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Can iSCSI crack the enterprise?
iSCSI storage systems are showing up in medium-sized businesses, but storage managers at large enterprise shops have been reluctant to embrace them. This is largely because Fibre Channel (FC) is so firmly entrenched in bigger companies. But iSCSI offers some unique benefits that may appeal to shops with FC-only environments.
- Stephen Foskett, Gestalt IT
iSCSI storage systems are showing up in medium-sized businesses, but storage managers at large enterprise shops have been reluctant to embrace them. That's starting to change.
iSCSI storage is a huge hit with small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). They love the combination of simplicity, low cost and the functionality of iSCSI devices. But perhaps the biggest selling point is that SMBs don't have to learn the ins and outs of Fibre Channel (FC) due to their familiarity with the IP protocol and Ethernet hardware. But iSCSI implementations in the data centers of the largest enterprise businesses are rare. Why has this revolutionary technology had such a small impact in the enterprise?
The word "enterprise" is one of the most overused, yet rarely defined terms in IT, but it holds important connotations. Simply put, enterprise means big shops full of big data sets, big apps with big requirements, and lots of money to pay for high levels of reliability and performance. Enterprises adopted FC early, which could explain slower iSCSI acceptance. "We've got plenty of capacity in our Fibre Channel infrastructure, so why should I bring in something new?" asks a systems architect at a large insurance firm. Many large firms are notoriously skeptical about new technology and slow to endorse changes to their storage infrastructure.
Enterprises not enticed
Many of iSCSI's selling points just don't seem compelling to enterprise storage managers. While they have a wealth of experience with Ethernet and IP, large firms made their investment and got up to speed on FC years ago. They have so much data, and buy so much storage, that a lower price of entry vs. FC isn't a big deal. They're already working hard to reduce overall costs per gigabyte by introducing tiered storage and reducing the amount of retained data through data classification. The low cost of replication and mirroring features bundled with iSCSI arrays also loses its appeal if a business has already negotiated volume licenses on these features. The core enterprise data center just has too many other items on its to-do list to be implementing iSCSI.
Server virtualization projects are also taking some of the shine off iSCSI. Data centers with hundreds or thousands of low-utilization servers see far greater benefit in consolidating them using software like VMware or Xen, or implementing blade servers. These options increase the number of servers connected to SANs, but allow them to share expensive FC resources like host bus adapters and switch ports. This vastly reduces the number of SAN connections needed, and diminishes the competitiveness of iSCSI, which touts savings based on its per-connection cost.
Many observers also blame enterprise storage vendors for the lack of interest, criticizing them for not pushing this low-cost alternative to their biggest customers. Although upstart storage vendors would love to play in the enterprise, sales and marketing executives at the major vendors say their iSCSI focus remains on smaller accounts. It could be a chicken-and-egg situation: Are vendors not pushing iSCSI to the enterprise because potential users don't want it, or is the lack of vendor support causing enterprise customers to ignore it? One thing is for certain: From a technical perspective, there's no lack of iSCSI support among enterprise storage products. Nearly every modern enterprise array supports iSCSI on an equal footing with FC, and development roadmaps show that iSCSI will continue to mature, supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) in the next few years.
|iSCSI without the IP
A new horse has entered the enterprise IP storage race, and it has some serious backers. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) can be thought of as iSCSI without the IP. It uses many elements of SCSI and FC (just like iSCSI), but doesn't include the familiar TCP/IP components. This promises excellent performance, especially on 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), and is simpler for vendors to add to their products.
TheInfoPro Inc., a New York City-based market analysis firm, has been tracking the adoption of IP SAN technologies in the Fortune 1000 market for years. Its data shows that IP SANs make up a small but growing 4% to 6% of Fortune 1000 storage purchases, with usage focused on file servers and Microsoft SQL databases. iSCSI is present at 13% of Fortune 1000 shops, or approximately half as common as it is at smaller firms, says TheInfoPro. Clearly, a combination of these factors is slowing iSCSI's success in the enterprise.
iSCSI's quiet momentum
iSCSI is more widely used in branch or remote offices distant from the enterprise's main data center. "I'm seeing iSCSI adoption in the enterprise in Tier-2, Tier-3 and nearline/offline storage situations, as well as in workgroup, departmental, and remote office or satellite spaces," says Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst at the StorageIO Group. Discussions with iSCSI users mirrored this observation, with many big-name firms buying IP SAN gear for far-flung locations.
iSCSI is gaining ground where local admins aren't plugged into corporate budgets and standards, in places like branch offices and autonomous business units. Even though enterprise storage architects may not be interested in implementing iSCSI, they may be surprised to find it in parts of the organization outside of their control.
The environment managed by Chuck Thompson, manager of information technology and facilities for Fortis Prime Fund Solutions (Cayman) Ltd. in the Cayman Islands, is typical of this trend. The Cayman branch of Fortis plays a critical role in accounting funds to shareholders, and requires flexible, high-performance storage to support this app. Yet the firm was put off by the large cash outlay required to procure an FC storage infrastructure. "It would have cost a quarter of a million dollars just to get our foot in the door," says Thompson. "When we looked at storage products in 2004, Fibre Channel alternatives were priced near $250,000, but we got similar functionality with our EqualLogic [Inc.] iSCSI system for less than a quarter of that. Even after implementing replication and expanding the system four times we still haven't spent that much."
If a mission-critical enterprise environment like that of Fortis' is satisfied with iSCSI, what's keeping it out of enterprise data centers? "Companies that have a large and underutilized Fibre Channel infrastructure are less interested in iSCSI," says Robert L. Stevenson, managing director, TheInfoPro's storage sector. "But when that existing investment in FC isn't there, or if the utilization of FC ports gets high, interest in alternatives quickly arises." This is a key point: Many firms have built out massive FC SANs with less-than-total utilization. If excess capacity is available, there's little need to invest in a new array in general or an unfamiliar protocol in particular; iSCSI tends to be deployed in areas that haven't been served by any networked storage.
Bridging the gap
When iSCSI is deployed in an enterprise data center, it's often hooked into the FC SAN. Rather than buying end-to-end, iSCSI-only solutions with integrated disk drives, enterprise users are focused on leveraging their existing infrastructure. Although native integrated iSCSI adapters are available for most new arrays, older arrays might not have this capability, so companies turn to iSCSI gateways and bridging technologies. These may take the form of iSCSI routers like those produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. and Sanrad Inc., mimicking the popular "NAS heads" that provide file services in similar situations, or that could be integrated with FC network gear from Brocade Communications Systems Inc. or Cisco Systems Inc.
While selecting an iSCSI product has more to do with the practical considerations of compatibility with existing equipment, there are technical factors to consider. Integrated iSCSI controllers are simpler to configure and manage than an external controller. Integrated controllers normally use the same configuration software and the same commands as FC adapters, but offer little in the way of advanced features. Moving the iSCSI controller outside the array increases the complexity of the overall solution, but allows storage from multiple arrays to be combined and presented to iSCSI-attached servers more flexibly, even if the arrays are of different types. Dedicated iSCSI routers generally offer the most functionality, but you must learn a new management interface. These devices often integrate heterogeneous replication features and other storage virtualization techniques that can prove extremely valuable.
Although a smaller firm may be reluctant to front an expensive and complicated enterprise array with "low-cost" iSCSI, enterprise users see no such contradiction. On the contrary, they value the simplicity and flexibility of standardizing on a single disk platform regardless of the protocol used by attached servers. By having just one type of disk, they can smooth out their storage capacity procurement, averaging out the unpredictability of purchases with a larger set of users. If unexpected demand emerges from one app or another, disk space can be easily reallocated among FC, iSCSI and NAS.
Enterprise iSCSI is appearing in other unexpected places, like backup devices and WANs. Many virtual tape library vendors use iSCSI because the majority of backup systems use Ethernet and IP for connectivity. Many iSCSI arrays are being purchased as storage targets for backup-to-disk implementations. iSCSI is also leveraged as a connectivity mechanism for data replication over IP networks, where protocol converters would previously have been required.
In these cases, iSCSI acceptance is helped by the lack of preexisting enterprise architecture standards, the isolation of the solutions and the predictability of purchasing. Rather than competing for the time of busy storage admins, iSCSI reduces the workload of staff who are less savvy with FC. Instead of displacing FC storage, iSCSI in these enterprise apps is enabling new features outside the traditional realm of disk capacity.
|Benefits beyond cost savings
Although cost is the universal justification for the move to iSCSI, many enterprise users are surprised by the other benefits they get.
Massive scalability
Although it's rare for iSCSI to replace FC in critical storage apps, it sometimes happens. Richard Smith of Weinman GeoScience Inc., a consulting services group to the oil and gas industry in Dallas and Houston, says he's retiring an FC infrastructure in favor of an all-iSCSI SAN based on EqualLogic hardware. "Due to budget constraints, we tried to make do with lower end NAS and DAS storage in the past," says Smith. "But we've been so happy with the performance and availability of our iSCSI storage that we're moving everything to it."
This is no tiny SAN. Weinman GeoScience supports a cluster of 250 AMD dual-core Linux nodes connected to 100TB of raw iSCSI storage on 15 arrays. The iSCSI storage is served up by four Sun Solaris NFS servers. This one app makes up 60% of Weinman GeoScience's business of processing seismic data.
This iSCSI SAN was "very easy to scale, and reliability and performance has been excellent," says Smith. "It had a low introductory price point, but it wasn't the cheapest solution in town." The performance of the firm's EqualLogic system RAID 50 storage has been "remarkable, consistently reaching 100 [megabytes] to 150 megabytes per second from each of our four groups of three or four arrays," says Smith. He looks forward to increasing performance with 10GbE.
iSCSI resistance
Even at firms where interest in iSCSI is high, resistance often comes from outside the storage group. The InfoPro's Stevenson found this to be common. "Pushback from network administrators has been raised at almost three-quarters of Fortune 1000 sites," he says. "They're concerned about management toolsets for troubleshooting and visibility, are unfamiliar with storage traffic and want to wait for 10GbE.
"The vocabulary of network and storage tools is entirely different, making it difficult to map the two domains," continues Stevenson. He says users have had difficulty adapting network management tools to monitor iSCSI traffic, and storage tools are indecipherable to network admins. This is a historical issue that arises because storage and networks were invented by different people at different times. Even though the technologies have proven compatible, the language hasn't.
This resistance may not be entirely technical. Most large enterprises have two separate groups to manage storage and networks, and iSCSI straddles these two domains. This situation mirrors the clash between Unix and Windows, mainframes and distributed systems, and all other IT turf battles.
But iSCSI has a bright future and will continue to gain ground in enterprise-sized companies. "Enterprise customers are reluctant to talk about what they're doing, but more and more [of them] are using iSCSI," says Sanrad CEO Dave DuPont. Even though his company is focused on routing FC traffic out of iSCSI clients, DuPont sees a larger role for the protocol. Given time, iSCSI might be as pervasive in the largest data centers as it is today in medium-sized businesses.


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JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz on Monday arrived in the capital of eastern Nangarhar province after doctors and druggists went on strike against growing insecurity.
The minister, accompanied by the striking doctors, held talks with the provincial police chief and acting governor Brig. Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi.
Provincial public health director Dr. Najibullah Kamawal and provincial council secretary Zabihullah Zmari and member Dr. Nasir Kamawal were also present at the meeting.
After listening to the problems of doctors, Rahimi said the provincial government was serious in maintaining security in all districts with special attention towards security of health practitioners by utilizing all available resources.
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By recovering seeds from different archaeological sites and noticing changes in their characteristics over the centuries, scientists have hypothesized how wheat was altered by humans over time. About 11,000 years ago, people in the Middle East began growing plants for food rather than relying entirely on the wild plants and animals they could gather or hunt. These early farmers began saving seeds from plants with particularly favorable traits and planting those seeds in the next growing season. Through this process of "artificial selection," they created a variety of crops with characteristics particularly suited for agriculture. For example, farmers over many generations modified the traits of wild wheat so that seeds remained on the plant when ripe and could easily be separated from their hulls. Over the next few millennia, people around the world used similar processes of evolutionary change to transform many other wild plants and animals into the crops and domesticated animals we rely on today.
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I hope E.O. is well with their respective buns of love in the oven.
Mamaboo- Glad ur nausea is letting up. One day I drank one of the new Sierra Mist Natural (I like the face that there's no High Fructose Corn Syrup) and immediately my nausea went away, although -knock on wood- I haven't had much. I hope your SCH subsides soon cause it's really scary I agree when you see that gushing blood just when you think you're outta the woods.
AFM-My OB wasn't too concerned last week when I went in about the bleeding because a) the baby looks healthy with a strong heartbeat, b) placenta looks good, and c) she cant' seem to find the cause. She doesn't see any SCH anymore, so we're keeping a close eye and I'm trying to keep a low profile. I too have been on bed rest since the beginning practically. She says bleeding minus the cramping is okay. It's just one of those things we guess.
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UW Law School alumnus James A. Carney and his family are averaging 57 miles per day on their cross-country bicycle trip. But that hasn't kept him from his law practice, according to an article from the State Bar of Wisconsin.
Modern communication technology allows Carney, who earned his J.D. from UW Law School in 1985, to put in a couple hours of work each morning for the Janesville firm Carney, Davis and Thorpe, LLC. Meanwhile, he and his family have made it from Astoria, Oregon, to Yellowstone National Park. Their trip will take them through Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky before ending up in Virginia.
Read the entire article here.
Submitted by UW Law School News on July 7, 2010
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Because not just any kind of protein will do when you're trying to keep blood pressure under control, a diet high in vegetable protein – not animal protein – is key.
Amino Acids: The Answer?
Researchers aren't sure why veggie protein lowers blood pressure, but they suspect that the amino acids in veggies may simply be kinder, somehow, to blood pressure than the amino acids in animal protein. And the magnesium and other good-for-you nutrients found in veggies may enhance the blood-pressure-friendly effects by interacting synergistically with the amino acids.
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Review: Black Gold
What this film found was that while companies like Starbucks are reaping record profits, none of the benefits of coffee's skyrocketing popularity has trickled down to the farmers trying to eke out a living in cash-strapped Ethiopia.
(A scene from the film).
In Ethiopia, where coffee originated, over 15 million people are dependent on this aromatic bean for their very survival.
In fact, the country generates about 67% of its total revenues via exports of this coveted commodity. So, with such multi-national corporations as Kraft, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, and Sara Lee competing in this $80 billion-dollar industry, one would think that the farmers would be able to demand a fair price for what they produce.
Tragically, this is not the case, as eloquently explained in Black Gold, a perplexing expose' documentary directed by Nick and Marc Francis. What these brothers found was that while companies like Starbucks are reaping record profits, none of the benefits of coffee's skyrocketing popularity has trickled down to the farmers trying to eke out a living in cash-strapped Ethiopia.
The picture points out that they are paid 23 cents a kilo for their coffee, which ultimate sells for about $230 per kilo, a figure arrived at by translating the $3/cup rate charged by the upscale retail outlets. All the profits from this tremendous mark-up benefits the aforementioned cartel which sets the international price for coffee, the world's 2nd most actively traded commodity (behind oil), in New York and London.
Meanwhile, in Ethiopia, the average worker in the coffee industry earns 50 cents a day for their grueling work, whether in the sweltering fields or in a fetid factory. The film amply illustrates that this meager salary is barely enough to subsist on, as family providers frequently find themselves having to choose between spending money on food, clean water, shelter, clothing or education for their children.
There is a touching scene in Black Gold where we see Ethiopians earnestly engaged in a prayer ritual begging God to raise the praise of coffee. This tableau the directors cleverly offset with telling interviews in which clueless consumers living far away in the lap of luxury in la-la land acknowledge having no clue about the desperate plight of the folks who farmed the beans for the brew they're enjoying.
The premise powerfully postulated by Black Gold is that not only Ethiopians, but millions and millions of other Africans are also suffering due to the paltry prices paid by big business for natural resources, which most people from developed countries take for granted. Africa is already the only continent to grow poorer over the past 20 years, so the urgent message which must be heeded is that until the West becomes willing to pay fair prices, the rape of the continent will continue unabated, leaving vast populations in economic crisis, stranded and seemingly without recourse in increasingly dire straits.
Excellent (4 stars). Unrated. Running time: 78 minutes.  Studio: California Newsreel
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Hey (Boomer/Gen X) Future Boss,
I'm that annoying, selfish, selfie-taking and entitled future employee you love to hate – The True Millennial. Nowhere to run, you'll have to hire me – or someone like me – very soon. We're taking over, bro.
The trouble is, you've got me wrong. I'm not your enemy and not a parasite distraction – I'm your biggest asset.
Why's that, you ask? I'm pretty good at what I do. That and I know what others like me want to buy, consume, believe and then invest in, talk about and value in their lives.
Who am I, really, Boss? I'm just a dude with a portfolio career who wants to make a difference in the world, do well, make a good name for you and for myself, get paid, get more responsibility, accomplish something, then get out. I've got big plans, you see. That doesn't make me selfish – just pragmatic.
What do I want from you and from your company? I'll tell you very frankly:
1) Radical Transparency.
Next time there is an All-Hands meeting, tell me what the different teams are doing. Why are they doing it, with what success or failure? Tell me the company financials, product details and the strategy. I'll handle it just fine – big boy.
I want to hear about our marketing, our hiring and how the market looks. I want to know ahead of time what bonuses will look like and what I need to do to get a raise, a better title, people I will manage, and so on.
When you show me (not just tell me) we're in glass house, I'll think twice before throwing a stone.
2) Purpose and Mission.
Why are we here? Why are we doing what we're doing, in the way we are? What are we working for all day and night? Why does my role here matter? What is the bigger purpose here? Tell me how we are saving lives or people's time or money – better if all three.
This makes me feel like I'm doing something meaningful with positive impact on people's lives.
3) Quick, pointed feedback on performance – both the bad and good.
If something's off, I want to know ASAP to course-correct. Less formal and more regular is better.
There is nothing more that I appreciate than when you take your time (even a couple minutes twice a week) to motivate me and help me improve.
4) Drop the micro-managing.
Treat me like the capable professional you hired and just let me do my job.
5) Be flexible with using more of my skills.
I'm not just a one-hit Excel wonder or copywriting robot. Use me or lose me.
Toss me a bone – let me work on a side project with another team or another project where I know I can be instantly helpful.
It helps keep me motivated and feeling useful to the company – and will reliably improve your bottom line and make it more likely I'll stick around a while.
6) Step up to the plate as a mentor or find me someone here who can help guide me in my career path.
This means meaningful one-one-one time outside of work – not just passing words exchanged at a team-building exercise or group lunch.
7) Drop the unlimited vacation policy.
In practice, this just means nobody ever takes off. Set an example by actually taking off time and encouraging us to do the same. It makes burnout less likely and helps us refocus, refresh and come back ready to take on new challenges.
8) Flat hierarchy or not, drop the corporate politics and two-faced appeals to culture and values.
Lead by example with radical transparency (#1) and by treating people like adults (#22) and with consistent decency (#23).
9) Make decisions quicklyand transparently.
Make everyone aware of how (and why) we're moving forward. That's how you get my buy-in, no matter if we agree.
10) Mix up the demographics.
We need the gray hair and the tattoos, young grads and old fogies (seen The Intern?), women and men, people from different walks of life and backgrounds and industries, and everyone in between.
Don't let it get stale and boring with everyone looking and sounding the same. Everyone (the company first) benefits from shared perspective and wisdom from all kinds of different people in the same space, working on the same problems.
11) Give me time and resources for meaningful professional development.
Sponsor me for a General Assembly course, online course or industry conference. I will forever be grateful for the exposure and experience. This is a big one.
12) Give me 10-20% of my work time for side projects.
Don't just pay lip service to what Google does (or used to do well). Use this as a way to tap my creativity and I'll find you new revenue streams, better, cheaper, faster ways to do things, build new products, etc.
Create an internal forum to gather and generate useful ideas from employees to help the company.
Let me pitch you or whomever in management on my ideas and how I'd implement them. If you approve, let me run with them in balance with my existing tasks.
13) Let me move around internally and outside of the company.
If I like what I learned from you, I'll work with you again in the future on the same or a new venture.
Always be helpful to me in my career whether here or elsewhere and I'll always return the favor. No need to burn bridges just because I feel I should move on when I decide to.
14) Drop the buzzwords and speak straightto me.
No more rocket ships, growth hacking, unicorns, Uber for whatever. No more synergies, efficiency, productivity, cost savings.
I get that you drank the Kool-Aid, but don't make me drink it too. Speak plainly to me – or I'll think you're just another corporate tool or startup douche.
Oh, and drop that crappy NDA. It's quite useless (unenforceable) and only breeds ill will.
15) Give me benefits I'll actually… benefit from.
Let me choose them myself, first of all. Offer benefits that fit my lifestyle and family situation. Show me that the company actually cares about my health and wellbeing, not just my productivity and its own bottom line.
For example, help me pay off my student loans, offer a 401(k) and/or Roth IRA match. Help me manage my finances by offering credit monitoring, identity theft protection, HSA/FSA, other pre-tax investment opportunities.
Help me stay healthy by incentivizing earnings through walking 10,000 steps a day, not just with a cheaper gym membership. Start a pedometer competition with real rewards. Give me cash or good gift cards as inducement (Amazon, iTunes, etc.). The impact will be tremendous and long-lasting – both for me and you.
16) Don't nickel-and-dime me on professional development, travel and other things important for my job and overall performance.
17) Stop offering gimmicks (foosball table and endless snacks).
We never have time to play foosball and just get fat from eating all day.
18) Judge me on performance, not the hours I'm physically present in the office.
A week-long, 8-hour-a-day+ face time requirement in the office breeds hypocrisy and contempt, not to mention poor quality of work, absenteeism and other evils. As long as I get the work done at a high level and remain motivated, much of the work I do can be done from almost anywhere.
19) Be flexible with letting me work remotely.
I often do my best work at odd times. I likely a have a kid, a wife, side projects, passions, volunteer activities. Sometimes it's best if I don't waste the time commuting in.
20) Be consistently the same inside and out.
Don't be two-faced to me. I'll see right through it.
Don't hire two-faced people who'll ruin your culture and drive the good people away. That's the number one ingredient that makes or breaks a company's success.
21) Include me and other team members in candidate interviews.
This ensures that the whole group buys in before you hire someone that doesn't fit.
If I'm on the team, my opinion matters, so give me a voice on big decisions and hear me out. Don't just inform me of new team members the day they start or big changes after the fact. This is a BIG red flag.
22) Treat me like an adult – with dignity, respect and by giving me real responsibility and runway to accomplish my goals.
Also, please respect my need for a life outside of work. Heard of "diminishing returns"? That is what happens when people work too many hours and start burning out.
Give me an opportunity to do my best work with other smart and highly motivated folks on an important problem here that has a real and positive impact on many people.
23) No need to be my best friend, but be consistently decent to me and everyone else around.
Start a virtuous cycle of decency and you'll reap the benefits many times over.
24) Encourage everyone to recognize each other for a job well done.
Make them write it down for review time and factor it into compensation and bonuses. Motivation will go through the roof.
25) Take hiring and HR very seriously.
Hire HR (and all other) people only when they "get it" and buy completely into the company's mission, purpose and product.
HR should be crystal clear about what motivates me and other employees, what each of us wants out of working here and how to deliver it in return for my time, motivation and best work. None of us should be treated like a commodity if you want us to stick around.
26) Mix up the floor plan.
Don't force everyone to work out on the open floor all day with no room to breathe or hear our own thoughts. Leave room for people to work solo, so they can focus better.
Now #KThanksBye.


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elmoastro » December 21st, 2016, 4:05 pm wrote:http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/anschlag-in-berlin-polizei-sucht-tunesier-a-1126931.html
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The police traced to information obtained by SPIEGEL and SPIEGEL TV a new track for the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin . Under the driver's seat in the vehicle, the investigators found an identification document, apparently a certificate of toleration. The document is issued to a Tunisian citizen named Anis A., born in 1992 in the city of Tataouine.
Holywood really needs to do a blockbuster film called, "The Magic Passport".
And of course the guy's name sounds like "anus"...
sharpstuff » 20 Dec 2016, 10:38 wrote:My apologies for the apparent lackadaisical nature of this post. I am sure some-one else will pick this up. I am very busy at the moment.
I've seen how the truck driver entered there and..er..ya..he just ran people over. *shrugs shoulders* I've also seen how people were under this car (sic). That's it actually. *Mic-holder whispers* What? I heard some shots. He was masked. And then, he ran away, when the people.. *whisper* He was masked, the people ran away, I stayed there. The people ran to the S-Bahn (=railway) and he, too, is, I think, I think he also ran away there. And then he removed his mask, and then he just continued running. *whisper* Yes, yes. I also saw that. I was there, at the very front, in front of Bikini Berlin. *cut* (although live-video) Yes he was simply masked. He then ran away.*whisper* No, no. I saw detective police. The detective police was there. After that, before police, I was there, after that police came. In two minutes the police was there.
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Amazon.com Outlet
Amazon.com, the Internet's largest provider of books, music and videos, partnered with Tool Crib of the North a year ago to launch a Tools and Hardware store. The company offered a selection of electrical and lighting products for both do-it-yourselfers and professional contractors. Today, Amazon.com has launched a new feature — Amazon.com Outlet. The company has gathered all the sale items in its 13 categories and posted them at one location. Customers can view all the deals by visiting Amazon.com and clicking on "outlet." The store has closeout pricing on electrical products, special deals on reconditioned tools and discounts and rebate offers.
Electric-find.com, a search engine founded by Durand and Associates, got 400,000 hits last year. The company has now launched a site for electrical contractors without a Web presence. Electrical contractors may obtain a Web site for only $95. This includes a one-year hosting service and a listing on www.electric-find.com. For $145, contractors can have a three-page Web site with a home page, services page and locations page. Electrical contractors who want to post project photos and contact information can order a five-page Web site for $245 a year.
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When Robert Marckini was diagnosed with prostate cancer 12 years ago, his life came to a stop. He was devastated, but also motivated — to find the best care. Robert quickly ruled out surgery after seeing what it did to his brother, who'd been diagnosed with the disease years earlier. So he started looking into other options, such as external beam radiation, internal radiation, cryosurgery, and active surveillance. He read everything he could find on the Internet and in libraries, interviewed a number of doctors representing each treatment modality, and spoke to dozens of patients. With all this information, Robert felt a duty to help others make their best choice.
Thus his book You Can Beat Prostate Cancer was conceived.
As many independently published authors can attest, once the manuscript was done, they turned toward traditional publishing but found mostly rejections and closed doors. Robert had the same experience. As he explains:
"When I approached publishers, they told me I needed an agent. When I approached agents, they told me I needed to have been published before. The decision to self publish was easy."
Although Robert doesn't have a social media platform, he still managed to spread the word by mentioning the book's publication in his monthly newsletter. Started in 2001, it runs between 18 to 22 pages and covers prostate cancer prevention, detection, treatment and proton therapy. Currently his newsletter goes to 6,200 members and 1,000 additional readers.
Robert also encouraged both practitioners and patients to review his book on various retailer's websites. His nudging definitely paid off — he's garnered over 100 reviews on his Amazon page (a "must read for all men" says one customer) and close to 30 ("If you should buy one book about prostate cancer – this is the one," says a reader) on Lulu. That said, explains Robert, his strategy mostly relied upon the strength of the product.
"Most of the marketing happens by word of mouth from men and women who have read my book and found it helpful. Many have told me it changed their lives."
He may not have ever thought he'd be an author but Robert Marckini sure is now — and for aspiring writers he has some advice:
"Don't put off starting your book. Just sit down and start writing. It will come to you. Go over your drafts many, many times. Have trusted friends and pseudo-grammarians review your manuscript. Read Zinsser's book, On Writing Well. It's the best book I read on how to write a book."
As for Robert, he's already at work on a second edition that will include an index, information on the latest developments in prostate cancer detection and treatment, along with considerably more graphics.
Jessica Schein writes for the Lulu Blog – Archived


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OXFORD, Ohio (AP) Majok Majok scored 21 points and Jesse Berry had 20 points to lead Ball State to an 82-62 win over Miami (Ohio) on Saturday.
Chris Bond finished with 16 points, seven rebounds and five steals for the Cardinals (8-10, 2-4 Mid-American Conference), who snapped a four-game losing streak. Jauwan Scaife had 14 points and seven assists.
With a 58-54 lead, Ball State put the game away with a 12-0 run that was capped by Majok's tip-in with 2:38 left to play. The Cardinals pushed their lead to as many as 22 points to dominate the second half against the RedHawks (7-11, 2-4), who have lost three straight games.
Will Felder led Miami with 14 points, Quinten Rollins scored 12 and Reggie Johnson added 10.
Ball State shot 57.7 percent from the floor (30 of 52) for the game while holding the RedHawks to 44.2 percent (23 of 52).


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Chris' career in real estate started in 1992, and during this time she has seen a lot of changes. Chris began her real estate career in Administration as Receptionist and also managed the Rental Portfolio for the Company. She then moved into the Role of Personal Assistant for one of Marlborough's Top Sales Agents. Then into sales herself, she has had a successful sales career for 10 years.
These moves have meant Chris has become very systems orientated and client focused and ensures she has all the up-to-date statistics in the current market place. Chris' philosophy on client service is the key to her success. She believes her clients want to work with someone who has a straight-forward, honest manner and who can give informed and knowledgeable advice. "When I communicate with people I take a very direct approach". "Success in real estate comes through personal communication and making that connection by establishing your clients needs and expectations up front. First by listening and then by delivering''.
With over 25 years in the Industry under her belt Chris has now moved into Management and Business Ownership and holds her Agent Licence (AREINZ). "I guess I have finally earned my stripes"!!
On a personal level: Chris is married to Dean and together they have two adult daughters and a wee grandaughter due in January 2019.


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Ever since CBS renewed its hit comedy How I Met Your Mother for seasons 7 and 8, some fans have supposed that season 8 might mark the conclusion of the series. With that final contracted season about to begin, rumors have been swirling about the show's fate.
Initially, we'd heard that the network was hopeful that the adventures of Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and friends would go on. Then, word broke that star Jason Segel might be looking to exit the series, potentially spelling its end. Now, it seems that the possibility of season 9 is looking far slimmer.
Courtesy of Access Hollywood, star Neil Patrick Harris – who plays the show's signature character in "legendary" womanizer Barney Stinson – has said that the HIMYM's impending eighth season would likely be its last:
"Our contracts end at [Season] 8, so it's one of those, you know, if they wanna do 9, they're welcome to, but we have a lot of other things [going on]. Cobie [Smulders] has got The Avengers that just made a billion dollars, Jason [Segel] makes a ton of movies, I'm anxious to move East and Josh [Radnor] is directing and acting in movies as well. So, we all are anxious to move forward."
As is par for the course when a successful series nears its end, it seems that another season largely depends on luring the cast back with a hefty paycheck, as Harris himself admits.
"I think the only way I think a season 9 or any longer would happen would be [if it were] financially right – that's the reality of it. We love the show, we love doing it – eight years is a long time, and we're as happy a family as we've ever been."
We at Screen Rant had previously speculated that the increasingly busy schedules of the five-person ensemble cast of HIMYM could lead to the show's end, since all of its cast members have seen their careers sky-rocket since the series premiered in 2005. For instance, Radnor has just directed his second feature Liberal Arts (which he also wrote and stars in), and it's unclear if Smulders' involvement in The Avengers franchise would extend to a role in the in-development S.H.I.E.L.D. series.
Co-creator Craig Thomas recently told Zap2it that there's also no chance that he and co-creator Carter Bays would continue without every member of the main cast. In fact, they're approaching season 8 as if it is the end of the series. Here's what Thomas had to say:
"We're writing this season like it's the end. We sort of have a Plan A and a Plan B going [should Season 9 happen], but we're approaching the point where those two things would diverge. It gets more and more difficult as it goes on. Ultimately, it going to be more and more work that we're going to have to throw out if this isn't our last season, so we'd like to know as soon as possible. It's a lot of big machinery we're moving around.
Still, Thomas maintains that – if the show continues for a ninth year – the writing staff has plenty of ideas left.
If this is the last season of How I Met Your Mother, it's everything we ever dreamed of and more, and eight seasons is great. That being said, do we have a ninth season is us? Absolutely. We could do a ninth season if it was possible."
It's unknown exactly how the show's storyline would change if it's renewed for a ninth year. However, word is that season 8 will end with the wedding where Ted will finally meet the "mother" of the show's title. One popular theory is that subsequent seasons could follow the couple as they begin to date, but some fans feel this would betray the very premise of the show.
Many shows have overextended their welcomes, and fans should hope that the HIMYM goes out on top, before the characters become stale and the writers run out of ideas. Plus, the way the past couple of seasons have progressed, season 8 feels like the right time for the show to come to a bittersweet end.
HIMYM has only really made a handful of major missteps during its run (looking at you, season 5!), but for the most part, Bays and Thomas have done a remarkable job breathing relatable, hilarious life into the trials and tribulations of young adults in their late 20s and early 30s, from searching for love to losing loved ones.
Despite Thomas's fairly diplomatic response above, it seems that all signs are pointing towards this coming season being the last of HIMYM. Does this seem like the right time for the show to end, Screen Rant readers? What would you like to see happen in the final season? Let us know in the comments.
How I Met Your Mother returns for season 8 on Monday, September 24 at 8pm on CBS.
Sources: Access Hollywood, Zap2it


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Radioactive iodine is a medicine that you take one time. After you swallow it, it is taken up by your
thyroid gland. Depending on the dosage used, the
radioactivity in the iodine destroys most or all of the tissue in your thyroid
gland, but it does not harm any other parts of your body.
Radioactive iodine treatment has been safely used on millions of people
for more than 60 years.
Within a few days after treatment, the
radioactive iodine will leave your body in your urine. Drinking plenty of
fluids during this time will help your body get rid of the radioactivity. To
avoid exposing other people to radioactivity, it is important to take the
following precautions for the first 5 days after your treatment:
To further reduce the chance of exposing other people to
After you take your treatment, you may have follow-up
exams every 4 to 6 weeks until your
thyroid hormone levels return to normal.
Radioactive iodine has the best
chance of permanently curing hyperthyroidism. Doctors often use it if your
hyperthyroidism comes back after you have been treated
with antithyroid medicine. It can also be used if your hyperthyroidism comes
back after you have surgery to remove part of your thyroid gland.
For most people, one dose of
radioactive iodine treatment will cure hyperthyroidism. Usually, thyroid
hormone levels return to normal in 8 to 12 weeks. In rare cases, the person
needs a second or third dose of radioactive iodine.
For some people, radioactive iodine treatment
causes the thyroid gland to become swollen and inflamed (radiation
thyroiditis). If this happens, you may feel pain in your neck. Or your
hyperthyroidism may temporarily get worse. If you get radiation thyroiditis, it
usually does not last more than a few days. And you can take medicines that
will help you feel better.
Radioactive iodine treatment may cause
hypothyroidism, which means your body makes too little
thyroid hormone. Most people will have hypothyroidism within a year
after treatment. If you have hypothyroidism, you will
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thyroid hormone medicine for the rest of your life.
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If you have
Graves' ophthalmopathy, it may get worse temporarily
after radioactive iodine therapy.
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other health conditions they have—are treated first with radioactive
Radioactive iodine is often recommended if you have
Graves' disease and are older than 50, or if you have
thyroid nodules (toxic multinodular goiter) that are
releasing too much thyroid hormone. Radioactive iodine is not used if:
You may take
antithyroid medicine for several weeks or months
before treatment with radioactive iodine. The antithyroid medicine will lower
thyroid hormone levels in your body and will also lower your chances of having
a more serious problem called
thyroid storm. You may also take additional medicines that can make you feel better
and help your thyroid return to normal before you are given radioactive
Radioactive iodine has been used to treat hyperthyroidism
for more than 60 years. There is no evidence that radioactive iodine causes
cancer, infertility, or birth defects.
If you have had
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treatment, prepare for any problems you may have at airport
security. People who have had radioactive iodine treatment can set off the
radiation detection machines in airports.
If you plan to travel
within 5 to 7 days of your radioactive treatment:
Complete the special treatment information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this treatment.
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Unless you were living under a rock or had something better to do than read fat blogs yesterday, you already know about the absurd piece of stunt legislation being proposed in Mississippi, which would require (not allow; require) restaurants to deny service to fat people. (Here's JoGeek, The Rotund, Big Fat Blog, Lindsay, Rachel, Thoughtracer… did I miss anyone?) Of course this is a farcical suggestion, especially as they propose sending restaurants written material on determining whether someone is too fat to eat in public. Presumably this means "advanced eyeballing notes," since diagnosing "obesity" requires at very least a scale and a ruler, neither of which qualifies as written material. And we all know how effective eyeballing is at determining where someone falls on the BMI scale.
As I said on Rachel's post about the bill, I bet Alexandra Erin is kicking herself that she didn't come up with this first. It is truly surreal, and its sponsors (not so thin themselves) appear to be absolutely serious. Of course, being a total miscarriage of both human rights and practicality, the bill will never pass (regrettably probably more for the second reason than the first). But it's being proposed to make a point, and so to make a point we should respond. JoGeek at Unapologetically Fat has helpfully collected the contact information of the bill's sponsors, so you can explain to them why this move is not only nonsensical but bigoted and cruel. Feel free to post your letters below, especially if you don't mind people using them as templates. (I know it can be really daunting to try to compose a Letter To Your Congressman, and I often wait until I've seen some more reasonable people write them first, otherwise I spend all my time just taking out the bad words). And there's great discussion going on in the threads linked above, if you need to marshal your thoughts.


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People around the world are feeling the pain at the pump. President Obama, whose reelection in 2012 may depend on a rebounding American economy, has promised that his energy plan could temper oil prices. Adding to the stakes, minutes from the US Federal Reserve meeting in March 2011 revealed concern that high oil prices could hurt the American economy.
So why have oil prices risen from around $36 dollars per barrel in December 2008 to $110 dollars per barrel now? And what can be done to lower them? Speculation in oil markets, which has little to do with oil demand and supply, is a key part of the problem, and it can be stemmed with several regulatory steps.
Oil prices are determined mainly by the combined behavior of oil traders on markets, the most important one being the New York Mercantile Exchange. When traders believe that oil prices will rise, they buy oil futures in the hope of selling them down the road for a profit. Such buying increases oil prices, and, eventually, the price of gasoline, heating oil, and many other products.
Oil prices started to rise because traders saw clear signs that the US and global economy were rebounding after the Great Recession, creating more demand for oil. The weakening dollar and fears that Middle East turmoil would disrupt oil supplies have also pushed prices higher.
While popular opinion and media coverage often blame Middle East turmoil for higher oil prices, it's only a partial explanation. After all, the Saudis are pumping extra oil to make up for lost oil from Libya. And while oil traders and many others thought that unrest in Bahrain could spread to oil-rich Saudi Arabia, this has not happened. We now have more oil in the markets than we need, pushing the Saudis to actually lower their oil production.
Enter speculation.
How speculation drives up oil prices
Only some traders are speculators. Speculators are those who do not produce or use oil, but buy oil futures solely to make a profit on price changes. Data released in March 2011 by Bart Chilton, commissioner of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, suggest that speculators have increased their positions in energy markets by 64 percent since June 2008. That's the highest level on record.
Oil prices have continued to rise despite mixed news on oil supply and demand, a diminishing chance of Saudi oil disruptions, and Japan's human and economic catastrophe. Such price movements were even more dramatic when oil prices rocketed from $50 in February 2007 to over $147 per barrel in July 2008. Rapid swings in price, which are hard to connect to traditional market forces, indicate the influence of speculation.
Tens of billions of dollars have been placed in US energy commodity markets in the past few years. That money is earmarked to buy oil futures contracts, and it fuels speculation. The pattern is: We're betting on oil more and more.
What can we do about rising oil prices? News flash to Congress and global leaders: A smarter American and global energy policy would certainly help. But such policies will take time to implement.
Steps to stem speculation
Meanwhile, we must take measures to stem speculation. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is mandated by the US Congress to ensure that oil prices reflect supply and demand rather than excessive speculation. There are several additional steps that the CFTC should now take:
• Place limits on the number of contracts that traders can hold. The CFTC has been considering such a move, but has so far equivocated, perhaps due to differences among its board members or pressure from some on Wall Street.
• Consider limiting the amount of margin debt that traders can assume. Now, traders can go into serious debt to buy oil futures, and that encourages higher-risk betting.
• Test various regulation solutions by gathering data to see which works best to curb speculation. This testing approach may produce results that will convince those wary of regulation to give it a try, whereas a more rigid approach may not.
Beyond these measures taken by the CFTC, we should also educate the public. Many of us essentially boost speculation by investing in commodities via our investment and retirement funds. American and global leaders should make investors more aware of that, but they hardly ever do.
Regulation is better than the alternative
Of course, tinkering with free markets is complicated. For example, if we only regulate the New York Mercantile Exchange, traders may place some bets on the InterContinental Exchange in London – another global oil market. Ideally, international markets should be coordinated. Regulations would be designed to have universal application across all commodity exchanges.
That's possible to accomplish, though certainly not easy. Regulators can be encouraged by the recent calls for more global financial regulation, not simply piecemeal reforms within individual countries and exchanges.
I prefer free-market capitalism, but the alternative of not taking action in this case is worse than the downsides of regulating oil markets. Global oil price shocks have historically either contributed to or caused economic recessions. Even if we can dodge an oil-price shock this time around, which is possible, doing so will become even harder as global oil demand rises faster than oil supply in the future – a likely scenario.
It's time to think about long-term changes to curb speculation-driven oil prices and the impact such prices have on the economy. And it's time to start taking action now. Hopefully, the CFTC, and a new team that President Obama has just created to explore speculation, will reach this conclusion soon.
Steve A. Yetiv is a professor of political science and international studies at Old Dominion University. He is the author of "Crude Awakenings," "The Absence of Grand Strategy," and the recently released "Explaining Foreign Policy."
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Health and global change in an interconnected world - Concerns and responsibilities for Switzerland
This factsheet of the Swiss Academies highlights the principal drivers of global change, placing particular emphasis on associated health impacts.
Relevant issues for Switzerland include local health impacts due to climate change, vulnerability to (re-)emerging infectious diseases, in-migrant health and overseas health impacts. Interdisciplinary research and cross-sector action are needed to mitigate adverse health impacts and adapt to global change.
Current anthropogenic pressures on the biosphere are historically unprecedented. These complex and far-reaching changes are disrupting many of the Earth's systems, cycles and feedback mechanisms, leading to adverse impacts and threatening the foundations of human health and well-being.
The role of Swiss-based multinational companies engaged in commodity trading as well as the extractive, pharmaceutical and food industries warrant particular attention towards promoting sustainable and equitable practices.
This factsheet of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences was written in the context of the project "Global change and developing countries: why should we care?" managed by the KFPE and the Forum for Climate and Global Change (ProClim-).
Pages: 1-6
Swiss Academies Factsheets
- Biodiversity, a guarantee of health?
- Open Science in Switzerland: Opportunities and Challenges
- Nationale Bedeutung naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen der Schweiz
- Governance of regional development
- Reverse emissions or influence solar radiation: Is "geoengineering" worthwhile, feasible and if so, at what price?
- Wildlife and humans in outdoor recreational areas near cities
- New approaches for protecting potatoes against late blight
- Wasser in der Schweiz
- Spotlight on climate in Switzerland
- Outdoor Sports Infrastructure Planning – Hiking and Mountain Biking
- Ozon und Sommersmog: Klimawandel gefährdet heutige Erfolge
- Factsheet «New plant breeding techniques for Swiss agriculture – significant potential, uncertain future»
- Energiestrategie und Gesundheit: Was bei der Umsetzung der Energiestrategie zu beachten ist
- Making the Commodity Sector Work for Developing Countries - Local Impacts, Global Links, and Knowledge Gaps
- Switzerland and the Commodities Trade - Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
- Health and global change in an interconnected world - Concerns and responsibilities for Switzerland
- Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz mit Luftreinhaltung verbinden
- A Focus on fracking
- Added value from tourism in Swiss parks
- Bienen und andere Bestäuber: Bedeutung für Landwirtschaft und Biodiversität (2014)
- Genetically modified crops and their importance for Swiss agriculture
- Environmental changes and migration in developing countries
- Die Verbuschung des Alpenraums durch die Grünerle
- Food security for a planet under pressure – and the challenges for Switzerland
- Mountains, a priority for a planet under pressure and for Switzerland
- Water security for a planet under pressure – and the consequences for Switzerland
- Biodiversität und Ökosystemleistungen auf globaler Ebene und in der Schweiz (2012)


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NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A barefoot homeless man who became famous last week after a kind New York City police officer bought him a pair of boots is again going around shoeless.
On Nov. 14, NYPD officer Lawrence DePrimo bought Jeffrey Hillman a pair of winter boots after noticing he had no shoes, The New York Times reported. The interaction was immortalized when a tourist snapped a picture on her phone's camera and posted it online.
However, since Hillman received his new shoes, some passersby have noticed he hasn't been wearing them.
"Those shoes are hidden. They are worth a lot of money," Hillman said Sunday. "I could lose my life."
Hillman said he is very thankful for the kind gesture, but was taken aback by all the attention that had come his way.
"I was put on YouTube, I was put on everything without permission. What do I get?" he said. "This went around the world, and I want a piece of the pie.
"I appreciate what the officer did, don't get me wrong. I wish there were more people like him in the world."


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A former British solider shot himself in the head after losing $1 million in the $50 billion fraud of Bernard Madoff.
William Foxton, 65, had just returned from Afghanistan working as a defense contractor when he revealed to his family he had lost his life savings on the scheme, said the victim's son, Willard Foxton. Foxton had just retired and was getting ready to settle down at home with his family.
Foxton had invested his money into two Austrian -based hedge funds according to the BBC's web site. He found out both funds had been closed and their funds invested with Madoff.
"I want Madoff and others involved to know they have my father's blood on their hands," said Foxton to The Daily Telegraph. "I'm very angry. My first thought was to show up at Madoff's trail in New York and throw my father's medals in his face."


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IBM's Power7 servers imminent
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IBM is planning to launch its Power7-based Power Systems servers sometime before the end of March.
The new arrived Tuesday afternoon from chief financial officer, Mark Loughridge, during a conference call discussing Big Blue's fourth quarter and full year 2009 financial results.
Previously, IBM had said that Power7 systems would be announced sometime in the first half of 2010. When dicussing IBM's third quarter 2009 results last fall, Loughridge said that yields for the 45 nanometer chips were five months ahead of the 65 nanometer ramp for the Power6 and Power6+ chips.
Without providing specifics, Loughridge said during that fall call that the Power Systems refresh would be done by the end of 2010, implying that the launch will be a rolling thunder launch, with different parts of the product line coming out at different times. But, then again, IBM has in the past launched the whole lineup of Power-based servers at once and then staggered the deliveries, based on chip yields and customer demand. This scenario seems most likely, and it would explain the confusing and conflicting rumors about when the Power7 machines would actually come to market.
Late last year, some sources we spoke to who claimed to know what IBM's plans were - and who were good sources in the past - said that the Power7 announcements would happen in January or February. Others said March. And still others said Big Blue was going to keep its powder dry until early May, when the COMMON midrange user group meeting is being held in Orlando, Florida.
Well, now we know that something with a Power7 chip is coming sometime between now and the end of March. The news comes after a 14 per cent drop in Power System sales during the fourth quarter.
"Later [in Q1], we'll introduce the next generation Power Systems, which will deliver two to three times the performance, in the same energy envelope," Loughridge told the assembled Wall Street multitudes on Tuesday. "So quite an announcement for this product line."
You can find our coverage of the technical features of the future eight-core Power7 processor that will be snapped inside those Power Systems rack, blade, and tower servers here and here. Take a gander at the Power7 IH supercomputer node used in the "Blue Waters" petaflops supercomputer here.
IBM is no doubt motivated to have some big server tale to tell once Oracle closes its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Intel is prepping its quad-core "Tukwila" Itaniums and its "Beckton" eight-core Nehalem-EX chips, while Advanced Micro Devices and its foundry partner, GlobalFoundries, are readying twelve-core "Magny-Cours" processors. No x64 chip will be able to touch the performance of a top-end Power7 box, but these big x64 machines will most definitely give Big Blue a run for the money in the midrange. ®
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Class Notes - 1950s
This edition of Class Notes includes law submissions through November 24, 2010, and undergraduate and graduate submissions through April 30, 2011.
|Arts & Sciences Reunion June 21−24, 2012
Barbara Getty B.A. is now a copublisher of her books on better handwriting (see Handwriting Success). 1959 Lue Lilly B.S. is honored in the foreword of the recently published We Were All Athletes: Women's Athletics and Title IX at the University of Nevada. Her contributions to the women's athletic program as an associate professor receive special notice.


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Faith Hill Has 'Come Home' to Country Music With 2011 CMA Awards Performance
One of the most talked about performances leading up to the 2011 CMA Awards show was the return of Faith Hill and the premiere of her new single, 'Come Home.' When the lights came on to the stage, Hill stood at the microphone looking like a knockout in a black sheer shirt, black pants and red stiletto heals.
Her performance was the first time in five years that the superstar has taken the stage at the CMA Awards to sing a tune. The uplifting song was filled with soul and emotion, as she addressed each lyric to the power ballad with passion. With Hill's seasoned stage presence, one would never think it has really been five years since the superstar has stepped foot on the this stage for a performance.
As she belted out her last note of 'Come Home,' the Bridgestone Arena fans, friends and artists paid their respect to Hill by rising to their feet, welcoming the singer back 'home' to country music where she will always belong. Hill was sincerely moved by the warm reception, and she bowed to her peers with a bright smile.
The new single, 'Come Home,' is the first new release from Hill in six years. The tune can be found on Hill's forthcoming new album on Warner Bros. Records.
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The beetle, ladybug and bee bibs are very easy to make. Each bib measures 8" wide (that doesn't include the ribbon legs on the sides). The length is 9 1/2" from the top of the bib to the bottom (the length of the bib is 7" under the neck). The bibs can be made for girls or boys. They are great for babies and toddlers. The bibs will wash and wear well. I love making these bibs because the ribbon ties are sewn in during assembly so there aren't any closures to hand sew on after the bibs have been finished. The ribbon ties are very functional.
-Fabric rectangles are a guideline –They don't need to be precise amounts.
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-3/8" Grosgrain ribbon – six 3" pieces of black for legs
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Cute pattern. I modified it a bit to make a frog for my nephew as a Christmas present, my sister-in-law is obsessed with frogs. I found some great buttons for frog eyes. It worked out well, except I wish I would have read through the entire set of instructions first to see that I should have sewn on the button eyes later. I did some hand-sewing around the neck, skipped the top-stitch to finish it off, and it turned out fine in the end. The bib was a huge hit! :)
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I think these are just the cutest patterns. I want to take the bear bib and make a quilt pattern with it so that I can give a friend a quilt, bibs, and the bear booties. If you have any other ideas for a coordinated set for the upcoming baby, let me know...you have my email.


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We know how much time goes into preparing Thanksgiving dinner, so why not save yourself some work and make your stuffing in your slow cooker?! This will free up some oven space and makes the perfect Thanksgiving side dish!
Serves: 12
Slow Cooker Stuffing Recipe
15 minPrep Time
4 hr, 45 Cook Time
5 hrTotal Time
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 cups chopped celery
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1 1/2 cups sliced mushrooms
- 2 (10 ounce) boxes Mrs. Cubbison's Herb Seasoned Cube Stuffing
- 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 2 eggs, beaten
- Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Cook onion, celery, mushrooms and parsley in butter, stirring frequently. Pour bread cubes into a large mixing bowl and pour butter and vegetables on top and combine. Season with poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. Pour enough broth to moisten the bread cubes and mix in beaten eggs.
- Transfer mixture to slow cooker and cover. Cook on high for 45 minutes, then reduce heat to low and cook for 4 to 8 hours. Check occasionally to make sure the sides don't burn.
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