uberAgent for Splunk: Windows Monitoring and More Podcast with Helge Klein - DABCC Radio Episode 183

In episode 183, Douglas Brown interviews Helge Klein, CTP, MVP and Founder of helgeklein.com. ?Helge and Douglas discuss the uberAgent for Splunk (uber Windows agent), how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more.

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About uberAgent for Splunk
uberAgent is a Splunk agent for Windows. It does not just collect data ? it gives you the information that matters. Other monitoring products rely on the performance counters built into Windows. uberAgent has its own metrics, covering key aspects of user experience and system performance.

Application Usage Metering
uberAgent easily answers questions like these: How many licenses do we need for application X? How many applications do we have in total? Which applications need to go into the base image and which apps are candidates for application virtualization?

Logon Time Monitoring
uberAgent for Splunk not only tells you if your logon times are good or bad. It shows you exactly where the time is spent. Is it the user profile loading slowly? Has the logon script become too big? Is group policy being processed efficiently?

If group policy processing is slow ? which client-side extension (CSE) is causing it? uberAgent shows you:

Browser Performance ? Per Website
Browsers have become operating systems of their own. It is no longer sufficient to gather performance data for the browser as a whole. When Internet Explorer?s CPU usage is high, Administrators need to understand what caused that. Is it the business-critical ERP site or are people just watching fun videos on YouTube?

Intuitive Information Display
The user interface is not numbers only, of course. With the help of Splunk?s great charting capabilities, uberAgent displays information intuitively.

It does so for user-specific information like logon times as well as for system performance data like IOPS.

Automatic Application IdentificationuberAgent displays performance data per application. Tired of deciphering cryptic process names? We thought so. Process names are for machines, application names are for humans.

The best thing about this: grouping processes to applications is fully automatic.

If you want to dig deeper, you can get detailed data for each application individually (the same is available for machines, sessions and processes)

More information and download:?http://helgeklein.com/uberagent-for-splunk/

Helge's tools and blog:?http://helgeklein.com/?

About Helge Klein
Helge has both consulting and development backgrounds. That combination has been very valuable to him on many occasions.

As a consultant, programming expertise often comes in handy. Writing small scripts to automate tedious tasks is a no-brainer. The ability to quickly develop the perfect tools for complex migration scenarios is a real benefit for the customer. In more than 10 years of working for several large enterprises he had the ability to hone both his consulting and development skills.

As a developer, consulting experience is a great asset. Helge was the architect of the user profile management product sepagoPROFILE which was acquired by Citrix and whose successor is now known as Citrix Profile Management. Why was sepagoPROFILE so successful? Because the development team?s consulting backgrounds helped them design the product in such a way that it fit neatly into heterogeneous environments, was easy to set up and maintain.

When he got the chance to work with O?Reilly Germany, he did not have to think twice. He has proofread several books for technical correctness (among them the famous Active Directory book) and written his own little compendium, a guide to the command line tools in Windows.

In his spare time Helge pursues several projects related to IT. In the early 2000s, when he needed a command line program to manage printer permissions and could not find one, he decided to write his own tool for the task, SetACL. He did not stop at printer permissions, but wrote a universal tool for automated permission management. Its success speaks for itself ? SetACL has been downloaded more than 500,000 times. Try it, it?s free!

In September 2009 Helge received the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) award. In October 2011 he received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award.

Helge is available for consulting and development projects. You can find more information here.

You can find and contact Helge on Twitter as @HelgeKlein.

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Scorching heat bakes Western states

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (AP) ? Scorching heat blistered the Southwest on Saturday, where highs between 115 and 120 degrees were expected for parts of Arizona, Nevada and California through the weekend.

Forecasters said temperatures in sunbaked Las Vegas could match the record of 117 degrees Saturday. Phoenix also was expected to hit that mark, matching the record for June 29 set in 1994. And large swaths of California sweltered under extreme heat warnings, which are expected to last into Tuesday night ? and maybe even longer.

Dan Kail was vacationing in Las Vegas when he heard that the temperature at California's Death Valley could approach 130 degrees this weekend. He didn't hesitate to make a trip to the desert location that is typically the hottest place on the planet.

"Coming to Death Valley in the summertime has always been on the top of my bucket list," the 67-year-old Pittsburgh man said. "When I found out it might set a record I rented a car and drove straight over. If it goes above 130 I will have something to brag about."

The forecast called for Death Valley to reach 128 degrees Saturday as part of a heat wave that has caused large parts of the western U.S. to suffer. Death Valley's record high of 134 degrees, set a century ago, stands as the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth.

A couple hours south in Baker, the temperature was expected to peak at 120 degrees in the road tripper's oasis in the Mojave Desert on Interstate 15. The strip of gas stations and restaurants between Los Angeles and Las Vegas is known by travelers for the giant thermometer that often notes temperatures in the triple digits.

At the Mad Greek restaurant there, a waitress called out orders for "Chocolate shake! Strawberry shake!" while the temperature hovered at 112 degrees during the lunch rush.

Downtown Los Angeles was expected to hit 91 degrees, 7 degrees shy of its record.

To make matters worse in California, National Weather Service meteorologists John Dumas said cooling ocean breezes haven't been traveling far enough inland overnight to fan Southern California's overheated valleys and deserts.

Burbank set a record overnight low with temperatures dipping to 74 degrees overnight, much warmer than the previous record of 68 degrees for Saturday's early hours.

In Northern California, temperatures Saturday were expected to reach the 80s in San Francisco, upper 90s in San Jose and into the triple digits inland, about 20 degrees above typical highs in the Bay area.

Farther north, triple-digit temps were expected in Sacramento on Saturday and Sunday.

Health officials warned people to be extremely careful when venturing outdoors. The risks include not only dehydration and heat stroke but burns from the concrete and asphalt. Dogs can suffer burns and blisters on their paws by walking on hot pavement.

Cooling stations were set up to shelter the homeless and elderly people who can't afford to run their air conditioners. In Phoenix, Joe Arpaio, the famously hard-nosed sheriff who runs a tent jail, planned to distribute ice cream and cold towels to inmates this weekend.

Officials said personnel were added to the Border Patrol's search-and-rescue unit because of the danger to people trying to slip across the Mexican border. At least seven people have been found dead in the last week in Arizona after falling victim to the brutal desert heat.

Temperatures are also expected to soar across Utah and into Wyoming and Idaho, with triple-digit heat forecast for the Boise area. Cities in Washington state that are better known for cool, rainy weather should break the 90s next week.

The heat was so punishing that rangers took up positions at trailheads at Lake Mead in Nevada to persuade people not to hike. Zookeepers in Phoenix hosed down the elephants and fed tigers frozen fish snacks. Dogs were at risk of burning their paws on scorched pavement, and airlines kept close watch on the heat for fear that it could cause flights to be delayed.

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Skoloff reported from Phoenix. Also contributing were Robert Jablon and Shaya Tayefe Mohajer in Los Angeles, Julie Jacobson and Michelle Rindels in Las Vegas, Michelle Price in Salt Lake City, Cristina Silva and Bob Christie in Phoenix, and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, N.M.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/phoenix-las-vegas-bake-scorching-heat-202602575.html

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Judge: Maine girl, 11, not competent for trial

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) ? A Maine judge has ruled that an 11-year-old girl charged in the death of an infant remains incompetent to stand trial.

The Fairfield girl's detention and conditions of release are unchanged, pending further discussion of her ability to stand trial, Judge Charles LaVerdiere said Friday.

LaVerdiere said there is a substantial probability the girl will be competent to stand trial in the foreseeable future, the Morning Sentinel reported (http://bit.ly/1155a1d).

She is charged with manslaughter in the July 8 death of 3-month-old Brooklyn Foss-Greenaway. The infant was staying overnight at the home of girl's mother, who was babysitting her.

The infant's mother was told the baby died from suffocation and had trace amounts of a medication that the girl had been taking in her system.

The older girl was charged last summer at age 10 with juvenile manslaughter. A judge had ruled in March that she was incompetent to stand trial.

The state forensic examiners will check on her competency again in six months, LaVerdiere said.

The girl's lawyer could not be reached for comment on Saturday. A phone message left at his office was not immediately returned.

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Information from: Morning Sentinel, http://www.onlinesentinel.com/

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/judge-maine-girl-11-not-competent-trial-185610473.html

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Protein is involved with colon cancer cell's ability to invade other cells

June 27, 2013 ? Understanding how the protein km23-1 enables in the spread of colon cancer may lead to new treatments for the disease, according to researchers at Penn State College of Medicine.

Previous research shows that km23-1 is involved in the movement of cancer cells and in the control of specific proteins at the leading edge of moving cells. Kathleen Mulder, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, who discovered the protein, now says km23-1 is used in the cancer cell's ability to move out of a tumor in the early stages ofinvasion.

"km23-1 may be able to help in this process due to its role in the assembly of large groups of proteins favorable to cancer invasion," Mulder said.

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the United States. Tumors spreading to other parts of the body are the greatest threat to a patient's survival.

The researchers limited the amount of km23-1 available in the cells they studied, which allowed them to see how it affects cell behavior. A reduction in km23-1 caused a decrease in the production of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta). In healthy cells, TGF-beta helps prevent cancer growth. However, in cancer cells, the protein actually aids in the spread of tumors. Limiting km23-1 also blocks the activity of proteins previously shown to lead to TGF-beta production. Researchers reported their results in PLOS One.

The researchers also find that cells with less km23-1 have reduced amounts of a protein that forms a framework structure associated with the spread of cancer. This scaffolding holds together key factors that help the cancer cells move and invade to form secondary tumors.

Mulder and colleagues say that by decreasing km23-1, colon cancer cells do not spread as much. This also affects several proteins known to make a cancer cell invasive, demonstrating that km23-1 is an important potential target for cancer therapies.

The researchers also looked at another protein that influences cell survival, migration and invasion, called ERK, which has higher activity in cancer cells. Lowering the levels of km23-1, reduced ERK activation. Decreased ERK activity relates to the production of TGF-beta and cell movement.

"If we can block km23-1, we can stop the spread of colon cancer earlier," Mulder said. "But we would also affect other important functions of the protein. In order to address this issue, we are now trying to find the specific partners of km23-1 that contribute to the invasion of the cancer cells. Then we can design more precise therapeutic agents that target critical regions of km23-1 rather than eliminating the entire protein."

Researchers used a cell model that represents a unique class of colon cancer that needs further study. This model features cells that move as groups, and not singularly.

"The type of cell movement, or migration, has important implications with respect to the detection of tumor cells in the blood of cancer patients, as well as for the development of new treatments," Mulder said.

Other researchers are Qunyan Jin, Guangming Liu, and Phillip P. Domeier of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and Wei Ding, Department of Pediatrics.

The National Institutes of Health and, in part, a Pennsylvania Department of Health CURE grant supported this study.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/XcXm5qcuT8E/130627142557.htm

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WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama pitches aid in Africa

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ? President Barack Obama is pitching U.S. foreign aid and, by extension, an image of a new Africa -- not one of malnourished children with hollow eyes and distended tummies, but one of smiles and plump babies.

Obama on Friday toured a series of booths set up behind his Dakar hotel that were designed to showcase Senegalese agriculture with a focus on nutrition and fortified foods.

At one of the booths, a large poster featured a healthy-looking baby in the arms of a smiling mother.

"That's a big, fat and happy kid," Obama said.

At another, he spoke to a farmer who displayed a sweet potato fortified with beta-carotene.

"This is not just your average sweet potato," Obama said. "This is your super-duper sweet potato."

The message was in part meant for an audience back home, where foreign aid in an age of budget squeezes is often first in line for cutbacks. The food programs get help from Feed the Future, a public private partnership initiated during Obama's first term that the administration says has helped seven million small farmers in 19 developing nations, including 7,000 in Senegal.

"When people ask what is happening to their taxpayer dollars in foreign aid, I want people to know that this money is not being wasted," Obama said. "It's helping feed families, it's helping people to become more self-sufficient, and it's creating new markets for U.S. companies. It's a win-win situation."

Speaking to reporters later aboard Air Force One, Obama said the aid serves as an economic development tool by increasing farmer income that in turn builds a new middle class that can support local manufacturing.

"Our foreign aid budget is around 1 percent of our total federal budget. It's chronically the least popular part of our federal budget," he said while en route to Johannesburg. "But if you look at the bang for the buck that we're getting when it's done right, when it's well designed, and when it's scaled at the local level with input from local folks, it can really make a huge difference."

During the agriculture tour in Dakar, he needled U.S. reporters traveling with him, whose questions have focused on recent Supreme Court decisions back home and on the whereabouts of secrets-leaker Edward Snowden.

"I know that millet and maize and fertilizer doesn't always make for sexy copy," he said. He asked a farmer at a display booth to show reporters some of his rice. "These are some city people," he said of the reporters. Then teased them, as if imparting a lesson: "This is where rice comes from."

As for the rice, he said he'd like to see it served at the White House. "We'll have the White House chef whip it up," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-notebook-obama-pitches-aid-africa-132422682.html

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Trayvon Martin friend finishes day 2 of testimony

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? One of the most important prosecution witnesses in George Zimmerman's murder trial has left the witness stand.

Rachel Jeantel testified Thursday for a second consecutive day about the last phone call she had with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in the moments before his deadly encounter with Zimmerman.

She is one of the prosecution's most important witnesses since she bolsters prosecutors' contention that Zimmerman was the aggressor in his confrontation with Martin.

Zimmerman is pleading not guilty to second-degree murder, claiming self-defense.

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George Zimmerman's defense attorney on Thursday challenged the credibility of a key prosecution witness' account of what she heard over the phone in the moments before the deadly exchange between the neighborhood watch volunteer and 17-year-old Trayvon Martin that left the Miami teen with a bullet in his chest.

The defense attorney challenged 19-year-old Rachel Jeantel about her claim that the encounter was racially charged and about her differing accounts of what she heard over the phone when Zimmerman and Martin first exchanged words. The often-testy exchanges between Jeantel and defense attorney Don West came a day after Jeantel admitted to lying about her age and lying about why she skipped Martin's funeral.

Jeantel was on the phone with Martin as he walked from a convenience store through the neighborhood where he was visiting, and she was the last person to speak with him before his encounter with Zimmerman on Feb. 26, 2012 at the Retreat at Twin Lakes townhome complex. Jeantel is one of the prosecution's most important witnesses because she bolsters the contention that Zimmerman was the aggressor.

Jeantel has given slightly differing versions about what she has heard in a deposition, in a letter to Martin's mother and in a recorded interview with an attorney for the Martin family. Among the differences cited by West:

? In some accounts, she said race was an issue but not in others.

? Jeantel testified Wednesday that her friend's last words were "Get off! Get off!" before Martin's phone went silent. But on Thursday, under cross-examination, she conceded that she hadn't mentioned that in her account of what happened to Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton. She had left out some details to spare Fulton's feelings, and also because neither Fulton nor the Martin family attorney asked her directly about them, Jeantel said.

? After Martin asks why he is being followed, Zimmerman responds, "What are you doing around here?" in one account by Jeantel. In another account, according to West, she says Zimmerman said, "What are you talking about?"

Zimmerman, 29, could get life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder. Zimmerman followed Martin in his truck and called a police dispatch number before he and the teen got into a fight.

Zimmerman has said he opened fire only after the teenager jumped him and began slamming his head against the concrete sidewalk. Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic and has denied the confrontation had anything to do with race, as Martin's family and their supporters have claimed.

Jeantel testified Thursday that she thought race was an issue because Martin told her he was being followed by a white man. She told jurors on Wednesday that Martin had described being followed by a "creepy-ass cracker."

"He was being followed," Jeantel said.

But West responded, "It was racial because Trayvon put race in this?"

The exchanges got testier as the day progressed.

When asked by West if she had previously told investigators that she heard what sounded like somebody being hit at the end of her call with Martin, Jeantel said, "Trayvon got hit."

"You don't know that? Do you? You don't know that Trayvon got hit," West answered angrily. "You don't know that Trayvon didn't at that moment take his fists and drive them into George Zimmerman's face."

Later in the morning, West accused Jeantel of not calling police after Martin's phone went dead because she thought it was a fight he had provoked.

"That's why you weren't worried. That's why you didn't do anything because Trayvon Martin started the fight and you knew that," West said.

"No sir!" Jeantel said. "I don't know what you're talking about."

At one point, West handed her a letter she had written with the help of a friend to Martin's mother explaining what happened. She looked at it but then said she couldn't read cursive handwriting.

Jeantel recounted to jurors on Wednesday how Martin told her he was being followed by a man as he walked through the Retreat at Twin Lakes townhome complex on his way back from a convenience store to the home of his father's fiancee.

She testified that Martin described the man following him as "a creepy-ass cracker" and that he thought he had evaded him. But she said Martin told her a short time later the man was still behind him, and she told him to run.

Martin said Zimmerman was behind him and she heard Martin ask: "What are you following me for?"

She then heard what sounded like Martin's phone earpiece dropping into wet grass, and she heard him say, "Get off! Get off!" The phone then went dead, she said.

During Wednesday's testimony, she bristled at West's questions, and at one point she urged West to move on to his next question: "You can go. You can go."

Jeantel's testimony was more subdued on Thursday, at least in the beginning, and West took note of her calmer demeanor. She answered many of West's questions by repeating "yes, sir," almost in a whisper.

"You feeling OK today? You seem different than yesterday," West said.

"I got some sleep," she answered.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/trayvon-martin-friend-finishes-day-2-testimony-184125953.html

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Friend: Trayvon Martin encounter racially charged

George Zimmerman, right, speaks with defense attorney Mark O'Mara during his trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Thursday, June 27, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Jacob Langston, Pool)

George Zimmerman, right, speaks with defense attorney Mark O'Mara during his trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Thursday, June 27, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Jacob Langston, Pool)

Witness Rachel Jeantel continues her testimony during George Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Thursday, June 27, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Jacob Langston, Pool)

Witness Rachel Jeantel, right, continues her testimony to defense attorney Don West on day 14 of George Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Thursday, June 27, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Jacob Langston, Pool)

Witness Rachel Jeantel, left, continues her testimony to defense attorney Don West on day 14 of George Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Thursday, June 27, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Jacob Langston, Pool)

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? George Zimmerman's defense attorney insisted during several testy exchanges with an important prosecution witness Thursday that Trayvon Martin injected race into a confrontation with the neighborhood watch volunteer and insinuated the young woman was not believable because of inconsistencies in her story.

However, 19-year-old Rachel Jeantel stood firm in her testimony about the night Zimmerman shot the unarmed black 17-year-old after a fight that Jeantel said she overheard while on the phone with Martin. Jeantel has said Martin told her he was being followed by a "creepy-ass cracker" ? implying Martin was being followed by a white man because of his race.

Zimmerman identifies as Hispanic. Race has permeated nationwide discussions of the case since the February 2012 shooting, which prompted nationwide protests and claims from critics that police took too long to arrest Zimmerman.

The neighborhood watch volunteer has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and says he acted in self-defense.

Defense attorney Don West also zeroed in on slight differences among three different accounts of what happened before Martin's killing, in an apparent effort to discredit her. Jeantel has described what she heard over the phone in a deposition; a letter to Martin's mother; and an interview with the Martin family attorney. Among the differences highlighted by West:

? In some accounts, she said race was an issue but not in others.

? Jeantel testified Wednesday that her friend's last words were "Get off! Get off!" before Martin's phone went silent. But on Thursday, under cross-examination, she conceded that she hadn't mentioned that in her account of what happened to Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton. She had left out some details to spare Fulton's feelings, and also because neither Fulton nor the Martin family attorney asked her directly about them, Jeantel said.

? After Martin asks why he is being followed, Zimmerman responds, "What are you doing around here?" in one account by Jeantel. In another account, according to West, she says Zimmerman said, "What are you talking about?"

Zimmerman, 29, could get life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder. Zimmerman followed Martin in his truck and called a police dispatch number before he and the teen got into a fight. Zimmerman has said he opened fire only after the teenager jumped him and began slamming his head against the concrete sidewalk. Zimmerman has denied the confrontation had anything to do with race, as Martin's family and their supporters have claimed.

Jeantel testified Thursday that she thought race was an issue because Martin told her he was being followed by a white man.

But West responded, "It was racial because Trayvon put race in this?"

She answered no.

After the court session was over for the day, when explaining how Martin's parents didn't want race injected into the trial, Martin family attorney Daryl Parks said, "Some young people loosely use language they probably shouldn't use."

"It's just slang they use," he said.

The exchanges between Jeantel and West got testier as the day progressed.

At one point, West suggested that though Martin told her he was by his father's fiancee's house while Zimmerman was following him, that she doesn't know that for sure.

"Why he need to lie about that, sir?" Jeantel asked West.

"Maybe if he decided to assault George Zimmerman, he didn't want you to know about it," West replied.

"That's real retarded, sir," she said. "That's real retarded to do that, sir."

When asked by West if she had previously told investigators that she heard what sounded like somebody being hit at the end of her call with Martin, Jeantel said, "Trayvon got hit."

"You don't know that? Do you? You don't know that Trayvon got hit," West answered angrily. "You don't know that Trayvon didn't at that moment take his fists and drive them into George Zimmerman's face."

Later in the morning, West accused Jeantel of not calling police after Martin's phone went dead because she thought it was a fight he had provoked.

"That's why you weren't worried. That's why you didn't do anything because Trayvon Martin started the fight, and you knew that," West said.

"No sir!" Jeantel said. "I don't know what you're talking about."

At one point, West handed her a letter she had written with the help of a friend to Martin's mother explaining what happened. She looked at it but then said she couldn't read cursive handwriting. Jeantel later explained she is of Haitian descent and grew up speaking Creole and Spanish.

Thursday's testimony began with a more subdued tone that it did a day earlier, when Jeantel frequently bristled at West's questions and she at one point told him to move on to the next question: "You can go. You can go."

West took note of her calmer demeanor in the morning. She answered many of West's early questions by repeating "yes, sir," almost in a whisper.

"You feeling OK today? You seem different than yesterday," West said.

"I got some sleep," she answered.

After Jeantel left the witness stand, a mobile phone manager testified about Martin's cell phone records and a former neighbor of Zimmerman testified she heard yelps for help outside her townhome on the night Martin was shot. Jenna Lauer said she couldn't tell who was screaming.

"They were being hurt," Lauer said, describing the person screaming.

Before court recessed for the day, defense attorney Mark O'Mara asked another former neighbor to recreate for jurors how she reacted when she heard what turned out to be a gunshot and ran out of her town-house to see what was going on. The request had Selma Mora in the unusual position of standing up from the witness stand and pretending to be in her kitchen in front of the judge's bench.

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Judge orders city to rebid employee health insurance contract | The ...

Roper?s order instructs the city to seek new bids from insurance providers for a contract to start Jan. 1 and terminate its existing agreement with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia at that time, to ensure no interruption of coverage for the city?s 2,400 employees and their families.

The order comes in response to a lawsuit filed by Aetna subsidiary Meritain Health over Augusta?s award of the contract to administer a new self-funded health insurance pool, valued in excess of $20 million, to Blue Cross, the city?s existing provider.

Meritain protested the bid award last year, but the commission voted to deny the company?s protest and gave the contract to Blue Cross, on the recommendation of an internal selection committee that included Procurement Director Geri Sams and Wells Fargo insurance consultant Lisa Kelley.

Meritain alleged that procurement engaged in ?11th hour? manipulation of the bid award, changing contract terms and ranking criteria to benefit Blue Cross, and Roper agreed.

?Simply put, Ms. Sams, Ms. Kelley and the selection committee changed the rules at the 11th hour to require no lasering at inception, and decided that Total Maximum Costs was the driving factor,? he wrote.

?No lasering? refers to an insurance practice that divides employees into low- and high-risk groups, covering each differently.

When the ?no lasering? requirement was introduced, Aetna vice president of public sector sales Marcus Duckworth complained in two e-mails that only Blue Cross had access to recent claims data to formulate an accurate bid.

?The court finds that Meritain was prejudiced thereby,? Roper said.

He also points to Kelley?s romantic involvement with Blue Cross sales representative Mark Dukes throughout the process, citing Commissioner Alvin Mason?s questioning of Kelley about the relationship during commission meetings.

?I find it difficult to swallow that the one consultant that we have has a relationship with Blue Cross Blue Shield in this manner,? Mason said, citing the appearance of a conflict.

From there, Sams failed to provide a written report about why Blue Cross was the chosen bidder, and commissioners had scant evidence to consider when they voted 6-3 on Dec. 5 to deny Meritain?s protest.

City Administrator Fred Russell, who was named in Meritain?s original complaint, said Wednesday that he was unaware of the judge?s order and recalled little of last year?s insurance bid protest.

City General Counsel Andrew MacKenzie declined to comment on the pending litigation, but did note the order provided for no lapse in insurance coverage.

?It?s hard to predict what will happen in these cases,? he said.

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Devo drummer Alan Myers dies from cancer

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Alan Myers, the drummer for U.S. new wave band, Devo, on their most popular songs, including the 1980 mainstream hit "Whip It," has died, the band said on its website.

Myers died on Monday from cancer in Los Angeles, the band said.

"I think he probably influenced a lot of drummers that are out there now because he was really great at being very precise and minimalist," Mark Mothersbaugh, the singer and founder of Devo and now a TV and film composer, told Reuters.

"His minimalist style really suited what we were doing well," said Mothersbaugh, a founder of the band famous for their eccentric flower-pot hats and bright jump suits. "We always regretted it when he left."

Mothersbaugh said he did not know Myers exact age but thought he was about 60.

Myers joined Devo in 1976 but left after their 1984 album, "Shout," to pursue jazz and music "off the beaten path," Mothersbaugh said.

The drummer was part of the band when they crossed over from avant-garde art school rock to mainstream success with the 1980 hit "Whip It," which was helped by heavy play during the early days of MTV.

He was the drummer on the band's influential 1978 debut album "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!" that was produced by British recording pioneer Brian Eno.

When Devo reformed in 2009, Myers was working in Los Angeles as an electrician and playing music in various groups.

Devo, whose name is a contraction of "de-evolution," formed in 1972 in Akron, Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles later in the decade.

Besides "Whip It," Devo also recorded off-beat covers of the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and Allen Toussaint's "Working in the Coal Mine."

(Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy and Sandra Maler)

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Young female Muay Thai fighter takes out boy (Video)

This kiddie Muay Thai bout comes to us from Thailand, and it features a mixed-gender match-up. It appears the young man -- and the crowd -- thinks he's going to get an easy win. What he -- and the crowd -- did not count on was this young lady coming ready for a fight. After she gets in several punches, taking the fight as seriously as anyone should take a fight, he retires.

Kudos to the young lady. She worked hard, went about her business, and got the win. It's a safe bet this is the last time the young man doesn't take a fight seriously -- no matter the opponent.

Thanks, Deadspin.

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Lemongrass tea-poached chicken

Simple and flavorful poached chicken has many uses. Nestle it between bread for a sandwich, on top of a mixed green salad, or use it to make a chicken salad for a picnic.?

By Patricia Tanumihardja,?The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook / June 25, 2013

What to do with lemongrass tops? Try adding them to the water when you poach chicken.

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Born in Indonesia and raised in Singapore, Patricia Tanumihardja writes about food, travel, and lifestyle through a multicultural lens and has been published in numerous national and regional publications. Pat is also the creator of the ?Asian Ingredients 101? iPhone and Android app, a glossary on-the-go that?s the perfect companion on a trip to the Asian market. Her first book,?The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook: Home Cooking from Asian American Kitchens,?will be available in paperback in September 2012.

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And an all-time favorite ? Caramelized Chicken with Lemongrass and Chilies.

Seemingly simple at first, this is one recipe that takes practice to perfect. Over the years, I?ve managed to improve the final outcome bit by bit.

I confidently caramelized the sugar to the point where it turns a rich mahogany and hovers on the bittersweet, and doesn?t burn. I know that the quality of the chicken is very very important to this dish.?The chicken has to be fresh and definitely not plumped up with water. The extra liquid released during cooking turns the chicken pieces into mush, far from the nicely bronzed outcome you want. Now, I can make this dish with my eyes closed (well, almost!) and it turns out delicious every time.

But I am always left with one conundrum: what to do with the?lemongrass?tops? ?I?ve tossed the tops into a pot with tea. I?ve made?lemongrass vinegar. And then it came to me: Why not poached chicken? It would make an excellent addition to a mixed green salad, my?Harvest Rice Salad, or for a summery chicken salad for your next picnic.

The chicken turned out soft and tender, and was imbued with a delightful lemony scent and flavor. The remaining stock was so fragrant I was almost tempted to stick my head over the pot and breathe in the aromatherapy ?fumes!? ?I decided to save it for another dish instead.

Lemongrass tea-poached chicken
I used boneless chicken thighs for this method (I wouldn?t even call it a recipe!) because that?s what I always eat but you can use breasts, too, if you prefer. You can put the?tea leaves?into a cheesecloth sachet but I find that the tea leaves can be easily scraped off.

If you only have tea bags, use one tea bag and remove it once the water comes to a boil, unless you want a stronger tea flavor.?Try adding other complementary herbs to the mix like?Thai basil, ginger, or green onions.

Time: 20 minutes

2 teaspoons salt

1/2 teaspoon good quality loose-leaf black or green tea

Tops from 3 to 4 stalks of lemongrass

3 smallish boneless, skinless chicken thighs (about 3/4 pound)

1. Fill a heavy (2-quart) pot about halfway full with water, just enough to cover the chicken pieces. Add the salt, tea, and lemongrass tops, and bring to a boil.

2. Add the chicken and bring it back to a simmer. Turn off the heat, cover with a tight-fitting lid,?and remove the pot from the stove (important if you have an electric stove). Let sit for about 15 minutes (thicker pieces may take longer) or until the chicken is no longer pink inside (cut into a piece to check). If it is, put the lid back on and wait another 5 to 10 minutes.

3. Let the chicken cool a little then put it in the fridge overnight to cool completely. Remove the chicken from the liquid and shred with two forks or cut into slices.

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Google Hangouts update for iOS brings clickable URLs and sound alerts

Hangouts for iOS may have gotten off to a rocky start -- evidenced by its poor ratings in the App Store -- but it seems that Google is looking to right its wrongs in its first major update to the messaging app. Most significantly, the new version features clickable links in messages and in-app sound notifications, along with official support for iOS 6. Any badge count issues have been fixed, and you'll now also be able to invite friends to join Hangouts via SMS. Add all these with a number of bug fixes, and they bring a good reason to give Hangouts a whirl... perhaps for a second time.

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Supreme Court strikes federal marriage provision

WASHINGTON (AP) ? In significant but incomplete victories for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California.

The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health and pension benefits.

The other was a technical legal ruling that said nothing at all about same-sex marriage, but left in place a trial court's declaration that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. That outcome probably will allow state officials to order the resumption of same-sex weddings in the nation's most populous state in about a month.

The high court said nothing about the validity of gay marriage bans in California and roughly three dozen other states.

The outcome was not along ideological lines.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia.

"We have no authority to decide this case on the merits, and neither did the 9th Circuit," Roberts said, referring to the federal appeals court that also struck down Proposition 8.

In the case involving the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, joined by the court's liberal justices.

"Under DOMA, same-sex married couples have their lives burdened, by reason of government decree, in visible and public ways," Kennedy said.

"DOMA's principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them unequal," he said.

Some in the crowd outside the court hugged and others jumped up and down just after 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday when the DOMA decision was announced. Many people were on their cell phones monitoring Twitter, news sites and blogs for word of the decision. And there were cheers as runners came down the steps with the decision in hand and turned them over to reporters who quickly flipped through the decisions.

Chants of "Thank you" and "USA" came from the crowd as plaintiffs in the cases descended the court's marbled steps

Kennedy was joined by the court's four liberal justices.

Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, and Scalia dissented.

Same-sex marriage has been adopted by 12 states and the District of Columbia. Another 18,000 couples were married in California during a brief period when same-sex unions were legal there.

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Op-Ed | Going 'Net Native' - BoF - The Business of Fashion

NEW YORK, United States ? By and large, the entrepreneurs behind the first wave of fashion e-commerce companies started off with a simple goal: prove the industry wrong by showing that consumers would actually buy clothing and accessories online. Out of their contrarian beliefs and dogged tenacity emerged companies like Net-a-Porter and Yoox, both of which now rank amongst the world?s most successful fashion retail businesses, online or off. But if this first wave of fashion e-commerce was largely about bringing offline shopping online and leveraging the web?s phenomenal distribution opportunities, the next wave is all about the rise of ?net native? models.

?Taking the offline model for something and porting it to the web is not often the best way to build a business online,? explains Fred Wilson, managing partner of Union Square Ventures. ?What we have seen over and over again is that taking a model that was optimised for the analogue world and porting it to the Internet is almost always suboptimal. And that the person or team that finds the optimal model for the Internet is almost always the one who ends up with the big win.?

In search of web-optimal models, a growing number of companies are rethinking e-commerce from the ground up in ways that were physically impossible in the offline world. For these companies, the Internet is no longer just a channel, it?s a fully fledged medium. And indeed, they understand that today?s fashion consumers, who have seen net native models transform industries like travel and music, are hungry for better ways to shop.

Farfetch, for example, is an online marketplace that offers consumers access to many of the world?s top fashion boutiques, all under one roof, something that is inconceivable in the physical world. My own company Lyst does a similar thing for brands and department stores.

Another emerging net native model is personalisation, which is something that Lyst offers as well. Much like Twitter allows users to create a personalised newsfeed, Lyst allows consumers to create their own shopping feed by following their favourite fashion brands, stores and people. Just imagine every single customer in the world being able to walk into their very own personalised brick-and-mortar store. Again, impossible. As is the idea of magazines that contain shops. Yet the commerce-meets-content model first pioneered by Net-a-Porter and picked up by the likes of Refinery29 and Harper?s Bazaar does just that.

If the first phase of fashion e-commerce was to change the mindset of a generation and bring online shopping to the mass market, today, the challenge is how to harness the web to rethink the shopping experience around the most effective and engaging ways to discover and buy, free from the constraints of the offline world.

Jeff Bezos, the far-seeing founder of Amazon, is fond of constantly reminding shareholders that it?s still ?day one? for both his company and e-commerce at large. If that?s true for Amazon and ?commodity e-commerce,? then it?s certainly true for the kind of ?emotional commerce? that?s finally taking root in the far less mature online fashion space.

Net native concepts can emerge in-house at established fashion companies with innovation in their DNA, like Net-a-Porter, for example. Many fashion retailers may find it hard to develop net native models themselves, however, in which case, acquisitions and partnerships can be an effective route.

What?s abundantly clear is that, as e-commerce becomes untethered from the legacy of the physical store, the inevitable shift to net native models will fundamentally change the way people shop. And, as is often the case with major disruptions, those slow to adopt new models are not going to make it. However, those who make it a priority to develop new net native models, will, as Wilson says, end up with the big win.

Chris Morton is the founder and CEO of Lyst.

The views expressed in Op-Ed pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Business of Fashion.

How to submit an Op-Ed:?The Business of Fashion accepts opinion articles on a wide range of topics. The suggested length is 800 words, but submissions of any length will be considered. Submissions may be sent to?contributors@businessoffashion.com. Please include ?Op-Ed? in the subject line. Given the volume of submissions we receive, we regret that we are unable to respond in the event that an article is not selected for publication.

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Six Libyan soldiers killed in ambush: army | Morocco World News

TRIPOLI, June 25, 2013 (AFP)

Unknown gunmen launched a dawn attack on Tuesday on a Libyan army checkpoint south of Sirte, the home town of former dictator Moamer Kadhafi, killing six soldiers, a military officer said.

?An attack at dawn Tuesday against a checkpoint of the army in the town of Khuchum al-Kheil, south of Sirte, killed six soldiers who were on guard duty,? local military officer Khaled al-Akari was quoted as saying by Lana news agency.

?Two vehicles were burned in the attack,? said the officer, adding that the ?area was cordoned off and a search was on to find the attackers?.

Sirte, the last bastion of Kadhafi to fall into rebel hands in the 2011 uprising, has been largely untouched by the wave of violence shaking the country since the former ruler?s regime fell.

Libya?s new authorities are battling to establish military and security institutions capable of restoring law and order and state authority in the face of armed militias who fought Kadhafi?s forces.

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Bitcoin losing shine after hitting the spotlight

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Casascius, a bitcoin enthusiast based in Utah, created these "physical bitcoins" as a proof of concept. Each has a unique code that can be used to retrieve a number of bitcoins online.

California regulators recently warned a nonprofit organization related to the online "crypto-currency" Bitcoin that it may face charges for unlicensed money transmission. Misunderstanding may lie at the core of the warning, but the bleeding-edge experimental money has seen no end of legal troubles since it started becoming more well-known.

In 2010, a Bitcoin user paid 10,000 Bitcoins for a pizza ? no doubt a gag purchase made with what were at the time essentially worthless online tokens. Today, those Bitcoins would be worth over $1 million. A sudden jump in value like that results in as many problems as opportunities. Bitcoin now struggles for legitimacy in the eyes of the law ? the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering whether the virtual currency should be subject to its rules ? while trying to build consumers' trust that it can scale to accommodate a global community.

The explosive growth of Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin "exchange" where users store and trade the currency, has led in the past few weeks to major downtime, hacker attacks and legal trouble. Other exchanges and services have simply shut down or gone out of business when faced with the unexpected liability and legal requirements of handling assets suddenly worth potentially millions of dollars.

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The price of a Bitcoin in dollars jumped in early April and then settled at around $100, according to Bitcoin tracking service Blockchain.info.

The latest wave of bad news hit the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes and invests in Bitcoin services and companies. Jon Matonis, who sits on its board of directors, wrote in Forbes that he received a warning letter from California's Department of Financial Institutions accusing the foundation of unlicensed money transmission, a felony charge that could result in hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.

Both Matonis and the Department of Financial Institutions declined to comment further on specifics. But Matonis wrote in an email to NBC News that the foundation is definitely not engaged in money transmission, and he viewed the case as "an opportunity to educate state regulators on issues related to the bitcoin industry."

Whatever happens with Bitcoin, it seems education is needed. "It's like the early days of the Internet," Tony Gallippi, CEO of Bitcoin-handling company BitPay, told NBC News recently. "Everything that's happened so far has been a learning experience."

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The warning letter sent to the Bitcoin Foundation regarding its alleged unlicensed money transmission business, which it denies exists.

Bart Chilton, head of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission financial regulatory body, also thinks it's important to investigate new technologies early on. "I don't think we need to regulate everything," he told NBC News last month. "But we need to be more proactive in looking into things. It would be irresponsible of us not to look into it."

Six months ago, Bitcoin lacked visibility. Not only are the concept and inner workings too complex for the average Internet user to understand, but there wasn't really a reason to try. Unless they planned on buying drugs on the shady, anonymous "Silk Road" online store, there wasn't much a normal consumer could do with the currency.

It must have been a surprise for the users of this obscure system, then, when mainstream news media suddenly began covering the currency. The small community was thrust into the limelight, whether they liked it or not.

Bitcoin made for a great story: operating entirely online, near-impossible to game, with a seedy past and a mysterious genius of a creator. (Speculation is still rampant on the identity of the inventor, who goes by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.) But as we're finding out, it still has a ways to go before it can be a great tool.

The old, informal methods of using Bitcoin are dying out: Of the two largest "exchanges" where Bitcoins are bought and sold, one, Bitfloor, shut down in April following a major theft, and the other, Mt. Gox, is facing potential criminal charges after failing to properly disclose its financial practices to FinCEN, a U.S. regulatory body. FinCEN recently acknowledged "decentralized virtual currencies" like Bitcoin as being real money, prompting scrutiny of their systems and investment.

New firms are learning from predecessors, working with regulators and established financial players from the get-go, and structuring themselves in order to handle large amounts of money without meltdowns. Gallippi's BitPay is a relative newcomer that aims to use Bitcoin for serious, legal businesses, and the Winklevoss twins ? of Facebook and "Social Network" movie fame ? have launched a new exchange called BitInstant.

"Price increases tend to bring increased awareness, and then after the price volatility settles a bit, the ecosystem is left with the infrastructure builders," Jon Matonis wrote in an earlier email to NBC News. "It's a good thing," he said.

Gallippi, too, sees optimism with the maturing of the system. "Today, when you use the Internet, do you talk about IP addresses? Do you talk about HTTP, TCP/IP?" asked Gallippi. The nitty-gritty details of Bitcoin "mining," day-to-day price fluctuations, and yes, the occasional scam, shouldn't matter to users. For illustration, he alluded to the dollar: Do you worry about its strength versus the yen, or about the effect of counterfeiting and minting?

Regulation and oversight, too, will ultimately result in a stronger ecosystem, both Gallippi and Matonis suggested, but things need time to catch up. As Gallippi put it: "You can't apply the rules for the horse and buggy to an automobile."

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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iOS 7 beta 2 released, brings its magic to iPad

We got to see quite a bit of iOS 7 back at WWDC 2013, but we only saw it working on an iPhone. Well, we've got some good news for big screen Apple devs, as a new iOS 7 beta's been released OTA and it now works on the iPad. Of course, the new beta also brings the usual nebulous "bug fixes and improvements" for all devices, and among those improvements is the addition of the Voice Memos app and Siri's new voices in English as well. It's available now, so if you're in the beta, you best get to downloading!

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Cameron calls for probe into new claims on racist murder

LONDON (Reuters) - David Cameron called on Monday for an investigation into claims that police spied on the family of a black teenager whose murder 20 years ago exposed what an inquiry called "institutional racism" in London's police force.

In one of Britain's highest-profile racial killings, Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death at a bus stop in southeast London in 1993. An inquest ruled it had been an unprovoked attack by a gang of white youths.

Not until last year was anyone convicted for the murder.

Now a former undercover police office has said he was asked to infiltrate the Lawrence family's campaign for justice in the years following the murder.

Cameron's spokesman said in a statement: "The Prime Minister is deeply concerned by reports that the police wanted to smear Stephen Lawrence's family and would like the Metropolitan police to investigate immediately."

In the Guardian newspaper, former undercover officer Peter Francis said he spent four years posing as an anti-racist campaigner after his superiors tasked him with trying to uncover information that could be used against the 18-year old student's parents.

Francis said senior officers were afraid that anger at the failure to launch a more thorough investigation into the murder would spiral into disorder on the streets.

He monitored several campaigns, involving relatives of mostly black men who had died in suspicious circumstances in police custody.

He never met the Lawrence family but said he passed back "heresay" about them to his superiors.

He also said senior officers witheld his undercover role from Sir William Macpherson, who headed a public inquiry to examine the police investigation into the death.

Macpherson said in a damning 1999 report that that investigation had been "marred by a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism and a failure of leadership by senior officers."

The case still weighs on London's police, despite an overhaul of policies and an attempt to recruit more officers from ethnic minorities.

Francis' claims follow a joint investigation between the Guardian and Channel 4's Dispatches programme. A related programme is scheduled to be broadcast in Britain on Monday evening.

London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement that an investigation into its past use of undercover police was already under way.

"At some point it will fall upon this generation of police leaders to account for the activities of our predecessors, but for the moment we must focus on getting to the truth," it added.

(Reporting by Sarah Young; editing by Stephen Addison)

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