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April 24, 2014
Book Review - The Humans: there's no place like home by Matt Haig
An alien being comes to Earth, takes over the naked body of a maths professor and tries to complete a mission. In the meantime, he has to learn to get along with humans. Coming from an 'advanced' and rational race, this takes some doing as he figures out what clothes are for, how humans communicate and what is true and what is beautiful. The alien gradually goes native in this warmly funny exploration of what it is to be human. Culminating in a list of advice for a human teenager, including "politeness is often fear, kindness is always courage", this book covers both the sublime and the ridiculous in humans living and loving each other, whilst working through a well plotted tale. A lovely book.
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Habitat for Humanity of Logan
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Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Habitat for Humanity warehouse,
915 Woodlawn Road.
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equipment, including laptop and desktop personal computers, hard
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cables, and CD-ROM, DVD, Zip and tape drives.
equipment, including TVs, radios, stereo and game systems, game
controls, VCR and DVD players, and cameras.
Small business
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and calculators.
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appliances will also be accepted, as well as aluminum, copper,
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November 26, 2009
True Blood comes to Camden Library Service
We have recently acquired all 9 books in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris - and we plan to get the next one when it is published next year. These books were the basis of the TV series True Blood and are in the current contemporary vampire genre. Find out more from wikipedia or the author's website. Several reservations have already been placed - get in early to get your next vampire fix!
Labels: Charlaine Harris, Contemporary, Fiction, Sookie Stackhouse, Vampire
November 24, 2009
This wonderful book has been recognised with several awards/nominations. It won the 2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, is one of the 2009 Books Alive 50 Books You Can't Put Down and was also one of the shortlisted fiction titles in the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. In spite of all that, you might want to give it a try - you won't find it wanting (sorry for the bad pun). To find out more about the book, go to Richard Flanagan's website which has reviews, book club notes etc. The story intertwines Charles Dickens and Sir John Franklin, a polar explorer, with the story of Tasmania's aboriginal peoples and their interaction with white settlers in colonial times through the experience of an orphan girl, Mathinna. Sensitive, evocative prose and a masterly weaving of the disparate stories make a fine and thoughtful experience for the reader.
Labels: Australia, Award Winner, History, Richard Flanagan, U.K.
Jane Austen's Sewing box
A simple pleasure for Jane fans, craft fans and social history fans. The author has trawled Jane's novels and personal papers to identify craft activities and designed simple projects to illustrate the idea. The background is given in extracts from these papers. The sewing instructions do, I think, presume a level of sewing knowledge as some of the steps are not clear, however, the book can be read as a delicious journey into Jane Austen's world without any intention of actually doing the craft . Step back into time with relish .... then come forward and say thankyou for modern sewing machines etc and not having the responsibility of providing all your family's clothing by hand! Very pretty.
Labels: Craft, History, Jane Austen, Non-Fiction, Sewing, U.K.
"politics isn't rocket science"
This DVD is an English series of 6 episodes (a double DVD) on The Amazing Mrs Pritchard who, in disgust at the antics of her local candidates in a national election, decides to stand herself because politics isn't rocket science. Her knowledge of people helps her connect, her timing is right for people who are tired of professional politicians but as you may expect, she and her family are catapulted into situations she has not anticipated. A funny, serious, moving and interesting look at the pitfalls and pleasures of power and family life. Many of Britain's finest actors contribute to the strength of this series.
Labels: Contemporary, DVD, Political, U.K.
November 09, 2009
2009 Best Fiction Reads
Our top 10 most borrowed books for 2009 are:
- Sail James Patterson
- The Whole Truth David Baldacci
- Firefight Chris Ryan
- Artic Drift Clive Cussler
- Patriot Act James Phelan
- Skeleton Coast Clive Cussler
- Area 7 Matthew Reilly
- The Chase Clive Cussler
- Plague Ship Clive Cussler
- Silent Predator Tony Park
Camden's social history
Alan Atkinson's book 'Camden: farm and village life in early NSW' is a fascinating account of the social history of our area. Reading like a novel, its chapters tell the story of families who farmed, worked, married and formed the early community. An appendix gives a snapshot of the Aboriginal people living here at the time and the comprehensive index makes it a useful book for students and researchers. Available for reference and loan at Camden & Narellan libraries.
Winner of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction
The winner of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction is Nam Le for his book of short stories, The Boat. This book was discussed by Camden Library's Book Discussion Group this year, and provoked lots of lively argument - it was loved by some and largely criticised by others. I think it's one of the best books I've ever read - absolutely beautifully written and well-deserving of this award. Give it a try.
Find out more about the shortlist and winners at www.arts.gov.au/pmliteraryawards
Book Discussion Group
Do you love reading and talking about the books you have read with other avid readers? Then why not join Camden Library's Book Discussion Group on the third Thursday of each month from 7.30pm. Books we have discussed lately, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas and Ransom by David Malouf. Our next meeting will be held on Thursday 19 November 2009 and will include a Christmas get together to discuss our favourite books of the year. At the January meeting we will talk about No Country for old men by Cormac McCarthy.
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New Large Print Collection
You may have noticed that the libraries Large Print collection has grown dramatically over the past year. Check out the latest titles, best selling authors and genres appealing to all tastes including mystery, fantasy, romance and classics.
Labels: Fiction, Large Print, Mystery, Romance
November 07, 2009
Live your best life!
"O" The Oprah magazine is now available at Camden library. There are lots of style and fashion tips but most importantly great positive articles about health choices, body issues and family relationships.
The magazine is proving popular already so don't forget you can reserve a copy online or at the library for only $1.10.
Enjoy Luise
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There's not an entrepreneur in business who'd say customer service isn't important, but how many of them back up their words with good hiring techniques? The fact is, entrepreneurs, like most other businesspeople, usually don't put enough thought into hiring customer service reps. In fact, they often think of their customer service reps as clerks or sales trainees--not realizing good customer service people have unique qualities, and finding the right person for the job could mean the difference between keeping and losing customers.
"There's often some overlap between sales and customer service," says Harold Weinstein, COO of Caliper Corp., a Princeton, New Jersey, human resources assessment and consulting firm. "But in most cases, you're really looking for two different types of people."
For example, says Weinstein, customer service reps should be very empathetic individuals, even more so than salespeople. They should like problem-solving and get job satisfaction from helping others. In fact, while most salespeople live to get the order, a customer service rep lives to hear a client say "Thank you."
In addition, says Weinstein, good customer service reps are well-organized. They have to be able to keep track of an array of products and services, as well as possible difficulties with their applications. They must know where to turn to find answers, and be able to do it with the added pressure of an irate customer on the other end of the phone.
Also, unlike most people who work in sales, customer service reps typically enjoy working by the book. They don't feel stifled by rules and regulations and like to have standards set for them. "They love to operate within the system," says Weinstein. "They like that discipline. That's not always the case with salespeople."
Customer service reps tend to avoid risk, something their sales peers frequently embrace. They don't mind getting creative to solve a problem, but they're very company-oriented and won't typically venture far outside set parameters. Similarly, says Weinstein, they're very conscientious and usually want to be liked. "They know if they come up with a solution, the client will be happy with them," he says. "That's their motivation."
Patience is also a plus for customer service employees. They should be able to control their impulses better than salespeople have to because their job is to keep customers happy and not offend them, thus losing an order a salesperson worked hard to get.
Bill Kelley is an Arcadia, California, business writer and former editor of Sales and Marketing Management magazine.
Perfect Match
How do you determine whether potential employees have those special qualities? Weinstein says entrepreneurs should ask candidates to describe a difficult problem they once faced and how they solved it. Did they come up with multiple solutions? In addition, inquire whether they've ever had to help solve problems within a company or had to organize people. As a rule, people good at these tasks would also be good at customer service. "Like salespeople, these individuals will have ego drives," says Weinstein. "Salespeople, however, have the need to persuade, whereas customer service people have the need to help."
Finally, Weinstein says, remember that all customer service jobs are not the same. Many involve cross-selling, while others are like account management positions, which often include some sales. In the case of cross-selling, entrepreneurs should look for more of a mix. Still, no matter how much selling the customer service rep does, he or she is still servicing existing accounts, and that should remain the focus of the job. Change the focus to selling, and you've changed the position--and more than likely the type of person you want to fill it.
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If you take the time to blink by the time you open your eyes there will be some
rehashed new Real Housewives of New Jersey drama. In the latest Melissa Gorga's crusade to prove she was not, under any circumstances, in any way possible a stripper, exotic dancer, go-go dancer, adult entertaintress — whatever. Nope not for one hot moment! Girl, give it up already — we don't care!
If you remember the blog AllAboutTRH interviewed Angelo Vrohidis who was the manager of Lookers where Melissa worked possibly as a bartender (according to her) and possibly as a dancer (according to him). Melissa was so enraged by this accusation she accused him of being a drug addict on Twitter and then threatened to sue any media outlets who claimed she had danced. Even going so far as to have her ex-manager speak out saying she was a bartender and having the owner of Lookers, Chris Kontos, sign a sworn affidavit corroborating those claims. She also promised she would get payroll sheets proving she was merely a bartender.
Well, they're heeeere! See, in his interview Angelo explained the payroll system claiming strippers were paid as independent contractors and other employees were on the bar's payroll. "You have to understand, bartenders got paid by checks. Dancers were independent contractors that did not get paid by the establishment," Angelo described. "Its different now but she worked a long time ago and that's how it was back then. When Melissa worked, we didn't pay the dancers and they didn't pay us."
And now
Melissa AllAboutTRH has produced paystubs that verify she worked 7-hours per week for about one year (literally Jan 2003 – Dec 2003) as a part-time bartender. While, this does verify that Melissa bartended, some of her story doesn't add up. Melissa claimed she worked at the club as a bartender for a few months and her manager, Larry Guarino, was quoted as saying: "She was a bartender for a couple of months years ago, it was such a short time. She was never ever a dancer." Angelo also said she worked at the club for less than a year.
The payroll sheet clearly shows she was employed at least a full year. Some commenters wondered if the paystubs could be made up to substantiate Merlissa's claims. And some fans wondered if Melissa could have been both dancing and bartending? While it really doesn't matter and it was years ago, the stories still don't add up for Melissa.
Moving on, things are apparently getting better between Dina Manzo and Caroline Manzo as the two sisters are planning to spend Christmas together! Wetpaint Entertainment spoke to the Manzo spawn: Albie, Chris and Lauren (I'm sure Greggy was lurking around somewhere too) who revealed Dina would be part of the family Christmas festivities. "Christmas Eve is bigger for us than Christmas Day," Lauren explained. "My mom is one of 11 kids. We have everyone over and we have a five-course meal and tons of presents. The whole great room is filled with presents.
"She's part of the family. At the end of the day, we're family and we love each other, no matter what happens on the show," Lauren added. While they were excited to talk Christmas, the Manzo siblings were less enthused about the upcoming fourth season of RHONJ.
"It's funny, but Season 4 is going to go a little bit backwards," Albie revealed. "They showed some of the footage in Season 3 – the part where the cookbook comes out. But Season 4 had already been shooting and starts even before that."
"The cookbook isn't what started all the problems, it actually came in the middle of all the trouble," Albie continued. "So in Season 4, you'll see all the events that led to it." And speaking of the climactic Posche Fashion Show, Lauren describes it as a "disaster," confirming that everyone is mad at Teresa Giudice!
While Dina may still be working on her relationship with her sister, she's getting along swimmingly with Teresa as the two friends had a girls night out in NYC! Dina posted on Twitter that she had a "no drama" dinner with Teresa and another friend this Friday night and included a picture. A copy of the photo is below.
Teresa talked the dinner on her personal website and explained the third friend, Jackie, was Dina's Maid of Honor. "She's actually the one who first introduced me and Dina," Teresa wrote. I bet Caroline loves that Jackie!
"It's soooooo nice to be able to hang out with my girlfriends again without cameras around for a change," Teresa continued. "We've promised to do it at least once a month… " While it's great that she wants to pursue friendships away from cameras is she going to post about it every month on her website because to me that's pretty much the same as having cameras there!
Unfortunately for Dina she took a lot of heat on Twitter from some fans that accused her of being disloyal to her sister by continuing a friendship with Teresa. Dina responded, Tweeting: "To a few of u who just won't give it up, just because I had dinner with a friend doesn't mean I hate my sister. Get over it, it's a TV SHOW!" Good point! She also pointed out to fans that Teresa was the one who reached out to her to rekindle their friendship, adding: "It works both ways doll." Twitter… ruining the lives of
C-List celebrities everywhere!
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A close up of Melissa's Paystubs. Melissa is listed as Melissa Marco – her maiden name.
Payroll sheet for Melissa's full year of employment at Lookers.
Teresa, Dina, and Jackie this Friday enjoying a "no drama" dinner together.


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Yup. The longer the period, the more space between them. Way more water as well so the power or push is much greater in a 17 sec swell than something only 6 sec.
Generally speaking and depending on the spot, I start to get excited when the period becomes 10 sec or more. Not to say I haven't had killer 6 sec period swell sessions but it's definitely a different type of wave sailing.
The longer period swell has usually travelled from somewhere far away whereas the shorter period stuff is generated by wind nearby, typically referred to as windswell or in some cases chop.
Windswell can get quite clean depending on local factors and wind directions,like wrapping around a point, sandbars etc.
Use this link for a clear idea what (predominant) swell direction in relation to wind direction is forecast for the day. When the two directions slightly oppose each other, frontside wavesailing can get really good. Keep in mind a forecast swell direction does not take into consideration how the local break works. ie....a point break or, a reef with ground contours that allows the wave to wrap around.
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Yeah, long period swell are the most organized and the most powerful.
I think a long period hit PR just after Christmas, the day the guy drowned just around the corner from SevenSeas Beach in Fajardo. The break on the way to where the guy drowned was solid clean 8', looking like Ross's Cove in HalfMoonBayCa. Governor's Beach was looking 5' in the sets, but strong currents and too much for me to boogie board as I"m a surfer, not a boggie boarder.
Next trip over, I'll likely bring a couple sets of mast boom sails, and worry about a board over 90 liters once I get there. Veluano is selling a few boards, but have no rigs.
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thanks a lot for the info and links ctws, that helped a lot. Well I went out today at Cerromar beach in dorado and got pounded in the waves. They were some of the biggest I have seen at this beach. I knew it was a little over my abilities but hey, you have to push the limits to get better, right? I mostly stayed in the cove where it was relatively flat and zipped around for a while. I bet Dorado Beach was huge, did anyone have a go at it?
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I only visited Dorado once. It was definetely mellower than OceanPark at SanJuan, the shorepound friendlier and the wind more side than side/on, making cleaner conditions. Lotsa metal gating.
There are some beaches like IslaVerde that can get really mellow even when the surf is huge, and the winds still stay pure sideshore.
The only problem is the swimming floats, which nobody seems to inforce. You gotta slow down and slog over the rope where it's submerged, or you risk catching the fin for a catapult.
I'd like to surfsail the right reefs in front of the Governor's house just E of 7SeasBeach. Side with a litle off, clean conditions, 2 right reefs lined up, but a HUGE hike to get in. OK, not huge, but around 1/2 mile.
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Windsurfing PR. This is a topic that should interest anyone living eastern US this time of year. Very difficult to find gear, someone could make some money in the business with the right advertising and equipment. Playa Jobos less than 2 hrs from San Juan, Playa Shacks downwind if you want a more radical set up. Jobos would satisfy many considering 80 degree F water temp and consistent trade wind cross shore wind. No it's not 20 knots but who cares, it's rideable and windy enough and it's beautiful. BUT WHERE IS THE GEAR? i saw this thread the last 2 winters and Zirtaeb is trail-blazing but no one can find gear. Velauno, ?donde esta usted? Please set up a business out near Jobos/Aguadilla/Shacks/Rincon..Non stop flights from nearly every major city in the eastern US to San Juan and an int'l airport in Aguadilla if the demand was there. We might go 2-3 times a winter if the gear was there. All you guys dealing with the cold temps in Horseneck right now, wouldn't you get on a non stop to Aguadilla (or more likely San Juan, unless this opportunity opens up more) if the equipment was there?
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:33 pm
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Liken PR to the winds of Oahu. Usually 12-20, not 16-25.
Outside reefs exist everywhere along the N shore, and wave sailing can be found right off SanJuan, and almost any beach E or W.
Emp at Veluano says they rented WS gear 3 times total in 2011. That's why they sold all their rigs. Guy in RioGrande seems focused only on beginners.
E end of OceanPark is a condo which stores more than 25 complete rigs, all belonging to condo owners there. But nothing for the public.
Next trip, might be easiest to bring multiple mast boom and sails, fins and bases, and buy a board somewhere (Veluano is selling some boards).
Shipping rates from W coast to SanJuan right at 500 bucks.
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Or fly jetblue:
"One windsurfing board with an aluminum (or similar type material) wishbone style boom, one mast with a maximum length of 15 feet, one sail. Items weighing more than one hundred pounds (100 lbs) will not be accepted as checked baggage. Windsurfing equipment is accepted for a fee of $50 each way and will count as one of your checked bags"
Stuff a board bag with as much gear as you can and keep it under 100lbs (which shouldn't be hard to do) and you should be good to go. I brought a board back from PR a few months ago and it was free. I guess there was some special promo that I was unaware of. I didnt complain!
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This summer, will have to check out JetBlue, if they fly out of Oakland or SanFrancisco. It'd be worth some extra $$$ for the tickets, if they charge so little for under 100 lbs windsurf gear. I can stuff two boards, 4 sails, and a couple of masts and booms for under 100 lbs.
My problem is with additional age and injury, that I can't carry it to the terminal without a fork lift....
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great info here Eric and Lee D. We just got a non stop Jet Blue to San Juan from here in Jacksonville, FL. I hope they keep that baggage allowance; that is really helpful, since gear so hard to rent there...
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Hope you catch it ON....
Sensors say it is.
Airport is back away from the beaches.
Our 3 weeks, at least 17 days with kiters having fun on about 10's, meaning maybe 12-20mph winds.
Watch out for the swimming buoys, you can ride over them with wave fins.
Seems there is very little regulation, although the beach police patrol is doing their thing every hour.
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Some gropers get star treatment
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who is accused of being a serial groper of women, has a problem that goes beyond his behavior.
In a state where celebrities are often worshiped, Filner does not resemble a celebrity.
He has a smile like a Halloween pumpkin and a forehead with enough wrinkles to resemble an electrocardiogram. He does not have the lean and hungry look of, say, Anthony Weiner, a fellow Democrat with whom he once served in the U.S. Congress.
But it is unlikely that Filner, 70, has ever emailed pictures of his abs to anyone. Filner's body bears an unfortunate resemblance to a sack of doorknobs.
( QUIZ: Do you know Bob Filner?)
No, Filner is not the sexting type. He is the groping, grabbing, sticking his hand down the bra, licking the face, sticking his tongue down the throat type. Allegedly. Allegedly in allegations made by 16 women.
His most recent accuser is a 67-year-old grandmother, who worked part time for the city to supplement her Social Security income. She says Filner once kissed her on the mouth and on another occasion "came by my desk and asked me if I thought he could go eight hours in one night."
Another woman claims Filner started "jamming his tongue" down her throat and another says he reached inside her bra. Another says Filner told her she could do a better job "without your panties on."
Filner admits he "failed to fully respect the women who work for me and with me" but has refused to resign.
Those demanding his resignation include House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and all nine members of the San Diego City Council.
Also, a San Diego Hooters has posted a sign on its door saying Filner is not welcome inside.
At midnight Sunday, as soon as it became legal to do so, volunteers began gathering signatures on a petition to recall Filner. They have to get at least 102,000 signatures in the next 39 days in order to force a recall election, which experts say may be difficult.
First, it is a lot of signatures in a short amount of time and second, nobody is sure how many people really care about what Filner has done.
Back in 2003, gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger was accused by 15 women of groping them or otherwise touching them sexually against their will.
Schwarzenegger apologized to anybody he might have "offended" but refused to drop out of the race. He was running in a special election that would simultaneously recall the unpopular incumbent Gov. Gray Davis and choose his successor.
Schwarzenegger's poll numbers dipped after the accusations, but he had something going for him: He was a huge celebrity with celebrity friends.
Before the election, Jay Leno said in one of his monologues: "You've got Arnold, who groped a few women, or Davis, who screwed the whole state."
It got a big laugh. And Gray Davis could foresee his doom. "This is California," he said. "Celebrities are a big deal here."
Then Oprah had both Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, on her show, and Shriver told everyone to ignore the accusations against her husband. "I know the man I'm married to," she told Oprah.
Davis was dumped and Schwarzenegger was elected and reelected without ever answering the charges those 15 women made against him. Nobody seemed to care.
In 2011, after finding out Schwarzenegger had fathered a child with the family housekeeper, Shriver took off her wedding ring, gathered up her children, left her home and filed for divorce.
But Schwarzenegger is still a celebrity. Next year he is scheduled to appear once again as "Conan the Barbarian" and later do another "Terminator" movie.
This is the kind of celebrity status that Bob Filner lacks. And it must bother him. He says he is misunderstood. "I'm a hugger," he says.
Life is so unfair. Schwarzenegger can walk down the red carpet anywhere in the state. Filner can't even walk into the local Hooters.
Roger Simon is POLITICO's chief political columnist. His new e-book, "RECKONING: Campaign 2012 and the Fight for the Soul of America," can be found on Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com and iTunes.


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ONARCHITECTURE- Saving Nimmo: History avoids the wrecking ball
About half-way down Hartman's Mill Road off Ridge Street stands a dilapidated, unusual Gothic Revival house built in 1870. It's one of a handful of historic residential properties protected by city preservation laws. Dubbed the Nimmo House, it was built and owned by an enterprising carpenter named James D. Nimmo.
According to architectural historian Aaron Wunsch, the roads running east of Ridge Street were home to free black landowners beginning in the 1840s. However, Nimmo and his family were white. As Wunsch studied the census of the time, a pattern emerged– most of the men who lived on Hartman's Mill Road were in the building trades. Interestingly, long after Charlottesville had embraced Jim Crow laws, it appeared that occupation, not race, was the tie between people living in that neighborhood.
Wunsch found few details about Nimmo's life and career, but the house he left behind provided fascinating clues. Wunsch calls the house a curious example of Carpenter Gothic, based on a quatrefoil (four-leaved) cutout in the dormer and a pointed but not necessarily remarkable window in the west gable. What is remarkable, however, is the way the house reveals a talented workingman's evolving preoccupation with the high-style architectural forms of the time.
Indeed, touring the house one can imagine the despair of Nimmo's wife as her husband added yet another fanciful detail–- an elaborate, nearly abstract mantelpiece in an office area, the giant Gothic dormer upstairs, the fancy staircase with its curved Eastlake newel post and carved inlays. Even the complex configuration of cupboards in the kitchen shows a similar ambition. These are architectural details normally found in structures five times as big as this little place, and in neighborhoods several class distinctions away.
Last July, the Nimmo House was on the brink of becoming just another victim of the wrecking ball. When they purchased the house in 1994, its present owners, an older couple, had plans to use the lot for a house for their daughter. But when they applied for a demolition permit, they found that the house is designated historic. For several years, they looked for a contractor to renovate the place, but no one would take the job. Everyone they contacted recommended tearing the old house down and building a new one. Suffering from "contractor's fatigue," the couple finally decided to seek a demolition permit by appealing the historic designation to the BAR and City Council.
But then there was Piedmont Preservation to worry about. Members of the local historic preservation organization, as they do whenever someone seeks a demo permit for a historic structure, showed up before the Board of Architectural Review and City Council to argue for saving the structure. As Wunsch– a Preservation Piedmont board member– points out, while the BAR usually votes to deny demolition in such cases, the City has a habit of sympathizing with property owners.
"At least three houses in the last year would have been torn down if Preservation Piedmont hadn't showed up," he says.
This time, however, the Nimmo House owners were out of luck, as both the BAR and City Council refused to allow a demolition. That left them with only two options: put the house on the market or keep looking for a contractor. By law, if a property owner puts a designated historic structure on the market and it doesn't sell within a period of three months to a year, the property owner is allowed to demolish the building. (The time limit is determined by the asking price of the property– three months if it's less than $25,000, and a year if the price is $90,000 or more.)
However, thanks to the persistence of both Preservation Piedmont and the property owners, who were determined to build a place for their daughter, a third option emerged: a partnership between them to rehab the building.
According to Wunsch, it's the first such partnership with a residential property owner in the organization's history, and represents a complete "180 degree turn-around from where we began."
"Unfortunately, the system has always created a confrontational situation between the property owner, Piedmont Preservation, and the BAR," Wunsch says.
According City preservationist Mary Joy Scala, these unpleasant meetings could be avoided if there were a better, clearer notification system for historic designations. Recently, sellers were not required to notify buyers if a property is designated historic, and often buyers– like the Nimmo House owners– didn't find out about the designation until after they apply for a building or demo permit. Wunsch says he'd like to see laws that require historic notifications to be noted in property deeds.
However, as Scala mentions, an amendment to Virginia real estate disclosure law was passed last year(SB1114: Residential Property Disclosure Act; violation of zoning ordinance) that requires property owners to disclose whether or not their property is designated historic. However, the amended bill doesn't exactly hold property owners supremely accountable, demanding a disclosure only if the "owner has knowledge of such designation," and putting much of the burden on buyers, who are advised to "exercise whatever due diligence" necessary to find out if the property is historic.
Meanwhile, the fledgling Nimmo partnership may serve as a model for preserving other historic residential buildings. In addition to helping the owners get historic tax credits for the renovation–even giving them a grant to cover their legal fees– Preservation Piedmont also helped find a contractor willing to take on a historic renovation, which, given the Virginia Historic Resources Department's rigorous standards for receiving tax credits, was no easy task.
In addition, Wunsch says the organization can also help homeowners get a construction loan, and hopes someday to be able to purchase historic properties outright. In the meantime, he hopes the long story of the Nimmo House project might make the system of saving historic properties less confrontational.
"Finally, its a preservation story that isn't just sad," he says.
The Nimmo House at 208 Hartman's Mill Road could become a model for preserving historic residential properties in Charlottesville.


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Who's Who Among Students In American Junior Colleges is a national honors program. Each year, we have the opportunity to nominate students who exemplify Iowa Central through their outstanding participation and leadership in academics, extracurricular activities, and community service. Iowa Central Community College can nominate up to 150 students for this program. We will begin taking nominations immediately, please see the link below! The committee will review applications through February 12, 2013.
In order to qualify students must have a minimum GPA of 3.0, completion of at least 30 (total)college credit hours, and involvement in extra-curricular and community activities that they do not receive payment or college credit for. Students can be nominated by faculty or staff. We also encourage students to nominate themselves by contacting a faculty member to submit a nomination form on their behalf. Nomination forms will not be accepted from students.
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Q. David BowersThe following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993).
Coinage Context
Made for China: Many of the 1859-O silver dollars were intended for export to China. However, numerous examples were released within the United States, probably after specie payments were resumed following the Act of January 14, 1875 (which provided for the redemption of fractional currency notes with silver coins and which had little effect until autumn 1876).
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Circulated grades: Minted in New Orleans, the 1859-O and 1860-O dollars apparently were saved in quantity by silver depositors, bullion dealers, and others within the United States, and after 1873, by which time the price of silver had fallen to the point that the intrinsic value of the silver dollar was less than the face value, many 1859-O and 1860-O dollars went into circulation. Although no records survive, it is my belief that this occurred during the early and mid-1870s, before Morgan dollars were available in quantity.
Treasury hoard coins: While many 1859-O and 1860-O dollars were sent to the Orient shortly after their minting, and were subsequently melted, enough remained within our own borders that circulated specimens are encountered with some frequency today, for reasons given above. Some of these trace their pedigree to inclusion in mixed bags of mostly worn coins released by the Treasury 1962-1964; such bags contained worn examples of most dates 1840-1873.
During the same 1962-1964 Treasury release of backdated silver dollars, it is believed that one to three mint-sealed bags of 1,000 Uncirculated coins, amounting to as many as 3,000 coins totally, were distributed. Almost without exception, the coins from these bags are heavily bagmarked and scarred, the result of careless storage, handling and shipping procedures over the years, the average grade today being MS-60 or just slightly better.
Even cherry picking among hoard coins did not yield MS-65 or better coins, so far as I know.
Walter H. Breen states that 3,000 Mint State coins were released by the Treasury in 1962-1964. The estimates of others differ. For example, Ron Severa, in his study published in The Gobrecht Journal, March 1977, stated that 1,000 coins (one bag) were released. In my book, Adventures With Rare Coins, 1979, p. 98; I said I thought "at least one bag each came to light of 1859-O and 1860-O Liberty Seated dollars."
Several people told me that Harry Forman handled most of the 3,000 1859-O and 6,000 1860-O dollars said to have been released, but in an interview with me, Harry stated that the only quantities he ever had were 700 Mint State 1859-Os and 300 1860-Os. John Skubis recalled in an interview with me that a bag of 1,000 1859-O dollars was released in Reno, but he did not say all the coins went into collectors' hands. The Forman, Skubis and John Love (see below) numbers total 2,700 Uncirculated 1859-O dollars, and I know that there were others as well. It could just well be that the Breen estimate of 3,000 is on target.
Bruce Amspacher has said that "some bags of this date, along with the 1860-O, turned up in the 1960s." Further: "A dealer found several hundred more pieces in a bag of common date Morgan dollars. With maybe several thousand Mint State specimens known, why isn't this date [easy to find in MS-63 or better condition]? Because almost all pieces are heavily bagmarked after rattling around in Treasury vaults for over a century."
It has been my aim in the present work to present the opinions of those I consider to be qualified on various subjects, and to present this information as a matter of record. These opinions, in effect, become better raw material for further studies than would the statement of my own feelings, without being specific about the sources. The matter of how many Mint State 1859-O and 1860-O dollars exist today and how many were released by the Treasury in the late 1950s and early 1960s has drawn a variety of widely differing opinions among contributors to the present book, and in printed sources.
It is my belief that whatever the quantities of release were, the 1859-O was found in significantly smaller numbers than the 1860-O. For purposes of the present book, I use the Breen estimates, which indicate an availability ratio of 1 to 2 for the 1859-O and 1860-O. To state that one Mint State 1859-O is available for each two dated 1860-O seems to satisfy just about everyone; without regard to how many were released from the Treasury holdings.
In his contribution to The Comprehensive U.S. Silver Dollar Encyclopedia, John Love recalled finding a worn 1859-O Liberty Seated dollar among circulated Morgan and Peace dollars in the early 1960s. In my own fairly extensive experience of looking through bags of circulated silver dollars in the early 1950s, I never came across even a single Liberty Seated dollar of any date. During the great Treasury release of 1962-1964, John Love handled a bag of 1,000 Mint State 1859-O coins.
Other Mint State coins: In addition to coins issued by the Treasury in the 1962-64 years, other Mint State specimens of the 1859-O and 1860-O dollars occasionally surfaced in collections earlier, so the total population of Mint State coins is probably somewhat higher than 3,000 for the 1859-O and 5,000 to 6,000 for the 1860-O. The old-time Uncirculated coins that were in collections prior to 1962 are for the most part much less bagmarked than the Treasury hoard pieces. Many of these have prooflike surfaces.
Circulation strikes:
1. Normal Date: Breen-5459. Obverse: With numerals in date of normal thickness. Reverse: Heavy O mintmark. Scarcer than the following, No.2.
2. Thin Numerals Date: Breen-5458. Obverse: With numerals in the date thin. Many of the Mint State hoard coins were of this variety. More than one variety may exist. Nine obverse and three reverses were specifically shipped into New Orleans; in addition other reverses may have been on hand from the 1846-O or 1850-O production. However, the earlier reverses have differently shaped mintmarks from those on any known 1859-O dollars.
3. Heavy Date: Breen-5460. Obverse: With numerals in date heavily impressed. Reverse: Thin mintmark, with top and base very delicate.
Dies prepared: Obverse: 9; Reverse: 3
Circulation strike mintage: 360,000
Estimated quantity melted: Unknown
Characteristics of striking: Varies; stars often weak, beginning at stars 8 and 9 and, depending upon the coin, to the left or right as well. Satiny rather than deeply frosty lustre; fields usually prooflike.
Known hoards of Mint State coins: An estimated 3,000 Mint State coins plus an unknown quantity of worn pieces were in the 1962-1964 Treasury release; nearly all Mint State coins from this hoard are heavily bagmarked.
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Exploring how data impacts a company's asset utilization and delivery of products and services, the study found that small, incremental improvements in data effectiveness can provide substantial savings.
"We've shown direct links between data attributes and a company's financial performance and demonstrated how better data affects financial performance through superior innovation and growth. This final installment complements the previous two by establishing that superior financial performance from better data is also attributable to a corresponding improvement in operational performance," said professor Anitesh Barua, lead researcher, University of Texas at Austin.
Five attributes of data effectiveness were considered: quality, intelligence, usability, remote accessibility, and sales mobility. According to the research, an improvement in just three of the five data attributes used in the study — quality, sales mobility, and intelligence — can have a dramatic impact on operational efficiency.
"The common theme that flows through each of the three installments of this study is that improving data quality does not have to be a disruptive and costly undertaking. Just by taking incremental steps to improving data quality, organizations can enjoy significant returns in a relatively short amount of time," said Dr. Raj Nathan, executive vice president & CMO, Sybase.


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Ready to get weird? Naturally, as this is the week of All Hallows Eve (i.e. the best time of the year), the shows you must see are downright spooky: The Flaming Lips' Halloween Blood Bath, Maya Jane Coles at Freaky Friday, the Hellraiser's Ball series' Terry Malts show, Total Trash's extended Halloween bash, and so forth.
Go out goblins and ghouls of the Bay, raise some spirits and remember the dead. And never forget: Nilbog is Goblin backwards.
Here are your must-see shows:
Terry Malts
Full disclosure: The Bay Guardian is co-sponsoring this event, the first in a series of Hellraiser's Ball shows. But it deserves to be in Heads Up anyways, because Terry Malts are San Francisco pop punk perfection, and they're back after touring off new full-length Realizes This is Nowhere (Slumberland), released last month.
With Violent Change
Tue/29, 8pm, $10
Brick and Mortar
1710 Mission, SF
The Flaming Lips' Halloween Blood Bath
"Oklahoma City psych rockers the Flaming Lips' mold-breaking performances are as varied as the band's back catalog. Motorcycle exhaust filled punk orgies, dazzling Christmas light powered spectacles, car stereo orchestras, and for at least the last decade, the technicolor, eyeball melting, heart swelling celebrations of pure weirdo pop, accented by confetti cannons and costumed menagerie. Now it's switching up again, retiring elements that came close to being trademarks. (No space bubble, kids. Go see Diplo, who ripped it off, as he does every gimmick.) With their latest, The Terror, the Lips seem to be on their own private dark side of the moon, and the current tour promises to be a different kind of spectacle." — Ryan Prendiville
With Tame Impala, White Denim
Thu/31, 7pm, $47.50
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
99 Grove, SF
Halloween at the Chapel
Bobb Saggeth, the female-fronted Black Sabbath tribute band, headlines this black mass with Haight Breeders (covering Misfits songs, natch).
Thu/31, 9pm-2am, $15.
777 Valencia, SF
Total Trash Halloween Bash: Yogurt Brain as Weezer
"This year's Total Trash Halloween Bash offers some of the usual suspects when it comes to rockers delivering camouflaged covers. However, with NOBUNNY channeling Bo Diddley as "Nodiddley" and Russell Quan joining Shannon and the Clams as Los Saicos, we step out of the box that usually brings us Cramps and Misfits covers. While those shows are completely appropriate (along with the typical homage to bands like the Ramones, the Damned, and Alice Cooper) and have proven popular, Oakland's sentimental-grunge act, Yogurt Brain, has opted to take on Weezer this year. Rest assured — fans of the Blue Album and Pinkerton won't be disappointed." — Andre Torrez
With NOBUNNY as Bo Diddley, Shannon & the Clams as Los Saicos, more
Thu/31, 9pm, $15
Stork Club
2330 Telegraph, Oakl.
AYLI Presents Freaky Friday with Maya Jane Cole
"During previous appearances in the city, London artist Maya Jane Coles has come dangerously close to being outpaced by her popularity. Pressed to the sides of Monarch during her set last year, my extensive catalog of deep struts and funky steps was reduced to a little heady bobbing for lack of space. It's a relief that AYLI is bringing her to the more spacious venue of Public Works, particularly now that Coles released her Comfort LP, a vocally-oriented bit of silky house, featuring guest appearances by Kim Ann Foxman and Karin Park. (The track with Park, "Everything," is the album's standout.) Still, given how packed this party is on the lineup side, including co-headlining Romanian-born techno producer Cosmin TRG, it may be wise to stake prime floor space early." — Prendiville
With Bells & Whistles, Brian Knarfield, Cubik & Origami LIVE, more
Fri/1, 9pm-4am, $20 presale
Public Works
161 Erie, SF
(415) 932-0955
Total Trash Halloween Bash: The Sonics
"The folks behind Total Trash are bringing a relic from the first wave: The seminal Washington-based 1960s garage rock band, the Sonics, will play a string of shows for the annual Total Trash Halloween Bash. The Sonics were there in the very beginning. They got their start in a time when the British Invasion was in full swing. Rejecting sugary-sweet mop-topped bands, the Sonics idolized Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. 'We thought, to heck with wearing suits and neckties," keyboardist-vocalist Gerry Roslie says. "Playing love songs felt wrong — we could only play music with power. We played loud and we played how we felt: like animals.'" — Erin Dage
With Phantom Surfers, Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Fri/1, 7:30pm, $35
New Parish
579 18th St, Oakl.
With Roy Loney, Dukes of Hamburg, Wounded Lion, Chad & the Meatbodies
Sat/2, 7pm, $35
Rickshaw Stop
155 Fell, SF
(415) 861-2011
Dance Party Boys
"OK, despite the name this isn't a dance party, but let's freak out! Gayish punk-metal outfit Dance Party Boys (which includes several members of the nightlife scene, including former Pansy Division back-up dancer Xavier Breff) hit the 924 Gilman stage with Brave Ulysses, Black Bones, and NslashA for some good ol-fashioned moshing." — Marke B.
Fri/1, 8pm, $10
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On November 17, 2009, an act of God occurred: eight federal agencies agreed on something. That something was a set of four model privacy notice forms that could be delivered to consumers (including investment advisory clients) to satisfy the information disclosure requirements of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB). Said another way, use of a model privacy notice allows registered investment advisors to dock their boats in a regulatory 'safe harbor,' protected from the storms of GLB and Regulation S-P enforcement.
Regulation S-P is what the SEC adopted in response to the passage of GLB, and it requires an RIA to disclose its privacy and information-sharing practices to its clients at the beginning of the advisory relationship and annually thereafter (or if such practices have changed). An RIA may effect delivery of its privacy notice electronically, so long as the client has consented to such electronic delivery. Use of a model form is entirely optional, but regulators intended the models to serve as an easy, simple way for clients to compare the various information gathering and sharing practices of financial institutions.
So what are the pros and the cons of using one of the model forms? For starters, it's hard to pass on the opportunity to take advantage of a regulatory safe harbor, as they are few and far between. Even though the failure to deliver a passable privacy notice may appear to be a trivial regulatory violation in comparison to fraud or fiduciary blunders, it is an easily-identifiable deficiency that may ultimately contribute to a weak overall compliance program in the eyes of examiners.
The model privacy forms are also fairly short (one double-sided page in the shortest available option), succinct (no superfluous disclosures) and easy to read. If you want to check out each of the four model forms themselves, start on page 87 of the official release here. RIAs can even build the form online here if they don't want to pull their hair out trying to duplicate the form manually in a software program. The online form-builder is somewhat awkward, however, so don't be surprised if certain typed-in text doesn't fit or creates funky spacing.
There are a few potential downsides to consider as well. The content, layout, typeset, dimension and orientation requirements are extremely strict and must be followed explicitly in order to qualify for the safe harbor. Adding to or modifying the appearance of the model form is very limited, and is explained further in the SEC's Small Firm Compliance Guide.
Some RIAs may prefer to add more of a marketing twist to their privacy notices, as there are no layout or standardized language requirements for privacy notices that fall outside of the model forms. Others may want to combine their privacy notice language with other unrelated regulatory disclosure language, which is not permitted in the model forms. Lastly, the model forms do not allow for much elaboration, clarification or tailoring to an RIA's specific practices, which may prompt a firm to shoehorn the square peg of its practices into the round hole of the model form.
The initial and annual privacy policy notice delivery requirements are imposed upon RIAs of all sizes, so it's important to fulfill this obligation even as a small or solo practice. Eight federal agencies haven't agreed on much of anything since that historic November in 2009, but one thing is certain: I don't think we'll be receiving a model privacy notice from the NSA anytime soon.


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The subject of storage grids is gaining some momentum within the industry as perhaps the next big thing.
It probably started a couple of years ago when NetApp acquired Spinnaker Networks to add grid-like capabilities to its storage operating system, Data ONTAP 7G. More recently, EMC purchased grid software from Acxiom Corp. that provides a single location where services and data can be manipulated, stored and made available to applications. Other big vendors like Sun, HP and IBM, as well as smaller players like Panasas, Exanet, YottaYotta and ExaGrid are making plenty of noise about grids. So what's all the fuss?
"It's difficult to tell what's happening with grids since it's mostly a marketing-driven exercise today," says Simon Robinson, an analyst with the 451 Group. "Our extensive grid research has yet to unearth a major project in implementing a grid architecture related to storage."
He feels that, by and large, the storage industry has co-opted grid terminology to support marketing efforts to promote certain scalability, ease of management and price/performance characteristics. Large NAS farms and utility storage programs such as Sun's Storage Grid are a couple of examples, he says. In reality, though, actual utilization of grid technology has been very limited.
William Hurley of Data Mobility Group concurs.
"Many vendors have an interest in, or may even market grid capability messages," says Hurley. "But in reality, grids are not yet a vigorous commercial enterprise market and therefore specific grid products from incumbents are being developed for future, not near-term, delivery."
Defining the 'G' Word
Defining a storage grid isn't as easy as it appears. Essentially, it is a method of linking independent storage nodes that are then monitored by a controlling software layer. It offers easy management, fault tolerance and access at the file and block level. Such an approach is said to reduce down costs, speed up backups and improve utilization.
"Defining the 'G' word is a problem when you use grid and storage in the same breath," says David Freund, an analyst at Illuminata. "It can mean just about anything from using something from the Globus Toolkit to using distributed techniques such as clustering."
Part of the confusion stems from muddy messaging from vendors. Array, networking and software companies are adding features to facilitate data sharing. Examples include more network-efficient replication or copy processes, improving synchronous data replication functions and enabling multi-site copying. Similarly, other companies are working closely with ISVs such as Oracle in the development of mutually complementary functions in limited shared or simple site-to-site environments. Some of this work is being incorrectly characterized as grid-based storage.
"Grid deployments by end users have been generally limited to government and academic research," says Hurley. "A few larger, forward-thinking companies have begun the slow process of re-architecting data stores and storage networks with the goal of achieving data federation as a first step toward realizing grid outcomes, such as workload portability and 'anywhere' data accessibility."
Such innovation addresses obvious challenges in storage. Freund points out some of the problems experienced by existing storage platforms when utilizing a grid. Large NAS appliances and traditional clusters, for example, have trouble scaling when working with large research grids. Bottlenecks occur when as such systems try to create thousands of files every minute. He suggests that grids will eventual parallelize file creation and other functions to eliminate bottlenecks.
Vendor Gridlock
Approaches to grid-based storage, though, vary based on the vendor involved. Freund says Luster and Panasas use an object approach to produce a smarter disk, then layer a file system on top of that to create a grid or cluster. Panasas prefers the term cluster lots of servers cooperating on an application.
"The Panasas Storage Cluster is a grid of intelligent storage components that can be scaled to meet the needs of the compute environment," says Larry Jones, vice president of marketing at Panasas. "Clustering is the key to grid storage, as it allows storage to take advantage of the same ability to run in parallel that we are doing on the application side with compute grids."
Petroleum Geo-Services Corp. (PGS), for example, uses the Panasas DirectFLOW data path to provide direct access between Linux cluster nodes and Panasas storage in order to increase the performance and simplify management of seismic data processing.
What other approaches exist? Hurley thinks IBM has the lead due to its active role in the Global Grid Forum (GGF). He also sees Oracle making a lot of progress by pushing its partners to come up with ways to enhance its 10g Grid family.
"I would consider the Oracle 10g package to be the most practical example of storage grid technology," says Hurley. "HP's AppIQ and EMC's Control Center with the Smarts technology can provide excellent management points for enterprise end-users moving, over time, toward a grid architecture."
According to Freund, NetApp and EMC take a similar approach.
"EMC has realized that the real value of storage has moved up the stack and into the things that manage what goes into storage," says Freund. "Storing files has become a commodity."
Meanwhile, NetApp has made its FlexVol technology a key component of Data ONTAP 7G as it attempts to build grid-based storage systems. FlexVol enables the pooling of storage resources such that all data volumes can take advantage of the total available capacity and performance of available hardware.
"The virtualization capabilities within Data ONTAP 7G and FlexVol technology will provide the foundation for our future multi-node, scale-out systems which fully incorporate storage grid capabilities," says Patrick Rogers, vice president for products and partners at Network Appliance.
NetApp, he says, is in the process of completing the integration of technology acquired from Spinnaker into the Data ONTAP operating system. The idea is to create a storage system that can scale many modular storage building blocks within a single global namespace. All resources within the storage grid architecture will be pooled into a coherent system with a single management interface.
"Early deployments of our scale-out systems have been tested with several customers in high-performance computing environments," says Rogers. "To date, these have been customers with large numbers of Linux compute servers in technical markets such as energy and entertainment."
Beyond the Hype
Despite the hype, Freund expects grids to survive the inevitable swelling and fading of any buzzword fad. But, he says, the point of a scaled modular parallel approach to storage is going to stick.
"Regardless of the definitions and semantic hairsplitting, customers don't care whether it's a grid, a cluster or a 'virtualized bunch of things that do stuff,'" he says. "The vendors that win will tie the modules together seamlessly."
The optimum goal for end users, says Hurley, would be to achieve a condition with the data stores such that it didn't matter where a specific piece of data or data set was physically located, and yet users, to whom location is deterministic, could still perform the application-based tasks required of their professional role. A more realistic expectation, though, might be to achieve new levels of efficiency to lower the barriers to data migration or replication between geographies as well as to facilitate wide area access to mission-critical data that resides in a highly secure, resilient central data center.
"If apps need to be moved across geographical distances to run, then so must the data," says Hurley. "Grids will support application-specific accessibility over wide areas, giving every application user, regardless of location, a local look and feel to an application and its performance."
Robinson, though, isn't so sure that grids really will play a part in the future of storage. He sees a battle between two schools of thought. One seeks to make storage become more distributed to support grids, to get the data to where it's needed. The other possibility is that data will become more centralized or consolidated in order to realize cost benefits.
"The current trend in storage generally is certainly leaning towards the latter, and I don't expect the emergence of grids to substantially affect this trend," says Robinson.
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