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It didn't take long for Chicago native Milauna Jemai Jackson to grab the attention of "Strike Back" fans.
"Don't try that charm shit on me," Kim Martinez, Jackson's character, snapped at womanizing soldier Sgt. Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton) in the Season 3 premiere. He'd just told her she's "even lovelier in the flesh."
Now the hard-hitting DEA agent has joined up with Scott and his partner, Sgt. Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester), and the crack counterterrorist unit Section 20 in its mission to stop an international baddie with ties to a Colombian drug lord. She's quickly established that she isn't taking crap from anyone—not even a lothario like Scott.
"It's a reflection of who I am," Jackson told me in July during San Diego Comic-Con International. "I can honestly detect BS when I see it."
Jackson credits her single mother with instilling that BS meter. Raised on the South Side, Jackson split time living with her mother and her grandparents in order to attend a safe school. She was acting from an early age in church programs and community theater before enrolling in the performing arts program at Marie Curie Metropolitan High School, where she was influenced by another strong female role model.
"Every day working with Miss Lillian Monkus, may she rest in peace ... she honed my craft in a realistic way because it prepared me for this industry," Jackson said, adding that Monkus taught how important it was to take acting seriously.
Jackson attended a few colleges before landing at UIC, where she started doing commercials and industrial films. She moved to L.A. in 2002 and on her orientation day at UCLA she found out she'd landed a role on an HBO pilot "and that was the last part of my academic year."
Her first credited role came two years later in an episode of "Cold Case." Since then she has appeared in several TV shows, the 2010 film "Blood Done Sign My Name" and was a series regular in "Squad 85," a 2012 comedy that aired on Youtube's YOMYOMF channel.
When Jackson booked her "Strike Back" audition, she hadn't seen the show but was intrigued. So she checked out some of the action in online clips.
"I was like, 'There's no way I'm going to get this! There's no way. This is so not my strength,'" she said. "You never realize what your strengths are until you get pushed to limits. And that's the beauty of 'Strike Back'—it pushed me to limits.
"And I'm now aware of anything being possible. I possess it; I just have to be afforded the opportunity to present it."
Just a few weeks after her audition, Jackson was in Johannesburg, South Africa, being put through her paces by the show's "hard core" military adviser, Paul Hornsby. The former Special Forces soldier trains cast members in hand-to-hand combat, weapons work and other military techniques to make the action as realistic as possible. He told Jackson, "You can do this and look authentic, if you follow my advice," she said, adding with laugh. "There were times I didn't want to, but I had to."
Despite the extreme trials of filming in 100-degree weather in the South African wilderness, Jackson's glad she did, because she loves her character.
"I just felt like she was such an amazing woman that I wanted to know her," she said. "As [actors] we're always talking about characters that enrich our lives in some way, that are multi-dimensional and they fulfill us. It's rare you get that when you're not an A-list celebrity or a B-list celebrity, or a celebrity that is known as doing great character work."
Jackson happily reports that show veterans Winchester and Stapleton gave her their seal of approval.
"Usually I don't toot my own horn," she said. "But the guys have given me freedom and they've said that I've done it. So I'm just repeating what they've said. These aren't my words; these are their words. According to them I'm kicking some major ass."
Jackson and I talked more about the role and the show. You can watch our interview in the videos below, or read the QA after the videos. (It's the same stuff.) After the interview clips, check out Jackson in action in a Cinemax clip. If you can't see the videos below, try my Youtube Channel by clicking here.
New episodes of "Strike Back" air at 9 p.m. CT Fridays and repeat througout the week on Cinemax.
Did you take to the character of Kim Martinez immediately?
I did in terms of what her strengths were. I just felt like she was such an amazing woman that I wanted to know her. ... So when I read it I absolutely felt like this was something I wanted to do. I just didn't know if I was equipped; I had to do training in hand-to-hand combat. I had to do military training. I had to do weapons training. I had to learn military jargon. I had to become proficient in a lot of areas.
Usually with characters it's just one. Whatever that profession is, you may equip yourself with some knowledge so you can get your mouth around the terms. But with this one I had to kinda learn it all—crash-course training on the job. It was fun though, I'm glad that I was afforded the chance to do it.
I feel on "Strike Back" they pay great attention to detail. And so you sort of do have to come with the attitude that you will learn and do.
You do. And here's the thing, too: There are people that are watching who live this life. So they know if we're BSing. They know, "Oh no, you would never hold the weapon like that. You would never say it like that. What is she doing?" ... We have to have advisers.
We had this great military adviser named Paul Hornsby, who is hard core. He was like, "I was a special agent. I did do these kinds of special ops. And I was part of a team like Section 20. Male or female you can still do this and look authentic if you follow my advice." There were times I didn't want to, but I had to.
Did you find him sometimes busting you, like "Try this Milauna..."?
He didn't say it as nicely. That was more like a suggestion as opposed to an order. And then I have to tell myself I'm not in the military, I am an actor. The camera is going to be on you and it can pick up things that you might not feel good about when you see it on television. I try to strive for excellence. And so I see the growth in the character in a lot of ways but that's great because that's the beauty of television is that the character should be evolving in some kind of way.
Tell me where she goes and what we're going to see her do.
Well, basically there is a lot of action. So you're going to see that, of course, because of the show. But you'll also see me joining forces with other key players, with other team members in Section 20. So I have this great chemistry and dynamic with Michelle Lukes, who plays Julia Richmond. And you'll see a side of her that never has been exposed on camera before in the previous seasons. Really you see a lot more of who she is and how we interact and the camaraderie and the chemistry that we have that just happened naturally. It wasn't forced; it just naturally happened. You'll also see a side of some of the other characters that I kind of bring out in terms of demons they may be battling from some residual effects of the last season.
I love the way they introduce Kim and right away she and Damien are at odds a little bit. She's not going to let him get the best of her.
No. And sometimes as a woman, when you want to be taken seriously you have to let a man know, "I am serious. This is something that I need to be respected for." And only when you kind of present that do they give you respect, unfortunately. And he's one of those men. He sees a pretty face and he automatically assumes he can bed her. And it's like, "No. If I do sleep with someone it's not going to be you." Or maybe, I don't know.
Your director/producer, Michael J. Bassett, tells me Kim sort of becomes a little bit disillusioned later in the season?
Yeah. With their intentions, their motives. It is very different from anything that I've done in the past. Sometimes we, as a team, we make decisions collectively but everyone's not on board as supportive behind the reasoning. And so I do question that. It is a new world for me so it's like I don't really understand the motives behind a lot of the choices. I don't agree with them. And I don't know why I feel like this. But it's revealed in a later episode.
Is it fun to play that kind of doubt?
Absolutely, because that's human. I'm sure that there are tons of people who are in professions where they question authority. And they're doing it but they don't necessarily believe that this is the best choice, but they have to because that's what they've signed up for. It's rare that it's revealed though. It's rare that you see some internal strife or struggle with something that you probably loved when you first started and maybe now you're questioning it because it's veered you to go in a completely different direction than you initially thought.
I love that this show delves into those types of internal conflicts as an action show. It's not just action; there are all these complexities to it.
Absolutely. Listen, you rarely get that unless you're the lead actress, ... then you'll see a lot these nuances and you see the little cracks in the character that make them relatable and not so pristine. But when you have a character that is new [who gets that], then to me that says something about the show. They care about all of the actors that are part of it.
Any Chicago shut-outs? Stuff you miss?
Harold's Chicken! I miss Harold's, I miss Uno's, Gino's East, I miss Garrett's popcorn. [Chicago has] the best, in my opinion and I live in Los Angeles, Mexican food ever. I miss that. The Taste, which was great but it was nothing like the past. I miss my family; Curie High School, which is where I got my roots in the performing arts program. And all of the fans that have seen me in my very first booking of "Cold Case" that have prayed for me and supported me from Day 1. I think they're going to be extremely happy to see me in "Strike Back."
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Today we asked you for voting stories and pictures, and like good little patriots, you obliged us. Most stories were pretty commonplace, but one commenter came to us from afar and told us a quietly surreal teal.
I drove to Abu Dhabi one day last month, to bring my absentee ballot to the U.S. embassy. They will put it in the diplomatic pouch for you, and then on into the US Postal Service. I think that's my favorite embassy service, except for having extra pages put in your passport. (Both of these services they do for no fee, so it seems like such a great deal.)
They're only open for "citizen services" in Abu Dhabi two hours a day. You have to pass through three sets of airlock doors and metal detector, and check all your electronic devices at the front gate. A couple coming in with me had brought their newborn baby to be registered at the Embassy as a US citizen.
The county election commissioner in my home state will email you a ballot, but it has to be printed out and mailed in as a hard copy. So they include template for a postage-paid envelope, with a big swoosh on it that says "Official Election Mail Absentee Ballot". The guy behind the window smiled when I held it up to the glass, and said "Thank you," when he took it.
Then since I was in Abu Dhabi anyway, I went to IKEA and had Swedish meatballs in the cafeteria, which is just about tops among the many entertainingly surreal experiences you can have in the UAE. They had just put out the first Christmas stuff in the bins by the door. I bought a mo0se-shaped cookie cutter.
I should put in a shoutout here for the Overseas Voters Foundation who are really great about facilitating these things. It used to be a real nightmare before the internet, when everything from the registration and ballot request on had to be sent back and forth with long delays via uncertain foreign postal systems. Sometimes you had to start the whole process several months in advance. My voting address is in a thinly populated rural area in Minnesota though, so at least once the election commissioner has taken my mom's vouching for me when applications got hung up in the mail.


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The Turkish government, led by the Justice and Development Party (AKP), continued to crack down on unfavorable press coverage in 2011. Constitutional guarantees of freedom of the press and expression are only partially upheld in practice, and are generally undermined by provisions in the penal code and a strict antiterrorism law. Turkish law does not meet press freedom standards as laid out in the European Convention on Human Rights. The restrictive penal code continued to overshadow positive reforms that had been implemented as part of the country's bid for European Union (EU) membership, including a 2004 press law that replaced prison sentences with fines for media violations. Defamation remains a criminal offense and can result in fines or prison terms. In January 2011, a new amendment to the media law was passed, allowing for television broadcasts to be suspended and stations to be fined or closed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or other designated ministers in cases of emergency or threats to national security. In May 2011, the Constitutional Court approved the removal of Article 26 from Turkey's press law, which had restricted the amount of time prosecutors had to file a complaint against publications or journalists to 2 months in the case of dailies and up to four months for other publications.
Application of a range of restrictive laws has led to dozens of journalists and writers being imprisoned in recent years. Article 301 of the penal code, which prescribes prison terms of six months to two years for "denigration of the Turkish nation," has been used to punish journalists who state that genocide was committed against the Armenians in 1915, discuss the division of Cyprus, or criticize the security forces. A set of 2008 amendments to the article were largely cosmetic, substituting "Turkish nation" for "Turkishness" and "State of the Turkish Republic" for "Turkish Republic," and reducing the maximum prison sentence from three years to two. Very few of those prosecuted under Article 301 receive convictions, but the trials are time-consuming and expensive. In March 2011, novelist Orhan Pamuk was fined $3,670 for "denigrating Turkishness." The charges stemmed from remarks he made during an interview in February 2005 with the Swiss publication Das Magazin. In the interview, Pamuk stated, "Thirty thousand Kurds have been killed here, and a million Armenians. And almost nobody dares to mention that." Turkish commentators were divided over the remarks.
Article 216 of the penal code, which bans "inflaming hatred and hostility among peoples" and carries a six-month to three-year prison term, continues to be used against journalists and other commentators who write about the Kurdish population or allegedly denigrate the armed forces. In March 2011, academic İsmail Beşikçi was sentenced to 15 months behinds bars for an article entitled "The Rights of the Nations to Self-Determination and the Kurds." Beşikçi has spent a total of 17 years in prison for similar publications on the Kurdish minority. The first hearing in a case against cartoonist Bahadır Baruter was held in September, though no judgment had been reached by the end of the year. Baruter faced a one-year prison sentence for a cartoon that appeared in the weekly magazine Penguen, depicting the words "There is no God, religion is a lie" on the wall of a mosque.
Amendments to the antiterrorism law, officially called the Law on the Fight against Terrorism, that were passed in 2006 allow journalists to be imprisoned for up to three years for the dissemination of statements and propaganda by terrorist organizations, and five years for creating propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization. The legislation has raised concerns about arbitrary prosecutions, since members of the pro-Kurdish press are sometimes accused of collaborating with the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group. Sixty-four of the reporters in detention at the end of 2011 were from Kurdish media outlets. In October, the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights voiced concern over the broad wording and application of both the antiterrorism law and Article 220 of the penal code, which assigns one to three years in prison to those found guilty of creating propaganda in support of a criminal organization or its objectives.
Extensive investigations surrounding Ergenekon, an alleged right-wing coup conspiracy, were ongoing in 2011. In February, three journalists from the website OdaTV were arrested in relation to the Ergenekon case. In March, police raided a number of homes of journalists and professors in search of notes and computers. Ten people were arrested, including journalists Nedim Şener and Ahmet Şık, who faced up to 15 years in prison. The fact that neither had access to the evidence brought against him was criticized by the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights. The government and the chief prosecutor in the Ergenekon case have consistently maintained that journalists arrested during the investigation were detained not because of their writing, but because of evidence tying them to an illegal organization, though this evidence has not be released. The trial of Şener and Şık, as well as eight other reporters and editors from OdaTV, was ongoing at the end of the year. The OdaTV staff were allegedly targeted for their critical reporting on the Ergenekon case. Şık was reportedly detained because of his book on the Fethullah Gülen religious movement, and Şener for his book on ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's assassination in 2007. Separately, Mustafa Balbay, a bureau chief of the daily Cumhuriyet who was arrested in connection with Ergenekon, had been held in prison without charge for nearly three years as of the end of December 2011.
In 2011, the government also stepped up its detention of individuals suspected of having links to the Union of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK), a wing of the PKK, as part of a crackdown launched in April 2009. Approximately 4,000 people—mostly members of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party—had been officially arrested as of November 2011, on charges of undermining the state and assisting an illegal organization. Some 70 people were arrested for alleged links to the KCK in November, including the owner of Belge Publishing House, Ragıp Zarakolu. Twenty-six journalists, including a photographer for Agence France-Presse, were among about 100 people arrested in December for alleged connections to the KCK. As of December, 2,000 people remained in custody as part of the investigation. The Ergenekon and KCK cases have further encouraged editors and journalists to practice self-censorship to avoid violating legal restrictions.
The Supreme Council of Radio and Television, whose members are elected by the parliament, has the authority to sanction broadcasters if they are not in compliance with the law or its expansive broadcasting principles. The council is frequently subject to political pressure. Print outlets can also be closed if they violate laws restricting media freedom. In a 2011 survey of 67 journalists from top Turkish media outlets by Esra Arsan of Istanbul Bilgi University, 95 percent of respondents said the government interferes in news production, while 85 percent said media owners also intervene. Arsan's report found that in contrast to years past, when the military had influence over the news, the police now play a stronger role.
Threats against and harassment of the press remained much more common than acts of violence. Journalists are rarely killed—none were murdered in 2011—and their work is not regularly compromised by the fear of physical attacks, although instability in the southeastern part of the country does infringe on journalists' ability to work. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in September 2010 that the Turkish government had failed to respond to ultranationalist hostility toward Hrant Dink, the editor in chief of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos who was assassinated in 2007. Prior to his murder, Dink had twice been prosecuted under Article 301 for insulting Turkishness. In July 2011, a juvenile criminal court convicted Ogün Samast of premeditated murder and sentenced him to more than 22 years in prison for Dink's death. In September, the High Criminal Court held its 20th hearing in the cases of an additional 19 individuals charged in relation to Dink's murder. No journalists were murdered in 2011.
There are approximately 370 newspapers operating in Turkey, including 38 daily national papers. The country's broadcast media are also well developed, with hundreds of private television channels, including cable and satellite, and more than 1,000 commercial radio stations. State television and radio provide limited broadcasting in minority languages, including several local radio and television stations that broadcast in Kurdish. The introduction of Kurdish-language stations in recent years marked a major step forward for freedom of expression, although critics say that the broadcasts are too restricted and their quality is poor. An Armenian-language radio outlet, Nor Radio, began broadcasting over the internet in January 2009. Media ownership is highly concentrated, with a few major private holding companies subtly applying pressure on editors and journalists to refrain from coverage that could harm the parent company's business interests. This can include avoiding criticism of the government or potential advertisers. In February 2011, the parliament passed legislation that allows foreigners to own up to 50 percent of a Turkish broadcaster, an increase from the existing 25 percent cap. The new law also reduced the amount in advertising revenues that channels are required to turn over to the Radio and Television Supervision Agency. The Turkish print media tend to focus on columns and opinion articles rather than pure news, while independent domestic and foreign print media are able to provide diverse views, including criticism of the government and its policies. Three books were confiscated in 2011, and four newspapers and two magazines received short publication bans.
The politicized case against one of the country's major media companies, the Doğan Group, for purported tax evasion worth some $3 billion was apparently resolved in 2011. The Doğan Group had consistently reported on the ruling party's shortcomings and its involvement in an Islamic charity scandal in 2008. In February 2011, the courts overturned approximately $1.1 billion in fines and interest allegedly owed by Doğan. In April, the Doğan Group announced that it was selling two of its major papers, Milliyet and Vatan, to the Karacan family in partnership with the Demirören Group for $74 million, in order to raise funds to pay the remaining back taxes and fines. Milliyet was launched by Ali Naci Karacan in 1950, meaning the paper was essentially returning to its founders. Doğan settled with the Finance Ministry in May, agreeing to pay $590 million. Demirören and the Karacan family subsequently entered into a months-long dispute over control of the two papers, forcing a third party to step in to administer them. As the year came to a close, journalists at the papers were having trouble getting paid due to the ongoing disagreement. In October, Doğan Group sold one of its television stations, Star TV, for $327 million. Doğan employees have reported practicing self-censorship to avoid further trouble with the law.
An estimated 42 percent of the population accessed the internet in 2011. Law 5651 on the internet allows prosecutors to block sites that offend "Turkishness," attack Republic of Turkey founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or contain content that "incites suicide, pedophilia, drug abuse, obscenity, or prostitution." After being blocked for more than two years for carrying videos that were deemed insulting to Atatürk, the video-sharing website YouTube was unblocked in October 2010. As of June 2011, the Turkish Telecommunications Directorate had reportedly blocked over 15,000 websites, many of which allegedly contained pornography. Many websites that published content on Turkey-related issues were the subject of blocking orders in 2011, including news sites—such as Özgür Gündem, Azadiya Welat, Keditör, Firat News, and Günlük Gazete—that focus on southeastern Turkey and Kurdish issues. A blocking order was also issued against Google-owned Blogspot, which then remained inaccessible for approximately three months. The prosecutor's office requested the internet protocol (IP) addresses of anonymous users of the website Eksi Sozluk (Sour Dictionary) in June after comments insulting Islam were posted. If identified and found guilty, the users could face up to two years in prison for inciting religious hatred. In September, the presidency of the Turkish parliament interfered with access to the websites of two lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations, posting warnings about the sites and requiring visitors to fill in their contact information. In October, police raided the home of a Facebook user who had posted comments and videos insulting Erdoğan and other government ministers. The police accessed the user's computer files during the raid. Prosecutors were seeking a two-year jail term for the defendant. In November, a modified internet-filtering system came into force, giving users two voluntary filtering options: "family" or "child." While the filtering, originally conceived as mandatory, is now optional, concerns remain over the fact that internet service providers will be required to offer it, and that the government will have access to the profiles of those who choose to use it.


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Are patio heaters safe?1
As with any other heater or electrical appliance, patio heaters are safe so long as they are used sensibly and to the manufacturer's specifications.
Always make sure that any heater you install adheres to the manufacturer's guidelines concerning distance from combustibles. The heating elements inside patio heaters get very hot, and it's possible for materials to ignite if they come into close proximity. For the same reason, it's important not to leave freestanding heaters unattended as these can be knocked over by children or animals, potentially causing a hazard.
The use of infrared radiation as an outdoor heating solution is not a new one and we have in fact been using it for years in the form of open fires, which give off the same type of radiant heat. Despite this fact, many consumers will hear words like 'radiation' and 'infrared' and assume that electric outdoor heaters will cause them harm. In fact, this could not be further from the truth.
There are two main forms of infrared used in patio heaters. Far infrared, used in ceramic or "no-glare" patio heaters, and near infrared, used in quartz or "low-glare" patio heaters. Far infrared is a gentle form of heat that can be used comfortably for hours on end. It's so safe it's even used in incubators for babies. Near infrared is a more intense form of heat that also gives off an orange glow. Near infrared is more useful for short blasts of heat in exposed areas that need a high temperature to compensate for wind-chill and the effects of the weather. This form of infrared can become uncomfortable if you spend a long time under the heater, simply because of the higher temperatures reached, but that's as far as the health considerations extend.
Providing you use your common sense, all infrared outdoor heaters are safe to use and will enhance your gardens and patios with reliable heating all year round.
What IP rating do I need from my electric patio heater?1
IP ratings are a standard used to quantify the level of protection offered by electrical appliances against the ingress of solid objects and water. Customers should be aware of the IP rating of their chosen heater if they intend to install it outside, where it will inevitably be exposed to windblown rain, dust and debris.
IP ratings consist of two numbers preceded by the letters 'IP', e.g. IP65. The first number represents the protection level against solids and the second number represents protection against water. You should choose a heater with an IP rating that ends in at least '4' if your heater is going to be installed in an outdoor location, e.g. IP24. Level 4 indicates that a product is protected from splashes of water in all directions. This provides ample protection from rainfall and is sufficient for most outdoor locations such as restaurant terraces or back gardens. Anything less than this will be unsuitable for an outdoor location.
Heaters that are exposed to frequent harsh weather will require a rating that ends in a '5' or higher, and the same is true if they're installed in industrial areas that may be hosed down to clean. For a more in-depth look at IP ratings, check our handy guide to find a level of protection suitable for your project. If you're still unsure what rating you need for your installation, our sales team will be able to provide expert advice and even create a free quote for your consideration.


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The under-over on DR
One size doesn't fit all, especially when it comes to disaster recovery planning. Learn how to build a multitiered DR services capability.
By Jim Damoulakis
When Hurricane Ike struck last summer, many feared a repeat of the 2005 Katrina catastrophe. While Ike turned out to be one of the most destructive hurricanes on record, its impact was nowhere near as devastating as Katrina's. This was due, In part, to better preparedness across the board.
From an IT perspective, Katrina raised the level of consciousness regarding disaster recovery (DR) and spurred more organizations to invest in "recoverability."
However, building a DR capability, particularly in the current economic climate, can still be a tough sell. The business justification for DR is based primarily on risk avoidance -- a so-called soft metric -- rather than on hard cost savings. In addition, DR implementations often involve an investment in infrastructure that mostly sits idle waiting for that fateful day. As a result, organizations may be tempted to shelve DR initiatives or re-prioritize them further down the IT project stack.
Unfortunately, disasters don't distinguish between good and bad economic times. But you could easily argue that preparedness in tough times is even more critical as institutions are less able to tolerate instability.
Efficient DR
Disaster recovery is an insurance policy and, as with any other type of insurance, we dislike the possibility of paying for something we may never use. Therefore, when formulating a DR strategy, it's important to minimize unnecessary purchases and maximize utilization of DR assets wherever possible. The first step to attaining these goals is a solid understanding of business requirements with respect to DR. Over-designing and over-delivering beyond actual needs meets service-level requirements, but it's inefficient and won't help make your case for future DR dollars. Likewise, short-changing the process to save money is often a good way to get caught off guard when disaster does strike.
When it comes to storage-related DR services, many organizations fall into one of two categories:
- One size fits all. There's a single service option, which is often tape-based recovery. For mid- to large-sized organizations, it's highly unlikely that all application needs can be adequately met with a single solution; it's too much for some and not enough for others.
- Two sizes fit all. In addition to tape, a data replication option exists. While this may be adequate in some cases, we've encountered situations where the gap between the two services levels -- tape-based recovery vs. synchronous replication, for example -- is simply too large. This forces a choice between a very high cost option that more than meets requirements or a much less-expensive one that falls short.
It's important for an organization to develop a catalog of DR services that can address the required range of recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) requirements at appropriate cost differentials to avoid over-delivery.
This top-down approach of gathering business requirements to formulate a strategy must then be tempered with a bottom-up understanding of the "step-function" cost implications of various protection options. The iterative process of testing assumptions and validating business needs against the likely cost to meet those needs results in a more realistic stratification of requirements from which we can develop a DR service catalog that aligns efficiently with the business.
The many forms of replication
The key to quick data recovery is replication, and while the gold standard continues to be synchronous replication, the available alternatives have become quite extensive. This allows for a wide range of options at a variety of price points.
Enterprise arrays tend to offer the broadest range of options, including synchronous and asynchronous replication, as well as potentially critical features like consistency groups and various types of multi-hop replication. As these systems now also support a growing range of disk types (from solid state to Fibre Channel to SATA), it's conceivable that a multitier DR solution can be configured within a single storage platform.
More commonly, organizations look to midrange storage platforms for lower cost replication options. The challenge here is that the replication capabilities of these systems can vary significantly, from vendors that offer essentially the same or nearly the same functionality as on their tier 1 systems to those that offer only basic replication.
In environments with more limited needs -- a handful of key applications requiring replication, for example -- host or application-based replication can often be leveraged at an even lower price. These approaches, including database log shipping, volume- or file-based replication, and application-specific replication tools, can provide a very cost-effective way to meet requirements as long as the number of applications and servers remains manageable. But configuring and monitoring a large number of such systems can increase complexity, and a range of software solutions may be required to support different applications. At that point, people typically look to a broader option, typically at the storage level.
Reducing DR costs
Server virtualization promises DR many benefits and is causing organizations to rethink their overall DR approach. One of the most significant cost-related impacts relates to the problem of idle systems. Not only can virtualization dramatically reduce the number of physical servers required for a DR site but, due to the very nature of virtualization, these servers may actually be leveraged for daily operations. For example, DR systems may be deployed under normal circumstances for test and quality assurance, but take on the alternate (or additional) role of hosting production virtual machines failed over from the primary site in a DR scenario. When trying to justify DR costs, non-idle, multifunction assets can be the difference between a winning and losing business case.
Given our fascination with virtualization, it's only reasonable to look there for potentially more affordable storage options. The promise of virtualization at the SAN fabric level has yet to be realized on a large scale. One service capability offered by such technology is replication and it can be done heterogeneously between different types of arrays. This opens the possibility of replicating to a less-expensive array.
Beyond replication, disk-based backup can also play an important role in a multitiered DR strategy. Virtual tape libraries with deduplication and replication capabilities can provide a level of service below primary storage replication but higher than tape-based recovery. Because data is deduplicated, the bandwidth requirements are usually less; by replicating to a similar platform at the DR site, recovery through restore can be significantly quicker than tape.
A recent global DR study by Symantec Corp. of 1,000 IT managers and C-level executives found that 56% of applications are now classified as mission critical, which is up from 36% in 2007. This has serious implications for the IT infrastructure in that it indicates a continuing rise in business demands and expectations. Meeting these demands in a time of increased budget constraints requires the careful application of the appropriate technologies to satisfy requirements without over-delivering. Understanding not only the potential benefits but the operational implications for these additional options is, of course, essential before heading down a given path. But it's clear that meeting current and future demands will require such a multifaceted approach.
BIO: Jim Damoulakis is CTO at GlassHouse Technologies, a leading independent provider of storage and infrastructure services. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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Apple Arts Summer Fund
DEADLINE TO GIVE: Jun 15, 2012
A road trip? Swimming with your friends? Diving off a diving board?
In the drawings on the left, you'll see the summer fantasies of the Apple Arts kids. Unfortunately, many of these fantasies will remain just that.
With no school, no camp and parents who are in crisis, many of the Apple Arts youth face boredom and negative temptation during those long summer days. Often, this leads to dangerous and unproductive activities.
We are going to change all that. Because this past year has been our most successful (Check out pictures here), AND we are doing incredible projects AND the kids are having a blast AND our volunteers and Junior Board members are more involved than ever AND everyone has been working so hard to make this program outstanding....WE DON'T WANT TO STOP!
With your help, we won't have to.
Introducing THE APPLE ARTS SUMMER FUND.
We are determined to raise the $12,000 we need to extend our program through the summer. ** AND WE RAISED OUR GOAL!!! Thanks for your support everyone!!!
Check out the video to the left. And you can see our whole fundraising team below.
GET INVOLVED! Make a donation today or start your own team! Together, we can do this!!
$50 buys 11 kids a roundtrip subway ride to the beach, plus supplies for a beach collage project
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$200 buys 10 kids admission to the New York Aquarium, art supplies for an underwater-themed art project, plus lunch on the boardwalk
$350 buys 17 kids membership to The Alley Pond Environmental Center in Queens where they can roam the 700 acres to complete a series of nature-based art projects
$500 covers the cost for ten kids to enjoy one of Apple Arts' 5-day arts intensives, including food, transportation and the cost of art supplies. Now that's a summer fantasy!!
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-Center East and Africa Metallic Heat Shield Market comprises of (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa)
– North America Metallic Heat Shield Market comprises of (United States, Canada, Mexico)
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18.104.22.168. Canada
126.96.36.199. Mexico
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18.104.22.168. Germany
22.214.171.124. France
18.104.22.168. Russia
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126.96.36.199. China
184.108.40.206. Japan
184.108.40.206. Korea
18.104.22.168. India
220.127.116.11. Rest of Asia
6.4. Latin America
6.4.1. Latin America Metallic Heat Shield Market: Regional Trend Analysis
126.96.36.199. Brazil
188.8.131.52. Argentina
220.127.116.11. Rest of Latin America
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188.8.131.52. South Africa
220.127.116.11. Israel
188.8.131.52. Rest of MEA
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This week there is much more buzz on For Colored Girls, Tyler Perry's screen adaptation of Ntozake Shange's Tony-nominated 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. The much-anticipated film premiered yesterday in New York City—the Wall Street Journal has a red carpet slideshow—and the all-important trade reviews are scathing.
The Hollywood Reporter calls the movie a "train wreck" and says Tyler Perry "butchered" Shange's iconic play.
Perry might be very much in touch with his feminine side when he dons a dress and padding to play his larger-than-life character Madea, but his style is too crude and stagy for Shange's transformative evocation of black female life, and his moralizing strikes exactly the wrong notes to express the pain and longing that cries out from her heated poetry. Perry [forces] conventional plots and characters—utter cliches without lives or souls —into the fabric of Shange's literary work. The hackneyed melodramas get him from one poem to the next but run roughshod over the collective sense of who these women are. Then, when Perry arrives at the next poetic passage, the switch in writing between him and Shange is jarringly pronounced. The words belong to different worlds.
Perry situates his nine female protagonists in Harlem, supposedly in the modern day, but then how does a backroom abortion figure into this contemporary scene? Most of his women live in a crummy walk-up tenement, though not Janet Jackson's Jo, a high-powered magazine executive with a corner office and an East Side penthouse. Perry gives his frequent star no favors here, with hairdo, makeup and clothes that make her look like a mannequin. ... The male characters other than Hill Harper's police detective are all sick cartoons, existing only to perpetuate horrors on the women. In Perry's peculiar view, though, the women often collaborate in their victimhood.
Variety also says the movie is too melodramatic. The reviewer faults Perry for "diva worship" and making Janet Jackson's "Jo" character into a caricature ... with a down-low husband.
Jo [is] a high-powered magazine editor who shares a sleek Gotham pad with her emasculated husband (Omari Hardwick), who leads a double life on the down-low. Jo's story feels the most patently Perry-fied thing about the film, reflecting the director's tendency to tackle key issues through pat, gently preachy examples (he similarly inserts lessons on contraception, venereal disease and religious fanaticism into other subplots). "Girls" never feels more like daytime television than in the scene where the couple have it out, back-to-back in an awkwardly blocked argument.
While Perry's craft has slowly but surely improved with each successive film, this latest project seems to fall beyond his reach. Just as the director was finding the organic quality that eluded him in "Diary" and other early efforts, he's confronted with a conceptual piece that calls for an entirely different approach. Yet he can't resist turning "For Colored Girls" into a Tyler Perry Movie, which means imposing diva worship where nuance is called for and a pleasure-punishing Christian worldview where a certain moral ambiguity might have been more appropriate.
The Black press is a little more charitable. The Grio, which encourages everyone to see the film, agrees that it's too melodramatic and "comes across as a visual and an emotional assault."
For Colored Girls opens in wide release on Nov. 5. It goes without saying that the reviews probably won't impact the bottom line—like other Tyler Perry movies, it will probably open at Number One and do very well at the box office. I'm definitely going to see it—the cast is first rate—and will keep an open mind. Oh and a down low storyline from Tyler Perry? Tsk, tsk.


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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has rejected calls for the company to stop supporting marriage equality, and Robert Breaud, an "ex-gay" preacher, is warning that if they don't change their wicked ways, God is going to smite them. Or maybe rain down sulfur on them. Or something.
"God will not bless your business in the long run if you consistently thumb your nose at Him and support things He calls sinful," Breaud said. An ex-homosexual who now serves as an evangelist states that he has decided to join the boycott against the coffee king Starbucks following recent remarks made by CEO Howard Schultz regarding the company's support of homosexual "marriage.""It's an unGodly, Christ-hating position," he said of Schultz's comments. Robert Breaud of Wisconsin told Christian News Network that he had been involved in the homosexual lifestyle until his 30′s, but has served Christ now for nearly 20 years.
"I basically got my fill of the emptiness of sin," he said. "I was never happy, never filled, never satisfied with male-to-male relationships."
He said that if he could sit down with Schultz, he would urge him to do what is right.
"[I would tell him,] if you want God to bless your business, run it in accordance with His law … with His revealed will in Scripture," Breaud stated. "You're promoting sin. You're helping to destroy young people's lives. … God will not bless your business in the long run if you consistently thumb your nose at Him and support things He calls sinful."
I'm sure he'll be boycotting Red Lobster and Smithfield any day now. And any business that hires single women who aren't virgins.


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Farmer D has a lot of projects around the U.S. One of them is located at River Farm, a tree farm nestled along the rolling hills of Oldham County, Kentucky, overloooking the beautiful Ohio River about 20 miles northeast of Louisville. River Farm Nursery currently has 250-plus acres in production and plans to continue growing in the future. Years of harsh chemical use has depleted the farm's soil health, so Farmer D is helping start a project to improve the soil and diversify the crops. (Nick Scott/MNN)
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Farmer D: I'm at River Farm in Goshen, Kentucky, on the beautiful Ohio River.
Sitting in this incredible home of Steven Paradis, owner of River Farm.
When they came here, they really wanted to take care of it, and they started planting trees. You know, I think over the years, I think Steven realized that the biology of his farm and the vibrancy of the soil life from the tree farming was being compromised, because tree farming is very chemical intensive. Over 20-odd years of doing that, the land has suffered.
This large amount of land that gets dedicated for trees leaves a lot gaps between the trees, between the wide rows, that could be productive farm land.
So, I've been actually really intrigued and when Steven told me about the project, I was really excited to get involved and see if I could help him kind of bring the ecology of his land back up that grow healthier trees with less chemicals and in that process also look at diversifying and growing food.
I always have the challenge of finding good people to take on good projects like this one. Things evolved with some of the interns that I was working with, and one in particular, Ben, was ready for a change. So Ben moved down here, I guess it has been about six months now, and just dove right in and I helped kind of lay out the plan for the farm. We are really just scratching the surface. Ben's got about a half acre in production now.
Ben: Hi. Like everything, it always goes slower than I imagined. But, it's coming together. I'm very happy with the soil. I mean, just what we're starting with is great. I'm like everybody, more would always be nice, but I think we bit off a good amount of work.
Farmer D: I think together as a team we can really showcase some innovative, new ways of farming trees and diversifying the operation to be more wholistic and sustainable.
Ben: How was that?
Farmer D: Squash blossom?
Daron Joffe is not your typical farmer. Joffe is a 30-something eco-entrepreneur with more than a dozen projects around the nation. Actress Jennifer Garner thinks his turnips "rock" and billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson wants him to develop an organic farm at his exclusive New Jersey spa. Known as Farmer D, Joffe also creates Farmer D Organic Compost out of green waste from Whole Foods stores in the southeast U.S. In addition to innovative internship programs that help at-risk youth learn about agriculture, Joffe is involved in creating and sustaining small organic farms in developments around the U.S. Want to know more? Watch all the In the Field videos with Joffe on MNN.