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EMC vows to fight DOJ investigation
Not a month after an Israeli news source reported that EMC Corp. had been under investigation concerning government contracts in Israel, EMC revealed in its annual report filed with the SEC that it's under investigation by the Civil Division of Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ investigation involves "allegations concerning (i) EMC's fee arrangements with systems integrators and other partners in federal government transactions, and (ii) EMC's compliance with the terms and conditions of certain agreements pursuant to which we sold products and services to the federal government, including potential violations of the False Claims Act."
There's no relation to the Israeli investigation, according to an EMC spokesperson. In another contrast with that case, in which EMC flatly denied comment, this time the company is flatly denying any wrongdoing will be found by the DOJ. "EMC did not make improper payments to business partners and did not violate the False Claims Act," wrote the spokesperson in an email to SearchStorage.com. "The matters at issue in this case are historical in nature; some of the allegations relate to events nearly ten years old. We will vigorously defend this case and the many years EMC has spent serving the U.S. Government…"
The SEC filing reads,
The subject matter of this investigation also overlaps with that of a previous audit by the U.S. General Services Administration ("GSA") concerning our recordkeeping and pricing practices under a schedule agreement we entered into with GSA in November 1999 which, following several extensions, expired in June 2007. We have cooperated with both the audit and the DoJ investigation, voluntarily providing documents and information, and have engaged in discussions aimed at resolving this matter without any admission or finding of liability on the part of EMC.
HP sweetens deals during recession
Storage vendors are announcing new deals in an effort to make their enterprise goods more tempting amid slashed storage budgets. Today, HP confirmed it is extending a 0% financing deal it had previously been offering with its servers to storage.
According to an HP spokesperson, the HP storage products included in this program are:
The move comes after HP reported double-digit revenue declines over most of its lines of business for its first fiscal quarter. The Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS) group was no exception, with revenue of $3.9 billion, down 18%. Within that, storage revenue fell 7%; overall profit for the group was also down 14%.
HP joined NetApp in reporting earnings declines in a fiscal quarter that included January. (Interesting aside: Dell reported that its storage business, especially its low-end PowerVaults and EqualLogic midrange iSCSI SANs, did relatively well for its first fiscal 2009 quarter, with business up 7% though overall earnings slipped).
But in a recession this deep, some federal interest rates have also been cut to zero in the hopes of getting business moving again. Housing prices are so depressed that theoretically, they should be affordable to a whole new class of buyers. But neither of those things–and so far, all the King's horses and all the King's men–haven't done much for the markets, if only because everyone who still has a job is so afraid they'll lose it by the end of this year that they aren't spending, no matter how good the deal is.
Many enterprise storage users seem to be in a similar boat–these financing deals, like low home prices, would be irresistible in better times. Ironically, in bad times, they may not be enough.
Data Domain revs its dedupe engine
Data Domain is bumping up its deduplication speed with an operating system upgrade.
Moving from OS 4.5 to 4.6 will improve the speed of Data Domain systems from 50% to 100% depending on the protocol and network interface, according to the vendor's VP of product management Brian Biles. The greater speed comes from code tweaks in the OS that lets multi-core CPUs support more parallel streams.
The improvement with OS 4.6 is greatest for systems running 10-Gigabit Ethernet and Symantec's NetBackup OpenStorage (OST) interface. For instance, max performance for the DD690 – Data Domain's largest system – goes from 1.4 TB per hour to 2.7 TB per hour for a 90% increase using the new OS, according to Data Domain's estimates. That's with 10-GigE and OST.
Is speed all that important for dedupe? Throughput often gets lost in the debate over dedupe ratios and the inline versus post-processing argument, but analysts and customers say speed is a major selling point for dedupe systems. Speed is plays a big role in Data Domain's inline deduping, which risks slowing backups because it dedupes while backups are taking place.
"Faster equals more data processed, which equals more data reduction," Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau says. "Performance improvement is a means to other benefits, including storing more data in smaller footprint."
Rich VanLare, Network Administrator for shopping center developer Regency Centers, has been using a Data Domain DD690 with NetBackup and OST since last October and was blown away by the speed with OS 4.5. VanLare says his goal was to decrease backups to below nine hours, and is down to five hours since replacing tape with the DD690. VanLare says he'll upgrade to 4.6, but he's happy with his current system.
"The box is incredibly fast to begin with," VanLare said. "Personally I don't need it [improved speed] because it's already exceeded my expectations."
VanLare, who claims to get more than 90 percent compression, said the OST option was the main factor he choose Data Domain over VTLs from NetApp and Overland Storage.
"I have a lot of administrators getting into the interface, and I just wanted things to be simple," he said. "OST tells an administrator exactly what happens if something fails."
VanLare biggest concern with Data Domain is he won't be able to add a second box at a DR site until the economy improves. "I wanted to do that this year," he said. "With budgets as they are, I'm not sure that's going to be approved."
Storage Headlines for 02-26-2009
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(5:32)DataCore SAN software update boosts server virtualization support
(6:30)FalconStor enhances VMware backups
(7:08) EMC, NetApp clash over VMware
As always, you can find the latest storage news, trends and analysis at http://searchstorage.com/news.
Online services bite the dust
Two online data sharing services failed this week — one from a computing giant, and the other a small social bookmarking website.
That's the trouble in this wild and wooly world of the cloud–especially in its early days. Not every service is going to make it, and then you're going to have to figure out what to do with your data if your service fails.
Hewlett-Packard pulled the plug on HP Upline, and according to our Australian affiliate, ma.gnolia went under. SearchStorage ANZ reports that "in late January, ma.gnolia experienced a catastrophic data loss event and turned to backups to restore its database of users' bookmarks. Both the primary and secondary backups failed irrevocably."
Said a friend of mine who's a Digg addict (I'm more a del.icio.us woman myself), "Losing my bookmarks would *hurt*."
In the case of HP's Upline online backup service, users will at least be able to get their data back. HP confirmed this afternoon will be discontinued as of March 31. In a statement, an HP spokesperson said:
HP continually evaluates product lines and has decided to discontinue the HP Upline service on March 31, 2009.
HP will no longer be backing up customer files to the HP Upline servers as of Feb 26, 2009 at 8 am Pacific time. HP will keep the file restore feature of the Upline service operational through March 31, 2009 Pacific time in order for customers to download any files that have been backed up to Upline.
Blogger AppScout wrote disappointedly, "And so goes the story of one of the slickest online storage and backup services to launch in the past year." Among Upline's unique features was the ability for users to tag content for later search and share, and to publish files online using the service through a feature called the Upline Library. However, Upline crashed right out of the gate, drawing opportunistic marketing for competitors.
EMC, NetApp clash over VMware
There are lots of interesting donnybrooks going on in this industry at any one moment, but EMC-NetApp is like the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry: imbued with a sense of historical inevitability, and capable of reaching heretofore undiscovered levels of bickering.
The latest series of skirmishes takes place on one of the most hotly contested battlefields of storage today–VMware. Specifically, the integration with, support of, and general glomming on to the server virtualziation giant's software.
There was a time when I would've guessed NetApp was the most-installed storage system with VMware, especially as VMware over NFS took hold at least in some enterprise shops. Server administrators and application admins were already familiar with running databases over NFS, and NetApp's NFS was generally considered the best. Plus, NetApp has the whole multiprotocol thing going on with iSCSI and NFS in the same system, built in data protection tools, etc.
Not so, says EMC, triumphantly waving a newly released report from Forrester Research:
EMC…has been cited as "the most prevalent storage vendor in their overall environments" according to a survey of 124 global IT decision-makers currently using x86 server virtualization technology. The January 2009 report titled Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments also revealed that 98 percent of the 124 survey respondents were using VMware ESX in their virtual server environments, and that 78 percent have virtual server technology in use for production application workloads.
According to the survey, 48 percent of respondents chose EMC as their brand of networked storage for virtual servers – nearly two times as many as the next closest vendor, IBM. Additionally, 63 percent of the respondents prefer to buy from a single storage vendor, which illustrates that buyers show a preference for working with a single storage vendor.
Furthermore, the report states:
There is little correlation between vendor and protocol selection. Surprisingly, there is not
a strong pattern linking the choice of vendor to the preferred protocol. Even NetApp, with its
strong heritage in file storage and ability to offer in-depth best practices for NFS in virtual server
environments, still shows a prevalence of FC — NFS is the least common option. This is due
to the following: 1) VMware did not add support for iSCSI and NFS until ESX Server 3.0; 2)
storage vendors are generally protocol-agnostic — they support and recommend all available
protocols; and 3) customers are often unwilling to diverge from what they know and use already.
This is also the case when it comes to storage vendors in general–companies generally don't buy new storage systems or try new technologies just for to support VMware, the report finds. More than half (53%) of the users surveyed were using EMC. That's a much higher EMC sample than the 28% networked storage market share EMC had in the most recent IDC's quarterly storage report.
Besides the disproportionately high number of EMC customers surveyed and relatively small overall sample of 124 users, the Forrester report also discloses that "in terms of industry, financial services and insurance is the most prevalent, with 41% of respondents." Both of those verticals tend to favor EMC.
According to Forrester's survey, 25% were using IBM with virutal servers followed by NetApp at 24% and Hewlett-Packard at 23%. I'm curious how many of the systems counted as IBM in the study are N-Series, which is NetApp under the covers.
Meanwhile, NetApp is not pulling any punches, continuing its VMware space-efficiency guarantee, this time extending it, as it did its primary storage data deduplication capabilities, to V-Series. That means it's essentially offering a guarantee on third party storage from EMC, IBM, HP and Hitachi Data Systems fronted by a NetApp head.
Not everybody in the industry was impressed with the VMware guarantee. The guarantee is highly conditional, making it highly unlikely that NetApp would ever have to pay off.
As for applying NetApp services to third-party storage, the Forrester report seems to suggest that most users tend not to have more than one vendor in their environment, let alone attaching one vendor's system to another's. Can you imagine the finger-pointing if there were an issue?
So. We're left with a relatively-small-sample-size report skewed toward one vendor on one side, and hollow guarantees on the other.
Oh! And one spoof of the battle scenes in 8 Mile that has to be seen to be believed.
There's still a lot more ground to be gained and lost this year in the VMware marketplace, and who knows what events might come along to change the industry completely. In the meantime, though, we know there'll never be a dull moment between the notorious NTAP and E-squared.
Latest Sun/NetApp clash: SPEC SFS
While one vendor's blogger came to bury SPEC SFS, another came to defend it. The clash of vendors as yet seems unresolved.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) SFS benchmark measures file server throughput and response time. The latest version, SPECsfs2008 was implemented last year.
But Sun FISHWorks blogger Bryan Cantrill wrote in a post called "Eulogy for a Benchmark" that the workload mix even in the most recent version remains outdated:
The 2008 reaffirmation of the decades-old workload is, according to SPEC, "based on recent data collected by SFS committee members from thousands of real NFS servers operating at customer sites." SPEC leaves unspoken the uncanny coincidence that the "recent data" pointed to an identical read/write mix as that survey of…now-extinct Auspex dinosaurs a decade ago — plus ça change, apparently!
Moreover, Cantrill argued, the testing parameters for systems lead vendors to design NAS heads to perform well in the SFS test, which he said is at best irrelevant and at worst detrimental to a real-world environment. He also insists that SPEC benchmark results need to come with system pricing disclosures.
Enter NetApp blogger and senior technical director Michael Eisler, who called his response to Cantrill's post "Chuckle for Today."
the philosophy of SPEC SFS has always been to model reality as opposed to the idealist…dream where a storage device never has to process a request. P.S., in an earlier blog post, I made the argument that SPEC SFS 2008's differences from SPEC SFS 3.0, show the caching on NFS clients has improved.
On the pricing disclosure issue:
Like many industries, few storage companies have fixed pricing. As much as heads of sales departments would prefer to charge the same highest price to every customer, it isn't going to happen. Storage is a buyers' market. And for storage devices that serve NFS and now CIFS, the easily accessible numbers on spec.org are yet another tool for buyers. I just don't understand why a storage vendor would advocate removing that tool.
In storage, the cost of the components to build the device falls continuously. Just as our customers have a buyers' market, we storage vendors are buyers of components from our suppliers and also enjoy a buyers' market. Re-submitting numbers after a hunk of sheet metal declines in price is silly.
This is where Cantrill appears to take exception to Eisler's taking exception, responding in a followup post that Eisler's defense of the pricing non-disclosure is an "Alice-in-Wonderland defense."
Mike's argument — and I'm still not sure that I'm parsing it correctly — appears to be that the infamously opaque pricing in the storage business somehow helps customers because they don't have to pay a single "highest price"! That is, that the lack of transparent pricing somehow reflects the "buyers' market" in storage. If that is indeed Mike's argument, someone should let the buyers know how great they have it — those silly buyers don't seem to realize that the endless haggling over software licensing and support contracts is for them!
It's not just this benchmark which is being debated over in the storage industry–SPC benchmarks have also been a bone of contention between EMC and NetApp and between HP and EMC. Even in the comments on this blog I've heard everything from "Take the time to read the full disclosures, read the specifications…You might learn something" from a defender of SPC to a nonplussed "I really hope nobody uses SPC-1 results as any criteria for buying storage."
So benchmarks are obviously a touchy subject among many in the industry. But meanwhile, is there anything Sun and NetApp aren't fighting about?
EMC releases Networker Fast Start virtual appliance
A post by EMC's Storagezilla over the weekend spread the news that EMC's scaled-down version of its Networker backup product, Fast Start, is being made available as a virtual storage appliance (VSA).
'zilla emphasizes that the Networker VSA is for demo purposes only, going so far as to say "Thou shalt not use this for production backups."
But the curious part is EMC also offers a VSA for its Avamar ROBO/dedupe software that is meant for use in production.
I know that there are big differences between Avamar and Networker, especially in scale. Performance can also limit scalability in virtual appliances. But other companies have offered VSAs using scaled-back versions of software for use in smaller environments, similar to Networker Fast Start (at least according to how it's described on the product page).
Update:'zilla let me know that you *can* run Networker in production on a VM, just not this particular time-limited VM.
EMC also has a not-for-production Celerra VSA. 'zilla encourages a combo of the Networker and Celerra VSAs for a "NetWorker Advanced File Type Device." But that device would still be not-for-production.
FalconStor basically calls this kind of configuration the Network Storage Server (NSS) and it's available as a virtual appliance, very much for production use. EMC could have a competitor here with Networker and Celerra VSAs, but discourages their use in production. I'm not sure what to make of that.
In the meantime, there are more VSAs on the market now, for production use or otherwise, than you can shake a stick at. User/blogger Martin Glassborow (StorageBod) is putting several through their testing paces over at his place.
Storage Headlines for 02-19-2009
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As always, you can find the latest storage news, trends and analysis at http://searchstorage.com/news.
Seagate, STEC call off SSD battle
Scuffling drive vendors Seagate and STEC have called a truce in their solid state drive (SSD) patent infringement battle, with both vendors saying today they have dropped their lawsuits against the other.
Seagate filed the first lawsuit last April claiming STEC violated four patents Seagate registered between 2002 and 2006, and STEC countersued. Under terms of today's settlement, no money was paid and neither company licensed technology from the other. The settlement does not preclude future patent infringement suits between the two.
"Since STEC plays a major role in the proliferation of SSD technology, we view the dismissal as a vindication of our technology," STEC CEO Manouch Moshayedi said in a statement. "With this case behind us, we can now optimize our resources to take full advantage of the market opportunities at hand."
Seagate's position is that the SSD market isn't so great for STEC. According to the statement Seagate released about the settlement, "The economic conditions today are drastically altered from those that existed when we filed the litigation, and the impact of STEC's sales of SSD's has turned out to be so small that the expenditures necessary to vindicate the patents could be better spent elsewhere."


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Recently we had some high winds (52mph) that blew off a couple of shingles from the roof. There are now many rows of shingles that had been lifted up and not sealed down anymore, a couple had the staples coming out, some shingles are not sealed and are bent up, some have corners that are loose and are bent down. The insurance agent said only the two shingles that were blown off was done by wind, the others did not get damaged by wind. The agent didn't know why the others were like they are but would only pay to have the two shingles fixed. A roofing contracter came out and disputed what the agent said and said it was wind damage. He also said the type of shingles on the house were made by Global Shingles which are no longer in business. I also found out the roofer that put the shingles on 8 years ago is also out of business and gone. When we had the shingles put on we also had new siding and alum. soffits put on. Another contractor told me the shingles were like they were because there was no ventilation put in the soffits. Does anyone have any thoughts why shingles would just come unstuck, curl up, curl down? Does ventilation have anything to do with the shingles going bad?
I really don't want to put a new roof on until I find out why the current roof failed. It doesn't leak but if we get some high winds again, there are
going to be a lot of shingles blown off, which of course the insurance company won't pay for because they are not sealed down. The most curious thing is all the damage is on the north side of the house. The rest of the roof looks fine.
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Globe went out of business due to faulty shingle claims. You many be S.O.L. This looks exactly like every other Globe shingle claim.
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Today, April 19th, Nas' 1994 debut magnum-dopus Illmatic turns 19 (word to Paul Hardcastle ). In the years since, we've seen musical homages to QB's finest's masterpiece like Elzhi's excellent Elmatic . But even more common are the tributes to, and appropriations and parodies of Illmatic 's iconic cover art (itself reputedly inspired by a Howard Hanger Trio LP ). To commemorate the occasion, we've collected 19 of 'em for your enjoyment. It's like the (album cover) game ain't the same...
ABOVE: The other Lil Kim channeling QB on some "Quiet Storm" ish.
2. Charles. It's Charles Hamilton
The 2008 mixtape art from the Hedgehog obsessed Harlem-bred emcee.
3. Bie. biebmatic.
Leave it to Bieber fans to taint the sanctimony of Illmatic 's art.
4. J Cole - Villematic
Original title of the pride of Fayetteville, NC's 2010 Friday Night Lights mixtape.
5. 23. Air Jordan.
Tee shirt released by Brand Jordan. One of three different designs paying homage to classic rap album covers.
6. Trav Williams. illtravis.
Straight out the dungeons of Fort Lauderdale comes this 2009 Bandcamp joint .
Lute. West1996.
Charlotte, North Carolina emcee's LP release from 2012 .
Erykah Badu - "Honey" music video.
2008 video co-directed by E.B. herself with Chris Robinson features her visage on several recreated LP covers, including Nas' debut.
Lin. linmatic.
Back when New York Knicks fans were in a Jeremy State of Mind, this meme was golden, child.
illmodok, by Kenny Keil.
Check out Keil's comic book rap LP cover remixes too.
Nas. illzombie.
Hip-hop is (walking) dead. Art by Tony PSD .
Stori. Just Another Day.
Female rapper from Newark, NJ favors a sing-song vocal style and Illmatic -inspired art to accompany her Latifah remake of last year.
Chen. Goldberg Variations.
Apparently, classical pianist Chen Pi-Hsien kills Bach's "Goldberg Variations" so hard it's worthy of an Illmatic fan art homage.
Isbjerg. Ismatic.
DJ Isbjerg mixtape from 2009.
Cee. chilltastic.
"CnisterCee"'s avatar from the Soulstrut message board.
Frankenstein. The Projects.
Monstrous single cover to the Toronto emcee/producer's dedication to the PJs from 2000.
Homage 3: Illmatic.
The third installment in playwright Shaun Neblett's 7 Homages for 7 MCs Play Cycle of 2011 was a tribute to Nas.
Kid Ice. Icematic.
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Nas. Illmatic.
Our final reinterpretation of the classic, created in wonderful MS Paint. Take a look at some other MS Paint created fan art , why don't cha?


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Patrick Aiello enters his third season as the head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels of MCLA Division I. Here, Aiello kicks off the 2013-2014 Ole Miss blog on ILGear.com with a reflection on where the program has been and what lies ahead.
Looking back from my first season as head coach to now, a couple words come to mind to describe the Ole Miss Lacrosse program — success and growth, both on and off the lacrosse field. As we begin fall, I look back and recall freshmen and sophomores, and these guys are now juniors and seniors. Where has the time gone? But what I can tell you about this team is the veteran players we have possess the leadership skills that can put Ole Miss in the upper echelon of the MCLA in 2014.
Being a lacrosse coach at a SEC school is quite the experience and such a privilege. Not many coaches and players can say they are playing or coaching lacrosse in the SEC. With that in mind, before arriving at Ole Miss I really did not think much of the MCLA. Playing at the NCAA Division I and II levels, that is all I ever knew. However, my first impression of lacrosse in the MCLA blew me away, and the level of talent and dedication got me extremely enthusiastic about coaching. I have not looked back since.
The Ole Miss Lacrosse program is on the rise and our goal is making that trip to Atlanta to play for the Southeastern Lacrosse championships (SELC). In year one as a team, we learned like all young programs do what it's like to be knocked around by better teams. In year two, we were right there losing in either overtime or by two and we know moving forward we can do it. Our motto this season is plain and simple: play hard and discipline lacrosse for four quarters, and at the end we look at the scoreboard. With a tough schedule planned for 2014, we will be tested very early. For example, we travel to Lafayette in Louisiana to play the Texas Longhorns, a program that is a top ten team every year and is a game that will make us better as a team moving forward.
One thing I can say growing up on Long Island and living in Mississippi for the past two and a half years lacrosse in the Southeastern Lacrosse Conference and the MCLA is the real deal and should not be overlooked. Lacrosse is growing at such a rapid pace across the country and building this Ole Miss lacrosse program is a big part of that. I am honored to be a part of it and ready to work and reach our goals in 2014. HOTTY TODDY!!!!!
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Instant Influence
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Up Front
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Under a new federal law, state DMVs will be forced into the role of immigration police.
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Anthony Thigpenn has spent years promoting reconciliation among blacks and Hispanics. L.A.'s new mayor needs him.
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Spoils 2005
A little old-fashioned patronage isn't the world's worst sin.
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Nothing in government lasts forever--but consent decrees come close. Is that necessary?
A Little Ethics Left Behind
It's easy to boost school test scores--if you don't care how you do it.
Urban Notebook
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When American Airlines pulled 200 daily flights out of St. Louis's Lambert Field airport in 2003, it wrecked the airport's finances. As you might have guessed, airports are weighted down with fixed costs-- things they must pay for regardless of how many people they serve, such as runways, terminals and baggage systems.
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Birchbrae enjoys a quiet rural location in the heart of Speyside and less than 5 miles from the town of Keith. It is located on a farm track set in 1 acre of natural woodland, overlooking open countryside. An ideal base for exploring the local towns and charming fishing villages of Moray and beyond. A great location for enjoying the great outdoors with excellent walking, fishing, golfing, sailing, skiing and cycling in the surrounding area and regions.
Moray is a mixed area of stunning beaches, fine quality food manufacturers, country pursuits, historical buildings, beautiful forests and hillsides, picturesque coastal & inland villages, the River Spey and the Speyside Way and least of all over 90 whisky distilleries. Inverness and Aberdeen are equi-distant and approximately 90 mins by car from the cottage. The Aberdeen - Inverness railway line stops at Keith Station.
Moray is the home of Baxter's Fine Foods; Gordon & Macphail Whisky Specialists; Johnston's of Elgin Cashmere; Elgin Cathedral & Biblical Garden; Glenfiddoch; Chivas Regal; Glen Grant; Macallan; Aberlour; and many other famous Whisky Distilleries.
Birchbrae enjoys a quiet rural location, set in 1 acre of natural woodland, overlooking open countryside. It offers spacious accommodation for 8 persons in 2 king size bedrooms ( 1 ensuite) and 2 twin bedded rooms. 2 Cots, 2 stair gates and 2 high chairs are available. Ample parking for up to 6 cars. The property has oil-fired central heating and an open log fire in the lounge. All fuel, bed linen and towels are provided. It has a fully equipped dining kitchen with range cooker, microwave, fridge and dishwasher. The utility room includes a drawer freezer and combi washer/dryer. The large garden has ample parking and has an 8 person hot tub. The cottage was built in 1999-2001 by ourselves in a natural clearing in a silver birch wood.
We provide numerous board games, music CDs, DVDs and a selection of books and magazines for all ages and tastes.
Around our cottage you'll see deer, foxes, rabbits, hares, chaffinches, bullfinches, woodpeckers, greenfinches, blue tits, great tits, coal tits, goldfinch, songthrush, wren, treecreepers and more.
Birchbrae is set in the heart of Speyside and surrounded by famous whisky distilleries, castles and historic monuments. It is the ideal base for exploring charming fishing villages, highland towns, or enjoying the great outdoors with excellent walking and cycling trails. Some of Scotland's finest links golf courses and scenic inland courses are nearby.
The River Spey is only 2 miles away where the best salmon beats are available. Trout fisheries are also nearby. The nearby towns of Elgin and Keith offer good shopping and entertainment whilst the cities of Aberdeen and Inverness are within reasonable traveling distance. The Lecht and Aviemore Ski areas are within an hour's drive. Horse riding, dolphin watching and country sports are available locally. Recently a number of excellent off road mountain biking trails have been opened. The cottage sits just a few miles from these trails and are easily accessed for all ages and abilities from novice to serious off road lovers.
We both moved to Moray for work reasons originally and then realised the beauty of living in the area. The people are very friendly and welcoming and there is a wide range of activities and facilities in the area. We originally lived in the historic fishing village of Burghead until we commenced building Birchbrae in 1999 ourselves. Work brought us back to Glasgow in 2004 and to ensure we could keep Birchbrae we decided to turn it in to a holiday home. However we don't intend to let go of Birchbrae and very much miss living there full time. We enjoy the outdoors especially cycling, canoeing, horse riding and plane spotting at RAF Lossiemouth !!
We are both in our late 40s/early 50s with a 10 yr old daughter. Suzanne classes Birchbrae as her natural home despite being a Glaswegian girl. Dougie (a paisley buddy) has lived in Moray much longer than Suzanne and enjoyed life as a Moray Rugby club player for many years. We both have made great friends in Moray and our best buddies live just along the road from Pluscarden Abbey. Our favourite treats in Moray are eating a cake & coffee at Boogie Woogie in Keith, pancakes at Baxters, ice cream from Fochabers, Chicken Tikka at the Kimberley Inn in Findhorn or a really good curry at the Al Bahar family run restaurant in Elgin. When we get time between changeovers we take a nostalgic trip over to Burghead (our old village), a walk along the beach, and over to either Lossiemouth for a bit of plane spotting or Findhorn for a nice pub meal at the Kimberly Inn. You'll often find us on our bikes at Speyside bay looking for dolphins & osprey and cycling inland up the Spey to Baxters for a pancake treat. Our favourite fish supply is in Buckie via Cullen beach for an ice cream or a bowl of Cullen Skink.
Suzanne & Dougie McIntyre purchased this cottage in 1999
Our heart is in Moray. The pace of life in Moray is fantastic. Within a few minutes you can be walking along golden sands, or lovely forests or do lunch and shop in the heart of Elgin. With this in mind and to satisfy Dougie's life time ambition to build a house we bought this plot from the farmer. The cottage is built on a natural clearing in the woodland which is slightly elevated from the main road. Origiinally the woodland was part of a large estate which was split up many many years ago. We named the cottage "Birch" as it's surrounded by Silver Birch trees and Brae meaning a small hill. Birchbrae is ideal for commuting to the main towns ( 20 mins in most directions) whilst living in the peace and quiet on a farm on the edge of a forest. Most fishing villages, towns and places of interest are within 20 - 60 mins drive from the cottage. The cottage itself is close to Ben Aigan, the monster mountain bike trails and the Speyside Way.
Our 1 acre garden is mostly forest with garden to the front. The cottage overlooks fields and to the forest covered hills towards Elgin. The sunsets are fantastic. The best thing to do on a sparkling clear frosty night is to sit in the toasty warm outdoor hot tub, watching the stars. Enjoy the rest of the evening at the log fire. After a day's site seeing relax with your favourite tipple at the kitchen table while someone else makes dinner or enjoy a summer's evening walk watching for deer and other wildlife on the farm track. The kids love playing in the garden building dens in the woods or checking out wildlife. Birchbrae is 100m from the nearest neighbour so within reason you can make as much noise as you wish without upsetting a neighbour or just enjoy the peace of having no neighbours.
Thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the cottage. The facilities were all good, cottage is in a beautiful spot with lovely views. The hot tub was well used in the evenings. It was nice to have a kitchen that a good deal of thought had gone into with plenty dishes and cutlery. We will be back hopefully for longer than a couple of nights, so much to see and do in the surrounding area especially the distilleries. Will definitely be recommending to friends and family.
Had the most wonderful time. House was perfect in every way. Owners was super every step of the way. Would highly recommend. Will definitely be back
Thanks for letting us stay in your lovely holiday home we had an excellent time! The kids loved being in the hot tub even in the snow. We would stay here again.
My family and I stayed at the cottage for a weekend in October. The cottage is a beautiful property, stocked with everything you require, including an amazing collection of board games that the kids loved. The hot tub was a bonus, again enjoyed by the whole family.
The owners couldn't have been more helpful, ensuring we had all the appropriate directions we required, included warnings of roadworks on roads to the cottage.
My family and I will definitely look at booking this location again.
Lovely and homely property with everything you need. Hot tub added to the experience. Friendly owners with lots of knowledge of the local area with very accurate directions to find the property.
It's been a great place for our two family holiday! It is indeed a lovely place with a nice view over the fields and hlls. It takes about 10 minutes to get to Keith (Supermarket, Petrol etc.), half an hour to the coast. Obvioulsy you come along destilleries everywhere.
The house is pretty new and offers plenty of space, especially the kitchen and the living room. The kitchen was very well equipped. In fact, there was nothing missing what I use at home. The cooker and the pots and everything were more than ok for 8 people. On our arrival we even found some lokal beer and wine in the kitchen.
The kids love the Hottub. The adults were more for the fireplace. There were logs for the fireplace provided for the whole week.
Suzanne was very friendly and helpful with every question. While emails took a bit of time sometimes, phoning was very nice, even for me (from Germany).
We can recommend this cottage strongly for every larger party. You will enjoy it.
The main local attractions are the many Speyside whisky distilleries, picturesque coastal and inland villages; historic castles; golf courses; beautiful beaches; mountain bike trails.
The City of Elgin and its beautiful cathedral (ruin) is only 12 miles (25 mins). It has a range of high street stores and independant retailers. Enjoy eating out at a choice of pubs & restaurants. Worthwhile trips to Baxters of Fochabers (speciality produce, shops, and restaurants), Johnstons of Elgin (cashmere and woollens), Brodie Countryfayre, Forres (retail complex - food court, novelties, gifts, restaurant), Walkers of Aberlour (Shortbread).
Approx 60 - 90 mins scenic drives takes you to: Battlefield of Culloden, Nairn, Banff, Huntly, Turriff, Aviemore, The Lecht, Inverurie, Royal Deeside and the cities of Inverness & Aberdeen.
Numerous golf courses including links, fishing & game sports, cycling, mountain biking, walking, hill walking. 2 mins from Birchbrae is House of Mulben (www.houseofmulben.com), and the Speyside way.
Other Activities: hill walking, forest walks, field sports, Quad biking, off road driving, dolphin watching.
Golf: Numerous inland and links golf courses.
Ski: 1 Hours' drive from the The Lecht or Cairngorm ranges, 90mins to Glenshee.
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Normally Saturday to Saturday bookings. Arrival after 4pm. Guests requested to leave by 10 am on Departure date. Times can be flexible if no guests in before or after rental dates.
Rates are fully inclusive of all fuels, logs, towels and bed linen and use of the hot tub. We also provide ample supplies of complimentary cleaning chemicals, laundry detergents, toilet paper and hand wash soap.
Well behaved pets accepted.
1 Acre garden is fenced on 3 sides however is open to front of cottage. Pets are required to be under control at all times and not left unattended in garden as cottage is sited on access farm track leading to a busy working farm with livestock. The Country code must be followed at all times.
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At the same time, it's hard not to sympathize a little bit with the politicians. They have to answer the same questions over and over again. The rumors of an independent bid have done real harm to Crist's efforts to court Republicans in the primary.
I think I have the answer to this problem. The key is for politicians to say more than, "I'm not going to do X." The key is for them to say something that would make doing X political suicide.
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I've said a million times that I'm not running for Senate as an independent or a Democrat. After saying that so many times, if I were to run for Senate as an independent or a Democrat that would make me a liar and a fraud. I'd deserve to be laughed off of the political stage because I would have lied to the people of Florida over and over and over again. To make this even more clear: You should not vote for me if I run as a Democrat or an independent. You probably shouldn't even shake my hand.
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I make these every year with the exception that I would NEVER rinse them and I use a combination of soy sauce, butter, salt and garlic. I roast them at 250 for 2 to 4 hours or until they are completely dried though out.
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I make these every year, but I've never tried it with cinnamon, that sounds delicious!
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I went on the Friday this year because of the line-up (Stormzy, Kano, Katy B - brilliant). The vibe was live and there were a strong selection of food stalls, including Voodoo Rays, Mama Jerk and DF Mexico. My only qualm was that the performer stage times weren't available on the grounds. I know you could find these on the website, but it would have been nice if these featured on the big screens or signs. It was a bit nightmarish to work out who was playing where, at what time!
A really great day festival to go to. Getting in and out is pretty painless, the food options are good and they always have a really varied and interesting selection of music going on. Nice friendly atmosphere with loads of stuff happening other than just music.
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It's also an absolutely terrible festival for visitors. I 100% agree with the below comment that the organisers are only interested in making a profit. There were way too many people for the amenities avaliable, you have to queue for hours for everything and the map that you buy there is horrendous!!! We could not find the manor at all and the bearded kitten manor was not even listed to use for a point of reference! What a total ans utter waste of money and a day!!! I will never go here again!
Terribly unpleasant event for local residents. Large part of the beautiful park cordoned off for over a week - no access to band stand or running track, excessive noise, drug dealers on every corner, people urinating everywhere. Last year it took months to put the park back to normal.
Greedy organisers interested only in making profit - completely disregarding local community.
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Afer having lived in Sweden for a year I always go to the Swedish food market in Ikea and stock up on a few Swedish food items that I used to love. Kakor Havreflarn biscuits are one of the things that I always get. We used to buy these all the time in the supermarket in Sweden. They are reasonably priced at Ikea, they are just £2.55 for a large 600g box.
Kakor Havreflarn are sweet oat crisp bisuits. The diect translation from Swedish is 'oat cakes cripsy biscuit', exactly what they are. They are basically sweet, thin, crispy biscuits which contain oat flakes. I would say that they taste a little bit like a crispy biscuit version of a flapjack. They are absolutely delicious, and they are not too sweet and sugary at all. They are especially good when you serve them with a cup of coffee or tea, or even a hot chocolate. I find that if I have anyone round for coffee and serve these with the hot drinks everyone comments how nice they are, and that are going to buy them themselves next time they take a trip to Ikea.
They last really well in a biscuit tin, they don't go soft at all. You do actually need to probably store them in a biscuit tin or a tub once the packet is open, as they would probably go soft otherwise.
The wonderful thing about biscuits (apart from their potential to be very tasty) is that they come in all shapes and sizes, and from all corners of the world.
'Havreflarn' are Swedish oat biscuits (sometimes referred to as 'oat crisps') which are truly delicious. Strangely enough, I got a packet of these from Ikea in Southampton, and I have no recollection of the price - I've tried looking them up on the net, but the only Ikea website that actually claims it sells Havreflarn is the Chinese one - so an 125kg box of these little beauties costs 10.50 Yuan!
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The biscuits themselves are round (but not perfectly formed), thin, and extremely crunchy. On first bite, I thought they were merely 'OK', but it's the sort of taste that really grows on you, and before long you realise that the word 'moreish' is perfectly suited to these Swedish wonders. Actually, my presumption that they are Swedish comes solely from the fact that they are sold in Ikea - so they may well be from somewhere else - although I can't research that either as Wikipedia has no mention of Havreflarn - they really are mystery biscuits.
The taste is sweet, but not sickly, and is actually reminiscent of toffee popcorn - which is never a bad thing. The consistency is very crunchy, but due to their thin nature, they don't fall into the category of 'teeth-breakers'.
On the downside, Havreflarn aren't very absorbent, so dipping them in a cup of tea (as I usually enjoy doing with my biscuits) is not best suited to these particularly tasty morsels.
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If you ever find yourself in Ikea, look out for these biscuits, and I'm sure you won't be disappointed. Due to their delicious taste and crunchy nature, they really are worth investing in - although going all the way to China to buy them may be a little extreme :)


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The PM job calculator: validation
Posted by Tom Grant on October 21, 2009
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[Last in this series about the Tech Product Management/Marketing Job And Department Profiler. Previous posts cover its origins, the design decisions that went into it, and the job specializations it profiles.]
From my grad student years, I know that a lot of mathematical models fall flat on their simulated faces because they don't get the testing they should. In the case of the PM job calculator/department profiler, I had to apply three different tests.
The tasks are many and varied
Last year, when I did the survey research on the state of the product management/product marketing job in technology companies, I vetted the list of tasks with a lot of PMs. Using their feedback, I added tasks, rethought others, and even merged a couple. The resulting list represented everything that PMs might be doing, depending on where they work.
That was the easy part.
The tasks define the jobs
A major goal of the Profiler is, as I explained in an earlier post, classifying PMs according to their specialization. A requirements-focused PM is not a product manager, who is not a release manager, who really isn't a product owner, who can't find the spare time to also be a community manager...You get the idea.
Consequently, the next test involved showing these job categories—defined by the tasks these roles perform, and the priority each task receives—to people who run PM departments. That group included the heads of product management teams, product marketing groups, and combination product management/product marketing departments.
Since no one's job description for any of these roles exactly resembles anyone else's, the goal wasn't to find perfect agreeement among job categories as they're defined in particular organizations. Instead, I did a version of "ideal type" analysis: does this definition offend your sense of what's essential about this role? Over the course of several conversations, I managed to develop a set of ideal types that everyone found more or less acceptable.
The jobs define the department
When I started this project, the stretch goal was finding a way of using the job-level results to help define what mix of people you might need at a departmental level. Surprisingly, that stage of the project was easier to complete than the job descriptions.
Perhaps that's because every senior director or VP of a PM organization focuses first on the type of person needed to perform a job, steps back a bit, and then figures out how many people, at what level of seniority, need to appear in the group portrait.
The most important choice was, which variables mattered? There are dozens you might consider, from the type of product to the size of the company. While all of these variables have some influence, they don't all have the same weight in determining what kind of team you need to build.
Once again, tasks proved to be the right starting point for this project, for a variety of reasons. For example, the degree to which someone can focus on their core responsibilities has a definite impact on how many of those people you need.
This last stage of validation revolved around the question, "You put this information into the black box, and out comes this picture of the kind of department you need. Does this picture make sense?" The results had to be good enough, since a perfect calculation is probably not possible. (Again, many variables have relevance, but it's necessary to focus on the ones that matter the most.) Perhaps not all of these people in this hypothetical department, in practice, report into the same group, but they have to exist somewhere in the company to provide adequate support and leadership for the product or service under development.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good
Even though perfect accuracy in the prediction of staffing needs—how many, in which roles, at what level of seniority—may be impossible, the "good enough" picture has definite value. For example, during the validation discussions, some PM department heads were interested in showing the results to their management to (surprise!) justify their staffing needs. Others spent time discussing the things they hadn't considered, such as tuning their organization to better support the sales team. Someone else spent a long time talking with me about where to shift particular tasks, if you take them off the shoulders of PMs.
In other words, the Profiler provides a starting point for a discussion about organizational changes. Without it, you might not be able to have that discussion, since the proverbial devil is truly in the details. Making a particular task, such as maintaining the product roadmap, a higher or lower priority affects other PM responsibilities. It also begs a lot of questions about skills, time management, deliverables, and compensation.
However, if you didn't have some kind of detailed portrait of what PM does and doesn't do, it's difficult to get to these second-order questions, such as professional development. If you don't force yourself to be specific about PM priorities, then there's always a case for something else to get added to the to-do list. Unfortunately, that often leads to the situation in which, if everything is a priority, then nothing is.
[Cross-posted at The Heretech.]
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One of the biggest changes being put into effect for this season is a split between two categories within the top MotoGP class. While Honda and Yamaha will duke it out in the Factory category with four bikes each, Ducati has opted to go for the new Open category. While the Factory bikes can map their own ECU software, the Open teams have to use spec software but get more fuel, more engines and can continue to develop their engines over the course of the season – key benefits that Ducati sees as intrinsic to winning in the new era of grand prix motorcycle racing.
As a late off-season change, though, race organizers decided Ducati would run in its own class, called Factory 2, which could see the Italian team lose some of its Open-category advantages, depending on how well the team finishes come the start of the season. Feel free to read more about Factory 2 and its ramifications here.
The Italian team revealed its new Desmosedici GP14 bike – complete with matte livery – at an Audi press conference in Germany on Monday. The bike packs a 1,000cc V4 engine with over 235 horsepower on tap, capable of propelling it to a top speed in excess of 205 miles per hour. With former champions Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi having left Ducati over the course of the past couple of seasons, the new Desmosedici will be campaigned by factory riders Andrea Dovizioso and Cal Crutchlow and by privateers Andrea Iannone and Yonny Hernandez.
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Ligonier writer shares sayings from her youth
"Curiosity killed the cat," "Many hands make light work," "An apple doesn't fall far from the tree," — these sayings and many more are among those that Mildred Taylor recalls her mother quoting throughout her life.
In her recently released memoir "As Mother Would Say…" Taylor, a Ligonier Township resident, shares experiences from her childhood growing up in North Carolina in the 1930s and 1940s. The focus of the story is on her mother — a strong, yet insecure woman whose communication with her daughter often consisted of sayings and proverbs.
Taylor, who has been fond of writing from a very early age, said she had been urged throughout the years by both a childhood friend and her husband to put these memories of her mother down on paper. She finally began to write the memoir after she told her young grandson 'Don't put the cart before the horse' and he was unfamiliar with the saying.
"He didn't understand," said Taylor, "and I realized these sayings are dying. I wanted to preserve them for my five grandchildren and their generation."
Taylor brainstormed sayings and memories for her book with her biggest supporter and husband of 60 years, Gustav Taylor. Not only was he encouraging of the whole process, he helped put the manuscript together and proofread late additions to the book.
"Without Gus, there would be no book," Taylor said.
The emotions in Taylor's narrative are enhanced with poetry and black and white photos, bringing the book to life and giving the reader a true sense of what the author's childhood was like and the relationship she shared with her parents.
"Hers is a poignant, personal story of a time in our history that most people have forgotten or never learned," said Gus Taylor.
Taylor's love of writing began in fifth grade, when her teacher encouraged her to write a poem. Additionally, Taylor recalls her senior English teacher focusing on writing and fondly said that teacher was the biggest influence in life.
"She encouraged me to go to college and major in writing," said Taylor. "It only takes one person to encourage you."
She was so influenced by the positive educational experiences in her life, that Taylor became an elementary school teacher and taught in Hempfield Area School District for 30 years and then at Ligonier Valley Learning Center for an additional six years. Throughout her years of teaching, she continued with her writing and won multiple awards for her poetry. Taylor has been published in several anthologies and has been both an active member and president of the Pittsburgh Poetry Society for more than 40 years.
Taylor hopes to introduce the public to her book by giving readings of her memoir at local establishments and participating in book singings. Presently, "As Mother Would Say…" can be purchased at Ligonier Outfitters and John M Clark Designer Goldsmith, both located on West Main Street in Ligonier, or by contacting Taylor at firstname.lastname@example.com.
"Throughout her life, Mildred Taylor has been a prolific and truly talented writer. Her memoir is a fine collection of precious memories," said Eugene Price, an author and editor residing in NC.
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