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EMC merger intriguing but unlikelyCisco, Dell, EMC, HP, Oracle, Storage
There has been a lot of speculation about who will succeed Joe Tucci if the EMC CEO really retires next February as planned. The leading candidates were thought to be from inside the EMC federation of companies, most notably EMC information infrastructure CEO David Goulden or VMware CEO Pet Gelsinger.
Apparently the options to replace Tucci also include Meg Whitman, Michael Dell and other CEOs of large tech companies that are in talks to merge or acquire EMC, according to business publications and networks. The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, New York Times and CNBC have all weighed in over the past two days, two weeks after the New York Post reported EMC was holding talks to merge or sell VMware.
This flurry of merger talk comes possibly from a person at large EMC shareholder Elliott Management, which has publicly urged EMC to split off VMware and perhaps other pieces. Or an EMC exec wants to make it known EMC is living up to its commitment to explore its options. In any case, there is talk happening but not necessarily any action.
The Wall Street Journal Sunday said EMC recently broke off talks to merge with HP in a deal that would make Tucci the chairman of HP while Whitman would remain CEO. Reasons cited for talks falling through include EMC asking for too much and lack of faith that both companies could get shareholders to ratify the terms. The Journal story said HP and EMC have broken off talks, although Barron's today quoted a source saying talks could resume and "things feel imminent-ish." According to the New York Times, a combined HP-EMC would have a market valuation of $129 billion.
The Journal story also claimed that EMC and Dell have had discussions. Dell might want VMware (what server company wouldn't?) or select EMC storage products, but it is unlikely that Dell is big enough to absorb all of EMC.
Cisco and Oracle have also been mentioned as companies that might be interested in EMC.
Despite all the stories and all the possible suitors, it's unlikely that EMC will be bought or merged. And Tucci has said he does not want to sell EMC's 80 percent stake in VMware.
Buying EMC whole would be a major undertaking, and the companies mentioned have other issues to deal with in today's challenging IT market.
For example, an HP-EMC merger would be disruptive to the storage groups in both companies. All HP storage products have direct competitors at EMC. HP would either have to dismantle its current storage portfolio or get rid of a bunch of products from both companies.
Cisco-EMC merger rumors pop up every couple of years. Cisco has been comfortable partnering for storage – mainly with EMC and NetApp – and has no track record of taking on large acquisitions.
Oracle is the wild card in this situation. So far, except for the StorageTek tape business it picked up in the Sun acquisition, Oracle's only interest in storage is selling devices that improve performance of its software.
But with Larry Ellison pulling back to executive chairman/CTO and Mark Hurd and Safra Catz taking over as CEOs, the database giant could go in a different direction. Still, that would be a massive task as the CEOs and Ellison settle into their new roles.
Backup appliance sales take turn for the betterBackup and Recovery, Storage
The backup appliance market rebounded last quarter following a year-over-year decline in the first quarter of the year, according to IDC's quarterly tracker numbers.
The backup appliance market hit $783.2 million in revenue last quarter, up 8.5% over the same quarter last year. That follows a 2.5 percent decline to $664.5 million for the first quarter of 2014 for what IDC calls the purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market.
The rise in backup appliance revenue came in a quarter in which disk storage systems declined, so the gains were not part of overall increased spending. However, data protection software revenue also increased 10.2% year-over-year last quarter, according to another IDC report.
Robert Amatruda, IDC's research director for data protection and recovery, maintains the rebound shows the value that appliances bring to backup – especially as companies begin preparing to incorporate the cloud.
"I believe that appliances bring measureable value to the data protection process," Amatruda wrote in an e-mail. "PBBA systems are turnkey, highly tuned for backup and recovery. Also, they will be instrumental in the new era of cloud backup. PBBAs will help facilitate the movement of data on and off premise."
EMC maintained its overall lead with $498.7 million for 63.7 percent of the market, thanks to its Data Domain platform. EMC's revenue grew 10.7 percent and its market share ticked up 1.3 percent from last year and 4.8 percent over the first quarter of 2014.
No. 2 Symantec made a bigger jump with $108.5 million for 21.9 percent growth. Symantec's revenue came mostly from its NetBackup appliances, and enabled the vendor to move from 12.3 percent of the market in the second quarter last year to 13.9 percent in 2014. The quarter was a big turnaround for Symantec, which declined 10.9 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2014.
IBM remained third with $53.6 million in revenue, up 2.3 percent from last year. No. 4 Hewlett-Packard dropped 20.1 percent to $30.6 million, and its share fell from 5.3 percent to 3.9 percent. One reason for the big decline is HP discontinued its VLS enterprise backup target that it sold through an OEM deal with Sepaton. HP is now solely focused on its internally developed StoreOnce appliances.
"HP needs to continue to aggressively market and propagate StoreOnce inside and outside of its installed base," Amatruda wrote. "HP has great technology and broad portfolio. There's no reason it should not be growing faster."
Barracuda moved into sole possession of fifth place with 35.7 percent growth to $16 million. That gives it two percent of the market – up from 1.6 percent a year ago. Barracuda was in a statistical tie with Quantum in the first quarter of 2014.
Blue Waters' storage needs run deepStorage
You think you have high storage capacity needs? Well, this week the National Center for Super Computing Applications (NCSA) added 20 PB – that's right, petabytes – of tape capacity for online data for its Blue Waters supercomputer. And that should last about a year.
The NCSA uses four SpectraLogic 17-frame T-Finity tape libraries with IBM TS1140 tape drives for all of its active archiving for the Blue Waters super computer that went into operation a year ago. That setup can store 380 PB, which should be enough for Blue Waters' expected five-year lifespan. Michelle Butler, NCSA senior technical program manager, said Blue Waters' archiving data is expected to grow by about 60% to 70% per year.
The SpectraLogic libraries are connected to a Cray-branded Seagate high performance computing disk system that holds 35 PB of raw data and 25 PB usable.
"We need to be able to stay ahead of our users," Butler said. "We are continuously growing, but we have stored a little less than 20 PB in data in our first year."
Blue Waters, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is used for a variety of research data. Applications include weather prediction and analyzing how the cosmos developed after the Big Bang. Butler said there are 36 teams of from 10 to 20 researchers per team that use the system, with between 100 and 200 users online at any time. The supercomputer includes 28 systems dedicated to online data movement and 50 for nearline data movement using one or two 40-Gigabit Ethernet cards.
Butler said NCSA chose tape for archiving because hundreds of petabytes of disk would be too costly. It is also easy to non-disruptively add capacity to the tape libraries.
Writing that much data to tape efficiently and concurrently did require the Blue Waters team to write a RAIT (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Tapes) utility for its IBM HPSS (high performance storage system) hierarchical storage management system.
RAIT enables nine wide data stripes and allows for the loss of two tapes without losing access to data.
"With RAIT, we can stripe data and still protect it," she said. "We needed to strip data and write data extremely fast to the tape drive. We couldn't single-stream files, that's too slow. But we didn't want to lose users' data if a tape or drive fails. With a seven-wide stripe of data, that would be 28 TB of data if we drop a tape. Now we can do seven wide stripes of data and two wide stripes of parity. We can lose two tapes and still continue to retrieve users' data."
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Now in its twelfth year, the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Products of the Year competition is open for entries. If you're a vendor, a PR firm representing a vendor or just a very satisfied user, fill out the entry form today to make sure your product is considered for one of these prestigious awards.
As you may recall, our Products of the Year program is a bit different from some other "best products" or "user choice" awards—we focus on what you have done lately, so we consider new products that debuted during the last year or existing products that were significantly revved during that time.
Last year, form among hundreds of entries we culled 52 finalist products and presented Gold, Silver or Bronze awards to 16 products.
This year, our panel of judges will consider products in five categories:
- Storage Systems – SAN/NAS/multi-protocol systems, converged/hyper-converged infrastructure products, HDDS and SDDs, disk controllers, caching appliances, storage virtualization appliances, cloud-integrated storage
- Backup Hardware – tape libraries/drives, backup media, disk backup targets, VTL, dedupe devices, cloud backup gateways
- Backup and DR Software and Services – backup/recovery software, cloud backup/recovery services, disaster recovery, snapshot and replication, electronic vaulting, archivers
- Storage Management Tools – SRM/SAN management software, performance monitoring, configuration management, provisioning, data reduction
- Storage System Software – file systems, volume managers, storage virtualization software, security software, storage optimization, solid-state caching, cloud storage software, software-defined storage
Our panel of judges includes some of the most knowledgeable and best known storage industry experts—analysts, consultants, users and editors.
Don't let this opportunity to gain some recognition for your product slip by—the deadline for entries is Friday, October 3 at 5:00pm PST. You can enter as many products as you like, but please don't enter the same product in multiple categories (that's a no-no!). Included on the entry form page are links to additional information: You can get more information about the judging criteria for the product evaluations, as well as some entry submission tips from the judges.
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Axcient buys DirectRestore for granular recovery in the cloudDisaster Recovery, Storage
Cloud provider Axcient has acquired DirectRestore to bolster application recovery capabilities in its disaster-recovery-as-a-service platform.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed but Axcient already has integrated DirectRestore's technology for Microsoft Exchange servers. The company intends to integrate the capabilities into its cloud platform for SQL Server and SharePoint databases over the next two quarters, with other applications to follow..
"DirectRestore specializes in granular application recovery and they support more than 100 application formats today," Axcient CEO Justin Moore said. "This is very synergistic with our existing platform. We now have the team that has deep experience in granular recovery so we can expand Axcient to other applications."
Axcien claims more than 3,000 customers on its platform. It takes a full image copy of servers that customers can access and it can restore data from any device when systems go down.
With the DirectRestore capabilities, Moore said the Axcient platform will be able to do granular recovery down to the object level along with files and folders. That means customers won't have to buy individual products for specific applications.
"There are only two or three companies that have the type of technology that DirectRestore has. Anyone that has granular technology, almost all OEM it," said Moore. "(This acquisition) not only gives us control of the technology but by integrating it into our technology, we control the entire stack."
Moore said granular recovery is available now for Microsoft Exchange servers, and has about 500 customers using it.
DirectRestore's 15-member engineering team will join Axcient, and Moore said he intends to double the group over the next 12 months.
"Our DNA has been in the small to medium-sized businesses but with the (new) technology we want to take on larger customers that can get access to all of our functionality," said Moore. "The granular recovery technology will expand beyond the products we have today."
Drive vendors Seagate, HGST in launch modeCloud storage, Hard drives, HGST, Seagate, Solid-state storage, Storage
The industry's two hard drive vendors had a busy week with product rollouts and future-gazing.
Western Digital's HGST division launched a flurry of products Tuesday, including 8 TB and 10 TB helium drives, nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) PCIe flash drives, and flash software. It also revealed its air-filled UltraStar hard drives will be replaced by the helium drives after the current generation.
Rival Seagate launched a raft of products Wednesday, and talked about its business strategy today at an analyst day.
Seagate's new products include the ClusterStor 9000 Lustre-based high-performance computing system that it gained from its Xyratex acquisition; an EVault Enterprise Backup and Recovery Appliance that handles up to 100 TB of usable capacity with data reduction; Nytro XP6302 (1.75 TB usable) and XP209 (1.86 TB usable) PCIe flash cards; and 15,000 rpm and 10,000 rpm hard drives, including a 2 TB 2.5-inch drive.
While HGST is pushing hard to expand into solid-state storage, Seagate seems more interested in refining its hard drive technology for the cloud. It did buy LSI's flash controller technology to "control NAND better than anybody else," as Seagate president of operations and technology Dave Mosley said, but its executives seemed most excited about the cloud during analyst day.
"I think people accept that the cloud architecture will be the architecture of the future," Seagate CEO Steve Luczo said.
"Cloud storage is the thing that's really exploding," Mosley added.
Seagate set up a cloud systems and solutions division this week, headed by Cisco veteran Jamie Lerner. Its Kinetic open storage architecture revealed last year is also built largely for the cloud.
CFO Patrick O'Malley said cloud and flash products can bring Seagate $2 billion in revenue over the next two years, before adding the hard disk drive business "is [still] a story of growth."
Luczo played down the emergence of flash in enterprise storage, saying nearly all of the flash in use is connected to computers (clients and servers) rather than the storage bus.
Mosley said Seagate is on track to deliver a 20 TB hard drive by 2020. That's twice the capacity of the largest HGST rolled out this week, and 2.5-times the 8 TB drive Seagate announced last month.
Riverbed offers free gateway to the cloud, for one monthStorage
Companies are offering a number of deals to lure customers to the cloud, the most popular is bargain-basement price cuts on per-gigabyte storage. Riverbed Technology has joined in with a slightly different take. Riverbed is offering a virtual version of its SteelStore appliance, formerly known as Whitewater, with up to 8 TB of storage for six months but you have to sign up over the next month.
The deal started on Sept. 9 and runs through Oct. 9. The SteelStore appliance is bundled with the 8 TB of storage and six months of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for backup and archiving.
When customers reach the 8 TB limit, they will have to upgrade and purchase and license one of Riverbed's eight other physical or virtual appliances. Riverbed supports up to 95% of the cloud providers in the market but this deal is strictly tied to Amazon's cloud.
"The idea is to give customers a kick start in cloud storage," said Rachel Dines, Riverbed's senior product marketing manager. "We wanted to give customers a way to dip their toes in cloud storage."
This deal is only being offering in the United States and Canada. Customers can download a link from Riverbed's website for the SteelStore virtual appliance and get the promotional code to connect to Amazon S3 storage. Dines said they are targeting small and medium-sized enterprises and only one appliance is being offered per customer.
SteelStore uses compression, de-duplication, network acceleration and encryption to increase performance and secure data moving to and from the cloud.
SanDisk, Dell team up to deliver DAS cache on PowerEdgeDell, SanDisk, Storage
Dell's newest PowerEdge servers are going to use the SanDisk DAS Cache software to automate high-performance data on SSDs.
The next-generation R730, R73oXD, R630, T630 and R920 uses direct-attached disk storage with SSDs to boost performance for OLTP, OLAP, analytics, business intelligence, HPC and other enterprise applications. The software supports up to 16 TB in each cache, whether it is SATA-based or PCI-e SSDs.
"The software observes the data reads and writes," said Rich Petersen, SanDisk's director of software marketing. "It sees data blocks that are accessed more frequently and put it in cache. It's transparent inside the operating system. It has a very light footprint in the server. The applications don't see it. They just see it runs much faster."
The software supports any type of SSD, with customers choosing write-back and/or write-through caching modes. It supports multiple host operating systems, including Windows) and Linux, and Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM hypervisors. VMware and Ubuntu support on the roadmap. The SanDisk DAS Cache will work in any server rack, tower or blade server configuration.
"From the application's perspective, the write is executed faster," Petersen said. "It provides redundancy with either software or hardware RAID. Redundancy generally is not needed for reads."
Scality adds support for VM storage, VAAI and VASA on the roadmapScality, Storage, VMware
Scality's Ring software came into the market focused on object storage and added support for unified file storage last year. Now Scality has extended Ring's reach with VMware support.
Philippe Nicolas, Scality's senior director industry strategy, said the goal is to consolidate multiple workloads in a single platform and have the software behave like Amazon EBS for an on-premise cloud.
"(Virtual machines are) so well adopted by the enterprise that, for us, it is a request from users," Nicolas said. "Scality can behave like Amazon for on-premise cloud. The focus target is the VMware environment, especially vSphere. VM can talk to it parallel to the Scality Ring. "
The company next year intends to support vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI), an API framework from VMware that enables certain storage tasks, such as thin provisioning, to be offloaded from the VMware server virtualization hardware to the storage array. It will also support VMware Storage API for Storage Awareness (VASA).
Scality claims Ring 5.0's performance matches Amazon EBS at 200 IOPs per virtual machine, with bursting capabilities of 3,000 IOPs per virtual machine. Scality Ring supports replication and erasure coding in virtual machines for data resilency.
Nicolas said the software supports OpenStack Cinder to provision Scality VM storage. Ring 5.0 also supports virtual machine file system (VMFS) and NFS.
"We let the customer chose if they want VMFS or NFS," he said. "We don't prefer one or the other. Some use enterprise backup solutions for VMs so they can use those for backing up."
Traditional storage vendors feel the heat from newcomersStorage
Revenues for external disk storage among all vendors fell 1.4% from last year during the second quarter, according International Data Corp.'s worldwide disk systems tracker.
It marked the fourth consecutive quarter that high-end storage sales declined, and IDC noted that midrange system revenue also dropped.
Startups and smaller companies made up a bigger piece of the external storage pie, which came to about $5.9 billion in the quarter. The "others" category – all vendors except for EMC, NetApp, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Hitachi Data Systems — increased revenue 11.1 percent in the quarter and market share was at 21 percent compared to 18.7% during the same time last year.
IDC reported that leader EMC experienced a 5.2 percent decline in year-over-year revenue for the second quarter, with NetApp registering a 3 percent decline and IBM a 4.7 percent drop in external storage sales. Hitachi was hit the hardenst with a 12% year-over-year decline and Dell with the lowest at one percent. HP experienced a nominal gain with a 0.4 percent increase. EMC grabbed 30.1% of the external disk storage revenue during the second quarter but that was down 31.2% from the prior year.
NetApp and IBM followed EMC with shares of 13% and 12.1% respectively. In comparison, NetApp had 31.2% in revenue sales in the second quarter last year and IBM had 12.5% in the same time period. HP gained share during the second quarter with 10.1% compared to 10% in second quarter last year.
This picture is in stark comparison to smaller companies, like hyper-converged vendor Nutanix and flash vendor Nimble. Nutanix reported that it had exceeded $50 million in revenue for the second quarter that finished in July this year,more than tripling its revenue for the same quarter a year ago. The company picked up larger customers with 29 companies buying more that $1 million of Nutanix products and services. That number has more than doubled since January when Nutanix had 13 million-dollar customers.
Nimble reported it had hit record numbers with $53.8 million in revenue and 663 new customers during its fiscal second quarter this year and closed 444 deals in excess of $100,000 for the 12-month period ending on July 31. Nimble's revenue increased 89 percent over last year.
"Large companies are starting to feel the impact," said Nutanix senior vice president of product management Howard Ting. "The disruption created by young companies like Nutanix is eating into their revenue."


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The Brain: A Beginner's Guide
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It has been remarked that if the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. However, as the authors of this accessible guide demonstrate, there are at least some things we do understand about the brain, things which may lead us to think quite differently about the way we view ourselves and workings of our minds. Starting off with a brief tour of the history of neuroscience, from Aristotle's view that the function of the brain was to cool the heart to the ancient practice of drilling a hole in the skull to relieve headaches, the book covers all of the key areas - including the anatomy and development of the brain, the workings of the sensory and nervous systems, the function of sleep and the capacity for language - in a clear and comprehensible manner. The authors also consider the roots - and possible treatments - of some of the most common psychological disorders, and examine the way in which science may help us to find answers to philosophical questions about the nature of consciousness and the identity of the self. to be able to extend life well beyond the standard three score years and ten, this lively and entertaining introduction assumes no previous scientific knowledge and will be suitable for readers of all backgrounds.
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In recent years, there has been plenty of talk about India growing into a big market for luxury brands. The recent Mint Luxury Conference 2011 in Mumbai raised several questions about India's growth potential within the luxury sector. With "Triggers for Growth" as the theme, invitees to the conference discussed the various infrastructure issues that pose hurdles to the growth of the luxury business in the country. Take the example of luxury yachts. Rich people across the world buy yachts, because they are the ultimate thing in luxury. Plus, they work out as great investments too. However, yacht ownership hasn't really taken off in India. The main obstacle is the lack of high-quality marinas.
A similar issue plagues the sale of luxury cars. An Audi executive revealed at the Mumbai conference that while China buys some 250,000 Audis, India purchases only a few thousand. The poor condition of roads is a major reason why Indians stay away from top-end vehicles.
One must also consider that India continues to battle poverty, the security system is faulty and luxury brands are charged higher duties in India than abroad. The last factor is instrumental in persuading wealthy Indians to purchase luxury goods overseas instead. Plus, India is currently home to only three luxury malls. Lack of access to luxury goods also inhibits sales.
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The Noah: a city-sized ship, half-way through an 800-year voyage to another planet. In a world where deeds, and even thoughts, cannot be kept secret, a man is murdered; his body so ruined that his identity must be established from DNA evidence. Within hours, all trace of the crime is swept away, hidden as though it never happened.
Hana Dempsey, a mid-level bureaucrat genetically modified to use the Noah's telepathic internet, begins to investigate. Her search for the truth will uncover the impossible: a serial killer who has been operating on board for a lifetime...if not longer. And behind the killer lies a conspiracy centuries in the making.
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This was one of those impulse buys from Audible. It was advertised on the homepage banner and the synopsis sounded interesting. Unfortunately the book did not live up to the synopsis. The story plodded on and I had little attachment to the characters. Some plot points just didn't make much sense - and others your could see a mile off.
I forced myself to plough through the book so at least I could rate in with full knowledge of the story.
This is a standalone novel, but if there is ever a squeal I will pass on it.
The audio book itself was well produced. The narrator did an acceptable job, but it was nothing special.
"A very enjoyable audiobook that I would recommend"
I thought that this book had a strong storyline with a number of interrelated themes. I enjoy Si-Fi in general but often lament the lack of a well thought out plot that leads to a conclusion that does not disappoint. This book does not suffer from those shortfalls and leads the reader (or listener) through a believable future world. Narration was excellent.
"Just listen to it."
This is a great story and delivery. No terrible accents like many audiobooks just a well delivered performance of an interesting book.
"Too many concepts, too inplausible; dull narrating"
The story itself I didn't like. It started out very promising with some twists and turns but ended in so many concepts being mixed together that the whole thing seemed too implausible and didn't really work together.
As for the narrating, it was very bland, I didn't end up liking the main character and I think this is more due to the narrating rather than the writing so I didn't really care what happened to anyone in the story.
So, better story and better narrating needed!
Something a little lighter and with much better narrating (i.e. a John Scalzi comedy narrated by Will Wheaton).
I would definitely be put off buying another audiobook which was narrated by Helen John.
I did like the ending and the general idea but didn't like anything in between I'm afraid.
"Solid Sci-Fi"
took me a while to get in to it as I found it a bit ponderous to begin with but it locked in just in time. Narrator was good, story was good, one of them books that would have more impact as a film in my opinion
"Good story with some great sequences, smart ending"
Probably on a par, but a great listen for long distance journeys.
The initial setup and reveal was very interesting and full of suspense, and the very end was smart and right up there with great SF finishes.
First book I've listened to with a female lead and female voiced. Very interesting as most books I read are male orientated, featuring males as lead, so was very refreshing. this same reasoning made it seem odd at first but actually once i got over my own potential sexism, i thought the performance was very good and emotions ranged in synch with the story excellently. Would look for her voice again.
Yes, the loss in the middle. Cant say more than that without giving it away.
Very ambitious novel from an author I've not read before. Some sequences of it were gripping and a brilliant read. The end third lost it way a bit compared to what was a fantastic first half, but it was made up for by a very smart and elegant finish.
"Good solid story, with excellent narration"
Its a solid story, with interesting ideas and good characters. Not the among the Iain M Banks of stories, but showed strong promise from the author.
Not a single moment as such but the development relationship between the AI and the lead character was extremely well done.
Solid use of voice changes, with excellent inflection and feeling.
Some things are secret for a reason
Definitely worth a listen, you'll enjoy it.
"Thought-provoking Sci-fi"
The Forever Watch is the sort of Sci-fi I fall in love with. Set in a utopian/dystopian future, on a generation ship flying between the stars, it ticks all the boxes, examining themes from state oppression, family and motherhood, freedom and self-determination. There are great twists and turns, none of which I fully anticipated. The audiobook performance was excellent - tender and thoughtful during quieter moments, tense and stark during the darker passages.
Considering this is a first time novel for David Ramirez, I was surprised by the depth of this book, and would fully recommend it to any fan of the genre.
"Highly competent, but unoriginal"
This novel is a mix of conspiracy thriller, science fiction adventure and dystopian fiction, all set in the far future. Early on, the author spends a lot of time establishing the characters, and describing the depressing dystopian world in which they live. The plot starts out as a slow burn conspiracy thriller. Later on, the story becomes a fast moving science fiction adventure, full of plot twists which call for ever greater suspension of disbelief.
For the most part, I enjoyed The Forever Watch. I found the characters believable and sympathetic. The setting is well worked out. The plot is internally consistent, and contained plenty of twists that I didn't see coming.
However, for me two things slightly spoil the story, making this an OK novel rather than a great one. First, it isn't very original. The story is packed full of science fiction cliches. Second, the constant changes of tone and pace make the story feel disjointed.
The narration is competent throughout. The reader captures the narrator's emotions, but struggles to make the minor characters sound different from each other.
"Simply wonderful sci-fi."
This is a beautiful story with characters I totally fell in love with. The story is modern with many of the qualities that make classic Sci fi so readable. It has a an intricate and complex narrative which is executed wonderfully.
The narration is just perfect, so soulful and emotional. The audio version is the only way you should read this book.
I read a lot of Sci fi and this is an instant favorite.
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Looks like Salman Khan is a headhunter.
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So I found the new best sniper... the QBB LMG which haves an bullet travel of "Bullet Speed
670 m/s" while the M98b only haves "Bullet Speed 650 m/s" and off I go to unlock the 6x or 7x scope for the QBB then sniper with it bipoded on HC servers, swooosh!
Can anyone tell me which version/patch the game is currently in?
My first video in Sony Vegas
Constructive criticism is needed
The claymore looks very weird and poorly done.
Could've at least smoothed out the edges (I presume this is a picture added into the movie?)
Some people may not enjoy anime (some may even hate it), I don't have anything against it, though.
Is the rpk extended mag broken or something? It says I unlocked it but it doesn't show up in the menu.
I hate having shitty internet. When I was in Uni I had <50ms connections to servers on the East coast... now I can't find a single Wake Island server under 100ms. Happens with pretty much anything that's not 64P RAPE TDM NO FUN.
Does anyone consider <150ms a playable ping? I've been keeping myself to <100, but it's not really an option anymore.
17/20 assignments finished. Im glad im finished with the noobtube, feel dirty after using it.
Is it me or does the SPAS-12 one hit kill no matter where it hits when using slugs?
It's not just you. It oneshotskills.
Also, I don't know why in the world.
But they fixed this.
Weird that they fixed something in co-op, something you need to GLITCH the mission to see.
Just weird.
And one more idiotic thing about US assault - he's black, but his default camo is white.
Well it's not like IRL black troops are issued differently colored camouflage.
It needs to be more darker.
My last game was 4-14 and just around 1200 points after 40mins
Even if you die a lot and only go for flags, you'd have more than 1200 points after 40 minutes.
It was on hardcore, couldn't even get close to the flags thanks to snipers ridge. T'was on Operation Firestorm. I think talking on skype really makes me terrible.
After a while you learn where almost all the snipers camp, and can make some safe routes from one location to another.
Play some more and you'll get good at the game, keep at it!
Or someone lit up a tactical flashlight, not sure which!
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BOSTON — Since his suicide, friends and admirers have cast free-information activist Aaron Swartz as a hero hounded to his death by the government he antagonized. One newspaper columnist — whose piece on Swartz was accompanied by a photo showing him at his computer, his head encircled by a golden halo — even compared him to an Internet-age Martin Luther King Jr.
But those closest to the 26-year-old Swartz say the hacker prodigy wasn't out to be a hero. Rather, he was a painfully shy young man who felt passionately that government and big business had hijacked the Web. In the end, they say, Swartz failed to fully appreciate the threat he embodied to some.
"I don't think he understood just how much the system would come down on him over it," said James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School who had known Swartz for six years.
Swartz, a wunderkind who helped create Reddit and RSS, the technology behind blogs, podcasts and other Web-based services, was found dead Friday, Jan. 11, in his New York apartment.
Swartz's friends and family blame federal prosecutors for his suicide, saying they pursued him relentlessly in the years since he helped post millions of federal court documents for free online rather than the few cents per page charged by the government through its electronic archive. He was never indicted. But three years later, he was charged in Boston with using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer network to download nearly 5 million academic articles from an online clearinghouse for scholarly journals.
His lawyer, Elliot Peters, said prosecutors were insisting he plead guilty to all 13 felonies and serve four to six months in prison or go to trial and face up to 35 years. Swartz rejected that offer, saying he didn't want to be branded a felon.
Since his death, his family, friends and supporters have unleashed a torrent of anger online: a petition calling on President Barack Obama to fire the federal prosecutor who charged him, a flood of copyrighted academic papers put online for anyone to see and a flurry of furious rants on Twitter. Though even some of his supporters say they believe Swartz broke the law, they say the penalties are inordinately harsh.
This much is certain, though: Swartz has become the face of a raging debate over how hard the government treats electronic protests in the Internet age.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann, the lead prosecutor on the case, have not commented publicly on the anger directed at them over Swartz's suicide. But in a news release at the time of Swartz's indictment, Ortiz defended the charges.
"Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars," she said. "It is equally harmful to the victim whether you sell what you have stolen or give it away."
Robert Swartz, who said at his son's funeral that he was "killed by the government," said in a later interview that his son occasionally got depressed but was never diagnosed with clinical depression and never took medication for it. The suicide, he said, was "due to the fact that he was put under relentless, incredible pressure."
Many supporters see him as their protagonist, a leader of the "free culture" movement to make information available on the Internet at no charge.
"This crime had no victims. He wasn't ever intending to profit in any way, not one penny," said Glenn Greenwald, a columnist for the British newspaper the Guardian who had known Swartz for years. "It was really just a political act to protest a system in pursuit of a noble cause. … I mean, the idea that he needs to be locked up in a prison as a menace to society is just obscene."


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Mark Twain Handmade Soap
(Southern Gentleman)
You'll love Mark Twain Handmade Soap. Handmade soap nourishes the skin, and does not strip it of its oils like products purchased at mass retailers. It retains its naturally occurring glycerin, which is a byproduct of the soap making process. Mass market producers, remove the glycerin and sell it to cosmetics companies.
Glycerin is a humectant, meaning it draws water in. So not only will it do this for the skin, but it will also draw in water if left in the corner of the tub or shower where it is constantly exposed to a source of water. Therefore, it is important to keep your handmade soap in a draining soap dish or out of the shower completely. If left in the wet tub, it will become soft and slippery and will not last very long. If allowed to dry between uses, you will have a very long lasting product. You will love the creamy lather that occurs naturally in handmade soap.
As each batch is handmade, every bar from every batch will vary in appearance. However, the same great quality will always be there.
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find a recurrence relation for the number of bit sequences of length n with an even number of 0s
Thank you so much
Do you realize that zero is an even number?
So ; the bit-string "1" contains an even number of zeros.
And ; the bit-strings "11" & "00" contain an even number of zeros.
Now suppose we think about bit-strings of length 9.
The 9-bit-strings we want to count contain 0,2,4,6,or 8 zeros.
We have nine places to put the zeros because the other places will contain ones.
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Radiation therapy
Radiation therapy is used for certain stages of cervical cancer, often along with surgery. Chemotherapy may be given at the same time as radiation treatment (chemoradiation) to improve survival rates. Chemoradiation may be used as the main treatment or after a hysterectomy.
Radiation therapy uses high-energy X-rays to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation may come from a machine outside the body (external radiation therapy). Or it may come from radiation material (radioisotopes) in thin plastic tubes inserted through the vagina into the cervical area where the cancer cells are found.
Dealing with side effects of radiation
Radiation may cause many side effects, including diarrhea and irritation of the bladder (radiation cystitis). Home treatment may help relieve some common side effects of cancer treatment.
Your ability to have or enjoy sexual intercourse may also be affected. This is because radiation may cause changes to the cells lining the vagina (mucosa), making intercourse difficult or painful. A series of vaginal dilators, starting with a small one and progressing to a larger size, may be used after radiation therapy. Using the dilators can help by making the vaginal opening larger.
Radiation to treat cervical cancer may thin the bone and increase the risk of fractures in the pelvic area, including hip fractures. You can take steps to prevent thinning of the bone (osteoporosis), such as getting enough calcium and vitamin D. Also, try to prevent falls, which can lead to fractures. For more information, see the topic Osteoporosis.
Clinical trials
Some women who have cervical cancer may be interested in taking part in research studies called clinical trials. Clinical trials are designed to find better ways to treat cancer patients. They are based on the most up-to-date information. Women who don't want standard treatments or are not cured using standard treatments may want to take part in clinical trials. These are ongoing in most parts of the United States and in some other countries for all stages of cervical cancer.
Complementary therapy
People sometimes use complementary therapies along with medical treatment to help relieve symptoms and side effects of cancer treatments. Some of the therapies that may be helpful include:
- Acupuncture. It can relieve pain and may help you deal with nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy.
- Meditation or yoga. These mind-body treatments relieve stress. They may help you feel better and cope with treatment.
- Light massage (not deep tissue or intense pressure) or biofeedback. These can ease tension.
- Breathing exercises or aromatherapy. They can help you relax and feel less anxious.
These mind-body treatments may help you feel better. They can make it easier to cope with treatment. They also may reduce chronic low back pain, joint pain, headaches, and pain from treatments.
Before you try a complementary therapy, talk to your doctor about the possible value and potential side effects. Let your doctor know if you are already using any of these therapies. They are not meant to take the place of standard medical treatment.


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500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
497. The White Stripes, 'White Blood Cells'
Sympathy for the Record Industry, 2001
The third album by Jack and Meg White was the right dynamite for a mainstream breakthrough. Jack's Delta-roadhouse fantasies, Detroit-garage-rock razzle and busted-love lyricism, as well as Meg's toy-thunder drumming all peaked at once.


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The smell of cigarettes and urine. Really not something you look forward to when having to wake up at six in the morning; as if the morning slog wasn't miserable enough.
The smell of cigarettes and urine. Really not something you look forward to when having to wake up at six in the morning; as if the morning slog wasn't miserable enough.
Was that really it? Will wondered. Was that what they were all doing, looking for someone less different? Was that what he was doing? Rachel was dynamic and thoughtful and focused and caring and different in more ways than he could count, but the whole point of Rachel, as far as Will was concerned, was that she wasn't him. There was a flaw in Katrina's logic, then. This thing about looking for someone less different ... It only really worked, he realised, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.
- Nick Hornby
I'm way too tired so I thought way too much today. That in itself is fine, but I thought about not happy things, thus making my day bad.
Thinking I was all cool, winning with my team on the Free matchups, then losing to a single Pokemon my next battle. So humiliating...xD
Thanks to FairyWitch for the profile pic!
National Dex Completed 2/13/2014, at 12:12 A.M., with 212:16 Game Time, and thanks to my friends who traded me over 200 times that week
My mom (and uncle's) workplace got caught on fire today because of some RV that was in the workshop. The guy and his wife lived in the RV. All of his pets were in there and they all died in the fire. My mom probably won't be able to go to work for a few days because of the fire damage. I'm actually giving some of my clothes to the guy because he pretty much lost everything.
My friend safari: Noibat, Gabite, Druddigon
Dallas Cowboys | Memphis Grizzlies
For me, it was morning. Waking up at 5:30 because my alarm clock ringed, falling asleep again, having to eat bread with seeds and pits in it (it makes me vomit, but i don't know why) and then my rabbbit totally refused to swallow her medicine. She actually spat it out. 5 dollar per milliliter.
My class calling me names 'cause I am a better english speaker then them.
i'm at page 90 from 200 whilst they are at page 17 from 200
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It's more of a nuisance rather than something that's ruined my day, but I have an anatomical study do in AP Art and it's do in Thursday. And I have to continue reading the mild headache that is Huck Finn (which is frustrating because I really like Mark Twain).
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Having homework i have to do, but I really don't want to.
This was yesterday. The worst part was I went to the internet shop to send this e-mail that had vids attached to it to a schoolmate of mine for a project. I thought it was gonna take an hour but the vids took so long to upload that it actually took almost 5 hours just for it to be done. I literally had to wait and do nothing about it and can't eat or drink... Man I don't wanna do that again.
Getting a french detention for DOING homework
Hearing the new propsals on abortion and other laws in the UK
then hearing that i have yet MORE HW in for tomorrow. yup, today was an EXCELLENT day (!)
Agression, Destruction.
Credit to SM
Leaving the house for work. But work is not too bad, so if that is the worst part, it cant be too bad, right?
My day was alright. But I have a headache now. Ending the day with a small headache can ruin your day.
I've been on away from Pokemon for a while since the termination of the Nintendo Wifi Connection. In the mean time, I'll be replaying Yellow, Crystal and Emerald. Hit me up if you're a classics junky, or if you need some help within these games
Having to wake up in the mornings and walk to School is always annoying. More so now that it's extremely cold and always raining.
The worst part of my day? Whenever I need to help my mom make dishes or go to somewhere to buy something. I hate walkings, specially when it's so hot.
But, the worst part of my day is when I don't have any cigarettes left and I have to ask for one to my mom or brother. It really annoys me.
Really lonely and depressing day, so I guess I was the worst part of my day today. (Shrug)
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The worst part of my day consisted of waiting for the stupid maintenance guys to come to our apartment and get their stupid inspection done. We got a note last week stating that they would inspect the apartment on the 15th, and they haven't been here at all today. So now my gf who usually gets to work in the morning had to switch with someone and she's at work now. We usually spend Tuesday nights relaxing, especially since it's technically her Monday and my "Sunday" since I usually go back to work after being off for two days on Wednesdays. Hopefully they don't show up while we are at work, I just have a horrible feeling they'd touch my video games or something even worse, steal them. Granted if that was to happen we could sue them and possibly press charges but still... I just hate it when people notify you that something will get done on a certain date and it never happens. >_<
Well, my day wasn't bad, but the worst part of my day was the fact that I couldn't talk to my current "crush" due to a church thing she was participating in.
Biking home from school in the rain...
Pokémon Games owned: Pokémon Diamond, Pokémon Platinum, Pokémon SoulSilver, Pokémon Black, Pokémon X
Number of Pokémon caught: 457/649
Seeing my Dad suffering from depression due to the Gov't shutdown.
My Red Bubble shop https://www.redbubble.com/people/spi...les/shop?asc=u
Hibiki wants hugsSpoiler:- My claims:
Charaters: Illyasviel von Einzbern
Songs: Gekisou Gungnir, Watashi No Koi Wa Hocchikisu, Mirai Fanfare, Ika Ika Ha II De Geso, Super Affection, Neptune Sagashite, Venus Megamix
Game: Tales of Graces F
I found out my big brother is going to die tomorrow, the thing is, he's really a 16 year old cat, but it doesn't change the fact that we're putting him down tomorrow.
tbc war team
among other things
I guess the fact that I had a lot to make up school would be the worst part of my day, other then it, it's been good...
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Gut Bucket / Black Vendetta / Zombie Fighter / Arsenal / Chuckles The Klown
Firehouse 13, Providence, RI 9/2/2012
Tonight I get in for a can of Beefaroni and two dollars. Which is great, I wish that happened every night. In fact, I'm sponsoring a bill that just might make this happen. We just have to keep our fingers crossed or, if we're girls in Catholic schools, our legs as well. It's a benefit for "Meals on Wheels," a food bank and it's two instead of five if you bring a can of non-perishable goods and I'm happy to part with my beloved Beefaroni. It's a great cause and didn't Fear have a song similar to this?
Somehow, I miss the first band. I was eating rat poison at the McDonald's across the way instead of my Beefaroni. Don't eat unhealthy, but if you do, check out the dollar items- McDouble, McChicken and small fries for $3.50. I guess I just blew what I saved on the door fee. Damn!
So, this is a metal night and since Bang is performing emergency brain surgery I'm elected to observe. First band I see is Arsenal. They do a traditional type of metal with just dabs of death and thrash thrown on their metal music canvas. The singer's pretty funny and lots of the songs are humorous, unusual for this genre. A song called, "I Just Shit Myself," is a perfect example. They end their set with a request from the sound man to do their cover of "Master Of Puppets," by Metallica. This they do, with other musicians jumping onstage to sing along. At one point in the mosh pit two smaller guys jump on the backs of bigger friends and then they begin jousting each other in front of the stage! This is a fun band to see.
Well, talk about funny- seems like they have "Chuckles The Klown" doing skits in-between the bands sets. It's two clowns with some assistants and their style is for "mature audiences" (that's pretty funny, in itself) .They do X-rated, violent skits, not what you want for your nine years old birthday party. My favorite is when an assistant, who has been given apple juice from the men's room, goes into convulsions and starts to have a baby. Then, to the soundtrack of Alice Cooper's "Dead Babies," the clowns deliver the baby, chop its head off and throw it into the crowd. Yes, family entertainment at its finest, indeed.
Zombie Fighter is next and though I've seen them only once, (not counting standing in line at McDonalds), I'm anxious to see them. First of all, I have to say they're doing a terrible job. Oh, not musically; that they're doing great! But as far as fighting Zombies- every other day I read about someone eating someone's face it seems. I do believe it's more common than people devouring Beefaroni- for this there is no excuse! But back to reality, I thought they were really good before but they've improved and are now more confident in their playing. They play thrash with a capital "T" and this they do quite well. Every song just bursts at the seams with energy; strong death vocals, full trebly bass, churning drums and two squealing guitars- I doubt we have a punk or hardcore band on our site that puts out more energy than these guys. For me, they play the set of the night. They're looking to play more gigs in the Boston area so bands and promoters, I highly recommend you check them out.
Black Vendetta is next and I believe they're death metal. At first I'm not enjoying them too much. The drums keep rolling without setting a steady beat and the vocals are high pitched sounding like a tape played at a fast speed. But then, midway through their set, when they play a song called "Necrophilia" they start to pick it up and start thrashin'. People are getting into it and moshing, as well. I like how, during one song toward the end of the set, the huge bass player throws his bass down on the stage and proceeds to leap off into the crowd and start moshing while the song still plays. I must admit, I had my doubts, but they won me over.
Gut Bucket are a trio in which all three sing and all play bass except for one. They are two bassists and one drummer who play short, brutal, heavy, menacing songs that are sometimes as fast as hardcore but with vocals that are black metal or death. The heaviness of the music is lightened by the banter and jokes in-between songs. The drummer introduces one song as such, "This song is called "The Sadist," it's a romantic number…it goes out to all the ladies." I've seen these cats do their thing before and find them intense, committed and highly enjoyable to hear and watch. They're experimental without being ponderous, heavy without being depressing and brutal with an artistic touch.
Another fine evening ends at the Firehouse as I must make my way out of the city, onto the highway, around the curves and swerves of 95 back to Boston. The cool night drifts in my window, Fats Domino drifts into my ears from my cars cassette player deck.
I dare you- find a better time for two bucks and a can of Beefaroni.


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Jets forward Blake Wheeler (back) celebrates a goal against the Hurricanes with teammates Derek Meech (left) and Randy Jones at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Man., Sep. 28, 2011. (FRED GREENSLADE/Reuters)
Blake Wheeler looks like a man on a mission.
And for a Winnipeg Jets franchise that is expecting several players to elevate their games to the next level, Wheeler just might be the poster boy for a breakout season.
After joining the Atlanta Thrashers in a trade with the Boston Bruins late last season, Wheeler was quick to adjust to the change of scenery, putting up nearly a point a game to finish the campaign with 18 goals, 26 assists and 44 points in 81 games.
Now that the Thrashers are making their home in Winnipeg as the Jets, Wheeler is looking to build on the strong finish.
Cracking the 20-goal barrier is definitely on the to-do list for Wheeler, who is expected to start the season on the Jets top line with captain Andrew Ladd and centre Bryan Little.
"He's definitely capable of it and we saw that last year," said Little. "He got more of an opportunity with us, more ice time and he took off with it and almost had a point a game. He's going to get that here and he definitely has the potential to have a career year.
"He's an all-around power forward. He's a big guy, he protects the puck well but he's also got those soft hands and can shoot the puck. He's a fun guy to play with."
Wheeler embraces the opportunity to be a go-to guy on this Jets team.
"Hopefully I'll have an opportunity to have a big role on this team, that gives you a lot of energy out there," said Wheeler, who was originally drafted fifth overall by the Phoenix Coyotes in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft and signed a two-year contract with the Jets on July 18. "You want to be out there and you want to earn that position. The three of us did a really good job last year, we've had a good preseason and hopefully we can hit the ground running this year.
"There's a lot of excitement. Not only with myself, but with the whole team. We can feel the energy in the city and it's given this whole group renewed, fresh life just knowing we really matter in this city."
Having a young core of developing players like Evander Kane, Alex Burmistrov and 2011 first rounder Mark Scheifele helps foster an environment where guys can grow together.
Whether that means scoring 20, 25 or 30 goals remains to be seen.
"Increasing statistically is obviously a goal and you want to be productive when you're on the ice," said Wheeler, who had a career-high 21 goals and 45 points as a rookie with the Bruins in 2008-09. "If you're playing an increased role playing 18-to-20 minutes a night and you're not doing much with it, you probably don't deserve to be out there. I don't set any barriers for myself."
Wheeler has already made a strong impression.
"He skates, he can finish and I think he can be a big upside guy, as far as where his career goes," Jets head coach Claude Noel said. "He's smart, he's hard to handle weight-wise. He takes pucks to the net hard and I like him a lot. He's a good player."
But where will the next step take Wheeler?
"I think he is, but what is the next step? That's something you're going to deal with all of the time," Noel said. "You want players to reach all the time and we want (Wheeler) to reach in potential as well. You're trying to find people's A-games and it's too early in the relationship to know exactly what it is."


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Orchestra tunes up for Red Centre Rock music
The Darwin Symphony Orchestra will tonight perform near Uluru in Central Australia, becoming the first orchestra in the world to do so.
It's the first of three performances over the weekend, with another show at the site on Saturday and a third show in Alice Springs on Sunday.
Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Matthew Wood says it's an honour for the orchestra to perform in the outback setting.
"We have to remember at Uluru there's been music and art and culture that's been here for tens of thousands of years. So us being the first Symphony orchestra to play here is a real privilege,'' he said.
For tonight's performance, Viva Verdi!, the orchestra has paired with soprano Emma Matthews and tenor James Eggleston from Opera Australia.
The collaboration will show case the music of Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi , born in 1813.
"It's his birthday so it's a good reason to celebrate,'' Mr Wood said.
"With Verdi, it's about people, and it's about life.
It's about love, it's about death, it's about sex, it's about church, and these things resonate around the world.
"You can really pick this stuff up and put it anywhere, and perform it and everyone has something to take from it."
Tomorrow the show takes a different theme, Sounds of Australia.
One of the artists for that performance is Aboriginal didgeridoo player William Barton.
"For this event with the Darwin Symphony Orchestra ... I am quite honoured to be here as part of a very historical event, because I believe it is the first orchestra under the stars here at such a sacred place," Mr Barton said.
The seventy-plus member orchestra is made up of mostly volunteers, with about six musicians being brought in from interstate to bolster the group.
"It's an extremely diverse group of people, we've got , the youngest we've got in our orchestra is about fifteen years old, and the eldest we've got eighty four,'' said concert master Tara Murphy.
Organisers say they have sold 1,500 tickets to the two performances, and the resort, which has more than 700 rooms, is fully booked.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee and Democratic Congressional Committee stand on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but sound very much alike in the boilerplate press releases they send out day after day.
"Congressman (name) should come clean," or "Congressman (name) is trying to hide," or "Congressman (name) should be held accountable" are familiar lines, used by both parties all the time.
The same wording is used in releases churned out across the country. Rep. Reichert (or Herrera Beutler) "votes to cut" women and kids, say the Democrats. Reps. Larsen and Smith "vote to raise your taxes" say the Republicans, after a recent House debate in which Larsen and Smith voted to keep Bush tax cuts for middle-income Americans.
The clumsy spin doctors of Washington, D.C., were trying to turn Tuesday's primary vote in Washington to their advantage.
The Republicans tried to talk up opportunity in the 6th District, being vacated by its 36-year Democratic Congressman Norm Dicks.
"With experience in the military and timber industry, Bill Driscoll fits this district," argued an NRCC press release.
Huh? Driscoll received 17.81 percent of the total vote on Tuesday, compared to 54 percent for Democratic State Sen. Derek Kilmer. Republicans had put Driscoll on their list of "Young Guns" House candidate. After being out polled three-to-one, it will be interesting to see if he stays there.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is out with a hit on the Republicans' 1st District House candidate John Koster, with a predictable title: "DCCC releases video to Hold John Koster Accountable for Extreme Views."
The video features salty past Koster quotes, praising the Tea Party and describing homosexuality as "a sin," and appearing to sympathize with repeal of the 17th Amendment — which provides for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
"Extreme Tea Party candidate John Koster thinks he can hide his extreme views from the people of Washington," charges the DCCC.
With solid majority showings in Tuesday's primary, Reps. Dave Reichert (R), Adam Smith (D) and Rick Larsen (D) have probably removed themselves from the press release line of fire.
With the 1st District very much in play, however, Washington voters should get used to a litany of "hold accountable," "come clean," and "trying to hide" on their TV screens over the next 90 days.


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As trees grow, they absorb water through the roots and carry it to the branches and leaves through vessels. When a tree is cut down, its vessels begin to dry and shrink, causing the wood itself to shrink. During the milling process, the wood is subjected to additional drying. Oak, for example, is dried to an average moisture content of 6%–9%.
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Cupping in a solid wood floor. Note that the planks' edges curve upward.
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French Cardinal Protected a Known Pedophile PriestPosted by PsiCop in Christianity, General, Metaphysics, Religion
The worldwide Catholic clerical child-abuse scandal rolls on. I've blogged about it for a very long time. It's been going on for around 15 years. Had such a scandal manifested within any other organization, people would have been prosecuted, changes would have been made, victims compensated, and it would have long ago stopped being an issue.
But that's not how things work with the Catholic Church. No, the Holy Church doesn't work the way any other institution does. It keeps on keeping on, as the saying goes. It doesn't admit fault, it doesn't change, it doesn't relent, it makes no concessions, it just does what it's always done … because the Church. Case in point: As the Daily Beast reports, the priestly-pedophilia scandal erupted again, this time in France, involving a Cardinal there (WebCite cached article):
Meet the Archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who has denied he did anything wrong by hiding the well-known fact [cached] that Father Bernard Preynat was sexually abusing as many as 40 Catholic Scouts in France in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Preynat was relieved of his duties in the parish of Roanne in 2015 after admitting to the sex abuse. He was indicted on Jan. 27 on charges of "sexual abuse and rape of minors" and has admitted his crimes to the police.…
Meanwhile, Cardinal Barbarin is facing criminal charges by a French secular court for "failing to report a crime" and "endangering the life of others," which could carry a three-year prison sentence and fines up to €45,000.
Barbarin denies having done anything wrong, and his reasoning is quite unbelievable:
[Barbarin] maintains that he shouldn't be accused at all because he eventually removed Preynat from parish work.
Never mind that the removal came nearly 15 years after his crimes were made known. After victims and their families came forward in 1991, Preynat was removed him from parish duties for six months by the then-archbishop, who is now deceased. Yet despite having confessed to the crimes, Preynat was allowed to return to his active duties after he repented, meaning he had access to children despite admitting to being a pedophilic sex offender.
When Barbarin was appointed as archbishop, he even promoted the errant priest to an administrative position in 2007 where he was in charge of six dioceses filled with children, according to court documents quoted [cached] in the French press.
Barbarin, who is well liked in France despite his harsh stance against gay marriage (which he once predicted would pave the way to legalized incest), removed Preynat from the priesthood last August when secular authorities got involved—25 years after his crimes had first emerged.
Yes, apparently Barbarin believes that, because he finally summoned the courage to stop Preynat decades after he knew Preynat was abusing kids, this means he shouldn't have been prosecuted for not having stopped Preynat.
Yes, folks, this is exactly the sort of reasoning that floats through the pompous and self-righteous brains of Catholic hierachs. It's at least as absurd and laughable as any of the vast litany of other excuses the hierarchs and their apologists have offered, over the past few years.
But let's be brutally honest here: Preynat's superiors — which included Barbarin for a very long time, but also others within the Church — knew damned well he was abusing kids but purposely chose to allow him to continue abusing kids, for decades. Yes, that's decades. This is factual — by Preynat's own admission. There's no question about it. I invite any and all Catholic apologists out there to explain to me clearly how and why this was acceptable. I fucking dare you! Go ahead and tell me why this was just fine.
Photo credit: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters, via the Daily Beast.Tags: archdiocese of lyon, bernard preynat, cardinal philippe barbarin, catholic child abuse, catholic church, catholic clerical abuse scandal, catholic clerical child abuse, catholic clerical child abuse scandal, catholic scouts, child abuse, clerical child abuse, fr bernard preynat, france, lyon, lyon france, philippe barbarin, priestly pedophilia, roanne france, roman catholic, roman catholic church


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I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I struggle with organization. I always have. My teachers in school never noticed because I'm good at keeping deadlines. I think my Mama had a very hard time dealing with my messy ways though. Pretty sure I'm getting paid back in full measure, so I may as well just stop feeling guilty about that. When you see this to do list you will realize that I started this post a couple of weeks ago, but didn't quite get it all the way done…but I wanted to finish it anyway.
A few weeks back I mentioned on Facebook that I was hiring someone to help me clean once a week. We are paying an individual per hour so that I can have her come a bit more often than if I hired a service to come clean from top to bottom. It is working out great so far. Our house is cleaner than it has been in months. I'm no longer mortified if people show up at the front door unexpectedly….actually that hasn't happened since we started this. I think unexpected guests only show up when your house is trashed….but please…stop on by…especially on a Monday or Wednesday.
Anyway, I have lots of thoughts on housework since I've been the main spouse and parent at home these last 8.5 years.
First off, I've noticed that I am pretty bad at to do lists. I can make a mean list, but when it comes to actually making a realistic list, forget it.
Here was today's list.
- Work on laundry. First off, how does one even know how much laundry must be done from this list item. When I wrote it I was thinking all the laundry….but we'll get to how that worked out later. I was very behind on laundry this morning. The boys were on their last pair of pants, and so was I, and so was Grace, and Ava was on her last pair of underwear.
- Write a blog post for tomorrow. I guess I can check this one off the list. YES!
- Work on my matron of honor speech. My sister Zadi's wedding is this Saturday. The speech is coming along…though I will be working on it some more tonight before bed.
- Bring in sweet potatoes. An easy task…but something I keep forgetting to do. I let them dry in the sun…and now they need to come in.
- Pick up everything off of the floor in the entire house (yes, it was as daunting as it sounds). Tomorrow the lady who helps me clean is coming and while she would help me straighten up the house, I would much rather she actually clean, because she can do that much faster than asking me where everything goes.
- Continue to pretend we are moving. We aren't moving, but over the last couple of weeks I've been packing like we are. You see, the babies are getting into EVERYTHING.
To combat having to pick ALL the things up, I'm packing away things that we don't use very often. For instance, I keep all of our everyday bowls and plates in this cabinet. Plates went on the second shelf and mixing bowls went on the bottom one…but now nothing goes there, and I'm going to move my decorative stuff (which you cannot see in this photo) on top to the basement, and remove the soup bowls we hardly use, and voila…messes and broken glass avoided. I also did this with all my cookbooks. That were on this smaller shelf. I only kept out the cookbooks that I've used since having the twins. That added up to 4 cookbooks and one loose recipe.
By the time I got my list made this morning it was already 11:15.
At 11:19 I realized that before making the list, I had already taken both girls to school, stripped our bed, folded a load of laundry, put a load away, gathered all the dirty laundry from the master bedroom (there were still mountains in the girls' room and the guest room), eaten breakfast, changed several diapers, and nursed Finn down for a nap.
11:21 As I'm folding more laundry, I hear Granger at my feet. He is stuck on the crossbar of the table, and I notice he has wriggled out of his diaper. So of course I take a picture.
I get a diaper back on Granger and he starts rubbing his eyes so I nurse him down to sleep. Only he keeps waking up when I try to lay him down so I decide to just hold him and try and work on my speech. Instead, I get two calls from my family about wedding related details, and then Granger wakes up, and starts playing. I go change the laundry over. Finn wakes up from his nap too (neither slept more than an hour).
12:39: I am hungry for lunch. I yank some left overs out of the fridge and gobble them down. I put in more laundry and fold stuff from the dryer. I also realize I need a couple other things on my to-do list. I need to shop for a hair accessory for Grace's flower girl hairstyle this weekend, and hope that I can get out the door a little early so I can stop by the store on my way to pick up the girls. I also need to gather all the cleaning supplies for our lady. As this is going on I start to think about how even though it is a lot of work to get ready for her to come, it's awesome to have a deadline every week for having the house in some semblance of order. I wouldn't be able to do the three focused hours that she gets done in a week, but I am getting more done just because she is coming.
1:00 I make our bed back up, and put a load of laundry away.
1:30 I hear the dryer buzz and go down to realize that I never started the washer (the lid was up). Start washer. Decide I won't be starting any more laundry today. I will just *try* to finish up what I have started already. I put away a load of laundry. I think about how I'm a curator of all this stuff that is in my house, and I need to thin the collection so that we can appreciate the things we choose to keep more.
Change diapers.
It is now time to nurse again.
I start picking up stuff from the floor.
2:20 Switch the laundry to dryer.
2:50 I get the boys all dressed to go pick up the girls from school. And nurse them until 3:05. There are 10 minutes left until it's time to leave. There will not be time to run the errand I was planning before going to get the girls.
Thoughts: So, as you can see my list didn't really have on it most of the things that I would have to do for the day….namely, take care of my children's every need. Lately I've been noticing how we mothers talk about housework.
"I never get anything done."
"I am amazed that you ever get anything done."
Talking about housework this way makes it sound like it is the be all end all of what we do. Cleaning, straightening, laundry, and dishes are some of my least favorite tasks in the universe. And I would also say they are some of the least important tasks that I do. The time and care I give to my children are so much more important by far.
Our midwife told me as I was struggling a few months post partum with the boys that I needed to get some rest. Part of my mood issues was lack of sleep (that could not be denied). She said "your children need their mother's smile much more than they need a clean house, clean clothes or even a clean dish. With a family of your size it can get dirty very quickly and my advice to you is to not look at it. So close your eyes and take a nap." I think if it had been anyone else giving this advice, I might have thought it was smug and trite…but at the time I did need to hear that I was doing my best. And putting my efforts into other things (i.e. the happiness of these four little ones) was much much more important. The cobwebs grew. The dog hair multiplied. Shower shoes probably would have been best in the upstairs bathroom. I accepted help when it was offered. We got the dishes through the dishwasher…but maybe not all clean at once. We made it through.
Not that having a nice cozy home isn't important to me…it is. Actually it's more important to me than ever, and not for the reasons it used to be, used to I would feel the weight of an impending visit and feel the need to hide the way we live. I've not grown immune to what I think others think of my mess, but I don't think that was ever a good motivator. It just led to more mean self talk, and a mad dash to get ready for company.
It clicked for me one day when I was talking to papa and asking him if he thought I could hire someone to help me. Honestly, it seemed like such a pipe dream. Would anyone be willing to wash my dishes? or throw a load of laundry in the washer for me? I mean people other than the ones who love me. They have done many of these things for me, but they have lives of their own. He told me that my purpose in life isn't to do housework, and I deserve a clean house…and there is someone who needs the hourly wage. "So set out how much you can pay, how often, and make up a flier." And so we found money in our budget. I took a flier to a store in the pouring rain and had an interview set up less than 24 hours later. I know not everyone can do this. However, for the price of going out to eat once a week we have made our home so much better. It still isn't perfect (we would probably need to hire someone full time for that), but the grime is coming up from regular cleaning.
I still rush around the house and pick up before she comes through the door, but little by little it's staying cleaner and tidier. I love the feeling as the stress falls away after she comes to our house. This is the nicest thing I've ever done for myself.