting private jets. The distance to Central London is 21 km (13 miles), and it offers a 30 minute transfer time into the city center. A long resurfaced in 2019 runway is now capable of handling all sizes of aircraft: and exceptional security and privacy – which makes it popular with VIP and government flights.
However opening hours are 08.00 – 16.00 and slot availability is limited, so many customers do not find it a convenient option.
Southend Airport
After the Airport was bought by the Eddie Stobart Group in 2012, it then underwent a much-needed upgrade, opening a new Jet Centre in 2017. With low landing fees and good 24-hour availability, the Southend airport is popular with customers in Essex and can offer fast ground (and even helicopter) transfer times into East London.
London Stansted Airport
Most underused airport?
London Stansted Airport offers 24-hour access, good transport links, and excellent FBO facilities. But it is less popular than it should be for Private jet users – maybe because it is perceived as being further from London. But the fact is that is quite the same distance away from the center as Luton Airport.
This Airport is a popular choice for large private jets, like the BBJ, but for many others, it remains under the radar. It is DEFRA approved, so it is also a good choice for those flying with pets.
London Oxford Airport
One more choice for West London
London Oxford Airport is farther from the city center than other London's airports, but its proximity to the M40 motorway means it can rival them for driving times if you are heading to or from West London. Oxford airport is mostly focussed on the business aviation and offers an efficient service and dedicated terminal.
London Heathrow Airport
Not the best choice for private jet flights
London Heathrow airport is the busiest airport for commercial flights – but not recommended for private jets. It is heavily congested and landing fees are high.
Even for private jet users going through Heathrow's dedicated private jet terminal (FBO), operated by Signature Flight Support, delays are often experienced in the air and on the ground, getting in or out of the airport.
London Cranfield Airport
North London VIP option
Famous for its flight school, London Cranfield Airport also accept private jet flights. It a VIP choice for travelers looking to access the North of London, and is particularly popular during the Silverstone Grand Prix.
Its runway can accommodate all sizes of a private jet and, with no runway slots and airside access for cars, it offers flexibility and high levels of privacy.
London Blackbushe Airport
Cost-effective private jet airport for short flights.
With a fleet of Cessna Mustangs based at London Blackbushe in Surrey, the airfield serves as a convenient and cost-effective airfield for small jets – such as 4 passengers looking for a short European flight.
If we steep in aviation history, Blackbushe was an important RAF base and served as a VIP entry point for London.
In our days, it provides a very fast, efficient, and cost-effective services for private jets, with the same driving time as Farnborough.
London Fairoaks Airport
Nestled in the Surrey countryside, and with a number of small prop aircraft based there, London Fairoaks provides the perfect airfield for a short weekend hop for Surrey-based travelers.
Operations on larger aircraft and jets are limited by the short runway. However, it is also the perfect location to depart or arrive by helicopter for the many local polo clubs.
It also offers a very rapid departure time.
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Judge says she will impose "a little order" on Boston nanny trial
Aisling McCarthy's lawyers given date for handover of evidence.
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Judge S. Jane Haggerty on Monday informed both sides in the murder trial of Aisling Brady McCarthy that it was time she 'fashioned a little order in this case.'
The Irish nanny, a native of Co. Cavan, is accused of murdering a one-year-old infant in her care.
After months of 'so many glitches' from the District Attorney's office, Haggerty has finally ordered prosecutors to issue a Certificate of Compliance by Friday, February 28.
This certificate declares to the court that all evidence in the possession of the District Attorney's office has been made available to the defense counsel so that they can prepare for their client's trial.
Evidence still outstanding after thirteen months is the much-sought-after 72 slides of medical specimen and computer files.
Both discoveries have been requested numerous times by McCarthy's lawyers, but they have yet to gain access to them.
Defense Lawyer David Meier told the court that despite this sudden change in the availability of the evidence, they were ill prepared to go to trial on April 7.
Meier told the judge 'we regret to move for continuance given the state of discovery.'
Haggerty advised McCarthy's lawyers to file a motion for continuance and said she would rule on this request at the next hearing.
Meier told the court that they did not know when they would get reports from their medical experts once they had received the evidence saying 'it is inconceivable to put a timeline on it.'
Haggerty advised she wanted the motion to be accompanied by affidavits from these medical experts confirming such a view.
Judge Haggerty advised that she was 'inclined not to change the bail' due to this movement in the case.
The next pre-trial hearing is set for February 28 at 2pm.


If you're an Apple "i-Device" user as well as a Mac user, you can take advantage of support in TimeCache for importing from Apple's iCal application to track your time on your iPhone.
Step 1: While you're away from the office add your appointments to iCal running on your iPhone.
Step 2: When you return, synch your iPhone with your Mac.
Step 3: Use the Daily Log's iCal Entry... command in TimeCache to import your entries from iCal.
You'll need to make sure that iCal events are formatted such that TimeCache can associate them with projects in your TimeCache data file. TimeCache 9.0 makes that easier than ever before, by offering optional Calendar shortcuts you can use to simplify entries. You can find complete information on formatting iCal entries, including a couple of options, in the TimeCache Help section How to add an entry from iCal.


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Ecobank Customer Care Number In Ghana
Ecobank, whose official name is Ecobank Transnational Inc. (ETI), is a pan-African banking conglomerate, with banking operations in 36 African countries. It is the leading independent regional banking group in West Africa and Central Africa, serving wholesale and retail customers. It also maintains subsidiaries in Eastern and Southern Africa. ETI has representative offices in Angola, China, Dubai, France, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
Ecobank Ghana is a commercial bank in Ghana. It is one of the commercial banks licensed by the Bank of Ghana, the national banking regulator. EBG is a member of the Pan-African Ecobank chain which operates in thirty-two (32) countries. The stock of Ecobank Ghana is listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange, where its shares are traded under the symbol EGH. The bank is a fully networked commercial bank in Ghana with branches (total of 77 as of December 2016) in almost all regions of the nation.
The bank was formed in 1990. In December 2011, the Bank of Ghana, the central bank of the country, which also functions as the national banking regulator, gave approval for Ecobank Transnational to acquire 100% interest in The Trust Bank (TTB), another licensed commercial bank. At the time, the total asset valuation of TTB was approximately US$119 million (GH¢ 220 million). Ecobank has successfully merged TTB and EBG. The new bank is known as Ecobank Ghana Limited.
Ghana. Please dial+233 302 213 999 Toll-Free 0800003225 (MTN or AirtelTigo only) or 080030000 (Vodafone only)[email protected] … Ecobank Ghana PLC (Head Office), phone
As of June 2014, Ecobank Transnational had banking operations in 36 African countries, with representative offices in Angola, Beijing, Dubai, Ethiopia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom:[6]
An Ecobank office in Niamey, Niger
Ecobank Transnational has operational bank subsidiaries in the following countries, as of July 2013:
Ecoboank Angola – (Representative office in Luanda)
Ecobank Benin
Ecobank Burkina Faso
Ecobank Burundi
Ecobank Cameroon
Ecobank Cape Verde
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Ecobank Ethiopia – (Representative office in Addis Ababa)
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Ecobank South Sudan
Ecobank Tanzania
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Hydrates, soothes and repairs your skin.
Aloe vera is tropical succulent that has surprising survival techniques: when it is cut, the plant heals itself. Its pulp was used in Ancient Egypt to treat burns and skin infections. These days we add it to cosmetics to take advantage of its hydrating, soothing and repairing properties.