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Many women experience a variety of unpleasant symptoms in the week or two before menstruating. These include irritability, anger, headaches, anxiety, depression, fatigue, fluid retention, and breast tenderness. When emotional symptoms related to depression predominate in PMS, the condition is sometimes called premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). These symptoms undoubtedly result from hormonal changes of the menstrual cycle, but apart from that general statement, medical researchers do not know the cause of PMS or how to treat it.
Conventional treatments for PMS and PMDD include antidepressants, beta-blockers, diuretics, oral contraceptives, and other hormonally active formulations. Of all these, antidepressants in the SSRI family (such as Prozac) are perhaps the most effective.
There is fairly good evidence that calcium supplements can significantly reduce all the major symptoms of PMS. There is also some evidence for the herbs chasteberry and ginkgo. Vitamin B6 is widely recommended as well, but its scientific record is mixed at best.
A large double-blind, placebo-controlled study found positive results using calcium for the treatment of PMS symptoms.1 Participants took 300 mg of calcium (as calcium carbonate) four times daily. Compared to placebo, calcium significantly reduced mood swings, pain, bloating, depression, back pain, and food cravings.
Similar findings were also seen in earlier preliminary studies of calcium for PMS.2,3
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Calcium article.
The herb chasteberry is widely used in Europe as a treatment for PMS symptoms. More than most herbs, chasteberry is frequently called by its Latin names: Vitex or Vitex agnus-castus.
A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 178 women found that treatment with chasteberry over 3 menstrual cycles significantly reduced PMS symptoms.8 The dose used was one tablet 3 times daily of a chasteberry dry extract. Women in the treatment group experienced significant improvements in symptoms, including irritability, depression, headache, and breast tenderness.
A double-blind randomized trial of 162 women with PMS compared 8, 20, and 30 mg doses of chasteberry and placebo over the course of three menstrual cycles. Women who took 20mg or 30mg of chasteberry had significantly greater reduction in symptom scores compared to placebo with the greatest reduction in 20 mg dose. There was no significant difference when comparing 8mg to placebo.45
Unfortunately, there is little corroborating evidence as yet for this one well-designed study. A previous double-blind trial compared chasteberry to vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) instead of placebo.9 The two treatments proved equally effective. However, because vitamin B 6 itself has not been shown effective for PMS ( see below), these results mean little.10
Even better evidence indicates that chasteberry can help the cyclic breast tenderness often, but not necessarily, connected with PMS.
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Chasteberry article.
Vitamin B 6 has been used for PMS for many decades, by both European and US physicians. However, the results of scientific studies are mixed at best. The most recent and best-designed double-blind study, enrolling 120 women, found no benefit.16 In this trial, three prescription drugs were compared against vitamin B 6 (pyridoxine, at 300 mg daily) and placebo. All study participants received 3 months of treatment and 3 months of placebo. Vitamin B 6 proved to be no better than placebo.
Approximately a dozen other double-blind studies have investigated the effectiveness of vitamin B 6 for PMS, but none were well designed, and the results were mixed.17,18 Some books on natural medicine report that the negative results in some of these studies were due to insufficient B 6 dosage, but in reality there was no clear link between dosage and effectiveness.
It has been suggested that the combination of B 6 and magnesium might be more effective than either treatment alone,19 but this remains to be proven.
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Vitamin B6 article.
One double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluated the benefits of Ginkgo biloba extract for women with PMS symptoms.20 This trial enrolled 143 women, 18 to 45 years of age, and followed them for two menstrual cycles. Each woman received either the ginkgo extract (80 mg twice daily) or placebo on day 16 of the first cycle. Treatment was continued until day 5 of the next cycle, and resumed again on day 16 of that cycle. As compared to placebo, ginkgo significantly relieved major symptoms of PMS, especially breast pain and emotional disturbance. In another similarly designed trial involving 85 university students, Ginkgo biloba L. significantly reduced PMS symptom severity compared to placebo.43
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Ginkgo article.
Preliminary studies suggest that magnesium may also be helpful in PMS. A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 32 women found that magnesium taken from day 15 of the menstrual cycle to the onset of menstrual flow could significantly improve premenstrual mood changes.21
Another small double-blind preliminary study found that regular use of magnesium could reduce symptoms of PMS-related fluid retention.22 In this study, 38 women were given magnesium or placebo for 2 months. The results showed no effect after one cycle, but by the end of two cycles, magnesium significantly reduced weight gain, swelling of extremities, breast tenderness, and abdominal bloating.
In addition, one small double-blind study (20 participants) found that magnesium supplementation might help prevent menstrual migraines.23
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Magnesium article.
As mentioned earlier, preliminary evidence suggests that combining vitamin B 6 with magnesium might improve the results.24
Several double-blind, placebo-controlled studies, enrolling a total of about 400 women, found evidence that multivitamin and mineral supplements may be helpful for PMS.26-29 It is not clear which ingredients in these supplements played a role.
Preliminary double-blind trials also suggest that vitamin E may be helpful for PMS.25,33
A product containing grass pollen, royal jelly (a product made by bees), and the pistils (seed-bearing parts) of grass has been proposed for use in PMS. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial of 32 women, use of the product for two menstrual cycles appeared to significantly improve PMS symptoms as compared to use of placebo.34 Royal jelly alone was associated with reduced PMS symptoms (when compared to placebo) in a randomized trial of 110 women. The jelly was given daily on the first day of menstruation for 2 consecutive cycles.47
A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 30 women with complaints of premenstrual fluid retention found that use of oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs) at a dose of 320 mg daily significantly reduced the sensation of fluid retention in the leg; however, actual leg swelling as measured was not significantly improved.40
One poorly designed human trial hints that krill oil may be helpful for some PMS symptoms.41 However, regular use of fish oil resulted in symptom improvement. In a randomized trial of 139 women, 2 g of fish oil per day for 3 months reduced depression, lack of concentration, anxiety, and bloating severity when compared to placebo. Fish oil was also associated in reduced duration time of symptoms, in addition to headache and breast tenderness.46
In a 24-week, double-blind study, 49 women with menstrual migraines received either placebo or a combination supplement containing soy isoflavones, dong quai, and black cohosh extracts.35 The treatment proved at least somewhat more effective than placebo. Soy isoflavones alone have also shown some potential benefit.42
Evening primrose oil, a source of the omega-6 fatty acids, was once thought to be helpful for cyclic breast pain. However, it probably does not work for this purpose. It has also been proposed as a treatment for general PMS symptoms, but there is only minimal supporting evidence.30
Highly preliminary evidence suggests that St. John's wort might be helpful for mood changes in PMS.32
One study often cited as evidence that massage therapy is helpful for PMS was fatally flawed by the absence of a control group.36 However, a better-designed trial compared reflexology (a special form of massage involving primarily the foot) against fake reflexology in 38 women with PMS symptoms and found evidence that real reflexology was more effective.37 A small crossover trial of chiropractic manipulation for PMS symptoms found equivocal results at best.38
In a 2010 review of nine clinical trials, researchers could not conclusively determine the effectivenes of acupuncture for premenstrual syndrome due to the poor quality of the studies.44 However, acupressure to specific points near the liver and large intestine was associated with significant improvements in symptoms and quality of life. A randomized trial of 97 women with moderate to severe PMS symptoms compared acupressure to sham acupressure. Sessions were coordinated with the timing of menstrual cycles and done daily for 20 minutes at a time.48
Progesterone cream is sometimes recommended for PMS, but there is no meaningful evidence that it is effective.31
One study failed to find the supplement inositol helpful for PMS.39
For a discussion of homeopathic approaches to PMS, see the Homeopathy Database.
1. Thys-Jacobs S, Starkey P, Bernstein D, et al. Calcium carbonate and the premenstrual syndrome: effects on premenstrual and menstrual symptoms. Premenstrual Syndrome Study Group. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1998;179:444-452.
2. Alvir JM, Thys-Jacobs S. Premenstrual and menstrual symptom clusters and response to calcium treatment. Psychopharmacol Bull. 1991;27:145-148.
3. Thys-Jacobs S, Ceccarelli S, Bierman A, et al. Calcium supplementation in premenstrual syndrome: a randomized crossover trial. J Gen Intern Med. 1989;4:183-189.
4. Milewicz A, Gejdel E, Sworen H, et al. Vitex agnus-castus extract in the treatment of luteal phase defects due to latent hyperprolactinemia. Results of a randomized placebo-controlled double-blind study [translated from German]. Arzneimittelforschung. 1993;43:752-756.
5. Jarry H, Leonhardt S, Gorkow C, et al. In vitro prolactin but not LH and FSH release is inhibited by compounds in extracts of Agnus castus: direct evidence for a dopaminergic principle by the dopamine receptor assay. Exp Clin Endocrinol. 1994;102:448-454.
6. Sliutz G, Speiser P, Schultz AM, et al. Agnus castus extracts inhibit prolactin secretion of rat pituitary cells. Horm Metab Res. 1993;25:253-255.
7. Schulz V, Hansel R, Tyler VE. Rational Phytotherapy: A Physicians' Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag; 1998:241-242.
8. Schellenberg R. Treatment for the premenstrual syndrome with agnus castus fruit extract: prospective, randomised, placebo controlled study. BMJ. 2001;322:134-137.
9. Lauritzen C, Reuter HD, Repges R, et al. Treatment of premenstrual tension syndrome with Vitex agnus castus. Controlled, double-blind study versus pyridoxine. Phytomedicine. 1997;4:183-189.
10. Kleijnen J, Ter Riet G, Knipschild P. Vitamin B6 in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome—a review. Br J Obstet Gynaecol. 1990;97:847-852.
11. Dittmar FW, Bohnert KJ, Peeters M, et al. Premenstrual syndrome: treatment with a phytopharmaceutical [translated from German]. Therapie Woche Gynakol. 1992;5:60-68.
12. Peters-Welte C, Albrecht M. Menstrual abnormalities and PMS: Vitex agnus castus [translated from German]. Therapie Woche Gynakol. 1994;7:49-52.
16. Diegoli MSC, da Fonseca AM, Diegoli CA, et al. A double-blind trial of four medications to treat severe premenstrual syndrome. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 1998;62:63-67.
17. Kleijnen J, Ter Riet G, Knipschild P. Vitamin B6 in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome—a review. Br J Obstet Gynaecol. 1990;97:847-852.
18. Wyatt KM, Dimmock PW, Jones PW, et al. Efficacy of vitamin B6 in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome: systematic review. BMJ. 1999;318:1375-1381.
19. De Souza MC, Walker AF, Robinson PA, et al. A synergistic effect of a daily supplement for 1 month of 200 mg magnesium plus 50 mg vitamin B6 for the relief of anxiety-related premenstrual symptoms: a randomized, double-blind, crossover study. J Womens Health Gend Based Med. 2000;9:131-139.
20. Tamborini A, Taurelle R. Value of standardized Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb 761) in the management of congestive symptoms of premenstrual syndrome [translated from French]. Rev Fr Gynecol Obstet. 1993;88:447-457.
21. Facchinetti F, Bolrella P, Sances G, et al. Oral magnesium successfully relieves premenstrual mood changes. Obstet Gynecol. 1991;78:177-181.
22. Walker AF, De Souza MC, Vickers MF, et al. Magnesium supplementation alleviates premenstrual symptoms of fluid retention. J Womens Health. 1998;7:1157-1165.
23. Facchinetti F, Sances G, Borella P, et al. Magnesium prophylaxis of menstrual migraine: effects on intracellular magnesium. Headache. 1991;31:298-301.
24. De Souza MC, Walker AF, Robinson PA, et al. A synergistic effect of a daily supplement for 1 month of 200 mg magnesium plus 50 mg vitamin B6 for the relief of anxiety-related premenstrual symptoms: a randomized, double-blind, crossover study. J Womens Health Gend Based Med. 2000;9:131-139.
25. London RS, Murphy L, Kitlowski KE, et al. Efficacy of alpha-tocopherol in the treatment of the premenstrual syndrome. J Reprod Med. 1987;32:400-404.
26. London RS, Bradley L, Chiamori NY. Effect of a nutritional supplement on premenstrual symptomatology in women with premenstrual syndrome: a double-blind longitudinal study. J Am Coll Nutr. 1991;10:494-499.
27. Reynolds MA, London RS. Efficacy of a multivitamin/mineral supplement in the treatment of the premenstrual syndrome [abstract]. J Am Coll Nutr. 1988;7:416.
28. Stewart A. Clinical and biochemical effects of nutritional supplementation on the premenstrual syndrome. J Reprod Med. 1987;32:435-441.
29. Chakmakjian ZH, Higgins CE, Abraham GE. The effect of a nutritional supplement, Optivite® for women, on premenstrual tension syndromes: II. Effect on symptomatology, using a double-blind, cross-over design. J Appl Nutr. 1985;37:12-17.
30. Puolakka J, Makarainen L, Viinikka L, et al. Biochemical and clinical effects of treating the premenstrual syndrome with prostaglandin synthesis precursors. J Reprod Med. 1985;30:149-153.
31. Dittmar FW, Bohnert KJ, Peeters M, et al. Premenstrual syndrome: treatment with a phytopharmaceutical [translated from German]. Therapie Woche Gynakol. 1992;5:60-68.
32. Stevinson C, Ernst E. A pilot study of Hypericum perforatum for the treatment of premenstrual syndrome. BJOG. 2000;107:870-876.
33. London RS, Sundaram GS, Murphy L, et al. The effect of alpha-tocopherol on premenstrual symptomatology: a double-blind study. J Am Coll Nutr. 1983;2:115-122.
34. Winther K, Hedman C. Assessment of the effects of the herbal remedy Femal on the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Curr Ther Res Clin Exp. 2002;63:344-353.
35. Burke BE, Olson RD, Cusack BJ. Randomized, controlled trial of phytoestrogen in the prophylactic treatment of menstrual migraine. Biomed Pharmacother. 2002;56:283-288.
36. Hernandez-Reif M, Martinez A, Field T, et al. Premenstrual symptoms are relieved by massage therapy. J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol. 2000;21:9-15.
37. Oleson T, Flocco W. Randomized controlled study of premenstrual symptoms treated with ear, hand, and foot reflexology. Obstet Gynecol. 1993;82:906-911.
38. Walsh MJ, Polus BI. A randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial on the efficacy of chiropractic therapy on premenstrual syndrome. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1999;22:582-585.
39. Nemets B, Talesnick B, Belmaker RH, et al. Myo-inositol has no beneficial effect on premenstrual dysphoric disorder. World J Biol Psychiatry. 2002;3:147-149.
40. Christie S, Walker AF, Hicks SM, et al. Flavonoid supplement improves leg health and reduces fluid retention in pre-menopausal women in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Phytomedicine. 2004;11:11-7.
41. Sampalis F, Bunea R, Pelland MF, et al. Evaluation of the effects of Neptune Krill Oil on the management of premenstrual syndrome and dysmenorrhea. Altern Med Rev. 2003;8:171-179.
42. Bryant M, Cassidy A, Hill C, et al. Effect of consumption of soy isoflavones on behavioural, somatic and affective symptoms in women with premenstrual syndrome. Br J Nutr. 2005;93:731-739.
43. Ozgoli G, Selselei EA, Mojab F, et al. A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of Ginkgo biloba L. in treatment of premenstrual syndrome. J Altern Complement Med. 2009;15:845-51.
44. Cho SH, Kim J. Efficacy of acupuncture in management of premenstrual syndrome: a systematic review. Complement Ther Med. 2010 Apr;18(2):104.
45. Schellenberg R, Zimmermann C, et al. Dose-dependent efficacy of the Vitex agnus castus extract Ze 440 in patients suffering from premenstrual syndrome. Phytomedicine. 2012;19(14):1325-1331.
46. Evaluation of the effect of omega-3 fatty acids in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome: "a pilot trial". Complement Ther Med. 2013;21(3):141-146.
47. Taavoni S, Barkhordari F, Goushegir A, Haghani. Effect of Royal Jelly on premenstrual syndrome among Iranian medical sciences students: a randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled study. Complement Ther Med. 2014;22(4):601-606.
48. Bazarganipour F, Taghavi SA, Allan H, et al. The effect of applying pressure to the LIV3 and LI4 on the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome: A randomized clinical trial. Complement Ther Med. 2017;31:65-70.
Last reviewed September 2019 by EBSCO Medical Review Board Mary-Beth Seymour, RN Last Updated: 3/19/2020


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Science Director, Leatherback Trust
Why have Pacific leatherback sea turtles almost disappeared? Look for answers and solutions on Costa Rica's beaches.
Earthwatch scientist Dr. Bibi Santidrián Tomillo, the science director of the Leatherback Trust, has worked with this project for over 10 years. Her areas of expertise include population biology, marine biology, and conservation. Her current research focuses on the effect of climatic events on the hatching success of leatherback turtles and other reptiles. She supervises the research of the field station and connects research and management by working closely with the national park authorities.
Team deploying satellite transmitter on pacific green on Cabuyal.

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The really good news from April's employment report is that all the pessimistic, end-of-the-world, spring-swoon forecasters were wrong. It wasn't a fabulous report. But it handily beat Wall Street expectations. Stock markets soared on the news.
The bad news, however, is that the U.S. continues to fall further behind its own long-term trends for jobs and economic growth. And lately, hours worked — a key labor measure — have begun to fall.
First, the good: Nonfarm payrolls rose by 165,000 last month, with private payrolls up 176,000. And the prior two months were revised higher by a net 114,000. The unemployment rate fell slightly from 7.6 to 7.5 percent.
And with all the hysteria over the economic evils of the spending-cut sequester, government jobs have fallen only by an average of 5,000 over the past three months — dwarfed by private job gains. Keynesians should weep. So might President Obama. The sequester doom and gloom has not come to pass. In fact, 4 percent real growth in the private economy in the first quarter far outstrips the slippage in government spending.
The 10-year, $1 trillion spending cut launched in 2011 and the 10-year, $1 trillion sequester spending cut that began this year are bright spots in economic policy. As a share of GDP, federal spending is now less than 23 percent, down from a peak of 25 percent. That helps take the government's boot off the neck of the free-enterprise economy. It leaves more resources in the private sector, letting business — the real hero behind the modest growth we have — breathe a little easier.
But as good as it is that more Americans are working, they may be working fewer hours. Not a good trend.
Total private hours worked are declining. They fell 0.4 percent in April, with manufacturing hours dropping 0.2 percent. And aggregate hours worked for all employees fell 0.4 percent. These are worrisome trends for the future. This may be a harbinger of the ill effects of the job-killing Obamacare program, where rising tax, mandate, and regulatory costs penalize the fiftieth worker hired and the thirtieth hour worked in small business.
Fearing Obamacare, profitable businesses are reluctant to invest in the kinds of capital projects that create jobs. This is one reason job growth is falling short by at least 100,000 per month.
Nonfarm payrolls remain 2.6 million short of the prior peak reached in January 2008. What's more, roughly 22 million people are effectively unemployed because they're actually not working, underemployed, or forced to work only part time.
And partly because people are dropping out of the labor force, or collecting government benefits instead of working, the employment-to-population ratio, which peaked at 64.6 percent in April 2000, has dropped to 56.8 percent. That translates to a loss of roughly 10 million jobs from the long-term trend line. It's a huge waste of human capital and talent, as well as economic growth.
What's more, the anemic 2.1 percent real GDP recovery of the last 15 quarters (compare that with the 4.4 percent post-WWII average) has thus far created an output gap of roughly $3 trillion, according to RDQ economist John Ryding. This country will need to grow at more than 5 percent yearly for more than a decade if that economic gap is to be closed.
Or think of this: From 1950 through 2007, the long-term historical U.S. economic growth rate was 3.25 percent yearly after inflation. Today we are a staggering 20 percent below that trend.
But a 5 percent growth target would at least get us back on the right directional track. Growth solves a lot of problems. Over 10 years, 5 percent growth could reduce the tax-hike-threatening budget deficit by over $7 trillion.
Is 5 percent growth possible? It could be, with the right market-oriented incentives for work, investment, innovation, immigration, health, and retirement. Keep the heat on spending restraint. And don't forget a sound dollar.
In other words, stop our downward economic course. The U.S. needs an ambitious growth agenda. There is no time to waste.
Larry Kudlow is the host of CNBC's "The Kudlow Report."


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Before and After School Enrichment
Before School: 6:00 – 7:30 a.m.
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Please note: The LKC cell phone will be answered during the hours of 6:00 – 7:15 a.m. and 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. If you are calling between these times, your message will be answered before or after the program hours.
The Legacy Kids Care Program (LKC) provides a safe, structured, caring, enriching and affordable program led by Legacy Traditional School trained and experienced staff at all locations. LKC is designed with our busy parents in mind; LKC students remain on-site, eliminating the need for additional transportation to a child care center. LKC students participate in fun educational activities, spend time with friends and receive homework assistance (afternoon sessions). LKC is available before and after school and begins on the first day of school and ends on the last day of school.
A one-time non-refundable $70 registration fee per family per school year applies to all schedule types.
The Consistent Schedule Type is available for any family who would like the same consistent days (5 days each week) for the entire school year. Rates will be locked in for the entire school year or until a withdrawal request has been submitted via Eleyo. Rates are billed monthly.
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The "Pick Your Days" schedule type is available for families needing the flexibility to pick different days of the week throughout the school year. Days may be added or removed if requested prior to the deadline before attendance (deadline is Tuesday's at 11:59 pm). Rates are billed weekly.
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For a first-time Ride the Rockies rider, a gentle introduction
GRAND JUNCTION — When Ride the Rockies began on a June day in 1986, it would be another three months before I was born.
And now, on Sunday, I embarked on my first tour — 30 years after the stories ride established by The Denver Post. I graduated six years ago from college, where I trained and competed in cross country and track and field at the University of Richmond. So my understanding of suffering and pain is there, but it's been dormant for some time.
A few months ago, at the urging of a friend, I bought my first road bike off a guy from Craiglist in Denver who told me it had ridden in two previous Ride the Rockies. I decided a few months ago to sign up, because I had heard about it for years, edited posts on this very blog from the comfort of our offices in Denver.
PHOTOS: Day 1 of Ride the Rockies 2015 at Colorado National Monument
And I wanted to get back into the endurance game — put something on my calendar, challenge myself. Reintroduce the training. Reacquaint with the pain. Even Sunday, back in the group rides, I'm reminded of what it's like.
To say I've been anxious before this — like so many others — is an understatement. I know — and my body knows — when it's fit and ready. I've put miles in, and done most of my climbing up Lookout Mountain in Golden, most recently last week. I'm better and faster than when I started, but what will it be like on Day 2, when we ride for nearly 100 miles and ascend for some 30 miles? I'm not sure, but I'm here to find out.


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Okay, to be fair, Space Jam makes everything better—but even so, let's not undersell the work of Gabriel Valenciano here. The fellow seems intent on souping up the selfie (aka, self-portraits) via what he calls "Super Selfies."
Basically, Super Selfies are short, condensed video clips of the man going wild on camera while a song booms in the background. Also, Super Selfies usually end with Valenciano shirtless. It's silly, yes, but also kind of fantastic—and the Space Jam Super Selfie, which you can view above, is just one example.
We've also got The Dark Knight Super Selfies:
A Michael Jackson Super Selfie:
And a SUPREME Super Selfie:
Welp. Guess we all better step our selfie game up, eh?


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Shoppers rushing home with their treasures this holiday season can add another thing to their to-do lists: Stay alert for the signs of aggressive driving in other drivers or perhaps even bubbling up in themselves.
While the holidays are generally considered a happy time of year, many people are under considerable stress trying to wrap up all the things they want to get done. Mix stress with other factors and the opportunity for aggressive driving heightens.
Factors in holiday driving
- More people. During the shopping season, there are typically more people on the streets and freeways than at other times of the year and the roads may be busy at additional times during the day and evening. When out-of-towners come in to shop or visit, their unfamiliarity with the location can add to the congestion.
- Seasonal stress. Don't have enough time to get everything done? You're not the only one. Tensions and frustration can creep up on even the best drivers and can cause them to lose their cool.
- Poor weather. Driving in winter conditions can slow down traffic. Drivers who are already irritable may become impatient and take unnecessary chances on slippery roads.
- Too much celebrating. When folks start the party early then hit the roads, it's a recipe for disaster. Even a little alcohol can make some drivers more aggressive; larger quantities simply make drivers dangerous.
Avoid aggressive driving behavior
- Don't hit the gas pedal. Plan extra time to get to your destination to account for weather conditions, heavy traffic or parking lot congestion.
- Plan ahead. Anticipate that traffic will be heavier and give yourself more time to maneuver in holiday crowds. Back off the speed and don't tailgate as it's one of the top triggers of aggressive driving incidents. Another trigger? Making frequent or last-minute lane changes. Where possible, stay in the lane that will be closest to your planned exit to avoid sudden moves.
- Start off calm. Don't go out to shop if you're already stressed. Other drivers' actions may immediately set you on edge, prompting you to respond negatively.
- Stay alert. Focus on the job of driving rather than on all the details you have to take care of. Watch the traffic patterns and keep an eye on drivers who are speeding or driving erratically.
- Take a deep breath. Find a way to stay calm in tense situations. Keep breathing, play holiday music or listen to a book on tape. When witnessing aggressive driving, don't make eye contact or respond in kind to an aggressive driver. Both actions may fuel the driver's anger. Recognize that aggressive driving is not personal and it's not a race. Move out of the way of those who are driving erratically.


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Singita Boulders Lodge
Experience African Tranquility
Singita Boulders Lodge is located in the Sabi Sand on 18,000 hectares (45,000 acres) of private land in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve on the western border of the Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga province, South Africa. Singita Boulders Lodge has a contemporary air of tranquility that honors Africa in an authentic way. Inspiring the name Boulders was an enormous boulder that sat right in the middle of the place where the wine cellar was to be built. A simple decision was made to build the cellar around the boulder. Guests can enjoy wrap-around views from most parts of the natural stone lodge, and the lookout deck offers the perfect spot from which to observe wildlife drawn to the Sand River. The quiet pond alongside the thatched lounge area allows the light and the landscape inside to the wide open spaces, where straw baskets, neutral shades and textured fabrics complement wooden furniture. Singita Boulders Lodge offers twelve suites, all with their own ensuite bathroom and shower, outside shower, private heated swimming pool, double-sided fireplace, mini-bar and fridge, room mini-safe, air conditioning, overhead fans, private lounge, direct dial telephones and game-viewing deck. All the suites have direct-dial telephones, and the library has two computers and direct internet links. The main lodge has lounge and timber deck dining areas overlooking the Sand River, a bar area and traditional open boma, gymnasium, health spa, library and wine cellar. Activities on offer include twice-daily game drives in open land rovers accompanied by experienced guides and trackers, guided safari walks on request, mountain biking and archery. Enjoy a large selection of spa treatments available at an additional cost.
Availability & Pricing
The availability calendar for this property is not yet connected. Please call one of our safari specialists at 800-995-8689 to request current availability.
Accommodation Details
- Price: From $2,442 per person per night
- Location: Southern Africa, South Africa
- Age Minimum: 10 years old
- # of Beds: 24 beds
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The latest hickup over Proposition 23, which its backers call the California Jobs Initiative, is about the nature of the law it seeks to suspend, AB 32, known as Global Warming Solutions Act. AB 32 was enacted in 2006, and the heart of the law puts California on a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 by 2020.
The Schwarzenegger administration has said that the law would create 100,000 "green" jobs in new industries, thereby making the law a jobs-creation effort, which is supposed to be phased in beginning next year.
Recently, new studies suggest that AB 32 may create only 10,000 new jobs, suggesting less value to the law from an economic perspective. Proponents of Proposition 23 have seized this new estimate as yet another reason for suspending AB 32. They argue that while the law will create few jobs, it's certain to kill hundreds of thousands of jobs in manufacturing and assembly plants that are unwilling or unable to convert their facilities to meet new standards.
The jobs debate is interesting and important, but it addresses only one side of the greenhouse gas emmisions question. Even if we accept the lower figures and the potential of some lost jobs, there is another side of the question--our physical health in a polluted environment.
Too often left out are the costs of California's tortured air quality in the forms of premature deaths, asthma, and environmental devastation. These issues don't attract the same attention because they have emerged over decades and are hard for many of us to see and feel, unlike a pink slip at the work place. Still collectively, they add up to tens of billions of dollars and thousands of lost lives annually in harm to Californians--19,000 per year, in fact, according to the American Lung Association.
The most recent polls show Californians are pleased with AB 32 by a margin of about 2-to-1. This seems to mean that whatever their concerns about jobs, they are more worried about the state of the environment and its costs to society. It's an interesting cunundrum that pits economic security against quality of life. If California opts for the latter in rejecting Proposition 23, it will be yet another way in which this state marches to its own political drum beat.


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McObject has announced it is offering support for its Perst object-oriented, open source embedded database on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphone platform, after Windows mobile software experts in the UK ported Perst (along with McObject's related Silverlight demo) to WP7, and a Microsoft executive guiding WP7 developer relations described the port as "epic."
APPA Mundi, a UK consulting firm with deep experience in developing Windows-based mobile software, first offered Perst for WP7 from its website in early June. "There is a database available that WP7 Silverlight developers can use," blogged Andy Wigley, an APPA Mundi principal and Microsoft device application MVP, alluding to WP7's tight integration with Microsoft Silverlight technology, a major improvement in the platform that enables developers to create richer smartphone applications.
"Using Perst for .NET, developers using Silverlight can now include true database management system features in their Silverlight applications, including adding persistence to this data by storing it in a container file in isolated storage," Wigley blogged.
Wigley is successfully using Perst in the WP7 emulator and looks forward to working with it on WP7 phones when they become available to developers later this summer. He expects to see excellent performance, because in tests against other mobile databases on Windows, Perst "blew them out of the water," he said.
McObject has added the code ported by APPA Mundi to the Perst for .NET distribution and supports the platform, effective immediately, McObject CEO Steve Graves said. "The exciting thing about open source software such as Perst is the amount of innovation that comes from the community, resulting in the fastest possible response to marketplace demands," Graves said.
Business users are a major WP7 target market. Microsoft says that 90 percent of WP7 target customers use smartphones for business purposes, and 61 percent use their phones equally or more for business compared to personal use.
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|For one hundred and fifty years, Mystic Falls has been the kind of town that everybody wants to call home, safe, prospers, welcoming.
— Richard in Founder's Day
Mayor Richard Lockwood was the former Mayor of Mystic Falls, Virginia and a carrier of the werewolf gene. He married a human named Carol and they had a son together, Tyler. During Founder's Day, he was affected by the device, leading others to believe he was a vampire and killing him because of it.
Richard was a member of the Lockwood Family, and also a member of the Town Council.
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Mayor Lockwood had a strained relationship with his son Tyler. When Tyler got into a fist-fight with Matt Donovan at a party, he told Tyler that he would never embarrass his family again -by backing from the fight. Even though he was married, he was attracted to Pearl.
Richard was a member of the Town Council. In the season finale, during Founder's Day, John Gilbert persuades Richard into sanctioning a strike against the tomb vampires using Johnathan Gilbert's Device. Richard and John knew that the Sheriff Forbes would never approve their plan, so they staged a coup against her.
Richard rallied her deputies to their cause while John knocked her out and cuffed her in her office. Shortly before it began, he found his son and told him to go home, showing genuine care for Tyler for the first time.
Richard and Tyler were both affected by the device, however when Richard was injected with vervain by the deputies, it did not affect him. We can only guess that while he was potentially a Werewolf, he had never activated the curse by killing somebody. When Damon told him in the burning basement that he was a vampire Richard was shocked, and staggered backward into a vampire who snapped his neck, killing him.
Richard had a bad-temper, possibly due to his werewolf heritage. Richard also loved the town and held many festivities and fund-raisers for charity. He had a deep hatred for vampires possibly due to his werewolf heritage and, along with the Town Council, vowed to destroy any that came to town.
He often went to the extreme to get what he wanted, like defying Sheriff Forbes and using the Gilbert device on Founder's Day.
In The Turning Point, he also was shown to be violent, and a bully, when he tried to force Tyler and Jeremy to fight. He takes them outside, and tells them to fight, rather than talk to solve their problems. This probably is because he was under the influence of the full moon. Tyler suffered a lot of abuse. Alaric once called him a "douche" and Tyler once called him a "dick", Carol once called him a "jerk". He also flirted with Pearl. Although he seems kind and amicable to the outside world, he was actually quite selfish, for when Mr. Tanner dies, he was more concerned with how his death would affect the football team, and finding a replacement. He was also extremely arrogant, and a control freak. The night they were rounding up all the town vampires, he was willing to put innocent peoples lives in danger. He helps John Gilbert execute his plan to capture and kill the tomb vampires. however it backfires when he is also affected by the device, that neutralizes the vampires, because he carries the werewolf gene, with him, and the deputies think he was a vampire too, and lock him up in the basement, where he was killed by one of the tomb vampires.
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- The Turning Point
- Let The Right One In
- Under Control
- Miss Mystic Falls
- Founder's Day
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- Masquerade (photo)
- Richard appears once in a photograph in season 2.
- Like Mikael and Klaus, Tyler and Richard had a poor relationship.
- In Family Ties, when Carol Lockwood talks to him, she calls him Charles. This may be his middle name.
- He is the only werewolf shown that has never triggered their werewolf curse.
- Since The Other Side collapsed, he most likely found peace or was sucked into oblivion.
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After leaving her native Peru in March 2008 under a cloud of controversy, longtime talkshow host Laura Bozzo has re-emerged atop the ratings in her new yakker, "Laura," aired by Mexico's broadcast giant Televisa.
The strip, which bowed last week in Mexico, is set to make its way Stateside via Univision's Telefutura channel Feb. 7.
On its opening day in Mexico, the show scored an impressive 18.0 rating/40.5 share, beating No. 2 web TV Azteca's attempt to go head-to-head via its own diva-led talker, "Ella es Niurka" (She is Niurka), hosted by Cuban-born Niurka Marcos, which finished far behind at 10.7.
Bozzo had long been rumored to want to move to the world's top producer of Spanish-language content since her arrival in Mexico three years ago.
A trained lawyer, she's a magnet for scandals, including accusations that she faked the hard-luck stories of the poor and needy whose cases she took up on her Telemundo show, "Laura en accion" (Laura in Action), which was canceled in March 2008.
She insists that every case she covers on the new "Laura" will be real (though she doesn't admit any of her previous shows were staged). The cases are to be chosen from within the network's own massive charitable organization, Fundacion Televisa.
"You all are going to be able to see another kind of program," Bozzo told local media. "Here, nothing is acted. I know that there are a lot of programs acted, but this one is totally verified, and we are going to get to the bottom of the matter (each time)."
Known in Peru as the queen of TV trash and"the dirtiest mouth on TV," Bozzo took the Hispanic media by storm in 1998 with her hit Telemundo program "Laura en America," which aired widely in Latin America and ran until 2006.
She presented herself as an advocate to the impoverished and abused who found themselves in extreme situations, often acting on their behalf and unspooling their stories each week.
Her tearful hand-holding frequently devolved into on-air brawls sparked by jilted lovers or outraged mothers, earning her another nickname — the Jerry Springer of Peru.
The host got into political hot water after being accused of using her show to sway public opinion to support the government of Alberto Fujimori, which fell apart in 2000.
In July 2002, Bozzo was placed under house arrest, accused of taking a $3 million bribe from former Peruvian spy Vladimiro Montesinos, who was alleged to be her lover; her show was banned in Peru.
Undeterred, she moved into Monitor Studios in Lima, where "Laura en America" filmed, to keep her show on the air outside the country.
In 2005, both her house arrest and contract with Telemundo ended, and she briefly moved production of "Laura en America" to Televisa until calling it quits in 2006.
Narrowly avoiding a four-year sentence for her crimes in Peru, she tried to re-enter TV in 2007 via Spain's Telecinco, but the program never made it out of pilot.
Her 2009 show "Laura de todos" (Everyone's Laura), for Mexico's TV Azteca, made its way to the U.S. via Azteca America. But a new controversy surrounding the show seemed to emerge every few months.
She feuded with fellow Azteca personalities, threatened to sue Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa for barring the show there, and even got into a very public shouting match with Mexican rock fixture Alex Lora, who accused her of manipulating the poor.
In September, the embattled host announced her departure for Televisa, sparking rumors that Azteca was preparing a lawsuit and threatening to freeze her assets in Mexico. While no action against Bozzo emerged, leaked tapes revealed her angry tirades against her producer and others at the broadcaster.
More recently in radio interviews, Bozzo has repeatedly said that she has no ill-will against the company.
High ratings in tow, Bozzo's new show will go toe-to-toe Stateside with Telemundo's "Caso cerrado" (Case Closed).


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Gage design requires certain physical characteristics for reliable performance. A rigid and sound design, for instance, helps ensure that operators have as little influence on the measurement as possible. One of the most important principles is alignment.
This principle states that measurement is most accurate when the line or axis of the measurement coincides with the line of the scale or other dimensional reference. In the real world, it is rarely possible to design a gage in which the scale and axis of measurement coincide. But they should be as close as possible and definitely in the same plane.
Probably the simplest way to visualize this is in a caliper—vernier, digital or dial. All rely on certain alignments of the jaws to ensure correct measurement. While the caliper may not be one of the most highly accurate tools in the metrology tool box, it does typify the types of errors that can be found in more accurate gages, such as a horizontal measuring machine that needs to be able to perform to micro-inches.
Imagine a caliper that is in perfect condition, with a straight beam, highly machined and straight surfaces, flat jaws that are square to the beam, and a perfect scale. The line of measurement is pretty well displaced from the line of the scale, but it is in the same plane, and for any given separation of the jaws, the scale reading will correspond to the separation of the jaws. Now imagine that the reference scale was mounted to the beam of the caliper incorrectly, so it was not square to the jaws. This is unrealistic, but it shows how taking the scale out of planar alignment can distort the accuracy of measurement.
A more realistic scenario would add an amplified curvature to the beam of the caliper. With this type of curvature, the distance between the tips of the jaws is much less than the distance indicated by the scale reading. However, as we move the contact points of the measurement up on the jaws closer and closer to the scale, the reading gets more reliable, because it is closer to the reference.
If we put on our geometry caps, we can think about the actual errors being generated in this example. Let's say the curvature of the beam is 0.001 inch over a 10-inch beam length. There is a useful rule of thumb we can use to help us figure this one out. It says that when the height of an arc is small in proportion to the length of a chord—which is always the case in examples like this—the apex of the triangle formed by tangents at the ends of the arc is twice the height of the arc.
Because we said the arc height is 0.001 inch, the height of the formed triangle is 0.002 inch. We have some simple right angles to work with, and we can calculate the angle between the tangents and the chord to be 2.7 degrees. If we assume the length of the jaws is 2 inches, we can calculate that the difference between the distance from jaw tip to jaw tip and the reading indicated on the caliper scale is 0.0016 inch.
Most vernier calipers do not have the resolution to see this small of an error, but dial and digital units may be able to read it. What's important is that with this type of non-alignment condition, we are generating real errors. Now think about this condition in terms of a laboratory universal measuring machine or on a precision jig bore. Distances could be a lot greater, and so could errors.
In hand tools and measuring machines, every effort should be made in the design to make sure all measuring surfaces are aligned. But how do you, the user, tell if your gage is aligned well? With simple gages, you probably can't, other than to look at them with the principle of alignment in mind. With measuring machines, looking at the specifications for straightness of the ways and squareness will give an indication of how closely the designers aligned the components.


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Well, it's Tuesday again, and we have more IBM announcements.
With the holiday season coming up at the end of the year, now is a great time to ask Santa for a new shiny pair of XIV systems, and some extra networking gear to connect them.
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... Is Like Mighty Rivers Flowing
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Well, I had a pleasant vacation. I took a trip up to beautiful Lake Powell in Northern Arizona as part of a "Murder Mystery Dinner" weekend. This trip was organized by AAA and Lake Powell in association with the professionals at [Murder Ink Productions] out of Phoenix.
The trip involved two busloads of people from Tucson and Phoenix driving up to Lake Powell, with a series of meals that introduced all the characters and gave out clues to solve a murder. At the end of the dinner on the last evening, we had to guess who dunnit, how, and why. I solved it, and got this lovely tee-shirt.
If you don't understand how this all works, here is a quick 6-minute [video] on YouTube.
Mr. Baker mentions IBM's leadership in this area several times throughout his book. This week, IBM unveiled [New Offerings to Help Clients Better Manage Content With Analytics]. Information is like mighty rivers flowing, and it is necessary to get a sense of what is going on around us if we are to make this a smarter planet.
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The TCO of TSM for Backup
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In his Backup Blog, fellow blogger Scott Waterhouse from EMC has yet another post about Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) titled [TSM and the Elephant]. He argues that only the cost of new TSM servers should be considered in any comparison, on the assumption that if you have to deploy another server, you have to attach to it fresh new disk storage, a brand new tape library, and hire an independent group of backup administrators to manage. Of course, that is bull, people use much of existing infrastructure and existing skilled labor pool every time new servers are added, as I tried to point out in my post [TSM Economies of Scale].
However, Scott does suggest that we should look at all the costs, not just the cost of a new server, which we in the industry call Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Here is an excerpt:
Final point: there is actually a really important secondary point here--what is the TCO of your backup infrastructure. In some ways, TSM is one of the most expensive (number of servers and tape drives, for example), relative to other backup applications. However, I think it would be a really interesting exercise to critically examine the TCO of the various backup applications at different scales to evaluate if there is any genuine cost differentiation between them.
Fortunately, I have a recent TCO/ROI analysis for a large customer in the Eastern United States that compares their existing EMC Legato deployment to a new proposed TSM deployment. The assessment was performed by our IBM Tivoli ROI Analyst team, using a tool developed by Alinean. The process compares the TCO of the currently deployed solution (in this case EMC Legato) with the TCO of the proposed replacement solution (in this case IBM TSM) for 55,000 client nodes at expected growth rates over a three year period, and determines the amount of investment, cost savings and other benefits, and return on investment (ROI).
Here are the results:
"A risk adjusted analysis of the proposed solution's impact was conducted and it was projected that implementing the proposed solutions resulted in $16,174,919 of 3 year cumulative benefits. Of these projected benefits, $8,015,692 are direct benefits and $8,159,227 are indirect benefits.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager uses less bandwidth, fewer disk and tape storage resources than EMC Legato. For even a large deployment of this kind, payback period is only NINE MONTHS. Generally, if you can get a new proposed investment to have less than 24 month payback period you have enough to get both CFO and CIO excited, so this one is a no-brainer.Perhaps this helps explain why TSM enjoys such a larger marketshare than EMC Legato in the backup software marketplace. No doubt Scott might be able to come up with a counter-example, a very small business with fewer than 10 employees where an EMC Legato deployment might be less expensive than a comparable TSM deployment. However, when it comes to scalability, TSM is king. The majority of the Fortune 1000 companies use Tivoli Storage Manager, and IBM uses TSM internally for its own IT, managed storage services, and cloud computing facilities.
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Please welcome new IBM blogger Keith Stevenson, his new blog is called [Infovore]. He gives his take on the big October 20 announcement we had this week, and will continue to cover topics related to storage of information.
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I am proud to announce we have yet another IBM blogger for the storosphere, Rich Swain from IBM's Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, North Carolina will blog about [News and Information on IBM's N series].
Rich is a Field Technical Sales Specialist with deep-dive knowledge and experience. He's already posted a dozen or so entries, to give you a feel for the level of technical detail he will provide.Please welcome Rich by following his blog and posting comments on his posts.
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New SVC 5 hardware and software
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Well, it's Wednesday! Normally, IBM makes its announcements on Tuesday's, but this week that landed on the 13th, and some people are superstitious, so we pushed it back to today. Fellow IBM master inventory Barry Whyte starts the first in a series of posts with: New SVC v5 CF8 node with native SSD support.
There are really two separate items being announced for the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC):
As Barry says, IBM has been working on this for quite a while, and based on initial responses looks to be quite successful in the market!
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Continuing the discussion from my post yesterday, [IBM unveils Information Archive system], I want to go into further details of the Information Archive solution.
(Note: I have been informed that this week the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has [announced an update] to its [16 CFR Part 255: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising]. As if it were not obvious enough already, I must emphasize that I work for IBM, IBM provides me all the equipment and related documentation that I need for me to blog about IBM solutions, and that I am paid to blog as part of my job description. Both my boss and I agree I am not paid enough, but that is another matter. Beginning December 1, 2009, all positive mentions of IBM products, solutions and services on this blog might be considered a "celebrity endorsement" by the FTC and others under these new guidelines. Negative mentions of IBM products are probably typos.)
At a conference once, a presenter discussing tips and techniques about public speaking told everyone to be aware that everyone in the audience is "tuned into radio station WIIFM" (What's In It For Me). If a member of the audience cannot figure out why the information being presented is relevant to them individually, they may not pay attention for long. Likewise, when it comes to archiving data for long term retention, I think we have many people are tuned into KEFM (the Keep Everything Forever methodology). Two classic articles from Drew Robb on the subject are [Can Data Ever Be Deleted?] and [Experts Question 'Keep Everything' Philosophy].
(Note: For those of my readers who do not live in the US, most radio stations start with the letter "K" if they are on the left half of the country, and "W" if they are on the right half. See Thomas H. White's [Early Radio History] to learn more.)
Contrary to popular belief, IBM would rather have their clients implement a viable archive strategy than just mindlessly buying more disk and tape for a "Keep Everything Forever" methodology. Keeping all information around forever can be a liability, as data that you store can be used against you in a court of law. It can also make it difficult to find the information that you do need, because the sheer volume of information to sort through makes the process more time consuming.
The problem with most archive storage solutions is that they are inflexible, treating all data the same under a common set of rules. The IBM Information Archive is different. You can have up to three separate "collections".
Object collections are accessed using IBM System Storage Archive Manager (SSAM) application programming interface (API). People who use IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) archive or IBM System Storage DR550 are already familiar with this interface. An object can represent the archived slice of a repository, a set of rows from a database, a collection of emails from an individual mailbox user, etc.
File collections can be used for any type of data you would store on a NAS device. This includes databases, email repositories, static Web pages, seismic data, user documents, spreadsheets, presentations, medical images, photos, videos, and so on.
The IBM Information Archive solution was designed to work with a variety of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, and is part of the overall IBM Smart Archive strategy.
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Well, it's Tuesday, and that means IBM announcements! Today is bigger, as there are a lot of Dynamic Infrastructure announcements throughout the company with a common theme, cloud computing and smart business systems that support the new way of doing things. Today, IBM announced its new "IBM Smart Archive" strategy that integrates software, storage, servers and services into solutions that help meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. IBM has been spending the past few years working across its various divisions and acquisitions to ensure that our clients have complete end-to-end solutions.
IBM is introducing new "Smart Business Systems" that can be used on-premises for private-cloud configurations, as well as by cloud-computing companies to offer IT as a service. IBM [Information Archive] is the first to be unveiled, a disk-only or blended disk-and-tape Information Infrastructure solution that offers a "unified storage" approach with amazing flexibility for dealing with various archive requirements:
The Information Archive has all the server, storage and software integrated together into a single machine type/model number. It is based on IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) to provide incredible scalability, the same clustered file system used by many of the top 500 supercomputers. Initially, Information Archive will support up to 304TB raw capacity of disk and Petabytes of tape. You can read the [Spec Sheet] for other technical details.
For those who prefer a more "customized" approach, similar to IBM Scale-Out File Services (SoFS), IBM has [Smart Business Storage Cloud]. IBM Global Services can customize a solution that is best for you, using many of the same technologies. In fact, IBM Global Services announced a variety of new cloud-computing services to help enterprises determine the best approach.
In a related announcement, IBM announced [LotusLive iNotes], which you can think of as a "business-ready" version of Google's GoogleApps, Gmail and GoogleCalendar. IBM is focused on security and reliability but leaves out the advertising and data mining that people have been forced to tolerate from consumer-oriented Web 2.0-based solutions. IBM's clients that are already familiar with on-premises version of Lotus Notes will have no trouble using LotusLive iNotes.
There was actually a lot more announced today, which I will try to get to in later posts.
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Bruce Allen from BR Allen Associates LLC, an IT technology strategy and consulting firm, has written an excellent 9-page White Paper contrasting IBM and EMC's latest strategies. Here are some key excerpts:
To read the entire paper, its available from IBM here:
White Paper: Creating a Dynamic Information Infrastructure.
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Well, it's Tuesday, which means IBM Announcements!
We have both disk and tape related announcements today.
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A packed tent for double maths at 10 on a Saturday morning at the Hay Festival was a very gratifying sight as I came on stage for the first of three events I did at the Hay Festival this year. And the stage was the right place to be discussing the exciting fusion of maths and theatre that has emerged over the last few years. I was exploring my collaboration with Complicite on their award-winning show A Disappearing Number and a new show that I am devising and acting in with actress Victoria Gould. This new show is in some sense a baby of A Disappearing Number as it is growing out of many of the themes we explored while developing the play Complicite did on the extraordinary collaboration between Hardy and Ramanujan. We will be giving people a sneak preview of our work in progress on this new piece at Latitude Festival this year when we perform Act 1.
In my event at Hay I wanted to show the audience why the world of mathematics and theatre are actually much closer than you might imagine. On the spur of the moment I decided to use my event to create our own little bit of mathematical theatre at Hay. I wasn't sure whether it was going to work but in the end it was surprisingly effective. A lot of the theatre games that Complicite use to devise their theatre depend on setting up very simple rules that allow the actors just to concentrate on reacting to their fellow actors. Being given the freedom of the stage and being asked to improvise something can quickly lead to a creative freeze. Simple theatre games often allow something unexpected to emerge that no one could plan.
We started with an exercise that I think can look magical. 20 members of the audience came up on stage. I asked each person to silently choose two others on the stage. When I said "go" they had to move to try to create an equilateral triangle with the two people they'd chosen. (The person and the two they've chosen must be an equal distance from each other). Of course the two people you've chosen are unlikely to have chosen you so a strange dance starts to emerge on stage. As the audience members still in their chairs watched on they observed an extraordinary crowd ebbing a flowing on stage, something that would have been impossible to choreograph without the simple mathematical rule. It was chaos in action...and it was very funny to watch. Three girls did end up choosing each other and very quickly stabilised as a still triangle in the chaos. As the scene developed the others began to get close to stability. A stillness across the group seemed to emerge but then one person moved very slightly, obviously trying to get their equilateral triangle perfect. That caused other triangles to become unequal and more people began to adjust. Very soon manic chaos had flooded the stage again.
The second exercise I did was one that actually appeared in the production of A Disappearing Number. I got 5 volunteers from the audience. They came on stage and immediately formed a group of 3 on one side of the stage and 2 on the other. This is called a "partition of 5". The exercise was to find how many different ways there are to partition the 5 people, how many different groupings were there? The members in each of the groups doesn't matter. It's how many there are in each group that is important. When I said "go" 1 member of the group of 3 peeled off. Suddenly we had 2+2+1. One of the couples separated. We had 2+1+1+1. 3 partitions of 5 people had already been found. But then the one that broke off went to join one of the other actors on their own. We'd returned to 2+2+1. It was a different arrangement of people but the same pattern as the second partition. Gradually they went through the other partitions. 3+1+1, a single group of 5 people. Then suddenly one broke off. We had a group of 4 and one actor on his own. You could feel his sense of loneliness, rejection by the group, the strength of the group of 4 staring at him. We'd got 6 partitions. I said that there was one they'd missed. They thought for a while. And then suddenly all separated into individuals on the stage. 5 groups of 1. 1+1+1+1+1. The exercise had discovered all 7 different ways of partitioning 5 actors. But in the process they'd created a poignant piece of theatre. Partition Numbers are a sequence of numbers that Hardy and Ramanujan had great success investigating. If you have a 100 actors how many ways are there to partition them? Hardy and Ramanujan discovered a formula for telling you.
While working on A Disappearing Number I did a number of workshops with Complicite for Drama and Maths teachers. The Drama teachers of course all want to come to a Complicite workshop but maths teachers are a little more reluctant about doing some physical theatre workshops. So we made it a condition that the drama teacher from a school could only come if they also bought a maths teacher with them. Apparently this was the first time many of them had talked to each other in the school common room. As the teachers gathered at the beginning of the session it was quite easy to spot who were the maths teachers and who were the drama teachers. Half of them were waving their arms around, shaking their legs, rolling their shoulders, warming up for a physical workout. The other half were in a corner looking rather shyly at their shoes. However it didn't take long to get everyone buzzing. The maths teachers came into their own and felt more confident as we took them all off on a journey to explore why one infinity might be bigger than another. The Complicite website has a work-pack that was developed out of the workshops which teachers and others might enjoy.
I might add some more to this post but got to rush down to the National Theatre to do some maths with the cast of A Curious Incident of the Dog In The Time. More maths on stage!


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Sizzling sirloins and tasty T-bones were popular choices when the 2012 Young Men of Distinction and their dads met at Shanahan's for the traditional Father-Son Dinner. The Young Men of Distinction will be presented, along with a cadre of debutantes, at the 2012 Le Bal de Ballet. It takes place June 9.
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I've been hard on Comcast, because well....they're an evil cable company and they deserve it. But we're received a flood of emails proving that the wacky game descriptions we've been spotting are not their fault. It's like a peeling onion.
A lot of people wrote in about this, and like vandalism, whippits, and underage drinking, it's all a by-product of some bored kids looking to have a good time. For starters, Comcast wants it known that they are not responsible for providing the descriptions themselves. The data for their on-screen guide is compiled by a company called Rovi, formerly Macrovision, which is a remnant of the listings division of the old TV Guide. (They still own the trademark, which is why you see the TV Guide logo on Comcast and other cable systems.) In some instances, all the program data is submitted by the channel itself, but the rest is compiled and edited by Rovi's schedulers and editors. Editors who must do something make their lives meaningful.
I just spoke to a secret Rovi employee who confirmed what I suspected all along—boredom. The editors who write game descriptions are constrained by a stylebook and a character limit (it has to fit on the cable system's screen, after all) and the fact there are only so many ways you can say, "The Clippers are playing the Warriors tonight." You would go slightly mad, too, if you had to do that for 40 hours a week.
Just for the record, we're not criticizing them for their choices. It's actually quite amusing and we'd would like to see them take their writing to greater heights. (And we'd still like to hear from an actual editor.) Try to work a plus/minus reference in there, will ya? (Also, they're hiring! Scheduling reporters don't get to write the descriptions, but it's a foot in the door!)
Finally, while a Comcast employee wanted to make it perfectly clear that they don't write the descriptions for NBA games, the Rovi employee wanted to make it perfectly clear that they don't write the descriptions for the cable company's On Demand service, because ... whoo-boy ... those are pretty bad.


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