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Singer-songwriter Jason Spooner and the melodic rock act Scars on 45 will perform a free outdoor concert at the Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg on July 1, organizers announced Monday, June 6.
The concert is presented by The Tide WTYD-FM (92.3) and Williamsburg Yorktown Daily.
Kingsmill will host the open-air concert on the grassy area behind the Eagles restaurant with the golf course and the James River as a backdrop. Although the concert is free, tickets are required. To find out how to reserve tickets, go here.
Spooner, a New England product, was inspired by the work of Neil Young, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder among others. His most recent album, "Sea Monster," has been warmly received by radio programmers in the Triple A (adult album alternative) format.
Hailing from Bradford, England, Scars on 45 share a melodic, polished approach with groups such as Snow Patrol and Keane. Scars on 45 has been highlighted in SPIN magazine's Next Big Things issue. The band also played a number of high-profile showcases at the annual South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va., June 6, 2011 – Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Va. will host a free "Concert on the James" July 1, 2011 featuring up-and-coming musical groups Scars on 45 and the Jason Spooner Trio.
Working in cooperation with radio station 92.3 FM The Tide and the Williamsburg Yorktown Daily, Kingsmill Resort will host the open-air concert on the grassy area behind the Eagles restaurant featuring the golf course and the James River as its backdrop. Although the concert is free, tickets are required. To reserve tickets, go to www.WYDaily.com and follow the link that says "FREE CONCERT."
Doors will open at 6 p.m. with the Jason Spooner Trio taking the stage at 7 p.m., directly followed by Scars on 45. Food and beverages will be available for purchase from Kingsmill Resort, and no outside food or drink will be permitted. Attendees are encouraged to bring a blanket or chair to enjoy lawn seating during the event.
Scars on 45's debut single "Give Me Something" quickly made it into the Top 5 on the charts for Triple A radio, the format of the locally owned 92.3 FM The Tide. The Jason Spooner trio is also recognized as a band on the cusp of national success. Band interviews can be coordinated through Emily Gerdelman, email@example.com.
Rooms and packages at Kingsmill Resort can be booked online at www.kingsmill.com or by calling 1-800-832-5665.
Kingsmill Resort is within an easy drive of Williamsburg's numerous attractions including Busch Gardens, Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center. Colonial Williamsburg stages numerous holiday festivals and events. The College of William and Mary is also located in downtown Williamsburg and is one of the original historic schools in the United States.
Kingsmill Resort includes 422 rooms; six restaurants; a 17,000-square-foot conference center; full-service spa and fitness center and marina.
Kingsmill Resort is owned and operated by Xanterra Parks & Resorts. The resort is an AAA Four-Diamond property and a member of the Preferred Hotels & Resorts Worldwide - a global association of the world's finest independent luxury hotels. Kingsmill Resort is located in Williamsburg, Va., between Richmond and Norfolk, and is easily accessible via I-64. Situated along the historic James River, Kingsmill Resort is conveniently located minutes away from Colonial Williamsburg, adjacent to Busch Gardens, with easy access to Water Country USA, Jamestown and Yorktown. For media information and complimentary images, visit www.kingsmillnews.com

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What Program Do People Want To See Coded?
What Program Do People Want To See Coded?
May 29 2008, 06:27 PM
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I've been bored lately, and am looking for a project to work on (from scratch, I have yet to master working on a team). What ideas do people have?
-Not necessarily Zaurus- or N810-specific
-Nothing 3D
-Nothing TOO massive (like a desktop environment or web browser, strangely enough I don't feel as though a game would be "massive")
-No "contribute to existing projects" requests, please (unless you feel excruciatingly, and I do mean excruciatingly, strongly that that's the way to go)
-Preferably only requiring one or two external toolkits/libs
-It will be a C/C++ app
-The only external lib I really have experience with is SDL, a little FLTK. I'm willing to learn to use common libs like ogg/vorbis
-There are no guarantees that this program will ever be {started|completed|stable} or will {follow your idea exactly|follow anybody's idea at all}.
May 29 2008, 11:23 PM
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I'm curious to see what other people will propose.
In my case, I wish I had an application on my Zaurus (this is important because I want to use it anywhere, anytime) on which I could do drills to learn/memorize how to conjugate verbs in a foreign language (especially German, Spanish, and French). For example, I would like to be able to be quizzed by the application for various verbs at singular, plural person and different tenses.
I know... It doesn't sound very interesting (particularly if you're not learning another language). But well, this would be very useful to me.
Maybe such an application already exists. If someone knows about it, please tell me.
May 30 2008, 12:04 AM
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Heh... i don't think we really need any new apps. But what we do need is someone to improve the existing ones. I'd like to see touch scrolling in xpdf and xchm for instance. the pdf viewer in cacko had touch scrolling so maybe you could use that code as a reference...
We really need new control panel apps written for speed. the existing python based apps are too slow.
If you are REALLY bored then do this --> http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/The_DirectFB_Desktop
That would surely help the entire embedded community
May 30 2008, 05:14 AM
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Heh... i don't think we really need any new apps. But what we do need is someone to improve the existing ones. I'd like to see touch scrolling in xpdf and xchm for instance. the pdf viewer in cacko had touch scrolling so maybe you could use that code as a reference...
Try using the middle mouse button and dragging...
May 30 2008, 06:03 AM
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Something I've always thought to be missing on my Z is a paint/graphics program. There ARE a few, such as Cloverpaint, Petite Peinture, Sketches of Z, FreeNote QT, but most are scaled too small, support only qvga screen rotation (portrait mode), or are missing one thing or another. For instance, most existing projects cannot open but one or two image formats. Some only save as png, or pdf, then won't let you edit after you save to that format. Most do not have tools for selecting a square, rectangle, circle, or ellipse. Must haves are: undo tool, fill tools, line width tools, color selector. Crop to selection, and clone tools would also be welcome. It would be nice to be able to use the more common 3d filters such as drop shadow, cut out, inner bevel, etc., and support layers. Something like Conduits Pocket Artist maybe?
May 30 2008, 06:17 AM
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I'm probably going off the deep end asking for this, but what about a graphical partition manager?
Something like Gparted for Linux, or similar to Partition Magic for windows.
I know all these things can be done in a console with parted, but this method seems to require reading and referencing documents to get the numbers just right.
Someone could probably just compile Gparted for pdaxii13 and other 'X' based ROMs, but it would be great to have this utility for Sharp/Cacko Qtopia.
Several months ago, I was wanting to make a linux ext2 partition on my Cacko C3100, but the instructions just seemed complicated and I didn't want to mess up an almost perfectly working setup.
May 30 2008, 09:05 AM
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ooh, ooh...........how about a print dialog? Something that would take a path and filename as an argument, and allow choosing a network printer, then output the file to the command below.
First create a txt file (with at least 4 lines) named test.txt in your /mnt/card/Documents folder
The following command will print a text only file to a printer, but the lines will be stairstepped. It best prints to ps printer I think. It needs a filter to print to non-ps printer? Anyway, command is:
cat /mnt/card/Documents/test.txt | smbclient //ATHLON/HPPSC500 \ -N -c "put - me"
(where //ATHLON is my printer server, and /HPPSC500 is the printer share name)
EDIT: It stands to reason that smbclient package needs to be installed. Also add a line to your /etc/hosts with IP address of your printer server. Like this:
192.168.0.1 ATHLON athlon
May 30 2008, 09:32 AM
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More information on printing to Zaurus and some ipks can be found here:
But what to do to get them to work, I don't know!
May 30 2008, 11:27 AM
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A little more work on printing simple text files from Zaurus:
cat /mnt/card/Documents/test.txt | smbclient //ATHLON/HPPSC500 \ -N -c "put - me"
The above referenced print command has some limitations that can be worked around. My printer does not know how to interpret Unix (Linux) new lines at all. It stairsteps the new lines. However, if you have Textmaker installed, you can save your text file as a DOS text file, and this helps. But printer still does not know how to interpret new lines that exceed 80 characters. Word wrap does not seem to help. So if you hit the return at the end of each line (before reaching 80 characters), then the next line will print. One more thing: add some extra lines to the end of your text file, or the last line(s) will not print.
May 30 2008, 04:23 PM
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A calendar that syncs with google calendar (both ways) for the cacko rom.
May 30 2008, 06:02 PM
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Thank you for all of the suggestions! I have, unfortunately (Or fortunately, if you care to see it that way) have discovered a new project to work on.
I don't mean seem baiting, but I don't currently care to tell people what it is. I feel lousy when I say I'm doing something, then never do it, which is what's likely to happen. I hope I'm not offending anybody in any way.
Frederic Bergeron: That's an app I'd like to have as well. The issue I see with it is all of the irregular verbs that are out there (going from my limited Spanish knowledge, at least)...
Dromede & the_oak (II): I agree, however I tend to get bored of writing frontends right before they become useful
the_oak (I): Agreed as well. I don't have the knowledge yet to pull it off, though.
Jon_J: Once again, a great idea, but 1) it's already been done, and 2) see second answer above
matthis: I would guess that many people would like that, but it goes into the whole QT thing, as well as syncing knowledge (heck, I haven't even figured netwoking stuff out yet).
Once again, sorry if I disappointed {any|every}body, and thanks for your responses. If I forgot a response to your question, it is simply an oversight, NOT intentional.
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May 31 2008, 06:01 AM
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Oh, come on captn, just post some info like if it's a web app social networking stuff, a linux graphic app or whatever, in generic terms !!!
As a suggestion I'd say a fax server for the zaurus, or just make sure the existing fax software works ok. Yeah, I know fax sounds like past century tech, but it's still used in some cases.
Luck with your project !!!
May 31 2008, 08:04 AM
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OK, we're talking about an add-on library.
In other words, likely nothing of direct excitement
Jun 1 2008, 01:56 AM
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a simple pim that syncs with google apps? this just off the top of my head, it is late at night and I'm listlessly surfing.
Jun 1 2008, 10:55 AM
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As an update, I realized that the library I wanted to code had already been made (dang...).
Anyway, we'll see what happens, and feel free to keep posing ideas.
adf: That has the same sort of problems as matthis's request: Network programming/syncing. I don't have the skills to do that. Sorry.
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Most H5N1 deaths have occurred in East and Southeast Asia, including China, Cambodia and Vietnam.
The Mekong River Commission was made in 1996, a year after the inception of the 1995 Mekong Agreement.
Recently, Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for the nullification of land certificates in protected natural areas in Cambodia.
Eight men died on Friday, when a controlled explosion underground ruptured a water source, flooding the mine in Kratie province.
The new discoveries add to the almost 1,400 new species identified in the same region from 1997 to 2009.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has said he wants the country to export 1 million tons of milled rice by 2015.
The petition comes just a week before ministers of Mekong River Commission member states, are to meet to make a final decision.
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Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda needs to restore unity within the DPJ
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda needs to restore unity within the DPJ
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The Democratic Party of Japan elected Yoshihiko Noda to be the new leader of Japan and this was ratified on August 30 by parliament. In the early period he may find respite from petty squabbling within the factional based system in Japan because factionalism blights the DPJ and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). However, in order for the DPJ to regain trust then unity is essential and sound economic policies must follow but this will not be easy given the political reality of Japan.
Yoshihiko Noda needs to focus on economic initiatives and reconstruction for the damaged areas of Japan which were hit by the deadly earthquake and tsunami. At the same time he needs to rebuild or to at least show unity within the DPJ instead of factionalism appearing to dominate and political bigwigs need to be constrained. The new prime minister also needs to work out a new supplementary budget and in the upper house Yoshihiko Noda needs to persuade some opposition parties to get on board and support his plans.
The new leader of Japan is known for being very conservative when it comes to fiscal policies and given Japan's enormous public debt then is not such a bad thing. However, in order to push through major economic measures he needs to build consensus within the DPJ and to show the electorate that the new leader does have a clear objective and that he will work hard to reign in discontent.
The strong yen is another area of major concern and the same applies to the deflationary malaise. Also, Yoshihiko Noda should dip into the enormous reserves of Japan in order to utilize these funds because events after March 11 have created a major economic headache. At the same time, the new leader must focus on energy related issues and the nuclear factor must not be destroyed based on political short-sightedness. Therefore, real radical change needs to be thought out deeply before dismantling a very strong source of energy.
The main party bigwig within the DPJ, Ozawa, needs to be told bluntly that he can't hold a gun to the head of the elected leader of the DPJ when the going gets tough. Also, it is hoped that Yoshihiko Noda's decision to elect Azuma Koshiishi to be the secretary general is a sign of mending fences and not weakness towards Ozawa.
The sad reality is that while Yoshihiko Noda may have a genuine reform program in the offing he may be constrained by his balancing act of creating a consensus hierarchy of political rivals within the upper echelons of the proposed new cabinet. This in itself shows you the weakness of his position at the moment but surely members of the DPJ must realize that they are on borrowed time if they turn against their own leader once more. After all, the electorate is becoming disenchanted with petty infighting.
The taxation issue is complex because you have divisions within the DPJ about tax hikes but many also understand that more revenue is needed and the LDP may not be so problematic on this issue. However, smaller opposition parties have a different view about this alongside individuals within the DPJ and LDP – therefore, taxation policies will be closely monitored and scrutinized depending on the seriousness of Yoshihiko Noda's economic reforms.
Yoshihiko Noda fully understands that the honeymoon period will be short within the DPJ if factionalism can't be contained. Also, he knows full well that the honeymoon period with the electorate will nose dive based on past history. However, despite all the shortcomings, it is time for the new leader of Japan to take the bull by the horns and to focus on neglected issues and to help in the reconstruction of Japan.


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Northern Ireland are prepared to learn from five-time World Cup winners Brazil's failings as they try to upset Germany and book a Euro 2016 last-16 berth in Paris.
The Green and White Army supporting Michael O'Neill's side in France include 'We're not Brazil, We're Northern Ireland' among their back catalogue of chants and they will be keen not to follow their lead when establishing a game-plan to nullify the reigning world champions.
Two years ago Brazil, then the hosts, were embarrassed in a 7-1 semi-final loss to Joachim Low's team in one of the most stunning results of all time.
And O'Neill, whose men would definitely seal their progress out of Group C at the Parc des Princes with a win, has promised that his resilient side will not fold in the same manner.
"What you learn from that is the situation of expectation, tension in the team and how to deal with disappointment on the football pitch, which I think Brazil didn't deal with particularly well," O'Neill said.
"It was fairly evident 20-to-25 mins into the game they were looking for the final whistle.
"If there's anything we do possess that maybe the Brazilians don't it's that we will go to the final whistle regardless of what the score is in the game.
"We didn't play as well as we could do in the first game, but we were in it until the final minute, we won the game against Ukraine and scored in the 96th minute so we will bring an intensity, a spirit, however long it lasts.
"Other than that, I'm not sure what we can possibly offer the Brazilians!
"From a tactical or coaching point of view, you probably saw everything not to do in the semi-final of the World Cup so we'll make sure we do everything in our power to prevent that kind of evening tomorrow."
The fact that the Northern Ireland boss was fielding questions about what Brazil can learn from his side shows how far the nation has come since they last met the Germans 11 years ago when, despite having 10 men for 75 minutes, the visitors won 4-1 in Belfast.
Their campaign in France has won admiration and support from the host nation and further afield, a fact that O'Neill attributes to their down-to-earth persona.
"Everyone has their favourite teams but if they see a smaller team do well in the tournament - we saw that with Leicester - they can become everyone else's second team," O'Neill added.
"If we've created that kind of atmosphere, that's a positive. We came in, we don't have an arrogance, we don't have a blase about us, we're a fairly humble team, a hard-working team but also have goals of our own that we want to achieve.
"Hopefully with the level of performance we can win some more friends and look forward to further participation."
Qualification out of a group also featuring Poland and Ukraine would also win O'Neill some more fans.
Three months ago he penned a new four-year deal with the country, but there remains a £750,000 release clause which clubs could be tempted to trigger after witnessing O'Neill's Northern Ireland in France.
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: More Red Led Dead testing
From: Harold Toler (herg_at_vzavenue.net)
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Sorry to say that the silent play bug is still pretty frequent.
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I personally rarely see the Red LED Dead bug, but I usually see the
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It's been very quiet on the RedLedDead front lately. Is nobody seeing
If anyone can reliably repeat the condition, please try this new
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Report: Youth Tobacco Use On The Rise
Tobacco use among middle and high school students is on the rise. The CDC reports nearly 5,000,000 students are current users of some type of tobacco product in 2018, up from 3,600,000 in 2017. The report says the increase is driven by a surge in e-cigarette use. About two-in-five students are using multiple tobacco products.
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Anyone watching professional sporting events can't help being inspired by the athletes' dedication to perfection. We all know that they have gotten where they are through hard work and practice, practice, practice. As yogis, we are familiar with the importance of practice. In his Yoga Sutras (I:12), Patanjali stated that practice, or abhyasa, was one of two ways to still the waves of the mind. This echoes Krishna's instruction to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita (VI:35).
Like abhyasa, sadhana is often translated as practice, but it connotes something more. Sadhana is dedicated daily yoga practice with the quest for perfection. Yogi Bhajan often told his students that it took 40 days to change a habit or adopt a new one, and that through sadhana, "You can change your destiny." This quest or journey inspires some yogis to complete a teacher training or to go on retreat. But we can embark on the journey of sadhana without ever leaving home, by setting an intention, committing to it, and following through with diligent practice.
Before beginning a 40-day sadhana, create a structure to support it. What is your aim? You may wish to establish a daily meditation or asana practice, or to work with a specific issue such as a harmful habit or a physical challenge.
Once you've identified a goal, decide what practice/s will help you reach it. You might, for example, begin your daily sadhana by chanting to clear your physical and energetic space, then continue with sun salutations, and close with pranayama and meditation.
Reserve a specific time of day for sadhana. Just before dawn is ideal. This is the time of vata, the dosha associated with light, movement, and subtlety, when yogic practices can "land" deeply. Mornings are quiet, and your mind hasn't yet been snared by the cares of the day.
Select a space. If you don't already have a space at home used for asana or meditation, set aside an area that feels inspiring to you. The space should be clean and inviting—no clutter, drafts, ringing phones, etc.
Outline your routine and make it easy to follow by writing it down so that you won't need to make decisions once your practice is underway. Decisions engage the mind—aim to make your sadhana as natural and uninterrupted as breathing. In a similar vein, invest in a timer. It doesn't have to be fancy as long as it doesn't tick to distraction. A timer liberates you from the urge to check the clock.
Consider sealing your sadhana by journaling about it afterward. What did you notice, not just during the practice, but throughout the day? Doing this helps you strengthen your inner vision and trains the mind to observe with non-attachment, or vairagya.
As your sadhana progresses, you may be surprised by unexpected benefits. You might find yourself feeling more relaxed and energized. Cravings may lose their grip on your thoughts. You feel grounded throughout the day. Sadhana becomes a touchstone that you carry with you, and its effects ripple outward into all areas of your life.
Do you have a daily sadhana? How have you benefited?
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Changing Concepts in Hospital Accounting
BY EDWARD P. ALBERTS Principal, Milwaukee Office
Presented before the Milwaukee Chapter of American Hospital Accountants Association — December 1960
DURING THE FORMATIVE YEARS in the development of hospital accounting
procedures, hospitals tended to adhere to the accounting
principles prescribed for "non-profit institutions." These principles differed in many respects from those established for commercial enterprises.
Among the more notable differences, representing practices followed by many non-profit institutions but not generally found in commercial enterprises, are:
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• Failure to record depreciation on fixed assets
The question of whether to provide for depreciation of fixed assets in non-profit institutions has long been the cause of much controversy, particularly in the area of hospital accounting. In 1933, Herbert R. Sands made the following remarks in addressing the New York Conference
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Depreciation is a current expense and is continuous throughout the useful life of the property. But as applied to hospital buildings,
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Best storage products of 2005
Our fourth annual Products of the Year awards spotlight the 15 new or enhanced storage products that stood out from the rest in 2005. The editors of Storage and SearchStorage.com, along with a panel of users and industry experts, selected these winning products based on their innovation and performance, among other criteria.
With a bumper crop of outstanding new products in 2005, our fourth annual Products of the Year awards honor the 15 new or enhanced storage products that stood out from the rest.
IT WAS A STELLAR YEAR FOR STORAGE PRODUCTS. As such, it was a very difficult year for the editors of Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com, and a panel of judges made up of users and analysts, to choose this year's Products of the Year winners. What impressed us the most was the degree of innovation exhibited by new products and the substantial upgrades to existing ones. When you look at a wide range of products and try to narrow down the winners, a few themes emerge. Believe it or not, products are getting easier to connect, expand, use and manage. And as with most technical gear today, a dollar buys more than it did last year.
But our awards aren't based solely on innovation or, as we like to say, the "way cool" factor. A product can possess a fair share of the latest bells and whistles, but it won't win an award if it doesn't solve real-world problems, make a storage manager's life easier and more efficient, or make a company's data more secure and accessible.
What makes these awards fun to judge is that winning products come from all corners of the storage industry: from well-established companies, startups barely out of stealth mode and from companies located outside the U.S. It's a global economy and no one company has a lock on new ideas. For the record, our awards are based on the following criteria:
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- Functionality
- Innovation
- Manageability
- Performance
- Value
Backup and Disaster Recovery Software
Gold: Avamar
Axion Version 3.0
Axion Version 3.0 radically changes the way backups are done by cutting down backup sizes and bandwidth requirements.
AXION VERSION 3.0, Avamar Technologies Inc.'s disk-based backup application, is elegantly simple in theory: Back up less data. One judge hailed Axion Version 3.0 as "the most innovative product I've seen for backup and restore."
Axion creates point-in-time copies of data, but shrinks the amount of data it writes to disk by eliminating duplicates and writing only changes to already backed-up files. The underlying key technology is commonality factoring, which parses files and breaks them into chunks that can be examined individually for changes.
Version 3.0 runs on standard Intel servers, and Axion appliances can be clustered to provide failover capabilities. Version 3.0 adds new client support, including 64-bit Linux and Solaris 10, and support for Microsoft Corp.'s Volume Shadow Copy Service. Perhaps the most notable enhancement in Version 3.0 is the ability to expand Axion systems non-disruptively by adding nodes, rather than replacing them to upgrade capacity.
But it must be noted that implementing Axion requires not only a revamping of an organization's backup procedures, but a rethinking of the concept of backup. In other words, once you start down the Axion backup path, it's difficult technically to go back to a standard backup product. That said, Axion's rewards are difficult to deny, and Avamar deserves recognition for offering a new way to improve a flawed process.
Silver: XOsoft
Assured Recovery
Assured Recovery handles an expensive and time-consuming storage administration chore--testing a DR plan.
XOSOFT NABBED the top spot in this category in last year's awards, and solidifies its position as one of the top backup and recovery software vendors with a return visit to our honor roll. XOsoft's Assured Recovery builds on the company's winner from last year, its WANsyncHA remote replication application, with a new tool that monitors the health of a DR system.
Assured Recovery conducts behind-the-scenes DR testing to ensure that replica systems can come online as planned and lets a storage manager know if the application at the backup site runs properly. Because it doesn't require any server reboots or application stops and starts, it's not disruptive to production environments. Assured Recovery runs on top of XOsoft's WANsync or WANsyncHA, and is available for Exchange, Oracle and SQL Server.
The most commonly cited reasons for not conducting extensive DR testing are excessive cost and not enough time. With Assured Recovery, XOsoft endeavors to alleviate both of those burdens.
Bronze: FalconStor Software
FalconStor VirtualTape Library Version 3.1
FalconStor's latest revision of its VTL software builds on the widely used disk-based backup application.
FALCONSTOR SOFTWARE INC.'S latest revision of its popular virtual tape library (VTL) software builds on a widely implemented disk-based backup product. FalconStor garnered a silver award for its IPStor 4.0 DR application in this category two years ago. This year, the company captures a bronze for the latest incarnation of its popular FalconStor VirtualTape Library.
With ever-growing data stores, shrinking backup windows and the time-consuming process of restoring from tape, many shops are turning to disk for relief. Making a disk subsystem look like a tape library is a popular backup option. With VirtualTape Library, FalconStor integrates with and emulates dozens of tape libraries from leading vendors. VirtualTape Library also emulates nearly all popular drive types, including LTO-1, -2 and -3; DLT and SuperDLT; and 984x and 994x. It supports all major backup apps.
FalconStor's 3.1 version has widened its support by including IBM's 3583 and 3580 drives. Also new is a tape-caching feature that provides more flexibility for moving backed-up data to tape, allowing users to define policies for migrating disk-based backups to tape that maintain bar-code integrity. Policies can also tell VirtualTape Library how to re-allocate disk space when data is moved to tape.
Last summer, FalconStor added the ability to encrypt its VTL tapes and export the encrypted data to physical tapes. Users can also add FalconStor's continuous data protection option to the VTL app. FalconStor's VirtualTape Library has two versions, standard and enterprise, distinguished by their scaling limitations. The bottom line: FalconStor VirtualTape Library is a good VTL product that has gotten better.
Backup Hardware
Gold: Sun L1400M Tape Library
Sun's L1400M can use four different tape formats in a single box.
AS ONE OF OUR judges put it, it may be "somewhat contrarian" to give the gold to a tape library in 2006, but Sun Microsystems Inc.'s L1400M solves a top problem in tape: the ability to use four different tape formats within a single library, and it's a solution that's been a long time coming. "With innovations in disk systems, if tape wants to be relevant for long-term archiving in the future, it needs to be format agnostic," said the judge, adding that "it's something tape customers have wanted for years."
Sun's L1400M is based on StorageTek's L700e library, which it acquired last June. The L1400M is compatible with fast-access T9840, high-capacity T9940 or midrange LTO/ SDLT tape drive formats. The L1400M version adds support for more operating system platforms, including Novell and Linux, and is shipped with a Web-based management tool--an optional upgrade with the equivalent StorageTek product.
The single-frame library scales from 200 to 678 slots (1,344 slots if you go with a dual-frame architecture) and has a list price of $69,000, which includes Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity, remote management, a 20-slot cartridge access port, all physical capacity installed and access to 200 cartridge slots. Capacity is added at roughly $3,000 per 100-slot increment. Partitioning is an optional feature and lists at $8,000. As one judge put it, "finally, somebody did the right thing for their customers."
Silver: Data Domain DD460
The DD460 provides compression for disk-based backup and will work with all leading backup applications.
DATA DOMAIN INC.'S DD460 is the first major upgrade of a previous winner, the Data Domain DD200 Recovery Appliance, which won gold in this category for the 2003 Products of the Year awards. At the time, a judge asked if the 20:1 compression ratio and 23TB capacity was a typo. The DD460 would probably make that judge think he was dreaming--the new box boasts not only performance improvements, but now packs a whopping 83TB of usable capacity into a single appliance.
The capacity allows users to retain up to three months' of backup data onsite, where it's easily accessible. Improvements in throughput, now topping out at 290GB per hour--comparable to LT0-3 performance--enables users to back up massive amounts of data to disk under tight time constraints.
The DD460 also introduced what Data Domain calls the Data Invulnerability Architecture, which verifies the recoverability of data at backup time--a claim that no other enterprise disk array or file system can make. Data is continuously re-verified so backup data can be restored quickly and reliably.
All products in Data Domain's DD400 Enterprise Series work with nearly any standard backup software; unlike many other storage players we could name, Data Domain doesn't want to sell you hardware so it can sell you proprietary software.
Ultimately, the best news for users is that the product costs just $75,000 (vs. the $58,000 price tag of the 23TB version), bringing the cost of backup to disk well below the $1/GB barrier. "This is one of the only truly innovative products in the bunch," said one of our judges.
Bronze: Quantum PX500
Series Tape Libraries
Quantum's PX500 Series tape library uses infrared connections that provide easy, wireless scalability.
TO ADD CAPACITY to a tape library, you often have to put together a new frame. With Quantum Corp.'s PX500 Series tape libraries, all that's required to add capacity is to slide new boxes in. No cabling is needed because the new PX Series tape libraries use infrared connections between modules, very similar to the signal a television remote control emits. Boxes from each of the three classes of PX500s libraries can be stacked with the others, and the entire system will appear to management software as one unit. No other tape library vendor is making frames so easy to stack.
Put another way, the PX500 Series "is attractive because you can start really small and get really, really big," said one judge. "You won't need a crane to add things in."
The PX502, which is the smallest of the three tape libraries, is a 4U box with one or two drives. It holds either 32 DLT or 38 LTO tape cartridges, and can mix media. Next up in size is the PX506, which can hold 88 DLT or 100 LTO cartridges. The PX510 goes up to 40U, and can hold 22 drives and 220 cartridges.
Disk and Disk Subsystems
Gold: Xiotech Magnitude 3D 3000e
Judges called the 3000e a "storage system with a good suite of features and capabilities."
XIOTECH CORP.'S MAGNITUDE 3D 3000e wasn't the flashiest, highest performing, most feature-laden or least-expensive product in this category. But what the 3000e lacks in overall superlatives, it makes up for by being well-rounded, dependable and cost-effective. Taken together, these admirable traits lifted the stout-hearted 3000e to this year's top spot.
The 3000e isn't a low-end commodity box. It's an entry-level system that supports multiple controllers that are geographically separated by FC distances. And like all Magnitude 3Ds, the 3000e delivers transparent failover and failback within controllers and across clusters so local outages don't prevent access to data and applications. Coupled with Xiotech's DataScale Geo-Replication software, storage volumes can be replicated to remote Magnitude 3D clusters in a matter of minutes. The 3000e can host three different kinds of disk drives: enterprise FC, low-cost FC or serial ATA (SATA) for any flavor of storage tiering. Drives, drive bays and controllers can be added non-disruptively.
The 3000e is limited to four host-side FC ports and 19.2TB of capacity using SATA disks. But it's not much of a limitation, given that the 3000e is but one model in the 3000 family. Users who outgrow the 3000e can non-disruptively upgrade to the higher performance 3000s, with up to eight host-side FC ports and 76.8TB of capacity, or the top-of-the-line 3000x, which offers better drive failure isolation and performance.
Still, the 3000e probably wouldn't be such a hit in the departmental workgroup if it wasn't for usability features that have earned Xiotech a loyal following. The 3000e adheres to Xiotech's strict rule of no server-side code, even to support cluster failover and failback. No wonder judges said the 3000e "is very popular in midsized enterprises."
Silver: Isilon Systems
Isilon IQ
Easy scaling of capacity and performance at a reasonable price are hallmarks of Isilon IQ.
UNLIKE A LOT OF other arrays on the market, Isilon Systems Inc.'s Isilon IQ wasn't designed as storage for an average I/O-intensive database application. Coming off a stint at streaming-media pioneer Real Networks, the architects for Isilon IQ set out to make a storage system designed to house large amounts of sequential unstructured data and serve it up as fast as the network will carry it. The judges were unequivocal in their praise for the system's performance, ease of scalability and, best of all, relatively low price per-terabyte.
Need to move a big video file from here to there? Isilon IQ can handle that job without breaking a sweat. The company has clocked a system with an impressive 5GB/sec aggregate throughput and a single file system of up to 250TB. That performance comes from many things: an N-way clustered architecture that adds processing power along with capacity; the OneFS distributed file system that stripes files and meta data across nodes; the low-latency InfiniBand interconnect between nodes; and--last but not least--a lot of cache.
Better still is the ease with which you can apply that performance and scalability to your environment. As a NAS system supporting standard NFS and CIFS protocols, Isilon IQ inherently provides file sharing and requires no host-side software or hardware beyond a standard Ethernet connection. The OneFS file system also allows easy scalability by automatically recognizing new nodes as they're added and restriping the data accordingly. For high performance and easy expandability, Isilon IQ delivers in spades.
Bronze: Compellent Technologies
Storage Center 3.3
Storage Center's feature set is made possible by its underlying Dynamic Block Architecture.
IF IT'S HIGH-END FEATURES and flexibility you want, look no further than Compellent Technologies' Storage Center 3.3. Despite being a relative newcomer to the midrange array scene, judges were impressed by the number of ways it can be configured, and its long list of standard and add-on applications.
Storage Center 3.3 is drive and host-interface agnostic. You can outfit the array with FC or SATA disks, and with either FC or iSCSI host connectivity, within the same box if you so choose. It supports N-way clustered controllers (but only two today) and capacity scales from 1TB to 100TB.
Mixed drive and host-interface types work well with Storage Center 3.3's optional Data Progression feature, a policy-based migration facility that moves data at the block level to optimize performance or archive older data to a more appropriate tier. "This is the first block storage array that automates ILM [information lifecycle management] and moves data between tiers based on user policies," wrote a judge.
Other notable features include Dynamic Capacity--a kind of thin provisioning; Data Instant Replay, a snapshotting capability; boot-from-SAN support; online volume expansion; and RAID-level migration. The optional Remote Instant Replay is a remote snapshot replication feature.
Networking Equipment
Gold: McData Intrepid
10000 (i10K) Director
The i10K offers extensive configuration flexibility, such as the ability to re-allocate buffer credits between ports.
AS THE DRIVE to secure and better support server and storage applications grows, FC directors have become more than big, fast packet-routing boxes. New technologies such as server virtualization and blade servers, along with the growing economic necessity to establish and support tiers of storage, have dramatically increased the roles of directors within the storage fabric.
McData Corp.'s Intrepid 10000 (i10K) Director sets a new standard with the flexibility it brings to storage network design. With its 256 non-blocking ports, superior distance capabilities, native 10Gb/sec inter-switch links and FlexPars partitioning technology, the i10K can securely connect fabrics and dynamically move resources to meet rapidly changing storage and application requirements.
The i10K's FlexPars provide secure partitioning from the server to the array. SAN designers can divide the i10K into four partitions, which act as separate, independent directors. The separation includes the data, control and management of the switch. And unlike other directors that offer virtual partitioning, only the i10K can run independent instances of firmware on each partition, eliminating single points of failure to secure data. FlexPars can also consolidate SAN islands, but keep their benefits, such as lessening the impact and number of application disruptions.
With FlexPars, companies can avoid having to overprovision to meet peak application demands. The ability to dynamically allocate switch resources is also key to establishing and supporting tiered storage, which requires a switch that can quickly adapt to changing technology and performance requirements.
Silver: Brocade Communications Systems
Tapestry Data Migration Manager
Tapestry DMM is a SAN-based device that inserts itself into the data path only when a migration needs to occur.
MOVING DATA from point A to point B, whether to another subsystem or to different storage tiers, is a big part of a storage administrator's job. Data migrations over SANs and WANs require oodles of planning, often take critical systems offline and need extensive testing. Brocade's Tapestry Data Migration Manager (DMM) is a simple, but powerful, tool for high-performance data migration in heterogeneous storage environments.
Tapestry DMM works with arrays from major vendors and reduces the need for expensive OS-specific server software such as volume managers and replication tools. With migration rates of up to 1TB/hour, Tapestry DMM shortens migration windows and application downtime. Because Tapestry DMM is SAN-based, it's less disruptive than a server-based product. By reducing the complexity of moving data, and cutting the time and cost to do it, Tapestry DMM is, as one judge put it, "both cutting-edge and useful."
Bronze: Hewlett-Packard
StorageWorks Modular Smart Array
(MSA) 1000 Small Business SAN Kit
The MSA1000 Small Business SAN Kit can take you from zero to full-featured SAN in just minutes.
HEWLETT-PACKARD (HP) CO. says its StorageWorks MSA1000 Small Business SAN Kit is "the simplest SAN on the planet." And there's no hyperbole in that advertising slogan--it's easy to buy, install, manage and upgrade. Geared to small businesses or enterprise remote offices, this SAN-in-a-box is an FC storage system that consists of an HP 2Gb FC disk array, two QLogic SANblade HBAs, an 8-port FC QLogic SANbox switch and Microsoft SAN management software. Once the components are connected (color-coordinated cables ease the assembly and a software wizard guides the user through the setup), HP claims it takes only 25 mouse clicks to get the $9,999 (street price) SAN up and running "in a matter of minutes."
Don't get the impression that StorageWorks MSA1000 Small Business SAN Kit isn't a sophisticated and expandable SAN. It can scale to 12.6TB using 42 300GB disks in a 10U rack. All configuration, management and partitioning software comes standard at no extra charge. The array supports hot-plug drives, controllers, fans and power supplies. Its RAID Advanced Data Guarding (ADG) provides a much greater level of fault tolerance than RAID 5, allowing two simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss. StorageWorks MSA1000 Small Business SAN Kit supports Windows 2000/2003 32-bit and Linux 32-bit operating systems. It's nice to see three companies get together to produce a powerful, yet easy to use, SAN.
Storage Management
Gold: Kazeon Systems Information Server IS1200
Kazeon's IS1200 can be clustered to manage data classification and migration for hundreds of millions of files.
A TIERED STORAGE environment is impossible to achieve without a data classification engine that helps companies to better understand and recover their data. A clear gold winner in its field, Kazeon Systems Inc.'s Information Server IS1200 was the first product out of the gate to catalog and index files. It also provides key services such as searching, resource reporting, file tagging and data movement.
One IS1200 appliance can manage millions of files; appliance clusters can handle hundreds of millions of Unix and Windows files. "IS1200 is an incredibly useful product that solves real issues with compliance," noted one judge.
The IS1200 crawls through both NFS and CIFS shares and collects meta data on the files. Once this process is complete, a file can be automatically assigned to a specific storage tier based on user-created policies. Users can receive hourly, daily, weekly or monthly classification reports. Meta data collection happens on many different levels. Crawls can produce basic classifications based on simple file meta data, such as file type, modification time, author and revision number for Microsoft Office files. Deeper classification is possible using Kazeon's extraction and assignment rules that create additional meta data tags.
It's a hands-down winner with legal firms that must respond to discovery requests in weeks or even days. With electronic documents accounting for 80% of all corporate information, the cost of legal discovery can be staggering. For that reason alone, electronic discovery has become essential for meeting litigation deadlines cost-effectively. Kazeon Information Server IS1200 will process native files, extract relevant content, and copy or move documents to secure storage systems to aid the discovery process.
The IS1200 is a 1U out-of-band appliance with dual Xeon processors, 2GB of RAM and dual Gigabit Ethernet NICs. It doesn't require agents. The Kazeon software offers a command-line interface, but a Java client is also available. Pricing for the IS1200 starts at $50,000.
Silver: MonoSphere
Storage Horizon
Storage Horizon makes short shrift of capacity planning and helps avoid the expense of overprovisioning.
WE LIKE MONOSPHERE INC.'S Storage Horizon because it addresses a very real pain point for storage administrators: managing capacity. "This is an excellent management tool," said one judge.
The traditional way of avoiding out-of-capacity situations is to overprovision and purchase storage in advance of when it's actually needed. But that method is inefficient and expensive. Storage Horizon can lower costs by allowing users to get more out of their existing storage, while predicting future requirements without falling into the trap of overprovisioning.
For example, for enterprises with a $10 million storage budget, a 30% utilization increase saves $3 million. By accurately predicting demand, companies can make more timely purchases and take advantage of declining hardware costs. A purchase deferral of two quarters translates into a built-in discount of 12% to 18%, say experts.
Storage Horizon scored high marks for its technical prowess and cost-saving features. "Few capacity-planning tools are agentless," said a judge. Furthermore, the ability to create advanced queries, detailed forecasting, dashboard and e-mail notification, heterogeneous device support and management reporting all contribute to making MonoSphere's Storage Horizon a useful tool that will make the job of any storage manager a lot easier and more productive.
Bronze: Bycast
Bycast's fixed-content storage system spans multiple storage systems and makes sharing data easy.
BYCAST INC.'S StorageGrid software caught the eye of our judges for its use of commodity hardware coupled with innovative software for fixed content management across geographically dispersed sites. "This looks to be a great product for HIPAA compliance," noted one judge. The little-known Vancouver, BC-based company has deals with Hewlett-Packard and IBM, which resell StorageGrid.
StorageGrid presents the storage system, which can be any third-party hardware, as a network-mounted virtual file system. Data is stored in and retrieved from the StorageGrid via CIFS (Windows), NFS (Unix/Linux), or Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM), an application layer network protocol for the transmission of medical images. Any type of fixed content such as diagnostic images (MRI or CAT scans), or audio and video files can be stored in the system. The software then applies tiered storage rules to automate the process of storing data on the most cost-efficient storage platform. At this time, Bycast addresses only the healthcare market, but it expects to release additional products for other sectors this year.


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WAG Celebrates Centennial with Show of Contemporary Winnipeg Artists
Winnipeg, MB, September 5, 2012: The Winnipeg Art Gallery kicks off its Centennial celebrations with an exhibition that takes the pulse of our city's vibrant arts scene. The 13 artists who are creating new works for Winnipeg Now all have one thing in common—they either live or have lived in Winnipeg. The public opening takes place at 7pm, Saturday, September 29, at the WAG's Nuit Blanche, part of the national Culture Days event.
"For a century the WAG has been supporting and encouraging local artists and it is with no small sense of pride that we have watched over the decades as Winnipeg has earned a world-wide reputation as a hot bed for contemporary art" says WAG Executive Director Stephen Borys. "Our artists exhibit in galleries across the globe in a wide range of disciplines with a high calibre of creative practice and expertise, all of which you will see in Winnipeg Now."
What audiences will see includes filmmaker Guy Maddin shooting a film a day in the Gallery for 18 days in the newest stage of his Séances project, a reinvention of lost films. Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan will be performing unconventional readings from a story-telling corner. Then there is the magical forest of KC Adams' porcelain forest of corporate-lit trees. Michael Dudeck links the conventions of museum display with ritual performance in his role as a queer artist witchdoctor, while Kent Monkman uses the diorama format of the natural history museum to investigate his own background as a gay, aboriginal artist. Other artists in the show are Sarah Anne Johnson, Dominique Rey, Paul Butler, Rodney LaTourelle, Marcel Dzama, Jennifer Stillwell, and Daniel Barrow.
"This show is a measure of what art-making looks like in this city in 2012," say guest-curators Meeka Walsh and Robert Enright. "Whether the artists are living here or away, a spirit of risk-taking and invention permeates their work. The younger generation of artists has adopted a hybridized approach to art-making that resists categorical boundaries and combines a number of art practices. Audiences will be surprised and challenged by what they will see in this exhibition."
Winnipeg Now Related Programming
Details at wag100.ca
Drop-In Weekend Tours • 2pm • Oct 6, 21, 28 / Nov 10, 18 / Dec 2
Art for Lunch • Wednesdays at 12:10pm
Oct 17 • Exhibition tour with curators Meeka Walsh and Robert Enright
Oct 31 • Artist talk with filmmaker and writer Guy Maddin
Sat, Sept 29, 8pm at Nuit Blanche• Panel discussion with artists Sarah Anne Johnson, Paul Butler, Michael Dudeck, and Guy Maddin
Fri, Nov 16, 7pm • Panel discussion with artists KC Adams, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, and Dominique Rey.
Art Eats
Thurs, Oct 25 / Thurs, Nov 29, 6-9pm • Dinner at Storm Bistro followed by a tour of Winnipeg Now. Reservations at 204.786.6641, ext 227
Art Workshops
Sun, Nov 4, 10am-4pm • Paper Clay with KC Adams or Performance with Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan. Registraton at 204.789.1766
Winnipeg Design Festival
Fri, Sept 21, 8pm • 10X20X10 • Artists from Winnipeg Now will each present 20 slides lasting 20 seconds each.
RBC Royal Bank is the presenting sponsor for Winnipeg Now.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery is grateful for the support of the following centennial sponsors: The Winnipeg Foundation, the Department of Canadian Heritage, TD Bank, James Richardson & Sons Ltd., MTS Allstream, Johnston Group, Air Canada, RBC Royal Bank, Great-West Life Assurance Company, Friesens, Manitoba Culture Heritage and Tourism, Investors Group Inc., Storm Bistro, Manitoba Lotteries Corporation, Ernst & Young, Fort Garry Hotel, KPMG, Lawton Partners, Loewen, Parrish & Heinbecker Ltd., AON Reid Stenhouse Inc., Cambrian Credit Union, Manitoba Blue Cross, National Leasing, CP Loewen, North West Company. Media sponsors: Winnipeg Free Press, CTV, CBC, Pattison Outdoor Advertising, 103.1 Virgin Radio, 99.9 BOB FM, Doowah Design, Visual Lizard, Esdale Printing, the Volunteer Associates of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Radio-Canada, Travel Manitoba, Tourism Winnipeg, Midcan Production Technologies.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery is celebrating its centennial year with an unparalleled series of exhibitions, programs, and events promoting the power of art in life. As Manitoba's leading art museum, the WAG is home to over 26,000 works of art spanning ten centuries, including the world's preeminent collection of contemporary Inuit art.
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I don't think the address you're using links to anything, but your image tags are working correctly.
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You should end up with something like this:
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Maybe I've led him down the garden path, can Facebook be used as a host?
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The German government on Tuesday night expressed the growing public anger of its citizens over Britain's mass program of monitoring global telephone and Internet traffic, directly challenging British ministers over the whole basis of the Project Tempora surveillance operation.
The German justice minister, who has described the secret operation by Britain's eavesdropping agency GCHQ as a catastrophe that sounded "like a Hollywood nightmare," warned British ministers that free and democratic societies could not flourish when states shielded their actions in "a veil of secrecy."
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberg sent letters to British Justice Secretary Chris Grayling and British Home Secretary Theresa May stressing the widespread concern the disclosures have triggered in Germany and demanding to know the extent to which German citizens have been targeted.
It is the first major challenge to British Prime Minister David Cameron's government to publicly justify its mass data-trawling operation, which was revealed in documents leaked by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made clear her frustration that many of the questions raised by the disclosures made by the whistleblower have gone unanswered by the administration of US President Barack Obama.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague dismissed concerns on Tuesday night in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Library in California, saying Britain should have nothing but pride in its "indispensable" intelligence-sharing relationship with the US.
"Let us be clear about it: In both our countries, intelligence work takes place within a strong legal framework. We operate under the rule of law and are accountable for it. In some countries secret intelligence work is used to control their people — in ours it only exists to protect their freedoms," Hague said.
However, writing in the Guardian yesterday, former Conservative Party leadership contender David Davis disputed that view, saying Britain's intelligence agencies are only subject to law in theory. He accused GCHQ of circumventing "inconvenient laws" by handing over personal data to the US and raised the prospect of "extremely serious violation" of the rights of British citizens over the use of their personal data.
The German justice minister, in her letters to Grayling and May, asks for clarification of the legal basis for Project Tempora and demands to know whether "concrete suspicions" trigger the data collection or whether the vast quantities of global e-mail, Facebook postings, Internet histories and telephone calls are being held for up to 30 days as part of a general trawl.
She also demanded to know whether the program had been authorized by any judicial authority, how it works in practice and the precise nature of the stored data.
"I feel that these issues must be raised in a European Union context at minster's level and should be discussed in the context of ongoing discussions on the EU data protection regulation," Leuthheusser-Schnarrenberg wrote, adding that she wants it discussed at the next meeting of justice and home affairs ministers next month.
Britain is almost singlehandedly blocking Europe's attempts to increase privacy protection for personal data in a new regime.
The Guardian's disclosure of GCHQ's secret decision to use more than 200 probes to tap into transatlantic cables to monitor and store up to 30 days of the world's telephone and Internet traffic has sparked outrage in Germany and other European countries.


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A great reward of blogging is making connections with professionals whose work I respect. Here's a look at some recognizable figures commenting at rsmithing.com in the past 12 months. Check out the posts to see their remarks:
Mack Collier commented and said thanks in my post, Blogchat: Sundays on Twitter. As a strategist, trainer and speaker on social media, Collier helps companies better connect with customers. He has been actively immersed in social media since 2005, and in that time has helped businesses of all shapes and sizes better connect with their customers via these amazing tools and sites. [Mack's Site]
Neil Strauss commented a couple of times on my post, Last Book Read: Everyone Loves You When You're Dead. Strauss is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also writes regularly for The New York Times, having repeatedly made its bestseller list with books such as The Game, Emergency, and Everyone Loves You When You're Dead. [Wikipedia]
John Boswell generously answered my questions in this post: Interview with MelodySheep and Symphony of Science Mastermind. Boswell is the artist behind autotune projects Symphony of Science and MelodySheep, gaining international recognition and millions of YouTube views for his inspiring musical tributes to Mr. Rogers, Bob Ross and Julia Child, among others.
Mike Sager said thanks for my quick post inspired by his writing, From Music and Words into Movement – The Fun of Art. Sager is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He has been called "the Beat poet of American journalism, that rare reporter who can make literature out of shabby reality." [Wikipedia] In thirty years as a journalist, writer at large Mike Sager has immersed himself in the lives of pit-bull fighters, heroin addicts, Tupperware saleswomen, and an actress named Roseanne. [Esquire]
Jay Baer stopped by after I reached him on Google Plus to weigh in on my post, How to Talk About Social Media In Business: 5 Points, Video Interview. Baer is a social media strategist, author, speaker and President of Convince & Convert. Founder of five companies, he's worked with over 700 brands (including Nike, Cold Stone Creamery, Sony, ExactTarget, and ConocoPhillips) since 1994, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. His blog is ranked among the world's top marketing resources, and was named #3 social media blog in the world by Social Media Examiner. [Wikipedia]
Alexis Madrigal noted his use of contrast in my analysis of his work: Contrasts Make Connections. Madrigal is a Senior editor at The Atlantic, author of Powering the Dream, and has previously contributed to WIRED, covering science and technology as a contributor to the Wired Science blog. [Twitter]
Also engaging via brand representatives were McDonald's Corporate in: Fast Food and Fast Lessons in Public Relations and, as a bonus from 2011: Delta Airlines in my post, An Airline Gets it… Right?
What do you think? Have any well-known figures or organizations commented on your work? Have you ever had any brushes with celebrity? Let us hear from you in the comments.
Related articles
- Randi Zuckerberg Just Reminded Us Why It's Important to Understand Your Customers (Mack Collier)
- Neil Strauss picks up Jessica Alba on Jimmy Kimmel (YouTube)
- Introducing John Boswell – Creator of 'Symphony of Science' (Scientific American)
- Mike Sager by Mike Sager (Esquire)
- How The Grinch Saved Social Media (ConvinceAndConvert.com)
- You Know What I Want to Do in 2013? Talk to My Television. (The Atlantic)


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My sister advises me, forcefully, that KD Lang's version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is much better than any other and that I was terribly wrong to post that other, inferior rendition. Since it is her birthday, I will accommodate her by providing the requested link.
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Archive for October, 2012
Zoysia Winter Chores
posted on October 19th, 2012 by Zoysia Farms
The cold is approaching. One of the first things you're going to notice is your grass turning a tawny-brown color. Don't panic, this is natural. Zoysia is a warm-season grass and, like trees, goes dormant after the first hard frost. This helps the Zoysia survive in colder climates and the luscious green will return come spring.
To get your grass ready for the cold weather ahead, mow it at about 1.5 to 2.5 inches. To prevent dead spots, make sure to clean up all the lawn mower clippings. Do not fertilize your Zoysia now. Unlike cold-season grasses, Zoysia prefers to be fertilized in the late spring to early summer months when the grass is growing. Fertilizing now could actually harm your lawn.
Overall Zoysia grass is strong and fairly self-sufficient. The trick to keeping your Zoysia strong during the winter is to keep it strong during the summer. Dethatching to help water and nutrients reach the soil is fine at this time of year before it goes dormant, but is even better when done in the spring. One of the very best things you can do for your lawn is aerating it and now is the perfect time to do this, once again, do this before it goes dormant. Then, just sit back and enjoy how easy Zoysia is to care for while you wait for spring. It's a time of rest for you and your lawn.