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Download the authoritative guide: Enterprise Data Storage 2018: Optimizing Your Storage Infrastructure
Using SSDs in RAID controllersEven the highest-performance RAID controllers today cannot support the IOPS of just three of the fastest SSDs. I am not talking about a disk tray; I am talking about the whole RAID controller. If you want full performance of expensive SSDs, you need to take your $50,000 or $100,000 RAID controller and not overpopulate it with too many drives. In fact, most vendors today have between 16 and 60 drives in a disk tray and you cannot even populate a whole tray. Add to this that some RAID vendor's disk trays are only designed for the performance of disk drives and you might find that you need a disk tray per SSD drive at a huge cost. You might think this is an open and shut case that says don't use SSDs in RAIDs, but it's not that simple. SSDs in RAIDs have some significant management advantages in the areas of provisioning, RAID levels, sparing and failure management.
Provisioning: Many sites are not going to use a whole SSD for a single file system or application, so you need to be able to divide up the space. RAID controllers excel at this. They support LUN creation, LUN masking and a variety of other provisioning options and features and do this all within a consistent framework that you are used to for all of your other file systems.
RAID Level: Very few of you are going to use RAID-5 or RAID-6 for SSDs, as many RAID controllers cannot sustain the performance of three high-end SSDs, much less in a RAID-5 4+1 or RAID-6 4+2 with five or six drives. Therefore, you are going to use RAID-1 for the most part. Most RAID controllers excel at this, and once again you are working in a framework that is consistent with your other file systems. One important note: If are going to use a RAID level other than RAID-1, the RAID controller must have a high-speed processor, and hardware parity generation and parity check on RAID are also needed to get as much as possible out of SSD resources.
Sparing: If a drive fails in a RAID-1 LUN, the RAID controller is well equipped to address this failure. Hot spares have been a feature of RAID controllers since the beginning. Again, having a consistent way to address the management of spares is a labor-saving advantage of using RAID.
Failure management: This is by far the biggest issue. As I wrote nearly two years ago, SMART statistics for SSDs is a big issue. If an SSD is in a RAID array, you know that the RAID vendor has worked with the SSD vendor to understand the non-standard SMART statistics that the SSD is providing, as there is no standard SMART SSD framework. Knowing that the SSD is being managed for potential failure will give you peace of mind when you consider the critical importance placed on SSDs in the storage hierarchy.
Using SSDs with SAS Controller CardsGiven the pitfalls of putting SSDs in RAID controllers, the other option is to connect SSDs into your system using SAS controller cards hooked into a PCIe slot. The latest crop of SAS controller cards can support around the same number of IOPS as RAID controllers at a much lower cost, but with every good technology comes some bad, as nothing is perfect. These new SAS cards might be able to do the same number of IOPS, but lack most of the features that you get in a RAID high-end controller; from the list above:
- Provisioning: SAS controller cards can do this, but the software is not as extensive and flexible.
- RAID Level: SAS cards can do RAID-1. but using RAID-5 or RAID-6 with SSDs likely exceeds the onboard processor's capability of generating parity. I am aware of no SAS controller cards that validate parity on read.
- Sparing: The SAS card generally can manage this, but again the software is not as robust.
- Failure management: This is the biggest and most critical issue. RAID vendors spend months validating any drive, SSD or disk, that is sold as part of their system. As part of this validation, the whole issue of SMART data collection, proactive sparing of drives that are expected to fail, and standardized thresholding for returning of failed drives is all taken care of for you.
Henry Newman, CTO of Instrumental Inc. and a regular Enterprise Storage Forum contributor, is an industry consultant with 28 years experience in high-performance computing and storage.
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Topher Grace indulged his love of Star Wars by spending nine months editing together the three prequels to make one 85-minute movie.
The Spider-Man 3 star is a big fan of George Lucas' sci-fi franchise and he decided to use his passion for Star Wars to learn how to edit films.
He called his project Star Wars: Episode III.5: The Editor Strikes Back and he screened it for a select group of industry friends this week (beg05Mar12), telling JustJared.com, "It took about nine months to do. But I was learning and experimenting how to edit at the same time. Hopefully this will segue into a series of some sort."

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Good things to do in St Moritz in autumn:
1) Stroll around gorgeous St Moritz Lake.
2) At Hotel Waldhaus am See, imagine people having a picnic by the lake, chatting, resting, bathing – 100 years ago.
3) Try the yummy local nut cake, Nusstorte.
4) Take the cable car to Corviglia and on to Piz Nair. Walk back down and look out for cute marmots along the mountainside.
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What makes a great soundsystem? That's one of the questions we'll be trying to answer on this month's show.
We open the latest edition of The Hour by thinking about mental wellbeing. At this time of year especially, lots of us are considering how best to look after our minds, so we asked Peggy Gou, Om Unit, Rebekah and Lucy to share their methods and practices [01.34].
We then speak with Sound-Services' Rich Cufley, who gives us a tour of the soundsystem he recently installed at the London club E1. Cufley's enthusiasm for all things sound is legendary in London, so we picked his brains about what, in his view, makes a great system [17.02].
And to end the show, we chat with the respected author Matthew Collin about his new book, Rave On: Global Adventures In Electronic Dance Music, which goes deep on the development of dance music cultures around the world [38.48].
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Remains of an ancient bronze furnace, discovered near the town, tend to prove that tin smelting was practised here at an early period. Marazion is one of the towns claiming to be Britain's oldest town.[citation needed] Marazion was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1088 and is the oldest chartered town in Britain, having been granted this status by King Henry III in 1257.
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Rev. Ken Riley
When did you first feel called to the priesthood?
I first thought about priesthood in fourth grade when I was among of the first public school students invited to be an altar server at the Cathedral in St. Joseph. I thoughtit would be "cool" to assist the priest at Mass and be up front. But that desire went away pretty quickly to other careers. It was not until my junior year of high school that the idea returned. And then I thought it just might be a passing fad. When it would not go away in my senior year, I spoke to Fr. Mike Roach who introduced me to Bishop Sullivan and to Msgr. (now Msgr.) Bob Murphy who was the vocation director at the time.
What is the defining issue of our time and what does the priesthood have to say about it?
I am not certain there is one "defining issue of our time." Still I feel that Pope John Paul II clearly felt the pulse of the world when he spoke abut the need for a 'new evangelization.' Priesthood in the Catholic Church is all about Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the gift of the Church here on Earth. These important considerations are all part of the 'new evangelization' that our time apparently needs.
What do you love about the priesthood?
Two aspects of the priesthood that I especially love are celebrating the Sacraments and being privileged to walk with God's people at important moments of their lives (baptisms and funerals, weddings and graduations, tragedies and anniversaries, joys and sorrows). People trust you and want you to help them see God's presence in these moments of their lives.
What are the challenges you face as a priest?
Challenges I face as a priest including: finding time to balance the requeriments of being a pastor and not having enough time in any given day to finish all the activities that entails; balancing making decisions that will benefit all the people in the parish with what is sometimes perceived as a decision that some people may not "like"; making time for people who just "walk in" and want to "see a priest" when something else may have been scheduled and having to adjust to this as best I can; being overwhelmed sometimes with the amount of "paper work" that I have to fill out as a pastor; being conscious of my own limitations and knowing when I may really need to think before I 'put on another hat."
What advice would you give to someone who approaches you about the priesthood?
My advice to someone approaching me about the priesthood is first: pray, pray, and pray some more for God's guidance and aid in discernment. And then second but assuredly with prayer throughout speak to several priests you admire so that these priests can share insights about the life they live. Next, speak to lay leaders you believe have a good vision of the wide umbrella of the Catholic Church and not just those who agree with you. Being a priest is challenging, but I absolutely love my priesthood.
What was you biggest obstacle in descerning God's call?
My biggest obstacle in discerning God's call was the noise of society. It is difficult to 'hear' the voice of God in a world of noise: the secular world keeps throwing up at you that it's "get ahead" or "get left behind"; this material possession will make you happy; you really aren't "complete" without a wife and family. We all have to strive to do our best, to make use of the good things in God's creation, and certainly to support the married life. Time away from all of the bombardment is what the seminary provides: a tiem to reflect, to get to know yourself and what it is you really want, and most importantly, time for developing a routine of daily prayer, most especially, daily Eucharist. The great St. Irenaeus put is this way: "Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking."
Who was the most influential person in your life?
Several persons are and were influential in my life. In quickly responding to this question, immediately coming to my mind are my loving parents and my grandmother. They spent a great deal of time with me over the years teaching me and my siblings about our Catholic faith. I also thought of the witness and grandfatherly tenderness of Msgr. Leo Ruggle. I enjoyed going to confession to him as he always challenged me to holiness but let me know I was a dearly beloved son of God. Other teachers, friends, and priests also come to my mind. May God bless them one and all!
What is your family background?
I am the oldest of four siblings, two sons/two daughters, born to two "cradle Catholic" parents. Both sides of the extended family are also Catholic and they live(d) near the good Benedictines of Conception Abbey and Clyde Convent. I never imagine as a child that I would be attending college near them at Conception, MO.
What books/authors, films, music, etc., do you like?
I'm someone who likes to use movies and TV in homilies and other teaching moments. As part of Generation X, we grew up with MTV and the explosion of cable television so I'm pretty much a visual learner. Films I like are comedies and animations, dramas and thrillers, predominately. Unfortunately I read very little fiction, but I do a great deal of reading to remain current in canon law, liturgy, and theology.


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Emmy McKenzie, 10, has been acting for two years. She has twice been cast as the lead in regional productions of the musical "Annie."
• School: Fifth-grader at Meigs South Elementary.
• Siblings: Brother, Alec McKenzie, 15.
• Favorite book: "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins.
• Hobbies: Playing guitar, cheerleading, watching movies and jumping rope.
See Emmy don the curly red wig as the lead in the Chattanooga Theatre Centre's upcoming production of "Annie," which runs Dec. 7-23. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Thursdays. Tickets are $12.50-30 adults, $11.50-25 students, depending on show date and placement.
Watch her: Watch a Theatre Centre promo of the upcoming production of "Annie," starring Emmy McKenzie, here.
Do you know a child age 17 or younger with a precocious talent in academics, athletics or the arts? The Times Free Press is searching for children to feature in "Talent Show," which appears in the Life section on Tuesdays. To nominate a child as a possible subject of a future feature article, email staff writer Casey Phillips at email@example.com or call him at 423-757-6205.
For an orphan, attracting the notice of potential adopters is crucial, and having a big voice can go a long way. Emmy McKenzie has that in spades.
In December, the Meigs County 10-year-old will portray the firebrand orphan in a production of "Annie" at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre.
Theatre Centre marketing director Jan Belk described Emmy as a "real belter," while her mother, Traci McKenzie, describes her daughter's pipes as her "power voice."
"In the car, I'd make her listen to show tunes with me, and I noticed that she had a really strong voice," McKenzie said. "As she got older, it was building, [and] when she auditioned for 'Annie,' we said to use her power voice."
It was the strength of Emmy's performance of the musical's signature number, "Tomorrow," during her audition that landed her the role.
Even for a much older performer, Emmy's vocals would be impressive, but for a 10-year-old, they were astounding, said Youth Theatre director Maria Chattin-Carter.
"We knew almost right away that she was our Annie," Chattin-Carter said. "She has this confidence in her voice. As far as power, she can blow even some of the adults away."
The Theatre Centre production will mark the second time Emmy has taken on the lead in "Annie" after making her debut as the spunky orphan two years ago.
Going into the audition for her first outing as Annie at The Arts Center in Athens, Tenn., Emmy did not expect to be chosen even for the ensemble cast. Getting the lead came as a shock, but the experience gave bloom to a passion she never knew she had.
"When I did 'Annie,' I felt like something was in me that I felt awesome doing it," Emmy said. "I actually don't get nervous [onstage]. I feel so much more comfortable now because I have more experience."
Last year, she and her mother began commuting an hour each way several times a week take on a supporting role in a Theatre Centre production of "Seussical: The Musical."
As much as she enjoyed the opportunity to spend more time with the younger cast members, Emmy said something felt off after portraying such a prominent role in her first production.
"I didn't have that many lines, but I sang a lot," she said. "I wasn't used to it, so I felt like something was missing."
When the opportunity arose to try out for "Annie" again, Emmy jumped on it.
As powerful as Emmy's vocals are, she only uses her "power voice" when she's confident about her lines, which usually means during songs. When she performed "Annie" in Athens, her singing voice could knock out the back of the house, but she delivered her speaking lines so softly that she needed to be set up with a microphone.
Having one production under her belt, she said her assurance now extends to the whole show. As a result, she feels much more confident for this run.
"Since I've done the first play, I can feel what Annie went through and how she felt about it," she said. "I feel like that goes into me when I'm acting as her.
"I thought I would have even more fun the second time, and so far, it has been."
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I got an interesting email from Kevin Behringer from the Fly-Over Marketing Blog:
"I was listening to SPOS 110 and your point about a system to manage content and ideas really tied into a question I had for Foreword Thinking.
How do you manage it all?!?
You read a lot of books, blogs, etc. How do you record it all or track it to actually use it? One of the things I'm struggling with right now."
The truth is, I think we're all struggling with this. So, in the spirit of sharing and me wanting to learn more about how others track everything as well, I thought I would answer, but then also tag some people I know (and others who I have never met, but would be interested in learning how they handle, manage and track this vast land of information) and hope that they Blog about this topic on their own spaces and share it with their readers.
For Web-based content (like Blogs, newsfeeds, etc...) I swear by Google Reader. For tracking purposes, I'll either use the "Add star" button for content that I need to spend more time focusing on, or if I see a post that I think might be Blog-worthy. If it's something bigger, I will use the "Share" option, so not only have I saved it, but I'm also enabling others to take a look. You can view my shared items here: Google Reader - Shared Items - Mitch Joel.
I know many people use online social bookmarking tools like del.icio.us to do similar actions, but I tend to use my del.icio.us for content I feel like I might need further down the road.
I still subscribe to a lot of e-newsletters (believe it or not). I blast through my inbox fairly quickly, but if there's something I think I need to track, I either drag it into a Microsoft Outlook folder called, "Blog" (for stuff I think I might Blog about) or "Print" (for longer articles that I want to print up and take on business trips).
If I am not plugged in with my laptop, I swear by my BlackBerry for all tracking. I simply use the "Notes" section for any (and every) idea. It could be a Blog posting, a URL to check out, or an idea for a slide that I would like to create.
I also use a regular notebook. I'll take notes on everything from potential Blog posting ideas and stuff to talk about in the Six Pixels of Separation Podcast to ideas for the Six Pixels of Separation book and business ideas.
Overall, I don't record or track anything with the intent of keeping it around forever. I think that specific philosophy makes it all easier. Odds are if I saved, tracked, tagged or recorded something for future use and I have not used it after a couple of weeks, I'm comfortable purging it entirely.
So, how do you track it all?
I'll tag:
1. Chris Brogan.
2. Shel Holtz - A Shel Of My Former Self - For Immediate Release.
3. David Weinberger - Joho The Blog - The Cluetrain Manifesto - Everything Is Miscellaneous.
4. Joseph Jaffe - Jaffe Juice - Life After The 30-Second Spot - Join The Conversation.
5. Bryan Eisenberg - GrokDotCom - Waiting For Your Cat To Bark? - Call To Action.
I'll also tag five people I have never really connected with, but I am interested in hearing their thoughts on this:
1. Steve Rubel - Micro Persuasion.
2. Robert Scoble - Scobleizer - Fast Company TV.
3. Brian Clark - Copyblogger.
4. Richard MacManus - ReadWriteWeb.
5. Jeremiah Owyang - Web Strategy.
Now, let's see who plays and if they tag others.


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I'm Tresa Edmunds, known around the internet as Reese Dixon, thanks to everybody being afraid of the internet back when I first started blogging. I'm a writer, craft designer, and award winning activist. You can check out more of my professional life at my other site, tresaedmunds.com
I started this blog in 2004 during a struggle with chronic illness and infertility. Over the years this blog has grown to tell my story of how I've used my creative powers to overcome hardships and shape my life into something great.
Now that those initial hardships have abated, or at least changed, I write daily on creative topics such as parenting, crafting, cooking, and personal style.
I pride myself on my personal approach to creative living. All of the ideas you see here come from needing an actual solution to an actual problem in my actual life, not just to make something pretty. There are no airbrushed versions of a perfect life, here. Just reality, including the occasional pile of neglected laundry, as I harness my creative talents to become the kind of person I want to be.
I believe that every aspect of your life can be influenced and heightened by creativity, so I spend each day of the week on a different part of building the life I want. This schedule isn't always strict, sometimes I'm more inspired in one direction than others, but this is what I try to stick to:
Monday: Parenting
Tuesday: Year of Pleasures
Wednesday: Cooking
Thursday: Project Put Together
Friday: Making
Largely because of all the hard times I've faced, I started a weekly series called Year of Pleasures, where I highlight all the things I love and treat myself with. Seeking out simple pleasures in life really goes a long way to making everything else OK. I've also started a series called Project Put Together, where I stop letting myself go and use my creative skills to become someone who's really got it, "put together."
This is a professional blog, so I do run ads, sponsored posts, and the occasional giveaway, but I am very particular about who I work with and how much of my content is sponsored. All pictures, words, and opinions are always my own and I never never never work with a company that I wouldn't spend my own money with. I am all about authenticity, and that is more true than ever of the sponsored content I post.
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Smarter Integration - A Security Must for the Middle East
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SHEFFIELD, England, January 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Adopting evolved surveillance integration technology could help boost the Middle East's appeal as a global investment hub by keeping the region's assets safer and improving operational efficiencies.
That's the prediction that global business Synectics has made as it prepares for Intersec 2014 in Dubai.
Despite unrest, the Middle East economy has seen an upturn in the oil and gas market, increased predicted spend on shipping and ports, and greater emphasis on attracting banking and finance investment.
With Dubai also now confirmed as host city for the 2020 World Expo - the need to protect key industry assets has never been greater.
"This heightened interest in asset protection is an opportunity for enhanced efficiency," suggests Paul Webb, Managing Director of Synectics. "Surveillance systems have evolved to offer more than basic image capture. They can now integrate with multiple safety, alarm and operational systems to enable a 360° perspective of a given site and that has big implications."
"For example, intelligent integration of video to third-party operations and alarm data, means that alerts and emergency site protocols - such as area lock downs - can be automatically triggered. Anything from heightened gas, heat or smoke levels in industrial settings, to discrepancies in access control logs or suspicious use of personnel identity cards in business settings, can be matched with high quality video evidence and linked to response processes.
"As well as minimizing the likelihood of security breaches, using intelligently integrated management platforms in this way also means that should incidents occur, downtime is reduced. When time is money, this can have a significant financial impact."
According to Synectics, improvements in camera technology are also set to benefit the region. Paul continued: "High definition capabilities are now not only better but more affordable - as is always the trend with emerging technologies. As a result, demand has risen.
"We've witnessed increased interest in our own range of HD IP cameras, particularly in relation to 'backfilling' capabilities that allow encoders and IP cameras to record to independent drives in the event of network failure, ensuring no data loss. For industries that cannot afford for security to go 'offline' - this is a major benefit."
The Middle East Marine sector is another area benefitting from surveillance technology evolution.
Paul said: "Shipping is vital to the economy, whether relating to the transportation of oil and gas or to export and import cargo in general. But keeping sea-based assets, and the individuals who crew them, secure has been a challenge, particularly given concerns over piracy.
"Emerging surveillance technologies will help massively with this. Camera stations are better equipped than ever before to cope with 'at sea' conditions, both in terms of their durability and accuracy. Images can be captured in low/no light conditions or extreme fog, and it is now possible, using absolute positioning technology, to integrate fully with radar systems to enable vessel recognition up to 10km away."
Synectics will be showcasing its new COEX™ C2000 TriMode camera station alongside its IP camera range and absolute positioning integration capabilities through Synergy.
Visitors to booth S1-405C will also be able to learn about Synergy™, Synectics' integrated security management system, which enables video, alarms and data to be monitored, managed and recorded in one place. Synectics will also be using Intersec 2014 to demonstrate new functionality from soon-to-be released Synergy 3 - including fully customizable user interface, enhanced workflows and improved reporting.
Paul concluded: "It's an interesting and exciting time to be involved in surveillance in the Middle East, as the region is only now truly starting to embrace the potential that new solutions can offer. Intersec is a great opportunity for us to get out there, meet business and industry leaders, and showcase just what is possible."
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Nike has just released a new campaign called "Be Free" to advertise the brand new spring/summer collection 2011.
Directed by Denis Darzacq and Barnaby Roper.
The pictures show different people falling in different ways. I love the colors and the way these pictures were made!
The campaign was made by the agency Ceft and company in New York (they also have a nice blog!). Continue reading "Nike – Be Free"


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School Superintendent Mike Miles on Friday announced the firings of three top managers in the district's athletic department and 12 other employees, including coaches, assistant coaches and teacher assistants.
The fired coaches included the head and assistant coaches at Wilmer-Hutchins and James Madison high schools, which were part of a two-year WFAA/News 8 investigation into reports of illegal athletic recruiting at Dallas high schools.
Miles said he has asked the University Interscholastic League for assistance in taking away the 2014 Class 3A boys state basketball championship from James Madison, where the staff is accused of improperly recruiting at least one of its basketball stars.
According to a statement from Miles, 10 employees were terminated for falsifying documents. One employee was fired for "improperly obtaining and sharing student records."
The athletic administrators fired are athletic director Jeff Johnson, head of the program since 2007, and assistant athletic directors Goree Johnson and Marian Willard.
Also fired were head boys varsity basketball coaches Roderick Johnson of Madison and John Burley of Wilmer-Hutchins.
Two weeks ago, News 8 traced the fates of two players who were roommates and also rivals. Troy Causey, 18, played basketball for Wilmer-Hutchins. Johnathan Turner, 19, was a star player for the state champions, James Madison High. Yet, both players lived in the same house in southern Dallas apart from their parents and with little or no supervision.
On the night of March 23, Causey and Turner got into a fight over a video game. Causey died in the fight, and Turner was charged with murder.
Since that time, News 8 learned that coaches from both schools apparently falsified residency and transfer documents to make it appear the teens lived in homes in the proper attendance zones.
Family members of both students reported that the two were actively recruited to play basketball in conflict with state athletic rules that forbid the recruitment and transfer of students to other schools for athletic purposes.
News 8 has spent the past two years documenting reports of improper transfers inside of and into the Dallas school district by students who later starred on the basketball court.
In 2012, WFAA reported allegations that the entire 2011 state championship team from Dallas Kimball High School moved into Kimball's attendance zone for the sole purpose of playing basketball.
"We have to hold ourselves accountable," Miles said Friday. "We have a responsibility to these kids and we have a responsibility to the entire district to keep the kids safe and make sure the athletic programs are run with integrity."


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How to Schedule a Nonprofit Meeting: Point of Vu
Our humor columnist, Vu Le, comments on the joys of meeting scheduling. But first, a cartoon about meetings from Planet 501c3:
As a field, we have a lot of meetings. And we totally suck at scheduling them. Each week, I get at least a dozen emails like this: "Dear Vu, my name is John, and I am from Unicycle for Guns, a nonprofit dedicated to replacing violence with the joys of unicycling. I would like to meet with you to see how our organizations could collaborate. Let me know what works best for you."
Now, this email is very sincere and courteous, but it makes me want to punch the meeting requester in the pancreas. Not at first, of course, . . . Read more


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One eye is shared among three witches. Take the eye, and, well, you've got it all.
This is how Perseus — the Greek hero who adorns the movie poster of 1981's Clash of the Titans — learns how to defeat the Kraken sea monster: He must take the head of Medusa.
Understandably so, it was this scene — where Perseus confronts the Stygian witches — that captivated a young Ethan Jones. Now one of two songwriters in the Omaha band Baby Tears, Jones pays tribute to one of his favorite childhood movies in the song "Stygian Witches."
A two-minute trip through electrified tremors of dark sound, with actual lines from the witches whispered toward the end, "Stygian Witches" represents a different sort of sonic palette than Baby Tears normally uses. It opens their latest LP Rusty Years, and Jones says the song works well onstage, too.
"It's good to throw that in there to break up the set. A lot of our songs are so manic and teetering on the edge. That song brings it down to this sort of gloomy, almost Black Sabbath sort of thing."
Read on to learn more about "Stygian Witches," from the importance (or lack thereof) of lyrics to the inclusion of an iPhone app's sound. Then see Baby Tears live in concert this Saturday at Slowdown with The Men and Gordon. The show will start at 9 p.m. Cover is $10 advance, $13 day of show. RSVP here.
Hear Nebraska: Could you start by telling me about how "Stygian Witches" was written?
Ethan Jones: Well, I wrote this song on guitar and played it along to this cheap drum machine that I kind of use to write everything. It has, I don't know, 30 or so beats, and there's one called punk rock. Kind of funny. It has this simple 4/4 beat, so it's easy to write along to it.
That song in particular, "Stygian Witches," instead of doing our usual thing we do with Baby Tears, with a lot of picking and parts that change, a lot of tension, this song kind of holds back. The notes are open, and there's a lot of space in the song compared to most of our other tracks, I guess.
The subject matter is the movie Clash of the Titans, but not the remake. When I wrote this song, I hadn't heard about the remake being made, and it came out technically after the song. But the '80s version is one I watched a lot as a kid.
My favorite part in that movie is where there are these three blind witches called the Stygian witches. They're all-knowing and Perseus has to go to them to find out that he needs to cut off the head of Medusa to kill the sea Kraken that's holding his damsel in distress, or whatever.
We're not into a whole lot of fantasy stuff, but I just like the idea of focusing on the three blind witches. And in the background, the whispered vocals, they're actual quotes from the movie, things that the witches say.
HN: I can't make out the lyrics very well. How important are the words to you?
EJ: Oh, they are not important at all.
HN: What purpose do you think they serve?
EJ: More of a texture that goes along with the music. I would say a lot of our other songs, maybe the lyrics are important or the subject matter for the lyrics kind of inspired the feel of the song. But "Stygian Witches" was just, "Hey, I want to do a song that sounds like something that we wouldn't do, that has some gloom and some space."
That's the song that opens the record, so it works almost as an instrumental. The vocals are thrown in there just for texture really.
HN: Tell me about the process of tracking the album Rusty Years, and how this ended up being the first song.
EJ: Sure. We'd done a couple things, and we were all interested in home recording. We all had analog cassette four-tracks, and we had used those over the years. When we did our first demo, that's what we did it on.
But for the whole Rusty Years LP and the seven-inch we did on Rainy Road, we had a group of songs, everything we liked up to that point that we wanted to use, and we recorded them all straight to four-track, Ramones first album style with bass cranked all the way to the left, guitar in the right and drums in the middle. And we got a pretty raw recording of that, and sort of mixed it, bumped it down to a computer.
Then we layered tons of stuff: extra guitar parts, toy keyboards. toy drum machine here and there. There was at least one track that had a kind of sound collage. Our drummer Jeff compiled that from a bunch of stuff we experimented with while practicing. He stitched it all together. That one's called "Flesher."
Yeah, that's it, and then we'd put vocals on. You know, we learned more as we went along. There were some problems, but we were pretty happy with how it turned out considering the strange way we went about recording it and the things we added. I think we all wanted it to sound raw and primal. And I think we achieved that.
HN: You mentioned using a drum machine to write along to. Did that end up anywhere on the recording?
EJ: No. Todd (VonStup) and I both write songs for Baby Tears, and we have different writing processes. He writes a lot of stuff on acoustic. He'll make an MP3 of the cell phone field recording or whatever and send it to us. But I like to play along to a drum machine and put a couple different parts in. When we send it to each other, it's not the end-all-be-all. It's just, "Here are these riffs I put together. Here's a rough structure. We'll screw around with it the next time we get together to practice."
So with "Stygian Witches" and the drum machine, that was just the beginning, then Jeff does his own thing. It always turns out more interesting than just a drum beat that goes on and on and never changes.
HN: Definitely. It seems like the time signature changes in the song. Was that added to the song as you worked it through with the band?
EJ: Yeah, all the basic tracks are live. So like I said, it's sort of imperfect. It's not like we do a bunch of drum takes, and then lay our guitars over it. We would just do one, two, maybe three takes of each song, depending on how we felt about it. What's there is there.
So if the time signature wavers a little but the song sounds cool, that's just how it is. It's like a band really is live without doing every individual thing and making it perfect. I like that it's imperfect.
HN: The song opens and closes with sort of electrified shaking sound. How was that produced, and what do you think it adds to the song?
EJ: That sound is actually an iPhone application. I don't have it on my phone anymore, but it's some android robot sound creator or something. It has this grid, and you can move your finger around on the grid, like a chaos pad. There are a bunch of different presets, and you can tweak each sound.
So we just did a couple takes of that sound. It's sort of like what you can do on the keyboard, but a little different. We all thought it was cool. But we tried a lot of things, ditched a lot of things, that was just something that seemed to work.
HN: About how many tracks were there on the recording?
EJ: When it was imported, it was just one stereo track with guitar, bass and drums. With those tracks, there's usually an extra guitar. Not all of them, but some have an extra guitar that's textured, doesn't stick out as much. It's more like a solo part after the fact. That song probably had seven, eight tracks on top of the one stereo analog four-track dump track (laughs), if that makes sense.
HN: Was there a reason why the song switches from sung vocals to whispered vocals?
EJ: No. We had played this song live for a couple months before we recorded it. We recorded it instrumental, and after we layered on, say, that iPhone noise and whatever else is on there, it just seemed like it needed some sort of, not vocals, but voice texture.
I thought about doing a sample of the witches talking, but that's kind of cheesy. I don't like to do that stuff. So we just started messing around. A couple of us had mics, and we wrote down lines of a few things the witches said. We recorded three or four tracks of whispering those chants over and over. Then after the fact, we panned them different ways and put on effects.
HN: For anyone who hasn't heard of Rainy Road Records, could you give a synopsis of the label and your experience with it?
EJ: Sure. Rainy Road is run by a dude named Kevin Cline. I think he grew up around Grand Island. He played guitar in a band called Watching the Train Wreck. They did a Brimstone Howl singles collection then Austin Ulmer's project Peace of Shit and Worried Mothers.
I don't know, Kevin's just always come out to our shows. That's how I got to know him. He'd show up at Baby Tears shows. He's a nice dude, and we're friends or at least know all the other people whose music he releases. He was interested in putting out a seven-inch. He had done all cassette tapes before then.
HN: Then to clarify, the seven-inch came before Rusty Years?
EJ: Yeah, it was before that. It was referred to as The Homeless Corpse seven-inch. That was on Rainy Road, but it was from the same recording session as Rusty Years.
HN: And did Rainy Road release the LP also?
EJ: Yeah, it was kind of a split label release. My friend Justin O'Connor and I have this non-label thing called Doom Town, real low-key, and we had just done cassettes. But we'd had this Rusty Years thing recorded for quite awhile. Kevin was like, "Yeah, I'll do that, too."
But it costs money, and he was still saving up, so we decided to do a split so that Doom Town paid for half and Rainy Road paid for half. It made it more affordable for everyone. So it was cool, and we just did 200 copies and silk-screened the covers ourselves: pretty punk rock, I guess.
HN: For sure. You still have copies left?
EJ: Yeah.
HN: Cool. That's pretty much it. Do you have anything to add about "Stygian Witches"?
EJ: I don't think so. It's one that we all like to play live. It's good to throw that in there to break up the set. A lot of our songs are so manic and teetering on the edge. That song brings it down to this sort of gloomy, almost Black Sabbath sort of thing. Then it gives Todd and I a break from singing because we don't do vocals on that song live. But yeah, it's a song we all like.
HN: Lastly, tell me about the music the band been working on most recently.
EJ: Since Rusty Years, we have about eight new songs that we're currently recording. We're taking our time, still doing it ourselves. Instead of messing with the four-track, we're doing it all digitally in Logic. We all have similar recording setups, so we'll pass the recordings around.
We're doing it little by little. Some songs, say, vocals aren't ready on two of them but we'll continue recording. It's been a different process. It's slower, but we're not in a hurry. Some of the songs are more complicated, too. Not that we're turning into a math metal band, but on a handful, they were planned more for recording than ever for playing live.
PS: After getting off of the phone with you, I realized that I left out some important/interesting info about "Stygian Witches." First off, Rainy Road/Doom Town mailed the Rusty Years LP off to a few radio stations, cool blog/web reviewers and zines that we all dig. Several reviewers contacted Doom Town saying that they were confused by "Stygian Witches" and the first half of the record.
Because "Stygian Witches" is the first song on the album (Rusty Years), they were not sure if they were supposed to play the album at 33 rpm or 45 rpm (it's supposed to be played at 33). Kinda funny. After that, I listened to the album on 45 and thought, "Damn! This is pretty good."
All of the songs on Rusty Years have their own weirdness going on, so I guess we successfully made an album where none of the songs sound the same/have the same formula.
Another thing I should have mentioned… after getting off the phone with you and listening to the track again, I remembered that Jeff (drummer) added a vocal/voice part to the beginning of the song. At the time, Baby Tears was practicing at Jeff's house, which was also home base for finishing the recording (which would become Rusty Years). To our (Todd and my) surprise, Jeff recorded a vocal/voice part at the beginning of the song. It sounded cool… the rest is history.
Jeff Shadoan (intro)
She wanted to be part of the plan
She bought it
It didn't feel right
I saw the transformation
She only wanted to dance, so I said…
Ethan Jones (whispers)
Come closer, come closer
G Em
Come closer, come closer
C# G Em
Head of the Gorgon, head of the Gorgon
C# G Em
Creatures turn to stone, creatures turn to stone
C# G Em
Blood is deadly venom, blood is deadly venom
C# G Em
Titan versus titan, titan versus titan
Michael Todd is Hear Nebraska's managing editor. He can claim only Jumanji as a beloved mythical movie of his childhood. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Rochester, NY – In order to provide more preparation time for local high school musicians interested in auditioning for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's second Search for a Star competition, the RPO has extended its audition application deadline to Friday, January 10, 2009. The new concert date will be Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 2:00 pm as the fourth event in the RPO's Casual Sunday Matinee Series with Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik. The "Sounds of New Orleans" concert originally scheduled for that date will be moved to Sunday, March 1. Patrons desiring to exchange their tickets can do so by calling the RPO Box Office at 454-2100.
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Neuroenergetics: Importance of transport for the regulation of energy substrate fluxes in brain cells
Background: Brain cells were shown to rely on two energy subtrates to sustain their activity: glucose and lactate. Each of these substrates are taken up by brain cells via specific transporters and metabolized in classical biochemical pathways. The critical question remains: Between metabolism and transport, what is the limiting step for the utilization of each energy substrate under resting vs. activated condition?
Goal: The goal of the project is to determine whether transport of the main energy substrates for the brain, glucose and lactate, can become rate-limiting following an increase in cerebral activity.
Mathematical tools: The student will learn to use a mathematical software (Matlab) in order to conduct simulations from a given set of parameters and equations derived from Michaelis-Menten kinetics.
Biological or Medical aspects: The "biology supervisor" will provide background of the main aspects related to brain energy metabolism and Michaelis-Menten kinetics.
Supervisors: Luc Pellerin & Aitana Morton de Lachapelle
Students: Elita Idrizi, Céline Pattaroni & Jennifer Tscherrig
Reference: <biblio>#barros pmid=15749163</biblio>
1st meeting: Fr. 27/2/09 (Luc Pellerin & Aitana Morton de Lachapelle)
- Biological introduction + literature to read. Discussion of the goals of the project.
2nd meeting: Fr. 6/3/09 (Luc Pellerin & Aitana Morton de Lachapelle)
- Introduction to derivatives, ordinary differential equations and analytical vs numerical resolution.
- Glucose metabolism: irreversible Michaelis-Menten kinetics.
- Graphical representation of the metabolic flux as a function of neuronal glucose, in Matlab.
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3rd meeting: Fr. 13/3/09 (Aitana Morton de Lachapelle)
- Glucose transport: reversible Michaelis-Menten kinetics.
- Graphical representation of the net transport- and metabolic fluxes as a function of neuronal glucose, in Matlab.
- Discussion on whether transport and/or metabolism are rate-limiting for glucose consumption by the neurons.
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4th meeting: Fr. 20/3/09 (Aitana Morton de Lachapelle)
- Exercises on Matlab to solve ordinary differential equations numerically.
- Outline of the mid-term presentation.
5th meeting: Fr. 27/3/09 (Luc Pellerin & Aitana Morton de Lachapelle)
- Discussion of the paper by Barros et al. barros.
- Small visit of the Physiology Institute to have an overview of the experimental techniques used (group of Luc Pellerin)
- Preparation of the mid-term presentation.
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6th meeting - Midterm presentation: Fr. 3/4/09 Media:Neuroenergetics_midterm_presentation.ppt
7th meeting - Thur. 23/4/09 (Luc Pellerin & Aitana Morton de Lachapelle)
- Modeling of pyruvate transformation into acetyl-coA by PDHc.
8th meeting - Thur. 30/4/09 (Aitana Morton de Lachapelle)
- Modeling of lactate transport and metabolism, considering different cases and parameters.
9th & 10th meeting - Thur. 7/5/09 (Luc Pellerin & Aitana Morton de Lachapelle)
- Discussion to set up the lactate model we will consider and simulate.
- Simulations and rate-limiting factors.
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11th meeting - Final presentation - Fri. 29/5/09 Media:Neuroenergetics_final_presentation.ppt
(Project in Course: "Solving Biological Problems that require Math")


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The films' unique blend of action, humor, and eye-popping special effects will fuel the Men In Black's gameplay experience. Utilizing the rich mythology of the Men In Black universe, the game's original story will build on the history of the series to bring back familiar faces, while also introducing new foes. More details on gameplay features and characters will be revealed soon!
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For a limited time we are publishing the Route Redistribution videos from our CCIE Routing & Switching Advanced Technologies Class for public viewing. These videos cover all aspects of Route Redistribution needed for the CCIE R&S Lab Exam outside of the scope of MPLS, and will also be useful for any engineers looking for more information on how the Route Redistribution process works.
Specifically these videos cover basic and advanced route redistribution configuration, verification, and troubleshooting, including how and why route redistribution loops occur, how to identify and fix loops related to both Administrative Distance and Metric, TCL scripting for reachability testing, route tagging, the IP Route Profile feature, how to use and interpret the debug ip routing output, and other related topics. Links the videos are as follows:
- Route Redistribution Overview – Runtime 0h 36m
- Route Redistribution Configuration & Verification, Connected Redistribution- Runtime 0h 22m
- OSPF External Path Selection, TCL PING Scripting – Runtime 0h 33m
- Routing Loops Overview, EIGRP Route Loop Prevention – Runtime 0h 55m
- Metric Based Routing Loops, Route Tagging – Runtime 0h 46m
- Administrative Distance Based Routing Loops, Debug IP Routing, IP Route Profile – Runtime 0h 58m
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Tags: aap, administrative distance, debug ip routing, metric, route redistribution, route-map, routing loops, tagging, tcl
To start my reading from Petr's excellent CCDE reading list for his upcoming LIVE and ONLINE CCDE Bootcamps, I decided to start with:
EIGRP for IP: Basic Operation and Configuration by Russ White and Alvaro Retana
I was able to grab an Amazon Kindle version for about $9, and EIGRP has always been one of my favorite protocols.
The text dives right in to none other than the composite metric of EIGRP and it brought a smile to my face as I thought about all of the misconceptions I had regarding this topic from early on in my Cisco studies. Let us review some key points regarding this metric and hopefully put some of your own misconceptions to rest.
- While we are taught since CCNA days that the EIGRP metric consists of 5 possible components – BW, Delay, Load, Reliability, and MTU; we realize when we look at the actual formula for the metric computation, MTU is actually not part of the metric. Why have we been taught this then? Cisco indicates that MTU is used as a tie-breaker in a situation that might require it. To review the actual formula that is used to compute the metric, click here.
- Notice from the formula that the K (constant values) impact which components of the metric are actually considered. By default K1 is set to 1 and K3 is set to 1 to ensure that Bandwidth and Delay are utilized in the calculation. If you wanted to make Bandwidth twice as significant in the calculation, you could set K1 to 2, as an example. The metric weights command is used for this manipulation. Note that it starts with a TOS parameter that should always be set to 0. Cisco never did fully implement this functionality.
- The Bandwidth that effects the metric is taken from the bandwidth command used in interface configuration mode. Obviously, if you do not provide this value – the Cisco router will select a default based on the interface type.
- The Delay value that effects the metric is taken from the delay command used in interface configuration mode. This value depends on the interface hardware type, e.g. it is lower for Ethernet but higher for Serial interfaces. Note how the Delay parameter allows you to influence EIGRP pathing decisions without the manipulation of the Bandwidth value. This is nice since other mechanisms could be relying heavily on the bandwidth setting, e.g. EIGRP bandwidth pacing or absolute QoS reservation values for CBWFQ.
- The actual metric value for a prefix is derived from the SUM of the delay values in the path, and the LOWEST bandwidth value along the path. This is yet another reason to use more predictive Delay manipulations to change EIGRP path preference.
In the next post on the EIGRP metric, we will examine this at the actual command line, and discuss EIGRP load balancing options. Thanks for reading!
CCNA students can typically rattle off the fact that EIGRP uses Bandwidth and Delay in its composite metric calculation by default. In fact, they tend to know this as well as their own last name. But I often notice they might have some pretty big misconceptions about how this metric is really calculated, and how they can manipulate it.
Here are some very important "Core Knowledge" facts that we need to keep in mind about the EIGRP metric: Continue Reading
UPDATE: For more information on Redistribution see the video series Understanding Route Redistribution – Excerpts from CCIE R&S ATC
Simple Redistribution Step-by-Step
We're going to take our basic topology from the previous post Understanding Redistribution Part I , and configure to provide full connectivity between all devices with the most simple configuration. Then we are going to tweak some settings and see how they affect redistribution and optimal routing. This is going to be an introductory example to illustrate the redistribution control techniques mentioned previously.
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Dear Vince,
I am writing this note to let you know my reasons for leaving employment with the Mayor at the end of today. I plan to continue my open government work elsewhere and remain committed to assisting the Filner administration as I am able.
I welcomed the opportunity to work with Bob the first hundred days. Like you, I am thrilled at the philosophical change in the city's highest office. I appreciated the opportunity to work with you, Bob and all the Mayor's staff. They are an amazing group of people.
However, the work of open government has become too narrowly defined for me to successfully meet the public's or my expectations of what I am supposed to be doing. Last Friday you informed me that I am not to concern myself with the Brown Act, specifically related to educating and encouraging community groups or business improvement districts to comply with that law. It is not reasonable to create an open government position and expect that I can make a success of it without allowing me to address the Brown Act's requirements at all levels of government under the Mayor's supervision.
Second, and more problematic, I again raised with you this past Thursday, my concerns about rumors that the Mayor may be involved with women other than his fiancée. While I have no first-hand knowledge beyond his flirting, those who have spoken to me are credible supporters of his and would not make the allegations lightly or without some cause for concern. I was also troubled by your response (to immediately fire any staff if they are raising such concerns) when I brought this to your attention. Hearing that, I cannot continue to stay and be part of an administration that seems to have no real response as to whether these allegations are true.
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For the last few years I have been keenly interested in the mechanisms of democracy. I am also interested in the underpinning philosophy of democracy (and government in general), but I've been more focused lately on the particulars. From the electoral systems that are used to the minutia of what happens when a ballot is cast, I want to know what the best practices are and push to get them adopted.
In the vein, last year I hosted a tour of the Multnomah County Elections Office through the City Club of Portland (well, the Director, Tim Scott, was gracious enough to do the hosting but you know what I mean). Due to it being a very small special election (Oregon's first Congressional District), we were able to see the whole process as it was actually happening. It was really great and I was so into it that I asked if I could volunteer in the future. Tim let me know that the Elections Office doesn't take volunteers, however he instructed that I check back in March when they'd be hiring for the elections season.
So I watched the Multnomah County website and made sure to apply when the posting came up. I received a callback for an interview and then got the job. Sweet! I had let them know that I was really only able to work evenings and weekends and the election day itself due to my (more than) full time job. They only needed me for the elections day, so I showed up at 8am on Tuesday morning.
I suppose I should back up and provide the groundwork that Oregon has used (an awesome!) vote by mail system since 1998 (history here). So election day is less like what you may be used to with lines of voters and everyone scrambling to have the right ID or be in the right precinct. It's more like tax day, with everyone having an envelope and frantically trying to get it in before 8pm.
It's wild how much people procrastinate. 3 weeks before the election a voter pamphlet is mailed to every registered voter in the state (no more than one per household though, so you do have to share with your housemates), then 18 days before the election every registered voter is sent a ballot with a secrecy envelope and a return envelope. You have to pay postage if you mail it, but you can also drop it off at many drop sites in the area. I say all of that to help understand that people have their ballots two and a half weeks before the election, yet about one third of ballots come in on election day (one third the week before election day, and the last third before that). So there are hundreds of thousands of individual pieces of paper that need to be verified, sorted, opened and counted before results can be released all on the night of the election.
The process is awe-inspiring. In my regular job, where I supervise, among other things, our document intake and processing department, I estimate that we lose (which really means, misplace, mis-scan, or attach to the wrong person) probably one document every 3 weeks or so. We process about a hundred thousand documents a year. In contrast, at the elections office, they process several hundred thousand documents in a single night and there's not one document lost. I won't get into too much of the paper-management details here, because I doubt other people are as into the process engineering, color coding and task segmentation as I am, but needless to say it's very streamlined.
So what happens when you cast a ballot in Oregon?
When it's received the ballot goes to the Blue room (yes all rooms are color coded) to be sorted into precinct.
When it's run through the big machine it also takes a picture of the signature on the envelope. This signature image is then sent electronically to a group of trained workers who get a headsup display with the ballot signature and the signature from the voter's registration card. If they don't match then it's reviewed a second time and if it's unacceptable, then the ballot is set aside (voter is contacted to update their signature). The vast majority match and are sent on to "the boards."
The boards are groups of 4 or 5 people of different political party registration who open the ballots and remove them from the secrecy envelope and review them to establish voter intent. This means they look for things that may confuse the machine such as stray marks, over voting, or marks that may be too light to read. If there are potential problems with the ballot (in that the machine might not read it correctly), then all the members of the boards must agree and then corrective highlighter marks are made on the ballot to instruct the machine which marks to count.
After the boards have reviewed it, the ballot goes to the Red Room where it's fed through one of several machines that performs the actual count. At each stage the number of ballots is compared to the known total for that batch to make sure that everything is accounted for and counted correctly.
At the most basic level that's the flow that a ballot goes through when it's received. Other than the process itself, another commendable aspect of the whole operation is the complete dedication to transparency. Every stage of the process is open to members of the public to observe.
Which brings me to my assignment for the day. I was working within a team of four as an "observer monitor" meaning that we accompanied any members of the public (or more accurately members of political parties, political campaigns and the media) around each area to answer any questions they had and to make sure that they were following the guidelines. For the most part though, the observers were much more knowledgable about the process than I was (after all many of them do this every time and for me it was my first day).
Also, since it was a somewhat small election, there weren't too many observers (especially not at 8am when I got there), so I spent a lot of my day in the front office waiting for people to come in. It's unfortunate that there's not really much cross-training, so while parts of the office were working furiously, I was standing around and smiling waiting for observers to come. Here was my view:
Overall it was a great day. Long (I worked from 8am to 12:15 am and there were many people who worked longer), but really fulfilling being a part of such a great system. I'm really excited for November!
Update: I found this cool video that shows the whole process (I didn't even need to type it all up).


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