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Strange conflict with Mavericks Finder?
On multiple machines I have encountered a strange phenomenon where, after having used CCC (3.5.3), deleting files in the Finder will produce a -43 error. A trace using fs_usage revealed that (and this happens every time) just before showing the -43 error the Finder tries to access a temp file (trying to delete the file "Trackball Works 1.1.1.dmg" It might be a coincidence and maybe CCC isn't involved at all of course but so far that's the only pointer I have. Killing the Finder solves the problem by the way.
15:39:26.913385 fsgetpath /Users/pooh/Downloads/Trackball Works
1.1.1.dmg 0.000004 Finder.7332730
15:39:26.913438 getattrlist /Users/pooh/Downloads/Trackball Works 1.1.1.dmg 0.000029 Finder.7332730
15:39:26.913492 getattrlist /Users/pooh/Downloads/Trackball Works 1.1.1.dmg 0.000009 Finder.7332730
15:39:26.913542 getattrlist [ 2] /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.kYppXf/private>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.000025 Finder.7332730
15:39:26.913592 open_extended 2 /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.kYppXf/private>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.000022 Finder.7332730
15:39:26.913757 fsgetpath /Users/pooh/Downloads/Trackball Works 1.1.1.dmg 0.000005 Finder.7332730
15:39:26.913773 getattrlist /Users/pooh/Downloads/Trackball Works 1.1.1.dmg 0.000006 Finder.7332730
15:39:26.913891 lstat64 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ProgressStatusView1Line.nib 0.000023 Finder.3942815
Hi Ernst,
CCC consistently sees 'Trackball Works' as a mounted .dmg volume and I suspect your errors relates to temporary files that are in use while mounted. Further, it looks like an installer is likely on the dmg and I wonder if you recently installed the Trackball Works program and it didn't cleanly exit. Try unmounting Trackball Works by dragging it to the trash, delete the .dmg file from your Downloads folder, and then re-run your task. If that doesn't clear up your errors, try restarting and then re-run your task.
Best of luck,
Hello Sarah,
Your misunderstanding the issue. Let me try to elaborate. "Trackball Works" was a random example, any other file I tried produced the same issue.
The following phenomenon is reproducible (I've been able to reproduce it on three different Mavericks systems) although some timing issue is involved.
1) Start CCC on a Mavericks Mac.
2) Quit CCC after a short while, preferably after performing some operations. CCC wil have created directories in /private/tmp starting with "com.bombich.ccc." followed by a random ID. Two per launch of CCC.
3) Wait. After a while try to delete a random file in the Finder and you'll get an error. This doesn't happen immediately. I had to wait minutes in this particular case. I haven't found the exact trigger yet. It may not have to do anything with actions within CCC. After a while unmount (triggered by what?) tries to unmount /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.<id>/.Trashes which might be part of the issue.
After that you won't be able to delete any file in the Finder. Trying to do so yields the following error:
The following lines are visible in the output of fs_usage.
14:33:28.975065 WrMeta[A] D=0x00000002 B=0x200 /dev/disk0s3 /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.uXcLUE 0.000255 W umount.146789
14:33:28.975185 WrMeta[A] D=0x00021080 B=0x1000 /dev/disk0s3 /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.TJDsoD/.Trashes 0.000289 W umount.146789
14:33:28.975290 WrMeta[A] D=0x00021088 B=0x1000 /dev/disk0s3 /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.TJDsoD/.Trashes 0.000377 W umount.146789
14:33:28.975391 WrMeta[A] D=0x00021090 B=0x1000 /dev/disk0s3 /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.TJDsoD/.Trashes 0.000463 W umount.146789
14:33:28.992935 WrMeta[A] D=0x00000002 B=0x200 /dev/disk0s3 /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.TJDsoD 0.000166 W umount.146789
14:33:29.022533 unmount /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.TJDsoD 0.055260 W umount.146789
14:35:45.182679 getattrlist [ 2] /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.TJDsoD/private>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.000018 Finder.147902
14:35:45.182718 open_extended [ 2] (_WC__E) /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.TJDsoD/private>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.000017 Finder.147902
5) The issue will disappear after either restarting the Finder or removing the "com.bombich.ccc." temp directories using other means (i.e. the Terminal).
The Finder seems to assume there's a .Trashes subdirectory under CCC's temp directories, or Mavericks thinks the temp directory are mounted file systems?
Ernst Mulder
Hi Ernst:
Thanks for the report, and thanks for taking the time to dig into this one. I have actually seen the same behavior on my test system, though I assumed it was just another buggy Finder issue.
The following lines are visible in the output of fs_usage. 14:33:28.975065 WrMeta[A] D=0x00000002 B=0x200 /dev/disk0s3 /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.uXcLUE 0.000255 W umount.146789
I don't think these are related, but I will verify. When you open CCC, CCC will collect information about all mounted volumes, and it will also mount any "Recovery HD" volumes that it can find to determine what OS is installed on them. To avoid these popping up in the Finder, CCC mounts these volumes privately at custom mountpoints, in the format of /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.XXXXXX. Once CCC has collected the information it needs, it unmounts these volumes. Those mountpoint folders should be deleted (I just fixed that right now), but again I don't think this is related. The fs_usage output indicates that it is the "umount" application that is accessing those folders, and that's due to CCC unmounting those volumes. These things happen without any other activity in CCC, though, so simply opening and quitting CCC would cause these volumes to be mounted and unmounted.
Ah, well this one could be related:
14:35:45.182679 getattrlist [ 2] /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.TJDsoD/private>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.000018 Finder.147902
It looks like Finder is trying to read a file on that Recovery HD volume. Based on the timing, Finder was pretty late to the party, the associated volume was unmounted a while before that access attempt was made. That mountpoint was still present, though, so maybe that is related...
Ok, I was able to reproduce that error and do some digging of my own. The error indicates that some items can't be found, and I see this fs_usage output:
10:53:20.322127 getattrlist [ 2] /Users/apple/Library/Mobile Documents 0.000039 Finder.1501 10:53:20.323422 fsgetpath /Users/apple/Desktop/mnt.sh 0.000006 Finder.4743 10:53:20.323480 getattrlist /Users/apple 0.000015 Finder.4743 10:53:20.323637 fsgetpath /Users/apple/Desktop/mnt.sh 0.000005 Finder.4743 10:53:20.323749 getattrlist /Users/apple/Desktop/mnt.sh 0.000013 Finder.4743 10:53:20.323802 getattrlist [ 2] /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.7LcYgG>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.000018 Finder.4743 10:53:20.323850 open_extended [ 2] (_WC__E) /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.7LcYgG>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.000019 Finder.4743
What's interesting here is that I had manually deleted all of the empty com.bombich.ccc.* mountpoint folders before I tried to delete that file. Also, I'm not sure why Finder is looking for that Mobile Documents folder. In both of those access attempts, the error number is "2", which is "No such file or directory", and that matches up well with the text of the error dialog.
OK, so I created the Mobile Documents folder and recreated that stale mountpoint. Finder kept looking deeper for something on that mountpoint. Playing along with its game, I finally determined that Finder is looking for this:
11:00:50.751220 getattrlist /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.7LcYgG/private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.7LcYgG/.Trashes/501 0.000011 Finder.6141
Even after creating that folder, though, Finder still fails to put the item in the Trash. I tried with a large file, and it reported that the destination did not have enough free space (the Trash folder is on the startup disk, and the startup disk has hundreds of GB available). I tried with a smaller file, and got yet a third error (An unexpected error occurred, -8060). Clearly Finder is mishandling the unmounting of that Recovery HD volume.
OK, I was able to consistently reproduce this only after rebooting. This seemed to do the trick:
- Restart the computer
- Open CCC
- Wait a moment (for CCC to unmount the Recovery HD
- Quit CCC
- Try to trash a file
Once I was able to reproduce it consistently, I was able to test a fix. It looks like deleting those private mountpoint folders does the trick (yeah, it was those after all!). I'm going to call this a joint fail between CCC and Finder. CCC should have been cleaning up after itself, but whatever Finder was doing, that was definitely some buggy behavior.
Let me know if you see this issue recur with the attached version of CCC. There's one other thing I can try if it does recur (mount the Recovery HD volumes read-only), but I'd rather not try that if it isn't necessary, because some other system services might get rankled.
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Hello Mike,
Thanks for your elaborate e-mail on this issue and for the fix! Brilliant.
And thanks for sharing your investigation, it is a very interesting read.
By the way, not only the Finder sees your newly created temporary mount point. When I start CCC at least 54 other processes notice the temp mount point with various queries. HardwareGrowler even reports on the mount/unmount of the Recovery HD.
The Mavericks Finder querying /private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.7LcYgG/private/tmp/com.bombich.ccc.<id>/.Trashes/501 does seem like a bug to me (looking for the trash folder in the wrong path, your mount point instead of /).
I'll let you know if I encounter any more issues.
By the way, I simply love CCC. Especially for its remote rsync capabilities. It's the only solution I could find to create a fully functional nightly copy of a running mail server. The biggest advantage over the more expensive Retrospect (which I use to make incremental backups of said copy of the mail server) is that when the backup is interrupted no data is lost.
Retrospect scans, then erases and then copies, and sets privileges afterwards. Totally unacceptable imho.
The only thing I would like to see added is the ability to edit scheduled tasks (instead of having to manually edit launchd plists when changing rsync exclusions for instance).
Ernst Mulder
On 12 nov. 2013, at 17:32, Mike Bombich <[email blocked]> wrote:
It's probably not really an issue, but the 3.5.4-b1 version does not delete previous com.bombich.ccc.XXXXXX folders still present in /private/tmp from previous runs of the older version.
Couldn't this cause the Finder/Delete issue for some users even after installing and using the new version?
On 12 nov. 2013, at 17:32, Mike Bombich <[email blocked]> wrote:
HardwareGrowler even reports on the mount/unmount of the Recovery HD.
Ah, I'd call that a configuration error on their part, unless it is their goal to alert the user to private mounts.
The only thing I would like to see added is the ability to edit scheduled tasks
Join the club :-) We're working on this for the next major release.
the 3.5.4-b1 version does not delete previous com.bombich.ccc.XXXXXX folders still present in /private/tmp from previous runs of the older version.
Correct, it only attempts to delete the mountpoint folder after it successfully unmounts the volume. Pasting "rmdir /tmp/com.bombich.*" into the Terminal will clear up the rest of them (as would rebooting).
Couldn't this cause the Finder/Delete issue for some users even after installing and using the new version?
I'm not sure, I couldn't seem to reproduce the issue once I had restarted the Finder once, I could only reproduce it after rebooting. And of course the old mountpoints are cleared out then...
Hello Mike,
Quick note on my experiences with 3.5.4-b1 so far.
Under certain circumstances version 3.5.4-b1 still leaves stale mount points behind in /private/tmp. Today I encountered the Finder/delete bug again and had multiple com.bombich.ccc.XXXXXX folders in /private/tmp.
My guess is that when you quickly quit CCC after launching it it does not delete its mount points and in some cases does not even unmount its mounted Recovery HD partitions.
Repeatable: Start CCC and quit it immediately whilst observing /private/tmp. The Recovery HD partitions are left mounted.
Repeatable: Start CCC and quit it almost immediately whilst observing /private/tmp. After the Recovery HD partitions stale com.bombich.ccc.XXXXXX mount points are left behind.
On 12 nov. 2013, at 18:10, Mike Bombich <[email blocked]> wrote:
Hi Ernst:
This scenario was a bit trickier, but I think I'm handling it as gracefully as possible in the attached build of CCC. If you quit immediately after opening CCC, the Recovery HD volumes will remain mounted. There's very little I can do about that without imposing a deliberate hang at application termination, and that would be messy. If you re-open CCC, though, it will now unmount any Recovery HD volumes that are mounted at the CCC-specific mountpoint. Also, upon quitting, CCC will remove any empty CCC-specific mountpoint folders in /tmp. Let me know how that works for you.
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I know its not their fault…but I felt so bad for Kotetsu!!
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And, I like Kotetsu, cats too. You know.
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Ever wonder why your vinyl pre-orders don't arrive on time? And why those delays only get further delayed? In our first Perspective, Editor in Chief Erik van Rheenen tackles those questions and more. In part one of our two part feature, PropertyOfZack reached out to top vinyl outlets such as Triple Crown, Topshelf, Paper + Plastick, Shop Radio Cast, American Dream, Animal Style to get to the bottom of Why Your Vinyl Is Not At Your Doorstep.
Even when stuck in traffic on a bustling Wednesday afternoon, Fred Feldman can't help but laugh when the subject of vinyl delays comes up.
"My favorite subject," the founder of Triple Crown Records says with an almost involuntary chuckle.
Fans know the feeling. Feldman knows the feeling. Heck, most label managers know the feeling. From albums getting pushed back a day or two to the now infamous elusive Mightier Than Sword Records Take Off Your Pants And Jacket pressing, vinyl delays have become a footnote in the recent renaissance of the format.
"Vinyl has exploded, and there's not a lot of new pressing plants setting up shop," explains Feldman. "We're really at the mercy of the plants."
Feldman loves vinyl. The renaissance of artwork the format spearheaded. The warmth that comes from having to sit down and pay attention while a record spins on a turntable. The intricacies of sound.
But manufacturing vinyl, he says, is a big investment. The risk/reward variable is tantamount. Triple Crown tries to battle delays by ensuring parts and masters arrive to the plant on time.
"Once you get a test pressing back, there's no guarantee it will work," he says. "Sometimes you have to tweak it two or three times to get the best master possible."
Thomas Nassiff, label manager for Paper + Plastick Records, half-jokingly considers himself an expert on the topic.
"We've had at least a partial vinyl delay for almost every release," he says. "In an ideal world, we'd be able to control everything and prevent that."
Nassiff is a vinyl collector. He's only been working at P+P for the last two years, but he's grasped the feeling from both sides of the coin, as a fan and, in the past year, as label manager.
"I hate waiting for records myself," he said. "Our Flatfoot 56 record has been delayed since its release date in July, and I'm still waiting for my copy. The second we get records in, we put everything on hold and get it out to people who preordered."
Paper + Plastick tinkers with creative packaging, but Nassiff refuses to make excuses for releasing albums on "some crazy color" causing delays. Some, if not most, problems are out of the label's hands: when Paper + Plastick pressed Anthony Raneri's EP, New Cathedrals, with coffee grounds, the plant sent 100 fewer records than expected.
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And yet, we've gotten to see Cap'n Jazz, Sunny Day Real Estate, Braid, Christie Front Drive, Penfold, and now Promise Ring reunite.
We receive questions every day asking how we feel about such-and-such band. Often the focus is on how we feel about their success. "How do you feel about ________ blowing up?" or "What does it mean that _______ style of music is so big right now?" etc.
I often refrain from answering those questions directly. Partly because not everyone likes their business in the street and I try to respect that. Also, I don't want to seem like I'm cutting anyone down by being realistic.
So here, I'm going to talk about "blowing up" in general terms and without naming bands.
No one is blowing up. The success people perceive is exactly that: Perception. It's usually a far cry from reality.
A few days ago, I went out to eat with a friend who works in music. His label has made a couple bands a lot of money. And when I say "a lot," I mean amounts that balance out to "per member salaries" putting them in an upper-middle class earning bracket. (Note: Those bands played "underground" shows but were never what any thinking person would consider bands tied to a subculture.)
"Everyone is jumping ship on pop-punk," he told me. "Every band people thought would hit has been a dud. It keeps labels lights on, but no one is breaking through to larger audiences."
He told me one current tour featuring some of the buzzier pop-punk acts has been doing 40% business on average. That means venues are half-full, which means guarantees are being paid out of pocket by promoters, which means the chances of those bands playing rooms that size again is nil.
And those are the bands people thought they could count on. The tour is underwritten by a large name in that style of music. One that is supposed to know the market.
If pop-punk isn't a sound investment, think about hardcore and punk and underground metal. Do you believe there is a hardcore band playing in 2011 capable of living adult lives off the money being made? There isn't. If you're 18, it's possible 15k seems like a lot to you. It's not. And the bulk of bands are making FAR less than that, gross.
And that word "gross" seems to be the thing no one understands. Net income, some bands do alright. But after the bills are paid, the take-home is terrible.
When fans see a band sell "a lot" (there's that word again) of merch, they don't seem to understand that merch isn't free. 1/3 of the money earned is going back to the merch company as payment.
When fans see a band "pack a room" they don't understand that the room has to be paid for by the promoter. 300 people (a funny number considering most "blowing up bands" are bringing fewer than 100) at $10 a head HAS NEVER equaled 3k in the band's pocket. Support acts are being paid out of that. Room and security is being paid out from that. Hospitality is being paid out from that. Promoter profit is being paid out from that. And while $1,000 as a final takeaway sounds awesome, I want you to think about 5 adults splitting that money. Then I want you to think about the fact that it's difficult to maintain that pace in any one country for more than 30 days as a headliner. Want to do a 60 day tour? You could ring the US three times during that period. Trust me, time number three will have significantly fewer humans than time number two.
So the band does support tours to put them in front of a new audience. That way they can continue touring the US without burning out their fans. But support acts make a fraction of what a headliner does. MANY support acts are chosen as a type of lowest-bid contracting. "Band _____ will do the tour for $100 a night," says the supporting act's booking agent. He/she is answered with, "Never heard of 'em. Price is right though," by the headliner's booking agent. So that (possible) $1,000 a band was walking away with as a headliner is now a tenth of that as a supporting band.
The idea of a band "getting really big" is usually the product of a narrow field of vision. If you only expose yourself to media (including messageboards and Tumblr pages) that reinforce your expectations, you'll come to believe they're absolute. I just went to the Wikipedia page "List of Cognitive Biases" and had a difficult time deciding which one this belief was tied to; it seems rooted in at least six. So-and-so band is huge? They sold 3,000 records. That means fewer people bought their product than went into the Delaware Ave CVS in Delmar, NY today.
You can spot a true idiot when he/she asserts that, "it's ok, because bands aren't supposed to care about money or popularity; they should be in it for the music." No shit. But the reality is that for a band to have instruments that transfer sound they need amps and both those things cost money. For bands to get to the shows they need a van and that van needs gas and both those things cost money. And that's just the things people think of. Forget a bandmember's personal bills, band debt, and a place to sleep when not on tour – ALL of which need to be hurdled before a band can consider itself a "functioning" act. And all of which need to be conquered before "blowing up" means anything other than, "Cool. This thing we do because we enjoy it has a few more people enjoying it. Neat, I guess, but as I was doing it for myself I only half care about that."
People love the idea that the artists they use and dispose of like tampons are sacrificing everything for that privilege.
I didn't intend for this to be another rant from a broke band about how music doesn't pay. The point is, WE ALL KNOW IT DOESN'T PAY. IT'S ANNOYING AS SHIT WHEN MUSIC FANS DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT FACT. And I don't say this for myself. No one accuses us of blowing up. I say this on behalf of my friends in bands that are "blowing up" who have to read on messageboards about how much money they make because they got a write-up in a music magazine with a readership 1/10 of what it was a decade ago. Or because a concentrated effort of 20 people on Tumblr have them looking like everyone talks about them. Meanwhile, these dudes are sleeping on each other's couches … in their moms' basements.
Naw, man. There isn't a single "blowing up" band in "underground." The ones doing the best are still on life-support with a ramen noodle IV drip.
[Edit: Misspoke on "gross" in initial post. Corrected.]
[Edit 2: Wrong "their." Holy shit.]
[Edit 3: Failure to pluralize "moms.'" I'm really bad at this.]
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Plugged in, not charging!
I have a HP Pavilion dv7-1130ed, 2,5 years old, running Windows 7 and I never had a problem until this morning.
It says that my laptop is plugged in, but not charging and the battery indicator light is flashing. It keeps flashing even if I try charging with the computer turned off (so I'm guessing it's not a software problem).
I checked the cord (computer works fine plugged in, without the battery), and the battery (runs fine on battery alone, also ran HP battery check - says it's OK, no need for calibration). The battery is at 96% right now.
Also, if I disconnect the AC and then connect it back, it will charge for a few minutes and then go back to not charging (with the flashing light).
I'm out of ideas. Can someone please help?
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That is why you are experiencing this. Don't worry. It is working just as it should. 2.5 years is a respectable time for a battery to have lasted. You have treated your battery well. I suggest that you run the calibration procedure.
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Re: Plugged in, not charging!
Thank you for the quick answer.
I'm kind of worried that I will let the battery discharge and then I won't be able to charge it back though...
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Will do. Thanks again
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I did the calibration procedure and my laptop still won't charge the battery.
I'm at 7%, plugged in, not charging.
What else can I try?
UPDATE: it charged up to 86%. It took less than one hour, so I think the battery is slowly dying on me...
Re: Plugged in, not charging!
I have a HP Pavilion dv7-1130ed Entertainment Notebook PC and I get the message "plugged in, not charging", the blue LED battry light is permanenltly off. If I remove the battery while the computer is running it keeps running. If I unplug the AC power the computer keeps running as the battery still holds a little bit of charge, but it is definetly not charging. Any ideas?


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I would dod the ciscos over micrsoft ones, I learnt all my Microsoft stuff with 'learn windows server in 24 hour' books If you show you ve worked in a microsoft environment for a year that'll be enough
I'm not entirely sure that even specialist certs matter, especially in an education environment. They may help but it depends on the particular employer, interviewer and how they see a particular qualification.
Thank you everyone for your interest and suggestions. I really appreciate it.
The money set aside is for MS Cert, I don't have a say over that, so I can't choose Cisco over MS.
With regards to managing, I am open to both Network Manager (preferred) or an ICT Manager with a more people oriented role. Eitherway I am sure Management courses would come in handy.
ahunter many of the vacancies I see around for Net Managers require the candidates to have MS Certs or equivalents maybe in terms of overall capability of the candidate the qualifications don't mean much but from what I've seen, people are still attached to paper proof of what one has studied. Don't you think? Also, I would prefer staying in a school environment, but I won't limit myself to it.
QQ. i know this might sound daft but the open university courses do they equate to a set level of learning like btec or degree. the only reason i ask is cus im intrested in one that has Level: Masters on it and i was wondering what level of qualification this would provide. i know none of you may know but i felt it worth asking.
There is no line you have to cross in terms of becoming a NM from a tecnicians role, what you have to prove at interview is the experience and knowledge to manage a network and also how you will cope with pupils and teachers, managing people does not normally come into it in a school environment as you often find the line manager is a member of smt or head of ICT for the NM and techies.
I went from a techy role at a big college to NM at a school with no real quals in IT. Spent my time as a NM getting some MS certs and then decided to go contracting. Was tough getting my first contract because business seem to have this stigma about educational/public sector jobs and the ability to cross over to the business sector, which I think is totally ungrounded.
In some schools the NM is the true manager, it does depend on your school. The strategy and direction might be decided by the SLT, but the network manager runs and controls it all. I went in to one of our schools last week to interview the NM and his Deputy head he links to. He has been in place for just over a year and it is good to see the trust and partnership that exists there. It is not unique within Northants, but it is not the norm either.
I'm sure there are many NM's involved in the overall ICT strategy of the school but we should not forget the primary role is to manage the technical issues involved in running a network and most senior techs will have that ability. I never wanted to get involved wirh the strategy side of things (although I was invited to the meetings normally after my working day so was not too enthusiastic) I saw my role as impelemting whatever they wanted and of course advise on the technical aspects of the strategy.In some schools the NM is the true manager, it does depend on your school. The strategy and direction might be decided by the SLT, but the network manager runs and controls it all.
In my book a NM is just that, they look after network, if you want someone to advise on ICT strategy I think that is a totally different role and does not require a high level of technical competence, but requires more understanding of teaching and learning and how to integrates it with technology. But I do understand that all schools are different and every smt will have their own idea what a NM is, including being expected to advise on strategy, but for me I found it boring and just prefer the techy side of things.
I'm sure if you look up the general job description of network manager it does not include the ability to be able to shape a business, that's more the line of a business analyst.
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But I know schools differ around the UK (and around the world ... I'd be interested to hear what US, AUS and NZ members think) and we have had similar discussions before around this ... in the early days of BSF folk talked about getting more involved in educational areas such as working with the VLE ... part of this was if you do get involved in the education side you have a closer relationship with your SLT (which you may or may not already have) and articles like this, which talk about taking back the keys, mean absolutely nothing because the SLT know where the keys are, know they can demand them if they wanted but are aware that they are best placed with you.
But some folk do not want to do this ... they want to be purely technical and be given the strategy ... but this comes with the risk that if you are in a school with no strategy then who knows what is going on, and so our friend at ISC has some very valid points about accountability, control and so on.
I see this article as a prod at SLT to get their act together ... remember who the target audience is.
Gibson335 (15th December 2011)
To a large extent the ICT strategy is outside the remit of the school and SMT, the strategy is implemented at government level. For instance the dictate that all schools should have a VLE by a certain date. Of course you can decide which VLE to adopt but the overall strategy has been formed above the schools level, the curriculum also dictates this strategy. I suppose their is room for maneuverability within the strategy but thats about all.
Ok yes as a NM or tech you can get involved in all sorts of activities outside of the remit of your role, as I did until I found it detrimental to the efficient running of the network, an example of this was when I was drafted in to support ICT lessons, whilst engaged in this there was a lot of unhappy teachers around the school that needed my services but was not available to support, SMT soon got the message!
Another example was that I ran the after school computer club and provided network games for the kids, they really enjoyed this, after all what 14 year old would not enjoy running around with a semi automatic killing their classmates, well SMT deemed this inappropriate, probably rightly so and decided to make it a homework club, I demanded a teacher be there as I had no idea what they are learning on a day to day basis, this was refused so I refused to keep the club open, it was on my own time after all.
What I'm trying to say is that as a NM your first duty is to maintain the network and the second to support teaching and learning but only when it involves technology. Getting involved in too many things outside of this will only degrade the network eventually.
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2011 has been a big year for J.R. Martinez, but it looks like 2012 may be even bigger. Earlier this year Martinez, 28, beat out Ricki Lake and Rob Kardashian to win Dancing with the Stars, and now he's receiving even more good news. Recently he learned that his girlfriend, Diana Gonzalez-Jones, is having a baby girl, People reports.
Martinez, an Army veteran who served in Iraq until 2003, said that adding one more female to the mix is fine by him. "God has a tremendous sense of humor that he wants to continue to surround me with women," Martinez said. "I was raised by a single mom so I think I'm sensitive to women. I just like spending time with women. I like to talk with women and listen to what they have to say."
Martinez and Gonzalez-Jones met in 2008 when he was on the now-canceled "All My Children" and she was working as an assistant to the show's executive producer. They are both very excited about the news. "2011 has been full of a lot of surprises and opportunities and ultimately, a lot of blessings," Martinez said. "Diana and I were just asking ourselves, 'How is 2012 going to top 2011?' Well, we have our answer!"
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Thank goodness it's Friday! To kick off the weekend, we're once again showing our Lookout authors some love. Check out the recent happenings that caught our eye:
The blog of the Antioch Review recently featured Edith Pearlman on how her short story "Decorum" (Fall 2013 issue) came into being.
Edith sat down with novelist Carrie Brown, on behalf of The Howard County Poetry and Literary Society of Columbia, MD, to talk about influential writers and how her past as a computer programmer "connects to the brevity and economy of her short stories." Take a few moments and watch the wonderful interview.
Benjamin Percy's novel Red Moon will be adapted into a FOX TV series. Academy Award-winning writer Akiva Goldsman and producer Ilene Staple are working to bring the story to life.
An excerpt from Maggie Shipstead's forthcoming novel, Astonish Me, is featured in the 2014 Spring/Summer edition of Buzz Books. The eBook collection includes forty exclusive pre-publication excerpts you can start reading right now, for free in the Kindle, Nook, iPad, and Kobo formats. We're excited to read a preview of Maggie's new novel, which comes out April 8!
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Introducing "What the Ax Forgets the Tree Remembers" by Edith Pearlman
I first read Edith Pearlman's "What the Ax Forgets the Tree Remembers" when considering it for the Abnormal Issue of Ecotone, in which it found its first home. I remember being excited by its boldness, made to feel uncomfortable at moments, and ready to fight for it to appear in the pages of the magazine.
At the time, I was twenty-three, in UNCW's MFA program, and feeling a little out of my league. I was also dating a woman for the first time, and coming to terms with my sexuality. Reading Pearlman's complicated characters felt almost essential to me, and the story's ending stayed with me long after—a piece of wisdom I've often returned to.
The story follows fifty-year-old Gabrielle on a path of self-discovery after she uncharacteristically volunteers for the local chapter of The Society Against Female Mutilation, an organization that hosts testimonial-driven seminars in church basements and hotel meeting rooms. A petite and attractive woman, Gabrielle "was without her high-heeled shoes only in the bath." Before her sudden philanthropy, her only responsibilities in life included her concierge job at The Devlin Hotel and the "half-crippled aunt back in Pittsburgh" she visits annually.
After two marriages, Gabrielle devotes her welcome single life to her looks; she bikes to work, dresses well, and maintains a stylish haircut. She's undergone a hysterectomy to do away with the "nuisance" of a period. But upon joining the Society Against Female Mutilation, Gabrielle finds herself truly helping others, maybe for the first time. Here she meets Selene, a woman who shares her testimony with the group, describing the pain of sex and childbirth after her ritualistic surgery, a procedure that her mother and her mother's mother underwent in Somalia when they were her age.
Selene's quiet and gracious presence affects Gabrielle. They become friends, and later, something more. Selene imparts the proverbs that become the story's threads, as well as its title, the very wisdom that perhaps helps Gabrielle when things begin to change.
Pearlman's description of the human body is precise and strange, and her characters equally so. Perhaps part of me liked Gabrielle's simple life from the beginning of the story; maybe I was envious of her straightforwardness. By the end, though—and each time I reread the story—I'm jealous of Pearlman's ability to create wholly Gabrielle's world. A master of the short story, she pulls me in again and again, and each time, I'm surprised and made uncomfortable, and I look for someone else I can show it to.
Sally J. Johnson,
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First Paragraph from "Alamo Plaza" by Brad Watson
"The road to the coast was a long, steamy corridor of leaves. Narrow bridges over brush-choked creeks. Our father drove, the windows down, wind whipping his thick black hair. Our mother's hair, abundant and auburn and long and wavy, she'd tried to tame beneath a pretty blue scarf. He wore a pair of black Ray-Bans. She wore prescription shades with the swept and pointed ends of the day. He whistled crooner songs and smoked Winstons, and early as it was, no one really talked."
—Brad Watson
Excerpted from "Alamo Plaza" from Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade. Copyright © 2014 by University of North Carolina Wilmington. Used by permission of Lookout Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Sunday Times Names Binocular Vision Fiction Book of the Year
Lookout Books would like to congratulate Edith Pearlman on her most recent success! The Sunday Times says:
"Pearlman's UK debut at the age of 76 is a dazzling revelation. Written over a 35-year span, the stories in this collection winningly exhibit her impressive breadth of subject matter. Conjured up with atmospheric flair, locations range from London during the Blitz to condominiums in present-day New England via postwar Paris, Latin America, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Jerusalem. Characters — frequently cosmopolitan — are correspondingly various, as are tone and mood, which modulate between ironic comedy and pathos. Rich in social detail, the stories are alive with psychological and emotional subtlety. Long delayed, their arrival here is a cause for celebration."
Be sure to check out the rest of the article to read more about Binocular Vision as well as the other Sunday Times picks.
As we begin to prepare for the upcoming AWP conference in Seattle, we just can't forget about Boston. In case you missed it, here's a highlight from the conference featuring Andre Dubus III and our very Edith Pearlman reading and discussing their work. Thanks to The PEN/Faulkner Podcast Series for making this available!
Check out the podcast and look for us in Seattle!
John Rybicki Begins North Carolina Book Tour
Lookout is proud to announce that poet and Lookout author John Rybicki will be heading out on a North Carolina tour this coming week. The tour, made possible with generous support from the North Carolina Arts Council, will include stops at oncology centers, a library, and a bookstore.
Planning this tour for John has been such a pleasure, and we are so excited about creating some new platforms for him to read his incredible work and to share his powerful messages of grief, hope, and healing.
(For the full tour details, including venue addresses, please go to http://www.lookout.org/Rybickireadings.html.)
Above: Tour kits sent to reading venues
On the evening of Sunday, April 7, John will be a guest on "That Cancer Show," which airs from 8 – 9 p.m. on WPTF 680 AM in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill and WSJS 600 AM in the Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point area. You can listen to the program on the "That Cancer Show" website: http://www.cancersupport4u.org/that-cancer-showtrade.html. "That Cancer Show" is a program from Cornucopia Cancer Support Center in Durham.
On Monday, April 8, John will be offering a 6 p.m. workshop/poetry discussion and 7 p.m. reading at the Morrison Regional Library in Charlotte.
John will stay in Charlotte for the night of Tuesday, April 9, too, with an appearance at Levine Cancer Institute. This reading and program will be focused on the healing arts, and nurses, doctors, patients, families, and anyone whose life has been impacted by cancer are encouraged to attend. (Like the other stops on the tour, this event is also open to the public.)
On Wednesday, John will head to the Triangle. On the evening of Wednesday, April 10, he'll be giving a reading at Cornucopia Cancer Support Center in Durham.
On Thursday, April 11, he'll be reading alongside former NC Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer and the poet John Amen at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill. Feel free to join the poets for an informal discussion at Foster's Market, next door to the bookstore, at 6 p.m. The official program at Flyleaf will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Each of the above events is open to the public. John's Lookout title, the poetry collection When All the World Is Old, is will be available for sale at each event, and you'll have the option to get your book signed.
John's tour will conclude on Saturday, April 13, when he gives a presentation at the North Carolina Writers' Network Conference at University of North Carolina Greensboro. Pre-registration is required for this event.
If you're able to attend any of these events, please let us know what you think. We can't wait for the tour to begin. Many thanks to the wonderful staff members at Morrison, Levine, Cornucopia, and Flyleaf for generously hosting us. See you on the road!


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Why the CineFestival's 34th edition isn't just for Chicanos
Published: February 22, 2012
"I think the best part of CineFestival is that we are not L.A. And we're not New York," said festival curator Jim Mendiola, who lives in Los Angeles but regularly comes back to San Antonio. "We may not be the biggest [festival], or the glitziest, but we are the oldest, and the only one that comes from a direct Chicano movement sensibility and history."
Yet, every year the festival has room for Latin American films (including Chile's Nostalgia for the Light and Uruguay's A Useful Life, screening at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, February 28) that, directly or indirectly, relate to the Chicano tradition of struggle and resistance the other side of chicanismo (the side that prefers the term Mexican American or, rather, American) ignores. CineFestival is the artistic equivalent of the Latino marches of the '60s and is well aware of the fact that many of the injustices of yesteryear are still present today. And today's struggle, just like yesterday's, affects people on both sides of the frontera.
"I like [late Brownsville author] Américo Paredes' terms for this area: Greater Mexico," Mendiola said. "We're on the border. We overlap. Culture is not cut and dried."
That's why showing Natalia Almada's El Velador (a documentary on the caretakers of Northern Mexico cemeteries where drug dealers rest, screening at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, February 29) or El Sicario, Room 164 (a first-person account on the life of a Mexican cartel hitman, screening at 7 p.m. on the same day) are so relevant to anyone living in San Antonio.
"We hear about the border violence every day on the news, facts and figures, but here with those two films we're offering a different way of exploring the issue of drug violence," said Mendiola. "And on a pop cultural level, look at a movie like Marimbas From Hell, which is a Guatemalan comedy about heavy metal. What is more San Antonio than that?"
The timing of CineFestival's movies are also getting better. The animated feature Chico and Rita is up for an Oscar this Sunday, and 2012 Best Narrative Film Mosquita and Mari comes to SA less than a month after it premiered at Sundance. Usually local audiences have to wait a year or more to see a well-received Sundance film, if the films come at all. All this is done with limited resources, which gives Mendiola hope: SA may not be able to have Sundance or Cannes, but perhaps there's another, more realistic alternative for CineFestival.
"I want it to be like [Colorado's] Telluride [Film Festival]," he said. "Again, not the biggest festival, but always one of the most interesting ones, one with a point of view."
Ultimately, the public doesn't care about budgets — all they want is good films, and there are enough of them at this year's CineFestival.
"We may not have millions of dollars, but what we do have is invaluable: a 34-year-long history of showing Latino movies and a public that appreciates the complex representations of themselves on the screen," Mendiola said. "[Those are] images they don't get in the mainstream media and at other film festivals." •
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