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Reputations: Pierre Bernard
'I don't believe in revolutionary design, but I do believe that reactionary designs exist. It's always easier to perpetuate the same forms and contents rather than to search out new ones.'
Why Grapus had to disband. Eye talks to founder Pierre Bernard
Pierre Bernard was born in 1942. At the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, he met Gérard Paris-Clavel and François Miehe, and in 1970 the trio founded Grapus. Initially, they worked for the Communist Party, though other sympathetic clients soon followed. In 1974, the founders were joined by Jean-Paul Bachollet, and in 1975 by Alexander Jordan; Miehe left the group in 1978. Grapus functioned as a collective and all projects were collectively signed. On 1 January 1991 Grapus disbanded. Bernard has now formed a new design team with Dirk Behage and Fokke Draaijer under the name Atelier de Création Graphique-Grapus. He continues to operate from the same office in the Rue de la Révolution, Montreuil.
Rick Poynor: After your initial studies in Paris you went to Warsaw to study with Henryk Tomaszewski. What was it about Polish poster design that made you want to go?
Pierre Bernard: In France I studied graphic art with Jean Widmer for a year. The only classic works in France at the time were being done by Savignao and André Francois. They were the only ones who were working as painters and in the graphic arts at the same time. On the other hand, the Polish posters that had been exhibited had been produced by both painters and graphic artists and that was very attractive. The other important thing about these posters was that the subjects were new, at least for the French. They were theatrical posters, cinema posters dealing with poetry, sports. These subjects were not being addressed in France because, for the most part, poster-makers were working in advertising, more often than not for products.
RP: You formed Grapus in 1970, very much in the wake of the political events of 1968. What was your aim?
PB: Between my visit to Poland and the founding of Grapus, six years had gone by, including the events of 1968, which were far more formative in the foundation of Grapus than my visit to Poland. After my return, I worked in advertising for a bit, then I worked for a newspaper. After a year I was totally fed up so I decided to continue my studies and to make an animated film. At that point, in 1968, I met François Miehe and Gérard Paris-Clavel. I was at Arts Déco as a student when the student movement started – we made posters with students every day for a whole month.
Not long afterwards, the Institute for the Environment was set up in Paris, inspired by André Malraux, The idea was to create a school that could train researchers and teachers who would deal with the topic of the man-made environment. So we went there - François, Gérard and me - to carry out a research project about political propaganda. We discovered semiology and it was very important to us. It allowed us to deconstruct images, so we could say to the political commissioning bodies: "We are going to make images for you which will have real meaning. We are going to make true political images." This was something that was absolutely essential to Grapus. In 1970, after a year at the Institute, we decided to found Grapus in order to put our ideas into practice. The idea was to form a production group, an artistic collective, to create high-quality images for the political struggle of the French Communist Party. It was both a political and a graphic commitment.
RP: You were all members of the party, attending its meetings?
PB: It worked on two different levels. We became members of the Communist Party, and we took part as ordinary party members. We all belonged to a cell in the local area where we lived, but at the same time Grapus itself operated on an institutional level. In other words, Grapus had its own identity. Our adherence to the party was quite distinct from the visual images we created for the party.
RP: What about other clients?
PB: In France in the 1970s there were many intellectuals and artists who were committed to the Communist Party, working side-by-side. We very quickly made contact with people who were not communists, but worked in cultural life, in the theatre, in public life, in architecture. So we started to do a lot of work in these social and cultural fields.
RP: Yet always in your designs you were questioning the clients. Isn't that a lot to expect a client to cope with?
PB: That's always been our problem and it's still our problem. Clients didn't tend to stay with Grapus very long. That's one of the reasons why Grapus has financial problems. I think it's because our attitude towards them excites them, but at the same time it makes them take risks. People don't like to take one risk after another – and if they do take a risk twice, they don't do it a third time. It's too adventurous, too difficult.
Even in the successful campaigns, our clients often had a feeling that they had been abused by us. They felt that we rather forced their hands, that we'd expressed ourselves in their place. At some point they agree to the means of expression we use – they claim it as their own since we do the work in their name. Nevertheless they felt a bit frustrated. Perhaps that's because we didn't behave like suppliers, slavishly following their instructions. Rather, we were like equal partners, working towards a common goal, which they had decided to share with us by offering us the job. They may have felt slightly dispossessed. We are very aware of it with the passage of time, when we've spoken to them again later, or when other people have spoken to them.
RP: After twenty years together, the founders of Grapus decided to split up and form three new Grapus groups. Why?
PB: In my opinion the main reason why Grapus split up was linked to a desire to continue the form of action which Grapus represented. It may sound a bit contradictory or paradoxical, but that's how it was. In order to continue the Grapus mode of production, I personally needed to separate from the founding members of Grapus – to begin a new form of adventure with new people. Our mode of production is one of conflict. We are in conflict with the clients, but there is also conflict between us. Everyone can talk about and work on everyone else's project. That principle of creative conflict has been very difficult to maintain in the 1980s. When the old-timers start arguing between themselves, the younger people just leave. It's like a conflict between the bosses rather than a conflict between creative peers. For the younger members of Grapus to play their part completely, we need complete equality.
RP: That being the case, what role do you play in a project such as the recent National Park identity? Are you the person who talks to the client and then comes back and briefs the others?
PB: No, that's not what happens, and that's why we're losing money. On the National Parks project, we often have meetings here. There are three people from the National Parks and five of us. Now in a normal design group, there are never five people sitting listening to the client; there are two and sometimes there is only one. But we find that we derive something from the different understandings and sensitivities. It's very rewarding from the point of view of understanding and also from the commitment of the designers to the solution they find. But it's also very costly because it takes up a lot of people's time, even if they are not the main creative forces on a project.
One of the assumptions which is very important is our choice of a single name for the Grapus collective. Now this idea of a collective artist or creator implies that each of the participants has a complete sense of ownership for all the works which leave the studio, even if he hasn't on them. In this way a real sense of community is created and everyone has to deal with the way that everyone else goes about doing things. There's a genuine positive friction between them.
RP: Since you started working on large institutional projects in the 1980s have you been able to comment on your clients in the same way that you did in the 1970s when you worked for trade unions and small theatrical companies? Or have you been forced to become more neutral and less involved in your approach?
PB: I believe that we are involved fairly deeply. We take on all sorts of clients. There are some small- or medium-sized clients for whom we produce very serious work, but with whom we are not totally involved. It would be dishonest to say that we're always one hundred percent involved with our clients. We like all our clients, but in some cases we have fairly light-hearted relationships with them.
On the other hand, with the large institutions we are always totally involved. With regard to the Louvre, we were interested in dealing with the museum in all its historical and cultural gravitas. The Louvre is at the very heart of French pictorial culture and it was very important for us to deal that in all its implications. We were working there with people who had a commitment to the beauty of the museum – a beauty which is open to change and development.
RP: Was it a battle to get the Louvre to accept an identity that was this adventurous and challenging?
PB: It was not at all easy. In fact, there was a competition and we won with a different logotype which didn't have clouds. The clouds represent not only the idea of time passing, but also of light, the concept so forcefully captured in the new pyramid entrance to the Louvre Palace. The current director of the Louvre, Michel Laclotte, is a remarkable man and we worked with him. At the outset, six out of the seven departments in the Louvre refused to have clouds on their letterhead – they felt that they looked like grease stains!
What is interesting is that now, two years after we created the identity, the stationery has been reprinted and these departments have decided that they want to be like everyone else – with the clouds. So it's been accepted without the need for any conflict.
RP: What was the public reaction?
PB: It's impossible to tell – the problem, in France, is that there was no reaction at all. Currently, there is not a single journal that is interested in this sort of work. In France, there are people who take an interest in graphic design, but it's not at all widespread. In the newspapers there are no writers who take an interest. It's a subject which doesn't interest anyone who isn't already working in the field.
RP: You have said before that "in France we know nothing of graphic design". Yet clearly there are many graphic designers at work here.
PB: I believe, quite simply, that there has not been a typographic tradition in France for quite some time. And that's very important because there is a long typographic tradition in Germany, in Switzerland of course, in the Low Countries, and in England. This is the reason why there has been no development, no link between the image and typography – the two functional elements which make up a corporate identity. The developments have been essentially developments of the image.
Savignac, for example, created typographic designs like a painter. A recent assessment of French graphics at the Centre George Pompidou, showed that the current generation of French graphic designers are brimming with graphic energy, but are rather undeveloped as far as typography is concerned. There was also an advertising model that involved an awareness of communication techniques, but not really graphic design.
RP: Viewed from outside France, Grapus appear to have done much to keep the tradition of integrated typography and image-making alive. How conscious are you of the example you have set for younger French designers?
PB: For us the typographic model in the 1970s was something we had to find in the United States. In Poland we discovered calligraphy, but it was the Push Pin Studio which introduced the notion of the relationship between the image and typography. The influence of Grapus in France is very closely linked to our affinities with calligraphy – with a sort of opposition to typography and the typographic order. That's what the majority of young graphic designers have retained from Grapus – a stylistic form which is anti-typography. Mind you, the way we work today is anything but anti-typographic – quite the reverse.
In my opinion, what makes good design interesting is the strongest possible confrontation between form and content. In other words, form and content should be put it a new relationship to each other. When other designers copy you, they use the same forms without the link between form and content – without the element of necessity. Then it's just a question of fashion.
RP: You obviously felt when you began that graphic design could affect social change. Do you still feel that as urgently as you did in the 1970s?
PB: I don't believe it as naively as I did twenty years ago, but I still believe it. Graphic design is an expression of society and it changes society, like all design. Design expresses what is, but at the same time designs are created and organised by man, thus they can have a sort of spirit of adventure. There's always a double aspect.
I don't believe in revolutionary design, but I do believe that reactionary designs exist. It's always easier to perpetuate the same forms and contents rather than to search out new ones. Of course, design can't change everything, but nonetheless it's the search which leads to change.
RP: Do you feel that you devised a solution that expressed some of these ideas and values in the National Parks project?
PB: In the parks we tried to create a complex emotional image in which one could lose oneself – like the way one can lose oneself in pictures of our own planet. We the put this emotional vision into context which is totally functional, to allow as many people as possible to have the great emotional pleasure of visiting the parks.
In the parks themselves, our whole graphic strategy consists of not using any symbolic features. There are symbols outside, on the stationary, on flags, in books. But inside, we decided to a system which was as functional as possible. Now the advertising approach would have been to put the image of the Parks everywhere to show that the parks were on their grounds, that they existed as an institution. But we made the park officials understand that, although it was important that their image should make a strong impact outside, when one was actually inside the parks, one was within the image itself, and that any systematic repetition of the image would be repulsive.
RP: What other goals have you set now you've re-formed as the "Atelier de Creation Graphique-Grapus"?
PB: Our strategy as a studio is to do very large-scale work and also very small-scale work, and to have the greatest diversity of clients. We always choose clients who interest us. We would like to be a studio that does as much research as possible. Obviously, if one wants to make a lot of money, one has to do repetitive work. Now admittedly we do repetitive work in certain areas, but we do as little as possible. We try to work in as many different fields as possible in order to innovate as much as we can.
First published in Eye no. 3 vol. 1, 1991
Rick Poynor, writer, Eye founder, London
NOTE: Pierre Bernard died on 23 November 2015
Eye is the world's most beautiful and collectable graphic design journal, published for professional designers, students and anyone interested in critical, informed writing about graphic design and visual culture. It is available from all good design bookshops and online at the Eye shop, where you can buy subscriptions and single issues.


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Debian in Polish
Debian is also available in Polish. Starting from system installation, to system messages and the user interfaces of most widely used applications, and ending with the documentation. Obviously, there are many things still to be done, but probably even now you can use Debian without knowing English.
Furthermore, there is a strong Debian user community in Poland, visible through multiple web sites, mailing lists, and forums. At the moment there are 15 developers from Poland officially registered with the project (11 of them active) – more info on bubulle's blog page.
Polish Debian resources
- Online Manuals
- Guide for the novice — how to start the adventure with Debian
- Installation and initial configuration of Debian GNU/Linux [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS]
- Debian Reference [HTML] [plain text] — the most comprehensive user manual
- APT HOWTO (Obsolete Documentation) [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] — the short handbook about the Debian package management utility, APT
- Debian New Maintainers' Guide [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] — how to
create packages in the
- Books
- Websites
- Debian Users Gang — large collection of good articles, FAQs, links
- Polish Debian Portal — active forum, news, articles, FAQ and blogs
- Polish Debian Planet — webpage aggregating Polish blogs and other websites about Debian
- Polish pages on the official project Wiki — you can also co-create Debian or read what others have written
- Wikipedia — concise encyclopedic information
- linux.pl — Polish Linux site, it describes different distributions
Where to look for help in Polish
- Forums
- Polish Debian Users Forum is nowadays probably the most active site for Debian users. On the forum you can find a wealth of tips, documents and discussions about current versions of Debian.
- Debian Users Gang — also a very active forum for more advanced users
- Usenet newsgroups
- pl.comp.os.linux.debian
- alt.pl.comp.os.linux.debian — less traffic, which can be regarded as an advantage or disadvantage.
Debian mailing list
for Polish users — you can subscribe or send e-mail to the address
email@example.com. (It can be also viewed via
mail2news gateways, e.g.
; you can write through such a gateway if you are subscribed to the list firstname.lastname@example.com) - IRC channels
- #debian.pl on IRCNet
- #error on IRCNet — DUG channel
There are several other Polish sites about Debian, but they haven't been updated for some time.
Translating Debian to Polish
Information about translated packages and Debian web pages is available on the statistics pages.
In order to keep the vocabulary consistent, please use the word list when translating Debian-related resources.
If you would like to help with translation (e.g. installation messages, package descriptions, program interfaces, WWW pages like this one, documentation etc.) or if you have another idea for something that could be placed on this or other Debian pages, send an e-mail on the email@example.com list.
Formerly a lot of work was put into the Polish Documentation of Debian Project (PDDP), but it seems to be inactive these days.
Translation projects
The following description was prepared at the end of 2013
Installer (debian-installer, d-i)- Scope: Debian and derivatives (partially)
- Translation format: gettext (PO files)
- Making changes: directly in SVN/debian-l10n-polish@
- Statistics: https://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/
- Repository: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/d-i/tree/master/packages/po
- Documentation: https://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/i18n/
The Debian Installer is now fully translated. It all needs to be reviewed at least for style, but is pretty good overall.
These translation need an eye kept on them, with the new Debian release impending, because package maintainers tend to make changes in English messages at the last minute.
WWW pages- Scope: Debian
- Translation format: WML
- Making changes: directly in SVN/debian-l10n-polish@
- Statistics: https://www.debian.org/devel/website/stats/
- Repository: https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/tree/master/polish
- Documentation: https://www.debian.org/devel/website/translating
The main Debian web pages are translated, some are slightly outdated. The situation has begun to improve recently. It is not bad, though it could do with having at least a few important pages translated.
Debconf templates- Scope: Debian and derivatives (partially)
- Translation format: gettext (PO files)
- Making changes: bugs reports
- Statistics: https://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po-debconf/pl
Currently about 60% of debconf templates are translated. New templates are usually translated as they turn up, but there are still a lot of older templates which it would also be appropriate to translate.
Debconf templates are those windows that appear sometimes when you install/upgrade a package or call dpkg-reconfigure. Descriptions for translation are usually very short, although some are difficult to translate without knowing the specifics of the package. Appropriate notice of an upcoming new version of the templates is sent out on the debian-i18n mailing lists, and the translated template must then be send as a bug report against this package with wishlist priority.
Manpages- Debian:
- Scope: Debian
- Translation format: gettext (PO files)
- Making changes: bugs reports
- Statistics: https://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po4a/pl
- other (manpages-pl package):
- Scope: GNU/Linux
- Translation format: gettext (PO files)
- Making changes: directly in email@example.com
- Repository:
- via WWW: http://sourceforge.net/p/manpages-pl/code/ci/master/tree/
- via git: git://git.code.sf.net/p/manpages-pl/code
Manuals with packages such as coreutils (rm, cat, etc.), util-linux (dmesg, mkfs, etc.), manpages (proc, hosts, etc.) and others (sed, bash, etc.) are translated in the manpages-pl project, which accepts every willing soul who wants to reduce even by one the list of nearly 700 completely outdated manual pages waiting for that volunteer's day of glory :-). Currently the translation of manpages-pl also goes at least to Fedora and Arch Linux (and, of course, Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives).
- Debian:
- Scope: Debian and derivatives (partially)
- Translation format: gettext (PO files)
- Making changes: bugs reports
- Statistics: https://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po/pl
- other
- Scope: *nix
- Translation format: generally gettext (PO files)
- Making changes: various (source projects)
- Statistics: https://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po/pl
Miscellaneous documentation, guides, ITP HOW-TO, etc. (DDP)
- Scope: Debian
- Translation format: gettext (PO files) / docbook
- Making changes: directly in SVN/bug reports
- Repository: https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/ddp/manuals/trunk/
- Documentation: https://www.debian.org/doc/ddp
At present the translations for the release notes and some minor items are current. However, most are in a sorry state. These documents for translation are very extensive, so translating (for instance) the Installation Guide requires the involvement of at least 3-5 people.
It should be noted that the original versions of the manuals also tend to be slightly neglected.
Package descriptions (DDTP)
- Scope: Debian and Ubuntu
- Translation format: HTML
- Making changes: https://ddtp.debian.org/ddtss/index.cgi/pl
- Statistics: https://ddtp.debian.org/stats
- Documentation:
The most important package descriptions are now translated, but new ones are still coming, so you have watch on a regular basis. Even sporadic activity is useful, since each description must be approved by two other people.
Translating package descriptions is the simplest way of doing translation in Debian (at least if you do not have experience with translating PO files). Unfortunately, the endless saga of the server located in Spain, in Extremadura, causes frequent failures of the entire infrastructure that unfortunately sometimes last for weeks.
Task-* package descriptions require special care because they show up in the Debian Installer.
- Scope: Debian
- Translation format: WML/Markdown
- Making changes: directly in SVN/debian-publicity@
- Repository: https://salsa.debian.org/publicity-team/
News is not translated into Polish and probably rightly so, because it is beyond our capabilities at the moment. Occasionally translations appear only for information such as a new Debian release. This section probably is currently the least important.
Explanation: by "making changes" we mean a place where you can apply changes, or a list where you can send the finished translation file. All Debian lists are available at list.debian.org, so an entry such as "debian-l10n-polish@" means firstname.lastname@example.com. "Bug reports" means to send a mail with relevant context to the address firstname.lastname@example.com (more information at https://www.debian.org/Bugs/).
Note: some links can be found on page "Central Debian translation statistics" at https://www.debian.org/international/l10n/


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If you're thinking of making a move this year, there are two housing market factors that are probably on your mind: home prices and mortgage rates. You're wondering what's going to happen next. And if it's worth it to move now, or better to wait it out.
The only thing you can really do is make the best decision you can based on the latest information available. So, here's what experts are saying about both prices and rates.
1. What's Next for Home Prices?
One reliable place you can turn to for information on home price forecasts is the Home Price Expectations Survey from Fannie Mae – a survey of over one hundred economists, real estate experts, and investment and market strategists.
According to the most recent release, experts are projecting home prices will continue to rise at least through 2028 (see the graph below):
While the percent of appreciation varies year-to-year, this survey says we'll see prices rise (not fall) for at least the next 5 years, and at a much more normal pace.
What does that mean for your move? If you buy now, your home will likely grow in value and you should gain equity in the years ahead. But, based on these forecasts, if you wait and prices continue to climb, the price of a home will only be higher later on.
2. When Will Mortgage Rates Come Down?
This is the million-dollar question in the industry. And there's no easy way to answer it. That's because there are a number of factors that are contributing to the volatile mortgage rate environment we're in. Odeta Kushi, Deputy Chief Economist at First American, explains:
"Every month brings a new set of inflation and labor data that can influence the direction of mortgage rates. Ongoing inflation deceleration, a slowing economy and even geopolitical uncertainty can contribute to lower mortgage rates. On the other hand, data that signals upside risk to inflation may result in higher rates."
What happens next will depend on where each of those factors goes from here. Experts are optimistic rates should still come down later this year, but acknowledge changing economic indicators will continue to have an impact. As a CNET article says:
"Though mortgage rates could still go down later in the year, housing market predictions change regularly in response to economic data, geopolitical events and more."
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Cyber Security Awareness Month
For a few years now, October is designated "National Cyber Security Awareness Month". The target audience of the awareness month effort is mostly consumers. This year's motto is "the Internet is a shared resource and securing it is our Shared Responsibility".
We will feature a special diary each day in October in observance of cyber security awareness month. Realizing that our audience tends to be more technical, we are picking our own theme. This year, we picked "Standards and Security". Many standards have important security components, and we will try to illustrate how particular standards affect current attacks. One of the great things about our group of handlers is that we have a very diverse background, geographically and professionally. To take this diversity into account, we will interpret the term "standards" very widely. You will see diaries about ISO standards, IETF standards (RFCs), W3C standards and so on. If there is a particular standard you would like to see covered: Let us know. This is also a great opportunity for "guest articles" (or "guest diaries" as we call them). If you would like to write something, let us know. Send the topic, and maybe a brief outline first to see if it fits.
Resources for Cyber Security Awareness Month:
http://www.staysafeonline.org (Main Cyber Security Awareness Month website)
http://www.securingthehuman.com (SANS Security Awareness Program)
Securing the Human will also be offering a number of free webcasts:
Why Security Awareness Matters- Tuesday, 02 Oct
Security Awareness: Planning For Success- Tuesday, 16 Oct
How To Create an Engaging Program People Want To Take- Tuesday, 13 Oct
Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
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Sun ONE Portal Server 6 Best Practices
When proposing a technical solution for an specific problem, the first step is to collect functional and nonfunctional requirements. Generally, these requirements fall into the following categories:
Most of the time, especially in complex systems, such as portals where content is aggregated from many different sources, these requirements conflict with each other. Usually security and ease of use call for different approaches. A very secure site can be hard to use because it requires complicated, hard-to-remember passwords, or there are stringent session and inactivity timeouts. In addition, availability and performance sometimes conflict. For example, to provide session failover, it is necessary to keep the session in sync on all of the servers. This synchronization adds some delay to each transaction.
The process of creating a solution involves understanding the trade-offs between all conflicting requirements and deciding what is more important for a successful implementation. This article presents some architectural guidelines that are frequently applied to Sun™ ONE Portal Server 6 software implementations and will help you to identify and understand potentially conflicting requirements on the performance and risk categories. After you understand these categories, you should be able to include the cost and schedule requirements when you define the final solution.
This article presents the best practices for high availability, security, and scalability that commonly have more impact on the success of a Sun ONE Portal Server software solution. In addition, the article includes guidelines for creating a Sun ONE Portal Server software solution that can be easily supported.
Before you read this article, you should have a detailed technical understanding of the Sun ONE Portal Server 6 software and the Sun ONE Portal Server Secure Remote Access components, such as the Gateway, the Netlet, the Rewriter proxies, and the search engine. Also, an in-depth knowledge of the embedded Sun ONE software products (for instance, the Sun™ ONE Directory Server, the Sun™ ONE Web Server, and the Sun™ ONE Identity Server) is required.
High Availability
Delivering high services levels is a top priority for all Sun ONE Portal Server software implementations. You can determine the availability of a system by using a simple equation, as shown in FIGURE 1.
FIGURE 1 Availability Equation
As the equation shows, if you decrease the downtime of the system, you can increase the availability of the system. However, when you measure the downtime, you must measure the total amount of time the system is unavailable, which should include the planned downtime (for example, maintenance, backups, and repairs to the system) and the unplanned downtime (for example, system or network failures). Some studies show that planned downtime can account for up to 80 percent of the total time a system is unavailable.
Thus, when you are architecting a solution, you must consider both the planned and unplanned downtime to ensure that you create a highly available solution. Availability is affected by all of the components in the system, such as the following infrastructure components:
Operating system
In addition to these infrastructure components, availability is also affected by people and processes, so when you are architecting a highly available solution, you must ensure that the people who will be supporting the solution have the proper training and skill sets, and you must ensure that clearly defined processes are in place to support the system.
For background information on the concept of availability, refer to "Availability - What It Means, Why It's Important, and How to Improve It" (Sun BluePrints™ OnLine, 1999).
In reference to availability, system types can be defined in four ways: noncritical, task critical, business critical, and mission critical. The noncritical system type is a basic system that has no requirements for availability. If the system goes down, it can be repaired in a matter of days without affecting users. This type of system is not important to the discussion of availability in this article.
Task-Critical Systems
Unlike the noncritical system, the task-critical system does have availability requirements. If the system goes down, it would affect users, and the performance of the system could be affected. The best way to achieve the availability levels required for this kind of system is by using redundancy of services. To optimize the usage of the system resources, all of the redundant components should be active (that is, they should not be in standby mode). Replication, load balancing, and service redundancy must be used to achieve this goal. FIGURE 2 shows the basic design of a task-critical system.
FIGURE 2 Task-Critical System Diagram
Gateway Server Availability
As FIGURE 2 shows, in this architecture, there are at least two gateway servers that are front-ended by a load balancer so that all of the requests are spread across the gateways. The load balancer must also be configured to detect failures in the gateways. If a gateway fails, then the load balancer sends all of the requests to the surviving gateway.
The gateways are a stateless process, so if a gateway fails, all of the sessions associated with that gateway can be redirected to the other gateway. Users will not perceive any downtime because the Portal Server session is maintained on the Portal Server nodes, not in the gateways.
When you use gateways, it is likely that the resource servers that are being accessed through the gateways will be on a private network that is protected by a firewall. In this case, you might want to use a web proxy to access these resource servers so that a single hole is open in the firewall. Even though the Sun ONE Portal Server software includes a rewriter proxy, it is not a fully functional web proxy server. For example, it does not support caching, the Internet Caching Protocol (ICP), and URL filtering. However, the Sun ONE Web Proxy Server software is a reliable, inexpensive, and highly configurable web proxy server, which in addition to these features, provides generic protocol support for a firewall traversal by using SOCKSv5.
Portal Server Instances
In the architecture depicted in FIGURE 2, the Portal Server instances are installed on the Sun ONE Web Server as web containers. The Sun ONE Web Server software does not support replication of user sessions across instances, so when a Portal Server instance goes down, all of the sessions maintained on that instance are lost. The same is true if the web container used is an application server, such as the Sun ONE Application Server Standard Edition, that does not support session failover.
To increase availability of the Portal Server, you can create multiple instances of the Sun ONE Web Server on the same machine or have multiple instances on multiple machines. In this way, the number of users affected by a Portal Server instance failure is minimized. Users that are affected would have to log in to another server.
If an instance fails, the gateway detects the failure and reroutes the requests to one of the surviving instances. If you are not using the Sun ONE Portal Server Secure Remote Access software, you must have load balancers to perform the functions of the gateways, and the load balancers have to detect the failure of a Portal Server instance and send the requests to one of the surviving instances.
Directory Server Availability
Another important component of the Sun ONE Portal Server software solution is the Directory Server where the user and services profiles are stored. To remove this component as a single point of failure, you can use the Sun ONE Directory Server software's multi-master replication (MMR) configuration or the Sun™ Cluster software framework. Because of the loosely consistent replication mechanism of the Sun ONE Directory Server software, it is possible, albeit very unlikely, that an update can be lost. If a system failure occurs right after a change has been accepted by one master, but before the change is replicated to the second master, it is possible that the change will be lost, and there is no easy way to detect this fact.
In some very demanding environments, the possibility of losing an update might not be acceptable. In this case, the best option is to use the Sun Cluster software to achieve high availability of the Directory Server. The use of the Sun Cluster software can increase the availability of the system, but the configuration, maintenance, and monitoring of this environment require more specialized knowledge and very well defined operational processes.
When you are installing the Portal Server software, you can only specify one LDAP server, and this server must be a master LDAP server because the installation process is affected by the propagation delay of the LDAP replication process. To add multiple LDAP masters or to point the Sun ONE Identity Server to use a consumer after the installation, you must edit the serverconfig.xml file and add a Server element for each additional LDAP server. The following example shows the format of the server entries:
<Server name=Server1 host=master1.company.com port=389 type=SIMPLE /> <Server name=Server2 host=master2.company.com port=389 type=SIMPLE />
The Identity Server uses the first entry as the LDAP server for all requests of service, roles, organization, and user profiles. If that LDAP server fails, the Identity Server fails over to the next server in the list. There is no round-robin or failback between the LDAP servers, so if you want to design a solution in which all of the LDAP servers are used evenly, you will have to use the Sun ONE Directory Proxy Server software. A load balancer cannot be used because the Sun ONE Identity Server software uses a pool of connections that are kept open and are reused. The same is true for the LDAP and membership authentication modules and for the Policy Configuration service. They can use primary and backup LDAP servers, but you have to add the failover servers after the installation by using the administration console.
Planned Downtime
With the architecture shown in FIGURE 2 on page 4, there is redundancy of services, so most of the unplanned downtime can be minimized or eliminated. However, the planned downtime is still an issue. For instance, if the Portal Server software must be updated, services could be affected. If the upgrade or patch includes changes to the Sun ONE Directory Server software schema used by the Sun ONE Identity Server software, all of the software components must be stopped to update the information stored in the Directory Server.
In addition, the Solaris™ Operating System (Solaris OS) patch installation process does not work if the application services are enabled. Thus, you must shut down all of the services, patch the system, then bring the system back online. In some environments, the downtime incurred during the patch process might not be acceptable. But, with a highly available solution with duplicate services and components, you can use a phased approach for maintaining the system. For instance, you could remove one Portal Server node from the production configuration and upgrade it. Then, you could remove one of the gateways from the production configuration and upgrade it. Afterwards, you could integrate that silo back into the production configuration and repeat the process for the other silo, resulting in an upgrade with minimal interruption of service.
In theory, you would not have downtime; however, because of the architecture of the Portal Server software, it is not possible to just remove one Portal Server instance from the active configuration without affecting some users because there is no way to prevent a user from logging in to the server and to keep the active sessions untouched. Thus, you must create a mechanism to prevent users from logging in to the server while the gateways still process request from the already-authenticated users. This can be accomplished by using a custom-developed authentication module.
Business-Critical Systems
The third type of system is the business-critical system. For this type of system, availability is a critical requirement because if the system goes down, it could lead to lost revenue, lost productivity, and customer dissatisfaction. FIGURE 3 shows the typical configuration of a business-critical system, which builds on the architecture described for the task-critical system and includes all of its benefits.
FIGURE 3 Business-Critical System Configuration
To enhance the availability of the system, an application server is used as a web container for all of the Identity Server and Portal Server services. This configuration is needed to use the HTTP session failover features of the Application Server. This maintains a database of all of the sessions that are created in the system, and that database is accessible to all of the Portal Server instances in the configuration. Thus, if one Portal Server instance fails, the gateways redirect all of the requests to the surviving Portal Server, and that Portal Server will be able to validate that the session is still valid so that the operation will continue to work smoothly.
In the architecture depicted in FIGURE 3, the availability of the system is much higher than the architecture discussed in the "Task-Critical Systems" section. However, it is not possible to achieve absolute session failover. Depending on how an application server instance fails and how and where user sessions are stored and replicated, newly created individual user sessions might not have been written to the common database, so they might be lost.
The Sun ONE Portal Server software, version 6.2, supports BEA's WebLogic 6.1 and the Sun™ ONE Application Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition for session failover. When using BEA's application server, the WebLogic Cluster software is required to create an environment in which the sessions are replicated; however, the Sun ONE Portal Server Secure Remote Access software does not work with the WebLogic Cluster software. Thus, it is not possible to implement a highly available solution with the WebLogic software if the gateways are also required.
For the business-critical system, upgrades have a minimum impact. Either Portal Server node can be taken out of the production configuration without affecting the users because the sessions are in the shared database and because requests will be handled by the available Portal Server node.
Mission-Critical Systems
The fourth type of system is the mission-critical system. For the mission-critical system, failures could have catastrophic results for an organization (for example, loss of life or serious injury, significant loss of money, serious inability to conduct business, or serious operational chaos). Most mission-critical systems are usually custom built using special hardware such as fault-tolerant computers and software.


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WASHINGTON, March 3, 2011 — The fight against insurgents in Afghanistan's Helmand province may have turned the corner and the trend lines are going up, the commander of Regional Command-Southwest said today.
Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Richard Mills, speaking to Pentagon reporters via videoconference, said there has been clear progress in all areas of the command.
The general and his command have been in Helmand since April last year. He formed the new geographical command in July, breaking off from RC-South. There are 30,000 coalition troops in Helmand and Nimruz provinces.
The security situation in the region has made tremendous progress, the general said.
"We have attempted with our winter campaign to maintain pressure on the enemy, and I believe that we have been able to do that," Mills said. "We have seen a steady expansion of our security bubbles as we move out from the areas that we do control into those areas where the enemy still has a presence."
Mills said his command is working with Afghan security forces to "deepen" security in the area. In Sangin, in the northern part of the command, there's been a rapid expansion of the security bubble due to agreements with local tribes who see progress in other parts of the province, and want some security themselves.
Elements of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which arrived in Afghanistan last month, are making progress in the upper Garesh Valley, the general said. The area was a Taliban supply depot, he added, and the Marines are providing security for a new road project that will link the area to Afghanistan's Ring Road system.
In the command's center, United Kingdom forces "are doing a very, very good job of cleaning out the last of the pockets of enemy presence," Mills said. "They are, again, making some real success down there in doing that, and perhaps have even been more successful in getting the Afghan army to operate semi-independently on many of their operations." The Afghan army has improved dramatically, the general said, noting the Afghans are operating their own air support -– including medevac –- and other assets.
"They have even incorporated their own supporting arms now into their operations in that area, and have been proven quite skillful at the use of 122 mm long cannon," he said.
In Marja, military activity is low and security is excellent, Mills said. He pointed to district community council elections held yesterday where about 1,100 of the 1,500 registered voters turned out as an example of the safety in the city that was once a Taliban stronghold.
"That was all very, very successful with absolutely no security incidents, despite a threat delivered by insurgents that they wanted to break that election up," the general said. Governance also has made progress and the region has seen a surge in talented people being appointed to district governor positions. "I'm not a big believer in polls necessarily, but a recent poll down in Nawa indicated that some 89 percent of the local population supported the government, and felt that the government of Afghanistan was now providing them with the basic services that they needed," Mills said.
"In fact, he added, "an independent recent survey showed that 79 percent of the local population throughout the areas controlled by the (Afghan government) felt they had a better standard of living and a more secure way of life than they did just one year ago."
The security and governance progress has allowed development to move ahead. Education is an example of this progress. There are more than 100,000 students in local schools and 20 percent of them are girls. "That's a huge change and a huge sea change, I think, from conditions that we've seen here in the past," Mills said.
There is a teacher's college in the province, the general said, and cell-phone towers are popping up all over the command.
"Cell phones are extraordinarily important," he said, "both to the social life of the people who live here, to the business life of the people who live here, and just to the feeling of normalcy that I think they really crave: to be able to use a cell phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week -– something the Taliban has told them they cannot do."
The biggest change in the region, though, is the freedom of movement, Mills said. "We've seen the people moving about the province in really unprecedented numbers," he said. "That's great for business. We're seeing that has an impact in all of the bazaars, which are doing extraordinarily well. But it also just … provides a feeling of normalcy to many of the people."
Still, the insurgency remains a problem, Mills said. "We are preparing for a counterattack in the springtime," he said. "Our job will be, of course, to gauge how that counterattack will form and what manner the enemy will choose to come after us."
The Taliban and its allies are expected to act, Mills said, in order to regain territory lost over the past six to eight months. The enemy, he added, also is losing its largest source of money: drugs. Thousands of farmers have switched from growing opium poppies to growing wheat, and thousands of acres of land once used for drug crops are now under Afghan government control.
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I've read a few tutorials on how to add the functionality of the custom menus added in version 3.0 to my theme but they all seem to differ somewhat, and I'm not sure whether they contain superfluous code. In addition I read that the code to register your theme as menu-compatible changed between the RC and the public release.
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This book is an erotic, standalone novel.
It is the fifth novel in the Fall and Rise series and it will be released May 24th.
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Simon King is totally secure in his relationship with Brady Bell. He's totally over his family not accepting the fact that he's gay. Seriously, screw them and their uptight, homophobic country club friends. He's got his tribe and his best friend Will's parents are the only ones he'll ever need. He's moved on, thank you very much.
But just one phone call will rip him right out of the perfect present back into the past and Simon will have to face the people who gave him their DNA but couldn't give him their unconditional love. They say you can't go home again, but Simon is going to have to.
Add to that the fact that all their friends are getting hitched and having babies and Brady seems to want to follow suit. Simon is definitely not ready for that and he's not sure he ever will be. Between dealing with his family and dealing with the increasing pressure from Brady, Simon is at the end of his rope.
Will he be able to handle his parents and keep the love of his life at the same time? Or will everything he's built fall completely apart?
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Originally published on Decolonizing Yoga and republished here with the author's permission.
As an Indian woman living in the US, I've often felt uncomfortable in many yoga spaces.
At times – such as when I take a $25 yoga class by a well-known teacher who wants to "expose us to the culture by chanting Om to start class," and her studio hangs the Om symbol in the wrong direction – my culture is being stripped of its meaning and sold back to me in forms that feel humiliating at best and dehumanizing at worst.
It took me going to India to really connect with the roots I was seeking on the mat in yoga studios. As I walked the streets of Shimla's legendary markets, I learned that Indians had been forbidden to tread the main thoroughfares.
It was here that I started to apprehend the true meaning of colonization. Yoga and Ayurveda were legally and de facto banned in India under British rule and colonization.
The practices millions of Westerners now turn to for alternative health and wellness therapies were intentionally eradicated from parts of India to the point that lineages were broken and thousand-year-old traditions lost.
To be colonized is to become a stranger in your own land. As a desi, this is the feeling I get in most Westernized yoga spaces today.
Of course, powerful practices that reduce suffering persist, despite all attempts to end them. These facts are critical to understanding the power and privilege we continue to possess or lack, to clarifying the positionalities we embody as we practice, teach and share yoga today.
Now, when so much of what the Western world sees as true yoga is beautifully achieved physical postures (accomplished, photographed, and displayed by popular yoga magazines, journals, and sites) executed by mostly young, white, stylish-yoga-apparel-clad women and men, yoga is going through a second colonization.
This colonization is the misrepresentation of yoga's intention, its many limbs, and its aims.
Yoga is not now, nor has it ever been, a practice aimed at physical mastery for its own sake. Nor is it a practice aimed at "stress reduction" so we can function as better producers and consumers in a capitalist society.
Yoga was originally intended to prepare the body as a foundation for unity with the spirit.
The limb of asana aims at strengthening the body. Asana, along with dhyana or meditation, aim to harmonize body with breath in order to attain deeper and deeper states of meditative awareness or samadhi.
The purpose of this kind of meditative awareness is to experience, practice, and live oneness of mind, body, and soul with the divine. This kind of freedom is called samadhi or liberation. It is ironic that practice meant to free us has becoming so confining.
The current state of yoga in the United States and elsewhere in the Western world highlights the power imbalance that remains between those who have access to wealth, an audience, and privilege in contrast to those who have been historically marginalized.
If someone from the dominant culture completes a yoga teacher training that is primarily asana based, and remains blissfully unaware of the complexity of yoga's true aim or the roots of the practices, they are culturally appropriating yoga.
By remaining unaware of the history, roots, complexity, and challenges of the heritage from which yoga springs and the challenges it has faced under Western culture, they perpetuate a re-colonization of it by stripping its essence away.
Now, this is not to say that there can't be some true, heartfelt, and deep liberation possible. Or that only Indians can practice or teach yoga and white people can't. There can be authentic cultural exchange, harmony, and understanding.
Clearly, since the true aim of the practice of yoga is liberation, uniting mind, body, and spirit, this form should not limit us. Liberation here is no joke.
Yoga means liberation from every construct, including that of race, gender, time, space, location, identity, and even history herself.
However, in the current cultural context where there is a billion-dollar industry profiting off of taking yoga out of context, branding, and repackaging it for monetary gain, we need to address this.
Or else we perpetuate a second colonization – eventually eradicating the true practice, as was accomplished in many places under Britain's occupation of India, and we stray further on the path of maya, or illusion.
These are a few ways to decolonize your yoga practice:
1. Inquire Within
One powerful way we can decolonize yoga and reunite it with its true aim and purpose is to practice Gandhian svadhyaya, or self-rule and inquiry, and to truly learn the full honest, integrity of an authentic yoga practice.
2. Explore, Learn, and Cite Correct Cultural References
As practitioners of yoga, I would love to see more of us citing cultural references as we attempt to understand and connect with the complexity, culture, and history from which this tradition comes.
I'm not suggesting people put on a watered down, context-removed faux Hinduism. To me, that is not the answer.
Commitment to deep practice, questioning, and learning is, perhaps, part of the answer.
3. Ask Ourselves (And Other Yoga Teachers) the Hard Questions
These tensions ask us to bring all of ourselves to the table. So what I am suggesting is that for us to decolonize yoga, we need to inquire deeply.
We each have our unique story and gifts to share, as do all the practitioners we teach or learn from.
Let's ask ourselves, "For whom is yoga accessible today, and how might that be a legacy of past injustices that we have the opportunity to address through our teaching practice and our lives?"
4. Live, Know, Share, and Practice All Eight Limbs of Yoga – Not Just Asana
We can also decolonize yoga by studying the depth of practice beyond the postures.
In addition to asana, we need to understand, practice, and teach all eight limbs of yoga: yama or ethical conduct; niyama or personal practice; pranayama or working with the breath; pratyahara, awareness of the senses; dharana – meditation, concentration, and insight; dhyana or being present with whatever arises; and samadhi, or interconnection with all that is.
5. Be Humble and Honor Your Own and Other People's Journeys
When we humbly and respectfully consider yoga's history, context, many branches, and practices, we give ourselves a fighting chance achieving yoga's aim of enlightenment of mind, body, and spirit.
By really engaging the full, whole, and multifaceted face of yoga, we not only liberate ourselves, but we may just overthrow this second colonization of yoga, freeing ourselves (as well as the yoga practitioners of the future) to experience the full, liberatory, authentic, and true practice of yoga.
We allow our own practice to grow and our gifts to really shine.
With mutual understanding, respect, and a deep reverence and caring for the history, we can decolonize ourselves, the yoga-industrial complex, and stage our own ahimsa, or nonviolent revolution of the mind, body, and spirit.
To learn more about this topic, check out:
- 4 Thoughts for Your Yoga Teacher Who Thinks Appropriation Is Fun
- What's Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm
- The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation
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Susanna Barkataki often cries on her yoga mat out of joy. When she isn't leading yoga teacher trainings or writing about the power of yoga, Ayurveda, and goddess magic she can be found playing with her son or hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains north of LA. Get more Yoga and Ayurveda right to your inbox at www.healthyhotgoddess.com. You can check her out on Twitter @SusannaWellness.
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Myanmar still uses rape as weapon of war - women's group
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By David Brunnstrom
January 14, 2014
A women's group says the military in Myanmar is still using rape as a weapon of war, with more than 100 women and girls raped by the army since a 2010 election brought about a nominally civilian government that has pursued rapprochement with the West.
The Thailand-based Women's League of Burma said in a report made available to Reuters that 47 of the cases documented were gang rapes and 28 of the women were either killed or had died of their injuries. It said several victims were as young as eight.
The group said the situation showed the need for legal reform in Myanmar, also known as Burma, and for changes to a 2008 constitution to ensure that the military is placed under civilian control.
Myanmar's government denied the allegation.
"It's not the policy of our Tatmadaw (military) to use rapes as weapons," presidential spokesman Ye Htut told Reuters.
"If there are rape cases committed by individual members, we try to expose them and take effective action against the offenders. It would be very helpful in taking action against the offenders if those who prepared that report could send us the details of the cases," he said.
The report from the women's group comes less than a month after a bipartisan group of prominent U.S. senators, Bob Menendez, Marco Rubio Ben Cardin and Bob Corker, introduced a bill saying that no funds made available to the Pentagon in 2014 should be provided to the Myanmar government until there is such reform and rights abuses are addressed.
The bill, which makes an exception for human rights and disaster response training for the military, also calls on the Pentagon and the U.S. State Department to present a report on U.S. strategy for military-to-military ties with Myanmar, including an assessment of the Myanmar military's rights record and the link between a deepening of such ties and reform.
The women's group said most of the rape cases it and its member organizations had documented were linked to offensives by the Myanmar military in the northeast of the country against ethnic minority Kachin and Shan insurgents.
It said that in the past three years, the Kachin Women's Association Thailand had documented 59 cases of sexual violence by Myanmar government soldiers. The Shan Women's Action Network reported another 30 cases involving 35 women and girls, it said.
The women's league said the attacks were more than random isolated acts by rogue soldiers.
"Their widespread and systematic nature indicates a structural pattern: rape is still used as an instrument of war and oppression."
The league said more than 38 different army battalions were implicated in the cases it had documented. It said the incidents took place in at least 35 different townships and that it believed the reported cases were only the "tip of the iceberg" as many cases went unreported.
"The use of sexual violence in conflict is a strategy and an act of warfare that has political and economic dimensions that go beyond individual cases," the report said.
"Sexual violence is used as a tool by the Burmese military to demoralize and destroy ethnic communities."
The group said the abuses were potential war crimes and crimes against humanity and called for a thorough independent investigation.
The report highlighted one case in which an 8-year-old girl living with her grandparents was raped by a soldier in Hsipaw Township in northern Shan State, on April 14, 2013.
In another case, soldiers raped three women and a 12-year- old girl in Shan State's Ke See township on July 5, 2011. It said the girl was raped in front of her mother and one of the women was nine-months pregnant.
The 2012 State Department human rights report on Myanmar referred to rapes by both government forces and ethnic minority insurgent groups in Shan and Kachin states. It said that when government soldiers committed rape in ethnic minority areas, the army rarely took action to punish those responsible. The January 2013 Human Rights Watch report on Myanmar said sexual violence by the military remained a serious problem.
In October, 133 civil society organizations representing ethnic groups in Myanmar, including the women's league, wrote to U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to express concern about their military engagement with Myanmar.
(Additional reporting by Aung Hla Tun in Yangon; Editing by Robert Birsel)


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Marc Berthier trained at the Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 1967, he was behind a small revolution in the field of design, creating the very first collection of affordable plastic furniture: this was the famous Ozoo collection, the children's desks from which were purchased by the City of Créteil. His creations have won him numerous awards, most notably the Prix Gabriel, the médaille de l'Art et de l'industrie (France), and the New York Accent Design. He has also won the grand prix national de la Création industrielle. Marc Berthier is a reference point in the field of design, with pieces in the collections of all the museums of modern art, most notably the Museum of modern Art in New York and the musée national d'Art moderne in France. Alongside his design work he also works are an architect and lectures in design.


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10 Years Ago: GWAR Mastermind Dave Brockie Dies
For intergalactic warriors and metal fans alike, March 23, 2014 was a sad day. Shock metal pioneer Dave Brockie, the founder, frontman and creative force behind GWAR, was found dead by a roommate. Brockie was 50.
Richmond police received a phone call at approximately 6:53PM, reporting "a deceased individual" at the 4800 block of West Seminary Avenue in Richmond, Va. After arriving at Brockie's home, police found the singer sitting upright in a chair. He was unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene. Toxicology reports later confirmed he had overdosed on heroin.
For 30 years, Brockie (ex-Death Piggy) performed as Oderus Urungus, the front-thing of a punk-inflected metal band that claimed to be composed of intergalactic Scumdogs who were banished to Antarctica. There, they formed a band with the intention to use their powers to destroy the earth, score tons of crack and return to their home planet to rejoin their fellow Scumdogs.
Along the way, GWAR developed into one of the most outrageous, enduring and messy metal acts, earning their battle stripes for simulating gory atrocities that splattered their audience with fake blood, which poured like fountains from decapitated bodies. One of Oderus' most legendary stunts was to bathe the crowd in jets of fake sperm he shot from his huge, malformed penis.
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Although Brockie did interviews out of costume, most of his fans only saw him in character. Many artists would have trouble sustaining the public's interest with such antics for years, let alone decades, but Brockie was witty, garrulous and hysterical. Also, his band was appealing musically as well as visually. Although they experienced numerous lineup changes over time, GWAR released 13 studio albums with Brockie at the helm. In addition, the band put out more than 20 VHS videos and DVDs.
Brockie wasn't only a legend of the metal counterculture; he infiltrated the mainstream. Between July 8, 2009 and Sept. 30, 2010, Oderus Urungus appeared as a semi-regular "Intergalactic Correspondent" on the Fox News show Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld. Oderus also co-starred in the 2012 sitcom Holliston on the Fearnet cable network, providing bad advice to the show's main character.
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After Brockie died, support flowed in from the local, national and international music communities. Perhaps the most powerful and heartfelt tribute came Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe, whose band also came from Richmond, Virginia and played with GWAR on countless occasions:
"Dave TRULY WAS ONE OF A KIND. I can't think of ANYONE even remotely like him," Blythe said. "My band learned how to become a real touring band from GWAR. They gave us out first shot at this thing. I learned many things from Dave, many of which I am eternally grateful for, and some of which I am deeply ashamed of."
"Right now, if I were to truly honor Dave in the way HE would do it if it were ME that had died, I would make a completely tasteless joke about his death. But I do not have the stomach for that — Dave would, but not me. He never put much stock in 'limits.' Richmond has lost one of its most creative people… Thank you, Brockie, for all the crazy s--t you did. Thank God you existed, so you could do it and I didn't have to. It was an honor to know you, to be your Shaky Slave, to serve in the Blood Vomits alongside you (let's ride!), and to be soaked by your sweet cuttlefish. RIP Dave Brockie. Oderus, enjoy your trip back home."
Viking Funeral Ceremony for Dave Brockie
Brockie was the last original member of GWAR. Following his death, his bandmates decided to continue the group. They gave Oderus a traditional Viking funeral, in which he was placed on a raft that was set aflame and launched out to sea. The event took place after a public memorial on Aug. 15, 2014 before the fifth annual GWAR B-Q. Former bassist Beefcake "Michael Bishop" the Mighty (a.k.a. Blothar) took Brockie's spot as lead vocalist and the band hired a second singer, Kim Dylla (a.k.a. Vulvatron), whose breasts spurt blood in concert.
Rest in peace, Oderus. You always knew how to make us laugh.
Loudwire contributor Jon Wiederhorn is the author of Raising Hell: Backstage Tales From the Lives of Metal Legends, co-author of Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, as well as the co-author of Scott Ian's autobiography, I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy From Anthrax, and Al Jourgensen's autobiography, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen and the Agnostic Front book My Riot! Grit, Guts and Glory.


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As promised, something about my own career:
I grew up in the American Midwest – farming country – a long way from any ocean. But for some reason, I always thought of the sea – I read volumes about it and dreamed about becoming a sailor. The flat fields of the Great Plains seemed confining, and I couldn't wait to escape!
My first view of the ocean happened just after graduating from high school – my best friend and I took an ailing Volkswagen Beetle (you had to push it to start it) on a trip to Florida.
After a number of misadventures on the way down, early one morning we arrived at Daytona and drove out on the beach, thrilled to see the sea at last.
Ah, the ocean! How vast, how blue! The ocean . . . and the beach! So hard, so smooth, wonderful to drive on – they used to race cars on this beach, y'know . . . yeah, the beach . . . hey, wait - what's becoming of this beach? It's getting narrower and narrower as we drive along . . . the water almost covered that last ramp . . . it HAS covered this ramp . . . uh-oh, we're trapped!
And we were. Coming from the rural Midwest, we'd never figured on the effect of tides – maybe I slept through that day in science class. Back home, the lakes and ponds politely stayed where you left them most of the time, they didn't go crawling restlessly up and down the beach that way.
Unable to get the VW off the beach, we tethered it to a telephone pole up on shore and let it ride out the flood tide. It floated (they said it would, and it did) but it didn't do it any good. It didn't run for six weeks, during which time we hitchhiked inland and found work as migrant workers, irrigating the orange groves (and, for a few desperate days, setting smudge pots in the groves to fight a freeze – there was a battle!) We earned enough money to buy a used engine and install it. Then, chastened – and cold, because sand and seaweed from the VW's float on the ocean had blocked her heating vents – we drove home in time for Christmas. So that was my first brief ocean voyage – in a car.
We told the folks at home that we'd had a wonderful time.
The Vietnam war was getting hot at that point, and I signed up and volunteered for combat duty. I spent 13 months in Vietnam on a patrol boat. It was the first time I'd ever actually lived and worked on the water, and it was a challenging job. I learned that even in that environment, scared half the time and experiencing the loss of friends in combat, that I loved being on the sea. I was hooked.
So as a young civilian I started in tankers, peeling spuds and cleaning up in the galley. When an opportunity offered I moved to the deck department, earning my AB ticket, and eventually working my way up to Bos'n.
Then I studied for my license, and became Second Mate (my license & ratings are on the Professional page of this website). I worked on a Bludworth ATB that traded to S. America and Asia. Had some unique adventures on that S. America run, but never made the Asia trip.
Then – it happens to almost every man – I fell in love and got married. Wanting to be nearer home & family, I took a job as Mate/Relief Captain on a research vessel operating on the US east coast. From there I moved to tugs, working in ship assist as Mate & Captain, and later coastwise towing as a Captain. Ambitious to become a Pilot, I got my federal Pilot's license for Baltimore Harbor, but ended up moving into the office instead. I'm now General Manager for a towing company in the Chesapeake Bay region.
One of the aspects of our industry that I like so much is one's ability to try new things, to grow, to find something entirely new within your field of expertise that will challenge you and teach you something. It's certainly been true of my career, and I'm sure its true of yours.
Let me know what you're doing and what you plan to do! And don't forget to send your photos and comments for posting. It's an interesting big world out there, and mariners are some of the luckiest people in it!
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The Challenger Sale
Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
Author: Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson
Narrator: Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson
Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 07/16/2019
What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships-and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them. The need to understand what top-performing reps are doing that their average performing colleagues are not drove Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at Corporate Executive Board to investigate the skills, behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes that matter most for high performance. And what they discovered may be the biggest shock to conventional sales wisdom in decades.Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies, The Challenger Sale argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. The authors' study found that every sales rep in the world falls into one of five distinct profiles, and while all of these types of reps can deliver average sales performance, only one-the Challenger- delivers consistently high performance.Instead of bludgeoning customers with endless facts and features about their company and products, Challengers approach customers with unique insights about how they can save or make money. They tailor their sales message to the customer's specific needs and objectives. Rather than acquiescing to the customer's every demand or objection, they are assertive, pushing back when necessary and taking control of the sale.The things that make Challengers unique are replicable and teachable to the average sales rep. Once you understand how to identify the Challengers in your organization, you can model their approach and embed it throughout your sales force. The authors explain how almost any average-performing rep, once equipped with the right tools, can successfully reframe customers' expectations and deliver a distinctive purchase experience that drives higher levels of customer loyalty and, ultimately, greater growth.


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