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New Mexico Vital Records
This entry was originally written by Karen Stein Daniel, CG and Margaret Windham for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
New Mexico's vital records are divided between a statewide index for births and deaths and county clerks' offices where marriage records are filed. Statewide recording began in 1920, although some earlier records may be found, including those found as part of real estate transactions in some counties. Additionally, there are some delayed certificates of birth from 1866 to 1895 and some death certificates beginning in 1889.
Access to the statewide index of births and deaths is available through the New Mexico Department of Health, New Mexico Vital Records, P.O. Box 26110, Santa Fe, NM 87502, or in person at 1105 S. Saint Francis Dr. in Santa Fe www.health.state.nm.us. The non-refundable fee for a birth certificate search and copy is $10, and $5 for a death certificate search and copy. Birth and death records are restricted and issued only to immediate family members or others demonstrating 'a tangible legal interest.' Birth records are closed for 100 years, and death records for fifty years.
The New Mexico Death Index Project (1899'1940), an online resource available to researchers at www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/nmdi.htm is a volunteer effort to locate names in preparation for ordering death certificates from the New Mexico Department of Health. The index contains first and last names, middle initials (and corrected information), date and county of death, and age. Additionally, the Genealogical Society of Utah has microfilmed certificates of death (1889'1945), with deaths for Native Americans listed separately. These are available through the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City.
Requests for marriage records should go to the county clerk in the county where the license was issued. Some marriage records are also located at the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives (see New Mexico Archives, Libraries, and Societies); detailed lists for the various counties may be accessed through the 'Online Archive of New Mexico' at http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm. This online archive also includes some coroner, inquest, and justice of the peace records for the various counties.
Divorces are filed through the district court serving the county in which the divorce was granted. Records before 1912 are located in court dockets at the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives.
FamilySearch.org has a variety of collections available for free online:
- New Mexico, Births and Christenings, 1726-1918
- New Mexico, Marriages, 1751-1918
- New Mexico, County Marriages, 1885-1954
- New Mexico, Deaths and Burials, 1788-1798, 1838-1955
- Nex Mexico, Deaths, 1889-1945
- New Mexico, County Death Records, 1907-1952
External Links
- New Mexico Birth, Marriage, and Death Records - free up-to-date guide to accessing New Mexico birth, marriage, and death records (FamilySearch Research Wiki). Includes links to FamilySearch vital record databases.
- New Mexico Marriages Search Engine - free New Mexico marriages search engine that has indexed marriages posted across the web.
- New Mexico Obituary and Death Notice Archive - free New Mexico obituary archive that has transcribed obits from across the state.
- New Mexico Library of Files - free New Mexico obituary and data files archive from across the state.


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Chico >> The nominees for the Chico Sportsperson of the Year Award have been selected by the Enterprise-Record sports staff and the winner will be announced at the 42nd annual Chico Sports Hall of Fame and Senior Athletes Banquet on Tuesday, May 6 at the Chico Elks Lodge.
The nominees are Chico State decathlete J Patrick Smith, Chico State men's basketball coach Greg Clink and Butte College football coach Jeff Jordan.
The Chico Sportsperson of the Year will be announced on a night also honoring the Chico Sports Hall of Fame's four new inductees: James Starmer, Bob Clements, Ken Piercy and Tom Harrington. Nine area high schools, as well as two colleges, will also recognize their top athletes.
Tickets for the banquet are on sale now at the Enterprise-Record office at 400 E. Park Ave and will be sold through Monday, May 5. The cost is $30 per ticket. Tickets will not be sold at the door. The event begins with a no-host cocktail hour at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 7. For more information, call Travis Souders at 896-7778.
Jordan led the Roadrunners to a co-national championship, a state junior college football title and a perfect season as Butte broke myriad school records en route to defeating Fullerton in the California junior college championship game. It is the second national title and undefeated season for Butte since 2008.
Clink led the Wildcats on their deepest run in program history. Chico State finished third in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, then won the West Region championship in the NCAA Division II tournament to make it to the Elite Eight. No team in school history had made it to the Sweet Sixteen previously.
Smith is currently vying for a possible third straight NCAA Division II title in the decathlon. He is the two-time defending national champion in the event, having won All-America honors both years, and was the 2013 NCAA Division II Field Athlete of the Year.
Additionally, the E-R will be recognizing the following senior athletes and Butte College sophomores:
Chico State >> J Patrick Smith, Kasey Barnett;
Butte College >> Thomas Stuart, Cydney Cone.
Chico High >> Paolo Disano, Malik Hopkins, Angel Roldan, Michael Reynolds, Taylor Manna, Lindsey Lundberg, Stacey Jones, Amanda Manning, Mirra Stillman, Gabby Banathy.
Pleasant Valley >> Tyler Collier, Chad Olsen, Ben Sanders, Ian Melton, Sean Thomas, McKena Barker, Natalie Makel, Francesca Vecere, Sydney Stanley, Malori Wagner.
Oroville >> Michael Ripley, Marcus Wilhite, DJ Mueller, Natasha Witzsche, Amanda Kelley, Whitney Angle.
Willows >> Greg Dicharry, Chris Walter, Jake Martin, Ally Brunner, Lexi Weber, Alyssa Beatty.
Biggs >> Blaine Roles, Juan Castaneda, Greyson Milburn, Aime Tinoco, Aide Tinoco, Stephanie Urzua.
Hamilton >> Theron Fumasi, Tim Bekendam, Austin Burbank, Andrew Shippelhoute, Kristian Diaz, Maryvick Ramos.
Orland >> Victor Raigoza, Hugo Punzo, Kavi Ram, Yaneth Munoz, Becky Ramirez, Jessie James.
Durham >> Jake Wiley, Brian Book, Damon Young, Madison Schell, Erica Larson, Maddie Blake.
Gridley >> Emery Haddy, Megan Anthony.
Each school's athletic department has selected their top boy and girl senior athlete and those will be announced as well. Paradise and Las Plumas declined their invitations, as they have their own hall of fame ceremonies.
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The National
The National | New Vision United Church | June 3, 2016
Trouble Will Find Me, the most self-assured collection of songs produced by The National in its 14-year career, is a tribute to fully evolved artistic vision—and, somewhat less mystically, to sleep deprivation. Last January, following a twenty-two month tour to promote the band's previous record, High Violet, guitarist Aaron Dessner returned home to Brooklyn, where the fitfulness of his newborn daughter threw Aaron into a more or less sustained fugue state—"sleepless and up all the time," as he puts it. Punch-drunk, he shuffled into the band's studio (situated in Aaron's backyard), where he amused himself writing musical fragments that he then sent over to vocalist Matt Berninger. Recalls Matt of Aaron, "He'd be so tired while he was playing his guitar and working on ideas that he wouldn't intellectualize anything. In the past, he and Aaron's twin brother, Bryce would be reluctant to send me things that weren't in their opinion musically interesting—which I respected, but often those would be hard for me to connect to emotionally. This time around, they sent me sketch after sketch that immediately got me on a visceral level."
In truth, the band, which includes bassist Scott Devendorf and his brother Bryan on drums, hadn't planned on recording new music for at least another year or two. The High Violet tour represented a quantum leap in The National's trajectory; the venues got bigger and bigger, and the band felt the pressure to deliver the shows to larger crowds. Matt says, "We enjoyed it, but it was never easy. We always reminded ourselves that all of this is really fragile—that if we don't deliver in, say, some festival show in Europe somewhere, we could start to slide." Nor was returning to the studio likely to be cathartic, given the fact that The National's last two recording sessions have been emotional high-wire acts in which the perfectionism of the five members—particularly Aaron and Matt—sometimes made for a tense time all around.
That didn't happen this time. The post-High Violet sound Matt was seeking, says Aaron, "was more airy, less uptight and anxious. He sent me a lot of Cat Stevens, Neil Young, Dylan and David Bowie. And Bryce and I wanted a more relaxed and open sound too. We'd been getting deeper into the world of composed music in the last few years and developing more of an interest in classic songwriting." The Dessner twins' pursuits dovetailed with that of Matt, who says, "I went through a big Roy Orbison phase. I listened to a lot of him. His song structures are innovative, unconventional, yet somehow still effortless." The Devendorf brothers then supplied their insistent, intricate backbeats, and what emerged was a series of distinctly timeless musical narratives.
This isn't to suggest that the songs The National wrote and recorded last winter at Clubhouse studios in Rhinebeck, New York qualify as simple. In addition to the self-lacerating impressionistic scattershots that are Matt's lyrical stock in trade, they feature time signatures, mixed meter and melody frameworks more challenging than anything the band has previously attempted. Still, Trouble Will Find Me possesses a directness, a coherency and—dare it be said about such an unpredictable band—an approachability that suggests The National has at long last located its emotional target.
It's strange that a band like this would be feeling insecure. Few groups have sustained such credibility—with audiences as well as critics—as authors of a sound that is simultaneously original, witty, moving and unforgettable. After the success of their fourth record, Boxer, The National sealed their artistic reputation in 2010 with the widely acclaimed High Violet and spent the next two years delivering sellout performances around the world. Along the way, Aaron and Bryce continued their individual side projects (Aaron producing records for such bands as Sharon Van Etten and Local Natives, Bryce composing for Kronos Quartet and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, among others) while the band as a whole devoted work to Tibet House, Red Hot and other charities. During the 2012 campaign cycle, The National performed at several get-out-the-vote concerts in Ohio and warmed up an Iowa rally for President Obama. Adding a new creative wrinkle, Matt's younger brother Tom Berninger filmed "Mistaken for Strangers"—a hilarious and affecting documentary of Tom's less-than-successful stint as the band's assistant tour manager during the High Violet tour—which will open the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this April.
But, Matt confesses, "I feel like for the past ten years we'd been chasing something, wanting to prove something. Early on we were labeled as alt-country, sleepy miserablists, and that stung, especially because it was partly true. So for a long time, we were motivated in our songwriting to prove that wrong. We had a lot of chips on our shoulders. And this chase was about trying to disprove our own insecurities. After touring High Violet, I think we felt like we'd finally gotten there. Now we could relax—not in terms of our own expectations, but we didn't have to prove our identity any longer."
From beginning to end, Trouble Will Find Me possesses the effortless and unself-conscious groove of a downstream swimmer. It's at times lush and at others austere, suffused with insomniacal preoccupations that skirt despair without succumbing to it. There are alluring melodies, and the murderously deft undercurrent supplied by the Devendorfs. There are songs that seem (for Matt anyway) overtly sentimental—among them, the Simon & Garfunkel-esque "Fireproof," "I Need My Girl" (with Matt's unforgettable if throwaway reference to a party "full of punks and cannonballers") and "I Should Live In Salt" (which Aaron composed as a send-up to the Kinks and which Matt wrote about his brother). While a recognition of mortality looms in these numbers, they're buoyed by a kind of emotional resoluteness—"We'll all arrive in heaven alive"—that will surprise devotees of Matt's customary wry fatalism. Then there are the songs that Aaron describes as "songs you could dance to—more fun, or at least The National's version of fun." These include "Demons"—a mordant romp in 7/4, proof that bleakness can actually be rousing—and the haunting "Humiliation," in which the insistent locomotion of Bryan's snarebeat is offset by Matt's semi-detached gallows rumination: "If I die this instant/taken from a distance/they will probably list it down among other things around town."
Finally there are songs—like "Pink Rabbits" and the lilting "Slipped" (the latter termed by Aaron "the kind of song we've always wanted to write")—that aspire to be classics, with Orbison-like melodic geometry. In these songs, as well as in "Heavenfaced," Matt emerges from his self-described "comfort zone of chant-rock" and glides into a sonorous high register of unexpected gorgeousness. The results are simultaneously breakthrough and oddly familiar, the culmination of an artistic journey that has led The National both to a new crest and, somehow, back to their beginnings—when, says Aaron, "our ideas would immediately click with each other. It's free-wheeling again. The songs on one level are our most complex, and on another they're our most simple and human. It just feels like we've embraced the chemistry we have."


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The largest cluster of communities is located south of Tampa Bay in suburbs like Ruskin and Apollo Beach. Valrico and Brandon, Florida are eastern, inland suburbs offering great options as well. With abundant locations you are sure to wind up with the perfect home in a sunny Florida locale convenient to Tampa-St. Petersburg.
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To offer users in different regions find expertise and help with country-specific questions, we have recently created the first in a series of international groups on VMware Community: VMTN United Kingdom (UK)
This group has been created to bring together a wide selection of resources for VMware community in United Kingdom: Forums, blogs, groups and discussion boards, as well as VMware EMEA recruiting Twitter feed.
This group is just the beginning, and there certainly will be changes and improvements to it in the future.
If you know of a regional resource and would like to see it featured on the group home page, you can start a discussion in the new group. VMware Community Manager Alex will then review the submision and update the group landing page.


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Extended Warranties on Blu-ray (Discs)
I went to Best Buy yesterday to buy a Blu-ray. I needed some latest 3D piece of crap to use in an upcoming review of a 3D projector. Upon checkout, the clerk asked if I wanted a service plan on the Blu-ray.
I'm going to repeat that. The clerk asked if I wanted a service plan on the Blu-ray disc.
He was serious.
I looked at him with what I can only describe as incredulity. Surely, he was just going through the rote memorization typical of Best Buy employees. Surely, he would correct himself when he realized he was selling me a $24.99 Blu-ray disc and not a $99.42 Blu-ray player. Surely, we'd share a good and hearty laugh about his riotous mistake. A service plan on a Blu-ray disc. Hilarious.
Nope. He misread my look of disbelief as one of scornful disdain. To be fair, I can't be positive that's not what I looked like. I am not amazing at hiding my emotions.
"Well, um, I guess it's more for people who have kids," he sheepishly said, as if this explained it all.
Now at this point, I'm not entirely sure how to take this. I do not, thank the FSM, have children. I am, if I'm honest, of a certain age where I could have kids. But this is LA dammit, none of my friends here have kids. Perhaps more perplexing, I'm buying Kung Fu Panda 2.
So do I take this as a compliment? Did he think I wasn't old enough to have kids? I doubt it, I've looked 30 since I was 20. But wait a minute, why was I buying a kids movie on Blu-ray if I didn't have kids then?
Crap, he was speaking again.
"You know, for scratches and stuff."
Ever tried to scratch a Blu-ray? Not easy. Are there really people whose children are old enough to run a BD player, but not old enough to understand not to use them as Frisbees (kids like the Frisbees, right?). Of these mythical people, are they really burning through Blu-ray copies of Finding Nemo so often that spending money on a service plan actually makes sense?
No, of course not. That's presuming an altruistic mentality by Best Buy, one where they offer service plans as a benefit to the consumer, not as an additional revenue stream. Remember, this is the company who proudly sells a $935 HDMI cable and a $1,450 USB cable.
I shook my head "no," stupidly forgetting to ask what the price was.
I can find no mention of a Blu-ray disc service plan on their website. Maybe he was mistaken? I don't know, but that it's not surprising to any of us that BB could have an extended warranty on a Blu-ray disc is perhaps the sadder part.
Originally, I had wanted to write an article about all the things BB sells that they could have warranties. Think of the amusingness.
Except... it's not funny. They probably do have a warranty on a CD holder or backpack. Maybe a joke could be had about the impulse-buy gum in the checkout line (if it loses its flavor in less than 30 minutes, we'll fix or replace it!). See what I mean, though, not much there.
A wise man once said that the lottery is just a tax on people who can't do math. Seems like Best Buy is a tax on people who don't read the Internets.


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"Who Rules the GOP?"
Its easy to dismiss the blathering idiocy of Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh, but I know too many people that take these buffoons seriously without realizing how terminally wrong they are to a fault. Pointing to the internets and blogs does not help; instead it is more likely to reinforce the authority of these blowhards in the conservative mind.
This is part of the reason I'm fascinated by the changing dynamics in right-wing noise machine as it tries to adjust to the left-ward shift in power in Washington. Witness (via DKos): GOP Congressman Apologizes For Offending Limbaugh Fans.
These guys are "all in" as far as Obama is concerned, esp. Limbaugh and his pronouncements about hoping the Administration fails, and they've staked a lot of their credibility on those "hopes". So here's to the inauspicious and rapid demise of Rush and his idiot squad!
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This blog has been quiet because I was on vacation the past week with my fam on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Below is a photo of four cousins (including moi, on the right). One of them is my sister and the other two are sisters. Can you guess who is who? If you know already or played along on Facebook, please refrain from posting a comment. I will update this post with the answer in about a day (Answer now posted below!).
UPDATE: That's my sister, Carolyn, in the bright blue tank top. The other two, Shannon on the left and Kelly, are sisters as well. Kelly and I strongly favor our dads in appearance, though our fathers were not related except by marriage (we also have almost the exact same food allergies). Shannon and Carolyn both have their moms' darker hair.


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.:My Hopes Of Being OIC For A Day, Dashed! Dashed, I Tells You!:.
I guess I won't be in class tomorrow, either. That's too bad...
Darn, I'm soooo waiting for a vacation. There are so many Value Hotels in the Philippines, and I haven't even gotten further than Luzon!
.:The Unicorn:.
Ever notice how guys sometimes seem to always go for someone they know they can never have?
Ever notice how their interest in that girl rapidly dwindles when they *finally* win that person's heart?
Let it not be said there's no name for this condition. There simply are people who spend their entire lives trying to win the hearts of people whom deep down, they know, they can never have. They are, to put it in TLC terms, "Chasing Waterfalls". It's not about being able to get someone they want so bad. It's actually about going after someone they realize they can never have.
Maybe it's because the girl is a celebrity, and she's clearly out of his league. Or maybe the girl has a boyfriend. Or maybe because she's jailbait (::shudders::). Or perhaps it could be simply because he's not her type at all. It doesn't really matter what the reasons why he can't have her are. It's simply about the fact that there's no way he can have her, and that, in truth is what gets him going in the morning.
This, my friends, is the Unicorn Effect.
Unicorns are fictional characters praised for their beauty. In some legends, it has been said you can never catch a Unicorn. To some, the appeal of the Unicorn is precisely that you can see it, observe it, but you can never quite capture it, preserving its beauty from contact with unworthy old you.
And it's not just endemic to guys. Girls do this a lot, too, although it's mostly the whole "Bad Boy" schtick they have going. We go for Unicorns because the thrill is in the chase, and a part of us hopes that we never really get to catch them, because by then, they'd no longer be a Unicorn.
The Unicorn Effect is ruthless, and is an undying source of unnecessary suffering that people inflict upon themselves. Many people are guilty of this, and they don't even realize it. I have countless friends who keep on pining for girls who they know they can never be with, and never get to appreciate whoever they're with simply because it's all about the Unicorn. It's all about chasing after that which we know we can never catch like some lovesick puppy. We hurt ourselves as we keep on following after them, never accepting the fact that it just won't work. In the unlikely event that it actually does, we then realize that we don't even want it.
It's the Unicorn Effect. And until you learn how to disdain the things you cannot have (Law 36 of the 48 Laws Of Power), you will discover, much to your chagrin, that you can never have you want, because what you truly want is to never have.
Sometimes he rants, sometimes he smiles. Sometimes he jokes, sometimes he sighs. Sometimes he's happy, sometimes he's sad. Sometimes he's good, sometimes he's bad. Sometimes he's there, sometimes he's gone. Sometimes he stalls, sometimes he's done. But whatever Marcelle says, whatever he'd do, you can be sure, it's true! It's true!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The Unicorn
Posted by Kel Fabie at 20.2.08
Labels: reflections
3 comments:
- The Grainary Corp. said...
may i copy the unicorn effect to my blog? XD
- Kel Fabie said...
As long as you credit me, sure!
- The Grainary Corp. said...
Yee. Thanks! XD
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Getting ready for IP SANs
IP SANs promise benefits to groups within your organization that up until now haven't had access to these kinds of capabilities. But before you even think of deploying an IP SAN, read this article.
|Understanding iSCSI host connections
Because iSCSI sits on top of TCP/IP, any standard network interface card (NIC) could be used to connect a host to an IP storage area network (SAN). However, special-purpose iSCSI cards are becoming available that can reduce CPU utilization and potentially provide greater levels of performance--albeit at a higher price--than a general purpose NIC (See "Network interface card options," below).
With a conventional NIC, all functionality above the GigE level is provided in software, including all SCSI, iSCSI and TCP/IP functions. The impact on the host depends on the CPU load and the I/O characteristics of the application. A lightly loaded CPU may have sufficient headroom to provide good iSCSI performance. A moderately busy CPU may even be able to support a light to moderate iSCSI load.
There are two alternatives for offloading the iSCSI processing overload: TOE NICs and iSCSI adapters. A TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) NIC offloads all TCP/IP operations. This type of interface isn't specific to iSCSI at all, and could be used as a replacement for a general-purpose NIC card in any application deemed appropriate. When using a TOE NIC for storage, SCSI and iSCSI processing would still be performed by the CPU.
An iSCSI adapter is directly analogous to a Fibre Channel host bus adapter. In this case, all iSCSI and TCP/IP operations are offloaded to the interface card. All of these options are currently available. Make sure you don't draw conclusions about performance without testing specific applications on specific platforms.
Network interface card options:
So, is 2004 the year to build an IP storage area network (SAN)? As with most storage adoption questions, the answer lies in understanding the current capabilities and limitations of the technology, and having a solid understanding of your storage networking needs. If your organization hasn't done so yet, it should begin asking--and answering--questions on how best to deploy an IP SAN. Among the areas that need to be evaluated are your application storage characteristics, network infrastructure and security requirements.
iSCSI design considerations
First and foremost, application considerations will impact design. Some questions to answer are: Is the application transaction-oriented or throughput-oriented? What are the I/O performance requirements of the application? What platforms do the application support? Ideal candidates for iSCSI today are low- to moderate-level I/O applications that run on Windows or Linux platforms. This typically includes applications such as Microsoft Exchange and many SQL Server-based applications.
The leading network consideration relates to the bandwidth required. An important decision to make is the method of host connection. Can a software initiator with a standard gigabit network interface cards (NICs) be used, or is a special-purpose adapter required? (See "Understanding iSCSI host connections" on this page.) There's no one right answer to this question. The major benefit of iSCSI host bus adapters (HBAs) and TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) NICs is the decrease in CPU utilization relative to a standard NIC, with performance improvement as a secondary benefit. If there's enough CPU headroom available and the application I/O requirements aren't extraordinary, it's worth considering foregoing a special-purpose card and using a standard NIC, given the potential cost savings.
Another network consideration is the segregation of traffic. It's generally recommended that iSCSI activity be isolated from general network traffic. For example, this means dedicated host connections and separate virtual LANs. Additional bandwidth considerations may be based on performance optimizations for routing storage traffic.
|Making the IP to FC connection
Administrators responsible for configuring Fibre Channel (FC) storage area networks (SANs) have become familiar with the concepts of zoning and LUN masking to ensure that SAN storage is only presented to the appropriate hosts. Zoning involves segregating sets of ports or world-wide names (WWNs) to isolate access. (For an in-depth discussion of zoning, see W. Curtis Preston's series of three articles, beginning with "Protect Your SAN From Attack" in the August 2003 issue of Storage). LUN masking involves building the appropriate mapping tables of host WWNs with corresponding storage WWNs.
How do you do this for an iSCSI host? "iSCSI host to FC storage" shows an iSCSI host connected to an FC storage array through a gateway switch that supports both FC and iSCSI protocols. The gateway provides a virtual iSCSI target for each physical FC SAN target device. To successfully provide the host with access to the storage requires implementing iSCSI and FC access control mechanisms.
On the iSCSI side, there are no WWNs or zones. Instead, several other constructs are utilized, including some that are standard within TCP/IP networks and others that are unique to iSCSI. For addressing, iSCSI uses TCP/IP addresses and ports. Each initiator has an IP address. In addition, for discovery purposes, each initiator also has an iSCSI name, which is a dot-separated structure that is roughly analogous to a URL. iSCSI zoning is accomplished by two mechanisms: virtual LANs and discovery domains, which are similar to FC WWN zones.
To enable an iSCSI host to access an FC target, a mapping between an initiator TCP/IP address/port and a WWN must occur within the switch. While these mappings can be dynamic or static, in most cases static mapping is used to present a persistent view of a device to a host. On the FC side of the gateway, traditional zoning and LUN masking can be configured using the mapped address. On the IP side, VLANs and discovery domains are created. Discovery from the host perspective is transparent, but ensuring that appropriate mappings and access controls are in place requires careful management.
Security and access control in an IP SAN potentially represent a greater concern than in traditional FC SAN environments. This is largely because LANs tend to be more open and widely accessible than SANs. The good news is that iSCSI was designed to take advantage of existing network security capabilities. Standard protocols such as CHAP for authentication and IPsec for encryption can be employed to make a SAN secure. This functionality can actually be implemented transparently to iSCSI. It's anticipated that in many environments, iSCSI hosts will require access to storage in existing FC SANs. This will require a combination of IP and FC access control (see "Making the IP to FC connection").
Among the fundamental lessons learned from the design of FC SANs is the importance of redundancy. In a direct-attached storage (DAS) environment, loss of connectivity only impacts a single server; in a storage network, the impact can be widespread. Therefore, avoiding single points of failure and understanding the impact from a storage perspective of the loss of key components are critical design considerations.
Another lesson learned from FC SAN deployment is to carefully adhere to vendor support matrices.
iSCSI SANs are new, and interoperability issues are certain to arise. Components that logically should work together may not, or may only partially work. Any design should be validated to ensure that all hardware and software components are certified to interoperate.
The case for IP SANs
Unfortunately, traditional FC SANs have one substantial downside. The cost to acquire SAN technology, including HBAs and switches, the cost to implement this technology and not insignificantly, the cost to manage this infrastructure are limiting factors to widespread deployment. When smaller organizations carefully evaluate the TCO for a storage network proposal, they can't justify the expenditure. Even within larger organizations, cost has often been the limiting factor in the extensive deployment of storage networks.
IP SANs, which are based on iSCSI technology, promise to address all three of these cost issues, making widespread storage networking a reality. iSCSI SANs can be implemented using standard Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) cards and IP switches. In most environments, this technology is already in place and well understood. Even if this equipment must be purchased, the costs--compared to FC--are substantially lower (see "Sample cost comparison").
Because most organizations already have network management capability, implementation and management costs are also considerably lower.
Furthermore, IP SANs promise additional benefits beyond the capabilities of FC. They can span far greater distances and can provide prioritized service capabilities through functions such as IP VLAN tagging and TCP/IP QoS. They also provide the potential for greater security through the use of standard network security capabilities such as IPsec.
So, do IP SANs give you more functionality at a lower cost? While that sounds attractive, don't put your FC gear up on eBay just yet. FC is a more mature technology and--at least in the short term--will have a performance advantage over iSCSI. Rather than work as a replacement, IP SANs offer the opportunity to extend the storage network beyond its current boundaries.
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Where is iSCSI technology today?
2003 witnessed two major milestones in the technical evolution of iSCSI: The Internet Engineering Task Force approved the final draft of the iSCSI standard, meaning that vendors now have a defined target to focus their development efforts. The other major event was the release of officially supported iSCSI software drivers from Microsoft Corp. This support for a major commercial platform provided a validation to many that the technology is truly viable and will likely have a promising future. In addition, some major storage vendors such as EMC Corp. and Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) have started offering some level of direct iSCSI attachment to their storage systems. Microsoft recently announced the first group of devices that have been qualified with its driver.
Is iSCSI technology ready for prime time? The short answer is yes and no. Yes, because more products and standards are entering and stabilizing the market. No, because IP SANs bring many implementation issues to the table that are new to storage. Consider, for example:
Host connectivity: In iSCSI (and traditional SCSI) parlance, the host requesting service is an initiator and the device providing that service is a target. An iSCSI initiator can be either a hardware device or a software driver. Today, drivers for host iSCSI connectivity are readily available for Windows and Linux hosts. Although at least one vendor, Cisco Systems Inc., offers drivers for some Unix platforms, most midrange and high-end systems haven't started providing support in the iSCSI arena. These software initiators require only a NIC. For performance reasons, it's generally expected that GigE will be the common connection for iSCSI, but aside from performance, traditional 100Mb NICs should also work.
Hardware interfaces are available from a number of vendors. These devices include iSCSI HBAs, as well as gigabit NIC cards equipped with TCP/IP offload engines, known as TOE NICs. (See "Special-purpose adapters for iSCSI")
Networking: Because iSCSI is a TCP/IP-based protocol, there's no need for special switches to support it. Traditional IP switches and routers process iSCSI packets in much the same way that they handle other network traffic. However, one significant opportunity for iSCSI deployment is to provide broader host access to existing FC storage. To accomplish this, an IP/FC gateway or switch is needed. Some vendors, such as Cisco, McData/Nishan and Sanrad, provide products to perform this function. These devices include some GigE ports with at least one FC E-port (and possibly N-ports). See "IP-FC gateway devices" for details on some of the options available for IP-FC interoperability.
Storage: Until recently, the iSCSI storage market consisted primarily of emerging vendors. While some major storage vendors have introduced iSCSI support, others have been slow to enter the market (see "Sample of native iSCSI storage offerings").
Where to use iSCSI
It's clear that the technology needed for successful deployment of an IP SAN is available today. The next consideration is what the appropriate uses for the technology are, and where it will provide the most benefit.
Prior to iSCSI/IP SAN technology, the conventional way to retrieve and write data via the IP network was by file access (conventional file servers and network-attached storage appliances). Applications--such as databases and some e-mail products--that access data by blocks preferred DAS or an FC SAN. With iSCSI, these applications can now be supported over the LAN.
Providing file- and block-level data over the same transport can simplify storage management. Utilization can also be improved because storage can be more readily shared and allocated by function (see "Shared storage in an IP SAN"). Additional benefits can also be realized in improvements to availability. With LAN access to storage, a variety of options relating to clustering of nodes and replication of data become more viable.
IP SANs also present new options for backing up data. Administrators now have the option to do traditional file-based backups across the network to a backup server or to perform image-based backups directly to shared tape devices. While similar to traditional LAN-free backup, the increased flexibility of IP provides a greater opportunity to deploy this option.
Management questions
As IT organizations begin to deploy iSCSI, they will need to develop additional capabilities to manage these new technologies. However, organizations actually start from an advantage that early adopters of FC SANs didn't have. Today's IT networking staff has already developed strong capabilities to configure, maintain and monitor IP network infrastructures. Likewise, expertise previously gained by managing storage in FC SAN environments can be readily applied to iSCSI storage.
Many comprehensive management tools are available to monitor and configure an organization's IP network infrastructure. However, expect tools that assist in managing the iSCSI layer to be relatively limited in the early stages. As IT organizations implement IP SAN technologies, new tools will emerge and existing SAN management solutions will integrate iSCSI configuration and monitoring capabilities into their offerings.
Getting started with IP SANs
The promise of iSCSI to offer greatly expanded functionality at a reduced cost is highly compelling, and most organizations should be investigating ways that they can pilot this technology. As "Bringing IP and Fibre Channel together" illustrates, the opportunity to expand functionality at a dramatically lower cost and to move toward an any-to-any storage architecture becomes a real possibility. While FC SANs will continue to be the domain of tier-one production applications, many tier-two and tier-three applications can leverage some of the same functionality with IP SANs.
While the adoption of any new technology requires a cautious approach, much of the functionality within IP SANs has already been proven: IP networking is mature and the steady maturation of FC storage has been leveraged in much of the development of IP storage.
By selecting appropriate applications for storage networking, following the design and implementation guidelines discussed in this article and applying solid test and evaluation processes, IP SANs can be introduced within organizations and begin to play a major role in storage environments.
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The best place to go for shareware is the mother of all sites: CNET's Shareware.com (www.shareware.com). Here, you can search a database of more than 250,000 shareware programs, organized by operating system. With a direct link to CNET's Download.com (www.download.com), this site lets you view the most downloaded shareware programs and is well-organized, and includes numerous headings to let you home in on your interests, including "Business and Finance," "Desktop enhancements," "Games," "Internet," "Most Popular," "New Releases" and more. Another starting point on your shareware quest is Jumbo! (www.jumbo.com), a site that's slightly more playful than Shareware.com and has an emphasis on recreational downloads, including games, music files, screensavers and the like. You'll also want to check out ZDNet's shareware site (www.zdnet.com/downloads/specials/free.html). This site makes it easy to locate some of the top freebies and includes reviews of category leaders.
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Stealing someone else's personal information to commit theft or fraud—also known as identity theft—has exploded into the national consciousness. Credit card companies now market their security features and consumers warily guard their Social Security numbers. And it doesn't stop there. The use of stolen Social Security numbers allows thieves to steal tax refunds, open bank accounts and do all manner of illegal operations using another's identity.
Recently I saw the comedy movie, "Identity Theft." Because it is so entertaining, the story comes off as fictionalized in a way that could not possibly play out that way in real life. The sobering truth is that this exact scenario is being played out every day. Unsuspecting people are having their identities stolen and their futures compromised as thieves open credit card accounts, finance new cars and clean out bank accounts.
Identity theft has become epidemic! And it's not just the thievery. It's the months and even years of hassle and expense working with police, banks and credit agencies, trying to get things straightened out. And in the meantime? The fallout can be devastating because when it comes to identity theft you're pretty much guilty until you can prove yourself innocent. And even then you may never be made whole.
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Does Penatrating Attack work with the Extras that are purchased on a power?
Example: Iron Angel had Telepathy and the Mind Control Extra. Her player buys Penatrating Attack (3 times, Cost 4 PP - She is able to burrow past even another Telpath's defenses causing a -6 on an opponent's DC roll) on Telepathy and she is able to once in Mind Control someone easier (i.e. - 6 on the DC roll against Mind Control).
Am I way off?
This would give you a character that is very skilled in a power, without having a high degree of power. A Power Level 10 character could have a PL of 5 in something an yet have a very good measure of skill with the power.
This is also a great way to run a PL 5 campain, while allowing characters more points to spread around, or that very specialized character that is a Master at a power or group of powers...like Prof. X....
Penatrating Attack & Extras
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Sounds like a reasonable option to me. Note that Penetrating Attack was originally intended only for damaging attacks, but you could extend it to include any effect with a saving throw, as you do above.
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Save Me Jesus
Could it really be that simple? Are the words "Save Me Jesus" enough to connect you to God and save your soul for eternity? Yes and no. "Yes"....if you mean it....and keep living everyday with that attitude....one of humility before God and a living relationship with the Lord.
"No"....if it was just a one-time prayer from your past that is not being carried over to this day. A Christian is someone who depends upon Jesus everyday for His forgiveness....and seeks to live everyday for Christ. A believer is never content to be living in disobedience. There is a restlessness that comes to anyone who is born again and yet is giving into temptation and sin. The "gears" of the soul don't work in the life of a Christian who is deliberately disobeying the One he asked to save him earlier in life.
If you want to be miserable forever, reject Jesus Christ and enter eternity without His forgiveness. If you want to be miserable in this life, accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and then live in deliberate sin....and see how that works for you. There is only one thing worse than being miserable as a Christian because of intentional sin....and that is....not being miserable in your sin because you are not saved and don't have the Holy Spirit inside of you. That is worse because of the ultimate consequences. That is worse because you don't even see the train that is headed straight toward you as you play with your soul on the tracks of eternity.
Life is seen as a game to those who don't know better. Life is found in Jesus for those who do know better. "Save me Jesus" quickly turns into "Use me Jesus," and "Be glorified in my life Jesus," and "Help me to live for you Jesus." If "Save me Jesus" doesn't develop into those attitudes, then you are not saved. That one-time prayer won't save your soul on Judgment Day. When people are truly converted, their hearts get changed and their lives move in a new direction.
Can you say, "Save me Jesus" and mean it? Those people who are critical of Christianity are not living for Christ and have no idea how much peace they would have if they submitted their heart and life to the Lord. They criticize what they don't understand....they only think they know what they are criticizing. I mean seriously....who in their right mind would be critical of the One who created them....and who will judge them one day? No one with spiritual sensitivities from the Lord would do such a thing. Only one living in rebellion against God would "go off" on Jesus and His perfect plan of salvation.
On one hand, you might think that everyone would call on Jesus and stick with it. It's easy to say the first, "Save me Jesus." It's get tough when I don't get my way and I come to see that God won't give me everything I desire in this life. He is after something much higher and nobler....He wants me to find my satisfaction in Him and Him alone. That's simple enough isn't it?
So am I saved by praying "the sinner's prayer" and meaning it? It's more like this....you pray "the sinner's prayer" because you now believe Jesus died for your sins and you now trust in Him to forgive you. If the sinner's prayer is truly a prayer of faith in your life, then you were converted the moment you had faith in Jesus. Were you converted before, during, or after you prayed? Somewhere in there you were saved by grace through faith.....before, during, or after your prayer. But did it stick? Did the seriousness to trust Jesus and live for Him continue everyday and only get stronger? That's how you know if the one-time prayer was more than just a one-time prayer.
By the way....some people are saved without ever praying "the sinner's prayer." The Bible tells believers that "it is by grace you are saved, through faith." (Ephesians 2:8) One particular prayer is not essential, but faith is essential. Without faith in Jesus, there is no salvation.
So start with this idea....recognize your sin....and your need for a Savior....and ask Jesus to save you. Give Him your sin....and tell Him that you want to turn away from sin....assuming, that is, you really do want to turn away from sin. If you don't, then you are not ready to come to Jesus. He deals with those who are serious about a relationship with Him....and not those who are just interested in playing games. You know....the way some people play games in their dating relationships....not being real....but just living in a fantasy world of pretend.
If you want games, then God is not who you are looking for....He is not into games. He is into sincerity and truth. "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." (Psalm 51:17) In other words, be real with God....and He will be real with you. On the other hand, be fake with God....and He will not even come close to you.
God will "do business" with you even if you bring along a bunch of sin in your wagon....but don't plan to come to Him with anything but total honesty and sorrow over your sin. If you don't care how badly you have offended Him, then He won't care to listen to your half-hearted words. Can you blame Him? Isn't that similar to the way a husband or wife responds when their spouse has caused great offense?
Jesus died on the cross for your sins. He suffered for you....and then rose from the dead. That either moves you at the deepest level of your being, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, I urge you to call on God and plead for a new heart....one that recognizes how far you have fallen from His commands. We all have....we have gone our own way....and each of us has the critical need to say, "Save me Jesus." Unfortunately, having the need....and recognizing the need....are two entirely different things. Likewise, recognizing the need and doing something about it are also two different things.
Why not start with those three words....those eleven letters...."Save me Jesus." Say it from your heart. Ask Jesus to save you from yourself....and from your sin....and from any errors you have believed about Him.Your perception may be YOUR reality, but that doesn't mean God sees it the way you do. After all you have been through in life, isn't it time to start seeing things from His perspective?


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Strengthening our profession.
Joint CAS/SOA Committee on Actuarial Diversity. We want to be sure that everyone who has the talent and the desire to be an actuary also has the opportunity. Right now, African-American, Hispanic and Native American communities are underrepresented. To ensure that our profession is as dynamic and multi-dimensional as possible, we've created the Joint CAS/SOA Committee on Actuarial Diversity. It's the committee's mission to recruit quality mathematical and analytical talent from all backgrounds and perspectives.
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Crank tweets vs the ex
Like clockwork.
Lindsay Lohan is hating on Samantha Ronson again. Somehow they ended up at the same party last night. And of course they decided to Twitter fight about it. Lilo's tweets are, not surprisingly, totally incomprehensible. Samantha's are particularly sharp. VERY sharp. She drops the c-word. But let's start with Lohan first:
I'm pretty sure that @samantharonson just threw a fit @33years old and my friend tal @draishollywood illegally open NOW at this hour
Asked me, after being here jus for Timbalands birthday-to leave even though she stayed over just 2nights ago-tired of @samantharonson
Playing the innocent card, while chatting to tmz just like my ex-father, when all I've ever done is fall for a girl
Lindsay is referring to a clip of TMZ that was released a few days ago, after Lilo threw a glass at her head in a club, of Sam saying to camera that Lilo is a "very angry human being". Click here to see. Samantha's working some coat steeze like my GP.
As for that c-word, here are Ronson's tweets from last night around the same time that Lindsay lost her sh-t again:
One more thing- if you're gonna be an idiot an do coke- do it outside the bathroom- some of us actually use them to pee in.
Jack and crack will make for some crazy tweets.
Who could she possibly be referring to?
In other Lilo drama, she did a photo shoot the other day and posed with a gun in her mouth. Click here to see. Because this is supposed to make you feel sorry for her? Please. It's all a joke. Look at her. A joke.
And finally...
Lindsay is now selling ads on her Twitter. So they're PAYING HER to post ads on her Twitter. She needs the cash money. I'll take that money, sure. You'll take that money, sure. But a celebrity? A former movie star? This bitch who claims she's not po'? Whose mom insists she's not broke ass?
And still spending money at the Marmont where she took her busted and bloated face last night. Dina says everything is fine!
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Braylon Edwards, who is currently a useless member of the Seattle Seahwaks, used to be semi-relevant when he played for the New York Jets. As such, Edwards has strong opinions about the current state of the Jets franchise, specifically the struggles of Mark "Buttfumble" Sanchez.
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