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Since my family and I live so far apart, I cherish my time with them and always try to make the most of it. This includes fattening them up by cooking dinner and baking goodies and hugging them until they can't breathe. But, making a mess in their kitchens is the most fun part. As long as it's delicious, no one ever has a problem cleaning up!
One of the meals I like to cook most, though, is breakfast, since I rarely do at home (hubby usually takes over). I made a frittata similar to this for my mom last summer, served it alongside some toast and tea, and we gobbled it up like it was our last meal. Ever since, I've been enamored with frittatas and how simple, quick and delicious they are for a lazy breakfast, brunch or lunch.
I recently made this frittata with some chopped up leftover Easter ham, a few leaves of basil, and a little red onion – use what you have on hand, though. Grilled chicken, chopped tomatoes and spinach are some of my other favorite add-ins. You could also use sausage, asparagus, potatoes, or anything else you have on hand. Feel free to get creative!
All you do is simply sauté your meat and/or veggies for a few minutes, add in whatever herbs you like, season them a little and pour in a couple of whisked eggs. Stick the whole pan in the oven for 10 minutes, make your toast, pour your tea, and breakfast is served!
When my family visits me in our new house this spring, I can't wait to make a hearty, delicious breakfast for them like this easy country frittata. It's a wonderful, warm meal to wake up to that doesn't take more than 10 minutes and will keep everyone full and energized 'til dinner!
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Country Frittata with Ham, Cheddar and Basil
1 tsp. extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 red onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup diced, cooked ham
6 fresh basil leaves
Salt and pepper
6 eggs
1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Gently whisk eggs in a medium bowl and set aside. Chiffonade basil and set aside.
In a high-sided ovenproof pan, heat olive oil on medium. Once oil is hot, add chopped red onion and cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Add ham and cook for 1 minute. Add basil. Add salt and pepper to taste, and stir to combine.
Remove pan from heat and pour in whisked eggs. Place pan in the oven and bake for 12-14 minutes, or until the eggs are fully cooked. Remove from oven, loosen the sides with a knife and place whole frittata onto a cutting board or plate.
Top with cheddar cheese, slice into wedges and serve immediately.


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A Tale of Two Ecosystems: Amazon Instant Video for iPhone Marks Best of Times
Dec 17, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Amazon Instant Video, an app from AMZN Mobile, is available for free at the iTunes App Store.
Back in August, Amazon released Amazon Instant Video, an app for the iPad that lets you stream or watch downloaded movies and TV shows you access via an account with Amazon. Now the company has extended that app to the iPhone and the iPod touch, which is fantastic for iPhone- or iPod-packing Amazon-using customers.
Of course, I'm one of those customers.
In fact, I'm a member of Amazon Prime, which for US$79 a year, gives me fast and cheap shipping options on physical items I buy from Amazon, as well as access to a Netflix-like video streaming service that's -- sort of -- free.
Basically, with Amazon Prime you can stream thousands of B movies, as well as some older movie hits, plus lots of TV shows from seasons past. You'll have to pay an extra charge to rent or buy newer videos from Amazon. Still, the point is this: If you're an Amazon Prime customer, Amazon Instant Video is an app you'll likely want on your iPhone.
How It Works
Like the iPad version, which I reviewed in August, the iPhone version is dirt-simple: You can browse through features movies, TV shows and documentaries by flicking through different horizontal categories that are vertically stacked. You can search.
You can go straight to your Watchlist, which is a list of content you can create on any Amazon-connected Prime system. You can add items to your Watchlist from your Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, from a Web browser, from your Kindle Fire or from your iPad. It's all tied together by the apps and your account.
Best yet, Amazon's Whispersync system automatically keeps track of what videos you are watching, and when you stop watching, it keeps track of your spot. So, if I start a movie on my HDTV via my Xbox 360, I can pick up where I left off on my iPhone when I'm out and about.
Nice. Very nice.
Of course, there's a limitation: Amazon Instant Video only works over WiFi. It doesn't matter how fast your cellular service is or how large your data plan is -- you can't watch streaming video unless it's over WiFi. That's a bummer, of course, mostly for those of us who still have the so-called unlimited data plans.
If you buy or rent a movie and download it to your device in advance of leaving WiFi connectivity, you can watch those videos anytime. So that's a good backup plan if you're traveling. Still, I tend to buy and rent from Apple . . . and stream from Amazon.
The Big Annoying Limitation: No AirPlay Support
As of right now, Amazon Instant Video does not support AirPlay, so that means you can't queue up a video on your iPhone and then push it out to your HDTV-connected Apple TV. Since I have an Xbox 360, this isn't a big deal, because it's still possible for me to view Amazon Prime content on my HDTV. More to the point, the glaring app that's missing now for Amazon Prime video watchers is an app on the Apple TV itself -- like Netflix -- which is what I'd like to see.
What I find most interesting about this app is that it's available from Apple . . . when Amazon is turning into one of the company's biggest and most threatening competitors. Netflix doesn't make tablets -- Amazon does. Netflix doesn't sell e-books -- Amazon does.
Netflix doesn't really have a whole ecosystem, while the Amazon ecosystem is encroaching into Appleland by leaps and bounds. And it's this ecosystem -- this attempt to train consumers to think of Amazon first when it comes to content -- that is the catalyst that got us the Amazon Instant Video app on iOS in the first place. I'm still surprised that Apple let it in, but quite happy Apple did.
What About Playability?
Overall, like most streaming video apps, the snappiness and playability suffers from poor WiFi connections. If your service isn't fast, or if there's something upstream you can't see or imagine, it might take a while to open up a video to watch it. It may pause. Or you might lose your WiFi connection and have to restart the video.
This is why, when I can afford it and want to watch content more than once, I buy it. But sometimes I can't afford, say, all the seasons of 24, so I'll muddle through connectivity in order to watch Jack Bauer do his thing from season to season.
In fact, I experienced three errors right away while attempting to use this new iPhone app version. The first? I tried to watch The Expendables, but the movie wouldn't load. I got a pop-up window that said, "An error has occurred while obtaining a license to play this video. Please try again." I tried again. Same error. I moved on to Into the Wild. Same error came up.
to find something off the radar of most of the new iPhone-using customers that were perhaps hitting all the Amazon content hard with this new release, I tried Phineas and Ferb . . . and got generic playback problem error. I tried Dora the Explorer next and then started finding content available to stream. And a few hours later, I was able to get The Expendables to play without hesitation.
Great Interface
All-in-all, the interface is dark, slick, polished and highly visual based on movie and TV show art. It's snappy and looks fantastic. Most importantly, I appreciate this new device option for viewing my Amazon content. So thanks, Amazon, for updating the app to support the iPhone. And Apple, I appreciate the consumer-friendly approval of Amazon's app.


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President's Column
Whats So Special About Special Interest Groups in ASIST?
by Trudi Bellardo Hahn
The Special Interest Groups (SIGs) were first formed in 1966 37 years ago! Their goal, as Barbara Flood described it for the Bulletin in 1988 (v. 14 (5): 42) is to provide forums for the formal and informal exchange of ideas among individuals who shared common concerns in the emerging field of information science.
The earliest SIGs focused on automatic language processing, classification research, library automation and networks, information analysis centers, user groups and education for the field. Later came SIGs dedicated to such information interactions as selective dissemination of information and user online interaction, information management, foundations of information science and others. Few original SIG missions survive unchanged today, but throughout the four decades of their existence, SIGs have remained remarkably stable in addressing their core interests as well as responding to new trends. They have served very well to define the scope and specialty areas of ASIST and of the field itself.
But enough of history what about today? Presented below are some of the current SIG activities. With all this going on, what do SIGs need? They need you. As you read further, think about what you could contribute or where you could participate. A few SIGs have many willing volunteers to create and implement sessions and services. Most SIGs, however, struggle every year to find new leaders and participants to carry on. The expectations for SIG activity are not standardized and are not impossibly burdensome. While guided by the bylaws, SIG activities can be innovative, relevant and responsive to the needs of the interest group and the talents of the leaders, members and potential members. Each Special Interest Group is special, and can be whatever it wants to be, as long as you get involved.
What content areas do current SIGs cover? The scope of each SIG is described in the ASIST Handbook & Directory or at www.asis.org/AboutASIS/asis-sigs.html. Drawing a truer picture of what SIGs really look like these days, however, requires looking at what they are actually doing.
Current news via electronic discussion lists. Terrence Maxwell (Albany) of SIG/IFP (Information Policy) distributes a regular briefing on information policy topics for electronic list subscribers. Issues covered include privacy, copyright, intellectual property, Freedom of Information Act and free speech. Each post contains links to more information and stories.
Workshops and pre-conferences. For over a dozen years SIG/CR (Classification Research) and for the last two years SIG/USE (Information Needs, Seeking, and Use) have been running intensive, focused, highly participatory workshops. These allow subject exploration in much greater depth than is possible in a crowded conference technical program. SIG/CR has published proceedings of these workshops (Advances in Classification Research), which preserve and disseminate the workshop content. SIG/HFIS (History and Foundations of Information Science) has been a co-sponsor of two pre-conferences on the history and heritage of science information systems.
Service to students. For several years SIG/ED (Education for Information Science) has conducted a program at the Annual Meeting for those students who have won awards. All the winners present in a public forum and then a few top students go into private sessions to work closely with mentors matched to their areas of research. SIG/ED also supports the students travel and attendance.
Service to job seekers: This year SIG/MGT (Management) held a lunch time session (so as not to conflict with the technical program) where all job seekers, no matter what their specialty areas, could get and give advice.
Interactive discovery. For two years SIG/HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), under the leadership of Joette Stefl-Mabry (Albany), has built an interactive workshop during the Annual Meeting. This year she obtained wireless cards from IBM, a wireless router from Cisco and several I-Macs from Apple and held an interactive Delphi study. There were some problems, naturally, but the SIGs willingness to push the frontier of technology utilization moved an ASIST session beyond the usual, tried-and-true format.
Alternative modes of engagement. Many SIGs today emphasize the informal side of the original mission to provide forums for the formal and informal exchange of ideas among individuals who shared common concerns. Extreme examples of this are two SIGs (with a third one forming) that are not really SIGs by the traditional definition. SIG/Metrics, SIG/BIO (Bioinformatics) and the forming SIG/CRIT (Critical Issues) are all doing what their members want through electronic lists only. SIG/DL (Digital Libraries) uses a website heavily for communication, as does SIG/LAN, which just changed its name to SIG/LT (Library Technologies).
SIG/IA (Information Architecture) represents one of our most innovative SIGs. It has formed an electronic community, without the traditional administrative structure. While a physical community meets every year at the IA Summits, the electronic community supports the group between summits and provides information regarding local reading groups and other structure. Its electronic discussion list is the most vibrant, even rowdy, of any in the field. Participants ask questions and give answers and suggestions, with occasional deep, often amusing observations. Acknowledged IA experts are as likely to post or reply as novices.
SIG-of-the-Year Award winners. SIG/STI (Scientific and Technical Information Systems) was a winner of the 2002 award because of doing a lot of what SIGs have traditionally done, plus sponsoring two student awards for travel support. They also co-sponsored the 7th Quadrennial Tri-Society Symposium for Chemical Information.
The other 2002 SIG-of-the-Year winner was SIG/III (International Information Issues), which boasts a raft of officers from the United States and other countries, the InfoShare program to recruit members from developing countries, co-sponsorship of international meetings, sponsorship of a popular paper competition for authors from developing countries and travel grants through the new ASIST travel grant program. This year they administered a Eugene Garfield Foundation grant to bring 12 scientists from the world's poorest countries to the Annual Meeting. They also sponsored the International Reception and silent auction fundraiser at the annual meeting, and six sessions, one of which was the innovative Global Village poster session.
These examples show that ASIST is open to a wide variety of SIG administrative structures, special projects and programming. The original mission of Special Interest Groups remains the same, but can be carried out in many different ways. Likewise, your participation can take many forms. If you are not sure how to get more involved, do not hesitate to contact any of the current officers of a SIG, the SIG Cabinet Director (Gretchen Whitney), the Executive Director (Dick Hill) or me. We all will be happy to help you get connected and involved with the very special Special Interest Groups.
Trudi Bellardo Hahn
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So, you could say that I am finding new ways to entertain myself in this hospital. Ways I am trying to keep my sanity. For example, If I am alone in the elevator I like to dance around hideously. My husband will be the first to tell you all of my hideous dancing. Don't get me wrong, as a dance teacher I should know how to dance, but sometimes I can't help but dance like William Hong (I'm sure you forgot all about him). As sad as the days can be here, I force myself to dance in the elevator and it always makes me feel better.
I talk to EVERYONE, and by everyone, I mean I talk to people who do not speak English. We have been roomed with a few Spanish speaking families and I have taken every opportunity to brush up on my Spanish skills. For some reason I have zero inhibitions when it comes to speaking Spanish. My husband speaks Spanish on a daily basis and for some reason I feel like his bilingualism transfers onto me. Everything I learned in
I eat out side in a little courtyard with a seagull (wow, that sounded depressing). This seagull is Crazy, and looks crazy too. He lands right next to me and waits for me to throw him some food. His beak looks like someone bent the top and bottom in opposite directions. I like him because he is not afraid of anything, and literally comes within inches of the food. He is a picky eater.. Probably from getting fed so frequently. I try to get a roll to feed the other little birdies, but the seagull will have none of it. What bird doesn't like bread??
Besides my time spent in the elevator and with Crazy beak my hours are spent in a rocking chair holding the little one. Not much has changed. She is now on nitrogen, and they are weaning her Morphine drip. She now has regular doses of Ativan for the discomfort. She is still seven and a half lbs, but they assure me she is getting the nourishment to keep her brain developing.
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University of Minnesota officials have investigated a concern raised by a bioethics professor — that U psychiatrists might have "rubber-stamped" vulnerable schizophrenic patients into drug studies — and concluded it is "completely false."
In a blog last month, professor Carl Elliott posted patient evaluation forms from the files of two mentally ill research subjects that contained responses that appeared to be identical. That raised the specter that the forms had been filled out in advance and that patients weren't actually evaluated for their wherewithal to consent to the risks and responsibilities of clinical research.
On Wednesday, university officials said they investigated Elliott's claim by reviewing all the "evaluation to sign consent" records from one of the studies he mentioned — a project called CAFE, which compared the effectiveness and side effects of three antipsychotic drugs.
Each patient's folder contained an evaluation form with unique responses and markings, said Mark Rotenberg, the university's general counsel.
"There is no evidence that any of them contained predetermined, photocopied answers," Rotenberg said.
The dispute over consent evaluation records is the latest regarding Dan Markingson, who died by suicide at age 26 in 2004 while participating in the CAFE study. Markingson's mother, Mary Weiss, tried to keep her son out of the trial and questioned whether he was coerced into participating.
An investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after Markingson's death found no evidence of wrongdoing by the university, which also was dismissed from a lawsuit filed by Markingson's family. The recruiting of Markingson did draw concerns from Minnesota's mental health ombudsman, though, and resulted in legislation that prevents doctors from recruiting their own patients into their psychiatric drug studies.
The case also drew the attention of Elliott, who has since become an outspoken critic of his own university.
"Never in my life," Elliott said, "have I felt the kind of shame that I feel at the way my university has treated Mary Weiss."
Elliott posted two copies of evaluation records from Markingson's legal file and compared them with an identical record provided by the family of another research subject. That family has asked to remain anonymous.
Rotenberg said publicity surrounding the Markingson lawsuit resulted in many records from the case being distributed online, and perhaps that is how the duplicate came to exist with another family.
"The form, in our opinion, is simply another copy of the Markingson 'evaluation to sign consent' form," he said Wednesday.
Rotenberg said that families who believe they have questionable documents from the CAFE research should come forward with them.
"We absolutely want to see them and investigate," he said.
Petition seeks inquiry
The university's response has not caused Elliott to back off his criticism; he said he has asked to see the university's evaluation-to-consent records from the CAFE study for himself but so far has not been allowed to do so.
On Wednesday, an editorial from Elliott was published on Pharmalot, a blog that analyzes the drug industry, in which he encouraged people to sign a petition asking Gov. Mark Dayton to order an independent investigation of the Markingson case. The petition by the Markingson family has gained more than 1,000 signatures, including those of university faculty, two former editors of the New England Journal of Medicine and more than 100 experts in medicine and bioethics.
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Company News
NEW ALBIN, Iowa, March 8, 2011 – U.S. Cellular continues to invest in its high-speed nationwide network with a new 180-foot cell tower on the west side of New Albin to help residents and businesses stay connected to the web,
e-mail and the people who matter most to them. The site will increase U.S. Cellular's coverage in New Albin and along Iowa Highway 26 between Lansing and New Albin. It is among more than 760 towers U.S. Cellular has built across Iowa.
The network enhancement follows U.S. Cellular's launch of The Belief Project, an array of innovative initiatives that recognize customer loyalty with bundled national plans that offer customers the freedom to enjoy benefits without signing continuous contracts. With "no contract after the first," new customers who complete a two-year contract will never have to sign another one and will continue to get guaranteed upgrades to the newest phones at promotional prices every 18 months. Customers get valuable rewards just for being customers and can get even faster upgrades in as little as 10 months when they use their rewards.
"The Belief Project is about delighting our customers with services that make their lives easier and providing a reliable network they can count on is a big part of making it possible," said Don Cochran, director of sales for U.S. Cellular in Iowa. "It's important to us that every call, text and e-mail gets through so our customers can have everything they need at their fingertips."
To select locations for new towers, U.S. Cellular has teams of system performance engineers who drive through the company's network coverage area, sometimes hundreds of miles a day, to test the signal strength and call quality. U.S. Cellular also listens to customer feedback to find the communities that would benefit from another tower.
With U.S. Cellular's high-speed nationwide network, websites open faster and e-mails download more quickly on the company's line of cutting-edge Android-powered devices, BlackBerry and Windows smartphones, such as the Samsung Mesmerize (a Galaxy S device), the HTC Desire and BlackBerry Bold.
About U.S. Cellular
U.S. Cellular recently unveiled The Belief Project, an array of industry-leading innovations designed to elevate the customer experience. The Belief Project, recently named Frost & Sullivan's Customer Value Enhancement of the Year, complements the Chicago-based carrier's growing catalog of cutting-edge phones that are all backed by its high-speed nationwide network. U.S. Cellular was recently named a J.D. Power and Associates 2011 Customer Service Champion and was also named one of Forbes Magazine's 2010 "Most Trustworthy Companies." To learn more about U.S. Cellular, visit one of its retail stores or uscellular.com. You can also check out U.S. Cellular on Facebook.


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10 March 2016
Drago Kos, Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, talks about 17 years of implementation and enforcement of the Anti-Bribery Convention and next steps.
11 May 2015
Corruption Hunters: Investigating and prosecuting financial crime
This discussion on the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention took place at the University of Bergen on 11 May 2015 in the presence of Christine Uriate, a senior legal analyst and anti-corruption expert at the OECD.
17 February 2012
Andrey Denisov, First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, explains what joining the OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention means for Russia.
17 February 2012
Первый Заместитель Министра Иностранных Дел Российской Федерации Андрей Денисов поясняет, что Конвенция ОЭСP по борьбе с подкупом иностранных должностных лиц значит для России.
26 May 2011
On the occasion of the OECD's invitation to Russia to join the Anti-Bribery Convention, Andrey Denisov, First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, discusses anti-corruption and Russia's accession to the OECD
3 February 2011
Nicola Bonucci, OECD's director for legal affairs, explores the public policy issues associated with bribery and emphasises the message that the UK Bribery Act is good for clean businesses who want to compete on a level playing field. Sterl Greenhalgh, partner and head of Grant Thornton's anti-corruption group, picks up on whether UK Government is providing enough support to business.
9 December 2009
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on the fight against corruption and the OECD. "The United States fully supports the OECD's anti-corruption agenda. We also are encouraging our major trading partners that have not yet acceded to the Convention to join our efforts", says Clinton.
9 December 2009
Who pays the price for foreign bribery? The OECD asks international anti-corruption experts why this crime is more harmful than many may realise, and how it can be stopped.
17 February 2009
Ten years after the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention entered into force, OECD legal expert Nicola Bonucci talks about its impact and the challenges ahead in the fight against corruption
26 January 2009
Patrick Moulette, Head of the OECD's Anti-Corruption division assesses the past ten years in the fight against corruption. Find out what progress has been made and what challenges lie ahead.
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Community Projects
Arch has a vital and active community of software developers and contributing projects.
If you have a project you would like to link to, this is a great place to do it. Include a link to your project, the date your project started, and a brief (one or two sentence) description of your project. Please sort projects alphabetically, breaking out into a category pages when needed. Categories should also be alphabetically listed.
All projects listed here are Community projects. None of these projects are considered official Arch projects.
- Pacman GUI Frontends -- Graphical frontends for pacman.
- AUR Helpers -- Utilities to somehow aid end users in using the AUR.
Uncategorized Projects
- AurBuild -- Aurbuild is a tool to download and build packages from the AUR.


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Google Study Dives Into Multiscreen Marketing Madness
Aug 30, 2012 9:20 AM PT
It has been clear for some time that consumers are using multiple devices to access the same content. Sometimes they will access a particular piece or type of content only from a mobile device -- say, a website optimized for mobile news while commuting to work on public transportation.
Sometimes they will shift from screen to screen as circumstances call for -- seeing an ad on television and then looking up the product for more information on a tablet.
Sometimes they will use multiple screens at the same time, like when the Super Bowl is on. People's eyes are firmly glued to the TV's big screen for that event, but as many marketers have learned, they are certainly willing to turn their attention to their cellphones at the same time to either look up game stats or send and receive texts about what they are watching -- including the highly-anticipated ads.
Google, among other firms keenly interested in how consumers digest content, has been tracking this behavior, and it's identified some trends -- especially regarding the way these devices work together -- that may be of interest to marketers.
9 Out of 10 Ain't Bad
Google found that nine out of 10 people use multiple screens sequentially, usually a smartphone device is the starting point, and it almost always occurs within one day. Google found that 98 percent of sequential screeners move between devices in the same day to complete a task.
It also found that, as even the Super Bowl has shown, TV no longer commands undivided attention. Some 77 percent of viewers watch television with another device in hand, oftentimes searching for information on something they have just seen.
It's a Brave New World
The upshot is that consumers' engagement patterns are changing, and in some surprising ways, James Green, CEO of Magnetic, told the E-Commerce Times.
"Instead of driving consumers directly to brick-and-mortar stores, television has become a catalyst for driving consumers online to e-commerce sites, social networks and content sites," he said. "And the portability of smartphones and tablets takes this action one step further, allowing consumers to search, shop, browse and research at any hour of the day, no matter where they might be."
A Consistent Message
For marketers, the findings suggest several strategies that must be put in place, if they haven't been already, Daryl Colwell, VP of business development at MediaWhiz, told the E-Commerce Times.
"You need to have a consistent message throughout all the channels from online to television to email," he said.
Marketers also have to be a lot faster and more concise in their messaging with so many people access content via a small screen. "You want to hit them with an offer right away. Don't make them wade through a lot of content to get to the offer," he said.
Perhaps most fundamentally, marketers have to assume that anything designed for online will be read by a smartphone -- and optimize accordingly. "We do a lot of email marketing, and on any given day, between 20 percent to 50 percent of our emails are read from a smartphone. Marketers have to get smart about how they design their messaging."
These trends are only going to accelerate, Green said. Sequencing and frequency will play a larger role in the ways ads are served to consumers, he said. "In an ideal world, consumers should see succinct messages as they travel across screens." The good news, he added, is that "this type of sequential messaging will create deeper connections between consumers and the brands that they trust."
Google did not respond to our request for further details.


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By 2025, the developing world will be home to 29 megacities.
Through this interactive mapping feature with rich call-out boxes, the reader can explore the latest UN estimates and forecasts on the growth of megacities (urban areas with over 10 million residents). These 'cities on steroids' have been growing tremendously since the 1950s and present a unique set of geographic challenges and opportunities for their residents.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Tips for Cutting Fabric with the Cricut
Because of the complication, Psychomoms.com has compiled a list of tips for cutting fabric with the Cricut. Click HERE! to see all those tips!
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I just found your blog and love all the information you have on it about the Cricut. Personally I love sewing, I just ordered a Cricut Expression to cut fabric.
I know it's weird to spend that amt of money for fabric cutting. But I also thought that it is a good investment since my daughter will be start Kindergarten next year.
I have no idea what I'm getting myself into; it was a major impulse buy. I've never seen that infomercial before. I was wondering if you had any information about the glass etching?
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The etching cream you want is called Armour Etch and they sell it at Michaels and Joanns. USE a coupon because it is pricey without it ($8-9 for a small bottle without the coupon).
You will love the Cricut! It is so much fun! Head over to cricut.com to watch videos on how to use it and then sign onto the message forums to ask questions and get info from others. It's really fun over there!
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Thanks for sharing. My mom is a quilter and keeps asking me about it. She's seen the commercial. Now I can show her how to do it.ReplyDelete
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Geophysics involves the application of physics and mathematics to the study of processes that operate on and within the Earth and other planets, over short and long timescales. The AB degree requires a total of 14 courses, including 6 geoscience courses, 3 physics or engineering courses, and 3 math and applied math courses. The ScB degree requires a total of 20 courses, including 8 geoscience courses, 4 physics or engineering courses, and 3 math and applied courses; students can choose courses from both solid Earth geophysics and climate science themes. Geoscience courses emphasize an analytical and process-oriented approach, with hands-on experiences in labs and on field trips. Active and collaborative learning is encouraged, as is practice in written and oral communication. There are many opportunities for students to engage in research (typically in paid positions) during the academic year or in the summer, in areas such as analysis of seismic waves in subduction zones, theoretical modeling of convection in the Earth's mantle, modeling the effects of the warming climate in the oceans and atmosphere, and remote sensing of how climate change affects vegetation.
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Please welcome Michelle Smart to the virtual offices today! She's here to chat about her debut book Tempted by Trouble. She also has a $30 gift card of the winner's choice for Amazon, Amazon U.K., Barnes and Noble or Book Depository to give away at the end of her blog tour, so make sure that you enter for a chance to win.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Describe yourself in 140 characters or less.
[Michelle Smart] Bubbly and scatty are the two most common descriptions. My kids would also add grumpy, but only in the morning. Oh, and I'm a redhead.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Can you tell us a little about Tempted by Trouble?
[Michelle Smart] It's about Pippa Rowantree, a socialite, who is shunted off by her family in disgrace to the Caribbean to stay with her nemesis, Marco Capello. But Marco is not just her nemesis – he's the man her adolescent heart fell in love with, and the man who rejected her. He's also the man whose life she almost, unknowingly, ruined.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How did you come up with the concept and the characters for the story?
[Michelle Smart] Gosh – I'm sorry but this is a really hard one to answer. Sometimes stories come fully formed but this was not one of them. I knew I wanted to write about adolescent love and the sheer intensity of it all, and about the inappropriate crushes I'm sure most adolescent girls have, especially for older men. I remember I had more than a few of them! I always used to create my own stories (in my head) about my future, and those crushes meeting me as an adult and falling in love with me.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three words best describe Pippa?
[Michelle Smart] Feisty, misunderstood and proud.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If Marco had a theme song, what would it be?
[Michelle Smart] And I thought the concept question was hard! If his song was connected to his relationship with Pippa, I would say Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Name one thing Pippa is never without.
[Michelle Smart] Her piano.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things will you never find in Marco's bathroom?
[Michelle Smart] Hair dye, epilator and lipstick.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is Pippa's greatest regret?
[Michelle Smart] Screwing up her education.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What are your greatest creative influences?
[Michelle Smart] Ooo, books, obviously. I love reading a book and being blown away by the sheer talent of the author. Stephen King, especially his books of the past two decades, does that to me and (other end of the spectrum) Jilly Cooper's book Rivals. For pure romance, I find Sarah Morgan's books wonderful – when I grow up I hope I can write half as well as her! I also love films that hit me in the heart and make my throat hitch, even if I'm watching it for the twentieth time.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things do you need in order to write?
[Michelle Smart] Music, earphones and a laptop – you can stick me anywhere, and as long as I can tune the world out with my music, I can write.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is the last book that you read that knocked your socks off?
[Michelle Smart] Hilary Mantel's Wolfe Hall. That was an utterly fabulous book. It took a couple of pages for me to get into the rhythm of her writing, but once I was there, that was it – I was hooked.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If you had to pick one book that turned you on to reading, which would it be?
[Michelle Smart] I can't answer that, sorry. I've been a bookworm since babyhood. Honestly, I refused to cuddle teddies when I was in my cot as all I wanted was my books!
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What do you like to do when you aren't writing?
[Michelle Smart] Read, read and read! I will read anything and everything, from contemporary romance to comedies and thrillers and more literary works. Saying that, I have a particular loathing for pretentious books. What I read at any particular time depends entirely on my mood.
Oh yes, I also like cooking – catch me in the right mood and I think I'm a Cordon Bleu chef.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How can readers connect with you?
[Michelle Smart] Readers can contact me via my website, which is http://www.michelle-smart.com – this also links to my blog, which is http://michellesmartblog.blogspot.co.uk/
I also have a facebook page, www.facebook.com/michellesmartauthor and my twitter handle is @chellebellwrite
[Manga Maniac Café] Thank you!
You can order Tempted by Trouble from your favorite bookseller or by clicking the link below:
About the book:
Socialite Pippa Rowantree has always provided excellent fodder for the UK's gossip rags. After another unfortunate scandal sends the gossips into a feeding frenzy, her shamed family retaliates by forcing her into hiding at old family friend Marco Capello's lush Caribbean estate—literally the last place on earth she wants to be.
As far as Marco's concerned, wild child Pippa has ruined his life once and he'll be damned if he lets her do it again. But it's hard to reconcile the adolescent he knew with the mature, beautiful woman who stands before him. Soon he's questioning if everything the media is claiming about PIppa is the truth or if he should trust his heart.
Michelle is giving away a $30 gift card of the winner's choice of Amazon, Amazon U.K., Barnes and Noble or Book Depository. The giveaway will be given at the end of the tour to one international winner. Just fill out the widget to enter for your chance to win!
A bit about the author Michelle Smart:
Michelle's love affair with books began as a baby when, according to her mum, she would throw her teddies out of the cot and cuddle with books instead. This love of all things wordy has never left her. A voracious reader, her tastes cross all genres. Her first experience with romance was as a child devouring copious amount of fairy tales. As her reading tastes evolved, she discovered something special–a book has the capacity to make her heart beat as if falling in love the first time.
When not reading or pretending to do the housework, Michelle loves nothing more than creating worlds of her own featuring handsome heroes and the sparkly, feisty women who refuse to take crap from them. She hopes her books can make her readers' hearts beat a little faster, too.


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Four people smugglers were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison by a Thai court after 54 illegal workers from Burma suffocated to death inside a seafood container, an official said Friday.
The 2008 incident was the deadliest in a wave of tragedies afflicting migrants making perilous journeys from impoverished Burma in search of work in neighbouring Thailand, where they often end up exploited and abused.
The victims were among 121 people crammed into the six metres (20 feet) by 2.2 metres container with a broken ventilation system for the journey to the resort island of Phuket to work as day labourers.
Four Thais were convicted on Thursday of gross negligence resulting in death and of breaking immigration laws, an official from a court in the country's southern Ranong province told AFP.
The owner of the container truck was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a second defendant received nine years and a third — who owned a jetty in southern Thailand where the migrants arrived by boat — was jailed for six years.
A woman defendant had her sentence halved to three years after confessing, the official said.
"Three of them were granted bail of between $13,000 and $6,500 while they file appeals," the official said, adding that one defendant had been held in custody after failing to meet bail terms.
The truck driver, who fled the scene after discovering the tragedy, was jailed for six years in August 2008 having admitted to his role in the crime, the official added.
Survivors have recounted desperately trying to raise the alarm as they fought for breath in the storage box.
"No matter how many times we hit the container the driver did not pay any attention," one female migrant who was on board told Thai television.
More than two million migrant workers are registered to work in Thailand, most of them from Burma, labour ministry figures show, but as many as one million undocumented workers are believed to be in the kingdom.
Thailand this week extended a deadline by three months for unregistered migrants to gain a work permit or face deportation.
Huge numbers of people from Cambodia, Laos and Burma work illegally in low-paid jobs in construction, seafood processing and clothing factories, where a lack of legal status leaves them vulnerable to exploitation.


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Re: Bhikshu Dharmamitra Has a New Liver!!!
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:43 am
Now there's a trooper Bodhisattva.Will wrote:The latest from Bhikshu Dharmamitra:
As for rumors of my demise, they're still somewhat premature. They finally let me out of the hospital again Thursday... Still feel like merde, principally because I've got some mystery infection they still haven't figured out, even after dozens of tests and exotic diagnostic procedures.
Still aspiring to pull off some phoenix act, get out a few dozen more translations, and maybe even start giving Dharma talks again, this with the intention of clarifying numerous misperceptions western Buddhists cherish about the Path. So, even as horribly painful as this whole process has been (and continues to be), I'm not giving up, period.


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January 7, 2013
Familiar territory
SpringSide developer has had a long-standing association with Maple Ridge
Project Location: 24177 102nd Ave., Maple Ridge
Project size/scope: A two-acre neighbourhood with 27 single-family detached homes
Residence size: Two models of three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom homes ranging from 1,460 sq. ft (not including basement) — 2,200 sq. ft.
Prices: $379,800 — $489,950, plus HST
Builder: Epic Homes, Maple Ridge
Sales centre: 24177 102nd Ave.
Phone: 604-477-2959
Contact: Norm Jones or Natasha Turnbull
Hours: noon — 6 p.m. daily
Occupancy: from March 2013
Special to The Sun
Epic Homes has had more than a passing acquaintance with Maple Ridge in recent years: the homegrown developer has built more than 650 residences there over the past dozen or so years. Maple Ridge has evolved in that time — two new bridges, combined with the well-established West Coast Express train service, have brought the one-time sleepy Fraser Valley farming community "closer" to Vancouver — but some things haven't changed. Among them: the fact that homes are more easily within reach of buyers, compared to those in many other parts of Metro Vancouver.
"More than anything else today, it's about affordability," says sales rep Norm Jones, who has been selling Epic Homes since 2004, and is now focused on the company's newest project: a 27-house development in the Albion neighbourhood called SpringSide. "Where are you going to find a single detached home in the Lower Mainland for under $400,000? It is just not out there." Cory and Devon Byerley spent several months visiting open houses in the region before settling on an attractive Craftsman-style home at SpringSide. The couple in their late 20s has been renting in Port Moody, but got a chance to look east to more affordable housing when Cory's employer, a geo-technical company, moved its headquarters from Coquitlam to Maple Ridge.
"We were looking at other homes in Maple Ridge that were older, but the prices were comparable," says Devon. "The price here is exactly in the budget we wanted. Anything else (new) in the area started about $460,000 with tax on top of that." Built on two acres in the eastern section of Maple Ridge, SpringSide offers first-time buyers and downsizers many high-end features. The homes range in size from 1,460 to 1,489 square feet on two levels with an additional 700 plus square feet of unfinished basement. All the homes have the iconic front porches of the Arts and Crafts theme with some welcome variety from house to house in colour, ground-level and second floor windows, and roofline treatment.
Homes in SpringSide are smaller than in Epic's earlier Maple Ridge Uplands and Vista subdivisions of executive homes, reflecting the fact that Epic is targeting first-time buyers and down-sizers. The lots are also smaller — 26 feet by 100 feet — which has allowed Epic to provide some of the most competitive prices for single-family homes in the region. "You sacrifice a little on lot size, but then you are getting your own house," said Ryan Connolly, Epic's general manager. "Think about it: that means an extra $200 a month that can go to your mortgage rather than to strata fees for a condo or townhouse."
While first-time buyers accept smaller lots, they have higher expectations about quality than they did a few years ago, Connolly said. "We used to build homes with baseboards, vinyl flooring and carpets, very inexpensive cabinets and laminate wrap cabinet doors. Everything top to bottom was engineered in terms of getting it as low as possible for the homebuyer. But in today's market, people will just not accept that level of finishing. They definitely want more in terms of what they get inside a home."
SpringSide homes show well from the moment a buyer walks in the front door. A custom tile foyer gives way to living room carpeting and laminate hardwood flooring in the kitchen and dining areas. Nine-foot ceilings and generously sized GenTek vinyl windows add to the sense of space while an energy-efficient gas fireplace topped by a custom wood mantel creates a cosy atmosphere. The wall above the fireplace is recessed to accommodate up to a 60-inch flatscreen television.
The kitchen features six-foot-long granite slab countertops and kitchen cabinetry with soft-close doors in country white or maple finish. A stainless steel Frigidaire refrigerator, range, dishwasher, and over-the-range microwave are standard, with the option to upgrade to the "Gallery" series, including a natural gas range. Epic offers three variations in each of its Primrose and slightly larger Larkspur homes. Both models have a powder room on the main level, but Primrose buyers get a laundry room off the back door rather than a laundry closet on the second floor.
Upstairs, the master bedroom features a vaulted ceiling with an ensuite bathroom with separate soaker tub and ceramic surround shower stall. Depending on the model, the two other bedrooms are located side by side at the rear of the house or configured along its length with a bathroom in between. The basements, either 711 or 720 square feet with separate entrances leading to the backyard, come with roughed-in bathrooms and wet bars. Epic offers an option to finish the space for $19,000, with the "fourth bedroom" serving as the popular "man cave" (with a window) or as an in-law suite.
All homes have high-efficiency forced-air furnaces, 60-gallon hot water tanks and roughed-in solar heating systems. The backyards offer just enough space for a barbecue and picnic table and Epic gives buyers the option of pavers. A covered carport for two vehicles takes up the rest of the property which backs onto a lane through the development. An option for the carport is one of SpringSide's best deals. For just $5,000, buyers can choose to have Epic close in the garage and add an automatic garage door, a warrantied feature that Jones says owners would find difficult, if not impossible, to match on their own.
SpringSide doesn't lack for local amenities. Bruce's Country Market, established by the McEachern family in 1948, a one-stop shop for everything from organic produce to fresh, locally caught salmon, is just a five-minute walk away, as is one of 20 elementary schools. A short drive away are the major grocery chains. Also within easy reach is Planet Ice for budding NHL players, a municipal leisure centre with a 25-metre pool and waterslide, miles of hiking trails, the idyllic Alouette and Pitt Lakes and at least four golf courses.
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Replication (computing)
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Replication in computing involves sharing information so as to ensure consistency between redundant resources, such as software or hardware components, to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or accessibility.
- 1 Terminology
- 2 Database replication
- 3 Disk storage replication
- 4 File-based replication
- 5 Distributed shared memory replication
- 6 Primary-backup and multi-primary replication
- 7 See also
- 8 References
One speaks of:
- data replication if the same data is stored on multiple storage devices,
- computation replication if the same computing task is executed many times.
A computational task is typically replicated in space, i.e. executed on separate devices, or it could be replicated in time if it is executed repeatedly on a single device. Replication in space or in time is often linked to scheduling algorithms [1]
The access to a replicated entity is typically uniform with access to a single, non-replicated entity. The replication itself should be transparent to an external user. Also, in a failure scenario, a failover of replicas is hidden as much as possible. The latter refers to data replication with respect to Quality of Service (QoS) aspects.[2]
Computer scientists talk about active and passive replication in systems that replicate data or services:
- active replication is performed by processing the same request at every replica.
- passive replication involves processing every single request on a single replica and then transferring its resultant state to the other replicas.
If at any time one master replica is designated to process all the requests, then we are talking about the primary-backup scheme (master-slave scheme) predominant in high-availability clusters. On the other side, if any replica processes a request and then distributes a new state, then this is a multi-primary scheme (called multi-master in the database field). In the multi-primary scheme, some form of distributed concurrency control must be used, such as distributed lock manager.
Load balancing differs from task replication, since it distributes a load of different (not the same) computations across machines, and allows a single computation to be dropped in case of failure. Load balancing, however, sometimes uses data replication (especially multi-master replication) internally, to distribute its data among machines.
Backup differs from replication in that it saves a copy of data unchanged for a long period of time.[3] Replicas, on the other hand, undergo frequent updates and quickly lose any historical state. Replication is one of the oldest and most important topics in the overall area of distributed systems.
Whether one replicates data or computation, the objective is to have some group of processes that handle incoming events. If we replicate data, these processes are passive and operate only to maintain the stored data, reply to read requests and apply updates. When we replicate computation, the usual goal is to provide fault-tolerance. For example, a replicated service might be used to control a telephone switch, with the objective of ensuring that even if the primary controller fails, the backup can take over its functions. But the underlying needs are the same in both cases: by ensuring that the replicas see the same events in equivalent orders, they stay in consistent states and hence any replica can respond to queries.
Replication models in distributed systems[edit]
A number of widely cited models exist for data replication, each having its own properties and performance:
- Transactional replication. This is the model for replicating transactional data, for example, a database or some other form of the transactional storage structure. The one-copy serializability model is employed in this case, which defines legal outcomes of a transaction on replicated data in accordance with the overall ACID properties that transactional systems seek to guarantee.
- State machine replication. This model assumes that replicated process is a deterministic finite automaton and that atomic broadcast of every event is possible. It is based on a distributed computing problem called distributed consensus and has a great deal in common with the transactional replication model. This is sometimes mistakenly used as a synonym of active replication. State machine replication is usually implemented by a replicated log consisting of multiple subsequent rounds of the Paxos algorithm. This was popularized by Google's Chubby system, and is the core behind the open-source Keyspace data store.[4][5]
- Virtual synchrony. This computational model is used when a group of processes cooperates to replicate in-memory data or to coordinate actions. The model defines a distributed entity called a process group. A process can join a group and is provided with a checkpoint containing the current state of the data replicated by group members. Processes can then send multicasts to the group and will see incoming multicasts in the identical order. Membership changes are handled as a special multicast that delivers a new membership view to the processes in the group.
Database replication[edit]
Database replication can be used on many database management systems, usually with a master/slave relationship between the original and the copies. The master logs the updates, which then ripple through to the slaves. The slave outputs a message stating that it has received the update successfully, thus allowing the sending (and potentially re-sending until successfully applied) of subsequent updates.
Multi-master replication, where updates can be submitted to any database node, and then ripple through to other servers, is often desired, but introduces substantially increased costs and complexity which may make it impractical in some situations. The most common challenge that exists in multi-master replication is transactional conflict prevention or resolution. Most synchronous or eager replication solutions do conflict prevention, while asynchronous solutions have to do conflict resolution. For instance, if a record is changed on two nodes simultaneously, an eager replication system would detect the conflict before confirming the commit and abort one of the transactions. A lazy replication system would allow both transactions to commit and run a conflict resolution during resynchronization.[6] The resolution of such a conflict may be based on a timestamp of the transaction, on the hierarchy of the origin nodes or on much more complex logic, which decides consistently on all nodes.
Database replication becomes difficult when it scales up. Usually, the scale up goes with two dimensions, horizontal and vertical: horizontal scale-up has more data replicas, vertical scale-up has data replicas located further away in distance. Problems raised by horizontal scale-up can be alleviated by a multi-layer multi-view access protocol. Vertical scale-up causes fewer problems in that internet reliability and performance are improving.[7]
When data is replicated between database servers, so that the information remains consistent throughout the database system and users cannot tell or even know which server in the DBMS they are using, the system is said to exhibit replication transparency.
Disk storage replication[edit]
Active (real-time) storage replication is usually implemented by distributing updates of a block device to several physical hard disks. This way, any file system supported by the operating system can be replicated without modification, as the file system code works on a level above the block device driver layer. It is implemented either in hardware (in a disk array controller) or in software (in a device driver).
The most basic method is disk mirroring, typical for locally connected disks. The storage industry narrows the definitions, so mirroring is a local (short-distance) operation. A replication is extendable across a computer network, so the disks can be located in physically distant locations, and the master-slave database replication model is usually applied. The purpose of replication is to prevent damage from failures or disasters that may occur in one location, or in case such events do occur, improve the ability to recover. For replication, latency is the key factor because it determines either how far apart the sites can be or the type of replication that can be employed.
The main characteristic of such cross-site replication is how write operations are handled:
- Synchronous replication - guarantees "zero data loss" by the means of atomic write operation, i.e. write either complete on both sides or not at all. Write is not considered complete until acknowledgment by both local and remote storage. Most applications wait for a write transaction to complete before proceeding with further work, hence overall performance decreases considerably. Inherently, performance drops proportionally to distance, as latency is caused by speed of light. For 10 km distance, the fastest possible roundtrip takes 67 μs, whereas nowadays a whole local cached write completes in about 10–20 μs.
- An often-overlooked aspect of synchronous replication is the fact that failure of remote replica, or even just the interconnection, stop by definition any and all writes (freezing the local storage system). This is the behaviour that guarantees zero data loss. However, many commercial systems at such potentially dangerous point do not freeze but just proceed with local writes, losing the desired zero recovery point objective.
- The main difference between synchronous and asynchronous volume replication is that synchronous replication needs to wait for the destination server in any write operation.
- Asynchronous replication - write is considered complete as soon as local storage acknowledges it. Remote storage is updated, but probably with a small lag. Performance is greatly increased, but in case of losing a local storage, the remote storage is not guaranteed to have the current copy of data and most recent data may be lost.
- Semi-synchronous replication - this usually means[citation needed] that a write is considered complete as soon as local storage acknowledges it and a remote server acknowledges that it has received the write either into memory or to a dedicated log file. The actual remote write is not performed immediately but is performed asynchronously, resulting in better performance than synchronous replication but offering no guarantee of durability.
- Point-in-time replication - introduces periodic snapshots that are replicated instead of primary storage. If the replicated snapshots are pointer-based, then during replication only the changed data is moved not the entire volume. Using this method, replication can occur over smaller, less expensive bandwidth links such as iSCSI or T1 instead of fiber optic lines.
To address the limits imposed by latency, techniques of WAN optimization can be applied to the link.
Many distributed filesystems use replication to ensure fault tolerance and avoid a single point of failure. See the lists of distributed fault-tolerant file systems and distributed parallel fault-tolerant file systems.
File-based replication[edit]
File-based replication is replicating files at a logical level rather than replicating at the storage block level. There are many different ways of performing this. Unlike storage-level replication, the solutions almost exclusively rely on software.
Capture with a kernel driver[edit]
With the use of a kernel driver (specifically a filter driver), that intercepts calls to the filesystem functions, any activity is captured immediately as it occurs. This utilises the same type of technology that real-time active virus checkers employ. At this level, logical file operations are captured like file open, write, delete, etc. The kernel driver transmits these commands to another process, generally over a network to a different machine, which will mimic the operations of the source machine. Like block-level storage replication, the file-level replication allows both synchronous and asynchronous modes. In synchronous mode, write operations on the source machine are held and not allowed to occur until the destination machine has acknowledged the successful replication. Synchronous mode is less common with file replication products although a few solutions exist.
File-level replication solution yield a few benefits. Firstly because data is captured at a file level it can make an informed decision on whether to replicate based on the location of the file and the type of file. Hence unlike block-level storage replication where a whole volume needs to be replicated, file replication products have the ability to exclude temporary files or parts of a filesystem that hold no business value. This can substantially reduce the amount of data sent from the source machine as well as decrease the storage burden on the destination machine. A further benefit to decreasing bandwidth is the data transmitted can be more granular than with block-level replication. If an application writes 100 bytes, only the 100 bytes are transmitted not a complete disk block which is generally 4096 bytes.
On a negative side, as this is a software-only solution, it requires implementation and maintenance on the operating system level and uses some of the machine's processing power (CPU).
File system journal replication[edit]
Similarly to database transaction logs, many file systems have the ability to journal their activity. The journal can be sent to another machine, either periodically or in real time by streaming. On the replica side, the journal can be used to play back file system modifications.
One of the notable implementations is Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), which performs periodical updates but does not offer real-time replication.
Batch replication[edit]
This is the process of comparing the source and destination filesystems and ensuring that the destination matches the source. The key benefit is that such solutions are generally free or inexpensive. The downside is that the process of synchronizing them is quite system-intensive, and consequently this process generally runs infrequently.
One of the notable implementations is rsync.
Another example of using replication appears in distributed shared memory systems, where it may happen that many nodes of the system share the same page of the memory - which usually means, that each node has a separate copy (replica) of this page.
Primary-backup and multi-primary replication[edit]
Many classical approaches to replication are based on a primary-backup model where one device or process has unilateral control over one or more other processes or devices. For example, the primary might perform some computation, streaming a log of updates to a backup (standby) process, which can then take over if the primary fails. This approach is the most common one for replicating databases, despite the risk that if a portion of the log is lost during a failure, the backup might not be in a state identical to the one the primary was in, and transactions could then be lost.
A weakness of primary/backup schemes is that in settings where both processes could have been active, only one is actually performing operations. We're gaining fault-tolerance but spending twice as much money to get this property. For this reason, starting in the period around 1985, the distributed systems research community began to explore alternative methods of replicating data. An outgrowth of this work was the emergence of schemes in which a group of replicas could cooperate, with each process backup up the others, and each handling some share of the workload.
Jim Gray, a towering figure[8] within the database community, analyzed multi-primary replication schemes under the transactional model and ultimately published a widely cited paper skeptical of the approach "The Dangers of Replication and a Solution". In a nutshell, he argued that unless the data splits in some natural way so that the database can be treated as n disjoint sub-databases, concurrency control conflicts will result in seriously degraded performance and the group of replicas will probably slow down as a function of n. Indeed, he suggests that the most common approaches are likely to result in degradation that scales as O(n³). His solution, which is to partition the data, is only viable in situations where data actually has a natural partitioning key.
The situation is not always so bleak. For example, in the 1985–87 period, the virtual synchrony model was proposed and emerged as a widely adopted standard (it was used in the Isis Toolkit, Horus, Transis, Ensemble, Totem, Spread, C-Ensemble, Phoenix and Quicksilver systems, and is the basis for the CORBA fault-tolerant computing standard; the model is also used in IBM Websphere to replicate business logic and in Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 enterprise clustering technology). Virtual synchrony permits a multi-primary approach in which a group of processes cooperates to parallelize some aspects of request processing. The scheme can only be used for some forms of in-memory data, but when feasible, provides linear speedups in the size of the group.
A number of modern products support similar schemes. For example, the Spread Toolkit supports this same virtual synchrony model and can be used to implement a multi-primary replication scheme; it would also be possible to use C-Ensemble or Quicksilver in this manner. WANdisco permits active replication where every node on a network is an exact copy or replica and hence every node on the network is active at one time; this scheme is optimized for use in a wide area network.
See also[edit]
- ^ Mansouri, Najme, GholamHosein Dastghaibyfard, and Ehsan Mansouri. "Combination of data replication and scheduling algorithm for improving data availability in Data Grids." Journal of Network and Computer Applications (2013)
- ^ V. Andronikou, K. Mamouras, K. Tserpes, D. Kyriazis, T. Varvarigou, Dynamic QoS-aware Data Replication in Grid Environments, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems - The International Journal of Grid Computing and eScience, 2012
- ^ "Backup and Replication: What is the Difference?". Zerto. February 6, 2012.
- ^ Marton Trencseni, Attila Gazso (2009). "Keyspace: A Consistently Replicated, Highly-Available Key-Value Store". Retrieved 2010-04-18.
- ^ Mike Burrows (2006). "The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems". Archived from the original on 2010-02-09. Retrieved 2010-04-18.
- ^ "Conflict Resolution". ITTIA. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ^ Dragan Simic; Srecko Ristic; Slobodan Obradovic (April 2007). "Measurement of the Achieved Performance Levels of the WEB Applications With Distributed Relational Database" (PDF). Electronics and Energetics. Facta Universitatis. p. 31–43. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data: SIGMOD '99, Philadelphia, PA, USA; June 1–3, 1999, Volume 28; p. 3.


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