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20 of the Best New Eats at the Arkansas State Fair
Over the years, we've chronicled many of the new foods that have debuted at our great state fairs, and every year, we're impressed with the creativity of these often deep-fried inventions. This year's Arkansas State Fair has seen a boom in new items, partially due to a new fried food contest tied in to the festivities this year.
In addition to the avocados, Pop Tarts, Klondike Bars, Jell-O, and more served up battered and deep-fried at this year's fair, you'll also discover several types of fried pickles, burger varieties, and more turkey legs than you can shake, well, a turkey leg at. Beverages ranging from "Cougar Juice" (a blend of ginger ale, pineapple juice, and an unknown "secret ingredient"), rice water, powerful citrus beverages, and homemade root beer join the fair's eponymous Mexican fruit punch and hand-squeezed lemonade. S'more-inspired items are popular, and old favorites like Pig Lickers (chocolate-dipped bacon), multiple-flavored chicken wings, and hot pork rinds are back.
Whether you prefer your fair food battered and deep fried or dipped in chocolate, these bites are sure to draw crowds on the midway at the 74th annual Arkansas State Fair in Little Rock. The Arkansas State Fair continues through Sunday, October 20th.
Click through the slideshow to see our favorite new bites from this year's fair!
About the Author:Kat Robinson is a passionate foodways and travel writer and blogger living in Little Rock with her daughter Hunter. Grav Weldon is an art photographer and animator traveling the American South capturing the history and food of eras past and present. Their first book, Arkansas Pie: A Delicious Slice of the Natural State, covers great pie makers and restaurants; their second book, Classic Eateries of the Ozarks and Arkansas River Valley (out November 12th), ties together transportation and the spread of regional cuisine throughout northern and western Arkansas.


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2013 NAIA Softball Players of the Week ? No. 5
By Chad Waller, Director of Communications and Sports Information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Denee' Crawford of Belhaven (Miss.) has been tabbed as the NAIA National Softball Player of the Week and Caroline Sagrera of Spring Hill (Ala.) has been named the NAIA National Softball Pitcher of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. The duo was chosen based on their performances from April 1 – 7 out of a pool of conference player of the week selections among 21 conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
Crawford, a 5-foot-6 junior third baseman from Silsbee, Texas, was a key piece to No. 16 Belhaven's 3-1 week against nationally-recognized competition. She hit .727 (8-for-11) with five runs scored, tallied 10 RBI and four home runs. Of her eight base hits, seven went for extra bases. In the 6-1 win over No. 6 Auburn Montgomery (Ala.) April 5, she cranked a school-record tying two homers in a 3-for-3 effort. She had at least one roundtripper in three-of-four games. In the two-game series April 6 with Faulkner (Ala.), who is in the "receiving votes" category in the latest Top 25 poll, she compiled four hits, scored three times and batted in six runs.
On the season, Crawford leads the team in three major categories: batting average (.430), home runs (9) and RBI (39). She ranks fifth in the NAIA in RBI per game (1.5) and 19th in the nation in home runs and total RBI.
Sagrera, a 5-foot-7 freshman from Baton Rouge, La., posted 27 strikeouts and won both ends of a road twinbill at No. 22 Mobile (Ala.) April 6. In game one, she (pictured top left) had a no-hitter through five innings and allowed just five total base runners in the 6-0 shutout. She went 7.0 innings, allowed two hits and struck out 15. In the nightcap, she tossed an eight-inning complete game 1-0 blanking. She fanned 12 batters and allowed five hits with no walks.
She currently leads the NAIA with 247 strikeouts on the year and holds a 20-3 record with a 1.29 ERA.
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
Player Nominees: Jasmin Dresser, Concordia (Calif.); Lydia Budke, Ottawa (Kan.); Lynsey Keith, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Ashley Shannon, Houston-Victoria (Texas); Shelby Kindelin, Bellevue (Neb.); Jessica Roper, Cumberland (Tenn.); Taylor Jones, Northwood (Texas); Brooke Sampson, Doane (Neb.); Brittany Hill, Dakota State (S.D.); Genna Trippett, West Virginia Tech; Jessica Grochala, Grand View (Iowa); Sam Rich, Southeastern (Fla.); Shelby Anderson, Williams Baptist (Ark.); Heidi Warmelink, Cornerstone (Mich.); Shauna Collins, Oregon Tech; Kari Kviten, Berea (Ky.); Hannah Gardner, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Drew Wright, Oklahoma City; Mercedes Norfork, Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.); Jessica Ewen, Bethel (Ind.); Alexis Chumbler, Reinhardt (Ga.); Alyssa Holland, Menlo (Calif.).
Pitcher Nominees: Courtney Young, Concordia (Calif.); Lenzie Boring, Evangel (Mo.); Megan Carter, Houston-Victoria (Texas); Jessica Sheldon, Central Baptist (Ark.); Ciara Fraher, Southwest (N.M.); Jenna Swain, Indiana Southeast; Daria Leid, Kansas Wesleyan; Taylor Norman, West Virginia Tech; Karisa Hendrix, Williams Baptist (Ark.); Sydney White, Southern Oregon; Heidi Warmelink, Cornerstone (Mich.); Jennifer Whitehead, William Penn (Iowa); Allie Chapman, Shawnee State (Ohio); Heather Knoop, Warner (Fla.); Taylor Erlenbusch, Hastings (Neb.); Chancli Connatser, Milligan (Tenn.); Caitlin Santefort, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Natalie Newell, Bethel (Ind.); Sarah Elizabeth Cousar, Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.); Katera Eltsosie, Lubbock Christian (Texas); Katie Bell, Simpson (Calif.).
2013 Softball Weekly Honors (Pitcher; Player):
Week 1 (March 12): Caitlin Santefort, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Latainna Eltsosie, Lubbock Christian (Texas)
Week 2 (March 19): Katie Cotta, Concordia (Calif.); Stephanie Nippert, Corban (Ore.)
Week 3 (March 26): Ashley Suter, Concordia (Ore.); Kate Santos, Concordia (Ore.)
Week 4 (April 2): Erin Greenwood, Baker (Kan.); Kristen Bodyk, Peru State (Neb.)
Week 5 (April 9): Caroline Sagrera, Spring Hill (Ala.); Denee' Crawford, Belhaven (Miss.)

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I'm working away at several designs at the moment. It's funny to look back and see the shift that has occurred in my knitting life. When I think of knitting now it's completely intertwined with designing. It wasn't always that way for me, but over the past year I've noticed a subtle shift. When I feel like casting on for something new, it's rarely a new pattern that I've found online, but rather a new design idea that I've had floating around in my head and can't wait to work out with yarn and needles. I learn a lot about my design aesthetic and my design methods with each new piece I work on. One thing that I know for sure is that for me, knitting is definitely part of my design process. It may seem obvious, but its not the case for everyone. Some people can visualize the pattern, do some swatching, write it all out and send it off to a test knitter. I admire that skill in the pro's, but I'm not there yet. I try to work out as much of the pattern as I can before casting on so I can try and pin point potential trouble spots before I get to them, but I find that I still have to actually knit the thing that I'm designing myself in order to iron out all the wrinkles.
One of the patterns I recently completed is a shawl. Since shawls can be rather complicated with lace edgings that have to be worked on a multiple of a fixed amount of stitches, and that triangular shape requires lots of increases that need to be incorporated beautifully into the motifs, I have found that the best way for me to work it out is by knitting a mini shawl! (See a sneak peek of the shawl in this post.) It's proved invaluable to me lately. In a night or two I can knit a mini version of my final pattern. In my mini version I can experiment with different increases and stitch patterns, if things don't look the way they should it doesn't matter since I'll only have a few dozen stitches to rip out (rather than the few hundred that I might have to rip if I were "working things out" on a large shawl!)
|After knitting my mini-shawl I cast on for the larger, final version and it knit up without a hitch!
So far, this system really works for me. For me, it doesn't translate into garment design as I find that I really have to try things on as I go when I'm working on a sweater, but for a shawl, I'm loving the mini prototype approach.


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[1] ALA official hotel listing
[2] Listing of Seattle bed & breakfasts that includes houseboats.
Hotels: For convenience, it is be best to stick with the properties on the ALA list, so here's my jaundiced perspective. Proximity to Convention Center: it goes like this, beginning with the closest:
- Grand Hyatt is just across the street from the Center, between the Sheraton and the Center. I was there for a speaker recently, and it was lovely.
- Sheraton is only a block away from the convention center. I've booked a room at the Sheraton, because I'm told it has an enclosed rooftop pool and deck, of which I intend to take full advantage.
- Paramount is the next closest. The convention map is wrong-the Paramount is sited at the number where they list the Roosevelt, and vice versa. It's probably newest, looks good. On the flat, very near cinemas and vertical malls.
- Roosevelt -classic old facility refurbished. Closest to Nordstrom
- Red Lion (I couldn't picture it in my mind-so I looked online. It used to be a bank HQ, is very well located for messing about downtown)
- Summerfield Suites (Not where its dot is-it's actually on Pike St. just across the freeway, in the L-shaped notch in the NE corner of the Convention center on the ALA map, might be a bit more comfy as a suite, just outside the free downtown bus zone)
- Hotel Max might be really amusing. It's new, fairly close, flat walk.
Lap of Luxury:
- The Fairmont Olympic is the Grand Old Dame of Seattle Hotels, right between shopping and financial districts
Smaller, and interesting:
- Mayflower Park - charming, historic, independent, well-sited for shopping, Pike Place Market, not far, in flat part of town-can get to and from without major hills.
- Hotel Monaco - I don't know it well, but the chain looks interesting, and the lounge is comfy.
- Westin -is in the Nexus of downtown traffic and busses, at the bottom of a few connecting minor ridges. Close to Nordstrom and Macy's, but farther away from the convention center and other HQ properties than most of the others.
Anything South of University is in the core of the financial/legal section. Perfectly fine part of town, not particularly interesting, uphill from Convention Center, in free bus zone.
- W Seattle -- Though I loathe the name, it looks interesting, is reasonably well located, just across the street from Seattle Public's big downtown library, Spring is also hillish, especially between second and fourth. Close to Symphony (Benaroya Hall) and Art museum (probably closed).
- Renaissance Madison - used to be something else, is at the highest point of the downtown hill, and Madison is one of the steepest downhill streets toward the water (one-way westbound on the west side of the freeway).
- Crowne Plaza - Used to be something else too. Probably fine, very close to Renaissance Madison with same qualities.
- Sixth Ave Inn - not a great location, closest to the new jail/court and police precinct, near a lot of current construction as a quaint old 1950s-1970s business area is converted to high-rise condos and YuppieLand.
The one I'd avoid:
- Days Inn - it's Spartan and surrounded by parking lots, somewhere between the missions and soup kitchens and the parks where the homeless hang out. It's also in the Bermuda Triangle of Buses (there aren't many), outside the free ride zone (not so bad, I suppose, because there aren't many to begin with), and a long trudge to anything but the Westin. It's quite close to the most recent former KCLS Service Center, and closer than any of the rest of the listings to Seattle Center. If you're fond of basketball (if the team is still in Seattle), you can enjoy the sights and sounds of gridlocked traffic when there are home games.


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Braves RF Jason Heyward undergoes appendectomy
DENVER (AP) — Atlanta Braves right fielder Jason Heyward has had an appendectomy.
The team announced the news late Monday night, long after Atlanta's game at Colorado was postponed because of snow and rescheduled as part of a split doubleheader Tuesday.
In a two-sentence press release, the Braves say Heyward had surgery Monday night at Rose Medical Center in Denver. There was no indication of how long he might be out of the lineup.
The 23-year-old slugger is off to a slow start this season, batting .121 with two homers and five RBIs. Still, the Braves have a 13-5 record that is tied with the Rockies for the best in baseball.
PHOTOS: MLB stars on the disabled list


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Ease backup pain
OK, maybe there's no cure, but a variety of bandages and pills can help. We look at the major backup packages and analyze what each does best.
The millions of dollars thrown at backup solutions haven't cured the main problems of slow or failed restores, shrinking backup windows and backups running too slow or too long. Backup challenges are growing daily. New data retention, archiving and vaulting requirements go well beyond the midnight start time of backups some organizations are accustomed to.
|Analyzing your environment
To start identifying the right backup software product for your organization, implement a two-step process:
First, take a business focus. Start by identifying the requirements of your applications. For instance, a midtier organization with 500 end users and 30 to 40 servers may conclude a midtier backup software product would meet its needs. But if the mix of applications includes an online transaction processing (OLTP) application with an Oracle database backend that has no backup window, that midtier backup software solution by itself may or may not have the right features to accommodate that requirement. Conversely, a midtier environment that does primarily file services and observes business hours may find a low-end, low-cost backup software solution a perfect fit.
Second, inventory your current environment. Inventorying the existing backup software and hardware components comprises the other half of the equation to get a handle on the problem.
As challenging as this discovery process may seem for midtier and small groups, this process gets much more complicated in enterprises. These organizations frequently find themselves mired in an environment with competing backup solutions, no central backup administrator and management hoping the problem will cure itself without their intervention. Unfortunately, trying to gain consensus at the grass-roots level rarely works in these environments. Usually only decisive, informed recommendations coupled with a mandate at the executive level can straighten the backup software situation out.
Software vendors are well aware of this problem and backup software solutions exist for all organizational levels (see "Sizing up the software"). The major players in the backup software space (Computer Associates, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Legato Systems Inc., and Veritas) each bring different philosophies and techniques to the market on how to tackle backups. In addition, hardware vendors such as Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and Network Appliance have products that complement or enhance the offerings from the major backup vendors.
Some of the major differentiators between the players include how each of these companies manages data and how their backup software performs backup. The major question for someone choosing a solution--of course--is how to pick a product that best fits into your storage infrastructure (see "Analyzing your environment," this page). What follows next is a short rundown of the major backup programs, along with a detailed matrix that lists the pros and cons of product features (see "Major product features").
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) provides a backup software solution that most completely addresses multiple OS environments. TSM runs on the mainframe and open systems platforms, and its ability to manage different OS platforms through a single product will appeal to companies wishing to consolidate all of its backup software products.
The design of TSM differs from the other major products on the market. When TSM does an initial backup of a server, it does a full backup of the data. Once that initial full backup completes, TSM does what Patricia Jiang, technical attachÉ for Tivoli Software, calls progressive backups. Progressive backup is another way of saying: "First do a full backup, then incrementals forever." TSM tracks all new and changed data from the initial full backup and backs up only the changes to either disk or tape.
Jiang contends TSM provides two distinct advantages for end users--it uses substantially less tape resources because TSM reclaims disk or tape space when data expires by deleting it, and reuses the reclaimed space for new data. Despite these advantages, TSM requires a solid understanding of how the software works as well as a good grasp of the environment into which it will be deployed. Restores can be gruesome in TSM, but they can be gruesome with any backup software product.
The performance of any restore--TSM or otherwise--will largely hinge on the age and size of the file, the size of the tape library and even the number of tape drives in the tape library. All of these factors contribute to the time of the restore. But for enterprises that can execute and deploy TSM, it should generate significant savings when properly implemented and deployed.
|Sizing up the software
Almost without exception, every major backup software vendor refers to its feature product as enterprise class backup software and refers to other products that complement it as midtier or entry-level backup software. Veritas provides an excellent example of this. For what it classifies as their enterprise class, it offers its NetBackup product. In the midtier market, it offers Backup Exec and for the user running software on an individual workstation, provides a link to Sonic Solution's Backup MyPC product.
Yet the definition and scope of each of these products vary from company to company. Computer Associate's David Liff says these different definitions of tiers of backup software are largely irrelevant to CA. The only definition of enterprise that matters to CA in the field is the one the customer uses--whether that means one server or 10,000 servers--and that's the one they use for that account. IBM takes yet a different view, saying that Tivoli Storage Manager can meet the needs of any size organization.
Unfortunately, these definitions do more to obfuscate the terms than clarify terms. While no clear or industry standard definitions for enterprise, midtier or entry level exist, here are some general guidelines:
Entry Level: Will generally only backup the workstation on which it resides. Usually intended for the individual Windows or Linux desktop. Samples of products include: Sonic Solutions Backup MyPC and Peer Software's PeerSync.
Midtier: Characteristics of this class include the ability to do backups of multiple servers of varying OS platforms supporting different vendor's databases. This tier usually provides a central management console permitting administrators to connect to the individual servers to configure the backup software for backup functionality. They generally feature the ability to back up Unix and Windows platforms as well as providing agents to do hot backups of the databases residing on the individual servers. Products that typify this class include Veritas' Backup Exec and CA's ARCserve.
Enterprise: This tier generally contains a subset of products supporting the features of the other two tiers, plus offers a variety of advanced functions that may vary significantly from vendor to vendor. Advanced functions include vendor-dependent or independent snapshots, advanced tape media management functionality, the ability to integrate with SAN or NAS storage devices and the ability to do policy-based storage management. Products that typify this category include Tivoli Storage Manager, Veritas NetBackup, and CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup.
Veritas NetBackup
According to Jerry Hoetger, Veritas' senior manager of product marketing, NetBackup differentiates itself from its competitors in four important ways. First, NetBackup can stream data from multiple backup jobs to a single tape drive, or in the case of large backup jobs from a single server, spread the backup job over a number of tape drives, increasing the speed of the backup.
Second, NetBackup delivers a three-tier architecture. The first tier is called Master Server, and acts as the operations center for the product and schedules and tracks client backups operations. The second tier permits an organization with large databases to back them up on the server where they reside, while also enabling them to back up other clients systems on the network. The third tier is the client agents that back up server and workstations.
Thirdly, NetBackup differentiates itself by offering options to utilize the latest storage technologies. In the storage area network (SAN) space, for example, it offers a shared storage option (SSO), which keeps backup traffic on the SAN and reduces the backup traffic that normally would be introduced into the LAN environment. In the network-attached storage (NAS) space, it offers a network data management protocol (NDMP) option that controls backup and recovery functions for NAS systems supporting NDMP.
NetBackup 4.5--the latest edition--offers a fourth differentiator: Global Data Manager. This provides a GUI that shows a single view of the entire NetBackup backup and recovery environment, provides real-time reports and lets an administrator drill down to a specific location anywhere in the world.
CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup
CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup also offers key features such as data staging. Though some other vendors offer this feature, data staging is becoming increasingly important because it gives administrators the option to move data to a secondary location before moving it off to tape. Unlike NetBackup's similar option, this feature works independent of a Unix or Veritas file system. Data copies can be scheduled to occur to minimize server and application performance hits while increasing the availability of data before offloading it to tape.
In SAN environments that include Windows and Unix platforms, BrightStor Enterprise Backup enables cross platform device and media sharing. This allows administrators to store both Unix and Windows data on the same tape media. It also allows the sharing of tape libraries and other SAN storage devices without the need to dedicate these devices to one OS.
Nipping at the heels of these three vendors with their backup software products are new and existing players such as CommVault, Innovation Data Processing (IDP), and Legato. CommVault's Galaxy 4.1 recently grabbed a Gold award for Storage magazine's "Best Storage Products of 2002" with two cutting edge features. One was its ability to view all backup media from a logical view as opposed to a physical device view that many of its competitors do. The other was how it backed up to disk. Unlike many of its competitors that back up data sequentially, and consequentially will run slower when backing up to disk, it backs up data to disk randomly, thereby capitalizing the inherent strength of disk.
While a disk performs better when data is randomly scattered on the disk, just the opposite is true with tape: It performs better when the data is laid out sequentially. For example, take the following two number sequences: 2 4 1 7 9 3 6 5 8 and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9--a disk would read the first set of numbers faster than tape.
IDP offers the FDR/Upstream product. It's one of the few other products on the market that offers organizations the ability to manage their open systems and mainframe backups with a single product. It includes extensive support for Windows, Novell, Unix and Linux platforms and it may even be configured to use ESCON and FICON connected network channel cards that provide a mechanism for connecting open systems to IBM mainframes.
Legato also offers a variety of other options in addition to its core Networker product to ensure uptime and availability. Its add-on Octopussy product provides real-time data replication for Windows servers without the use of specialized or proprietary hardware. Its SnapImage module provides the ability for Sun Solaris and HP-UX operating systems to use NDMP to perform block-level image backups for large file servers.
|Major Product Features
The downsides
Any effective medicine comes with its side effects, and backup software is no exception. Large organizations usually own a smattering of backup software products: a little Veritas NetBackup, some Tivoli Storage Manager and a dose of Legato Networker. As a result, only the most basic backup and restore features get utilized. Because it takes a long time to get to know the ins and outs of complicated software, the more advanced features and the corresponding savings they offer end up being overlooked or underutilized by the administrators responsible for managing this array of products.
David Liff, VP of storage solutions at CA, points out that the quality of data varies greatly from platform to platform. CA found that 85% of the data in the mainframe environment and 65% in the Unix environment meet its definition of quality data. Yet in the Windows environment, only 10% to 15% of data meet this definition. While obviously these percentages won't hold true in all environments, they highlight an important point: Not all data is created equal and the degree of effort and money spent on backing up these different qualities of data should not be viewed the same either. To address these data management challenges, new tools and techniques are appearing on the scene to meet users' needs in these environments.
New treatments
CA took a stab at making its products easier to use by borrowing an idea popularized by Microsoft, the time-tested wizard. CA includes wizards in its Enterprise Backup product allowing administrators to set up and schedule backups, restores, check job status and device management operations easily and quickly.
Other software companies are making products that help manage a mixed environment of software products. For example, Fujitsu Softek's Storage Manager provides a single policy-based interface permitting the administrator to define the backup needs for each application or server. Once defined, Storage Manager generates the scripts to start the backup process, regardless of the backup software product used.
These scripts enable functions ranging from setting up a simple midnight start time backup to more complex operations such as pausing a database, taking a volume level snapshot, resyncing the database and then starting the backup. This software alleviates one of the difficulties existing in backup environments today: the requirement for administrators to write and test specialized scripts to support these different backup software functions.
Currently, Storage Manager interacts with Legato's Networker--which it OEMs--but their next release due in mid-2003 is scheduled to provide this functionality for Veritas' NetBackup, Tivoli's Storage Manager and CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup from one interface.
|Why the pain?
Companies today are struggling to manage data associated with a slew of new applications that in many cases didn't exist in even as little as five years ago. The types of these applications range from 24x7 online transaction databases (OLTP) applications to spreadsheets to the growing use of imaging. This diverse bag of applications creates a complex environment that requires at least a general understanding of each application to match it with obtain the right backup solution.
Going hand in hand with backup comes the necessity to restore data in the event of error or data loss. The requirements of restores vary as widely as that of backups in that they may range from recovering the data from a snapshot to a best-faith effort to recover the data from tapes archived off site.
Backup reporting and performance monitoring remains an often neglected component in backup software administration. This stems from a lack of tools, time and information about the backup environment. While companies may assume their administrators monitor backups closely, reality paints a much different picture.
Today's quick fixes
To address the growing need to eliminate backup and restore windows, technologies such as windowless backup and instant restores have arisen. To facilitate this, hardware and software storage vendors are cooperating to enable this functionality. Vendors such as EMC, HP, HDS, and IBM now provide the APIs of their storage arrays to vendors such as CA, Veritas, and Legato that lets these products to snap the data to the same vendor's disk arrays and restore it again from the snapshot.
Backup software vendors use these hardware vendor's APIs and automate the functionality through their management consoles. This eliminates the need for the end user to learn how to use and program these specialized functions into the software. Learning the ins and outs of a major backup product is a time-consuming task.
In the area of reporting on backup failures and successes, start ups like Bocada have answered the call. They provide a central interface to monitor the success and failure of backups of multiple vendors' products without putting an agent on every device on the network (see "Bocada clarifies backup picture").
Another challenge administrators face is when they try to document and understand the environment they need to manage. Here's where more advanced SAN Management tools such as AppIQ's Manager, EMC's Control Center, or Veritas' SANPoint Control can help users see what data lies where in the SAN as well as visualize and identify problems within the SAN environment that the backup traffic traverses.
These products help pinpoint problem areas in LAN and SAN environments, such as data traffic contention and performance issues. They gather and analyze data from the disparate storage devices, operating systems, applications and switches or directors, and report their findings in simple to read formats.


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Commercial Kitchen Grease Traps in Westminster
Grease traps for commercial kitchens in Westminster are essential to efficiently run a business 24/7, 365 days a year. Commercial kitchens in Westminster produce a vast amount of Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG). If not properly disposed of, the combination of these three liquids can cause havoc on drainage systems throughout your restaurant. Ensure your commercial kitchen adheres to UK waste legislation with a commercial grease trap. Our experts can tailor a solution to the specific needs of your business in functionality and size, to guarantee the best new addition to your kitchen.
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text: Paul Murphy has been acclaimed as one of the greatest athletes in Boston State College history. Over his four years at BSC, Murphy earned 10 varsity letters, the most by any Warrior in the athletic department's history and would have earned the maximum of 12 had he not suffered a broken leg which caused him to miss two seasons. A three-sport athlete is Soccer, Wrestling and Lacrosse, Murphy excelled on the Lacrosse field leading the Warriors to three Colonial League Championships in which they went undefeated in conference play each year to earn a berth in the ECAC Championships in 1974, '75 and '76. Murphy was named a Colonial League All-Star attackman in 1973, '74 and '75 before being named team captain as well as an All-New England attackman in 1976 which earned him the right to play in the 1976 New England All-Star Lacrosse game. Over his career, the Warriors lacrosse program posted a 39-22 record for a .639 winning percentage and he would graduate as the program's leader in points and assists with 169 total points on 57 goals and 112 assists over 61 career games. He led the team in assists all four seasons, led the team in points as a sophomore with a career-high 53 points while ranking second on the squad in points during his freshman (35 points), junior (44 points) and senior (41 points) campaigns. Murphy was also a very talented wrestler, placing second at the Freshman All-New England tournament while earning the Most Valuable Player award in 1974 after posting a 12-1 record. He was dubbed the team's captain in both 1974 and 1975. Following his Boston State days, Murphy began coaching lacrosse at Newton South High School where he was tabbed the Boston Globe Coach of the Year in 1984. For the past 16 years he has been coaching at the college level and is currently the head coach at Wentworth Institute of Technology.


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One would have thought that TD would have taken a more down to earth perspective. So, someone made an app to make one look like a stereotype from another race? Who cares. If you don't like it, then don't use it.
"Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail's editorial stance towards them in the 1930s.[30][31] Rothermere's 1933 leader "Youth Triumphant" praised the new Nazi regime's accomplishments, and was subsequently used as propaganda by them.[32] In it, Rothermere predicted that "The minor misdeeds of individual Nazis would be submerged by the immense benefits the new regime is already bestowing upon Germany". Journalist John Simpson, in a book on journalism, suggested that Rothermere was referring to the violence against Jews and Communists rather than the detention of political prisoners.[33]
Rothermere and the Mail were also editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.[34] Rothermere wrote an article entitled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" in January 1934, praising Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine".[35] This support ended after violence at a BUF rally in Kensington Olympia later that year.[36]"
Presumably a lot of shoppers of VS products are males, and I imagine that being associated with feminism puts off male customers. I certainly try to avoid in any way supporting neofeminists. For one thing, I don't buy Carlsberg beers, since they women's quotas for the BoD.
There already are websites for collecting stories about incompetent policemen. I think Maggie mentions them once in a while (https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/), altho I can't seem to recall the name of the site right now.
It is not too surprising that fuckups happen often in the US. Why? Because of the IQ cap on policemen. Yes, they have a cap. (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/01/too-smart-to-be-a-good-cop/#.UNPHHYaGdcM)