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The couple is expecting their first child and want to get married before arrival of the new family member.
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Somerset, NJ July 26 – Hearing Care Professionals across the US can make a positive difference in South Africa, where people are in need of hearing healthcare services. Join Oticon's Mission to Xanthia by participating on the mission blog and hearing instrument donation program.
This summer, Oticon, Inc., in partnership with the American Academy of Audiology Foundation (AAAF), is puttingPeople First into action by underwriting the cost for Jamie Burton Shumaker, AuD, CCC-A, F-AAA and Julie Martinez Verhoff, AuD/PhD Candidate, CCC-A, F-AAA to join a unique humanitarian mission to remote villages in South Africa, including Mpumalanga, the location of the Oticon Xanthia Hearing Clinic.
The two audiologists were selected during a special drawing held at 2010 AudiologyNOW! and will travel with Jackie L. Clark, PhD/CCC-A, F-AAA of the University of Texas at Dallas (who also has a Research Scholar appointment at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa) and a volunteer team of US audiology students. Dr. Clark's teams have been working for more than 12 years, engaging professionals in the program which includes school screenings for incidence/prevalence measures and community hearing clinics to identify and refer those with remediable hearing.
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To enable hearing care professionals and other supporters to experience the day-to-day successes and challenges of this life-changing mission, Dr. Clark, Dr. Shumaker, Dr. Martinez and other members of the Mission to Xanthia team will post their comments on a Mission to Xanthia blog located in the Professionals section of oticonusa.com. A link on the Professionals home page will take visitors to the daily posts.
In addition to an assortment of supplies and gifts for young children donated by the AAAF, Oticon will supply the team with 100 hearing instruments and more than 5,000 batteries for their mission. To sustain the humanitarian effort throughout the year, Oticon plans to refurbish and ship any gently used Oticon hearing instruments that are donated by hearing care professionals from across the country.
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"As much as they might wish to, not every hearing care professional has the opportunity to travel to remote locations to deliver much-needed audiological care and supplies," said Oticon President Peer Lauritsen. "The daily blogs from Xanthia will allow hearing care professionals to follow the progress of our team as they provide needed care for children and adults with hearing loss. Through the Mission to Xanthia hearing instrument donation program, we aim to enable hearing care professionals to make a tangible contribution to the success of the program and thus share in the satisfaction of the many good works accomplished."
Hearing care professionals may ship gently used Oticon hearing instruments to: Oticon, Inc., 29 Schoolhouse Road, Somerset, NJ 08873, Attn: Customer Service/Xanthia Donations. Tax receipts will be issued for all donations.
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Since 1973 Colombia Telethon has directed its actions towards the holistic rehabilitation of physically disabled people.
The Telethon was held for 15 years non stop between 1980 and 1995, except for 1984, when the Armero tragedy took place. In 1996 the Telethon as TV marathon was stopped, due to the economic crisis that affected the country, but the Foundation is still alive.
In 2009, Colombia Telethon, at the moment they had concluded the agreement with La Sabana University, started a new phase. After a successful work, they began an important administrative renewal in which they initiated an ambitious program to build Integral Rehabilitation Centers (CRITs) and start again with the Telethon Event.
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In 2010 the Telethon TV event was held once again, to contribute to the construction of a net of rehabilitation centers in different parts of the country, and to the opening of two new centers, one in Manizales and the other in the west of Bogotá, which joined the Bogotá Rehabilitation Center. This institution treated more than 79,000 patients between 1997 and 2006.
The first CRIT's to be ready will be the one in Manizales, which is being built since early 2010 in a site in Aranjuez provided by the town mayor on September 17th 2009.
It is expected it will not only treat the local people, but also the population of the coffee-growing area, where there are more than 160,000 individuals with disabilities.
The center in west Bogotá is planned to be ready by late 2011. Following the same line are the cities of Barranquilla and Bucaramanga, where other CRIT's will be built in the near future.
In this way, Colombia will have a net of CRIT's, which will focus on a holistic assistance model, where the physical, psychological and social aspects are taken into account.
The lines of action of this model seek prioritize the prevention of the disability, as well as the patient and their family's assistance. It also minds the follow-up of each disabled person treated at the center so as to achieve an effective rehabilitation.
The CRIT's will treat patients of all socio-economic conditions, those affiliated or not to an insurance plan, private ones or those who cannot pay for the treatments. For the ones who cannot afford the costs, the treatments will be free and all the expenses will be met by Telethon.
The holistic assistance model developed in the CRIT's contemplates the following as their main lines of action:
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The illnesses treated in the CRIT's system refer to infant cerebral palsy and mild, moderate and serious brain damage; congenital or acquired spinal cord injury; neuromuscular disorders, amputees and osteoarticular disabilities and congenital or genetic illnesses.
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The most recent proposal to cut benefits for Montgomery County teachers and school employees was rejected by the County Council, WAMU reports.
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CAJ News has been reliably informed that this follows a request by South Sudan for Zimbabwe to assist.
The South Sudan Foreign Affairs minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, was quoted on state-owned South Sudan Television that Zimbabwe should join the East African regional group, the Inter-governmental Authority on Development [IGAD], which are planning to deploy troops in the politically-volatile country.
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The war was waged between 1983 and 2005.
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"My favorite pony is <insert favorite pony name here>." If I had a dollar for every time someone told me who their favorite pony was, I'd be out buying blind bags right now. This is one of the most interesting and informative things that bronies like to know about one another, it gives indicators of their personality, and it can also give bronies insight into themselves.
What motivates someone's choice of best pony? Is it the character depth? The aesthetic appeal? Perhaps it's something else entirely?
A while back, I wrote a really long blog post about why Scootaloo is my favorite pony. To those who aren't interested in a long-winded explanation, it's because she appears to have been dealt a really bad hand in life, yet she keeps her head up and never lets her past haunt her. She has infectious optimism, something that I aim to have in my interactions with my fellow man. She is, for all intents and purposes, a role model.
In order for a pony to be best pony, they don't need to be a role model. They don't really need much of anything. Colgate, Lyra, Derpy, and Carrot Top are common favorites as well, yet none of them have ascribable character development in the official series. What does Bon Bon have that Rarity doesn't?
Perhaps it's the aesthetic appeal? In part, that's quite likely. Looking at a pony with a good color scheme always seems to just put a good vibe in the character overall. Mixing the wrong colors can end up making a pony look pretty horrifying, anyway. This almost certainly contributes, at least in some small part, to who a favorite pony is.
That can't be everything, though. Nearly every single pony has a well thought-out color palette so as not to offend the eyes, so unless we all think that all ponies are best pony, aesthetics are only a small portion of what goes into having a best pony.
Perhaps, instead of backstory and visual appeal, it's the lack of character development. There are small, almost teasing hints of who these ponies are, but nobody really knows. It's a mystery in itself. So, what do we do when we don't know enough about a pony? We come up with things. This is usually referred to as headcanon.
In retrospect, my reason for liking Scootaloo so much is actually headcanon. There is no explicit statement that Scootaloo is an orphan, or that she is homeless; by virtue of what the show is, it's highly doubtful they could tell us this even if they wanted to. However, the way things have formulated in my mind for this character have drawn me to this conclusion, and I wouldn't have it any other way. In a weird little way, Scootaloo is my favorite character by what I don't know, rather than what I do know.
Put into this light, appreciation for characters such as Rumble, Cloud Chaser, Snowflake, and Doctor Whooves begin to make a lot more sense. These characters are almost blank slates, perhaps a few scribbled annotations creating a basic framework for personality, that we take and fill in with our own ideas on just who they are.
If I could hazard a guess at just why blank slate characters are so appealing, it would be imagination. We see a show that's rich with character development for its key protagonists and antagonists and ask ourselves, "What about the others?" According to the recent Herd Census, only four of the Mane 6 are at the top of the favorites list; Applejack and Rarity are both beaten by Princess Luna. Despite how little character development has gone into Princess Luna, she is still well-liked enough to be above two of the characters that appear in nearly every episode. Perhaps it's not what we explicitly know about Princess Luna; it's the things they don't explain that make us want to see her more, hear her talk more often, witness her interactions with fellow ponies. Though she's not as open-ended as she used to be, Princess Luna has been a common fan favorite since episode 2 of season 1.
What do we know of Lyra? Her special talent is the harp, she's mint green, and she sits somewhat strangely compared to other ponies. Based on these characteristics, there has been a legion of fanart, fanfiction, and discussion on just who Lyra is. All of it is headcanon, none of it is confirmed, and Lyra will most likely remain a blank slate for the foreseeable future. Isn't that part of the beauty of it?
Despite the appeal of the blank slate characters, however, those with developed character are still the overall favorites. The top of the list contains (from highest to lowest) Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Princess Luna, Rarity, and Applejack. Barring Princess Luna, all of these characters are persistent in their appearances, getting the most face time out of all of the characters, and this appears to be reflected by their rankings in the list.
This, I would attribute to the wildly varied personalities of those who watch the show. There are bronies from nearly all walks of life, living in both congested and remote locations, living with their parents and independent as well, who have each been through something different and having made them into different people. Bronies aren't just "grown men who like ponies;" rather, there is a huge diversity in the brony fandom that can only be emulated when looking at things on the cultural level.
In fact, the only thing that's remotely "common" about us is our liking of the show. We can't be expected to all like the same thing, and statistically, we obviously don't. The highest percentage of anything that's been measured as an "applies to all" statistic of the brony fandom is the Jung personality test results showing that a little over 25% of the fandom is a specific personality type; that's still nowhere near a majority, and trying to say that all bronies are introverted, intuitive, thoughtful, and judgmental is asserting that 75% of the fandom is irrelevant for the statistic.
The statistic does serve to reinforce that certain personality types are attracted to certain characters, though; if we made the assertion that bronies of the INTJ personality type typically most closely identify with Twilight Sparkle, that would explain why she's usually at the top of the list. There are always exceptions to the rule, but this doesn't seem too bold a conclusion to leap to.
To those who prefer blank slates over well-developed character, what is their reason? They don't identify with vague characteristics. My personal thought on this is to give themselves an aspiration, of sorts… a role model. The development that goes behind the more open-ended characters is a large part of the process of discovering oneself.
To put this into perspective, when I was first tuning in to watch ponies (around September 2011), I'd seen all of season 1 and chosen Scootaloo as my favorite character. She seemed to have quirky personality traits that helped her stand out from the rest of the characters, and she had a lot of unexplained storyline that could be filled in by any number of ideas. As my viewing of the show progressed, so did my headcanon of Scootaloo. In this phase of molding Scootaloo to be the incredible character I see her to be, I was simultaneously going through a molding process myself in real life. I turned Scootaloo into an inspiration without even realizing it, and now I attempt to be like her in everything I do.
It would be silly to think that every single brony finds their favorite pony a role model, but it's not too farfetched an idea. Nobody's perfect; we can all admit that, right? Nopony is perfect, either… but we still look at them and see something to admire. Isn't that what role models do?
To those who think every pony is best pony, that's understandable as well. Every single character in the show has certain personality traits that we can aspire to have, and limiting ourselves to a single influential character is a handicap in itself. I can appreciate the broad scope of desire to improve.
All in all, we can always look to our best pony as some form of inspiration. Whether it be Twilight Sparkle or Derpy Hooves, we each see a different pony and aspire to be like them in our own way. There's still a lot of learning to do, but I consider it better than not trying to better oneself. Bronies, continue to be diverse; it makes best pony discussions interesting.


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Stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel, who was frequently a guest on Howard Stern's Sirius XM radio show, is dead after suffering serious injuries in a car crash. He was 60 years old
Howard Bragman, Schimmel's spokesman, says the comic died on Friday night in a hospital is Phoenix, Arizona.
On Thursday, Schimmel was a passenger in a vehicle that was being driven by his daughter Aliyah Schimmel, who is 19 years old.
Apparently, the vehicle she was driving rolled to the side of the freeway after Aliyah swerved to avoid hitting another car. Bragman says she is hospitalized and is currently listed in stable condition.
Robert Schimmel resided in Scottsdale, Arizona and was often a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and also on Stern's show. His 2008 book, "Cancer on $5 a Day", chronicled his fight with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Once you have gathered enough stalks, begin to flatten them. This can be accomplished by stepping on them slowly from one end to the other. You can also use a rock to pound them flat, or crush them inbetween your fingers.
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For Lovers!
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What a great picture! And in case I haven't mentioned it before, I love your header photos. Happy almost Valentines Day to you as well.ReplyDelete
Aw... That's just plain romantic.ReplyDelete
But now, it is still kinda hard to snuggle whilst protecting the big hair with your hand. An umbrella is helpful.
That was just beautiful!ReplyDelete
Today my daughter and her fiance are going out for an engagement photo shoot - rain or shine. I'll have to send this to her!
What a lovely quote and photo! Happy almost Valentines Day to you as well. Hubby surprised me with a lovely dozen pink roses a couple of nights ago. We'll be traveling the day after Valentines Day! :) Hope all is well in your world.ReplyDelete
That's so cute!ReplyDelete
So sweet! I love the photo and quote!ReplyDelete
What a great photo. In the most recent movie adaptation of Little Women (Winona Ryder), she meets the professor and it is raining and she has an umbrella, and I think it is a very romantic moment. I love umbrellas. I have a red polka dotted one -- who would have thunk? JoniReplyDelete


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Archive for February, 2009
Happy 100,000th Question!
I've been remiss in not celebrating an important Stack Overflow milestone. Sometime on Wednesday, February 25th, a user asked..
Our 100,000th Question!
I didn't say it was a good question, mind you. But it was the hundred thousandth question posted to Stack Overflow.
So, for reference — and remember our private beta started on 7/31/2008, and the public beta on 9/15/2008 — here's how many questions and answers have been posted to date, by month:
|July 08
|August 08
|September 08
|October 08
|November 08
|December 08
|January 09
|February 09*
We are pretty regularly doing 500k pageviews per day now. Geoff has also been tracking our bandwidth usage through the most excellent Cacti tool. Here's what the last 24 hour period looks like:
So far:
- peak of 6 Mbit/sec or 750 KB/sec
- average of 4 Mbit/sec or 512 KB/sec
That's actually a lot for a site like ours which is nearly 100% text with precious few images.
And compressed text at that! We've had the GZIP religion for a long time, but last night we went through and double checked everything to be sure. I did some port 80 sniffing and found a few cases where content wasn't served up compressed, even when the client asked for it. Looking for commonalities and doing research, I discovered that HTTP 1.0 traffic and proxy traffic wasn't being compressed. Turns out those are both off by default in IIS 7. I turned them on like so:
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config /section:httpCompression /noCompressionForHttp10:false %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config /section:httpCompression /noCompressionForProxies:false
I was surprised how many proxies actually identify themselves as HTTP 1.0, given how ancient HTTP 1.1 is. It's especially ironic considering many of these very same proxies asked for gzip content — I'm not sure GZIP compression is even valid under HTTP 1.0.
But I digress. Congratulations to everyone who has helped make Stack Overflow a success by asking and answering questions. Here's to many more years of learning together!
* partial data up to Feb 24th
Podcast #43
This is the 43rd episode of the StackOverflow podcast, where Joel and
Jeff discuss dealing with incompetent programmers, whether salaries should be public, dealing with technical debt, and programming for small businesses.
- Joel is away this week in Florida at the Future of Web Applications conference, where he was a speaker. He mentioned that the new Atlas web GUI builder was particularly impressive.
- We will try to be more careful about our use of Begs The Question.
- Joel asks about the rationale behind requiring 50 reputation to leave a comment, but allowing a brand new user to post a question or leave an answer. The reason is mostly because we have no mechanism for voting or marking offensive on comments, because they're ultra-lightweight.
- One way to avoid the dilemma of dealing with bad programmers is to be selective who you work for — only choose employment at companies where they Hit the High Notes. It's even in the Joel Test itself: do new hires have to write code?
- I'm not a fan of puzzle-based interview processes. I met with a Stack Overflow user this week, Chris Jester-Young, and he revealed a clever and potentially more useful strategy: give interviewees a C program full of bugs, and have them try to debug them! Of course, Chris is a big Code Golf enthusiast, so of course he nailed that one.
- Sometimes you have to try to change your organization to fix the root problems, otherwise you're just fighting the symptoms and not the disease itself. This can be quite a challenge when you have no real authority. Joel offers some advice in Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt.
- Are there happy incompetents? I argue that there are; Joel argues that there aren't. Among the Inept, Ignorance is Bliss. Perhaps the better question to ask is, how can you help this marginal programmer find a career they'll enjoy? Many so-so programmers can make outstanding testers, for example.
- We wonder: what would it be like to work at a commercial for-profit company where everyone's salaries were public knowledge? I imagined it as something like The Lord of the Flies. Just make sure you aren't Piggy!
- At Fog Creek, salaries aren't technically public, but they have a formula through which everyone's pay can be derived. This is the Fog Creek Professional Ladder. Fog Creek also does profit sharing, so when the company does well, everyone does well.
- Is there a two-class society at Microsoft, between Testers and Developers? Joel wonders why they need different titles. I had always heard Microsoft did a great job of giving test engineers a viable parallel career track.
- Joel believes manipulating compensation to motivate people does not work, almost by definition. Top developers will do a good job no matter what compensation system you put in front of them. It's a "blunt instrument" that can cause as much harm as good. Joel is an advocate of "taking salary discussion off the table, paying people fairly and justly and well, so they can stop worrying about it so much."
- We have a lot of anti-bot code on Stack Overflow. What we didn't think about was human-entered spam! Now we do — yet another example of the incredible power of rate limiting techniques.
- On matters of customer service, we do endeavor to not make the situation worse. Start practicing saying "I'm sorry, it's our fault."
- Updates may slow down on Stack Overflow for a little while. We have built up a lot of technical debt around our database, and we have to hunker down and refactor a few core database tables that affect 80% of our code. If you don't pay down your techical debt every so often, you could end up like Twitter — a reliability laughingstock. But, somehow, still successful.
- There's something liberating and energizing about going in and tearing down huge parts of your application to rebuild it and make it better. Unlike our previous discussion on learning languages, I'm more of an advocate of the big bang model here, whereas Joel proposes something more incremental.
- If you work in programming or IT for a small business, can you give an elevator pitch explaining the value you bring to the business to the powers that be? Are you scaling your solutions to the size of your business, and not over-engineering it? What can you outsource, versus what is strategic?
We answered the following listener questions on this podcast:
- Matt Rogish: "How does one ethically get rid of of incompetent programmers?"
Our favorite Stack Overflow qustions this week are:
- Choosing a technology stack for a small 'budget conscious' business — if the company is unwilling to spend any money at all, that means they place no value on what you're doing. Fix that first, if you can.
If you'd like to submit a question to be answered in our next episode, record an audio file (90 seconds or less) and mail it to firstname.lastname@example.com. You can record a question using nothing but a telephone and a web browser. We also have adedicated phone number you can call to leave audio questions at 646-826-3879.
The transcript wiki for this episode is available for public editing.
New Question / Answer Rate Limits
Stack Overflow is somewhat unique in that we encourage participation of essentially anonymous, random programmers. Our idea is to radically reduce the bar for participation, and take one giant leap of faith:
Trusting our users.
Well, most of them, anyway. We have the typical hurdles in place to prevent bots from gaming our system: JavaScript and "too fast to be human" triggered CAPTCHA. This works in conjunction with community use of the offensive flag, which auto-deletes any post after 5 users tag it "offensive", and traditional downvoting. This system has been fairly effective to date. We've only had a handful of spam and trolling, and it's all been handled with a minimum of fuss or impact to the typical Stack Overflow user.
That is, until tonight, when we were hit by a malicious user of a type we haven't seen before:
In a way, I suppose I should thank this user for doing this on a Friday night when traffic levels are pretty low. Here's my official response:
How does it feel when we vandalize you, Mr. Tupac Shakur? Eh? Not so good, I bet!
But in all seriousness, the surprising thing here is that this user was not a bot. Our anti-bot stuff would be challenging to get around. It was an actual human being, entering the CAPTCHAs, cutting and pasting text into every post. We verified this by looking at the logs, and the timestamps on the entries. The times are slow and variable, not at all what you'd expect to see from a bot.
Wow. How bored is this guy? (And yeah, it's always a guy, who are we kidding.) I'm not going to name any names, here, but we tracked all the IPs that this activity came from and they were all geographically similar.
As if I needed another reason to hate Kangaroos and Koalas.
I've been thinking for a while that we should have more stringent throttles on new users, rate limits for asking and answering questions. This human spam storm was my excuse to implement them. So, effective immediately…
If you're a new user, with reputation below 100:
- You may only post 1 question every 20 minutes
- You may only post 1 answer every 3 minutes
This is tracked at the IP address level, so multiple posts from the same IP, even as different "users", will still be blocked.
So take that, Australian wanna-be Tupac Shakur!
Our Backup Strategy – Inexpensive NAS
As part of our new backup strategy, I decided to invest in an inexpensive Network Attached Storage (NAS) unit — the QNAP TS-409U.
The TS-409U has the following specs:
- 1u rack mountable
- 4 SATA drive bays
- 500 MHz embedded CPU, 8 MB flash RAM, 512 MB RAM, Linux based
- Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 with hot-plugging drives
- Gigabit ethernet network interface w/ web UI
- Mac, Windows, Linux filesystem support
Being Linux, you can also do lots of other cool stuff on it, like run Apache+PHP, MySQL server, FTP server, BitTorrent server, Multimedia Server (whatever the heck Twonky is), and iTunes compatible media sharing. But for our purposes, it's an inexpensive RAID-based filesystem. It's a minimalistic set of hardware, as you can see in this Techware Labs review:
I populated our TS-409U with four of the best price/capacity hard drives I could source. As of today, at least, the sweet spot is 640 GB drives. Total price was $799 for the device, and $60 each for the drives, so around $1,200 total with tax and shipping.
Our Database Ninjatm, Brent Ozar, gave me a little flak for investing in such a low-end NAS device. It's true, for around $1,400 I could have built yet another quad-core, 2 drive mirror Lenovo RS110 server. However, I felt that having an embedded device dedicated to backups — and one with four drive bays that can do better than RAID 0 or 1 — was the more logical choice. But I agree, it would have been nice to have another full-blown server to pinch hit for scalability or anything else. It's a grey area.
As for setting up the QNAP TS-409U, I was a little annoyed that you have to run a Windows or Mac executable for the initial setup, instead of just booting it and configuring everything through the comprehensive (and very nice) web UI. But it detected my drives and configured OK, at which point I could use the web UI for everything else:
Seventeen (!) hours later, the array was fully synced and ready for benchmarking. RAID 6 is just like RAID 5, but with one more parity block, so it can survive two drive failures instead of just one.
The downside of picking a low end NAS is speed. The relatively anemic 500 MHz embedded CPU, combined with software-only RAID and the inherent write penalty of RAID 6's dual parity calculation, means … well, this is not what I would call a "fast device". Here are some quick benchmarks I ran:
|1 file; 6.06 GB
|21.0 MB/sec
|7.62 MB/sec
|5,784 files; 1,114 folders; 355 MB
|2.46 MB/sec
|1.81 MB/sec
For our intended use, storing a bunch of large single file daily database backups, blazing speed isn't particularly important. Now that we have a 1+ TB backup device on the local network, we can store a huge history of daily backups. These check in at about 5GB per day currently, with a growth rate of 50 – 100 MB per day. This also takes some write pressure off the database server, since whatever backups we take will be spooled to the NAS over ethernet.
We plan to complement our onsite daily backups with informal offsite "sneakernet" backups. As I've mentioned before, we are fortunate to have Stack Overflow team member Geoff Dalgas live about a mile from the data center. We bought him a 500 GB 2.5″ USB drive, so he can head over the data center every 2 months or so and copy some backups off to keep in the (hopefully) unlikely event something terrible happens to our data center.
Podcast #42
This is the 42nd episode of the StackOverflow podcast, where Joel and Jeff discuss ethical email, backup strategies, how to learn new programming languages, and dealing with underperforming developers.
- The Conversations Network, a non-profit organization that graciously underwrites the bandwidth costs of this and many other great podcasts, is looking for a sponsor. Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com if you know of any
- We finally rolled out email support at Stack Overflow. If you haven't been to the site in 7 days, and have provided a valid email address, we include all the responses to your questions and answers (if any) in that period. And of course there is a true one-click unsubscribe. We're still tweaking the parameters of how it works — what is the optimal email relationship between a user and a website?
- Sending email these days is a bit of a minefield. How do you avoid instantly going into people's spam folder? One key piece is having a Reverse PTR record, which is set up at the ISP level. There's a whole "Deliverability" industry around sending email to people.
- We're encouraged by the emerging standard of entering your OpenID provider's address as your OpenID login. For example, "yahoo.com" works for Yahoo OpenIDs, and eventually "gmail.com" will work for Google. (Today you must use "google.com/accounts/o8/id" for Google, which is not optimal for hopefully.. obvious.. reasons.) Microsoft is also coming on board, though their OpenID support is in private beta.
- We also implemented gold and silver tag-based badges, based on upvotes within a tag. It's a way of rewarding people who participate heavily in certain topic areas. We did have to rule out discussion based questions for this algorithm to work. We are also considering a tag leaderboard, as suggested by Greg Hewgill.
- Our backup strategy has been half-hearted so far. To improve this, we invested in an inexpensive embedded Linux based 1u Network Attached Storage device, the QNAP 409u. This will become our dedicated backup device. It has four drive bays and supports RAID 6 (dual parity). Kind of a neat little device; there's a whole subculture of inexpensive NAS devices I hadn't explored until now. Drobo, for example.
- As it turns out, the cost of bandwidth ends up being the gating factor for us when dealing with our daily multiple – gigabyte database backups. Jim Gray had an eye opening piece on the economics of bandwidth and the surprising effectiveness of "sneakernets", even today.
- How likely is it that your datacenter is going to explode? Unless you have a fancy multiple datacenter setup for redundancy, it might be more effective to do some trickle uploads to services like Amazon S3, or even some monthly datacenter driving runs to copy data off using a cheap USB 2.5″ hard drive. Luckily, one of our team members lives a mile from the data center, so that's the approach we'll be using.
- We had some semi-serious issues with our IBM ServeRAID 8k controller, having to do with write-through versus write-back caching. Write-through blocks on actual disk writes, whereas write-back writes to a fast RAM buffer, returns very rapidly, and spools the writes over time (e.g. "lazy writes"). The performance of write-back is dramatically better, but we were seeing some eventual system-wide I/O blocking under heavy write load with write-back caching on. Supposedly this is normal for some RAID controllers, but we opted to downgrade to write-through because the nightly backups would always trigger this behavior for us.
- Speaking of blocking: it's funny how many of the techniques discussed on the High Scalability blog boil down to hashtables in memory. Memory is one of the fastest things you have in a computer, and it almost never blocks for any significant amount of time. Unlike, say.. hard disks or network.
- The act of trying to learn a new language will make you a better developer. Where do you go if you only know PHP? I think you should go to Java or C# to build up a bit more structure, then to Python or Ruby to tear down that structure, as a sort of natural ebb and flow progression journey that I've seen a lot of developers make over time. Joel disagrees, and thinks thinks you should go for something radical right out of the gate, like Haskell. "At some point it has to blow your mind, or you're not learning."
- Joel recommends the classic Abelson and Sussman lectures on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. This of course complements the freely available on-line version of the SICP textbook. Go blow your mind! "Once you learn those concepts, you'll write better code in any language."
- Is it an legitimate argument to say that, if you haven't tried something, you're not entitled to have an opinion about it? How much does it add to your opinion to have experience in a subject? Joel references Paul Graham's How to Disagree.
- Shouldn't every software project you work on be a learning experience, regardless of whether the software ever sees the light of day? Why would you work on a project that isn't teaching you anything at all?
- Is it possible to help programmers who can't help themselves? We're not sure throwing a copy of Code Complete at a sub-par developer will necessarily make them any better. I believe pair programing and mentoring is the only way to get this to work, insofar that it ever does. And tread very lightly here, because it's quite possible to make things worse by being didactic or overbearing.
- How do you fix not caring? How do you fix lack of motivation? Perhaps the better way to look at this is to keep your project inherently interesting and relevant. Convince your teammates that you're working on something that matters, at least in some small way. Are we happy with what we're doing? And if not, how can we fix that?
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The European Union sat on Monday to review sanctions it imposed on Zimbabwe about a decade ago. As expected it was a non-event, another grandstanding opportunity for the gentlemen and ladies running the show in those countries to drink coffee and feel very important.
The way EU is handling the Zimbabwean issue defies logic and turns the whole scenario into mock house stunts. The EU is playing mock house with Zimbabwe's independence, sovereignty, dignity and humanism.
The disadvantage the EU diplomats have, is they have never cared to understand how, as a sovereign Zimbabwe the ordinary Zimbabwean feels about a foreign country, trying spiritedly to determine their political and socio-economic destiny, by canning us when we do not tow their line of thought.
The illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe should largely be seen as a blunt instrument being used to tame indigenous Zimbabweans into observing Western rites and rituals, at their own expense.
The EU has tried to shape the world's perception and values through the illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe. But it is clear that the world is beginning to see that the real agenda is regime change, disguised as an act of bringing accountability, democracy and good governance.
But there is a big irony here. The same well governed, highly democratic and human rights respecting EU is reeling under an economic crisis of greater magnitude. The EU cannot tell us how, the self-appointed masters of the world, that they are, failed to manage their economies.
The EU "agreed to de-list 21 persons and one entity subject to restrictive measures." Unfortunately the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation is still under sanctions. Why?
The architects of these sanctions have realized that it is the only effective tool in perpetuating servitude and the dependence syndrome among Zimbabweans.
Zimbabweans want the sanctions to be removed in their totality and interestingly the EU has set conditions for the total removal of the embargo.
Unfortunately all Zimbabweans from political and business elites to the vendor on the streets, vehemently denounce illegal sanctions. Even MDC, the party that went to bed with the EU to impose the sanctions, no longer needs them. On the contrary, expecting the EU to remove sanctions in totality is a dream that will never come to pass until Zimbabwe pays homage to the well protracted Western demands.
The EU believes that their cause is more important than human life and their feeling of "being right" is more important to them than the lives of innocent Zimbabweans. Zimbabwe has to bite the bullet and resist Western attempts to hold our nation at ransom by setting tricky benchmarks for the removal of illegal sanctions.
As a nation we must guard against all subtle strategies being used to arm-twist us into embracing Western demands. In recent years, issues of illegal sanctions have taken centre stage and the conditional removal of these sanctions is a hot potato in this sphere has occupied public discourses for a long time coming.
Over the years Zimbabwe has been a victim of illegal economic sanctions, restrictive measures, and travel bans, whatever you prefer to call them.
The effects of these illegal sanctions are covered by a façade that is virtually perfect to justify their existence.
It is unfortunate that the perpetrators of these heinous acts directed at Zimbabwe are the Western countries who masquerade as the teachers of democracy.
Zimbabweans in their totality have asked for the removal of these illegal sanctions and their plea has fallen on deaf ears. Democracy?
There is a continual assault on Zimbabwe by Western countries since the initiation of the land reform programme in 2000. This has recently been worsened by the vow made by Zanu-PF to empower Zimbabweans economically. After the land reform programme that angered the minority whites who were willing to continue occupying the land that was forcefully taken from the indigenous people.


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Overall Record: 2-4-1 (0-0 PL); Last Week: 0-1
Scoreboard: Lafayette 3, Holy Cross 0, Easton, Pa., 9/25
Schedule: Wednesday, Sept. 29 at Albany, Albany, N.Y., 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 2 at Colgate, Hamilton, N.Y., 4:00 p.m.
- The Holy Cross men's soccer team will travel to the state of New York for two contests this upcoming week. The team will travel to play Albany first on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at the Varsity Field in Albany, N.Y. Game time is set for 4:00 p.m. The Crusaders will look to even their Patriot League record against Colgate in Hamilton, N.Y. on Saturday, Oct. 2. Game time is set for 4:00 p.m. at Colgate's Van Doren Field.
- The Crusaders will look to put together a three-game win-streak against the Great Danes, as the team won at home in 2009, 1-0 and 2-0 in 2005. A year ago, sophomore Shane Regan (Quincy, Mass.) tallied the game-winner as Holy Cross notched its first shutout of the season. The Crusaders hold an overall 3-1 edge over Albany with the series dating back to the 1999 season. The Great Danes sit at 4-4 on the season, having lost the last two games. Both teams have been shut out three times this season with the Great Danes scoring seven goals thus far and Holy Cross notching six.
- After a 3-0 loss against Lafayette in the 2010 Patriot League season opener, the Crusaders look to even the record against Colgate on Saturday, Oct. 2, who is 1-0 in league competition. The game will serve as the final game of the team's nine-game road trip, dating back to the season opener on Sept. 1. The Raiders lead the all-time series 11-5-4, but Holy Cross enters the contest with a two-game win-streak. Head coach Ted Priestly earned his first victory against Colgate last season, as the Crusaders won 2-0 at home. Regan and junior Jordan Michael (Burnaby, British Columbia) tallied goals in the game. Colgate is currently having a good start to the season as they sit at 4-1-3. The team experienced its first loss of the season against Long Island this past weekend. Holy Cross will look to break past the Raiders' staunch defense, as they are outscoring opponents 7-4 thus far. Holy Cross is behind opponents 10-6 in the goal scoring category.
- Senior Tom Van Grinsven (Chicago, Ill.) is showing great versatility in his final season. Most known as the team's rock on defense, Van Grinsven has been a crucial part in the team's three shutouts so far, which rank in a tied for second amongst Patriot League opponents. Van Grinsven has also proven that he can be an offensive threat, as he has collected five shots so far this season, ranking fourth on the team. He is three shots away from tying his career season-high of eight shots, which he obtained last season.
- The Crusaders will look to gain more momentum on offense now that league competition is heating up. Through the seven games played, Holy Cross ranks eighth in league standings with 43 shots, seventh in points (17) and goals, tied with Colgate for seventh in assists (5) and seventh in corner kicks (24). Senior Jonathan Werth (University Park, Md.) has collected four of the five assists, ranking in a tie for first in the league.


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The collectors at the Nov. 1 auction of 19th Century European Art at Christie's, New York, are in tune with what is classic, true art—art that will be truly valuable in the long run.
Some of the best examples of Barbizon, academic, Orientalist, Victorian, and wildlife paintings were offered at the auction. Leading the 94-lot sale was "Marchande de grenades," a rare piece of William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Orientalist work, which sold at the low end of its pre-sale estimate, for $2,658,500.
The sale total, including the buyer's premium, was a mere $9,300,575. Not all the lots sold. Only 60 of the 94 works are on the website with announced sale results.
The sale was expected to realize over $13 million. That's still peanuts when compared with the $508 million total achieved at Christie's two-day sales series devoted to postwar and contemporary art: $412 million for the evening sale, and $96 million for the following day sale.
The evening sale offered 73 lots, and of the 67 that sold, "11 works sold for over $10 million, 16 for over $5 million, and 56 for over $1 million," according to the press release. Mind boggling.
The art market is dizzyingly unbalanced.
The works of the painters in the 19th century sale, such as Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, or Raffaello Sorbi, exquisitely exemplify concepts of love and hope.
They celebrate humanity, the beauty and raw power of nature, ideals, veneration for the divine, and the dreams of human beings in a way that can be immediately understood, felt, and appreciated by the viewer. They accomplished that with extraordinary technique and inner vision.
A new renaissance is inevitable, when contemporary artists will look back on the great academic artists of the 19th century for technical guidance and inspiration, which is lacking in modern art. Just as we scoff at those who thought the world was flat, people will one day scoff at those modern works of art now being sold for tens of millions.
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6:14 PM — The Christian hotel owners who refused to let a gay couple share a room are appealing against the ruling. Peter and Hazelmary Bull, who own the Chymorvah Private Hotel near Penzance, were found to have acted unlawfully when denying civil partners Martin Hall and Steven Preddy a room.
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Despite all of Faye Resnick blustering about the incident, Brandi denied any funny business beyond a ten-second long session of tonsil hockey.
E! News chatted up Kyle at her clothing store, Kyle by Alene Too, and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star backed up her cast mate's story, more or less.
"I didn't see it with my own eyes," she said, adding, "If I didn't see it, it didn't happen."
We can always count on Kyle to set the record straight! But as for rumors that Baroness Monica Von Neumann is in talks to join the RHoBH Season 4 cast, Kyle was less forthcoming — probably because she's never heard of the wealthy royal.
"Who?!" Kyle exclaimed when asked whether the Baroness was under serious consideration. When the reporter explained further, Kyle said, "No, I mean I've never heard of her; there are so many rumors I haven't even heard her name before."
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