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IBM Migration Factory
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Well, I'm back from my exhausting trip in New York City.
I had to rub my eyes when I saw the headlines about [HP accusing Oracle] of harassing their new CEO with a [subpoena in Oracle's suit against HP]. One thing perhaps can be said about this circus -- it may be more preferable for Oracle to talk about than the continued decline of the hardware business that it [acquired from Sun Microsystems] earlier this year.
Each quarter since 2006, the [IBM Migration Factory] team has tallied the number of clients who have moved to IBM severs and storage systems from competitive hardware. We'll I've just seen the latest numbers, for the third quarter of 2010, and it looks like we set a new quarterly record with nearly 400 total migrations to IBM from Oracle/Sun and HP.
It's clear that companies and governments worldwide are seeing greater value in IBM systems, while Oracle and HP watch their customer bases erode. In just this past 3Q 2010, nearly 400 clients have moved over to IBM -- almost all of them from Oracle/Sun and HP. Of these, 286 clients migrated to IBM Power Systems, running AIX, Linux and IBM i operating systems, from competitors alone -- nearly 175 from Oracle/Sun and nearly 100 from HP. The number of migrations to IBM Power Systems through the first three quarters of 2010 is nearly 800, already exceeding the total for all of last year by more than 200.
Let's do the math.... Since IBM established its Migration Factory program in 2006, more than 4,500 clients have switched to IBM. More than 1,000 from Oracle/Sun and HP joined the exodus this year alone. In less than five years, almost 3,000 of these clients -- including more than 1,500 from Oracle/Sun and more than 1,000 from HP -- have chosen to run their businesses on IBM's Power Systems. That's more than a client per day making the move to IBM!
And as the servers go, so goes the storage. Clients are re-discovering IBM as a server and storage powerhouse, offering a strong portfolio in servers, disk and tape systems, and how synergies between servers and storage can provide them real business benefits.
Adding it all up, it's clear that IBM's multi-billion dollar investment in helping to build a smarter planet with workload-optimized systems is paying off -- and that, more and more, clients are selecting IBM over the competition to help them meet their business needs.
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Local IBM Tucson team recognized in Arizona Daily Star
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My colleagues, Harley Puckett (left) and Jack Arnold (right) were highlighted in today's Arizona Daily Star, our local newspaper, as part of an article on IBM's success and leadership in the IT storage industry. At 1400 employees here in Tucson, IBM is Southern Arizona's 36th largest employer.
Highlighted in the article:
Read the full article [IBMers Crank Out 4 New Offerings To Handle Data Deluge]
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VSPEX: EMC strikes back
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--- Charles Dudley Warner
In my September 2007 post [Supermarkets and Specialty Shops], I explain that there are two kinds of clients:
My how the IT landscape for vendors has evolved in just the past five years! Cisco starts to sell servers, and enters a "mini-mall" alliance with EMC and VMware to offer vBlock integrated stack of server, storage and switches with VMware as the software hypervisor. For those not familiar with the concept of mini-malls, these are typically rows of specialty shops. A shopper can park their car once, and do all their shopping from the various shops in the mini-mall. Not quite "one-stop" shopping of a supermarket, but tries to address the same need.
("Who do I call when it breaks?" -- The three companies formed a puppet company, the Virtual Computing Environment company, or VCE, to help answer that question!)
Among the many things IBM has learned in its 100+ years of experience, it is that clients want choices. Cisco figured this out also, and partnered with NetApp to offer the aptly-named FlexPod reference architecture. In effect, Cisco has two boyfriends, when she is with EMC, it is called a Vblock, and when she is with NetApp, it is called a FlexPod. I was lucky enough to find this graphic to help explain the three-way love triangle.
Did this move put a strain on the relationship between Cisco and EMC? Last month, EMC announced VSPEX, a FlexPod-like approach that provides a choice of servers, and some leeway for resellers to make choices to fit client needs better. Why limit yourself to Cisco servers, when IBM and HP servers are better? Is this an admission that Vblock has failed, and that VSPEX is the new way of doing things? No, I suspect it is just EMC's way to strike back at both Cisco and NetApp in what many are calling the "Stack Wars". (See [The Stack Wars have Begun!], [What is the Enterprise Stack?], or [The Fight for the Fully Virtualized Data Center] for more on this.)
(FTC Disclosure: I am both an employee and shareholder of IBM, so the U.S. Federal Trade Commission may consider this post a paid, celebrity endorsement of the IBM PureFlex system. IBM has working relationships with Cisco, NetApp, and Quantum. I was not paid to mention, nor have I any financial interest in, any of the other companies mentioned in this blog post. )
Chris Mellor and Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register have a great series of posts exploring this new development: [EMC VSPEX storage torpedo could sink FlexPods], [El Reg hurls EMC onto the rack, drills into VSPEX], [We were right: EMC's VSPEX will take on FlexPods], and [How EMC stuffs channel cakeholes with VSPEX recipes].
Last month, IBM announced its new PureSystems family, ushering in a [new era in computing]. I invite you all to check out the many "Paterns of Expertise" available at the [IBM PureSystems Centre]. This is like an "app store" for the data center, and what I feel truly differentiates IBM's offerings from the rest.
The trend is obvious. Clients who previously purchased from specialty shops are discovering the cost and complexity of building workable systems from piece-parts from separate vendors has proven expensive and challenging. IBM PureFlex™ systems eliminate a lot of the complexity and effort, but still offer plenty of flexibility, choice of server processor types, choice of server and storage hypervisors, and choice of various operating systems.
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Apples and Oranges
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On Wikibon, David Floyer has an article titled [SAS Drives Tier 1 to New Levels of Green] that focuses on the energy efficiency benefits of newer Serial-Attach SCSI (SAS) drives over older Fibre Channel (FC) drives. This makes sense, as R&D budgets have been spent on making newer technologies more "green".
Fellow blogger Hu Yoshida (HDS) encourages people to [Invest in the Future with SAS, SATA and SFF], referring to Figure 1.
Of course, people might consider this an [apples-to-oranges] comparison. Not only are we changing from FC to SAS technology, we are also changing from 3.5-inch drives to small form factor (SFF) 2.5-inch drives. It seems odd to specify 2000 drives, when only two of the five scale up to that level. Few systems in production, from any vendor, have more than 1000 drives, so it would have seemed that would have been a fairer comparison.
However, Hu's conclusion that the combination of SAS and SFF provides better performance and energy efficiency for both IBM DS8800 and HDS VSP than FC-based alternatives from any vendor seems reasonably supported by the data.
Meanwhile, fellow blogger David Merrill (HDS) pokes fun at IBM DS8800 in Figure 2 in his post [Winner o' the green]. This second comparison was for 4PB of raw capacity, which 4 of the 5 can handle easily using 2TB SATA drives, but the DS8800 is based on SAS technology and does not support 2TB SATA drives. A perf
The main take-away here is that IBM offers both the DS8700 for capacity-optimized workloads, and the DS8800 for perf
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Hu Yoshida should know better
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I am still wiping the coffee off my computer screen, inadvertently sprayed when I took a sip while reading HDS' uber-blogger Hu Yoshida's post on storage virtualization andvendor lock-in. This blog appears to be the text version of theirfunny video.
While most of the post is accurate and well-stated, two opinions particular caught my eye. I'll be nice and call them opinions, since these are blogs, and always subject to interpretation. I'll put quotes around them so that people will correctly relate these to Hu, and not me.
"Storage virtualization can only be done in a storage controller. Currently Hitachi is the only vendor to provide this."
Hu, I enjoy all of your blog entries, but you should know better. HDS is fairly new-comer to the storage virtualization arena, so since IBM has been doing this for decades, I will bring you and the rest of the readers up to speed. I am not starting a blog-fight, just want to provide some additional information for clients to consider when making choices in the marketplace.
First, let's clarify the terminology. I will use 'storage' in the broad sense, including anything that can hold 1's and 0's, including memory, spinning disk media, and plastic tape media. These all have different mechanisms and access methods, based on their physical geometry and characteristics. The concept of 'virtualization' is any technology that makes one set of resources look like another set of resources with more preferable characteristics, and this applies to storage as well as servers and networks. Finally, 'storage controller' is any device with the intelligence to talk to a server and handle its read and write requests.
Second, let's take a look at all the different flavors of storage virtualization that IBM has developed over the past 30 years.
So, bottom line, storage virtualization can, and has, been delivered in the operating system software, in the server's host bus adapter, inside SAN switches, and in storage controllers. It can be delivered anywhere in the path between application and physical media. Today, the two major vendors that provide disk virtualization "in the storage controller" are IBM and HDS, and the three major vendors that provide tape virtualization "in the storage controller" are IBM, Sun/STK, and EMC. All of these involve a mapping of logical to physical resources. Hitachi uses a one-for-one mapping, whereas IBM additionally offers more sophisticated mappings as well.
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IBM Announcements for February 2012
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Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means! IBM Announcements! Typically, IBM System Storage has three to five major product launches per year. Making announcements every Tuesday would have been two frequent, and having one big announcement every two or three years would be too far apart. Worldwide combined revenues for storage hardware and software grew double digits last year, comparing full-year 2011 to the prior 2010 year, and I am sure that 2012 will also be a good year for IBM as well! This week we have announcements for both disk and tape, but since 2012 is the 60th Diamond Anniversary for tape, I will start with tape systems first.
Well, that's the first major IBM System Storage launch of 2012. Let me know what you think in the comment section below.
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STORSever Enterprise Backup Appliances based on IBM hardware and Tivoli Storage Manager
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Recently, I spoke with Jarrett Potts, my long-time friend and former IBM colleague, who now works as Director of Strategic Marketing over at STORServer. If you have never heard of STORServer, it is a company that makes purpose-built backup appliances.
What is a Backup Appliance? It is an integrated solution of hardware and software that serves a single purpose: backup and recovery. STORServer Enterprise Backup Appliance (EBA) combines IBM's high-end x86 M4 server, IBM disk and tape storage, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup software.
(Fun Fact: The 2012 IBM year-end financial results were announced last month. IBM not only continues its #1 lead in servers overall, but has the #1 marketshare for high-end x86 servers, market-leading disk and tape storage hardware, and market leading backup software.)
To determine the appropriate size of your backup appliance, the folks at STORServer help you every step of the way. They figure out the number of TB you will backup every day, and even help configure all of the TSM server parameters to achieve the policies that make the most sense for your organization.
The appliance can backup every type of data, from databases and Virtual Machines (VMs) to documents, spreadsheets, and other unstructured data.
Are you then left with a solution too complicated to run yourself? No. The STORServer Console is an easy-to-use GUI for ongoing monitoring and maintenance. Plus, your friends at STORServer are only a phone call away in case you have any questions.
(FTC Disclosure: I work for IBM, and STORSever is an approved IBM Business Partner that uses IBM hardware and software to build their solution. I have no financial interest in STORServer, and was not paid by STORServer to mention their company or products on my blog. This post may be considered a celebrity endorsement of STORServer and its Enterprise Backup Appliances.)
Perhaps my readers feel that I am a bit biased in describing a TSM-based solution, and you want a second opinion. No worries, I understand. In the latest 165-page [2012 DCIG Backup Appliance Buyer's Guide], the STORServer models ranked very high. Here is an excerpt:
"Nowhere is this demand for purpose built appliances more evident than in the rise of purpose built backup appliances (PBBAs) over the last few years and their anticipated growth rate going forward. A recent market analysis performed by IDC found that worldwide PBBA revenue totaled $2.4 billion in 2011 which was a 42.4 percent increase over the prior year.
The STORServer is ideal for small and medium-sized business (SMB), but can scale quite large to handle business growth. If you are currently unhappy with your current backup environment, and feel now is the time to look around for a better way of taking backups, you won't go wrong choosing a solution based on IBM's market-leading server and storage hardware with Tivoli Storage Manager software.
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On Cirago Docking Stations, IBM RDX and LTO Long Term File System
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In my presentations in Australia and New Zealand, I mentioned that people were re-discovering the benefits of removable media. While floppy diskettes were convenient way of passing information from one person to another, they unfortunately did not have enough capacity. In today's world, you may need Gigabytes or Terabytes of re-writeable storage with a file system interface that can easily be passed from one person to another. In this post, I explore three options.
These three options offer various trade-offs in price, performance, security and convenience. Not surprisingly, tape continues to be the cheapest option.
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#IBMtechU IBM Storage University in Washington DC - Day 3 XIV Sessions
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Continuing coverage of my week in Washington DC for the annual [2010 System Storage Technical University], I attended several XIV sessions throughout the week. There were many XIV sessions. I could not attend all of them. Jack Arnold, one of my colleagues at the IBM Tucson Executive Briefing Center, often presents XIV to clients and Business Partners. He covered all the basics of XIV architecture, configuration, and features like snapshots and migration. Carlos Lizarralde presented "Solving VMware Challenges with XIV". Ola Mayer presented "XIV Active Data Migration and Disaster Recovery".
Here is my quick recap of two in particular that I attended:
Several members of the XIV team thanked me for my April 5th post [Double Drive Failure Debunked: XIV Two Years Later]. Since April 5th, IBM has sold more XIV units this quarter than any prior quarters. I am glad to have helped!
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Did You Miss IBM Pulse 2013?
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Did you miss IBM Pulse 2013 this week? I wasn't there either, having scheduled visits with clients in Washington DC this week, only to have those meetings cancelled due to the [U.S. sequestration cuts].
Fortunately, there are plenty of videos and materials to review from the event. Here's a [12-minute video] interview between Laura DuBois, Program VP of Storage for industry analyst firm [IDC], and fellow IBM executive Steve "Woj" Wojtowecz, VP of Tivoli Storage and Networking Software.
(Update: Apparently, IBM had not secured re-distribution rights from IDC to post this video prior to my blog post. IBM now has full permission to distribute. My apologies for any inconvenience last week.)
The two discuss client opportunities and requirements for storage clouds and compute clouds. Client cloud storage requirements include backup and archive clouds, file storage clouds, and storage that supports compute cloud environments.
On a related note, IBM has published a Redbook on its latest addition to the SmartCloud Storage family. I have added [IBM SmartCloud Storage Access V1.1 Configuration Cookbook] to the right panel for "Featured IBM Redbooks".
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#oow11 Oracle OpenWorld - Day 1
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I have arrived safely to San Francisco, and was able to check-in at the hotel, pick up my registration badge for Oracle OpenWorld 2011, and attend the first keynote session. This is the largest Oracle OpenWorld event to-date, with over 45,000 attendees from 117 different countries. There are 520,000 square feet of exhibition floor, and over 2,400 educational sessions. The conference is spread across the different buildings of the Moscone center, as well as nearby hotels. On average, attendees will walk seven miles during the week.
Larry Ellison was the keynote speaker for this first kick-off session. He focused almost exclusively on server and storage hardware. He feels that business is all about moving data, not doing integer math.
He also mentioned that Bob Shimp would kick-off the Cloud later in the week. Given that Larry himself thought that Cloud was a stupid, over-marketed term that nobody has deployed over the past few years, to a complete believer, claiming that over 20 live demos will be given this year on Cloud.
Perhaps the funniest quote was his motivation to use Infiniband as the interconnect
"Ethernet was invented by Xerox when I was a child."
Here are some sessions that IBM is featuring on Monday. Note the first two are Solution Spotlight sessions at the IBM Booth #1111 where I will be most of the time.
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#IBMtechU IBM Storage University in Washington DC - Day 5 Grid, SOA and Cloud Computing
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Continuing my coverage of the annual [2010 System Storage Technical University], I attended some sessions from the System x and Federal track side of this conference.
I find it amusing that server people limit themselves to server sessions, and storage people to storage sessions. Sometimes, you have to step "outside your comfort zone" and learn something new, something different. Open your eyes and look around a bit. You might just be surprised what you find.
(FTC note: I work for IBM. IBM considers Novell a strategic Linux partner. Novell did not provide me a copy of Platespin Recon, I have no experience using it, and I mention it only in context of the presentation made. IBM resells Avocent solutions, and we use LCM gear in the Tucson Executive Briefing Center.)
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Tony Pearson Joins the Quarter Century Club
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This Thursday, June 16, 2011, marks IBM's Centennial 100 year anniversary. It happens to also be my 25th anniversary with IBM Storage. To avoid conflicts in celebrations, we decided to celebrate my induction into the "Quarter Century Club" (QCC) last Friday instead.
My colleague Harley Puckett was master of ceremonies. Here he is presenting me with a memorial plaque and keychain. Harley mentioned a few facts about 1986, the year I started working for IBM. Ronald Reagan was the US President, gasoline cost only 93 cents per gallon, and the US National Debt was only 2 trillion US dollars!
Here are my colleagues from DFSMShsm. From left to right: Ninh Le, Henry Valenzuela, Shannon Gallaher, and Stan Kissinger. I started in 1986 as aa software developer on DFHSM, and slowly worked my way up to be a lead architect of DFSMS.
Here are my colleagues from Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). From left to right: Matt Anglin, Ken Hannigan and Mark Haye. I first met them when they worked in DFDSS, having moved from San Jose, CA down to Tucson. While I never worked on the TSM code itself, I did co-author some of the patents used in the product and other products like the 3494 Virtual Tape Server that makes use of TSM internally. I also traveled extensively to promote TSM, often with a TSM developer tagging along so they can learn the ropes about how to travel and make presentaitons.
Here are my colleagues from the disk team. From left to right: Joe Bacco, Carlos Pratt, Gary Albert, and Siebo Friesenborg. I worked on the SMI-S interface for the ESS 800 and DS8000 disk systems needed for the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. Joe leads the "Disk Magic" tools team. Carlos and I worked on qualifying the various disk products to run with Linux on System z host attachment. Gary Albert is the Business Line Executive (BLE) of Enterprise Disk. Siebo Friesenborg was a disk expert on performance and disaster recovery, but is now enjoying his retirement.
Here are my colleagues from the support team. From left to right: Max Smith, Dave Reed, and Greg McBride. I used to work in Level 2 Support for DFSMS with Max and Dave, carrying a pager and managing the queue on RETAIN. We had enough people so that each Level 2 only had to carry the pager two weeks per year. On Monday afternoons, the person with the pager would give it to the next person on the rotation. On Monday, September 10, 2001, I got the pager, and the following morning, it went off to help all the many clients affected by the September 11 tragedy.
I worked with Greg McBride when he was in DFSMS System Data Mover (SDM), and then again in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R), and now he is supporting IBM Scale-Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS).
Standing in the light blue striped shirt is Greg Van Hise, my first office-mate and mentor when I first joined IBM. He went on to be part of the elite "DFHSM 2.4.0" prima donna team, then move on to be an architect for Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
I wasn't limited to inviting just coworkers, I was also able to invite friends and family. Here are Monica, Richard, and my mother. Normally, my parents head south for the summer, but they postponed their flights so that they could participate in my QCC celebration.
From left to right: my father, Greg Tevis, and myself. It was pure coincidence that my father would wear a loud darkly patterned shirt like mine. Honestly, we did not plan this in advance. Greg Tevis and I were lead architects for the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, and Greg is now the Technology Strategist for the Tivoli Storage product line.
Here is Jack Arnold, fellow subject matter expert who works with me here at the Tucson Executive Briefing Center, sampling the food. We had quite the spread, including egg rolls, meatballs, luncheon meats, chicken strips, and fresh vegetables.
More colleagues from the Tucson Executive Briefing Center, from left to right, Joe Hayward, Lee Olguin, and Shelly Jost. Joe was a subject matter expert on Tape when I first joioned the EBC in 2007, but he has moved back to the Tape development/test team. Lee is our master "Gunny" sargeant to manage all of our briefing schedules. Shelly is our Client Support Manager, and was the one who organized all the food and preparations for this event!
Lastly, here are Brad Johns, myself, and Harley Puckett. Brad was my mentor for my years in Marketing, and has since retired from IBM and now works on his golf game. I would like to thank all of the Tucson EBC staff for pulling off such a great event, and all my coworkers, friends and family for coming out to celebrate this milestone in my career!
In addition to the plaque and keychain, Harley presented me with a book of congratulatory letters. If you would like to send a letter, it's not too late, contact Mysti Wood (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Time for a New Laptop
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My how time flies. This week marks my 24th anniversary working here at IBM. This would have escaped me completely, had I not gotten an email reminding me that it was time to get a new laptop. IBM manages these on a four-year depreciation schedule, and I received my current laptop back in June 2006, on my 20th anniversary.
When I first started at IBM, I was a developer on DFHSM for the MVS operating system, now called DFSMShsm on the z/OS operating system. We all had 3270 [dumb terminals], large cathode ray tubes affectionately known as "green screens", and all of our files were stored centrally on the mainframe. When Personal Computers (PC) were first deployed, I was assigned the job of deciding who got them when. We were getting 120 machines, in five batches of 24 systems each, spaced out over the next two years. I was assigned the job of recommending who should get a PC during the first batch, the second batch, and so on. I was concerned that everyone would want to be part of the first batch, so I put out a survey, asking questions on how familiar they were with personal computers, whether they owned one at home, were familiar with DOS or OS/2, and so on.
It was actually my last question that helped make the decision process easy:
How soon do you want a Personal Computer to replace your existing 3270 terminal?
I had five options, and roughly 24 respondents checked each one, making my job extremely easy. Ironically, once the early adopters of the first batch discovered that these PC could be used for more than just 3270 terminal emulation, many of the others wanted theirs sooner.
Back then, IBM employees resented any form of change. Many took their new PC, configured it to be a full-screen 3270 emulation screen, and continued to work much as they had before. My mentor, Jerry Pence, would print out his mails, and file the printed emails into hanging file folders in his desk credenza. He did not trust saving them on the mainframe, so he was certainly not going to trust storing them on his new PC. One employee used his PC as a door stop, claiming he will continue to use his 3270 terminal until they take it away from him.
Moving forward to 2006, I was one of the first in my building to get a ThinkPad T60. It was so new that many of the accessories were not yet available. It had Windows XP on a single-core 32-bit processor, 1GB RAM, and a huge 80GB disk drive. The built-in 1GbE Ethernet went unused for a while, as we had 16 Mbps Token Ring network.
I was the marketing strategist for IBM System Storage back then, and needed all this excess power and capacity to handle all my graphic-intense applications, like GIMP and Second Life.
Over the past four years, I made a few slight improvements. I partitioned the hard drive to dual-boot between Windows and Linux, and created a separate partition for my data that could be accessed from either OS. I increased the memory to 2GB and replaced the disk with a drive holding 120GB capacity.
A few years ago, IBM surprised us by deciding to support Windows, Linux and Mac OS computers. But actually it made a lot of sense. IBM's world-renown global services manages the help-desk support of over 500 other companies in addition to the 400,000 employees within IBM, so they already had to know how to handle these other operating systems. Now we can choose whichever we feel makes us more productive. Happy employees are more productive, of course. IBM's vision is that almost everything you need to do would be supported on all three OS platforms:
The irony here is that the world is switching back to thin clients, with data stored centrally. The popularity of Web 2.0 helped this along. People are using Google Docs or Microsoft OfficeOnline to eliminate having to store anything locally on their machines. This vision positions IBM employees well for emerging cloud-based offerings.
Sadly, we are not quite completely off Windows. Some of our Lotus Notes databases use Windows-only APIs to access our Siebel databases. I have encountered PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets that just don't render correctly in Lotus Symphony. And finally, some of our web-based applications work only in Internet Explorer! We use the outdated IE6 corporate-wide, which is enough reason to switch over to Firefox, Chrome or Opera browsers. I have to put special tags on my blog posts to suppress YouTube and other embedded objects that aren't supported on IE6.
So, this leaves me with two options: Get a Mac and run Windows on the side as a guest operating system, or get a ThinkPad to run Windows or Windows/Linux. I've opted for the latter, and put in my order for a ThinkPad 410 with a dual-core 64-bit i5 Intel processor, VT-capable to provide hardware-assistance for virtualization, 4GB of RAM, and a huge 320GB drive. It will come installed with Windows XP as one big C: drive, so it will be up to me to re-partition it into a Windows/Linux dual-boot and/or Windows and Linux running as guest OS machine.
(Full disclosure to make the FTC happy: This is not an endorsement for Microsoft or against Apple products. I have an Apple Mac Mini at home, as well as Windows and Linux machines. IBM and Apple have a business relationship, and IBM manufactures technology inside some of Apple's products. I own shares of Apple stock, I have friends and family that work for Microsoft that occasionally send me Microsoft-logo items, and I work for IBM.)
I have until the end of June to receive my new laptop, re-partition, re-install all my programs, reconfigure all my settings, and transfer over my data so that I can send my old ThinkPad T60 back. IBM will probably refurbish it and send it off to a deserving child in Africa.
If you have an old PC or laptop, please consider donating it to a child, school or charity in your area. To help out a deserving child in Africa or elsewhere, consider contributing to the [One Laptop Per Child] organization.
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A Box Full of Floppies
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The weather has warmed up here in Tucson so I started my Spring Cleaning early this year and unearthed from my garage a [Bankers Box] full of floppy diskettes.
IBM needed a way to send out small updates and patches for microcode of devices out in client locations. IBM had drives that could write information, and sent out "read-only" drives to the customer locations to receive these updates. These were flexible plastic circles with a magnetic coating, and placed inside a square paper sleeve. Imagine a floppy disk the size of a piece of standard paper. The 8-inch floppy fit conveniently in a manila envelope, sendable by standard mail, and could hold nearly 80KB of data.
I've been using floppies for the past thirty years. Here's some of my fondest memories:
So while this unexpected box of nostalgia derailed my efforts to clean out my garage this weekend, it did inspire me to try to get some of the old files off them and onto my PC hard drive. I have already retrieved some low-res photographs, some emails I sent out, and trip reports I wrote. While floppy diskettes were notorious for being unreliable, and this box of floppies has been in the heat and cold for many Arizonan summers and winters, I am amazed that I was able to read the data off most of them so far, all the way back to data written in 1989. While the data is readable, in most cases I can't render it into useful information. This brings up a few valuable lessons:
So what will I do with the floppies I can't read, can't write, and can't format? I think I will convert them into a [retro set of coasters], to protect my new living room furniture from hot and cold beverages.
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IBM high-end disk outsold HDS and HP combined
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This week, Hitachi Ltd. announced their next generation disk storage virtualization array, the Virtual Storage Platform, following on the success of its USP V line. It didn't take long for fellow blogger Chuck Hollis (EMC) to comment on this in his blog post [Hitachi's New VSP: Separating The Wheat From The Chaff]. Here are some excerpts:
Chuck implies that neither Hewlett-Packard (HP) nor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) as vendors provide any value-add from the box manufactured by Hitachi Ltd. so combines them into a single category. I suspect the HP and HDS folks might disagree with that opinion.
When I reminded Chuck that IBM was also a major player in the high-end disk space, his response included the following gem:
"Many of us in the storage industry believe that IBM currently does not field a competitive high-end storage platform. IDC market share numbers bear out this assertion, as you probably know."
While Chuck is certainly entitled to his own beliefs and opinions, believing the world is flat does not make it so. Certainly, I doubt IDC or any other market research firm has put out a survey asking "Do you think IBM offers a competitive high-end disk storage platform?" Of course, if Chuck is basing his opinion on anecdotal conversations with existing EMC customers, I can certainly see how he might have formed this misperception. However, IDC market share numbers don't support Chuck's assertion at all.
There is no industry-standard definition of what is a "high-end" or "enterprise-class" disk system. Some define high-end as having the option for mainframe attachment via ESCON and/or FICON protocol. Others might focus on features, functionality, scalability and high 99.999+ percent availability. Others insist high-end requires block-oriented protocols like FC and iSCSI, rather than file-based protocols like NAS and CIFS.
For the most demanding mission-critical mix of random and sequential workloads, IBM offers the [IBM System Storage DS8000 series] high-end disk system which connects to mainframes and distributed servers, via FCP and FICON attachment, and supports a variety of drive types and RAID levels. The features that HP and HDS are touting today for the VSP are already available on the IBM DS8000, including sub-LUN automatic tiering between Solid-State drives and spinning disk, called [Easy Tier], thin provisioning, wide striping, point-in-time copies, and long distance synchronous and asynchronous replication.
There are lots of analysts that track market share for the IT storage industry, but since Chuck mentions [IDC] specifically, I reviewed the most recent IDC data, published a few weeks ago in their "IDC Worldwide Quarter Disk Storage Tracker" for 2Q 2010, representing April 1 to June 30, 2010 sales. Just in case any of the rankings have changed over time, I also looked at the previous four quarters: 2Q 2009, 3Q 2009, 4Q 2009 and 1Q 2010.
(Note: IDC considers its analysis proprietary, out of respect for their business model I will not publish any of the actual facts and figures they have collected. If you would like to get any of the IDC data to form your own opinion, contact them directly.)
In the case of IDC, they divide the disk systems into three storage classes: entry-level, midrange and high-end. Their definition of "high-end" is external RAID-protected disk storage that sells for $250,000 USD or more, representing roughly 25 to 30 percent of the external disk storage market overall. Here are IDC's rankings of the four major players for high-end disk systems:
By either measure of market share, units (disk systems) or revenue (US dollars), IDC reports that IBM high-end disk outsold both HDS and HP combined. This has been true for the past five quarters. If a smaller start-up vendor has single digit percent market share, I could accept it being counted as part of Chuck's "occasional sideshow from other vendors trying to claim relevance", but IBM high-end disk has consistently had 20 to 30 percent market share over the past five quarters!
Not all of these high-end disk systems are connected to mainframes. According to IDC data, only about 15 to 25 percent of these boxes are counted under their "Mainframe" topology.
Chuck further writes:
"It's reasonable to expect IBM to sell a respectable amount of storage with their mainframes using a protocol of their own design -- although IBM's two competitors in this rather proprietary space (notably EMC and Hitachi) sell more together than does IBM."
The IDC data doesn't support that claim either, Chuck. By either measure of market share, units (disk systems) or revenue (US dollars), IDC reports that IBM disk for mainframes outsold all other vendors (including EMC, HDS, and HP) combined. And again, this has been true for the past five quarters. Here is the IDC ranking for mainframe disk storage:
IBM has over 50 percent market share in this case, primarily because IBM System Storage DS8000 is the industry leader in mainframe-related features and functions, and offers synergy with the rest of the z/Architecture stack.
So Chuck, I am not picking a fight with you or asking you to retract or correct your blog post. Your main theme, that the new VSP presents serious competition to EMC's VMAX high-end disk arrays, is certainly something I can agree with. Congratulations to HDS and HP for putting forth what looks like a viable alternative to EMC's VMAX.
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#IBMtechU IBM Storage University in Washington DC - Day 2 Green Data Center
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Continuing my week in Washington DC for the annual [2010 System Storage Technical University], I presented a session on Storage for the Green Data Center, and attended a System x session on Greening the Data Center. Since they were related, I thought I would cover both in this post.
It seems that Green IT initiatives are more important to the storage-oriented attendees than the x86-oriented folks. I suspect that is because many System x servers are deployed in small and medium businesses that do not have data centers, per se.
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Full Disk Encryption for Your Laptop
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I had an interesting query about my last blog post [Enterprise Systems are Security-Ready], basically asking me what I decided to do for Full-Disk Encryption (FDE) for my laptop.
Earlier this year, IBM mandated that every employee provided a laptop had to implement Full-Disk Encryption for their primary hard drive, and any other drive, internal or external, that contained sensitive information. An exception was granted to anyone who NEVER took their laptop out of the IBM building. At IBM Tucson, we have five buildings, so if you are in the habit of taking your laptop from one building to another, then encryption is required!
The need to secure the information on your laptop has existed ever since laptops were given to employees. In my blog post [Biggest Mistakes of 2006], I wrote the following:
"Laptops made the news this year in a variety of ways. #1 was exploding batteries, and #6 were the stolen laptops that exposed private personal information. Someone I know was listed in one of these stolen databases, so this last one hits close to home. Security is becoming a bigger issue now, and IBM was the first to deliver device-based encryption with the TS1120 enterprise tape drive."
Not surprisingly, IBM laptops are tracked and monitored. In my blog post [Using ILM to Save Trees], I wrote the following:
"Some assets might be declared a 'necessary evil' like laptops, but are tracked to the n'th degree to ensure they are not lost, stolen or taken out of the building. Other assets are declared "strategically important" but are readily discarded, or at least allowed to [walk out the door each evening]."
When it was [time for a new laptop] in 2010, I spent a week [re-partitioning the drive], [transfering files], [installing programs], [re-organizing my folders], and finally [testing my system]. It was dual-boot so that I could run either Windows or Linux, as needed, to demonstrate various software solutions at the IBM Tucson Executive Briefing Center.
Unfortunately, dual-boot environments won't cut it for Full-Disk Encryption. For Windows users, IBM has chosen Pretty Good Privacy [PGP]. For Linux users, IBM has chosen Linux Unified Key Setup [LUKS]. PGP doesn't work with Linux, and LUKS doesn't work with Windows.
For those of us who may need access to both Operating Systems, we have to choose. Select one as the primary OS, and run the other as a guest virtual machine. I opted for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as my primary, with LUKS encryption, and Linux KVM to run Windows as the guest.
I am not alone. While I chose the Linux method voluntarily, IBM has decided that 70,000 employees must also set up their systems this way, switching them from Windows to Linux by year end, but allowing them to run Windows as a KVM guest image if needed.
Let's take a look at the pros and cons:
In theory, I could have tried the Windows/PGP method for a few weeks, then gone through the entire process to switch over to Linux/LUKS, and then draw my comparisons that way. Instead, I just chose the Linux/LUKS method, and am happy with my decision.
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Eleven Answers about Deduplication from IBM
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Continuing my catch-up on past posts, Jon Toigo on his DrunkenData blog, posted a ["bleg"] for information aboutdeduplication. The responses come from the "who's who" of the storage industry, so I will provide IBM'sview. (Jon, as always, you have my permission to post this on your blog!)
Sorry, Jon, that it took so long to get back to you on this, but since IBM had just acquired Diligent when you posted, it took me a while to investigate and research all the answers.
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Hybrid, Solid State and the future of RAID
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Last week, in my posting on Toshiba's latest 1.8" drive, Robert Pearson asks:
You may not be the right person to ask but I am asking everyone so "How do you see hybrid disk drives?"
(For the record, I am not immediately related to Robert. At onepoint, "Pearson" was the 12th most common surname in the USA, but now doesn't even make the Top 100.)
Robert, I would like to encourage you and everyone else to ask questions, don't worry if I am the wrong person to ask, asprobably I know the right person within IBM. Some people have called me the "Kevin Bacon" of Storage,as I am often less than six degrees away from the right person, having worked in IBM Storage for over 20 years.
For those not familiar with hybrid drives, there is a good write-up in Wikipedia.
Unfortunately, most of the people I would consult on this question, such as those from Market Intelligence or Research, are on vacation for the holidays, so, Robert, I will have to rely on my trusted 78-card Tarot deck and answer you with a five-card throw.
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Friday, November 12, 2010
How we wuz den, dere, eh, Buster?
I'm guessing this photo is circa mid-1980s, judging from the fact that I have hair and there are two hair band guys above me.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
44th CMA Awards...
Rick and I are so proud of the fact that we were nominated this year for our song "Momma get off the stove, you're too old to ride the range". We wrote this song in 1975 after a night of listening to the Watermelon Mountain Jugband and my mother and her friend Eve had a few too many drinks. While at the 'after-party' at our house, mom was caught singing while standing on the stove. Eve just smiled and kept throwing beads at mom. Rick and I went out back to smoke a doobie......I was so embarrassed. Tragedy again leads to greatness.
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At our weekly department meeting, we take turns telling about what we do outside of work that's creative in nature. It was my turn today. I talked for about fifteen minutes about this blog. I created this cartoon especially for the PowerPoint presentation I used to help showcase stuff from my posts.
Excellent. The 'Artist of Note' looks familiar;-)


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The Korea National Enterprise for Clinical Trials (KoNECT) announced on January 15 that the U.S. had the most clinical trials in the world, taking up nearly 24.5 percent of the clinical trial protocol market share, after its analysis of the clinical trials registered with the U.S. National Institutes for Health's website ClinicalTrials.gov last year.
After the U.S., Germany came in second place with 5.3 percent, followed by the U.K. with 5 percent, Canada with 3.9 percent and China with 3.7 percent. South Korea ranked sixth in the world with a 3.5 percent market share, moving two notches up from the 8th at the previous year.
In particular, Seoul topped the list with the most clinical trials per city last year. It is meaningful in that the city shows a significant gap with Houston of the U.S., which took second place in the world.
Recently, the size of global clinical trials has been considerably falling due to a decrease in new drug candidates, a sharp increase in research and development investment costs caused by a loss of new drug development efficiency and stronger standards of clinical trials and new drug licenses by health authorities in each country. In fact, the number of global clinical trials went down 25.4 percent and 16.3 percent in 2016 and 2017 respectively, compared to the previous year.
However, the number of domestic clinical trials came to 658 in 2017, up nearly 31 percent from 2011. Its share in global clinical trials also grew from 3.41 percent in 2016 to 3.5 percent this year. The size of domestic clinical trials continues to show a rise from 503 in 2011 to 670 in 2012, 607 in 2013, 652 in 2014, 675 in 2015 and 628 in 2016.
Notably, the number of clinical trials led by multinational pharmaceuticals recorded at 248 in 2013, 285 in 2014, 296 in 2015 and 267 in 2016. In short, the domestic clinical trial market saw its global competitiveness grow. The number of clinical trials led by domestic pharmaceuticals over the same period stood at 248 in 2013, 285 in 2014, 296 in 2015 and 267 in 2016.
The number of global clinical trials in South Korea is increasing because of high quality of domestic medial institutions. Global pharmaceutical firms have been started conducting a clinical trial in South Korea from early 2000 in earnest.
Lim Young-suk, director of the Asan Medical Center's (AMC) Clinical Trial Center and professor in the Department of Gastroenterology, said, "Proving efficacy and safety of new drugs is the most important thing when global pharmaceutical companies carry out a clinical trial. It is also important to cut costs so they need medical institutions that can quickly register patients who are fit for the protocol of new drug development and quickly identify and deal with safety problems and then report them."
Seoul in South Korea satisfies such requirements. About 35 percent of cancer patients across the nation are registered in large medical institutions in Seoul. The city has a big pool of patients. Therefore, there are many doctors who provide high-quality medical services and have an excellent ability to solve problems. This is why Seoul is the city that has the most number of clinical trials in the world. In addition, there are risks for pharmaceutical firms to scrap new drug development itself by mistake of clinical trial institutions, not by side effects of new drugs, when medical institutions conduct a clinical trial but have a poor quality of services.
Lim said, "It is encouraging that the number of a phase 1b clinical trial which global pharmaceuticals commission only top medical institutions has been showing a significant growth especially after 2015. As domestic medical institutions are used to conduct global standard clinical trials of global pharmaceuticals, clinical trial infrastructure can be a tremendous advantage when domestic pharmaceuticals develop new drugs."
Ji Dong-hyun, CEO at the KoNECT, said, "South Korea puts up a good show in clinical trials. It means that the nation has proved its excellent clinical trial infrastructure and performance competency. As the government's support is beginning to show results, we need to improve the ability of clinical trial development of government, industry and academia, advance regulations and introduce incentive systems in order to help domestically developed new drugs conduct a phase III clinical trial as well.


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Here's a little preview of what is coming up next. I'm really having a blast on this one and can't wait to see the final result! – Andrew
I finally managed to complete a new personal project after a long stretch of work related art and other job projects. Check it out in the Illustration Gallery under the 'Personal Projects' section where I have changed the layouts of the pictures as well to give it a cleaner, more organized look (Paid Projects in Squares, Personal Projects in circles). I hope to start doing more of these projects to continue to up my skill as an artist and display my own personal growth while I continue to work on my Wicked Anime media project. Enjoy! – Andrew


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Ingredients for Campbell Chicken Rice Casserole Recipe
- 1 can Campbell's® Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup
- 1 cup water (for creamier rice, use 1 1/3 cups of water instead)
- 3/4 cup uncooked regular long-grain white rice
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves or thighs (about 1 pound)
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Place condensed soup in a 2-quart baking dish.
- Stir in rice, water, paprika, and black pepper until thoroughly mixed.
- Place chicken on top of mixture.
- Season with additional paprika and black pepper. Cover baking dish with aluminum foil.
- Bake for approximately 45 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through and the rice is tender.


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Many of our schools along with Fairlawn Local Schools collected food items to stock the store and help offset food costs and allow funds to go towards repairs!
Thanks to Chris North of Shelby County Veterans Services for asking Sidney City Schools to participate in a food drive, as well as collecting the items from each school and delivering them to Agape!
Thank you to our students, staff, and administration for their outstanding efforts in this food drive!


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Stir Fried Garlic Chives & Squid Recipe (Chinese Spicy Seafood Recipe)
Stir Fried Garlic Chives & Squid Recipe (Chinese Spicy Seafood Recipe)
Welcome to Xiao's Kitchen. My name is Xiao Wei, even at a early age I have always had a strong passion for Cooking. My family still live in northern Chinese, where I visit each year and pick-up new Asian/Chinese recipes.
300g Squid
300g Garlic Chives
1 Spring Onion
1 Red Chilli Pepper
5g Ginger
2 Cloves Garlic
1 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce
1 Tbsp Sweet Bean Sauce
1 Tbsp Sesame Oil
Salt to Taste
1. Cut the chives into 1 inch in length
2. Finely chop the red chilli, spring onion, ginger and garlic
3. Place one squid flat on a chopping board
4. Make fine cross cuts on the surface of each squid with your knife at 45 degree angle – be very careful not to cut all the way through
5. Repeat with the rest of the squid
6. Boil 1 litre of water in the pan, add the squid into the pan for 1 minute or till they curls
7. Removed from pan and drain – cut squid into half if they are big squid
8. Heat 1 Tbsp of oil in a wok on highest setting, add chilli, spring onion, ginger and garlic, stir fry for a few seconds
9. Add the squid and stir fry for few seconds
10. Add the sweet bean sauce, soy sauce and stir fry for a few seconds
11. Add the chives and stir fry for few seconds then pinch of salt
12. Add sesame oil and stir
13. Remove from wok, serve and enjoy
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Every time I read a book by Lisa Henry I remind myself I have to read more books by Lisa Henry.
And I always fail in my purpose.
Because I always end up reading one book per year, and at this pace I will never finish her record.
Which is a pity.
I was a little scared when I found out Dark Space would have a sequel. The first book stands by itself and doesn't need second parts. I also feared this second part would stretch out the story a little too much until it broke by simple wear and tear. I was afraid the main characters would no longer have the magic they had had and that it would somehow stain the precious memories I hold of the book.
I have the pleasure to announce I was wrong.
I have to tell you why I went on reading M/M. The first book is not a mystery. Someone gives a good opinion about a homosexual book or you go for it yourself out of simple curiousity. The heart of the matter is not the first book but why you decided to continue. I decided to continue because I felt I never got to know the male character in the heterosexual relationship. The heroine was usually the only POV you could see, and that was ok. But what about him? Why had he to be so mercurial and secretive and hermetic and apparently made of stone and full of masculinity and bullshit? Don't men have insecurities and fears and doubts and longings, too? Why are they so bidimensional and heroic and always save the day with no real conflicts beneath and no weakness to be seen?
When I read that first M/M book, it was a revelation.
Girls used to tell me they read heterosexual books because they wanted to feel identified with the heroine, they wanted to be the heroine. But I never did. Some aspects, yes, but Iwasn't her and didn't want to. I feel identified with the emotion, not with the character himself. That's what I look for in my readings, I try to chase the emotion and sometimes I find it and I can write poems about real happiness.
And I've found it all in spades in the M/M. Being inside a man's head and getting to know him through and throught. Or so I hope. And feeling identified with the emotion at the same time. Oh yes! That's magic to me.
I loved being in Brady's head.
His neverending anger and hate towards everything and everybody in the universe hasn't faded with time. In fact it gnaws at him at every chance destiny manages to play a dirty trick at him. This involves into all this vulnerability he doesn't know how to handle that threatens to drag him into a bottomless pit: all his doubts, his fears, his longings, the beliefs that he is not enough no matter how hard he tries. He's not enough for Cam, his everything, and he's not enough for Lucy, his light. The consequent apathy this creates leads, finally, to belligerance and sarcasm, in a coping mechanism that usually gets him into trouble. Which is generally referred to as "anger management issues" or "insubordination issues".
I was utterly enchanted by him.
And Cam is as well. Cam sees throught all this baggage and bullshit and sees pure beauty. A rough diamond nobody cared enough (or simple couldn't) to smooth out in order for it to shine in all its splendour. But Cam saw it in the black, the place where Brady is at his worst. The black that threatens to shallow it all. The black where the Faceless come from.
Cam loves the black. Brady is afraid of the black. But somehow, they understand each other, and they right together. Above all when it's them both against the universe. The rest of the time, Brady is not that sure. The world gets in the way and he is thrown off his balance, back to square one.
Their bond is still stronger, in spite of all the doubts and the apparently useless attempts to follow a "normal" life. Even though they are no longer in each other's heads, they are connected. Until they are truly connected. This can only mean one thing: the Faceless are coming back. And that creeps Brady out. But he comes to the conclusion that, as long as he has Cam and Lucy safe and at his side, there is really nothing more he can ask for.
If I had to sum up the book in a few words I'd finish soon. But the events per se weren't that important.
Because this book is more about the inside than about the outside. It's ironic that the inner thoughts and emotions are the main part of the plot when we are talking about a sci-fi book, with spaceships and the vast universe and all that paraphernalia. I love it when in a book there is the least possible interference. If I have to choose between a action-packed book and an intimist one, I'd choose the last one. Within certain limits, I'm not asking for philosophical Kant, either. I reveal in being into somebody's head and heart, more than which are the events that maneuver the characters.
However, here I loved to pieces the events that take place. When the Faceless get closer and closer, when Lucy plays an essential role, when Kai-Ren's amazement and curiosity pushes him into a position that arises questions and wonders and makes you see everything in a different light. When Brady evolves and changes and shows what he's truly made of. Of starlight and braveness and love.
I only wanted to melt and blend into the book, just to be in sync with Cam and Brady's hearts. In more than one sense of the word. And I still want to.
"they shall be ash, but ash that is aware
dust they shall be, but dust in love"
Love Constant Beyond Death - Francisco de Quevedo
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A new measurement of the velocity of electromagnetic radiation is described. The result has been obtained, using micro-waves at a frequency of 24005 Mc/s (λ = 1∙25 cm), with a form of interferometer which enables the free-space wave-length to be evaluated. Since the micro-wave frequency can also be ascertained, phase velocity is calculated from the product of frequency and wave-length. The most important aspect of the experiment is the application to the measured wave-length of a correction which arises from diffraction of the micro-wave beam. This correction is new to interferometry and is discussed in detail. The result obtained for the velocity, reduced to vacuum conditions, is c0 = 299792∙6 ± 0∙7 km/s.
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Novels. Collects three heartwarming Christmas tales by a bestselling writer of Amish romance. A year of secrets and scandal threaten the Peace in one tightly-knit community. Then, the promise of love is sparked by a Christmas in Sugarcreek. Finally, travelers and inn employees learn a lesson in Grace when a snowstorm traps them all. 793 pages in three volumes, slipcased.
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I want to start by saying that this is not at all meant to be offensive. I do not judge anyone involved in the events to be mentioned and I think that what occurred is absolutely tragic.
Natalee Holloway. Who doesn't know her name? Laci Peterson. Audrey Seiler. I could go on forever. All of these ladies (minus Seiler, who I'm pretty sure kidnapped herself?) were victims of tragic events. Mostly, I'd like to focus on Natalee Holloway.
Young girl goes on trip to Aruba and disappears. Sad. Sixteen months of continuous coverage. Necessary? Maybe. Fair? Absolutely not.
Natalee Holloway got the media coverage she did because she was rich, white, and american. Which demographic has the highest number of missing persons? African American young males.
I can remember one story about missing african american males. Those two little kids in Zion, Illinois. Remember the Runaway Bride? She got coverage for about seven months. The woman kidnapped herself.
Natalee Holloway has a lifetime movie. The news can't even devote five minutes to the countless men reported missing. The lifetime movie is all about the struggles of Holloway's mother and how strong she is. Do other missing persons' mothers somehow miss them less? Struggle less?
I choose not to blame news media. It's the fault of viewers. Why are we so obsessed with people's looks and status' here? Would Holloway have gotten as much coverage if she wasn't pretty? White? Rich? If you argue no, why don't any young men who've grown up in an apartment in south side chicago get coverage?
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Confidence in God 1a
In this V Paul, under the inspiration of the HS, is saying that everything that can be shaken will be shaken. Listen to how the NIV words it, (Hebrews 12:26-28) "At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens." (27) The words "once more" indicate the removing of what can be shaken -- that is, created things -- so that what cannot be shaken may remain. (28) Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe." (NIV)
We need to put our trust, our confidence, and our security in what can not be shaken, putting our confidence in what will endure.
A) The Bible says that the Word of God will endure forever.
1) In (HEB 12:26 & 27) He's saying that everything that can be shaken will be shaken.
(a) We can expect a shaking or a storm from time to time, but the question is will you be moved?
(b) When that shaking goes on, stay put on that firm foundation.
(c) Don't be moved by a shaking or a storm.
1) Jesus is our sure foundation.
2) Turn with me to ISA 28:16
(a) Listen to it from the NIV translation, (Isaiah 28:16) "So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.'" NIV
(i) This is a reference to the Lord Jesus Christ.
3) (Ephesians 2:19-20) Says, "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone." KJV
(a) Jesus is our SURE FOUNDATION and our lives need to be built upon that foundation.
4) How do you build upon that sure foundation?
(a) Back in (ISA 28:16 here) the KJV says, "BELIEVETH," the NIV says, "The 1 who "TRUST" will never be DISMAYED."
(b) You build your life on that sure foundation by PLACING your TRUST in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His Word, IF YOU DO YOU WILL NEVER BE DISMAYED.
C) Back in (MATT 7:24-27) where the man that built His house on a rock was a man that built his life on the Word of God.
1) He heard the Word, he was a doer of the Word, but He also had to believe the Word.
2) When the storms of life came, when there was a shaking that came, he had a sure foundation.
(a) The Bible says that Jesus is that precious cornerstone, that sure foundation.
(b) This sure foundation is Jesus, but it's also the Word of God.
(c) (JOHN 1:14) Says, "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth."
3) The man in (MATT 7:27) that built his house on the sand (a week foundation) heard the same words, but was not a doer of the Word, and apparently didn't put his faith in those words.
(a) We need to have our confidence in the Word of God, which is our sure foundation.
1) Here again we see that the Word of God will endure forever. It will never pass away. (Isa 40:8)
(a) The Word of God is not one of those created things that we were talking about from (HEB 12:27 NIV) it is one of the eternal things that will not be shaken. (Never a beginning or an end it always was and always will be.)
(b) Put your confidence in what will endure. Put your confidence in what God says in His Word. When you do, when the storms come, you will not be moved.
II) Definition of CONFIDENCE
A) FAITH, BELIEF, RELIANCE, TRUST, or ASSURANCE in someone.
1) Our confidence is not to be in things or in someone else, because they will let you down. Our confidence has to be in God and in His Word.
III) In order for you to gain someone's confidence, it's going to take time; it doesn't just happen over night. It takes time to build confidence.
1) How would you build confidence in anyone?
(a) GET TO KNOW THEM.
(a) Paul said, "For I know whom I have believed." (The NIV adds "And am convinced").
(b) As you get to know Him you too will be convinced or confident in Him.
(c) In referring to Abraham the Lord said in (GEN 18:19), "For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him."
(i) You have to get to know someone to have confidence in them.
B) What else builds confidence in God?
1) TO KNOW the POWER IN the BLOOD OF JESUS.
(a) Of course, (REV 12:11) says, "And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb."
(a) The NIV says, (Hebrews 10:19) "Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus. NIV
(i) We have confidence because of the blood of Jesus.
(b) The only way that we could enter into the Holy of Holies is by the blood of Jesus.
(i) The only way we could come to God is through the blood of Jesus.
3) (1JOHN 1:7) Says, "If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."
(a) It all comes down to the Blood of Jesus that has cleansed us from sin.
(b) (EPH 2:13) Says, "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ."
(c) (HEB 9:14) Says, "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"
(i) To have that confidence in God you have to know that there is power in the Blood.
C) The way that you build confidence in God is 1st to know Him, 2nd To know the power that is in the Blood of Jesus and the 3rd is to KNOW HIS WILL.
1) (1JOHN 5:14-15) Says, "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, he heareth us: (15) And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him."
2) For us to have this confidence that we're talking about it's essential to know God's will & His commandments.
IV) What are some of the things that we can have confidence in?
1) (1JOHN 2:17) Says, "He that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."
B) # 2 That God will SUPPLY ALL YOUR NEEDS.
1) (PHIL 4:19) Says, "My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."
C) # 3 That God will WORK OUT ALL THINGS FOR GOOD.
1) (ROM 8:28) Says, "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to {his} purpose."
D) And # 4 God will DO WHAT HE PROMISES.
(a) Whatever God says, He will hasten to perform it.
(a) When that storm comes or that shaking, keep your confidence in God and in His Word and you will not be moved, firmly fixed on that sure foundation.
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The son of a woman serving 16 years in prison for stabbing a man to death is on trial on the allegation he was among three young men who aided her by beating the victim.
Deangelo Jones, 25, is charged with second-degree murder for the November 2013 death of James E. Williams, 33, who was beaten and stabbed outside of a south Clinton Township townhouse.
His mother, Belinda Jones, 48, was convicted of second-degree murder in 2015 following a trial in Macomb County Circuit Court, and was sentenced to 16 to 35 years in prison.
Circuit Court Judge James Maceroni dismissed the charges against Deangelo Jones and two co-defendants in 2015. But the state Court of Appeals reinstated the charges in September 2016.
Subsequently, two co-defendants accepted plea deals. Marquis Oneal, 30, and Donald Roberts, 25, both of Detroit, both pleaded no contest to the reduced charge, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Oneal was sentenced last May to time-served, one year in jail and two years probation. Roberts also was sentenced to time-served, 19 months, but also is serving eight to 22 years for convictions of carjacking, assault with a dangerous weapon and felony firearm for a June 2015 incident in Wayne County, according to Michigan Department of Corrections records.
Deangelo Jones turned down a similar plea deal in which he would have pleaded to the same assault-less-than-murder charge, and, under a deal with the judge, receive a six-month jail term, said his attorney, Azhar Sheikh.
His trial begin Wednesday.
On Thursday, Caroline Henry, 64, a neighbor in the complex Jones lived in off 15 Mile Road east of Gratiot Avenue, testified she saw the victim, Williams, approaching Belinda Jones� residence carrying a white stick, yelling he had been robbed moments before at about 11:30 p.m. Nov. 16, 2013. She said she had heard people arguing among about 10 minutes earlier.
Henry said Belinda Jones told Williams from her porch, �No one robbed you, sir.�
Henry went on to say she saw Jones, who was known as �poopie� in the neighborhood, exit a car parked in an adjacent parking lot, remove his shirt and tackle Williams from behind in front of Jones� mother�s townhouse. Deangelo Jones was among several males participating in the fray.
�(It was) more like a football tackle,� Henry said in court. �He (Jones) swung at him and then they both fell behind the bushes. Another guy started fighting. All together, there were five of them: hitting, punching, kicking.�
She added she heard a �pole hitting flesh,� and said she thought, �They�re going to kill him.�
Williams couldn�t fight back or escape, she said, because, �There were too many on top beating him up. �It was just a beat down to me.�
Williams� wife came onto the scene and said, �Why are you all beating on him? Y�all robbed him.�
Henry said the beating took place for 15 minutes. Williams was able to stand up and walk away but, �When he got to the fire hydrant by my house, he fell over. He said, �They stabbed me.��
Williams, who was transported by ambulance to a hospital, died three weeks later after he was removed from life-support.
Testimony from the prior trial revealed Belinda Jones came down from her porch and stabbed Williams seven times during the melee.
Henry said she did not see Belinda Jones leave her porch but said she was focusing on Williams during the beating and was so nervous she couldn�t get her phone to work to call 911.
Attorney Joe Kosmala, who represented Roberts, previously argued the defendants didn�t know Belinda Jones would stab Williams.
�How do they know this possibility exists until it happens?� Kosmala said in 2016.
The trial is scheduled to continue Friday.


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By Mason.
Im so hot
I'm so hot it's like flames. All i see is flames and fire and that old old sky over there.I
smell the hot burning air. It feels like I'm in a hot pool. I fall to the ground.
By Sophia.