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The clown, who bears a striking resemblance to Pennywise from the 1990 film It, adapted from the Stephen King novel of the same name, first appeared on Friday 13th and was spotted again over the weekend.
According to the Northampton Herald and Post the clown has appeared in several locations in the Abington and Kingsley areas of the town. On each sighting, he or she has worn the same white face makeup, red wig, all-in-one suit and oversized bowtie.
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Last weekend in the city of Chicago alone, gangbangers slaughtered ten people and wounded another forty. The youngest fatality is only six years old. The youngest person wounded is only one-year-old. Many of the victim were pedestrians sprayed with bullets in drive by shootings. The national news has said nothing about this.
So why does one shooting in Florida warrant weeks of national news? Why has there been thousands of articles a day, for the last four days, about one single shooting?
Almost all of the news items about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin contains a combination of false statements, opinions presented as facts, transparent distortions, and a complete absence of some of the most relevant details. Almost all news items are written soley from the point of view of the grieving family. The media also fills their articles with outdated baby-faced pictures of Trayvon. Very few include that he was a towering 6'2" football player. Is the media really reporting the news, or is this classic agitation/propaganda to advance a political agenda.
Literally thousands of articles contain at least one false statement in the first couple of lines. They usually read "George ZImmerman, a white man," or "shoot by a white man." Zimmerman is described by family as a multiracial Hispanic. His appearance is clearly that of a Latino/Mestizo individual. However, the media wants him to be white because that better fits the political narrative they are trying to artificially create. Many news articles have also claimed the neighborhood is "mostly white." This is also a lie. The neighborhood is only 49% white. It is over half non-white.
All the way back on February 27th, the local Orlando Fox station interviewed the witness who dialed 911. Almost none of the thousands of articles since have mentioned any of the details described by the witness. Some, however, have attributed false statements to this witness. On March 16th, the Sanford police department released new details to the Orlando Sentinel. Once again, these details have been ignored or changed by the media.
- The witness reports that George Zimmerman was on the ground and Trayvon is on top of him punching him.
- The witness says that George Zimmerman was screaming and yelling for help.
- Police arrive and find Zimmerman bleeding on his face and the back of his head. He also has had grass stains on his back. All this confirms the story told by Zimmerman and the witness.
- Police play the 911 tape for Trayvon Martin's father, who tells police that the voice screaming is not the voice of his son.
In fact the Miami Herald goes on to interview neighbor, Ibrahim Rashada, who is black. Rashada confirms that there has been a lot of crime in the neighborhood and indicates to the reporter that the perpetrators are usually black.
The media also characterizes Trayvon as a "model student." In fact, he under a five day suspension when the shooting took place. That is why he was staying at a house so far from his school on a school night. A laywer for Trayvon's family has blocked access to his school records. However, you have to do something pretty bad to get suspended for five days.
Now that you know the suppressed facts of the case, you can for form a better more balanced opinion. Maybe you still think Zimmerman was wrong to pull the trigger. However, I think you will come to the conclusion that the "mainstream" clearly is pushing an agenda. Even when they have to grossly alter and adjust a story to fit that agenda.
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Doodling early in his school books, Victor's career path was firmly on course.
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WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that Congress should be as generous to judges as it already has been to itself, by approving an inflation-related increase in their pay.
"I must renew the judiciary's modest petition: Simply provide cost-of-living increases that have been unfairly denied," Roberts said in his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary.
Alone among federal employees, judges will not receive a cost-of-living allowance in 2009. Members of Congress are getting a 2.8 percent boost, worth $4,700. But they refused before Christmas to give an identical increase to judges.
Federal trial judges are paid $169,300 a year. Appellate judges make more, ranging up to Roberts' salary of $217,400. The salaries pale in comparison to what top lawyers earn in private practice.
Judges paid less than law professors
Roberts also has pointed out that the 678 full-time trial judges who form the backbone of the federal judiciary are paid about half that of deans and senior law professors at top schools.
But the job has its advantages: Judges have lifetime job security and can retire at full salary at age 65 if they have 15 years on the bench.
Judges last received a substantial pay raise in 1991, although they have been given increases designed to keep pace with inflation in most years since then.
On the six occasions before now that lawmakers denied judges a COLA, they also declined one for themselves.
It had been a long-standing practice for members of Congress and district judges to make the same salaries. Under ethics legislation enacted almost two decades ago, members of Congress get a cost-of-living raise automatically, but they have to vote to give judges an identical raise.
"Judges knew what the pay was when they answered the call of public service. But they did not know that Congress would steadily erode that pay in real terms by repeatedly failing over the years to provide even cost-of-living increases," Roberts said.
The chief justice also lamented Congress' failure to pass larger salary hikes for judges. Committees in the House and Senate voted nearly 30 percent increases for federal judges, but neither house of Congress acted on the measure.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
A gentler tone this year
In prior reports, Roberts has focused on the need for the larger increase, which would take his pay to around $280,000 a year and increase trial judges' annual salaries to $218,000.
Two years ago, he said pay for federal judges is so inadequate that it threatens to undermine the judiciary's independence.
This year's version employs a gentler tone. The report takes account of the economic downturn and evokes the Smithsonian Institution's recent repair and preservation of the American flag that flew over Fort McHenry during an attack by the British in 1814. The flag was the inspiration for the national anthem.
"The flag bears scars from the pitched battle, but it also shows blemishes, regrettably, from later neglect," said Roberts, who also is the Smithsonian's chancellor.
Likewise, he wrote, "the judiciary's needs cannot be postponed indefinitely without damaging its fabric."
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Across the university and assoicated bodies we have many members of staff who have previously studied AAT or are currently studying. We have set up an alumni group specifically for these AAT qualified/part qualified staff as a way to maintain the connection and to support their continued development
Cyber security
Protecting the University's assets, intellectual property and information against cyber security threats is a complex, evolving task. Cyber attacks can result in data loss, reputational damage, fines and other types of financial loss. To help protect the University against these risks, University Information Services (UIS) is overseeing a major programme to improve cyber security levels across the University
Kieren Lovell from UIS will be coming to speak about how we manage our security in the University and what steps we can take to protect ourselves.
The AAT Foundation Certificate in Bookkeeping is the starting point for studying the AAT qualfiication.
It is a short qualification which will help you to develop essential bookkeeping skills. Once completed, you will have an understanding of basic accounting practices and techniques including double-entry bookkeeping. It can be treated as a stand alone qualifcation or used as a stepping stone to further AAT study at Level 3.
Once you have registered here you will need to complete the application form at the back of the briefing pack. These packs are available on our website https://www.finance.admin.cam.ac.uk/training/professional-qualifications/aat/university-programme
The AAT Level 3, Diploma in Accounting, introduces to students to more complex financial processes and accounting tasks, the principles of VAT, professional ethics and develops their spreadsheet skills.
The course details are being finalised, for now please book a provisional place here and we will let you know when the details and application packs are available
AAT Level 4, Professional Diploma in accounting.
Students will be placed on the public day release programme with an external provider
Once you have registered here you will need to complete the application form at the back of the briefing pack. This pack is available on our website https://www.finance.admin.cam.ac.uk/training/professional-qualifications/aat/university-programme Dates will be added once they have been confirmed
Our external auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers will be coming in to give an update on accounting issues and developments that are relevant to the University Group.
Qualified staff can use this towards their annual CPD.
This course is designed to provide a basic introduction to how finances are managed at the University and is the ideal first course for anyone who will be working in an accounts area.
Not only does it provide an overview of how the University's Finance System (UFS) is structured but also which activities are performed centrally and which are done in departments. It introduces the concepts of the Financial Regulations and Finance Procedures as well as signposting where you can find more support, how to access UFS and what training may be appropriate for your role.
The University and all its staff have a responsibility to ensure that neither their conduct, nor the conduct of any person or organisation entering into any contract or arrangement with the University contravenes the Bribery Act 2010.
This online course guides you through the scope of the Bribery Act and Criminal Finances Act and highlights some of the situations that you should be aware of.
An Introduction to the University's eInvoicing system, how it works and what actions/processes are completed by the department.
This on-line course will enable end users to understand the basics of accounts payable, including processing basic invoices and expense claims.
This course builds on the knowledge gained in AP Part 1. The delegates will learn how to match invoices to purchase orders, add in freight charges and process invoices from other departments. The course also covers international payments including accounting for VAT and foreign currencies. Delegates will also learn more about month end procedures and AP Reports.
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This on-line course enables users to learn how to Secondary Approve invoices within the Accounts Payable module.
The Accounts Receivable (AR) module of the University's Finance System (CUFS) deals with managing customer information and managing income generated from sales and donations.
In this course we will be looking at some of the key aspects such as:
- creating external invoices
- creating internal invoices
- receipting income relating to invoices
- receipting other income
We will also provide you with some basic information relating to banking procedures and to the University's Online Store (also known as eSales).
This course covers the essentials for keeping your AR accounts in order. In addition to showing you how to make corrections, receipt foreign currencies and the required month/year-end reports we will also show you how you can save time by setting up memo lines, sales persons and receivable activities for your department.
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This session covers the theory and practice of budgeting in the University, how to interpret department budget reports and understand the causes of overspends (and underspends) against budgets. The course refers closely to Chapter 3 of the Financial Procedures Manual
Note: This session does not cover the detailed budgeting and rules relating to individual research grants.
|Tue 9 Jun 2020
This session covers how to make a financial plan, prepare it for upload to the finance system and monitor progress against the plan. It is a practical course which will look at the techniques and systems within the University that can be used for budgeting.
It is an ideal follow on from Budgeting part 1 and for those who have a good working knowledge of budgeting principles and want to develop skills in using the University budgeting tools.
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Cognos is a reporting tool that utilises data from CUFS to provide users with additional reports and options. This introductory course is designed for new reporters - covering everything from running a report successfully as well as a number of useful tips and shortcuts.
Note: This course is mandatory in order to attend either of the following two courses below.
What this introductory course does not do is go through in detail the outputs of each individual report. Report outputs are explained in further detail in the courses above.
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Have you previously attended Cognos training but not used the reporting tool since and would like to start using the tool again? If so then this course will enable you to get re-acquainted with Cognos..
Note: What it does not do is go through in detail the outputs of each individual report. Less experienced users of the Grants and/or General Ledger modules in CUFS are recommended to attend instead one of the following courses:
- Grants Part 2: Grant reports in Cognos
- General Ledger Reporting
These two courses not only cover the mechanics of running the reports but also more advice on how to interpret and use the information as well as discussion about when to use which report.
|Mon 20 Jul 2020
The Finance Division values the professionalism and commitment of its members and therefore encourages all staff to develop their skills and knowledge. This short session will outline for you the Division's policy on training and development, as well as highlighting resources from across the University that you can utilise.
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This welcome session is for staff based in Greenwich House, will introduce you to the practicalities working in the building and the resources available to you.
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An informal welcome lunch for new Finance Division employees. Hosted by David Hughes (Director of Finance) and other senior managers this provides an opportunity to mingle and get to know other new starters and meet key people within the Division.
A buffet lunch will be provided, please could you let us know in advance any dietary restrictions.
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David Hughes will be delivering a review of the 2019 Financial Statements for anyone interested. It will be an opportunity to get an overview of the results for the year following the year end audit.
This session is open to all finance staff in the University
An overview of the new CHRIS bases annual leave system that will go live prior to the start of the new leave year.
The impact to departments from a finance perspective.
The CUFS R12.2 Upgrade Project Initiation Document (PID) has been approved and in this Knowledge Bites talk Jo Hall will share a summary of the plans for the project with us.


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Quality Awards V: Compellent regains top midrange arrays spot
The fifth edition of our service and reliability survey for midrange arrays shows that users of midrange storage systems are pretty darned satisfied with thier purchases.
The fifth edition of our service and reliability survey for midrange arrays shows that users of midrange storage systems are pretty darned satisfied with their purchases.
Midrange storage array vendors seem to be doing a lot of things right. On our latest Quality Awards survey of midrange arrays, all of the finalists scored so well that it's hard to find fault with any of their product lines. This is the fifth time we've canvassed users about the service and reliability of their midrange storage arrays, and these users showed the highest level of satisfaction with this product class to date. With a record overall score of 7.12 for midrange systems, Compellent Technologies Inc. has regained the crown that Dell Inc. snagged in our previous survey.
Compellent's win was earned with a consistent performance, garnering the top scores in all five of our rating categories -- sales-force competence, initial product quality, product features, product reliability and technical support. In winning all of the categories, the company's Storage Center products picked up ratings greater than 7.00 in four of them; the ratings range from 1.00 to 8.00.
Midrange might
But even with such an excellent showing, Compellent must still share at least of little of the Quality Awards spotlight. While not seriously challenging Compellent's overall score of 7.12, all eight finalists finished with overall scores higher than 6.00 -- the first time that has happened for midrange arrays and a rarity for any Quality Awards survey.
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The Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. Results are derived from a survey of qualified readers who assess products in five main categories: sales-force competence, initial product quality, product features, product reliability and technical support. Our methodology incorporates statistically valid polling that eliminates market share as a factor. Indeed, our objective is to identify the most reliable products on the market regardless of vendor name, reputation or size. Products are rated on a scale of 1.00 to 8.00, where 8.00 is the best score. A total of 315 respondents provided 497 midrange storage array evaluations.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. rode its EVA and P4000 lines to a strong second-place finish, scoring an overall 6.73, with Hitachi Data Systems just a shade behind at 6.67. But a strong 1-2-3 finish isn't the end of the story, as the rest of the group was bunched closely behind the leaders with ratings ranging from NetApp's 6.59 to Oracle Corp.'s (Sun) 6.38. Five of the eight vendors had scores higher than the winning overall score in our last survey.
|Products in the survey
The following vendors and midrange array model lines were included in the Quality Awards survey. The number of responses for the finalists are included in parentheses after the product names.
* Received too few responses to be included among finalists.
Sharper sales teams
On most Quality Awards surveys, the lowest user ratings typically appear in the sales-force competence category, as was the case on the most recent midrange array survey. With tighter budgets and often urgent needs, storage managers expect sales reps and their support teams to be responsive and well-informed. Just a few years ago on our second midrange survey, the overall average for the sales category was a tepid 5.28, indicating that users' expectations were likely met but rarely exceeded. This time around, the category average is 6.47, suggesting strong -- and probably effective -- efforts by vendors' sales forces.
Compellent picked up its first category win with a 6.81, buoyed by scores of 7.00-plus for the statements "My sales rep keeps my interests foremost" and "The vendor's sales support team is knowledgeable." In all, Compellent came out on top for four of the six category statements. HP didn't lead for any single statement, but lined up ratings running from 6.45 to 6.96 to finish second with a category average of 6.67. Third-place finisher Hitachi (6.59) was high scorer for two of the category statements ("My sales rep is knowledgeable about my industry" and "My sales rep understands my business").
Whether it's in response to the rigors of a down economy or reaction to surveys such as this, vendors appear to be redoubling their sales efforts.
Click here to get a PDF of the Quality Awards V: Midrange Arrays standings.
Implementation and initial quality
A positive sales experience is a great way to start a relationship, but it can quickly be derailed if problems arise during deployment of the product. Here, too, in the initial product quality category, our midrange array vendors seem to be surpassing expectations as well as their previous performances. Ratings were high across the board in this category, with Compellent posting above-7.00 scores for five of the six statements en route to a 7.21 category average finish. Compellent's only sub-7.00 score was a 6.93 for "This product was installed without any defects." Hitachi's rating of 6.94 for that statement topped Compellent by the slimmest possible margin.
HP nudged out Dell for the second spot in the category (6.88 vs. 6.80), and garnered the only other 7.00-plus score (a 7.06) for the key statement "This product is easy to use." Not too far behind Dell, the rest of the field was packed almost too tightly to see any space among them; a mere .05 points separated Oracle (Sun), Hitachi and IBM (tied), NetApp and EMC Corp.
And if perfection is the goal of midrange array vendors, they appear to be well on their way, as the average score for all eight products for the statement "This product was installed without any defects" was a glossy 6.81.
Features and functions
A midrange storage system from just a few years ago would hardly be recognizable by today's standards. Responding to user demands, vendors have tricked out midrange arrays with the kinds of features and capabilities that you could only once get with enterprise-class storage systems. Improved features -- and more of them -- equate to contented users as evidenced by record high scores in the product features rating category.
Compellent's 7.26 average score easily outdistanced NetApp, which notched a very solid 6.75 giving it a small margin over third-place finisher HP (6.68) which it turned nudged out IBM (6.61) by the same margin. Compellent's Storage Center scored the highest on all seven category statements in the product features category, ranging from a 7.07 ("This product's snapshot features meet my needs") to a 7.36 ("This product's remote replication features meet my needs"). By delivering these "bread-and-butter" features along with its signature Fluid Data automated tiering, Compellent may be raising the bar a bit for all midrange systems vendors.
That's not to suggest that any of the product lines are slackers when it comes to features. The overall average for the category was a 6.64, the highest we've seen and substantially higher than the previous mark of 6.33. The average scores for key midrange array requirements were high for all eight products, such as a 6.79 for "This product's capacity scales to meet my needs," highlighted by Hitachi's 7.11 (the only other 7.00-plus score in the category) and Compellent's 7.31.
Storage you can count on
The true test of a storage system is how well it performs after the showroom shine wears off. Each of the eight vendors' product lines passed the test on this survey easily, with an across-the-board 6.74 average in the product reliability category; this is not only the highest average ever for that category, but the highest average of any category to date.
Compellent again netted the highest ratings for each of the five category statements, ranging from 7.14 to 7.36 and rolling up to a 7.27 average, its highest category score on the survey. But it wasn't alone in "seven heaven." Second-seeded Hitachi earned three 7.00-plus scores for the statements related to meeting service-level requirements, having very little downtime and needing very few unplanned patches, on the way to an impressive 6.97 category average. Third-place HP joined Compellent and Hitachi in the plus-7.00 club with a 7.03 for the "unplanned patches" statement and finished with an average rating of 6.72, which put it just .01 ahead of EMC's score of 6.71.
Continuing support for the product
Past Quality Award surveys for midrange arrays had scores in the technical support category that hovered around the lows seen in the sales-force competence category. This survey isn't any different, with support getting the second-lowest overall category average. But the twist here is that the score is still fairly high at 6.59, led once again by Compellent (7.02). Hitachi (6.71) racked up its second second-place finish, with HP (6.69) hard on its heels with another strong performance. HP finished second or third in all five ratings categories.
The only statement in the support category that Compellent didn't score top marks on was "Vendor's third-party partners are knowledgeable"; instead, HP and Oracle (Sun) tied for the lead with a score of 6.72. It's a significant mark for those two vendors, as 54% of HP respondents and 37% of Oracle respondents said they purchased their systems from VARs.
Midrange vendors are also delivering on their support promises. One of Compellent's two 7.29 category scores was for "Vendor supplies support as contractually specified," a statement that all vendors scored well on for a group average of 6.79 (high in the category). Well-trained support staffs were also recognized on the survey, with Compellent (7.07), HP (6.87) and Hitachi (6.80) all standing out for the statement "Support personnel are knowledgeable."
Click here to get a PDF of our Heavy Lifters chart that lists our respondents' average installed capacity for the products included in the midrange arrays survey.
Do it again
In addition to the specific statements in each rating category, we asked survey respondents a more subjective question: All things considered, would you buy the product again? Over our five surveys for midrange arrays, the responses have been generally positive and very steady, with an average of 77% to 79% saying "Yes" across all product lines. This time, the "buy again" numbers jumped, reflecting the higher category ratings and, undoubtedly, greater satisfaction with the entire class of midrange storage products.
Overall, 89% of respondents said they would take the plunge again with the same product, led by Compellent's eerily perfect 100%, NetApp and Dell both at 94% and the rest of the field ranging from EMC's 87% to Oracle's (Sun) 83%. Not too shabby when it comes to satisfied customers.
BIO: Rich Castagna (email@example.com) is editorial director of the Storage Media Group.


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God & Bedford
Bedford, England, is a place to make you believe in God, but only if He is very angry. Gazing across the panorama of desolate streets, dead, claw-like trees, and a sluggish black river that smells of sulphur, you can't help but think, "Yep, somehow, sometime, someone here really pissed God off."
Don't get me wrong; most of rural England is quite picturesque. Even in mid-winter, there are charming little villages. You can even spot the odd animal frolicking in fields, but as you approach Bedford, they look increasingly frightened. Then you arrive. At first, you might think there's nothing wrong; any town could look like this, if the garbage collectors went on strike for a while. You have an odd, clenched feeling your gut, but that could be a bad hamburger. Bad hamburgers feel like they're slowly sucking the marrow out of your bones, right? Sure.
It's only when you've been here a while that the true horror of Bedford reveals itself: it's unrelenting. You think, "All right, so people here look like extras from Dawn of the Dead, but that's just because they choose not to care about personal grooming for some reason." (I developed this theory after spotting a guy who looked like Kevin Spacey, if Kevin was drunk and out of shape and didn't own a hairbrush.) Then you pass a guy afflicted by a plague of boils, and realize: No. It's not a choice. It's biblical.
I wrote about Bedford last time we visited, and since then it has managed to get worse. I didn't think that was possible. I mean, once the entire town is made up of people either begging for money or actively stealing it, what's left? Once the wail of emergency vehicle sirens is constant, do you really notice any more of them? But then I ran alongside the river Ouse, past what at first I thought was a rubbish dump but turned out to just be someone's back yard, and a goose tried to mug me. I think it had a switchblade.
So it's almost 2008. I'm very much looking forward to '08, because, writing-wise, 2007 blew. It started off well. It's just that it then took a sharp turn into soul-destroying, heart-breaking stultification. I think this must be what happens when you start the year with a blog that says, "Man, I've got this writing thing nailed." So: okay. Lesson learned, ha ha!
Yep, I'm feeling much better about 2008. I won't have a book published, or a movie released. But I will write.
And, with luck, I will get out of Bedford without being stabbed.
It's good to have goals.
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Data protection: Moving up the stack?
The definition of CDP varies from vendor to vendor, but there are some interesting approaches emerging in the market right now. Jon William Toigo walks you through some of the options from Revivio, Softek, Arsenal Digital, XOsoft, Neverfail and Kashya.
Delegates (including myself) took away at least one thing from a recent Disaster Recovery and Data Protection Summit in Tampa, Fla. -- nobody has a definition of continuous data protection (CDP) that makes a lot of sense. Sure, we all know intuitively that any ongoing process of data replication is CDP, but how you do it can greatly vary.
Kashya is replicating through write copying. Their appliance sits in a Fibre Channel (FC) fabric and splits the writes from the applications you designate, so that they target different devices, even if one target is local and the other is remote. EMC needed them because its virtualization play, Invista, doesn't have the copy-during-write functionality that its competitors sport. I suspect that this was a design decision intended to protect their cash cow SRDF. But a lot of pundits, including myself, hammered Hopkinton, Mass. (home of EMC and other tech companies) on the obvious gap, and that might have contributed to the purchase of Kashya.
Revivio started by building cool software to replace EMC point-in-time (PIT) mirror splits, which are idiotic in the extreme. (Why use your most expensive disk to make PIT copies of the rest, especially when you don't discover errors have occurred in your database in a sufficiently timely way to prevent all splits from being corrupted?) Revivio's Time Addressable Storage would simply log all byte changes to external SATA disk, leveraging cheap capacity and the error recovery routines that are now commonplace in most respectable database software packages. Their CDP play is to do this replication over distance to a remote set of disks.
XOsoft and Neverfail are in a slightly different game. Both seek to replicate not only data, but also system images so you can failover to a more or less identical copy of a system at a remote site if your local server goes south on you. Neverfail is a bit different in that it permits you to conceal the "shadow servers" and to transfer IP addresses to the shadows if the primary fails. With XOsoft, you have to give the remote servers IP addresses of their own. Also, Neverfail replicates registries in Windows servers between primary and shadow. For its part, XOsoft provides some robust tools for creating failover scenarios that offer flexibility in recovering both Windows and non-Windows environments. However, neither one replicates patches claiming that doing so would create the potential for disaster in both your primary and backup systems.
Replicating entire system images and application software is a bit further up the software stack than replicating data written to a storage frame. Arsenal Digital is quick to point out that all of these products require specialized software and the smarts to operate them. They suggest doing replication through a service provider, which is their gig, so you can capture the data that's really important -- not the stuff in the data center, but the stuff on laptops, home office PCs and out in the branches where the real work is being done. There's a lot of truth in those words.
In retrospect, I should have put both DataCore Software and Zetera on the panel, too. Like Kashya, DataCore's SANMelody product provides the means to target two disks, local and remote, with every write. Only, DataCore's product doesn't require a FC fabric, they support iSCSI as well.
If you prefer to build your storage infrastructure on Zetera's Storage over IP protocol (basically, UDP and IP), you can simply target writes to two or more different storage nodes identified by their IP addresses using multicasting, a standard function of the IP but one that is not supported by TCP-based protocols like iSCSI. I like this approach a lot and use it in our test labs.
To my way of thinking, the best data replication approach (all of which, even routine tape backups or snapshots, are "CDP" in the generic sense) seems to align with the kind of data you are replicating. For high-performance transaction processing systems, a Revivio-style CDP makes a lot of sense, for local and remote restores quick-in-a-hurry. For retention data -- that is, everything but high-performance databases -- the product you choose should be based on three main criteria:
- How quickly you need access to data and what kinds of deltas or differences you are willing to tolerate. This is called your recovery time objective and your recovery point objective, though if EMC has its way, you will need to put a trademark symbol after "recovery point" -- an expression they are claiming they own.
- The visibility the product offers. Can you check, non-disruptively, to ensure that things are replicating as planned?
- How much jingle you have in your pocket. Cost is king, since no company I know of wants to spend a lot on disaster recovery.
I might add a fourth selection criterion, come to think of it. That is, what does the product require in terms of ongoing management and oversight? Neverfail and XOsoft, and even Softek, Kashya, DataCore and Zetera, all require some knowledge and skills to set up and maintain over time. The underlying replication strategies will need to be reviewed and changed over time as the business and IT infrastructure change. At least with Arsenal Digital, you could potentially offload some of the heavy lifting to someone else. Arsenal has a trustworthiness that has been validated in every interview I have ever conducted with their personnel.
The alternative is to standardize infrastructure on something like Zetera-enabled Bell Micro Hammer arrays. They are reliable, efficient and more cost-effective than just about any storage out there, and by using them in a copy-on-write model, you can design the angels of resiliency into the architecture itself. We plan to showcase both that architecture and a DataCore virtualized iSCSI product in the next DR Summit, to be held in November in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area.
About the author: Jon William Toigo is a Managing Partner for Toigo Productions. Jon has over 20 years of experience in IT and storage.


text: Neil's No. 5 to be retired by Caps - Vancouver Sun June 7, 200812:00AM PDT Previous Next Ian Walker Whitecaps will honour record-setting midfielder Andrea Neil was the face of the Vancouver Whitecaps women's team for a lot of years. It's only fitting the W-League side is ensuring her name will live on for many more. The Whitecaps will retire the longtime midfielder's No. 5 following tonight's game against the Seattle Sounders at Swangard Stadium. Neil will be the first Whitecap woman to be so honoured. "It is very unexpected and very overwhelming," said Neil, before joining a group of former teammates at a local restaurant to celebrate the occasion Friday night. "I knew the team wanted to do something, but I expected to show up on the track and wave to the fans and go back to my seat. When I found out from a family member the other day what they had planned ... it was an incredible emotional experience." The Vancouver native retired from competitive soccer on Dec. 4, 2007 as the all-time leader in games played for both her country and her club. Neil captained Vancouver to a pair of league championships in 2004 and 2006. Whitecaps president Bob Lenarduzzi said the decision was a no-brainer. "It's a rare occurrence in soccer for sure," he said. "The term I used is she is a pioneer. Normally, when it's suggested someone is a pioneer, it means it wasn't an easy road to master and they paved the way for others and that's what Andrea's done. She certainly left the game in better shape than when she began." Neil was the captain of the women's side for the first six years of the club's existence. She is the Whitecaps' all-time leader in assists (22), third in points (70), and tied for third in goals (24). © The Vancouver Sun 2008 Previous Next


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Golden Peach Pork Chops
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Cook: 6 hours
Makes5 servings
- 1 can (29 ounces) peach halves
- 5 bone-in pork loin chops (1 inch thick)
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
- 1/4 cup cider vinegar
- Drain peaches, reserving 1/4 cup juice (discard remaining juice or save for another use); set fruit and juice aside. In a large skillet, brown pork chops on both sides in oil; transfer to a 3-qt. slow cooker. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, cinnamon and cloves. Add the tomato sauce, vinegar and reserved peach juice. Pour over the chops. Arrange peach halves over the top. Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or until the meat is tender.
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I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this recipe. I do not like pork chops and won't eat them any other way. I make this recipe every couple of months! As we raise our own pigs, we have lots of chops, and this is my favorite way to make them. Just stick them in the crock pot and let them cook. The house smells sooo good and my family rushes to the table when supper is ready. I serve the peaches and sauce on the side as a "gravy" to serve over mashed potatoes (or if it is a busy day, I add them to the crock pot to soak up the juices as they cook).
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Great dish! This was very easy to make, and we loved it. The pork chops fell apart like a roast falls apart. Very tender and moist. The peaches even tasted great. I will make this over and over again.
Oct 4, 2009
Once a week I work late and always make a slow cooker dish for that day so I am always looking for good slow cooker meals. This was very good but the sauce gets to juicy, so I did thicken it some with cornstarch after removing the chops just before serving. I also put some whole potatoes (of a smaller size) around the edges of the slow cooker to cook them along with the chops. We used the sauce for the chops and the potatoes. Very flavorful. I will keep it in the rotation, but there were other dished my hubby liked better.


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Two recently posted stories relate to Humboldt County Planning Department's notifications of land owners that they own parcels that have been, "identified as a parcel of uncertain status, sometimes referred to as a shaded parcel."
There seems to be some confusion among the general public as to the exact content of these letters. Copies of the two letters sent by the Planning Department are posted here, each as a .pdf file.
- Click here to view letter 1, sent September 13, 2011.
- Click here to view letter 2, sent July 12, 2012 - note: this letter has been redacted to protect the identity of the recipient.
"Shaded Parcels", a term used to indicate parcels that have been shaded in on a map with pencil by Humboldt County Planning Department Staff denoting uncertain legal status, are once again in the news. Earlier this summer Humboldt County sent notifications to 25 property owners in the Seely Creek area, between Redway and Briceland, informing them that their parcels appear to be illegally subdivided. Subsequently around ten of those land owners met with Planning Department Staff at the Planning Department Office in Eureka.
In a story airing on August 24, 2012, KMUD Reporter Daniel Mintz discusses the issue and interviews Interim Planning and Building Department Director Martha Spencer. Use the player below to hear or download the audio clip.
"Shaded Parcels" have been in the news recently in Humboldt County. According to an article in the Times Standard, "Parcels become shaded when the planning department finds that a lot has been recorded for taxes with the assessor's office, but not for development with planning staff. Planners then "shade" the parcel on a map with a pencil to indicate its uncertain legal status. Parcel owners must record their property with both departments to have it considered a legal parcel."
On the August 23, 2012 edition of the KMUD Local News, Terri KLemetson, KMUD News Coordinator, interviewed Eric Kirk, a local attorney who is representing some of the property owners affected by the recent notifications of shaded property status sent out by the Humboldt County Planning Department.
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Today I was able to enjoy a walk each with 2 friends. It may be dreary outside, but the sunshine of friendship brightens up even the rainiest of days. I wish you all a wonderful day!... Read more
Such a Pity Party!
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 18 comments
It's Tuesday now and after a night's sleep, I was angry this morning for those self-pitying feelings I blogged about yesterday! Oh my gosh. But I guess we do need to be gentle with ourselves sometimes and just accept the process. Feeling bet... Read more
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Monday, March 23, 2015 14 comments
I never used to think about exercise. Didn't ever (except when getting my body ready for DD's wedding) think about doing exercise every day. Now I do. And I DO count heavy cleaning as exercise if and only if I sweat while doing it! So whe... Read more
Another buffet today
Sunday, March 22, 2015 13 comments
Yep, we are attending another buffet dinner tonight! Oh my goodness. Well, I am fully prepared for it...know exactly what I'm going to choose and in what amounts. I just have to keep remembering how long after I quit smoking that I want... Read more
Fake it until you make it?!?
Saturday, March 21, 2015 12 comments
I know that saying, but I feel like an impostor. I'm not a thin person...I'm a fat person masquerading as a thin person and that fat person is fighting to get back out! Yep, it doesn't take much to give that fat person some strength...just a l... Read more
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Thursday, March 19, 2015 14 comments
I love to cook. It's a fabulous pass time and I love to be creative when I cook. Now I love to create new recipes which are healthy, low calorie and yummy! We attended Canada Blooms and the Home Show in Toronto today where I purchased a... Read more
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015 20 comments
Today is St. Patrick's Day. How very nice that we celebrate being Irish, even if we're not. So why not have National Thin Person's Day? This at least is something people could aspire to being. We could all eat salad and baked salmon while we... Read more
4th Day of DH's Birthday Celebrations
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Date Day Thursday
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Thursday, March 05, 2015 11 comments
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I've been looking for a gentle way to colour my hair lately and add some depth without reaching for permanent or semi-permanent dyes.
My hair was starting to look super brassy and purple shampoos weren't enough to keep everything in control. Then the magic of Twitter recommended the Aveda colour conditioners to me; Clove and/or Black Malva. I chose Clove:
According the the Aveda website, Black Malva is for diminishing red tones and Clove is for intensifying brown tones (not for light hair). I wasn't too worried about red tones, plus I didn't want to end up with blackish hair so went for clove.
Clove conditioner contains: Organic clove, Organic coffee, Babassu oil.
Well, I broke the rules (leave on hair after washing for 2-5 minutes – who does that? Who has time to stand around in a freezing cold shower waiting for the conditioner to work?!). I applied the conditioner to dry hair on a Sunday and left it on there for over an hour. It stinks – I hate the smell. I love anything like clove or cinnamon but I hated this – it started to give me headache after a while.
Anyway – when I first rinsed it off I didn't notice tons of different but once it had dried – wow. My hair was subtly darker, glossier, really shiny and rich. The blonder parts of my hair weren't 'dyed' but subtly more controlled if that makes sense – it looked much nicer. And leaving it in for so long worked a treat because 2 weeks on, when I shampoo (nearly every day or every other day) I see some colour coming out.
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Only problem with this product is that it isn't that conditioning. I had some knots in my hair even after it had been on for over an hour and had to whip the Pantene out.
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Actually the price is also another issue – I paid around £18 for this from Aveda. OUCH! Expensive for a conditioner but I think of it as a completely gentle hair colourant and treatment and then it's worth it!
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Famed Japanese game maker Square Enix recently launched a new establishment called Artnia.
Inside, there are figurines on display, plush toys and accessories to buy, as well as CDs, t-shirts, pricey souvenir chocolate and cookies.
This isn't just a gift shop. There's also a cafe that serves parfait, pancakes, sandwiches, coffee, and original non-alcoholic "potions" as well as mixed drinks.
Artnia is located in Tokyo's Shinjuku Eastside, in front of the company's new headquarters. If you are in town, it might be worth checking out.
The top photo is by @felmata, while, in the above gallery, Flickr user marshal.alloc does a fantastic job of capturing Artnia's interior.
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5 Tips to Save Money On Your Divorce
Here are a few quick tips that can save you money on your divorce if you contracted for an hourly rate.
1. Wait until you have several questions before you call your attorney. Because hourly rates are billed in increments it will save you money to ask several questions at once. You should write down your questions before you call your lawyer and be clear about what information you want to know. This makes the telephone call more efficient and saves you money.
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4. Don't fight over the blender. Remember that most items can be replaced. It does not make since to spend $1000 to fight over the $25 blender that Grandma Jones gave you for a wedding present.
5. Be willing to compromise. Agreed divorces cost less money, period. Generally, the more that you are willing to compromise on, the faster your divorce will proceed. There is life after divorce and the best revenge you can have is to live well.


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A judge has ordered a Connecticut man who said he was shot by former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez to appear before a Massachusetts grand jury.
The judge ordered the arrest of Alexander Bradley after he failed to appear on Tuesday before the grand jury.
Bradley has alleged in a civil lawsuit that Hernandez shot him in the face in February after they argued at a Miami strip club.
The judge also ordered a second Connecticut man, John Alcorn, 21, of Bristol, to appear on Thursday before the same grand jury.
Alcorn is related to the deceased husband of Hernandez's cousin. Police in June seized an SUV linked to a 2012 shooting in Boston from the cousin's home.
Hernandez, a Bristol, Connecticut native, currently faces a murder charge in the death of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. He has pleaded not guilty.


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aaron necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Design a cool, clean, fun site that helps me promote my books, sell my show, and gets magicians from all over the world to sign up for my blog updates! .
Aaron Fisher Magic
Magicians around the world pay to attend my lectures and seminars to
help them learn how to perform better sleight of hand. I also invent tricks and techniques for use by close up magicians. I've written
about these tricks in my books, and taught them on my dvds. I also write a blog about magic - I
use it to market my books to magicians around the Internet. Here's a video of me performing a trick:
You'll see that I'm not a rabbit in the hat, or magic wand magician. I am young, edgy and am considered an expert in card magic. Please bear this in mind with your design.
My website
personality literally IS my product. Whether in person at a show or
lecture, or in the form of my books and posts - customers are actually
buying my attitude. I'd like the site to convey that. It should be
clean, cool, uncluttered and convey my personal touch. It shouldn't
feel like Wal-Mart.
Rather than simply a
web store, consider this more of an author site - the purpose of which
is to introduce me and my ideas to the visitor in a compelling way. My
favorite example of this is sethgodin.com.
He uses it to market his books, blogs and ideas, as well as live
appearances and lectures. It's a good model for this sort of site - I
like it's tone. It's corporate friendly, but with a spark of fun and
creativity that that shows in his work. Also look at http://leeasher.com
- this is the site of a magician who's work is similar to mine. Let's do something in between the two.
What I'll need
need you to design a number of pages on my site. If you can build it in
valid XHTML / CSS, that's great too - let me know with your submission
and we'll discuss that separately. But, for now I just want to get the
best design possible so it doesn't matter if you can't build it as I
can get someone else to do it.
The menu items that I'll need are:
- Mailing List- Blog
- The Store
- Videos
- Bio
- Aaron Fisher Special EventsI've put together a package with a load of photos here. Please use them. In your quest to make a hip, exciting website, feel free to alter these photos as you like. Here are the photos:http://www.flickr.com/photos/99designscontest/sets/
Please use one
of the colors given in the logo. It's important that you do not change
the logo and that you make your style compliment my logo. Here's the link to the file with the logo:http://www.aaronfishermagic.com/CONTEST
find my current website here:
http://www.aaronfishermagic.com /. The
actual text and design will change, but this will let you get to know
me and the kind of content that will be on the site.
How to start
make a decision on the design that I'd like to go for, I'll need to see
a content page and a homepage. Let's start with a homepage and I'll ask
the designers that I like to put together a content page too.
And here's a page detailing the content that should be on the homepage. Click Here.
cluttered looking layouts
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, May 19, 2006
Will's Women
It should come as no surprise that Will Davies loves to draw and paint nudes of beautiful women. What came as a pleasant surprise to Will was that many beautiful women love to be drawn and painted nude by him!
Sometimes it was a fashion model hired to pose for a commercial assignment, sometimes it was one of his students at the Ontario College of Art, sometimes it was a friend, or a friend of a friend. Once they saw the nudes Will had done, displayed around his studio or often simply stacked in a corner, those women could imagine themselves interpreted through Will's paintbrush as dreamy satin dolls.
Will doesn't recall the exact date, but remembers, "It was during Watergate." TDF salesmanager Clayton Sloane had previously secured a few freelance assignments for Will from a Chicago art representative. The two men decided to take a few days to visit with that rep and see if more work was available. On that trip, Will showed Sloane a slide of the new piece - his spectacular nude - and Sloane suggested they try getting a portfolio interview at Playboy.
Will can't remember if they met with Playboy AD, Art Paul, but the magazine was very interested in using the piece. They kept slides on file and said they'd be in touch.
Two years passed and then, out of the blue, a call: did Will still have the piece? Playboy wanted to know. They still wanted to find a use for it. "But that was it," Will says, "after that, nothing. They never called back."
Not finding a publisher for his nudes didn't stop Will. He painted them for his own pleasure and showed them at exhibitions. They were much admired by all - Will's reputation for interpreting feminine beauty only increased.
But then came a controversy. Will had been teaching at the Ontario College of Art for some time. His figure painting class was a perennial favourite with serious students. During an awards dinner, the president of the college approached Will and asked him to do that year's open house poster. "I told him, only if I can paint a nude for it." He said fine.
I remember seeing that lovely piece in the window of a Toronto art supply store. A seated nude from behind. But there was talk that a militant feminist faction within the college had been outraged by Will's "offensive" poster.
"I was doing something in the school library one day," Will told me, "and this one girl [a female student] came up behind me. She says, 'You're the guy who did that horrible poster, aren't you?'"
In his own defence (and in a rare and tiny show of conceit) Will replied, "Sorry, but I'm too old and too big to care what you think."
Happily, what most people think is that Will Davies has a great respect and an even greater affection for the female form.
"And," says Will, "that poster went on to be the best selling one the college ever put out."
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I'd love to see a book of these.ReplyDelete
I'm with ya on that, Chip - and maybe our pal Ken Steacy will pick up that ball and run with it ( hint, hint ).ReplyDelete
TI list member Eric Colquhoun gave me permission to copy and paste his email message about Will here:
Hi Leif,
It was so good to see Will Davies get some "recognition" on your blog. Great artist and a very nice man.
Your story about Will and his meeting with Al Parker kind of reminded me of the first time that I met Will.
I went to Sheridan, Illustration, so I never had the pleasure of having Will as an instructor but I had been a fan of his work for a long time. My mother used to get these English women's magazines, from ever since I could remember, because she liked the knitting patterns in them. But they also had romance stories in them and a lot of them were illustrated by Will (second rights as I later found out). And I remember, as a kid, looking at them and thinking that they were so cool and so beautifully done.
When I was at Sheridan I continued to be a fan of his work and marvelled at his drawing skill. And looking back at those old magazines and thinking,"Wow, this guy is good!"
Anyway, jump forward a couple of years and I became involved with the Toronto chapter of CAPIC and I got to know the other illustrators who were invovled at the time. Tom Bjarnason, Rene Milot and Greg Ruhl, who shared studio space with Roger Hill, Tom McNeely, Tom Bjarnason and Will. (Is that a Hall of Fame line up or what?) I really liked Greg's work and he was nice enough to let me come by his studio and give me tips and show me how he worked etc.
And then one day, just as I was in Greg's studio talking with him, Will walked by the door. He popped his head in to say something and Greg introduced me to him in a "Oh, by the way, do you know Eric Colquhoun..." sort of way.
It was like meeting ones idol.
I remember seeing an interview with the musician Jools Holland, who used to play in the band Squeeze, and he was talking about the first time he met Paul McCartney. Holland said of the meeting, "I don't think that it was something that he (McCartney) wrote about in his diary but it certainly was something that I wrote about in mine".
It was kind of the same thing.
The best part was that he was so down to earth, just a regular guy.
After that I would som etimes bring work that I had done and show it to him and get his feedback on it. Ask him questions about pricing. I even got him to pose for me a couple of times as a model for jobs that I was working on.
A class act.
But you know what? They were all like that! They were all nice and class guys. They would give freely of their time when a "young struggling illustrator" would meekly knock on their door and want to ask a question.
Maybe add some more Canadian people to your features, like Tom B or Tom McNeely.
You're on a roll this week. Another great segment. Love the first pencil piece!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:19 PM
Boy, I'd totally forgotten that OCA poster thing. Sad, but I don't think they'd get away with it today either...ReplyDelete
Sadly, I think you're absolutely right, Mark (not in Stephen Harper's Canada)ReplyDelete
Will is by far, equal to the Al Parker, Joe DeMers, etc. What an amazing illustrator! I'm glad we got to know him.ReplyDelete
Yow, this is great work, Leif! I particularly like the third painting and the second drawing-- both truly excellent. It has been great getting to know Will and his work throughout the week, but you sure saved the best for last!ReplyDelete
"Sorry, but I'm too old and too big to care what you think."ReplyDelete
That is one great line -- might borrow it if the need ever arises!
My sincere thanks to you all for your great comments about Will's work. I know it'll mean a lot to him to read the print-out of this week's posts!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:49 PM
Clayton Sloane...yeah that picture of the girl lying down in her bed makes me so horny. I can imagine making love to that woman. That's something a lot of pictures don't do because they leave little to the imagination.ReplyDelete
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Arrest-Proof Yourself
by Dale Carson Author and Wes Denham Author
An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face.
This essential "how not to" guide explains how to act and what to say in the presence of police to minimize the chances of being arrested and to avoid add-on charges—which can often lead to permanent disqualification from jobs, financing, and education. Citizens can learn how to avoid arrest both on the street and when pulled over in a vehicle and are alerted to basic tricks cops use to get people to incriminate themselves. Sprinkled with absurdity and humor, this urgent, eye-opening book is a guide to criminal justice for all Americans.
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Young Jonathan Smith spared Glentoran's blushes by plundering a last gasp winner against battling Ballyclare Comrades at Dixon Park.
The tense County Antrim Shield first round tie appeared to be destined for a penalty shoot-out, when Smith popped up with a late party piece.
His goal helped ease the agony on the managerless Glens. They were dumped out of the League Cup by lowly Annagh United earlier this season and appeared to be the candidates for another shock.
Amazingly, it was the east Belfast team's first victory since August 20, when they defeated Portadown.
With Director of Fooball Roy Coyle again taking charge, Curtis Allen was recalled to the Glentoran attack -- he had recovered from a mouth abscess.
However, it was young Smith, who came agonisingly close to opening the scoring on six minutes.
He cut in from the left to send a low drive fizzing past the post, with Comrades teenage goalkeeper Ross McKnight struggling.
The home team responded with Thomas Robinson, a summer signing from neighbours Larne, trying his luck from distance, his effort fizzing well over the top.
Glentoran almost achieved the breakthrough on 19 minutes. McKnight got down brilliantly to push away a 25-yard Eric Foley free-kick and when the ball broke to Allen, the shot stopper again repelled the effort.
McKnight was called into action minutes later when Foley powered in a low shot that the keeper did well to get a glove to.
Comrades blew another sigh of relief on 37 minutes. This time Ross Redman's free kick was hoofed past his own post by defender Gary Brown, who knew little about it.
And, the Glens were cursing their luck once more as the clock ticked down to the break when Chris Lavery robbed the unfortunate Brown, but after a 25 yard dash - and only McKnight to beat - he blasted high and wide.
The Glens again huffed and puffed after the interval, but failed to find a way through a resolute home defence, although they were only inches away from engineering a lead on 68 minutes when Gordon headed over at the back post following a Redman free kick.
Ironically, it was the visitors missed the best chance of the 90 minutes when Chris Lavery robbed defender Gary Brown, but he held his head in frustration when his shot crashed against the inside of the post.
Comrades could have nicked the lead in extra time, with Denver Taggart picking out Michael O'Hanlon, who dinked his shot just over.
But the Glens at last had something to celebrate with that Smith strike on 105 minutes.
Redman's deep cross to back post wasn't dealt with and the young striker pounced to head home.
Ballyclare Comrades: McKnight, Brown (Taggart 56), Shannon, McMullan, McQuitty, Youle, O'Hanlon, Dobbin, Trussell, Johnston, Robinson (Gray 56)
Unused subs: Irwin, Dillon, Crowe.
Glentoran: Nelson, McAuley, Ferrin, Birney, Redman, Harmon, Foley (Caldwell 82), Gordon, Smith, Allen, Lavery (Leu 75).
Unused subs: Morris, Delaney, Hamill.
Referee: Andrew Davey (Bangor).


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Tanner Foust took the podium in Rallycross #2's competitive AWD class, but it was Matthew Johnson in a 1978 Ford Fairmont Wagon that stole our hearts, managing a crazy win in the 2WD class. Pure, V8-powered awesome.
It's not often you see a Ford Fairmont Wagon in any sort of racing event, but Matthew Johnson of the Nitro Circus team managed to pilot one to victory this weekend in the 2WD class over no less than a 200SX, Miata, 2WD Impreza, GTI, and Ford Focus.
The far-from-stock Fairmont Wagon was formerly a track car modified with a 348-cubic inch V8 and race suspension. A nice V8 sounds so much better than all those high strung fourbangers. Heroic.
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Apple has asked the European Commission to intervene in its patent battle with Motorola Mobility, according to a filing with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) made by Motorola Mobility late Friday.
In its annual report, Motorola Mobility said that Apple has filed a complaint with the Commission, the European Union's executive and regulatory body, regarding Motorola Mobility's attempts to enforce patents related to various industry standards. In dispute are so-called essential patents held by private companies but used in industry standards and, in agreement with international standards and regulatory bodies, licensed under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
"On February 17, 2012, the Company received a letter from the European Commission, Competition Directorate-General, (the 'Commission') notifying it that the Commission has received a complaint against Motorola Mobility, Inc. ('MMI') by Apple, Inc. ('Apple') regarding the enforcement of MMI's standards-essential patents against Apple allegedly in breach of MMI's FRAND commitments," Motorola Mobility said in its annual report. "Apple's complaint seeks the Commission's intervention with respect to standards-essential patents."
Apple officials were not immediately available for comment.
"Motorola Mobility has had a long-standing practice of licensing our patents under Fair Reasonable Non-Discriminating (FRAND) Terms and we offered those to Apple," according to a statement from Motorola Mobility.
The Apple complaint turns the heat up on a dispute that has been boiling for a while, and which has gained significance since Google recently won E.U. and U.S. approval to acquire Motorola Mobility for its portfolio of patents.
Apple earlier this month removed some products from its online store in Germany after getting hit with a court injunction by the Mannheim Regional Court, which had ruled that some iPhone and iPad devices infringe a Motorola patent. Shortly afterward, the injunction was suspended, freeing Apple to sell the products again.
The suspended injunction was one of a series of legal battles in Europe and the U.S. involving patent infringement. Motorola Mobility also accused the iPhone maker of infringing its technology patents in a Florida court last month.
On its part, Apple scored a victory Thursday as the district court in Munich on granted an injunction against some of Motorola's smartphones for alleged violations of an Apple patent for unlocking touchscreens.
Underlying several of the patent cases is a disagreement over how companies should deal with essential patents. When patent-infringement negotiations over FRAND terms fail, Google has pressed for continued use of injunctions to block the sale of allegedly infringing products. Apple meanwhile, in a November letter to ETSI, (European Telecommunications Standards Institute), stressed the need for consistency with the licensing of essential patents, and suggested terms that include the promise to not block the sale of products.
As the number of patent dispute cases proliferate, the European Commission is likely intervene, according to Florian Mueller, a patent analyst. "I am sure that Brussels will take the time it needs to understand the issue, but time is of the essence because of what's already going on, so I think a decision on whether or not MMI will be formally investigated is only a few months away," Mueller said in his blog. "I think formal investigations are reasonably likely here."